ABSTRACT
Someone must have falsely accused you because, without your having done anything wrong, one morning you are arrested. Your landlady Frau Grubach’s cook, who brings you your breakfast at about eight o’clock every morning, doesn’t come this time. That’s never happened before. You wait a little while longer, from your pillow you see the old woman who lives opposite and who is watching you with a quite uncharacteristic curiosity, but then, at once disconcerted and hungry, you ring the bell. Instantly there’s a knock at the door, and a man you’ve never seen in the house comes in….
