1 00:00:38,031 --> 00:00:38,868 Hello, sir. 2 00:00:40,174 --> 00:00:41,972 Glad to see you, but I thought you were at Mapledurham. 3 00:00:42,717 --> 00:00:43,965 Oh, I just brought this up. 4 00:00:45,304 --> 00:00:46,323 It's a Chardin. 5 00:00:46,527 --> 00:00:47,573 I say. 6 00:00:47,689 --> 00:00:48,455 It will go well with your Fragonard. 7 00:00:50,710 --> 00:00:52,100 How's Fleur? Restless. 8 00:00:53,497 --> 00:00:54,012 Oh? 9 00:00:54,511 --> 00:00:55,427 With this libel case out of the way... 10 00:00:55,851 --> 00:00:56,867 that's just it. 11 00:00:57,499 --> 00:00:58,843 We're being cold-shouldered. 12 00:00:59,763 --> 00:01:00,523 Why? 13 00:01:00,931 --> 00:01:02,420 You won. Exactly. 14 00:01:03,266 --> 00:01:05,199 People resent moral superiority. 15 00:01:07,719 --> 00:01:08,518 What's that? 16 00:01:12,153 --> 00:01:13,133 Well, I resent it myself. 17 00:01:13,333 --> 00:01:15,418 Yes, well, you see, attacking modern morality 18 00:01:15,618 --> 00:01:17,845 was a good stunt with the judge and the jury, 19 00:01:18,333 --> 00:01:20,531 and so on, but in society... 20 00:01:20,631 --> 00:01:22,469 oh, society! Well, I know, sir, but it's what we live in. 21 00:01:24,189 --> 00:01:27,629 Oh, I don't mind. God knows I'm used to ridicule. 22 00:01:28,748 --> 00:01:29,525 Over foggartism. 23 00:01:31,301 --> 00:01:32,055 But Fleur... 24 00:01:32,818 --> 00:01:33,873 she ought to have more gumption. 25 00:01:34,393 --> 00:01:35,770 Yes, but society's her game, you know. 26 00:01:40,792 --> 00:01:42,417 She wants me to take her round the world. 27 00:01:43,921 --> 00:01:44,616 Round the...? 28 00:01:45,073 --> 00:01:46,281 Well, I know it's probably the very thing for her, 29 00:01:46,841 --> 00:01:47,969 something dramatic. 30 00:01:48,473 --> 00:01:49,561 What's the matter with st. Moritz? 31 00:01:50,105 --> 00:01:51,641 No. It's the world or nothing. 32 00:01:52,889 --> 00:01:54,106 And I can't go, sir. 33 00:01:54,633 --> 00:01:55,842 Not until the House rises in august. 34 00:01:56,953 --> 00:01:59,317 I should feel like a deserter, and that wouldn't be good 35 00:01:59,517 --> 00:02:00,978 for either of us in the long run. 36 00:02:01,567 --> 00:02:02,932 How can she think of leaving that little chap? 37 00:02:03,453 --> 00:02:04,348 That shows how desperate she is. 38 00:02:04,963 --> 00:02:05,972 Have you told her you won't go? 39 00:02:07,259 --> 00:02:08,252 Five minutes ago. 40 00:02:09,243 --> 00:02:11,308 It's taken me a week to decide finally. 41 00:02:12,196 --> 00:02:13,308 A pretty wretched week. 42 00:02:15,820 --> 00:02:16,996 Well, she went in for collecting people, 43 00:02:18,237 --> 00:02:19,677 and now she's lost her collection. 44 00:02:20,573 --> 00:02:22,271 Where is she? In her bedroom. 45 00:02:23,113 --> 00:02:24,475 Shall you go up? 46 00:02:25,883 --> 00:02:27,411 Yes. Yes, I will. 47 00:02:32,199 --> 00:02:34,744 Mind you. I think you're right to stick to your runs. 48 00:02:49,118 --> 00:02:50,166 Hello. 49 00:02:56,677 --> 00:02:58,110 Tired, my child? 50 00:03:01,173 --> 00:03:04,502 Michael tells me you want him to take you round the world. 51 00:03:07,159 --> 00:03:08,383 Well, he can't. 52 00:03:08,927 --> 00:03:10,326 So that ends it. 53 00:03:12,445 --> 00:03:13,878 Those jackanapes. 54 00:03:18,105 --> 00:03:19,757 Where do you feel it exactly? 55 00:03:22,966 --> 00:03:24,038 In my head, in my eyes... 56 00:03:25,414 --> 00:03:27,302 in my ears and in my heart. 57 00:03:31,802 --> 00:03:32,444 Oh. 58 00:03:34,499 --> 00:03:35,516 What business have they got that...? 59 00:03:36,395 --> 00:03:37,708 Why should they poke their noses in? 60 00:03:39,203 --> 00:03:42,556 Supercilious, shallow set of society monkeys. 61 00:03:46,669 --> 00:03:48,061 And I don't see how I can take you. 62 00:03:49,244 --> 00:03:50,715 Of course not, duckie. 63 00:03:51,939 --> 00:03:53,275 I shall get used to being laughed at. 64 00:03:54,691 --> 00:03:55,620 Laughed at? 65 00:03:56,300 --> 00:03:57,676 I don't see why you should. 66 00:04:00,716 --> 00:04:02,004 I suppose people do go round the world. 67 00:04:03,022 --> 00:04:04,105 Why, yes, but not you, duckie. 68 00:04:04,536 --> 00:04:05,873 You'd be bored stiff. 69 00:04:06,409 --> 00:04:08,895 It's sweet of you to even think of it, but I couldn't possibly 70 00:04:09,383 --> 00:04:10,672 let you go, not at your age. 71 00:04:11,319 --> 00:04:12,464 My age? I'm no age to speak of. 72 00:04:13,016 --> 00:04:15,310 I know, but... well, no, no, that won't do. 73 00:04:15,672 --> 00:04:16,886 If people can't behave themselves, I'll... 74 00:04:19,126 --> 00:04:20,214 No, I'll show them. 75 00:04:22,735 --> 00:04:23,806 We'll go. 76 00:04:24,406 --> 00:04:25,501 Yes. 77 00:04:27,021 --> 00:04:28,245 No, no, now don't make a fuss. 78 00:04:29,261 --> 00:04:30,285 You are a dream. 79 00:04:30,806 --> 00:04:32,614 Nonsense. Yes. 80 00:04:33,118 --> 00:04:34,382 There's one thing certain, anyway. 81 00:04:34,845 --> 00:04:37,046 That red-haired baggage, she won't be going round the world. 82 00:04:44,776 --> 00:04:47,336 Well, Marjorie, I see you brought that case into court. 83 00:04:48,128 --> 00:04:48,936 I had to. 84 00:04:49,928 --> 00:04:51,191 Ah, just as I thought. 85 00:04:52,008 --> 00:04:53,487 No reaction whatever. 86 00:04:53,952 --> 00:04:55,311 The italians are wrong. 87 00:04:57,048 --> 00:04:58,431 Tell me, why? 88 00:04:59,056 --> 00:05:00,136 Common honesty. 89 00:05:00,624 --> 00:05:02,128 I read your evidence, if that's what you mean. 90 00:05:02,736 --> 00:05:04,040 No. I wanted to find out where I stood. 91 00:05:04,568 --> 00:05:05,748 Did you? Very much so. 92 00:05:06,068 --> 00:05:07,278 Are you still going to be married? 93 00:05:07,766 --> 00:05:08,550 No. 94 00:05:09,366 --> 00:05:10,462 Oh. Whose doing? 95 00:05:10,886 --> 00:05:12,364 His or yours ? 96 00:05:13,045 --> 00:05:15,009 He said he would still marry me if I told him everything. 97 00:05:15,498 --> 00:05:16,506 I didn't choose to. 98 00:05:16,938 --> 00:05:18,040 Is there much to tell? 99 00:05:18,697 --> 00:05:19,712 A good deal. 100 00:05:20,649 --> 00:05:21,817 So you don't choose to be married. 101 00:05:22,377 --> 00:05:24,594 And now you won't be well off after all. 102 00:05:25,641 --> 00:05:26,633 Pity. 103 00:05:27,186 --> 00:05:28,627 But I think you were right. 104 00:05:30,700 --> 00:05:32,001 How much do you owe? 105 00:05:32,482 --> 00:05:33,942 Well, I... no hear taps. 106 00:05:34,415 --> 00:05:35,579 Very well, then, about 5000. 107 00:05:36,997 --> 00:05:38,291 A good deal of it was due to my engagement. 108 00:05:38,835 --> 00:05:39,875 The credit gushed like oil. 109 00:05:40,292 --> 00:05:42,748 Yes, I dare say Have you a list of your debts? 110 00:05:46,246 --> 00:05:47,420 Thank you. 111 00:05:50,242 --> 00:05:52,601 Your grandmother's clothes cost a fifth of yours, 112 00:05:53,305 --> 00:05:55,034 for five times the acreage. 113 00:05:55,897 --> 00:05:57,681 You wear nothing nowadays, but the cost... 114 00:05:58,129 --> 00:06:00,185 ah, but the less there is, the better it has to be cut, you know. 115 00:06:00,905 --> 00:06:02,265 Have you any plans? 116 00:06:02,898 --> 00:06:04,201 I thought of going on the stage. 117 00:06:04,754 --> 00:06:06,489 Well, I suppose that might be suitable. 118 00:06:07,137 --> 00:06:08,664 Can you act? I'm no Bernhardt. 119 00:06:08,887 --> 00:06:10,721 Oh, Bernhardt.Talented, of course, 120 00:06:10,950 --> 00:06:13,296 but for great acting one must go back to history. 121 00:06:13,781 --> 00:06:16,976 Well, if I'm to clear you, I shall have to sell the Gainsborough. 122 00:06:17,282 --> 00:06:17,910 Oh, no, I... 123 00:06:18,195 --> 00:06:19,885 the question is, Marjorie, 124 00:06:20,748 --> 00:06:23,459 whether it's possible to strike a bargain with you. 125 00:06:24,163 --> 00:06:25,596 Have you a word to keep? 126 00:06:26,003 --> 00:06:27,582 I think so. It depends on what I have to promise. 127 00:06:28,591 --> 00:06:29,991 But I don't want you to sell the Gainsborough. 