SCENE 6

Joe and Jerry’s true identity is finally revealed by the gangsters, so they have to flee to the pier where Osgood is waiting in a pre-arranged getaway boat. Sugar chases after them. She wants to come along, too.

Joe: You don’t want me, Sugar. I’m a liar and a phony, a saxophone player, one of those no 37)goodnick’s you keep running away from.

Sugar: I know, every time.

Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the 38)lollipop, not the cole 39)slaw in the face, the old socks and the 40)squeezed out tube of toothpaste.

Sugar: That’s right, 41)pour it on, 42)talk me out of it.

Osgood: I called Mama, she was so happy she cried. She wants you to have her wedding gown, it’s white 43)lace.

Jerry: Osgood, I can’t get married in your mother’s dress. She and I... we are not built the same way.

Osgood: We can have it 44)altered.

Jerry: Oh no, you don’t. Osgood, I’m gonna 45)level with you. We can’t get married at all.

Osgood: Why not?

Jerry: Well, in the first place, I’m not a natural 46)blonde.

Osgood: Doesn’t matter.

Jerry: I smoke. I smoke all the time.

Osgood: I don’t care.

Jerry: Well, I’ve a terrible past. For three years now, I’ve been living with a saxophone player.

Osgood: I forgive you.

Jerry: I can never have children.

Osgood: We can 47)adopt some.

Jerry: You don’t understand, Osgood. I’m... I’m a man!

Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.CE