1 00:01:08,601 --> 00:01:09,761 My dear... 2 00:01:11,704 --> 00:01:14,195 You've grasped me by the only handle left to me, 3 00:01:14,340 --> 00:01:18,743 the supreme passion, that locks out all the others, 4 00:01:18,878 --> 00:01:21,745 the cardinal sin of gluttony. 5 00:01:21,881 --> 00:01:24,315 Sadly, 6 00:01:25,518 --> 00:01:30,979 the only sin left, the last one. 7 00:01:31,858 --> 00:01:33,155 Indeed! 8 00:01:53,813 --> 00:01:55,075 They're the delights of Capua! 9 00:02:02,055 --> 00:02:06,219 But Hannibal mustn't linger on those delights. 10 00:02:06,359 --> 00:02:09,351 No, I'll go to Canossa for you. I promise! 11 00:02:09,696 --> 00:02:14,224 Or more precisely to 46 Rue des Carmes, at Senora Vellini's. 12 00:02:14,434 --> 00:02:16,527 So that species has a name? 13 00:02:16,669 --> 00:02:18,933 Yes, she's Spanish, 14 00:02:19,072 --> 00:02:25,011 born in 1799 in Malaga, so that... 15 00:02:25,145 --> 00:02:29,275 So that... she's 36 years old. 16 00:02:29,415 --> 00:02:32,851 A good age to make way for another. 17 00:02:52,472 --> 00:02:57,432 Has your best friend the Marquise de Flers, lost her mind? 18 00:02:57,610 --> 00:02:59,544 What has this Marigny done to her? 19 00:03:00,180 --> 00:03:03,775 He's a womanizer and a gambler, and penniless... 20 00:03:03,917 --> 00:03:04,975 I know... 21 00:03:05,118 --> 00:03:08,781 And she lets him marry her wealthy granddaughter? 22 00:03:08,922 --> 00:03:12,255 The jewel of the French aristocracy! That's the limit! 23 00:03:12,825 --> 00:03:16,955 She, who was always so wise, has taken leave of her senses! 24 00:03:17,430 --> 00:03:19,523 She should marry him herself! 25 00:03:19,666 --> 00:03:21,566 Hold your tongue! 26 00:03:21,734 --> 00:03:23,964 It's the talk of the town, dear friend! 27 00:03:27,373 --> 00:03:31,241 Here we are: 46 Rue des Carmes! 28 00:03:34,247 --> 00:03:36,238 I shall inform the Senora of the wedding of Miss de Polastron 29 00:03:36,382 --> 00:03:40,045 to her beloved Marigny and I hope to provoke quite a scandal. 30 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:43,087 If it managed to dash this marriage, 31 00:03:44,023 --> 00:03:46,583 you'd pleasure me more 32 00:03:46,726 --> 00:03:49,593 than you ever did. 33 00:03:54,100 --> 00:03:55,727 Such ingratitude! 34 00:04:08,681 --> 00:04:09,807 Monsieur de Prony! 35 00:04:10,316 --> 00:04:11,874 In person. 36 00:04:17,190 --> 00:04:19,454 How fares my pretty? 37 00:04:20,393 --> 00:04:22,987 - Is the Senora at home to visitors? - Yes, sir. 38 00:04:29,302 --> 00:04:31,395 I'll keep the stick, I need it. 39 00:04:39,012 --> 00:04:40,570 Monsieur de Prony, Madame. 40 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:59,154 Well, then... So how is the Goddess of Capriciousness? 41 00:05:00,233 --> 00:05:03,566 You're just as capricious, Viscount. 42 00:05:03,970 --> 00:05:06,131 You used to visit me, you came often. 43 00:05:06,272 --> 00:05:10,868 You seemed to hold me in your affection. Then...! 44 00:05:11,010 --> 00:05:16,676 One fine day, you disappeared without warning. 45 00:05:16,849 --> 00:05:22,048 I was taking the waters, my dear. 46 00:05:22,188 --> 00:05:25,089 Taking the waters, for two whole years? 47 00:05:25,391 --> 00:05:28,258 You're not in earnest, Viscount! 48 00:05:30,063 --> 00:05:33,157 Anyway, it hasn't done much for your gout! 49 00:05:33,633 --> 00:05:37,626 None of us are getting any younger, my dear! 50 00:05:39,405 --> 00:05:42,465 You still see Monsieur de Marigny? 51 00:05:42,909 --> 00:05:44,706 Certainly. 52 00:05:47,613 --> 00:05:51,982 Is it long since his last visit? 53 00:05:52,185 --> 00:05:55,882 He comes when he pleases, he is free... 54 00:05:56,489 --> 00:05:59,253 Do many people meet every day after ten years? 55 00:05:59,792 --> 00:06:04,058 Ten years of a less than perfect fidelity. 56 00:06:06,032 --> 00:06:09,433 Neither of us has been faithful. 57 00:06:09,936 --> 00:06:14,839 It's been an unusual relationship. 58 00:06:15,141 --> 00:06:17,507 With more hate than love. 59 00:06:17,710 --> 00:06:19,302 All the better! 60 00:06:21,347 --> 00:06:23,645 I'd be sorry to see you unhappy. 61 00:06:26,152 --> 00:06:30,213 Are you aware of Monsieur de Marigny's forthcoming wedding? 62 00:06:30,490 --> 00:06:32,355 Don't worry, with each woman he has had, 63 00:06:32,492 --> 00:06:36,326 in your world or mine, 64 00:06:36,462 --> 00:06:39,158 people ran to tell me! 65 00:06:39,599 --> 00:06:41,794 Twice if not once! 66 00:06:44,704 --> 00:06:47,639 He'll come back to me, as always! 67 00:06:48,007 --> 00:06:53,536 This time it's more than a love affair, it's a marriage. 68 00:06:55,615 --> 00:07:00,018 Well... If you insist, 69 00:07:00,319 --> 00:07:03,982 it's a love affair and a marriage, 70 00:07:04,257 --> 00:07:06,691 but it's not an ending. 71 00:07:07,627 --> 00:07:14,157 An ending to the liaison between Marigny and myself, 72 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:17,098 there is none, Monsieur de Prony! 73 00:07:25,645 --> 00:07:30,673 So you're unfaithful tonight, to your lovely fianc�e, Monsieur de Marigny? 74 00:07:33,753 --> 00:07:35,880 You're not at Madame de Flers'? 75 00:07:36,022 --> 00:07:38,820 No, sir. Nor are you at Madame d'Artelles'. 76 00:07:38,958 --> 00:07:40,425 I dined there! 77 00:08:05,585 --> 00:08:06,847 What's the matter? 78 00:08:07,987 --> 00:08:09,955 Nothing... 79 00:08:14,093 --> 00:08:15,890 See how you lie. 80 00:08:18,598 --> 00:08:20,190 Leave me, Ryno! 81 00:08:27,807 --> 00:08:30,173 - Leave me... - Not on your life! 82 00:08:35,815 --> 00:08:37,510 Why do you want to escape me? 83 00:08:38,851 --> 00:08:43,788 What did that viper of a Viscount say to put you in such a fluster? 84 00:08:45,958 --> 00:08:48,290 Nothing I didn't already know. 85 00:08:49,228 --> 00:08:54,256 It's just that he took such delight in telling me. 86 00:08:55,001 --> 00:08:56,866 You're hurting yourself. 87 00:08:58,004 --> 00:09:01,667 You pay too much attention to people and their unkind words. 88 00:09:04,810 --> 00:09:07,779 What do they know about you and I? 89 00:09:08,714 --> 00:09:10,773 What can they understand about us? 90 00:09:11,918 --> 00:09:18,050 Nothing... They understand nothing... 91 00:09:45,484 --> 00:09:49,181 He won't come now, it's past midnight. 92 00:09:51,023 --> 00:09:52,513 He might yet arrive. 93 00:09:52,658 --> 00:09:54,421 What if he did? 94 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:57,961 If he found you here, he'd know you had waited for him. 95 00:09:58,097 --> 00:10:00,065 Where would that get us! 96 00:10:00,733 --> 00:10:03,258 Never let men rule you. 97 00:10:03,402 --> 00:10:06,997 The most sincere love isn't devoid of conceit. 98 00:10:07,306 --> 00:10:09,206 Your grandmother is right. 99 00:10:11,210 --> 00:10:13,940 It's his loss! 100 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,481 Go to bed like a good girl, and tomorrow, 101 00:10:17,617 --> 00:10:20,484 act with coolness toward him. Pretend to be uninterested in him. 102 00:10:34,700 --> 00:10:37,794 Now she has retired, allow me to predict 103 00:10:38,137 --> 00:10:41,538 that she'll be incapable of the slightest stratagem! 104 00:10:41,974 --> 00:10:43,942 She already loves him too much! 105 00:10:44,076 --> 00:10:47,739 What's wrong with loving the man she'll marry in a week? 106 00:10:48,247 --> 00:10:50,738 We are not old for nothing, my dear. 107 00:10:50,883 --> 00:10:54,819 You know as well as I do that one must never give a man 108 00:10:54,987 --> 00:10:57,012 the certainty of conquest. 109 00:10:59,125 --> 00:11:04,324 That young girls, and even their mothers, 110 00:11:04,463 --> 00:11:06,658 are taken in, is a law of our species. 111 00:11:06,999 --> 00:11:11,936 We would never become mothers, if we were clear-sighted. 112 00:11:12,071 --> 00:11:15,529 But when even grandmothers are fooled 113 00:11:15,675 --> 00:11:19,338 by this pitiful comedy of seduction... 114 00:11:19,478 --> 00:11:22,174 It's because I'm much younger than my age. 115 00:11:22,314 --> 00:11:25,408 I was charmed and mesmerized like the others, 116 00:11:25,551 --> 00:11:28,076 and so happy about it, dear Countess, 117 00:11:28,220 --> 00:11:33,283 that your bad auguries have no power to weaken my optimism. 