ARPAD: Good morning.
SIPOS: Good day.
ARPAD: How are you this beautiful day?
Isn't this a beautiful morning?
SIPOS: Very.
ARPAD: Hey Sipos, how's this?
SIPOS: That's an awfully elegant pose,
But is all that elegance necessary?
ARPAD: (spoken) And why not? I represent Maraczek's don't I? We're not a butcher's shop or a hardware store, we're a parfumerie. That means we're, we're...
SIPOS: We're stylish.
ARPAD: That's it.
SIPOS: With a quiet dignity.
ARPAD: Yes.
And we get the tilt of our hats right.
SIPOS: That's right.
ARPAD: When I ride my bike
People see what Maraczek's like,
So I think it's very important that I look my best.
SIPOS: (spoken) And, uh, how many people have you run over today?
ARPAD: Not one!
SIPOS: Well, it's early.
ARPAD: Here comes Miss Ritter.
SIPOS: Oh?
ARPAD: She spent the night with Mr. Kodaly.
SIPOS: Again?
ARPAD: They always kiss goodbye at the newsstand, then she walks around the block to make us think she's been home.
ILONA: Good morning.
ARPAD & SIPOS: Good day.
ILONA: How are you this glorious day?
Have you seen a lovelier morning?
ARPAD & SIPOS: Never.
ILONA: It's too nice a day
To be inside shuffling soap.
I have no more energy whatsoever.
(Spoken)
Anybody mind if I take the day off? Arpad, why aren't you old enough to take me away from all this?
ARPAD: I'm old enough.
ILONA: Well, then marry me, and I'll quit my job. No. I'm afraid you're not really quite old enough.
ARPAD: It won't be long though, I'm catching up. You know, Miss Horvath always used to say I'd get to be thirty-five before you ever did.
SIPOS: Oh, Mr. Kodaly.
KODALY: Good morning.
ARPAD, SIPOS, & ILONA: Good day.
KODALY: How are you this radiant day?
What a rare, magnificent morning.
ARPAD, SIPOS, & ILONA: Is it?
KODALY: Good morning, my dear.
How are you this ravishing day?
Do you know you've never looked more exquisite?
ILONA: Thank you, kind sir.
KODALY: (spoken) What a lovely dress.
ARPAD: The same one she had on yesterday, Mr. Kodaly.
SIPOS: Well, if it isn't Mr. Novak.
GEORG: Good morning.
ARPAD, SIPOS, ILONA, & KODALY: Good day.
GEORG: Isn't that a beautiful sky?
What a perfect sample of summer weather.
It's too nice a day to be indoors counting out change.
What a waste of holiday weather altogether.
Let's all run away.
ILONA: Wouldn't it be something if we all took off from work?
SIPOS: Leaving Mr. Maraczek without a single clerk.
ARPAD: Why not have a picnic?
SIPOS: I could bring my wife's preserves.
KODALY: Champagne might be nice with hot hors d'oeurves.
ALL: It's too nice a day
To be stuck inside of a store.
We could all be getting our summer sun tan.
It's so nice a day
To be dozing under a tree.
SIPOS: Then we'll all be out of a job.
ILONA: (spoken) If it costs that much to get suntanned...
SIPOS: I'll stay untanned.
KODALY: Pale, but solvent.
ARPAD: A picnic...
ALL: A picnic...
Ah, well.