He's got to find out whether I have or not.

What's he paid for?
If he calls me up and I get floored, he makes me write it out in Greek and English.

Very good.

He's caught me, and I don't grumble.

I grant you, if I go and snivel to him, and tell him I've really tried to learn it, but found it so hard without a translation, or say I've had a toothache, or any humbug of that kind, I'm a snob.