118 00:11:33,426 --> 00:11:35,917 What you're saying is most grave! 119 00:11:36,062 --> 00:11:38,053 He has turned your head more than hers. 120 00:11:38,197 --> 00:11:39,789 Hasn't he! 121 00:11:39,932 --> 00:11:43,299 Here, have a cup. 122 00:11:46,372 --> 00:11:49,068 To pick you up. 123 00:11:50,676 --> 00:11:54,112 It's no laughing matter, I assure you. Have you no remorse, 124 00:11:54,246 --> 00:11:58,444 on the eve of this wedding, of marrying your granddaughter 125 00:11:58,884 --> 00:12:02,115 to a mere gentleman without title, a penniless adventurer! 126 00:12:02,288 --> 00:12:04,415 She's rich enough for both of them! 127 00:12:04,557 --> 00:12:05,956 What's more, he's an unbridled libertine, 128 00:12:06,092 --> 00:12:10,426 who has no scruples in compromising his conquests. 129 00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:12,895 You and I belong to the age of Laclos! 130 00:12:13,032 --> 00:12:16,524 An age when such matters were easily forgiven! 131 00:12:16,669 --> 00:12:19,832 The young people we knew, and loved, 132 00:12:19,972 --> 00:12:22,304 were far worse than those of today, 133 00:12:22,441 --> 00:12:25,274 and yet we didn't become old maids. 134 00:12:25,411 --> 00:12:29,677 Our mothers had the courage to marry us to some dreadful rascals, 135 00:12:29,815 --> 00:12:33,376 and we had the brazen good luck to be quite happy! 136 00:12:33,519 --> 00:12:37,353 You can speak you bewitched the Marquis de Flers! 137 00:12:37,490 --> 00:12:40,186 Hermangarde is prettier than I was, she'll manage. 138 00:12:40,326 --> 00:12:42,988 She doesn't have your talent for strategy! 139 00:12:43,129 --> 00:12:45,620 In love, the first to suffer has lost. 140 00:12:45,765 --> 00:12:47,232 She's already trapped. 141 00:12:47,366 --> 00:12:49,766 Hermangarde is what I cherish most. 142 00:12:49,902 --> 00:12:53,463 Would I let her navigate alone on the ocean of perfidy 143 00:12:53,606 --> 00:12:56,074 that is men's hearts? No! 144 00:12:56,175 --> 00:12:59,076 This marriage will be my masterpiece. 145 00:12:59,211 --> 00:13:03,807 Your masterpiece! You're even madder than they say. 146 00:13:09,555 --> 00:13:11,079 Good-bye, my friend! 147 00:13:14,059 --> 00:13:16,186 And where might he be this evening? 148 00:13:17,429 --> 00:13:19,954 He has a mistress, dear Marquise. 149 00:13:20,533 --> 00:13:22,660 He has had for 10 years. 150 00:13:22,868 --> 00:13:27,965 Only you and I were unaware of it until now. 151 00:13:47,693 --> 00:13:49,456 I hate you! 152 00:14:02,942 --> 00:14:04,910 You'll come back to me, Ryno! 153 00:14:05,344 --> 00:14:09,974 I say it without a trace of joy, without pride, 154 00:14:10,716 --> 00:14:13,310 without triumphant jealousy. 155 00:14:14,353 --> 00:14:18,881 You'll trample on the girl you're marrying and come back to me. 156 00:14:20,259 --> 00:14:22,750 I've never loved anyone as I love her. 157 00:14:22,995 --> 00:14:25,156 Not even you, Vellini! 158 00:14:26,332 --> 00:14:29,563 The feelings you stirred in my heart at twenty, 159 00:14:29,702 --> 00:14:34,969 she has revived in a heart of thirty, which is old and worn. 160 00:14:39,178 --> 00:14:43,444 You don't cheat on the one you love with someone you no longer love. 161 00:14:44,617 --> 00:14:46,551 Is that what you believe? 162 00:14:56,829 --> 00:14:59,696 I warned you this evening meant good-bye. 163 00:15:01,267 --> 00:15:03,167 So good-bye! 164 00:15:04,670 --> 00:15:08,766 May what you say be true... 165 00:15:09,642 --> 00:15:14,375 Oliva! See Monsieur de Marigny out! 166 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,360 M. De Cerisy has waited 2 hours in the library. 167 00:15:38,037 --> 00:15:41,768 Let him wait! Or let him leave! 168 00:15:42,107 --> 00:15:47,010 In any case, I'm free. I owe nobody nothing. 169 00:16:32,358 --> 00:16:35,156 When all Paris was up in arms about his liaisons 170 00:16:35,294 --> 00:16:39,230 with Madame de Mendoze and others, 171 00:16:39,398 --> 00:16:43,027 he was deceiving them with that creature. 172 00:16:45,337 --> 00:16:47,805 A courtesan on the wane, 173 00:16:48,874 --> 00:16:50,865 and rather vulgar, I hear... 174 00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:54,036 I'll let you guess what men seek in her. 175 00:16:54,179 --> 00:16:58,912 Vulgar or not, she must be very crafty to wrest Monsieur de Marigny 176 00:16:59,051 --> 00:17:01,451 from so many women! 177 00:17:01,687 --> 00:17:04,019 After too much sweetness, 178 00:17:04,156 --> 00:17:07,523 one may appreciate the scent of an alkali. 179 00:17:07,659 --> 00:17:10,127 Still, 10 years! 180 00:17:10,262 --> 00:17:14,596 Persian marriages only last 7! 181 00:17:14,733 --> 00:17:17,964 10 years together without being compelled to it by law! 182 00:17:18,103 --> 00:17:19,570 That's unheard of in Paris! 183 00:17:22,508 --> 00:17:24,703 I know we're late. 184 00:17:25,277 --> 00:17:29,680 If a box is rented by the year I can arrive late if I want! 185 00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:30,866 Time you retired, my child. 186 00:19:31,003 --> 00:19:33,699 I must have a last word with M. De Marigny. 187 00:19:34,740 --> 00:19:36,833 This secrecy means you're plotting? 188 00:19:36,975 --> 00:19:40,433 Perhaps! Come and kiss me, and leave us! 189 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:59,729 Don't be jealous, in two days he'll be all yours. 190 00:20:00,232 --> 00:20:04,794 And you, I permit you to kiss her... There. 191 00:20:31,129 --> 00:20:33,359 What if that was your good-bye kiss? 192 00:20:34,132 --> 00:20:38,967 Yes, if it were the last kiss, and you never saw her again? 193 00:20:39,104 --> 00:20:41,004 And I canceled the wedding? 194 00:20:41,273 --> 00:20:42,570 What have I done? 195 00:20:42,708 --> 00:20:46,166 Nothing! I chose you, despite all the warnings. 196 00:20:46,478 --> 00:20:49,572 But listen, M. De Marigny, those warnings have become 197 00:20:49,748 --> 00:20:51,773 so alarming... 198 00:20:53,485 --> 00:20:54,975 I was sure of it. 199 00:20:55,420 --> 00:20:57,285 When I met Viscount de Prony as I left the house of a woman 200 00:20:57,422 --> 00:21:00,391 I know well, I guessed he'd been 201 00:21:00,959 --> 00:21:04,520 sent by Countess d'Artelles. 202 00:21:06,865 --> 00:21:09,595 She tried hard to stop this marriage! 203 00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:11,759 Let's be frank 204 00:21:12,337 --> 00:21:15,431 you've been what is known as a libertine. 205 00:21:15,574 --> 00:21:19,271 Even if your heart is loftier than your morals, 206 00:21:19,578 --> 00:21:25,016 you have had an intimate relationship with that Vellini, 207 00:21:25,150 --> 00:21:27,277 a sort of kept woman, 208 00:21:27,419 --> 00:21:30,445 and have lived with her for ten years. 209 00:21:30,889 --> 00:21:35,019 That is so. She was my mistress, but she no longer is. 210 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:36,957 What? She no longer is? 211 00:21:37,095 --> 00:21:40,087 When you're not here, you're at her house! 212 00:21:40,232 --> 00:21:42,223 When one is as smitten as I, and one is loved in return 213 00:21:42,367 --> 00:21:47,737 by someone as sublime as Miss de Polastron, 214 00:21:48,874 --> 00:21:51,468 there's no room for other sentiments. 215 00:21:52,477 --> 00:21:55,708 I do believe you sincerely love my granddaughter, 216 00:21:55,847 --> 00:21:58,281 but what if I was unable to believe that this ten year affair 217 00:21:58,417 --> 00:22:03,878 that you admit to, is indeed finished, 218 00:22:04,122 --> 00:22:07,216 when you're still seeing that woman? 219 00:22:09,094 --> 00:22:11,085 You would do me great offense. 220 00:22:11,363 --> 00:22:14,093 If I gave my word to the Marquise de Flers, 221 00:22:14,232 --> 00:22:17,724 Miss de Polastron's grandmother, she must believe me! 222 00:22:19,137 --> 00:22:21,128 I believe you. 223 00:22:21,473 --> 00:22:24,408 When did she cease to be your mistress? 224 00:22:24,543 --> 00:22:26,135 A long time ago. 225 00:22:30,749 --> 00:22:33,013 But let us be quite clear... 