You're a kind of, um, writer, aren't you, Mr. Connor?

Sort of.

A book?

Yes.

Under what name do you publish?

My own. Macauley Connor.

What's the 'Macauley' for?

Well, my father taught English History. I'm, I'm Mike to my friends.

Of whom you have many, I'm sure. English History - it's always fascinated me. Cromwell, Robin Hood, Jack the Ripper. Where did he teach? I mean your father -

In a little high school in South Bend, Indiana.

South Bend! It sounds like dancing, doesn't it? You must have had a most happy childhood there.

Yeah, it was terrific.

I'm so glad.

No, I didn't mean it that way.

I'm so sorry. Why?

Uh, well, lack of where-with-all I guess.

But that doesn't always cause unhappiness, does it? Not if you're the right kind of man. George Kittredge, my fiancee, never had anything either and he...