"You strike a key-note, my friend."
"Someone has promised to pay you."
"No one has promised to pay me."
"You puzzle and confuse me, master. You're a stranger in Geneva, I'm told."
"It is true."
"I've lived about here half my life. I was born in Sierre. My father worked in the foundry, my mother in the fields. You are not a stranger in Sierre."
"I am a stranger there; I never visited the town."
"My father was born in Martigny. You knew my father."
"I did not know your father."
"My mother--her father once owned a vineyard. You knew her."