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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:03,086 --> 00:00:07,215 At last the glittering... 2 00:00:07,216 --> 00:00:10,595 Queen of Night... 3 00:00:11,094 --> 00:00:14,931 with black caress... 4 00:00:14,932 --> 00:00:16,855 kills off... 5 00:00:17,309 --> 00:00:21,405 kills off the day. 6 00:00:23,649 --> 00:00:25,695 Mr. Chandos was a man who spent more time... 7 00:00:25,696 --> 00:00:27,569 with his gardener than with his wife. 8 00:00:28,862 --> 00:00:30,114 They discussed plum trees... 9 00:00:30,822 --> 00:00:31,914 ad nauseam. 10 00:00:34,409 --> 00:00:37,124 He gave his family and his tenants cause to dread September... 11 00:00:37,125 --> 00:00:40,211 for they were regaled with plums until their guts rumbled like... 12 00:00:40,212 --> 00:00:42,426 thunder and their backsides ached from over-use. 13 00:00:44,086 --> 00:00:45,713 He built the chapel at Fovant... 14 00:00:45,963 --> 00:00:47,715 where the pew seats were of plumwood... 15 00:00:47,965 --> 00:00:50,430 so the tenants still have cause to remember Chandos... 16 00:00:50,431 --> 00:00:51,926 through their backsides... 17 00:00:51,927 --> 00:00:53,554 on account of the splinters. 18 00:00:54,555 --> 00:00:58,474 At last the glittering... 19 00:00:58,475 --> 00:01:02,070 Queen of Night... 20 00:01:02,521 --> 00:01:06,357 with black caress... 21 00:01:06,358 --> 00:01:08,326 kills off... 22 00:01:08,777 --> 00:01:12,873 kills off the day. 23 00:01:13,323 --> 00:01:16,789 Some years ago two gentlemen went back to Amsterdam... 24 00:01:16,790 --> 00:01:19,379 saying that Allhevinghay was just like home. 25 00:01:19,663 --> 00:01:21,336 There was so much water... 26 00:01:21,748 --> 00:01:24,463 so many ornamental ponds, so many canals... 27 00:01:24,464 --> 00:01:26,302 so many sinks and basins. 28 00:01:26,962 --> 00:01:28,464 There was even a wind pump. 29 00:01:29,256 --> 00:01:31,304 What they had not reamed was... 30 00:01:31,758 --> 00:01:34,887 my father had made his land into a pattern... 31 00:01:34,888 --> 00:01:36,262 of reservoirs... 32 00:01:36,263 --> 00:01:39,142 because he was terrified of fire. 33 00:01:39,474 --> 00:01:41,852 There was even a room under the front stairs... 34 00:01:42,185 --> 00:01:44,438 that housed two hundred buckets... 35 00:01:44,813 --> 00:01:46,781 all of them filled with water. 36 00:01:47,357 --> 00:01:50,361 I know because whenever I was taken short... 37 00:01:50,694 --> 00:01:53,447 my brothers and I used to rush in there and use them. 38 00:01:56,783 --> 00:01:59,912 Those buckets were filled before my mother died. 39 00:02:00,287 --> 00:02:02,381 I expect them to be still there... 40 00:02:02,748 --> 00:02:06,469 with the same water of thirty years ago I shouldn't wonder... 41 00:02:07,085 --> 00:02:09,463 mixed with a little of myself, of course. 42 00:02:10,339 --> 00:02:12,057 I used to pee like a horse. 43 00:02:13,008 --> 00:02:14,180 I still do. 44 00:02:15,844 --> 00:02:19,519 For those that walk... 45 00:02:19,890 --> 00:02:22,313 that walk... 46 00:02:22,559 --> 00:02:26,314 with hopeful step... 47 00:02:28,190 --> 00:02:32,491 in garden... 48 00:02:32,944 --> 00:02:35,446 in garden... 49 00:02:35,447 --> 00:02:38,041 love to find. 50 00:02:39,034 --> 00:02:41,205 At Southampton there's a house I've admired... 51 00:02:41,206 --> 00:02:43,331 because from the side it looks so flat. 52 00:02:43,332 --> 00:02:45,081 It is of white Portland stone... 53 00:02:45,082 --> 00:02:46,755 and on a cloudy day it looks as though... 54 00:02:46,756 --> 00:02:48,501 it might be attached to the sky. 55 00:02:48,502 --> 00:02:49,879 Especially in the evening. 56 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,171 Its owner is a Miss Anterim. 57 00:02:52,172 --> 00:02:54,011 She is a lady without a husband. 58 00:02:54,012 --> 00:02:55,846 From the side Miss Anterim is also... 59 00:02:55,847 --> 00:02:57,388 a lady without significance. 60 00:02:57,389 --> 00:02:59,263 Maybe that is why unlike her house... 61 00:02:59,264 --> 00:03:00,809 the lady is unattached. 62 00:03:01,139 --> 00:03:03,391 What with one flatness and another, Mr. Neville... 63 00:03:03,392 --> 00:03:05,563 as a painter and as a draughtsman... 64 00:03:05,564 --> 00:03:07,233 you could be entertained. 65 00:03:07,562 --> 00:03:09,815 Especially in the evening... 66 00:03:10,273 --> 00:03:11,320 from the side. 67 00:03:11,321 --> 00:03:15,071 For those that walk... 68 00:03:15,529 --> 00:03:17,873 that walk. 69 00:03:18,281 --> 00:03:21,998 It is said that the Duc de Courey invited his water mechanic... 70 00:03:21,999 --> 00:03:24,458 to the top of an elaborate cascade he had built... 71 00:03:24,459 --> 00:03:27,458 and asked him if he could build such a marvel for anyone else. 72 00:03:27,999 --> 00:03:30,878 The man, after offering various thanks and pleasantries... 73 00:03:31,169 --> 00:03:34,139 admitted that with sufficient patronage he probably could. 74 00:03:34,631 --> 00:03:38,101 The Duc de Courey pushed him gently in the small of the back... 75 00:03:38,593 --> 00:03:40,891 and the wretched man plummeted to a watery death. 76 00:03:42,639 --> 00:03:46,143 Their hope to find success. 77 00:03:46,852 --> 00:03:50,356 They're sure to make. 78 00:03:50,731 --> 00:03:51,823 Mr. Noyes... 79 00:03:52,399 --> 00:03:54,946 do you have a ribald piece of gossip for me? 80 00:03:54,947 --> 00:03:57,658 I am here to fulfill a role as entertainer, so I am sure... 81 00:03:57,659 --> 00:03:59,655 that I could find something for you. 82 00:03:59,656 --> 00:04:00,999 Then you are here on merit. 83 00:04:01,450 --> 00:04:04,078 A characteristic that the company does not share... 84 00:04:04,079 --> 00:04:07,168 being here merely to express confidence in one another's money. 85 00:04:07,169 --> 00:04:08,461 You are one of the company. 86 00:04:08,957 --> 00:04:12,755 My merititious conduct in the company of Mr. Seymour... 87 00:04:12,756 --> 00:04:14,300 has been my invitation. 88 00:04:14,629 --> 00:04:16,594 I am strictly not of the company... 89 00:04:16,595 --> 00:04:18,217 but a part of its property. 90 00:04:18,842 --> 00:04:21,561 Since that's what the company is here to discuss and to revel in... 91 00:04:22,304 --> 00:04:23,806 you should be well favored. 92 00:04:24,139 --> 00:04:27,518 I would well favor you myself above two parterres and... 93 00:04:27,519 --> 00:04:28,981 drive of orange trees. 94 00:04:28,982 --> 00:04:32,318 You are not extravagant in your compliments, Mr. Noyes. 95 00:04:32,319 --> 00:04:34,235 I'm not wealthy enough to offer you more... 96 00:04:34,236 --> 00:04:35,859 but I intend to be so soon. 97 00:04:36,193 --> 00:04:37,570 In the present company of 13... 98 00:04:37,571 --> 00:04:39,069 that owns a fair slice of England. 99 00:04:39,070 --> 00:04:41,414 Two parterres and a drive of orange trees is a beginning... 100 00:04:42,115 --> 00:04:45,493 and being a lady of the Italian fashion. 101 00:04:45,494 --> 00:04:47,337 You will appreciate the value of oranges. 102 00:04:48,163 --> 00:04:49,164 They smell so sweet. 103 00:04:49,623 --> 00:04:50,840 They are so invigorating. 104 00:04:51,875 --> 00:04:55,503 The very statues... 105 00:04:55,504 --> 00:04:58,758 breathe. 106 00:05:00,592 --> 00:05:03,890 Do you think your father will ask Mr. Neville to draw the house? 107 00:05:03,891 --> 00:05:07,892 Why not improve Mr. Neville's chances, and yours, by inviting him yourself? 108 00:05:09,726 --> 00:05:11,945 That is a too imaginative stratagem for me. 109 00:05:13,063 --> 00:05:15,653 Your father would find it uncharacteristically bold. 110 00:05:15,654 --> 00:05:17,071 Then you could surprise him... 111 00:05:17,901 --> 00:05:20,245 and perhaps surprise Mr. Neville, as well. 112 00:05:20,570 --> 00:05:22,741 And if that frightens you, mother... 113 00:05:22,742 --> 00:05:24,660 we could lay the blame on Mr. Neville. 114 00:05:24,661 --> 00:05:27,912 I hold the delight or despondency of a man of property... 115 00:05:27,913 --> 00:05:30,585 by putting his house in shadow or in sunlight. 116 00:05:31,373 --> 00:05:32,465 Even possibly... 117 00:05:32,916 --> 00:05:35,169 I have some control over the jealousy... 118 00:05:35,627 --> 00:05:37,345 or satisfaction of a husband... 119 00:05:37,963 --> 00:05:39,556 by depicting his wife... 120 00:05:40,257 --> 00:05:41,884 dressed or undressed. 121 00:05:43,051 --> 00:05:45,179 Mrs. Clement asked me if I had a wife... 122 00:05:45,637 --> 00:05:47,638 which has a ring of impertinence. 123 00:05:47,639 --> 00:05:50,436 She knows I have a garden, how doesn't she know I have a wife? 124 00:05:50,437 --> 00:05:52,902 Perhaps because you boast of one and not the other. 125 00:05:53,937 --> 00:05:56,689 But I suspect a sense of modesty is an impertinence... 126 00:05:56,690 --> 00:05:58,158 to such a lady as Mrs. Clement. 127 00:05:58,441 --> 00:06:01,695 Your mother takes a sense of modesty an unprecedented distance. 128 00:06:02,404 --> 00:06:05,451 Why doesn't she come out more? She frets in the shadows. 129 00:06:05,452 --> 00:06:07,162 She does not fret, father... 130 00:06:07,163 --> 00:06:10,253 or if she does you well know the cause is your indifference. 131 00:06:11,580 --> 00:06:15,426 A house, a garden, a horse, a wife, the preferential order. 132 00:06:15,427 --> 00:06:16,292 Nonsense! 133 00:06:16,293 --> 00:06:17,670 I am anxious, Mr. Neville... 134 00:06:18,420 --> 00:06:20,548 that you should draw my husband's estate. 135 00:06:21,006 --> 00:06:22,007 Why is that Madam? 136 00:06:23,174 --> 00:06:27,771 My husband is a proud man delighted to be associated with every brick... 137 00:06:28,179 --> 00:06:31,809 and every tree of his property at every moment of his waking life. 138 00:06:32,309 --> 00:06:33,773 No doubt in his dreams as well... 139 00:06:33,774 --> 00:06:36,565 though I've not been well acquainted with his dreams. 140 00:06:36,566 --> 00:06:38,527 With such an excellent relationship as... 141 00:06:38,528 --> 00:06:40,524 your husband has with his property... 142 00:06:40,525 --> 00:06:43,199 he surely, having the real thing, does not need a copy. 143 00:06:43,528 --> 00:06:46,122 I do not take well to young men who preen. 144 00:06:46,531 --> 00:06:48,452 Their vanity outweighs their prowess. 145 00:06:48,453 --> 00:06:50,293 Mr. Neville has prowess enough. 146 00:06:51,036 --> 00:06:53,126 Enough to charm where he cannot impress. 147 00:06:53,127 --> 00:06:55,965 He can charm and impress the wives of rich men. 148 00:06:56,249 --> 00:06:58,297 That's not so uncommon, Mr. Seymour. 149 00:07:00,045 --> 00:07:02,173 You come with me to Southampton tomorrow. 150 00:07:02,174 --> 00:07:05,426 I'll show you how to impress a lady with a good drawing on. 151 00:07:06,217 --> 00:07:08,140 My father's property, Mr. Neville... 152 00:07:08,553 --> 00:07:10,476 is a little more forward than humble. 153 00:07:10,764 --> 00:07:13,608 Since humility in a building is not antithetical to you... 154 00:07:13,934 --> 00:07:16,687 perhaps I can prevail on you to draw my father's house? 155 00:07:18,271 --> 00:07:21,111 The same proposition from a different quarter. 