After dinner, the rat guest is sent home, and Sean wonders how he can let a "kitchen waste witch" do such a dirty job. He invites the rat to dinner, but the rat tries to kill him. Sean tells the story of how he was abandoned in the snow by a puppy. The puppy was a witch, and when she bandaged him up, she found out he was a human. She gave him a token of her love, a tattered piece of cloth, and told him to go buy the rat a keepsake. He tells her to go shopping the next day, because he's already contaminated the keepsake with his "witch's aura" . He also tells her that Miss May Rine is worried that the witches' convention is coming up, and that she needs to attend.