"Swedish Film Industry presents" "Three Strange Loves AKA Thirst" "Are you moaning, sleepyhead?" "What do you want here?" "What is it?" "We better be on the lookout here." " You think there are snakes here?" " Sure, where would they be if not here?" " In that case let's swim back!" " Nah, they're in the water too." "I wish I could spend all summer having this free life with you here on the island." "Not having to bother about rehearsals or ballet shoes." "Mmm, sure, but I have obligations." "Tomorrow, I'll travel home to my wife and my children." " Are you married?" " Yes." "You thought I was not?" "A man of my age who is unmarried and doesn't have children is a failure." "But I'm sure we can work things out in a sensible way, yes?" "I just came by to see how you live." "I'm sorry, but is this some kind of inspection?" " I am his wife." " Whose wife?" "Whose?" "You've got several?" "I'm sorry..." "Does he keep you with all this?" "You ought to be ashamed!" "Haven't you got any conscience!" "I had imagined you completely different." "You're not even pretty." "I can't grasp this." "I love him." "One thinks you would have some pride..." "And you?" "A mother of three children can't ask for very much pride for herself." "But you should!" "It's called loyalty between decent women." "Hello my little troll!" "Little troll." "What are you doing here?" "I came to have a look of "the troll"..." "I see..." "Was this really necessary?" "People talk." "I want an end to this." "Let's not make a scene." "We are civilized people." "I want order and discipline." "You will go home." "You too, and don't come back!" "Listen, both of you!" "I am an honest man." "I never made a secret out of living with two women." "A healthy man must have two women." "Some devils may have more, but that's foul play." "No, two is the right number, and one must work hard to keep them." "What are you laughing at?" "I'm entitled to that, am i not?" "Sure, laugh if you want to." "There is nothing wrong with my morale." "People may talk as much as they want." "Fearful and jealous filth." "I'm sure she'll calm down." "Trust me." "Are you crying?" "I knew I heard something." "What is it?" "Go back to sleep." "Is it damned Astrid who's called you and said things?" "If that's the case, just tell me." "What is it?" "Let me have a look!" "Don't you understand from how I've been behaving lately!" "What!" "Are you pregnant?" "I think so." " But you're not sure?" " Yes!" "Hey, what do they teach you at the ballet academy?" "A twenty year old virgin lacking all concept of elementary precautions!" "Oh, Raoul, I'm so afraid!" "So, so, don't be." "I'm sure we can arrange things." "But I don't want too, Raoul." "I'm too afraid." "You must not leave me now." "Oh that's a bit unnecessary now." "Stay here darling." "I'll make some coffee." "Please forgive me for being so foolish." "Are you leaving?" "Don't you want your coffee?" "How long have you been hiding this?" "What?" " Which month are you in?" " I think it is the third." " Just think?" " Yes, or maybe the fourth." "So which is it now?" "Perhaps the fourth." "You think so or you know for sure?" "I'm pretty sure it's the fourth." "That's impossible, I was at a manoeuver in Filipstad at that time." "Then it has to be the fourth month." "Really?" "So now it's the fourth!" "Raoul, I'm not sure." "Well that's a sudden ignorance!" "But Raoul, I can't know for sure!" "No, you can't know for sure, but you won't fool me, I've been around!" "It's not my child." "Whore!" "Whore." "Are we crying again?" "Isn't it good here?" "Does nurse think I'm destroyed for the rest of my life now?" "A young woman like you talking about being destroyed for life?" "I mean, does nurse think that I will never be able to have children again?" "Who says that?" "Nurse knows as well as the doctor what they have done with me." "Isn't that what usually happens?" "That depends." "You should speak with the doctor about that." "I have." "Well, then...?" "He won't give me a proper answer." "He avoids the question." "You should do that too." "There are so many other things a modern woman can do today, than to give birth." "And when one has such a varying occupation like you and is so celebrated and envyed I don't understand what more to ask?" "I don't want to be sterile!" "Now we'll let some air in!" "Are you awake?" "I know you're awake, you're just lying there pretending to sleep." "You've slept enough now!" "Please go and draw the curtains." "I can't breathe..." "Well, here we go again!" "With what?" "What's this smell?" "Oh, I made some morning tea, but maybe the brand wasn't very good." "The