1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:04,600 [soft music] 2 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,400 Is your ladyship at home this afternoon? 3 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,320 Yes. Who has called? 4 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,680 Lord Darlington, my lady. 5 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,640 Show him up. And I'm at home to any one who calls. 6 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:04,680 [Parker] Yes, my lady. 7 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,080 [soft music] 8 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,440 Lord Darlington. 9 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:20,640 How do you do, Lady Windermere? 10 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:21,600 How do you do, Lord Darlington? 11 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:23,640 No, I can't shake hands with you. 12 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:27,160 My hands are all wet with these roses. Aren't they lovely? 13 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:28,200 They came up from Selby this morning. 14 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,640 They are quite perfect. 15 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,280 What a wonderful fan. May I look at it? 16 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,960 Do. Pretty, isn't it? 17 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:38,200 It's got my name on it, and everything. 18 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,640 I have only just seen it myself. 19 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,800 It's my husband's birthday present to me. 20 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:45,200 You know today is my birthday? 21 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:46,520 No? Is it really? 22 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,640 Yes, I'm of age today. 23 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:51,680 Quite an important day in my life, isn't it? 24 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:53,040 That is why I am giving this party tonight. 25 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:54,800 I wish I had known it was your birthday, Lady Windermere. 26 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,400 I would have covered the whole street 27 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,440 in front of your house with flowers for you to walk on. 28 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:00,480 They are made for you. 29 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,920 Lord Darlington, you annoyed me last night 30 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,440 at the Foreign Office. 31 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,760 I am afraid you are going to annoy me again. 32 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:09,440 I, Lady Windermere? 33 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:10,600 Put it there, Parker. 34 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:20,880 That will do. 35 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:27,480 Won't you come over, Lord Darlington? 36 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:29,440 I am quite miserable, Lady Windermere. 37 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:30,920 You must tell me what I did. 38 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,920 Well, you kept paying me elaborate compliments 39 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:36,000 the whole evening. 40 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,760 Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, 41 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:40,880 that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. 42 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,440 They're the only things we can pay. 43 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,400 No, I am talking very seriously. 44 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,360 You mustn't laugh, I am quite serious. 45 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,600 I don't like compliments, 46 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,560 and I don't see why a man should think 47 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,160 he is pleasing a woman enormously 48 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,200 when he says to her a whole heap of things 49 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:58,280 that he doesn't mean. 50 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,200 Ah, but I did mean them. 51 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:01,280 I hope not. 52 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:03,600 I should be sorry 53 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,280 to have to quarrel with you, Lord Darlington. 54 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,120 I like you very much, you know that. 55 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:10,160 But I shouldn't like you at all 56 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,000 if I thought you were what most other men are. 57 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,600 Believe me, you are better than most other men, 58 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,480 and I sometimes think you pretend to be worse. 59 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,360 We all have our little vanities, Lady Windermere. 60 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,120 Why do you make that your special one? 61 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:24,880 Nowadays so many conceited people 62 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,120 go about society pretending to be good, 63 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,080 that I think it shows rather a sweet and modest disposition 64 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:31,560 to pretend to be bad. 65 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,520 Besides, there is this to be said, 66 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:34,640 if you pretend to be good, 67 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:37,160 the world takes you very seriously. 68 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,080 If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. 69 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,240 Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. 70 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:43,080 Don't you want the world 71 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,080 to take you seriously then, Lord Darlington? 72 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:46,720 No, not the world. 73 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,160 Who are the people the world takes seriously? 74 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,240 All the dull people one can think of, 75 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,000 from the Bishops down to the bores. 76 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:56,640 I should like you 77 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,040 to take me very seriously, Lady Windermere. 78 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:00,920 You more than any one else in life. 79 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,000 Why? Why me? 80 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:06,800 Because I think we might be great friends. 81 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,880 Let us be great friends. You may want a friend some day. 82 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:13,720 Why do you say that? 83 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,000 Oh! We all want friends at times. 84 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,800 I think we're very good friends already, Lord Darlington. 85 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:21,800 We can always remain so as long as you don't - 86 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:22,720 Don't what? 87 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,680 Don't spoil it by saying extravagant silly things to me. 88 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,520 You think I am a Puritan, I suppose? 89 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,440 Well, I have something of the Puritan in me. 90 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,920 I was brought up like that. I am glad of it. 91 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:40,800 Lady Julia was stern to me, 92 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,640 but she taught me what the world is forgetting, 93 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:44,800 the difference that there is 94 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,080 between what is right and what is wrong. 95 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:51,320 She allowed of no compromise. I allow of none. 96 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,440 My dear Lady Windermere! 97 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,480 You look on me as being behind the age. 98 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,080 Well, I am! 99 00:04:58,080 --> 00:04:59,880 I should be sorry to be on the same level 100 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:00,840 as an age like this. 101 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,160 You think the age very bad? 102 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,320 Yes, nowadays, people seem to look on life 103 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,760 as a speculation. 104 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:13,120 It is not a speculation. It is a sacrament. 105 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,640 Its ideal is love. Its purification is sacrifice. 106 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,400 Oh, anything is better than being sacrificed! 107 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:21,960 Don't say that. 108 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,200 I do say it. I feel it, I know it. 109 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:28,720 The men want to know if they are to put the carpets 110 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,960 on the terrace for tonight, my lady? 111 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,200 You don't think it will rain, Lord Darlington, do you? 112 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,160 I won't hear of it raining on your birthday! 113 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,000 Tell them to do it at once, Parker. 114 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,040 Do you think then, 115 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,920 of course I am only putting an imaginary instance, 116 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,320 do you think that in the case of a young married couple, 117 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:52,160 say about two years married, 118 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,560 if the husband suddenly becomes the intimate friend 119 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:58,240 of a woman of, well, more than doubtful character, 120 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,640 is always calling upon her, lunching with her, 121 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,320 and probably paying her bills, 122 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,920 do you think that the wife should not console herself? 123 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,280 [Lady Windermere] Console herself? 124 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:15,040 Yes, I think she should. I think she has the right. 125 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,840 Because the husband is vile, should the wife be vile also? 126 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:21,480 Vileness is a terrible word, Lady Windermere. 127 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,640 It is a terrible thing, Lord Darlington. 128 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:25,520 Do you know I am afraid 129 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:27,760 that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. 130 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,360 Certainly the greatest harm that they do 131 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,600 is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. 132 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,440 It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. 133 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,520 People are either charming or tedious. 134 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:43,120 I take the side of the charming, 135 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,160 and you, Lady Windermere, can't help belonging to them. 136 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:47,520 Now, Lord Darlington, 137 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,800 don't stir, I am merely going to finish my flowers. 138 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,640 And I must say I think you are very hard on modern life. 139 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,640 Of course there is much against it, I admit. 140 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:01,480 Women, for instance, nowadays, are rather mercenary. 141 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,240 Don't talk of such people. 142 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:05,200 Well then, setting mercenary people aside, 143 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:06,680 who, of course, are dreadful, 144 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:08,520 do you think seriously 145 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,280 that women who have committed what the world calls a fault 146 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:14,120 should never be forgiven? 147 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,200 I think they should never be forgiven. 148 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:17,320 And men? 149 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:19,600 Do you think that there should be the same laws for men 150 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:20,680 as there are for women? 151 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:22,120 Certainly! 152 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:23,960 I think life far too complex a thing 153 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,960 to be settled by these hard and fast rules. 154 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,360 If we had these hard and fast rules, 155 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,680 we should find life much more simple. 156 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,640 Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, Lady Windermere! 157 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,400 The adjective was unnecessary, Lord Darlington. 158 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:39,240 I couldn't help it. 159 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,120 I can resist everything except temptation. 160 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,000 You have the modern affectation of weakness. 161 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,000 It's only an affectation, Lady Windermere. 162 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,640 The Duchess of Berwick and Lady Agatha Carlisle. 163 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:53,800 Dear Margaret, I am so pleased to see you. 164 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,920 You remember Agatha, don't you? 165 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:58,680 How do you do, Lord Darlington? 166 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,880 I won't let you know my daughter, you are far too wicked. 167 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:03,040 Don't say that, Duchess. 168 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:04,800 As a wicked man I am a complete failure. 169 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:05,600 Why, there are lots of people who say 170 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,640 I have never really done anything wrong 171 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,160 in the whole course of my life. 172 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,600 Of course they only say it behind my back. 173 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:15,160 Isn't he dreadful? Agatha, this is Lord Darlington. 174 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,880 Mind you don't believe a word he says. 175 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,520 No, no tea, thank you, dear. 176 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,200 We have just had tea at Lady Markby's. 177 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:27,680 Such bad tea, too. It was quite undrinkable. 178 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,000 I wasn't at all surprised. Her own son-in-law supplies it. 179 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,160 Agatha is looking forward 180 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:37,000 so much to your ball tonight, dear Margaret. 181 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,760 Oh, you mustn't think it is going to be a ball, Duchess. 182 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,200 It is only a dance in honour of my birthday. 183 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:43,760 A small and early. 184 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:46,680 Very small, very early, and very select, Duchess. 185 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:48,800 Of course it's going to be select. 186 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,880 But we know that, dear Margaret, of your house. 187 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,320 It is really one of the few houses in London 188 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:55,680 where I can take Agatha, 189 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:59,080 and where I feel perfectly secure about dear Berwick. 190 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,760 I don't know what society is coming to. 191 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,520 The most dreadful people seem to go everywhere. 192 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,520 They certainly come to my parties. 193 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,560 The men get quite furious if one doesn't ask them. 194 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:12,560 Really, some one should make a stand against it. 195 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:13,920 I will, Duchess. 196 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:15,520 I will have no one in my house 197 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,320 about whom there is any scandal. 198 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:18,640 Oh, don't say that, Lady Windermere. 199 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:19,880 I should never be admitted. 200 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,280 Men don't matter. With women it is different. 201 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,160 We're good. Some of us are, at least. 202 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,960 But we are positively getting elbowed into the corner. 203 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,200 Our husbands would really forget our existence 204 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,720 if we didn't nag at them from time to time, 205 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:34,720 just to remind them 206 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,480 that we have a perfect legal right to do so. 207 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:38,680 It's a curious thing, Duchess, 208 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:40,040 about the game of marriage. 209 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,320 A game, by the way, which is going out of fashion, 210 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,120 but the wives hold all the honours, 211 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,800 and invariably lose the odd trick. 212 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,040 The odd trick? Is that the husband, Lord Darlington? 213 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,240 It would be rather a good name for the modern husband. 214 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,240 Dear Lord Darlington, how thoroughly depraved you are. 215 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:57,920 Lord Darlington is trivial. 216 00:09:57,920 --> 00:09:59,880 Ah, don't say that, Lady Windermere. 217 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:02,760 Why do you talk so trivially about life, then? 218 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,000 Because I think that life is far too important a thing 219 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,320 ever to talk seriously about it. 220 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:09,120 What does he mean? 221 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,840 Do, as a concession to my poor wits, Lord Darlington, 222 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:13,840 just explain to me what you really mean. 223 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:15,560 I think I had better not, Duchess. 224 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:19,840 Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. Goodbye. 225 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:22,760 And now, Lady Windermere, goodbye. 226 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,600 I may come tonight, mayn't I? Do let me come. 227 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:27,440 Yes, certainly. 228 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,960 But you are not to say foolish, insincere things to people. 229 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,360 Ah! You are beginning to reform me. 230 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,800 It is a dangerous thing to reform any one, Lady Windermere. 231 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,000 What a charming, wicked creature. 232 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,440 I like him so much. I'm quite delighted he's gone! 233 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:56,200 How sweet you're looking. Where do you get your gowns? 234 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:58,400 And now I must tell you how sorry I am 235 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,000 for you, dear Margaret. 236 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,080 Agatha, darling! 237 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:01,920 Yes, mamma. 238 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,080 Will you go and look over the photograph album 239 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:05,600 that I see there? 240 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:06,480 Yes, mamma. 241 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,840 Dear girl. She is so fond of photographs of Switzerland. 242 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:13,480 Such a pure taste, I think. 243 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:16,920 But I really am so sorry for you, Margaret. 244 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:18,120 Why, Duchess? 245 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:19,680 Oh, on account of that horrid woman. 246 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:22,240 She dresses so well, too, which makes it much worse, 247 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,600 sets such a dreadful example. 248 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,120 Augustus, you know my disreputable brother, 249 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:28,560 such a trial to us all. 250 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:31,600 Well, Augustus is completely infatuated about her. 251 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:32,800 It is quite scandalous, 252 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,920 for she is absolutely inadmissible to society. 