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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,700 Poor Mr. Adamson had no idea we were having a ball... 2 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,200 at the beginning of his visit. 3 00:04:15,300 --> 00:04:17,900 Your father thought more of his eagerness... 4 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,900 to see Mr. Adamson's specimens... 5 00:04:19,900 --> 00:04:23,200 than he did of our own projected entertainment. 6 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:27,600 Fortunately, he's much of a height with Edgar... 7 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,400 who was able to help him with a suit. 8 00:04:31,500 --> 00:04:33,600 I should have had no dress suit in any event. 9 00:04:33,700 --> 00:04:35,200 All my earthly belongings... 10 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:37,800 have burned or drowned or both in the shipwreck... 11 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:40,700 and they never included a dress suit. 12 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,700 Well, well. You must be possessed... 13 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:48,400 of immense resources of strength and courage. 14 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:50,100 I'm sure they'll be equal... 15 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:51,900 to a turn around the dance floor. 16 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,700 Once learned, a waltz can never be forgotten. 17 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,400 Are you free to dance? 18 00:05:35,300 --> 00:05:37,400 My father was so sorry to hear... 19 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:40,000 you had lost so much in the terrible shipwreck... 20 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,100 for your sake and for his own. 21 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:45,600 He was eager to add to his collection. 22 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,500 I did manage to save... 23 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,300 one or two of the rarest, most beautiful butterflies. 24 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,300 I suppose there's a certain pathos... 25 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,300 in saving a dead butterfly... 26 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,100 but one in particular is such a rarity. 27 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,000 I'll say no more now... 28 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:03,200 but I believe your father will be glad to have it... 29 00:06:03,300 --> 00:06:05,800 and you, too. 30 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:08,500 It's to be a surprise, really. 31 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,500 I hate people who tell me I am to have a surprise... 32 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,000 and will not tell me what it is. 33 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:17,100 You don't like suspense? 34 00:06:18,700 --> 00:06:24,000 No, I don't. I am afraid of surprises. 35 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:27,300 I must remember never to surprise you, then. 36 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:45,400 Stop that! How dare you! What did you do to her? 37 00:06:45,500 --> 00:06:48,100 I'm so sorry. I have no idea. 38 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,500 Can't imagine what I might have done. 39 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,900 Something must have happened, mustn't it? 40 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,800 Too much dancing, I'll be bound. 41 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:06,900 Eugenia loves to dance. She can't get enough of it. 42 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,700 I see. 43 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,800 Please, excuse my roughness. 44 00:07:15,700 --> 00:07:20,800 I'm Eugenia's brother, and thereby her protector. 45 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:23,200 Of course. It's nothing. 46 00:07:23,300 --> 00:07:25,600 Good, good. 47 00:07:26,900 --> 00:07:30,600 Well, now. More dancing. 48 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:34,700 Well? Let's have some more dancing. 49 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,700 Please excuse Eugenia's behavior. 50 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,100 She's not feeling herself. 51 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,600 It's of no importance. 52 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,100 I want you to know that her leaving the ball... 53 00:07:52,100 --> 00:07:55,000 was no reflection on your behavior. 54 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:57,400 I hope she'll feel better soon. 55 00:07:57,500 --> 00:08:00,500 Indeed. Although I'm not sure... 56 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,200 she will ever be the same again. 57 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,100 She was to be married... 58 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,200 only her fiance Captain Hunt died quite suddenly. 59 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:10,800 It was a terrible shock. 60 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,300 Poor Eugenia's only just recovering. 61 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,600 We don't talk about it, but everybody knows. 62 00:08:17,700 --> 00:08:19,700 I'm not tittle-tattling. 63 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,200 I just thought it might be helpful to know. 64 00:08:22,300 --> 00:08:25,700 I see. Thank you very much for telling me. 65 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:29,900 You are very fortunate to have escaped with your life. 66 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,900 We must be glad of that. 67 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,800 But the loss of your specimens... 68 00:09:33,900 --> 00:09:37,800 must have been a very severe setback. 69 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:42,700 What will you do, Mr. Adamson? 70 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,500 If you do not think it impertinent to ask. 71 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:49,700 I've hardly had time to think. 72 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:53,900 Your own family cannot help. 73 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,900 No. My father's a butcher... 74 00:09:56,900 --> 00:09:58,400 and even if he had the wherewithal... 75 00:09:58,500 --> 00:10:00,100 I could not ask him. 76 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,000 I'd hoped to sell enough... 77 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:04,500 to be able to stay in England for some time... 78 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,600 write about my travels and perhaps earn enough money... 79 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:09,900 to equip myself to return to the Amazons. 80 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,500 We've barely begun to pick up twigs... 81 00:10:12,500 --> 00:10:14,100 those of us who've worked there. 82 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,600 There are millions of unexplored miles... 83 00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:19,800 countless unknown creatures... 84 00:10:19,900 --> 00:10:22,200 and yet I've never felt more profoundly alone... 85 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,200 than I did there. 86 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,800 You were so very kind in your letters, sir... 87 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:31,200 the receipt of which was one of the very few moments... 88 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,700 of luxury in my time in the forest. 89 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,200 I used to ration the reading to savor them longer... 90 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,800 as one rations sugar and flour. 91 00:10:41,500 --> 00:10:46,400 I am glad to have given such pleasure to anyone. 92 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:50,300 I've brought you something rare. 93 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,000 Something very rare. 94 00:10:56,100 --> 00:11:00,200 They fly in the broad, sunny roads in the forest. 95 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:02,200 They float very slowly... 96 00:11:02,300 --> 00:11:05,500 occasionally flapping their wings like birds... 97 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,500 and they almost never come down below twenty feet... 98 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:12,700 so they are almost impossible to catch. 99 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,700 But I employed some agile, little lndian boys. 100 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:22,200 They were able to climb up and fetch me this pair. 101 00:11:23,500 --> 00:11:27,000 Now, I must confess, I did not know then... 102 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:31,200 how appropriate they were to add to your collection. 103 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:40,400 They are Morpho Eugenia, Sir Harald. 104 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,600 Well! 105 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:51,100 What a lovely creature! 106 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:55,200 What a beautiful, glittering blue she is! 107 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,100 No. He. It's the male who is blue. 108 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,400 The female is a tawny brown. 109 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:07,300 What a pity! I prefer the shimmering blue... 110 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:13,100 but then, I am female, so that is natural. 111 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:23,800 It's hard not to agree with the Duke of Argyll... 112 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:27,100 but the extraordinary beauty of these creatures is... 113 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:31,400 in itself, evidence of the work of a Creator... 114 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:35,100 who also gave us human sensitivity to beauty... 115 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:42,500 design, delicate variation, and brilliant color. 116 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,800 From our spontaneous response to them, sir... 117 00:12:45,900 --> 00:12:50,000 I feel instinctively drawn to agree with you... 118 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:54,600 but from a scientific point of view, I must ask... 119 00:12:54,700 --> 00:12:57,000 what purpose of natures might be fulfilled... 120 00:12:57,100 --> 00:13:01,000 by all this brilliance and loveliness? 121 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:04,200 Mr. Darwin inclines to think that the fact... 122 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:06,700 it is very preponderantly male butterflies... 123 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,900 and birds that are so brilliantly colored... 124 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,900 while the females are often drab and unobtrusive... 125 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,800 suggests there's some advantage to the male... 126 00:13:15,900 --> 00:13:18,000 in flaunting his scarlets and golds... 127 00:13:18,100 --> 00:13:21,000 that might help make the female select him as a mate. 128 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:23,500 Could it be that the drabness of the female... 129 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:25,000 might be protective? 130 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:27,900 Yes, definitely. Mr. Wallace-- 131 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:32,700 Don't worry, my dear. 132 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,700 Forgive me, Mama. 133 00:14:05,700 --> 00:14:08,600 Did you live entirely without the company... 134 00:14:08,700 --> 00:14:12,800 of civilized peoples among naked savages? 135 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,600 Not entirely. 136 00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:19,300 I had various friends of all colors and races... 137 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,900 during my stays in various communities... 138 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,100 but, yes, sometimes, I suppose... 139 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,600 I was the only white guest in tribal villages. 140 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:36,700 Are they really naked and painted? 141 00:14:36,700 --> 00:14:42,100 Some are partly clothed, some wholly clothed. 142 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,000 They are greatly given to decorating their skins... 143 00:14:45,100 --> 00:14:47,600 with vegetable dyes. 144 00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:57,100 These floating clumps of twigs and grasses... 145 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,900 even remind me of the great floating islands... 146 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,900 of upturned trees, creepers, and bushes... 