1 00:00:54,090 --> 00:00:56,530 In the winter of 1939 2 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:58,420 Lord Marchmain 3 00:00:58,450 --> 00:01:00,910 in view of the international situation 4 00:01:00,950 --> 00:01:04,110 declared his intention of returning to England 5 00:01:04,170 --> 00:01:06,900 and passing his declining years in his old home. 6 00:01:08,130 --> 00:01:09,400 Whatever harsh voices 7 00:01:09,970 --> 00:01:12,150 might be bawling into the microphones of Central Europe 8 00:01:12,180 --> 00:01:14,720 and whatever lathes spinning in the armament factories 9 00:01:14,750 --> 00:01:15,830 the return of Lord Marchmain 10 00:01:15,930 --> 00:01:17,680 took presence in his own neighborhood. 11 00:01:26,770 --> 00:01:29,610 Julia and I, who had left Brideshead a month before 12 00:01:30,010 --> 00:01:30,840 thinking we should not return 13 00:01:32,450 --> 00:01:32,780 moved back for the reception. 14 00:04:46,210 --> 00:04:47,490 It's the cold. 15 00:04:47,910 --> 00:04:50,650 I'd forgotten how cold it is in England. 16 00:04:52,130 --> 00:04:53,330 Quite bowled me over. 17 00:04:55,210 --> 00:04:57,820 Can I get you anything, my Lord? Nothing, thank you. 18 00:04:57,850 --> 00:05:00,430 Cara, where are those confounded pills? 19 00:05:00,970 --> 00:05:03,190 The doctor said not more than three times a day. 20 00:05:03,220 --> 00:05:04,170 Damn the doctor! 21 00:05:04,210 --> 00:05:06,150 I feel quite bowled over. 22 00:05:09,690 --> 00:05:10,860 A glass of water. Sure. 23 00:05:51,460 --> 00:05:53,420 I don't feel at all the thing today. 24 00:05:55,350 --> 00:05:57,780 The journey took it out of me. 25 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,790 Ought to have waited a night at Dover. 26 00:06:03,770 --> 00:06:06,530 Wilcox, which rooms have you prepared for me? 27 00:06:06,970 --> 00:06:08,100 Your old rooms, my Lord. 28 00:06:10,210 --> 00:06:11,630 Not till I'm fit again. 29 00:06:11,690 --> 00:06:12,800 Too many stairs 30 00:06:12,830 --> 00:06:13,960 It has to be on the ground floor. 31 00:06:14,850 --> 00:06:17,540 Plender, get a bed made up for me downstairs. 32 00:06:17,810 --> 00:06:18,800 Very good, my Lord. 33 00:06:20,210 --> 00:06:22,240 Which room shall we put it in, my Lord? 34 00:06:28,490 --> 00:06:30,110 The Chinese drawing room. 35 00:06:31,090 --> 00:06:32,330 Very good, my Lord. 36 00:06:33,970 --> 00:06:34,860 And, Wilcox 37 00:06:38,530 --> 00:06:39,900 The Queen's Bed. 38 00:06:40,530 --> 00:06:41,960 The Chinese drawing room, my Lord 39 00:06:42,410 --> 00:06:43,420 and the Queen's bed. 40 00:06:43,650 --> 00:06:44,250 Yes, yes. 41 00:06:52,610 --> 00:06:54,860 Few things could have caused more stir in the house. 42 00:06:55,930 --> 00:06:58,460 The Chinese Drawing Room was one I'd never seen used. 43 00:06:59,370 --> 00:07:01,180 The Queen's Bed was an exhibition piece 44 00:07:02,130 --> 00:07:05,340 a vast brocade tent, like the baldachino at St Peter's. 45 00:07:06,530 --> 00:07:09,230 So what had been foreseen as a day of formality 46 00:07:09,570 --> 00:07:11,500 became one of fierce exertion. 47 00:07:12,410 --> 00:07:14,160 The Estate carpenters were collected 48 00:07:14,190 --> 00:07:15,370 to dismantle the bed 49 00:07:15,810 --> 00:07:19,200 and it came down the main staircase at intervals during the afternoon. 50 00:07:20,250 --> 00:07:22,080 Lord Marchmain seemed to derive comfort 51 00:07:22,170 --> 00:07:23,810 from the consequences of his whim 52 00:07:24,730 --> 00:07:26,520 and as he showed no inclination to move 53 00:07:26,810 --> 00:07:28,560 tea was brought to us in the hall. 54 00:07:34,490 --> 00:07:38,120 I daresay I shan't really be fit again until the summer comes. 55 00:07:41,570 --> 00:07:44,410 I look to you four to amuse me. 56 00:07:47,530 --> 00:07:51,220 Tell me the circumstances of Brideshead's courtship. 57 00:07:52,010 --> 00:07:54,280 It seems he met her late husband first. 58 00:07:54,410 --> 00:07:55,700 They shared the same hobby. 59 00:07:56,690 --> 00:07:57,650 What was that? 60 00:07:57,970 --> 00:07:58,830 Matchboxes. 61 00:07:59,410 --> 00:08:01,760 Admiral Muspratt apparently had one on the finest collections 62 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:02,830 in the country. 63 00:08:04,690 --> 00:08:05,400 Matchboxes. 64 00:08:06,490 --> 00:08:07,480 Matchboxes. 65 00:08:08,970 --> 00:08:11,550 I think she's past child-bearing. 66 00:08:16,090 --> 00:08:19,140 In Italy no one believes there's going to be a war. 67 00:08:19,170 --> 00:08:21,310 they think it will all be arranged. 68 00:08:21,930 --> 00:08:26,370 I suppose, Julia, you no longer have access to political information 69 00:08:28,050 --> 00:08:31,980 Cara, here, is fortunately a British citizen by marriage. 70 00:08:32,410 --> 00:08:34,520 It is not a thing she customarily mentions 71 00:08:34,650 --> 00:08:38,490 but it may prove valuable. She's legally Mrs. Hicks 72 00:08:38,570 --> 00:08:39,940 are you not, my dear? 73 00:08:41,130 --> 00:08:43,240 We know little of Hicks but we shall be grateful to him 74 00:08:43,770 --> 00:08:44,900 if it comes to war. 75 00:08:46,210 --> 00:08:48,640 And you you will I suppose be 76 00:08:49,090 --> 00:08:51,610 an official artist? 77 00:08:52,810 --> 00:08:53,570 No 78 00:08:54,090 --> 00:08:55,060 As a matter of fact 79 00:08:55,850 --> 00:08:59,530 I am negotiating now for a commission in the Special Reserve. 80 00:09:00,410 --> 00:09:03,090 You should be an artist. 81 00:09:03,850 --> 00:09:06,430 I had one with me during the last war, for weeks 82 00:09:07,730 --> 00:09:09,450 till we went up the line. 83 00:10:07,010 --> 00:10:07,410 Oh! 84 00:10:09,490 --> 00:10:13,730 It really looks remarkably well. 85 00:10:13,770 --> 00:10:16,420 I do congratulate you. 86 00:10:17,170 --> 00:10:18,200 Yes, indeed. 87 00:10:20,210 --> 00:10:23,360 Wilcox I seem to remember a silver basin and ewer 88 00:10:23,530 --> 00:10:26,470 it stood in what we used to call 'The Irish Dressing Room'. 89 00:10:26,770 --> 00:10:29,380 Suppose we put it here on the console. 90 00:10:30,170 --> 00:10:32,660 Send Plender and Gaston to me. 91 00:10:33,970 --> 00:10:35,820 Tell them not to worry about the luggage. 92 00:10:36,250 --> 00:10:38,390 Just my dressing case and things for the night. 93 00:10:38,420 --> 00:10:39,600 Plender will know. 94 00:10:40,930 --> 00:10:42,940 Now if you'll all leave me 95 00:10:43,770 --> 00:10:44,530 I'll go to bed. 96 00:10:45,570 --> 00:10:46,670 We'll meet later. 97 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:49,820 You'll all come and dine with me here and keep me amused. 98 00:10:50,570 --> 00:10:51,680 Of course, papa. 99 00:11:00,930 --> 00:11:05,230 Charles. It really looks very well. Doesn't it? 100 00:11:08,970 --> 00:11:09,930 Very well. 101 00:11:11,530 --> 00:11:13,510 You might paint it, eh? 102 00:11:17,290 --> 00:11:18,920 Call it'The Death Bed'. 103 00:11:29,970 --> 00:11:30,880 Did he mean that? 104 00:11:32,130 --> 00:11:34,190 Yes. He has come home to die. 105 00:11:39,050 --> 00:11:42,280 But this afternoon he was speaking so confidently of recovery. 106 00:11:42,610 --> 00:11:44,130 That's because he was so ill. 107 00:11:46,010 --> 00:11:48,860 When he is himself, he knows he is dying and accepts it. 108 00:11:51,610 --> 00:11:53,220 His sickness is up and down. 109 00:11:54,650 --> 00:11:57,050 One day, sometimes several days 110 00:11:57,210 --> 00:12:00,640 he is strong and lively and then ready for death. 111 00:12:02,850 --> 00:12:05,070 Other days he is down and afraid. 112 00:12:06,610 --> 00:12:09,430 I do not know how it will be when is more and more down. 113 00:12:10,890 --> 00:12:12,240 That will come in good time. 114 00:12:13,890 --> 00:12:16,510 The doctors in Rome gave him less than a year. 115 00:12:17,410 --> 00:12:20,940 There is someone coming from London, I think, tomorrow, who will tell us more. 116 00:12:21,130 --> 00:12:21,970 What is it? 117 00:12:22,850 --> 00:12:23,780 His heart. 118 00:12:25,290 --> 00:12:26,970 Some long word at the heart. 119 00:12:28,690 --> 00:12:30,230 He is dying of a long word. 120 00:12:43,850 --> 00:12:48,310 I've not been much moved by family piety until now 121 00:12:48,610 --> 00:12:52,480 but I am frankly appalled at the prospect 122 00:12:52,810 --> 00:12:58,270 of Beryl taking what was once my mother's place 123 00:12:58,330 --> 00:12:59,360 in this house. 124 00:13:01,050 --> 00:13:05,260 Why should that uncouth couple sit here childless 125 00:13:05,290 --> 00:13:07,900 while the house crumbles about their ears? 126 00:13:13,170 --> 00:13:18,740 I will not disguise from you that I have taken a dislike to Beryl. 127 00:13:20,610 --> 00:13:23,470 Perhaps it was unfortunate that we should meet in Rome. 128 00:13:23,930 --> 00:13:26,470 Almost any other place would have been more sympathetic. 129 00:13:26,770 --> 00:13:28,050 And yet, when one considers it 130 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,150 where could I have met her without repugnance? 