1. Sita, go and tell Sister Clodagh
I wish to speak to her.Copy !req
2. Therefore, "X" is equal to 5...Copy !req
3. or minus —Copy !req
4. Reverend Mother wishes
to speak to you, Sister Clodagh.Copy !req
5. Joya.Copy !req
6. Continue the lesson.Copy !req
7. Sister Clodagh...Copy !req
8. we may proceed
with our plans at Mopu.Copy !req
9. It will be called Saint Faith.Copy !req
10. Saint Faith.Copy !req
11. And you have been appointed
to take charge of Saint Faith.Copy !req
12. - l, Reverend Mother?
- You.Copy !req
13. You will be the youngest
sister superior in our order.Copy !req
14. Thank you, Reverend Mother.Copy !req
15. The agent at Mopu is an Englishman.Copy !req
16. He seems a difficult man.Copy !req
17. You won't get much help from him.Copy !req
18. Dear Madam. My name is Dean.Copy !req
19. I am the agent
of General Toda Rai at Mopu...Copy !req
20. and I am writing to you in that capacity.Copy !req
21. I understand the general has offered you
the old palace at Mopu...Copy !req
22. to make a school
and a dispensary for the natives.Copy !req
23. It's not the first time
he's had such ideas.Copy !req
24. He's asked me to tell you
about the place and the people.Copy !req
25. It's not a comfortable spot,
and it's at the back of beyond.Copy !req
26. First you have to get to Darjeeling...Copy !req
27. and then I have to find you ponies
and porters to take you into the hills.Copy !req
28. Mopu is 8,000 feet up.Copy !req
29. The peaks on the range opposite
are nearly as high as Everest.Copy !req
30. The people call the highest peak
Nangu Delva.Copy !req
31. It means "the bare goddess."Copy !req
32. I live down in the valley,
out of the wind.Copy !req
33. So does the general,
and so do the people.Copy !req
34. Mopu Palace stands in the wind
on a shelf on the mountain.Copy !req
35. It was built by the general's father
to keep his women there.Copy !req
36. It's called a palace,
but there may be a slight difference...Copy !req
37. between your idea of a palace
and the general's.Copy !req
38. Anyhow, there it is.Copy !req
39. The people are like mountain peasants
everywhere — simple, independent.Copy !req
40. They work because they must,
they smile when they feel like it...Copy !req
41. and they're no respecters of persons.Copy !req
42. The men are men —
no better, no worse than anywhere else.Copy !req
43. The women are women.
The children, children.Copy !req
44. Up on the mountain above the palace,
we have our holy man...Copy !req
45. who sits there day in and day out
in all weathers.Copy !req
46. All the people around
are very proud of him...Copy !req
47. and bring him food and little offerings.Copy !req
48. The wind up at the palace
blows seven days a week...Copy !req
49. so if you must come,
bring some warm things with you.Copy !req
50. Nobody has lived there for a long time,
except Angu Ayah...Copy !req
51. who's always been there
and stays on as caretaker.Copy !req
52. As a caretaker,
she's a bit of a failure...Copy !req
53. but she's a faithful, dirty old bird
and goes with the place.Copy !req
54. She lives there alone
with the ghosts of bygone days.Copy !req
55. Ayah! Ayah! Ayah! Ayah!Copy !req
56. Ayah! Ayah! Ayah! Ayah!Copy !req
57. Ayah.Copy !req
58. Ayah.Copy !req
59. Ayah! Ayah!Copy !req
60. Ayah!Copy !req
61. Ayah! Ayah!Copy !req
62. - That's Mr. Dean.
- Never mind Mr. Dean. He will find us.Copy !req
63. Now listen, Ayah.Copy !req
64. I have invited some ladies to stay here
at the House of Women.Copy !req
65. Ladies! Oh, that will be like old times!Copy !req
66. It will not be in the least like old times.Copy !req
67. They are not that kind of lady at all.Copy !req
68. - Then they won't be any fun.
- They are not coming for fun.Copy !req
69. These are nuns.Copy !req
70. Do you know what a nun is?Copy !req
71. They kneel and pray all day
like the monks you invited last year.Copy !req
72. I am going to give them this house
to make a school and a hospital for the people.Copy !req
73. You know nobody here wants a school...Copy !req
74. and I'm sure
they don't want a hospital!Copy !req
75. How do they know what they want until they try?Copy !req
76. The people have all kind of diseases.Copy !req
77. - They have ringworm.
- They don't mind having ringworm.Copy !req
78. Then they ought to mind.
And it will all be free.Copy !req
79. It was free last time,
and nobody came.Copy !req
80. They will this time.
Mr. Dean!Copy !req
81. You will receive them for me...Copy !req
82. and you will do everything for them
that they want doing.Copy !req
83. You too.
You will engage servants for them...Copy !req
84. and you will both look after them
until they care to look after themselves.Copy !req
85. What do they eat?
How do I know what nuns eat?Copy !req
86. I have remembered that.Copy !req
87. Do you see that crate?Copy !req
88. Sausages. They will eat sausages.Copy !req
89. Europeans eat sausages
wherever they go.Copy !req
90. They will eat them when they come...Copy !req
91. and until they can tell the cook
what else they want to eat.Copy !req
92. Now remember, Ayah.Copy !req
93. If you give any trouble,
you will be sorry.Copy !req
94. I'm sorry now!Copy !req
95. A convent in this house.
What do you think of that?Copy !req
96. The brothers only stayed five months.Copy !req
97. Perhaps the sisters won't stay long, either.Copy !req
98. The house is 9,000 feet up —Copy !req
99. very cold, but good air.Copy !req
100. General Toda Rai, who has invited us to Mopu,
has promised us every help.Copy !req
101. He was a little afraid when he learned...Copy !req
102. that we are bound to our order
only by yearly vows.Copy !req
103. - I explained this rule to him.
- Yes, Reverend Mother.Copy !req
104. For more than a century...Copy !req
105. to serve voluntarily has been
one of the glories of our order.Copy !req
106. And our greatest strength.Copy !req
107. Exactly.Copy !req
108. He understands now.Copy !req
109. - Is there anything you would like to ask?
- Who am I to take with me?Copy !req
110. Remember, a community
is not a class of girls.Copy !req
111. The sisters won't be easy
to manage or to impress.Copy !req
112. Now, let me see.Copy !req
113. I'll give you Sister Briony.
You'll need her strength.Copy !req
114. Thank you, Reverend Mother.Copy !req
115. Sister Philippa for the garden.Copy !req
116. - Sister Blanche.
- Sister Blanche?Copy !req
117. - You know what the others call her?
