Ballet Shoes

# You can't escape # 523 00:27:19,227 --> 00:27:22,867 # It's in your memory # 524 00:27:22,947 --> 00:27:28,504 # By morning, night, and noon # 525 00:27:28,584 --> 00:27:30,585 # She will leave you # 526 00:27:30,625 --> 00:27:35,303 # And then come back again # 527 00:27:35,383 --> 00:27:40,062 # A pretty girl is just like a pretty tune # 528 00:27:40,142 --> 00:27:43,100 [Mid-tempo piano music plays] 529 00:27:44,979 --> 00:27:47,260 She's very good. 530 00:27:47,339 --> 00:27:50,818 She's the best all-'round student the academy's ever had. 531 00:28:05,974 --> 00:28:08,053 [Music ends] 532 00:28:12,852 --> 00:28:15,371 I have a hole underneath the right arm on my frock. 533 00:28:15,411 --> 00:28:17,570 I had to change my position for the attitude at the end. 534 00:28:17,650 --> 00:28:20,290 Little fair girl in black. What's your name? 535 00:28:20,370 --> 00:28:23,048 [Indistinct whispering] 536 00:28:23,888 --> 00:28:26,167 - Pauline Fossil. - [Light laughter] 537 00:28:26,247 --> 00:28:27,767 Come down to center stage. 538 00:28:31,326 --> 00:28:33,885 [Switch clicks, echoes] 539 00:28:34,725 --> 00:28:37,484 Would you like to sing first, or would you like to recite? 540 00:28:38,884 --> 00:28:40,123 I'll recite. 541 00:28:41,163 --> 00:28:44,842 Puck, "A Midsummer's Night Dream." 542 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,398 I am that merry wanderer of the night. 543 00:28:56,478 --> 00:28:59,998 I jest to Oberon and make him smile. 544 00:29:00,078 --> 00:29:02,277 When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, 545 00:29:02,357 --> 00:29:04,516 neighing in likeness of a filly foal. 546 00:29:06,035 --> 00:29:08,915 Sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl, 547 00:29:08,955 --> 00:29:12,474 in very likeness of a roasted crab. 548 00:29:12,554 --> 00:29:15,953 And when she drinks, against her lips I bob, 549 00:29:15,993 --> 00:29:19,632 and on her withered dewlaps pours the ale. 550 00:29:24,231 --> 00:29:28,149 Will all playing cards, dormice, and dancing frog footmen 551 00:29:28,229 --> 00:29:30,268 make your way directly to the stage? 552 00:29:30,348 --> 00:29:33,508 Any mock turtles, wait in the wings till called. 553 00:29:35,107 --> 00:29:37,786 Well done. Well done, both of you. 554 00:29:37,866 --> 00:29:41,425 Now, Pauline is to play Alice. 555 00:29:41,505 --> 00:29:42,625 [Gasping] 556 00:29:42,705 --> 00:29:45,264 And Winifred will be engaged as understudy. 557 00:29:45,344 --> 00:29:48,503 When I finished my dance, people clapped. 558 00:29:48,583 --> 00:29:51,222 Nobody clapped her! There was just silence! 559 00:29:51,302 --> 00:29:55,141 Dance is important, but Pauline looks right for Alice. 560 00:29:55,181 --> 00:29:57,341 She looks right for everything! 561 00:29:57,421 --> 00:29:59,180 She always will. 562 00:30:00,020 --> 00:30:02,419 Pretty face. 563 00:30:02,499 --> 00:30:04,418 Blond hair. 564 00:30:04,458 --> 00:30:07,378 It's got nothing whatsoever to do with talent, 565 00:30:07,458 --> 00:30:09,177 and it's so unfair! 566 00:30:09,257 --> 00:30:11,416 Winifred! Winifred! 567 00:30:11,496 --> 00:30:12,655 Winifred! 568 00:30:12,695 --> 00:30:15,975 I will not take housekeeping money from you, Pauline. 569 00:30:16,055 --> 00:30:18,494 What would the authorities think of me, making a... 570 00:30:19,373 --> 00:30:20,733 Thank you. 571 00:30:20,773 --> 00:30:22,413 [Whispering] Making a profit from an orphan? 572 00:30:26,012 --> 00:30:28,851 Besides, the law states that a working child must save. 573 00:30:28,930 --> 00:30:30,651 [Whispering] Only one-third of her earnings. 574 00:30:30,731 --> 00:30:31,810 PETROVA: [Whispering] One-third of � 4 575 00:30:31,890 --> 00:30:33,170 is 26 shillings and 8 pence. 576 00:30:33,250 --> 00:30:35,369 Even after 8 shillings has gone to the academy, 577 00:30:35,409 --> 00:30:37,288 that would leave �2, 5 shillings, and 4 pence 578 00:30:37,368 --> 00:30:38,408 for the house. 579 00:30:38,488 --> 00:30:41,487 [Coughs] There's no need to blind me with accountancy. 580 00:30:46,286 --> 00:30:48,645 Garnie, we know we're poor. 581 00:30:49,845 --> 00:30:51,204 I don't know how they found out. 582 00:30:51,284 --> 00:30:53,323 Listening at doors, I don't doubt... naughty, sneaky habit. 583 00:30:53,403 --> 00:30:56,003 I'm assuming this is Mr. Simpson's. 584 00:30:56,083 --> 00:30:57,762 And if you'll excuse my saying, 585 00:30:57,842 --> 00:30:59,801 I think you ought to take what Pauline's offered. 586 00:30:59,881 --> 00:31:02,001 I wanted Pauline to save for the future. 587 00:31:02,081 --> 00:31:04,481 All kinds of things might happen in the future. 588 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,440 The professor might come back... in the future. 589 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:07,639 [Coughs] 590 00:31:07,719 --> 00:31:10,278 Your h