Waterloo Bridge Page #7

...not till we're married.

You understand that?

You've been through a lot, haven't you?

It has been...

- It's been...

- Pretty tough, eh?

And I wasn't there to help you.

But that's all over now.

I'm going to make it up to you.

I'm going to make things easy for you.

I never want to see you cry again...

...except with happiness.

If only I'd known you were alive,

that you were in the world.

I'll never leave you again, darling. Never.

Now, Miss Lester, I have a program.

I'm a man with a program,

a man of action.

I'm phoning my mother that I found you

and we're coming up on the evening train.

Excuse me while I find a phone.

Don't you move until I come back to you.

- We'll be up on the nine-six.

- I must speak to you.

- There's something I must say.

- Will you?

Ha, ha, that'll be marvelous.

Thanks, Mother. Goodbye.

- Well, that's that.

- Roy, you must listen to me.

Myra, what is it?

I can't go to the country with you.

It's quite out of the question.

- Why not?

- Please don't ask me, but I simply can't.

But I've got to ask

and you've got to tell me.

Oh, I look terrible, for one thing.

I haven't any clothes and l...

- Well, I really can't go anywhere.

- Ha, ha. Oh, you little fool.

Let me have a squint at you.

I think you exaggerate.

Now that I look at you,

there's something in what you say.

Well, Madame Cronin-to-be,

we'll see what we can do.

How would you like to be

the smartest woman in London?

No, Roy, I can't.

Myra, darling.

I'm afraid I've been stupid.

Conceited and stupid.

Because you've never been

out of my thoughts...

...I took it for granted

that it was the same with you.

There's someone else, isn't there, Myra?

After all, you thought me dead.

There is someone else, isn't there?

Don't be afraid. Tell me.

Oh, Roy, of course

there isn't anyone else.

There couldn't be.

I loved you.

I've never loved anyone else.

I never shall.

That's the truth, Roy.

That's all I wanted to know.

Oh, darling, smile for a change.

Have you forgotten how?

That's a good girl.

I can't believe I'm with you again.

But you are.

- Happy?

- Yes.

Personally, I'm delirious.

Come on, we're going shopping.

KITTY:

Myra.

Well, what's all this?

Have you taken to shoplifting?

Oh, Kitty, darling. Roy's alive.

He's back. He's here.

- Roy?

- Mm-hm.

- No.

- Yes, he's back.

We've been together the whole afternoon.

He'll be here any minute.

Kitty...

...he wants to marry me.

- Oh, no. Such things don't happen.

- It's true.

Oh, Kitty, it's going to be so wonderful,

for you too.

Nothing will be too good for you

when I'm Roy's wife.

Oh, I know what you're thinking.

I've been thinking too.

You think that'd be

dreadful of me, don't you?

- Does he know?

- No.

Do you think you can get away with it?

- You mean deceiving him?

- Yes.

Oh, I'm going to tell him.

There are two sorts of people, Myra.

Those who get the breaks

and those who don't.

Well, I'm getting the breaks now,

and I'm not going to sink.

You remember you once said

that you wanted to live?

Well, I want to live.

This is my chance for life

and I won't let him go.

He's so kind, Kitty,

so sweet and clean and wonderful.

I'll devote myseIf to him.

After all, it's his happiness too,

Kitty. He...

He loves me. He's waited for me.

And in my soul, I've waited for him.

Tell me I can go to him. Please, Kitty.

(SIGHS)

Guess there are no rules, Myra...

...for what you feel...

...and what he feels.

Kitty.

After all, if he's...

...mad enough about you,

it may make up for everything.

It must. It must.

Well, try it.

Go to him.

Oh, Kitty.

The ancestral acres. Shall I

point out the things we're proudest of...

...no matter how boring?

- Oh, it's beautiful. Simply beautiful.

Mother will take you all over.

You mustn't tell her I showed you.

See it first with her.

- Be enthusiastic too.

- That won't be difficult.

It must be wonderful to spend

one's childhood in a place like this.

Yes, it's great when you're young.

- When you're really young.

- Oh, Roy.

Do you think of yourseIf as old?

No one who's been in this war is young.

No, that's true.

Remember Longfellow's line?

" The thoughts of youth

are long, long thoughts. "

- Myra.

- Yes, Roy?

We're awfully good together,

don't you think?

R.S.V.P. I mean, that was a question.

It requires an answer. Yes or no?

Yes.

Your answer is correct.

Our home, darling.

- Mother.

- Oh!

Myra, I'm so glad to see you again,

my dear.

Isn't it wonderful,

Roy finding you so quickly?

- I believe there's providence in it.

ROY:
I'm sure of it.

You're very kind, Lady Margaret.

Roy, I do hope you

haven't shown Myra anything.

I want to show her round myseIf.

- I didn't show her a thing.

MARGARET:
Good.

Come. Oh, I'm so happy.

- Hello, Barnes.

- Oh, Mr. Roy, do excuse me.

I've been waiting all afternoon

for the dogcart, and then I missed it.

Just at the crucial moment,

as you might say.

I missed my welcoming committee.

Wanted to impress Miss Lester.

However, this is my future wife, Barnes.

Myra, this is Barnes.

- How do you do?

- How do you do?

Brought me up from a baby.

- Tell you all about it in detail.

- I'd love to hear about it.

Well, he gave us an awful lot of trouble,

Miss Lester.

He wasn't what you would call

a good child...

...but you couldn't resist him.

One day he jumped from a treetop.

ROY:
I've told her about that, Barnes.

You fish up something new.

- Yes, sir.

ROY:
Come, Mother.

- What about showing Myra to her room?

- Oh, Roy, I forgot.

- I'm afraid we're going to be invaded.

- Invaded?

The neighbors.

I did my best to spare you...

...but the whole countryside is coming in

tonight to see you and your bride.

Ha, ha, oh, poor Myra.

She's going to see some wonderful types.

(ALL LAUGH)

(BAND PLAYING WALTZ)

They do look well together, don't they?

She's a lovely girl. Perfectly lovely.

I suppose very soon...

...these two young people

will be paying me a professional visit.

Tomorrow morning, I expect.

Roy's madly in love.

- Jealous?

- A little.

- But you like her, don't you?

- Very much.

More every minute.

She dances beautifully, doesn't she?

Well, that's her job.

Those Cronin men, they're always attracted

by girls who undress in public.

Why don't you try it, Viola?

Oh, I haven't the nerve.

I'm not quite sure that I've got the figure.

(GIRLS LAUGH)

All I can say is,

there are plenty of charming girls...

...of good family in the county

who would have jumped at Roy...

...and I don't mean my niece, Victoria.

I wonder if she can ride.

Who's ever heard of her?

Has anyone ever seen her dance?

Well, evidently, Roy's seen her

and evidently liked it.

You'll notice the duke isn't here.

Evidently, the duke doesn't like it.

- Happy?

- Yes.

- Completely?

- Yes.

- Ecstatically?

- Yes.

- No doubts?

- No.

- No reservations?

- No.

- No defeatism?

- No.

Darling, every once in a while,

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