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I'd like to but it may be rather difficult.
Why?
I only come ashore twice a day when the tide goes out.
Oh?
It's on the account of the shells. That's my hobby.
You collect shells?
Yes. So did my father and my grandfather we've all had this passion for shells that's why we named the oil company after it.
Shell Oil?
Please no names. Just call me Junior.
Would you mind moving along, please?
Yes, you're in the way. He's waiting for a signal from his yacht.
Well, I guess I'd better go
It's been delightful meeting you both.
And you will come to hear us tonight?
If it's at all possible
Josephine.
Oh, I didn't hear you come in.
The most wonderful thing happened
What?
Guess!
They repealed Prohibition?
One of whom?
Shell Oil, Junior. He's got millions he's got glasses and he's got a yacht.
You don't say!
Well, he's young and handsome and a bachelor and he's a real gentleman not one of these grabbers.
Maybe you'd better go after him if you don't want to lose him.
Oh, I'm not going to let this one get away. He's so cute collects shells.
Shells? Whatever for?
Anyway, you're going to meet him tonight.
I am?
Because he said he's coming to hear us play maybe.
I guess he's not going to show up it's give minutes to one you suppose he forgot?
Well, you know how those millionaires are. These came for you.
For me? It's Shell Oil.
You heard her yes.
Oh, Josephine just imagine me, Sugar Kowalczyk, from Sandusky, Ohio, on a millionaire's yacht. If my mother could only see me now
Been waiting long?
It's not how long you wait it's who you're waiting for.
Thank you. And thank you for the flowers.
I wanted them to fly down some orchids from our greenhouse but all of Long Island is fogged in.
It's the thought that counts.
I seem to be out of gas.
It's sort of funny you being out of gas I mean, Shell Oil and everything
I just got this motorboat it's an experimental model.
Looks like they're on the wrong track.
Do you mind riding backwards? It may take a little longer
It's not how long it takes it's who's taking you.
It looked so small from the beach but when you're on it, it's more like a cruiser or a destroyer.
Just regulation size. We have three like this.
Three?
Mother keeps hers in Southampton and Dad took his to Venezuela the company is laying a new pipe line.
My dad is more interested in railroads. Baltimore and Ohio. Which is the port and which is the starboard?
Well, that depends on whether you're coming or going I mean, normally the aft is on the other side of the stern and that's the bridge so you can get from one side of the boat to the other how about a glass of champagne?
Love it. Which way?
Yes now let's see where do you suppose the steward set it up?
Oh, you have an upstairs and a downstairs.
Yes that's our hurricane cellar.
Oh in here.
Of course. On Thursdays, they always serve me in the small salon.
It's exquisite like a floating mansion.
It's all right for a bachelor.
What a beautiful fish.
Caught him off Cape Hatteras.
What is it?
Oh a member of the herring family.
A herring? Isn't it amazing how they get those big fish into those little glass jars?
They shrink when they're marinated.
Champagne?
I don't mind if I do.
Down the hatch as we say at sea.
Bon voyage.
Look at all that silverware.
Trophies. You know skeetshooing, dogbreeding, water polo...
Water polo isn't that terribly dangerous?
I'll say. I had two ponies drowned under me.
Where's your shell collection?
Yea, of course. Now where could they have put it? On Thursdays, I'm sort of lost around here.
What's on Thursdays?
It's the crews' night off.
You mean we're alone on the boat?
Completely.
You know, I've never been completely alone with a man before in the middle of the night in the middle of the ocean.
Oh, it's perfectly safe. We're well anchored the ship is in shipshape and the Coast Guard promised to call me if there are any icebergs around.
It's not the icebergs. But there are certain men who would try to take advantage of a situation like this.
You're flattering me.
Well, of course, I'm sure you're a gentleman.
Oh, it's not that. It's just that I'm harmless.
Harmless how?
Well, I don't know how to put it but I have this thing about girls.
What thing?
They just sort of leave me cold.
You mean like frigid?
It's more like a mental block. When I'm with girls, it does nothing to me.
Have you tried?
Have I? I'm trying all the time.
See? Nothing.
Nothing at all?
Complete washout.
That makes me feel just awful.
Oh, it's not your fault. It's just that every now and then Mother Nature throws somebody a dirty curve. Something goes wrong inside.