ant. Your model?

Doctor. _(intercepting him)_ Yes, my ana----

Plant. Anna?

Doctor. Anatomical model. Look out, you'll break it--and these
things cost money, you know.

Plant. I accept your explanation--without prejudice, Well, to
return to our muttons--I mean my poor lambs--

Doctor. _(aside)_ Oh. damn your lambs! _(crosses L.)_

Plant. I ask you, as a father, what are your intentions?

Doctor. _(aside)_ Can't tell him I'm married--he'd tell auntie.

Plant. _(severely)_ Answer me, sir--what are your intentions with
regard to my two daughters? _(Bus. Flo.)_

Doctor. _(sofa, aside)_ If he wasn't my fairy prince, I'd brain
him! _(spots Flo's hat and collars it, confused)_ Flo's hat! Oh
--er--honourable, you know--strictly honourable, _(tries to
hide Flo's hat)_

Plant. _(pointing to Flo's hat)_ What is _that_, sir? _(works
right round sofa)_

Doctor. _(following)_ A lady's _hat_, sir.

Plant. Don't be flippant, sir. _(seizes hat and waves it)_ You're
deceiving my girls, two girls with but one Single thought, two
hats--hearts that beat for Jack.

Doctor. _(to Plant)_ I'm deceiving no one--that hat belongs to
one of my patients.

Plant. _(aside)_ A patient, indeed! He's got none. _(goes for
hat)_

Doctor. A lady in whose case I take the deepest interest. Can't
tell you--it would be a breach of professional etiquette.

Plant. _(goes to Doctor over R., throws his hat and stick on
sofa)_ Ah, now you're talking business. The legal and medical
professions are sisters, and should have no secrets.

Doctor. _(shakes his head)_ No, no, it's a delicate case.
_(Bus.)_

Plant. Delicate cases are my speciality, and if I can be of any
assistance to you--_(aside)_--or you to me--. _(aloud)_ I'm at
your service. Proceed.

Doctor. _(aside)_ I'll break it to him gently why I can't marry
his daughters, _(to Plant)_ Well, to begin with, she's a married
woman----

Plant. Is she? She'll cost her husband a pretty penny in hats.

Doctor. _(airily)_ Oh, he can afford it. _(speaks low so that Flo
can't hear)_ He's a great friend of mine--in fact, the greatest
friend I have in all the world.

Plant. _(loudly)_ Then what's his wife's hat doing here?

Doctor. _(aside)_ That's just like a d------d lawyer!

_(softly)_ Don't you see, they married secretly, without her
parents' consent, and she went back to her people, and--and
time went on--and at last she could bear it no longer, so this
afternoon she came up to town