"What is your fee?"
"A passport for myself and my family."
"Good riddance."
"My personal fortune restored to me—"
"Very well."
"—to be paid in gold before I operate!"
The Leader started to object automatically, then checked himself quickly. Let the presumptuous fool think so! It could be corrected after the operation.
"And the operation to take place in a hospital on foreign soil."
"Preposterous."
"I must insist."