As she sits listening to Jay Cee, Esther unaccountably recalls the chemistry professor: "All the time she talked to me, I saw Mr. Manzi standing on thin air in back of Jay Cee's head. . . ."
Jay Cee gives her a pile of story manuscripts and is kind to her; and at noon, she sends her to the luncheon.
At this point the narrator returns, in her mind, to her childhood. Her mother taught shorthand and typing to support them after her father died. He hadn't trusted life insurance salesmen so they have nothing to live on. Her mother has urged her to learn shorthand so she will have a way to support herself.
The writer now fills in more of the protagonist's background. She is going to college on a scholarship given to her.....
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