Mrs. Broderick: To keep him there and to try him through three changes of the moon. It's well for you, Bartley, Mr. Halvey being in charge of you, that is known to be a tender man.
Peter Tannian: He to have got a bite and to go biting others, he would put in them the same malice. It is the old people used to tell that down, and they must have had some reason doing that.
Shawn Early: To get a bite of a dog you must chance your life. There is no doubt at all about that. It might work till the time of the new moon or the full moon, and then they must be shot or smothered.
Hyacinth Halvey: It is a pity there to be no cure found for it in the world.
Shawn Early: There never came out from the Almighty any cure for a mad dog.
(Bartley Fallon has been edging towards door.)
Shawn Early: Oh! stop him and keep a hold of him, Mr. Halvey!
Hyacinth Halvey: Stop where you are.
Bartley Fallon: Isn't it enough to have madness before me, that you will not let me go fall in my own choice place?
Hyacinth Halvey: The neighbours would think it bad of me to let a raving man out into their midst.