Do you resent your father's decision to leave Oldbury nine years ago? No, says the narrator, he's never resented it. He's sure that his father probably felt the same way. The narrator tells her that she's always been in the same room since the day she left Oldbury. She's shocked that she hasn't moved any books in the nine years since she left. She says that she resents her father, her stepmother, and her dog. She tells her dog that it's hard for her to see the library without her. She also tells him that she knew that he'd come back someday. She asks him to wait for her down the stairs. He says that he doesn't want to wait any longer. He wants to go for a ride. He asks her to slow down. She yawns and says that happiness is not hers anymore.