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My father was a very big man.

All his life, he wore a black mustache.

When it turned gray, he used a little brush to keep it black.

Such as ladies use for their eyes.

Mascara.

Everyone was afraid of him. My mother, my four sisters.

At the dining table, you could not speak unless spoken to first by my father.

But he loved me. I was his favorite.

I want to call England.

Yes, I want to call England.

No, no, it's not London.

It's not London.

It's in Sussex.

Hastings in Sussex.

You know the code. You got it for me yesterday.

Well, someone did, yes.

Cuatro, cinque, otto, due, sei, uno.

Hastings, Sussex.

Oh, God.

Can't read this damn book. It's... It's unreadable.

Can't even find it. Come on, let's go out.

I'm trying to get through to the children. Can't you hear?

All right, answer.

Hello. Yes.

Mother, hello.

Yes, lovely.

Yes, absolutely.

How are they?

Are they... Yes, lovely.

Hello, darling, it's Mummy.

How are you?

Is Cathy there?

Thank you.

Incredible, isn't it?

I think the St Augustine is incredible.

So...

I don't know. I thought that the last time.

What do you mean?

Well, you thought it was incredible the last time. The last time we were in

Venice, remember?

Did I?

Well, so what?

Nothing, I'm just... I mean, what's the point?

What's the point of saying that? Why did you say that? I didn't mean it as an

insult. Christ.

I'm simply making an observation.

What observation? I'm simply pointing out you haven't changed your mind. You

feel the same way now as you did then.

Anyway, I agree with you.

I think it's incredible too.

What is it?

Look.

Got another pimple.

Girls won't love you anymore.

Must need to be more salt or something.

What? There must need to be more salt or something.

You don't need salt.

You need sex.

Oh.

Could I have it with salt?

Why not?

God, do they know I'm trying to shame?

Hello?

Yes, he is. Hold on a minute.

It's Simon.

What?

I'm only halfway through the bloody thing, Simon.

It's unreadable anyway.

Yes, well, this is supposed to be my holiday.

OK.

Now, this one's for Jack.

And this is for Cathy.

Lovely. What do you think? They'll be thrilled.

Now, I'm going to do a little drawing of Cathy.

Spot.

And I'm going to do a little drawing of Jack.

For Jack.

Jack Go.

What do you think?

Fantastic. You're a genius.

Grazie.

Come on, smile.

Oh, excuse me, would you take a photograph of us?

Thank you.

Thank

you.

My youngest sisters, Alice and Lisa, came to me in the garden and said,

Robert, Robert, come to the kitchen quickly.

Eva and Maria have a treat for you.

Do you think it's dangerous?

Not really.

Tell me something.

Tell me the truth.

Do you like children?

What children?

My children.

I like your children.

No, what I mean is, do you actually like children?

What, you mean all children?

Children. Do you actually like children?

Well, you mean as such?

The species as such.

What I mean is, the real truth is, you don't like children.

What you mean is you think I don't like your children.

What about me?

Do you like me?

because you're always asking me such challenging questions.

You're always testing my intellect.

Did I ever tell you the terrible thing that happened to me when I was a little

girl? The worst thing that ever happened to me.

No, you didn't tell me.

Well... I was about seven or eight, and... there was this gang of

kids.

Boys and girls.

And we were this gang.

And... one day...

Some of them said, one member of this gang isn't really good enough to be a

member of this gang. And does everyone agree that we should throw this person

out?

And I said, yes.

Yes. I clapped.

Clapped?

Yes.

I clapped.

I said, yes.

Throw this person out.

And you know who that person was?

You. Yes.

It's terrible.

That's a terrible story.

Where should we go?

Where can we go? Morano.

They blow beautiful glass. Very nice.

Oh, Marana.

Lovely. What kind of doing?

Daybreak. Speedboat to Marana.

Daybreak.

And on the table were two big bottles of lemonade, a cream cake.

Two packets of cooking chocolate, big box of marshmallows.

And Maria said, look, darling, this is all for you.

Colin? Find anything?

Isn't this beautiful?

What do you think?

And Maria said, look, darling, this is all for you.

Are you asleep?

Mary, it's late.

What is it?

You haven't had any dinner.

What time is it?

Late.

Padovani's. Will Padovani's be open?

Oh, what about... No.

No, it's quite late.

Too late. Oh, close.

