The High and the Mighty Page #4

that the pilot can't handle,

you just come to old Ed Joseph.

I'll be glad to go up there and help him

if he needs me.

- Got it?

- Got it.

All right, young man,

it's time to get you buckled down now.

Just make you nice and comfy here.

And the next thing you know

we'll be in the air, all right?

- Mind if I sit next to you during takeoff?

- I would be so pleased.

I am so happy

you wish to sit next to me,

because I have been watching you

walk down the aisle

and have the desire

to say a thing to you.

It is that you are

the first real, alive American girl

I have ever greeted in person.

You are so very beautiful.

I fear I shall feel terribly the ugly one

if all the girls in America

are so beautiful and kind.

I don't think you're going to

have to worry about a thing.

Off.

- Wing flaps.

- Fifteen degrees.

- Mixture.

- Auto rich.

V1 and V2 speeds?

112, 116, that about does it.

- Check the radios, Dan?

- Yeah.

420 ready for takeoff.

Okay, Lennie, let's deliver your tray.

When you have time, I wish you'd come

back and talk to one of my passengers.

All right.

He's a Mr Pardee,

big rumpled-looking man,

sitting halfway back on the right side.

Alsop said he had something to do

with the New York theatre.

I suppose he wants to put you

on the stage.

Call me

if you need your honour defended.

And jump from the frying pan

into the fire?

He's the original frightened Freddie.

Every time you bank or change

propeller pitch, he goes all white.

Grabs on his seat

like it was an electric chair.

Okay.

I thought you were

going to quit smoking.

I did. I haven't smoked

in three hours and 20 minutes.

Go ahead, stain your teeth.

Come see me when you grow up, junior.

What in the world are you

bawling about?

Have I done something to bring this on?

- Nell, cut it out.

- I'm trying to.

I just can't.

It's just, it's all over.

What's over?

Our honeymoon.

Doesn't that mean anything to you?

Of course it does. It's not over

for another 12 hours or so.

And it never has to be

as far as I'm concerned.

Oh, Milo.

I'm scared.

I'm just plain scared.

What are you scared of? We've got

the whole world in front of us.

It's just that we're so young.

And just like you said,

we've got that whole big world

down there.

- And you know what?

- What?

We've got to face it.

I thought you had confidence in me.

Of course I do.

It's just that

all the rest of the people in the world

don't know you like I do.

Supposing I was going to have a baby

and you didn't have a job?

- You're not supposed...

- Suppose I was?

All right.

You're going to have a baby

and I haven't got a job,

there's no food in the apartment,

it's snowing outside,

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