Jenny's Bedroom In Paris

ALEX
Come on Jenny
That's enough now
Jenny even mermaids
Have to sleep

JENNY
I am a mermaid
With golden hair

ALEX
Come on Jenny
Be a good girl

JENNY (suddenly serious)
Alex let me hold you
There's so much I want to say

I want you here forever
In my arms and in my life
To belong to you entirely
You know we're not just cousins

ALEX (getting up)
We are just cousins Jenny
And you're fifteen years old

JENNY (pulling him back)
It's not as if I don't know passion
From living in our house
I've learnt that feelings can run deep

ALEX
We'll talk tomorrow --
Go to sleep

Taking more
Than I ought to take

What are you doing?
Don't even think it
You have no right to feel this way
And yet
I love her and I must not love her
I wish to God we'd never met
She ought to be
The last one I should think of

GEORGE
I know he's
Up there with her now

ALEX
She ought to be
The last one I should love

GEORGE
If he is
My God I'll kill him

ALEX
She ought to be
The last one I should care for

GEORGE
I should have
Stopped this long ago

ALEX
The very last

GEORGE
Selfish little cradle-snatcher
Twisted rotten heartless monster
Filthy filthy callous bastard

I was right
He's in there
There he is
He's in there

Jenny my Jenny
I can't let him take you
I

ALEX
GeorgeGeorge
I was saying goodnight to Jenny
When I heard a noise in the passage
He must have fallen
And had a heart attack

HUGO (to ROSE who is bending down to attempt to revive GEORGE)
No it's hopeless

ROSE
He was listening --
Jenny mustn't know
If she asks you
Say he died while sitting by the fire --
Help me to move him in there