Chapter XI: The Schoolhouse and Chapter XII: The Assistants Summary

K. and his assistants return to the schoolhouse. They have set up their lodgings in the school's gymnasium, a space too large to effectively keep warm. K. is still frustrated and annoyed with his assistants and Frieda, who has so far been much more patient with them, agrees that, innocent though they might be, it is probably best to send them away. K. decides he will find some way to do just that, though the assistants are rather stubborn in their insistence to keep serving him. After eating, they are all very tired but have difficulty sleeping. Sometime during the night, a cat jumps on Frieda and wakes her up. She gets up and goes looking for it and, in her absence, one of the assistants lays...