Hugo Page #3

- That's absurd.

I have not heard any of those rumors.

No, I was not aware of that.

Well, I'm sure she will return.

- Come on, you little vermin.

So here's the little

pastry thief, eh?

- This is the one.

- Who's a little strudel thief then?

Apologies about your wife.

What do you think I should do about her?

- What? About what?

- Leaving me.

- Oy!

- Hey! Come on!

- Nice try.

Go on, get in there!

- Do you think it's mine?

- What?

I don't know what to do.

She's having a baby, you know.

- Sure it's yours?

- Who else's could it be?

Of course it's yours. When's the last

time you had relations with her?

- Uh...

- Any time in the last year?

- No, I don't think so.

- Very suspicious, then.

If you should see her, please...

Oh. You sure you want her back?

Oh, yes, yes.

I love her very much.

Ready?

One, two, three!

- Perfect.

Robin Hood.

I saw this movie.

With Douglas Fairbanks.

Did you see that?

I've never seen a movie.

- What?

- Isn't it appalling?

You've never seen a movie?

Not ever?

Papa Georges won't let me.

- He's very strict about it.

- I love the movies.

My father always took me

for my birthday.

Hugo...

is your father dead?

I don't want to talk about it.

Isabelle...

do you want to have

an adventure?

We could get into trouble.

That's how you know it's an adventure.

- How did you two rats get in here?!

Come on!

And I'd better not see

you in here again!

Why doesn't Papa Georges

let you go to the movies?

I don't know. He never said.

I bet my parents would've let me.

What happened to them?

They died... when I was a baby.

But Papa Georges and Mama Jeanne,

they're my godparents,

so they took me in.

They're very nice about most everything,

except the movies.

My father took me

to the movies all the time.

He told me about the first one

he ever saw.

He went into a dark room,

and on a white screen,

he saw a rocket fly

into the eye of the man in the moon.

- It went straight in.

- Really?

He said it was like seeing

his dreams in the middle of the day.

The movies were our special place...

where we could go

and watch something and...

we didn't miss my mum so much.

You think about him a lot, don't you?

All the time.

Hugo, um... where do you live?

There.

My uncle taught me

how to run the clocks.

So I just keep on doing it.

Maybe he'll come back one day,

but I doubt it.

Aren't you afraid someone will find out?

Not as long as the clocks keep

on running and no one sees me.

- Act natural.

- What?

Just keep on walking.

Act natural.

How am I acting now?

You two, halt!

Come here.

Good day, monsieur.

- Where are your parents?

I work with my Papa Georges

at the toy booth.

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