All I Desire Page #2

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If your mother doesn't come,

don't be too disappointed, will you?

Well, what else could I be?

If she were here tonight,

my performance would be like

Mr Halley's comet

streaking across the autumn sky.

If she wouldn't come back for this,

I suppose she'll never come back.

Maybe she will, maybe she won't.

Who can figure her?

Well, why should she come back?

She was smart to get out.

Maybe she was smart,

maybe she wasn't at all.

And I'm just like her.

I won't stay put here either.

"Either".

Who could endure

this silly town with all the silly little people?

Thank you!

- Not you, Lena, you understand me.

- JOYCE:
Lily, are you coming?

Ill be there in a minute, I told you.

They're not going to bury me

in this provincial burg.

Someday, somehow, Lily Murdoch

is going to give her talent to the world.

Miss Harper told Daddy I was

the best drama student at Riverdale High.

Come in.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

- Come in, I'm all through with Henry.

If I know Colonel Underwood,

he's just beginning with me.

Just so you don't start teaching that

progressive nonsense

they're spouting in Washington.

See? A principal gets his knuckles rapped

for being too progressive

or he gets criticised for

not being modern enough.

I hope the other councilmen

don't give me as much trouble as you.

You just satisfy me, Henry, you'll find being

superintendent of schools no trouble.

Happy to recommend you.

You've done a fine job.

- Thank you.

- Goodbye, Miss Harper.

Goodbye, Colonel Underwood.

Oh, Henry.

- Finally, after all these years.

- After all these years.

You know what a help you've been to me,

don't you, Sara?

I'm very glad if I have been.

If you ever decide to stop school teaching...

you're gonna make somebody

a very wonderful wife.

Thank you, Henry.

(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)

Well...

You will be on time tonight, won't you?

The curtain can't go up until you arrive.

We can trust Joyce to see that Ted and I

are politely early and properly combed.

CONDUCTOR:
Riverdale, next stop.

Riverdale.

Riverdale, next stop. Riverdale.

(WHISTLING)

What a spiffy.

- Someone meeting you, ma'am?

- No, I'm not expected.

- Stopping at Hathaway's Hotel?

- Yes, the hotel.

- There's still only one, isn't there?

- CONDUCTOR:
All aboard!

Say, that's Naomi! Naomi Murdoch.

At you!

Won't the ladies be talking tonight.

Hey, I think Ill take a walk.

Hot patootie!

Ted, you snookered me into a bad bet.

If you're never gonna miss,

Ill be buying root beers rest of the summer.

You teach me too good, Dutch.

Say, Dutch,

by jimminy, I don't mind waiting on myself

and figuring out how much I owe,

but would it be too much trouble

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