Panny z Wilka (The Young Ladies of Wilko) Page #3

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the way you used to be.

It would destroy my life, put

together with difficulty.

I assure you, you have nothing

to fear from me.

I can't imagine now how one

could love like that.

I think it's even funny.

For great love means humiliation

and absurdity.

Humiliation yes, but absurdity?

Haven't you ever felt the absurdity

of such blind attachment?

No, never.

Then you've never loved.

You're right!

Because I never had time for it.

- Why so much?

- So there's enough for the chosen.

Kazia, it wasn't that

I didn't have time.

I was a coward.

It's good you know that.

Yes, I do.

The tea's ready, we may serve.

Thank you...

Another stage reached.

Likely the last.

Did we get far?

Very far indeed.

What do you want?

I asked you to come because

I wanted to see you.

I came because it was my

mother-in-law's birthday.

I'm returning to Warsaw today.

Go back then.

Stop it!

Help me.

Help.

Which means?

Do something so that I'd...

Why, don't you have enough?

No.

You wanted this separation.

I wanted...

I was afraid to grow old

happily with you.

I won't help you.

Because I don't want to.

It cost me far too much

to stop loving you.

I can't.

Kazia...

What's wrong?

Stop crying!

You know how my husband is.

Having a good time?

Ever been duck hunting?

No.

Then we'll go together.

All right.

Wiktor...

Are you asleep?

Your aunt told me to wake you.

You're going hunting with Tunia.

- I don't want to.

- She'll be here soon!

Have her go home.

It's bad weather for ducks.

I'm not leaving until you get up.

It's too late to go duck hunting!

I'm sorry...

Let's go.

Finally, you woke up!

What sort of books do you read?

All sorts.

Now I'm reading Descartes.

Why are you laughing?

It isn't funny at all.

Because when I was your age,

I used to lie on the grass...

and read books which

I didn't understand.

I didn't understand Hegel,

I studied Kant.

Youth, unknown choices,

a waste of time.

So much time wasted.

Later there was neither time nor

inclination to return to it.

Why do you constantly

talk of the past?

Because it's like this...

like this late wild strawberry.

I take it to my lips...

and sniff...

and I'm reminded of June,

yet it is no longer June.

It is only an illusion that

nothing has changed.

Yet every month, week and day

has its own color...

and as they pass, they change a

person, his thoughts and feelings.

The scent of this strawberry

reminds me...

that everything was once different,

the trees, my own laughter.

Perhaps, but it's summer now...

and autumn is a long way off.

You really think that?

Have you ever seen paintings

by Giorgione?

Yes, why?

You remind me of an angel

in one of them.

Exactly like Fela.

I'm Tunia.

Yes, Tunia.

Edward and Jola's husband have gone

so I can have a dance.

Come, it'll be my evening.

That's enough.

Here he comes!

- How was the hunting?

- Marvelous.

Where are the ducks?

Ducks?

There haven't been any ducks

there for ages.

Wiktor...

I like being with you.

Let's get married.

Tunia...

what are you saying?

Please let me.

Let's join them.

Why aren't you dancing?

Dance with Tunia.

With Miss Tunia?

Must he always do what

I tell him?

How horrible!

You know, Zosia, there are moments

when I'm not afraid of anything.

Not even myself.

Look, Tunia is all grown up.

- May I have this dance?

- No.

Perhaps Zosia won't turn me down.

May I have this dance?

No.

Excuse me.

Kazia!

Where shall I put this, ma'am?

You look fabulous.

It's Julia's old dress, from

her engagement party.

You won't say no, will you?

Where is Julia?

These dances aren't for her.

Julia...

why aren't you with us?

You know...

...l've never forgotten.

All these years!

In terrible moments, in battles,

in the trenches...

I would dream that once again

I mixed up the rooms.

Remember how I mixed up the rooms

then, after my walk?

I only realized it as I was

lying right here...

and felt your body.

You pretended to be asleep

and I did too.

That game continued...

until our bodies started to search

for each other...

searching, searching, remember?

I felt...

I felt your body and it was...

Never again...

would I ever experience...

such a sensation.

I don't know why I'm telling you

this, and I'm not ashamed at all.

I've been waiting all evening for

you to come and tell me...

exactly that.

Shall we go dance?

Yes, let's.

Now ask me to dance.

The party's over for me.

What are you standing there for?

Go take Tunia a shawl!

Get away from me!

I don't ever want to see you again.

I wanted to kiss you first!

Which of us are you visiting today?

Zosia...

Since you arrived, we've

talked only about you.

I've come to apologize to Tunia.

Apologize?

I hurt her?

And Fela too, once?

I don't understand.

As usual.

I think you'll become the hero

of the house once again.

Which means?

What are you trying to tell me?

Nothing.

Do you get by without women?

Yes.

Extraordinary!

But we have our doubts.

If you don't rouse hope,

then at least passion.

That terrified, uncertain

expression of yours.

Just like back then.

Go and play now.

You are afraid, just like you used

to be, of making a decision...

of yourself...

Did you just discover my virtues,

or did you know them then?

I've been observing you ever since

I was a child.

It was like blind man's bluff, you

with your eyes covered...

and movement all around you.

I played while watching Fela.

I knew more than you did, even

though I was only a child.

A woman of twelve.

A woman child sees more

than a young man.

Maybe that's why I didn't like you

or take you seriously.

You're saying painful things.

Because you don't really care.

You don't care about any of this.

That's why you don't need to

apologize to Tunia.

You know...

you've changed me with

those few words.

Maybe I awakened something which

had been dormant in you.

Just the opposite.

Summer has ended inside of me.

What's that?

Nothing.

Tell me.

I was drawing my life line.

It rises beautifully till 1914.

After that, it gets worse.

We haven't ridden in a long time.

What are you waiting for?

I wanted to tell you something.

I was coming home from hunting

one day just before the war...

when I came upon this meadow.

I suddenly saw...

you sitting and Fela standing naked

with her back towards me...

brushing her hair.

You were wearing a blue, dotted

dress and when you saw me...

you screamed and Fela turned...

and asked, "Why don't you pass?"...

or, "Why don't you come?"

Do you remember what she said?

She shouted, curled up squatting,

trying to cover herself.

What was it she said?

Don't you remember?

No?

Stop it!

Come on.

How could we forget

about mama?

She likes to eat.

Zosia's husband is here.

It's not surprising.

A diplomat.

The Consul in L beck.

Was L beck in the Hanseatic League?

Yes, it was, in the middle ages.

Wasn't it?

Give him more fodder, his

flanks are caving in.

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