This Time for Keeps

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[SINGING ""AGNUS DEI""]

Frances, don`t slouch.

-I wish you used your father`s name.

-Why?.

Because then when we`re married,

l`d be known as Mrs. Richard Herald ll.

So being Mrs. Dick Johnson

isn`t gonna be important enough for you?.

Don`t be silly, Frances.

Everyone will know that Richard Herald

is your father-in-law.

Ladies and gentlemen...

...for 25 years now...

...you have been showing great kindness

to me and my work.

So with you I would like to share

the happiness of my heart...

...in welcoming home a young soldier

just returned from serving his country.

Soon I hope you shall hear him

as a new member of our opera company.

And with your kind permission...

...I should like to introduce to you

my son, Dick.

[AUDlENCE APPLAUDlNG]

Dick, what`s the matter with you?.

Why don`t you stand up?.

Dick, wait for your father

and bring him to the party.

Frances, you come with me.

But Mother, l`d rather go with Dick.

Don`t be difficult, Frances.

I want you to come with me.

All right, Mother.

Make your father hurry.

Thanks, Dad.

That was the happiest moment

of my life.

A bottle of beer, Dick?.

No, l`m still not used to having it cold.

I`ll get it, Dad.

You didn`t go with Frances

and her mother?.

No, I waited to bring you

to the party, Dad.

Mrs. Allenbury suggested it.

Quite a suggester, that lady.

I`m glad you waited.

I want to talk to you.

Why are you laughing on your face?.

It`s just that that tone of voice of yours

will always make me feel like a rookie.

-A rookie?.

-A beginner.

Oh, no, in the opera,

you will no longer be a rookie.

I`ll see to that myself.

Dad, l`m not sure I wanna get back

into the opera company.

What do you want?.

Right now, l`d like to spend years

just being out of the Army.

Oh, that.

So you`ll rest yourself for a little while.

Let your voice rest itself.

But your French and your ltalian,

they can`t rest themselves.

But, Dad, I haven`t got a voice like yours.

Who has, except me?.

Your bath is drawn, sir.

Tonight I want a shower.

Yes, sir.

Don`t belittle your voice, Dick.

I guarantee that your audition

is a big success.

Can you hear me, Dick?.

Yes, Dad.

RlCHARD:
. You need a job and a wife

and my grandchildren.

You should have married Frances

before the war.

But no, no, you wanted to wait.

-Now I know why I went to war.

-What are you talking about?.

Girl in the pool`s got everything.

-Yeah?.

-Beautiful eyes, shining hair...

...wonderful skin,

a smile that tickles your ribs...

...and a figure,

oh, boy, for a tape measure.

Oh, she can`t be that gorgeous.

-She is. Right out of Esquire.

-She`s probably somebody`s grandmother.

FERDl [SlNGlNG] :

There`s lots of pretty faces in this nation

And lots of very pretty figures too

But there`s a girl

Who `s got the combination

Words fail me

But I`ll picture her for you

She`s got a little bit this

And a little bit that

And a little bit more that`ll knock you flat

Everybody loves that gal

She`s got a little bit, hm

A little bit there

[LAUGHlNG]

Oh, dear me.

When I`m out with her

I count 1-2-3-4-5-6-7

Don `t you think that she follows up

With 7-8-9- 1 0- 1 1

A college graduate.

She`s got a little bit this

And a little bit that

[LAUGHlNG]

Everybody loves that gal

She`s got a little bit this

And a little--

-Hello there.

-Hello.

Tell me whether they`re kidding me

about her.

They say she`s beautiful.

Beautiful! A gross understatement.

Can you picture the Painted Desert

by moonlight?.

Or the fragrance of lilacs

in a New England garden?.

Or a Viennese Waltz played

by Kreisler in D-minor?.

Well, put them all together

and what have you got?.

Nora.

That`s her name.

Why, she`s got pulchritude

A ttitude

She`s got longitude

Latitude

And she`s got fortitude

Mortitude

And not only that, she`s pretty too.

[MEN LAUGHlNG]

Thanks for the description.

Say, are you the boyfriend?.

Them are kind words, soldier.

But I don`t ring her doorbell.

I just answer it.

When are the visiting hours?.

[MEN LAUGHlNG]

My boy, l`m that institution often found

on the front pages of newspapers...

...just a friend of the family.

DlCK [SlNGlNG] :

So easy to idolize

All others above

So worth the yearning for

So swell to keep every home fire

Burning for

We`d be so grand at the game

So carefree together

That it does seem a shame

That you can `t see

Your future with me

Because you`d be

Oh, so easy to love

So can `t you see

Your future, dear, with me

Because you`d be easy

To love

Thank you for the song. It was lovely.

Here I am.

Do you mind?.

No. No, of course not.

You are beautiful.

Thank you.

Oh, no. No, you mustn`t. Your eyes.

Them bandages

is so much spinach, miss.

-What?.

-The doc`s late making his rounds...

...or they`d already be off.

Why, you-- You--

The nerve of that guy.

He must think her kisses

are public domain.

You--

[MEN LAUGHlNG AND WHlSTLlNG]

Dad, I can`t remember.

Was Mrs. Allenbury always so bossy?.

-Who says she is?.

-I do.

Well, maybe she is.

But Frances, she isn`t bossy.

And Frances,

she isn`t a fly-by-night either.

Don`t forget you were three years away.

Lots of girls forgot themselves engaged

sooner than that.

But Frances hasn`t changed a bit.

No, she hasn`t changed a bit.

RlCHARD:
She will never be a bossy

like her mother.

I like her and you like her too.

You`ll do as I say.

Thank you, son. I`ll take them now.

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