147 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,500 that make their way down the great river. 148 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,100 I used to compare those... 149 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:13,200 to the passage in "Paradise Lost"... 150 00:15:13,300 --> 00:15:16,700 where Paradise is cast loose after the deluge. 151 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,000 "Then shall this mount of Paradise... 152 00:15:19,100 --> 00:15:21,500 "by might of waves be moved out of his place... 153 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:23,400 "pushed by the horned flood... 154 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:25,800 "with all his verdure spoiled and trees adrift... 155 00:15:25,900 --> 00:15:28,800 "down the great river to the opening gulf... 156 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:30,600 "and there take root an island salt and bare... 157 00:15:30,700 --> 00:15:34,700 "the haunt of seals and orcs and sea-mews' clang." 158 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,300 Clever Matty. 159 00:15:41,700 --> 00:15:43,700 Lady Alabaster would be pleased if you would... 160 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,800 take tea with her when you've finished your work. 161 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:53,300 You seem to have undertaken quite a labor of love. 162 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,500 What's that? Looks quite alarming. 163 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:59,500 It's become detached... 164 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:03,500 from whatever specimen it was attached to. 165 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:07,100 Several parts of specimens have become detached. 166 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,500 I keep a special box for the most puzzling. 167 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,800 This foot and leg obviously belong... 168 00:16:14,900 --> 00:16:19,400 to some fairly large quadrumane. 169 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:25,200 You might suppose they were those of some human infant. 170 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:31,000 I assure you, they're not. The bones are too light. 171 00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:34,400 I must look to you as if I'm practicing witchcraft. 172 00:16:34,500 --> 00:16:37,800 No. I didn't mean to suggest such a thing. 173 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:39,500 Of course not. 174 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:41,700 Indeed, I've noticed you take a great interest... 175 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:43,700 in the natural sciences. 176 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:47,000 Everyone seems to be taking an interest... 177 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:52,300 in the natural sciences since your arrival. 178 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:55,400 It's a worthwhile pursuit, I hope. 179 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,200 My father seems to think so... 180 00:16:57,300 --> 00:17:01,100 which is fortunate for you. 181 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:05,800 Saved you from the poorhouse, I'd say. 182 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:10,600 My origins are humble... 183 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:12,700 but I doubt it would have come to that. 184 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,500 No, hopefully not. 185 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:20,100 Indeed, my father's charity has served you rather well. 186 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,300 Your father's been very kind... 187 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,400 and I'm pleased to be able to repay him... 188 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:26,300 by organizing his collection... 189 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,600 according to scientific principles. 190 00:17:29,700 --> 00:17:32,400 How long will the job take? 191 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:37,900 That depends on what I find in this mountain of boxes. 192 00:17:41,900 --> 00:17:45,400 That could take forever, I'll wager... 193 00:17:45,500 --> 00:17:48,200 since you have nowhere else to go. 194 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:50,200 I'm so sorry. I must leave now. 195 00:17:50,300 --> 00:17:53,000 I have to take tea with Lady Alabaster. 196 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:56,900 While you're taking tea with my mother... 197 00:17:56,900 --> 00:17:59,000 and talking about whatever it is... 198 00:17:59,100 --> 00:18:01,500 that you talk to my father about... 199 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:06,400 just don't get too comfortable. 200 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:08,900 You're not one of us. 201 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:13,900 I am aware of that. Good day. 202 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:36,200 Come in, Matty. 203 00:18:36,300 --> 00:18:39,600 Mr. Adamson is here, Lady Alabaster. 204 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,100 I hope you're comfortable here. 205 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,400 Oh, yes, very much so. 206 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:06,100 My husband is not overburdening you with work? 207 00:19:06,100 --> 00:19:12,200 No. I've a great deal of spare time. 208 00:19:12,300 --> 00:19:14,400 Lady Alabaster expressed the hope that you might... 209 00:19:14,500 --> 00:19:17,400 be able to spare a little time helping Miss Mead... 210 00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:20,000 and myself in the scientific education... 211 00:19:20,100 --> 00:19:22,200 of the younger members of the family. 212 00:19:22,300 --> 00:19:23,900 She feels that they should profit... 213 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:28,900 from the presence of such a distinguished naturalist. 214 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,900 Of course. I'd be happy to do what I can. 215 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:40,600 Matty has such good ideas. So ingenious she is. 216 00:19:40,700 --> 00:19:42,200 Tell him, Matty. 217 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:44,800 Lady Alabaster's twins are still too small... 218 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,700 but I have taken the three older girls on rambles. 219 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:53,400 I would be delighted to help. 220 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:58,400 We shall truly profit from your presence amongst us. 221 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,600 Oh, look! 222 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,500 You would not suppose the queen... 223 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,200 to be of the same species as her rapid servants. 224 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:46,400 We've attempted to keep these insects before. 225 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:48,300 We have a deathly touch, it appears. 226 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,100 The creatures simply curl up and die. 227 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:57,900 You probably had not captured a queen. 228 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,900 Ants are social beings. They exist, it appears... 229 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,100 only for the good of the whole nest. 230 00:23:03,100 --> 00:23:06,100 The center of that nest is the queen ant... 231 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,700 whose laying and feeding the others tend ceaselessly. 232 00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:12,800 I'd like to believe humankind capable... 233 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:15,500 of such altruistic behavior... 234 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:16,900 though when I look around me... 235 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:21,300 I think Socialist society may never be realized. 236 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,000 You think a great deal, Miss Crompton. 237 00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:27,300 For a woman. 238 00:23:27,300 --> 00:23:28,700 You were about to say "for a woman"... 239 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,500 and then refrained, which was courteous. 240 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,700 It's my great amusement-- thinking. 241 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,100 Wonderful, wasn't it? 242 00:24:23,500 --> 00:24:30,700 "1-8-6-0-2-5-3. Ventner, lsle of Wight." 243 00:24:30,700 --> 00:24:36,900 Young Mr. Swinnerton wishes to marry my daughter. 244 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,200 I have given permission. 245 00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:43,400 He said he already knows what she will say. 246 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:48,400 So you must wish me joy. 247 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,400 I do, indeed. 248 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,900 The first fledgling out of the nest. 249 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,300 The others must soon follow in the course of things. 250 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:02,500 I know they must, but I worry about Eugenia. 251 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:07,100 I confess I feel this news is not calculated... 252 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:08,400 to improve her happiness... 253 00:25:08,500 --> 00:25:13,100 but perhaps I underestimate her. 254 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:23,100 Then it is not Miss Eugenia Alabaster... 255 00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:24,500 who's to be married? 256 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:25,900 Oh, no! 257 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,900 I was about to say, "Oh, no. Alas!" 258 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,800 It is Rowena who is to marry Mr. Swinnerton. 259 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,600 She's so beautiful, sir, so very beautiful... 260 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:45,400 and, well, perfect, that she cannot be long... 261 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:48,900 without finding some worthy partner. 262 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,600 So I believe, but her mother is concerned. 263 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,900 She will not be pleased if Rowena goes first. 264 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,900 It is not right. 265 00:26:05,700 --> 00:26:11,000 Please, I beg you. I cannot. 266 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,700 Please. It's no use. 267 00:26:50,300 --> 00:26:53,900 Couldn't help noticing you were in distress. 268 00:26:53,900 --> 00:26:56,400 Can I be of help? 269 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,500 I will do anything to help if I can. 270 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:06,300 You're very kind, but I cannot be helped. 271 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,400 I'm beyond help. 272 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,000 I wish I were dead, to speak truly. 273 00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:15,100 I wish I were dead. 274 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:22,100 I ought to be dead, as Harry is dead. 275 00:27:22,100 --> 00:27:25,100 I know about your tragedy, Miss Alabaster. 276 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:28,900 I'm very sorry. I hope you may be comforted. 277 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:36,300 I don't think you do know, not at all. No one can. 278 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,100 Well, it must be so. You've shown great courage. 279 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,700 Please don't be unhappy. 280 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:47,200 So many people love you, you cannot be unhappy. 281 00:27:53,400 --> 00:28:00,000 It is you who are good and kind and brave... 282 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,500 even though you don't understand. 283 00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:05,500 You've been kind to everyone... 284 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,100 even the little girls. 285 00:28:09,100 --> 00:28:12,400 We are lucky to have you here. 286 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,500 And I would feel lucky and honored... 287 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,500 if you would feel you could let me be your friend. 288 00:28:18,500 --> 00:28:21,400 Despite the differences between us... 289 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:24,000 if you could trust me a little. 290 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,200 I don't know what I'm talking about. 