While Jem is exasperated with Scout in Chapter 5, he calls her no names. Later, though, Jem does call Scout "Angel May." This name-calling occurs at the beginning of Chapter 6.
In Chapter 6, on Dill's final evening in Maycomb, Jem and Scout go over to Miss Rachel's and sit by the fish pool. After witnessing Mr. Avery's "watering" of the kudzu vines, Dill suggests that they "go for a walk." When Scout asks where he wants to go, Dill points with his head in "a southerly direction." While Jem agrees to accompany Dill, Scout protests because she knows they want to walk toward the Radley house even thought they have been told by Atticus to "stop bothering" Boo.
Jem is angered by her refusal and says, "You don't have to come along, Angel May." Further, he tells his sister that he and Dill are just going to the street light and back," so Scout goes along. However, after they reach the street light, Jem suggests to Scout that she return home. "What are you gonna do?" she asks, and the boys tell her that they are simply going to sneak a look through the window with the loose shutter in the hopes of seeing Boo Radley. Further, they inform Scout she can just run home if she cannot keep quiet. When she continues to protest their actions, Jem accuses her of being more like a girl every day.
Not wanting to hear the "girlie" name of "Angel May" again, Scout goes along with the boys. But, their spying is soon discovered as Mr. Nathan Radley comes out onto the porch and the children flee in terror.
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