“Still, why should you not again be free, since you have already been so?”
“That is precisely the reason,” replied the young man, “which prevents me expecting liberty; why should I have been imprisoned at all if it had been intended to release me afterwards?”
“How old are you?”
“I do not know.”
“What is your name?”
“I have forgotten the name by which I was called.”
“Who are your parents?”
“I never knew them.”
“But those who brought you up?”
“They did not call me their son.”