The chapter opens with a conversation between a young woman and a young man. The young woman asks the young man to walk her home. The man tells her that he and his friend are "friends" and that they do not need to worry about her. The girl asks if the man is talking about her, and the man replies that he is not. She asks him to shake her hand, and he says that he will do so the next day. She tells him that the sky is full of snow, and that she could go anywhere. He invites her and her friend to stay the night, and she tells him to come in. She says that she will not cry outside her front door because it is the girl who has invited the man into her home and then left. The narrator says that the young woman should not have invited a person into her house and left, because she is already fluent in sign language. He tells the girl that she is the only person she can use sign language with right now. He adds that she looks like she has a "thing for itsu," and he worries about her emotional state