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Like to finish dictating?

Yeah, in a minute.

Miss Lee, have you got any sisters?

One.

How old is she?

Fifteen.

Does she ever confide in you? I mean, does she come to you if something's

bothering her?

Only if it's unimportant.

If it's important, she keeps it to herself.

When she says, don't worry, I worry.

I see.

Sissy?

Yeah?

I'm still pretty new at this parent business, you know.

Give me a problem a thousand miles away, all I need is a slide rule and some

facts, and I can easily take care of it.

Give me a little... Plain, ordinary problem in simple human relations right

at home, and I'm lost.

night, silly.

And who wants to waste it with their mother?

I thought your mother was in Europe, Gail. Oh, she's getting in tomorrow

afternoon. Isn't that something?

She's cutting her trip short just to come to this thing tomorrow night.

I bet you're glad. Just the same. For me?

Yeah, sure I am.

I guess I really do miss her after all.

Sissy?

Is your mother coming?

Oh, I forgot.

Gee, I'm sorry.

Oh, that's okay, Patty.

I couldn't go anyway.

My Uncle Bill gets back to town tonight.

He'd want me to stay at home with him this weekend.

Don't feel bad, sissy.

Next September is a father -daughter picnic.

You can go to that.

I mean...

You can take your Uncle Bill to that.

Of course I can, Susan.

Oh, good afternoon, sir. Hello, French.

Uncle Quiet around here. We're the twins.

Playing cowboys and Indians, sir.

I always thought that was a noisy game.

Well, we've instigated a new approach to an old game, sir.

We are a very fine, old, and little -known tribe referred to as No

-Speakum, No -Yellum, Silent Sioux Indian.

We speak in sign language only.

Brilliant.

With three siblings, one has to use one's resourcefulness whenever possible.

Is Sissy home?

Yes, sir.

Everything all right with her?

We feel she's troubled about something, sir.

Well, I'll have a little talk with her.

What's on the schedule for tonight?

Oh, I took the liberty, sir, of reserving the evening for the young

lady, sir.

Miss Cantelli.

Dinner at the Red Crown.

We thought you could take it from there, sir.

Excellent.

Oh, you better repack. I have to be in Mexico City tomorrow.

Yes, sir.

The sign language is getting a little noisy.

Hi. Hi.

Hi, Uncle Bill. How? I'm glad you're home.

Thank you. We need an...

Oh, no thanks. Not right now. I'm kind of tired.

Uncle Bill, say hello to Mrs. Beasley.

How you do, Mrs. Beasley?

She doesn't like playing Indians.

She said it's too rough.

I always knew Mrs. Beasley had better than average intelligence.

Now, where's Sissy? In her room?

Think so.

Okay. I'll go get her and we'll have some cookies and milk out on the

Okay. Come on, Jody.

Want to bring some milk and cookies out there?

Milk and cookies.

Listen.

Uncle Bill.

Oh, I'm so glad to see you.

Well, you got any big problems?

None.

How's everything in school?

You gonna be home a while this time?

No, I have to go to Mexico City tomorrow afternoon.

Tomorrow?

Well, at least I'll get to see you tonight.

Sure, for a while. I got a date later.

Hello, Freddy.

Come on out when you get through, huh?

Okay.

Well, listen, I just changed my mind about tonight.

You call, Miss Cantelli, tell her I can't make it.

Oh, but sir.

Well, I think I better stay home. I'm getting kind of worried about Sissy.

Want to help us with it?

No, thanks. I'm working on a little puzzle of my own.

Well, don't you look pretty.

Where are we going?

Well, I thought as long as you had a date, Uncle Bill, that I'd go to a movie

with Freddy.

Oh, yeah.

Well, look.

Okay, go ahead.

Have a good time.

Bye. Bye, kids.

Good night, Sissy.

Good night, Sissy.

Night, honey.

Uncle Bill, if Sissy Mary's ready, will he be our uncle or our brother?

Or what?

Well, I don't think we're going to have to worry about that for a long time.

French, will you call Miss Cantelli and just tell her I will be available

tonight? No, sir.

I'm going to get dressed. Yes, sir, but we have a better suggestion, sir.

What's that?

Miss von Holzburg, sir. If you recall, she was daughter to the German

ambassador. Oh, you know, I don't want to bother with the language barrier

tonight.

Just call Miss Cantelli. Sir, what about Miss Larrabee, sir?

French. Yes, sir.

Call Miss Cantelli.

Must we, sir?

Why not?