128 00:06:30,551 --> 00:06:31,807 Times are hard. 129 00:06:32,270 --> 00:06:34,134 I've got an invention that ought to make my fortune, 130 00:06:34,637 --> 00:06:35,662 but nobody will look at it. 131 00:06:36,174 --> 00:06:37,101 I'll manage somehow. 132 00:06:37,621 --> 00:06:38,941 Oh, not under a burden like this. 133 00:06:39,621 --> 00:06:42,614 But with that hair, you ought to have some stuff in you. 134 00:06:43,598 --> 00:06:45,463 Do you really think you could earn your living? 135 00:06:45,942 --> 00:06:47,882 Yes. Very well then. 136 00:06:48,511 --> 00:06:49,828 I'll make a bargain with you. 137 00:06:50,919 --> 00:06:55,159 If I clear your debts, will you give me your word to pay ready money in future? 138 00:06:55,677 --> 00:07:01,054 I want the word of a lady, if you understand what that is. 139 00:07:01,582 --> 00:07:02,823 I suppose you have every right to say that. 140 00:07:03,518 --> 00:07:04,734 Oh, but the Gainsborough... 141 00:07:04,903 --> 00:07:05,882 you must leave that to me. 142 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:07,124 Will you promise? 143 00:07:07,910 --> 00:07:09,234 Yes, I promise. 144 00:07:09,746 --> 00:07:10,691 Good. 145 00:07:11,266 --> 00:07:14,661 I'd like to ask you not to cheapen our name any further, 146 00:07:15,123 --> 00:07:18,184 but...well, the spirit of the age is against me. 147 00:07:18,544 --> 00:07:19,312 Grandfather, I feel... 148 00:07:19,728 --> 00:07:21,600 now don't start saying something you don't mean. 149 00:07:22,177 --> 00:07:23,881 I'd just like to add one thing. 150 00:07:24,937 --> 00:07:28,145 I'm 80, and you're what, 26? 151 00:07:29,192 --> 00:07:29,757 Am I a bore? 152 00:07:29,957 --> 00:07:32,172 Far from it. What you must have been like at 40. 153 00:07:32,241 --> 00:07:33,141 Very, well. 154 00:07:34,483 --> 00:07:36,118 Don't get through life too fast. 155 00:07:36,854 --> 00:07:39,238 You'll be dreadfully bored by the time you're 50. 156 00:07:39,886 --> 00:07:43,894 And believe me, there's no greater bore than a bored woman. 157 00:07:46,511 --> 00:07:47,822 Goodbye. 158 00:07:48,310 --> 00:07:50,294 Goodbye, grandfather, and thank you. 159 00:07:55,878 --> 00:07:56,974 Hussy! 160 00:07:57,558 --> 00:07:59,526 Oh, well, I suppose they're all alike. 161 00:08:28,316 --> 00:08:30,127 Thanks awfully, and could you let us have our bill? 162 00:08:30,327 --> 00:08:30,725 Thank you. 163 00:08:31,798 --> 00:08:33,765 Thanks a well. That sounds awfully like home. 164 00:08:34,345 --> 00:08:34,971 Hello. 165 00:08:35,405 --> 00:08:37,060 Are you all english? Yes, well, I am but... 166 00:08:37,207 --> 00:08:38,037 and I am. 167 00:08:38,315 --> 00:08:39,643 And I'm not, except by marriage. 168 00:08:40,123 --> 00:08:41,480 Doesn't that count? I hope so. 169 00:08:41,669 --> 00:08:42,716 Oh, thank you. 170 00:08:47,589 --> 00:08:49,022 Oh, fleur. 171 00:08:50,831 --> 00:08:52,695 I don't feel quite the thing. 172 00:08:53,806 --> 00:08:54,839 I think I'll just go back to my room. 173 00:08:55,567 --> 00:08:56,550 What is it? Are you ill? 174 00:08:56,959 --> 00:08:58,366 I don't know. I feel giddy. 175 00:08:58,515 --> 00:09:00,307 Giddy? Yes, give me your arm. 176 00:09:01,577 --> 00:09:02,930 I've been doing too much, 177 00:09:03,610 --> 00:09:05,290 or else it's that confounded cookery. 178 00:09:05,778 --> 00:09:08,066 Now don't make a fuss. It's just a turn. 179 00:09:08,547 --> 00:09:10,099 Well, what you must do is go upstairs and lie down. 180 00:09:10,626 --> 00:09:11,634 I'll send for a doctor. 181 00:09:12,162 --> 00:09:14,151 Doctor? No such thing. Touch of liver, that's all. 182 00:09:17,850 --> 00:09:19,091 Have you been over here long? 183 00:09:19,317 --> 00:09:21,866 Only a week, I'm afraid. I came to fetch my wife and her father. 184 00:09:22,281 --> 00:09:24,036 We leave for new york tomorrow and then home. 185 00:09:25,044 --> 00:09:26,259 And what have you liked best over here? 186 00:09:26,482 --> 00:09:27,956 In washington? Mount vernon, of course. 187 00:09:27,972 --> 00:09:29,035 Because it's british colonial? 188 00:09:29,335 --> 00:09:30,502 Oh, Anne, come on. Well, perhaps. 189 00:09:30,868 --> 00:09:33,282 No, the Adams memorial at Rock Creek cemetery. 190 00:09:33,437 --> 00:09:36,382 It's magnificent. Everlasting stillness.Great and sad. 191 00:09:37,166 --> 00:09:38,900 It makes me sink, here. 192 00:09:39,367 --> 00:09:41,215 That's almost exactly what my wife say which reminds me, 193 00:09:41,415 --> 00:09:43,195 I think better go and find them, will you excuse me? 194 00:09:43,379 --> 00:09:44,202 Goodbye. 195 00:09:45,169 --> 00:09:46,299 I liked him. 196 00:09:46,876 --> 00:09:47,953 Why didn't you ask his name, Jon? 197 00:09:48,462 --> 00:09:49,680 Oh, it never occurred to me. 198 00:09:50,264 --> 00:09:51,440 It never does, to an englishman. 199 00:09:51,976 --> 00:09:53,120 Why on earth not? 200 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:54,832 Well, supposing he didn't want to know us? 201 00:09:55,368 --> 00:09:56,352 What nonsense. 202 00:09:57,216 --> 00:09:58,384 Ah, thank you. 203 00:09:59,089 --> 00:10:00,279 You'll get used to it, Anne. 204 00:10:00,839 --> 00:10:01,783 England is a small, overcrowded island. 205 00:10:02,432 --> 00:10:04,272 Privacy is hard to come by, so englishmen cherish it. 206 00:10:04,471 --> 00:10:05,517 Anyway, what's the point? 207 00:10:05,717 --> 00:10:06,982 They're leaving tomorrow. We shan't see him again. 208 00:10:07,936 --> 00:10:08,970 But that is the point! 209 00:10:09,070 --> 00:10:10,261 we'll be in England ourselves in a couple of weeks. 210 00:10:10,906 --> 00:10:12,090 Come on, I'm hungry. 211 00:10:16,242 --> 00:10:18,218 Daddy, you're quite sure you don't mind us going? 212 00:10:18,858 --> 00:10:19,921 Certainly not. 213 00:10:20,354 --> 00:10:21,481 You mustn't waste the tickets. 214 00:10:21,906 --> 00:10:23,066 Would you like some brandy, sir? 215 00:10:23,254 --> 00:10:25,272 I can get some on a doctor's prescription. Yes, now, brandy would really do you... 216 00:10:25,660 --> 00:10:26,571 no, no, don't fuss. 217 00:10:29,235 --> 00:10:30,315 Are you packed? 218 00:10:31,587 --> 00:10:32,749 Nearly. 219 00:10:33,356 --> 00:10:35,979 Well, don't be late back. It's an early start. 220 00:10:36,145 --> 00:10:37,319 All right, sir. 221 00:10:37,519 --> 00:10:37,989 Go on. 222 00:10:40,809 --> 00:10:42,581 Oh, did Michael tell you he met some english people downstairs? 223 00:10:44,489 --> 00:10:45,221 No. 224 00:10:46,152 --> 00:10:48,203 What was their names ? Silly old thing, he forgot to ask. 225 00:10:48,689 --> 00:10:49,984 Oh, they didn't ask me mine, either. 226 00:10:51,448 --> 00:10:53,113 As for you, are you quite sure you don't mind us going? 227 00:10:53,552 --> 00:10:54,792 Quite sure. Quite sure. 228 00:10:55,570 --> 00:10:57,453 Good night, sir. 229 00:10:58,139 --> 00:10:59,056 Yes, I shan't wait up. 230 00:10:59,545 --> 00:11:01,953 All right. There we are. 231 00:13:55,585 --> 00:13:56,593 How are we going to help 232 00:13:57,033 --> 00:13:58,329 the wages of the nation to be increased, 233 00:13:59,216 --> 00:14:00,520 if we teach men to break contracts, 234 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,792 if we throw men out of work by the million? 235 00:14:04,848 --> 00:14:06,178 And we know that, whatever happens, 236 00:14:06,378 --> 00:14:07,784 the state of unemployment afterwards 237 00:14:08,393 --> 00:14:10,089 will be worse than that which we have today. 238 00:14:11,670 --> 00:14:12,819 At this moment we are enjoying 239 00:14:13,019 --> 00:14:14,934 the lowest unemployment we have had for some years. 240 00:14:15,314 --> 00:14:16,210 No! 241 00:14:18,746 --> 00:14:22,322 Whoever speaks after me will be able to refute that, if he can. 242 00:14:23,850 --> 00:14:26,970 The cost of living is lower today than it has been for years. 243 00:14:27,450 --> 00:14:28,519 No, no! 244 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,496 There are signs of improvement. 