- Frank hatches a plan to converse more with Helen. He goes to the library, where he knows she often goes during the week.
- She soon arrives, as expected.
- When she leaves, Frank follows her.
- He suggests a walk through the park. It's cold, but Helen goes along.
- She first feels irritation, which she supposes comes from her mother's warnings about gentiles.
- It passes. Helen thinks there may be more to Frank than she supposed. Yeah, like peeping and armed robbery.
- Frank segues from a comment of hers about snow to a story about St. Francis that he remembers. In the story, St. Francis couldn't sleep, worried he'd made the wrong choice about becoming a monk. He went outside and made a wife and kids out of snow and was then able to relax.
- A priest had told Frank the story back when he was in an orphanage.
- Helen thanks him for helping her father but warns him against a career in the grocery business.
- Wow. No one in the Bober family likes their business.
- Frank responds that he's just taking a breather.
- They sit on a bench.
- While Frank smokes, Helen asks him about the biography of Napoleon he's reading.
- They discuss books. She's reading a Dostoevsky novel.
- They then take turns talking about why life prevented them from completing college. For Frank, it was his constant moving and jobs. For Helen, it was helping her folks.
- Helen would like to go to NYU during the day. She doesn't care for her secretarial job.
- Frank tells her about his bad luck with a story about an acrobat he liked when he worked at a carnival. She came in time to like him too, but was killed in a car accident the very day she expressed her love for him.
- They arrive back home. Helen goes inside. Frank stays out in the cold, wanting to look at the moon.
- In her room, Helen thinks over the walk with Frank. She's impressed by him and wishes she could see the moon from her window.