Chapter 6 of 18 · 3'59"
It's a meet-cute with the joke turned on the man. He's sure he knows her — "I could've sworn I knew every pretty girl on the North Shore" — and she lets him guess, enjoying it. Only when the car stops at his own driveway does he learn his flirty stranger is the chauffeur's daughter.
David Tries to Place Her Face
Sabrina Comes Home
Sabrina comes home from Paris and steps off the train in Glen Cove, where a smooth-talking stranger offers her a taxi, then a lift. He doesn't recognize her and keeps trying to place her face. She won't give her name because she's having too much fun. They discover they're neighbors — and he's David Larrabee.
The scene runs on a joke of recognition. David is the one who has seen Sabrina all his life, and now he can't place her at all — "I know I've seen that face before." She, meanwhile, knows exactly who he is and chooses not to say. The flirting is real, but the power sits with Sabrina: she's the one with the secret, and she's enjoying it. The small talk about her father being "in transportation" is a private joke, since Thomas Fairchild is the family chauffeur and David is rattling off car companies as if he's guessing a stranger's trade. The payoff is domestic: the ride ends at his own driveway, and the cry of "Sabrina!" resets the whole scene.
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“And if there's one thing I believe in, it's love thy neighbour.”
A biblical proverb is turned into a flirt, and it lands because they really are neighbours.
Informal
“I could've sworn I knew every pretty girl on the North Shore.”
It brags and backtracks in the same breath, which is exactly the man saying it.
Informal
“This is maddening. I know I've seen that face before.”
Frustration first, reason second — the exact rhythm of a name stuck on the tip of your tongue.
Informal
“Positive. I'm having much too much fun.”
She refuses flatly and makes the refusal charming, which keeps the game alive.
Informal
“Are you sure you don't want to tell me your name?”
It asks politely while admitting he has already asked before, so the politeness is the tease.
Neutral
“Well, I wouldn't have recognised you anyway.”
He turns his own failure into a compliment, which says more than an apology would.
Neutral
Up next · 07reach for the moonThe scene: Sabrina Says the Moon Reaches BackShe's been in Paris for years and has come back transformed. David knew her as the chauffeur's daughter, so the polished woman at the station doesn't match the girl he remembers.
Because she's enjoying not being known. For once the man she's adored isn't seeing the chauffeur's daughter — he's just flirting with a stranger, and she wants to keep it that way.
Her father really is 'in transportation' — he's the Larrabees' chauffeur. David, guessing blindly, rattles off railroads, planes, boats, and car makers without ever landing on the truth.
The car pulls into his own driveway, and the household staff greets her by name — "Sabrina!" The neighbour he'd been flirting with is the girl who lives on his own property.
David Larrabee, the younger Larrabee son. Sabrina has been in love with him for years, which is why the scene's irony lands: he hits on her without recognizing her.
