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MR . BUNT

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in you , Jim, boy, only you never got it out right yet. You'll see a way some day and you're go ing to do it. JIM

All of us are, you mean , Lu . LU

Never you mind the rest of us, Jim, but I've set my heart on your going on. JIM

Smiling.

Yes- you set your heart on everything around here, Lu . LU

Enthusiastically.

And it all comes true, Jim. It's the wishing that works it. It's when you don't see your way clear, if you keep on wishing, finally -- whatever it was breaks, and they call it luck. Jim smokes in silence. JIM

It's funny, Lu. LU

Everything's funny, Jim - almost. JIM

Turning to look at her, slowly. You said the word, Lu - almost LU

Well, don't let that worry you. That's the word

that lets us see how funny things has to be.