You Were Never Lovelier Page #3

you wanted of me?

Just your permission to go out

and hang myself.

Fernando.

Fernando!

Fernando!

What?

Were you sleeping again?

Tell me, my dear Fernando,

why do I put up with you?

I don't know, Mr. Acuna...

...unless it's because I'm your

third cousin on your wife's side.

Ah, yes. Did you get Mrs. Castro?

Mrs. Castro is on her way here.

All right.

Now go back to sleep, Fernando.

I dare you to!

- Hi, Fernando.

- Good morning, Mr. Davis.

It's good to hear the voice

of a human being again. Sit down?

No, thanks. I'd like to see

Mr. Acuna if he's not busy.

This morning he's nervous.

He probably won't see you.

- How'd you make out?

- Oh, fine.

I opened my mouth too wide

and kept it open too long.

I want to apologize to the old boy.

Mr. Robert Davis wants

to see you, Mr. Acuna.

I don't lik e Mr. Robert Davis.

I don't want to see him.

Advise him to go back to New York

and don't be subtle.

Throw him out!

But look, Mr. Acuna, I just...

This is the first time anything

like this has ever happened to me.

Oh, lady.

Better not to go in there. Nervous.

- Good morning, Maria.

- Eduardo.

I'm a worried man. Maria,

besides having the same name...

...you and my Maria have a lot

in common, haven't you?

Well, I'm her godmother,

we should have.

Would you say she has a personality

like the inside of a refrigerator?

I certainly would not.

But she freezes men to death.

She turns on that sophistication...

Sophistication, fiddlesticks!

Maria's as old-fashioned

as a hoop skirt.

Ridiculous! I know my own daughter.

You think you know

your own daughter.

I know there's something wrong.

She hasn't fallen in love

since she was 15...

...when she got starry-eyed about

that silly knight on a white horse.

- Lochinvar?

- Yes.

You'd think she'd have outgrown

a tin hero by now.

She's probably waiting

for a myth to come to life.

Oh, nonsense! Will you stop thinking

of Maria as a child? She's a woman.

I know women. They all fall in love

with an illusion. I'll get her over that.

Will you leave Maria alone

and stop worrying?

Someday, a man will come along

who will stir her imagination.

How?

By doing something

more romantic than the others.

Such as?

Well, perhaps by sending her flowers

from an "unknown admirer"...

...intriguing her

with just the right kind of note.

Fernando! Get the two most

beautiful orchids you can find.

Bring them here for a note

to be attached.

Eduardo, don't you meddle with this.

If I don't do something,

she'll get hurt.

I won't stand by and let her waste the

best years of her life chasing knights.

Have you gone crazy?

You can't manufacture romance.

I'll create an unknown admirer

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