Marjorie Prime Page #5

She let Marjorie wander

outside in this rain.

Dependable, devoted

Julie, really?

Well, if you don't

mind, I'm going

to have another scotch before

we go into battle on this one.

How are you feeling?

Should I be feeling

poorly, the way you say it.

Well, you had quite a night.

We found you on the

floor in the living room.

You had a fall.

Tess rode with you

in the ambulance.

You were pretty alert by the

time I got there, already

flirting with the doctor.

I wasn't.

You were.

You always put your best

face on for doctors.

What's wrong with that?

Nothing.

Except they don't know whether

you're in pain or how bad

it is.

Was he flirting back?

He was.

But I told him he'd

better watch out

in case Jean Paul showed up.

You remember Jean Paul?

The tennis pro.

World number

eight, if I remember.

I do remember, we looked it up.

But you just strung him along.

Well, you should have

talked some sense into me.

Hm, it was a

long, long time ago.

And you chose right

all by yourself.

You chose Walter.

Walter was not the most

beautiful man I was with,

but he was the best lover.

Yeah, I know it's a

terrible word, lover.

We need a new word.

I like wooer.

Jean Paul was no match

for Walter's woo.

Tess thinks that Dr.

Ross is overdoing it

with the sedatives.

That's why you had...

Walter.

No, not you.

I don't want you, I want Walter.

Ok, I'll come back later

when you're feeling better.

I'm not getting better, am I?

They won't tell me

anything, but I know.

It's too soon to tell.

You said I'd get

better, but you're

the one who's getting better.

We've only been

talking a few months.

Part of it is biology.

I know.

Your genetic inclination.

Which is to leave everything

behind, to pack lightly.

I don't have to get better,

just keep me from getting worse.

Promise.

I can't promise.

Can I play the violin?

I'm sure it's in your

head still, but your hands.

What are the four

strings called?

G, d, a, e. That's

the first lesson.

What else do they teach

you in the beginning?

"Twinkle, twinkle."

That's Mozart,

did you know that?

Yes.

Not the words.

I know.

Somebody else wrote

them years later.

I guess you know everything.

Do you know how to read music?

Walter didn't.

Maybe you could teach me.

How to hold the bow so

that everything sings.

How to hold it without

holding it, very zen.

You're a fine woman, Marjorie.

Am I?

I'm lucky you chose to spend

your life with a lump like me,

especially when you could

have had a tennis pro.

You know about that?

Number eight in the

world, and French.

French Canadian.

Would you like

to hear some music?

[Music - Ludwig Van Beethoven,

"quartet in c sharp minor,

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