"What happened yesterday, doesn't happen often," "I met a girl as lovely as dream." "And I love her so!" " Oh my!" " And I love her so!" " Oh my!" " My love for her was so great it turned me into a hooligan." "I whisper in her ear:" "What lovely lips you have!" "And she says:" "Silly fool, why aren't you kissing me?" "And I love her so!" " Oh my!" " And I love her so!" " Oh my!" " My love for her was so great it turned me into a hooligan." "I whisper in her ear:" "What lovely eyes you have!" "Central Film Distributors, Prague presents in the film" "THE LO VES OF A BLONDE" "Story and Screenplay by Script Editor" "Starring" "With" "2nd Unit Director Deputy Head of Production" "Cameraman Make-up" "Properties Wardrobe" "Music by Music recorded by" "Art Director" "Sound Recording" "Film Editor" "Head of Production Team" "Director of Photography" "Directed by" "Creative Team Barrandov Film Studios 1965" "Made at the Barrandov Film Laboratories, Praha" " My love for her was so great it turned me into a hooligan." "God, isn't that just beautiful?" "!" "Will you lend it to me?" " Just for a minute, okay?" " All right." "Is ever so pretty!" "Is it gold?" " Sure it is!" " The real thing?" " What do you think, that he'd give me some fake stuff?" " Let me keep it for a while!" " Did you notice the stone?" "Is a real diamond!" " A real one?" " Yes!" "Look how it sparkles!" " I've never seen a real diamond!" " He told me that." " Ahh." "He's kind, isn't he?" " Ever so kind." " Have you got his photo?" "What colour are his eyes?" " They are sort of..." "I don't really, know, would you believe it?" " Hmmm." "Wait a bit!" " You've got to put it higher!" "See, he's half a head taller!" "'" " I see." " About like this?" " Thas it." "You look great together!" "And what did you give him?" " Nothing, as yet." "Thas dumb, isn't it?" " It is dumb." "You've got to give him something!" " Yes, but what?" "Is this yours?" "Listen, what ïyou think you're doing, hanging things up on the trees?" "You can't do that!" "You can't just hang things up like this!" "You'd beribboned the whole forest!" "I don't think is going to hurt the trees, is it?" " No, but what could happed is that a stag'll be along, he'll see a tie dangling from a tree, get a shock, have you ever seen a stag in shock?" " No." " This is what he does, see!" "Thas a stag in shock." "Did you like it?" " Hmmm." " We could listen to his becking-beecking together some time." "What do you say?" "Well, what do you think?" " I don't know." "Well and he told me all about those animals, see?" "Like that they don't live together doing it all the time, like people do, but the animals only do it once a year." "When is mating-time, see?" "Then they're single again and they just live on their own without any commitments, see?" "Like people." " Hmmm." " Only the wild geese, they're like people, see?" " They are?" " Yes." "They live together for up to a hundred and twenty years..." " They do?" " Isn't that something?" " Hmmm." " And imagine, when they, like when he shoots down either him, see, or her..." " The goose, you mean?" " Yes!" "...then the other one remains alone, even for a hundred years." " And what about Tonda?" " Well... he..." "When we went away, he..." "We left the tie hanging there and..." "When we came back, it was still hanging there." "So I guess he didn't turn up!" " Hmmm." " Are you going to be going out with this one?" " I don't know!" "The trouble is, he's ever so married, see?" " He is?" " Yeah." "All right, but we can't get rid of the feeling, that those people are needed here!" " Yes of course, thas right..." " We need them!" " Yes of course, thas right..." " If the girl has a real reason, like if she has a boy, she'll get married, if..." "...if is serious between them, so she'll marry him, and they might be moving away." "We accept that as a reason!" "But we can't accept such reasons, like that she simply comes up for the third time and every time she says she's going to get married, see?" "And she doesn't get married!" "So I'm in favour of not letting her go for the time being." "If she gets married, well then yes, but afterwards!" "We have to keep in mind that, the factory has to meet the deadlines of the plan!" " Yes!" "But God in heaven, they've also got to live, huh?" "Thas a problem!" "Look here, if we look at the map, then from your point of view is not advantageous to put the army, to have troops here, into this area!" "We understand your reasons..." " Yes, of course." "...we have the same tasks and problem in the army too." " Yes." "You have yours and we have ours." "Look at that!" " Yes." " I don't know." "So that in your case, this is the map." "Thas your standpoint, right?" " Yes." " This is for you." "But what you don't know is, that some two thousand girls live in this area." "Girls who have no boyfriends!" "We have sixteen girls to one boy here!" "Girls..." "Rose-buds!" "Get me?" "Thas youth." "And youth needs what you used to need, comrade Major, and me, and all the others too, see?" " In our youth!" " Thas right, thas right." "Thas it, see?" "So all you have is a map, but I have the lives of