""The chastity of a woman is a sty in the eye of the Devil."" "Ladies and Gentlemen..." "Alas, I have a message from Hell." "Hell is horn-shaped." "At the bottom are sinners whose sorrows are ending." "Then other hells, and close to the ground, ours, imagined by the strong heads of Christianity." "This inverted ministry is run by a Satan who has become increasingly powerful through the ages, eternally rejuvenated, evolving, and increasingly human." "even spiritualized." "Our play starts here." "Satan has something wrong with his eye - perhaps a sty which must have come from a draught of air" " unbelievable in Hell - or from some drama that has taken place on Earth." "This is why he has called his advisers" "Count Armand de Rochefoucault and Marquis Giuseppe de Maccopazza." "Let us mention that the Count was a politician and a famous poisoner, a great lover of plainsong whereas the perversions of the Marquis made the wings of the archangels quiver with delight unto the very depths of Hell." "If the problem were not so serious, I would find it stimulating." "Let us then go to the root of the evil, to the sty of the Master." "Absolutely, my dear Marquis." "You mean...?" "The chastity of a young woman." "What a challenge to Hell!" "20 years old." "As beautiful as a rose." "And intelligent too." "Perfect health and teeth." "Engaged to be married." "and still a virgin." "Yes, still." "Unbearable situation." "If she marries as she is, the consequences will be disastrous." "Heaven will exalt, the archangels will sound their trumpets and will make an infernal din." "This must be avoided!" "I stress the danger of setting a precedent." "What would happen if others started to follow her example?" "The result?" "Order and submission," " monogamy, happy marriage." " let us not exaggerate" "Mrriage will remain the solid basis of Hell, our masterpiece." "Exactly." "What would Hell be without marriage?" "Dear Sirs, I an sick." "Something must be done." "Certainly, Master." "Something must be done." "Yes, something must be done." "Satan has his moments of genius." "Admit it!" "When innocence reigns, evil is not far away." "We do not lack weapons to fire at this young heart." "Francesco da Pisa, who raped two thousand nuns, the Count Zum Felsenstein whose virility doubled the Silesian population." "And all this is nothing" "for the artist, the fanatic," "the dreamer... the great" "Don Juan." "Greetings, Lord." "Are you well?" "Yes, since you have given me back my sleep." "And your dreams?" "I endure them." " Apart from that, you are content?" " Yes." "Except that I feel a little fragile, as if my insides have been burned and my skin covered nothing." "There is still much time." "Yes, Lord, I know." "And your punishment?" "I find it tedious, almost unworthy of me." "Painful like a toothache, but not intolerable." "Please excuse me." "Of course." "Pablo!" "Yes" "Do you have a cold?" "It is the smoke, Master." "Give me the powder and my purple dressing gown." " The first sorrow of the day awaits." " You recognized her?" "Not, but you will recognize her by taking off her skirts." "You have been telling me that every day for 300 years." "And you cannot change." "Because nothing must change." "I forgive you." "Let the beautiful one enter." "I am ready." "Was she crying?" "Cried?" "Devil, yes!" "Women are bathed in tears." "Their tears stream everywhere." "A man could drown in all this salt water." "But it is curious in this dry air." "Hell has its whims." "The tears of a woman can weigh more than lead." "I kitted you out like an old trollop." "So you will enjoy your sorrow in beauty." "You were not waiting for me so early..." "Your servant, sir." "Surprising not to find you in the arms of some girl." "I assure you..." "Your servant had to make her leave by a secret door." "Darling!" "How can you...?" "I come to kill you." "You are brave and you play a tight hand." "You spare me a delicious frisson." "My chest will open to your dagger as your thighs opened to the dart of my love." "Give us this ultimate ecstasy, the only one that our bodies did not taste." "I offer my death to you as I offered you my life." "Consume this sacrifice to purify our love for ever." "My vision is troubled, Don Juan." "Silver flames from your mouth burn me." "Your arm..." "My treasure, come and rest for a moment." "Drink this wine to recover