Sure. You can't be unusual to-day. Too much brains been
in the world before.
UNA. How is it I never heard this story, if her father's so well
known?
GEORGE. D'you think your father's the only one can keep things
out of the papers?
UNA [going over and weeping on her father's shoulder]. Oh! And I
wanted to be unique.
BRAITHEWAITE [patting her]. There, there, dear. [To GEORGE.]
You'd better go, now, Coxey.
GEORGE. And my job?
BRAITHEWAITE. I'll see you still keep it.
GEORGE. Thanks. I don't want to.
BRAITHEWAITE. No?
GEORGE. I want a better.
BRAITHEWAITE [putting his daughter aside]. Indeed! Pray what?
GEORGE [nonchalantly]. Superintendent or something. I leave it to
you. You know more about what jobs there are than I do.
BRAITHEWAITE [controlling his anger]. And on what basis do you
ask for a better job?
GEORGE. Naomi always said my chance would come and I could take
it, if I had nerve and my eyes open. I think now's the time.
BRAITHEWAITE. Why?
GEORGE. Oh, this story about your daughter wouldn't look nice.
UNA. Oh!
BRAITHEWAITE. You forget the power your father-in-law and I have
in the press.
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