The next morning, the two men reminisce about the previous day's game, which was interrupted by the death of the Cardinal's father. The Cardinal tells his friend that he has "enough" of his family's "dirty money" and that he will no longer use it. He tells the young man to cool his head by the next day. The two men lay a stone on the ground and look at it. The stone seems to show that the family empire was not a "castle of sand," but rather a "solid foundatio tion" . The young man tells the Cardinal that he no longer finds any appeal in the "normal world," but that he is different. If he chooses to part with his family, he will "forever lose the chance" to share their pain.