1 00:00:48,589 --> 00:00:52,883 He even took the Gramophone on safari. 2 00:00:55,015 --> 00:00:56,783 Three rifles... 3 00:00:56,820 --> 00:01:00,900 supplies for a month and Mozart. 4 00:01:04,021 --> 00:01:07,307 He began our friendship with a gift. 5 00:01:08,859 --> 00:01:10,768 And later... 6 00:01:10,861 --> 00:01:13,399 not long before Tsavo... 7 00:01:13,489 --> 00:01:15,446 he gave me another. 8 00:01:15,533 --> 00:01:17,940 An incredible gift. 9 00:01:18,035 --> 00:01:22,863 A glimpse of the world through God's eye. 10 00:01:22,957 --> 00:01:25,033 And I thought... 11 00:01:25,126 --> 00:01:29,040 "Yes, I see. 12 00:01:29,130 --> 00:01:31,169 This is the way it was intended." 13 00:01:35,845 --> 00:01:37,754 I've written about all the others... 14 00:01:37,847 --> 00:01:39,970 not because I loved them less... 15 00:01:40,057 --> 00:01:44,933 but because they were clearer, easier. 16 00:01:46,021 --> 00:01:48,061 He was waiting for me there. 17 00:01:51,735 --> 00:01:56,279 But I've gone ahead of my story. He'd have hated that. 18 00:01:56,365 --> 00:01:59,401 Denys loved to hear a story told well. 19 00:02:01,203 --> 00:02:04,038 You see... 20 00:02:04,123 --> 00:02:06,115 I had a farm in Africa... 21 00:02:06,208 --> 00:02:09,660 at the foot of the Ngong Hills. 22 00:02:09,753 --> 00:02:12,161 But it began before that. 23 00:02:12,256 --> 00:02:14,664 It really began in Denmark. 24 00:02:22,057 --> 00:02:24,513 And there I knew two brothers. 25 00:02:24,602 --> 00:02:28,386 One was my lover, and one was my friend. 26 00:02:28,481 --> 00:02:31,766 - It's too cold for champagne. - It's too cold for anything but. 27 00:02:37,281 --> 00:02:39,321 You said you'd be at Klampenborg. 28 00:02:39,408 --> 00:02:42,030 I thought I'd come, but then I didn't. 29 00:02:44,121 --> 00:02:45,781 Was it fun? 30 00:02:50,252 --> 00:02:52,790 Tanne? 31 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,371 Tanne, come on. 32 00:02:55,466 --> 00:02:57,838 It's not as though you loved him. 33 00:02:57,927 --> 00:03:00,133 You'd like to be a baroness, that's all. 34 00:03:00,221 --> 00:03:02,260 - He lied to me. - Of course. 35 00:03:02,348 --> 00:03:05,099 Would you be in bed with him otherwise? 36 00:03:05,184 --> 00:03:08,138 My brother's only dull, but not stupid. 37 00:03:12,024 --> 00:03:13,353 Pretend it's Hans. 38 00:03:17,071 --> 00:03:18,779 - Where would you go? - Anywhere. 39 00:03:18,864 --> 00:03:22,814 America. Ceylon. I would even go to Australia. 40 00:03:23,577 --> 00:03:28,156 Well, perhaps not Australia. But I've got to be away from here. 41 00:03:28,249 --> 00:03:30,288 I'll give you all I've got. 42 00:03:30,376 --> 00:03:35,714 That should get you into town. God, it was fun. 43 00:03:35,798 --> 00:03:38,882 - You could marry me. - I have to marry a virgin. 44 00:03:38,968 --> 00:03:41,174 I can't stand criticism. 45 00:03:41,262 --> 00:03:43,053 For the money, I mean. 46 00:03:45,724 --> 00:03:46,887 Probably. 47 00:03:47,810 --> 00:03:51,060 Bror, listen to me. I've got no life at all. 48 00:03:51,147 --> 00:03:53,435 They wouldn't teach me anything useful. 49 00:03:53,524 --> 00:03:57,189 Now I've failed to marry. You know the punishment for that. 50 00:03:57,278 --> 00:03:59,401 "Miss Dinesen's at home." 51 00:03:59,488 --> 00:04:03,356 You've gone through all your money. You're off seducing the servant girls. 52 00:04:03,451 --> 00:04:05,242 We're a pair, you and I. 53 00:04:06,537 --> 00:04:08,779 I mean, at least we're friends. 54 00:04:08,873 --> 00:04:11,660 We might be all right. And if we weren't... 55 00:04:11,750 --> 00:04:13,624 at least we'd have been somewhere. 56 00:04:13,711 --> 00:04:16,914 You don't think you're being too romantic? 57 00:04:24,972 --> 00:04:27,214 Am I supposed to think you're serious? 58 00:04:30,978 --> 00:04:33,683 I had a farm in Africa. 59 00:04:35,900 --> 00:04:38,936 I had a farm in Africa... 60 00:04:39,028 --> 00:04:42,361 at the foot of Ngong Hills. 61 00:04:44,909 --> 00:04:47,150 I had a farm in Africa. 62 00:07:41,418 --> 00:07:43,660 - Good morning. - Have you had trouble? 63 00:07:43,754 --> 00:07:45,747 Now and then. Have you? 64 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:47,749 No. I'm travelling to Nairobi. 65 00:07:47,842 --> 00:07:49,751 Well, you caught the right train. 66 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,672 Get away! Shoo! Shoo! 67 00:07:56,475 --> 00:07:58,966 That's all my crystal. My Limoges. 68 00:08:00,563 --> 00:08:02,555 They didn't know it was Limoges. 69 00:08:06,068 --> 00:08:07,977 So you plan to stay, then? 70 00:08:08,070 --> 00:08:10,905 I've come out to marry Baron Blixen. Do you know him? 71 00:08:10,990 --> 00:08:14,489 - Bror? Yes. - We plan to start a dairy. 72 00:08:16,078 --> 00:08:18,616 Are you quite famous? They stopped the train for you. 73 00:08:18,706 --> 00:08:21,576 It's rude not to here. 74 00:08:21,667 --> 00:08:24,668 A dairy. Isn't it a bit soon for milk at the door? 75 00:08:28,299 --> 00:08:30,457 - Aren't you boarding? - No, I'm going on. 76 00:08:30,551 --> 00:08:32,129 On? To where? 77 00:08:32,219 --> 00:08:35,837 Mention the ivory to Berkeley Cole. Bror knows him. 78 00:08:35,931 --> 00:08:37,971 I'm Baroness Blixen! 79 00:08:38,058 --> 00:08:39,434 Not yet. 80 00:08:41,103 --> 00:08:43,012 Finch Hatton, Denys! 81 00:08:48,027 --> 00:08:50,778 Msabu, I am Farah Aden. 82 00:08:50,863 --> 00:08:52,322 We can go now. 83 00:08:52,406 --> 00:08:55,158 - Where is Baron Blixen? - He's at Muthaiga. 84 00:08:55,242 --> 00:08:57,152 Please, come. 85 00:09:06,545 --> 00:09:08,454 Where is Muthaiga? 86 00:09:08,547 --> 00:09:11,038 Muthaiga is a club where British go for drinking. 87 00:09:11,759 --> 00:09:13,383 Please. 88 00:09:20,976 --> 00:09:25,769 Listen. On the train are my crates with china and crystal. 89 00:09:25,856 --> 00:09:28,098 - Do you know china? - Yes, msabu. 90 00:09:28,192 --> 00:09:30,268 China, it can break. 91 00:10:15,281 --> 00:10:16,739 Stay. 92 00:10:30,337 --> 00:10:33,125 Excuse me. I'm looking for Baron Blixen. 93 00:10:33,215 --> 00:10:34,840 Rajiv. 94 00:10:41,974 --> 00:10:45,888 - Yes. I wondered if you might... - Memsahibs must not be here. 95 00:10:47,605 --> 00:10:50,309 - I'm simply looking... - Memsahibs must not be here. 96 00:10:59,700 --> 00:11:01,776 Where have you been? 97 00:11:01,869 --> 00:11:04,574 - Where have you been? - Arranging things. 98 00:11:04,663 --> 00:11:06,822 How was the trip? You can tell me later. 99 00:11:08,209 --> 00:11:11,163 - Would you like to change? - My luggage is still on the train. 100 00:11:11,253 --> 00:11:14,918 Room "D," head of the stairs. I haven't done anything about a ring. 101 00:11:15,007 --> 00:11:17,083 - Do you care? - Did you think I wouldn't come? 102 00:11:17,176 --> 00:11:20,130 I didn't think you'd want to spend the money. You will love it here. 103 00:11:20,221 --> 00:11:22,546 Servants are wonderful. Shall we get a drink? 104 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:24,549 We've got almost one hour before the wedding. 105 00:11:24,642 --> 00:11:26,184 One hour? 106 00:11:37,488 --> 00:11:40,773 - Is it all right? - I wondered what colour you'd choose. 107 00:11:40,866 --> 00:11:43,155 It's ivory. Oh, my God. 108 00:11:43,244 --> 00:11:45,367 - I've got this man's ivory. - Whose ivory? 109 00:12:04,473 --> 00:12:08,138 I'm Sarah, Lady Belfield. Shall I stand up for you? 110 00:12:08,227 --> 00:12:09,852 - Thank you. - Short or long? 111 00:12:09,937 --> 00:12:12,855 Long, please. Give me time to adjust to it. 112 00:12:14,608 --> 00:12:16,601 Settle down, all. 113 00:12:16,694 --> 00:12:19,399 By the authority of His Majesty's government vested in me... 114 00:12:19,488 --> 00:12:22,240 I declare that the Baron Bror Von Blixen... 115 00:12:22,324 --> 00:12:24,613 citizen of Sweden, and... 116 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,370 - What's your name, my dear? - Damn it, Henry, I told you her name. 117 00:12:29,457 --> 00:12:31,533 Karen Christentze Dinesen. 118 00:12:31,625 --> 00:12:33,535 Karen Christentze Dinesen... 119 00:12:33,627 --> 00:12:35,537 a female subject of the King of Denmark... 120 00:12:35,629 --> 00:12:37,918 are henceforth united man and wife. 121 00:12:39,633 --> 00:12:42,634 God save this company. God save the king. 122 00:12:47,683 --> 00:12:49,474 Thank you for this. 123 00:12:51,896 --> 00:12:53,888 Did you hear about Shuttleworth? No, I said. 124 00:12:53,981 --> 00:12:57,599 "He's living up country," he says "in a tree with a baboon." 125 00:12:57,693 --> 00:12:59,852 "Male or female?" I said to him. 126 00:12:59,945 --> 00:13:01,570 "Female, of course." he says. 127 00:13:01,655 --> 00:13:03,981 "There's nothing queer about old Shuttleworth." 128 00:13:05,409 --> 00:13:07,947 Sarah, where's your muddle-headed husband? 129 00:13:08,037 --> 00:13:12,081 The governor's at the punch bowl hoping to avoid you. 130 00:13:12,166 --> 00:13:15,950 Would you like to meet the bride, or did you just come for the whisky? 131 00:13:16,045 --> 00:13:18,750 Not for the company, God knows. 132 00:13:18,839 --> 00:13:22,042 Lord Delamere, may I present Baroness Blixen? 133 00:13:22,134 --> 00:13:26,049 Baroness Blixen, Lord Delamere, such as he is. 134 00:13:27,306 --> 00:13:29,097 Baroness. A Swede, are you? 135 00:13:29,975 --> 00:13:31,885 No. Danish, actually. 136 00:13:31,977 --> 00:13:35,062 The little country next to Germany. 137 00:13:35,147 --> 00:13:38,232 If it comes to war, where will Denmark stand? 138 00:13:39,485 --> 00:13:43,435 On its own, I hope. We do have that history. 139 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,359 Is there something we can call you that gets around this "baroness"? 140 00:13:47,451 --> 00:13:49,360 What do they call you? 141 00:13:49,453 --> 00:13:51,861 "D," if I'm lucky. 142 00:14:03,217 --> 00:14:06,633 My stupid name's Felicity, but I do like your dress. 143 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,843 Oh, thank you. 144 00:14:08,931 --> 00:14:10,840 That's not much of a hat, though. 145 00:14:10,933 --> 00:14:13,851 It's meant to be stunning. 146 00:14:13,936 --> 00:14:15,763 We die of sunstroke here. 147 00:14:16,772 --> 00:14:19,097 At least I'm safe from the mosquitos. 148 00:14:19,191 --> 00:14:20,769 The big ones. 149 00:14:23,737 --> 00:14:25,979 - Good Lord. - You nervous? 150 00:14:26,866 --> 00:14:27,980 Should I be? 151 00:14:29,452 --> 00:14:31,361 You know. 152 00:14:31,454 --> 00:14:33,363 Wedding night and all that. 153 00:14:49,096 --> 00:14:52,512 So they're both naked and not a shrub in sight. 154 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,850 Karen, have you met Vicky Gresham? 155 00:14:55,936 --> 00:14:58,771 Hello, Baroness. I'd curtsy, but I'm drunk. 156 00:15:00,858 --> 00:15:03,527 - May I see you, please? - Excuse me. 157 00:15:05,696 --> 00:15:08,614 If you want any friends, I'd make them here. 158 00:15:08,699 --> 00:15:12,198 - There's no one else. - I want to see my house. 159 00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:15,952 You may want to change. 160 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:17,949 It's a two-hour ride. 161 00:15:28,969 --> 00:15:30,879 Excuse me. 162 00:15:42,775 --> 00:15:45,645 My God, these people drink. 163 00:15:45,736 --> 00:15:47,693 I'm sorry. I was just... 164 00:15:48,405 --> 00:15:50,363 - I'm afraid... - No, it's all right. 165 00:15:50,449 --> 00:15:52,987 I'm afraid you've caught me snooping. 166 00:15:53,077 --> 00:15:55,912 It's not my room. It's Denys's. And Denys won't mind. 167 00:15:55,996 --> 00:15:57,539 That's the thing about Denys. 168 00:15:57,623 --> 00:16:00,624 Are you Cole? 169 00:16:00,709 --> 00:16:02,583 Berkeley Cole. 170 00:16:02,670 --> 00:16:04,543 I brought the ivory with me on the train. 