all those young people!" "So realize, that considering the girls are working, in this plant, for eight hours, at their machine, then they come out of the factory, so what do they do?" "They go and eat, see?" "And then she has nobody, nobody to stroke her, to kiss her." "So now realize what happens if there's no war for fifty years..." "No war." "Which is what we're all fighting for, you too, comrade Major, you too are fighting for that, see?" "So what if there isn't one..." "Well." "Well, and if there's no war for a hundred years..." " Well, the only way I can answer is," " Yes?" "That I haven't said my last word yet..." " Yes?" "...all I can do is to pass your proposal on, and we shall see what can be done about it." " Well, pass it on..." "But who is on?" "What is on?" "Battalion!" "Follow me, in platoons, platoons three men abreast, line up!" "All the fuss they made about it..." " Yeah, and instead of boys we get reservists..." "And what types..." " Forwards march!" "A bunch of grandfathers." "At ease!" "Sing!" "Left, right!" " Across the burnt earth, over rivers of blood, the revengeful regiment march." "And hearts, law, eternity are on our side, we march forwards like time, like the terrible wall of revenge." "...what a pretty daughter you have!" "You know very well, that I'm after her." "Hey, Mum, give us your blessings!" "For she's a girl made for love!" "Hey, Mum, what a pretty daughter you have!" "You know very well, that I'm after her." "Hey, Mum, give us your blessings!" "For she's a girl made for love!" "Hey, just look at those soldiers opposite!" "Hey, just look at those girls over there, man!" "Heavens, who on earth are they?" "Plain awful!" "Why?" "Are they looking this way?" " Thas right." "All the time." "What if they ask us to dance, girls?" " Oh, come on..." "Well, where is it?" " Why wouldn't it be possible, man?" "You're not ugly!" " But come on!" "Thas not possible!" "No way can I..." " Look here, give it a try, go and ask one of them to dance!" " Well, why not?" " Yeah!" "Look at that, they're after us!" "This is just awful!" "Les get away, girls!" "So don't look their way!" "We just shan't look their way again!" " But we aren't looking that way!" " Yes, you keep looking there!" "Please, Andula, don't keep looking at them!" "And where am I to look, if they're sitting right opposite?" "!" "Look here, don't start, don't force yourself on them!" "Wait till they show how they're inclined!" "What they what they..." " What?" " Don't be so pushy!" "Wait till they come!" "Handsome, isn't he?" "The pianist." "He's handsome, isn't he?" " Hmmm." "Well, so what, boys?" "Damn it, what?" " Oh but what, what... so there!" " Well, so... what?" "Gentlemen, what we need to do is to send them a bottle of wine, see?" " Why?" "Why..." " All right, then." " What?" "Yes!" " Sure, yes!" "Look, girls, they're pointing at us, and the waiter too!" " So let them point!" "What do we care?" " So don't look that way, please!" " Look at them looking at us!" " Well, they can look where they like!" " You know, they're going to think that we..." " Sure they are!" " You're looking that way too!" " I'm not looking at them!" " We're not staring as stupidly as you are!" " Stop it!" "Look!" "He's carrying it over to their table!" " Why doesn't he bring it to us first?" " Sit still now!" "Just sit and don't look that way!" "Karlik!" "Karlik!" "Karlik!" "Only you are, only you are, only you are, only you are, my own girl, just remember, just remember..." " Jesus!" "He's an idiot!" "...only you are, only you are, my very own..." " He botched it up incredibly, man!" " The shithead!" "...just remember the days," " Don't look that way, man!" " When we grazed geese together!" "Only you are, only you are," " Don't laugh, please, at least don't laugh!" " Only you are, only you are, my very own, just remember!" "Just remember the days..." " Really, girls, what a relief." " Me too." " I was getting real scared, they'd bring us that bottle!" "I don't think I'd have survived that!" " Hey, don't even mention such a thing!" " Only you are, only you are, my very own, just remember!" "Look, don't look there now!" "I said, don't look there now!" "Les go away, girls!" " Well, as for me..." "I'd go." "So - get going!" " Les get going!" "Les go, do we go?" " Hmmm." " Well?" "Do we go?" " So les go, come on!" "Come on then!" " I'm not going!" " You must be crazy!" " Why am I crazy?" "We can't march up there like a precession!" " And we're supposed to go, the two of us?" " So just one of you go!" " Wait!" "What do you mean, procession?" "!" " Yeah." " Come on, there's three girls, there's three of us, so what sort of procession's that?" " So bring them over here!" " You're mad!" " Hey, come here, you bring them over, right?" "Either the three of us go, or how..." "Why two?" " And why me, alone?" " Well then, jimminy cricket, so what, so the three of us'll go!" "Thas what I said." "Come on!" " I'm not going!" " We look like fools!" " Come on, then!" "You come on!" " Come on!" "...boys, to bed-y-byes!" "Where can one go, in this place?" " Out, for tea." "Yeah, afternoon, tea, but when you