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Terrace Duet

FLORENCE
This is the one situation
I wanted most to avoid
Nothing I say will convince him this isn't a trick

ANATOLY
A drink on a clear moonlit night -
I relax, she smiles
There's something peculiar going on

FLORENCE
So, through no fault of my own, I'm in it way over my head
Embarrassed, outnumbered, marooned

ANATOLY
Now she can't be working for them -
I mean us -
She seems so very straightforward -
But where is he?

FLORENCE
He has to turn up - it can't come to nothing
Perhaps it can!

ANATOLY
Maybe he's scared -
But he didn't seem scared in the game

FLORENCE
Oh I just couldn't care less
He can go right ahead
Go and wreck his career,
I know I've done my best

ANATOLY
Well at least she's a good-looking spy

FLORENCE
What if my Russian friend thinks that my plans
Have nothing to do with the chess?
If I don't say something and soon
He'll go - Maybe I'm on nobody's side!

ANATOLY
Listen, I hate to break up the mood
Get to the point, begin the beguine
Haven't you noticed we're still one character short
In this idyllic, well-produced scene?

FLORENCE
How could I not, Miss Vassy regrets
Anything goes, with your opponent

ANATOLY
Never mind him -
I haven't missed him so far

Maybe it won't do any harm
To struggle on without his charm

Funny how all at once I feel
Nothing about this meeting matters anymore

FLORENCE
This is the one situation
I wanted most to avoid

ANATOLY
My dear opponent -
I really can't imagine why

FLORENCE
You'll think I'm the dangerous kind -
Well I am!

ANATOLY
You, you're not dangerous -
Who could think that of you?

FLORENCE
You - you are so strange -
Why can't you be what you ought to be?

BOTH
You should be scheming, intriguing, too clever by half -

ANATOLY
I have to hand it to you
For you've managed to make me
Forget why I ever agreed to this farce

BOTH
I don't know why I can't think of anything
I would rather do
Than be wasting my time with someone like you

FREDDIE
Who'd ever think it?
Such a very pretty setting!
Tell me what's the betting
Very pretty plotting too?
No matter - I've done all your work for you.

Who'd ever guess it?
Daughter in collaboration
With the very nation
Gave her father third degree!
Where's Daddy? Dead or in the KGB?