156 00:07:21,112 --> 00:07:23,359 A concerted effort naturally intrigues me... 157 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,783 but I feel things being as they are. 158 00:07:25,784 --> 00:07:26,826 May I be bold. 159 00:07:27,197 --> 00:07:29,325 I do not think that you or your mother... 160 00:07:29,866 --> 00:07:31,459 could afford my services. 161 00:07:32,577 --> 00:07:34,170 Why not enjoy our patronage? 162 00:07:35,205 --> 00:07:37,333 Come and walk in Mr. Herbert's garden tomorrow. 163 00:07:37,334 --> 00:07:38,374 Madam... 164 00:07:38,375 --> 00:07:40,218 I cannot say that I wouldn't be delighted... 165 00:07:40,219 --> 00:07:42,258 but I fear, despite your persistence... 166 00:07:42,671 --> 00:07:44,546 that I have work to do up and beyond... 167 00:07:44,547 --> 00:07:46,423 this apple season and will be in the service... 168 00:07:46,424 --> 00:07:49,428 of Lord Charborough until next year's apples... 169 00:07:49,429 --> 00:07:51,054 have all been drunk as cider. 170 00:07:55,767 --> 00:07:57,857 Your mother is excessively keen... 171 00:07:57,858 --> 00:07:59,570 to have this house down on paper. 172 00:08:00,397 --> 00:08:02,320 Or perhaps it is you that is keen... 173 00:08:02,816 --> 00:08:04,659 and your mother is merely your surrogate? 174 00:08:05,110 --> 00:08:09,035 I admit, Mr. Neville, to being a supplicant on my mother's behalf... 175 00:08:09,948 --> 00:08:12,747 but she does not want it for herself but for her husband. 176 00:08:13,034 --> 00:08:16,083 The supplication then has a long and diverse path. 177 00:08:16,830 --> 00:08:17,831 I am flattered. 178 00:08:19,290 --> 00:08:21,917 May not Mr. Herbert himself do his own commissioning? 179 00:08:21,918 --> 00:08:23,714 The point of the exercise... 180 00:08:23,715 --> 00:08:25,305 is to avoid that one thing. 181 00:08:26,214 --> 00:08:27,759 You, Mr. Neville, are to be... 182 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,727 the instrument of a hopeful reconciliation. 183 00:08:31,344 --> 00:08:32,140 Mr. Neville... 184 00:08:34,305 --> 00:08:37,354 how can I persuade you to stay with us at Compton Anstey? 185 00:08:37,355 --> 00:08:38,522 You cannot. 186 00:08:41,771 --> 00:08:43,489 But you can be bought, Mr. Neville. 187 00:08:44,441 --> 00:08:45,533 How much will it cost? 188 00:08:45,984 --> 00:08:47,531 More than you can afford. 189 00:08:48,111 --> 00:08:50,908 But I must confess my prime reason is indolence. 190 00:08:50,909 --> 00:08:52,156 I increase my price... 191 00:08:52,157 --> 00:08:54,453 in proportion to my expectation of pleasure. 192 00:08:54,454 --> 00:08:56,670 I do not expect great pleasure here. 193 00:09:09,340 --> 00:09:10,182 Madam... 194 00:09:11,509 --> 00:09:13,350 I'm to leave in the morning for Southampton. 195 00:09:13,595 --> 00:09:15,222 I've come to take my leave of you now. 196 00:09:17,474 --> 00:09:18,942 Do not order the hay to be cut. 197 00:09:19,893 --> 00:09:22,692 Do not leave the estate and do not drink my claret. 198 00:09:24,272 --> 00:09:28,778 Don't expect me back until I'm ready, which at the least will be 14 days. 199 00:09:30,153 --> 00:09:31,029 Good night, Madam. 200 00:09:31,988 --> 00:09:35,657 She laughs... 201 00:09:35,658 --> 00:09:36,705 I have decided... 202 00:09:37,535 --> 00:09:40,207 that it is most important that you stay here... 203 00:09:40,208 --> 00:09:42,833 to make for me twelve drawings of my husband's estate. 204 00:09:43,124 --> 00:09:45,295 My husband is to go to Southampton... 205 00:09:45,296 --> 00:09:46,919 for at least twelve days. 206 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:48,137 Will that be enough time for you? 207 00:09:48,138 --> 00:09:50,344 First you make a demand that suggests... 208 00:09:50,345 --> 00:09:52,636 we haven't discussed the proposition this evening. 209 00:09:52,637 --> 00:09:55,012 Second, you increase your demand by at least 12. 210 00:09:55,013 --> 00:09:56,934 Third, you add to the proposition a time limit. 211 00:09:56,935 --> 00:09:59,399 And fourth, you expect me to start at once. 212 00:09:59,724 --> 00:10:02,145 Four factors, you have convinced us... 213 00:10:02,146 --> 00:10:04,692 are well within your talents and capabilities. 214 00:10:07,190 --> 00:10:08,658 Your terms are exorbitant... 215 00:10:13,196 --> 00:10:14,243 so must mine be. 216 00:10:15,115 --> 00:10:16,824 She loves... 217 00:10:16,825 --> 00:10:20,955 and she confesses to. 218 00:10:21,412 --> 00:10:24,456 There is then at last... 219 00:10:24,457 --> 00:10:27,131 no more to do. 220 00:10:28,086 --> 00:10:30,259 The conditions of the agreement are: 221 00:10:31,297 --> 00:10:33,844 My services as draughtsman for twelve days... 222 00:10:33,845 --> 00:10:35,936 for the manufacture of 12 drawings... 223 00:10:36,719 --> 00:10:38,220 of the estate and gardens... 224 00:10:38,221 --> 00:10:41,065 parks and outlying buildings of Mr. Herbert's Property. 225 00:10:42,183 --> 00:10:45,153 The sites for the twelve drawings to be chosen at my discretion... 226 00:10:47,021 --> 00:10:48,864 though advised by Mrs. Herbert. 227 00:10:49,816 --> 00:10:53,286 For which, Thomas, I am willing to pay eight pounds a drawing... 228 00:10:55,363 --> 00:10:58,617 to provide full board for Mr. Neville and his servant... 229 00:11:00,118 --> 00:11:01,119 and... 230 00:11:02,579 --> 00:11:03,671 And, Madam? 231 00:11:06,583 --> 00:11:08,584 And to meet Mr. Neville in private... 232 00:11:08,585 --> 00:11:11,714 and to comply with his requests concerning his pleasure with me. 233 00:11:38,364 --> 00:11:40,285 Curriculum for the Execution... 234 00:11:40,286 --> 00:11:42,581 of the Drawings at Compton Anstey. 235 00:11:43,411 --> 00:11:44,754 For Drawing Number 1. 236 00:11:45,330 --> 00:11:46,997 From 7 in the morning... 237 00:11:46,998 --> 00:11:48,671 until 9 in the morning... 238 00:11:49,042 --> 00:11:50,794 the whole of the back of the house... 239 00:11:50,795 --> 00:11:52,887 from the stable block to the laundry garden... 240 00:11:53,129 --> 00:11:54,506 will be kept clear. 241 00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:13,817 No person shall use the main stable yard gates whatsoever... 242 00:12:14,234 --> 00:12:16,328 and no person shall use the back door... 243 00:12:16,694 --> 00:12:19,196 or interfere with the windows or furniture... 244 00:12:19,197 --> 00:12:20,870 of the back part of the house. 245 00:12:35,004 --> 00:12:37,382 'A 'is for Apricot. 246 00:12:38,007 --> 00:12:40,430 'M' is for Marilla. 247 00:12:44,931 --> 00:12:47,104 'C' is for Citrona. 248 00:12:47,976 --> 00:12:49,226 Citrona. 249 00:12:49,227 --> 00:12:51,571 'A' is for Ananas. 250 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:53,857 Ananas. 251 00:12:55,525 --> 00:12:57,402 'P' is for Pineapple. 252 00:12:59,112 --> 00:13:00,659 For Drawing Number 2. 253 00:13:01,155 --> 00:13:03,829 From 9 o'clock in the morning until 11 o'clock... 254 00:13:04,367 --> 00:13:06,081 the lower lawns of the house... 255 00:13:06,082 --> 00:13:08,705 including the formal garden will be kept clear. 256 00:13:09,622 --> 00:13:12,501 No window in the upper part of the house will be opened... 257 00:13:12,502 --> 00:13:15,379 closed or otherwise disturbed. 258 00:13:41,738 --> 00:13:43,409 Your Mr. Neville, Sarah... 259 00:13:43,410 --> 00:13:46,000 has the God-like power of emptying the landscape. 260 00:13:47,076 --> 00:13:48,703 It is a wonder the birds still sing. 261 00:13:50,038 --> 00:13:51,001 If they stopped... 262 00:13:51,002 --> 00:13:54,046 I doubt whether Mr. Neville would appreciate the difference. 263 00:13:54,876 --> 00:13:57,800 His attitude to nature is strictly material. 264 00:13:58,755 --> 00:13:59,802 Thomas... 265 00:14:00,298 --> 00:14:03,017 why is Mr. Neville interested in my sheets? 266 00:14:03,676 --> 00:14:06,145 He is to draw them wet outside the laundry. 267 00:14:07,472 --> 00:14:08,638 Wet? 268 00:14:08,639 --> 00:14:09,936 Why does he want them wet? 269 00:14:10,391 --> 00:14:11,893 I cannot answer you that. 270 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:15,188 Perhaps he has fond memories of being a baby. 271 00:14:23,112 --> 00:14:24,580 For Drawing Number 3. 272 00:14:25,365 --> 00:14:27,959 From 11 o'clock in the morning until 1 o'clock... 273 00:14:28,284 --> 00:14:30,582 the back and north side of the house... 274 00:14:30,583 --> 00:14:32,000 will be kept clear. 275 00:14:35,666 --> 00:14:36,625 This area... 276 00:14:36,626 --> 00:14:39,127 used as a place for drying linen... 277 00:14:39,128 --> 00:14:41,468 will be left as asked for, on an arrangement... 278 00:14:41,469 --> 00:14:44,261 made between the draughtsman and the laundress... 279 00:14:44,262 --> 00:14:46,348 who will take full responsibility... 280 00:14:46,349 --> 00:14:48,392 for the disposition of the linen. 281 00:15:01,692 --> 00:15:03,657 I am delighted to see that... 282 00:15:03,658 --> 00:15:06,076 you've loosened your clothing as I requested. 283 00:15:11,119 --> 00:15:13,497 When your husband had the pear trees grafted... 284 00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:15,586 do you know if he asked for the advice... 285 00:15:15,587 --> 00:15:17,003 of Mr. Seymour's gardener? 286 00:15:17,542 --> 00:15:18,543 We... 287 00:15:20,795 --> 00:15:22,672 You do not speak very loud. 288 00:15:23,548 --> 00:15:24,515 We... 289 00:15:26,092 --> 00:15:28,093 We do not know Mr. Seymour's gardener. 290 00:15:28,094 --> 00:15:28,927 I see. 291 00:15:28,928 --> 00:15:29,929 Mr. Neville. 292 00:15:30,930 --> 00:15:32,726 The trees have been poorly cared for. 293 00:15:32,727 --> 00:15:34,688 The angle between the branches... 294 00:15:34,689 --> 00:15:36,812 and the main trunk is too steep. 295 00:15:37,603 --> 00:15:39,822 But the original work is good. 296 00:15:40,606 --> 00:15:42,608 And what of the pears themselves... 297 00:15:43,651 --> 00:15:44,743 in season. 298 00:15:45,695 --> 00:15:46,867 Are they presentable? 299 00:16:34,577 --> 00:16:35,999 For Drawing Number 4. 300 00:16:37,121 --> 00:16:39,795 From 2 o'clock until 4 o'clock in the afternoon... 301 00:16:40,291 --> 00:16:43,340 the front of the house that faces west will be kept clear. 302 00:16:44,170 --> 00:16:46,717 No horses, carriages or other vehicles... 303 00:16:46,718 --> 00:16:48,760 will be allowed to be placed there... 304 00:16:48,761 --> 00:16:51,637 and the gravel on the drive will be left undisturbed. 305 00:16:53,846 --> 00:16:56,267 No coals are to be burned that will issue smoke... 306 00:16:56,268 --> 00:16:57,938 from the front of the house. 307 00:17:53,364 --> 00:17:54,411 And Hurry up! 308 00:18:08,838 --> 00:18:10,181 For Drawing Number 5. 309 00:18:11,215 --> 00:18:15,138 From 4 o'clock in the afternoon until 6 o'clock in the afternoon... 310 00:18:15,139 --> 00:18:18,185 the hilltop prospect of the estate to the north of the house... 311 00:18:18,472 --> 00:18:20,268 will be kept clear of all members... 312 00:18:20,269 --> 00:18:22,485 of the household staff and farm servants. 313 00:18:22,977 --> 00:18:25,774 Such animals as are presently grazing in the fields... 314 00:18:25,775 --> 00:18:27,944 will be permitted to continue to do so. 315 00:18:33,738 --> 00:18:34,863 Good day, Mr. Neville. 316 00:18:34,864 --> 00:18:35,865 Mr. Talmann. 317 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,120 I see you have selected a fine view... 318 00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:43,710 for my son to inherit. 