The Longest Week Page #4

You probably didn't get a good...

It's a little feminine.

The woman at Bergdorfs

told me it was unisex.

Hi. She was clearly lying.

He smells pretty, doesn't he?

Um, Beatrice,

this is my 'friend' Conrad.

Conrad, Beatrice.

We've met.

Just briefly.

On the subway.

Subway?

I gave him my, um...

Scarf.

She gave me her scarf. It was cold.

I'm gonna need that back from you.

OK. I'll give it to you.

I can get it from you...

to give to her.

- I'm gonna... I think I see foie gras.

- Yep.

- Want some? Duck?

- No.

Take your time.

He's... That's so nice of you.

Obviously I've got

a target on my back.

I didn't even know it.

I didn't even know it.

And listen to this.

My mistress says

she doesn't want to have sex

because she's afraid

she'll get pregnant.

I told her at the rate

we have intercourse

the only way that's going to happen is

from immaculate conception.

Didn't you say she was on the pill?

Yeah, yeah, she is,

but she says she's afraid of the 1%

and, besides, she wants to get off, it

gives her mood swings.

Awful. Just awful.

You already have a wife that

doesn't want to sleep with you.

Touch.

Honey, have you met, um...

Don't you find that the...

...the virtuous ideals

of the Victorian authors

are somewhat unrealistic

and sentimental?

No, not at all.

And as the century went on,

the scope of the genre

became far more complex.

You do realise that the moniker

of 'Victorian literature'

ranges from the Bront sisters

to Kipling?

Yes.

Have you ever actually

read any of their books?

No, but I'm...

...I'm heavily considering it.

She wouldn't have left. She...

she asked me to say goodbye, so...

There she is.

Hey.

Hi.

So where... where you heading now?

I have to go to bed.

I have work in the morning.

Yeah, me too. I'm gonna...

So what are you

working on these days?

Nothing in particular.

I'm open to ideas.

You sound very ambitious.

Actually, I am in

the gathering stages of a novel.

It is to be one of the great

New York novels

in the tradition

of Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton.

You've been in the gathering stages

for over a decade.

Well, all good things take time.

I rushed my first novel.

I don't want to suffer

the same pitfalls

as my predecessors

with my sophomore effort.

"Rushed"? I don't think

you finished your first novel.

And I'm pretty sure it can't

qualify as a sophomore effort

if you don't finish your first book.

You finish...

Nonetheless, everybody knows

that there are certain pitfalls

associated with a sophomore effort

that I simply want to avoid.

Period.

Avoid it by not doing it.

Dylan!

Well... goodnight.

Goodnight.

Don't you try anything.

I won't.

Don't try anything.

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