The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond Page #3
and the clasps
are getting loose,
and you're so careless
with things.
- It's such a special occasion.
Please, Auntie?
- Oh.
Jimmy,
fasten them for me?
too much black coffee.
The receiving line's
breaking up.
- What do I do?
- Wait till the lady
extends her hand.
Then just take it and smile.
Why, Caroline.
Why, you've got that band
that played so divinely
at Jessie Strutt's.
I bet when I walk in,
they'll strike up
my favorite number.
- Which is what?
- One moment.
Let me appear.
Fats!
Fats, my song.
Come on, let's dance.
- She tips that band leader $50
for every dance
he plays for her.
- I wonder what she tips
the governor's grandson.
- Shall I inquire?
- I dare you.
- Accepted.
Mr. Dobyne,
I've been released
for the waltz.
- I'm sorry, Miss...
- Caroline.
- But I'm not employed by you.
Excuse me.
- Thank you.
Jimmy.
Where on Earth were you?
What were you doing?
- I promised Dad I'd call him
about Mama's condition.
- Did you?
- It was a promise.
I said I found her fine.
- Your instincts
are infallible.
And you're the cynosure
of all female eyes at the party.
Let's, uh...
- Yes?
- Cool off on the terrace.
- Whatever you say.
- Fisher.
- Yes?
- What lovely earrings.
- Thank you,
my teardrop diamonds.
- Your ears
are weeping diamonds.
- Where'd you get them?
- Naturally, from Woolworths.
Will you let us get through?
This room is suffocating.
How cool,
the river wind.
- Music is so much nicer
from a distance.
See the boat
go round the bend
Good-bye, my lover,
good-bye
All loaded down
with boys and men
Good-bye, my lover,
good-bye
Bye, oh, my baby
Bye
Jimmy?
- Jimmy!
- Murderer's daughter.
- Shut up.
Are you hurt, Fisher?
- Where'd you go?
- If I said, "To pee,"
would it be embarrassing to you?
Oh, Lord, Jimmy.
I'm not sure if embarrassment
is still an emotion
I could feel.
- Let's go.
Come on, Dad.
Let's go.
Come on.
- Lead the way.
- I got you.
- Is this my mail?
- Go through it
right after breakfast.
- I have to go through this
right now.
Another, please.
- Fisher,
you shouldn't begin the day
with two cups of black coffee.
- What should I begin it with,
Auntie?
I must have missed it.
This is the latest
that it could have arrived
if it was ever going to.
- What are you referring to,
Fisher?
- My invitation
to Susie Bracken's party,
the most important
coming-out party of the season.
- Let me go through
the mail for you.
- You wouldn't find it either.
She ignored me completely
last night,
so I'm not surprised.
- I am.
- It's not the end
of the world.
- Nor the beginning.
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