LABORER 1

Now that's what I call a wall!



LABORER 2

It's a masterpiece!



ALEX

It's Picasso!



JENNY

Except it's straight...



GEORGE

Hugo, we should call you Samson!



JENNY

He has many talents.



GEORGE (to ALEX)

How you didn't break your back I'll never know!



ALEX

No, nor will I!



HUGO

Thank God for Sundays!



ALEX (appraising their work)

Not bad for one day's work.



ALL

Our wall will be the talk of Pau!



ROSE

Two more days, then off to Paris.



ALEX

And a school for Jenny.



HUGO

Didn't Jenny look a picture in that dress?



ALEX

Indeed she did.



GEORGE

So like her mother...

Shades of another time...

Of vintage nights --



But I digress...



Good Lord, the time!

Ah well, God bless...



ROSE

Alex, this has gone on long enough --

What I mean is you and Jenny.



HUGO (leaving)

I'll be off now...

See you both tomorrow...



ROSE

Since you came, she's truly blossomed --

But, my friend, a flower is fragile...

Heaven help you if you hurt her...



ALEX

Why all this concern?

God, you're hardly ever here!

Your whole life is your career,

And nothing else matters.



ROSE

My career?

We wouldn't eat if I had no career.

You know that George lost everything.

I do it all for George and Jenny.

I thought you knew that.



ALEX

All right, I'm sorry.



ROSE

Can't you see?

What we three have is something very rare.

In a word, it's happiness.

Nothing in the world will ever

Tear apart the sweet existence

We have spent a lifetime building!



ALEX

Rose, let me explain to you...

Yes, I can't deny the feelings that I have...

But what's wrong with that?



Rose, I'd never harm the girl...



ROSE

You were once prepared to do

A lot of harm to me...



ALEX

You cannot compare

This with our insane affair...

What I wanted from you

Was both body and soul...



ROSE

Aren't you trying to play

An identical role?



ALEX (face to face)

This is one thing that I will control.