A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery1987

[Wimsey and Bunter present their papers to the German border policeman]

Border policeman:
Ah! An Englischer aristokrat.

Lord Peter Wimsey:
Put like that, it sounds like an insult.

Border policeman:
In Germany, it is the people who rule.

Lord Peter Wimsey:
I see from the paper that there will be elections soon?

Border policeman:
Ja, it is likely.

Lord Peter Wimsey:
Chancellor Bruning's emergency powers will be short-lived?

Border policeman:
You are interested in our domestic politics?

Lord Peter Wimsey:
If no man is an island, then assuredly no country can be.

Border policeman:
Except yours, Lord Wimsey.