The chapter opens with the announcement that the physics class has been cancelled for the following day. Everyone is shocked to hear that the school has been canceled. The driver tells the narrator that the windows are still intact and that the men are still at the house. The narrator tells the driver to pretend that he is dead and to leave the house, but the driver refuses to do so, saying that it is the first time he has been to the house and that he does not want to think about another situation