HARRY: Yes! Than the thing itself. But of course--you wouldn't have much
of a thing that you have irony about.
DICK: Oh--wouldn't you! I mean--a man might.
HARRY: I'd like to talk to Edgeworth about Claire. But it's not easy to
talk to Tom about Claire--or to Claire about Tom.
DICK: (_alert_) They're very old friends, aren't they?
HARRY: Why--yes, they are. Though they've not been together much of late
years, Edgeworthy always going to the ends of the earth to--meditate
about something. I must say I don't get it. If you have a place--that's
the place for you to be. And he did have a place--best kind of family
connections, and it was a very good business his father left him.
Publishing business--in good shape, too, when old Edgeworthy died. I
wouldn't call Tom a great success in life--but Claire does listen to
what he says.
DICK: Yes, I've noticed that.
HARRY: So, I'd like to get him to tell her to quit this queer business
of making things grow that never grew before.
DICK: But are you sure that's what he would tell her? Isn't he in the
same business himself?
HARRY: Why, he doesn't raise anything.
(TOM _is again at the door_.)
DICK: Anyway, I think he might have some idea that we can't very well
reach each other.
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