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- Every one of them is alive and healthy.

- Mine are dead.

- Are you sure?

- Stone cold.

- Who told you so?

- My gardener, an expert.

Pardon me, do you mind terribly

if I tap your sassafras tree?

I'm not sure this is

the right time of the year.

I'd be the last one to harm a sassafras tree.

Now then, the matter of the peach trees.

If they're really dead, we'll give

you credit and have them replaced.

That's very fair of you.

Thank you, Mr. Benevuchi.

Perhaps you haven't lost them.

Peaches are snobs, they just love

to have their appetites piqued.

- You need a good mulching.

- I? A mulching?

Uh-huh, oh, it's very simple.

Just give them a nourishing

mixture then soak,

and those peach trees will sit up and sing

all pink and white like a bride's maid.

I'd like to see mine do that but

I'm afraid I'm not very good at mulching.

I'll be very happy to help you.

How very kind of you, are

you a professional gardener?

Ah! no, I'm a numerologist.

You don't believe in it, do you?

I don't know much about it.

Well, it's a science of

numbers, older than Confucius.

My grandmother says,

"If you know the numbers, you know the man."

Everyone has his very own number.

- Have I one?

- Tell me your name and I'll tell you.

Adam Calhorn Shaw.

You're a Four.

Day and month of birth, please.

- November 26th.

- That figures-out to Four, too.

- I'm a Six.

- Is that good?

Oh! Excellent.

Fours and Sixes go together,

like... well... Aucassin was Four

and Nicolette was Six.

Hero was a Six and Leander was a Four.

See what I mean?

Hey! Wait a minute!

Wait a minute, I mustn't

spill this, it's precious stuff

What do you use it for?

Oh, this is Grandpas sassafras cure

he got from an old Indian.

There's never been a Ute with arthritis.

Did you know that?

I've never know any Utes.

Is your grandfather a pharmacist?

But you can't market

medicine without a license.

- Are you a detective?

- No, I'm a lawyer.

- Good day, Miss.

- But I thought I could mulch your trees.

Some other time.

Oh my... I'm sorry, but we

can't ever mulch together.

Well, if we can't, we can't.

But I'm curious to know

why you've changed your mind.

Nine. It's obvious that a Four

man and a Three month of a Nine car

has no place with a Six girl.

Goodbye, Mr. Shaw.

You've convinced me,

goodbye and thank you.

Roy! Roy! I'm home!

- Good evening, Sir.

- Any calls?

No calls.

Good! Would you get me some

ice please I could use a drink.

Would a Martini do, Darling?

Beth!

What a pleasant surprise.

I'm not late or anything, am I, we...

we didn't have an appointment did we?

Not until eight tonight.

I've been tooting around

all afternoon and I felt

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