your hatred." "That I may help you to release your breasts." "Let kiss your neck." "Keep your dagger and your hatred, my love." "Oh, I am burning, Don Juan!" "I want to calm you, to release you from your clothes." "I love you, Don Juan." "The play is finished." "The play is finished." "The next woman will arrive and the scene will be repeated." "The same scene, the same ending." "The old demon is coming to sound the end of the play." "I have a proposal to make to you." "You can accept or refuse." "Only Hell practices free will." "I am listening." "Look at this portrait." "I propose that you go up to Earth and corrupt this girl from her virginity, her purity and her faith in love." "What will the celestial powers say?" "The angels are so naive when it is a question of girls." "You should know." "Earth, Don Juan." "One evening, one night and one morning." "All the power of Hell will be with you." "What does the virtue of a young woman weigh?" "I reduce your punishment by 300 years, Don Juan, and give you a serene sleep without the knowledge of Heaven." "A sleep without dreams." "Will Pablo accompany me?" "Yes." "Do you want to see the Earth again?" "What a question, Master!" "The terrestrial paradise is my paradise." "I will enjoy it like a fool." "We will be alive." "Exactly!" "I will suck out life, benefit from life, wallow in life." "Then it will be done." "My eye is already better." "The Marquis and I studied various methods of seduction applicable to this Scandinavian country." "ll appears that a sudden attack is preferable to a prolonged siege." "The seducer will use tenderness and the firmest resolution not leaving any doubt to the object." "That is understood." "A Mediterranean liveliness in his tone, purity and moderation in order to inspire confidence." "We have adopted an elegiac tone, a mere nothing of sorrow overcome in order to exalt the imagination and sympathy." "In this, we are experts." "Any declaration suggesting coldness or perversion is strictly prohibited." "For what do they take us?" "A bit of cynicism stemming from wounded idealism is authorized - even recommended." "The young Scandinavian woman is receptive to a refined speech tinted by a foreign accent." "A virile attitude is an advantage, although not essential." "She is not used to compliments and one must praise her charms and her clothes, but with prudence." "If the seducer is too enthusiastic, she will think that he lies and the game is lost." "Summary:" "The Scandinavian woman is impassioned, surprising, independent loyal and romantic, but absolute in her passion." "She often gets cold feet." "To take her immodesty for frivolity would be to underestimate her." "Inexperienced, but curious." "Easier to access in summer when she has less clothes." "She is seldom aware of her femininity thus she is easy to capture." "Her morality is impenetrable, she is thus difficult to keep." "Some think that God has died or does not exist, empty sky and inaccessible eternity." "They say that evil is one of the implacable laws of nature, that good is a perversion inexplicable by man." "This is certainly the basis of a tragedy." "But this is a comedy, so your host must act differently." "Hell is underground," "God and his angels populate the seven skies and in the middle, Earth in all its splendour." "Don Juan and Pablo emerge in the autumn sun at one of these dried up wells which go down into the infernal labyrinths by secret elevators." "Blind and staggering, they contemplate the terrestrial paradise." "Trees!" "Flowers!" "Clouds!" "More trees!" "Grass!" "Water!" "Birds!" "Look at the grass, the flowers!" "What am I doing?" "I'm taking care of your safety, my lambs." "In agreement with Satan?" "Completely." "I am one of the oldest and more malicious demons of Hell." "To such a degree that the Master often says:" ""I have finally had enough of you."" "But he says it in a friendly way." "Now what did I want to say?" "Ah yes!" "I must take care that these gentlemen fulfill their mission." "Indeed," "Satan particularly insisted on the fact..." "Satan especially charged me to keep an eye on Pablo." ""No jokes with the women" he said." "My sense of humour too is limited." "I will be able to find a way to deceive you." "Always try." "Here is what men call so lightly "the game of chance"." "Pasteur arrives in his car." "I disappear to