1 00:01:43,075 --> 00:01:44,950 Morning. 2 00:01:46,950 --> 00:01:48,825 it is a commonplace observation 3 00:01:48,908 --> 00:01:52,783 that remarkable events often have ordinary beginnings. 4 00:01:54,242 --> 00:01:58,367 Never was this more true than of my talks with Dean Spanley, 5 00:01:58,450 --> 00:02:00,867 which form the spine of our narrative. 6 00:02:00,950 --> 00:02:02,825 - Morning. - Morning. 7 00:02:02,908 --> 00:02:05,783 Properly speaking, they began on a Thursday, 8 00:02:05,867 --> 00:02:11,408 the day on which i visit my father, Mr Horatio Fisk. 9 00:02:11,492 --> 00:02:15,575 This habit - one might even say ritual - 10 00:02:15,658 --> 00:02:20,117 commenced after the death of my younger brother Harrington in the Boer War 11 00:02:21,158 --> 00:02:23,658 and the subsequent demise of my dear mama, 12 00:02:23,742 --> 00:02:28,742 occasioned by her grief at this unsupportable loss. 13 00:02:43,408 --> 00:02:46,492 I'm coming, I'm coming. 14 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,158 Morning, Mrs Brimley. 15 00:02:52,242 --> 00:02:54,533 - How are you today?. - As you see me. 16 00:02:54,617 --> 00:02:56,825 Could complain, but what'd be the use of that?. 17 00:02:56,908 --> 00:02:58,908 Yes, indeed. 18 00:03:05,658 --> 00:03:07,533 And himself?. 19 00:03:07,617 --> 00:03:11,242 Oh, he's working himself up into a head of steam. 20 00:03:11,325 --> 00:03:13,575 You know how he gets. 21 00:03:14,617 --> 00:03:18,158 Sent back the paper, he did, to have it properly ironed. 22 00:03:19,825 --> 00:03:23,158 I'm just finishing the obituaries, so you can take it in to him. 23 00:03:23,242 --> 00:03:25,867 I thought he didn't read the obituaries. 24 00:03:25,950 --> 00:03:31,158 No more he does, but he wants them ironed just the same. 25 00:03:31,242 --> 00:03:33,075 Says he doesn't read them 26 00:03:33,158 --> 00:03:38,033 because he's afraid he'll come across his own name one day. I ask you! 27 00:03:55,658 --> 00:03:59,617 Do you believe in the transmigration of souls, Mrs Brimley?. 28 00:03:59,700 --> 00:04:03,700 I don't believe in letting foreigners in, if that's what you mean. 29 00:04:03,783 --> 00:04:09,367 No, um... reincarnation, not immigration. 30 00:04:09,450 --> 00:04:15,283 Um, the belief that the immortal soul has many earthly homes. 31 00:04:17,408 --> 00:04:19,908 Well, I haven't given it much thought, I haven't. 32 00:04:22,408 --> 00:04:27,283 After Albert died I went to one of them mediums, 33 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,283 but she couldn't get hold of him. 34 00:04:30,367 --> 00:04:33,283 I wasn't surprised, mind you. He never said much when he were alive. 35 00:04:33,367 --> 00:04:36,200 I couldn't imagine him piping up once he were dead. 36 00:04:37,867 --> 00:04:40,742 Mind you don't crease that, now. 37 00:04:42,367 --> 00:04:46,117 He won't know what day it is, not having seen the paper. 38 00:05:38,950 --> 00:05:43,700 - Oh, young Fisk. It must be Thursday. - It is indeed. 39 00:05:43,783 --> 00:05:48,908 Very handy, a Thursday. Keeps Wednesday and Friday from colliding. 40 00:05:48,992 --> 00:05:51,075 You're here, then. 41 00:06:02,450 --> 00:06:04,825 You should have the garden seen to, Father. 42 00:06:04,908 --> 00:06:08,158 - That was your mother's job. - Nevertheless... 43 00:06:08,242 --> 00:06:11,908 Nevertheless. What does that expression mean, I ask you?. 44 00:06:11,992 --> 00:06:14,450 Nevertheless. 45 00:06:14,533 --> 00:06:18,283 Might as well be clearing your throat, for all the sense it makes. 46 00:06:20,992 --> 00:06:25,992 Well, it's a fine day, Father. Have you anything particular in mind?. 47 00:06:26,075 --> 00:06:28,158 I can see how fine the day is. 48 00:06:28,242 --> 00:06:32,367 As for particular in mind, everything is particular when you get down to it. 49 00:06:32,450 --> 00:06:35,325 What I meant was, do you have any plans?. 50 00:06:35,408 --> 00:06:43,242 Are there any concerts or exhibitions, diversions you wish to attend?. 51 00:06:43,325 --> 00:06:45,492 There's nothing about the war. 52 00:06:45,575 --> 00:06:47,825 We're not presently at war, as far as I know. 53 00:06:47,908 --> 00:06:49,783 Diversions, you say. 54 00:06:49,867 --> 00:06:51,950 That's all that's left, you know, 55 00:06:52,033 --> 00:06:55,075 before stepping out of the anteroom of eternity. 56 00:06:57,367 --> 00:07:01,908 There is a display of aboriginal weapons from our wars of imperial conquest... 57 00:07:01,992 --> 00:07:05,492 Such was the common procedure of my relationship with my father. 58 00:07:05,575 --> 00:07:11,533 i, carrying out my filial duty, would arrive with the best of intentions. 59 00:07:11,617 --> 00:07:16,700 He, indulging his practised yet primitive paternal instincts, 60 00:07:16,783 --> 00:07:18,825 would play a strange game of control. 61 00:07:20,533 --> 00:07:23,200 As Thursday upon Thursday arrived, 62 00:07:23,283 --> 00:07:28,575 I'd become more and more determined to see this game dismantled. 63 00:07:28,658 --> 00:07:33,533 A collection of Georgian shoe buckles. Over 2, 000 items. 64 00:07:33,617 --> 00:07:38,950 That was an era when a gentleman could spend a fortune ornamenting his feet. 65 00:07:41,283 --> 00:07:43,408 Did we win the Boer War?. 66 00:07:45,533 --> 00:07:48,408 I believe we lost more slowly than the other side. 67 00:07:48,492 --> 00:07:50,867 Garden never recovered from it. 68 00:07:54,783 --> 00:07:59,450 You know, there is a lecture by one Swami Nala Prash 69 00:07:59,533 --> 00:08:01,867 on the transmigration of souls. 70 00:08:01,950 --> 00:08:04,117 Poppycock! 71 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:08,367 Think if we had souls they wouldn't get in touch?. Of course they would. 72 00:08:08,450 --> 00:08:10,908 Think your mother wouldn't be on to me about that garden?. Of course she would. 73 00:08:12,492 --> 00:08:15,825 Still, it seems the most likely of the lot, wouldn't you say?. 74 00:08:15,908 --> 00:08:19,450 It's being held at the home of the Nawab of Ranjiput. 75 00:08:19,533 --> 00:08:23,200 - Isn't that the cricketing Indian chappie?. - Yes, I believe so. 76 00:08:23,283 --> 00:08:25,492 Oh, well. Let's take a look. 77 00:08:25,575 --> 00:08:28,283 Heard tell he's turned the ballroom into a cricket pitch. 78 00:08:28,367 --> 00:08:30,867 Mad as badgers, these nawabs. 79 00:08:30,950 --> 00:08:35,367 Oh, by the way, I've invested in a chair vehicle. 80 00:08:35,450 --> 00:08:38,533 Makes walking unnecessary. You'll enjoy it. 81 00:08:38,617 --> 00:08:41,742 Mrs Brimley! My chair! 82 00:08:45,033 --> 00:08:48,617 - Watch your step, young Fisk. - Thank you, Father. 83 00:08:51,825 --> 00:08:55,200 - How is it going?. - Very smoothly so far. 84 00:08:55,283 --> 00:08:58,283 So it should. Latest model. 85 00:08:58,367 --> 00:09:01,325 Guaranteed to last longer than the user. 86 00:09:01,408 --> 00:09:05,367 - Not that that means very much. - Nonsense, Father. 87 00:09:16,075 --> 00:09:18,575 Damned machines! 88 00:09:19,700 --> 00:09:22,242 Be the death of all of us, they will. 89 00:09:22,325 --> 00:09:25,992 Progress, Father, occasions certain inconveniences. 90 00:09:28,117 --> 00:09:32,450 - Galsworthy, old son. How are you?. - Very well, sir. 91 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,325 Hey-ho! Well done, chair. 92 00:09:39,658 --> 00:09:41,783 Give you a hand with the buggy?. 93 00:09:41,867 --> 00:09:44,117 - Grab hold. - That's kind of you. 94 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,825 - Buggy, indeed! - My pleasure, sir. 95 00:09:46,908 --> 00:09:49,242 Clyde-built by the feel of it. 96 00:10:12,325 --> 00:10:14,242 Always a pleasure. 97 00:10:14,325 --> 00:10:16,533 Thank you. Thank you. 98 00:10:17,658 --> 00:10:22,575 Damn foolish game, cricket, if you ask me. Too many rules. 99 00:10:24,408 --> 00:10:27,533 - Howzat! - Not out, I say. 100 00:10:37,867 --> 00:10:41,075 - Not exactly a full house, is it?. - This is where you need to go. 101 00:10:42,117 --> 00:10:45,283 Want to be where we can see the yellow of his eyes. 102 00:10:46,992 --> 00:10:50,992 I declare, that's Spanley, dean of St Justus. 103 00:10:51,075 --> 00:10:54,325 Not that I ever go there, so he may have been kicked out by now. 104 00:10:54,408 --> 00:10:56,408 - Father, keep your voice down. - What?. 105 00:10:56,492 --> 00:10:57,992 Shh. 106 00:10:59,658 --> 00:11:01,742 Dean Spanley, did you say?. 107 00:11:01,825 --> 00:11:04,242 Not me. Chap with the dog collar. 108 00:11:04,325 --> 00:11:08,033 What's a dean doing at a sermon on reincarnation?. 109 00:11:08,117 --> 00:11:11,700 - Exactly my thought. - I think it shows open-mindedness. 110 00:11:11,783 --> 00:11:15,617 Impending apostasy, more like. Seen the error of his Christian ways. 111 00:11:15,700 --> 00:11:18,658 - The name's Wrather, with a W. - Fisk. 112 00:11:18,742 --> 00:11:22,158 - What brings you here, Mr Fisk?. - Ask young Fisk. His idea. 113 00:11:22,242 --> 00:11:24,117 The lesser of several evils. 114 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:32,283 Well, there you are. 115 00:11:32,367 --> 00:11:34,450 I thought I got a thin edge onto my pad, 116 00:11:34,533 --> 00:11:37,867 but when the umpire raises his finger, you have to walk. 117 00:11:37,950 --> 00:11:40,575 That's life... and cricket. 118 00:11:41,658 --> 00:11:44,242 Well, then, time to bring on Swami Prash. 119 00:11:44,325 --> 00:11:47,033 Of what he will tell you I have no particular opinion, 120 00:11:47,117 --> 00:11:50,658 but I've always held him in high regard as a cricketer. 121 00:11:50,742 --> 00:11:53,825 Bowled decent left-arm leg breaks before he went holy. 122 00:11:53,908 --> 00:11:58,950 Haven't seen him play since, but I've no doubt he's still the sportsman he was. Hmm. 123 00:12:07,283 --> 00:12:11,908 i confess, the appearance of Swami Prash came as something of a surprise, 124 00:12:11,992 --> 00:12:14,492 even a disappointment. 125 00:12:14,575 --> 00:12:18,658 For although i had no clear expectation of what a holy man would look like, 126 00:12:18,742 --> 00:12:22,325 i had imagined one with such a title and discussing such a subject 127 00:12:22,408 --> 00:12:25,783 to have been dressed more... traditionally. 128 00:12:38,617 --> 00:12:43,283 The question of the transmigration of the soul, 129 00:12:43,367 --> 00:12:49,450 perhaps more familiarly known to you as reincarnation, 130 00:12:49,533 --> 00:12:52,992 has been the structural underpinning 131 00:12:53,075 --> 00:12:58,867 of Indian philosophical and religious thought for millennia. 132 00:12:58,950 --> 00:13:00,492 Only recently... 133 00:13:00,575 --> 00:13:03,867 What ensued proved to be as unilluminating a 50 minutes 134 00:13:03,950 --> 00:13:09,117 as i can remember spending outside the confines of parliamentary debate. 135 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,950 .. esoteric wisdom come to the attention... 136 00:13:12,033 --> 00:13:16,658 indeed, the most significant fact i gleaned from the experience 137 00:13:16,742 --> 00:13:23,617 was that with my eyes closed, the lecturer could have been a Welshman. 138 00:13:23,700 --> 00:13:28,242 A little, if only a little, closer. 139 00:13:31,658 --> 00:13:35,700 I should be pleased now to answer any questions you may have. 140 00:13:35,783 --> 00:13:38,992 - Where am I?. - Be quiet. 