Mary Reilly Page #4

I shall need helping into the house.

Shall I fetch your assistant?

What?

What did you say?

I thought...

...I heard him moving

around the house last night.

If he were there, would he leave me

to crawl out here on my own?

I'm sorry, sir.

If you'll allow me to lean on you...

...I'm sure the thing

can be accomplished.

You work too hard. I'm not

surprised you had an accident.

- What's going on?

- He had an accident.

Why didn't you come for me?

Hold your tongue. Go upstairs

and light the bedroom fire.

I was out late last night.

I must have...

...somehow put my weight on it.

Dr. Jekyll is all

too benevolent an employer.

It falls to me to draw

attention to occasions...

...when members of the household

are failing in their duties.

It is also my task, may I remind you...

...to dismiss those staff

who persistently overstep the mark.

Yes, sir.

Have you any idea

to what I may be referring?

It's not my place to advise him

not to go back to work?

Now, help me.

The master requires certain

supplies from the chemist.

We're all concerned

when Dr. Jekyll is unwell.

We won't improve his condition by

drawing attention to our own opinions.

Many young women in straightened

circumstances could fill your place...

...and observe a few

elementary regulations.

Remember that.

Mary?

Yes, sir.

When we had our talk, you refused

to say you hated your father.

I don't.

Why not?

He put a dark place in me,

and I can't forgive him for that.

But it's part of me now,

and how can I regret what I am?

Though it often makes me sad.

Oh, well, sadness, yes.

That can't be helped.

That comes in like the tide.

I know you're afraid of rats.

You told me.

But what else are you afraid of?

I don't know, sir.

Bad dreams.

I see.

Confined spaces.

Yes, of course. But what you're saying

is you're never afraid of yourself.

No, I didn't say that.

You are afraid of yourself?

Yes.

I thought so.

God, Mary...

...I'm so cold.

My hands are frozen through.

Take some broth, sir.

I don't know, Mary.

Why is it you strike me as you do?

Get some warmth into you, sir.

I'm very tired.

Mary...

...will you get dressed? There's

something I need you urgently to do.

What's all this about?

How should I know? You'll have to do

the blackleading this morning.

I'm afraid this won't be

a very pleasant errand.

- Is it to Mrs. Farraday?

- It is.

And I can't tell you

how important it may be.

Come in here, you!

He won't slip out of this

with a few quid and a smarmy letter.

All the same, you'd better read it.

He ought to have had the courage to

clean up after that mad dog of his.

- He said there might be a reply.

- And so there might. Come with me.

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