Barney and Valancy experience a close call when Valancy gets her shoe stuck in a train switch. As a result of the excitement, Valancy realizes that the heart specialist that told her she had a serious heart condition was incorrect. The chapter ends with her feeling lost and scared since the basis for her marriage proposal, that she would die in a year, wasn't true. She feels she has trapped Barney into marriage and her deliriously happy life unravels.