She goes out by the left. The doctor enters by the right.
DOCTOR [to the maid] You will let me know here when the child wakes up, will you not?
MAID. Yes, sir.
She goes out.
GEORGE [with the greatest emotion] Good day, doctor: you don’t recognize me?
DOCTOR [simply: more discouraged than angry] You—it is you. You married and had a child after all I said to you. [Almost to himself] Scoundrel.
GEORGE. Let me explain.
DOCTOR. I can listen to no explanation of what you have done.
A silence.