In the middle of the night, the narrator asks his mother to fetch an umbrella for him. She tells him that she bought it for him when he was a junior in high school, but he forgot it that day. He apologizes, saying that he did not mean to leave her in the rain. The narrator says that she has been "crossed in love," and that boys are "irrevocably impatient, indifferent, and unfaithful." He asks her to add him on Facebook so that he can be her boyfriend.