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Aunt Y

It's a very latest thing.

I wish it were a little later still.

You promise on your honour to be absolutely sincere, you know.

Not merely sincere, but absolutely sincere.

And then you write what you think of me.

Ah. See what a lot of opinions I have already.

Oh, Manda, I read instead of...

Oh, no, that's quite confidential. That's part of the fun.

Well, I don't appreciate that part.

Maybe you will when you've written yours.

Oh, Manda, I even see the dowager's opinion, of you.

Well, I'll read you a little bit of the dowager.

Just set me an example.

Listen to this.

Mm.

Ah, dear Dorothea is still perhaps just a thought wanting in seriousness.

Booray.

But the sense of her position is having a sobering effect.

Oh, I hope not.

Don't I behave like a contest, Mr Carter?

What, that all consciousness behave like you?

That's not quite an answer.

Yes, I pride in myself on it being not quite.

Oh, who's that? I don't know the next page.

Archie's.

Well, read me a little bit.

No, Archie's is rather... rather foolish.

So I suppose.

Oh, why?

Well, he's not being married to you long.

He's such a dear boy.

Oh, I hate sentiment.

You don't have to be foolish.

I shall try my very best.

Now, he had a pen and there's the ink.

Sit down and write your opinion of me.

Mm.

Oh, that's a long one. Who wrote that?

Oh, you mustn't read that. Not that above all.

Why above all?

Well, perhaps.

Perhaps I may.

Perhaps it won't be above all when you've written yours, Mr Carter.

We will see.

At least.

You will see.

Lady Micklem is...

That's a good start.

You promised to be sincere, I remember.

Impossible.

Why, Mr Carter?

It will be the end of our friendship.

Do you think is badly of me as all that?

Yes.

And you're writing it all down?

Yes.

You needn't write it quite all down.

I am obliged.

You mustn't say what isn't true.

I should not.

But you needn't say everything that is.

That might be true.

I shall bear it in mind.

You're writing very fast.

Well, I've known you quite a time.

Yes.

In various guises.

What do you mean?

As an unmeted girl.

As a bride.

As a wife.

What have I seen? Yes.

As Miss Dolly Foster.

As the Countess of Micklem.

Yes.

By the way.

Yes.

I suppose Archie has seen all of them.

He's never asked to see them.

That, like my answer, is not quite.

Oh, isn't it?

You mean he is only to ask.

They are confidential.

And that's part of the fun.

Yes, I told you.

What fun.

Oh, is it?

For you, Lettie Micklem.

Ah.

It doesn't have to be quite so long, though.

Oh, my memory is of you a long one.

You're not writing down your memories, I hope.

No, no.

You're supposed to write down your opinion.

How well should I have gained my opinion?

Mr. Carter, simply because you once.

Because you once, what?

Because you once may have thought.

Rest assured, Lettie Micklem.

Yes, I should like to.

I'm not writing what I thought of you then.

I'm writing what I think of you now.

Oh.

Now that I'm no longer allowed to think what perhaps I may once have thought.

Haven't you done enough?

Never.

Enough.

Most people.

Most people have never had the privilege.

Mr. Carter, are you being disagreeable?

It is on the whole complimentary.

Have you promised to be sincere?

And not disagreeable.

That's different.

I hope.

So do I.

Read it, please.

Lettie Micklem is usually a county the person of considerable attraction.

She is widely popular.

Thank you.

And more than one woman has been known to like her.

I don't quite understand that.

Is it surely simple?

Two is more than one.

Yes.

She is kind, even to her husband, and takes the utmost pains to conceal from her mother-in-law

anything calculated to distress that lady.

You mean that to be nice?

Of course.

You could have put it more plainly.

Well, I trust her. Never play.

Her kindness is only to widely diffuse.

That really is nice.

And she gives pain to no one, except with the object you're giving pleasure to somebody else.

You put that very nicely too.

Yes, I did, didn't I?

Her mental powers are not despicable.

Thank you again, Mr. Carter.

She can say what she means when she wishes to do so.

And she is, at other times, equally capable of meaning much more than she would ever be likely to say.

Could you explain that, Mr. Carter, please?

It explains itself.

Lady Micklem is in short equally deserving of esteem and affection.

Steam and affection.

That sounds just right.

And those who have been admitted to the circle of her friendship are unanimous in discouraging all others from seeking a similar privilege.

I beg your pardon.

