Hey, excuse me?
I beg your pardon?
Hold on to this a sec, would you, please?
Yes, certainly.
And a little closer, if you don't mind.
Up a little higher.
Thanks. Now, still.
This is Venice we're coming into, isn't it?
Yes, we'll be there in about two minutes now.
This is the lagoon.
Oh, boy! Gotta get a shot of this.
Oh, golly!
Fifth one of these I've used already. Haven't even gotten there yet.
Oh, thanks a lot.
- Is this your first visit to Venice? - Yes. Is it yours?
No. I've been here several times.
Several times! You have?
Yes. I hope you're going to like it.
Like it? I've got to.
I've come such a long way.
I've saved up such a long time for this trip.
Do you think I maybe won't like it?
I'm sure you will.
But not everybody likes it in the same way.
Some people find it too quiet, some people find it too noisy.
And it is very noisy. But the majority find it very beautiful.
Yeah, well, I guess I'll settle with the majority.
Well, here we are.
Pensione Fiorini?
Fiorini? Pensione?
Pensione Fiorini?
- Taxi? - No taxi. Gondola, bus.
- How much, gondola? - A thousand lire.
- How much, bus? - Twenty lire.
Bus.
- Pensione Fiorini. - Accademia!
- Where bus? - There.
- That's the bus? - Si, si. Avanti.
How much?
Arrividerci.
Have a good time!
- Why, hello there. - Hi.
- Where're you from? - I'm from Akron, Ohio. How do you do?
- My name is McIlhenny. - Huh?
McIlhenny. Lloyd McIlhenny from Kankakee, Illinois.
- And this is Mrs. Mcllhenny. - Buona sera, la siginorina.
- For Pete's sake, Edith. - I'm Jane Hudson. I... Oh, excuse me.
- Isn't that wonderful? - Oh, yeah, I guess so.
Why? Don't you like Venice, Mr. McIlhenny?
- To me, it's just Luna Park on water. - Oh, now, Lloyd.
- Are you going on from here? - Sure. Next stop, Florence.
Fee-ren-zay. That's the name the Italians have given it. We're doing all of Italy.
Rome, Naples, Napoli, Capri, then off to Spain, Portugal and home.
Flying home, came over by boat.
- Yes, sir, we've been to Ireland, Scotland. - Oh, Edinburgh was sweet. Kilts.
- England, London, the Queen... - Adorable.
- France, Paris... - Yes, Paris.
Yeah. Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria...
- Salzburg Festival. Dirndls. - Switzerland. Here we are in Venice.
Some itinerary. How long have you been at it?
We docked in Southampton at 10:37 a.m. on June 15th.
- And when do you fly from Portugal? - September 9th.
This year?
Well, what do you know?
Our travel agency did a crackerjack job.
They planned every step of the way. Here, you take a look at this.
Here's today's itinerary. 8 a.m.: Breakfast, 9: Doge's Palace, Bridge of Sighs,
10: St. Marco Cathedral.
- 10:30 to 12:30: I.A. - I.A.? What's that?
Independent activity. We're allowed two hours of it every day.
Oh.
Boy, that's really something to take back to Akron.
Well, yes, I guess it is kind of unique.
You see, Miss Hudson, this is our first trip abroad.
Mr. Mcllhenny retired this year and, well, we don't have any children.
So we just decided to have our little fling.
For Pete's sake, Edith.
- Where're you stopping, Miss Hudson? - At the Pensione Fiorini.
- Well, what do you know? - We're there, too.
No. Isn't that nice?
Say, we're not coming along to the pensione right now, Miss Hudson.
We're gonna stop off here and see some Venetian lace.
Oh, it's the cutest shop. Just cute.
Oh, here's your stopping-off place coming up now, Miss Hudson.
You can put them down there, dear. One moment, Miss Hudson.
I'm terribly sorry. I know they weigh a ton.
Facchino!
Pensione Fiorini.
Grazie. Mille grazie. Arrividerci.
Hi.
Giovanna!
Hello. I'm Jane Hudson.
- My travel agent must've sent a wire from... - Oh, yes, of course. Miss Hudson.
We have your room. Will you register, please?
Here. Just your name, where from and passport number.
- It's so hot. - Yes, it's very hot.
I will fill in the rest.
- Buona sera. - Buona sera. Grazie.
Giovanna!
My husband used to say, If you're not going to fire her,
the least you can do is to strangle her.