131 00:13:31,970 --> 00:13:35,430 We dined at Raineri's. A quite little restaurant 132 00:13:35,570 --> 00:13:37,240 which I have frequented for years 133 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:38,440 no doubt you know it. 134 00:13:40,130 --> 00:13:43,810 Beryl seemed to fill the place. 135 00:13:44,730 --> 00:13:46,220 I of course was host 136 00:13:46,970 --> 00:13:50,680 but to hear Beryl press my son with food 137 00:13:50,690 --> 00:13:52,250 you would have thought otherwise. 138 00:13:53,410 --> 00:13:55,410 Brideshead was always a greedy boy. 139 00:13:56,450 --> 00:14:01,740 A wife with his best interests at heart would rather have tried to restrain him. 140 00:14:01,850 --> 00:14:03,630 But that's a matter of small importance. 141 00:14:06,850 --> 00:14:10,620 No doubt she had heard of me as a man of irregular life. 142 00:14:10,890 --> 00:14:14,350 I can only describe her manner to me as roguish. 143 00:14:15,370 --> 00:14:18,320 A naughty, old man, that's what I was. 144 00:14:18,890 --> 00:14:21,240 I suppose she's met naughty old Admirals 145 00:14:21,290 --> 00:14:23,410 and knew how they were to be humored. 146 00:14:24,650 --> 00:14:27,580 I will not attempt to describe her conversation. 147 00:14:30,610 --> 00:14:32,420 I will give you one example. 148 00:14:33,410 --> 00:14:35,940 They had been to an audience at the Vatican that morning 149 00:14:36,450 --> 00:14:38,030 a blessing on their marriage. 150 00:14:39,650 --> 00:14:41,530 And do you know what she said to me? 151 00:14:42,770 --> 00:14:45,340 'Lord Marchmain', she said 152 00:14:47,490 --> 00:14:50,900 'I felt as though it was I who was leading the bride'. 153 00:14:52,130 --> 00:14:53,540 It was said with great indelicacy 154 00:14:55,530 --> 00:14:57,910 I can't yet quite fathom 155 00:14:58,450 --> 00:14:59,780 what she meant. 156 00:15:01,970 --> 00:15:03,930 Was she making a play on my son's name 157 00:15:03,970 --> 00:15:09,830 or was she, do you think, referring to his undoubted virginity? 158 00:15:11,770 --> 00:15:13,510 I fancy the latter. 159 00:15:14,330 --> 00:15:19,550 I don't think she would quite be in her proper element here, do you? 160 00:15:22,330 --> 00:15:23,550 Who shall I leave it to? 161 00:15:23,970 --> 00:15:26,550 The entail ended with me, you know. 162 00:15:29,730 --> 00:15:31,730 Sebastian, alas, is out of the question. 163 00:15:32,050 --> 00:15:34,420 Who wants it? 164 00:15:36,370 --> 00:15:37,470 A quiz! 165 00:15:40,090 --> 00:15:41,860 Would you like it, Cara? 166 00:15:43,850 --> 00:15:45,200 No, of course you wouldn't. 167 00:15:45,410 --> 00:15:46,430 Cordelia? 168 00:15:49,690 --> 00:15:52,120 I think I shall leave it to Julia and Charles. 169 00:15:52,930 --> 00:15:55,140 Of course not, papa. It's Bridey's. 170 00:15:56,330 --> 00:15:57,520 And Beryl's? 171 00:15:59,170 --> 00:16:02,780 I should have Gregson down one day soon and go over the matter. 172 00:16:02,850 --> 00:16:04,310 It's time I brought my will up to date. 173 00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:06,090 It's full of anomalies and anachronisms 174 00:16:06,610 --> 00:16:11,110 I have taken a fancy to the idea of installing Julia here. 175 00:16:11,850 --> 00:16:16,980 So beautiful this evening, my dear. So beautiful always. 176 00:16:19,410 --> 00:16:20,930 Much more suitable. 177 00:16:32,690 --> 00:16:35,000 Do you think he really means to leave it to us? 178 00:16:38,410 --> 00:16:39,410 Yes, I think he does. 179 00:16:45,210 --> 00:16:46,990 But it's monstrous for Bridey. 180 00:16:48,690 --> 00:16:49,760 Is it? 181 00:16:52,050 --> 00:16:54,000 I don't think he cares much for the place. 182 00:16:58,290 --> 00:16:59,720 I do, you know. 183 00:17:02,930 --> 00:17:05,060 He and Beryl will be much more content 184 00:17:05,100 --> 00:17:06,800 in some little house somewhere. 185 00:17:09,170 --> 00:17:10,460 So you mean to accept? 186 00:17:10,930 --> 00:17:12,000 Certainly. 187 00:17:12,370 --> 00:17:14,310 It's Papa's to leave as he likes. 188 00:17:21,010 --> 00:17:23,160 I think you and I could be very happy here. 189 00:17:45,970 --> 00:17:48,530 Brideshead and his wife returned from their honeymoon 190 00:17:49,090 --> 00:17:50,830 and stayed a few nights. 191 00:17:51,810 --> 00:17:52,860 It was one of the bad times 192 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:55,560 and Lord Marchmain refused to have them near him. 193 00:17:57,490 --> 00:18:00,370 "Mr Chamberlain opened his speech in Birmingham by saying 194 00:18:00,450 --> 00:18:02,870 that tomorrow he would attain his seventieth birthday 195 00:18:05,530 --> 00:18:08,740 and that as he felt still sound in mind and limb 196 00:18:09,130 --> 00:18:11,280 he hoped he might have a few more years before him 197 00:18:11,490 --> 00:18:14,060 in which to give what service he could to the State". 198 00:18:16,250 --> 00:18:18,180 'this remark was greeted with cheers'. 199 00:18:21,450 --> 00:18:22,350 Shall I go on? 200 00:18:23,810 --> 00:18:26,600 Yes do, if it's not boring you. 201 00:18:26,630 --> 00:18:28,250 No. 202 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:29,290 Chamberlain 203 00:18:31,250 --> 00:18:32,170 I knew him 204 00:18:35,090 --> 00:18:36,430 A mediocre fellow. 205 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:48,050 Bridey, I'm sorry. 206 00:18:49,010 --> 00:18:51,270 He's terribly tired. 207 00:18:52,290 --> 00:18:54,570 He can't see anyone else today. 208 00:18:55,610 --> 00:18:56,720 Oh dear. 209 00:18:59,850 --> 00:19:02,600 How very disappointing. Are you quite sure? 210 00:19:03,450 --> 00:19:05,580 He's very exhausted. 211 00:19:06,210 --> 00:19:07,590 Yes, I do see. 212 00:19:09,890 --> 00:19:11,790 Perhaps tomorrow he'll be brighter. 213 00:19:12,490 --> 00:19:14,930 Well I'm afraid Beryl simply can't wait any longer. 214 00:19:14,970 --> 00:19:16,530 She has to get back to the children. 215 00:19:16,890 --> 00:19:19,570 As you can imagine, this is very distressing for her. 216 00:19:20,050 --> 00:19:22,070 She was most anxious to see him. 217 00:19:22,130 --> 00:19:25,200 She formed an instant liking for him in Rome. 218 00:19:26,930 --> 00:19:31,380 One morning, Father MacKay, the parish priest from Melstead 219 00:19:31,420 --> 00:19:33,650 came to call as a matter of politeness. 220 00:19:34,130 --> 00:19:35,220 Don't bother. I'll be alright. 221 00:19:35,250 --> 00:19:37,500 Good morning. 222 00:19:41,610 --> 00:19:44,410 Cordelia put him off with apologies and excuses 223 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,770 but when he was gone, she said'Not yet' 224 00:19:48,570 --> 00:19:50,270 Papa doesn't want him yet. 225 00:19:58,930 --> 00:20:01,170 Charles, I see great Church trouble ahead. 226 00:20:01,610 --> 00:20:03,940 Can't they even let him die in peace? 227 00:20:04,850 --> 00:20:07,250 They mean something so different by'peace'. 228 00:20:08,250 --> 00:20:09,900 It would be an outrage. 229 00:20:11,330 --> 00:20:13,630 No one could have made it plainer in his life 230 00:20:13,670 --> 00:20:14,960 what he thought of religion. 231 00:20:16,090 --> 00:20:18,550 They come to him now when his mind's wandering and he hasn't the strength 232 00:20:18,590 --> 00:20:21,060 to resist and claim him as a death bed penitent. 233 00:20:21,690 --> 00:20:23,580 I've had some respect for their religion up to now 234 00:20:23,610 --> 00:20:24,400 but if they do that 235 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,930 then I'll know that what stupid people say is true 236 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:31,750 that its all superstition and trickery. 237 00:20:31,780 --> 00:20:32,950 Don't you agree? 238 00:20:35,730 --> 00:20:38,200 I don't know, Charles. I simply don't know. 239 00:20:45,730 --> 00:20:47,960 The weeks of illness wore on 240 00:20:48,450 --> 00:20:51,360 and the life of the house kept pace 241 00:20:51,390 --> 00:20:53,590 with the faltering strength of the sick man. 242 00:20:56,530 --> 00:20:59,240 No, it's too good. I don't believe it. 243 00:21:03,770 --> 00:21:06,640 Cordelia, you didn't let me win on purpose, did you? 244 00:21:07,290 --> 00:21:08,760 Of course not, Papa. 245 00:21:09,570 --> 00:21:11,800 Wilcox says the Painted Parlour's ready. 246 00:21:12,410 --> 00:21:14,350 Do you really want to do this? 247 00:21:14,390 --> 00:21:15,740 What's that, Julia? 248 00:21:16,450 --> 00:21:18,370 Apparently Papa told Wilcox this morning 249 00:21:18,410 --> 00:21:20,300 he wants to move to the Painted Parlour. 250 00:21:20,810 --> 00:21:23,850 Well, I've changed my mind. 251 00:21:27,970 --> 00:21:31,410 Why should you move? You're comfortable here. 252 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,710 Where's she going? Where's she going? 253 00:21:34,730 --> 00:21:36,940 Don't worry, Alex. She's coming back. 254 00:21:37,890 --> 00:21:39,510 Do you want me to read to you? 255 00:21:39,540 --> 00:21:40,250 No. 256 00:21:40,290 --> 00:21:42,050 I'll get my revenge first. 257 00:21:42,570 --> 00:21:44,570 I suppose you want the whites to win this one. 258 00:21:57,090 --> 00:21:59,320 Once, at the end of February 259 00:21:59,450 --> 00:22:00,940 he called for a car 260 00:22:00,980 --> 00:22:02,790 and got as far as the north front steps. 