"How's it going Jake?" "I'm kind of worried about this weather" "What's the matter, it's too nice?" "There's bound to be a break." "oh no one in our mind Lois Romney was Justin" "He's still your boyfriend?" "uh-huh well he had one with onions on affected" "Okay Attagirl" "Playing like a fish" "You got anything else on your mind besides the weather, Jake?" "I'm kind of worried about my throat ." "yesterday you was worried about your shoulder" "Still am." "You know you bias about every muscle in your body you can come in here once you tell me you have heard" "we'll keep it up kid" "When you stop worrying you'll be dead." "Hi, mr." "Claggart" "Today a nice chicken and noodle ." "No, I've had my lunch it's the first of July mrs." "McNally" "Already ?" "June went by in a hurry, isn't it ?" "Also did May and April" "The bank can't wait any longer." "no fool, I'll try and make a payment next month." "We are awful sorry but the bank examiner everytime he reads off your loan he says "no reduction on that $800?" "Why not?"" "Did you tell the bank examiner that I was never up against such competition in my whole life?" "Drugstore on one side of me a drugstore on the other side of me and their soda fountains undercutting each other" "They give you a three-course dinner if you buy a box of aspirin tablets" "Won't you just pay us a little something $100" "To raise $100 I would have to sell 13,000 hamburgers between now and 6:00 o'clock tonight." "Do you know anybody that's that hungry?" "Sorry but without a payment the bank will have to start action." "I got some news for the Jersey City National Bank they just got themselves a hamburger spin." "We don't want that mr." "McNulty don't say that again after you been running this joint for a month" "Then that's settled so the icebox, the dishes, the pots pans the whole joint all are yours." "Jake tomorrow you get your hamburgers at the Jersey City National Bank." "You just ask for the president" "He's the new c.. from now on" "Oh, please mrs McNulty, you can't give up your business!" "I can't ?" "Listen!" "My son Val has a good job in Meridian Ohio don't you worry about me !" "great sixteen and seventeen we could get rid of bacne" "No!" "At 4:45 a.m. I read it to you twice already ." "And each time we made the report a little bit better!" "What difference does that make?" "What difference ?" "Listen, babe I'm not related to old man Kalinger" "I don't play golf with him at the Country Club he doesn't know me from Adam" "With this report I may make him go ahead with the Whittington project." "If he does I might go ahead with it." "So let's have on his desk by 9:00 in the morning" "Come on, hurry up!" "Do us a lot of good !" ""Us"?" "I suppose you'll say this is fine title who did the comment" "I thought you wanted to help!" "I thought we were pals" "We must be." "The girls in the office have started a pool." "Yeah?" "Well then what'll be about a little extra overtime?" "A little?" "Now you slain me." "Can't you stop pushing yourself for a minute?" "Look:" "Correct business usage contacts and personality and commerce what the young executive..." "I'm a very earnest young man okay" "The Williamson report" "That's the girl!" "page 16" "Therefore I mapped out the following plan of procedures series of anything..." "Switch words closed" "That's jr." "Kalinger by the phone Let it ring ...a series of anything else however was the Italian don't have all the dismissing economic problem..." "Hello?" "Mr Kalinger Junior?" "At this hour in the morning?" "He's not here." "Who says I'm not?" "Hold it!" "Wake up with the birds ready to go" "It's for you, sounds like a small boy given Moscato somewhere on the ball" "Hello he's a busy now." "Can I take a message?" "yeah up on summit ridge?" "yeah?" "oh sure." "I'll tell him." "This kid says your car is stuck up on top of summit ridge and there's a girl in it Yes there's a girl." "and she didn't trust my driving." "It's Maggie Carleton, a great miss Carleton impecunious with social, very social ..." "Mr.Kalinger, I think ... daughter of the United States ambassador" "I asked her to marry me and she turned me down ... and she turned me down" "She's under the impression that I drink" "We better do something about your car" "Go on do something you got paid every Thursday." "yes sir" "But you want me to drop you home on the way..." "I'm staying here" "My father has become opressive." "He's not gonna split mind I've got ideals too " "That's me, a proud boy" "Mr.Kalinger!" "oh no!" "Where's the car?" "Right there!" "Sweet Cesar!" "It keeps on slipping!" "I saw it on my way to the milk barn" "They give me the number to call" "Why in heaven's name you're standing there?" "Get out of the car!" "If I stir it starts to move." "oh don't stir, don't breathe!" "That's what I've been trying to not do for an hour let's try to use our syllabus" "Put your arms on my neck if it starts to move show off" "you feel like passing out it is no trouble at all" "I don't..." "I did but I don't know who are you?" "Val McNulty the young master sent me oh I never saw anything is beautiful in my life as the sight of you coming over that cliff." "How this has happened?" "I'm visiting some friends who live on one of these hills after I dropped junior I got myself lost and tried to turn around" "You hadn't plenty of room oh I'm not a very good driver" "I tried for license once but the man said" "I'd have to learn more about keys" "I just feel it hair off a lilac bush ?" "You can put me down now oh, yes I was afraid so." "oh !" "Look I guess" "I hope that car was insured." "Why did you turn him down?" "Loud drunk bores me." "I'm sorry if he's a friend of yours." "Oh that was no friend, it was my boss." "Funny!" "At 4:45 this morning someone accused me of being too anxious to please my boss and now to be exact it's 5:23" "seems that life began somewhere in between." "This is Venice Italy calling miss Maggie Carleton" "Si, miss Carlton ?" "Un momento !" "Senora Carlton!" "Which one?" "This one" "Maggie?" "Oh Maggie ... touch of the sun!" "?" "you just can't suddenly marry somebody named McNulty you met on the cliff!" "You can't!" "3 o'clock tomorrow darling!" "if your father were alive he'd turn over in his grave!" "No, wait till I get there and we can discuss it!" "you say he works at the Kalinger factory?" "What is he doing?" "well he he's in the production department" "In other words he's a clerk." "He doesn't think you're rich I hope, can you hear me?" "just because you're visiting rich friends of mine?" "we hate it about rich then he is an imbecile!" "oh darling, you're utterly unequipped for any such marriage!" "Did he know you were brought up in an embassy with 20 service?" "hi honey!" "Hi, Val!" "it's mother" "Mother,I put him on If you'll do, I'll hang up!" "see you let me talk to that dog now" "No, mother, please Later darling" "She wants to speak to you now oh dear oh" "hello Fran!" "what time is in Venice, now?" "Now don't scream at me ... well we don't know anything about him really except that he's a very nice boy and he signed one of those loyalty things" "what is your background there?" "I suppose we should have made enquiries about your family well I just got my mother she lives in Jersey City" "She runs a business my father started" "Yes, Fran and we're all..." "Here!" "Thank you .Now, Fran ..." "We should send an announcement to the Trumans" "I don't think Maggie's father knew the president very well against and wonder mrs." "You can't send one to mrs Roosevelt and slight the Trumans" "Now, Fran, I'm her godmother not her keeper!" "Your mother's right you know." "Out