The Women Page #6

Don't go too far. I'm gonna need you.

No problem, Ms. Allen.

Okay, wow, is this just too much?

I mean...

No, it's... I think I'll go out,

and just get some other options, huh?

Is there a mirror with better light?

- Yes.

Out here in the hall.

But you probably don't wanna go...

I'm not shy.

Hmm.

I've got to say, you're my first customer

who's had the courage to try that on.

Do you have those cutlet things?

- You know, I need some lift.

- Oh, yeah.

I think I have to take this.

How much money is it?

It's Italian handmade lace.

That's why it's $650.

Does it come in any other colors?

- Champagne.

Ah. I love champagne.

I'll take it in a champagne as well.

Will that be cash or charge?

You take personal checks?

No, but I'd be happy

to open up a store charge.

It only takes a few minutes

to do a credit check.

Credit check.

I don't have time for a credit check.

Hey, what if I gave you the number

of someone who does have a credit card?

And I'm sure if you called him,

he'd be happy to give it to you.

We can try that.

- What's the gentleman's name?

- Stephen Haines.

He's a friend of the family.

Mrs. Haines is a client of ours.

In fact, she's in the dressing room

right across the hall.

Would you like me

to have her approve this for you?

No.

No, no, no.

Um, you see, I don't think

that would be in very good taste.

You see, I'm relatively new in town,

and I haven't had the pleasure...

...of meeting Mrs. Haines yet.

I would hate for this

to be our first introduction.

I'm sure you understand.

I do understand.

- I'll phone Mr. Haines.

- Thanks, sweetie.

Oh. You don't think it's flattering?

- Is that what you're thinking?

- Mary.

She's here,

in the dressing room across the hall.

Crystal Allen.

What?

- How do you know?

- I saw her talking to the saleswoman.

She's spending a fortune, and, Mary,

she's putting it on Stephen's account.

Oh, that's not true.

If he's paying her bills, Mary,

it means he's still involved with her.

Well, I'm just gonna go home.

Can you just help me out?

Are you leaving?

- Help me off...

Mary, go in there.

- Help me off with this thing.

You've been running away

from this whole thing.

- What are you afraid of?

- Of being made a bigger fool, Sylvie.

Listen to me, that woman is working

her way into another person's life...

...and it happens to be yours.

And if you don't stand up to her

and face her...

...it's a matter of time before she's

carving the pumpkin with your daughter.

Now, I'm giving you permission

to behave badly.

You go in there and kick her ass.

- Go on.

- Okay.

- I'll be your cornerman, you just go.

- Go.

Go.

Go on.

- You can do it.

- Okay, I can't.

- Go.

- I can't do it.

Oh, sh*t.

- Excuse me?

- Are you kidding me?

- Excuse me?

- Are you...?

I'm Mary Haines.

Right, um.

Well, this is awkward.

- I guess he finally told you.

- No, no, no.

He never mentioned you,

but I've known about you.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- I'm surprised I haven't heard from you.

- Well, it's not my style.

But since you were in the vicinity,

I thought I'd introduce myself.

Um, look, Mrs. Haines, I am really sorry

for what this has done to you.

And I know Stephen

never meant to hurt you.

What? You don't know anything

about my husband.

I do know that a woman never steals

another woman's husband.

They usually go willingly.

Well, it sounds like you have

a lot of experience in that area.

You know, Stephen is a very smart man.

He's just way too smart

to take someone like you seriously.

I mean...

Mrs. Haines,

I know so many women like you.

You have your fancy friends

and your nice houses...

...your calendars are full of social events

and shopping dates and charity lunches...

...to make you feel like you're

doing something with your lives.

But eventually,

you stop paying attention to your men.

They get lonely.

And they come looking for someone

who makes them feel appreciated again.

And believe me,

they take that very, very seriously.

You know, I came in here with...

...I admit, just a ridiculous idea

that if you and I ever met...

...and you saw

that I was an actual human being...

...and not just some stray thought

out in Connecticut...

...that you might actually feel

a little bit of remorse.

One woman having that transcendent

moment of connect with another.

And that you might realize the scope

of the damage that you've done...

...not just to me, but to a family.

I have no idea what you just said.

I know, yeah. So I'm gonna put this

in terms that you can understand.

You are gonna stop seeing my husband.

I guess that's up to him, isn't it?

Listen, let me give you

a little bit of a tip.

Stephen...

Stephen would never like anything

that, uh, trashy.

Well, if Stephen doesn't like

anything I'm wearing, I take it off.

You were great, Mary.

Get me out of here.

Who are you, Stephen?

- Tell me, what's going on?

- Oh, she is really giving it to him.

And he is not saying much,

because, really, I mean...

...what could this cheating,

lying bastard say?

What else? What else?

Oh, so they argue some more,

and then Mary gets very quiet...

...and she says,

"Stephen, do you wanna be with her?"

- Oh, good move.

- Yeah.

Force his hand.

And he says, "Mary, I love you. "

Oh, yeah. Oh, please, predictable.

But I think Mary started listening to him.

So he keeps talking.

He says he never meant

for the affair to turn into anything.

And he tried to end it more than once.

Men get themselves into things,

then they don't know how to get out of it.

But here's

where he makes his big mistake.

He says he kept seeing Crystal

because he felt she got dependent on him.

- And that he didn't wanna hurt her.

- Hurt her?

That's exactly what Mary said,

then she makes her big mistake.

She says, "How could you not see

that she's just after your money?"

Oh, she blew it.

The last thing a man wants to hear is that

his wife is the only one stupid enough...

...to love him for himself.

Nobody knows how to argue.

I should run a school.

So now he asks her the big question.

Is there any way they can put it all

back together again?

You should have heard him.

It would have broke your heart.

Oh, who cares?

Do we still have jobs or not?

Mary said she wants a divorce.

- What did he say?

- He says...

...he'd wish she'd take some time

and think it over.

And that he would spend

the night at a hotel.

- What did she say?

- She threw her wedding band at him.

Oh, that's bad.

- Oh, that's very bad.

- Yeah.

Where the hell's my address book?

I have a woman who keeps offering me

a job. Barbara somebody.

What are you doing?

You can't desert them now.

Oh, my God. Shh.

I hear something.

That's it.

We're on a sinking ship, Uta.

I have a cardinal rule.

Never get attached to the family.

This is exactly why.

And that, Uta, is why the revolutionaries

threw tea into Boston Harbor.

I need to eat something.

That's low-fat, low-carb, fat-free...

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