The chapter opens with a long conversation between the boss and his assistant. The boss tells the assistant that he is tired and that he will have to leave the company if he cannot raise the money to pay his mother's medical bills by the end of the month. The assistant tells the boss that he has to leave because the company is short of employees like him. He says that the company needs to hire more people like him, because he is not arrogant and does not want to upset the company's clients. He also says that if the company does not hire him, he will go to his mother and pay her the medical bill.