CAPTAIN. No, for then the company would have been all right.
CURT. Not the company, but the directors, for in my mind that new subscription was simply a collection for the benefit of the board.
CAPTAIN. And now I ask whether such a view of the matter will save your money?
CURT. No, I shall have to give up everything.
CAPTAIN. Everything?
CURT. Even my home, the furniture——
CAPTAIN. But that's dreadful!
CURT. I have experienced worse things. [Silence.
CAPTAIN. That's what happens when amateurs want to speculate.
CURT. You surprise me, for you know very well that if I had not subscribed, I should have been boycotted. The supplementary livelihood of the coast population, toilers of the sea, inexhaustible capital, inexhaustible as the sea itself—philanthropy and national prosperity—Thus you wrote and printed—And now you speak of it as speculation!