If you vanish because this, i swear, I'll make you suffer. But didn't ye take the medicine? He's taken too long. He'd be back by now, even if he had taken the bus. Why are you, he asks. He has a dinner engagement that night. He won't eat at home, but he'll go out with an old acquaintance. He asks why he hasn't been bringing him around with him lately. He wants to know why you haven't brought him around. He promises to bring dumplings back for him tonight. He says he's almost home. He tells the boy to drive faster.