
The Miracle Worker
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(0.00 / 0 votes)She'll live.
I can tell you now, I thought she wouldn't.
I've brought up two of them. | This is my wife's first.
She isn't battle-scarred yet.
Doctor?
Will my girl be all right?
By morning she'll be knockin' down | Captain Keller's fences again.
Is there nothing we should do?
Put up stronger fencin'. Hm?
Just let her get well. | She knows how better than we do.
These things come and go in infants. | Never know why.
Call it acute congestion | of the stomach and brain.
I'll see you to your buggy, Doctor.
Main thing is the fever's gone.
I never saw a baby with more vitality. | That's the truth.
Hush...
Don't you cry now.
You've been trouble enough.
"Call it acute congestion" indeed!
I don't see what's so cute about | a congestion just cos it's yours.
We'll have your father | run an editorial in his paper.
"The wonders of modern medicine. "
They don't know what they're curing | even when they cure it.
Men! Men and their battle scars.
We women have...
Helen?
Helen!
Cap'n!
Cap'n! Will you come?
Katie! What is it? What's happened?
- Katie! What is it? What's wrong? | - Look! She can't see.
Look at her eyes. She can't see.
Helen!
Or hear. | When I screamed she didn't blink.
- Not an eyelash! | - Helen!
- She can't hear you! | - Helen!
Helen!
I told you to let her be.
Arthur? Arthur, something | ought to be done for that child.
A refreshin' suggestion. What?
Why, this very famous | Perkins School in Boston.
They're just supposed to do wonders.
She's been to specialists. They couldn't | help her in Baltimore or Washington.
I think the Cap'n will write | to the Perkins School soon.
Katie, how many times | can you break your heart?
Any number of times, as long as there's | the least chance for her to see or hear.
- What, child? | - There isn't! I must finish here.
With your permission, Cap'n, I would | like to write to the Perkins School.
I said no, Kate.
Writing does no harm, Arthur.
- A little bitty letter to see if they can help. | - They can't.
We won't know that to be a fact | till after you write.
They can't.
Katie...
I might as well work in a hen yard.
- You really ought to put her away, Father. | - What?
- Some asylum. It's the kindest thing. | - She is your sister, James.
Half-sister and half... mentally defective.
She can't keep herself clean. | It's not pleasant to see her about.
Do you dare complain | of what you can see?
This discussion's at an end. The house | is at sixes and sevens over the child.
I want some peace here. I don't care how.
But we won't have it by rushin' about | the country to every new quack.
- I'm as sensible to this affliction as... | - Helen!
My buttons.
Eyes.
She wants the doll to have eyes.
My goodness me. I'm not decent.
She doesn't know better, Aunt Ev. | I'll sew 'em on again.
It's worth a couple of buttons, Kate. Look.
This child has more sense | than all these men Kellers,
if there's ever a way | to reach that mind of hers.
Helen!
Helen! You're not to do such things. | How can I make you understand?
Katie!
How can I get it | into your head, my darling?
Katie, she must be taught | some discipline.
Discipline an afflicted child? | Is it her fault?
I didn't say it was.
How can I teach her? | Beat her till she's black and blue?
It's not safe. There must be | some way of confinin' her.
In a cage? She's a growin' child. | She has to use her limbs.
Answer me one thing. | Is it fair to the baby?
Are you willing to put her away?
Now what?
She wants to talk like...
be like you and me.
Every day she slips further away.
I don't know how to call her back.
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