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Telephone's ringing. Mason picks up the vase.
Mason: Nobody home. Hallo, no, Mister Capwell is not in. For actually he died this morning in the counting courthouse, yes it was quiet sudden. I'll give your condolences to the family. Thank you. |
| Mary: Mason, have you been running? Mason: All the way home from the Orient Express, four miles! Mary: Why? Mason: While running over I saw an old lady sitting on the bench she'll bet for me Mary: Oh, what happened? Mason: I think I discover a road to instant sobriety if it doesn't kill you. I sweated the entire fifth of gins. Mary: Oh, Mason… Mason: No, it was scotch. Mary: Oh, Mason, I'm sorry, the way I came off before I'm just worried about you Mason: It was a good reason I was falling back on an old friend with the beginning of the classic bench. Mary: You stopped. Mason: Something clicked in my pickled brain. I love you… you and this baby you're carrying are my entire life. So I lost the case, big deal you and that baby are all the matter to me. Mary: I love you too. Mason: Oh, yea…. Mary: Mason, good news. Mason: What? Mary: I think I ‘m gonna be able to speed up the annulment. Mason: Really, how? Mary: Sophia came by and she said that your father is a good friend of Cardinal O'Brien's. Mason: Yea…he is Mary: Isn't it great? Mason: No! Forget it, Mary. Mary: No, because Cardinal O'Brian will be able to convince the council to review my petition earlier Mason: No, no, I won't to my father. Mary: Oh, Mason, we can get married right away, look, all your father can do is to mention that to a Cardinal. Mason: Can we do that without him? Mary: Mason, let your father help this time. Do this for me. Mason: I saw him at the Orient Express a little while ago, you know. Mary: Yea, what happened? Mason: As usual he tried to humiliate me, so I'm not asking for anything. Mary: Well maybe too late because Sophia said she was going to ask him to touch the Cardinal. Mason: Oh, when? Mary: Well today, now I mean, she left in she was on her way to your father house. Mason: I'll go to try to stop her Mary: Oh, Mason! Wait a minute, I come with you. |
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Mason: Dad, where are you? CC: I am here, Mason, what do you want? Mason: Hello, Sophia, would you and Mary mind leaving us alone for a minute? CC: Would you mind not ordering people around in my house? Mason: I'm not ordering people about but I wanna talk to you! Once in your life you gonna listen. CC: All right Mason, what do you have to say? Mason: I suppose Sophia told you about annulment. CC: Yes she did. Mason: And she told you that Mary and I are living together? CC: No, she did not. She managed to leave out that sorry detail. Mason: I'm sober now dad, watch what you are saying. CC: You've come asking me for a favor, you watch what to say. Mason: That wasn't my idea, dad. Do you help Mary with annulment or not? CC: For Mary I just did everything but you just about nothing. Do you see the dilemma? Mason: You know, you don't really love anybody, dad, you don't understand how I feel. CC: Good bye, Mason! Mason: Mary's going to have a baby. It's mine. She and Mark never consummated the marriage. CC:... Mason: It's true. Baby's mine, he or she going to be your grandchild. It means a lot to Mary that we'd be married before the baby's born. CC: Important to Mary or important to you? Don't tell me that you don't care the child is born illegitimate. Mason: what father is. CC: All right, Mason, let's presage, you know that my will says that my first legitimate grandchild if it is a boy will receive the double the state of others to follow so I'm sure that that's why you want the child to be legitimate that's the reason for all this to haste the annulment, to haste to get married, isn't it? Mason: I don't believe you. No, dad, this is for Mary! CC: Oh, God! Why do I believe that? Mason: That's true, I have my word. CC: Your word, Mason, I trust your word as much as I trust two-headed nickel. Mason: All right, I don't want your help. I don't need your help! Just like you thinking about your money! No, I can't hate you anymore, look at you and I don't feel anything at all, I don't feel anything. |
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