291 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,800 Why should you trust me? 292 00:28:28,900 --> 00:28:31,200 I want so much to do something for you... 293 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:32,900 anything at all. 294 00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:37,100 I own nothing, as you know, so it's all folly... 295 00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:42,500 but please command me if I can help in the least way. 296 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,400 Miss Alabaster? 297 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,900 So? What is it? 298 00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:26,000 I've something to show you. 299 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,200 You'll have to come in quickly now. 300 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,400 Am I safe? 301 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,900 With me, quite safe. 302 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,700 They take your dress for the sky itself. 303 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,500 You don't find them disagreeable? 304 00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:53,800 They are so light, so soft. 305 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,800 It's like colored air. 306 00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:03,000 It's almost a cloud. 307 00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:06,500 It is a cloud. 308 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,100 You are a miracle worker. 309 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:14,000 Well, it's for you. 310 00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:19,200 I have nothing real to give. No pearls, no emeralds. 311 00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:21,700 I've nothing... 312 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,000 but I wanted so much to give you something. 313 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:34,200 They are so terribly fragile. 314 00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:38,200 You could hurt them just by touching. 315 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:46,100 One careless pinch would be enough. 316 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:50,900 I would never hurt one of those. Never. 317 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,500 How can I thank you? 318 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,800 You've already done so with your appreciation. 319 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,000 Would you come back again this evening? 320 00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:07,800 Your moths are trying to perform suttee. 321 00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:13,200 I don't know why they're so driven... 322 00:33:13,300 --> 00:33:16,000 to make burned offerings of themselves. 323 00:33:17,700 --> 00:33:20,400 I've wondered if they navigate by moonlight... 324 00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:24,000 and mistake candles for very bright, heavenly bodies. 325 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,400 Won't you sit down... 326 00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:30,500 and see if the moths think you are the moon... 327 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,700 as the butterflies took you for the flowers and sky? 328 00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:50,100 What is that? 329 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,200 It's a newly-hatched hawk moth. 330 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:56,600 A female. 331 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,800 In a little time, when she's strong... 332 00:33:58,900 --> 00:34:01,600 I'll take away the cage and release her. 333 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,500 She seems very weak. 334 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:09,600 Takes a great deal of force to break out of the pupa. 335 00:34:09,700 --> 00:34:11,900 Insects are all at their most vulnerable... 336 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,600 at the moment of metamorphosis. 337 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,000 They can easily be snapped up by any predator. 338 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:19,600 There are none here, I hope. 339 00:34:19,700 --> 00:34:20,800 Oh, no. 340 00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:23,300 Good. 341 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,100 How lovely it is in the moonlight! 342 00:34:32,100 --> 00:34:34,300 This is what I promised myself... 343 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,000 for making you a cloud of butterflies. 344 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:41,800 Don't answer this... 345 00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:45,800 and don't feel that I speak to alarm you. 346 00:34:45,900 --> 00:34:49,200 I only want to say that you cannot know... 347 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,300 how much these few moments can mean to me. 348 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,700 I shall remember them always-- 349 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,400 your closeness, your calm. 350 00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:00,500 If things were only different... 351 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,500 I might say quite different things to you... 352 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:05,700 but I know how the land lies. 353 00:35:07,100 --> 00:35:09,200 I've no hopes except perhaps... 354 00:35:09,300 --> 00:35:13,000 to be able to speak briefly and honestly to you... 355 00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:15,700 for I do not see how that could hurt you. 356 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:22,100 Take them away! I don't like these! 357 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,200 They're the male hawk moths. 358 00:35:24,300 --> 00:35:27,000 They're drawn by the female in some mysterious way. 359 00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:28,100 Please get them away. 360 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,100 They're quite harmless. 361 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:30,200 Get them away! 362 00:35:30,300 --> 00:35:32,200 There's no reason to fear them. 363 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,400 I'll carry her to the other end of the conservatory. 364 00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:49,200 Now they'll follow her and leave you. 365 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:50,900 There is another trapped here. 366 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,000 Quickly! I shall scream! 367 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,600 Please! 368 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,300 It must be the scent. 369 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,300 Oh, that was terrible! 370 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,500 It was like bats, like ghosts. 371 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,700 It was foul! 372 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:12,900 I didn't mean to frighten you. 373 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,300 My dear, I didn't mean to... 374 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,200 It isn't you. 375 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:23,800 It is everything. 376 00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:27,200 I'm so unhappy. 377 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,500 Is it because of Captain Hunt? 378 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,200 Do you still grieve for him so? 379 00:36:34,300 --> 00:36:36,800 He didn't want to marry me. 380 00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:41,200 He died because he didn't want to marry me. 381 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,200 That must be nonsense. 382 00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:50,900 Anyone would want to marry you. 383 00:36:50,900 --> 00:36:53,800 It wasn't really an accident. 384 00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:56,300 That is only what they say. 385 00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:05,000 He did it because he didn't want to marry me. 386 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,000 Why didn't he? 387 00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:11,700 How should I know? Only it is so. 388 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,800 It is just clear to me that he didn't-- 389 00:37:14,900 --> 00:37:17,300 You torture me saying this. 390 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,000 My dearest wish in the world... 391 00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:26,300 as you must know... 392 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:31,500 would be to be able to ask you to be my wife... 393 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,600 which I can never do... 394 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,200 because I cannot support a wife or even myself. 395 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,700 I do know that. 396 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,900 But it's unbearably painful to me... 397 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,300 to hear you speaking like this... 398 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,500 and not be able myself... 399 00:37:50,500 --> 00:37:54,200 I do not need to marry a fortune. 400 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,000 I have one of my own. 401 00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:01,200 What are you saying? 402 00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:06,200 There could be a double wedding. 403 00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:11,000 I should not be married after Rowena. 404 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,500 Not... 405 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,600 Not if I am to be married at all. 406 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,800 Shall I speak to your father? Tomorrow? 407 00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:44,200 Arms up, please, Alice. 408 00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:47,800 Seven. Five. 409 00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:32,900 So with all the wagers on, I drove the gigs... 410 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,600 through narrow gaps in seven hedges... 411 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,300 and only one wheel fell off... 412 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,600 and that was right at the very end. 413 00:39:41,700 --> 00:39:43,600 The horse wanted to go on... 414 00:39:43,700 --> 00:39:45,300 but with all the fences behind us... 415 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,500 there was no further point. 416 00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:55,200 You, sir, must not have the nerve or the strength... 417 00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:56,600 to do such a thing. 418 00:39:56,700 --> 00:40:00,800 You sit there, and you smile fatuously... 419 00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:03,700 but you could not bring such a thing off. 420 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,600 No doubt I could not. 421 00:40:05,700 --> 00:40:08,800 I don't like your attitude, sir. 422 00:40:08,900 --> 00:40:11,100 I have never liked it. 423 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,800 I believe you sneer in your heart. 424 00:40:14,900 --> 00:40:17,900 I do not mean to sneer. 425 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,900 Since we are to be brothers... 426 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,600 I hope I would not give such an appearance. 427 00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:23,100 It would be most wrong. 428 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:27,400 Brothers, you say. I don't like that. 429 00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:29,700 You are underbred, sir... 430 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,700 and you are no good match for my sister. 431 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,100 There is bad blood in you, vulgar blood. 432 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:40,300 I do not accept either bad or vulgar. 433 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,200 I am aware that I'm no good match... 434 00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:46,000 and that I have few prospects and no future. 435 00:40:46,100 --> 00:40:47,700 Your father and Eugenia have done me... 436 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,800 the great kindness of overlooking that... 437 00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:53,200 and I hope you may come to accept their decision. 438 00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:55,600 You should rather wish to fight me. 439 00:40:55,700 --> 00:40:58,800 I insulted you. 440 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,000 You are a miserable creature... 441 00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:04,000 without breeding or courage. 