And now after what seems like ages, let's get back to the script and continue with what's left of what's listed in the script as Scene 131 and also move past that scene:
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT - COLLINWOOD GROUNDS - EVENING - HIGH ANGLE
as the small figure of Sarah ENTERS from the veranda. She walks to a spot below where the body hangs. As she looks up at it, start a SLOW ZOOM IN TO HER CLOSE-UP. Her eyes are filled with tears.
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And that's when yesterday's quote -
Page 64/Scene 131 - Sarah: 'I will always remember...always...always...'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
MRS. CASTLE (O.S.) Sarah...Sarah...please come inside.
131 CONTD CONTD 131
HIGH ANGLE FROM THE TREE. With Angelique in F.G., we see Mrs. Castle cross from the veranda to Sarah. Taking her gently by the hand, she leads her back to the house. HOLD ON THE SCENE, as the rain begins to fall. THE SOUND OF MRS. CASTLE and SARAH'S VOICE is heard O.S.
MRS. CASTLE (O.S.) You mustn't be unhappy, Sarah. You must try to forget.
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And that's when today's first quote -
Page 65/Scene 131 - Sarah (O.S.): 'I'm not unhappy, mama, because she'll be back...some day Angelique will be back...'
- comes up, followed in the script by:
DISSOLVE TO:
132 INT - GALLERY - DAY - 1971 132
CARLOTTA - CLOSE-UP
She is staring blankly as she finishes Sarah's speech.
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And that's when today's second quote -
Page 65/Scene 132 - Carlotta: '...and I will help her.'
- comes up.
And when it comes to differences in the dialogue, right off the bat none of what's been quoted here appears in the film, so there's no way to know if it might have been different - and for one when it comes to Mrs. Castle's dialogue, she adds a third "Sarah" as she comes out to get her, and none of it is delivered off screen - and for two, her telling Sarah that she mustn't be unhappy and she must try to forget is also dropped in the film - but the interesting thing there is that in the film it looks like she may be telling Sarah all that after she reaches and embraces Sarah but it's just that the sound for it isn't in the film, so chances are if it was in the film, it wouldn't have been delivered off screen - and chances are the same holds true for Sarah's response that she's not unhappy because she knows Angelique will be back - and the interesting thing about that line from Sarah is that it's replaced with a new iteration of Angelique's vow: "But I will have him again...you will help me, Sarah... You will know when the time comes...for it is your love that will keep me alive..."
And when it comes to the differences in the directions and the descriptions, as I said earlier I have a suspicion that what's marked in the script as the beginning of Scene 131 should actually be Scene 130 and where the switch to the evening scene takes place, that should actually be the start of Scene 131 - but no matter, at the outset of the evening scene we do not see Sarah enter from the veranda, walk to a spot below where Angelique hangs, or look up at her body - nor is there a slow zoom in to her close-up where we see her eyes are filled with tears because things begin with Sarah already standing under Angelique and then Mrs. Castle comes to get her - and after telling her to come inside, she wraps her arms around Sarah's shoulders, and after Sarah takes one more look at Angelique's hanging figure, Mrs. Castle, with her arms still around Sarah's shoulders, leads Sarah away - there's no taking of Sarah by the hand - and there is no rain that begins to fall - and considering that Carlotta's line from Scene 132 is dropped, that Scene begins differently in the film, but more on that next time...
And Scene 131 marks the end of Sarah's material in the script. And as we've seen, a great deal of her stuff was possibly never shot, worked around, or simply left on the cutting room floor. And apparently it's all because DC didn't think Monica Rich brought enough to her performances. But who knows...