JUDGE. [Appalled] What humiliation! That's to strip you of all human worth!
PRINCE. Ha ha! Human worth! Ha ha!—Look at the scales over there. That's where the human worth is—and invariably found wanting.
JUDGE. [Sits down at the table] I could never have believed——
PRINCE. No, you could only believe in your caul and your own righteousness. And yet you had both Moses and the Prophets and more besides—for the very dead walked for your benefit.
JUDGE. The children! The children! Is it not possible to send them a word of greeting and of warning?
PRINCE. No! Eternally, no!
The WITCH comes forward with a big basketful of stereoscopes.
JUDGE. What is it?
WITCH. Christmas gifts for the righteous. Stereoscopes, you know. [Handing out one] Help yourself. They don't cost anything.
JUDGE. There's a kind soul at last. And a little attention to a man of my age and rank does honour both to your tact and to your heart——