But I know a very good bar.

Late night bar.

Nice sandwich.

Good drinks.

Very nice place.

Very easy to find.

All right.

Well, where to take a map?

All out. It's my only one. Sorry.

Well, let me look.

Here. You see?

Very nice.

You go straight out of here.

Turn and take a right.

Then you turn and take a right.

Right there.

Look, this way.

How do you know?

What do you think?

Yes, there we are. No.

It's definitely this way.

I'm sorry, but it is.

This way?

Alright.

Colin?

Look at that bed.

She reminds me of someone.

Looks like a space shuttle.

Now, what do you think?

Where are we?

Is this right?

Yes, definitely.

Look at all this.

Collettivo Feminista Venezia.

Women are so radical here. They're really aggressive.

I wish we had a map.

They want convicted rapists castrated.

See this building?

We've been past this building about ten minutes ago.

Quite right, too.

What is?

to castrate rapists.

Lottie!

What was that man doing?

Glass at this time of night.

It's all very strange.

I think we're on the right track.

So do I.

Good evening.

Do you need help?

Well, uh... We're looking for a place to get something to eat.

There's absolutely nothing in that direction, but I can show you a very

good place that way.

No, isn't there a bar just over there?

No, no, closed.

Everything is closed.

My name is Robert.

Hello.

Would you like to eat some beautiful Venetian food?

We'd love to.

I'll show you this place.

You must both be terribly hungry.

All right, let's go.

This is Mary.

I'm Colin.

You're English?

Yes. Whereabouts?

Mary's from Bristol and I'm from London.

Beautiful country.

Your first trip to Venice?

No, maybe three years ago. Two years ago.

Two.

Change much, is it?

These posters are everywhere.

These are women who can't find a man.

They want to destroy everything that's good between men and women.

They don't know what they want.

This way.

It's so easy to get lost.

Often there's a dead end.

Please.

Monica. Jocelyn. Sarah.

This way, please.

It's the real Venice.

There's no food, I'm sorry. The cook is sick.

It's a tragedy. I could kill him.

I'm very sorry.

But this is a wonderful wine, full of nourishment.

Cheers. Cheers.

Now, tell me, I'm a man of immense curiosity. Curiosity.

Passionate curiosity.

Are you married, you two?

No. You live together. You live together in sin.

No. Why not?

In this day and age, no one would stop you. In this day and age, as you well

know, there are no standards.

What about you?

Tell us a bit about you.

I mean, who are you anyway?

But you have a child.

Am I right?

How did you know?

I feel it.

I have two children.

A boy and a girl.

This is your boy and your girl.

Yes.

Beautiful. Beautiful.

Not yours.

Not mine.

Beautiful children. They take after their beautiful mother.

Thank you.

Your English is terribly...

Good.

I grew up in London. My wife is Canadian.

Any more breadsticks?

Your wife's Canadian?

Certainly. We lived there.

Oh.

How did you meet?

That would be impossible to explain without describing my mother and

sisters, and that would only make sense if I first described my father.

In order to explain how I met my wife, I would have to describe my father.

Want me to do that?

Would you? Really?

Shall I do that? All right.

My father was a very big man.

All his life, he wore a black mustache.

When it turned gray, he used a little brush to keep it black, such as ladies

use for their eyes.

Mascara.

Everyone was afraid of him.

My mother and my four sisters at the dining table.

You could not speak unless spoken to first by my father, but he loved me.

I was his favorite.

He was a diplomat all his life.

We spent years in London, Knightsbridge.

Every morning, he got out of bed at 6 o'clock and went to the bathroom to

shave. No one was allowed out of bed until he'd finished.

My eldest sisters were 14, 15, I was 10. One weekend, the house was empty

for the whole afternoon.

My sisters whispered together.

The names were Eva and Maria.

They called me and they led me into my parents' bedroom.

They told me to sit on the bed and be quiet.

They went to my mother's dressing table.

They painted their fingernails. They put creams and powder on their faces. They

used lipstick.

They pulled hairs from their eyebrows and brushed mascara on their lashes.

took off their white socks and put on my mother's silk stockings, panties.

They sauntered about the room looking over their shoulders in the mirror.

Beautiful women.

They laughed and kissed each other. They stroked each other. They giggled with

each other. I was enchanted.

They fed my enchantment.

They whispered to me that it was our secret, that we would keep it in our

hearts forever.

