May Summary and Analysis

May begins and Johannes blames chance, cursing it because it has not recently gone in his favor. He then pleads for chance to come back to his side. This occurs on May 5th; on the following day, Johannes notes that spring has come and that everything blossoms, including young girls. He is intent on inquiring more into who Cordelia is but worries that he will discover that she is engaged. He also wants to know where she lives.

On the twelfth, Johannes discovers the glory of having a young girl come upon you in the rain and describes the best way to conceal and then reveal yourself in conversation. He then considers feigning a chance encounter with Cordelia where he will offer her his umbrella. On the fifteenth he thanks chance, because he was able to find Cordelia. He encountered her...