The Three Faces of Eve Page #5

So you don't come with me now,

that's all there is to it, you understand?

I can't help it, Ralph.

OK, if that's the way you want it.

- (knock on door)

- Come in.

Hi.

Where'd you get that dress?

You like it?

- Did you buy that yourself?

- Got a lot of skirt, see?

- I never saw that dress before.

- That's because you've been away.

- Why don't you fix me one of them drinks?

- You kiddin'?

Well, don't you wanna give me one?

Well, I never seen you take a drink before.

There are a lotta things you never seen me

do before. That's no sign I don't do 'em.

Are you gonna fix me one or not?

Don't look like to me

you're awful glad to see me.

After comin' up all of this way, too.

Straight.

- You ain't foolin' me.

- I don't know what you're talkin' about.

- I know what you're tryin' to do.

- What?

You're tryin' to make me think

you're that... that other one.

- What other one?

- You know what I mean.

You mean you don't even know

your own wife when you see her?

You ain't Evie.

You think not?

I never seen Evie do a thing like that

in my whole life before.

- You don't like it?

- That ain't the question.

Come here.

Oh, come on. Sit down.

Oh, come on. l'm not gonna bite ya.

You know, you're real cute.

- What are you up to?

- Well, l'm not up to a thing.

I just said you were cute.

Something wrong with that?

- No, but I...

- You know, I didn't used to go for you.

But you must be gettin' cuter these days,

cos you sure look cute to me now.

Are you really...?

Really what?

l'll be doggoned if I ever saw anything

like this in my whole life before.

You ain't mad, are you?

No, I guess not.

You know what you ought to do?

What?

I think you ought to ask me

to go to Jacksonville with you.

- I don't think so.

- Well, you asked her.

- I don't know if this is the same thing or not.

- You wanted her to go with you, didn't you?

Aah! Oh, oh, oh!

Oh, boy, you work faster

than I thought you did.

l'm gonna tell your wife on you.

What do you mean, my wife?

You are my wife.

That's not what you said a few minutes ago.

You really want to go away with me?

- Maybe. Only not tonight I can't.

- Why not tonight?

Cos I ain't got anything

to wear to Jacksonville.

- We could pick up some things.

- Them ol' tacky things?

This is the only really nice dress I got.

It's gettin' kinda old.

Besides, can't go to Jacksonville

with just one dress, even if it was new.

If I buy you a dress,

will you go away with me?

Maybe. If you buy me a pretty one.

- Will you go now?

- I can't. Stores ain't open now.

- Don't you trust me?

- Sure. I just want the dress first.

OK. Give us a little kiss.

- Does that mean you'll buy me somethin'?

- I told you I would, didn't I?

OK. Butjust a little one.

(squealing)

- Hey, is that what you call a little one?

- Hey.

- What?

- Come here.

I think we'd better get started, don't you?

l'll wait for you in the car.

Don't take too long, though.

- Won't you even sit close to me?

- Mm-mm.

Not until you buy me somethin' pretty.

(sings "I Never Knew")

You didn't have to wait up for me.

Shut that door.

All I was doin'was just dancin'.

Come here.

Come here!

You ain't mad, are you?

Oh, dear God.

Let's not kid ourselves. We're losing.

She's in worse condition today

than when she walked in two years ago.

- The divorce, you mean?

- No, it's more than that.

I don't believe the divorce

actually affected her seriously.

Bonnie's the only thing with her -

not Ralph or marriage.

And that's the discouraging part of it.

The truth is neither Eve Black nor Mrs White

is a satisfactory solution.

Neither of them is really qualified

to fill the role of wife, mother,

or even responsible human being.

A victory for either would be disastrous.

No solution whatever.

And as for memories, infancy, childhood...

Perhaps I should say childhoods - she says

she's been coming out since she was six.

...an empty, almost

abnormally normal history.

- Some patients are really so inconsiderate.

- They are indeed.

It wouldn't have hurt her to have had some

shocking experience when she was little.

Something rather nasty she saw in the attic.

(buzzer)

- Yes?

- Miss Black is here.

- Miss Black?

- Miss Eve Black.

Tell him l'm all dyked out for him.

She's all dressed up for you.

Very pretty, with flowers in her hair.

- Miss Eve Black, in person.

- Want to try hypnosis again?

You mean keep punting

and wait for a fumble?

- How do you do, Miss Black?

- Well, both docs.

You gonna protect him against me?

The way you look this morning,

l'm not so sure he'd want me to.

Well, say, you look pretty sharp yourself,

you know that?

She's your patient, Doctor.

l'm much too old for that sort of thing.

He's pretty cute sometimes, don't you think?

He's a living doll. Will you come in?

Maybe l'd like him better than I do you.

- What's the idea of all this?

- I wouldn't let her come back.

- Why not?

- Cos something's wrong.

- You think so?

- Well, she tried to kill herself last night.

Something's wrong somewhere.

- How did she try to kill herself?

- With a razor blade.

She's feeling awfully low,

and when I got what she had in her mind,

it scared me half to death.

Cos you know, if somebody

didn't stop her, l'd be gone too.

- Go on.

- Well, wasn't anybody else there but me.

So when she went in the bathroom

and she locked the door... Look.

She made one slash and then I got out

and I made her drop the blade and...

I got it and threw it away.

But it was a close call.

- Do you think she meant it?

- I know she meant it.

I wouldn't have meant it.

I might be tryin' to scare somebody

or fool 'em or somethin',

but I wouldn't go that far.

- I understand.

- But she was really levelling.

She really was gonna kill herself

if I hadn't stopped her.

When you said there was

something wrong somewhere,

did you mean something more

than the effort to kill herself?

- I sure did.

- What?

Now l'm havin' blackout spells too.

You mean lapses of time when

you don't remember what's happened?

And let me tell you, it scares me, too.

- May I speak to Mrs White?

- Of course.

Mrs White?

Eve Black tells me you were very low.

Yes, I was.

Would you mind

going under hypnosis again?

If you say so.

All right. Now, relax.

Completely.

When I count to three,

you'll be in a deep hypnotic state.

You understand? All right, now.

One...

Your eyelids are getting heavy.

Very heavy.

Two...

Relax.

Three.

Who are you?

Who do you think?

I have no idea.

May I ask who you are?

I don't know that either.

- Would you excuse me for a minute?

- Certainly.

How's your heart?

Can you take another one?

- You're kidding.

- Come on.

- Do you remember Dr Day?

- How do you do, Doctor?

- How do you do?

- Oh, well, then you must be Doctor...

- Luther.

- Luther. Yes, of course. I should have known.

- You mean you have heard of me?

- Yes, through both Eve White and Eve Black.

Not unfavourably, I trust.

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