Shining Through Page #4

Or why I type endless letters,

but never envelopes,

so that I don't know

where they're going to.

Last time I was in Switzerland,

I asked a psychiatrist the same thing:

"Why is it that I don't

trust anybody?"

He thinks it has something

to do with my upbringing.

You're a spy, Mr Leland.

And you've seen too

many movies, Miss Voss.

Enough to know a

spy when I see one.

And about this photo?

The woman's name

is Jennifer Krimm.

A model you were never married to,

but only dated.

Before you met

Kiki Avondale, that is,

a Vassar graduate you were engaged to

for six months before you got cold feet.

This is outrageous.

This is... This is...

I don't have to listen to this any more.

This is simply and totally...

How do you know

all these things?

I might be a better

spy than you are.

By late October of 41

London was reeling under a hailstorm

of German bombs called the Blitz,

and life in America was energised with

the knowledge of what was inevitable.

Young men were disappearing late at

night and signing up for the draft.

Glenn Miller was pumping out dance music

while there was still time to dance.

And Ed Leland had cast

his eyes in my direction.

For us, like the war,

it was just a matter of time.

- Krbis.

- Der Kr...

I can't! I can't speak German.

I can't get the accent thing.

- At least I made you laugh.

- Yes, you do do that.

- Is that a hard thing to do, make

you laugh? - Well, serious times, Linda.

All the more reason.

Charlie Chaplin says

"A day without laughter is a day wasted. "

You believe that?

Yeah.

I try to laugh once a day,

just in case.

Do you like Charlie Chaplin?

To be quite honest,

I've never seen him.

- You're kidding!

- No.

- Well, what are you doing tonight?

- Tonight?

Tonight I have tickets

for the opera.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- I've never been to the opera.

- Oh?

- Whas it like?

- Well, is not for everybody. Is...

See, thas the thing about Chaplin.

He is.

- You really like Chaplin?

- Mr Leland...

Why don't you call me Ed?

Ed.

...a depot and

a central station.

There are six railroad goods yards

and three main-line stations.

Einen Riesenschornstein.

Right near a large...

- How would you say Schornstein?

- Linda?

Me?

I don't speak German.

Ja.

Church steeple.

Can we take a break

for a moment?

Schornstein is smokestack,

not church steeple. Translator's been lying.

Linda, the man has been working

as a translator for years.

Yeah. Well, he started out

by making little mistakes.

And when nobody noticed,

the mistakes started getting bigger.

It does not make him a liar...

He tripled the number of railroad lines

coming into the city!

One sentence involving a munitions plant...

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