[_Sharply turning._] You are wrong, Vera. You only know that old address. [_To_ RHEINHARDT.] I had one or two letters from him, but the people at Rajpoor whose address he used have lost sight of him. RHEINHARDT. Is there no person he has written to here? VERA. [_With an impulse._] Do you mean to go to him? [RHEINHARDT _stands stiffly, taking no notice_. CARLYON. Nobody. I believe he has a sister or something at Clifton. RHEINHARDT. Please give me her address and also the address of the people at Rajpoor. CARLYON. I do not know the address at Clifton. At Rajpoor it is Stephen Bonsor, Esq.---- RHEINHARDT. Bah! that is what I have. Have you a 'Bradshaw'? I will go to Clifton. CARLYON. But you can't mean to go to Clifton to-night? RHEINHARDT. If I can get a train! [VERA _meantime has fetched him a 'Bradshaw,' which he puts down on the_ British Medical Journal. [_Sarcastically._] I was not aware that Miss Carlyon any longer professed an interest in these studies! [_He examines 'Bradshaw'_; VERA _does not reply, but joins_ CARLYON _down centre_. CARLYON. [_Apart, to_ VERA.] What made you think he was going himself? He may be only going to write. VERA. No, I am sure he is going! CARLYON. Why, the operation has never been attempted? VERA. Yes. That was what I wanted to show you just now. Steinmetz has done it four times, and killed the patient each time. The _Journal_ is indignant. He can hardly mean to try it! But he won't tell us; he wouldn't even speak to me! CARLYON. We'll soon see that! [_Approaching_ RHEINHARDT.] By the way, Doctor, I see that your old master, Steinmetz, has been very successful in performing that operation on the brain, that young Adene---- RHEINHARDT. Steinmetz my master? Steinmetz was never my master! You call it successful, you call it Steinmetz's section? Very well, I do not complain! It is Steinmetz's section because he has cut open five people and killed four--[_Movement of_ VERA _and of_ CARLYON]--and he is my master because I have only cut open two and killed none! He is your great man. VERA. [_Excitedly._] You have done the operation yourself? RHEINHARDT. I only followed him; he showed the way. When have I said anything else? And if I do not kill my people it is because I have no originality, I am a plodder, a second-rate man! Bah! he is a bungler! CARLYON. Then you _are_ going to India to operate on Adene? RHEINHARDT. What does it matter--I am nobody--what I do? Good-night. CARLYON. Stop a moment. Vera has just reminded me that we have got a later address. If you are going to operate, or think it possible, we must telegraph to him to come back at once. RHEINHARDT. I will not telegraph. What can I promise him? "Come back and let me see if it will kill you to cut out a big bit out of your head!" I will go and find him. VERA. [_With a sheet of paper on which she has just been writing._] Look, Dr. Rheinhardt, this is the right address.