"IT'S LOVE TIME" "It was a marvellous idea coming here for the weekend." " I'm sure we shall enjoy ourselves." " I like the island in the autumn." " Is there a keeper in this house Meral?" " No, we don't have one." "I think there's someone here." "How strange!" "There shouldn't someone here." "I'm too scared to find out." "Let's stay here." "I'm too scared too." "All right, I'll go and look." "I'm not a thief." " What are you doing here?" " Nothing." "I'm not doing anything." "For how long have you been coming here?" "Everyday for a few months now." "But what do you do here?" " Do you want to go?" " Yes." "My friends are downstairs." "I suppose you don't want them to see you." "Yes." "You can go now if you like." "But one more question." "Who are you?" "What do you do for a living?" "I'm a house painter." "I paint the interior decorations." "I've been working in Ahmet Bey's house next door." "Last year we painted this house." "All right you can go now." "Well you finally met the original of the picture, is she as pretty?" "She's pretty of course." "Far prettier than her picture." "What will happen now?" "You won't be able to go there anymore." "They don't spend the whole winter on the island." "She didn't realize that you had fallen in love with her picture, did she?" "Maybe she did." "I don't know." "Welcome." "You're probably Miss Meral?" " I'm looking for Halil." " He went shopping." "But he should be back anytime now." "You've chosen very pleasant colors." "We painted the interior of your house too." "That's when Halil fall in love with your picture." "He fell in love with my picture?" "How can one fall in love with a picture?" "It doesn't happen in our day and age." "Just like in legends." "Look Miss, I never repeat myself and I never say things I don't mean." "Halil fell in love with you a year ago." "He fell in love very deeply." "He must have gone to winter garden." "So you've been coming here for months on end, just to look at my picture." "Well, why don't you answer me?" "Or are you afraid of the truth?" "Mustafa has told you what you want to know." "I want you to tell me yourself." "It's my right to learn something concerning myself." "No." "This doesn't concern you." "My feelings towards your picture are none of your business." "It's your picture I love." "But that picture is a photograph of me and I'm here in front of you." "I'm ready to hear what you have to say for yourself." "But you're not your picture." "Your picture is part of my world." "I know your picture, not you." "You might wreck all my dreams." "You act this way because you're frightened." "Yes." "I'm frightened." "Frightened, because I don't want to lose what I love." "What would happen if I fell in love with you, instead of your image?" "You would never even look my way you might even make fun of my feelings." "Where as your picture look on affectionely and will do so forever." "I want to look at you." "No." "Never!" "Don't step in between your picture and me." "I'm in love with your picture not you." "You didn't hear me come in, just like the first time." "I didn't want to bother you again, but I couldn't help it." "I had to come." "Please listen to me." "I want to talk to you." "But not here, let's go for a walk." "After giving me your picture, I didn't think you'd come anymore." "Neither did I, but as you see, I came." "A friendship between two people can be beautiful." "Why are you so afraid of friendship turning into something else?" "By that, you mean love I suppose I'd say that nothing in this world is better than friendship." "Then you feel much more than just love for me." " No." "I don't love you." " That's impossible." "If you're in love with my picture, it means you love me too." "I've been thinking about your words since yesterday." "You're afraid of confessing that you love me." "How can I confess to something that I don't feel." "Why are you so stubborn?" "I'm in love with your picture, fullstop." "You fell in love with my picture, before you had met me." "Well, I'm here now." "I'm the original of that picture." "From now on we'll share this love." "Half of it belongs to me." "You think that friendships are easily formed that loving is easy?" "If you only knew how long I have loved your picture." "I can remember our first meeting as if it were yesterday." "You looked at me with love and affection." "My cloths were worn." "I was dirty and need of shave." "I couldn't believe." "I was afraid of looking at the picture again in case that human look would have vanished." "But I forced myself to look once more." "And again there was love and affection in her eyes." "I had finally found something eternal." "Those eyes looked right inside me." "In this empty house we spent those long cold winter nights together." "She always looked at me, with kindness, affection and love." "There were times when I touched her face her hair and kissed her eyes." "I behold you with love too." "I also look right inside you." "From now on, I will love you instead of my picture." "From now on I exist." "No." "Never." "I don't want your love." "Don't try to enter my world." "You would wreck it mercilessly." "That picture is part of me now." "Let me love it." "Don't try to love me." "I don't want to hold your hands." "You'd pull them away from me." "I'm in love with your picture." "And I'll love it till I die." "Even you don't understand me, so how can she, a stranger?" "To begin with, don't call her a stranger." "She's the one whom you love." "And about me not understanding you I only say what I know." " Is it my fault that she came that day?" "If she hadn't caught me looking at her picture she wouldn't even have know that I existed." "No, I'm not in love with her." "I'm in love with her picture." "Not even you can realise this." "Yes, but why should she be to blame because she caught you looking at her picture?" "You needn't have fallen in love with her picture." "But since you have and she knows it you're bound to share this love with her." "How can I share something which doesn't belong to her?" "My love belongs to no