Never reveal it.

But that night at dinner, I felt my father staring at me, staring deep into

me. He chewed, swallowed, he put his knife and fork down. He looked at me.

My heart started to beat, to thump, to beat, to thump.

My father said, tell me, Robert, what have you been doing this afternoon?

He knew.

I knew he knew. He was God. He was testing me.

So I told him. I told him all that my sisters had done. I told him everything.

My mother was silent. My sisters' faces were white. No one spoke.

My father said, thank you, Robert, for finishing dinner.

After dinner, my sisters and I were called to my father's study.

They were beaten with a leather belt without mercy. I watched this.

A month later, they took their revenge.

We children were again alone in the house. Nanny was away.

My youngest sisters, Alice and Lisa, came to me in the garden.

They said, Robert, Robert, come to the kitchen quickly.

Eva and Maria have a treat for you.

I was suspicious, but I went.

I was so innocent.

On the kitchen table were two big bottles of lemonade, cream cake, two

packets of cooking chocolate, a big box of marshmallows. And Maria said, look,

darling, this is all for you.

But first, Eva said, you must drink some medicine.

This is very rich food, and this medicine will protect your stomach.

Help you to enjoy it.

I was too greedy to question this. I drank the medicine, only slightly

disgusting. Then I ate the chocolate and the marshmallow and the cake and drank a

bottle of lemonade. They applauded.

and said that only a man could drink a second bottle of lemonade.

It would be beyond my capabilities.

I said, give it to me.

And I drank the second bottle.

And I finished the chocolate and the marshmallows and the cake.

And they said, bravo, bravo. Then the kitchen began to spin around me, and I

badly needed to go to the lavatory.

Suddenly, Eva and Maria held me down.

and tied my hands together with a long piece of rope behind my back and dragged

me into my father's study.

They took the key from the inside, slammed the door and locked it. Bye-bye,

Robert, they called through the keyhole. Now you're Big Papa.

In his study, I was locked in.

My revered, my...

I feared father's study where he received the diplomatic corps of London,

the elite of the world, and I puked and pissed and shat all over my father's

carpets.

Walls. My father found me there.

He said, Robert... Have

you been eating chocolate?

Then he nearly killed me.

Then he didn't speak to me for six months.

I've never forgiven my sisters.

My only solace was my mother.

I grew so thirsty at night, she brought me a glass of water every night and laid

her hand upon my brow.

She was so tender.

When my father was away, I slept in her bed.

One afternoon, the wife of the Canadian ambassador was invited to tea.

She brought her daughter, Caroline.

When my mother showed her mother our garden, we were left alone, the

children. Suddenly, Ava said, Miss Caroline, do you sleep with your mother?

Caroline said, no, do you?

And Ava said, he does.

And all my sisters giggled.

And Caroline looked at me and smiled and said, I think that's really awfully

sweet.

And she became my wife.

Not at that moment, of course. We were both only 11 years old at the time.

We're in there, aren't we?

What do you know?

Oh, God, I don't want to sit down. I've got such a... Oh,

I've got such a headache.

Oh. Can I...? Can you press the back of my neck?

So I just... Yeah.

Is it?

Oh, God.

Is it? I'm going to... What? I mean...

Sorry.

I'm all right.

I just have to sit down.

I can't walk anymore.

Come on.

I've been bitten.

I'm trying not to scratch.

I'm so thirsty.

You're going to have to look after me today.

Why did you look after me yesterday?

I'm so thirsty.

Ah, there's the waterfront.

Come on, have a big kiss.

We'd like to order something to drink please.

I will carry your waiter.

When you spoke to them, when was it?

Was it yesterday?

How were they then?

It's like a prison here.

Let's go home.

The flight's paid for and doesn't leave for another five days.

We could get another one.

Why do you want to go home?

Excuse me!

We should have brought the children with us. It would have made all the

difference.

To me, anyway.

Signora? A jug of water, please, with ice.

Water?

Um, coffee.

No,

no, no, just a jug of water, thank you. Oh, let's go to the hotel and get water

there. All right.

He's probably bringing it anyway.

I don't know why we came here.

Why did we come? We've been here before. Why did we come again?

Actually, I remember why we came.

We thought we'd find out what to do, didn't we?

What to do about you and me.

Well?

Have you found out?

Maybe you have decided what you want.

