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Come on, let's you and me stand him and her.

It's a go, huh?

Brian, throw it here!

Now we're even.

Say, how about that cocktail we were going to have last night for dinner?

Can we have it tonight?

When are you leaving this boat, Mr. Bradley?

I'm going all the way to Buenos Aires. How about you go?

All the way to Buenos Aires.

Is that game Dinah?

Dinah?

Yes, yes, I know. The passenger list calls you Miss Diane Lovering.

But I call you Dinah.

In heaven's name, why?

Well I had a black-faced doll when I was about a year and a half old... I called her Dinah.

I loved her very dearly. I couldn't go to sleep unless she slept under my bed every night in a shoebox.

I'm sorry. I don't see the comparison.

Except that Diane reminds me of Dinah, that's all.

Oh.

You see. There you go getting petty, yeah, yeah.

Look, I'm out for laughs, Dinah, that's all.

Good.

Yeah, and you look kind of silly as you are...

Oh, very silly.

And I'm not a year and a half old anymore.

Wait a minute. We're playing a game.

Oh, pardon me. I forgot, Mam.

Holy cat's Neptune!

There must be a hole in the bottom of the boat.

Let's have a look.

Well. What's the idea? Six thirty, you said. You're 15 minutes early.

Am I?

Then I'm an extraordinary woman.

Ahead of time, ahead of everything.

What are you having?

I don't know. What's yours?

Sherry flip.

Sherry flip?

What's the matter? Are you ill? Seasick?

No, not in the least.

Sherry flip? They give that to people with stomach trouble and the gout.

They serve it in old people's homes on Christmas.

But you see, I happen to like it.

Doesn't fit in with the rest of you at all.

It's the nicest cocktail I know.

Well I'm going to appoint myself a committee of one to show you a cocktail that is a cocktail.

Two Daiquiris. You know, the way you fixed them last night, with Jamaica rhum.

And go easy with that syrup.

No, none for me

Oh, but I insist. That's just soap and water.

There's not tang, no feeling, no ecstasy, no oomph to it.

Where's our good friend Johnny Smith?

I don't know. I left him tying his tie. It was like he was trying to lynch himself.

What are you and Johnny going to Buenos Aires for?

He's in with the younger rats down there.

Oh, frontiersman, huh?

Am I that much of a hick?

I guess these trips and all will take care of that.

Yeah, they help. Here.

A couple of these and you'll find yourself up in the crow's nest.

Well?

Very nice, but...

But what?

May I please have another sherry flip?

Sure. Steward.

Miss Lovering wants another sherry flip. That's a flop.

Yes, sir.

Dinah, you're very beautiful, but you're liar.

Oh, hello.

I thought you said you were going to bed.

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