This chapter's epigraph comes from a chestnut that George has cherished for so long. It's the same chestnut that he used to wear when he was a kid. George tells us that he's not the same anymore. He used to be "silly, stupid stingy, domineering, and fierce" back in the day. He's just not as smart as his little sister. George says that he would have let his sister cry to death if he'd known that she was cheating on him. George asks why he came to see his sister, and she says that she begged her mother to let her see him. She begs George to run away, but George says he can't because he has to stay inside. He says that his sister should be fine, but he has sacrificed too much.