MRS. CRILLY
You've got your discharge, I suppose?
MUSKERRY
I've given three hours' notice, and I'll get my discharge
now.
MRS. CRILLY
_(at corridor door)_ We can't prevent you going if you
have the doctor's discharge.
MUSKERRY
The doctor's discharge! He would have given it to me--
MRS. CRILLY
You can't leave without the doctor's sanction.
MUSKERRY
Out of this house I will go to-day.
_James Scollard enters_.
SCOLLARD
I believe you want to see me, Mr. Muskerry.
MUSKERRY
I do, Mr. Scollard. I am leaving the house.
SCOLLARD
I will be glad to take up the necessary formalities for you,
Mr. Muskerry.
MRS. CRILLY
First of all, has the doctor marked my father off the
infirmary list?
SCOLLARD
No, Mrs. Crilly. Now that I recall the list, he has not.
MUSKERRY
I waited after Mass to-day, and I missed seeing him.
MRS. CRILLY
My father was seriously ill only a short time ago, and I
do not believe he is in a fit state to leave the infirmary.
SCOLLARD
That certainly has to be considered. Without the doctor
explicitly sending you down to the body of the house you are hardly
under my jurisdiction, Mr. Muskerry.
MUSKERRY
Mr. Scollard, I ask you to give me leave to go out of the
Workhouse for a day. You can do this on your own responsibility.
MRS. CRILLY
In the present state of his mind it's not likely he
would return to-night.
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