Monday, February 19, 2007
The end of "The Count and the Cousin"
Alright. The maid comes into Adelaide's room and tells her that Count Pfeiffenhammer is waiting in the drawing room with urgent news. Interested, she wanders downstairs to discover that the Count needs to leave for his home in Germany to follow through with an arranged marriage that has been in place since he was 6 months old. She collapses in tears, but her father supports her and tells her it's for the best and how she was a silly girl to even consider marrying a foreigner. three weeks pass and Adelaide is still distraught. Her cousin...what's his name...Horace is meeting with Charles (the "Count") telling him what is going on with Adelaide. He never went to Germany, but is just laying low. He trims his moustache so he looks a little more American, but still European-looking. One day he surprises Adelaide (who is completely bewildered, angry and then completely enamoured) and tells her he is a fake and is really an American (her father is thrilled) and loves her and wants to marry her. She realizes he is the same man with just a different heritage than she thought previously. She agrees whole-heartedly on one condition: he keeps the moustache and they vacation in Europe twice a year. Of course, he agrees and they live happily ever after until Adelaide becomes bored and has an affair with the bellhop at a hotel they stay at in Spain for their March holiday--she becomes pregnant, Charles thinks it's his and then when he finds out, he shaves his moustache and she leaves him. How's that?
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