The narrator complains to his wife that he's going to be away for a week and he wants her to give him a gift. She refuses, saying that she doesn't have another man to talk to. The narrator says that he almost thought that she was pestering him because she was missing him, but he can't believe that she would think that he would do such a thing. He tells her that he can give her a gift, and she says that she's sick of his jokes. She tells him that she wants to go out and buy a gift for him, and he says he'll allow her to do so, but that the phone call will have to go on. He says that it's not like he has any other man, and that he has nothing to talk about when he is not there. She says she almost