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The Ball of the Elizabeth Institute premises to be one
OCH:
of the most fashionable events of the Season this
year. It's in the papers already. I understand,
Doctor, that you have bedicated a waltz to the
Committee.
OSKAR:
(Deprecatingly) It’s nothing — (Looking towards
the ward). What's the news in there?
Ho0ch:
The seernic case won’t last long.
OSKAR:
Ah yes....... (Commiseratingly) nothing could be done
there.
I gave her a camphor injection.
HoCH:
Yes, the art of prolonging life. That we understand
OSKAR:
to a T.
Enter from right DR. BERNHARDI; aged over fifty,
beard sprinkled with rrey, straight hair, cut rather
short, his bearing is more that of a man of the
world than the student. With him enters his chief
assistant, DR. KURT PFLUGFELDER, aged 27, moustache
pince nez, likely and at the same time somewhat
stern.
Greetings areasschanged.
BERNH:
(still at the door) But -
SISTER takes his overlenat, which he has hanging