261 00:22:04,450 --> 00:22:07,200 Then suddenly he lost interest in the drive. 262 00:22:08,290 --> 00:22:12,340 No, not now. Later. 263 00:22:12,370 --> 00:22:16,570 Sometime in the summer. 264 00:22:26,970 --> 00:22:29,290 The bad spells became longer 265 00:22:29,330 --> 00:22:30,690 and more frequent. 266 00:22:32,090 --> 00:22:35,190 Days and nights became indistinguishable to him. 267 00:22:36,810 --> 00:22:38,680 A nurse was engaged. 268 00:23:02,650 --> 00:23:05,830 I have a very serious complaint to make, Lady Cordelia. 269 00:23:06,290 --> 00:23:08,220 I've never seen such a room 270 00:23:08,290 --> 00:23:11,290 nothing like it anywhere in all my experience. 271 00:23:11,890 --> 00:23:15,460 How can I possibly nurse his Lordship in conditions like this? 272 00:23:16,450 --> 00:23:19,300 I must insist that my patient's moved 273 00:23:19,330 --> 00:23:20,660 where there's running hot water 274 00:23:20,810 --> 00:23:23,760 a small narrow bed that I can get round 275 00:23:23,790 --> 00:23:25,840 and a dressing room for myself. 276 00:23:26,410 --> 00:23:28,230 It's only what I'm used to. 277 00:23:28,690 --> 00:23:32,570 I'm sorry nurse, we have tried 278 00:23:32,970 --> 00:23:35,500 but it's hopeless. He won't be moved. 279 00:23:36,050 --> 00:23:38,850 Then I can't answer for the consequences. 280 00:23:44,930 --> 00:23:47,280 Presently there were no good spells 281 00:23:47,370 --> 00:23:51,100 merely brief fluctuations in the speed of his decline. 282 00:23:51,970 --> 00:23:53,770 Bridey was called back. 283 00:23:54,290 --> 00:23:56,220 It was the Easter holidays 284 00:23:56,250 --> 00:23:57,930 and Beryl was busy with her children. 285 00:23:58,690 --> 00:24:00,240 He came alone. 286 00:24:12,730 --> 00:24:14,390 Papa must see a priest. 287 00:24:15,530 --> 00:24:17,300 Oh Bridey, do you think he would? 288 00:24:17,530 --> 00:24:19,190 I shall see that he does. 289 00:24:19,290 --> 00:24:21,690 I've just asked Father MacKay to come tomorrow. 290 00:24:21,810 --> 00:24:23,230 I'll take him in myself. 291 00:24:45,490 --> 00:24:47,660 Although none of us had spoken of it 292 00:24:48,370 --> 00:24:50,350 I felt the question ever present 293 00:24:50,690 --> 00:24:52,550 through the weeks of Lord Marchmain's illness. 294 00:24:53,850 --> 00:24:57,440 I saw it when Cordelia drove off early in the mornings for Mass. 295 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,220 I saw it as Cara took to going with her. 296 00:25:02,010 --> 00:25:06,360 Now Brideshead, in his own way 297 00:25:06,410 --> 00:25:09,040 had planted the problem down before us. 298 00:25:12,170 --> 00:25:15,720 Well now, Lord Brideshead, do you think the poor soul would be ready to see me? 299 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:16,790 I'm sure, Father. 300 00:25:16,890 --> 00:25:18,570 Nurse said he had a good night. 301 00:25:18,930 --> 00:25:20,410 Would you care to come with me? 302 00:25:48,890 --> 00:25:51,150 This is all so serious. 303 00:26:00,770 --> 00:26:01,960 Listen 304 00:26:01,970 --> 00:26:04,990 'April events on the Riviera.' 305 00:26:05,650 --> 00:26:08,100 'There will be a fete on Monte Carlo 306 00:26:08,140 --> 00:26:12,500 and Mrs. Reginald Fellows has organized a charity gala.' 307 00:26:14,570 --> 00:26:17,320 Indefatigable old bag! 308 00:26:37,970 --> 00:26:40,540 I've brought Father MacKay to see you, Papa. 309 00:26:43,290 --> 00:26:44,680 Who? 310 00:26:44,710 --> 00:26:46,370 Father MacKay, Papa. 311 00:26:51,090 --> 00:26:52,750 Father MacKay. 312 00:26:53,410 --> 00:26:57,950 I'm afraid you've been brought here under a misapprehension. 313 00:26:59,090 --> 00:27:01,000 I am not in extremis 314 00:27:01,210 --> 00:27:05,520 and I have not been a practicing member of your Church 315 00:27:05,550 --> 00:27:06,860 for twenty-five years. 316 00:27:07,530 --> 00:27:08,060 Brideshead 317 00:27:09,650 --> 00:27:12,210 I think you should see Father MacKay out 318 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:13,180 don't you? 319 00:27:17,810 --> 00:27:19,400 Go on reading, darling. 320 00:27:21,610 --> 00:27:24,550 The Russian ballet season will open under the direction 321 00:27:24,650 --> 00:27:26,560 of Monsieur Massine 322 00:27:26,650 --> 00:27:30,950 and the Battle of Flowers will take place at Nice. 323 00:27:31,050 --> 00:27:32,880 Father, I can only apologize 324 00:27:32,910 --> 00:27:33,890 Poor soul. 325 00:27:33,930 --> 00:27:36,150 Mark you, it was seeing a strange face. 326 00:27:36,190 --> 00:27:37,760 You may depend on it. That's what it was 327 00:27:37,790 --> 00:27:39,430 the unexpected stranger. 328 00:27:39,650 --> 00:27:41,950 Indeed I can understand it well myself. 329 00:27:43,530 --> 00:27:46,000 I'm sorry, Father. It's wretched to have 330 00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:47,180 brought you all this way. 331 00:27:47,450 --> 00:27:49,640 Don't talk about it at all, Lady Cordelia. 332 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,290 Why, I've had bottles thrown at me in the Gorbals. 333 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:53,800 Give him time. 334 00:27:53,970 --> 00:27:57,100 I've know worse cases make beautiful deaths. 335 00:27:57,770 --> 00:28:01,470 And now if you'll excuse me, I'll pay a visit to Mrs. Hawkins. 336 00:28:01,650 --> 00:28:03,230 I'll call again. 337 00:28:03,570 --> 00:28:04,770 Pray for him. 338 00:28:05,490 --> 00:28:07,250 Do you know your way, Father? 339 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:08,140 Indeed I do. 340 00:28:23,690 --> 00:28:26,110 Do I gather the visit was not a success? 341 00:28:26,210 --> 00:28:27,590 It was not. 342 00:28:28,050 --> 00:28:30,460 Cordelia, will you drive Father MacKay home 343 00:28:30,490 --> 00:28:31,530 when he comes down from Nanny's. 344 00:28:31,650 --> 00:28:34,540 I'm going to telephone Beryl to see if she needs me at home. 345 00:28:35,450 --> 00:28:36,500 Bridey 346 00:28:38,250 --> 00:28:40,010 It was horrible. 347 00:28:40,890 --> 00:28:42,510 What are we going to do? 348 00:28:42,650 --> 00:28:44,730 We've done all we can for the moment. 349 00:29:02,490 --> 00:29:04,060 Damn Bridey! 350 00:29:11,490 --> 00:29:13,340 I knew it wouldn't work. 351 00:29:17,090 --> 00:29:18,610 I felt triumphant. 352 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,260 I had been right. Everyone else had been wrong. 353 00:29:21,730 --> 00:29:23,550 Truth had prevailed. 354 00:29:23,570 --> 00:29:25,170 The threat I had felt hanging 355 00:29:25,210 --> 00:29:27,820 over Julia and me at the fountain had been averted 356 00:29:28,170 --> 00:29:30,040 perhaps dispelled forever. 357 00:29:34,530 --> 00:29:35,970 Mumbo-jumbo's off. 358 00:29:37,850 --> 00:29:39,800 The witch doctor's gone. 359 00:29:39,830 --> 00:29:41,220 Poor papa. 360 00:29:41,260 --> 00:29:42,950 It's great sucks to Bridey. 361 00:29:46,530 --> 00:29:49,070 I can't quite see why you've taken it so to heart 362 00:29:49,110 --> 00:29:51,090 that my father shall not have the last sacraments. 363 00:29:51,570 --> 00:29:55,290 Well, it's such a lot of witchcraft and hypocrisy, isn't it? 364 00:29:56,010 --> 00:29:57,140 Is it? 365 00:29:58,450 --> 00:30:00,210 It's been going on for nearly two thousand years. 366 00:30:01,650 --> 00:30:04,950 I really don't know why you should suddenly get so excited about it now. 367 00:30:05,570 --> 00:30:07,100 For Christ's sake 368 00:30:07,930 --> 00:30:09,830 write a letter to'The Times' 369 00:30:10,090 --> 00:30:12,390 get up and make a speech in Hyde Park 370 00:30:12,430 --> 00:30:14,270 start a'No Popery' riot 371 00:30:14,770 --> 00:30:16,500 but don't bore me about it. 372 00:30:17,730 --> 00:30:19,390 What's it got to do with you or me 373 00:30:19,420 --> 00:30:21,360 whether my father sees his parish priest? 374 00:30:30,010 --> 00:30:31,260 There was also 375 00:30:31,370 --> 00:30:33,230 I can now confess it 376 00:30:33,450 --> 00:30:36,960 another unexpressed, inexpressible 377 00:30:37,090 --> 00:30:39,130 indecent, little victory 378 00:30:39,170 --> 00:30:41,160 that I was furtively celebrating. 379 00:30:41,410 --> 00:30:43,630 I guessed that the morning's business 380 00:30:43,660 --> 00:30:47,820 had put Brideshead some considerable way further from his rightful inheritance. 381 00:30:48,530 --> 00:30:50,620 In that I was correct. 382 00:30:50,690 --> 00:30:54,570 A man was sent for from the solicitors in London that afternoon. 383 00:30:55,130 --> 00:30:58,340 It soon became known throughout the house that Lord Marchmain 384 00:30:58,380 --> 00:30:59,890 had made a new will. 385 00:31:01,410 --> 00:31:04,510 I was wrong in thinking that the religious controversy 386 00:31:04,550 --> 00:31:05,450 was quashed. 387 00:31:06,210 --> 00:31:08,940 It flared up again that evening, after dinner. 388 00:31:09,250 --> 00:31:12,500 What Papa said was 'I am not in extremis. 389 00:31:12,530 --> 00:31:14,280 I have not been a practicing member 390 00:31:14,310 --> 00:31:15,930 of the church for twenty-five years'. 391 00:31:16,330 --> 00:31:18,530 Not'the church', 'your church'. 392 00:31:18,570 --> 00:31:20,730 I don't see the difference. 393 00:31:20,770 --> 00:31:22,820 There's every difference. 