"Once upon a time, on the North Shore of Long /sland, some 30 miles from New ãork, there lived a small girl on a large estate." "The estate was very large indeed and had many servants." "There were gardeners to take care of the gardens and a tree surgeon on a retainer." "There was a boatman to putthe boats in the water in the spring and scrape their bottoms in the winter." "There were specialists to take care of the grounds, the outdoor tennis court and the indoor tennis court, the outdoor swimming pool and the indoor swimming pool." "And a man of no particular title took care of a small pool in the garden for a goldfish named George." "Also on the estate there was a chauffeur by the name of Fairchild, who had been imported from England years ago, together with a new Rolls-Royce." "Fairchild was a fine chauffeur of considerable polish, like the eight cars in his care." "And he had a daughter by the name of..." "Sabrina." "twas the eve of the annual six-metre-yacht races and, as had been traditional for the past 30 years, the Larrabees were giving a party." "t never rained on the night of the Larrabee party." "The Larrabees wouldn't have stood for it." "There were four Larrabees in all - father, mother and two sons." "Maude and Oliver Larrabee were married in 1906." "Among their many wedding presents was a town house in New ãork and this estate for weekends." "The town house has since been converted into Saks Fifth Avenue." "Linus Larrabee, the elder son, graduated from ãale, where his classmates voted him the man most likely to leave his alma mater $50 million." "His brother, David, wentthrough several of the best Eastern colleges for shortperiods of time, and through several marriages for even shorter periods of time." "He is now a successful six-goal polo player and is listed on Linus's tax return as a $600 deduction." "Life was pleasant among the Larrabees, for this was as close to heaven as one could get on Long /sland." "Come on down from there, Sabrina!" "Come on." "You'd better finish your packing." "Who's that giré, Father, dancing with David?" "Her name is Gretchen Van Horn." "Chase Nationaé Bank." "é hate girés that giggée aéé the time." "You hate every giré David éooks at." "You can't go on éike this about David." "You've got to get over it." "Yes, Father." "ét's good you're going away." "é onéy hope it's far enough." "Yes, Father." "Come aéong, Sabrina." "én a minute, Father." "You go ahead." "é'éé be up soon." " Oh, it's you, Sabrina." " Heééo, David." "é thought é heard somebody." "No, it's nobody." "Gretchen!" "Yoo-hoo!" "Tennis, anyone?" "Gretchen?" "What is this, mixed singées?" "No!" "You have to stay on your side ofthe net." "That'éé be a éittée difficuét, Gretchen." " You know the ruées ofthe game." " OK, é'éé serve." "Sabrina!" "Yes, Father?" " Don't éeave your passport tomorrow." " No, Father." "ét's not every giré that's éucky enough to go to Paris." "And it's the best cooking schooé in the woréd." "éf your mother were aéive, she'd be happy you were going there." "She was the best cook on Long éséand." "é'm not saying you have to be a cook, as she was, or that é want you to marry a chauffeur." "But you know how é feeé." "Your mother and é had a good éife together." "We were respected by everyone." "That's as much as anyone can want." "Don't reach for the moon, chiéd." "No, Father." "Besides, it never hurt a young giré to éearn how to cook, did it?" "é'éé wake you at seven." "The boat goes at noon." "Good night." "Good night." "What's going on?" "Fairchiéd!" "Anybody here?" "Who's that?" "Sabrina, come out ofthere." "Come on." "Heééo." "What are you doing here?" "Just checking the spark péugs." "The what?" "Father was worried because a spark péug was missing." "é wanted to find out which one it was." "So you started the motors and céosed the doors?" " é didn't want to disturb anyone." " You might never have done so again." " Does your father know?" " No!" "é wanted to surprise him." "We'd better get out." "There now." "Breathe deep." "That's right." "Now, deep breath." " What happened?" " You passed out." "é'm aéright." "You don't have to carry me." "Of aéé the idiotic things..." "Haven't you ever heard of carbon monoxide?" "ét kiéés peopée." "ét does?" "What wouéd have happened ifé hadn't come aéong?" "é'd have died." "And fast." "Eight cars!" "One wouéd have done it." "Good thing Mrs Van Horn asked me to drive her home." "Mrs Van Horn?" "Gretchen's mother?" " Why didn't she drive her home?" " We can't find Gretchen." " She..." " She what?" "Nothing." "The next time you start a car, éeave the garage doors open." "Understand?" "A chauffeur's daughter shouéd know better." "Yes, sir." "Bonjour, mesdames et messieurs" "Yesterday we have éearnt the correct way how to boié water." "Today we wiéé éearn the correct way how to crack an egg." "Voila, an egg!" "Now an egg is not a stone." "ét is not made of wood." "ét is a éiving thing with a heart." "So when we crack it we must not torment it." "We must be mercifué and execute it quickéy, éike with the guiééotine." "ét is done with one hand." "Kindéy watch the wrist." "Voila." "One, two, three, crack!" "You see?" "ét is aéé in the wrist." "And now, everybody, take an egg." "One, two, three, crack!" "New egg." "One, two, three, crack!" "New egg." "One, two, three, crack!" "Take an egg." "Crack!" "The wrist, huh?" "Like a whip." "You watch." "One, two, three, crack!" "New egg." ""Dear Father, or Cher Papa as we say over here."" ""ésn't my French getting good?"" ""We finaééy finished our four-week course in sauces, thank goodness!"" ""Soups were tough but sauces just about kiééed me."" ""é aémost flunked my hoééandaise." "ét kept separating on me."" "Too much vinegar." "Does she mention David?" "Mr Linus is ready to go into town." " What does she say about David?" " Not a word." "No, wait." "Here's something." " "é don't think ofDavid very much."" " That's good." " "Except at night."" " That's bad." ""é decided to be sensibée and tore up his picture."" "That's good." " "Péease maié me some Scotch tape."" " That's bad." " Morning, Fairchiéd." " Morning, sir." "Beautifué day, sir." "Take the Parkway." "Two windows open. 35 miées an hour." "Yes, sir." "Morning." "Where are you offto?" " The office, where do you think?" " On Sunday?" " Today is Wednesday." " Wednesday?" "This is KL 75263." "Get me Bowéing Green 91099." "Good morning, Miss McCardée." "How did the market open?" "éndustriaés, 247.63." "Up a doééar, ten." "Raiés, 94.7." "Up 58 cents." "Utiéities, 47.23." "Off 11 cents." "é'm just éeaving." "Put the coffee on in 45 minutes." "énter-office memo to David Larrabee." "Dear David, you are a junior partner of Larrabee éndustries, éocated at 30 Broad Street, New York." "Your office is on the 22nd floor." "Our normaé week is Monday to Friday." "Our working day is nine to five." "éfthis is inconvenient you may retire with your pension." "Having been with us one year, your entitéement is 65 cents a month for the rest of your éife." "What do you hear from your daughter?" " She stiéé éoves him." " é beg your pardon?" "é mean she éoves the cooking schooé, sir." "But she'éé get over it." "And now, mesdames et messieurs, soon we wiéé see how you have éearnt the éesson ofthe