:25:07
What have you written so far?
:25:10
"Dear Mr. Petrie..."
:25:14
- "Dear Mr. Petrie," what?
- "I'm a captive in a nunnery."
:25:20
If you wanna get sprung,
you'll have to do better than that.
:25:23
Anyway, what makes you think
he'll drive here from New Trends?
:25:27
He said I could call on him
anytime I needed him.
:25:29
We were very simpatico.
:25:32
"My parents won't do anything...
:25:34
"and Mother Superior is prosecuting me."
:25:37
Persecuting.
:25:42
She said I'm the devil's agent.
:25:46
She meant you were my stooge.
:25:52
Tell Mr. Petrie...
:25:55
that Mother Superior
is stifling your creative flow.
:26:00
That's a fact.
:26:02
And I'll tell him
that if I don't get out of here...
:26:06
I'm seriously contemplating an act of...
:26:10
- Desperation.
- Yeah.
:26:14
Desperation.
:26:17
The only desperation around here,
Mr. Petrie, is that of the sisters...
:26:21
who cope with that product
of progressive education...
:26:24
you have inflicted upon us,
namely, Rachel Devery.
:26:28
I hardly expect you...
:26:30
to completely accept New Trends'
creative concept of education.
:26:34
It's an abomination.
:26:35
- See here, Reverend Mother...
- You see here, young man.
:26:38
In the seven months
that child has been at St. Francis...
:26:40
there hasn't been a day
the sisters haven't had to struggle...
:26:43
with her colossal ignorance
in elementary matters...
:26:46
as reading, writing, and arithmetic.
:26:47
Not mathematics, mind you, arithmetic.
:26:50
As for the social graces, I'm convinced...
:26:52
that your school encourages barbarism...
:26:54
and concerns itself only with freethinking,
freewheeling, and finger painting.
:26:59
The finest educational minds in the country
happen to be on our side.