AUGUSTA. No, my dear—and since Jonathan warned me not to, I've said nothing about you. Why is it?
ASHER. Jonathan's the master now.
AUGUSTA. In spite of what I've felt about him, he has saved George for us. It seems a miracle.
ASHER. A scientific miracle.
AUGUSTA (indicating the book ASHER holds). And yet you were reading the Bible!
ASHER. I just took it down. (He lays it on the table, and touches AUGUSTA, with an unwonted tenderness, on the shoulder). I think we may hope, now, Augusta. But before we can be sure that he'll get well, there's something else to be done.
AUGUSTA (anxiously). What?
ASHER. Go back to George,—I'll tell you later. It seems that we must trust Jonathan. Here he is now.
(Enter DR. JONATHAN, lower right, as AUGUSTA departs.)
DR. JONATHAN. George wants to get dressed, and come down.