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to California in a couple of hours.

- I can't find a telephone.

- Well, there's a telephone just here on the left.

Oh, wonderful. Thank you. You know,

of course, I'll reverse the charges.

Yes.

There's a new restaurant in the Strand.

It's an automatic restaurant.

It's open 24 hours a day.

You can go in any time day or night.

So who's the funny

little American?

- Morris Weissman.

He's a friend of Ivor. - Oh.

He makes films in Hollywood

Ivor asked if he could bring him along.

Didn't see why not.

I thought he might be interested

in guns and shooting.

Oh, well, never mind.

He adds to the glamor of the gathering.

I didn't expect anything

half as exotic.

Oh, no, not for me.

You know that I hate drinking whisky.

Go on, drink it.

Do you good.

Go on.

Oh, really, Bill.

You are such a bad influence.

Well, don't blame me

if I start misbehaving.

I don't know how impressed

your husband is with our Hollywood folk

Well, you know Raymond.

He only feels safe with his own kind.

Bill!

I thought ladies' maids

never wore aprons.

Her Ladyship used to have a French maid

who wore a black one like this.

She thinks it's got

a bit of style.

I bet she does, and I bet

she took it out of your wages too.

She likes to have

everything just so.

Mmm.

Don't they all.

- That's him.

- Who?

Ivor Novello.

He passed us on the road today

on his way here, and he spoke to me.

Well, he spoke to Her Ladyship,

but I answered.

I only cut it out for Garbo.

I prefer the American stars.

I think they've got more oomph.

Go on!

- Is he really Sir William's cousin?

- Yep.

Imagine having a film star

in the family.

- Lady Sylvia must be thrilled.

- Oh, I don't think.

Why wouldn't she be?

'Cause she's a snobbish cow.

'Cause she...

She looks down on anyone who got

to the top with brains and hard work.

Just like she looks down on her husband,

except when it's time to foot the bills.

And then she's got

her hand out, all right.

- What was her family, then'?

- What'd you expect, really?

Toffee-nosed and useless.

Her father was

the Earl of Carton.

Sounds good, except

he didn't have a pot to piss in.

- What's she like to work for?

- She's horrible. But he's...

He's okay. Come on.

We better get cracking.

- Hello, I'm Ivor.

- I know who you are.

- Mabel Nesbitt.

- Hello, Mabel.

- How are you?

- Very well, thank you.

Oh! I don't smoke.

Thank you.

Mrs. Nesbitt's only got one dress with her.

Says her husband rushed her when she was packing.

Do you always look after visitors

if they haven't got a maid?

Sometimes Dorothy helps,

though why Mrs. Wilson...

makes the still room maid

do it beats me.

I think she only does it

to annoy Mrs. Croft.

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