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6 (naïvely): I seem to have waked you.


 * Why didn’t you do it earlier?




 * My hours are numbered.




 * I want to live them.




 * You nearly let me sleep them away.




 * What’s the time?




 * Only.

How do you feel?


 * Dying.

(Weeps.)


 * Stop! Why, I’m alive! What have you done? Isn’t my clock wrong?

Lie down quietly. I must take your temperature.

of it, if he cures me
 * For a doctor? (Giggles.) Will, what

That’s the way. (Applies a thermometer.) Is that someone coming? (The thermometer begins to burn.)


 * It shows the exact temperature.