Submission Page #4

Armand?

What are you doing?

Sorry, madame,

l turned offthe wrong switch.

Now, listen well.

At this point l won't even ask

if you could possibly have made such

incredible assumptions. The fact is,

you've created a very unpleasant

and embarrassing situation here.

And l find myself forced to...

- You're firing me?

- What else do you expect?

- But, madame...

Don't be infantile

with your ridiculous...

You can't send me away. l won't

bother you anymore, l swearto God!

- But l must, don't you understand?

- There's no jobs l can get...

lf you throw me out, l'll be in the army

in a matter of days. Just because l...

Yes, l know. l realize everything the

Colonel defended for you and l'm sorry.

l'm sorry about your mothertoo,

of course. She must...

What did you say to her?

You know very well she's in and out

ofthe hospital almost every month.

She'll die of fear!

- Now, you stop that, Armand!

Aren't you ashamed of yourself? At your

age, still hiding behind her coat-tails?

You're right, madame.

Forgive me, but...

l love you.

l understand,

but tell me something.

What were you thinking of?

l'm not that kind of woman.

l am married and respectable.

But perhaps that simple fact has less

importance for you than it has for me.

And there's something else, too.

lf one day,

for some reason or another,

l were to do what you

were thinking of,

you would never be the one.

l wouldn't, huh?

Forgive me, but...

we're not in the same...

l mean... we don't have

the same kind ofinterests.

What is this?

Keep away from me!

- Want to see?

- What are you doing? - Want to see

what your interests really are?

Don't you dare,

you leave me alone!

Shut your mouth! Shut it!

You're always talking!

You'd be surprised that you share more

than you think. Come on, take it! - No!

- Go down!

- No!

Take it, take it!

lt's a situation with no solution.

A provincial town, a married woman,

a motherwhose behavior can result

in nothing but scorn and isolation.

Even more, she must bearthe knowledge

that public discovery would also destroy

her own family. And so it's clear

that she must remain silent

and submit to his blackmail.

- l wouldn't exactly call it blackmail.

Why not?

Well, after all,

she accepted his advances.

Perhaps she even provoked them.

So who's blackmailing her?

l say that a woman ofher age

ought to know how to dispose of

a tiresome suitorwithout all this...

- But she was in love with him,

was she not?

- Who was that?

Ah, yes, Mme. Duval. You were saying?

- Before she continues...

perhaps we should address ourselves

to the relevance ofthese, uh...

community literary meetings. After all,

who really cares about Stendhal's

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