Waterloo Bridge Page #6

Oh, I'm terribly sorry.

My train was haIf an hour late.

You know how it is these days.

But I've come straight from Scotland

to keep this appointment...

...so I do hope you'll forgive me.

What shall we have? Tea? Little cakes?

No. No, thank you. I don't think so.

I can't stay very long.

Oh.

Tea for one, then. And some thin toast.

I do hope you're not going

to run off at once.

I've wanted so much to meet you,

but I've been so terribly busy.

I've been turning an old country place

into a rest home for wounded men.

By the way, I telephoned you

from Scotland to the hotel...

...where Roy told me you were staying.

They said you'd gone.

I tried to get in touch

with you through the ballet...

...but they said it had gone to America.

I was about to wire Roy...

...when your note came.

- I have my mail forwarded. There...

There are reasons.

Oh, my dear, I didn't mean to pry.

Forgive me, my dear,

but you're not afraid of me, are you?

I know it is a bit of an ordeal

meeting one's future in-laws.

I remember how I dreaded it.

But I'm not very terrifying, am I?

I know we're going to be good friends.

I feel that I know you already

through Roy's letters.

I want to write him...

...and tell him that you and I have met

and that we like each other very much.

- May I write him that?

- Yes, yes, of course.

I suppose there are things you want

to know about Roy I could tell you.

There are things about him

you could tell me.

Why don't they bring your tea?

They're very slow. Shall I call the waitress?

Don't bother. I'm in no hurry.

Would you rather that I didn't speak

to you about Roy?

No.

No. Why should you think that?

But what is there to say?

Forgive me, my dear,

but are you quite well?

Yes, yes, of course.

I had a drink, that's all.

It made me feel funny.

Queer.

What's it like in Scotland?

I have never been there.

It always sounds so quaint,

you know, the heather and the peat.

(LAUGHS)

Peat comes from Ireland, doesn't it?

I've never been there either.

Why do you stare at me like that?

I'm trying to see you as Roy sees you.

Myra, I want you to remember

that I tried to be your friend.

I've come because Roy wanted me

to come and because I wished to.

Perhaps we'll try again someday.

Perhaps on Roy's next leave,

he'll bring you to the country.

Goodbye, Myra.

The lady is leaving, miss?

Myra?

Myra.

WOMAN:
Who is it?

- Has Miss Lester gone out, Mrs. Clarke?

- What...? What is it?

- Where's Miss Lester?

How should I know? She went out.

- When?

- About an hour ago.

You shouldn't have let her.

She's not well enough to go out,

and a night like this too.

This is a lodging house, Miss Meredith,

not a nursing home.

Myra, where have you been?

Whatever made you go out

on a night like this?

You went and got caught in the rain too.

Now, you come on upstairs

and get into bed.

We spend months trying to build you up

and you go and do a silly thing like this.

I can't trust you out of my sight.

Now, you get those things off.

Double-quick time too.

I'll fix you a hot-water bottle.

- Kitty.

- Yes?

How did the show go tonight?

Oh, same as usual.

Was it a good house?

So-so.

Why?

I went to the theater.

I thought I'd surprise you

by calling for you.

Oh, yes...

(SIGHS)

See, Myra, I didn't want to worry you.

I'm in a different sort of a show

than the one I said I was in.

A cheaper sort of a show, so it's...

Kitty, you haven't got a job at all.

You never did have one.

How have we been living?

What difference does it make

as long as we live?

Where's the money coming from?

Where are you getting it?

Where do you think I've been getting it?

I tried to keep it from you but...

Well, you know now.

You did it for me.

No, I didn't.

I'd have done it anyhow.

(SPEAKING IN FRENCH)

No jobs.

No boys who want to marry you.

Only men who wanna kill a few hours

because they know it may be their last.

Kitty, you did it for me

to buy me food and medicine.

I'd sooner have died.

No, no, you wouldn't.

You think you would, but you wouldn't.

I thought of that...

...but I wasn't brave enough.

I wanted to go on living.

Heaven knows why, but I did,

and so would you.

We're young and it's good to live.

Even the life I'm leading.

Though, God knows it...

I've heard them call it the easiest way.

I wonder who ever thought up

that little phrase.

I know one thing.

It couldn't have been a woman.

I suppose you think...

...I'm dirt.

Oh, Kitty.

(SOBBING)

MAN:

Hello.

A bit of weather we had this evening,

didn't we?

It's cleared up though, nicely after all.

How about a little stroll?

How's luck?

No such thing.

- How's Kitty?

- Oh, about the same as me.

Ah, nowadays, there don't seem to be

no luck for nobody.

Oh, well.

Better days coming, so the song says.

- I hope so. Toodle-oo.

- Bye-bye.

Hello, Myra. How's luck?

I'm not exactly prepared to retire yet.

Well, here they come.

- Cheerio.

- Cheerio.

- Welcome home.

- Thanks, ducky.

ROY:

Myra!

Myra!

Myra.

Myra, I can't believe it.

It is you, isn't it?

- It's really you.

- Oh, Roy.

It's really you.

Oh, darling, let me look at you.

I'm not dreaming, am I?

But think of finding you here,

waiting for me. Why, it's a miracle.

Roy, you... You're alive.

The months I've waited for this moment.

I'd begun to think it would never come.

How'd you know I was coming?

Did you telephone Mother?

Oh, now, darling, none of that.

Chin up. Where's your nerve?

It's over, darling. It's all over.

And we're together for always.

Oh, Roy. You're alive.

Yes, extravagantly.

(SOBS)

Oh, my poor darling.

Come on. We'll go sit down.

Oh, darling, don't cry.

It's a happy ending.

Have you missed me?

Did you think I was...?

Didn't you know I was indestructible?

How could I die when we're engaged?

Did you think I'd break our engagement?

Oh, you don't know me, young woman.

No, I was wounded and somehow

lost my identification disk.

It's a long story. I'll tell you someday.

I was in a German prison camp for a year.

Head wound. Pretty nearly signed off, but

I got out at last and went to Switzerland.

Mother came over, of course,

mines or no mines.

And then I heard that

she'd lost touch with you.

I almost lost my mind.

What happened? Did she find you?

- Did you get in touch with her?

- No.

- Then you didn't know I was coming?

- No.

What were you doing at the station?

Were you looking for a friend?

Yes.

Well, I'm the friend you were looking for.

Who was he? I insist upon knowing.

Who was he?

Oh, it was a girl. No one in particular.

(ROY LAUGHS)

It's a miracle

that I ran into you like this...

...when you were waiting

for no one in particular.

Here we are, good strong tea.

This will buck you up.

Come on, drink this.

I want to talk to you.

I've got a thousand questions.

What have you been up to?

You got a job? Where is it?

What does it pay?

Not that it really matters because

you're quitting it. This instant.

I'm not going to let you out of my sight...

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