National Paper!" "Come up here!" "What an idea to spend Midsummer Day in a train!" " It was your idea." " It was my idea?" "It was." ""Reserve a ticket on Midsummer Day, you said it will be great to spend two days in the train and avoid the crowds at home."" " You're the man, isn't it you who decides?" " What were you doing?" " Ordering breakfast of course!" "No, wait until we've paid the bill, then we'll see what we can afford!" "You've practically made me starve for three days to pay for this luxury hotel room!" "But you forgot your hat here when we we're leaving so we had to go back!" " So you're saying it's my fault?" " Well, when the money have run out..." " Well you were the book keeper." " Sure, you should appreciate that!" "Notice the the face of a man when he pulls out his wallet." "And the face of his woman when he doesn't pull out his wallet!" "You men and your tone, the way you live, your lack of nuances and your ugly bodies!" "Shit!" "Come in." "The National Paper." "One franc!" "Well, you can't give him less when he carries it up for you!" "One franc for a newspaper that you will leave behind unread, I say!" "When you can go to the station for ten centimes!" "It's you who waste the money, and you won't give me breakfast!" "And yesterday you refused to buy me a simple nightcap." "You felt better without it." "You would feel better never drinking any nightcaps." "Are you suggesting that I'm drinking?" "Yes, that's exactly what I'm suggesting!" "Rut, I didn't mean to..." "I'm very sorry." "You who's had a refined upbringing, don't forget to brush you teeth." "You always forget that in the evenings." "A statue depicting the quarrel!" "You shouldn't smoke as much as you do." "Think about your heart." "What use is a heart to an old dance-hopper when she can no longer use her legs?" "They're not even usable for arch supports anymore." "Take care all the same." "Do it for me." "You're probably just afraid that I'll find myself at the hospital and that that you'd have to pay the bill." " That's exactly what I mean." "You will get well, I know that you will start dancing again." "You're always looking like a tortured animal." "Like I've tortured your life out of you." "You're always looking at your watch." "It's your God." "And your old coins..." "You and your teaching assistant ties!" "I am a teaching assistant." "Your pants have knees." "Just because you won't hang them properly like I tell you to." "I'm sure that you press your pants and choose an elegant tie when you see the other one." " Shut up!" " Bravo, bravo!" " I didn't mean it like that." "So you're one of those who never mean what they say?" "Rut, we were doing this until 3 a.m. this morning, for Gods sake don't start it again!" "Yes, I will start again every time I need to defrost you!" "It wasn't me Viola was in love with, it was with someone dead." "With her dead husband." "I was simply a substitute." "That's what we're born to be, darling." "A substitute." "Raoul was nasty, but he was a man." "Anyway I felt sorry for her." " But not for me?" " Well you haven't had encephalitis!" "I could very well become insane anyway, be on your guard!" "I couldn't very well just break it like that!" " Would you want me to..." " To what?" "To break up with me because I'm tired and fretful?" "If you have anything to say, just say it!" "I have no wish to become your appendix, like Viola!" ""Viola", what a stupid name!" "But when you're sweet, you're very sweet of course." "Time's running away, you must get dressed." "Let go of me." " You never really cared for me." " We have to pack too." "I guess I'm not pretty enough for your needs." "You've never looked as beautiful as after this trip." "So I was that ugly before we left?" "You never told me then." "The sun has been good to you." "It was very sensible of them to give me that scholarship." "Yes, I understand..." "You would rather have traveled alone." "You don't love me." "Take a sip of the red wine, maybe that will do you good." "Go to hell!" "Don't start again." "You've never understood me." "Ever since the beginning everything's been wrong." "You're babbling." "Maybe, but this time I'm perfectly sober." "Tell me that you don't love me, don't be such a coward!" "Tell me you're tired of me!" "Well?" "I could take something hard and strike your head with it, but I lack the courage to do it." "Did you notice anything?" "Sure, I did." " And it doesn't touch you at all?" " Not at all." "There is too much nudity in this marriage." "I will go and pay the bill while you get yourself ready." "I met Peter at Stureplan before we left." "He'd met Gullan who'd seen