Naughty Arlette Page #5

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Julie,you'd better hurry,time is getting on, and you too,Arnold

By jove,yes

Come on,Julie darling,let's go

-Bye,darling -Good Bye

Come in

Good Evening

Good Evening

Where are your glasses?

What?

I dropped them on the bathroom floor

most annoying,you can't get a new pair for months nowadays

In the mean time you cannot see anything?

I can see quite a bit really

Can you?

How are you this evening?

Not very well

in fact I do not think I can concentrate on the lesson at all

I am sorry to hear that,well I needn't have come,really then

-Cigarette? -No,I only smoke a pipe at home

I think pipes are so unpractical

It's funny you Englishmen are so prosaic

and yet you can have such great poets like Shelley

I love Shelley,I've been reading him preparing for a lesson,you know

That's good

Before you go can you read the best of his poems?

You read so well,and when I read it to myself

I cannot always understand him

And I shall really see if you can read it without your spectacles

"The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean,

The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion;

Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine

in one spirit meet and mingle.

Why not I with thine?"

Yes that was published by Leigh Hunt in 1819

But there is one more verse, I will read it to you

And you can correct my English,will you?

"See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another

No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother;

And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea:

What is all this kissing's worth If thou kiss not me?"

Yes,you read very well

If we are not going to have this lesson

I think I had better going I can catch an earlier train

I mustn't tire you if you are not feeling well

I will see you to the door

Don't bother,please

Arlette?

You are all right?

What happened?

Should I get you a doctor?

No,I shall be quite all right in a moment

Please stay with me a few minutes

Of course I will

I want to come back to school very soon

I am so much lonely here

-Hello,Arlette -Hello

We like to hear all about it and all the low down about the private lessons

Was it busy private with the chucked spectacles?

Did you have a hand in that?

Of course,and it is only the first thing he is going to throw all aboard

It is nice to see you back again,Arlette

I'm glad to be back ,Julie

I've missed so much,haven't I, Mr Dickson?

No,I don't think you missed very much

See you in class,Arlette

You're really better?

Thank you,I feel wonderful now

You look wonderful

And you,Mr Dickson,you look very smart

if you will forgive me a personal remark this time

My publishers attested another book of mine

I thought I deserved a new suit

I am glad,and I'm sure you earned it

You work so hard and so seriously

Are you taking time off to come to Patricias hunt this afternoon?

It is such a lovely day

Yes I promised Miss Hallam I'll try get along

But surely you are not going for hunting?

Very strenuous,you know

I know not if you find that you share in the end

I will be late for class

Lovely day

Makes one feel quite young again

None the less time marks you inexorable on

Come on girls,move on

All are back now except Arlette, Virginia,Bridget and Jenny

Maureen coming I think

I'll see if I can find them

Where is Mr Dickson going?

Gone to look for Miss Tesserau I expect

And you better go with him

Arlette is on her way back, she is with Jenny

Well if she is with Jenny,that is all right

Arlette

Arlette

Arlette

-At last -All right

I lost my shoe and sprained my ankle

You must be wet through

Not so much, I found this hut

And I found you

Mr Dickson,I am so glad you come

I could never have got back

We ought to start back at once

But I cannot walk

You will have to carry me

All right,put this on

Dear,I hope they are not ruined

Just look at these shoes,I think they could be written off as dead loss

I hope you don't play Sir Galahad too often

Comes expensive

It's not my fault the wretched girl got stranded,is it?

All right,didn't even smack my head off

What a pleasant perfume

I told you I had to carry her back to the coach

I'll go and get these pressed

You need not so horribly guilty,dear

Darling,don't clean those shoes all over the carpet

What are you looking at me like that for?

I wasn't looking at you

I was miles away

Do you see what I see?

What's going on?

Perhaps he's trying keep Arlette also made of stone

Do you think he has fallen for her?

Fallen? Well if he has

he'll come down with a big bang when he finds out it was only a joke

If the joke hasn't gone too fast

We meet,we kiss, we part

What's all this talk about love?

Is it such a great tragedy?

For me it was pleasant amusing, yes but now I want to forget

That won't be easy

Why not?

Because to me to any rate this is

This is real

What was real yesterday is not real today

And will not be real tomorrow

I don't understand you

Arlette

Don't.You are hurting me

I think Julie's technique is improving,don't you?

It ought to,if she practices often enough

She is doing only her usual scales

Is it real only enough?

Not what you thought

All right,don't make it easier of it, Julie is practicing from scales,all right

I'll go on when she is finished

I'm sorry I didn't mean it down the floor

Julie,you better stop now

Go and have your bath

Sorry,Daddy

I'll come down and say Good Night before I go to bed

For heaven's sake

Stop that dreadful row

Helen

Leave me alone

I'm taking me off on the piano

-Have you got off your head? -Have you?

This fell out off one of your pupil's books

Well,it is,it is just a silly joke

Silly,yeah,joke not

It's pretty obvious that somebody

but although you don't consider Arlette Tesserau a fit friend for Julie

you find her company congenial enough

If you want to make you a fool of yourself,go ahead

I gave up my career to marry you, and I can always go back to it

Don't worry about me or Julie

Helen

Forget us, but for heavens sake, think about yourself

Arnold,remember your career, your books, your position

Don't let a ridiculous scandal ruin everything you worked for?

I wonder if those things are very important anyway

Not as important,apparently

as philandering with a girl, not much older than Julie

If the consequences won't so seriously, it would be laughable

Helen

Come in will you?

I want to talk to you and I'll come straight to the point

Mrs Dickson,if you've heard any stupid gossip there is nothing in it

Of course,there is nothing in it, how could there be?

-Why could there not be? -Why?

You're only a child

I'm not a child,I'm 18

And I can assure you,Mrs Dickson, that I'm not interested in your husband

You should not fear

Fear?

What a foolish girl you are

I go about with him,you know,if I wanted to

Go about with him?

If I wanted to

My dear child,do you really believe a man

of his abilities and perception

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