DR. JONATHAN. Well, that's interesting too,--part of a doctor's
business. It's pretty hard to tell in these days where the body ends
and the soul begins.
MINNIE. It looks like you're cutting out the minister, too. You'd ought
to be getting his salary.
DR. JONATHAN. Then I'd have to do his job.
MINNIE. I get you--you'd be paid to give 'em all the same brand of dope.
You wouldn't be free.
DR. JONATHAN. To experiment.
MINNIE. You couldn't be a scientist. Say, every time I meet the
minister I want to cry, he says to himself, "She ran away from Jesus and
went to the bad. What right has she got to be happy?" And Mrs. Pindar's
just the same. If you leave the straight and narrow path you can't never
get back--they keep pushing you off.
DR. JONATHAN (who has started to work at the bench). I've always had my
doubts about your sins, Minnie.
MINNIE. Oh, I was a sinner, all right, they'll never get that out of
their craniums. But being a sinner isn't a patch on being a scientist!
It's nearly a year now since you took me in. The time's flown! When I
was in the Pindar Shops, and in the Wire Works at Newcastle I could
always beat the other girls to the Main Street when the whistle blew, but
now I'm sorry when night comes.
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