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It's awfully pretty.

A small offering.

Not so very small.

Thanks, so very, very much.

Small iron sister, but symbolic.

Oh, is it?

I took a little trouble about the symbol, isn't it?

Mary, explain.

Oh, if you think you should.

A pearl heart, broken, with rubies playing the part of blood.

Oh, what does that symbolise?

The heart is mine, the fracture is of your mick.

Oh, what nonsense, Mr. Carter.

The heart held together by a gold pin set with diamond.

Oh, yes.

What does the pin mean?

I shall come to the pin later.

The whole surmounted by an earl's cotton.

I understand that.

Your forthcoming marriage to Lord Michelin, the cause of the breaking.

Everybody's written congratulating me.

Oh, well, it was just on changing the sun.

Did I?

I am ready to change anything except my affection for heart is permanent.

Well, shall I read you some of the letters?

Well, I lay my heart as if casually and with the other gifts.

Oh, this is from Aunt Edwina.

My dearest Darathia.

Darathia is my name.

I am a very good friend.

I am a very good friend.

Oh, my dear, my dearest Darathia.

Darathia is my name, Mr. Carter.

Yes, I was, thinking you were darling.

It means a gift of heaven, you know.

I didn't first recognize you.

My dearest Darathia, I have heard in use of your engagement to Lord Michelin, with deep thankfulness, to obtain the love of an honest man is a great prize.

I hope you will prove worthy of it.

Marriage is a trial and an opportunity.

A trial for the husband.

Quiet, Mr. Carter.

And an opportunity for...

It says you go long enough.

I should say that Annette Wiener is a widow.

Yes.

And lives in a harrow?

Chiltenham.

I don't see why I need belectured, just because I'm going to be married.

I don't see why you need to be lectured.

Exactly.

Let's try another one.

Who's that on pink paper?

Oh, that's a Georgie Vane.

Oh, Georgie Vane.

She's awful fun.

Dear old Dolly, so you brought it off.

Hearty Congress, I thought you were going to be silly and throw away your...

Throw away your...

Oh, there's nothing else there.

Nothing at all.

Nothing worth reading.

See to me that the...

It's cousin Susan.

She's an old maid.

You know, it's very long.

It's been to her.

It's very long.

It is useless for me to deny that when you stayed with me, I thought you were addicted to frivolity.

Douglass marriage will sober you.

Very proper thought.

I think it's depressing.

Your marriage is depressing.

Some?

Oh, this is from my sister-in-law, Mrs. Algernon Foster.

The daughter of Lord Dondromes, wasn't she?

Yes.

I believe that any woman who conscientiously underlined does her death.

She's not underlined.

Does her duty can underlined find happiness in married life, even though she can look for

a few of the lighter underlined pleasures?

I say, do you think it's really like that?

It's still time to draw back.

I shan't go on with it.

The marriage.

The letter.

Let's get back to Georgie's reign.

Oh, there's Old Lady M.

M.

In Old Lady Michelum, Archie's mother.

Ah, yes, the fearsome dodger.

Archie is rather particular, as his dear father was, but he has a very good heart and is not

fidgety about his meals.

Archie's, you see, it's all about Archie.

Well, naturally.

Well, I suppose I can't a little too.

Countesses must count at least a little.

Listen, let's go on with Georgie's reign.

Oh, there's lots from girls.

Here's one from Maud Tottenham.

It's rather amusing.

I've never found Maud Tottenham amusing.

I used to know your fiancee slightly.

He seemed very nice, but it's quite a while ago now.

I hope he is really fond of you and that it is not a mere fancy.

Is that amusing?

She tried to catch him herself.

Oh, I see.

Well, one needs to know that.

Yeah, this aren't very interesting.

Then let's finish Georgie Vane.

Really?

Yes, really.

Well, if you don't mind, I don't...

Well, I hope I shan't mind.

Where was I?

I thought you were going to be silly and throw away your...

Oh, it's... I thought you were going to be silly and throw away your chances on some of the men

who used to flirt with you.

Archie Michelum may not be a genius, but he's a good fellow and a swell and rich.

He's not a poor for like Phil Meadows or a snob like Charlie Dawson or a...

Shall I go on, Mr. Carter?

