INT. ROADHOUSE BAR, LONG ISLAND - NIGHT (1925)

A jazz band plays too fast. RAY CARLIN (30s), white suit, leans on the bar beside CLAIRE HOLT (19), who is watching the door.

RAY
Something to drink, old sport?

CLAIRE
From your own cellar? Everyone says you're a bootlegger.

RAY
Everyone says you're a speed.

CLAIRE
Mother says I'm a baby vamp. Everyone is crazy about saying things.

RAY
It's a swell party, all the same.

CLAIRE
Careful. That sounds like a line.

RAY
Maybe. But you're the real thing.