1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:03,560 [stately music] 2 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,080 [clock ticking] 3 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,240 [snoring] 4 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:44,600 - What on earth? 5 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:45,760 - Oh, I'm sorry Mr. Hudson. 6 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:47,160 Just wanted the paper. 7 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,000 - Well the lass has read it. 8 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:50,160 With her ladyship out on a call, 9 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,040 surely I can be allowed five minutes, Rose. 10 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:54,200 - It's for Miss Elizabeth, Mr. Hudson. 11 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:55,800 - Miss Elizabeth? 12 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,200 What does she want with The Times newspaper? 13 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,680 - She wants to see the business bit about stocks 14 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:02,040 and shares and that. 15 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,000 - Absolute nonsense. 16 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,080 Another of her crazies, I suppose. 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,200 What'll it be next? 18 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:10,040 - Football, perhaps. 19 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,200 Chelsea for the cup. 20 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:13,360 - There is no cause for you to be impertinent, Rose. 21 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:14,760 Off you go, now. 22 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:23,520 - I got it. - Oh, good. 23 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:34,760 Cafiers lively but unreliable. 24 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,480 Nervous profit-taking eroded their true values. 25 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,480 A bullish sentiment prevailing in American rails. 26 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,360 Some operators burnt their fingers in Balkan Oil. 27 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:46,360 - Ooh. 28 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:47,720 - Oh, I'm afraid that's me. 29 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,240 Beware of dabbling in Balkan Oil, Rose. 30 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,000 - I'm sure I don't know what you see in all that. 31 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,280 It sounds like a foreign language to me. 32 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:55,560 - It is. 33 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,680 Mr. Karekin is teaching it to me. 34 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,200 - Oh? Thought you said you didn't like him. 35 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,120 - No, I don't exactly like him, 36 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,440 but he has got a sort of animal magnetism. 37 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,720 And he is being very helpful about my investments. 38 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,200 Great Aunt Marion left me a few shares 39 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,320 and it's most important that I understand 40 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,720 all about the city so that I can make money on them. 41 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,760 - I'd have thought you had enough of that already. 42 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,520 - Oh no, Rose, not half enough. 43 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:22,400 Not of my own. 44 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:24,040 Without money I'll stay trapped here 45 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:25,680 in the fond embrace of my family 46 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,160 until I just fade away into nothingness. 47 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:29,800 I've got to escape. 48 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:31,480 - You don't have such a bad life. 49 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:33,720 - But I'm so useless. 50 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,560 And so bored. I have a horrible life. 51 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,120 - What about me, then? 52 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,720 - You've got a job to do, Rose. 53 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:42,640 How I envy you. 54 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,000 - It's yours any time you like, Miss Lizzie. 55 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:47,680 - You don't see how lucky you are. 56 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,000 - No, I don't. 57 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,160 Your frogged sealskin, Miss Elizabeth. 58 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,000 - I mean, when you've cleaned and dusted the morning room. 59 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:57,760 - And the drawing room and the stairs, 60 00:02:57,880 --> 00:02:59,120 changed the linens, seen-- 61 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,440 - You can say to yourself proudly, I, Rose Buck, 62 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:04,880 have done all this by myself. 63 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,480 Gosh, look at the time. I must dash or I'll be late. 64 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,120 Mr. Karekin likes punctuality. 65 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,600 - From what I've heard of him, that's not what all he likes. 66 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:16,480 You mark my words. 67 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,520 He'll want his pound of flesh. 68 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:23,480 - Rose, sometimes you really are rather a goose. 69 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:27,400 - I will not go. 70 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:28,840 - Margot, please. 71 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:31,640 You were not asked here in the first place, 72 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:33,480 and I thought we had agreed that it was wiser 73 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,080 not to meet again. 74 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,520 - I can't do without you. 75 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,920 - You've managed to do without my four or five predecessors. 76 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,680 - Oh, what a vile, cruel thing to say. 77 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,400 After all I've done for you. 78 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,560 Without me you wouldn't exist, 79 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:52,000 socially, I mean. 80 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,480 - And without me, you and your husband would be bankrupt 81 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,040 instead of very comfortably off, indeed. 82 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,400 It was a mutually convenient arrangement, 83 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:03,480 and it is now over. 84 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:04,960 - Oh, don't say that, please. 85 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:05,960 - I do say that. 86 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,400 [doorbell rings] 87 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,960 There's my visitor now. Please go. 88 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:12,520 - I shall wait for you in the bedroom. 89 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:13,800 - You will not. 90 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:19,000 - So I've been replaced already? 91 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,480 - If you don't go, immediately, 92 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,160 I shall telephone your husband. 93 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:42,600 - Dirty little Jew boy. 94 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:54,680 - Mrs. Kirbridge. 95 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:56,400 -[Julius] My dear Mrs. Kirbridge. 96 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:57,520 - Who was that? 97 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,160 - Ah, another lady seeking advice. 98 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,560 - You have a lot of ladies seeking advice. 99 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:03,720 - Of course. 100 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,960 There's, er, safety in numbers. 101 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:09,720 And, er, 102 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,600 I always try to please. 103 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:16,320 - She didn't look very pleased to me. 104 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:17,120 - Can you blame her? 105 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:18,280 Your youthful beauty would make 106 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:19,960 the moon, herself, pale with envy. 107 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,680 [laughing] 108 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:24,840 - What, on the nose trick. 109 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:27,880 Very ill-mannered to make a lady laugh 110 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,680 when she's drinking champagne. 111 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:32,440 - My humble apologies. 112 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:34,480 Oh. 113 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,280 You haven't done so badly this week. 114 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:40,640 East Rand Central made a nice spurt. 115 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,800 - But what about Balkan Oil and our poor concessions? 116 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,320 - I sold on Tuesday. 117 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,360 We can buy them back again when they hit the bottom. 118 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,840 Unfortunately, the market is very nervous at the moment. 119 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,280 If only the conservatives had won the election. 120 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,400 - Oh father and mother were desole, of course, 121 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,840 but I thought they did rather well. 122 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,160 After all, the liberals only have a tiny majority now. 123 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:01,320 - Oh, that's still dangerous 124 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,720 with that terrible little Welshman in the cabinet. 125 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:06,040 - I think he's rather funny. 126 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,480 Did you read what he said about dukes? 127 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,880 A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up 128 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,520 as two dreadnolls, and dukes are just as great at error, 129 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,160 and they last longer. 130 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,400 - Hmm, all the same, Lloyd George and Churchill 131 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,080 are spending more on unemployment insurance 132 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,240 than they are on re-armaments. 133 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:26,880 They're pacifists at heart. 134 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,400 - But father says the Tories have been able 135 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,280 to force the government to re-arm the Turkish navy. 136 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:32,640 - Does he, indeed? 