RUDOLPH. Lord have mercy! And you take pleasure at seeing your family dragged into scandal?
STRANGER. My family? I have never felt myself related to the rest of you. I have never had any strong feeling either for my fellow men or myself. I think it's interesting to watch them—that's all—What sort of a person is your wife?
RUDOLPH. Was there anything about her, too?
STRANGER. About her and the student.
RUDOLPH. Good! Then I was right. Just wait and you'll see!—There comes the stone-cutter.
STRANGER. You know him?
RUDOLPH. And so do you. A schoolmate—Albert Ericson.
STRANGER. Whose father was in the customs service and whose brother I met on the train—he who was so very well informed about our family.
RUDOLPH. That's the infernal cuss who has blabbed to the papers, then!
ERICSON enters with a pick and begins to look over the ruins.