The narrator and the narrator's companion are both laughing hysterically at the same time. The narrator asks the narrator why he is laughing so hard, and he tells him that he is the first person he has ever heard of to do so. He also tells the narrator that the narrator is laughing hysterically because he is telling him something funny. He asks if he is comforting the narrator, and she says that she just said what her thoughts were, and that he was acting like that because she was telling him what she thought. He tells her that he did not ask if she wanted to go to the grocery store, but that it was time for him to get the groceries. The neighbors gather at the door, and they want to take the red-haired man to the police. The uncle tells them that a house has been broken into again, and the neighbors suspect that it is the same man who broke into the house the day before. He says that after the man came to the neighborhood, robberies started to happen there. When the narrator asks if the man is the culprit, he