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Children, we only have time for a brief romp in the park. Jody must not be late

for his dental appointment.

Teeth are funny. You get them and you lose them, and then you get them again.

Sure is a lot of trouble.

It's a natural order of things.

Oh. Come on, Buffy. Let's play football.

Then maybe my loose tooth will get knocked out.

Save us the trip.

Jody, the dentist doesn't intend to pull your tooth.

He merely wishes to check your bite.

Really? Bite him good, Jody.

What about eating the meat, Jody?

It hurts my teeth.

Oh, Jody, stop feeling sorry for yourself.

All the dentist did was make a wax impression.

Well, it hurts.

No, you only think it hurts. Your problem is psychosomatic.

Psychosomatic?

Psychosomatic. It's all in his head.

Of course it is. That's where all my teeth are.

Eat the meat.

Yes, sir.

I haven't even gone to school.

Oh, fine.

Oh, our guidance counselor asked what we wanted to be, and I said a nurse.

Wasn't it actress last week?

Oh, well, that still goes.

But this way I can be a nurse and work my way through dramatic school.

Oh, that's right.

I'm going to be a secretary.

Like Miss Travers?

Who's Miss Travers?

Oh, Miss Emily Travers, sir.

We met her in the park today. She's awful pretty.

Really?

Most attractive.

It was quite a coincidence, sir. She recognized the children by name.

It appears that she overheard a conversation once between her employer

yourself.

Oh, yeah? Where she work?

Mr. Warner, International Construction.

Research department.

Oh, research.

Oh, a little short brunette, kind of a little bit too... Not too at all, sir.

Just right, one would say.

She must have made quite an impression, Mr. French.

Oh, Travers, yes.

Very pretty.

Mm -hmm.

Blonde, nice big blue eyes, yeah.

Oh, somewhat greenish, sir. Oh, to be more precise, sir,

It's a limpid hue one associates with the tropical reefs of the Caribbean,

Gosh, Mr. French, I wish that my boyfriends would describe my eyes like

Oh, well, just a figure of speech.

They shook hands for a long time when they said goodbye.

I don't know which one was holding on.

Maybe both.

Tyrone, may I join you? Please do, Mr. Hardcastle. Thank you.

Seen anything of our Mr. French?

Not since yesterday, when he and the children met a young lady here and took

to tea.

Tea, eh? Is she British?

I don't think so.

Miss Favisham tells me French seems to have gone quite crackers over the young

woman.

French?

Giles?

Hard to believe it. She's only half his age.

Let him chase her. He'll never catch her.

As for the chasing, it's rather the other way round.

She is chasing him?

Stands to reason she's got to be frumpy, I must say.

Of course.

Thick glasses and flat shoes. What else?

Do you think she'll come to the park today, Mr. French?

I've no idea.

She sure likes you, Mr. French.

Perhaps, yes.

Play, hmm? Come on, Buffy.

I must be running along.

Good afternoon, Mr. French. Ah, Miss Favisham.

Gentlemen.

Leaving so soon, Miss Favisham? Yes.

Music class for Peter. He's rather reluctant.

Till tomorrow night, Miss Fabersham.

Wimpole Street and all that.

Are you expecting somebody, old man?

No, not particularly.

Perhaps looking at his watch for no reason at all.

In certain servants' quarters, you are being titled the Casanova of the

Backstairs.

I find amateur humor rather less amusing than the professional.

I trust you're in no hurry to leave, Mr. Hardcastle.

Oh, no, I find this rather fascinating today.

Oh, if you'll excuse me, gentlemen.

Well, good afternoon, Emily.

Hello, John.

Oh, um, Mr.

Hardcastle. Mr.

Tyburn.

Miss Travers.

Well, I'm delighted to meet you both.

Giles has spoken of you as his dear friends.

I'm delighted to meet you, Miss Travers.

Enchanted.

And now, if you'll excuse us, we will stroll.

Gorgeous creature.

And she called him Giles.

They say love is blind.

But this, my dear fellow, is ridiculous.

Hi. Oh, hi, Uncle Bill.

Well, it's a very cute outfit.

Oh, thank you. I hope Freddy notices it. I'm going to the library and study

psychology with him. Okay.

I nearly forgot.

You had a long -distance call from Buenos Aires.

Operator 843. I've been waiting for that one, right. 843.

See you later.

Good luck with Freddie.

Uncle Bill, I'm going there to study psychology.

Freddie's incidental.

That's right.

That's what I said.

Hello.

Operator 843, please.

Hello.

My name's Davis. You got a call for me from Buenos Aires?

