Paul Frees: John Beresford Tipton

Quotes 

• Michael Anthony : [Anthony enters the study to discover Tipton, seated in a high-backed chair at a desk containing numerous examples of ink blots. Only Tipton's right arm is visible to viewers]  You sent for me, sir?

  John Beresford Tipton : Mike,

  [Tipton hands a card to Anthony] 

  John Beresford Tipton : do you know what this is?

  Michael Anthony : [Observing]  It's an ink blot, sir.

  John Beresford Tipton : Oh, a very special ink blot, Mike. One of the original series of standard patterns devised for analyzing personality characteristics. To one person, it was a beautiful butterfly; to another, a funeral wreath.

  Michael Anthony : [Wryly]  It wasn't the ink blot itself.

  [Anthony hands back the card to Tipton] 

  Michael Anthony : It was obviously what they had on their minds.

  John Beresford Tipton : Fear plays strange tricks. It can transform something as innocuous as an ink blot into an object of horror.

  [Tipton hands envelope to Anthony] 

  John Beresford Tipton : Our next millionaire, Mike.

  [Anthony accepts envelope and bows]