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[Thinking resentfully]

He’s always making fun of my father! he better look out!

[More and more mockingly]

And what could be fairer? The good Samuel is an A one success. He has a charming wife and a darling boy, and a Park Avenue apartment and a membership in an expensive golf club. And, above all, he rests so complacently on the proud assurance that he is self-made!

[Sharply]

Ned! You ought to be ashamed! You know how grateful Sam has always been to you!

[Bitingly]

Would he be grateful if he knew how much I’d really done for him?

[Sternly]

Ned!

[Suddenly jumps up and confronts, his fists clenched, trembling with rage, stammers]

You—shut up—making fun of my father!

[In dismay]

Gordon!