Impromptu

:05:01

Mallefille is there.

:05:03

The children do need a tutor, but...

:05:06

I just can’t
stand the sight of him any more.

:05:09

I tell him outright I want him to leave
and he plainly refuses.

:05:13

I’m a coward, of course. I can never
simply boot my lovers down the stairs.

:05:18

- Ha!
- What?

:05:24

Why don’t you
stay here in Paris and write?

:05:28

Because Alfred’s here.

:05:30

I’ve got to go somewhere.
Anywhere, I don’t know.

:05:34

Maybe I should just curl up and die, yes?

:05:38

Listen, Buloz. I need 3,000 francs now.

:05:41

Let me read this... and we’ll talk tonight
at the Baroness Laginsky’s party.

:05:46

I hadn’t planned to attend.
Alfred might be there.

:05:50

I know for a fact that he won’t.

:05:57

All right.

:06:06

- What’s that?
- Marvellous.

:06:08

- Her memoirs? Am I in it?
- No!

:06:11

This bit’s about her childhood.

:06:13

You’ll come in later, after she chews up
her husband and a hundred others.

:06:17

It’s true. She’s a cannibal.

:06:20

She’d drink her children’s blood from her
lover’s skull and not feel a stomachache.

:06:26

Alfred, go home.
Put it into verse, I’ll publish it.

:06:30

Then you’ll get paid.

:06:33

Thanks to you
I can’t go to the baroness’s party.

:06:36

- In fact, I’ll have to leave Paris.
- No more advances.

:06:39

I don’t need your money, old sow.

:06:43

I’ve had an invitation to the country.
From a duchess, no less.

:06:51

Good day.

:06:54

(strains of piano music)