me in the sauna,- and told him that I was the most beautiful bride in Stockholm!" "That's what he said." "Well, I'm leaving now." "Don't touch the picnic basket, because there is no bistro car while travelling through Germany, so we'll need it then." "Cold water in the mornings!" "Hey, Rut, there's enough here for a coffee breakfast, with butter, bread, marmalade and eggs." "I'll only have coffee, thank you." "That's fine, it will save us two francs." "That whould have been enough for my nightcap yesterday!" "Oh, if we could avoid stomping on Aréthuse." "What's with those?" "They're pretty valuable." "I got them in Syracuse." "And you don't tell me, but drag me around to the most inferior restaurants with the strangest food..." "She looks like you, the resemblance struck me." "You know that fresh water well down there, that is separated from the sea only by a stone wall?" "Aréthuse was transformed in that well, when she was trying to escape Alphée, the river god." "And now the old Greek colonists claim that it was the Alphée river in their homeland that digged its way under the bottom of the sea to float up and unite its water with the Sicilian source." "An amazing thought!" "Why?" "That could happen." "It was a pure cherished dream!" "The two sexes can never unite." "An ocean of tears and misunderstandings separates them." "Now we have to pack!" "Please help me darling, the train leaves in an hour." "Please get me a cigarette." "I haven't smoked for fifteen minutes." "It will be wonderful to travel again!" "With you." "Imagine, this will be our home for two days." "Isn't it charming?" "I would like to live like this always." "On wheels!" "Can't you stand a little heat?" "Do sit down and feel like home!" "Would you put the flowers in water?" "We must have flowers in our rolling home, it cheers it up." "No, no, the bags shouldn't be arranged like that." "You see, this should be there and that one over there." "And I want your seat." "No, I think the other place was better." "You see, it's my knee, my bad knee." "Do you think my skirt will be very ruffled when we arrive in Stockholm?" "What time is it?" "Why doesn't the train leave?" "Hey, you, please open the window." "It's so hot you could faint!" "Can I help you?" "It's that simple." "I am proud of you." "Well you should be." "If we at this moment are here, unharmed and on our way home it's surely not thanks to you." "So who's to thank then?" "Well, so Mr. and Mrs. have been on a little trip?" "Yes, we've had a small vacation." "Are you coming from Italy?" "Vérone, Bologna, Florence," "Venice, the Lido, Capri," "Messina and Syracuse." "I see..." "We're also going that way." "We're taking the train there and the airplane home to waste as little energy as possible." "I see, so my lieutenant has bought a plane ticket home?" "Yes." "How sensible." "Well, we flew down here but then there isn't much of a choice when you're going back." "This express train is called "The Return"." "Wasn't it hard to leave the children behind?" "Raoul is so attached to them..." "They're having a great time, they're at a boarding house in the archipelago." "Well, as we spoke..." "Yes, as we spoke..." "Greet Stockholm from us." "Greet Italien!" "God, you're really stupid." "And a charged silence arose..." "I know who you're thinking of." "As you're thinking of your former lover yourself, you suspect that I'm taking revenge by thinking of- your old mistress, yes isn't that the case?" " I wouldn't think so." " But I would!" "Damn, I should have bought a paper at the station, I forgot the other at the hotel." "Darling!" "Good bye, I'll be back in an hour or so." ""Midsummer time, oh delightful time of the lilacs."" "And of the violets!" "Always Viola!" " Strindberg, City Voyage." " Strindberg, The Night of the Trinity..." "Lilacs and peonies, Viola has nothing to do with that." ""Oh, time of the lilacs..." "Time of the white lilacs who murmur and evoke a perfume of youth, of hope and of love."" "Is it your husband?" "I can understand it." "My dear husband rests here since 15 years." "Right in front of the ninth gate." "The dirt is quite sandy and dry over there." "It's calm here today." "Nobody of our age out here..." "But in Christmas, Easter and at Pentecost, if the weather is not very nice, then it's crowded here." "In Midsummer, it's deserted." "There will be a burial at three o'clock at the sixth block." "I was planning on going..." "Madame!" "The doctor just called to say that he will arrive now." "He was retained over at the asylum." " What are you doing here?" " Can't you see?" "Four o'clock at a Midsummer Day?" "You're put