We can work and fight; they sit and wait.

Yet they do not flinch.

Now I know that if I had to sit and think about the thing I should turn cur.
Well, I went, leaving them there together.

I put on plain clothes instead of my uniform, and dropped my revolver into the pocket of my coat.

Thus prepared, I slipped out and made my way on foot to the Konigstrasse.
It was now long past midday, but many folks were at their dinner and the streets were not full.