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Have they caught him yet?

Not yet, darling, go on

with your practice, there's a good boy.

Poor Gerald, he's missing Paul already.

Where can he be?

Why run away? I've always given him

everything he wanted.

He's a most ungrateful boy.

And I hope by now

he's feeling thoroughly miserable.

- Give me some food!

- Say, "Please."

- Please.

- No.

Please!

I won.

We've got some ham. I hope you like it.

There was a telephone in the shop.

Why didn't you phone?

Why didn't you?

Michelle, let's have a day,

just one day free.

I'll phone my father tonight.

What do you say?

If you think it's all right.

If he's getting married again,

I'm gonna have a day off.

"I meant to do my work today,

"But a brown bird

sang in the apple tree..."

I know that one, too.

"And a butterfly flittered

across the field."

"And all the leaves were calling me."

"And the buttercups nodded

their smiling heads,

"greeting the bees who came to call.

"And I asked the lizard the time of day,

"as he sunned himself

on the moss- grown wall.

"And the wind went sighing

over the land,

"tossing the grasses to and fro.

"And a rainbow held out

its shining hand,

"so what could I do but laugh and go?"

"My mother died when I was born.

"I lived with my father, on our own,

"and we had a cottage where we'd go.

And he died, too.

"Now I'm alone."

That's a poem, too.

I made it up, but it's true.

Now it's your turn.

My mother ran away

and my father's got a lot of money.

That's all.

Poor Michelle.

Poor Paul. Rich Paul.

Poor little rich boy.

- I'll definitely phone in the morning.

- All right.

Oh, what a day!

We used to have days

like this every day.

- Were you happy with your father?

- Very happy. Always.

- We had a house in Arles.

- Arles?

- That's right down south, isn't it?

- Yes.

My father was an artist, and in

the summer we'd go to the Camargue,

- and he would paint.

- I wish my father did something useful.

We had a cottage, a tiny cottage that

only he and I...

Only I know.

Camargue.

It's miles away.

It's in another world.

Why don't you wash?

Why should I? I'm new.

I'm brand new this morning,

in a new world.

You can still wash.

And then you've got to phone.

You're going back today.

Well, aren't you?

Michelle?

They don't want me.

- Where are you going, then?

- To the cottage I told you about.

In the Camargue? You can't live there.

Yes, I can. Nobody cares about me.

They'll never find me.

Why don't I come, too?

Just for a day or two.

You haven't been asked.

You've got to wash first.

- That's the way to wash!

- Come back!

- That leaves us 20 francs.

- That's good.

We would have had more

if you hadn't phoned your cousin.

Was she very angry?

She has Pierre. She doesn't want me.

They're all the same,

as long as you don't bother them.

Paul, look! Arles!

It's a bit small.

Michelle!

I didn't mean it. It's a lovely cottage.

Michelle.

It's got every modern convenience.

Food?

I told you, we used to stay here,

sometimes for quite a while.

And when you came to Paris

it was just locked up?

- I came alone and put everything away.

- Can I help?

You can split some logs.

Do you know how?

Oh, bloody!

Come here!

Stand back and I'll show you.

You?

Like that.

Why are we moving everything about?

I'm tired.

That was my father's place.

I want everything to be different.

Is this for you or me? Or both of us?

- I didn't mean it.

- Then you shouldn't have said it.

I don't think much of you anyway.

- He ever sell any?

- Of course he did.

- To the tourists in Arles.

- Tourists will buy anything.

I was only joking.

How are you going to live here?

I can work.

You don't stand a chance.

You'll starve to death in a month.

Maybe if I stayed with you.

- Perhaps that wouldn't be right.

- lt would if we said so.

If we were shipwrecked

on a desert island, all on our own.

There'd always be someone old

to tell us what to do.

You haven't got any imagination,

that's your trouble.

- And you've got too much.

- Have I?

Guess what I'm imagining now!

Stop, Paul! Let me go!

Stop! Paul!

Good night, Michelle.

- Dream about me.

- I hope not.

- You're sure there's a telephone there?

- Of course there is.

What shall I say?

I mean, shall I tell him about you?

He's your father, tell him what you like.

I'm going back to the cottage.

Paul.

Paul, what happened?

I told him I was never going back to him.

Never.

Oh, Paul! I hoped and hoped and...

What did he say?

- He'd find me.

- He won't, he won't!

We'll live here together like brother

and sister and... Was he very angry?

He'll get over it. Hey, look in there.

- Wonderful!

- We didn't have any.

Michelle,

that's for you.

Michelle, would you have stayed here

on your own?

Put it on me.

Would you?

I wouldn't have stayed here without you.

- I won.

- Now for your reward.

- Do you want some licorice?

- Yes, please.

Then come and get it.

You'll have to get a job, you know.

- There's not much money left.

- Shouldn't be difficult.

What can you do?

- Nothing. I'm educated.

- We'll have to un- educate you.

You can't go around looking like that,

for a start.

They cost a lot of money.

That's it.

No one nice has a lot of money.

Here.

- Should I?

- He'd like you to have it.

With your shirt and my education,

we'll starve.

The man said

I could sell programmes tomorrow.

- Will that mean more money?

- No, but it's more important.

- How long are they there?

- Only till Saturday, worse luck.

- Wow! It's hot.

- lt's meant to be.

All right, you can get in now.

Get in.

Would you go and fetch me the soap?

- I can do that.

- No, you can't.

- Hey, steady on!

- You've got to be clean.

I'll be raw!

I'll find it.

I can do the rest.

Would you go and

fetch me a towel, please?

Baby.

Then it'll be your turn.

What?

I'm good at scrubbing, too, you know.

- Enough?

- Yes, thanks.

All right, you can get in now.

Go on, get in.

Go and put some wood

in the stove, please.

Silly bastard.

- Nice and hot?

- Yes, thanks.

Right! Now it's my turn.

Paul!

Stop, Paul!

- You're hurting me.

- Do you good.

No! Stop, please! Please!

All right.

- That better?

- Yes.

That's enough.

I liked the bull ring, it was fun.

- And the money was good.

- You'll soon find another job.

I'll stall looking tomorrow.

Come and tuck me in.

Aren't you a baby!

Aren't you going to tuck me in

and kiss me good night?

And a kiss.

Stay here.

- No, stop it, Paul.

- Why not?

Because you grabbed me.

You can grab me if you like.

That's not the way at all.

The sun used to mean holidays.

You'll get a job tomorrow.

We can go on a bit longer.

I'm hungry-

I'm hungry, too.

Michelle! Michelle!

I might as well go to bed

and dream of dinner.

Things will be better soon.

I'm no good at anything!

That's the trouble.

Go on, you might dream of dinner, too.

Paul, can I get into bed with you?

Please, Paul.

Why?

Because you're hungry.

Yes, I'm hungry.

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