Ernest
[takes printers' proofs out of pocket, hands them to her in silence]
Some proofs of a monograph I was correcting on the train. Mind hammering those loose sentences of mine into decent English? You can write—I can't.
Helen
[reading innocently]
"Recent Experiments in Anterior Poliomyelitis by Ernest Hamilton, M.D., Ph.D., and Helen"—what! why, you've put my name with yours!
[Much excited and delighted.
Ernest
Well, if you object—like a prima donna——
[Takes out pencil to mark on proof.