:22:01
I hadn't wanted this.
:22:03
It has happened to me without
my wanting, almost without my knowing.
:22:08
You are quite right, and
I do not have the right.
:22:12
But I do love Maria.
:22:16
The bride on whom
the rain doth fall.
:22:19
I read the announcement in the ship's
newspaper, about six months ago.
:22:24
That Maria D'Amata was going to
marry Count Torlato-Favrini.
:22:29
The gossip columns
had been full of rumours.
:22:31
Mostly the kind of angry insinuations they
write when nobody's really got the story.
:22:37
They even got on me, figuring
I knew more than I was telling.
:22:40
They were right. I'd had
many letters from Maria.
:22:44
What I knew was that the prince
had finally caught up with Cinderella
:22:48
and that nothing remained but the slipper
business and a happy life ever after.
:22:54
Maria was trousseau-shopping in Rome
when I got here. So I went to work.
:23:03
:23:08
Maria!
:23:16
- Eddie?
- Yeah, boss?
:23:18
You and Jack keep lookin' for that
alley. I'll see you back at the hotel.
:23:26
- Well.
- Well.
:23:29
- How's Jerry?
- Jerry's fine. Sends her love.
:23:32
- You look fine.
- I feel fine.
:23:35
Well?
:23:37
Well.
:23:40
I'm behaving like... like 13 years old.
:23:43
Don't kid yourself.
You look 14 if you look a day.
:23:48
Where do you want to begin?
:23:51
There was no beginning.
:23:53
As if all my life I had lived in a dark place,
and all at once the lights went on.
:23:59
That's the way it happens in fairy tales.