The next morning, the two young men go for a walk. The narrator explains that he has been thinking about the past two days, but that his mind is "muddled" and he cannot figure out how he came to be with the other students. He tells the students that he used to be called "among the crowd" when they were studying together, but now his name no longer matters to them. He wants to be friends with them, and so he asks them to close their eyes and tell him.