137 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:34,560 - Well, that should help our concessions. 138 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:35,520 - Yes, he 139 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:39,480 didn't say who had got the contract? 140 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,120 - I don't think so. 141 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,240 - Could it be Armstrong's? 142 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,720 - Armstrong's? What are they? 143 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,320 - You know, I think it's very fortunate for this country 144 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,440 that people like father and your grandfather 145 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,920 have always had such a say in defense matters. 146 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,320 - You seem to have studied the history of my family. 147 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,640 - Oh, I like to know the form before I place a bet. 148 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,360 - Are you betting on me? 149 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:06,760 - I may. 150 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:08,880 I've always found the combination of beauty and high birth 151 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,040 very attractive. 152 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:10,840 - Snob. 153 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:12,720 - Of course. 154 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,000 My father was an Armenian carpet merchant. 155 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:20,720 - I may be an earl's granddaughter, but I'm not beautiful. 156 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,320 [speaking foreign language] 157 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:25,920 Anyway, beauty's only sin-deep. 158 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:28,760 - Not original. 159 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,680 I, too, read the Westminster Gazette. 160 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:35,720 - Do you know, I think my parents 161 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,840 might almost approve of you. 162 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:39,200 Would you like to meet them? 163 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:40,520 - I would like to meet them, 164 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:42,760 but they wouldn't approve of me. 165 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:44,040 - How do you know? 166 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:45,480 - Well, because they would think as you thought 167 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:48,160 when you first met me, that I was a dirty, foreign Jew, 168 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,440 my hands soiled with filthy lucre trying to ingratiate 169 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:52,560 myself with them. 170 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,040 And they would be right. 171 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:58,280 Except for the fact that I'm not actually a Jew. 172 00:07:58,400 --> 00:07:59,640 And they would immediately jump to the conclusion 173 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:04,200 that I have my cunning, predatory eye on their daughter. 174 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,280 - You're being absurd. 175 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:07,880 - Oh, no, I'm not. 176 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:11,760 - They would be right again. 177 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:14,160 That mouth, 178 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:18,360 those gray, green eyes. 179 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:24,600 The way your hair 180 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:25,680 grows off your forehead, 181 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:26,760 I find them 182 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:30,360 strangely disturbing. 183 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,920 - Rose said you'd want your pound of flesh. 184 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:36,880 - Rose, 185 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,840 not without a thorn. 186 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,160 [speaking foreign language] 187 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,120 - Julius, I have a daughter. 188 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:16,960 - Lots of married ladies have daughters. 189 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,200 - But she's not my husband's child. 190 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:21,720 She was a mistake. 191 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:29,560 - We won't make any mistakes, 192 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:31,480 Elizabeth. 193 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:46,600 - Morning, Miss Elizabeth. 194 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,760 [clock chimes] 195 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,560 [snoring] 196 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:35,960 - The light of all the love in the world 197 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:38,680 seemed to flood the lady's face. 198 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:49,040 She bent over and kissed him and smoothed his cheek 199 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,000 with her velvet cheek. 200 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,720 She moved so that her curly lashes 201 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:03,880 might touch his bare neck. 202 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:06,360 [moans] 203 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:07,160 Sh. 204 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,680 Then, a madness of tender caressing seized her. 205 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:16,800 She purred as a tiger might have done, 206 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,480 while she undulated like a snake. 207 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:23,520 She touched him with her fingertips. 208 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,840 She kissed his throat. 209 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:30,600 His wrists. 210 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,080 The palms of his hands. 211 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,000 His eyelids, his hair. 212 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,240 -[Julius] Here, here. 213 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:48,240 - Strange, subtle kisses sound like the kisses of women. 214 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:49,520 [laughing] 215 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:53,120 And often between her purrings, she muttered love words 216 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,680 in some strange, fierce language of her own. 217 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:02,080 [speaking foreign language] 218 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:05,960 What? 219 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,080 - It's an old Armenian love word. 220 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:10,600 [speaking foreign language] 221 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,040 [laughing] 222 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,440 Where did you get that trashy nonsense? 223 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:15,600 - From your bookcase, 224 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:19,600 presumably left here by one of your other ladies. 225 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,960 Well, you can hardly deny there were others. 226 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,880 - No, I don't. But never one like you. 227 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:26,600 - Ooh, I wonder how many times these walls 228 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,520 have heard that old line. 229 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:29,920 - Never, I swear it. 230 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:32,560 - Oh, you are a joker, not serious. 231 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:35,360 But I don't blame those other ladies. 232 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:37,400 You are utterly adorable. 233 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,440 - And you are ticklish. 234 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:43,160 - No, don't, don't, please! 235 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,400 [giggling] 236 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:00,680 - What I begin to wonder. 237 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:02,000 - Oh. 238 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:03,760 - Your parents. 239 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,360 Or do you often do this? 240 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,000 - You Armenian peasant. 241 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,000 Oh, Rose will make it all right. 242 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:12,560 Rose is a brick. 243 00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:14,520 - You really trust Rose. 244 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,560 - I think she's the only person in this whole wide world 245 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:20,080 I really do trust. 246 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,920 - There you are, Mr. Hudson. 247 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:25,920 - Oh, thank you, Rose. 248 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:28,480 Oh, Rose? 249 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:30,680 I am informed by the kitchen that Miss Elizabeth 250 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:32,400 hasn't touched her breakfast. 251 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:33,200 - No, Mr. Hudson. 252 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:34,680 She isn't-- 253 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:36,960 isn't feeling very peckish. 254 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:38,440 Just a little upset. 255 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:40,200 - Apparently Mrs. Kirbridge isn't feeling quite herself, 256 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,840 my lady, and she's spending the morning in bed. 257 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:44,960 - Oh, she should go see the doctor. 258 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:46,160 Well, I'll go up and see her. 259 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,000 - Rose also mentioned that Mrs. Kirbridge 260 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,200 was having a wee nap just at the moment, madame. 261 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,160 - Ah, well that's the best cure there is. 262 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:53,120 - Madame. 263 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:57,040 Good morning, sir. - Morning, Hudson. 264 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:58,840 Not going out, are you? - No, why? 265 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:00,600 - Geoffrey Dillon wants to see both of us. 266 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:01,640 - I can't think why me. 267 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,880 - Something about your father's will. 268 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,680 He's due at 11:30. 269 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:07,240 - I don't know where that man of mine 270 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,160 hides all my cravats. 271 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,720 - Why don't you ask him to come in and show you? 272 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:12,760 - Now, Elizabeth, that would hardly be right. 