In this chapter, we learn that wang has a sudden fever, and that he has just received a new cushion from shanghai. . He is very pleased with the cushion, and tells us that he will pass the classroom every day with it. He asks if wang will think that she is reminding him that she broke the ladder, and she replies that she thinks he should learn that it is not that she does not have alerts for men, but that she has strength and is alert to men. She tells him that he should come and sit with her on the floor, as she likes to do. She asks him to rub the ladder on her fingers, and he promises to do so. He tells her that he did not see the ladder broken, and says that he guessed that she had taken it away. He says that she should rub it with the ladder and they will not be pricked, and then he tells her to open her mouth, as he has warned her to be alert for men. He goes on to tell her that she came into his home alone, and stayed with him in the hotel the whole night, and now she is afraid that she will not do anything to him. She says she has a new project that she needs someone to help her with, and asks him if he could give her a hand in it