Eleni Page #3

and those of my angel children.

"I, your loving husband, write this."

How will I speak to Father

when we go to America?

What do you mean?

I'm worried.

He's been there a long time,

and maybe he only speaks American.

- Maybe he forgot Greek.

- No, I wouldn't worry about that.

I think we should go there soon,

just in case.

Why don't we surprise him?

"Hello, Father, here we all are!"

(ELENI LAUGHS)

It's a long way, you know.

It's across the ocean.

You have to have an invitation.

When you get to America, they say,

"Who invited you to come?"

Like to a wedding.

But if he loves us,

why doesn't he send us an invitation?

Because he's saving all his money

to build us a fine house

with enough rooms for everybody.

I know the problem:

There's too many of us.

- You have too many children.

- No.

I need all my children.

But when we go to America,

will Father call you

"my beautiful and loving wife"?

- What, like in the letter?

- Yes.

Well, I hope so.

Maybe you will only love him.

And you won't love me any more.

No.

I will always love you.

Why?

(BO YS SHOUT)

Nick!

Hey, Nick, here it is.

I never forget a funeral.

He died of cancer a few months ago.

- Did you know him?

- Yeah, he was my school teacher.

- Is this a coincidence or what?

- What?

All these dudes were Civil War criminals.

I'm thinking about doing an article

on their return to Greece.

Oh, yeah? I already did that story.

It's been out for a while.

You haven't read it?

I did.

- Yeah? What was wrong with it?

- Too general.

- Too general for whom?

- For me.

- Were you really born in Greece?

- Yes.

That explains your sunny

Mediterranean personality!

This guy insists on talking to you, Nick.

He saw you on TV.

That's great. The bureau chief of

the "New York Times" is a TV personality.

Lay off. Who is it?

He says you grew up together.

His name's Antoni Makos.

Hello?

(WHIRR OF MACHINERY)

This is my old friend,

Nikola Gatzoyiannis.

(MACHINE STOPS)

We grew up in the same village.

We used to have sword fights,

remember, Nikola?

We saw our first aeroplane together.

And now he's an American.

Nikola!

I thought we were going to talk

about old times.

These are old times. I didn't know you'd

seen my mother when I came here.

I'm sorry I mentioned it.

Go on. You said you were drinking

water at the spring.

She looked at me, you know, in that way.

What way?

(ANTONl) You know what children

meant to our mothers.

They see a boy who's not even theirs

and they look at him in that way.

That's how she...

You're an educated man.

Why do you think

our mothers loved us so much?

I have children of my own,

but I find it hard to...

Do you have children?

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