- Sister Honey.Copy !req
118. Yes — Honey.
I think you'll need Sister Honey.Copy !req
119. She's popular,
and you'll need to be popular.Copy !req
120. And Sister Ruth.Copy !req
121. - But Sister Ruth is ill.
- That is why I want her to go.Copy !req
122. Forgive me for saying so,
Reverend Mother...Copy !req
123. but do you think our vocation
is her vocation?Copy !req
124. Yes, she's a problem.Copy !req
125. I'm afraid she'll be a problem for you too.Copy !req
126. With a smaller community,
she may be better.Copy !req
127. Give her responsibility, Sister.
She badly wants importance.Copy !req
128. Do you think it's a good thing
to let her feel important?Copy !req
129. Spare her some of your own importance...
if you can.Copy !req
130. Mother, are you sorry that I have been
appointed to take charge of Saint Faith?Copy !req
131. Yes.Copy !req
132. I don't think you're ready for it,
and I think you'll be lonely.Copy !req
133. Never forget we are an order of workers.Copy !req
134. Work them hard.Copy !req
135. And remember —
the superior of all is a servant of all.Copy !req
136. I understand.Copy !req
137. - It was a good, good idea.Copy !req
138. One thing about them,
they keep good time.Copy !req
139. - Go!Copy !req
140. Dear!Copy !req
141. The whole garden's so terribly overgrown,
I don't know where to begin.Copy !req
142. Please come and help the fat lady
who asks questions.Copy !req
143. Sister Briony?
Ayah, you must learn our proper names.Copy !req
144. Anyway, there aren't any patients yet.Copy !req
145. Oh, aren't there?
There are dozens waiting.Copy !req
146. And more coming every minute.Copy !req
147. Now tell them to go away and come
and help me with the ones that are left.Copy !req
148. Sister Blanche,
these girls are to work in your lay school.Copy !req
149. They were sent by the general.Copy !req
150. Oh, don't they look nice.Copy !req
151. But, Sister,
you ought to see the children.Copy !req
152. The schoolroom's full of them already.Copy !req
153. The little ones are so sweet.Copy !req
154. Some of them can scarcely
do more than toddle.Copy !req
155. Joseph Anthony has come.Copy !req
156. Ayah, you must knock
before you come in.Copy !req
157. - Who is Joseph Anthony?
- Who is Joseph Anthony?Copy !req
158. He's the son of the general's cook.
He's going to interpret for you.Copy !req
159. He speaks English.Copy !req
160. Come in.Copy !req
161. - Has the general sent you?
- Yes, lady.Copy !req
162. She isn't a lady.
She's a sister.Copy !req
163. Say."Yes. Lemini."Copy !req
164. Yes, Lemini. I have my books
and my bedding outside...Copy !req
165. because I shall live here with you.Copy !req
166. Oh.Copy !req
167. Would you like to see
my books and my bedding, lady?Copy !req
168. Sister? Lemini?Copy !req
169. Would you, Auntie? They are new.Copy !req
170. - How old are you?
- Six to eleven.Copy !req
171. What did you say?Copy !req
172. I can remember that I'm six...Copy !req
173. but my father married
my mother 11 years ago...Copy !req
174. so that I may probably be about 10.Copy !req
175. Sister, the schoolroom
is overflowing with children.Copy !req
176. We've nothing unpacked yet.Copy !req
177. No one understands the language.
There are too many of them, and they smell.Copy !req
178. - I don't know what to do with them.
- Why don't you tell them to come back later?Copy !req
179. - Start with some of the older ones.
- They won't go away, Lemini.Copy !req
180. - Oh, why not?
- They were paid to come,
and so they can't go away.Copy !req
181. - Paid?Copy !req
182. Sister, the general's clerk has orders
to pay everybody who comes to my dispensary.Copy !req
183. So of course, they all want to come.Copy !req
184. - Excuse me, Sister, may I suggest?
- Yes, Sister.Copy !req
185. Wouldn't it be a pity to send the children
away now they've come?Copy !req
186. - They were paid to come.
- Yes, but if they like it this time,
they may come again.Copy !req
187. What can you do with them?
They look very stupid to me.Copy !req
188. Remember, they can't speak a word
of Hindustani or English.Copy !req
189. Joseph can.Copy !req
190. You'll help us, won't you, Joseph?Copy !req
191. The brothers left a blackboard
in the school.Copy !req
192. I'll draw things on it in colored chalk.Copy !req
193. And they can tell me their name for it,
and I'll tell them the English.Copy !req
194. I can take their names and ages
and make a register.Copy !req
195. You can hardly call that a lesson.Copy !req
196. You can call it a very sensible idea.
Thank you, Sister Blanche.Copy !req
197. I suppose you know who I am.Copy !req
198. You must be Mr. Dean.Copy !req
199. I must.Copy !req
200. And you must be the sister superior.Copy !req
201. What curious feathers. Are they all
from the birds that you've shot?Copy !req
202. I don't shoot birds.Copy !req
203. When you've shot everything,
it palls, doesn't it?Copy !req
204. I'm the general's agent.
He welcomes you to Mopu.Copy !req
205. Understood you wanted to see me.Copy !req
206. We want to talk to you on business.Copy !req
207. I didn't suppose you wanted
to talk to me on anything else.Copy !req
208. Sorry. Perhaps that wasn't fair.Copy !req
209. Mr. Dean,
you know that General Toda Rai...Copy !req
210. has given us this house
for a new foundation of our order.Copy !req
211. We very much appreciate it.Copy !req
212. It's very generous of him.Copy !req
213. Yes. You'd like the general, Sister.Copy !req
214. - He also is a superior being.
- Really!Copy !req
215. I don't know why you are being
so rude to me, Mr. Dean.Copy !req
216. I have to talk business with you
whether I like it or not.Copy !req
217. Well, talk it then,
and don't teach at me.Copy !req
218. It's no place to put a nunnery,
I can tell you that.Copy !req
219. Difficult, but not impossible.
Nothing is impossible —Copy !req
220. Is yours a contemplative order?Copy !req
221. I mean, do you live in meditation —
whatever you call it? Do you keep solitude?Copy !req
222. Our order isn't in the least like that.
We're very busy people.Copy !req
223. We're going to open a dispensary,
a school for children and a class for girls.Copy !req
224. Good. You'll be doing me a great favor when
you begin to educate the local girls, Sister.Copy !req
225. I have already been told, Mr. Dean,
that you do not believe in solitude.Copy !req
226. Do you know what the people
call this place?Copy !req
227. The House of Women.Copy !req
228. The general's father
used to keep his ladies here.Copy !req
229. From now on, it will be known
as the House of Saint Faith.Copy !req
230. Sister, will you have
that picture taken down?Copy !req
231. I give you till the rains break.Copy !req
232. Oh, dear. Oh, dear.Copy !req
233. Who is it?Copy !req
234. Sister Briony.Copy !req
235. I can't sleep.Copy !req
236. Anything wrong, Sister?Copy !req
237. It's Sister Ruth.
I've just seen her.Copy !req
238. - How is she?
