In this chapter, Aunt Marmee is sitting in her room, and she tells Lockwood that she knows about the divorce between Lockwood and Lockwood's father. She also tells him that she is partly responsible for the divorce, because she was the one who caused the marriage in the first place. She says that Lockwood and his father got married because of her, and that she did not feel secure and fought with her father because of it. She adds that she does not like women and that her boyfriend is not her friend, but her boyfriend's "boyfriend" . She tells Lockwood to respect his father, even if he does not care for her, because from the beginning of their relationship, he and Lockwood have been "used as a tool" by her. She asks Lockwood if it is wrong for him to be more selfish than his mother, and Lockwood replies that he is selfish as well.