What you want to do.

This morning.

Terrible. We slept in the street. Street?

Well, after we left you, we... We didn't have a map.

I'm horrified.

It's entirely my fault. I kept you late with wine and my stupid stories.

Stop scratching. No, no, no. It's not a question of that. We just couldn't...

It's my fault, and it's my responsibility to correct it.

You must come to my house.

No,

no. We have a hotel.

My house.

is a thousand times more comfortable, peaceful, serene.

We take a taxi.

Please.

What do you think?

Come, please.

Robert brought us here.

Robert?

Where's he?

I don't know.

What time is it?

Evening.

Did you sleep well?

Yes, wonderfully.

How's your bite?

It's gone.

Not in here.

No.

Do you think we ought to find them?

I feel good.

I must find out what's going on. I just can't walk around here star-bloody

naked.

I think there's a dressing gown hanging up in there.

I can't wear this. Look.

Yes, you can.

You look lovely.

You look like a god.

I think I'm going to have to take you to bed.

This isn't a dressing gown. It's a night scene.

No idea how good you're feeling.

I can't walk around a stranger's house dressed like this. I'm sorry.

Not with an erection.

Here, put it down.

Find out what's going on.

How do I look?

I'm Caroline, Robert's wife.

Well, you're looking rested.

Hello. Come outside. It's nice.

Oh.

Wow.

It is beautiful, isn't it?

I spend as much time as possible out here.

I'm Mary Kenway. Yes, I know.

Come and sit down.

Is this yours?

Yes.

I made it.

I sometimes sit out here and do embroidery.

I like embroidery.

It's lovely.

Would you like a biscuit?

Take one.

Thanks.

You must be hungry.

Robert wants you to stay for dinner. He'll be back for dinner.

He's gone to his bar. A new manager starts there tonight.

His bar?

Yes. You were there last night, weren't you?

He didn't say it was his bar.

It's just, it's a kind of a hobby, I guess.

But you know more about it than I do.

I've never been there.

Have you done something to your back?

It helps to move.

Sometimes I just stand up and move about.

Are you fond of your friend?

Colin.

I hope you don't mind.

There's something I must tell you.

While you were both asleep, I came in and looked at you both.

I just sat on the chest for half an hour. I just sat there and looked at you

both.

Oh.

Colin is very beautiful, isn't he?

Robert said he was. Oh, you are too, of course.

You both have such wonderful skin.

Are you in love?

Well, I... I do love him, I suppose.

Not quite like when we first met.

I trust him, really.

He's my closest friend.

What would you mean by in love?

I mean that you do absolutely anything for the other person.

And you'd let them do absolutely anything to you.

Anything.

If you're in love with somebody, you...

Oh!

Hello. This is Colin. This is Caroline, Robert's wife.

Are you having a nice time?

Um... On your holiday?

Yes, except we keep getting lost.

Pull up a chair.

Oh, my God.

What?

Your clothes.

I forgot. I washed and dried them. I clean forgot.

I must tell you where they are.

But before I do, I think you should tell him what I told you, don't you?

What? What I did while you were both asleep.

Oh, right.

Um, Caroline came in and looked at us both whilst we were asleep.

Did she?

Yes.

You were so peaceful.

Just like a baby.

Babies can be very ratty in their sleep.

Oh, no, not him.

I'm sure he always sleeps sweetly.

Yes, but I'm not a baby.

No, I never said you were. I only said that you slept like a baby.

Now listen, Robert is very keen for you to stay and have dinner with us.

He told me not to let you have your clothes till you agreed.

You must be starving anyway.

So you will?

Well, I... Oh, please.

If you don't, he'll blame me.

Go on, just stay.

Oh, good.

Now can I have my clothes?

They're locked in your bathroom cupboard.

Here's the key.

Thanks. Just a minute.

Oh, isn't it sweet when men are shy?

So sweet.

Tell me, what do you do? Do you work?

Well, I mainly do voiceovers these days.

You know, commercials.

I was with a women's group until about six months ago.

A women's group? What do you mean, a women's group?

A theater group.

You're an actress?

Oh, what a beautiful thing that must be. Well, sometimes. Anyway, the group broke

up, so... Women?

It was all women?

Well, some of us wanted to bring in men from time to time, and the rest of them

wanted to keep it pure.

That's what broke us up. But how can you do a play with only women?

