The Song of Bernadette Page #3

What cheats you two are.

This water is as warm as dishwater.

- Bernadette!

- You've got bats in your belfry.

That water's freezing.

Well, it isn't now.

Look, my toes are not even white.

What were you doing over there

kneeling in the rocks?

Didn't you see anyone?

Who?

Was somebody with you in that cave?

Somebody was,

and you were praying for forgiveness.

Jeanne!

Come on, tell us who it was.

Well, if I tell you,

you must swear not to give me away.

If Maman should hear of it,

she might take a stick to me.

I swear.

I give you my word, but I won't swear.

Swearing is a mortal sin.

You don't want me to sin like that

just before my First Communion, do you?

Come on, tell us.

Well, I saw a lady.

- And she was all in white.

JEANNE:
A lady?

And she wore a blue girdle

and had a golden rose on each foot.

I've never seen anything in my life

so beautiful.

Oh, piff!

What would a beautiful lady be doing

in a filthy place like that?

I don't know, but she was there.

Truly she was.

Come on, let's get away from here.

You take that bundle.

No, I'll take this one.

It's bigger, and you must be tired.

The girls are not home yet?

No.

Madame Millet's coachman was here.

Said there wouldn't be

any more washing for you to do.

Where, then, is the food

going to come from?

Don't ask me. I've been laying here

worrying about that all afternoon.

Bernadette, where have you been?

I've been worried to death.

But we got wood, Maman.

Three bundles. Enough for days.

There are other things to be done

besides that.

Sweeping, cleaning, water to be fetched.

- I'll fetch the water.

LOUISE:
I'm at the end of my rope.

Bernadette.

Bernadette!

- Don't run!

- See you at school tomorrow.

Maman, please take this.

She has no business running like that.

MARIE:

She ran all the way home.

We couldn't even catch up to her.

She'll be coughing all night.

Bernadette's all excited...

...because she says she saw a lady

at Massabielle...

...all dressed in white,

with golden roses on her feet.

- What on earth are you talking about?

- That's what she told us.

Golden roses on her feet!

She said this lady was standing

on a rock and smiled at her.

She had a rosary of pearls

and a golden crucifix...

BERNADETTE:

Marie!

You told on me,

and you said you wouldn't.

Maman asked me.

- What's this foolishness Marie tells me?

- It's true, Maman.

In the cave at Massabielle,

I saw a most beautiful lady.

A lady? What lady?

I don't know.

Suddenly, she was there,

and then, suddenly, she disappeared.

- Nonsense.

- Oh, no, Maman, she was there.

Her face was so beautiful.

Just to look at her made me feel...

Soubirous!

You hear what she says?

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