:56:02
Now go.
:56:05
Go quickly:
:56:08
There is a horse at the back gate.
:56:10
Don't leave me alone,
Father. Please.
:56:13
Father:
:56:34
My pnince.
:56:35
how shall I answer?
:56:38
The Cardinal demands
that Luther be delivered to Rome
:56:41
or banished from Saxony.
:56:44
Have you read Luther's work?
:56:48
Yes, all of it.
:56:50
Yes. He's a brilliant
little monk, isn't he,
:56:52
with an independent mind.
:56:56
Yes, he is.
:56:58
Oh, Spalatin, you were
at law school with him, weren't you?
:57:02
Did he show any inclination then
:57:04
of surrender to influence?
:57:10
No.
:57:11
After all, all he has done
is to debate, eloquently,
:57:15
on a most interesting subject.
:57:17
And, after all,
:57:18
that is all one can ask
a good university professor to do.
:57:24
So what shall we say
to the Cardinal?
:57:34
Nothing.
:57:35
My lord, we have to respond.
:57:38
Spalatin, there are
two ways of saying no
:57:40
to someone you believe to be
stronger than yourself.
:57:43
The first is to say nothing
:57:46
and go on merely doing
what you were doing before,
:57:50
and pretend
that you never heard,
:57:53
allow time and inertia
to be your allies.