Phone Booth Page #3
MAVIS' VOICE
Don't go.
STU:
I wasn't saying goodbye to you. I
was saying how the clients try to
give you the wave off without even
a month's notice.
A conservative businessman now stands outside the booth
waiting to use it. He deliberately glances at his watch a
few times to demonstrate his impatience. This bothers Stu
who slides the booth open a crack.
STU:
(yelling)
What? Is your watch busted? It's
twenty after eleven and I'm gonna
be occupied indefinitely with my
transaction. So get out of my
face!
He closes the booth up again and turns his back to the
gentleman who gives up and departs.
STU:
Sorry, honey. There will be no
further interruption.
MAVIS' VOICE
Why must you always be calling me
from some booth?
STU:
On account of that phone records
are regularly subpoenaed in divorce
proceedings. And I don't want some
entry showing up on my cellular
bill either. She gets the mail.
Sometimes she even dials up a
strange number to see who it is.
MAVIS' VOICE
Then she suspects something.
STU:
It's only because her last husband,
the choreographer, ran around on
her. She can't get that out of her
head. That's how she caught onto
him. The phone bills.
MAVIS' VOICE
She hasn't developed much skill at
holding a man.
STU:
You know what a self-fulfilling
prophecy is? She was so sure I was
going to find me a woman that she
finally drove me back to you. I
thought I'd feel all guilty about
it -- but I guess it hasn't kicked
in yet.
(beat)
Still, I wouldn't do anything to
hurt her. Basically, Kelly's a
decent individual.
MAVIS' VOICE
What about hurting me? Like last
time?
STU:
Hurt? You were glad to be rid of
me.
MAVIS' VOICE
For a while I was, 'til I took
stock of what was around. You're
the lesser of many evils.
STU:
That's about the nicest thing you
ever said.
MAVIS' VOICE
I'll have it engraved.
STU:
We've been up front with each other
from the beginning. Let's keep it
that way. How about a drink? Say
seven o'clock? The Monkey Bar?
MAVIS' VOICE
Meet me in front. I don't like
walking in there unescorted.
STU:
Yeah, you're great enough looking
to be mistaken for one of those
thousand dollar a night girls.
MAVIS' VOICE
It happens all the time lately.
STU:
And wear that short black number I
bought you from Bendel's.
MAVIS' VOICE
Again? I don't know if it's me or
that dress you like.
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