Reiting asserted that they saw they had made a mistake, but they had only done it because pity dictated that one should not deliver a schoolmate up to punishment before all the means of benign instruction had been exhausted, and once again the whole class swore that Basini's mistreatment boiled over only because Basini had responded with the most dreadful, the vilest scorn to those who were, out of the most noble sentiments, attempting to spare him.
Reitingek baieztatu zuen onartu bai egiten zutela oker jokatu izana, baina soilik egin zutela errukiak agindu zielako ez zela bidezkoa ikaskide batek zigorrera bidaltzea harik eta irakaspen-bitarteko adiskidetsu guztiak agortuta egon arte, eta klaseko guztiek zin egin zuten berriro ezen Basinik pairatutako tratu txarrak tontorra baino ez zirela, zeren Basinik laidotzarrik zantarrenez erantzun baitzion haien nobletasunak eskainitako adeitasunari.