" MISS JULIE " "Look at Jean!" "Miss Julie is crazy again tonight!" "After taking the Count to his boat" "I went to the barn." "Miss Julie was dancing with the gamekeeper!" "She's crazier than ever, now that her engagement's been broken off." "Fancy her choosing to stay with us rather than go with the Count..." "She doesn't dare show her face to her fiancé after that row." "Do you want your horse, miss Julie?" "I'm going to join the Count." "Shouldn't Jean drive you?" "Let's go and dance!" "No, I don't want to." "You might've warmed the plate." "You're fussier than the Count!" "Don't pull my hair!" "It was only love." "Beer on midsummer eve?" "I've got something better." "Yellow Seal..." "I just need a glass..." "Excellent!" "Though not sufficiently chambré..." "What's that infernal smell?" "Miss Julie wants it for Diana." "Must you cook for that mutt today?" "It was courted by the gatekeeper's pug." "Miss Julie won't have it." "Viola!" "Jean promised to dance." "Stop running after someone else's fiancé!" "Will you dance with me now?" "Of course!" "But what a figure!" "Such shoulders...such et cetera!" "I've hear what Viola says, and she dresses her." "But I've been out riding with her!" "And got yourself an eyeful!" "Do you know what I saw at Lovers' Point?" "The day Diana was unfaithful." "Miss Julie went to see the water-lilies." "Her fiancé and I went with her." "Fetch, mon chevalier!" "In a bad mood?" " Go get it, Jean!" "You think more of your dog than you do of me!" "Diana!" "Diana!" "Come here!" "Give me the whip!" "Allez!" "That ended the engagement!" "And now she's alone." "And her fiancé left?" "Yes, he went home to recover." "He's with her father this evening." "No wonder she's ashamed to go." "Is it ready?" "There's a bottle on the stairs." "Some ladies' secret?" "What a lovely violet perfume!" "How impudent!" "You know about perfume?" "You certainly can dance!" "Go away!" "Are you brewing a magic potion so you can see your future fiancés?" "You'd need sharp eyes for that!" " Bottle the rest of it!" "Come and dance with me now, Jean." "I'd promised Kristin this dance." "She can have the next one." "Go on, be grateful for the honour." "Is it wise for you to dance twice with the same partner?" "Perhaps I must speak more plainly." "Perhaps you shouldn't prefer one of your servants over the others." ""Prefer"?" "I, your mistress, honour the servants with my presence." "But if it doesn't suit you, I can quite easily find another partner." "No..." "To the stables!" "I'll see to Diana myself." " The bottle!" "Now, Diana." "You're not angry that I ran off?" "Will you dance with me now?" "You're a sensible girl, and you'd make a good wife." "You're a charming escort, running away from your partner." "I only hurried back to the one I forsook." "Remove your livery, it's a holiday." "Please leave the room then." "Don't mind me, I'll turn my back." "Is Jean your fiancé?" "We call it that." "You've been engaged yourself..." "Properly engaged." "Yet nothing came of it." "Très gentil, monsieur Jean!" "Vous voulez plaisanter, madame!" "Where did you learn French?" "Working in a hotel in Lucerne." "You look quite the gentleman." "You're flattering me." "Me?" "Flatter you?" "Modesty forbids me to believe it was other than exaggeration...flattery." "Quelle conversation!" "Were you not born hereabouts?" "My father worked on the estate." "I used to see you as a child." "Though you wouldn't remember me..." "I remember one time in particular..." "No, I shouldn't mention it." "Oh, please do." "Some other time, perhaps." "Is it so dreadful?" "No, but it goes against the grain." "Look at her!" "Won't she make a charming wife!" "Perhaps she snores, too?" "No." "But she talks in her sleep." "How do you know?" "I've heard her." "Sit down." "Not in your presence." "If I order you?" "I'll obey..." "Give me something to drink first." "There's only beer." "I actually prefer it to wine." "Aren't you going to drink?" "I don't like beer but if you insist." "Drink a toast to me!" "I do believe you're bashful!" "To my mistress's health!" "Bravo!" "Kiss my shoe!" "You should have been an actor." "Supposing someone saw us!" "A lady drinking alone with a man..." "But Kristin is here." "Shall I wake her?" " Wake up!" "Don't disturb the sleeping!" "Good night!" "Come and dance with me, Jean." "Where is he?" "They went to the barn." "He went with her?" "!" "Get away...groom!" "Who