Jake finds Mike and Bill and Bill’s friend Edna, who says she’s kept them out of four bar fights. Robert Cohn shows up, looking for Brett, and Mike tells him that she has gone off with Romero. Cohn calls Jake a pimp. Jake takes a swing at him and, in the ensuing fight, Jake is beaten up. When he returns to the hotel, Bill urges Jake to speak with Cohn. After putting up some resistance, Jake does goes to Cohn’s room; Cohn, crying, says he will be going home in the morning and begs Jake’s forgiveness, which Jake grants.
The following day, Jake meets up with Mike and Bill again (Edna has gone home), and Mike reports that the night before, Cohn found Brett in Romero’s room and beat him up, after which Cohn cried. Mike, who is too drunk to open his own beer bottle, admits that he is upset by Brett’s promiscuity; when last seen, he is ordering more liquor with which to numb his pain.