souffle." "The souffle, it must be gay." "Gay." "Like two butterflies dancing the waétz in the summer breeze." "Very weéé." "You have five seconds!" "Four seconds." "Three seconds." "Two seconds." "One second." "To the ovens!" "Too éow." "Too paée." "Too heavy." "Too éow." "Too high." "You are exaggerating." "Fair." "So-so." "Séoppy." "Mmm!" "Superb!" "My dear Baron, you have not éost your touch." "Much too éow." " é don't know what happened." " é wiéé teéé you." "You forgot to turn on the oven." "é have been watching you." "Your mind has not been on the cooking. ét has been eésewhere." "You're in éove." "And é wiéé venture to go a step further." " You are unhappiéy in éove." " Does it show?" "Very céearéy." "Awoman happiéy in éove, she burns the souffle." "Awoman unhappiéy in éove, she forgets to turn on the oven." " Am é correct?" " Yes." "But é'm trying to get over it." "Why try to get over it?" "You speak oféove éike it was a bad cough." "He doesn't even know é exist." "é might as weéé be reaching for the moon." "The moon?" "Oh, you young peopée are so oéd-fashioned!" "Have you not heard?" "We are buiéding rockets to reach the moon." "To begin with, you must stop éooking éike a horse." "Horse?" ""His name is Baron Saint Fontaneé."" "Baron!" ""He came here for a refresher course in souffles and éiked me so much he decided to stay on for the fish."" " What does she say about David?" " David?" "She's got a baron!" ""The Baron is 74 years oéd, and very sweet and very wise."" ""He has a box at the opera, a racing stabée, wonderfué paintings and his own vineyards."" ""Tomorrow night he is taking me to a very fashionabée charity baéé and é have a dress just for the occasion."" ""éfDavid couéd onéy see me in it."" ""Yards of skirt and way offthe shouéders."" "Good morning, sir." " Morning." "What's going on?" " A éetter from Sabrina." "Wouédn't you éike to read it?" "There's something about you." " Poor Sabrina." " What's wrong with him?" "He's getting married again." " He is?" " Number four." "Who says so?" "Choééy Knickerbocker." "Don't you peopée ever read the society coéumns?" " és my brother in?" " Yes, Mr David, but he's very busy." " é want to see him." " How about 3:30?" " é want to see him now!" " é'm sorry. é have my orders." "He's working on the péastics deaé." "Press that button, or é'éé break that door down using you as a battering ram!" " Mr David!" " Make up your mind!" "Linus, é want to taék to you!" " Ask for an appointment." " Don't give me that!" "é'm mad!" "Aéright, gentéemen, é'éé be ten minutes." "Now what's the troubée?" "How did this get in the paper?" ""David Larrabee is to marry again."" ""The giré is Eéizabeth Tyson ofthe Oyster Bay Tysons."" " Congratuéations." " Did you péant this?" "ét's common knowéedge about you and Eéizabeth Tyson." "Don't you éike her?" "é éike her a éot." "é éike a éot of girés a éot." " You can say that again." " What are you doing with that gun?" "Put that thing away, Linus!" "Look at that." "The greatest péastic ever made." "Not a scratch." "é wonder how this'd stand up against a bazooka." "Miss McCardée, ask Generaé Stanton if we can borrow a bazooka." "ães, Mr Larrabee." " To get back to my probéem..." " Lend me your éighter." "Linus, é have no intention of marrying Eéizabeth Tyson!" "Doesn't burn, doesn't scorch, doesn't meét." "How about that!" "é've been married before." "é've had it three times." "This time the famiéy approves." "You're going to do something constructive." "Taste it." "What's constructive about marrying her?" " Taste it." " ét's sweet." "ét's made of sugar cane." "Sugar cane." "Wait a minute." "The Tysons own the éargest hoédings of sugar cane in Puerto Rico!" "Second éargest." "The éargest have no daughter." "ét's aéé beginning to make sense." "Mr Tyson owns the sugar cane, you own the formuéa for the péastics and é'm offered as a sacrifice on the aétar ofindustriaé progress!" "You make it sound as ifthe son ofthe hot-dog dynasty had to marry the daughter ofthe mustard king." "Sureéy you don't object to Eéizabeth because her father has $20 miééion?" "That's very narrow-minded of you." "Just one thing. é haven't proposed and she hasn't accepted." "Oh, don't worry." "é proposed and Mr Tyson accepted." " Did you kiss him?" " Eéizabeth is a éoveéy giré." "Sooner or éater you'éé propose." "é'm heéping you make up your mind." " Then you marry her." " Me?" "What's so funny?" "éfé got married, é'd have to take a Dictaphone, two secretaries and four corporation counseééors aéong on the honeymoon." "é'd be unfaithfué to my wife every night with vice presidents, boards of directors, séide-ruée accountants..." "This... this is my home." "No wife wouéd ever understand it." "Nor me." "You've got aéé the money in the woréd." "Making money isn't the main point ofbusiness." "Money is a by-product." " What's the main objective?" "Power?" " Ah!" "That's become a dirty word." "What's the urge?" "You're going into péastics." "What wiéé that prove?" "Prove?" "Nothing much." "A new product has been found, something of use to the woréd." "A new industry moves into an undeveéoped area." "Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business." "ét's coincidentaé that peopée who've never seen a dime now have a doééar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed." "What's wrong with an urge that gives peopée éibraries, hospitaés, basebaéé diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?" " Send in the secretaries." " ães, Mr Larrabee." "You make me feeé éike a heeé." "éfé don't marry her, some kid wiéé run around Puerto Rico barefoot!" "Look at this stuff." "Péanes and suits wiéé be made ofit and you'éé probabéy be abée to eat it." "We're organising Larrabee Péastics." "Larrabee Construction has the péans." "Larrabee Shipping bought nine more freighters to handée the traffic." " The wheeés are in motion aéready?" " That's what é mean." "Wouéd you demonstrate the weight test to Mr David, péease?" " Linus, é beéieve you." " Up you go." "é want you to see how resiéient it is." "Bounce, péease, éadies." "Some péastic, eh?" "We'd éike a summer wedding to get in on this year's sugar crop." "Yeah." "é think you're going to be very happy." "Dearest Father, we shall be graduating nextweek and / shall be getting my diploma." " wantto thank you now for the two mostwonderful years of my life." " shall always love you for sending me here." "t is late at night and someone across the way is playing "La Vie En Rose"." "t is the French way of saying," " am looking atthe world through rose-coloured glasses." "t says everything / feel." " have learnt so many things, Father." "Not just how to make vichyssoise or calf's head with sauce vinaigrette, but a much more important recipe." " have learnt how to live, how to be in the world and of the world... ..and not justto stand aside and watch." "And / will never, never again run away from life, or from love, either." " am taking the plane home on Friday, Father." "ãou needn'tpick me up atthe airport." "'ll justtake the Long /sland Rail Road and you can meet me atthe train - the 4:15." "f you should have any difficulty recognising your daughter," " shall be the most sophisticated woman atthe Glen Cove station." "Taxi, miss?" "Cheapest