don't feel like going to bed, then where?" "To the park or to the woods!" "Finish that off then!" "Come on!" "My God, the way you hold it!" "Come on, pour it down!" "Down the hatch!" "Is much worse to sip it like this!" "Bottoms up!" "Have some more, Jana!" " I can't!" " Yes you can, you haven't had hardly anything!" "This is good stuff we've ordered!" "Wine is healthy, girls!" "After all..." "When the vine's growing, it draws all possible nourishment from the soil." "All that iron and humidity from the air." "And all that sun than shines on it..." "Thas why is so expensive!" "C'mon, have a drink!" "Properly, like a man!" "To the last drop!" "See, you can do it!" "Now, then, properly!" "Well, it was good, wasn't it?" "Huh?" "Well, and now you, Marie!" "Bottoms up too!" "Come on, down you go, bottoms up!" " I don't want any more!" "I don't want it!" "I don't want to drink this!" "I don't like it." " She doesn't like it..." "Never mind, just drink it down, girl!" "They didn't like it either, and look at them now!" "Drink it up!" " I don't want it!" "I won't drink it!" "So shall we go for a walk?" "What is this, hey!" "Come on, go on playing!" "Go on playing, it was fine!" "Look!" "Come here!" "Yes, you!" "Come here for a minute!" "Oh God, whas the use?" "!" " Les go, huh?" " Look here, les just come to an agreement." "Les go." "We'll drink that bottle of wine somewhere, we'll have some fun... and then..." "Huh?" "If you're not interested, why don't you just tell us and we'll go back to the barracks." "But we'll fight it out here somehow, won't we?" "Andula..." "You can't just sit here, after all, they've starting staring at us!" "Look here, just tell us at last, say we'll go or that we won't go!" "We'll be along in a minute, okay?" "Where are you going?" " We'll be right back!" "I though we'd go somewhere where we could talk a bit, so we make the right setting..." "And then, well then I'm not worried any more, we'll each grab one and..." " Yeah." " What?" " Well, I don't feel like going to the woods, man!" " They didn't mean the woods, surely, les walk in the woods." "Thas what people say, les go to the woods!" "In this weather!" "They sort of think - outdoors, not inside, not in a room." "Or did you think they'd let us enter their hostel?" " Yeah..." "No way, unless we arrive as a military delegation!" "There's no way of getting in there!" " Well you won't be the first to be slipping in there, thas for sure!" " Thas all settled!" "Those girls know the ins and outs, they're sure to know, if they want to, how one gets in, or..." "Where're you going?" "I'm going back to bed." "Why dither about." " Don't be stupid, man!" " Why wait around?" " Sit down and stop it!" " Hmmm." " Listen, can I ask you something?" " Yes." " Have you ever cheated on your wife?" " Why?" " No, not why." "Have you or haven't you?" " Hey, is this a pub or the confessional?" " So what..." "C'mon, say it." "I've been unfaithful or I haven't, there's nothing to it!" "Well, thas different!" "Come on, les go home!" " So why're you being stupid now?" "!" " I'm not being stupid, he's being stupid!" "If he's not made that way then why..." " Sit down!" "Sit down!" "We've still got this here bottle!" " Now he's being stupid, huh?" " Fuck off and sit down, and..." " Why not say it that you're not the type, save me trying to talk you into this, for two whole hours!" " Piss off!" " What a waste of money, that bottle!" " Give him ten crowns, here!" " Are you nuts?" " You're just full of shit!" "This isn't what this is about at all!" "I don't care about money!" " So keep it!" " What I'm mad about is to see you sitting here all this time and not saying a thing, see!" " Stop fucking around, man!" " Keep your money, I don't want it!" " So why're you gassing now?" "You shoulïve said so before!" "You sit here staring at them like silly idiots, I keep pushing you to act and now you suddenly say these stupid things!" "Look here, gentlemen, whas the use of all this?" " Where're you going?" " You're like kids!" "Home!" "What the shis the matter with you?" "You act like bloody teenagers!" " C'mon, les go too!" " This is just no good, honest." " All right, les go!" "You wanted to go, so come on!" " Come on, then!" " So les go!" "But not because of me!" " Jeeze!" " Because of who, then?" " Who was the first to get up, huh?" " What idiots we are!" "Yes, but considering they gave us that bottle, please..." "Can't we just go and talk to them?" " Heavens, no, I'm not going!" "Such old geezers!" "They'll... try and take us to the woods and..." " Hmmm..." "To the woods!" "Are you scared?" " Why would I be scared?" " You probably are, if you say it like that!" "Now then, gentlemen, one more minute and I'm going!" "I don't know, but it looks to me those girls have left." " How's that?" " Just like that!" " But why?" "Why would they go?" "Were they sitting here with us all evening to scoot off now, or what?" "And then, how could they have gone out, I keep looking their way." "Look!" "Go and take a look!" " Where?" " There, thas where they went, thas where!" "I can go and see..." " Yeah, why not?" " Why not?" "Well, what, me..." "Why