Music From Another Room Page #5

- I'm Karen.

- Hi.

- Is that your baby?

- Right.

- Hello. - Can you bring

the baby in here, please?

- Why'd you fire her?

- I don't like her.

She read too fast

and she skipped parts.

He hired his girlfriend

to read for you.

She wasn't one

of my girlfriends.

Right. Your girlfriends

don't know how to read.

Honey.

That's so ridiculous.

Don't start that thing.

Mother used to read for me,

but she finds it hard to breathe now.

What's that sound?

These are...

These are pieces of tile

I keep on me for good luck.

Really?

Can I feel?

Yeah. Here.

That's a piece of red marble.

And that's...

That's a piece of malachite,

another piece of marble.

Is something wrong?

No.

Are you sure?

Yeah. I'm fine.

You can keep those.

- Really? Thank you.

- Feel nice?

Yeah.

I like it.

For good luck?

Good luck.

Do you want corn?

- We have to find someone to read for Nina.

- She uses them up like tissue.

I do not. I don't go

through like tissue paper.

Does everybody know

that Daniel's a tiler?

Maybe he could do our

guest bathroom, honey.

Not that sort of tiler.

Danny's an artist.

- It's a nice bathroom.

- I restore mosaics.

Interesting.

Yeah. Mr. Tambini,

my teacher and mentor...

...said that I have great potential,

potential to be a master tiler.

Fascinating.

- Do you ever do your own work?

- Just restoration at the moment.

- You don't find that limiting?

- Actually, I do.

So, basically you're

a repairman.

- Would you like some wine?

- You know, alcohol is poison.

Please!

Karen, you're the Ralph Nader

of gastronomy.

I'm just telling

you the facts.

I read once where

they took a rat...

...and injected him with alcohol

20 times a day for five years.

- You know what it died of?

- Holes?

- I like this guy.

- Why don't you have some parsley?

Karen, please. We have to

find someone to read for Nina.

I'm going to read

Anna Karenina.

That is the greatest love

story ever written.

- Don't talk about love while I'm eating.

- Father doesn't believe in love.

Daniel's a romantic.

I can tell.

You've been in love,

haven't you, Danny?

Yes, I have, actually.

You have? What's it like?

Tell me.

I'm all pins and needles.

What's it like?

All right.

You know how...

...when you listen to music

playing from another room...

...and you're singing,

because it's a tune that you really love...

...when a door closes or a train passes,

so you can't hear the music anymore...

...but you sing along anyway.

Then, no matter how

much time passes...

...when you hear the music again,

you're still in exact same time with it.

That's what it's like.

I think.

Made my wife cry.

Thank you, Daniel.

That's a good introduction

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