VANILLITY (with spirit)
The Nobel prize.
TROMPER (sneers)
Forty thousand dollars for—how many years’study and work—
FANNY
Dr. Agnus is thirty-two—
TROMPER
Say twenty-five years’schooling and work to make forty thousand dollars—that ain’t much of a career? I made that much long before his age.
MAGNUS
The case is different here. Yours can be no criterion. You married probably on less than Dr. Agnus’s schoolboy allowance—