245 00:14:32,032 --> 00:14:33,160 Slight, but real. 246 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,001 And this is the moment that has been chosen to challenge 247 00:14:36,512 --> 00:14:38,200 the existing constitution of the country 248 00:14:39,159 --> 00:14:42,407 and to substitute the reign of force for that which now exists. 249 00:14:44,967 --> 00:14:48,710 It was only two years ago, I remember very well reading 250 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,030 in The new leaders some observations by the leader of the labor party. 251 00:14:51,818 --> 00:14:56,354 He said: "All it's life it had been opposed to the sympathetic strike. 252 00:14:57,647 --> 00:14:59,231 "It had no practical value. 253 00:15:00,181 --> 00:15:01,878 "It had one certain result: 254 00:15:02,374 --> 00:15:04,390 "A bitter and blinding reaction. 255 00:15:05,870 --> 00:15:07,502 "Liberty was more easily destroyed 256 00:15:08,022 --> 00:15:10,254 by those who abused it, than those who opposed it." 257 00:15:10,935 --> 00:15:12,079 Hear, hear. 258 00:15:12,510 --> 00:15:14,679 I agree with every word of that. 259 00:15:16,127 --> 00:15:18,310 I have very few more words to say. 260 00:15:20,047 --> 00:15:22,543 There are very few light hearts in England today. 261 00:15:24,135 --> 00:15:26,006 The only people who are happy in this situation 262 00:15:26,414 --> 00:15:28,055 are those who envy us or who hate us, 263 00:15:29,271 --> 00:15:31,366 because they see the home of democratic freedom 264 00:15:32,478 --> 00:15:34,206 setting out on a course which if successful 265 00:15:34,406 --> 00:15:35,934 on the part of those who enter on it, 266 00:15:36,703 --> 00:15:38,346 can only substitute tyranny. 267 00:15:39,946 --> 00:15:41,786 It is not wages that are imperiled. 268 00:15:42,671 --> 00:15:46,106 It is the very freedom of our constitution. 269 00:15:46,778 --> 00:15:47,714 Hear, hear! 270 00:15:48,251 --> 00:15:52,371 But I have confidence, knowing the character of our people, 271 00:15:53,273 --> 00:15:56,658 that we will see these troubles through. 272 00:15:57,370 --> 00:15:58,474 Hear, hear! 273 00:16:12,019 --> 00:16:13,306 Well, michael? 274 00:16:14,067 --> 00:16:15,614 It's on. 275 00:16:16,390 --> 00:16:17,765 Oh, what a bore. 276 00:16:18,484 --> 00:16:19,901 Yes, duckie, but it's more than that. 277 00:16:20,405 --> 00:16:21,784 I simply don't understand, I mean, 278 00:16:21,984 --> 00:16:24,093 what's the point of having a meeting and subsidies, 279 00:16:24,262 --> 00:16:26,516 and, well, all those meetings, if they can't settle something? 280 00:16:27,421 --> 00:16:28,460 That's mere common sense. 281 00:16:29,300 --> 00:16:30,324 No good at all. 282 00:16:30,836 --> 00:16:31,732 Well, why not? 283 00:16:32,604 --> 00:16:35,283 Because both sides have to save face. 284 00:16:37,451 --> 00:16:39,723 On one side, longer hours and less wages. 285 00:16:40,508 --> 00:16:42,971 On the other, not a minute more, not a shilling off. 286 00:16:43,805 --> 00:16:45,004 Stalemate. 287 00:16:46,148 --> 00:16:50,044 Saving face...caused the war, now it's causing the strike. 288 00:16:51,771 --> 00:16:52,827 When I think of those miners, 289 00:16:53,371 --> 00:16:56,220 and their children starving, I want to weep. 290 00:16:58,556 --> 00:17:00,520 When I think of their leaders, stiff-necked, 291 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,461 old-fashioned, dyed-in-the-wool idiots, 292 00:17:03,725 --> 00:17:05,299 I want to weep some more. 293 00:17:06,658 --> 00:17:07,716 And as for our lot, 294 00:17:08,716 --> 00:17:10,491 when I think of them, I don't know what to do. 295 00:17:12,540 --> 00:17:13,757 Don't we need a Mussolini? 296 00:17:14,484 --> 00:17:15,724 Oh, God forbid, duckie! 297 00:17:16,605 --> 00:17:18,244 You pay for his sort in the long run. 298 00:17:19,812 --> 00:17:23,084 Look at Diaz in Mexico, or Napoleon in France. 299 00:17:24,003 --> 00:17:25,588 Or Cromwell in England, for that matter. 300 00:17:26,099 --> 00:17:28,104 I thought that Charles the second was rather a dear. 301 00:17:29,015 --> 00:17:30,946 Oh, Fleur. That's it. 302 00:17:31,683 --> 00:17:33,730 I thought for one dreadful minute you'd lost your sense of humor. 303 00:17:34,635 --> 00:17:35,802 You'll see to it that I don't. 304 00:17:36,354 --> 00:17:37,323 Well, I hope so. 305 00:17:37,835 --> 00:17:40,385 Well, what will you do in the House? There won't be much to talk about. 306 00:17:41,029 --> 00:17:42,728 No. We'll just sit and glower at each other, 307 00:17:43,448 --> 00:17:45,727 and use the word "formula" at stated intervals. 308 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:50,784 I came home by the park. 309 00:17:51,439 --> 00:17:52,760 Do you know it's astonishing. 310 00:17:53,464 --> 00:17:55,608 There are lorries and milk-cars and tents everywhere, 311 00:17:56,392 --> 00:17:57,664 specials and volunteers, 312 00:17:58,161 --> 00:18:01,968 and at Victoria station, chaps in plus-fours manning the signal boxes. 313 00:18:02,541 --> 00:18:05,429 Yes, and little clerks in striped trousers learning how to drive engines. 314 00:18:07,111 --> 00:18:09,351 Pickets everywhere of course, but no ructions. 315 00:18:10,168 --> 00:18:13,399 Some trains will run tomorrow, though god help them all at Clapham junction. 316 00:18:14,775 --> 00:18:16,191 They say we can't organize. 317 00:18:17,103 --> 00:18:19,087 Oh, can't we just, after the event. 318 00:18:23,743 --> 00:18:25,015 Michael. 319 00:18:26,112 --> 00:18:27,639 Do you want to end the strike? 320 00:18:28,536 --> 00:18:29,768 We have to. 321 00:18:30,287 --> 00:18:31,431 We all have to. 322 00:18:32,312 --> 00:18:32,791 Oh. 323 00:18:33,231 --> 00:18:34,627 Don't you see that? Yes, of course. 324 00:18:34,827 --> 00:18:36,463 I'm only a little surprised that you do. 325 00:18:36,918 --> 00:18:37,918 Oh, yes. 326 00:18:39,015 --> 00:18:40,375 Well, the country's life can't be strangled, 327 00:18:40,975 --> 00:18:42,303 no matter who is in the right. 328 00:18:50,247 --> 00:18:51,375 Duckie, I've been thinking. 329 00:18:52,464 --> 00:18:53,736 Is there something that you want me to do? 330 00:18:54,151 --> 00:18:55,319 Well, I think so. 331 00:18:55,758 --> 00:18:57,263 These railway volunteers, they'll want feeding. 332 00:18:58,383 --> 00:18:59,831 Fleur, would you start a canteen for them? 333 00:19:00,319 --> 00:19:01,963 I mean, we'll have to get all kinds of people in to help. 334 00:19:02,327 --> 00:19:04,776 But it's your quick head that's needed, and your way with men. 335 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,026 Mm, all right.Good. Good. Yes, yes, I will. 336 00:19:10,207 --> 00:19:13,968 It'll be pretty tough while it lasts, but Fleur, I'll tell you one thing. 337 00:19:15,021 --> 00:19:16,918 There'll be less bloodshed and more good humor 338 00:19:17,118 --> 00:19:19,184 than there could be anywhere else in the world. 339 00:19:50,837 --> 00:19:51,588 Hello. Hello? 340 00:19:52,461 --> 00:19:53,903 Aunt winifred? Oh, Holly! 341 00:19:54,694 --> 00:19:56,919 How nice. I was just thinking of ringing you up. 342 00:19:57,702 --> 00:19:58,942 Isn't this strike too absurd? 343 00:19:59,486 --> 00:20:00,638 Oh, that's one word for it. 344 00:20:01,150 --> 00:20:02,998 Val says he wants to come up and do something, 345 00:20:03,478 --> 00:20:04,422 but I won't let him. 346 00:20:04,910 --> 00:20:06,094 No, quite right, with his game leg. 347 00:20:06,694 --> 00:20:07,911 Well, he says the strike won't last. 348 00:20:08,471 --> 00:20:09,959 But guess what, Jon's here. Who? 349 00:20:11,526 --> 00:20:14,633 My little brother, with Irene and Anne. Good gracious. 350 00:20:15,466 --> 00:20:17,019 Jon wants to drive an engine. 351 00:20:17,699 --> 00:20:18,794 These boys! 352 00:20:19,370 --> 00:20:20,395 They never grow up, do they? 353 00:20:20,890 --> 00:20:22,562 No. Anyway we shall be coming up to london today. 354 00:20:23,146 --> 00:20:25,556 I'll drive him. His wife too?No. 355 00:20:25,934 --> 00:20:27,620 Well, Irene? Not at the moment. 