of a blue sky marry a crumb like me." "She's a fine one to talk but when she met father in Shanghai he just stuck out his hand and say hello never got her back." "I still think you ought to be getting one of those guys with a pedigree and a platinum polo mallet oh Val!" "When you've been brought up in half a dozen embassies the little princes little Dukes and little diplomats bowing from the waist and kissing your hand" "what do you think you dream of that?" "what?" "you dream of meeting a man" "Who, me?" "I really must have might talk with the young people" "I want to ask them which service they prefer the long or the short one" "yes I think I'd better put you down for the short one" "yes?" "How about the phrase " love honor and obey "?" "unfortunately a lot of people prefer to drop the word obey oh don't drop it we're going to obey each other like crazy and is there going to be one ring or two?" "Well someone draw a chalk line" "I'd like to walk it" "Stone sober, Maggie" "I've brought your present" "Thank You Junior but I don't think I deserve it" "Under happier circumstances I should have gone shopping on the Ganges for rubies but this thing is more tasteful" "A book, a little old book." ""How to drive an automobile"" "Why didn't I give it to you before?" "You're very sweet, Junior." "I'll treasure it" "Since everybody in town knows how I felt about Maggie" "I hope you won't mind my admitting" "Even a great sports, mr.Kallinger." "Well thanks" "I brought this wire from the office" "Always at your service, no tip necessary." "Thank you." "Well, happy nuptials to all ,to all good night!" "No wonder I couldn't reach my mother she's on her way here." "She is ?" "Oh how wonderful You never dream she'd come !" "no..." "Now let me see at a formal wedding" "The mother of the groom sits in the front row that's right oh let's put the bishop on one side of her he's such a dignified old man" "And on the other, mrs." "Fahnstock she's our local mrs." "Astor" "Oh, what a disaster!" "Bobby!" "You and Jimmy stood at each other just once more I'll stop discussing thank you both?" "is your watch right?" "Is out of date" "What's the nearest to come to the bus station?" "Blockanhalf?" "What time is your bus leaving ?" "" "I'm supposed to be in one that gets in at 8:30" "If my son finds out I've been hitchhike he'll put a hole in my head" "Run out of money?" "I got five bucks and 80 cents but just before I got ready to leave that mr." "Shipman showed up with the bill for two years where the ketchup" "You thought of a hamburger stand here ?" "oh no, my son wouldn't stand for it No, I'm coming up to live with him he's been after me ever since he graduated from college" "College?" "Sure, we put him through when were you" "there's the one I'm supposed to be coming in on now!" "we'll make it !" "But it is an hour away!" "Goodbye now!" "Thanks for everything ." "You're welcome" "Excuse me!" "Hey lady, where are you going?" "I'll get it for you" "How is Jersey City?" "Fine kid yeah" "Get me nuts before I got your telegram has beat my brains out trying to locate you" "I was right here on this bus!" "oh , how come?" "uh you do for a bit of a surprise so are you mom Now hold your head" "I'm getting marrried" "You what?" "Married yeah?" "when?" "This afternoon" "This I think calls for a cup of coffee come on right now" "Goodbye, thanks for everything yes ma'am" "They have a full house ." "I'll grab this one over here" "Two coffees please want to go mom?" "no, thanks who is she?" "Have you known her long?" "she live around here?" "she was born in Nanking China China but he's a nice Chinese girl..." "Her father was the ambassador over there." "They lived all over the world" "Imagine that!" "I think I will have it done" "Just luck that she ever came here she's staying with a guy used to be his father's military attache we're being married at his house huh but it's gonna be some wedding!" "yeah small fancy in fact they're little rich for our blood" "I don't know why you say that" "She knows you from college did you tell her that ?" "everybody goes to college mom" "Nice,anyway." "I'll tell you from college" "Your attention, please" "Columbus local now loading some door... wedding is at three get yourself fixed up permanent maybe" "You could go and buy a new dress and a hat oh by the way with all the rush I forgot to send you your monthly check" "Here it is in cash these needs adjustment" "There is reception afterwards oh well maybe I ought to go early and help out maybe they could use some of my hamburgers to go with the beer" "I don't think they'll have any beer nothing to drink?" "oh when you're poor Nate was married it was a real beer bus everybody went to the amusement park it was a little butcher he didn't manage on" "Mama, I said there wouldn't be any beer they'll have champagne" "oh well ..." "I just thought, you know.." "I've got to go and sign up for my new apartment" "I've taken one in Clarendon Court its way at the back but it's still Clarendon Court you could swing a better one for a little more money" "oh this is okay" "With a girl like that you get it better hey that's your money mom" "I don't need the sour apples" "I just been taking it to keep your nose to the grindstone" "From now on not a penny more" "You really don't need it?" "I'm doing good" "Say, you haven't told me what brought you here!" "hmm?" "oh I'm closing the hamburger stand!" "What?" "oh just for a week" "I'm having it all painted up new seat covers... that's the big surprise?" "Wait a minute I'm putting in a television set" "Wow, what a dream!" "I gotta run!" "I got your room at the hotel" "It's right across the street At 2 o clock I'll call for you" "They're taking some photographs before the ceremony ... at the amusement park you still remember?" "it there's one more thing, mom at the wedding there'll be some people who we don't know well you know how person can get talking" "I won't talk too much oh it's not bad but I guess I oughta warn you" "I..." "I kind of soft-pedal the hamburger stand" "I just said that you ran dad's business well that's true" "come on get going two o'clock" "I won't keep you waiting say well are you on the chopping bench you gotta buy yourself a pair of gloves" "Goodbye, kid." "Goodbye, honey." "Do you have any employment listings?" "Female I mean." "I'm a stranger in town" "What a dear lovely wedding!" "why did your mother stayed over?" "got me she left at the hotel she just called home urgent business" "She didn't want you to get married." "O, no!" "I think she kind of lost her nerve you know all that crowd people she never met" "You didn't tell me she is shy." "well I'd better tell you about my mom you don't have to." "I know about people who are delicate and high-strung" "It was a little chinese princess I knew who tremble like a leaf whenever she had to meet a stranger" "Oh, did she?" "Well ... oh I was forgot" "mom left this for you" "Dear Maggie" "When Val was little he said he wanted to marry a girl who could climb trees better than him" "I was very little at the time" "I guess you don't climb trees but I'm sure Val chose someone better and nicer than him." "I know I'll always be as proud of you as I am of him ." "She mixed up the grammar it's a beautiful letter" "When will I meet her?" "This honeymoon let's get the show on the road" "Eddie Arcaro is up twice tomorrow at Belmont" "Many races at the giveaway program" "you work here pony boy ?" "right here from my health that's for sure they conclude speaker amid summer clearance sale the management thanks all temporary employees for a job well done" "Pick up your checks at the cashiers