The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond Page #2

a dog was very, um...

destructive.

I'm so sorry.

- Susie,

will you please take

this beast upstairs,

and will you please bring me up

a steaming-hot glass of milk

and a hot water bottle

and tell Auntie Fisher

I'm gonna sleep for hours

and to get Miss Grace

to cancel any engagements

on my list for today?

Say I'm dead

or something else to amuse them.

- You've still got

your party dress on.

- Fisher.

Was that Fisher?

Fisher.

- Hello, Mama.

How are they treating you?

I need to talk to you.

It's about a girl.

She made this proposition,

and I just wanted to know

what you would think.

Mama, it's Jimmy.

- A young man

just arrived in a truck,

says he's expected by you.

- Fisher.

- In here, Jimmy.

I nearly despaired

of your arrival.

The party's been on

for an hour.

Look, all of your dress clothes

are laid out on the bed.

Please, get into them

lickety-split.

Jimmy, you look dazed.

Is something wrong?

- I visited mother today.

She didn't know who I was.

- Jimmy,

she'll soon be out.

- Mama was committed.

- There are better places.

Arrangements can be made.

It's just a question of time.

Get out of those wet things.

Susie, bring Jimmy a brandy,

or would you like champagne?

You've had a shock.

Make it champagne

laced with brandy.

- I'm undressing

right in front of you

as if you weren't a girl.

- Propriety is a waste of time.

We don't have time to waste.

Get right into the tuxedo.

- This thing looks complicated.

- Oh, Susie will help you,

or would you accept help

from me?

- Susie, please.

- I see.

Well, Susie,

make sure he comes down

to be presented to Aunt Cornelia

impeccably dressed

in the contents of that box.

This is going to be the first

debut party of the season

at which I will shine

with pride.

- Fisher,

Mr. Van Hooven's waiting.

- What?

Oh, my goodness.

Did I forget to tell him

that my escort tonight

is James Dobyne V?

- What?

- What?

- Oh, Van, don't get up.

- You're relieved

of duty tonight.

I have another escort.

So you and Aunt Cornelia

can spend the evening together

discussing old times.

- I don't understand this

at all.

- I don't understand.

- The explanation

is about to enter.

Mr. James Dobyne,

Aunt Cornelia Fisher

and her attorney,

Craig Van Hooven.

Well...

- Dobyne?

- Dobyne?

- Oh, Aunt Cornelia,

surely you remember

Governor Dobyne.

- Governor Dobyne.

- And this young man is-

- His grandson.

Good night, Auntie.

We're terribly late.

Have fun together.

Play cards

or discuss litigations

or consummate

the long romance between you.

Aunt Cornelia,

may I wear the teardrop

diamond earrings tonight?

- Those earrings

are worth $10,000, Fisher,

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