Across the Pacific Page #2

- Good night.

- Good night, sir.

- Good morning.

- Mr. Leland.

- I hope and trust you had a good night.

- I dont remember, so I must have.

You missed something sleeping so late.

We dropped the pilot.

Well, what I came to see I didnt miss.

Are your legs always blue?

- Theyre not blue.

- Should-a Be, give me that blanket.

I dont want a blanket.

I want sunshine.

Your teeth are chattering like a crap game.

This is November, and its winter sunshine.

- Thank you.

- Well, its pure selfishness on my part.

If you catch pneumonia,

what will happen to our romance?

What will happen to it

if you dont shave?

I shall enjoy listening to you two

if youll permit me.

You can referee.

Relationships between

modern young Americans...

...seem most peculiar

to a man of my years.

You give your lovemaking

an assault-and-battery twist.

Living in the Far East has given me

a more or less Oriental view of things.

We were discussing Philippine economics

when we were interrupted.

My own field.

Ms. Marlows kind enough to listen to me.

Theyre going to be free, aren'tt they?

They are, provided America doesnt

insist on fighting a war with Japan.

Its my opinion, however,

that that contingency...

...is going to keep the Philippines

from ever being free.

Wont Japan gobble them up?

No offense, but Japan or Canada

or anybody else can have the Philippines.

Its hot in Manila.

It might be even hotter before long.

Hot enough to go around in shorts?

Theres a Canadian for you.

Let them take their clothes off,

and theyre happy.

Look. An American warship.

Yes, a 1918 Flush Decker.

Four four-inch. 50-caliber guns,

one three-inch. 23-caliber antiaircraft gun.

Not very formidable.

Dont you find that the United States

is inclined to forget...

...that most of the world is at war already,

with more war to come...

...perhaps in the Pacific?

Well, if it comes,

it will have to do without me.

Indeed, Mr. Leland?

You seem about the right age.

Ill see you later.

Very interesting young man.

Very.

I dont believe our captain will mind

my explaining his words.

What he just said means,

'PPermit me to take. "

Something like saying grace

before a meal.

It also expresses his thankfulness

to his ancestors.

That is right. Excuse, please.

I like that.

I come from a long line of grace-sayers.

Excuse, please. Ms. Marlow, Mr. Leland,

Chief Engineer Mitsuko.

How do you do?

Excuse, please.

Chief engineer has no English.

Chief engineer has a good grip.

Some joke.

No, I think Ill skip the bread pudding.

Just bring me some coffee.

I hope youre a good sailor,

Ms. Marlow.

The Genoa Maru has her moments

when a blow comes on.

- I wonder if it will really get rough.

- This is rough.

Not nearly enough. I wanna

go through something I can talk about.

Yes, well, you probably will,

but you may not wanna talk about it.

I think theres something

elemental in a storm.

It appeals more to women than men.

Theyre more elemental.

- Than what?

- Than women.

- Men?

- Than men.

Yes, I hope so, honey.

Im your friend.

Some joke.

I suppose I shouldnt smoke

my cigar right now.

No, let her be happy for a little while.

A little while.

Do you know what Id like to do?

To go up in the bow,

if I had a man to hang on to.

Im your man.

Anyplace, even the crow'ss nest.

Lets go.

- Better bring your coat.

- Gentlemen.

Oh, this is wonderful.

What a figurehead youd make.

Look at the stern,

the way it goes up and down.

It goes down so far, youd think

it would never come up again.

- And look at the way the masts are going.

- Well, dont look too long.

- Keep your eyes off the water below.

- Oh, I feel wonderful.

You are wonderful.

I wish I had a better suit.

It doesnt matter about the suit.

You have a kind face.

- You think so?

- Yes, I do, Rick.

- Thats the first time you called me Rick.

- Is it?

Yes.

Whats the matter?

Look, I didnt mean that.

I did. Why didnt you?

Well, a fellow with a suit like mine

shouldnt go around kissing girls.

Hey, are you getting sick?

I dont know. How do girls usually

act when you kiss them?

- Well, they dont turn green.

- Then I'mm sick. Get me out of here.

And everything was going so beautifully.

Why did you have to eat

that bread pudding?

Should-a Be.

The ladys been stabbed

by a bread pudding.

- Do want you can for her.

- Bread pudding. Too bad.

Should-a be.

Mr. Leland.

You beating it?

Patience is a game

one only plays out of boredom...

...which condition of mine

it does nothing to relieve.

- Will you have a drink with me?

- Thanks. I will.

Have another.

I shouldnt. I'mm strapped.

Sorry to hear that.

But what possible bearing can that have?

If a fellow Im counting on in New York

doesn'tt kick through...

...I wont be able to buy you a drink.

That doesnt alarm me greatly.

Ms. Marlow dying. Want to see Rick.

Excuse me, Ill be right back.

- I understand youre dying.

- Yes.

Do you want to be buried at sea?

They stitch you up in a bag...

- No.

- And you wouldnt like that?

- Then Ill have Should-a Be put you on ice.

- Very amusing, a woman suffering.

Oh, stop being such a baby.

Even if I do live,

Ill never be the same again.

It happens to everybody that eats

bread pudding and looks at a mast.

The mistake I made was in kissing you.

- I was all right till then.

- I resent that.

Ill never let you kiss me again.

We wont argue. You'rre not well,

and you don'tt know what you'rre saying.

I do too.

Stop that.

Dont tell me you'rre the kind that

goes to bed with your shoes on.

I need them on for when I suddenly

have to run down the hall.

All right, darling.

- Ill humor you.

- Humor me?

When youre sitting at the table tonight,

eating your head off...

...think of the girl

whose happiness you wrecked.

- Yes, darling.

- I pity the woman you ever marry.

Oh, Ill never get married.

The kind of a lover I am,

it wouldnt be fair.

Any wife of mine would spend

her whole life running down hallways.

- You arent married, are you, Rick?

- No. Does that make you feel better?

You make me sick.

And if you stay here one minute longer,

Ill prove it to you.

I take it our lovely traveling companion

has a touch of mal de mer.

It was only a matter of time.

She speeded things up

by looking at the mast.

- What a pity.

- Yeah.

She doesnt look too well

with a green face.

From certain remarks you dropped

on deck this morning, Mr. Leland...

...I gather you are quite well informed

in matters pertaining to the U.S. Navy.

Yes, I know a little bit about it.

You were, perhaps, in the Navy?

No. Coast artillery. Army.

How interesting.

Not so interesting.

Were you ever stationed in Panama?

Part of the time.

I hope you dont think

I'mm too inquisitive.

Not at all. Not at all.

Youre furnishing the liquor.

Thats hardly an excuse

for asking a man his history.

I havent got any history.

I was in the Army. I got kicked out.

I went up to Canada and tried to enlist,

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