In this chapter, the narrator flirts with the girl next door, who is a student at the university where he works as a plaster mason. The two exchange phone numbers, and the narrator tells the girl that he is a third-year law student and that she is older than him. He tells her that his friend works with plaster, and that he works full-time but lives with his girlfriend. He says that he has gotten an ex-boyfriend's sign that he loves her, and he asks the girl to carry him to the university to save her.