Are unanimous in discouraging all others from seeking a similar privilege?

My mental powers are not despicable.

Is anything wrong?

No, not exactly. In fact, I like the last bit best.

Still, don't you think?

What's this for?

To correct the mistake.

Oh, do you really?

I'm afraid so.

Are unanimous in encouraging all others to seek a similar privilege?

As corrected.

You meant that, you know, Mr. Carter.

I suppose I must...

The other was nonsense.

I don't know.

And you promised me that.

I'm not.

I'm not.

I'm not.

I'm not.

I'm not.

I'm not.

I'm not.

I'm not.

I'm not.

I'm not.

I'm not.

And you promised to write the truth.

Well, some of it.

And nonsense can't be the truth, can it?

No, of course it can't, ever.

I should try very hard to forget you ever made the mistake in the first place.

Oh, you are very kind.

Let me make a little...

Don't I'm afraid I shouldn't quite succeed.

Mr. Carter, I really must try to forget Dolly Middleton.

Oh, dear, Mrs. Silly, I can see her from here.

And her husband, too.

And as it happens, her husband.

I was put out of your mind.

You suggested I should cut her when I meet in the trauma house.

I could never forget her.

I'd never fled credit on my host.

I'm giving you your last chance.

Yes, Mrs. Silly.

Mrs. Silly.

This is the last time I shall take any trouble about you.

I am grateful, Mrs. Silly.

Mrs. Middleton is a very nice girl.

Very pretty.

I am grateful a lot.

If you could be very quick, you'd get some 21, too.

This unsolicited testimony will be really quite...

I shall wash my hands off you.

I... Oh, dear.

Oh, Mrs. Middleton.

But it must be nearly false.

False.

Come along.

Oh, Mr. Middleton.

She is a little bit contrified.

She might have been Scott.

She plays the piano a good deal.

She might have been the fiddle.

And she's very fond of Brown.

Could one have been if so.

Mr. Brown.

Mr. Brown.

Mr. Brown.

Mr. Brown.

May I introduce Mr. Carter to you?

Mr. Carter, Mr. Fireman.

How do you do?

How do you do?

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Are you in town for the season, Mrs. Middleton?

Yes.

How do you find the season?

Not for the evening.

Oh, I quite mean.

Right.

No, it isn't.

But of course, one has the gift.

Oh, yes.

I went to the gate.

I've had a vey jolly thing with gertie Miller.

Have you seen it?

Oh, no.

Oh, it's full of good to you.

I only go to the lysine.

Shakespeare?

Yes.

Have you?

Not recently.

You are keen on Shakespeare?

Yes.

Yes, he's Browning, I believe.

Oh, do you read Browning?

Not constantly.

What do you read?

Read?

Yes.

I'd rather spend a thing.

That's been quite some time ago.

I read the newspapers most days.

Are we interested in politics?

Politics.

Oh, yes.

How do you know the newspapers the other day?

Really ideas?

The fifth.

Does the culture of English are conservative?

No idea.

It's an absolute fact.

Oh, I'm delighted.

Oh, Phil, we found something in common.

I thought of myself just now.

I'm conservative, therefore it must be a quarter one.

Are you a shock designer at the big months of the lysine?

Oh, gee.

Do you agree?

Sure, I do.

The more one thinks, the more one sees how fately forms the food,

that the ignorant masses can ever look great and part.

The Empire One's gentle minute to run it.

It's quite acquainted with the best that has been said and thought of all important searches.

And can have a stake in the country, you know.

What we have to do is to buy the voters.

Exactly.

Do you want people to go to the lysine?

It's just, it's a must be too.

Of the real nature of the questions.

And which candidate?

They must be.

They'll be turned out of their cuttings.

Why, didn't quite mean that.

Well, perhaps not quite that.

But I worked very hard at the last election.

I spent days distributing packages.

Oh, it's a ticklish business these days, isn't it?

Ticklish.

Oh, six months in jail, wouldn't it?

What do you mean, Mr. Carter?

Oh, packages of tea?

Why do you not bribe?

Oh, I'm sorry.

Why do not bribe?

Oh, no.

Why distribute pence?

Much better poor old things can't afford the proper fuel.

I am not joking, Mr. Carter.

Nora?

Didn't you say blank?

P.

P.

P.

Of course you're right.

We should never descend to bribery.

We should never throw away our true weapons.

What we really need is a reform of the upper classes.

Here, here.

