In this suit, and with this face, you make a still stranger impression. Yesterday it seemed to me that it was all a dream; to-day ... you ...
He
You have forgotten my name again? My name is He.
Gentleman
You are determined to continue talking to me like this?
He
Decidedly! But you are squandering your time like a millionaire. Hurry up!
Gentleman
I really don't know.... Everything here strikes me so.... These posters, horses, animals, which I passed when I was looking for you.... And finally, you, a clown in a circus! [With a slight, deprecating smile.] Could I expect it? It is true, when everybody there decided that you were dead, I was the only man who did not agree with them. I felt that you were still alive. But to find you among such surroundings—I can't understand it.
He