- Ames realizes that he's feeling covetous. He doesn't like looking down from the pulpit at his wife, son, and Jack Boughton sitting together like a family.
- Ames doesn't want to be old, and he wishes he son had known him as a younger man.
- Ames's son comes to him with a picture to show him, but Ames is finishing a magazine article and so doesn't look up. His wife tells their son that he doesn't hear him—as in, his hearing is bad.
- Ames and his son walk to Boughton's to return the magazine.
- Boughton is on his porch, enjoying the breeze.
- Glory brings out lemonade.
- Everyone talks about TV.
- Boughton thought the magazine would exasperate his friend.
- Ames takes it home with him again, thinking he might use it in a sermon.
- Boughton and Ames often debate matters of religion, philosophy, and sometimes grammar.
- Ames realizes that in wanting Jack to leave Gilead, he's thinking only of himself, not of his friend.
- Ames's wife comes to call him to supper, but he stays for a few to chat.
- Jack asks Ames about his views on predestination.
- Ames is like, of course Jack would ask about my least favorite subject.
- After hearing Ames's answer, Jack calls him cagey.
- Boughton laughs.
- Mrs. Ames asks about salvation.
- Jack wants to press the point, but he drops it after seeing that Ames and Boughton don't want to get into it.
- Jack gets up to go, but he stays when Mrs. Ames asks him to.
- Mrs. Ames says that anyone can change. Jack thanks her for her answer.
- Ames knows he doesn't see good faith in Jack Boughton.
- Mrs. Ames rebukes Ames on their way home.