The narrator returns to the university and asks the headmaster why he hasn't been to class. The headmaster tells him that he's been in the hospital for a stomach problem. The narrator asks the doctor if he can send him some food. The doctor says that he can't, but the narrator says he'll send it anyway. He asks if the hospital is where the patient is, and the doctor says it's in central first-people's hospital. The patient, named jay James, is a student at the university. He's sick, the narrator tells him, because he drank too much the night before. The student, named cyril, comes in and apologizes for interrupting the meal. He tells the headmaster that he came to the hospital to thank him for saving his life that night. He also apologizes because he knows that the teacher's office said that he was there, but he doesn't know how.