here to watch me!" "Hey, lady, try having a little humour now." "Do I look like I'm connected in some way with the nutcases in there?" "The slightest look your direction and you've shied away." "Why?" "Well now is some time to ask that." "This morning, somebody crushed the glass by shoving their arm through it." "They should use triplex glass in places like these." "Oh, I felt like doing something like that too just now." "There's nothing wrong with me really, I've been ill." "I've had encephalitis." "Please light my cigarette." "Now hurry up with that so you finish soon." "Madame?" "Madame?" "Madame!" "The doctor is arriving now." " How is she?" " She's still lying down like before." "That's a good sign." "Any loss of blood?" "Negligible." "The pulse is normal." " Has she said anyting?" " Yes, I have some notes." "Let me hear." ""It's blood, Henrik, blood." "Remove the knives..." "It's so dark..." "I can't see the path...."" " What?" " Well, she tried to..." "I see." ""Dad, warm me..." "Quick, the sandals..." "There's long, wet trails on the floor..." "A bridge, a bridge of light, I walk out on the high bridge..."" " What was it about her father?" " "Dad, warm me"." "Well, that's always something." "Well, look here!" "Don't you recognize me?" "I am Doctor Rosengren." "It was in my office that the small mishap took place." "That's a good sign." "Cry, cry it out, cry it away." "And I will help you build a new and strong personality." "Do I dare letting her go home?" "No, no, it's not worth it." "Dr. Hjertén?" "Yes, it's Rosengren." "I have a case of melancholia religiosa complicated of a lesion of the radial artery." "caused by crushing a window pane here at the office." "Could you take her on over the weekend?" "Good." "You'll take her there." "Mrs. Garelli." "Have you got any plans for Midsummer?" "Have you?" "I plan going to my country cottage, to write my big book." "Delivering fantasy." "Come with me." "Well, then leave and break marriages, and you're doing something meaningful." "So that a couple of sleepwalkers awake without illusions." "I would like to remove you your illusions." " Of my marriage?" " You said it yourself." "You're starting with the big attack today." "My marriage was very happy." "That's an illusion that you're clinging to." "You never loved your husband." "Not until after his death." "You manufactured that as some kind of a security mesh." "Admit that all of your life has been one long mistake." "Admit it." "A neglected upbringing, a stupid marriage, distorted connections..." "Oh, wake up, woman!" "I am awake." "Of course you could stop seeing me." "The patient rushes from the operating table, with the intestines hanging out of the abdomen." "There's something wrong with the anesthetic." "I feel unpleasantly awake!" "You are strong, doctor." "It was close..." " I truly pity you." " You shouldn't." "You're not a good man." "Your kindness to me has only been a trick." ""Kindness"?" "I replace the word kindness with imagination." ""Delivering fantasy"." "You don't have any imagination!" "You haven't lived!" "You don't know anything about life, nor about suffering." "You're just making assumptions!" "You smoke too much." "My last one, I'm talking about my lover, he also nagged me about smoking;" ""Think of your heart" he said and then he married an old dancer." "That's how he thought about my heart!" "How can you know if that was true?" "I can sit here and make up anything." "Your behaviour is very strange." "You're very troublesome." "It complicates my work so much." "Of course, you talk quite a lot, but really, you're not saying anything." "What is it that you're not saying?" "What is it that you don't want me to know?" "Be natural." "Just speak freely, as it comes, without thinking about how you express yourself." "I arrange, untangle and help you." "What you need is a human." "Or you will sink." "You've got me." "I will never leave you, I'm your friend." "Yes, even more than that." "It all depends on the evolution of things." "I don't want anybody to substitute for me when you cry." "You do cry, but never with me." "Don't refuse me your tears." "Walk the way I want and give up your own self." "Give yourself to me and I will deliver you." "I'm always available." "You're very gifted." "You call that giving?" "Standing beside waiting for the shock?" "My tears!" "You will never see them." "They will remain invisible." "What is it you can't endure?" " The fact that you're fond of me?" " That I'm fond of...?" "Try to understand that the main goal is not to be loved, but to love." "I won't resist." "Love me." "You're allowed to..." "You will