"Good afternoon, I'm taking a foot bath." "No, don't go away!" "You might give me a hand while you're here." "Whatever for?" "." "There's a great big crayfish enormous..." "I can't seem to catch him though." "Where... show me." "Can you still see it?" "Anyway, I'd be surprised if you managed to get it out of there." "The damn thing's run away into the roots." "I suppose we'd better dig him outwith a stick." "My chance, he's in there for keeps." "There are deep hollows under the bank." "It's like a bunker in the Maginot Line." "You'll getyour fingers nipped." "Hey, what's a bunker?" "." "You've never seen one?" "No." "I guess there can't be that many around here." "You're from far away?" "I haven't seen you before." "You don't live in the region." "No, I don't live here." "What's your name?" "Nanette." "Well it's really Jeanne, but that sounds stupid." "Jeanne Lambert, and yours?" "Mine's Claude." "Some girls are named Claude." "So are some boys." "I had a girlfriend whose name's Claude." "Are you going to help?" "Help you catch the crayfish?" "It's gone into that... thing you said a while ago." "I wantyou to help me... stand on my feet." "I can't do it by myself." "Did you have an accident?" "Why didn'tyou say so?" "I'll get my father..." "he's not far away." "Hey... are you off your head?" "I just hurt my foot a bit." "You mean you're not old enough to find me a good solid stick?" "All alone...?" "What kind do you want?" "Look for a branch, this long... and this thick." "It should have fork at one end like so..." "It's to make me a crutch, do you see what I mean." "A live branch is best." "It'll break otherwise." "Is the war ever talked about?" "Does your father talk about it?" "I dunno... he never mentions it." "You know, in spite of the rationing" "I still have a piece of chocolate." "Do you like chocolate?" "Look in my bag." "My father says that if all the French people were more obedient, things would be a lot better." "He says too the marshal Petain knows hisjob." "You don't know what goes on behind his beard but the marshal has saved France." "Well... what does he say about the Maquis and the Resistance?" "What... those bandits that murder and steal... sabotage the trains." "They were the ones that are after you." "And who wounded you." "You better tell the Gendarmes about it." "Forget it." "It's funny... you know I'd never imagined something like this.." "Like what?" "Tell me, what do you think of your country?" "Do you love France?" "Well yes, of course." "Like everyone." "No, not like everyone." "You're old enough to know there are some who don't give a damn about it." "How old are you?" "Fourteen and a half." "I'm gonna take my Certificate soon." "You're not the brainy kind?" "Brains have got nothing to do with it." "Henri Calmar passed his exam at 13 and he's as stupid as a barn door." "You ought to know that the Germans are the enemies of France." "I don't believe that." "The hostilities are over the Germans aren't harming us." "Good Lord... then it's no use." "What?" "What's no use?" "It's stupid." "If I wanted to ask you to say nothing to anybody... to get me something to eat, until I can walk again." "It's no use." "Hand me over to the Gendarmes if you want" "Or find your father, your neighbour... because I'm an enemy of the Germans." "I'm not one of your bandits, but still I'm an enemy of the Germans." "If I'm caught, I shall be shot at dawn." "How would you like that?" "What's the use?" "I'm finished." "Let the Gendarmes come if they want to." "How can you be so stupid?" "You can come to my house..." "nobody's there." "I was Iying to you before... my parents and my brother are out harvesting." "In the big field." "Come on." "careful... alright?" "And when we're there... what then?" "I'll hide you... don'tworry." "Come on." "What time is it?" "Five o'clock." "And that's the time by the sun... you're on city time I bet." "Come on, get up we're not there yet." "Oh dear... it hadn't been started yet." "And I can't start it because Mama'd notice." "She notices everything." "Oh well!" "She gives the biggest slices to my brother because he's bigger and he works." "Anyway you haven't any more right to it than I have." "But I'll find you something else." "You'll see." "Come on... quick!" "Alright... alright." "Just a minute... gently." "Here... under my arm." "I'll never make it" "I'll never make itwith my foot." "Oh yes you will... go on." "Nothing but a rat-trap!" "I'd never be able to get away if your parents discovered me here." "Don'tyou