"I am a clockmaker," he said, "and am come to put this machine, whose stopping has annoyed you sadly, into order." So saying, he took some tools from his basket, removed the works of the clock, and, taking them in pieces, laid them on the table.
"I spent much of my time at Nuremberg," he said, in answer to the surprised exclamations of the count, "in learning the mysteries of horology, and can take a clock to pieces and can put it together again with fair skill.

There, now, I am ready, and if the governor comes he will find me hard at work.

And now I will briefly tell you how I got here; then I will hear what plans you may have formed, and I will tell you mine." "For myself, I have no plans," the count said.

"I am helpless, and must for the present submit to whatever may befall me.

That I will not renounce the cause of my religion you may be sure; as for my wife, we know not yet whether, when they remove me to the fortress, they will allow her to accompany me or not.