171 00:16:04,630 --> 00:16:05,828 Well, thank you. 172 00:16:08,676 --> 00:16:11,712 - You taking your quinine? - Oh, yes. 173 00:16:12,596 --> 00:16:13,759 He has got lovely books. 174 00:16:15,391 --> 00:16:18,392 - Does he lend them? - We had a friend... 175 00:16:18,477 --> 00:16:22,641 Hopworth, he'd got a book from Denys and didn't return it. 176 00:16:22,731 --> 00:16:24,274 Denys was furious. I said to Denys... 177 00:16:24,358 --> 00:16:27,145 "You wouldn't lose a friend for the sake of a book." 178 00:16:27,236 --> 00:16:31,400 He said, "No, but he has, hasn't he?" 179 00:16:35,369 --> 00:16:39,034 - Did you come out through London? - No, from Rome, actually. 180 00:16:39,123 --> 00:16:41,875 I thought you might have a newspaper. 181 00:16:41,959 --> 00:16:44,248 No. Sorry. 182 00:16:44,336 --> 00:16:47,254 Oh, nothing in them anyway. 183 00:16:48,257 --> 00:16:52,089 I had a friend who I used to take to the dances at Oxford. 184 00:16:52,178 --> 00:16:54,799 They were in June by the river. 185 00:16:54,889 --> 00:16:59,017 She always wore a new silk dress. 186 00:16:59,101 --> 00:17:01,473 I think you're wearing her perfume. 187 00:17:11,238 --> 00:17:14,654 It's very nice, but it's not the same. 188 00:17:16,535 --> 00:17:18,113 We can go now. 189 00:18:16,220 --> 00:18:17,631 This is Belknap. 190 00:18:17,721 --> 00:18:21,470 - He runs the farm. - Good evening, ma'am. 191 00:18:28,107 --> 00:18:30,942 This is your cook. Name's Esa. 192 00:18:37,992 --> 00:18:41,028 And this is Juma. Houseboy. 193 00:18:46,876 --> 00:18:50,410 Come. See your house. 194 00:18:50,504 --> 00:18:53,589 When you leave me, I'm going to marry Berkeley Cole. 195 00:18:53,674 --> 00:18:57,423 - A man in trade. - Is that what he does? 196 00:18:57,511 --> 00:18:59,420 He's thick with the Somalis. 197 00:18:59,513 --> 00:19:03,048 There's a crowd of them on his land who think he's a prince. 198 00:19:03,142 --> 00:19:05,467 He sells Finch Hatton's ivory. 199 00:19:05,561 --> 00:19:08,645 Belknap is a cheery sort. 200 00:19:08,731 --> 00:19:12,563 Had a place of his own. Went belly up trying to grow flax. 201 00:19:14,111 --> 00:19:18,156 - Does he know cattle? - I didn't buy cattle. 202 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:21,075 We're going to grow coffee instead. 203 00:19:28,876 --> 00:19:31,284 That's not what we planned. 204 00:19:31,378 --> 00:19:34,166 You were in Denmark. I had to decide. 205 00:19:34,256 --> 00:19:37,043 We made a decision. 206 00:19:37,134 --> 00:19:38,842 We don't know anything about coffee. 207 00:19:38,928 --> 00:19:42,462 - You plant it, it grows. - We said a dairy. My mother... 208 00:19:42,556 --> 00:19:45,925 Your mother doesn't care if it's cows or coffee as long as it pays. 209 00:19:47,144 --> 00:19:49,053 You have to be with a herd or things go wrong. 210 00:19:49,146 --> 00:19:52,017 I didn't come to Africa to sit with silly cows. 211 00:19:52,108 --> 00:19:55,144 Just tell her we changed our minds. 212 00:19:55,236 --> 00:19:57,774 Next time you change your mind... 213 00:19:57,863 --> 00:19:59,820 you do it with your money. 214 00:20:01,826 --> 00:20:05,111 They bought you a title, Baronessa. They didn't buy me. 215 00:20:08,332 --> 00:20:12,330 Fetch some wine for my lover's brother. 216 00:20:16,841 --> 00:20:18,335 I think you're tired. 217 00:20:25,641 --> 00:20:27,135 Be careful. 218 00:20:33,190 --> 00:20:35,681 Did I tell you Hans came to say goodbye? 219 00:20:55,254 --> 00:20:57,247 Where is Baron Blixen? 220 00:20:57,339 --> 00:21:01,207 - He's gone to hunt. - Did he say when he'd return? 221 00:21:01,302 --> 00:21:03,709 He says he can come before the rain. 222 00:21:05,473 --> 00:21:07,430 Is it going to rain today? 223 00:21:09,101 --> 00:21:12,684 It can be many days before the rain, msabu. 224 00:21:44,512 --> 00:21:47,513 In Ohio we put up scarecrow to keep the birds away. 225 00:21:47,598 --> 00:21:50,385 Here, you hope there's enough leopard to keep down the baboon. 226 00:21:50,476 --> 00:21:52,967 They'll take your dog too. But that's Africa. 227 00:21:53,062 --> 00:21:55,849 - How much will we plant? - A thousand acres. 228 00:21:55,940 --> 00:21:59,558 - How long will that take? - That depends on Kinanjui. 229 00:21:59,652 --> 00:22:03,317 He's chief of the Kikuyu. Gotta deal with him to get your help. 230 00:22:03,405 --> 00:22:07,569 - When will be our first harvest? - Well, these are seedlings. 231 00:22:07,660 --> 00:22:09,948 It'll be three, maybe four years. 232 00:22:11,122 --> 00:22:13,410 - Four years? - If they bear at all. 233 00:22:13,499 --> 00:22:15,575 No one's ever tried coffee this high. 234 00:22:17,294 --> 00:22:22,715 - What will we live on for four years? - I'm working to get home. 235 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,754 If you haven't got it, be good if you could tell me right now. 236 00:22:28,514 --> 00:22:30,471 We will plant 500. 237 00:22:33,102 --> 00:22:37,147 Chief Kinanjui, I've heard you're wise... 238 00:22:37,231 --> 00:22:39,140 Not now, please. 239 00:22:39,233 --> 00:22:41,641 And I look forward to our dealings. 240 00:22:41,735 --> 00:22:44,440 Your Kikuyu are good workers... 241 00:22:44,530 --> 00:22:48,148 and I look forward to dealing with them... 242 00:22:48,242 --> 00:22:49,950 honestly and fairly. 243 00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:52,609 Msabu, this chief has no British. 244 00:22:55,624 --> 00:22:59,574 - Tell him I am Baroness Blixen. - Chief knows that, msabu. 245 00:22:59,670 --> 00:23:04,712 Well, then tell him what I said. 246 00:23:37,750 --> 00:23:39,659 What did he say? 247 00:23:39,752 --> 00:23:42,622 He says this Kikuyu can do this work. 248 00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:49,335 What else did he... 249 00:24:10,199 --> 00:24:12,357 Your leg is very sick. 250 00:24:14,787 --> 00:24:16,696 You must come to the house for medicine. 251 00:24:19,583 --> 00:24:22,253 - Does he understand me? - Yes, msabu. 252 00:24:26,048 --> 00:24:29,049 If you don't come, the other boys will say you are afraid. 253 00:24:34,098 --> 00:24:36,304 I, myself, will think only that you are foolish. 254 00:24:38,144 --> 00:24:40,765 This boy must come to my house for treatment. 255 00:24:40,855 --> 00:24:42,764 See that he does. 256 00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:48,271 What else did Kinanjui say? 257 00:24:48,362 --> 00:24:52,146 He says coffee must not grow this high. 258 00:24:52,241 --> 00:24:55,325 Never mind, msabu. He's a chief, but he's a Kikuyu. 259 00:25:28,861 --> 00:25:31,945 If you put a dam here to stop the water... 260 00:25:32,031 --> 00:25:33,940 then I can make a pond here. 261 00:25:34,033 --> 00:25:37,532 - Do you know how... - This water must go home to Mombasa. 262 00:25:37,620 --> 00:25:40,289 It can go home after we make a pond. 263 00:25:40,372 --> 00:25:43,290 Msabu, this water lives at Mombasa. 264 00:25:49,131 --> 00:25:50,542 Come, then. 265 00:26:59,785 --> 00:27:01,279 I wouldn't run. 266 00:27:03,164 --> 00:27:05,619 If you do, she'll think you're something good to eat. 267 00:27:08,127 --> 00:27:11,412 Have you... Do you have a gun? 268 00:27:11,505 --> 00:27:13,213 She won't like the smell of you. 269 00:27:14,216 --> 00:27:15,710 Shoot it. 270 00:27:15,801 --> 00:27:17,924 She's had breakfast. 271 00:27:18,512 --> 00:27:19,461 Don't... 272 00:27:22,516 --> 00:27:26,134 - Please, shoot her. - No, let's give her a moment. 273 00:27:27,772 --> 00:27:29,764 Oh, my God, shoot her! 274 00:27:39,283 --> 00:27:42,450 Just how much closer did you expect to let her come? 275 00:27:42,536 --> 00:27:43,865 A bit. 276 00:27:45,122 --> 00:27:48,740 She wanted to see if you'd run. That's how they decide. A lot like people. 277 00:27:48,834 --> 00:27:52,417 - She almost had me for lunch! - It wasn't her fault. She's a lion. 278 00:27:52,505 --> 00:27:55,505 - It wasn't mine. - Doesn't that outfit come with a rifle? 279 00:27:55,591 --> 00:27:58,675 It's on my saddle. 280 00:27:58,761 --> 00:28:01,596 Better keep it with you. Your horse isn't much of a shot. 281 00:28:02,932 --> 00:28:05,173 For Berkeley. He's brought you presents. 282 00:28:05,768 --> 00:28:08,437 We stopped by your house and them came looking for you. 283 00:28:08,521 --> 00:28:11,094 Good Lord, you're sweet. 284 00:28:11,190 --> 00:28:14,393 On the road, actually. We're off to Magadi to shoot some ivory. 285 00:28:14,485 --> 00:28:18,435 Now, at least, I have something good to offer you. 286 00:28:18,531 --> 00:28:22,030 Did you intend to tell Berkeley what a fool I was? 287 00:28:22,118 --> 00:28:25,985 - She had a lion a bit interested. - A bit? 288 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,989 But not enough to bite. 289 00:28:28,082 --> 00:28:30,371 It's all right to take a chance... 290 00:28:30,459 --> 00:28:32,368 as long as it's you who'll pay. 291 00:28:32,461 --> 00:28:35,462 - Wouldn't you say so? - It's the sort of thing you'd say. 292 00:28:35,548 --> 00:28:38,335 - Thank you. - Not at all. Where's Blix? 293 00:28:38,426 --> 00:28:41,261 - Hunting. - Has he been out long? 294 00:28:41,345 --> 00:28:42,543 Yes. 295 00:28:44,014 --> 00:28:46,552 You'll need a good chat, then. Shall we stay to supper, Denys? 296 00:28:46,642 --> 00:28:50,556 - Blix will have jackets we could use. - Do I have anything to say in this? 297 00:28:50,646 --> 00:28:54,347 - Not really, but we'll hear you out. - Then I would like you to stay. 298 00:28:54,442 --> 00:28:57,359 Good. Denys. 299 00:28:57,445 --> 00:29:00,315 I don't know. Do you sing? 300 00:29:02,366 --> 00:29:03,315 Never. 301 00:29:03,993 --> 00:29:05,985 Can you tell a story? 302 00:29:06,078 --> 00:29:08,949 I happen to be very good at stories. 303 00:29:09,999 --> 00:29:11,956 I believe that. 304 00:29:14,628 --> 00:29:16,917 What's happened to the cows, the dairy? 305 00:29:17,006 --> 00:29:20,541 We changed our minds. We'll grow coffee instead. 306 00:29:20,634 --> 00:29:23,588 - A bit risky, this high. - So I've been told. 307 00:29:23,679 --> 00:29:27,344 - Didn't seem to bother you. - I think they just haven't tried. 308 00:29:27,433 --> 00:29:30,683 Every time I turn my back, it wants to go wild again. 309 00:29:30,770 --> 00:29:32,727 It will go wild. 310 00:29:37,693 --> 00:29:40,647 - Your man... - Kanuthia. 311 00:29:40,738 --> 00:29:42,980 - He's not Kikuyu. - No. 312 00:29:45,242 --> 00:29:47,152 Shall I see that he's given supper? 313 00:29:47,244 --> 00:29:49,735 Don't do anything for him, thank you, Baroness. 314 00:29:51,540 --> 00:29:54,327 It's true of all Somalis. They're the only tribe that knows horses. 315 00:29:54,418 --> 00:29:58,831 They don't drink, charge interest or chase other men's wives. 316 00:30:01,467 --> 00:30:02,926 Got to go to town for that. 317 00:30:07,139 --> 00:30:09,346 Did you know that in all of literature... 318 00:30:09,433 --> 00:30:12,103 there's no poem celebrating the foot. 319 00:30:12,186 --> 00:30:15,602 There's lips, eyes, hands, face... 320 00:30:15,689 --> 00:30:17,397 hair, breasts... 321 00:30:17,483 --> 00:30:19,641 legs, arms, even the knees. 322 00:30:19,735 --> 00:30:22,107 But not one verse for the poor foot. 323 00:30:24,365 --> 00:30:28,197 - Why do you think that is? - Priorities, I suppose. 324 00:30:28,285 --> 00:30:30,361 Did you think you would make one? 325 00:30:30,454 --> 00:30:32,363 Problem is there's nothing to rhyme it with. 326 00:30:32,456 --> 00:30:34,283 - Put. - It's not a noun. 327 00:30:34,375 --> 00:30:37,329 Doesn't matter. Along he came and he did put... 328 00:30:37,419 --> 00:30:39,827 upon my farm his clumsy foot. 329 00:30:45,553 --> 00:30:48,008 We should have a story now. 330 00:30:52,268 --> 00:30:55,387 When I tell a story to my nieces at home... 331 00:30:55,479 --> 00:30:58,017 one of them always provides the first sentence. 