She calmly wrapped the towel around her body once again and sat down. After a period of silence, the general spoke up. ‘All I wanted to say was that we came here to relax and leave everything behind and so, in that case, the sight of these shorts seems improper.’ ‘And was the towel improper?’ the young woman asked. The general fell silent, but the young woman wouldn’t let him escape. ‘This place is open to everyone, and it isn’t a nudist colony, or do you think that people ought to act like a herd?’ She had spoken the truth! The general lowered his head. It seemed that Wilhelm wanted to lessen the impact of his leader’s defeat, so he stood up to spray the heater with the scented liquid. Within a few seconds, the aroma of lavender dissipated into the air, but that didn’t please the gene