226 00:22:39,791 --> 00:22:42,157 I'll be completely frank with you. 227 00:22:42,294 --> 00:22:46,754 You're too far above other women to reproach me my sincerity. 228 00:22:52,337 --> 00:22:55,773 It's now a long time since Vellini was my mistress. 229 00:22:55,941 --> 00:23:00,378 We separated amicably long before I met Hermangarde. 230 00:23:07,452 --> 00:23:09,443 But if I were to deny that habit inexorably took me back 231 00:23:09,588 --> 00:23:14,855 to this woman, my former love... 232 00:23:16,795 --> 00:23:20,390 and that each time... 233 00:23:20,599 --> 00:23:25,002 I yielded for a few hours to the burning feelings of the past, 234 00:23:28,106 --> 00:23:29,596 then I'd be lying. 235 00:23:30,075 --> 00:23:33,772 I see the distinction, and accept it. 236 00:23:33,912 --> 00:23:37,313 Still, for Hermangarde, and for polite society, 237 00:23:37,449 --> 00:23:41,783 whether you love her or not, that woman is your mistress! 238 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,447 The wrong, the danger here is less in the feelings than in the situation. 239 00:23:45,590 --> 00:23:48,787 You're right, but the situation is no longer. 240 00:23:48,994 --> 00:23:51,224 The day Viscount de Prony saw me, 241 00:23:51,363 --> 00:23:53,729 I said goodbye to Senora Vellini. 242 00:23:53,865 --> 00:23:56,299 Why didn't you say so sooner, my boy? 243 00:23:56,435 --> 00:23:58,767 You would have eased my mind. 244 00:23:58,904 --> 00:24:01,202 Now, I'm reassured. 245 00:24:01,406 --> 00:24:02,703 But tell me, won't this woman create a commotion 246 00:24:02,841 --> 00:24:05,469 Sunday at your wedding? 247 00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:10,240 Countess d'Artelles and Monsieur de Prony are sure... 248 00:24:10,382 --> 00:24:14,580 They don't know Vellini. She's too proud to degrade herself like that! 249 00:24:17,088 --> 00:24:20,216 Some may see her as a creature, 250 00:24:20,459 --> 00:24:23,121 but she's a woman of great nobility. 251 00:24:28,767 --> 00:24:32,168 But I understand why you fear a moment of weakness. 252 00:24:35,674 --> 00:24:40,668 I told you I plan to leave Paris right after my wedding. 253 00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:44,881 I can promise you it will be for good. 254 00:24:45,250 --> 00:24:47,810 I'm not insisting on that! 255 00:24:47,953 --> 00:24:50,513 You love Paris too much to bury yourself in the provinces. 256 00:24:50,655 --> 00:24:52,885 I'm not a barbarous grandmother guarding 257 00:24:53,024 --> 00:24:56,323 the fidelity due her granddaughter. 258 00:24:56,761 --> 00:24:58,251 It is Hermangarde I love, 259 00:24:59,865 --> 00:25:01,423 and yet... 260 00:25:04,369 --> 00:25:07,338 Although everything is over between Vellini and I, 261 00:25:09,541 --> 00:25:12,772 being near such a woman is good for no man! 262 00:25:13,645 --> 00:25:17,945 I, more than any other, must fear and avoid it! 263 00:25:19,651 --> 00:25:23,883 You must have really loved her, to still fear her so! 264 00:25:24,723 --> 00:25:27,886 Damn herb teas, let's have some port wine! 265 00:25:28,026 --> 00:25:30,085 It'll cheer us up. 266 00:25:49,114 --> 00:25:53,744 You know I devised that trip to the Opera, 267 00:25:53,885 --> 00:25:56,012 I who hate going out, just see her from closer! 268 00:26:00,492 --> 00:26:02,426 You'd have been disappointed. 269 00:26:03,061 --> 00:26:08,761 Vellini doesn't justify for many the power she has over some. 270 00:26:08,934 --> 00:26:10,196 So I've been told, yes! 271 00:26:10,335 --> 00:26:14,237 But how did you become one of her victims, Monsieur de Marigny? 272 00:26:14,372 --> 00:26:17,398 You're reputed to be a most formidable Don Juan! 273 00:26:19,377 --> 00:26:21,811 The truth is so far from that! 274 00:26:23,048 --> 00:26:25,608 For ten years, I was indeed under her spell. 275 00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:28,719 But we were each other's victims. 276 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:33,016 Sometimes in turn. Sometimes together. 277 00:26:34,559 --> 00:26:35,753 It's a sad tale. 278 00:26:35,894 --> 00:26:37,361 Tell it to me. 279 00:26:37,662 --> 00:26:39,220 To what end? 280 00:26:39,864 --> 00:26:42,833 What better sign of friendship can you give me, 281 00:26:42,968 --> 00:26:45,903 I, who'll become your grandmother on Sunday, 282 00:26:46,037 --> 00:26:48,232 than the trust of your past? 283 00:26:48,373 --> 00:26:52,605 So I know everything about the husband I chose for Hermangarde. 284 00:26:52,744 --> 00:26:54,678 Since you command me... 285 00:26:58,116 --> 00:27:00,482 It began ten years ago. 286 00:27:00,819 --> 00:27:04,755 I was returning from Baden, at the end of the summer. 287 00:27:04,889 --> 00:27:08,916 There I had surrendered to my taste for women and gambling. 288 00:27:10,695 --> 00:27:14,495 I was weary, as one is after the intense pursuit of pleasure... 289 00:27:18,036 --> 00:27:20,630 I was at the Opera with a married woman 290 00:27:20,772 --> 00:27:25,209 who bestowed her favors on me, but was becoming possessive. 291 00:27:37,722 --> 00:27:39,189 I'll be right back. 292 00:27:57,275 --> 00:27:58,207 Ryno! 293 00:28:02,847 --> 00:28:05,509 What a fine surprise! Sit down! 294 00:28:08,887 --> 00:28:10,286 Where were you headed? 295 00:28:10,422 --> 00:28:11,821 I was fleeing! 296 00:28:13,925 --> 00:28:17,258 If faithful husbands who envy us knew how unhappy we are... 297 00:28:17,395 --> 00:28:21,354 when their wives, who we idolized, yield to us. 298 00:28:23,101 --> 00:28:27,629 The disillusion and boredom which result from their surrender! 299 00:28:27,772 --> 00:28:29,364 I'm just back from Spain 300 00:28:29,941 --> 00:28:31,499 with a horde of curiosities. 301 00:28:31,643 --> 00:28:34,669 And one that I'd like you to admire. 302 00:28:35,580 --> 00:28:38,276 It's not an object, it's a woman. 303 00:28:38,650 --> 00:28:40,277 From Malaga... 304 00:28:40,785 --> 00:28:44,778 a capricious who can out stare the sun. 305 00:28:46,391 --> 00:28:49,485 How amazing! There she is! 306 00:28:51,429 --> 00:28:54,660 - Yet you won't understand... - How so? 307 00:28:54,799 --> 00:28:57,927 She's a bit..."Moorish". 308 00:28:59,871 --> 00:29:02,931 Just come to dinner tomorrow. 309 00:29:03,074 --> 00:29:05,599 A costume party for them, my house guests. 310 00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:08,235 You'll see what I see in her. 311 00:29:11,449 --> 00:29:14,213 The illegitimate child of an Italian princess 312 00:29:14,352 --> 00:29:16,786 and a famed Spanish matador... 313 00:29:17,055 --> 00:29:21,719 She led a shady life in Seville before being rescued by a marriage 314 00:29:21,893 --> 00:29:25,488 to a wealthy English baronet! 315 00:29:30,368 --> 00:29:33,735 You're not English, and too young to fall for... 316 00:29:33,872 --> 00:29:35,430 that ugly mutt. 317 00:29:36,407 --> 00:29:37,669 It'd be pure vice! 318 00:29:37,809 --> 00:29:39,936 Beware, your voice carries! 319 00:29:41,679 --> 00:29:43,476 Too late! She heard you. 320 00:30:08,072 --> 00:30:10,040 Miss Marie-Cornelie Falcone! 321 00:30:11,209 --> 00:30:12,699 You're the first! 322 00:30:13,077 --> 00:30:16,774 Sir Reginald Annesley, meet our leading soprano. 323 00:30:17,248 --> 00:30:19,443 In London we adore you! 324 00:30:19,717 --> 00:30:21,116 What are you singing now? 325 00:30:21,252 --> 00:30:22,947 I just did "Iphigenia". 326 00:30:23,087 --> 00:30:25,419 Monsieur Ryno de Marigny! 327 00:30:27,358 --> 00:30:29,883 Ryno, you look no different. 328 00:30:30,028 --> 00:30:31,393 I hate disguises. 329 00:30:31,529 --> 00:30:33,588 You made no effort, that's perfect. 330 00:30:33,965 --> 00:30:34,989 Come! 331 00:30:48,847 --> 00:30:50,405 Lady Vellini Annesley... 332 00:30:50,548 --> 00:30:52,175 Ryno de Marigny. 333 00:30:54,986 --> 00:30:56,886 What are you disguised as? 334 00:30:58,223 --> 00:31:00,623 I said, what are you disguised as? 335 00:31:00,792 --> 00:31:02,282 The Devil! 336 00:31:33,324 --> 00:31:35,952 I bought a little knick-knack... 337 00:31:36,594 --> 00:31:38,027 A little box. 338 00:31:38,263 --> 00:31:42,791 Its lid reminds me strangely of one of the loveliest guests here. 339 00:31:42,934 --> 00:31:44,868 Look, pass it around... 