create the breakdown." "I have always said it:" "the Lord helps his own!" "My first breakdown and two angels appear as if they have come from on high!" "My life is a series happy misfortunes." "It is as if the Devil and his minions retracted their tails when I arrive." "You are unmarried, Pasteur?" "On the contrary." "My wife is intelligent and beautiful." "I have less sense, but I have a good heart and I am easy to deceive." "I imagine that all that balances out." "Do you have any dau... children?" "Only a girl." "She is the apple of my eye." "A rose of Saron." "She is of an age to marry." "A nice guy, graduate agronomist." "He is taking the fields to farm." "So the young couple will become our neighbors." "Thanks be to God." "You will dine with me at the presbytery?" "We cannot decline." "You are heartily welcome, sirs." "My dear, I have guests." "Renata is not very well." "Her health is poor but she wants to see you." "Here are my friends and benefactors." "They will stay to dine." "It will be a pleasant evening." "We are not disturbing you?" "On the contrary, I was dying of boredom." "You see, my husband cannot stand the sadness of our life." "My wife writes poems." "A pastime." "I hope we will be able to hear some." "There is no question of that!" "We must spare ones hosts." "I must show you my daughter." "You will like her." "I am convinced of it." "We will return soon." "Love" "One of my predecessors, of whom this is a portrait, who was very original and extremely versed in all matters accepted one evening the offers of service of a evil as ordinary compensation." "And what did Pasteur do?" "He pulled the unsavoury individual into this cupboard and closed the door." "The doors turned reddish brown on the inside." "And what do you have there?" "My wife doesn't like me to have a glass..." "Do you know why I say that?" "I would also like to lock up a devil." "I would make it speak." "Forgive me, Renata." "But it is good and cleans me out." "Let us go and see Britt-Marie." "Get out of my bed or I will call my husband." "Please, think of my reputation!" "The scandal!" "The servants!" "I will not leave my bed simply because a lout has taken possession of it." "Why do you blow at my neck?" "Your neck is one of the most delicious I have seen and I draw aside the hair from it to admire it." "I am dazzled by the striking beauty of your hair." "Your nose is particularly large and ugly, whatever that means." "And your mouth is special, whatever that means." "Moreover, your smell drives me insane." "Wait before doing anything." "Resist a little, to increase our pleasure." "Do not say anything, I know all." "I read it in your eyes." "Your wisdom, your character, your femininity, your fragile health all, absolutely all forbids you to yield to passion." "Really?" "But in your heart, hides a weak point, Renata." "A flood of sensuality restrained too long." "Your dreams alone leave it free course." " You think so?" " Resist still a little." "Where was I?" " In my dreams." " Ah yes." "In your dreams, you taste a pleasure without equal, at the limit of shame." "How do you know?" "One picks these things up over the years." "And you are a great example." "But only the inspiration counts." "I am inspired, I will not keep it up." "You are tired." "Yes, my legs are on fire and my stomach does not feel right." "Come in, come in!" "Greetings." "I bet Jonas that everything would be painted by tomorrow." "He does not believe it." "They did all the decoration themselves." "Welcome to my house." "Enchanted." "A true hostess!" "You are its first host." "A good sign." "I break down, and as if ascended from the very bowels of the earth..." "Father!" "The usher has been waiting for you since 3 o'clock!" "My God, you have made me forget!" "I must hurry." "Stay well, dear friends!" "Jonas wants to put the dining room there." "Myself, I would like to see it as the children's room." "Come and see." "It faces full south, ideal for the children." "But he wants his dining room." "Who will win?" "He will, until the little ones arrive." "Will there be many?" "Jonas wants at least four of them but twelve do not frighten me." "Do you have any?" " Why do you smile?" " Because you are watching me." "I was comparing you to Jonas." "Favourably?" "Naturally." "May I see the kitchen?" "It is almost finished." "Not bad, eh?" "That comes