The narrator tells us that he and his family have set up a date for him, but when they meet, he's upset that they're not going to work. He tells Lee that he doesn't want to upset Miss Jessel, who keeps asking him out, but he just wants to be nice to her. He says that he is here to be "some fake girlfriend" , and that she must have agreed with her parents that she was going to marry a man. Lee says that his parents must have paid off the mortgage on his house, and the narrator says that there is a piano in the house, which tickles his hand. He also says that Lee has missed two notes on the piano, and he wants her to know that, if he says that to her, she'll be ashamed to scold him and Mr. Lee. The narrator asks Lee if he could play the piano