PHYSICIAN. effect. That's why the sage Chyabana observes: "In
medicine as in good advices, the least palatable ones are the
truest." Ah, well! I must be trotting now. [Exit]

[GAFFER enters]

MADHAV. Well, I'm jiggered, there's Gaffer now.

GAFFER. Why, why, I won't bite you.

MADHAV. No, but you are a devil to send children off their
heads.

GAFFER. But you aren't a child, and you've no child in the
house; why worry then?

MADHAV. Oh, but I have brought a child into the house.

GAFFER. Indeed, how so?

MADHAV. You remember how my wife was dying to adopt a child?

GAFFER. Yes, but that's an old story; you didn't like the idea.

MADHAV. You know, brother, how hard all this getting money in
has been. That somebody else's child would sail in and waste all
this money earned with so much trouble--Oh, I hated the idea.
But this boy clings to my heart in such a queer sort of way--

GAFFER. So that's the trouble! and your money goes all for him