Dishonored Lady Page #4

The boys are betting eight to five this morning

that the Courtland layout will be in the next issue.

You're disgusting!

Madeleine, why don't you get wise to yourself.

Everybody else is.

One romance after another.

That's your whole life and you adore it.

Get out!

You try to dress it up in pretty words

but you don't fool anybody.

They know what you are and you'll never change.

Get out!

You don't care because it's too much fun!

It isn't true.

It isn't true.

It isn't true!

You're looking surprised.

Here's a beautiful woman who just doesn't care what happens to her.

Many women haven't the courage to face themselves.

So they look for escape in one excitement after another.

Perhaps you find the idea of living not very attractive.

Lady, if you wanna kill yourself,

why don't you try the bridge?

I'm glad I was right. An intelligent woman, not an idiot.

Sit down.

That's it.

Now, if you feel like talking, just go ahead and talk.

You're afraid, aren't you?

Well, it's our job to find out why.

To explore the shadows and throw light

on what we find there.

Then you'll be able to see yourself clearly

and face yourself honestly.

When you can do that you won't be afraid anymore.

I was living with my father.

Mother had left him before we came to America.

I was ten...

And to me the way he lived seemed romantic, wonderful.

He was a successful painter and women adored him

He went his own way and did as he pleased.

Just as you've been trying to do?

I suppose so.

But why, did it make him so very happy?

Oh, I was certain he was the happiest man in the world,

until...

until he killed himself.

Then you couldn't understand why he did it.

Do you understand now?

I think I do.

Did you ever do any painting yourself?

I used to.

Why did you give it up?

It didn't pay enough.

And besides, I didn't want to be like my father.

I wanted my own life.

And have you been living your own life?

Of course I have.

The kind of life you really want?

I don't know! I don't know!!

Don't you think you've been hiding from yourself?

Did you ever try to discover the person you really were.

deep down underneath?

I never cared to.

I'm not so sure I do now.

In that case I'm afraid I can't help you.

Of course, that's entirely up to you.

Shall we go on then?

I was doing what I wanted to do, paying my own way

and making the rules.

Nobody was hurt.

Nobody but yourself.

And it didn't really make you happy, did it?

Wasn't that because down underneath

you knew there was something missing? Something important.

I suppose so.

That would worry you, wouldn't it?

And then you would drug yourself with the excitement...

of more excitement.

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