Scene Eight (2): The Spring

Question 1

ANGUS: Don’t look.

Answer 1

Is he… dead?

Question 2

CONSTABLE JOE: Step away from the child!

Answer 2

I’m okay, Constable Joe.

Question 3

CONSTABLE JOE: I’ll be asking the questions here, starting with: Who’s responsible for this?

Answer 3

It was m -

Question 4

MILES: No, it wouldn’t.

Answer 4

It’s not true. I hit him. With this.

Question 5

CONSTABLE JOE: You two: take this man out of the child’s view. You’re safe now, Winnie. Could you tell me the real story of what’s gone on here?

Answer 5

It started when that man pulled a knife on Jesse at the Fair, and then he followed us into the wood, and took out a gun, and I -

Question 6

CONSTABLE JOE: I’m thinking. I’m done. I believe you.

Answer 6

You do?

Question 7

CONSTABLE JOE: Of course I do. You’re Nathan Foster’s daughter, aren’t you?

Answer 7

Always.

Question 8

CONSTABLE JOE: Now, who’s the Swiss Family Robinson?

Answer 8

These are my friends.

Question 9

MAE: Wait. Winnie, I know I owe your mother an apology - but all I really want to do it congratulate her.

Answer 9

For what?

Question 10

MAE: Raising you. Here. To remember us by.

Answer 10

I could never forget you. You just saved my life.

Question 11

ANGUS: You reminded us that we’ve still got something to live for. Goodbye, Winnie.

Answer 11

Goodbye, Angus.

Question 12

MILES: Really. I was hoping we could walk together.

Answer 12

WINNIE: Hug him.

Question 13

JESSE: It’s all up to you now. Hide it somewhere good. Drink it when you’re seventeen, and then find me. I’ll leave directions somehow - and I’ll be planning great adventures for us.

Answer 13

So will I.

Question 14

HUGO: Ready, Winnie?

Answer 14

Ready, Hugo. Think of me every time you climb a tree… or get in trouble.