Cousin Bette Page #3

Poor thing, sleep.

Don't be alarmed.

It's Mademoiselle Fisher.

I live downstairs.

Oh. Oh, with a head like that,

there's nothing like a good

onion soup and buttered bread.

MAN:
I'm sorry. I...

BETTE:
Let's not refer to

your foolishness of last night.

I know you're in

desperate circumstances.

Your rat traps have kept me

alive for weeks. Did you know?

I know what it's like

to be hungry without friends.

I have some savings.

I could help you if you like.

You are too generous.

You'll give me receipts

for the money I spend for you.

And when you are rich,

you can repay it all.

You shall be

the whole world to me.

I shall be your slave.

Will you do

everything I tell you?

Yes, of course.

Then I shall embrace you

as my own.

Here I have a boy...

risen from the grave.

CHORUS SINGING:
Ding dong

Ding dong dong

BETTE, SINGING:
Ding dong

Ding dong dong

- You're singing.

- What?

I've never heard you sound

so cheerful.

[Audience applauding]

On the other side of heaven

I'll be waiting for you

Where the clouds are so soft

And the sky's baby blue

On the other side of heaven

All the angels will sing

As you fly to me, fly to me,

Fly...

On a gossamer wing

[Audience applauding

and cheering]

Why are you here?

BETTE:
He has bold lips

and a sad smile.

HORTENSE:
I knew it.

And he's terribly poor.

BETTE:
Nearly starved.

HORTENSE:
How romantic.

- How old is he?

- Twenty... five.

BETTE:
Would you stop

interrogating me?

HORTENSE:
Fifteen years

younger than you.

Now I know he can't exist.

BETTE:
You little girls think

only yourselves can have lovers.

HORTENSE:
Then prove to me

he isn't a fairy tale.

He's a sculptor.

He made this for me.

I've never seen anything

so beautiful.

And there's another. The Four

Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

An antique dealer in my

neighborhood has it in his shop.

What's your sweetheart's name?

- Can you keep a secret?

- Of course.

Do you swear... on your happiness

in this world?

I swear.

- Wenceslas.

- Wenceslas.

Let me keep it, please.

Just for a little while.

It's so pretty.

It will cheer me up.

Just for a little while, then.

[Knocking on ceiling]

Here, Wenceslas.

Look what I've brought you.

Bette, you're amazing.

Well, eat one

and stop staring at me.

Have you been working?

You don't seem to progress

very far.

I'm not sure you deserve these.

Well, you know, dear lady,

there is a saying.

Life is more than work alone.

Make a fortune first,

and then you may have your fun.

And what if I die

before I get rich?

Oh, I won't let you die.

I have life enough for two.

By the way, Hortense thought

your bronze bird very nice.

What did your pretty cousin say?

- Who told you she was pretty?

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