141 00:13:39,075 --> 00:13:41,867 You are, my dear sir, 142 00:13:41,950 --> 00:13:47,075 in the anteroom of eternity with the rest of us sojourning souls. 143 00:13:47,158 --> 00:13:49,450 - What?. - Yes, madam?. 144 00:13:49,533 --> 00:13:56,200 I was, er... we were, that is, wondering if... 145 00:13:56,283 --> 00:13:59,617 - Did he say the anteroom of eternity?. - Shh. 146 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:02,325 - What?. - Shh. 147 00:14:02,408 --> 00:14:07,533 - If they... - Pets, really. The souls of pets. 148 00:14:07,617 --> 00:14:14,200 That is a most interesting question and I thank you for asking it. 149 00:14:16,325 --> 00:14:20,408 It is generally supposed that the animal soul 150 00:14:20,492 --> 00:14:23,617 must be of a different and, by inference, 151 00:14:23,700 --> 00:14:27,450 inferior nature to the human soul. 152 00:14:27,533 --> 00:14:33,283 The soul is that part of the Godhead, of All That Is... 153 00:14:33,367 --> 00:14:37,575 What you said before, sir, about the anteroom of eternity... 154 00:14:37,658 --> 00:14:41,075 Would you be kind enough to allow the swami to finish his thought, sir?. 155 00:14:41,158 --> 00:14:42,450 - Well, well. - Shh. 156 00:14:42,533 --> 00:14:44,617 - What?. - Shh. 157 00:14:49,325 --> 00:14:56,200 However, although all animals have their specific awareness of the Godhead, 158 00:14:56,492 --> 00:15:05,367 the dog is, by virtue of his singular relationship with all mankind, unique. 159 00:15:05,450 --> 00:15:07,908 What about cats?. 160 00:15:07,992 --> 00:15:12,117 The dog amplifies... 161 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,908 the cat diminishes... 162 00:15:15,950 --> 00:15:19,242 man's estimation of himself. 163 00:15:20,367 --> 00:15:22,325 Poppycock! 164 00:15:26,283 --> 00:15:28,992 So I shall wish you gentlemen good day. 165 00:15:29,075 --> 00:15:33,117 I can be found here most mornings and of the occasional evening. 166 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,075 What exactly is a conveyancer?. 167 00:15:36,492 --> 00:15:38,825 Well, nothing, exactly. More a service of facilitation. 168 00:15:38,908 --> 00:15:41,325 Assisting a thing to be moved between parties. 169 00:15:41,408 --> 00:15:43,742 So you're a middleman. 170 00:15:43,825 --> 00:15:46,700 Well, sometimes in the middle and sometimes at either end. 171 00:15:46,783 --> 00:15:51,033 - Been a great pleasure, sir. - You're easily pleased, is all I can say. 172 00:15:55,950 --> 00:16:01,200 Mrs Travers, did I ever tell you that I collect birds? I'm a real cornucopian. 173 00:16:01,283 --> 00:16:03,283 What's that?. 174 00:16:08,367 --> 00:16:11,158 Only thing that made sense in the whole damn farrago 175 00:16:11,242 --> 00:16:14,700 was what the chap said about dogs thinking you are better than you are. 176 00:16:14,783 --> 00:16:17,867 Canine flattery is a survival mechanism, according to Darwin. 177 00:16:17,950 --> 00:16:20,492 The chap never had a dog, is all I can say. 178 00:16:20,575 --> 00:16:22,617 I thought he had a beagle. 179 00:16:22,700 --> 00:16:27,867 I had a dog once. Wag. One of the seven great dogs. 180 00:16:27,950 --> 00:16:31,658 At any one time, you know, there are only seven. Did you know that?. 181 00:16:31,742 --> 00:16:33,908 I can't say I did. 182 00:16:33,992 --> 00:16:37,992 Neither did that swami. Made me think he didn't know much about dogs. 183 00:16:38,075 --> 00:16:41,367 Let's go to my club, have a stiff one. 184 00:16:41,450 --> 00:16:43,700 I thought you didn't go there any more. 185 00:16:43,783 --> 00:16:47,367 That was in the past. This is the present, young Fisk. 186 00:16:47,450 --> 00:16:50,450 There's no time like the present, as that swami called it. 187 00:16:50,533 --> 00:16:55,783 - What was it?. The Eternal Now?. - I don't know, sir. I wasn't listening. 188 00:17:06,992 --> 00:17:10,700 - How are you, Marriot?. - I'm well, sir. And yourself?. 189 00:17:10,783 --> 00:17:13,742 Oh, one step nearer the grave. 190 00:17:13,825 --> 00:17:16,533 How's that boy of yours?. Tommy, isn't it?. 191 00:17:17,658 --> 00:17:20,367 Yes, sir. Tommy, sir. 192 00:17:21,617 --> 00:17:23,700 He... he's dead, sir. 193 00:17:24,742 --> 00:17:27,283 The war, sir. The Boer War. 194 00:17:27,367 --> 00:17:31,950 Oh, the Boers. Lost one myself in that nonsense. 195 00:17:34,783 --> 00:17:37,908 Haven't seen you for a while, sir. 196 00:17:43,992 --> 00:17:46,075 Hasn't changed much. 197 00:17:46,158 --> 00:17:49,908 Clubs aren't supposed to change, surely. Part of their charm. 198 00:17:54,033 --> 00:17:56,617 There's that chap again. Is he following us?. 199 00:17:56,700 --> 00:17:59,075 Where are you going?. 200 00:18:03,742 --> 00:18:05,617 - Fisk. - What?. 201 00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:08,158 Horatio Fisk. 202 00:18:08,242 --> 00:18:12,575 This is young Fisk. Surprised we were to see you at the nawab's. 203 00:18:12,658 --> 00:18:14,742 Oh, yes, yes. 204 00:18:14,825 --> 00:18:19,283 So, what did you make of all that mumble-jumble?. 205 00:18:22,033 --> 00:18:24,283 The beliefs of others are always of interest. 206 00:18:24,367 --> 00:18:29,950 Really?. Tell me this, then. Why don't they get in touch?. 207 00:18:31,950 --> 00:18:36,408 Souls, I mean. Never a word from beyond the grave. 208 00:18:36,492 --> 00:18:39,367 You'd think one of them would have given a shout. 209 00:18:39,450 --> 00:18:42,283 Well, I imagine if the swami is correct 210 00:18:42,367 --> 00:18:45,908 they're all too busy being whoever they've become. 211 00:18:45,992 --> 00:18:48,492 And what about him pinching my line?. 212 00:18:48,575 --> 00:18:51,533 - What line was that?. - The anteroom of eternity. 213 00:18:51,617 --> 00:18:54,033 Well, I'd rather thought that common usage. 214 00:18:54,117 --> 00:18:57,825 Not at all. Out of my own head that came. 215 00:18:57,908 --> 00:19:00,075 Rather like having your pocket picked. 216 00:19:00,158 --> 00:19:04,742 - What's that you're drinking?. - Ah, this is Tokay. 217 00:19:04,825 --> 00:19:09,867 Not an Imperial, I'm afraid, but... good enough, for all that. 218 00:19:10,908 --> 00:19:12,950 A bit syrupy for my taste. 219 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:16,825 Well, we'll leave you to it. 220 00:19:19,658 --> 00:19:24,033 You must excuse my father. He can be... rather impulsive. 221 00:19:24,117 --> 00:19:26,242 Not at all. 222 00:19:28,992 --> 00:19:32,075 Pardon me, Dean, but... 223 00:19:32,158 --> 00:19:36,450 am I to understand you give some credence to these beliefs?. 224 00:19:38,492 --> 00:19:43,742 - Only the closed mind is certain, sir. - Oh, I agree. 225 00:19:45,533 --> 00:19:47,617 I agree. 226 00:19:47,700 --> 00:19:50,575 - Good day, sir. - Good day to you, sir. 227 00:20:05,283 --> 00:20:07,533 Rum chap, Spanley. 228 00:20:07,617 --> 00:20:10,533 Do you know him well enough to form that opinion?. 229 00:20:10,617 --> 00:20:12,950 One can tell. Not quite sound. 230 00:20:13,033 --> 00:20:16,825 Dabbling in Eastern religion. Drinking that Hungarian treacle. 231 00:20:16,908 --> 00:20:20,158 Can I get you gentlemen a drink?. 232 00:20:21,492 --> 00:20:25,950 I'd like a brandy and soda, Marriot, with the emphasis on the brandy. 233 00:20:26,033 --> 00:20:28,325 I'll have the Tokay. 234 00:20:28,408 --> 00:20:34,033 Oh, I'm afraid that won't be possible, sir. The Tokay's private stock. 235 00:20:34,117 --> 00:20:36,492 The dean keeps a bottle for his personal use. 236 00:20:36,575 --> 00:20:39,450 Very hard to come by, I believe. 237 00:20:39,533 --> 00:20:43,408 Damned unsociable of him. Told you the fellow wasn't sound. 238 00:20:44,783 --> 00:20:50,658 In that case I'll have a brandy and soda as well. In the inverse ratio. 239 00:20:50,742 --> 00:20:52,867 Yes, of course, sir. 240 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:59,575 If I... may say so, Mr Fisk, 241 00:21:01,075 --> 00:21:03,783 I'm most sorry to hear of your loss. 242 00:21:03,867 --> 00:21:08,700 - What?. - Did you... Your boy, sir. In the war. 243 00:21:10,825 --> 00:21:14,575 Wasn't my loss. He's the one got killed. 244 00:21:18,408 --> 00:21:19,867 Sir. 245 00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:25,158 That was, even for you, Father, a singularly callous remark. 246 00:21:25,242 --> 00:21:27,325 Nothing of the sort. 247 00:21:27,408 --> 00:21:31,075 Here we sit about to be served brandy and sodas. 248 00:21:31,158 --> 00:21:34,825 What's our loss compared to your brother's?. 249 00:21:38,242 --> 00:21:43,658 Women with the vote is like a cow with a gun - contrary to nature. 250 00:21:44,450 --> 00:21:47,325 Walking home, listening to my father 251 00:21:47,408 --> 00:21:51,700 assert a variety of things in tones of unbrookable authority, 252 00:21:51,783 --> 00:21:56,117 Dean Spanley's words returned to me with renewed force". 253 00:21:57,492 --> 00:22:00,492 "Only the closed mind is certain. " 254 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:08,533 An excellent hotpot, M rs Brimley. 255 00:22:08,617 --> 00:22:10,242 Well, it ought to be, 256 00:22:10,325 --> 00:22:14,492 seeing as how I've made it for you about five hundred times. 257 00:22:15,408 --> 00:22:17,033 Thank you. 258 00:22:20,992 --> 00:22:23,450 "It may well be supposed that this turn of events 259 00:22:23,533 --> 00:22:26,408 came as a most disagreeable surprise to Mr Chuttleworth, 260 00:22:26,492 --> 00:22:30,825 accustomed as he was to having his every whim catered for." 261 00:22:30,908 --> 00:22:34,658 i confess i had, until that moment, 262 00:22:34,742 --> 00:22:37,242 always supposed certainty to be rather a good thing. 263 00:22:38,283 --> 00:22:40,408 Like money in the bank. 264 00:22:40,492 --> 00:22:45,950 But something in the day's events had occasioned in me a certain disquiet, 265 00:22:46,033 --> 00:22:48,033 a sense that... 266 00:22:48,117 --> 00:22:50,992 There may be more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 267 00:22:51,075 --> 00:22:53,367 than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 268 00:24:36,908 --> 00:24:38,992 I'll be off, Mrs Brimley. 269 00:24:39,075 --> 00:24:41,325 He's dozing in the study. 270 00:24:41,408 --> 00:24:45,450 Oh, I'll have to wake him up, otherwise he won't sleep tonight. 271 00:24:53,242 --> 00:24:55,367 Does he ever mention my brother?. 272 00:24:57,450 --> 00:25:02,783 Your father doesn't hold with grieving, Mr Fisk, as you well know. 273 00:25:02,867 --> 00:25:05,408 No, that's right. 274 00:25:07,742 --> 00:25:09,408 No, you're right. 275 00:25:11,492 --> 00:25:13,575 Thank you, Mrs Brimley. 276 00:25:14,950 --> 00:25:18,825 - And thank you for the hotpot. - Oh, don't you start, young man. 277 00:25:18,908 --> 00:25:21,492 Hotpot, that's all he'll let me cook for him. 278 00:25:21,575 --> 00:25:25,533 Creature of habit, your father is. Knows what he wants without having to think. 279 00:25:25,617 --> 00:25:28,200 The certainty of a closed mind. 280 00:25:28,283 --> 00:25:33,950 Well, I don't know about that. But you do know where you are with him. 281 00:25:34,033 --> 00:25:37,742 Where you was before. Nowhere. 282 00:25:38,950 --> 00:25:43,450 - Bye-bye. I'll see you next Thursday. - Like as not. 283 00:25:46,117 --> 00:25:48,575 Creatures of habit. Oh! 284 00:25:55,867 --> 00:25:59,242 I've heard it said that one encounter is a happenstance, 285 00:25:59,325 --> 00:26:05,200 two a coincidence and three a significance. 