Anna and the King of Siam Page #10

this is absolute monarchy?

How shall I be absolute if,

when I wish for something to be so...

it doesn't happen in this way

despite my absolute will to the contrary?

Geographies. What is opinion, mem?

I don't know. I...

Never mind. Is difficult question.

I am also much worried

whether I shall send delegate...

suitable display, et cetera,

to great exhibition in Paris.

What is opinion?

It sounds like an admirable idea,

Your Majesty.

Mem, I think you shall not give opinions

so quickly without thinking.

Maybe French have murky reason

for suggesting such exhibit.

Why you not think of this?

Mem, it would be much help if you would examine

correspondence for such murky propositions.

This I am too burdened to do myself...

and there is no one else to be trusted.

This shall be much important, mem.

What shall answer be?

I can't, Your Majesty.

Mem, shall you be forgetting

that work is always best remedy?

I know, but I can't.

I can't take any more letters or give

any more advice. I'd like to, but I can't.

What shall you be doing, then?

You do not go away?

I don't know. I...

I haven't been able to think. I...

I'd like to keep on with my school,

I think.

I've nowhere else.

I'd like to keep on with my school.

But, mem, only school teaching?

- I think that also...

- It's the children that I want.

It's the children.

Very well, mem.

I think if you do other work,

such as letters...

such arrangement would contemplate

raise in salary, but...

Very well, mem.

That will be all for today.

And for tomorrow, you'll need not

prepare the lesson in geography.

I find His Majesty has done away

with the geographies we had...

so we'll have to wait

until new books arrive.

That's all. You may go.

If... If any of you would like

to remain for any questions...

- Mem.

- Yes, Alak?

- His Majesty wish you...

- I told you...

Mem, while writing correspondence...

suddenly he very angry.

I do not know why.

He say he cannot do such things alone.

He say no one tell him truth.

He say there is no one to be trusted.

He say...

Oh, mem, if you will not come...

it will be very bad for me.

I'm coming. I'm coming.

Et cetera, et cetera...

et cetera.

- "F."

- "F."

- "G."

- "G."

- "H."

- "H."

Mem.

You must come.

Quick, mem.

Please remain in your seats

until I return.

He worked late into night.

I thought he had fallen into sleep

as he has done so often lately...

and I let him rest.

But he was ill, very ill.

He asked for us.

But we must wait again...

maybe for last time.

Mem.

Yes, Your Majesty?

Wherefore have you not

arrived more quickly?

- I wish to talk to you.

- I'm sorry.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Sit down, mem.

You mustn't talk now, Your Majesty.

I shall talk, I say.

- There is not much time. I die, mem.

- No.

Do not say foolish things.

I know if I die or do not die.

You shouldn't be here.

Can't we move you to your room?

No. I wish to remain here

in room with knowledge.

I have finished thinking about dying.

I think of many other things

while I am lying here.

I think of things

I should have said to you.

I mean...

when I think maybe

I do not see you again, I...

I write down these things.

I think maybe it will be better

he shall read them.

Shall you be listening, old friend?

There shall be words for you too.

I'm listening, Toongramon.

"I think there shall not

be much important...

"that a man shall die...

'for it is time

that does all true things...

'not man.

'Then I think it shall be important...

to consider those

who have been of most help.'

Ah! Words, words.

I wish to say...

you... you have spoken truth to me...

always.

Even when I do not wish to hear it...

you have always courage

to say when I am wrong.

You have set feet of children...

on excellent path of learning...

and are therefore most affectionately

thought of by same.

More so than regular parents...

including self.

So that if some shall grow

better than parents...

it shall be your doing.

And as reward for this...

what shall I have done?

I have often lost my temper on you.

I have never spoken gratitude or feeling.

I haven't even given

promised raise in salary.

I do not wish to die...

without having said that...

gratitude and... and...

and large respect...

and...

confidence on you...

which shall have become larger...

every day.

But, mem, if I haven't graciously...

said this gratitude before...

you must remember you have been...

very difficult woman...

and much more difficult

than the generality.

Generality.

It's a good word.

It means...

- It means...

- Never mind.

True progress...

shall lie...

et cetera...

et cetera...

et cetera.

He tried so hard.

No one will ever know.

It was so hard to let anyone help him.

He wanted to, but he couldn't.

He was like a little boy sometimes.

You remember,

about the forks and knives.

And he was sick that night,

he cared so much.

They didn't know he cared like that.

Nobody understood.

Not really.

It seems a long time ago...

I tried to make you understand

this man.

I do not think I said it half so well.

What happens now?

All his work...

I think now the young prince

will have much need of you.

It was meant that you

shall stay and help him.

Let this, our first message

to our people...

be proclaimed.

And not as if we were doing

a great and lordly thing...

but only what is right and fitting.

That from this hour,

the ancient national custom...

of obeisance on hands

and knees is abolished...

and all men

shall stand before the king...

and before one another,

as men should do.

And let it be the spirit

of this proclamation...

that this shall be

the first of many changes...

which we hope to bring about

as soon as they are possible...

as I believe my father, the late king,

would wish us to do...

and as I have learned...

it is right and necessary to do...

if we are to live

and work together...

in liking and respect

for one another...

as we must do if we are to work together

for the good of our country.

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