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Affair in Monte Carlo

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I passed over the day in Cannes

Thank you,Sir

I vie for my wedding on Sunday

What a pity I shan't be here

Never mind,I shall be thinking about you all

You'll be thinking about a very lucky fellow

Henriette

Ma petite?

Henriette

Maman!

Qu'est-ce que c'est

Henriette

It appears that Henriette has left

He's (???)

That's what they are trying to find out

I think we better leave them alone

I'm afraid there's going to be no wedding on Sunday

Oh,poor Monsieur Blanc

I guess she couldn't take her future mother in law

Henriette has run away with a young man

But what young man?

A young man who arrived in a car lunchtime yesterday

But she did just met him?

That's nonsense they must have been going together for weeks

That's what I believe,Mr Stirling

But I saw him when he came in, I was having my lunch

I'm quite certain they never met before

Then you must have been fooled as much as we were

I don't think so

You see to me it's quite understandable

To run away with someone she's only met for 24 hours?

And three days before she was going to get....

To marry a man twice her age

And a widower with two children

Why?

Because she loved him I hope

He loved her undoubtedly

But to Henriette I think he merely represented security

Then quite suddenly this young man arrives

from the very first moment the usual attraction was terrific,I saw it all

Last night let us presume he kissed her

And from that moment

She was so drawn to that young man both mentally and physically

Within 24 hours she packed her bags and gone

I don't believe any woman could meet a complete stranger

and fall in love within five minutes, I just don't believe it

Yet it happened

Henriette said so in her notes

Having met the young man she was not accountable for her actions

If I am saying we all do things like that

and said we weren't responsible,you got a cigarette ash on your coat,dear

I seem to be playing the defending counsel

If I am it's because I've seen this happened before

You mean a girl run away with a complete stranger?

I mean a woman fall in love with a complete stranger

Well I for one don't believe it

Certain

Just a moment let's see what Mr Stirling has to say

All right I'll tell you the story

But on one condition

When I finish you reconsider your verdict on poor Henriette

I like to hear the story

Keep an open mind

This particular incidence happened before the war

If I give you names,they are of course factitious

Naturally

Well,I just bought the "Fair Rosa" and I was placed that summer on Monte Carlo

I had friends staying with me on board

On this particular morning we were lying off shore opposite the casino

Sun was shining and the Mediterranean was at its glory

My guests were swimming and sun bathing

In fact they were making the most of a perfect day

I had to say with a young cousin of mine,Peter Stirling

when I say he was staying with me I hadn't invited him

but he was the sort of young man

who always turned up when I didn't really want him not that I didn't like him

But he was disturbed by work

always playing the gramophone and inviting complete strangers on board

In fact I found him I found him just a little trying

Then there were Alice and Frank Brown a couple of good looking Americans

From California

Frank directed a picture of one of my novels when I stayed with them in Hollywood

So theirs was a return visit to me

But neither Peter nor the Browns are very important to this tale

they just happened to be there

My fourth guest was more interesting

A woman named,named Linda Venning

Linda's husband had been a great friend of mine

In fact I was first man at their wedding

He was head of his father's business

And the only thing that might have marred a perfect marriage

was the fact that they had no children

But she was the centre of her own small community

And all the one might say she had a very shielded existence

Her days were always full of some activity

Hospital committees work of various kind on behalf of other people

And then she lost her husband

He was killed in a motoring accident

I continued to see quite a lot of her whenever I was in England

In fact I was administrator of her estate under her husband's will

Thank you

Enjoying yourself?

Loving every minute of it

I haven't seen you so gay for a long time

I am glad now I came

That's good to have reason for having asked you

Were you down with Peter?

He is around somewhere

He wants to give me swimming lessons

Do you really mean that?

Of course I do,what do you expect me to say?

I must be losing my grip

So far as I'm concerned you never really had one

Am I been too unkind?

Absolutely brutal,do you know I can't sleep at night

Nonsense I heard you snoring like a grampus

That's was pure absent mindedness

Poor Peter never mind don't let it spoil your holiday

You'll find some lovely sympathetic girl here in Monte Carlo who'll understand you

Not quite as I do perhaps but

In a way you to be understood

And then you won't feel you're losing your grip

Will you?

I'm just a simple chap who wants to be loved,a child of nature,that's all

That'll just explain for an awful lots of things but

No thank you

Are you coming to casino tonight?

I don't gamble

You don't gamble,you don't drink,you don't (?)yourself?