356 00:20:28,606 --> 00:20:29,958 I thought we'd stay at the Langham. 357 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:31,936 Oh, no, dear. You must come here. 358 00:20:32,476 --> 00:20:33,792 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I have plenty of everything. 359 00:20:34,301 --> 00:20:37,242 Soames made me stock up with coal and groceries a whole week ago. 360 00:20:38,313 --> 00:20:39,937 It's awfully kind of you, aunt, but... 361 00:20:40,554 --> 00:20:41,826 is cousin Soames with you? 362 00:20:42,650 --> 00:20:44,066 No, dear, at Mapledurham. 363 00:20:44,770 --> 00:20:45,658 Now, do come. 364 00:20:46,193 --> 00:20:48,889 All right. Oh, and, by the way, I shall be looking for a job too. 365 00:20:49,689 --> 00:20:51,385 Do you think you could speak to Michael Mont? 366 00:20:51,977 --> 00:20:53,110 He's bound to be organizing things. 367 00:20:53,627 --> 00:20:55,279 Well, very well, dear. If you think you should. 368 00:20:55,747 --> 00:20:58,060 Well, thanks awfully, auntie. I must go. Goodbye. 369 00:20:58,684 --> 00:20:59,907 Goodbye, dear. Goodbye. 370 00:21:07,060 --> 00:21:08,387 You rang for me, ma'am. 371 00:21:08,931 --> 00:21:10,132 Did I? 372 00:21:10,755 --> 00:21:12,091 Oh, yes. So I did. 373 00:21:12,659 --> 00:21:15,752 Now what for, I wonder? Oh, yes, Smither. 374 00:21:16,386 --> 00:21:18,462 Where's The morning post? It hasn't come, ma'am. 375 00:21:18,831 --> 00:21:20,613 Hasn't come? All on strike. 376 00:21:20,987 --> 00:21:23,443 Newspapers and all. Aunt bessie heard it on the wireless. 377 00:21:23,555 --> 00:21:24,544 Dear me. 378 00:21:25,091 --> 00:21:28,203 Well, if this strike goes on I shall have to get a wireless myself, 379 00:21:28,572 --> 00:21:29,557 though they do crackle so. 380 00:21:30,500 --> 00:21:31,284 Well, thank you, Smither. 381 00:21:31,582 --> 00:21:33,315 oh, there's a gentleman waiting to see you, ma'am. 382 00:21:33,777 --> 00:21:34,864 A mr. Stainford. 383 00:21:35,433 --> 00:21:36,849 Stainford? Stainford? 384 00:21:37,298 --> 00:21:38,561 He says he's an old friend of mr. Val's 385 00:21:39,072 --> 00:21:40,376 and he'd like a word with you. 386 00:21:40,896 --> 00:21:42,976 Stainford? Well, very well, smither, show him in. 387 00:21:50,392 --> 00:21:51,582 Mr. Stainford, ma'am. 388 00:21:54,555 --> 00:21:56,041 Good of you to see me, mrs. Dartie. 389 00:21:56,608 --> 00:21:57,361 Not at all. 390 00:22:00,535 --> 00:22:03,286 Will you sit down? Thank you, no. 391 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:04,800 Is val up in town? No, not at present. 392 00:22:06,246 --> 00:22:08,178 Perhaps you could give me his address. 393 00:22:09,051 --> 00:22:10,811 One loses touch, but we were friends at oxford. 394 00:22:12,667 --> 00:22:13,323 Ah, yes. 395 00:22:13,867 --> 00:22:15,794 He was abroad, you know, for many years, in South africa. 396 00:22:16,338 --> 00:22:17,114 I heard that. 397 00:22:17,579 --> 00:22:18,698 And now he breeds and trains racehorses. 398 00:22:19,210 --> 00:22:20,314 I believe I heard that too. 399 00:22:20,835 --> 00:22:21,954 On the south downs. 400 00:22:22,675 --> 00:22:24,130 Oh! Excuse me. Such a morning. 401 00:22:26,394 --> 00:22:27,306 Hello? 402 00:22:27,922 --> 00:22:29,259 Ah, hello, Winifred. 403 00:22:29,834 --> 00:22:31,788 Hello? Winifred. I can hardly...who? 404 00:22:32,495 --> 00:22:35,589 Soames here. Oh, Soames, dear, it's you. 405 00:22:35,816 --> 00:22:37,034 Would you hold on a moment? I'm so sorry. 406 00:22:37,596 --> 00:22:40,680 Not at all, mrs. Dartie. I shan't stay, but val's address? 407 00:22:41,252 --> 00:22:44,659 Oh, yes. The Manor house, Wansdon, Sussex. 408 00:22:45,250 --> 00:22:48,058 Manor house, Wansdon, Sussex. 409 00:22:50,074 --> 00:22:51,034 I'm obliged to you. 410 00:22:51,666 --> 00:22:53,289 What? Just a moment, dear. 411 00:22:53,917 --> 00:22:55,041 Goodbye, mr... 412 00:22:55,481 --> 00:22:56,660 Now, my dear boy, don't fuss so. 413 00:22:57,198 --> 00:22:58,543 I'm not fussing, I want to know who you've got there. 414 00:22:59,089 --> 00:23:02,583 I have a visitor, a friend of Val'S. 415 00:23:03,735 --> 00:23:04,630 A friend of Val's? 416 00:23:06,246 --> 00:23:08,741 And now I've been unpardonably rude. Oh. 417 00:23:08,803 --> 00:23:10,073 Just a moment. 418 00:23:12,815 --> 00:23:13,864 Are you at Mapledurham? 419 00:23:14,616 --> 00:23:17,581 What? Yes, yes, of course I am. Well what did I tell you? 420 00:23:17,781 --> 00:23:19,946 It's all rather exciting, don't you know. 421 00:23:20,789 --> 00:23:22,081 It's dangerous, if that's what you mean. 422 00:23:22,413 --> 00:23:23,826 I'm coming up tomorrow to stay with Fleur. 423 00:23:24,298 --> 00:23:25,852 But why, dear? I should have thought you'd be so much more... 424 00:23:26,052 --> 00:23:27,269 I just want to be on hand in case of accidents. 425 00:23:27,554 --> 00:23:29,097 Anyway the car's eating its head off down here. 426 00:23:31,083 --> 00:23:32,067 Might as well be useful. 427 00:23:32,596 --> 00:23:33,731 People are terribly busy about it all. 428 00:23:34,836 --> 00:23:37,218 Oh, and Soames dear, young Jon Forsyte's over here 429 00:23:37,779 --> 00:23:38,955 with his wife and Irene. 430 00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:40,900 They're at Wansdon. 431 00:23:43,428 --> 00:23:44,571 Are you there, Soames? 432 00:23:46,411 --> 00:23:49,394 Oh, have we been cut off? 433 00:23:49,594 --> 00:23:49,952 No. 434 00:23:50,621 --> 00:23:51,000 Oh. 435 00:23:52,106 --> 00:23:53,773 I'll be up tomorrow. Goodbye. 436 00:23:59,985 --> 00:24:01,154 Such a morning. 437 00:24:02,353 --> 00:24:04,673 Stainford...stainford... 438 00:24:12,802 --> 00:24:14,419 do you know, Smither... 439 00:24:14,619 --> 00:24:18,978 these chairs were last re-covered in 1913, just before the war. 440 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,152 A marvelous piece of silk. 441 00:24:21,768 --> 00:24:22,911 Indeed, yes, ma'am. 442 00:24:23,456 --> 00:24:24,575 Shall you be in to luncheon? 443 00:24:25,823 --> 00:24:27,000 Yes, I believe so. 444 00:24:28,170 --> 00:24:29,536 Now, that's odd. 445 00:24:30,128 --> 00:24:32,048 Smither, there was a snuffbox here. 446 00:24:32,567 --> 00:24:34,423 Louis quinze, rather valuable, it belonged to my father. 447 00:24:35,415 --> 00:24:36,640 At least I thought it was here. 448 00:24:37,368 --> 00:24:38,912 Well, it was, ma'am, this morning. 449 00:24:39,783 --> 00:24:41,256 I remember seeing it when I was dusting. 450 00:24:42,471 --> 00:24:44,208 Then what...? 451 00:24:45,039 --> 00:24:46,375 Good heavens. You don't think...? 452 00:24:47,887 --> 00:24:49,258 Mr. Stainford? 453 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,390 Yes, yes, perfectly all right, thank you. 454 00:24:58,259 --> 00:25:00,472 Now, I gave Holly your message. Has she arrived yet? 455 00:25:01,074 --> 00:25:02,535 No, not yet, but she'll be jolly useful. 456 00:25:03,896 --> 00:25:05,087 She'd better do supplies, I think, 457 00:25:05,856 --> 00:25:07,639 you know, instead of standing about serving. 458 00:25:08,183 --> 00:25:09,320 Oh, yes, that will be nice. 459 00:25:09,807 --> 00:25:11,027 It won't. It's all pretty strenuous. 460 00:25:11,493 --> 00:25:13,569 Yes, well, it can't last of course, the government's bound to do something. 461 00:25:14,594 --> 00:25:16,634 Now, Fleur, dear, has your father come up yet? 462 00:25:17,442 --> 00:25:18,691 He should be in South square now. 463 00:25:20,106 --> 00:25:21,770 Well, would you ask him to call round tomorrow? 464 00:25:22,282 --> 00:25:23,507 Something rather disagreeable has happened. 465 00:25:24,027 --> 00:25:24,778 Oh? What? 466 00:25:25,659 --> 00:25:27,243 I don't want to bother you, dear, but I should like to see your father. 467 00:25:27,882 --> 00:25:29,938 Yes, well, I'll tell him. 468 00:25:32,162 --> 00:25:33,330 Aunt, you know, I really must fly. 469 00:25:33,947 --> 00:25:35,322 Goodbye, dear, now don't tire yourself. 470 00:25:35,818 --> 00:25:36,954 Goodbye. 