Scene 9

Inside the Havana terminal the following morning. It is a sad, battered little room with a few stray people: a young CUBAN MOTHER and an INFANT, THREE or FOUR AMERICAN TOURISTS and a MAN at the counter. Through the windows upstage, we can see part of a single plane and the runway. An American CO-PILOT enters. Everything is most informal. CO-PILOT The plane to Key West is about to take off. If you folks will go out on the runway now. (PASSENGERS move through the doors upstage and exit. ARMANDO rushes on with Adeline's steamer trunk on his back. HE sets it on the floor with a huge sigh of relief. ADELINE follows, looking younger and more radiant than we have seen her.) ADELINE Armando, you shouldn't have. I could have gotten the hotel to do that.

ARMANDO

It is no trouble.
                                                            (But even as he says it, HE can barely straighten his back.)

ADELINE

I feel terrible. You've done all this for me and in return lost your job at the Casino Espagnol.

ARMANDO

I have been out of work most of my life. I will concentrate on what I do best.

ADELINE

And you do do it best…I'm sure of that.

CO-PILOT

You both goin' to Key West?

ARMANDO

Only the lady.

CO-PILOT

Better make it snappy. We're ready to take off.

ADELINE

Goodbye, Armando.

ARMANDO

Goodbye, lovely lady. (SHE is about to shake his hand, but instead falls into his arms.) ADELINE How can I ever thank you?

ARMANDO

Did I please you?

ADELINE

Please me? It has been the most glorious weekend of my whole life.

CO-PILOT

Better hurry, ma'am.

ADELINE

We'll never see each other again, will we?

ARMANDO

Perhaps. Perhaps not.

ADELINE

But what if…? How will I let you know? Where will you be?

ARMANDO

Quièn sabe? Caracas, maybe. Rio.

ADELINE

But you will want to know…won't you?

ARMANDO

Yes, I will want to know. You can always send me something in care of the Casino. Carlos will know where I am.

ADELINE

Something? A note?

ARMANDO

Send me a lock of his hair. He will have wonderful thick hair. Black, of course.

ADELINE

But if it's a girl?

ARMANDO

                                                            (with a shrug)
Oh, a girl. If it is a girl, how about a travel folder from Thomas Cook & Son?
  (HE smiles, raises his hand to his forehead in a salute and walks off. ADELINE gazes after him, then turns and hurries through the upstage doors. "A World with Two Moons" builds to a crescendo.) CURTAIN