Whether she'll do anything with Henry remains to be seen, but for now Don will have to do. She doesn't want sneaky kisses in the car park, she wants to be whisked away to the Eternal City, to order room service and put her hair up.
The scene with Betty speaking in Italian with the two men even leads to Don, for once, not being in on the joke.īetty is obviously unhappy with her life (she sounds very April Wheeler when she tells Don "I hate this place, I hate our friends, I hate this town".) The Rome trip for her is almost like an affair. This is the life she might be leading without her "old and ugly" husband.
In Italy, we see Betty as she presumably was in Manhattan: wickedly flirting with young men, indulging her beauty salon whims, looking like a Guido Anselmi fantasy in 8½ – which was released summer 1963, incidentally. After they share a kiss, a combination of guilt and hormones make her decide to leave the kids with Carla and go to Italy. Having used his position to help the Junior Leaguers' campaign at the town hall, he makes it clear that he's doing so just to please Betty. Their reasons for being in Lazio are, of course, influenced by Henry. As well as being an anthropology grad, Betty speaks Italian (having modelled there) and we almost immediately meet a different woman to Ossining Betty. With Don increasingly being dragged around the world by Hilton, Birdie is given a chance to escape her cage as Betty slips off to join him a Roma for two days. "You're going to have a lot of first kisses." Betty
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