The Book of Goose

Mrs. Townsend teaches Agnès how to use a typewriter. Agnès is pleased to learn this skill because it will help her get a job as a secretary one day. Mrs. Townsend has rewritten Agnès’s writing about her time in Woodsway, and tasks her with typing the rewrite. Agnès asks for permission to travel to Paris to meet with her publisher Chastain, but Mrs. Townsend refuses.

Agnès decides to run away from Woodsway, as she doesn’t care about finishing her third book Agnès in Paradise. She considers her options for running away and decides Meaker is the best person to go to for help.

Agnès asks Meaker if he’s ever been married. He says he’s not the marriage type but doesn’t expand on her other questions, as love isn’t a topic she should be discussing with him. She asks him to help her get to Paris. Agnès needs money and transportation to the train station, which she promises to pay back later. She is worried that Fabienne will die by suicide. Meaker insists he can’t help, that she needs to consult Mrs. Townsend. Agnès asks Meaker what he would have done to save his friend Wilfred.