This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between a young assistant and a young girl. The young assistant tells the girl that her card is too big to fit in an unopened bottle. The girl asks what she should do with it, and the young assistant says that he should just shove the card into the bottle. This is a good idea, since the card will move around on its own. The assistant then suggests that the girl pretend to hold the card in her palm and then pull it out of the bottle, which would be a totally new idea. He also suggests that they draw a star on the card to indicate that the card is real, and then seal it in a hole in the bottle so that the tea won't leak out. This seems like a great idea, but the girl says that she's already done this before, when she cut down a straw to fit into a bottle. She doesn't want to tell anyone about it, but she does want to go home and change her clothes.