Chapter 5 (spoiler alert)

Chapter 5 is another short one. Ethan and Mattie finish dinner and then just pretty much begin to talk for a while. The cat plays a major role in this chapter, it observes Ethan and Mattie the whole time they are together. "The cat, who had been a puzzled observer of these unusual movements, jumped up into Zeena's chair, rolled itself into a ball, and lay watching them with narrowed eyes." (pg 52 roughly) It's almost as if the cat is Zeena herself, always watching them and observing their movements. And it almost seems that Ethan and Mattie are aware of this. As unlike Ethan was planning, their hands never even touch.