are you looking for?" "Where are they?" "How strange you are..." "So are you...everything's strange." "Life...people everything is scum, drifting over the water till it sinks." "I have a recurring dream..." "That I've climbed high up on a pillar and can't get down." "I grow dizzy when I look down, but I must get down." "I'm not brave enough to throw myself down, but I can't hang on." "I long to fall..." "There's no respite for me till I come down...down..." "I must go deeper and deeper down." "Down...down..." "Have you ever felt that?" "No, I dream I'm lying under a tall tree." "I want to climb tot the top and rob the bird's nest of its golden egg." "I climb and climb..." "but the trunk is slippery and it's such a long way to the first branch." "I haven't reached the top yet, but I shall, if only in my dreams!" "Come on!" "What's wrong?" "Sit down and I'll help you." "Keep still!" "Do as I tell you." "Trembling?" "!" "A big strong man like you." "What muscles!" "Miss Julie!" "Keep still!" "Kiss my hand and say thank you." "Miss Julie, listen to me!" "You'll only have yourself to blame!" "It's dangerous to play with fire!" "Are you joking or serious?" "You play too seriously, that's dangerous." "I find this tiresome." "I'm going back to work." "Have you ever been in love?" "We don't use that word." "But I got ill over a girl I couldn't have." "Who was she?" "You can't make me tell." "But if I ask you...as a friend." "Who was it?" "It was you!" "How strange." "It was absurd." "Do you know how the world looks from down there?" "No, you couldn't." "See that hut on the other side of the lake?" "That was my home." "There were seven of us children and a pig." "Not a tree grew there." "From a window I saw the Count's park wall, and apple trees within." "It was a Garden of Eden, guarded by a host of evil angels." "Do you despise me now?" "All boys steal apples." "Once I went there with my mother to weed the onion beds." "There was a Turkish pavilion covered with flowering jasmine." "The door was open." "I'd never seen such a beautiful building." "No one was looking, so I plucked up my courage and sneaked inside." "It was early morning, so no one was likely to come." "The church was all I had to compare It to!" "This was lovelier." "There were pictures on the walls, fringed red curtains at the windows." "It was like a dream." "Pictures of emperors..." "Suddenly my hand touched something." "Now you know where I was?" "I'm coming!" "I couldn't get out the window..." "But there was another way out for those such as I and I had no choice but to take It..." "Hello, little boy!" "Be off with you, you little brat!" " Jean, chase away that urchin!" "Boy!" "Yes, you!" "Come here!" "Phew!" "Where have you been?" "Where have you been?" "You little scoundrel!" "Stop the thief!" "Stop the thief!" "It must be terrible to be poor." "Oh, Miss Julie!" "A dog may lie on a countess's sofa and a horse may be patted by a lady's hand, but a servant..." "Do you know what I did?" "The next Sunday, when my family went visiting" "I stayed home and scrubbed myself well with soap and water." "Then I put on my best clothes and went to church." "I was almost certain that I would see you there." "I went home, determined to die, now that I had seen you!" "But I wanted to die beautifully and painlessly." "I knew sleeping under an elderberry bush was fatal, we had one in bloom." "I stripped it of its riches and made a bed in the oatbin." "Have you ever noticed how smooth oats are?" "As soft to the touch as the human skin." "I fell asleep and awoke very ill, but I didn't die, as you can see." "You told that with great charm." "I hear the way gentlefolk talk." "Do you eavesdrop?" "I've heard plenty." "Sitting up on the coach box and rowing the boat..." "Once I heard you and a ladyfriend..." "There may not be such a difference between some people and others." "Excuse me, I'm going to bed." "Dancing with that mob doesn't amuse me." "Row me out on the lake!" "Go to bed instead!" "Shall I obey you?" "!" "Yes, because people are coming." "I love them just as they love me." "Love you?" "They scorn you." "If they see us together, you are lost." "Into my room!" "If they break in, I'll shoot!" "No, don't!" "Kill me, kill me!" "Jean, open the door!" "What are we to do?" "Run away." "To Switzerland, to the Italian lakes." "I'll start a first-class hotel there." "That's the life!" "New faces all the