THE FIRST ACT
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Amy
What’s the matter? Is somebody hurt?
[The Doctor, with his fedora hat and his little black satchel, appears. He is the perfect young rural medico, just out of medical school and full of learned importance.]
The Doctor
I’ll get the ambulance.
Joe
[Following him in]: Is he bad, Doc?
The Doctor
[As he goes into the bedroom]: Both legs above the knee—compound fractures.
Joe
Why didn’t you take him to the hospital?
The R. F. D.
[As he enters]: The Ford went right off the bridge.
Father McKee
[As he enters]: Not two hundred yards from here, Joe.
