Fran discloses her dual motivations for hosting a Leavitt family shindig. She mentions saying goodby to Max's sister as she departs for home in Argentina, and expresses the value of hoping and planning for an uncertain future.
FRAN: Speaking about parties, I just have a few comments to make to your comments about the little affair we had here. And I just want to reiterate what I tried to explain to you here when you were talking about chipping in. I guess that I might say that I'm a little selfish or a little bit snobbish, or whatever you want to call it, but believe me, Pop, as much as you enjoyed it and the fact that Georgie and I made this affair, it really was my pleasure, and I can't really emphasize this [enough]...
I like to show off my home, and I like to entertain, I really do. It really is truly my pleasure... I'm a very proud person and I like to show off our home. So in entertaining your family, Joe and Rose, and Herschel, and your sister, and Selma, and everybody, it really was our pleasure. I was very proud and very pleased to do it. So don't take all the credit that I did it for your sake, I really didn't! And you know me, I always speak the truth! And what I did, I did not only for your sake, more than anything, I did it for my sake... So if anything like that would come up again, we'd do it again... So that's my comment on that.
Of course we saw your sister as we said before they left and we wished her a pleasant journey and so on, and who knows what will be, maybe she'll take a return journey back. Life holds a lot of surprises and you never know who could come up next. The thing is to hope and to plan, and I know you do, and things just have a way of happening.