wouldn't you go?" "You wanted to go their hostel, but you're scared to go in there?" " Thas a difference, a hostel and a ladies' toilet!" "You go, then!" " I'll go, or that bottle we bought them goes wasted!" "See how he can't stop thinking of that bottle?" "What ïyou think you're doing, man?" "Just look at us!" "We're old codgers!" "We've got to spend a bit on..." "I mean you can't expect it for free, hey!" "For free is only at home, though I doubt even that in your case!" "Now then." "Seriously, how about coming upstairs?" "For a little while?" " I..." "I would..." " I'd make you some tea." "Or something?" "Wouldn't you like that?" " I trust you, but..." " But I don't trust you, see?" "!" " Why?" " You aren't just going off to talk!" " Yes we are... we really are only going to talk!" " Oh no you aren't!" " Yes we are." "I'm off, then." " Come up!" "Just for a while!" " No!" " Upstairs!" "We'll really, really only talk there!" " No, I've got to go!" " Come on, just for a moment!" "Come on!" " No!" "Wait, so I'll tell your fortune from your palm, all right?" "Hey there, gentlemen, look at that!" "What?" "Just look!" "Drink up!" "You drink it up too!" "Come on, drink up!" "Take a real drink, man, do I have to make you like those girls?" "Drink it up, pour it down..." "Drink up!" "Take the bottle!" "Les go, gentlemen!" "But you don't have to drink it all, or you'll fall asleep in the woods, afterwards!" "Come on!" "Come on!" " Come on!" " Hmmm!" " Hey!" "High time you're out there!" "Where did you leave Andula?" " She's in there, she's coming!" " Is she?" " Hmmm." " And where is she?" "Where're you going, man?" "!" " Where're you going?" " Whas up?" "I'm going back, to bed, boys!" "Good night, girls!" "Come here, you..." "What do you whispering about, girls?" "Come on, tell us out aloud!" "We're going home too!" "Good night!" " Good night!" " Get going, go!" " Les go!" "Come on, then!" " Go then!" "Both of you!" " Come on!" "Oh... come on!" "This here, this is the line of your is your line." "And here, you see..." " What?" " Your life line." "And here I see that you're going to..." "Here I see, you're in danger, there're some three middle-aged men," "I can see..." "It says here in the woods." "Three of them, on the woods in winter..." " D'you mean those three guys downstairs?" " No, no!" "It doesn't work like that, you see." "I wouldn't know that." "Is just that it would be soon, this..." "Now then, this..." "Damn it!" "But you've got a long life-line, that you have, all the way here!" "And you've got a scar here, haven't you?" " Thas nothing!" " I've got a scar too," "I fell off a tree!" "When I was..." " This isn't from a tree." " It isn't?" "So is it from a stone?" "No?" "Nor from glass?" " Thas from a razor blade." " Did you want to commit suicide?" " Hmmm." "Because of my Mum." "We don't understand each other at all." "She..." " Come to my room!" "Come, you'll sit down, and tell me all about it, won't you?" " No, no, no!" "I'll be going." " So it was because of your mother." " Well, my Dad and me, we understood each other, but they're divorced now..." " Look here, come to my room, come on!" " No, no, no!" " My folks are divorced too!" " I'll have to be going!" " Well and..." "So what happened?" "You cut your?" " Well, I thought, that the artery, you know..." " Yes." "...that this..." "This small vain, the light-coloured one." "Well so I took a razor-blade and I sawed away at it." "One blade broke and so I took the other one, see?" "Well and I started cutting, I sort of nicked it a bit every time and I cried terribly while I was doing it, see?" "Well and all the blood and that..." " Come!" "Come and sit down in my room!" "Come on!" " No!" "No, I'll have to be going!" " Come, I'll show you, I've got a scar here, too!" " No, no, I have to be going!" " Come on!" " No, really!" "Turn the light off!" "Please turn the light off!" "Goodness, where are you?" "But I don't trust you!" "I do trust you..." "I've never trusted anyone as much before, not like this..." "But I keep telling you, at least a hundred times!" " You didn't say it!" " I did!" " No, you didn't!" "I don't have a girl-friend in Prague!" "I don't have a girl-friend in Prague!" "I don't have a girl-friend in Prague!" "I don't have a girl-friend in Prague!" "..." " Enough!" "Thas enough!" " I don't have a girl-friend in Prague!" "I don't have a girl-friend in Prague!" "I don't have a girl-friend in Prague!" "I don't have a girl-friend in Prague!" "..." "Oh shit..." "You're choking me!" " So what!" " I shan't finish telling you!" " What?" " Well, that" "I don't have a girl-friend in Prague!" "I don't have a girl-friend in Prague!" "..." "Les see!" "Bad bug" " Thas from my Mum." " From your Mum?" " Yes!" "You're wearing a ring too!" " Yeah, I got it from my mother too!" " So, see!" "We both have..." " A ring from our mother!" "Why did you say I'm angular?" "Did I say you're angular?" " Yes, thas what you said!" "Well, because you're all angles!" "How's that?" "Well, some women are Curvy, like..." "...like a guitar." "Like this!" "You are, too..." "You're like a guitar too, but one