time, new languages!" "Bells ringing, trains whistling and buses arriving." "That's the life!" "And what about me?" "The lady of the house, its jewel." "The Queen who pushes a button to set your slaves in motion." "I'll pad the bills and you'll sugar them with your loveliest smile!" "Let's leave on the next train!" "Let me see..." "We'll be in Malmö by 6:30, and in Hamburg by 8:40." "Frankfurt, Munich, Basel - and we're there in three days." "Say you love me." "Hold me." "I want to, but I don't dare." "Not in this house." "But I love you." "Can you doubt that, Miss Julie?" "Miss...?" "Call me "Julie"." "No." "There are barriers between us." "There's the past... the Count..." "I only have to hear his bell..." "Just seeing his proud boots makes me jump to attention." "Superstitions and prejudices we're taught as children!" "In a republic..." "Today I'm a valet, but in ten years I might end up as a Count." "Just say that you love me." "Yes, but not here." "And above all, don't get emotional." "We must keep cool about this, like sensible people." "We must pretend nothing happened." "My God, have you no feelings?" "No one has more feelings than I. But the Count may come any moment." "Before that, we must...well..." "Do you like my plans for us?" "Yes...but do you have any capital?" "I think my professional skill and experience is quite worthy capital." "But it won't buy a train ticket!" "That's why you must be my partner." "I possess nothing." "Then our whole plan collapses." "You think that I mean to stay here under this roof as your concubine?" "Viola says I'm to fetch the Count." "Rubbish!" "He'll come when he wishes." "Oh God!" "My father!" "Don't play the fine lady." "Let me offer you something special." "Is this love?" "Love...this?" "Do you know what love is?" "Do you think this is my first time?" "Where did you get that wine?" "From the cellar." "My father's!" "Not fitting for his son-in-law?" "And I'm drinking beer!" "Then you have worse taste than I." "Have I been dreaming?" "On this night of innocent merrymaking!" "A lackey is a lackey!" "And a whore is a whore." "Oh God, end my life!" "Save me!" "I can't deny I feel sorry for you." "When I lay in the onion bed and saw you I had the same dirty thoughts as all boys." "You, who wanted to die for me!" "In the oatbin?" "That was just talk." "I'd read about a chimney sweep who slept in a bin that he filled with lilacs because he'd been sued for child support." "I was to lure guests, falsify bills." "No, that was my task." "Can a human soul be so foul!" "Lackey!" "Stand up when I talk to you!" "Lackey's slut, servant's concubine!" "And you accuse me of being crude!" "Do you think a maid servant would accost a man as you did tonight?" "That's right, trample on me!" "I deserve nothing better." "No, forgive me." "I don't hit one who's down, least of all a woman." "Oh Miss Julie, you're a wonderful woman." "Much too good for someone like me." "I can never win your love." "Are you sure of that?" "You mean you'll let me love you?" "You're beautiful, refined..." "you're like hot spiced wine." "You won't win me with that!" "I won't kiss your shoe!" "I hate you!" "But I can't run away from you." "Run away with me then!" "Who cares what I do?" "Jean!" "Are you here?" " Heavens, am I hungry!" "Oh Lord, I'm so sleepy." "Give me some wine!" "Go and get ready, I'll see about a carriage." "Wake up!" "Miss Julie wants her carriage!" "You've told me your life story." "Now I'll tell you mine." "So we know each other before we set off together." "Don't drink any more." "You must see me as I am." "Besides, everyone knows my secrets." "You see my mother was born of common people." "She was brought up to believe in freedom for women and all that." "She had an aversion to marriage and said so when father proposed." "She said she wouldn't be my wife - but would gladly be my mistress!" "She's like a child, naive, wonderful." "She'll get her wish." "What does that mean?" "That we love each other." "What about your marriage vows?" "We don't need them." "Wait till you see her!" "All your misgivings will vanish." "I can just see all of you, when I bring her home." "You'll all come rushing here in carriages, boats, on horseback!" "They refuse to see what's right." "Then I refuse to see them, too!" "Berta, these curtains do not open till they beg your forgiveness!" "We have one friend left..." "Robert." "You are like Berta:" "you