Ever After

Quotes: « Danielle: [indicating Maurice] I wish to address the issue of this gentleman. He is my servant, and I am here to pay the debt against him. » « Cargomaster: You're too late, he's bought and paid for. » « Danielle: [pulls out the pouch] I can pay you twenty gold francs. » « Cargomaster: Madame, you can have me for twenty gold francs. Now drive on! » « Danielle: I demand you release him at once, or I shall take this matter to the King! » « Cargomaster: The King's the one who sold him. He's now the property of Cartier. » [Henry and Laurent arrive.] « Danielle: He is not property at *all*, you ill-mannered tub of guts! Do you honestly think it right to chain people like chattel? I demand you release him at once! » « Cargomaster: [shouts] Get outta my way! » « Henry: You dare raise your voice to a lady, sir? » « Cargomaster: [flustered] Your Highness! F-forgive me, sire. I meant no disrespect. It's just, uh… I'm following orders here. It's my job to take these criminals and thieves to the coast. » « Danielle: A servant is not a thief, your Highness, and those who are cannot help themselves. » « Henry: Really! Well then by all means, enlighten us. » « Danielle: If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them? » [Danielle pauses as the other courtiers look on approvingly.] « Henry: Well, there you have it. Release him. » « Cargomaster: But, sire. » « Henry: I said release him. » « Cargomaster: Yes, sire. » [Maurice is released.] [after da Vinci opens a locked door by removing the pins from the hinges] « Louise: Why, that was pure genius! » « Leonardo da Vinci: Yes! I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door! » « Henry: Do you really think there is only one perfect mate? » « Leonardo da Vinci: As a matter of fact, I do. » « Henry: Well then how can you be certain to find them? And if you do find them, are they really the one for you or do you only think they are? And what happens if the person you're supposed to be with never appears, or, or she does, but you're too distracted to notice? » « Leonardo da Vinci: You learn to pay attention. » « Henry: Then let's say God puts two people on Earth and they are lucky enough to find one another. But one of them gets hit by lightning. Well then what? Is that it? Or, perchance, you meet someone new and marry all over again. Is that the lady you're supposed to be with or was it the first? And if so, when the two of them were walking side by side were they both the one for you and you just happened to meet the first one first or, was the second one supposed to be first? » [Henry tosses a rock in to the water.] « Henry: And is everything just chance or are some things meant to be? » « Leonardo da Vinci: You cannot leave everything to fate, boy. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand. »