- You speak English so well. - Thank you, but don't worry.
Giovanna doesn't speak one word.
La valigia della signorina a numero quattro.
- Va bene. Buona sera. - Buona sera.
- Oh, let me help her. They're too heavy. - Oh, no, she's strong like an ox.
- Well, I'll take this other stuff. - Thank you.
Now, that's our dining room. And here we have our sitting room.
- Won't you come in, please? - Thank you.
Giovanna!
- Oh, boy. This is lovely! - Good. Want to give me your things?
Oh, thanks. I'm so happy to be here.
Instead of in a hotel full of tourists.
Like me.
Oh, excuse me one moment.
Wow!
Do you know Cinzano?
- Do you know Bourbon? - Oh, yes.
I smuggled it in. It's very good whiskey.
- You want some ice? - No. Thank you.
I'm determined to learn to drink without it.
- You 're very willing. - Completely.
Half Italian, half American.
- Is this your first trip to Europe? - How did you guess?
- Why are you traveling all alone? - Well, I like it.
- Oh, I would hate it. - I'm the independent type. Always have been.
- You're a writer? - No. A fancy secretary, really.
- Salute. - Here's looking at you.
My...
- This is nice. I keep saying that. - I don't mind.
This is my business. Oh, it has been my home for many years.
But my husband died, the... the war. So since is a... a pensione.
- Ahh. - Oh, not 'ahh.'
I enjoyed it, though.
And it's very pleasant to make money without moving.
- Oh, hi. - This is Miss, uh... Hudson.
- I'm Phyl Yaeger. - Hello, cookie.
Be seeing you.
- Cute. - Yes.
- Don't you want to see your room? - Oh, thank you.
Hey.
This heat does things to me.
He's an artist. They've been here for some time.
When she's not singing, she's playing that terrible machine.
I like the singing and I like the machine. It's Italy, isn't it?
- Is it? - To me.
I put you high up, so you will have plenty of air.
- Thank you. - It can be very hot, you know.
Uh-huh.
Across the lagoon, you can see Murano.
That's where they make the glass.
And here you have quite a nice view.
- Prego. - Oh.
- Grazie. - For what?
For this.
You know, I met a girl on the boat coming over.
In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.
- And after? - After? Who cares.
- Anyway, this girl on the boat was waiting. - For what?
She was coming to Europe to find something.
It was way back in the back of her mind.
Past seeing things and getting some culture, that was up front about here.
Buying perfume cheap about here and letting loose for once about...
We won't go into that, but... way back, way way back
in the back of her mind was something she was looking for.
- What? - A wonderful, mystical, magical miracle.
To do what?
Beats me. I guess to find what she's been missing all her life.
- Well. I better take a shower. - Yes.
...to the Lido and the Galleria Accademia and the church of, um... What is it?
- Oh, they're all alike to me. - You should see the Biennale.
- Pardon? - That's the big art exhibition.
If I have to look at one more painting, I'll yip.
Excuse me, but... Mrs. Yaeger's husband is an artist.
- Oh. Well, pardon me, ma'am. - Well, say.
The truth is, I don't understand pictures, and I've got bad feet for standing.
I know how you feel.
But when I first fell in love with Eddie,
I just had to get to like pictures.
So I looked and looked, and then one day a wonderful thing happened.
I knew what I was looking at. Kind of.
Well, would we have seen any of Mr. Yaeger's paintings someplace?
Well, he had a one-man show in New York.
And he sold a painting to the Toledo Museum.
So you must be pretty successful.
Successful? Ha! That show was four years ago.
- Well, come along, Lloyd. - Oh, don't go, McIlhennys. Have a drink.
I'd like to but this wop food has wrecked my digestion. I...
Oh, pardon me, ma'am. No disrespect intended.
Well, arrividerci. All.
For Pete's sake, Edith, you're always on the same line.
Oh, now, Lloyd, you just leave me be.
How to make friends and influence people.
I'm sure he didn't know what he was saying.
Of course he didn't. He...
He is not a sensitive man. He has no heart. Not that much.
This wop food has ruined his miserable belly. He probably likes French food!
I must say I did.
But it's so refined. In Italy, you sit down to eat and you eat a meal.
In Paris, you sit down, and what do you eat? A sauce.
And in America, this Mr. Back, Mc, whatever it is, he sits down,
and what does he eat? Pills, only pills.
And you want me to get excited about a man like that?
- Arrividerci! - Yeah, arrividerci.
