Why don’t you give up speculating if you’re so unlucky?

George.

[Hurt.] I don’t speculate, dear. I invest.

Esther.

Why don’t you give up investing then? It makes a dreadful hole in our income.

George.

One must do something for one’s living.

Esther.

[Sighing.] What a pity it is you left the Army!

George.