The lord of the estate tells the lord that the landlord has promised to set him free. The lord tells the landlord that he will live on the estate as long as the landlord likes it. The landlord tells him that he is a "big figure" and that the authorities want to keep him in the imperial palace to deal in state affairs. The lords joke that they don't need him to remind them of the "miserable results" of his life. He says that he wants to live on his own so that he won't be like the "boys in history" .