A high-ranking court official also happens to be present, but he ignores Josef, and Josef leaves the room to flirt with Huld’s maid, Leni. At Huld’s house, they meet the lawyer, who is ill and bedridden. He takes Josef to see Herr Huld, a friend of his who works as a lawyer. Karl is has gotten wind of Josef’s trial and is concerned. Josef is deeply disturbed but shuts the door and leaves to avoid detection by a coworker. They claim they are being punished because Josef denounced their conduct in his hearing. He opens a supply closet to discover the policemen who arrested him being brutally whipped.
A few days later, Josef hears moaning sounds as he prepares to leave work for the evening. Josef tries repeatedly to contact Fraulein Burstner, but she ignores him. The oppressive air in the offices stifles Josef, and he becomes so faint that he must be led to fresh air. Soon afterwards, her husband, a court usher, arrives. He finds it empty save for its young stewardess, who flirts with him until a law student carries her off to see a judge. The next week, Josef is not notified of another hearing, but he turns up at the courthouse anyway. As Josef leaves, the judge informs him that his conduct will deprive him of the benefits these hearings generally confer. At his hearing, he stands before a large audience and lambasts the legal system. He travels to his courtroom, located in a poor tenement building. Josef is assigned a date for his first hearing.
Late that night, he goes to the room of another boarder, Fraulein Burstner, whom he kisses unexpectedly. After a confusing interrogation, he is told to go to work as usual. Josef, a successful chief clerk of a bank, is not informed of his wrongdoing. On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, two policemen come to Josef K.’s boardinghouse and inform him that he is under arrest.
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