Greenbax. No, no! I don’t want to be shaken.
Major. What! sha’n’t I be a tall man?
Dennis. Nary at all, at all.
Major. Wont “Vene” make me pay for this?
Charles. Now, Mr. Doctor, you can go (removing wreath). You see I have recovered my senses. I have exposed your quackery. I’ll give you three hours to leave town; if you are not gone then, I’ll hand you over to the police.
Wiggins (aside). What a fool I’ve been! (Enter Harry and Herbert, L.) There are the ruffians. Seize them! I charge those two individuals with a conspiracy to murder me at the dread hour of midnight. Blood! blood! blood!
Harry. Why, Charley, what does this mean?
Charles. That I have exposed a quack, and saved my Aunt Hopkins from making a fool of herself.
Wiggins. But I charge these villains with an attempt to murder me. Did you not a short time since, in this very room, concoct a vile plot to murder me at the dread hour of midnight?
Herbert. Ha, ha, ha! Harry, your new play has evidently made an impression on the doctor.