:27:34
Excuse me.
:27:39
It was not the custom in New York...
:27:42
...for a lady to get up
and walk away from one gentleman...
:27:45
...in order to seek
the company of another.
:27:49
But the countess
did not observe this rule.
:27:57
I want you to talk to me about May.
:28:01
You knew the duke before?
:28:04
From Nice.
:28:05
We saw him every winter. He's fond of
gambling and came to our house often.
:28:11
He wears the same suit every evening.
He thinks it brings him luck.
:28:16
He's the dullest man I ever met.
:28:20
But he seems to be admired here.
:28:25
May I tell you what most
interests me about New York?
:28:29
Not all the blind obeying
of somebody else's tradition.
:28:33
It seems stupid to make America
a copy of another country.
:28:36
Would Columbus have taken such trouble
just to go to the opera with Lefferts?
:28:47
If he'd known Larry Lefferts were
here, he might never have left port.
:28:54
And May? Does she share these views?
:28:56
If she does, she'd never say so.
:28:59
Are you very much in love with her?