Why couldn't the gaping fools be obliterated ?...
"Dam, dear," she whispered in his ear, as she knelt over the shuddering, gasping, sobbing man.

"What is it, Dam?
Are you ill?
Dam, it's Lucille....

The snake is quite dead, dear.

I killed it.

Are you joking?
Dam! _Dam_!" ...
The stricken wretch screamed like a terrified child.
"Oh, won't somebody fetch Dr.Jones if he's not here yet," she wailed, turning to the mystified crowd of guests.