332 00:31:00,401 --> 00:31:03,271 - Anything? - Absolutely anything. 333 00:31:06,657 --> 00:31:11,449 There was a wandering Chinese named Cheng Huan... 334 00:31:14,123 --> 00:31:16,614 living in Limehouse... 335 00:31:16,709 --> 00:31:20,292 and a girl named Shirley. 336 00:31:22,631 --> 00:31:25,549 Who spoke perfect Chinese... 337 00:31:25,634 --> 00:31:28,042 which she learned from her missionary parents. 338 00:31:29,722 --> 00:31:33,720 Cheng Huan lived alone in a room on Formosa Street... 339 00:31:33,809 --> 00:31:36,134 above the Blue Lantern. 340 00:31:38,397 --> 00:31:40,437 He sat at his window... 341 00:31:42,693 --> 00:31:46,561 and in his poor listening heart... 342 00:31:46,655 --> 00:31:50,736 strange echoes of his home and country... 343 00:32:18,896 --> 00:32:20,972 They found them there the next morning... 344 00:32:21,065 --> 00:32:23,900 in their room above the Blue Lantern... 345 00:32:23,984 --> 00:32:26,392 the dead child and the warlord... 346 00:32:27,196 --> 00:32:31,525 with Cheng Huan's love gift coiled about his neck. 347 00:32:36,872 --> 00:32:38,829 Had you been to those places? 348 00:32:40,167 --> 00:32:43,916 I have been a mental traveller. 349 00:32:44,004 --> 00:32:46,163 - Till now. - Yes. 350 00:32:46,257 --> 00:32:49,293 Was this England? Excuse me. Denmark? 351 00:32:50,761 --> 00:32:53,086 I like my things. 352 00:32:53,180 --> 00:32:56,181 When you travelled before in your mind... 353 00:32:56,267 --> 00:32:58,224 did you carry so much luggage? 354 00:32:59,270 --> 00:33:03,018 A mental traveller hasn't the need to eat or sleep... 355 00:33:03,107 --> 00:33:05,479 or entertain. 356 00:33:08,529 --> 00:33:09,560 You're right. 357 00:33:10,448 --> 00:33:13,982 Anyway, aren't you pleased that I brought my crystal and china? 358 00:33:14,076 --> 00:33:16,401 And your stories, yes. 359 00:33:16,495 --> 00:33:21,204 The conquering heroes come 360 00:33:21,292 --> 00:33:24,328 Sound the trumpets 361 00:33:24,420 --> 00:33:26,875 Beat the drums 362 00:33:37,099 --> 00:33:41,097 - I want you to come often. - I'd like that very much. 363 00:33:41,187 --> 00:33:44,188 - And you must promise it will be soon. - I promise. 364 00:33:53,741 --> 00:33:56,314 Did you save my life, Finch Hatton? 365 00:33:56,410 --> 00:34:01,405 No. The lioness did that. She walked away. 366 00:34:01,499 --> 00:34:04,618 So I'm not indebted, then? 367 00:34:04,710 --> 00:34:06,999 Ah, but I am. 368 00:34:07,087 --> 00:34:09,164 We pay our storytellers here. 369 00:34:14,178 --> 00:34:15,553 It's lovely. 370 00:34:17,348 --> 00:34:19,921 But my stories are free... 371 00:34:20,017 --> 00:34:22,389 and your present's much too dear. 372 00:34:23,938 --> 00:34:26,226 Write them down sometime. 373 00:34:33,072 --> 00:34:34,732 Take care, Finch Hatton. 374 00:34:35,825 --> 00:34:37,367 You wouldn't rather call me Denys? 375 00:34:43,916 --> 00:34:45,327 Baroness. 376 00:34:47,545 --> 00:34:49,003 Goodbye. 377 00:35:21,495 --> 00:35:23,203 What are you doing? 378 00:35:25,458 --> 00:35:27,580 I want you to come home. 379 00:35:47,855 --> 00:35:49,764 We never spoke about children. 380 00:35:54,195 --> 00:35:55,440 Did you... 381 00:35:57,573 --> 00:35:58,486 Do you? 382 00:35:59,408 --> 00:36:02,907 Yes. Is that all right? 383 00:36:22,056 --> 00:36:24,547 These Kikuyu want to be sick now. 384 00:36:25,893 --> 00:36:27,969 Good Lord. 385 00:36:30,231 --> 00:36:32,769 Your leg has got worse. 386 00:36:32,858 --> 00:36:34,815 You should go to hospital. 387 00:36:35,611 --> 00:36:37,900 This leg may be foolish. 388 00:36:37,988 --> 00:36:40,658 It may think not to go to hospital. 389 00:36:42,409 --> 00:36:46,193 This leg will do as it pleases. 390 00:36:46,288 --> 00:36:48,281 But if you will take it to hospital... 391 00:36:48,374 --> 00:36:50,829 I will think that you are wise. 392 00:36:50,918 --> 00:36:55,295 And such a wise man as this, I would want to work in my house... 393 00:36:55,381 --> 00:36:56,792 for wages. 394 00:36:56,882 --> 00:37:00,382 How much wages would come to such a wise man as that? 395 00:37:03,764 --> 00:37:06,967 More wages than come from tending goats. 396 00:37:08,561 --> 00:37:10,802 I will speak to this leg. 397 00:37:52,521 --> 00:37:55,558 - What about air raids? - Quiet! One question at a time. 398 00:37:55,649 --> 00:37:58,853 The war is in Europe. How do we know they're going to reach here? 399 00:37:58,944 --> 00:38:02,693 German East is only 200 miles south. General von Lettow is there. 400 00:38:02,782 --> 00:38:05,070 I don't want to wait until he joins us at the bar. 401 00:38:05,159 --> 00:38:07,732 - Would we engage them? - Blix, this is our war. 402 00:38:07,828 --> 00:38:10,319 You don't have to be involved, but thanks. 403 00:38:10,414 --> 00:38:13,866 I've got crops coming in. How long's this thing gonna last? 404 00:38:13,959 --> 00:38:16,960 We just have to stay and go as we must. 405 00:38:17,046 --> 00:38:19,881 They won't fight if we won't fight. 406 00:38:19,965 --> 00:38:22,421 We could always arm the Masai and point them south. 407 00:38:22,510 --> 00:38:25,879 Do you want the job of collecting rifles from the Masai when this is over? 408 00:38:25,971 --> 00:38:29,257 What about our women and children? Should we bring them into town? 409 00:38:29,350 --> 00:38:32,719 We will deal with that problem as it arises. 410 00:38:32,812 --> 00:38:37,059 - Will they use native troops? - I'd assume so, but not Masai. 411 00:38:37,149 --> 00:38:39,058 Berkeley, what about your Somalis? 412 00:38:40,486 --> 00:38:43,985 They'd make very good scouts. We could cover the area from here to the border. 413 00:38:44,073 --> 00:38:46,611 We could gather information for when the regulars arrive. 414 00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:48,907 What's it about? Have you any idea? 415 00:38:50,871 --> 00:38:53,409 - Not really. - Then why do you want to get into it? 416 00:38:53,499 --> 00:38:55,871 - Well... - It's got nothing to do with us. 417 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,332 They've made agreements we know nothing about. 418 00:38:58,420 --> 00:39:00,330 Victoria and the Kaiser were relatives, for God's sake. 419 00:39:03,509 --> 00:39:07,672 They've divided Africa between them. Do you know why there's a border? 420 00:39:07,763 --> 00:39:09,720 Because she had two mountains, and he had none. 421 00:39:09,807 --> 00:39:12,476 So she gave him Kilimanjaro. 422 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,596 It's a silly argument between two spoiled countries. 423 00:39:15,688 --> 00:39:19,816 The sooner it ends, the sooner we pick up where we left off. 424 00:39:22,653 --> 00:39:24,028 It may end... 425 00:39:25,573 --> 00:39:28,146 but we're not going to pick up where we left off. 426 00:39:28,242 --> 00:39:31,029 You don't have to go. 427 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,990 - You want to go. - We've got to live here. 428 00:39:34,081 --> 00:39:36,038 They have made it plain they don't want you. 429 00:39:36,125 --> 00:39:39,660 - I'll have to show them where we stand. - I'm not so fond of their empire... 430 00:39:39,753 --> 00:39:41,663 I'd have you shot for it. 431 00:39:41,755 --> 00:39:44,425 More likely chewed on than shot. 432 00:39:44,508 --> 00:39:47,130 The farm will take care of itself, and you've got Belknap. 433 00:39:47,219 --> 00:39:50,339 The farm will not take care of itself. 434 00:39:50,431 --> 00:39:52,470 That's not the point. 435 00:39:56,645 --> 00:39:59,350 I didn't expect to like you so much. 436 00:40:04,195 --> 00:40:07,231 You're not going to go falling in love, are you? 437 00:40:08,824 --> 00:40:10,983 Not with someone who's always leaving. 438 00:40:14,747 --> 00:40:18,958 If you need me, send a runner to find Delamere. 439 00:40:19,043 --> 00:40:21,119 That's where I'll be. 440 00:40:27,009 --> 00:40:28,918 That's a fine kiss goodbye. 441 00:40:29,011 --> 00:40:30,968 I am better at hello. 442 00:40:46,987 --> 00:40:49,775 It's an odd feeling... farewell. 443 00:40:51,033 --> 00:40:54,283 There is some envy in it. 444 00:40:54,370 --> 00:40:58,581 Men go off to be tested for courage. 445 00:40:58,666 --> 00:41:02,533 If we're tested at all, it's for patience... 446 00:41:02,628 --> 00:41:05,380 for doing without... 447 00:41:05,464 --> 00:41:09,794 for how well we can endure loneliness. 448 00:41:09,885 --> 00:41:12,423 But I had always known that. 449 00:41:15,057 --> 00:41:17,429 It didn't require a war. 450 00:41:17,518 --> 00:41:20,851 I said goodbye to Bror. 451 00:41:20,938 --> 00:41:24,105 Denys left without a word... 452 00:41:24,191 --> 00:41:25,935 which was quite proper. 453 00:41:28,988 --> 00:41:30,897 Hello, the house! 454 00:41:33,033 --> 00:41:34,943 Felicity! 455 00:41:35,035 --> 00:41:38,404 I thought you might want some meat. 456 00:41:38,497 --> 00:41:42,162 - Is there any word? - No, nothing new. 457 00:41:42,251 --> 00:41:44,956 Not much fighting. Awful fever, though. 458 00:41:46,380 --> 00:41:48,669 I've got time for tea, I should think. 459 00:41:55,806 --> 00:41:57,763 Are you for the Germans? 460 00:42:01,604 --> 00:42:03,846 Did they send you out to ask me this? 461 00:42:03,939 --> 00:42:07,558 - We had a row about it in town. - Because of my bad English. 462 00:42:09,028 --> 00:42:10,937 And whose side were you on? 463 00:42:12,281 --> 00:42:14,072 Yours. 464 00:42:19,038 --> 00:42:22,703 They want to send me home to school. Mother says I'm growing up wild. 465 00:42:22,792 --> 00:42:25,746 - I wanted to ask you about it. - Me? 466 00:42:25,836 --> 00:42:29,751 You've been round and about. 467 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,209 Someday, I'd like to run my own show the way you do. 468 00:42:35,096 --> 00:42:38,429 - Is that what I do? - You don't seem to need us much. 469 00:42:41,769 --> 00:42:44,058 Baroness, may I ask you something? 470 00:42:45,815 --> 00:42:49,065 I don't know much about men. 471 00:42:52,446 --> 00:42:55,815 I want them to like me, but I... 472 00:42:55,908 --> 00:42:57,948 I want to be let alone too. 473 00:43:02,581 --> 00:43:05,333 I'm supposed to want to be taken, aren't I? 474 00:43:08,170 --> 00:43:10,163 I've got this book. 475 00:43:11,549 --> 00:43:15,796 But how do you know when to do what they want you to... 476 00:43:15,886 --> 00:43:18,923 and when not to? 477 00:43:23,519 --> 00:43:25,725 I suppose you ought to call me Karen. 478 00:43:42,079 --> 00:43:45,413 They need paraffin and tinned food, enough for 300 men. 479 00:43:45,499 --> 00:43:48,037 He wants you to send a white man with the wagon. 480 00:43:48,127 --> 00:43:51,911 - Is he all right? - Well enough to send the message. 481 00:43:52,965 --> 00:43:55,254 And where would my husband like this wagon sent? 482 00:43:55,342 --> 00:43:58,213 He's with Delamere on the border near Lake Natron. 483 00:43:58,304 --> 00:44:00,296 That's confidential, of course. 484 00:44:00,389 --> 00:44:02,263 I will bear that in mind, Lieutenant. 485 00:44:02,349 --> 00:44:06,478 I only meant it wouldn't do for it to be talk around Nairobi. 486 00:44:06,562 --> 00:44:10,891 And we're going to have to move you into town. We can't protect you here. 487 00:44:10,983 --> 00:44:12,892 What do you mean? 488 00:44:12,985 --> 00:44:15,903 With the men gone, we're worried about the native element. We have orders. 489 00:44:15,988 --> 00:44:18,028 Women and children into town. 490 00:44:18,115 --> 00:44:20,357 That is internment, Lieutenant. 491 00:44:20,451 --> 00:44:22,657 Women and children, Baroness. 492 00:44:23,496 --> 00:44:27,743 - Is that one category or two? - You'll want time to gather your things. 493 00:44:27,833 --> 00:44:29,909 I'll send an escort for you Thursday. 494 00:44:30,002 --> 00:44:32,458 And I'm a captain, Baroness. 