This chapter opens with a description of the scene that takes place in a hotel room. It is the scene of a sexual encounter between a man and a woman. The woman is a prostitute and the man is a lecherous young man. The prostitute tells the young man that she has come to have sex with him. The young man tells her that he will buy her a special ring for the occasion. He then tells her to keep her finger straight so that the man does not put the ring on her finger like it is a given gift. The girl is shocked and asks the man if she can have anything she wants in exchange for the ring. The man says that it would be a crime for him to do such a thing to her, but the girl says that she is the only person who will let the man touch her. She then tells the man that he has asked her to leak information to him about how she is doing, and that she wants to know why he has been doing such a bad job lately