- Have a drink. - No, grazie.
- Prego? Hey, is that right? - Right. C'mon, Phyl, we gotta get going.
Oh, come on, cookies, have a drink. It'll do you good.
- No, thanks. - Prego pretty prego?
No, we're late for dinner. We'll take you up on that drink, though.
Sure. Well, that leaves us. Or does it? I guess it doesn't.
I'm dining with an old friend. Would you care to come with us?
- Oh, no, thank you. - When in Italy, you should meet Italians!
You know, Signor Fostino is in the government. Oh, please join us.
- Two's company. - Oh, Miss Hudson.
Signor Fostino and I are... Well, for several years now,
we've been, uh... unexcited.
Well, by me, you're a twosome. Sure you won't have time for a short one?
- Yes, but I don't want it. Thank you. - Maybe I can persuade myself.
- Prego? Grazie. - Arrividerci!
Arrive-! How do you pronounce that?
- Arrivider-ci. - ...ci? Haha!
There are two people back in the States I wished were here.
They're a darling couple.
Rather like the Yaegers, really. Only older.
Not older than me. Nobody's older than me.
I am. And in Italy, age is an asset.
Well, if it is, I'm loaded. Now you do have to go.
Are you sure you're not come with me?
- Grazie tanto. Okay. - Prego.
I mean, va bene.
Oh, there's no holding me. Well...
I guess I'll have dinner by myself tonight.
- Don't let Giovanna rush you. - No, indeed.
After sunset, she rushes around like an American.
She has a friend, Alfredo. And all day long, she's only recuperating
herself from the night before.
I should be so sick.
You know, Miss Hudson, those miracles, they can happen sometimes.
But you must give a little push to help.
My mother used to say things like that to me.
- Buona sera. - Buona sera.
Kitty! Kitty, kitty! Come.
Gondola, lady?
Are you looking for something, lady?
No, no.
- Gondola, lady? - Not today.
- Tonight. - Not today, not tonight.
Tomorrow night is better than tonight.
Look, you be a good boy and run along home.
- Home? I got no home. - You mean you got no place to live?
I live in a boat. Postcard, lady?
Okay.
You take this and get some food with it. You see? Some good nourishing food.
Oh, no.
- The famous Piazza San Marco. - Don't change a thing. Not one thing.
W-w-w-
Waiter?
Waiter!
Cameriere!
- Prego, signora? - Just a minute.
Il counto.
400 lire.
- Grazie. - Prego.
Grazie.
Palace of the Doges joined with the so-called Bridge of Sighs.
The massive Prigione Nuove, the prisons in whose gloomy dungeons
the enemies of the Doges were banished for life.
Smile, Lloyd, smile.
...you will visit the interiors.
Photographs of the cells are on page 37 of your guidebooks.
Well, I'm off.
- Where are you off to now? - Shopping.
Okey-dokey. Hey, camariere!
By myself, cookie.
- These are for me? - I gave you yesterday.
- Then give me cigarette? - You're too little to smoke.
- But I smoke. - Not with my help.
Just one cigarette.
You know a sucker when you see one. Eh!
- Easy does it. Prego. - Grazie.
Grazie tanto.
You okay, lady.
So long, cookie!
Buon giorno, signorina. Che desidera?
Oh. Buon giorno. Uhm...
- Does anyone around here speak English? - Yes.
I wonder if you would be good enough to tell me
the price of that... that red goblet in the window?
- One minute, please. - Thank you.
- Good morning. - Oh, good morning.
- I want to ask the price of this goblet. - For this I ask 10,000 lire.
It is 18th century.
- May I? - Please.
It is very beautiful.
It is a very beautiful color.
Perhaps you could see the color better if you took off your glasses.
Are you enjoying Venice, signorina?
Yes... yes, I have, very much. Thank you.
It is the heart of Venice, the Piazza San Marco.
Yes, I felt that.
Oh, you feel Venice? That's a wonderful feeling.
The feeling Venice leaves.
Have you a pair? Two?
Oh, no. I am sorry. This one is the only one I have.
- How much did you say it was? - To you, 10,000 lire.
- It is genuine 18th century. - Wrap it up. I'll take it.
- You take it? At this price? - That is the price, isn't it?
Excuse me, signorina. Have you bought many things in Italy?
No, I haven't. This is the first I've tried to buy. I just came yesterday.
Forgive me, signorina. But in Italy, you must not say so quick "I take it."