394 00:31:24,450 --> 00:31:26,930 Bridey, it's perfectly plain what he meant. 395 00:31:26,970 --> 00:31:28,870 I presume he meant what he said. 396 00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:30,450 He meant he was not accustomed 397 00:31:30,490 --> 00:31:32,020 regularly to receive the sacrament 398 00:31:32,060 --> 00:31:34,600 and since he was not at that moment dying 399 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,870 he did not intend to change his ways yet. 400 00:31:36,910 --> 00:31:38,630 That's simply a quibble. 401 00:31:38,660 --> 00:31:40,650 Why do people always think that one is quibbling 402 00:31:40,690 --> 00:31:42,290 when one tries to be precise? 403 00:31:42,370 --> 00:31:44,840 His plain meaning was that he did not 404 00:31:44,870 --> 00:31:45,950 wish to see a priest that day 405 00:31:45,990 --> 00:31:48,090 but that he would when he was in'extremis'. 406 00:31:48,690 --> 00:31:50,640 I wonder if there's any more coffee. 407 00:31:53,690 --> 00:31:55,710 I wish somebody would explain to me 408 00:31:55,850 --> 00:31:58,200 what the significance of these sacraments is. 409 00:31:59,250 --> 00:32:02,160 Do you mean that if he dies without a priest 410 00:32:02,330 --> 00:32:05,060 quite alone, that he goes to Hell? 411 00:32:05,210 --> 00:32:07,860 And that if a priest is there and puts oil on him... 412 00:32:07,900 --> 00:32:11,180 No, it's not the oil that heals him. 413 00:32:11,370 --> 00:32:13,820 Odder still, well, whatever it is he does 414 00:32:14,210 --> 00:32:17,150 that then he goes to Heaven? Now is that what you believe? 415 00:32:17,190 --> 00:32:20,010 I think my nurse told me, or someone did anyway 416 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,810 that if the priest got there before the body was cold 417 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,100 it was all right. That's so, isn't it? 418 00:32:25,140 --> 00:32:26,730 No, Cara. It isn't. 419 00:32:26,770 --> 00:32:27,660 Certainly not. 420 00:32:27,690 --> 00:32:29,270 You've got it all wrong. 421 00:32:30,930 --> 00:32:33,590 Do any of you Catholics know exactly 422 00:32:33,620 --> 00:32:35,420 what good you think this priest will do? 423 00:32:35,570 --> 00:32:37,930 Do you simply want to arrange it so that your father 424 00:32:37,970 --> 00:32:39,180 can have a Christian burial? 425 00:32:39,330 --> 00:32:41,370 Or do you want to keep him out of hell? 426 00:32:42,170 --> 00:32:43,980 I only want to be told. 427 00:32:44,130 --> 00:32:45,960 They're the same thing. 428 00:32:46,090 --> 00:32:48,140 To keep out of hell, as you put it 429 00:32:48,170 --> 00:32:51,860 and have a Christian burial, he must make an act of the will. 430 00:32:52,050 --> 00:32:55,510 He has to be contrite and wish to be reconciled. 431 00:32:55,650 --> 00:32:58,860 Only God knows whether he has really made that act of will. 432 00:32:58,890 --> 00:33:00,670 You mean sometimes the priest doesn't know? 433 00:33:00,710 --> 00:33:02,110 Not necessarily. 434 00:33:02,290 --> 00:33:04,460 So, it's quite possible that the will may still 435 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:06,120 be working when a man is too weak 436 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,750 to make any outward sign of it? 437 00:33:08,210 --> 00:33:09,510 He may be lying as though dead. 438 00:33:09,540 --> 00:33:11,980 Yes, and willing all the time to be reconciled. 439 00:33:12,290 --> 00:33:15,730 God understands that, and so does the Church 440 00:33:15,770 --> 00:33:18,320 so she is able to give him the last sacraments. 441 00:33:18,570 --> 00:33:20,710 I never heard that before. 442 00:33:23,650 --> 00:33:27,700 So, if the priest isn't there, and he makes the act of will alone 443 00:33:27,740 --> 00:33:29,510 that's as good as if there was a priest. Is that right? 444 00:33:29,540 --> 00:33:31,070 More or less. 445 00:33:31,370 --> 00:33:32,830 Well, for heaven's sake 446 00:33:33,010 --> 00:33:34,270 what's the priest for? 447 00:33:39,530 --> 00:33:43,830 All that I know is that I shall take very good care 448 00:33:43,860 --> 00:33:45,110 to have a priest. 449 00:33:49,130 --> 00:33:50,680 Bless you. 450 00:33:51,370 --> 00:33:53,500 I believe that's the best answer. 451 00:34:01,250 --> 00:34:03,900 I wish you wouldn't start these religious arguments. 452 00:34:04,050 --> 00:34:05,750 I didn't start it. 453 00:34:05,780 --> 00:34:09,230 You don't convince anyone else and you don't really convince yourself. 454 00:34:10,890 --> 00:34:14,160 I only want to know what these people believe. 455 00:34:14,650 --> 00:34:16,840 They say it's all based on logic. 456 00:34:16,870 --> 00:34:19,650 If you'd let Bridey finish, he would have made it all quite logical. 457 00:34:19,810 --> 00:34:21,180 There were four of you. 458 00:34:22,890 --> 00:34:24,500 Cara didn't know the first thing it was about 459 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:26,680 and may or may not have believed it. 460 00:34:27,410 --> 00:34:28,800 You knew a bit 461 00:34:28,830 --> 00:34:30,580 and didn't believe a word. 462 00:34:31,610 --> 00:34:34,110 Cordelia knew about as much and believed it madly. 463 00:34:34,150 --> 00:34:36,540 Only poor Bridey both knew and believed, 464 00:34:36,570 --> 00:34:39,290 and I thought he made a pretty poor show when it came to explaining. 465 00:34:40,930 --> 00:34:42,460 And people go about saying. 466 00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:44,660 At least Catholics know what they believe. 467 00:34:45,250 --> 00:34:48,020 Well, we had a fair cross section there tonight. 468 00:34:48,050 --> 00:34:49,910 Oh Charles, don't rant. 469 00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:54,470 I shall begin to think you're getting doubts. 470 00:35:04,610 --> 00:35:06,080 The weeks passed 471 00:35:06,110 --> 00:35:09,010 and still Lord Marchmain lived on. 472 00:35:10,290 --> 00:35:13,560 In June, my divorce was made absolute. 473 00:35:14,330 --> 00:35:16,380 Julia would be free in September. 474 00:35:16,730 --> 00:35:18,780 The nearer our marriage got 475 00:35:19,010 --> 00:35:22,020 the more wistfully I noticed Julia spoke of it. 476 00:35:23,050 --> 00:35:25,530 War was now growing nearer too. 477 00:35:26,810 --> 00:35:28,540 But Lord Marchmain's mind 478 00:35:28,570 --> 00:35:30,060 was far from world affairs. 479 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:33,670 It was there on the spot turned in on himself. 480 00:35:34,450 --> 00:35:36,610 He had no strength for any other war 481 00:35:36,650 --> 00:35:38,930 than his own solitary struggle to keep alive. 482 00:35:42,770 --> 00:35:43,930 Better today. 483 00:35:47,250 --> 00:35:48,960 Better today. 484 00:35:49,410 --> 00:35:53,910 I can see now, where the geese are flying over the lilies... 485 00:35:53,950 --> 00:36:01,090 where yesterday I was confused and took the lilies for swans. 486 00:36:02,130 --> 00:36:06,730 Soon I shall see where the geese are headed 487 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,860 when they gather to fly over the looking glass. 488 00:36:19,130 --> 00:36:20,930 Better tomorrow. 489 00:36:22,890 --> 00:36:24,860 We live long in our family 490 00:36:25,690 --> 00:36:27,230 and marry late. 491 00:36:29,490 --> 00:36:31,120 Seventy three 492 00:36:32,650 --> 00:36:34,420 No great age. 493 00:36:35,610 --> 00:36:39,100 Aunt Julia, my father's aunt 494 00:36:39,140 --> 00:36:40,430 lived to be eighty-eight. 495 00:36:41,450 --> 00:36:44,640 Born and died here. 496 00:36:46,250 --> 00:36:47,700 Never married. 497 00:36:50,290 --> 00:36:54,150 Saw the fire on Beacon Hill for the battle of Trafalgar. 498 00:36:56,250 --> 00:36:58,930 Always called it'The New House'. 499 00:37:00,190 --> 00:37:03,570 That was their name for it in the nursery 500 00:37:04,170 --> 00:37:09,510 and in the fields when unlettered men 501 00:37:09,540 --> 00:37:12,060 had long memories. 502 00:37:14,310 --> 00:37:17,740 You can see where the old house stood 503 00:37:17,770 --> 00:37:19,940 near the village church. 504 00:37:20,710 --> 00:37:24,110 They called the field'Castle Hill'. 505 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,390 Horlick's field 506 00:37:26,420 --> 00:37:29,700 where the ground's uneven 507 00:37:29,730 --> 00:37:31,440 and most of it waste 508 00:37:33,580 --> 00:37:35,570 nettle, and brier 509 00:37:36,140 --> 00:37:40,250 in hollows too deep for ploughing. 510 00:37:42,270 --> 00:37:47,850 Those were our roots 511 00:37:47,890 --> 00:37:52,420 in the waste hollows of Castle Hill. 512 00:37:53,390 --> 00:37:56,780 We were knights then 513 00:37:56,870 --> 00:38:00,910 barons since Agincourt. 514 00:38:00,950 --> 00:38:05,140 The larger honors came the last 515 00:38:05,170 --> 00:38:07,060 and they'll go the first. 