Flamingo Road Page #4

and I notice that business

has been pretty good.

- You ever wait a table before?

- Once.

Here no one will know the difference.

Okay. You wait lunch and supper.

Ten dollars a week, your meals and tips.

Well, you can do better than that.

Everybody knows the restaurant business

better than I do.

- I think it's wonderful. I'll take it. Thanks.

- What for? So you're getting fallen arches.

Hey, Millie, the new girl here starts

tomorrow, noons and supper.

Oh, good.

- May I have a check, please?

- Did you ever wait table before, honey?

- Well, not in a cafe.

- Ain't anything to it.

Just bring them in full,

take them out empty,

and don't drop the tray

when someone pinches you.

And you'll get pinched.

Millie, you don't happen to know of

a good, cheap room someplace, do you?

Only kind I do know.

I tell you what. You and me could go in

on a double, if you want to try it?

That'd be swell.

- You got a place to stay tonight?

- Yes. Yes, I have. Thanks.

- None of my business, mind you.

- Let's get out of here.

- Well, I'll see you tomorrow.

- Okay.

Look, I'm not gonna try and thank you

for everything now, but...

Well, thanks, anyway.

Hey, bub.

Surprised to see you, bub.

Thought you'd be having a fancy dinner

up on Flamingo Road.

Well, Coyne cleared out.

- Miss Bellamy here is all he left.

- Hi.

This ain't a very good town

to get stranded in.

- Well, no town is.

- Pete just gave her a job. I asked him to.

That's good.

We got a nice town, Miss Bellamy.

We aim to keep it that way.

Everybody working and happy.

- I'll take you home.

- You do that, Field.

You've got a great reputation for courtesy.

- Figure to see you later.

- Yeah.

Like to have

some more milk, Sheriff?

Yeah, fill it up.

Was that fat man telling me

to get out of town?

I never know for sure

what he means, myself.

Hey, he gives me the creeps.

We had better looking people

than that in our sideshows.

- Do you like him?

- No.

Now that I come to think of it,

I don't guess I do.

Well, how come you work for him then?

Well, he's a very important man

in this town.

That's a very funny reason.

You don't have to stay here tonight.

You know that, don't you?

Sometimes a nice guy comes along

and even the things he says

don't sound the way they did

when somebody else said them.

Would you like to sit on my porch

for a minute?

Yeah.

It's funny how everything can change

within a couple of hours.

Supposing I had run away with Coyne

and the others,

I would've just had to keep on going.

Got to stop sometime

because after a while you get afraid.

Then there isn't anything left

that you want or care about.

- You don't feel like that now, do you?

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