A Canterbury Tale Page #4

much else but Salisbury.

You've seen something if you've seen Salisbury.

It's a fine town.

Yeah. It's got some swell movies.

Really? You're a great moviegoer,

Sergeant Johnson?

You bet. It's a great thing

to sit back in an armchair...

and watch the world go by

in front of you.

The drawback is, Sergeant Johnson...

that people may get used to looking

at the world from the sitting position.

I don't quite get you.

Then when they really do pass through it,

they don't see anything.

Shall you be

going to a movie in Canterbury?

Is there anything good on?

This voucher will get you a room

in the Hand of Glory. That's the inn.

One of the men will take you over.

There's nothing to pay.

- Thanks. That's swell of you, but I can pay.

- No, no. You're our guest for tonight.

Okay. Thanks a lot.

That's all right.

- Pity.

- Pity?

Pity when you get home and people ask you

what you've seen in England, you'll say...

"Well, I saw a movie in Salisbury...

and I made a pilgrimage to Canterbury

and saw another one."

You've got me all wrong.

I know that in Canterbury

I have to look out for a cathedral.

Do look out for it. It's just behind

the movie theater. You can't miss it.

- Oh, take the sergeant over to Mrs. Foster.

- Yes, Mr. Colpeper.

And ask the young lady to come in.

Good luck, Sergeant.

Good night, sir.

Colpeper.

Colpeper.

- Up here, miss.

- Thank you.

I'm sorry about the incident, miss, uh -

- Alison Smith.

- Miss Smith.

I've been sent by

the War Agricultural Committee.

I wish they'd telephone

before they send people.

You wrote. They sent me.

I want a farm laborer.

You have to take

what you can get these days.

You've got me.

I can do the work.

I'm sorry, Miss Smith.

You refuse to employ me

because I'm a girl?

Miss Smith, there's a camp

near this village full of soldiers.

- I know.

- Oh, you know?

I'm not interested in soldiers.

- Perhaps they're interested in you.

- Let them. They mean nothing to me.

Aren't you afraid to stay here?

Why should I be afraid?

After what's happened to you.

- Didn't you hear it?

- What?

Somebody moved. In there.

Nonsense.

It isn't nonsense.

- Somebody's there.

- How could there be?

I've been here the whole time.

Why don't you want to open it then?

Here's some more.

Uh, Mrs. Foster

won't be long now, miss.

Can I help you?

Well, I've seen some topsy-turvy things

in this war- and the last -

but to see guests

doing real work for me...

no, miss.

Uh -

Do you know Mr. Thomas Colpeper?

Do I know Mr. Colpeper?

- You a Londoner, miss?

- Mmm.

Well, what would you say if I was to ask you,

do you know who's the lord mayor of London?

- But I don't.

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