:18:08
- Here's your laundry, Mrs. Perth.
- Okay.
:18:12
That coffee smells good. Funny how coffee
never tastes as good as it smells.
:18:17
As you grow older, you'll discover
that life is very much like coffee:
:18:21
The aroma is always better
than the actuality.
:18:24
- May that be your thought for the day.
- Yeah, sure.
:18:28
Telephone.
:18:34
Hello?
:18:36
Mr. Arnett?
:18:39
Who's calling? No, he's not here.
:18:42
I don't know when he'll be back.
:18:45
- A debtor, I take it.
- Yep.
:18:47
Speaking of debt, you ain't paid your share
of the phone for three months, Arnett.
:18:53
Et tu, Brutus?
:18:54
I ain't talking about what you "et."
That's on the house.
:18:57
But I want $8.55 for the phone.
:19:01
That would leave me
embarrassingly short.
:19:04
- Now, look...
- But...
:19:05
...I have a prospective client.
:19:08
The one that called here on Tuesday.
:19:10
I am meeting her
in exactly three minutes.
:19:13
And I shall extract a sizable retainer,
have no fear.
:19:17
What does this one want?
:19:18
Is her husband stepping out on her,
or what?
:19:21
Murder.
:19:33
- Mrs. Kraft?
- Obviously. Who'd you expect?
:19:36
Quite so. It distresses me
that we must meet here...
:19:39
...but they are redecorating my suite,
and I cannot tolerate the smell of paint.
:19:43
- I hope you're a good detective.
- Didn't someone refer you to me?
:19:47
No. Your name just came first
in the classified phone book.
:19:51
Well, I've been in this business
some 20 years.
:19:54
Being still alive, the deduction is
I have not starved at my trade.