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         (E)  /h4/ /h9/ TIME CODE: 06:30

        JUSTIN and SUSANNE are alone.

                        JUSTIN
                I can't find Helen.  Have you seen her?

                        SUSANNE
                No.

                        JUSTIN
                I'm worried about her.

                        SUSANNE
                She may be planning to make a surprise grand
                entrance.

                        JUSTIN
                I thought I was giving her a ride.  She wasn't
                home.

                        SUSANNE
                Really?

                        JUSTIN
                You think she plans to make a grand entrance?

                        SUSANNE
                I'm sure that must be it.  You
                know Helen, she's not going to
                let this be just another dull
                wedding.  She probably made other
                arrangements to get her and forgot
                to tell you.

                        JUSTIN
                It's hardly dull, given all the weirdos
                around here.

                        SUSANNE
                But Helen won't let weirdos upstage
                her.

                        JUSTIN
                I hope you're right.

                        SUSANNE
                I'm sure I am.  How can there be
                a wedding without Helen?  It's
                unthinkable.  So relax and tell
                me what you've been up to.

                        JUSTIN
                Defending Helen, lately.  I think her
                rivals are hoping she's guilty.  They
                probably believe she did murder the
                doctor.

                        SUSANNE
                Poisoned him, is what I heard.  But let's
                talk about something more interesting.
                I heard you got divorced.

                        JUSTIN
                Two years ago.

                        SUSANNE
                Well, you haven't been home since then,
                have you?  I bet there's a new woman
                in your life.

                        JUSTIN
                Not really.

                        SUSANNE
                Now that surprises me.

                        JUSTIN
                And you?  I heard you got divorced yourself.

                        SUSANNE
                You are behind the times: I've
                married and divorced again since
                then.  Me and Liz, we just don't seem
                to be compatible with matrimony.

                        JUSTIN
                I think I'll try a live-in next time
                myself.

                        SUSANNE
                I think even that may be too much
                for me.  You know what it is?  I
                really don't mind being alone.  Men
                don't like that in a woman.  Self-reliance
                threatens them.

                        JUSTIN
                Then you've been with clingers.  That
                was my problem, not having enough time
                to myself.

                        SUSANNE
                Franklin, the last one, wouldn't even
                let me do the Sunday crossword in peace.
                I'd take it to the terrace, he'd follow
                me, reading the sports pages to me of
                all things.  Follow me around the house
                like a puppy dog, throwing meaningless
                statistics at me, so-and-so walked in
                a run, the count was such-and-such with
                two outs in the ninth when pow!, someone
                or other belted it over the fence.  No
                matter what I said, he refused to believe
                I was not interested in football.

                        JUSTIN
                Baseball.

                        SUSANNE
                Of course.

                        JUSTIN
                I can sympathize with you.  My ex kept me up
                to date with the strategies and whatall in her
                bridge club.  I've refused to learn for years.

                       SUSANNE
                I know just how you feel.

      A pause: and Susanne laughs.

                        JUSTIN
                What's so funny?

                        SUSANNE
                The two of us.  Who would've thought we'd have
                so much in common?

                        JUSTIN
                Do we?

                        SUSANNE
                We need our privacy -- that's a significant
                common denominator in today's world.

                        JUSTIN
                Susanne, are you making a move on
                me?

                        SUSANNE
                Well, it has crossed my mind.  What
                do you think?

                        JUSTIN
                I didn't know you were so aggressive.

                        SUSANNE
                I'm not proposing, for God's sake.  But
                since you're in town for a while . . .

                        JUSTIN
                Only until we win the appeal.  Then it's
                back to San Francisco.

                                SUSANNE
                I hope you're not possessive.

                        JUSTIN
                Hardly.

                        SUSANNE
                Then perhaps we can enjoy one another
                while we can.

                        JUSTIN
                I'm flattered.

                        SUSANNE
                Don't be.  Just take advantage of the
                situation.

                        JUSTIN
                Yes, perhaps I shall.

                        SUSANNE
                Good.  Now that that's settled, tell
                me what you really think of this
                wedding.

                        JUSTIN
                I find it very suspicious.

                        SUSANNE
                In other words, Trudy's lost her
                marbles.

                        JUSTIN
                It's a possibility.  I didn't think she'd
                remarry so soon after divorcing Raymond.

                        SUSANNE
                Perhaps she's doing it to hurt
                Helen.

                        JUSTIN
                How do you mean?

                        SUSANNE
                I assume she believes Helen is guilty,
                considering how close she was to her
                father.  She knows Helen is tough-minded
                enough to see through this cult, any
                cult, so naturally the way to get at
                her would be to give the estate money
                to one.  Helen, bless her soul, is
                trying to go along with it, but what
                alternative does she have?  It would
                be more of a scandal to turn her own
                daughter away, not to go along with
                the wedding at all.  That's why I
                feel certain she'll be here.  But
                inside, I know she's in pain.  Trudy
                in a cult is just tearing her up
                inside -- and then giving most of the estate
                to the cult as well--

                        JUSTIN
                We don't really know she's doing that.

                        SUSANNE
                Of course she is.

                        JUSTIN
                Jack is challenging the will, at any rate.

                        SUSANNE
                He is?

                        JUSTIN
                This is just between you, me and the
                fencepost -- but that's what Lylla
                Morrison is doing here.  Jack's retained
                her to challenge the will and also Trudy's
                sanity, her ability to handle her
                own affairs.

                        SUSANNE
                That's the last thing Helen needs, her
                children fighting over the estate.

                        JUSTIN
                I think she's on Jack's side.

                        SUSANNE
                It still must be tearing her up inside.

                        JUSTIN
                After what she's been through already,
                this is small potatoes.

                        SUSANNE
                That poor woman.  She's a wonder, how she
                bears up, then sending out those lovely
                wedding invitations.

        ANGELO joins them.  /h4/ /h9/ /en13/  TIME CODE: 09:30

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