286 00:26:06,742 --> 00:26:08,825 Be that as it may, 287 00:26:08,908 --> 00:26:14,825 that day i found myself, for the third time, in the presence of Dean Spanley, 288 00:26:14,908 --> 00:26:20,367 a man who, until that day, i did not know existed. 289 00:26:22,658 --> 00:26:24,742 Is it stuck up there?. 290 00:26:24,825 --> 00:26:29,617 It rather appears so. They never think of that when they go up, 291 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:32,825 which I consider a serious reflection on their intelligence. 292 00:26:32,908 --> 00:26:34,992 Probably chased by a dog. 293 00:26:36,908 --> 00:26:39,867 Dean?. Dean Spanley?. 294 00:26:39,950 --> 00:26:44,492 Hello. I met you earlier at your club. 295 00:26:44,575 --> 00:26:48,450 I was introduced by my father. Mr Fisk. 296 00:26:48,533 --> 00:26:50,200 Oh. 297 00:26:50,283 --> 00:26:53,867 - And you were at the nawab's. - Ah, yes. 298 00:26:55,992 --> 00:27:00,658 I am most eager to hear your further views on the subject of reincarnation. 299 00:27:00,742 --> 00:27:04,033 I assure you, sir, I have no special knowledge on the matter. 300 00:27:04,117 --> 00:27:07,325 Compared to my own, I'm sure yours are encyclopedic. 301 00:27:07,408 --> 00:27:10,575 I was wondering if I might invite you to dinner one evening. 302 00:27:10,658 --> 00:27:14,825 I'm afraid that with my schedule that would be rather difficult. 303 00:27:14,908 --> 00:27:18,200 I would not presume upon so short an acquaintance 304 00:27:18,283 --> 00:27:21,867 were it not that I've recently come into possession of a bottle of Tokay. 305 00:27:21,950 --> 00:27:24,033 An Imperial Tokay. 306 00:27:25,825 --> 00:27:29,575 - An Imperial Tokay?. - Yes. 307 00:27:32,658 --> 00:27:37,950 One must be on one's guard against the common or garden variety. What year?. 308 00:27:39,408 --> 00:27:43,367 - An '89, I believe. - An '89, you say?. 309 00:27:44,533 --> 00:27:47,533 Was... is that a good year?. 310 00:27:47,617 --> 00:27:52,908 Oh, yes. How do you come to be in possession of such a treasure?. 311 00:27:52,992 --> 00:27:56,367 You must be very well connected, Mr... 312 00:27:56,450 --> 00:27:59,950 Fisk. Henslowe Fisk. 313 00:28:01,908 --> 00:28:03,992 Well... Well... 314 00:28:04,075 --> 00:28:06,367 Perhaps I might manage... Thursday, if that would be convenient?. 315 00:28:11,408 --> 00:28:13,658 Most convenient. 316 00:28:13,742 --> 00:28:15,992 Shall we say seven o'clock?. 317 00:28:16,075 --> 00:28:20,200 - Very well. Until then. - Good day, sir. 318 00:28:21,908 --> 00:28:25,158 '89. Goodness me. 319 00:28:27,533 --> 00:28:30,783 I wouldn't call it a lie, puss. 320 00:28:32,617 --> 00:28:37,117 More like a truth deferred. Nothing worse. 321 00:28:42,658 --> 00:28:45,658 it had not occurred to me when i made my overture to the dean 322 00:28:45,742 --> 00:28:49,575 that procuring his favourite tipple would prove such a challenge. 323 00:28:49,658 --> 00:28:51,742 Oi! Come back here! 324 00:29:01,575 --> 00:29:04,450 Very hard to find an Imperial Tokay, sir. 325 00:29:04,533 --> 00:29:07,533 Of course there are what you might call commercial counterfeits. 326 00:29:07,617 --> 00:29:10,242 But the real thing, that's another story altogether. 327 00:29:10,325 --> 00:29:13,158 It's made solely for the Hapsburg monarchy, you see. 328 00:29:13,242 --> 00:29:16,325 Takes a royal decree to have one uncorked. 329 00:29:17,242 --> 00:29:20,325 You would need to know somebody with such connections. 330 00:29:20,408 --> 00:29:22,492 I see. 331 00:29:24,242 --> 00:29:29,908 Tell me this. If King Edward himself were to come you and say". 332 00:29:31,950 --> 00:29:35,242 "Find me one or two bottles of Tokay", what would you say to him?. 333 00:29:35,325 --> 00:29:38,200 Well, I would suggest, most respectfully, 334 00:29:38,283 --> 00:29:42,575 that he uses his family connections in order to affect the conveyancing. 335 00:29:42,658 --> 00:29:46,950 So he'd have a lot more chance of success than I would, sir. 336 00:29:48,575 --> 00:29:50,617 Of course. 337 00:30:08,700 --> 00:30:12,450 The point of the exercise, drop every ball without a miss. 338 00:30:14,783 --> 00:30:17,408 Care for a small wager?. 339 00:30:17,492 --> 00:30:22,450 No, thank you. No, you seem more than capable of performing such a feat. 340 00:30:26,075 --> 00:30:30,492 So you'd like to acquire a bottle of an '89 Tokay. 341 00:30:30,575 --> 00:30:32,617 An Imperial. 342 00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:35,367 This an adventure of the romantic sort that you're embarking on?. 343 00:30:35,450 --> 00:30:37,575 Certainly not. 344 00:30:38,950 --> 00:30:42,117 It is said that the fair sex responds avidly to Tokay. 345 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,075 Loosens the morals and with it the corsets. 346 00:30:47,033 --> 00:30:51,450 - How high are you willing to go?. - Whatever it costs. 347 00:30:51,533 --> 00:30:52,992 Within reason. 348 00:30:53,075 --> 00:30:55,742 Ah, yes. Well, you see, there's the rub, within reason. 349 00:30:55,825 --> 00:30:59,700 - '89 Tokay not easy to come by. - So I understand. 350 00:31:01,450 --> 00:31:03,533 So what's your line, then?. 351 00:31:03,617 --> 00:31:06,825 Oh, this and that. A bit of art publishing. 352 00:31:06,908 --> 00:31:08,742 Any money in it?. 353 00:31:08,825 --> 00:31:12,658 A modest remuneration. But the real reward is in the art itself. 354 00:31:12,742 --> 00:31:17,992 Though I must admit there must be rather more to be made in conveyancing. 355 00:31:18,075 --> 00:31:22,242 It's not all mine. I'm just a ground-floor tenant. 356 00:31:27,117 --> 00:31:29,658 How on earth did you come by all this stuff?. 357 00:31:29,742 --> 00:31:33,742 My Auntie Molly was a hoarder. Caught it from her, I shouldn't wonder. 358 00:31:33,825 --> 00:31:35,742 What do you do with it?. 359 00:31:35,825 --> 00:31:38,325 Oh, you never know when someone wants something you just happen to have. 360 00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:43,617 Such as a bottle of Imperial Tokay. 361 00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:45,783 Really?. 362 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,825 Good grief. 363 00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:53,700 It's not an '89, I'm afraid. Will a '91 do?. 364 00:31:53,783 --> 00:31:55,783 It'll have to. 365 00:31:57,450 --> 00:32:02,825 I suppose I could say I was promised an '89 and the man was mistaken. 366 00:32:04,367 --> 00:32:06,450 What do you think?. 367 00:32:07,617 --> 00:32:10,283 - How much is this?. - Five guineas to you. 368 00:32:10,367 --> 00:32:14,533 Five guineas?. That's a bit bloody steep. 369 00:32:14,617 --> 00:32:18,492 These little things were sent to try us, as the man said of the pygmy judge. 370 00:32:23,117 --> 00:32:25,325 Thursday?. 371 00:32:25,408 --> 00:32:28,533 Are there not six other perfectly adequate days, 372 00:32:28,617 --> 00:32:32,158 each equipped with portions of time suitable for such activities?. 373 00:32:32,242 --> 00:32:34,742 Thursday is the only day the dean is free. 374 00:32:34,825 --> 00:32:37,408 Poppycock. Deans have dinner every evening. 375 00:32:37,492 --> 00:32:38,908 He has prior engagements. 376 00:32:38,992 --> 00:32:42,158 Is my Thursday not a prior engagement, young Fisk?. 377 00:32:47,283 --> 00:32:49,825 What is going on?. 378 00:32:50,992 --> 00:32:53,825 You're not getting married, I hope. 379 00:32:56,283 --> 00:32:58,575 - No. - Good. 380 00:33:02,408 --> 00:33:04,950 If I had it to do over again... 381 00:33:05,033 --> 00:33:09,867 Am I to understand from that remark that you regret marrying Mother?. 382 00:33:11,158 --> 00:33:13,367 Fine woman, Alice. 383 00:33:15,742 --> 00:33:17,825 Very good in the garden. 384 00:33:21,408 --> 00:33:24,658 No, it's the children. 385 00:33:24,742 --> 00:33:28,325 Hostages to fortune is what they are. 386 00:33:28,408 --> 00:33:31,742 But there is no point to regretting things 387 00:33:31,825 --> 00:33:34,575 that have gone to the trouble of happening. 388 00:33:35,867 --> 00:33:40,033 And that is your reason for refusing to mourn Harrington?. 389 00:33:40,117 --> 00:33:44,075 I warned your brother that the war would be bad for his health, 390 00:33:44,158 --> 00:33:46,200 but no, he knew better, the young fool. 391 00:33:46,283 --> 00:33:49,200 Anyway, your mother mourned him enough for both of us. 392 00:33:49,283 --> 00:33:51,325 Perhaps if you'd shared that burden with her 393 00:33:51,408 --> 00:33:53,783 she might not have found her grief so insupportable. 394 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:04,158 I have nothing more to say on this subject. 395 00:34:04,242 --> 00:34:07,075 Please never mention it to me again. 396 00:34:07,158 --> 00:34:09,492 Close the door on your way out. 397 00:34:20,867 --> 00:34:25,658 - Do you miss your husband, Mrs Brimley?. - Miss him?. 398 00:34:27,075 --> 00:34:31,242 Oh, well. He weren't hard to miss, were Albert. 399 00:34:31,325 --> 00:34:35,033 Kept himself to himself. 400 00:34:35,117 --> 00:34:39,158 Sat in that chair night after night, never said a word. 401 00:34:39,242 --> 00:34:44,283 Just nodded, sociable-like, and spat in the fire every now and again. 402 00:34:44,367 --> 00:34:47,367 That were Albert's one bad habit. 403 00:34:50,533 --> 00:34:54,575 I talk to the chair sometimes and it's just like old times. 404 00:34:54,658 --> 00:34:56,867 Except the chair don't spit. 405 00:35:07,825 --> 00:35:10,492 Thinking about your brother and your mum, are you?. 406 00:35:13,325 --> 00:35:15,992 I just wish Father would... 407 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,658 Well, Mr Fisk was never one for showing much. 408 00:35:25,700 --> 00:35:28,117 Why, I remember that night up at the lake 409 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,742 when you and young Harry went out on that cockleshell of a boat. 410 00:35:37,033 --> 00:35:42,158 Yes. Wasn't one of his finest moments. 411 00:35:45,825 --> 00:35:48,200 I'll let you get on, Mrs Brimley. 412 00:35:48,700 --> 00:35:52,492 - Good night. - And don't you worry about Thursday. 413 00:35:52,575 --> 00:35:56,283 I'll feed him his hotpot and he'll be right as rain. 414 00:35:56,367 --> 00:35:59,242 You just enjoy yourself with your friend. 415 00:36:29,533 --> 00:36:35,533 But as Thursday evening arrived, i found my enthusiasm for the event waning. 416 00:36:37,075 --> 00:36:40,200 For in truth the whim that prompted me to extend the invitation 417 00:36:40,283 --> 00:36:42,367 had lost its piquancy 418 00:36:42,450 --> 00:36:45,242 and the sobering cost of Wrather's Tokay 419 00:36:45,325 --> 00:36:50,367 played its part in making the whole venture seem somewhat dubious. 420 00:36:54,117 --> 00:36:59,033 I'm afraid I was mistaken about the vintage. The '89 was unavailable. 421 00:36:59,117 --> 00:37:04,200 This is... this is a '91. I do hope you're not too disappointed. 422 00:37:04,283 --> 00:37:06,908 Not at all. 423 00:37:06,992 --> 00:37:10,658 One would have to have a jaded palate indeed 424 00:37:10,742 --> 00:37:14,742 if the prospect of a '91 Kleverheld-Manschliess 425 00:37:14,825 --> 00:37:17,158 were a disappointment. 426 00:37:20,075 --> 00:37:22,200 Properly decanted. 