- You must bargain. - Why?
It is part of the buying and selling.
Well, I'll give it you for 8,700 lire.
- No, you don't. - Why?
- Because it's not fair. - But I want to.
Yes, but I bought it for 10,000 lire.
Then I give it to you for 8,700 lire in honor
of your first buying in Italy.
Well, I give in. I mean, I give up.
- Grazie. - Prego.
- I will rat-t-t, how...? - You will wreck it up.
Uh, uh, wrap. Wrap it up.
Thank you.
Will you be staying long in Venice, signorina?
Well, that depends. I mean I, uh... It's, it's, I feel as if I could stay forever.
That is the effect Venice has. That is her charm.
By the way, if it were possible to get another goblet,
would you wish still to have it?
- Oh, oh, yes, yes. - I think it is just possible I may find one.
Perhaps you could call again?
Or perhaps I could send it to your hotel.
- Where you're staying? - In Venice.
- What? - I mean, I'm living in the, in the, uhm...
- Pensione Fiorini. - Oh, yes. I know.
- Thank you. - Well, we shall try, and we shall hope.
Thank you.
May I?
Thank you.
- Thank you. - Your glasses, signorina.
Will you wear them or carry them?
Carry them. Thank you.
- Goodbye. - Goodbye.
Dearest Ben and Betty - Venice is unbelievable, it's a fairy tale.
How I wish you were here.
This time, we'd be a quartet.
Mio amico has silver-gray hair.
Cookie, you're a very pretty girl.
Yes, I know.
But I'm not interested in looking like women in paintings.
- You are. - Oh, come on!
- No, you are. - Hahahaha!
- What's the matter? - Niente.
- Signora Yaeger! - Yeah!
Say, someday when your fella's busy with his palette,
how about you showing me the town?
- Hey, Phyl, pronto, huh? - I've been pronto for ten minutes.
- Hello. - Hi.
- I'll call a boat. - Okay.
- We could go swimming. - Sure.
- We're off to Harry's Bar. - The book says that's a must.
- Yeah. Okay! - Hey, Phyl!
- Will you excuse us? - Sure. Have fun.
- Be seeing you. - Yeah.
- Bye. - Bye.
Hey! Why don't I give Harry his big break tonight?
Do you mind if I come along with you? I always buy my guards a drink.
- Sure! - Well, we're meeting some people.
I'll buy them a drink, too.
Or are there too many of them?
- Just another couple. - We're going on to dinner together.
Sure. Have fun.
- Oh, Eddie. - Well. Miss Hudson!
- Caffè. - Subito, signora.
- Good evening. - Good evening.
Good evening.
- Gondola, lady? - Oh. Haha!
You frightened me. How did you know I was here?
All time I see signorina walking and walking.
Why don't you take gondola? Is better. Not so hot.
Oh, I like it this way.
Lady, you got any brothers and sisters?
Three, cookie.
You very lucky. For three brothers and sisters, I got three Parker 51 pens.
Presents. Souvenirs of Italy.
You're impossible.
- Okay. Okay. - Now, look. Cookie, I'm lost.
- Do you know the Campo St. Barnabas? - Campo Barnaba? Si.
- You take me there. Okay? - Si. Un momento, signorina.
I wash face. Is better. You wanna wash face?
Okay. I'll wash my face, too.
Wonderful!
C'mon. Let's go.
Ponte Barnaba.
Campo Barnaba.
Your legs gone, lady?
You say the cutest things.
Look, take that. And that. All that. And you stay here.
Okay.
Don't be sad, milady.
Venice very difficult for ladies.
I'm now going to take a picture.
- Okey-dokey. - Okey-dokey? So that's about it.
- You're in the way. - You don't want my picture, lady?
What you photo, lady?
I am trying to take a picture of that shop.
Sometimes I think you're very peculiar.
Thanks, cookie.
Okay. Shoot.
Look. Come here, come here.
Be a good boy. Stand over there and don't move and shut up.
- Go ahead, now. Stop. Okay. - Mamma mia.
Signorina!
You should've seen me in the Olympics.
Scusi?
Skip it.
Mauro! Mauro!
- Here, lady. Here, lady. - Take me home.
Okay, lady, okay.
Oh.
- Good afternoon. Come sta? - Not so bene. I fell in the canal.
Oh yes, I was told. I am so sorry.
- You played, uh, hooky this afternoon. - I played hooky?
I was at your shop. Didn't the boy tell you?
