Indeed. Who taught you to speak of Sir Patrick Cullen as old Paddy Cullen, you young ruffian? (REDPENNY: You never call him anything else.) Not now that I am Sir Colenso. Next thing, you fellows will be calling me old Colly Ridgeon. (REDPENNY: We do, at St. Anne's.) Yach! Thats what makes the medical student the most disgusting figure in modern civilization. No veneration, no manners--no-- EMMY (at the door, announcing). Sir Patrick Cullen. (She retires). Sir Patrick Cullen is more than twenty years older than Ridgeon, not yet quite at the end of his tether, but near it and resigned to it. His name, his plain, downright, sometimes rather arid common sense, his large build and stature, the absence of those odd moments of ceremonial servility by which an old English doctor sometimes shews you what the status of the profession was in England in his youth, and an occasional turn of speech, are Irish; but he has lived all his life in England and is thoroughly acclimatized. His manner to Ridgeon, whom he likes, is whimsical and fatherly: to others he is a little gruff and uninviting, apt to substitute more or less expressive grunts for articulate speech, and generally indisposed, at his age, to make much social effort. He shakes Ridgeon's hand and beams at him cordially and jocularly.

Ridgeon Monologue from The Doctor's Dilemma

Rehearse Ridgeon's monologue