427 00:37:22,283 --> 00:37:25,283 No sign of sediment. 428 00:37:27,033 --> 00:37:29,367 Well done. 429 00:37:30,533 --> 00:37:32,200 Thank you. 430 00:37:39,450 --> 00:37:44,492 To think that such wine was once only opened by decree of a Hapsburg 431 00:37:44,575 --> 00:37:47,575 and now, through the vicissitudes of history, 432 00:37:47,658 --> 00:37:51,533 we lesser beings can command such an audience. 433 00:37:54,700 --> 00:37:56,783 Your very good health. 434 00:38:03,992 --> 00:38:08,658 i must confess my first taste of Tokay was not an illuminating moment. 435 00:38:10,533 --> 00:38:13,242 Rather, my father's dismissal of it as being too syrupy 436 00:38:13,325 --> 00:38:15,575 seemed remarkably close to the mark. 437 00:38:17,242 --> 00:38:22,783 However, in the dean... its champion was to hand. 438 00:38:31,408 --> 00:38:33,825 Oh... 439 00:38:44,242 --> 00:38:46,992 Tokay, of course, is unique among wines 440 00:38:47,075 --> 00:38:51,200 in that the aroma is of more significance than the flavour. 441 00:38:51,283 --> 00:38:57,158 For us humans, alas, that is the pursuit of the ineffable by the inadequate. 442 00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:02,075 At such moments, one could wish 443 00:39:02,158 --> 00:39:05,533 to possess the olfactory powers of the canine. 444 00:39:11,742 --> 00:39:15,742 It's often occurred to me that to pull a dog away from a lamppost 445 00:39:15,825 --> 00:39:20,825 is akin to seizing a scholar in the British Museum by the scruff of his neck 446 00:39:20,908 --> 00:39:23,117 and dragging him away from his studies. 447 00:39:26,075 --> 00:39:28,158 Yes. 448 00:39:41,408 --> 00:39:43,867 What are you doing?. 449 00:39:45,242 --> 00:39:48,408 One of those damned motor machines. 450 00:39:48,492 --> 00:39:51,242 Dreadful things, don't you think?. 451 00:39:53,033 --> 00:39:56,867 It must be clear to anyone of perception that the invention of the internal - 452 00:39:56,950 --> 00:40:00,158 one might even say infernal - combustion engine 453 00:40:00,242 --> 00:40:05,242 will prove to be a complete... catastrophe for the species. 454 00:40:05,325 --> 00:40:06,825 Quite so. 455 00:40:06,908 --> 00:40:09,033 And have you noticed 456 00:40:09,117 --> 00:40:13,908 that motor cars are exactly the right height for them to take refuge under?. 457 00:40:15,533 --> 00:40:20,825 Cats. The way they get under motor cars and can't be got at. 458 00:40:22,325 --> 00:40:24,408 Unless, of course, you're a very small dog. 459 00:40:27,033 --> 00:40:28,992 I see what you mean. 460 00:40:29,075 --> 00:40:32,117 The trouble with cats is they have no idea of the rules. 461 00:40:33,450 --> 00:40:37,450 One chases them, invariably they hide or run up trees. 462 00:40:37,533 --> 00:40:41,533 Or perform that preposterous inflation they're so fond of, 463 00:40:41,617 --> 00:40:44,283 raising their hair on end. 464 00:40:45,117 --> 00:40:47,242 Well, I was never fooled by that ruse. 465 00:40:48,992 --> 00:40:50,450 No?. 466 00:40:50,533 --> 00:40:52,492 Well, perhaps once or twice when I was very young, 467 00:40:52,575 --> 00:40:57,825 but once I discovered what devious and subversive creatures they are... 468 00:40:57,908 --> 00:41:01,533 So you are inclined to agree with the swami about them. 469 00:41:01,617 --> 00:41:06,033 About cats and how they diminish man's estimation of himself. 470 00:41:06,117 --> 00:41:07,908 Oh, indeed. 471 00:41:09,867 --> 00:41:14,242 - They have no awe of the masters. - The masters?. 472 00:41:14,325 --> 00:41:18,950 Yes. How one loved to be in their company. 473 00:41:19,033 --> 00:41:22,992 How one wanted to please them, if only by obedience. 474 00:41:26,492 --> 00:41:28,450 Let me give you a piece of advice. 475 00:41:28,533 --> 00:41:31,950 When a door is opened, always take the opportunity to leave the room. 476 00:41:32,033 --> 00:41:34,075 There is nothing more annoying to the master 477 00:41:34,158 --> 00:41:37,783 than a dog whining and scratching to get... 478 00:41:48,033 --> 00:41:52,075 - Tokay?. - No. No, thank you. 479 00:41:53,950 --> 00:41:58,242 Two glasses are my limit. One must know one's limit. 480 00:41:59,367 --> 00:42:03,200 Otherwise there's no knowing where things will end up. 481 00:42:06,825 --> 00:42:10,200 i had no idea of the true nature of what had occurred with the dean. 482 00:42:11,533 --> 00:42:15,408 it may have been madness. But i found it intriguing. 483 00:42:15,492 --> 00:42:19,492 So intriguing that i finished the rest of the bottle. 484 00:42:20,367 --> 00:42:25,325 ".. pulling a scholar out of the British Museum by the scruff of his neck." 485 00:42:28,075 --> 00:42:30,200 It was as if his mind had slipped a cog. 486 00:42:30,283 --> 00:42:35,200 - Went barking mad, you mean?. - No, he was completely rational. 487 00:42:37,575 --> 00:42:42,283 If you can call remembering you were a dog... rational. 488 00:42:42,367 --> 00:42:47,700 - How much of the Tokay had he had?. - Two glasses. Two. 489 00:42:47,783 --> 00:42:50,158 Sure it wasn't you that was snockered?. 490 00:42:50,242 --> 00:42:52,700 So what do you think?. 491 00:42:54,783 --> 00:42:58,950 That getting deans tiddly so they can pretend to remember when they were a dog 492 00:42:59,033 --> 00:43:01,950 is as harmless a way of spending an evening as any other. 493 00:43:02,033 --> 00:43:04,742 He was not tiddly, as you put it. 494 00:43:04,825 --> 00:43:07,908 He was... well, it was more like an altered state of mind. 495 00:43:07,992 --> 00:43:10,367 Being tiddly isn't an altered state of mind?. 496 00:43:10,450 --> 00:43:12,158 No, it was the Tokay. 497 00:43:13,783 --> 00:43:16,325 Even when he inhaled it 498 00:43:17,242 --> 00:43:23,492 he was transported to this other place. 499 00:43:24,908 --> 00:43:27,575 And you'd like to get him back to this other place?. 500 00:43:29,408 --> 00:43:31,575 Can you get me another bottle?. 501 00:43:34,783 --> 00:43:36,908 Can you?. 502 00:43:36,992 --> 00:43:40,950 I don't doubt that for a price one could come to hand. 503 00:43:41,033 --> 00:43:43,242 Can you get one for next Thursday?. 504 00:43:43,325 --> 00:43:45,533 Have another shot. 505 00:44:01,325 --> 00:44:03,825 Your Tokay, Dean. 506 00:44:03,908 --> 00:44:08,783 Ah. What lambency of hue, what colour. 507 00:44:10,325 --> 00:44:15,783 It reminds me of the light when the master came home. Hup! 508 00:44:15,867 --> 00:44:18,200 - Never to the brim. - Of course. 509 00:44:18,283 --> 00:44:21,825 - One must leave room for the aroma. - Yes, yes. The aroma. 510 00:44:25,242 --> 00:44:27,950 Now, you were saying about the master. 511 00:44:29,033 --> 00:44:31,367 Oh, yes. The master. 512 00:44:31,450 --> 00:44:33,658 He would go away for very long times. 513 00:44:33,742 --> 00:44:37,408 Other people were kind, but it was not the same. 514 00:44:37,492 --> 00:44:39,325 And what did you do?. 515 00:44:39,408 --> 00:44:42,158 Why, I'd wait for him until I knew he was coming home. 516 00:44:42,242 --> 00:44:44,617 - You knew when he was returning?. - Oh, yes. 517 00:44:44,700 --> 00:44:47,158 How, might I ask?. 518 00:44:47,242 --> 00:44:51,117 Well, before he was not coming back and then he was. 519 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,450 That was the difference, plain and simple. 520 00:44:53,533 --> 00:44:56,742 - I see. - Yes, seeing is part of it, it's true. 521 00:44:56,825 --> 00:44:59,575 The proximity of the master does affect the light. 522 00:44:59,658 --> 00:45:01,742 The light grows brighter?. 523 00:45:01,825 --> 00:45:05,367 - No, not brighter. Louder. - The light grows louder?. 524 00:45:06,408 --> 00:45:09,200 Well, certainly there was more of it. 525 00:45:09,283 --> 00:45:12,867 I remember waiting one day when he was due to come back. 526 00:45:12,950 --> 00:45:17,575 And the light that day got brighter and brighter until one was quite dazzled. 527 00:45:17,658 --> 00:45:19,867 I only know when he did finally come back 528 00:45:19,950 --> 00:45:23,492 I was so excited I had several brandies to calm myself. 529 00:45:27,908 --> 00:45:31,867 Dean, dogs do not drink brandy. 530 00:45:34,117 --> 00:45:36,242 No more they do. 531 00:45:36,325 --> 00:45:40,283 I would achieve the same effect by running round in tight little circles. 532 00:45:40,367 --> 00:45:43,700 Drives the blood to the head in a most exhilarating fashion. 533 00:45:53,325 --> 00:45:57,075 And then I'd sit down, have a good scratch. 534 00:45:59,158 --> 00:46:01,158 Were you much bothered by fleas?. 535 00:46:01,242 --> 00:46:03,700 When I say bothered, I don't mean... 536 00:46:03,783 --> 00:46:07,533 There's nothing wrong with a few fleas. They help get one's grooming going. 537 00:46:08,950 --> 00:46:11,158 Ah, yes. 538 00:46:13,492 --> 00:46:17,867 Indeed, I doubt if one can be a dog and not have fleas. 539 00:46:25,783 --> 00:46:29,117 So these evenings have become a regular feature, then?. 540 00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:33,575 Yes. The dean has a wealth of knowledge which I find quite fascinating. 541 00:46:33,658 --> 00:46:35,200 Oh. 542 00:46:35,283 --> 00:46:37,658 - Lawrence! Come here! - No! 543 00:46:37,742 --> 00:46:39,408 Lawrence Swan, come back here! 544 00:46:39,492 --> 00:46:44,408 - But only on a Thursday. - Come back here at once! Lawrence! 545 00:46:44,492 --> 00:46:47,450 - That man tripped me up! - Don't be ridiculous. 546 00:46:47,533 --> 00:46:50,283 - He's given to imaginings. - Uh-huh. 547 00:46:51,325 --> 00:46:55,575 Pick yourself up. I told you before about running away from me. 548 00:46:55,658 --> 00:46:57,367 If I call to you, you come back... 549 00:46:57,450 --> 00:46:59,908 What on earth possessed you to do such a thing?. 550 00:46:59,992 --> 00:47:04,367 No business running off like that when he was being summoned. 551 00:47:04,450 --> 00:47:06,700 You talk as if you were never yourself a child. 552 00:47:06,783 --> 00:47:10,158 Indeed I was, and damned glad when it was over. 553 00:47:10,242 --> 00:47:12,658 Too much is made of childhood, to my mind. 554 00:47:12,742 --> 00:47:15,867 Golden days of fun and innocence?. Poppycock. 555 00:47:15,950 --> 00:47:19,033 The most miserable I've been was as a child. 556 00:47:19,117 --> 00:47:22,700 Is that why you tripped up him up?. To teach him childhood isn't a happy time?. 557 00:47:27,158 --> 00:47:29,908 Do not presume to judge me, young Fisk. 558 00:47:29,992 --> 00:47:33,992 I should first have to understand you, Father. And that, I confess, I do not. 559 00:47:34,075 --> 00:47:37,950 Perhaps you would have to become a father first. 560 00:47:38,033 --> 00:47:43,075 Your example disinclines me to that particular comprehension, I'm afraid. 561 00:47:46,617 --> 00:47:48,867 Push on! 562 00:47:50,033 --> 00:47:52,325 Push on! 563 00:48:05,700 --> 00:48:07,950 You don't think the dean is having you on?. 564 00:48:08,033 --> 00:48:10,908 What do you mean, having me on?. 565 00:48:10,992 --> 00:48:13,617 That he's spotted you for the gullible sort 566 00:48:13,700 --> 00:48:16,325 and a good source for his favourite drink?. 567 00:48:16,408 --> 00:48:19,283 Why would he assume that pretending to have been a dog 568 00:48:19,367 --> 00:48:24,283 would not attract disbelief and ridicule rather than invitations to dinner?. 