- Truin hosts Fowler at the opium house than evening, but doesn't smoke.
- He explains that the day's bombing doesn't bother him as their risk was as great as their target's. He detests napalm bombing, however. It's done from a distance and in safety.
- Fowler again says he's not involved, but Truin tells him he'll take sides some day.
- Disagreeing, Fowler tells him he's going back to England now that his girl has left him.
- They talk of justice.
- Truin describes the first time he dropped napalm—it was on the village where he was born. He knew the baker and other residents.
- They compare love and war.
- Later, on the advice of Truin, Fowler sleeps with another woman, or tries to. The memory of Phuong drains him of desire.