253 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:37,600 Many a woman has a past, 254 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,480 but I have been told that she has at least a dozen, 255 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:41,720 and that they all fit. 256 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:43,760 Whom are you talking about, Duchess? 257 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:46,640 About Mrs. Erlynne. 258 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,720 Mrs. Erlynne? I never heard of her. 259 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:51,280 And what has she to do with me? 260 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:53,480 My poor child! 261 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:55,800 Agatha, darling! 262 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,280 Yes, mamma. 263 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:00,240 Would you go out on the terrace and look at the sunset? 264 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:01,480 [Agatha] Yes, mamma. 265 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,360 Sweet girl, so devoted to sunsets. 266 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,760 Shows such refinement of feeling, does it not? 267 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,640 After all, there is nothing like nature, is there? 268 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:17,920 But what is it, Duchess? 269 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:20,600 Why do you talk to me about this person? 270 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:22,400 Don't you really know? 271 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,240 I assure you we're all so distressed about it. 272 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,120 Only last night at dear Lady Jansen's, 273 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,800 every one was saying how extraordinary it was 274 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,160 that of all men in London, 275 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:33,040 Windermere should behave in such a way. 276 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:34,720 My husband? 277 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,680 But what has he got to do with any woman of that kind? 278 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:40,720 Ah, what indeed, my dear? That is the point. 279 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:42,600 He goes to see her continually, 280 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:44,760 and stops for hours at a time, 281 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,640 and while he is there she is not at home to any one. 282 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:49,560 Not that many ladies call on her, dear, 283 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:52,320 but she has a great many disreputable men friends, 284 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,440 my own brother particularly, as I told you, 285 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,440 and that is what makes it so dreadful about Windermere. 286 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,760 We looked upon him as being such a model husband, 287 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,040 but I am afraid there is no doubt about it. 288 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,960 My dear nieces, you know the Saville girls, don't you? 289 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:09,680 Such nice domestic creatures, 290 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:13,760 plain, dreadfully plain, but so good. 291 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,920 Well, they're always at the window doing fancy work, 292 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:18,760 and making ugly things for the poor, 293 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:20,320 which I think so useful of them 294 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,080 in these dreadful socialistic days, 295 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:25,360 and this terrible woman has taken a house in Curzon Street, 296 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:28,360 right opposite them, such a respectable street, too! 297 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,360 I don't know what we're coming to! 298 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,040 And they tell me that Windermere goes there 299 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,600 four and five times a week. 300 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,080 They see him. They can't help it. 301 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,600 And although they never talk scandal, 302 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,640 they, well, of course they remark on it to every one. 303 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:44,160 And the worst of it all, 304 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:45,160 is that I have been told 305 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,680 that this woman has got a great deal of money 306 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:47,720 out of somebody, 307 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,000 for it seems that she came to London six months ago 308 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,640 without anything at all to speak of, 309 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:55,560 and now she has this charming house in Mayfair, 310 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:58,240 drives her ponies in the park every afternoon 311 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:02,720 and all, well, all, since she has known 312 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:04,800 poor dear Windermere. 313 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:08,040 Oh, I can't believe it! 314 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:09,560 But it's quite true, my dear. 315 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:11,520 The whole of London knows it. 316 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,080 That is why I felt it was better to come and talk to you, 317 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,880 and advise you to take Windermere away at once 318 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:18,880 to Homburg or to Aix, 319 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:20,840 where he'll have something to amuse him, 320 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,520 and you can watch him all day long. 321 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:24,800 I assure you, my dear, 322 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,680 that on several occasions after I was first married, 323 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:29,760 I had to pretend to be very ill, 324 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,680 and was obliged to drink the most unpleasant mineral waters, 325 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,120 merely to get Berwick out of town. 326 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:40,320 He was so extremely susceptible. 327 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:41,280 Though I am bound to say 328 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,840 that he never gave away any large sums of money to anybody. 329 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:45,760 He is far too high-principled for that! 330 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:49,240 Duchess, Duchess, it's impossible! 331 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,360 We are only married two years. 332 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,200 Our child is but six months old. 333 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,160 Ah, the dear pretty baby. How is the little darling? 334 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:01,800 Is it a boy or a girl? I do hope a girl. 335 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:06,680 Ah, no, I remember it's a boy. I'm so sorry. 336 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:10,640 Boys are so wicked. My boy is excessively immoral. 337 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,320 You wouldn't believe at what hours he comes home. 338 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,280 And he's only left Oxford a few months, 339 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,640 I don't know what they teach them there. 340 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:18,080 Are all men bad? 341 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:19,080 Oh, all of them, dear. 342 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:21,200 All of them, without any exception. 343 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:22,520 And they never grow any better. 344 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,520 Men become old, but they never become good. 345 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,960 Windermere and I married for love. 346 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:31,520 Yes, we begin like that. 347 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,080 It was only Berwick's brutal 348 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,440 and incessant threats of suicide 349 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:38,880 that made me accept him at all, 350 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:40,640 and before the year was out, 351 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,800 he was running after all kinds of petticoats. 352 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,000 Every shape, every colour, every material. 353 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,680 In fact, before the honeymoon was over, 354 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:49,320 I caught him winking at my maid, 355 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,160 a most pretty, respectable girl. 356 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,320 I dismissed her at once without a character. 357 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:57,920 No, I remember I passed her on to my sister, 358 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,600 poor dear Sir George was so short-sighted, 359 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:02,400 I thought it wouldn't matter. 360 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:06,560 But it did though, it was most unfortunate. 361 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:10,320 And now, my dear child, I must go, as we are dining out. 362 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:11,440 And mind you don't take this 363 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,120 little aberration of Windermere's too much to heart. 364 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:16,840 Just take him abroad, and he'll come back to you all right. 365 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:18,520 Come back to me? 366 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,040 Yes, dear, these wicked women get our husbands from us, 367 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:27,040 but they always come back, slightly damaged, of course. 368 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,440 And don't make scenes, men hate them! 369 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:31,880 It is very kind of you, Duchess, 370 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,440 to come and tell me all this. 371 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,480 But I can't believe that my husband is untrue to me. 372 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,000 Oh, pretty child, I was like that once. 373 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,400 Now I know that all men are monsters. 374 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,400 The only thing to do is to feed the wretches well. 375 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,480 A good cook does wonders, and that I know you have. 376 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,520 My dear Margaret, you are not going to cry? 377 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:56,080 You needn't be afraid, Duchess, I never cry. 378 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:57,880 That's quite right, dear. 379 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:00,480 Crying is the refuge of plain women, 380 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:02,720 but the ruin of pretty ones. 381 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:07,920 Agatha, darling! 382 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:09,360 [Agatha] Yes, mamma. 383 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:12,080 Come and bid goodbye to Lady Windermere, 384 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:13,960 and thank her for your charming visit. 385 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:16,360 Oh, by the way, 386 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:19,200 thank you for sending a card to Mr. Hopper. 387 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,280 He's that rich young Australian 388 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:23,840 people are taking such notice of at present. 389 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:25,520 His father made a great fortune 390 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,720 selling some kind of food in circular tins, 391 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:30,760 most palatable, I believe. 392 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,000 I fancy it is the thing the servants always refuse to eat. 393 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,400 But the son is quite interesting. 394 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:40,040 I think he's attracted by dear Agatha's clever talk. 395 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:42,200 Of course, we should be very sorry to lose her, 396 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:43,320 but I think that a mother 397 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,200 who doesn't part with a daughter every season 398 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:46,480 has no real affection. 399 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:49,600 We're coming tonight, dear. 400 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:55,120 And remember my advice, take the poor fellow away at once, 401 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:57,480 it is the only thing to do. 402 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,520 Goodbye, once more. Come, Agatha. 403 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,400 But it's quite true, my dear, the whole of London knows it. 404 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:11,240 [Lord Darlington] Do you think then 405 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,120 that in the case of a young married couple, 406 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:15,040 say, about two years married, 407 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,880 if the husband suddenly becomes the intimate friend 408 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:21,400 of a woman of, well, more than doubtful character, 409 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,080 is always calling upon and lunching with her. 410 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:26,240 [Duchess] We looked upon him 411 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,240 as being such a model husband, 412 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,320 but I'm afraid there is no doubt about it. 413 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:40,920 No, it is some hideous mistake. Some silly scandal. 414 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:46,440 He loves me. He loves me. 415 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,320 I am his wife, I have a right to look. 416 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,400 [pages rustling] 417 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,920 [Margaret sighing] 418 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,600 [clock ticking] 419 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,360 [pages rustling] 420 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:52,960 Has the fan been sent home yet? 421 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:07,280 You've cut open my bank book. 422 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,840 You've no right to do such a thing! 423 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,360 You think it wrong that you are found out, don't you? 424 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:16,480 I think it wrong that a wife should spy on her husband. 425 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:19,680 I did not spy on you. 426 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,480 I never knew of this woman's existence 427 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,560 till half an hour ago. 428 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,560 Someone who pitied me was kind enough to tell me 429 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,560 what every one in London knows already. 430 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,320 Your daily visits to Curzon Street, 431 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,360 your mad infatuation, 432 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:38,000 the monstrous sums of money you squander 433 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,920 on this infamous woman. 434 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,280 Margaret, don't talk like that of Mrs. Erlynne, 435 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:44,320 you don't know how unjust it is! 436 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,640 You are very jealous of Mrs. Erlynne's honour. 437 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,560 I wish you had been as jealous of mine. 438 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,240 Your honour is untouched. You don't think that I- 439 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,840 I think that you spend your money strangely. That is all. 440 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:01,000 Oh, don't imagine I mind about the money. 441 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,160 As far as I am concerned, 442 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,040 you may squander everything we have. 443 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:10,440 But what I do mind is that you who have loved me, 444 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,840 you who have taught me to love you, 445 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,040 should pass from the love that is given 446 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:18,560 to the love that is bought. 447 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,000 It is horrible! 448 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:27,560 And it is I who feel degraded. You don't feel anything. 449 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:34,560 I feel stained, utterly stained. 450 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,160 You can't realise how hideous 451 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,240 the last six months seems to me now. 452 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:45,000 Every kiss you have given me is tainted in my memory. 453 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,320 Margaret, don't say that. 454 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,480 I've never loved any one in the whole world but you. 455 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,680 Who is this woman, then? Why do you take a house for her? 456 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,880 I did not take a house for her. 457 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,080 You gave her the money to do it, which is the same thing. 458 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,320 Margaret, as far as I have known Mrs. Erlynne - 459 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,160 [Margaret] Is there a Mr. Erlynne, or is he a myth? 460 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,680 He died many years ago. She is alone in the world. 461 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,320 No relations? 462 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,920 None. 463 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,360 Rather curious, isn't it? 464 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,440 Margaret, as far as I have known Mrs. Erlynne, 465 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,520 she has conducted herself well. 466 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:22,600 If years ago - 467 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,160 Oh! I don't want details about her life! 468 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,760 I am not going to give you details. 469 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,280 I tell you simply this, 470 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,200 Mrs. Erlynne was once loved, honoured, respected. 471 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,560 She was well born, she had position. 472 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,560 She lost everything, threw it away, if you like. 473 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:41,240 That makes it all the more bitter. 474 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,640 Margaret, misfortunes one can endure, 475 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,280 they come from outside, they are accidents. 476 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,720 But to suffer for one's own faults, 477 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:57,640 there is the sting of life. 478 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,000 It was twenty years ago, too. 479 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,280 She was little more than a girl. 480 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,440 She had been a wife for even less time than you have. 481 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,160 I am not interested in her. 482 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,800 And you should not mention this woman and me 483 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,720 in the same breath. 484 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,400 It is an error of taste. 485 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,280 Margaret, you could save this woman. 486 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,800 She wants to get back into society, 487 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,320 and she wants you to help her. 488 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:21,680 Me? 489 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:22,600 Yes, you. 490 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,320 How impertinent of her! 491 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,040 Margaret, I came to ask you a great favour, 492 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:30,760 and I still ask it of you. 493 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,200 I want you to send Mrs. Erlynne an invitation 494 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:35,400 for our party tonight. 495 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:38,520 You are mad! 496 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,880 I entreat you. Margaret. 497 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:45,920 People may chatter, 498 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,440 do chatter about her, of course, 499 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,960 but they don't know anything definite against her. 500 00:24:57,120 --> 00:24:58,320 She has been to several houses, 501 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,040 not to houses where you would go, I admit, 502 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:02,400 but still to houses where women 503 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,880 who are in what is nowadays called society do go. 504 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,960 That does not content her. 505 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,240 She wants you to receive her once. 506 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,240 As a triumph for her, I suppose? 507 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,760 No, but because she knows that you are a good woman. 