The Garden of Allah Page #4

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- Please forgive me.

- Please don't be impatient with me, Domini.

Your friendship is all I have.

I've tried to imagine

what I would do without you...

alone here.

I couldn't face it.

Then I thought of our days together,

the days at Sidi-Zerzour.

The time we rode to the tomb on the desert.

Our walk on the dunes that night,

under the stars.

Something's happened to me.

I can breathe again.

I can feel sun and wind again.

For the first time,

I can bear to live in the world.

You've done that for me, Domini.

Thank you, Boris. I'm glad.

- But--

- Please, Domini, don't question me.

There are things in a man's life

it's best to forget.

There are dark places

which should be left dark.

I don't want to remind you of that, Boris.

I won't again.

I've seen you happy.

You must think only of that. That happiness.

And of you, Domini, of you.

I thank God...

What is it, Boris?

Nothing.

It's getting late.

We'd better be starting back.

My dog has taken a fancy to you, I see.

I'm sorry, I didn't know it was your dog...

-or I shouldn't have interfered. Forgive me.

- My son.

Why do you run away?

Why do you say that?

The church is always open to you.

What is the church to me?

I have no use for it. I'm sorry.

- You sent for me, Father?

- Yes. Sit down.

It's about your fellow traveler.

What's the matter with that man?

What's the matter?

I don't know, Father.

There's fear in this man, Domini.

Why do you say that, Father?

Give me your reason.

My reason is my instinct.

I pity him. I shall pray for him.

He needs prayers.

I can't say I think he's evil, but...

- I know he isn't evil.

- You know? How?

My instinct.

I think perhaps he has lost his faith.

That's what's wrong with him, Father.

But I think he can be helped to regain it.

I shall do what I can for him.

Domini, Mother Josephine put you

in my care.

My first duty is to protect you.

And I warn you most solemnly

not to make friends with this man.

Forgive me

if I disregard your warning, Father...

but I feel that everything that has happened

to me here has been arranged beforehand.

And I feel that, too, about the future.

The fatalism of the East!

It's the guiding spirit of this land.

And you, too, are going to be led by it.

Take care.

You've come to a land of fire...

and I think you are made of fire.

Batouch, did you find Monsieur Androvsky?

Yes, madame. He is leaving Beni Mora.

- Leaving?

- Yes, madame. Tonight, he said.

That will be all, Batouch.

Yes, madame.

- I came to say goodbye.

- But why, Boris? Why?

You know why, Domini, don't you?

With you, I am at ease and happy.

But with the people you like...

No, I've made up my mind. I'm going away.

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