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You say the most beautiful things.

Your hair's still wet

from swimming, back there.

You know that?

Smells wonderful.

Why do they still make perfumes

like Bouquet de Fleurs...

as if things still happened

in flower gardens?

If they turned out something like...

Wet Hair After Swimming,

they'd have something.

I love you, David.

"I love you" is such an inadequate

way of saying I love you.

It doesn't quite describe

how much it hurts sometimes.

Love gives me the sniffles,

and then my nose gets red.

- Why?

- Because I'm happy, because I'm in love.

- That's no reason.

- Yes, it is.

At least for a woman, it is.

Would you like to know something?

What?

Before I met you...

I never felt very keenly one way

or another about anything.

- I wasn't happy, I...

- Sad?

No, I just existed.

I never realized what a dreary

life it was, till I met you.

David, I want a monopoly on you.

Or whatever people have, when they don't

want anyone else to have any of you.

Don't, Louise.

Don't what?

Don't start bringing the subject

around to marriage again.

I like all kinds of music except

a little number called Oh, Promise Me.

- Why? What's wrong with it?

- It's a duet and I like to play solo.

I'm not in love with you like that,

you know that.

Not like that.

Don't be angry.

- I'm not angry.

- Yes, you are.

Why is it when a man gets interested

in his work, or a book, or something...

a woman has to always

start acting like a woman?

Because she doesn't want him

to get lost in anything but her.

Darling, in mathematics you never,

never lose yourself.

In life, very often. In love, always.

But in mathematics, two and two are

always four. And that's wonderful.

Let me show you this.

You see?

It's just a curve.

Well, yes, it's a parabola.

That's something that a mathematician

could fall in love with.

I've been working on

that for over four years.

I started when I was in the army, in Africa.

It's a girder, a molded girder.

The army couldn't use it...

but a construction engineer would

give his right arm for that.

Why don't you love me like that?

I'm much nicer than a girder

and a lot more interesting.

I have no pride,

you didn't know that, did you?

David...

I've never had anything in the whole world

I ever wanted, except you.

I used to be cold, shut in,

I didn't mind because...

nothing hurt me very much then, but...

I just can't go back being on the

outside of people's lives, looking in.

Louise, we're all on the outside

of other people's lives looking in.

You wouldn't like being

on the inside of my life, anyway.

There's nothing there

but a few mathematical equations...

and a lot of question marks.

Darling, I honestly think we'd better

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