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The Age of Innocence[At the Theatre in the evening. Newland Archer enters the box. Steps to the front,joining the company of several men, including Larry Lefferts and Sillerton Jackson. Larrylooks at stage through pearl opera glasses. Then he swings his opera glasses away fromthe stage and t
[He hands her then and she writes the note]
[At the Parker House Hotel in Boston]
ARCHER
Shall I take it in?
ELLEN
I'll only be a moment.
[Archer waits for her. Archer sees a man dressed in a distinctly European fashion. The
man doesn't notice Archer but he seems familiar]
[At the Inn. Archer and Ellen are sitting at a table outside]
ELLEN
Why didn't you come down to the beach to get me the day I was at Granny's?
ARCHER
Because you didn't turn around. You didn't know I was there. I swore I wouldn't
call you unless you looked around.
ELLEN
But I didn't look on purpose.
ARCHER
You knew?
ELLEN
I recognized the carriage when you drove in. So I went to the beach.
ARCHER
To get as far away from me as you could.
ELLEN
As I could. Yes.
ARCHER
Well you see, then. It's no use. It's better to face each other.
ELLEN
I only want to be honest with you.
ARCHER
Honest? Isn't that why you always admired Julius Beaufort? He was more honest than
the rest of us, wasn't he? We've got no character, no color, no variety. I wonder
why you just don't go back to Europe.
ELLEN
I believe it's because of you.
ARCHER
Me? I'm the man who married one woman because another one told him to.
ELLEN
You promised not to say those things today.
ARCHER
I can't keep that promise.
ELLEN
And what about May? What does May feel? That's the thing we've always got to think
of, by your own showing.
ARCHER
My showing?
ELLEN
Yes, yours. Otherwise everything you taught me would be a sham.
ARCHER
If you're using my marriage as some victory of ours, then there's no reason on earth
why you shouldn't go back. You gave me my first glimpse of a real life. Then you
asked me to go on with the false one. No one can endure that.
ELLEN
I'm enduring it.
ARCHER
You too? All this time, you too?
[She doesn't reply]
ARCHER
What's the use? We can't be like this. When will you go back?
ELLEN
I won't. Not yet. Not as long as we both can stand it.
ARCHER
This is not a life for you.
ELLEN
It is. As long as it's part of yours.
ARCHER
And the way I live...my life...how can it be part of yours?
ELLEN
Don't...don't be unhappy.
ARCHER
You won't go back? You won't go back?
ELLEN
I won't go back.
[On the street in New York. Archer is about to enter his office building as a man
approaches him. He is the same man that he saw outside the Parker House in Boston]
RIVIERE
(French accent)
It's Mr. Archer, I think?
ARCHER
Yes?
RIVIERE
My name is Reviere. We dined together in Paris last year.
ARCHER
Oh yes. I'm sorry I didn't quite recall...
RIVIERE
Quite alright. I had the advantage. I saw you yesterday in Boston.
[Archer is taken aback by this]
[In Archer's office]
ARCHER
I still do not understand why we're speaking.
RIVIERE
I came her on Count Olenska's behalf because I believed...in all good faith...that
it would be best for the Countess to return to him. I met her in Boston and told
her all the Count had said. She did me the kindness of listening carefully. But
she's changed, Monsieur.
ARCHER
(a tinge of jealous suspicion)
You knew her before?
RIVIERE
I used to see her in her husband's house. The Count would never have trusted my
mission to a stranger.
ARCHER
This change...
RIVIERE
It may only have been my seeing her for the first time as she is. As an American.
And if you're an American of her kind...of your kind...things are accepted in
certain other societies, or at
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