569 00:48:24,367 --> 00:48:26,533 He saw you at the nawab's listening to the swami 570 00:48:26,617 --> 00:48:29,075 about reincarnation and dogs and all that nonsense 571 00:48:29,158 --> 00:48:32,158 and he decided that you believed in all that stuff. 572 00:48:34,533 --> 00:48:36,575 I can't accept that. 573 00:48:37,367 --> 00:48:39,658 It would be most unlike someone of his gravitas. 574 00:48:39,742 --> 00:48:41,700 Gravitas?. 575 00:48:41,783 --> 00:48:44,908 Telling you about running round in circles to create the effect of whiskey?. 576 00:48:44,992 --> 00:48:46,450 Brandy, actually. 577 00:48:46,533 --> 00:48:50,283 And fleas are a good source of grooming?. You could call that gravitas. 578 00:48:50,367 --> 00:48:52,867 He doesn't know when he's saying these things and when he isn't. 579 00:48:52,950 --> 00:48:55,742 I'd have to be there to see it for myself to believe it. 580 00:48:55,825 --> 00:48:59,367 - Your Moroccan is here. - Excuse me. A delivery. 581 00:49:01,867 --> 00:49:05,617 - Go easy on him, my darling. - Be careful, he's a monkey. 582 00:49:08,825 --> 00:49:12,158 Abdul, how are you?. And how much do I owe our man?. 583 00:49:12,242 --> 00:49:14,825 - You owe him nothing. - You tell him he owes me a gin. 584 00:49:14,908 --> 00:49:17,950 - With pleasure, Mr Wrather. - Good day. 585 00:49:20,575 --> 00:49:22,617 Very nice article, this. 586 00:49:22,700 --> 00:49:25,450 Fell off the back of an elephant. Not interested, are you?. 587 00:49:25,533 --> 00:49:28,992 - Don't have an elephant. - Just say the word and I'll get you one. 588 00:49:31,367 --> 00:49:35,325 - Look, about this Tokay.... - Yeah, right. Tokay. 589 00:49:38,908 --> 00:49:43,658 How about if I do round one up, you let me sit in on the next seance?. 590 00:49:43,742 --> 00:49:45,950 It's not a seance. 591 00:49:46,992 --> 00:49:51,700 It's more like the parting of the veil between one life and another. 592 00:49:51,783 --> 00:49:56,075 All right. The parting of the veil. But I want to be there. 593 00:49:58,117 --> 00:50:00,200 All right. 594 00:50:00,992 --> 00:50:03,867 But you must promise, truly and genuinely promise me, 595 00:50:03,950 --> 00:50:06,283 that you will let me do the questioning. 596 00:50:06,367 --> 00:50:09,033 - Cross my heart and hope to die. - Swear on something you hold sacred. 597 00:50:09,117 --> 00:50:11,450 - 50 guineas. - What do you mean?. 598 00:50:11,533 --> 00:50:15,242 I give you 50 guineas to hold and if I don't meet your standard of decorum, I forfeit it. 599 00:50:15,325 --> 00:50:18,658 Am I to understand that there is nothing you hold sacred?. 600 00:50:18,742 --> 00:50:21,825 I feel quite religious about 50 guineas, I assure you. 601 00:50:25,658 --> 00:50:28,367 I can only imagine that I was not in my right mind 602 00:50:28,450 --> 00:50:30,492 to have spoken to you in such a fashion 603 00:50:30,575 --> 00:50:35,033 and it grieves me to think that I may have offended you by my lack of respect. 604 00:50:35,117 --> 00:50:40,450 I am stricken to think I have given you cause to think me ungrateful. 605 00:50:40,533 --> 00:50:45,825 Don't grovel, laddie. You remind me of Wag when he'd been naughty. 606 00:50:45,908 --> 00:50:50,158 What a whining and squirming he went in for! 607 00:50:50,242 --> 00:50:53,242 Yes. Wag, eh?. 608 00:50:53,325 --> 00:50:56,242 One of the seven great dogs. 609 00:50:56,325 --> 00:51:00,825 At any one time, you know, there are only seven. 610 00:51:02,783 --> 00:51:08,575 - What kind of dog was he?. - A Welsh spaniel, in his prime. 611 00:51:10,783 --> 00:51:12,783 What happened to him?. 612 00:51:12,867 --> 00:51:16,492 He went away one day and never came back. 613 00:51:19,575 --> 00:51:21,867 - Had he ever done that before?. - Never. 614 00:51:21,950 --> 00:51:24,533 I blame the bad company he fell in with. 615 00:51:24,617 --> 00:51:27,617 This dog that used to come around. 616 00:51:27,700 --> 00:51:31,408 Ugly brute, a mongrel. Big scrawny thing, it was. 617 00:51:31,492 --> 00:51:34,325 Wag chased him off at first but he came back 618 00:51:34,408 --> 00:51:38,700 and Wag took off with him just before I had to return to school. 619 00:51:38,783 --> 00:51:43,367 I wanted to stay at home till Wag came back, but they wouldn't allow it. 620 00:51:43,450 --> 00:51:50,242 I told them if I wasn't there, then Wag might not know where to come to. 621 00:51:50,325 --> 00:51:52,700 Must have been very difficult for you. 622 00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,325 It wasn't difficult. 623 00:51:57,575 --> 00:51:59,700 It was unbearable. 624 00:52:02,450 --> 00:52:04,533 i had heard this story before. 625 00:52:04,617 --> 00:52:09,075 But now it was as if i was hearing it for the first time. 626 00:52:09,158 --> 00:52:11,658 As dubious as any connection might have seemed, 627 00:52:11,742 --> 00:52:15,783 my father's revelation inspired greater significance 628 00:52:15,867 --> 00:52:18,367 to my next encounter with the dean. 629 00:52:25,533 --> 00:52:27,783 Who's this likely-looking lad?. 630 00:52:27,867 --> 00:52:32,033 That's my brother Harrington. He was killed fighting the Boers. 631 00:52:33,950 --> 00:52:36,033 Broke my mother's heart. 632 00:52:36,117 --> 00:52:38,158 And your father, how did he take it?. 633 00:52:40,242 --> 00:52:42,950 "If something goes to the trouble of happening, 634 00:52:43,033 --> 00:52:45,158 it may be considered inevitable" 635 00:52:45,242 --> 00:52:47,158 was his comment, I believe. 636 00:52:47,242 --> 00:52:49,658 That's your stiff upper English for you. 637 00:52:49,742 --> 00:52:53,950 There's a few shillings left in this. The cobwebs are worth a guinea. 638 00:52:54,033 --> 00:52:56,367 No, please. Not the last inch. 639 00:52:56,450 --> 00:52:59,075 The dean is most particular about that. 640 00:52:59,158 --> 00:53:01,908 Fussy old hound. What kind of dog did he say he was?. 641 00:53:01,992 --> 00:53:05,825 He didn't. I must insist you don't ask him such a question. 642 00:53:05,908 --> 00:53:08,867 I'd have thought that's the first question you would ask. 643 00:53:08,950 --> 00:53:10,908 Please just give me your word. 644 00:53:10,992 --> 00:53:14,992 As you like, but there's no doubt I'll know as soon as he gets started. 645 00:53:17,783 --> 00:53:19,450 Henslowe. 646 00:53:19,533 --> 00:53:21,992 - Good evening, Dean. How are you?. - Very well. 647 00:53:22,075 --> 00:53:25,992 I fancy I would have been a pointer, an Afghan... 648 00:53:26,075 --> 00:53:28,450 - This is my friend Mr Wrather. - Oh. 649 00:53:31,283 --> 00:53:35,242 Mr Wrather is the agent by which we manage to procure the Tokay. 650 00:53:35,325 --> 00:53:39,867 - Mm. - Good evening... Dean. 651 00:53:39,950 --> 00:53:42,033 Yes. 652 00:53:46,825 --> 00:53:50,992 Tonight's vintage is... a special one. 653 00:53:51,075 --> 00:53:56,992 KIeinfeld-Hasslerbeck '82. One of the great years. 654 00:53:57,075 --> 00:54:02,533 Indeed, I've not had the good fortune to taste that particular vintage before. 655 00:54:02,617 --> 00:54:05,783 Well, every dog has his day, as they say. 656 00:54:11,825 --> 00:54:13,950 Well, what a privilege. 657 00:54:14,033 --> 00:54:15,992 Dean. 658 00:54:16,075 --> 00:54:18,200 Of course the Empire must be maintained, 659 00:54:18,283 --> 00:54:23,867 but history shows us only too clearly the dangers of overreach. 660 00:54:23,950 --> 00:54:28,825 I myself considered the Indian Mutiny, so-called, 661 00:54:29,950 --> 00:54:33,492 a warning that perhaps our presence on the subcontinent 662 00:54:33,575 --> 00:54:37,617 was not the universal benevolence that we believed. 663 00:54:43,658 --> 00:54:48,158 - A glass of Tokay, Dean?. - That would be most agreeable. 664 00:54:50,950 --> 00:54:55,700 So, Dean, do you think it's true that you can't teach an old dog new tricks?. 665 00:54:55,783 --> 00:54:59,783 - What Mr Wrather means is... - Will we ever give India back to the Indians?. 666 00:54:59,867 --> 00:55:03,742 Not in my lifetime, I would venture. We've become too dependent on it. 667 00:55:03,825 --> 00:55:05,908 And I don't just mean economically, 668 00:55:05,992 --> 00:55:10,075 although we derive inordinate treasure from its exploitation. 669 00:55:10,158 --> 00:55:15,533 No, we have become habituated to the role of master... 670 00:55:15,617 --> 00:55:17,783 and dog... 671 00:55:19,533 --> 00:55:21,617 servant. 672 00:55:25,992 --> 00:55:28,242 How elegant. 673 00:55:29,367 --> 00:55:32,867 - My, my, my, my, my, my. - Is it all you'd hoped for, Dean?. 674 00:55:40,992 --> 00:55:43,075 Oh. 675 00:55:43,908 --> 00:55:46,533 Beyond hope, beyond imagining. 676 00:55:47,533 --> 00:55:51,367 The actuality exceeds anticipation. 677 00:55:51,450 --> 00:55:54,283 I am in your debt, sir. 678 00:55:56,450 --> 00:55:58,908 And yours, Mr Wrather. 679 00:56:01,700 --> 00:56:04,867 You were saying about... our relationship with the Indians, 680 00:56:04,950 --> 00:56:08,992 between the master and the servant?. 681 00:56:09,075 --> 00:56:11,950 Not just servant, but loving servant. 682 00:56:13,158 --> 00:56:18,033 It's most important to the English race that we are loved by those that we rule. 683 00:56:18,117 --> 00:56:20,283 With a dog-like devotion, would you say?. 684 00:56:22,117 --> 00:56:26,825 What is it that's so important about the master?. 685 00:56:29,658 --> 00:56:31,742 Yes, the Master. 686 00:56:32,950 --> 00:56:38,117 The thing is, whenever he returned from wherever he'd been, 687 00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,367 no matter how long I'd been waiting, 688 00:56:40,450 --> 00:56:44,867 the actuality always exceeded the anticipation. 689 00:56:44,950 --> 00:56:47,200 Causing you to run about in circles. 690 00:56:50,825 --> 00:56:53,533 But, you know, for all his great wisdom, 691 00:56:53,617 --> 00:56:56,325 there were certain things the Master never understood. 692 00:56:56,408 --> 00:57:00,617 - Such as?. - The moon... and ticks. 693 00:57:00,700 --> 00:57:04,617 The Master always wanted to remove mine, 694 00:57:04,700 --> 00:57:07,283 but my own motto was". live and let live. 695 00:57:07,367 --> 00:57:09,492 I hate ticks. 696 00:57:12,325 --> 00:57:14,658 And the moon?. 697 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,283 Yes, the moon. 698 00:57:18,367 --> 00:57:22,200 The Master wasn't nearly suspicious enough of the moon. 699 00:57:26,575 --> 00:57:28,783 I never trusted it. Never the same two nights in a row. 700 00:57:31,867 --> 00:57:33,950 Couldn't hear it. Couldn't smell it. 701 00:57:35,700 --> 00:57:38,825 Well, you can take your own line on that, and others do. 702 00:57:40,242 --> 00:57:42,658 I had a friend who never worried about the moon, but then... 703 00:57:42,742 --> 00:57:45,617 he didn't have a house to guard. 704 00:57:45,700 --> 00:57:50,158 The moon had a way of looking at a house that implied it wasn't guarded properly. 705 00:57:50,242 --> 00:57:54,325 Well, my house was guarded properly, thank you very much, and I told it so, 706 00:57:54,408 --> 00:57:56,950 every time it came around, in no uncertain terms! 707 00:58:06,992 --> 00:58:10,825 - Were you very big?. - Oh, yes. 708 00:58:11,908 --> 00:58:13,950 How big?. 709 00:58:14,033 --> 00:58:18,450 When I barked... I was enormous. 710 00:58:20,658 --> 00:58:25,950 So... why do you think it wasn't frightened?. 711 00:58:26,033 --> 00:58:30,533 Well, frightened things smell frightened. 