do it!" "You should let someone analyze yourself!" "I will sculpt out your real self." "I will plow your virgin land." "You will not plow anything!" "It's me who you must love." "I am God's soldier on Earth." "People like you shouldn't be allowed to handle other people!" "Not everyone is as resistant as me, and now I'm leaving!" "I prohibit you to leave in that state." "And I will not return." "I've discovered that I'm healthy." "Healthy you're not, my little friend." "Health, health..." "What would you know about that, you haven't even got a Ph.D!" "You're one of the incurable cases." "You'll have a nervous breakdown, and find yourself at the asylum as usual." "Doctor Rosengren..." "Listen to me, what are you doing with these gals, huh?" "Bye bye!" "Take care so you don't catch a cold." "What else can you do in this heat?" "Would you believe it, I'm beginning to understand the ruins." "Sterile with empty eyes in blooming night gloom." "That's my situation." " Does it look good?" " Looks fine." "What are you reading?" "You look so wise when you dive into a book that it's a pleasure to watch you." "Polishing and reading." "Why don't you tell me something about your coins?" "How can you study art by the way?" "You haven't got the sligthest idea of how art is created." "That bite of pain." "What do you know about that?" "Well, you tell me about it day and night." ""A butterfly doesn't make you happy."" "You could get all worked up looking at a coin!" "Darling boy, don't care about all the things I say!" " You know how I behave when I'm tired." " Of course, my darling." "I've got such concerns for the future!" "No!" "You can't do such violent gestures!" "Now I got palpitations, feel how it beats!" "Maybe I could have a sip of wine." "Have a sip too, I don't want to sit here alone with my glass." "Hello there, do you want a piece of chocolate?" " Want another one?" " Yes." " Do you like me now?" " No." " Not at all?" " No." " But now you won't say no anymore?" " Say thank you now." "But you know that you're not allowed to accept candy from strangers." "You're never to ask if you're loved." "Well thank you!" "Thanks, thanks!" "Don't take it that way, you shouldn't assault every child you see and then you're too sensitive." "You may say that, but they threw my child in the trashcan and mutilated me." " Yes, I know all that." " I've seen buckets full with my own blood!" "Executioners with rubber aprons and sharp knives in their hands..." ""Take it easy, everything will be so fine!" "Rut, you have to get over that!" "I can't." "They killed something in me." "Rut, my dear..." "Is it that hard?" "Yes, it's damned hard." "Children is not everything in life." "They're not?" "I guess it could be my fault, I should get myself examined, but I've never got the time." "You're so considerate." "You know that you're able to have children, don't you?" "I only know that I never can forgive Raoul for that surgery." "All men are alike." "You've ruined it all." " I wouldn't know." " No, you wouldn't know, but what do you know?" "There isn't a man who hasn't destroyed at least one woman." "In one way or another." "Well well, now a meal would do us good." "Your bad knee." "I'll fetch a bottle of beer." " Do you like me then?" " Yes." " Are you really sure?" " Yes." " You're looking happy." " Well, no wonder." "Swiss beer." "Heavy thing." "Cheers, teaching assistant!" "You think they're hungry?" "There's no doubt about that." "Pull the curtain down." "Pull it down?" "No, throw that away, there's cigarette ash on it." "Throw it away?" "I'm sure they'll be happy!" "How could you!" "Feeding them like they were chickens." "This damned ruin world is too preoccupied with surviving, to have time to think about any intellectual life." "I envy them." "You're so right, so correct so useful, so far-sighted and diligent." "Has anybody made an effort to make me happy?" "How often does it happen in world history that a man makes a woman human?" "In your case, it would be a full time undertaking for a millionaire!" " Well, but you slurp when you eat!" "It's my polyps." "Why don't you have them removed then?" "Imagine sticking a pair of scissors up your nose!" "I'm only saying it for your own good." "You want coffee?" "They've got real coffee, maybe that would be good for you." "Think of my heart." "Do I look strange in some way?" "I think he stared at me." "You're imagining things, you look just as usual, just a little prettier." "I want you to think that I'm beautiful." "Like this..." "Caress my face." "Get to know it, awaken it." "Show me the contours of it." "Look at it." "I'm very photogenic!" "Why