Oh, no, I shan't.

I didn't see what it said.

Do please go on.

Oh, no, I can't.

Then I will.

Mr. Carter, give me that letter.

OK.

Mr. Carter.

I spin-frift like that man you used to go on with at such a pace at Monte Carlo now.

You just need to be.

No doubt he was charming, my dear.

And no doubt anybody would have thought you meant it.

But I never doubted you.

Come on, girl.

I still want you to...

You are a mess.

No, the victim.

Morning, Charlie. Morning, Carter, my boy.

Morning, Michelum.

Chasing, Dolly, around the table, there.

On the contrary, she was chasing me.

Oh, yes.

Well, we discussed an interesting fact.

What's that?

I was in Monte Carlo last winter.

Yes.

Now you were.

Saw you there.

So you did.

First, med, Dolly.

That's right.

He's at all.

I thought you were a gentleman.

More a spin-thrift than a gentleman.

Good morning, Mr. Foster.

Good morning, Michelum.

Good morning, Carter.

Good morning, Mr. Carter.

Mr. Carter, my lady.

Mr. Carter.

I sent for you.

Yes, lady Michelum.

Because I have been reading an unpleasant story.

These days, a French influence on the English novel.

You've gained in a letter from a friend.

It must have been as painful for her to write as it was for me to read.

Which is saying much.

Be seated, Graham.

I believe you are acquainted with Mr. O'Thea Foster.

I have that letter.

You is engaged to be married to my son, the Earl of Michelum.

I believe that, sir.

My son, Mr. Carter, is of a simple and trusting disposition.

I believe that, too.

I'm informed by this letter that in conversation with the writer the other day, Archibald mentioned some very startling facts.

Oh, really?

Those facts concern you, Mr. Carter.

May I ask the name of the writer?

That is not necessary.

She's a lady in whom I have the utmost confidence.

Oh, that is of course not.

It appears, Mr. Carter, you excuse me, if I speak plain,

that you have in the first place given to my son's bride a wedding present which I can only describe.

But a pearl ornament with a ruby or two.

A pearl heart fractured.

It's an exuberant.

It's an epic map.

It's an epic map.

In fact, most offensive.

But that is not the worst.

It appears that on one occasion, at least,

my son found you and Miss Foster engaged in what I can only call...

Oh, Nicholas, me?

What I can only call...

Romping.

And being only atrociously vulgar all times, but under the circumstances, need I say more.

Nicholas, I deny...

Mr. Carter, you were engaged in chasing my son's future bride round the table.

Pardon me, lady, Nicholas, but your son's future bride was engaged in chasing me round the table.

It is the same thing.

Well, I should have thought there was a distinction.

None at all.

I didn't let her catch me, though.

Oh, sir, if you have.

Oh, goodness, no.

Has it happened, however, my son entered in the middle of this disgrace.

It was a little bit less.

It was hardly in the middle.

You are amused.

It is not probable that after Miss Foster's marriage you will meet her often.

You will move in somewhat different circles.

Oh, yes.

Well, of course I might catch a glimpse of her in her carriage from the top of my bus.

You are Amelia and my son, Miss.

Oh, yes, indeed.

I know he's valid, though.

You rang, my lady.

Mr. Carter is leaving.

Hey, Carter, what are you doing here?

I've seen your mother.

What's on earth for?

I wish, Mechelam, when you happened to intrude as you did the other day, you wouldn't repeat what you've seen.

Oh, Lord, she hasn't heard of that.

If I only told Aunt Cynthia.

If I were you, I'd drop your aunt Cynthia.

Does Lady Mechelam know at all?

More than all.

Much more.

What didn't you smooth it over?

I don't know that I did.

Well, it's all very well for you, but we're dining here tonight.

I'm not sure.

Well, I hope you'll enjoy your dinner.

I cling to the belief that the wicked are punished.

I'll never you mind, Dolly.

Everyone knows old Carter's and us.

Well, that piece of universal knowledge may help now.

I'll see you, little woman.

Who will you hope?

I'm so glad you've got a husband who's good enough for you.

Oh, goodbye, Carter.

I say, what have you done to your hat?

My hat seems to have been fractured, too.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here.

