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Mrs. Rittenhouse: You are one of the musicians, but you were not due until tomorrow.

Ravelli: Couldn't come tomorrow, that's too quick.

Spaulding: Say, you're lucky he didn't come yesterday.

Ravelli: We were busy yesterday. But we charge just the same.

Spaulding: This is better than exploring. What do you fellas get an hour?

Ravelli: Oh, for playing, we get ten dollars an hour.

Spaulding: I see. What do you get for not playing?

Ravelli: Twelve dollars an hour.

Spaulding: Well, clip me off a piece of that.

Ravelli: Now for rehearsing, we make special rate: that's'a fifteen dollars an hour.

Spaulding: That's for rehearsing?

Ravelli: That's for rehearsing.

Spaulding: And what do you get for not rehearsing?

Ravelli: You couldn't afford it. You see, if we don't rehearse, we don't play. And if we don't play [snaps fingers], that runs into money.

Spaulding: How much would you want to run into an open manhole?

Ravelli: Just the cover charge. [Laughs with Mrs. Rittenhouse.]

Spaulding: Well, drop in some time.

Ravelli: Sewer.

Spaulding: Well, we cleaned that up pretty well.

Ravelli: Well, let's see how we stand.

Spaulding: Flat-footed.

Ravelli: Yesterday, we didn't come. [to Mrs. Rittenhouse] You remember, yesterday, we didn't come.

Spaulding: Oh, I remember.

Ravelli: Yeah, that's three hundred dollars.

Spaulding: Yesterday, you didn't come, that's three hundred dollars.

Ravelli: Yes, that's three hundred dollars.

Spaulding: Well, that's reasonable, I can see that all right.

Ravelli: Now today, we did come. That's, uh...

Spaulding: That's a hundred you owe us.

Ravelli: Hey, I bet I'm gonna lose on the deal. Tomorrow, we leave. That's worth about...

Spaulding: A million dollars.