442 00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:06,800 You should stand up, sir, and face me. 443 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,600 I think not. 444 00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:14,300 As for breeding, I count my father... 445 00:41:14,300 --> 00:41:16,500 as a kind man, an honest man... 446 00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:18,900 and I know no other good reason for respect. 447 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:21,500 As for courage, I think I may claim... 448 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,800 that to have lived for ten years on the Amazons... 449 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,500 to have survived murder plots... 450 00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:27,100 poisonous snakes, shipwreck... 451 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,100 fifteen days on a lifeboat in the mid-Atlantic... 452 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,100 may reasonably compare with driving a poor horse... 453 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,100 into a house through a window. 454 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,900 I think I know what true courage is. 455 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000 It does not consist in fisticuffs... 456 00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:41,900 as a response to an insult. 457 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,800 Well said, William Adamson. 458 00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:46,100 Well-said, my fellow bridegroom. 459 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,600 You shall not have her, do you hear? 460 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,900 She is not for such as you. 461 00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:52,500 Please do not breathe in my face. 462 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,700 You resemble nothing more than an angry dragon. 463 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:57,200 Stand up! 464 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,100 You shall not provoke me into disgracing... 465 00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:02,100 a house and a family I hope to belong to. 466 00:42:02,100 --> 00:42:03,200 Stand up! 467 00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:05,800 In the Amazons, young men who make themselves... 468 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,600 stupid with spirits behave as you do. 469 00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:09,900 They often end by killing each other inadvertently. 470 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,800 I should not care if you were killed. 471 00:42:11,900 --> 00:42:14,700 Eugenia might care very deeply if I were. 472 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,500 She's already lost one hus-- 473 00:42:29,500 --> 00:42:36,900 I beg you not to make too much of Edgar. 474 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:43,600 He is wild in his cups, and he is quiet after. 475 00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:48,300 He often does not remember what has passed. 476 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,500 It was the drink insulted you. 477 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,400 I'm happy to accept such an explanation. 478 00:42:56,500 --> 00:43:01,800 Good man, fellow bridegroom. Civilized man. 479 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:06,000 We are not armed warriors now, are we? 480 00:43:06,100 --> 00:43:10,800 Civilized men who stay seated as we should, we are. 481 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,800 I admire you, William. 482 00:43:16,100 --> 00:43:21,600 Edgar is an anachronism. 483 00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:26,200 You didn't think I knew that word, I'll be bound. 484 00:43:26,300 --> 00:43:28,200 On the contrary. 485 00:43:28,300 --> 00:43:31,400 Thank you for your kindness. 486 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,400 We are both men of the outdoors. 487 00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:55,700 We have that in common, do we not? 488 00:44:55,800 --> 00:45:00,700 We do. And I hope that, in time... 489 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,700 we may come to find other common interests. 490 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:08,300 Indeed. I'm sure we will. 491 00:45:12,900 --> 00:45:15,100 Good night, Edgar. 492 00:45:15,100 --> 00:45:18,400 Good night, William. 493 00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:52,900 A present from Miss Eugenia, sir. 494 00:46:46,700 --> 00:46:48,600 Well... 495 00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:55,100 here I am, you see. 496 00:46:57,900 --> 00:47:00,000 Here we are. 497 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,900 I cannot believe my own happiness. 498 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:08,600 Well, you will catch cold... 499 00:47:08,700 --> 00:47:12,200 if you cannot believe it enough to come in. 500 00:47:43,900 --> 00:47:46,500 I've loved you... 501 00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,500 from the first moment that I saw you. 502 00:48:20,500 --> 00:48:23,000 I don't want to hurt you. 503 00:49:19,500 --> 00:49:21,600 You're honey. 504 00:49:23,500 --> 00:49:25,800 Sweet as honey. 505 00:49:36,300 --> 00:49:39,000 We're going to be so happy together. 506 00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:25,500 Good morning. Hope I don't disturb you. 507 00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,200 By no means. I'm conducting experiments... 508 00:51:28,300 --> 00:51:29,400 on these fascinating creatures. 509 00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:31,200 You'll no doubt find my research is crude. 510 00:51:31,300 --> 00:51:36,200 On the contrary. What is it that you're studying? 511 00:51:36,300 --> 00:51:39,700 I've been placing various foods... 512 00:51:39,700 --> 00:51:41,800 upon the surface of the earth in the tank... 513 00:51:41,900 --> 00:51:43,300 and counting the number of ants... 514 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,200 who hurry to avail themselves of the food... 515 00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,600 and how they dispose of it. 516 00:51:50,500 --> 00:51:52,200 Come and look. 517 00:51:53,900 --> 00:51:58,800 They're greatly attracted to fragments of grape and melon. 518 00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,200 It's taken half an hour almost exactly... 519 00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,100 for this scrap of sweet fruit... 520 00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,300 to become no more than a living pincushion. 521 00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,700 You cannot but admire the spirit of cooperation. 522 00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,300 I do hope my formica prima hasn't drowned in juice. 523 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,900 She hasn't stirred for quite ten minutes. 524 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,300 You're at the point of recognizing individual ants. 525 00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,800 May I see your book? 526 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:55,200 You put me to shame, Miss Crompton. 527 00:52:55,300 --> 00:52:59,800 I've been secretly worrying about... 528 00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:02,900 the cutting short of my hoped-for researches... 529 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,600 into the insect life in the Amazon basin. 530 00:53:05,700 --> 00:53:09,300 My present good fortune, and here you are... 531 00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:12,400 doing what I should be doing-- 532 00:53:12,500 --> 00:53:16,000 observing the unknown world which is to hand. 533 00:53:16,100 --> 00:53:18,100 My sphere is naturally more limited. 534 00:53:18,100 --> 00:53:22,600 I naturally look closer to hand. 535 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:30,300 Good night, sir. 536 00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:32,400 Good night, Arthur. 537 00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:40,800 I believe we can expect a happy event. 538 00:54:40,900 --> 00:54:43,900 I believe I am with child. 539 00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:52,700 Congratulations, my dear. That's wonderful news. 540 00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:57,600 You look quite different-- a new creature. 541 00:54:57,700 --> 00:55:02,700 You look wonderfully mysterious. 542 00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:08,800 I am a little peaked. I do not quite feel myself. 543 00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:13,700 I am somewhat nauseous, no doubt quite naturally. 544 00:55:23,700 --> 00:55:27,800 Poor Eugenia, it's so hot. 545 00:55:27,900 --> 00:55:32,600 I must confess, I am quite uncomfortable. 546 00:55:32,700 --> 00:55:35,600 I shall be until the baby arrives. 547 00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:58,400 I don't like these ants! Please! Have them go away! 548 00:56:02,500 --> 00:56:04,900 I think the formica fusca have chosen today... 549 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:06,900 for their annual nuptial dance. 550 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,200 Like cygnets. 551 00:56:55,300 --> 00:56:59,500 You're like swan's down, and they're like cygnets. 552 00:56:59,500 --> 00:57:02,700 They do not seem to resemble me at all. 553 00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,900 They will, you know. 554 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,200 I've seen ever so many babies... 555 00:57:09,300 --> 00:57:12,000 and they change from week to week... 556 00:57:12,100 --> 00:57:14,500 even from day to day. 557 00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:19,500 Resemblances run across their faces like clouds. 558 00:57:19,500 --> 00:57:23,300 Papa today, Grandpapa tomorrow... 559 00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,800 Aunt Ponsonby on Tuesday... 560 00:57:25,900 --> 00:57:29,500 and Great-Grandmama at Friday dinnertime. 561 00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:33,200 It's because they're so soft, the dears... 562 00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,800 so plastic. 563 00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:42,900 You'll suddenly see your own chin on Agnes. 564 00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,400 And one or other of your grandmothers... 565 00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,300 smiling out of Dora's eyes. 566 00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,700 I'm sure you're right. 567 00:59:36,500 --> 00:59:38,300 What are you doing? 568 00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:40,000 When I come down... 569 00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,000 the scullery's a-run with creatures, sir. 570 00:59:42,100 --> 00:59:45,300 I have to set traps at night. 571 00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:47,200 You put molasses in one of the empty tins... 572 00:59:47,300 --> 00:59:49,000 and they fall in and can't right themselves. 573 00:59:49,100 --> 00:59:50,500 Then I have to take them out... 574 00:59:50,500 --> 00:59:51,800 and pour boiling water on them. 575 00:59:51,900 --> 00:59:53,900 You'd be amazed how quick they come back 576 00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,000 no matter how many of them you boil to death. 577 00:59:56,100 --> 00:59:58,100 I hate the smell. 578 01:00:02,300 --> 01:00:04,200 I beg your pardon. 579 01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:25,700 And an eight. 580 01:01:25,700 --> 01:01:27,700 A little cherub-- 581 01:01:27,700 --> 01:01:30,200 That's exactly what you are. 582 01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:32,200 A beautiful baby. 583 01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:33,700 Yes, you are. 584 01:01:33,700 --> 01:01:36,700 My turn? 585 01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:38,500 Thank you, nurse. 586 01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:44,200 A six. 587 01:01:46,500 --> 01:01:49,200 Can't we keep them down a little longer? 588 01:01:49,300 --> 01:01:51,800 I should so like to hold them a little longer. 589 01:01:51,900 --> 01:01:54,700 Rowena, dear, there is tomorrow, too. 590 01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:58,300 Nurse has to feed and ready them for bed now. 591 01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:05,700 I so rarely hold a baby. 592 01:02:08,500 --> 01:02:10,500 My dear Rowena. 593 01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:12,600 Your turn, Rowena. 594 01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:15,300 Rowena? 595 01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:19,100 Eugenia, please. Let me go to her. 596 01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:22,300 I think it would be better. 597 01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,400 You and William are so blessed-- 598 01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:31,100 two beautiful children and another expected. 599 01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:34,600 It is very hard for Rowena. 600 01:02:34,700 --> 01:02:38,100 You are... so blessed. 601 01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:48,300 It was incredible. 