273 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,520 - I'm sure he wouldn't mind. 274 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,640 - Really, you have no sense of propriety. 275 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:20,920 - Oh, come back to me. 276 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,760 Forget the [mumbles] for just one day. 277 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:25,360 - You don't seem to understand, 278 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:27,240 the market has already been open for over an hour 279 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:29,720 and I missed one important meeting already. 280 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:31,920 Ah, and that Kafias consoles dividend 281 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:33,920 is being declined in an hour. 282 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:35,720 - Quelle disaster. 283 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,800 Think of all those lively but unreliable cafiers 284 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,120 running wild all over the floor of the stock exchange 285 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,560 without you there to calm them. 286 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:48,480 I know, I will come to the city with you. 287 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,200 One moment I shall be a bear, growling and snarling 288 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,200 and pulling down cafiers and consoles and foreign rails 289 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:59,880 by the millions, with my sharp, ruthless claws. 290 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,160 And the next moment I shall be a bull, 291 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,760 charging in among all those jobbers and brokers 292 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,760 and stuffy old top-hatters, tossing portfolios 293 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,960 of equities and industrials high in the air 294 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,480 with one flick of my gilt-edged sword. 295 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:13,800 - Goodbye, Elizabeth. 296 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:15,080 Loris will look after you. 297 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:15,920 - Can I come back? 298 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:16,720 - Of course, my darling. 299 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:17,720 - Tonight? 300 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,320 - Yes, not too early. After six. 301 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:26,960 - Now, under the terms of your father's will, 302 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,240 of which I am the executor, 303 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,600 the principal beneficiary is your brother Hugo, 304 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:33,720 the present Lord Sutfer. 305 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,080 - Yes, of course. 306 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,560 - Your mother has been amply provided for 307 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:40,040 and you, yourself, in effect, will cede John's legacy 308 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,680 under the terms of your marriage settlement. 309 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,600 I should explain about the estate, 310 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:48,760 the lands situated in Wiltshire, the freehold 311 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:50,680 property in London and Bristol, 312 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:52,680 the heirlooms, pictures, furniture, 313 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,400 et cetera, belonging to the family are entailed 314 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,160 on your brother and his heirs and are not 315 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:02,680 therefore realizable for the payment of vestiges. 316 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,960 Which, I'm sorry to say, are considerable 317 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,320 owing to the new and I'm bound to say punitive 318 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,080 legislation introduced by the present chancellor. 319 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:12,560 -[Marjorie] Oh, that thief, Lloyd George. 320 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:13,520 - Right. 321 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,600 - In a codicil to his will, your father 322 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,440 laid it upon me as a trust that the estate 323 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:23,080 should be handed over free of all debt 324 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:24,920 so that on his succession to the earldom, 325 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:29,000 Lord Ashby should be clear of all financial embarrassment. 326 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:31,200 -[Marjorie] We all know Hugo's in debt. 327 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:32,800 - Over 100,000 pounds. 328 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:33,760 - What? 329 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:37,440 - I have to raise a great deal of money, 330 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:39,160 quickly and in cash. 331 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,160 Now, there are 17 lease-hold properties, 332 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,320 all here in Westminster purchased by your father, 333 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,360 Lady Marjorie, in 1872 and not within the entail. 334 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:59,640 I shall be forced to put them on the market immediately. 335 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,600 This house is among them. 336 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:07,040 I thought you should be acquainted with this fact at once. 337 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,440 - You mean, you're going to sell this house? 338 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,280 -[Geoffrey] The remaining 60 odd years of the lease. 339 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:13,640 - But my father meant me to have this house 340 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:14,800 for my lifetime. 341 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:17,560 He's often told me so. You can't sell it. 342 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,160 - I'm afraid I can and must. 343 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:22,280 His assurance to you, though I'm sure it was sincere 344 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,960 at the time, is not reflected in his will, 345 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:26,680 nor was his intention incorporated 346 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:28,640 in your marriage settlement. 347 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:30,640 - I'm sure we pay Hugo a proper rent, 348 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:32,440 he'll agree to let us go on living here. 349 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,920 - Yes, I'll talk to him when he gets back from Canada. 350 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:37,760 - Elusive as your brother is apt to prove, 351 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:40,240 I have been able to contact him 352 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:42,960 while he was staying in a town called Canterbury 353 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:44,800 for some cattle show. 354 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:48,440 He will not be returning before the summer 355 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:52,120 and he has accepted my suggestions in their entirety. 356 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:54,680 - Then I shall also contact him immediately. 357 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:56,320 - That is well. 358 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,560 Naturally you will be offered first refusal 359 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:00,360 on the purchase of these. 360 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:01,720 - For how much? 361 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:05,680 - On the open market it should realize some 5,600 pounds. 362 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:07,560 - Five thousand six hundred pounds? 363 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:08,760 We shall have to pay for it out of my wife's 364 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:10,160 marriage settlement. 365 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,840 - Not unless you make abdication to break the trust, 366 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,120 which I, as a trustee, should strongly oppose. 367 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:18,160 As you very well know, Richard, 368 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,520 the capital is settled on your two children, 369 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:21,800 though of course, Lady Marjorie, 370 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,120 you receive the interest on your lifetime. 371 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,600 - What would you advise, Sir Geoffrey? 372 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:35,520 - In this matter, I am acting on behalf of 373 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,160 the Suthold Estate. 374 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:41,960 It would be most improper, not to say unethical, 375 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,840 for me to offer advice of any kind. 376 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:47,480 I must be on my way. 377 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,280 I'm sorry to bring you news which I realize 378 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:55,400 can hardly be agreeable, but I have my duty to do. 379 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:56,600 - Goodbye. 380 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:57,840 - Oh, Hudson, please show Sir Geoffrey out. 381 00:18:57,960 --> 00:18:59,600 -[Hudson] Yes, sir. 382 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:04,280 - If you'd care to consider the matter 383 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,920 and let me know your decision within, say, two weeks? 384 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:09,880 Goodbye, Richard. 385 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,600 -[Richard] Goodbye. 386 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:20,000 - There's no other way. 387 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:23,600 We'll just have to raise the money, that's all. 388 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,080 Don't you agree? 389 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,600 - I think it best, until we've given some thought to this 390 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,760 not to mention it to the children, or the servants. 391 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:37,640 - I'm so happy, Rose. 392 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,360 I'm sorry I've shocked you, 393 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,840 but I've never been so happy ever before in my whole life. 394 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:46,480 I'm tingling all over with happiness 395 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,440 and I don't feel the tiniest pang of remorse or guilt or, 396 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,160 oh don't go, Rosie, you're the only person I can talk to. 397 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,440 - Am I? What about him, then? 398 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:58,280 - He laughed when I told him about you 399 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,440 saying he'd want his pound of flesh. 400 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,000 - I'm sure he did. 401 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:08,280 - I wonder why bodies are so important. 