The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Page #11

you're not good for people.

In what way?

In what way, Sandy,

was I not good for you?

You are dangerous

and unwholesome...

and children should not

be exposed to you!

How can you think it?

How can you think

that I would harm you?

- But you have... You have harmed me!

- How?

You have murdered Mary!

You have

assassinated me!

Oh, why must you

always strike attitudes?

You really are

a ridiculous woman!

What will you do... now?

Do?

I don't know.

But I am a descendant,

do not forget...

of Willie Brodie.

He was a man

of substance...

A cabinetmaker

and a designer of gibbets...

a member of the town council

of Edinburgh...

the keeper of two mistresses

who bore him five children between them.

Blood tells.

He played much dice and fighting c*cks.

Eventually, he was a wanted man

for having robbed the excise office.

Not that he needed

the money.

He was a burglar

for the sake of the danger.

He died cheerfully

on a gibbet of his own devising in 1788.

That is the stuff

I am made of.

I knew you would rise

like a phoenix.

I'm glad I shall not

have to worry about you.

No, I expect that

is to be your gift, Sandy...

to kill without concern.

It is you

who are dangerous.

You see yourself as a conqueror,

don't you, Sandy?

Kaiserian in all

his beauty rare.

But you profess to be

a great admirer of conquerors.

Good-bye, Miss Brodie.

Assassin!

Assassin!

Lord, dismiss us

with Thy blessing

Thanks for mercies

past receive

Pardon all

their faults confessing

Time that's lost

may all retrieve

May thy children

May thy children

Never again

Thy spirit grieve

Today we say good-bye

to those senior girls...

who are leaving

Marcia Blaine for the last time.

You girls are about

to take your place...

in a larger,

more demanding world.

In this world, you will be called upon

to make many moral decisions...

affecting not only

your own lives...

but the lives of your families,

your friends,your acquaintances.

We are confident,

truly confident...

that the training you have received

here in this school...

will have equipped you to face life's quandaries

with courage and character.

For here at Marcia Blaine...

we have done our best

to nurture the virtuous woman...

for her price

is far above rubies.

Let us pray.

Little girls...

I am in the business

of putting old heads on young shoulders...

and all my pupils

are the crme de la crme.

Give me a girl

at an impressionable age...

and she is mine for life.

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