Watch On The Rhine Page #3

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It'd be nice

to be able to pay bills again.

Do not act as though

I refuse to pay them.

I did not sleep well last night.

I was worried.

We have $85

in American Express checks.

- That is all we have, Marthe.

- Maybe something will turn up. It's due.

David?

- Money does not worry you?

- It worries me very much.

But I just lie still now and hope.

I'm glad to be here.

We've come to the end of a road.

It's been true for a long time.

Things will have to go

one way or the other.

Maybe they'll go well for a change.

I have not come

to the end of any road.

No? I admire you.

Perhaps because you think the road

will lead you back to Europe again?

You can't give up that dream,

can you, Teck?

That you can get back

into their good graces again?

That they'll let you come back and play?

You ought to stay away from them.

- You have political convictions?

- I don't know what I have.

But I've never liked Nazis

and you should have had enough of them.

They seem to have had enough of you.

They're smarter than you are

and it's time you let them alone.

I think you're trying

to say something to me.

What is it?

That you ought not to be seen

at the German Embassy.

And that it's insane to go on

playing poker there with only $85 left.

Suppose you lose this time? I don't think

they'd like your not being able to pay up.

- I shall try not to lose.

- But suppose you do and you can't pay?

Everyone in Washington

will know it in an hour.

And we'll be out of here.

I think I want to be out of here.

I find that I do not like

the picture of you and our host.

There's no picture, as you put it,

to like or dislike.

Not yet, eh?

I am glad to hear that.

Marthe, you understand

that I'm not really a fool?

You understand it's unwise

to calculate me that way?

Yes, I understand that.

And I understand that I'm getting tired,

just plain tired.

The whole thing is too much for me.

I've always wanted to ask you,

since you play on so many sides...

...why we don't come out any better.

I've always wanted to ask you

how it happened.

I'm tired, see?

And I just want to sit down.

Just sit down in a chair and stay.

You have thus arranged it, with David?

I have arranged nothing.

But you are trying, eh?

I think not.

I would not like that.

I would not like that at all.

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BoDo:

I like to talk to foreigners.

It is not polite to speak of people

in a country you are visiting as foreigners.

Thank you. Thank you.

It was swell of you to take him

off our hands a while.

That little Joe.

He knows when he's with nice people.

- May I borrow him again?

- Yes.

He's a fine baby.

- And you have fine children.

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