Lily has sunk even lower in the social standings. She is now working a real job making hats. She had left Mrs Hatch a few weeks after talking with Selden, and was now being blamed by the upper class for trying to trap Bertie into such a low marriage. Mrs Fisher points out again that Lily should never have taken Gus's money, but now there is really nothing she can do but try to stay out of the upper classes way, so Gerty helped her find this hat making job. Lily really sucks at making hats though, so all the women laugh at her. Lily refills one of Mrs Hatch's old sleeping pill prescriptions that she pretends is her own, and the pharmacist warns her that it is really strong so be light in dosage. Lily runs into Rosedale one day and agrees to get tea with him. She finds herself being completely honest about all aspects of her situation. Rosedale offers to help Lily with the debt, but she declines. Later, Lily decides that the only reason she was that honest was because she doesn't really have friends to talk to anymore, and even though she has Gerty, she has been avoiding her to avoid running into Selden. Lily is starting to get very tempted by using the inheritance to start a hat shop, or using the letters from Bertha to marry Rosedale, or even just allowing Rosedale to help pay off the debt to Gus.
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