The narrator is in the middle of a conversation with his wife when he hears a creak in the door and realizes that it is the voice of the mistress of his business partner. He realizes that the mistress is the wife of the man who runs the business and that he has fallen in love with her. He tells her that he will have to leave the business soon because the manager of the store has gotten sick and needs to be taken to the hospital. He asks the woman if she knows anything about the business, and she tells him that she does.