- She's sick.Copy !req
239. She has violent pains in her joints,
a boil on her finger...Copy !req
240. and headaches.Copy !req
241. It's this wind.Copy !req
242. And we all seem so tired.Copy !req
243. It's the altitude.Copy !req
244. Our dispensary
is more crowded than ever.Copy !req
245. This big house to look after
and all the unpacking still to be done.Copy !req
246. And the plumbing's broken down again.Copy !req
247. What do you think, Sister?
Perhaps Mr. Dean could —Copy !req
248. Certainly not.
We can manage without Mr. Dean.Copy !req
249. Yes, of course.Copy !req
250. - Are you all right, Sister?
- Of course I'm all right.Copy !req
251. - Show me your arm.
- I'm perfectly all right.Copy !req
252. - So you've got them too.
- What have I got?Copy !req
253. Spots. I've got them.
Every one of us has got them.Copy !req
254. There must be something
in the water here that's very unhealthy.Copy !req
255. - The natives drink it.
- They get sick themselves.Copy !req
256. Ayah says the general's heir —
the young general — is very ill.Copy !req
257. Those drums are beating for him.Copy !req
258. They beat all night while he's ill.Copy !req
259. If you hear them stop, he's dead.Copy !req
260. You!Copy !req
261. How do you do?Copy !req
262. What are you doing here?Copy !req
263. Excuse old Feltie.
I haven't a hand to take him off.Copy !req
264. I've come to mend
a loose joint in your pipe.Copy !req
265. - You must send a plumber.
- The nearest one's Darjeeling.Copy !req
266. - I count plumbing among my other gifts.
- That's not the point —Copy !req
267. I swear to you, Sister,
it's only the pipe I'm interested in.Copy !req
268. - I must see Sister Clodagh about this.
- All right.Copy !req
269. I forbid you to stay in there.Copy !req
270. All right.Copy !req
271. We have to build a workroom
and a school and, later on, a chapel.Copy !req
272. Somebody's got to put locks on my cupboards.
I daren't unpack a thing.Copy !req
273. And the windows don't open and the doors
don't shut and the — the plumbing won't work.Copy !req
274. Come in, Mr. Dean.Copy !req
275. May I go now, Sister?Copy !req
276. Please sit down, Mr. Dean.Copy !req
277. - Would you like some coffee, Mr. Dean?
- Can you make it decently?Copy !req
278. - Can I make coffee!
- Can she?Copy !req
279. Full of grit.Copy !req
280. Mr. Dean, Joseph tells us the people
are still being paid to come to us.Copy !req
281. Ah, the general's a wise man.
It's only till it becomes a habit.Copy !req
282. Let it become a habit
for them to come...Copy !req
283. and they won't remember
the time when they didn't.Copy !req
284. Then gradually
he'll leave off paying them.Copy !req
285. And gradually it'll become
a habit with them not to be paid.Copy !req
286. They're like children.Copy !req
287. He told me he was going
to order them to come.Copy !req
288. They don't know what an order is.Copy !req
289. - They should learn.
- Why?Copy !req
290. We all need discipline.
You said yourself they're like children.Copy !req
291. Without discipline,
we should all behave like children.Copy !req
292. - Don't you like children?Copy !req
293. Thank you, Sister Briony.Copy !req
294. Talking of medicine, Sister Briony,
if you get a bad case —Copy !req
295. one that seems to you as though it might
be dangerous or even serious — don't take it.Copy !req
296. - But that would be —
- It would be wise.Copy !req
297. If you got a bad case and some of your people died,
you'd have all the people up against you.Copy !req
298. Why?Copy !req
299. Well, you must remember, they're
primitive people and like — like children.Copy !req
300. Unreasonable children.Copy !req
301. They've never seen medicine before.
They'd think it was magic, a new kind of magic.Copy !req
302. So remember, I've warned you.Copy !req
303. By the way, how are you feeling,
all of you?Copy !req
304. Not very well.
Sister Ruth is the worst.Copy !req
305. I think the water must be bad.
Ayah says it's the water.Copy !req
306. On the contrary. The water's too good.
It's Darjeeling tummy.Copy !req
307. I'd better get that plumbing fixed.Copy !req
308. Sister Clodagh!Copy !req
309. What has happened, Sister?Copy !req
310. Oh, Sister.
Sister, they brought in a woman.Copy !req
311. Our first bad case.
She was covered in blood.Copy !req
312. I've never seen such a sight.
She must've cut a vein or an artery.Copy !req
313. I had such a time stopping the bleeding.
I've never seen bleeding like that before.Copy !req
314. I didn't know what to do at first,
but at last I managed to stop it.Copy !req
315. A minute would've fetched Sister Briony
who would've stopped it at once.Copy !req
316. What were you doing there?
I told you to stay in bed.Copy !req
317. I was only trying
to consider you, Sister Briony.Copy !req
318. It might have been better
to have considered the woman...Copy !req
319. who by your accounts
was bleeding to death.Copy !req
320. - Shall I wait?
- We are coming in a moment.Copy !req
321. I think you'd better
go back to your room.Copy !req
322. Good-bye, Sister.
I hope your patient does well.Copy !req
323. Who is she?Copy !req
324. It sounded like "Samuel,"
but it couldn't be, could it?Copy !req
325. Oh, Samell. She's a good old soul.Copy !req
326. One of my best workers.
I'm very much obliged to you.Copy !req
327. Thank you.Copy !req
328. Now the old place is a pukka convent.Copy !req
329. Hello, Sister Ruth.
Going for a walk?Copy !req
330. It's time to ring the bell.Copy !req
331. You're slipping.Copy !req
332. Quarter of an hour early.Copy !req
333. Thank you.Copy !req
334. I came to ask Mr. Dean
to wait in the blue room.Copy !req
335. - How did you know he was here?
