MME. DUPONT. Never! Surely, never.
DOCTOR. Indeed? For my part I know at least ten such cases. In every case where the fact was proved, judgment was given against the parents.
MME. DUPONT. Not in a case like this! Not where the life of a poor innocent little child was at stake. You must be mistaken.
DOCTOR. Many of the facts have been identical. I can give you the dates.
GEORGE [rising] I have the law reports here. [He takes a volume and hands it to the doctor].
MME. DUPONT. It is needless.
DOCTOR [to George] You can convince yourself. In one or two cases the parents have been ordered to pay a yearly pension to the nurse; in the others sums of money varying from three to eight thousand francs.
MME. DUPONT. If we had to fight an action, we should retain the very best lawyer on our side. Thank heaven we are rich enough. No doubt he would make it appear doubtful whether the child had not caught this disease from the nurse, rather than the nurse from the child.
DOCTOR. Allow me to point out that such conduct would be atrocious.