(MR. BODIE has a curious trick of kicking backwards with one foot when people take liberties with him, and a liberty has been taken with him now.)
Kick away Dick, but you needn’t pretend that you have no faith in me as a medical man; for when you are really ill you always take the first train down here. In your heart I am the only doctor you believe in.
BODIE. Stuff, Nellie.
DR. BODIE. Then why did you put Cinderella under my care?
BODIE. I didn’t know where else to send her when she was discharged from the hospital. Had to give her a chance of picking up. (Thawing.) It was good of you to give her board and lodging.
DR. BODIE (sitting down to her day-book). Not at all. I’ll send you in a whacking bill for her presently.
BODIE (kicking). Well, I’ve come all this way to see her. How is she getting on, Nellie?
DR. BODIE. She is in the garden. I daresay you can see her from the window.
BODIE. I see some men only; I believe they are wounded Tommies.