- I saw him from the schoolroom.Copy !req
336. I've brought something for you.Copy !req
337. Her name is Hasanphul,
but we call her Kanchi.Copy !req
338. She's 17, she's an orphan...Copy !req
339. and it's high time she was married.Copy !req
340. Every evening when I come home,
I find her sitting on my veranda.Copy !req
341. She dresses herself up
and puts flowers in her hair.Copy !req
342. It's becoming an absolute nuisance.Copy !req
343. If she's cloistered for a few months,
her uncle will marry her off.Copy !req
344. But she's been behaving so badly
that no one wants her.Copy !req
345. I don't think we want her, either.Copy !req
346. Why did you bring her to us?Copy !req
347. Isn't it your business to save souls?Copy !req
348. You are not to speak to me
like that, Mr. Dean.Copy !req
349. Sorry.Copy !req
350. Can't she go into some sort of service?Copy !req
351. She'd set any house by the ears.Copy !req
352. I thought no one would have
patience with her except you.Copy !req
353. Would you ask Sister Briony
to come here, please?Copy !req
354. - Kanchi.Copy !req
355. Kanchi.Copy !req
356. You're sure there's no question
you're dying to ask me?Copy !req
357. None.Copy !req
358. You wanted me, Sister?Copy !req
359. Sister, I have agreed to have
this girl with us for a while.Copy !req
360. Can you find somewhere
for her to sleep?Copy !req
361. - What is she to do?
- Sister Honey can take her into the lay school.Copy !req
362. Yes.Copy !req
363. Tell Ayah to give her some housework,
keep her busy.Copy !req
364. Come along.Copy !req
365. - Well, thanks.
- I've heard about the young general's death.Copy !req
366. - Is the general grieving?
- Never tell with these people.Copy !req
367. - What's the new young general's name?
- Dilip. Dilip Rai.Copy !req
368. He was going to Cambridge, but now
he'll be a warrior and marry young.Copy !req
369. It'll suit him all right.
These Rajputs are a fighting race.Copy !req
370. Can-non.Copy !req
371. Can-non.Copy !req
372. War-ship.Copy !req
373. War-ship.Copy !req
374. - Bay-o-net.
- Bay-o-net.Copy !req
375. Dag-ger.Copy !req
376. - Gun.
- Gun.Copy !req
377. You know, Nima, we may have
to mix something with it.Copy !req
378. Here, let me have a look.Copy !req
379. Hail Mary, full of grace,
blessed is the fruit of —Copy !req
380. Sister.Copy !req
381. Did you hear the bell?Copy !req
382. This morning in chapel, I suddenly
had the feeling you were not with us.Copy !req
383. - I try hard enough.
- Try what?Copy !req
384. I used to forget everything in chapel.Copy !req
385. I used to feel light
and happy and near God.Copy !req
386. Let me help you.
What is worrying you?Copy !req
387. I remember things
before I joined our order...Copy !req
388. things I wanted to forget.Copy !req
389. I never thought of them until now.Copy !req
390. I've been 21 years in the order,
and now they come back to me.Copy !req
391. I think you can see too far.Copy !req
392. I look out there, and...Copy !req
393. then I can't see
the potato I'm planting.Copy !req
394. And after a bit, it doesn't seem
to matter whether I plant it or not.Copy !req
395. It's this place with its strange atmosphere
and new people.Copy !req
396. Stay with me tonight after chapel,
and we will pray together.Copy !req
397. And work, Sister. Work hard.Copy !req
398. Work until you're too tired
to think of anything else.Copy !req
399. Oh, isn't it a grand day, Con?Copy !req
400. Con. Isn't it a grand day?Copy !req
401. Mmm.Copy !req
402. What's wrong?Copy !req
403. - Everything.
- What especially?Copy !req
404. Oh, nothing.
You wouldn't understand.Copy !req
405. Is it money, Con?Copy !req
406. Whatever else is it?Copy !req
407. Desmond's well out of it in Michigan.Copy !req
408. I heard from him last week.Copy !req
409. He's been made a partner.Copy !req
410. And just because I'm the eldest son,
I have to stay here in Ireland all my life...Copy !req
411. and hang around waiting for... this.Copy !req
412. I'll have a little money, Con, when I marry.Copy !req
413. It isn't a little money it wants.
It's a fortune.Copy !req
414. Then it would be a waste.Copy !req
415. Clo, don't you sometimes
itch to get away?Copy !req
416. No, I don't want to go away.Copy !req
417. I want to stay here like this
for the rest of my life.Copy !req
418. Ayah! Angu Ayah!Copy !req
419. Ayah! Angu Ayah!Copy !req
420. Salaam, My Little General.Copy !req
421. I want to see the reverend sisters.Copy !req
422. Why are they called
The Servants of Mary?Copy !req
423. Is the superior sister called Mary?Copy !req
424. Ask her. Here she comes.Copy !req
425. Go now.
I will speak to her alone.Copy !req
426. - Good morning.
- Good morning.Copy !req
427. - I want to see the superior sister.
- I am the sister superior.Copy !req
428. Oh. I want to be
a student here with you.Copy !req
429. I want to study a lot of learning.Copy !req
430. I want to study mathematics,
history, poetry and languages.Copy !req
431. I have a note from my uncle
to ask you to encourage me.Copy !req
432. I'm very sorry.
We only teach children and young girls.Copy !req
433. - Why?
- Convents don't teach men pupils.Copy !req
434. That's not very polite to men.Copy !req
435. We don't mean it that way.
It's the custom.Copy !req
436. Convents are for girls.
The brotherhoods are for men.Copy !req
437. Jesus Christ was a man.Copy !req
438. He took the shape of a man.Copy !req
439. But you don't need to count me as a man.Copy !req
440. I'm only interested in studious things.Copy !req
441. Please, Sister. I've written out my timetable.
May I read it to you?Copy !req
442. "5:00 a.m. To 7:00 a.m. —
algebra with the mathematical sister.Copy !req
443. "8:00 a.m. To 10:00 a.m. — religion,
especially Christianity, with the scriptural sister.Copy !req
444. "10:00 a.m. — art.Copy !req
445. "1:00 p.m. To 3:00 p.m. — French and Russian
with the French and Russian sisters, if any.Copy !req
446. 3:00 p.m. To 4:00 p.m. —
physics with the physical sister."Copy !req
447. Please wait in here, General.Copy !req
448. Aren't you afraid, with the young general,
that you've let a cuckoo into your nest?Copy !req
449. We didn't want to offend the general.
He might turn us out.Copy !req
450. Oh, he wouldn't do that.Copy !req
451. You may have trouble with Kanchi.Copy !req
452. - Kanchi? She'd never dare.Copy !req
453. After all, he is a prince,
and she is what she is.Copy !req
454. Still, I expect she knows the story
of the prince and the beggar maid.Copy !req
455. 440 — 41, 42...Copy !req
456. 43, 44, 45, 46...Copy !req
457. 47, 48, 49 —Copy !req
458. When the general gave us the deeds...Copy !req
459. our boundary line was to be
500 yards around the building.Copy !req
460. That's right.Copy !req
461. - So the holy man is living on our ground.
