It always comes back in a circle; what benefit to me would have been a crime like that of which I was accused?
Was I not high in honor?
Was I not wealthy?
Was not my home life a happy one?
What benefit to me, I say ?" a growing fierceness in his voice and gestures.

"All my estates confiscated, my wife dead of shame, and I molding among these clocks!" "But why the clocks ?" in wonder.
"It was a pastime of mine when I was a boy.

I used to be tinkering among all the clocks in the house.

So I bought out this old shop.

From time to time I have left it in the hands of an assistant.