A Bacteriologist with sense of humour
The Bacteriologist has suspected at once who his visitor was and why he came, and he pronounced a speech which would deserve a reward if heard in wider circles. And when the visitor left he amused himself on the thought how the stranger “gloated on those cultivations of disease-germs”. Being a scientific person himself, he is not so phlegmatic as his colleagues, he is observant and very smart as is able to get somebody’s measure.
He has gone mad!
It was Minnie’s phrase when she saw he husband running along the street with no hat on, and only with one slipper. The image also shows how careless and inattentive to his looks a scientist may be and she also adds: “it’s that horrid science of his”.
A common address
Minnie took a cab and went after her husband, who still ran along the streets hatless. She said to the cabman to go after “a gentleman running about in a velveteen coat and no hat”. The cabman’s reaction was calm and he “whipped up at once in the most matter-of-fact way, as if he drove to this address every day in life”. It seems that there is little left in the world that might surprise the cabman.
