The next morning, the deputy general tells the young doctor that the army has lost a lot of men in recent battles and that the young man has gone missing. He tells the doctor to go to the army's medical clinic and pack medicine for the wounded man. The young doctor is shocked at the news, but the general reassures him that he will be back soon. The doctor tells the general that he has a message for him, and the general agrees to send him to the front lines. He asks the doctor if he can send his old friend, the army physician from the southern part of the country, instead of going to war. The old man says that it is too dangerous for him to be a doctor in the army, and that she will never forgive him if he lets him go. He says that the favor he owes to the old man must be repaid, as well as the fact that he is now married and has been practicing medicine under him for a year.