The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

DOCTOR BOB [He bows to MRS. BOB, shakes hamis with DR. FIELDING, amt goes oat R. Mrs. B. Another victiml Dr. F. It’s a shame] Mrs. B. Will you stand by me? Dr. F. You know I will. What is it? Mrs. B. Let’s teach him a lesson. I’ve got a splendid idea. It isn’t hardness of heart; but he doesn’t see clearly. I want to make him feel and understand what it is that he‘s doing. Dr. F. And how do you propose to do it? Mrs. B. Well, you know he asked you to look at his throat. Tell him it's something terrible, that he’s got to diel Can you think of anything? Dr. F. Why, of course, cancer! Mrs. Β. (shocked) Ohl Dr. F. Cancer of the throat has just such slight symptoms. Nobody can tell without examination. Mrs. B. Oh, you don't think it really might be that? Dr. F. Not one chance in a thousand. But he’ll believe me il' I tell him that that is what it is...... Do you really wish me to do it ? [MRS. BOB and DR. FIELDING look at each other steadily. From within the consulting-room comes the soum! of a cry, a fall, and overturnedfamitare.] Mrs. B. Yes, I do. [The consulting-room door hui/515 ope/1. Dr. B. (in doorway) Here, Fieldingl [FIELDING goes in. JANE is lying on floor ih utter cot/(rpm Both doctors work hard on her with heart massage and 73