I have on hand a little enterprise, the success of which I must assure." Here he explained briefly his plan for the school, which he had offered to his fiancee, spreading out in view of the astonished Sage some plans which had been prepared in Manila.
"I would like to have you advise me as to what persons in the town I must first win over in order to assure the success of the undertaking.

You know the inhabitants well, while I have just arrived and am almost a stranger in my own country." Old Tasio examined the plans before him with tear-dimmed eyes.

"What you are going to do has been my dream, the dream of a poor lunatic!" he exclaimed with emotion.

"And now the first thing that I advise you to do is never to come to consult with me." The youth gazed at him in surprise.
"Because the sensible people," he continued with bitter irony, "would take you for a madman also.

The people consider madmen those who do not think as they do, so they hold me as such, which I appreciate, because the day in which they think me returned to sanity, they will deprive me of the little liberty that I've purchased at the expense of the reputation of being a sane individual.