402 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,680 He says, there can be no real love 403 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:17,160 until two bodies are joined together in perfect union. 404 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:19,960 - Is that what you're gonna tell your parents? 405 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:21,400 - Oh, they mustn't know, Rose. 406 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:22,200 -[Rose] How do you think I'm gonna keep-- 407 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:23,600 - And none of the other servants. 408 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:25,440 Oh, not that they could ever find out. 409 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,960 - Oh? That's what her ladyship thought. 410 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,280 But we all knew about her and the captain. 411 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:35,920 - What did you say, Rose? 412 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:36,880 - Nothing. 413 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:39,800 - What did you say? 414 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:41,520 - Nothing. - Tell me. 415 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:46,280 I've told me my secrets, now you tell me yours. 416 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:47,000 Rose! 417 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:55,560 - Where's Elizabeth? 418 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:57,160 - She's not down yet. 419 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:58,680 Fancy she's not feeling very well. 420 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,200 - What, again? 421 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:01,800 I hope there's nothing really wrong with that girl. 422 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:03,520 - No, I think it's just, well, 423 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:05,320 she's very highly strung. 424 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:06,320 - As though we haven't worry enough. 425 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:07,200 - She's been through a lot. 426 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:08,240 - Of course she's been through a lot. 427 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:10,520 And who's fault was that? Not ours, surely. 428 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:11,760 - It's no good bringing all that up. 429 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:12,800 We've got to go on helping her. 430 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,040 - I'm sorry, I thought we were. 431 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,200 We provide food and lodging for her and her child, 432 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:20,240 not to speak of nanny and nursery maid. 433 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:22,640 We pay her husband a reasonable pension to keep him happy, 434 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,400 and I still pay her allowance. 435 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,760 In spite of the fact that she's married, 23, 436 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,240 has capital of her own, and I-- 437 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:31,720 Morning, Elizabeth. 438 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:33,600 - Good morning, mother. 439 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,760 Good morning, father. 440 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,520 - And how are you feeling, darling? A little better? 441 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:39,760 - What? 442 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,240 Oh, yes, much better, thank you mother. 443 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:45,960 It was just a, I don't quite know what it was. 444 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,200 - Luncheon is served, my lady. 445 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,440 - Thank you, Hudson. There we are, come along. 446 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,600 - Father, I want to ask you something. 447 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,200 - Uh? 448 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,360 - When we have the tax to build our lovely new navy, 449 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,800 who do you think is going to get the contract? 450 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:02,280 - What an extraordinary question. 451 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:03,400 Well, since you want to know, 452 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,960 I feel fairly sure it will be Armstrong's. 453 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:10,720 - It is Armstrong's. 454 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,360 - You're brilliant, now. Don't take off your coat. 455 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:14,120 We're going out. 456 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:15,000 - Where? What for? 457 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:16,840 - Oh, I think you deserve a present. 458 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,120 - A present, what sort of a present, Julius? 459 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:20,920 - Oh, a very special sort of present. 460 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:22,040 - Tell, please. 461 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,240 - Oh, no, no. Come and see for yourself. 462 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:41,640 -[Elizabeth] Well, it's a hat shop. 463 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:42,960 -[Julius] Yes. 464 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:44,960 I've bought it, as an investment, 465 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,200 together with what I'm sure 466 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,040 is a very competent staff. 467 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,040 -[Elizabeth] They're rather dull, old hats. 468 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,320 -[Julius] Yes, that's what I thought. 469 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,320 -[Elizabeth] What's it called? 470 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,160 -[Julius] Whatever you like. 471 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:02,840 - Whatever I like? 472 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,440 - It's yours, if you want it. 473 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,160 - Of course I want it. I adore hats. 474 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,840 I've always adored hats, oh Julius, I can't believe it. 475 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:13,960 - Paint it any color you like. 476 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:15,560 Choose whatever hats you like. 477 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,000 - Oh, you are a darling. 478 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:21,000 I shall make it the smartest, the chicest, 479 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:24,240 the Frenchest hat shop in London. 480 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:26,760 Is it really a present? 481 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,080 - Mm, shall we say a loan? 482 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,360 - A hat shop? But darling, how quite extraordinary. 483 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,560 - Sounds great fun. Whatever gave you the idea? 484 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,960 - I happened to meet someone who offered me the job 485 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,560 and, I do need something to do. 486 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:42,760 -[Marjorie] Yes, but-- 487 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,360 - I'll be back in time to see the baby in the evenings 488 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,120 and I'll have half a day a week and every weekend. 489 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,000 - It's just that I've never thought of-- 490 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:50,440 - Your daughter running a hat shop. 491 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:51,560 - You're out of date, my dear. 492 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,240 It's all the fashion to have a shop these days. 493 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:54,400 - Where is your shop, darling? 494 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:55,400 - It's just off Brook Street. 495 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:56,480 - Brook Street? 496 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:57,880 [speaking foreign language] 497 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:58,880 - Oh. 498 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,520 -[Richard] What's it called? 499 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:01,560 - I haven't really thought. 500 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,280 - You haven't thought? 501 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,200 - They're letting me rename it, 502 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,160 to give it a new, sort of fresh look. 503 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,480 What do you think of Madame Lisette? 504 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:11,440 - Well, I really don't know, darling. 505 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,720 I've never had to name a hat shop. 506 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,480 - What about Paris Modes? 507 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,440 Mode de Paris. 508 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,200 - No, no, it must be Madame something. 509 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:21,480 They always are. 510 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,600 - What about, er, Madame Yvonne. There's French for you. 511 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:26,680 - Madame-- 512 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,560 - I know what made you think of that. 513 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,080 When I first met your father in Paris, 514 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,760 he had a dreadful common girlfriend called Yvonne. 515 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,000 - She was the daughter of a minister. 516 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:36,400 - She was still common. And she had dyed hair. 517 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:37,840 - Well, I admit. I'd done better. 518 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,080 - I should hope so. 519 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:40,720 - Father's dreadful common girlfriend 520 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,440 shall be immortalized. 521 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,040 Madame Yvonne it is. 522 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,280 - Can I help you, madame? 523 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,680 - Well, I read about this place in the sketch. 524 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,000 It's all very nice and modern, I must say, like it said. 525 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:04,960 And now, I want something really nice from Paris. 526 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,600 Let's try that one. 527 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,040 I don't mind paying if it's the right thing. 528 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:12,680 That's what my husband always says. 529 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,080 You've got to pay for quality. 530 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,240 - Oh, now we could make a good copy of that one. 531 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:22,400 I know a buyer who has some wonderful feathers, 532 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:23,680 really very cheap. 