trust me?" "Nobody ever comes here." "I used to play with my brother in here." "No one ever bothered us." "That overlooks the rear of the house and orchard" "And over there is a very small trapdoor that comes out level with the barn roof." "When you get better you can go out by it... and never be seen." "I'll fix up a corner for you." "No, leave that, I can manage." "You're very kind." "It's really nothing." "I mustwarn you we're notvery rich." "Thieves'd find nothing to steal." "But I'll look after you... you'll have enough to eat and drink." "Thank you." "Already!" "Hey, any water in this establishment." "Yes, but Papa and Mama say it's not safe to drink." "Our well is a very old well... all kinds of things have fallen into it." "You might catch something from it." "The wine's much better." "It'd nice and cool, I'vejust drawn it off for you." "Want some?" "I don't know how to drink thatway." "Neither does Mama." "Just a minute... do you mean to tell me you eat this sawdust?" "I've forgotten what real bread tastes like." "And anyway the men from the Ministry requisition the biggest part of our harvest." "The wheat is for them." "So the bread and butter goes to Hitler, eh?" "It appears your father doesn't mind giving his best bread to the Germans." "If itweren't for them we'd live like in the Middle Ages." "I learned history." "It's in the schoolbooks." "In olden days the peasants were treated like animals." "They'd nothing to eat." "And in times of war we had to find a refuge... in a town or a castle." "We lived on roots and went about in rags." "The soldiers used to hunt us and there was no one there to defend us." "Nowadays we're important people." "To get bread without coupons they'd come here from the town on bicycles or in those gas-bag cars." "And they're ready to fight over a potato." "I know." "Because the city people live on chestnuts and substitute ersatz things." "Now they're the ones getting the war." "They're the ones getting bombed now." "You think that's a reason to be grateful to the Germans?" "In the farm up the road they've got a refugee." "His parents disappeared in a bombing raid." "And itwas the English who did it." "You're wrong..." "the English don't bomb civilians deliberately." "Itwas the Germans who wanted the war." "I'm atyour mercy." "I should tell you that" "I was in England... as a refugee." "And over there, day and night many civilians disappeared in bombing raids." "And to stop that is my mission." "Only last night, I was parachuted in..." "The Kraut antiaircraftwas really going strong.." "We missed the fighters by the skin of our teeth." "My pilot misjudged the drop-point," "I was hurtwhen I hit the ground and I lost my way too." "I've got tojoin up with the partisans..." "Those are the people you call terrorists." "I'll try to help you..." "Don'tworry you can trust me." "Oh dear... it's night already." "What if my parents are already back," "And they're wondering where I've gone." "I'm not here..." "you haven't seen me." "Admiring the view." "You're better off on the orchard side." "If you looked into the yard they might see you." "You'd already forgotten me." "They all went away this morning... to my aunt's." "I couldn't find an excuse to come up here." "How's your foot?" "I'm not exactly ready to hop like a rabbit." "Poor thing." "You mustn't play tricks on me." "I'd begun to feel uneasy." "And if the Gendarmes had come here, whatwould you have said?" "I'd have said hello to them in MYfashion." "Let me see that." "No." "It's loaded." "Papa no longer has his gun." "He misses it." "Itwas requisitioned a while ago." "So we use snares and traps with my brother... but it's not nearly as much fun." "If there's no more hunting" "You'd better blame marshal Petain for it." "It's the war, that's all." "At school you sing a song don'tyou?" "..." "Well, we've learned a couple of little songs." "And rounds." "I mean the song you sing before the beginning of classes." "You all stand up I lines I suppose?" "Then you start to sing it." "What song?" "A kind of hymn." "Well, sing it for me." "I'm shy." "You sing it every day in school." "Morning and afternoon." "I can't." "I can't all alone." "I can with the class." "Is there anything you can do all alone?" "The mistress teaches us to embroider a napkin." "Are there things the mistress doesn't teach you?" "Why ask me?" "Stop acting like a baby." "No use behaving like thatwith me." "Be honestwith me." "All rightwe'll begin." "That hymn... you know it by heart." "And you