Returning home from a two-week trip to a place called Candletop, a man called "Brother" stops for a drink at Webb's Bar before going home to his wife. While at the bar he encounters his friend Andy Wolloe, who informs him that while he was gone his wife was having an affair with "that Amos boy, Seth", and then admits that he himself had been with her as well. Brother leaves the bar angry, and a frightened Andy makes his way home.