340 00:32:20,471 --> 00:32:21,631 You hardly looked at it! 341 00:32:21,773 --> 00:32:25,539 I so admired you in "Alice" by Robert le Diable, 342 00:32:25,677 --> 00:32:27,440 You're our finest voice. 343 00:32:27,578 --> 00:32:28,875 Thank you. 344 00:32:30,014 --> 00:32:31,481 What is it? 345 00:32:34,152 --> 00:32:36,552 I wore my stage costume, I figured it'd do. 346 00:32:37,255 --> 00:32:39,883 Costume parties are a bore. 347 00:32:40,458 --> 00:32:42,517 You came as a she-devil? 348 00:32:42,660 --> 00:32:46,096 No, as The Devil! I hate anything feminine! 349 00:32:46,230 --> 00:32:48,425 Except in young men, of course. 350 00:32:48,566 --> 00:32:50,158 Of course! 351 00:32:50,301 --> 00:32:53,566 Like Titian's "Portrait of Lorenzo de Medici", 352 00:32:54,339 --> 00:32:57,137 or Lotto's "Portrait of a Young Man". 353 00:32:59,544 --> 00:33:00,977 That's my glass! 354 00:33:02,814 --> 00:33:05,009 I want to read your thoughts. 355 00:33:05,383 --> 00:33:06,611 Not a chance! 356 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,244 My blunder has hurt you? 357 00:33:10,388 --> 00:33:15,382 Not your "blunder", your "conceit"! That's inexcusable. 358 00:33:15,727 --> 00:33:17,592 Then I won't excuse myself! 359 00:33:28,506 --> 00:33:29,734 Well? 360 00:33:30,308 --> 00:33:34,768 My dear Count, if you wanted sole possession of this woman, 361 00:33:35,113 --> 00:33:37,547 you shouldn't have asked me to dinner! 362 00:33:37,782 --> 00:33:40,478 I'll fight you obstinately for her. 363 00:33:41,819 --> 00:33:43,810 I accept the challenge! 364 00:33:44,322 --> 00:33:47,416 But I warn you: She loathes you. 365 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:50,393 We'll see. 366 00:35:00,665 --> 00:35:05,796 If you weren't already wed, I'd ask you to marry me on the spot. 367 00:35:09,674 --> 00:35:13,440 But... you're not English and too young, 368 00:35:13,578 --> 00:35:16,479 to indulge in such folly. 369 00:35:17,248 --> 00:35:19,876 It would be pure vice. 370 00:35:23,721 --> 00:35:26,485 Spanish women are as vain as French women. 371 00:35:26,624 --> 00:35:31,687 No. But they sense an insult, 372 00:35:31,829 --> 00:35:35,356 and can hate even better than they can love. 373 00:35:41,372 --> 00:35:43,203 Forgive me. 374 00:35:44,275 --> 00:35:46,903 It was a premature and silly opinion. 375 00:35:47,912 --> 00:35:49,812 Just chatter. 376 00:35:53,017 --> 00:35:55,383 I have nothing to forgive you. 377 00:35:55,786 --> 00:35:59,654 Likes and dislikes are involuntary! 378 00:36:23,014 --> 00:36:24,641 Let me play him. 379 00:36:52,410 --> 00:36:57,848 It is my wife who brings me luck... 380 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,650 I couldn't avoid the Mareuil townhouse knowing 381 00:37:38,789 --> 00:37:42,987 that haughty and heartless creature would be there 382 00:37:43,227 --> 00:37:45,957 to mock the madness of my undertaking... 383 00:37:51,235 --> 00:37:52,759 Sir Reginald Annesley isn't in, sir. 384 00:37:52,903 --> 00:37:54,632 I know she's in, I saw her. 385 00:37:54,772 --> 00:37:56,364 I have orders to keep you out. 386 00:37:56,507 --> 00:37:59,101 Count de Mareuil is a personal friend! 387 00:38:00,378 --> 00:38:02,312 Brawling in my house? 388 00:38:04,215 --> 00:38:05,705 Let go of Monsieur de Marigny. 389 00:38:09,587 --> 00:38:12,715 I've come every day, left my card. 390 00:38:13,591 --> 00:38:15,991 The Senora's hatred of you has grown since that dinner 391 00:38:16,127 --> 00:38:19,096 where you changed your mind. 392 00:38:19,230 --> 00:38:22,495 She delights in arousing her husband's jealousy, 393 00:38:22,667 --> 00:38:25,636 by describing how openly you courted her, 394 00:38:25,770 --> 00:38:28,068 claiming her virtue has been offended. 395 00:38:29,140 --> 00:38:30,300 The hussy! 396 00:38:30,641 --> 00:38:33,474 So the very polite Sir Reginald Annesley, 397 00:38:33,611 --> 00:38:34,908 an amiable baronet, 398 00:38:35,046 --> 00:38:39,142 feels he can act, not as a gentleman, but as an informed husband. 399 00:38:40,918 --> 00:38:42,943 - Let me see her. - Impossible. 400 00:38:44,188 --> 00:38:45,849 I ruined myself for her. 401 00:38:46,357 --> 00:38:48,120 I have but a Sou to live on, and I'd gladly lose that 402 00:38:48,259 --> 00:38:52,161 to see her just once. 403 00:38:53,097 --> 00:38:56,396 You who live beside her, can't you plead my cause? 404 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,696 It'd be pointless! Forget her... 405 00:39:02,473 --> 00:39:04,407 Or pray to God! 406 00:39:04,775 --> 00:39:07,573 At St Gervais Church, at vespers. 407 00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:10,644 Spanish ladies are devout. 408 00:39:13,584 --> 00:39:15,916 I'll be eternally grateful to you. 409 00:41:01,292 --> 00:41:04,056 Go! 410 00:41:13,037 --> 00:41:16,564 My pride couldn't offer itself any consolation. 411 00:41:16,907 --> 00:41:20,365 Clearly, she disliked me as much as she'd said. 412 00:41:22,513 --> 00:41:25,778 Every afternoon, I haunted the Bois de Boulogne, 413 00:41:25,916 --> 00:41:28,510 at the hour favored by fashionable strollers, 414 00:41:29,253 --> 00:41:32,086 on the off chance of meeting her. 415 00:41:54,111 --> 00:41:55,476 Madame... 416 00:41:56,614 --> 00:42:00,744 Chance is kinder than you it arranged this appointment! 417 00:42:00,918 --> 00:42:02,408 Chance is a fool! 418 00:42:02,553 --> 00:42:05,386 What appointment? It's an encounter! 419 00:42:05,589 --> 00:42:07,887 That's your path! This is mine! Pass by! 420 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,527 I'd be a fool to waste this chance to see you! 421 00:42:15,299 --> 00:42:18,063 Sir Reginald stopped off briefly, 422 00:42:18,202 --> 00:42:20,762 he'll be here in an instant. 423 00:42:22,973 --> 00:42:25,567 How base to bring up your husband. 424 00:42:32,716 --> 00:42:35,776 Say you trust in my repentance. 425 00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:40,383 I have only this to say to you 426 00:42:40,524 --> 00:42:42,458 for the second time, pass by! 427 00:42:43,794 --> 00:42:46,558 You brand so well what is yours, 428 00:42:46,697 --> 00:42:48,562 that I crave a second mark. 429 00:42:48,699 --> 00:42:50,098 Reginald! 430 00:42:50,234 --> 00:42:52,327 That name hurts more than your whip! 431 00:42:52,469 --> 00:42:53,834 I'll stifle it on your lips. 432 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,060 At four paces, and fire! 433 00:43:19,263 --> 00:43:23,393 Not now, sir. Not in front of Madame. 434 00:43:24,668 --> 00:43:26,431 Tomorrow at a time of your choosing. 435 00:43:26,570 --> 00:43:31,200 At six in the morning, in this wood that saw the affront, 436 00:43:31,442 --> 00:43:34,468 and shall see the punishment. 437 00:43:34,612 --> 00:43:36,477 Why not now? 438 00:43:37,381 --> 00:43:40,077 I'd have enjoyed seeing you killed today. 439 00:43:42,553 --> 00:43:43,713 Look! 440 00:43:44,688 --> 00:43:47,384 She came in person, just to see me die! 441 00:43:47,524 --> 00:43:49,287 It's outrageous! 442 00:43:49,493 --> 00:43:51,620 I'll chide Sir Reginald about this. 443 00:43:51,762 --> 00:43:53,423 A woman has no place here. 444 00:43:53,564 --> 00:43:55,725 Do nothing of the sort. 445 00:43:57,434 --> 00:44:01,200 The matador's daughter wants blood let her see it flow! 446 00:44:02,172 --> 00:44:03,662 My witnesses... 447 00:44:04,708 --> 00:44:06,903 Monsieur de Marigny asked me first. 448 00:44:07,077 --> 00:44:09,136 And Count de Cerisy. 449 00:44:09,313 --> 00:44:10,746 Here are mine. 450 00:44:14,585 --> 00:44:17,076 I hope my husband kills you. 451 00:45:12,309 --> 00:45:13,276 Run for a surgeon! 452 00:45:13,410 --> 00:45:15,037 My God, the master's wounded! 453 00:45:21,952 --> 00:45:23,442 Don't move! 454 00:45:53,450 --> 00:45:55,350 You're mad! What are you doing? 455 00:45:55,552 --> 00:45:58,350 I want to drink his blood! No one can stop me! 456 00:46:05,162 --> 00:46:09,360 Will he die? Will he die? 457 00:46:09,500 --> 00:46:11,400 After what you just did, 458 00:46:11,535 --> 00:46:15,494 his wound has a greater chance of becoming infected! 