The narrator tells us that the rich guy is worried that the poor girl will be upset about his proposal. The rich guy tells the narrator that his parents are coming over to see him. The narrator says that she's hungry and wants to wash the vegetables. She wants to know what he wants as a gift for her birthday. He tells her that it's her birth day and that she should give him whatever she wants. She tells him that she doesn't need anything else in life. She just wants him to be her lover. She says that if she took more from him, she'd have tongues wagging in the company. She's mad that she has a job at her father