Three-Cornered Moon Page #8

You see,

l`m going away for

a while with a patient,

and I want you to

keep my room for me,

and l`ll pay you

a couple of months

rent in advance.

Who`s the patient?

A man.

Oh.

Look, if you want to go,

why don`t you just say so?

You don`t have to spare

our feelings by inventing

some cock and bull story.

Don`t you like it here?

Oh, yes, I like it fine.

I`m having a swell time.

But you see,

it makes it rather hard.

Here you are

engaged to Ronald,

and all of us living

here in the same house,

and the minute he steps out,

I start slapping his girl.

It doesn`t seem

quite honorable, somehow.

You`re not leaving

just for that, are you?

Yes. You see, my inhibitions

have been somewhat broken,

and well, you can`t

tell what I may do next!

(BOTH LAUGH)

Well...

DOUGLAS:
No! No! Let go!

EDDlE:
Hurry up!

Come on, stop him!

DOUGLAS:
No!

No, no!

EDDlE:
Don`t let him get away!

Wait a minute.

You can`t go in

looking like that.

Why not?

Let me brush you off.

There. Now, you`re all right.

DOUGLAS:
No! No! No!

KENNETH:
Get him! Get him!

Well!

Hello, Kenneth.

Where have you been?

Why, Ronald!

Have you been

out all night?

Let me tell you

something else!

When l`m a judge,

you can come to me

for all your divorces!

A very pretty speech!

An excellent speech,

delivered with

authority and power!

DRlVER:
Hey, there,

you fellows!

That`s all right, son.

Just skip it!

That`s exactly

the way I felt,

deserted.

Oh, Ronald,

l`m terribly sorry.

I didn`t realize what l

said to you last night

would drive you to...

Well, after all,

you didn`t really

commit suicide, did you?

No. No,

as I stood there last night

on the edge of the river,

I said to myself,

``No, no, I must keep

on living, living!``

Yes. So, what`d you do then?

I turned back to life,

to suffering.

I still have beauty

to bring to the world.

Beauty! Or have you

forgotten what that is?

No. No, darling,

I haven`t forgotten.

But I see beauty in

a lot of things now

that I never noticed before.

A nice, juicy steak,

for instance!

Elizabeth,

do you still love me?

Listen, Ronald,

last night when you

brought me flowers

after Ed fainted,

every bit of love I had

for you just died away.

As if the person

l`d been in love with

had gone up in smoke.

You`re somebody else now,

somebody I don`t need.

Let me tell you something.

You`re somebody I don`t need!

You`ve lost every

trace of sensitivity

you ever had!

You...

Elizabeth!

It`s you that`s

turned her away from me!

If it weren`t for you,

she wouldn`t have

been angry about the job.

Ronald!

Why do you suppose

he took a room here?

To help the family? No!

So he could make love to you!

Didn`t you?

Look here, I wouldn`t

start anything l`d be

sorry for if I were you.

Try to deny that

you`ve been in

each other`s arms!

You`ve kissed her,

haven`t you?

Haven`t you?

If you insist on making a

fool out of yourself you

don`t need any help from me.

But before I go,

I want to tell you something

that`s been on my

mind for a long time.

Elizabeth would make

the greatest mistake

in her life marrying you.

Why, living with you

would be like

living with a sick baby.

He`d make you live on

words and eat flowers.

Elizabeth,

I won`t let you do it!

Do you understand?

You don`t have to

worry about that,

Dr. Stevens,

because l`m not

going to marry Elizabeth.

I`d rather go through

the rest of my life alone

than be like you! I`m through.

Oh. Ronald!

Ronald!

You have no place to go!

Oh, he`ll be all right.

He`s coming over

to finish his

novel at our house.

All right, driver.

(LAUGHlNG)

Has he gone?

Yes, he`s gone.

Good! Come on!

Sit down.

Ronald was right.

I did take a room here

just to be near you,

to see you every day.

I know that now.

(LAUGHlNG)

What`s the matter?

I`m growing hysterical.

You`d better slap me again.

$25.

And $20.

And $6.

Oh, boys, where`s

Ronald and Elizabeth?

You kissed me!

Should I have said

something about it first?

Oh, no! No, l`m so

fed up with talk!

Talk about trees

and sunsets and souls!

They`re so far

removed from real life.

Life is like you, Alan.

It takes hold of you

and slaps you in the face.

I love you.

Just like that.

No similes. No metaphors.

No references to the soul.

You just love me.

That`s marvelous, marvelous!

Come on, that`s big news!

DOUGLAS:
Can you

imagine anybody saying

a thing like that to me?

Boys, we`re going

to be married.

And we`re going to

have 14 children.

And I went up to

him and I told him.

You got to tell them.

Oh, Mother! Mother, listen!

The feather gives

me height, doesn`t it?

Mother, excuse me,

but we`re going

to be married.

Yes, and we

want your consent.

Do you like it?

Oh!

Why, it`s Dr. Stevens!

Elizabeth!

You`re kissing Dr. Stevens!

I thought it was Ronald.

Oh, yesterday it was Ronald.

And today it`s Dr. Stevens.

Yes.

Well, that`s nice.

(SlNGlNG)

Liz loves Dr. Stevens

Liz loves Dr. Stevens

Children! Children!

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