And some years pass during which he plays a pitiful comedy to himself in solitude on his island, justifying his actions by intrigues and lies when the justification is no longer needed, and displaying to the whole world what it was that people had mistaken for strength as long as an unseen hand directed his actions. The manager, having brought the drama to a close and stripped the actor, shows him to us. “See what you believed in! This is he! Do you now see that it was not he, but I, who moved you?” But dazed by the force of the movement, it was long before people understood this.