window next does it" "59 hours here's a week at the cafeteria and that's today tougher with mr." "Finch bug." "And I got enough." "good for you" "It's been wonderful now on you girls." "Never had so much fun." "Same here." "Thank you hey kids one double your checks" "Look I got a thing for tomorrow here he can pull a plow and win you know I ain't never been to one of them horse powers will start living a little kid a great bunch of guys give you free lunch while you bet" "it's not me oh one of those huh?" "save your dough sticking yourself lovely funeral" "Come on Alan take a chance hey, Mugsy did you ever pay eighteen bucks for a hat?" "me?" "You think she's crazy?" "but I'm going to do." "Gonna buy me a $18.00 hat the suit to go with a hat and gloves to go with the suit" "What are you shooting for a guy?" "I'm going to call on my daughter-in-law some daughter-in-law that rates an $18 hat." "Say, that's a beautiful time" "Another advance?" "Right on the side." "You've been awful busy with these things lately." "well you know how it is when you get back from your honeymoon." "capital expenses" "You drew one hundred last Monday" "That was the entrance fee to the golf club." "you're not buying you gotta the driving range anymore?" "Change the dollar, bill, please we've got a lot of fun undoubtedly" "I'm glad you enjoyed it." "I'll have to get an OK on this ." "oh don't be like that!" "it's only fifty bucks!" "there's a rule here when there's over two advances." "now go up front." "Red tape" "I'll call you." "I'm McNulty" "About this project you've been working on the Williamson survey oh yes mr." "Goucher." "what did your father think of it?" "no he never saw it, I took it over oh I see ..." "oh how do you like it?" "the Williamson's are pretty tough people to deal with" "I may recommend though.." "maybe I could talk it over with you after office hours I mean, in any evening" "Evenings, a newly married man?" "I'm a sentimental old fool we shouldn't waste time, it's so important is it ?" "oh you mean to you up-and-coming young fellow huh?" "why is that idiot bothered me with this?" "if you want the advance take it" "okay, thanks see we're trying to get some of our social obligations paid off giving a little shindig tonight tonight?" "my secretary didn't tell me" "To tell you the truth we don't think you care to them meaning" "We?" "You mean "Maggie and you" or just you?" "oh you have nothing on we'd be tickled to that" "Both of us." "I have one of the dullest eights in the world for the night with me!" "hi mr." "Callender!" "Don't worry, the date's off" "So you're the guy some girl picked you in preference to my boy here." "Well I can't shake hands with from here." "What time's the party?" "7 o'clock sir I'll be there." "hello Maggie?" "Maggie we have two more guests tonight." "More guests?" "The Kalengers." "The Kalengers?" "Please!" "look the old man is coming" "He can do some good, he spits vice-presidents" "How are you coming along?" "You are some kind of worried?" "No no everything's alright just that I'm a little busy." "mrs." "Congressman didn't show up" "Seems she has a message" "Nevermind I'll handle it ." "But honey you can't possibly!" "why don't you call me immediately?" "Look ring up an employment agency, tell them to send you somebody oh wait, wait I'll do it ." "I'll go over there right away" "I'll have her take a cab." "Keep watching." "Bye, now." "No wonder you had to go see yourself up" "Let me pay my share now skip Akane the fourth race will take care of your share" "Thanks girls" "Bye girls and good luck" "McNulty are they home?" "this is it" "Nice day, isn't it?" "it's me yes and thank Heaven you're here" "I'm absolutely out of my mind" "Everything conceivable has gone wrong in the kitchen!" "Come in run away" "I beg you fine" "What I did wrong?" "where are you?" "It's on fire!" "it's ruined so am I" "I did just what it said don't just stand there" "I shall put the turkey out yes turn it off it'll go out in a minute" "I realize this is an awful mess due to walking on but this is my brick party and whatever the employment agency said we pay you" "I'll give you $5.00 won't and look kid Ithink you got the wrong plan we do with this just throw it away I guess you start off no look you don't throw turkeys away but about this job there's" "something we gotta get straightened out right now well it's kind of embarrassing me having to tell you... you mean you can't cook either" "I can cook the pants off any woman alive that's what I thought" "I know good help oh you do?" "Look, kid,I'm just not that kind of how how any kind would do" "You don't have to serve it if you don't want it just push everything through the slide oh please this party just has to be... listen kid !" "Maggie!" "oh hello John oh that wretched made of mine!" "I fired her" "For once in my life I asked a person and she said she's ill" "I went over to her house ... darling do you think I could possibly have a glass of iced tea , I'm exausted" "Is it for a cook yeah hold the phone yes?" "There's somebody outside to see you who you better come on out" "you wanted to see me egg me employment agency sent me" "I got the cat still waiting" "I don't take this job if I can't be home by 9 o clock" "I never work later this is a sit-down dinner spread well it's not a sit-down dinner but they've already sent someone well the patek have you've got to pay two and four yeah it's a dollar fifty" "yes of course could you let me have a dollar in half" "Thank you" "I'm very sorry" "Maybe another time how many people for the party?" "eighteen or twenty wouldn't have done it anyway well what luck for me that you came in first what's your name ?" "Just call me Ellen" "I owe you a dollar, Ellen" "Darling, I think you want to have a nap we're just bidding on anniversary" "oh , at last, darling" "Darling, the cook you sent is the perfect treasure yes well" "We must squeeze some lemons" "Did you bring the porcelain?" "The shop was closed" "Darling, 12 people must eat with their fingers!" "What do you think this is?" "Awesome!" "I ran it up at a pawn shop" "Have you got bag money?" "You'd better change" "Hey, can she make whiskey sour mix?" "She can do anything!" "Ellen squeeze the lemons..." "I know how to make whiskey sour mix before he was born put the silver over there" "Ellen, you better sit down ." "you've been standing for four hours" "I'll never eat salmon never cooked it hey come to think of it you can make whiskey sour sweet or you can make it sour ask your husband to come and talk to me before two other guests get here" "Yes, of course oh don't tell me someone's on time" "Mrs McNally ?" "yeah" "I was asked for seven stood out there the second hand here" "I'm always the first to arrive" "Don't worry I'm always the first to leave, too punctuality is the polite of the king cocaine yeah mr. calendar quarter wait a minute put up your face when I kiss the bride well I guess it wouldn't look right if I asked for the second" "although you won" "Hello there Natalie where's the colonel?" "The cook wants to consult you about something" "You better go into the kitchen as soon as you can" "Never mind, I'll take it hello mr." "Kalinger!" "We certainly appreciate your coming" "I've been getting in my legs too" "Oh fine, fine... you certainly doing to take from me I surely it would be wholly a rare novel that's that I guess I did" "Excuse me ..." "I'll get it" "Hello, Betsy" "Val,I hope you don't think this is my idea he just asked me to a party.." "You should have been invited in the first place" "Maggie!" "Junior!" "I took the liberty of bringing a guest an old