I guess throwing away good, hard-earned money is my affair, isn't it?
LAURA
You're always quick enough to find fault. I know Ethel's careless, but she's the best I can get out here in this godforsaken suburb. Maybe you'll be good enough to find me a better servant. A well-trained girl wouldn't work in this old dump, where there isn't even gas. You don't seem to know when you're lucky. You come back at night and find your home well cared for and me slaving over a hot dinner, and do you ever say a word of thanks? No, all you can think of is finding fault. I can't imagine how you were brought up. Your Mother—
GORDON
Just leave my mother out of it. I guess she didn't spoil me the way yours did you. Of course, I wasn't an only daughter—
LAURA
I wish you had been. Then I wouldn't have married you.
GORDON
I suppose you think that if you'd married Jack Davis or some other of those profiteers you'd never have had to see the inside of a kitchen—