Chapter Six
Leo: You'll come? Tonight?
Piper: Yes.
Leo: What time?
Piper: Eight o' clock.
Leo: Promise?
Piper: Yes...go!
Morris: Are you mad? Dan holds the deeds to the Moulin Rouge. He's spending a fortune on you. He's given you a beautiful new dressing room. He wants to make you a star. And you're dallying with the writer?
Piper: Oh...Darryl, don't be ridiculous--
Morris: I SAW YOU TOGETHER!
Piper: It's nothing, It's just an infatuation. It's nothing.
Morris: The infatuation will end. Go to the boy; tell him it's over. Dan is expecting you in the Tower at eight.
Piper: If I should die this very moment...I wouldn't fear. For I've never known completeness. Like being here, wrapped in the warmth of you...loving every breath of you. Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day...gasps and coughs.
How could I know in those last fatal days--
(Piper
coughs violently)
That force darker than jealousy, and
stronger than love, had begun to take hold of Satine...
(Piper
coughs frantically and faints)
Morris: Where is she?
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Prue: Do you think she'll be up and about by tonight?
Doctor: Tomorrow morning at the earliest.
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Man: Dan's leaving!
Morris: SHE'S CONFESSING!
Dan: Confessing? What kind of imbecile do you take me for Morris?
Morris: She suddenly had a terrible desire to go to a priest and confess her sins.
Dan: What?
Morris: She wanted to be cleansed of her former life. She says she looks upon tonight as her wedding night.
Dan: Her wedding night?
Morris: She's like a blushing bride...she says you make her feel like a...v--virgin.
Dan: Virgin?
Morris: You know...touched for the very first time.
Dan: The first?
Morris: She says it feels so good...inside...when you hold her...and you touch her...
Dan: Like a virgin?
Morris:
(spoken) She's made it through the wilderness somehow.
She's made
it through.
She didn't know how lost she was!
Until she found
you.
(sung)She was beat, incomplete. She'd been had! She was sad
and blue...
But you made her feel...Yes you ma-a-a-ade her
feel...shiny and new!
Ahh! Like a virgin! Touched for the very
first time!
Like a vir-ur-ur-ur-gen...Your hearts beat both in
time!
I give you all her love! Her fear is fading fast! Been
saving it all for you!
Only love can last! She's so fine and
she's mine. She'll be yours until the end of time.
'Cause you made
her feel...Yes you ma-a-a-ade her feel. She has nothing to hide!
Like a virgin! Touched for the very first time!
Like a
vir-ur-ur-ur-gen. Your hearts beat both in time.
Like a virgin!
Feels so good inside!
When you hold her... and you touch
her...and ohh...ohhh!
Dan: She's so fine. And she's mine. Makes me strong. Yes she makes me burn...and her love thawed off... Yes her lo-uh-uh-uh-uve thawed off what was scared and cold!
Morris: Like a virgin!
Both: Touched for the very first time! Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Morris: Like a vir-ur-ur-ur-gen!
Dan: When your hearts beat both in time!
Morris: Like a virgin!
Dan: Feels so good inside!
Morris: When you hold her...! And you touch her...! And you hold her...! And you touch her...!
Both: La-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ahhhh...! Like a viirrrrrrgeeen!
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Darryl Morris's brilliant lies have once again averted a disaster. But no lie however brilliant can save Piper.
Doctor: Monsieur Morris, Mademoiselle Piper is dying. She has consumption.
Morris: My little sparrow is dying? She mustn't know Prue. The show must go on.
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All night, the penniless sitar player had waited. And now for the first time, he felt the cold stab of jealousy.
Leo: Where were you last night?
Piper: I told you, I was sick
Leo: You don't have to lie to me.
Piper: We have to end it. Everyone knows. Darryl knows, and sooner or later Dan will find out too. On opening night I have to sleep with Dan. And the jealousy will drive you mad.
Leo: Then I'll write a song. And--and we'll put it in the show and no matter how bad things get, or whatever happens, whenever you hear it or when you sing it or whistle it or hum it, it will then you'll know it, it will mean--it'll mean we love one another. I won't get jealous.
Piper: Things don't work that way Leo. We have to end it.
Leo: Never knew I could feel like this. Like I've never seen the sky before. Want to vanish inside your kiss...
