Mourning Becomes Electra Page #13

Oh, Hazel...

If you love me help me get away

from here

or something terrible will happen.

That's just what I want to do.

You come over tomorrow

and stay with us.

Do you suppose for a moment

she'd ever let me go?

Haven't you a right to do

as you want to?

Yes.

I could sneak out when she wasn't watching...

and then you can hide me and when

she comes for me

you tell her I'm not there.

I won't do any such thing.

I don't tell lies, Orin.

You better get out of here.

Don't let anyone see

what I have given you.

Go home and lock it up.

Oh, how can you be so scared

of Vinnie?

Shhh.

Where's Peter?

Seth said he was here with you.

He had to go to a Council meeting.

He'll be right back.

Has he been gone long?

Not very long.

My, but you two look mysterious.

Why, Vinnie, what makes you think...

You're hiding something.

Hazel's invited me over to their house.

And I'm going.

He's coming tomorrow.

It's kind of you.

But he can't go.

Why not?

I don't wish to discuss it.

Orin's of age.

He can go where he pleases.

I'll ask you to please mind

your own business.

It is my business. I love Orin.

I don't think you love him at all

the way you've been acting.

Hazel, you said you ought

to go home.

I think you'd better go now

and leave me

to fight this out with Vinnie.

All right, Orin.

We'll expect you tomorrow

and have your room ready.

After the way you've insulted me,

Vinnie,

I hope you realize there's no longer

any question of friendship between us.

What are you hiding behind your back?

Have you given her what you've written?

Answer me.

What if I have?

You traitor, you coward.

Give it to me. Do you hear?

Vinnie, how dare you speak to me

that way!

You shan't leave this house

until you...

Orin, think what you're doing.

Tell her to give it to me.

No.

Think sanely for a moment. You can't do this.

You're a Mannon.

It's because I am one.

For Mother's sake, you can't!

You loved her.

A lot she cared. Don't call on her.

For my sake, Orin.

You know I love you.

Make Hazel give it up and

I'll do anything.

Anything you want me to.

Do you really mean that?

Yes.

Give it to me, Hazel.

I suppose we can't expect you

tomorrow now.

No. Forget me.

The Orin you loved was killed

in the war.

Remember him, not his rotting ghost.

Goodbye.

Please go.

Do you realize the promise you made

means giving up Peter?

Yes.

And never seeing him again?

Yes.

But how will I make you keep

a promise that I forced out of you?

Oh, I know you, Vinnie.

You'll always be plotting

how to break it.

The only thing in your way now

is my life.

Orin, don't talk like that.

You'd do anything now

to get rid of me.

I said I knew you, but...

do I?

There are times when you no longer

seem to be my sister at all.

Or Mother, but...

some stranger.

with the same beautiful hair.

Perhaps you're Marie Brantme.

And you say there are no ghosts in this house.

Orin!

You're insane.

Vinnie, there's only one way out

of this hell.

Let's go now and confess and pay the penalty

and find peace together.

Please.

No, you coward!

There's nothing to confess.

There was only justice.

You hear her?

You'll find Lavinia Mannon harder

to break than me.

You'll have to haunt her

and hound her for a lifetime.

I hate you!

I wish you were dead!

You have no right to live.

You'd kill yourself if you weren't

a coward.

Vinnie!

I mean it! I mean it!

You mean it.

Another act of justice, eh?

Only it would be justice now.

You're Mother.

Yes, she's speaking now,

through you.

Yes, it's the way to find my island.

My lost island.

Death is an island of peace, too.

Mother will be waiting for me.

Mother, you know what I'll do.

I'll go down on my kness and...

ask your forgiveness and say...

I'll say...

I'm glad you found love, Mother.

I'll wish you happiness.

You and...

and Adam.

Mother.

No, Orin!

Get out of my way, can't you?

Mother's waiting.

Orin!

That's Peter. Shut up, now.

Hello, Orin.

Hello, Peter.

Vinnie's just had a quarrel with Hazel.

She's all upset.

That sister of mine. Where is she?

Gone home.

Vinnie, don't you pay any attention

to her.

You take her in there and comfort her.

I'll go into the study and clean

my pistol.

Glad you came back, Peter.

You can keep Vinnie company.

Orin!

Orin!

He's a darned fool

to monkey with a pistol in his state.

What's the matter with him?

Peter!

Hold me close to you.

Nothing matters but love, does it?

No price is too big, is it?

Oh, I must have peace.

No one has the right to keep anyone

from peace.

Shouldn't I get that pistol

away from him?

Oh, won't it be wonderful?

Once we're married, together in our home

away from here?

Oh, we'll be so happy.

I want to be happy, Peter.

I love everything that grows simply.

Up toward the sun,

everything that's straight and strong.

I hate what's dark and warped

and eats into itself and dies for a lifetime

in darkness.

I can't bear waiting and waiting

and waiting...

Orin.

Orin!

Orin!

I'll break in through the window.

Orin...

forgive me.

Why do you look at me like that?

Wasn't it the only way to keep

your secret?

I'm through with you forever now.

I'm Mother's daughter,

not one of you.

I'll live in spite of you!

Vinnie, did you see?

Seth.

Ayeh?

Take these and put them inside.

I want the house to be filled

with flowers.

Oh, Vinnie, I, uh...

I seed you settin' out here on the steps

when I got up at five this mornin'

and every mornin' since Orin...

Ain't you gettin' no sleep?

How'd you like if I was to haul one of them

sofas out here for you to lay down on?

I'm waiting for Peter.

Why didn't you tell me to go

in the house and lie down?

You understand, don't you?

You know there's no rest in this house

that Grandfather

built as a temple of Hate and Death!

Don't you try to live here, Vinnie!

You marry Peter and git clear!

I'm going to marry him.

And I'm going away with him

and forget this house

and everything that's happened here!

That's talking, Vinnie.

I'll close it up and leave it in the sun

and rain to die.

The Mannons will be forgotten.

I'm the last and won't be one for long.

I'll be Mrs Peter Niles.

Then they're finished.

Thank heaven.

Oh, Vinnie.

Here's Hazel coming.

It won't take me long to say

what I've come to say, Vinnie.

It's a lie about Orin

killing himself by accident! I know it is!

I should think you'd be the last one

to accuse Orin...

I'm not accusing Orin.

I'm accusing you.

You drove him to it.

What would Orin think of you coming here

on the day of his funeral

to accuse me of the sorrow

that's afflicted our family?

All right, Vinnie.

I won't say anything more.

But I know there's something

- and so do you -

something that was driving Orin crazy.

Poor Orin.

Don't do that.

I'm sorry.

I didn't come to talk about Orin.

What did you come for?

About Peter.

You leave Peter and me alone.

You're not going to marry Peter

and ruin his life, you can't!

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