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The Uninvited · 1944 — 第 28 / 28 章 · 3'02" · B1

Stella Nearly Walks Off the Cliff, Explained：for heaven's sake

Stella arrives in the night, lured by a phone call, and her grandfather begs her to leave. "I'm not afraid of anything here," she insists, so he snaps back, "Then be afraid. Be afraid, for heaven's sake." She still walks to the cliff, and only a last-second grab keeps her from the edge.

あらすじ

A phone call brings Stella through the night to the house by the cliff, where her grandfather, Commander Beech, begs her to leave. He warns that the danger is meant for her, but she will not be afraid. She drifts outside toward the cliff; the others catch her just in time. Back in the studio, Dr. Scott finds Beech gravely ill.

Goodbyes & funeralsArgumentsWarningPersuadingParent & childB1slowbritishClean
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all that wayget herefor heaven's sakereached out for

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このシーンの表現

for heaven's sake

for goodness sake

When Stella shows no fear, her grandfather repeats the word until it becomes a plea.

For heaven's sake, slow down!

このシーンの他の表現

  • all that way

    such a long distance

  • get here

    arrive at this place

  • reached out for

    stretched toward

  • took you away

    carried you off

  • hang on

    hold tight

このシーンのメモ一覧

35 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ

表現 · A2What's the matter?

what is wrong

What's the matter? What are you doing here?
表現 · A2from somewhere

from a place

Someone telephoned... from Miss Holloway's.
表現 · A2try and do something

attempt to speak

Don't try and talk, darling. I'll get Dr. Scott.
表現 · A2no <noun>

no phone at all

Oh, dear. There's no telephone in this house.
スラング · A2Oh, dear

oh no — Old-fashioned and mild; avoid with superiors.

Oh, dear. There's no telephone in this house.
表現 · A2be left alone

left by oneself

- Go. Go! - You can't be left alone.
発音can't be

The t in can't often drops; listen to the vowel.

- Go. Go! - You can't be left alone.
表現 · B1the danger is for someone

the risk falls on you

But the danger is for you.
表現 · A2get out of somewhere

leave this place

- Please get out of this house now. - Now lie back quietly.
表現 · A2afraid of something

frightened by anything

I'm not afraid of anything here.
発音Be afraid

Link Be and afraid into one smooth sound.

Then be afraid. Be afraid, for heaven's sake.
表現 · A2a little <noun>

a young child

When you were a little child... after her death...
文法 · B1When you were a little child

time clause: The when-clause sets the moment the memory comes from.

When you were a little child... after her death...
表現 · A2it's all right

it is fine

- If I could only take you now. - It's all right. We're together.
文法 · B2If I could only

subjunctive wish: If I could only marks a wish that cannot be granted now.

- If I could only take you now. - It's all right. We're together.
表現 · A1be afraid of something

feel fear

I won't be afraid, Mother.
表現 · A2hold on

hold tight

Hold on, darling.
発音got you

Got you can blur into gotcha in fast speech.

We've got you now, darling. Hang on.
スラング · A2Hang on

hold tight — Urgent and spoken; fine in a crisis.

We've got you now, darling. Hang on.
表現 · A1Are you all right?

are you okay

- Are you all right? - Yes.
表現 · A2get to someone

reach someone

We'd better get to him at once.
文法 · B1We'd better

had better: Had better urges action and warns of the cost of delay.

We'd better get to him at once.
表現 · B1there's nothing I can do

I cannot help

There's nothing I can do, my dear.
スラング · A2my dear

my dear — Warm and dated; odd between colleagues.

There's nothing I can do, my dear.

「Stella Nearly Walks Off the Cliff」を読み解く

What's really going on

Beech talks like a man trying to keep a promise he never explains. When he tells Stella, "Then be afraid. Be afraid, for heaven's sake," it is not cruelty but the opposite: he has already seen the house take someone he loved, as the line about the past makes clear — "the evils of this house reached out for you. I took you away then." Stella answers with the line that defines her, "I'm not afraid of anything here," and it is exactly that fearlessness that carries her to the cliff, where something she calls Mother draws her forward. The rescue line, "We've got you now, darling. Hang on," closes the scene as a family pulling her back from the same edge Beech has been warning about all along.

Theme

Family loveBeech's whole reason for pushing Stella away is love; the rescue at the cliff turns that same love into hands holding her back.
CourageStella faces the house with "I'm not afraid of anything here," and that calm is what carries her to the edge.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A child's calm is the grandfather's terror here.
  • The edge of the cliff is named before it is seen.
  • Fear is ordered, and the order sounds like begging.
  • The rescue is the last thing he manages to see.

発音のポイント

  • can't be — The t in can't often drops; listen to the vowel.
  • Be afraid — Link Be and afraid into one smooth sound.
  • got you — Got you can blur into gotcha in fast speech.
Then be afraid. Be afraid, for heaven's sake.

Beech's plea to Stella: her fearlessness is dangerous here, so he almost scolds her into being scared. Exasperation and love in one line.

I'm not afraid of anything here.

Stella's reply — her calm in a house full of threat. It sounds brave, but in this scene it is exactly the state that lets the pull of the cliff lead her away.

We've got you now, darling. Hang on.

Said as she is pulled back from the cliff's edge: relief, and the promise that she is no longer alone against whatever drew her out.

I won't be afraid, Mother.

Stella says this at the cliff, speaking to Mary, the mother she lost. The line explains why she walks so calmly toward the drop: it is grief, not courage.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Beech send Stella away instead of letting her stay?

He believes the danger in the house is aimed at her. He once took her away as a child for the same reason, and he would rather be left alone and ill than risk her again.

What does the house want with Stella?

Beech says the evils of the house reached out for her when she was small, and the pull she feels at the cliff suggests something there is still drawing her toward the edge.

Who is Stella talking to when she says "I won't be afraid, Mother"?

Her mother, Mary Meredith, who died years earlier. Stella is answering a presence only she seems to sense as she walks toward the cliff.

Is Beech dying at the end of the scene?

Dr. Scott says there is nothing he can do and Beech is gravely ill in the studio. Stella answers, "I knew," which makes the ending feel final rather than sudden.

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