In conversation, Hamlet tells the two "observers" that he will shortly meet his mother and debate the issue of his step father's rite of passage to the crown. This they both tell to Polonius who, relates the same to Claudius, remarking that, as Claudius says,it is best that another impartial ear listens to a son talking to his mother, he, Polonius, will hide himself, and listen for the benefit of Claudius. Hamlet stabs him to death behind the Arras, a large tapestry.
