FRANCESCA Sleep all right?
ROBERT Yes, thanks.
FRANCESCA Good. More coffee? (he nods, she pours) Robert, I hope you don't mind my asking, but I feel like I should.
ROBERT What?
FRANCESCA Well, these... women friends of yours... all over the world. How does it work? Do you see some of them again? Do you forget others? Do you write them now and then? How do you manage it?
ROBERT I... What do you want?
FRANCESCA Well, I just want to know the procedure. I don't want to upset your routine. Do you want any jam?
ROBERT (insulted) Routine! I don't have a routine. And if you think that's what this is -
FRANCESCA Well, what is this?
ROBERT (upset) Well, why is that up to me? You're the one who's married. You told me you have no intention of leaving your husband.
FRANCESCA To do what? Be with someone who needs everyone and no one in particular? I mean, what would be the point? Would you pass the butter?
ROBERT I was honest with you. I told you who I was.
FRANCESCA Yes. Absolutely. You have this habit of not needing and that it's hard to break. I understand.(beat) Of course, in that case, why sleep -- you don't need rest or for that matter eat, you don't need food.
ROBERT What are you doing?
FRANCESCA (sarcastic) Gee, I don't know. I guess I'm not cut out to be a World Citizen who experiences everything and nothing at the same time.
ROBERT How do you know what I experience?
FRANCESCA (angry) I know you! What can this possibly mean to anyone who doesn't "need" meaning - (mocking) "Who goes with the Mystery" -- who pretends he isn't scared to death.
ROBERT Stop it!
FRANCESCA You have no idea what you've done to me, do you? And after you leave, I'm going to have to wonder for the rest of my life what happened here. If anything happened at all! And I'll have to wonder if you find yourself in some... housewife's kitchen in Romania if you'll sit there and tell her about your world of good friends and secretly include me in that group.
ROBERT What do you want me to say?
FRANCESCA (nonchantly) I don't want you to say anything. I don't need you to say anything.
ROBERT STOP IT!
FRANCESCA Fine. More eggs or should we just fuck on the linoleum one last time?
ROBERT (grabs her) I told you! I won't apologize for who I am.
FRANCESCA No one's asking you to!
ROBERT I won't be made to feel like I've done something wrong.
FRANCESCA (angry) You won't be made to feel! Period. You've carved out this little part for yourself in the world where you get to be a voyeur, a hermit and a lover whenever you feel like it and the rest of us are just supposed to feel so incredibly grateful for the brief time you've touched our lives! Well, go to hell! It isn't human not to feel lonely -- it isn't human not to afraid! You're a hypocrite and you're a phony!
ROBERT (cries out) I don’t want to need you!
FRANCESCA WHY?
ROBERT Because I can’t have you!
FRANCESCA What does that have to do with it?

FRANCESCA (cont'd) (softly) Don't you see, I've got to know the truth, Robert. I've got to know the truth or I'll go crazy. Either way. Just tell me. But I can't act like this is enough because it has to be. I can't pretend I don't feel what I feel because it's over tomorrow.
ROBERT If I've done anything to make you think that what's happened between us is nothing new for me -- is some routine -- then I do apologize.
FRANCESCA What makes it different, Robert?

(Robert turns to face her. He is so hopelessly in love he can hardly find the words. His eyes fill up with tears.)

ROBERT Because... if I even think about tomorrow -- if I...(voice cracks) even think about leaving here without you -- I'm not sure I can... that I - (he shakes his head)

(He can't even finish. He kneels down before her wrapping his arms around her and burying his face into her body. Francesca starts to cry -- out of happiness, out of pain -- holding onto him as if for dear life.)

FRANCESCA Oh God... what are we going to do?

Useful lanuage items:

I'm not cut out to be a World Citizen. 我生来就不是一个世界公民。Back

Period. 这个词的原意是标点符号中的句号，这里，Francesca 的意思是，够了，别再说了。Back