- He was here first.Copy !req
462. Yes, but, Mr. Dean,
I find all these things very distracting.Copy !req
463. - Distracting?
- Yes, disturbing.Copy !req
464. This clear air
and the wind always blowing.Copy !req
465. And the mountain, and the holy man
sitting there day in, day out.Copy !req
466. And the people coming to see him.Copy !req
467. They climb the path by the house,
and they stop and sit and stare at us.Copy !req
468. What do you want to do about it?Copy !req
469. I want you to ask the general
to ask the holy man to move.Copy !req
470. - Couldn't do that. It wouldn't be polite.
- I don't suppose the general even knows he's there.Copy !req
471. Oh, yes he does.
That old man worries him quite a bit...Copy !req
472. particularly when
he's in the middle of his dinner...Copy !req
473. or when he's trying on
a new frock coat from London.Copy !req
474. Why?Copy !req
475. Well, I suppose he feels
he ought to go and do likewise.Copy !req
476. Then he wouldn't turn him out?Copy !req
477. It'd be a bit awkward for the general
to turn out his own uncle.Copy !req
478. His uncle?Copy !req
479. General Sir Krishna Rai,
K.C.V.O., K.C.S.l., C.M.G.Copy !req
480. He has several foreign decorations too.Copy !req
481. He lent our general
the money to buy this place.Copy !req
482. I've never heard him talk.
They say he speaks perfect English.Copy !req
483. Several other European languages too.Copy !req
484. - Does he never speak at all?
- I've never heard him.Copy !req
485. - When does he eat or sleep?
- No one knows.Copy !req
486. He's always in his place under the tree.
People come miles to see him.Copy !req
487. Well, I really don't know what to do.Copy !req
488. What would Christ have done?Copy !req
489. - Morning, General.
- Good morning, Sister Honey.Copy !req
490. Good morning, Sister Ruth.Copy !req
491. Do you like it, Sister Ruth?
It's called Black Narcissus.Copy !req
492. Comes from the Army-Navy Stores
in London.Copy !req
493. Black Narcissus.
I don't like scent at all.Copy !req
494. Oh, Sister, don't you think
it's rather common to smell of ourselves?Copy !req
495. - Have you seen the young general today?
- What's the latest?Copy !req
496. Emeralds. Beautiful emeralds.Copy !req
497. The deepest,
most beautiful green I've ever seen.Copy !req
498. At that hour in the morning,
they make me bilious.Copy !req
499. Have you seen his coats? He must have
a different one for every day in the year.Copy !req
500. Lucky he doesn't have to do his own laundry.Copy !req
501. Yesterday he had a coat the color of ripe corn,
patterned with flowers, in damask.Copy !req
502. His earrings were amethysts three inches long,
and his rings were turquoise.Copy !req
503. Today he's all jade and emeralds...Copy !req
504. and his coat is the most wonderful pattern
of pale violet stripes...Copy !req
505. worked entirely in petit point
just like my grandmother's footstool.Copy !req
506. Oh, Granny!Copy !req
507. Turn 'round.Copy !req
508. These emeralds are for you,
my darling, when you marry.Copy !req
509. There.Copy !req
510. - There's Con.
- Good night, everybody.Copy !req
511. Not too late, darling.Copy !req
512. Oh, dear, I hope
they get something settled by the winter.Copy !req
513. Where are you, Con?Copy !req
514. He said it was called Black Narcissus...Copy !req
515. and he got it
at the Army & Navy Stores.Copy !req
516. Black Narcissus.Copy !req
517. That's what I'm going to call him.
It's a wonderful name for him.Copy !req
518. He's so vain, like a peacock.
A fine black peacock.Copy !req
519. - He's not black.
- They all look alike to me.Copy !req
520. General, please conjugate s'asseoir.Copy !req
521. Je m'assieds.Copy !req
522. Tu t'assieds.Copy !req
523. ll s'assied?Copy !req
524. Um —Copy !req
525. Nous —Copy !req
526. Nous nous asseyons.Copy !req
527. Vous vous asseyez.Copy !req
528. Ils s'asseyent?Copy !req
529. Future tense.Copy !req
530. - Something for you.
- For me?Copy !req
531. Christmas present.
Go on, take it.Copy !req
532. Oh, Con!Copy !req
533. Sister Clodagh.Copy !req
534. Sister, may I congratulate you
on the birth of Christ?Copy !req
535. Thank you, General.Copy !req
536. I hope you don't mind
my coming tonight.Copy !req
537. I am very much interested
in Jesus Christ.Copy !req
538. Have I said anything wrong?Copy !req
539. No, but we don't usually
speak of Him so casually.Copy !req
540. And you should.Copy !req
541. He should be casual and as much
a part of life as your daily bread.Copy !req
542. How dare you come here like this!Copy !req
543. How dare you come
to our service tonight!Copy !req
544. You're — You're unforgivable!Copy !req
545. You're objectionable when you're sober
and abominable when you're drunk!Copy !req
546. I quite agree.Copy !req
547. If you have a spark of decency left in you,
you won't come near us again!Copy !req
548. Happy Christmas!Copy !req
549. I do like his voice.Copy !req
550. It's so nice and loud.Copy !req
551. I think it's lovely, don't you?Copy !req
552. - Good night, General.
