"One pays them well?"
"Enough!"
"One attaches a little ribbon to their coat?"
"Occasionally!"
"Is it true that cities dispute as to which they belong?"
"It is true in Germany!"
"And one looks upon their death as a public calamity?"
"Assuredly!"
"What you tell me gives me great pleasure. Then you have no complaints to make of your fellow-citizens?"
"Very much to the contrary. It is through their liberality that I was enabled to come to Greece."