26/38 Now, I could not get a keeper for Kafka without going to the physician in charge and making a statement, and demanding an examination, and all the rest of it. And Israel Kafka is a person of importance among his own people. He comes of great Jews in Moravia, and we should have the whole Jews' quarter--which means nearly the whole of Prague, in a broad sense--about our ears in twenty-four hours. To avoid an enormous scandal things must be done very quietly indeed." "I cannot see anything to be done, then, unless we bring him here," said the Wanderer, falling into the trap from sheer perplexity. |