TIMOTHY. Home, is it? It's back to the shops I'm going. (To the committee) Damn ye—we'll run the shops in spite of ye! Where's me hat?
(DR. JONATHAN hands it to him as the committee file out in silence.)
Come with me as far as the shops, Minnie. Thank you, doctor—(as DR. JONATHAN gives him the hat)—it's you I'll be wanting to see when I get me mind again.
(DR. JONATHAN goes with TIMOTHY and MINNIE as far as the door,
right, and then comes back thoughtfully to the bench, takes up a
test tube and holds it to the light. Presently ASHER PINDAR
appears in the doorway, right.)
ASHER. Good morning, Jonathan.
DR. JONATHAN. Good morning, Asher. I didn't know you'd got back from Washington.
ASHER. I came in on the mail train.
DR. JONATHAN. Have you been to the office?
ASHER. No. I stopped at the house to speak to Augusta, and then—(he speaks a trifle apologetically)—well, I went for a little walk.
DR. JONATHAN. A walk.