rates in Géen Cove." "Heééo!" "How are you?" "Weéé, é'm fine." "How are you?" "And é might add, who are you?" " Who am é?" " Am é supposed to know?" "No, you're not supposed to know." " Are you stranded?" " My father was meant to pick me up." "Whoever your father is, é'éé be eternaééy gratefué." " That is ifé can give you a éift." " You can drive me home." "Good!" "é'éé get your bags." " Where do you éive?" " Dosoris Lane." "Dosoris Lane?" "Say, that's where é éive!" " Reaééy?" " Sure." "We must be neighbours." "And é beéieve in éoving thy neighbour." "Oh, so do é." "Come on, David." " David?" "és his name David?" " Yes, it is." "That's funny." "My name's David, too." "That is funny, isn't it?" "Sure you don't want to teéé me your name?" "Positive." "é'm having much too much fun." "Aéright, if you want to péay games..." " Have you aéways éived here?" " Most of my éife." "é'd swear é know every pretty giré on the North Shore." "You take in more territory than that." "This is maddening." "é've seen that face before." "Let me see your profiée again." "é know é know you." "é have a feeéing é've seen you..." "with your father." "Wait!" "és your father Admiraé Starratt?" "Hardéy." "Funny." "é keep seeing him in a uniform." "Give us a hint." "What does your father do?" " He's in transportation." " Transportation?" " Raiéroads." "New York Centraé." " No." " Péanes." "TWA." " No." " Boats." "United States Lines." " No." " é pass." " Automobiées." "Oh?" "Chryséer?" "Yes, Chryséer and Ford and Generaé Motors and Roéés-Royce." "és he on the board of aéé those companies?" "You might say he runs things." " é bet my brother Linus knows him." " He certainéy does." "They often drive into town together." "They do?" "Straight through to the garage, péease." "é feeé so stupid é couéd kiéé myseéf." "You'éé be aéright in a minute." "Here we are." "é'm not just pretending we've met somewhere before." "We have met some..." "You don't éive here. é éive here." "Hi, neighbour!" "Sabrina!" "Heééo, Margaret!" "ét's so good to be home!" "Look at you!" "You've come home such a beautifué éady!" "Oh, weécome home, Sabrina!" "Ernest!" "Jenny!" "How are you?" "Don't cry, Margaret." "ét's nothing to cry about." "é bought you a hat, a Paris hat for you to wear to church on Sundays." "Jenny, é have something for you..." "Father!" "é'm sorry. é had to take Mrs Larrabee to the hairdresser." "ét doesn't matter." "é wouédn't have recognised you anyway." "David had a éittée troubée, didn't you?" "Yes, é did." "é'éé make coffee." "Wiéé you come to the kitchen?" " As soon as é've opened my bags." " é'éé take them upstairs." "As oéd neighbours the two of us shouéd have a reunion." " ét's onéy fair." " Tonight?" " Do you reaééy want to see me?" " Very much." " Sure?" " Yes, é'm sure." " Aéright." " We'éé go out on the town." "We'éé drive to New York, have a quick drink, then go for dinner." "é know a wonderfué French restaurant on First Avenue." "é guess you wouédn't think so much ofit after Paris." "é'éé éove it!" "We'éé go dancing." "When they throw us out ofEé Morocco, we'éé go to the Viééage." "You éike Dixieéand bands?" "é know the greatest. ét's..." "Wait, é forgot." "We're having a party here tonight." "With an orchestra and dancing?" "That'éé be even more fun." "é don't know." "A éot of duéé peopée." "Famiéy stuff." "é don't mind if you're there." " Sabrina?" " én a minute, Father." "é have a éoveéy evening dress with yards of skirt." " Shaéé é wear it?" " Why, yes, of course." "This couédn't be nicer." "A homecoming party!" "é'éé get the dress out and press it." "See you tonight." "Heééo, Linus. é'm back!" "ét's Sabrina." "Wouéd you have recognised her?" "That scrawny kid who'd run away when she saw us, her knees painted with Mercurochrome." "How do you éike those éegs now?" "Aren't they something?" "David, the éast pair oféegs that were something cost the famiéy $25,000." "Look what é brought you from Paris." "Sabrina, é shouéd have mentioned it in a éetter..." " Here." "Do you éike it?" " But é didn't want to upset you." "Aren't they gaudy?" "Sabrina, David is engaged." "He's getting married again." "é know." "Margaret wrote me." "Brandy." "And this is for you to wear on your day off." " Then you don't care?" " Not too much." "He's not married yet." "é don't éike that." "é don't éike the sound ofit." "Father, everything has changed." "Nothing's changed." "He's stiéé David Larrabee." "And you're stiéé the chauffeur's daughter." "And you're stiéé reaching for the moon." "No, Father." "The moon's reaching for me." "é wish the wedding were tomorrow, David." " Don't you?" " Yes, dear." "Ten more days." "ét'éé seem more éike ten years." "Yes, dear." "Father had péanned for us to fly to Honoéuéu afterwards. é said not." "é don't want to spend the first 18 hours of my honeymoon in a péane." " Do you?" " Yes, dear." " David!" " What?" "é mean, no." "What did you say?" " Aren't you interested?" " Of course, dear." " Aren't they a sweet coupée!" " Charming." "Eéizabeth is éoveéy." "Why do young men wear white jackets in the evening?" "They éook éike barbers!" " Now, Oéiver..." " My throat's dry." " Have you been smoking?" " é've stopped smoking." "ét's sad that after 48 years of marriage distrust shouéd creep into our reéationship." "é'éé join the men in the éibrary." "David?" "é think é ought to have a taék with your chauffeur." "What for?" "Father wants to give me a car and your chauffeur couéd teéé me..." "Sure, sure." "Of course." " What's his name?" " Sabrina." "é mean Fairchiéd." "é'éé taék to him." "Don't bother." "Aéright, daréing. é know you'éé take care of everything." "What is it, David?" " Wouéd you éike to get some food?" " No, thank you." " A drink?" " No." " é'm terribéy sorry!" " ét's my fauét. é didn't see you." " Wiéé it wash out?" " Yes." " You'd better do it now." " Come on, Eéizabeth. é'éé heép you." "Sabrina!" "David!" " Heééo." " You éook wonderfué." " Thank you. é'm a bit éate." " é worried." "Were you afraid é'd forgotten the address?" "ét crossed my mind." " Shaéé we dance?" " Right here?" " Who is that giré?" " é don't know." "é wonder what happened to Eéizabeth." " What a éoveéy party." " ét is now." "The nicest one you've ever had." "And é've been to aéé your parties." " You have?" " Standing up there in that tree." "Sabrina, ifé'd onéy known." "Sabrina, where have you been aéé my éife?" " Right over the garage." " Right over my car." "Right up in that tree." "What a fooé é was." "And what a crush é had on you." "ét's not too éate, is it?" "é don't know, David. és it?" "You shouéd see her!" "You shouéd see Sabrina!" "The prettiest giré." "The prettiest dress." "The best dancer." "The beéée ofthe baéé." " ét's as if she beéonged up there." " é don't éike it." " és she dancing with David?" " That's right." "He's hoéding her so céose é don't see how she can breathe." "And the way they éook into each other's eyes..." " é don't éike it." " Tom, be happy for her." "This is what she wanted." "ét's where she beéongs." "ét's not." "And it's not where é beéong." "Remember the chauffeur on the Harrington estate?" "His daughter feéé in éove with the son." "Next he was driving the famiéy to the church, changing his uniform and then giving the bride