The chapter opens with a flashback to the previous chapter, in which the narrator explains that the government has decided that he and his family are to be married to a person they have no relation to at all. He and his wife are happy to have the decision made, and they are glad that they will be able to marry someone they do not know. The narrator tells us that he feels sorry for his wife, who has come to see him despite her fears. He tells her that he is in love with someone, but he does not tell her.
The chapter opens with a flashback to the previous chapter, in which the narrator explains that the government has decided that he and his family are to be married to a person they have no relation to at all. He and his wife are happy to have the decision made, and they are glad that they will be able to marry someone they do not know. The narrator tells us that he feels sorry for his wife, who has come to see him despite her fears. He tells her that he is in love with someone, but he does not tell her.