The next morning, the old man tells his son-in-law, who is also the doctor, that his condition has gotten worse. The old man says that he will see the doctor after his consultations end that afternoon. He tells the boy not to mention what happened to him the last time he saw him, because he knows what he did wrong. The boy says he will leave his wife to the doctor. The doctor tells him that the medicines he is giving him are the most advanced and the most expensive, and he will get better. The young man tells the doctor that he does not want to leave his four-year-old daughter with a memory that her mother died when she was a child. He asks the doctor to become his mother for her. He says that she must bear the blow of her mother's death until she discovers the truth herself.