495 00:44:37,843 --> 00:44:40,630 I'm not paid to fight, Mrs Blixen. 496 00:44:45,643 --> 00:44:47,682 Where is Lake Natron? 497 00:44:47,770 --> 00:44:50,522 It's south, bush country. 498 00:44:50,606 --> 00:44:52,682 It's no place for a white man. 499 00:47:35,855 --> 00:47:39,555 We should have crossed the Sand River today. 500 00:47:39,650 --> 00:47:42,106 I may have got us lost. 501 00:47:42,194 --> 00:47:44,103 God is great, msabu. 502 00:48:37,833 --> 00:48:41,913 - What the devil are you doing here? - I'm on my way to Delamere. 503 00:48:42,004 --> 00:48:44,162 Ridiculous. We don't send women to war. 504 00:48:44,256 --> 00:48:45,252 I'm going. 505 00:48:45,341 --> 00:48:47,748 We haven't time for this. You don't even know where you are. 506 00:48:47,843 --> 00:48:49,385 I do now. 507 00:48:49,470 --> 00:48:53,550 - You'll just get lost again. - I'm going on. 508 00:48:53,641 --> 00:48:56,761 - Talk to her, will you? - No. 509 00:48:58,521 --> 00:49:01,890 - She could be hurt or worse. - I imagine she knows that. 510 00:49:03,567 --> 00:49:05,477 Right. I tried. 511 00:49:11,367 --> 00:49:12,529 Here. 512 00:49:14,370 --> 00:49:17,620 Find a spot on the horizon each morning and steer by it. 513 00:49:17,706 --> 00:49:21,372 South, southwest. About three days. 514 00:49:22,503 --> 00:49:24,045 I see. 515 00:49:24,130 --> 00:49:26,667 Don't worry about us. We'll be all right. 516 00:50:19,602 --> 00:50:21,927 - What is it? - Masai. 517 00:52:08,252 --> 00:52:11,835 Ismail! My rifle! Where's my rifle? 518 00:52:39,033 --> 00:52:40,527 Get away! 519 00:53:42,054 --> 00:53:45,589 Msabu's bleeding. She does not have this ox. 520 00:53:47,435 --> 00:53:50,389 This lion is hungry. 521 00:53:50,479 --> 00:53:52,555 He does not have this ox. 522 00:53:54,150 --> 00:53:56,391 This wagon is heavy. 523 00:53:56,485 --> 00:54:00,234 It doesn't have this ox. 524 00:54:00,322 --> 00:54:02,445 God is happy, msabu. 525 00:54:02,533 --> 00:54:04,572 He plays with us. 526 00:54:15,421 --> 00:54:17,710 Tell Blix his wife's here. 527 00:55:06,889 --> 00:55:08,798 I've brought you some things. 528 00:55:10,434 --> 00:55:12,343 You've changed your hair. 529 00:55:15,272 --> 00:55:18,190 - You needed supplies. - Send someone, I said. 530 00:55:18,275 --> 00:55:20,185 You were lucky to get through. 531 00:55:20,277 --> 00:55:22,685 - It was really foolish. - But I did get through. 532 00:55:25,241 --> 00:55:26,818 And it was fun. 533 00:55:32,289 --> 00:55:34,329 When are you coming home? 534 00:55:37,378 --> 00:55:38,576 Not just yet. 535 00:55:41,048 --> 00:55:43,919 You're not going to help at all with the farm. 536 00:55:48,514 --> 00:55:51,847 I could force you. I could cut you off. 537 00:55:53,227 --> 00:55:55,979 I'll just hunt professionally. 538 00:55:57,648 --> 00:55:59,605 I might do it anyway. 539 00:56:03,863 --> 00:56:06,270 It's not the way we thought it would be. 540 00:56:08,659 --> 00:56:10,118 Is it? 541 00:56:17,710 --> 00:56:20,331 But I like it that you're honest with me. 542 00:56:21,755 --> 00:56:23,665 I like you too. 543 00:56:32,099 --> 00:56:33,558 Very much. 544 00:57:11,806 --> 00:57:14,641 I had a compass from Denys. 545 00:57:14,725 --> 00:57:17,643 To steer by, he said. 546 00:57:17,728 --> 00:57:19,887 But later it came to me... 547 00:57:19,980 --> 00:57:22,934 that we navigated differently. 548 00:57:25,152 --> 00:57:30,194 Perhaps he knew, as I did not... 549 00:57:30,282 --> 00:57:32,856 that the Earth was made round... 550 00:57:32,952 --> 00:57:36,617 so that we would not see too far down the road. 551 00:58:08,112 --> 00:58:10,021 You've got syphilis. 552 00:58:15,453 --> 00:58:17,410 That's not possible. 553 00:58:19,999 --> 00:58:21,908 Your husband is not ill? 554 00:58:28,924 --> 00:58:32,009 Not the last time I saw him. 555 00:58:32,094 --> 00:58:34,550 That was three months ago. He's on the... 556 00:58:37,975 --> 00:58:41,011 He's on the border with Delamere. He would have come home. 557 00:58:41,103 --> 00:58:44,472 These cases vary. 558 00:58:44,565 --> 00:58:46,474 He may have just a touch. 559 00:58:48,486 --> 00:58:50,028 You're very ill. 560 00:58:59,288 --> 00:59:02,123 Is he the only possibility? 561 00:59:04,376 --> 00:59:06,416 Yes. 562 00:59:06,504 --> 00:59:08,580 You'll have to go home to deal with it. 563 00:59:09,673 --> 00:59:13,802 The treatment's difficult, but they have a thing called salvarsan. 564 00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:15,883 Arsenic. 565 00:59:18,724 --> 00:59:21,346 And if I'm not cured... 566 00:59:21,435 --> 00:59:24,602 then I will be insane, won't I? 567 00:59:24,688 --> 00:59:26,646 You ought to go soon. 568 00:59:28,484 --> 00:59:30,393 I'll have to see your husband. 569 00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:36,066 I will send for him. 570 00:59:36,158 --> 00:59:39,325 These ought to help with the fever till you get home. 571 00:59:48,504 --> 00:59:50,876 And what are my chances? 572 00:59:50,965 --> 00:59:53,716 About even, I'm afraid. 573 01:00:03,602 --> 01:00:06,639 It's not what I thought would happen to me now. 574 01:00:24,832 --> 01:00:27,157 - What? - Your letters, msabu. 575 01:00:36,552 --> 01:00:38,545 Excuse me. 576 01:00:40,139 --> 01:00:42,178 I heard you'd made it. 577 01:00:42,266 --> 01:00:45,350 I'd have paid anything to see their faces. 578 01:00:47,563 --> 01:00:49,721 - Would you join us for a drink? - I can't. 579 01:00:49,815 --> 01:00:51,808 How is it that you are home? 580 01:00:51,901 --> 01:00:54,273 I brought Berkeley back. 581 01:00:54,361 --> 01:00:56,568 - Has he been wounded? - Fever. 582 01:00:56,655 --> 01:00:59,775 More than usual, but he'll be all right as long as the gin holds out. 583 01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:04,445 And you? How is it with the fighting? 584 01:01:06,081 --> 01:01:08,204 We're taking a beating. 585 01:01:08,292 --> 01:01:10,249 It's likely to last for a while. 586 01:01:13,130 --> 01:01:16,464 - I still have your compass. - Why don't you keep it? 587 01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:19,040 You've earned it. 588 01:01:20,638 --> 01:01:22,963 Besides, I don't always want to know where I'm going. 589 01:01:29,647 --> 01:01:31,604 Please don't let me keep you. 590 01:01:35,277 --> 01:01:39,571 - Are you all right? - Yes. Take good care. 591 01:01:41,575 --> 01:01:44,909 - We're behind a story or two. - Yes. When I get back. 592 01:01:44,995 --> 01:01:46,573 Back? From where? 593 01:01:46,664 --> 01:01:49,119 When you get back, I meant. 594 01:01:51,961 --> 01:01:54,712 - I thought it was malaria. - Well, it wasn't. 595 01:01:57,133 --> 01:02:00,383 You may be all right, but you have to be seen. 596 01:02:02,388 --> 01:02:05,342 And the others, whoever they are. 597 01:02:05,433 --> 01:02:07,924 I hope they've got it. 598 01:02:08,018 --> 01:02:11,269 It's my fault. No one else's. 599 01:02:16,861 --> 01:02:18,236 I want to go with you. 600 01:02:19,321 --> 01:02:21,777 No. Someone has to stay here and run things. 601 01:02:21,866 --> 01:02:24,107 And the factory must be finished. 602 01:02:26,036 --> 01:02:29,037 - Can you do that? - That's little enough. 603 01:02:44,263 --> 01:02:45,757 I'm sorry. 604 01:03:01,781 --> 01:03:02,979 Where is memsahib? 605 01:03:04,408 --> 01:03:06,282 She can come soon enough. 606 01:03:15,628 --> 01:03:19,293 Later that day, I left for Mombasa... 607 01:03:19,381 --> 01:03:22,299 and the voyage home to Denmark. 608 01:03:24,303 --> 01:03:26,711 It was a longer journey this time. 609 01:03:27,890 --> 01:03:30,677 The war went on. 610 01:03:30,768 --> 01:03:34,053 I fought my own war. 611 01:03:34,146 --> 01:03:36,637 Arsenic was my ally... 612 01:03:36,732 --> 01:03:39,057 against an enemy I never saw. 613 01:03:41,946 --> 01:03:45,943 I stayed in the room where I was born... 614 01:03:46,033 --> 01:03:47,942 in Rungstedland... 615 01:03:48,035 --> 01:03:51,653 and tried to remember the colours of Africa. 616 01:04:03,968 --> 01:04:06,803 There was only the medicine... 617 01:04:06,887 --> 01:04:08,796 and walks with my mother... 618 01:04:08,889 --> 01:04:11,926 along a deserted stretch of beach... 619 01:04:12,017 --> 01:04:15,967 and this room in my mother's house. 620 01:04:18,441 --> 01:04:22,059 Denmark had become a stranger to me... 621 01:04:22,153 --> 01:04:24,822 and I to her. 622 01:04:24,905 --> 01:04:28,440 But my mother's house I came to know again. 623 01:04:29,452 --> 01:04:32,287 And knew I would come back to it... 624 01:04:32,371 --> 01:04:35,040 sick or well... 625 01:04:35,124 --> 01:04:38,742 sane or mad someday. 626 01:04:38,836 --> 01:04:41,541 And so I did... 627 01:04:41,630 --> 01:04:43,588 after Tsavo. 628 01:05:35,684 --> 01:05:37,843 Almost everyone's got them now. 629 01:06:51,385 --> 01:06:53,294 I am cooking now, memsahib. 630 01:06:53,387 --> 01:06:55,510 Yes, I have heard about this. 631 01:07:07,151 --> 01:07:09,274 Are you well, Farah Aden? 632 01:07:10,488 --> 01:07:12,480 I am well enough, msabu. 633 01:07:13,282 --> 01:07:16,318 Then I am well enough also. 634 01:07:18,329 --> 01:07:21,449 - What will you do? - I have been thinking I'll hunt. 635 01:07:21,540 --> 01:07:23,497 Safari sort of thing. 636 01:07:23,584 --> 01:07:27,368 They say it'll be quite a business once the war is over. 637 01:07:27,463 --> 01:07:29,420 You wouldn't want to teach? 638 01:07:31,091 --> 01:07:33,214 I would like these Kikuyu to have a school. 639 01:07:35,221 --> 01:07:36,845 There will be a fight about that. 640 01:07:44,021 --> 01:07:45,765 Are you all well? 641 01:07:47,358 --> 01:07:49,315 They say I'm cured. 642 01:07:51,904 --> 01:07:54,027 I won't have children. 643 01:08:02,373 --> 01:08:04,247 Have you thought about us? 644 01:08:08,295 --> 01:08:09,458 Of course. 645 01:08:20,224 --> 01:08:24,304 Belknap says the coffee will flower after the next rains. 646 01:08:25,563 --> 01:08:27,057 If it does... 647 01:08:27,148 --> 01:08:31,145 you'll have start thinking about hiring for the harvest... 648 01:08:31,235 --> 01:08:33,726 and how you'll get to market. 649 01:09:46,685 --> 01:09:49,176 - Where would Berkeley be? - He must be here. 650 01:10:00,866 --> 01:10:02,823 Who won the match? 651 01:10:10,793 --> 01:10:12,916 Have you got a story for me? 652 01:10:17,216 --> 01:10:20,751 I've been demoted. I was Denys last time. 653 01:10:20,845 --> 01:10:23,051 Would you care for some champagne? 654 01:10:24,682 --> 01:10:26,639 They said you went home for a while. 655 01:10:28,018 --> 01:10:30,723 Yes. Where is Berkeley? 656 01:10:30,813 --> 01:10:32,936 It's good to see you. 657 01:10:36,735 --> 01:10:38,728 He's still down with fever. He'll be all right. 658 01:10:38,821 --> 01:10:40,730 Who are all these people? 659 01:10:42,491 --> 01:10:46,489 Bror says we'll be a colony soon. 660 01:10:46,579 --> 01:10:48,904 Yes. They want it settled now. 661 01:10:48,998 --> 01:10:52,449 There's a lottery. Buy a ticket, win a farm in Africa. 662 01:10:52,543 --> 01:10:55,414 Did you really think it would stay the way it was? 663 01:10:57,798 --> 01:10:59,838 I thought it might. 664 01:11:02,052 --> 01:11:05,137 - Where is Kanuthia? - He's dead. 665 01:11:12,104 --> 01:11:15,105 How are you? Would you join us for a drink? 666 01:11:16,984 --> 01:11:18,692 It's time to find a pillow. 667 01:11:19,904 --> 01:11:22,525 - Another night then? - Yeah. 668 01:11:25,576 --> 01:11:27,485 Have a good Christmas. 669 01:11:29,163 --> 01:11:30,242 Christmas. 670 01:11:31,957 --> 01:11:33,333 So it is. 671 01:12:04,615 --> 01:12:07,699 This Chief says children higher than this... 672 01:12:07,785 --> 01:12:09,694 must not learn to read. 673 01:12:11,956 --> 01:12:14,328 Tell him all the children must go to school. 674 01:12:14,416 --> 01:12:17,667 No. This is a chief. 