Thirty Day Princess Page #5

- In the subway.

In the subway?

Yeah, I was broke

and it's warm in the subway.

- Are you hungry?

- Well...

- Well, try a little of that.

- Oh, gee.

Don't eat too fast. You know,

when you haven't eaten in some time...

I'll be all right.

Good.

And now we must do something

about some money for you.

- I'll be all right.

- Don't be foolish.

We always pay for beats

and this is a hummer.

"Star-Express finds missing girl."

- Get me $500, will you?

- Oh, gee, mister, I couldn't take it.

Of course, you'll take it. And now

what are you going to do with it?

I'm going home, back to Idaho,

back to the farm.

I guess I never should've left it.

You're a very sensible girl.

I'll tell you a joke.

He thought you were the Princess.

- The what?

- Never mind.

Here's your money

and good luck to you, my dear.

I hope you find everything

all right down on the farm.

I don't know what to say.

Gee, thanks.

I'll send you a postcard. Thanks.

My reporters are even

going blind on me.

It's the same girl.

Listen, Boss, I'm on the level.

This is the biggest story in years!

- Let me go after it.

- Go ahead.

What can you do

with a man like that?

- And if you're right...

- If I'm right, what?

- I'll make you managing editor.

- Since when is that a reward?

- And you could even have my office.

- Done over in paneled walnut?

You can have it in paneled peanut,

if you like.

Okay!

Definitely.

You may kiss our hand.

You know, the funniest thing

happened today.

A poor little girl came into my office

and one of my reporters

thought it was you.

How funny.

Zizzi!

Zizzi.

Zizzi. Oh, Zizzi.

Zizzi.

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

He say, he suffer great loneliness

since from Taronia she depart.

He get pain in the heart.

He commence to pine himself away.

Royal Highness,

you are surprised, no,

that your fianc, Nicholaus,

is here?

Fianc?

Yes.

Nicholaus, listen to me.

Nicholaus.

While in America, we speak

only English, sweetheart.

Only English, you understand?

It gives us opportunity

for practice.

I speak English so bad. How can we be,

how you say, intimate?

We won't be, Nicholaus.

We just won't be.

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

I have made up my mind,

Nicholaus,

and you know how I am

when I make up the mind.

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

It is no use, Nicholaus.

I pretend I do not understand you.

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

This is terrible.

This is fantastic.

That's a good word for it.

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

Goodbye, Your Highness.

I'm sorry I shan't be able

to stay for tea.

- But, Mr. Madison...

- It was nice to have met you. Goodbye.

NANCY:
But, Porter...

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

Oh, shut up.

Who is that young whippersnapper?

To speak sincerely,

I don't like his face.

You don't like his face?

Well, I don't like yours, sourpuss.

Zizzi. Zizzi.

(SOBBING)

- Sourpuss? What mean sourpuss?

- Who are you?

Me? I'm Sourpuss.

Sourpuss...

Your Highness.

You are not very gracious.

I don't understand

why you came after...

After you ran away this afternoon?

No. After once telling me

there wasn't another man,

when all the time

you were engaged to...

Nicholaus?

You will not believe me,

but Nicholaus means so little in my life

that when you ask me about him,

I forget.

Yes, he do not exist then because

I was thinking only of you.

And now you know why I came here.

To tell you that.

So I can go.

I'm happy now.

I'm not.

Well, I'm not either,

now that I think of it.

Don't tell me that in this day and age

you're going to sacrifice your happiness

for one of those

state marriages?

Zizzi, I love you.

Ever since the first night I met you.

- Me, too.

- Really?

- Of course.

- Then let's run away.

Let's live our lives.

We only get one chance at happiness.

I know, but I can't do it.

Zizzi.

It wouldn't be fair to you.

- How silly.

- No, it isn't.

Don't you see? If I give up my title,

I would be nothing.

You would still be

Porter Madison III.

You wouldn't want

to marry beneath you.

- Darling, I love you.

- And I love you.

- No, please.

- Yes, please.

No, no. I might forget

that I'm a princess.

- I might remember that I...

- That you love me?

Yes, that I remember,

but also I might remember...

Porter, there's something

I've got to tell you.

Tell me only one thing.

That you love me.

No, no. There's something else.

There is.

You don't understand,

and I don't think you would understand.

Try me.

You see...

Oh, my dear. Everything in me

wants to tell you.

Everything in me that loves you

wants you to know.

But, I haven't the right.

- What's all this mystery?

- I should tell you, but I mustn't.

Only this I have told you

and can tell you.

I do love you.

Believe that.

No matter how crazy I talk.

Believe that I love you.

- Are you positive?

- What do you mean, am I positive?

She was the maid who walked in

on the love scene

that I played every night

for eight weeks.

I played a love scene

with a maid every night

for eight months,

and still I was wrong.

Dear friends from New York, I say now,

how you call? Fare thee well.

I thank you again for the courtesy

and friendship you show me

during my stay

in your beautiful city.

What's the big idea?

Is he coming with us?

Over my dead body.

Don't be foolish.

Go on with your speech.

Over my dead body.

And it is with deepest regret

that I depart now

to visit the residue

of your great country.

Over my dead body.

- What do you think you're doing?

- Maybe we see a buffalo.

I need a specimen for my collection.

My collection is really superb now.

I'll bet.

Just before I come over

I shoot some beautiful boars.

- Boars?

- Yes.

- It's lots of fun shooting boars.

- It must be.

- Now listen, Your Highness...

- I tell you, over my dead body.

But, listen...

It's easy for you to talk.

You're not going on this trip.

I'm telling you, one of us gets off.

Board!

Board!

(BELL RINGING)

Listen, I got a great idea.

Come on.

- You're Count Nicholaus, aren't you?

- Yes.

- The Princess' fianc?

- Yes.

Is there something I can do for you,

gentlemen?

Well, we're reporters.

We want to interview you.

- Yes?

- Yes.

- Yes.

- Come, take a seat for yourself.

Have you found that America

has changed the Princess?

- Yes, I have.

- In what way?

In lots of ways. Her voice.

It is not quite the same.

She acts different.

Of course, she never liked me much.

But she never threw me

off no trains.

Well, maybe she's not the same girl.

Maybe she isn't the Princess at all.

Maybe she isn't.

She couldn't be an impostor?

Certainly. That's just what she is.

An impostor.

You knew it all the time.

Didn't you, Count?

Certainly.

But, where is Zizzi?

Say, what happened to that woman

who was kidnapped in Kansas City?

- She's still being held for ransom.

- That's it.

She's being held for ransom.

She's kidnapped.

- This is unspeakable.

- It is. It is.

But, why don't they arrest

the impostor?

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