OLD LADY. Then I don't believe you. But I can assure you——
JUDGE. And I won't believe it. [Eating his bread] Roast of venison is a good thing—I can smell it from here—but bread isn't bad either. [Pause.
OLD LADY. Why are you sitting there watching that chest?
JUDGE. For the same reason that makes you guard those perfumes.
OLD LADY. So you have been there, you sneak-thief!
JUDGE. Ghoul!
OLD LADY. To think of it—such words between us! Us!
[She begins to weep.
JUDGE. Yes, the world is evil and so is man.
OLD LADY. Yes, you may well say so—and ungrateful above all. Ungrateful children rob you of the rent; ungrateful grandchildren rob the fruit from the trees. You are right, indeed: the world is evil——