The narrator tells the students that they should be more aware of the amount of time they spend practicing. He tells them that the piano player is perfect, a person who does not eat any snacks, who gets out of bed immediately in the winter, and who has changed so much in the past few months that he is now pretending to be his father. He also tells them about his upcoming solo piano performance, which will be performed in the style ofravels "Ondine." The narrator asks the mother why she is telling her about pavlovs dog. The dean of the medical college tells the mother that the school requires the students to stay in the dorm, but that the other students only affect their development. The mother asks the dean if she has ever been so perfect, and the dean tells her that perfection is not necessarily a state but rather an aspiration. He says that doctors need to restore order to disorder caused by diseases, and that what he has been doing is merely an attempt to do that. The narrator says that he does not want to die, but he does want to be with someone.