ERNEST: How did you ever meet Metchnikoff?

HELEN: (chaffing) I had worked under Hamilton! They all wanted to meet me.

ERNEST (with an unmistakable look) Um ... was that why? (Fleeing danger.) Didn't you let them know your part in that discovery? Why, if it hadn't been for you, I should never have stumbled upon the thing at all.

HELEN: Oh, I know my place too well for that! Talk about artistic temperament, you scientists are worse than prima donnas.

ERNEST: (takes printers' proofs out of pocket, hands them to her in silence) Some proofs of a monograph I was correcting on the train. Mind hammering those loose sentences of mine into decent English? You can write—I can't.

HELEN: (reading innocently) "Recent Experiments in Anterior Poliomyelitis by Ernest Hamilton, M.D., Ph.D., and