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You want to get over

The high hurdles first.

All right.

Come on, bright girl.

Mimi!

Oh, hello, mimi.

Oh, elizabeth.

Uh, elizabeth...

Look who I found.

Hello, mimi.

Hello, elizabeth.

I found her sitting

On the front doorsteps,

And I looked and I said,

"I know you, don't I?"

And, sure enough, I did.

Ah, mimi.

Nice to see you.

Hello, alan.

Well, marriage certainly

Agrees with you two.

Oh, now, mimi, don't be deceived

By our looks.

Someone has already

Come between us.

Who?

Kid nestor.

Oh.

Hello.

Charming swing.

Is, uh, that

What you're interested in?

Yes.

Oh, you didn't know.

I'm drawing things like that

For a newspaper.

Oh. You don't mean

You're working?

Yes.

Oh.

On a paper, eh?

Mm-hmm. Ads.

Swell.

Who's the singer?

I haven't any idea.

Somebody elizabeth

Dug up from someplace.

Lovely voice.

This isn't

Exactly what I expected.

What are you talking about?

I've been wondering

For some time just -

Just what it would be about

When you and I met again.

It's a cinch.

I didn't think it was going to

Be about furniture and singers.

What did you think

It was going to be about?

Mimi, I was more or less

Led to believe

It was going

To be about oceans.

Oceans?

Seas, as you put it.

That it wouldn't be safe for us

In this world

Unless there were eight of them

Between us.

The wine is a funny fellow,

As you put it.

Oh.

So, it was the wine then,

After all, huh?

And as soon as I left,

All as if nothing had happened?

No.

Not at first.

But I'm all right now.

And, uh, talking to me is just

Like talking to anybody else?

Aren't you glad?

No.

Are you sorry

I'm not suffering?

No, I'm not sorry

You're not suffering.

What do you want?

Hey.

Some other sweetheart?

Yes.

Who?

The furniture.

Come on, now.

Quit your fooling.

Who else?

Not a soul.

So, this is the end, huh?

You know,

Somehow it's kind of sad.

Why should it be?

Can't we be friends?

Friends?

Would you like that?

Sure.

Say, I'd like that, too.

I think that's

A lovely idea -

Friends, I mean.

Of course.

Real friends,

Genuine friends.

Yes.

Swell.

Is there any finer

Friendship in this world

Than between two friends,

Huh?

Alan dear, this party's

Incredibly dull.

I'm afraid we're just

An old married couple.

An old married couple

Is right, pal.

I'm sitting here talking

About furniture. Well, stop it.

That's a foul trick

To play on mimi.

No, it isn't.

I'm in love with furniture.

What?

Yeah,

It's a terrific affair.

Everybody's talking about it.

Mimi and duncan phyfe

Have crawled in a wormhole.

You two, by any chance,

Aren't lucky enough to be

A little bit tight, are you?

Oh, darling, be kind to me.

I've been insulted.

My ego is hurt.

I thought mimi

Was carrying a torch for me,

And she says she can't believe

She ever was in love with me.

Doesn't even know I exist.

Oh, what is all this?

Torches, egos, wormholes.

I can't -

Say, you haven't heard

Anything yet.

We've got it all figured out,

Right down in blueprints.

We're going to be friends.

It's going to be

Sort of a -

Well, sort of a unique

Friendship, you see?

Uh, I, uh - she -

Alan, let me tell her.

Yes, you tell her.

Elizabeth...

Alan never loved me.

He liked me.

And now I like him.

That's all there is to it.

I want you to believe me.

Thank you, mimi.

And I do believe you.

You see? There you are.

That's what I said.

We're all friends.

Mimi and I are friends.

You and mimi are friends.

Why, everybody's friends.

You might say we're saturated

With friends, right?

And, say, what about this?

Why don't we all go at the

Fights together tomorrow night?

Oh, there we go again.

Didn't I tell you, mimi?

My rival - kid nestor.

Well, ain't you got

Anything left?

No. Even the cops are gonna have

To stand tonight.

$100 on slugger flynn.

Extra! Extra!

Read all about it!

Any of you guys

Got an extra ducket?

He wants a ducket.

You can't get one in town.

Nothing doing.

Mother, you and jimmy are going,

And that's final.

No, mimi, no.

I will -

Mother, you love fights,

And I don't.

If I went and you didn't, I

Wouldn't enjoy it. She means that.

You wouldn't have me

Have a rotten time, would you?

Oh, what can I say?

Nothing.

No chance of your great love

Coming through, is there?

No.

All alan could get was two.

I'll be in my apartment

Afterwards.

Come around

And tell me about it.

Oh, jimmy.

You might as well give me

The 5 bucks right now.

Ha!

Anytime.

You never won in your life,

Laddie.

You've even got it on me.

But I'm going to the fights,

And you're not.

Laugh that off, lassie.

If you were a gentleman,

You'd give me your seat.

But I'm not.

My, my.

How you surprise me.

Goodbye.

Alan.

How are you?

What are you doing here?

Today of all days -

The fight.

That's what I'm doing here.

There they are,

And they're way down front, too.

But you've only got two.

What do we need more for?

Elizabeth isn't going?

Sick.

Oh.

What's the matter?

I drove her to bed

Talking about it.

She told me not to feel bad,

Said tomorrow would be

The happiest day of her life.

But, alan,

I can't go with you alone.

Are you crazy?

Well, you must be crazy

To think I would.

Oh, well, mimi.

I've got everything all wrong

Then.

How do you mean?

Well, I thought we were friends,

But I see I'm all haywire.

But, alan...

After all.

Yeah, after all.

"after all" what?

Does elizabeth know

You were going to take me?

Of course she knows it.

Look, mimi, you were there

When we talked about being

Friends, weren't you?

Yes, I was there.

Of course elizabeth

Knows all about it.

Oh.

Oh, well.

That's different.

Listen, mimi, don't let's throw

This idea of ours

Right in the ash can

Before it's even started.

I've been thinking about it

Ever since.

And you and I

Have got an opportunity

No two other people

Ever had before.

The more I think of it,

The more lovely it gets.

Yeah.

It will probably get lovelier

All the time. You bet it will.

Is there a finer friendship in

This world than between two men?

But I'm not a man.

That's the idea

Of the game.

That's what makes it

So different.

We'll act exactly

As if you were a man.

Come on, now. Say you'll go.

Let's try it once, anyway.

Well...

Who are you betting on? Nestor? Yes.

Right?

It's a cakewalk.

Excuse me.

Ooh.

There you are,

My pretty one.

Is this all we're

Going to have?

Sure. We'll have something else

After the fight.

I'll take two more,

If you don't mind.

Two more?

Two more, boy.

All right.

Coming up.

Give me a couple

Of these, sir.

There you are.

You'll lose me.

This is the main event

Of the evening.

15 rounds of boxing.

Introducing, at 200 pounds,

The marvelous challenger -

Kid nestor.

In this corner, we have...

Miss mimi swift!

Oh!

103 pounds.

At 218...

The champion -

Slugger flynn.

Jimmy, look!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Right on the button!

Come on!

Come on, there!

Come on!

Come on, flynn!

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