And let them give an example of beauty, self-denial.

That's what I always say.

Let them throw away their luxurious weapons.

They should immediately.

Oh, I knew that we agreed really.

Of course we are.

Mm.

I heard of America.

He's got an estate in the country.

He never goes there except for a few days' shoot.

But he lives in two.

He spends too much.

He parties an absolutely vacant existence in a run

and a gig and a half.

Now, is that the sort of thing?

Well, he's a traitor to his class.

If he wants him, he's looking at race course,

a tailor, and some fashionable woman's woodwa.

He's too selfish to marry and too idle to work.

He should be short.

Well, we've treated you a lot.

I should like to meet that man and tell him what I think.

He's doing more harm than a dozen annotators.

And your details, he's contemptible.

Revolting.

Oh, I'm so glad you think so too.

What's his name? Do I know him?

I don't remember his name, but he has the place next to him.

Hello, how are you?

Hello, my name's not very nice to see you.

Oh, Mr. Mum, how funny you should come up just now.

I was trying to think of the name of the man in there.

Describe him, I'll do my best.

What are you all talking about in the other 90s?

Have the place next to you all in the country?

What, Carter himself in there?

Do you live next to Mr. Muscrave in the country?

Miss Milton, by a happy chance you have had your wish.

You have told the man what you think of him.

I have only to add, the man is a hypocrite.

What went wrong? Nothing.

Untouched.

Did I spoil?

Not at all.

Not at all.

I have a feeling that those eyes of hers would have demanded a little too much of me at breakfast.

A large tear in between you?

Oh, I doubt.

I doubt that a tear in would do the trick.

There's an gratitude for you.

Oh, where?

I made that man.

And now he cuts me tape before the whole of the park.

I'm Trish.

Yes, back for me.

Do you think you'd be engaged to 3,000 a year and the planes turn in London?

That girl?

No, I didn't call her such a bad looking girl.

Mr. Carter, she's hideous.

It is.

And I was quite ready to bow to him, I almost did.

In fact, you did.

I didn't, I didn't.

Well, then you didn't, it just almost looked like.

Oh, I'm so boiling with indignation.

The jum is sitting down.

Yes, I must.

And Archie can find us here.

I'm afraid he will.

Well, Archie has to find us.

To find you, Lady Mclam.

I am no part of his duty.

Well, he knows very well you're with me.

I can't very well walk in the park by myself.

Society will be shaken to its foundations.

Society has already been shaken.

Are you off the boil?

We met that man three years ago.

Well, before you met him.

Well, of course.

And equally, of course, before you met me.

Before meeting you.

That is what I meant.

At that time, he was everything he shouldn't be.

He was perfect.

He was a tea tote player you know, and he didn't smoke.

And he was always playing the fiddlers and always going to concerts.

And he had his hair long and his trousers short.

And they're having the back of his hair.

Oh, and his umbrella.

Oh, and he carried that.

Oh.

And he carried that unrolled you know, and generally a paper parcel.

And the other hand.

Oh, and he had spectacles too.

He had certainly changed, out, would you?

Yes, well.

I did that.

I did that.

I did that.

I taught him.

Saturday evening lecture class.

But I just threw in a remark here and there.

How would your words such influence?

Well, I made it a condition that he should do what I wanted in little things like that.

A condition of...

Well, I wasn't going to go round with a man carrying a brown paper parcel if we'd just been to a shop for a pound of tea.

But why should he also...

He liked me, of course.

Oh, did he?

I see.

He seemed to think that funny.

Not that he did like you, but that apparently he doesn't.

You got out of the way.

Yes, I thought so too.

He doesn't like me now because he misunderstood my motive.

He believes I do believe he thought I cared for him, you know, and I didn't.

Not a bit.

Well, I must have quite liked him.

I wouldn't have gone to all that trouble.

His own mother thanked me.

I have nothing more to say.

But she wrote me a horrid letter afterward.

You're so very elliptical.

To very what?

You leave so much out.

I'm not a little too late.

You're so very elliptical.

To very what?

You leave so much out afterwards after what?

I've tried sending him away.

Ah.

We had the most dreadful scene he raved, Mr. Cartagorn, most terrible names.

What did the fellow got to complain on?

Well, he said that I destroyed his faith in women, that I'd led him on.

Went on writing me letters like that for a whole year.

But he didn't go back to short trousers and a fiddle.

