Metropolitan1990

Charlie Black:
I don't see how you can stand him. You're always complaining about people being frauds and phoneys. This guy is the phoney of the decade, yet you act as he were your long-lost best friend.

Nick Smith:
Tom's hardly a phoney. Just mildly deluded. He's a perfectly nice guy.

Charlie Black:
That's just another aspect of his phoniness. He's a terrible phoney, and when he's not being a phoney, he's a bastard.

Nick Smith:
Oh, come on.

Charlie Black:
You saw how he treated Audrey last night.

Nick Smith:
Well, Audrey seems to have forgotten it.

Charlie Black:
She has to act that way. Otherwise it would be even more humiliating. But I don't have to pretend Tom Townsend is a nice guy.

Nick Smith:
You're really gaga about Audrey, aren't you?

Charlie Black:
If by "gaga" you mean, do I like her? Yes, I do.

Nick Smith:
Well, why don't you do something about it, instead of just going on and on about what a bastard Tom Townsend is.

Charlie Black:
What do I do? Declare myself? That would be an absolute disaster. I don't think I haven't thought about these things. But I think if the situation could just continue as it has been, they gradually, over time, it'd grow into something more. That, at least, is what I've been hoping for.