602 01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,300 The people in the train were waving and cheering... 603 01:02:51,300 --> 01:02:52,700 as we overtook them. 604 01:02:52,700 --> 01:02:54,600 We went on for three miles. 605 01:02:54,700 --> 01:02:58,200 Were it not for the river, we could have gone longer. 606 01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:00,600 There's no future in those locomotives. 607 01:03:00,700 --> 01:03:03,600 Give me a purebred Arab stallion any day. 608 01:03:03,700 --> 01:03:04,800 No question about it. 609 01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:07,300 For speed and strength, the Arab is unmatched. 610 01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:12,100 There is no substitute for pure blood, Robin. 611 01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:13,600 Keep the breeds separate... 612 01:03:13,700 --> 01:03:15,300 and you can't go far wrong. 613 01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:18,100 That is the cardinal rule. 614 01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:20,300 God made creatures distinct. 615 01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:23,100 It is our job to keep them that way. 616 01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:25,100 Am I not right? 617 01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:29,200 Well, a breed, like a dialect of language... 618 01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:31,400 can hardly be said to have a distinct origin. 619 01:03:31,500 --> 01:03:33,600 Indeed, the evidence is that all horses... 620 01:03:33,700 --> 01:03:36,000 have descended from the same animal. 621 01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:37,200 If you look-- 622 01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:40,500 Don't be absurd. 623 01:03:40,500 --> 01:03:44,300 A dray horse has nothing in common with an Arab. 624 01:03:44,300 --> 01:03:46,500 There is no blood shared there. 625 01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:48,600 They're different, quite different... 626 01:03:48,700 --> 01:03:51,100 and if you knew horses, you'd see that. 627 01:03:55,700 --> 01:03:57,700 It is hard to believe, I agree. 628 01:03:57,800 --> 01:03:59,900 However, you do not need to take my word for it. 629 01:03:59,900 --> 01:04:01,800 There's ample eviden-- 630 01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:05,100 Mr. Darwin makes his argument very clear... 631 01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:08,200 in the "Origin of Species," which you would know... 632 01:04:08,300 --> 01:04:10,100 if you ever took any interest... 633 01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:13,100 in the important ideas of our time. 634 01:04:13,100 --> 01:04:16,800 Indeed, we need look no further... 635 01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:19,600 than our own flock of small, black sheep... 636 01:04:19,700 --> 01:04:22,000 to see that careful breeding... 637 01:04:22,100 --> 01:04:24,600 with our own flock and that of our neighbors... 638 01:04:24,700 --> 01:04:27,400 has produced an entirely new breed. 639 01:04:27,500 --> 01:04:29,300 Father. 640 01:04:30,700 --> 01:04:35,400 Think, Edgar, before you speak. 641 01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:09,800 The boy's name must be Edgar. 642 01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:13,600 Why? 643 01:05:13,700 --> 01:05:15,100 Why? 644 01:05:15,200 --> 01:05:19,700 There is an Edgar in every generation of Alabasters. 645 01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:21,100 My son is not an Alabaster. 646 01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:23,100 My son is an Adamson... 647 01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:27,200 and I wish to give my child a name from my own family... 648 01:05:27,300 --> 01:05:29,000 however undistinguished. 649 01:05:29,100 --> 01:05:31,100 I do not see why. 650 01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:33,700 We do not see your family or speak... 651 01:05:33,700 --> 01:05:36,200 or seem likely to do so. 652 01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:38,200 Your family does not come here... 653 01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:41,900 and Edgar will not know them, I suppose. 654 01:05:41,900 --> 01:05:43,600 We are your family... 655 01:05:43,700 --> 01:05:46,800 and I think you must own we have been good to you. 656 01:05:46,900 --> 01:05:50,200 More than good, my dear. More than good. 657 01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:52,100 Only l... 658 01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:53,500 Only? 659 01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:57,200 Well, I wish to have something of my own... 660 01:05:57,200 --> 01:06:01,500 and my son is my own, in some sense. 661 01:06:03,300 --> 01:06:08,300 We could call him... William Edgar. 662 01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:13,200 Not my name. My father's--Robert. 663 01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:16,200 Robert's a good English name. 664 01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:19,900 Robert Edgar. 665 01:06:34,700 --> 01:06:36,200 Abraham? 666 01:06:36,300 --> 01:06:39,200 Methuselah? 667 01:06:39,300 --> 01:06:41,900 I am what I am. 668 01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:43,600 Moses? 669 01:06:43,700 --> 01:06:46,300 I am! 670 01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:49,200 Am. Am. 671 01:06:57,200 --> 01:06:58,700 Lesson? 672 01:07:01,500 --> 01:07:02,700 Apple? 673 01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:07,800 Bee? 674 01:07:10,700 --> 01:07:12,100 What's that? 675 01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:14,100 A crocodile. 676 01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:16,000 Nope, nope. Alphabet lesson. 677 01:07:17,300 --> 01:07:19,600 "A." 678 01:07:19,700 --> 01:07:21,600 You're so clever. 679 01:07:26,700 --> 01:07:28,100 Belt? 680 01:07:30,700 --> 01:07:31,800 Girdle? 681 01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:36,600 Zone. 682 01:07:36,700 --> 01:07:38,500 Oh, well done, Miss Mead. 683 01:07:53,100 --> 01:07:56,000 Am-a-zon. 684 01:07:56,100 --> 01:07:57,400 Come on. 685 01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:02,800 Lovely! 686 01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:07,000 It's very strange. 687 01:08:08,500 --> 01:08:09,700 When I was in the Amazons... 688 01:08:09,700 --> 01:08:12,700 I used to wake daily from a dream... 689 01:08:12,700 --> 01:08:14,400 of mild English sunshine... 690 01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:16,200 simple and wonderful things... 691 01:08:16,300 --> 01:08:19,700 such as bread and butter, instead of endless cassava. 692 01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:24,200 Now, I wake... 693 01:08:24,300 --> 01:08:27,200 from dreams of the forest curtain... 694 01:08:27,300 --> 01:08:29,700 the movement of the river... 695 01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:32,400 and my work. 696 01:08:32,500 --> 01:08:36,500 You work, I believe, with Sir Harald on his book. 697 01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:39,600 I do, but I'm not really needed... 698 01:08:39,700 --> 01:08:42,000 and my views... 699 01:08:43,700 --> 01:08:47,800 In short, my views do not wholly agree with his. 700 01:08:47,900 --> 01:08:50,500 Perhaps you should write your own book. 701 01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:52,100 No, no, no. 702 01:08:52,200 --> 01:08:54,600 I've no settled opinions to advance... 703 01:08:54,700 --> 01:08:56,600 and no wish to convert anyone... 704 01:08:56,700 --> 01:08:59,700 to my own rather uncertain views on things. 705 01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:03,800 I did not mean opinions. 706 01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:05,900 I meant a book of facts... 707 01:09:05,900 --> 01:09:07,800 a book of scientific facts... 708 01:09:07,900 --> 01:09:11,100 such as you are uniquely qualified to write. 709 01:09:11,100 --> 01:09:15,600 I have thought about writing a book about my travels. 710 01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,100 Such books are very successful, I know... 711 01:09:18,100 --> 01:09:22,500 but all my detailed notes, all my specimens... 712 01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:24,600 all lost in the shipwreck. 713 01:09:24,700 --> 01:09:28,100 I've not the heart to invent, even if I could. 714 01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:30,200 But nearer to hand lie things... 715 01:09:30,300 --> 01:09:32,300 you could observe and write about. 716 01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:33,800 Yes, yes. 717 01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:37,100 You've said this before. 718 01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:38,500 I'm certain you're right. 719 01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:40,300 I'm very grateful to you... 720 01:09:40,300 --> 01:09:42,100 but a detailed scientific study... 721 01:09:42,200 --> 01:09:44,000 would take many years, much rigor... 722 01:09:44,100 --> 01:09:46,100 and I'd hoped to... 723 01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:47,700 You'd hoped? 724 01:09:51,700 --> 01:09:55,100 I had hoped to set out again on a foreign journey... 725 01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:59,200 to collect more information about the untraveled world. 726 01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:02,700 I wish to do that. 727 01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:07,000 Sir Harald has suggested that he might be sympathetic. 728 01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:09,100 The book I should like to see you write... 729 01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:10,900 is not a major scientific study... 730 01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:14,400 not the work of a lifetime... 731 01:10:14,500 --> 01:10:17,100 it's a book I think may prove useful... 732 01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:19,600 and I daresay, profitable to you... 733 01:10:19,700 --> 01:10:21,200 in the quite near future. 734 01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:23,400 I think if you were to write... 735 01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:26,000 a natural history of the ant colonies over a year... 736 01:10:26,100 --> 01:10:28,100 you'd have something very interesting... 737 01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:32,700 to a very general public and yet of scientific value. 738 01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:38,600 It might be interesting. 739 01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:39,800 It might be fun. 740 01:10:39,900 --> 01:10:41,000 Fun. 741 01:10:41,100 --> 01:10:43,100 The children could be usefully employed... 742 01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:44,500 and I myself would be proud to assist. 743 01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,100 Miss Mead would do what she could. 744 01:10:47,100 --> 01:10:49,200 I see the children as characters in the drama. 745 01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:53,600 There has to be a drama for it to appeal to the public. 746 01:10:53,700 --> 01:10:55,300 Why don't you write it yourself? 747 01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:57,300 It's your idea. You should get credit. 748 01:10:57,300 --> 01:10:59,600 No, I've not the requisite knowledge... 749 01:10:59,700 --> 01:11:01,100 nor the time... 750 01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:03,700 though I don't know where my days go. 751 01:11:03,700 --> 01:11:07,600 I don't see myself as a writer but as an assistant. 752 01:11:07,700 --> 01:11:10,200 If you would accept me, I would be honored. 753 01:11:10,300 --> 01:11:11,800 I can draw. I can write. 754 01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:15,100 I can copy, if necessary. 755 01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:17,100 I... 756 01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:20,600 I'm extraordinarily grateful to you, Miss Crompton. 757 01:11:20,700 --> 01:11:23,500 I do believe you've transfigured my prospects. 758 01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:27,100 Hardly, but it may be the answer... 759 01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,200 with good will and hard work. 760 01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:40,800 What name shall we give to the home... 761 01:11:40,900 --> 01:11:42,900 of the blood-red slavemakers? 762 01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:46,100 It is a horrible trade. 763 01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:47,700 Never have I wept so over a book... 764 01:11:47,700 --> 01:11:50,200 as I wept over "Uncle Tom's Cabin." 765 01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:53,200 I pray nightly for the cause of President Lincoln. 766 01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:55,700 We could call the nest Bredely Hall. 767 01:11:55,700 --> 01:11:57,200 We have lots of servants. 768 01:11:57,200 --> 01:11:59,200 That wouldn't be appropriate, Margaret. 769 01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:02,200 Well, I propose Red Fort. 770 01:12:02,300 --> 01:12:04,000 That sounds war-like enough... 771 01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:06,800 and brings in the color of the sanguinea. 