 The company president, Jasper Pine, approaches Nero Wolfe and hires him to find out whether this claim is true.Archie Goodwin is sent undercover as an outside consultant and assigned to investigate the stock department, where Moore worked, and is amazed to discover 500 beautiful women employed as secretaries and assistants.Archie discovers that Moore was notorious among the employees as a lothario but had become engaged to Hester Livsey, a stenographer.