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 to know what she’s doing —
But where is he?
FLORENCE:
He has to show 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
How do you say, 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 that 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 had 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.