The chapter opens with a description of the inheritance that the young master is leaving to his son. The narrator tells us that the inheritance is to be left to the child of the master's father, who will be responsible for supervising the inheritance. The young master has been living with his father for most of his life, and the elder man is still sick. The elder man tells his son that he has been with him all his life and that he is doing this to him. He tells him that he made his brother and sister think that he was a good liar, and fooled his mother. He says that he does not know how to calculate the inheritance, but that he just pretended that he did not know. He also says that his son is not qualified to be the leader of the family because he has no "broad mind" or "great love" or a "broad vision" . He warns his son not to live for other people's approval, because that would be "very tired"