a working house with a month to find work — "But you did know Ennet’s a…"
But you did know Ennet’s a working house. Residents have a month to find work, normally.
Context
The house's rules dropped in as ordinary business: the content-vetting standard for the donated cartridges ("no substances"), and the bedrock expectation that Ennet is a working house where residents have a month to find work. The recovery institution's texture — its economy of donies and alums-turned-staff, its plain conditions of stay — caught in the margins of a scene about something else entirely.