No thank you

I drink to your cold heart my dear Linda

And to the hope perhaps some day it may become warm again

Why don't you change your mind and come to the casino?

No thanks.I'll stay with Linda if she can bear it

OK but you help me bail me out if I go broke

See you later

Well I'm going to look for that lovely thing who would understand me

Good Luck

And I hope nobody warned you were coming

How lovely it is here

Look at the moonlight on the casino

And you never seen it before

-Let me -Thanks

Do you never gamble in your life?

No,you know Charles and I always did our holidays in Scotland

Choosing (???),we never went abroad

I really lived a very quiet existence

It's probably (????) lacking all excitements

Why should I criticise your life?

You achieved something that very few people have

Peace and happiness

I lived in a backwater I suppose

And it is a very pleasant backwater

I don't think I want anything else

That's why I thought twice about excepting your invitation

I didn't think I'd like Monte Carlo

I'm not sure that I do

But it's fascinating

-Bill -Sir

Some more coffee

Right,Sir

All life here revolves round that casino

The spin of the croupier's wheel,it takes the life of the entire principality

I didn't know you gambled

No I don't not a lot

But I love watching the people who do

There are the professional gamblers

Usual the members of the cynics

Or the old women taking a few Francs trying to win the rent of a garret in Nice

It's the drama,the excitement,I find it stimulating to see their imagination

That's why I go

I can see your fingers twitching

You want to go now,don't you?

I think you should go once while you are here

Yes I think I should do

Will you take me?

I should be charmed my dear visitor

Linda, Robert I'd like to introduce you a very good friend of mine

Mademoiselle?? What was your name again?

Vita

-Vita short -How do you do

Hello

Just a simple child of nature

For the last days couple of days I thought he would be losing his cringe

Not Peter he'll always have tight grip on something

But not on you I am able to say

I understand now why you say you like to watch

Look at those faces

Don't look at their faces, look at their hands

Gamblers learn to control their faces but their hands blad their secrets shamelessly

Look at those hands placing their stakes

Each one of them like a beast of prey

Some of them (?)and gold

Some of them covered with rings and bracelets

Some of them hairy like the paws of wild animals

Some of them like raving (?)

That's fascinating

A claw like hands that's average

A lose hand that it's extravagance

A quiet one calculations, a trembling one,despair

All of them tense,inpatient

Now look at the hands of the croupier

They are pure automatic

they do their work as though it could be a business,non committal precision

Mechanical machines

Now look at the hands of the winner

Look at them collecting those plaques as though they were equal to jewels

You'll get to know each pair of hands as if they were your own

Aren't you going to bet?

No,perhaps I will if you don't mind

I'll play (?) do you like to come with me?

No I prefer to watch ,you go please

Mes plaques s'il vous plait

-Cinzano -Cinzano,verre,Monsieur

Hello there, sit down

-Care for a drink? -No thank you

Merci,Monsieur

Robert I need your help quickly

With pleasure my dear,how much?

No,not that,there is a young man who sat at the roulette table

He lost all his money,he's desperate

Told you to look at their hands not their faces

Don't joke,Robert,he is outside on the terrace

And I suddenly felt he is going to do something dreadful

What do you mean?

Well,I saw he put his hand in his pocket,I think he's got a gun

You're quite sure it wasn't a packet of cigarettes?

I don't know but

Robert you must come and speak to him,you must

Linda,dear,this is your first visit to a casino,it's so easy to imagine things

Your young man is probably not feeling very well

and just gone out for a breath of air

Monsieur,the bank is ready for you to recommence

Should be there

-You're coming? -No

Don't worry my dear,he won't shoot himself

Really he won't,they never do

Come on,Monsieur

Please go away

What do you want?

I just want you to come away

Where do you live?

I don't live anywhere

I came here this evening from Nice

But you can't stay here,you must get a room in a hotel

You're wasting your time

I haven't any money for a hotel

Come with me

Don't worry about anything just come with me

Please come with me

Don't worry about anything

Good Evening Madame

Good Evening the gentleman wants a room for night,please

Certainly where is your baggage?

He has no luggage

I regret,we are full,there is not one room at the hotel

The gentleman requires a room just for tonight

Good Evening,Madame, I'll give you an address

Look I want you to take this money

Get a room here for the night

Tomorrow you can go back to Nice

Tonight sleep

Don't waste your money on me

I was watching you in the casino, I knew that you've lost everything

It's no disgrace to give something to help

I don't care if I sleep tonight or not

Don't talk such enigmatic nonsense

You're young

For heavens sake face up to life

When you wake up tomorrow you see different about the whole thing

Don't argue,please

Give me that gun

Who said I got one?

