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Scene Twenty – The Airport

 

Alicia (voice-over): I’m sorry I didn’t see you off. Too much happened in too short a time, and I don’t know how to feel. Without reflecting on the situation, I swallow my pride, and in the end your leaving for America really is painful to me. So that’s how things are, and I don’t think I could bear to see you off. But there is one more thing that’s been made perfectly clear to me. And that is that I don’t want to continue living as I have up until now. I think I shall set out once more to find a new life for myself…..

 

Renhart is reading Alicia’s letter when Troilo comes up beside him.

 

Troilo: Got them, got them, got them!

 

Renhart: Ah, what’s up?

 

Troilo: I’ve found them.

 

Renhart: Eh?

 

Troilo: The jewels! Afterwards I went over the pawn shops with a fine-toothed comb, and we got them! They were in the 23rd one.

 

Renhart: Ohhh?

 

Troilo: What, I thought you’d be more surprised. Did your end go well?

 

Renhart: I suppose so.

 

Troilo: Tell me, will you. What on earth was it all about?

 

Renhart: I contributed to world peace.

 

Troilo: You’re pulling my leg?

 

Renhart: Well, that’s what it’s been called.

 

Troilo: Really? Will you get a medal or anything?

 

Renhart: Naw, I’ll just give evidence.

 

Troilo: That kind of thing?

 

Renhart: That kind of thing.

 

Troilo: You’re coming back, right?

 

Renhart: …I’m not sure.

 

Troilo: About what?

 

Renhart: Should I begin, or should I keep on living in comfort?

 

Troilo: What?

 

Renhart: Ah, never mind me. Woah, I have to get going.

 

Troilo: Come back! Because I’ll be waiting. We’ll kick back and have a drink.

 

Alicia (voice-over): When I think of it, after I returned to the abbey when my father died, I was afraid of beginning. My life is simply holding on to the diluted pain. I suppose for me, in that condition, the abbey was an ideal world. But there are still so many things that need doing in this country. Of course looking after the orphans is still one of those things. But I think there are definitely things which you can’t see if you don’t try to live among all the people. I’m leaving the abbey. And I’m going to live a full life, as a woman. One of these days, no matter in what form, I look forward to seeing you again.

 

As the words continue, Alicia appears. She is in the tanguera once more, dancing.

 

Scene Twenty-One – The Tanguera

 

Renhart appears. Alicia stops dancing.

 

Alicia: You’ve come back?

 

Renhart: That’s right.

 

Alicia: You’ll go to America again?

 

Renhart: Often, but for now I’m employed by this embassy.

 

Alicia: ……..

 

Renhart: So next time, come see me off.

 

Alicia: And the time after that?



 

Renhart: Mm.

 

Alicia: And after that, forever?

 

Renhart: Let’s begin again. Let’s go back to when we first met here.

 

Alicia: Yes.

 

Renhart: A new life, together.

 

Alicia: Can you dance the tango? Jay?

 

They dance.


Date: 2015-02-16; view: 1139


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