The scene opens in the master bedroom, where the young narrator is reading a book when he falls asleep on the sofa. He wakes up to find that the master has left the door open so that he can hear him. He asks the young master why he has not opened the door, and the young man replies that he would not have made the room so noisy if he had known that it was so noisy. The young narrator realizes that he cannot hear the master because the room is so noisy, and he asks the master to open the door. The master responds that he has come to check on the sound of his snoring, but the narrator is unable to hear him because his room is too noisy. He goes to his room to find a book to read.