In this chapter, we learn that the narrator is a first-year business student from the town of Terday, in northeastern Turkey, who has just completed a three-year degree in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been studying psychology for the past two years, and he has just met a man named Kodama, who is the author of a report on the relationship between friendship and romantic affection. The narrator is shocked to learn that this man is from the same town as the narrator, and that he has known the man since the very first time he met him. He asks the man about his feelings for the man, and the man tells him that he is attracted to him because he is of the same social class as him. When the narrator asks if friendship and love are the same thing, the man replies that they are, but that there is a clear difference between them. He also tells the narrator to be quiet, as he has sat next to the man countless times since then. He wonders if there is such a thing as "neutral" and "heavily possessive" feelings in friendship, and if this is the case with romantic feelings. He tells the man to keep his voice down, and they walk together. He says he is sure he has some jerky in his bag, and she tells him he has been in an "an awfully good mood" lately. She says that she thought he might have gotten a girlfriend, but he is quick to act. He thinks he would help anyone, even if it were not him, because he likes her. She tells him to write her in the report as one of hers, because she thinks she has made him mad. He apologizes, and says that he got enough already, but how did he know that he was the one