can sing it, I'm sure." "You're going to get up and sing it... right now." "For Me." "Why should I?" "Because I asked you to." "So on your feet... up... go on!" "Go on... we're all by ourselves." "Get on with it." "Go on, sing." "Alright, that's enough." "That'll do." "Do you really thing the marshal of France is glad" "When all the little brats in France scream out that song?" "What are you crying for?" "." "I'm not crying." "You're snivelling like a sow." "I'm not!" "What's all the fuss about?" "Because... you're being nasty to me." "You were being nasty first." "You know I'm notjoking about my mission." "I can't be bothered aboutyour little moods." "You've got to look after me." "Cure my foot." "It hurts bad?" "You're an adorable little nurse." " Around here..." " Here?" "Yes." "That's better." "I wish I could stay here... with you." "I don't like you to be alone." "This morning when I couldn't come" "I was thinking aboutyou..." "Gently." "...all the time." "It's time for you to go, mademoiselle." "No... just another minute." "I'm so happy." "I'll prove it." "You'd really be happy to stay here?" "Oh yes!" "That's enough Mademoiselle!" "Anyhow, I was nastier than you were." "Hey... your way of kissing isjust like the English." "Whadda you mean?" "In England everybody kisses on the mouth." "Even the men." "I'm not surprised." "The English are savages." "Anyway they'll disappear soon." "The man at the post office says so every day." "He's got a voice like a bull." "Like the vicar during his sermon." "He always says" "England is ripe for destruction like Carthage of old." "Well what if I don't kiss like the English?" "As a matter of fact I kiss like my cousin kisses my brother." "And I love you, Englishman" "I love you." "I do think aboutwhen you're all alone." "Do you miss me?" "It's wonderful today, we're all by ourselves." "The whole day... just us two." "Don'tyou realise?" "They've gone into the fields and are not coming back til lunch" "Why do they letyou off the harvesting?" "Hay-fever?" "." "I had to do some reviewing for my exams." "It's for the day after tomorrow." "That's perfect." "We'll review your exam." "Reviewing!" "I don't feel like it." "Mmm... '39" "Want some?" "Just a little." "There you are." "That's fine thank you." "No more?" "That'll do nicely." "A steak?" "... you a beef-steak?" "Thank you." "Here's to us Nanette." "Mmm... melts in the mouth even the fork!" "SensationaI!" "You're a good cook." "I can't help it, but I need a nice nap." "I'm not sleepy." "Aren'tyou?" "When I was small, me and my brother played doctors here." "I was the patient and he used to examine me." "He gave me an injection... for influenza." "We used to play papas and mamas too!" "It looked so stupid." "Butwe won't play at doctors or at mamas and papas." "You're too big for that." "Don't be so silly." "I wasjust telling about it." "I feel roasted." "Aren'tyou feeling hot?" "Make yourself comfortable if you like." "Do as you want." "You comfortable now?" "Don't feel hungry?" "Don't feel sleepy?" "No." "Good, then we'll talk." "Yes, tell me a story." "Nope." "We'll talk about those bandits as you called them." "The resistance are patriots." "You've got to love them as you love me." "They're the same as I am." "Patriots!" "Patriots!" "Joan of Arc was a patriot." "All my schoolbooks say it and the vicar says so too." "She was the saviour against the English... no?" "And they burned her... the swine!" "Thatwas hundreds of years ago." "They confuse me... the patriots always hurting people... even their own... but I've known Germans who are nice." "Lastyear they occupied the castle on the hill and from time to time they came to get things from us." "There was one... tall and blond... who always had something for me... things you couldn't buy in the village." "Candy and chocolate." "At first I was afraid of him... afraid to look in his eyes..." "I didn't even say thanks to him ...too stupid to." "He'd stroke my hair and touch it the way you do and murmur things in my ear." "It soon became a habit" "I used to wait for the chocolate." "Papa and Mama were afraid to say anything." "They were all smiles, but I think it upset them." "My brother wasjealous." "Nothing's simple ever." "Take it from me." "You letyourself be bribed with chocolate." "After all I gave you chocolate as well." "The Germans are your enemies even if you haven't realised ityet." "Now it's about time to think of your certificate." "Go and get dressed." "Nanette wants a chest to cry on." "Nanette