The Kreutzer Sonata Page #2

I'm a big cheat.

You're a big cheat?

Yeah.

Well, then, maybe you can

show me how, 'cause I'm really...

This is new for me.

Well, I am showing you how.

Am I not?

I mean, I'm not with somebody.

You are.

Well, I guess I'm really not

having a hard time with it then.

Are you dating anybody?

Two very bad people.

I didn't really think it was

my place to ask, so I didn't ask.

I dated people I didn't like

for a really long time

and that worked for me.

And then sex became

a little bit of a game.

A little bit of a control thing,

a power thing.

My mom is very cool.

She's a very open, bohemian...

Amsterdam; I-type

And your father?

Very closed.

Very German.

Very German.

Banker type?

I had to sneak around the corners

and wait for him to talk to me.

I had to raise my hand.

No, I'm just kidding.

No, he's, um...he's very serious

and he's, you know,

a businessman, and he is...

multi-lingual, which

makes him fascinating.

He loves poetry and literature

and he's interesting,

I just don't know him that well.

But I like him.

If I met him at a dinner party,

I probably would like him.

But I don't really talk to him

that much.

And...

l guess...

I guess the same kind of goes

for my mom too.

I'm not super close to her,

but I admire her greatly.

I shouldn't be

falling for you...

Oh...

I shouldn't.

I shouldn't be falling

for you either.

I shouldn't...

I shouldn't...

mmm.

Did you ever walk in and catch

your parents having sex ever?

I did, yes.

Did you?

Yeah, I did, actually.

I was...

I was, uh...

maybe four, five years old.

And I heard this, um...

terrifying scream...

a sort of moaning,

screaming sound.

And I got very concerned.

And I got out of bed,

walked down the hallways...

pitter patter, pitter patter,

pitter patter...

and continued hearing these moans

coming from my mother...

and I went into the room...

and I saw this man's back, this

very defined muscular man's back,

and it wasn't my father.

Oh no.

Oh no!

And the man was eating my mother.

Shh...Oh no!

I literally thought he was eating-

he was eating her out,

but I literally thought...

Oh no!

He was eating her.

And uh...

Oh, that's awful!

And I went up to the bed

and I pounded his back

and he turned around and...

and looked at me in horror.

And my mother said, "it's ..,

it's .., everything's fine.

I'm fine, darling.

Go back to your bedroom."

Who was he?

Her lover.

Really?

Abby!

Abby! Can I please talk to you

for a minute?!

F***!

Of course he was f***ing her.

It's what she does.

It's what she Wants,

that's her power, that's...

Why I married her.

It's the only thing about her that I

Want, it's the only thing that...

other bastards Want.

And he's a good-looking guy,

he's a musician, he's,

he's a single guy, he's...young.

Nothing could stop him.

I don't even know who she is.

She's a...a mystery...

just as she's always been.

Just as she'll...always be.

I...I don't know her.

{only know her as a, as an animal

And nothing can or should

hold back an animal.

Please leave a message...

It was only then that

I began to remember

the Way that she looked

that evening.

I re...remembered the look

on their faces...

I remember how weakly,

pathetically and blissfully

she had...smiled as I came up

to the piano and how she wiped

the perspiration

from her blushing face.

Even then...they were avoiding

each other's eyes...

and I remember when they looked

at each other and gave each other...

a little smile.

I knew that look.

Those barely perceptible smiles.

There was no longer

any barrier between them.

They've done it.

They...they must have.

It's f***ing obvious.

Everyone can see.

With horror, I recalled...

Yes, appointments on Monday.

- Good morning.

- Morning, Cynthia.

- How are you?

- I'm good, thank you.

- How are you?

- I'm good.

I have things for you to sign...

for a change.

Mr. Kemp.

The 3:
00, the New York investor company,

they, they canceled.

They're gonna call me

and reschedule for next week.

.., all right, thank you.

You're welcome.

Would you like some coffee?

I'd love some coffee.

All right.

Grande non-fat latte, right?

You got it.

Come on in.

Thank you.

Gentlemen...

All right, gentlemen.

Cassandra Persons.

This is Edgar Hudson...

So good to meet you.

Oh, Mr. Hudson.

A pleasure to meet you.

And Richard Kemp.

Very nice to meet you.

Spoke to you on the phone.

- That's right-nice to meet you.

- Please sit down.

Good to put a name to the face.

Thank you very much

for taking this meeting.

Our pleasure.

I've been working on this project

for the last couple of months,

and I reached out

to your foundation

'cause I was hoping

that you can help me.

Um, I have a friend who was just

in Africa a few months ago,

and he met a young boy

who was an amputee.

He was 10 years old.

There are several thousand

amputee children.

Because amputating the limbs

of children and all of the civilians

was the signature atrocity

of the R.U.F. soldiers.

How did these amputations

actually take place?

They would lay the arm on a

stump, or the leg on a stump

and they would actually ask

the individual

which one they would prefer

to have amputated...

Dear Lord...

and they would have to choose,

and upon the decision...

Wow.

It would be amputated

with a machete...

Sometimes by other children.

Wow.

And now they're 15 years old

and they have no one,

and so they're walking the streets.

And I know that there is something

that can be done for them now.

Sure.

Your foundation's been

so profound in changing medicine

and helping people

who need medical care,

I was hoping that you could

help me help these children.

We can get..., we can

get physical stuff,

but I'm telling you, I can hear Elinore

"Off core mission,

off core mission, off core mission."

I know, big sis is tough.

I know, that's why I just...

I don't know if we can get involved.

I mean, I think it's a really good

thing, my heart goes out to them...

Yeah.

It's just, uh...

Look, I'll see you after lunch.

But Elinore's coming today.

At...Yeah, absolutely.

What time is she coming? 3:00?

It's 2:
30.

2:
30..., I'll be there at, uh...

I'll be back at 2:15.

But wait, you really can't

leave me, because we have...

one, we have the budget,

which we haven't fixed yet.

The budget's not fixed yet.

Listen, I don't want to bring

this up to her,

and you can't leave me alone...

Cynthia, I'll see you after lunch.

You just can't leave me alone with her,

you know, for five, 10 minutes, she's...

I've heard this before.

"Be back after lunch."

When does he come back?

Next Wednesday.

Hey, baby.

Yeah.

No, I think he's wonderful.

I think he's great.

He's a really great choice.

Awesome, I know, because

I've heard him before,

before we started working together,

but this cellist, I'm telling you,

he's a total a**hole.

I mean, he thinks he's Yo-Yo Ma,

but he sounds more like

Jacqueline du Pre at her farewell tour.

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