Isabel hires an assistant editor to share her workload. Both women have romantic entanglements that threaten to interfere with their work. Should an employer ever inject herself into her employee's affairs? Meanwhile, Isabel meets Patricia, the mother of her son's friend. Isabel tries to be supportive, especially given that Patricia is a single mother struggling to get by. But when she happens to see Patricia going into an antique shop with an unscrupulous man, Isabel begins to rethink her assumptions.