319 00:18:43,711 --> 00:18:45,420 I prefer, for the moment... 320 00:18:45,421 --> 00:18:48,169 to regard the view as the property of Mr. Herbert. 321 00:18:48,544 --> 00:18:49,511 Thomas... 322 00:18:50,296 --> 00:18:53,425 see that Clarissa doesn't go to the laundry around noon. 323 00:18:55,676 --> 00:18:58,511 And, come to my withdrawing room... 324 00:18:58,512 --> 00:19:00,185 this afternoon with some ink. 325 00:19:01,432 --> 00:19:03,353 I want to send to Mr. Herbert to know... 326 00:19:03,354 --> 00:19:05,353 by which road he intends to return. 327 00:19:13,527 --> 00:19:16,872 Is it your intention to continue to stand there Mr. Talmann? 328 00:19:18,949 --> 00:19:21,451 I can see the view very adequately from here. 329 00:19:21,452 --> 00:19:22,419 Thank you. 330 00:19:28,751 --> 00:19:30,845 Will you be wearing the same clothes tomorrow? 331 00:19:33,464 --> 00:19:34,386 Why? 332 00:19:36,092 --> 00:19:37,184 I have not decided. 333 00:19:42,473 --> 00:19:44,020 It depends on my servants. 334 00:19:44,350 --> 00:19:45,351 Is it important? 335 00:19:49,397 --> 00:19:50,523 Maybe I will. 336 00:19:56,696 --> 00:19:58,198 For Drawing Number 6. 337 00:19:58,864 --> 00:20:01,661 From 6 o'clock in the evening until 8 o'clock... 338 00:20:01,662 --> 00:20:04,625 the lower lawn of the garden by the statue of Hermes... 339 00:20:04,626 --> 00:20:07,419 will be kept clear of all members of the house hold... 340 00:20:07,420 --> 00:20:10,009 staff, horses and other animals. 341 00:20:10,501 --> 00:20:12,845 Philip, go and ask those people to move. 342 00:20:13,337 --> 00:20:15,135 Ask them nicely, smile. 343 00:20:15,715 --> 00:20:16,932 Don't trot. 344 00:20:58,507 --> 00:20:59,724 Go away. 345 00:21:01,385 --> 00:21:02,432 Where? 346 00:21:03,804 --> 00:21:04,600 Really? 347 00:21:04,930 --> 00:21:06,182 Not that I know. 348 00:21:19,945 --> 00:21:21,029 Mr. Lucas... 349 00:21:21,030 --> 00:21:23,702 was a man whose enthusiasms were divided equally... 350 00:21:23,703 --> 00:21:25,576 between his garden and his children. 351 00:21:26,035 --> 00:21:27,708 Whenever his wife conceived... 352 00:21:28,078 --> 00:21:30,080 Mr. Lucas planted fruit-trees. 353 00:21:31,499 --> 00:21:34,503 His wife seldom came to a successful labor... 354 00:21:34,504 --> 00:21:37,506 and those children she was blessed with died before weaning. 355 00:21:37,507 --> 00:21:40,721 Mr. Lucas threatened to cut his trees down, but he never did. 356 00:21:40,722 --> 00:21:43,060 To date there are 11 trees in his fruit-garden... 357 00:21:43,803 --> 00:21:45,976 and he knows them all by their Christian names. 358 00:21:46,806 --> 00:21:50,356 The English are not blessed with the most appropriate fecundity. 359 00:21:50,768 --> 00:21:53,567 They can raise colonies but not heirs to the throne. 360 00:21:53,813 --> 00:21:56,657 It depends which colonies you are speaking of. 361 00:21:57,483 --> 00:22:00,157 Some of England's oldest colonies have heirs in plenty. 362 00:22:00,736 --> 00:22:01,908 Mr. Neville... 363 00:22:02,655 --> 00:22:05,408 do we have an indication of Scottish sympathies? 364 00:22:05,409 --> 00:22:07,659 You would be reading far too much... 365 00:22:07,660 --> 00:22:09,662 into what is simply a statement of fact. 366 00:22:10,412 --> 00:22:13,586 If the best Englishmen are foreigners... 367 00:22:14,291 --> 00:22:17,511 and that seems to be a simple statement of fact... 368 00:22:18,295 --> 00:22:21,219 then the best English painters are foreigners too. 369 00:22:22,842 --> 00:22:25,391 There's no English painter worthy of the name. 370 00:22:26,846 --> 00:22:28,189 Would you agree Mr. Neville? 371 00:22:28,639 --> 00:22:30,562 To be an English painter... 372 00:22:30,850 --> 00:22:32,443 is a contradictory term. 373 00:22:33,561 --> 00:22:37,440 Then Mr. Herbert shows some sense in encouraging Mr. Neville. 374 00:22:37,441 --> 00:22:39,110 Mr. Herbert, as we all know... 375 00:22:39,111 --> 00:22:40,610 is full of contradictions. 376 00:22:40,611 --> 00:22:43,488 Contradictory enough to have invited you into this house. 377 00:22:43,737 --> 00:22:46,327 Despite his being a man without airs and graces. 378 00:22:46,328 --> 00:22:48,037 But not privy to whom his wife... 379 00:22:48,038 --> 00:22:49,455 welcomes into his house. 380 00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:52,125 When my father is away, Louis... 381 00:22:52,126 --> 00:22:55,250 my mother is at liberty to run his house as she feels fit. 382 00:22:56,041 --> 00:22:58,294 And she has seen fit to invite Mr. Neville. 383 00:22:58,586 --> 00:23:00,382 A gracious speech, Mrs. Talmann. 384 00:23:00,383 --> 00:23:02,255 To hide all manner of inconveniences. 385 00:23:02,256 --> 00:23:03,131 How is that? 386 00:23:03,132 --> 00:23:04,132 It is apparent. 387 00:23:04,133 --> 00:23:07,724 It isn't from our meeting that your presumptory regime... 388 00:23:07,725 --> 00:23:10,141 not only extends to confining the household... 389 00:23:10,142 --> 00:23:12,098 like animals in reservations... 390 00:23:12,099 --> 00:23:14,726 but directing us as to whether or not we should wear a coat... 391 00:23:14,727 --> 00:23:16,691 carry a walking-stick or whistle. 392 00:23:16,692 --> 00:23:18,651 When I met you in the garden... 393 00:23:18,652 --> 00:23:20,862 you were doing all those things. 394 00:23:20,863 --> 00:23:22,904 If you intend being there tomorrow... 395 00:23:22,905 --> 00:23:26,074 I would wish you to dress and to behave in the same way. 396 00:23:26,075 --> 00:23:27,785 However, it's beyond my power... 397 00:23:27,786 --> 00:23:30,246 to describe a whistle pictorially, whether it comes... 398 00:23:30,247 --> 00:23:33,542 from an Englishman or from a German dressed as an Englishman. 399 00:23:34,246 --> 00:23:36,499 And what do you do about the birds, Mr. Neville? 400 00:23:37,082 --> 00:23:40,423 If you ignore their song, you can't prevent them from flying across... 401 00:23:40,424 --> 00:23:41,544 the field of your vision. 402 00:23:41,545 --> 00:23:44,424 The prospect of twelve fine-weather days... 403 00:23:44,425 --> 00:23:45,549 with clear skies... 404 00:23:45,841 --> 00:23:48,970 and sharp shadows is an excellent proposition... 405 00:23:48,971 --> 00:23:50,221 but not to be guaranteed. 406 00:23:50,554 --> 00:23:52,393 So I am naturally anxious... 407 00:23:52,394 --> 00:23:53,982 that time should not be wasted. 408 00:23:54,934 --> 00:23:57,437 It would assist me greatly therefore... 409 00:23:57,438 --> 00:24:00,984 if my instructions, which have been given great consideration... 410 00:24:00,985 --> 00:24:02,449 should be observed. 411 00:24:03,025 --> 00:24:04,402 I'm painstaking enough... 412 00:24:04,403 --> 00:24:07,450 to notice quite small changes in the landscape. 413 00:24:07,988 --> 00:24:10,366 Once started, I make that a committal... 414 00:24:10,824 --> 00:24:12,451 whatsoever ensues. 415 00:24:12,785 --> 00:24:15,328 And I think you can surmise... 416 00:24:15,329 --> 00:24:19,129 that it's an attitude from which I obtain great satisfaction... 417 00:24:19,708 --> 00:24:20,925 and some entertainment. 418 00:24:58,247 --> 00:24:59,123 Thomas... 419 00:25:00,582 --> 00:25:03,960 can you remember, when Mr. Herbert had his clothes packed... 420 00:25:03,961 --> 00:25:05,634 whether he took his French boots? 421 00:25:15,014 --> 00:25:16,891 How is it that you've contrived... 422 00:25:16,892 --> 00:25:18,892 to make the garden so empty of people? 423 00:25:19,309 --> 00:25:23,104 The authority for these drawings comes from Mrs. Herbert. 424 00:25:23,105 --> 00:25:24,903 Do you think that she is a woman who enjoys... 425 00:25:24,904 --> 00:25:27,525 having a crowd of people kick her gravel around... 426 00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:30,496 or move her earth like a pack of dogs in a herb garden? 427 00:25:31,030 --> 00:25:33,658 I would seek peace and quiet in a garden... 428 00:25:34,283 --> 00:25:36,752 and noise and excitement at a carnival. 429 00:25:37,870 --> 00:25:39,122 Carnem levare. 430 00:25:40,289 --> 00:25:42,754 So Mr. Neville, you would reserve your revelries... 431 00:25:42,755 --> 00:25:44,252 for a religious occasion. 432 00:25:45,502 --> 00:25:47,003 And what of Gethsemane? 433 00:25:47,004 --> 00:25:49,052 A wild sort of garden I shouldn't wonder. 434 00:25:49,757 --> 00:25:52,425 There would be no geometric paths... 435 00:25:52,426 --> 00:25:54,144 and no Dutch bulbs. 436 00:25:55,345 --> 00:25:57,313 We have a Cedar of Lebanon... 437 00:25:58,265 --> 00:25:59,733 and a Judas tree. 438 00:26:00,642 --> 00:26:02,815 Perhaps we could cultivate a Tree of Heaven? 439 00:26:03,479 --> 00:26:05,982 The gardens of England are becoming jungles. 440 00:26:05,983 --> 00:26:07,983 Such exotics are grossly unsuitable. 441 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,823 If the Garden of Eden was planned for England, God would have seen to it. 442 00:26:11,824 --> 00:26:13,240 The Garden of Eden... 443 00:26:13,241 --> 00:26:15,036 was originally intended for Ireland. 444 00:26:15,616 --> 00:26:18,916 For it was there that St. Patrick eradicated the snake. 445 00:26:19,286 --> 00:26:21,876 The only useful eradication in Ireland... 446 00:26:21,877 --> 00:26:24,087 was performed by William of Orange... 447 00:26:24,088 --> 00:26:25,879 four years ago on my birthday. 448 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:27,970 And happy birthday to you Mr. Talmann. 449 00:26:28,712 --> 00:26:31,339 If you are not too old to receive presents... 450 00:26:31,340 --> 00:26:35,061 perhaps the gardener and I can find a snake for your Orangerie. 451 00:26:36,929 --> 00:26:37,896 What? 452 00:26:38,806 --> 00:26:40,395 Good day to you, Mr. Neville. 453 00:26:40,396 --> 00:26:41,312 Good day, Madam. 454 00:26:54,696 --> 00:26:55,618 Philip. 455 00:27:16,301 --> 00:27:17,974 I see the company is assembled. 456 00:27:18,387 --> 00:27:20,515 And what are we to be spectators of? 457 00:27:20,516 --> 00:27:22,473 You must not be surprised. 458 00:27:22,474 --> 00:27:24,226 We are here at your request. 459 00:27:25,144 --> 00:27:26,737 I did not request an audience... 460 00:27:27,187 --> 00:27:28,860 nor a dinner on the grass. 461 00:27:29,356 --> 00:27:31,315 Perhaps we are to applaud... 462 00:27:31,316 --> 00:27:32,442 the view. 463 00:27:32,860 --> 00:27:35,075 The scribbler is never satisfied. 464 00:27:35,076 --> 00:27:36,696 He is as insatiable as a... 465 00:27:36,697 --> 00:27:38,868 You've said that Mr. Talmann should be here... 466 00:27:38,869 --> 00:27:41,540 dressed as you asked and carrying a gold-topped cane. 467 00:27:42,327 --> 00:27:43,704 We have taken you at your word. 468 00:27:44,872 --> 00:27:48,752 There was another instruction, but conveniently I have forgotten it. 469 00:27:49,001 --> 00:27:50,253 Whistling, Sarah. 470 00:27:50,669 --> 00:27:52,089 So much for convenience. 471 00:27:52,090 --> 00:27:54,260 You do not catch me in the best of tempers... 472 00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:56,095 wearing yesterday's clothes. 473 00:27:56,096 --> 00:27:57,592 I give you 20 minutes only. 474 00:27:57,593 --> 00:27:59,307 I have a horse to exercise. 475 00:27:59,308 --> 00:28:01,226 Then, Sir, please take your place. 