Visiting her backstage following a performance, he invites her to a country May Day fair the next day and she accepts.He placed the diamond on the tower""s top, and it revealed a zig-zagging pathway to Shangri-La higher up on the mountain.] Lanky and tentative, he appears virtuous, innocent of politics, and free of encumbrances to all the well-wishers." But Eddie is persistent, doesn""t know when to quit, and arrogantly wants Fats to admit defeat and acknowledge his superiority in the marathon contest:Eddie: The pool game is over when Fats says it""s over.