The Song of Bernadette (1943)

Mary Anderson: Jeanne Abadie

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• Marie Soubirous : [upon Bernadette Soubirous having just seen the Lady at the Massabielle Grotto in Lourdes, France for the first time]  What were you doing over there, kneeling in the rocks?

  Bernadette : Didn't you see anyone?

  Marie Soubirous : Who?

  Jeanne Abadie : Was somebody with you, in that cave?...

  [coyly] 

  Jeanne Abadie : Oh, somebody was; and you were praying for forgiveness.

  Bernadette : [slightly aghast]  Jeanne!

  Marie Soubirous : Come on, tell us who it was.

  Bernadette : Well, if I tell you, you must swear not to give me away. If mama should hear of it she might take a stick to me.

  Marie Soubirous : [forms a cross with her fingers]  I swear.

  Jeanne Abadie : I give you my word but I won't swear. Swearing like that's a mortal sin, and you don't want me to sin like that just before my first communion do you?... Aw, come on, tell us.

  Bernadette : Well, I saw a lady, and she was all in white; and she wore a blue girdle and had a golden rose on each foot. I've never seen anything in my life so beautiful.

  Jeanne Abadie : [skeptically]  Ah, piff. What would a beautiful lady be doing in a filthy place like that?

  Bernadette : I don't know. But she was there, truly she was.