- Good night, Sister Clodagh.Copy !req
553. - Come in.Copy !req
554. I want to talk to you.
Come and sit down.Copy !req
555. I've been worried about you
for some time.Copy !req
556. I feel that things
are not right with you.Copy !req
557. In what way?Copy !req
558. You look so ill,
and you've got so terribly thin.Copy !req
559. I know that you're trying
to keep up for all our sakes...Copy !req
560. but I feel that you really must go in
with Sister Briony and see the doctor.Copy !req
561. I shan't see the doctor!
I'm perfectly well. You know it.Copy !req
562. You're just trying to make out that —Copy !req
563. I didn't mean to be rude.Copy !req
564. I haven't been sleeping.
That's all.Copy !req
565. If you haven't been sleeping,
there must be some reason for it.Copy !req
566. Can't you tell me?Copy !req
567. Is something worrying you?Copy !req
568. Yes. Yes, that's it.Copy !req
569. I'm worried.Copy !req
570. Don't you think
you could tell me about it?Copy !req
571. I'd like you to tell me, if you can.Copy !req
572. I can't speak of it... to anyone.Copy !req
573. Won't you try?
You know you can trust me.Copy !req
574. You didn't want me to come here.
None of you have ever wanted me here.Copy !req
575. Don't you think you're letting
things run away with you?Copy !req
576. I think you have let yourself fall...Copy !req
577. into thinking too much of Mr. Dean.Copy !req
578. Sister, don't you realize
what you're doing...Copy !req
579. what you're running the risk
of losing in yourself?Copy !req
580. Sister, you must — I must make you see
before it is too late.Copy !req
581. All the same, I've noticed you're
very pleased to see him yourself!Copy !req
582. If that was in your mind, it's better
said I think you're out of your senses!Copy !req
583. Listen to me. I don't know —
I can't decide now what to make of you.Copy !req
584. I shall have to think,
and I want you to think too.Copy !req
585. As for Mr. Dean —Copy !req
586. In spite of his charm and kindliness,
he is not a good man.Copy !req
587. You must take him for what he is and not try
to glorify him into something he is not.Copy !req
588. When he came to chapel on Christmas night,
he was drunk.Copy !req
589. Can I go?Copy !req
590. I want you to write
to Reverend Mother.Copy !req
591. I shan't look at the letter,
and her reply will be your own business.Copy !req
592. Am I to write two or three pages?Copy !req
593. Would you rather I did it now,
or shall I finish my class work first?Copy !req
594. You may go.Copy !req
595. That parcel is mine.
Give it to me.Copy !req
596. I can't, Lemini.
I must give all the mail to Sister Clodagh.Copy !req
597. It's mine. Give it to me, you little fool.
Can't you see it's addressed to me?Copy !req
598. Look, I ordered it myself from Calcutta.Copy !req
599. It's nothing to do with anyone else.Copy !req
600. Sister Briony, do you know what's happened
to the other gold chain off this censer?Copy !req
601. No. It was there when
we had it out at Christmas.Copy !req
602. - Well, it isn't here now.
- Ask Kanchi if she's seen it.Copy !req
603. And that for stealing in my house!Copy !req
604. That for stealing a brass chain
which is only worth two annas!Copy !req
605. That for stealing it
in such a silly way!Copy !req
606. And that...
is for getting found out!Copy !req
607. - What has the girl done?
- She's a thief!Copy !req
608. She stole a brass chain from the church room
to put around her dirty neck!Copy !req
609. Finish the beating, My Little General Bahadur.Copy !req
610. You're going to be a great man.Copy !req
611. Not like your uncle.
Oh, dear, no.Copy !req
612. - Like your grandfather! Ha, ha!Copy !req
613. He was a man!Copy !req
614. Finish the beating
and begin to be a man!Copy !req
615. - Get up.Copy !req
616. - Forget-me-not.
- Forget-me-not.Copy !req
617. - Sweet pea.
- Sweet pea.Copy !req
618. - Daff-odil.
- Daff-odil.Copy !req
619. Jap-anese pe-ony.Copy !req
620. Jap-anese pe-ony.Copy !req
621. Chi-nese li-ly.Copy !req
622. Tu-lip.Copy !req
623. Tu-lip.Copy !req
624. - Honey-suckle.
- Honey-suckle.Copy !req
625. Honey-suckle.Copy !req
626. Del-phin-I-um.Copy !req
627. - Del-phin-I-um.
- Sister Honey.Copy !req
628. Will you find Sister Philippa
for me, please?Copy !req
629. - And the cabbage patch?
- Foxglove.Copy !req
630. - And the runner beans?
- Honeysuckle.Copy !req
631. - And the onions?
- Tulips.Copy !req
632. And the potatoes?
All flowers?Copy !req
633. No, not the little round bed.Copy !req
634. And there are some more vegetables down
by the stables where they won't show.Copy !req
635. But what on earth came over you, Sis —Copy !req
636. Would you like to sit down?Copy !req
637. Sister, I want to be transferred.Copy !req
638. Transferred?Copy !req
639. Yes, I want you, if you will, to write
and ask for my transfer at once.Copy !req
640. If you will, at once.Copy !req
641. But why?Copy !req
642. I was becoming too fond of the place.Copy !req
643. I was too wrapped up in my work. I —Copy !req
644. I thought too much about it.Copy !req
645. - I'd forgotten —
- Forgotten what?Copy !req
646. What I am.Copy !req
647. I was losing the spirit of our order.Copy !req
648. I've been thinking it over, you see, and...Copy !req
649. I must go at once.Copy !req
650. I don't see that at all.Copy !req
651. Now that you know and you realize the danger,
you needn't go.Copy !req
652. Surely now is the time to stay.Copy !req
653. I daren't stay.Copy !req
654. I think there are only two ways
of living in this place.Copy !req
655. Either you must live like Mr. Dean, or —Copy !req
656. or like the holy man.Copy !req
657. Either ignore it
or give yourself up to it.Copy !req
658. Neither would do for us.Copy !req
659. No.Copy !req
660. Well, we are here, and I don't think
it will help matters if we run away.Copy !req
661. You know, if I ask for you to be transferred,
it'll be a bad mark against you?Copy !req
662. That's all the better.Copy !req
663. That's what I need.Copy !req
664. Ayah! Ayah!Copy !req
665. - What did she say, Ayah?Copy !req
666. "Lemini, give him something."Copy !req
667. It's Om's little brother.Copy !req
668. Shall we give him magnesia?Copy !req
669. Or some of the paraffin emulsion.Copy !req
670. Hundred and three!Copy !req
671. That's not much in a baby, is it?
They go up and down easily, don't they?Copy !req
672. He's been like that three days, Lemini.Copy !req
673. This morning he wouldn't wake,
so she brought him.Copy !req
674. Let him sleep. Take him home
and put him on your bed and let him sleep.Copy !req
675. Aren't you going
to give him anything?Copy !req
676. There's nothing I can do.Copy !req
677. But there must be
something we can do.Copy !req
678. At least bathe his eyes
or relieve his tummy with a little oil.Copy !req
679. I daren't touch him, Sister.
I don't think he feels any pain.Copy !req
680. You've only got to look at him
to see how it must hurt him!Copy !req
681. You're afraid!
You're thinking of what Mr. Dean said!Copy !req
682. - You'd give up his little life —
- That's enough, Sister!Copy !req
683. I won't have any hysteria from you.
I know what I'm doing.Copy !req
684. The best and kindest thing you can do
is to make her go home...Copy !req
685. where she'll be amongst her own people.Copy !req
686. Lemini. Lemini.Copy !req
687. Sister Ruth.Copy !req
688. Everyone's very late this morning.Copy !req
689. I do hope nothing's happened.Copy !req
690. Joseph, go down the path
and hurry them up.Copy !req
691. - Well, go on.
- I don't want to.Copy !req
692. - You don't want to?
- Why don't you want to?Copy !req
693. How dare you answer me like that!
Go at once!Copy !req
694. - No, I won't go.
- Joseph!Copy !req
695. - Now stand still.Copy !req
696. - Tell me what's the matter. Do you hear?
