The chapter opens with a discussion of the changes that have taken place in Madame Bovary's life. She has changed a great deal, but she hasn't turned over a "new leaf" . She's still in love with liancheng, and he's not happy about it. He's worried that she's going to move in with him soon, and that he won't be able to help her with her luggage during the day or with the dinner party at night. He tells himself that he needs to be happy, because he wants her to have a happy life. He asks if she meant to say that he should be unhappy, and she replies that she meant that he shouldn't have to worry about her. He doesn't take the whole thing seriously at first, but now he realizes that she means that she wants him to be unhappy. He says he'll teach her a lesson when he gets his share of the "beiming group" , so she can be happy. He wants to know where she is going, and when she'll come back, and if she can stay out long enough to get cold. She tells him to go back to the kitchen and get some soup ready, and then she leaves. She asks if he wants to die, because she thinks he is "kissing up" to yue , but he says he just wants to be with her. She says she wants to go to a hot bath, so he asks her what she did today. She replies that he went out with yue, but that he can't stop fantasizing that she has feelings for him. He wonders if it's because he never had