Idiot's Delight Page #3

I also have a very remarkable brain.

Yeah, but a very remarkable way of talking

for a girl who makes her living swinging by her teeth.

I was born for excitement, adventure, danger.

I've had all of them.

I'll have a lot more

before I come to a violent death.

So you've even got that arranged.

Well...

So what are your plans for supper ?

Oh, Mr. Van.

Are you inviting me ?

Don't look at me like that.

I'm only offering to buy you a cup of coffee...

... because I appreciate your kind motives

in busting up our act tonight.

That's very sweet of you, Mr. Van.

I'll get dressed right away.

I'll be proud to be seen in a restaurant with you.

This place, "Eats".

What beautiful simplicity in those words.

They tell a whole story.

Yeah.

How you are, Mr Van ?

You are, lady ?

Special tonight, corned bee hash.

Corned beef hash is always special.

Give me a cup of coffee and some donuts.

What'll you have, babe ?

Oyster stew.

Are the oysters strictly fresh ?

Sure, we fly them in every day

from Baltimore in aeroplane.

Oyster stew.

Oyster stew.

And I'll have corned beef hash with two poached eggs,

whole wheat toast butter then grade A milk.

Aren't you gonna have some dessert ?

Oh, yes. I'll order that later.

I guess you have to eat a lot to keep

your teeth in training for that iron jaw act, eh ?

Yes.

In old Russia we used to serve an entire roast ox before lunch.

Just as an hors d'oeuvre.

You certainly lived on a big scale, babe.

My name isn't Babe.

It's Irene.

Don't worry about that. I call everybody babe.

Perhaps that's why I don't like it.

I'm not everybody.

Oh, I beg your pardon.

I should have realized, you're pretty exclusive.

I am.

I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, Mr. Van.

That's all right. I'm not seriously injured.

You see, I was really born to live in a palace.

So it isn't always easy to adjust myself to as dark a place as Eats.

Well, here's your food.

Perhaps that'll help the adjustment.

85 cents.

She hasn't finished ordering yet.

Careful how you handle those knees.

Ouch !

Yeah, you gotta do it like this.

That's a technique you learn

after you get the Ritz out of your mind.

Oh, I haven't got a table napkin.

I'll get one.

Ain't one napkin enough ?

Not for a repast like this.

Thank you very much, Mr. Van.

Listen, Irene, you can discard the Mr. Van.

My name's Harry.

But I don't like Harry.

What's the matter with it ?

It sounds cheap.

Isn't your name Henry ?

No. And it isn't Harold either.

Very well, Harry.

Whatever I call you, I think you're sweet.

Eat your stew.

Where did you get your education, Harry ?

What makes you think I got one ?

Oh, I know you have. You're like me.

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