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EXT. AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE, DECEMBER 1938. DAY
A CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR THE TROOPS.....[Almásy] sits in the shade, catches Katharine's attention. Katharine brings him over a cup of tea and a plate with Christmas cake on it.
ALMÁSY : Say you're sick.
KATHARINE : What? No!
ALMÁSY : Say you're feeling faint--the heat.
KATHARINE (but a frisson) : No.
ALMÁSY : I can't work. I can't sleep
KATHARINE :
I can't
sleep. I wake up shouting in the middle of the night. Geoffrey thinks it's
the thing in the desert, the trauma.
ALMÁSY
: I
can still taste you..... I'm
trying to write with your taste in my mouth.
(as she leaves) Swoon.
I'll catch you.