are of the people." "Stay, help us raise our child." "What child?" "The son we shall have..." "one day..." "Your carriage is here, Doctor." "Yes, no doubt of it." "She is pregnant." "Is she happy, Uncle?" "Delighted." "She's dead!" "Who's dead?" "What is all this nonsense?" "!" "Be quiet, everyone!" "Is she...?" "She's no more dead than you or I." "Who tricked whom?" "He who laughs last, laughs longest." "Show him his son!" "Go to bed!" "And so I was born against my mother's will." "I was to serve as an example of how women are as good as men." "I was made to wear boy's clothes." "Julie!" "I had to learn how to groom horses, which I did every morning." "And I had to do It properly." "I had to go on bird shoots..." "I was so frightened." "And I had to learn farming." "Sometimes they had to drag me up to the plough." "And slaughtering the calves In the autumn...the blood..." "The men on the estate were given women's work and the women, men's work..." "The estate began to fail and we became the local laughing stock." "One day my father awoke from the spell cast on him." "Look what she's playing with!" "My Blenda!" "My poor little girl!" "Berta!" "I'm summoning our friends, and a clergyman will marry us." "Do you understand?" "Come now, Julie." "Dance!" "Do you still refuse?" "Then we must proceed without you." "Carl!" "Too late!" "Where's my Blenda?" "I vowed 7 years ago never to open these curtains until you returned." "The time has come." "May the flames blaze for friendship, truth, liberty!" "Fire!" "Fire!" "Save what you can!" "Where is Julie?" "Julie!" "We lost everything and had to sleep in the carriages." "Father didn't know where he'd find the money to rebuild the estate." "Mother advised him to borrow from his best friend." "Father did so." "But he didn't have to pay interest, which surprised him." "Mother was all for It..." "but father didn't understand..." "But they had a friend who was willing to help." "And what a friend!" "And so the manor-house was rebuilt." "Guess who burned the house down?" "Your mother." "And who the friend was?" "Your mother's lover." "And whose money it was?" "No, I don't know." "Mother's." "Entrusted to her friend." "Who grabbed it." "Exactly." "And kept it." "My father found out about it." "He couldn't sue." "Nor pay his wife's lover, nor prove It was her money." "Papa!" "What happened?" "!" "Papa, dear Papa!" "Good God!" "We must get him to his bed!" "Jean!" "Jean!" "What is it?" "My God, what's he done?" "Dear God, the Count's shot himself!" "After father's attempted suicide it was she who looked after me." "She taught me to hate and distrust men." "Then you went and got engaged to the sheriff!" "Just a little Christmas present." "Just a little present." "But engaged you were!" "He was to be my slave." "But he refused." "No, but I wouldn't allow it." "I'm tired." "I'm going to bed." "Do you know what a man owes a woman he's dishonoured?" "I always pay my debts." "There's only one thing for it." "We must flee, marry and then part." "What if I don't want to?" "I'm better bred than you." "I've no arsonists in my family." "Your ancestor was a miller who let his wife sleep with the king one night." "I've been talking about my family's honour to someone wholly unworthy!" "You family's dishonour, you mean!" "Dear God, what am I to do?" "I have been raving mad." "Dear God, help me!" "Stay here and keep calm." "Everybody knows." "Kristin knows!" "Nobody knows." "But it could happen again!" "That's true." "And the consequences?" "What was I thinking of?" "We must get away before the Count returns." "I'm so tired, I can't!" "Get some money and come down." "Don't go!" "Now you're crazy again." "Go!" "Speak kindly to me, Jean." "Now you know how an order sounds." "What have you two been up to?" "Miss Julie invited people in." "I slept like a log." "Already dressed for church?" "You promised to come with me today." "That's right, I did at that." "Oh, I'm so sleepy..." "What have you been doing all night?" "You're green around the gills." "I've been talking to Miss Julie." "She doesn't know what's proper." "It's strange, you know, when you think about it." "Her of all people..." "What's so strange?" "Oh, everything." "Have you been drinking together?" "Look me in the eye!" "Can it be?" "Yes, it can." "I never thought it of you!" "Shame on you." "Are you jealous?" "Not of her!" "Had it been Viola, I'd scratch her eyes