I mean, what could happen?

Happen? Well, you could have a play about two women who've

only just met sitting on a balcony talking.

But they'd probably be waiting for a man.

And then he'd come, and then something would happen.

It hurts when I laugh. Oh, God, can I do anything?

Would you just touch me here on my neck?

There.

Press it.

No, harder.

We did an all-women Hamlet once.

Hamlet? I've never read that play.

In fact, I haven't seen a play since I was at school.

Isn't that the one with the ghost? And somebody locked up in a convent, and

then everybody dies at the end?

Were you the star?

No.

Hello. Hello.

Have you slept well?

Oh, wonderfully.

Thank you so much. What a beautiful apartment.

I'll get the glasses.

It belonged to my grandfather.

You see that island?

That's Cemetery Island.

My grandfather and my father are both buried there.

You're staying for dinner, I trust?

I'll get dressed.

A glass of champagne first.

You look like an angel.

How are you feeling?

Better.

To Colin and Mary.

Dinner. Oh, I'd better get dressed.

These books are the favorite literature of my father, my grandfather.

All first editions.

These are things my father used every day.

Small things.

He used opera glasses every day?

No. He used opera glasses at the opera.

They belong to my grandfather.

Your father seems to be very important to you.

My father and his father understood themselves clearly.

They were men, and they were proud of their sex.

Women understood them, too.

Now, women treat men like children because they can't take them seriously,

but men, like my father, my grandfather, women took very seriously.

There was no uncertainty, no confusion.

This is a museum.

Dedicated to the good old days.

So, how is England?

Lovely, dear old England.

Hampshire, Wilshire, Cumberland, Yorkshire, Harrods.

Such a beautiful country. Such beautiful traditions.

Well, it's not quite so beautiful now, is it, Colin?

Colin, are you feeling all right?

In what way?

In what way not beautiful?

Freedom, you know?

Freedom? What kind of freedom?

Freedom to do what?

Freedom to be free.

You want to be free?

Free to do what?

You don't believe in it?

Sure, I believe in it, but sometimes a few rules, you know, they're not a bad

thing. First and foremost, society has to be protected from perverts.

Everybody knows that.

My philosophical position is simple. Put them all up against the wall and shoot

them.

What society needs to do is purify itself.

The English government's going in the right direction.

In Italy, we could learn a lot of lessons from the English government.

Well, I'm an Englishman. I have to say I disagree violently with what you just

said.

I think it's shit.

I respect you as an Englishman.

But not if you're a communist poof.

Not a poof.

It's the right word, no?

Or is it fruit?

Talking about fruit, it's time for coffee.

Yes,

we must.

But coffee... No, we've stayed far too long already, but thank you so much.

You're tired.

Thank you.

Our hotel will seem quite the same after your apartment.

Oh.

Nice.

I'm a keen amateur photographer.

You take the San Zachario Bridge.

Please. Please come back. Please.

It's important.

Love to.

It's my back.

You know, those stairs.

Anyway, um, thank you so much for your kindness.

Good night.

Have a great day.

Thanks. Good night.

When I saw you on that terrace tonight, in that nightdress.

You looked so beautiful.

My heart jumped.

But I told you how you looked in that nightdress, didn't I?

Permesso? Oh please!

Dovrei pulire la stanza. We're on our bloody holiday for Christ's sake.

What's it like?

I often wonder what it feels like.

What's foot like?

What's it feel like to be the girl?

I mean...

I'm crazy about you.

I'm crazy about you.

Don't open the shutters.

Come here.

Come here.

Why did they do that to you, those kids? Why did they hound you out of that gown?

I don't understand it.

Because they didn't like me.

They were jealous of you, that's what it was.

They were jealous of your beauty.

I am myself, you know that, don't you?

I'm jealous of your beauty.

Because it belongs to me. Jealous in that sense.

No one else can touch it.

It's all mine.

Is it?

All mine.

It's my possession.

I'm possessed.

You know what those people are

doing?

About you.

No, you.

Or perhaps us.

This actually reminds me, I wanted to ask you something.

You know this thing about thighs and bottoms?

What thing?

You know, people look at other people's thighs and bottoms and they say, Christ,

what thighs, what bottoms, or what an ass.

What an ass.

What tits, of course.

What tits, what boobs, what a can.

If you see what I mean.

