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She isn't wicked...

- Oh... I'm sorry.

- Please don't get up.

I just wanted to tell you how much I admired

your spunk in standing up for that youngster.

- She didn't mean any harm.

- Of course she didn't.

I don't think singing that song

was such a terrible crime.

I enjoyed it.

I enjoyed your playing, too.

Thank you very much.

Tell me, where in the world did that youngster

pick up such a charming song?

- Well, I write them and...

- You write music?

- If you can call it music.

- I call it delightful music.

Look here, would you promise not to

give me away if I made a terrible confession?

Of course.

The deep, dark secret in my life is that now

and then I compose a bit of music myself.

But isn't it fun, getting a melody

and then finding just the right words for it?

Great. You know, the happiest days of my life

were those I spent studying music

under Professor Auspitzer, in Brnn.

Those must have been happy days.

But that isn't all of it.

I love the people in the little Austrian towns.

They're so proud because their music

is the music of the world.

It seems that most everyone in those quaint

little villages has a "Hello, neighbour" smile.

They love the simple things in life.

The simple things in life.

That almost sounds like the words of a song.

I'll remember the suggestion.

Perhaps someday they might make a song.

- Will you do me a great favour?

- Certainly.

I have to run along to the meeting, but I'll

be back. Will you play me some more music?

- If you'd like to hear it and Mrs Higgins...

- I asked to.

- All right.

- Until later, then?

And what's this item?

"Sandboxes and swings"?

It's a problem to keep them occupied.

When I was young,

we didn't have a play problem,

because we didn't have time to play. No.

"Floor runner for the dormitory."

- What's the matter with the linoleum?

- It's been so cold this winter.

The children have coughed so badly

that I've been worried.

No need for that.

Madam, you have no doubt heard

of the famous Wyckoffs cough mixture.

Of course.

I have manufactured and sold

that cough mixture for many years.

Anyone taking it regularly will never cough.

I would suggest that

you lay in a fresh supply.

- Very well.

- When I was young, I lived in Maine,

where the weather was 20 below zero.

In those days, we didn't even have linoleum.

And look at me now.

When I was young, I lived in Maine, where

the weather was about a thousand below zero.

No, no, Mrs Denham.

No carpets, no linoleum, no nothin'.

And look at me now.

(coughing)

Madam, is this the kind of respect

you teach them?!

Oh, my goodness!

- How dare you take my hat and coat!

- I beg your pardon, but those are mine.

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