A Price Above Rubies Page #8

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that I am respectfully requesting

a moment of her time.

I'm sorry, but like I said,

the Rebbitzn won't...

Make yourself decent...

before you come in.

If you don't like the way I look,

then look at your shoes.

Or stick your nose in a book.

Is your problem, not mine.

I'm sorry, Rebbitzn,

but this woman...

- wouldn't listen...

- Yakov.

At the Rebbe's eulogy...

may his memory be a blessing,

you came to me.

You said...

Thank you.

Why?

I was here when you spoke

to Moishe on that day.

Your words rekindled a fire...

in a body too old to contain it.

Like a flash he was consumed.

His eyes were looking into mine.

And the last words to pass his lips...

before he left this world...

were, "I love you."

It was the first time

in 20 years...

that he spoke those words to me.

You took a man away

from his people forever.

But for one night,

you gave a wife back her husband.

Perhaps I sound selfish to you...

but you are still young.

I am very old.

Someday...

you might understand me.

I understand you.

But with all due respect...

I'm not planning on waiting

for someday.

I don't belong here.

I know that now...

and I've paid

a heavy price for it.

I'm leaving my child here.

Is for the best,

until I do know where I belong.

I accept your gratitude...

for returning to you

what should have always been yours.

But now I'm asking you

to help me reclaim whas mine.

Whas the meaning of this?

- You Sender's new guy?

- Mrs. Horowitz.

You look absolutely fantastic,

if I may say so.

- Sit down, Mr. Fishbein.

I'm, I'm not in the mood.

I assume the combination

to the safe has been changed.

Would you be so kind

as to open it for me?

All these men were gabbaim

to the Rebbe.

They'll be witnesses to the fact

that I will take only

whas mine and nothing more.

This is a joke?

Now I'm free.

I couldn't bear the thought

of your muse going empty-handed.

I hope she'll be as inspiring to you

as you've been to me.

She already has been.

Hold on to it for me.

Just for a little while.

Okay?

Sonia?

Where are you going?

I don't know.

If you need a place to...

Stay here with me.

Ramon.

- There's someone upstairs

who wants to see you.

He says he's your husband.

I'm gonna talk to him.

Hey, you've got a life, you know.

Do what you gotta do.

I ain't going anywhere.

Mendel?

Sonia.

You look nice.

You too.

Sender told me where I could find you,

in case you were wondering.

I wasn't.

How's Shimmie?

He's good.

He stays by me now.

Oh, thas good.

I'm sure he misses you.

And you?

Do you miss me?

And you?

I-I came to tell you...

I'm sorry I forgot your birthday.

My birthday?

Do you think thas

what all this was about?

Of course not.

I've been doing

a lot of thinking...

about things I never really understood

how to think about before.

I know that the pain we caused

each other couldn't be helped.

I am who I am

and you are who you are.

And we just weren't meant

to be together.

There was nothing we coulve done

other than what we did.

But I was wrong

to have forgotten your birthday.

Mendel, you know I,

I can't accept...

Please, if not for yourself,

then for me.

Yom Kippur is coming up

and I would like to face God...

knowing I tried

to do right by you.

A ruby.

Is your birthstone.

I looked it up. I bought it loose.

I figured finding the right setting for

it is your specialty, so why interfere.

Please...

come by and visit...

on evenings or shabbes.

Shimmie should know

he has a mother who loves him.

- What would the others say?

- What others?

As far as Shimmie

is concerned...

the only voices that matter

belong to his mother...

and his father.

Mendel?

God bless you.

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