Don't worry I won't do it here

At least I have enough decency not to make a mess of someone else's room

Prenez me a la Pension

A la Pension Madame

Thank you Madame

Monsieur,Madame is here again

Give me that gun

Sure

But five floors up that's high enough

What are you doing here anyhow

I want to help

Men don't kill themselves because they lost a few thousands francs

All right,all right I just thought you liked to sit down

No thank you

As you wish Lady Bountiful

Lady Bountiful,that's what you are,aren't you?

What are you doing in a place like this?

What are you doing with a chap like me,accounts for that

What are you doing here?

I didn't ask you to come and speak to me,I didn't want your money

Get out of here,get out of here

No,stop shouting

Leave me alone is all I ask you,you know quite well why I want to be by myself

What I'm asking you is that

Master of questions usually they grant that to a condemned man

No one has condemned you except yourself

What do you know about me? Nothing

But you,I say you've been wrapped in cellophane since the day you were born

Have you ever been tempted to do something really wrong?

Have you ever know what it is to have a devil of (?) in front of you?

In another first thing about life

Come on,you go

Where is your husband?

My husband is dead

I mean I know nothing about your life

But I've come back here tonight

To try and save it

Why?

Because

Because you are so alone

You never said a truer word

Oh don't

Please don't be so unhappy

I'm with you

I'm with you

Darling

So I'm get it back

I'll get it back

You know

I must have been dreaming

It's a wonderful day,the sun is shining

I don't want to slap in my head

All the talking in the world in nought to the facts

Yesterday I lost everything

Where did you get the money from?

That's my business

That's my money

And was the diamond earrings yours too?

Who told you that?

You did,you've been talking in your sleep

Where did you get hold of these earrings?

I stole them from my aunt in Paris

Did that shock you? It does shock you,doesn't it?

I'm afraid it does

I warned you,that you didn't know what you were giving yourself caught up with

You've been talking all night with a gambler and a thief

I put the word thief second,noticed?

In all my life I've been a gambler

No,don't go listen to me

I think you should hear what sort of a mud pie you dipped your ladylike fingers into

I was born in Ireland where my father had a racing stable

At the age of six I was betting pennies to back horses for the local bookmaker

Then when I came to England and school

I stopped backing horses and taught the other kids how to play poker

I used to win

At Oxford I got into a racing set again

I lost the packets more than I could ask my father for so I was sent down

My old man put me into his business in Dublin

providing I promised never to gamble again

So for five years I neither touched a card nor made a bet

I thought I got the devil out of my system

As a reward my father sent me to France to stay with my uncle in Paris

He had a business there

One afternoon we all went to Longchamps

They didn't realize that to me gambling was a disease

Disease which has laid dormant like a cancer for five long years

I knew nothing about form but luck was with me

That day and the next and next after I won a packet

I didn't really find was what was to give me complete and utter satisfaction

till I walked through the glass doors of the casino at Deauville

The sight of the green base,the scented atmosphere of the rooms made me drunk

Reeling drunk

I was mad to gamble

I can remember my fingers twitching

as I picked up the plaques from the cashier's desk

And sat down like a drunken man

And played

For five nights in succession I won

Some of them advised me to quit

but it was like asking a drug addict to give up dope,I couldn't quit

On the sixth night I had my return ticket to Paris

and that was all

I found that my uncle had been called to London my aunt had gone with him

So I was alone in the apartment without a sous in my pocket

But luck was with me this time

A few weeks before my aunt had asked me to get something from the safe

I knew where she kept the key

So I opened it

Borrowed the pearls and the diamond earrings

You mean you stole them?

Call it what you like but if I had won last night

I would have gone back to the pawnbroker and nobody would have been any the wiser

I told you were dipping your fingers into a mud pie

I followed you last night because I wanted to help you

But you seem to be beyond help

If you'd known anything you'd recognize that fact in the first place

I'm through but I got sense to know it

You are only delaying the end of the story

I made a mistake I see that now

What did last night I did from my heart not from my head

Stupid of me

Nice work

Now I'll write a letter

Can't just go out without saying good bye

Now I say good bye too

I want to leave and then I go

OK

What did he say?