772 01:12:06,900 --> 01:12:09,000 - That's appropriate. - Yes. 773 01:12:10,500 --> 01:12:12,600 In the spring of 1862... 774 01:12:12,700 --> 01:12:15,300 we began the organized ant watch. 775 01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:19,000 The colony was busily preparing for the breeding season. 776 01:12:21,700 --> 01:12:24,300 As the red ants set about their tasks... 777 01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:26,100 we set about ours... 778 01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:29,100 observing and recording the colony at work. 779 01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:31,100 On our first sentry duty... 780 01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:35,100 Edith noticed worker ants cleaning their nest... 781 01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:39,100 much as human beings spring-clean their houses. 782 01:12:39,200 --> 01:12:41,800 Margaret, Elaine, and Miss Crompton... 783 01:12:41,900 --> 01:12:45,100 carefully mapped out the city and its satellite suburbs. 784 01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:48,800 There were numerous entrances and exits... 785 01:12:48,900 --> 01:12:51,700 with well-worn paths winding across the forest floor. 786 01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:55,700 The girls illustrated the scene with a column of worker ants... 787 01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:58,200 setting forth on a foraging expedition. 788 01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:03,200 Miss Crompton's evening watches had revealed... 789 01:13:03,300 --> 01:13:06,600 that the city was never defenseless against outsiders. 790 01:13:06,700 --> 01:13:09,600 Nighttime guards were posted behind gates... 791 01:13:09,700 --> 01:13:12,200 barricaded with twigs and leaves. 792 01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:16,000 Not all outsiders were unwelcome. 793 01:13:16,100 --> 01:13:17,900 With much patient observation... 794 01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:20,100 and the help of Miss Mead's umbrella... 795 01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:23,200 we uncovered a thriving population of nitidulidae. 796 01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:25,100 These small beetles... 797 01:13:25,100 --> 01:13:27,100 Iive peacefully on the fringes of the city... 798 01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:30,400 scavenging after the ants' leftovers. 799 01:13:30,500 --> 01:13:33,200 As the weeks passed, we came to understand... 800 01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:36,200 the ants' activities in Red Fort... 801 01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:37,700 as well as any man would know... 802 01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:40,300 the comings and goings of his own house... 803 01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:41,900 if not better. 804 01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:48,700 Oh, there you are. 805 01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:51,200 I've recruited Amy to keep an eye on the nest... 806 01:13:51,300 --> 01:13:53,700 of the fusca ants on her afternoons off. 807 01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:55,300 I'm certain your assistance... 808 01:13:55,400 --> 01:13:58,200 will prove to be extremely useful, Amy. 809 01:13:58,300 --> 01:13:59,700 Thank you, sir. 810 01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:01,200 Go and join Tom now. 811 01:14:01,300 --> 01:14:02,500 Miss Mead and the girls... 812 01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:04,200 will be here to relieve you both later. 813 01:14:06,700 --> 01:14:09,600 It will do her good to get a bit of fresh air... 814 01:14:09,700 --> 01:14:11,700 having no family and nowhere to go... 815 01:14:11,700 --> 01:14:13,700 and earn a few extra pennies. 816 01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:16,600 What would you say... 817 01:14:16,700 --> 01:14:19,600 to a few cartoon-like illustrations to your text? 818 01:14:19,700 --> 01:14:22,700 Here I've drawn one with a stiletto... 819 01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:25,900 and here a string helmet and heavy wrench. 820 01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:28,000 I should think it might add greatly... 821 01:14:28,100 --> 01:14:30,200 to the human interest. 822 01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:02,200 Good-bye. 823 01:15:02,300 --> 01:15:03,700 Enjoy the hunt. 824 01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:05,000 We will. 825 01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:20,900 William? Is that you? 826 01:15:29,300 --> 01:15:31,700 It is you. 827 01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:33,700 I could tell by your step. 828 01:15:36,300 --> 01:15:38,200 Are you tired, dear? 829 01:15:39,900 --> 01:15:41,200 Somewhat. 830 01:15:43,700 --> 01:15:48,200 I am stiff from a day in the saddle... 831 01:15:48,300 --> 01:15:50,200 but, my dear... 832 01:15:50,300 --> 01:15:53,000 it was wonderful to be out with the hunt again... 833 01:15:53,100 --> 01:15:54,900 after my confinement. 834 01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:58,100 I do love it so. 835 01:16:02,300 --> 01:16:04,400 You look beautiful, my dear. 836 01:16:06,200 --> 01:16:07,700 Really? 837 01:16:09,700 --> 01:16:12,200 As beautiful as ever? 838 01:16:13,700 --> 01:16:15,500 More beautiful than ever. 839 01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:11,100 The world has changed so much, William... 840 01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:12,700 in my lifetime. 841 01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:15,600 I am old enough to have believed... 842 01:17:15,700 --> 01:17:18,100 in the first parents in Paradise... 843 01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:19,600 as a little boy... 844 01:17:19,700 --> 01:17:23,100 to have believed in Satan hidden in the serpent... 845 01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:25,600 and the Archangel with his flaming sword... 846 01:17:25,700 --> 01:17:28,100 closing the gate. 847 01:17:28,200 --> 01:17:32,600 And now I am supposed to believe in a world... 848 01:17:32,700 --> 01:17:35,600 in which we are what we are... 849 01:17:35,700 --> 01:17:38,100 because of the mutations... 850 01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:43,000 of soft jelly and calcius bone... 851 01:17:43,100 --> 01:17:49,500 which goes on and on through unimaginable millennia. 852 01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,600 A world in which angels and devils... 853 01:17:52,700 --> 01:17:55,200 do not do battle in Heaven for vice and virtue... 854 01:17:55,300 --> 01:17:57,700 but in which we eat and are eaten... 855 01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:00,800 and are absorbed into other flesh and blood. 856 01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:05,600 I shall molder like a mushroom... 857 01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:07,700 when my time comes... 858 01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:10,700 and it will always be soon. 859 01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:14,700 I shall end my life like a skeleton leaf... 860 01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:17,700 about to be humus... 861 01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:21,200 a mouse clutched by an owl... 862 01:18:21,300 --> 01:18:24,200 a bull calf going to the slaughter... 863 01:18:24,300 --> 01:18:28,200 through a gate which leads only to one way-- 864 01:18:28,300 --> 01:18:33,500 to blood and dust and destruction. 865 01:18:33,600 --> 01:18:38,600 And then I think no brute beast... 866 01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:41,100 would think such things. 867 01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:44,100 No frog, no hound, even... 868 01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:49,600 would have such a vision of the Angel of Annunciation. 869 01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:55,800 Where does it all come from? 870 01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:00,100 Come quick! Do come! 871 01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:01,600 What's the matter, Amy? 872 01:19:01,700 --> 01:19:05,400 Tom says the bloody ants are coming up in a great army. 873 01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:08,000 He says, "Come quick. Something's up." 874 01:19:08,100 --> 01:19:11,100 I saw them myself. They're like gravy boiling. 875 01:19:11,100 --> 01:19:12,400 Do come. 876 01:19:21,600 --> 01:19:24,600 The great slaving raid took place on a hot afternoon... 877 01:19:24,700 --> 01:19:28,600 after several days of frantic activity within Red Fort. 878 01:19:28,700 --> 01:19:30,600 We arrived at the nest... 879 01:19:30,700 --> 01:19:33,400 to see gossiping and seething crowds of red ants... 880 01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:35,600 massing for a clearly important event. 881 01:19:35,700 --> 01:19:37,500 We knew not what. 882 01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:40,700 And then, at some sign... 883 01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:44,200 the ants swarmed out of the city from every exit. 884 01:19:45,700 --> 01:19:48,800 Was it a little Napoleon who led the call to arms... 885 01:19:48,900 --> 01:19:50,300 or had the heat of the sun alone... 886 01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:53,000 signaled the ants to act in unison? 887 01:19:54,400 --> 01:19:58,200 We followed as the army set out across the forest floor. 888 01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,900 The rough terrain of twigs and leaves... 889 01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:04,800 separated the well-organized ranks... 890 01:20:04,900 --> 01:20:07,500 into seemingly raggle-taggle brigades. 891 01:20:11,700 --> 01:20:14,200 Fifteen yards from their own citadel... 892 01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:16,700 the red ants stopped, regrouped... 893 01:20:16,700 --> 01:20:18,200 and then descended... 894 01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:21,600 upon an unsuspecting nest of black ants... 895 01:20:21,700 --> 01:20:23,500 the formica fusca. 896 01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:27,600 The black ants sallied forth bravely... 897 01:20:27,700 --> 01:20:29,700 to beat off the thieves and kidnappers... 898 01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:31,300 waving their antennae. 899 01:20:31,400 --> 01:20:32,600 Hurrying furiously... 900 01:20:32,700 --> 01:20:34,800 they bit at the legs and heads and feelers... 901 01:20:34,900 --> 01:20:36,500 of the busy bloody ants. 902 01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:38,800 They attempted, sometimes with success... 903 01:20:38,900 --> 01:20:41,800 to grasp the red invaders and bite them to death. 904 01:20:41,900 --> 01:20:44,500 The red ants had one purpose only-- 905 01:20:44,500 --> 01:20:47,500 to snatch the unhatched black ants from the nest... 906 01:20:47,500 --> 01:20:51,400 and carry them in their fine jaws to Red Fort. 907 01:20:51,500 --> 01:20:53,500 From that moment on... 908 01:20:53,600 --> 01:20:57,200 the fate of the captured black ant nestlings was sealed. 909 01:20:57,300 --> 01:20:59,700 They would live and die as red ants... 910 01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:01,400 not as true black ants. 911 01:21:01,500 --> 01:21:04,800 They would feed and nourish little blood-red ants... 912 01:21:04,900 --> 01:21:06,800 and, in time, respond to the sun... 913 01:21:06,900 --> 01:21:10,800 by massing to attack their forgotten families. 914 01:21:10,900 --> 01:21:14,300 It is as if environment were everything... 915 01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:17,300 and inheritance nothing. 916 01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:45,800 Amy? 917 01:21:49,100 --> 01:21:51,000 I didn't know you had an interest... 918 01:21:51,100 --> 01:21:52,800 in this little thing. 919 01:21:52,900 --> 01:21:55,800 I don't. Not a personal one... 920 01:21:55,900 --> 01:21:58,200 but in her general well-being. 921 01:22:01,500 --> 01:22:03,300 Her general well-being. 922 01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:07,400 Well, tell him, Amy-- was I hurting you? 923 01:22:07,500 --> 01:22:09,800 Were my attentions unwelcome, perhaps? 924 01:22:09,900 --> 01:22:12,000 No. No, sir. 925 01:22:12,100 --> 01:22:15,100 I'm quite all right, Mr. Adamson. 926 01:22:15,100 --> 01:22:16,800 Please. 927 01:22:18,100 --> 01:22:20,800 I think you should apologize, sir... 928 01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:22,700 and leave us. 929 01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:29,200 I think Amy should run on. 930 01:22:29,300 --> 01:22:31,400 I think she'd do best to run on. 931 01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:33,300 Sir. 932 01:22:35,400 --> 01:22:37,800 Run off, then, child. 933 01:22:37,800 --> 01:22:40,400 I can always find you if I want you. 934 01:22:46,300 --> 01:22:50,800 Servants in this house are none of your concern... 935 01:22:50,900 --> 01:22:53,400 Mr. Adamson. 936 01:22:53,400 --> 01:22:56,400 You do not pay their wages... 937 01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:59,800 and I'll thank you not to interfere with them. 938 01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:02,900 That little creature is no more than a child... 