one but me." "You are wrong." "You're not sensible." "This is taking things too far into the realm of egoism." "You sholud go to her and say you're sorry." " I'll not apologise to anyone." " That's up to you." "But this no way to treat herjust because she respond to your feelings." "Even though I look up to you I don't approve of your behaviour." "I thought people never really fell in love." "But your passion for my picture, destroyed my belief." "I've fallen in love with you too." "It was the only thing I could do against the immensity of your love." "I am the living image of that picture." "But you didn't try to find me." "Whether you like or not, I exist Halil." "Picture is me." "And I love you too." "You've tought me how to be courageous and lonely in my love." "From now on I shall try to match your greatness." "That's how it happened Baþar." "I've fallen in love." "How can you tell me these things?" "How can you confess that you love someone else?" "I'm supposed to be the one you love." "No, I'm not in love with you, Baþar." "We were close friends." "But I never said that I love you." "Maybe you don't but nevertheless you shouldn't have told me all this after all." "You mean, I should have fooled you?" "I can't do that." "I always tell the truth." "You're under the influence of that affair on the island." "That's clever trick, falling in love with a picture." "You wouldn't be talking like this otherwise." "Don't be childish Meral." "You can't love such a man." "Look at him." "He is the one I love Baþar." "What's more, he's not aware of my feelings." "He is indifferent to my existence." "You're out of mind just like him." "Look, stay with me for few days I'm sure you'll forget him." "I can't forget Halil, Baþar." "He's not so easily forgotten." "We'll see about that." "Start having a good time throw away your troubles." "Then we'll talk about this once more." "I wonder if we'll enjoy working in this house." "The good times we had on the island seem such a long time ago." "I feel sad once a job is over Halil." "It's like the pain of a lost love." "A completed job remains me of death." "Go and find this girl Halil." "Don't suffer in vain." "You're wicked Halil." "And as long as you don't search for her you'll remain a wicked person for me." "I would like to see Miss Meral please." "She's out with her friends." "Would you know where she went?" "Her friends came to fetch her." "I think they went to the shooting club." "Why are you looking for her?" "I have something to discuss with her." "Well, are you enjoying yourself Meral?" "It's no use trying to cheer me up." "I can't forget Halil." "I'm sorry, but I wish he were here, instead of you." "My whole world is Halil." "I love him, Baþar." "Halil..." "I came here to find you." "Now I don't want to see you anymore." "That's all." "Wait!" "Don't go!" "I don't belong to this world." "Please understand me." "I didn't come here to enjoy myself." "You don't have to explain." "But don't try to stop me from leaving." "I've been waiting for you for months." " Let me go." " Take me with you." " I'll go alone." " Is this your last word?" " Yes." "All right then, go." "Halil!" "Let go of me!" "Murderer!" "Halil..." "I'm telling you for the last time." "If you don't stop the car I'll throw myself out." "How can I leave you in this weather?" "Have you gone mad?" "Pull yourself together." "Stop I said." "Otherwise you'll be sorry." "Even if you insist on getting out, at least put on your shoes." "Put them on I say." "Enough of this nonsense." "You'll be sick." "Get out of here!" "I don't want to see you." "I've had it." "Do what you want!" "Strange." "What is this girl doing here?" "Stop here." "I want to get off." "Never leave me Halil." "Even if you want to, you can't leave me." "My place is beside you." "Go and speak with my father, do what you wish, but don't leave me." "I like you young man." "You could make my daughter a perfect husband." "Who knows how beautiful your children would be." "You're both young beautiful, healthy young persons." "They say that people in love have beautiful children." "And you're goodlooking too." "Well, my girl's not bad either." "She selected a fine man for herself." "I don't like arranged marriages anyhow." "She can marry whoever she pleases." "Wealth, powerty or profession are not important for me." "All I want her happiness." "I'm ready to help you both financially." "That is all." "Now, how about it young man, am I a classical father prototype?" "But let's discuss the other side of the picture." "Look, son, Meral belongs to a rich family." "She has never known poverty." "She's been spoilt all her life." "Yes, it's possible that one fine autumn day during weekend trip to the island she might meet and fall in love with a man who claims that he is in love with her picture." "What a romatic and beautiful fairy tale." "But what about tomorrow all the morrows when she will come face to face with financial problems?" "You understand what I'm getting at, don't you?" "Don't get me wrong." "I don't want to wreck your beautiful castles in Spain." "I liked your father a lot Meral." "He has nothing to do with my decision." "This is my decision." "This decision is my death sentences." "But I won't ask you to change it." "I think that never in the whole world has man loved woman more than I love you." "And I will go on loving you." "That's all I have to say." "Who do you think you are, trying to get Meral get marry you?" "Answer me." "I came here to ask you." "You idiot." "How low can you stoop?" ""Falling in love with her picture"!" "That's clever trick and then you try to marry her." "I hope you've learned your lesson or maybe you want I should beat you some more." "I'm the one who is marrying Meral." "She'd never marry someone like you." "What courage, going to see her old man?" "From now on, if I catch you so much as even looking at her I'll beat the hide of you." "Say something you scumbag!" "Meral ÝIter is getting married." "Belgin Uzberk made her magnificent wedding dress." "Damn it all!" "I won't forgive this!" "No!"