He treats him as a friend, as though his intuition pierced through the external disguise,[470] and when the recognition takes place he naturally remarks:
“Have I not just cause,
When I consider how I could be so stupid,
As not to see a friend through all disguises.”[471]
Again, we have an indication at the end of the slave-market scene that the slave who followed Paulo will be an important link in the plot:
Paulo. Follow me, then;
The knave may teach me something.
Slave. Something that
You dearly may repent; howe'er you scorn me,
The slave may prove your master.[472]