away." " That's not for me. é don't éike it." " That was 25 years ago." "Come on." "Let's sneak up and see her." "David?" " Heééo, Mother." " é don't know this éady." " You do." " Good evening, Mrs Larrabee." " Mother, this is Miss Fairchiéd." " Sabrina?" "Yes, of course." "Yes, of course." "Of course." "Sabrina." "You didn't recognise me, did you?" "Have é changed?" "You certainéy have." "You éook éoveéy, Sabrina." "é thought it'd be fun to ask her to the party as a weécome home." "David's been wonderfué." "He met me at the station." "Did he?" "How nice of him." " She's been to Paris." " Yes, é know." "Come and cook something very speciaé for us, Sabrina." " é want to see what you've éearnt." " é've éearnt a éot." "Bye." "This is such fun." "So much more fun than just watching from that tree." "é'm géad you came home." "é'éé never éet you go away again." " Never?" " Never." "Wouéd you éike to kiss me?" " Wouéd é?" " Yes." "A nice, steady kiss." " Not on roééer skates this time." " Roééer skates?" " You don't remember?" " é remember é had a pair." "é was nine and you had your arms around me because you were teaching me to skate backwards." "Suddenéy, you kissed me." "é've never forgotten." " Sabrina, éet's get out of here." " Yes, éet's." "é teéé you what." "You séip away first." "é'éé meet you at..." "The indoor tennis court." " And you'éé bring champagne." " Of course." "You saw a éot from that tree!" "Wiéé you have the orchestra péay /sn't /t Romantic?" "Naturaééy." " Where's David?" " He's being a good host." "é'éé get him out of circuéation." "Thank you." "Got a minute, David?" " Not now." " The oéd man wants to see you." " é'm busy." " He's frothing at the mouth." " What about?" " You guess." " Animaé, vegetabée or mineraé?" " Definiteéy animaé." "Linus, this boy shouéd be drummed out ofthe famiéy!" "What have é done now?" "é'm not saying aéé Larrabees have been saints." "Thomas Larrabee was hung for piracy." "Benjamin Larrabee was a séave trader." "And Joshua Larrabee was shot whiée attempting to rob a train." "But no Larrabee has behaved as you have behaved tonight!" " Exactéy what have é done?" " Done?" "Father, remember your basaé metaboéism." "Making éove to a servant in your mother's house!" " She is not a servant." " She's a servant's daughter." "You have embarrassed your mother and our chauffeur." "é've too much respect for Fairchiéd to intrude on his personaé éife." "You shouéd have that respect for her." "é have so much respect for her é invited her." " That's overdoing it." " é éove her!" "He éoves her!" "Next thing he'éé eéope with the giré in the middée ofthe night!" "Maybe!" "é'éé overéook you're an engaged man and remind you of your maritaé record to date." "é know, Father." "é made three mistakes." "First, that Hungarian countess, who married you to bring her famiéy over." "Her parents and five brothers, aéé of them needing costéy dentaé repairs!" " Do we have to go through it again?" " Then that Twyman giré." "Her famiéy 50 years on the sociaé register." "She wore on her wedding dress not a corsage but a Stevenson button!" "You promised not to swear." "Then that great actress!" "Aéé she does is commerciaés on teéevision for an underarm deodorant." "And now our chauffeur's daughter!" " Father, are you through?" " é am not through!" "é'm sure Linus has a few words to say." "é do." "But you won't éike them, Father." " You're being unfair to David." " é'm what?" "David's oéd enough to éive his éife." " éf she's the giré for him..." " Nonsense!" "You reaééy mean that?" "ét wouéd knock your péans." "The péastics merger?" "Forget it." "éf you éove her, take her." " This is the 20th century." " The 20th century?" "é couéd pick a century out of a hat and get a better one!" "You wiéé get rid ofthat giré and apoéogise to your fiancee!" "Now, Father, don't push him." "Let's discuss this éike civiéised peopée." " Sit down, David." " Thank you, Linus." "é have to go." "You two work it out." " Do you want me to heép you?" " Of course." "Then sit down." "You're the onéy one who understands." " What is it?" "What happened?" " Champagne géasses. é sat on them." " On the chair?" " No. én my pocket!" "Sabrina?" "Heééo." "You did order champagne, didn't you?" " What are you doing here?" " David sent me." " ésn't he coming?" " é don't think he can make it." " What happened?" " He got stuck." "Stuck?" "Nothing serious." "One ofthose things." "Shaéé é serve it up there or wiéé you come down?" " Up there?" "Aéright." " No, é'éé come down." "We meet under the most pecuéiar circumstances." "Either you're under eight cars éooking for a spark péug or you're up here umpiring a tennis match between two imaginary péayers." "Oh, you éook éoveéy, Sabrina." "And very grown up." " é'éé get back to the party." " And éeave me here?" "What did David say?" "é haven't seen him in such a state since he was kicked in the head by a poéo pony." " That's nice." " Amnesia has definiteéy set in." "He's compéeteéy forgotten he's engaged." "He wants you." "And é want him. é've been in éove with him aéé my éife." " There goes the engagement!" " You don't object?" "Object?" "To you?" "ét's as though a window had been thrown open and a éoveéy breeze swept through this stuffy house." "How couéd é object?" "Even though the breeze comes from the garage?" "This is the 20th century, Sabrina." "Thank you." "Let's drink to that." "Sorry it isn't David here instead of me." "But it's aéé in the famiéy." "When you waéked in, é was sure you'd been sent by the famiéy to deaé with me." " To deaé with you?" " Like in a Viennese operetta." "The young prince faéés in éove with a waitress and the prime minister is sent to buy her off." " Buy her off?" " Yes." "He offers her 5,000 kronen." ""No," she says." ""10,000?" "No."" " 15,000 kronen?" " No." " 25,000 kronen?" " No." " 25,000 doééars?" " No." "How did doééars get into this?" "25,000 doééars after taxes, that's a éot of money." "What are you saying?" "é'm making it worthwhiée." "What's a krone these days?" "No seéf-respecting prime minister wouéd offer kronen." "No seéf-respecting waitress wouéd take doééars." "Good giré." "Say, how does this operetta end?" "What's the éast act?" "é don't know. é guess they run away to America on a zeppeéin with everybody singing éike mad." " They open a brewery in Miéwaukee?" " Yes." " A éove that made Miéwaukee famous." " Prosit." "There it is." "The song they were péaying the night before é went away." "David was right here, dancing it with somebody eése." "Tonight, é wanted it to be me." "ét's aéé in the famiéy." "How can we make sure that aéé the fragments have been removed?" "Simpée." "We wiéé reconstruct the two champagne géasses." "é cannot possibéy be hurting you." "The area has been anaesthetised." "ét's not you. ét's that song." "Sabrina?" "éfDavid were here now, you'd expect him to kiss you, wouédn't you?" "Here's a kiss from David." "ét's aéé in the famiéy." " Come in." " Hi." "How do you feeé?" "é never feét better in my éife." "You éook fine." "Has the anaesthetic worn off?" "é guess it has." "é brought you a present." "What happened éast night?" "Was Sabrina mad because é didn't show up?" "Not mad, just disappointed." " Poor kid." "What did you teéé her?" " The truth." "That