CAPTAIN. Don't get mad now, because I tell you——
CURT. But it was not so.
CAPTAIN. Well, whichever way it was, it has now become forgotten—but you are alone!
CURT. You get accustomed to everything.
CAPTAIN. Do you—is it possible to get accustomed—to being quite alone also?
CURT. Here am I!
CAPTAIN. What have you been doing these fifteen years?
CURT. What a question! These fifteen years!
CAPTAIN. They say you have got hold of money and grown rich.
CURT. I can hardly be called rich——