712 00:58:30,617 --> 00:58:32,825 I've smelled many frightened things. 713 00:58:32,908 --> 00:58:36,450 Cats, elderly ladies, children, rabbits. 714 00:58:36,533 --> 00:58:40,158 They all smell of being frightened. It's a wonderful smell. 715 00:58:40,242 --> 00:58:47,117 You mean... old ladies smell the same as rabbits when they're frightened?. 716 00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:52,325 No, their fear smells the same. Otherwise there's no confusing them. 717 00:58:54,033 --> 00:58:59,742 Yes, this, erm... this business of smell is very interesting, isn't it?. 718 00:58:59,825 --> 00:59:02,117 Interesting. 719 00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:05,242 If there's one thing I could find fault with the Master, 720 00:59:05,325 --> 00:59:07,450 it would be on that issue. 721 00:59:07,533 --> 00:59:12,783 I have known occasions when I was studying a message left for me by a friend 722 00:59:12,867 --> 00:59:16,867 and he would drag me away by the collar in the middle of the most fascinating passage. 723 00:59:16,950 --> 00:59:20,200 Rather like dragging a scholar away from a text at the British Museum. 724 00:59:20,283 --> 00:59:23,783 That is a rather untoward analogy. 725 00:59:23,867 --> 00:59:26,658 No, most apposite. 726 00:59:26,742 --> 00:59:31,492 I believe I have thought exactly the same thing. 727 00:59:33,825 --> 00:59:36,325 What sort of a dog were you, anyway?. 728 00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,242 I beg your pardon?. 729 00:59:40,325 --> 00:59:42,533 I mean in your day. 730 00:59:42,617 --> 00:59:45,117 You know, before you took... 731 00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,533 holy orders. 732 00:59:47,617 --> 00:59:50,575 I recall no such activity, sir. 733 01:00:10,575 --> 01:00:12,867 Quite a session. Damn good value. 734 01:00:12,950 --> 01:00:16,200 Listen, I've been thinking. This is getting out of hand. 735 01:00:17,700 --> 01:00:20,033 The man is clearly suffering from delusions. 736 01:00:20,117 --> 01:00:22,242 And as for the Tokay... 737 01:00:22,325 --> 01:00:25,158 I sincerely hope I never develop a taste for it. 738 01:00:25,242 --> 01:00:28,367 It's hard to find and devilishly expensive. 739 01:00:28,450 --> 01:00:32,367 Ten guineas to hear a dean say he believed he was once a dog! 740 01:00:32,450 --> 01:00:34,533 I must be mad. 741 01:00:34,617 --> 01:00:36,700 - Good as gold. - Shh. 742 01:00:36,783 --> 01:00:40,617 I don't want your money. This has gone too far. 743 01:00:40,700 --> 01:00:45,658 - But you can't stop now, young Fisk. - Well, I see no point in continuing. 744 01:00:45,742 --> 01:00:50,575 The man believes what he believes. That's that. 745 01:00:57,408 --> 01:01:01,283 You're not one of these blokes who gives up before he can lose, are you?. 746 01:01:01,367 --> 01:01:03,492 Are you?. 747 01:01:08,325 --> 01:01:12,533 What if I was to procure a bottle of the elixir for free?. 748 01:01:12,617 --> 01:01:14,408 For free?. 749 01:01:23,325 --> 01:01:27,575 This bloke owes me. He owes me more than one favour too, I'll tell you that. 750 01:01:27,658 --> 01:01:32,908 And if anyone's got a bottle or two, His Nawabship will. 751 01:01:37,075 --> 01:01:39,783 Tokay, you say?. An Imperial?. 752 01:01:39,867 --> 01:01:42,950 - We're finding it hard to come by. - I should jolly well think so. 753 01:01:43,033 --> 01:01:46,617 Rather extravagant being so keen on it, I'd say. 754 01:01:46,700 --> 01:01:48,867 - You must be quite the connoisseur. - It's not for him. 755 01:01:48,950 --> 01:01:51,658 It's for Dean Spanley. 756 01:01:51,742 --> 01:01:55,283 For Spanley?. Old Wag Spanley likes Tokay?. 757 01:01:55,367 --> 01:01:58,700 (Wrather) Very partial to a drop, the dean. 758 01:01:58,783 --> 01:02:03,783 Excuse me. Did you just call Dean Spanley Wag?. 759 01:02:03,867 --> 01:02:06,950 Walter Arthur Graham. Wag Spanley. 760 01:02:07,033 --> 01:02:09,658 Before my time, but my father knew him at Oxford. 761 01:02:09,742 --> 01:02:15,200 But tell me, why are you so intent on plying him with Tokay?. 762 01:02:15,283 --> 01:02:21,158 Well, it has to do with... one of the major tenets of your religion. 763 01:02:21,242 --> 01:02:22,533 Bat and pad together when playing forward?. 764 01:02:24,533 --> 01:02:28,700 - Reincarnation, actually. - Don't go in for it myself. 765 01:02:28,783 --> 01:02:32,450 I mean, I'm not going to do much better next time round, am I?. 766 01:02:32,533 --> 01:02:34,617 This innings will do me nicely. 767 01:02:34,700 --> 01:02:38,575 Reincarnation is all right for the masses. Gives them something to look forward to. 768 01:02:38,658 --> 01:02:41,533 About the Tokay, look in the cellar. Galsworthy will show you. 769 01:02:41,617 --> 01:02:43,575 There's all sorts down there. 770 01:02:43,658 --> 01:02:46,325 Wouldn't be surprised if you found the odd case of Tokay. 771 01:02:46,408 --> 01:02:48,825 Don't like it myself. 772 01:02:48,908 --> 01:02:53,325 Last time I drank it, I dreamt I was a monkey. 773 01:02:54,992 --> 01:02:58,033 Thought the funny bugger might have a dozen hanging around. 774 01:02:58,117 --> 01:03:01,158 Should be more than enough there to get the old boy back to when he was a pup. 775 01:03:01,242 --> 01:03:06,325 My father used to have a dog when he was a child. Name of Wag. 776 01:03:06,408 --> 01:03:08,533 You know, I've been thinking. 777 01:03:08,617 --> 01:03:11,367 Lady I know, in the thespian way, 778 01:03:11,450 --> 01:03:14,742 thought we might give her a bottle of the Imperial. 779 01:03:14,825 --> 01:03:18,367 Lovely girl. Lot of fun when she's tight. 780 01:03:21,533 --> 01:03:24,950 I think for that to be significant, you'd have to suppose two things, 781 01:03:25,033 --> 01:03:27,075 neither of which are improbable. 782 01:03:27,158 --> 01:03:32,325 One, that the dean's mum and dad knew that he'd previously been your father's pooch, 783 01:03:32,408 --> 01:03:35,117 and two, to commemorate the event, 784 01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:39,117 decided to incorporate his doggy name into his Christian name. 785 01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:42,992 It may look like a boat but it doesn't float, as my Aunt Molly used to say. 786 01:03:43,075 --> 01:03:46,575 And why would I want to have dinner with a dean, 787 01:03:46,658 --> 01:03:50,075 let alone one who believes in reincarnation?. 788 01:03:50,158 --> 01:03:53,533 Because you're always complaining that I neglect you on my evenings with Spanley. 789 01:03:53,617 --> 01:03:55,700 I thought you'd like to come with us. 790 01:03:56,908 --> 01:03:59,575 Wrather will be there. You remember him. 791 01:04:01,033 --> 01:04:04,908 The conveyancer... from the lecture. 792 01:04:06,242 --> 01:04:08,367 Can't say as I do. 793 01:04:10,075 --> 01:04:14,950 It must be here, this gathering. Certainly not at that rickety place of yours. 794 01:04:15,033 --> 01:04:19,200 - Can Mrs Brimley cook for four?. - She can make more of her hotpot. 795 01:04:19,283 --> 01:04:22,825 Father, we are having a Shevenitz-Donetschau '79. 796 01:04:22,908 --> 01:04:26,325 And I do not think the hotpot, sustaining though it may be, 797 01:04:26,408 --> 01:04:28,867 is quite the precursor for a '79 Tokay. 798 01:04:28,950 --> 01:04:31,783 Damn fuss over fermented grapes. 799 01:04:33,450 --> 01:04:35,533 What is this all to do with?. 800 01:04:35,617 --> 01:04:38,825 The dean, the Tokay, this dinner?. 801 01:04:38,908 --> 01:04:42,075 If I were to tell you, Father, you would not believe me. 802 01:04:42,158 --> 01:04:47,533 In that case, don't tell me. I don't believe in enough things already. 803 01:04:47,617 --> 01:04:51,700 Well, it won't be the hotpot, that's all I can say. Ha! 804 01:04:51,783 --> 01:04:54,242 I'm not serving hotpot to a dean. 805 01:04:54,325 --> 01:04:56,367 I could do the navarin. 806 01:04:56,450 --> 01:04:59,533 With the sorrel and cucumber soup to start. 807 01:04:59,617 --> 01:05:05,283 Or maybe leek and potato. What your father calls the Vicious Swiss soup. 808 01:05:05,367 --> 01:05:07,450 Either would be most welcome. 809 01:05:10,742 --> 01:05:14,450 Mrs Brimley, do you remember my father's dog, Wag?. 810 01:05:14,533 --> 01:05:18,075 And for dessert... profiteroles. 811 01:05:18,158 --> 01:05:19,700 I think it was a spaniel. 812 01:05:19,783 --> 01:05:23,908 My choux pastry is too good to be eaten, if I say so myself. 813 01:05:26,242 --> 01:05:31,825 Wag?. No, not really. I remember it run off, though. 814 01:05:31,908 --> 01:05:35,242 What a to-do that was. Like a death in the family. 815 01:05:35,325 --> 01:05:38,033 Upset him ever so. 816 01:05:38,117 --> 01:05:41,408 Why didn't he get another, I asked him once. Know what he said?. 817 01:05:41,492 --> 01:05:45,200 That Wag was one of the seven great dogs?. 818 01:05:45,283 --> 01:05:48,908 - Oh. I see he talked to you about it. - Mm-hm. 819 01:05:51,075 --> 01:05:55,908 Maybe profiteroles would be too heavy after the Iamb. 820 01:05:58,742 --> 01:06:01,658 Raspberry and gooseberry fool. 821 01:06:03,533 --> 01:06:07,533 Whatever you decide, Mrs Brimley, I'm sure will be splendid. 822 01:06:11,575 --> 01:06:14,242 - A '79?. - Yes, indeed. 823 01:06:14,325 --> 01:06:17,575 Really, my dear Henslowe, you are a man of remarkable resource. 824 01:06:17,658 --> 01:06:21,158 Oh, it's not I who provided this trove, sir. 825 01:06:21,242 --> 01:06:24,450 My father, whom I believe you have met before. 826 01:06:24,533 --> 01:06:26,367 Yes, I believe I do recall. 827 01:06:26,450 --> 01:06:30,700 I was rather hoping that he might join us for our next evening together. 828 01:06:30,783 --> 01:06:32,908 I see. 829 01:06:34,908 --> 01:06:37,533 - And your friend. - Wrather. Mr Wrather. 830 01:06:37,617 --> 01:06:39,700 Wrather, yes. 831 01:06:39,783 --> 01:06:43,992 I have the strangest feeling, you know, after our last encounter, 832 01:06:44,075 --> 01:06:46,325 that I know Mr Wrather. 833 01:06:46,408 --> 01:06:48,742 Perhaps from a previous life. 834 01:06:48,825 --> 01:06:53,283 - I was not always a dean, you know. - No?. 835 01:06:53,367 --> 01:06:56,992 No. I was in accountancy at one time. 836 01:06:57,075 --> 01:07:01,617 A dismal business, at least in the regions where I toiled. 837 01:07:03,075 --> 01:07:05,408 And you feel like you met Mr Wrather then?. 838 01:07:05,492 --> 01:07:07,992 Yes, it's possible. Or perhaps it's his being a colonial. 839 01:07:11,617 --> 01:07:14,575 One often feels one has met them before. 840 01:07:18,283 --> 01:07:22,617 So... can I hope for your company this Thursday?. 841 01:07:22,700 --> 01:07:28,867 I do feel only your palate can fully appreciate a '79. 842 01:07:28,950 --> 01:07:33,783 A '79. What splendours. 843 01:07:33,867 --> 01:07:36,158 A bottle of the '79. 844 01:07:36,242 --> 01:07:38,325 Three bottles. 845 01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:45,408 Best to let sleeping dogs lie, 846 01:07:45,492 --> 01:07:47,783 - if you know what I mean. - Yes, I know what you mean. 847 01:07:47,867 --> 01:07:50,742 What if he recognises your father, Licks his hands?. 848 01:07:50,825 --> 01:07:53,658 That could be damned embarrassing. 849 01:07:55,533 --> 01:07:59,533 Pygmy judge, old man. Pygmy judge. 850 01:08:02,325 --> 01:08:07,575 So there we were, on our holidays in this cottage on the shore of Windermere. 