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CELLULAR BREAKDOWN
Skipper is playing tennis when he hears his cellular phone ringing.
"Hi, honey," Margaret says. "Just wondering what you're doing."
"I'm in the middle of a tennis game," Skipper says. "Wanna come
over after? I'd love to cook you dinner over
"Uh, I can't."
"What do you mean, you can't?"
"I mean, I don't know what I'm doing yet. I told some other
people I would go over to their house for dinner." "So we'll go
together."
Skipper lowers his voice. "I don't think I can do that. It's kind of
business, you know what I mean?" "My little mogul," Margaret
says.
Robert Morriskin finally arrives by seaplane. Stanford is a little
pissed he didn't come the day before, so he sends the chauffeur in
the old Ford station wagon to pick him up instead of the Mercedes.
Mr. Marvelous returns from the beach. Sabrina called. He calls
her back immediately but gets her machine.
"IS IT ELLE?" Monday evening. Carrie,
Mr. Big, and Mr. Marvelous are on their way to a cocktail party.
Mr. Marvelous drives his big Mercedes slowly up Mecox Lane, past
the horse farms. The sun is beginning to go down, and the grass has
a particular green calmness. There's a little hill, and when the car
comes over the top, there's a woman awkwardly rollerblading. She's
wearing a tight white T-shirt and tiny black shorts. She has long
dark hair tied up in a ponytail, but it's her legs that get you.
"I'm in love," Mr. Marvelous says. When she turns off down a
side road, he drives the car straight on, but then stops and puts his
hands on top of the steering wheel. "I'm going back."
Carrie tries to give Mr. Big a look, but he ignores her. He is
laughing, going along with it all.
Mr. Marvelous speeds up the road after the girl. "Look at her.
She doesn't even know how to rollerblade. She's going to get hurt."
They pass the girl, and Mr. Big says, "Is it Elle? She looks like
Elle."
Carrie's sitting in the back seat, smoking a cigarette. "Too young
for Elle," she says.
Mr. Big rolls down his window and says, "Hi."
The girl comes up to the car. "Hi," she says smiling, then looks
confused. "Do I know you?"
"I don't know," says Mr. Marvelous, leaning across the seat. "I'm
Mr. Marvelous."
"I'm Audrey," says the girl. She looks at Mr. Big. "You look like
someone I know."
Mr. Marvelous hops out of the car. "Do you know how to stop?
You've got to know how to stop. Rollerblading can be dangerous."
The girl is laughing. "Here's what you do," Mr. Marvelous says,
demonstrating by squatting down with one foot in front of him and
sticking his arms straight out.
"Thank you," the girl says. She begins to skate away. "Are you a
model?" Mr. Marvelous says.
"No," she says, over her shoulder. "No, I'm a student."
Mr. Marvelous gets back in the car. "She had a ring on her finger.
What's her husband doing letting her go rollerblading by herself? I
would have asked her to marry me. She was that beautiful. Did you
see her? What was her name? Audrey. Her name was Audrey. Kind
of old-fashioned, huh?"
THE BOY IN BLUE CHINTZ
Stanford has arranged a dinner at Delia Femina's for Robert.
Afterward, they all go back to the house on Halsey Neck and smoke
pot. At two in the morning, Robert begs off, saying he's got to plow
through that pile of manuscripts in the morning. Stanford walks him
to his room, which is decorated in traditional Southampton chintz.
"I've always loved this room," Stanford says. "You can't get this
blue chintz anymore. I hope you won't be too hot. I still think it's
best to sleep without the covers in the summer. We used to do that
when we were kids. Before my grandmother discovered air
conditioning."
Stanford sits down in an armchair as Robert gets undressed.
Robert doesn't seem to mind, and Stanford keeps up a patter of
chitchat. Robert gets into bed and closes his eyes. "Tired?" Stanford
says. He walks to the bed and looks down at Robert, whose eyes are
closed. "Are you sleeping?"
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Tuesday, Fourth of July. The cellular phone: It's Margaret. "Hi,
honey. Everybody's going back early, and I don't want to. When are
you going back? Can I get a ride?"
"I'm not going back until tomorrow morning," Skipper says.
"Oh. Well, I could go back tomorrow morning. I'll call my
office."
"Sure," says Skipper, unhappily.
"Don't you just love the end of the weekend when everyone's left
and you're still out here? Let's go to dinner."
"I don't think I can. I promised some friends . . . "
"No problem," Margaret says lightly. "We'll definitely see each
other next weekend. We can plan it in the car tomorrow morning."
Tuesday, early evening. Mr. Marvelous turns his Mercedes into the
road where he last saw Audrey. He gets out, opens the trunk, and
after a certain amount of struggle, puts on a pair of rollerblades. He
takes a couple of turns up and down the road. Then he leans against
the side of his car and waits.
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