Monsieur Verdoux

The Girl :

It's nice seeing you. You'll never

realise what your kindness meant.

Monsiuer Verdoux :

Kindness is a convenient thing at times, my dear.

The Girl :

However, tell me about yourself.

Monsiuer Verdoux :

I prefer to talk about something pleasant.

You for instance and this...

And what?

Monsiuer Verdoux :
What sort of a chap is your friend?

The Girl :

In many ways, very kind and generous.

But in business, quite ruthless.

Monsiuer Verdoux :

Business is a ruthless business.

Do you love him?

The Girl :

I thought you didn't believe in such things?

Monsiuer Verdoux :

Everyone needs Love.

The Girl :

Something's happened. 
You seem to have lost your zest for bitterness.

Monsiuer Verdoux :

Perhaps I have no more use for it, since I've given up The Fight.

The Girl :

There's always something to fight for.

Monsiuer Verdoux :

For me, there is nothing.

The Girl :

Nothing?

Monsiuer Verdoux :

Soon after The Crash, I lost my wife and child.

The Girl :

Oh, I'm sorry, I never realised.

Monsiuer Verdoux :

However, they're much happier Where They Are 
than living in This World of Uncertainty.

The Girl :

You have changed. 
I can see that.

Monsiuer Verdoux :

Since the loss of my family, I seem to have awakened from A Dream.

The Girl :

What do you mean?

Monsiuer Verdoux :

I was a bank clerk once.

My existence a monotonous rhythm.

Day in and day out, counting Other People’s Money.

Then the rhythm was broken.

I lost my position.

What followed was a numbed confusion.

A nightmare in which I lived in a half dream world.

A horrible world.

And now I've awakened.

I wonder if that world ever existed.

The Girl :

You went through a bad ordeal.

Don't allow it to take hold of you.

Monsiuer Verdoux :

It hasn't. Despair is a narcotic.

It lulls the mind into indifference.

The Girl :

But that's giving up Life.

Monsiuer Verdoux :

We must all give it up sooner or later.

The Girl :

Yes, but not before our Time.

Monsiuer Verdoux :

Why?

The Girl :

Must you know the reason for everything?

Monsiuer Verdoux :

It might help a little if we did.

The Girl :

Life is Beyond Reason.

That's Why you must go on.

If it's only to fulfil Your Destiny.

Monsiuer Verdoux :

My Destiny!