Diese ernsten Herren - alle drei hatten Vollbärte, wie Gregor einmal durch eine Türspalte feststellte - waren peinlich auf Ordnung, nicht nur in ihrem Zimmer, sondern, da sie sich nun einmal hier eingemietet hatten, in der ganzen Wirtschaft, also insbesondere in der Küche, bedacht.
These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the kitchen.