The chapter opens with the narrator wondering if the plot is self indulgent. He wonders if it's because he's learning too much on his own. He asks his sister to show him the plot to her friends first so that he can improve his own story. She says that she's made it far enough, but that she still has a long way to go. She tells her sister that she met the protagonist in the flesh and that he gave her an auto-graph of the plot. She's worried that the protagonist's secret will get out, but she doesn't want to let it get in the way of her story. The narrator asks her sister if she thinks the protagonist needs a friend to confide in, and she says that's not a good idea.