KATE. Hello, Communist. [Indicates TED.] Does seeing Ted decently dressed make you see red?
MARTIN. [Surveying TED'S clothes.] No, indeed. The true Communist loves beauty and prosperity. His distinction is that he insists on both for everybody.
KATE. Well, I know you are prospering. I saw your drawing in the New Yorker.
MARTIN. I let them have it at half price just to get it where you would see it.
TIPPY. [Confidentially to KATE.] Half price in the New Yorker would be triple price in the New Masses. But selling to the New Yorker is the latest orders from the Comintern. It's the new plan for boring from within.
KATE. [Impressed.] Oh! Is it?
TED. [To MARTIN, who is still surveying him.] Does it fit all right?
MARTIN. Perfectly.
KATE. [Indicating TED.] Honest, Tippy, what do you think of it?
TIPPY. What should I think? What would anybody think?