When the narrator returns home, he finds that his son has fallen in love with a younger woman. He tells his mother that he has fainted from drinking alcohol at their gathering, and that he will stay at the house for the night. When she asks him what he is doing, he tells her that he is sleeping heavily and that she should hurry to bed so that he does not become bald like her father. She tells him to put on his father's clothes, which are still in their original places, and to get some water for them.