In this chapter, the Governess explains that she is a lone ranger at school and that she has made a weapon to prevent others from approaching her. She has invented a crowd-disguising agent, which she calls "whoosh crowd divider" , and she has also invented a hair-brushing agent that makes her look "untouchable smoothness" . The Governess says that if she were a skunk, she would be able to stop people from hanging out with her because she would smell "unstoppable body odor" and everyone would be "in awe" of her