Chapter 19: XVIII

XVIII Then, as he was looking round aimlessly, K. saw Frieda far away at a turn of the passage; she behaved as if she did not recognise him and only stared at him expressionlessly; she was carrying a tray with some empty dishes in her hand. He said to the servant, who however paid no attention whatever to him—the more one talked to the servant the more absentminded he seemed to become—that he would be back in a moment, and ran off to Frieda. Reaching her he took her by the shoulders as if h…