Cat People Page #3

Toward the sheer line.

Sixty-two degrees.

Hey.

I'm sorry. I must have given you

the wrong figure. Let me try again.

Wait, let's have a cigarette first.

That's the third wrong figure

you've given me this morning.

Getting careless in my old age.

Something's on your mind.

Anything wrong?

Nope.

Must be marriage.

Well, in a way, it is.

I'm worried about Irena.

But I thought she was going to Dr. Judd.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

But I ran into Dr. Judd this morning.

She hasn't been back since the first visit.

But you told me she seemed

so anxious to be cured.

Apparently not.

- I'm sorry, Ollie.

Must make you very unhappy.

You know, it's a funny thing.

I've never been unhappy before.

Things have always gone swell for me.

I had a grand time as a kid.

Lots of fun at school...

...and here at the office with you

and the commodore and doc.

That's why I don't know

what to do about all this.

I've just never been unhappy.

Hey.

Now, wait a minute.

I can't help it.

I just can't help it.

I can't bear to see you unhappy.

I love you too darn much,

and I don't care if you do know it, Ollie.

I love you.

I'm sorry. Forget it.

There's Irena, you're in love with her.

- I don't know.

All this trouble has made me think...

...I don't know what love really is.

I don't know...

...even whether I'm in love with Irena.

- I know what love is.

It's understanding.

It's you and me,

and let the rest of the world go by.

It's just the two of us living our lives

together, happily and proudly.

No self-torture and no doubt.

It's enduring and it's everlasting.

Nothing can change it.

Nothing can change us, Ollie.

That's what I think love is.

Well...

...that isn't the way I feel about Irena.

It's a different feeling.

I'm drawn to her.

There's a warmth from her...

...that pulls at me.

I have to watch her when she's in the room.

I have to touch her when she's near.

But I don't really know her.

In many ways, we're strangers.

You and I...

...we'll never be strangers.

You forgot your key.

Oh, I'm always forgetting it.

But ain't no worry in it.

Nobody would want to steal

one of them critters.

You resist temptation admirably.

Temptation?

- The key.

Why would I want it?

- For many reasons.

There is, in some cases, a psychic

need to loose evil upon the world.

And we all of us carry within us

a desire for death.

You fear the panther, yet you're drawn

to him again and again.

Couldn't you turn to him

as an instrument of death?

You didn't come back to see me Friday,

I've had to come to you.

Well, how did you know where to find me?

- You told me many things.

Why didn't you come back?

I don't feel you can help me.

You're very wise,

you know a great deal...

...yet when you speak of the soul,

you mean the mind.

And it is not my mind that is troubled.

- What a clever girl.

All the psychologists

have tried for years to find...

...that subtle difference

between mind and soul.

And you found it.

It does seem presumptuous of me,

doesn't it?

Goodbye, doctor.

Irena.

I'm worried. What's happening to us?

I love you, Oliver.

I know, but people can love...

...and people can still drift apart.

And that's what I feel is happening to us.

We don't talk together openly.

You're not frank with me.

- I've never lied to you.

I ran into Dr. Judd today.

You haven't been back to see him.

- He cannot help me.

Well, you won't let him help you.

You won't let me help you.

You won't even help yourself.

It's what I said to Alice this afternoon.

You're content to go on as we are...

- Alice.

Oh, I... I promised you we'd never quarrel.

Let's calm down a bit.

I'll go back to the office.

I've got some work to do.

Oh, do you wanna go up

to the office, Mr. Reed?

I think I'll go around to Sally Lunn's, get

a cup of coffee before I get to work.

I'll be back.

Hello, Mr. Reed.

- Minnie.

Maybe you'd like some nice

chicken gumbo today?

No, thanks, Minnie.

How about some apple pie

and a cup of coffee?

Yes, sir.

My goodness, don't nobody

like chicken gumbo?

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

John Paul Jones, don't you hate

people who do that?

Good night, John Paul.

Here, Mrs. Agnew, new

matchbooks for your collection.

Oh, thank you, Miss Moore.

Chartreuse. Ain't that elegant?

Too bad you wasn't here just a minute ago.

Mr. Reed looked in.

- Oh, where did he go?

Said he was going around to Sally Lunn's.

I'll see if I can catch him. Good night.

- Good night, Miss Moore.

Could you squeeze the coffee pot for me?

- Hello.

I sure could, only this coffee's

been working so long it's got muscles.

What are you doing in this part of town

at this hour of night?

Stormy weather.

You're going to have to solve

your problems your own way.

I'm going to drink up and go home.

I think you'd better go home too

and make it up with Irena.

Alice, you're very swell.

That's what makes me dangerous.

I'm the new type of other woman.

Good night, Minnie.

- Good night.

Good night, Minnie.

- Good night.

You cold?

- A cat just walked over my grave.

Don't you want me to walk you home?

No, thanks. I'm a big girl now

and I'm not afraid.

Well, good night.

- Good night.

Climb on, sister. Are you riding with me,

or ain't you?

You look as if you'd seen a ghost.

- Did you see it?

Taxi, lady?

No, please, don't. Don't touch me.

Irena.

I'm sorry.

I've been worried to death.

I didn't know where you were. I thought...

What happened tonight

happens in every family.

I was all on edge.

You've got to understand

and you've got to forgive me.

I forgive you.

Irena.

- What?

Are you all right?

- I'm all right.

to loose evil upon the world.

There is, in some cases, a psychic

need to loose evil upon the world.

There is, in some cases,

a psychic need, a desire for death.

to loose evil. A desire for death.

A psychic need. The key.

The key.

The key.

The key.

I'm afraid this is dull for Irena.

Darling, there are some

beautiful moderns upstairs.

Why don't you take a look at them.

- But I like these little boats.

I want to be with you.

Don't send me away.

- We're not sending you away.

We just don't want you to be bored.

We'll meet you in the main lobby in an hour.

Ollie, look, a drawing of the Victory.

You know, that's the last man-of-war

with a lateen sail aft.

Could I have the key to the swimming pool?

- Of course, dearie.

What a darling kitten.

Yeah. It's one of four.

A tabby had them about a month ago.

Turn the lights out when you're through.

- I won't forget.

Hello?

Yeah.

Just a moment, dearie. Yes?

- Is Miss Moore in?

She just went downstairs

to the swimming pool.

Would it be all right if I went to see her?

Of course, dearie.

Right down them steps there.

Oh, gee, I can't tonight.

Help.

Help.

Gee whiz, Mrs. Hanson.

Help.

What is the matter, Alice?

Gee whiz, dearie, are you all right?

- It's nothing.

It was dark down here, and Mrs. Reed

coming in unexpectedly frightened me.

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