675 01:12:17,753 --> 01:12:20,291 - You are not a chief. - That's absurd. 676 01:12:20,381 --> 01:12:24,461 It's not good for tall people to know more than this chief. 677 01:12:24,552 --> 01:12:26,591 When these children are tall... 678 01:12:26,679 --> 01:12:29,348 then this chief can be dead. 679 01:13:04,675 --> 01:13:08,424 Bror, yes. But Denys hired out to tourists? I can't imagine. 680 01:13:08,512 --> 01:13:10,635 He's got no other trade. Besides, we've got no choice. 681 01:13:10,723 --> 01:13:12,965 The government's put a stop to the ivory. 682 01:13:13,058 --> 01:13:16,593 - What will you do? - I'll concentrate on the farm. 683 01:13:16,687 --> 01:13:17,850 Hello, the house! 684 01:13:17,938 --> 01:13:21,058 Felicity! How is it you're home? 685 01:13:21,150 --> 01:13:23,226 I'm out. Look. 686 01:13:23,319 --> 01:13:26,106 I didn't learn a thing, but I'm wonderfully clean. 687 01:13:27,698 --> 01:13:31,233 I'll come see you. You save me a dance, Berkeley. 688 01:13:39,418 --> 01:13:41,909 What's this nonsense I hear about a school? 689 01:13:42,004 --> 01:13:44,080 I've taken on a young missionary. 690 01:13:44,173 --> 01:13:47,458 He's promised me to do the alphabet first and save God for later. 691 01:13:47,551 --> 01:13:49,544 Wogs can't even count their goats. 692 01:13:50,763 --> 01:13:53,764 - It's none of your business. - Who the devil are you? 693 01:14:00,397 --> 01:14:03,102 I wonder if you'd dance with me? 694 01:14:04,944 --> 01:14:06,853 You are about to apologize. 695 01:14:10,491 --> 01:14:12,614 You do stir things up, Baroness. 696 01:14:16,747 --> 01:14:19,285 When they said they liked to read, how did they put that, exactly? 697 01:14:19,375 --> 01:14:21,332 Do they know they'd like Dickens? 698 01:14:21,418 --> 01:14:25,368 - You don't think they should learn? - I think you might have asked them. 699 01:14:25,464 --> 01:14:28,002 Did you ask to learn when you were a child? 700 01:14:28,092 --> 01:14:30,250 How can stories possibly harm them? 701 01:14:30,344 --> 01:14:32,835 They have their own stories. They're just not written down. 702 01:14:32,930 --> 01:14:35,255 And what stake to you have in keeping them ignorant? 703 01:14:35,349 --> 01:14:37,555 They're not ignorant. 704 01:14:37,643 --> 01:14:41,012 I just don't think they should be turned into little Englishmen. 705 01:14:46,861 --> 01:14:49,815 - You do like to change things. - For the better, I hope. 706 01:14:51,574 --> 01:14:54,658 I want my Kikuyu to learn to read. 707 01:14:54,743 --> 01:14:58,575 "My Kikuyu." "My Limoges." "My farm." 708 01:14:58,664 --> 01:14:59,743 It's a lot to own. 709 01:14:59,832 --> 01:15:02,121 I have paid a price for everything I own. 710 01:15:02,209 --> 01:15:04,001 What is it, exactly, that's yours? 711 01:15:06,213 --> 01:15:08,835 We're not owners here. We're just passing through. 712 01:15:11,177 --> 01:15:14,462 Is life really so damn simple for you? 713 01:15:14,555 --> 01:15:17,224 Perhaps I ask less of it than you do. 714 01:15:18,768 --> 01:15:21,971 - I don't believe that. - Happy new year! 715 01:15:25,983 --> 01:15:29,150 Should auld acquaintance be forgot 716 01:15:29,236 --> 01:15:34,741 And never brought to mind 717 01:15:34,825 --> 01:15:39,867 Should auld acquaintance be forgot 718 01:15:39,955 --> 01:15:45,460 For the sake of auld lang syne 719 01:15:45,544 --> 01:15:50,502 For auld lang syne, my dear 720 01:15:50,591 --> 01:15:55,502 For auld lang syne 721 01:15:55,596 --> 01:16:01,219 We'll drink a cup of kindness here 722 01:16:01,310 --> 01:16:06,268 For the sake of auld lang syne 723 01:16:06,357 --> 01:16:10,224 We'll drink a cup 724 01:16:12,905 --> 01:16:15,028 God save... 725 01:16:15,116 --> 01:16:19,065 Our gracious king 726 01:16:19,161 --> 01:16:24,915 Long live our noble king 727 01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:30,208 God save our king 728 01:16:30,297 --> 01:16:36,051 Send him victorious 729 01:16:36,137 --> 01:16:41,511 Happy and glorious 730 01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:43,510 Happy new year, Karen. 731 01:16:44,687 --> 01:16:47,474 And for you too. 732 01:16:47,565 --> 01:16:53,437 God save the king 733 01:17:05,624 --> 01:17:08,828 Someone has left her underclothes in the back. 734 01:17:15,968 --> 01:17:18,589 I want you to take a place in town. 735 01:17:24,727 --> 01:17:26,186 Are you sure? 736 01:17:50,336 --> 01:17:51,285 Eat. 737 01:17:58,177 --> 01:17:59,755 Elephant. 738 01:18:26,831 --> 01:18:28,740 Give me work. 739 01:19:11,750 --> 01:19:14,704 We've got peace. Where is the prosperity? 740 01:19:14,795 --> 01:19:18,211 Why should prices fall now just because we're not killing anybody? 741 01:19:19,467 --> 01:19:21,589 Well, tea's down just as bad. 742 01:19:24,263 --> 01:19:26,836 Do they always have to whip them so? 743 01:19:54,919 --> 01:19:58,370 Look. They finally made a machine that's really useful. 744 01:19:58,464 --> 01:19:59,377 Listen. 745 01:20:04,053 --> 01:20:05,381 It's for you. 746 01:20:07,181 --> 01:20:10,265 - I can't accept it. - Why not? 747 01:20:10,351 --> 01:20:12,142 Bror's moved to town. 748 01:20:13,729 --> 01:20:15,638 That's a private matter, I imagine. 749 01:20:25,658 --> 01:20:27,864 Did you think you would spend the night? 750 01:20:27,952 --> 01:20:32,246 Can't, thanks. I have to go down to the Mara. 751 01:20:34,208 --> 01:20:37,162 I've taken up safari work, and I've got to find a camp. 752 01:20:42,675 --> 01:20:45,082 There's country there you ought to see. 753 01:20:45,177 --> 01:20:47,217 It won't last long now. 754 01:20:47,304 --> 01:20:50,341 No. I would be wasting your time. 755 01:20:51,642 --> 01:20:53,551 Why don't you get your things? 756 01:20:56,355 --> 01:20:59,226 If you like me at all... 757 01:20:59,316 --> 01:21:01,226 don't ask me to do this. 758 01:22:22,066 --> 01:22:23,264 What's your word? 759 01:22:26,278 --> 01:22:27,441 Shoo? 760 01:22:29,573 --> 01:22:31,530 Is that it? Shoo? 761 01:22:41,961 --> 01:22:44,286 That's a fine word you've got there, Baroness. 762 01:22:54,140 --> 01:22:56,428 Crank it again, will you? 763 01:22:56,517 --> 01:22:59,138 Almost. Crank it again. 764 01:23:01,355 --> 01:23:02,434 Again. 765 01:23:07,778 --> 01:23:08,857 Once more. 766 01:23:15,453 --> 01:23:17,825 Well done. We're off. 767 01:23:24,712 --> 01:23:26,586 I don't know the scientific basis for it... 768 01:23:26,672 --> 01:23:30,586 but I know you can see further in the African night than any other place. 769 01:23:34,346 --> 01:23:36,304 And the stars are brighter. 770 01:23:41,103 --> 01:23:43,559 It's about the tents. 771 01:23:43,647 --> 01:23:45,474 When I'm out with Kanuthia... 772 01:23:47,276 --> 01:23:50,360 it used to be we didn't use them. 773 01:23:51,655 --> 01:23:54,941 I remember him. 774 01:23:55,034 --> 01:23:56,362 There was something... 775 01:23:56,452 --> 01:23:58,694 Masai. 776 01:23:58,788 --> 01:24:01,742 He was half Masai. That's what you remember about him. 777 01:24:01,832 --> 01:24:03,706 They're like nobody else. 778 01:24:05,336 --> 01:24:08,372 We think we'll tame them... 779 01:24:08,464 --> 01:24:10,670 but we won't. 780 01:24:10,758 --> 01:24:12,715 If you put them in prison, they die. 781 01:24:13,761 --> 01:24:16,881 - Why? - Because they live now. 782 01:24:16,972 --> 01:24:18,882 They don't think about the future. 783 01:24:20,684 --> 01:24:24,634 They can't grasp the idea that they'll be let out one day. 784 01:24:24,730 --> 01:24:26,972 They think it's permanent. 785 01:24:27,066 --> 01:24:28,441 So they die. 786 01:24:31,445 --> 01:24:33,936 They're the only ones out here that don't care about us... 787 01:24:34,031 --> 01:24:36,356 and that is what will finish them. 788 01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:41,907 What did the two of you ever find to talk about? 789 01:24:44,458 --> 01:24:45,372 Nothing. 790 01:24:50,506 --> 01:24:54,124 So. You knew I would come. 791 01:25:02,059 --> 01:25:05,808 It's an early day tomorrow. Why don't you get some sleep? 792 01:25:08,107 --> 01:25:10,942 - And what happens tomorrow? - I have no idea. 793 01:25:16,991 --> 01:25:18,948 - Good night. - Good night. 794 01:25:58,115 --> 01:26:01,152 You would think they would run off. 795 01:26:01,243 --> 01:26:02,406 You didn't. 796 01:26:32,191 --> 01:26:33,934 Think of that. 797 01:26:34,026 --> 01:26:36,149 Never a man-made sound, and then Mozart. 798 01:27:09,478 --> 01:27:12,016 - Have you clients already? - In a week. 799 01:27:12,106 --> 01:27:14,431 A man from Belgium and his daughters. 800 01:27:14,525 --> 01:27:17,645 His letter said, "We'd like three of everything." 801 01:27:17,736 --> 01:27:20,903 It'll be an interesting trip. I'll be gone a month... 802 01:27:20,990 --> 01:27:23,777 or an hour and a half. 803 01:27:23,868 --> 01:27:27,034 Why are you doing this? 804 01:27:27,121 --> 01:27:29,078 I don't know how to sew. 805 01:27:46,682 --> 01:27:49,255 Do you know what they're made of? Cloth. 806 01:27:49,351 --> 01:27:51,178 Where will he land? 807 01:27:51,270 --> 01:27:53,227 Trick is not to. 808 01:27:57,401 --> 01:27:59,477 It must feel amazing. 809 01:28:04,158 --> 01:28:06,910 It's how I imagined America to be. 810 01:28:08,120 --> 01:28:11,655 - Have you been to America? - No, but my father was there. 811 01:28:11,749 --> 01:28:14,703 He told me stories about it when I was a little girl. 812 01:28:16,670 --> 01:28:18,580 - Are you still close? - He died. 813 01:28:18,672 --> 01:28:22,373 He killed himself when I was ten years old. 814 01:28:45,866 --> 01:28:47,823 I can fix that, I think. 815 01:28:47,910 --> 01:28:49,903 "Laughed loud and long... 816 01:28:49,995 --> 01:28:54,207 and all the while his eyes went to and fro. 817 01:28:54,291 --> 01:28:58,834 'Ha ha,' quoth he, 'full plain I see. 818 01:28:58,921 --> 01:29:01,957 The devil knows how to row.' 819 01:29:04,093 --> 01:29:06,963 - Farewell, farewell..." - You're skipping verses. 820 01:29:07,054 --> 01:29:09,462 I leave out the dull parts. 821 01:29:09,557 --> 01:29:11,596 "Farewell, farewell... 822 01:29:11,684 --> 01:29:14,638 but this I tell to thee, thou wedding guest." 823 01:29:14,728 --> 01:29:17,516 Lay your head back. 824 01:29:17,606 --> 01:29:19,398 "He prayeth well... 825 01:29:19,483 --> 01:29:23,861 who loveth well both man and bird... 826 01:29:23,946 --> 01:29:25,903 and beast." 827 01:29:36,542 --> 01:29:38,700 That's better. 828 01:29:39,587 --> 01:29:43,371 Will it be so different, hunting for hire? 829 01:29:44,341 --> 01:29:47,592 Not for the animals. Well, maybe for the animals. 830 01:29:47,678 --> 01:29:51,213 Do you really prefer them to people? 831 01:29:51,307 --> 01:29:52,552 Sometimes. 832 01:29:53,392 --> 01:29:55,717 They don't do anything half-heartedly. 833 01:29:55,811 --> 01:29:57,887 Everything's for the first time... 834 01:29:57,980 --> 01:30:01,349 Hunting, working, mating. 835 01:30:01,442 --> 01:30:03,684 It's only man that does it badly. 836 01:30:03,778 --> 01:30:07,478 It's only man that tires of going through it. 837 01:30:07,573 --> 01:30:11,950 Who says, "See here. Now I know how you feel about me... 838 01:30:12,036 --> 01:30:16,247 and you know how I feel about you... 839 01:30:16,332 --> 01:30:21,326 and we understand each other, so let's lie down and get on with it." 840 01:30:29,970 --> 01:30:31,880 Why am I here? 841 01:30:34,767 --> 01:30:36,843 Because I wanted you to see all this. 842 01:30:40,314 --> 01:30:43,398 I wanted to show it to you. 843 01:30:43,484 --> 01:30:45,393 I thought you'd understand it. 844 01:30:50,616 --> 01:30:52,692 Do you think much about death? 845 01:30:52,785 --> 01:30:54,694 I think about getting old. 846 01:30:57,623 --> 01:31:00,375 Be like living with a cranky, demanding old bastard. 847 01:31:02,253 --> 01:31:05,622 Well, you are a cranky, demanding old bastard. 