No, but he said his heart was dead and that he'd never love anyone again.

And now he's going to marry that girl.

Oh, he doesn't care for her.

It's the money, you know.

He hasn't a father thing of his own. He'd be set up for life.

And he owes it all to you?

Yes.

And now he cuts me. Dead.

It's the height of ingragging.

Yes, isn't it?

Why to love you was a liberal education.

Yes, wasn't it?

Oh, how nicely you put that. I shall tell Archie.

About him?

No, no, no. What you said. A liberal education.

Why don't you tell Archie about him? It's very much for your credit.

Mr. Cartagorn, he did agree.

Yes, I know he did.

But a man is so foolish.

You did tell Archie about me.

Yes, I know. But Archie thinks...

Well, of course not.

You might let me finish.

Archie thinks you were never in love before.

Yes, he does. And of course I wasn't in love with him.

Not a little bit.

Well, no more than a little bit, which doesn't really count.

No one with anyone else, ever.

No one with anyone else.

No one with anyone else.

Hello, darling, my dear.

Oh, what?

Oh, my dear.

How are you?

How are you?

Take my seat. I'm fucked off.

Just off.

Gotta see a man at the club.

I thought you were never coming out to the...

I myself thought you were.

What? Never coming?

Well, I didn't think you were coming at that exact moment.

Too blue.

I never quite know what you mean when you talk about love.

No more do I.

What do you mean dedicating to a woman your whole life?

More than half your income.

The fact is you don't know what real love is.

I never met anyone who did.

At least who could tell me what it was.

Now the other day, my friend Major Camperton married his cook.

Not for.

Because his wife was dead.

That is not a reason.

Well, it must have meant that it's an excuse.

I was never in love with anyone, but Hillary.

You're always boasting of that. Was it difficult?

Well, once I was awfully...

But if I tell you, you'll talk about it.

Upon my honor, I were.

Yes, you will. Lady Micklem.

Lady Micklem takes no interest in what I tell her.

Well, once I was awfully tempted...

It was before I knew Hillary.

But after you knew me.

I didn't be absurd.

This man was very rich and handsome too.

I've always maintained that you were human.

I think that you are the most earthly man I have ever met.

Go on with the story.

Well, he was very fond of him.

I can believe it.

But he kept telling me he would not talk about anything else.

Anything else?

And I thought to myself good looks, I'm not everything.

He told you you were good looking.

It's all right. Hillary isn't here.

Well, I wanted to be...

What, in a word, say esteemed?

Yes, for something more than that.

So you would have nothing more to do with him?

I was so glad afterwards.

What's become of him?

Oh, he's married.

The just world.

Now, lots of those immoral writers would have rewarded him with perpetual bachelorhood.

Aren't you ever going to marry?

Marriage is a maid in heaven.

Yes.

Can't I go away till I get there?

You would be perfectly all right if you were removed from...

Certain influences.

Well, it is a great shame.

Do you remember to be proud of?

I don't want to be hard about it.

To be taken?

Seriously, of course.

To be taken between meals or else it was spoiled in a...

I wonder what you do really think about...

What?

It's a great thing.

It's a great thing.

It's a great thing.

It's a great thing.

It's a great thing.

It's a great thing.

It's a great thing.

What?

It.

Am I in the confessional?

You think that I don't understand?

Well, I do a little.

She came here last week.

Oh, did she?

Doing what?

Coaxing.

She wanted a subscription from Hillary.

I suppose she got it.

Yes.

A larger one than Hillary could afford.

I've given her a larger one than I could afford.

When she'd gone, Hillary apologized.

Oh, guile-less creature.

Shall I tell you what he did afterwards?

Oh, Lord, I know that well enough.

I'm sure you don't.

Gave you a new bonnet, of course.

It was a bracelet.

Ah!

I told you so.

But he wouldn't have given it to me anyway.

Not he.

He'd meant to before.

He said so.

Still, it is funny, isn't it?

Perhaps it is, brother.

I know.

A really charming girl.

Would you care to meet her?

I would give you one more chance.

Thank you.

No bracelets for me.

Dear me, I must be off.

Hillary, I must be off.

Hillary was amused at himself.

I have experienced the feeling.

He said she was an insinuating little.

Why do you hesitate, Mrs. Hillary?

Devil.

Ah, so you and Hillary are friends again?

Well, I didn't mind in the least.

Holy, it's curious.

We are all much indebted to her.

