MRS GOFORTH: I made my maximum mistake while I placed a quick vehicle in his arms, that purple demon activities automobile, his battling cock, I referred to as it, which he drove insanely, recklessly, among my property and the on line casino at Monte Carlo, so recklessly that the police commissioner of Monaco got here for my part to invite me. Correction, beg me. Correction, implore me! – To insist that he select me within the Rolls with a chauffeur on the wheel, as a defense of his existence and of the lives of others. – M. Le Commissionaire, I acknowledged, for me there are not any others. – i do know, Madame, he stated, yet for the others there are others. – Then I confessed to the Commissioner of Police that over this younger poet with Romanov blood in his veins, I had not more keep an eye on than my palms had over the sea-wind or the storms of the ocean. At evening he had flying desires, he could thrash his hands like wings, and as soon as his hand on which he wore a signet ring with the heavy Romanov crest struck me within the mouth and drew blood. After that, unavoidably – dual beds… BLACKIE: Mrs Goforth, excuse me, however the final thing i've got typed up is – oh, the following it's. – ‘My first husbands have been grotesque as apes and my 3rd one resembled an ostrich. ’ – Now if this passage you’re dictating to me is available in direct series it is going to sound as though you had positioned the short motor vehicle within the fingers of the ostrich. [A lengthy, tempestuous pause. ] MRS GOFORTH: Aren’t you the sly one, oh, you’re sly as ten flies in case you are looking to provide me the needle, aren’t you, omit Blackie? My first 3 marriages have been into Dun and Bradstreet’s, and the Social sign in, either! – My first husband, Harlon Goforth, whose identify I nonetheless hold after 3 later marriages – that dignified financier, multi-millionaire! – was once a guy that Presidents positioned subsequent to their other halves at banquets within the White apartment, and also you sit down there smoking in my face, for those who understand I’ve been informed to give up smoking, and also you make a shaggy dog story of my paintings with a dead-pan expression in your Vassar-girl face, on your Vassar-girl voice, and that i won't TOLERATE IT! – you recognize goddam good. I’m conversing approximately my fourth husband, the final one, the single I married for romance, who plunged off the Grande Corniche among Monte Carlo and – died that evening in my palms in a health facility at great: and my center died with him! perpetually. [Her voice breaks. ] BLACKIE: I’m sorry, Mrs Goforth. [Puts out cigarette. ] – I’m no author yet I do imagine in writing there should be a few type of logical – series, continuity – among one bit and the following bit, and the very last thing you dictated to me – MRS GOFORTH: used to be it anything I wear the tape-recorder in my bed room after I’d been given a type of injections that disillusioned my stability at evening? BLACKIE: I took it off your bed room tape this morning. MRS GOFORTH: consistently payment these evening recordings with me earlier than we start to paintings the next morning. We’re operating opposed to time, Blackie. consider, try and be mindful, I’ve received dead-lines to satisfy, my ny publishers and my London publishers, either, have my memoirs on their Fall record. I stated Fall. It’s already past due in August.