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#42. The Adriatic Express Affair

Ingster: Your friend is in there now kissing her hand. All attention.

IK: Madame Nemirovitch sure well he's always been very fond of the ladies.

Ingster: Ah ladies, maybe, she's a monster.

IK: He likes animals too.

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NS: Did you bring the pocket detonator?

IK: We left so fast they're in the hotel. How did I know you were going to bring me for a ride on a train?

NS: What about the electronic screwdriver?

IK: In the same place.

NS: Did you bring anything?

IK: DID YOU?

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NS: What about the flame-thrower? You didn't bring that either. No.

IK: Mm. Only these. A book of matches.

NS: The floor is wooden if we could burn that we could loosen the bars.

IK: (laughs) With one book of matches?

NS: No, but we could with that. It's just as inflammable as gasoline I know I once had my eyebrows burned off having Cherries Jubilee.

IK: The result was a triumph for plastic surgery.

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IK: Oh and Soda get some bottles of Soda from the bar after all I'd hate to go up in smoke.

Blonde: Well you won't its good brandy.

IK: Yes I know but I burst into flames with very little encouragement.

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Eva: Will you take me on a gondola?

NS: I was thinking more of a little motorboat.

Eva: A motorboat.

NS: Mm huh.

Eva: But that's so unromantic.

IK: Oh not with Mr Solo. You see he finds a gondola much too slow.

Eva: Do you?

NS: Yes, you see with a speedboat I can get a lot farther a lot quicker.