The scene opens with the narrator lamenting the fact that she is going to have to give up her "fairy-tale face" at work. She is worried that the other men in the office are going to think she is being mean to them, and that they'll think she's making fun of them. She's also worried that she won't be able to do her job well because she'll be distracted by other men's attentions. She tells the narrator that she will be a successful woman if she works hard and gets better at her job.