The Disagreeable Young Man. Quite right. Here you were waiting and resting—now we want to allow a long time for it—three—let us say—three and a half hours.
Grandmother [involuntarily]. Not that long....
The Disagreeable Young Man. Oh, yes ... let us ... we'll then have reached half-past ten o'clock. It could not have been later when this forest bandit came. These pirates never go to their bed earlier. They shun light and must get their sleep while the world is the darkest. He could not sleep during the day even in the darkest forests. In short, then, it was half-past ten?
Grandmother. Half-past ten.
The Disagreeable Young Man. Now began the flight and the pursuit. You ran—let us say—full twenty minutes. That is a great deal. I was a track runner in college and I know what a twenty-minute stretch means. Shall we say twenty minutes?
Grandmother. Twenty minutes....
The Disagreeable Young Man. In any circumstances it was not even eleven when you were safely out of danger?
Grandmother. Yes.
The Disagreeable Young Man. And—and a half hour later you were sipping hot brandy in the Schwanhausen castle?
Grandmother. Yes.