Guys and Dolls Page #9

- It certainly did them to me, didn't it?

- You only have to answer one question.

It didn't do too much, though, thanks

to you, not me. Just more than enough.

- Answer one question.

- Any.

Am I now supposed to prove

I had nothing to do with this?

- There's nothing to prove.

- Are you saying I'm guilty?

Everything has already been proved. If I

hadn't gone, this wouldn't have happened.

- You went with me to help the mission.

- Did I?

I can't remember that far back.

Oh, Sarah.

Is that really why I went with you?

To help the mission?

- Is that really why you took me?

- To win the bet. I told you.

Was that all of the bet, Sky,

to get me out of the way?

- What do you take me for?

- Or was there more? Much more?

Did you win the bet?

Did you truly win all of the bet?

What do you take yourself for?

- What kind of a doll are you?

- A daytime doll.

A mission doll.

Thank you. And now the feature attraction

of our all-new Four-D Follies,

the Hot Box proudly presents

Miss Adelaide and her Debutantes.

- Nicely-nicely, thank you.

- I didn't ask you how you are.

- Don't.

- What are you doing here?

- Where's Nathan?

- Nathan. That's what I'm doin' here.

I'm supposed to bring

Miss Adelaide a message.

I wish Nathan would bring

his own messages.

He bought me the fur thing

five winters ago

And the gown the following fall

Then the necklace, the bag,

the hat and the shoes

Oh what generous gifts I recall

Then last night in his apartment

He tried to remove them all

And I said as I ran down the hall

Take back your mink

Take back your pearls

What made you think

That I was one of those girls?

Take back the gown

The shoes and the hat

I may be down

But I'm not flat as all that

I thought that each expensive gift you'd

arranged was a token of your esteem

Now when I think of

what you want in exchange

It all seems a horrible dream

So take back your mink

To from whence it came

And tell them to shorten the sleeves

For some other dame

Take back your mink

Take back your pearls

What made you think

That I was one of those girls?

I'm screaming take back the gown

Take back the hat

I may be down

But I'm not flat as all that

I thought that each expensive gift you'd

arranged was a token of your esteem

But when I think

of what you want in exchange

It all seems a horrible dream

Take back your mink

Those old worn-out pelts

And go shorten the sleeves

For somebody else

Well, wouldn't you?

I cannot do it. I cannot bring

myself to tell Miss Adelaide

Nathan is not going to elope with her.

- She is counting on him.

- Nathan is what he is.

She oughta know better.

I thought the game broke up last night.

Big Jule, being a large loser,

is insistent that the game goes on.

- We find a place and the game goes on.

- Where?

I could take you there,

but I must deliver this message first.

I'll deliver it.

Meet me outside in five minutes.

If you're lookin' for action,

the boys are pretty tired.

No, I'm leaving town tonight, but I...

I gave my marker to somebody

and I wanna make it good before I leave.

You know something, Sky?

Suddenly I'm embarrassed.

- I don't know which etiquette to use.

- Etiquette?

Well, your being here tonight must have

something to do with the wedding.

Nathan must have sent you

as one of his seconds or something?

- Well, Nathan didn't exactly send me.

- Then I don't understand.

I'm supposed to give you

a message from him.

He's out there, isn't he? I mean,

Nathan's here tonight in the Hot Box?

No.

But tonight...

Sky, we're eloping tonight.

We're getting married tonight. In front of

all those people we talked about it.

- Sky, he's just gotta be here!

- Well, he isn't.

It seems that one of

Nathan's close relatives...

- His aunt in Pittsburgh?

- That's the one.

His floating aunt in Pittsburgh.

- It's the crap game again.

- Does it surprise you? You know Nathan.

- But he promised to change.

- Change!

Who do you wanna marry? Nathan

or what you wanna make out of him?

I wanna marry

and live normal like people.

I wanna have a normal home

with wallpaper and book ends.

Well, then, fall in love with people.

Not with gamblers.

Adelaide...

My daddy once told me:

No matter who you get married to,

you wake up married to somebody else.

You take it the way the dice falls.

But a guy doesn't wanna feel that

he's just like a piece of material

a woman'll cut up and sew according to

the way they wear husbands this year.

It's easy for you to talk.

You're not in love with Nathan.

No, I'm not.

Wait till you fall in love

with somebody you shouldn't.

Wait till it happens to you.

Yeah...

Must be tough to take.

I don't think Sky had any more to do with

what happened here last night than I did.

That's why you buy

solid gold watches for a dollar.

- Do you believe it?

- Whether he had a hand in it or not...

- Do you believe it?

- They used our mission for their game.

- But if Sky had nothing to do with it...

- Don't you understand?!

All I could see was him running away

from the police with the rest of that trash.

All I could see was that

he was one of them.

And I never saw till now

how much in love with him you are.

- I'll get over it.

- Why would anyone wanna get over

the thing you hope for from the minute

you're born and remember till you die?

- I'll get over it.

- Why?

Because it's the greatest reward

that woman or man can have,

to love and to be loved?

I just wanna remind you.

You hold my marker for 12

or more sinners by midnight tonight.

- Forget about it.

- I do not forget a marker.

Well, last night the mission was filled

with your friends. Let's say we're even.

If you don't make that marker good,

I'll buzz it all over town you're a welsher.

- Time is running out. Where's the game?

- Only a ten-minute walk.

- Which way?

- This way.

Wait a minute! Where y'all goin'?

- I come here to shoot crap.

- I had enough.

How many days we all been here?

As you can see, Big Jule,

the boys are fatigued from weariness,

having been shooting crap

for quite a while now, namely 24 hours.

I don't care who's tired.

I'm out 25 Gs. Nobody leaves.

I am half dead.

If you do not shut up,

Big Jule will arrange the other half.

And since I've been cleaned out of cash,

I announce that I will now play on credit.

Big Jule, you cannot imagine

how exhausted they are.

Especially on a non-cash basis.

Me, personally, I'm fresh as a daisy.

- Then I'll play with you.

- But I am not a player.

- I am merely the operator.

- You been raking down out of every pot.

You must have quite a bundle.

Being I assume the risk, is it not fair

I should assume some dough?

Detroit, I'm gonna roll ya, willy or nilly.

If I lose... I'll give you my marker.

- And if I lose?

- You will give him cash.

Let me hear from Big Jule.

You'll give me cash.

I heard.

Here's my marker. Put up your dough.

- Anything wrong?

- "IOU one thousand. Signed X."

How can you write "one thousand"

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