476 00:28:01,638 --> 00:28:02,930 I will take a walk. 477 00:28:02,931 --> 00:28:04,228 Come with me, Maria. 478 00:28:04,558 --> 00:28:06,777 We have a dog to exercise. 479 00:28:15,110 --> 00:28:17,033 A little to the left, if you please. 480 00:28:18,113 --> 00:28:19,535 And puff out your cheeks. 481 00:28:20,365 --> 00:28:21,704 Why should I do that? 482 00:28:21,705 --> 00:28:23,873 Because last time you were whistling. 483 00:28:24,703 --> 00:28:26,831 A tune perhaps not readily recognizable... 484 00:28:26,832 --> 00:28:28,252 even by its own composer. 485 00:28:31,627 --> 00:28:32,549 Look, Madam... 486 00:28:34,421 --> 00:28:35,968 this man has no head. 487 00:28:36,381 --> 00:28:38,133 A typical German characteristic. 488 00:28:38,717 --> 00:28:39,718 Mr. Neville... 489 00:28:40,761 --> 00:28:42,638 you're talking about my son-in-law. 490 00:28:43,430 --> 00:28:44,932 By the grace of God... 491 00:28:45,224 --> 00:28:47,022 you are to have a grandson by him... 492 00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:48,481 some day. 493 00:28:49,269 --> 00:28:51,271 Is that not a better thing to talk of? 494 00:28:52,981 --> 00:28:55,071 And you mock my money and my person... 495 00:28:55,072 --> 00:28:56,364 to draw caricatures. 496 00:28:58,028 --> 00:29:00,281 With my memory, 3 pictures in the house... 497 00:29:00,282 --> 00:29:02,576 and your knowledge of the subject... 498 00:29:02,577 --> 00:29:05,123 I intend to place the head of Mr. Herbert... 499 00:29:05,369 --> 00:29:06,586 on these shoulders... 500 00:29:06,995 --> 00:29:09,123 as an appropriate acknowledgment... 501 00:29:09,124 --> 00:29:11,375 of your husband and his property. 502 00:29:12,668 --> 00:29:13,920 If he should return? 503 00:29:15,963 --> 00:29:17,886 Why, Madam, what a strange thing to say? 504 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,427 If he should return home to me. 505 00:30:28,577 --> 00:30:29,499 So... 506 00:30:31,955 --> 00:30:34,549 I am grieving... 507 00:30:35,625 --> 00:30:37,093 because Mr. Herbert... 508 00:30:37,094 --> 00:30:38,177 is away. 509 00:30:42,716 --> 00:30:43,808 Yes, Mother. 510 00:32:13,432 --> 00:32:15,309 The Contract is void, Mr. Neville. 511 00:32:16,726 --> 00:32:17,943 I cannot meet you again. 512 00:32:18,603 --> 00:32:20,104 Mrs. Herbert, sit here. 513 00:32:20,105 --> 00:32:21,482 Move your head into the shade. 514 00:32:30,574 --> 00:32:33,123 Don't you think the gardeners have excelled themselves? 515 00:32:38,457 --> 00:32:40,880 You should not continue to draw. 516 00:32:42,586 --> 00:32:45,133 I'm not able to continue the terms of our contract. 517 00:32:45,134 --> 00:32:46,844 The fee is yours, as is the hospitality. 518 00:32:46,845 --> 00:32:48,092 I was about to say... 519 00:32:48,550 --> 00:32:51,347 that in spite of my satisfaction at continuing... 520 00:32:51,348 --> 00:32:53,688 the prospect in such delightful circumstances... 521 00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:57,645 the peak of my delight is obtained in those short minutes... 522 00:32:57,646 --> 00:32:58,814 when we are together. 523 00:33:00,103 --> 00:33:01,355 I would regret losing them. 524 00:33:03,565 --> 00:33:05,566 Besides, I do not need to remind you... 525 00:33:05,567 --> 00:33:07,990 that the contract was made between two people. 526 00:33:08,945 --> 00:33:11,824 It will take the consent of both signatories to make it void. 527 00:33:14,075 --> 00:33:17,912 I feel that from this position I cannot adequately see... 528 00:33:17,913 --> 00:33:19,506 what I'm supposed to be seeing and... 529 00:33:19,507 --> 00:33:22,172 I must therefore ask you to find some other resting-place. 530 00:33:22,792 --> 00:33:24,168 At least until 4 o'clock... 531 00:33:24,169 --> 00:33:27,389 when our next meeting is to be consummated as arranged. 532 00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:43,190 Who is this child who walks the garden... 533 00:33:43,191 --> 00:33:45,031 with such a solemn look on his face? 534 00:33:45,607 --> 00:33:47,575 That is my husband's nephew. 535 00:33:48,443 --> 00:33:50,787 He attracts servants like a little midget King. 536 00:33:52,572 --> 00:33:53,698 What is his patrimony? 537 00:33:54,741 --> 00:33:56,743 His father was killed at Ausbergenfeld. 538 00:33:57,577 --> 00:33:58,829 His mother became a Catholic. 539 00:33:58,830 --> 00:34:00,543 So my husband brought him to England. 540 00:34:00,544 --> 00:34:02,462 To be reared as a little Protestant. 541 00:34:02,832 --> 00:34:05,631 He was an orphan and needed to be looked after. 542 00:34:05,632 --> 00:34:06,669 An orphan... 543 00:34:06,670 --> 00:34:08,672 because his mother became a Catholic? 544 00:34:32,195 --> 00:34:33,913 Philip, find out what's happening. 545 00:34:43,665 --> 00:34:45,087 Mr. Neville, Sir... 546 00:34:45,458 --> 00:34:47,005 I'm sorry about the coat. 547 00:34:47,794 --> 00:34:49,421 It was not I that put it there. 548 00:34:49,963 --> 00:34:51,010 Is that so, Madam... 549 00:34:52,424 --> 00:34:53,346 then who did? 550 00:34:54,384 --> 00:34:55,226 I'll ask. 551 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,596 No, don't ask. Leave it there. 552 00:34:59,514 --> 00:35:02,641 Someone is getting careless. The garden is becoming a robe-room. 553 00:35:02,642 --> 00:35:04,440 I wonder what they keep in their clothespress. 554 00:35:04,441 --> 00:35:05,528 Plants perhaps. 555 00:35:09,983 --> 00:35:12,486 Who will be your husband's direct heir after you? 556 00:35:13,194 --> 00:35:14,320 A future grandson... 557 00:35:14,988 --> 00:35:16,865 though not after me. 558 00:35:17,532 --> 00:35:19,125 Mr. Herbert does not believe... 559 00:35:19,618 --> 00:35:21,712 in a woman owning property. 560 00:35:21,995 --> 00:35:24,089 And what about your daughter and her husband? 561 00:35:24,372 --> 00:35:27,251 They would be guardians on a grandson's behalf. 562 00:35:27,252 --> 00:35:29,590 Do you intend to study legal matters? 563 00:35:29,591 --> 00:35:31,462 You must forgive my curiosity. 564 00:35:31,463 --> 00:35:32,589 Open your knees. 565 00:35:34,299 --> 00:35:36,300 To have possession of my person... 566 00:35:36,301 --> 00:35:38,850 is not an excuse to be privy to my husband's Will. 567 00:35:39,262 --> 00:35:41,481 Your loyalty is exemplary. 568 00:35:42,474 --> 00:35:45,978 But what will happen to the estate if your daughter has no heirs? 569 00:35:47,270 --> 00:35:48,863 I don't like to think about it. 570 00:35:50,398 --> 00:35:51,945 The estate was my father's. 571 00:35:52,651 --> 00:35:55,074 Mr. Herbert obtained it through marriage to me. 572 00:36:02,869 --> 00:36:05,543 It is imperative, Augustus, that in representing me... 573 00:36:05,955 --> 00:36:07,673 you ask of yourself the very best. 574 00:36:08,416 --> 00:36:11,135 And you do not fraternize with whomsoever you choose. 575 00:36:12,379 --> 00:36:16,179 And chasing sheep is a tiresome habit best left to shepherds. 576 00:36:16,841 --> 00:36:19,344 If Mr. Neville chases sheep he is not to be emulated. 577 00:36:20,011 --> 00:36:22,013 Drawing is an attribution worth very little... 578 00:36:22,555 --> 00:36:24,649 and in England worth nothing at all. 579 00:36:25,058 --> 00:36:26,526 If you must scribble... 580 00:36:26,810 --> 00:36:30,235 I suggest that your time would be better spent in studying mathematics. 581 00:36:30,772 --> 00:36:31,898 I will engage a tutor... 582 00:36:32,816 --> 00:36:35,738 and, who knows, one day you, Augustus... 583 00:36:35,739 --> 00:36:38,705 may add the Talmann name to the Royal Society. 584 00:36:40,657 --> 00:36:41,533 Augustus... 585 00:36:46,037 --> 00:36:47,958 your tutor of course must be German. 586 00:36:47,959 --> 00:36:51,551 There are already far too many English influences on your life as it is. 587 00:37:06,933 --> 00:37:09,436 Mr. Neville is our resident draughtsman. 588 00:37:09,978 --> 00:37:13,323 He is making one or two drawings of Mr. Herbert's house and estate. 589 00:37:13,606 --> 00:37:15,700 I've heard of your prowess, Mr. Neville. 590 00:37:16,067 --> 00:37:17,656 Indeed I've heard more than that. 591 00:37:17,657 --> 00:37:19,948 I've heard you're not a conventional man. 592 00:37:19,949 --> 00:37:22,117 Mr. Neville has planned his stay here... 593 00:37:22,118 --> 00:37:24,334 like an officer in a hostile billet. 594 00:37:24,576 --> 00:37:26,540 We've orders to appear and disappear... 595 00:37:26,541 --> 00:37:29,251 to wear cocked hats, to eat meals in the open air... 596 00:37:29,252 --> 00:37:31,375 and to prepare furniture for inspection. 597 00:37:31,916 --> 00:37:33,088 And yet, Louis... 598 00:37:33,501 --> 00:37:36,216 I hear that you're not averse to exchanging exercise... 599 00:37:36,217 --> 00:37:39,762 on a new horse for standing to attention in the hot sun... 600 00:37:40,258 --> 00:37:41,384 like a halberdier. 601 00:37:42,093 --> 00:37:45,188 What control you must exercise Mr. Neville. 602 00:37:45,805 --> 00:37:48,852 You might be better employed as a military man... 603 00:37:48,853 --> 00:37:51,945 than as someone who merely draws a landscape. 604 00:37:52,270 --> 00:37:53,604 Mrs. Herbert... 605 00:37:53,605 --> 00:37:55,945 whatever is the price you must pay... 606 00:37:55,946 --> 00:37:58,612 to capture this general who leads the wheat by the ear. 607 00:37:58,613 --> 00:38:01,409 Mrs. Herbert pays no price she cannot afford. 608 00:38:01,696 --> 00:38:05,663 Thanks to her generosity, I am permitted to take my pleasure... 609 00:38:05,664 --> 00:38:08,002 without hindrance on her property... 610 00:38:08,828 --> 00:38:12,878 and to enjoy the maturing delights of her country garden. 611 00:38:13,625 --> 00:38:14,877 And, gentlemen... 612 00:38:16,419 --> 00:38:18,763 there is much there to be surprised at... 613 00:38:18,764 --> 00:38:20,007 and applauded. 614 00:39:32,871 --> 00:39:33,747 Board! 615 00:40:05,069 --> 00:40:06,740 Good Afternoon, Mr. Talmann. 616 00:40:06,741 --> 00:40:08,490 Good afternoon, Mr. Neville. 617 00:40:08,491 --> 00:40:09,448 You are late. 618 00:40:09,449 --> 00:40:11,745 I heard the clock strike four some minutes ago. 619 00:40:11,746 --> 00:40:13,666 That is indeed true. I met Mr. Porringer. 620 00:40:14,245 --> 00:40:16,666 I'm becoming Mr. Porringer's taster of victuals. 621 00:40:16,667 --> 00:40:18,416 Does the same thing happen to you? 622 00:40:18,875 --> 00:40:20,548 Today, it was raspberries. 623 00:40:21,085 --> 00:40:23,133 I congratulate you on today's raspberries... 624 00:40:23,463 --> 00:40:24,965 but not on yesterday's damsons. 625 00:40:24,966 --> 00:40:27,968 They were tasteless, "geschmacklos". 626 00:40:28,551 --> 00:40:30,269 Like your coat Mr. Talmann. 627 00:40:30,270 --> 00:40:31,595 There is no way... 628 00:40:31,596 --> 00:40:34,145 that I was going to wear that coat a third day. 629 00:40:34,146 --> 00:40:35,265 We are indeed... 630 00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:37,356 losing the novelty of this situation. 631 00:40:37,357 --> 00:40:39,773 First I was graced with the presence of Mrs. Talmann... 632 00:40:39,774 --> 00:40:42,361 two servants, a maid and a meal served on silver-plate. 633 00:40:42,362 --> 00:40:43,357 Now what have we? 634 00:40:43,358 --> 00:40:45,781 Yourself dressed in the wrong clothes. 635 00:40:45,782 --> 00:40:47,235 Mr. Neville, enough. 