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Tonight or Never Page #5
- Year:
- 1931
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if they all knew it and accepted it.
It would save tears.
Yes, but I only wanted you.
One at a time, of course.
Oh no, I wanted you, only you.
I couldn't wait to get into my seat at
the opera. I couldn't bear to leave it.
When you first came in here tonight I
hoped for a moment that you had ..
Felt something too, that perhaps
you had caught the spark.
A lot of other men can't take
their eyes off me at the opera.
It doesn't mean anything.
Oh they don't count.
You're a public favorite.
It's their vanity, not love.
Women come after me in droves
but I don't flatter myself that ..
They come after you in droves? Ha. Ha.
Women .. come .. after you .. in droves?
Yes, women come after me in droves.
If you let me tell you why.
I think you're shameless, and brazen.
Just a minute, I will tell you.
No you won't, I won't listen.
I don't want to hear any more
"women come at you in droves".
But I don't want to hear another word.
Not another word, I won't listen to you.
And while I was wondering
how to meet you ..
You came in here and spoiled it all.
Oh I'm .. I'm sorry.
In another minute, I'm going
to take you in my arms.
No, you're not!
Yet I could kill you for coming here.
I want to hunt my women, not
have them come after me.
Oh ..
Oh Nella.
Nella, why did you come here?
Because I was lonely ..
something happened today.
I made up my mind I wanted
to live .. really live.
I wanted to meet someone who ..
who uh .. I thought of you.
So, you came here for no better reason
than curiosity, or to find a lover.
And you thought you'd choose me, huh?
A gigolo .. the Marchesa's gigolo.
Oh, what a thing to do.
Well .. perhaps I wanted a gigolo.
Oh, you did, did you?
Alright then, young lady, you
shan't leave here disappointed.
Oh Jim .. how could you?
Oh, so it's not a gigolo you want?
No, you know I don't.
You were, you were horrible.
The way you grabbed me .. look.
I'll be all marked up, I know I will.
I'll be black and blue and I'm singing
Tosca on Thursday .. half naked.
What a woman.
She's counting the spots.
You like that better?
And this one too.
If you want me to be good,
why don't you help?
No, no .. I'm afraid of you.
I've changed my mind.
I don't want to love a man,
that is I do but ..
You'd get a hold on me and I
shouldn't be able to break it.
Why, I've only known you an hour.
You see what's happened already?
No, you're a man to stay away
from .. now let me get up.
Jim, I really don't
want to get up but ..
I don't want a man who will make me
think as he thinks and do as he does.
And sit by while he lives.
No, I want someone who'll be kind
and sympathetic. A real friend.
No lover was ever a real friend,
that's impossible.
A man who will share my life with me
and have some common interests.
Hmm .. what you want is a piano-player.
No, no, no. I've got one
now, and he's enough.
Really, I'm serious .. I'm in earnest.
Love means .. it means everything to me.
There is no inspiration in my
life. That's what I miss.
But I'm afraid of you. Loving you might
become another kind of slavery.
I'll think it over. Yes, I'd better.
I'll let you know tomorrow.
Oh no.
It's tonight .. or never.
There's the key to the door.
It is three minutes to ten. I'll give
three minutes to make up your mind.
Three minutes to decide something
as important as this? Well, I couldn't.
In three minutes, can send for a taxi.
I'll escort you downstairs, put you in
the car, and you'll never see me again.
But I can't make up my mind in three
minutes .. how impetuous you are!
Please give me a little longer.
If you're here three minutes from now,
you will have to take the consequences.
And what would the consequences be?
You'd be held tight in my arms
and you'd never get out.
Perhaps you had better send for a taxi.
Certainly.
Oh just a minute .. how quick you are?
If I should stay, after all ..
If you should, it would
mean forever to us.
Because I'd never let you go from
me to another man. Think of that.
You do like to bully a woman. You take
an awful lot for granted don't you?
And you're so possessive.
I'm very possessive.
And I adore you.
You don't.
Shall I show you whether I do or not?
No .. no.
Then ..
I'll call a taxi.
Before I go.
Please kiss me .. just once.
Sweetly, tenderly.
As if we really belonged to each other.
Please call a taxi.
It's too late.
Well .. she showed us
today that she can sing!
Yes, I'm glad .. but Professor ..
Remarkable! That's all I can
say .. remarkable .. strange.
Yes, I can't understand it at all.
Why not?
Because she should have
been all tired out .. today.
Why should she?
Oh Professor, I'm so glad you came.
I want to ask you something.
It's very important.
Did Madame wear her emerald
necklace at the matine today?
I didn't notice.
A crowd in the wings, a crowd in her
dressing-room. I couldn't get near her.
I cannot find the emeralds!
Nobody ever sang Tosca so ..
The audience rose at her ..
bravos and tears!
She tore at their hearts .. strange.
That's what it was .. strange.
Something has happened.
Something .. has taught her ..
how to cry .. and overnight.
Yes, sir. Many ladies learn
how to cry .. overnight.
Why? What do you mean?
Madame, she ..
I wonder if I should tell you.
Your mistress has no secrets from me.
Come along now, what is it?
Well then ..
She was out .. all night.
From the German Embassy?
She wasn't there.
Where was she, then?
I don't know.
But she came home at six this
morning. She slept the whole day.
She got up just before the performance.
And Professor ..
She was .. singing .. in the bathtub.
I never heard her do it before.
Stop there.
I don't like that "singing in
the bath" business.
And that's all you know?
And I know that I can't
find the necklace.
Well my girl .. I wouldn't hire you
as a detective. No I would not.
Why, my housekeeper would have
known everything, and more.
I'll see once more in the safe.
Good evening Madame.
Ah .. here you are .. at last!
Seventeen curtain calls.
I'm proud of you.
Aren't you happy?
Of course I'm happy.
It was a wonderful afternoon.
You don't seem at all excited.
When you sang like a lark .. no-one
ever sang Tosca like that before.
Never! Never!
Really?
Never.
Madame .. may I speak?
Of course Conrad.
Your singing today,
pleased me very much.
Conrad! You .. you were at
the opera this afternoon?
Oh surely you didn't listen to me
through the whole of Tosca?
Not all through?
I did Madame.
I was wandering in, back of the scene ..
When I heard Madame's voice ..
Ring out as I have never heard it.
I sat down on a piece
of scenery, to listen.
And Madame may not believe me ..
But at the end of the act, I went to the
front and bought a seat in the balcony.
had the divine spark.
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