Bachelor in Paradise Page #2

You've got to do it, Adam!

But how?

How am I going to live?

I'll subsidise you.

Your rent,

and 75 dollars a week.

75 dollars?

Look, don't go over budget

just to save a human life.

85, and not a penny more.

You can eat oatmeal instead of caviar.

Yeah, but it tastes

terrible with champagne.

I'll need a secretary.

- One ugly secretary.

One that can type, huh?

One more thing...

this is America.

Not Europe. Our attitude

towards our women is different.

Sex hasn't gone out, has it?

- No, of course not.

I'd heard it'd been

replaced by television.

As long as you're here,

no experiments with women.

How am I gonna research

without experiments?

Strictly by observation,

dear boy.

If you get involved,

no more allowance.

I'm in trouble enough. I guess

I could hide up at a place like bucks county.

No good.

Not typical.

Nowadays, the average American

lives in a planned community...

a housing development.

You mean one of those

tract things where they

tear down the old slums

and put up new slums?

Oh, they're more

appealing than that.

Take, for example,

Paradise Village.

Paradise Village?

- Yeah!

Sounds revolting.

It's a modern community

in the San Fernando Valley.

Who lives there...

horses?

I don't hear, dear boy.

Fortunes have been made in such

community as Paradise Village.

I've even invested a little myself.

And with the population

growth in California,

it forms a cross-section

of the entire country.

I've arranged for a house

for you there.

Under an alias, of course.

And you expect me to

live there? - Mm-hmm.

Well, I...

better get my distemper shots.

TRACT OFFICE:

PARADISE VILLAGE

You better wait for me.

My name is Adams.

Jack Adams.

Oh yes, Mr. Adams.

We've been expecting you.

My cab driver didn't know

how to get to Paradise.

He's an atheist.

- Ha, ha! Come right this way.

Mr. Adams is here.

How do you do,

Mr. Adams?

I'm Rosemary Howard.

You are? Well,

what a pleasant surprise.

Oh? What were you expecting?

Well, frankly, nothing.

Your house is all ready for you.

Won't you sit down?

Palfrey said that you weren't sure

how long you'd be here,

so I drew up a simple lease, month-to-month,

if that's all right?

That'll be fine.

- It's a standard form.

Don't you want wait, until

you see the house first?

It'll be adequate.

- You're sure?

It's the only one,

isn't it?

Oh yes, we don't rent in

Paradise as a rule,

but we hope you'll love it so much

that you want to buy here.

If you're selling,

I'll buy.

We've arranged for a rental car to be

delivered to the house tomorrow,

but I can take you over there

now if you like. - I'd love.

Let me pay off the cab

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