I cal'late we'll stick, Captain.
HILLMAN. We sure will.
FERSEN. We'll be pioneers!
GEORGE. That's good American, Fersen, not to be afraid of an ideal.
Shake! We'll sit down with it in a day or two.
(They all shake. The members of the committee file out of the room,
lower right. GEORGE is left alone for a brief interval, when
MINNIE, in the white costume of a nurse, enters, lower right,
with a glass of medicine in her hand.)
MINNIE (halting). You're all alone? Where's Dr. Jonathan?
GEORGE. He's gone off with dad.
MINNIE. It's nine o'clock.
(She hands him the glass, he drinks the contents and sets the glass
on the table. Then he takes her hands and draws her to him and
kisses her. She submits almost passively.)
Why are you doing this, George?
GEORGE. Because I love you, because I need you, because I'm going to
marry you.
MINNIE (shaking her head: slowly). No you're not.
GEORGE. Why not?
MINNIE. You know why not, as well as I do.
(She gazes up at him. He is still holding her in his arms.
Suddenly she kisses him passionately, breaks away from him and
starts to fly from the room, when she runs into DR. JONATHAN, who is
entering, lower right.
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