Peter""s vengefulness increased when a spidery-black symbiote (from an alien meteorite) bonded with Spider-Man""s costume during sleep, making it black and imbuing his personality with a more brash, dangerous and aggressive nature (by amplifying "characteristics of its host, especially aggression").Rose gazes at him, trying o attract a glance while entering the house.Rose quickly persuades Esther to join her and stand on the front porch to look at the boy.Attempting to be non-chalant, both desperately want to be noticed and admired.Unsuccessful in attracting his attention, he is oblivious o them and imperviously wanders inside.Rose thinks: "He""s not very neighborly, I must say."They also go inside their house, where they anticipate he evening""s events.When Esther reminds Rose of her fateful phone call, stuck-up Rose disdainfully mentions her disinterest in boys before drifting upstairs to wash her hair:My dear, when you get to be my age, you""ll find out here are more important things in life than boys.They are ordered to sing a Negro spiritual by Lyle (Burton Gilliam), the white-chain gang overseer:Now come on boys, where""s your spirit? I don""t hear no singin""." He phones Senator Foley""s (and the new Senator Smith""s) secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) [she is rarely called by her first name Clarissa] and tells her that Smith has disappeared.