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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had a temper. 我脾气不好。Back