939 01:23:02,900 --> 01:23:04,700 and one who's not had a proper childhood. 940 01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:06,700 Nonsense. 941 01:23:06,700 --> 01:23:10,300 She's a nice little packet of flesh... 942 01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:14,600 and her heart beats faster when I reach for it... 943 01:23:14,700 --> 01:23:18,800 and her little mouth opens sweetly and eagerly. 944 01:23:21,900 --> 01:23:24,400 You know nothing, Adamson. 945 01:23:24,500 --> 01:23:26,900 I've noticed that you know nothing. 946 01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:32,800 Go back to your beetles and your creepy-crawlies. 947 01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:36,600 I won't hurt the little puss, you can believe. 948 01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:41,300 Just add a little bit of natural spice. 949 01:23:41,300 --> 01:23:44,100 Anyway, it's none of your business. 950 01:23:44,100 --> 01:23:46,100 You're a hanger-on. 951 01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:49,000 And I've yet to learn what use you are to the world... 952 01:23:49,100 --> 01:23:51,000 or anyone in it. 953 01:23:51,100 --> 01:23:53,700 I told you. 954 01:23:53,800 --> 01:23:55,800 I've noticed that you know nothing. 955 01:24:08,700 --> 01:24:12,200 "And what of the fusca ant males? 956 01:24:12,300 --> 01:24:14,300 "Their fate exemplifies... 957 01:24:14,300 --> 01:24:16,600 "the remorseless, random purposefulness... 958 01:24:16,700 --> 01:24:19,600 "of Dame Nature, of natural selection. 959 01:24:19,700 --> 01:24:21,900 "Their whole existence is directed... 960 01:24:21,900 --> 01:24:23,300 "only to the nuptial dance... 961 01:24:23,400 --> 01:24:25,700 "and the fertilization of the queens. 962 01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:28,300 "They are flying amorous projectiles... 963 01:24:28,400 --> 01:24:31,000 "truly no more than the burning arrows... 964 01:24:31,100 --> 01:24:33,800 "of the winged and blindfold God of Love... 965 01:24:33,900 --> 01:24:35,600 "and after their day of glory... 966 01:24:35,700 --> 01:24:39,900 "they're unnecessary and unwanted. 967 01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:42,400 "They run hither and thither... 968 01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:44,300 "aimlessly draggle-winged. 969 01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:46,700 "They are beaten back for the most part... 970 01:24:46,700 --> 01:24:48,700 "from the doors of their home nests... 971 01:24:48,700 --> 01:24:50,700 "and driven away to mope and die... 972 01:24:50,700 --> 01:24:52,200 "in the cooling evenings... 973 01:24:52,300 --> 01:24:55,200 "of the late summer and early autumn." 974 01:24:57,400 --> 01:24:58,800 Very eloquent. 975 01:24:58,900 --> 01:25:00,800 I'm quite overcome with pity... 976 01:25:00,900 --> 01:25:02,800 for these poor, useless male creatures. 977 01:25:02,900 --> 01:25:07,300 I must admit, I'd never seen them in that light before. 978 01:25:07,300 --> 01:25:09,800 Do you not think you may have been... 979 01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:13,300 somewhat anthropomorphic in your choice of rhetoric? 980 01:25:15,300 --> 01:25:18,300 I thought that was our intention in this history-- 981 01:25:18,300 --> 01:25:21,800 to appeal to a wide audience by telling scientific truths... 982 01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:24,300 with a note of the fabulous. 983 01:25:26,200 --> 01:25:27,800 Perhaps I've overdone it. 984 01:25:27,800 --> 01:25:30,300 I could tone it down. 985 01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:32,300 I'm quite sure you should not. 986 01:25:32,400 --> 01:25:34,300 It will do excellently as it is. 987 01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:37,800 It will appeal greatly to the dramatic emotions. 988 01:25:37,900 --> 01:25:40,300 The book is to be delightful... 989 01:25:40,400 --> 01:25:43,500 as well as profound and truthful, is it not? 990 01:25:45,400 --> 01:25:48,200 I've been making a collection of literary citations... 991 01:25:48,300 --> 01:25:52,000 which I thought you might place at the head of your chapters. 992 01:25:52,100 --> 01:25:55,900 I found a wonderful sonnet by poor, mad John Clare... 993 01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:58,700 which seems to suggest that our ideas of fairies... 994 01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:02,300 are only anthropomorphizing of insects... 995 01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:03,800 and I've had an idea... 996 01:26:03,900 --> 01:26:07,100 to put my little drawings of fairy insects into a book. 997 01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:09,300 A book? 998 01:26:09,400 --> 01:26:11,800 I'm amazed at your accomplishments-- 999 01:26:11,900 --> 01:26:15,400 Latin, Greek, draftsmanship of a high quality... 1000 01:26:15,400 --> 01:26:18,300 a thorough knowledge of English literature. 1001 01:26:18,400 --> 01:26:20,300 I was educated with my betters... 1002 01:26:20,400 --> 01:26:21,800 in the schoolroom of a bishop. 1003 01:26:21,800 --> 01:26:22,700 in the schoolroom of a bishop. 1004 01:26:22,900 --> 01:26:24,300 My father was the tutor... 1005 01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:27,500 and the bishop's lady kindly intentioned. 1006 01:26:27,500 --> 01:26:31,800 You should publish on your own behalf. 1007 01:26:31,900 --> 01:26:34,300 This is for my own entertainment. 1008 01:26:35,900 --> 01:26:39,300 The ants, you know, were my muse. 1009 01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:41,500 They inspired me. 1010 01:27:21,300 --> 01:27:23,200 I'll take it into town on the pretext... 1011 01:27:23,200 --> 01:27:25,400 of looking for new winter boots. 1012 01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:27,600 I do not trust that village postmistress... 1013 01:27:27,700 --> 01:27:31,300 not to tell everyone that a fat packet has gone off. 1014 01:27:31,400 --> 01:27:33,800 We do not wish to attract attention... 1015 01:27:33,900 --> 01:27:36,300 to what may be a completely fruitless endeavor. 1016 01:27:36,400 --> 01:27:39,800 No. When the book is handsomely bound... 1017 01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:41,200 and ready for review... 1018 01:27:41,300 --> 01:27:43,000 then we shall be open. 1019 01:28:13,400 --> 01:28:16,400 She can't be expected to do any more... 1020 01:28:16,500 --> 01:28:18,400 in her condition. 1021 01:28:18,500 --> 01:28:20,400 Get this cushion here. 1022 01:28:20,500 --> 01:28:22,500 That's better. 1023 01:28:29,500 --> 01:28:31,400 Can I have a drink? 1024 01:29:24,700 --> 01:29:27,200 Mother? 1025 01:29:59,200 --> 01:30:02,000 There. 1026 01:30:17,800 --> 01:30:19,200 Good. 1027 01:30:43,800 --> 01:30:45,800 "Dear Mr. Adamson... 1028 01:30:45,800 --> 01:30:48,400 "You are to be heartily congratulated... 1029 01:30:48,500 --> 01:30:50,800 "upon your ingenious natural history... 1030 01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:52,700 "which is just the kind of book... 1031 01:30:52,800 --> 01:30:54,800 "which the world of letters at present cannot have enough. 1032 01:30:54,800 --> 01:30:56,300 "We are very happy... 1033 01:30:56,300 --> 01:30:58,300 "you've chosen our house as the publishers... 1034 01:30:58,300 --> 01:31:00,300 "and hope we may come to a happy arrangement... 1035 01:31:00,300 --> 01:31:02,700 "for what will be a fruitful partnership. 1036 01:31:02,800 --> 01:31:04,400 "Yours sincerely, J. Marion, publisher." 1037 01:31:04,500 --> 01:31:06,200 I was so afraid. 1038 01:31:06,300 --> 01:31:08,200 I can hardly believe it. 1039 01:31:08,300 --> 01:31:09,700 We must not be oversanguine. 1040 01:31:09,800 --> 01:31:11,300 I have no idea of the profit... 1041 01:31:11,400 --> 01:31:13,100 from a successful book. 1042 01:31:13,100 --> 01:31:15,700 Nor l, nor l. 1043 01:31:15,800 --> 01:31:19,900 I hardly like to mention it to Sir Harald. 1044 01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:23,200 He's in a very bad way with his own project. 1045 01:31:23,300 --> 01:31:25,600 He's torn up several sheaves of writing... 1046 01:31:25,600 --> 01:31:28,000 only yesterday. 1047 01:31:28,100 --> 01:31:31,000 I don't feel I've given him the support he needs. 1048 01:31:32,300 --> 01:31:35,900 Oh, I understand. 1049 01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:37,700 Perhaps-- 1050 01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:39,800 It's not certain enough yet to be revealed... 1051 01:31:39,900 --> 01:31:41,900 perhaps we should keep our own counsel. 1052 01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:43,900 I'm quite happy to go on as we are. 1053 01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:46,900 The shock--the surprise, I should say-- 1054 01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:48,800 will be all the more complete... 1055 01:31:48,800 --> 01:31:52,200 when we come to reveal what has been in the making. 1056 01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:06,200 Mr. William, I can tell you now... 1057 01:32:06,300 --> 01:32:09,000 that you are the father of not one, but two infant girls... 1058 01:32:09,100 --> 01:32:12,200 both living, both doing well. 1059 01:32:35,800 --> 01:32:38,500 Hounds, gentlemen, please! 1060 01:33:00,200 --> 01:33:01,800 Mr. Adamson! 1061 01:33:01,900 --> 01:33:03,300 Whoa! 1062 01:33:03,400 --> 01:33:05,200 Mr. Adamson, sir! 1063 01:33:05,300 --> 01:33:08,200 You're asked to come back to Miss Eugenia, please. 1064 01:33:08,300 --> 01:33:10,700 Is she ill? Is anything wrong? 1065 01:33:10,800 --> 01:33:13,700 Didn't say, sir. Just come back to Miss Eugenia. 1066 01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:41,300 Is my wife well? 1067 01:33:41,300 --> 01:33:43,300 I think so, sir. 1068 01:33:43,300 --> 01:33:44,900 Do you know where she is? 1069 01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:47,300 In her room, sir, I think. 1070 01:33:47,300 --> 01:33:51,000 She told me she was not to be disturbed until after dinner. 1071 01:34:28,900 --> 01:34:30,700 Get dressed. 1072 01:34:42,900 --> 01:34:45,000 Go. Go now. 1073 01:34:47,400 --> 01:34:48,800 You must take those. 1074 01:34:48,900 --> 01:34:51,800 Take them in your hand and anything else and leave. 1075 01:34:54,100 --> 01:34:57,600 I told you to go now! 1076 01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:08,200 You, too. Dress yourself. 1077 01:35:08,200 --> 01:35:11,200 Cover up now. Just cover up. 1078 01:35:13,800 --> 01:35:14,800 William... 1079 01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:16,400 Dress yourself! 1080 01:35:16,500 --> 01:35:18,900 Just dress yourself! 1081 01:35:19,000 --> 01:35:21,400 Dress yourself! 1082 01:35:24,700 --> 01:35:28,000 It's like a whorehouse! 1083 01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:30,300 It's disgusting. 1084 01:35:32,300 --> 01:35:33,800 You are disgusting. 1085 01:35:35,300 --> 01:35:38,300 I can't put this on without Martha. 1086 01:35:40,800 --> 01:35:43,300 Will you help me? 1087 01:35:43,400 --> 01:35:45,800 I shan't touch you. 1088 01:35:45,900 --> 01:35:48,300 Why don't you just cover yourself? 1089 01:35:48,400 --> 01:35:51,300 Cover yourself! You're horrible to see! 1090 01:35:56,400 --> 01:35:57,800 Hurry up! 1091 01:36:11,300 --> 01:36:12,800 This... 1092 01:36:14,100 --> 01:36:19,000 This has been going on for some time, hasn't it? 1093 01:36:19,100 --> 01:36:21,300 Has it? 1094 01:36:21,300 --> 01:36:23,800 All the time I've been here. 1095 01:36:29,100 --> 01:36:30,200 Yes. 1096 01:36:36,600 --> 01:36:38,200 How long? 1097 01:36:40,400 --> 01:36:44,000 Since I was very little. 1098 01:36:44,100 --> 01:36:46,300 Very little. Yes. 1099 01:36:48,400 --> 01:36:51,300 You cannot possibly understand. 1100 01:36:53,400 --> 01:36:55,800 No, I cannot. 1101 01:36:55,800 --> 01:36:59,600 At first, it seemed... 1102 01:36:59,600 --> 01:37:02,300 nothing to do with the rest of my life. 1103 01:37:02,400 --> 01:37:05,700 It was just something secret... 1104 01:37:05,800 --> 01:37:08,800 that was. You know? 1105 01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:16,300 Like other things you must not do and do... 1106 01:37:16,300 --> 01:37:18,800 Iike touching yourself in the dark. 1107 01:37:20,900 --> 01:37:22,900 You don't understand. 1108 01:37:26,100 --> 01:37:30,700 When I was going to marry Captain Hunt, he saw. 1109 01:37:30,700 --> 01:37:32,900 He saw. 1110 01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:37,300 Not so much as you have seen, but enough to guess. 1111 01:37:37,400 --> 01:37:40,400 And it preyed on his mind. 1112 01:37:40,500 --> 01:37:42,800 It preyed on his mind. 1113 01:37:42,900 --> 01:37:46,300 I swore then I would stop it... 1114 01:37:46,400 --> 01:37:48,900 and I did stop it... 1115 01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:51,800 because I wanted to be married... 1116 01:37:51,900 --> 01:37:55,300 and good and like other people... 1117 01:37:55,400 --> 01:37:59,400 and I did persuade him that he was mistaken in me. 1118 01:38:00,900 --> 01:38:03,400 It was so hard... 1119 01:38:03,500 --> 01:38:06,300 for he could not say what he feared. 1120 01:38:06,400 --> 01:38:09,400 He would not speak it out loud. 1121 01:38:10,900 --> 01:38:15,400 That was when I saw how very terrible it was... 1122 01:38:16,900 --> 01:38:18,400 I was. 1123 01:38:20,900 --> 01:38:23,400 Only we could not stop. 1124 01:38:24,900 --> 01:38:27,000 I don't think... 