friend of your husband's" "Mind I'm not making any implication" "Betsy Donaldson, Maggie" "How do you do mrs McNulty?" "Val did the most flattering thing, miss Donaldson" "He never told me about you" "Come and meet some of our friends" "Darling, get the cocktails" "Put it down I want to speak to mr." "McNulty about that" "Mr. McNulty as an amateur" "Not bad!" "well kids, the party" "you'll always find me again you know" "and everybody compromise yeah you know the one I mean, Brixton" "No Connie Potter fan?" "Listen everybody, this is our song!" "stop falling I tell you that marriage won't last more than six months" "Sure it's on its left leg, anyone can see that." "Six month I tell you this party's on the cuff the whole marriage is on the cuff" "Blow !" "That's better six little months so save your money and buy a tight dress" "I'll get your coffee" "Good singing, Maggie" "Do you think another piece of that chocolate cake would make me fat?" "that's why mr." "Kalinger I'm going to the locker room" "Can I give you some cognac, mrs." "Posner?" "no thank you" "I've been admiring your silver" "Such a lovely old pattern." "Colonial, isn't it ?" "Where did you get these?" "well uh we didn't get them, we just pet them oh nice." "yeah, family it's some of the stuff my mother sell" "I'd never have imagined" "Give me right would you please" "Tthank you very much, Maggie." "Thank you a lot, mr Mc Nulty." "What are doing?" "Don't do that!" "Don't take my coat on I'm wearing down" "Come with me" "I wonder if we have anything for cleaning" "All we need is a knife and some hot water oh I'm so sorry this happened you can count on June unit is something like this once at everybody" "I'm glad you love taking the rap with a knife" "Oh rinse it out honey!" "Yeah let's take care the worst of it." "That'll do for now let you get yourself a single breasted why?" "you get some zip , put some gas in your tank" "No, Ellen, is getting terribly late" "I'm not gonna let you do one more thing I'll cope with all this in a moment" "But you stay yeah okay" "Maybe your husband would drive me to the bus oh no I can't no you still got a house full of people I'll drive her" "I'm still going to have that piece of cake, Maggie" "I ought to be safe from doing her in the elevator but already but it's how do you weigh out of way out in Dubuque - right by" "There's no need I can handle it" "It's already handled, come on." "oh thank you, thank you very much!" "Ellen you're my kind of cook, come on" "Good night!" "But listen, she can't go with him!" "what difference does it make ?" "well..." "You're mad at me or something ?" "what ?" "Of course not !" "What makes you think so?" "Look so worried Me?" "I wouldn't have seen the rest of that" "Oh for heaven sakes!" "What happened?" "Ellen!" "What of her?" "I forgot to pay her, see if you can catch her!" "You bet!" "oh I pay her double" "Stairways!" "I own her a dollar and a half!" "Goodbye now, thanks for everything." "It was a pleasure." "You too" "Just a minute, you !" "What are you doing here?" "You've come to see if I stole some of the old family silver?" "How did you get into that kitchen?" "I trickled in" "It was a mixed up and there I was." "But it wasn't her fault." "You were struck down, suppose you couldn't speak!" "She would have died of embarrassment" "Besides, she payed me right.I am a cook." "Don't be silly!" "Listen, if you're a chicken you can fool people about your feathers but when you start laying eggs all over the place they know you're a chicken" "80 bucks!" "You naughty boy!" "Mama is ashamed of you for forgetting your manners that way!" "what would you, a lady doggies with little Charlene..." "Why did you get back in town?" "hmm?" "oh well I didn't exactly come back" "You're never left is that it?" "I suppose that hamburger stand just runs itself it's closed down." "When the note come do I give the National bank 40 pounds of hamburger and I blew town" "I bet you were flat broke when you shoved back that allows money" "I got three good jobs just like that Like that, yeah" "Employers are just nuts about hiring women your age" "I ain't so old!" "Living in its fleabag Don't be big shot you've lived in worse places" "Well you're moving out there's room in our place with you two?" "properly" "Nothing doing This is your mating season you're entitled to be alone" "Oh horsefeathers !" "Look, I started out living with my mother-in-law and you know how it ended." "I hit her once, with a banana!" "That won't be long it's what if some survey comes through I'll get a whale of a raise so then let me get lost" "And have you on my mind every minute ?" "Look, I don't want to bore you details , but I kind of like you, you know?" "you know what you ought to have on your mind, your marriage!" "there's a couple of people that would like to see it end in the garbage pail and they were drinking your liquor tonight." "Junior Kalinger?" "Oh he's okay." "Oh go on, I'd stepped on better things than him." "Look I'm too tired to argue tonight, let's sleep on it." "you come around tomorrow" "And be told you've left town?" "urgent business, so sorry?" "no I won't..." "I trust you Val you should avoid your top coat" "When will you get over the idea that I'm six years old?" "Never six is plenty for a boy to be" "I'll call you around ten" "Hi !" "Hi !" "It took you a long time yeah something came up" "Where everybody go?" "you read you took them all to the blue land the new band we're supposed to join them later" "Are you kidding?" "That's the way I feel about" "No place like home, darling hello" "Maggie ..." "Maggie there's something I've got to talk to you about" "Shoot!" "Well.." "it's my kind of throw you but facts are facts" "I know you're gonna understand you see .." "Maggie do you have to do that?" "20 years from now you'd be glad I did it" "You gotta do it in a diverse do something" "Go ahead and talk well about that woman, the woman who did the cooking tonight" "Oh Ellen?" "yeah" "I got the impression you like her quite a bit" "Maggie I'm trying to talk" "It's only one way to shut you up" "This is what I like about marriage:" "companionship" "Everybody is seeking it." "I love you so much it's against the law every time I look at you I'm glad" "That's two votes" "What about?" "..." "It can wait till morning." "hi Good morning." "Where's the key ?" "Oh mr." "McNally said he'd leave the key" "He didn't agree with me you got a passkey, I'm sure." "Take me up, I'm the new cook ." "okay" "I'm afraid there's some mistake I didn't expect you today" "He didn't say anything about me?" "No worry oh yes he did he started to..." "I really don't remember" "When he come after me last night we got to talkin and it turned out I need a job but don't think I forced myself on him" "I said it had to be up to you Oh wonderful honey I don't think we can afford a cook oh well we iron that out between us it's just a question I 'll be underfoot" "I'd rather have you than an emerald ring that big don't come around tomorrow and ask me for any references" "Just as long as you don't expect any references about me" "Sunday !" "Now on Sunday morning I like kippers, a three-minute egg a long tea with cream." "Yes, ma'm" "And for mr McNulty?" "Coffee of course yes but you'll never guess what he had with coffee on Sunday" "No, what?" "A hamburger" "I wonder where he picked up that habit?" "you going stop baiting out that mess in the living room oh sure" "Maggie I'm sure didn't make any mistake when I married you why didn't someone tell me?" "of course I'm not gonna go to Robinson's market and have things delivered it's insane" "From now on your ride