508 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,280 And that she knows that if she comes here once 509 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,920 she will have a chance of a surer, a happier life 510 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:21,880 than she has had. 511 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,040 She will make no further effort to know you. 512 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,480 Margaret, won't you help a woman who is trying to get back? 513 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,680 No, if a woman really repents, 514 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:36,680 she never wishes to return to the society 515 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,800 that has made or seen her ruin. 516 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:39,600 I beg you. 517 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,000 I am going to dress for dinner, 518 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,560 and don't mention the subject again this evening. 519 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:44,880 -Margaret. -Arthur. 520 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,280 You fancy because I have no father or mother 521 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,680 that I am alone in the world, 522 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,600 and that you can treat me as you choose. 523 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,560 You are wrong, I have friends, many friends. 524 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,440 Now you are talking foolishly, recklessly. 525 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:58,400 I won't argue with you, 526 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,640 but I insist upon your asking Mrs. Erlynne tonight. 527 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,400 I shall do nothing of the kind. 528 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:05,760 You refuse? 529 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:06,800 Absolutely! 530 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,880 Margaret, do this for my sake. It is her last chance. 531 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:20,320 What has that to do with me? 532 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:23,680 How hard good women are! 533 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,840 How weak bad men are! 534 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,360 None of us men may be good enough 535 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:31,520 for the women we marry, that is quite true. 536 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:35,200 You don't imagine I would ever... 537 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,640 The suggestion is quite monstrous. 538 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,160 Why should you be different from other men? 539 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,720 I am told that there is hardly a husband in London 540 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,240 who does not waste his life over some shameful passion. 541 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:51,640 I am not one of them. 542 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,240 I am not sure of that! 543 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,480 You are sure in your heart. 544 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,280 Margaret, don't make chasm after chasm between us. 545 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,280 God knows the last few minutes 546 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,080 have thrust us wide enough apart. 547 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,160 Sit down and write the card. 548 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,280 Nothing in the whole world would induce me. 549 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:24,840 Then I will! 550 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:27,920 You are going to invite this woman? 551 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:32,920 Yes. 552 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:43,840 Parker! 553 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,080 Yes, my lord. 554 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,840 I want this note sent to Mrs. Erlynne 555 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,200 at number 84A Curzon Street. 556 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:02,960 There is no answer. 557 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:14,720 Arthur, if that woman comes here, I shall insult her. 558 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,360 Margaret, don't say that. 559 00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:19,680 I mean it. 560 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,120 Child, if you did such a thing, 561 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:23,560 there's not a woman in London who would not pity you. 562 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,200 There is not a good woman in London 563 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,640 who would not applaud me. 564 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,040 We have been too lax. We must make an example. 565 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,400 I propose to begin tonight. 566 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,720 You gave me this today. It was your birthday present to me. 567 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,400 If that woman crosses my threshold, 568 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,160 I shall strike her across the face with it. 569 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,680 You couldn't. You won't do such a thing. 570 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:51,800 You don't know me! 571 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:53,840 Parker! 572 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:54,640 [Parker] Yes, my lady. 573 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,000 I shall dine in my own room. 574 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,760 I don't want dinner, in fact. 575 00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,960 See that everything is ready by half-past 10. 576 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:02,840 And, Parker, be sure you pronounce the names of the guests 577 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,160 very distinctly tonight. 578 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,320 Sometimes you speak so fast that I miss them. 579 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,680 I am particularly anxious to hear the names quite clearly, 580 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,600 so as to make no mistake. 581 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:14,840 You understand, Parker? 582 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:15,800 Yes, my lady. 583 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:16,720 That will do. 584 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,160 Arthur. 585 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,880 Margaret, you'll ruin us! 586 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,880 Us? From this moment my life is separate from yours. 587 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,080 But if you wish to avoid a public scandal, 588 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,040 write at once to this woman 589 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,360 and tell her that I forbid her to come here! 590 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:48,400 I will not. I cannot. 591 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:53,680 She must come come here tonight. 592 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,920 Then I shall do as I have said. You leave me no choice. 593 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:09,880 Margaret! 594 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:14,880 -[soft music] -[guests chattering] 595 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,520 So strange Lord Windermere isn't here. 596 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,000 Mr. Hopper is very late, too. 597 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,840 You have kept those five dances for him, Agatha? 598 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:52,320 Yes, mamma. 599 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:53,680 Just let me see your card. 600 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,360 I'm so glad Lady Windermere has revived cards. 601 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,280 They're a mother's only safeguard. 602 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,920 Oh, you dear simple little thing. 603 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,440 No nice girl should ever waltz 604 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,600 with such particularly younger sons. 605 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:08,600 It looks so fast. 606 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,280 You might pass the last two dances on the terrace 607 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:15,960 with Mr. Hopper. 608 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:16,960 Yes, mamma. 609 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,000 The air is so pleasant there. 610 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,960 Lady Stutfield, Sir James Royston, 611 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,120 Mrs. Cowper-Cowper, 612 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:30,360 -Mr. Guy Berkeley. -Good evening, 613 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:31,680 Lady Stutfield. 614 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,480 I suppose this will be the last ball of the season? 615 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,640 I suppose so, Mr. Dumby. 616 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,840 It's been a delightful season, hasn't it? 617 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:40,680 Quite delightful! 618 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,080 Good evening, Duchess. 619 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,000 I suppose this will be the last ball of the season? 620 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,400 I suppose so, Mr. Dumby. 621 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,760 It has been a very dull season, hasn't it? 622 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,120 Oh, dreadfully dull! Dreadfully dull! 623 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:56,800 Good evening, Mr. Dumby. 624 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,400 I suppose this will be the last ball of the season? 625 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,960 I think not. There'll probably be at least two more. 626 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,520 [Parker] Mr. Rufford, Lady Jedburgh and Miss Graham. 627 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:10,680 Mr. Hopper. 628 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,720 How do you do, Lady Windermere? 629 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:18,600 How do you do, Duchess? 630 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,760 Dear Mr. Hopper, how nice of you to come so early. 631 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,920 We all know how you are run after in London. 632 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,040 Capital place, London! 633 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,200 They are not nearly so exclusive in London 634 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:30,680 as they are in Sydney. 635 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,600 Ah! We know your value, Mr. Hopper. 636 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,200 We wish there were more like you. 637 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,160 It would make life so much easier. 638 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:39,560 Do you know, Mr. Hopper, 639 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,440 dear Agatha and I are so much interested in Australia. 640 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:44,720 It must be so pretty 641 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,320 with all the dear little kangaroos flying about. 642 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,200 Agatha has found it on the map. 643 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,800 What a curious shape it is. 644 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,280 Just like a large packing case. 645 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,880 However, it is a very young country, isn't it? 646 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,560 Wasn't it made at the same time as the others, Duchess? 647 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,560 How clever you are, Mr. Hopper. 648 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,560 You have a cleverness quite of your own. 649 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:07,600 Now I mustn't keep you. 650 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,400 But I should like to dance with Lady Agatha, Duchess. 651 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,600 Well, if she has a dance left. 652 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,400 Have you a dance left, Agatha? 653 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:19,920 Yes, mamma. 654 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,360 The next one? 655 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,280 Yes, mamma. 656 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:24,440 May I have the pleasure? 657 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,000 Mind you take great care 658 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,880 of my little chatterbox, Mr. Hopper. 659 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,880 [guests chattering] 660 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,560 Margaret, I want to speak to you. 661 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,080 In a moment. 662 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:47,160 [soft music] 663 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,080 Lord Augustus Lorton. 664 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,120 Good evening, Lady Windermere. 665 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,160 Sir James, would you take me into the ballroom? 666 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,640 Augustus has been dining with us tonight. 667 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,760 I really have had quite enough of Augustus for the moment. 668 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:02,640 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bowden, 669 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,360 Lord and Lady Paisley. 670 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,480 Lord Darlington. 671 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,240 I want to speak to you particularly, dear boy. 672 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,920 I'm worn to a shadow. Know I don't look it. 673 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,800 None of us men do look what we really are. 674 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,040 Damned good thing, too. 675 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,800 What I want to know is this. Who is she? 676 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,760 Where does she come from? 677 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,360 Why hasn't she got any damn relations? 678 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,320 Damn nuisance, relations! 679 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,320 But they make one so damn respectable. 680 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,360 You are referring to Mrs. Erlynne, I suppose? 681 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:46,640 I've only known her six months. 682 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,360 Till then, I never knew of her existence. 683 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,720 You have seen a good deal of her since then. 684 00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:53,480 Yes, I have seen a good deal of her since then. 685 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:54,520 I have just seen her. 686 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,920 Egad! The women are very down on her. 687 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,720 I have been dining with Arabella this evening! 688 00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:00,240 By Jove, you should have heard 689 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:01,480 what she said about Mrs. Erlynne. 690 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,160 She didn't leave a rag on her. 691 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:04,920 Berwick and I told her that didn't matter much, 692 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,280 as the lady in question must have an extremely fine figure. 693 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,120 You should have seen Arabella's expression. 694 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,200 But, look here, dear boy, 695 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,880 I don't know what to do about Mrs. Erlynne. 696 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,200 I might be married to her, 697 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,120 she treats me with such damned indifference. 698 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:18,520 [guests laughing] 699 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,040 She's deuced clever, too! She explains everything. 700 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,120 Egad! She explains you. 701 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:25,680 She has got any amount of explanations for you 702 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,240 and all of them different. 703 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:28,800 No explanations are necessary 704 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,880 concerning my friendship with Mrs. Erlynne. 705 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,840 Well, look here, dear old fellow. 706 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:37,680 Do you think she will ever get 707 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,880 into this damned thing called society? 708 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,680 Would you introduce her to your wife? 709 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,600 No point beating about the confounded bush. 710 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:45,520 Would you do that? 711 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,080 Up here. She's coming here this evening. 712 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,280 Your wife has sent her a card? 713 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,680 Mrs. Erlynne has received a card. 714 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,880 Then she's all right, dear boy. 715 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,120 But why didn't you tell me that before? 716 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:57,200 It would have saved a heap of worry 717 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,720 and damned misunderstandings. 718 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,360 [Parker] Mr. Cecil Graham! 719 00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:05,840 Good evening, Arthur. 720 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,760 Why don't you ask me how I am? 721 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,640 I like people to ask me how I am. 722 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,720 It shows a wide-spread interest in my health. 723 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:18,920 Now, tonight I am not at all well. 724 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,720 Been dining with my people. 725 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,800 Wonder why it is one's people are always so tedious? 726 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,960 My father would talk morality after dinner. 727 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,400 I told him he was old enough to know better. 728 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,640 But my experience is that as soon as people are old enough 729 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,720 to know better, they don't know anything at all. 730 00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:40,400 Hello, Tuppy! 731 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,680 Hear you're going to be married again. 732 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,200 I thought you were tired of that game. 733 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,400 You're excessively trivial, my dear boy, 734 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:47,240 excessively trivial! 735 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:49,160 By the way, Tuppy, which is it? 736 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,600 Have you been twice married and once divorced, 737 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,160 or is it twice divorced and once married? 738 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,680 I say it's twice divorced and once married. 739 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,000 It sounds so much more probable. 740 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,880 I have a very bad memory. I really don't remember which. 741 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,080 Lord Windermere, I've something most particular 742 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:09,200 to ask you. 743 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:10,280 If you will excuse me, Lady Plymdale, 744 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,520 I really must speak to my wife. 745 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,480 Oh, you mustn't dream of such a thing. 746 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,040 It's most dangerous nowadays 747 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:18,960 for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. 748 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,560 It always makes people think that he beats her 749 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,360 when they're alone. 750 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:24,960 The world has grown so suspicious 751 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,400 of anything that looks like a happy married life. 752 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,160 But I'll tell you what it is at supper. 753 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,200 Margaret, I must speak to you now. 754 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:39,160 Lord Darlington, will you hold my fan for me, please. 755 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:40,000 Thanks. 756 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:43,480 What you said before dinner- 757 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,040 That woman is not coming here tonight! 758 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,280 Mrs. Erlynne is coming here. 759 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,840 And if you in any way wound or annoy her, 760 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,200 you will bring shame and sorrow on us both. 761 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:55,040 Remember that! 762 00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:02,840 Margaret, trust me. A wife should trust her husband! 763 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,320 London is full of women who trust their husbands. 764 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:07,640 One can always recognise them. 765 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,160 They look so thoroughly unhappy. 766 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:11,800 I am not going to be one of them. 767 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,600 Lord Darlington, will you give me back my fan, please? 