The Little Princess (1939)

Sybil Jason: Becky

Quotes 

• Becky : Do you see what I do?

  Sara Crewe : I don't know what you see, but I don't think I believe what I'm seeing.

  Becky : Well I never.

  Sara Crewe : Do you feel that?

  Becky : Yes, Miss.

  Sara Crewe : What do you see?

  Becky : I see a fire, Miss.

  Sara Crewe : And a table with food on it, and a rug and a lamp, and slippers.

  Becky : I do indeed, Miss. How did it all get here? Did you pretend it into happening?

  Sara Crewe : I don't know. I've never pretended as good as this before. Look at these.

• Sara Crewe : Here she is, on the bookshelves.

  Ram Dass : Bookshelves.

  Sara Crewe : Oh... I pretend they're bookshelves filled with beautiful sets of books.

  Ram Dass : Then I'd better remove her before she ruins your set of Dickens. This is your room, Miss?

  Sara Crewe : Yes, it's so little and so high above everything that it's like a nest in a tree. I can lie on my soft sofa and look up at the sky through that little hole in the roof.

  Ram Dass : Sofa?

  Sara Crewe : Well... it looks more like a sofa when it's made up, and I imagine it has warm blankets and lovely cushions to curl up on.

  Ram Dass : But there is a fire at night, of course?

  Sara Crewe : Well... that is the hardest of all to imagine, especially at night, but it's lovely when I can.

  Becky : The cook wants you, and she's in an awful mood!

  Sara Crewe : Excuse me, Ram Dass, I've got to go to the butcher's, and I'll get my ears boxed if I don't hurry!

• Cook : You clumsy ox! For that, you'll whistle for your supper!

  Becky : Oh, but, Mum, Sara never got no lunch. Everything's away before she got back from the butcher's.

  Cook : Who do you think you're talking to? For that, you'll both go hungry! Now, clean up this mess!

• Amanda Minchin : Sara, how dare you -

  [sees that the things are in Sara's room, gasps] 

  Amanda Minchin : Why, what happened to this room?

  Sara Crewe : That's what we would like to know. I woke up this morning, and here everything was, even to the food and the fire.

  Amanda Minchin : [sees the special robe]  Where did you get these things?

  Sara Crewe : I don't know. It must be because I dreamed such a beautiful dream last night that it came true.

  Amanda Minchin : These articles are rare and costly.

  [turns to Sara] 

  Amanda Minchin : You stole them, didn't you?

  Sara Crewe : Oh no, Miss Minchin. We didn't take these things.

  Amanda Minchin : I'll give you one more chance to tell me the truth.

  Sara Crewe : But, I am telling you the truth. They just came.

  Becky : They didn't need, mum.

  Amanda Minchin : You go to your room. This is a matter for the police.

  Sara Crewe : Please, Miss Minchin. Don't call the police.

  Amanda Minchin : Of course, I'll call them.

  [shuts the door and locks up] 

  Sara Crewe : Oh, Miss Minchin.

• [repeated line] 

  Becky : Oh, Lord Miss!