533 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:24,840 - Wouldn't it be easier just to go to Paris 534 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:26,280 and buy half a dozen of each? 535 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,240 - Oh, no, madame. 536 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:31,520 I mean, the prices they charge are ruinous. 537 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,080 Some people go over and just buy one, as a model, to copy. 538 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:36,280 - Is that allowed? 539 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,720 - Well, who's to stop it? 540 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:40,920 I mean, only one in a hundred hats sold in London 541 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,480 is actually made in France. 542 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,120 The important thing is that the customers think they are. 543 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,320 - And can say they are to their friends. 544 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:49,280 - Of course. 545 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,600 You know, madame, we should be thinking about Ascot. 546 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,440 - Ascot, in February? 547 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,200 Look, we've got a customer. 548 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,200 - Just watch and listen, madame. 549 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,840 Keep yourself in reserve for the coup de gras. 550 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,640 - Oh, if you ask me, I look a bit like an old hayrick. 551 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,320 - Perhaps something a little more important, madame. 552 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:15,280 Ah. 553 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,840 [speaking foreign language] 554 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,520 Lady Ripan chose one in this style only this morning. 555 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,280 - Oh, well if Lady's Ripan's got one, I don't want-- 556 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,760 - Oh, but of course, not in the same material. 557 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:28,560 - Ah. 558 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,120 - Now, let me see. 559 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:33,440 Perhaps 560 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:34,400 a bow 561 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:36,120 here, 562 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,800 and enriched with some pink feathers. 563 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,080 - Ah, that's more like it, eh? 564 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:44,480 - Charming. 565 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,000 - It's for our do. 566 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:47,600 Well, it's a housewarming, really. 567 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,960 We've just got a big place in the country. 568 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,040 And I've had Maples do it throughout, 569 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,560 and all the gentry are coming. 570 00:26:58,400 --> 00:26:59,280 Oh, yes. 571 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,400 That goes nicely with my sables. 572 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,080 - Yes, indeed. 573 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,760 - There's not many ladies got nicer sables than these. 574 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,600 My husband, Sir Albert Spennilove. 575 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:12,840 You'll have heard of him, no doubt. 576 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,880 He was knighted in the last year's Honors List. 577 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,400 He don't skimp me for nothing. 578 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,640 - Madame Yvonne. 579 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,280 - Oh. 580 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:23,920 - Lady Spennilove. 581 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,160 - Well, what do you think of it, Madame Yvonne? 582 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,240 - Oh, it's perfect for the big occasion. 583 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:31,880 - I'll take it. 584 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:33,680 Now how much? 585 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,120 - Five and a half guineas. 586 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:36,840 - Oh. 587 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:41,400 Well, it's er, it's stylish, there's no doubt of that. 588 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,680 - It's straight from Paris. 589 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,760 - Make it pounds for cash and I'll wear it. 590 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,560 - Very well. 591 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,320 Suzanne, would you wrap Lady Spennilove's hat? 592 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:55,760 - Oh, thank you. 593 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,400 Do you know, I'd have taken you for a lady anywhere. 594 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,280 - Well, I suppose I am one, really. 595 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:03,720 - Well, fancy waiting on other ladies 596 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,520 when you've got your girls. 597 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,720 - I don't tie bows for everyone, Lady Spennilove, 598 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,760 only important customers. 599 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,000 - I must talk to you, madame, when you have a moment. 600 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:15,200 - Would you excuse me? 601 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,040 - Well, that's all right. We'll manage. 602 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,000 - Suzanne, look after Lady Spennilove. 603 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,320 - That customer who's just come in, 604 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,120 she's been sued by every milliner in London. 605 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:28,800 Owes hundreds. 606 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,040 In my last place, we took her to court 607 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,320 and were granted judgment, but we never saw a penny 608 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:35,560 and never will. 609 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:39,680 So, madame, whatever you do, don't give her credit. 610 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,440 - I think I know her. 611 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:43,680 - Mrs. Descort. 612 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,080 So sorry to keep you waiting, madame. 613 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:50,600 - This one's really too hideous, 614 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,680 but I'll take the other four. 615 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,600 You'll kindly have them sent round to my address. 616 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,120 You do know it, I think. 617 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:58,080 - Oui, madame. 618 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,720 But I am afraid in this establishment 619 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,080 we do not allow customers credit. 620 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,400 - Who's in charge of this establishment? 621 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:07,720 - Madame Yvonne. 622 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,040 - I am informed you don't allow customers credit. 623 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,640 - That is correct, madame. 624 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,680 - Then very soon, you will have no customers. 625 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,880 I happen to know who owns this shop. 626 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,560 I think an exception can be made. 627 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,000 - I am in charge, and I'm sorry, 628 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,800 I cannot give you credit, madame. 629 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:38,560 - Excuse me! 630 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,440 - Aren't you the Bellamy girl? 631 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:43,520 - Yes, madame. 632 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:44,560 - Ah. 633 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:45,520 - Mrs. Descort. 634 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:46,480 - Madame. 635 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,240 - She's stolen that hat. 636 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,240 - Her own has seven feathers. 637 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,040 Properly dressed, they're worth far more 638 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,320 than the one she's taken. 639 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,520 She won't get them back 'till she's paid the bill, 640 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,120 which is never. 641 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,400 - You're very clever, mademoiselle. 642 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:08,560 - You have to be, madame, to survive in this business. 643 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,280 -[Hudson] Well, I never thought the day would come 644 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:21,160 in my time when a member of this family would go into trade. 645 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,600 -[Rose] Oh, it's considered quite respectable 646 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,480 these days, Mr. Hudson. 647 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,240 - Well, in my opinion, it's yet another manifestation 648 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,280 of the slackness in moral values that has been 649 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,920 spreading over this country like a malignant disease 650 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,200 during this present reign. 651 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,920 The scum of the earth, having possessed themselves 652 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,640 of their ill-gotten gains in the slaughterhouses of Chicago 653 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,320 and the back streets of Johannesburg, come to this country 654 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,240 and receive the homage of society. 655 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,400 They even buy their way into the drawing rooms 656 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,400 of the families of our ancient aristocracy. 657 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:53,800 [bell rings] 658 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,040 Morning room. 659 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:57,960 Lady Marjorie has a caller. 660 00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:59,880 - I'm so sorry to have been the bearer 661 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,960 of such unpleasant news. 662 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:03,240 - Not at all. 663 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,120 It was very good of you to take the trouble to call. 664 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:07,600 If I had a daughter, myself, 665 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,840 I know how distressed I should be. 666 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,480 The man really is an absolute outsider. 667 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,560 Peter and I-- - Quite. 668 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,160 Hudson, Mrs. Descort is leaving. 