516 00:38:07,070 --> 00:38:10,640 The barony goes on. 517 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:14,000 When Brideshead's buried 518 00:38:14,030 --> 00:38:20,060 Julia's son will be called 519 00:38:20,090 --> 00:38:23,980 by the name his fathers bore 520 00:38:24,010 --> 00:38:27,770 before the fat days. 521 00:38:28,590 --> 00:38:32,250 The days of wool shearing 522 00:38:32,290 --> 00:38:34,860 and the wide corn lands 523 00:38:34,900 --> 00:38:40,020 the days of growth and building 524 00:38:40,050 --> 00:38:43,880 when the marshes were drained 525 00:38:43,910 --> 00:38:48,080 and the waste land brought under the plough. 526 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:54,300 When one built the house 527 00:38:54,340 --> 00:38:58,520 his son added the dome 528 00:38:58,550 --> 00:39:03,550 his son spread the wings 529 00:39:03,590 --> 00:39:06,360 and dammed the river. 530 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:23,220 He's got a wonderful will to live 531 00:39:23,250 --> 00:39:24,080 hasn't he? 532 00:39:25,140 --> 00:39:26,780 Would you put it like that? 533 00:39:26,820 --> 00:39:28,970 I'd say a great fear of death. 534 00:39:30,100 --> 00:39:31,530 Is there a difference? 535 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,170 Oh dear me, yes. 536 00:39:33,780 --> 00:39:36,920 He doesn't derive any strength from his fear. 537 00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:38,830 It's wearing him out. 538 00:39:39,660 --> 00:39:41,170 Goodbye, Mr. Ryder. 539 00:39:41,740 --> 00:39:44,100 I'll call in tomorrow morning. 540 00:40:15,660 --> 00:40:17,180 Better stay. 541 00:40:18,980 --> 00:40:20,610 I've lived carefully 542 00:40:21,740 --> 00:40:24,620 protected myself from the cold winds 543 00:40:25,860 --> 00:40:28,630 eaten moderately what was in season 544 00:40:29,420 --> 00:40:31,460 drunk fine claret 545 00:40:32,620 --> 00:40:34,860 slept in my own sheets 546 00:40:35,740 --> 00:40:37,850 I shall live long. 547 00:40:40,260 --> 00:40:41,880 When I was fifty 548 00:40:43,380 --> 00:40:48,030 they dismounted us and sent us up the line. 549 00:40:48,660 --> 00:40:51,930 'Old men stay at the base', the orders said. 550 00:40:53,500 --> 00:40:57,230 Old venerables. My commanding.... my 551 00:40:57,260 --> 00:40:59,920 nearest neighbors, he said. 552 00:41:00,380 --> 00:41:04,990 'You are as fit as the youngest'.... 553 00:41:05,290 --> 00:41:06,450 So I was. 554 00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:09,270 So I am now 555 00:41:09,580 --> 00:41:13,380 if only I could breathe. 556 00:41:28,340 --> 00:41:30,180 When summer comes 557 00:41:31,220 --> 00:41:32,940 I shall leave my bed 558 00:41:33,820 --> 00:41:37,960 and sit in the open air 559 00:41:38,740 --> 00:41:40,260 and breathe more freely. 560 00:41:42,980 --> 00:41:45,430 When the wind comes down the valley 561 00:41:46,300 --> 00:41:48,780 and a man can turn to meet it 562 00:41:49,860 --> 00:41:51,810 and fill himself with air 563 00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:55,020 like a beast at water. 564 00:41:58,460 --> 00:42:00,620 God take it, why have 565 00:42:01,380 --> 00:42:03,740 they dug this hole for me? 566 00:42:04,540 --> 00:42:08,620 Must a man stifle to death in his own cellar? 567 00:42:08,660 --> 00:42:12,250 Plender, Gaston, open the windows. 568 00:42:14,820 --> 00:42:17,120 The windows are all wide open my Lord. 569 00:42:19,700 --> 00:42:23,490 It's empty, look nurse, there's nothing comes out. 570 00:42:23,530 --> 00:42:25,710 No, Lord Marchmain, it's quite full 571 00:42:25,750 --> 00:42:27,410 you can tell from this dial here 572 00:42:27,450 --> 00:42:28,940 it's at full pressure. 573 00:42:28,970 --> 00:42:31,100 Listen, can't you hear it hiss? 574 00:42:32,350 --> 00:42:37,770 Now, try and breathe slowly, Lord Marchmain 575 00:42:37,980 --> 00:42:39,720 quite gently, 576 00:42:41,220 --> 00:42:43,350 then you get the benefit. 577 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,160 There 578 00:42:57,260 --> 00:42:58,920 Free as air. 579 00:42:59,620 --> 00:43:01,060 That's what they say. 580 00:43:02,380 --> 00:43:05,020 'Free as air'. 581 00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:11,890 Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel. 582 00:43:14,620 --> 00:43:18,220 I was free once. 583 00:43:20,780 --> 00:43:24,690 I committed a crime 584 00:43:25,900 --> 00:43:27,750 in the name of freedom. 585 00:43:35,940 --> 00:43:37,220 Cordelia 586 00:43:37,820 --> 00:43:39,700 What became of the chapel? 587 00:43:41,860 --> 00:43:43,750 They locked it up, Papa 588 00:43:44,420 --> 00:43:45,830 when Mummy died. 589 00:43:48,540 --> 00:43:49,990 It was hers. 590 00:43:51,300 --> 00:43:53,050 I built it for her. 591 00:43:55,900 --> 00:43:59,590 There was a chaplain here until the war. 592 00:43:59,620 --> 00:44:01,040 Do you remember him? 593 00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:02,850 I was too young. 594 00:44:04,460 --> 00:44:06,610 Then I went away. 595 00:44:08,260 --> 00:44:09,520 I left her 596 00:44:10,620 --> 00:44:12,430 praying in the chapel. 597 00:44:13,620 --> 00:44:14,980 It was hers. 598 00:44:17,540 --> 00:44:19,500 It was the place for her. 599 00:44:21,220 --> 00:44:23,250 I never came back 600 00:44:23,860 --> 00:44:26,370 to disturb her prayers. 601 00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:32,250 They said we were fighting for freedom 602 00:44:33,980 --> 00:44:37,640 I had my victory. 603 00:44:41,020 --> 00:44:42,750 Was that a crime? 604 00:44:49,020 --> 00:44:51,170 I think it was Papa. 605 00:45:02,300 --> 00:45:04,760 Do you think that, child? 606 00:45:19,020 --> 00:45:21,500 Thus Lord Marchmain lay dying 607 00:45:22,020 --> 00:45:25,320 wearing himself down in the struggle to live. 608 00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:31,590 Since there was no reason to expect an immediate change 609 00:45:31,820 --> 00:45:35,050 Cordelia went to London to see her women's organization 610 00:45:35,090 --> 00:45:36,310 about the coming emergency. 611 00:45:39,940 --> 00:45:41,150 That day 612 00:45:41,300 --> 00:45:43,900 when Julia and I were alone with Cara 613 00:45:44,540 --> 00:45:46,630 he became suddenly worse. 614 00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:02,880 Is he dying? 615 00:46:03,340 --> 00:46:05,160 It's difficult to say. 616 00:46:05,190 --> 00:46:07,880 When he does die it will probably be like this. 617 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,070 He may recover from the present attack. 618 00:46:10,620 --> 00:46:12,870 The only thing is not to disturb him. 619 00:46:12,900 --> 00:46:15,250 The least shock will be fatal. 620 00:46:18,660 --> 00:46:20,720 I'm going to telephone Father MacKay. 621 00:46:33,700 --> 00:46:36,690 Dr. Grant, we must stop this nonsense. 622 00:46:38,180 --> 00:46:40,560 My business is with the body. 623 00:46:40,700 --> 00:46:43,990 It's not my business to argue whether people are better alive or dead 624 00:46:44,030 --> 00:46:46,280 or what happens to them after death. 625 00:46:46,500 --> 00:46:48,700 I only try to keep them alive. 626 00:46:50,460 --> 00:46:53,530 And you said just now that the least shock would kill him. 627 00:46:53,980 --> 00:46:57,330 What could be worse for a man who fears death, as he does 628 00:46:57,340 --> 00:46:59,600 than to have a priest brought to him? 629 00:47:00,020 --> 00:47:02,380 A priest he turned out when he had the strength? 630 00:47:04,100 --> 00:47:06,230 I think it may kill him. 631 00:47:07,260 --> 00:47:09,100 Then will you forbid it? 632 00:47:09,660 --> 00:47:12,490 I've no authority to forbid anything. 633 00:47:12,500 --> 00:47:14,470 I can only given an opinion. 634 00:47:15,180 --> 00:47:16,550 Doctor! 635 00:47:16,580 --> 00:47:18,010 Excuse me. 636 00:47:28,220 --> 00:47:30,140 Cara, what do you think? 637 00:47:32,340 --> 00:47:34,470 I don't want him made unhappy. 638 00:47:35,940 --> 00:47:39,830 That is all there is to hope for now, that he'll die without knowing it. 639 00:47:42,220 --> 00:47:45,200 But I should like the priest there all the same. 640 00:47:46,900 --> 00:47:50,180 Will you try and persuade Julia to keep him away 641 00:47:50,210 --> 00:47:51,730 until the end? 642 00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:55,930 Then he can do no harm. 643 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,850 I will ask her to leave Alex happy. 644 00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:05,710 Yes. 645 00:49:00,930 --> 00:49:02,780 I've telegraphed Bridey and Cordelia. 646 00:49:02,810 --> 00:49:05,540 I hope you agree that nothing should be done until they arrive. 647 00:49:06,530 --> 00:49:08,330 I wish they were here now. 648 00:49:10,650 --> 00:49:13,000 You can't take the responsibility alone. 649 00:49:13,530 --> 00:49:15,550 Everyone else is against you. 650 00:49:18,530 --> 00:49:19,800 Doctor Grant 651 00:49:19,930 --> 00:49:22,380 tell her what you told me just now. 652 00:49:23,450 --> 00:49:27,100 I said the shock of seeing a priest might well kill him 653 00:49:27,140 --> 00:49:29,480 without that he may survive this attack. 654 00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,490 As his medical man I must protest against anything 655 00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:34,440 being done to disturb him. 656 00:49:36,850 --> 00:49:38,280 Cara? 657 00:49:39,610 --> 00:49:41,970 I know you are doing for the best, Julia 658 00:49:42,250 --> 00:49:43,560 but you see 659 00:49:43,730 --> 00:49:47,490 Alex was not a religious man. He scoffed always. 