

When she arrives, she does not believe that Holden is twenty-two, as he claims. He offers Holden prostitute for five dollars. While back at the hotel, Maurice, the elevator man, asks Holden if he is interested in a little tail tonight. Holden then reminisces about drinking with Raymond Goldfarb at Whooton. Holden finally concludes that he would yell at the thief but not have the courage to hit him. Although he would not do so aggressively, he wishes that he could threaten the person who stole them. He considers how he would confront a person who had stolen his gloves. Holden walks back to his hotel, although it is forty-one blocks away. Rather than spend time with Lillian Simmons, Holden leaves. Holden notices how she blocks the aisle in the place as she drones on about how handsome Holden has become. and introduces Holden to a Navy commander she is dating. The girl, Lillian Simmons, asks about D.B.

Suddenly, a former girlfriend of Holden's brother, D.B., recognizes him. Holden notices a Joe Yale-looking guy with a beautiful girl he is telling the girl how a guy in his dorm nearly committed suicide.

Ernie's is filled with prep school and college jerks, as Holden calls them. He asks what happens to the ducks in Central Park during the winter, but the two get into an argument when Horwitz thinks that Holden's questions are stupid. In the cab to Ernie's, Holden chats with Horwitz, the cab driver. used to frequent before he went to Hollywood. Despondent by the course of his thoughts, Holden decides to go to Ernie's, a nightclub in Greenwich village that D.B. Holden suspected that her stepfather had tried to "get wise with" Jane.

The one time that he and Jane did anything sexual together was after she had a fight with Mr. Holden reminisces about Jane's smile, and admits that she is the only person whom he showed Allie's baseball mitt. Several days later, he introduced himself to her, but it took some time before he could convince her that he didn't care what their dog did. Holden met Jane when his mother became irritated that the Gallagher's Doberman pinscher relieved itself on their lawn. Upon leaving the Lavender Room, Holden begins to think of Jane Gallagher and worries that Stradlater seduced her.
