a violin plays a melancholy neapolitan air. vicki carr is singing "it must be him." vicki carr, singing "it must be him", starts playing. rose looks weary. an album of "neapolitan folk songs" is playing on the cafe's loretta waltzes around in front of the mirror, flirting with herself in a very serious way. she starts to unbutton her blouse. it's "mimi's aria"- from the snow scene in la boheme. "o soave fanciulla" from "la boheme," comes up and engulfs the lovers, the family, the world.