459 00:46:53,811 --> 00:46:57,838 The wound was so deep for 2 months 460 00:46:58,215 --> 00:47:00,308 I hung between life and death, racked by atrocious pains. 461 00:47:01,885 --> 00:47:03,978 Yet I followed the doctor's orders, with the blind obedience of a man 462 00:47:05,522 --> 00:47:09,185 desperate to get well. 463 00:47:22,639 --> 00:47:27,099 Marquise, I wanted to get well to see her again. 464 00:47:53,971 --> 00:47:56,735 That same dream again... 465 00:48:18,829 --> 00:48:20,820 My God, I'm still dreaming... 466 00:48:23,867 --> 00:48:25,858 I surrender, Ryno. 467 00:48:26,236 --> 00:48:30,434 I struggled hard, but I am beaten. 468 00:48:40,317 --> 00:48:42,911 Though cured of my wounds, I remained in there 469 00:48:43,453 --> 00:48:48,117 where Vellini came very early 470 00:48:48,759 --> 00:48:50,420 and left just before dawn. 471 00:49:07,177 --> 00:49:09,202 The odor of love... 472 00:49:10,514 --> 00:49:15,611 Hold me tight... I love... 473 00:49:22,292 --> 00:49:23,884 Ryno... 474 00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:37,266 I miss you already. 475 00:49:55,959 --> 00:49:57,950 You don't have another, I hope. 476 00:49:59,863 --> 00:50:01,125 I swear! 477 00:50:01,398 --> 00:50:04,731 Too easy. Swear it, on my head! 478 00:50:07,904 --> 00:50:09,337 I swear it. 479 00:50:11,975 --> 00:50:13,272 Locking me in? 480 00:50:13,410 --> 00:50:15,037 Double-locking you! 481 00:50:23,653 --> 00:50:25,484 Like your slave? 482 00:50:26,323 --> 00:50:27,984 My prisoner. 483 00:50:32,929 --> 00:50:35,659 Later you'll be my slave. 484 00:51:26,650 --> 00:51:30,142 Ten past seven! How punctual you are! 485 00:51:30,287 --> 00:51:35,884 You never miss roll-call, like clockwork... 486 00:51:37,394 --> 00:51:39,487 Why are you still up? 487 00:51:39,896 --> 00:51:41,921 I'm trying to tell you... 488 00:51:42,866 --> 00:51:48,304 Given the very limited nature of our life together, 489 00:51:48,438 --> 00:51:50,429 I could, if I so wished, sleep elsewhere every night 490 00:51:51,608 --> 00:51:56,136 without you noticing... 491 00:52:01,051 --> 00:52:03,417 Listen to what I'm saying! 492 00:52:04,921 --> 00:52:06,081 Let go of me! 493 00:52:06,456 --> 00:52:10,051 Go sleep off your drunkenness, as usual. 494 00:52:13,363 --> 00:52:16,958 Sorry! You're my wife! 495 00:52:19,703 --> 00:52:21,295 Not for much longer. 496 00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,574 My leaving has nothing to do with you. 497 00:52:35,118 --> 00:52:40,556 I'll always be grateful that you made me your legitimate wife. 498 00:52:47,430 --> 00:52:49,955 But I love Ryno de Marigny. 499 00:52:50,133 --> 00:52:52,363 One can't fight that. 500 00:52:53,136 --> 00:52:54,728 Bye. 501 00:53:13,423 --> 00:53:16,984 The next day, all of Paris, 502 00:53:17,694 --> 00:53:20,424 the young things seen in chic cafes 503 00:53:20,564 --> 00:53:23,055 and boxes at the Opera... 504 00:53:23,900 --> 00:53:26,994 knew Lady Annesley had left her husband. 505 00:53:31,741 --> 00:53:34,232 The scandal was huge. 506 00:53:40,517 --> 00:53:48,549 I, being upper crust by my birth and acquaintances, 507 00:53:48,692 --> 00:53:51,490 suddenly inspired all kinds of horrors in ladies who you know, 508 00:53:51,761 --> 00:53:54,992 but who didn't ban me from their salons. 509 00:53:58,068 --> 00:54:02,528 Vellini, who wasn't part of that gossipy and judgmental set, 510 00:54:02,672 --> 00:54:05,766 didn't suffer from what she was unaware of. 511 00:54:08,545 --> 00:54:10,410 Though Paris, for a year, 512 00:54:10,547 --> 00:54:13,015 was the start of a liaison that lasted for ten. 513 00:54:17,020 --> 00:54:18,578 There! 514 00:54:18,722 --> 00:54:21,589 No, you can't stop now! 515 00:54:21,725 --> 00:54:24,216 Tell me all about those ten years. 516 00:54:41,077 --> 00:54:44,342 After that year, we left for Algeria. 517 00:54:46,216 --> 00:54:47,979 We had a little daughter. 518 00:55:25,655 --> 00:55:29,716 It's been five days... We can't stay this way. 519 00:55:32,729 --> 00:55:34,219 We must bury her. 520 00:55:36,232 --> 00:55:37,995 Let's burn her instead! This thing... 521 00:56:52,208 --> 00:56:59,979 that... here and in this place... 522 00:57:03,386 --> 00:57:06,514 was no longer love but an unending fury... 523 00:57:10,427 --> 00:57:12,952 a kind of barbarous rape... 524 00:57:16,833 --> 00:57:19,131 I disapproved of it heart and soul. 525 00:57:24,140 --> 00:57:25,698 But nothing could sway her... 526 00:57:28,611 --> 00:57:31,102 She had to go through with it. 527 00:57:33,082 --> 00:57:35,073 And I had to let her... 528 00:57:39,856 --> 00:57:43,485 even if it made me feel disgusted with myself. 529 00:57:52,969 --> 00:57:56,598 Don't be ashamed, I understand. 530 00:58:14,023 --> 00:58:15,854 Back in Paris... 531 00:58:18,928 --> 00:58:22,921 our relationship became a wretched repetition of that night. 532 00:58:26,236 --> 00:58:30,195 Our daughter's death had placed a wall between us... 533 00:58:33,009 --> 00:58:35,068 I no longer existed in her eyes... 534 00:58:35,945 --> 00:58:37,378 Except... 535 00:58:41,050 --> 00:58:44,850 that she was so totally organized for pleasure... 536 00:58:45,555 --> 00:58:48,023 that she always needed it... 537 00:58:57,033 --> 00:58:59,866 At such times, I hated her. 538 00:59:02,572 --> 00:59:05,871 I went as far as to wish her dead. 539 00:59:08,611 --> 00:59:13,742 I began to submerge her with bitter words, poisoned by disgust. 540 00:59:16,452 --> 00:59:19,148 I left the house more and more, 541 00:59:19,489 --> 00:59:22,117 vowing to end the relationship. 542 00:59:23,726 --> 00:59:27,753 When I'd get home, she was still as I'd left her. 543 00:59:30,967 --> 00:59:33,868 The only thing which kept us together 544 00:59:35,705 --> 00:59:38,572 was the bottomless abyss of our caresses, 545 00:59:41,044 --> 00:59:43,342 and we threw ourselves into it, Marquise, 546 00:59:45,014 --> 00:59:47,209 worse than before. 547 00:59:48,685 --> 00:59:52,018 And all my hate was engulfed in its flames. 548 00:59:52,155 --> 00:59:53,884 But sooner or later, 549 00:59:54,157 --> 00:59:58,025 love withers in these terrible games, doesn't it? 550 00:59:58,161 --> 01:00:02,689 It falls, mutilated in the battle of two hearts. 551 01:00:02,966 --> 01:00:05,264 It gets back up for a short time, 552 01:00:06,436 --> 01:00:10,930 only to fall even more mutilated... 553 01:00:18,014 --> 01:00:20,710 Then we no longer love each other? 554 01:00:22,652 --> 01:00:24,779 My poor child, 555 01:00:25,822 --> 01:00:29,019 we both know we no longer love each other. 556 01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:33,651 It is written on your brow. 557 01:00:35,565 --> 01:00:37,226 Boredom overwhelms you, 558 01:00:39,435 --> 01:00:42,927 you're not a weak creature who deludes herself. 559 01:00:44,307 --> 01:00:49,335 Let us separate. It's the only way to end this nobly. 560 01:00:49,646 --> 01:00:51,841 Go on, I'm enthralled! 561 01:00:54,350 --> 01:00:56,614 I told her that we'd stay friends, 562 01:00:56,853 --> 01:00:58,514 and I proved it to her. 563 01:00:58,655 --> 01:01:03,092 We spent even more time together, now that we'd separated. 564 01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:06,551 I took her to the theater, 565 01:01:08,364 --> 01:01:10,764 I went riding with her. 566 01:01:11,901 --> 01:01:13,596 My elegant friends 567 01:01:13,870 --> 01:01:18,204 who dumped their mistresses when 568 01:01:18,941 --> 01:01:20,738 they were through with them, 569 01:01:21,310 --> 01:01:24,711 made fun of me and our supposed sentimental separation. 570 01:01:24,914 --> 01:01:29,214 My dear man, they'd say, you'll never be rid of that woman 571 01:01:29,352 --> 01:01:31,183 you still love her! 572 01:01:33,756 --> 01:01:36,691 Marquise, I was sure of the opposite. 573 01:01:40,029 --> 01:01:44,261 I'd returned to my bachelor life with such total joy 574 01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:47,858 to have any doubts about my control of myself. 575 01:01:49,405 --> 01:01:52,397 Vellini agreed we no longer loved each other, 576 01:01:53,309 --> 01:01:55,869 and stuck her claws into Cerisy. 