to the farm exchange everything there is cheaper and thank you and for the party of today we can save a fortune if I'd known then what I know now" "Any judge would give you a divorce if he can see the market bill" "Look here and it's all your fault you didn't tell the girl how much she can afford to spend" "The first thing you do tomorrow is buy an account book for five cents" "Now look here" "You gotta balance your budget even if they don't have been Washington DC" "Ellen, stop scolding him and get this." "yes ma'm" "You stay right here what is all this about?" "Account books ,yes sir, yes ma'am" "Washington DC the farmers exchange" "Can I say a word or can't I ?" "why are you so excited?" "Ellen makes perfect sense" "In last week's post three out of five marriages go to pieces not because of infidelity or fighting but on account of the dough people get fancy ideas about living hello yeah this is McNulty wait a minute the operator" "the mrs." "McNulty yes, this is mrs." "McNulty long distance" "have you gone stark staring muddy ?" "not mom Ellen" "Don't you see that this is the answer !" "we're gonna lock you up the mainspring is gone!" "of your lips now" "I didn't get a wink of sleep until four o'clock this morning and then suddenly I got the idea kids behind the 8-ball she needs me and I'm gonna say whether you like it or not of course you're gonna stay but you're gonna stay as my mother!" "look long weather too unhappy James live in this joint or two happy Dame's depends on just one thing whether she calls me mother or whether she calls me Ellen" "She's gonna find out sometime!" "Don't have to find it out when I'm under a seat." "Meanwhile we've got fun they don't know what it was like working with her yesterday I felt like I was 21 again Oh Milwaukee" "look wise guy I didn't feel like I was 21 when I was 21" "I'm getting a big kick out of this do you want to open your big mouth and spoil it something yeah OK!" "you do when I go out this door I need this time" "I grab whatever work I can get and it won't be a sausage job as this either" "Val!" "How much do you love me?" "How much do you love me?" "I'm always going to be" "I hope there will be a lot for both of us that was mother in Cleveland Airport keep coming to stay with us all right I'll be... wonderful" "You don't know mother this could be the end of our marriage might be right could have two mother-in-law's in the house oh ,wait a minute man it reallyblow your marriage blowing higher than Kelsey's high ground" "okay mr." "McNulty" "oh my darling!" "You look fine except around the eyes or you're still wearing that tragic little hat I know I bought it but it was a mistake" "mother this is Val hello" "Natalie I could call you but" "New York was miserable everybody looks at television" "This comedian who loses his pants.." "Oh, colonel.." "How was the trip?" "Terrible, I sat next to some chatterbox she talked all the time" "Look at the pilot, would he remind you of?" "he's a dead ringer for Teddy Aykroyd you remember Teddy in the Downton Legation?" "oh yes there's something about his chin" "Not his chin" "Teddy didn't even have a chance to settle down his ears!" "Mother!" "This is Val" "I said hello, what am I supposed to say that I'm glad to meet him" "I don't want to be struck dead in my tracks." "My car is out here mathlete you got a spare tire" "I know it you want to ride a bike" "Mother, isn't it darling?" "Of course you never got any space in the apartment ,do you?" "didn't I tell you about Freddy Palfrey he's taken over the whole of the Giorgione palace" "the great Salon you could play polo in it wedding presents How soon can you break that!" "what, that good length?" "mother this is our Ellen" "your last clean and filled with $9 and a half" "I'll press where's my room?" "right here mother there's a nice big closet and you don't get the morning sun where's my bathroom ?" "I'm afraid you'll have to share ours, darling ." "oh but don't worry , there won't be any collisions we'll work out a schedule when I'm on my way to the bathroom I'm in no mood for protocol well there's a shower and stuff in my room" "why don't you sleep there and I'll sleep here?" "No, thank you." "Maggie dear please ask her to say mrs." "Carlton when she is referring to me." "This is the bedroom Mrs. Carlton won't be with ..." "Well at least that room is cool" "Maggie you and I have a million things to catch up on" "Why don't we share it?" "mother" "Val.." "he's better equipped to negotiate that lower berth than I am but he needs this sleep Men can sleep anywhere" "it's alright mam.." "Ellen okay that face reminds me of someone I've seen there's something about the mouth Oh every face does mother know" "No, is someone I've seen recently" "I'll get the other stuff out of the car thank you" "Does he play bridge?" "yes mother he does he also talkes he also has feelings" "He's a wonderful human being and I love him more than anything in the world" "I checked the figures they're ready for retail" "Yeah Betsy, go away" "Betsy was called out in front an hour ago you must have been napping ever since oh yeah" "I don't get too much sleep at home lately we have a houseguest why take that on?" "it came it fills every corner of that flat like poison gas listen I have to take my wife to the movies to kiss her knowing you that must be kind of rough on the lodge's" "let's get on with this stuff" "Take yourself another girl i'm assigned to another duty" "I'll cut it out without him" "For your information I'm showing a lady around the plant mrs." "Owen Williamson." "Mrs Williamson!" "The Williamson are in Maryland they flew into town last night and then in the Middle West Savannah on the map" "She's in there now powdering her nose." "This is the production department" "I thought you might get some idea no Abby more this warm weather thank you take me to my husband please" "Well the boardrooms are on to the left but I don't think we should interrupt a meeting look I've already given them 20 minutes grace" "Mrs Williamston, please!" "What's this meeting about ?" "your project without me ?" "sure" "I'm sick of a bypass I'm going to see old man Kalinger" "Junior is running the show." "Excellent, gentlemen." "Excellent in talking you gentlemen nice knowin" "It can't wait" "These people have done a bang-up job splendid !" "Would you know what always happens when you're late for a meal ?" "it's only 12:20 it's 20 at all" "I told y'all sum up you still on daylight saving time we're only just keeping on altar a day we'll settled it all tomorrow motion to adjourn second the motion aye we're gonna need Jack I gotta do a seat on the top yeah" "I'll be like our ultra-modern boardroom you know we were founded way back in 1912 we found in 1760 you people listed on your shakedown cruise" "I like a chance to talk to mr." "Whittington" "I'm handling this McNulty there are some questions .." "I expect complete answers tomorrow work all night" "Hello?" "hi again when we tied up at the office I won't be home for dinner you're lucky." "I'm doing the cooking" "Ellen's out ." "Mr. Kalinger called he's had any luncheon tomorrow for some out-of-town people and so I loaned him Ellen" "You did what ?" "Well just a few hours" "That chocolate cake of hers you shouldn't have done that Maggie what do you think we are the "Help Wanted" column ?" "Well I'm not pleased, they don't call me in on a conference but when they need somebody there making some child they don't hesitate." "it should have had more sense well wait a second, let me say something you can't lend my..." "I mean you can't let Ellen around like an old ..." "What's