Trouble with Angels

Mary Clancy:
I've got the most scathingly brilliant idea!

Mother Superior:
Rachel? Well, Rachel has a home and parents who love her. She's a follower, not a leader. She can be guided. But, Mary... oh, Mary has a will of iron. To bend but not to break... to yield but not capitulate... to have pride but also humility. This has always been my struggle, Sister. Can I be less tolerant of Mary than the church has been of me?

Rachel Devery:
Couldn't we have uniforms, too, Reverend Mother?

Mother Superior:
Most certainly not. The band will perform in their gym suits.

Rachel Devery:
Our gym suits?

Mother Superior:
Yes.

Mary Clancy:
But, they're awful! I mean, it's not as if they were like Sacred Heart's. At Sacred Heart they wear short-shorts for gym.

Mother Superior:
They're French.

Mother Superior:
This is a Catholic school Mr. Gottschalk!

Mr. Gottschalk:
Band uniforms are non-sectarian.

Mother Superior:
As for the social graces, I'm convinced that your school encourages barbarism and concerns itself only with free thinking, free wheeling and finger-painting.

Mother Superior:
God is on ours!

Mary Clancy:
Hi, Marvel-Ann!

Marvel-Ann Clancy:
Drop Dead!

Rachel Devery:
Who's that?

Mary Clancy:
Marvel-Ann. My uncle George is her father. He's been sending her to the nuns since she was six. I said she was illegitimate, so she hates me.

Rachel Devery:
Is she?

Mary Clancy:
Lord, no. Uncle George is very careful about that sort of thing.

Mary Clancy:
Who knows, Reverend Mother, Maybe someday Rachel will come back and join the order.

Mother Superior:
If she does, I quit!