:43:01
You won't hold it against me
if I speak quite plainly?
:43:04
Please do.
:43:06
It's my unpleasant duty
to haul you over the coals...
:43:09
and administer a severe reprimand.
:43:12
Really?
:43:13
Believe me, Sister George...
:43:14
I would much rather let bygones
be bygones.
:43:17
Let sleeping dogs lie, eh?
:43:19
This morning I received this letter
from the Director of Religious Broadcasting.
:43:24
I should like to have your comments.
:43:34
It's a lie.
:43:36
It's an utter, bloody lie.
:43:38
Please, Miss Buckridge, calm yourself.
:43:41
- Kindly hand me back the letter.
- It's preposterous.
:43:46
You're not going to deny
that you were, in fact, drinking?
:43:50
I had a few drinks, yes, with some friends.
:43:54
But I certainly wasn't drunk.
:43:57
In point of fact, I gather you walked out
on a rehearsal.
:44:01
Yes, I did, but that was a matter of principle.
:44:03
Not because I was going
to hunt down nuns.
:44:06
No, I trust not.
:44:07
Nevertheless, this memo is quite specific.
:44:10
Childie, was I drunk on Wednesday?
:44:14
Wednesday? No, I don't think so.
:44:17
No, not on Wednesday.
:44:19
There you are. Of course I wasn't drunk.
:44:21
I can remember everything that happened.
Everything I did.
:44:24
Miss Buckridge, I'm sure your memory
of subsequent events is excellent.
:44:28
But the fact remains that...
:44:29
according to the Mother Superior of
the Convent of the Sacred Heart of Jesus...
:44:34
you boarded a taxi...
:44:35
I thought it was empty.
:44:38
...a taxi bearing as passengers
two novitiate nuns from Ireland...
:44:43
who had just arrived
at King's Cross Station.
:44:46
How was I to know they were novitiates?
:44:49
Their status in the hierarchy of the church
is totally irrelevant.
:44:55
You boarded this taxi
in a state of advanced inebriation...
:44:58
and proceeded to assault the two nuns...