There were weird things too, however; such as his oddly detailed and selective historical knowledge and his unorthodox views on common theories of magic. His speech, too; which, though stunted by his solitary confinement, pointed at the type of high-class upbringing she had only ever heard references about in relation to her great-grandparents. The German lilt with which he spoke fitting more the first half of the twentieth century than the current times.