Major Barbara Page #10

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him, you silly old mucker you!

Served you right for

hitting me across the face.

That's cost you a pound, that has!

I done ya! I got even with ya!

I've had it out on ya! [Cackling]

You can't afford to lose it, Bill.

I'll send it to you.

Not if I was to starve for it.

I ain't to be bought.

Ain't ya?

You sell yourself to the

devil for a pint of beer.

So I would, and often have cheerful!

But she can't buy me.

You wanted my soul, did ya?

Well, you ain't got it.

I nearly got it, Bill...

but we've sold it back

to you for 50,000.

[Rummy] And dear at the moneyl

- No, it was worth more than money.

- It's no good.

You can't get round me

now. I don't believe in it.

And I've seen today...

that I was right.

So long, old soup-kitchener!

Ta-da, Major Earl's granddaughter!

What price salvation now?

Snobby Price. [Scoffs]

- Good-bye,

Bill. - Get out!

But that's all right, you know.

Nothing personal.

No malice.

So long...

Judy.

No malice.

So long, Bill.

All clear, Rummy.

He's gone.

You make too much of him,

miss, in your innocence.

Better too much than too little, Rummy.

Yes, miss.

God forgive me.

Let's go, Peter.

Peter, I'm like you now...

cleaned out, lost my job.

You've youth and hope.

That's two better than me.

I'll get you a job,

Peter. That's hope for you.

The youth will have to be enough for me.

I've just enough left for

two good teas and my bus home.

Don't be proud, Peter.

It's sharing between friends.

And promise me you

will talk to me and...

not let me cry.

## [Marching Band: March]

# Steadily forward march #

# To Jesus we will bring #

# Sinners of every kind #

# And he will take them in #

# Rich and poor as well #

# It does not matter who #

# Bring them in with all their sin #

# He'll wash them white as snow ##

Let us pray.

Amen.

- The general!

- [Cheering]

[Cheering Quiets]

Friends, we have a duty tonight

which we must not forget.

God has answered our

prayers wonderfully...

by sending us a great gift...

one that will enable us to

get through many winters...

as bitter as this one has been...

without stinting one ofhis children of

their little ration ofbread and milk...

and their warm blanket in the shelter.

You all know the name of the

nobleman who, under God...

was the instrument of the

first half of that gift.

You will pray for him and

rejoice in his salvation.

- [Cheering, Shouting]

- Glory! Hallelujah!

God bless Lord Saxmundham!

You do not know the name of that

other generous servant of God...

who has made up the whole sum for us...

and I must not tell it to you...

for he is one of those who does

not let his right hand know...

what his left hand doeth.

[Congregation Laughing]

Friends, he is here among us tonight!

- [Applause Cheering]

- ## [Fanfare]

## [Off-key Note Trails]

This afternoon, when he announced

his magnificent offering to me...

I exclaimed, "Thank God!"

He smiled and said...

"You do not thank me?"

[Congregation Laughing]

I told him to come to this meeting

and he would hear how we thanked him.

He has come...

and you have kept my word for me.

- [Applause Stops]

- My friends...

you may not know him on

this side of the grave...

but when we cross the river...

over there...

he will be there with us still...

and you will know him by

the seal of God on his brow.

[Jenny] Gloryl

We will now sing our old

favorite, "Abide with Me."

# Abide with me #

# Fast falls the eventide #

# The darkness deepens #

# Lord, with me abide #

# When other helpers fail #

# And comforts flee ##

- ## [Continues]

- This is rather more than I bargained for.

Come and have supper with me at my

flat. I've got something to say to you.

We'll pick up a cab outside.

Yes, but I must call at Wilton Crescent

to ask if Barbara has got home safely.

Never mind Barbara. She

can look after herself.

Her uniform will protect

her better than 10 policemen.

Come on. It's about Barbara

I want to talk to you.

[Boat Horn Blows]

[Boat Horn Blows]

Now then, what's your game?

I've been watching you.

Don't try throwing yourself after that bonnet

and giving me the trouble of fishing you out.

- Because you won't be let do it, see.

- That's what you thought, is it?

Even if I wanted to throw away

my life, I wouldn't risk yours.

You'll excuse me, miss, but are

you quite yourself this evening?

I'm not at all sure.

I've walked a very long way and

I've become quite tired suddenly.

Do you think you could find

me a taxi to take me home?

Taxi, miss?

What you want, by the look

of you, is an ambulance.

Ambulance?

[Undershaft Laughing]

When she said, "You

don't thank me, madam."

[Both Laughing]

A remarkable woman.

- It's nice and warm in here.

- Help yourself, my friend.

- Have some brandy.

- No, thanks. I'll have some water.

My throat's still dry.

I don't know how to sing, and the

result of my attempts at the meetings...

is always incipient laryngitis.

[Coughing]

Oh! Ohh! [Coughing Continues]

Look out! You'll set

the chimney on fire!

Burnt my throat! What on earth is it?

It's all right. It's only

vodka. It won't hurt you.

Try some of that temperance

burgundy. It will wash away the sting.

[Coughing Continues]

He may call it a

temperance burgundy, sir...

but I should be sorry to venture

on more than one glass of it myself.

Nonsense. After that

awful stuff it's like milk.

Steady. Steady.

My burgundy isn't as mild as it seems.

- Ohh!

- Are you all right?

- Perfectly.

- Good.

You don't mind if I get rid of this.

That means you're

getting rid of Barbara.

- Not at all. - Yes, she refused

to swallow Bodger's whiskey.

Do you think she's any more likely

to swallow your money and gunpowder?

She's swallowed a good deal

of it already, my friend.

What do you suppose she's

been living on all these years?

You think you'll end by making

me swallow them, don't you?

Both of you will have to swallow them.

They are mystical powers above

and behind the three of us...

that will make short

work of your scruples.

Do you think I don't know all about

the mystical powers, Machiavelli?

Do you remember what Euripides

said about your money and gunpowder?

No.

"One, then another, in money and guns...

"may outpass his brother...

"and then in their

millions float and flow...

- "and seethe with a million hopes

as leaven. - ## [Harpsichord]

"And they win their will

or they miss their will...

"and their hopes are dead

or are pined for still.

"But whoe'er can know,

as the long days go...

that to live is happy

has found his heaven."

That's my translation.

What do you think of it?

I think, my friend, that if you

wish to know as the long days go...

that to live is happy...

you must first acquire money

enough for a decent life...

and power enough to be your own master.

Mmm. You're damnably discouraging.

## [Continues]

"What else is wisdom?

"What of man's endeavor

or God's high grace...

"so lovely and so great...

"to stand from fear set free...

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