Gentleman's Agreement Page #2

That's what keeps

the magazine original.

Funny, your suggesting

the series.

Is it? Why?

Oh, uh...

...lots of reasons.

You make up your mind

too quickly about people.

Women, anyway.

I saw you do it

when you sat down.

As apparent as all that?

You cross-filed and indexed me...

...a little too well bred,

self-confident...

...artificial, a trifle absurd,

typical New York.

No, I didn't have time

for all that.

Yes, you did.

I even left out a few...

...faintly irritating

upper-class manner...

...overbright voice.

All right, all right, I give up.

You win.

I'm sorry.

I couldn't resist it...

...because it's only partly true.

Is this your first trip east?

No, it's not my first trip.

Every other time

I've been here...

...I've had a plane or railroad

or boat ticket for tomorrow.

Are you going to stay?

I think so.

You're getting

a pretty complete story on me.

Now it's your turn.

Well, you know I'm divorced.

I help run a nursery school.

I'm called Miss Lacey.

Do you want just anything?

Just anything.

Dinner.

Dinner?

No reading comics at the table,

Tommy. Put it away.

Oh, let me finish.

I'm right at the end.

No making mysteries

at the table, either, Phil.

Mysteries?

You haven't even mentioned

your assignment.

He wants me to do a series

on anti-Semitism.

You don't sound

very enthusiastic.

I'm not.

Will he insist on your doing it?

Oh, no, he's not that kind

of an editor.

Ma, what do you do to just eggs

to make them taste this way?

Pray over them.

Have a good time last night?

Yeah.

You know, you need new people

as much as you need new places.

I mean, everybody does,

not just you.

It was a good bunch to start on.

There was a girl,

Minify's niece...

...who suggested that series

on anti-Semitism. Funny.

You don't say.

Why, women will be thinking

next, hmm?

What's anti-Semitism?

-Hmm?

-What's anti-Semitism?

Oh, that's where some people...

...don't like other people

just because they're Jews.

Why? Are they bad?

Some are, sure. Some aren't.

It's like everybody else.

What areJews, anyway?

I mean, exactly.

You remember last week when you

asked me about that big church?

I told you there were

lots of different churches.

Yeah.

The people who go to that church

are called Catholics.

There are people

who go to other churches...

...and they're called Protestants.

There are others who go

to still different ones...

...and they're called Jews...

...only they call their churches

synagogues or temples.

And why don't some people

like those?

Well, that's kind of

a tough one to explain, Tom.

Some people hate Catholics

and some hateJews.

And no one hates us

'cause we're Americans.

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