Sabotage Page #4

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Thank you.

This bivalve's rate of fertility

is extremely high.

After laying a million eggs,

the female oyster changes her sex.

I don't blame her.

- Excuse me, can I help you?

- Oh, thank you.

Its feet are cold.

Isn't it fat?

You'd be fat, too, if you were fed

corn and bits of bread all day long.

- Why, if it isn't Stevie and Mrs. Verloc.

- It's Ted, look. Ted.

Yes, it always is.

Fat, isn't it? Ought to eat more fruit.

You and your fruit. That's our lunch today.

Is that all? How about a nice juicy steak

with me? What about it?

- I'm all for it.

- Stevie!

- Good. Where shall we go?

- I'd like to go to Simpsons.

A boy I know,

his uncle took him there once.

Don't be silly, Stevie, we're going

to the corner house to a teashop.

Don't be too hard, Mrs. V,

let's make it Simpsons.

Come on.

- Have you ever been here before?

- No, never.

Stevie, look what you're doing.

You're pulling the tablecloth.

I saw a picture once where a chap

snatched the tablecloth off the table

and left everything standing on it.

- You ought to try that at home one day.

- He did.

All this is very expensive, isn't it?

Yes, it looks like it, doesn't it?

I've got a pound note if you want it.

It's all right.

Now, Steve, setting aside the steak

for a moment, we have here before us

oysters, caviar, smoked salmon,

- fried, grilled or boiled sole.

- I'll have a...

Roast saddle of mutton, Kentish

Chicken Pudding, boiled silverside,

roast sirloin, chopped steaks,

grilled kidneys or roast duck.

MRS. VERLOC:
I think Stevie'd like

a nice poached egg on toast

and I'll have a mixed salad.

Here, drink this.

Poached egg here at Simpsons?

Why, that's enough to make the roast beef

turn in its gravy.

Three bullocks roasted whole,

and a cup of coffee.

WAITER:
Sirloin at Number 8.

When did you come over from America?

About a year ago.

Business wasn't too good over there.

That's funny.

People used to go to the States because

business wasn't too good over here.

- How are things here now, not too good?

- Not terribly.

I hadn't noticed you turning people away.

It's hard to make a one-man business

pay these days,

unless you run a sideline.

Has Mr. Verloc a sideline?

No, but we're quite satisfied

with things as they are.

Just one happy little family.

Just one happy little family.

Mr. Verloc's very kind to Stevie.

And that means a lot to Stevie's sister.

It means everything.

- Now here we are.

- Good morning, sir.

No fat for you, as usual?

You see, I don't forget.

I haven't seen you for a long time.

Do I look as though I don't like fat?

- What's the big idea?

- What idea?

First, pretending

never to have been here before.

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