Anna and the King of Siam Page #8

Your Excellency.

I said I'd get a house, and I got it...

but now you may go to the king

and tell him he can have it back.

I wouldn't live in it

if it had a roof made of rubies.

And you can tell him

something else too.

I wouldn't live in a country where

promises mean nothing, simply nothing.

I won't stay in Siam

a minute longer than I have to...

not if he gave me the whole palace

to live in all by myself.

Good day, Your Excellency.

I'll find out what time we sail.

I think we can go aboard ship

the first thing in the morning.

If Louis wakes up,

tell him I'll be back soon.

Yes, memsahib.

How dare you treat me

in this manner?

I demand an explanation,

and I warn you...

- Be quiet, sir.

- That I'm a British subject.

That is not reason you are safe.

I could have you killed if that would serve

my purpose. Such things are simple here.

Sir, did you enjoy your triumph

about your house?

'Cause you shall now

enjoy greater triumph.

I have something to ask of you...

not demand, but ask.

It is that you shall stay in Siam.

You may enjoy yourself if you like, sir.

No matter what you asked,

I wouldn't do it.

- If you do not stay in Siam, where will you go?

- I don't know.

- Have you other place to put your life?

- What has that to do with you?

- Have you, sir?

- Please stop calling me "sir"!

I call you sir so you will not

be lowly like a woman...

but you continue to talk like a woman,

I no longer call you sir.

You think now you are nothing here...

but that could be different.

How could it be as long as the king...

can change his mind

from one day to another?

- The king is not ordinary man.

- Indeed he isn't.

- He is lonely man.

- Lonely!

Mem, I have watched you.

I think there is need here for you.

I think you know what is truth

about many things.

I know you have courage to speak it.

The king has no one near him like you.

He has many wives,

but they cannot help him.

You can speak with him as a woman

where they cannot.

And he will listen to you, because he will know

you do not seek something for yourself.

Indeed I wouldn't, least of all the chance

to revolve around him.

- He doesn't need help.

- Mem, why you not see?

Why?

He is two men!

One part of him is king,

like his father was.

Other part tries to be man

of new world...

scientific man who desires to learn

all modern things to save his country.

But greedy men of Europe

are at our door.

They say Siam is barbaric land...

and so must be ruled by them.

So king must learn

all modern things now.

He tries work too big for any man,

with no one to help.

His own people are his enemies.

They do not want change.

And sometimes

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