He isn't a boy any more.
I can't describe it, but I'm almost afraid of him--!
ASHER. He--he hasn't mentioned me?
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.
ASHER. You think it wise?
DR. JONATHAN. Under the circumstances yes. The heart is practically
normal again, we have done all that is physically possible. One half of
the experiment seems to have succeeded, and the sooner we try the other
half, the better.
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