The scene opens in the middle of the night, and the narrator asks the young man if he's drunk. The young man tells him that he isn't, and that his slap didn't hurt him. The narrator tells him to stop flirting with the young woman, and to go to the hospital if he gets a cold. He tells her that he'll take her there if she's okay, but he warns her that some medicine only lasts for a short time, and she can't be sure that he drugged her. He suggests that she pretends to trust him, but that she shows her weakness in her moments of weakness. He says that he might as well be the one to help her, since he doesn't have to suffer the way she does. He reminds her that medicine only takes effect after two or three times, and he asks her to take a bath. He'll send her back to the hotel, and they'll have a hot bath together.