EXT. PLACE ST. SULPICE- MORNING

Mimi and Marianne walk out of the church and into the Place St. Sulpice. Gabriel approaches them.

MIMI

Gabriel, I thought you'd gone home already.

Gabriel

I decided to stay the week with my sister and her husband; I'm going home tomorrow. I would stay longer but my father needs me back home. It's lambing season.

MARIANNE

Lambing season?

GABRIEL

Before I left, Father and I lead our flocks into the upper pastures so that the pregnant ewes won't be troubled by flies. Some nights, when the weather is nice, I sleep out in the fields so I can look after them. They like it when I play my harmonica for them.

MARIANNE

"Le poëte s'en va dans les champs; il admire, il adore, il écoute en lui-même une lyre."

GABRIEL

Victor Hugo. My favorite poem of his is Elle Était Déchaussée.

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MARIANNE

"Elle était déchaussée, elle était décoiffée, Assise, les pieds nus, parmi les joncs penchants ; Moi qui passais par là, je crus voir une fée." It's one of my favorites as well.

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MIMI

Marianne, we must be going. We're meeting Catharine for lunch at noon.

MARIANNE

(to Gabriel)

Have a safe trip home.

GABRIEL

Thank you, Mademoiselle.

MARIANNE

Marianne, please.

GABRIEL

Mademoiselle Marianne.

He puts his hat back on, tips it to the ladies, and then walks off.

Marianne and Mimi also begin to walk off.

MIMI

I think that boy is smitten with you.

MARIANNE

He could just as easily be smitten with you.

MIMI

Don't be ridiculous

MARIANNE

Why not? You're still young and as beautiful as ever.

INT. HÔTEL VERTE, MARIANNE'S FLAT-NIGHT

Marianne is seated by her bay window with Johnny curled up by her side. She opens a colorful geometric printed hatbox and begins to go through a number of photographs and mementos such as a Croix de Guerre medal. One of the photographs is of the same sweet-faced blonde woman from the photograph at the St. Sulpice votive altar, holding a baby (dated 1915). Another of the same woman with a toddler (dated 1916), and another of a couple in wedding dress (dated 1913).

Johnny's ears prick up and he climbs up and paws at the window, barking. Marianne stands up looks out the window.

EXT. HÔTEL VERTE, OUTSIDE MARIANNE'S WINDOW-NIGHT

Augustin is standing outside of Marianne's window, throwing pebbles.

AUGUSTIN

(shouting)

Marianne!

Marianne opens up her window and pokes her head out.

MARIANNE

Keep it down, Someone might hear you.

AUGUSTIN

You look trapped up there.

MARIANNE

(with sarcasm)

And you've come to rescue me?

AUGUSTIN

That depends...

MARIANNE

On what?

AUGUSTIN

On whether or not you want to be rescued.

MARIANNE

Then I don't

AUGUSTIN

What's the matter, you don't trust me?

MARIANNE

Not at all!

Marianne begins to close her window.

AUGUSTIN

Wait! I'm sorry for taking your ring, I really am. I don't know what came over me; It just happens sometimes. Like all bad habits, once you start it's hard to stop.

MARIANNE

Isn't that the usual excuse?

Augustin begins to walk away.

MARIANNE

Wait! Most thieves wouldn't return something they stole.

AUGUSTIN

Most little waitresses would tell me to get lost if I knocked on their door. So, is Rapunzel going to let her hair down?

MARIANNE

I'll be down in a minute.

Marianne disappears from her window and appears a few moments later, coming out of the front door of the Hôtel Verte. She and Augustin run off down the street.

INT. CINEMA, LOBBY/ AUDITORIUM-NIGHT

Augustin and Marianne walk past a post for Gold Diggers of 1933 in the movie theater's flashy art deco lobby. ANTON (20s) notices them. He is swarthy and catlike and dressed in a dandyish fashion. Augustin, Marianne, and Anton join a crowd going into one of the auditoriums. They walk in as a newsreel about the rise of the Third Reich in Germany.

INT. CINEMA, AUDITORIUM- NIGHT

On the screen, Ginger Rogers is performing the musical number "We're in the Money" from Gold Diggers of 1933.

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Sitting in front of Marianne and Augustin is a couple in their twenties who are smooching.

AUGUSTIN

(whispering to Marianne)

Would you like a soda pop?

Marianne nods her head "yes". Augustin gets up and leaves for the concession stand. Once Augustin is out of the auditorium, Anton swoops in and sits down in Augustin's spot.

ANTON

(to Marianne)

Hey Little One, isn't it past your bedtime?

MARIANNE

Excuse me?

SMOOCHING GIRL takes a break from making out with her boyfriend and turns to Anton and Marianne.

SMOOCHING GIRL

Hey, keep it down!

ANTON

(to Marianne)

Shouldn't a good little girl be in bed right now? Does your maman know you're out this late?

MARIANNE

What's your problem!

SMOOCHING GUY comes up for air to yell at Marianne and Anton.

SMOOCHING GUY

Shut up will ya!

Augustin has returned with the soda pops and he notices the commotion. He grabs Anton by the collar of his shirt and pulls him into the lobby.

INT. CINEMA, LOBBY- NIGHT

Augustin drags Anton out of the auditorium and into the lobby, stopping outside the door.

AUGUSTIN

Damn it, Anton! Do you always have to be such an ass?

ANTON

Well if it isn't my old friend Augustin. How d'you pick up that little blonde back there?

AUGUSTIN

Some of us know how to treat a lady.

ANTON

Anyway, do you know of Bruno Faucherie?

AUGUSTIN

Who doesn't. What about him?

