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La Condesa
- La Condesa: I'm sure you never have any problems sleeping.
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: No, never.
- La Condesa: Tell me your secret.
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: A clear conscience, of course.
- La Condesa: [sarcastically] That's a neat trick: having a clear conscience when you work as a doctor on a ship which has six hundred people living on an open deck.
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: What are you laughing at?
- La Condesa: My house has been burned, they have taken everything I had - now I am being taken to prison to an island I know nothing about, and you are giving me a Sunday School sermon.
- La Condesa: To think, isn't it wonderful: two strangers on a ship - we will never meet again. We can talk - we can talk like friends, or even lovers... we can talk like two people who meet on the other side of the grave.
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: Keep talking.
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: [looks enchanted] You're so strange. Sometimes you're so bitter, then you're soft and warm like a child.
- La Condesa: [smiles plainly] I'm just a woman
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: What are you laughing at?
- La Condesa: My house has been burned. They've taken everything I had. Now, I'm being taken to prison to an island I know nothing about. And you're giving me a Sunday school sermon.
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: You can put your robe back on, now.
- La Condesa: You gonna help me?
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: Your Doctor may have helped you to often.
- La Condesa: I'm very helpless at this moment.
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: How old are you?
- La Condesa: Old enough, as you can see. Much too old.
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: Forty-five?
- La Condesa: Not *that* old.
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: How old are you?
- La Condesa: Forty-two.
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: Take off your robe.
- La Condesa: You're sure you're the ship's doctor?
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: Oh, I am the ship's doctor.
- [La Condesa removes her robe]
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: Lean forward please. What is it?
- La Condesa: Your hands are cold.
- La Condesa: What about your childhood? Did nothing gay ever happen to you, at all?
- Dr. Wilhelm Schumann: No. I was the perfect dupe. I believed anything anybody told me. I was full of the highest hopes and the most unbelievable innocents. However, it's true, at the age of 12, I did have an experience with the housekeeper. It left an indelible impression on me, shocked my mother to no end, and cost the poor girl her job.
- La Condesa: Well, There is hope for you, after all.
- La Condesa: Did you ever have all the worst possible things that can happen to you, happen? Well, it gives you the most irresponsible feeling. Nothing more can happen.