660 00:49:47,850 --> 00:49:50,650 We mustn't take advantage of him, now he's weak 661 00:49:50,690 --> 00:49:53,060 to comfort our own consciences. 662 00:49:54,570 --> 00:49:57,460 If Father Mackay comes to him when he is unconscious 663 00:49:57,490 --> 00:49:59,580 then he can be buried in the proper way 664 00:49:59,620 --> 00:50:00,630 can he not, Father? 665 00:50:02,570 --> 00:50:04,960 I'll go and see how he is. 666 00:50:06,690 --> 00:50:10,150 Do you remember how Lord Marchmain greeted you last time? 667 00:50:10,180 --> 00:50:12,420 Do you think it possible he can have changed now? 668 00:50:12,450 --> 00:50:15,210 Well thank God, by His grace, it is possible. 669 00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:17,750 Perhaps you could go in while he is sleeping 670 00:50:17,780 --> 00:50:20,110 say the words of absolution over him 671 00:50:20,140 --> 00:50:21,430 he would never know. 672 00:50:21,470 --> 00:50:23,680 I've seen so many men and women die 673 00:50:23,930 --> 00:50:26,660 I never knew them sorry to have me there at the end. 674 00:50:26,700 --> 00:50:27,990 Yes, but they were Catholics. 675 00:50:28,130 --> 00:50:31,000 Lord Marchmain has never been one except in name 676 00:50:31,050 --> 00:50:33,010 well, at any rate not for years. 677 00:50:33,130 --> 00:50:35,370 He was a scoffer. 678 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,020 Cara said so. 679 00:50:48,290 --> 00:50:49,930 There's no change. 680 00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,540 Now, doctor, how could I be a shock to anyone? 681 00:50:52,570 --> 00:50:54,580 Do you know what I'm going to do? 682 00:50:54,610 --> 00:50:57,660 It is something so small, there's no show about it. 683 00:50:57,700 --> 00:51:01,340 I don't wear special clothes, you know. I go just as I am. 684 00:51:01,370 --> 00:51:04,660 He knows the look of me now. It's nothing alarming. 685 00:51:04,700 --> 00:51:06,980 Oh, Julia. What are we to say? 686 00:51:08,770 --> 00:51:10,410 Let me speak to him. 687 00:51:14,410 --> 00:51:15,620 Father. I really think we 688 00:51:15,890 --> 00:51:20,470 I just want him to make some little sign of assent, I want him, 689 00:51:20,500 --> 00:51:21,950 anyway, not to refuse me 690 00:51:22,170 --> 00:51:24,500 then I want to give him God's pardon. 691 00:51:37,530 --> 00:51:38,760 Alex? 692 00:51:44,530 --> 00:51:47,300 You remember the priest from Melstead? 693 00:51:48,170 --> 00:51:50,070 Father MacKay 694 00:51:52,450 --> 00:51:55,940 You were very naughty with him when he came to see you. 695 00:51:58,290 --> 00:52:00,750 You hurt his feelings very much. 696 00:52:04,730 --> 00:52:06,770 Now he's here again. 697 00:52:10,290 --> 00:52:12,560 I want you to see him 698 00:52:12,850 --> 00:52:14,580 just for my sake 699 00:52:18,330 --> 00:52:20,070 to make friends. 700 00:53:15,290 --> 00:53:18,270 Though it's not essential I wanted to anoint him. 701 00:53:18,410 --> 00:53:22,740 It's nothing, a touch of the fingers, a little oil from this little box 702 00:53:22,780 --> 00:53:24,110 nothing to hurt him. 703 00:53:36,330 --> 00:53:38,020 I don't think he heard me. 704 00:53:39,770 --> 00:53:42,450 I thought I knew how to put it to him 705 00:53:43,290 --> 00:53:45,210 but he didn't answer me. 706 00:53:46,810 --> 00:53:48,490 If he's unconscious 707 00:53:49,170 --> 00:53:51,810 it couldn't make him unhappy to see the priest 708 00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:52,740 could it, doctor? 709 00:54:06,090 --> 00:54:08,590 Thank you for your advice, doctor. 710 00:54:11,850 --> 00:54:14,860 I take full responsibility for whatever happens. 711 00:54:15,770 --> 00:54:18,350 Father MacKay, will you please come and see my father now? 712 00:54:55,410 --> 00:54:57,400 You won't disturb him now. 713 00:54:57,730 --> 00:54:58,200 Do you mean? 714 00:54:58,450 --> 00:55:00,800 No, no. But he is past noticing anything. 715 00:56:16,770 --> 00:56:20,770 Pax huic domui et omnibu habtautibus in ea. 716 00:56:37,610 --> 00:56:41,600 I know that you are sorry for all the sins of your life 717 00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:42,350 aren't you? 718 00:56:43,330 --> 00:56:45,400 Make a sign, if you can. 719 00:56:45,410 --> 00:56:47,400 You're sorry, aren't you? 720 00:56:49,130 --> 00:56:51,440 Try and remember your sins. 721 00:56:51,470 --> 00:56:53,430 Tell God that you are sorry. 722 00:56:55,610 --> 00:56:58,110 I am going to give you absolution. 723 00:56:58,610 --> 00:57:00,390 While I'm giving it 724 00:57:01,050 --> 00:57:04,610 tell God that you are sorry that you have offended him. 725 00:57:10,010 --> 00:57:14,010 Ego te absolvo ad �mnibus censuria et peccatis 726 00:57:15,210 --> 00:57:17,460 I recognized the words of absolution 727 00:57:18,130 --> 00:57:20,770 and saw the priest make the sign of the cross. 728 00:57:25,210 --> 00:57:27,750 Then I knelt too and prayed. 729 00:57:28,290 --> 00:57:32,100 Oh God, if there is a God 730 00:57:32,890 --> 00:57:34,650 forgive him his sins. 731 00:57:36,370 --> 00:57:38,730 If there is such a thing as sin. 732 00:57:47,810 --> 00:57:50,270 Per istam sanctan unctionem et suma 733 00:57:50,700 --> 00:57:53,990 piissimam misericoriam indulgeat tibi 734 00:57:54,020 --> 00:57:57,500 Dominus quidquid deliquisti. Amen. 735 00:58:29,170 --> 00:58:31,410 I suddenly felt the longing for a sign 736 00:58:31,450 --> 00:58:32,340 if only of courtesy 737 00:58:33,490 --> 00:58:35,850 if only for the sake of the woman I loved 738 00:58:35,890 --> 00:58:37,990 who knelt in front of me praying 739 00:58:38,020 --> 00:58:39,130 I knew, for a sign 740 00:58:40,930 --> 00:58:43,480 It seemed so small a thing that was asked 741 00:58:43,650 --> 00:58:46,010 the bare acknowledgement of a present 742 00:58:46,330 --> 00:58:48,060 a nod in the crowd. 743 00:58:49,050 --> 00:58:50,740 I prayed more simply. 744 00:58:51,570 --> 00:58:55,130 God, forgive him his sins and please 745 00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:57,380 God, make him accept your forgiveness. 746 00:58:59,330 --> 00:59:01,330 So small a thing to ask. 747 00:59:02,730 --> 00:59:06,650 Ego, facultate mihi ab Apostolica Sede tributa 748 00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:08,260 Indulgentiam plenarium 749 00:59:08,300 --> 00:59:11,190 et remissionem omnium pessatorum tibi concedo. 750 00:59:11,330 --> 00:59:14,550 Et benedico te in nominee Patris 751 00:59:14,580 --> 00:59:17,420 et Fillii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. 752 01:00:20,930 --> 01:00:24,880 Then I knew that the sign that I had asked for 753 01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:26,670 was not a little thing 754 01:00:27,010 --> 01:00:29,660 not a passing nod of recognition 755 01:00:30,930 --> 01:00:33,590 and a phrase came back to me from my 756 01:00:33,620 --> 01:00:36,150 childhood of the veil of the temple 757 01:00:36,180 --> 01:00:38,490 being rent from top to bottom. 758 01:00:46,490 --> 01:00:48,430 Will you see Father MacKay out? 759 01:00:48,470 --> 01:00:50,330 I'm staying here for a little. 760 01:01:01,410 --> 01:01:03,740 That was a beautiful thing to see. 761 01:01:03,890 --> 01:01:06,700 I've seen it happen that way again and again. 762 01:01:06,740 --> 01:01:09,230 The devil resists to the last moment 763 01:01:09,260 --> 01:01:11,500 and then the Grace of God is too much for him. 764 01:01:11,970 --> 01:01:14,420 You're not a Catholic I think, Mr. Ryder 765 01:01:14,460 --> 01:01:16,850 but you'll be glad for the ladies to have 766 01:01:16,890 --> 01:01:17,580 the comfort of it. 767 01:01:18,410 --> 01:01:19,490 Father 768 01:01:20,370 --> 01:01:22,640 We should give you something for your trouble. 769 01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:25,070 Oh, don't think about it, Mr. Ryder. 770 01:01:25,110 --> 01:01:25,860 It was a pleasure. 771 01:01:26,010 --> 01:01:28,600 But anything you care to give 772 01:01:28,630 --> 01:01:30,120 is useful in a parish like mine. 773 01:01:34,890 --> 01:01:36,120 Is this alright? 774 01:01:36,650 --> 01:01:38,750 Well that's more than generous, Mr. Ryder. 775 01:01:38,780 --> 01:01:39,940 God bless you. 776 01:01:49,210 --> 01:01:51,000 I'll call again later, but 777 01:01:51,370 --> 01:01:53,290 I don't think the poor soul 778 01:01:53,330 --> 01:01:54,420 has long for this world. 779 01:01:55,970 --> 01:01:57,060 Goodbye. 780 01:02:24,330 --> 01:02:26,930 Julia remained in the Chinese drawing room 781 01:02:27,410 --> 01:02:30,540 until, at five o'clock that evening, her father died 782 01:02:31,570 --> 01:02:34,230 proving both sides right in the dispute 783 01:02:34,650 --> 01:02:36,540 priest and doctor. 784 01:02:41,250 --> 01:02:44,010 Lord Marchmain's passed away, sir. 785 01:02:44,130 --> 01:02:46,150 It was very peaceful. 786 01:02:51,450 --> 01:02:53,560 If you will excuse me, sir. 787 01:04:11,450 --> 01:04:12,660 Julia 788 01:04:13,890 --> 01:04:15,000 I 789 01:04:15,770 --> 01:04:17,320 Not now. 790 01:04:17,370 --> 01:04:19,120 I'm taking Cara to her room. 791 01:04:19,730 --> 01:04:20,960 Later. 