A Countess from Hong Kong Page #5

the immortality of the soul.

Change your partners.

Change your partners.

I don't think I've seen you

throughout the voyage.

- Of course, you're the lady

who's been confined to her cabin.

- Yes, yes.

It's a pity you're such a poor sailor.

However, that's our misfortune.

- Change your partners.

- Thank you so much.

Why did you leave the room?

The electricians wanted to fix the lights.

They have a passkey.

- You mean they saw you?

- Of course not.

- Harvey answered the door.

- What was he doing there?

I'm lucky he was there.

Otherwise, they would have seen me.

- What were you

and the Captain talking about?

- He asked if I was enjoying the trip.

- What did you tell him?

- I said every moment of it.

Change your partners.

Natascha! What are you

doing away from Hong Kong?

- I'm going to San Francisco.

- Alone?

- I'm looking for a job.

- You don't have to look far.

I'll give you a job.

Oh, no. I'm not looking

for that kind of work.

Where have you been?

I haven't seen you around the whole trip.

- I've been confined to my cabin.

- Hiding from someone?

- I've been very sick.

- Where is your cabin?

- None of your business.

- All right, I'll find out from the purser.

- Let's go to the bar and have a drink.

- No, I'm very tired. I'm going to bed.

- I'll go with you.

- No, you won't.

- Then have a drink.

- I'm going straight to my cabin.

You can't get rid of me.

I'm either going to your cabin

or we're going to have a drink.

I'll have a drink.

- I told her to meet me here.

- Where are they?

Oh, there they are at the bar.

- I wonder what they're talking about.

- Let's go and listen.

- Yes, sir.

- A martini.

- And you?

- Beer.

Hey, come on, honey,

where is your cabin?

- Wouldn't you like to know?

- Come clean, honey.

Don't play the virgin.

Virgin? What's that?

I see I'll have to teach you

the facts of life.

Now, listen, honey, l...

- Still playing hard to get?

- No, hard to please.

What's wrong with me?

Have I got leprosy or something?

Yes.

Whether I have or not,

I'm going with you.

They must be in the other corridor.

I'll go 'round, meet them face on.

Okay.

- Natascha, come on.

- Really, I must say goodnight.

- Why the anticlimax?

- Hello, chum! How've you been?

- Say, how's the wife?

- Who are you?

Are you kidding? I'm the brother

of that guy who sold you the used Pontiac.

- Let's have a drink.

- I don't know you.

Of course you do. You've been talking

to my sister all night.

- That's not your sister.

- It's not my uncle.

Ogden.

I hope you enjoyed yourself,

letting everybody know you were here.

Flaunting and parading

around this ship.

What are you trying to do?

Ruin my career, destroy me?

I was beginning to

believe in you, trust you.

I thought there was something decent,

something worthwhile.

But you're just a common harlot.

Dragging me into

your sordid intrigues.

Leering into the face

of that stupid paramour of yours.

Why don't you go hide

in his cabin?

- Why don't you torment him?

- I won't torment you any longer.

It has not been cheerful for me either

to endure your contempt every day.

I thought I could take it, but I can't.

You win.

No. No, I won't.

You're crazy.

Maybe.

- Where you going?

- To the purser and give myself up.

Oh, don't worry. I'll keep your

spotless reputation out of it.

I'll tell him I've been hiding

in second class.

Why this sudden change

in attitude?

- Why yours?

- You know why.

Good morning, purser.

Could you tell me the cabin

number of Miss Natascha...

I don't know her other name,

but I know her quite well.

- Perhaps you mean Miss Gaulswallow.

- Who?

Gaulswallow.

- Yeah, I guess so.

- I don't think she wants

to be disturbed.

Okay, but I'd like to

send her some flowers.

Flowers for Miss Gaulswallow.

Oh, dear, dear.

I don't know him.

Take them away.

They take up all the oxygen.

They take up all the oxygen.

Anna Pooh, my old friend.

Oh, that red tongue!

Nurse!

Take my Russian friend away.

He's too big

and I don't like his red tongue.

Ohh, ohh, more colours.

Oh, not that.

No more of that.

I don't like the green either.

Put that right away.

Ooh! How awful.

In the drawer, please.

Give me the chocolates.

The Captain, madam.

Well, l... l...

Captain!

Oh, how nice of you.

Chocolates.

Oh, how perfectly charming.

Nurse, will you

put these by the port-hole?

Just the sort of thing

my nephews will enjoy.

Nurse!

My thermometer.

Give it to me.

I'll shake the thing myself.

Nurse, where's

my thermometer?

I've lost my thermometer.

Or did I swallow it?

Come in!

What was that?

Something flew in and then flew out.

Must have been a bat.

The man that looked after you since

you were 14, was he a White Russian?

Yes.

Was he married?

Yes. Separated from his wife.

He was a desperate man.

They say he was a gangster,

but he was very kind to me.

God knows what I would have

done without him.

Did you love him?

I was too young.

How old was he?

Sixty-three when he died.

What's the matter?

Me? Nothing.

- Are you sure?

- Of course.

At 10.00 I have to look for Crawford

and send some cablegrams.

You look worried.

I'm just wondering

how you're going to land in the States.

Please don't worry about it.

You have to be realistic.

In two days, you're going to be in Hawaii.

Yes, I'm getting off there.

It will be easier getting

into the States that way.

- Suppose you get into trouble.

- Whatever happens,

you won't be involved.

You have to be realistic, face facts.

What are your plans?

I can supply you with money,

but supposing you do get into trouble?

- I'd like to be of some help.

- Please don't feel obligated.

The moment we arrive in Honolulu,

I shall have vanished.

You're so remote, so alone.

That's what saddens me.

Don't be sad. That's too easy.

Be like me.

- At this moment, I'm very happy.

- This moment.

That's all we can ask for.

This moment.

There'll be many moments.

I wonder.

Of course.

Our lives are so different,

so far apart.

No need to be, if we're discreet.

I hate to leave, but it's 10.00

and I have to send those cablegrams.

Oh. Don't worry.

I want to help, and I can.

But I must know your plans.

And meanwhile, don't vanish.

We still have two more days.

I won't.

It's Harvey.

Good morning.

I just met your boyfriend

who pursued you last night.

He's still roaming the boat,

looking for your room number.

Am I intruding?

Two more days.

Yep. I could see it coming.

Both of you falling in love.

I don't know about Ogden...

but this is a new experience for me.

Well, it happens in the best

of regulated families.

I don't want to fall in love.

I think he's very fond of you.

However, if you ever got into trouble,

his friendship could be very useful.

Oh, it's all so hopeless.

I don't agree.

Well, in two days, it will be over.

- You're leaving at Honolulu?

- Yes.

- Have you thought about

what you're going to do?

- I have a plan.

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