the problem?" "nothing" "That was that was just a chicken man the heck tired Yes they usually hang up on their customers oh, darling don't cut me out of your life that was your husband yelling at you." "Something happened here and he takes it out in this one oh how common and under bread can you get" "Don't you ever get tired of starting that one note, mother ?" "So loyal so pitifully loyal won't even admit that you're married beneath" "I did not !" "Then who is he, what is he, have you ever met his family?" "No mother, I haven't and it's more than he can say of mine!" "I said I'm not to be disturbed" "well those cakes are in the oven now it's time to tackle your throat oh I want some old-fashioned girl yeah but we're not taking any chance." "Open up that top button" "I know how to take care of me." "feed a cold starve a fever." "there's a Sam always used to say Sam was my husband oh, nice fella ?" "Every stray dog in town loved him." "They say that's the test." "The colder the better ." "You loved Sam?" "You bet ." "Even though he used to hit that bottle and make it home many nights he just sided seen more of the side benefit so you left him And buried him" "He up and died one day Too bad." "Sam didn't mind too much" "You know what his big beef was at the end?" "He worried about the funeral our Davenport's without getting fixed" "He was afraid the house would look bare when the people came." "oh I guess he wasn't much of a bargain" "I loved him." "In a long time I still think about him quite a bit" "You never married again?" "Don't think this is the sickroom visit just when the bar you broke should we playing some golf." "Dear there .mrs." "Williamson isn't very impressed with our club membership so she's letting him play my wife was born with rigor mortis" "I'm giving him a stroke a hole" "Pretty corcky aren't you?" "That was a peach of a survey he made!" "thank you, thank you have you come to term sir luncheon tomorrow" "I've invited the Black, the Hatfields, the Stones, everybody can say" "Mrs Williamson may find the rather crude" "She will." "these will do." "I'll have them shine, make it snappy go get lost how was that ?" "You heard her Aren't you McNulty's cook" "And she's here to do us a favor" "Are we playing golf or aren't we ?" "Come on!" "well if you want to play with dusty shoes" "I could have done it I suppose" "Oh don't mind my son." "When he was nine years old I got a letter from his teacher he was the only kid the third grade who didn't like Abraham Lincoln we got to change this ." "Gotta get you in shape for that luncheon tomorrow." "Say, if my folks eat here I can have a day off oh good get a day off If they eat here I will give me time for a little bowling you bowl?" "sixty Not bad!" "What do you mean evade here they invited well if it's about that survey they ought to be mr." "McNulty dreamed it up himself right from the scratch." "nobody told me" "Well I'm telling you now!" "They are saving me they're awfully Pleasant when I'm sweltering with the heat you have your luncheon" "I'm not interested in the nursery is all seven probably bad Bridget on bail oh, no my child I didn't see that throw" "Shall I play it again?" "No, course not." "I got you this time." "oh that's not a woman it's a horse in our organization we don't allow our directors to have wives like that." "you put them out of the way painlessly I hope we handpick our young executives and make quite certain that their families are presentable" "Oh, incidentally my husband suggested that I look you over" "Val will be very impressed." "If only Mr Kalinger is too.." "Mr Kalinger?" "My dear child!" "if only you have the good chance to come with us" "Anything I can get you mrs." "Williamson?" "I only want cool breeze blowing off the Atlantic!" "A landslide for McNulty" "I handled it rather meekly yesterday I sold him the survey, today I tried out your husband on a silver platter" "That's why you left suddenly after the party " "Mrs McNulty, you get enough of this game?" "Oh, I'm sorry." "Can't pay." "off start" "Let me shake for you mrs." "McNulty extra rattle is the pieces of my heart oh I'm in business again" "Never leave my side" "Junior we need you okay the Wonder Boy will be working nights you have my phone number" "I work nights too" "I'm a white City\\\ what a dreadful young man." "Junior's a friend of mine, mrs." "Williamson and he just unveil a great service" "So I gathered." "Are you being very wise my dear?" "what do you mean?" "whistle" "Even to help your husband should your father's daughter involve herself with a load like that?" "he might give you real trouble you don't understand the circumstances, mrs." "Williamson junior is genuinely fond of me what more, I'm fond of him oh so those intentions were welcomed those Pauline who weren't me" "How broad-minded can you get!" "Shall we finish the game?" "yes I think we'd better" "6 to 5 I can't play 6 to 1" "I get both you Again you've whisked away the dice it was a six and a one oddly enough I don't cheat again" "Then play correctly ." "Throw again." "I will not!" "What?" "You're the rudest woman I've ever seen" "I beg your pardon?" "Since we've been at this table you sneared at the town I live in criticized our hosts implied that I'm carrying on a shabby love affair and accuse me of cheating." "Totally ridiculous" "I nearly corrected your gaming manners" "I won't infect them by you any longer" "I think I've got the answer to your objections" "Just roll them maybe one by one" "Can you deliver" "I'm terribly sorry but may have the keys of the car?" "Don't you feel well ?" "Perfectly, but I just wanna go home" "Dreadful woman!" "Maggie,what have you done?" "Better ask what she has done?" "Give me those keys!" "I'll take you Maggie needs a bridge game and let the basketball" "That goes for all of us" "What were you saying, McNulty ?" "it's made up from a secret formula for someone slowing for disabled isn't" "But it hurts!" "oh it's agony but I think that gives you so much more confidence in the face, don't you?" "I get myself a piece well who stole the meat out of her sandwich" "it's kind of a hectic moment for me to introduce myself" "You are junior Kallinger, aren't you?" "Ellen wait !" "whould you have something to drink?" "First you better tell us what's up" "Ellen for the thousandth time I told you people are not called he and she" "Are you good at faces ?" "Who does she remind you of?" "I'm being driven absolutely mad sounds like I am a "she" to you" "Will you sit up for a minute Maggie?" "Yes?" "they're all still at the Kallinger house." "I'm gonna call up and ask for mrs.Williamson." "she promised she'd come to the phone." "you can make any excuse to come to your mind the heat the food you aren't used to wine at that time of the day anything, so long as you say you're sorry!" "Now she should be calling me !" "Very likely but do it just the same." "You can't ask me!" "I'm not asking you" "I'm telling you" "hello .Will you put mrs.Williams, please This is McNulty calling" "Mrs Mc Nulty wants to talk to her" "yes, mr McNulty?" "My husband tells me you'll be kind enough to accept my apologies mrs.Williamson" "That's very sweet of you" "I'm so sorry I was rude oh one more thing you were quite right about jr. challenger" "I do enjoy being pawed behind but I suppose my father wouldn't have liked it, would he?" "Thanks for the hint" "Are you out of your mind, Maggie?" "You told me to apologize about everything but she never said it" "How do you know what she said , you didn't bother to inquire you just took it for granted I was wrong whatever I did you shouldn't have said that