This chapter opens with a conversation between the two young men, who have just begun to date. The narrator explains that the young men are from high social status, and they are afraid that they will not be able to marry and die without their descendants. He tells the men that they can't argue over their relationship because they are so close in social standing. He also tells them that he was infatuated with the young man at the time, and that his father was the first one to realize that it was a "mental illness" . The young men explain that they made a promise not to admit that they were in love, so they didn't fear him. The two men then eavesdrop on the conversation, and the narrator tells the others that he will leave school because he is afraid that the two men are in love. He then tells the other men that he has heard that "people are born with this" , and he wants to get married. He asks the men why they did not send him to a mental hospital earlier, when he would have been better off going straight to the doctor. The men then explain that the old man who treated them transferred them to a psychological hospital, where they were able to get help.