"Perhaps you admit it unqualifiedly?"
"I admit it unqualifiedly."
"Very good. Actuary, please to take down the reply of the prisoner, who admits without qualification that he wished to be sent off by his father. And when and where did you first make the acquaintance of Herr von Zehren?"
"On that evening at Smith Pinnow's."
"Had you never seen him before?"
"Never, to my knowledge."
"Not even at Smith Pinnow's? Pinnow declares that Herr von Zehren was so often at his house, and you also so often, that it is incredible that you never met before."
"Pinnow lies, and knows that he lies!"
"You still persist then that your meeting with Herr von Zehren was entirely accidental?"
"Entirely."