“I’ll bet someone thought a lot of you to give you that. May I look at it?”
She unsnapped it, and Hale turned it over and over in his fingers. “A very beautiful watch,” he said, “very, very beautiful.”
I said to Rosalind, “What is there to do in this place? Don’t they dance?”
“No. They have a floor show.”
“When?”
“It’ll be on almost any minute now.”
Marilyn laughed and said, “There’s Joe looking at your empty glass, Rosalind.”
Hale said, “Just a minute, and he can look at mine.” He tossed down the rest of his drink, snapped his fingers, and said, “Oh, Joe.”
The waiter didn’t waste any time this trip. “Fill ‘em up with the same thing?” he asked.
“Fill ‘em up same thing,” Hale said, still fingering Marilyn’s wrist watch.