Rite of Passage

The Doc (explaining): The attaché case was one of his essential attributes. He took it everywhere. - The bank, the airport. I couldn’t imagine him without it. If he didn’t have it with him, you knew, somehow the world wasn’t right.

Kola: And it happened like that? - As you wrote it in the story.

The Doc: Um, not exactly.

Kola (Sneer in her smile): You mean I have to listen to one of your alternative hypotheses?

The Doc: How ‘bout rite of passage?

Kola (With more of the sneer): You boys always have those.