JIM. After that, there's only one thing for it. He shifts or I do.

HOBSON. You'd better go, Jim.

JIM. There are other doctors, Henry.

HOBSON. I'll keep this one. I've got to teach him a lesson. Scotchmen can't come over Salford lads this road.

JIM. If that's it, I'll leave you.

HOBSON. That's it. I can bully as well as a foreigner.

(JIM goes out L.)

DOCTOR. That's better, Mr. Hobson. (He puts hat down and comes back R.)

HOBSON. If I'm better, you've not had much to do with it.

DOCTOR. I think my calculated rudeness—