This begins the rising action of the novel. While they are at the fire station they receive a call. Guy and the team, along with Captain Beatty, head towards the house. They enter and start burning the books. The woman who lives there is, so to speak, frozen. She doesn't leave the house when Guy tells her to leave, she just stays in place. All the other firefighters and the captain come out and tell Guy to leave. Guy tries his best to convince the woman to leave, but she stays and burns along with the house. This makes Guy think that there must be something in the books. He believes there must be something about them to make someone want to stay in a burning house. The next day Guy doesn't go to work, he asks Mildred to call Beatty and tell him he's sick. Beatty ends up showing up at his house to check on him. While Beatty is there, he explains to Guy the importance and history of his work. Guy had brought home a book and hidden it under his pillow. While Beatty is there, his wife comes in and tries to fluff the pillow. The guy gets angry and yells at his wife and tells her to leave him alone, but not before she realizes what's under the pillow. After Beatty leaves, Guy takes a ladder and pulls them out from the ceiling, opens them and begins reading them. They spent the whole afternoon browsing and reading