Never So Few Page #2

Take it easy, this isn't hurrying-up time.

This is slowing-down time.

- Drink easy and long and consistently.

- Right-o.

We'll drink ourselves

into a tortured hunger.

Darling! Oh, darling!

Well, what's happened to you?

You've changed.

Yeah, but you haven't.

Like to bent me double.

Where have you been? Everybody acted

as if you're top-secret or something.

Margaret, this is Danny.

He speaks English like he hates it.

- Margaret Fitch.

- What pumpkin did you pop out of?

- The Empress Hotel.

- You see?

Just like good old Corporal

Thank-You-Sir Ringa stated.

Would you think me terribly jay if I were

to ask just what you're doing in the war?

I'd rather tell you what I do.

I'm working on military secrets.

I'm looking for a beautiful spy

to sell them to.

Do you number

a beautiful spy among your friends?

We'll find you a girl, Danny.

As a matter of fact, if it weren't for Tom

and this and that...

...you'd have me completely enslaved.

I think it's the monocle.

- I think it's very chic.

- Oh, it's smashing.

I have an injured eye, through which I

take a rather jaundiced view of the world.

- Don't ask him how he keeps it in.

- How do you keep it in?

Well, the problem is getting it out.

You see, it can't even be dislodged

by a severe blow. Shall we demonstrate?

- Let's not play that game.

- Come on, Thomas old man.

One blow for the edification

of the lady.

Remarkable, isn't it?

Hello, Fred.

I suppose there's no use pretending

I don't know you.

Miss Carla Vesari, Mr. Nikko Regas...

...this is Reynolds and DeMortimer.

- How do you do?

- How do you do?

- Won't you join us?

- Delighted.

Oh, Margaret Fitch, this is Miss Vesari,

Mr. Regas and Colonel Parkson.

So these are the twin legends

you were telling us about?

- You're disappointed?

- Oh, no. Not at all.

It's just that you are rather young

to be legends.

Well, we're over 21.

- How do you plan to spend your leave?

- No leave. No plans.

We could shoot off a couple

of firecrackers or something.

We should be able to provide you with

something more exciting than sparklers.

Any suggestions, Carla?

I think the captain

will fill up his time eventfully.

I could use a little help with that.

Would you like to dance?

Of course, my dear.

Have you been in India long,

Miss Fitch?

Several months.

Allow me.

Or is it a brand of ownership?

Not at all. It's just a good old

American salutation.

- It means nothing?

- Nothing.

You'd be surprised at some of

the customs of my people.

- Well, relax.

- I beg your pardon?

Let it go.

I'm a mild-mannered, soft-spoken man,

a gentleman and an officer.

And I never make a sudden move.

I'm very pleased to hear it.

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