you ask for, you got Maggie.." "Shouldn't you be getting back to your meeting ?" "yes I should" "It was a stinking trick, Maggie" "shut up" "Maggie stop looking at that door" "I told him you won't seen tonight you're going to stick to it oh just have a little dignity for once" "I wonder what happened at that meeting it's no concern of yours" "now you just swallow one of these pills and your sleep for eight solid hours" "You know who gave him to me?" "I wouldn't want it known Mister Edie he was a terrible man but he ain't well and he slept well" "I think I ought to see him you will not !" "he humiliated you as I've never known a woman to be humiliated he made you eat crow what will he do next?" "Probably strike you of betray you for some women 112!" "I've never weighed more than 105 in my life" "When I married your father" "I was 99 and one ounce" "I remember somebody's a wedding reception saying" ""she's so tiny you have to shake the sheets to find her"" "the food in this house you don't like it your office polite about second helpings" "That's the trouble the constant temptation the Spirit is willing but the flesh is increasing that Ellen I have new places where they were the flock they're serving for such a treatment" "She can cook that I have to admit how much you pay her?" "oh I don't know mother" "I don't care ." "Val is handleling that you don't know what you don't know about that man would fill a book" "Speaking of book" "Simon has used to want me to write a book." "my memoirs" "One thing I can tell you mr.Val McNulty will be covered by your footnote" "Maggie you won't even listening didn't I tell you those were wonderful field" "you're telling me!" "It's all my fault you know no" "You're both right and you're both wrong oh you know" "How do you know that?" "so it's that way with the first big round the best kind is when nobody wins look at you, you're on her side already and she'd be on yours if she'd been lucky enough to be born an orphan" "well I'm glad I wasn't anyway cheer up kid big final give you something to talk about in your old age" "the best making up me and your pop ever had we could only see how no when I eat sandwiches go for a listen be careful the big dad raids the icebox along about now how about the deal you get the contract?" "yeah encounter came with a bonus at least I can get you out of that kitchen might be safer" "hey Val, could you let me have 300 bucks?" "Sure You got something planned ?" "well the other day I met a couple of friends of mine you don't know them." "They were telling me about the swellest location right opposite.." "Not another hamburger stand!" "why not?" "Mom,listen well, stop being so thick" "From now on you're gonna take it easy no hamburger stand listen don't you decide what I'm gonna do, I'll decide!" "no!" "come and look at it anyway look I'm very busy ." "I don't have time to look at it" "Look, sweetheart, all I'm asking is one little hour tomorrow night" "Come on give me a break all the way you sweet-talk me and anything" "tomorrow morning at breakfast you tell her you have to work late at the factory and I'll ask for my day off where we meet?" "In your car, at the factory okay ,good night." "Aren't you gonna kiss me good night?" "oh you're a persistent devil" "Here is your sport section I just want to know the score with my wife" "It's all right" "Just all right?" "O, Maggie.." "Can you forgive me Can you forgive me?" "I was lonesome when I see Junior" "Good thing you did" "By the time I got back mister Kalinger told her how things stood" "She never started" "She's apologized to you spoil  why not?" "would it be good for you ?" "You couldn't stand it all, girl" "I'm leaning on my hand" "8:45, kids" "Breakfast!" "Well you two worked up a good appetite in him without even time to swallow a cup of coffee" "Who's she in mourning for?" "Hi, mrs Carlin" "Hello,mother" "Bacon and eggs and hotcakes" "Nothing, whatever." "Anything wrong mother?" "Hadn't you sleep well ?" "No well, I gotta jump" "Anything especially want for the dinner, darling?" "Whatever you have.." "Oh what am I thinking of!" "I'll be at the office tonight" "I'll send out for a sandwich oh well if he ain't coming home for dinner I'd like me day off" "Oh, sure." "So long everybody!" "I left some spaghetti in the icebox you can warm it up for you and your mom" "I'm gonna make one of these cheese souffles, it's going to be good!" "Attagirl!" "Off with you!" "just a minute Ellen this isn't your regular day off" "Oh mother" "Ellen can take anything she wants ." "Beat it." "Coffee mother ?" "Anything that woman cooked had poisoned me" "How many of those Mussolini pills did you take?" "He's driving away be sure if comes the milkman, I will leave a note." "I will" "Have a good time, angel Angel, will" "Mother, what you're doing?" "I won't know even keyhole" "I don't want to have to interrupt myself maybe put down that coffee cup and listen to what I'm going to say" "Now I wonder how much you know about the aberrations that sometimes overtake the male sex" "Fantastic things" "Men will appear perfectly respectable" "I went to a Brigadier General who couldn't be left alone with the French telephone why not?" "Wait..." "I wouldn't dare tell!" "Maggie control yourself!" "don't you understand that I'm trying to break to you some terrible news about Val?" "You indicated something he can't be left alone with it?" "No not, something .Somebody." "Ellen." "Oh mother you're ...!" "Come with me" "Here is where they were standing." "he came out of her room ." "he was wearing his pajamas" "She was wearing her nightgown" "And there is where I was with a chicken leg" "Maggie, they were kissing." "I never finished that chicken leg." "Maggie where are you going ?" "I'm calling a convent" "They'll just have to take you off my hands when you start making up stories like that wife I mean have you under the same roof with Val" "But it's true!" "what's more they are meeting tonight..." "Here you talk to never yourself tell them you're coming" "I will not !" "If you want my old how do you do yes what is it?" "Could you please tell us where we could find mrs.McNulty?" "I am mrs." "McNally but I'm very busy right now" "We're looking for the other mrs." "McNulty we've got some new dope on that hamburger stand well there are lots of McNulty's in town you've got the wrong address" "But we brought Ellen here well there is another in the house but she's not in right now so what gives you the idea that their name is McNulty?" "what else could it be?" "She is your mother-in-law isn't she?" "I knew I knew that face!" "Come in." "Come right in." "Wait here please" "mr." "Val McNulty please." "Production department to the right" "Maggie!" "This is a holiday." "Hang up the flag set off the siren my Maggie at the Kalinger practice" "I have to see Val" "I hope it isn't against the rules of this hour" "It's important listen you're shaking you're pale come into my office send McNulty" "Mr Mcnulty?" "Mr. Kalinger junior wants to see you" "I gather you don't want me to ask any questions but don't you like a brandy or something" "No thanks, but I could do with a cigarette" "Come in." "Hi!" "is anything wrong?" "Just a trifle a little "matter" Ellen McNulty" "well I" "I guess I better explain" "I hope you can" "Then maybe I won't find it too unpleasant being in the same room with you" "Aren't you taking this kind too big?" "Big, little who decides" "You were ashamed of somebody I'd love and respect under any circumstances you hid her from me" "You didn't trust me!" "that isn't being married val, living with someone it isn't being married" "Look, I