In this chapter, we learn that the host of a brothel is usually the one who arrives first after the guest has left. When the guest leaves, the host usually asks the girls to "cheer things up" with some music, dancing, or some other entertainment. The girls usually do so, but the host sometimes asks them to accompany the guest to his room so that he can talk to his guests alone. This is a common practice in brothels, and it is explained in the introduction to the novel by the narrator's father, who is a "hypocritical and smart" man. He is afraid that his daughter will "rob him of something" and that she will take advantage of her father's "hypocrisy and smartness." The narrator tells us that her father does not want her to meet the host because he knows that she is the daughter of the brothel's founder, Mr. Johnson, and that he is afraid of her taking advantage of him. She tells the story of how her father