Part 3

DOCTOR

Why should you sneak and hide?

(The Boy goes to his mother.)

INSPECTOR

Let me introduce myself. (Opens her coat, displaying a metal badge pinned on her breast.)

DOCTOR

So you’re a spy!

INSPECTOR

I’m an inspector!

DOCTOR

I’ve seen you before.

INSPECTOR

I’ve been keeping an eye on you.

DOCTOR

Well, go ahead! What is it you want to know?

INSPECTOR

I want to know what you do to these poor, dumb creatures.

DOCTOR

I use them to fight the diseases carried by flies.

INSPECTOR

(Sneeringly.)

Oh, you vivisectionists have a FINE excuse for your cruelty! Flies!

DOCTOR

Yes, flies! When all the flies are dead, we doctors will be out of a job. For now we know that--

INSPECTOR

Please come back to the animals.

DOCTOR

(Shrugs, crosses to the Monkey.)