doesn't like exams." "Poor Nanette... she feels sick." "Poor Nanette... needs a good smacked bottom!" "up now... your mother will be coming back soon." "She's got to fix the meal and milk the cows." "Yes, yes... go on now." "Oh!" "... the sheep!" "I was supposed to watch it while reading my school book." "She strangled herself she's that stupid." "When she wound the chain around the post it never entered her head to turn around the other way." "Papa'll be so mad!" "She's a fool!" "Can't even take care of a sheep." "Surprised?" "That's enough out of you!" "You there?" "In the flesh!" "Butyou're walking again!" "You're walking!" "After all, if the Resistance won't come to me..." "Don't say that!" "Firstyou must get back your strength." "Get exercise!" "Get out of here." "Get out at night." "Tonightwe'll sleep in the corn-field." "Why "we"?" "It'll be damp out there." "Anyway... only bad girls go out after nightfall." "I'm a good girl... and I've often been outside at night." "I have shut my bedroom door so no one'll hear any noise." "Nobody can hear me then." "Not a soul." "Why tonight of all nights?" "To celebrate my exam and your getting cured." "And because it's warm out." "Because it'll be so nice... justyou and me together." "Tonight, you go out by the little door that leads on to the roof of the shed." "You know." "You just follow the orchard wall and I'll go there first and waitwith a ladder." "You'll be there?" "Over here!" "To the right..." "Notvery graceful, eh?" "I'm pretty rusty." "If my officer saw me now..." "It's your first time out." "Come on!" "Here, do you like it?" "I chose a place in the middle." "So no one can see us." "The blankets are from the cow-shed." "We keep them for when the cows are calving." "Do you like our castle?" "Yes, it's magnificent." "Oh, look... the corn-silk's dry." "You can smoke it if you like." "I used to do thatwith my brother." "My father smokes it when he's out of tobacco." "See what I borrowed..." "I'd rather not if you don't mind." "Anyhow, I've English cigarettes." "They're somewhat less strong than corn-silk." "Go on... try one." "You must do it gently." "Are you warm enough?" "Hold me tight." "It's so nice." "I wanna go with you everywhere." "Like a wife." "I'm big enough to, now." "I got my school Certificate just this afternoon." "I'm not ignorant any more." "You won't be ashamed of me now." "I'll never go back home again." "I thought it all out." "We could do it." "We'll steal tomatoes." "And we'll dig up potatoes and I'll cook them in hot ashes." "They'll be all soft inside." "It'll be wonderful." "I'll take care of you." "I'll wash your things in the stream." "We'll live like Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday." "We won't need anybody else." "Yes, Man Friday." "Go to sleep." "I love you so much." "Hi Nanette!" "What are you doing?" "!" "There's nobody around..." "I was fed up with my hideout." "I told you not to come down to this yard.." "not even to look." "Sorry I disobeyed, Mademoiselle Bluebeard." "This is where you should have put me up." "We could go swimming!" "It's quite safe today." "Everybody's at the big field for the threshing." "You're not." "I was." "I said the machine gave me a headache." "I came down for a sandwich." "Ever since you gave up regular hours," "I starve to death." "I haven't done this for ages." "I'll getyou!" "The bridge.. we'll go under it, eh?" "Let's see who gets through first." "Alright!" "I won!" "I'll show you!" "Take my hand." "Come on!" "Listen, I wanna make a confession..." "I never swam before in this stream." "Papa and mama said it's far too cold for swimming." "Only with you there," "I didn't care." "Isn't that marvellous?" "Something's tickling me." "I guess we're going to be bitten by every bug in creation." "Buzz off!" "The grass will make marks on our skins." "But so what?" "I'd like to get tattooed permanently." "What aboutyou?" "There!" "..." "Now we're married!" "Tell me... do you love me...?" "Do you love me as much as I love you?" "Yes, yes..." "lie still... eh?" "Yes, we should stay here... and never go away again." "Look... this can't go on." "Either my mission's a failure and I return to England, or I succeed in contacting the Resistance." "I don'twantyou to go." "Don't be silly." "You'd better dress, you're shivering." "No." "Listen to me..." "I have no directway of finding the men waiting for me." "I've got to contact another resistance network." "It doesn't matter which." "Now get dressed." "If you want me to stay... go