Don't Bother to Knock Page #3

What do you want?

Hearts and flowers?

Forever and ever? Love?

Don't be afraid.

It's not a dirty word.

- Photograph of you and Miss Lesley?

- No.

You can have them on match covers

or a souvenir postcard.

- Go away.

- They're in sepia.

Will you just go away?

"Beware of a high forehead,"

my mother said.

I just don't like being sold

something I don't want.

Take the picture. Don't mind him.

Yeah. He's like my husband.

He's mean but he don't mean it.

- I'll bring it shortly. The picture.

- Swell.

Pardon me.

I have to sing a love song.

Another rye, please.

- Are you married?

- Sure. Who's not?

Do you and your wife fight?

Argue all the time?

Some of the time she sleeps.

Seventy-eight percent of the pilots

in Skyway Airlines are married.

Get married, become a statistic.

Yeah. Stay single and you wind up

talking to bartenders.

There's a lull in my life

It's just a void, an empty space

When you are not in my embrace

There's a lull in my life...

I'll bring it shortly, sir.

The lull in my life

What am I supposed to do?

Fly back to Chicago. Find yourself

another bar, find another girl.

Or find a wedding ring? Marriage

isn't the answer to everything.

- Who was talking about marriage?

- Weren't you?

That's all you thought I had

on my mind. You're wrong.

- I wouldn't want to marry you.

- Why not?

Because of the way you are.

They're all finished. We got a new

process, develops them right away.

There's the postcard, folder,

matches, handkerchief and ashtray.

$ 1 per each.

Except the ashtray. He's $2.

I'll take one per each.

Oh, thanks. Thanks a lot!

He's a doll! See you.

- Little Miss Larceny.

- She's a nice kid, Jed.

Reminds me of a chicken thief.

- I wish you'd judge without being glib.

- I bought her pictures. Why get angry?

I'm not angry. I'm just furious.

There's the reason

I wouldn't marry you.

- That's the reason.

- What?

That camera girl. Any person. The way

you treat people. The way you think.

All you can focus on

is the cold outside of things.

Not any causes or whys or wherefores.

You're sweet and fun. And you're hard.

You lack something I ask for in a man.

- And what's that?

- An understanding heart.

- Are you through?

- Good and through.

- Let's make this the end.

- I'll go along with that.

Yes, go along!

- Eight, sir?

- Yeah.

I hope the liquor was

satisfactory, sir.

- Do you double as manager here?

- I've been here 14 years.

- You're lucky to have a steady job.

- Oh, it has its ups and downs, sir.

Most people laugh at that one, sir.

- Good night, sir.

- Good night.

LYN:

How blue the night

How long the day

How blue the night

With you away

How strange it seems

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