GEORGE [imploring him] You will look after my little girl all the same, won’t you?
DOCTOR [shrugging his shoulders. Low] Fool!
GEORGE [not hearing] I could only get my marriage put off six months.
DOCTOR. Enough, enough. That is not my business. I was wrong even to show you my indignation. I should have left you to judge yourself. I am here only concerned with the present and the future, with the child and with the nurse.
GEORGE. She is not in danger?
DOCTOR. The nurse is in danger of being contaminated.
GEORGE. No, but—my child?
DOCTOR. For the moment the symptoms are not disquieting.
GEORGE. Thank you. [More easily] About the nurse—you were saying—Do you mind if I call my mother? She knows more about these things than I do.
DOCTOR. As you please.