Love Before Breakfast

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Yes, Mr. Miller.

5,000 Amalgamated at 24 even.

Turner and Baldwin have agreed to your

terms, Mr. Miller. Is that offer still open?

Mr. Miller can't see you

before 4:
00 on Thursday.

Yes, sir. Call Miss Kay Colby.

Ask her to lunch with me today.

Here are those contracts

on Amalgamated Oil.

Those reporters are still waiting

for a story on theJapanese deal, sir.

I can't see any reporters now. I'm too

busy. You better cable Hendricks in Japan.

Tell him we bought Amalgamated, and we expect him to

look after our interests until we get a man out there.

And see if Mason's back

with that report yet.

Yes.

Miss Colby's lunching

with Mr. Wadsworth.

Ask her if she can dine with me tonight. Tell her my

favorite opera's on at the Met. What opera shall I say?

I don't know.

Look it up in the paper.

What about that report? I'm sorry,

sir, but I haven't quite finished.

I've been getting the information you asked for

on William Wadsworth. Oh. Well, let's have it.

He's been working for Amalgamated

here. Two years as field assistant.

He's supposed to be engaged

to Miss Kay Colby,

but I find that he's also rather

involved with a, uh, lady on 78th Street.

Oh, I see.

Yes.

Miss Colby's dining with Mr. Wadsworth.

Well, ask her for lunch tomorrow.

If she can't make that, try dinner tomorrow night.

Or lunch or dinner the first day she has open.

Did he impress you as being very

much in love with Miss Colby?

Well, I really couldn't tell. You see, he

was with the other woman when I talked to him.

His chief concern was about his job.

He's, uh, very anxious to stay on

with the company. All right. Thanks.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir? Ted, is that assistant

manager's job in Japan still open?

I believe so, sir. Come in here.

I want to talk to you a minute.

Snap it up,Jerry. We're late.

Yes, sir. Giddap, Bessie.

Where's your ticket?

I've got it.

What about your passport? It's

right here. I've got everything.

I bet you forgot those

headache tablets. No, I haven't.

What's the matter with you, Kay?

You'd think I was a baby or something.

I just wanted to be sure. I thought maybe

you couldn't get things like that in Japan.

Come on,Jerry.

You can do better than this.

We're doing the best we can,

Mr. Wadsworth.

You needn't look so glum. You're acting

as if the world was coming to an end.

It is for me. Oh, now, Kay, stop

it. Haven't I got enough to worry-

I can't help it. What did you expect me to

do? Pass up an opportunity of a lifetime?

I'll miss that boat sure.

Suppose you did?

You're a great help.

I don't see why you have to go all the way

toJapan for a job. You were doing fine right here.

Listen, honey. If a man wants to get ahead in the oil

business, he has to be ready to go anyplace, anytime.

There isn't any money in oil anyway. Rockefeller

took it all out. Well, he left enough for me.

I'll never get that boat. That's what I get for taking

this busted-down old hack. Of all the crazy ideas.

You proposed to me in this hack.

It's still a crazy idea.

Hey!

Hey! Somebody grab that horse!

They must be drunk, sir.

Come on, boys.

Grab these bags.

Did we do any damage?

Well, you didn't do any g-

Why, Kay. Hello.

So it's your car.

Every splinter. Oh, I'm terribly sorry,

Scott, but our horse is a little high-strung.

Look out for the black one. It's not locked. Bill,

you know Scott Miller. My fianc, Bill Wadsworth.

How are you? How are

you? Congratulations.

Thanks, old man. Sorry about the car. Forget

it. The joke's on the insurance company.

Thanks. Well-

You're not sailing.

No. Bill is. He's being sent

toJapan. By Amalgamated Oil.

You don't say. Good outfit.

Nice opportunity.

I hope so.

Scott!

Oh. Oh, Scott. I've lost one of the

dogs. She ran after an old Airedale.

How plebeian. May I present

the Contessa Campanella?

Miss Kay Colby.

How do you do?

Oh, the Miss Colby I've heard so much

about from Scott. Really? How nice of Scott.

And Mr. George Wadsworth.

William Wadsworth.

Sorry. Contessa Campanella.

How do you do?

How do you do? Are you

sailing with us, Miss Colby?

No. I wish I were. Oh, dear. What a

pity. It's divine this time of year.

The dogs adore it.

Don't you, baby?

Excuse us, please. We have some last-minute

talking to do. Good-bye. Bon voyage.

Naturally. Good-bye.

Good-bye.

Very charming, your Miss Colby. She's

not my Miss Colby. She's Wadsworth's.

Hadn't you better be getting aboard?

Not rushing me, are you?

Of course not, dear.

All ashore who's going ashore!

All ashore who's going ashore!

All ashore who's going ashore!

Oh, Bill. Come on. Be a sport. This is

our last chance. Get off the boat with me.

Please, honey. This is my big break. Oh,

I know, but you'll be away two whole years.

Well, that's all right. What's two years? Anything's

liable to happen to us in that length of time.

We may change- both of us.

Why take chances?

Oh, Kay.

Don't start that all over again.

We'll get along.

We don't need much.

Oh, no. None of this cottage stuff for me. I want

more than that. I've got my future to think about.

Bill, I thought it was

gonna be our future.

Well, sure. Sure.

That's what I meant.

Naturally I mean both of us. But

I've gotta look out for myself too.

All ashore who's going ashore!

Come on, honey. You better

get started. Oh, Bill.

All ashore who's going ashore!

Last call.

Bye!

Good-bye! Bon voyage!

Wave good-bye, babies.

Wave good-bye.

Bye!

Bye, honey.

Take care of yourself.

Good-bye.

Bye.

Say, when you cry, you don't

fool around, do you? You give.

Don't I? Oh! Give me a hanky

quick. I got mascara in my eye.

Oh. Oh, I can't stand good-byes.

I can't even bear to

see anybody off at the subway.

You never do that for me.

I'm afraid I ruined your hanky.

I'll have it framed.

How's it now?

Oh. My eye's all right, but I still

have an awful lump in my throat.

How'd you like to wash it down with some nice hot

coffee? Coffee. It's practically an inspiration.

Swell. We'll stop by Dubin's.

All right.

Coffee, black and strong.

Make it two.

Yes, sir. Anything else?

No.

I'll have the special sandwich.

Just the turkey and ham

without the magoo. Yes, sir.

Come on, now. Do your grieving on your own

time. You know, the countess is gone too.

I think she's very charming, Scott.

I admire your taste. Thank you.

Except for those stupid little pekes she drapes herself

with. Incidentally, what's happened to the count? Where is he?

Where are the snows of yesteryear?

Where the woodbine twineth.

That's where the count is.

Kay, have you really got it as bad as

you think you have? I don't think so.

What does a lady do when she wishes

to change the subject abruptly?

Give me a cigarette.

What does a gentleman do when he wants to find

out if he has a chance, now that your Bill is gone?

You never give up, do you? You know me.

Miller of the Northwest Royal Mounted.

It's a funny world, isn't it?

What's funny about it?

Well, the countess wants to marry me.

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