(Sarcastically)

Perhaps you didn’t give me as much humor as you thought.

Grant

But can’t we talk over the object of your visit in a friendly spirit? (With a smile.) Say, as father to son?

Tom

You’ll take me seriously before I’m through. I’ll remind you that I was a force in The Lonely Way though in The Sand Bar Tom Robinson is merely a figure. One suit a year was good enough for me. You make him change his every act.

Grant

(More at ease)

I’m afraid you don’t understand the demands of the modern theater.