Piccadilly
1
"Never seen Vic and
Mabel? Why they're
the talk of the
town!"
2
"Or rather Vic is. Without
him there wouldn't be
a woman in the
Club."
3
"But is it a Club?
Do Clubs have
electric signs?"
4
"Of course it isn't a
Club.
They call it a Club
and so everybody wants
to come to it."
5
"Miss Mabel, please!"
6
"Mr Victor, please!"
7
"I wish you wouldn't be-
have like that, Victor -
I don't like it, and I've
told you before."
8
"Valentine, I've been
looking for you
everywhere."
9
"Don't forget I'm on
duty, my dear. Can't
afford to neglect
customers."
10
"Nor me either, I
hope."
11
"That's Valentine Wilmot.
He runs the Club;
he started it and
made it -"
12
"- he also started
Mabel and made her,
too.
You can imagine the
rest."
13
"Dirty plate!"
14
"A complaint about
a plate, sir --
perhaps too much
champagne."
15
"Yes, sir. I know we
had the same sort of
trouble last night -
but I'm only responsible
for the restaurant -"
16
"- the restaurant is the
restaurant and the
kitchen is the kitchen."
17
"What's the meaning
of this?"
18
"The kitchen is the
kitchen
and the scullery
is the scullery."
19
"She must leave at once."
20
"And if this kind
of thing occurs again,
Bessie -
you must go too."
21
"Rotten for you
Mabel, that disturbance
but I've found out
what's wrong and I've
put it right."
22
"Just imagine the
whole place being upset
by one little Chinese
girl in the scullery."
23
"Dancing in the
scullery -
and upsetting
your dancing in the
restaurant!"
24
"There was something
else wrong tonight -
and I'm going to put
that right now."
25
"My dear, I'm simply
mad about you!"
26
"I'm off to America.
Come with me
and I'll make you the
idol of Broadway."
27
"Don't be silly!"
28
"It's you who are silly.
Valentine only wants
you because he thinks
you're a success."
29
"But what sort of
success would you be
without me?"
30
"My dear, do please
be sensible."
31
"I want to give a
fortnight's notice."
32
"Good! You've saved
me the trouble of giving
you notice."
33
"Has my dancing been
the making of the
Piccadilly, or hasn't
it?"
34
"You'd never give me
notice."
35
"Complained?
You bet she hasn't -
Mabel's off her head
about me."
36
"I'm just getting
rid of this conceited
ass --
and what do you
think he says?"
37
"Tell her what you've
just told me."
38
"He has the impudence
to say that you're in love
with him
and that it's you
who've encouraged him."
39
"He knows it isn't
true."
40
"I'm late, sir, because
I'd lost my mascot
and I've been looking
everywhere for it."
41
"Does it bring you luck?"
42
"Nice thing to keep me
waiting 'ere all this
time, Shosho."
43
"Business is still getting
worse, sir.
We used to have
half our tables booked
before noon. Look at
the sheet -"
44
"With all due respect
to Miss Mabel -"
45
"- Victor leaving us
is a serious loss.
Something must be
done, Mr Wilmot."
46
"Something will be done,
Santos."
47
"Jim - that mascot you
gave me, I've lost it."
48
"If you hadn't lost it,
you wouldn't have got the
sack."
49
"It'll bring no luck to
'im as finds it."
50
"The boss 'as sent me
to fetch yer, Shosho."
51
"I don't mind trying,
sir, if you want me
to."
52
"Oh, no, sir -
I'm sure I shouldn't
be frightened."
53
"I did dance
once in public - in
Limehouse.
I live down there."
54
"They wouldn't let me
dance again, sir - there
was trouble between two
men -
knives, policemen."
55
"I didn't know you
were busy."
56
"I hope Mr Wilmot
is taking you back
in the scullery -
I'm sure you won't get
into any more scrapes."
57
"Well, then, it's all
agreed -
except the
salary."
58
"You'll see what I can
do first, and then tell
me what you can
pay."
59
"You need a Chinese
costume -
there's a place in
Soho."
60
"No - not Soho.
There's only one place
for Chinese costumes -
it's a shop in Limehouse."
61
"This is the costume
I want."
62
"Will you try it on?"
63
"Jim - you put it
on."
64
"Who is this Jim?"
65
"Jim? The son of
my sister, an honourable
widow.
He works for me."
66
"There's not another
like it in London."
67
"Eighty pounds is
nothing for such
a dress."
68
"Forty pounds - and
not a penny more."
69
"Eighty pounds - and
not a penny less."
70
"I dance in that -
or not at all."
71
"And Jim must play
my music."
72
"How do you like my
new dance?"
73
"It's splendid!
And with my other
surprise -"
74
"What other surprise?"
75
"You see, business
isn't too good, and I had
to find a novelty.
So I'm trying Shosho
in a real Chinese dance."
76
"Shosho?
But she can't dance!"
