CURT. Better learn how!
CAPTAIN. I am too old to learn. [Puts his hand up to his head] Oh, there it is again now!
[He sits perfectly still, staring straight ahead.
ALICE. [To CURT] What did the doctor tell you?
CURT. That he may die.
ALICE. Thank God!
CURT. Take care, Alice, take care! And now, go and get a pillow and a blanket and I'll put him here on the couch. Then I'll sit on the chair here all night.
ALICE. And I?
CURT. You go to bed. Your presence seems only to make him worse.
ALICE. Command! I shall obey, for you seem to mean well toward both of us. [Goes out to the left.