Here we have a new character simply called "The Mysterious Stranger." He has no given name.
He lives down the road on Marilyn's neighborhood. He's not seen as a bad or good person. He's a very quiet man who keeps to his own needs and rarely talks to anyone. One day, Marilyn and her friends were play kickball. The ball goes rushing toward The Stranger's frontyard. Marilyn runs off and fetches the ball. While doing so, The Stranger peeks out his front door as Marilyn walks away with the ball. She looks back and wonders about the strange man who lives there.