I knew him very well from photographs showing a well-built man with characteristic noble features, which gave me some idea of him. When I saw him calmly crossing the threshold of our house, together with Krzysztof Morstin, and greeting my parents with a smile, the traits of his personality, which I had deduced from his photographs, were confirmed and, after the first quarter of an hour of conversation, harmoniously completed his image: a man exuding calm, with a unique sense of humour, impeccable manners and expressing himself in beautiful Polish.