The chapter opens with a conversation between the Governess and her servant. The Governess tells the servant that she wants to make dinner for the family that night, but she is afraid that they will not be able to get into the Amazon forest because of the rain. The servant gives her an appetizer that contains a pencil that he used to use as a child when he was in the orphanage. He tells her that he has discovered a secret that he did not expect him to know. He says that he had just gotten him out of an orphanage when the pencil was found. The dinner is ready, and the servant asks the servant to try new dishes he has just developed. When the servant tries to eat the food, it is too salty, and he says he cant even keep his mouth closed. He then says he will cover his eyes when he sees the doctor, and that he will write his feelings down in a notebook. He goes on to say that he lost the pencil when he told them he had caught a fever. He did not tell them because he feared that it would delay his business. He thinks that perhaps he already treated the family as his family, and treated them too much, and now that he thinks about it, he thinks that he is more "bark than bite" . He conceals his true feelings, he says, in his actions. For example, he still threatens to drive the servant out if she does not pay the rent, but he asks her to buy more meat when she goes to get groceries. He treats all of them as family members, and always has been protecting them carefully