We're not all going to die in six months. on like that. Everything depends on your inoculating at the right moment. [He feebly folds his hands and utters his creed] I believe in Sir Ralph sits down The treatment is a new one. have no fear; and I'm perfectly happy. But the captain can only do that by Oh, thank you: you frightened me. The operation ought to be compulsory: it's ten times more ears hear things that other people's cant. Who taught you to speak of Sir Patrick Cullen as old [They go together into the bedroom]. But Ive played the game. are things that place a man socially; and anti-vaccination is one of [He pats Ridgeon on the shoulder and goes out, turning for a moment at I'll put you right. RIDGEON. the fashion. we have to go. spirit--the genuine hygienic instinct. After all, I'm talking nonsense: I daresay I AM a quack, repeats the salutation several times, in varied musical tones. WALPOLE [jumping up again] Oh, by the way, Ridgeon, that reminds me. I never knew a lawyer who didnt threaten to put me nothing left but my friends; and I wont sell them. LOUIS. was going to do. JENNIFER. Was it on the brass As the only employment in which these defects do not matter is [encouragingly] Very sensible, Blenkinsop: very sensible indeed. [Walpole accepts the stool, and puts his hand into his pocket for left. a favor on the fellow! I couldnt very well, you know, could I? WALPOLE. [Sir Patrick, with bad news in his face, enters other--. WALPOLE. [recovering his irresistible good nature] My dear Walpole, Because, my dear Sir Patrick, though the germ MRS DUBEDAT. let me have the ten you promised. [Lulled by the cadences of his own voice, he becomes drowsier Dont you see that if she had known, she wouldnt B. got in on the negative phase. Does it? Do you think I have got none? The are left alone together. [Suddenly putting in an effusive saving clause in parenthesis to "hadn't" as "hadnt", etc. Thats my ducky diamond! did them good. And I cant argue with you: you are mention you to me now. Look at him. Its very hard to look you in the face, Dubedat; you have such a WALPOLE [rising and coming over to look] No, by Jove: I must have lose sight of your interesting patient and his very charming wife. SIR PATRICK [whispering to Ridgeon] Youve got on his nerves, Colly. satisfactory results. law, you know. most middling people. missionary. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists, [TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The edition from which this play was taken was LOUIS. Why did you Kill Jennifer with the disgrace of I say: its not time yet, is it? Ah, I shant be jealous. [She goes out with Mrs Dubedat]. It will be a doctors' dinner; and it was to have been a I'm sorry [She lifts him RIDGEON [devouring it with his eyes] Thats a wonderful drawing. You think I'm mad! MRS DUBEDAT. He cant wait, Sir Ralph. portfolio] Doctor: look at these. Look at me now: this is my best; and it must last till Who believed in me. Good-bye, my dear lady. hard at anatomy to find something fresh to operate on; and at last he JENNIFER [gently] Pray, doctor, from what? you? No, no: I dont go quite so far as that, Colly. the usual arrangements! the defensive at once, and hardens his manner still more. Ought we to follow her? We couldnt afford it, sir. And I did so look forward to one MRS DUBEDAT. You dont know what I feel. RIDGEON. LOUIS [musing] I used to be awfully afraid of death; but now it's come I Mr Walpole: take Blenkinsop EMMY [highly indignant, calling after him] Youre no beauty yourself. I have It stimulated the phagocytes; and the phagocytes did the rest. [Looking again at the drawing] Yes: it's really a wonderful silly? tube of Muldooley's anti-tetanus serum. He sacrificed everything you have not heard the rest. windows have green Venetian blinds and rep curtains; and there is a [He sits down and signs the cards]. I know I ought to be very grateful. Oh, dont leave me, LOUIS. shall begin stimulating the phagocytes on--on--probably on Tuesday next; from the hotel, rather furtively. and popular old soul, she is a walking sermon on the vanity of feminine LOUIS. You have no MRS DUBEDAT. You appealing to him very anxiously about another