Lady, wanna go for a ride?
I think it would be good for me
as an actress, too.
- Don't you think, right?
- Yes, language...
Baby, what do you say?
Language is one of the primary tools
of the actor's art.
Get rid of the four-eyed freak
and we'll show you some action.
I could do a lot of things
that I couldn't do before because...
...I wasn't able
to express myself succinctly.
- You know?
- Succinctly.
- Succinctly.
- Yes. Remember that language is power.
I will. I'll remember that.
- Sweetheart, we got something for you.
- Would you excuse me for a moment?
Come on.
Jump in here.
I beg your pardon, boys,
but you are intruding on my privacy.
Felix! Come on!
Jesus, you know,
people are so touchy these days.
You gotta watch every word.
- Doris, what is it about you?
- How do you mean?
- Is your life always so volatile?
- Who?
Volatile.
"Volatile."
Vol...
...Vola...
...tile, here it is.
"Explosive. Filled with energy."
I guess so.
I guess it's because
I'm real temperamental.
It gets me in trouble,
like once, I had a fight with this guy...
...because he wouldn't pay me...
...so l...
- Pay you?
It's not what you think.
- I grabbed him by his smock, and...
- "His smock"?
- Yeah. I was ready to give him this...
- Why was he wearing a smock?
He didn't want his suit messed up
laying on the floor.
- I want to tell you...
- Why was he on the floor?
To aim better. Anyway, I grabbed him...
Hold it! What was he aiming at?
At me, what do you think?
I'm trying to tell you.
- Doris, I'm getting very upset.
- Okay, all right.
Will you let go?
Jesus, you got strong hands
for a guy with thin wrists.
Now, start at the beginning
and go step by step.
- It's not that interesting.
- I'll be the judge of that.
This guy, you know,
some kind of businessman about...
...50 years old
with this big office on Madison Avenue...
...that's got this hallway
with a marble floor.
- And?
- Once in a while he'd give me $50...
...to sit in a chair
at the other end of the hall.
- Just to sit in a chair?
- In my raincoat.
You just sat there
in a chair in your raincoat?
Yes, with my hands tied behind me.
I see. What was he doing?
He was in his end of the hall
on his hands and knees in his smock.
And?
I'd just have to yell, "bombs away"
while he rolled hard-boiled eggs at me.
Say that again.
I said, "I had to yell, 'bombs away'
while he rolled hard-boiled eggs at me."
- He rolled eggs at you?
- Hard-boiled. I told you it wasn't much.
- Doris, that's disgusting.
- Why?
Because it's... I can't find the word. It's...
Where are we anyway?
Where are we?
Who lives here?
What is this place? Whose place is this?
This is the house
of Mr. And Mrs. Weyderhaus.
They are the father and mother
of Miss Ann Weyderhaus.
Miss Weyderhaus is a concert pianist.
She is also my fiancйe.
- You're getting married?
- We went to school together.
We decided we'd be married
as soon as I sold my first novel.
When's that?
At the rate I'm going,
late in the next century.
Why do you say that?
Who am I to argue with every publisher
in New York?
- Felix, what do they know?
- Something I don't, apparently.
You're awful hot, you know that?
How do you feel?
- I think my hair is on fire.
- Come on, you gotta go to bed.
Felix is a bad boy.
Felix has to go to bed now.
- Don't talk weird. It scares me.
- Felix is a weird boy and he scares people.
Knock it off, will you.
You do this and I'll get your shoes.
I'll tell you the trouble with Felix.
Felix went to a good college,
and he took a lot of fine courses in...
...modern literature
and he learned a lot of long words.
But he didn't learn anything, repeat,
anything, about rolling hard-boiled eggs.
Will you shut up about that?
Felix is regressing.
He's forgotten how to do buttons.
- Lift your legs.
- Felix will now lift his legs.
- Is there a thermometer around here?
- In the bathroom.
Point.
Are the Weyderhauses rich?