- After the lawyer quickly gets Hip out jail, Miss Gerard takes him to a house where he can have a clean room and supplies such as clothes, a key, and a razor. Nice lady.
- She asks him to clean up. She tells him he hasn't eaten in four days. Again this book is making us hungry. We want to eat lemon sorbet.
- Hip cleans up. He eats the dinner she cooked and vomits. She cleans him up and suggests he sleep.
- Alone in his room, he ponders his feeling of being in her company versus being alone, arriving at no definitive answer. He sleeps.