Poof! Boom! (Another great hole is torn in the wall.)
PATSY LAFERTY
(As a second electric crash occurs.) I don’t know wedder I’d better stay here. I don’t wanna get killed. (He walks about uneasily.)
THE PROFESSOR
(Heavily and desperately.) I am lost! I know it. Oh, if my idea were only true! What if all this turmoil and agony were a figment of the mind merely, a cell or dot picture? Here I am in this hut; these soldiers are about to destroy me. If I could just cry “Avaunt!” “Disappear!”—or if I could know that I am not real, and disappear myself. I wonder if I might not try it? (He jumps to his feet.)
A FLASH OF LIGHTNING
Click—Sssssss!
A CLAP OF REAL THUNDER
Boom——!