NURSE. I know we’re only poor country folk.
GEORGE. Listen to me, nurse. Just now you were not only satisfied with your wages, but you were afraid we were going to send you away. In addition to your wages we have promised to give you a large sum of money at the end of your time here—and now you want to leave us, at once! Come now, you must have some sort of reason. Has anyone been doing anything to you?
NURSE. No, sir.
GEORGE. Well then?
NURSE. I’ve been thinking.
GEORGE [exasperated] Don’t go on repeating that silly thing! What do you mean by it? [Gently] Come, come, tell me why you want to go away. [Silence] Eh?
NURSE. I have told you.
GEORGE. One might as well talk to a block of wood.
MME. DUPONT [coming forward] But you have no right to leave us.
NURSE. Yes, I want to go away.