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Despite her disappointment, Amanda bids him farewell graciously. Jim cheerily takes his leave. Amanda calls Tom in from the kitchen and accuses him of playing a joke on them. Tom insists that he had no idea that Jim was engaged and that he does not know much about anyone at the warehouse.
He leaves to go to the movies, and Amanda yells that for all he cares about the family, he might as well go to the moon. Rather than accepting reality for what it is, Amanda accuses Tom of deliberately tricking her.
Amanda is surprised and says that Tom didn't tell them that Jim was engaged. Jim explains that no one knows it yet, and then he leaves. Amanda then calls Tom and accuses him of playing a joke on them by bringing home an engaged man.
She tells him that he can leave anytime after Laura is taken care of. Thus she returns to the theme of the gentleman caller and wants Tom to bring one home with the hopes that Laura can find some place of her own.
Tom gets up to leave. Amanda demands to know where he is going. He replies that he is going to the movies and leaves despite his mother’s objections. Amanda is troubled, but her excitement quickly returns. She calls Laura out onto the landing and tells her to make a wish on the moon. Laura does not know what she should wish for.
Amanda says that she has caught Laura crying because Laura believes Tom is unhappy and that he goes out every night to escape the apartment. Amanda tells Tom that she is afraid he will begin drinking like his father did.
Amanda tries to leave the living room to give Jim and Laura more privacy, but Jim explains that he needs to leave, mentioning Betty and identifying her as “[t]he girl I go steady with.”
