Love Me Tonight Page #5

- Of yourself? - What insolence.

You think it takes years to fall in love?

You're right! I've known you

a hundred years! A thousand years!

- You're impossible.

- I hope to see you again somewhere soon.

- Perhaps in another thousand years!

I'll dream of you every day! Every night!

Everywhere!

I love you! I love you!

I love you!

Your hat! Look at it!

What will you do without your straw hat, Maurice?

And where's that smile of yours?

No straw hat? No smile?

It's all over, Maurice! You can't go on!

- Now we can go on, Pierre. Good old Pierre.

- We can go on if I ever fix this car.

Princess! Help! Help!

Help! Help!

She's fainted again.

You know, I had an elder brother

who used to faint quite often.

He was a nip-omaniac.

A what?

A nip-omaniac.

He used to go around pinching things.

Oh, I had a friend like that.

He used to pinch business girls in elevators.

They had to send him to a cooler climate...

- No... I knew a girl...

- This is no time for reminiscences. Get a couple of footmen to carry her upstairs.

But you gave the servants the afternoon off.

Our footmen are playing football against the Old Soldiers Home.

- You two carry her upstairs! Someone fetch a doctor!

- You carry her, I'll get the doctor.

Valentine, can you go for a doctor?

Certainly. Bring him right in.

No, no, it's for Jeanette.

She's fainted again.

Princess,

permit me to introduce Doctor Armand de Pertignac.

- Your Highness...

- Doctor.

And now my dear,

remove your dress.

- My what?

- Your dress.

There's no occasion for distress.

- Is that necessary?

- Very. Yes.

As long as professional ethics apply,

I'll see you with only a doctor's eye.

The doctor's eye is satisfied.

Now I'll hear your heart.

Don't sigh.

Very good. Nothing wrong here.

Now I'll take your pulse, dear.

Perfectly regular, right on the tick.

Madam, oh Madam, you cannot be sick.

Then why do I lie awake in bed?

- And why does blood rush to my head?

- At night?

Quite right, at night.

And why does music make me sad?

And why do love songs drive me mad?

- At night?

- Quite right, at night.

- And frequently I faint.

- That's quaint.

I feel so pressed

when I'm alone in bed at night...

- How old are you?

- I'm twenty-two.

While other people dance, I feel

so dead at night...

At twenty-two?

Well this won't do.

Are you married?

My husband died 3 years ago.

At 16 I was wed.

- You've been a widow for 3 years?

- 3 years the Prince is dead.

- Were you very happy with your spouse?

- He was a son of noble house.

It was a happiness of great peace.

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My better half.

And here you have his photograph.

How was old your bridge-groom, dear?

- Seveny-two.

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