MARTIN. Karl Marx; you're stealing his thunder. That's what the man wrote his big book about. Only--you see it for one man and a few months. Marx saw it for all humanity for all time.
LAURA. They're at it again. The dear little schoolboys.--Tippy, how does one make them grow up?
TIPPY. Opinions differ. Bobby Benson says Mother's Oats and Buck Rogers says Cocomalt. What do you give Ken for breakfast?
KEN. I say, what's Ted doing?
TIPPY. About the same.
KEN. Still looking for book bargains?
TIPPY. They get harder and harder to sell.
KEN. The trouble with you fellows is you encourage Ted in his weakness. Someone ought to put it to him straight. The man doesn't realize where he's drifting.
MARTIN. Yes--well--that's his business.
KEN. You fellows are afraid to talk to him.