Scene XI

INT. library
EXT. afternoon

Beginning from HOLLY and PAUL walking out of  library (INT.)

HOLLY:  Let's go Fred, I don't think this place is half as nice as Tiffany's

PAUL: There is something I'd like to show you.

(SWITCH to in front ANTIQUE SHOP where PAUL and HOLLY are looking at a bird cage)

PAUL: What do you think

(SWITCH to HOLLY)

HOLLY: (looking at cage) It's a nice fantasy for a bird (smiles, turns to FRED), but it's still a cage. (Looks
closely at price tag) An EXPENSIVE cage (looks surprised), three hundred and fifty dollars! Boy!

(TURNS to PAUL again)

HOLLY: I don't like to see things in cages.  It distresses me.  I'd never like to be put in a cage, and I'd certainly never put anything in a cage.

(LOOKS at bird cage again)

HOLLY: You know what I'd like to do?

PAUL: What?

HOLLY: I'd like to get Fred some peanut butter.

(SEQUENCE: shots of HOLLY and PAUL "Worming out of reluctant grocers cans of peanut butter, a wartime scarcity..." round up half a dozen, "the last at a delicatessen on Third Ave.")

(HOLLY and PAUL are walking past a FIVE AND TEN)

HOLLY: Hey, have you even taken anything from a Five-and-Ten, when you were a kid I mean?...

NOTE: HOLLY gives PAUL the bird cage for Christmas, "But you must promise me something.  You must promise me you'll never put anything in it..."