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I agree.5-19-55 P.2 life. She?╟╓s a cold girl ?╟÷ remote, aloof, unused to being with people and ill at ease with them. If she has any emotion about anything but dancing, she certainly doesn?╟╓t know it. Now you'd say that Chuck and Maria have absolutely nothing in common. It?╟╓s true that normally they?╟╓d never even meet* But things don?╟╓t work normally in Las Vegas - that?╟╓s what's so great about the place. And so they do meet. Her rehearsal finished, Maria crosses the gambling room with SARI, her dresser and companion. She passes the roulette table at which Chuck is playing just at the moment when he reaches out to grab the nearest hand - for luck, as he always does. The nearest hand happens to be Maria's. Holding onto it, he bets - and wins, for the first time that day. Furious, Maria pulls away and hurries out with Sari. This kind of thing - the impulsiveness, the informality - this is exactly what makes her feel so ill at ease in Las Vegas. She tells Sari to call Pierre, who?╟╓s in New York arranging for her debut there - she wants him to get her out of this engagement, she doesn?╟╓t belong here. Her mood isn't helped when, a moment later, a bellboy brings her a tray full of silver dollars. Chuck has sent her her share of the winnings. Taking the tray,.she finds Chuck - dumps the money into his lap. All she wants from him is to be let alone. Chuck takes this good-naturedly enough - only why is she this angry? He's so nice about it that she simmers down - realizes that she's angry at her- self, not at him, and apologizes. That should be the end of it - except for one thing. While they were talking, Chuck had slipped a silver dollar into a one- armed bandit. While she was apologizing, she'd given him her hand.