Sometimes, I feel like Sabrina up in that tree, watching
LINUS
You’re still a little girl. (A moment, then:) How did you get your name?
SABRINA:
Sabrina? From father’s reading, of course. He was struggling through Milton’s “Comus” when I was born; “The Masque of Comus.”
(She quotes)
“Sabrina Fair
Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave
In twisted braids of lilies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.”
Poor father. He got fooled.
LINUS
And what does it mean?
SABRINA
In one sentence, so that he who does not wish to read may run, it is the story of a water nymph who saves a virgin from a fate worse than death.
LINUS
Is Sabrina the virgin?
SABRINA
(Coldly, precisely)
Sabrina is the savior.
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At one point in this film, Sabrina talks about why her father became a chauffeur. I can’t find the quote now, but she says something implying that he became a chauffeur so that he could sit all day in the car, waiting to drive, and read. He would do nothing but read. At one point in my life, this sounded like the perfect existence.
