Anna and the King of Siam Page #7

placed it under their "protection":

and this governor of ours still protests

his loyalty to Your Majesty.

So, a camel's nose is in the tent.

The partition of Siam, it has begun.

For a long time,

we've said this hour must come.

Now it is no longer talk.

It is upon us. What do we do?

Nothing.

We shall do nothing

whatever in this matter...

because there is nothing we can do.

Your father took such a man once...

and burned out both his eyes...

hung him in the sun in a cage

over cool running water...

until he went mad.

We have not the right to waste ourselves

on something which cannot be changed.

We shall save what strength

and cunning we may have...

to hold together what is left of Siam.

And if we cannot save all that is left...

we shall save what we can.

Tell me something, Toongramon.

A long time ago...

I came to you and asked you

to leave a life of peace...

and be the king.

If I could ask you now

to make that choice...

what would your answer be?

Think well before you answer that.

Think what this can mean to you.

You feel great responsibility for me,

don't you, Chow Koon?

You might still be living peacefully

at the monastery...

if I had not persuaded you.

Perhaps it is not too late to return.

Think well on that.

The monastery instead of this place

where you have only enemies and danger.

Well, you know this is not the end.

The ships of Europe

will crowd thicker on our seas...

greedy for conquest.

They have the power...

and the cunning.

They know how to set your nobles against you,

how to buy and threaten them.

How can you hope to hold Siam together

against enemies without and within?

All that it can mean to you is that

in the end you will die in a lost cause.

I have done you a sorry service...

to have brought you to this moment.

I think you take too much credit

on yourself, Chow Koon.

There is a man born for every task...

and I was born for this one.

Remember,

I was prince before I was monk.

Let me ask you...

if you were in my place,

what would your answer be?

Then give me as much credit

as you allow yourself, my friend.

If only we had more time.

- She's got someone else at it.

- She?

That woman and her house!

Stop it!

Take a lesson from her, my friend...

and you'll never give up on anything.

- Give her a house.

- But...

Give her a house! If she was meant

to be a sign to us, she deserves a reward.

And if she wasn't, well,

give her a house anyway...

before she drives me out of my mind!

- Very nice.

- Yes, mem.

No fish here.

No fish.

You like it?

I could be quite comfortable here.

It is, of course, our wish that mem

shall be perfectly satisfied.

Oh, I am perfectly,

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