Pages 26-44 Summary

The narrator comes home the next day to find a gift basket outside his door with a note from Miss Holiday Golightly apologizing for her intrusion the night before. She promises to not bother him again, and he writes "Please do" on the back of her card and leaves it on her door.

Holly keeps her promise and doesn't disturb the narrator in the middle of the night, and he begins to miss her. He doesn't see her all week, and then sends her a note reminding her that "Tomorrow is Thursday," so she'll remember to go visit Sally Tomato at Sing Sing. She sends him a note thanking him for reminding her and asks him over for drinks.

When he arrives for drinks, hoping to find her alone, he is greeted at the door by an ugly short man who...