This chapter opens with a conversation between a young man and a middle-aged businessman. The young man asks the older man if he is in person. The older man tells him that he is, and that he has come to speak with him. The man tells the young man that his employer, the owner of a night club, has been controlling half of the population of the city for the past dozen years. He says that the people who offend him generally don't see the sun until the next day. The old man says that his reputation precedes him and that his club has invested heavily in year-round forced prostitution. He asks the younger man if forced prostitution is a sin, and the old man replies that it