577 01:01:56,746 --> 01:02:01,581 So it was your Malaguena who ruined that poor devil Cerisy? 578 01:02:02,752 --> 01:02:04,686 I'm not painting a rosy picture of her. 579 01:02:05,755 --> 01:02:08,121 I'm speaking frankly to you. 580 01:02:08,558 --> 01:02:12,016 Anyone else but you would protest loudly, 581 01:02:12,161 --> 01:02:15,995 and deny one could wreck one's life for that creature. 582 01:02:16,299 --> 01:02:17,527 My child, 583 01:02:17,667 --> 01:02:22,661 we weren't as narrow-minded in the 18th century as in this one! 584 01:02:22,805 --> 01:02:27,606 And, believe me, I've remained ferociously 18th century! 585 01:02:32,682 --> 01:02:34,616 It's you, Ryno! 586 01:02:38,621 --> 01:02:40,418 You didn't expect me? 587 01:02:42,859 --> 01:02:46,795 My God, you're burning, You have a fever? 588 01:02:46,929 --> 01:02:50,592 I don't know, but I'm bored. 589 01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:01,305 Maybe this Spanish sunshine makes you homesick. 590 01:03:01,644 --> 01:03:04,204 Well... You may be right! 591 01:03:18,961 --> 01:03:21,327 You're still the same Vellini! 592 01:03:25,701 --> 01:03:29,603 The wild woman who no one can stand up to! 593 01:03:30,339 --> 01:03:33,900 Life is standing up to me! 594 01:03:36,078 --> 01:03:40,447 I don't know what's wrong, but I'm suffering! 595 01:03:42,051 --> 01:03:45,145 I was happier with you, Ryno. 596 01:03:50,026 --> 01:03:53,462 Does Cerisy upset you, my poor girl? 597 01:03:53,796 --> 01:03:57,391 Him? You know about him? They told you? 598 01:03:57,733 --> 01:04:01,032 No he doesn't upset me, the poor man. 599 01:04:01,470 --> 01:04:03,768 He wouldn't dare. 600 01:04:04,674 --> 01:04:08,610 He is subservient, paralyzed, 601 01:04:08,744 --> 01:04:11,178 totally devoted to me! 602 01:04:12,048 --> 01:04:14,448 Only, it bores me. 603 01:04:15,117 --> 01:04:18,052 I preferred life when you detested me. 604 01:04:21,224 --> 01:04:23,784 And you, are you happy? 605 01:04:26,762 --> 01:04:28,389 What if I'm not? 606 01:04:29,866 --> 01:04:31,561 Don't lie to me! 607 01:04:33,669 --> 01:04:35,796 You met a woman in London 608 01:04:35,938 --> 01:04:39,430 and returned with her to Paris. 609 01:04:40,209 --> 01:04:42,643 You came back together ten days ago. 610 01:04:42,778 --> 01:04:46,339 The woman you mention is a noble Parisian. 611 01:04:46,549 --> 01:04:50,178 When you meet a compatriot abroad, you link up easily, 612 01:04:50,686 --> 01:04:52,881 and without consequences. 613 01:04:55,524 --> 01:04:57,992 And she was traveling with her husband! 614 01:05:00,196 --> 01:05:05,327 You're not in love with her? Weren't you two at the Opera last night? 615 01:05:07,603 --> 01:05:12,472 You were, Ryno! I saw you there. 616 01:05:13,576 --> 01:05:18,172 But you were so immersed in your new mistress, 617 01:05:18,314 --> 01:05:19,747 you never saw me. 618 01:05:19,882 --> 01:05:21,679 What if it's true? 619 01:05:23,719 --> 01:05:27,155 She's the first woman I've loved since our split. 620 01:05:28,791 --> 01:05:30,725 Why do you adopt that tone? 621 01:05:34,730 --> 01:05:36,755 I know it's wrong. 622 01:05:47,209 --> 01:05:50,201 Why do you insist on stopping to love me? 623 01:05:51,814 --> 01:05:54,647 Not loving is the worst misfortune! 624 01:05:55,618 --> 01:05:57,586 Why won't you answer? 625 01:05:58,854 --> 01:06:00,879 You made me suffer too much. 626 01:06:01,691 --> 01:06:03,716 I can't go back to that. 627 01:06:11,567 --> 01:06:14,365 But you like to come back here when it suits you, 628 01:06:14,503 --> 01:06:17,734 as much as it suits you, 629 01:06:17,873 --> 01:06:21,969 nose in the air, hands in your pockets, 630 01:06:22,411 --> 01:06:26,711 without any commitment! How very convenient... 631 01:06:27,283 --> 01:06:28,773 Whereas with... 632 01:06:30,619 --> 01:06:32,780 your Countess... 633 01:06:32,922 --> 01:06:36,983 Countess who? Countess de Mendoze. 634 01:06:37,126 --> 01:06:38,787 Stop that! 635 01:06:41,397 --> 01:06:43,627 Or I'll never come here again! 636 01:06:43,899 --> 01:06:47,426 So what? You think I still love you? 637 01:06:47,970 --> 01:06:52,202 What do I care about you and your Countess de Mendoze? 638 01:06:53,009 --> 01:06:55,102 You don't believe me? 639 01:06:55,311 --> 01:06:58,337 Then put your hand on my heart and tell me of your joy 640 01:06:58,481 --> 01:07:01,814 with your new mistress. 641 01:07:01,951 --> 01:07:06,615 If your heart beats faster, spurn me. 642 01:07:09,392 --> 01:07:13,294 Tell me how she makes love. 643 01:07:15,831 --> 01:07:17,458 She's a noble lady, 644 01:07:18,100 --> 01:07:20,591 incredibly cold and prudish. 645 01:07:20,970 --> 01:07:23,632 Repelled by the base acts of love. 646 01:07:25,941 --> 01:07:29,138 She finally gave in to me in a flood of tears, 647 01:07:29,812 --> 01:07:32,178 as if she despised herself, 648 01:07:33,115 --> 01:07:35,515 but her love was too strong... 649 01:07:37,286 --> 01:07:39,311 She doesn't open her legs, 650 01:07:40,456 --> 01:07:42,481 she clenches them. 651 01:07:43,325 --> 01:07:44,587 Do you like that? 652 01:07:44,727 --> 01:07:46,456 I almost force her. 653 01:07:47,129 --> 01:07:50,257 She closes her eyes, refuses to look at me. 654 01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:54,060 And she weeps, it is very impressive. 655 01:07:55,404 --> 01:07:57,031 How does she come? 656 01:07:58,307 --> 01:08:03,210 That's not the point. I doubt she gets any pleasure. 657 01:08:03,779 --> 01:08:07,442 Her surrender, her sacrifice is what's sublime! 658 01:08:09,385 --> 01:08:13,116 It flatters your tiny pride. 659 01:08:16,392 --> 01:08:19,122 But that's not love... 660 01:08:22,932 --> 01:08:25,298 Most women refuse to know what it is 661 01:08:25,634 --> 01:08:31,732 to give oneself to a man. 662 01:08:32,041 --> 01:08:39,504 What it is to hold a man in one's belly. 663 01:08:42,785 --> 01:08:47,449 What do you find so extraordinary about her? 664 01:08:47,723 --> 01:08:49,691 You, above all! 665 01:08:51,660 --> 01:08:53,685 I don't understand... 666 01:08:54,697 --> 01:08:57,291 If at least you'd replaced me with 667 01:08:57,433 --> 01:09:02,632 someone a hundred times more gifted at pleasuring you... 668 01:09:02,771 --> 01:09:04,864 You'd be desperately jealous. 669 01:09:05,841 --> 01:09:11,871 Perhaps, but at least not humiliated. 670 01:09:18,354 --> 01:09:20,914 Does her title excite you? 671 01:09:22,358 --> 01:09:25,657 Be quiet! She's a great lady. 672 01:09:25,794 --> 01:09:30,663 If you knew her, you'd keep quiet! She's way above you. 673 01:10:01,096 --> 01:10:04,930 It's light. I've exhausted you. 674 01:10:05,067 --> 01:10:07,968 My young friend, one doesn't need sleep at my age. 675 01:10:08,103 --> 01:10:11,300 I spent many a sleepless night in my youth. 676 01:10:12,508 --> 01:10:16,342 Fireside chats are the ballroom follies of old age. 677 01:10:16,478 --> 01:10:21,916 And now I know everything about the husband I chose for Hermangarde. 678 01:10:24,954 --> 01:10:27,787 You gave me the self-assurance I lacked. 679 01:10:28,390 --> 01:10:32,292 You trusted me when they all scorned Ryno de Marigny. 680 01:10:33,996 --> 01:10:36,760 My own family never understood who I was, 681 01:10:36,899 --> 01:10:39,299 or what I could become. 682 01:10:42,238 --> 01:10:43,535 Thank you. 683 01:10:47,476 --> 01:10:51,105 You're my real mother. 684 01:10:52,348 --> 01:10:56,250 I love you like a son... I never felt that for my mother. 685 01:10:57,453 --> 01:10:59,250 I love Hermangarde more than anything. 686 01:10:59,388 --> 01:11:03,415 I know! My granddaughter is my greatest treasure. 687 01:11:03,559 --> 01:11:06,551 I'm glad I didn't oppose your happiness, 688 01:11:06,695 --> 01:11:08,993 or Hermangarde's! 689 01:11:34,523 --> 01:11:37,981 He had the nerve to tell her his whole story, 690 01:11:38,260 --> 01:11:40,228 he reveled in it! 691 01:11:41,263 --> 01:11:43,561 My dear, as I always said, it's the perverse influence 692 01:11:43,699 --> 01:11:48,659 of over-provocative novels 693 01:11:48,804 --> 01:11:51,102 on female common sense! 