Family Affair (1966) s01e16 Episode Script
That Was the Dinner That Wasn't
1
Like to finish dictating?
Yeah, in a minute.
Miss Lee, have you got any sisters?
One.
How old is she?
Fifteen.
Does she ever confide in you?
I mean, does she come to you if
something's bothering her?
Only if it's unimportant.
If it's important, she keeps it to
herself.
When she says, don't worry, I worry.
I see.
Cissy?
Yeah.
I'm still pretty new at this parent
business, you know.
Give me a problem a thousand
miles away, all I need is a
slide rule and some facts
and I can easily take care of it.
Give me a little plain ordinary problem and simple
human relations right here at home and I'm lost.
I'm lost.
Why'd.
they have to have this bash on a Saturday
night?
What's wrong with that?
Date night, silly.
And who wants to waste it with their
mother?
I thought your mother was in Europe,
Gail.
Well, she's getting in tomorrow afternoon.
Isn't that something?
She's cutting her trip short just to come
to this thing tomorrow night.
I bet you're glad.
Just the same.
Oh, me?
Yeah, sure I am.
Guess I really do miss her after all.
Cissy?
Is your mother coming?
Oh, I forgot.
Gee, I'm sorry.
Oh, that's okay, Patty.
I couldn't go anyway.
My Uncle Bill gets back to town tonight.
He'd want me to stay at home with him this
weekend.
Don't feel bad, Sissy.
Next September is the father-daughter
picnic.
You can go to that.
I mean, you can take your Uncle Bill to
that.
Of course I can, Susan.
Good afternoon, sir.
Hello, French.
It's awful quiet around here.
Where are the twins?
Oh, plain count.
That boy's an Indian, sir.
I always thought that was a noisy game.
Well, we've instigated a new approach to
an old game, sir.
We are a very fine, old, and little-known tribe
referred to as no-speakum, no-yellum, silent-sue Indian.
We speak in sign language only.
Brilliant.
With three siblings, one has to use one's
resourcefulness whenever possible.
Is Cissy home?
Yes, sir.
Everything all right with her?
We feel she's troubled about something,
sir.
Well, I'll have a little talk with her.
What's on the schedule for tonight?
Oh, I took the Liberty, sir, of reserving
the evening for the young Italian lady,
sir, Miss Cantelli, dinner at the Red
Crown.
We thought you could take it from there,
sir.
Excellent.
Oh, you better repack.
I have to be in Mexico City tomorrow.
Yes, sir.
The, uh, sign language is getting a little
noisy.
Hi.
Hi, Uncle Bill.
Hi, Uncle Bill.
Hi.
I'm glad you're home.
Thank you.
We need another Indian.
No, no thanks.
Not right now.
I'm kind of tired.
Uncle Bill, say hello to Mrs. Beasley.
How you do, Mrs. Beasley?
She doesn't like playing Indians.
She says it's too rough.
I always knew Mrs. Beasley had better than
average intelligence.
Now, where's Cissy?
In her room?
Think so.
Okay.
I'll go get her and we'll have some
cookies and milk out on the terrace.
Okay.
Come on, Jody.
Want to bring some milk and cookies out
there?
Milk and cookies.
Cissy?
Uncle Bill!
Oh, I'm so glad to see you.
Well, you got any big problems?
None.
How's everything in school?
You gonna be home a while this time?
No, I have to go to Mexico City tomorrow
afternoon.
Well, at least I'll get to see you
tonight.
Sure, for a while.
I got a date later.
Hello?
Oh, hello, Freddy.
Come on out when you get through,
huh?
Okay.
Well, listen, I just changed my mind about
tonight.
You call, Miss can't tell, you tell her I
can't make it.
Oh, but sir.
Oh, I think I better stay home.
I'm getting kind of worried about Sissy.
This is a wonderful puzzle, Uncle Bill.
Want to help us with it?
No, thanks.
I'm working on a little puzzle of my own.
Well, don't you look pretty.
Where are we going?
Well, I thought as long as you had a date,
Uncle Bill, that I'd go to a movie with Freddy.
Oh, yeah.
Well, look.
Okay, go ahead.
Have a good time.
Bye.
Bye, kids.
Good night, Cissy.
