In this chapter, the narrator apologizes to the reader for being ungrateful to her. He apologizes for being childish before, and he apologizes again for his ungratefulness. He says that he wants to help her take care of her mother, so he has hired two assistants to help him. He tells her that they will need to stay at home for a while because the office is still being decorated, but that they can use the office for a month after the decoration is complete. The deadline for bidding on the project is one month away, and the company will have to stay in the office until then.