by Picasso." " Who's that?" " A painter." "He's a painter." "He..." "He painted like..." "Like..." "When he painted a woman, he painted her like this, he put an eye here, and maybe and like... he'd put her leg somewhere quite different." "See!" "And here... well, I could tell you lots of pictures about this." "Like..." "Well... well, thas..." "Or he painted fingers like this." " Thas odd!" " Yes, odd!" "But I don't have that, do I?" "Ouch!" "No, you don't!" "And is that good or bad?" " What?" "Well, that..." "I'm like a guitar by that man Picasso?" " Thas good." "Hello!" " Hello!" "Hi!" " Hi!" " Show me your hand!" " Why?" " Just show me your hand!" " But why?" " Where's the ring?" " So I don't wear it any more." """ " So" "I don't wear it any more" "..." Where is it?" " I just don't wear it." " Don't wear it..." "Where is the ring?" " Well, you didn't turn up for over a month, so there!" " Yeah, so I didn't show up for a month..." "But where's that ring now?" "Hey, it was mine, wasn't it?" " Yeah, it is... it is yours, see!" "And where is that ring?" "Where have you got it?" "D'you hear me?" "Where've you got it?" " At the hostel!" " Climb on then and we'll go and pick it up!" "Tonda!" "Andula says to tell you, that she can't give you the ring!" "How's that?" "How come she can't give it to me?" " Because she hasn't got it!" " Look here, hasn't got it..." "Call her!" "Call her to the window!" "Call Andula!" "What ïyou need it for?" " What, what do I need it for?" "Look here, call her!" "Go on and call her!" "Don't bother me!" "Scram!" "And call her!" "Look here, Andula says she can't come." "What ïyou mean, she can't come?" "That she's busy, so there!" " Look here!" "Hey there!" "Hello!" "Come here!" " Get out!" " Come here!" " What do you want?" " Don't be scared!" " Come here!" " What are you looking for here?" " Make him go away, please!" " Will you please get out!" " Couldn't you get out of here?" " What are you doing?" " Get out, please!" " Can you hear?" "!" " Don't be scared!" " Come here!" " Stand still!" " What on earth are you up to?" " What are you doing?" " Get out!" " This is my business!" " Get out!" " This is my business!" " Is our business!" " Be quiet!" " She's our friend, and you're in our room!" " Get up!" "Come on, get up!" "D'you hear me?" "Get up!" "Well, why're you staring at me like that?" "Andula..." "Get up!" " Keep your hands off me, will you!" "I think you're disgusting!" "D'you hear?" "You're horrible, like an animal!" "D'you hear?" "I'm asking you!" "Get out of here!" "I don't want to see you again!" " Girls, look here, you know this thing called a girl's honour, thas not just a phrase." "It exists." "If you treat it this way you can't be surprised that the boys behave badly." "If you go with a different boy every day, well, they tell each other." "Your whole life lies ahead." "And you want to be happy." "You want to marry a nice, kind boy who would love you for the rest of your lives." "But you have to deserve that!" "Think about it!" "I think you should do something about it!" "Now then girls, what the comrade supervisor just told you, well..." "I think that really is worth a thought or two!" "And you should each one of you make a pledge and promise to improve." "Well, I think it would be best if we put it to the vote!" "Who's in favour?" "Thank you." "Who is against the motion?" "Thank you." "Did anyone abstain from voting?" "Are you going to Prague, please?" " Yes." " You'll take me along, won't you?" "When you hear the call across the great pastures, yi pee yi pee yeah, the echo sings a song yi pee yi pee yeah." "When the mists are rolling in the valleys, yi pee yi pee yeah, the boys are coming home!" "When Jimmy mounts his saddle," "I feel hot and cold!" "I can see the rider, flying off on his horse." "Before he disappears beyond the rock, he waves back to me." "Jimmy, boy, I wanna ride with you!" "When you hear the call across the great pastures, yi pee yi pee yeah, the echo sings a song, yi pee yi pee yeah." "When the mists are rolling in the valleys, yi pee yi pee yeah, the boys are coming home!" "Daddy!" "Daddy!" "Daddy!" " What?" " Somebody rang the bell!" " Goodness, who'd be ringing?" "It must have been on television!" "Oh!" "Good evening!" " Good evening!" " Excuse me, does Míla Vaata live here?" " Yes he does, missy." "What do you want?" " Is he at home?" " No, he's not at home." "You know, that..." "And what is it you want of him?" " And could you please tell me, do you know when he'll be home?" " I don't know." "You know how it goes, is never the same." "Sometimes he comes early, sometimes he comes home late." " Do you know where I'd find him?" " Jeeze, I don't, but..." "Mother!" " Whas up?" " Do you know when Mila's coming, or where he's playing?" " I don't know." "He didn't tell me where he's going nor when he's coming!" " Sorry, miss." "Try and find him yourself, maybe." " Hmmm." "Could I please leave my suitcase here?" " Yes, why not." "Leave your suitcase here." " Thank you." "Goodbye!" " Goodbye!" "Good night!" "Who was it, Dad?" "Look here, she arrives like this, at night, late." "And at our