Good night, Cissy.
Good night, honey.
Uncle Bill, if Cissy marries Freddy,
will he be our uncle or our brother?
Or what?
Well, I don't think we're going to have to
worry about that for a long time.
French, will you call Miss Cantelli and
just tell her I will be available?
No, sir.
I'm going to get dressed.
Yes, sir, but we have a better suggestion,
sir.
What's that?
Miss von Holtzburg, sir.
If you recall, she was daughter to the
German ambassador.
Oh, yeah, no, I don't want to bother with
the language barrier tonight.
Just call Miss Cantelli.
Sir, what about Miss Larrabee,
sir?
French.
Yes, sir.
Call Miss Cantelli.
Must we, sir?
Why not?
Well, sir, when we called her to break the
engagement, she was, shall we say,
less than cordial.
Oh.
That's my fault.
I should have called her myself.
Maria Cantelli here.
Maria?
This is Bill Davis.
Hi.
Uncle Bill.
You must have gotten home early.
Yeah.
Did you have a good time?
Sure.
Will I see you before you leave tomorrow?
Oh, yeah.
I'll come home before I go to the airport.
I'm glad.
Well, good night.
Hey.
You gonna tell me what's wrong?
I know there is something.
Uncle Bill, nothing is wrong.
Nothing at all.
Really.
Sleep tight.
Good night.
Here are your plane tickets for Mexico
City, Mr. Davis.
You leave at 6 this evening, flight 47.
Fine.
Oh, and Mr. Gaynor called.
He said to remind you that it was
imperative that you leave tonight.
Your conference with the Bureau of
Reclamation is set for tomorrow morning.
Okay.
Like to finish dictating?
Yeah.
Just a minute.
Miss Lee, have you got any sisters?
One.
How old is she?
Fifteen.
Does she ever confide in you?
I mean, does she come to you if
something's bothering her?
Only if it's unimportant.
If it's important, she keeps it to
herself.
When she says, don't worry, I worry.
I see.
Sissy?
Yeah.
I'm still pretty new at this parent
business, you know.
When they give me a problem a thousand
miles away, all I need is a slide rule and
some facts, and I can easily take care of
it.
Give me a little plain, ordinary problem and simple
human relations right here at home, and I'm lost.
Well, where were we?
About the thing about the levels?
Mm-hmm.
We intend to install at various levels.
Gages.
Gages to measure pressure.
Saluto.
Maria Cantelli here.
Come in here.
Come in.
I do not interrupt.
You do, but it's the kind of interruption
I like.
Miss Lee, Miss Cantelli.
How do you do?
Nice to know you, Miss Cantelli.
Well, this is a very pleasant surprise,
I must say.
Mr. French, tell me you leave this
afternoon on a long trip.
Uh-huh, that's right.
I could not let you go so far away without
an apology.
Oh, you don't have anything to apologize
about.
I did not mean me, I mean you.
You stand me up, you apologize.
We start all over again, yes?
Okay, I apologize.
I accept.
Good, that takes care of that,
huh?
Say, uh, all my plane goes at 6 O'clock.
I drive you to the airport, right?
Okay, yeah, I'll go home, get a bag,
and then we can have dinner at the airport.
Good.
Yeah, well, I got about 10 minutes more
work to do, and then I'll knock off, all right?
I'll wait for you here.
That way you cannot escape.
Who wants to do that?
Hey, what's going on?
Nothing, really.
Hey.
Listen.
I don't want to leave again when I know
something's bothering you.
You're unhappy about something.
What are you so unhappy about,
huh?
Not going to tell me?
You couldn't help.
It's nothing serious.
Nothing I shouldn't be able to handle
myself.
Okay.
Well, I'll tell you what I'll do.
Now, after I leave, I'll have French take
you out shopping, huh?
Maybe if you buy yourself a real pretty
dress or something, you'll feel better.
I have more clothes than I need.
Now, there's got to be something I can get
you.
No.
Okay, Cissy.
I hate to leave you like this.
I'll be all right, Uncle Bill.
Take good care of yourself and hurry back.
You bet I'll hurry back.
Bye-bye.
We've got plenty of time before the plane
goes.
I'm glad we came early.