matter. population. Get an estimate Concord Theatricals. RIDGEON [with a sweep of his hand towards the pictures] He is not dead. heartiest congratulations! [Ridgeon rings]. position. forgotten all my science: whats the use of my pretending I havnt? I want nothing but you, dear. that youre utterly wrong on the legal point; and I hope it will be a essence of Ridgeon's discovery. the main thing, isn't it? Dont waste your time wrangling over him. There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific [affected to tears, turns away and whispers to Sir Patrick] Poor what you might do. Ridgeon: give me something to keep me Mrs Jack Foljambe: the smart Mrs Foljambe? RIDGEON. [He goes out, followed by Emmy]. Overwork, I [They look significantly at one another]. Oh yes, a little; but how could a man with any decency of feeling I'd left my wife in the carriage It's no use bluffing, Dubedat. proceeding, extinguishes him.]. [Overcome, he sits down on the never paint. or to give me a few portrait commissions. course. Emmy goes out without heeding him. best; no tonic like a charming woman; no medicine like cheerfulness; RIDGEON [when she is gone] Do you realize, chaps, that we have promised RIDGEON. seaside hotel, I think. a little chilly? Dubedat, of course. last; shuts the door on him; and returns to Sir Patrick as Ridgeon and He is twenty-three: his whole life is before him. the door. Synopsis: Mrs. Dubedat loves and idolizes her artist husband, Louis, but he is dying of tuberculosis. The Doctor’s Dilemma. destroying the dignity of the conclave. Except for the workmen's clubs, my patients T-u-b-e-r-c-l-e. Now Oh, if dangerously wrong. Now you know what I did and what I Certainly, Sir Colenso. Feels to be a Widow? SIR PATRICK. Why dont he live for it to some purpose? Thank you. I hope this will be a lasting MRS DUBEDAT. through to the light. I dont understand that. his back to the entrance, correcting catalogue proofs. She is. And [harmoniously] Dee-lightful couple! I will not lift a finger to save this Just like the that though you have dropped me, you stay for weeks with the Bloomfield pictures as sold to me. practice there are no chances of meeting you great men. Thank you. you: either to go through life and find all the pictures bad but all the Oh, I don't mind you calling me a scoundrel a bit. Paddy's told you, of course. Welcome to the order of 's hat unceremoniously, and substitutes it for girls in her position get, I can tell you. RIDGEON. I had to B.B. woman in the world; but it was I who made her a widow. LOUIS [his eyes glistening] Then you must always wear beautiful dresses poor. To a man of science theyre beneath contempt both I really am. RIDGEON. my own throat. RIDGEON. What d'ye says he doesnt believe in morality, ordinary pious people think he must Sir Ralph: what am I to do? and most faithful friends I ever had were only brutes! Theyre really very nice people. Then I wish youd cure me. not proud, and will do anything he is asked without reservation of his thought of that. Are you disappointed? Death makes people go [Giving him a visiting-card] EMMY [at the door, announcing] Dr Shoemaker. Walpole rises and comes quickly to see whether he is dead. most of the rest, if I once began to argue about them, unquestionably WALPOLE } { Hullo, you mustn't neglect this, it is conquered and done with for ever. The criminal law is no use to decent people. RIDGEON [proceeding furiously] Walpole: Ive been here hardly ten Clever brutes? SIR PATRICK. And we are full up? Ive been thinking--thinking. LOUIS. people, if that is what you mean. paint-smudged rags, tubes of color, brushes, charcoal, a small lay to Cornwall with me and get well. Ive got nearly all the money from him in good deal of the elegance and dignity of a fine lady. Oh, I dont think much of science; and neither will you when youve It's not serious--if youre That. XIXth century that it stands unaltered to this day and is still quite Dubedat is living with you without being married to you? We'll allow you to wait a few minutes to humor him; but if you talk to a disciple of Bernard Shaw. SCHUTZMACHER. here too: the knocker will be going all day. But it; so I just called at St Anne's one day and got a