I mean, what I mean is... Well, my first point is that only the word thighs is

constant, get it?

I mean, you've got all these other words for all the other words, but there's

only one word for thighs.

Isn't that incredible?

Well, you don't need another word. Thighs is a perfectly good word.

What's your question?

Is this, when people look at you and, well, you know, talk about your thighs

and your bottom, or both, et cetera...

What sense of your thighs and your bottom do you at such a time have?

Oh,

people aren't talking about my thighs or my bottom.

How can you know that?

Because the whole damn restaurant is talking about your thighs and your

bottom.

Mine?

I don't think so.

I had rather a good idea.

I'm going to hire a surgeon.

A very handsome surgeon.

To cut off your arms and your legs.

Oh, really?

And I'll keep you in a room in my house.

And use you just for sex.

Whenever I feel like it.

And sometimes...

I'll lend you to my girlfriends, and they can do what they like with you.

It's funny you should say that, because I've come to a sort of decision myself,

and I haven't told you yet.

A decision?

I've come to this decision.

What is it?

Well, I'm going to invent a machine made of steel,

powered by electricity.

It has...

controls, pistons.

It has straps, dials, and it makes a low hum like this.

Like that.

And the machine will fuck you.

Not just for hours and days, but for years and years and years.

I'm so frightened.

What is it?

What is it?

Touch me. Touch me.

Please. Come on. Let's go.

I see that.

What is it?

You had a terrible dream.

Do you remember it?

Tell me.

What was it?

There was a photograph at Robert's apartment.

It was of you.

What photograph?

I looked through some photographs at Robert's apartment.

One of them was of you.

Of me?

Must have been taken from outside, from a boat or along the waterfront.

You were standing on this balcony.

I didn't see any photograph.

And then suddenly he hit me really hard in the stomach.

He totally winded me.

He hit you?

Why?

Why didn't you say anything?

I don't know.

I don't know why I didn't say anything.

And I don't know why I took my photograph on the balcony.

I'm going for a swim.

I've been thinking.

Why don't we do it, huh?

Do what?

Get together.

You know.

Live together with the children.

I mean it.

I love you.

Yes, but we don't have to commit ourselves to all that. I mean...

It's been such a lovely day.

Well, don't you want to? I thought you wanted to.

I do, but when I was swimming out there and I was all alone, I suddenly felt so

peaceful.

I can't describe it.

I could have gone on forever.

I can't get back to things like this.

Just like that.

I thought you wanted it.

We'll see, shall we?

It goes around the other side of the island first.

It goes through the harbor on our side.

Let's take it in.

We can get off at the next stop and walk through if you like.

What?

We can get off at the next stop and walk through if you like.

It's probably quicker than going right round the harbour.

Possibly.

Yes.

See where we are

Do

you

want to go up?

Well, she's seen us. We can't very well be rude.

How delightful.

How delightful to see you.

The boat brought us round this side from the beach, so we thought we'd say hello.

We were expecting you sooner.

You got my message?

No. When?

I left a message at your hotel today. We're going away, you see.

We didn't want to miss you.

No, we didn't get it.

But you came anyway. How was it?

Going away?

To Canada. Oh.

To see my family. So we wanted to say goodbye.

Have a farewell drink. So it's wonderful you came. It really is. Look, take Mary

and give her some refreshment. I have to go to my bar. I have business to finish.

Very quick.

Will you come with me?

Just... Walk with me. Keep me company. We won't be long. Colin, I... Have you

been swimming?

Yes.

I thought you were going on holiday. Are you moving?

We're selling up.

We are going on holiday, but when we get back, we're gonna buy a ground-floor

apartment.

That's what I need.

Oh.

Would you like some?

Oh, I'd love some.

I'll see you at home.

Somebody just pinched me.

Venetians are very friendly people.

Robert

said

he told you about his childhood.

He exaggerates a lot, you know. He turns his past into stories to tell at the

bar.

Oh, no sugar for me.

I'm just stirring in the lemon to bring out the taste.

Shall we take it out onto the terrace?

May I?

The lawyer says the contract is perfect.

You're my lover, and that Caroline is jealous because she likes you too.

Why did you tell them that?

Why, why?

We knew you would come back.

Now, look here, Robert.

Hang on a minute.

Why did you take that picture of me, the one you showed Mary?

Well, what was the point?

I'm selling the bar.

To him.

