- This chapter starts with a storybook-style poem about two sisters, the younger following the older everywhere.
- Lennie's eating lunch in a tree, which is funny, because her Gram's expression for "crazy" is "she's out of her tree."
- Joe Fontaine, stud trumpet player, finds her and says hi, as if what she's doing is totally normal.
- She invites him up, and he climbs to her branch; he asks her what's in the bag, and she teases him for being a scavenger. He says it's the French in him and then starts speaking French, which basically makes her melt.
- Joe and Lennie adorably play what's-in-the-bag, because Gram apparently puts all kinds of things in Lennie's brown bags. Lennie hands Joe her lunch bag, and he pulls out: an apple, Wuthering Heights, and a peony.
- Lennie tells Joe that he has the name of her favorite saint, who apparently levitated.
- They get quiet, which, if the previous chapter is any indication, is a sign of romantic things to come.
- Joe tells Lennie he saw her the other day, writing something and then letting it go. Lennie is secretly delighted that he's been following her; she asks him why.
- Joe says he's curious about the way she plays the clarinet, which for Lennie is a buzz kill.
- Oblivious, Joe goes on to say that her technique is amazing, but she's not trying.
- Joe asks her if she'd like to play with him. Lennie, rather rudely, turns him down.
- So Joe jumps out of the tree, saying it wasn't his idea anyway.
- Mysterious.