from my grandmother." "The old clock too comes from her." "And on the floor we have put tiles - very easy to maintain." "And these wall cupboards!" "Jonas did all the carpentry." "Bravo Jonas!" "Yes, he is only twenty-five years old, but he is calm and masculine, almost like a father." " ll must be marvellous." " Yes, it is." "And intelligent." "He calculates everything with a slide rule." "And if he forgets it?" "He never forgets anything." " And you love him!" " Yes." "We were promised in marriage when I was 13." "He was 18." "And you marry him." "It is so comforting to have a strong man at one's side." "Never an argument?" "Sometimes, I am annoyed." "Then he explains my reactions and calms me down." "He knows human nature." "He has no faults?" "He eats noisily and does not wash his feet." "Those are not really faults." "I congratulate you." "Thank you." "I am so proud of him." "You will be happy." "Absolutely." "Let us see the bedroom." "No, not that." "Do as I say." "Close your eyes." "Describe me." "Blue eyes, fair hair, pretty nose, a mouth for kisses, high breasts, rounded hips." "As if made for love..." "Silence!" "You are wounded?" "We hardly know each other and you speak to me already about love." "Doesn't Jonas speak about it?" "You pose too many questions." "Oh, forgive me." "I forgive you." "He is the only one that you have embraced?" "Of course not." "What do you imagine?" "May I kiss you?" "Of course." "The real Don Juan." "Quite so." "It was very innocent." "It's my turn to kiss you." "You are the thirty-seventh." "The thirty-seventh?" "I want to reach fifty before my marriage." "You know the women?" "A little." "Of course you know them." "And I, who do not know anything, I make you tremble." "I know one thing." "What is that?" "I love Jonas." "Nothing will stop this love." " And all others?" " It was a joke." "You kissed me." "I wanted to know." "I wanted to kiss you to see." "And then?" "I felt without stopping your voice, your way of looking at me, then the kiss." "That does not change anything." "Nothing?" "I love Jonas." "I love his kisses, his gestures, his way of holding me." "You like to play with fire." "Life would be quite sad if one never lied." "And people believe you!" "Me, for example." "Yes, for example." "But perhaps this is bad to play like that." "Jonas reproaches me for it." "He finds it cruel." "But it is too tempting." "Men want others to lie to them." "They promise to believe all that people say to them." "Does nothing touch you?" ""Touch me"?" "I never lie to Jonas." "Naturally, Jonas would see clearly." "You are being ironic about Jonas." "And you enjoy it." "You live according to principles which are the most sacred of life." "Coarse and stupid." "No, I understand you." " I do not believe in them." " It is true." "My principles are not to have any." "Vice is my virtue, debauchery my asceticism, impiety my religion." "Basically, we are like each other." "You are afraid?" "Yes, but not of you." "Then of yourself." "I know one thing." "You are not an ordinary man and you can wound me with death." "It is my dearest desire." "Strange." "What?" "At the bottom of my heart, I want this wound." "But one should not." "You must think of your little Jonas." "I must safeguard my love." "Which is only of words." "Self-conceit of a young woman." "Your vanity, your air of any knowledge drape themselves in a show of love." "ll is necessary to love in order to know love." "You speak like a believer." "But God only exists for believers." "You neither believe nor know anything." "Do not be so sure." "I am perhaps incapable of love but I have seen it at close quarters." "It is a rare gift?" "Yes, a rare gift." "Few are capable of love." "and they suffer infinitely." "You believe that they are close to God, and that they illumine with His light those who wander in darkness." "It is possible that you are right." "I don't know." "I have chosen another road:" "contempt and indifference." "I do not understand." "Not, you do not understand." "You do not hope for anything?" "I do not hope for anything." "You do not dream?" "Not, I do not dream." "Then you are dead." "It is true." "What do you want of me?" "To hurt me?" "To poison me?" "To kill me?" "Jonas only had to come tomorrow." "This is the end of the first act." "They was the first movements of this rather frivolous