I'm home now. Yeah.

Call me here. Okay.

Oh, hello.

Excuse me. I was expecting Mr. French.

Oh, well, he's not here right now. This is... He took my little girl for a

dancing lesson.

Oh,

I see.

Well, I'm sorry to have disturbed you, Mr. Davis.

It's okay. I know you, Don.

Well, not really.

We've seen each other in my boss's office.

I work for Mr. Warner at International Construction.

Oh, sure, that's it. You're Miss Travers, Emily Travers. Yeah, friends

kids have been going on and on about you.

Well, I'm very fond of them.

Oh, good.

Excuse me. Come in, come in.

I'm waiting on this one. This one's cold.

Hello?

Yeah.

Okay, operator.

Yeah, thank you. Keep trying.

Sit down.

Uh -huh.

You are Ackermarine.

What are?

Your eyes are Ackermarine. That's what French said.

He made a big impression on him.

Well, Mr. French is unique.

A gentleman of the old world.

Right. Well, the kids are pretty taken with you, too, it looks like.

Oh, I almost forgot. I dropped by to give them this little present. Oh,

very sweet.

It's nothing very elaborate.

Just a game of quates.

Quates?

Oh, yeah, some like horseshoes. I used to play them.

Mm -hmm.

Well, thank you very much. That gave a big kick out of that.

They're such wonderful children.

Jody is an old boy, but he has such wonderful manners, and he's so polite,

well, Buffy is just amazing.

Yep. Well, I can't take much credit there. I mean, the politeness is

department.

Perhaps, but I think you've had an influence on them, too.

You know, I shouldn't be telling you this because we hardly know each other,

I've admired you for some time from a distance.

What for?

Well, it can't have been easy.

A successful business executive with a tremendous workload and a bachelor with

no previous experience.

Raising a family.

Yeah, well, French and I do all right. I mean, we really do pretty well for a

couple of fellas, but I used to hear sometimes when we need a woman's touch

around here.

Well, who knows?

Maybe someday you'll find just the right girl and she'll fit right in here.

Maybe.

Excuse me. That's got to be it.

Hello?

Yes, speaking.

Sure, yeah, put him on.

Hello?

Yes, sir.

Huh?

Wait just a second.

I think this is going to take a little longer than I thought.

Well, I'll be leaving.

It was so nice meeting you, Frank. Nice meeting you. I'm sorry you missed Mr.

French. He's going to be very unhappy.

Bye -bye. Bye.

See, Buffy, it's easy.

You're a very good quiz player, Jody.

Mine always...

Yes, well, pick up your game and go to bed, children.

Night, Uncle Will.

Night, Dee. Night. Night, Mr. Frank. Hey, don't forget, write thank you

We won't.

Miss Travers, she is a nice lady.

Oh, sir,

if you have a moment. Yeah.

The young lady, sir. Who? Oh, Miss Travers.

Precisely. Well, don't let her get away. She's pretty.

Well, sir, doesn't it seem rather odd to you that a lady as young and attractive

as Emily...

Miss Travers would be interested in the... Well, you understand, sir.

No, I don't think it's odd. I mean, a lot of women prefer older men. I ought

know. When I was a sophomore in high school, I lost my girl who was senior. I

mean, all he had going for him was a couple of years on me.

Oh,

I never looked at it in that light, sir.

You mean my maturity pleases her?

Well, I should think so.

You don't want to sell yourself short, you know. You've got a lot to offer.

Well, then, in your opinion, sir, I could invite Miss Travers to be my guest

the theater without fear of rejection.

That is my opinion. In fact, I think you're halfway home, so good luck.

You British seem so reserved, and yet you can be very romantic.

For my taste, there was far too much display of sentiment.

Sir, some of us are kindred spirits with Mrs. Browning, and some of us are not.

Orangeade, Emily.

Mr. Abisham.

You're most kind, Mr. French.

Lovely orchid.

From Mr. French?

Yes.

Giles is so thoughtful.

He has style.

Of course, he's had the advantage of living among the rich and sophisticated.

Perhaps working among them would be more accurate.

Well, he has traveled all over the world.

You see, I've never been anywhere.

You'd like to travel?

Oh, would I?

But not as a tourist. I like to mingle with the international set and be one of

the beautiful people, like Mr.

Davis's friends.

Of course, on a secretary's salary.

You're young yet, Miss Traven.

Yes, and I'm going to make the most of it.

I intend to be one of the beautiful people myself someday.

Would you like to play, Miss Patterson?

To be sure, Mr. Davis.