471 00:25:39,578 --> 00:25:40,356 Oh, dear. 472 00:26:24,967 --> 00:26:26,476 Hello? Yes? 473 00:26:26,931 --> 00:26:27,840 This is mrs. Mont. 474 00:26:30,016 --> 00:26:30,936 What? 475 00:26:31,529 --> 00:26:32,624 But I've ordered them. 476 00:26:34,024 --> 00:26:35,664 No. No, really! 477 00:26:37,864 --> 00:26:39,032 What? 478 00:26:39,553 --> 00:26:41,073 But I must give them bacon and eggs in the morning. 479 00:26:41,568 --> 00:26:42,840 They can't start on just cocoa. 480 00:26:45,497 --> 00:26:46,600 What do you mean, the company can't afford...? 481 00:26:48,632 --> 00:26:50,671 Well, please be a dear and tell the manager from me 482 00:26:50,871 --> 00:26:52,720 they've got to be properly fed. 483 00:26:55,433 --> 00:26:56,384 Will you? 484 00:26:56,888 --> 00:26:57,912 Then you are a dear. 485 00:26:58,609 --> 00:26:59,681 Thank you so much. 486 00:27:16,940 --> 00:27:19,152 Fleur? Oh, Holly, it's you. 487 00:27:19,434 --> 00:27:20,582 Hello. Welcome. 488 00:27:20,973 --> 00:27:22,646 Red tape and cheeseparing, 489 00:27:23,126 --> 00:27:24,430 that's what we contend with here. 490 00:27:24,517 --> 00:27:25,691 Will you let me help you? Rather. 491 00:27:26,361 --> 00:27:28,735 Have you got a car? Yes. Good. 492 00:27:28,860 --> 00:27:30,238 First thing tomorrow then. 493 00:27:31,263 --> 00:27:32,238 Here's a list for Harridge'S. 494 00:27:32,734 --> 00:27:33,814 It's a terrific lot, but buy it all. 495 00:27:34,686 --> 00:27:36,734 Bring it with me? Yes, please. 496 00:27:37,190 --> 00:27:38,702 I'll take the risk of the company refusing to pay. 497 00:27:39,759 --> 00:27:42,767 If I have to go round there myself and slobber on that revolting official. 498 00:27:43,734 --> 00:27:45,250 You're rather enjoy it all, aren't you? 499 00:27:46,368 --> 00:27:48,691 Mm-hm.In a way. I've discovered a bossy streak. 500 00:27:49,284 --> 00:27:50,132 Horrid. 501 00:27:50,571 --> 00:27:51,588 But it helps here. 502 00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:55,213 I saw Jon in there. 503 00:27:55,715 --> 00:27:56,852 Where did he spring from? 504 00:27:57,460 --> 00:27:59,451 America, via Paris. 505 00:28:01,123 --> 00:28:02,364 We're all at Green street. 506 00:28:04,717 --> 00:28:07,452 Funny to see him again, all smudgy like that. 507 00:28:08,020 --> 00:28:09,116 His wife with him? 508 00:28:09,612 --> 00:28:11,292 No, she's at Wansdon with Irene. 509 00:28:12,548 --> 00:28:13,915 It would be fun to see him some time. 510 00:28:14,675 --> 00:28:17,475 He's stoking an engine from 6:00 A.M. Till 10:00 P.M. 511 00:28:18,684 --> 00:28:21,172 I know, but I meant after, if the strike ever ends. 512 00:28:22,668 --> 00:28:23,827 Are they going to live in England? 513 00:28:24,388 --> 00:28:25,643 Oh, I believe so. 514 00:28:27,611 --> 00:28:30,284 Well, we're both over the measles. 515 00:28:30,940 --> 00:28:34,032 If you get them again grown up, Fleur, they can be pretty bad. 516 00:28:34,807 --> 00:28:35,849 No fear. 517 00:28:36,481 --> 00:28:38,258 Well, I'm off. I expect Michael's waiting. 518 00:28:39,769 --> 00:28:41,138 I'll be here at 9, before you leave for Harridge's, 519 00:28:41,643 --> 00:28:43,292 and if you think of anything else, just stick it on the list. 520 00:28:43,780 --> 00:28:45,340 I'll make them stump up somehow. 521 00:28:46,163 --> 00:28:46,884 Good night, Holly. 522 00:28:47,403 --> 00:28:48,596 Good night, Fleur. 523 00:29:04,537 --> 00:29:06,096 Tired? Holly. 524 00:29:08,282 --> 00:29:09,026 All over. 525 00:29:09,909 --> 00:29:11,358 But it's a good feeling. 526 00:29:12,134 --> 00:29:13,150 Oh, I'll drive you home. 527 00:29:13,590 --> 00:29:14,374 Thank you. 528 00:29:15,247 --> 00:29:16,339 I say, how did you know I'd be here? 529 00:29:16,734 --> 00:29:19,053 Oh, I didn't. I just came to sign on. 530 00:29:19,677 --> 00:29:21,036 Have they taken you? Yes. 531 00:29:21,940 --> 00:29:22,956 Good for you. 532 00:29:24,053 --> 00:29:25,132 Funny coincidence, though. 533 00:29:27,173 --> 00:29:29,221 Well, this coincidence is funnier than most. 534 00:29:30,276 --> 00:29:31,804 Do you know who runs this place? 535 00:29:32,844 --> 00:29:34,044 Fleur Mont. 536 00:29:35,573 --> 00:29:36,940 Fleur? 537 00:29:38,925 --> 00:29:40,093 Good lord! 538 00:29:40,620 --> 00:29:41,804 She's just left. 539 00:29:42,924 --> 00:29:45,764 But is she old enough? I mean to run a thing like this? 540 00:29:46,765 --> 00:29:47,692 It's a first-rate job. 541 00:29:48,188 --> 00:29:49,844 Well, I think she's got a pretty clear head. 542 00:29:50,956 --> 00:29:52,573 For instance, she saw you here this evening, and... 543 00:29:54,282 --> 00:29:55,300 saw me? 544 00:29:55,805 --> 00:29:57,021 And she didn't...? 545 00:29:58,068 --> 00:29:59,693 Oh. 546 00:30:01,741 --> 00:30:02,869 Oh, I see. 547 00:30:08,036 --> 00:30:08,980 Good morning, dear. 548 00:30:09,460 --> 00:30:10,580 Good morning. 549 00:30:11,228 --> 00:30:12,188 Did you have a good ride? 550 00:30:12,677 --> 00:30:16,454 Gorgeous! Val took me right up over the downs, it was beautiful. 551 00:30:17,423 --> 00:30:18,471 Jon would have loved it. 552 00:30:19,143 --> 00:30:20,270 I've had a note from him. 553 00:30:21,334 --> 00:30:22,454 Oh, and there's one for you. 554 00:30:23,062 --> 00:30:24,190 Oh, how he finds any time... 555 00:30:29,505 --> 00:30:30,732 they're working all hours. 556 00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:33,389 He says he doesn't know who to admire most. 557 00:30:34,309 --> 00:30:37,333 All the people somehow getting to work and putting up with everything, 558 00:30:37,958 --> 00:30:39,117 or the strikers themselves. 559 00:30:39,701 --> 00:30:40,749 Why does he say that? 560 00:30:41,228 --> 00:30:42,613 Because of their patience and good humor, 561 00:30:43,532 --> 00:30:45,740 what he calls "their solid english decency." 562 00:30:46,436 --> 00:30:47,236 Yes. 563 00:30:47,716 --> 00:30:48,845 Jon's english all right. 564 00:30:49,397 --> 00:30:50,820 Through and through. 565 00:30:51,420 --> 00:30:52,965 I hardly realized noticed how much until we landed at dover. 566 00:30:53,565 --> 00:30:55,300 I guess we're settled here for the rest of our lives. 567 00:30:56,173 --> 00:30:57,093 Shall you mind? 568 00:30:58,077 --> 00:30:58,821 No. 569 00:30:59,492 --> 00:31:04,164 It's all strange of course, but, well, it seems like a homey kind of country. 570 00:31:06,885 --> 00:31:09,853 It's so small, all the fields, I mean, 571 00:31:11,236 --> 00:31:12,333 all wrapped around 572 00:31:12,861 --> 00:31:14,045 in blossom like... 573 00:31:14,653 --> 00:31:15,821 is anything wrong? 574 00:31:16,380 --> 00:31:19,172 No, dear, no, nothing. I've just got a note here from Holly. 575 00:31:20,244 --> 00:31:22,524 She's starting work at a canteen for railway volunteers. 576 00:31:23,309 --> 00:31:24,204 Jon goes there. 577 00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:25,804 Why, that's fine. 578 00:31:31,533 --> 00:31:32,693 I was thinking... 579 00:31:33,925 --> 00:31:34,941 don't you miss him? 580 00:31:35,540 --> 00:31:36,757 Every minute. 581 00:31:38,340 --> 00:31:39,949 Holly says things are really quite normal. 582 00:31:40,733 --> 00:31:41,836 No sign of trouble. 583 00:31:42,829 --> 00:31:44,012 Wouldn't you like to go up? 584 00:31:45,220 --> 00:31:46,669 Would I? 585 00:31:47,917 --> 00:31:49,037 But what about you? 586 00:31:49,557 --> 00:31:51,093 I shall be perfectly all right here. 587 00:31:51,612 --> 00:31:53,285 Holly tells me they can use all the help they can get. 588 00:31:53,754 --> 00:31:55,858 At this canteen? Would they let me? 589 00:31:56,259 --> 00:31:56,979 Why not? 590 00:31:57,483 --> 00:31:58,563 Well, if you're sure you don't mind. 591 00:31:59,075 --> 00:32:00,139 She's spoken to val's mother. 