636 00:40:47,236 --> 00:40:49,364 Your enthusiasm for complaint knows no limit. 637 00:40:50,114 --> 00:40:53,036 For a fee of 8 pounds your impertinence is too expensive. 638 00:40:53,037 --> 00:40:55,036 Would you have me be impertinent for nothing? 639 00:40:55,328 --> 00:40:56,662 For nothing... 640 00:40:56,663 --> 00:40:59,041 I would have you run off my property. 641 00:40:59,042 --> 00:41:00,082 Good day. 642 00:41:00,083 --> 00:41:01,801 Your property, Mr. Talmann? 643 00:41:03,419 --> 00:41:06,673 Mr. Talmann, you've forgotten your riding-boots. 644 00:41:07,966 --> 00:41:09,513 They are not mine, Mr. Neville. 645 00:41:10,176 --> 00:41:12,053 I felt sure that they were yours. 646 00:41:36,953 --> 00:41:39,172 Why doesn't your husband have the moat cleaned out? 647 00:41:39,831 --> 00:41:42,835 He doesn't like to see the fish. Carp live too long. 648 00:41:42,836 --> 00:41:44,256 They remind him of Catholics. 649 00:41:45,753 --> 00:41:47,173 Besides from his window... 650 00:41:47,174 --> 00:41:49,423 the duckweed could be mistaken for lawn. 651 00:41:49,424 --> 00:41:50,391 Can he swim? 652 00:41:51,676 --> 00:41:53,098 I've never seen him swim. 653 00:42:46,105 --> 00:42:47,652 Good morning, Mrs. Herbert. 654 00:42:50,693 --> 00:42:52,411 This morning I'm progressing well. 655 00:42:53,154 --> 00:42:55,122 I am beginning to enjoy myself. 656 00:42:56,574 --> 00:42:58,702 Would you be so good as to sit? 657 00:43:09,712 --> 00:43:12,807 It's a little chilly perhaps, but I think you tremble too much. 658 00:43:15,051 --> 00:43:17,472 It is not easy for me this way to use your person... 659 00:43:17,473 --> 00:43:19,518 as I would like to. Would you stand? 660 00:43:25,436 --> 00:43:27,689 The ladder, as you can see, has now become... 661 00:43:28,439 --> 00:43:30,191 a meretricious vertical. 662 00:43:31,442 --> 00:43:33,410 But I forgive you for standing it there. 663 00:43:34,070 --> 00:43:35,741 What use have I for the ladder. 664 00:43:35,742 --> 00:43:36,955 It does not go anywhere. 665 00:43:41,619 --> 00:43:43,292 Would you be so good as to kneel? 666 00:44:08,020 --> 00:44:09,112 Kneel, Madam. 667 00:44:15,319 --> 00:44:17,913 If you have any influence over your son-in-law... 668 00:44:19,031 --> 00:44:22,159 I suggest that he travel over to Mr. Seymour's to see... 669 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:23,833 what can be done with limes... 670 00:44:24,370 --> 00:44:26,464 by doing as little as possible. 671 00:44:29,333 --> 00:44:30,505 Limes, Madam... 672 00:44:31,544 --> 00:44:33,467 can smell so sweet. 673 00:44:35,673 --> 00:44:38,722 Especially when they are allowed to bloom without hindrance. 674 00:44:41,095 --> 00:44:43,097 And it will shortly be time to bloom. 675 00:44:46,225 --> 00:44:47,392 Is it true... 676 00:44:47,393 --> 00:44:49,737 that you would wish to see Mr. Herbert dead? 677 00:44:50,062 --> 00:44:51,655 I've no great love for Mr. Herbert. 678 00:44:52,565 --> 00:44:54,693 Goodness, a provocative question. 679 00:44:54,694 --> 00:44:55,568 Then why stay? 680 00:44:56,110 --> 00:44:59,364 Mr. Noyes has a great attachment to my mother, Mr. Neville. 681 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,454 I'm employed by Mr. Herbert as Estate Manager. 682 00:45:02,455 --> 00:45:03,914 Mr. Herbert is often away... 683 00:45:03,915 --> 00:45:06,125 and I can make myself useful to Mrs. Herbert. 684 00:45:06,126 --> 00:45:07,872 In more ways than one I presume. 685 00:45:08,915 --> 00:45:11,259 But is it not that way which is most important? 686 00:45:11,260 --> 00:45:12,500 Your questions... 687 00:45:12,501 --> 00:45:15,380 are far too imprudent and provocative in this company. 688 00:45:15,381 --> 00:45:17,756 Then you'd rather I asked them behind your back? 689 00:45:17,757 --> 00:45:21,557 Mr. Noyes' position in this house is well known to us all. 690 00:45:22,303 --> 00:45:23,350 It is a... 691 00:45:23,804 --> 00:45:25,101 a difficult position. 692 00:45:26,307 --> 00:45:28,480 I'm surprised that you all concur in it. 693 00:45:28,893 --> 00:45:31,567 The organization of this house is Mr. Herbert's affair. 694 00:45:31,938 --> 00:45:34,987 My father and Mr. Noyes were once great friends. 695 00:45:35,316 --> 00:45:36,112 And then? 696 00:45:36,651 --> 00:45:39,245 My mother was at one time promised to Mr. Noyes. 697 00:45:41,364 --> 00:45:43,958 Your position Mr. Noyes is then a consolation. 698 00:45:44,242 --> 00:45:47,208 You overstep your privileges in being a guest in Mrs. Herbert's house. 699 00:45:47,209 --> 00:45:48,455 Sit down, Mr. Noyes. 700 00:45:48,788 --> 00:45:50,290 I merely pursue an enquiry. 701 00:45:53,084 --> 00:45:55,803 It may help me to understand what is happening in the garden. 702 00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:20,528 That shirt, Mr. Neville, is prominent enough in your drawing. 703 00:46:22,571 --> 00:46:25,620 Would it be possible to disguise its presence? 704 00:46:26,158 --> 00:46:28,081 I try very hard... 705 00:46:28,411 --> 00:46:30,960 never to distort or to dissemble. 706 00:46:32,373 --> 00:46:34,876 Would that always be you method of working? 707 00:46:35,126 --> 00:46:36,002 It would. 708 00:46:37,545 --> 00:46:38,387 Well... 709 00:46:39,964 --> 00:46:41,637 let me make a little speech. 710 00:46:43,551 --> 00:46:46,020 In your drawing of the north side of the house... 711 00:46:46,971 --> 00:46:50,396 my father's cloak lies wrapped around a figure of Bacchus. 712 00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:53,402 In the drawing of the prospect over which... 713 00:46:53,403 --> 00:46:55,943 my husband turns an appreciative gaze... 714 00:46:56,772 --> 00:47:00,242 you will have noticed that there is unclaimed a pair of riding boots. 715 00:47:01,527 --> 00:47:04,030 In the drawing of the park from the east side... 716 00:47:04,363 --> 00:47:07,454 it is possible to see leaning against my father's wardroom... 717 00:47:07,455 --> 00:47:10,294 a ladder usually put to use for the collecting of apples. 718 00:47:11,495 --> 00:47:13,291 And in the drawing of the laundry... 719 00:47:13,292 --> 00:47:17,044 there is a jacket of my father's slit across the chest. 720 00:47:18,961 --> 00:47:21,883 Do you not think that before long you might find the body... 721 00:47:21,884 --> 00:47:23,757 that inhabited all those clothes? 722 00:47:23,758 --> 00:47:26,853 I am thinking very hard about the drawing you've left out. 723 00:47:27,345 --> 00:47:29,814 And you, Madam, were in that drawing. 724 00:47:29,815 --> 00:47:31,014 Are you sure? 725 00:47:31,015 --> 00:47:32,936 The sound of you was in the drawing. 726 00:47:32,937 --> 00:47:34,185 You were playing the spinet. 727 00:47:34,977 --> 00:47:37,023 I thought that we had discussed... 728 00:47:37,024 --> 00:47:40,195 the pictorial equivalents of noise without conclusion. 729 00:47:41,025 --> 00:47:42,776 Perhaps it was not me playing the spinet. 730 00:47:42,777 --> 00:47:44,120 Have you thought of that? 731 00:47:44,695 --> 00:47:45,820 Then who was it? 732 00:47:45,821 --> 00:47:48,493 You see, Mr. Neville, you are already beginning... 733 00:47:48,494 --> 00:47:50,209 to play the game rather skilfully. 734 00:47:50,493 --> 00:47:51,870 Four garments and a ladder... 735 00:47:52,411 --> 00:47:54,129 do not lead us to a corpse. 736 00:47:54,872 --> 00:47:57,375 I said nothing about a corpse. 737 00:47:58,709 --> 00:48:00,427 You are ingenious. 738 00:48:02,088 --> 00:48:03,761 It is as if you'd planned it. 739 00:48:05,925 --> 00:48:07,470 Your father is in Southampton. 740 00:48:07,471 --> 00:48:10,347 He would not miss his clothes or notice the ladder. 741 00:48:10,348 --> 00:48:12,269 Is my father in Southampton, Mr. Neville? 742 00:48:13,391 --> 00:48:14,688 My mother told you that. 743 00:48:15,643 --> 00:48:18,442 And you must realize that she is a lady of few words... 744 00:48:19,230 --> 00:48:21,699 and not incapable of a few stratagems. 745 00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:24,150 Haven't you thought how hard... 746 00:48:24,151 --> 00:48:25,911 she persuaded you to be her draughtsman... 747 00:48:26,654 --> 00:48:29,701 to draw her husband's house while her husband was away? 748 00:48:29,702 --> 00:48:31,700 Her explanation for that can be supported. 749 00:48:31,951 --> 00:48:35,251 Perhaps you have taken a great deal on trust. 750 00:48:35,746 --> 00:48:38,461 I look forward to the eventual purpose and... 751 00:48:38,462 --> 00:48:40,175 outcome of this ingenuity. 752 00:48:41,085 --> 00:48:43,964 My last six drawings will be redolent of the mystery. 753 00:48:45,548 --> 00:48:48,973 I will proceed step by step to the heart of the matter. 754 00:48:49,510 --> 00:48:52,229 Perhaps to the heart of my father? 755 00:48:52,805 --> 00:48:55,149 Lying crimson on a piece of green grass? 756 00:48:55,766 --> 00:48:59,066 What a pity that your drawings are in black and white. 757 00:48:59,067 --> 00:49:00,734 You rush ahead. 758 00:49:01,564 --> 00:49:02,986 The items are innocent. 759 00:49:03,566 --> 00:49:05,819 Taken one by one, they could so be construed. 760 00:49:05,820 --> 00:49:09,243 Taken together you could be regarded as a witness to misadventure. 761 00:49:10,030 --> 00:49:11,122 Misadventure? 762 00:49:12,491 --> 00:49:14,459 What misadventure? There is no misadventure. 763 00:49:14,460 --> 00:49:16,580 And more than a witness. 764 00:49:17,329 --> 00:49:19,627 An accessory to misadventure. 765 00:49:21,083 --> 00:49:22,505 You are fanciful. 766 00:49:22,877 --> 00:49:23,878 Mr. Neville... 767 00:49:24,879 --> 00:49:26,880 I have grown to believe that a really... 768 00:49:26,881 --> 00:49:29,600 intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. 769 00:49:30,968 --> 00:49:33,471 For painting requires a certain blindness. 770 00:49:34,847 --> 00:49:37,646 A partial refusal to be aware of all the options. 771 00:49:38,976 --> 00:49:40,815 An intelligent man will know more about... 772 00:49:40,816 --> 00:49:42,563 what he is drawing than he will see. 773 00:49:43,564 --> 00:49:46,738 And in the space between knowing and seeing, he will become... 774 00:49:47,776 --> 00:49:49,073 constrained... 775 00:49:49,445 --> 00:49:51,664 unable to pursue an idea strongly. 776 00:49:52,615 --> 00:49:56,034 Fearing that the discerning, those who he is eager to please... 777 00:49:56,035 --> 00:49:57,958 will find him wanting if he does not put in... 778 00:49:57,959 --> 00:50:01,457 not only what he knows, but what they know as well. 779 00:50:02,708 --> 00:50:03,755 You, Mr. Neville... 780 00:50:04,335 --> 00:50:08,215 if you are an intelligent man and thus an indifferent painter... 781 00:50:08,216 --> 00:50:11,013 will perceive that a construction such as I have suggested... 782 00:50:11,258 --> 00:50:14,137 could well be placed on the evidence contained in you drawing. 783 00:50:15,513 --> 00:50:18,187 If you, are as I have heard tell... 784 00:50:18,682 --> 00:50:20,400 a talented draughtsman... 785 00:50:21,435 --> 00:50:24,401 then I imagine that you could suppose that the objects... 786 00:50:24,402 --> 00:50:27,070 I have drawn you attention to, form no plan... 787 00:50:27,733 --> 00:50:30,486 stratagem or indictment. 788 00:50:30,986 --> 00:50:32,033 Indictment, Madam? 789 00:50:34,740 --> 00:50:36,242 You are ingenious. 