Jan isn't intimidated by that displeased face. He's certainly seen such expressions before. Jan was raised Catholic, and the answer most of his elders gave to all of his deepest questions was Ask the priest! And if he did, the priest's face was as closed as the faces of Jan's relatives.

"No one knows anything, really. We're all searching for the truth. I am as qualified to do so as anyone. Did you know about Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity? He published it several years ago. He was no wealthy, prestigious professor, he was a clerk in the patent office in Bern. And as for me, I'm up here in first class looking for the chief engineer, who went to speak with a passenger whom he knows from his earlier life."