:53:01
I want a new understudy.
:53:03
Christine DuBois goes back to the chorus
:53:05
and stays there for the two years
my contract has to run.
:53:08
I won't permit such an outrage!
If any such arrangement is made, I'II...
:53:12
- Now, madame...
- My dear Anatole, I have not finished.
:53:15
You suggest I forget
I was drugged tonight?
:53:18
- Madame.
- Very well. I'll go a step further.
:53:21
I suggest that you forget
anything happened afterwards.
:53:24
- For once, madame, I do not understand.
- Oh, monsieur, it's so simple.
:53:27
Nothing happened tonight. I wasn't
drugged and Christine DuBois didn't sing.
:53:34
- But...
- There are always critics in the house.
:53:36
You'll send word to the papers that
no mention of her is to be made.
:53:40
You'll do nothing of the sort.
It's ridiculous.
:53:43
Besides, what about the public, madame?
:53:45
Shall we send word to the public to
forget that MIle DuBois was a sensation?
:53:49
If you're willing to ruin the Opera for the
sake of Christine DuBois, it's your affair.
:53:53
But you'll either do as I say, or I'll charge
both of them with trying to murder me.
:53:57
Do you understand that? Murder me!
:54:02
- Madame was magnificent tonight.
- I was good, wasn't I?
:54:07
Monsieur Garron must be biting his nails.
:54:09
Ah, let him. He'll come crawling
back to me on his hands and knees,
:54:13
confessing the whole thing
and begging my forgiveness.
:54:26
Madame!
:54:31
Who are you?
:54:32
Christine DuBois will sing tomorrow night.
:54:35
Leave Paris. This is your last warning.
:54:41
Take off that prop-room mask.
:54:47
(screaming)
:54:54
- What was that?
- I don't know.