With a Song in My Heart Page #6

The stewards will now pass among you

with playing cards and coffee.

The coffee's excellent.

The cards are probably marked.

Thank you, and have a nice trip.

He makes it sound so exciting,

I can hardly wait to be shot down.

Don't even mention such a thing.

I've just had a new permanent.

% And the skies are not cloudy%

% All day%

% Home%

% Home on the range%

% Where the deer and... %

Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen.

I hate to break this up, General...

but the next time I'm at the Met,

I'll be glad to put in a word for you.

- I'll settle for Minsky's.

- That I can arrange.

We're now approaching Lisbon. We'll land

on the Tagus River in exactly three minutes.

So take your seats, please, fasten

your seat belts, and no smoking. Thank you.

- Three minutes. Step on it.

- It'll take me that long to get my face on.

I hope we get a chance to see some

of Lisbon. I heard it's a beautiful city.

Me too. I've never been here.

We're right on schedule.

- What time is it?

- 6:
44, Lisbon time.

Oh, my goodness.

I'm in the wrong seat.

It doesn't matter.

I'll take yours.

But that nice young man, Mr. Burn,

told us to occupy the same seat.

What possible difference can it make whether

Jane Froman sits there or Jennifer March?

- To them, we're just seat numbers anyhow.

- Yes, I guess you're right.

But I can't imagine

what I was thinking of.

[No Audible Dialogue]

[No Audible Dialogue]

- [Explosion]

- [Screaming]

[Air Raid Siren Wailing]

[Speaking Portuguese]

[Sirens Wailing]

[Chattering]

[Man]

Nurse? Nurse?

[Latin]

Hey, nurse.

Will somebody stop this babble

long enough to tell me what shape I'm in?

Do I need an aspirin

or an operation?

Nurse? Nurse?

- How many have been brought in?

- [Portuguese]

I thought I heard

somebody say 15.

Fifteen out of 39.

I want to know how many.

[Portuguese]

[People Chattering In Portuguese]

Could I have some water?

Water, somebody?

How do you say...

Water? Agua?

Doesn't anybody around here

speak English?

Take it easy, kid. You'll get water

when the doctor says so and not before.

- You're an American.

- And what's wrong with that?

You keep still till

the doctor gets finished.

- Is it bad?

- You'll be all right.

I'm supposed to be in London.

Will I be able to sing?

Like a nightingale

in Berkeley Square.

Put this under your tongue.

Nurse, can you find out if a girl by the name

of Jennifer March has been brought in?

Listen. Will you stop worrying about

who's here and who isn't.

Leave that to St. Christopher or whose-ever

business it is to take care of those things.

And you keep this thermometer

under your tongue.

[Man Speaking Portuguese]

[Portuguese]

Senora, do you wish the truth?

Your right leg is almost severed

below the knee.

It's a compound fracture.

There are also three broken ribs

and a crushed left ankle.

It may be necessary

to amputate your right leg.

If you do decide to amputate,

would you please tell me first?

I will tell you.

- Get her ready for surgery immediately.

- Yes, Doctor.

What were they saying about him?

Nothing.

Nothing at all.

Just a lot of

Portuguese double-talk.

They don't think

he has much chance, do they?

Where'd you get that idea?

He's fine.

The doctor was saying it would be just

a waste of time to operate, wasn't he?

Wasn't he?

Look. They'll operate, and they'll save him.

I don't care what they say.

Or I'll burn this joint down.

All right, boys, she's all yours.

Take it easy.

Watch her leg now.

Good luck.

[Nurse Narrating] Now, don't ask me

how we did it, but we pulled them through.

All 15 survivors,

including John Burn.

Of course it was touch and go

for some of them these past weeks...

but we did it.

Unfortunately, Jennifer March, who had

changed seats with Jane for that one landing...

wasn't one of them.

Don't ask me how or why

things like that happen either.

Any more than why,

when they raised the plane...

the only thing of Janes

they recovered...

was this little gold cross

which had been given to her...

by a kid from Syracuse

she'd never even seen.

On the other hand, if you're interested

in such things as courage and morale...

drop around with a bottle of scotch

some afternoon when I'm off duty...

and I'll be glad

to grant you an interview.

Because on that subject,

I am now an authority.

[John]

Mmm. Oh, boy.

Oh, if I could just get

a little lower.

- Feel good?

- Oh, words fail me.

Nothing in the world like it.

I know.

I can stand pain... anything.

But to itch and not

be able to scratch it...

that I can't stand.

The man who thought of making these

knitting needles out of plastic...

so he can go around corners

ought to get a D.S.C.

D.S.C., my eye.

He oughta be canonized.

- Ah, Miss Stomach Bump of 1943.

- All right.

- Open your traps and swallow these down.

- Not again.

You oughta be grateful I'm not still

stickin' you in the caboose with a needle.

- Here you are.

- [John] Thank you.

[Gasps]

Mercy me! If it isn't a reptile!

- How'd this get in here?

- Why, I haven't the slightest idea.

- Go on. Drink it.

- Me? Drink that?

- Down the hatch.

- What are you trying to do, poison me?

- It's a tempting idea.

- General, you ought to be ashamed of yourself...

scaring a poor angel

of mercy like Clancy.

Listen. You couldn't scare

this Flatbush Florence Nightingale...

- with Rommel's whole Africa Corps.

- Is that so?

Well, for that crack you're going to eat

intravenously from now on.

Wait a minute, Clancy. There's something

I've been wanting to ask you.

First of all, how did you ever

get to be a nurse?

Second, what are

you doing over here?

Question one:

I was hit over the head...

with a pair

of forceps at birth...

and when I came to,

I was in uniform.

Question two:

When the war broke out...

I joined an ambulance corps

from Flatbush to get away from my relatives.

- Does that answer you?

- Right on the nose.

Okay. Here we go,

General Pershing.

Hey! Give us back our frog.

Ask the mother superior for it.

- She's gonna find it in her bed tomorrow morning.

- [Jane Laughing]

- Don't you just love her?

- I'm crazy about her.

I'd probably elope with her

if I weren't already in love with you.

Oh, stop it.

I mean it, Jane.

I had no right to say that, did I?

No.

Even though it's true?

I know you're not happy

the way things have been.

- [Door Opens]

- Good morning.

Oh, good morning, Father.

- How are you feeling today?

- Very well, thank you.

Good.

[Door Closes]

Shall I go on?

Or have I already said too much?

I admit there's a bond between us.

That's only natural

after all we've been through.

And then being here together

every day since the accident...

It's more than that.

You know it.

Ever since that first night,

we've clung to each other.

We've depended on each other.

Maybe that's because

we like the same things...

the same books, the same music.

Jane, people can't go through

what we've been through...

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