- Now we meet yet another new character, Janie.
- Janie, four years old, insults or throws things at the military men who come to sleep with her mother, Wima, while Janie's father is overseas.
- The incidents of her dissing the military men reveal her to be very clever and witty for her age.
- At one her mother's parties, Janie insults one of her mother's lovers. She just keeps going and going with it.
- She also reads a man's mind. The young man tells her mother that Janie is telepathic. Wima calls this nonsense and says Janie gets her vitamins every day.