The chapter opens with a conversation between a young man and a young woman. The young man tells the young woman that he would like to take a job at the company's head office. The woman tells him that she would love to work for him, but that she can't marry him because he's too ambitious. She tells him to have faith in himself, and he agrees. He tells her that he has been hard at work, but he feels like he is learning a lot every day.