77
"You happened to see
a dish-washer capering
about in your scullery,
and you go and
put her on to dance in
your restaurant."
78
"They'll laugh at her!
They'll laugh!"
79
"You've never danced
better, my dear.
Everybody was
delighted."
80
"Never mind about me -
Shosho's music
has just begin -
you had better go."
81
"Where are you, Mab?
Shosho is a terrific
success."
82
"Miss Mabel would like
to thank you for the
flowers."
83
"Yes! Mr Wilmot knew wot
'e was doin', 'e did."
84
"That night Shosho
got the sack, Mr Wilmot
met 'er on the stairs
and 'e made 'er dance
for 'im in 'is office
all quiet like."
85
"I told 'er it would
be all right -"
86
"- and it 'as been
all right."
87
"Your contract's ready
on my desk."
88
"Jim, run and get
my contract from Mr
Wilmot's office."
89
"I'm so tired -
couldn't you drive
me home tonight?"
90
"Thank you.
Goodnight, Mr Wilmot."
91
"And you have the
nerve to kiss me!"
92
"Shosho begged me to
take her home -
really, I couldn't refuse
the girl."
93
"You're quite wrong,
my dear. I didn't even see
the outside of the house.
She insisted on leaving
me at the corner."
94
"Oh! So she had to
insist."
95
"Not at all!
She simply didn't want
the car to be seen in
her street.
I'm being perfectly
frank."
96
"Yes, you're frank now!
But you never told me
about her dancing in
your private office in
the middle of the
night."
97
"I wanted it to
be a complete surprise
to everybody."
"It was."
98
"No doubt.
But I don't like being
kept in the dark -
about that sort of thing."
99
"Mab, darling!
Surely you aren't
jealous!"
100
"That's just what I am!
Jealous! Jealous!
And it seems to me
I've good reason to be -
never will I dance in the
Piccadilly again!"
101
"Please go!
I ask you to go. Now!"
102
New Piccadilly Nights.
103
"You see, this is
our Piccadilly."
104
"Yer know that's not
allowed in my place -
dancing with a white girl.
Get out!"
105
"Are yer blind, or wot?"
106
"I think we'd better
go, Miss Shosho."
107
"Thank you.
Good night, Miss Shosho."
108
"You are the first
visitor to my new
rooms."
109
"It's very late, Miss
Shosho, but I've
come about some-
thing urgent."
110
"Thank you, I don't
smoke."
111
"Well - what is it?"
112
"It's this. I want you
to leave Valentine
alone."
113
"Oh! You want me to
give you back what
you couldn't keep!"
114
"I'm desperate!
I love him - you don't
and he doesn't
really love you."
115
"He's too old for
you."
116
"He isn't too old
for me --
but you're too old
for him."
117
"I want him --
and I shall keep him."
118
"Does any member of
the jury wish to ask
a question?"
119
"I saw Mr Wilmot
arrive. Then I went home.
What happened
afterwards I don't know."
120
"When I came back in
the morning, I found
her dead."
121
"Was she in the habit
of receiving men
visitors at night?"
122
"Never! Never!
This was the first time,
I swear it."
123
"Then do you suggest
that it was Mr Wilmot
who -"
124
"Shosho - she
wanted Mr Wilmot to
give up the white woman.
They had a big
quarrel about it."
125
"I told her
Mr Wilmot would soon
tire of a Chinese girl."
126
"Mr Wilmot, in view of
what we have heard,
you need not give evi-
dence unless you desire
to do so."
127
"Yes, it is mine."
128
"What happened be-
tween you and the
deceased in her
rooms that night?"
129
"I must refuse to
answer."
130
"Gentlemen, there
seems to be no further
evidence.
You may now
consider your verdict."
131
"Not 'till you've heard
me!"
132
"Do you know anything
about this revolver?"
133
"I - I took it from Mr
Wilmot's desk that
evening, and I fol-
lowed them to Lime-
house."
134
"I waited outside, and
after he'd gone, I
saw her and asked
her to give him up
- She refused."
135
"- I opened my bag to
get a handkerchief and
then Shosho saw the
revolver."
136
"She took down a
dagger that was
hung on the
wall -"
137
"- When she came at
me, I pulled out the
revolver -"
138
"- I suppose I
fainted."
139
"I remember nothing
more until I found
myself running down
the street."
140
"You forced yourself
into the deceased's
flat in the middle of
the night?"
141
"No-one saw you enter
or leave, I suppose?"
142
"Yes - Jim let me
in."
143
"This is a serious
development. Where is
the Chinese boy? Either
he or this witness is
committing perjury.
Recall him."
144
"The Chinese boy has
shot himself.
He's lying beside the
girl in the mortuary."
145
"We belonged to
each other.
I'll tell you everything."
146
"Let me tell
you the truth --
I'm dying."
147
"Great --
I've won a fiver
on the three-thirty
race!"
148
"PICCADILLY"
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