GEORGE [tonelessly] He probably did not know himself.
MME. DUPONT [after a silence] Probably.
During what follows they avoid looking at one another.
GEORGE. But our own doctor, didn’t he say—?
MME. DUPONT. It was not to him that I went.
GEORGE. Ah! [A very long silence. Then lower] Why?
MME. DUPONT. The nurse’s doctor had so terrified me.
GEORGE. Seriously?
MME. DUPONT. Yes: it is a disease—[Silence]
GEORGE [in anguish] Well?