Black Narcissus Page #4

- So you've got them too.

- What have I got?

Spots. I've got them.

Every one of us has got them.

There must be something

in the water here that's very unhealthy.

- The natives drink it.

- They get sick themselves.

I ask as the general's heir,

the young general.

He's very ill.

Those drums

are beating for him.

The beat all night

while he's ill.

If you hear them stop,

he's dead.

You!

How do you do?

What are you doing here?

Skew's all filthy.

I have to have it taken off.

I've come to mend

a loose joint in your pipe.

- You must send a plumber.

- The nearest one's Darjeeling.

- I count plumbing among my other gifts.

- That's not the point-

I swear to you, Sister,

it's only the pipe I'm interested in.

- I must see Sister Clodagh about this.

- All right.

I forbid you to stay in there.

All right.

We have to build a workroom

and a school and, later on, a chapel.

Somebody's got to put locks on my

cupboards. I daren't unpack a thing.

And the windows don't open and the door

won't shut and the plumbing won't work.

- Come in, Mr. Dean.

- May I go now, Sister?

Please sit down, Mr. Dean.

- Would you like some coffee?

- Can you make it decently?

- Can I make coffee!

- Can she?

Full of grits.

Mr. Dean, Joseph tells us...

the people are still

being paid to come to us.

Ah, the general's a wise man.

It's only till it becomes habit.

Let it become a habit

for them to come,

and they won't remember

a time when they didn't.

Then gradually

he'll leave off paying them.

and gradually it'll become

a habit with 'em not to be paid.

- They're like children.

- He told me he was going to order them to come.

- They don't know what an order is.

- They should learn.

- Why?

- We all need discipline.

Without discipline, we should

all behave like children.

Don't you like children?

Thanks, Sister Briony.

Talking of medicine,

Sister Briony,

if you get a bad case,

one that seems as though

it might be dangerous, don't take it.

- But that would be-

- It would be wise.

If you got a bad case and

some of your people died,

you'd have all the people

up against you.

- Why?

- Well, you must remember, they're primitive people...

and like, like children.

Unreasonable children.

They've never seen medicine. They'd

think it was magic, a new kind of magic.

So remember,

I've warned you.

By the way, how are you

feeling, all of you?

Not very well.

Sister Ruth is the worst.

I think the water must be bad.

Ayah says it's the water.

On the contrary.

The water's too good.

It's Darjeeling tummy.

I'd better get that plumbing fixed.

Sister Clodagh!

What has happened, Sister?

Oh, Sister, Sister,

they brought in a woman.

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