You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger Page #10

- Cristal said...

- I don't care what Cristal said!

I can't!

She's a fraud!

Do you hear what you're saying?

She's a fake fortune teller!

There's no such thing

as predicting the future!

Are you mad?

You've always been her greatest supporter.

I was only saying those things

just to keep you happy,

to keep you from harming yourself!

She's a blatant, conniving little fraud!

You sound like your ex.

Darling, I know you've been through

the most horrible breakup.

I have to have that money.

Not now.

Cristal says no.

You idiot! You poor, pathetic,

gullible imbecile!

Don't you see? She just tells you

what you want to hear,

and then robs you of your money!

Darling, if I give you the money now,

it would be bad luck, she said,

for you as well as me.

You crazy imbecile!

I need that loan, you lunatic!

I'm doing this for your own good.

Cristal has the power of prophecy.

Come on, Henry, wake up, mate.

We know you're faking it.

We really miss you at the poker game, Henry.

We found a really nice girl for you,

didn't we, lads?

She's right up your street,

she's got the overbite and everything.

Are you hearing us, Henry?

I know you can hear us.

If you can understand us,

wiggle your fingers

or make a fist.

Blink. We'll take anything, right, Roy?

Listen, Roy's written a book.

It's about a child pornographer in Belfast.

You want to get yourself well to read it.

It's got bestseller written all over it.

He's blinking.

Is he blinking? I can't tell.

Blink twice if you understand me, Henry.

The doctor said he was optimistic.

Talk to him, Roy.

Blink if you can hear us, Henry.

Can you hear us?

He's blinking. It's very faint.

Do it again! See?

- He understands. He definitely understands.

- There.

That head neurologist said it all had to do

with the portion of the brain affected.

He's convinced

Henry's going to come out of it.

That'd be marvelous.

Hey, if you've got the time,

you should come in

and read him your new book.

- Henry.

- I know he can understand.

- Henry!

- Do it again, Henry. Blink again!

I contacted Claire, put the question to her,

and she said there'd be no problem

if you were to become

the second Mrs. Wunch.

She said that?

She rapped twice for no when I asked

if she'd mind if I married you.

You always said

she was an understanding woman.

I'm not sure she didn't exist

once as royalty.

It's so comforting to know

we live over and over again.

If only I could convince Alfie,

he'd be so much happier.

Yes.

It's time to close the book...

on our little tale of sound and fury,

signifying nothing.

And one has to wonder,

given all of life's uncertainty and pain,

how do we get through it?

Well, as Sally told Roy,

sometimes the illusions

work better than the medicine.

I was a peasant, just a simple peasant,

but you, you were something very special.

Sometimes my intuition makes me think

that you might have lived before...

as Cleopatra or Joan ofArc.

Cristal Delgiorno's confirmed

that I lived before,

and I've always had a particular fondness

for everything French.

So, I'm inclined to think

you may be right about Joan ofArc.

Sometimes I have memories of my past lives.

Do you?

I do. Yes.

In France.

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