quadrille." "Ladies and Gentlemen, I forgot one thing." "As you suspect, Hell governs time." "Satan has just unleashed a storm." "Pasteur requests his hosts remain for the night." "They accept, for obvious reasons." "What else do I have to say to you?" "The black cat is part of the circle and feasts in the kitchen." "Thus Pasteur nurses three vipers." "The autumn is early." "In the south, where I come from, the autumnal storms are announced by an immense crimson cloud which sits on the horizon for seven nights." "People said that it was a goatskin full of divine tears poured over our sins." "The seventh night, when the cloud bursts the rain is one of salt and bitterness." "All the bells ring out." "How very interesting!" "Let us see if God cries on us from above." "Do not be foolish." "Can I have the cream?" "Ah yes, the pigs will arrive." "They will have to marry quickly." "Jonas, we could..." "I have an exciting way." "Not now." "The rate of births will be enormous." "That will make..." "Change this rule." " Why?" " It is not funny." "It is you who are not funny." "Thank you." "You telephone me." "To tell me to come immediately with a funny voice." "Then I got cut off." " Someone played a joke on you." " The joke of a cretin!" "Have the children finished arguing?" "Jonas is acting boorishly." "You want to leave the table, do you?" "Thank you for Your gifts." "Amen." "You are ridiculous." "It is rather you who are ridiculous." " I will forgive if you forgive." " What generosity!" "I am annoyed." "Then be annoyed." "You are badly raised and insolent, insolent and badly brought up, without good manners, you are..." "badly brought up." "And you, you are..." "Go on, say it!" "Selfish and spoiled." "Do not restrict yourself." "You are selfish and spoiled." "Why argue?" "I am going." "Stay." "Not, he will get us out of other horrors yet." "Go ahead, say it to me!" "You did not kiss me when I arrived." "Did that annoy you?" "It wounded me." "Is that better?" "Not at all." "Then leave!" "It was one autumn evening, the moon was full and the air cold." "Don Juan, escaping, climbed a wall and found himself in a cemetery." "He then saw rising the statue of the governor - a distinguished man that he had killed in a duel." "Our guest is writing a biography of Don Juan." "Thus..." "Seeing this white colossus under the moon, he was taken over by an irresistible feeling of gaiety." "He invited it to dinner." "To his astonishment, the statue bowed to him." "As if accepting." "That evening, Don Juan dined alone." "Pablo served at table." "Suddenly, someone knocked at the door." "The noise resounded throughout the house." "Don Juan told Pablo to open it." "The statue started to speak:" "Do you regret your life?" "Don Juan shouted '"no" at his stone guest." "Its terrible fist sent out a stream of fire and ice and Don Juan felt his flesh melt." "He clutched at the inhuman foot which was crushing him." "Then he was pressed right through the ground, down to the bottom of Hell." "Very, very interesting." "But why this history?" "Because we have spoken of our experiences." "Experiences!" "That does not mean anything to me." "My day is filled with experiences, small and large, beautiful and ugly." "Sometimes too many for me." "Renata, my little one, be calm." "Leave me alone!" "Calm yourself." "You do not understand." "It is ridiculous." "Can't I help you?" "Not, nobody can." "All this is too idiotic." "Thank you for today, dear God." "And one more thing...." "Help me to understand my wife." "She suffers and I don't know what to do." "Yet another thing..." "Dear God, open my eyes." "Show me the hidden sufferings of men." "Take away my frankness and give me another view, clear but charitable." "Thank you." "Amen." "I frightened you?" "You were sleeping?" "I do not believe you." "You are sick?" "Not especially." "What do you have?" "I come only for..." "For what?" "Nothing." "To look at you." "Sit down on the bed." " Thank you." " Tell me." "You would be sad if I died?" "Where do these ideas come from?" "Answer me." "My sorrow would be terrible." "Why?" "Strange question..." "I love you." "I am just a weight for you and Britt-Marie." "That is not true." "We have all our defects." "You do not understand me." "No?" "I would like to understand you so much, to really understand you." "It is a comedy." "Each of you sees me in