The chapter opens with a soliloquy in which the narrator laments the fact that he is ambitious and does not want to lose his job. He feels that he must live with the loss of his job, but he cannot bear to think about it. He asks the manager if he found the necklace, and the manager says that it was a "special give you gift" and that he cannot believe it. The narrator then tells the story of how the two of them left work together and how the wind outside reminds him of the first day he gave her a ride home. He tells the manager that he has things he wants to accomplish and sobs even when he closes his eyes, because he has watched her over the past few days. He says that he did not want her to cry because she was so precious to him. He then tells her that he had feelings for her long before she was aware of them, but now that he thinks about it, he wishes that he could have told her how he felt, so that they could have been with each other all this time.