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 \n## WHAT’S HATCHING?\n\n4  \nCarol.Well—yes.I'd ask you to stay,but——  \nMrs.Sims(cutting in).Quite impossible!Your father has acold and I left him studying his symptoms in the HomeDoctor—so heaven knows what he’s developed by thistime!  \nCarol.Mother,I wish you'd throw that book away:I'msure it's dangerous.  \nMrs.Sims.Dangerous?  \nCarol.George always says:“A little knowledge is a dan-gerous thing.”  \nMrs.Sims.My dear,a little knowledge is one thing—myextensive studies quite another!But for the Home DoctorI should never have discovered my Dyspepsia or myGlandular Disturbances-and as for my Nerves!Thatbook brought me awareness of no less than four Neuroses,buried since childhood in the depths of my Unconscious!Why didn’t Doctor Hawley discover them?Tell me that!  \nCarol.Well,perhaps they weren't there.  \nMrs.Sims(quickly).Have you been talking to him?  \nCarol.No.But I agree with George.  \nMrs.Sims.Never mind George!(Snifs.)Something smellsgood.  \nCarol.It's his favourite chicken curry.I made some lovelystock with these bones.(Drops them into plastic pail.)  \nMrs.Sims.Hm!More trouble than it's worth in my opinion!But you've always spoiled that man.I hope he appreciatesit? 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