[ALICE goes out.
CAPTAIN. [Recovers] Well, Curt, what are you going to do about your quarantine?
CURT. Oh, that will be all right.
CAPTAIN. No; I am in command on this island, so you will have to deal with me—don't forget that!
CURT. Have you ever seen a quarantine station?
CAPTAIN. Have I? Before you were born. And I'll give you a piece of advice: don't place your disinfection plant too close to the shore.
CURT. I was thinking that the nearer I could get to the water the better——
CAPTAIN. That shows how much you know of your business. Water, don't you see, is the element of the bacilli, their life element?
CURT. But the salt water of the sea is needed to wash away all the impurity.
CAPTAIN. Idiot! Well, now, when you get a house for yourself I suppose you'll bring home your children?