a different role." "Nobody sees the truth." "We must be honest." "You are so right, Pasteur." "Honesty." " Did I say something wrong?" " No, not at all." "Good night, my friend." "Sleep on your big ear." "Wake up in your beautiful world, with your good people and with your experiences." "Goodnight." "And if I were unfaithful?" "Unfaithful." "What?" "If I slept with another." "What an idea!" "What would you do?" "What would I do?" "I would..." "I don't know." "You would drive me out?" "What an absurd question!" "You would still love me?" "I must love you no matter what happens." "Love will not cease for such a thing." "It still exists." "You know that I would like to shout?" "No, I didn't know." "Goodnight, my husband." "Forgive me if I frightened you." "I will not start again so quickly." "If something touched your heart," "I could sympathize." "That would be good." "I don't know." "I will think about it." "Good night, Renata." "God bless you." "How did you get in?" "By the door." "Before you closed it." "And I hid there." "And now, I show myself." "Here I am." "Leave!" "Our time has come." "We have waited long enough." "Like all men, you chatter, but after..." "I am an impassioned man." "Be quiet and leave." "I am a great big ridiculous ninny, but do not wake me up." "Leave me in peace." "I have had enough of it, enough." "You do not want to sleep with me?" "Not, I do not." "Three hundred years in Hell, I languished for love." "For 300 years, I remained the same man but I had to endure the torment of continence because I died in the arms of my nurse." "For 300 years I kept everything inside me, Renata." "You don't see that every day." "Do not judge me according to my clothes." "You come from Hell!" "You want me to believe you?" "Yes!" "Heaven or Hell, what does it matter?" "You do not risk anything." "You can live unforgettable moments." "Unforgettable." "It will be a dream." "Yes, a dream." "But it will not be a dream with me." " Let us pretend!" " I am too old." "Fake it." "That is all that I do." "You see me in Hell?" "Naked, thin, senile and gray, breathing dust." "Day after day, always the same sad tasks." "Imagine me..." "I am not one of these great swindlers, only one who is half-damned, without joy or hope." "If I get to Heaven, it will be also sad." "Then I was granted one day and one night on Earth and I meet you!" "You are the masterpiece most beautiful, most marvellous, softest, finest, most extraordinary that Pablo ever knew." "Oh, I know that I annoy you." "No." "You are amusing enough." "I do not have anything any more to say." "I turn over to my daily grind." "Think of poor Pablo." "I also had a mother who cried over my sins." "At least she was tender with me." "Come here." "You do not have shame to awaken the mother in me?" "No." "You succeeded in touching my heart." "That is good." "And in giving me an experience." "Thank you." "You are entitled to a reward." "Thank you." "You may kiss me." "It is forbidden!" "Do not forget!" " You do not obey?" " As you see." "A pity for you." "And for her." " What is the matter?" " I am a demon." "A devil from Hell." "Do you understand?" "Very, very interesting." "But I am dreaming." "Heavens no, I am awake!" "What do you want?" "Troubles, Pasteur." "I am not one of these merry devils who haggle over hearts." "I am a spoilsport." "I am honoured nevertheless that this has happened to me!" " Thank you, Lord!" " Enough of that!" "Even a devil has right to a little respect!" "Forgive me." "I was not paying attention." "What do you have in your heart?" "I have no heart." "Your wife is going to bed with one of your nice guests." "What do you say?" "Are you deaf?" "Your wife is sleeping with another man." "Is it clear?" "You want to say that Renata Is getting ready to..." "Dear little devil, you should find something else." "I do not require that you believe me." "I want you to get up and go to the door of Renata's room." "It is closed." "Here's the key." "Go ahead!" " And if I refuse?" " You will be alright." "Nothing is more attracting than evil." "You are a true devil." "I flatter myself for it." "Then you will open it?" "And finally, you will know." "You will be able to see clearly, to understand, to see the loathing, the animal desire, to expose your heart to the poisonous bite, to become more human." "You who have feigned your life and