The narrator asks the girl if she got a girl friend, and the girl says yes. The narrator says she can smell the "softer" stuff on her clothes. The girl says she's happy to be home, since she has been making food every day. She tells the narrator that she looks around and sees that the broken curtain has been fixed, the cardboard boxes of her orders are gone, and none of her socks are single anymore. She wonders where the socks came from, and wonders why she goes so far in her job. She says it's her job to "sting for some reason" , and that she feels lonely. She's always like this, she tells the girl. She asks if she can call him by his first name, and he says yes, even though he doesn't know her very well.