848 01:31:12,680 --> 01:31:14,589 I had syphilis. 849 01:31:20,729 --> 01:31:22,639 That's why I went home. 850 01:31:25,860 --> 01:31:27,402 I know. 851 01:31:30,197 --> 01:31:32,605 I never seem to get anything. 852 01:31:32,700 --> 01:31:34,739 German measles once. 853 01:31:38,622 --> 01:31:42,869 They say I'll have a normal life now... 854 01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:45,083 but no children. 855 01:31:47,381 --> 01:31:49,338 So, the school? 856 01:31:53,095 --> 01:31:56,215 So, the school. 857 01:31:56,307 --> 01:31:58,714 The farm. That's what I am now. 858 01:32:11,739 --> 01:32:15,238 We'll need meat for the camp tomorrow. 859 01:32:15,326 --> 01:32:17,069 I'll wake you at dawn. 860 01:32:25,085 --> 01:32:26,117 Good night. 861 01:32:27,546 --> 01:32:28,744 Good night. 862 01:32:40,810 --> 01:32:44,973 We might scare up gazelles, but we'll be going through buffalo country again. 863 01:32:45,064 --> 01:32:47,140 They get cocky when you're on foot. 864 01:34:08,105 --> 01:34:09,184 Supper. 865 01:34:10,566 --> 01:34:12,475 Good size, but... 866 01:34:22,578 --> 01:34:23,491 Lion. 867 01:34:26,207 --> 01:34:28,330 Careful, the wind's behind us. 868 01:35:29,478 --> 01:35:30,557 Back up. 869 01:35:30,646 --> 01:35:31,844 Slowly. 870 01:35:46,245 --> 01:35:49,412 If there's a charge, drop flat... 871 01:35:49,498 --> 01:35:51,407 and let me do it. 872 01:36:33,834 --> 01:36:34,997 Reload! 873 01:37:13,666 --> 01:37:15,789 Dinner in a while? 874 01:37:17,670 --> 01:37:19,627 I'm glad you came. 875 01:38:49,386 --> 01:38:50,845 To rose-lipped maidens. 876 01:39:00,106 --> 01:39:04,103 There was a very young girl from Denmark... 877 01:39:04,193 --> 01:39:07,941 who took passage on a steamer bound for Suez. 878 01:39:10,574 --> 01:39:12,531 There was a storm... 879 01:39:14,036 --> 01:39:15,365 off Morocco... 880 01:39:18,707 --> 01:39:21,661 and she was washed ashore... 881 01:39:21,752 --> 01:39:23,661 onto a beach. 882 01:39:28,676 --> 01:39:30,668 Onto a white beach. 883 01:39:40,187 --> 01:39:43,188 Onto a beach so, so white... 884 01:40:24,190 --> 01:40:25,933 I'd like to do that. 885 01:40:37,870 --> 01:40:40,990 - Will that hurt? - No. 886 01:40:49,548 --> 01:40:53,842 If you say anything now, I'll believe it. 887 01:41:18,744 --> 01:41:21,200 I need to know how to think about this. 888 01:41:23,791 --> 01:41:25,333 Why? 889 01:42:02,746 --> 01:42:05,997 Your clear soup, the new lettuce... 890 01:42:06,083 --> 01:42:08,159 chicken, just the breast. 891 01:42:10,963 --> 01:42:13,169 I trust this meets with your approval? 892 01:42:13,257 --> 01:42:16,092 - Who is coming? - Bwana Cole is coming. 893 01:42:16,177 --> 01:42:18,465 I will think on Bwana Cole. 894 01:42:28,022 --> 01:42:30,939 I've got myself in real trouble now. 895 01:42:31,025 --> 01:42:33,267 - Now you think they should vote? - No, worse. 896 01:42:50,169 --> 01:42:51,414 Get Kamante. 897 01:42:53,464 --> 01:42:55,622 He is out of hand entirely. 898 01:43:03,390 --> 01:43:05,098 Does this look like a chicken? 899 01:43:08,145 --> 01:43:11,597 Here is not a chicken, memsahib. Here is a fish. 900 01:43:13,692 --> 01:43:15,068 Go away. 901 01:43:20,991 --> 01:43:22,699 What do you think? 902 01:43:24,120 --> 01:43:26,278 It's quite good, isn't it? 903 01:43:28,582 --> 01:43:29,911 Be careful. 904 01:43:34,213 --> 01:43:36,834 When the old map makers got to the edge of the world, they used to write... 905 01:43:36,924 --> 01:43:39,380 "Beyond this place there be dragons." 906 01:43:40,761 --> 01:43:42,718 Is that where I am? 907 01:43:45,182 --> 01:43:47,852 He likes to give presents... 908 01:43:47,935 --> 01:43:49,560 but not at Christmas. 909 01:43:51,856 --> 01:43:55,438 He hasn't even said when he's coming again. 910 01:43:55,526 --> 01:43:57,565 If he's coming again. 911 01:43:59,363 --> 01:44:00,561 Would you divorce? 912 01:44:02,450 --> 01:44:04,407 Then I would have no one. 913 01:45:19,527 --> 01:45:21,934 Men who missed moose in Alaska... 914 01:45:22,029 --> 01:45:24,650 grizzly in America, tiger in India... 915 01:45:24,740 --> 01:45:26,780 are all at sea now, bound for here. 916 01:45:29,286 --> 01:45:31,659 Berkeley is going to farm. 917 01:45:31,747 --> 01:45:34,036 You could do that. 918 01:45:34,125 --> 01:45:37,209 No, thank you. 919 01:45:37,294 --> 01:45:39,964 You ought to look in on him, though. 920 01:45:40,047 --> 01:45:41,956 He didn't look all that well. 921 01:45:49,974 --> 01:45:51,883 Can you stay? 922 01:45:55,896 --> 01:45:59,265 For a day or so. 923 01:45:59,358 --> 01:46:01,398 - Is that all right? - No. 924 01:46:05,322 --> 01:46:07,362 You don't need two guns on safari. 925 01:46:07,450 --> 01:46:09,738 Then do the town work. 926 01:46:09,827 --> 01:46:13,278 Meet the clients, do outfitting, there's mail. 927 01:46:13,372 --> 01:46:15,780 I don't know that I'd be right for that. 928 01:46:15,875 --> 01:46:18,959 You've got to do something. 929 01:46:19,044 --> 01:46:21,452 I don't, actually. 930 01:46:21,547 --> 01:46:23,586 My water's gone black. 931 01:46:29,638 --> 01:46:32,509 We've got to get you to a hospital and get you some proper care. 932 01:46:35,603 --> 01:46:37,809 I'm being cared for properly. 933 01:46:48,949 --> 01:46:50,325 It's... 934 01:46:52,536 --> 01:46:55,241 some years now. 935 01:46:55,331 --> 01:46:57,240 She's fond of me, I think. 936 01:47:00,795 --> 01:47:03,464 Why didn't you tell me? 937 01:47:04,757 --> 01:47:06,999 I suppose... 938 01:47:07,093 --> 01:47:08,337 I thought... 939 01:47:11,180 --> 01:47:13,256 I didn't know you well enough. 940 01:47:17,645 --> 01:47:19,554 There's money left in the trading account. 941 01:47:19,647 --> 01:47:23,265 I'd like my share to go to Mairiamo. 942 01:47:23,359 --> 01:47:25,316 Listen. 943 01:47:25,402 --> 01:47:28,818 George Martin had black water fever, and that was five years now. 944 01:47:29,949 --> 01:47:32,522 You might take along that 12-bore you're so fond of. 945 01:47:32,618 --> 01:47:34,658 The trigger seems a bit... 946 01:47:35,579 --> 01:47:37,786 Get Karen to try the Rigby. 947 01:47:37,873 --> 01:47:40,162 It's a nice-size gun for her. 948 01:47:50,136 --> 01:47:51,464 Would you like... 949 01:47:54,181 --> 01:47:56,506 Would you like me to take you home? 950 01:47:58,185 --> 01:48:00,855 I am home, I suppose. 951 01:48:00,938 --> 01:48:02,646 - "F." - "F." 952 01:48:04,358 --> 01:48:06,066 - "G." - "G." 953 01:48:07,570 --> 01:48:09,396 "G" for girl. 954 01:48:14,827 --> 01:48:17,400 Are you packed? 955 01:48:17,496 --> 01:48:19,405 Yes. 956 01:48:19,498 --> 01:48:20,909 How was town? 957 01:48:22,168 --> 01:48:23,282 Crowded. 958 01:48:28,507 --> 01:48:29,918 I've been thinking. 959 01:48:31,844 --> 01:48:35,427 With all the safari work, I have little use for the room... 960 01:48:35,514 --> 01:48:36,973 at the club. 961 01:48:42,855 --> 01:48:46,271 I don't know that I'd be any good at this... 962 01:48:47,526 --> 01:48:51,654 but how would it be if I kept a few things with you? 963 01:48:58,037 --> 01:49:00,279 You would come and go from my house? 964 01:49:02,041 --> 01:49:04,330 If that's all right. 965 01:49:06,128 --> 01:49:09,628 When the gods want to punish you, they answer your prayers. 966 01:49:19,809 --> 01:49:20,888 Berkeley's dying. 967 01:49:24,021 --> 01:49:26,097 - What? - Black water fever. 968 01:49:27,191 --> 01:49:28,602 Oh, my God. 969 01:49:30,027 --> 01:49:33,230 - I'll go to him. - No, he wouldn't want you there. 970 01:49:33,322 --> 01:49:34,271 Why? 971 01:49:36,867 --> 01:49:40,070 There's a woman there. She's Somali. 972 01:49:42,540 --> 01:49:44,117 She's been with him for some time. 973 01:49:45,292 --> 01:49:47,202 You never told me this. 974 01:49:50,005 --> 01:49:51,464 I didn't know. 975 01:50:10,359 --> 01:50:14,571 "...with each one of us now and forevermore." Amen. 976 01:50:36,552 --> 01:50:38,841 Strange that Denys isn't here. 977 01:50:41,098 --> 01:50:43,007 I think he is off with Berkeley. 978 01:50:53,235 --> 01:50:57,150 In the days and hours that Denys was at home... 979 01:50:57,239 --> 01:50:59,861 we spoke of nothing ordinary. 980 01:51:01,076 --> 01:51:04,280 Not of my troubles with the farm... 981 01:51:04,371 --> 01:51:08,120 my notes due and my failing crop... 982 01:51:08,209 --> 01:51:10,534 or of his, with his work... 983 01:51:10,628 --> 01:51:14,044 what he knew was happening to Africa. 984 01:51:16,634 --> 01:51:22,423 Or of anything at all that was small and real. 985 01:51:22,515 --> 01:51:26,299 We lived disconnected... 986 01:51:26,393 --> 01:51:29,347 and apart from things. 987 01:51:30,397 --> 01:51:34,146 I had been making up stories while he was away. 988 01:51:34,235 --> 01:51:38,149 In the evenings, he made himself comfortable... 989 01:51:38,239 --> 01:51:42,651 spreading cushions like a couch in front of the fire. 990 01:51:42,743 --> 01:51:47,489 And with me sitting cross-legged like Shahrazade herself... 991 01:51:47,581 --> 01:51:52,539 he would listen, clear eyed, to a long tale... 992 01:51:53,587 --> 01:51:57,003 from when it began until it ended. 993 01:52:38,883 --> 01:52:40,626 Where did you get it? 994 01:52:40,718 --> 01:52:42,794 Mombasa. 995 01:52:42,887 --> 01:52:44,963 Get in. 996 01:52:49,894 --> 01:52:52,467 When did you learn to fly? 997 01:52:52,563 --> 01:52:54,022 Yesterday. 998 01:55:59,917 --> 01:56:01,328 Don't move. 999 01:56:08,175 --> 01:56:10,084 I want to move. 1000 01:56:11,720 --> 01:56:13,096 Don't move. 1001 01:56:44,920 --> 01:56:46,664 Tanne, may I see you? 1002 01:56:54,638 --> 01:56:55,967 Well, I'm broke too, you know? 1003 01:56:56,056 --> 01:56:59,722 I wouldn't ask, but tips were a bit light. 1004 01:57:03,355 --> 01:57:06,890 - Are you all right? - If I get a decent crop. 1005 01:57:09,069 --> 01:57:11,027 I could shoot him. 1006 01:57:15,034 --> 01:57:18,901 I've got this terrible urge to kiss you. 1007 01:57:21,624 --> 01:57:23,451 He is smarter than I am. 1008 01:57:23,542 --> 01:57:25,451 It may go well. 1009 01:57:27,463 --> 01:57:29,372 Good luck, Tanne. 1010 01:57:41,852 --> 01:57:43,430 You might have asked. 1011 01:57:43,521 --> 01:57:44,931 I did. 1012 01:57:46,524 --> 01:57:48,148 She said yes. 1013 01:58:02,081 --> 01:58:05,366 If I get eaten up some time, bury me here, will you? 1014 01:58:05,459 --> 01:58:07,915 Whatever's left. 1015 01:58:08,003 --> 01:58:11,004 Just there, at the crest of the hill. 1016 01:58:16,846 --> 01:58:18,922 When are you leaving? 1017 01:58:19,014 --> 01:58:20,473 Tomorrow. 1018 01:58:22,184 --> 01:58:25,304 Doesn't it matter to you that I'm another man's wife? 1019 01:58:26,689 --> 01:58:29,939 What matters to me is that you tried so hard. 1020 01:58:32,695 --> 01:58:34,771 What time tomorrow? 1021 01:58:44,874 --> 01:58:46,534 Goodbye again. 1022 01:58:47,626 --> 01:58:49,334 How many acres under cultivation? 1023 01:58:49,420 --> 01:58:52,623 - Five hundred. - The rest of it's wild? 1024 01:58:52,715 --> 01:58:56,629 - Well, the Kikuyu live there. - Why don't you move them off? 1025 01:58:57,887 --> 01:59:00,460 'Cause they live there. 1026 01:59:00,556 --> 01:59:03,225 We'll take it over should you default. 1027 01:59:06,353 --> 01:59:09,058 - We've got another year. - God is great, msabu. 1028 01:59:09,148 --> 01:59:11,105 He's charging three percent. 1029 01:59:22,203 --> 01:59:24,112 This chief says... 1030 01:59:24,205 --> 01:59:26,874 tall children can come to school now. 1031 01:59:35,174 --> 01:59:40,132 Tell Chief Kinanjui that reading is a valuable thing. 1032 01:59:41,180 --> 01:59:43,753 His children will remember him well. 1033 01:59:59,240 --> 02:00:03,818 This chief says, "British can read, and what good has it done them?" 1034 02:01:34,627 --> 02:01:37,248 Miss Felicity Spurway, clear round. 