592 00:32:00,571 --> 00:32:01,707 You can go there at once. 593 00:32:03,194 --> 00:32:05,298 I don't suppose you'll see much of Jon, 594 00:32:05,626 --> 00:32:07,725 but I'm sure it'll be a comfort to him to have you with him. 595 00:32:07,925 --> 00:32:08,316 And to me. 596 00:32:09,608 --> 00:32:12,526 By the way, has he ever spoken to you of a cousin of his? 597 00:32:14,065 --> 00:32:15,884 A second cousin called Fleur mont? 598 00:32:17,716 --> 00:32:20,228 Jon hasn't spoken about her, but Francis did when he got home. 599 00:32:21,268 --> 00:32:22,116 Ah, yes. 600 00:32:22,587 --> 00:32:24,003 She just about saved his life. 601 00:32:25,592 --> 00:32:28,611 Well, according to Holly, it is Fleur who is running this canteen. 602 00:32:29,164 --> 00:32:30,259 She must be pretty bright. 603 00:32:30,835 --> 00:32:32,179 Indeed she is. 604 00:32:33,916 --> 00:32:35,796 Now finish your breakfast and then go and pack. 605 00:32:37,027 --> 00:32:39,316 I'll see Val and arrange for you to be driven up. 606 00:32:41,452 --> 00:32:44,979 And when you see Jon, give him my love. 607 00:32:45,587 --> 00:32:46,883 I surely will. 608 00:32:54,247 --> 00:32:56,911 You're quite certain that you saw the snuffbox here that day? 609 00:32:57,463 --> 00:32:58,519 Indeed, yes, mr. Soames. 610 00:32:59,032 --> 00:33:00,647 About half an hour before that mr. Stainford came. 611 00:33:01,704 --> 00:33:03,087 You were dusting? 612 00:33:03,648 --> 00:33:04,536 Yes, sir. 613 00:33:05,712 --> 00:33:07,679 You think you could have swept it up by mistake? 614 00:33:10,791 --> 00:33:11,784 Well, could you? 615 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,103 I'd have noticed. 616 00:33:15,695 --> 00:33:16,872 Yes, I suppose you would. 617 00:33:18,095 --> 00:33:19,303 Oh, well, thank you, smither. 618 00:33:25,639 --> 00:33:26,823 It must have been him. 619 00:33:27,448 --> 00:33:28,711 To think that a man of such distinction... 620 00:33:29,488 --> 00:33:30,039 Distinction? 621 00:33:30,519 --> 00:33:31,575 And a friend of Val's too. 622 00:33:32,024 --> 00:33:33,807 I wouldn't mind so much if it hadn't belonged to papa. 623 00:33:35,624 --> 00:33:36,600 Well, that fellow must be a ruffian. 624 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:38,096 He oughtn't be at large. 625 00:33:38,543 --> 00:33:39,448 What's to be done? 626 00:33:39,896 --> 00:33:41,080 Well, Scotland yard. 627 00:33:43,135 --> 00:33:44,631 Oh... well, they've got enough to do, I shouldn't wonder. 628 00:33:46,183 --> 00:33:47,960 Ah, there's that chap I used on the Ferrar case. 629 00:33:49,624 --> 00:33:50,679 Yes, he charges very high. 630 00:33:51,152 --> 00:33:52,160 That doesn't matter, Soames... 631 00:33:52,607 --> 00:33:53,808 it's all right, I'll see him. 632 00:33:54,311 --> 00:33:55,496 Well, thank you, dear. 633 00:33:56,576 --> 00:33:57,744 Well, how's Fleur? 634 00:33:58,567 --> 00:34:02,343 Oh, she's overdoing this canteen business. 635 00:34:03,095 --> 00:34:04,367 Well, they say she's running it very well. 636 00:34:04,928 --> 00:34:06,912 I do think all these young women are so smart, 637 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:08,703 so sure of themselves. 638 00:34:09,167 --> 00:34:12,248 Oh, yes, they're sure enough, but you know, steady does it in the long run. 639 00:34:12,735 --> 00:34:14,279 That was all rather a bore you know, soames. 640 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,520 Things move so quickly nowadays. 641 00:34:18,568 --> 00:34:19,527 Yes, like that snuffbox. 642 00:34:21,335 --> 00:34:22,807 Potatoes. 643 00:34:23,904 --> 00:34:25,528 Twenty stone. 644 00:34:26,935 --> 00:34:29,280 Twenty, got that? 645 00:34:33,647 --> 00:34:36,760 Treacle. Better let me have large tins. 646 00:34:38,344 --> 00:34:39,671 What are they? 647 00:34:40,464 --> 00:34:41,808 Five-pound tins. 648 00:34:42,064 --> 00:34:43,529 Well, let's say, seven of those. 649 00:34:45,176 --> 00:34:48,177 No, no, I assure you, treacle pudding's all the rage down here. 650 00:34:49,505 --> 00:34:50,729 Yes, that's right. 651 00:34:52,720 --> 00:34:53,887 Hello. Oh, hello. 652 00:34:54,956 --> 00:34:57,671 Yes, well if there is anything else, I'll ring you back. 653 00:34:58,495 --> 00:34:59,679 Thank you, goodbye. 654 00:35:00,623 --> 00:35:02,508 Anne? Yes?How do you do? 655 00:35:02,948 --> 00:35:04,318 Welcome to the clan. 656 00:35:04,862 --> 00:35:05,710 The clan? 657 00:35:06,310 --> 00:35:07,366 Oh, Fleur and I were born Forsytes. 658 00:35:08,006 --> 00:35:08,918 You've become one. 659 00:35:09,478 --> 00:35:10,439 Oh. Oh, that's right. 660 00:35:10,919 --> 00:35:12,599 Well, it's awfully sporting of you to come and help. 661 00:35:13,159 --> 00:35:14,103 If there's anything I can do. 662 00:35:14,879 --> 00:35:16,078 I've wanted so much to meet you. 663 00:35:17,022 --> 00:35:18,126 What you did for Francis... 664 00:35:19,278 --> 00:35:20,618 oh, it was nothing. How is he? 665 00:35:21,107 --> 00:35:22,087 He was fine when we left. 666 00:35:23,030 --> 00:35:24,422 But he wasn't happy over here, was he? 667 00:35:25,070 --> 00:35:26,126 I mean before he was ill. 668 00:35:26,614 --> 00:35:27,702 Something happened to him, didn't it? 669 00:35:28,238 --> 00:35:29,542 Well, a girl happened. 670 00:35:30,415 --> 00:35:31,182 Oh. 671 00:35:31,703 --> 00:35:32,767 Still, he was well out of it. 672 00:35:33,230 --> 00:35:34,246 She wasn't right for him. 673 00:35:34,686 --> 00:35:35,694 I guess not. 674 00:35:37,006 --> 00:35:37,871 Jon's been in and out. 675 00:35:38,154 --> 00:35:39,771 I know. I haven't had a chance to say hello, 676 00:35:40,866 --> 00:35:43,049 but he looked healthy, if a mite grubby. 677 00:35:43,877 --> 00:35:45,739 It gave me quite a shock when I saw him last night. 678 00:35:46,290 --> 00:35:47,482 I had to take the scrubber to him. 679 00:35:49,136 --> 00:35:49,807 Fleur. 680 00:35:52,269 --> 00:35:53,916 Yes, well, we mustn't waste time. 681 00:35:54,701 --> 00:35:56,372 Now, if you go along with Holly, Anne, she'll put you wise. 682 00:35:57,115 --> 00:35:58,083 That sounds nice and homey. 683 00:35:58,587 --> 00:35:59,842 Well, we use all your expressions here. 684 00:36:00,419 --> 00:36:01,555 We mustn't waste any more time. 685 00:36:02,002 --> 00:36:02,978 Excuse me. 686 00:36:04,826 --> 00:36:05,642 Hello? 687 00:36:06,155 --> 00:36:07,778 Yes, mrs. Mont speaking. 688 00:36:09,731 --> 00:36:10,803 Oh...no. 689 00:36:11,611 --> 00:36:13,146 No, if the princess is really interested, 690 00:36:13,738 --> 00:36:14,987 would you ask her to be kind enough to come 691 00:36:15,523 --> 00:36:16,803 when they're feeding? 692 00:36:17,426 --> 00:36:18,466 Yes. 693 00:36:19,115 --> 00:36:20,347 Yes, tomorrow would do. 694 00:36:23,171 --> 00:36:24,306 What? 695 00:36:25,003 --> 00:36:26,546 Oh, yes, thank you. Goodbye. 696 00:36:55,781 --> 00:36:56,566 Ah, you're back. 697 00:36:59,874 --> 00:37:00,762 Have you had anything to eat? 698 00:37:01,442 --> 00:37:02,811 Heaps. 699 00:37:06,056 --> 00:37:07,170 This canteen business... 700 00:37:07,634 --> 00:37:08,619 I'm enjoying it frightfully. 701 00:37:10,291 --> 00:37:11,355 Mind you don't catch something down there. 702 00:37:15,714 --> 00:37:17,739 Oh, did you hear a noise? 703 00:37:18,315 --> 00:37:19,298 Yes, it was a tank. 704 00:37:19,770 --> 00:37:20,763 Looked awfully strange. 705 00:37:21,250 --> 00:37:23,383 Did you know they're sending them down to the docks, Michael says? 706 00:37:25,443 --> 00:37:26,595 That'll astonish their weak nerves. 707 00:37:27,882 --> 00:37:29,339 Show them the government means business. 708 00:37:30,826 --> 00:37:32,570 I don't know though, they're great extravagant things. 709 00:37:34,057 --> 00:37:36,041 Far too... too military. 710 00:37:37,265 --> 00:37:39,696 That's what Michael says but surely you're all for law and order. 711 00:37:40,096 --> 00:37:43,462 Yes, I know, but well, hang it all, this is England, not Russia or Italy. 712 00:37:44,867 --> 00:37:46,511 I've seen some of those strikers. 713 00:37:46,799 --> 00:37:49,576 They're not danger. Not a weapon amongst them, as far as I could tell. 714 00:37:50,090 --> 00:37:50,815 Well, I don't expect... 715 00:37:51,015 --> 00:37:52,654 you don't suppose they're going to open fire, do you? 716 00:37:53,147 --> 00:37:54,063 They'd better not. 717 00:37:55,816 --> 00:37:57,215 It's to be hoped they won't wake the baby. 718 00:38:00,016 --> 00:38:01,462 You are a scream. 