Shared Devotion and Uncertain Future

In this chapter, the two characters discuss their shared connection to someone from their past. The woman reveals that the room they are in is a museum dedicated to this person, and she has been worshipping him by kneeling at his altar every day. The man is shocked by this revelation and realizes that their worship of the dead unites them. However, their connection is shattered when he learns that the person she mourns is the same person he refuses to mourn. The chapter ends with a sense of uncertainty about their future.