Some for a bracelet.

Not since.

Some for a momentary emotion.

We did not even feel that.

Some for a...

Whoa, what shall I call it?

Carter.

What's that?

What's that society lady, McLem, collect for?

I hope it's not a fraud.

I hope not.

Because I've given her a trifle.

So have I.

A donation, you know.

Oh, mine's a life subscription.

But then you've got nothing else to do with your money.

You've not got a wife and family.

That, of course, is the explanation.

Mr. Shenton says that the power of sympathy is a real secret of love.

Mr. Shenton?

Oh, the cute.

The power of sympathy has wrecked far more homes than it is blessed.

I would back it on the hole against the Victoria Cross.

No.

The secret of love lies in un-selfishness.

That's what makes Archie such a good husband.

Well, it must of course exist on both sides, Lady McLem.

Oh, no.

That's Tasmid's like getting through a door. Nobody will go first.

I think I could love a man just for being good.

That's no good to poor Mr. Carter.

Oh, I am not so very bad.

Come, we'll run through a list of my vices.

Hmm?

I must watch, Phyllis.

I forgot to water that for her.

It's all very well-happened, Phyllis, for a few days,

but she's been flirting with the curate and it has made her good.

I was simply trying to find out why it is that women never fall in love with me.

Oh, there was a girl in love with you, Alice.

Oh, it was. No, please.

Oh, I mustn't tell you a name.

Well, it was Agatha Horton.

Agatha Martin, that is.

I suppose she thought since you were hopeless, she might as well marry Captain Martin.

Well, I could be unhappy without being a absurd.

Was she, er, very fond of me?

She thought you handsome.

Ah, it was a grand passion.

Oh, no, she'd been very well brought up. She just adored you.

A thoroughly nice girl. Never cared much for Martin.

That's a dull chapter.

She used to vomit dreadfully about you.

You see, I was her best friend. You knew she could trust me.

Not to give her away.

Yes.

Mmm.

Beautiful, are you women stand by one another?

What was it that particularly attracted her in me?

Oh, really? I cannot think any more than I can think what attracted...

Would you mind reading the bell, please? It's Frusachimist Tea Time.

I wish she took it a minute later.

Mmm.

Martin was a lovely fella, you know?

Something seems to say.

You're thinking about Captain Martin.

They have children by now, I suppose.

Yes, girls, Mr. Carter.

Oh, what a shame. She was a clever girl in those days.

Ah, in those days.

Ah, Dilly Cap and his comes with very few overs, lady.

Well, one matter is all something loose, sir.

Why didn't Agatha encourage me? I expect that was all I wanted.

It depends what you mean by encouragement.

What I mean by it is conveying, however delicately, that I was the only man in the world she ever did who ever could care for.

Isn't that what you used to mean by, lady, mister?

You can take Frusachimapatin.

Yes, my lady.

Not too much cream in her milk.

Very good, Martin.

Are you a selling, Mr. Carter?

I forget, my lady.

Solitude has its consolation, especially when one looks at other people's families.

And it's surprising the number of little luxuries I get for nothing.

For nothing?

For instance, out of Mrs. Carter's dress allows.

Very moderate, only 400 a year, but keeps a cab and buys a few drawings and so on.

It's a great comfort, I'll show you.

And Mrs. Carter would have exceeded it, and I never do more than anticipated.

I've sometimes wondered at your extravagance.

You understand it, none?

Does the allowance include frocks for the girls?

Oh, pretty curb your imagination.

You're quite sudden.

I had visions of stiff white frocks and long black stuffy girls.

And long black stuffy.

All legs and innocence.

Oh, yes, and all named Carter.

You don't like the name?

Not much.

I might have known there was some such reason.

It's always a great comfort to get at the real reason behind anything.

Now, if my name had been verde vieur...

I don't mind Mr. Carter so much, but Mrs. Carter sounds horrible.

Girls, beings, we all know, in the habit of writing the competing names,

in conjunction with their own Christian names, and the fly leaves of library books

and the backs of envelope to see how they look.

One can well understand how I became to a choice between Carter and Fup.

I've been thinking about it, and I'm sure the secret of love is goodness of heart.

Oh, a fatal obstacle.

Another?

Because if one were not enough, I should take no further part in the conversation.

You must encourage me, Nickle.

Oh, I've given up trying to do that long ago.

Yes, she used to succeed far too well.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.

I've been thinking about it all the time.