"You travel at their expense?"
"Yes."
"You are well-educated?"
"I am a doctor."
"It is the highest grade in science?"
"No."
"And how many doctors are there in the city in which you live?"
"I do not know exactly, but not as many doctors in Hamburg, as generals in Athens."
"Oh! oh! I would not deprive your country of a man so rare. You shall return to Hamburg, Monsieur, doctor; what would they say down below if they knew that you were a prisoner up here in the mountains?"
"They would say that it was a misfortune."