talk about it right now, but �” “I never listen to introductions,” said Miss B�rstner.

“That makes my job so much easier,” said K. “This morning, to some extent through my fault, your room was made a little untidy, this happened because of people I did not know and against my will but, as I said, because of my fault; I wanted to apologise for it.” “My room?” asked Miss B�rstner, and instead of looking round the room scrutinised K. “It is true,” said K., and now, for the first time, they looked each other in the eyes, “there's no point in saying exactly how this came about.” “But that's the interesting thing about it,” said Miss B�rstner. “No,” said K. “Well then,” said Miss B�rstner, “I don't want to