Hands Across the Table Page #3

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If you don't mind.

Excuse me.

Thank you.

What's the matter?

Don't you know

who that is?

Sure. That's the future

hopscotch champion,

and I'm not interested in hopscotch.

You poor sap.

That's Theodore Drew III.

That hick?

Hick? Hmm!

Ohh!

Oh, boy, oh, boy,

do I pick 'em!

I'll say you do,

dearie.

Oh, thank you.

Well, what's

the matter, dear?

This is it. That chance in a million.

He's rich. He's so rich, he's crazy.

I'm gonna make a stab at him.

You back me up.

Well, who are you gonna

stab in the back?

Shh! Nobody.

Well-

Hello!

My, but you've grown thin!

M- My appointment was canceled.

What's the matter?

Uh, are you really

Theodore Drew?

So I've always been told.

Why?

You don't look like my idea

of any Theodore Drew III.

I know.

I've had a lot of complaints

about it from my parents.

Mother says I'm a throwback

to my great-grandfather.

He was a pirate.

- Honest?

- No, a pirate.

Oh.

I was in the navy

myself for a while.

You were?

Mm-hmm.

Till Dad yanked me.

He said the thought of

my being a sailor made him seasick.

Blood.

I've been stabbed.

Oh!

Oh, I'm terribly sorry.

Stabbed in the cuticle.

What a way to die.

It-It's never happened before.

Please excuse it.

I'm- I'm terribly sorry.

Perfectly all right.

Oh!

Oh, I'm- I'm-

I'm terribly sorry.

This isn't your first manicure,

by any chance, is it?

No, it isn't.

Well, look, uh,

if you think I ought to have ether,

don't be afraid to say so.

Honestly, I've only

cut someone once before.

Aha.

Then I'm your second manicure.

No, there have been

quite a few before you.

How did you happen

to become a manicurist...

instead of taking up pearl diving?

Oh, I'm not really

interested in manicuring.

So I gathered.

What does fascinate you?

Polo.

I'm simply mad about polo.

Really?

What position do you play?

Oh, I don't play.

I just follow it.

Where?

Oh, all over.

As a matter of fact, I was reading

an article on polo when you came in.

Oh, really?

What a coincidence.

Isn't it thrilling when they come

galloping down the diamond

on those dear little ponies,

with the mallets flying

and the chukkers?

- Oh, I just love the chukkers.

- I play chess myself.

But you play polo,

don't you?

No. Sorry.

Oh, you don't?

Lady, I don't even like horses.

You don't?

Ohh!

Oh! I'm-

I'm terribly sorry.

That's perfectly all right.

I've still got these left.

That's all.

Thank you.

Are you doing

anything tonight?

Would you mind feeding me?

I'm going to have to have a nurse.

I'll have to leave about 12:00.

I'm going out of town.

That's all right.

I'll see you about 7:00.

No dressing.

No 7:
00, dressing-

I mean 7:
00, no dressing.

Oh, Mr. Drew!

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