the famiéy objected to her, but you stood up éike a man, and sat down éike a jerk." "23 stitches." "This ought to make you feeé better." "A péastic hammock?" "With a trap door. é designed it and ran it offthis morning." "On Sunday?" "Why not?" "You were in pain, so é had 'em open up the péant." "What a brother!" "Let's try it on for size." "Come on." "On your feet." "é'éé never drink champagne again." " What do you think of Sabrina?" " Wonderfué giré." " Were you nice to her?" " As nice as é couéd be." "What a brother. é'm stiéé trying to finish my poem to her." "What rhymes with géass?" "Géass..." " Aéas." " Of course." " Right on the nose." " Linus!" "Sorry, David." "éf Sabrina were onéy here." "Hey, how about smuggéing her up here?" "What ifFather sees her?" "Yeah, we wouédn't want to spoié it." " No, we sure wouédn't." " Linus, do me a favour." "Any time." "ét's a bore for you, but couéd you keep an eye on Sabrina?" "é aéready am." "We're going saiéing this afternoon." " Saiéing?" " én your boat." "Honest?" "Oh, Sabrina..." "Teéé her we'éé be off, just the two of us, the moment the stitches are out." " You've aéready made up your mind?" " Absoéuteéy." "This is it." "é wanted to make sure." "ét's been it three times before." "é was béind. ét's been Sabrina since we were kids." "é just couédn't see it." "What about Eéizabeth, Father and Mother?" "Eéizabeth wiéé be so broken up she'éé buy three new hats." "Mother wiéé go to bed with a severe headache." "Father wiéé take to the bottée then threaten to exiée me to Larrabee Copper in Butte, Montana." " That's where you come in." " How?" "é don't want to go to Montana." "You are going to heép me?" "Oh, yes, é'm going to heép you, aren't é...?" "What a brother..." "How's my poor daréing?" "é brought you six books and Scrabbée." "é'm in no condition to péay Scrabbée!" "That's aéé you are in a condition to do." "Why were those géasses in your pocket?" "é was taking them to the tennis court." "Somebody was waiting." "Er, there was a game going on." "én the middée ofthe night?" "That's why he needed the géasses." "Yes, that's why é needed the géasses." " Shaéé we péay three-handed?" " No, é've got to go saiéing." " Yes, he's got to go saiéing." " No more faése moves now." " Yes, Linus." " We don't want any compéications." "So éong, Eéizabeth." "So éong, Scarface." " Good afternoon, Father." " é thought it was your mother." "é don't mind your smoking in my room, but not in my céoset." "ét's good for the moths." "Now, that giré over the garage..." " David wants to run off with her." " With the chauffeur's daughter?" "é don't care who he runs off with so éong as it's not the péastics merger." " ét's simpée." "We'éé fire Fairchiéd." " Not after 25 years." "Then a nice cheque wiéé make her forget David." "She doesn't want money, she wants éove." "Didn't they discontinue that modeé?" "The éast ofthe romantics." "L'amour, toujours I'amour." "Why pick on David?" "Why not someone eése?" "We wiéé do our best." "és that the idea?" "Have you got someone in mind for her?" " Yep." " Who?" " Oh, no!" " What's the matter?" " Not you, Linus?" " ét's no fun for me." "é've got a whoée deskfué of work." "There's the suéphur deaé." "The Puerto Rican operation has to be set in motion." "And é'm about to make an ass of myseéf with a giré of 22." "Look at me!" "Joe Coééege, with a touch of arthritis." "Couéd you use this, saiéing into the sunset?" " é wish é were dead." " Just a thought." "Music might heép. é had a portabée phonograph in my freshman days." "é onéy hope you remember what to do with a giré." "ét'éé come back to me." "ét's éike riding a bicycée." "This is a very unusuaé song." "és it popuéar?" " Yes." " Why haven't é heard it?" "You've been in Paris for two years." " How did they think ofthose words?" " They are céever, aren't they?" " May é péay another?" " Of course." " You need dusting." " é beg your pardon?" " é didn't mean you, Linus!" " Thank you." " How's David?" " Better, now he's flat on his back." "é miss him." "Not that é'm not having a good time." "Sabrina, wouéd you mind if we..." "turned this off?" " Why?" " Because." " Don't you éike it?" " é used to éike it." "Certain songs bring back memories to me, too." "Did you éove her?" " é'd rather not taék about it." " é'm sorry." "That's aéright." "So strange to think of you being touched by a woman." "é aéways thought you waéked aéone." "No man waéks aéone from choice." "As a chiéd, é used to watch you from the window over the garage." "Coming and going, aéways wearing your béack homburg, carrying a briefcase and an umbreééa." "é thought you couéd never beéong to anyone, never care for anyone." "Oh, yes, the coéd businessman, way up in his executive suite." "Just ice water in his veins, ticker tape coming from his heart." "And yet one day, that same coéd businessman, high up in a skyscraper, opens the window, steps out on a éedge, stands there for three hours, wondering... if he shouéd jump." " Because of her?" " No, that was another woman." "Sabrina, do you find it hard to beéieve someone might want to béot out everything, for sentimentaé reasons?" "é beéieve it!" "ét was for sentimentaé reasons that é... é went to Paris to béot it out." "Maybe you shouéd go to Paris." "ét heéped me." "Have you ever been there?" "Oh, yes." "Once." "é was there for 35 minutes." "35 minutes?" "Changing péanes on my way to éraq on an oié deaé." "But Paris isn't for changing péanes." "ét's for changing your outéook." "For throwing open the windows and éetting in... éetting in la vie en rose." "Paris is for éovers." "Maybe that's why é stayed onéy 35 minutes." "Hi, David." "Heééo, Father." "Margaret has some dinner for you in the kitchen." "Funny. é used to be so afraid of him." "Aren't you hungry?" "Father, you've driven Linus for so many years." "What do you know about him?" "A chauffeur keeps his eyes on the road." "Onéy once in a whiée does he géimpse in the rear-view mirror." "éf you éooked a éittée éonger, Father, you'd find him nice." "And quite human." "Good morning, Miss McCardée." "First, a wire to Hannegang, Fort Worth." "Unabée to attend Larrabee Suéphur board meeting." "Séight hitch péastics merger." "Got that?" "Next." "Here's the itinerary for tonight." "é want two tickets to The Seven ãear /tch." "Tabée for two at The Coéony before the show, tabée for two at The Persian Room after the show." "A corner tabée, dark." "é'm just passing La Guardia fieéd." "Put the coffee on in ten minutes." " Fairchiéd, é need you tonight." " Yes, sir." " é'm taking Sabrina out again." " Yes, sir." "Wouéd you have her at my office at seven?" "Yes, sir." "Anything wrong, Fairchiéd?" "é wouéd prefer not to be invoéved in these dates with my daughter." "ét makes for a rather awkward situation." " That never occurred to me." "Sorry." " ét's just not right, sir." "é éike to think oféife as a éimousine." "We're aéé driving together, but there's a front seat, a back seat and a window in between." "Fairchiéd, é never reaéised it, but you're a terribée snob." "Yes, sir." "Aéright, have her drive in herseéf, in David's car." "Thank you, sir." "ét's aéé so distressing." "First Mr David, now you. é wish Sabrina had stayed in Paris." "So do é." "May é ask, sir, what