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36 to marry him there would be no need to think of a situation.  Don't ask me to do that, auntie.  Why shouldn't you? Fritz would be so happy, and as for me and the doctor—Why, here is the doctor! [An elderly man has entered on R. He looks dejected.] Gottfried! You're home early to-day, aren't you, dear?  [Sinking into a chair.] Yes, I am, Marie.  [Anxiously.] Has anything—anything happened?  I'm dismissed.  Dismissed from the College?  That's so. The governors held their quarterly meeting to-day, and in the middle of a lesson they sent for me. They were sorry—very sorry—but since the sinking of that troopship public feeling had become so strong against persons of enemy origin that it was impossible to keep on an alien professor any longer. So in the interests of the College they were compelled—reluctantly compelled—to dispense with my services immediately.