694 01:12:29,878 --> 01:12:32,108 Here's the text chosen by the bride and groom, 695 01:12:32,247 --> 01:12:34,647 from the gospel according to St Matthew 696 01:12:34,917 --> 01:12:36,578 Some Pharisees came to Jesus and tested him, saying 697 01:12:36,719 --> 01:12:38,744 "May a man divorce his wife for any cause he pleases?" 698 01:12:38,887 --> 01:12:40,377 He answered 699 01:12:40,522 --> 01:12:43,218 "Have you not read, that the Creator 700 01:12:43,359 --> 01:12:44,826 made them male and female and said, 701 01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:47,656 a man leaves his father and mother, 702 01:12:47,930 --> 01:12:51,093 to be united to his wife and become one flesh." 703 01:12:51,233 --> 01:12:54,669 "They are no longer two, but one flesh." 704 01:12:55,170 --> 01:12:57,900 "What God has united, let not man separate." 705 01:12:58,040 --> 01:12:59,098 They objected 706 01:12:59,241 --> 01:13:01,436 "Why did Moses say a man may divorce his wife with a letter?" 707 01:13:01,844 --> 01:13:02,811 He said to them 708 01:13:02,945 --> 01:13:07,575 "Your stubbornness is why Moses let you divorce your wives." 709 01:13:07,716 --> 01:13:08,705 "But in the beginning it was not so." 710 01:13:08,851 --> 01:13:12,218 "A man may only divorce his wife for unchastity." 711 01:13:12,354 --> 01:13:14,652 "If he marries another, it is adultery." 712 01:13:14,923 --> 01:13:18,120 Some disciples said "If it is so for a man and his wife, 713 01:13:18,260 --> 01:13:21,855 it is best not to marry." 714 01:13:22,231 --> 01:13:23,357 He said to them 715 01:13:23,499 --> 01:13:27,765 "Only those God appointed can accept this." 716 01:13:27,903 --> 01:13:30,337 "Some men are born eunuchs from their mother's womb." 717 01:13:30,472 --> 01:13:32,064 "Others were made so by men." 718 01:13:32,808 --> 01:13:35,936 "Others became eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven." 719 01:13:36,078 --> 01:13:39,070 "Let those accept it who can." 720 01:13:39,214 --> 01:13:42,809 "Imitate me, as I imitate Christ." 721 01:13:42,951 --> 01:13:44,680 "But know that Christ is the head of all men, 722 01:13:47,589 --> 01:13:50,490 as a husband is the head of his wife, and God the head of Christ." 723 01:13:50,793 --> 01:13:54,285 "Any man who prays with his head covered 724 01:13:54,596 --> 01:13:56,621 brings shame upon his head." 725 01:13:56,765 --> 01:13:58,824 "Any woman who prays with her head unveiled 726 01:13:58,967 --> 01:14:02,061 brings shame on her head, as if it had been shaved." 727 01:14:02,204 --> 01:14:04,331 "A woman who is unveiled, is as if shorn." 728 01:14:04,473 --> 01:14:08,102 "If it is shameful for her to be shorn, 729 01:14:08,243 --> 01:14:09,642 she should wear a veil." 730 01:14:09,778 --> 01:14:11,905 "A man must not cover his head, 731 01:14:12,047 --> 01:14:14,140 for he is the image and glory of God, 732 01:14:14,283 --> 01:14:19,277 but woman is the glory of man." 733 01:14:19,421 --> 01:14:23,118 "Man did not come from woman, 734 01:14:23,258 --> 01:14:25,783 but woman from man." 735 01:14:25,928 --> 01:14:28,158 "Man was not created for woman, 736 01:14:28,297 --> 01:14:32,256 but woman for man." 737 01:14:32,401 --> 01:14:35,268 "A woman must have 738 01:14:35,404 --> 01:14:40,432 a sign of authority on her head, 739 01:14:40,576 --> 01:14:43,136 out of regard for the angels." 740 01:14:43,779 --> 01:14:46,680 Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians. 741 01:15:48,076 --> 01:15:49,566 How the sea rises! 742 01:15:49,778 --> 01:15:53,145 The spring tide. M. De Marigny will have forgotten. 743 01:15:53,482 --> 01:15:56,747 If they are too tardy, how they will get back? 744 01:15:57,085 --> 01:15:59,110 You're still not concerned? 745 01:15:59,254 --> 01:16:01,245 I hope they don't catch cold. 746 01:16:03,225 --> 01:16:07,059 Did you do as I did, Marquise? You wrote to someone? 747 01:16:07,195 --> 01:16:09,095 I see a letter in your hands. 748 01:16:09,665 --> 01:16:11,929 To whom would I write, my dear? 749 01:16:12,067 --> 01:16:15,161 To Viscount de Prony, like you, to admonish him! 750 01:16:15,404 --> 01:16:19,670 This letter you see is neither from me, nor to me. 751 01:16:19,808 --> 01:16:23,175 It's for M. De Marigny, and was just handed to me. 752 01:16:25,380 --> 01:16:28,076 - Is it from Paris? - Yes, it is. 753 01:16:28,383 --> 01:16:30,715 You know this handwriting? 754 01:16:38,727 --> 01:16:42,754 Marquise, what an awful scribble! 755 01:16:42,931 --> 01:16:45,331 I know no one who writes like that. 756 01:16:47,803 --> 01:16:49,794 It's a woman's handwriting. 757 01:16:49,938 --> 01:16:51,303 A washerwoman's! 758 01:16:51,440 --> 01:16:54,307 Washerwomen don't fold their letters like this, 759 01:16:54,443 --> 01:16:57,105 or possess seals like this one. Look! 760 01:17:00,882 --> 01:17:02,440 My God! 761 01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:10,724 Could it be that his old mistress, who has been silent until now, 762 01:17:10,859 --> 01:17:12,190 has changed her mind? 763 01:17:12,327 --> 01:17:13,817 It would seem likely! 764 01:17:13,996 --> 01:17:17,932 She lay low for four months and now springs back to life! 765 01:17:18,066 --> 01:17:19,590 Quite astute of her. 766 01:17:19,735 --> 01:17:25,071 She thinks by now the joy of a lovely young wife has worn off. 767 01:17:25,207 --> 01:17:29,405 A big mistake! He's still deeply in love with his wife, 768 01:17:29,544 --> 01:17:31,034 she's wasting her time. 769 01:17:31,179 --> 01:17:34,148 Coming from you, this confidence reassures me. 770 01:17:34,282 --> 01:17:36,682 Yes, be reassured. 771 01:17:37,052 --> 01:17:40,920 Let's both be reassured! What's a letter after all? 772 01:17:42,991 --> 01:17:44,322 There they are. 773 01:17:47,396 --> 01:17:50,422 We were caught by the tide. We came back by boat. 774 01:17:50,565 --> 01:17:53,830 You're soaked! Get warm by the fire. 775 01:17:53,969 --> 01:17:56,199 If you fall ill, where will we be then! 776 01:17:57,305 --> 01:18:00,672 I'm not cold. I have to get used to the breeze, 777 01:18:00,809 --> 01:18:03,300 now I'm the wife of a man who loves the sea. 778 01:18:03,645 --> 01:18:07,638 M. De Marigny, I was given a letter for you from Paris. 779 01:18:09,985 --> 01:18:11,213 Thank you. 780 01:19:07,175 --> 01:19:08,767 Why did you come here? 781 01:19:10,412 --> 01:19:12,403 Because it pleased me to. 782 01:19:13,048 --> 01:19:16,245 Isn't the open air as much mine as anyone's? 783 01:19:17,986 --> 01:19:19,977 I came here because I was bored 784 01:19:21,223 --> 01:19:23,953 with not seeing you, 785 01:19:24,626 --> 01:19:27,322 because you didn't reply to my letters. 786 01:19:30,832 --> 01:19:33,198 Why did you pursue me here? 787 01:19:33,735 --> 01:19:37,068 If I feel like living on these shores, 788 01:19:37,205 --> 01:19:39,605 spending my days on this cliff... 789 01:19:40,308 --> 01:19:43,709 Doesn't it all belong to me as much as to you? 790 01:19:44,012 --> 01:19:45,570 What are you afraid of? 791 01:19:48,049 --> 01:19:51,985 Deep down you're unsure of yourself. 792 01:19:53,822 --> 01:19:57,883 I like this place, and I want to live here. 793 01:20:00,061 --> 01:20:03,155 If I'm not wanted, go away! 794 01:20:03,899 --> 01:20:07,665 As for me, I'm taking possession of it today. 795 01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:14,174 It could be said that I came here like a beggar, 796 01:20:14,309 --> 01:20:18,336 to plead for a glance from the sovereign, 797 01:20:18,480 --> 01:20:25,443 who... banished me... 798 01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:35,254 If I betrayed the love of my life, I'd hate myself. 799 01:20:35,397 --> 01:20:36,921 So would you... 800 01:20:38,366 --> 01:20:43,065 If you refuse to put your arms for a minute around your Malaguena, 801 01:20:43,205 --> 01:20:44,968 you'd better kill me, 802 01:20:47,742 --> 01:20:49,710 At least then I'd feel no more pain. 803 01:20:50,645 --> 01:20:52,237 What are you waiting for? 804 01:20:52,848 --> 01:20:54,907 We're alone up here! 805 01:20:56,084 --> 01:20:57,676 See, there's no one! 806 01:20:58,153 --> 01:21:00,383 Take up your gun! 807 01:21:03,725 --> 01:21:04,783 You see... 808 01:21:06,595 --> 01:21:10,122 If anyone hears, you missed a seagull. 