I wasn't surprised--Philipp often roamed about at night ever since--" He stops irresolutely.

Mariet asks harshly: "Since when?
You said 'since.'" Silence.

Desfoso replies frankly and heavily: "Since your Haggart came.

Go ahead, Thomas, tell us about it." "So I said to him: 'Why did you knock, Philipp?
Do you want anything ?' But he was silent." "And he was silent ?" "He was silent.

'If you don't want anything, you had better go to sleep, my friend,' said I.But he was silent.