CAPTAIN. Thank you—I trust in you!
CURT. Can you explain why you trust me?
CAPTAIN. We have not been friends, for friendship is something I don't believe in, and our families were born enemies and have always been at war——
CURT. And yet you trust me?
CAPTAIN. Yes, and I don't know why. [Silence] Do you think I am going to die?
CURT. You as well as everybody. There will be no exception made in your case.
CAPTAIN. Are you bitter?
CURT. Yes—are you afraid of death? Of the wheelbarrow and the garden bed?
CAPTAIN. Think, if it were not the end!
CURT. That's what a great many think!