Scene 2 Summary

Two weeks later, Jonathan sits in the hotel room speaking with Rosalie, a girl about his age. He has not left his room in this time, except to sometimes sit on the porch. As Jonathan stutters through his conversation, he tells Rosalie about his adventures feeding his mother's Venus flytraps. Rosalie is fascinated.

He admits to her that he spends time on the porch watching her. He grows upset when Rosalie calls him Albert and begins insisting that his name is Jonathan. Returning to his confessions, he explains how he watches her through his telescope. Jonathan finds out that Rosalie does not watch him through a telescope and offers to make her one so she can.

Jonathan gets very worked up explaining how he originally made his telescope to see airplanes as they flew past. He first saw Rosalie babysitting a rich couple's...