The narrator tells us that he's just going to have Miss Jessel start out as his assistant. She's been rejected by a bunch of other companies before this, so she's excited to get a chance to work for a boss who's a little weird. The boss can be "a little strange" , the narrator says, but he also has a contract with the company that's about to expire, so he wants to make sure the company renews its business with him at the lowest possible price. Miss Jessell is all, "Gee, I'm so excited to be working for the boss!" , but then she realizes that she has no experience working with small groups of people, and that she doesn't know how to get along with people who are so small. She tells the boss that she was just joking when she said that she could handle this kind of work, and then she tells him that she can't understand why the boss would want to fire her, because the artist who insulted her first threw water at her when she called on him, and she didn't do anything to stop him. The only reason the company survived was because of the generosity of its customers, she says, and for her to treat them this way humiliates her.