:04:10
Times gone, Fort Holland was a fort.
And now, no longer.
:04:15
The Hollands
was the most old family, miss.
:04:18
They brought the colored folks
to the island...
:04:20
the colored folks and Ti-Misery.
:04:22
Ti-Misery? What's that?
:04:24
A man, miss. An old man who lives
in the garden at Fort Holland.
:04:28
With arrows stuck in him and a sorrowful,
weeping look on his black face.
:04:32
Alive?
:04:34
No, miss, he's just the same as he was
in the beginning...
:04:37
on the front side of an enormous boat.
:04:39
- You mean a figurehead.
- If you say, miss.
:04:42
And the enormous boat
brought the long-ago fathers...
:04:45
and the long-ago mothers of us all,
chained to the bottom of the boat.
:04:51
They brought you to a beautiful place,
didn't they?
:04:53
If you say, miss. If you say.
:05:09
Fort Holland.
:05:11
From the gate,
it seemed strangely dreamlike.
:05:13
The garden had life of its own.
:05:15
I was to know all the nooks and crannies
of that great house...
:05:19
to love them or hate them,
according to what happened there.
:05:22
In that house,
I was to hear a strange confession...
:05:25
a confession only madness could have
wrung from the lips of a sane person.
:05:30
And yet it was in the same room...
:05:32
with the candles lit, that I made
the discovery of my own love...
:05:35
knew happiness, deep through the heart.
:05:39
My room...
:05:40
I still can remember my delight,
unpacking, getting ready for dinner.
:05:44
Yet, all the while,
I wondered at the stillness of Fort Holland.
:05:48
The fact that I saw no one
on the garden paths or in the rooms.
:05:58
Yes?