:24:02
For goodness sakes, Gregory drives me
to work in the morning.
:24:05
At night he picks me up
and he takes me home.
:24:08
If he wants to go
to all that trouble,
:24:10
the least I can do
is be courteous if he asks me to dinner.
:24:13
How can you be so blind?
:24:15
It began with
the old car pool routine, right?
:24:17
Why shouldn't it? His law office
happens to be next door to where I work.
:24:21
But the point is, there used to be
five people in that car,
:24:24
then Gregory traded in his sedan
for a two-seater sports car.
:24:28
And Mr. Burke,
Miss Patters and Miss Mosely
:24:31
were ruthlessly squeezed out
to find other transportation, correct?
:24:36
- Now, listen...
- Creeping matrimony, that's what it is.
:24:40
The car pool, the duck dinner,
a movie here and there.
:24:43
Inky, you're taking the gas
and you don't even know it.
:24:47
Thank you, dear,
I'm sure you mean well,
:24:49
but I think I can handle
the Gregory situation
:24:51
in my own bumbling way.
:24:55
I'm sorry, but I suppose at your age,
:24:58
when that important person
hasn't come into your life,
:25:01
- well...
- Well, what?
:25:05
Well, I suppose a tinge,
:25:06
just the faintest tinge, of desperation,
begins to blow your judgment.
:25:12
Good night.
:25:14
I can assure you, there is no tinge
of desperation in my outlook.
:25:18
- And my vision is exceptionally clear.
- Good.
:25:21
Which, I might add,
brings us to your friends.
:25:23
- My friends?
- Yes, dear.
:25:25
The one we've been tripping over
all these years.
:25:27
Canoe? That's very unfair.
:25:30
Canoe is...
well, he's just defenseless.
:25:34
He's very sweet and young, and...
:25:36
...needs help.
- I certainly agree he needs something.
:25:39
Doesn't he do anything
but mope around in shorts
:25:42
- and eat us out of house and home?
- Just shows how little you know him.
:25:45
- Canoe has plenty of ambition.
- What?
:25:48
To be the first 50-year-old surfer
at Santa Monica?
:25:51
If you ask me, he's...
What's the matter?
:25:54
DC's wearing a wristwatch.
:25:56
Well, what will that dear, sweet,
innocent cat be bringing home next?