The chapter opens with a series of exchanges between the two sisters. The first is about the importance of being reserved and dignified. The second is about fighting for a man's affections. The third is about being a lady first. The chapter ends with a soliloquy about chi, the principal of the orphanage. He is not at the orphanage because he is at the charity scene. He has come to give money to a new child who has congenital heart disease, and he wants to give it to the child's father. When the butler asks why she has come back by herself, she tells him that she has to go back to work. The butler asks if she is making dinner, and she replies that she is. She says that the eldest master almost gave everything up after his wife's death, but that the second master refused to leave. He must marry her, she says, because he has already fallen in love with her.