I do not approve of Lady Mitalin.

I'm so glad.

Not a wife.

She's far too hair.

I'm scared.

Oh, I should have thought of her age.

I'm a young lady, Mitalin.

Oh, forgive me.

There is a difference.

So soon after her marriage.

A scandal already?

She behaved very badly at the Duchess of Dexter's Mr. Squash.

Is that so? What did you do?

Well, I was in bed with the cold, so I asked Dolly Mitalin to chaperone cousin.

Oh, he didn't really matter.

I finished, you know.

I'm there.

Nor did the Duchess.

I'll show you.

I'll show you the way to just to be honest.

As soon as they got there, Dolly simply disappeared for an hour or more.

Good.

Living poor Phyllis.

Phyllis.

To wonder about by herself.

It didn't really matter.

Did you ever hear of anything more atrocious?

Never.

Dear Sir John Berry found her at last.

Found Phyllis?

Found Lady Mitalin in a little nook under the stairs.

A little nook indeed.

There was a satie there and she had been talking with a man all that time.

Oh, I didn't.

What do I can't?

I can't think what Lord Mitalin was doing.

You mean what Lady Mitalin was doing?

Well, anything might have happened to poor Phyllis.

Oh, there weren't many of the aristocracy there.

She was reasonably safe.

She is the most disgraceful flirt in London.

What Phyllis surely not?

Lady Mitalin.

Oh, but how do you know she was flirting?

How do I know?

It's very hasta conclusion.

Sometimes you and I talk for an hour or more.

Are you therefore flirting with me?

With you.

You're absurd as the supposition is.

Lady Mitalin might have been talking with a friend just in the quiet sort of rational way

in which we are talking now.

I do not think that is likely.

Yet it happens to be true.

Lord Mitalin told you, I suppose.

And I suppose Lady Mitalin told him poor man.

Why do you call him poor man?

Never mind.

Did he tell you?

The fact is, you must forgive me for having kept you in the dark a little.

What are you going to say?

The fact is, I was the man with Lady Mitalin when Sir John Berry interrup came along.

You know?

I am deeply pained.

I was sure you would forgive my momentary deception.

I would never have thought it of you.

I didn't know about Miss Phyllis.

I didn't mind.

Yes, but...

Please, don't shuffle about.

Do you mean that I am to go?

I hope we shall see you again someday.

Lady Mitalin and I, on the occasion in...

Now, praise pair me.

Will you be at home on Thursday?

I have a great many people coming already.

Well, I can take a hint.

I wish you would take warning.

I should take my leave.

Goodbye, Miss Phyllis.

Goodbye, Miss Phyllis.

Goodbye, Miss Phyllis.

Goodbye.

Do you mean to leave me nothing in the world?

Oh, hi.

Mrs. Hilary Musgrave has turned me out of her house.

Because of these?

Because of young Lady Mitalin.

What, bud?

I tell you the time and I'm married person like you ought to be more careful.

I am debating whether to sacrifice you.

To sacrifice me, Mr. Carter.

If I dropped you, Mrs. Hilary would let me come again.

How charming that would be.

You would enjoy her nice serious conversation.

She's very picturesque.

Oh, yes, she's handsome.

Well?

Well?

Is it goodbye?

Supposing I forgive you?

Yes, if it were my fault.

And risk, Mrs. Hilary's raw.

Did you think?

No, I laughed, Mr. Carter.

But what am I going to get out of it?

Why are you looking at me?

Because there's nothing better to look at.

Do you like doing it?

It's a privilege.

It's a very expensive one.

And you mustn't have it, very often.

And it's shared by so many people.

Then you must have it a little often.

Thank you so much for the privilege.

I want to ask you a difficult question.

Ah!

You won't tell our true, will you?

Oh, it becomes interesting.

You know, Mr. Carter, that before I was married,

how long ago it seems.

Oh, not at all.

Don't interrupt.

Before I was married, I had several.

Well, there were several.

Start quite afresh.

Yes.

Well, then, several men were silly enough.

Do you think themselves, you know?

None better.

Well, you see many of them are art.

She's friends as well as mine.

And of course, they've been to court.

It is but good manners?

One of them waited to be sent for.

