This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between a young woman and a man who has just returned from a trip to India. The young woman tells the man that she has come to tell him that he is heartless and cruel. The man replies that she is not heartless, but cruel and unreasonable, and the young woman accuses him of being heartless and unreasonable. When the young man tries to defend himself, the woman tells him that she herself is cruel and heartless.