believed in human kindness." "Open the door." "Contemplate the stinking flower of adultery." "You and your experiences!" "Here is an experience which will tighten your throat." "Shall we have a drink first?" "Yes!" "Good idea." "Let us fortify ourselves in evil." "I am so nervous I can't find the bottle." "You are smaller." "Help me." " I can't see anything." " On the left." "Lower down." "I will get a chair." "That's it." " You see it now?" " I have it!" "Here it was and you took it..." "Then keep it, my brother." "You will need it before you set out again to your place." "I have a devil in my wall cupboard!" "How are you?" "Your gin goes down nicely." "I am glad." "Thank you." "Will you go and see your wife?" "That notion would not come into my head." "You are a wet chicken." "Keep talking, brother." "I will benefit from your knowledge." "I will not make use of it to do evil, but good." "Devil!" "It is useless to make a scene, to be sad or to shout." "If you are nice, I will request that you go to Heaven." "What spite, coming from a priest!" "You flatter me." "Sleep now." "We will speak again tomorrow." "Goodnight." "Report on the devil in my cupboard." "End of the Second Act." "Here begins the Third." "One moment of patience please." "The author added a description of nature a sort of weather report that I must transmit to you." "The night is black, full moon, complete silence." "Various scents - of the dew," "There is still a full moon, etc." "Let us jump all that and come straight to the facts." "Do to me what you will." "I cannot bear your suffering." "It overpowers me more than anything I know." "Set me free by your suffering." "My suffering!" "I do not love you, your body does not disturb me." "You are strange and intimidating, but you do not frighten me any more." "My love for Jonas will remain intact." "You will wound only me, and yourself." "Did you sleep?" "I slept and I dreamed." "Do devils dream?" "Nightmares, Pasteur, for others." "Do you want me to tell them?" "It would be very interesting." "You have a girl, a rose of Saron, a virgin among the ground pots." "Be quiet!" "As you wish, Pasteur." "No, tell." "While one of the guests slept with your wife, the other seduced your daughter." "All that is your fault because you asked them to stay the night." "Then, what do you say?" "lmpossible." "This is what it is like to have a devil in the cupboard." "Too late!" "You always arrive too late!" "Excuse me." "What is the matter?" "I don't know, I must have lost my head." "I have a devil in the cupboard." "He dreamed that you..." "You sleepwalk?" "Not any more." "Before, yes and that disorientates me." "One sees things under another light..." "Are you alright?" "Yes." "Did you cry?" "Goodnight, father." "Goodnight, my little daughter." "I will go and dig the garden and sit on the grass in the rain." "I will feel good, in the open air." "For my breakfast, I will eat some of these green apples, which grow close to the metal grid." "Then I will set out again for Hell." "But I will be grateful." "Do you understand?" "And now, Renata?" "He touched my heart." "It was not the hardest heart." "What was it then?" "I thought unceasingly of you." "Of me?" "I felt pity for you." "And now?" "I do not know." "You will stay with me?" "Where would I go?" "Can we start again?" "Not, I don't think so." "Will we change?" "We can try." "Go back in and lie down." "It is chilly." "I looked for you everywhere." "Jonas has arrived." "I have to prepare to meet him." "But first I have something to say to you." "I love you." "Yes, I am going away." "Have pity on me." "I beg you." "Please, let me believe that you have a certain feeling for me." "Lie, and I will believe you blindly." "I beg you." "I humiliate myself." "You say that you love me." "But your love is indifferent for me." "I do not understand." "Yesterday, I was a little girl who liked to play." "I was fascinated by your cold violence." "I wanted to be hurt." "I was afraid, but not much." "I thought that my love for Jonas protected me from everything." "Tonight, I understand my mistake." "My love does not protect me from anything." "Your suffering had burned me." "Suddenly, I wanted to hold you against me, to give you everything." "A lie too." "I know it now." "They was dangerous dreams surrounding my desire - a desire of which I was unaware." "Tonight