KATE. [_Fondly_] That makes him very English. [_Takes_ TED'S
_book._] Is it Chaucer? Or just dear old Ben Jonson?
TED. No such luck. It's a first edition of Hemingway's "The Sun
Also Rises." For a man who wanted it, it's worth ten dollars.
KATE. How much did you pay for it?
TED. Fifty cents.
KATE. _Swell_!
TED. As long as ignorant people go into the secondhand book
business ... It's a tedious business, but if you look over enough
stalls, you're bound to pick up something.
TIPPY. I'm sorry to be sordid in this literary atmosphere, but if
you really have a book worth ten bucks, you'd better sell it.
TED. I will if I can find the right man.
TIPPY. Well--the landlord informs us that he has a more desirable
tenant who wants these quarters. He gives us till tomorrow morning
to raise the rent or he will out us kick.
[KEN _turns away and putters with his drawing instruments_, TED
_goes into bedroom._]
MARTIN. [_Who has been absorbed in dictionary._] Hell, it means
electrification!
TIPPY. Then would I shock you by telling you that the landlord
means business?
MARTIN. Huh? Oh rent! All right, I have my share. Here, take it
now.
[_Hands_ TIPPY _eight dollars_, KATE _takes money out of her
purse_, TIPPY _takes it quietly, nodding understanding._]
KATE. [_With gesture toward bedroom_.] If he does sell his book,
take his eight dollars and hold it.
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