Ernest
How did you ever meet Metchnikoff?
Helen
[chaffing]
I had worked under Hamilton! They all wanted to meet me.
Ernest
[with an unmistakable look]
U'm ... was that why? [Fleeing danger.] Didn't you let them know your part in that discovery? Why, if it hadn't been for you, I should never have stumbled upon the thing at all.
Helen
Oh, I know my place too well for that! Talk about artistic temperament, you scientists are worse than prima donnas.