out." "But Miss Julie..." "And the Count..." "The Count?" "...who's known such sorrow." "Dear God, what will he think?" "I'll say goodbye now." "I'm leaving on the morning train." "We're going to see the sunrise!" "Then we'll see you to the train." "Are you all packed?" "Yes, I'm all set!" "Give her a chance." "You're fond of her, and she of you." "Come home with me and see her one last time." "Don't go yet." "I must see her once more." "Go and get ready, then we'll go to church." "Quiet!" "Kristin's awake." "But just look at you!" "Dirt on your face and deathly pale." "I must wash." "The sun is rising." "Come with me, I have enough money now." "I can't go alone." "Midsummer Day on a stuffy train, people staring..." "So many childhood memories of Midsummer Day..." "The church decked with birch leaves." "A handsome dinner table." "Dancing, music, games..." "You run away, but memories follow you." "I'll come, but we must go at once." "What's that?" "!" "My greenfinch..." "We're not taking a birdcage!" "Then kill it instead!" "I'll chop its head off." "My Serina, must you leave me now?" "Don't make a scene." "Your life is at stake!" "Kill me too!" "I loathe you!" "I curse the moment I saw you!" "I curse the moment I was born!" "Don't look!" "I must!" "A carriage!" "Let me see your blood, the whole male sex, in a pool of blood!" "You think I love you, want to bear your child." "You cur!" "You lackey!" "Am I to be my maid's rival?" "I'm no coward." "I shall stay!" "The carriage has stopped." "Father's home." "He walks up the steps, sees his desk forced open, the money gone." "Then he rings twice for his valet and then he sends for the police." "The policeman comes." "There I stand In front of him." "I'll tell everything." "If only It will end..." "Then he goes into his room." "Without a word..." "That shall be the end of us all." "There will be peace, eternal rest." "The title is extinct, the valet's line continues in an orphanage." "It wins laurels in the gutter and ends up in prison." "Bravo!" "That's noble blood speaking!" "What's all the fuss about now?" "I'll be shaving in the meantime." "Both Jean and I must go away." "Why don't all three of us go to Switzerland and start a hotel?" "I have money." "Isn't that a good idea?" "Say you'll come with us!" "It's time you travelled and saw the world." "Train journeys are such fun." "New people, new countries." "We'll go the the zoo in Hamburg." "And go to museums in Munich." "Then we'll start a hotel." "I'll be cashier, Jean receives the guests." "That's the life!" "Trains whistling, buses arriving, bells ringing!" "You'll rule over the kitchen, but you won't cook." "With your looks you'll hook a rich Englishman for a husband one day!" "We'll all get rich, and build a villa on Lake Como." "I'm told it rains there now and then but the sun must shine some time, even though it looks gloomy..." "Otherwise, we can come home again." "Back here, or somewhere else..." "Do you really believe all that?" "I no longer believe anything." "So you were planning to run away?" "Run away?" "Who said that?" "I was to be that woman's cook?" "!" "Don't speak so to your mistress!" "Mistress!" "Listen to him!" "No respect for your betters?" "!" "Are you coming to church?" "You could use a good sermon." "You can go alone!" "Jesus died for our sins and if we turn to Him, He'll take our sins upon Himself." "Oh, if only I had your faith." "I'm going now." "Alone." "I'll tell the groom to hold all the horses till the Count returns." "Goodbye!" "What would you do in my place?" "In your place?" "I don't know." "Yes, I do." "This?" "Home again, then." "I can't!" "Nor could my father." "He had to be avenged first." "And now my mother is avenged through me." "Julie?" "She's asleep...but we'll wake her." "Have a smoke on the terrace." "Who's to blame for what happened?" "I don't know." "I'm the one who must pay the consequences." "The Count is home." "Yes, sir!" "At once, sir!" "What did he say?" "He wants his boots and coffee in half an hour." "I'm so tired." "I can't run away, can't live, can't die." "Command me." "I'll obey like a dog." "I can't either, now." "Since I spoke to the Count..." "I can't explain it." "It's the damned lackey in me!" "I believe that if the Count asked me to cut my throat I'd do it on the spot." "Go!" "Go!" "Julie!" "Julie!" "She's leaving by the morning train." "That's my train!" "Come on!" "We must stop her!"