The scene opens with a description of the "dirty young man" who has come to have some "some with this dirty dirty young man." The narrator tells us that the young man is "soaked to the bone" and that he has been in a "place like that" ever since he stopped "concerning himself" before he knew it. The young man asks the narrator why he was in such a place, and the narrator tells him that he was "in front of his world with me" and was "darkened back" to the "way it was before" . The narrator is shocked that this young man would want to see him again, and wonders how he could possibly want to "just thought date you" after they did all the "stuff only lovers do" , such as having sex with other people. He tells the narrator that he had been raised in "a poor household" because of that, and that "that was so ingrained I had in me" that he gave up everything he wanted as a child. He says that the "highlight of my life" was the time he called out to the man, thinking that he "connected with me," and that if he had gotten a reason