haven't I starred in any films?" "Why doesn't anyone call me?" "I'm sure that day will come." "No, no, put away the bottle so I don't drink any more." "I'll train my voice." "I thought out that I could specialize in folk songs." "Little folk songs from different countries." "Little..." "Little folk songs." "Your hands are so good." "I'd like to sleep." "That can be arranged." "No, no, not rest." "I don't dare resting, I have to be rested." "I'm so tired, and it's so hot." "I just go on and on and talk like a machine gun." "Just because I'm afraid of the silence." "I've always known that." "Give me this bottle." "No, give it to me." "It's Midsummer!" "Am I a bad human?" "A degenerate?" "Nothing takes root in me anymore." "It's muddy and sticky inside of me!" "Rut, for God's sake..." "One should not drink." "One should not drink." "I hate you." "I hate you so much I want to live just to make your life damned." "Are you begging for brutality?" "Raoul was brutal to me." "You sucked me dry of lust for life." "You lied to me, you were unfaithful to me with Viola and perhaps with more than her." " You've done your share too!" "I came home and told it all to you." "But you "forgot" to tell me yours." "You made me believe that you were the most noble man on earth." "It is my cursed destiny to always fall for hysterical women." "It is my cursed destiny to always be the medical orderly." "And I'm tired of it." "You want a divorce." "Don't you think I know that?" " Don't shout, the walls are thin!" " I don't give a damn!" "I will never leave you." "Now we're connected." "Chained prisoners." "I'm sorry but it makes me laugh, harsh and loud." "I don't want a divorce, Rut." "You're just too afraid to say it." "But I love you." "You can go to hell with your coins and your cold eyes!" "I was mean." "I didn't mean what I said." "I don't think I can ever learn to sing." "I can only see distress, darkness and night and dread." "A thick darkness is the life of the dispossessed." "What is it, are you going to be sick?" "Can I help you?" "Leave me alone!" "For me, the dance is not a trade." "It's my second home, more real than my own home." "I started early." "I can see it all." "The cardboard box in the corner, where you rub your soles not to slip." "Pavlova's foot and ankle..." "The overwhelming ideals..." "The large wall mirror that ruthlessly exposes the little soul and technique you've got." "The eternal hammering of the piano." "And one and two, and three and four." "Straight and happy, little Blomgren, get up again." "Don't weep, you're not inaugurating the municipal theatre here, my child." "A dancer must be strong alltogether." " Leave her alone." " What's this nonsense, Valborg?" "If you don't leave Rut alone, I will quit!" "The star has spoken." "It seems we have a little star in the making here!" "The lesson continues." "You shouldn't let her treat you like that." "Come here and I'll get you a sandwich." "I've discovered something." "What?" "She likes doing that." "They both do." " But I study here for free." " So what, who doesn't?" "And why do you think we study for free?" "It's because we are particularly gifted." "Those old ladies are going to make money out of us." "We didn't have time for love." "Maybe play a little with it, touch it..." "Without getting dependent of it." "One day, perhaps, when I'm too old to dance." "To be young, to receive attention, to be invited out..." ""Save me", you didn't write that the last time." "Independency is the only road to freedom for a woman." "I could say something about that." "Don't, Mrs. Henrikson." "I have a feeling about your destiny, my little friend." "I can see it there like a possibility in your eyes." "A small, slumbering devil." "Well, girls, are you going to extend your contract with me?" "Not at all!" "Now we're going to write our own contracts." "You'd be stupid not to." "Fly away, my little birds, fly away." "Dirty grey against dirty grey." "Where did she go, Valborg?" "She who was the neatest one of all of us." "Her room was furnished carefully, like a dollhouse." "She went away on a tour in Europe." "One of those that start out good, but soon disappear into silence." "That was before the war." "Where did she go?" "Does she rest in some cemetary like this?" "Or is she married?" "With some duke or millionaire?" "Or has she stopped dancing, like me?" " Aren't you...?" " Yes, I am!" " Hello." " Hello." " You look just like you used to." " No I don't." "You're not looking very happy either." "Well you should be shouldn't you, it's Midsummer." " You're left alone in the city?" " Yes, alone in the city." "Don't