We are at the top

Oh

Be careful,be careful

Thank you

Qu'est-ce que c'est Madame , Qu'est-ce que c'est Coconuts

Coconuts?

Oui,coconuts

-Coconuts -Coconuts?

Oui,coconuts comme en le chansonne que vous chantier

Coconuts

Ah,that's what I say,coconuts!

Et bunch, qu'est-ce que c'est?

J'ai une belle coco

Look like this you know

That's it

Et cette autre mot..lovely

Lovely

Well you know love

L'amour

L'amour ah!

Ca Ca lassa l'amour charmante

"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts"

C'est la Abbe Benoit,un gran mucicien , un compositeur,il y a celebre

He says the priest playing in the church,is a well known composer

But of course,the Abbe Benoit

These are for the side altar

Je vous en prie Monsieur Le Curee

-Ne vous deranges pas -Comme vous voulez,Madame

Please be seated

I come to apologize,we didn't mean to disturb you

But you did disturb me

And I'm very happy

You see there is a fish being cooked,the fish of the country

It's delicious it will soon be ready

If you did not disturb me I should have gone on playing

The fish would have been spoiled, it would have been a tragedy

Then perhaps it was just as well

that we did disturb you

-Good Day,Father -Good Day my son

May I enquire how you and your wife came to visit us in this small village?

Oh,quite by chance

So quite by chance

Smell

Delicious

Then you and your husband must come and eat with me

-Oh,no we can't -Come on,come on

This is my mother

Madame

Please be seated

-Monsieur -How do you do

My mother speaks no English, she is 72 next month

She will tell you she is a good cook but don't believe her

Je viens leur dire que tu Ne parlez Anglais

que tu figure un bienne cuciniere mais ils Ne fait pas de crois

She says I am only a small boy who knows nothing about cooking

If it was not for her I'd starve to death

This is the fish

In the tray

What fly do you use?

A fly? No I use a net,you see you fish full of sport(?) but I (?) finez le fish

I heard your piano concerto when it was played last month at The Albert Hall,Father

My mother is not enamoured of the musical side of my life

She is a harsh critic

And you like music too?

-Yes,do you? -Yes,very much

But it has to have a melody

I can't take some of the noises that's pass for the modern music

Oh,I talk of music,you see what happens,pardon my son

And when do you two return to London?

I don't know

Perhaps we won't be going back to London

Madame

I expect you will appreciate this souvenir

Heureuse ce jour de votre marriage avec Monsieur

Vouz ete tres gentiles

Comment s'avez vous?

Mon fils et en le monde d'esprit, me mois je comprends Es amoureux

My mother thinks she is the best lace maker in the country

but I'm not so sure

Well I am

I'm afraid it's getting late, I think we'd better be going

I should like to ask for a ride to Monte Carlo,my friend Le Domeniq is sick

With pleasure Father

-Au revoir -Au revoir,Mon fils

Madame,Monsieur

Bien mangez

Cette encore un meillure que la derniere

I won't be a minute

I'll never going to gamble again,never

I made a vow

My mother makes very beautiful laces is not so

Between ourselves she fears my criticism

Madame Benoit said something to you when she gave it to you

What did she say?

She asked me to wear it the day I marry you

We didn't really mean to deceive you Father

You talked about marriage and before you could say a word you invited us to lunch

It's like a dream,we really believed it for a moment

We didn't like to spoil it

We French are very practical people

We have a saying

Dreams are all very well but one has to wake up

Your mother is very clever, isn't she Father?

She can't understand a word of English

Yet all the time she knew we weren't married

She said you lived in the world of the spirit

But she knew people in love

She likes to think that but she is not the only one who knows about love

I won't be five minutes

-I'm happy you came to Monte Carlo -It was my pleasure

I have a decision to make

This is the moment to make it

I can't marry him

It would be wrong for us to be together

It could never make him happy

His happiness and (?) comes first

I ought to say good bye to him

But I find it very

Very difficult

I want a ticket to Paris for the 5 30 train

Oui Monsieur

You'd better make it second class

Where is she?

Come

I don't know where she lives, did she tell you?

No

But she lent me money, someday I got to pay her back

She spoke about that,she doesn't want you to repay her

If from now on your life is the better for having known her

then she says she is well paid

Go to Paris,my son make your peace with your conscience

I think you've been very fortunate to have known her

Bill

Sir?

Is Mrs Venning on board?

Yes,she came in 10 minutes ago

I didn't see her coming

You were probably thinking about all these devils and things you're writing about Sir,

How do you know what I'm writing about?

