Ex-Lady Page #5

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- Get me Mr. Fletcher on the

phone. Hurry! -Yes, sir.

- Other things have happened too. -What?

We thought the Dorothy Gray conference

wasn't coming up until after the 1st.

- Yes? -But they had a meeting and

wanted to do something right away on...

- ... that special campaign for that

new perfume. -Yes, but what happened?

I tried to give them some ideas, but

they wouldn't listen to me. And so...

...well, they gave it to someone else.

Well, that's that.

But I don't think we lost the account,

Mr. Peterson. Just on that one campaign.

- "Just on that one campaign. " -Yeah.

I counted on that. I needed it.

It's my fault. I shouldn't have gone.

I might have foreseen this would happen.

A stitch in time usually...

- Why don't they get Fletcher?

What's the matter? -Yes, sir.

- Oh, Don. Please don't

worry about it. -Hmmph.

We didn't miss any bills...

Hello. Fletcher Company? Get me

Mr. Simon Fletcher, please.

This is Mr. Peterson talking.

Hello, Mr. Fletc...

Oh.

Mr. Fletcher is out. To me.

That's $8000 a year we lose.

We took a trip.

Now if we lose Dorothy Gray,

we can close up shop.

Oh, Don, I'm sorry.

We had to take a trip.

Don, please. I wanted us

to have a honeymoon.

Mm-hmm. You wanted us

to have a honeymoon.

Don, please!

All that is gone now.

Take the Romanticists.

Look what they did.

For the harmony and the

purity of the classics...

...they substituted the capricious

standards of the Middle Ages.

Fantastic? Picturesque?

Imaginative? Yes!

But sentimental.

That other thing which had precision,

truth, unadorned beauty...

That's all gone now.

- My boilers can stand more

strain than... -Indeed?

Oh, yes, my, yes.

They've been subjected to 50 years of

wear & tear, and have stood every test.

- Every test? -Every test. My boilers...

His boilers...

- How are your boilers, Mr. Peterson?

- I'm doing fine. Thank you.

Oh, let me forget.

What were you saying?

Something else about my boilers:

They're made of a very secret

alloy. Did you know that?

- No. -Of course not. Few people

know anything about boilers.

There's something else

you'd never guess:

My boilers are the best boilers

manufactured in the world.

Van Hugh inherited this place.

I inherited the boilers,

from my grandfather.

- It's been a grave responsibility.

- Of course.

Entertainment is needed.

Madame Godzinskaya, would

you favor us with a number?

Delighted.

I forgot the words!

- There's another thing about

my boilers... -Good heavens!

I beg your pardon?

The song was so touching.

Swell evening, wasn't it?

What's the matter?

Boilers.

What?

Boilers, boilers, boilers. I've heard so

much about them, I hope they all bust.

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