Doctor. I don’t believe she’ll ever leave that bed alive.
Philip. Well, I’ve done all I can to—
Doctor. Yeh have, eh?
Philip. She’s had all the money she needed…. If she’d a’ done as I wanted her to, this never’d a’ happened. I tried to get her away six months ago, but she wouldn’t go. She was as obstinate as a mule.
Doctor. Strange that she should want to be near you, aint it? If she’d got tired of you and wanted to go, you wouldn’t have let her.
Philip. (With a sickly smile.) You must think I’m—
Doctor. I don’t think anything about it. I know just what such animals as you are.
Philip. Why, I haven’t seen her for a—
Doctor. Haven’ t yeh! well, then, suppose you go and see her to-day.