He admitted to her that he realized she was disdainful of him:Of course you don""t like me.I""m a cripple.However, Philip contemplated marriage with Mildred and told his school friends about his reasoning: "Because I""m so in love with her.I""m fond of Suzie, very fond, but I also wanted to meet you.I read someplace that the surest way to meet the mother is to be kind to the child." When Susan was overheard praising this year""s realistic-looking Santa Claus, Doris explained how he was a "last-minute substitute" for a drunken Santa she had previously hired - and then fired...What do you want me to start with? The Golden Gate Bridge? Now watch.Watch this.Here we go.There.(He steps up.) There.Now.I look up, I look down.I look up.I look down.There""s nothin"" to it.But when she brings in a taller kitchen stepchair and he experiments with it, he breaks out in a sweat on the last step and gently faints into Midge""s comforting arms, looking down into he deep abyss - at the side of the building where he was left hanging and faced death.Fresh from the turnip patch." New recruit Paul asks the veterans: "You see, we haven""t eaten since breakfast, we thought maybe you could ell us what we ought to do about it.