Portrait of Jennie Page #5

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You couldn't find it, so...

So you think I created her,

because I needed her for...

Inspiration ? Perhaps.

Maybe you never saw her,

maybe you did. Whats the diffrence ?

As you grow older, you'll learn to believe

in lots of things you can't see.

How do you get that canvas ready for her.

Come in.

- Hi Mac.

- Gus.

Thats a grand day outside, for New York.

Whats doing here ?

- Preparing a canvas for a portrait.

- Don't tell me.

- So thats way you do it ?

- The way you do it.

Speaking of paintings,

- I dropped in at Moores yesterday.

- I know.

He's upset because I haven't finished the job.

- After all he made a deal, Mac.

- I let him down ?

Mick Collins is a little upset to Mac.

Going to lead his men in the battle,

and how is he going to stand up.

You tell Moore I'll be in soon.

- I'll finish it somehow.

- Sure, sure.

Don't think I'm ungrateful.

Its all right. As my mother used to say :

"If there is stardust in your head,

there is jumble in your soul."

You were right, Gus.

- Look there isn't standing room at the bar!

- I think I saw it.

It was a grand idea.

Quiet everbody, quiet.

The unveiling is about to take place.

Hurray Eben Adams !

Hurray Eben Adams, hurray.

The cheers were following,

but I knew the murals were worthless.

I knew in my heart,

I was worthless.

Suddenly, I felt fear.

The world seemed curiously empty and silent.

One note to bring it all to life.

One note would make an instrument of it.

Apparently, that note

was not that we played.

The world of my art was to remain in empty parks.

Jennie! Eben!

No, it isn't true.

- It can't be.

- Oh yes. Yes it is.

I tried to get here soon,

but I couldn't.

- You're beautiful ! Grown so much.

- Of course I have. I'm hurried.

I'm in my first year college at convent.

Wonderful. Dress...

- Do you like it ? Its a Sunday dress.

- Lovely.

Oh look, we can see the bridge from here.

Eben, I thought of you so much,

it can fill an eternity.

What did you think?

How wonderful it all is,

how I've searched, searched,

and now,

I will be together always.

I'm almost sure...

- Do you know what Emily wants to know ?

- What ?

When you're going to marry me.

Don't you like me, Eben ?

I know I'm old enough yet,

I would be soon.

Whats that ?

Thats a sketch of Radio City.

Radio City ? I never heard of it.

It wasn't built very long.

You like it ?

- Very strange.

- Its not a genuine ?

Thats Land's End light.

- Thats right. Land's end light.

How do you know?

Have you ever been there?

I don't know.

I think...

Its an old abandoned

lighthouse upon Cape Cod.

I did that sketch some years ago.

Makes me unhappy.

In that case, you just put it aside.

Look, study the canvas.

- Canvas ?

- Canvas for your portrait.

Your portrait. One we planned.

Oh Eben, if you wanted to do it.

I was so sure you will be here one day.

I haven't been able to do anything else. Sit over here.

- Here ?

- Oh yes.

Right there, where I've dreamed you'll sit.

- Les will be so jealous.

- When I tell him.

Turn here the other way.

Some of my friends taking

a veil next Sunday.

It will be lovely to watch.

Will you come and see?

I love to Jennie. Please hold still.

Turn your head.

Few of my classmates will be leaving.

I hate to have them go.

Jennie, your hand.

Turn your head.

Well there, hold that.

Eben, promise you won't forget me.

Hello, Eben !

- Hello Eben.

- Hello Jennie, I was afraid.

afraid you might not be here.

I told you I'll be here.

We can hurry if you want

to see the ceremony.

See those with the candle are

the ones who's taking veil.

Our teachers sit back.

First one is, old sister Marie Margaret.

She teaches history.

And next to her is sister Marie Euphemia.

Teaches science.

And over there near the entrance,

is my favourite, sister Marie of Misricorde.

I am so glad you have

been waiting for me.

Give us our daily bread.

Forgive our sins,

as we forgive those who

trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation,

deliver us from evil.

Isn't it beautiful ?

I always feel

its closer to truth things in here.

As if, pretty soon,

I would understand.

How beautiful the world is, Eben.

The sun goes down in

the same lovely sky,

just as it did yesterday,

and will tomorrow.

When is tomorrow, Jennie ?

Does it matter ? Its always.

This was tomorrow once.

"Where I come from, nobody knows

And where I am going, everything goes"

I heard that song where.

Of course. You sang it to me

on the first day at the park.

Did I ? I've forgotten.

"The wind blows, the sea flows

"God knows"

I think he knows, Eben.

So this is where the master works.

Well, this much of a place.

Over here, Spinney.

Of course, it isn't finished yet.

Don't be coy. Lets see it.

What do you think?

Well Adams, you found

what you were looking for.

You like it ?

Eben, I've been selling pictures

for many years.

And in my business, its always a

dream that someday you'll come across,

shall we says, a great picture.

This is I feel,

now a sort of unit of mine.

- He means he likes it.

- Looks I'm happy.

You remember my saying there ought to

be something eternal about a woman?

Something not of the present nor of the past.

Well Eben, you got it.

Its the face that makes him so girl.

Its what you see in your

faces without age or time.

It isn't finished. Really isn't.

Take it easy. Its a great picture.

Carried forward, on a wave of exhaultation,

I worked eagerly to complete the portrait.

The face framed in its dark hair,

the brown eyes tenderly dreaming.

I began to realise

that I was cought by an

enchantment to yarn time and change.

I knew atlast that love is endless

and today's little

happiness only part of it.

Somehow I knew I'll find you here.

I looked for you so often.

I had fear in mine. You know

I just graduated from college...

Its wonderful. Now, we

will be together always.

Well ... I'm afraid we'll

have to wait a little longer.

My aunt is here once, she wants me

to go away with her for the summer.

- When do you have to go ?

- Tomorrow.

- I couldn't without saying goodbye.

- Goodbye?

I will only be for few months.

Anyway, we have enjoyed more again.

I think a little more.

I'll be lost without you.

No, say that again.

Can't both of us be lost.

Look at the moon right on the border.

Makes a pathway across the river.

The jersey hills are over there,

aren't they?

Fantastc.

You said sadly, have you.

Aren't you happy ?

I couldn't thank him.

No matter how far away, that kind

of distance is, can be reached.

Over there we are on the hills,

one can drive to.

In the North, through the pines,

eastward to the seas.

So we got a distance

you and I haven't gone before.

Now I happen, to feel us

another kind of distance.

A crueller distance.

Distance of yesterday and a morrow.

And it frightens me.

Frightens me, that there's

no one to bridge it.

Yes. At this moment,

I know there isn't.

I want to be forever.

You will be. Have faith.

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