Minover snorts and looks at Skwisgaar -- but finally with far less of the slivers of madness shooting through his mind. He reins them in enough to cease his fidgeting and scowling and replies to Skwisgaar in Swedish,
"I am no wiser than you are stupid, and I don't know that counts for much. What will I tell him? Smoke this, and have babies with my daughter. Good advice, is it? I don't have much else to show for myself after all these years."