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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.