The Macomber Affair Page #5

you have an advantage, do you?

Please, darling, don't talk.

I'm sleepy.

I'm going to talk!

All right. Don't mind me, then,

because I'm going to sleep.

They clean them?

Yes.

Where is

the Springfield?

Macomber.

Filthy.

Filthy, bwana.

Start after breakfast.

Good morning.

Sleep well?

Did you?

Topping.

Yes?

You?

Mrs. Macomber was restless

in the middle of the night.

Do you think we'll find

any buffalo?

A chance of it.

Why don't you stay

in camp?

Not for anything.

Why don't you

order her to stay?

You order her.

Now, let's not have

any ordering...

Or any silliness,

Francis.

Are you ready to start?

Anytime.

Do you want

the memsahib to go?

Does it make any difference

whether I do or not?

Makes no difference.

You sure you wouldn't like to

stay in camp with her yourself

And let me go hunt buffalo?

Couldn't do that.

And I wouldn't talk rot

if I were you.

I'm not talking rot.

I'm disgusted.

Francis, please try

to speak sensibly.

I speak too sensibly.

Did you ever eat

such filthy food?

Something wrong

with the food?

No more than

with everything else.

I'd pull myself together

if I were you, laddybuck.

One of these boys

understands a little English.

The devil with him.

Want me to have kongoni

Take that out to the car

with the rest?

I'll keep it.

As you like.

Only it's a good thing

to keep things

Where they belong.

If you make a scene, I'll leave you.

Oh, no, you won't.

Yes, I will.

Try it and see.

Why try?

I know you won't.

All right.

I'll never leave you.

And you'll behave yourself.

Behave myself?!

That's a way to talk...

"Behave myself"?

Yes, behave yourself.

Why don't you try behaving?

Oh, I hate

that red-Faced swine.

He's really very nice.

Oh, shut up!

Going shooting?

Yes.

Yes. Better take a woolly.

It'll be cool in the car.

I'll get my leather jacket.

The boy has it.

Good.

You want to take a look?

No.

Nothing to see anyway.

How do you know where you'll find the thing?

You don't.

A likely spot, though, if you

can catch them in the open.

Does it matter?

They can't be dangerous

'Cause I've seen hundreds

of buffalo...

well, they're not

the same kind.

There they are.

Where?

Over there.

We'll cut them off

before they get to the swamp.

Kongoni...

Springfield.

Not from the car,

you fool!

That's number one!

Come on.

It's too far.

All right. Nice work.

That's the three.

How many times

did you shoot?

Just three.

You got the first one...

The biggest one.

I helped you finish off

the other two.

Didn't want them

to get into cover.

You had them killed.

You're sure?

I was just mopping up

a little.

Well, let's go to the car.

I want a drink.

Well, I'd better make sure

he doesn't get up.

You take them

a little broadside,

Catch them in the neck

just behind the ear.

That does it.

Ugly-Looking thing,

aren't they?

Well, let's get

that drink.

You were marvelous, darling.

What a ride.

You look sick.

Was it rough?

It was frightful.

I've never been more frightened

in my life.

Well,

how about that drink?

Oh, by all means.

It's frightfully

exciting,

But it's given me

a dreadful headache.

I didn't know you were allowed

to shoot them from cars, though.

Well, no one's

shot them from cars.

I mean chase them in cars.

Oh, I wouldn't ordinarily,

But it seemed sporting enough

to me at the time.

Take more of a chance driving

a car across a plain like that

Full of holes

and one thing and another

Than you do

hunting them on foot.

Buff could have charged us each

time we shot, if he'd like.

I wouldn't mention it to anyone

if I were you, though.

It's illegal

if that's what you mean.

What would happen if they

heard about it in Nairobi?

Oh, I'd lose my license,

other unpleasantness.

I'd be out of business.

Really?

Yes, really.

Well...

now she has

something on you.

Something on

the beautiful Mr. Wilson.

You have such a pretty way

of putting things, Francis.

We lost

one of our gunbearers.

Did you notice?

No.

Must have fallen off

when we left that first bull.

What did he say?

Oh, the first bull got up

and went into the bush.

Oh?

Then it's gonna be

just like the lion.

No, it's not gonna be

one bit like the lion.

Would you care for

another drink, Macomber?

Thanks, yes.

Yes.

We'll go back and have a look

at the second bull.

Tell the driver to take the car

over in the shade.

What are you

gonna do?

Go and take a look

at the buff.

I'm coming.

All right.

He's a very fine head.

That's close

to a 50-Inch spread.

Oh, it's beautiful,

just beautiful.

I think

it's hateful-Looking.

Can't we go

in the shade?

Well,

of course we can.

You see that bush

over there?

Yes.

Well, that's where

the first bull went in.

What the gunbearer

said was,

When he fell off,

the bull was down.

He was watching us bounce along

and the last buff galloping,

And when he looked up,

there was the bull,

Up and looking at him.

He ran for his life,

And the bull went off slowly

into that bush.

Can't we go in

after him now?

No, we'd better give him

a little while.

Please,

let's go in the shade.

All right.

Chances are

he's dead in there.

We'll give him a little while,

then we'll have a look.

That was a chase.

I've never felt

such a feeling.

Wasn't it marvelous, Margo?

I hated it.

Why?

I hated it.

I loathed it.

You know...

I don't think I'd ever be afraid

of anything again.

Something happened in me

when we first saw the buff

And started

after it...

like a dam bursting...

It was pure excitement.

Cleans out

your liver.

Funny things happen

to people sometimes.

Something

did happen to me.

I feel

absolutely different.

You look

positively idiotic.

You know, I'd like to try

another lion.

I'm really

not afraid of them now.

After all,

what can they do to you?

That's it.

The worst one can do

is kill you.

How does it go?

Shakespeare...

Something I used to quote

to myself at one time...

let's see...

"by my troth, I care not...

A man can die but once.

"We owe god a debt, and let it

go which way it will.

He that dies this year

is quit for the next."

That's really fine, eh?

Do you have

that feeling of happiness

About

what's going to happen?

Well, you're

not supposed to mention it.

It's much more fashionable

to say that you're scared,

And, mind you,

you will be scared, too,

Plenty of times.

But you do have

that feeling of happiness

About action to come?

Yes, there is that...

Just that it doesn't do to talk

too much about all of this,

Talk it all away.

Well, it takes the pleasure

out of anything

To mouth it up too much.

You're both talking rot.

Just because you chased a few

helpless animals in a motorcar,

You talk like heroes.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I am gassing too much.

If you don't know

what we're talking about,

Why don't you

just keep out of it?

You've gotten

awfully brave.

You just shut up

about it.

Awfully brave,

awfully suddenly.

You know, I have.

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