Red and the other girls have solved the playground mystery and think Mr. McCaskill probably arranged the whole thing to get them to give credit to the custodian, Mr. LeClair. Once Red is home, she eats dinner and talks about her day before heading to her room to relax and read some University-level science books. Red remembers that she needs to take Dr. Hart’s box back to school the next day, so she gets it out from under her bed. Seeing the box again brings back the uneasy feeling that she thinks there is more here than she can see.