FRANCESCA What were you like when you were younger?
ROBERT (smiles) Trouble. Why?
FRANCESCA (laughs) I just wondered. Why were you trouble?
ROBERT I had a temper.
FRANCESCA What were your parents like?
ROBERT I can't do this, honey.
FRANCESCA What?
ROBERT Try and live a lifetime before Friday. Cram it all in.(shakes his head)
FRANCESCA Excuse me a minute.
ROBERT You're somewhere else, where?
FRANCESCA Just that it's been a perfect day and that I'd like to skip my fancy dessert and go home after this.
ROBERT Uh-huh. And?
FRANCESCA (beat) You're right, you know. We don't have much time.
ROBERT Check, please.

FRANCESCA What happened?
MOTHER I was paying the check. She ran outside. I told her to wait for me right here! Oh God, where is she? Rebecca!
ROBERT I'll check down here. Someone call the police.
FRANCESCA Think for a second. Is there someplace she said she wanted to go?
MOTHER I don't remember!

MOTHER She was right outside. I turned my head for a second.
POLICEMAN When was this?

FRANCESCA About an hour ago.
MOTHER They're not going to find her!
FRANCESCA Yes, they are.
MOTHER REBECCA!

(She jumps out of her seat as all turn to see: Robert holding the little girl in his arms, entering the restaurant. He carefully hands her over to the mother. The two wrap their arms around each other. Francesca looks to Robert, loving him even more now.)

FRANCESCA Where was she?
ROBERT Across the street. She went into the park and got turned around and didn't know her way out.
MOTHER You crossed the street by yourself?!
REBECCA (crying) It was a green light.
MOTHER Thank you so much!

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I had a temper. 我脾气不好。Back