768 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,400 Thanks. A useful thing a fan, isn't it? 769 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,000 [soft music] 770 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,440 I want a friend tonight, Lord Darlington, 771 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,400 I didn't know I would want one so soon. 772 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,280 Lady Windermere, I knew the time would come some day, 773 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,040 but why tonight? 774 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:28,920 Margaret. 775 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:29,840 [Parker] Mrs. Erlynne! 776 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,280 [soft music] 777 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,080 You have dropped your fan, Lady Windermere. 778 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,520 How do you do, again, Lord Windermere? 779 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,200 How charming your sweet wife looks. Quite a picture. 780 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,760 It was terribly rash of you to come here this evening. 781 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,360 The wisest thing I ever did in my life. 782 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:22,640 And, by the way, you must pay me 783 00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,480 a good deal of attention this evening. 784 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:25,920 I am afraid of the women. 785 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:27,840 You must introduce me to some of them. 786 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:29,440 The men I can always manage. 787 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,600 How do you do, Lord Augustus? 788 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:36,600 You have quite neglected me lately. 789 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,560 I have not seen you since yesterday. 790 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,760 I am afraid you're faithless. Every one told me so. 791 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,280 Now really, Mrs. Erlynne, allow me to explain. 792 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,440 No, dear Lord Augustus, you can't explain anything. 793 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:48,680 It is your chief charm. 794 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,960 Ah, if you find charms in me, Mrs. Erlynne, 795 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:53,080 allow me to say... 796 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,520 [soft music] 797 00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,680 How pale you are! 798 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,480 Cowards are always pale! 799 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,920 You look faint. Come out on the terrace. 800 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,400 Lady Windermere, how beautifully 801 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,120 your terrace is illuminated. 802 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,000 Reminds me of Prince Doria's at Rome. 803 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,600 Oh, Mr Graham, how do you do? 804 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,440 Isn't that your aunt, Lady Jedburgh? 805 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,120 I should so much like to know her. 806 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,800 [soft music] 807 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,520 Certainly, if you wish it. 808 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:36,880 Aunt Caroline, allow me to introduce Mrs. Erlynne. 809 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,840 So pleased to meet you, Lady Jedburgh. 810 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,440 Your nephew and I are great friends. 811 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,320 I am so much interested in his political career. 812 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,080 I think he's sure to be a wonderful success. 813 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,640 He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, 814 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,160 and that's so important nowadays. 815 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,440 And he's such a brilliant talker, too. 816 00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,120 But we all know from whom he inherits that. 817 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,280 Lord Allandale was saying to me only yesterday, in the park, 818 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,760 that Mr. Graham talks almost as well as his aunt. 819 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,760 Most kind of you to say these charming things to me. 820 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,160 Did you introduce Mrs. Erlynne to Lady Jedburgh? 821 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,440 Had to, my dear fellow. Couldn't help it. 822 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,960 That woman can make one do anything she wants. 823 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,240 How, I don't know. 824 00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:25,320 Hope to goodness she won't speak to me. 825 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,840 On Thursday? With great pleasure. 826 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,520 [guests clapping] 827 00:41:37,240 --> 00:41:40,680 What a bore it is to have to be civil to these old dowagers. 828 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:42,480 But they always insist on it. 829 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,360 Who is that well-dressed woman talking to Windermere? 830 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,760 Haven't got the faintest idea! 831 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,760 Looks like an edition de luxe of a wicked French novel, 832 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,520 meant specially for the English market. 833 00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,880 [both laughing] 834 00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,880 So that is poor Dumby with Lady Plymdale? 835 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:02,640 I hear she is frightfully jealous of him. 836 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,240 He doesn't seem anxious to speak to me tonight. 837 00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:07,200 I suppose he is afraid of her. 838 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,720 Those straw-colored women have dreadful tempers. 839 00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:14,240 Do you know, I think I'll dance with you first, Windermere. 840 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:16,440 It will make Lord Augustus so jealous! 841 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:23,680 Lord Augustus, Lord Windermere insists 842 00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,560 on my dancing with him first, and, as it's his own house, 843 00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,120 I can't well refuse. 844 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,480 You know I would much sooner dance with you. 845 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,640 I wish I could think so, Mrs. Erlynne. 846 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,760 You know it far too well. 847 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,560 I can fancy a person dancing through life with you 848 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:39,000 and finding it charming. 849 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,400 Oh, thank you, thank you. 850 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,400 You are the most adorable of all ladies. 851 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,280 What a nice speech. So simple and so sincere. 852 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:50,840 Just the sort of speech I like. 853 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:53,440 Well, you shall hold my bouquet. 854 00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,880 [soft music] 855 00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:02,800 Ah, Mr. Dumby, how are you? 856 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:04,000 I am so sorry I have been out 857 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,280 the last three times you have called. 858 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:07,560 Come and lunch on Friday. 859 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:09,960 Delighted! 860 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,560 What an absolute brute you are! 861 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,400 I never can believe a word you say! 862 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,560 Why did you tell me you didn't know her? 863 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,440 What do you mean by calling on her three times running? 864 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,240 You are not to go to lunch there, 865 00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:32,400 of course you understand that? 866 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:36,800 My dear Laura, I wouldn't dream of going. 867 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,240 You haven't told me her name yet. Who is she? 868 00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:43,320 She's a Mrs. Erlynne. 869 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:44,160 That woman? 870 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:46,120 Yes, that is what they all call her. 871 00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:50,400 How very interesting. How intensely interesting. 872 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,120 I really must have a good stare at her. 873 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,520 [soft music] 874 00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,760 I have heard the most shocking things about her. 875 00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,240 They say she is ruining poor Windermere. 876 00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:05,400 And Lady Windermere, 877 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:09,520 who goes in for being so proper, invites her. 878 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,280 Extremely amusing! 879 00:44:12,240 --> 00:44:14,160 It takes a thoroughly good woman 880 00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,040 to do a thoroughly stupid thing. 881 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,160 You are to lunch there on Friday! 882 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,120 Why? 883 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:28,800 Because I want you to take my husband with you. 884 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:29,840 He has been so attentive lately, 885 00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:31,720 that he has become a perfect nuisance. 886 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:34,640 Now, this woman is just the thing for him. 887 00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:38,040 He'll dance attendance upon her as long as she lets him, 888 00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:39,120 and won't bother me. 889 00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,760 I assure you, women of that kind are most useful. 890 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,160 [soft music] 891 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,720 Her coming here is monstrous, unbearable. 892 00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:53,880 I know now what you meant today. 893 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,200 Why didn't you tell me right out? You should have! 894 00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:57,040 I couldn't. 895 00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:58,920 A man can't tell these things about another man. 896 00:44:58,920 --> 00:44:59,760 But if I had known 897 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:01,440 that he was gonna make you ask her here tonight, 898 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:02,600 I think I would have. 899 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,760 That insult, at any rate, you would have been spared. 900 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:08,760 I did not ask her. He insisted on her coming. 901 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,280 Against my entreaties, against my commands. 902 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,600 The house is tainted for me! 903 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,520 I feel that every woman here sneers at me 904 00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,920 as she dances by with my husband. 905 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:30,160 What have I done to deserve this? I gave him my whole life. 906 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,720 He took it, used it, spoiled it. 907 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:43,200 I am degraded in my own eyes and I lack courage. 908 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:44,040 I am a coward! 909 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:45,000 If I know you at all, 910 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:46,560 I know that you can't live with a man 911 00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:48,280 who treats you like this! 912 00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:49,520 What sort of life would you have with him? 913 00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,400 You would feel that he was lying to you 914 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,240 every moment of the day. 915 00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:56,400 You would feel that the look in his eyes was false, 916 00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:01,400 his voice false, his touch false, his passion false. 917 00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,480 He would come to you when he was weary of others, 918 00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,560 you would have to comfort him. 919 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,320 He would come to you when he was devoted to others. 920 00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:11,320 You would have to charm him. 921 00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,560 You would have to be to him the mask of his real life, 922 00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,320 the cloak to hide his secret. 923 00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,360 You are right. You are terribly right. 924 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,080 But where am I to turn to? 925 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,400 You said you would be my friend, Lord Darlington. 926 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,040 Tell me, what am I to do? Be my friend now. 927 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:36,240 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. 928 00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:42,160 There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. 929 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:49,520 I love you. 930 00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:50,440 No, no. 931 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,280 Yes, I love you! 932 00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,640 You are more to me than anything in the whole world. 933 00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:57,840 What does your husband give you? Nothing. 934 00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,480 Whatever is in him he gives to this wretched woman, 935 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,200 who thrust into your society, into your home, 936 00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,920 to shame you before every one. 937 00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,440 I offer you my life. 938 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:09,400 Lord Darlington! 939 00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,280 My life. My whole life. 940 00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,920 Take it, and do with it what you will. 941 00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:19,920 I love you. 942 00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,880 I love you as I have never loved any living thing. 943 00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,320 From the moment I met you I loved you, 944 00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:35,120 loved you blindly, adoringly, madly. 945 00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,200 You did not know it then, you know it now. 946 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:45,800 Leave this house tonight. 947 00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,080 I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, 948 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,080 or the world's voice, or the voice of society. 949 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,120 They matter a great deal. They matter far too much. 950 00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,360 But there are moments when one has to choose 951 00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:59,760 between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely, 952 00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:03,280 or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence 953 00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,680 that the world, in its hypocrisy, demands. 954 00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:11,680 You have that moment now. Choose, oh, my love, choose. 955 00:48:18,720 --> 00:48:20,800 I have not the courage. 956 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:25,800 Yes, you have the courage. 957 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:38,120 There may be six months of pain, 958 00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:44,640 of disgrace even, but when you no longer bear his name, 959 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,720 when you bear mine, all will be well. 960 00:48:47,720 --> 00:48:52,720 Margaret, my love, my wife, that shall be some day. 961 00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:53,960 Yes, my wife. You know it. 962 00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,400 What are you now? Nothing. 963 00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,160 This woman has the place that belongs by right to you. 964 00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:02,800 Oh! Go. Go out of this house, with a head erect. 965 00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,680 With a smile upon your lips, with courage in your eyes. 966 00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:09,080 All London will know why you did it, no one will blame you. 967 00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,280 If they do, what matter? Wrong? 968 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:12,480 What is wrong? 969 00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,160 It's wrong for a man to abandon his wife 970 00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:16,360 for a shameless woman. 971 00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,800 It is wrong for a wife to remain with a man 972 00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:20,520 who so dishonours her. 973 00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:25,800 You said once you would make no compromise with things. 974 00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,720 Make none now. Be brave. 975 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,120 Be yourself. 976 00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,720 I am afraid of being myself. Let me think. 977 00:49:38,720 --> 00:49:43,000 Let me wait. My husband may return to me. 978 00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:47,400 And you would take him back. 979 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:51,600 You are not what I thought you were. 980 00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,680 You are just the same as every other woman. 981 00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,120 You would stand anything 982 00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,760 rather than face the censure of a world, 983 00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,600 whose praise you would despise. 984 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:02,960 In a week you will be driving with this woman in the park. 985 00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,600 She will be your constant guest, your dearest friend. 986 00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,360 You would endure anything 987 00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:11,280 rather than break with one blow this monstrous tie. 988 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:18,160 You are right. You have no courage, none! 989 00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:22,640 Ah, give me time to think. I cannot answer you now. 990 00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,960 It must be now or not at all. 991 00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:36,600 Then, not at all. 992 00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,080 You break my heart. 993 00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:50,160 Mine is already broken. 994 00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:59,440 Tomorrow I leave England. 995 00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:07,640 This is the last time I shall ever look upon you. 996 00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:11,640 You will never see me again. 997 00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:18,760 For one moment our lives met. Our souls touched. 998 00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:24,400 They must never meet or touch again. 999 00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,520 Goodbye, Margaret. 1000 00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:44,120 [Margaret sobbing] 1001 00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:49,120 How alone I am in life. How terribly alone. 1002 00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,560 Dear Margaret, I've just been having 1003 00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:05,720 the most delightful chat with Mrs. Erlynne. 1004 00:52:05,720 --> 00:52:07,840 I am so sorry for the things I said to you 1005 00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:09,360 this afternoon about her. 1006 00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:12,760 Of course, she must be all right if you invite her. 1007 00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,800 A most attractive woman, 1008 00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,520 with such sensible views on life. 1009 00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:18,800 Told me she entirely disapproved 1010 00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:20,960 of people marrying more than once, 1011 00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:24,200 so I feel quite safe about poor Augustus. 1012 00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,720 Can't imagine why people speak against her. 1013 00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:29,720 It's those horrid nieces of mine, the Saville sisters. 1014 00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:32,080 Always talking scandal. 1015 00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:36,800 Still, I should go to Homburg, dear, I really should. 1016 00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,640 She is just a little too attractive. 1017 00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:43,080 But where is Agatha? Oh, there she is. 1018 00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,880 Mr. Hopper, I am very, very angry with you. 1019 00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:48,200 You have taken Agatha out on the terrace, 1020 00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:49,920 and she is so delicate. 1021 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:52,120 Awfully sorry, Duchess. 