The next morning, the Governess tells her new secretary that he's going to have dinner with a group of friends. She tells him that she's made a bunch of reservations for the party, and she'll drive him there later. The Governess says that the price her client is offering is "a little low" , and that he wants to sell his estate in the city, but he can't take the price. He doesn't want to sell it for too much, he says, because the land is going to depreciate in value. He says he'll get his secretary to send over the documents he left on his desk, and he promises to get a chauffeur to pick him up.