The Secret Life of Bees Page #3

and dumber not to say you're sorry

if sayin' it will save your life.

That man was gonna come back

and kill you or worse.

And I go and I get you out of there,

and this is how you thank me?

Well, fine.

[Water Splashing]

Are you all right?

I feel like I've been beaten

with a stick.

You have been beaten, remember?

But not with a stick.

I know you can't understand.

Apologizing to those men

would've just been a different way of dyin'...

'cept I have to live with it.

If I can find someplace open,

I'll buy us some food.

What we gonna do for beds?

Find a motel, I guess.

Lily, there ain't gonna be a place

that'll take a colored woman.

Well, what about

the Civil Rights Act?

Ain't nothin' but a piece of paper.

[Horn Honking]

[Chattering]

Excuse me, sir.

Are you serving food today?

Oh, yes, ma'am. We have

a Sunday plate special: Barbecued pork.

Um, we'll take two of those,

please, and two Cokes.

I don't believe

I've seen you before.

I'm not from here.

I'm... I'm just visiting my grandmother.

[Woman]

Your daddy's gonna be so proud of you.

- Afternoon, Carol.

- Hi.

- Why, don't you two look smart.

- When we get home...

You come on in, and I'll wrap

those up for you to go.

[Bell Jingles]

- [Door Opens]

- [Bell Jingles]

Miss, you change your mind?

- Where did you get those?

- Oh, I know what you mean.

Virgin Mary's pictured

as a colored woman.

But, see, the woman that makes

the honey is colored herself.

Best honey in South Carolina.

What is her name?

August Boatwright.

- Do you know where she lives?

- [Chuckles]

Darnedest house you ever saw. Painted like

Pepto-Bismol. Your grandma's probably seen it.

[Chattering, Laughing]

[Lily]

What do you think's goin' on?

[Sighs]

Look like they dressed for church.

- Bye-bye!

- [Lily] You think one of them's August?

- [Horn Honks]

- Whoever she is, I hope she make honey...

better than she picks out paint.

I like it.

[Cello:
Classical]

Now, don't go gettin'

your hopes up, all right?

They got nowhere else to go.

[Stops]

[Footsteps Approaching]

Yes?

- Are you August Boatwright?

- No.

I'm June Boatwright.

August is my sister.

- You came to see her?

- Hi. I'm May Boatwright.

I'm August's sister too.

[Chuckles]

Is she expecting you?

Um, I just saw some honey at the store,

and the man said that...

You come for honey?

Why didn't you say so?

Come into the parlor. I'll go get her.

Then after that she gonna go get

September and October.

[Door Closes]

Who we got here?

I'm Lily and this is Rosaleen.

We need a place to stay.

You see, my mother died of tularemia when

I was little, and my daddy just got killed...

in a tractor accident on our farm in

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