being good?
- Yes.
Really.
I do not ask,
"How are you? How are we?"
- "Do you still love her?"
- "Do you still love me?"
- "Is it over?"
- "Is it ever going to be over?"
"What did you give her
for her birthday?"
Oh, was it Thelma's birthday?
Yeah.
Happy birthday.
- You going to Betty's?
- Yeah. What are you bringing?
- Coleslaw. How about you?
- Making Key lime pie.
OK.
Throw them in the back.
Go ahead.
I just have to tighten the setting a little.
- It'll just take me a couple of minutes.
- That's great.
Here's your candy, kid.
- You always loved this ring.
- I know.
So, how did you like the necklace?
The necklace?
- I'm thinking of another customer.
- No, you're not.
I thought Mark had bought a birthday
present when I was in the hospital.
He shouldn't have done that.
I shouldn't have said anything.
Oh, no, it's OK, Leo. At least
I now know what to be prepared for.
Nothing worse than opening
a box with a necklace
when you're not in the mood for one.
When have you ever
not been in the mood for a necklace?
I can think of circumstances
where I might not be.
Really.
All done.
- How much?
- No charge.
How much would you give me
for the ring?
You don't really want to sell it?
I really want to sell it.
Do you really want to buy it?
I always told you
I'd buy this ring from you.
Well, I love the ring, Leo, but it just...
It doesn't go with my life now.
It wouldn't have been stolen in the first
place if I didn't wear it on the subway.
If you have a ring you can't wear
on the subway,
you pretty much have to
take cabs all the time.
And then, before you know it,
we're broker than we already are.
Mark. He's such a romantic.
He must have spent every penny
of his savings on that necklace.
For the down payment.
For the down payment.
- It's a beautiful necklace.
- How much for the ring?
I asked for a list of her friends
and she gave me 50 names.
I wasn't planning on something big,
but what could I do?
- You're having a party for Thelma?
- And Jonathan. Next Saturday.
- You're all invited.
- We're on the list?
Of course. Thelma knows
you're my best friends.
You know what's going on with her.
Medical problems, legal problems,
rumours their marriage
is falling apart.
You stand by people at a time like this.
I don't want them to be pariahs.
The minute anyone hears
your marriage is in trouble,
- you may as well have leprosy.
- Who doesn't want their green stuff?
- Oh, here.
- Slide it down.
Now, David and Harriet Kaiser.
- I don't even know them.
- You don't have to know them. Split.
No, I just saw them together.
Why do people always say that?
You tell them someone split
and they say, "We saw them together."
You tell them someone just died
and they say, "We just saw him alive."
- I hate Harriet Kaiser.
- She wasn't so bad.
- Never said anything.
- Have I met her?
- I did... I did think she was a dyke.
- Oh, Dmitri!
How could...?
Why didn't you tell me?
I told you. And you said,
"Don't be ridiculous." So...
- Goddamn it!
- Why are you mad at Dmitri?
- Yeah.
- Because she is a dyke.
I caught you! You see?
- She left him for his secretary.
- Holy shit.
He lost a wife and a secretary
at the same time!
Well, I can't get over it.
I can't stop thinking about it.
How could you be together that long...?
How long was it?
At least as long
as Rachel and Mark, right?
How could you be with someone
that long, live with them,
love them enough to want
to marry them, and not know?
- Oh, he must've known. I knew.
- Well, he says he didn't know.
- Come on.
- How could he not?
How could you be together that long
and not know that?
- Maybe it wasn't true when they met.
- Of course it was true.
Oh, you don't just start sleeping
with women, bang, like that.
Oh, sure you do. It's like getting
allergic to strawberries, right?
You eat strawberries all your life and
then one day, bang, and you get hives.
No, I do not believe people