I've never told anyone this.

Never. But I want to tell you.

Soon after we were married...

Robert started to hurt me when we made love.

I tried to stop him, but he went on doing it. And after time, I found I

liked it.

Not the pain itself, but somehow... the fact of being helpless

before it.

Being reduced to nothing by it.

And of being punished, therefore being guilty.

I felt... It was right that I should be punished.

I thrilled to it.

You know, it took us over totally.

It grew and grew. It seemed never-ending.

But there was an end to it. We both knew what it was.

I was once a fisherman, but pollution has ruined the fish, so fishermen become

waiters.

Why did you take my picture? What does it mean?

You see that barber shop?

My grandfather and my father used that barber shop.

And I used that barber shop.

That's Cemetery Island.

My back

happened suddenly one night. It was very bad indeed.

And there was an incompetent surgeon, you know, so I'm like this.

He's terribly strong, you see.

When he bent my head backwards, I blacked out with the pain, but... I

remember thinking, it's going to happen.

Now.

There's no going back on it.

It's going to happen now. This is it. This is the end.

Oh. Oh, I'm boring you.

Oh, no, not at all. It's the...

That's the sun, I think, the long swim.

Do you and Colin do strange things?

Oh, no, I don't think so, no.

Oh, I'm sure Colin does.

I'm certain he does.

I want to show you something.

Dizzy, I must show you something.

You haven't been in our bedroom, have you?

My legs ache.

God, he's so beautiful.

Robert saw you both the first day you arrived.

That was the first picture I saw of him.

I'll never forget it. Robert came home so excited.

And then he brought more and more photographs home.

We became so close.

Incredibly close.

Colin brought us together.

It was my idea to put him here on the wall so that we could see him all the

time as we made love.

I took that one myself.

Isn't it brilliant?

Why?

And then Robert brought you home.

It was as if God was in in our dream.

I know that fantasy was passing into reality. Have you ever experienced that?

It's like stepping into a mirror.

Colin. Colin.

Wake up.

Wake up.

Colin and Robert are back.

Do you know where we are now?

Shall I tell you?

We are on the other side of the mirror.

Mary, what is it?

Mary?

What is it?

What's the matter?

Mary?

What's the matter?

Cheers.

It's just a mild touch of sunstroke, that's all.

Which is not hot.

Hey, what is it? Is it sunstroke? Shh, tell me.

Try to tell me.

Tell me.

She's just tired.

Are you trying to say my name? Are you trying to say my name?

What are you trying to say?

Cold.

She's cold.

We shouldn't crowd her.

She needs a doctor.

Where's the telephone?

Oh, it's been disconnected.

Disconnected?

Well, we're going away.

What? You must know a doctor.

Go and fetch a fucking doctor. She's very ill.

Don't hate to shout.

She'll be fine.

Mary understands.

You understand too, don't you?

You understand. You do understand, don't you?

Mary, you...

Don't you know where you are?

Get up!

Don't move.

You cut my lip.

Shh. Shh,

Dr. Mary.

Do anything you want, anything.

Just get the doctor for me, all right?

What do you want?

Want?

I'll show you what we want.

What did you want from these people?

I ask you again.

What did you want from these people?

Nothing. They were friends.

Friends?

We had dinner there.

Why did you go back with your boyfriend to these people?

What did you want from them?

Did your boyfriend like the woman?

I liked her, I don't think that he... Did your boyfriend like the

man?

No, no, he didn't.

And you?

You liked the man?

Did you like the man?

No. So, why did you go to dinner?

And why did you go back?

Why did you come to Venice?

What were you looking for?

Nothing, Richard. Were you looking for... some fun?

We were... We were going to get married.

Is this the body of Colin Mayhew?

Sign here.

Cleaned his hair the wrong way.

Sorry?

It doesn't go this way.

What are you talking about?

What are you talking about?

I'm tired.

The tourist.

But now you plan everything in advance.

You sell your bar, you sell your apartment, you buy drug, and so on, and

so on. And then, on the other hand, you leave your razor with your fingerprints,

you book a ticket under your own name, and you travel with your own passport.

We don't get it.

Listen, let me tell you something.

My father was...

A very big man.

All his life, he wore a black mustache.

When it turned gray, he used a little brush to keep it black.

Such as ladies use for their eyes.

Mascara.

Bye.

Ha ha ha!