ask me and I won't ask you." "Which way are you going?" " That way." " Me too." "Then you'll have company." "Well, it's nice with old school comrades who do not speak about old school comrades." " I live here." " How... nice." " What's in your bag?" " Pork chops." "Me too." "Want to see how I live?" "Then you could cook your pork chops while I cook mine." "Yes, that would be nice." "You've got pretty teeth." "You should smile more often." "There's no elevator." "It's cosy!" "I wish I could understand why no flowers ever keep fresh." " You must have so many memories!" " I won't comment on that." "Here's our class, and there you are." "That's Rut..." "I wasn't aware that you knew her?" "We went to different schools." "I didn't know her then and I still don't." "I just know her from some friends of mine." "I haven't been very active looking her up." " Please don't tell her you've been here." " Sure, I won't." "I don't know..." "I think I'd better go home." " Are you afraid of me?" " Why should I be afraid of you?" "You're beautiful when you stand like that with blushing cheeks." "Well, let's cheer up!" "Dirty grey against dirty grey." " Pretty comfy, isn't it?" "I've been through hell." "I go through hell every day." "Yeah, everybody seems to think they've got the sole right to that hell." "I'm so alone, Valborg." "Lonely and dependent on a man." "I know all about it!" "My husband is dead, Valborg." "So you're twice as dependent." "Yes." "You understand me." "I wouldn't be so sure about that." "Now let's not be autobiographical, because that always ends up in sentimentality." "For me, men are a closed chapter." "I've found my way." "A woman's only way to freedom and independency." " I would like to know that." " You've got very pretty teeth." "You can laugh without looking ugly." "I think I'll leave now." "That's the third or fourth time you say that." "Why?" "Let's open another bottle and have a real cosy time." "I've had a little too much to drink already." " I think it shows..." " Not at all." "I'll take care of you if you get drunk." "I don't care." "You can even sleep over here." "I feel like when I'm with the doctor." " How do you feel like then?" " Like I have no free will." "A cigarette?" " Are they strong?" " Have one, you can handle it." "Do you feel comfortable with me?" "Come, let's dance!" "No!" "The congress was very rewarding." "We all agreed on one point:" "If we, the priests, want to get in touch with our parishes, we must be less strict when it comes to the marriage." "We must admit that there are problems even in our own marriages, admit it straight!" "Now I know the solution, we have to speak out about our problems." "Some quarreling can clean out the air, but it's necessary to talk about it afterwards." "My wife and I have had our disputes." "I don't like it when she rearranges my desk..." "And my wife is very sensitive when it comes to talking about the household expenses." "We spoke about it." "She's promised not to touch my papers, and I don't make her specify anything under 1.50." "Madame, Sir, everything is in order." "Good night." " You go to bed, I'll smoke another cigarette." " Please Rut, we agreed to try to sleep tonight." " Well, you who sleep so well can go to bed." " I've had enough of this circus!" " What circus?" " I can't stand it, I have to sleep!" "We can't continue living like we've done lately!" " Sleep..." "Why don't you go to bed?" "Hurry!" "Good night!" "Yes, like I said, you have to speak out." "I'll write a book about it." "The marriage has it's everyday life with both tops and bottoms, even in a vicarage." " It's sounds fairly good!" "Are you asleep?" "It's so hot in here!" "Did you hear that?" "You're just pretending!" "Now that mouth won't babble away no more!" "Are you awake?" " Are you awake?" " Yes, now I'm awake." "What's that noise outside?" " So, here lies Mr. and Mrs..." " Fine, we've got no time to lose!" "What's going on?" "It's the police, they must check the passenger list." " It's nothing serious." "Excuse us." " Come here, hurry!" "Always in a hurry!" "I was dreadful yesterday." "Admitting it doesn't change anything, I know." " What is it?" " I've been dreaming." " Oh?" " No, I haven't been dreaming, I've hibernated." "I was convinced that I'd killed you." "You're not saying anything?" "I said I believed to have killed you!" "It doesn't surprise me." "It's better as it is now." "But then you would have been alone and independent." "I don't want to be alone and independent." "It's even worse." "Worse than what?" "Worse than the hell that we live through together." "At least, we've got eachother."