China Seas Page #4

This navigation chart...

Excuse me, sir.

This navigation problem.

I'm having trouble with it.

- Trouble?

- Yes, sir.

Yes, I should say you are.

If your figures are correct, this ship's

in the middle of the Sahara Desert.

- Yes, sir. It has me worried, sir.

- Yes.

Well, suppose you try adding here

instead of subtracting.

Perhaps that will put us back

in the ocean again.

Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.

- All right.

- Excuse me, sir.

How's it, toots? Well, go on

and play dumb if you want to.

I just came in to tell you I'm not gonna

come around and pester you anymore.

Look...

...I'm taking all my cigarettes.

You know, it's moonlight outside.

Gee, it's pretty.

Ain't it funny we always fight

when it's moonlight...

...and make up when it's raining?

It's about time for the rainy season,

ain't it, toots?

Come on out of the trenches, I'm not

gonna throw any bombs. I'm harmless.

Yes, of course,

you're as harmless as a revolution.

Well, don't forget your cigarettes.

I won't.

I know an exit line when I hear one.

Well, anyway, it won't be so lonely

while Jamesy's aboard.

I hate to hear you talk like that.

A gal's got to do the best

she can with what's around.

You owe yourself more than that.

The trouble is, boyfriend,

there ain't any male Mrs. Barclays...

...so charming, so refine.

The real trouble is,

there aren't enough female Mrs. Barclays.

Don't give it another thought, Alan.

I once hoped you'd know me very well,

but not that well.

But when you once hoped,

you weren't in this part of the world.

No, that's true. But here I am.

- Yes.

- Captain Gaskell...

...Mr. MacArdle wants to go forward

to look after his animals.

No. MacArdle can't look at his animals.

I wouldn't let an admiral go forward

without a guard.

- You find it an exciting part of the world.

- Exciting?

Nursing leftovers

who are supposed to be officers?

Derelicts for a crew?

- But ashore, the glamour of...

- Yes.

You saw me this morning after a trip

ashore. Did I look particularly glamorous?

Well, I wasn't thinking of background.

That girl, she's glamorous, surely.

Sybil, I don't deny her.

But you know why I came out here.

Why I resigned from the service.

It was all I could do.

Yes, we...

I might have cracked up Bart's life

if you'd stayed.

Sybil.

If I thought

there was the slightest chance...

...I'd stumble out with everything...

...I wanted to say six years ago.

- Alan, I have a confession to make.

I'm not just traveling.

I've followed a memory, traced you here.

And now that I've found you...

...I don't care how you've lived.

I'll always be in love with you.

I'll jump ship at Singapore.

- We'll dig up a magistrate or a chaplain...

- A Buddhist monk.

- We'll go back together.

- Oh, England.

I've a place with a fireplace

you can stand in.

- Your cocoa, sir.

- Oh, yes. Come in, old man. Come right in.

What's the matter?

What happened to you?

The chef's been at the vanilla extract

again, sir. Went for me with a cleaver.

- The cleaver's a new matter, sir.

- Oh, yes.

Give him a brandy.

He'll be all right in the morning.

Sybil, I want you to meet the best

chief steward in the line, Ted Geary.

Honest as the day is long.

And he said to Mrs. Barclay

I was the best steward in the line.

"Honest as the day is long. " Never a word

about the last bottle of whiskey I pinched.

No doubt, the old man's going soft.

Relieved my watch

so I could have breakfast.

- Called me "Bertie. "

- I had a chew of tobacco in my mouth...

...as big as that. He never even noticed it.

- He said he'd take me to the races ashore.

That's the way it is with those

two-bottle men. I've never seen it fail.

- All of a sudden...

- I knew a man once in Liverpool who...

Davids.

- Aren't you going to wait for your coffee?

- No.

- It's too stuffy here.

- And smelly too.

May I please have the sugar, sir?

Thank you.

Mark.

- Good.

- Lovely shot.

That's a lovely gun. I hope that they don't

leave them laying around loose.

Captain lock them up

all the time we no use.

- That's good.

- Mark.

- Hi.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

- Oh, good morning.

I guess she's still burned.

Mark.

I got it that time.

- I'm afraid you're too consistent for me.

- Not at all.

Mark.

I received your note.

Really wasn't necessary.

I'm sorry I acted so crazy.

Jamesy, how about you and me starting

a little competition for the common people?

- All right. I'll bet you a shilling.

- Okay.

Bring us a gun.

There you are.

Will you and Captain Gaskell make

your home in Singapore or Hong Kong?

I don't think we'll stay out here at all.

Did you hear what she said?

It's all over the ship that they'll get married

the minute they get into Singapore.

- That's why Gaskell's turned sunny-side up.

- Mark.

I think you're very wise not to stay in

the Orient. We have a saying out here:

"After the cheap, strong wine,

the most delicate tea has little flavor. "

- Be careful.

- Oh, I'm sorry. L...

Quite all right.

You had no idea the gun was loaded.

You don't think I pointed it at you

on purpose, do you?

There's nothing to think about,

Miss Portland.

The gestures of a woman like you

simply do not exist.

Mark.

It's beautiful the way these ducks

know how to throw the old harpoon.

That's one of the advantages of

a very fine cosmopolitan education.

Come on, Jamesy,

let's you and me take a powder.

Clay pigeons.

That's the thrilling sort of life

you're headed for in England, Alan...

...shooting clay pigeons.

Exactly. And whether you believe it or not,

I'll revel in it.

Greetings, boyfriend.

Well, I understand congratulations

are in order.

I'd like to be the first to wish you

the best.

You'll need it.

Someday you'll say something nice

and never forgive yourself.

Look, toots, I...

Gee, I don't blame you for being sore.

I know I've done a lot of stupid gabbing.

But this is on the level.

I wish you all the luck.

That's one baby you'll never be ashamed of.

She's the real McCoy, and she'll make...

...a marvelous wife for you.

- I wish you meant that.

- I do.

Well, that's better.

Now, let's quit good friends instead of a

couple of cab drivers after a drunken brawl.

I guess that's the way

it ought to be done.

But I ain't been brought up to do

the right thing like that English dame.

All I can say

is what's down inside of me.

I don't care how long

you've been carrying a torch.

You can't quit me anymore

than I can quit you.

And you can kiss

a stack of cookbooks on that!

Thank you.

Well, anyway,

it'll be quieter in England.

- Wait till you get there, if you ever do.

- What's to keep me?

Well, I've been trying it for 30 years,

but there's something about this place.

From my windows, I can see

the whole harbor of Hong Kong.

Big ships coming, big ships going.

The China I know,

the China I've helped to make.

On quiet nights, off in the hills,

I can hear the sound of distant firing.

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