A Woman's Face Page #2

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TORSTEN:
But of course.

You have all had one more drink than I.

Allow me to catch up.

- Don't be long.

- Only one.

[VERA SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

Ask them along, hm?

Why don't you go with us, my dear?

I wish I might.

But you know the American proverb:

"Early to bed, early to rise."

I hate to take you away, Eric.

I have to be at the office early tomorrow.

Confound it.

- I say, this isn't my coat.

- I'm sorry, sir.

- Pardon me, you have the wrong...

- Oh, no this is mine.

No, no, this has been in my family

for years.

MAN:
Come on, my dear.

I think it's about time.

TORSTEN:
Well, are we ready?

MAN:
Oh, let's go.

- That's my coat.

- Really?

Right you are, I should have looked

in the pockets for some money.

Now, girls, where are we going?

Have you lost something, sir?

Waiter, did anything drop out

of the pocket of this coat?

- Oh, no sir.

VERA:
Eric. Eric.

- Oh, Eric, what's the matter?

- Oh, nothing.

Nothing.

ASSOCIATE:

And you didn't know what he had lost?

Oh, no, sir.

- Not then.

- But you found out later?

- Yes, sir.

- How?

I don't know.

But she can tell you better than me.

She was the boss.

PROSECUTOR:

The head of your band of criminals?

Yes. No. I mean, it wasn't my band

of criminals.

I just got connected with it

through a misunderstanding.

Tell me, before you became connected

with this band of criminals...

...didn't you think what it might mean to

your poor wife and little boy and little girl?

- No, I didn't.

ATTORNEY:
Why not?

Because I'm not married.

ATTORNEY:
What about your poor children?

- Who said I had any children?

Well, I haven't.

ATTORNEY:
Thank you.

- You're welcome.

[CROWD LAUGHS]

[GAVEL BANGING]

JUDGE:

Call the next witness.

- Now me?

- Next witness, Bernard Dalvik, restaurateur.

Yes.

And no.

[WHISPERING]

Stop that.

[HERMAN COUGHING]

- It's my chest.

- Bad?

- Awful.

- No talking about the case.

Why, of course not.

- He said watch out for the third judge.

- Not another word.

- And no smoking.

- Right.

What do you mean

"Look out for the judge?"

Be quiet.

JUDGE:
An important point. I'll inquire.

ASSOCIATE:
Yes.

What was this relationship between

the prisoner and Mr. Torsten Barring?

Well, we might refer

to the relationship as...

...romantic.

- Did or did not the prisoner...

...form this attachment

for ulterior purposes?

Yes, sir, at first.

The softer emotions

had never entered her life...

...and then, suddenly...

...like the unfortunate journeyman

in Deuteronomy, verse 17...

...she was hoist by her own petard.

In a word, sir, she fell for the gentleman,

bustle over teakettle.

[CROWD LAUGHING]

Well, sir, you may smile.

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