1022 00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:55,760 We went out for a moment and then got chatting together. 1023 00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:59,920 Ah, about dear Australia, I suppose? 1024 00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:01,400 Yes! 1025 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:02,760 Agatha, darling! 1026 00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:03,720 Yes, mamma! 1027 00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:06,640 Did Mr. Hopper definitely - 1028 00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:07,640 Yes, mamma. 1029 00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,520 And what answer did you give him, dear child? 1030 00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,320 Yes, mamma. 1031 00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,880 My dear one, you always say the right thing. 1032 00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:20,240 Mr. Hopper, James, Agatha has told me everything. 1033 00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:22,400 How cleverly you have both kept your secret. 1034 00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:23,640 You don't mind my taking Agatha 1035 00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:25,120 off to Australia, then, Duchess? 1036 00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:26,360 To Australia? 1037 00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,960 Oh, don't mention that dreadful vulgar place. 1038 00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:31,120 But she said she'd like to come with me. 1039 00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:33,200 Did you say that, Agatha? 1040 00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:34,560 Yes, mamma. 1041 00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,040 Agatha, you say the most silly things possible. 1042 00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:40,280 I should think on the whole that Grosvenor Square 1043 00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,760 would be a more healthy place to reside in. 1044 00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,680 There are lots of vulgar people live in Grosvenor Square, 1045 00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:46,480 but at any rate 1046 00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,040 there are no horrid kangaroos crawling about. 1047 00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:50,880 But we'll talk about that tomorrow. 1048 00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,640 James, you can take Agatha down. 1049 00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,560 [soft music] 1050 00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,720 You'll come to lunch, of course, James. 1051 00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:07,920 At half-past one, instead of two. 1052 00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,560 The Duke will wish to say a few words to you, I am sure. 1053 00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:12,480 I should like to have a chat with the Duke, Duchess. 1054 00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,920 He has not said a single word to me yet. 1055 00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:16,200 I think you'll find he will have a great deal 1056 00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:17,360 to say to you tomorrow. 1057 00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,800 And now goodnight, Margaret. 1058 00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,480 I'm afraid it's the old, old story, dear. 1059 00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:34,280 Love, well, not love at first sight, 1060 00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:35,680 but love at the end of the season, 1061 00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:37,680 which is so much more satisfactory. 1062 00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:41,240 [Margaret] Goodnight, Duchess. 1063 00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,400 [soft music] 1064 00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:03,600 My dear Margaret, 1065 00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:07,200 what a handsome woman your husband has been dancing with. 1066 00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:09,120 I should be quite jealous if I were you. 1067 00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:10,480 Is she a great friend of yours? 1068 00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:11,320 No. 1069 00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,040 Really? Goodnight, dear. 1070 00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:19,680 Awful manners young Hopper has! 1071 00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:24,000 Ah, Hopper is one of nature's gentlemen, 1072 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,120 the worst type of gentleman I know. 1073 00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:29,720 Sensible woman, Lady Windermere. 1074 00:55:29,720 --> 00:55:32,760 Lots of wives would have objected to Mrs. Erlynne coming 1075 00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:35,200 but Lady Windermere has that uncommon thing 1076 00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:37,160 called common sense. 1077 00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:38,720 And Windermere knows 1078 00:55:38,720 --> 00:55:43,240 that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. 1079 00:55:43,240 --> 00:55:45,440 [both chuckling] 1080 00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:48,120 Dear Windermere is becoming almost modern. 1081 00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:48,960 Never thought he would. 1082 00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:50,680 Goodnight, Lady Windermere. 1083 00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,080 What a fascinating woman Mrs. Erlynne is. 1084 00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:56,560 She is coming to lunch on Thursday. Won't you come too? 1085 00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:58,920 The Bishop and dear Lady Merton will be there. 1086 00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,160 I am afraid I am engaged, Lady Jedburgh. 1087 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:03,800 So sorry. Come, dear. 1088 00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:07,280 [soft music] 1089 00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:26,400 Charming ball it has been. 1090 00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,200 Quite reminds me of old days. 1091 00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,200 And I see that there are just as many fools in society 1092 00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:32,760 as there used to be. 1093 00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,520 So pleased to find that nothing has altered. 1094 00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:39,280 The dear Duchess, and that sweet Lady Agatha. 1095 00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:40,720 Just the type of girl I like. 1096 00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:42,840 Well, really, Windermere, 1097 00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:45,120 if I am to be the Duchess's sister-in-law. 1098 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:47,440 Are you? 1099 00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:50,400 Oh, yes. He's to call tomorrow at 12 o'clock. 1100 00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,120 He wanted to propose tonight. In fact he did. 1101 00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:54,640 He kept on proposing. 1102 00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:57,080 Poor Augustus, you know how he repeats himself. 1103 00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:58,360 Such a bad habit. 1104 00:56:58,360 --> 00:56:59,200 But I told him 1105 00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:01,240 I wouldn't give him an answer until tomorrow. 1106 00:57:01,240 --> 00:57:03,480 Of course I am going to take him. 1107 00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:05,760 And I dare say, I should make him an admirable wife, 1108 00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:07,280 as wives go. 1109 00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,960 And there is a great deal of good in Lord Augustus. 1110 00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:11,760 Fortunately it is all on the surface. 1111 00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,000 Just where good qualities should be. 1112 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,400 Of course you must help me in this matter. 1113 00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:19,960 I am not called on to encourage Lord Augustus, I suppose? 1114 00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,000 Oh, no. I do the encouraging. 1115 00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:26,000 But you will make me a handsome settlement, Windermere, 1116 00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:27,040 won't you? 1117 00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:28,960 Is that what you wanted to talk to me about tonight? 1118 00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:30,360 Yes. 1119 00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:32,320 I will not talk about it here. 1120 00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:36,560 [laughs] Then we will talk of it on the terrace. 1121 00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:39,120 Even business should have a picturesque background. 1122 00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:40,800 Should it not, Windermere? 1123 00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:43,760 With a proper background, women can do anything. 1124 00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:55,560 Won't tomorrow do as well? 1125 00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,560 No, you see, tomorrow I am going to accept him. 1126 00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:00,440 And I think it would be a good thing 1127 00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:02,560 if I was able to tell him that I had, 1128 00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:04,480 well, what shall we say? 1129 00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:08,000 2000 pounds a year left to me by a third cousin, 1130 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:12,560 or a second husband, or some distant relative of that kind. 1131 00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,040 It would be an additional attraction, wouldn't it? 1132 00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:18,600 You have a delightful opportunity now 1133 00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:20,480 of paying me a compliment, Windermere. 1134 00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:24,760 But you are not very clever at paying compliments. 1135 00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:26,560 I am afraid Margaret doesn't encourage you 1136 00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:28,000 in that excellent habit. 1137 00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,360 It's a great mistake on her part. 1138 00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,280 When men give up saying what is charming, 1139 00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:35,200 they give up thinking what is charming. 1140 00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,720 But what do you say to 2000 pounds a year? 1141 00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:43,080 2500 pounds, I think. 1142 00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,520 In modern life margin is everything. 1143 00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:51,200 Windermere, don't you think the world 1144 00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,400 an intensely amusing place? 1145 00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:56,440 I do! 1146 00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:18,960 To stay in this house any longer is impossible. 1147 00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:22,280 Tonight a man who loves me offered me his whole life. 1148 00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:28,240 I refused it. It was foolish of me. 1149 00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:31,640 I will offer him mine now. 1150 00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:38,320 [soft music] 1151 01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:26,160 Is Lady Windermere in the ballroom? 1152 01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:27,080 Her ladyship has just gone out. 1153 01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:29,880 Gone out? She's not on the terrace? 1154 01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:33,680 No, madam. Her ladyship has just gone out of the house. 1155 01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:35,440 Out of the house? 1156 01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:36,520 Yes, madam. 1157 01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:39,280 Her ladyship told me she had left a letter 1158 01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,600 for his lordship on the table. 1159 01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:43,480 A letter for Lord Windermere? 1160 01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:45,160 Yes, madam. 1161 01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:46,160 Thank you. 1162 01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,440 [door opening] 1163 01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:25,080 No, no! It would be impossible. 1164 01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:29,160 Life doesn't repeat its tragedies like that. 1165 01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:53,280 Oh, how terrible. The same words I wrote to her father. 1166 01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:58,480 And how bitterly I have been punished for it. 1167 01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:06,200 No my punishment, my real punishment is tonight. 1168 01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:12,240 Is now. 1169 01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:19,280 [guests chattering] 1170 01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:23,520 Have you said goodnight to my wife? 1171 01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:24,360 Yes. 1172 01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:26,320 Where is she? 1173 01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:30,360 She is very tired. She has gone to bed. 1174 01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:31,760 She said she had a headache. 1175 01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:34,520 I must go to her. You'll excuse me? 1176 01:02:34,520 --> 01:02:36,200 No, it's nothing serious. 1177 01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:38,760 She's only very tired, that is all. 1178 01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:41,120 Besides, there are people still in the supper room. 1179 01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:43,960 She wants you to make her apologies to them. 1180 01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:45,480 She said she didn't wish to be disturbed. 1181 01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:46,720 She asked me to tell you. 1182 01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:55,680 Oh yes, thank you, that is mine. 1183 01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:58,200 But it's my wife's handwriting, isn't it? 1184 01:02:58,200 --> 01:02:59,760 Yes, it's an address. 1185 01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:02,640 Will you ask them to call my carriage, please? 1186 01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:03,760 Certainly. 1187 01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:04,560 Thanks. 1188 01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:24,600 Dear lady, I am in such suspense. 1189 01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:28,000 May I not have an answer to my request? 1190 01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:29,880 Lord Augustus, listen to me. 1191 01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:32,920 You are to take Lord Windermere down to your club at once, 1192 01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:35,160 and keep him there as long as possible. 1193 01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:36,360 Do you understand? 1194 01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:38,080 But you said you wished me to keep early hours! 1195 01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:40,680 Do what I tell you. Do what I tell you. 1196 01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:41,640 And my reward? 1197 01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:44,200 Your reward? Your reward? 1198 01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:48,480 Oh! Ask me that tomorrow. 1199 01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:51,960 But don't let Windermere out of your sight tonight. 1200 01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:55,280 If you do I will never forgive you. 1201 01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:57,680 I will never speak to you again. 1202 01:03:57,680 --> 01:03:59,440 I shall have nothing to do with you. 1203 01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:04,600 Remember you are to keep Windermere at your club, 1204 01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:07,280 and don't let him come back tonight. 1205 01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:15,040 Well, really, I might be her husband already. 1206 01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:16,320 Positively I might. 1207 01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:18,320 Arthur. 1208 01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:40,760 Why doesn't he come? This waiting is horrible. 1209 01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:44,960 He should be here. 1210 01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:48,360 Why is he not here, to wake by passionate words 1211 01:04:48,360 --> 01:04:49,800 some fire within me? 1212 01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:58,080 I am cold. Cold as a loveless thing. 1213 01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:07,200 Arthur must have read my letter by this time. 1214 01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:09,680 If he cared for me, he would have come after me, 1215 01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:11,520 would have taken me back by force. 1216 01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:18,720 But he doesn't care. 1217 01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:22,040 He's entrammelled led by this woman. 1218 01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:27,920 Fascinated by her. Dominated by her. 1219 01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:32,000 If a woman wants to hold a man, 1220 01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:34,560 she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him. 1221 01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:39,160 We make gods of men and they leave us. 1222 01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:44,000 Others make brutes of them and they fawn and are faithful. 1223 01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:53,560 How hideous life is. 1224 01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:03,200 Oh, it was mad of me to come here, horribly mad. 1225 01:06:07,920 --> 01:06:09,920 And yet, which is the worst, I wonder, 1226 01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:14,840 to be at the mercy of a man who loves me, 1227 01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:20,040 or the wife of a man who in my own house dishonours me? 1228 01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:28,640 What woman knows? What woman in the whole world? 1229 01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:37,240 But will he love me always? 1230 01:06:39,080 --> 01:06:41,320 This man to whom I am giving my life? 1231 01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:45,000 What do I bring him? 1232 01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:55,160 Lips that have lost the note of joy, 1233 01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:02,680 eyes that are blinded by tears, chill hands and icy heart. 1234 01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:11,520 I bring him nothing. 1235 01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:17,160 I must go back. No, I can't go back. 1236 01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:20,560 My letter has put me in their power. 1237 01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:23,840 Arthur would not take me back. 1238 01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:28,240 Lord Darlington leaves England tomorrow. 1239 01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:30,120 I will go with him. I have no choice. 1240 01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:45,040 No, no. I will go back. 1241 01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:48,160 Let Arthur do with me what he pleases. 1242 01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:53,280 I can't wait here. It has been madness my coming. 1243 01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:54,320 I must go at once. 1244 01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:56,720 [door banging] 1245 01:07:56,720 --> 01:07:59,960 Lord Darlington. What can I say to him? 1246 01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:05,360 Will he let me go away at all? 1247 01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:14,600 I have heard that men are brutal, horrible. 1248 01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:23,280 Lady Windermere. Thank Heaven I am in time. 1249 01:08:26,480 --> 01:08:28,640 You must go back to your husband's house immediately. 1250 01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:29,480 [Margaret] Must? 1251 01:08:29,480 --> 01:08:32,000 Yes, you must. There is not a second to be lost. 1252 01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:33,520 Lord Darlington may return at any moment. 1253 01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:34,880 Don't come near me. 1254 01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:38,720 Oh, you are on the brink of ruin. 1255 01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:41,360 You are on the brink of a hideous precipice. 1256 01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:43,560 You must leave this place at once. 1257 01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:45,360 My carriage is waiting at the corner of the street. 1258 01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:47,600 You must come with me and drive straight home. 1259 01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:50,560 What are you doing? 1260 01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:53,440 Mrs. Erlynne, if you had not come here, 1261 01:08:53,440 --> 01:08:54,640 I would have gone back. 1262 01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:57,440 But now that I see you, 1263 01:08:57,440 --> 01:09:00,280 I feel that nothing in the whole world would induce me 1264 01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:02,640 to live under the same roof as Lord Windermere. 1265 01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:05,520 You fill me with horror. 1266 01:09:06,440 --> 01:09:07,680 There is something about you 1267 01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:11,760 that stirs the wildest rage within me. 1268 01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:14,120 And I know why you are here. 1269 01:09:15,640 --> 01:09:18,480 My husband sent you to lure me back 1270 01:09:18,480 --> 01:09:20,720 that I might serve as a blind 1271 01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:23,200 to whatever relations exist between you and him. 1272 01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:26,680 Oh, you don't think that.You can't. 1273 01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:29,360 Go back to my husband, Mrs. Erlynne. 1274 01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:31,360 He belongs to you and not to me. 1275 01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:37,520 I suppose he is afraid of a scandal. Men are such cowards. 