[Rita] told [Vic] she remembered the first time she had met him--in the movie books--and had said aloud: "Hmmmm. Not bad. And not good." She told him she remembered their first date--dinner at Vic's bachelor apartment with Vic's cook as chaperone. She told him she remembered the mad things they had done, driving along the surf at Santa Monica at four in the morning, listening in the dark to radio mystery dramas...