CAPTAIN. I have done so already—that is to say, we—a syndicate of people interested in the young man's future.
CURT. A syndicate?
CAPTAIN. Yes—and to make sure that everything is all right you can look over these subscription lists.
[Hands him some papers.
CURT. Lists? [Reading the papers] These are begging letters?
CAPTAIN. Call them what you please.
CURT. Have you gone begging on behalf of my son?
CAPTAIN. Are you ungrateful again? An ungrateful man is the heaviest burden borne by the earth.
CURT. Then I am dead socially! And my candidacy is done for!
CAPTAIN. What candidacy?