and get someone in the parish or from a parish nearby.." " someone you can trust." " Thatwon't be easy... they don'twalk around with Resistance written all over them." "I know... but they talk." "Nothing doing with Jan Monarie... he'sjoined the Petain Division." "Ever since, he's sounded much better off." "Before I knew you" "I used to envy them." "You know, he get's very strange visitors." "I saw some of them once all in black from head to toe with the Death's Head on them... it made me afraid." "They're the SS, my angel." "The French SS... they're the worst." "They hunt the Resistance as if they were animals, they pillage the farms, if you resist, they shootyou... burn your house down." "I know." "I know all that." "I know the saviour of France isn't the one in the song." "I know you're the saviour." "Don't talk nonsense." "Find someone down in the village." "But think carefully... if you say the wrong thing, I'm dead." "Is that for me?" "I know somebody very nice." "He used to spoil me." "He's on the town council." "He often had rows with Papa about marshal Petain and the ones they call the Gaullists." "To make Papa hopping mad he used to whistle 'The MarshaI' and the 'Song of Departure. '" "They say that's a bad thing." "You know what I told you." "That's thatway they end the broadcast from London." "A real partizan'd be more careful." "They've known each other since they were boys." "Well, we can always try." "Did you hear that?" "Here... pretty close shave, eh?" "How does it happen thatyour father..." "Don't ask me." "No..." "I don't believe it!" "Could you have shot him?" "If he found us here?" "Would you have shot him?" "Why... no..." "I'd only have frightened him a bit." "I'd have said that I forced you up here... and I would have escaped." "And after?" "..." "You'd have done what?" "I couldn't have come back." "No..." "I couldn't have." "Monsieur Flouret!" "Monsieur Flouret!" "Hello Monsieur Flouret." "Hello Nanette." "What brings you here?" "Not out in the fields with your parents?" "You're getting so damned educated now... you don'twant to work in the fields any more." "Yes, I'm going to the big field." "I thought I'd look in to say hello." "You've been doing some growing up." "You're a mighty pretty girl." "Thank you." "How's it at home then?" "Just fine..." "And your father?" "." "Is he still as mule-headed?" "Listen... something's happened..." "I don't know what to do." "What?" "Well you see I found a man in the woods." "His foot had been hurt badly... he wasn't able to walk." "He said he wanted to find someone... strange thing, he didn'twant me to fetch Papa or a gendarme." "And you did what exactly?" "I should have told Papa?" "Or the gendarme?" "Well on principle... always go and tell your papa." "But there are things not that important... when it's best not to say anything." "I mean the gendarmes... that depends on whether you think the man looks dangerous or not." "I think he was mainly scared of the Germans." "He had an English accent." "You just left him there in the woods?" "He may be in need of some help." "And the gendarmes?" "Will you keep quiet about it?" "Alright, come on." "Nanette, you're a big girl." "There are times when it's much better to say nothing." "Alright, we'll bring him something to eat." "Monsieur Fouret..." "I lied before... that man's not in the woods..." "Well, you can meet Fouret tonight." "At eleven." "At the waterfall bridge." "Alright then." "When Papa came up to the loftyesterday, would you've taken me with you if he'd seen us?" "I'd have liked to, but it's impossible..." "Your place is here... with your parents, your brother." "I hate them." "Don't be silly." "You really belong to your family." "Summer holidays... all finished." "So we'll never see each other again?" "After the war, perhaps." "But I'll bet thatyou'll have forgotten me." " Time heals everything" " I'll never forgetyou, never!" "What do you know of life?" "Every minute, every second wears away the things we feel." "You think you love me and you love only a memory." "I believed I'd be able to speak to you like a grown-up person." "I was wrong." "I should have told lies." "You're a child." "I'm not a child!" "It's because I love you so much." "I want to marry you." "You're so stupid." "Here..." "Nanette..." "What's the matter with HER?" "I know a lot of people in town who'd be glad to eat that." "It'd put some flesh on you." "Stop that." "You're not sick are you?" "We haven't the time for that sort of nonsense." "Ever since you