Magic in the Moonlight Page #6

Can you open it?

I hardly think that's the

brightest idea at the moment.

We just ran away from that.

It's still up there.

Oh, right, right.

Just have to wait it out. Hmm.

What was so menacing

about the universe?

The size.

Of course,

I was much smaller, then.

Poor Howard's car.

Are you a little warmer now?

Wife-hmm.

Tell me, with all your

powers of prognostication,

could you have ever predicted,

when you first saw me

vanishing an elephant

onstage in my Chinese ensemble,

that you and I would one day

end up in a deserted

celestial observatory

in a rainstorm in

the south of France?

It's highly ironic.

It's morbid.

I feel sleepy. I'm going

to have a little nap.

The rain stopped.

It stopped a while ago.

I didn't want to wake you.

You looked too

peaceful sleeping.

Yes, it's the first peaceful sleep

I've had in a very long time.

Does this thing open the roof?

Yes, let me show you.

I've never forgotten this.

You find that menacing?

No.

I'd say it was pretty romantic.

Who stole

my heart away

Who makes me dream all day

Dreams I know

can never come true

Seems as though

I'll never be blue

Who

Means my happiness

Who

Would I answer yes to

Well, you ought to guess who

Who?

No one, but you

Penny for your thoughts.

Oh!

Nothing.

Well, you know

what my thoughts are?

I've already told you

I want to marry you.

That we'll get married at summer's

end at the Donaldsons' yacht.

It's enormous,

and it can accommodate

all the guests

we'd want to have.

And then after the wedding,

we sail it,

with those who wish,

from Monaco to Greece,

and then we honeymoon

on the Greek Islands.

What do you think?

That's pretty swanky stuff

for a girl from Kalamazoo.

And then we'll live in Europe.

You'll run your foundation.

You'll be world-famous.

I'll be so proud of you.

You know, my mom has been so

happy since you've been here.

Before you came, she was so

glum, and now she's all aglow.

Pierre! Bring the boxes

up to mademoiselle's room.

Merci!

What are those?

Well, you know those dresses

you were fawning over when

we walked through town?

I got them for you.

All of them.

I told you I was

gonna pamper you.

Who?

Shall I sell the beach

house on the Jersey Shore?

Then, I won't.

I really didn't want to.

It has such

sentimental meaning.

I'm so glad you

said that, Harry.

Go on.

Um...

Harry, I hope this question

doesn't embarrass you,

but I have to ask it.

Were you always faithful to me?

I knew it!

Certain so-called friends of

mine suggested otherwise,

that you had a long affair

with Sally Summers.

No, I really didn't believe it.

But I'm ashamed to admit,

I did wonder.

Oh, Harry...

I'm so relieved to know

that I was the only one.

I... I was the only one,

wasn't I?

Oh!

How wonderful you make me feel.

Well, look who's strolling

the grounds this morning!

Why aren't you in

your room, practicing?

I'm too excited

to lock myself away.

What are you and Brice up to?

Brice is away for

the week, in Paris.

Mother and I are going swimming.

Ah!

I'm sure swimming isn't

your favorite pastime.

Nonsense.

I accept your invitation.

Just need to buy

a bathing suit,

and I'll, uh, meet you

by the pool.

We're not going to the pool.

We prefer to

swim off the rocks.

The rocks? Even better.

Live dangerously, I say.

You only live once.

Or maybe two or three times,

depending on your

supply of ectoplasm.

You are a much

better swimmer

than I would have imagined.

I'm also

a much better dancer.

Really? You must take

me dancing sometime.

Perhaps I shall,

now that life is no longer weary,

stale, flat and unprofitable.

Oh, that's from something.

Is that Dickens?

Oh, dear, poor thing.

Madam, your wunderkind has

much catching up to do. Huh?

Isn't that Dickens?

That's Dickens.

The Seventh is

actually one of my favorites

of Beethoven's symphonies,

but if you haven't heard them,

the string

quartets are sublime.

Especially the late ones,

the 15th and the 16th.

Of course, they are rather

intellectually demanding,

but that's the thing

about intelligence.

You must never despair.

Yours can be raised.

You know, it's extraordinary.

I have smelled these

flowers 100 times,

and yet I have never really

smelled them until now.

What a pity.

All the rest of the human

race that you consider b*obs,

smelling flowers

and you all left out.

Now, wait. Yes.

They... They've enjoyed,

but mindlessly,

because they never thought.

They never...

They never stopped

for a moment to consider what a

rotten deal it all appears to be.

To be born,

to have committed no crime,

and yet to be

sentenced to death.

Ah, but notice I say,

"Appears to be".

Alvin, hello.

It's Stanley Crawford.

Yes, Wei Ling Crawford.

How are you?

Good, splendid.

Listen, Alvin, I have the story

of a lifetime for your paper

and I wanted you

to have it first.

No... Well, yes, it is a...

It's a theatrical piece,

but it's...

It's much more

than that, much more.

It's science, it's...

It's philosophy, it's religion.

Brice is coming home

tonight from Paris.

The week went so fast.

Have you decided to accept

Brice's marriage proposal?

Well...

He is pushing me very hard.

Well, I'd grab it

if I were you.

I mean, it'd be logical.

An uneducated nobody

from some

ridiculous-sounding city,

gifted, miraculously, through

no achievement of your own,

and now you've developed

a taste for high living...

Yachts, motorcars.

You know, Stanley,

I'm not quite as desperate

as you make me out to be.

There have actually

been a number of,

I don't know, substantial men who

have fallen in love with me.

Really? wife-hmm.

Hmm. Well, you could've

fooled me.

Although,

with the ability you have,

one does automatically

become intriguing...

And you do have

agreeable features,

but it's your gift,

I'm sure, which is...

Well, I wouldn't say charming,

but it is impressive.

I mean, even you just said

I have agreeable features.

They're more than agreeable.

Provided the light

hits you just so.

Can I ask what time

of day that might be?

Just in case I ever need to look

my best for a job interview?

Dusk. You're

prettiest at about 8:20

in the summer,

when the light is fading.

Oh, I see,

the light must be fading,

so that I'm not too visible.

Exactly. I'm thinking when I do

the vanishing elephant trick,

you must be lit precisely

as I light the elephant.

Oh!

I don't think I'll pursue that.

You coming to the ball,

at the palace?

Of course I am.

My whole life I've wanted

to go to a ball like that.

Do you have a date?

I do, indeed.

I'm going with the most charming

woman in the south of France.

My Aunt Vanessa.

I like her.

I am going to dance and drink

and enjoy all the things

you have brought to my life.

Maybe you and I can even

have a dance together.

Didn't you say that we might

have a dance together?

Ah, your mental vibrations told

you my feet are killing me.

Please, be my guest.

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