No, I am sure he is going!
Carlyon.
Why, the operation has never been attempted?
Vera.
Yes. That was what I wanted to show you just now. Steinmetz has done it four times, and killed the patient each time. The Journal is indignant. He can hardly mean to try it! But he won't tell us; he wouldn't even speak to me!
Carlyon.
We'll soon see that! [Approaching Rheinhardt.] By the way, Doctor, I see that your old master, Steinmetz, has been very successful in performing that operation on the brain, that young Adene——
Rheinhardt.
Steinmetz my master? Steinmetz was never my master! You call it successful, you call it Steinmetz's section? Very well, I do not complain! It is Steinmetz's section because he has cut open five people and killed four—[Movement of Vera and of Carlyon]—and he is my master because I have only cut open two and killed none! He is your great man.
Vera.