1:05:00
This is on me.
1:05:02
Normally, I would have
no reason to take an interest in you.
1:05:08
- But I happened to
strike up an acquaintance...
1:05:11
With your employer.
1:05:13
Thank you.
Rabbi Lembeck.
1:05:16
He told me you suffered
a great deal during the war.
1:05:19
Huh?
1:05:21
What price did she pay,
Mr. Tortshiner?
1:05:28
Drink your tea.
1:05:30
It's getting cold.
1:05:32
Did you know your Masha was
the lover of a Red Army deserter?
1:05:36
Who smuggled gold
from Bessarabia?
1:05:39
I won't deny it.
1:05:42
I am still in love with her.
She drives men crazy.
1:05:46
Anyway, things went bad
for us, and we had been apart
for almost two years.
1:05:51
When she calls and says
she wants to see me.
1:05:54
So she comes over
all dressed up.
1:05:56
Fit to kill, as they say.
1:05:58
I had already heard
all about you.
1:06:01
But she-she told me
the whole story, as if
it happened only yesterday.
1:06:04
How she had fallen in love,
she had gotten pregnant,
she wants a divorce, blah blah.
1:06:10
She sat down in front of me
and crossed her legs.
1:06:13
Like an actress
posing for a photograph.
1:06:15
Huh? I said to her...
1:06:19
"You behaved like a prostitute
when you were with me,
now pay the price. "
1:06:22
She hardly protested.
"We are still man and wife," she said.
1:06:27
I guess it's permitted.
1:06:30
To this day, I don't know
why I did it. Vanity, perhaps.
1:06:36
Anyway, I met Rabbi Lembeck,
he told me all about you...
1:06:40
and I realized she had caught
you in her net as she had me.
1:06:43
Perhaps she's attracted
to intellectuals.
1:06:51
- I won't marry her.
- I can't say I blame you.
1:06:55
You can't tell with Masha.
1:06:57
She's just the type
to have a bastard,
and then where would you be?