herr schulte simply could not be evaded. nearly every day at a quarter past eleven he rang the bell downstairs and burst past else as soon as she had cracked the door, exclaiming that it was completely unnecessary to announce him, that we were close friends, that he'd just head right on up. then he'd bound into my room without knocking, pulling at his hair and grinning in the morning light, arms akimbo as he caught me once again at some unpleasant task.