2:21:05
There's something inherently
disappointing about success.
2:21:09
Climax and anticlimax, Willie.
2:21:11
I don't quite know how to take praise.
2:21:14
It makes my eyes red.
2:21:16
It must be rather pleasant
to receive it, nonetheless.
2:21:19
I suppose so...
if one feels one deserves it.
2:21:22
I don't think anyone would deny
that you deserve it, Willie.
2:21:27
I know my limitations.
2:21:29
I should rather like to be an actor,
upon the stage.
2:21:33
- An actor?
- Yes.
2:21:35
Wouldn't it be wondrous
if perfectly commonplace people...
2:21:38
...gave each other a round of applause
at the end of the day?
2:21:42
Well done, Kitty! Well done!
2:21:44
Well done, Kitty! Bravo! Encore!
2:21:47
Thank you, Willie.
2:21:49
- Well, you must be tired.
- Must I?
2:21:52
I shall leave you to your beauty sleep.
2:21:54
No, don't go.
2:21:58
Any thoughts racing round
in that old brain of yours?
2:22:01
Thoughts of what nature?
2:22:11
Concerning your next piece.
2:22:13
Ah! That monster.
2:22:15
No, not as yet.
2:22:20
Perhaps you should do something
completely different and unusual.
2:22:24
- Such as what?
- Oh, well, I don't know!
2:22:27
Come along, suggest something!
2:22:29
Oh...
2:22:36
Well, you should have
a young and beautiful heroine...
2:22:42
...who grows old and plain.
2:22:46
As she gradually becomes
older and older...
2:22:48
...the ladies' chorus
becomes younger and younger.
2:22:52
Ah. Topsy-Turvy.
2:22:54
Yes.
2:22:58
How would it commence,
this comic opera of yours?