gotyour Certificate you're as high and mighty as a duchess." "And she worksjust about as hard." "She's even stupider than she used to be." "Oh shut up!" "Tomorrow you'll come out and work with us in the fields." "No appetite?" "Isn't thatjust too bad!" "No point in wasting it." "Just pour it all back in the soup pot." "Come on will you!" "Nanette, where are you?" "Of all the lousy lazy bitches!" "We better be going." "This'll keep til later." "Wait til I get my hands on her tonight!" "Oh, come on take it easy." "Hello, Nanette." "I suppose you are Nanette Lambert... you've grown into a big girl!" "Join in the singsong!" "Come on!" "I want Monsieur Monnery." "You don'twant to keep US company?" "Well, Papa's out the back there." "Up the stairs to the attic... and you'll see him." "You ought to stay for lunch." "We got some mushrooms." "Well, look who's here!" "Nanette... what a surprise!" "We don't see YOU often." "Afraid of coming here, or something?" "My goodness... your loft is simply enormous." "Yes, isn't it?" "It'd be great for playing in... eh?" "I'm not so keen on playing as I was." "Monsieur Monnery..." "I want to tell you something." "It's something I couldn't tell my papa." "What is it, Nanette?" "Monsieur Monnery... there's one of those terrorists hiding at my house." "And I was much too afraid to say anything." "I'm glad you told me... it took courage." "You were right to come to me." "Especially to me." "I've given my two boys to France... you saw them on the terrace." "They're in the SS..." "The Charlemagne Division." "They're also fighting against bolshevism." "Monsieur, you see he forced me to... he made me... you know..." "Monsieur Monnery..." "I wantyou to find him... and kill him please!" "Hello my angel... it's such a pleasure to see you again." "How's everything?" "It's funny..." "I'm beginning to develop a liking for lofts." "You gave me the taste for them." "Of course," "I could have received you in Monnery's salon." "It's very chic." "But I thoughtyou'd be happy to see me again in a loft." "Much more friendly..." "More intimate." "Come closer." "I'll show you how I've got things organised." "We'll be able to talk in peace... just the two of us." "You don'twant to?" "Nanette, my angel..." "I never abandoned you." "I promised I'd return, and I wouldn't forget." "You see..." "I returned much sooner than you expected." "Now come with me." "Get in." "You're not English." "Justwhat are the English like?" "You made a fool of me." "No, I never made a fool of you." "I loved you and respected you more than a Frenchman would have done." "We had to find outwhere the terrorists were hiding... in order to root them out and destroy them." "I needed your pity and your aid and then your love." "And finally your anger and your hatred." "Thanks to you, we've destroyed the terrorists whom you hate." "Have you heard the sound of the fighting?" "Thatwas your doing." "I am proud of you." "You see, even in a death-trap like this... no ambushing." "the Resistance were all annihilated." "I know how you feel." "You hate yourself because you've committed two unpardonable crimes." "ParadoxicaI crimes." "You denounced a hero... and you sheltered a traitor." "Your feeling of guiltwill follow you all your life." "Itwill stick to your skin." "You'll be gay as usual... then withoutwarning... when you least expect it... you'll go back and relive those early days." "You'll be... a living ghost." "Only... if you're philosophical... you won't let it bother you." "You'll simply be accursed, but no more accursed than the others... those who think they're pure." "Your superiority will be thatyou're aware of the curse on you... like me!" "Who are you?" "I'm Claude... just like when you met me." "I'm Claude, your Englishman, that's all." "I believe at times that I've lived for years... hundreds of years..." "That I've lived everywhere where men must suffer." "Do you still love me?" "For I'm still the same man." "Do you find me handsome?" "You ARE handsome." "As handsome as before?" "Yes, Just as beautiful." "I loved you so." "I still love you." "Don't ever let me go." "By order of the German army:" "Groups of more than 3 will be shot, as will people seen atwindows, which must be kept shut." "No, let me go!" "Go on, get moving." "Please let them go, they're afraid." "it doesn't matter, my angel." "Whatever shall come, you mustn't be scared any more." "For us, the war's as good as lost." "It doesn't matter." "In twenty years, in fifty years, we're going to be the masters