And they're fighting each other, these porkers perverse,
In the gap we must pass! Oh! this grows worse and worse!
[Whips up Dobbin.
KOCH SURE!
SCENE—A Place of Meeting. Enter BROWN and JONES. They salute one another.
Brown (excitedly). Have you heard the good news?
Jones (stolidly). What good news?
Brown. That Dr. KOCH has at length revealed his secret?
Jones (startled). No, has he! Dear me! And that I should have missed so pleasant a piece of intelligence! And so he has told an anxiously-expectant world the cause of his success! Can you explain the matter to me?