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Are you still bewitched? And bewildered?
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No. Never in my life have I been more
sure of myself, and of everything else.
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- Tell me about him.
- How can I? What would I tell you?
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That he is handsome and tall, and
good and kind, and proud and so on?
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This is how the hero is described in the
magazines one reads at the hairdresser.
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Then what is "he" that the hero is not?
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This is what I do not know how to tell you.
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For instance?
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I say I cannot tell you
and you say "Tell it."
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Harry the director: I say I cannot
play a scene and you say "Play it."
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And you do. So, for instance?
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It would sound silly even to try,
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but perhaps not to you.
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Harry, you won't laugh,
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but it is really like in the story
of "la Cenicienta" and the prince.
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- What is?
- Everything.
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Even when we're alone together.
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- How do you mean that?
- And now you will laugh.
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- He kisses my hand.
- That figures. Standard opening.
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- Now you are being deliberately stupid.
- No, I'm...
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Oh! So he kisses your hand, period.
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- Is that all right with you?
- No, of course... Yes.
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- As it should be with a contessa.
- In a fairy tale.
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How long's it been
since you've known him?
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Almost six weeks.
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Six weeks of being
near you day and night.
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Sometimes he holds me with his two
hands, like this, and just looks at me.
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Are you sure he can see you?
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He sees more than any man I have
ever known. Except perhaps you.
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- I'm not seeing much of anything for now.
- I told you. He is what other men are not.
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That seems obvious.
It also seems obvious that maybe
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we're carrying this fairy-tale nonsense
a little too far - right smack into reality.
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I don't want this to be a shock to you,
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but a count is a man
and a contessa is a woman.