(She feels his leg professionally.)
Give me that fishing rod.
(The long-suffering man unbuttons, and to his evident astonishment produces the missing rod.)
DANNY (without hope but in character). Well, I am surprised!
DR. BODIE. You will be more surprised presently. Come along, Dick.
(She takes her brother away.)
DANNY (the magnanimous). She’s great! Words couldn’t express my admiration for that woman—lady—man—doctor.
PROBATIONER. How mean of you, Danny—to get me into trouble.
DANNY (in the public school manner). Sorry. But I’ll have to pay for this. (Seeing visions.) She has a way of locking one up in the bathroom.
PROBATIONER (with spirit). Let us three conspirators combine to defy her. Carried. Proposed, that No. 7, being a male, conveys our challenge to her. Carried.