Almost Peaceful Page #2

The creases aren't in your mind.

I'll try to sort it out.

She's American. With a bosom...

Albert dressed her before the war.

If she gives us an order,

we'll have work

until we start winter coats.

Leon, know what this is?

. It's the bust of a lady

who'll give us all work, we hope.

Did you need both arms

to measure it?

The most amazing bust

I've ever seen...

About 60 inches.

Albert, be precise,

we need her custom!

My tape wasn't long enough

and I didn't dare measure

the missing bit.

Have you ever seen

a bust like it?

Where Abramauschwitz was, you'd fit

several people in your tape.

At least in the off-season

we can hear ourselves talk.

Jacqueline, tell us a story!

You know all my stories.

We don't.

You don't know this one.

It's new and not a story.

Talk about a pregnant pause!

It's about this dog,

our neighbors new dog.

He claims it barks

with a Yiddish accent.

I like the dog

but Leon can't stand it.

He. Thinks he's pretentious.

- His name's Leon. Like Strotsky.

- Trotsky.

- And like Leon.

- Yes.

- The neighbor or the dog?

- The neighbor.

No, the dog. Leon gets angry.

- He likes Strotsky, see.

- Trotsky!

"I'll call your dog, dog!" he said.

And the neighbor answered,

"He won't reply."

"Good", said Leon.

"We have nothing to say anyway!"

Three suits, five dresses,

two coats for in two weeks.

I suggested lots of pockets

with cuffs and topstitching.

It's more work and costs more.

She's chosen the fabric,

she wants color.

The hard part about work

is when there isn't any.

I forgot my pattern book.

I'll go.

Come and see something...

Do you like my dress?

You tell me to buy a dress I like

but do you like me in it?

I could alter

the skirt and the neckline,

but it really suits you.

No, I like it as it is.

I'll wear it to the choir tonight.

It's the second Thursday

of the month.

You can do something too.

Or maybe...

ask Madame Andree out.

Madame Andree!

Will you have dinner with Albert?

I'd love to.

What can we talk about?

Work? Children?

That's all we ever do!

You don't go out

to say what you say here.

I'd have finished "Anna Karenina"

by next Thursday.

We could have had

an interesting conversation.

But tonight...

- I'll have the set menu.

- Me too.

Some wine?

- Do you drink wine, Monsieur Albert?

- Do you, Madame Andree?

- The Cotes-du-Rhone looks good.

- Very good.

- Have you read "Anna Karenina"?

- No.

Neither have I.

A pity.

We could have talked about it.

Monsieur Albert,

I have a lot of things to tell you.

You know I have a sister in Orleans?

She has a child now.

During the war,

at the age of 17 she fell in love.

With a soldier.

A German.

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