Why don't you wait for me in the cocktail
lounge while I check in?
You will not disappear.
Fat chance.
Give me 15 minutes, will you?
If you are not back in 15 minutes,
I'll come and get you.
Mr. Davis.
Hi.
Hi, Gail.
What are you doing here?
Meeting my mother.
She's getting in from Paris in a few
minutes.
Oh, I didn't even know she was gone.
Well, she was supposed to be gone another
week.
But when I wrote and told her the
mother-daughter dinner was tonight,
she decided to come back early.
I told her she didn't have
to, but Wait a minute.
What's that mother-daughter dinner?
What's that?
At school tonight.
It's an annual thing.
Big deal.
It's tonight?
Sure.
Didn't Cissy tell you about it?
No, she didn't.
That's funny.
She's having some of her sketches on
display and everything.
Sketches?
Sure, from art class.
One of them's up for an award.
She's good, you know.
I know.
I guess she didn't tell you because she
knew you couldn't go anyway.
After all, you don't really look much like
a mother.
Oh, there's mine.
Gotta go, Mr. Davis.
See you around.
Bye, honey.
Mother-daughter dinner.
Yes, sir, it is a shame.
Sure, she's been thinking of her mother.
It's only been a year.
The memory's still fresh.
In a time like this, she's really feeling
it.
Well, perhaps when you return,
sir, you can make it up to her.
No, it'll be too late then.
Tonight that's important.
Right now, while she's feeling lonely.
With me taking off, she probably feels
deserted, too.
The French.
French, there's no way I can get out of
this trip, so you're going to have to help me.
Yes, sir?
Oh, I will, sir.
Yes, right away, sir.
Yes.
It is a very long 15 minutes.
So I come and get you.
Yeah, Maria, look, I'm awfully
sorry, but Oh, no, not again.
Yeah, I've got to break the dinner date
again.
Why?
Well, I didn't know about it before.
See, I just found out they're having a
mother-daughter dinner at the high school tonight.
I'm going to have to be a substitute
mother, it looks like.
It's for Sissy, my niece.
Oh, no, you don't know her.
Your niece.
Perhaps the same one you were so busy with
last night.
That's right, same one.
I don't know how to explain it to you.
Anyway I don't know how
to explain it to you in any other
way, but I've just got to
have dinner with her tonight.
Believe me, under any other set of
circumstances, I'd love to have you join us.
Us?
Yeah, us, Sissy and I.
But see, if you were here, then she knew I
had a date with you, and if you were here,
she'd feel like she was intruding on us,
you know, and I want to make this
something special for her, you see,
just for her.
Perhaps I see you again sometimes when you're
not so busy with nieces and mother-daughter dinners.
Ciao, Bill.
Marie.
Oh, Uncle Bill.
Hey, Cissy, what are you doing here?
Well, Mr. French said that you forgot this
letter and it was terribly important.
There was so much traffic, I was afraid
the taxi wouldn't make it.
Oh, that letter, yes, that's very
important, thank you.
Well, I guess I'd better get back,
the taxi's waiting.
Oh, no, wait, wait, wait a minute,
wait a minute, Cissy.
Have you had dinner yet?
No, I'm not very hungry.
Well, how about having a little bite with
me anyway?
There's a nice restaurant right upstairs.
Don't they serve dinner on the plane,
Uncle Bill?
Well, sure, they serve dinner on the
plane.
I can eat with a bunch of strangers
anytime.
Tonight, I want to have dinner with you.
Okay?
Okay.
This is a beautiful little room,
Uncle Bill.
Sometimes I feel like I spend half my life
in airport restaurants.
I always thought that you could hear the
planes taking off and landing.
It's so quiet.
You'd never know we're in an airport.
Well, we could be just about anywhere.
A little restaurant in Rome, a bistro in
Paris.
The place doesn't matter, Uncle Bill.
It's who you're with.
That's right.
Gosh, all of a sudden I'm starved.
And when I was 12, I wanted to be a nurse.
What do you want to be now that you're an
old hag of 15?
An artist.
Painter?
Sketching.
I like to sketch scenery, people.
Miscreant.
Gregory says I have possibilities.
Can you draw a picture just like that?
Yeah.