669 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,120 Goodbye, Mrs. Descort. 670 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,120 - Goodbye, Lady Marjorie. 671 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,560 - I've been to see Evans at the bank. 672 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,880 There's not a hope in hell of raising that money. 673 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,360 I think it's absolutely monstrous 674 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,080 Hugo treating you like this, his own sister. 675 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:56,960 - He probably couldn't help it. 676 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,280 - Of course he could help it. 677 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:00,560 The price of this house means nothing to him, 678 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,040 nothing at all. 679 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:04,440 He could happily move that amount in one evening 680 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,240 playing cards. 681 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,040 He's thoughtless, that's his trouble. Always has been. 682 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:09,240 - It's no good getting cross about it. 683 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:10,480 - No. 684 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,480 - We're very lucky to have lived free all these years. 685 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,440 We'll just have to use some capital. 686 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,000 - Well, we can't touch your marriage settlement. 687 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,760 I really think Dillon might have done something about that. 688 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,280 Are you listening, Marjorie? 689 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:26,240 - I'm sorry. 690 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:32,120 - There's not that much of our own left to play with. 691 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:33,960 It's been dwindling away at quite an alarming rate 692 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:35,080 these last few years. 693 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,600 - Surely we could borrow something, 694 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:37,720 other than from the bank? 695 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:39,600 - Only at an extremely high rate of interest, 696 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,960 which I simply can't afford. 697 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,880 Marjorie, we must find somewhere cheaper to live. 698 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,520 - Do you really think that'll be necessary? 699 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:53,680 - Yes, I do. 700 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:57,920 - Where? 701 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:02,160 - Well, 702 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,640 there are some very nice squares in Paddington. 703 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,040 - Oh no, Richard. Not north of the park. 704 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,040 - Chelsea? 705 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,720 - Only hooligans and artists live in Chelsea. 706 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:17,880 - Kensington. 707 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,000 - I had a governess once, lived in Kensington. 708 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,680 Oh dear, how depressing. 709 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,840 - Yes, I'm afraid it is. 710 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,000 Who was your caller? 711 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,120 - A woman called Mrs. Descort. 712 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,440 - Oh, of course, I thought I recognized the face. 713 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,120 At least she gives poor Peter Descort the hell of a time. 714 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,520 She was hailing a cab. Quite extraordinary. 715 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,360 - She came to tell me that Elizabeth 716 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:52,000 is living with a man called Julius Karekin. 717 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,760 - Do you really think that's true? 718 00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,040 She's a dreadful gossip. 719 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,840 - Well, why should she bother to lie about it? 720 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:07,160 - I don't know. 721 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,520 I read the Descorts have been running this Karekin fellow 722 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,320 for all they're worth. 723 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:16,160 They haven't got a bean. 724 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:17,640 - And he's quite beyond the pale. 725 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,960 A foreign commerciant straight from the gutter. 726 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:21,560 - Better the gutter than suburbia. 727 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,320 - It's not a joke, Richard. 728 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,160 I imagine there's been some sort of bust-up 729 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,240 with this woman and she's hell bent on revenge. 730 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:30,520 If Elizabeth has to misbehave, 731 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,080 why can't she choose someone of her own class? 732 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:34,840 - I suppose it's bound to get around. 733 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,280 - If you hired the town crier, 734 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,880 you couldn't do better than Margot Descort. 735 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,720 -[Clerk] Oh, I'm so sorry, madame, 736 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,080 I'm afraid we are closed. 737 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:49,160 -[Marjorie] It's, quite all right. 738 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,240 I've just come to see my daughter, Mrs. Kirbridge. 739 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,040 -[Clerk] Oh, I'm ever so sorry. 740 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,360 -[Marjorie] Thank you so much. 741 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:12,280 Elizabeth. 742 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:14,280 - Mother! 743 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:17,880 Oh, 744 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,200 how lovely to see you. 745 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,760 Oh, I wish you'd come earlier. 746 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,480 Let me show you everything. 747 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,400 - Elizabeth, who does this shop belong to? 748 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:30,440 - Why do you want to know that? 749 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:31,680 - Because I do. 750 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,080 Your father and I have heard a rumor. 751 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,120 - Oh, it's that Descort woman, I might have guessed. 752 00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:40,320 -[Marjorie] I don't happen to like or trust 753 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,120 or believe Mrs. Descort. 754 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:43,520 - But you listen to her gossip. 755 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:44,800 - I had no choice. 756 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,080 And all the rest of London in a few days. 757 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,840 - This shop belongs to Mr. Julius Karekin, 758 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,400 and I am his mistress. 759 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,280 Or, as Mrs. Descort might have put it, his kept woman, 760 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,040 as she was before me. 761 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,560 But, I expect you guessed all that already. 762 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:06,640 Because you don't know him, 763 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,080 you think he's a common little foreign upstart 764 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,880 businessman and dishonest, at that. 765 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,080 Because I know him, I can tell you 766 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,720 that he's funny and intelligent and generous, 767 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,160 and as much of a gentleman as any of your friends 768 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,320 and I've never been so happy in my life. 769 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,520 I knew that you and father wouldn't approve of him. 770 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,760 That's why I didn't tell you about him. 771 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,600 Look, you better come inside. 772 00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:38,600 Oh, don't worry Mother, 773 00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:40,760 you needn't look over your shoulder. 774 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,800 He's not about to pounce on you from the shadows. 775 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:43,840 He's not coming this evening. 776 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:45,080 He's got a dinner or something. 777 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:45,960 - Don't you see? 778 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,000 He's just a climber. He's using you. 779 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:49,520 - Of course. 780 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,560 I'm using him. We're very frank about it. 781 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,320 - You can never marry him, darling. 782 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,440 - No, that's a definite asset in both our eyes. 783 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,240 - Don't you see what damage it will do? 784 00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:58,760 - Oh, you mean to you? 785 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,760 To the family [mumbles]. 786 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,080 I should have thought that after all my previous 787 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,000 misdemeanors, there was hardly a square inch 788 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,600 left for me to blot. 789 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:07,680 Or is it done? 790 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,000 - Oh, Elizabeth, please be serious. 791 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,680 It's yourself you're damaging, your whole future. 792 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,560 You'll become an outcast. 793 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:14,880 You'll lose all your friends. 794 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,280 - Perhaps I shall discover who my real friends are. 795 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:18,560 -[Marjorie] You won't be received in society. 796 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,880 You won't be able to go anywhere ever again. 797 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,400 - Oh, if you mean set my foot on the squadron lawn 798 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,480 or strut about like a bedraggled peahen 799 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,080 on the royal enclosured Ascot, I shall be delighted. 