The grocer's assistant, Miss A-Meng, enters with the news that she has just picked up a knife and is now engaged to Inspector Shime. She tells Shime that she will be his wife in the future, and that he will not be able to refuse her. Shime receives another message from his fiancee, and the two of them discuss the possibility of a marriage contract between them. The woman, who introduces herself as a "nurse-in-training," explains that she is Shime's fiancee and that she would like Shime to marry her.