place!" "His parents'..." "Did Míla say anything about..." "...expecting her?" " No, I didn't ask him anything." "And so he didn't tell me anything!" " I can't get it out of my head!" "Look here!" "With a suitcase!" "The girl simply turns up..." "Young, isn't she?" " Of course she's young!" " And I haven't been told, that he's got a serious relationship..." " Come on..." "Would you expect the boy to start telling you about his relationships?" "!" "Will you stop watching television all the time?" "!" "I'm really quite..." "My head is full of it and I can't settle down to anything." "Not even the mending, see!" "Is going round and round in my head!" "I fear for him, thas natural." "Is no simple matter!" "In the end he'd go and marry some girl..." "We don't even know where she's from..." "Did she tell you where she's from?" " I didn't ask her." " I should have known!" "We don't even know where she's from and he might have to and marry her!" "You know what such marriages are like!" "They never got to know each other properly, and then they get divorced in six months or so and the marriage is over." "And is the children who suffer!" " But he isn't marrying her yet, come on!" "You go on about marriage and I don't know why you make such a fuss about this, as usual." " This is awful!" "Go and have a look whas inside that suitcase, Dad!" "Heavens, you can't poke about in some stranger's suitcase..." " But maybe we'd get to know something about her!" " Hmmm." "A fat lot you'd learn from a suitcase!" "You should have taken a good look at her, not her suitcase!" " Well it wasn't me who spoke to her, you saw her!" " Oh come on, woman!" "I'm no midwife of someone to go asking her questions as to whas what with the girl!" " But you coulïve had a look!" " I did have a look, but I didn't see anything!" "Anyway, what would I see?" " Oh God." "I really don't know what the outcome of all this will be!" "Look at that, there's someone ringing again!" "Excuse me, but you see downstairs, they've locked the house in the meantime, would you be so kind would you be so kind and come downstairs with me and unlock the front door?" " All right, wait a minute." "I'll go get the keys!" " What is it, Dad?" "Who is it?" " Is that girl!" " What does she want?" " Wants me to unlock the house door for her!" " Now then, wait, this..." "Hey there, miss!" "Hey there!" "Wait!" "Don't run away!" "Don't run away!" "Come in for a minute, there's something I'd like to ask you!" "Come on in!" "Come in!" "Just for a moment..." " Oh no, I..." "I'd better be going!" " Come along in!" "Don't be scared, I shan't hurt you!" "Just for a minute!" " I..." " Come on in!" "Come in!" "There." "I'd like to ask you something!" "Come in!" "Take your coat off!" "My hat, too." "Sit over there!" "Come on!" "Do sit down!" " Sit down, young lady!" "Don't be shy!" "Listen, missy, whas all this?" "Did you and our son Míla have anything arranged?" "Well, he told me to come, but I couldn't come earlier, and so I only came now." "Because I have a job, you see." "I'm surprised that he didn't tell us..." "That you'd be coming here, to our place." "He didn't say a thing, did he Dad?" "Well, he didn't tell me anything, after all, I haven't spoken to him!" " So, you see!" "Well, I'm surprised that you... that you came like this at night with a suitcase..." "Where did you actually meet him?" " Back home, in Zruè!" " You've come all the way from Zruè, then?" "And you met Míla there?" " Hmmm." " Was our Míla in Zruè?" "Yeah, he was, about a week or so ago." " You only know each other for such a short time?" " Hmmm." "A Saturday and a Sunday." "You know our Míla..." "He got the girl where he wanted her and he invited her here." "And what do we do with her here?" "No, he's really nuts, he's mad!" " Yeah, he..." "But is her fault too, a bit!" "She shouldn't have fallen for it, when a boy tells her to come to his place!" "And she arrives at his parents' place at night with a suitcase!" "Did you have any serious reason for this?" " No!" " So what did you imagine?" "You just arrive here with a suitcase..." "Where were you planning to spend the night?" " I don't know yet." " Where did you want to stay the night?" " I don't know." " It is... so..." "Well, thas not sensible at all, to set out for a boy's parents place, where... you only know the boy a week." "Hmmm, the two of you!" "Maybe he just said it without meaning it." "He might just have said come and look me up, or come and see me, and she takes it seriously and here she is!" " But she's only a young girl, heavens!" "So..." " Yes but, just tell me," "I can't get this into my head, where did you mean to spend the night?" "After all, here at our place, that just doesn't come into consideration!" "Dad!" "What do you have to say about that?" " Well, if he's invited her, we'll have to look after her, now!" "Considering he's not at home, see?" "We'll just do something..." "...we can't throw her out or anything..." "So we have to do something about it!" "Oh no we don't." "Just you keep out of it..." "Thas not possible!" "What would people say?" "Have you ever heard of such a thing, a girl comes