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[Beginning to adopt a timid, diffident, guilty tone]

This will have to be hidden from Sam so he can never know! Oh, Doctor, Sam’s wife is afraid!

[Sharply professional]

Nonsense! This is no time for timidity! Happiness hates the timid! So does Science! Certainly Sam’s wife must conceal her action! To let Sam know would be insanely cruel of her—and stupid, for then no one could be the happier for her act!

[Anxiously thinking]

Am I right to advise this? yes, it is clearly the rational thing to do but this advice betrays my friend! no, it saves him! it saves his wife and if a third party should know a little happiness  is he any poorer, am I any the less his friend because I saved him? no, my duty to him is plain and my duty as an experimental searcher after truth  to observe these three guinea pigs, of which I am one

[Thinking determinedly]

I must have my baby!

[Timidly—gets from her chair and half-turns toward him—pleadingly]

You must give his wife courage, Doctor. You must free her from her feeling of guilt.

There can only be guilt when one deliberately neglects one’s