Shall you revoke the conditions ?" "It depends entirely on the sort of person my tenant proves to be." "He is a very peculiar man, to say the least--one who avoids all contact with his fellow-men." "What is his name ?" "I don't think any one around here knows it.

That is why his residence has been called the Nameless Castle." "But how is it possible that the name of a man who has lived here three years is not known ?" "Well, that is easily explained.

He never goes anywhere, never receives visitors, and his servants never call him anything but 'the count.'" "Surely he receives letters by post ?" "Yes, frequently, and from all parts of the known world.

Very often he receives letters which contain money, and for which he is obliged to give a receipt; but no one has yet been able to decipher the illegible characters on the letters addressed to him, or those of his own hand." "I should think the authorities had a right to demand the information ?" "Which authorities ?" "Why--'he,' Bernat bacsi." "I?
Why, what business is it of mine ?" "The authorities ought to inquire who strangers are, and where they come from.

And such an authority is 'he'-- Bernat bacsi!" "Hum; does 'she' take me to be a detective ?" "But you surely have a right to demand to see his passport ?" "Passport?
I would rather allow myself to be thrown from the window of the county-house than demand a passport from any one who comes to Hungary, or set my foot in the house of a gentleman without his permission!" "Then you don't care what people do here ?" "Why should we?
The noble does as he pleases, and the peasant as he must." "Suppose the man in the Nameless Castle were plotting some dreadful treason ?" "That would be the affair of the king's attorney, not mine.