Two for the Seesaw Page #6

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- Is that why you took off?

- Partly.

Yeah. I was worried about ya and I called

two or three times but no answer.

I walked out on you and you still call?

- Two times.

- Gittel.

Gittel, you need taking care of,

you don't look after yourself.

- You'd object more.

- To what?

Like now. Why aren't you taking

my head off about the time?

- Why, what time is it?

- After five.

- It takes practise. Go ahead.

- Go ahead, what?

Object! Holler! Who am I to call

at this hour! If you resent it, say.

- Why are you hollering?

- For your own good.

I don't like to holler,

it makes me nervous.

- Besides, I'm glad you phoned.

- Why?

What makes you so dumb?

I was worried about ya!

Better. All you need is practise. Go ahead.

Who's practising? You think I'm nuts?

Look at the time!

You call after 5am to practise hollering?

No. I called to tell you

that you're a wonderful girl.

- Don't give anything away till I see you.

- Huh?

Seems I am on the market

for a whole human being after all.

Your whole human being,

with ulcers, no appendix and all.

Ooh, it must be some bridge,

that Queensboro!

Yeah, the view was great.

That birthday candle you lit under me

cast a light all the way to Omaha.

- Omaha, Nevada.

- Where you got smothered with charity?

Swallowed up till I didn't have a friend

or an ashtray to call my own.

No matter how lovingly it's done,

it still isn't calculated

to make a man feel...

well, manly, let's say.

Jerry, just so I'll understand all this, talk

down to me a little bit. Like A, B, C, OK?

OK. I met Tess in my last year in college.

Her father Lucius,

the blowhard of all time,

was so rich that he didn't care

that I wasn't. Clear?

- Yeah, yeah, go on.

- OK.

Between them, they took me over.

A law scholarship was wangled for me,

I was accepted into the family law firm.

Lucius even built the house

Tess and I lived in.

A very grand house. A very plush kennel

for an unpedigree pup.

And there you are.

What'd you see when you looked

back with the candle?

That I had asked for it.

It wasn't done to me. I could have hollered

stop or walked out, but I didn't.

Half of my life's been a handout

I asked for.

Seeing that, I finally walked out

on one tonight. From you.

It just wasn't a good enough

beginning for us.

You know something, Jerry? A person

could get pretty confused talking to you.

Have breakfast with me

and I'll try and unconfuse you?

Sure. I'm having a tooth pulled at nine

so make it after.

I'll probably be spitting

a lot of blood, so...

I mean... we won't be able to do anything.

Why don't I come to the dentist with you?

- What for?

- 'Cause I want to.

See you in a while.

What do you do when a tooth bleeds?

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