1276 01:09:37,520 --> 01:09:39,480 They outrage every law of the world, 1277 01:09:39,480 --> 01:09:41,360 and are afraid of the world's tongue. 1278 01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:47,040 But he had better prepare himself. He shall have a scandal. 1279 01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:48,920 He shall have the worst scandal 1280 01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:51,360 there has been in London for years. 1281 01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:54,440 He shall see his name in every vile paper, 1282 01:09:54,440 --> 01:09:56,240 mine on every hideous placard. 1283 01:09:56,240 --> 01:09:57,080 [Mrs. Erlynne] No. No. 1284 01:09:57,080 --> 01:09:57,960 Yes, he shall. 1285 01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:00,800 Had he come himself, 1286 01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:02,360 I admit I would have gone back 1287 01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:05,960 to the life of degradation you and he had prepared for me. 1288 01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:07,360 I was going back. 1289 01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:11,000 But to stay himself at home, 1290 01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:14,200 and to send you as his messenger, 1291 01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:17,920 oh, it was infamous, infamous. 1292 01:10:20,280 --> 01:10:23,920 Lady Windermere, you wrong me horribly. 1293 01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:26,080 You wrong your husband horribly. 1294 01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:28,160 He doesn't know you are here. 1295 01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:30,520 He thinks you are safe in your own house. 1296 01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:32,680 He thinks you are asleep in your own room. 1297 01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:35,480 He never read the mad letter you wrote to him. 1298 01:10:35,480 --> 01:10:36,320 Never read it? 1299 01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:38,400 No. He knows nothing about it. 1300 01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:40,680 How simple you think me. 1301 01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:42,000 You are lying to me! 1302 01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:45,680 I am not. I am telling you the truth. 1303 01:10:45,680 --> 01:10:47,400 If my husband didn't read my letter, 1304 01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:48,880 how is it that you are here? 1305 01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:51,480 Who told you I had left the house 1306 01:10:51,480 --> 01:10:53,360 you were shameless enough to enter? 1307 01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:55,240 Who told you where I had gone to? 1308 01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:59,440 My husband told you, and sent you to decoy me back. 1309 01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:02,680 Your husband has never seen the letter. 1310 01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:07,680 I saw it, I opened it. I read it. 1311 01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:12,240 You opened a letter of mine to my husband? 1312 01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:15,040 You wouldn't dare! 1313 01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:16,360 Dare? 1314 01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:19,600 Oh, to save you from the abyss into which you are falling, 1315 01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:22,040 there is nothing in the world I would not dare. 1316 01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:26,480 Nothing in the whole world. Here is the letter. 1317 01:11:26,480 --> 01:11:30,520 Your husband has never read it. He never shall read it. 1318 01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:33,720 It should never have been written. 1319 01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:38,800 How do I know that that was my letter after all? 1320 01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:41,360 You seem to think the commonest device can take me in. 1321 01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:45,880 Oh! Why do you disbelieve everything I tell you? 1322 01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:47,720 What object do you think I have in coming here, 1323 01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:50,120 except to save you from utter ruin. 1324 01:11:50,120 --> 01:11:53,600 To save you from the consequence of a hideous mistake. 1325 01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:55,560 That letter that is burnt now was your letter. 1326 01:11:55,560 --> 01:11:57,960 I swear it to you! 1327 01:11:57,960 --> 01:12:01,760 You took good care to burn it before I had examined it. 1328 01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:03,280 I cannot trust you. 1329 01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:08,280 You, whose whole life is a lie, 1330 01:12:08,280 --> 01:12:09,720 how could you speak the truth about anything? 1331 01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:11,280 Think as you like about me. 1332 01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:14,040 Say what you choose against me, but go back. 1333 01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:16,120 Go back to the husband you love. 1334 01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:17,040 I do not love him. 1335 01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:19,360 [Mrs. Erlynne] You do, and you know that he loves you. 1336 01:12:20,480 --> 01:12:22,760 He does not understand what love is. 1337 01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:26,320 He understands it as little as you do, 1338 01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:29,480 but I see what you want. 1339 01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:33,880 It would be a great advantage for you to get me back. 1340 01:12:35,040 --> 01:12:37,840 Dear heaven, what a life I would have then. 1341 01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:39,440 Living at the mercy of a woman 1342 01:12:39,440 --> 01:12:41,960 who has neither mercy nor pity in her. 1343 01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:45,560 A woman whom it is an infamy to meet, 1344 01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:49,360 a degradation to know, a vile woman, 1345 01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:52,320 a woman who comes between husband and wife. 1346 01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:54,040 Lady Windermere, Lady Windermere, 1347 01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:56,800 don't say such terrible things. 1348 01:12:56,800 --> 01:12:59,200 You don't know how terrible they are. 1349 01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:00,920 How terrible and how unjust. 1350 01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:03,440 Listen, you must listen. 1351 01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:07,040 Only go back to your husband, 1352 01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:09,760 and I promise you never to communicate with him again 1353 01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:12,200 on any pretext, never to see him, 1354 01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:15,640 never to have anything to do with his life or yours. 1355 01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:20,880 The money that he gave me, he gave me not through love, 1356 01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:25,360 but through hatred, not in worship, but in contempt. 1357 01:13:25,360 --> 01:13:26,600 The hold I have over him- 1358 01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:28,720 Ah! You admit you have a hold. 1359 01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:30,440 Yes, and I will tell you what it is. 1360 01:13:30,440 --> 01:13:33,680 It is his love for you, Lady Windermere. 1361 01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:35,160 You expect me to believe that? 1362 01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,520 You must believe it. It is the truth. 1363 01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:40,920 It is his love for you that has made him submit to... 1364 01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:42,720 Call it what you like, tyranny, threats, 1365 01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:45,720 anything you choose, but it is his love for you. 1366 01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:50,720 His desire to spare you shame. Yes, shame and disgrace. 1367 01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:54,080 What do you mean? You are insolent. 1368 01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:56,120 What have I to do with you? 1369 01:13:56,120 --> 01:13:58,520 Nothing. I know it. 1370 01:13:58,520 --> 01:14:01,440 But I tell you that your husband loves you, 1371 01:14:01,440 --> 01:14:03,280 that you may never meet with such love again 1372 01:14:03,280 --> 01:14:04,720 in your whole life. 1373 01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:06,680 That such love you will never meet. 1374 01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:09,960 And that if you throw it away, again now, 1375 01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:12,640 the day may come when you will starve for love 1376 01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:14,640 and it will not be given to you. 1377 01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:16,880 Beg for love and it will be denied you. 1378 01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:20,040 Oh! Arthur loves you! 1379 01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:24,120 Arthur? And you tell me there is nothing between you? 1380 01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:27,000 Lady Windermere, before heaven, 1381 01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:30,440 your husband is guiltless of all offence towards you. 1382 01:14:30,440 --> 01:14:34,120 And I tell you that had it ever occurred to me, 1383 01:14:34,120 --> 01:14:36,760 that such a monstrous suspicion 1384 01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:37,960 would have entered your mind, 1385 01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:39,760 I would have died 1386 01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:42,920 rather than have crossed your life or his. 1387 01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:46,400 Oh! Died, gladly died. 1388 01:14:48,480 --> 01:14:50,160 You talk as if you had a heart. 1389 01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:55,320 Women like you have no hearts. Heart is not in you. 1390 01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:58,000 You are bought and sold. 1391 01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:05,680 Believe what you choose about me. 1392 01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:08,800 I am not worth a moment's sorrow. 1393 01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:14,120 But don't spoil your beautiful young life on my account. 1394 01:15:15,440 --> 01:15:17,800 You don't know what may be in store for you, 1395 01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:19,680 unless you leave this house at once. 1396 01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:23,440 You don't know what it is to fall into the pit, 1397 01:15:23,440 --> 01:15:28,400 to be despised, mocked, abandoned, sneered at, 1398 01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:31,280 to be an outcast. 1399 01:15:32,480 --> 01:15:35,240 To find the door shut against one. 1400 01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:38,240 To have to creep in by hideous byways, 1401 01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:39,520 afraid every moment 1402 01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:41,960 lest the mask should be stripped from one's face, 1403 01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:45,880 and all the while to hear the laughter, 1404 01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:48,640 the horrible laughter of the world, 1405 01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:51,440 a thing more tragic 1406 01:15:51,440 --> 01:15:53,600 than all the tears the world has ever shed. 1407 01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:56,560 You don't know what it is. 1408 01:15:58,240 --> 01:16:02,880 One pays for one's sin, and then one pays again. 1409 01:16:04,480 --> 01:16:09,440 And all one's life, one pays. You must never know that. 1410 01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:16,800 As for me, if suffering be an expiation, 1411 01:16:17,440 --> 01:16:20,000 then at this moment I have expiated all my faults, 1412 01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:21,200 whatever they have been. 1413 01:16:22,400 --> 01:16:25,200 For tonight you have made a heart in one who had it not. 1414 01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:30,360 Made it and broken it. But let that pass. 1415 01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:33,200 I may have wrecked my own life, 1416 01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:35,360 but I will not let you wreck yours. 1417 01:16:36,280 --> 01:16:39,760 You, why, you are a mere girl, you would be lost. 1418 01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:42,360 You haven't got the kind of brains 1419 01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:44,880 that enables a woman to get back. 1420 01:16:44,880 --> 01:16:47,120 You have neither the wit nor the courage. 1421 01:16:48,080 --> 01:16:49,840 You couldn't stand dishonour. 1422 01:16:51,120 --> 01:16:54,440 No, go back, Lady Windermere. 1423 01:16:55,440 --> 01:16:59,240 To the husband who loves you, whom you love. 1424 01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:03,320 You have a child, Lady Windermere. 1425 01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:10,200 Go back to that child who even now, in pain or in joy, 1426 01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:11,440 may be calling to you. 1427 01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:14,760 God gave you that child. 1428 01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:19,200 He will require from you that you make his life fine, 1429 01:17:19,200 --> 01:17:20,520 that you watch over him. 1430 01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:23,760 What answer will you make to God 1431 01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:26,000 if his life is ruined through you? 1432 01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:30,040 Back to your house, Lady Windermere. 1433 01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:32,480 Your husband loves you. 1434 01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:35,360 He has never wavered for a moment 1435 01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:36,760 from the love he bears you. 1436 01:17:37,800 --> 01:17:40,200 But even if he had a thousand loves, 1437 01:17:41,080 --> 01:17:42,680 you must stay with your child. 1438 01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:48,120 If he was harsh to you, you must stay with your child. 1439 01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:53,600 If he ill-treated you, you must stay with your child. 1440 01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:59,880 If he abandoned you, your place is with your child. 1441 01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:04,440 Lady Windermere! 1442 01:18:04,440 --> 01:18:07,400 Take me home. Take me home [sobbing]. 1443 01:18:11,040 --> 01:18:13,480 Come! Where is your cloak? 1444 01:18:13,480 --> 01:18:14,320 Come. Put it on. 1445 01:18:16,080 --> 01:18:17,040 Come at once. 1446 01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:20,440 Stop! Don't you hear voices? 1447 01:18:20,440 --> 01:18:22,400 [Mrs. Erllynne] No, no! There was no one! 1448 01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:23,920 Yes, there is. Listen. 1449 01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:27,000 Oh! It is my husband's voice. 1450 01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:30,040 He is coming in. Save me. 1451 01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:32,480 Oh, it's some plot! You have sent for him. 1452 01:18:32,480 --> 01:18:35,120 Silence. I'm here to save you, if I can. 1453 01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:37,840 But I fear it maybe too late. 1454 01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:39,520 There! 1455 01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:41,120 The first chance you get, slip out, 1456 01:18:41,120 --> 01:18:42,640 -if you ever get a chance. -But you? 1457 01:18:42,640 --> 01:18:44,560 Oh, never mind me. I'll face them. 1458 01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:49,040 [Lord Augustus] Nonsense, you must not leave me. 1459 01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:54,040 Lord Augustus. Then it is I who am lost. 1460 01:18:57,040 --> 01:19:00,320 [men speaking faintly] 1461 01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:10,200 Damn nuisance their turning us out of the club 1462 01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:11,160 at this hour. 1463 01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:12,280 It's only two o'clock. 1464 01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:17,200 The lively part of the evening is only just beginning. 1465 01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:18,040 [Dumby groans] 1466 01:19:18,040 --> 01:19:20,160 That's very good of you, Darlington. 1467 01:19:20,160 --> 01:19:23,320 Allowing Augustus to force our company on you like this. 1468 01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:24,840 I can't stay lon, I'm afraid. 1469 01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:25,680 Really! I am so sorry. 1470 01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:27,080 You'll take a cigar, won't you? 1471 01:19:27,080 --> 01:19:27,920 Thank you. 1472 01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:29,000 My dear boy, you must not dream of going yet. 1473 01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:30,720 I have a great deal to talk to you about. 1474 01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:33,000 Of damn importance, too. 1475 01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:34,920 Oh! We all know what that is. 1476 01:19:34,920 --> 01:19:38,040 Tuppy can't talk about anything but Mrs. Erlynne. 1477 01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:39,760 Well, that is no business of yours, is it, Cecil? 1478 01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:42,880 None. That is why it interests me. 1479 01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:44,480 My own business always bores me to death. 1480 01:19:44,480 --> 01:19:46,200 I prefer other people's. 1481 01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:48,160 Have something to drink, you fellows. 1482 01:19:48,160 --> 01:19:49,960 Cecil, you'll have a whisky and soda? 1483 01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:51,600 Thanks. 1484 01:19:51,600 --> 01:19:53,840 Mrs. Erlynne looked very handsome tonight, didn't she? 1485 01:19:53,840 --> 01:19:56,080 I am not one of her admirers. 1486 01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:58,360 I usen't to be, but I am now. 1487 01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:00,160 Why, she actually made me introduce her 1488 01:20:00,160 --> 01:20:02,080 to poor dear Aunt Caroline. 1489 01:20:02,080 --> 01:20:03,880 I believe she is going to lunch there. 1490 01:20:03,880 --> 01:20:04,760 No. 1491 01:20:04,760 --> 01:20:06,640 She is, really. 1492 01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:07,680 Excuse me, you fellows. 1493 01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:11,000 I'm going away tomorrow. And I have to write a few letters. 1494 01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:12,600 [Dumby] Clever woman, Mrs. Erlynne. 1495 01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:15,960 Hello, Dumby! I thought you were asleep. 1496 01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:17,360 Oh yes, I am. I usually am! 1497 01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:18,200 A very clever woman. 1498 01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:21,200 Knows perfectly well what a damn fool I am, 1499 01:20:21,200 --> 01:20:22,760 knows it as well as I do myself. 1500 01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:23,600 [Cecil laughs] 1501 01:20:23,600 --> 01:20:24,560 Ah, you may laugh, my boy, 1502 01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:27,360 but it is a great thing to come across a woman 1503 01:20:27,360 --> 01:20:29,160 who thoroughly understands you. 1504 01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:31,240 It is an awfully dangerous thing. 1505 01:20:31,240 --> 01:20:32,720 They always end by marrying one. 1506 01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:34,360 But I thought, Tuppy, 1507 01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:35,920 you were never going to see her again. 1508 01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:38,840 Yes! You told me so yesterday evening at the club. 1509 01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:40,440 You said you'd heard [whispers]. 1510 01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:44,840 Oh, she's explained that. 1511 01:20:44,840 --> 01:20:46,640 And the Wiesbaden affair? 1512 01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:47,840 She's explained that too. 1513 01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:51,000 And her income, Tuppy? Has she explained that? 1514 01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:53,600 She's going to explain that tomorrow. 1515 01:20:53,600 --> 01:20:56,560 Awfully commercial, women nowadays. 1516 01:20:56,560 --> 01:20:59,840 Our grandmothers threw their caps over the mills, of course, 1517 01:20:59,840 --> 01:21:01,560 but, by Jove, their granddaughters 1518 01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:02,960 only throw their caps over mills 1519 01:21:02,960 --> 01:21:04,960 that can raise the wind for them. 1520 01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:07,360 You want to make her out a wicked woman. She is not. 1521 01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:11,920 Oh, wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. 1522 01:21:11,920 --> 01:21:14,080 That is the only difference between them. 1523 01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:17,280 Mrs. Erlynne has a future before her. 1524 01:21:17,280 --> 01:21:20,320 Mrs. Erlynne has a past before her. 1525 01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:21,720 I prefer women with a past. 1526 01:21:21,720 --> 01:21:23,840 They're always so damn amusing to talk to. 1527 01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:26,200 Well, you'll have lots of topics of conversation 1528 01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:27,040 with her, Tuppy. 1529 01:21:27,040 --> 01:21:28,800 You're getting annoying, dear boy. 1530 01:21:29,880 --> 01:21:30,840 You're getting damn annoying. 1531 01:21:30,840 --> 01:21:33,040 Now, Tuppy, you've lost your figure 1532 01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:34,600 and you've lost your character. 1533 01:21:34,600 --> 01:21:37,240 Don't lose your temper, you have only got one. 1534 01:21:37,240 --> 01:21:38,080 My dear boy, 1535 01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:39,560 if I wasn't the most good-natured man in London - 1536 01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:42,400 We'd treat you with more respect, wouldn't we? 1537 01:21:42,400 --> 01:21:45,080 The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. 1538 01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:48,440 They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair. 1539 01:21:48,440 --> 01:21:52,960 Mrs. Erlynne has a very great respect for dear Tuppy. 1540 01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:54,920 Then Mrs. Erlynne sets an admirable example 1541 01:21:54,920 --> 01:21:56,520 to the rest of her sex. 1542 01:21:56,520 --> 01:21:57,520 It is perfectly brutal 1543 01:21:57,520 --> 01:21:59,160 the way most women nowadays behave to men 1544 01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:00,440 who are not even their husbands. 1545 01:22:00,440 --> 01:22:03,000 Dumby, you are ridiculous. 