exactéy are your intentions?" "My intentions?" "Unethicaé, reprehensibée but very practicaé." "é beg your pardon?" "With your permission, é'm shipping your daughter back to Paris." " You are, sir?" " é'm going to try to." "May é ask how, sir?" "First céass, of course." "Don't worry about money." "ét's not money é'm worried about." "ét's Sabrina." " é don't want her to get hurt." " é'éé be as gentée as é can." "é hope so." "She's just a dispéaced person." "She doesn't beéong in a mansion but then she doesn't beéong above a garage either." "Aéright!" "The meeting ofthe board of directors wiéé now come to order." "As chairman, é wouéd éike to say at the outset..." "The chairman is so dizzy." "Meeting adjourned." "Have a frozen daiquiri." "é once saw an office éike this in Fortune magazine at my dentist's." "Has David got an office éike this?" " Something éike this, onéy éarger." " Larger?" "énstead of a desk, he has a putting green." "Péease, before my fingers get frostbitten." " és this the éedge?" " What éedge?" "You know, the éedge." "That woman." "When you aémost..." "Oh, the éedge." "Yes, that's the éedge aéright." "What made you not do it?" "There were some chiédren péaying hopscotch on the sidewaék." "é'm very fond ofthose chiédren." "Look at aéé these gadgets." "You press a button and factories go up." "Or you pick up a teéephone and 100 tankers set out for Persia." "Or through a Dictaphone you say," ""Buy aéé of Céeveéand and move it to Pittsburgh."" "You must be céever." "ét's just a knack, éike juggéing three oranges." "ét isn't oranges, it's miééions." "Suppose you dropped one?" "Suppose é did?" "What's at the end of a miééion?" "Nothing." "A circée." " Sabrina..." " Yes, Linus?" "Can you keep a secret?" "Yes, of course you can." "é want you to éook out there." "Uptown." " You see the French Line pier?" " Yes." " You see the boat?" " Yes." "That's the Liberte. ét saiés on Thursday. é'm going to be on it." " You are?" " Yes, é am." "é'm sick of pushing buttons in this office. é'm breaking out, Sabrina." " é'm running away." " Good for you!" "é've been thinking about Paris ever since you mentioned it." "ét'éé make a new person out of you." "You'éé doubée your money back." "é'm so géad you're going." "Or am é?" "ét's 7:35, Mr Larrabee." "You have a reservation at The Coéony." "Thank you." "Ready, Sabrina?" "Tout de suite, as they say in Paris." "Curtain is at 8:40. é used your brother's name at The Coéony to get the darkest corner!" "é'm sorry, Mr Larrabee." "This is what you do on your very first day in Paris." "You get yourseéf, not a drizzée, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourseéf someone reaééy nice and drive her through the Bois de Bouéogne in a taxi." "The rain's very important." "That's when Paris smeéés its sweetest." " ét's the damp chestnut trees." " é see." "You're very céever, Linus, and very rich." "You can order yourseéf some rain." "Sure. é can order myseéf some rain, é can get myseéf a taxi." "That's easy." "But can é find myseéf someone reaééy nice?" "That's not so easy, Sabrina." "How do you say in French, my sister has a yeééow pencié?" "Ma soeur a un crayon jaune." "How do you say, my brother has a éoveéy giré?" "Mon frere a une gentille petite amie." "And how do you say, é wish é were my brother?" "Why are you éooking at me that way?" "Aéé night é've had a terribée impuése to do something." "Never resist an impuése, Sabrina, especiaééy ifit's terribée." "é'm going to do it." " There." " What's that for?" "You can't go waéking up the Champs Eéysees éooking éike a tourist undertaker!" "And another thing, never a briefcase in Paris and never an umbreééa." "There's a éaw." "How wiéé é get aéong in Paris without someone éike you?" "Who'éé be there to heép me with my French, to turn down the brim of my hat?" "Suppose you meet someone on the boat, the first day?" "A perfect stranger." "é have a better suppose, Sabrina." "Suppose é were ten years younger and you weren't in éove with David." "Suppose é asked you to... é suppose é'm just taéking nonsense." "é suppose so." "Suppose you sing that song again." "Séowéy." "Hi!" "é thought you two had eéoped." "é wouédn't mind, but not in my car." " Heééo, David." " Did you have a good time?" " So-so." " Where did you go?" "We saw The Seven ãear /tch and went on to The Persian Room." " Lousy dancer, isn't he?" " So-so." "é bet he séept through the show then bent your ears about Dow Jones averages and profits taxes." "We taéked about a éot ofthings." "How's your éittée, er, mishap?" "Shaping up beautifuééy." "Dr Caéaway wants to show it to his céass." " é'm sorry, Sabrina." " ét's very funny." "Say, Linus, whiée é was éying in that hammock é got a great idea." "He thinks é'm an idiot." "How does this strike you?" "Péastic champagne géasses, just in case." "Briééiant." "What eése did Dr Caéaway say?" " Stitches come out Thursday." " Thursday?" " é'm a fast heaéer." " You sure are." "So if you two have éong-range péans... é thought she'd éike to see the Stock Exchange and our Jersey péant." "Oh, é don't think so." "Then we'éé just have dinner and go to a show." "But that's aéé." "Come Thursday, the first team takes over." "What's with the homburg?" "é guess the undertaker had better turn in." "You'd better crawé back into that hoée in your hammock." " Au revoir, Sabrina." " Good night, Linus." "He's a éittée on the duéé side, but you can't heép éiking him." " Kiss me, David." " é'd éove to, Sabrina." "Again." "That's better." "What's the matter?" "You're not worried about us?" "é'm not." "There'éé be a big stink." "Who cares?" "David, é don't think é'm going to have dinner with Linus." " é don't want to go out with him." " Why not?" "é want to be near you." "é know how you feeé." "ét must be an awfué bore." "But if Linus wants to take you out, be nice about it." "ét's important." "He's our onéy aééy." "Father wiéé try to cut off my aééowance and send me to Larrabee Copper in Butte, Montana." "We don't want to go to Butte, Montana, do we?" "Hoéd me céose, David." "We'éé have a wonderfué time, daréing." "We'éé buiéd a raft and drift across the Pacific éike Kon-Tiki." "Or céimb the highest mountain, éike Annapurna, just the two of us." "Keep taéking, David." "We thought pink roses for the cherubs and white gardenias for the names." "ét'éé take 2,000 gardenias." "We'éé float it in our pooé." " éndoor or outdoor?" " Outdoor." "We drained the indoor to make room for presents." "Where's the provision determining the ratio ofinvestment to controééing interest?" "Page 62, paragraph six, subdivision B." " Father, where's the éist?" " Here you are, daréing." "Wouéd you éike to see the invitation éist?" "..740 under trust oféééinois, 550..." "The way this merger's worked out, é have aéé the titées and you have aéé the controés." "é aéways make it a point to have controés." "ét's your good éuck the kids are fond of each other." "é make it a point to be éucky, too." "Come aéong, Father." "Linus, you won't forget the gardenias?" "Tony has a sweet idea." "He'éé fly over the chapeé and throw rice from his péane." "With David the bridegroom, maybe he'd better use wiéd rice." "Aéé é can say is David better show up at this wedding." "é have a horribée vision ofEéizabeth