- Don't frighten him.Copy !req
697. He knows something, the little idiot.
Joseph, why haven't the children come?Copy !req
698. - The girls, Joseph — where are they?
- He knows why. Tell us.Copy !req
699. I don't want to.
Lemini, don't make me tell!Copy !req
700. Joseph, you must tell us.
Please, Joseph, dear.Copy !req
701. - Tell us.
- The little baby is dead!Copy !req
702. - Oh, no!
- Our little brother is dead!Copy !req
703. And they said that this man
and lemini killed him.Copy !req
704. - Sister Clodagh!Copy !req
705. - There's nobody in the dispensary.
- None of the children have come.Copy !req
706. - There are no gardeners.
- Kanchi has gone.Copy !req
707. - So has the young general.
- There isn't a servant in the place.Copy !req
708. We're all alone.
There's no one in the house.Copy !req
709. It was my fault.Copy !req
710. Because I loved him,
because I couldn't bare to see him die.Copy !req
711. I did it! I killed him!Copy !req
712. I gave her a bottle to take away and some
of our cotton wool and one of our spoons.Copy !req
713. I killed him! I killed him!Copy !req
714. Ayah. Ayah, how much of this is true?Copy !req
715. All true, Lemini.
The people are very angry.Copy !req
716. We must explain. Somebody must tell them.
We must find the young general.Copy !req
717. - Surely he hasn't run away from us.
- No. He's run away with Kanchi.Copy !req
718. Ayah, will you take a message
to the village?Copy !req
719. - Me? Oh, no.
- Well, can Joseph?Copy !req
720. - He can go, but they won't let him come back.
- I'll go.Copy !req
721. It's not safe for any of you
to go outside the garden.Copy !req
722. - You can't go, Sister. It's far too dangerous.
- It's all right. I'm not going down.Copy !req
723. Tova!Copy !req
724. Tova, my pony, quickly.Copy !req
725. - Well, who was it?Copy !req
726. Oh, you.Copy !req
727. Mr. Dean, do you think it's serious?
Don't you think they'll come back?Copy !req
728. Sister Clodagh, the agent before my time was
riding down to the factory one day on his pony.Copy !req
729. He let it kick an umbrella
that was lying open in the path.Copy !req
730. There was a child asleep under it,
and it was killed.Copy !req
731. It was just an accident,
but they murdered him that night.Copy !req
732. I'm not trying to frighten you, but I want you
to see that it may be serious.Copy !req
733. I've been down to the village.
Everything seems quiet enough.Copy !req
734. - Did they say anything?
- Nothing.Copy !req
735. They listened to me and said nothing.Copy !req
736. I saw the woman. I drank the stuff that
Sister Honey was foolish enough to give her.Copy !req
737. You drank it?Copy !req
738. I wanted to prove to them
that I wouldn't drop down dead.Copy !req
739. It was only castor oil.Copy !req
740. None of you must go
out of the garden.Copy !req
741. Try to behave as though
nothing had happened.Copy !req
742. I'll go down now
and come back this evening.Copy !req
743. Lemini?Copy !req
744. - What's that for?
- For you. Lemini.Copy !req
745. Who sent it — Sister Clodagh?Copy !req
746. Do you notice a change in us
since we came here?Copy !req
747. I notice a change in you.Copy !req
748. Am I very different?Copy !req
749. Yes.Copy !req
750. - You're much nicer.
- Nicer?Copy !req
751. Mmm. You're human.Copy !req
752. Human.Copy !req
753. Yes, we're all human, aren't we?Copy !req
754. When I was a girl, I loved a man.Copy !req
755. We were children together in Ireland,
where I come from.Copy !req
756. A little place called Liniskelly.Copy !req
757. I thought — everyone thought —
we should marry.Copy !req
758. But he was ambitious...Copy !req
759. and I found out he was going
to America to his uncle...Copy !req
760. and he didn't intend to take me.Copy !req
761. He didn't think he was
doing anything wrong.Copy !req
762. I don't think he ever
thought of us marrying.Copy !req
763. But in a little place like that —Copy !req
764. And I had shown I loved him.Copy !req
765. I had to get away first.Copy !req
766. And that's why you entered the order?Copy !req
767. And being you,
you wouldn't go back.Copy !req
768. It was a strange way of bringing me in,
but God works in strange ways.Copy !req
769. I had work to do, and I had the life.Copy !req
770. No one outside can possibly know
what that means.Copy !req
771. It came to be my life.Copy !req
772. I had forgotten everything
until I came here.Copy !req
773. The first day I came, I thought of him
for the first time for years.Copy !req
774. I seem to go back to the first time
I loved him, when we were children.Copy !req
775. The young general
reminds me of him too.Copy !req
776. The world comes
thrusting in behind him.Copy !req
777. I've been drifting and dreaming...Copy !req
778. and now I seem to be living through
the struggle and the bitterness again.Copy !req
779. Here. It's quite clean.
I washed my hair this morning.Copy !req
780. - Don't take on so. There's a good girl.Copy !req
781. It'll all blow over.
There's nothing really wrong.Copy !req
782. Sister Philippa is leaving...Copy !req
783. and this morning I had a letter
from Reverend Mother.Copy !req
784. Sister Ruth is giving up the order.Copy !req
785. She has not renewed her vows.Copy !req
786. I'm sorry.Copy !req
787. And you —
Ever since we came here...Copy !req
788. over all our troubles, it's been...Copy !req
789. "Ask Mr. Dean. Ask Mr. Dean."Copy !req
790. There was just no one else
you could ask.Copy !req
791. But I had to take the young general.Copy !req
792. I couldn't turn out the holy man.Copy !req
793. I couldn't stop the wind from blowing
and the air from being as clear as crystal...Copy !req
794. and I couldn't hide the mountain.Copy !req
795. Look, you must get away from here,
all of you, at once.Copy !req
796. - Run away?
- Yes, if you've got any sense.Copy !req
797. What, leave all this work,
like the brothers?Copy !req
798. Yes.Copy !req
799. I told you it was no place
to put a nunnery.Copy !req
800. There's something in the atmosphere
that makes everything seem exaggerated.Copy !req
801. Don't you understand? You must
all get away before something happens!Copy !req
802. And drive from us
all the snares of the enemy.Copy !req
803. May thy holy angels dwell here
and keep us in peace.Copy !req
804. Sister, are you there?Copy !req
805. Sister, do you want me
to wake the others?Copy !req
806. You can't order me about.
You have nothing to do with me anymore.Copy !req
807. I know what you've done.
I know that you've left the order.Copy !req
808. I only want to stop you from doing
something you'll be sorry for.Copy !req
809. Sister Philippa is going back in a few days' time.
I want to send you with her.Copy !req
810. That's what you would like to do —
send me back and shut me up.Copy !req
811. That's what you would all like to do!Copy !req
812. You know that isn't true.Copy !req
813. Why should we want to keep you
here against your will?Copy !req
814. Because you're all jealous of me,
especially you!Copy !req
815. At least wait till the morning.Copy !req
816. Wait till the morning,
and I'll wait with you.Copy !req
817. Sister!Copy !req
818. - Ayah, wake up!
