Watch On The Rhine Page #2

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ANISE:
Bonjour, madame.

Oh, there you are. Don't people

ever get out of bed in Romania?

- Good morning.

- Not if they can help it. But, my apologies.

[BELL RINGS]

JoSEPH:

Here I am, Miss Fanny.

Has science a name

for women who enjoy noise?

Fanny's excited.

You're excited too.

A few more days

and your Sara will be home.

I am excited. And I'm afraid too.

- Why?

- I don't know. It's been so many years.

- Afraid she won't like me anymore, I guess.

- Oh, but she will.

Of course.

I remember Sara.

Mama brought me one day

when your father was stationed in Paris.

I was about 6 and Sara was about 15,

and you were...

You were a pretty little girl.

Do you really remember me?

You never told me.

- I wanted you to remember me, but l...

FANNY:
Well.

Monsieur Chabeuf the upholsterer says,

not a pincushion...

...not even so much as,

could he reupholster in two days.

In the matter of four chairs,

a chaise longue, and two...

oh, nonsense.

Your Monsieur Chabeuf is lazy.

Is he on the phone?

- Everybody's lazy. Except me.

- Indeed.

Madame Fanny has energy.

I find it most attractive.

Perhaps because you're not related to it.

But it works wonders.

What sort of man

is the husband of your sister?

I've never met him.

My mother did once, in Munich.

The day Sara met him, I think.

I remember Mama telling me about it.

It was rather a scandal, wasn't it?

The Farrelly daughter marrying a German

who was poor and unknown.

Oh, Mama wouldn't have minded that.

If only they'd come home and allowed her

to arrange their lives for them.

But Sara didn't want it that way

and that made Mama angry.

But all was forgiven a long time ago.

And now that they are coming home...

They're fortunate to be able

to get out of Germany.

Oh, they've been out of Germany

since the early '30s.

Oh?

- Where have they been living?

- They've moved around a great deal since.

Sara's letters

come from all kinds of places...

...Switzerland, Czechoslovakia,

Denmark, France.

Kurt is an engineer. But I'm not sure...

Well, you'll have a house

full of refugees soon. Us and the...

Are you a refugee?

I'm not sure I know

what you're a refugee from.

From Europe.

From what Europe?

- Just Europe.

FANNY:
David. David!

This is one of Mama's screaming days.

I'm going to the office before she finds

any more errands for me to do.

I've got to ask Penfield

about the best school for 12-year-old girls.

Ask Walton about a school for boys.

Buy boys' books, buy girl's books,

buy bicycles...

...three puppies...

From what Europe?

I'm not sure

what we're refugees from either.

Aren't you?

A great many mistaken people seem to have

given you a great many charge accounts.

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