An old man sits alone at night in a café. He is deaf and likes when the night grows still. Waiter tells the other that the old man tried to kill himself because he was in despair. The other waiter asks why he felt despair, and the first waiter says the reason was “nothing” because the man has a lot of money. The younger waiter says he wishes the old man would leave so that he can go home and go to bed with his wife. When he arrives at a bar, he orders a drink and tells the bartender that the bar isn’t clean. The bartender offers another drink, but the waiter leaves. He doesn’t like bars, preferring cafés.