Letty Lynton Page #4

Your mother is in her sitting room.

It's good to see you, Miss Letty.

Thanks, David.

May I wish you great happiness,

Miss Letty?

What do you mean?

The reporters have been phoning

quite regularly.

Oh... oh, dear.

Well, here it goes.

Hello, dear.

I bought you a Christmas present.

A little late, I'll admit, but...

better late than never.

David tells me the reporters

have been bothering you.

So you finally got home, didn't you?

Sorry, dear, but I stopped to get this.

Have you had a pleasant trip?

You don't care a hang about that,

do you?

I'll open it by and by.

Are you angry about my engagement?

What difference does it make?

You didn't wait to consult me.

Mother...

For this once I'm going to shoot

point blank.

Have you ever done anything else?

Oh, I may have a lot of wild stuff

from my father, but...

I seem to have a lot of something else

that I'm surprised to find.

Perhaps I'm a little like you were

years ago.

I have never altered one iota.

Oh, mother...

Mother, won't you please

try to listen to me just a minute.

I mean, listen inside.

I'm not the same girl that left you

a year ago.

Not the same girl at all.

There were times when your father

was very sweet and reasonable.

But there never was a time

when he wasn't deceiving me.

I have schooled myself to get on

without human affection.

It's much too treacherous.

Darling,

do you think you're the only person

in the world who's ever been hurt?

My life is my own business.

Oh, no, it isn't.

There are so many things

I could make up for.

Oh, mother, I'm so much in love that...

I could die for everything I've done

that isn't right.

I'd love to be able to look at myself

and say...

"You deserve to be happy."

And I can be happy, mother.

I love him so much that I'll breathe every

breath for him for the rest of my life.

So won't you try to be friends with me?

Believe in me. It would help so much.

Oh, this is very familiar.

Oh, mother.

Life is based on the truth, Letty.

Whether you know it or not.

I'd hate to be the man who depended

on you.

That's funny.

You said something like that to me

when I was 14 years old.

Was it true or not?

It wasn't true then.

No, it wasn't true then.

Oh, this isn't any good.

You see, it's only that I need help

and...

Well, I don't know quite well where

I'm going to get it.

You know, mother,

I think you're about the only person in the

world who's never wanted to go the wrong way.

Everyone else I know has at least

a tendency.

I have suffered all I am going to

for other people's sins, Letty.

Dear...

when you figure it up like that

there's nothing more to be said.

Does she expect you?

Yes, I'm quite sure she does.

Ah, this way, sir.

It's... That's all right, David.

I'm not going to apologize, Emile.

Quite simple, quite.

You went off in a hurry because

you didn't want me to meet this young man.

Very simple. Oh, I'm sorry.

I couldn't think of anything else.

I couldn't trust you.

I didn't know what you'd say.

You're not going to be difficult,

Emile.

You're going to wish me every happiness,

aren't you?

I have come to congratulate you.

Oh, have it your own way.

All a really colossal joke.

Merci. A magnificent joke.

What's funny about it?

I shall laugh at this days and nights

for years to come.

There's no joke about this.

A voyage back to South America

is pleasant, too.

And we will take it together.

You and I.

Emile, I thought I told you before...

that finishing was a habit of mine.

But when you learned this habit

you had not yet met me.

Don't be absurd, Emile,

there's nothing you can do.

I don't come so far

on a wild goose chase.

The touch has lost all its magic.

I've never in my life had anything happen

that I hated,

that I loathed like I do that.

Well, we can't finish this here.

You shall come tonight and tell me

all about it.

Oh, Emile, please.

Please say goodbye and wish me luck.

Oh, no. I know where you belong, Letty.

This is the last time you'll ever see me.

Until tonight, yes.

Will you get out.

If you don't I shall call the police.

I'm not fooling about that.

Good. We shall have some more

interesting headlines.

If by 8:
00 you are not at my hotel...

by tomorrow you shall read

in your own handwriting

that you cannot live without Emile Renaul.

Oh, but, you see, you're wrong.

I've never done anything in my life

that I haven't told him.

You're lying.

I'm not. I am not lying.

If you hadn't, you wouldn't care

if I met him on the docks.

Anyhow, to speak of romantic past

is one thing...

Oh, not so loud, please.

But letters which speak of long, lonely,

heart-broken nights...

Will you please be quiet.

There's no woman in the world but you.

There's no love for you but mine.

Here's the number of my rooms.

Eight o'clock.

Oh, Miss Letty, what's the...

Miranda, would you please get Mr. Darrow

on the telephone.

He's on the phone, Miss Letty,

Mr. Darrow...

Hello, Jerry.

I can't leave for the Adirondacks tonight.

Well, it's mother, you know.

Yes, dear. I'll explain some other time.

Sure, sure it's all right.

I'm just trying to lie like a gentleman.

No, of course it's all right. What's

the difference on night more or less,

when we're going to live the rest

of our lives together?

How much? I'll tell you how much.

If I can't live the rest of my life

with you...

I don't want to live it at all.

Oh, I mean that.

Right.

We'll leave for the Adirondacks

in the morning.

Yes, dear, with all my heart.

Goodbye.

You are late.

I suppose you have been telling yourself

you would not come.

So? Sorry.

Allow me.

I've no idea of the time.

What matters is you are here.

My coat, please.

Let me get thawed out.

I'm paralyzed.

Oh, and these.

You won't need these again tonight.

Oh, no?

You are amusing.

Any wine left? I'm congealed.

There's nothing my Letty can want

I shall not have for her.

Not so? Oh, yes.

No?

Some food? Or are you fed?

No, thanks, I'm not hungry. No?

Sit down.

Oh, caramba, this weather.

Doesn't it make you want for Montevideo?

How can you be so idiotic to think

you are in love?

Emile...

I'm going to say something just as plainly

as I possibly can.

Very hard for you, plain speaking,

isn't it?

I'm too unhappy and too frightened

to do anything else.

Quite so.

There shall be only one mind between us.

Maybe you waste your time.

The way I love you no other man can.

Won't you please listen?

Why listen?

A woman was made for man's arms

she likes the best.

Nothing else will last till next Christmas.

Emile... down there,

the last time I saw you...

I didn't think any more about love

than you do.

Women don't think.

They change their minds, that's all.

Have you any idea how I felt

when you put your arms around me just now?

I know how you felt...

No, you don't.

I felt just like putting a knife

in your heart.

How dare you say such things to me.

How dare you.

You're hurting me.

We will discuss this thing

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