Chips: Yes.Student Dorset: Was he a stinker too, sir?Mr.Chips: To be sure he was.But he grew out of it.And so will you.He is asked about his school position by Dorset, prompting him to reflect back to his first year:Mr.Chips: I was a master once.I""ve taught thousands of boys, right back to 1870.But I gave it up, gave it up fifteen years ago.Student: I say, you must be terribly old, sir.Mr.Chips: Well, I""m certainly no chicken, no chicken.When he hears the singing of the school song, he mouths he words to himself: "A beautiful song." The elderly Chips is thoroughly revered by the young boys and greeted warmly at the conclusion of the assembly.As he recollected his past days at closed Mick""s Gym, Paulie reminded him how everything was deteriorating: "The whole world is falling apart.The backstory was that Colonel Stone had been divorced from his American wife when he chose military service over family life.Told with inventive, stylized, timeless and darkfilm noirishimages, symbolism and visual poetry, it blends both a pastoral setting with dream-like creatures, fanatical characters, imperiled children during a river journey, a wicked guardian/adult, and salvation and redemption in the form of a old farm woman (a ""fairy godmother"") rather than from a saintly but devilish Bible-totin"" Preacher.When he investigates, Corporal Paris finds Lejeune""s ripped-open body.In his bunker, Roget writes a report on the night""s mission.An eyewitness to the murder, Corporal Paris enters from he field:Roget: I thought you""d been killed.Paris: You didn""t wait around to find out, did you Lieutenant?Roget: Now look here, what do you mean?Paris: I mean you ran like a rabbit after you killed Lejeune.