KEN. The trouble was, I'd lost my bearings. Thought I'd never get
out of the woods.
TIPPY. The job look pretty good?
KEN. I guess so.
TIPPY. You don't sound so sure.
KEN. Oh sure, the job's all right.
TIPPY. Prescott a tough customer?
KEN. No. That's just the trouble. He's a queer duck. Half the time
I feel he doesn't know I'm there.
TIPPY. He hired you, didn't he? He pays you, doesn't he? He knows
you're there!
KEN. Of course he isn't ready to use my stuff yet. Just wants me to
work it up.
TIPPY. Sure. That's what he hired you for.
KEN. But, damn it, I've been there several months and ...
[_Laughs._] Maybe the trouble is that I don't have to take orders
from anybody; maybe it's that I don't have to fuss and sweat over
details the way the others do. Maybe that's the trouble. I can work
on my plans in my own sweet way. Maybe that's it. Maybe I'm unhappy
because Prescott doesn't bawl hell out of me the way he does the
others.
TIPPY. That's it. The trouble is you've got it too good!
KEN. That's right. Maybe I've got it too good, [TED _enters. Now
has new hat, brown; better taste, better fit, and more becoming. He
and_ KEN _greet each other with a little restraint._] Hello, Ted.
TED. Hello. You look fine. Married life must agree with you.
KEN. Nothing like it. Married life, _and work_.
TED. Oh yes, work. You do have a job, haven't you?
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