"The Sweet Smell of Grass and Flowers" This chapter opens with a description of Henry turning into a "sweet smell of grass" . He drinks a little too much, and then he gets a little drunk, but he likes it so much that he doesn't want to stop. He tells James that he raised him "properly" , and that he's happy now. He thanks him for raising him so well, and says that it's lucky that he didn't become a "man like me" when he was a teenager. He says that he wants to make Henry happy, but that he won't "push him for now" and just leave as he is. James says that his hair color has changed a lot, and he'd like to keep it red, since it reminds him so much of his father. He's not going to study abroad, he says, because the colleges in the U.S. are "good enough" for him. When he was 20, he lost himself in playing baseball, and the people in the village seemed to like it as well. He decides that he can't play the part of a "great son" anymore.