The Happy Time1952

Susan Bonnard:
[Bibi returns to the dining room, adjusting lacy garters on his sleeves] Bibi, what have you got on your sleeves?

Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard:
They're too long. Before he left town, Uncle Desmond gave me some garters to hold them up.

Susan Bonnard:
Women's garters! Take them off! Look at them! Off some... stranger's legs!

Grandpere Bonnard:
To Desmond she was not a stranger.

Susan Bonnard:
Jacques!

Jacques Bonnard:
Calm yourself, my love. My brother is young.

Susan Bonnard:
Your son is younger.

Jacques Bonnard:
And after all, there is no great harm in catching garters that are thrown from the stage of the Casino Burlesque. It's done by some of our most distinguished citizens. It's a form of sport.

Susan Bonnard:
I don't want garters from the burlesque on my son's arms.

Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard:
Only one is from the burlesque! The other was obtained privately!

Susan Bonnard:
[shrieking, she leaves the room]

Jacques Bonnard:
Now, Bibi-in the world of men, one does not talk too much. It's enough to have the garters; one does not volunteer the information where they were obtained. You will understand when you are a man.

Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard:
Papa? When will I be?

Jacques Bonnard:
What?

Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard:
When will I be a man?

Jacques Bonnard:
Soon enough.

Grandpere Bonnard:
There is a law of nature, called la pubert?, and it is widespread among all animals, being the awakening of a natural appetite. Life will taste better then-like a good soup! It is the seasoning that counts! But it is a hard appetite to satisfy, believe me.