1035 02:01:37,338 --> 02:01:39,330 She's quite something, that Felicity. 1036 02:01:39,423 --> 02:01:40,882 Yes, indeed. 1037 02:01:43,594 --> 02:01:48,837 The next competitor, Mr John Sutton on Castano. 1038 02:01:50,768 --> 02:01:52,642 How are you? 1039 02:01:52,728 --> 02:01:54,685 Getting old, I think. 1040 02:01:55,940 --> 02:01:58,016 Not you. 1041 02:01:58,109 --> 02:01:59,686 How is the hunt? 1042 02:01:59,777 --> 02:02:02,066 I'll make a living. Where is Denys? 1043 02:02:03,405 --> 02:02:07,818 Uganda. Some potentate. 1044 02:02:07,910 --> 02:02:11,824 I thought you might be wanting a divorce. 1045 02:02:16,710 --> 02:02:18,833 Has she got money? 1046 02:02:18,921 --> 02:02:20,830 Of course she's got money. 1047 02:02:22,758 --> 02:02:24,336 Is this important 1048 02:02:25,386 --> 02:02:26,761 I suppose. 1049 02:02:28,222 --> 02:02:30,795 Well, I'll have to accuse you of something. 1050 02:02:32,393 --> 02:02:35,228 Or did you think you would have it the other way around? 1051 02:02:36,730 --> 02:02:38,640 Fire away. Whatever. 1052 02:02:38,732 --> 02:02:40,642 I have surely done it. 1053 02:02:44,071 --> 02:02:45,731 Thank you, Tanne. 1054 02:02:45,823 --> 02:02:50,070 How do you manage it... to keep us friends? 1055 02:02:50,161 --> 02:02:52,912 We started that way. 1056 02:02:55,749 --> 02:02:59,035 Well, I'll be happy for you, if I can. 1057 02:03:07,011 --> 02:03:08,968 I remember that quite well. 1058 02:03:33,245 --> 02:03:35,653 When you go away on safari... 1059 02:03:35,748 --> 02:03:38,155 are you ever with someone else? 1060 02:03:38,250 --> 02:03:40,492 I'd be with you if I wanted to be with anyone. 1061 02:03:43,214 --> 02:03:45,965 - Do you ever get lonely? - Sometimes. 1062 02:03:46,759 --> 02:03:48,798 Do you ever wonder if I am lonely? 1063 02:03:50,596 --> 02:03:52,256 No, I don't. 1064 02:03:53,265 --> 02:03:55,258 Do you think about me at all? 1065 02:03:56,435 --> 02:04:00,267 - Often. - But not enough to come back. 1066 02:04:01,899 --> 02:04:04,604 I do come back... all the time. What is it? 1067 02:04:06,362 --> 02:04:07,986 Nothing. 1068 02:04:14,870 --> 02:04:18,950 Bror has asked me for a divorce. He found someone that he wants to marry. 1069 02:04:19,041 --> 02:04:21,283 I just thought we might do that someday. 1070 02:04:22,545 --> 02:04:23,825 Divorce? 1071 02:04:27,174 --> 02:04:30,626 How... How would a wedding change things? 1072 02:04:31,720 --> 02:04:34,294 I would have someone of my own. 1073 02:04:36,559 --> 02:04:37,969 You wouldn't. 1074 02:04:39,854 --> 02:04:41,893 What's wrong with marriage, anyway? 1075 02:04:41,981 --> 02:04:44,020 Have you ever seen one you admire? 1076 02:04:44,108 --> 02:04:45,982 Yes, I have. Many. 1077 02:04:49,447 --> 02:04:51,653 Belfields, for one. 1078 02:04:51,740 --> 02:04:54,658 He sent her home for the rains in 1910. 1079 02:04:54,743 --> 02:04:56,866 Didn't tell her they were over till 1913. 1080 02:04:56,954 --> 02:04:59,326 It's not a joke. People marry. It's not revolutionary. 1081 02:04:59,415 --> 02:05:02,618 - There are animals that mate for life. - Geese. 1082 02:05:02,710 --> 02:05:05,794 You use the damn animals for your own argument. 1083 02:05:05,880 --> 02:05:07,706 You won't let me use them for mine. 1084 02:05:09,049 --> 02:05:11,375 I'd mate for life. 1085 02:05:12,553 --> 02:05:14,344 One day at a time. 1086 02:05:15,556 --> 02:05:20,930 I'd just like someone to ask me once, that's all. 1087 02:05:21,020 --> 02:05:24,471 Promise me you'll do that, if I promise to say no? 1088 02:05:24,565 --> 02:05:27,186 Just trust you, eh? 1089 02:05:32,072 --> 02:05:33,946 When you go away... 1090 02:05:35,409 --> 02:05:37,616 you don't always go on safari, do you? 1091 02:05:44,543 --> 02:05:46,785 Just want to be away. 1092 02:05:48,130 --> 02:05:50,039 It's not meant to hurt you. 1093 02:05:52,093 --> 02:05:53,919 It does. 1094 02:05:55,387 --> 02:05:57,878 I'm with you because I choose to be with you. 1095 02:05:57,973 --> 02:06:01,307 I don't want to live someone else's idea of how to live. 1096 02:06:01,393 --> 02:06:03,766 Don't ask me to do that. 1097 02:06:03,854 --> 02:06:07,852 I don't want to find out one day that I'm at the end of someone else's life. 1098 02:06:10,027 --> 02:06:12,269 I'm willing to pay for mine. To be lonely sometimes. 1099 02:06:12,363 --> 02:06:14,854 To die alone, if I have to. I think that's fair. 1100 02:06:14,949 --> 02:06:17,985 Not quite. You want me to pay for it as well. 1101 02:06:18,077 --> 02:06:21,612 No, you have a choice, and you're not willing to do the same for me. 1102 02:06:25,209 --> 02:06:28,126 I won't be closer to you... 1103 02:06:28,212 --> 02:06:30,833 and I won't love you more because of a piece of paper. 1104 02:06:45,062 --> 02:06:46,722 See if you can shore it up. 1105 02:06:57,741 --> 02:06:58,690 Move away. 1106 02:07:01,912 --> 02:07:04,403 Let it go. 1107 02:07:06,041 --> 02:07:08,615 This water lives in Mombasa anyway. 1108 02:07:54,465 --> 02:07:56,374 I flew as far as Narok. 1109 02:07:56,467 --> 02:07:59,966 You could see all the ruts where the lorries had been. 1110 02:08:00,054 --> 02:08:01,963 The Serengeti was still good. 1111 02:08:02,056 --> 02:08:03,965 Take a week just getting there. 1112 02:08:09,522 --> 02:08:12,273 And Samburu is still good. 1113 02:08:12,358 --> 02:08:14,434 Where's Belknap? I haven't seen him. 1114 02:08:17,780 --> 02:08:19,903 He must be in America by now. 1115 02:08:23,702 --> 02:08:25,612 I let him go. 1116 02:08:27,206 --> 02:08:30,409 I had to. But you don't want to hear about the farm, do you? 1117 02:08:30,501 --> 02:08:34,084 - L... Have you got any buttons? - What are you doing? 1118 02:08:35,714 --> 02:08:37,125 - Mending your shirt. - Don't. 1119 02:08:38,175 --> 02:08:39,800 Don't do that. 1120 02:08:39,885 --> 02:08:41,130 You don't have to do that. 1121 02:08:50,396 --> 02:08:52,472 Maybe I'll try Samburu day after tomorrow. 1122 02:08:52,565 --> 02:08:54,308 You just got back. 1123 02:08:58,696 --> 02:09:01,531 You know, Felicity asked to come along... 1124 02:09:03,367 --> 02:09:06,285 and I almost said no because I thought you wouldn't like it. 1125 02:09:06,370 --> 02:09:09,454 - There's no reason for her not to come. - Yes, there is. I wouldn't like it. 1126 02:09:10,207 --> 02:09:11,749 You want her along? 1127 02:09:11,834 --> 02:09:13,910 I want things that don't matter not to matter. 1128 02:09:14,003 --> 02:09:16,754 - Then tell her no. Do it for me. - And then? What else would it be? 1129 02:09:16,839 --> 02:09:18,796 Why is your freedom more important that mine? 1130 02:09:18,883 --> 02:09:21,421 It isn't. And I've never interfered with your freedom. 1131 02:09:21,510 --> 02:09:23,586 No. I'm not allowed to need you. 1132 02:09:23,679 --> 02:09:25,921 Or rely on you, or expect anything from you. 1133 02:09:26,015 --> 02:09:27,924 I'm free to leave. 1134 02:09:29,185 --> 02:09:31,094 - But I do need you. - You don't need me. 1135 02:09:31,187 --> 02:09:33,428 If I die, will you die? You don't need me. 1136 02:09:33,522 --> 02:09:36,440 You're confused. You've mixed up need with want. You always have. 1137 02:09:36,525 --> 02:09:39,562 My God. In the world that you would make, there would be no love at all. 1138 02:09:39,653 --> 02:09:41,895 Or the best kind. The kind we wouldn't have to prove. 1139 02:09:41,989 --> 02:09:44,776 - You'll be living on the moon then. - Why? Because I won't do it your way? 1140 02:09:44,867 --> 02:09:47,784 Are we assuming there's one proper way to do all this? 1141 02:09:47,870 --> 02:09:49,613 Do you think I care about Felicity? 1142 02:09:49,705 --> 02:09:51,614 Do you think I'll be involved with her? 1143 02:09:57,129 --> 02:09:59,122 - Then there's no reason for this. - If she's not important... 1144 02:09:59,215 --> 02:10:01,041 why won't you give it up? 1145 02:10:03,928 --> 02:10:06,501 I have learned a thing that you haven't. 1146 02:10:07,723 --> 02:10:09,965 There are some things worth having... 1147 02:10:11,227 --> 02:10:14,809 but they come at a price, and I want to be one of them. 1148 02:10:17,399 --> 02:10:19,024 I won't allow it. 1149 02:10:21,737 --> 02:10:24,738 You have no idea the effect that language has on me. 1150 02:10:24,824 --> 02:10:27,659 I used to think that there was nothing that you really wanted... 1151 02:10:27,743 --> 02:10:29,985 but that's not it, is it? 1152 02:10:30,079 --> 02:10:32,748 You want to have it all. 1153 02:10:37,920 --> 02:10:40,162 I'm going to Samburu. She can come or not. 1154 02:10:47,596 --> 02:10:49,554 Then you will be living elsewhere. 1155 02:10:56,772 --> 02:10:58,053 All right. 1156 02:11:38,063 --> 02:11:40,021 Is that a prince in there? 1157 02:11:57,958 --> 02:12:01,043 I think that you had better get up, memsahib. 1158 02:12:01,128 --> 02:12:03,798 - What? - I think that you had better get up. 1159 02:12:03,881 --> 02:12:05,838 I think that God is coming. 1160 02:13:01,605 --> 02:13:03,016 All gone. 1161 02:13:20,875 --> 02:13:24,291 - How did it start? - I think God had a hand in it. 1162 02:13:24,378 --> 02:13:28,292 He gave me my best crop ever, and then He remembered. 1163 02:13:28,382 --> 02:13:30,956 - Insurance? - That's for pessimists. 1164 02:13:31,761 --> 02:13:33,670 Where is Denys? 1165 02:13:33,763 --> 02:13:35,138 Who knows? 1166 02:13:37,600 --> 02:13:40,351 Doesn't matter. The baroness is broke, "D." 1167 02:13:42,229 --> 02:13:43,688 It's over. 1168 02:13:43,773 --> 02:13:47,817 I've got to find some land before I go, for my Kikuyu. 1169 02:13:47,902 --> 02:13:49,360 You've trouble enough, Karen. 1170 02:13:49,445 --> 02:13:52,529 Just a chunk somewhere, so they can stay all together. 1171 02:13:55,451 --> 02:13:57,823 We're just out of coffee... 1172 02:13:57,912 --> 02:13:59,869 but I can give you tea. 1173 02:14:00,998 --> 02:14:04,782 There is no arable land that size outside the reserve... 1174 02:14:04,877 --> 02:14:06,916 and if there were, we'd not put natives on it. 1175 02:14:07,004 --> 02:14:10,918 - Since it's theirs. - It belongs to the crown, Baroness. 1176 02:14:11,008 --> 02:14:12,965 What you want is quite impossible. 1177 02:14:13,052 --> 02:14:16,421 Yes, it always is. Who must I see next? 1178 02:14:16,514 --> 02:14:19,218 You've run through us all, I'm afraid. 1179 02:14:19,308 --> 02:14:21,301 We have a new governor, haven't we? 1180 02:14:21,393 --> 02:14:24,928 Sir Joseph? He hasn't arrived yet. 1181 02:14:25,022 --> 02:14:27,976 But will soon, I'm told. 1182 02:14:28,067 --> 02:14:30,225 You do still ask me to things? 1183 02:14:30,319 --> 02:14:33,154 Captain Jacques Llewllyn. 1184 02:14:33,239 --> 02:14:35,148 - Your servant, sir. - Mr Llewllyn. 1185 02:14:36,408 --> 02:14:39,244 The honourable Hugh Chomondeley, Lord Delamere. 1186 02:14:39,328 --> 02:14:42,115 - Your servant, sir. - Lady Delamere. 1187 02:14:42,206 --> 02:14:44,199 - How do you do? - Lady Delamere. 1188 02:14:47,211 --> 02:14:49,120 - Commissioner. - Baroness. 1189 02:14:49,213 --> 02:14:51,122 The Baroness von Blixen. 1190 02:14:52,591 --> 02:14:55,296 I'm sorry to know that Kenya will be losing you. 1191 02:14:55,386 --> 02:14:57,959 - You have heard of my trouble then? - Yes. 1192 02:14:58,055 --> 02:15:00,178 I regret it. 1193 02:15:00,266 --> 02:15:02,887 - And do you know of my problem now? - Baroness. 1194 02:15:04,228 --> 02:15:07,644 - This land you want from us. - Will you help me, Sir Joseph? 1195 02:15:07,731 --> 02:15:09,771 - Baroness, this really isn't the time. - That's quite difficult. 1196 02:15:13,654 --> 02:15:15,694 - Baroness. - Please, get up. 1197 02:15:19,368 --> 02:15:21,989 Kenya is a hard country for women... 1198 02:15:23,038 --> 02:15:24,948 so there is a chivalry here, of a sort. 1199 02:15:25,040 --> 02:15:28,741 You are a powerful man, and I have no one else to turn to. 1200 02:15:28,836 --> 02:15:30,793 Let's discuss this in the proper way. 1201 02:15:30,880 --> 02:15:33,631 You mustn't be embarrassed. I've lost everything. 