Füsun sets two conditions for Kemal

Füsun sets two conditions for Kemal after learning that he has not found her lost earring, turning a near-breakup into a test of honesty and a plan for him to enter her parents’ home. Her demands bind their private affair to a promise about truth and to a future visit framed as an ordinary family occasion. The first condition is sworn aloud; the second remains a plan whose practical consequences are still unsettled when the scene ends.

The Threat to Leave

Kemal tells Füsun that he searched for her earring but could not find it, adding that it might turn up later. Füsun answers with an unequivocal threat: “I’ve had enough! I’m leaving and I’m never coming back!” Kemal recognizes that her distress is not theatrical. As she gathers her things, unsure what to do with her arms, he places himself in front of the door and begs her to stay, declaring his love. The visible change in her expression—a hint of a smile, alongside an effort to conceal pity—shows her beginning to relent, but does not erase the seriousness of the threatened departure.

The missing earring is thus more than the immediate subject of the dispute: its absence exposes the fragility of the moment. Kemal’s first impulse is to pretend to keep searching, like a driver caught in a police search who knows he has left his license at home. He catches himself and tells the truth instead. The scene makes that choice the threshold to Füsun’s conditions: the argument is no longer only about whether he found an object, but about whether he will deal honestly with her.

The First Condition: An Oath Against Lying

Füsun agrees to stay, then asks Kemal to name the person he loves most in the world. She sees that he cannot answer with either her name or Sibel’s and narrows the question, asking for the name of a man. Kemal answers that it is his father. The question places his divided emotional attachments in the room without resolving them; Füsun’s next demand is not for an account of those attachments but for a guarantee about how he will treat her.

She makes him swear on his father’s head that he will never lie to her. Kemal says he swears, but she rejects the abbreviated response and requires the full sentence: “I swear on my father’s head that I’ll never ever lie to you.” The exact wording matters within the exchange. Füsun insists that he articulate the promise rather than leave it as a vague assurance, then observes that he has said it too easily. The oath therefore brings no simple reassurance: it establishes the rule she wants while preserving doubt about whether the words alone can prove his sincerity.

Intimacy Before the Second Condition

Before Füsun can state her second condition, the two begin kissing and make love. The scene shifts from confrontation into a shared intimacy that both experience as transporting them elsewhere. Kemal imagines a silent, rocky landscape like an island or the first photographs from the moon; Füsun later describes a dark, tree-filled garden, a window, and, in the distance, the sea and a bright yellow hillside with sunflowers moving in the wind. These are their different images, not a single agreed setting, and the narration connects them to moments when their lovemaking surprises them with a closeness neither has known before.

Afterward, Füsun returns to the unfinished negotiation in an elated voice. The sequence does not cancel the oath or settle the question of trust. Instead, their intimacy interrupts the argument, and the second condition arrives after it, making the proposed family visit part of the same encounter as the promise never to lie.

The Second Condition: Supper with Her Parents

Füsun requires Kemal to come one day for supper with her mother and father and to bring both her lost earring and the tricycle she rode as a child. Kemal readily agrees to visit and promises to bring the earring, though he immediately asks what they will tell her parents. His question makes clear that the visit needs an acceptable explanation; the private relationship cannot simply be presented to the family as it is.

Füsun supplies a plausible account based on ordinary family and educational courtesies. A relative who encountered her on the street might ask after her parents and be invited over; someone who had met her in the shop might say he wanted to see them. She also proposes that a relative could offer a girl help with mathematics before the university entrance exam. The explanation turns the visit into something that could pass as familiar, respectful contact, while the requested objects—the lost earring and Füsun’s tricycle—give it a more personal connection to their history.

Kemal confirms that he will visit and bring the earring, but asks that they not tell anyone about the mathematics lessons. Füsun responds, “Why not?” The question leaves the arrangement open rather than showing that they have settled on a cover story. The scene ends before the visit, the delivery of either object, or the explanation to her parents takes place; what it establishes is Füsun’s demand that the relationship move beyond secrecy between the two of them and toward a meeting with her family, under terms they have yet to resolve.