In the middle of a conversation with his father, Mr. Liu, the narrator is overcome with worry. He is afraid that his love life will be ruined if he does not return to China and meet women. He also fears that he will be forced to marry a woman who is not of his own choosing. He asks his father if he knows of a woman of the same social class as his daughter, and he is told that she lives on the same street as his son. The narrator then asks the father if his son has any beauty standards, and the father tells him that his son does not have any. The father then tells the narrator that he and his mother are misunderstanding, and that it is not his daughter that they are talking about, but that of his son's sister, who lives on a street beside them. He tells the father that the two of them will know when it is time