851 01:08:07,658 --> 01:08:11,200 Wonderful spot to get some reading done 852 01:08:11,283 --> 01:08:15,158 and I was availing myself of the tranquility to do just that. 853 01:08:15,242 --> 01:08:18,450 This fellow here, young Fisk, and his brother 854 01:08:18,533 --> 01:08:20,867 were out on the lake in a rowboat. 855 01:08:20,950 --> 01:08:23,450 Storm came up. 856 01:08:23,533 --> 01:08:26,825 One minute it's all "I wandered lonely as a cloud", 857 01:08:26,908 --> 01:08:31,867 the next it's blowing hell's bells and howling like a banshee. 858 01:08:31,950 --> 01:08:36,658 Mrs Fisk, she comes in, wringing her hands. 859 01:08:36,742 --> 01:08:42,408 "Our boys," she cries at me, "They're out on the lake." 860 01:08:44,825 --> 01:08:47,408 You have no idea how taxing it is 861 01:08:47,492 --> 01:08:51,033 to be dragged out of a book in which you are thoroughly engaged. 862 01:08:51,117 --> 01:08:54,867 "You must do something, Horatio," she said to me. 863 01:08:56,367 --> 01:09:02,783 "Our boys are in great danger. Do something," she implored me. 864 01:09:02,867 --> 01:09:09,367 So I got up, laying aside Balzac with the greatest reluctance, 865 01:09:09,450 --> 01:09:13,533 and went to the window, opened the shutters. 866 01:09:14,492 --> 01:09:17,742 Whitecaps as far as the eye could see. 867 01:09:17,825 --> 01:09:20,700 I stared out into the maelstrom 868 01:09:20,783 --> 01:09:26,992 and I raised my hands and called out in my most stentorian tone". 869 01:09:29,283 --> 01:09:32,075 "Give up your dead!" 870 01:09:32,158 --> 01:09:35,492 Which was a great comfort, as you can imagine, to my mother. 871 01:09:35,575 --> 01:09:39,700 When one is helpless, I see no point in pretending otherwise. 872 01:09:39,783 --> 01:09:45,033 How terrible that must have been for your mother. And you too, sir. 873 01:09:45,117 --> 01:09:48,158 When something has gone to the trouble of happening, 874 01:09:48,242 --> 01:09:51,950 it is best to consider it inevitable, in my opinion. 875 01:09:52,033 --> 01:09:54,867 Learned that lesson the hard way, I did. 876 01:09:54,950 --> 01:09:57,033 Well, let us, erm... 877 01:09:58,492 --> 01:10:03,950 Let us drink to the inevitable... before it happens. 878 01:10:09,783 --> 01:10:13,450 Not a bad drop. I'm beginning to get a hang of this stuff. 879 01:10:15,158 --> 01:10:18,117 Too much like toilet water for my taste. 880 01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:20,825 Clear away the rest, Mrs Brimley. 881 01:10:20,908 --> 01:10:23,825 She makes a very good hotpot, I should tell you. 882 01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:28,283 Well, let's take this in the drawing room. 883 01:10:28,367 --> 01:10:34,450 If you wouldn't mind, sir, I should prefer to remain here to enjoy my Tokay. 884 01:10:34,533 --> 01:10:36,992 Oh?. And why is that?. 885 01:10:37,075 --> 01:10:40,408 I cannot really say. I... 886 01:10:40,492 --> 01:10:46,200 Sometimes you get comfortable where you are. You don't want to disturb yourself. 887 01:10:46,283 --> 01:10:49,783 Poppycock. Port should be taken in the drawing room. 888 01:10:49,867 --> 01:10:53,033 Let the ladies get on with whatever it is they get on with. 889 01:10:53,117 --> 01:10:55,158 I'm no lady. 890 01:10:55,242 --> 01:10:59,825 It's rather like being bathed when one has just gotten comfortable in one's smell. 891 01:10:59,908 --> 01:11:02,908 - What is the fellow on about?. - Shh. 892 01:11:02,992 --> 01:11:08,075 There was a patch of ground behind the shed where the earth was always moist 893 01:11:08,158 --> 01:11:13,325 and I loved to roll there to get that particular aura around me. 894 01:11:14,783 --> 01:11:17,825 It brought out the natural secretions 895 01:11:17,908 --> 01:11:22,492 so one could feel there was a glow around oneself, like a halo. 896 01:11:24,825 --> 01:11:30,742 And it was then, when one felt so complete, that the Master would call me. 897 01:11:34,117 --> 01:11:38,700 Who, in God's name, called you what?. 898 01:11:38,783 --> 01:11:42,950 The Master. He called me Wag. 899 01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:47,867 For reasons I never understood. Wag. 900 01:11:49,283 --> 01:11:51,367 But that was the greatness of the Master, 901 01:11:51,450 --> 01:11:54,908 that he could make that one sound convey so many meanings. 902 01:11:54,992 --> 01:11:58,033 There was a "Wag" which meant a walk. 903 01:11:58,117 --> 01:12:02,867 There was a "Wag" which meant "Go away from the table" 904 01:12:02,950 --> 01:12:08,242 and there was a "Wag" which meant "You are to be bathed." 905 01:12:08,325 --> 01:12:12,200 And of all the "Wags" that "Wag" was the most terrible. 906 01:12:12,283 --> 01:12:14,158 Why was that?. 907 01:12:14,242 --> 01:12:16,242 Because, for all his great wisdom, 908 01:12:16,325 --> 01:12:19,908 he never understood how embarrassing it is to meet another dog 909 01:12:19,992 --> 01:12:23,367 when one isn't wearing one's own smell. 910 01:12:23,450 --> 01:12:26,158 But more importantly, they did not know who you were, 911 01:12:26,242 --> 01:12:30,742 so you had to go through all that business of circling and sniffing and growling. 912 01:12:32,492 --> 01:12:35,908 I was always being embarrassed in that way with a particular friend of mine. 913 01:12:35,992 --> 01:12:39,450 So what did you do?. Did you have to fight him?. 914 01:12:39,533 --> 01:12:43,450 Oh, we fought a few times, just to get acquainted. That I enjoyed. 915 01:12:44,325 --> 01:12:46,700 My favourite grip was the ear. 916 01:12:46,783 --> 01:12:51,450 You always hear how going for the throat is the best approach, 917 01:12:51,533 --> 01:12:54,658 but in my experience it's almost impossible to get a throat grip, 918 01:12:54,742 --> 01:12:57,617 so I would always go for the ear. 919 01:12:58,950 --> 01:13:02,450 But it does give the opportunity for excellent complaint. 920 01:13:03,575 --> 01:13:06,283 My friend had a very good complaint, 921 01:13:06,367 --> 01:13:10,242 which I memorised and I would use if I had to take a beating from the Master. 922 01:13:10,325 --> 01:13:12,450 - He beat you?. - Only... 923 01:13:12,533 --> 01:13:16,033 On certain occasions it was called for, certainly. 924 01:13:16,117 --> 01:13:19,450 Then I would use this splendid complaint which I'd learned from my friend. 925 01:13:19,533 --> 01:13:22,950 So what was his name, this friend of yours?. 926 01:13:23,033 --> 01:13:28,533 His name?. I don't think I knew the name his master called him. 927 01:13:28,617 --> 01:13:32,200 Indeed, I'm not entirely sure he had a master, 928 01:13:32,283 --> 01:13:35,783 but his complaint was most satisfying. 929 01:13:37,992 --> 01:13:44,658 "Oh, rescue me. I'm a poor, unfortunate creature, far from home and without a friend." 930 01:13:44,742 --> 01:13:46,367 "Help me, help me." 931 01:13:46,450 --> 01:13:50,242 "I have fallen into terrible straits and am about to be murdered." 932 01:13:50,325 --> 01:13:52,908 Which, of course, was not the case. 933 01:13:52,992 --> 01:13:58,617 This dog, the one without a master, what sort of dog was he?. 934 01:13:58,700 --> 01:14:05,575 Oh, the best of fellows. Adventurous and carefree, fearless and bold. 935 01:14:05,658 --> 01:14:10,492 But you said he was whining and sniveling about being murdered. 936 01:14:10,575 --> 01:14:12,950 Oh, that was just his complaint. 937 01:14:13,033 --> 01:14:15,200 How did you meet him, this friend?. 938 01:14:17,033 --> 01:14:21,742 He would leave messages on the cart that brought the milk. 939 01:14:46,075 --> 01:14:48,158 And i would reply. 940 01:14:49,450 --> 01:14:52,533 And then one day, he came to our door. 941 01:14:53,367 --> 01:14:56,075 Well, I told him to go away or I would chase him 942 01:14:56,158 --> 01:14:59,533 and I barked my most enormous bark and made myself very huge. 943 01:15:01,033 --> 01:15:03,200 But he wasn't afraid and said so. 944 01:15:04,242 --> 01:15:09,742 You weren't... how will I put it... a female by any chance, were you?. 945 01:15:10,408 --> 01:15:12,242 - Of course he wasn't. - Not at all. 946 01:15:12,325 --> 01:15:14,575 We were just good friends. 947 01:15:17,242 --> 01:15:22,033 He'd led a very interesting life and knew many more things than I did, 948 01:15:22,117 --> 01:15:24,533 which he told me about in considerable detail. 949 01:15:24,617 --> 01:15:28,200 - How did he tell you?. - In the messages that he left me. 950 01:15:29,450 --> 01:15:31,575 And I would leave word of my doings, 951 01:15:31,658 --> 01:15:34,075 which, I confess, were not comparable to his, 952 01:15:34,158 --> 01:15:37,658 because all I'd ever done was go for evening walks with the Master. 953 01:15:37,742 --> 01:15:39,992 And while they were enjoyable outings, 954 01:15:41,492 --> 01:15:45,950 they were but moon-cast shadows compared to his adventures. 955 01:15:46,033 --> 01:15:49,158 Did you ever go on an adventure with him?. 956 01:15:49,242 --> 01:15:52,492 (Spanley) Indeed. The greatest of my life. 957 01:15:53,617 --> 01:15:56,575 i remember the Master had to go away and I couldn't go with him. 958 01:15:56,658 --> 01:15:58,950 And i was going to follow him, 959 01:15:59,033 --> 01:16:03,950 but then my friend came and he proposed we have an adventure. 960 01:16:11,283 --> 01:16:14,825 Since the Master was leaving, i said yes. 961 01:16:14,908 --> 01:16:16,908 And off we went. 962 01:16:26,992 --> 01:16:32,742 What a day that was to be a dog and to be with one who knew how to be a dog. 963 01:16:32,825 --> 01:16:36,158 For I confess, happy though I was to belong to the Master, 964 01:16:36,242 --> 01:16:42,742 until that day I had barely glimpsed the glories of dogdom. 965 01:16:45,617 --> 01:16:49,617 He introduced me to the joys of chasing animals. 966 01:16:49,700 --> 01:16:53,408 A matter in which I was largely unversed, 967 01:16:53,492 --> 01:16:56,617 having previously only had the opportunity to chase a couple of cats. 968 01:16:57,783 --> 01:16:59,825 Cats are of no use for chasing 969 01:16:59,908 --> 01:17:02,658 for, not knowing the rules, they invariably climb up trees, 970 01:17:02,742 --> 01:17:05,367 a habit I find contemptible. 971 01:17:05,450 --> 01:17:09,575 Horses, on the other hand, understand the rules perfectly 972 01:17:09,658 --> 01:17:12,283 and enter the business in good spirit. 973 01:17:30,033 --> 01:17:33,283 But of all the creatures that a dog can chase, 974 01:17:33,367 --> 01:17:38,158 none exceed sheep for sheer pleasure. 975 01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:49,450 Their fear drifts in clouds behind them and you breathe it in as you run along, 976 01:17:49,533 --> 01:17:52,283 so you become quite intoxicated by it. 977 01:17:54,158 --> 01:17:59,200 it's as if one is not so much running but flying on it. 978 01:17:59,283 --> 01:18:03,700 Or perhaps swimming might be more a exact description. 979 01:18:04,908 --> 01:18:09,242 Were it not for their master appearing, we might have chased them all day. 980 01:18:12,575 --> 01:18:14,450 Be gone! 981 01:18:14,533 --> 01:18:16,492 My friend didn't care, 982 01:18:16,575 --> 01:18:20,242 but I thought we might be seized and prevented from further adventures, 983 01:18:20,325 --> 01:18:23,075 so I persuaded him to leave. 984 01:18:23,158 --> 01:18:25,908 So we went into the woods. 