790 00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:39,040 I am allowed to be neither of the two things... 791 00:50:39,041 --> 00:50:40,754 that I wish to be at the same time. 792 00:50:42,331 --> 00:50:43,831 I propose... 793 00:50:43,832 --> 00:50:47,004 since I am in a position to throw a connecting plot over... 794 00:50:47,005 --> 00:50:49,300 the inconsequential items in your drawing... 795 00:50:50,381 --> 00:50:53,053 an interpretative plot that I could explain to others... 796 00:50:53,054 --> 00:50:55,098 to account for my father's disappearance. 797 00:50:55,427 --> 00:50:58,977 And there's no word now of my father having arrived in Southampton. 798 00:51:00,724 --> 00:51:03,147 I propose that we could come to... 799 00:51:04,228 --> 00:51:05,525 some arrangement... 800 00:51:05,938 --> 00:51:08,191 that might protect you... 801 00:51:09,316 --> 00:51:10,863 and humor me. 802 00:51:12,444 --> 00:51:14,946 I suggest that we come to a similar arrangement... 803 00:51:14,947 --> 00:51:16,699 as you have struck with my mother. 804 00:51:19,577 --> 00:51:21,955 I would like you now to accompany me to the library... 805 00:51:22,371 --> 00:51:24,794 where I know that Mr. Noyes is waiting for us. 806 00:51:49,607 --> 00:51:52,736 And for each remaining drawing to agree. 807 00:51:53,777 --> 00:51:56,075 And for each remaining drawing to agree. 808 00:51:56,655 --> 00:52:00,080 To meet Mrs Talmann, in private. 809 00:52:00,743 --> 00:52:03,417 And to agree to meet Mrs. Talmann in private. 810 00:52:04,288 --> 00:52:07,081 And to comply with her requests... 811 00:52:07,082 --> 00:52:09,551 concerning her pleasure with me. 812 00:52:10,836 --> 00:52:12,964 And to comply with her requests... 813 00:52:12,965 --> 00:52:15,432 concerning her pleasure with me. 814 00:52:23,724 --> 00:52:24,850 Drawing Number 7. 815 00:52:25,309 --> 00:52:27,730 From 7 o'clock in the morning until 9... 816 00:52:27,731 --> 00:52:30,231 the front prospect of the house will be kept clear... 817 00:52:30,481 --> 00:52:33,196 of members of the household, household servants... 818 00:52:33,197 --> 00:52:34,444 horses and carriages. 819 00:52:38,155 --> 00:52:39,372 Drawing Number 8. 820 00:52:39,865 --> 00:52:41,913 From 9 o'clock in the morning until 11... 821 00:52:42,326 --> 00:52:44,622 the gardens in front of the bath house building... 822 00:52:44,623 --> 00:52:45,667 will be kept clear. 823 00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,295 No coals will be burnt to cause smoke... 824 00:52:48,296 --> 00:52:50,463 to issue from the bath house chimney. 825 00:53:15,859 --> 00:53:17,907 From 11 o'clock in the morning until 1... 826 00:53:18,362 --> 00:53:20,990 the yew tree walk in the center of the lower garden... 827 00:53:20,991 --> 00:53:22,366 will be kept completely clear... 828 00:53:22,700 --> 00:53:24,953 and all members of Mr. Herbert's family... 829 00:53:24,954 --> 00:53:27,546 members of his household staff and animals. 830 00:54:05,826 --> 00:54:07,078 It is time, Mr. Neville. 831 00:54:12,666 --> 00:54:15,010 From 2 o'clock in the afternoon until 4... 832 00:54:15,502 --> 00:54:17,425 the back of the house and the sheep pasture... 833 00:54:17,671 --> 00:54:20,641 on the eastern side, will be kept free of all members... 834 00:54:20,642 --> 00:54:23,226 of the household and farm servants. 835 00:54:51,079 --> 00:54:53,173 The reason I've suggested you come here is... 836 00:54:53,999 --> 00:54:56,546 because I've borrowed this painting from the house. 837 00:54:56,547 --> 00:54:57,419 Would you stand? 838 00:55:02,424 --> 00:55:04,051 Are you not intrigued by it? 839 00:55:06,011 --> 00:55:07,888 I confess I have paid it little attention. 840 00:55:15,270 --> 00:55:17,605 Your husband surprises me... 841 00:55:17,606 --> 00:55:20,029 with his eccentric and eclectic taste. 842 00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,823 Whilst most of his peers are content to collect portraits... 843 00:55:23,070 --> 00:55:25,414 mostly of an edifying family connection... 844 00:55:25,656 --> 00:55:28,079 Mr. Herbert seems to collect anything. 845 00:55:29,660 --> 00:55:31,378 Perhaps he has eye for optical theory. 846 00:55:33,413 --> 00:55:34,881 Or the plight of lovers. 847 00:55:36,667 --> 00:55:38,169 Or the passing of time. 848 00:55:40,295 --> 00:55:41,217 What do you think? 849 00:55:42,965 --> 00:55:44,683 Perhaps, Madam, he has... 850 00:55:45,926 --> 00:55:47,724 and I would stand by him in this... 851 00:55:48,136 --> 00:55:51,265 an interest in the pictorial conceit. 852 00:55:53,642 --> 00:55:56,020 Can you see why your husband had reason to buy it'? 853 00:55:56,311 --> 00:55:58,187 It's of a garden. That's reason enough. 854 00:55:58,188 --> 00:56:01,192 True, but what of the events that are happening within it? 855 00:56:03,527 --> 00:56:05,245 Shall we peruse it together? 856 00:56:07,030 --> 00:56:08,077 Do you see... 857 00:56:08,991 --> 00:56:11,665 a narrative in these apparently unrelated episodes? 858 00:56:12,244 --> 00:56:15,669 Theirs drama is there not in this overpopulated garden. 859 00:56:18,333 --> 00:56:19,585 What intrigue is here? 860 00:56:21,628 --> 00:56:24,097 Do you think the characters have something to tell us? 861 00:56:26,008 --> 00:56:27,726 Would you know if your daughter... 862 00:56:29,261 --> 00:56:31,389 had any particular interest in this painting? 863 00:56:33,849 --> 00:56:35,396 Could you put a season to it? 864 00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:39,063 Do you have an opinion? 865 00:56:43,483 --> 00:56:45,906 What infidelities are portrayed here? 866 00:56:53,243 --> 00:56:54,369 Do you think... 867 00:56:55,412 --> 00:56:57,039 that murder is being prepared? 868 00:57:05,255 --> 00:57:07,929 Did you hear that a horse had been found at Strides... 869 00:57:08,634 --> 00:57:11,478 which is about three miles from here on the road... 870 00:57:11,845 --> 00:57:14,223 if followed long enough could lead you to Southampton. 871 00:57:14,556 --> 00:57:17,230 I will stay dressed, Mr. Neville, you will not. 872 00:57:17,726 --> 00:57:21,562 Mr. Clarke says the horse has been badly treated. 873 00:57:21,563 --> 00:57:24,482 All roads can lead to Southampton... 874 00:57:24,483 --> 00:57:26,827 if the traveler on horse is ingenious enough. 875 00:57:27,194 --> 00:57:29,947 I've heard of a horse that found its way to Dover... 876 00:57:30,405 --> 00:57:32,624 and boarded a ship taking hay to Calais. 877 00:57:33,533 --> 00:57:36,707 The French do not treat horses kindly. 878 00:57:36,995 --> 00:57:37,917 They eat them. 879 00:57:39,957 --> 00:57:42,301 Was your horse partly eaten? 880 00:57:43,210 --> 00:57:44,382 May I leave my hat on? 881 00:57:44,670 --> 00:57:47,594 Your chair looks insignificant out there, Mr. Neville. 882 00:57:49,257 --> 00:57:52,101 What significant assumption are we to make... 883 00:57:52,594 --> 00:57:55,017 of a wounded horse belonging to your father... 884 00:57:55,347 --> 00:57:57,816 found on the road to Southampton? 885 00:57:58,934 --> 00:58:00,231 The first assumption is... 886 00:58:01,019 --> 00:58:03,738 that the horse has no business being there without my father... 887 00:58:04,690 --> 00:58:06,067 and why is it wounded... 888 00:58:07,025 --> 00:58:08,902 and what does that imply for my father? 889 00:58:09,152 --> 00:58:11,701 And the second assumption will no doubt implicate me... 890 00:58:12,406 --> 00:58:14,245 since a saddle-less horse has found... 891 00:58:14,246 --> 00:58:15,959 its way into this morning's drawing. 892 00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:19,212 Mrs. Talmann... 893 00:58:19,705 --> 00:58:22,083 why don't you now leave the window... 894 00:58:22,916 --> 00:58:24,042 and come to the basin. 895 00:58:24,751 --> 00:58:25,671 Don't worry... 896 00:58:25,672 --> 00:58:27,965 your position of superiority won't be diminished. 897 00:58:27,966 --> 00:58:29,681 I will still have to look up to you. 898 00:58:34,261 --> 00:58:36,138 Since I have taken valuable time... 899 00:58:36,555 --> 00:58:38,523 to fill this basin with a little water... 900 00:58:39,391 --> 00:58:40,768 why not share it with me? 901 00:59:07,753 --> 00:59:09,881 You have a curious mole, Mrs. Herbert... 902 00:59:10,505 --> 00:59:12,382 and it is ideally placed. 903 00:59:14,342 --> 00:59:16,891 Does your gardener catch moles, Mrs. Herbert? 904 00:59:17,304 --> 00:59:19,932 No, he says they are to be encouraged... 905 00:59:19,933 --> 00:59:23,276 for good luck and the destruction of one's enemies. 906 00:59:23,602 --> 00:59:25,400 They trip up horses, Mrs. Herbert. 907 00:59:25,812 --> 00:59:28,691 You will not persuade Mr. Porringer to persecute them. 908 00:59:28,982 --> 00:59:30,108 A curious man... 909 00:59:30,817 --> 00:59:32,401 and ideally placed. 910 00:59:32,402 --> 00:59:34,236 Ideally placed for what? 911 00:59:34,237 --> 00:59:36,909 Why for persuading a fine white horse... 912 00:59:36,910 --> 00:59:39,205 from Southampton to go lame in the leg. 913 00:59:44,748 --> 00:59:47,797 You have nothing to fear from Mr. Porringer, Mr. Neville. 914 00:59:48,335 --> 00:59:51,545 He watches you for his own amusement. 915 00:59:51,546 --> 00:59:53,093 As I do you, Madam. 916 00:59:54,716 --> 00:59:57,970 You seem nonetheless to be curiously keen to protect your gardener. 917 00:59:58,553 --> 00:59:59,598 It is not you... 918 00:59:59,599 --> 01:00:01,644 but his breeches that are his best defense. 919 01:00:02,390 --> 01:00:04,984 A man in red breeches could scarcely be considered... 920 01:00:05,310 --> 01:00:07,187 an inconspicuous conspirator. 921 01:00:07,854 --> 01:00:11,825 Unlike that other fool who behaves like a statue when you least expect. 922 01:00:26,289 --> 01:00:28,417 Away from the house, Mr. Neville... 923 01:00:29,751 --> 01:00:32,504 I feel I grow smaller in significance. 924 01:00:34,381 --> 01:00:37,305 Madam, what signifies, does not grow smaller for me. 925 01:00:39,177 --> 01:00:41,849 Your significance Mr. Neville is attributable to both... 926 01:00:41,850 --> 01:00:44,691 innocence and arrogance in equal parts. 927 01:00:45,809 --> 01:00:48,562 You can handle both with impunity, Mrs. Talman. 928 01:00:49,855 --> 01:00:52,699 But you will find that they are not symmetrical. 929 01:00:53,733 --> 01:00:57,078 You will find that one weighs heavier than the other. 930 01:00:59,114 --> 01:01:00,991 Which do you think is the heavier? 931 01:01:02,951 --> 01:01:04,578 Your innocence, Mr. Neville... 932 01:01:05,162 --> 01:01:06,379 is always sinister. 933 01:01:08,039 --> 01:01:11,876 So I will say that the right one is the heaviest. 934 01:01:11,877 --> 01:01:14,096 Your dexterity is admirable. 935 01:01:18,466 --> 01:01:20,844 You spend too much time with Mr. Neville. 936 01:01:22,596 --> 01:01:23,554 How is that? 937 01:01:23,555 --> 01:01:25,182 The man is a pariah. 938 01:01:25,807 --> 01:01:28,651 He eats like a vagrant and dresses like a barber. 939 01:01:29,811 --> 01:01:30,937 What compliments. 940 01:01:31,438 --> 01:01:32,858 I think he would be amused. 941 01:01:32,859 --> 01:01:34,108 As for his servant... 942 01:01:34,109 --> 01:01:36,405 he looks like a fleece with a foot disease. 943 01:01:38,195 --> 01:01:40,368 Don't you think Mr. Neville is knowledgeable? 