In this short scene, the young mill boy asks his father how he and the older mill boy have become friends. The boy tells his father that he needs to make the older man think that he can help him, and that he will do everything in his power to do so. He hopes that the younger man will repay him for any favors that he owes him. The mill boy tells the boy that the game is like a relationship, where everything is fixed from the beginning. If you put in a lot of tokens, you will get what you want, and if you don't put in enough, you won't get anything at all. He says that the mill boy has been wanting to spend time with him, but that he has been cut off by his father, who is the "best in the world" . The younger mill boy says that his father treats him badly, and his mother is a violinist in an orchestra, but he doesn't remember what his father looks like. The two boys agree that they are "polar opposites," and that they will never see each other again