Section 4, pp. 48-53 Summary

An old man and a young man, whose names the reader does not know, sit talking about what is going on. The old man has the wisdom of many years, and he comments that he does not like the direction in which things are going, with the murder investigation. The old man talks about how some men are made into police officers, or priests, or cuckolds, but others are born for it. As an example, he tells of a born policeman he knew, years ago, who was happy to become close family friends of the old man. However, when the time came, the policeman came and arrested the old man as though they did not even know each other. The old man also mentions how if a man finds out that his wife is cheating on him, and gets...