- Oh, yes, yes. - He was very kind.
- He is my niece. - Nephew.
Nephew. O mamma mia. Nephew, of course.
Just when I think I speak English like an American, something happens.
Anyhow, he's the son of my eldest sister.
- Bravo. Prego. - Grazie.
That about concludes my entire performance in Italian.
Should I call somebody for you?
- Who? - I don't know. Signora Fiorini?
- I scarcely know her. - Oh.
- Do you want to go somewhere? - No. No.
- I came to see you. - Oh.
- Oh, you found another goblet. - Oh, no. No, unfortunately, no.
There are not many old goblets in Venice anymore. But we will look.
- Well, don't go to any trouble. - For you? It is no trouble.
- May we go in? - Oh.
Sure, sure.
- It's very hot, huh? - Yes.
That's better, isn't it?
Signor de Rossi, why did you come to see me?
It is only natural.
You are not going to keep buying glasses every day.
- No. - So I came.
- But why? - Why?
Does it matter why? You knew I would.
I did not.
Huh. How can I explain? Maybe it is my English.
Maybe it's mine.
Listen. Two nights ago I am in Piazza San Marco. You in Piazza San Marco.
We look. Next day you are in my shop.
We talk about glasses. We talk about Venice.
But we were not speaking about that, are we?
No.
So last night I am in Piazza San Marco again.
You are in Piazza San Marco again.
Half of Venice is in Piazza San Marco again.
But half of Venice was not in my shop this afternoon, or I would be a rich man.
- I wanted to buy another glass. - That's all?
There are shops all over Venice.
Did you look in any of them for your glass?
- No. - You see?
But you said that you would find one for me.
- That's why you came back? - Yes.
No other reason?
I don't know what your experience has been with American tourists.
My experience has been that a tourist have more experience than I.
- Can't we sit down? - No.
Oh. I have offended you.
Oh, yes. You're sorry I am here.
Then you're glad?
It may be silly to you, but I... I'm not an Italian. I am an American.
I thought everything happens so fast in America.
Not this sort of thing. Not to me.
Oh, yes. I have offended you.
Signor de Rossi, I am not a child. But I don't understand.
Understand? Why must you understand?
The most beautiful things in life are those we do not understand.
When we spoke yesterday, I knew you were simpatica.
Is that something you understand?
Yes, it means I'm like a sister to you.
I have four sisters and I'm not looking for another.
Oh, stop. You've been making a joke.
You make many jokes but inside I think you cry.
That's nice. That's why you are simpatica.
Miss Hudson, you ask me why I came here to see you.
Because you attract me. Why?
Because you do.
You Americans are even more suspicious than the French.
But listen. We saw each other. We liked each other.
This is so nice.
How can it be wrong?
Would you do me the honor of seeing me this evening?
Oh, buon giorno!
Hiya, Miss Hudson! Oh, boy, what a day we had.
- We've been shopping. - No kidding, Edith. Let 'em guess.
Signor de Rossi. Mr. and Mrs. Mcllhenny.
- Well, coma sta? - Bene, grazie.
Well, it's so nice to meet Italians in Italy. Daddy?
- Glad to know you, Mr. de Rossi. - How do you do?
Aw, gee, it's hot. I guess we kind of overran our schedule.
- What did you buy? - Glass, glass and more glass.
She even sent home a chandelier.
And before that, we did the glass factories and the picture galleries, the whole works.
The pictures were just marvelous. Now you own up, Lloyd.
Oh, yes, Edith's right. That place certainly sold me art.
- Academy of Fine Arts, is that right? - Oh, yes.
That you got to see, Miss Hudson. Come rain, come snow, that you gotta see.
Boy, oh, boy, pictures! Rooms full of pictures!
Hundreds of pictures. All done by hand.
And the cutest glass. Now, come on, I just gotta show you what I got.
Over there, so pretty, Lloyd.
- What are they? - Venetian glass.
- Please. Please don't bother to unwrap it. - It's no bother. I'll just show you one.
And you've got to do this place. You know, you stand right there and you watch them.
And they put this stuff on long poles and then they heat it in the furnace.
And then presto change-o - glass! And such colors!
You have no idea. There!
Isn't that exquisite?
Stunning.
Oddly enough, I was looking for one just like it.
Well, they'll be only too happy to make them for you.
Why, I bought half a dozen.
They practically make them for you while you stand there.
If I may ask, how much did you pay?
