K. antwortete nichts mehr; muß ich, dachte er, durch das Geschwätz dieser niedrigsten Organe – sie geben selbst zu, es zu sein – mich noch mehr verwirren lassen?
K. stopped talking with them; do I, he thought to himself, do I really have to carry on getting tangled up with the chattering of base functionaries like this? - and they admit themselves that they are of the lowest position.