Act 2 Ending Flashcards
1
Julian
Do you see?
J…j…
Oh my god.
Julian.. it’s me Julian…remember me? Surely you remember me.
2.
Julian
Who are you? Who is it?
It’s me Julian. You can’t have forgotten your mother, Julian
3
Julian
Mother?
Come back for you at last.. come to me Julian. Come to your mother. Look into my poor face. What did you do to my face, Julian?
4
Julian
No, mother, no.
Kiss me - Julian. Jooooliiaan.
5
Julian
Mother..
Golly.. you all right?
Hallo. I don’t think we’ve met have we? Jessica Rizzini.
6
Poo
Jessica?
I was Jessica Welles. About 11 years ago I was anyway. Reece’s first wife, you know. Are you Phoebe by any chance? You must be. Super. Sorry. Just a minute. Better let her out poor thing. It’s all right. You’re safe now, Ruella. It’s Jessica. Jessica. Just a second. I’m getting you out of there. Hang on. Just find out how he’s ties this. Oh I see, yes. Simple enough. There you go.
7
Ruella
Ahhh
Poo
No.
Oh, help
8
Poo what did you do that for?
Sorry. She just sort of went. Oh god. Hold on. Hold on to this bedspread. Whatever you do, don’t let go.
9
Poo
Come on let’s try and pull
This is hopeless. Oh my nails.
10
Ruella
In case you’d both forgotten.
Yes we know, we know, we know. All right I’ll do my best.
11
Poo
Ready?
Ready.
12
Poo
Right I’m letting go - now
Ahhhhhh
13
Ruella
What the hell are you playing at woman?
Sorry. I don’t think I can hold this any longer.
14
Ruella
Yes you bloody well can.
What are you doing? I feel like a pedigree Friesian.
15
Poo
And heave and heave and heave
Harold
Now look you left my key I in the lock I
Now heave and heave
16
Poo
Come on! Come on! Put some effort into it.
I’m trying, I’m trying.
17
Poo she’s coming
Harold
Oh my god
Yes
18
Ruella
Close thing.
Yes
19
Ruella
Urgent need of the minibar.
Good idea.
20
Ruella
This is the first mrs. Welles. Jessica Welles.
Jessica Rizzini these days.
21
Ruella
You’ve Remarried?
Yes. In 1983. A couple of years after I left Reece.
22
Ruella
Champagne her. Do we want that?
Perfect.
23
Ruella
What’s your husband do?
Rory? I’m not absolutely sure. But he’s always terribly, terribly busy.
24
Ruella
Was it my note that did it? Is that why you’re here?
Let’s say it sort of clinched things. I suppose if I hadn’t got it, I might have stayed with Reece and..
25
Poo
What was in the note then?
Oh. Don’t you know? Didn’t she tell you? Just a second. It’s inspired.
26
Ruella
You haven’t still got it?
Goes everywhere with me. See? Not to be opened until 22 March 1975.
27
Ruella
You did wait?
With enormous self control. For me.
28
Ruella
And?
And. Congratulations. Yesterday you had your first child, a girl-7lb 5 oz.. 6oz actually.
29
Ruella
Sorry
7lb 5 oz. By now you have almost certainly named her Rachel Louise Elizabeth. Please god you will live to enjoy her.
30
Poo
Proof positive
Well, I think it was the PS about the caesarean that really convinced me, though. Thank you.
31
Ruella
Here’s to life
Life
32
Ruella
It’s also the reason I’m still here
Oh well. One could turn.
33.
Ruella
Lucky you came in when you did.
Well it wasn’t really that lucky. I spent all evening sitting in that store room next door.
34
Ruella
Did you
Spent a small fortune bribing the floor waiter. I sat there waiting to see if Julian turned up.
35
Ruella
You might’ve told us.
Yes, I know it’s awful but -even till just now I wasn’t 100% sure. I mean since you warned me against events that in the end it never happened thank God, because I avoid them, I had no real way of knowing if they ever would have happened anyway. If I hadn’t avoided them. Do you see?
36
Ruella
For gods sake, I predicted your baby.
It could’ve been a lucky guess.
37
Ruella
Lucky guess!
Well, you know.
38
Ruella
So you wanted to make sure he was actually going to push me off the talking before you decided to stop him?
No, I was always going to stop him. And I did. I thought I was rather good. I remembered in the confession he’d said he killed his mother. I thought if I pretended to be her, I might give him a fright.
39
Ruella
A fright?
I remembered he was always pictures of her. terrifying looking woman. like a black widow spider.
40
Ruella
Just a fraction hit or miss?
I did have the gun as well. Just in case.
41
Poo
Gun?
This one. It’s my husband Rory’s. I borrowed it. But I’m not an awfully good shot. I don’t even know if it’s loaded.
42
Ruella
Put it away!
All right. Rory‘s got masses of guns. He adores them. We have guns everywhere. He’s promised to take me out soon, somewhere quiet, teach me to shoot.
43
Ruella
Women that drive men to mud we poor thing.
There’s a huge crows down there now.
44
Ruella we don’t want them looking up here do we?
Oh no. Sorry.
45
Harold
Very nice to see you again mrs. mrs…
Rizzini. Countess Rizzini, actually.
46
Harold
Just one of those nights. Excuse me
What was that all about?
47
Ruella
It’s all past history
Well, thank you for that. Bedtime for me, I think. Get a couple of hours, anyway.. we’re back to Rome in the morning. Ruella, we must meet up. Have lunch together or something. Next time we’re in London.
48
Ruella
I’m as free as a bird
You are going to divorce him then?
49
Ruella
Wouldn’t you?
I did.
50
Ruella
Yes, of course.
Perhaps without Julian, he might be a lot nicer. Now, I mean Julian was a terribly bad influence on Reece, wasn’t he?
51
Ruella
Dreadful
Goodnight, nice to have met you. Perhaps you’d like to have lunch as well.
52
Poo
I’m only about 13 at the moment.
Thirt-? Oh, I see. Yes. Well, no, I don’t see. Not at all. It’s far too complicated for me.
53
Ruella
Is she still in the states.
The states?
54
Ruella
At university?
No, she’s at Cambridge. Surely you knew?
55
Ruella
Cambridge? That’s nice.
Don’t think she’s ever been to the states, actually. Very brainy. Quite alarmingly so. Don’t know where she gets it from.
Night.