800 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:29,120 -[Marjorie] Of course I didn't mean-- 801 00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:31,080 - And the thought of spending endless weekends 802 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,600 making polite conversation with the hunters and shooters 803 00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:37,240 makes me positively groan with boredom. 804 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,720 - But darling, if you ever wanted to get married again-- 805 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,000 - You've just said it, Mother. 806 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:44,640 I'm unmarriageable. 807 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,760 By an unfortunate accident, I have a child by another man 808 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,880 and my husband knows about it. 809 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,600 While we keep his mouth shut with a comfortable pension, 810 00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:56,240 do you think Lawrence is going to give me 811 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:57,880 grounds to divorce? 812 00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,760 Why should he? 813 00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:01,760 And if I ask him to divorce me, 814 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,920 I would be just as much a scarlet woman as I am now. 815 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,560 The only hope of getting free seems to be 816 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:09,960 to go out and shoot him. 817 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,720 Oh, Lawrence's head would make a nice trophy. 818 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:13,280 I wonder how many points he'll make. 819 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,360 -[Marjorie] Don't be ridiculous. 820 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,920 - Oh, don't you see, Mother? 821 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:19,080 I'm trapped. 822 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,080 Do you want me to sit at home forever 823 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,120 and wither away 'till I'm a bitter old maid like 824 00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:26,640 Princess Victoria? 825 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:29,960 It's all so unfair. 826 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,120 If I were a man, it wouldn't matter a bit. 827 00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:36,480 Uncle Hugo spent his whole life seducing every woman 828 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:40,160 in sight and everyone thinks he's a hell of a fellow. 829 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:41,840 But I get pilloried because I go to bed 830 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,880 with a man that I like very much. 831 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,360 - I know, but you should try to 832 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,600 discipline yourself, darling. 833 00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:54,000 Hundreds of women are in the same position. 834 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:55,880 - They're miserable. 835 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:56,840 I'm happy. 836 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:03,160 Anyway, perhaps they don't feel as I do. 837 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,440 Why doesn't somebody tell girls about their bodies? 838 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,200 - You learn about that sort of thing naturally 839 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,000 when you're married. 840 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,040 - Advice to an English maiden on her marriage bed, 841 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,640 shut your eyes, grit your teeth, and Rule Brittania. 842 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,120 - Don't be vulgar. 843 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:23,880 - I didn't learn anything on my marriage bed. 844 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,760 - I know, darling, your father and I know 845 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,520 what you've been through and of course we want you 846 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:28,880 to be happy. 847 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,960 But this is just a silly infatuation. 848 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,120 - You're so much more beautiful than I am. 849 00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:37,920 - Nonsense. 850 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,640 - You're attractive. 851 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,120 Haven't you ever had an infatuation? 852 00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:45,880 - I've never given way to a mere indulgence. 853 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,640 - Was Captain Hammond not a mere indulgence? 854 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,800 - How on earth do you know about Captain Hammond? 855 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,040 - Rose told me. 856 00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,640 She didn't mean to. It was just an accident. 857 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,400 It just slipped out. 858 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,520 And it wasn't just Rose, all the servants knew. 859 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,400 Don't you see? We're the same sort of people, really. 860 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,360 - I'm not very proud of my friendship with Charles Hammond. 861 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,360 But I stopped in time. 862 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,840 I realized what a lot I had to lose. 863 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:27,720 - I have nothing to lose that I care about. 864 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:28,720 -[Marjorie] Your self respect. 865 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,720 - I think I've gained that. 866 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:32,600 - I never let it become a scandal. 867 00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:33,840 I stuck to the rules. 868 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,720 - Oh, your rules. What hypocrisy. 869 00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:41,720 So long as nobody knows about it, it's all right. 870 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,560 - That's just what Charles said. 871 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,520 - Did he? I'd liked to have met him. 872 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,000 -[Marjorie] He's dead. 873 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,800 - You were lucky you had such loyal servants 874 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,200 and such a devoted husband. 875 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:00,400 - Your father doesn't know about it. 876 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:01,560 He must never know. 877 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,960 - Oh, I won't tell him. 878 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,000 But I bet he did know. 879 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:09,440 Father's deep, he doesn't miss much. 880 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,680 But he'd never do anything to hurt you. 881 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:13,680 - I know. 882 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,280 Elizabeth, do something for me. 883 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,440 I've brought the car with me. 884 00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,480 Come home with me. 885 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,680 -[Elizabeth] If you will receive Julius. 886 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:30,240 Give him a chance. 887 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,200 - Not in any circumstances. 888 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:35,240 It wouldn't-- 889 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:38,840 it wouldn't do, darling. 890 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,320 - You'd best wash your hands of me, Mother. 891 00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,160 You'll be much happier. 892 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:11,960 Oh, god, help me. 893 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:14,640 - It's a great pity you had to have a disagreement 894 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,160 with your mother. 895 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,480 - Oh, we're always disagreeing. We're like that. 896 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,040 It's no good not being honest, is it? 897 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,720 - Mm, perhaps not, but it's easy enough to break a bridge. 898 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,760 And it takes a long time to build it again. 899 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,080 - If you'd heard the things she said about you. 900 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,360 She doesn't even know you. 901 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,160 - It's quite, quite usual. 902 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,200 - Well, it shouldn't be. 903 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,080 Why are people always so beastly? 904 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,840 - People like your mother, all her class of persons, 905 00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,800 they are frightened and a little jealous of us. 906 00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:45,080 - Jealous. 907 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,200 - Yes, yes as a threat to what Lord Northcliff's 908 00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:52,280 young men are pleased to call the bastions of privilege. 909 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,040 Our success in commerce is beginning to give us 910 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:55,560 an influence in the running of the country 911 00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,720 and they see us as a threat to their absolute power 912 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,920 over government, over society, 913 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,160 something which they have come to regard as theirs, 914 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,040 absolutely, by some divine right. 915 00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,960 That's why they pretend that anyone who works in commerce 916 00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:18,920 and makes money must be unclean and untouchable. 917 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,560 They don't believe it, of course, but it's a way of 918 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:23,920 protecting their 919 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:26,240 their bastions. 920 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:27,520 - It's all nonsense. 921 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:28,480 - Of course. 922 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:31,760 Look, there's Rose. 923 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,960 - May I help you, mademoiselle? 924 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:38,720 - I was just lookin'-- 925 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,120 - Oh, how lovely to see you. 926 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:44,880 Come in. 927 00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,560 Now, you know Mr., oh yes of course you do. 928 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:52,160 - How do you do, sir? 929 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:53,360 - Hello, Rose. 930 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,240 - I've got to talk to you, please, Miss Elizabeth. 