How about a demonstration?
Here?
Sure, draw a picture of me.
That'll be a challenge.
Okay.
Here, use that.
Well, Uncle Bill, this is your letter
that's so important.
Oh, yeah, that's important.
Use the envelope, then.
Okay.
You.
know, Picasso might have started this way.
There.
There you are.
Well, that's, um
You kind of flatter me, don't you?
That's how you look to me.
Yeah?
Thank you.
Can I keep this?
It's not that good.
Well, it is to me.
I've got a special reason of my own.
I work with a lot of guys always bragging
about their kids, and they're telling me
about how talented their daughters are, so now
I've got something to show off about my daughter, too.
Your daughter?
Did I say daughter?
Yes.
Yes.
You mind?
No.
Well, we're a family, honey, you and me
and Jody and Buffy.
Mr. French?
And Mr. French.
Sometime, Uncle Bill, I'll tell you a
secret about tonight.
I better get going.
Gosh, you went so fast.
Why, Mr. Davis.
Davis, what a surprise.
Wow, Maria Cantelli, what are you doing
here?
I just happened to be seeing off an old
friend.
I thought I'd come in for a cup of coffee.
And this must be your lovely niece.
Yeah, that's Cissy.
Honey, this is Miss Cantelli.
Oh, how do you do, Miss Cantelli?
You are leaving on a trip, Bill?
Yeah, I have to go to Mexico City.
In fact, the plane's loading up right now.
Cissy's not going now.
Oh, well, then I am in luck.
I do not have to have coffee alone.
May I sit down with you, Cissy?
Oh.
Oh, sure.
You'd better hurry up and catch your
plane.
Perhaps we will see each other soon?
Definitely, yes.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
For me, you order a cup of coffee.
From now on, I trust you.
Thank you.
To a certain extent.
Oh, thank you.
I even believe about your mother-daughter
dinners.
So, I get her to tell me all about it.
And then tonight, perhaps, I am her
mother.
We go to her school together.
She'd appreciate you suggesting it,
but she wouldn't go for it.
Oh, she won't.
No, it doesn't count unless it's her real mother,
or else a reasonable facsimile and that's me.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Like to finish dictating?
Yeah, in a minute.
Miss Lee, have you got any sisters?
One.
How old is she?
Fifteen.
Does she ever confide in you?
I mean, does she come to you if
something's bothering her?
Only if it's unimportant.
If it's important, she keeps it to
herself.
When she says, don't worry, I worry.
I see.
Cissy?
Yeah.
I'm still pretty new at this parent
business, you know.
Give me a problem a thousand
miles away, all I need is a
slide rule and some facts
and I can easily take care of it.
Give me a little plain ordinary problem and simple
human relations right here at home and I'm lost.
I'm lost.
Why'd.
they have to have this bash on a Saturday
night?
What's wrong with that?
Date night, silly.
And who wants to waste it with their
mother?
I thought your mother was in Europe,
Gail.
Well, she's getting in tomorrow afternoon.
Isn't that something?
She's cutting her trip short just to come
to this thing tomorrow night.
I bet you're glad.
Just the same.
Oh, me?
Yeah, sure I am.
Guess I really do miss her after all.
Cissy?
Is your mother coming?
Oh, I forgot.
Gee, I'm sorry.
Oh, that's okay, Patty.
I couldn't go anyway.
My Uncle Bill gets back to town tonight.
He'd want me to stay at home with him this
weekend.
Don't feel bad, Sissy.
Next September is the father-daughter
picnic.
You can go to that.
I mean, you can take your Uncle Bill to
that.
Of course I can, Susan.
Good afternoon, sir.
Hello, French.
It's awful quiet around here.
Where are the twins?
Oh, plain count.
That boy's an Indian, sir.
I always thought that was a noisy game.
Well, we've instigated a new approach to
an old game, sir.
We are a very fine, old, and little-known tribe
referred to as no-speakum, no-yellum, silent-sue Indian.
We speak in sign language only.
Brilliant.
With three siblings, one has to use one's
resourcefulness whenever possible.
Is Cissy home?
Yes, sir.
Everything all right with her?
We feel she's troubled about something,
sir.
Well, I'll have a little talk with her.
