It's the morning, and Shmoop wakes up. He's looking for his master, who's been away for a week, and he can't find him anywhere. He wonders if his master is giving him a duplicate key, which he can return to him whenever he's done with him, or if it's just a coincidence that he'd given him a key that he doesn't actually need. Shmoopers around trying to figure out what's going on, but he'll just have to get used to it. He has a short shift the next day, so he needs to find a key to his place. He tries to find the key in his wallet, but it was hidden in a nook of his shirt pocket. He doesn' t know why, but then he wonders if it might have been closer than he thought it might be, and then he realizes that he owes his master one of his keys.