Impromptu

:04:00

Are you from the printers?
We’ve been waiting...

:04:03

Madame Sand. Pardon. Please excuse...

:04:06

(murmuring)

:04:10

Madame Sand is on her way up.

:04:14

Don’t do that!

:04:16

"(whistles)" It is rather far.

:04:18

- I’ll have to face her, that’s all.
- Alfred!

:04:20

I’ll be perfectly behaved.
Even a little scornful.

:04:24

No, you won’t. You’ll be impossible.

:04:27

I don’t want a scene. Now get in there.

:04:29

And hurry up!

:04:34

Hello, George!
I wasn’t expecting you till next month.

:04:38

- How are the children, the country?
- Fine.

:04:40

Listen. I need another 3,000 francs.

:04:43

What happened to the advance you got?

:04:46

You know my expenses.
The children, the estate,

:04:48

my mother’s nursing home...
The divorce took half of everything.

:04:52

All right. But let me have
one more instalment first.

:04:56

How? I’ve got no place to work.

:04:58

What’s wrong with the country?

: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.