What's on the schedule for tonight?
Oh, I took the Liberty, sir, of reserving
the evening for the young Italian lady,
sir, Miss Cantelli, dinner at the Red
Crown.
We thought you could take it from there,
sir.
Excellent.
Oh, you better repack.
I have to be in Mexico City tomorrow.
Yes, sir.
The, uh, sign language is getting a little
noisy.
Hi.
Hi, Uncle Bill.
Hi, Uncle Bill.
Hi.
I'm glad you're home.
Thank you.
We need another Indian.
No, no thanks.
Not right now.
I'm kind of tired.
Uncle Bill, say hello to Mrs. Beasley.
How you do, Mrs. Beasley?
She doesn't like playing Indians.
She says it's too rough.
I always knew Mrs. Beasley had better than
average intelligence.
Now, where's Cissy?
In her room?
Think so.
Okay.
I'll go get her and we'll have some
cookies and milk out on the terrace.
Okay.
Come on, Jody.
Want to bring some milk and cookies out
there?
Milk and cookies.
Cissy?
Uncle Bill!
Oh, I'm so glad to see you.
Well, you got any big problems?
None.
How's everything in school?
You gonna be home a while this time?
No, I have to go to Mexico City tomorrow
afternoon.
Well, at least I'll get to see you
tonight.
Sure, for a while.
I got a date later.
Hello?
Oh, hello, Freddy.
Come on out when you get through,
huh?
Okay.
Well, listen, I just changed my mind about
tonight.
You call, Miss can't tell, you tell her I
can't make it.
Oh, but sir.
Oh, I think I better stay home.
I'm getting kind of worried about Sissy.
This is a wonderful puzzle, Uncle Bill.
Want to help us with it?
No, thanks.
I'm working on a little puzzle of my own.
Well, don't you look pretty.
Where are we going?
Well, I thought as long as you had a date,
Uncle Bill, that I'd go to a movie with Freddy.
Oh, yeah.
Well, look.
Okay, go ahead.
Have a good time.
Bye.
Bye, kids.
Good night, Cissy.
Good night, Cissy.
Good night, honey.
Uncle Bill, if Cissy marries Freddy,
will he be our uncle or our brother?
Or what?
Well, I don't think we're going to have to
worry about that for a long time.
French, will you call Miss Cantelli and
just tell her I will be available?
No, sir.
I'm going to get dressed.
Yes, sir, but we have a better suggestion,
sir.
What's that?
Miss von Holtzburg, sir.
If you recall, she was daughter to the
German ambassador.
Oh, yeah, no, I don't want to bother with
the language barrier tonight.
Just call Miss Cantelli.
Sir, what about Miss Larrabee,
sir?
French.
Yes, sir.
Call Miss Cantelli.
Must we, sir?
Why not?
Well, sir, when we called her to break the
engagement, she was, shall we say,
less than cordial.
Oh.
That's my fault.
I should have called her myself.
Maria Cantelli here.
Maria?
This is Bill Davis.
Hi.
Uncle Bill.
You must have gotten home early.
Yeah.
Did you have a good time?
Sure.
Will I see you before you leave tomorrow?
Oh, yeah.
I'll come home before I go to the airport.
I'm glad.
Well, good night.
Hey.
You gonna tell me what's wrong?
I know there is something.
Uncle Bill, nothing is wrong.
Nothing at all.
Really.
Sleep tight.
Good night.
Here are your plane tickets for Mexico
City, Mr. Davis.
You leave at 6 this evening, flight 47.
Fine.
Oh, and Mr. Gaynor called.
He said to remind you that it was
imperative that you leave tonight.
Your conference with the Bureau of
Reclamation is set for tomorrow morning.
Okay.
Like to finish dictating?
Yeah.
Just a minute.
Miss Lee, have you got any sisters?
One.
How old is she?
Fifteen.
Does she ever confide in you?
I mean, does she come to you if
something's bothering her?
Only if it's unimportant.
If it's important, she keeps it to
herself.
When she says, don't worry, I worry.
I see.
Sissy?
Yeah.
I'm still pretty new at this parent
business, you know.
When they give me a problem a thousand
miles away, all I need is a slide rule and
some facts, and I can easily take care of
it.