- Well, too much. - Oh, now, Lloyd, honestly.
You know, they wanted 11,500 lira apiece, but you never give 'em what they want.
You just beat 'em down every ti-
- Oh, I'm terribly sorry. - No, no, Italians love to bargain.
But how much did you pay finally?
Well, 10,000.
It's fair.
Aw, heck, Edith! We missed something out. We never got around to the National Library.
Well, we can get that over with in the morning before we catch the train.
Oh, sometimes I think a schedule in Venice is just, well, all wrong.
- Oh! Why, grazie. - Prego.
- Well, arrividerci. - Arrividerci? Why, Lloyd McIllhenny...
I know a little shop where Mrs. Mcllhenny could've saved 7,800 lira.
I did not sell you glass which was made yesterday.
Of course not. It was 18th century, cookie.
Do not call me cookie.
It's politer than some other names that come to mind.
- Now you're angry. - Nope.
- And suspicious again. - Angry, no. Suspicious, yes.
You can always find something to be suspicious of in anyone.
- Well, I can and this doesn't help. - Suspicion will...
What do you want me to do? What do you expect me to do?
In Venetian glass the same design is used over and over
for years and years.
Your goblet is 18th century.
You can believe me or not.
Now, please, believe me.
Will you do me the honor of taking coffee with me tonight, in the Piazza?
There is a concert tonight.
All Rossini. You like Rossini?
It is a beginning to hear music with someone.
Relax.
Relax and the world is beautiful.
Take a deep breath, like for singing.
There.
It is not very much to have coffee with me, is it?
- No. - What happens after that... happens
or does not happen.
This is all and more than I ever dreamed of.
Back in Akron.
You're a surprising person.
- Surprising? - Mh-hm.
Every woman should surprise a man at least once.
How many times have I surprised you?
I think you surprise me all the time.
- Sometimes you surprise me. - Pleasantly?
- Well... - Here is, to many pleasant surprises.
- Which flower do you prefer? - Signorina?
Well, which one do you think I should have?
Choose. I think I know which one you choose.
You do? Perhaps I might surprise you.
Perhaps. Choose.
Perhaps not.
- Surprised? - I am afraid so.
- Grazie. - Prego, signorina.
Which flower did you think I would choose?
The rose? The carnation.
Oh, the orchid! Oh, dear, I should've known.
Well, for once, I wasn't a true American.
Why did you choose that flower?
I once went to a ball.
Not just an ordinary dance, but a real ball.
It was the first one I've ever been to.
Somehow, I got it into my mind that I had to wear a gardenia.
I don't know why.
I guess I'd read about gardenias in a book or something.
I must have. I didn't even know what they were.
And did you wear one?
Gardenias turned out to cost two dollars apiece.
And the boy I was going with was still in college.
It was a nice dream.
Well, now you have your gardenia.
Yes.
Everything happens sooner or later.
Yeah, that's what they say.
Everything happens to him who waits.
Hm.
- Let's take a walk. - All right.
That's where I was born.
You see that window? With the pots of flowers?
- Oh, yes. - Sixty-four steps up. I used to count them.
That was a lot of steps.
It's still is. I went back there a year ago.
- Buena notte! - Buena notte!
What are they doing? Is it a festival or something?
No. They are just having fun.
They'll have their supper somewhere on the canal. They will sing songs.
They'll look at the stars and perhaps... Well, it is dark on the canal.
- Buena notte! - Buena not- Oh, oh! Oh!
Oh.
- I'll catch it from the steps. - Oh, it doesn't matter.
Oh, Renato.
- You are home. - Oh.
- Say it again. - Say what?
My name.
Ren-
Why did you do that?
- Why? - Yes. Why did you do that? Like that.
I don't think I want to see you again.
- You don't? - Oh, but I...
I love you.
- Tomorrow? - Eight.
Hey, lady! Ciao.
Where you been?
You supposed to come Galleria Accademia this morning. Remember?
Mauro, I forgot. I'm sorry. I'm very, very sorry.
If you're really sorry, you buy Swiss watch, 10 dollars.
- I must fly. - Where you going?
I, um, I have an appointment.
Take my photo! Lady, lady, where camera?
Oh, I must've forgotten that, too!
Crazy.
O signorina, quanto bella! Sembra una vera italiana!
- Do you really think so? A real Italian? - Si, si.
- Arrividerci. - Arrividerci. Buona sera.
- Miss Hudson? - Oh, it's you.
