Midge squeezes his arm and smiles at him. “You’ll do fine. See you soon.”
After Robert and Hammond leave, Midge goes to the bar and orders another martini. Sure enough, one of the three men from earlier approaches (the weaselly one) and starts to chat Midge up. She indulges him for a few minutes, until he starts to talk about his home in the Hamptons and the Cadillac that he drives.
“I’m taken,” Midge tells him, looking down at his hand. “And so are you.”
They can come to an arrangement, he says. Midge is so beautiful. She deserves to be with a man who can buy her anything that she desires.
“Listen, buddy, are you sure that you want to piss off a man that has punched lions in the face and carries a pistol with him everywhere he goes?”
A slight exaggeration, but it does the trick. Weaselly man looks worried now.
“That’s what I thought. Robert makes me happy and I’m not looking for anyone else right now.”
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Date: 2024-12-25 12:07 am (UTC)After Robert and Hammond leave, Midge goes to the bar and orders another martini. Sure enough, one of the three men from earlier approaches (the weaselly one) and starts to chat Midge up. She indulges him for a few minutes, until he starts to talk about his home in the Hamptons and the Cadillac that he drives.
“I’m taken,” Midge tells him, looking down at his hand. “And so are you.”
They can come to an arrangement, he says. Midge is so beautiful. She deserves to be with a man who can buy her anything that she desires.
“Listen, buddy, are you sure that you want to piss off a man that has punched lions in the face and carries a pistol with him everywhere he goes?”
A slight exaggeration, but it does the trick. Weaselly man looks worried now.
“That’s what I thought. Robert makes me happy and I’m not looking for anyone else right now.”
Midge wonders if someday that could be true.
The weaselly man leaves her alone at the bar.