944 01:01:40,369 --> 01:01:41,285 About what? 945 01:01:43,700 --> 01:01:45,077 About what, Madam? 946 01:01:48,205 --> 01:01:50,674 I could take your silence as provocation. 947 01:01:51,416 --> 01:01:53,965 And why should I wish to provoke you? 948 01:01:54,336 --> 01:01:56,175 To excite me to think that you might wish... 949 01:01:56,176 --> 01:01:58,386 to compliment Mr. Neville with more than praise... 950 01:01:58,387 --> 01:01:59,633 for his knowledgability. 951 01:02:00,383 --> 01:02:02,226 The complexity of your speech does you credit... 952 01:02:02,227 --> 01:02:04,934 but it far exceeds the complexity of any relationship... 953 01:02:04,935 --> 01:02:06,648 I might have with Mr. Neville... 954 01:02:06,973 --> 01:02:08,520 which is indeed very simple. 955 01:02:09,434 --> 01:02:11,653 He's a paid servant of my mother's... 956 01:02:12,020 --> 01:02:13,363 bound by a contract. 957 01:02:13,364 --> 01:02:14,277 That is all. 958 01:02:15,190 --> 01:02:17,486 I'm encouraged by my mother to see him honor it. 959 01:02:17,487 --> 01:02:20,328 Is his pleasure in your encouragement so necessary? 960 01:02:20,654 --> 01:02:22,622 Although Mr. Neville has qualities... 961 01:02:22,948 --> 01:02:24,996 he is neither as intelligent nor... 962 01:02:25,242 --> 01:02:26,710 as talented as he thinks. 963 01:02:27,369 --> 01:02:30,373 Both characteristics you have observed from the start, Louis. 964 01:02:31,164 --> 01:02:33,633 Though I admit more by prejudice than by observation. 965 01:02:45,262 --> 01:02:48,357 I understand that you will be leaving us tonight, Mr. Neville. 966 01:02:49,140 --> 01:02:50,461 With Mrs. Herbert's permission... 967 01:02:50,475 --> 01:02:53,147 I will be leaving after the arrival of Mr. Herbert... 968 01:02:53,148 --> 01:02:56,193 and after he has passed an opinion on the drawings of his house. 969 01:02:56,898 --> 01:02:59,238 If my servant has obtained a vehicle... 970 01:02:59,239 --> 01:03:01,155 I will be leaving in the morning. 971 01:03:01,156 --> 01:03:03,993 And, of course, Mr. Neville, the sooner the better... 972 01:03:03,994 --> 01:03:05,741 as you expected me to say. 973 01:03:05,742 --> 01:03:08,664 You Sir, have acquainted me with your opinion on drawing... 974 01:03:09,035 --> 01:03:11,959 on horticulture, the Roman church, childbearing... 975 01:03:12,247 --> 01:03:14,999 the place of women in English life, the history... 976 01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:18,049 and politics of Lubeck, and the training of dogs. 977 01:03:18,295 --> 01:03:20,216 So I am in a fair position... 978 01:03:20,217 --> 01:03:23,092 to anticipate your opinions to my departure. 979 01:03:23,093 --> 01:03:26,766 Is Radstock to greet you with such devoted hospitality? 980 01:03:27,053 --> 01:03:28,145 Mr. Talmann... 981 01:03:29,139 --> 01:03:31,437 I have been treated with as great hospitality... 982 01:03:31,850 --> 01:03:34,148 as I could wish for in Mrs. Herbert's house. 983 01:03:45,739 --> 01:03:49,414 Your drawings are full of the most unexpected observation, Mr. Neville. 984 01:03:49,659 --> 01:03:52,833 Looking at them is a kin to pursuing a complicated allegory. 985 01:03:53,330 --> 01:03:55,628 - Are you sure this ladder was there? - Indisputably. 986 01:03:55,874 --> 01:03:58,515 - And what's this? It looks like... - Whatever it is, it was there. 987 01:03:58,543 --> 01:04:00,170 Mrs. Talisman will confirm it. 988 01:04:00,545 --> 01:04:01,467 How is that? 989 01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:03,551 How will my wife confirm it? 990 01:04:03,552 --> 01:04:06,518 Mr. Neville is probably too encompassing in his statement. 991 01:04:07,010 --> 01:04:09,684 I can, however, confirm the sighting of a ladder. 992 01:04:10,430 --> 01:04:13,058 It is propped against my father's with drawing-room. 993 01:04:13,558 --> 01:04:14,850 It is indeed Madam. 994 01:04:14,851 --> 01:04:16,319 You have an exact knowledge. 995 01:04:16,644 --> 01:04:18,317 As exact a knowledge as though... 996 01:04:18,772 --> 01:04:20,991 you had placed it there yourself, would you say? 997 01:04:21,691 --> 01:04:24,406 Mr. Neville, if ever I had such a mind to... 998 01:04:24,407 --> 01:04:26,951 I would have found it impossible to have lifted it. 999 01:04:27,530 --> 01:04:28,531 It would have taken... 1000 01:04:28,948 --> 01:04:29,699 two men. 1001 01:04:31,117 --> 01:04:32,039 Away! 1002 01:04:37,791 --> 01:04:39,755 What do you want, Mr. Clarke? 1003 01:04:39,756 --> 01:04:41,253 Can you come with me, Sir. 1004 01:04:41,753 --> 01:04:42,595 It's important. 1005 01:05:46,943 --> 01:05:48,864 It is most important that I speak with you. 1006 01:05:48,865 --> 01:05:50,114 I cannot now, Thomas. 1007 01:05:50,447 --> 01:05:52,161 I am in a position to insist. 1008 01:05:52,162 --> 01:05:54,626 After what has happened, I refuse to speak to you now. 1009 01:05:55,535 --> 01:05:56,815 Take care of affairs yourself... 1010 01:05:56,870 --> 01:05:58,668 or in the last resort, ask Mr. Talmann. 1011 01:05:58,955 --> 01:06:01,959 Telling Mr. Talman what is on my mind will not help you. 1012 01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:02,880 What do you mean? 1013 01:06:03,626 --> 01:06:06,755 I am sure I'm shortly to be accused of the murder of your husband. 1014 01:06:07,630 --> 01:06:10,679 I'm determined to confront that eventuality well protected. 1015 01:06:11,718 --> 01:06:12,890 Who will accuse you? 1016 01:06:13,303 --> 01:06:15,101 Firstly, I think will be your son-in-law... 1017 01:06:15,972 --> 01:06:18,270 abetted and witnessed probably by his servants. 1018 01:06:18,516 --> 01:06:21,065 - How can that be? - I need your assistance. 1019 01:06:21,066 --> 01:06:21,982 To what end? 1020 01:06:22,812 --> 01:06:26,191 If my son-in-law believes that you're guilty of the murder of Mr. Herbert. 1021 01:06:28,860 --> 01:06:29,702 Leave me. 1022 01:06:32,238 --> 01:06:33,363 Maria! 1023 01:06:33,364 --> 01:06:35,287 Calling your servants is not going to help. 1024 01:06:35,288 --> 01:06:37,035 What do you mean? Maria! 1025 01:06:37,285 --> 01:06:39,128 I mean the draughtsman's contract. 1026 01:06:39,129 --> 01:06:40,162 What of it? 1027 01:06:40,163 --> 01:06:41,872 Maria, call Mr. Talmann. 1028 01:06:41,873 --> 01:06:44,467 I mean your contractual obligations to Mr. Neville. 1029 01:06:45,585 --> 01:06:46,793 What of them? 1030 01:06:46,794 --> 01:06:48,762 You are disingenuous beyond words. 1031 01:06:50,298 --> 01:06:51,843 Don't bother to call Mr. Talmann. 1032 01:06:51,844 --> 01:06:53,013 Fetch me instead a... 1033 01:06:54,969 --> 01:06:57,518 Fetch me nothing. I'm not thirsty just at present. 1034 01:07:04,646 --> 01:07:05,442 Now... 1035 01:07:06,022 --> 01:07:08,320 Mr. Noyes, what are you inferring? 1036 01:07:09,067 --> 01:07:11,570 I am to be unjustly and unscrupulously accused... 1037 01:07:11,571 --> 01:07:13,071 of the murder of your husband. 1038 01:07:13,404 --> 01:07:14,576 On what grounds? 1039 01:07:14,989 --> 01:07:17,458 That I was the most likely person to have done it. 1040 01:07:18,910 --> 01:07:20,831 I was the only person, except your servants... 1041 01:07:20,832 --> 01:07:23,293 to know of Mr. Herbert's return on Friday. 1042 01:07:23,294 --> 01:07:26,634 I am culpable because of my known feelings towards your husband. 1043 01:07:26,918 --> 01:07:29,127 That is ridiculous, there was... 1044 01:07:29,128 --> 01:07:32,256 I am the only person in the group of people you are about to mention... 1045 01:07:32,257 --> 01:07:35,261 who was not at home awaiting the arrival of Mr. Herbert. 1046 01:07:35,262 --> 01:07:38,309 And, further, because of my known feelings towards you. 1047 01:07:41,266 --> 01:07:43,485 Is all that sufficient reason? 1048 01:07:43,935 --> 01:07:44,857 There is more. 1049 01:07:45,979 --> 01:07:47,943 Mr. Herbert's study is mysteriously littered... 1050 01:07:47,944 --> 01:07:50,158 with papers and my gloves are there. 1051 01:07:50,984 --> 01:07:52,736 Now against this conspiracy... 1052 01:07:53,319 --> 01:07:54,946 I need your protection... 1053 01:07:55,655 --> 01:07:56,656 and more. 1054 01:07:59,284 --> 01:08:01,503 If you're guilty, Thomas, you shall have neither. 1055 01:08:01,828 --> 01:08:03,000 With Mr. Neville's contract... 1056 01:08:03,001 --> 01:08:04,248 I shall have them both. 1057 01:08:05,248 --> 01:08:07,626 For your protection and for seven hundred guineas... 1058 01:08:08,459 --> 01:08:10,837 I will trade you the contract of your infidelities. 1059 01:08:13,006 --> 01:08:14,599 I have no money. 1060 01:08:15,425 --> 01:08:17,098 Seven hundred is a calculated sum. 1061 01:08:20,930 --> 01:08:23,683 I will trade you the contract for the drawings. 1062 01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:26,937 You have 12 drawings... 1063 01:08:26,938 --> 01:08:29,107 and Mr. Neville has a reputation. 1064 01:08:29,108 --> 01:08:31,324 What for 12 drawings executed privately? 1065 01:08:31,858 --> 01:08:33,025 Consider, Madam. 1066 01:08:33,026 --> 01:08:35,611 The drawings could be construed as an embarrassment to you. 1067 01:08:35,612 --> 01:08:37,239 And the original purpose and significance... 1068 01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:40,993 of the drawings as a gift to your husband is absolved. 1069 01:08:41,826 --> 01:08:43,499 Those drawings, Mr. Noyes... 1070 01:08:44,495 --> 01:08:46,168 have cost me too much already. 1071 01:08:46,664 --> 01:08:48,541 They may cost you a great deal more. 1072 01:08:49,792 --> 01:08:51,544 They may cost you possibly everything. 1073 01:08:52,253 --> 01:08:55,678 An adulteress with a dead husband is no reputation to relish. 1074 01:08:56,883 --> 01:08:57,975 And Mr. Neville? 1075 01:08:58,259 --> 01:09:00,349 What of Mr. Neville? He's gone to Radcote. 1076 01:09:00,350 --> 01:09:01,847 What part is he in this stratagem? 1077 01:09:02,388 --> 01:09:04,139 He is not part of my stratagem. 1078 01:09:04,140 --> 01:09:07,440 He could be party to a future arrangement with the same intent. 1079 01:09:08,519 --> 01:09:09,896 You paid him a fee, Madam... 1080 01:09:10,355 --> 01:09:14,030 and you offered him full board on your property during the commission. 1081 01:09:14,525 --> 01:09:17,244 To the prying eye that is as much as he is usually worth. 1082 01:09:17,820 --> 01:09:19,868 With the contract in your hand and then destroyed... 1083 01:09:19,869 --> 01:09:22,162 why should the world think you have offered him more? 1084 01:09:25,662 --> 01:09:27,289 Where is that contract now? 1085 01:09:27,290 --> 01:09:28,126 I have it here. 1086 01:09:28,127 --> 01:09:29,214 Where are the drawings? 1087 01:09:29,749 --> 01:09:32,343 What would be said if I no longer had the drawings? 1088 01:09:33,002 --> 01:09:34,345 That you destroyed them. 1089 01:09:34,879 --> 01:09:37,758 For without your husband they were valueless to you. 1090 01:09:38,549 --> 01:09:40,138 What would happen if it were known... 1091 01:09:40,139 --> 01:09:42,353 that they were for sale? Your stratagem is weak. 1092 01:09:42,595 --> 01:09:43,847 That you sold them... 1093 01:09:43,848 --> 01:09:46,975 in order to afford a memorial to your husband... 1094 01:09:47,350 --> 01:09:48,442 or alternatively... 1095 01:09:48,685 --> 01:09:50,437 that you sold them in order to rid the house... 