The Other Side of Midnight Page #9

we could fly to China:

Special Flight 109, Zurich Tower:

You have emergency clearance:

We will bring you in:

Danke schon:

Jettison fuel:

Make sure we have just enough to get in:

- Hey, now-

- No argument, Paul:

If we pull in there

with our tanks half full.

They'll pull our licenses so fast,

your mustache will fly off:

[Man On Radio] Bringing you in on G: C: A:

We have you on our radar:

Reduce to final approach speed:

Start your descent now.

At 600 feet per minute:

[Rattling]

Check landing gear down and locked:

You are two miles from

touchdown, holding glide path:

You are going below glide path:

Reduce rate of descent:

On the glide path, coming on course:

Two hundred feet

above the glide path:

Take over visually

and land your aircraft:

Nothing:
We're at 60 feet:

Take it back up:

Larry, take it back up!

There's no field, you idiot!

Oh, God in heaven!

Take it up!

Oh, God!

[Tires Screeching]

[Chuckling]

Zurich:

Mm-hmm:

I wouldn't put my dog in here:

This is a mistake:

I'm sorry, sir:
Miss Page requested

the least expensive room for you:

- The other gentleman is on the second floor:

- Where's she staying?

In the Emperor's Suite

on the fifth floor:

She requested you pick up her bags

in the morning at 10:15:

- That'll be it, sir?

- Just about:

Excuse me:

What are you doing here?

Get out:

Get out:

What happens now?

I can have you dismissed:

Perhaps even jailed:

Or I can keep you around.

To amuse me:

Noelle, you knew who I was:

Why have you been doing this to me?

I can get a place for us:

Rafina:

It's a little spot on the Aegean:

Very secluded:

Will you have trouble

getting away from your wife?

She's used to my being away:

Constantin is going

on a business trip:

We'll have a few days together:

Noelle, l-

Be always on your best behavior:

Be courteous

and aware of your place:

Be available when I want you:

Welcome back:

[Footsteps]

[Latch Unlocking]

Cathy, what the hell are you doing

sitting up in the dark?

It was light when I sat down:

Well, you didn't have

to wait up for me:

[Scoffs]

Don't be silly:

When a woman's husband is gone

for four days and nights.

She waits up:

- Did you have a good trip?

- The usual:

Is she still being mean to you?

She's not mean:

She's just a pain in the ass:

Not bad to look at though, eh?

Well, I'd rather look at her

than watch you go to seed:

[Chuckles]

Christ:
Every time I see you,

you've got a glass in your hand:

Why don't you put

the straw in the bottle?

I would, except I'm afraid

it might be the last straw:

Always with the funny lines:

When do they stop?

- [Sighs]

- [Door Closes]

I didn't think it was so funny:

I can leave Demeris:

I know of one who did:

Sarafianos, the singer:

What she did was to tell him:

That gave him time

to find someone else:

Once he did that

and appeared in public with the new one.

Sarafianos was free to leave:

It just had to look

as if it was Demeris who left her:

I can do it, darling:

One month or two,

and you can leave your job:

We'll go away.

Perhaps to the United States:

We can be married there:

Tell her you want a divorce:

- She'll go straight to Demeris:

- Not if you're clever:

- Never, never!

- It's not a marriage anymore!

- It's as much your fault as it is mine!

- Yeah, we make a great team:

I buy the booze, and you drink it:

Larry, we haven't made love in a month!

You don't even touch me:

- If I try to touch you-

- Oh, ho:
Goddamn: Here it comes:

Here it comes:

Jesus:

Okay, look, Larry:

I know you:

I know the way that your mind works:

When you first took me to bed.

I knew you were lying with that

"Here's the window, here's the bed" routine:

But I didn't care because-

because I loved you:

What's your point?

My point is.

You were lying then

and you're lying now:

You slept with her before,

and you are sleeping with her now:

You can't believe

I'd be that stupid:

To make a play for the mistress

of the only man in the world that'll employ me?

- Cathy, put the booze away:

It's drying up your brain:

- No, it's her!

Damn it, it's you!

Face it, it's you!

You can fool yourself, sweetheart,

but please don't try to fool me!

You bastard!

I'll never give you up:

Never:

She's out every day-

beauty salons, exercise classes:

She's determined to remake herself:

I hope you haven't said

anything to encourage her:

I told her it's over:

She just won't accept that:

And so, what happens now?

Have you said anything to Demeris?

No:
I thought we'd better

attend to your divorce first:

Yes, and we will: It's just that

it may take a bit longer than we thought:

How much longer?

Eight years?

I'm not prepared to wait

much longer, darling:

Eight years? It's been-

It's not even two months since we've met-

Constantin will find us out:

You yourself said that Catherine would tell him:

- We must move now:

- If you want me to wring a

divorce out of my wife, I can't:

So either we go on as we're doing,

which is fine with me, or we end it:

It's up to you:

Up to me:

Oh, Noelle- Noelle, I love you:

I always have:

I tried like mad to find you:

And then the war busted loose: The next time

I saw you, I knew it was you immediately, and-

Stop it!

I don't know why you're so anxious to

shake things up:
Right now, we've got it all:

- Why rock the boat?

- Because I don't care for

the role of the other woman:

Fine:
But why all of a sudden

the role of wife?

- 'Cause I've earned it:

- It's not all that special, Noelle:

It's what I want:

You were-

How could I explain it to you?

You were the light, and you took it away:

But I pursued it through the years:

I kept track of every glimmer of it:

I sold myself to keep you

always on the horizon:

Come:
Come:

I want to show you something:

I have a dress:

It's a wedding dress:

A young R:
A: F: Pilot

told me to buy it:

He said he would be back,

that we would get married:

He told me to meet him

at Victor's.

A charming little restaurant

in Montmartre:

Well, my pilot never came back:

Never:

You were the only man

I ever loved.

The only man I ever enjoyed

making love to:

Can you imagine the effect

of it all on a young girl.

Told to buy a wedding dress

and told to wait?

Well, I bought the dress

and I have waited:

And now, I wish

to collect on that promise:

I want my pilot to marry me,

and I want to wear this dress:

Don't you think

I'll make a lovely bride?

Noelle, l-

If you leave me again.

It will be the last time

you leave anywhere:

I will tell Demeris.

Regardless of

the consequences to myself:

I will tell Demeris

of our relationship:

And he has had men

destroyed for less:

Larry, if you believe

nothing else.

Believe that:

[Sighs]

Darling, you said it was up to me.

And it is:

And I intend to have you totally.

As long as we shall live:

[Phone Ringing]

[Ringing Continues]

Coming:
Im coming!

I'm coming! Just a minute!

Hello?

Hi:

I'm fine:

Larry, what's the matter?

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