Good evening. I bring a message.
Signor de Rossi can't make it.
Oh, no, he'll be here. But he must be a little late.
Oh. Well...
It was very nice of you to come and tell me.
Not at all. Won't you have some coffee?
No, thank you.
Please sit down.
Thank you.
- Cigarette? - Americane?
- Yeah. - Oh, thank you.
American cigarettes are marvelous.
But I will save it for later, if you don't mind. Permit me?
- Do you like working for Mr. de Rossi? - Oh, very much.
Do you think that signor de Rossi is a nice man?
Oh, yeah. And he has a great, uh... regard for you, too.
You had only to see how upset he was when he knew he'd be late.
He didn't want to be, but my most little sister, she was taken ill.
Oh.
Well, is nothing, really, but he worries so much about the children, you know.
- He does? - Always.
He worries about whose children?
- His. Us. - Us? Who are us?
I am the eldest. Vito.
- And how is your mother? - Fine. Thank you.
So am I. Except for the hole in my head.
Excuse me, please. My English is not...
Sorry. Look, I think you better tell your father not to come.
- But he won't be long. - No, no, it's all right.
Just tell him not to come.
- Perhaps I tell him to come tomorrow night. - No. Thank you for your trouble.
- Buona sera. - Buona sera.
Hello.
Oh, hello.
- What's the matter with you? - Marital troubles.
I wish I had them. Matter of fact, I do.
- Here you go. - Thanks.
- I think I'll cry again. - You cry. I'm sunk.
- Oh, not you. - No, not me.
I'm a million laughs, all from the heart.
- But everybody loves you. - I know.
- They do! - I don't want everybody.
I can't handle a crowd.
I can't even handle... Here I go again.
Everything goes crazy for me. Everything always goes crazy for me.
I've got to be everything.
- You've got to be everything? - Isn't that crazy?
Yeah, that's crazy. Only thing different is there's... two of you, cookie.
What do you mean?
Two. That's the loveliest number in the world. Don't push your luck too far.
Everything doesn't go crazy, you just ask too much.
What's the matter? What did I say wrong?
Nothing. I'm terribly sorry. Nothing. It's me.
- Something happened to you? - No, no, nothing happened to me.
That's my history. Have a stale potato chip.
- Listen. I don't love you. - Who asked?
It was very pleasant that other time.
Andiamo?
- Mauro! - Eccomi!
- Gondola! - Okey-dokey!
Signora?
Signore.
- All ready! - Oh.
Oh, grazie. Grazie tanto.
Buona sera, signora. Buona sera, signor.
- What'd you get that for? - It's mine!
- What did you get that for? - Prego!
- That's dirty! - I work! I got the gondola!
Is that what you do? Is that your work?
What's the matter with it? What's the matter?
You stop that, you hear? You stop that!
What... did he do?
That was... That was too... That was too... And he's just a baby, a child.
Signora Fiorini and the painter? For that you rage at the child.
- What's the matter, lady? You crazy? - Sparisci tu. Bye.
Something happens to this city at night.
Are you going to be angry with Venice now?
Your friend would do the same thing in Kansas City.
Not in a gondola.
That's an advantage of Venice.
- Jane. - Don't call me Jane!
Miss Hudson, you're shocked.
- No, disappointed. - No, shocked.
- I don't like dishonesty. - You're not his wife.
Why didn't you tell me you were married?
- Oh, I see. - Why?
- I was...
I was afraid. I was afraid if you knew too soon,
it would end us before we began. Now I'm afraid I was right.
No wonder you approve of that sort of thing.
Approve? What signora Fiorini does in gondolas is not my business.
She leaves, I leave. I approve of leaving.
Pretending everything is fine and dandy, just because you want to do it.
You Americans get so disturbed about sex.
- We don't take it lightly. - Take it, don't talk it.
Jane.
- My wife and I do not live together. - Why?
Why? It is an arrangement that we have come to.
Does your wife have friends?
- Naturally. - Gondola friends?
No.
- You're shocked. - No. Disappointed.
No. Shocked.
Your sense of humor is coming back. Good.
- I'm sorry, yours is leaving. - Listen to me. Stop.
You're behaving like a schoolgirl.
What my wife does is not your business.
What signora Fiorini does is not your business.
You come here and what do you do?
You ride in a gondola and you say, Oh, Venice, it's so beautiful, so romantic.
Oh, these Italians, so lyrical, so romantic.
