Sister My Sister (1994)

Jodhi May: Lea Papin

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• Christine Papin : We're so lucky Lea. The other houses I've been, they come into the kitchen and interfere. Madame knows her place. Madame checks everything. I like that.

  Lea Papin : Do you? It scares me the way she checks.

  Christine Papin : Oh no. I like it. It's better that way. Madame is so precise, so careful.

  Lea Papin : But she doesn't let us get away with a thing.

  Christine Papin : Why should she? It's her house.

• Christine Papin : [Christine and Lea just served madame Danzard]  She liked it. Did you see?

  Lea Papin : She likes everything you do.

  Christine Papin : She sees everything.

• Christine Papin : I am a monster, aren't I? just like she said.

  Lea Papin : You're not a monster.

• Lea Papin : [Christine is upset about a piece of clothing]  Christine what's the matter? I'll throw it away if you want. I don't care about it. I'm just happy to be with you.

  Christine Papin : I'm happy too, little cold feet. We're together now. That's all that matters.

• Lea Papin : Tell me a story.

  Christine Papin : Oh.

  Lea Papin : Just one before we go down.

  Christine Papin : Which one?

  Lea Papin : Um, when I was little.

  Christine Papin : You're still little.

  Lea Papin : No, I mean really little. The one with the horse.

  Christine Papin : Don't you ever get tired of it?

  Lea Papin : No, tell me.

  Christine Papin : When you were just a tiny thing, mama sent me out one day to get bread. You came with me the way you always did. And as we were walking, you let go of my hand and ran into the street.

  Lea Papin : Tell it slower. you're telling it too fast.

  Christine Papin : It was a long narrow street. You remember... on a hill. At the top of the hill, a horse and carriage was galloping down, right towards you. I ran into the street. I pulled you across. I pushed you down in the gutter with me... what a noise when the horse galloped by. And everyone was screaming. And when we stood up, we were both bleeding. But it was the same wound. It started on my arm and went down across your wrist. And look, we have it still.

  Lea Papin : And mama, what did she say?

  Christine Papin : Mama, you know how she gets. She screamed at us.

  Lea Papin : And then what happened?

  Christine Papin : Well, then there was the gypsy. Mad Marguerite they used to call her.

  Lea Papin : And what did she say?

  Christine Papin : You... you know it so well.

  Lea Papin : No, tell me again, Christine. Tell me again.

  Christine Papin : They're bound for life, Mad Marguerite said... bound in blood.

• Christine Papin : You won't go. Will you?

  Lea Papin : Go? Where would I go?

  Christine Papin : Even if she goes, you won't go. Lea you're thinking about is all the time, aren't you? It's why you're always dreaming, always off in that other world.

  Lea Papin : There is no other world.

  Christine Papin : You heard Madame. You heard what she said.

  Lea Papin : What did she say?

  Christine Papin : You heard her! Don't pretend like you didn't!

  Lea Papin : I didn't hear anything.

  Christine Papin : What? Nothing about her daughter?

  Lea Papin : Mademoiselle Isebelle, you mean?

  Christine Papin : Who else!

  Lea Papin : Christine, don't be like that. You sound just like mama.

  Christine Papin : You smiled at her. I saw you.

  Lea Papin : I didn't smile.

  Christine Papin : Promise me that you won't go when she goes.

  Lea Papin : If she goes... she may never leave, Christine. She may never get married.

  Christine Papin : Jut answer me.

  Lea Papin : Christine.

  Christine Papin : Answer me! Don't just keep saying Christine!

  [Takes a moment to clam down] 

  Christine Papin : You're all I have left. You're all I'll ever have. Sometimes I think I'll never have enough time. Sometimes every morning I imagine things that you... Oh, Lea, there'll never be enough time for us.