This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by a famous poet, Henry David Thoreau. The poem is about a young man who is forced to marry a woman he does not love. The young man, who is called "Swish" by his friends, tells the poem's protagonist that he will marry a girl who is not worthy of his love. He tells the protagonist that if the young man does not marry the girl within three days, he will die. The protagonist agrees to marry the young girl in exchange for a potion that will cure him of his disease.