RUDOLPH. Perhaps not quite so interesting if you find yourself mixed up in it.
STRANGER. I?
RUDOLPH. Who can tell?
STRANGER. What a web it is!
RUDOLPH. There was a child of yours that went to the orphanage, I think?
STRANGER. God bless us!—Let's go over into the garden!
Curtain.
[1] This refers to King Charles XII of Sweden, whose memory Strindberg hated mainly because of the use made of it by the jingo elements of the Swedish upper classes.