719 00:38:02,591 --> 00:38:03,687 A scream? 720 00:38:05,823 --> 00:38:06,903 Whatever next? 721 00:38:08,815 --> 00:38:10,304 I'm off to bed. 722 00:38:13,111 --> 00:38:14,327 Good night, my dear. 723 00:38:19,055 --> 00:38:21,694 Oh, I've put the car away, duckie. 724 00:38:24,512 --> 00:38:25,727 Oh, hello, sir. 725 00:38:27,303 --> 00:38:28,423 Still up? 726 00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:31,384 Like a nightcap? 727 00:38:32,472 --> 00:38:34,458 Oh, no, thank you. I've still got my wine. 728 00:38:38,097 --> 00:38:39,161 What are they saying at the house? 729 00:38:39,673 --> 00:38:40,570 Nothing. 730 00:38:41,041 --> 00:38:42,281 And very longwinded they are about it. 731 00:38:46,408 --> 00:38:47,689 What's your opinion of the strike, sir? 732 00:38:49,025 --> 00:38:50,289 I mean generally, as a weapon? 733 00:38:52,713 --> 00:38:54,018 For the purposes of suicide, perfect. 734 00:38:55,450 --> 00:38:56,793 I should have thought they'd have realized that by now. 735 00:38:57,730 --> 00:38:58,585 Yes, I rather agree. 736 00:38:59,025 --> 00:39:00,170 But what's the alternative? 737 00:39:00,585 --> 00:39:01,632 Well, they've got the vote. 738 00:39:02,065 --> 00:39:03,240 Yes, that's always said, 739 00:39:03,737 --> 00:39:06,209 somehow parliament seems to matter less and less these days. 740 00:39:07,223 --> 00:39:09,967 Things get settled or unsettled before we get down to dealing with them. 741 00:39:10,463 --> 00:39:13,257 There must be government. Administration, of course. 742 00:39:15,202 --> 00:39:17,441 But look at this strike. What can the average M.P.do about it? 743 00:39:19,197 --> 00:39:20,173 Not much. 744 00:39:21,308 --> 00:39:23,413 But then, parliament always was a talking shop. 745 00:39:24,572 --> 00:39:26,029 Oh, not that I'd like to see it done away with, mind you. 746 00:39:30,045 --> 00:39:31,149 Yes, hang on to that Goya. 747 00:39:32,742 --> 00:39:33,997 It's worth 200 more than I gave for it. 748 00:39:40,765 --> 00:39:41,869 You know, Fleur's overexcited. 749 00:39:43,397 --> 00:39:44,645 Don't let her overdo this canteen of hers. 750 00:39:45,095 --> 00:39:46,342 She's enjoying it, sir. 751 00:39:46,886 --> 00:39:47,982 Gives her head a chance. 752 00:39:48,765 --> 00:39:49,740 Yes. 753 00:39:50,309 --> 00:39:52,141 She's got a good little head, when she doesn't lose it. 754 00:39:54,782 --> 00:39:55,733 Yes, that reminds me, 755 00:39:56,909 --> 00:39:59,238 that young Jon Forsyte's over here, they tell me. 756 00:40:00,413 --> 00:40:02,358 Staying at Green street and stoking engines. 757 00:40:04,101 --> 00:40:07,052 It was a boy-and-girl affair, but I thought you ought to know. 758 00:40:08,868 --> 00:40:10,085 Thanks. 759 00:40:10,618 --> 00:40:11,447 No, I hadn't heard. 760 00:40:12,307 --> 00:40:14,101 I don't suppose she has either. I told them not to tell her. 761 00:40:18,061 --> 00:40:20,110 Do you remember that time in washington, 762 00:40:21,501 --> 00:40:22,591 you know, when I was taken ill? 763 00:40:23,134 --> 00:40:24,037 Yes, sir. Very well. 764 00:40:24,917 --> 00:40:26,270 Yes, I wasn't. 765 00:40:27,669 --> 00:40:30,653 I saw that young man and his mother talking to you in the... 766 00:40:31,765 --> 00:40:32,814 what do call the place, the lobby. 767 00:40:34,238 --> 00:40:35,317 Well I didn't think that, 768 00:40:36,645 --> 00:40:38,605 you know, it would be good if Fleur ran into them, so... 769 00:40:40,477 --> 00:40:42,493 oh, these things are all very silly, but you never can tell. 770 00:40:45,477 --> 00:40:46,644 No. 771 00:40:47,341 --> 00:40:48,453 You never can tell. 772 00:40:50,893 --> 00:40:52,060 I rather liked the look of him. 773 00:40:53,715 --> 00:40:54,755 I dare say. 774 00:40:56,956 --> 00:40:58,092 He's the son of his father, I expect. 775 00:41:25,743 --> 00:41:27,376 Well... this is the end of the old canteen. 776 00:41:30,152 --> 00:41:31,376 Let's powder our noses and get out. 777 00:41:32,855 --> 00:41:33,815 You'll miss it all. 778 00:41:34,495 --> 00:41:35,720 In a way. 779 00:41:37,647 --> 00:41:39,080 You've really done it awfully well. 780 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:40,992 Anne thinks you're wonderful. 781 00:41:42,168 --> 00:41:43,567 Has anyone told her about Jon and me? 782 00:41:44,383 --> 00:41:45,335 No. 783 00:41:46,103 --> 00:41:47,173 Well, I'd rather they didn't . 784 00:41:47,467 --> 00:41:48,867 Of course not. I'll see to it. 785 00:41:50,690 --> 00:41:51,865 She's a nice child. 786 00:41:52,722 --> 00:41:53,825 Nice, but not important. 787 00:41:54,985 --> 00:41:56,721 Oh, americans are generally important, sooner or later. 788 00:41:57,522 --> 00:41:58,513 To themselves. 789 00:42:00,736 --> 00:42:02,248 Well, so long as they get on together. 790 00:42:03,433 --> 00:42:04,465 They do, I suppose? 791 00:42:04,921 --> 00:42:08,089 Oh, I haven't seen very much of jon, but I should say it's perfectly successful. 792 00:42:08,913 --> 00:42:10,050 Good. 793 00:42:10,874 --> 00:42:12,025 You all going down to Wansdon? 794 00:42:12,737 --> 00:42:13,841 The day after tomorrow. 795 00:42:15,001 --> 00:42:17,104 Can I give you a lift? Father's collecting me at 4:00. 796 00:42:18,387 --> 00:42:19,403 No thanks, Fleur. 797 00:42:19,514 --> 00:42:20,654 What? I'll walk. 798 00:42:22,391 --> 00:42:23,347 Still the same. 799 00:42:24,843 --> 00:42:26,034 Funny how hard things die. 800 00:42:27,106 --> 00:42:29,273 Yes, when you're a Forsyte. 801 00:42:30,186 --> 00:42:31,410 You see, we don't show much. 802 00:42:31,906 --> 00:42:33,362 It's airing feelings that kills them. 803 00:42:34,442 --> 00:42:35,514 Perhaps. 804 00:42:36,346 --> 00:42:38,570 Would you give my love to Jon and Anne? I will. 805 00:42:38,884 --> 00:42:41,254 If I've got time I may call in at aunt Winifred's before you all go down. 806 00:42:42,279 --> 00:42:43,558 Well then, I'll tell her to expect you. 807 00:43:01,613 --> 00:43:02,757 My name's Forsyte. 808 00:43:03,189 --> 00:43:03,830 Oh? 809 00:43:04,382 --> 00:43:06,342 You weren't too difficult to find. 810 00:43:07,198 --> 00:43:08,198 Any reason why I should be? 811 00:43:09,574 --> 00:43:10,518 That remains to be seen. 812 00:43:11,135 --> 00:43:12,367 You paid a visit to my sister, mrs. Dartie. 813 00:43:15,606 --> 00:43:16,870 Will you sit down? 814 00:43:18,055 --> 00:43:19,070 I want to ask you a question. 815 00:43:19,525 --> 00:43:20,566 By all means. 816 00:43:21,109 --> 00:43:22,566 When you were at Green street, did you, 817 00:43:23,102 --> 00:43:24,318 by any chance happen to see 818 00:43:25,262 --> 00:43:27,407 a louis quinze snuffbox on the table? 819 00:43:29,358 --> 00:43:31,702 It's disappeared. 820 00:43:32,151 --> 00:43:34,479 We'd like to fix the time of its loss. 821 00:43:34,722 --> 00:43:35,767 Afraid I can't help you. 822 00:43:37,054 --> 00:43:38,998 It has value as an heirloom. 823 00:43:40,262 --> 00:43:41,485 It has obviously been stolen. 824 00:43:42,110 --> 00:43:45,086 Oh sorry. I noticed nothing but some rather good marquetery. 825 00:43:46,316 --> 00:43:47,421 No snuffbox. 826 00:43:48,676 --> 00:43:49,803 It's unique. 827 00:43:50,707 --> 00:43:52,012 The police won't have any difficulty. 828 00:43:52,692 --> 00:43:53,676 No? 829 00:43:54,260 --> 00:43:55,565 If that is all, mr. Forsyte... 830 00:43:55,996 --> 00:43:57,836 mr. Stainford. I'm as sure as a man can be that you've taken it. 831 00:43:58,292 --> 00:44:00,284 Now, return it to me now and you'll hear no more of the matter. 832 00:44:03,260 --> 00:44:05,140 You can have it. For 10 pounds. 833 00:44:06,769 --> 00:44:08,128 I can have it for nothing if I call a policeman. 834 00:44:08,584 --> 00:44:10,688 You won't do that. Why not? 835 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:12,488 It isn't done. 836 00:44:12,912 --> 00:44:14,464 Not done! Not done? 837 00:44:14,921 --> 00:44:17,001 Of all the confounded... I was at college with your nephew. 