:14:00
Don't get up, miss.
I brought your breakfast...
:14:03
just like I do for Miss Jessica.
:14:05
But I'm Miss Jessica's nurse, Alma.
You don't have to do that for me.
:14:08
I know it, miss, but I like to do it.
:14:10
I like to tend for Miss Jessica,
and I want to tend for you.
:14:13
You settle right back now,
and I'll mix you your coffee.
:14:16
Thank you.
:14:18
Miss Jessica used to say
this is the only way...
:14:21
for a lady to break her fast...
:14:22
in bed, with a lacy cushion
to bank her head on.
:14:25
If you'd only seen her, Miss Connell.
:14:28
She looked so pretty.
:14:30
She must have been beautiful.
:14:32
What happened to her, Alma?
:14:34
She was very sick,
and then she went mindless, miss.
:14:38
We'll see if we can't make her well, Alma,
you and I.
:14:41
I do my best.
:14:42
Every day I dress her just as beautifully
as if she was well.
:14:46
It's just like dressing a great big doll.
:14:50
What's this?
:14:52
A puffup, I call it.
But Miss Jessica always says brioche.
:14:55
Looks like an awful lot of breakfast.
:14:56
I don't know
whether I'll be able to get away with it.
:15:01
I made it clear
in my letter to the company...
:15:03
this is not a position for a frightened girl.
:15:05
I am not a frightened girl.
:15:06
That's hard to believe
after what happened last night.
:15:08
If I were as timid as you seem to think,
Mr. Holland...
:15:10
I wouldn't have gone to the tower
in the first place.
:15:14
And what's so alarming about the tower,
Miss Connell?
:15:17
Nothing really.
:15:19
But you must admit
it's an eerie sort of place, so dark.
:15:22
Surely, nurses aren't afraid of the dark?
:15:24
Of course not.
:15:26
I used to be afraid of the dark
when I was a child.
:15:29
But I'm not afraid anymore.
:15:34
Frankly, it was something of a shock to
see my patient that way for the first time.
:15:38
Nobody had told me
Mrs. Holland was a mental case.
:15:44
A mental case?
:15:45
- I'm sorry.
- Why should you be?
:15:47
My wife is a mental case.
:15:50
Please remember that, Miss Connell...
:15:52
particularly when some
of the foolish people on the island...
:15:55
start regaling you with local legends.
:15:57
You'll find superstition a contagious thing.