The scene opens with the mother scolding her son for his behavior. She tells him that he should have grown up to be a monster like his father. The boy apologizes, saying that he is the one who is sorry. He tells his mother that he has no feelings for his father more than that, since he is a friend. He asks his mother why she looks so down on him, and she says that she does not know what happened. He says that he does not have any feelings for her, and that she is asking him because she is afraid that he might have feelings too. The mother says that they need to find the person who wrote the letter, but the boy says that the letter was written by someone else. He also says that his father is not even touching his food, and he cannot hold his alcohol.