Heaven Can Wait Page #2

Henry Van Cleve! Do you think I'm the kind of girl

that would take a boy's last beetle?

Aw, that's all right.

You can have it.

Thank you, Henry. Now, if you want to,

you can walk with me to the corner.

From that moment on,

one thing was clear to me.

If you want to win a girl,

you have to have lots ofbeetles.

I was growing rapidly,

and so was New York.

Yes. New York was becoming

cosmopolitan...

and no household was considered fashionable

without a French maid.

So, one day a Fifth Avenue coach

stopped in front of our house...

and out of the coach

and into my life came Mademoiselle.

Mrs. Van Cleve will be here shortly.

Merci.

That's Mr. Van Cleve.

Oh, Monsieur.

Charmant, charmant.

This is Mr. Van Cleve's father.

He lives here too.

Grandpapa.

Sweet. Very sweet.

And who is this darling little boy?

That's the young master.

He's not so darling.

- Bad boy?

- Not good.

- Good morning.

- Bonjour, madame.

How do you do, mademoiselle?

- Your name is, uh -

- Yvette Blanchard.

- Yvette Blanchard.

- Oui.

The agency tells me

that you've just arrived from France.

- Oui.

- And are seeking employment in this country.

- Oui, madame.

- Uh, you have references?

- Oui, madame.

- May I see them, please?

Naturellement.

- Voil.

- Thank you.

Oh.

Uh, they're in French.

Oui, madame. But believe me -

toutes les rfrences- excellentes.

Here, my last employer-

Baroness Lalotte...

wishes me to be

such grand success in America...

that I shall never have desire

to return to France.

Ah. The French have such a...

continental way of expressing their gratitude.

Um, and here a rfrence

from the duc de Polignac.

He considers the two years

I spent in his house...

the two most happy years of his life.

Oh, it sounds just like a duke.

Um, what about your wages?

Uh, maybe in beginning $20 a month

would give satisfaction?

Twenty dollars a month!

You see, I've never gone higher

than $14 a month for a personal maid.

If I could only justify the difference.

Let me see.

- Oh, Mother?

- Come here, dear.

- Mademoiselle, this is my little boy.

- Bonjour, mon petit.

- Hello.

- He studies French.

Oh, mademoiselle, you must ask him

something in French. But not too difficult.

Oui. Avez-vous bien travaill

aujourd'hui, mon chri?

Huh?

That's what I was afraid of.

Now be a nice boy and go. I have an idea

that I want to discuss with Mademoiselle.

A brilliant child,

but a little backward in his French.

- And it just occurred to me that -

- Oh, madame.

It will be pleasure talk only French

to little fellow.

My whole vocabulaire

I make present to your baby.

With me in house, in one month I assure

Madame will not recognize own son.

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