1546 01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:06,280 And Cecil, you let your tongue run away with you. 1547 01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:08,320 You really must leave Mrs. Erlynne like this. 1548 01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:09,920 You don't know anything about her, 1549 01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:11,480 and you're always talking scandal against her. 1550 01:22:11,480 --> 01:22:16,480 My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. 1551 01:22:16,920 --> 01:22:19,520 What is the difference between scandal and gossip? 1552 01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:25,120 Gossip is charming, but history is merely gossip. 1553 01:22:25,120 --> 01:22:28,520 Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. 1554 01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:30,840 Now, I never moralise. 1555 01:22:30,840 --> 01:22:34,120 A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, 1556 01:22:34,120 --> 01:22:37,360 and a woman who moralises is invariably plain. 1557 01:22:37,360 --> 01:22:39,520 Just my sentiments, dear boy, just my sentiments. 1558 01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:41,560 Sorry to hear it, Tuppy. 1559 01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:42,800 Whenever people agree with me, 1560 01:22:42,800 --> 01:22:44,160 I always feel I must be wrong. 1561 01:22:44,160 --> 01:22:48,320 My dear boy, when I was your age- 1562 01:22:48,320 --> 01:22:51,400 But you never were, Tuppy, and you never will be. 1563 01:22:52,480 --> 01:22:55,280 I say, Darlington, let us have some cards. 1564 01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:58,040 You'll play, Arthur, won't you? 1565 01:22:58,040 --> 01:22:59,080 No, thanks, Cecil. 1566 01:22:59,080 --> 01:23:02,080 Good heavens! How marriage ruins a man. 1567 01:23:02,080 --> 01:23:05,920 It's as demoralising as cigarettes, and far more expensive. 1568 01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:07,280 [Cecil] You'll play, of course, Tuppy? 1569 01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:08,680 Can't, dear boy. 1570 01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:12,040 Promised Mrs. Erlynne never to play or drink again. 1571 01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:14,720 Now, my dear Tuppy, don't be led astray 1572 01:23:14,720 --> 01:23:16,680 into the paths of virtue. 1573 01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:19,280 Reformed, you would be perfectly tedious. 1574 01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:23,960 That is the worst of women. 1575 01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:27,120 They always want one to be good. 1576 01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:29,280 And if we are good, when they meet us, 1577 01:23:30,120 --> 01:23:31,680 they don't love us at all. 1578 01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:35,160 They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, 1579 01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:37,840 and to leave us quite unattractively good. 1580 01:23:37,840 --> 01:23:39,920 They always do find us bad. 1581 01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:43,120 [Dumby] I don't think we are bad. 1582 01:23:43,120 --> 01:23:45,760 I think we are all good, except Tuppy. 1583 01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:47,840 No, we are all in the gutter, 1584 01:23:47,840 --> 01:23:50,800 but some of us are looking at the stars. 1585 01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:52,360 We are all in the gutter, 1586 01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:55,120 but some of us are looking up at the... 1587 01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:58,440 Upon my word, you are very romantic tonight, Darlington. 1588 01:23:58,440 --> 01:24:02,120 Too romantic. You must be in love. 1589 01:24:03,160 --> 01:24:04,480 Who is the girl? 1590 01:24:04,480 --> 01:24:06,800 The woman I love is not free, 1591 01:24:06,800 --> 01:24:08,520 or at least thinks she isn't. 1592 01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:11,640 A married woman, then. 1593 01:24:11,640 --> 01:24:14,120 Well, there's nothing in the world 1594 01:24:14,120 --> 01:24:16,560 like the devotion of a married woman. 1595 01:24:17,440 --> 01:24:19,520 It's a thing no married man knows anything about. 1596 01:24:19,520 --> 01:24:22,320 No, she doesn't love me. She is a good woman. 1597 01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:26,000 The only good woman I have ever met in my life. 1598 01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:26,920 [Cecil] The only good woman 1599 01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:28,360 you have ever met in your life? 1600 01:24:28,360 --> 01:24:29,400 Yes! 1601 01:24:29,400 --> 01:24:31,880 Well, you are a lucky fellow! 1602 01:24:33,040 --> 01:24:35,840 Why, I have met hundreds of good women. 1603 01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:38,800 I never seem to meet any but good women. 1604 01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:42,520 The world is perfectly packed with good women. 1605 01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:44,800 To know them is a middle-class education. 1606 01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:48,040 This woman has purity and innocence. 1607 01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:50,320 She has everything that we men have lost. 1608 01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:51,200 [Cecil] My dear fellow, 1609 01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:53,000 what on earth should we men do 1610 01:24:53,000 --> 01:24:55,640 going about with purity and innocence? 1611 01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:59,240 A carefully thought-out buttonhole is much more effective. 1612 01:24:59,240 --> 01:25:01,200 [Dumby] She doesn't really love you then? 1613 01:25:01,200 --> 01:25:02,840 No, she does not! 1614 01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:05,360 Well, I congratulate you, my dear fellow. 1615 01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:07,720 In this world there are only two tragedies. 1616 01:25:08,560 --> 01:25:11,160 One is not getting what one wants, 1617 01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:13,160 and the other is getting it. 1618 01:25:13,160 --> 01:25:17,160 The last is much the worst. The last is the real tragedy. 1619 01:25:18,640 --> 01:25:21,320 But I am interested to hear you say she does not love you. 1620 01:25:21,320 --> 01:25:23,960 How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? 1621 01:25:23,960 --> 01:25:27,440 A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life. 1622 01:25:27,440 --> 01:25:30,160 So could I. But it's so difficult to meet one. 1623 01:25:30,160 --> 01:25:32,840 How can you be so conceited, Dumby? 1624 01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:34,720 I didn't say it as a matter of conceit. 1625 01:25:34,720 --> 01:25:36,720 I said it as a matter of regret. 1626 01:25:37,560 --> 01:25:41,560 I have been wildly, madly adored. 1627 01:25:41,560 --> 01:25:45,520 I am sorry I have. It has been an immense nuisance. 1628 01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:46,440 I should like to be allowed 1629 01:25:46,440 --> 01:25:48,440 a little time to myself now and then. 1630 01:25:48,440 --> 01:25:51,040 [Lord Augustus] Time to educate yourself, I suppose. 1631 01:25:52,080 --> 01:25:54,240 [Dumby] No, time to forget all I have learned. 1632 01:25:54,240 --> 01:25:56,120 That's much more important, Tuppy. 1633 01:25:56,120 --> 01:25:57,960 What cynics you fellows are! 1634 01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:02,480 What is a cynic? 1635 01:26:02,480 --> 01:26:04,000 A man who knows the price of everything 1636 01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:06,120 and the value of nothing. 1637 01:26:06,120 --> 01:26:08,920 And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, 1638 01:26:08,920 --> 01:26:11,720 is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, 1639 01:26:12,760 --> 01:26:15,240 and doesn't know the market price of any single thing. 1640 01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:16,560 You always amuse me, Cecil. 1641 01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:19,520 You talk as if you were a man of experience. 1642 01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:20,360 I am. 1643 01:26:20,360 --> 01:26:21,440 You are far too young! 1644 01:26:22,520 --> 01:26:24,280 That is a great error. 1645 01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:27,520 Experience is a question of instinct about life. 1646 01:26:27,520 --> 01:26:31,440 I have got it. But Tuppy hasn't. 1647 01:26:31,440 --> 01:26:34,440 Experience is the name Tuppy gives to his mistakes. 1648 01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:37,040 That is all. 1649 01:26:37,040 --> 01:26:40,160 Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. 1650 01:26:40,160 --> 01:26:42,000 One shouldn't commit any. 1651 01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:44,520 [Dumby] Life would be awfully dull without them. 1652 01:26:46,440 --> 01:26:47,480 Of course you are quite faithful 1653 01:26:47,480 --> 01:26:49,720 to this woman you are in love with, Darlington. 1654 01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:51,360 To this good woman? 1655 01:26:51,360 --> 01:26:52,520 Cecil, if on really loves a woman, 1656 01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:54,080 all other women in the world 1657 01:26:54,080 --> 01:26:55,760 become absolutely meaningless to one. 1658 01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:57,800 Love changes one. I am changed. 1659 01:26:57,800 --> 01:27:01,840 Dear me. How very interesting. 1660 01:27:01,840 --> 01:27:04,040 Tuppy, I want to talk to you. 1661 01:27:04,040 --> 01:27:06,240 [Dumby] It's no use talking to Tuppy. 1662 01:27:06,240 --> 01:27:07,680 You might just as well talk to a brick wall. 1663 01:27:07,680 --> 01:27:09,400 But I like talking to a brick wall. 1664 01:27:09,400 --> 01:27:11,640 It's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me. 1665 01:27:11,640 --> 01:27:12,920 Tuppy! 1666 01:27:12,920 --> 01:27:14,640 Well, what is it? What is it? 1667 01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:17,600 Come over here. I want you particularly. 1668 01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:24,000 Darlington has been moralising 1669 01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:25,360 and talking about the purity of love 1670 01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:27,400 and that sort of thing, 1671 01:27:27,400 --> 01:27:30,800 and he has got some woman here in his rooms all the time. 1672 01:27:30,800 --> 01:27:32,360 No, really. Really? 1673 01:27:32,360 --> 01:27:34,480 Yes, here is her fan. 1674 01:27:37,760 --> 01:27:39,720 [Lord Augustus] By Jove! By Jove [laughing]! 1675 01:27:43,360 --> 01:27:44,960 I must be off now, Darlington. 1676 01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:48,880 I am sorry you are leaving England so soon. 1677 01:27:49,880 --> 01:27:52,480 Pray, call on my wife and I when you get back. 1678 01:27:52,480 --> 01:27:53,280 We'll be charmed to greet you. 1679 01:27:53,280 --> 01:27:56,240 I am afraid I shall be away for many years. 1680 01:27:56,240 --> 01:27:57,080 Arthur! 1681 01:27:58,040 --> 01:27:59,000 [Arthur] What? 1682 01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:02,240 I want to speak to you for a moment. No, but do come. 1683 01:28:03,160 --> 01:28:04,480 I can't. I'm off. 1684 01:28:04,480 --> 01:28:06,120 [Cecil] It is something very particular. 1685 01:28:06,120 --> 01:28:07,880 It will interest you enormously. 1686 01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:10,200 Is it some of your nonsense, Cecil. 1687 01:28:10,200 --> 01:28:12,120 It isn't! It isn't really. 1688 01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:13,440 My dear fellow, you mustn't go yet. 1689 01:28:13,440 --> 01:28:15,680 I have a lot to talk to you about. 1690 01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:17,600 And Cecil has something to show you. 1691 01:28:19,280 --> 01:28:20,520 Well, what is it? 1692 01:28:23,040 --> 01:28:26,360 Darlington has got a woman here in his rooms. 1693 01:28:28,160 --> 01:28:32,080 Here is her fan. Amusing, isn't it? 1694 01:28:35,600 --> 01:28:36,960 Good God! 1695 01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:38,000 What is the matter? 1696 01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:41,440 Lord Darlington! 1697 01:28:41,440 --> 01:28:42,280 Yes! 1698 01:28:43,360 --> 01:28:46,360 What is my wife's fan doing here in your rooms? 1699 01:28:46,360 --> 01:28:48,000 Hands off, Cecil. Don't touch me. 1700 01:28:49,360 --> 01:28:50,600 Your wife's fan? 1701 01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:51,480 Yes, here it is! 1702 01:28:52,640 --> 01:28:54,400 I don't know! 1703 01:28:54,400 --> 01:28:56,840 You must know. I demand an explanation. 1704 01:28:59,560 --> 01:29:02,760 Speak, sir! Why is my wife's fan here? 1705 01:29:04,720 --> 01:29:06,520 Answer me by God and I'll search your rooms, 1706 01:29:06,520 --> 01:29:07,320 -and if my wife- -You shall not 1707 01:29:07,320 --> 01:29:09,600 search my rooms, you have no right to do so. 1708 01:29:09,600 --> 01:29:10,440 I forbid you! 1709 01:29:10,440 --> 01:29:11,320 You scoundrel! 1710 01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:12,160 I'll not leave your room 1711 01:29:12,160 --> 01:29:14,120 till I have searched every corner of it. 1712 01:29:18,120 --> 01:29:19,040 Lord Windermere. 1713 01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:20,880 Mrs. Erlynne! 1714 01:29:23,960 --> 01:29:26,080 I am afraid I took your wife's fan 1715 01:29:26,080 --> 01:29:28,080 in mistake for my own, 1716 01:29:28,080 --> 01:29:30,000 when I was leaving your house tonight. 1717 01:29:32,360 --> 01:29:33,200 I am so sorry. 1718 01:29:38,120 --> 01:29:40,520 [soft music] 1719 01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:17,160 How can I tell him? 1720 01:30:20,240 --> 01:30:22,080 I can't tell him. It would kill me. 1721 01:30:24,880 --> 01:30:29,880 If he knows, how can I look him in the face again? 1722 01:30:33,880 --> 01:30:35,200 He would never forgive me. 1723 01:30:58,760 --> 01:31:01,200 How securely one thinks one lives. 1724 01:31:04,240 --> 01:31:08,000 Out of reach of temptation, sin, folly. 1725 01:31:11,440 --> 01:31:12,480 And then suddenly... 1726 01:31:18,760 --> 01:31:23,760 Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it. 1727 01:31:29,400 --> 01:31:31,680 Did your ladyship ring for me? 1728 01:31:31,680 --> 01:31:34,320 Yes, have you found out at what time 1729 01:31:34,320 --> 01:31:36,040 Lord Windermere came in last night? 1730 01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:42,800 His lordship did not come in till five o'clock. 1731 01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:44,960 He knocked at my door this morning, didn't he? 1732 01:31:44,960 --> 01:31:47,760 Yes, my lady, at half-past nine. 1733 01:31:47,760 --> 01:31:49,920 I told him your ladyship was not awake yet. 1734 01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:52,240 Did he say anything? 1735 01:31:52,240 --> 01:31:54,880 Something about your ladyship's fan. 1736 01:31:54,880 --> 01:31:57,240 I didn't quite catch what his lordship said. 1737 01:31:57,240 --> 01:31:59,120 Has the fan been lost, my lady? 1738 01:31:59,120 --> 01:32:00,200 I can't find it, 1739 01:32:00,200 --> 01:32:02,560 and Parker says it was not left in any of the rooms. 1740 01:32:02,560 --> 01:32:05,360 He has looked in all of them and on the terrace as well. 1741 01:32:05,360 --> 01:32:08,480 It doesn't matter. Tell Parker not to trouble. 1742 01:32:08,480 --> 01:32:09,280 That will do. 1743 01:32:23,600 --> 01:32:25,200 She is sure to tell him. 1744 01:32:27,400 --> 01:32:30,240 Why should she hesitate between her ruin and mine? 1745 01:32:35,160 --> 01:32:37,440 There is a bitter irony in things, 1746 01:32:40,160 --> 01:32:43,360 a bitter irony in the way we talk of good and bad women. 1747 01:32:46,440 --> 01:32:47,920 Oh, what a lesson. 1748 01:32:52,080 --> 01:32:55,760 And what a pity that in life we only get our lessons 1749 01:32:55,760 --> 01:32:57,560 when they are of no use to us. 1750 01:33:00,280 --> 01:33:04,240 For even if she doesn't tell, I must. 1751 01:33:10,760 --> 01:33:12,920 To tell it is to live through it all again. 1752 01:33:16,920 --> 01:33:21,920 Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. 1753 01:33:24,160 --> 01:33:29,160 Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. 1754 01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:33,760 Good morning. 1755 01:33:53,320 --> 01:33:54,400 You look pale. 1756 01:33:56,480 --> 01:33:57,800 I slept very badly. 1757 01:34:01,720 --> 01:34:02,560 I am so sorry. 1758 01:34:06,080 --> 01:34:07,360 I didn't get in till very late, 1759 01:34:07,360 --> 01:34:08,760 and didn't like to wake you. 1760 01:34:10,400 --> 01:34:11,240 You are crying. 1761 01:34:13,360 --> 01:34:14,720 Yes, I am crying, Arthur, 1762 01:34:16,320 --> 01:34:18,080 for I have something to tell you. 1763 01:34:18,080 --> 01:34:20,560 My dear child, you are not well. 1764 01:34:20,560 --> 01:34:25,520 You've been doing too much. Let us go away to the country. 1765 01:34:27,160 --> 01:34:30,600 You'll be all right at Selby. The season is nearly over. 1766 01:34:30,600 --> 01:34:32,320 There is no use us staying on. 1767 01:34:33,680 --> 01:34:38,520 Poor darling. We'll go away today, if you like. 1768 01:34:41,880 --> 01:34:43,520 We can easily catch the 3:40. 1769 01:34:43,520 --> 01:34:45,520 Yes. I'll send a wire to Fannen. 1770 01:34:47,000 --> 01:34:50,040 Yes, let us go away today. 1771 01:34:53,320 --> 01:34:54,800 No, I can't go to day, Arthur. 1772 01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:59,080 There is someone I must see before I leave town. 1773 01:34:59,080 --> 01:35:01,440 Someone who has been kind to me. 1774 01:35:01,440 --> 01:35:02,600 Kind to you? 1775 01:35:05,440 --> 01:35:06,480 Far more than that. 1776 01:35:13,480 --> 01:35:18,480 I will tell you, Arthur, only love me. 1777 01:35:20,040 --> 01:35:21,680 Love me as you used to love me. 1778 01:35:21,680 --> 01:35:22,480 Used to? 1779 01:35:23,920 --> 01:35:24,760 You are not thinking of that wretched woman 1780 01:35:24,760 --> 01:35:26,600 who came here last night? 1781 01:35:28,960 --> 01:35:29,880 Don't think I- 1782 01:35:29,880 --> 01:35:33,920 I don't. I know now I was wrong and foolish. 1783 01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:38,560 It was very good of you to receive her last night, 1784 01:35:38,560 --> 01:35:41,080 but you are never to see her again. 1785 01:35:41,080 --> 01:35:42,160 Why do you say that? 1786 01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:48,800 I thought Mrs. Erlynne was a woman 1787 01:35:49,880 --> 01:35:52,520 more sinned against than sinning, as the phrase goes. 1788 01:35:53,840 --> 01:35:55,440 I thought she wanted to be good, 1789 01:35:56,760 --> 01:35:58,680 to get back into a position that she had lost 1790 01:35:58,680 --> 01:36:01,600 by a moment's folly, to live again a decent life. 1791 01:36:03,320 --> 01:36:04,720 I believed what she told me. 1792 01:36:06,880 --> 01:36:09,960 I was mistaken in her. She is bad. 1793 01:36:11,480 --> 01:36:13,000 As bad as a woman can be. 1794 01:36:13,000 --> 01:36:16,560 Arthur, Arthur, don't talk so bitterly 1795 01:36:16,560 --> 01:36:17,440 about any woman. 1796 01:36:19,600 --> 01:36:21,760 I don't think now that people can be divided 1797 01:36:21,760 --> 01:36:23,760 into the good and the bad 1798 01:36:23,760 --> 01:36:26,840 as though they were two separate races or creations. 1799 01:36:28,360 --> 01:36:32,640 What are called good women may have terrible things in them. 1800 01:36:33,920 --> 01:36:38,800 Mad moods of recklessness, assertion, jealousy, sin. 1801 01:36:43,480 --> 01:36:46,520 Bad women, as they are termed, 1802 01:36:46,520 --> 01:36:51,520 may have in them sorrow, repentance, pity, sacrifice. 1803 01:36:58,680 --> 01:37:02,160 And I don't think Mrs. Erlynne a bad woman. 1804 01:37:02,160 --> 01:37:03,520 I know she's not. 1805 01:37:03,520 --> 01:37:04,840 The woman's impossible. 1806 01:37:09,120 --> 01:37:11,280 Margaret, whatever harm she tries to do us, 1807 01:37:12,240 --> 01:37:13,920 you must never see her again. 1808 01:37:16,480 --> 01:37:17,920 She is inadmissible anywhere. 1809 01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:23,040 [Margaret] I want to see her. I want her to come here. 1810 01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:25,600 Never! 1811 01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:30,480 She came here once as your guest. 1812 01:37:30,480 --> 01:37:32,760 She must come now as mine. That is but fair. 1813 01:37:35,800 --> 01:37:38,240 She should never have come here. 1814 01:37:38,240 --> 01:37:40,320 It is too late, Arthur, to say that now. 1815 01:37:40,320 --> 01:37:42,840 Margaret, if you knew where Mrs. Erlynne went last night, 1816 01:37:42,840 --> 01:37:45,560 you would not sit in the same room with her. 1817 01:37:45,560 --> 01:37:48,160 It was absolutely shameless, the whole thing. 1818 01:37:48,160 --> 01:37:51,360 I can't bear it any longer. I must tell you. 1819 01:37:53,200 --> 01:37:55,480 Mrs. Erlynne has called, my lady. 1820 01:37:55,480 --> 01:37:57,160 To return your ladyship's fan 1821 01:37:57,160 --> 01:37:59,920 which she took away by mistake last night. 1822 01:37:59,920 --> 01:38:02,480 Mrs. Erlynne has written a message on the card. 1823 01:38:02,480 --> 01:38:04,880 Ask Mrs. Erlynne to be kind enough to come up. 1824 01:38:06,160 --> 01:38:08,040 Say I shall be very glad to see her. 1825 01:38:10,520 --> 01:38:12,720 She wants to see me, Arthur. 1826 01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:17,760 Margaret, let me see her first, at any rate. 1827 01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:20,400 She's a very dangerous woman. 1828 01:38:20,400 --> 01:38:22,400 The most dangerous woman I know. 1829 01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:24,720 You don't realise what you're doing. 1830 01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:27,120 It is right that I should see her. 1831 01:38:27,120 --> 01:38:29,520 Child, you may be on the brink of a great sorrow. 1832 01:38:29,520 --> 01:38:30,760 Don't go to meet it. 1833 01:38:32,880 --> 01:38:33,760 It is absolutely necessary 1834 01:38:33,760 --> 01:38:35,520 that I should see her first. 1835 01:38:35,520 --> 01:38:36,840 Why should it be necessary? 1836 01:38:36,840 --> 01:38:37,880 Mrs. Erlynne. 1837 01:38:39,560 --> 01:38:41,480 How do you do, Lady Windermere? 1838 01:38:41,480 --> 01:38:42,880 How do you do? 1839 01:38:42,880 --> 01:38:47,480 Do you know, Lady Windermere, I am so sorry about your fan. 1840 01:38:47,480 --> 01:38:50,320 I can't imagine how I made such a silly mistake. 1841 01:38:50,320 --> 01:38:51,920 Most stupid of me. 1842 01:38:51,920 --> 01:38:54,080 And as I was driving in your direction, 1843 01:38:54,080 --> 01:38:55,520 I thought I would take the opportunity 1844 01:38:55,520 --> 01:38:58,760 of returning your property in person 1845 01:38:58,760 --> 01:39:00,920 with many apologies for my carelessness, 1846 01:39:00,920 --> 01:39:03,200 and of bidding you goodbye. 1847 01:39:03,200 --> 01:39:06,400 Goodbye? Are you going away, then, Mrs. Erlynne? 1848 01:39:06,400 --> 01:39:08,640 Yes, I am going to live abroad. 1849 01:39:08,640 --> 01:39:11,040 The English climate doesn't suit me. 1850 01:39:11,040 --> 01:39:15,360 My heart is affected here, and that I don't like. 1851 01:39:15,360 --> 01:39:17,200 I prefer living in the south. 1852 01:39:17,200 --> 01:39:18,880 London is too full of fogs 1853 01:39:18,880 --> 01:39:22,880 and serious people, Lord Windermere. 1854 01:39:22,880 --> 01:39:24,840 Whether the fogs produce the serious people 1855 01:39:24,840 --> 01:39:26,560 or whether the serious people produce the fogs, 1856 01:39:26,560 --> 01:39:30,000 I don't know, but the whole thing rather gets on my nerves, 1857 01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:33,200 and so I'm leaving this afternoon by the club train. 1858 01:39:33,200 --> 01:39:37,240 This afternoon? But I wanted so much to come and see you. 1859 01:39:37,240 --> 01:39:40,400 How kind of you. But I am afraid I have to go. 1860 01:39:40,400 --> 01:39:42,320 Shall I never see you again, Mrs. Erlynne? 1861 01:39:42,320 --> 01:39:43,360 No. I am afraid not. 1862 01:39:43,360 --> 01:39:45,200 Our lives lie too far apart. 1863 01:39:46,080 --> 01:39:49,160 But there is a little thing I would like you to do for me. 1864 01:39:49,160 --> 01:39:51,880 I want a photograph of you, Lady Windermere. 1865 01:39:51,880 --> 01:39:53,400 Would you give me one? 1866 01:39:53,400 --> 01:39:55,600 You don't know how gratified I should be. 1867 01:39:55,600 --> 01:39:58,560 With pleasure. There is one in there, I'll show it to you. 1868 01:40:04,160 --> 01:40:06,240 It is monstrous you are intruding yourself here 1869 01:40:06,240 --> 01:40:07,800 after your behaviour last night. 