Bos.

[Rising.] If you’re going into your dotage, Jackass! you can go. Your errors are always on the wrong side!

Kaps.

[With a knowing laugh.] There might be something to say against that, Meneer—you didn’t go after me when, when——

Bos.

Now, that’ll do, that’ll do!——

Kaps.

And that was an error with a couple of big ciphers after it. [Bos goes off impatiently at right.] Hehehe! It all depends on what side——

[Looks around, sees Bos is gone, pokes up the fire; fills his pipe from Bos’s tobacco jar, carefully steals a couple of cigars from his box.]

Simon.