Well one of your papers blew down the galley last night,Sir

and I read it before bringing it back, gave me the creeps

Linda

-May I come in? -Please do

Just checked that you're all right

Yes thank you

The man looks faintly surprised surprise for size of it

Are you sure there is a no way paying you back?

He won't find me and then he can't pay me back

Dear Linda that sort of philanthropy is absurd

I have no regrets

I'm blaming myself,I took you to the casino

Within 24 hours you got yourself involved in a desperate love affair

with a complete stranger and lost 2000 pounds

Today have been one of my happiest in my whole life

Don't spoil it now

I can't let you do this, he's got to pay you back

Where is he now?

I don't know but he's catching the 5 30 train to Paris

Look,do you mind if I went to the station

-You can describe him -No

Don't keep interfering

I know exactly what I'm doing

You must love him very much

Then why aren't you going to see him again?

Because I can't help him anymore

Look,if I married him just wouldn't work out

Are you sure?

We haven't the same interests in every way to attempt a stake

I've enough sense left to realize that

He'll take a new hold on life

I,perhaps,have helped to get him back his own good

For me that is the reason to be loved

There you go

That's your right

For my part I can only say I'm glad

Hello Bob had the most wonderful lunch

I see

I like you to introduce a very dear friends of mine,I don't know their names

I hope you don't mind,Bob,I ordered some of your Veuve Cliquuot and a bit of wine

My dear Peter I only want you to feel at home

I always do

I like to be a part of somebody's home where I don't feel so alone in the world

Where is Linda?

I shouldn't disturb her she is in her cabin she maybe sick

Then I approach very softly on tiptoe

Linda? Are you asleep?

No,come in

I have some distinguished guests on board,very dear friends of mine

I only met them this morning

but we might have been brought up in the same pram,you know

-come and join the party -No,Peter,not now

Do you mind?

I mind considerably without you the party will be a complete failure

You're beautiful,you're intelligent, you're..,you've been crying?

Yes I have

You want to tell me about it?

No,you run along

Come with me,it'll do you good

I'll be up in a minute

She's coming up,she couldn't resist my charm

What's she's been crying about?

I wonder

What a talent you have for asking the wrong questions

I'm sorry he dragged you up on deck

That's all right

Excuse me

Excuse me

What time is it?

Just after five

If you take a cab you can just make it

What about your things

They are under Paris sleep, I pick them up at the Gare D'alier(?)

I'm sorry about it

Bless you

Good Luck

Can I help you Madame?

No thank you

The next train for Paris will leave tomorrow morning at eight o'clock

May I make your reservation?

No thank you

Madame Coconut

But where is the Monsieur?

He's gone to Paris

Oh quelle dommage

For you

Black

Pardon

It's terrific

I knew it would be all right,directly I came in the hall,he was there

He won all the time yesterday must have a system

My mistake was I went on playing after he's gone

Today I'm following him all over

Get out have you forgotten yesterday?

Have you forgotten the vow you made in the church?

Yes

Yes I'm coming out

Forgive me

Token there

Only once more,then I'll promise you I'll come away

Only one more bet,only one

Get up,get up before,you promised that would be your life

Let me alone you spoil my luck,go away

I always lose with you around,get out of here

How dare you say such things!

You're a liar,it's always as I said a liar and a thief

Let me alone I've nothing to do with you

Here,here's your money

Is that what you want? Take it

Now let me alone I don't want to see you again

Monsieur calme,alons calme

Is it all right Linda?

I am so ashamed

Don't cry

Come on,let's get out

Do you really think that Linda was in love with the man

or was it just an infatuation?

I haven't the slightest doubt that she loved him ecstatically

I don't believe it

If she really loved him

even after suffering the greedy experience

she would have gone back to him

But she did

A short time afterwards

She was too late

He'd already killed himself

And the girl?

What about her?

Did she get over it?

Is she happy now?

Who can say who is happy

But I think she is

My friends I would like you to drink to the happiness of my Henriette

To Henriette

Henriette

Excuse me,Madame

I couldn't wait for tomorrow's plane

Switching the plan

I missed you,darling,every minute

May I introduce to you my wife

-This is Mr and Mrs Barry -How do you do

They are on their honeymoon

-Mrs Mr Rohe -How do you do

Back from Missouri

Mr Murdoch

Johnson

And our good friend and patron Monsieur Blanc

Enchantez Madame

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