INT. TAHOE - SANDRA'S HOUSE - DAY

We HEAR the applause and whistles echoing in the distance.
Sandra stands in her bedroom, looking at the door. We SEE a
photograph of SONNY, and also one of their wedding.

A moment goes by, and then Tom Hagen enters, closing the
door behind him.

We begin to HEAR Senator Geary's amplified voice resounding
over the lake. Hagen moves to Sandra. She takes him in her
arms, comforting, holding his head against her full breast.

HAGEN
(quietly)
He doesn't want my help any more.
He doesn't need it.

SANDRA
We don't know that's true, he never
said that.

HAGEN
I can feel it in the way he talks
to me.

He moves to the dresser; pours himself a drink.

HAGEN
Just now when Johnny Ola showed up,
he asked me to leave them alone.
Ola is Hyman Roth's Sicilian
contact. I was on the inside of
ten, twenty meetings with him. But
today Mike asked me to leave, like
an outsider.

SANDRA
Talk to him. Tell him how you feel.

HAGEN
It's as though he blames me for the
ground the family lost when I was
Consigliere to Sonny.

Sandra pulls Hagen to her, and kisses him passionately on
the mouth.

HAGEN
I love Michael, I want to help him,
be close to him. I don't want to
end up a third string lawyer making
property settlements for the hotels.

Sandra knows he needs her. Slowly she begins to undress.

SANDRA
We have a little time now.