Secret Mission Page #5

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You might be caught,

Anything might happen.

You must go now, before

morning. Please, Raoul!

Women are amazing, I must say.

First, she is angry with me

because I will not stay,

And now she tries to throw me

out as quickly as she can.

Monsieur, can you not

persuade him to go?

No, I'm afraid I can't.

You are the only one left.

Charles is a prisoner of war

in Germany. His wife is dead.

I am here working the estate

with only Violette and

Charles' son to help me.

You do not write to us.

We do not even know

if you're alive.

You come to visit us only now

when you wish to do some

spying for your new masters.

The English.

So the Boche have even got

you saying it?

You children must all

go to bed.

Monsieur Raoul, come and

help me with the blankets.

Without dropping them, now!

You follow me, monsieur.

We have no blackout

in the hall.

You must forgive

what I said, monsieur.

Things are very difficult

for us here.

You cannot know

what we have suffered.

- The cruelty, the humiliation.

- I think I understand.

I wish we could have met

in happier days.

I do, too.

- Not that way, stupid!

(LAUGHING)

- I was only trying to help!

Here is your room, monsieur.

I'm afraid

it is not very elegant.

- But I hope you will be safe.

- Thank you.

Good night, monsieur.

- I hope you will be

comfortable.

- Thank you.

- Raoul, no talking!

- (RAOUL LAUGHING)

Good night, Raoul.

There, there.

Michele, don't worry!

You shouldn't have come.

Good night, cherie.

- Good night.

-(VIOLETTE SUMMONING

IN FRENCH)

You know, she's right,

we shouldn't have come here.

Nobby!

- Have another quick one, sir.

- Thanks so much.

Come, my little pigeon.

(LAUGHING) Coming, my dear!

Good luck.

I'm doing it for my King

and country, sir.

(WHISPERING IN FRENCH)

So that is what

you wanted me to see.

As soon as the harvest is

over, they will go back

to the prison camp.

The defeated.

Now I know what

they look like.

Charles is a prisoner, too.

I wonder

if he looks like that.

Poor Charles.

I wish he were back here to

run this place.

It's much more than I can do

by myself.

But you have done marvelously!

I don't know how.

In the old days,

you were always in Paris,

buying dresses.

That is all forgotten now.

But, Raoul, listen to me

for a moment.

Does not any of this mean

anything to you at all?

This is our land, Raoul.

You cannot go away again

and leave it.

- I have work to do.

- Surely your work is here!

To nurse the land until

the Germans are thrown out.

- And be one of

that pathetic group?

- They are prisoners of war.

I think I could get you

papers from the Germans.

- They are easy to bribe.

- You do not face realities,

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