RUDOLPH. I am too old—I have no friends——
STRANGER. Perhaps you'll get some now. A man in misfortune always seems sympathetic. I had some of my best hours while fortune went against me.
RUDOLPH. [Wildly] I am ruined!
STRANGER. But in my days of success and fortune I was left alone. Envy was more than friendship could stand.
RUDOLPH. Then I'll sue the bookkeeper.
STRANGER. Don't!
RUDOLPH. He'll have to pay——
STRANGER. How little you have changed! What's the use of living, when you learn so little from it?
RUDOLPH. I'll sue him, the villain!—He hates me because I gave him a cuff on the ear once.
STRANGER. Forgive him—as I forgave you when I didn't demand my inheritance.