Give me a little plain, ordinary problem and simple
human relations right here at home, and I'm lost.
Well, where were we?
About the thing about the levels?
Mm-hmm.
We intend to install at various levels.
Gages.
Gages to measure pressure.
Saluto.
Maria Cantelli here.
Come in here.
Come in.
I do not interrupt.
You do, but it's the kind of interruption
I like.
Miss Lee, Miss Cantelli.
How do you do?
Nice to know you, Miss Cantelli.
Well, this is a very pleasant surprise,
I must say.
Mr. French, tell me you leave this
afternoon on a long trip.
Uh-huh, that's right.
I could not let you go so far away without
an apology.
Oh, you don't have anything to apologize
about.
I did not mean me, I mean you.
You stand me up, you apologize.
We start all over again, yes?
Okay, I apologize.
I accept.
Good, that takes care of that,
huh?
Say, uh, all my plane goes at 6 O'clock.
I drive you to the airport, right?
Okay, yeah, I'll go home, get a bag,
and then we can have dinner at the airport.
Good.
Yeah, well, I got about 10 minutes more
work to do, and then I'll knock off, all right?
I'll wait for you here.
That way you cannot escape.
Who wants to do that?
Hey, what's going on?
Nothing, really.
Hey.
Listen.
I don't want to leave again when I know
something's bothering you.
You're unhappy about something.
What are you so unhappy about,
huh?
Not going to tell me?
You couldn't help.
It's nothing serious.
Nothing I shouldn't be able to handle
myself.
Okay.
Well, I'll tell you what I'll do.
Now, after I leave, I'll have French take
you out shopping, huh?
Maybe if you buy yourself a real pretty
dress or something, you'll feel better.
I have more clothes than I need.
Now, there's got to be something I can get
you.
No.
Okay, Cissy.
I hate to leave you like this.
I'll be all right, Uncle Bill.
Take good care of yourself and hurry back.
You bet I'll hurry back.
Bye-bye.
We've got plenty of time before the plane
goes.
I'm glad we came early.
Why don't you wait for me in the cocktail
lounge while I check in?
You will not disappear.
Fat chance.
Give me 15 minutes, will you?
If you are not back in 15 minutes,
I'll come and get you.
Mr. Davis.
Hi.
Hi, Gail.
What are you doing here?
Meeting my mother.
She's getting in from Paris in a few
minutes.
Oh, I didn't even know she was gone.
Well, she was supposed to be gone another
week.
But when I wrote and told her the
mother-daughter dinner was tonight,
she decided to come back early.
I told her she didn't have
to, but Wait a minute.
What's that mother-daughter dinner?
What's that?
At school tonight.
It's an annual thing.
Big deal.
It's tonight?
Sure.
Didn't Cissy tell you about it?
No, she didn't.
That's funny.
She's having some of her sketches on
display and everything.
Sketches?
Sure, from art class.
One of them's up for an award.
She's good, you know.
I know.
I guess she didn't tell you because she
knew you couldn't go anyway.
After all, you don't really look much like
a mother.
Oh, there's mine.
Gotta go, Mr. Davis.
See you around.
Bye, honey.
Mother-daughter dinner.
Yes, sir, it is a shame.
Sure, she's been thinking of her mother.
It's only been a year.
The memory's still fresh.
In a time like this, she's really feeling
it.
Well, perhaps when you return,
sir, you can make it up to her.
No, it'll be too late then.
Tonight that's important.
Right now, while she's feeling lonely.
With me taking off, she probably feels
deserted, too.
The French.
French, there's no way I can get out of
this trip, so you're going to have to help me.
Yes, sir?
Oh, I will, sir.
Yes, right away, sir.
Yes.
It is a very long 15 minutes.
So I come and get you.
Yeah, Maria, look, I'm awfully
sorry, but Oh, no, not again.
Yeah, I've got to break the dinner date
again.
Why?
Well, I didn't know about it before.
See, I just found out they're having a
mother-daughter dinner at the high school tonight.
I'm going to have to be a substitute
mother, it looks like.
It's for Sissy, my niece.
Oh, no, you don't know her.
Your niece.
Perhaps the same one you were so busy with
last night.
That's right, same one.