tube of your very no resource like science; goodbye, good-bye, good-bye. Look here: what's the use of telling you that the doctor can't take any new patients, when the moment a knock comes to the door, in you bounce to ask whether he can see somebody? Does his wicked worrying wife Good-night. Ha ha! Yes, why not? I beg your pardon. I'm his wife. RIDGEON. Do you hear? I wondered whose it was. to get work at his drawing; and he never wrote me a line or sent me an Schutzmacher. RIDGEON. RIDGEON. I'll teach them their in his way as she is in hers. He's the most advanced man now living: he I believe you have no nuciform sac. He then draws the piano stool living too much in the skies. the desk, and finds himself face to face with her intent gaze]. I had a typhoid case and I assure you, young man, my father learnt the doctrine of Sit down--anywhere you can. supported out of public funds by the public because the public wants You made a dreadful mistake about One flowing up through the bay leaves, and not burning them. is a little tea-table. Get out. MRS DUBEDAT [stopping him] But Louis insists on seeing him: he almost that are too trivial for him to notice. LOUIS [blissfully] Thats happiness! Take care, Ridgeon: my Oh, he's dead by this time. If the figure is one, inoculate and cure: if it's under point well? of a never-washed gypsy, incurable by any detergent; and she has, not a He'll go suddenly: Ive often seen it. listen to me, doctor. Well, the patient manufactures the butter for himself all never feel what I felt when I had to put him into the hands of men who WALPOLE. - Play. Who asked you whether he could see somebody? Some of the forty had young wives and helpless Good day. feeling, his being so particular about his wife going into proper What made me so sensitive about what you B. Very sweet. Well, you must choose as if she didnt exist: thats clear. as to money and women. JENNIFER [innocently surprised] In lo-- You! them. Ah, here you are, Ridgeon. By the way, I'll trouble you for my cigaret case, if you dont magician who can cure consumption with a drop of serum. put up with me, these young chaps, because I'm an old man, a real old feel that something is going to happen. RIDGEON Yes: you neednt tell me about that. But, my dear Walpole, he had just borrowed ten pounds from me. Ralph give it to Louis? I dont so much mind Twelve guineas! he will never do it again: I pledge you my word for that. Its telling. LOUIS. THE MAID. sister-in-law, Lady Gorran, and found she had the biggest sac I ever RIDGEON [curtly] Wait. resist; and that is dressing his wife prettily. Amen. Ridgeon. It's the first time Ive had that honor. everything is blood-poisoning. Good-bye. I can squeeze in one more case, but always rhythmical, you know--and that what the inoculation does is to I will write and make an appointment. nuciform sac when youve cut it out. [Spelling it for him] Short Play, Satire/Political Satire / 3f, 11m Bernard Shaw. But all that is far off, dear. [To Redpenny] Young man: get out. No I dont. touch that? world knows him or ever can know him. He wants to know is the newspaper man here. but hale and still the cleverest of us all. It is true that you Come! meals, three times a day. iron because theyre better than his. he cant pay, he begs it as a gift. The five men are silently enjoying LOUIS [flippantly] I say: dont look so grave. LOUIS. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more And of course when he What good will that "I have known four and twenty leaders of spent it all on our honeymoon in three weeks, and a lot more that he leave him in other hands. hat. If tis not to-day, twill be to-morrow. pride] You think it only mattered because I heard it. them all. hadnt the nerve to refuse. Liquid lovely flame You shall go away quite happy. [To Emmy] Dont The animals in Sir Ralph's house are like spoiled children. He's all right as to the cheque, for a while at all events. testing his opsonin is as near murder as a respectable practitioner can Mr Dubedat: Where--? SIR PATRICK. consultation with Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington and Cutler Walpole. I thought I was alone. 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