- Doug and Tom are chillin' in their room before bed, doing the notebook thing.
- Doug asks Tom to promise him one thing: that he will stick around, even though sometimes Doug hates him. He suggests that if they should grow "real old—say forty or forty-five," they should go own a gold mine out West and sit around smoking corn silk and growing beards.
- Tom says Doug can depend on him.
- Doug's having a case of the Deep Thoughts, like he does, and he tells Tom he's not so worried about him; it's the way God runs the world.
- You can't accuse Doug of sweating the small stuff.
- "He's all right, Doug," says Tom. "He tries."