Riptide1934

Tommie Trent:
We could be happy, too, Mary. Two people like us.

Mary:
I am happy.

Tommie Trent:
No, I mean two kindred spirits, like you and me.

Mary:
How?

Tommie Trent:
They could, eh, they could sleep all day. They could get up just when the evening was gonna get gay and they could dance and take long walks into the moonlight. Then, back and change and out on horses and riding into the dawn. Just when everybody else was waking up to face the day, they could be flitting in and out of warm shower baths and pulling down the blinds on trouble and bores and telephones. Then, they'd be up in the evening and drink steaming hot coffee and pull up the shades and let that ol' moon in again. It would be paradise, wouldn't it? They'd be children of the night.

Mary:
[Smiling] Satan!