Sad children. And you dream of meeting someone you want.
Young, rich, witty, brilliant
and unmarried, of course.
But me, I'm a shopkeeper. Not young. Not rich. Not witty, not brilliant.
And married, of course.
But I am a man and you are a woman.
What did you say? It's wrong. It's wicked. It's this, it's that.
You're like a hungry child who is given ravioli to eat.
No, you say, I want beefsteak.
My dear girl, you are hungry. Eat the ravioli.
- I'm not that hungry. - We are all that hungry, Miss Hudson.
There is a noise in your head. Be quiet. Let it happen.
I want it to happen.
- I want it to happen. - Don't you think I do?
- Then? - It's just...
It just isn't the way I thought it would be.
I'm sorry.
But I... I come from such a different world
and I'm not going to be here long.
So it is better to take home only Venetian glass?
If you really was not so angry, you'd do that very well.
Do I?
Yes.
- Let me take you outside. - No.
- Please. - No. I'm gonna go for a walk, alone.
Please leave me alone.
It is very difficult.
- Let me take you for a drink. - No.
- A little something to eat. - No.
- There are fireworks tonight. - I don't care.
This is ridiculous.
I am afraid it is.
- Gondola, signore, gondola? - No.
- Ciao. - Ciao.
- Do you know the words? - Oh, yes. This song, it says that...
I know what it says.
- Have you heard it in America? - No.
- Oh, si. - Si.
- You sing it. - How do you know I can?
Because you're Italian.
- Oh. Buon giorno, signorina. - Buona sera, Giovanna.
- Es tanto bello? - Molto, molto bello.
- Buona notte, signorina. - Buona notte, Giovanna.
That's Murano!
When I was young, they called it, 'L'isola dove si infrange I'arcobaleno.'
What does that mean?
'The island where the rainbow fell.'
It's very late. We ought to go.
- Are you asleep? - Fast asleep.
- You slept all day yesterday. - True.
You sleep all day, and then you don't want to sleep at night.
Renato.
You promised to take me to see the lace-making, and now it's too late.
I will take you tomorrow.
- You promise? - No.
- Now do you promise? - That makes it more difficult.
If you don't take me, I'll never kiss you again.
Yes, you will.
Yes, I guess I will.
- They're getting to know us. - You asked them to play it.
I did.
- Signorina? Prego. - Grazie.
You are far away.
I am very close.
What are you thinking?
I was thinking of the first evening I came here.
First time I saw you, you were wearing that yellow tie.
I don't want to forget any of it. Not a single moment.
I don't think I ever shall.
I'd like to go for a little walk. Take us somewhere quiet.
Somewhere that is you.
I think you're going to surprise me again.
Listen, Renato. I'm leaving today.
Huh?
I'm all packed. My train leaves in two hours.
I don't believe you.
Well, you have to believe me because it's true.
What have I done?
Nothing.
What made you change your mind?
Well, I, I... I hadn't a mind change, really. I just found it.
I haven't made you unhappy?
No. You haven't. It's the happiest time I've had in my whole life.
- You must believe that, please. - Why throw it away?
Well, because we have to. Because it's wrong and...
because you and I would only end in nothing.
I love you, Jane.
You don't have to say that.
I mean it.
I shall always love you.
Yeah.
If I go.
You know, all my life, I've stayed at parties too long
because I didn't know when to go.
Now, with you, I've grown up, I...
think I do know when to.
- I can't bear it if you go today. - I can't bear it, either.
- Just a few days longer. - No. No, I, I couldn't. Then I'd never go.
No, please. No. Take me to the ferry station.
- Jane... - Oh, no, no, please. Please help me.
- Let me go by myself. - Don't go, please.
Please don't go!
Let me go.
- I must catch that train. - I will take you to the station.
No, no, that's just what I don't want you to do.
Oh, Renato!
- Mauro! - Hi!
- What are you doing here? - I come to shake hands with you.
I'm sorry, Mauro, I'm very, very sorry.
- Okay, okay. - Okay.
- You going to Rome? - I'm going home.
- To America? - Yeah.
- You come back again? - Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
You come back with big Americans?
- I'll be your guide. - Okay.
- Parker 51. - No, thank you.
No, cost you nothing. Is from me. Present.
- Why? - Because I like.
- You okey-dokey, lady? - Sure, I'm okey-dokey.
Be seeing you.
Be seeing you!
Thank you. I mean, grazie.
Renato!