Oh, leave that fellow out.

Well, what I want to ask you is, and I believe you're not silly,

really, except when you choose to be.

Walk in the row any afternoon.

You won't find ten wise enough.

It's this.

Or to tell, art she.

Good.

Good.

Rich.

He has a problem.

Of course, it's in some ways more comfortable that he shouldn't know.

For him?

It won't for me, but then it doesn't seem quite fair.

To him?

And to me, because if he came to know from anybody else,

he might exaggerate deep.

Or impossible.

If you weren't besensible, Mr. Carter...

I mean, he knows you to well do such a thing.

Oh, I see.

Thank you.

Yes.

Well, what do you think?

What does the Dowager say?

I haven't mentioned it to the Dowager.

But surely on such a point, her experience...

But she can't have any.

But she too got married.

I believe in her husband because I must, but nobody else.

So you want my opinion?

Please.

I thought it over very carefully as it would affect me,

and as it would affect Archie.

But...

There's one point you've left out.

Have I?

How it would affect them.

Ooh.

The men.

What a very curious idea.

Give it time to sink in.

Take my own case.

Shouldn't I feel rather awkward?

It's no good taking your case.

Why not mine as well as another?

I told Archie about you long ago.

Why not be guided by Archie's example?

His example, what's that?

I don't know, but I suppose you do.

What do you mean, Mr Carter?

Has he told you about Maggie and Dee?

I've never heard of her.

Oh, Lily Courtney?

That girl.

Oh, Alice Layton.

The Red Hair Lady.

Oh, Florence Conliff.

Who's she?

Oh, military her.

She squints.

Oh, Jessie.

Stop.

I see he hasn't.

Nor I suppose about Sylvia Fenton or that Delancy girl or the handsome Miss Watson.

Don't you tongue tell me what you mean.

Lady Mickleham, if your husband does not thought fit to mention these ladies and...

Do you mean to tell me that Archie?

It seems to me that what is sourced for the...

Well, that her husband and wife should stand on an equal footing in these men.

Alice Layton is a positive fright.

Well, she came just before you.

And that horrible Sylvia Fenton.

Oh, well, he hadn't known you long then.

As I was saying, I think you should treat him just as he has treated you.

In my case, it seems to be too late.

I'm sorry I told him about you.

What's of no consequence now?

I never thought it of Archie.

I don't suppose he thinks it of you.

I won't tell him a single word.

Who was that last girl you mentioned?

Oh, is it any you was trying to remember all the names?

May I have more tea?

Archie, we'll be back soon.

I shall leave ten minutes before he arrives.

It might annoy him to find me here once he wants to talk to you.

I want to talk to him.

Now, you weren't...

I shall find out for myself.

I'm so glad I've removed all your troubles.

Yes.

Thank you.

I know what to do now, Mr. Carter.

Always send for me if you're in any trouble.

I have some experience.

Oh, yes.

Archie grew.

His father gave him a hundred pounds and sent him to Paris for three months to learn French.

Very liberal, too.

Depends why you've died.

That question didn't arise.

On the day he arrived, Archie went straight to the Grand Prix.

Oh, trace.

Well, certainly the competitors are horses.

He lost his own. How disgusting.

Oh, well, my dear boys, all of the boys.

And even that wouldn't matter if we could only prevent girls from being girls.

Well, he grossly deceived his father.

We have all grossly deceived our parents before now.

You speak for your own sex.

Man, for yours.

You used to meet Hillary when your father wasn't there.

Father had authorized our acquaintance, handy Hillary.

Yes, I think so, my dear.

I hate quibbles.

And even Miss Phyllis has been known, haven't you?

Never mind him, Phyllis.

Haven't you, Miss Phyllis?

Yes. Once.

Ah! Out with it!

Come along, Miss Phyllis. We won't tell. On a bride.

Phyllis, I'm not at all sure.

It only happened last summer.

Well, still.

In my last term at school.

I know that age.

My window looked out on the street and there was a house opposite.

Was a young man in it?

How did you know?

Oh, no girls could keep up its numbers without one.

I and two other girls went to lectures at the town hall on literature.

We used to have a shilling given us for our tickets.

Precisely. A hundred pounds.

