LAURA. Kate, do be serious.

KATE. He wants to reduce his income tax by gifts to eleemosynary
institutions. Don't I look eleemosynary?

LAURA. No. Nor mercenary, either.

KATE. Ah, but I am. And I've been buying love long enough to have
learned the trade. So now I'm going to sell some.

LAURA. And Ted?

KATE. [_Bitterly._] What about him?

LAURA. You love him.

KATE. No, I don't, I used to love him.... But I don't any more. You
can't stay crazy about a man when you give him half your salary
every week. You get to hate him.... Oh, it's worse than hate. It's
contempt.

LAURA. You've stuck it out so long.

KATE. Too long.

LAURA. It'll be different as soon as he strikes something.

KATE. Strikes what? Gold or oil?

LAURA. He'll find something. It takes time.