:19:02
- I'll be glad to get back.
- Cheer up. You won't see her again.
:19:08
General Pherides...
:19:10
I'd like your advice about something,
a grave matter.
:19:13
- What's wrong?
- Mr. Robbins. We thought him drunk.
:19:16
- Well?
- I'd like the General to see him.
:19:22
He was going back
to hear the sound of Bow Bells.
:19:24
I'm afraid he'll never hear them again.
:19:29
- He complained of not feeling well.
- He staggered.
:19:32
That staggering, his dying so quickly.
:19:34
In your campaigns,
have you never seen men...
:19:36
who staggered before they died,
who talked incoherently, walked blindly?
:19:40
I've seen men die drunk,
and I've seen men die of the plague.
:19:43
There's no possibility of that here,
is there?
:19:45
I'll send for Dr. Drossos. He'll know.
:19:47
And until he comes,
everyone must stay on the island.
:19:51
We are faced with a very serious form
of the plague, septicemic plague.
:19:56
The symptoms are wavering gait...
:19:59
convulsions, weakness,
sometimes blindness...
:20:02
and then death, always death.
:20:04
Always death, and very quickly.
:20:08
The illness is highly infectious.
:20:10
Because there is a grave danger
of it spreading to the army...
:20:13
crippling our efforts against the enemy...
:20:15
it has been decided that
we all remain here...
:20:18
until the disease has run its course.
:20:22
I have to cross over to the village.
Today is market day.
:20:25
No one may leave the island.
I must safeguard the health of my troops.
:20:29
I'm afraid you'll have to
make an exception in my case, General.
:20:31
In my case and my wife's.
:20:33
I'm traveling on urgent business
for my government.
:20:35
No one may leave.
:20:36
But, my dear sir,
His Majesty's government...
:20:38
No one may leave the island.
:20:40
General Pherides,
I respect your concern and authority...
:20:43
but I must leave the island.
:20:45
- There are personal reasons...
- I will be glad to explain my wife's plight.
:20:48
No one may leave the island.
:20:50
But you must have observed
that my wife is an invalid.
:20:56
What about yourself, General?
What about the army?
:20:59
It's better to have no General
than one carrying the plague.