1870 01:40:07,800 --> 01:40:10,840 My dear Windermere, manners before morals. 1871 01:40:14,720 --> 01:40:15,880 [door closing] 1872 01:40:15,880 --> 01:40:18,320 I'm afraid it is very flattering. 1873 01:40:18,320 --> 01:40:19,960 I am not so pretty as that. 1874 01:40:21,120 --> 01:40:22,440 You are much prettier. 1875 01:40:23,440 --> 01:40:26,320 But haven't you got one of yourself with your little boy? 1876 01:40:26,320 --> 01:40:27,880 I have. Would you prefer one of those? 1877 01:40:27,880 --> 01:40:28,920 Yes. 1878 01:40:28,920 --> 01:40:30,600 I'll go and get it for you, if you'll wait for a moment. 1879 01:40:30,600 --> 01:40:31,840 I have one upstairs. 1880 01:40:31,840 --> 01:40:34,520 So sorry, Lady Windermere, to give you so much trouble. 1881 01:40:34,520 --> 01:40:37,760 [Margaret] No trouble at all, Mrs. Erlynne. 1882 01:40:37,760 --> 01:40:38,600 Thanks so much. 1883 01:40:43,920 --> 01:40:46,800 You seem rather out of temper this morning, Windermere. 1884 01:40:46,800 --> 01:40:47,960 Why should you be? 1885 01:40:47,960 --> 01:40:49,600 Margaret and I are getting on charmingly together. 1886 01:40:49,600 --> 01:40:51,560 I can't bear to see you with her. 1887 01:40:52,600 --> 01:40:55,720 Besides, you have not told me the truth, Mrs. Erlynne. 1888 01:40:55,720 --> 01:40:58,160 I have not told her the truth, you mean. 1889 01:40:58,160 --> 01:41:00,000 I sometimes wish you had. 1890 01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:01,920 I should have been spared then the misery, 1891 01:41:01,920 --> 01:41:05,160 the anxiety, the annoyance of the last six months. 1892 01:41:05,160 --> 01:41:06,520 But rather than my wife know, 1893 01:41:06,520 --> 01:41:10,200 that the mother whom she was taught to consider as dead, 1894 01:41:10,200 --> 01:41:13,120 the mother whom she has mourned as dead, is living, 1895 01:41:13,120 --> 01:41:16,320 a divorced woman, going about under an assumed name. 1896 01:41:16,320 --> 01:41:18,840 A bad woman preying upon life, 1897 01:41:18,840 --> 01:41:20,360 as I know you now to be. 1898 01:41:20,360 --> 01:41:21,520 Rather than that, 1899 01:41:21,520 --> 01:41:24,560 I was ready to supply you with money to pay bill after bill, 1900 01:41:24,560 --> 01:41:26,800 extravagance after extravagance, 1901 01:41:26,800 --> 01:41:28,520 to risk what occurred last night. 1902 01:41:29,960 --> 01:41:32,280 The first quarrel I have ever had with my wife. 1903 01:41:34,080 --> 01:41:37,440 You don't understand what that means to me. How could you? 1904 01:41:37,440 --> 01:41:39,840 But I tell you this, the only bitter words 1905 01:41:39,840 --> 01:41:42,120 that ever came from those sweet lips of hers 1906 01:41:42,120 --> 01:41:43,520 were on your account. 1907 01:41:43,520 --> 01:41:45,240 And I hate to see you next her. 1908 01:41:45,240 --> 01:41:47,760 You sully the innocence that is in her. 1909 01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:51,280 And then I used to think that with all your faults 1910 01:41:51,280 --> 01:41:52,800 you were frank and honest. 1911 01:41:52,800 --> 01:41:53,880 You are not. 1912 01:41:53,880 --> 01:41:54,720 Why do you say that? 1913 01:41:54,720 --> 01:41:57,440 You made me get you an invitation to my wife's ball. 1914 01:41:57,440 --> 01:41:59,080 For my daughter's ball. Yes. 1915 01:41:59,080 --> 01:42:02,080 You came, and within an hour of your leaving the house, 1916 01:42:02,080 --> 01:42:03,400 you are found in a man's rooms. 1917 01:42:03,400 --> 01:42:05,040 You were disgraced before every one. 1918 01:42:05,040 --> 01:42:06,040 Yes. 1919 01:42:06,040 --> 01:42:07,640 I therefore have the right to look upon you 1920 01:42:07,640 --> 01:42:11,800 as what you are; a worthless, vicious woman. 1921 01:42:11,800 --> 01:42:13,640 I have the right to tell you never to enter this house, 1922 01:42:13,640 --> 01:42:16,120 never to attempt to come near my wife again. 1923 01:42:16,120 --> 01:42:18,160 My daughter, you mean. 1924 01:42:18,160 --> 01:42:20,880 You have no right to claim her as your daughter. 1925 01:42:20,880 --> 01:42:23,040 You left her, abandoned her 1926 01:42:23,040 --> 01:42:25,120 when she was but a child in the cradle, 1927 01:42:25,120 --> 01:42:28,160 abandoned her for your lover, who abandoned you in turn. 1928 01:42:28,160 --> 01:42:29,600 Do you count that to his credit, Lord Windermere 1929 01:42:29,600 --> 01:42:30,440 or to mine? 1930 01:42:30,440 --> 01:42:31,760 To his, now that I know you. 1931 01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:33,720 Take care. You had better be careful. 1932 01:42:33,720 --> 01:42:35,120 Oh, I am not gonna mince words for you. 1933 01:42:35,120 --> 01:42:36,360 I know you thoroughly. 1934 01:42:40,600 --> 01:42:41,960 I question that. 1935 01:42:41,960 --> 01:42:42,960 I do know you. 1936 01:42:43,920 --> 01:42:46,560 For twenty years of your life you lived without your child, 1937 01:42:46,560 --> 01:42:48,880 without a thought of your child. 1938 01:42:48,880 --> 01:42:50,200 One day you read in the papers 1939 01:42:50,200 --> 01:42:52,160 that she had married a rich man. 1940 01:42:52,160 --> 01:42:54,200 You saw your hideous chance. 1941 01:42:54,200 --> 01:42:55,320 You knew that to spare her 1942 01:42:55,320 --> 01:42:57,200 the ignominy of finding that a woman like you 1943 01:42:57,200 --> 01:42:58,600 was her mother. 1944 01:42:58,600 --> 01:43:02,880 I would endure anything. You began your blackmailing, 1945 01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:07,200 Don't use ugly words, Windermere. They are vulgar. 1946 01:43:07,200 --> 01:43:08,120 I saw my chance, it is true, and took it. 1947 01:43:08,120 --> 01:43:10,720 Yes, you took it and spoiled it all last night 1948 01:43:10,720 --> 01:43:12,200 by being found out. 1949 01:43:12,200 --> 01:43:16,080 You are quite right, I spoiled it all last night. 1950 01:43:16,080 --> 01:43:18,360 And as for your blunder in taking my wife's fan from here 1951 01:43:18,360 --> 01:43:20,120 and then leaving it about in Darlington's rooms, 1952 01:43:20,120 --> 01:43:21,440 it is unpardonable. 1953 01:43:22,480 --> 01:43:24,520 I can't bear the sight of it now. 1954 01:43:24,520 --> 01:43:26,280 I shall never let my wife use it again. 1955 01:43:26,280 --> 01:43:27,160 The thing is soiled for me. 1956 01:43:27,160 --> 01:43:29,040 You should have kept it and not brought it back. 1957 01:43:29,040 --> 01:43:31,160 I think I shall keep it. 1958 01:43:31,160 --> 01:43:32,640 I shall ask Margaret to give it to me, 1959 01:43:32,640 --> 01:43:33,840 it is extremely pretty. 1960 01:43:33,840 --> 01:43:35,440 I hope my wife will give it you. 1961 01:43:35,440 --> 01:43:37,080 Oh, I'm sure she will have no objection. 1962 01:43:37,080 --> 01:43:38,040 I wish that at the same time 1963 01:43:38,040 --> 01:43:40,440 she would give you a miniature she prays to every night 1964 01:43:40,440 --> 01:43:42,400 before she goes to sleep. 1965 01:43:42,400 --> 01:43:45,200 It's the miniature of a young innocent-looking girl 1966 01:43:45,200 --> 01:43:47,200 with beautiful dark hair. 1967 01:43:47,200 --> 01:43:50,400 Ah, yes, I remember. How long ago that seems. 1968 01:43:50,400 --> 01:43:52,240 It was done before I was married. 1969 01:43:52,240 --> 01:43:54,360 Dark hair and an innocent expression 1970 01:43:54,360 --> 01:43:56,040 were the fashion then, Windermere. 1971 01:44:06,080 --> 01:44:10,000 What do you mean by coming here this morning? 1972 01:44:11,120 --> 01:44:12,320 What is your object? 1973 01:44:12,320 --> 01:44:15,160 To bid goodbye to my dear daughter, of course. 1974 01:44:15,160 --> 01:44:16,280 Oh, don't imagine 1975 01:44:16,280 --> 01:44:18,440 I am going to have a pathetic scene with her, 1976 01:44:18,440 --> 01:44:20,400 weep on her neck and tell her who I am, 1977 01:44:20,400 --> 01:44:22,200 and all that kind of thing. 1978 01:44:22,200 --> 01:44:24,640 I have no ambition to play the part of a mother. 1979 01:44:25,680 --> 01:44:28,240 Only once in my life have I known a mother's feelings. 1980 01:44:28,240 --> 01:44:29,240 That was last night. 1981 01:44:30,840 --> 01:44:34,200 They were terrible. They made me suffer. 1982 01:44:35,880 --> 01:44:37,320 They made me suffer too much. 1983 01:44:38,960 --> 01:44:41,600 For 20 years, as you say, I have lived childless. 1984 01:44:43,360 --> 01:44:45,080 I want to live childless still. 1985 01:44:46,960 --> 01:44:48,480 Besides, my dear Windermere, 1986 01:44:48,480 --> 01:44:50,320 how on earth could I pose as a mother 1987 01:44:50,320 --> 01:44:51,840 of a grown-up daughter? 1988 01:44:51,840 --> 01:44:52,840 Margaret is 21, 1989 01:44:52,840 --> 01:44:53,880 and I have never admitted 1990 01:44:53,880 --> 01:44:57,240 that I am more than 29, or 30 at the most. 1991 01:44:57,240 --> 01:44:59,040 29 when there are pink shades, 1992 01:44:59,040 --> 01:45:00,520 thirty when there are not. 1993 01:45:00,520 --> 01:45:03,520 So you see what difficulties it would involve. 1994 01:45:03,520 --> 01:45:05,160 Now, as far as I am concerned, 1995 01:45:05,160 --> 01:45:07,000 let your wife cherish the memory 1996 01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:09,920 of this dead, stainless mother. 1997 01:45:09,920 --> 01:45:12,240 Why should I interfere with her illusions? 1998 01:45:12,240 --> 01:45:14,320 I find it hard enough to keep my own. 1999 01:45:14,320 --> 01:45:16,040 I lost one illusion last night. 2000 01:45:16,040 --> 01:45:17,880 I thought I had no heart. 2001 01:45:17,880 --> 01:45:22,160 I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. 2002 01:45:22,160 --> 01:45:24,000 Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. 2003 01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:25,920 It makes one look old. 2004 01:45:25,920 --> 01:45:28,160 And it spoils one's career at critical moments. 2005 01:45:28,160 --> 01:45:32,320 You fill me with horror. Absolute horror. 2006 01:45:33,520 --> 01:45:34,520 I suppose, Windermere, 2007 01:45:34,520 --> 01:45:36,720 you would like me to retire into a convent, 2008 01:45:36,720 --> 01:45:37,800 or become a hospital nurse, 2009 01:45:37,800 --> 01:45:39,040 or something of that kind, 2010 01:45:39,040 --> 01:45:41,680 as people do in silly modern novels. 2011 01:45:41,680 --> 01:45:43,440 That is stupid of you, Arthur. 2012 01:45:43,440 --> 01:45:45,520 In real life we don't do such things 2013 01:45:45,520 --> 01:45:48,160 not as long as we have any good looks left, at any rate. 2014 01:45:48,160 --> 01:45:50,640 No, what consoles one nowadays 2015 01:45:50,640 --> 01:45:52,760 is not repentance, but pleasure. 2016 01:45:52,760 --> 01:45:54,400 Repentance is quite out of date. 2017 01:45:55,360 --> 01:45:58,200 Besides, if a woman really repents, 2018 01:45:58,200 --> 01:46:00,240 she has to go to a bad dressmaker, 2019 01:46:00,240 --> 01:46:02,280 otherwise no one believes in her. 2020 01:46:02,280 --> 01:46:05,680 And nothing in the world would induce me to do that. 2021 01:46:05,680 --> 01:46:09,040 No, I am going to pass entirely out of your two lives. 2022 01:46:09,040 --> 01:46:11,360 My coming into them has been a mistake. 2023 01:46:11,360 --> 01:46:12,960 I discovered that last night. 2024 01:46:12,960 --> 01:46:14,080 A fatal mistake. 2025 01:46:15,720 --> 01:46:16,560 Almost fatal. 2026 01:46:18,200 --> 01:46:21,160 I wish now that I'd told my wife the whole thing at once. 2027 01:46:22,520 --> 01:46:25,840 I regret my bad actions. You regret your good ones. 2028 01:46:26,720 --> 01:46:28,080 That is the difference between us. 2029 01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:32,400 I don't trust you. I think I will tell my her. 2030 01:46:32,400 --> 01:46:35,200 It is better for her to know, and from me. 2031 01:46:35,200 --> 01:46:36,600 It will cause her infinite pain, 2032 01:46:36,600 --> 01:46:38,960 it will humiliate her terribly, 2033 01:46:38,960 --> 01:46:40,720 but it's right that she should know. 2034 01:46:40,720 --> 01:46:41,680 You propose to tell her? 2035 01:46:41,680 --> 01:46:42,920 I am going to tell her. 2036 01:46:42,920 --> 01:46:46,720 If you do, I will make my name so infamous 2037 01:46:46,720 --> 01:46:48,800 it will mar every moment of her life. 2038 01:46:49,640 --> 01:46:51,640 It will ruin her, and make her wretched. 2039 01:46:52,880 --> 01:46:54,080 If you dare to tell her, 2040 01:46:55,280 --> 01:46:58,240 there is no depth of degradation I will not sink to, 2041 01:46:59,200 --> 01:47:01,360 no pit of shame I will not enter. 2042 01:47:03,080 --> 01:47:05,760 You shall not tell her. I forbid you. 2043 01:47:05,760 --> 01:47:06,600 Why? 2044 01:47:07,760 --> 01:47:09,760 If I said to you that I cared for her, 2045 01:47:11,040 --> 01:47:13,880 perhaps loved her even, you would sneer at me, wouldn't you? 2046 01:47:13,880 --> 01:47:15,920 I should feel it was not true. 2047 01:47:15,920 --> 01:47:20,920 A mother's love means devotion, unselfishness, sacrifice. 2048 01:47:20,920 --> 01:47:22,680 What could you know of such things? 2049 01:47:23,880 --> 01:47:25,000 You are quite right. 2050 01:47:26,040 --> 01:47:27,360 What could I know of such things? 2051 01:47:27,360 --> 01:47:28,920 Don't let us talk any more. 2052 01:47:28,920 --> 01:47:32,240 As for telling my daughter who I am, that I do not allow. 2053 01:47:32,240 --> 01:47:34,720 It is my secret, it is not yours. 2054 01:47:34,720 --> 01:47:37,280 If I make up my mind to tell her, and I think I will, 2055 01:47:37,280 --> 01:47:39,320 I will tell her before I leave the house. 2056 01:47:39,320 --> 01:47:41,640 If not, I shall never tell her. 2057 01:47:41,640 --> 01:47:44,480 Then let me beg of you to leave our house at once. 2058 01:47:44,480 --> 01:47:46,600 I shall make your excuses to Margaret. 2059 01:47:48,560 --> 01:47:49,840 I am so sorry, Mrs. Erlynne, 2060 01:47:49,840 --> 01:47:51,560 to have kept you waiting. 2061 01:47:51,560 --> 01:47:54,000 I couldn't find the photograph anywhere. 2062 01:47:54,000 --> 01:47:56,480 At last I discovered it in my husband's dressing room. 2063 01:47:56,480 --> 01:47:57,640 He had stolen it. 2064 01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:02,200 I am not surprised. It is charming. 2065 01:48:07,440 --> 01:48:10,160 And so that is your little boy. What is he called? 2066 01:48:11,880 --> 01:48:14,120 Gerard, after my dear father. 2067 01:48:15,680 --> 01:48:16,600 Really? 2068 01:48:16,600 --> 01:48:18,720 Yes, if it had been a girl, 2069 01:48:18,720 --> 01:48:20,640 I would have called it after my mother. 2070 01:48:20,640 --> 01:48:22,960 My mother had the same name as myself, Margaret. 2071 01:48:22,960 --> 01:48:24,760 My name is Margaret too. 2072 01:48:24,760 --> 01:48:25,960 -Indeed! -Yes. 2073 01:48:27,160 --> 01:48:29,960 You are devoted to your mother's memory, Lady Windermere, 2074 01:48:29,960 --> 01:48:30,800 your husband tells me. 2075 01:48:30,800 --> 01:48:34,960 We all have ideals in life. At least we all should have. 2076 01:48:34,960 --> 01:48:36,040 Mine is my mother. 2077 01:48:37,040 --> 01:48:40,680 Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. 2078 01:48:40,680 --> 01:48:44,360 They wound, but they're better. 2079 01:48:44,360 --> 01:48:46,920 If I lost my ideals, I should lose everything. 2080 01:48:46,920 --> 01:48:48,520 -Everything? -Yes. 2081 01:48:51,440 --> 01:48:54,920 Did your father often speak to you of your mother? 2082 01:48:54,920 --> 01:48:58,200 No, it gave him too much pain. 2083 01:48:58,200 --> 01:48:59,800 He told me how my mother had died 2084 01:48:59,800 --> 01:49:01,360 a few months after I was born. 2085 01:49:02,320 --> 01:49:04,360 His eyes filled with tears as he spoke. 2086 01:49:05,600 --> 01:49:09,080 Then he begged me never to mention her name to him again. 2087 01:49:09,080 --> 01:49:10,800 It made him suffer even to hear it. 2088 01:49:14,760 --> 01:49:17,200 My father really died of a broken heart. 2089 01:49:17,200 --> 01:49:19,640 His was the most ruined life know. 2090 01:49:24,880 --> 01:49:26,600 I am afraid I must go now, Lady Windermere. 2091 01:49:26,600 --> 01:49:29,000 Oh no, don't. 2092 01:49:29,000 --> 01:49:29,840 I think I had better. 2093 01:49:29,840 --> 01:49:31,920 My carriage must have come back by this time. 2094 01:49:31,920 --> 01:49:33,960 I sent it to Lady Jedburgh's with a note. 2095 01:49:33,960 --> 01:49:35,760 Arthur, would you mind seeing 2096 01:49:35,760 --> 01:49:37,920 if Mrs. Erlynne's carriage has come back? 2097 01:49:37,920 --> 01:49:39,360 Pray, don't trouble, Lord Windermere. 2098 01:49:39,360 --> 01:49:42,040 Yes, Arthur, do go, please. 2099 01:49:49,760 --> 01:49:51,760 Oh! What am I to say to you? 2100 01:49:51,760 --> 01:49:53,200 You saved me last night. 2101 01:49:53,200 --> 01:49:54,200 Hush. Don't speak of it. 2102 01:49:54,200 --> 01:49:55,920 I must speak of it. 2103 01:49:55,920 --> 01:49:58,400 I can't let you think I am going to accept this sacrifice. 2104 01:49:58,400 --> 01:50:01,080 I am not. It is too great. 2105 01:50:01,080 --> 01:50:03,440 I am going to tell my husband everything. It is my duty. 2106 01:50:03,440 --> 01:50:05,000 It is not your duty. 2107 01:50:05,000 --> 01:50:07,600 At least you have duties to others besides him. 2108 01:50:07,600 --> 01:50:09,120 You say you owe me something? 2109 01:50:09,120 --> 01:50:10,320 I owe you everything. 2110 01:50:10,320 --> 01:50:12,560 Then pay your debt by silence. 2111 01:50:12,560 --> 01:50:15,480 That is the only way in which it can be paid. 2112 01:50:15,480 --> 01:50:18,000 Don't spoil the one good thing I have done in my life 2113 01:50:18,000 --> 01:50:19,600 by telling it to any one. 2114 01:50:19,600 --> 01:50:21,520 Promise me that what passed last night 2115 01:50:21,520 --> 01:50:23,360 will remain a secret between us. 2116 01:50:27,480 --> 01:50:30,400 You must not bring misery into your husband's life. 2117 01:50:30,400 --> 01:50:33,760 Why spoil his love? You must not spoil it. 2118 01:50:33,760 --> 01:50:38,640 Love is easily killed. Oh, how easily love is killed. 2119 01:50:38,640 --> 01:50:40,280 Pledge me your word, Lady Windermere, 2120 01:50:40,280 --> 01:50:41,920 that you will never tell him. 2121 01:50:41,920 --> 01:50:42,960 I insist upon it. 2122 01:50:44,640 --> 01:50:45,960 It is your will, not mine. 2123 01:50:45,960 --> 01:50:50,680 Yes, it is my will. And never forget your child. 2124 01:50:50,680 --> 01:50:52,520 I like to think of you as a mother. 2125 01:50:53,360 --> 01:50:55,480 I like you to think of yourself as one. 2126 01:50:55,480 --> 01:50:56,560 I always will now. 2127 01:50:57,840 --> 01:51:01,280 Only once in my life I have forgotten my own mother, 2128 01:51:01,280 --> 01:51:02,480 that was last night. 2129 01:51:03,680 --> 01:51:04,920 Oh, if I had remembered her 2130 01:51:04,920 --> 01:51:07,840 I should not have been so foolish, so wicked. 2131 01:51:07,840 --> 01:51:10,280 Hush, last night is quite over. 2132 01:51:14,640 --> 01:51:16,320 Your carriage has not come back yet, Mrs. Erlynne. 2133 01:51:16,320 --> 01:51:18,880 It makes no matter. I shall take a hansom. 2134 01:51:18,880 --> 01:51:20,680 There is nothing in the world so respectable 2135 01:51:20,680 --> 01:51:22,160 as a good Shrewsbury and Talbot. 2136 01:51:22,160 --> 01:51:24,800 And now, dear Lady Windermere, 2137 01:51:24,800 --> 01:51:26,760 I am afraid it is really goodbye. 2138 01:51:26,760 --> 01:51:29,120 Oh, I remember. 2139 01:51:29,120 --> 01:51:30,800 You'll think me absurd, but do you know, 2140 01:51:30,800 --> 01:51:32,560 I have taken a great fancy to this fan 2141 01:51:32,560 --> 01:51:34,840 that I was silly enough to run away with last night 2142 01:51:34,840 --> 01:51:36,240 from your ball. 2143 01:51:36,240 --> 01:51:37,880 Now, I wonder would you give it to me? 2144 01:51:37,880 --> 01:51:41,040 Lord Windermere says you may. I know it is his present. 2145 01:51:41,040 --> 01:51:43,840 Oh, certainly, if it will give you any pleasure. 2146 01:51:44,760 --> 01:51:47,480 But it had my name on it. It has "Margaret" on it. 2147 01:51:47,480 --> 01:51:49,640 But we share the same Christian name. 2148 01:51:49,640 --> 01:51:53,120 Oh, I forgot. Of course, do have it. 2149 01:51:54,200 --> 01:51:57,000 What a wonderful chance our names being the same. 2150 01:51:57,000 --> 01:52:01,200 Quite wonderful. Thanks, it will always remind me of you. 2151 01:52:03,680 --> 01:52:07,200 Lord Augustus Lorton. Mrs. Erlynne's carriage has come. 2152 01:52:08,880 --> 01:52:10,120 Good morning, dear boy. 2153 01:52:12,000 --> 01:52:14,200 Good morning, Lady Windermere. Mrs. Erlynne. 2154 01:52:15,600 --> 01:52:17,360 How do you do, Lord Augustus? 2155 01:52:17,360 --> 01:52:19,520 Are you quite well this morning? 2156 01:52:19,520 --> 01:52:21,720 Quite well, thank you, Mrs. Erlynne. 2157 01:52:21,720 --> 01:52:24,640 You don't look at all well, Lord Augustus. 2158 01:52:24,640 --> 01:52:27,520 You stop up too late. It is so bad for you. 2159 01:52:27,520 --> 01:52:29,760 You really should take more care of yourself. 2160 01:52:31,600 --> 01:52:32,840 Goodbye, Lord Windermere. 2161 01:52:37,280 --> 01:52:40,480 Lord Augustus, won't you see me to my carriage? 2162 01:52:40,480 --> 01:52:42,040 You might carry the fan. 2163 01:52:43,760 --> 01:52:44,600 Allow me. 2164 01:52:44,600 --> 01:52:46,080 No, I want Lord Augustus. 2165 01:52:46,080 --> 01:52:49,120 I have a special message for the dear Duchess. 2166 01:52:49,120 --> 01:52:51,800 Won't you carry the fan, Lord Augustus? 2167 01:52:51,800 --> 01:52:53,800 If you really desire it, Mrs. Erlynne. 2168 01:52:53,800 --> 01:52:55,600 [laughing] well, of course I do. 2169 01:52:55,600 --> 01:52:58,240 You'll carry it so gracefully. 2170 01:52:58,240 --> 01:53:02,360 You would carry off anything gracefully, dear Lord Augustus. 2171 01:53:16,720 --> 01:53:17,560 You will never speak 2172 01:53:17,560 --> 01:53:19,600 against Mrs. Erlynne again, Arthur, will you? 2173 01:53:22,240 --> 01:53:24,960 She is better than one thought her. 2174 01:53:24,960 --> 01:53:26,520 She is better than I am. 2175 01:53:29,640 --> 01:53:33,120 Child, you and she live in different worlds. 2176 01:53:34,400 --> 01:53:37,120 Into your world evil has never entered. 2177 01:53:37,120 --> 01:53:39,160 Don't say that, Arthur. 2178 01:53:39,160 --> 01:53:41,880 There is the same world for all of us, 2179 01:53:41,880 --> 01:53:44,120 and good and evil, sin and innocence, 2180 01:53:44,120 --> 01:53:45,880 go through it hand in hand. 2181 01:53:48,160 --> 01:53:49,680 To shut one's eyes to half of life 2182 01:53:49,680 --> 01:53:54,160 that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself 2183 01:53:54,160 --> 01:53:55,720 that one might walk with more safety 2184 01:53:55,720 --> 01:53:58,280 in a land of pit and precipice. 2185 01:53:58,280 --> 01:54:00,000 Darling, why do you say that? 2186 01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:02,880 Because I, who had shut my eyes to life, 2187 01:54:02,880 --> 01:54:03,960 came to the brink. 2188 01:54:05,240 --> 01:54:06,840 And one who had separated us - 2189 01:54:06,840 --> 01:54:08,880 We were never separated. 2190 01:54:08,880 --> 01:54:10,160 We never must be again. 2191 01:54:12,360 --> 01:54:17,280 Oh. Arthur, don't love me less, and I will trust you more. 2192 01:54:19,160 --> 01:54:21,360 I will trust you absolutely. 2193 01:54:23,800 --> 01:54:25,400 Let us go to Selby. 2194 01:54:26,760 --> 01:54:29,680 In the Rose Garden at Selby the roses are white and red. 2195 01:54:33,160 --> 01:54:36,840 Arthur, she has explained everything. 2196 01:54:38,720 --> 01:54:43,520 My dear boy, she has explained every damned thing. 2197 01:54:43,520 --> 01:54:45,560 We all wronged her immensely. 2198 01:54:45,560 --> 01:54:48,880 It was entirely for my sake she went to Darlington's rooms. 2199 01:54:48,880 --> 01:54:50,080 Called first at the club. 2200 01:54:50,080 --> 01:54:52,640 Fact is, wanted to put me out of suspense. 2201 01:54:52,640 --> 01:54:55,320 And being told I had gone on, followed. 2202 01:54:55,320 --> 01:54:56,400 Naturally frightened 2203 01:54:56,400 --> 01:54:57,640 when she heard a lot of us coming in, 2204 01:54:57,640 --> 01:54:58,960 retired to another room. 2205 01:54:58,960 --> 01:55:02,480 I assure you, most gratifying to me, the whole thing. 2206 01:55:02,480 --> 01:55:04,760 We all behaved brutally to her. 2207 01:55:04,760 --> 01:55:08,400 She is just the woman for me. Suits me down to the ground. 2208 01:55:08,400 --> 01:55:09,720 The only conditions she makes 2209 01:55:09,720 --> 01:55:11,760 are that we live entirely out of England. 2210 01:55:12,640 --> 01:55:16,720 A very good thing too. Damned clubs, damned climate, 2211 01:55:16,720 --> 01:55:19,480 damned cooks, damned everything. 2212 01:55:19,480 --> 01:55:20,560 Sick of it all! 2213 01:55:22,040 --> 01:55:22,920 Has Mrs. Erlynne- 2214 01:55:22,920 --> 01:55:25,360 Yes, Lady Windermere. 2215 01:55:28,720 --> 01:55:32,120 Mrs. Erlynne has done me the honour of accepting my hand. 2216 01:55:33,080 --> 01:55:34,640 Well, Tuppy, 2217 01:55:35,840 --> 01:55:37,880 you are certainly marrying a very clever woman. 2218 01:55:39,240 --> 01:55:41,600 Ah, you're marrying a very good woman. 2219 01:55:41,600 --> 01:55:44,000 [soft music]