" "And after what you said, just now! Well, the young men go in to their comrade's; he was giving a farewell dinner.

There they certainly did drink a little too much, as one always does at farewell dinners.

And at dinner they inquire who lives at the top in that house.

No one knows; only their host's valet, in answer to their inquiry whether any 'young ladies' are living on the top floor, answered that there were a great many of them about there.