This helpless creature could hardly be a dangerous enemy.
"It is an honor to me," said Veitel, "to be told by the gracious baron that he will pay me later in the afternoon; I have plenty of time." He drew out a silver watch.

"I can wait till evening; and that I may not inconvenience the baron by coming at an hour that might not suit him, or when he chanced to be out, I will take the liberty to place myself on his steps.

I will stand there," said he, as if deprecating the baron's refusal to let him sit.

"I will wait till five o'clock.

The baron need not inconvenience himself on my account." And Veitel bowed himself out, and retired from the room backward like a crab.