Ed and Betty Eames look after retired octogenarian Oden Wharton, meaning that they wait patiently for him to die. Henry Miller enjoys talking with their seven-year-old son, Butch, who is overcoming multiple birth defects and seems angelic. Anything Butch receives is to him precious and when he cannot keep up with rough children, he rejoices in Nature. Butch never asks for anything, unless it has been promised to him, and then he makes one sorry for forgetting. Miller procrastinates delivering his own son Tony's broken-down tricycle and feels wretched. Miller expects Butch to be an ecstatic being if the Army does not get him.
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