17
I Dine with a Great Man
WE CARRIED on a desultory conversation for some minutes, Hüber continuing to yawn repeatedly. At last he rose.
"If you will excuse me," he said, " I will go and finish my interrupted siesta. The advice of my doctor is both excellent and expensive, and I endeavour to follow it to the best of my ability."
He quitted the room, leaving me with Von Salsnig, who suggested that, as there was nothing for me to do until I was to fulfil my dinner engagement with Captain Z, he should first show me my room and afterwards, as it was not yet three o'clock, take me to see something of the city of Hanover.
I acquiesced, for I did not wish to arouse any suspicions, though I should have much preferred to remain quietly by myself and collect my wits for the forthcoming dinner-
