- They walk together on the street, kind of arguing.
- Rabbit thinks she isn’t keen on him, same as the Texas prostitute.
- Rabbit says: “Come on now, be a pleasant c***,” showing he will not be impeded by her toughness. They walk now, each with an arm around the other’s waist.
- Ruth says he talked about himself too much at dinner.
- He says he was a great athlete, though is nothing now.
- She says she was a great cook, but that now she just eats out to find men.
- They get to her building. They go to her apartment, on the second floor.
- They go in and he starts kissing her and holds her roughly. She tells him to leave.
- He says he just wanted to “hug” her. She says it was more like “kill” than hug.
- She’s afraid he will prematurely ejaculate if they have sex. He promises not to.
- She wants to take her clothes off in the bathroom. He wants to take them off for her.
- She wants to put in a diaphragm. He doesn’t like them.
- They banter about birth control. He is against it. She for it.
- He insinuates he’d like to marry her.
- He watches her pee, and flashing back to toilet training Nelson, praises her for a job well done.
- He’s undressing her, and when he fumbles she tries to take over.
- He says to relax and enjoy – that it’s their “wedding night.” He thinks she wants to hit him. She says men always want to “hurt…or be hurt.”
- He tells her she is pretty. She makes mention again of her weight.
- He lets her take off her stockings, fearing he will tear them. He continues undressing her.
- He starts to get naked, too. Wanting her completely naked, he makes her take off her ring.
- She laughs at his boxers – says they make him look like a rabbit.
- He washes the makeup off her face with a washcloth.
- They are in bed together, he does it like he does with Janice – trying to get her in the mood. He sits on her butt and massages her back.
- They make love (it’s not clear if birth control is used) and she comes.
- He says she’s pretty. She says she’s forgotten that she could have an orgasm, too.
- She wants to go to the bathroom, and he tries to stop her.
- He doesn’t like women to wash immediately after sex.
- He wants some water. It depresses him to hear her washing.
- He’s already snoozing when she comes back with his water.