The Paradise Page #4

Season #2 Episode #16

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KATHERINE lets herself sink into his arms.

KATHERINE (CONT’D)

Thank you. Thank you, Moray.

10.

What is between them now is comfort and only comfort.

MORAY:

What can I do to help you?

KATHERINE:

Just to have someone I can talk to

-- someone I can tell how it is.

Someone to hold me ...

MORAY:

You cannot live like this,

Katherine.

KATHERINE:

What else can I do?

MORAY:

Promise me you will come to me when

you need someone ...

Beyond the wall, through the gate, glimpsed through the

foliage, TOM stands dead still, looking at KATHERINE in

MORAY’s arms.

10 INT. LADIESWEAR. THE PARADISE - DAY 10

SUSY hurtles into the Department.

SUSY:

It’s her. It’s Mrs. Ballentine.

She’s here with her husband. And

he’s ... He’s not ... What I mean

is ...

Too late, they come in now: LUCILLE and her husband, CAMPBELL

BALLENTINE. He’s in his sixties. Thirty years older than

Lucille.

The GIRLS take this in: it freezes them to the spot, not sure

how to react, afraid of giving away their shock.

LUCILLE:

Here they are, my darling: my new

friends. They have been looking

after me so sweetly.

BALLENTINE:

Thank you, girls. You have made my

wife the happiest woman in the

whole of this city.

LUCILLE:

Well, show them, Ballentine: show

them how obliged we are.

BALLENTINE is dishing out lavish tips to the GIRLS.

11.

No one dare speak for fear of giving away their surprise.

DENISE:

Perhaps I might take you to the

Cashier’s Office, Mr. Ballentine,

to settle your account?

BALLENTINE:

I’ll wager it’s down those stairs

again ... when I have only just

climbed up them!

But he’s laughing and good-hearted.

LUCILLE is left with the GIRLS, nervous now, feeling exposed.

LUCILLE:

(she laughs nervously)

I need you to show me how to walk

in my new dresses.

11 INT. STAIRWAY. THE PARADISE - DAY 11

DENISE and BALLENTINE are coming down the stairs.

BALLENTINE:

I know what you’re thinking.

For a moment DENISE is caught, but there’s a glint in the

BALLENTINE’s eyes.

BALLENTINE (CONT’D)

You’re thinking: what could be

better? A man so in love with his

wife that he will indulge her every

whim. Oh, how your sales will soar.

He’s teasing and he has made DENISE laugh. She likes him.

They meet MORAY as he comes up the stairs.

DENISE:

Mr. Moray, sir, might I introduce

Mr. Ballentine?

MORAY:

Campbell Ballentine? We met once

before, sir. I believe it was at

the race course.

BALLENTINE:

Ah, yes. I was newly married. Lost

a fortune that day.

12.

MORAY:

Well, I am pleased to see you in my

... in The Paradise. If you will

excuse me ...

MORAY continues on his way and DENISE leads BALLENTINE down

the stairs.

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