In Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, who does Mrs. Frisby meet in Chapter 2 and what does he promise?
It is actually in Chapter 3 of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH that Mrs. Frisby sets off for home and meets someone. The character she meets is a very young crow who is in a predicament - he is caught on a fence by a string tangled around his leg.
The crow, who is very young, catches the eye of Mrs. Frisby as she races across the farmyard on her way home from Mr. Ages'. He is acting very strangely, repeatedly attempting to fly off, only to have his flight stopped by something securing him to the fence. Despite the fact that she knows she must hurry home with Timothy's medicine, she stops to help him.
The crow, who, despite his youth is old enough to know better, has picked up a shiny piece of string and got it tangled first with his foot, and then on the fence....
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Mrs. Frisby calms him, then begins gnawing at the tangled mess with her sharp teeth.
Mrs. Frisby is almost done when the crow calls out that the cat is coming. The last strand of string breaks, and, knowing that if he leaves her behind, Mrs. Frisby will be killed by the cat, the crow tells her to jump on his back. He then flies away, carrying her safely to her front door.
The crow's name is Jeremy. He is very grateful to Mrs. Frisby for saving his life, and promises to do whatever he can to return the favor, "if the time ever comes when I can help you."
In the final chapter of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, who does Mrs. Frisby encounter?
After the Rats move Mrs. Frisby's cinder block house out of the path of the plowers, she watches in safety while the fields are plowed. After that, with Timothy well enough to move, they cover over the entrance and walk to the brook where they and other mice live during the summer. While collecting moss, she meets up with a neighbor:
...she saw one of her neighbors, a lady mouse named Janice who, like herself, had four children. Janice ran over to talk to her.
"You're so late getting here," she said. "We all thought something must have happened to you."
(O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Amazon.com)
To keep the secret of the Rats, Mrs. Frisby claims that her cinder block was safe the whole time, and Janice accepts that as luck. Janice, like other minor characters, is more concerned for her own well-being, and is only a little surprised to see Mrs. Frisby alive and well; Janice's impact on the novel is mainly to convince Mrs. Frisby that while she has to keep her secrets from the other mice, she should tell her own children, who deserve to know how the Rats helped to save their lives.