792 01:05:15,170 --> 01:05:16,290 Thus 793 01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:18,600 I come to the broken sentences 794 01:05:19,890 --> 01:05:21,720 which were the last words spoken 795 01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:23,430 between Julia and me. 796 01:05:25,050 --> 01:05:26,740 The last memories. 797 01:05:29,290 --> 01:05:31,190 While she was still upstairs 798 01:05:31,230 --> 01:05:33,970 Brideshead and Cordelia arrived from London. 799 01:05:40,410 --> 01:05:42,330 When at last we met alone 800 01:05:42,570 --> 01:05:43,980 it was by stealth 801 01:05:45,450 --> 01:05:47,140 like young lovers. 802 01:06:38,210 --> 01:06:41,380 Here on the stairs, a minute to say goodbye. 803 01:06:44,610 --> 01:06:46,120 So long 804 01:06:47,610 --> 01:06:49,460 to say so little. 805 01:06:54,050 --> 01:06:55,630 You knew? 806 01:06:57,570 --> 01:06:59,180 Since this morning. 807 01:07:00,170 --> 01:07:02,600 Since before this morning, all this year. 808 01:07:07,170 --> 01:07:09,300 I didn't know till today. 809 01:07:17,410 --> 01:07:20,280 Oh, my dear, if you could only understand 810 01:07:21,490 --> 01:07:25,410 then I could bear to part, or bear it better. 811 01:07:31,610 --> 01:07:35,270 I should say my heart was breaking, if I believed in broken hearts. 812 01:07:43,770 --> 01:07:46,160 I can't marry you, Charles. 813 01:07:49,090 --> 01:07:51,270 I can't be with you ever again. 814 01:07:52,570 --> 01:07:53,820 I know. 815 01:07:53,890 --> 01:07:55,280 But how can you know? 816 01:08:02,890 --> 01:08:04,430 What will you do? 817 01:08:10,810 --> 01:08:12,620 Just go on. 818 01:08:13,410 --> 01:08:14,850 Alone. 819 01:08:19,330 --> 01:08:21,480 How can I tell what I shall do? 820 01:08:24,250 --> 01:08:26,000 You know the whole of me. 821 01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:28,670 You know I'm not one for a life of mourning. 822 01:08:28,770 --> 01:08:30,730 I've always been bad. 823 01:08:34,410 --> 01:08:36,630 Probably I shall be bad again 824 01:08:37,010 --> 01:08:38,450 punished again. 825 01:08:44,410 --> 01:08:46,370 But the worse I am 826 01:08:46,770 --> 01:08:48,590 the more I need God. 827 01:08:50,810 --> 01:08:53,970 I can't shut myself out from his mercy. 828 01:08:56,770 --> 01:08:59,980 That is what it would mean, starting a life with you 829 01:09:01,250 --> 01:09:02,480 without him. 830 01:09:14,170 --> 01:09:16,520 One can only see one step ahead. 831 01:09:18,890 --> 01:09:21,680 But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable 832 01:09:25,690 --> 01:09:30,070 like things in the school room, so bad they are unpunishable 833 01:09:30,100 --> 01:09:31,920 that only Mummy could deal with 834 01:09:35,770 --> 01:09:38,460 the bad thing that I was on the point of doing 835 01:09:38,500 --> 01:09:40,530 that I'm not quite bad enough to do 836 01:09:43,010 --> 01:09:48,700 to set up a rival good to God's. 837 01:10:02,410 --> 01:10:07,540 It may be because of Mummy, Nanny, Sebastian, Cordelia 838 01:10:09,770 --> 01:10:12,560 Perhaps Bridey and Mrs. Muspratt 839 01:10:13,690 --> 01:10:15,850 keeping my name in their prayers 840 01:10:23,170 --> 01:10:26,540 or it may be a private bargain between me and God 841 01:10:27,930 --> 01:10:30,980 that if I give up this one thing I want so much 842 01:10:32,610 --> 01:10:36,070 however bad I am, he won't quite despair of me in the end. 843 01:10:48,290 --> 01:10:50,590 Now we shall both be alone 844 01:10:54,770 --> 01:10:57,990 and I shall have no way of making you understand. 845 01:11:01,650 --> 01:11:03,750 I don't want to make it easier for you. 846 01:11:03,790 --> 01:11:05,230 I hope your heart may break 847 01:11:08,950 --> 01:11:10,820 but I do understand. 848 01:12:37,770 --> 01:12:40,040 The worst place we've struck yet. 849 01:12:40,130 --> 01:12:42,840 No facilities, no amenities 850 01:12:42,870 --> 01:12:45,480 and Brigade Headquarters arriving next week 851 01:12:45,490 --> 01:12:46,690 sitting right on top of us. 852 01:12:47,110 --> 01:12:52,060 Marchmain, the town, is ten miles away and damn-all when you get there. 853 01:12:53,030 --> 01:12:56,120 It will therefore be the first concern of company officers 854 01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:58,680 to organize recreation for their men. 855 01:12:59,390 --> 01:13:02,820 I want you to take a look at the lakes to see 856 01:13:02,860 --> 01:13:04,050 if they're fit for bathing. 857 01:13:04,110 --> 01:13:05,090 Very good, sir. 858 01:13:05,630 --> 01:13:09,490 Brigade expects us to clean up the house for them. 859 01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:12,640 I should have thought some of those half-shaven scrim-shankers 860 01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:15,750 I see lounging around Headquarters might have saved us the trouble 861 01:13:15,790 --> 01:13:17,070 however 862 01:13:17,910 --> 01:13:19,240 Ryder 863 01:13:19,280 --> 01:13:22,960 you will find a fatigue party and report to the Quartering Commandant 864 01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,110 at the house of 10.45 hours. 865 01:13:25,150 --> 01:13:27,400 He'll show you what we're taking over. 866 01:13:27,440 --> 01:13:28,480 Very good, sir. 867 01:13:29,070 --> 01:13:32,230 Anyone happen to know this district? 868 01:13:34,590 --> 01:13:37,750 That's all, then. Get cracking. 869 01:14:15,590 --> 01:14:18,200 Good morning, sir. Morning. 870 01:14:18,230 --> 01:14:19,540 Fatigue party reporting for duty. 871 01:14:19,580 --> 01:14:20,610 Well done. 872 01:14:22,310 --> 01:14:24,510 Wonderful old place in it's way. 873 01:14:24,540 --> 01:14:26,760 Pity to knock it about too much. 874 01:14:27,110 --> 01:14:28,950 Come in. I'll show you over. 875 01:14:28,980 --> 01:14:30,240 Thank you, sir. 876 01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:34,760 It's a vast warren but we've only requisitioned the ground floor 877 01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:35,640 and half a dozen bedrooms. 878 01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:38,120 So everything else upstairs is private property. 879 01:14:49,590 --> 01:14:52,460 Caretaker and a couple of old servants live at the top. 880 01:14:52,830 --> 01:14:54,390 They won't be any trouble to you. 881 01:14:55,070 --> 01:14:59,460 The chapel's open, in bounds to the troops 882 01:14:59,490 --> 01:15:01,430 and a surprising number use it. 883 01:15:03,470 --> 01:15:07,180 The place belongs to Lady Julia Flyte, as she calls herself now. 884 01:15:07,390 --> 01:15:10,100 She used to be married to Mottram, the Minister 885 01:15:10,590 --> 01:15:12,340 for whatever-it-is. 886 01:15:13,670 --> 01:15:16,180 She's abroad in some women's service. 887 01:15:16,990 --> 01:15:19,310 I try to keep an eye on things for her. 888 01:15:23,550 --> 01:15:26,450 Surprising the old Marquis leaving everything to her 889 01:15:27,750 --> 01:15:29,740 Bit rough on the boys. 890 01:15:34,110 --> 01:15:35,250 Thank you. 891 01:15:36,710 --> 01:15:38,330 This is the signals room 892 01:15:38,510 --> 01:15:40,130 plenty of space anyway. 893 01:15:40,910 --> 01:15:43,430 The last lot made absolute hay of the place. 894 01:15:43,910 --> 01:15:45,450 Rather a shame. 895 01:15:46,590 --> 01:15:49,120 Pity we didn't have these paintings covered up. 896 01:15:49,910 --> 01:15:54,360 Modern work I think, but if you ask me, quite the prettiest in the place. 897 01:15:57,950 --> 01:16:00,620 Somebody's made rather a beast of himself there. 898 01:16:00,750 --> 01:16:03,050 Destructive beggars soldiers are. 899 01:16:04,150 --> 01:16:06,000 See the fountain out there! 900 01:16:11,590 --> 01:16:13,880 Rather a tender spot for our landlady. 901 01:16:14,230 --> 01:16:16,890 The young officers used to lark about in it 902 01:16:16,930 --> 01:16:17,500 on guest nights 903 01:16:18,470 --> 01:16:20,000 and it was all looking a bit the worse for wear 904 01:16:20,470 --> 01:16:22,900 so I boarded it up and turned the water off. 905 01:16:24,950 --> 01:16:26,910 Florid great thing, isn't it? 906 01:16:31,990 --> 01:16:33,980 They put the clerks in here. 907 01:16:34,110 --> 01:16:36,630 Don't know why, really, gets bloody cold in the winter. 908 01:16:36,710 --> 01:16:39,270 We tried these oil heaters but it didn't do much good. 909 01:16:39,790 --> 01:16:41,780 Now keep an eye on the busts. 910 01:16:42,350 --> 01:16:45,430 Some bright spark managed to knock the head off one of them 911 01:16:46,390 --> 01:16:48,830 playing indoor hockey if you please. 912 01:16:49,670 --> 01:16:52,690 Don't worry, it won't be charged to your lot. 913 01:17:00,990 --> 01:17:04,030 I'd advise you to give this room to the Brigadier for his office. 914 01:17:04,060 --> 01:17:05,660 The last one took it. 915 01:17:05,830 --> 01:17:08,340 Next door's no good. There's a bloody great bed in it 916 01:17:08,470 --> 01:17:10,540 and a load of Chinese furniture. 