The narrator tells us that he's feeling a little jealous of agnes and adilia. He's not sure if they're the same way he is, but he does know one thing: they've taken everything from him. The narrator says that he tried his best to be smarter than them, but that he doesn't even know how to do the math. The thing that makes him jealous is that he feels that they always get what they want, even if it's just a little bit. He wants to know how they got him to be so close to them, and he'd like to know why.