Happy To Keep His Dinner Warm

Already smitten with Finch, Rosemary fantasizes about life married to him.

New Rochelle, New Rochelle,

That's the place where the mansion will be

For me and the darling bright young man

I've picked out for marrying me.

He'll do well, I can tell,

So it isn't a moment too soon

To plan on my life in New Rochelle,

The wife of my darling tycoon.

I'll be so happy to keep his dinner warm

While he goes onward and upward;

Happy to keep his dinner warm

Till he comes wearily home from down town.

I'll be there waiting until his mind is clear

While he looks through me, right through me;

Waiting to say, "Good evening, dear.

I'm pregnant. What's new with you from down town?"

Oh, to be loved by a man I respect;

To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect.

Oh, to belong in the aura of his frown--darling busy frown.

Such heaven--wearing the wifely uniform

While he goes onward and upward.

Happy to keep his dinner warm

Till he comes wearily home from down town.