LAURA. I didn't mean ...

KATE. You didn't mean anything because you don't know anything. But
maybe you're going to learn.--Maybe now you're going to learn
because this gang is breaking up. Not only because my man is a
dead-bent, but because yours is broke.--So now maybe you'll try
keeping a man and see how it feels!

LAURA. Kate!

[KATE _slams out, brushing_ KEN, _who enters, violently aside._]

KEN. What's the matter with her?

LAURA. Nothing.

[KEN _hands sugar to_ TIPPY _and returns._]

KEN. She didn't act like it was nothing.

LAURA. She's going to leave Ted.

KEN. Good! The man's a leech.

LAURA. But he is so helpless.

KEN. He won't starve. We have no jobs in America, but we don't
starve.