1202 02:15:33,716 --> 02:15:35,673 - It costs me very little to beg you. - Wait. 1203 02:15:38,387 --> 02:15:40,380 Give her a moment, please. 1204 02:15:50,733 --> 02:15:53,140 This land was theirs, you see. 1205 02:15:53,235 --> 02:15:56,402 We took it, and now they have nowhere else to go. 1206 02:15:56,489 --> 02:16:00,356 I'll look into it. We'll do the best we can. 1207 02:16:00,451 --> 02:16:02,360 May I have your word, sir? 1208 02:16:08,209 --> 02:16:09,537 You have mine. 1209 02:16:20,179 --> 02:16:21,638 Thank you. 1210 02:16:22,890 --> 02:16:24,799 I hope you will be happy here. 1211 02:16:25,976 --> 02:16:27,601 I was. 1212 02:16:28,854 --> 02:16:30,811 I'm sorry I won't know you. 1213 02:16:45,246 --> 02:16:47,618 I didn't hear it until I got to the border. 1214 02:16:47,706 --> 02:16:50,826 It seems I'll do almost anything to get your attention. 1215 02:16:57,091 --> 02:16:59,000 I've nearly got you packed. 1216 02:17:05,850 --> 02:17:08,008 And my poor family, I've got them near bankrupt. 1217 02:17:08,102 --> 02:17:10,807 Now I have to ask them for more money. 1218 02:17:12,356 --> 02:17:17,101 - Let me help you. - You would keep me, then? 1219 02:17:22,700 --> 02:17:25,321 No. I want to be worth something now. 1220 02:17:27,371 --> 02:17:29,779 What will you do? 1221 02:17:29,874 --> 02:17:32,625 After my rummage sale, leave. 1222 02:17:32,710 --> 02:17:34,786 Friday for Mombasa, and then... 1223 02:17:35,880 --> 02:17:37,422 the boat to Denmark. 1224 02:17:55,733 --> 02:17:57,144 Thank you. 1225 02:18:07,828 --> 02:18:10,580 You must have them ready to leave before the rains. 1226 02:18:10,664 --> 02:18:13,120 It is good land, enough for all. 1227 02:18:13,209 --> 02:18:16,245 But they must not fight about it or be any trouble to the authorities. 1228 02:18:16,337 --> 02:18:20,417 Do you understand? Or they will lose it. 1229 02:18:20,508 --> 02:18:24,968 You must make them understand that I will not be here... 1230 02:18:25,054 --> 02:18:26,928 to speak for them. 1231 02:18:27,014 --> 02:18:29,801 This land is far? 1232 02:18:29,892 --> 02:18:31,303 Not too far. 1233 02:18:35,022 --> 02:18:39,483 How can it be now with me and yourself? 1234 02:18:39,568 --> 02:18:43,317 You will have some money. Enough, I think. 1235 02:18:43,405 --> 02:18:45,315 I do not speak of money. 1236 02:18:49,537 --> 02:18:52,158 Do you remember how it was... 1237 02:18:52,248 --> 02:18:54,157 on safari? 1238 02:18:54,250 --> 02:18:58,294 In the afternoons I would send you ahead to look for a camp... 1239 02:18:58,379 --> 02:19:00,455 and you would wait for me. 1240 02:19:00,548 --> 02:19:02,754 You can see the fire... 1241 02:19:02,842 --> 02:19:04,751 and come to this place. 1242 02:19:07,513 --> 02:19:08,972 Yes. 1243 02:19:10,683 --> 02:19:12,592 Well, it will be like that. 1244 02:19:15,187 --> 02:19:19,102 Only this time I will go ahead and wait for you. 1245 02:19:21,193 --> 02:19:24,609 It is far, where you are going? 1246 02:19:27,366 --> 02:19:28,908 Yes. 1247 02:19:30,369 --> 02:19:33,619 You must make this fire very big... 1248 02:19:33,706 --> 02:19:36,375 so I can find you. 1249 02:19:43,382 --> 02:19:45,291 Take that out to the lawn. 1250 02:20:26,008 --> 02:20:27,917 Have you had dinner? 1251 02:20:30,429 --> 02:20:31,888 Yes. 1252 02:20:39,105 --> 02:20:41,346 Your things... I packed your things. 1253 02:20:41,440 --> 02:20:43,848 I thought I would send them on to the club. 1254 02:20:43,943 --> 02:20:45,567 Is that all right? 1255 02:21:07,883 --> 02:21:10,505 This wasn't a very good idea. 1256 02:21:23,232 --> 02:21:25,984 I think we should have had it this way all the time. 1257 02:21:28,237 --> 02:21:30,146 I don't know. 1258 02:21:30,239 --> 02:21:32,362 I was beginning to like your things. 1259 02:21:33,742 --> 02:21:37,076 And I was beginning to like living without them. 1260 02:21:46,922 --> 02:21:49,709 You've ruined it for me, you know. 1261 02:21:50,760 --> 02:21:52,337 Ruined what? 1262 02:21:56,432 --> 02:21:57,926 Being alone. 1263 02:22:01,103 --> 02:22:02,562 Have I? 1264 02:22:09,236 --> 02:22:11,608 I'd like to come with you to Mombasa. 1265 02:22:15,075 --> 02:22:16,902 Can I fly you there? 1266 02:22:18,412 --> 02:22:20,405 Aren't you going away again? 1267 02:22:21,457 --> 02:22:24,826 I have some things to do tomorrow at Tsavo, but I'll be back on Friday. 1268 02:22:27,087 --> 02:22:29,294 Will that be all right? 1269 02:22:31,592 --> 02:22:33,003 Of course. 1270 02:22:38,057 --> 02:22:41,177 I've got this little thing that I've learned to do lately. 1271 02:22:42,895 --> 02:22:45,812 When it gets so bad... 1272 02:22:45,898 --> 02:22:49,812 and I think I can't go on... 1273 02:22:49,902 --> 02:22:52,358 I try to make it worse. 1274 02:22:54,281 --> 02:22:57,401 I make myself think about our camp on the river... 1275 02:23:01,413 --> 02:23:02,872 and Berkeley... 1276 02:23:05,376 --> 02:23:08,163 and the first time that you took me flying. 1277 02:23:10,214 --> 02:23:12,171 How good it all was. 1278 02:23:16,554 --> 02:23:19,804 And when I'm certain that I can't stand it... 1279 02:23:19,890 --> 02:23:22,298 I go one moment more. 1280 02:23:25,062 --> 02:23:28,099 And then I know I can bear anything. 1281 02:23:32,403 --> 02:23:34,609 Would you like to help me? 1282 02:23:35,656 --> 02:23:36,937 Yes. 1283 02:23:47,251 --> 02:23:49,208 Come dance with me then. 1284 02:24:37,384 --> 02:24:39,460 You were right, you know. 1285 02:24:39,553 --> 02:24:42,127 The farm never did belong to me. 1286 02:24:44,767 --> 02:24:46,676 I may have been wrong. 1287 02:24:48,229 --> 02:24:51,016 I had a farm in Africa. 1288 02:24:54,235 --> 02:24:56,192 - Friday. - Yes. 1289 02:26:41,634 --> 02:26:43,425 Would you like a drink? 1290 02:26:47,223 --> 02:26:48,681 Please. 1291 02:27:08,035 --> 02:27:09,660 Denys has been killed. 1292 02:27:12,373 --> 02:27:14,780 His plane crashed at Tsavo. 1293 02:27:36,021 --> 02:27:37,564 There was a fire. 1294 02:27:51,245 --> 02:27:53,368 Can I take you into town, Tanne? 1295 02:27:56,750 --> 02:27:58,542 Why did they send you? 1296 02:28:02,339 --> 02:28:04,166 I thought I should. 1297 02:28:12,016 --> 02:28:13,925 My God, you are brave. 1298 02:28:53,057 --> 02:28:56,805 "The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon at night. 1299 02:28:56,894 --> 02:28:59,978 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil. 1300 02:29:00,064 --> 02:29:02,270 He shall preserve thy soul. 1301 02:29:02,358 --> 02:29:05,643 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in. 1302 02:29:05,736 --> 02:29:08,903 From this time forth and even forevermore." 1303 02:29:08,989 --> 02:29:11,196 Amen. 1304 02:29:37,351 --> 02:29:40,138 "The time you won your town the race... 1305 02:29:41,355 --> 02:29:44,641 we chaired you through the marketplace. 1306 02:29:44,733 --> 02:29:47,106 Man and boy stood cheering by... 1307 02:29:47,194 --> 02:29:50,978 as home we brought you, shoulder high. 1308 02:29:52,700 --> 02:29:57,326 Smart lad, to slip betimes away... 1309 02:29:57,413 --> 02:30:00,449 from fields where glory does not stay. 1310 02:30:02,084 --> 02:30:05,168 Early though the laurel grows... 1311 02:30:05,254 --> 02:30:08,041 it withers quicker than a rose. 1312 02:30:09,216 --> 02:30:11,672 Now you will not swell the rout... 1313 02:30:11,761 --> 02:30:14,133 of lads that wore their honours out. 1314 02:30:15,222 --> 02:30:18,674 Runners whom renown outran... 1315 02:30:18,768 --> 02:30:21,140 and the name died... 1316 02:30:21,228 --> 02:30:22,687 before the man. 1317 02:30:24,774 --> 02:30:27,525 And round that early laurelled head... 1318 02:30:28,611 --> 02:30:31,647 will flock to gaze the strengthless dead... 1319 02:30:33,449 --> 02:30:36,865 and find unwithered on its curls... 1320 02:30:38,746 --> 02:30:40,205 a garland... 1321 02:30:47,254 --> 02:30:50,089 briefer than a girl's." 1322 02:31:07,066 --> 02:31:10,980 Now take back the soul of Denys George Finch Hatton... 1323 02:31:12,696 --> 02:31:14,985 whom You have shared with us. 1324 02:31:17,535 --> 02:31:19,492 He brought us joy... 1325 02:31:21,247 --> 02:31:23,204 and we loved him well. 1326 02:31:26,752 --> 02:31:28,661 He was not ours. 1327 02:31:32,508 --> 02:31:34,417 He was not mine. 1328 02:32:44,914 --> 02:32:48,283 If I know a song of Africa... 1329 02:32:49,084 --> 02:32:51,207 of the giraffe... 1330 02:32:51,295 --> 02:32:55,044 and the African new moon lying on her back... 1331 02:32:56,258 --> 02:32:59,010 of the ploughs in the fields... 1332 02:32:59,095 --> 02:33:02,594 and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers... 1333 02:33:03,891 --> 02:33:07,474 does Africa know a song of me? 1334 02:33:09,396 --> 02:33:11,934 Will the air over the plain quiver... 1335 02:33:12,024 --> 02:33:14,811 with a colour that I have had on? 1336 02:33:16,862 --> 02:33:19,484 Or will the children invent a game... 1337 02:33:19,573 --> 02:33:21,981 in which my name is? 1338 02:33:23,702 --> 02:33:26,407 Or the full moon throw a shadow... 1339 02:33:26,497 --> 02:33:28,952 over the gravel of the drive... 1340 02:33:29,750 --> 02:33:33,000 that was like me? 1341 02:33:33,087 --> 02:33:37,832 Or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me? 1342 02:33:50,438 --> 02:33:52,810 You cannot come where I am going. 1343 02:33:52,898 --> 02:33:55,057 There is no cooking where you are going? 1344 02:33:56,735 --> 02:34:00,899 You would not like it there. You must trust me about this. 1345 02:34:24,221 --> 02:34:27,637 Letters you can send on to this address in Denmark. 1346 02:34:27,725 --> 02:34:31,473 When you sell the car, if you would send the cheque to Hunter and Company... 1347 02:34:31,562 --> 02:34:34,314 and anything else you don't know what to do with. 1348 02:34:34,398 --> 02:34:35,809 Yes, ma'am. 1349 02:34:37,902 --> 02:34:41,520 Baroness, I've been sent to ask if we may stand you a drink. 1350 02:34:42,907 --> 02:34:47,782 - Who is "we"? - Well, the members, actually. 1351 02:34:51,248 --> 02:34:52,411 All right. 1352 02:35:08,724 --> 02:35:11,096 Whiskey, please. 1353 02:35:11,185 --> 02:35:13,142 Two whiskys, please. 1354 02:35:36,085 --> 02:35:37,199 Baroness? 1355 02:35:39,547 --> 02:35:43,461 Rose-lipped maidens, light-foot lads. 1356 02:35:43,551 --> 02:35:45,093 Hear, hear. 1357 02:35:53,936 --> 02:35:55,347 Thank you. 1358 02:36:03,696 --> 02:36:05,356 This is very dear to me. 1359 02:36:08,534 --> 02:36:10,610 It has helped me to find my way. 1360 02:36:12,371 --> 02:36:13,782 Thank you, msabu. 1361 02:36:31,015 --> 02:36:33,257 I want to hear you say my name. 1362 02:36:36,395 --> 02:36:40,772 You are Karen, msabu. 1363 02:36:52,745 --> 02:36:54,868 The mail has come today... 1364 02:36:54,955 --> 02:36:57,707 and a friend writes this to me: 1365 02:36:59,084 --> 02:37:03,746 "The Masai have reported to the district commissioner at Ngong... 1366 02:37:04,840 --> 02:37:09,586 that many times at sunrise and sunset... 1367 02:37:09,678 --> 02:37:14,969 they have seen lions on Finch Hatton's grave. 1368 02:37:15,059 --> 02:37:18,309 A lion and a lioness have gone there... 1369 02:37:18,395 --> 02:37:23,307 and stood or lain on the grave for a long time. 1370 02:37:25,236 --> 02:37:28,818 After you went away, the ground around the grave... 1371 02:37:28,906 --> 02:37:32,986 was levelled out into a sort of terrace. 1372 02:37:33,077 --> 02:37:38,664 I suppose that the level place makes a good site for the lions. 1373 02:37:38,749 --> 02:37:42,829 From there they have a view over the plain... 1374 02:37:42,920 --> 02:37:46,336 and the cattle and game on it." 1375 02:37:48,926 --> 02:37:50,883 Denys will like that. 1376 02:37:51,762 --> 02:37:54,253 I must remember to tell him.