everywhere." "Not obviously, butyou'll find governments performing acts that are... bizarre." "Things we would have done... as if they were executing our orders." "And then you'll realise that our defeat was only an illusion." "My angel, there's still a last choice for you... we're awaiting your orders." "What orders?" "Stay here... it's alright." "Congratulations... excellentwork!" "Let me go..." "let me go... this is a mistake..." "I'm not one of them!" "What's the meaning of this?" "You know I've always been on your side." "You see, I have to protectyou." "You denounced me to Monnery." "He might have talked later about it." "I killed him for you." "We must also execute Councillor Flouret and his family." "Butwhy?" "You sent a spy to them, didn'tyou?" "Then there are the farmers... who served as contacts between Flouret and the Maquis." "And see... due to slight negligence they weren't separated... they've been whispering amongst themselves, so have the women." "Nanette, they know you betrayed them." "Even my parents?" "My brother?" "." "They were the first... they know." "They'll poison your life." "So what now?" "The order... just make a sign." "We'll see to it that not one soul gets away." "The terrorists have been wiped out." "Only you and I will know the truth." "That's... our marriage... our link... our indissoluble bond." "Even though we may never see each other again." "Oh..." "God!" "God?" "..." "I AM God!" "Quick... give the order." "beautiful, absolutely beautiful!" "It seems itwas an abbey in the 12th century." "What I like most is the style." "I passed through the village." "frankly, I didn't care for it." "Those rows of houses in neat lines... those streets as straight as a ruler... so uninteresting." "Well, that's as a result of the war, the village was completely razed to the ground." "Had to be built again." "Not much of a place for tourists." "But between you and me... you know the only way to keep young men here is a modern style." "Why yes of course." "And that's why I'm here, to bring you a touch of the modern." "Everything was destroyed?" "The villagers were all killed?" "All of them?" "Oh, I'm not from this region." "Thank you." "You see I met my wife in the autumn during the harvest... she wasjust a kid..." "I had to wait to marry her." "The old village... i just never knew it." "My wife inherited this farm here." "Why wasn't this farm here destroyed with the rest of the village?" "I really don't know." "Well, it's a fair distance away." "My wife knows all about it but she doesn't talk." "She was such a small kid." "We thought about it before we decided to take it on." "We kind of felt afraid." "Almost as if the farm had a curse on it." "Nanette... this is Monsieur Muller... you know, about the machine." "Glad to meetyou." "How do you do." "Nanette, why don'tyou draw us a little wine." "From the barrel... the one in the corner." "I don't know why I did that." "I justwanted a little for my glass... to drink your health with you." "She's as shy as ever." "Here's to you." "To your health!" "And to yours." "Maybe I'd better leave you now... because there's the work... and looking after the children." "What's the hurry?" "You're shaking all over." "Just nerves." "I've got to feed the pig." "Don't leave us so quickly." "She'sjust shy... as soon as she sees someone for the first time she gets all emotional... just like a kid." "You're such a fool!" "There's plenty to be done here... it'll take quite a large investment." "It's easy to see that nothing has been changed here for years." "Your wife stared at me rather strangely, as if she recognised me." "Maybe I look like someone else." "Everybody has a double somewhere, they say." "Don'tworry about her... that's the way she is." "She's very reserved, very strange... but she's strong." "The only thing to hold against her is she's a bit old for her age, but she's had a rough time." "Sometimes when her mind is somewhere else." "When she's dreaming and I say something stupid deliberately so she'll call me a fool... thatway she comes back to earth." "I'm so sorry..." "I'm very fond of this region." "The waterfall, the bridge, and the stream... it is very romantic." "You went down as far as the waterfall?" "I saw it from far away... from the road." "Well you've certainly got good eyesight!" "Your wife's coming back." "That's funny... she's got my shotgun." "She's going to aim at us." "She'll put her finger on the trigger." "She's going to shoot." "Right now." "For you, Englishman!"