Gaurav Sagar’s Reviews > The Trial > Status Update

If the priest had called out again, K. would certainly have walked on but. as everything remained quiet all the time he waited, he turned his head slightly yo see what the priest was doing now. He was standing motionless in the pulpit as before, but it was obvious he had noticed the movement of K.'s head. It would have been like a puerile game of hide-and-seek of K. had not turned round completely now.

K. has been given the assignment of showing the local artistic monuments to one of the bank's important business associates, an Italian making his ifrst visit to the town.

Feeling disaapointed, K. took the letter and put it in his pocker. Even in the most favorable circumstance any advantage the recommendation could bring him was incomparably less the damage which lay in the fact that the manufecturer knew about his case and that the painter was spreading the news of it.

Finally the director gets up to go; he stayed much longer than originally intended, he is visibly sorry for me but unable to help me, he shows indescribable kindness by waiting at the door for some time, then he goes. I of course was relieved when he went, for I could hardly breathe.

On afternoon- K. happened to be very busy just before the post despatch- his uncle Karl, a small landowner from the country, pushed his way into room between two clerks bringing papers for signature. K. was less alarmed at seeing him than he had been by the thought that he would come.