I must now ladies and gentlemen convey to you the impressions experienced by my friend and myself as we eagerly listened to this conversation which we heard distinctly in our hiding-place. I have already told you that at that place and at that hour we had intended to hold a festival in commemoration of something: and this something had to do with nothing else than matters concerning educational training of which we in our own youthful opinions had garnered a plentiful harvest during our past life.