Jack's ego is hurt when Vicky receives a $25 a week raise, beats him at a game of trivia, wins a teddy bear throwing baseballs better than he at the carnival. The final straw for Jack is when she has some friends over, one of them a history professor, who Jack tries to impress by pretending to be a history buff by reading from a history book. When he is caught, he feels dejected and humiliated and down and he leaves home.
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