- Winter torments Helen. She longs for Nat to call her, feeling herself in love.
- Frank desires her company, but can't work up the courage to ask her out.
- He entertains the idea of admitting to Morris that he was one of the guys who held him up. He's increasingly bothered by the role he played and his continued secrecy about it.
- He feels worse about it when around Helen.
- He figures if he confesses, Helen may not fall in love with him, but if she doesn't, he won't feel bad about it.
- Well, that's…nice?
- He also decides to start paying back the money he's been taking from the cash register.
- Then he can confess it all as part his success story—how he once thought himself destined for crime, how he bought a gun and came east, hooked up with Ward Minogue, took part in the robbery, and then stole from the Bobers' store.
- After this, Frank toys with the idea of confessing everything to Helen instead, but then he guesses that she wouldn't fall head-over-heels in love with him.
- Good guess.
- Frank decides to be hush about his sins.