CAPTAIN. Yes.
ALICE. He is my own cousin after all, and once I bore the same name as he——
CAPTAIN. In which there was no particular honour——
ALICE. See here! [Sharply] You leave my family alone, and I'll leave yours!
CAPTAIN. All right, all right—don't let us begin again!
ALICE. Must the Master of Quarantine be a physician?
CAPTAIN. Oh, no, he's merely a sort of superintendent or book-keeper—and Curt never became anything in particular.
ALICE. He was not much good——
CAPTAIN. And he has cost us a lot of money. And when he left wife and children, he became disgraced.
ALICE. Not quite so severe, Edgar!