The teacher asks the boy why the other kids are so angry. The boy says that he looks like the teacher, but he doesn't know why they're angry. He says that sometimes seeing a foreign face can upset someone. The teacher says that every so often he wishes he had a friend like him, who could see things the same way he does. He tells the boy that he'll send him postcards so he won't be jealous. He also asks if there was a cold murder case in the neighborhood, and the boy says there hasn't been any. The police showed up at the library recently, and it seemed like they knew a little about the neighborhood. He asks if they chose to stay there because they didn't want people to notice them. He wonders where they got such things.