:05:00
This is on me.
:05:02
Normally, I would have
no reason to take an interest in you.
:05:09
- But I happened to
strike up an acquaintance...
:05:12
With your employer.
:05:14
Thank you.
Rabbi Lembeck.
:05:17
He told me you suffered
a great deal during the war.
:05:19
Huh?
:05:22
What price did she pay,
Mr. Tortshiner?
:05:29
Drink your tea.
:05:31
It's getting cold.
:05:33
Did you know your Masha was
the lover of a Red Army deserter?
:05:36
Who smuggled gold
from Bessarabia?
:05:40
I won't deny it.
:05:42
I am still in love with her.
She drives men crazy.
:05:47
Anyway, things went bad
for us, and we had been apart
for almost two years.
:05:52
When she calls and says
she wants to see me.
:05:54
So she comes over
all dressed up.
:05:57
Fit to kill, as they say.
:05:59
I had already heard
all about you.
:06:01
But she-she told me
the whole story, as if
it happened only yesterday.
:06:04
How she had fallen in love,
she had gotten pregnant,
she wants a divorce, blah blah.
:06:11
She sat down in front of me
and crossed her legs.
:06:14
Like an actress
posing for a photograph.
:06:16
Huh? I said to her...
:06:19
"You behaved like a prostitute
when you were with me,
now pay the price. "
:06:23
She hardly protested.
"We are still man and wife," she said.
:06:27
I guess it's permitted.
:06:31
To this day, I don't know
why I did it. Vanity, perhaps.
:06:37
Anyway, I met Rabbi Lembeck,
he told me all about you...
:06:41
and I realized she had caught
you in her net as she had me.
:06:44
Perhaps she's attracted
to intellectuals.
:06:52
- I won't marry her.
- I can't say I blame you.
:06:56
You can't tell with Masha.
:06:58
She's just the type
to have a bastard,
and then where would you be?