Here is the agreement. Read it over when you get home. It stipulates that, in consideration of your unquestionable integrity, your creditors agree not to file a petition in bankruptcy against you, but to wait six months longer . . . for the fifty-one thousand kronen you lent me.
Juhasz—Lent you? Yes, that's right.
Oscar—And which I will return to you . . . my word of honor . . . maybe in two weeks, maybe not for three months, but certainly within six months. My word of honor!
Juhasz—[Turning the document over helplessly.] Yes.
Oscar—But your creditors make one stipulation. Until the fifty-one thousand is paid to them, they want a receiver to run the business instead of you.
Juhasz—Receiver?
Oscar—It's wrong, I know . . . but in some ways the creditors are right. . . . You are too easy with people who owe you money . . . and with the people who work for you. . . . You are not businesslike. . . . What this place needs is a strong hand. . . . They tried to get me to take charge, but I. . . . Of course they didn't know anything about. . . . I only said I was leaving the country. . . . Well, the main thing is that on the day you pay the fifty-one thousand kronen the business is yours again.