917 01:17:12,150 --> 01:17:14,700 Always reminds me of one of the costlier knocking shops 918 01:17:17,110 --> 01:17:18,350 you know 919 01:17:18,870 --> 01:17:21,270 'La Maison Japanaise'. 920 01:17:32,910 --> 01:17:35,010 I'm only here to clear up. 921 01:17:35,950 --> 01:17:38,790 Someone from Brigade will allot the rooms. 922 01:17:38,820 --> 01:17:40,730 Oh, you've got an easy job, haven't you? 923 01:17:52,590 --> 01:17:55,770 Well, if you've seen everything, I'll push off. Good-day to you. 924 01:17:55,800 --> 01:17:56,550 Good-day, sir. 925 01:18:03,030 --> 01:18:04,200 Hooper 926 01:18:08,630 --> 01:18:11,240 is there any chance I can safely leave you 927 01:18:11,270 --> 01:18:13,000 in charge of the working party for half an hour? 928 01:18:13,030 --> 01:18:15,710 I was just wondering if we could scrounge some tea. 929 01:18:15,740 --> 01:18:17,760 For Christ's sake, you've only just started. 930 01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:19,600 They're awfully browned off. 931 01:18:22,670 --> 01:18:24,000 Keep them at it. 932 01:18:24,550 --> 01:18:25,490 Righty oh. 933 01:18:28,750 --> 01:18:31,710 Go and get the last four crates out of the truck will you. 934 01:19:13,990 --> 01:19:16,640 Why, isn't it Mr. Ryder? 935 01:19:17,190 --> 01:19:18,160 It is. 936 01:19:18,390 --> 01:19:20,920 I was wondering when I'd meet somebody I knew. 937 01:19:20,950 --> 01:19:23,010 Mrs. Hawkins is still in her old room. 938 01:19:23,050 --> 01:19:24,260 I was just going to take her some tea. 939 01:19:25,070 --> 01:19:27,430 I'll take it for you. Very good sir. 940 01:19:41,790 --> 01:19:43,000 Nanny 941 01:19:51,030 --> 01:19:52,460 Hello. 942 01:20:03,710 --> 01:20:05,550 It's me 943 01:20:07,230 --> 01:20:09,110 Charles Ryder. 944 01:20:12,510 --> 01:20:16,960 Do sit down, Nanny. I've brought your tea. 945 01:20:17,870 --> 01:20:20,380 Charles Ryder! 946 01:20:25,710 --> 01:20:28,300 Lady Julia's not here 947 01:20:29,830 --> 01:20:35,990 only myself here and the two girls and poor Father Membling 948 01:20:36,030 --> 01:20:39,370 who was blown up, not a roof to his head 949 01:20:39,400 --> 01:20:40,760 not a stick of furniture 950 01:20:40,790 --> 01:20:45,210 till Julia took him in with the kind heart she's got 951 01:20:45,830 --> 01:20:48,460 and his nerves something shocking. 952 01:20:49,630 --> 01:20:53,880 Did you listen to Mr. Mottram last night? 953 01:20:53,910 --> 01:20:57,350 Very nasty about Hitler, he was. 954 01:20:57,430 --> 01:21:00,440 I said to Effie, the girl who does for me 955 01:21:00,780 --> 01:21:05,960 I said If Hitler was listening, and if he understands English 956 01:21:06,130 --> 01:21:11,050 which I doubt, he'll feel very small. 957 01:21:17,610 --> 01:21:19,160 Have you heard from Julia? 958 01:21:19,490 --> 01:21:23,220 From Cordelia, only last week. 959 01:21:23,260 --> 01:21:26,920 They're together still, as they have been all the time 960 01:21:27,050 --> 01:21:31,390 and Julia sent me love at the bottom of the page. 961 01:21:31,970 --> 01:21:36,560 They're both very well, but they couldn't say where 962 01:21:37,010 --> 01:21:41,240 but Father Membling said, reading between the lines 963 01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:43,700 it was Palestine 964 01:21:43,930 --> 01:21:48,490 which is where Bridey's yeomanry is 965 01:21:48,530 --> 01:21:51,040 so that's all very nice for them. 966 01:21:51,570 --> 01:21:55,330 Cordelia said they were all looking forward 967 01:21:55,370 --> 01:21:57,120 to coming home after the war 968 01:21:57,160 --> 01:22:02,340 which I am sure we all are, though whether I live to see 969 01:22:02,410 --> 01:22:04,890 it is another story. 970 01:22:37,090 --> 01:22:39,360 Where are the men, Hooper? 971 01:22:40,210 --> 01:22:44,430 They had to go off to draw the bed straw. 972 01:22:45,530 --> 01:22:48,260 I didn't know anything about it till Sergeant Block told me. 973 01:22:49,290 --> 01:22:51,750 I don't know whether they'll be coming back. 974 01:22:51,790 --> 01:22:54,310 Don't know? What orders did you give? 975 01:22:54,690 --> 01:22:57,830 Well, I told Sergeant Block to bring them back if he thought 976 01:22:57,870 --> 01:23:02,150 it was worthwhile, if there'll be time between now and dinner. 977 01:23:02,190 --> 01:23:03,620 You've been hotted again, Hooper. 978 01:23:04,250 --> 01:23:05,630 That straw was to be drawn till six this evening. 979 01:23:07,610 --> 01:23:08,970 Oh, sorry, Ryder. 980 01:23:09,370 --> 01:23:10,610 Sergeant Block 981 01:23:13,410 --> 01:23:15,670 No, it was my fault for going away 982 01:23:17,210 --> 01:23:20,550 fall in the same party immediately after lunch, bring them back here 983 01:23:20,580 --> 01:23:22,160 and keep them here till the job's done. 984 01:23:23,050 --> 01:23:24,430 Rightyoh. 985 01:23:32,930 --> 01:23:35,480 Thanks. 986 01:23:43,770 --> 01:23:45,130 I say 987 01:23:45,930 --> 01:23:48,200 did you say you know this place before? 988 01:23:49,050 --> 01:23:50,600 Yes, very well. 989 01:23:52,530 --> 01:23:54,810 It belongs to friends of mine. 990 01:23:55,530 --> 01:23:57,430 It doesn't make any sense 991 01:23:58,050 --> 01:24:00,590 one family in a place this size. 992 01:24:01,530 --> 01:24:03,000 What's the use of it? 993 01:24:05,130 --> 01:24:07,800 I suppose Brigade find it useful. 994 01:24:08,050 --> 01:24:10,360 That's not what it's built for, though is it? 995 01:24:10,390 --> 01:24:11,160 No. 996 01:24:12,090 --> 01:24:14,430 It's not what it was built for. 997 01:24:16,610 --> 01:24:19,260 Maybe that's one of the pleasures of building 998 01:24:19,490 --> 01:24:21,190 having a son 999 01:24:21,370 --> 01:24:23,640 wondering how he'll grow up. 1000 01:24:26,450 --> 01:24:30,010 I don't know, I've never built anything 1001 01:24:30,330 --> 01:24:33,350 and I forfeited the right to watch my son grow up. 1002 01:24:38,090 --> 01:24:39,750 I'm homeless 1003 01:24:41,090 --> 01:24:42,770 childless 1004 01:24:43,850 --> 01:24:47,930 middle-aged and loveless, Hooper. 1005 01:24:55,730 --> 01:24:58,600 Now go on back to camp and keep out of the C.O.'s way 1006 01:24:58,640 --> 01:24:59,510 if he's back from his recce. 1007 01:24:59,890 --> 01:25:00,670 Okay, Ryder. 1008 01:25:01,290 --> 01:25:02,570 And Hooper 1009 01:25:02,650 --> 01:25:05,830 don't let on to anyone that we've made a nonsense of this morning. 1010 01:25:28,610 --> 01:25:30,120 The chapel 1011 01:25:30,160 --> 01:25:33,380 showed no ill-effects of its long neglect. 1012 01:25:33,650 --> 01:25:36,510 The paint was as fresh and as bright as ever 1013 01:25:37,090 --> 01:25:40,380 the lamp burned once more before the altar. 1014 01:25:43,850 --> 01:25:46,050 I knelt and said a prayer 1015 01:25:46,050 --> 01:25:50,040 an ancient newly-learned form of words. 1016 01:25:51,540 --> 01:25:54,520 I thought the builders 1017 01:25:54,520 --> 01:25:57,500 did not know the uses to which their work would descend. 1018 01:25:58,260 --> 01:26:01,700 They made a new house with the stones of the old castle 1019 01:26:02,700 --> 01:26:07,410 year by year, the great harvest of timber in the park 1020 01:26:07,410 --> 01:26:08,480 grew to ripeness 1021 01:26:08,480 --> 01:26:11,940 until, in sudden frost 1022 01:26:12,480 --> 01:26:15,570 came the age of Hooper. 1023 01:26:16,990 --> 01:26:19,610 The place was desolate 1024 01:26:19,650 --> 01:26:21,910 and the work all brought to nothing. 1025 01:26:23,110 --> 01:26:26,100 Quomodo sedet sola civitas. 1026 01:26:26,130 --> 01:26:28,280 Vanity of vanities 1027 01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:29,840 all is vanity. 1028 01:26:32,010 --> 01:26:34,280 And yet, I thought. 1029 01:26:35,050 --> 01:26:37,540 That is not the last word 1030 01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:39,940 it is not even an apt word 1031 01:26:39,940 --> 01:26:42,820 it is a dead word from ten years back. 1032 01:26:43,410 --> 01:26:46,330 Something quite remote 1033 01:26:46,370 --> 01:26:48,060 from anything the builders intended 1034 01:26:48,090 --> 01:26:52,340 had come out of their work and out of the fierce little 1035 01:26:52,490 --> 01:26:54,320 human tragedy in which I played. 1036 01:26:54,570 --> 01:26:57,460 Something none of us thought about at the time 1037 01:26:57,690 --> 01:27:02,320 a small red flame, a beaten copper lamp 1038 01:27:02,360 --> 01:27:04,490 of deplorable design re-lit 1039 01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:07,060 before the beaten copper doors of a tabernacle. 1040 01:27:11,570 --> 01:27:12,910 This flame 1041 01:27:13,090 --> 01:27:16,010 which the old knights saw from their tombs 1042 01:27:16,610 --> 01:27:18,840 which they saw put out 1043 01:27:19,650 --> 01:27:22,730 the flame burns again for other soldiers 1044 01:27:22,770 --> 01:27:25,450 far from home, farther in heart 1045 01:27:25,480 --> 01:27:27,180 than Acre or Jerusalem. 1046 01:27:28,290 --> 01:27:33,600 It could not have been lit but for the builders and the tragedians 1047 01:27:34,050 --> 01:27:36,710 and there I found it that morning 1048 01:27:36,970 --> 01:27:41,050 burning anew among the old stones. 1049 01:27:44,410 --> 01:27:45,600 Morning Ryder. 1050 01:27:46,450 --> 01:27:48,240 You're looking remarkably cheerful today.