I don't know how to explain it to you.
Anyway I don't know how
to explain it to you in any other
way, but I've just got to
have dinner with her tonight.
Believe me, under any other set of
circumstances, I'd love to have you join us.
Us?
Yeah, us, Sissy and I.
But see, if you were here, then she knew I
had a date with you, and if you were here,
she'd feel like she was intruding on us,
you know, and I want to make this
something special for her, you see,
just for her.
Perhaps I see you again sometimes when you're
not so busy with nieces and mother-daughter dinners.
Ciao, Bill.
Marie.
Oh, Uncle Bill.
Hey, Cissy, what are you doing here?
Well, Mr. French said that you forgot this
letter and it was terribly important.
There was so much traffic, I was afraid
the taxi wouldn't make it.
Oh, that letter, yes, that's very
important, thank you.
Well, I guess I'd better get back,
the taxi's waiting.
Oh, no, wait, wait, wait a minute,
wait a minute, Cissy.
Have you had dinner yet?
No, I'm not very hungry.
Well, how about having a little bite with
me anyway?
There's a nice restaurant right upstairs.
Don't they serve dinner on the plane,
Uncle Bill?
Well, sure, they serve dinner on the
plane.
I can eat with a bunch of strangers
anytime.
Tonight, I want to have dinner with you.
Okay?
Okay.
This is a beautiful little room,
Uncle Bill.
Sometimes I feel like I spend half my life
in airport restaurants.
I always thought that you could hear the
planes taking off and landing.
It's so quiet.
You'd never know we're in an airport.
Well, we could be just about anywhere.
A little restaurant in Rome, a bistro in
Paris.
The place doesn't matter, Uncle Bill.
It's who you're with.
That's right.
Gosh, all of a sudden I'm starved.
And when I was 12, I wanted to be a nurse.
What do you want to be now that you're an
old hag of 15?
An artist.
Painter?
Sketching.
I like to sketch scenery, people.
Miscreant.
Gregory says I have possibilities.
Can you draw a picture just like that?
Yeah.
How about a demonstration?
Here?
Sure, draw a picture of me.
That'll be a challenge.
Okay.
Here, use that.
Well, Uncle Bill, this is your letter
that's so important.
Oh, yeah, that's important.
Use the envelope, then.
Okay.
You.
know, Picasso might have started this way.
There.
There you are.
Well, that's, um
You kind of flatter me, don't you?
That's how you look to me.
Yeah?
Thank you.
Can I keep this?
It's not that good.
Well, it is to me.
I've got a special reason of my own.
I work with a lot of guys always bragging
about their kids, and they're telling me
about how talented their daughters are, so now
I've got something to show off about my daughter, too.
Your daughter?
Did I say daughter?
Yes.
Yes.
You mind?
No.
Well, we're a family, honey, you and me
and Jody and Buffy.
Mr. French?
And Mr. French.
Sometime, Uncle Bill, I'll tell you a
secret about tonight.
I better get going.
Gosh, you went so fast.
Why, Mr. Davis.
Davis, what a surprise.
Wow, Maria Cantelli, what are you doing
here?
I just happened to be seeing off an old
friend.
I thought I'd come in for a cup of coffee.
And this must be your lovely niece.
Yeah, that's Cissy.
Honey, this is Miss Cantelli.
Oh, how do you do, Miss Cantelli?
You are leaving on a trip, Bill?
Yeah, I have to go to Mexico City.
In fact, the plane's loading up right now.
Cissy's not going now.
Oh, well, then I am in luck.
I do not have to have coffee alone.
May I sit down with you, Cissy?
Oh.
Oh, sure.
You'd better hurry up and catch your
plane.
Perhaps we will see each other soon?
Definitely, yes.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
For me, you order a cup of coffee.
From now on, I trust you.
Thank you.
To a certain extent.
Oh, thank you.
I even believe about your mother-daughter
dinners.
So, I get her to tell me all about it.
And then tonight, perhaps, I am her
mother.
We go to her school together.
She'd appreciate you suggesting it,
but she wouldn't go for it.
Oh, she won't.
No, it doesn't count unless it's her real mother,
or else a reasonable facsimile and that's me.
Let's go.
Let's go.