The Miracle Worker2000

[Annie is writing notes when she hears a carriage pull up outside the small house where she and Helen have been staying for two weeks. The horse whinnies; a dog barks]

Anne Sullivan:
Captain.

Captain Keller:
Ah, Miss Sullivan, I've brought Helen a playmate. [He has a white shepherd dog on a leash] It's a kind of graduation present.

Anne Sullivan:
Please, wait outside, Captain. [She takes the dog's leash, leads it inside, and shuts the door in his face] Dog. [She spells the word into Helen's fingers, then allows Helen to pet it]

Captain Keller:
Well, Miss Sullivan, the two weeks are up.

Anne Sullivan:
Not until five o'clock.

Captain Keller:
Oh, what difference can half a day make? You don't know how eager we are to have her back.

Anne Sullivan:
I do know. It's my main concern.

Captain Keller:
You've done wonders for her. And you've done us a great service. I've actually missed her. I owe that debt to you.

Anne Sullivan:
Pay it to Helen, Captain. Give her another week.

Captain Keller:
Well, look what you've done for her already. She's well-behaved, seems quite contented, certainly cleaner.

Anne Sullivan:
She's cleaner? Is that what you care about? She's learning to talk, Captain! The words are in her fingers already. I can't risk her unlearning it when she goes back to her old life in the house.

Captain Keller:
Aw, look.

[They look inside the small house, where Helen is trying to spell something to the dog's paw]

Captain Keller:
What is she spelling?

Anne Sullivan:
[sarcastically] 'Water'!

Captain Keller:
Miss Sullivan, that dog doesn't know what words are any more than she does. The dog's happy enough [chuckling] , and for her, God may not have meant her to speak, Miss Sullivan.

Anne Sullivan:
*I* mean her to, Captain. Give her half a week.

Captain Keller:
You have until five o'clock. Kate cannot bear to be separated from her for another night.

[When he returns home, Kate rushes outside]

Kate Keller:
Where is she?

Captain Keller:
Your Miss Sullivan insisted on keeping her until five o'clock.