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...costing your country 2o kilometers

of front and 18,ooo casualties.

- Impossible.

- So you said before.

Here are a few more of your

mistaken conclusions.

Correct them.

- Send Mademoiselle carlotta here.

- Yes, sir.

Well, I was able to deliver

your message, Andriani.

Mata Hari is here.

Thank you, carlotta.

That's what I wanted to know.

- Any more orders?

- No. No, just run along and enjoy yourself.

All right. Good night.

Dear lady.

Oh, good evening.

Won't you have my seat?

It's lucky.

It will be so much nicer to watch you.

- Thank you.

- A thousand francs for the bank.

- Two thousand.

- Ten thousand.

- Ten thousand.

- Ten thousand.

Madame.

Are you playing?

Never against you.

Any more bets?

Leon. Monsieur Leon.

- Oui, madame.

- I want some chips for this.

I'm sorry, madame.

We do not accept jewelry.

Perhaps one of the players.

You take it, madame.

He paid 1 o, ooo francs for it.

Who paid 1 o, ooo francs?

Whoever he was, he paid 1 o, ooo for it.

I'll sell it for 5.

He had very good taste.

- It's an unusual ring.

- May I buy it for you?

It's bought.

- Going?

- Wait. I may be back.

Thank you.

Still 4ooo in the bank.

Well, you're looking magnificent tonight,

my dear.

Last time I seemed only beautiful to you.

You must have something very difficult

for me tonight.

No, it shouldn't be for you. Important

dispatches have arrived from Russia.

All right. I'm having supper

with Shubin tomorrow night.

Splendid. Splendid. Why not tonight?

He's at the embassy.

- A conference.

- Probably concerns these dispatches.

- Probably.

- Then tomorrow night won't do.

You must see Shubin

the minute he returns.

- I have arranged differently.

- Then change your arrangements.

I think you should handle Shubin yourself.

You get along beautifully.

- You're so alike.

- This is no time for any of your moods.

Something vital may be involved in this.

Something vital is involved in it.

- Good night, Andriani.

- Then I insist you see Shubin tonight.

A car will be waiting for you

when you leave here.

You also insisted on that submarine job.

You finally had to do it yourself,

as far as I remember.

How well you did it.

I intend to do a better job in finding out who

informed the French authorities about it.

Of course, there's carlotta, she knew.

- And you knew.

- And so did you.

You don't trust me, do you?

Yes. Yes.

But you're capricious.

You're a little bit mad.

You might give me away just

for the excitement of the thing.

You might get me killed.

Unless I kill you first.

Hadn't you better wait

until after tomorrow night?

A car will be waiting for you tonight.

Madame.

I beg your pardon.

I saw you admire this ring...

...and I thought perhaps

you would like to have it.

Why?

Well, as a token

of my admiration for you.

How charming.

Beautiful.

Madame, the car you ordered is waiting.

I won't need it. This young man

has offered to take me home.

Good night, Andriani.

- No, no, no.

- Just for a little while.

- No, no further.

- Please, don't say that.

I think you're very absurd,

very persistent and...

- Very nice? Thank you.

- And very Russian.

Now, go home.

I'm afraid of losing what I've found.

Meaning?

You.

Hadn't you better take that off?

As long as you insist upon staying.

For a little while.

How long have you been in Paris?

I flew from London this morning.

I saw you once in the Bois.

You were so lovely.

I watched you till you drove out

of sight among the chestnut blossoms.

Oh, Paris in the spring.

Spring.

And now I'm here.

- With you.

- But it's autumn.

But perhaps next spring,

the war will be over...

...you and l...

- I never look ahead.

By next spring,

I shall probably be quite alone.

Never alone again.

I mean, at least my thoughts

will always be with you.

No, you mustn't.

But you are so beautiful.

This is absurd.

I am going to bed.

Don't speak.

Good night.

- Madame, the hairdresser can take you.

- I'm too nervous.

- And the marquis is calling for you.

- I'm too tired, Marie.

- And Baron Michel telephoned.

- Oh, I'm not interested, really.

Mata.

Mata.

- But, no, sir.

- It's perfectly all right.

For the loveliest lady in all France.

I had to see you.

It seemed like wasting life to sleep.

You're even more beautiful

than I remembered you.

- Why did you come here?

- I couldn't help it.

Out there, the birds were singing, and there

was a softness in the air just like spring.

And you were the song of the birds

and the warm brightness of the morning.

- It's very nice but...

- My heart was so full of you...

...I had to come back and tell you I love you

and take you to lunch.

It's almost 2:
oo

and I have an appointment.

But you can break it.

I must take you to lunch.

- I told you I have an appointment.

- And I told you to break it.

You're a fool.

The most conceited fool I've ever known.

Mata.

What makes you think you have

the right to burst in here?

I'm sorry. But last night

you told me that you loved me.

Oh, did I?

Well, that was last night.

Today I am very busy.

Marie.

- Yes, madame.

- The gentleman is leaving.

You are quite right. I have been a fool.

I won't make this mistake again.

Still a peasant, lvan, huh?

Still superstitious.

Evil spirits come in on the wind.

There's Madame Mata Hari.

Leave that alone.

Hurry up, open the door.

Go on.

Monsieur Dubois.

Dubois?

What on earth can he want?

Tell him...

Tell him I can't see him.

Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Tell him...

...that I shall be delighted.

My dear Dubois.

I'm afraid I'm intruding.

And inwardly you must be saying,

"confound this man Dubois."

- No. No, not at all, but...

- I'll be brief.

And if I seem to touch

on matters that are...

...how shall I say it,

too intimate, you must forgive me...

...it is because of my duty.

- Yes?

You are very friendly with a lady...

...perhaps the same one

that you are expecting tonight.

Well, what if I am?

We consider this woman

a very grave danger.

And as you know her better

than anyone else, we want you to help us.

Why, what are you talking about?

- I'm expecting Mata Hari.

- Exactly.

And Mata Hari is a spy.

- In the pay of the Wilhelmstrasse.

- A spy.

Oh, my dear Dubois.

- Now you insult my intelligence.

- Please.

Either that or you've lost your mind.

I'm quite sane, I assure you.

Well, if she's a spy,

why don't you arrest her?

Because I need definite proof.

And that's why I am here.

This is an absolute joke.

It's really too good, you know.

Mata Hari, a spy.

You know, for a moment,

I almost took you seriously.

Well, if the joke is as good as that,

I'd like to hear it.

Or maybe it's too bad for me to hear.

No, no, no. Our poor friend Dubois here...

...says that you are a spy.

Well, of course I am.

Everyone is Paris knows that.

Even Dubois, who knows everything.

- Couldn't you guess, Shubin?

- No, I think I'm getting old and stupid.

As I've amused you both so much...

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