931 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,640 - Oh, it's quite all right, Rose. 932 00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:02,600 - Well, 933 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,360 it looks like we've got to leave 165. 934 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,000 - Got to leave the house? Why? 935 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,080 - Well, I've only got it from Mr. Hudson so far, 936 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,640 but he says your uncle, Lord Ashby, 937 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,520 I should say Lord Southhold, says your parents 938 00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:22,040 have got to buy the lease or something 939 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,960 and your pa says they can't afford it. 940 00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:26,800 And the lawyer's there and everything. 941 00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:28,840 - How incredible. 942 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,320 - They've been out all morning looking at houses 943 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,240 in Kensington. 944 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,080 - Can you see mother in Kensington? 945 00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,280 - Well, there must be something there and that's a fact, 946 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,360 'cause Mr. Hudson had us all in for a lecture 947 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,920 about tightening our belts, wasting not and wanting not, 948 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,080 and I'm maybe gonna lose my housemaid. 949 00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,880 Mr. Watkins is worried they might sell the Rolls, 950 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:53,920 and Mrs. Bridges is in a terrible state 951 00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,560 'cause they've cut her cream to two pints a day. 952 00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:58,840 She's talking about retirement 953 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,600 and boarding houses by the sea. 954 00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,560 I think you ought to come home, Miss Elizabeth. 955 00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:08,800 - Yes, Rose, so do I. 956 00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:10,080 Look, while I pack a few things, 957 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:11,680 you go and choose a hat for yourself. 958 00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:12,960 - Oh. 959 00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:14,640 - Any one you like. 960 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:18,720 - No, Miss Elizabeth, I can't. 961 00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:22,320 - Of course you can. I want to give you one. 962 00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:24,480 Mademoiselle? 963 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:25,840 - Oui, madame. 964 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,320 - This is a friend of mine, Miss Buck. 965 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:30,840 - Bonjour. 966 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,560 - I want her to choose any hat in the shop that she likes. 967 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:35,120 - Of course, madame. 968 00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:36,680 Miss Buck, please. 969 00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:44,280 - I must go back. 970 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:48,760 You do see that, Julius? I must rush back with Rose. 971 00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,360 - Yes, you must go, but not rush. 972 00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:55,160 We live our lives in a series of rushes, 973 00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,600 like the infant Moses. 974 00:45:57,720 --> 00:46:02,120 - That's not original. I, too, read the Westminster Gazette. 975 00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:04,320 - As I imagine Mr. Hudson would say, 976 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,080 more haste, less speed. 977 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:11,120 Now, let's just think about it very carefully. 978 00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:14,160 Like Rose is thinking about that hat. 979 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:29,600 -[Geoffrey] I see from your letter that you don't wish 980 00:46:29,720 --> 00:46:32,200 to make an offer for the lease of this house. 981 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:33,800 - That is correct. 982 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,000 Quite simply, we can't afford it. 983 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:37,720 - You are quite sure? 984 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,960 There's still time to change your mind. 985 00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:45,160 In that case, I have a purchaser. 986 00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:46,000 - Already? 987 00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:47,640 - Oh, yes indeed. 988 00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:49,640 A very good property at a very good price. 989 00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:51,680 Soon snapped up. 990 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,560 - How soon do we have to leave, to give-- 991 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:55,640 -[Geoffrey] Vacant possession? 992 00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,640 - Yes, vacant possession. 993 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,640 - I'm not sure that that will be necessary now. 994 00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,200 - What on earth do you mean? 995 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,520 - I took the liberty of bringing the prospective 996 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,080 purchaser with me. 997 00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:11,320 - I was eavesdropping at the keyhole. It's me! 998 00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:12,680 - Elizabeth? I-- 999 00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:15,760 Now if this is some sort of elaborate game, 1000 00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:17,000 I'm going to be very-- 1001 00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,600 - No, honestly Father, the house is to be mine. 1002 00:47:21,720 --> 00:47:24,480 - She knows she can't touch the marriage settlement money. 1003 00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,440 - It's a present 1004 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:27,600 from Julius. 1005 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,520 - Elizabeth, you can't possibly let him. 1006 00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,920 - But you can't stop him, Mother. Can she, Sir Geoffrey? 1007 00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,240 - The deed of gift is already being drafted. 1008 00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,240 And I am going to give it to you. 1009 00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,960 I know how much you love this house and so do I 1010 00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,120 and so does James, and think of all the money 1011 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:49,960 you've spent on me over the years and Lucy. 1012 00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:51,400 Well, it's the least I could do to try 1013 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,280 and repay you a little. 1014 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:59,200 - I don't know what to say. I really don't. 1015 00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,760 I'd have to speak to your father about it. 1016 00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:02,760 - Well, don't be too long 1017 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,640 or I shall let it to somebody else. 1018 00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:13,240 - Richard, we can't possibly accept. 1019 00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,720 - Now, just a moment dearest, just a moment. 1020 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,840 Geoffrey, are you quite sure this is all right? 1021 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,000 - Mr. Karekin has already put down a deposit 1022 00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,280 and is quite ready to complete. 1023 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:30,040 Assigning the lease by deed of gift to Mrs. Kirbridge. 1024 00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:33,360 - Sir Geoffrey, what sort of man is he? 1025 00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:35,880 - Very agreeable, very able. 1026 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,680 One of the most able men in the city of London, I'm told. 1027 00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,160 And becoming a very rich one. 1028 00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:45,000 - You got along with him all right, did you? 1029 00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,240 - My dear Richard, in my profession 1030 00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,840 it would be unwise not to get along all right 1031 00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,960 with a very able, rich man. 1032 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,000 And if I may say so, this is the sort of man 1033 00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,160 who can be very useful to the conservative party 1034 00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:58,640 in the future. 1035 00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,320 Very useful, indeed. 1036 00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:08,240 - Well, Rose, I must say I find it all very peculiar. 1037 00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:12,400 Very peculiar, indeed. 1038 00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,240 Still, it's not our place to question 1039 00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:17,360 the family's financial arrangements. 1040 00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,520 We should thank God for small blessings. 1041 00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:21,040 - Small blessings? 1042 00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,200 It's a bloody great big blessing. 1043 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:23,920 - Yes, quite. 1044 00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:24,920 [doorbell rings] 1045 00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:26,240 The front door. 1046 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,000 Rose, you must bring up the tea directly. 1047 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,400 Those were her ladyship's orders. 1048 00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:34,560 -[Marjorie] Do try some of Mrs. Bridge's seed cake, Julius. 1049 00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,040 It's absolutely scrumptious. 1050 00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:37,160 - Thank you. 1051 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,240 - I'm so glad you were able to visit us, Mr. Karekin. 1052 00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:43,720 -[Julius] The pleasure is mutual, Lady Marjorie, 1053 00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:44,960 I assure you. 1054 00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:47,440 - I wonder if you would care to come 1055 00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:51,000 and have luncheon with me one day in the House of Commons. 1056 00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,280 There are one or two people I'd very much like you to meet. 1057 00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,200 - I shall be delighted, Mr. Bellamy. 1058 00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:57,920 -[Richard] Well, that's splendid. 1059 00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:02,040 Now, apart from a good lunch, I hope you'll find... 1060 00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,520 [stately music]