George. I know what you are going to tell me.
Doctor. In that case you have no business here. Be off with you!
George. As I am here, I’ll listen, doctor. It’s awfully good of you.
Doctor. If you have the will and the perseverance, none of the things you are dreading will happen to you.
George. Of course. You are bound to tell me that.
Doctor. I tell you that there are a hundred thousand men in Paris like you, sound and in good health, I give you my word. Come now. Bath chairs! You don’t see quite so many as that.
George [struck] Nor you do.
Doctor. Besides, those who are in them are not all there for the reason you think. Come, come! You will not be the victim of a catastrophe any more than the other hundred thousand. The thing is serious: nothing more.
George. There, you see. It is a serious disease.
Doctor. Yes.