Kings Go Forth Page #3

a beautiful woman can be...

...but it doesn't take long

to refresh your memory.

I saw what they meant

by the French Riviera.

After a few hours, I got tired of looking...

...at 10,000 other men

wearing the same suit I was...

...and doing the same things I was.

I left the guys at a bistro

and just took off in the jeep.

You are the first American I have seen.

I have been thinking that I must

give something to my first American...

...something I like very much.

I try now to remember

what I thought in that first moment...

...that she was beautiful, I guess.

That I wanted very much to speak to her.

Mademoiselle, je suis American.

Yes, I know.

You speak English.

My mother sometimes says

I speak it perpetually.

Lt. Sam Loggins.

I don't understand.

He does not know

you mean him to keep it.

He has never had a gift before, I think.

Lt. Sam Loggins, Jean-Franois Duvan.

Merci bien, monsieur.

You're welcome.

And now I must go. I am very late.

Thank you again and good-bye.

I know Jean-Franois' name, but not yours.

- I am Monique Blaire.

- Your English is very good.

I am an American.

You're kidding!

Then why do you talk like that?

I was born in Paris.

I have always lived in France.

And you've never been home,

to the United States, I mean?

France is my home.

Whatever it is she's cooking smells good.

What do you call it?

Poulpe.

It tastes very good, too.

Come, I will introduce you to the madame.

That looks good.

That's wonderful.

What do they call this?

Poulpe.

What's it mean?

Octopus.

My father felt the same way.

He loved poulpe.

Very nice.

Can't you recommend something else?

The small sardines, fried crisp in butter.

Could you stay

and have some with me, please?

Thank you, ma'am.

Does she give brandy

to everybody on the house?

Madame is French.

It's unlikely she has ever done so before...

...or that she ever will again.

Tell me what happened

after your father died.

I hung around New York for a while...

...then I realized that everyone I

grew up with were either drafted or in jail.

So I went back to Los Angeles.

Then one day, Mr. Bolling called me

in his office and he said:

"Sam, take a look at the new letterheads."

I looked at them and I said,

"They look fine."

Then I saw it.

The letterhead said,

"Bolling and Loggins, Constructionists."

He made me a partner just like that.

And what did you do then?

I thanked him.

You thanked him,

making your voice very deep...

...then you excused yourself...

...and you went into your own office...

...closed the door...

...and you wept.

You wept because

Mr. Fred Bolling is such a good man.

To tell you the truth...

...I never mentioned this before,

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