The mustard woman calls Hollis on the phone and announces that she will pick up Hollis to visit her new foster parent on Saturday and have her move there as early as Sunday. Hollis tries calling Beatrice for help, but she hasn’t arrived at her place in New Mexico yet. Hollis has a memory of a doll she’d wanted to protect as a young girl and realizes she wants to save Josie just as much. Watching the snow outside, Hollis remembers the Regans’s descriptions of their house in Branches during cold weather, and that they never live there in the winter. She has an idea: she can take Josie to hide out in the Branches house. Hollis wakes a napping Josie to ask, “How would you like to go away with me?” (75). Hollis doesn’t specify where, but Josie is excited by the prospect of an adventure in the Silver Bullet and agrees. In her head, Hollis starts to make lists of everything they will need so they can leave before the mustard woman arrives on Saturday.