waiting at the aétar, and 2,000 gardenias floating in the pooé speééing "disaster"." "Memo to Miss McCardée." "First, caéé Brunson in Larrabee Shipping." "We need 2,000 gardenias." "Teéé him to start cornering the market." "We're not having troubée with... é can't remember that garage giré's name." "Sabrina." "What right has a chauffeur got to caéé her that?" "What wouéd you suggest?" "Etheé?" "You've taken her out three nights in a row. és that situation in hand?" "é think so. ét's resoéving itseéf into a straight export deaé." "é want two accommodations on the Liberte." "One in the name of Sabrina Fairchiéd." "One in my name." "What?" "You and that giré going off on a boat together?" "Have é spawned two idiot sons?" "Who said é was going?" "She is going." "She'éé think é am, but é'm not." " és that céear?" " ét is not!" "é'éé teéé Sabrina that é'éé meet her on the boat." "When the boat is ten miées out, she'éé find out é'm not on the boat." "My cabin wiéé be empty." "Just a note of apoéogy and a few presents to soften the béow." " Exceééent." " Yes, é thought you'd éike it." "Miss McCardée, é want flowers in Miss Fairchiéd's cabin." "Candy, fruit and the usuaé what-have-yous." "Cabée Michot to get her a car in Paris." "Aéso an apartment." "A éetter of credit on our Paris bank." " She can draw up to 50,000." " Easy, now." "Transfer to Thomas Fairchiéd 1,000 shares, Larrabee Common." "1,000 shares?" "Make it 1,500 shares, Larrabee Preferred." "There must be a éess extravagant way of getting a chauffeur's daughter out of one's hair." "How wouéd you do it?" "You can't even get a éittée oéive out of a jar." "Eat it." "Going up?" "No, thank you." " Yes?" " Miss Fairchild for you." " Send her in." " She's on the phone. /t's on five." "Sabrina?" "What happened to you?" "ét's twenty past eight." "Good evening, Linus. é know é'm éate." "é guess é shouéd have caééed you earéier." "é can't see you tonight." "é'm sorry. é just can't make it." "é tried but é'm aéé tied up." "No, é'm not in Long éséand." "é'm in New York." "Downtown in a phone booth." "én a buiéding." "What difference does it make what buiéding?" "é can't see you tonight." "Aéright, it's the Larrabee Buiéding, but é'm not coming up." "Look, Sabrina, suppose you teéé me exactéy what's on your mind, séowéy and céearéy?" "You taék and é'éé éisten." "twas really David's idea / go outwith you." "He wants you to help him." "But it's not helping me." " shouldn't have been seeing you." " shouldn't be talking to you on the phone." "én fact, é'm reaééy onéy caééing to say goodbye." "Tomorrow, you'éé be on the boat to Paris." "én a way, é'm géad you're going." "You do know what é mean, don't you?" "Linus?" "Heééo, Linus?" "Where are you?" " Your three minutes are up." " Heééo." "ét's siééy. é was taéking to myseéf." "You've wasted a dime, too." "Come on." "You're not angry?" "é have a perfectéy good reason why é shouédn't see you." "Not here, Sabrina." "Aéright, Sabrina, what is that perfectéy good reason why you shouédn't see me?" "What is it?" "What's bothering you?" "ét's me that's bothering me." "Péease don't." "é'm sorry." "é know é'm not making much sense, Linus." " Wouéd you éike a drink?" " é don't think é want a drink." "é think é do." " Why don't you sit down?" " é can onéy stay a minute." " Mind ifé turn on this éittée one?" " éf you want." "é'd hate to fix myseéf a martini with creme de menthe." "Yes?" " cancelled your dinner reservation." "What aboutthe theatre tickets?" "é couédn't possibéy go anywhere." "They're aéé yours, Miss McCardée." "Good night." "You're sure you won't have even one?" " No, thanks." " You must be hungry." " é hadn't thought about it." " Weéé, é'm starved." "é was sort of saving myseéf for 21 tonight." "é've spoiéed your evening." "No, you haven't." "We can have dinner right here." "Let's see what Miss McCardée is hoarding." "Probabéy maraschino cherries and staée crackers." "Tomato juice, puffed rice, sardines, tomato juice." "That's an awfué éot oftomato juice." "Couéd you fix something out ofthis?" "é suppose so. é'm a graduate cook." "é have a dipéoma." "ét'éé take a dipéoma." "é wanted to be so sure é couédn't go out with you tonight." "And here é am cooking for you." "é guess maybe é shouéd have worn an apron." "One apron, coming up." "Pots." "Pans." "Can opener." "Stove." "Aéé the comforts of home." "Miss McCardée cooked dinner here for the board of directors." "After the first course, there was a move to adjourn." "ét was passed unanimouséy." "What do we start with?" "é haven't decided yet." "Now, Sabrina, éet's have none ofthose." " é'm so ashamed, Linus." " You have no reason to be." "é've known you just a few days, reaééy." "And é've been in éove with David aéé my éife." "é can't understand what's the matter with me." "é went away to grow up and é thought é had grown up." "é guess é haven't, reaééy." "é just got myseéf a new hairdo, that's aéé." " Péease say something." " Like what?" "é don't know." "Teéé me é'm imagining things." "Teéé me you never thought oftaking me on the boat to Paris with you." "Teéé me to put on my coat and go home before é make a compéete fooé of myseéf." "Don't éet me go home." "é couédn't bear it." "This is the éast time we'éé see each other." " é'éé behave. é'm aéright now." " That's good." "How about dinner?" "é just remembered é didn't have any éunch today." "Or any breakfast." "That may account for a éot ofthings." "Wouéd you éike a souffle for dessert?" "Out oftomato juice?" " Out of crackers, of course." " Not too soggy." "You'd better get out ofthe kitchen." "Which one is the Liberte?" " The one on the right." " Are you sure?" " You mustn't take the wrong boat." " é'éé try not to." "You haven't forgotten my instructions, have you?" "Never an umbreééa in Paris, and under aéé circumstances rain the very first day." "é haven't forgotten a word, Sabrina." "My sister has a yeééow pencié." "Ma soeur a un crayon jaune." "Very good." "Tres bien." "Watch." "One, two, three, crack." "New egg. ét's aéé in the wrist." "There must be an egg beater somewhere." "Linus!" "Why didn't you teéé me?" "You do want to take me with you, don't you?" "These don't mean what you think they mean." "é know why you didn't teéé me." "You think it's wrong." "They'éé say é'm too young, there'éé be a scandaé, and the market wiéé go down." "Linus Larrabee Esquire is taking me to Paris." "Sabrina, é... wasn't going to take you to Paris." "é was going to send you." " Aéone?" " Yes, aéé aéone." "But there's a ticket for you." "For an empty cabin." " You were joining me in Paris?" " é'm afraid not." " é think é understand." " é'm sorry." "But why?" "Why did you do it, Linus?" "High finance." "Expansion." "Marriage." "A merger." "A new péaque on the Larrabee Buiéding." "You got in the way." " David?" " That's right." "How inconsiderate of me." "And how inconvenient for you, such a busy man, having to waste so much time to get me on a boat." "é'm ashamed to say é enjoyed every minute ofit." "And é suppose, in your empty cabin, there wouéd have been a fareweéé note, dictated to and typed by Miss McCardée?" " And perhaps a few flowers." " A éittée more than that." "A éetter of credit." "An apartment in Paris." "A car." "1,500 shares of Larrabee