“Thanks; where do you come from?”
“Bohemia, Prague.”
“And where are you going?”
“To Novorossysk.”
“What for?”
“On business.”
“My name is Heinrich Walter. I am a professor in Munich. With my wife and nephew I am on my way to the Crimea for practical study.”
He said these words in a tone just touched with irony. I meditated for a moment as just how best to classify the dry example of professorship.
“For geological study?”