Then he returned.
"It is something which you do not wish the Englishman to hear ?" the doctor asked.
"It is." "We speak in German." "Languages," was the cautions reply, "happen to be that man's only accomplishment.

He can speak German as fluently as you or I.That, however, is of no consequence.

He sleeps and he will continue to sleep.
I mixed him a sleeping draught with his whisky and soda." "Ah!" the doctor grunted.
"My principal need in England is an identity," Von Ragastein pointed out.

"I have made up my mind.

I shall take this Englishman's.