DEEP SPACE NINE: "Ferengi Love... " - REV. 02/18/97 - ACT FOUR   50.

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					QUARK 
			With the Nagus. He made me his 
			First Clerk.

	This seems to clarify something for Ishka.

					ISHKA 
			I see... well then you've had a 
			miserable day, haven't you?

					QUARK
			Maybe the worst day of my life. 
			How did you know?

					ISHKA 
			The market exchange is down a 
			hundred and ninety-nine points.

	Quark sits down, holding his head.

					QUARK 
			I don't know if I should tell you 
			this -- but I have to tell 
			someone. The Nagus...

	Quark struggles with what he has to say; he doesn't 
	really want to voice what he knows is true.

					QUARK
			He isn't...

	Ishka saves him the trouble.


					ISHKA 
			I know. His memory isn't what it 
			used to be. Did you try stroking 
			his lobes?

					QUARK
				(shocked/disgusted)
			No, I didn't stroke his lobes!

					ISHKA
				(shrugging) 
			It helps focus him. It's also not 
			a bad idea to repeat what you say 
			to him... it sometimes takes two, 
			even three times before he'll 
			retain it.

	Then the implications of this revelation suddenly dawn 
	on Quark: