This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in the play's opening scene: "What a plucky brat / It's fine. let him stay." This is a reference to the fact that Little Em'ly's "body problem" has been getting worse and worse, and that she's going to have to stay in bed for a few days before she can get better. When she wakes up, she'll have to eat, but she won't have to rush. The delivery man from the previous night was "scared" and "sad" after being called a "monster," but he's a good guy, and he'