Part 7 (1/2)

MILLER: ”We're not doing anything.”

MRS. CURWEN: ”We're waiting for you to do something.”

MISS LAWTON: ”Oh, papa!”

LAWTON: ”Don't be troubled, Lou, we'll soon have you out.”

YOUNG MR. BEMIS: ”Don't be alarmed, sir, Miss Lawton is all right.”

MISS LAWTON: ”Yes, I'm not frightened, papa.”

LAWTON: ”Well, that's a great thing in cases of this kind. How did you happen to get there?”

MILLER, indignantly: ”How do you suppose? We came up in the elevator.”

LAWTON: ”Well, why didn't you come the rest of the way?”

MILLER: ”The elevator wouldn't.”

LAWTON: ”What seems to be the matter?”

MILLER: ”We don't know.”

LAWTON: ”Have you tried to start it?”

MILLER: ”Well, I'll leave that to your imagination.”

LAWTON: ”Well, be careful what you do. You might” -

MILLER, interrupting: ”Roberts, who's that talking?”

ROBERTS, coming forward politely: ”Oh, excuse me! I forgot that you didn't know each other. Dr. Lawton, Mr. Miller.” Introducing them.

LAWTON: ”Glad to know you.”

MILLER: ”Very happy to make your acquaintance, and hope some day to see you. And now, if you have completed your diagnosis”

MRS. CURWEN: ”None of us have ever had it before, doctor; nor any of our families, so far as we know.”

LAWTON: ”Ha! ha! ha! Very good! Well, just keep quiet. We'll have you all out of there presently.”

BEMIS: ”Yes, remain perfectly still.”

ROBERTS: ”Yes, we'll have you out. Just wait.”

MILLER: ”You seem to think we're going to run away. Why shouldn't we keep quiet? Do you suppose we're going to be very boisterous, shut up here like rats in a trap?”

MRS. CURWEN: ”Or birds in a cage, if you want a more pleasing image.”

MRS. CRASHAW: ”How are you going to get us out, Edward?”

ROBERTS: ”We don't know yet. But keep quiet” -