The narrator is on his way to Paris for a business trip, and he asks the waiter at the coffee shop where he works if he can help him fill in for some of the employees. The waiter says that he'll be gone for two weeks, so he's not in the best of spirits. The narrator asks if the waiter is a student, and the waiter says he is. He's a student of Thidias, who works as the head of the coffee branch at the shop. The waitress says that she's heard that he has a lot of customers in his store as well, so she hopes that the narrator's business trip to Paris goes well. She also asks if he'd like to be an architect, which is a profession she'd been studying for seven years. He says that's what he wants to do, and she says she'll help him with the bags at the store. She's glad to see him, because she used to work at a coffee shop like that, and now she wants to work for him. She asks him if he likes eating out with girls, and when he says he does, she blushes. She says she started working at the restaurant because she wanted to fix the problem, but the people at the table seem to be avoiding her because she is "too un friendly" . She tells the waiter that if he ever falls in love, he should come back and be with her, because if he did, she would be happy with him. When the waiter asks if she would mind if she came back, she says yes, and that she would come again if she fell in love. He tells her that he is her biggest fan, and if she wanted a job at his