:19:21
I'm not a bit sleepy, are you?
:19:23
Not in the least.
:19:26
Have you forgiven me yet?
:19:28
- What I said about your book.
- Oh, that.
:19:31
I have a different opinion now.
:19:33
I finished reading the book last night
and I found it quite absorbing.
:19:36
What made you
change your mind?
:19:38
I got interested
in one of the characters.
:19:40
- Which one?
- The author.
:19:45
Well, I assure you the book
is not supposed to be about me.
:19:48
Oh, but it is,
whether you like it or not.
:19:50
"Every book's a confession,"
my father always said.
:19:53
- You have to read between the lines.
- And did you?
:19:56
- Well, what sort of man am I?
- You're a bachelor.
:20:00
Thirty years old.
You were born and raised in Boston...
:20:03
... and you went to Harvard,
where you edited the Lampoon.
:20:06
When you graduated, you went to Paris
and you studied painting for a while.
:20:09
You have a lodge in Maine
called Back of the Moon.
:20:12
Before you went in for writing novels,
you were a newspaper man.
:20:16
Your favorite sport is fishing, and you
speak French and Spanish quite well.
:20:19
Shades of Sherlock.
:20:21
You got all that
just from reading my book?
:20:24
Just from reading the dust jacket.
It was all there under your picture.
:20:27
You know, if you'd lived in Salem
100 years ago, they'd have burned you.
:20:31
Why did you give up painting?
:20:33
Well, it was like this.
:20:35
In the first place,
I discovered I was colorblind.
:20:37
Since I was interested
in Post-Impressionism...
:20:39
...that didn't matter, did it?
- No.
:20:41
When I made the acquaintance
of the boys on the Left Bank...
:20:44
...I found that they lived
in squalid garrets...
:20:46
...and most of them
were miserably undernourished.
:20:49
Have you ever known
what it was to be really hungry?
:20:52
I'm hungry right now.
:20:53
You must be.
You haven't had dinner, have you?
:20:55
- Nor lunch.
- You poor thing, you must be famished.
:20:58
Mrs. Robie told Emily
to leave you a tray.