How do you account for that? If she figures that one out, she's good. Your eyes, your throat, your lips! Everything about you reminds me of you. Claypool: Really? Driftwood: Of course, that's why I'm sitting here with you.

Driftwood: That woman? Do you know why I sat with her? Because she reminded me of you. Claypool: It's rather difficult to believe that when I find you dining with another woman. I didn't mean to tell you, but you.you dragged it out of me. Claypool: I'm not your good woman! Driftwood: Don't say that, Mrs. Driftwood: You think that's nothing, huh? How many men do you suppose are drawing a handsome salary nowadays? Why, you can count them on the fingers of one hand, my good woman. In all that time, you've done nothing but draw a very handsome salary. Driftwood, three months ago you promised to put me into society. When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. Claypool: I've been sitting right here since 7 o'clock. And that, friends, is how we fly across the ocean.ĭialogue Mrs. So we gotta sit down and we talk it over. Well, we get-a halfway over when what-a you think-a happened? We forgot-a the aeroplane. This time we-a just about to land - maybe three feet - when whaddya think? We run out-a gasoline again and a-back we go again to get-a more gas. The first time we started, we get-a halfway across when we run out-a gasoline and we gotta go back. And when I say we donna deserve it, believe me, I know what I'm a-talkin' about.So now I tell you how we fly to America. When we first started out, we got-a no idea you give us this-a grand reception. Friends.how we happened to come to America is a great story.Can you sleep on your stomach with such big buttons on your pajamas?.Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons and necking in the parlor. And his father was the first man to stuff spaghetti with bicarbonate of soda, thus causing and curing indigestion at the same time. Senor Lassparri comes from a very famous family. Tonight marks the American debut of Rodolfo Lassparri.

Claypool's checks will probably come back in the morning. I am sure the familiar strains of Verdi's music will come back to you tonight, and Mrs. This is the opening of a new opera season, a season made possible by the generous checks of Mrs. Of course, her mother really saw her first but there's no point in bringing the Civil War into this. Then, you can marry me and they'll kick you out of society, and all you've lost is $200,000.

Don't you see, you'll be a patron of the opera.

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