knew it was a mistake but well she cooked it up and the way things happened there was nothing I could do oh don't give me that but just part of your drive to get ahead" "You wanted to be upper case for the Kalinger and the Williamson" "You're snob!" "the big joke is I've spent half my life dodging snobs and I wind up drawing you!" "Maggie!" "You know I'm not one of them!" "No I don't" "I don't know you at all !" "I married a stranger!" "Everybody marry a stranger !" "Oh just won't get us anywhere" "Maybe you better talk to my mother oh no thanks I might be offended by her grammar or I might despise her for not going to college like you" "I oughtta slug you for that can you better hurry I'll be out of town tomorrow" "Where are you going?" "Mexico to establish my residence" "All right, go!" "I warned you you shouldn't marry a guy like me!" "this whole thing it's just too low down for you!" "find yourself somebody like junior he's just about your speed" "Goodbye, Val." "Thanks for paying the rent" "I sent away your taxi, I'm taking you home" "I'm not going home" "Mother and I have moved to the hotel" ""The meridian cloud"" "Maggie if you don't want me to bust, tell me what's up ?" "Some other woman?" "In a way ." "And I'm not going to talk about!" "Ellen!" "Well what are you doing here?" "need to retooling from the ground up" "I can't talk you know, I gotta find my boy" "You've got a boy that works here?" "What's his name?" "Val McNulty I got him in big trouble" "I don't get it ,you were there his cook" "That's the trouble where can I find him?" "You'll be coming right through this door , here .." "Don't you talk about him like that!" "Ellen, here's a place you're gonna step in to watch for him, be my guest" "How could he make you do a thing like that?" "Made me?" "Nothing could have stopped me" "I know what him and Maggie was up against and I wanted to help him out ." "All right so it was a dumb idea but I know I do dumb things like one Christmas when he was a little boy" "we didn't have any money and I didn't want him to feel bad in front of the other kids so I bought him a cowboy suit ." "Only a couple of days later I had to take it back to the store there wasn't a peep out of town" "He just told the other kids he decided he was going to be a fireman he knew all along we had to take it back" "So he was an alright kid he's always been all right" "He only got mad at me once in his life" "That was when he caught me tight in a check" "Doing what to a check ?" "You know at the end of the month when you haven't got any money to pay a bill" "Well, he was writing out a check." "Only it was for the wrong bank." "So two or three days later they call you up but by that time we've got the money so you say to them what kind of silly mistake for me to make" "Ellen, that's against the law!" "yeah I know." "The man at the gas company said if I ever got to Wall Street that have black friday every week" "There he is now!" "you can go along now Henry." "yes sir" "I'll putting them all your heavy things on top and don't tell me I can fall because the tropical town because it's in tropical towns you freeze to death now remember I'll expect a letter every weekend" "there is an express roll they'll find me wherever I am" "Maggie!" "Don't you want to see ..." "I just want to get out of this town" "Why do young people think they can cure anything by getting on a train?" "You never know who you'll meet traveling" "Oh at last!" "I'll ..." "Oh mr." "Kalinger!" "I know you're incommunicado Maggie but don't try to give me the brush-off" "Mr. Kalinger this is my mother and you know Mrs Conger hi" "I don't think anybody sent me here or that I'm anybody's messenger." "You are a girl I like and I want to buy you a farewell drink." "so mr." "Kalinger, I have to take my train in an hour" "I said we'd have one drink." "Come on." "I haven't even finished packing." "Don't worry about the packing my dear" "One wrinkle take five minutes, come on." "That man!" "he is rather broth!" "He is divine!" "He's just my type!" "How about in there?" "That ought to offer a nice corner for holding hands ." "any place the long as you don't elect to it do I look like a man looking like you?" "Well, I'm not ." "I just got over a sore throat." "This is a private party!" "Yes, mine" "I thought you said you were nobody's messenger" "And I'm not ." "I dug this up myself" "I don't like it, mr Kalinger." "I'm too old for public bickering." "if you wanna quarrel, quarrel with your own husband" "Hello, Maggie." "in case you want to confer in private there is the bridal suite your boss seems to be setting up on back numbers to romance" "I thought you're gone In less than 20." "We're leaving too." "yes" "You said "we" you're not taking Ellen?" "why not oh" "You have your career !" "Back there it's just like one big happy family she'd never seen it" "Let me worry about my career" "You can't do that to Ellen." "remember that woman?" "Mr Williamson this is mr." "James Canali" "How do you do?" "agreement about it she's the tracing thought I was" "Ellen would be miserable Any further advice?" "No, you can always have her in the kitchen" "what" "the Kalinger party The Kalinger party?" "I've always said wine was really civilized oh" "Mrs Williamson?" "yes?" "I brought somebody I know you'd like to meet of course back in Maryland you two were bound to see a lot of each other yes we're very ...back there yeah that's why I thought my mother should have a look at you" "Emily?" "Mom?" "this is mrs." "Williamson." "I'm pleased to meet you yes!" "So this is your mother?" "Mom's got a good nose for people." "you get one standing here and you're out behind a hamburger stand what people?" "what hamburgers there?" "oh he's talking about the time the fella come up to my wagon lugging a heavy suitcase." "his face give me the creeps ." "I wouldn't even sell him a weenie ." "You know what he had in his suitcase?" "I don't have the vaguest idea." "His wife!" "he sent it to Baltimore the next day" "What a horrible story!" "Oh, mom's got a million up" "Really, mr." "McNulty what's the point of all this?" "well I'll tell you." "Here we are, a package." "Not a very fancy package but you'll take us as it is or not at all ." "You take us?" "There's no remote possibility!" "thank you and good night this is all" "Oh Maggie" "This time it ain't my fault" "I know I shouldn't be here ." "No lipstick, this terrible hat" "It's a lovely hat, Ellen." "A wonderful hat." "A brilliant hat." "Val, it's your car outside." "It's a gear" "Will you take me home?" "You can't go home now the joint full of our players well wait a minute mom" "You won't have to disturb your friends" "Not for days and days" "Maggie wait, where are you going?" "wait a minute Fran!" "You leave them alone!" "they're going to set up shop all over again" "This time without you, without me" "I'm going over there now and tight and then I'm going to school and you're going to school too well you can scoot if you want to but I'm sticking by my child not out yet because if you do" "I'll move right back in there with you only this time on a brand new base we'll split up on the cooking and you can do all the laundry" "I'm kind of I think I need a couple of phases" "Think it over." "You'll need a drink" "How would you like to have a mother like that?" "I'd cut my throat you would ?" "Well, that makes it easier." "Ellen, spin in!" "I'm all wet!" "get in I want to talk with you some other time when I'm not dripping all over the place" "Ellen McNulty, get in this time." "You know something?" "What?" "Stray dogs like me too." "I can see how they were" "Go on."