“I hope you’re joking,” Vadim said.
“I’m not up to jokes now,” Saul said. “I’m amazed that you don’t seem to want to understand what’s happening here. Why do you keep repeating over and over: ‘They need help, they need help!’”
“And what’s your idea? That they don’t?”
Saul leaped to his feet, hitting his head against the canopy. He was silent for several seconds. “I will again point out to you,” he said finally, “the extremely important fact that in the hollow by no means all of the people needed clothing and other things. That in the hollow we saw healthy, satisfied, and armed people. And for those people the situation did not seem as hopeless as it does to you. You want to help the victims of a calamity. Very praiseworthy. Love your stranger, so to speak. But doesn’t it seem to you t
