"Good morning, friend!"
"Good morning, Sholom Alechem."[85]
He gives me his hand, quite lazily.
"What is your name, friend?"
"Levi Yitzchok."
"And your German name?"[86]
"Why do you want to know?"
"Well, is it a secret?"
"Secret or no secret, you may as well tell me why you want to know. I'll be bound that's no secret!"
"Then you don't know it?"