The Painted Veil Page #3

we'll have to take a sedan chair.

Who's we?

- Why, you and I, of course.

- You're not expecting me to come too.

I hoped that if I was going,

you would want to go.

Surely it's no place for a woman.

It would be madness for me to go.

- Why should I?

- To cheer and comfort me?

No. No, I won't go.

In fact, it's monstrous of you

to even ask me.

Fine. Then I shall file

my petition for divorce tomorrow.

I'm afraid that you have thought me

a bigger fool than I am.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Don't you?

I am divorcing you for adultery.

I am naming Charles Townsend

as your lover.

I'm sorry, Walter.

I realize this is very unpleasant.

But, please, let's not make this

uglier than it needs to be.

By all means. What is it that

you propose that we should do?

You could let me divorce you quietly.

You divorce me?

- On what grounds?

- That's what a gentleman would do.

Give me one reason to put myself

to an inconvenience on your account.

Please, Walter, don't be so hateful.

We didn't mean to hurt anyone.

But Charlie and I have fallen in love.

- He wants to marry me.

- Really?

I knew that you weren't

the cleverest girl...

...but I didn't know

you were actually a fool.

Yes. Well, if it makes you feel better

to hurt me, then go ahead.

But you might as well get used to it.

We love each other.

And we're sick to death of the secrecy

and compromise and the rest.

Now you curse the day

that you ever met me.

Stop mocking me.

There's no other response for

such pathetic behavior.

It's comic.

When I think about how hard

I have tried to make you happy.

Debasing myself, acting as though I was

as thrilled as you by the latest gossip.

- I don't have to listen to this.

- And as ignorant of the world as you are--

If you interrupt me again,

I'll strangle you.

Sit down.

I knew when I married you

that you were selfish and spoiled.

But I loved you.

I knew that you married me only to get

as far away from your mother as possible...

...and I hoped that one day

there'd be something more.

I was wrong.

You don't have it in you.

If a man hasn't what's necessary

to make a woman love him...

...then it's his fault, not hers.

Either way.

Tomorrow morning we are to leave

for Mei-tan-fu, or I shall file my petition.

You can't be serious about taking me

into the middle of a cholera epidemic.

Do you think that I'm not?

My God.

That's what you want, isn't it?

Do you really think

Charlie will let you do this?

I don't think Charlie has

very much to say about it.

Everything you said is true.

Everything.

I married you

even though I didn't love you.

But you knew that.

Aren't you as much to blame

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