This scene opens with a conversation between the father and his son. The father tells his son not to speak to the young woman he is taking for auction. The young man tells his father that the woman is not a lover, but a "little lover" who is unhappy with him. He asks his father to let go of the woman, but the father refuses to listen to his son's advice. The two men discuss the ways to make the young man evaporate, and the father decides to stay in the house.