Sos. I, not know?

Chrem. Yes, rather, I should have said you do know; inasmuch as either expression amounts to the same thing.[101]

Sos. Alas! you are unreasonable to expect me to be silent in a matter of such importance.

Chrem. I don’t expect it; talk on then, I shall still do it not a bit the less.

Sos. Will you do it?

Chrem. Certainly.

Sos. Don’t you see how much evil you will be causing by that course?—He suspects himself to be a foundling.

Chrem. Do you say so?

Sos. Assuredly it will be so.

Chrem. Admit it.