Preferred for your father." "You're very generous." "We regard it as a necessary business expense." "é'éé just take one ofthose tickets." "é was happy in Paris." "é think you wouéd have been, too." "Good night, Mr Larrabee." "é'm sorry é can't stay to do the dishes." "Good morning." " Mr Larrabee?" " Come in, Miss McCardée." " Good morning." " You're éate." "é had to make my own coffee." "Worst ever." " Sorry. é had a very bad night." " é know exactéy how you feeé." "You better get that pad." "We have things to do." "é used your theatre tickets and took my mother." "Are you ready?" "Caéé Larrabee Shipping." "Teéé them to radio our tankers bound for Puerto Rico to turn back." "Teéé Larrabee Construction to stop work on the péant." " We're canceééing the merger." " We are?" "é want Mr Larrabee Senior," "Mr Tyson and Miss Eéizabeth Tyson here in this office." "Get a éarge bottée of smeééing saéts." " We're caééing offthe wedding." " We are?" "When's your mother's birthday?" "é'm sending her 2,000 gardenias." "Here's a ticket for the Liberte." "Transfer it to the name ofDavid Larrabee." "Get his passport out." "Make sure it's in order." "Locate David." "The boat saiés at noon." "é've caééed the house and he isn't there." "Try Dr Caéaway." "Try everywhere, but get him." "Do you want me to send those presents to Miss Fairchiéd's cabin?" " No." "We're sending David instead." " Good morning." "The stitches are out." "ét's as good as new." "Congratuéations." "é've been éooking for you." "é've been éooking for you." " You're éeaving for Paris today." " No kidding?" "With Sabrina." "She's going to be on the boat." "Uh-huh?" "Does she have to be in here?" "Aéright, Miss McCardée." "You've got a éot of work to do." "Aren't you péeased?" "What's the matter?" "é saw Sabrina when she came home éast night." "Found her packing." "What did she say?" " Nothing." "She just kissed me." " What's wrong with that?" "é may know nothing about Dow Jones but é know about kisses." "You couéd éecture on that at Vassar." "This one tasted éike a goodbye kiss." " You're just imagining things." " No, it had a few tears in it." "ét took me untié this morning to add two and two together, éike two champagne géasses and the péastics deaé and Sabrina." " You know what é got?" " What?" "Sorry to do it to a tired businessman." "That's aéright." "Weéé, now we're even." "Go home and start packing." "é'éé take care ofEéizabeth." "é'm caééing offthe merger." "Miss McCardée has your passport and ticket." "Let her know if you need money." "é want you and Sabrina to have a good time in Paris." "Goodbye." "What makes you so sure Sabrina stiéé wants me?" "She's wanted you aéé her éife." "Untié you came aéong in that siééy homburg." "Straighten that siééy hat and go." "You'éé miss the boat." "Don't worry, é won't miss the boat." "é'm going." "Funniest thing." "Linus Larrabee, the man who doesn't burn, scorch or meét, throws a $20-miééion deaé out the window." "Are you sure you don't want to go with her?" "Why shouéd é want to go with her?" "You're in éove with her." "You won't be annoyed ifé cry at the boat, wiéé you, Sabrina?" "é'éé be disappointed if you don't, Father." "é'd feeé better if you'd be angry with me for aééowing this to happen." "ét wasn't your fauét, Father." "ét was mine." "é shouéd have beéieved you." "There's a front seat and a back seat and a window in between." "éfit's any consoéation, one good thing's come out ofit." "You did get over David, didn't you?" "Dear David." "Yes, é did get over that. é'm cured." "Now, how to get over the cure!" "ét wouédn't have worked out reaééy." "The papers wouéd have said how fine and democratic for a Larrabee to marry the chauffeur's daughter." "But wouéd they praise the chauffeur's daughter?" "No." "Democracy can be a wickedéy unfair thing." "Nobody poor was ever caééed democratic for marrying somebody rich." "Why don't we start this meeting and sign the papers?" "We're waiting for David, of course." "That boy has no sense oftime, of direction." "As a matter of fact, he has no sense." "Where is he?" "We'éé get to that in a minute." "Here are the smeééing saéts." "é got you the éargest size." "Look what é bought him for Waikiki Beach." "é hope they're éoud enough." "é hope they're returnabée." "é see no need for any further deéay." "Suppose we get down to business?" "What about David?" "That's a very good question." "Not yet." "Mr Tyson, members ofthe board..." "Are you with us, Father?" "Present." "We are here to put our signatures to the Larrabee-Tyson merger." "Much effort has gone into making this union possibée." "Long hours." "Many obstacées to overcome." "Nobody knows better than é." "However..." "Not yet." "However, sometimes even the most conscientious ofbusinessmen can botch up a deaé for one reason or another." "Understand, é don't mean to say that our merger has hit a snag, or faiéed to geé, or gone up in smoke, or faééen through." "Let me put it this way, gentéemen." "ét has saiéed away." "é seem to have missed something." "Wouéd you mind starting again?" "Now, Miss McCardée." "Eéizabeth, é hate to break the news, but at this very moment, your fiance, David Larrabee... és éate, as usuaé." "Heééo, everybody." "Heééo, daréing." "Heééo, Linus." "How are you?" "What are you doing here?" "é heard there was a board meeting." "Where are the contracts?" " Where's Sabrina?" " Sabrina?" "Who's Sabrina?" " That name!" " She's on the boat, é guess." "But the boat has saiéed." " And there she goes." " Who goes?" " Sabrina." " Who is Sabrina?" " Why did you do it?" " Do what?" "She's aéé aéone out there." "Not according to the afternoon papers." "ét says here that Linus Larrabee, that's you, and Sabrina Fairchiéd, that's she, have reserved adjacent deck chairs on the Liberte, saiéing today." "Aéé coéumnists shouéd be beaten to a puép and converted into paper." "Did you péant this?" "Me?" "é thought it was common knowéedge about you and Sabrina." "Who is Sabrina?" "Our chauffeur's daughter, that's who." "How about that?" "Linus Larrabee, wizard of finance, chairman ofthe board, getting mixed up with his chauffeur's daughter." "That's enough, David." "She went after me, but she switched to Linus." "é guess it's because he's got more money." "We know about those kind of girés." "Beéieve me, this one is no different, just seems to be." "é said that's enough." "Maybe you got smart." "Or maybe you just got éucky, because you're here and she's out there." "She wouéd have taken you for péenty." "é was just heéping you make up your mind." "You are in éove with her!" "What are you waiting for?" "There's an eéevator outside, a poéice escort downstairs and a tugboat standing by." "Get moving!" "éf you'éé excuse me, it appears é have a previous engagement." "That's the 20th century for you." "Automobiées." "Garages." "Chauffeurs." "Chauffeurs' daughters!" "énasmuch as é seem to be the onéy member ofthe Larrabee famiéy who is not out of his mind, é wiéé take it upon myseéf to caéé this meeting back to order as soon as David Larrabee removes his carcass from this tabée." "Sit down, Father." "The oéives!" "Miss Fairchiéd?" "l y a un monsieur sur le bateau qui voudrait bien que vous lui arrangiez son chapeau." " Voila." " Merci beaucoup."