~B. 1. First (~zuerst~) the teacher asked one of the boys why Doctor Lindow had been sentenced to ten‿years’ imprisonment‿in‿a‿fortress, and the boy--I think it was John Miller--answered that Lindow as [a] student had committed (~begehen~) a political crime (~Verbrechen~). 2. The second question was, what had made the prisoner so sad (~traurig~) on Sundays, and Mary (~Marie~) Black said, just on such days he had seen so many happy and free people on the highways, and that had intensified his own (~eigen~) longing for freedom. 3. Then I was asked whether I remembered (~sich erinnern~; _why past subj., and not pres. subj.?_) the distance between the top (~Gipfel~) of the linden‿tree and the prisoner, and I said: “About forty feet”; but that was wrong, for it says (~heißen~) in the book, “not more than twenty.” 4. The teacher’s next question was, what the word “~Legitimationspapiere~” meant (~bedeuten~), and none of the boys and only one of the girls in the class (~Klasse~) knew (it) exactly (~genau~). 5. Another question which (_gen._) I remember and which nobody could answer (~beantworten~) correctly (~richtig~) in German was, what “~Regimentsmegären~” were, and some of us thought (~meinen~) the teacher ought to have asked us something else (~anderes~). 6. Well, and so on. One hard (~schwer~) question after another (the other); for example (~zum Beispiel~): How many times (~wievielmal~) did the sweet (~süß~) seventeen‿year‿old nod (with) her head before she ran toward her uncle’s house? What was her brother’s name (~heißen~)? How do you say in German: “I will pass over the next fortnight”? And how: “I shall pass over the next fortnight”? Why does the story-teller make (~lassen~) Lindow count only up‿to (~bis~) eight before he jumps‿off (~abspringen~),--why not up‿to nine? And then, of course (~natürlich~): That fateful kiss at the garden‿gate and behind the shrubbery! Why fateful? It was the first, wasn’t it? Also the last? Oh (~o~) no! The young people met each‿other (~sich~) again, many, many times (~Mal~), and she became his wife; and so (~also~): All’s well that ends well (~Ende gut, alles gut~), as the proverb (~Sprichwort~) has it (it says in‿the proverb).~