Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Page #5

I toured Europe. I married.

My husband was killed.

I finished medicine in England.

I'm now a resident doctor

here at the Victoria Hospital.

You never married again?

No, as a Chinese widow,

I have become completely unfeeling.

I'm afraid my heart is safely dead.

Well, I have to be in love to go on living.

Now it's an important Englishman.

I pass for English now.

I hope you won't give me away.

Oh, Suzanne, you should

be proud to be Eurasian.

And proud of your Chinese heritage.

Nonsense. You can't be two things at once.

And I advise you, pass for English

if you decide to go away.

Well, I'm considering going back to China.

It would be rather foolish to

pass for English, don't you think?

Well...

- Oh, I must fly away home.

- Oh, must you?

Yes. My new love wants me to be

in my flat when he drops by for tea.

We only have half an hour together

before he has to have tea with his wife.

It's ruining his digestion.

We must see each other soon.

- Call me at the hospital.

- I shall.

Give the waiter please the change.

I always see people as fish.

Separated from the rest of the world,

they become unfit to dwell together.

These, the fighting fish.

These, the peaceful.

These have sought safety in darkness.

They've lost their vision

and the light terrifies them.

What species am I, John?

You're the peaceful. I shouldn't

like to see you become like these,

swimming into deep water,

losing your vision.

Now, what do you mean by that?

I hear Mark Elliott's gone to Singapore.

Yes, his paper sent him on an assignment.

Very convenient for him.

Did you know that

his wife lives in Singapore?

There seems to be a conspiracy

to arouse my interest in Mark Elliott.

Be careful, lest you succeed.

They told me if I'd wait here

that you'd be out sooner or later.

- When did you get back?

- This morning.

Would you like to go swimming

this afternoon?

It's your afternoon off, so work is no excuse.

I'd sort of made plans to visit

friends of mine across the bay.

Well, it's a lovely day. Couldn't you do both?

Mark Elliott! What in the world

are you doing here?

Oh, I show up in strange places.

You promised to keep me

another week, Dr Han.

- I kept you as long as I could.

- I forgive you.

I hear you were in Singapore. Your wife

must've been delighted to see you.

Why don't you come up

for tea this afternoon?

Did you know that I was

bitten by a centipede?

Yes to the first question, no to the second,

can't to the third and no to the last.

Well, I was. If a handsome man like you

bit me, I wouldn't have minded a bit,

but a centipede...

- Do I expect you?

- Sorry, I'm working this afternoon.

Oh. Well, you'll hear from me.

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