BISHOP. At least you are busy. You are occupied and happy. You have found congenial work. Why cannot all young men do as you have done?
TIPPY. Not enough dogs, sir.
BISHOP. It need not have been dogs. It might have been--other things.
TIPPY. True, sir. I considered the hanging of clothes lines for women whose husbands are mechanical morons.
BISHOP. That's an ingenious idea.
TIPPY. But I found there weren't enough morons. Automobiles, sir, have taught even the gentry to use screw drivers.
BISHOP. I like your humor. You have enterprise and perspective. You renew my faith in youth. I wish my son had such morale. I wish ... Where is he, Timothy? Where is Kenneth? And Laura? Do you know where they went?
TIPPY. I'm afraid not.
BISHOP. I must find them. [Rises to go.]
TIPPY. The best chance is they'll be back here.