The Yellow Rolls-Royce Page #5

...when your right is even better.

Of course, you know that yourself,

because, surely, you're a film star.

I am not a film star.

I'm not a film anything.

I'm a hat-check girl

in a night club in Miami.

- Any other questions?

- Thank you.

Full face, your best of all.

You have a great beauty, signorina.

Yeah, just like all

the other American girls, huh?

No, unhappily that's not true.

That's what you tell them.

No, I just sometimes let them believe it.

Even if they're old and ugly?

When people are old and ugly...

...it is kinder not to let them

remember it, don't you think?

Yeah, it's better business.

Yes, also better business.

You must come to Soriano one day.

That's where I go now for the season.

Where the tourists are,

there you'll find me.

The right is better.

Only just, but it is.

I think your mother and father

must have come from Naples, no?

They're from Brooklyn.

Grandmother? Grandfather?

Her grandmother was Italian.

- From Naples?

- Why Naples?

Because only in Naples

does such beauty belong.

For 2000 years, ever since Caligula,

it has been so.

Listen to this song.

What's luna mean? Moon?

- How about mare?

- The sea.

- Amore means love.

- I know what that means.

Well, who's Caligula?

Caligula? A Roman emperor.

He loved the Bay of Naples.

Did he think

the Neapolitan girls were beautiful?

Oh, yes.

But, of course, if you had been there,

they wouldn't have had a chance.

You would have been

the empress of the world.

You know what you are? You're amoral.

That's the word, isn't it, Joey? Amoral.

Not immoral. Amoral.

Yeah, that's the word, honey.

- What is this word, signorina?

- Amoral.

It means you don't know

right from wrong.

- And when you do wrong...

- I don't know I do it, but I still do it.

That's right.

So it can't be that wrong

after all, can it?

Perhaps it could even be right.

Who knows?

Okay, kid, we heard it all before.

Joey.

Wait a minute.

- Joey, you got 500 lire?

- Yeah, sure, boss.

Give it to him.

This is for her photographs.

GraZie tanto, signore,

but you're going to Rome?

Maybe yes, maybe no.

You better thumb another ride.

Where shall I send the photographs?

Don't bother.

Then you have given me

too much money.

Take it easy, kiddo.

Amoral, huh? I will remember that.

Signor Maltese, this is an honor.

Your suite is quite ready for you.

Permit me.

There is a cable arrived

only an hour ago.

Take signore up to his suite.

Follow me, please, signore.

This way, stupid.

Ah!

Not bad news, I trust.

- Joey.

- Yeah?

Find out the next ship back

to the States. A fast ship.

- Okay.

- Cancel our reservation, we leave tonight.

- This is a tragedy.

- Why a tragedy? I'll pay.

Oh, no, no, signore.

I mean, it is a tragedy for us

that we will not have a chance...

...of seeing more of such

a distinguished friend of Signor Capone.

I ain't gonna be a distinguished friend...

...of Signor Capone's very long

if I don't get back to Miami prontissimo.

- We're going back to Miami.

- Joey.

Our best chance is an Italian ship.

- It leaves from Naples 12 midnight.

- You think we can make it?

Are you kidding?

- In that old yellow peril?

- We're going to Miami.

- No, we're not going to Miami.

- Huh?

I'm going to Miami.

Business cleared up in two, three days.

You and Joey stay here in Italy.

What are we gonna do here without you?

What you've been doing.

Relax, enjoy, see the sights.

- I saw the sights.

- What are you talking about?

You ain't seen nothing yet.

Two months' sightseeing in Naples alone.

- Yeah, Vesuvius.

- Pompeii, Santa Lucia...

- A lot of tenors singing about it.

- Lf you get bored, go someplace else.

Ow.

Well, we made it, right?

In two hours flat.

You see, you're not an old heap...

...and he's a slob

for leaving us alone like this.

Oh, well, you and I'll just...

I get worried.

She talks to that car like it was alive

and breathing and could hear things.

You think maybe should take her

to a doctor or something?

I doubt if there's much

he could do, boss.

I don't want to marry a nut.

You don't?

Not a real nut.

Do they come any realer?

Mae...

...you keep your nose clean.

Take care of yourself.

Do you think you can pull this job

on your own over there, boss?

What, O'Leary?

He don't start, Joey. He just don't start.

- He shot Devario.

- Devario must have been dreaming.

He's got some tough, bright boys.

I got them tougher

and brighter even without you.

I kind of like to have you on this job...

...but it looks like

you got a rougher assignment here.

Like babysitting?

Yeah, like babysitting.

Well, what's it today, Joey?

- The Museum.

- Oh, no, not again.

Isn't there anyplace else around here

we can go?

Every day you ask me

the same question...

...and every day I say I don't know.

Cameriere,

isn't there some place around here...

...that we could go visit for the day?

This place is full of such places.

Posillipo, Amalfi, Soriano, Positano...

Soriano, hey, I heard of that.

- Isn't that the place where that guy...?

- Yeah, that's the place.

Is that on Paolo's list?

No, it's not on Paolo's list.

Paolo said if I got bored

I could go anyplace.

He said that, didn't he, Joey?

- Yeah, he said that.

- Well, I got bored.

So I think I'll run up to Soriano

for the afternoon.

Stay the night, maybe.

- It looks like any other place to me.

- Does it?

- Wonderful.

- Really?

You wanna stay?

Sure, why not? We're here.

Bye.

Hello.

Welcome to Soriano.

Hello, kiddo. How do you like it?

I don't know. We just got here.

And you came at once to see me?

We didn't even know you were here.

We just happened to stop by.

You don't know how glad it makes me

that you just happened to drop by.

The right side is still the better.

And I'm still being amoral.

Such a good word, signorina.

Every night,

I'm impressing someone with this word.

Especially the English, huh?

Especially the English.

It's so good to see you, really.

Where's your fidanZato?

Has he deserted you?

He sure has.

Forever?

Could be, I don't know.

Who cares anyway?

He had to go back to the States

on business.

He'll be back in Italy in a short while.

He must be mad to leave you.

Remember?

Look, isn't it wonderful?

Oh!

Now we all get ready, okay?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

Come on, kiddo.

Are you ready?

- Are you ready?

- Yeah.

Look.

That's where Caligula lived

From there, he would have people

thrown down onto the rocks.

Paolo could've taught him a thing

or two.

It's really scary.

Are there ghosts in here, Stefano?

Hundreds, signorina.

But why should we care?

They won't harm any of us.

Only the people who have

committed murder, those they harm.

All right. Well, let's move on.

The Sapphire Grotto is there.

In that little hole?

Inside is very big and very beautiful.

Oh, come on, I'll race you.

Okay.

Beautiful girls

are not looking beautiful in the water...

...but you look even more beautiful.

I don't care how I look, I'm having fun.

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