Oh, sir, when we called her to break the engagement, she was, shall we say,

less... than cordial.

That's my fault. I should have called him.

Maria

Cantelli

here.

Maria?

This is Bill Davis.

early. Yeah. Did you have a good time?

Sure.

Will I see you before you leave tomorrow?

Oh, yeah. I'll come home before I go to the airport.

I'm glad.

Well, good night.

Hey.

You gonna tell me what's wrong?

I know there is something.

Uncle Bill, nothing is wrong.

Nothing at all. Really.

Here are your plane tickets for Mexico City, Mr. Davis.

You leave at six this evening, flight 47.

Fine.

Oh, and Mr. Gaynor called.

He said to remind you that it was imperative that you leave tonight.

Your conference with the Bureau of Reclamation is set for tomorrow morning.

Okay.

Like to finish dictating?

Yeah, in a minute.

Miss Lee, have you got any sisters?

One.

How old is she?

Fifteen.

Does she ever confide in you? I mean, does she come to you if something's

bothering her?

Only if it's unimportant.

If it's important, she keeps it to herself.

When she says, don't worry, I worry.

I see.

Sissy? Yeah.

I'm still pretty new at this parent business, you know.

Give me a problem a thousand miles away, all I need is a slide rule and some

facts and I can easily take care of it.

Give me a little plain ordinary problem in simple human relations right here at

home and I'm lost.

Well, where were we? By the thing about the levels?

We intend to install at various levels gauges to measure pressure.

Saluto. Maria Cantelli here.

Come in here. Come in.

I do not interrupt.

You do, but it's the kind of interruption I like. Miss Lee?

Miss Cantelli? How do you do? Nice to know you, Miss Cantelli.

Well, this is a very pleasant surprise, I must say.

Mr. French, tell me you leave this afternoon on a long trip.

Uh -huh. That's right.

I could not let you go so far away without an apology.

Oh, you don't have anything to apologize about.

I did not mean me. I mean you. You stand me up. You apologize.

We start all over again. Okay, I apologize.

I accept.

Good. That takes care of that.

Say, uh... Oh, my plane goes at six o 'clock.

I drive you to the airport, right?

Okay, yeah. I'll go home, get a bag, and then we can have dinner at the airport.

Good. Yeah.

Well, I got about ten minutes more work to do and then I'll knock off, all

right?

I'll wait for you here. That way you cannot escape.

Who wants to do that?

Listen, I don't want to leave again when I know something's bothering you.

You're unhappy about something.

What are you so unhappy about?

You're not going to tell me?

You couldn't help.

It's nothing serious.

Nothing I shouldn't be able to handle myself.

Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. Now, after I leave, I'll have French take you

out shopping, huh?

Maybe if you buy yourself a real pretty dress or something, you'll feel better.

I have more clothes than I need.

Now, there's got to be something I can get you.

No.

Okay, Sissy.

I hate to leave you like this.

I'll be all right, Uncle Bill.

Take good care of yourself and hurry back.

You bet I'll hurry back.

Bye -bye.

We've got plenty of time before the plane goes.

I'm glad we came early.

Why don't you wait for me in the cocktail lounge while I check in?

You will not disappear.

Fat chance.

Give me 15 minutes, will you? If you are not back in 15 minutes, I come and get

you.

Hi, Gail. What are you doing here?

Meeting my mother. She's getting in from Paris in a few minutes. Oh, I didn't

even know she was gone.

Well, she was supposed to be gone another week. But when I wrote and told

the mother -daughter dinner was tonight, she decided to come back early.

I told her she didn't have to, but... Wait a minute. What's that mother

-daughter dinner?

What's that?

At school tonight.

It's an annual thing. Big deal.

It's tonight?

Sure. Didn't Sissy tell you about it?

No, she didn't.

She's having some of her sketches on display and everything.

Sketches? Sure, from art class.

One of them's up for an award.

She's good, you know.

I know.

I guess she didn't tell you because she knew you couldn't go anyway.

After all, you don't really look much like a mother.

Oh, there's mine.

Gotta go, Mr. Davies. See you around. Bye, honey.

Mother -daughter dinner.

Yes, sir, it is a shame.

Sure, she's been thinking of her mother. It's only been a year. The memory's

still fresh. In a time like this, she's really feeling it.

Well, perhaps when you return, sir, you can make it up to her.

No, it'll be too late then.

Tonight that's important. Right now, while she's feeling lonely.

With me taking off, she probably feels deserted, too.