to see Míla and we have her here to stay the night?" "I don't care, but what would you do then, kick her out into the street or what?" "!" "Surely you wouldn't drive her away?" " Thas none of your business," "I don't know yet, how..." "...how we're going to handle this!" "I just don't like it, this!" "I've always said that boy of our is crazy!" "And now you see what I mean!" " Yes, but you could have told him what to do and what not to do!" "Not to do such a stupid thing!" "But he's never done anything like this to us before!" "After all he's not really old enough to be up to such things, is he?" " Oh all right." "We didn't do such stupid things!" "Listen, you're making such a fuss of this, making a tragedy of it or something!" "Nothing's happened, so whas all this about?" "So we'll make up a bed for the girl or something." "After all, we can't throw her out, I told you that before!" "If he's stupid, what can we do?" "Well, that..." "Ha, tomorrow I'll have it out with him!" "All right." "Is too late now." "He shoulïve known before." "What was I supposed to have told him before?" "When, for Heavens' sake?" "Heavens, considering I didn't know she was coming, or anything!" " No, but that he mustn't do such stupid things!" "This way he'll..." "He'll always tell some girl to come and see him, and she'll pack up in a few days and come here!" "And we can have this sort of thing here any time!" "Hey, I'm not with him, how can I know what he tells girls?" "D'you think that in the old days this would have been possible for me to pack a bag and go to the boy's parents' place?" "Do you realize what it would have meant?" "So was she to have come without a suitcase, considering she travelled from the country?" " Oh well." " Yes." " Instead of to your parents, you go and come here!" "And now you've put us into this situation..." "I just don't know what to do!" "And now imagine, our Míla..." "Well, he makes quite a bit of money." "So that financially..." "...he's quite a good match!" "But thas not all!" "After all, what he needs is a wife who'd look after him a bit, who'd cook everything for him, see!" "After all, he brings in the money, look at our Dad..." "He's been working for thirty years and he's still not making real money," "That... that our Míla makes!" "And look how exhausted he is, poor man!" "Who's this sleeping here?" " You're asking me, who's sleeping here?" "A girl!" "You can see that, can't you?" " Yes, but where's she from?" "What is this?" "What?" " Oh come on, don't play stupid!" "She's come to see you, son!" " She's come to see me?" " She didn't come to see me!" " Which girl?" " Which girl, he asks!" "Take a look at her!" " How can I tell, by her foot or what?" " So turn her about!" " How can I turn her about if she's asleep?" " God, how stupid can you be!" "This is..." " Who asked her here?" " You, surely, didn't you?" " But I'm telling you, that I don't know about it!" " Jesus, a girl wouldn't come marching into my flat just for the fun or it!" "Or what..." " Well, I don't know, but did I invite her, then?" " Look here, don't shout at me!" "Don't shout at me!" "You... idiot!" "A girl comes to look you up and you open your loud mouth at me!" "Surely is you who should know where she's from, huh?" " But I'm telling you, I don't know!" "It was she who said it, wasn't it?" " Damn it, she's from Zruè!" "She was there with you, you played there, didn't you?" " But she couldn't have been there with me, get along with you!" " Look here!" "This was the last time, let me tell you!" "If you do this one more time you'll fly right out of here..." " Look here!" "...right out of my flat!" " Are you sure, she's not some relation of ours?" " Jeeze, am I that stupid?" "We've only got about about three sets of relations, I'd know them, man!" "Stop saying such stupid things!" " Dad, on my word of honour, I didn't invite her here!" "Look, had I invited her here, I'd tell you wouldn't I?" "I'd tell mother too, wouldn't I?" " Oh for Goïs sake, don't try making an idiot of me!" " All right." "So tell me what I'm to do now?" "Tell me what I'm to do?" "Do I throw her out?" " So throw her out!" "So throw her out!" " So I'll throw her out, so there!" "Oh goodness me, hello!" "I didn't recognize you!" "Hello!" " Hello!" " I..." "I wouldn't have recognized you by your hair!" "Come here!" "I didn't know it was you!" "What did your Dad say?" " Oh, he didn't say anything." " He said something!" " He's stupid!" "Are you glad I came?" " Of course I am!" "And when... how..." "I mean..." "How long do you want to stay?" "Is... is odd!" "You never wrote a line and then you turn up here, my folks are all worried..." "You can't do that sort of thing!" "So now you know who she is, right?" "He knows!" "And why didn't you write?" " Well, I meant to write to you, but it it just didn't work out, see?" "I was busy." "What did he say?" " That he doesn't know her!" " And what else?" " That he never asked her to come, see!" "Go to sleep, will you?" "!" " But, but you were talking for so long!" " Yes, we did talk for a long time..." "After all, I had to have a talk with him, didn't I?" "Where've