If you _are_ leaving him you can't worry about that.
KATE. I do worry about it. That's one of the reasons I'll take the
old man and his money.
LAURA. You're crazy!
KATE. Am I?
LAURA. That's something that--that just isn't done!
KATE. A lot you know.
LAURA. Kate ...
KATE. Oh, stop it! That just isn't done! You don't know anything.
You don't even know how I feel ... week after week giving Ted
money. You've been in love with a man whose fond papa's supported
him so you haven't had to soil your lovely ethics with dirty money.
LAURA. Darling ...
KATE. Don't darling me. And don't tell me what's decent and
proper--and what isn't done!
LAURA. I didn't mean ...
KATE. You didn't mean anything because you don't know anything. But
maybe you're going to learn.--Maybe now you're going to learn
because this gang is breaking up. Not only because my man is a
dead-bent, but because yours is broke.--So now maybe you'll try
keeping a man and see how it feels!
LAURA. Kate!
[KATE _slams out, brushing_ KEN, _who enters, violently aside._]
KEN. What's the matter with her?
LAURA. Nothing.
[KEN _hands sugar to_ TIPPY _and returns._]
KEN. She didn't act like it was nothing.
LAURA. She's going to leave Ted.
KEN. Good! The man's a leech.
LAURA. But he is so helpless.
KEN. He won't starve. We have no jobs in America, but we don't
starve.
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