Heartburn Page #7

Here you go. Come here.

Let me get you in.

Hot?

No, it's not hot.

Oh, Mrs Forman, I feel so bad for you.

She come here yesterday.

- I know that lady. She's no good.

- I know.

I know. I worked for her ten years ago.

What's wrong with her?

She's very messy.

Juanita, would you please ask Mark

to come down for a second?

- It's important.

- Yes, Mrs Forman.

Love it?

Yes?

- Kitty-cat?

- Yeah.

Kitty-cat.

What the hell is it now?

My water broke.

Dr Appel is waiting for us

on the second floor.

Hold still now.

Can you feel this, Rachel?

No.

I'm cutting now.

Tell me about when Annie was born.

Start when the doctor says,

"There's something wrong."

The doctor took me aside

in the labour room

and said there was something wrong.

They were losing the heartbeat.

Maybe the umbilical cord

was around her neck.

And then we went over to you

and he told you

that the baby was in distress.

And you said,

"Is our baby going to die?"

And he said, "We're gonna do

an emergency Caesarean."

And we took you into the delivery room.

You were very brave.

I was terrified.

Then I went out in the waiting room.

And there was a man sitting

across from me, eating a sausage pizza.

In a few minutes, the doctor came

and took me in the delivery room.

There was Annie.

Making funny noises.

Like a little, tiny dove.

And they put her in my arms.

And you woke up and said,

"Is that our baby?"

That was a great day.

Baby's fine.

Hi.

- Oh, more flowers.

- Yeah.

Wait'll you see the cards.

I made you my rice pudding

with an enormous number of raisins.

- Oh, I love rice pudding.

- I know.

Oh, hello.

Juanita.

Thanks for coming.

I brought some paella.

Look.

- More rice.

- Oh, Mrs Forman.

The baby's so beautiful!

Isn't she? I know. She's...

Did you...? Did you see the baby?

Oh, yes. She's beautiful.

- She looks just like Rachel.

- Do you think so? I don't see it.

What's that?

Rice pudding. She loves rice pudding.

I know.

- So, are you still being good?

- Yes.

Really.

I do not ask,

"How are you? How are we?"

- "Do you still love her?"

- "Do you still love me?"

- "Is it over?"

- "Is it ever going to be over?"

"What did you give her

for her birthday?"

Oh, was it Thelma's birthday?

Yeah.

Happy birthday.

- You going to Betty's?

- Yeah. What are you bringing?

- Coleslaw. How about you?

- Making Key lime pie.

OK.

Throw them in the back.

Go ahead.

I just have to tighten the setting a little.

- It'll just take me a couple of minutes.

- That's great.

Here's your candy, kid.

- You always loved this ring.

- I know.

So, how did you like the necklace?

The necklace?

- I'm thinking of another customer.

- No, you're not.

I thought Mark had bought a birthday

present when I was in the hospital.

He shouldn't have done that.

I shouldn't have said anything.

Oh, no, it's OK, Leo. At least

I now know what to be prepared for.

Nothing worse than opening

a box with a necklace

when you're not in the mood for one.

When have you ever

not been in the mood for a necklace?

I can think of circumstances

where I might not be.

Really.

All done.

- How much?

- No charge.

How much would you give me

for the ring?

You don't really want to sell it?

I really want to sell it.

Do you really want to buy it?

I always told you

I'd buy this ring from you.

Well, I love the ring, Leo, but it just...

It doesn't go with my life now.

It wouldn't have been stolen in the first

place if I didn't wear it on the subway.

If you have a ring you can't wear

on the subway,

you pretty much have to

take cabs all the time.

And then, before you know it,

we're broker than we already are.

Mark. He's such a romantic.

He must have spent every penny

of his savings on that necklace.

For the down payment.

For the down payment.

- It's a beautiful necklace.

- How much for the ring?

I asked for a list of her friends

and she gave me 50 names.

I wasn't planning on something big,

but what could I do?

- You're having a party for Thelma?

- And Jonathan. Next Saturday.

- You're all invited.

- We're on the list?

Of course. Thelma knows

you're my best friends.

You know what's going on with her.

Medical problems, legal problems,

rumours their marriage

is falling apart.

You stand by people at a time like this.

I don't want them to be pariahs.

The minute anyone hears

your marriage is in trouble,

- you may as well have leprosy.

- Who doesn't want their green stuff?

- Oh, here.

- Slide it down.

Now, David and Harriet Kaiser.

- I don't even know them.

- You don't have to know them. Split.

No, I just saw them together.

Why do people always say that?

You tell them someone split

and they say, "We saw them together."

You tell them someone just died

and they say, "We just saw him alive."

- I hate Harriet Kaiser.

- She wasn't so bad.

- Never said anything.

- Have I met her?

- I did... I did think she was a dyke.

- Oh, Dmitri!

How could...?

Why didn't you tell me?

I told you. And you said,

"Don't be ridiculous." So...

- Goddamn it!

- Why are you mad at Dmitri?

- Yeah.

- Because she is a dyke.

I caught you! You see?

- She left him for his secretary.

- Holy sh*t.

He lost a wife and a secretary

at the same time!

Well, I can't get over it.

I can't stop thinking about it.

How could you be together that long...?

How long was it?

At least as long

as Rachel and Mark, right?

How could you be with someone

that long, live with them,

love them enough to want

to marry them, and not know?

- Oh, he must've known. I knew.

- Well, he says he didn't know.

- Come on.

- How could he not?

How could you be together that long

and not know that?

- Maybe it wasn't true when they met.

- Of course it was true.

Oh, you don't just start sleeping

with women, bang, like that.

Oh, sure you do. It's like getting

allergic to strawberries, right?

You eat strawberries all your life and

then one day, bang, and you get hives.

No, I do not believe people change

that much. And don't tell me they do.

Don't give me that New York

psychological bullshit

about how people are capable of change.

They are not.

Which brings me back to my question.

How is it possible to live with someone

and not know something

so fundamental?

It's possible.

It is possible to... It is possible...

...well, to love someone so much,

or to think that you want

to love them so much

that you just don't even see anything.

You decide to love him.

And you decide to trust him

and you're in the marriage.

And you're in the...

You're in the day-to-dayness

of the marriage and...

You sort of notice that things

are not the way they were, but it's...

It's a...

A distant bell.

And then when things do turn out

to have been wrong,

it's not that you knew all along,

it's just that you were...

...somewhere else.

- You'd have to be living in a dream.

- Yes.

Yes. So...

And then the dream dies.

And the dream breaks into

a million tiny, little pieces,

which gives you a choice. You can

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