The scene opens in the middle of the day, and the two young men are running around the playground. The narrator apologizes for being late, but the two men are too busy running around to stop him. He apologizes again, but this time, he's not so sorry. He's sorry that the two of them were running around, and he apologizes to the two girls for running so late. The two girls apologize, too, and tell him to hurry up and see them, because they're in trouble. The young men hurry off to find help, and when they get back, the narrator tells the girls to come back often, because he'll be back soon. The girls are shocked to see that the young man is blushing, and they tell him that he looks like a "virus" . He tells them that he was beaten to the point of madness by the little sun, who pulled out all of the dean's