ANTON

He's getting a gang together to do a job.

AUGUSTIN

What's the job?

ANTON

A jewelry store near the Place St. Sulpice.

AUGUSTIN

Why are you telling me about this?

ANTON

I thought you might want in.

AUGUSTIN

That's a little above my level.

ANTON

Don't act so innocent. Everyone's going to get a cut of the loot; you'll be able to take your girl out to nicer places than this. Isn't it about time you start playing with the big kids? That is, if you've balls for it, or has love taken them away from you?

AUGUSTIN

You really are the devil, Anton.

ANTON

No, my friend, I just work for him. If you're in, meet me at the St. Michel fountain a week from today, ten o'clock at night.

Anton begins to walk away but turns around, giving Augustin a catlike grin.

ANTON

By the way, good luck with the little porcelain doll. You'll need it.

Augustin scowls at Anton and goes back into the auditorium.

INT. CINEMA, AUDITORIUM-NIGHT

Augustin returns to his seat next to Marianne, who takes a sip of her soda pop.

MARIANNE

Who was that? A friend of yours?

AUGUSTIN

I guess you could say that.

MARIANNE

I don't like him that much.

AUGUSTIN

I don't like him that much either. I've known him since I was a kid. He was the little sh... brat who bullied the other kids into smoking cigarettes and stealing candy. He's a slimy little pr... jerk who just happens to know some big, scary jerks, so you have to be careful around him.

EXT. CINEMA, EXIT-NIGHT

The front doors of the cinema open and Augustin and Marianne walk out. Marianne is singing one of the songs from the movie they've just watched.

MARIANNE

(singing)

We're in the money, we're in the money. We've got a lot of what it takes to get along.

They walk off into the night.

AUGUSTIN V.O.

So, what's your story?

EXT. JARDIN DU LUXEMBOURG, FONTAINE DE L'OBSERVATOIRE- NIGHT

Augustin and Marianne are walking around the Fontaine de l'Observatoire, a massive fountain in the Jardin du Luxembourg depicting a globe being held up by three naked women surrounded by charging bronze horses. The fountain is flanked on either side by a row of impeccably manicured trees.

MARIANNE

It's not terribly long or interesting. I was born in Normandy; My grandparents owned a chateau outside of Rouen. My father was killed in the Great War and my mother died of consumption when I was twelve.

AUGUSTIN

My dad died in the war too. I lost my maman and grande-mère when I was five when the Spanish Flu came to Algiers.

Augustin and Marianne begin to walk among the trees, weaving in and out of between them.

MARIANNE

You lived in Algiers?

AUGUSTIN

I was born there. My dad was a soldier stationed in Algeria and my maman was an Arab who lived in the Algiers casbah. I almost died of the Spanish flu like maman and grande-mère and sometimes I think it would have been better if I had. When they were gone, dad asked to be transferred to the Western Front and he left me with my aunt and uncle here in Paris. Next thing I knew, he was dead too.

EXT. JARDIN DU LUXEMBOURG, PALAIS DU LUXEMBOURG- AFTERNOON

It is a cloudy, humid afternoon several days or weeks following Augustin and Marianne's last encounter. They are walking along a path which circles around the lawn in front of the Palais du Luxembourg.

MARIANNE

My mother and I lived in Normandy until I was eight and nothing much happened to me there. Then we lived in Cannes until my mother died. My aunts brought me back to Normandy and sent me to a school run by the sisters of the convent of Sainte Agathe near Bayeux and that's where I was until about five months ago.

Marianne stops at a crêpe stand.

MARIANNE

I'll have mine with strawberries and Chantilly cream.

She gives some money to the CRÊPE MAN who then begins to prepare her crêpes.

MARIANNE

What about you? You seem like someone who has some interesting stories to tell.

AUGUSTIN

Oh really?

MARIANNE

You're many things, Augustin Lerou, but boring isn't one of them.

AUGUSTIN

Two years after I moved in with my aunt and uncle, my uncle also died. He was shot to death when the garage he worked at was robbed. My cousin Léon and I were sitting in his car at the time and we saw the whole thing.Perhaps I'm unlucky?

MARIANNE

Trouble does seem to follow you around.

CRÊPE MAN hands Marianne her plate of crêpes. Marianne offers some to Augustin, who reaches over to take a crêpe. Their hands brush against each other.

EXT. JARDIN DU LUXEMBOURG, MEDICI FOUNTAIN- EARLY MORNING

Another several days or weeks have passed. It is very early in the morning and still dark outside. Augustin and Marianne are sitting along the narrow, rectangular pool in front of the Medici Fountain. The first few rays of sunrise peak through the canopy of tree branches among them.

MARIANNE

My family hasn't been as rich as they once were since my grandfather died. My Tante Catharine has two daughters to launch into the world and appearances to keep up, so when I finished school, I had few other options besides waiting tables or taking the veil and I didn't feel like entering a convent.

AUGUSTIN

That would have been a waste.

Augustin tucks a loose strand of her hair behind her ear. She scoots further away from him. In doing so, her knee brushes his and they both blush.

AUGUSTIN

I'm sorry about everything, about Anton and the ring.

MARIANNE

You and Anton wouldn't be the first people to make me look like a fool. I seem to have the word written on my forehead. You told me that one of your flaws is that you can't always control yourself, mine is that I'm too trusting.

AUGUSTIN

Do you trust me?

MARIANNE

(smiling)

Not even I'm that foolish

Augustin gets up from the edge of the fountain.

AUGUSTIN

It's late, I better get you home.

Marianne gets up from the edge of the fountain and walks off out of the park with him.