Episode (1940)

Charles Boyer: Duc de Praslin

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• Duc de Praslin : Why are you smiling? May I share whatever pleases you so?

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : You will think I am very silly, I'm afraid, but standing here like this with the snow falling reminds of something I used to know. Do you remember a little round glass globe that...

  Duc de Praslin : Oh yes, I know, with a snow scene inside. We had a paperweight on a desk at home like that. You shook it and the snow whirled around out from nowhere in a blinding storm.

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Yes, that's exactly what I mean.

  Duc de Praslin : And if you looked closely enough the whole world seemed to be obliberated and shut out.

• Duc de Praslin : Oh, please don't go. Don't even move.

  Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : Why?

  Duc de Praslin : I might say don't move because, as you sit there, the firelight is so beautiful on your hair. I might say don't move because this is All Souls' Day, and you mustn't disturb the spirits. And again, I might say don't move because this is a moment so full of understanding that I can't bear to see it come to an end.

• Duc de Praslin : Will it be any comfort to you to know that when your gone my only happiness will be in knowing I'm sharing your loneliness?

• Henriette Deluzy-Desportes : I can't help but feel this time you'll pay very dearly.

  Duc de Praslin : I always pay. Sometimes I pay most for what I never had. It is not unfair that for a few days I've had what I can never pay for.

• Duchesse de Praslin : Don't leave me, Theo!

  Duc de Praslin : I'm late in Paris.

  Duchesse de Praslin : But... I must talk to you! I never see you!

  Duc de Praslin : The king expects me.

  Duchesse de Praslin : [She grabs for his hands and he pulls it away]  Does even the touch of my hands feel you with aversion?

  Duc de Praslin : Oh, really, Francoise...

  Duchesse de Praslin : It must be aversion you feel, since you always avoid me, never giving me a moment's thought or attention!

  Duc de Praslin : I have no wish to avoid you Francoise. I would talk to you by the hour if we could do so with calmness and sanity, but it always ends the same.

  [He begins walking out] 

  Duchesse de Praslin : Wait! Theo! Wait! Oh, how cruel you are, my darling! Take the children! Take them! I care nothing about them, about anyone but you! Theo! If I promise never again to torment you with my anger, with my unreasoning mistrust... Theo!

  Duc de Praslin : You don't know what you're saying.

  Duchesse de Praslin : Theo! Theo! Come back! Theo I beg you! Oh, Theo come back!

  [She sees he is already gone and becomes hysterical] 

  Duchesse de Praslin : I hate you! I loathe you! You're wicked! Wicked! Wicked!

• Duc de Praslin : May I have Pierre come for your luggage?

  Duchesse de Praslin : Theo, last night I poured my heart out to you in a letter. I crept to your doorway which I am foridden to enter and stooped in humility and pushed it under the seal!

  Duc de Praslin : I received it, Francoise.

  Duchesse de Praslin : But look! You didn't even open it! Oh Theo, do you suppose this empty pretense is what I hoped for? Last night I begged for you to come to me! I hoped we might start this journey today united as we once were! Theo, Theo! Have you completely forgotten the life we once shared together?

  Duc de Praslin : If you're unhappy, Francoise, I am truly sorry, but I swear I never intended you a minute's pain.

  Duchesse de Praslin : Oh no! You only say that! In reality you delight in torturing me! As one day, heaven willing, I will torture you!