The chapter opens with a conversation between Mingo and Mingo's servant, Lu-Ting. Mingo tells Mingo that he has come back from the ladies' club, where Mingo had been hanging out with a woman named Miss Zilla. He asks Mingo if he is happy that Mingo has returned, and the servant tells him that he is. He then asks if Mingo is disappointed in Mingo because he is the best, but Mingo replies that he already loves Mingo, and that he had fallen in love long before he even realized it himself. He says that he was angry and helpless when he first came to the women's club, but that now he is free to come and go, and he cannot come back. He feels that he can never come back to Mingo again, because he knows Mingo to be a "cold and ruthless elitist" who cannot care less about the feelings of other people. He reminds Mingo of the fact that he changed Mingo from a distant god to an ordinary man, but the two men have already done so, and they cannot wipe out all that they have built together. He adds that he will make Mingo a living hell if he ever finds out about the way Mingo tried to get Mistress Zilla to marry Mingo