Specifically, Owen believed that he had interrupted the Angel of Death, who then reassigned the task of killing Tabby to Owen. John (as the narrator) tells us that, years later, Owen would tell him that he thought he had disrupted the "SCHEME OF THINGS" by interrupting an angel at work (3.66).Owen says he's going to stay with Tabby in case the angel comes back. They go to investigate and wake Tabby up in the process.He tells Johnny that there's someone strange in Tabby's room and he thinks it's an angel. Owen leaves and then comes back and shakes Johnny. Johnny tells Owen to go tell Tabby about it.This strikes us as being hilarious for some reason. Actually, he says, "IT FEELS LIKE A RARE DISEASE" (3.38). One night (way before the baseball incident), Owen sleeps over at 80 Front Street in the other twin bed in Johnny's room.Still, John mentions, Owen never saw the dummy at night. John (as the grown-up narrator) makes a point to illustrate that, when they were kids, Owen was really familiar with the dummy because they played with it so often.The only time she ever wears it is when she acts in one of Dan's plays, and she fidgets practically the whole time. Tabby never wears the red dress because it makes her visibly uncomfortable.She finally got in touch with a lawyer, who said that everything was destroyed in the fire – all of the inventory, bills of sale, and receipts. She tells Johnny that the store burned to the ground.
When she tried to return the red dress, she couldn't.She found it in a store in Boston and copied it in both white and black because she liked the cut so much. Like we said back in Chapter 2, Tabby only really wears black and white.Tabby loves how Owen can make up interesting new outfits by combining her old clothes in ways she hadn't thought of before. Owen and Johnny make a game out of dressing up the dummy.Tabby always has clothes on it Johnny assumes she does this out of either decency or playfulness. Even Dan insists that it can make someone look twice. We learn that she has a dressmaker's dummy in her room that is an exact replica of her figure.When she goes to Boston, she takes clothes from fancy stores home with her, sews her own copies of them, and then returns the originals. Tabby has a good eye for fashion, and she's an even better seamstress.We're back in John's childhood – so here's Johnny.
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