you been?" " Out, playing." " And afterwards?" " Then we went to sit down in a..." "Alone?" " No." "Who with?" " What?" " Who with?" " With..." "With the boys, we went to a pub." " And with who else?" " With the boys!" "This is too much, ïyou think such goings-on are decent?" "!" "You'd like it, missy, I'm sure, but you wouldn't get any sleep here!" "Come with me!" "And don't try to pull away!" " But..." " Come on!" "To our room!" " Don't push me!" " Thall be better!" " Damn it, I'll go myself!" " Come on, then!" "There, now I've got you where I can see you!" "Look here, I can't sleep like this!" " Surely you can stick it for once?" "Can't you?" "!" " Stick out what?" "I'm lying here like on a razor's edge!" " Thas not my fault!" "Where was I to have put him?" " I could have easily stayed there!" " I will show you!" "Won't you?" "I'm not going to support such goings-on!" " Oh, come on!" "What could have happened?" " Sleeping with a girl in your own home?" "!" "No way!" "Thas for sure!" " But!" "Daïll just have to stick it!" " He smells like a whole barrel!" " But..." " Don't breathe at me!" "Is awful!" " At least leave me some blanket!" " Hey, if you were the sort of father you should be, you'd slap his face for coming home so late!" "If he's come in as late as this..." " Jesus!" "Look at that..." " I'm getting under the blankets and thall be that!" " Oh no you don't!" "And don't you ever do this sort of thing again!" "In such... if it were another girl..." " Is it my fault?" "Is it my fault?" " Is all spoilt for me..." "It is!" "You invited her!" " I didn't!" " My whole nice evening's spoilt!" " I didn't invite her here at all, and you know that very well, don't you!" " She wouldn't lie." " Oh, please!" " Please indeed!" " So I will go there..." "...I will go lie down there!" " No!" "Don't you dare!" "I'll slap your face for you!" " Be... be quiet, will you!" " Fuck it all, will you stop shouting?" "!" " Oh shut up..." " How would I know what I did or what..." "I didn't do?" "!" "Oh shit!" " So!" "What a nice thing to hear!" "So what actually do you do when you go out to play?" " I play!" " How come you don't know what..." "...what you did then?" "Do you get that drunk, or what?" " Good God, will you stop squawking, you two!" "For cripe's sake!" " But I have to tell him, off, see?" " Tell him... tell him later!" "This is hell!" "But he deserves having his ears..." " So come and lie down here." "...slapped by you..." " come and lie down," "I'll lie here and thall be that!" "...thas what!" " Do as you like!" " Ouch!" " Don't take up so much room or I'll hit you!" "This is no better..." " Well." "Why do you do such stupid things?" " But I don't do any stupid things." "I've told you... is it my fault that she came?" "Is it my fault?" " Well, you'd asked her to come, she says!" " It doesn't look like it!" " And she arrives with a suitcase..." "What did you have on with her?" " Oh Mum, will you be quiet and..." "Will you be quiet and leave me alone?" "!" " But is true!" "We've got to squeeze up in here all three of us now!" " So I'll go and lie down in there and thas that!" " Don't you dare!" "Am I to support it, you sleeping with her?" "!" " Oh go on!" "I'm not going to sleep with her, I'll go and lie down in the kitchen and I'll have some peace!" " Yeah..." " Look here, I'll grab you and throw you out of our bed!" " I'll be glad to go!" "I will gladly leave!" "And right now!" " Get out then!" "Quick!" " Oh no you don't!" "Who gives orders here?" "You're to sleep right here!" " All right, why..." "...why don't you stop being mad at me!" "I'll go..." " What an idea!" "What would the neighbours say!" " Hmmm." "So I'm completely naked!" "So what!" " You'll drive me mad!" "You wicked boy, you'll have me..." "you'll have me on your conscience!" "You are terrible!" "You'll be the death of me!" " Jesus Christ, will you go to sleep?" "!" " I'd sure like to know who'll do all this for you, some day!" " Please go to sleep, Mum." "I'll wash the dishes for you tomorrow and you leave me in peace now, right?" " I'd sure like to see that!" "Are you comfortable now?" " Oh God, I was practically asleep and you start again..." "Go to sleep, will you please?" "!" "D'you think I can watch all these goings-on without batting an eyelid?" " He swears at me for being beastly to you and he's beastly to you himself!" " Mind you don't get your ears boxed, you!" " He's going to take after you, and do you know that not all men are like that!" " You're driving me up the wall!" "Will you please go to sleep now, both of you?" "!" " Thas exactly what you'd like, huh?" "I'm beside myself what with such an evening," "I have all these worries instead of having a rest on Saturday," "I get these here arguments!" " Will you please be quiet?" "!" "She'll wake up and there'll be trouble!" "Stop it, I..." " What do I care about her, son!" "She's spoilt my whole evening for me!" "So thas great, if he has such lovely parents!" " Yeah." "His Dad is ever so kind, you know." "He's..." "...Well, he's simply kind." "When will you be going there again?" "I'll be going there all the time now!" "THE END"