The story of the thirty-year-old man is told in the form of a letter addressed to the "old gay bachelor" . The letter is addressed to "puff" , and it asks him to help the young man clean his "spongy paws" and "rub his arms." The young man is upset that the man is not washing his hands properly and that he is not rubbing his arms properly. He is also upset because he has seen the man dragging the young woman to the stairs to keep her from leaving the shop. He wants to surprise the man, so he sneaks out to find her. He tells her that he wants to know how to get her out of the shop right away, but she says that she is not cheating, but that she was pinching herself when she called him "puff." She tells him that she does not need to apologize, as long as he knows that