Any reasonable man would properly think me a knave if I had been seduced by the greatness of your power to desert an old comrade and guest friend in the distress that you had brought him to (and a man in no way inferior to you, if I may say so) and had chosen you who were the cause of his wrongs, and had fallen in with all your plans, evidently for the sake of money; for no one would have thought there was any other reason for such a change in me, if I had so changed.