TIPPY _is kneeling on the floor beside a wash-tub, bathing a
terrier. He talks to it gently, soothingly, all through following
scene._

MARTIN, _with a green eyeshade, is working on a sketch under a
table lamp._

_During scene_ TIPPY _takes dog out of tub and begins drying him
with a Turkish towel. Has large stack of clean folded towels
and uses one after the other_.

MARTIN. [_As he sketches._] Your persistent love of Class of '29
reunions seems to me more admirable than politic.

TIPPY. It will go off all right if you refrain from talking
politics.

MARTIN. As if I were the only member of the Unholy Six with a
capacity to make faux pas!

TIPPY. You have tact and tolerance--when you choose to use them.

MARTIN. Thanks.

TIPPY. The fact that you and Ted still manage to live under the
same roof proves that.

MARTIN. That poor devil would win the compassion of Hitler
himself--with three Jewish grandmothers!