:07:00
You stay the same.
I'm the one who has changed.
:07:03
I ask myself over and over:
:07:05
Why am I no longer impatient?
:07:08
Why is waiting no longer a torment?
:07:11
Why does my heart not leap up
when he arrives?
:07:15
The sound of the elevator's approach
no longer thrills me.
:07:19
Hélène!
:07:21
It's a horrible discovery,
:07:24
but I wish to be frank.
:07:27
My heart is drifting away from you.
:07:30
I'm ready for your reproaches,
bitterness and insults.
:07:34
I've called myself
the worst names already.
:07:36
Only one insult could
wound me now: "hypocrite"
:07:40
Hélène, you're wonderful.
:07:44
You were the first to speak,
but I was guilty first.
:07:49
The story of your love
is exactly the story of my own.
:07:53
All you thought,
I thought as well.
:07:56
I kept silent, suffering.
:08:00
What a lesson you've taught me!
:08:02
- Really?
- Really.
:08:05
Hélène, you're beautiful.
You're stunning.
:08:09
It's like I'm seeing you
for the first time.
:08:11
We should congratulate ourselves.
:08:13
It would have been awful if one
went on loving longer than the other.
:08:16
Yes, awful.
:08:19
What now?
- Neither of us has betrayed the other.
:08:24
We can avoid a messy breakup.
:08:27
We'll continue to see each other.
:08:29
We'll elude the death throes
of a languishing love.
:08:33
No deceit, no surprises, no disgust.
:08:37
We'll be unique among our kind.
:08:40
I give you back your freedom,
and you give me mine.
:08:43
We each go our own way.
:08:46
We'll be each other's confidant,
:08:48
though I doubt I'll find
anyone to confide in you about.
:08:51
You've set such a high standard.
:08:54
Can anyone ever know the future?
:08:57
I may soon find you were the only woman
capable of making me happy.