May I?
– Please – with a surprised smile and nodded to the Professor.
Smolin pulled the chair closer to the Professor and sat by the large window.
The Professor rubbed his eyes and with an embarrassed smile, said:
– Yakov, you already managed to impress me during the training period, do not overplay, I hope you do not open the window and start Smoking your wonderful cigars, which you carry with you from the moment of arrival here?
– Right – replied the student, although not going to do that. Smolin focused his eyes on the Professor.
– Yakov, you came here from afar, showed good results and great interest. Sometimes, the best student of the stream, if any, I give the opportunity to ask me three questions, completely different subjects, to which the student could not find answers anywhere. I listen first!
– Professor, the first question I would like to respond to, do not think for insolence, but the second and third I ask, for that matter.
– Listen.
– First question – would you like to have lunch? If not, the second question-how can I once again create a favorable environment for communication with you? Jacob held a forefinger in air a circle, and completed it at the ear, pointing to the possibility of wiretapping of the room.
The Professor silently took the hand of an unusual student, turned it palm up, looked quickly and said:
– Yes, perhaps, it would be possible to eat. Then pointed to the exit and five minutes later came out himself.
***
In a cafe on a nearby street, where he ordered dinner. And umaw a few pieces of chicken, the Professor began:
– You're a smart guy.…
– You know, Anatoly Z. I clean interested not so much in graphology, how spirituality in General. Perhaps my data is not correct, but I have reason to believe that You, the master, and besides You here me hardly someone will help her to learn.
– Why did you decide that I would help you in this matter? After all, your appearance in my office was completely planned, you deliberately staged this cheap performance to impress me and ask for what you're asking now, you had another chair prepared, and you wanted to sit on it, right?
– Right, I wanted to, but the first chair from the entrance, which was prepared for me with a gift box concealed under the cover of the table I was not so interesting, as a personalized pen and notebook – this is not the limit of my dreams, but the opportunity to sit for free in an old chair, which was not destined to visit many And how do you manage to calculate everything, Professor?