Humbert moves into a smaller, not so nice house somewhere else in the town of Beardsly. Humbert goes into detail about the new neighboorhood they live in and the neighbors they live next to. Humbert remains distant with his neighbors because he fears they may spy on him. Humbert is also afraid of a blosoming relationship between Lolita and the cook, and he continues to make sure he can do anything to keep the relationship from getting any more serious. The school which he sent Lolita has done nothing but anger him with their teachings. Humbert would rather the school focus on teaching writing and arithmatec but rather they have been teaching Lolita social skills. Specifically the school has taught Lolita the four D's: Dramatics, Dance, Debate, and Dating. Its not suprising to think that the fourth and final D upsets Humbert more than the others.
Sadly for Humbert his relationship with Lolita is becoming more strained. She constantly demands for more money and gifts from him, and demands it before any sexual favors. Humbert fears that by him giving Lolita extra money it may give her a chance to run away, so he breaks into her room and steals the money he gives her to make sure she can never leave him. Amidst, his paranoia of Lolita leaving him, Humbert also suffers from fear of Lolita attracting or hanging out with other boys alone. Humbert continues to restrict Lolita's interaction with boys and limits it to interaction with boys in large groups only. In an attempt to ease his anxiety Humbert asks one of Lolita's friends if Lolita has any boyfriends but instead of getting an answer he recieves unwanted affection from Lolita's disappointing friend.
One day, someone informs Humbert that Lolita is not maturing sexually and has a hard time dealing with authority and exhibits many disciplinary problems. The informant tells Humbert that Lolita has an unending vocabulary of cuss words. He provides Humbert with the advice that Lolita should start dating or maybe even take part in the school's play. In an attempt to help Lolita mature properly Humbert throws Lolita a birthday party and invites a number of boys, none of which seem to impress Lolita. Despite the lack of dating to help her mature, Humbert is happy with her distaste of the boys whom he invited to the party.
Humbert is becoming obsessively dependent upon Lolita. It seems as though if she were taken out of his life, he would have no life. I feel sorry for Lolita because she has no real way out because Humbert keeps manipulating her so that she has to be with him for what seems the rest of her life even though she is unhappy. Humbert has deprived Lolita from any sort of parenting, which is what she needs right now instead of an older man who wants nothing but sexual favors from her. Lolita seems as though she has no idea how to develop socially other than the teaching she has receieved from her school. What Humbert is doing to Lolita is almost frustrating in a way but the book continues to be interesting!
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