:54:03
They're filled with cream, yes ?
:54:09
You know I shan't touch them
unless they're positively...
:54:12
bursting,
:54:15
erupting with cream.
:54:21
What else have you brought
that I might nibble upon ?
:54:24
- Donatien, you mustn't.
- Hmm ?
:54:26
Tell me.
What other little treats ?
:54:30
Shame on you, truly.
:54:32
For fuck's sake, woman.
Bonbons ?
:54:37
Am I to sit here gorging myself
on useless trifles,
:54:39
sucking on your little sweetmeats,
:54:41
when what I truly require,
what I truly need...
:54:44
are a few quill pens,
perhaps a pot of ink ?
:54:48
- Forgive me. I beg you.
- Don't you see ?
:54:52
I've been raped.
:54:54
- Far more egregiously than any
of my wretched characters.
- How was I to know, darling ?
:54:59
How was I to tell you,
by writing a letter ?
:55:02
With what, my asinine bride ?
:55:04
I beg you, Donatien,
:55:06
as your wife, your only ally,
you must stop making a monstrous
spectacle of yourself!
:55:10
- You have come to lecture me ?
- To flaunt your deviance
in public upon a stage ?
:55:14
They have put you up to this,
haven't they ?
:55:16
You should court the doctor's favor,
not his contempt.
:55:18
The doctor ? I ought to
carve my name into his backside
and fill the wounds with salt !
:55:25
You're here, safe,
surrounded by brick and mortar.
:55:30
My prison is far crueler.
It has no walls.
:55:34
Everywhere I go,
they point and whisper.
:55:37
At the opera, they hiss at me
when I take my box.
:55:39
When I went to church, the priest
refused to even hear my confession.
:55:41
He said I was already damned.
:55:43
Why must I suffer
for your sins ?
:55:46
That's the way
of all martyrs, isn't it ?
:55:50
Give me back my anonymity.
That's all I ask.
:55:53
Let me be invisible again.
:55:55
You tell me, have you ever done anything
to secure my release ? No.
:55:58
Have you petitioned
the courts ? Never !