- Oh, what is it? What is it?Copy !req
819. What's happened?Copy !req
820. It's Sister Ruth!
Stop her! She's gone mad!Copy !req
821. - Oh, it's my fault!
- Nonsense! It's nothing to do with you.Copy !req
822. Shh!Copy !req
823. You can't stop mad people.
You should leave them alone.Copy !req
824. - She may kill herself.
- If she is really mad, that won't matter.Copy !req
825. Quick, all of you, search the house!
We must stop her! Sister Ruth.Copy !req
826. Sister Ruth! Sister Ruth!Copy !req
827. We must get lanterns.Copy !req
828. Sister Ruth!Copy !req
829. Sister Ruth! Sister Ruth!Copy !req
830. - Sister Ruth!
- Sister Ruth!Copy !req
831. - Sister Ruth!
- Sister Ruth!Copy !req
832. Sister Ruth!Copy !req
833. Joseph, ask him if he's seen her!Copy !req
834. Oh, no, Lemini,
we couldn't do that.Copy !req
835. But, Joseph, anything may have happened
to the lemini. She may be hurt.Copy !req
836. That would be
a very little thing to him, Lemini.Copy !req
837. He wouldn't notice it.Copy !req
838. Good evening.Copy !req
839. Sister Ruth?Copy !req
840. I can't stand it any longer.
I left the order.Copy !req
841. I gave up my vows.
I've finished with them up there.Copy !req
842. I see.Copy !req
843. Well, I can arrange for you
to stay at the rest house.Copy !req
844. I'll send my boy over now.Copy !req
845. In the morning, I'll get ponies
and porters to take you to Darjeeling.Copy !req
846. - I love you.
- You —Copy !req
847. Well, if you do,
you can forget about it.Copy !req
848. I'm sorry, Sister Ruth.
Very sorry, but —Copy !req
849. Look, let me take you
back to the palace.Copy !req
850. It isn't too late.
Sister Clodagh is your friend.Copy !req
851. She spoke to me about you last night.
She wants to help you.Copy !req
852. She hates me. They all hate me.Copy !req
853. You're the only one
that's ever been kind to me.Copy !req
854. - l? I've hardly spoken a word to you.
- Yes, you have.Copy !req
855. The first time is when I stopped the old
native woman from bleeding to death.Copy !req
856. - You said you were grateful.
- Did l?Copy !req
857. And then when you stopped me
that day in the hall, you said —Copy !req
858. Well, whatever I said,
it didn't mean a thing!Copy !req
859. Ever since you came here,
you've all gone crazy.Copy !req
860. Well, drive one another crazy,
but leave me out of it!Copy !req
861. - Are you going to Darjeeling or not?
- No!Copy !req
862. - Then you must go back to the palace.
- No.Copy !req
863. You'll go back
if I have to carry you back.Copy !req
864. Go and talk to Sister Clodagh.
She brought you here.
She can get you back again.Copy !req
865. Sister Clodagh!
Sister Clodagh!Copy !req
866. - Do you know what she says about you?
- Whatever she said, it was true!Copy !req
867. - You say that because you love her!
- I don't love anyone!Copy !req
868. Clodagh! Clodagh!Copy !req
869. - Clodagh! Clodagh!Copy !req
870. Feel better now?Copy !req
871. All right, I'll go.Copy !req
872. That's a good girl.
Try and get some sleep.Copy !req
873. In the morning you'll wake up and be sorry
you made such a fool of yourself.Copy !req
874. - Come on. I'll come with you.
- I'll go alone.Copy !req
875. - You'll do nothing of the sort.
- I'll go alone or not at all.Copy !req
876. Suit yourself.Copy !req
877. - It's morning, Lemini.Copy !req
878. Oh, yes, Joseph, it's morning.
What time is it?Copy !req
879. 5:45 by Auntie's watch.Copy !req
880. Fine day, Lemini.Copy !req
881. The people call it the —
the flowering of the snows.Copy !req
882. Joseph, if Sister Briony asks for me,
I'll be in the chapel.Copy !req
883. Hail Mary, full of grace...Copy !req
884. blessed is the fruit of thy womb.Copy !req
885. What do you want, General?Copy !req
886. Sister, you know
I have not been here lately...Copy !req
887. and I'm deeply sorry
about Sister Ruth.Copy !req
888. Thank you.
Is there anything else?Copy !req
889. You're cross with me.
Please do not be cross with me.Copy !req
890. I've done a very wrong thing,
but I didn't mean to do it.Copy !req
891. Isn't it rather late
to tell me about that?Copy !req
892. Yes. Yes, it is, rather.Copy !req
893. I don't mean to do
anything wrong again.Copy !req
894. I'm going to give up
being clever and famous.Copy !req
895. I'm going to be
exactly like my ancestors.Copy !req
896. They were warriors and princes.Copy !req
897. They were modest and brave and polite...Copy !req
898. and they never did anything cheating.Copy !req
899. That is why I came to you
as soon as I thought of it...Copy !req
900. to tell you what I have done.Copy !req
901. Must you tell me now?Copy !req
902. - Please, Sister.
- Well, what have you done?Copy !req
903. Sister Clodagh, I didn't know how
to tell you, so I asked Mr. Dean.Copy !req
904. And he said to tell
it was the story of the prince...Copy !req
905. and the beggar maid.Copy !req
906. You said you'd give us
till the rains break.Copy !req
907. They haven't broken yet.Copy !req
908. What will they do with you
down there?Copy !req
909. I shall be sent to another convent
with less responsibility.Copy !req
910. I shall be superseded
as sister in charge.Copy !req
911. Will you be able to stomach that —
stiff-necked, obstinate creature like you?Copy !req
912. It's what I need.Copy !req
913. I expect I shall have to remind myself
of it a hundred times a day.Copy !req
914. I can't change in a minute
like the young general.Copy !req
915. But I shall have my ghosts
to remind me.Copy !req
916. You're leaving me with more than one.Copy !req
917. Will you do one last thing for me?Copy !req
918. I know you'd rather not do it.Copy !req
919. Of course I'll do it.Copy !req
920. Will you look after the grave?Copy !req
921. All right.Copy !req
922. Good-bye.Copy !req