embracing Ossep
]. Dear Ossep, dear Ossep!
OSSEP. You say "dear" to me? Yet you are my creditor.
GEWO. Take courage; be a man!
OSSEP. What kind of a man? I am a good-for-nothing; I have lost my good name [
weeping
]. My good name is gone. [
Wipes his eyes
.]
GEWO. God is merciful, dear Ossep.