985 01:18:25,992 --> 01:18:30,825 And there we had the good fortune to come across... a rabbit. 986 01:18:35,950 --> 01:18:39,325 It's not commonly known that rabbit scent, 987 01:18:39,408 --> 01:18:43,158 particularly when it's frightened - and this one was very frightened indeed - 988 01:18:43,242 --> 01:18:45,492 does not lie along the ground, 989 01:18:45,575 --> 01:18:50,575 but rises in heaps so you have to jump to inhale it. 990 01:18:52,617 --> 01:18:56,783 When we'd had our fill of its fear, we turned to catching it, 991 01:18:56,867 --> 01:19:01,825 and in this endeavour my friend showed what a splendid fellow he was, 992 01:19:01,908 --> 01:19:04,867 for he drove straight through the thicket, 993 01:19:04,950 --> 01:19:07,992 paying no heed to its many inconveniences, 994 01:19:08,075 --> 01:19:13,283 and sent the rabbit scuttling to where I was stationed. 995 01:19:38,617 --> 01:19:43,700 how much more satisfying a recently alive rabbit tastes. 996 01:19:43,783 --> 01:19:49,992 I'm afraid the masters fail to appreciate fur, guts and bones 997 01:19:50,075 --> 01:19:52,492 for the delicacies that they are. 998 01:19:55,492 --> 01:19:58,658 Then it was time to quench our thirst. 999 01:20:05,117 --> 01:20:10,075 And then, as in all things that befell us on that glorious day, 1000 01:20:10,158 --> 01:20:14,242 we came across some water that had gathered in a hollow. 1001 01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:19,408 Then, after we drank our fill, 1002 01:20:19,492 --> 01:20:23,825 we rolled in it to give ourselves a good glow 1003 01:20:23,908 --> 01:20:28,658 and then we went into the woods to rest in the shade. 1004 01:20:31,992 --> 01:20:34,200 - Perhaps we should take our... - Father. 1005 01:20:34,283 --> 01:20:36,617 Be quiet and sit down, please. 1006 01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:47,033 You went into the woods and... 1007 01:20:48,825 --> 01:20:50,908 And we slept. 1008 01:20:50,992 --> 01:20:54,492 That most sublime of states, 1009 01:20:54,575 --> 01:20:58,867 when a dream dreams you rather than the other way round. 1010 01:21:20,158 --> 01:21:24,158 And when we awoke, the moon was rising. 1011 01:21:24,242 --> 01:21:28,867 it was just on the other side of the woods, so we set about surprising it. 1012 01:21:40,117 --> 01:21:43,950 And we came very close to catching it, for it was slow to get up. 1013 01:21:45,075 --> 01:21:47,450 But just when we were almost on it, 1014 01:21:47,533 --> 01:21:51,367 my friend couldn't control himself any longer and let out a cry. 1015 01:21:58,408 --> 01:22:00,867 And had we been there but a moment sooner, 1016 01:22:00,950 --> 01:22:04,075 we surely would have seized it and torn it apart like the rabbit. 1017 01:22:04,158 --> 01:22:08,700 How it would have tasted, I cannot tell. 1018 01:22:08,783 --> 01:22:14,492 So we told it what a great cowardly, unsmelling thing it was 1019 01:22:14,575 --> 01:22:19,450 and if we ever caught up with it, it would surely regret it. 1020 01:22:24,575 --> 01:22:28,242 Then we turned around and went home. 1021 01:22:29,825 --> 01:22:31,992 So you knew the way home?. 1022 01:22:32,075 --> 01:22:36,242 Oh, yes. Turn towards home and go there. 1023 01:22:38,367 --> 01:22:42,867 But you had been out all day, running free. How far from home were you?. 1024 01:22:42,950 --> 01:22:49,033 Yes, we'd gone many overs, that is true. How many, I couldn't tell. 1025 01:22:49,117 --> 01:22:50,992 Overs?. 1026 01:22:51,075 --> 01:22:56,742 Overs. Many overs. Over woods and fields, streams and hills. Many overs. 1027 01:22:59,450 --> 01:23:03,700 And you just... turned towards home?. 1028 01:23:05,242 --> 01:23:08,783 - How else would one do it?. - Then why... 1029 01:23:08,867 --> 01:23:12,658 And I knew that I should be beaten 1030 01:23:12,742 --> 01:23:16,700 and I remembered my friend's complaint that I would use 1031 01:23:16,783 --> 01:23:20,158 and how delicious it would feel 1032 01:23:20,242 --> 01:23:24,658 when the beating had stopped and the insults had finished. 1033 01:23:26,908 --> 01:23:30,742 Yes, the glow of having paid the price for wrongdoing. 1034 01:23:33,908 --> 01:23:35,992 And were you punished?. 1035 01:23:37,367 --> 01:23:39,658 No, not on that occasion. 1036 01:23:40,992 --> 01:23:43,867 Why was that?. Do you know?. 1037 01:23:46,450 --> 01:23:50,950 Because a very remarkable thing happened on the way back... 1038 01:24:03,533 --> 01:24:06,617 which I cannot fully explain. 1039 01:24:06,700 --> 01:24:11,367 One moment we were running along side by side, heading for home, and the next... 1040 01:24:37,283 --> 01:24:39,950 we were not. 1041 01:24:45,825 --> 01:24:48,492 I cannot say what happened. 1042 01:24:49,367 --> 01:24:52,200 Perhaps it was a dream and I wakened from it. 1043 01:25:19,450 --> 01:25:21,533 Was there any pain?. 1044 01:25:23,742 --> 01:25:27,825 Pain?. No, I cannot say there was. 1045 01:25:35,617 --> 01:25:38,158 All i can remember is how clear the night was, 1046 01:25:38,242 --> 01:25:40,325 with the moon-cast shadows 1047 01:25:41,325 --> 01:25:45,242 and the earth rising underneath me, 1048 01:25:45,325 --> 01:25:48,325 and home in my heart and the Master waiting. 1049 01:25:50,617 --> 01:25:53,450 But no, no pain. 1050 01:26:29,950 --> 01:26:34,117 I am most glad to hear it. 1051 01:26:40,033 --> 01:26:43,075 If you will excuse me. 1052 01:26:45,575 --> 01:26:47,700 Did I say something to upset you, sir?. 1053 01:26:47,783 --> 01:26:50,950 No, no, no, not at all. 1054 01:26:54,117 --> 01:26:57,617 I am put in memory of my son Harrington. 1055 01:26:59,492 --> 01:27:01,617 That is all. 1056 01:27:15,533 --> 01:27:17,158 Erm... 1057 01:27:20,158 --> 01:27:23,575 Harrington was, erm... killed in the Boer War... 1058 01:27:25,992 --> 01:27:28,242 returning from a patrol. 1059 01:27:28,325 --> 01:27:30,367 That's all we know. 1060 01:27:32,950 --> 01:27:35,825 The, erm... body was never recovered. 1061 01:28:09,325 --> 01:28:11,200 Are you all right, Mr Fisk?. 1062 01:28:17,617 --> 01:28:19,992 He was shot. 1063 01:28:22,825 --> 01:28:25,033 Yes. 1064 01:28:31,408 --> 01:28:35,075 Oh. There, there. 1065 01:28:41,283 --> 01:28:43,575 Better late than never, Mr Fisk. 1066 01:28:47,783 --> 01:28:49,658 Come with me. 1067 01:28:54,242 --> 01:28:56,450 In you go, Mr Fisk. 1068 01:29:01,992 --> 01:29:04,075 Sit yourself down. 1069 01:29:10,783 --> 01:29:13,700 He does mither on, that dean of yours. 1070 01:29:32,658 --> 01:29:35,325 I do hope whatever I said did not upset him. 1071 01:29:35,408 --> 01:29:40,700 Excuse me. I was talking to Mrs Brimley about the old days. 1072 01:29:40,783 --> 01:29:44,408 Thank you, Dean, for coming. It was a memorable evening. 1073 01:29:44,492 --> 01:29:46,283 No, thank you, sir. 1074 01:29:46,367 --> 01:29:49,908 I fear the Tokay rendered me somewhat unsociable. 1075 01:29:49,992 --> 01:29:53,700 It has a tendency to make me withdraw into myself. 1076 01:29:53,783 --> 01:29:58,617 Not at all. You were all that could be hoped for in a guest. 1077 01:29:58,700 --> 01:30:01,325 You know your way home from here?. 1078 01:30:01,408 --> 01:30:05,867 Just turn towards it is the best way, I'm told. 1079 01:30:05,950 --> 01:30:10,492 I'm going in the dean's direction. I'll see that he gets there this time. 1080 01:30:10,575 --> 01:30:13,742 - Good of you to come, Mr Wrather. - Wouldn't have missed it for the world. 1081 01:30:13,825 --> 01:30:15,992 - Good night, sir. - Good night. 1082 01:30:28,533 --> 01:30:30,658 You know, Mr Wrather, 1083 01:30:30,742 --> 01:30:35,408 I have the most persistent notion that we have met before. 1084 01:30:38,158 --> 01:30:41,450 One often feels that about colonials, Dean. 1085 01:30:41,533 --> 01:30:45,658 Yes, I have heard that said. Nevertheless... 1086 01:30:45,742 --> 01:30:51,200 You're not in the market for a new rug, are you?. I've this good friend in Marrakesh. 1087 01:30:51,283 --> 01:30:53,283 Marrakesh?. 1088 01:30:53,367 --> 01:30:56,075 Colourful, exciting place, if you know the right people. 1089 01:30:56,158 --> 01:31:00,617 - I know the right people. - Something of an adventure, I imagine. 1090 01:31:06,950 --> 01:31:10,408 He can put away the Tokay, I'll say that for the dean. 1091 01:31:10,492 --> 01:31:13,908 I thought for a moment we might have had to open the third bottle. 1092 01:31:13,992 --> 01:31:16,200 Oh, two was ample, I think. 1093 01:31:16,283 --> 01:31:19,367 He goes on a bit when he's in his cups, though. 1094 01:31:21,575 --> 01:31:23,658 Thank you, Father. 1095 01:31:27,992 --> 01:31:31,992 One moment you are running along, the next you are no more. 1096 01:31:35,700 --> 01:31:38,200 Well... 1097 01:31:58,492 --> 01:32:02,783 - I will see you next Thursday. - Or any day that suits. 1098 01:32:02,867 --> 01:32:05,950 Mustn't get too set in our ways. 1099 01:32:07,742 --> 01:32:09,825 Good night, Henslowe. 1100 01:32:12,117 --> 01:32:14,200 Good night, Father. 1101 01:32:25,825 --> 01:32:28,033 God knows what they were on about. 1102 01:32:28,117 --> 01:32:32,075 Something about rabbits tasting better with their fur on. 1103 01:32:32,158 --> 01:32:35,200 You won't catch me cooking them, that's all I can tell you. 1104 01:32:40,158 --> 01:32:43,408 Then, he comes in here. 1105 01:32:45,242 --> 01:32:47,575 First time in God knows how long. 1106 01:32:49,242 --> 01:32:53,742 And he stands... looking at that photograph, 1107 01:32:55,325 --> 01:32:57,408 sobbing his heart out. 1108 01:33:16,033 --> 01:33:18,075 Morning, Mrs Brimley. 1109 01:33:18,158 --> 01:33:20,950 - It's not Thursday, you know. - No, I know. 1110 01:33:23,325 --> 01:33:27,700 - How's Father?. - Well, I don't know, really. 1111 01:33:27,783 --> 01:33:30,117 Here, boy! 1112 01:33:30,200 --> 01:33:32,533 Wasn't my idea, you know. 1113 01:33:32,617 --> 01:33:35,033 The day after that dinner, 1114 01:33:35,117 --> 01:33:39,033 he sent me round to see that friend of yours, the one who was here. 1115 01:33:39,908 --> 01:33:42,992 - Mr Wrather?. - Sent me round with a letter, he did. 1116 01:33:43,075 --> 01:33:46,242 Next day he shows up with a dog. 1117 01:33:48,575 --> 01:33:52,783 - What kind of dog?. - Oh, one of those, erm... 1118 01:33:52,867 --> 01:33:55,283 - Oh, like before. - A spaniel?. 1119 01:33:55,367 --> 01:33:57,450 Must be one of the seven. 1120 01:33:57,533 --> 01:33:59,242 Clever boy! 1121 01:33:59,325 --> 01:34:02,325 One's quite enough in this house, thank you very much. 1122 01:34:02,408 --> 01:34:05,575 It's already chewed a cushion. 1123 01:34:05,658 --> 01:34:07,992 He's in the garden. 1124 01:34:09,283 --> 01:34:15,742 Imagine, Mr Fisk in the garden. He'll be growing roses next. 1125 01:34:23,200 --> 01:34:25,033 Twist! 1126 01:34:48,367 --> 01:34:51,242 That was the end of my talks with Dean Spanley, 1127 01:34:52,908 --> 01:34:55,283 although my father sometimes saw him at the club. 1128 01:34:57,200 --> 01:35:00,242 Don 't know what they talked about, if anything. 1129 01:35:01,575 --> 01:35:06,908 As for the question of reincarnation, i resolved to wait and see, 1130 01:35:06,992 --> 01:35:11,117 albeit with more anticipation than hitherto. 1131 01:35:12,492 --> 01:35:15,658 And should i find myself in the form of a dog, 1132 01:35:15,742 --> 01:35:17,825 i trust i will be so fortunate 1133 01:35:17,908 --> 01:35:23,408 as to belong to a master as kind as my father.