In Name Only Page #4

I'm telling you.

Either you get one, or I will.

I'm giving you the chance to do it

the way that'll be easiest for you.

Funny.

I was so sure.

I thought I could keep you, somehow.

Didn't care how I did it.

I never thought...

And now...

I've lost.

Well, I must admit,

I'd expected more of a...

More of a battle? Why?

The battle's over.

Now that it is over, I suppose

I ought to wish you happiness.

But I don't.

I hope you will be miserable.

I hope you'll both be miserable.

Yes, that's more like you.

No, I...

I can't. I won't.

I won't go to Reno.

Oh, you'll get your divorce.

But I won't subject myself

to all that publicity.

Like a gossip holiday

for my friends.

No.

No, I'll go to Paris.

But you can't avoid talk

if you go abroad alone.

But I wouldn't have to.

I could go with your father

and mother.

They're leaving on Labor Day.

They probably won't go when

they hear about us.

But why do they have to know

just now?

Why couldn't I tell them when

I get to Paris? No, that's my job.

Yes, I know, but...

Oddly enough, they consider me

rather a satisfactory

daughter-in-law.

I'd like to be the one to tell them

that I haven't been.

All right.

All right, if that's the way

you want it.

But understand, I don't intend

to let anything interfere with it.

I'm selfish in a lot of ways, Alec.

But even my worst enemy

couldn't say that I'm stupid.

I know when I'm beaten.

But what can you tell Mother and

Father after what happened today?

I'll tell them that I had things out

with you and that

everything's fine again.

You know, Maida, in certain

respects, I admire you a great deal.

You needn't bother.

I'd do the same thing again

if I thought I could win.

Mm-hm. That's what I mean.

BIRDS TWEE BUZZER

Good evening. I'm the census man,

I have to find out a few things.

May I come in? Thank you.

May I kiss you? Thank you.

Alec, I told you not to come here.

Well, I have to take the census.

How many females in here?

Three? That's good!

How many males? None, huh?

Oh, that's bad. Got to do

something about that.

Alec. Can you cook? Can you sew?

Can you take care of a man in the

style he's not been accustomed to?

Got to know those things before I can

give you a licence. What? Licence.

No, not for a dog, the other kind.

Will you please...

Oh, by the way,

will you marry me?

I can't marry you.

But that's all changed.

Last night, I asked Maida for a

divorce. I told you not to do it.

She agreed to give it to me,

so you and I can get married.

I can settle down here,

watch you work your fingers

to the bone for me.

Oh, and by the way, I

start work again on Monday.

That's all settled, isn't it?

ALEC LAUGHS:

Where are my slippers?

It isn't settled,

you heard what I said.

I didn't pay any attention to it.

Where's your sister?

She's out, and will you please

go before she comes back?

Oh, no, no. Only one thing can make

me go, Julie,

if you said you didn't love me.

What's the sense of

your coming here at all?

You haven't answered me.

All right, I love you.

I'll scrawl it on fences,

I'll put it on a banner

and wear it across

my chest - "Julie loves Alec."

Ah-ha. And what'll it get you?

What'll it get either of us?

Could get us arrested.

Scrawling it on fences. Dear, dear.

I told you yesterday how I felt,

and I meant it.

Look, darling, whose life are you

living? Your own or your sister's?

I'm trying to live my own,

if you'll let me,

and I'm trying to live it my way.

It's the only way I can

and have any self respect.

It's just a lot of words.

Can't you see that words

don't make sense any more?

KEY RATTLES IN LOCK

This is my sister, Mrs Morton. Oh.

Mrs Morton, I've got to make you

understand that Julie and I...

Make him go.

Well, I can't go until you realise

that... I said make him go.

Alec, please.

I'll wait for you downstairs.

No, Alec.

If you don't come down in five

minutes, I'll come back and get you.

All right, all right. Now please.

DOOR SHUTS:

Don't worry, Laura.

I'll send him away.

You're doing just what she did.

You're breaking up a home,

just as mine was broken up.

And I hate you for it.

Laura, you don't know

what you're saying.

You've become so... Do you think

I don't know what I've become?

I used to be able to laugh.

I used to be able to enjoy life as

much as anyone. Now look at me.

Look at me and then ask yourself

how you can do what you are doing.

I am looking at you.

And I'm realising, for the very

first time, what's changed you.

It's not the woman Phil ran off

with, it's Phil himself.

It's not having him with you.

It's knowing you will

never have him with you.

And if I send Alec away,

I...might end up just like you.

But, Laura, I'm not going

to send him away.

I was, but I've changed my mind.

His wife is going to

give him a divorce

and we're going to be married.

They were all out of grapefruit,

I had to get oranges.

Laura, darling, please try to

understand. I'm leaving, Julie.

Leaving? Well, where you going?

I'll go to a hotel tonight,

and tomorrow I can look

around for a room.

But Laura, Alec and I can't be

married till fall, and until then,

I want you to stay on here,

just as you have been doing.

Say goodbye to Ellen for me

in the morning. Tell her...

Tell her anything you

think best. Laura, please stay!

TELEPHONE RINGS:

ALEC:
'Julie.

Julie, can you hear me?

'I'm waiting. Are you coming down?'

Yes, darling. I'm coming.

Wait for me.

Your father told me you would

check these, Mr Walker. Mm-hm.

Oh, he did, did he?

Seems to be afraid I'm going to go

stale while he's gone. Yes, sir.

Oh, Mrs Duross is here, sir.

What does she want?

She came down to go to the boat

with you, I believe.

Ah, she did, huh?

All right, tell her to wait. Yes.

TELEPHONE RINGS:

Certainly a bear

for punishment. Hello?

Well, well, well. Oh, darling!

Those sketches, I've sold them,

I've got the cheque right here

in my hand, and you should

see it, it's beautiful!

Well, that's fine. Nothing like

having a wife that can support you.

I'll tell you what you do, honey,

you put it in the bank,

I may need it some day

for lunch money.

Put it in the bank nothing!

Why, I'm going to keep

it in my trousseau fund.

Yes, I'm going to buy

my veil with it. Oh...

Oh, I suppose

I can't wear a veil, can I?

Well, then, I'll buy a hat.

I know just the kind, too.

You know, all covered

with fruit and seaweed.

Mmm... Sounds very practical.

Bilious, but practical.

What?

Yes, the magazine offered

me a job in Paris.

Well, I've always wanted

to go there.

Oh, of course not.

I told them I had a very personal

reason for not going,

he said, "Who is it?" And I said

you'd be surprised and he said

I was missing a chance of a lifetime

and I said... Who's babbling?

You are.

Listen, darling, I've got to

get down to the boat.

I'll call for you around two.

It's none of your business

where we're going.

Did Snow White know where she was

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