The chapter opens with a description of a young woman who has just returned from a ten-night stay in a hotel. She tells her servant that she is going to visit the family of her estranged husband. The servant tells her that his wife has not felt well the previous day, and she asks him to go with her to the family. The young woman tells him that she wants to catch her husband and his current wife in bed together, and the servant agrees to go along with her