The French have been looking forward to that for days.

I don't think it was the play which Mr. French was looking forward to.

Mm -hmm.

Miss Travers is a most attractive young lady.

Mm -hmm.

You've seen her?

Yeah, she stopped by the apartment one day looking for French.

Well, may I ask, what did you think of her?

Oh, she was very nice. Pretty girl.

It would seem that Mr.

French's feelings go far beyond that.

I think he's falling in love with the young lady.

Oh, it wouldn't surprise me a bit.

Excuse me, Mr. Davis, but may I be quite honest?

Of course.

The curious combination of Giles and this young lady.

Well, tonight at the theater, it occurred to me what Miss Travers might

about.

About? A woman has instincts.

Isn't it possible that she doesn't care one bit about Mr. French?

Well, nobody's twisting her arm to go out with him, I guess.

Perhaps this attractive young lady isn't after the gentleman's gentleman.

Perhaps she's after the gentleman.

You, Mr. Davis.

She could be just using Giles and the children as a way to reach you.

Oh.

I shouldn't have said that. I'm distraught.

I could be wrong.

It's just that I'm so fond of Mr. French.

Sure. So am I.

Good evening, sir.

Good time?

Oh, marvelous.

Absolutely marvelous.

Miss Travers like the play, too?

Immensely, sir. Would you believe, sir, that this lovely young lady and I share

not only an interest in the Brownings, but also in Keats, and I dare say

and Byron as well.

Of course, the latter possibility has yet to be explored, sir.

Good night, sir. Good night.

Hello. Oh, Mr.

Davis.

I'll tell Mr. Warning. No, no, that's okay. I just want to talk to you for a

minute.

Sure.

Now, look, I'm kind of clumsy about these things. I mean, I don't really

how to say what's on my mind except just to say it.

So maybe I'm going to sound like a fathead.

No, I doubt that.

Okay. That's about Mr. French.

Yeah.

Well, maybe I haven't got any right to butt in at all, but he's a great guy,

I don't want to see him hurt.

Neither would I.

Okay.

Now, he came home from the play last night, and he's humming and jumping

and carrying on like a kid in love for the first time in his life, and I've

known him eight years.

I've never seen him like that. He's way up on a cloud someplace.

Well, is that so bad?

No, it's great.

Unless he's going to fall off.

It's a big drop, you know.

Mr. French is my friend, just like Jody and Buffy and Sissy.

It's not like Jody and Buffy and Sissy. He's a full -grown man.

One more date with you and he's going to be out shopping around for a ring.

How would you feel about that?

Well, I'd be flattered.

Just flattered?

Yes, I... I admire him, but that's all.

That's fine.

But where does that leave him?

Nowhere, Mr. Davis.

I, uh... I get the message.

I assure you I won't let it get that far.

Good.

Well, thanks.

You okay, Miss Travers?

I'm not so sure about that.

That's because I know me better than you do.

I'm awful tired.

We've been playing a long time.

Yeah, and we have a lot of homework to do.

Yes, I suppose we had better be getting along.

Maybe she got a cold and couldn't come today.

Or maybe she has a lot of homework to do, too.

Perhaps.

Here she comes.

Well, Jody, I guess we'll play a little longer.

Yeah. Come on, Buff.

One was about to leave.

Pressing work at the office?

No, not really.

Oh, you're far too lovely a young lady to be frowning.

Name me the villain and I'll challenge him.

There are no villains.

Well, in that case, won't you sit down, Emily?

I've found the most fascinating little Peruvian restaurant.

They feature a drink made of purple corn, and there's a dish called ceviche,

which is a fish marinated, served cold with a sprinkling of lemon juice.

Giles, we won't be seeing each other again.

I'd like to say goodbye without having to make a...

Excuses.

I hope you'll accept that as final.

Yes, of course.

Emily, I do not understand, but you don't owe me a thing.

Not even an explanation.

Good afternoon, sir. Well, has Travers come by again?

Yes, sir, to say goodbye.

It's like a bolt out of the blue, no explanation.

Well, I attempted to analyze the situation, sir, but I don't know.

Perhaps it was someone else, sir.

Yeah, well, I suppose so.

Just as well you found out now.

Yes, perhaps I deluded myself that her friendship was...

Something more, sir, but I think she felt it advisable to let me down

easy, as the saying goes.

Yeah.

Well, I suppose just as well. It's kind of a shock at first, but you get over

it. You quit hurting after a while.

Hurt, sir?

I had the most marvelous week of my life, sir.

Marvelous. Absolutely marvelous, sir.