In this short scene, the two young men converse in a park in the north of the country. The young men are playing cards, and the young man asks his father what he is playing with. The father tells him that he is teaching his son to be healthy, happy, and obedient. The boy replies that he has never been a good kid since he was a child. He tells his father that he wants him to live in a city with flowers and high house prices. He then tells the boy that a student at his school has taken a year's leave to study abroad, and that he looks very serious. He asks the boy to show himself, but the boy is afraid that he will not succeed. The two men discuss the poem "The Land of the Flower," which is about a man who sits in front of a flower-covered lot and waits for it to bloom. He is half drunk and half sober, and he wants to die with the flowers. The man asks the young men why they are there, and they tell him that they have just had a fight in which they were both defeated. They also discuss the gap between the rich and the poor.