The Other Side of Midnight

Noelle.

Costa.

How are you?

I'm all right.

I have decisions to make.

But I need certain facts.

Certain assurances

from you about...

about the death of Catherine.

Catherine.

Lovely Catherine.

Noelle...

did you kill Catherine?

Did you kill her?

Who is to say?

Noelle.

Innocent or guilty?

Innocent, Costa.

Innocent.

Noelle!

Noelle!

- Yes, Papa?

- Hurry:
I'm waiting:

Coming, Papa:

[Ship Horns Blowing]

- Bye, Mama:

- Good-bye, Noelle:

It's a world of riches:

And it's a world where you belong:

You will see people

and things-

Oh, no:

- What is it?

- Oh, Papa, I'm so nervous:

What is there to be nervous about?

- [Exhales Deeply]

- Did I not buy you a new blouse.

To look beautiful?

Keep in your head

what I've always told you:

You are above the others:

You are a princess:

[Chuckles]

Yes:
I am a princess:

Good:
The world is yours:

Let the others be nervous: I know better

than anyone else what you have in you, Noelle:

- You will go to the top:

- [Chuckles] Papa, I do love you:

Of course:

Remember:
Lanchon has

a very high-class clientele:

Yes:
But I know nothing

about selling dresses:

Lanchon will teach you:

Be courteous and give

the correct change:

"Monsieur, madame"- Here it is:

The pay, in the beginning,

will be modest:

But, if you look upon this

as an apprenticeship.

You will find it

not altogether unpleasant:

[Clock Ticking]

Then I have the position?

- You do:

- Oh, Papa!

I told you:

I'll get your bag:

Here's your room: Be done in five minutes,

and I shall see you in the kitchen:

[Ship Horn Blows]

[Lanchon]

Noelle, youre better than you think:

And to show you the esteem

in which I hold you.

You may have as a gift.

Any dress from that

new shipment from Paris:

- Really?

- Yes:

Oh! I know exactly the one I want:

Where is it?

- Here:
This one:

- Yeah:
[Laughs]

Certainly:

Oh, you're beautiful, Noelle:

Beautiful:

Listen to me:

It will be good for you:

- It will be very good:

- No!

[Noelle]

Papa, you sold me to him?

No, that's not right:

We all of us profited:

You got a man who could help you:

He got a girl

who could pleasure him:

I received a small amount of money:

It afforded me that radio.

A new jacket, a cycle, some wine:

A few things to comfort me.

And your mother

against whatever comes:

[Ship Horn Blowing]

Noelle, war is coming:

You have beauty:

It's your only weapon of survival:

Use it:

Let the hand under your dress,

wear gold.

And you'll be that much

ahead of the game:

I'm sorry for you, Papa:

You'll be sorry for me only

if you end up with nothing:

End up on a yacht.

In a villa:

Rejoice for me, Noelle:

Go back to Lanchon:

[Bell Tolling]

[Fathers Voice]

Keep in your head what I've always told you:

You are above the others:

You are a princess:

[Tolling Continues]

[Footsteps Approaching]

Noelle:

[Moans]

[Snoring]

[Horns Honking]

One day I really got to thinking:

"Gee, F:
D: R: Needs my help: Well, I could help him:

I could go to Washington:"

But getting here was so expensive:

I spent all my money:

Living here's even more expensive,

and I don't have any friends or relatives here, so.

Here I am, living in a room at the "Y"

that'd turn a person into an atheist:

It's 50 cents a day,

and the john's in Philadelphia:

Excuse me, but just what kind of job

are you applying for?

Secretarial:
With Fraser & Associates:

It's a very select P: R: Firm:

- Do you think I should

wear my gloves or carry them?

- You seem somewhat, uh, nervous:

Well, I can't type, I can't take dictation,

and I can't handle a switchboard.

And- [Chuckles]

If the meter goes to a dollar I can't pay you:

Why should I be nervous?

I think you should be nervous:

That's the way I see it:

Well:

Thank you:

Is he interviewing secretaries

today or isn't he?

Look, how much longer

do we have to wait?

Mr.:
Burroughs has been delayed:

Just sit down:
He'll get to it:

- [Sighs]

- Yes:

- Good morning:
My name is Cathy A-

- [Intercom Buzzes]

Yes, Mr.:
Fraser:

[Man] Susie, get me Life magazine,

March 13 this year: I need it fast:

- I'm C-

- But, Mr.:
Fraser, that's a back issue:

However, I'll get a messenger

over to the Time-Life bureau:

- They may have to get it from New York:

- [Fraser] Right away, Susie:

Jesus:

Constantin, if you are correct in your

assumption that a war is coming, then l-

I am correct:

Therefore, it is not an assumption:

And it will be a war

that will engulf us all:

My beloved Greece too:

- Unendurable:

- Well, then you're gonna have to

sit it out in Switzerland:

- They're bound to keep out of it:

- [Chuckles]

- You read my mind:

- In any case, if you do decide.

To lend your tanker fleet

either to France or to England-

Bill, please:

I'm lending my fleet for the duration:

No fee, no payment

for ships destroyed:

Good:
Good: That's good, Constantin,

because I can gua-

I can really guarantee it'd get you

all the headlines you want:

I deserve it, and it will be

a pleasant revenge:

Revenge?

Yes:

Against my enemies.

Who say I'm a selfish bastard:

- [Knocks]

- [Laughs] Okay:
Come in:

March 13 issue of Life, Mr.: Fraser:

Oh:
That's good: Good:

Thank you, Susie:

I'm afraid I must be going, Bill:

Some senators are giving

a dinner for me:

Take this with you, Constantin: Look at

the article on Henry Kaiser: You'll see what I mean:

- Thank you:

- Yeah:

Um, I can be reached

at my hotel until this evening:

- After that, I cannot be reached:

- Okay:

- Adio:

- Adio, my friend:

- [Typing]

- [Phone Rings]

Thank you:

- Who's that?

- If you have to ask, go home:

Susie, would you come in, please?

Excuse me:

- Yes, Mr.:
Fraser:

- Congratulations, Susie:

How'd you get

that copy of Life?

One of the girls out there

happened to be going by the desk-

- What girls?

- Mr.:
Burroughs is interviewing secretaries:

And this girl is an applicant

you mean?

- Yes, sir:

- Ah:

- Bring her in:

- Oh, God:
I think I told her to go home:

Excuse me:

- [Typing]

- [Phone Rings]

[Sighs]

Mr.:
Fraser himself wants to see you:

- Oh-

- Come on:

Well, I'm not-

Mr.:
Fraser, this is

the girl who, uh-

- Uh, her name is-

- Cathy Alexander:

Thank you, Susie:

Just happened to have that copy

of Life with you?

- Yes, sir:

- It's six months old:

I'm a slow reader:

How'd you do it?

The barbershop in the lobby:

My father once told me that barbershops

are where all old magazines go to die:

- Are you always so resourceful?

- Yes, sir:

No, sir:
Well, l-

Well, I'm looking for an assistant:

Are you any good with ideas?

Well, I got straight A's

at Northwestern School of Journalism:

- Straight A's?

- Yes, sir:

Hmm:
I'm impressed: However,

the clients we handle-

Oh, I know:
They're the best:

You've got two deposed kings.

Two South American

countries- small, but-

I BM, three senators,

Constantin Demeris-

- Oh, that's who that-

- What?

And special projects

for the government now and then:

I did some homework:

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