No, a shilling.

That's right.

One day on the way there it was foggy and I lost the other girls.

Other girls are always easy to lose.

And he found me in the fog, but we couldn't find the town hall.

Phyllis.

But we found a t-shirt.

Precisely. The Grand Prix.

He had no money at all soon.

So we had tea on the...

Shilling?

An exact barrele.

And we were examined on that lecture, but I read it.

But I read up the report on the local paper and I got top marks and Miss Green wrote to mother to see how well I'd done.

And you never told your mother fits on no cousin.

The parallel is obvious and complete.

As a hundred pounds are to a shilling, so is the Grand Prix to the young man opposite.

You're not saying that Phyllis is like Algae Groome.

I'm simply saying, oh divine house opposite.

Charming house opposite.

What is a man's own dalun?

Eventful home compared to that glorious house opposite.

Oh, what did I might dwell forever in the house opposite?

What do you have the least idea? What do you mean?

Have you no longing for the house opposite?

No.

None.

But you do remember the house when it was opposite?

Yes, I think we do.

Oh, thank you so much for the phrase, Miss Phyllis.

I shall go and bid my cabin drive to the house opposite.

Do you think you will ever get there?

Well, one camp at Hope.

Besides, it's awfully bourgeois to go to the theatre with one's husband.

bourgeois is an effort that the aristocracy apply to what is recent.

But it's not a nice thing to be.

Well, you're in no danger of it.

How would you describe me then?

It's being a little lower than the angels.

How much lower?

Just by the depths of your dimples.

I thought we never mentioned them now, Mr. Carter.

Did we ever?

I seem to remember.

One evening in Monte Carlo, you were in very low spirits.

Very low water.

More than one evening there.

You said you'd wasted your life, your time, and your opportunities.

You mustn't suppose that I never have any proper feelings.

And your only hope was in gaining the affection.

Surely I wasn't so foolish.

You were sitting close by me.

Well, then it doesn't count.

On a bench. Do you remember the bench?

No, I don't.

When did you forget it?

On the day that you were buried.

Well, anyway, you said then what you couldn't possibly have meant.

Well, I dare say, I often did.

But they were the most...

What were?

What were talking about the...

No, the blemishes.

Yes, the blemishes.

That they were the most...

Oh, that was a fascinating...

You weren't sincere.

Well, judge me by yourself.

But I said nothing.

That was, incomparably, the most artistic thing to do.

Do you remember the dreadful thing that happened at that same evening?

It chances to remain in the memory.

I've always thought it kind of. You're not to speak of it.

It is best for God.

We'd have said the same about anybody.

We were only trying to be smart.

And it was horribly unjust.

I agree with you, Lady Mclam.

But we didn't know anything about him then.

We were not really to blame.

And he oughtn't to have worn that suit.

It was.

Anybody would have looked absurdly.

Anybody?

We ought to have known he was a jackhammer.

Well, it's all put right now.

Do you remember the...

My mom's face when we describe...

Oh, that was a terrible moment.

I said he was ugly.

Oh, I said something.

I said...

She knew it was.

Sorry, in a moment.

Sorry, in a moment.

My mom has a little likement to her, just a touch.

There is a touch now and then.

I had to win.

She introduced me to him next day.

I'm so lucky.

I don't want to get a wonder.

Just a week, Lady Mclam.

Just a week, Lady Mclam.

Just exactly one week.

Hmm.

Will you take me to the theatre?

No.

Hmm.

Yes, I'm unreasonable.

Sometimes you are.

I have much to be thankful for.

Did you ever observe a small boy?

You took pen and eyes.

Of course I have.

What does he do when it's finished?

Stop, I suppose.

On the contrary.

He licks the glass.

Yes, he does.

It's not too bad.

Licking the glass.

Hello.

Ah!

Archie, what are you wearing?

It's just a little suit.

I brought you, Dad.

My dear, dear boy.

Do you come to see me?

It's hideous.

Oh.

All right.

I wish you would all come back to me.

I wonder if you really mean that.

Much as I ever did.

And that is?

Quite enough.

Good change.

Hey, my boy.

Yes, very quick change.

Yes, wasn't it?

Yes.

He took just exactly one week.

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