Field Study

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One, one, one... Tonight, Field Study, by Peter Phillips. You might put down that newspaper for just a minute, Frank.

Hmm? Of course, June. Say, this is good coffee, honey. Now what is it going to be? That's what I want to know. Over time or that big night out, you promised me. Well, I just can't say for sure, honey.

I'll phone you during the day. You've been working on that Mitchell embezzlement for three months, day and night. Now that it's over, I think you'd want to celebrate. Well, I do, dear. I do. But I don't know just what this new assignment will involve.

This is it. This is absolutely the end. You can change your job or change your wife, Frank. I thought I married a man, not an accounting machine. I guess I do seem like an accounting machine to Betty, sometimes.

Maybe she should have married a different kind of guy. Someone who likes to go out dancing into parties all the time. And who has some kind of romantic career. The quiet life she had with me made her tense nervous.

No, more than that, neurotic. Actually the work I did was rather interesting, although she didn't feel that way about it. Being an investigator for the Accountancy Branch isn't exactly like being one of those detectives as smart as Einstein and as tough as Marcheano, but...