838 00:44:17,481 --> 00:44:20,049 As if that has any... ten pounds. 839 00:44:20,332 --> 00:44:22,395 I could sell it for 50, but I need the money badly. 840 00:44:24,642 --> 00:44:25,809 I have the box here. 841 00:44:27,409 --> 00:44:28,817 10 pounds. 842 00:44:31,153 --> 00:44:33,218 Well, for sheer confounded brass. 843 00:44:57,899 --> 00:44:59,306 Thanks very much. 844 00:45:00,890 --> 00:45:02,457 Good afternoon. 845 00:45:11,105 --> 00:45:14,986 Now, Michael, you know Harold Blade of course. 846 00:45:15,386 --> 00:45:17,018 At least you must know his wonderful rafaelite work. 847 00:45:17,466 --> 00:45:18,482 Yes, indeed. 848 00:45:19,834 --> 00:45:20,641 He doesn't know me from Adam. 849 00:45:21,065 --> 00:45:23,419 No, really. But do tell me, why rafaelite? 850 00:45:24,258 --> 00:45:25,306 Why? 851 00:45:25,754 --> 00:45:27,594 Well, because he's the only man who's rediscovered the old values. 852 00:45:28,274 --> 00:45:30,024 The old values? Well, I thought the academy was... 853 00:45:30,224 --> 00:45:30,653 that place? 854 00:45:32,089 --> 00:45:34,022 Oh, well. If you still believe in them. 855 00:45:34,694 --> 00:45:35,526 Oh, but I don'T. 856 00:45:36,054 --> 00:45:37,093 Harold is the only rafaelite. 857 00:45:37,645 --> 00:45:38,821 He'll be the last too. 858 00:45:39,725 --> 00:45:42,198 Oh, there's a group forming, as they always do round great painters, 859 00:45:43,037 --> 00:45:44,206 but they never amount to much. 860 00:45:44,741 --> 00:45:46,389 Does my father-in-law know your work, mr. Blade? 861 00:45:46,966 --> 00:45:47,950 Soames. 862 00:45:48,398 --> 00:45:49,574 He'll be collecting Harold when we're all dead. 863 00:45:50,942 --> 00:45:51,982 Look at this. 864 00:45:54,070 --> 00:45:55,197 Now. 865 00:46:00,741 --> 00:46:02,398 Pure primary line and color. 866 00:46:03,757 --> 00:46:05,118 Do you think they'd hang that in the Academy? 867 00:46:05,941 --> 00:46:07,518 Boy, their minds are a mystery to me. 868 00:46:10,702 --> 00:46:12,878 I say, I rather like that suggestion of a halo. 869 00:46:16,126 --> 00:46:17,486 I'm going for a walk. 870 00:46:18,478 --> 00:46:23,070 Back for supper. Goodbye. 871 00:46:23,826 --> 00:46:25,578 Of course, he's the only man to paint Fleur. 872 00:46:26,561 --> 00:46:27,826 Don't you think so? 873 00:46:28,770 --> 00:46:30,762 Thank you. He'd get her modern look perfectly. 874 00:46:32,095 --> 00:46:34,734 Oh. He has such a struggle, with everyone against him. 875 00:46:36,221 --> 00:46:37,638 Would she sit to him? 876 00:46:38,262 --> 00:46:39,118 Well, I'll ask her. 877 00:46:39,614 --> 00:46:41,174 But do tell me, why is everyone against him? 878 00:46:41,807 --> 00:46:43,807 Because he's come through all the fashionable crazes. 879 00:46:44,303 --> 00:46:47,158 They think he's a traitor. Oh, I see. 880 00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:49,100 Oh, it would be a great chance for him if Soames were to commission a portrait. 881 00:46:50,438 --> 00:46:52,458 And Fleur ought to jump at it. 882 00:46:52,939 --> 00:46:56,089 You know, in 10 years' time, Harold will be the man. 883 00:46:56,289 --> 00:46:57,833 Well, I'll sound her out. 884 00:46:59,066 --> 00:47:02,882 By the way, I hear your little brother's back in London. 885 00:47:05,925 --> 00:47:07,037 Have you seen him yet? 886 00:47:07,573 --> 00:47:08,621 No, not yet. 887 00:47:09,781 --> 00:47:10,933 But I'm hoping to, soon. 888 00:47:14,046 --> 00:47:15,086 Why have you come to see me? 889 00:47:15,886 --> 00:47:17,038 Well, frankly, I was going to ask... 890 00:47:17,590 --> 00:47:19,804 yes. Be frank. 891 00:47:24,176 --> 00:47:27,792 I want you to tell me about Jon and Fleur, why they broke it up. 892 00:47:29,647 --> 00:47:32,488 I'd have told you before, that day we met in the tea shop. 893 00:47:33,135 --> 00:47:33,952 Remember? 894 00:47:34,519 --> 00:47:35,480 Yes, very well. 895 00:47:36,103 --> 00:47:37,359 But I didn't think it important. 896 00:47:37,872 --> 00:47:39,144 Well, is it now? 897 00:47:39,623 --> 00:47:40,919 That's for you to judge. 898 00:47:47,199 --> 00:47:49,304 Do you know about Jon's mother? Irene? 899 00:47:52,736 --> 00:47:54,145 She was Soames' first wife. 900 00:47:56,512 --> 00:47:57,600 Very beautiful, she was. 901 00:47:59,703 --> 00:48:00,806 I met her in america. 902 00:48:01,446 --> 00:48:02,718 But I had no idea she was married... 903 00:48:03,215 --> 00:48:04,190 how could you have? 904 00:48:04,743 --> 00:48:06,439 They didn't get on. 905 00:48:07,158 --> 00:48:09,991 She left him, and years later she married my father 906 00:48:10,486 --> 00:48:11,551 and Soames divorced her. 907 00:48:12,847 --> 00:48:15,534 I mean, Soames divorced her and she married my father. 908 00:48:17,374 --> 00:48:20,702 Well, when Jon and Fleur fell in love, 909 00:48:21,950 --> 00:48:24,638 Irene and my father were terribly upset, 910 00:48:25,290 --> 00:48:26,186 and so was Soames. 911 00:48:29,018 --> 00:48:30,018 And then? 912 00:48:31,090 --> 00:48:32,314 The children were told. 913 00:48:33,826 --> 00:48:35,731 Father died suddenly in the middle of it all. 914 00:48:36,298 --> 00:48:41,403 And Jon... well, Jon decided to do as father wished. 915 00:48:42,386 --> 00:48:45,042 He took Irene away, and Fleur married you. 916 00:48:46,914 --> 00:48:49,498 God. Poor little devils. 917 00:48:50,626 --> 00:48:52,827 Yes, I always thought it wrong. 918 00:48:54,138 --> 00:48:55,394 Irene should have put up with it. 919 00:48:58,754 --> 00:49:01,291 Except, you know, they wouldn't have been happy. 920 00:49:01,738 --> 00:49:02,850 Irene knew that. 921 00:49:03,811 --> 00:49:04,906 Fleur's too selfish. 922 00:49:05,362 --> 00:49:06,259 What? 923 00:49:06,970 --> 00:49:08,155 You're a good sort. 924 00:49:08,947 --> 00:49:10,259 Too good for her. 925 00:49:10,850 --> 00:49:11,834 Yes. 926 00:49:12,658 --> 00:49:15,938 Oh, she isn't bad, but she's a selfish little creature. 927 00:49:16,293 --> 00:49:18,293 That isn't so. Sit down. 928 00:49:23,936 --> 00:49:26,064 I only speak the truth, you know. 929 00:49:28,326 --> 00:49:29,935 Oh, of course it was all horrible. 930 00:49:30,791 --> 00:49:33,222 Soames and my father were first cousins. 931 00:49:34,670 --> 00:49:36,278 And those children were dreadfully in love. 932 00:49:39,558 --> 00:49:40,727 I don't know. 933 00:49:42,878 --> 00:49:45,591 Yes, they should have been allowed to settle it between them. 934 00:49:45,774 --> 00:49:46,820 It was their lives. 935 00:49:47,548 --> 00:49:50,876 Hm. I thought so too, at the time 936 00:49:51,076 --> 00:49:55,311 but now, perhaps it was all for the best. 937 00:49:57,344 --> 00:49:58,489 You're happy, aren't you? 938 00:49:59,488 --> 00:50:00,512 Oh, I am. 939 00:50:03,384 --> 00:50:04,737 But is she? 940 00:50:06,213 --> 00:50:07,159 Good morning, Smither. 941 00:50:07,855 --> 00:50:08,663 Why, miss Fleur. 942 00:50:09,127 --> 00:50:11,122 You're up bright and early. Well, business, Smither. 943 00:50:11,841 --> 00:50:13,071 Is anyone down yet? 944 00:50:13,647 --> 00:50:14,623 Only mr. Jon, miss. 945 00:50:15,271 --> 00:50:16,344 Well, I really came to see mrs. Val Dartie. 946 00:50:17,134 --> 00:50:18,334 You know, canteen accounts. 947 00:50:18,911 --> 00:50:20,158 But mr. Jon will do for the moment. 948 00:50:20,426 --> 00:50:21,166 Where is he? 949 00:50:21,366 --> 00:50:23,014 They're in the parlor,miss. With the painter. 950 00:50:23,695 --> 00:50:25,594 It's funny to see them out again, isn't it? 951 00:50:26,338 --> 00:50:27,657 I'll be serving his breakfast in a minute, miss. 952 00:50:28,786 --> 00:50:29,881 Well, then i'll just go straight in. 953 00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:32,944 And Smither, bring a cup for me. 954 00:50:33,601 --> 00:50:34,929 Very good, miss. 955 00:50:51,368 --> 00:50:53,288 Fleur. 956 00:50:54,305 --> 00:51:54,666 Please rate this subtitle at www.osdb.link/36geq Help other users to choose the best subtitles 957 00:51:54,716 --> 00:51:59,266 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0