The Painted Veil

Kitty: They brought in a new baby today. The girls named her Zan Xien.It means "brand-new." The nuns are going to call it Katherine, which, of course... none of the girls will be able to say. Thank goodness for those nuns. They do so much for so little in return. Walter: I suppose you could look at it that way. Kitty: You suppose? Walter: I think it might be a bit more complicated than that. Kitty: They take in desperate children and give them a chance at life. What could be so complicated about that? Walter: They also go to young mothers in their homes. They ask them to give their babies to the convent. They offer them money to support their families to persuade them to do it. They're not just here to run an orphanage, your nuns. They're turning those children into little Catholics. None of us are in China without a reason. Kitty: Still, on the whole... I think that what they're doing is a pretty good deed, don't you? Walter: I'm here to study bacteria. I don't feel a need to have an

The Painted Veil (2006 film), CC BY-SA 4.0