Madame Butterfly Page #4

you're different somehow.

Different, how?

I don't know...

Except that ever since we've been kids

we've always told each other everything.

But now...

for the first time there's something

you'd rather not tell me.

That makes me afraid.

There's nothing for you

to be afraid of, dear.

It's silly of me, I suppose.

But I do love you, Ben.

You know that, don't you?

Enough so that I can tell you

something that might hurt you?

As long as you don't say

that you stopped loving me.

No, nothing like that.

Just something I think you ought

to know about.

Daughter of my son,

this cannot go on.

It is our wish that you make an immediate

marriage with the noble Yamadori.

Most venerable grandfather,

Your wish great respect from myself.

But how I marry one man

when I still married to other?

He has deserted you.

Therefore you are divorced.

No. You not understand.

In his United States husband

not get divorced from wife like here.

They say, I go.

You go walk yourself back to parents.

What can a woman know

about such matters?

I have all this explained to me

by my husband.

The Honorable Lieutenant B.S. Pinkerton,

he say...

no one get divorced in United States

except to stand before judge...

for two, three, four, seven years...

Very tiring.

You think it reasonable my husband

go to all this trouble?

You were married

under the laws of our country.

These things do not apply to you.

But he say...

continue to be married...

till death do us part.

If only for the sake of your child

you should do as we request.

His honorable father would be most angry

if he not find us here

when he come back.

Bring down the wrath of the gods

upon your own head if you will...

but save your son this misery.

We love him and he should be

brought up as befits a Samurai.

Give him to us.

No, no, I cannot.

He's his child.

Everything in this house

belongs to him.

His money, his son, his God...

and me too.

We all belong to him.

You have forsaken the traditions

of your country.

You have forsaken your ancestors

and your gods.

You have dishonored our name.

From now on the door of my house

is forever closed against you.

From now on your mother

has no daughter.

Mama-San...

Mama.

Mama-san.

Now we dot nobody in the whole world...

except him.

So he must come back.

It's third time these foolish

Japanese robins play trick on us.

Maybe Japanese robin

much too domestic and industrious.

Mama, papa come soon?

I go make visit to that

very wise American Consul.

Get me a rickshaw.

A lady wishes to see you, sir.

Says her name is Mrs. B.F. Pinkerton.

Mrs. Pinkerton?

That's funny.

I thought she was in San Francisco.

Show her in.

Good night.

- Night?.

- Oh, excuse, please.

I little bit rattled, I think.

I mean, good morning, I expect.

What did you say your name was?

Me? Oh...

I Mrs. Honorable Lieutenant

Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton.

Oh...

I see.

You very well acquainted

with him, I expect?

Yes, I expect I am.

I come to ask you

a very important something, please.

All right, go ahead.

You know all about birds?

Birds?

Well, I guess I know something

about them.

That's what I think.

That's why your country

send you here.

Because you know everything.

Oh, not everything.

But you know about robins?

Just little bit about robins?

I guess so.

What is it you want to know about?

How often do these robins

make nest in your United States?

Why?

I think not so much as here.

Maybe only every three,

four years, perhaps.

What makes you think that?

He say he come back to me...

when robin nest again.

Japanese robin nest two,

three time since then.

And he not come back yet.

What you think?

Now that I remember it...

in the Unites States the robins

only nest every three years.

Oh... I'm so glad you say that.

- All right now?

- Oh, yes, thank you.

I very much all right, sir.

You the most best nice man

in all world.

Best nice man except...

Except.

I think now I go pray.

Respectfully request my husband's God

to remind him to come back soon.

That's a good idea.

Mr. B.F. Pinkerton's God, very powerful...

very nice...

but I think perhaps he no understand

my language so well.

Maybe safer if I pray

to gods of my ancestors.

That's right.

Miss Fenton...

Take this radiogram, please.

Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton...

United States Fleet,

off Yokohama.

See me at once upon arrival.

That's all.

Look down, Hotoke-sama,

and listen while I respectfully request thee...

to let those American robins

keep their schedule.

Suzuki! Suzuki!

He has come! He has come!

Laugh, little man, laugh.

That big man, your father,

he coming soon.

See?

Same face like that.

Only way up here.

Plenty surprise when he see you.

Then, right away,

he recognize you as his son.

That very easy

on account you have exact

resemblance to his honorable self.

Is that not so, Suzuki?

I not notice it until you speak.

We make his house more gay

like it has never been.

Go quick. Buy many lanterns.

Much flowers, much everything.

What we use for money?

How much less have we today

than yesterday?

This is all that is left.

Oh, how we have wasted

beautiful money.

Well, we be very American.

Spend everything.

Ben!

Oh, darling.

- Oh, I missed you, honey.

- It's good to see you, dear.

- Your leave is for about two days?

- Yes.

I was on that boat too.

- Hello, Bart, how are you?

- Okay, okay.

Isn't this exciting?

Exciting?

I guess you haven't heard...

that the American Consul is giving

one of those first night parties of his.

Oh, say, that's what his radiogram

must have been about.

That was it. And don't you two

try to back out of it

because he's short on lives.

Well, he'll have to go short tonight

as far as I'm concerned.

I'll see him tomorrow.

See you at the hotel, Bart.

Good-bye, Barton.

- All right.

Very much nice American lady.

Well, well...

Hello, old girl, I wondered

what had become of you.

Oh, his pipe...

his tobacco jar...

Oh, how he be pleased

to find we keep this for him.

Mama-san.

He's like his father always says:

one hundred per cent American.

Mama-san, Papa come soon?

Yes, yes, very soon now.

Oh, Suzuki...

I tell you what...

We play big joke on

Honorable Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton.

As soon we see him come,

you take baby...

hide him in the next room...

Then when I clap, so...

you bring him out like magician...

bring rabbit out from hat.

Six bells...

That means he come very quick now.

Come, Suzuki.

We watch here.

We see him quicker.

Cho-Cho san, the night has passed.

You must rest.

Soon he will be here.

Very soon now.

No use to wait any longer.

No use to wait?

I'll wait for always.

He forget you.

They always forget.

Suzuki.

do not dare to speak like that.

I know he will come.

He not forget.

He not forget.

He will come.

And Sharpless said she's waited

for me all these years...

and never married again.

Don't feel so sadly about it, dear.

It isn't your fault.

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