The French...

There's no way I can get out of this trip, so you're going to have to help

Yes, sir?

Oh, I will, sir.

Yes, right away, sir.

It is a very long 15 minutes, so I come and get you. Yeah, Maria, look, I'm

awfully sorry, but... Oh, no, not again.

Yeah, I've got to break the dinner date again.

Why? Well, I didn't know about it before. See, I just found out they're

mother -daughter dinner at the high school tonight. I'm going to have to be

substitute mother, it looks like.

It's for Sissy, my niece. Oh, no, you don't know her.

Your niece.

Perhaps the same one you were so busy with last night.

That's right, same one.

I don't know how to explain it to you any other way, but I've just got to have

dinner with her tonight.

Believe me, under any other set of circumstances, I'd love to have you join

Us? Yeah, us.

Let's see, if you were here, then she knew I had a date with you, and if you

were here, she'd feel like she was intruding on us, you know, and I want to

this something special for her, you see, just for her.

Perhaps I see you again sometimes when you're not so busy with nieces.

And mother -daughter dinners.

Ciao, Bill.

Oh,

Uncle Bill.

Hey, Sissy, what are you doing here?

Well, Mr. Fring said that you forgot this letter. It was terribly important.

There was so much traffic, I was afraid the taxi wouldn't make it. Oh, that

letter. Yes, that's very important. Thank you.

Well, I guess I'd better get back. The taxi's waiting.

Oh, no, wait, wait, wait a minute. Wait a minute, Sissy.

Have you had dinner yet?

No.

I'm not very hungry.

Well, how about having a little bite with me anyway? There's a nice

right upstairs.

Don't they serve dinner on the plane, Uncle Bill?

Well, sure they serve dinner on the plane. I can eat with a bunch of

anytime.

Tonight I want to have dinner with you.

Okay?

Okay.

Beautiful little room, Uncle Bill.

Sometimes I feel like I spend half my life in airport restaurants.

I always thought that you could hear the planes taking off and landing.

It's so quiet.

You'd never know we're in an airport.

Well, we could be just about anywhere.

A little restaurant in Rome, bistro in Paris.

The place doesn't matter, Uncle Bill.

It's who you're with.

And I'm starved.

And when I was 12, I wanted to be a nurse.

Where do you want to be now that you're an old hag of 15?

An artist.

Painter?

Sketching. I like to sketch scenery.

People.

Miss Gregory says I have possibilities.

Can you draw a picture just like that?

Yeah.

How about a demonstration?

Here? Sure, and draw a picture of me.

That'll be a challenge.

Okay. Here, use that.

Well, Uncle Bill, this is your letter that's so important. Oh, yeah.

Use the envelope, then.

You know, Picasso might have started this way.

There.

There you are.

Well, that's, uh... You kind of flatter me, don't you?

That's how you look to me.

And he keeps it?

It's not that good.

Well, it is to me.

I've got a special reason of my own. I work with a lot of guys always bragging

about their kids, and they're telling me about how talented their daughters are.

So now I've got something to show off about my daughter, too.

Your daughter?

Did I say daughter?

You mind?

No.

Well, we're a family, honey. You and me and Jody and Buffy.

And Mr. French?

And Mr.

French.

Sometime, Uncle Bill, I'll tell you a secret about tonight.

I better get going.

Gosh, you went so fast.

Why, Mr. Davis, what a surprise.

Well, Maria Cantelli, what are you doing here?

I just happened to be seeing off an old friend.

I thought I'd come in for a cup of coffee.

And this must be your lovely niece.

Yeah, that's Sissy. Honey, this is Miss Cantelli.

How do you do, Miss Cantelli?

You are leaving on a trip, Bill?

Yeah, I have to go to Mexico City. In fact, the plane's loading up right now.

Sissy's not going.

Oh, well, then I am in luck. I do not have to have coffee alone.

May I sit down with you, Zizou?

Oh, sure.

You'd better hurry up and catch your plane.

Perhaps we will see each other soon?

Definitely, yes.

Bye -bye.

Bye -bye.

For me, you order a cup of coffee.

From now on, I trust you.

Thank you. To a certain extent.

Oh, thank you.

I even believe about your mother -daughter dinners.

So, I get her to tell me all about it. And then tonight, perhaps, I am her

mother. We go to her school together.

She'd appreciate you suggesting it, but she wouldn't go for it. Oh, she won't.

No, it doesn't count unless it's her real mother. Or else a reasonable

facsimile, and that's me.