While he's walking across town, the narrator runs into the two men and asks them if they've had a good talk. The narrator says he'll be back in a few days. The two men agree to meet at a music academy station. They don't want to go to the train station, though, because they still want to meet Oswald. He tells them that he gave them the illusion that there was only one night of the year when Oswald was gone, but that night, there were only two. He apologizes, but the narrator doesn't understand why they're apologizing. He's been chasing after Oswald for a long time, he says, and now he wants to be alone with him.