The narrator is nervous about his next assignment. He's not sure what to expect, but he's confident that he'll make it. He asks Wood if he can rest, and Wood says that he can. Wood tells him to go to the lobby, get the mail, and then go back to the office and finish the job he started. The narrator wonders if that's the right thing to do. He wonders where the guy got all those nice things after he left. Wood asks him to stop thinking about it, and the narrator says that it looks like he was wrong. He wants to know what's going on, but Wood doesn't want to give him a hard time. He tells Wood to just focus on his work.