Maria:They didn’t nd me back.I left.

Reverend Mother:Sit down,Maria.Tell me what happened.

Maria:I was frightened.

Reverend Mother:Frightened?Were they unkind to you?

Maria:Oh,no!No,I was fud.I felt……I’ve never felt thatway before.I couldn’t stay.I khat here.I’d be away from it.

I’d be safe.

Reverend Mother:Maria,our Abbey is not to be ud as an escape.

What is it you ’t face?

Maria:I ’t face him again.

Reverend Mother:Him?Thank you,Sister Margaretta.CaptainVon Trapp?Are you in love with him?

Maria:I don’t know!I don’t know.I……The baroness said I was.

She said that he was in love with me.But I didn’t want to believe it.

There were times we looked at each other.I could hardly breathe.

Reverend Mother:Did you let him e your feelings?

Maria:I don’t know.That’s what’s t me.I was on God’rrand.To have asked for his love would have been wrong.I justcouldn’t stay.I’m ready at this moment to take my vows.Pleahelp me.

Reverend Mother:Maria.The love of a man and a woman is holy.

You have a great capacity to love.You must find out how God wantsyou to spend your love.

Maria:But I pledged my life to God.I pledged my life to his rvice.

Reverend Mother:My daughter,if you love this man,it doesn’tmean you love God less.No.You must find out.You must go back.

Maria:Oh,mother,you ’t ask me to do that.Plea let mestay.I beg you.

Reverend Mother:Maria.The walls were not built to shut outproblems.You have to face them.You have to live the life you wereborn to live.

場景1:

上校:以後請你記住,這兒有些房間是不能亂闖的。

瑪麗亞:是,上校,先生。

上校:為什麼這樣盯著我?

瑪麗亞:先生,你看起來一點兒都不像海軍上校。

上校:恐怕你也不怎麼像家庭教師。請轉過身去。

瑪麗亞:什麼?

上校:轉身,脫帽,是衣服不對勁兒。在和孩子們見麵之前,你得換套衣服。

瑪麗亞:但是,我沒有其他衣服。當我們進修道院時,就把平時穿的衣服都送給窮人了。

上校:那這一件呢?

瑪麗亞:窮人不要這一套。

上校:嗯。

瑪麗亞:如果有時間的話,我就自己做一套新衣服。我自己會做衣服。

上校:我給你弄些布料,可能的話,今天就給你。現在小姐……嗯……瑪麗亞:瑪麗亞。

上校:瑪麗亞小姐,我不知道院長嬤嬤向你介紹了多少情況。

瑪麗亞:不是很多。

上校:自從孩子們的母親去世以後,你是來照看他們的第12位女家庭教師。相信你比最後一位有進步,她隻待了兩小時。

瑪麗亞:孩子們有什麼不對勁兒嗎?

上校:孩子們都很正常,隻怪家庭教師,她們完全不能維持紀律。

沒這些紀律,這個家就沒法兒有效地管理。小姐,請記住這點。

瑪麗亞:好的,先生。

上校:每天上午你得督促孩子們做功課。我不允許他們虛度整個暑假。下午,他們在操場上操練、深呼吸,就寢時間必須嚴格遵守,不得例外。

瑪麗亞:對不起,先生。他們什麼時候玩兒?

上校:你得看著他們,他們在任何時候都循規蹈矩。我任命你來指揮他們。

瑪麗亞:好的,先生。

場景2:

上校:這是你們的新家庭教師瑪麗亞小姐,我的哨聲吹到誰,誰就向前一步並報出自己的名字。你,小姐,得仔細聽,記住他們的哨聲,在你叫他們時用得著。