Too Many Husbands Page #6

Oh, no, you don't! Give it to me.

Come on. Give it to me.

Dad, say something to me. Say something.

Dad, speak. Say something.

What's going on here?

Vicky! Look!

- Blank!

- Sure! Both pieces were blank!

That's why he made me draw first,

so I'd think he drew the cross.

Oh, Vicky, I couldn't stand the thought

of losing you.

He didn't mean to cheat, Bill.

Did you, Henry?

- I said, what's going on here?

- I'll tell you what's going on.

We agreed to draw lots for your daughter,

to play fair and square,

and this dirty dog cheated!

- You drew lots for my daughter?

- Yes, and he pretended...

- You drew lots?

- Stop shouting!

You were the one who told us

to settle this right away.

Vicky, if you don't make your choice

like an intelligent, civilized...

How can I, when you keep rushing me?

I can't make up my mind

when we we're all together,

with two husbands staring me in the face!

- I can't even think anymore!

- Yes, leave her alone.

- Yes, let her alone.

- Who's talking to you?

I have a right to know

what you are going to do.

I don't know. If I could see

my husbands apart, one at a time...

Like if I went out with Bill

to help him pick a suit...

- Vicky!

- Shut up!

And we'd talk things over

like two normal people, just Bill and I.

Then I'd go to Henry...

- Why?

- You shut up!

I'd go to Henry and we'd do the same thing.

Talk things over, alone.

Then I'd know! That's the way to settle this.

That's the only way,

whether you like it or not!

Oh, Vicky.

- Any objections?

- Well...

Somebody might say

the wrong thing right now.

- I think it's a great idea.

- So do I.

- Don't mind me. I'm only an idiot.

- All right, come on, Henry.

Go upstairs and get dressed,

and go to your office.

I'll see you there

just as soon as I've finished with Bill.

- How long will you be?

- An hour. Maybe a little longer. Now, go on.

Do you mind if I talk while you're thinking?

It won't be loud.

All right.

It starts with I love you,

but you know that.

- Maybe.

- I do, honey. I always did!

- Then why did you leave me?

- Don't say it that way.

I was supposed to be back in a month.

And when I realized I wouldn't,

when I came to on this island...

- With your head in a native girl's lap?

- With my head in a pile of seaweed.

It was terrible.

Did you think about me very much?

All the time. I nearly went mad.

Lying alone at night,

remembering you just as you were

when you kissed me goodbye.

That little blue hat with the feather in it.

Those slippers with no toes, so tiny.

- That fur cape.

- Blue fox.

Yeah, that's what I remembered best.

The last sight of you as I kissed you.

And that was my torture,

wondering if I'd live to kiss you again.

Kiss me.

- Gee!

- My heart, feel it.

It's beating.

- How about yours?

- Mine, too.

Oh, Vicky, wouldn't it be wonderful

if I had never done anything to hurt you?

If I'd just met you and said, "Here's the girl

I've been waiting for all my life!"

Because you are, honey,

and I'll never let you go!

- Gee!

- Do you feel the way I do, Vicky?

The blood pounding in your ears

and your lips dry

- and a million needles in your body?

- Four million.

- We're the ones, aren't we, Vicky?

- I haven't felt like this since...

- You belong with me. Can't you tell?

- You're right. I belong with you.

Oh, Vicky, I'm a bridegroom all over again.

There will have to be dinner tonight

to celebrate.

- Where shall we go?

- Frank's. Remember Frank's?

Do I? That's where we learned

the Lambeth Walk.

- The Lambeth Walk?

- Yes. Don't you remember that...

What's the matter?

That's the dance I learned with Henry.

At Frank's, our place?

Don't say that, dear.

Anyone can go there, even Henry.

You'll tell him you picked me, Vicky.

You can't back down now,

not after you've promised.

Henry's strong.

He can face it. Please, honey.

I'll... I'll tell him.

- Poor Henry.

- Poor Henry.

Not a word? But it's 4:30.

Thank you, Peter.

Hello, dear.

Hello.

- Henry, don't you feel well?

- I'm all right. Don't mind me.

I suppose you have something to tell me?

Yes, dear. Bill and I,

we...

Bought a suit.

- That's nice.

- Gray. Light gray.

I didn't eat. Did you enjoy your lunch?

We ate in a little restaurant off Broadway,

and then we went to Inspiration Point.

It sounds romantic.

Yes, it was. I mean...

I know.

Henry, don't act like this. Please.

How else can I be, sitting here

hour after hour alone, thinking?

- About the linotypers' strike?

- Vicky! About myself.

Well, maybe if you took something, dear.

Get the acid out of your system.

Vicky, I... I wish you all

the happiness in the world.

What do you mean?

Don't misunderstand

why I'm doing this, dear.

The months I've been married to you are

the happiest in my life,

and if I had the opportunity

to live them over,

even knowing they'd be followed

by heartbreak,

I'd come to you once more with all my love.

You're so sweet, Henry.

Yes, I'm sweet. I know, I'm just

a plain, dull, stodgy businessman.

Why should any woman want me?

I married you.

Why?

Well...

How can you ask a thing like that?

See?

And Bill, he's everything a woman loves.

Handsome, reckless, unreliable,

athletic, selfish.

I'm licked, Vicky. There's no use fighting.

I'm going away.

- Well, if that's the way you feel.

- How I feel has nothing to do with it.

Far be it from me

to interfere with your plans.

Go ahead, quit. But what kind of a man

gives up before the fighting starts?

- I haven't a chance.

- Neither did Washington at Valley Forge,

nor Lincoln, nor Fulton,

nor the men who invented the airplane.

Think of their heartbreaks,

struggling against tremendous odds

with the whole world laughing at them.

But they laughed right back and carried on

with every ounce of strength they had.

Day after day, night after night.

On and on until they won!

- I... I shouldn't give up?

- Of course not! Carry on!

Never take no for an answer.

You can't lose if you have the will to win.

The spirit to stay in there and keep fighting

until the last man is downed.

- Are there others?

- I'm speaking theoretically.

Don't quit now!

Don't hang your head and run away.

Fight for the woman you love!

- Darling! You're mine.

- That's the way to talk!

Why, there's only one man for you,

and I'm that man.

- That's it!

- And tonight we celebrate.

- Tonight we tell the world.

- Right.

But who'll tell Bill?

- Oh, Henry. Henry, I...

- Don't worry darling, don't worry.

I'll tell him. Oh, Vicky, do you realize

what you've done for me?

- Yes?

- You've dragged me out

of the mire of despair. Darling,

this is the beginning of a better

and finer life for both of us.

And tonight's the celebration.

- Guess where we celebrate? Guess.

- Henry, I have something I must...

- Frank's.

- Yes, Frank's.

Dinner at Frank's with the most

wonderful woman in the world.

- Poor Bill.

- Yes, poor Bill.

Go the limit, Peter.

Make me something to remember.

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