"The Deceptive Heart"

THE TAG

FADE IN.

EXT. THE HACIENDA - DAY - FULL

Mendoza pulls up in a careta outside the Gate.  Ramirez is
manacled in the back.

THE HACIENDA GARDEN - DON DIEGO, DON ALEJANDRO & FRANCISCA

exit the front door of the Hacienda and Don Diego moves ahead to
the gate.  Francisca puts a hand on Don Alejandro's arm.

FRANCISCA

Seņor. . .Francisca showed me some of your letters.

DON ALEJANDRO

(bridling)
Seņora, don't insult her memory with --

FRANCISCA

You made her very happy.  And I only wanted to say that if I had
met a man like you, instead of Ramirez, I think I would have been a
better woman.

Don Alejandro doesn't know how to respond.  Francisca moves
to the Gate, and he follows.

EXT. THE HACIENDA - DON DIEGO & DON ALEJANDRO

watch as Mendoza puts Francisca next to Ramirez in the careta.  He
rides off with the prisoners.  Don Diego studies his father
with sympathy.

DON DIEGO

You'll be over it in time, Father.

DON ALEJANDRO

So I pray.

He puts his arm around Don Diego as they head through the gate
to the Hacienda garden.

THE HACIENDA GARDEN - DON DIEGO & DON ALEJANDRO

DON ALEJANDRO (CONT)

In the meantime, there's a lively and attractive widow in the next
valley. . .Morena Gonzales.  She has a very pretty and
marriageable daughter, and I thought --

DON DIEGO

Father!  Surely you've --

DON ALEJANDRO

(chuckling)
Not for me. . .for you my son.  Babies, Diego. . .I want babies!

Don Diego laughs and rolls his eyes.  Here we go again.

ANOTHER ANGLE

as, arm in arm, they head into the house.

ALEJANDRO (CONT)

By the way, I meant to ask you.  Whatever happened to that
fine bust you did of yourself?

DON DIEGO

Oh, that. . .I'm starting another.

DON ALEJANDRO

Why?  I thought it was very good.

DON DIEGO

It received a very critical public reception, Father.

They enter the Hacienda, and the door closes on them, as we

FADE OUT.

THE END