"Send for a locksmith,—an affair of an hour."
"Where am I to find the hour? Have I no one and nothing else to attend to? Are you the only prisoner here?"
"That is no answer. You are here to take care of your prisoners. Give me my trunk, I tell you!"
"It is against the rules. We shall see by-and-bye."
"As usual! 'We shall see.' In the meantime perhaps you will have the goodness to send a barber to shave me and cut my hair."
"Ah! I must speak about that to the minister."
"What! The minister's permission to——"
"Yes. It is the rule."
"Indeed! The doctor said as much, but I refused to credit him."
"You were wrong, you see!"