1125 01:38:27,100 --> 01:38:29,400 that he meant even to stop. 1126 01:38:30,900 --> 01:38:33,100 He's strong, William. 1127 01:38:33,200 --> 01:38:36,100 And, of course, Captain Hunt-- 1128 01:38:36,200 --> 01:38:38,200 someone led him to see it... 1129 01:38:38,200 --> 01:38:42,400 and he wrote a terrible letter to both of us... 1130 01:38:42,400 --> 01:38:44,900 and he said... 1131 01:38:44,900 --> 01:38:48,300 oh, that he could not live with the knowledge... 1132 01:38:48,400 --> 01:38:50,000 even if we could-- 1133 01:38:50,100 --> 01:38:52,400 that is what he said-- 1134 01:38:52,500 --> 01:38:55,200 and then he shot himself. 1135 01:38:55,300 --> 01:38:57,500 In the desk, there was a note to me... 1136 01:38:57,600 --> 01:38:59,600 saying I would know why he had died... 1137 01:38:59,900 --> 01:39:03,600 and he hoped that I would be able to be happy. 1138 01:39:04,900 --> 01:39:08,200 And even after that, you just went right on. 1139 01:39:08,300 --> 01:39:11,900 Who else could I turn to? 1140 01:39:12,000 --> 01:39:13,700 Well, you turned to me. 1141 01:39:13,800 --> 01:39:16,200 You made use of me anyhow. 1142 01:39:16,300 --> 01:39:18,700 All the children, who revert so shockingly... 1143 01:39:18,800 --> 01:39:20,500 to the ancestral type-- 1144 01:39:20,600 --> 01:39:25,700 No! I don't know! 1145 01:39:25,800 --> 01:39:28,200 Well, I know, don't l? 1146 01:39:28,300 --> 01:39:29,700 Perfectly obvious! 1147 01:39:29,800 --> 01:39:31,800 You just have to look at them! 1148 01:39:41,800 --> 01:39:43,000 I'll go now. 1149 01:39:43,100 --> 01:39:44,800 We can talk again later. 1150 01:39:48,800 --> 01:39:50,300 What will you do? 1151 01:39:52,800 --> 01:39:55,700 I don't know what I shall do. 1152 01:39:55,800 --> 01:39:58,800 I shall tell you when I do know. 1153 01:40:00,800 --> 01:40:04,800 You need not be afraid that I shall kill myself... 1154 01:40:04,800 --> 01:40:07,400 or him. 1155 01:40:07,400 --> 01:40:12,500 I want to be a free man, not a convicted murderer. 1156 01:40:30,800 --> 01:40:32,200 Remember, William... 1157 01:40:32,300 --> 01:40:35,300 the aim is to get rid of all your letters. 1158 01:41:55,900 --> 01:41:58,800 Phoenix. 1159 01:41:58,900 --> 01:42:01,300 I only had this left. 1160 01:42:06,800 --> 01:42:08,700 No, not now. Later. 1161 01:42:08,800 --> 01:42:10,800 I'll find a time later. 1162 01:42:48,900 --> 01:42:51,300 Please take a seat. 1163 01:42:51,400 --> 01:42:54,800 I hope you don't think this is too conspiratorial. 1164 01:43:08,800 --> 01:43:11,100 You wish to talk. 1165 01:43:11,200 --> 01:43:15,900 You sent me a word tonight... 1166 01:43:15,900 --> 01:43:19,900 and someone sent for me to come back to the house today... 1167 01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:21,400 when I was not wanted... 1168 01:43:21,500 --> 01:43:23,900 when I was anything but wanted. 1169 01:43:24,000 --> 01:43:26,400 I didn't send for you... 1170 01:43:26,500 --> 01:43:28,400 if that's what you're thinking. 1171 01:43:30,000 --> 01:43:32,900 There are people in a house, you know... 1172 01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:35,400 who can know everything that's going on-- 1173 01:43:35,500 --> 01:43:36,900 invisible people. 1174 01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:39,400 Now and then, the house simply decides... 1175 01:43:39,500 --> 01:43:40,900 that something must happen. 1176 01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:44,500 I think your message came to you... 1177 01:43:44,500 --> 01:43:47,000 after a series of misunderstandings... 1178 01:43:47,100 --> 01:43:49,400 that were at some level deliberate. 1179 01:43:49,500 --> 01:43:52,900 But you know what I saw. 1180 01:43:59,500 --> 01:44:01,300 There are people in houses... 1181 01:44:01,300 --> 01:44:04,400 between the visible inhabitants and the invisible-- 1182 01:44:04,500 --> 01:44:05,900 Iargely invisible to both-- 1183 01:44:05,900 --> 01:44:10,400 who can know a very great deal if they choose. 1184 01:44:10,400 --> 01:44:12,900 I choose to know about some things... 1185 01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:14,900 and not about others. 1186 01:44:16,900 --> 01:44:18,400 I've become interested... 1187 01:44:18,400 --> 01:44:21,500 in knowing about things that concern you. 1188 01:44:21,600 --> 01:44:23,500 I've been used. 1189 01:44:23,600 --> 01:44:25,600 I've been made a fool of. 1190 01:44:25,700 --> 01:44:28,200 Even so, that's not the most important thing. 1191 01:44:28,200 --> 01:44:30,500 What I want to know is what you feel. 1192 01:44:30,500 --> 01:44:32,700 I want to know what you're going to do. 1193 01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:39,000 I find that my most powerful feeling... 1194 01:44:39,100 --> 01:44:40,900 is that I'm free. 1195 01:44:44,000 --> 01:44:49,600 I ought to feel shocked or vengeful, humiliated... 1196 01:44:49,600 --> 01:44:52,600 and I do feel all these things from time to time... 1197 01:44:52,700 --> 01:44:57,100 but mostly, I feel I can go now. 1198 01:44:58,500 --> 01:45:00,900 I can leave this house. 1199 01:45:01,000 --> 01:45:04,700 I can return to my true work. 1200 01:45:04,700 --> 01:45:08,200 There was talk of equipping a further Amazon venture. 1201 01:45:10,300 --> 01:45:12,400 I cannot now take one Alabaster penny. 1202 01:45:12,400 --> 01:45:13,900 You must see that. 1203 01:45:13,900 --> 01:45:16,400 You see everything, I begin to think. 1204 01:45:17,900 --> 01:45:23,300 I must go away and soon... and never return. 1205 01:45:23,300 --> 01:45:26,700 You are all that I shall miss here. 1206 01:45:28,900 --> 01:45:30,900 I've never felt anything... 1207 01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:33,700 in my heart of hearts... 1208 01:45:33,800 --> 01:45:36,100 for all those white children. 1209 01:45:36,200 --> 01:45:39,600 This may be only of the moment. 1210 01:45:41,000 --> 01:45:45,000 No, I can go. I shall go. 1211 01:45:45,100 --> 01:45:48,600 My book--our book-- will provide something. 1212 01:45:48,600 --> 01:45:50,000 More can be earned. 1213 01:45:50,100 --> 01:45:52,900 I've sold my book. 1214 01:45:52,900 --> 01:45:56,300 Your book? 1215 01:45:56,400 --> 01:45:58,600 Yes. I told you I was preparing... 1216 01:45:58,700 --> 01:46:00,900 a book of drawings and writings... 1217 01:46:01,000 --> 01:46:05,600 integrating the insect realm with fairy tales. 1218 01:46:05,700 --> 01:46:07,400 When did you write it? 1219 01:46:07,500 --> 01:46:09,800 Why didn't you tell me? 1220 01:46:12,400 --> 01:46:15,400 I wrote it here. 1221 01:46:15,400 --> 01:46:16,600 I had to do it alone. 1222 01:46:16,700 --> 01:46:20,400 I had to do something that would be mine. 1223 01:46:20,400 --> 01:46:23,400 All my life, I've worked for others for their good. 1224 01:46:25,400 --> 01:46:28,000 Everything I had, even this... 1225 01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:32,000 could be taken away from me on someone else's whim. 1226 01:46:32,100 --> 01:46:35,400 My book was my secret... 1227 01:46:35,400 --> 01:46:38,600 just as now it's my gift. 1228 01:46:38,700 --> 01:46:41,700 You are not offering... 1229 01:46:41,800 --> 01:46:43,900 I've taken certain steps... 1230 01:46:44,000 --> 01:46:46,300 entirely subject to your approval. 1231 01:46:50,000 --> 01:46:53,900 I have a banker's draft from Mr. John Marion, publisher... 1232 01:46:54,000 --> 01:46:55,200 which would be more than sufficient... 1233 01:46:55,300 --> 01:46:57,500 and a letter from Mr. Stevens... 1234 01:46:57,500 --> 01:47:00,500 offering to negotiate the sales of specimens as before... 1235 01:47:00,600 --> 01:47:02,400 and a letter from Captain Papagay... 1236 01:47:02,500 --> 01:47:04,900 who sails from Liverpool to Rio in a month. 1237 01:47:05,000 --> 01:47:07,000 He has two berths free. 1238 01:47:07,100 --> 01:47:08,800 You truly are a good fairy. 1239 01:47:08,900 --> 01:47:10,300 You wave your wand... 1240 01:47:10,400 --> 01:47:11,800 and I have everything I desire... 1241 01:47:11,900 --> 01:47:13,400 before I can think of desiring it. 1242 01:47:13,400 --> 01:47:16,400 I watch and contrive and write letters... 1243 01:47:16,400 --> 01:47:18,900 and consider your nature, and you do desire it. 1244 01:47:19,000 --> 01:47:20,900 You've just said so. 1245 01:47:20,900 --> 01:47:23,100 Two berths? 1246 01:47:26,800 --> 01:47:28,300 I would come with you. 1247 01:47:28,400 --> 01:47:30,900 You've filled me with a desire for paradisal places. 1248 01:47:30,900 --> 01:47:33,700 I shall not rest until I've seen the great river... 1249 01:47:33,800 --> 01:47:35,800 and felt the air of the tropics. 1250 01:47:35,900 --> 01:47:38,300 You cannot do that. 1251 01:47:38,400 --> 01:47:41,200 Think of the fever... 1252 01:47:41,200 --> 01:47:42,900 think of the terrible, biting creatures... 1253 01:47:42,900 --> 01:47:45,500 think of the monotonous, insufficient food... 1254 01:47:45,600 --> 01:47:48,400 of the rough men out there, the drunkenness. 1255 01:47:48,500 --> 01:47:50,400 Yet you will go there. 1256 01:47:50,500 --> 01:47:52,000 - I'm not a woman. - Oh, I am. 1257 01:47:52,100 --> 01:47:54,400 It's no place for a woman. 1258 01:47:54,400 --> 01:47:55,500 There are women there. 1259 01:47:55,500 --> 01:47:58,000 Yes, but not of your kind. 1260 01:47:58,100 --> 01:48:02,400 I don't think you know what kind of woman I am. 1261 01:48:02,500 --> 01:48:05,300 I don't think you know that I am a woman. 1262 01:48:09,900 --> 01:48:11,800 You've never seen me. 1263 01:48:11,800 --> 01:48:14,400 Why should that not continue as it is? 1264 01:48:14,500 --> 01:48:17,400 You have no idea who I am. 1265 01:48:17,500 --> 01:48:20,700 You have no idea even how old I am. 1266 01:48:20,800 --> 01:48:24,200 You think I am between 30 and 50. Confess it. 1267 01:48:24,300 --> 01:48:27,600 If you know so precisely what it is I think... 1268 01:48:27,700 --> 01:48:30,600 it's because you've meant me to think it. 1269 01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:35,400 All right, tell me. 1270 01:48:35,500 --> 01:48:38,500 Since you invite the question, how old are you? 1271 01:48:41,500 --> 01:48:44,500 I'm 27. 1272 01:48:46,000 --> 01:48:48,100 I've one life... 1273 01:48:48,200 --> 01:48:50,200 and 27 years of it have passed... 1274 01:48:50,200 --> 01:48:51,400 and I intend to begin living. 1275 01:48:51,500 --> 01:48:54,500 Not in the rain forest. Not in the Amazons. 1276 01:48:54,500 --> 01:48:56,200 The place is very much an inferno. 1277 01:48:56,300 --> 01:48:57,900 But you will go there. 1278 01:48:58,000 --> 01:48:59,500 My work is there, Matty. 1279 01:48:59,500 --> 01:49:00,700 I know how to live that life. 1280 01:49:00,800 --> 01:49:03,700 I can learn. I'm strong, resourceful. 1281 01:49:03,800 --> 01:49:07,600 I have not lived softly, contrary to appearances. 1282 01:49:07,700 --> 01:49:09,900 You need not heed me once the voyage is over. 1283 01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:10,900 It's a daydream. 1284 01:49:11,000 --> 01:49:12,100 It is what I will do! 1285 01:49:12,200 --> 01:49:13,800 Matty, Miss Crompton... 1286 01:49:13,800 --> 01:49:17,900 Up here, at night, there is no Matty. 1287 01:49:18,000 --> 01:49:20,400 My name is Matilda. 1288 01:49:28,000 --> 01:49:30,100 Look at me! 1289 01:49:32,500 --> 01:49:35,000 I have looked at you. 1290 01:49:53,000 --> 01:49:55,600 I've seen your wrists, Matilda. 1291 01:50:05,500 --> 01:50:09,200 I only wanted you to see me. 1292 01:50:09,300 --> 01:50:14,000 I don't think that was all you wanted. 1293 01:50:18,300 --> 01:50:20,400 Shall I stay here? 1294 01:50:22,500 --> 01:50:24,300 Or shall I go back now? 1295 01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:30,900 I should like you to stay... 1296 01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:32,700 but it's not very comfortable here. 1297 01:50:37,000 --> 01:50:42,300 If we are to travel together... 1298 01:50:42,300 --> 01:50:47,400 you'll find that we'll look back on this... 1299 01:50:47,500 --> 01:50:50,600 as a paradise of comfort. 1300 01:51:09,000 --> 01:51:12,900 So... you have decided. 1301 01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:14,800 What is to be my fate? 1302 01:51:14,900 --> 01:51:18,600 I must confess, I'm more interested in my own. 1303 01:51:20,500 --> 01:51:23,900 I've decided to leave you, Eugenia. 1304 01:51:23,900 --> 01:51:29,400 And... shall you speak to anyone? 1305 01:51:31,000 --> 01:51:34,400 Shall you tell? 1306 01:51:34,400 --> 01:51:37,900 Who can I tell, Eugenia... 1307 01:51:38,000 --> 01:51:42,100 whom I should not destroy in the telling? 1308 01:51:42,200 --> 01:51:44,400 You must live with yourself. 1309 01:51:44,500 --> 01:51:46,900 That's all I can say. 1310 01:51:47,000 --> 01:51:49,500 You must live with yourself. 1311 01:51:51,500 --> 01:51:54,500 I know it was bad. 1312 01:51:56,300 --> 01:51:59,900 I know it was bad... 1313 01:52:00,000 --> 01:52:04,900 but you must understand-- it didn't feel bad. 1314 01:52:05,000 --> 01:52:07,400 Breeders know even first-cousin marriages... 1315 01:52:07,500 --> 01:52:09,900 produce inherited defects, increase the likelihood-- 1316 01:52:09,900 --> 01:52:12,900 That is a cruel thing to say. 1317 01:52:26,700 --> 01:52:29,900 Morpho Eugenia... 1318 01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:32,200 you are very lovely. 1319 01:52:34,000 --> 01:52:37,800 It has not done me any good to look pretty... 1320 01:52:37,900 --> 01:52:39,800 to be admired. 1321 01:52:42,000 --> 01:52:44,600 I would like to be different. 1322 01:52:51,500 --> 01:52:56,900 Good-bye, Eugenia. I shall not return. 1323 01:53:52,600 --> 01:53:55,600 Be off. Come on. 97162