matured me." "The performance is over." "Those on high have deceived us." "Our spite is put to evil work by their icily calculating kindness ." "I have had enough, I will withdraw." "Heaven will manage without Hell." "It will see whether it is easy." "Our best weapon against a young girl." "And the result is?" "The unfeeling one has returned, sick with love!" "Curtain, curtain!" "It is not finished!" "A priest, whom Hell took for a simpleton, changes, wakes up, lock up my best demon in its cupboard!" "In short, it becomes a power upon which we may count." "And that is not all." "A woman of a competence that Hell would not disavow opens her eyes on herself and feels pity for her husband." "She will perhaps even become a good wife." "Nor is this all..." "As for this dog of Pablo's, it defies my will and its punishments." "Whoever was it who had the foolish idea to send Don Juan to Earth?" "It is true..." "It was my own idea." "This trade of mine starts to nauseate me." "It is sad and inelegant to admit the victory of love and the complete defeat of evil." "I am getting old." "Leave me." "Don Juan, keep me company a little longer." "I cannot say that I love you, and surely you have enough love, but without you, my life would have been absurd and I will be faithful for you until the end of damnation." "That is all." " Don Juan?" " Yes, Lord." "Before, did you suffer from jealousy?" "Yes, Lord." "Then allow me a small, mean action." "You, over there, what is your name?" "I forgot, monseigneur." "Your hearing is famous." "That is true." "What has happened to our virtuous girl?" "That will interest our sentimental friend." "I have heard something... very unpleasant." "... bells..." "A horrible noise." ""Will you take as your lawful wedded wife...?"" ""Will you take as your lawful wedded husband...?"" " The girl says Yes." " Continue!" "She said it so loud, Sir." "The noise hurt me." "What else?" "A great festival..." "No, the young woman is not there." "Where can she be?" "Not, not there." "Oh, I can hear it!" "She is laughing." "A young man is breathing heavily on her." "She tries to speak, but he stifles her with kisses." "And afterwards?" "Silence." "I hear a bed, a rustling of clothes..." "Perhaps an auditory illusion." "She is breathing strongly, like this..." "What can you hear?" "She is breathing heavily... then silence." "Complete silence." "Now she is shouting, but not with grief." "I cannot describe this cry." "These gentlemen will perhaps understand." "Oh!" "she is crying, but not with sorrow." " Then with happiness?" " I don't know." "My eye should heal." "But the sty is still there." "Very strange." "Two young people are speaking with each other." "I can hear what they are saying." "'"Do not hold me so tightly"" "Then he says: "Why not?"" "She says: "I have an abrasion on my lip."" "He says: "But how did you do that?"" "He laughs and says:" ""someone else kissed you."" "And she says: "How stupid you are!"" "I never kissed another man." "I hear that she lies!" "By the rotten tooth of my grandmother..." "The sty has disappeared!" "Hell finally won a victory!" "Can I leave?" "Of course." "Good evening, sirs." "Does that hurt?" "If it pleases you, yes." "But I am not complaining." "You are ridiculous with your punishments" "You, Satan, and He up there." "And I despise you." "Don Juan will never submit even if you crush him in terror." "I remain Don Juan, scorning both God and Devil." "And I allow myself to spit at your feet." "Good evening, My Lord." "May you and He up there succeed in your cheap trade!" "Let Don Juan sleep." "With or without dreams?" "With, naturally." "Which kind of dreams?" "Terrestrial paradise." "And especially of love." "Isn't that too cruel, monseigneur?" "Nothing is too cruel for those who love." "Ladies and Gentlemen, our play is drawing to a close." "Heaven triumphed, there can be no doubt." "But Hell has gained something too." "As the author of our comedy says:" "A small victory for Hell can be worse than a great success for Heaven." "But to help you forget these painful, even suspect truths, here is a final scene of true love in all its splendour." "You will see the young couple plunged in magic from their wedding night." "Very interesting, as Pasteur would say." "I love you." "I love you." "I love you for eternity, amen." "I can kiss you?" "Yes, but gently."