- The Garrows live eight miles outside of Dog Hollow on the bluffs overlooking the Wisconsin River.
- Billy and Georgie take the Old Line Road, which is not so much a road as a path in need of maintenance; along the way, they get devoured by mosquitoes.
- At 6:00PM, they arrive at the Garrow Farm.
- Billy has to clean Georgie up with spit and a hairbrush because what with her face-plant into a pile of rocks and the mosquitoes, she looks too rough to go visiting.
- The farm is in a really inconvenient, out-of-the-way place, and the first person they see is a young girl with red hair, who promptly runs into the house calling for her mother.
- Mrs. Garrow comes out of the house, and they introduce themselves, but Mrs. G. is none too friendly.
- Billy asks about a girl of Agatha's description, but Mrs. Garrow assumes he means her daughter Darlene, who has eloped with a guy named Morgy Harrison.
- She also jumps to conclusions about Billy and Georgie's relationship, assuming they are a couple (gross) and that Billy has beaten Georgie in the face. Lovely.
- Georgie interrupts, explaining that Billy was asking about Agatha, not Darlene. She's wondering if somehow Agatha might have given Darlene the dress.
- Mrs. Garrow says there's no chance Darlene and Agatha ever would have met (though if you ask us, that's like mystery novel code for, "Yes, absolutely").
- Now Mr. Garrow comes out of the house. He seems slightly friendlier than his wife, but he clearly wants them gone.
- Georgie thinks he looks confused when he sees the picture of Agatha, but he sends them on their way.
- Mr. Garrow tells them they'll have to take Old Line Road back out because Miller Road on the other side isn't really passable.
- As they prepare to leave, the little girl comes over to admire Long Ears, and Georgie notices that her hair ribbon is made of the same blue-green fabric as Agatha's dress.
- She distracts the little girl with a licorice stick and steals the hair ribbon. And just like that, Georgie has stooped to stealing hair ribbons from little girls.