Hands Across the Table Page #4

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Yes?

You don't know

where I live.

The subject

hadn't come up.

493 West 120th.

Miss Regi Allen.

See you at 7:
00.

Seventy-five cents, plea-

Oh! No charge.

No charge?

No charge?

No, no charge. No.

When the gong strikes,

the time will be exactly 8:00.

Now, on with the dance.

Well, maybe he said 8: 00.

00's a much better number

than 7:
00 anyway.

No, he said 7:
00.

I heard him, all right.

Well, 7:
00 and 8:00

sound kind of alike.

You'll spoil your dinner

if you keep on

eatin' them nuts.

I guess there isn't

gonna be any dinner.

Oh, now, maybe

he forgot the address,

and he's walking

up and down the block.

Pinky dear, you go stand

in front of the house so he'll know.

Me?

Mm-hmm.

He wouldn't know me.

He might.

You're always forgetting people.

No, he didn't

forget the address.

He forgot the date.

Well, I guess it was

too good to be true.

Regi, I think you're

well out of it.

Those numbers

didn't add up at all good,

and that three

is dangerous for you.

Oh, that's him!

And it's a four!

What'd I tell you?

Well, tell him to wait.

I'll be right down.

Hello. Regi'll be-

I mean, Miss Allen

will be right down.

All right. Thank you.

Oh! Oh, what a grand

speaking voice!

Do I look all right?

Oh, you look swell.

Oh, my bag and gloves!

Pinky, would you mind-

Don't forget to be refined.

You know the kind of girls

he's used to.

Oh, I'll be a lady, all right.

I've been practicing for this for years.

Au revoir.

See you in the society page-

Oh, my!

- Oh! It's the hiccups.

- It's the nuts.

Oh, people in society

don't act that way.

Maybe you haven't got 'em.

Breathe in and out.

You stupe!

How else can you breathe?

Here. Drink this.

I guess they're gone,

all right. Thanks.

You were sweet to stop in.

Good-bye.

Now, don't worry, dear.

We'll lock up.

Listen, don't forget

to be refined.

Will you have a cocktail?

Yes, I'd love

an old-fashioned.

Two old-fashioneds,

please.

Ah! Young lady,

you stand on the threshold...

of the greatest

experience in life.

Until we entered this restaurant

you had only been existing.

Now you're about to live.

I envy you.

What is it?

Onion soup.

Onion soup?

Oh, don't say it like that.

Say it with reverence.

Please give it the respect it's entitled to.

Onion soup.

No, no, no.

More tenderly.

Put a caress in it.

Onion... soup?

Well, that's better.

Waiter, onion soup.

Bi-A big quantity.

Bring me a big vat.

And the young lady?

Cup? Yes, ma'am.

So that's your gratitude.

No, I-

Why,you have

the hiccups.

Yes. I'm sorry.

Well,you're very lucky.

It so happens that you're

sitting with one of the world's

most eminent hiccup specialists.

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