The next morning, the narrator is in his hotel room, preparing for his first interview with the author. He tells her that he has read through the manuscript of his novel, ambiguous blue, and that he is going to make love to her. He asks her to stop reading the manuscript if she wants to fight him, but she says that she has not even read the novel. She tells him that the company in which she works has gone under, and she asks him to knock on the door of the apartment where she is staying. The narrator tells her not to do so, as he is in a bad situation. He says that he needs to transform her into the authoress of ambiguous blue. He wants her to stand out too much in a city full of grownups, and he says that if she keeps staring at him like that, no one will ever imagine that she is from the sticks.