Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene

Author:Graham Greene [Graham Greene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-84943-780-6
Publisher: OBERON BOOKS Ltd
Published: 2012-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Act Two

SIGN – ARGENTINA

Music – South American.

HENRY (3): There was no one to meet me at the airport, and when I arrived at the hotel, I found only a letter.

AUNT AUGUSTA (1): I am sorry not to be here to greet you in Argentina but I have had to move on urgently to Paraguay where an old friend of mine is in some distress. I have left you a ticket for the river-boat. I will see that you are met.

HENRY (3): It was a highly unsatisfactory arrangement.

HENRY (2): There were© four days ahead of me, up the Plata, the Parana and the Paraguay. I left the Argentine winter for my over-heated cabin.

Ship’s hooter.

HENRY (3): I propped the photograph of Freetown harbour at the back of my dressing-table and supported it with my books.

HENRY (2): I had brought with me Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, the collected poems of Tennyson and Wordsworth, and I had added Rob Roy, perhaps because it contained the only photograph I possessed of my aunt.

HENRY (1): I found myself thinking not for the first time that the happy smile, the young breasts, the curve of her body in the old-fashioned bathing-costume were like the suggestion of a budding maternity.

HENRY (3): I finished my unpacking and went down to the bar.

HENRY (1): A rabbit-nosed man with a long drooping moustache approached me.

SPANISH GENTLEMAN (3): Perdone, estimado Sênor, pero le puedo molestar?

HENRY (1): No hablo Español, Sênor.

SPANISH GENTLEMAN (3): Me gustaria mucho leer en las lineas de su mano. Para mi seria un gran placer.

O’TOOLE (2): Can I be of any help?

HENRY (2): Said a tall, sad, grey American whom I hadn’t noticed as we came on board.

HENRY (1): I don’t understand what this gentleman wants.

O’TOOLE (2): His hobby is reading hands.

HENRY (1): I don’t mind.

SPANISH GENTLEMAN (3): Usted he venido de muy lejos.

O’TOOLE (2): He says you have come from a long way off.

HENRY (1): That’s a bit obvious, isn’t it?

SPANISH GENTLEMAN (3): Sus viajes llegaran pronto a su fin.

O’TOOLE (2): But your travels are nearly over.

HENRY (1): That can hardly be true. I have to go back home.

SPANISH GENTLEMAN (3): Preveo que encontrera de nuevo con una persona que siempre le ha estado muy cerco. Puede que sea su mujer.

O’TOOLE (2): He sees a reunion of someone very close to you. Your wife perhaps.

HENRY (1): I have no wife.

SPANISH GENTLEMAN (3): O puede que sea su madre.

O’TOOLE (2): He says it could be your mother.

HENRY (1): She’s dead. At least…

SPANISH GENTLEMAN (3): Preveo a la muerte, pero esta muy lejos de la linea de su corazon.

O’TOOLE (2): He sees a death – but it’s far away from your heart-line. It’s not an important death.

HENRY (1): Do you believe in this nonsense?

O’TOOLE (2): No, I guess not, but I try to keep an open mind. My name’s O’Toole, James O’Toole.

HENRY (1): Mine’s Pulling – Henry.

O’TOOLE (2): You a Londoner, Henry?

HENRY (1): Yes.

O’TOOLE (2): I come from Philadelphia. Mind if I join you?

Actor (4) serves drink to O’Toole.

You going to Asuncion too?

HENRY (1): Yes.

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