809 01:21:12,734 --> 01:21:14,224 If I fall into the sea, 810 01:21:14,536 --> 01:21:18,905 you'll be sure to be faithful. Shoot! 811 01:21:21,309 --> 01:21:22,674 You're mad! 812 01:22:19,734 --> 01:22:21,326 Not now! 813 01:22:24,739 --> 01:22:25,763 She's asleep. 814 01:22:33,815 --> 01:22:35,510 Be good. 815 01:22:37,819 --> 01:22:41,915 One kiss! One kiss first! 816 01:22:43,959 --> 01:22:45,290 A real one! 817 01:23:03,945 --> 01:23:05,913 Weren't you to take the dogs out? 818 01:23:22,364 --> 01:23:24,195 Did Ryno wake you, Grandmother? 819 01:23:24,432 --> 01:23:28,459 No, my child, your husband did not wake me. I wasn't asleep. 820 01:23:32,941 --> 01:23:35,000 Are you really leaving us? 821 01:23:35,143 --> 01:23:39,239 Winter is coming. Dampness doesn't agree with rheumatism. 822 01:23:41,349 --> 01:23:43,283 I love this place, I'm happy here. 823 01:23:43,418 --> 01:23:45,886 But I love you more than any place. 824 01:23:47,455 --> 01:23:50,083 If I ask him, Ryno will return to Paris. 825 01:23:50,225 --> 01:23:52,022 Make sure you don't! 826 01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:56,722 You don't yet know, my sweet, how fragile is a woman's happiness. 827 01:23:56,865 --> 01:23:58,628 Ryno idolizes you. 828 01:23:58,767 --> 01:24:02,396 Here, what would he love, if not you? But in Paris, 829 01:24:02,737 --> 01:24:06,798 there are so many distractions, and for a woman who is loved, 830 01:24:06,941 --> 01:24:09,171 every distraction is a mortal enemy. 831 01:24:10,945 --> 01:24:12,742 You're right, grandmother. 832 01:24:13,148 --> 01:24:16,379 No woman owns the key to a man's heart for long. 833 01:24:17,352 --> 01:24:19,513 But if you miss us, send word, and we'll return to Paris. 834 01:24:19,654 --> 01:24:21,246 Have a good trip. 835 01:24:27,829 --> 01:24:31,356 There's no handsomer couple in all Paris! 836 01:25:26,254 --> 01:25:27,653 Ryno! 837 01:25:29,924 --> 01:25:31,983 Not so fast! 838 01:25:55,917 --> 01:25:58,442 I didn't realize you weren't following. 839 01:26:13,935 --> 01:26:15,664 I'm so silly. 840 01:26:28,850 --> 01:26:31,910 - Well, doctor? - Madame de Marigny is pregnant. 841 01:26:45,466 --> 01:26:48,026 As of now, I forbid you to get on a horse. 842 01:26:53,575 --> 01:26:57,409 Do you realize, when I think of it, I break into a cold sweat... 843 01:27:08,656 --> 01:27:10,317 It's my son! 844 01:28:07,982 --> 01:28:09,973 Madame may catch cold. 845 01:28:10,685 --> 01:28:12,550 It is unwise in your state. 846 01:28:12,720 --> 01:28:16,281 It's lovely weather. I need fresh air. 847 01:28:34,375 --> 01:28:37,674 Keep covered, the weather changes fast here. 848 01:28:38,346 --> 01:28:40,337 I'm a grown woman! 849 01:28:45,653 --> 01:28:49,851 Why, it's the lady of the manor, the Marquise's daughter! 850 01:28:55,163 --> 01:28:58,326 Old Griffon! 851 01:28:58,566 --> 01:29:01,729 Who's that woman sitting on a pile of ropes? 852 01:29:03,171 --> 01:29:06,698 You don't know her? Everyone around here knows her now. 853 01:29:08,509 --> 01:29:12,343 Often, she comes fishing with us. 854 01:31:01,823 --> 01:31:05,384 You're even handsomer than when I first saw you. 855 01:31:05,960 --> 01:31:08,656 And now we're reunited. 856 01:31:08,796 --> 01:31:09,820 Be quiet! 857 01:32:02,683 --> 01:32:08,417 Talk, if you want... Say what you want. 858 01:32:10,291 --> 01:32:12,782 It's only too true that I came. 859 01:32:21,669 --> 01:32:23,296 As God is my witness, 860 01:32:24,939 --> 01:32:27,635 you're the cause of more kisses, 861 01:32:29,343 --> 01:32:32,369 of more tenderness for Hermangarde than I'd have given her 862 01:32:32,513 --> 01:32:34,572 if you hadn't existed! 863 01:32:40,054 --> 01:32:41,646 I kissed her like a drowning man 864 01:32:43,624 --> 01:32:47,492 clings to a floating log. 865 01:33:02,910 --> 01:33:05,003 They say that in battle, 866 01:33:06,347 --> 01:33:10,579 when thoroughbred horses are lightly injured by a bayonet, 867 01:33:15,323 --> 01:33:17,848 a mysterious attraction for pain 868 01:33:19,160 --> 01:33:21,594 urges them forward to 869 01:33:22,697 --> 01:33:25,427 impale themselves right to the heart. 870 01:33:30,671 --> 01:33:33,071 It's the same with you, 871 01:33:34,342 --> 01:33:36,970 since the day I saw you again. 872 01:35:18,646 --> 01:35:19,977 Is that my horse? 873 01:35:20,614 --> 01:35:26,678 It's just the wind. Don't leave me. It's the wind. 874 01:35:54,048 --> 01:35:55,572 It's the wind. 875 01:35:58,886 --> 01:36:01,013 It can't be her! 876 01:36:35,022 --> 01:36:37,252 You see, there's no one! 877 01:36:37,658 --> 01:36:39,455 Come back inside. 878 01:40:51,545 --> 01:40:53,479 Rebuke me. 879 01:41:02,289 --> 01:41:04,416 Tell me what you're thinking. 880 01:41:11,565 --> 01:41:16,025 You're worrying for nothing. Everything is fine. 881 01:41:37,124 --> 01:41:39,718 The worst is this silence. 882 01:41:55,742 --> 01:42:00,111 In fact, no. I was thinking of Countess de Mendoze. 883 01:42:02,916 --> 01:42:04,884 You knew she died? 884 01:42:12,993 --> 01:42:15,484 Is she happier where she is now? 885 01:42:20,467 --> 01:42:23,129 You mean I kill everyone close to me. 886 01:42:24,538 --> 01:42:26,563 I didn't say that. 887 01:42:38,785 --> 01:42:41,720 There's something terrible in my fate! 888 01:42:42,356 --> 01:42:44,324 I always knew it. 889 01:43:03,844 --> 01:43:08,110 After a year and a half of uncertainty, I have just now 890 01:43:08,248 --> 01:43:16,815 received the proof of something I had calculated and foreseen, 891 01:43:17,291 --> 01:43:19,953 as one calculates an eclipse. 892 01:43:20,294 --> 01:43:24,321 In fact, it is also an eclipse. 893 01:43:24,464 --> 01:43:26,091 That paragon of husbands, Monsieur de Marigny... 894 01:43:26,233 --> 01:43:27,996 Monsieur de Marigny? 895 01:43:28,135 --> 01:43:30,069 ...has done like the dog in the Bible. He has returned... 896 01:43:30,204 --> 01:43:32,001 you know where? 897 01:43:32,539 --> 01:43:34,939 What you're saying is most unsavory! 898 01:43:35,075 --> 01:43:36,702 Saying isn't doing! 899 01:43:36,843 --> 01:43:40,643 Let's see... It's Ten o�clock exactly. 900 01:43:40,814 --> 01:43:44,807 Where do you think Monsieur de Marigny is now? 901 01:43:45,652 --> 01:43:49,349 That genius of conjugal love! 902 01:43:49,489 --> 01:43:51,218 My God! 903 01:43:51,925 --> 01:43:56,157 So my poor friend the Marquise de Flers did well to die. 904 01:43:56,296 --> 01:44:00,733 He's at 46 Rue des Carmes, 905 01:44:00,867 --> 01:44:02,528 at Senora Vellini's. 906 01:44:02,669 --> 01:44:04,193 Are you sure of this? 907 01:44:04,471 --> 01:44:08,032 He was at the Opera last night with his wife. 908 01:44:08,175 --> 01:44:11,338 He left around the same time I did... 909 01:44:11,478 --> 01:44:14,572 I saw him get into his carriage under the arches, 910 01:44:14,715 --> 01:44:17,013 it was after Act Two. 911 01:44:17,150 --> 01:44:19,846 He left Madame de Marigny in her box, 912 01:44:19,987 --> 01:44:23,514 with Madame de Spaur and Madame de Vanvres. 913 01:44:23,657 --> 01:44:26,285 What proves he went to Rue de Carmes? 914 01:44:26,426 --> 01:44:28,951 I saw him enter her house myself! 915 01:44:29,696 --> 01:44:33,188 His carriage parked in front of the door 916 01:44:33,734 --> 01:44:38,330 testified to the fact to anyone who passed by. 917 01:44:39,640 --> 01:44:44,168 Monsieur de Marigny does not like secrecy. 918 01:44:46,113 --> 01:44:50,311 What I like about him is that, if one day he's a government minister, 919 01:44:50,450 --> 01:44:54,181 he'll revel in being unpopular. 920 01:44:54,921 --> 01:44:58,755 I know of no man who defies opinion better than he! 921 01:44:58,892 --> 01:45:00,689 Just like a man! 922 01:45:01,161 --> 01:45:04,619 And yet... You needn't believe me, Monsieur de Prony, 923 01:45:05,365 --> 01:45:09,199 but I swear he was madly in love with Hermangarde. 924 01:45:09,936 --> 01:45:13,372 I witnessed that love, and I'll never forget it. 925 01:45:13,740 --> 01:45:16,004 That's just as well, Countess. 926 01:45:16,243 --> 01:45:18,438 That way, at least someone will remember. 927 01:45:19,146 --> 01:45:23,207 For he probably no longer does.