Mary Speaker [To
John Speaker.]
What can you do, dear?
John Speaker
[Taking hold of
Cousin Fanny's hands, and trying to take phial gently.]
See here,
Cousin Fanny, you must be reasonable... you mustn't be stubborn about this. You can't have another tablet now. It's dangerous. It might even kill you!
John Thinker
It would kill her as certainly as she sits there.
John Speaker
Come, come,
Cousin Fanny... it might be dangerous.
Mary Speaker
John, don't struggle with her! Don't you know if you struggle with her it is likely to prove fatal? The doctor says the least strain will prove fatal.