This chapter opens with the narrator's description of the scene in which he and Little Em'ly are walking together. He imagines that they are both old, and that their lives will be like this: they wake up in the morning, make breakfast together, and then go for a walk together. The narrator then imagines how the two of them would behave when they were younger, and how their parents would react to their behavior. He tells the little boy that he has imagined him as a grumpy old man, with white hair, a grim face,