1096 01:09:50,438 --> 01:09:53,110 of something which pains you each time you look at them. 1097 01:09:55,483 --> 01:09:57,484 You once asked me if I could... 1098 01:09:57,485 --> 01:10:00,032 supply you with a ribald piece of gossip. 1099 01:10:00,033 --> 01:10:02,498 I remember your friendly gesture at the time. 1100 01:10:05,159 --> 01:10:07,582 Madam, you Romans know how to be charitable. 1101 01:10:12,041 --> 01:10:14,294 I can supply you with a little more than gossip. 1102 01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:17,170 I invite you to help me... 1103 01:10:17,171 --> 01:10:19,299 elaborate and decorate such an item. 1104 01:10:19,590 --> 01:10:20,682 An entertaining item. 1105 01:10:21,592 --> 01:10:23,763 We need not work too hard for the rump... 1106 01:10:23,764 --> 01:10:25,809 of the matter has been well laid. 1107 01:10:26,222 --> 01:10:29,019 What real benefit do you think I might gain... 1108 01:10:29,020 --> 01:10:30,233 from this exercise? 1109 01:10:30,727 --> 01:10:31,728 Amusement... 1110 01:10:31,978 --> 01:10:34,652 and a certain delight in a symmetrical stratagem. 1111 01:10:35,606 --> 01:10:37,277 And the satisfaction that our betters... 1112 01:10:37,278 --> 01:10:38,864 might be discomforted. 1113 01:10:38,865 --> 01:10:40,112 And who knows, perhaps... 1114 01:10:40,737 --> 01:10:43,832 two parterres and a grove of orange trees. 1115 01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:46,208 If Mrs. Herbert is generous. 1116 01:10:46,743 --> 01:10:49,041 And why Mrs. Herbert? 1117 01:10:49,704 --> 01:10:52,457 Because I think you will find she is mistress of strategy. 1118 01:10:53,124 --> 01:10:54,797 If you don't benefit from her directly... 1119 01:10:54,798 --> 01:10:56,757 I think that, if you wait a few years... 1120 01:10:56,758 --> 01:10:58,717 then you will achieve them from me... 1121 01:10:58,718 --> 01:11:00,215 as a token of my esteem. 1122 01:11:01,841 --> 01:11:03,343 From the same source? 1123 01:11:03,593 --> 01:11:05,220 I think you have understood me. 1124 01:11:08,806 --> 01:11:10,524 A monument would need a designer. 1125 01:11:11,267 --> 01:11:12,938 Would a certain pecuniary draughtsman... 1126 01:11:12,939 --> 01:11:14,936 be eager to sign another contract? 1127 01:11:14,937 --> 01:11:17,564 As far as I am aware, the idea is Mrs. Herbert's. 1128 01:11:17,565 --> 01:11:20,034 Though the expenses might be laid at Mr. Neville's door. 1129 01:11:20,035 --> 01:11:21,118 An about face. 1130 01:11:21,778 --> 01:11:23,746 It is his drawings that are to be sold. 1131 01:11:24,489 --> 01:11:25,661 Not more of his talent. 1132 01:11:26,282 --> 01:11:28,033 By Mr. Neville's growing reputation... 1133 01:11:28,034 --> 01:11:30,162 12 drawings could be profitably sold... 1134 01:11:30,163 --> 01:11:32,334 to furnish a more solid and enduring monument. 1135 01:11:32,747 --> 01:11:35,546 It is said that Mr. Neville is to be invited to The Hague. 1136 01:11:37,126 --> 01:11:38,922 If I had the wherewithal... 1137 01:11:38,923 --> 01:11:41,673 I would advance Mrs. Herbert one hundred guineas... 1138 01:11:41,674 --> 01:11:44,221 straight away for capital audacity... 1139 01:11:44,222 --> 01:11:47,052 for bravura in the face of grief. 1140 01:11:47,053 --> 01:11:50,273 Mr. Herbert is no especial excuse for such generosity. 1141 01:11:51,015 --> 01:11:53,268 But how publicly directed is the gesture? 1142 01:11:53,726 --> 01:11:56,195 How could posterity doubt her affection? 1143 01:11:56,196 --> 01:11:57,145 Just so. 1144 01:11:57,146 --> 01:12:00,524 I shall offer 300 guineas, not my own money, you understand. 1145 01:12:00,525 --> 01:12:02,619 My father-in-law's can afford it... 1146 01:12:02,860 --> 01:12:06,080 he collects, has no perspicacity, no knowledge. 1147 01:12:06,081 --> 01:12:07,531 I shall tell him... 1148 01:12:07,532 --> 01:12:08,875 that they are Italian... 1149 01:12:09,158 --> 01:12:10,250 Guido Reni... 1150 01:12:11,077 --> 01:12:12,124 Modesta. 1151 01:12:13,162 --> 01:12:15,252 He shall hang them in the darkroom... 1152 01:12:15,253 --> 01:12:16,966 and they shall never be seen again. 1153 01:12:17,792 --> 01:12:18,714 That is a pity... 1154 01:12:19,085 --> 01:12:21,049 for they are full of illuminating details. 1155 01:12:21,050 --> 01:12:23,889 Mr. Neville moves forward in Mrs. Herbert's susceptibilities... 1156 01:12:24,257 --> 01:12:27,261 like a man pressing a life-work by slow stages. 1157 01:12:28,344 --> 01:12:31,188 Would there perhaps be an idea in Mr. Neville's imagination... 1158 01:12:31,681 --> 01:12:34,309 for a certain contract to cap them all? 1159 01:12:34,642 --> 01:12:36,563 On horseback, a dashing St. George... 1160 01:12:36,564 --> 01:12:38,438 looking like a Jacobite with... 1161 01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:41,690 With a palette for a shield and quiver full of brushes... 1162 01:12:41,691 --> 01:12:44,069 and a pen held crosswise in his teeth. 1163 01:12:44,070 --> 01:12:45,945 With ink stained fingers. 1164 01:12:46,821 --> 01:12:48,038 What is in his fingers? 1165 01:12:48,489 --> 01:12:49,456 Unmentionable. 1166 01:12:50,533 --> 01:12:51,409 Another pen? 1167 01:12:52,243 --> 01:12:53,620 It's like a pen. 1168 01:12:53,870 --> 01:12:54,837 Is it a pen? 1169 01:12:55,288 --> 01:12:56,454 A little pen. 1170 01:12:56,455 --> 01:12:58,874 The pen is mightier than the sword. 1171 01:12:58,875 --> 01:13:00,752 We will forward 400 guineas... 1172 01:13:00,753 --> 01:13:03,461 to this scabrous monument to a pen. 1173 01:13:03,462 --> 01:13:07,260 And our receipt will be Mr. Neville's drawing in the bath-house. 1174 01:13:07,261 --> 01:13:08,803 The one with the little dog. 1175 01:13:08,804 --> 01:13:09,927 Wagging its tail. 1176 01:13:11,178 --> 01:13:13,101 Mrs. Herbert does well to sell them. 1177 01:13:13,472 --> 01:13:15,098 How much will they bring? 1178 01:13:15,099 --> 01:13:17,646 They are worth what those who buy them wish to pay. 1179 01:13:17,647 --> 01:13:20,943 Mr. Seymour has tentatively offered four hundred guineas. 1180 01:13:21,731 --> 01:13:24,359 I am inclined to think that he makes his offer generous... 1181 01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:28,408 to Mrs. Herbert in order to interest her in a larger and... 1182 01:13:28,905 --> 01:13:30,363 a grander sale. 1183 01:13:30,364 --> 01:13:31,331 What other sale? 1184 01:13:31,657 --> 01:13:33,330 Why, of course, of the house. 1185 01:13:33,826 --> 01:13:35,419 That was very forward to him. 1186 01:13:35,995 --> 01:13:38,669 I tested his ambition by suggesting... 1187 01:13:38,915 --> 01:13:41,755 that he might buy a set of distinguished drawings of it. 1188 01:13:41,756 --> 01:13:45,549 Either way is a useful way to help Mrs. Herbert to a... 1189 01:13:45,550 --> 01:13:47,297 more profitable bargain... 1190 01:13:47,298 --> 01:13:49,845 and thereby to help her demonstrate her loss... 1191 01:13:49,846 --> 01:13:52,514 in the knowledge that a larger sum would make... 1192 01:13:52,515 --> 01:13:54,434 for a larger monument for her husband. 1193 01:13:54,889 --> 01:13:56,979 Mr. Herbert, one way or another... 1194 01:13:56,980 --> 01:13:59,352 stands to benefit by Mr. Neville's industry. 1195 01:13:59,685 --> 01:14:00,857 As do we all. 1196 01:14:01,562 --> 01:14:04,734 I fail to see, for a start, my benefit, or for that matter, yours. 1197 01:14:04,735 --> 01:14:06,985 Mr. Talmann, you are disingenuous. 1198 01:14:07,735 --> 01:14:09,694 You as by your leave... 1199 01:14:09,695 --> 01:14:12,039 your future son's future guardian... 1200 01:14:12,281 --> 01:14:13,995 stand in an enviable position. 1201 01:14:13,996 --> 01:14:15,834 Consider the neatness of it. 1202 01:14:16,452 --> 01:14:19,046 The estate would have an endurable memorial... 1203 01:14:19,330 --> 01:14:22,459 which is part of the landscape, instead of 12 perishable items... 1204 01:14:22,460 --> 01:14:24,586 which are mere representations of it. 1205 01:14:24,587 --> 01:14:26,881 I fail to see why Mr. Seymour's presumption... 1206 01:14:26,882 --> 01:14:29,007 should gain him a part of my son's inheritance. 1207 01:14:29,008 --> 01:14:30,345 Maybe there again... 1208 01:14:30,346 --> 01:14:32,560 Mr. Seymour will be doing you a favor. 1209 01:14:33,511 --> 01:14:34,474 What do you mean? 1210 01:14:34,475 --> 01:14:37,269 By taking away the possibility of your son ever seeing them... 1211 01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:39,608 when you have one, as I'm sure you will. 1212 01:14:40,142 --> 01:14:41,815 Why should he not see them? 1213 01:14:41,816 --> 01:14:45,647 Because he might perceive the allegorical evidence... 1214 01:14:45,648 --> 01:14:49,693 in them which you might be stubborn enough to deny. 1215 01:14:49,694 --> 01:14:52,284 Mr. Neville had no use for allegory... 1216 01:14:52,285 --> 01:14:55,283 and I am unlikely to miss what my son would appreciate. 1217 01:14:55,284 --> 01:14:58,035 An allegorical meaning that might involve his mother. 1218 01:14:58,786 --> 01:15:01,881 What? My Wife? How is that? 1219 01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:06,167 It is fancifully imputed... 1220 01:15:06,168 --> 01:15:09,843 that Mr. Neville saw you as a deceived husband. 1221 01:15:13,384 --> 01:15:14,636 How was I deceived? 1222 01:15:22,393 --> 01:15:23,938 I've been convinced, Sarah... 1223 01:15:23,939 --> 01:15:25,779 that you have been deceiving me. 1224 01:15:26,230 --> 01:15:28,073 What is the matter with your voice? 1225 01:15:28,074 --> 01:15:29,065 Damn my voice. 1226 01:15:29,066 --> 01:15:30,739 If you did, it would scare me less. 1227 01:15:31,277 --> 01:15:34,281 What's the matter with your face? Your face, Louis, is very red. 1228 01:15:34,282 --> 01:15:36,119 No redder than your backside... 1229 01:15:36,120 --> 01:15:38,209 when Mr. Neville had finished with it. 1230 01:15:41,871 --> 01:15:44,841 When your speech is as coarse as your face, Louis... 1231 01:15:45,166 --> 01:15:48,545 you sound as impotent by day as you perform by night. 1232 01:15:48,546 --> 01:15:52,088 Night and Day your behavior has been coarse... 1233 01:15:52,089 --> 01:15:54,933 and is no down in corresponding black and white... 1234 01:15:55,217 --> 01:15:58,308 for all the world to peer at, whether the sun shines... 1235 01:15:58,309 --> 01:16:00,557 or the wind blows, hot or cold. 1236 01:16:00,558 --> 01:16:03,730 Your speech, Louis, is becoming meteorological. 1237 01:16:04,602 --> 01:16:06,102 Explain your conceit. 1238 01:16:06,103 --> 01:16:08,982 It is no conceit but Mr. Neville's drawings. 1239 01:16:08,983 --> 01:16:12,861 I was sure you believed Mr. Neville incapable of complicated meaning. 1240 01:16:12,862 --> 01:16:14,112 What has he done now? 1241 01:16:14,113 --> 01:16:16,696 It is mostly what he has undone. 1242 01:16:16,697 --> 01:16:18,493 It seems to be your person. 1243 01:16:18,494 --> 01:16:21,335 I have no control over Mr. Neville's drawings. 1244 01:16:21,952 --> 01:16:23,870 He draws what he pleases. 1245 01:16:23,871 --> 01:16:27,040 He is not paid to draw for his own pleasure, nor for yours. 1246 01:16:27,041 --> 01:16:28,463 What makes you think he has done that? 1247 01:16:28,464 --> 01:16:30,173 - The way it looks. - How does it look'? 1248 01:16:30,174 --> 01:16:32,217 - The way the world sees it. - The world! 1249 01:16:32,630 --> 01:16:35,802 There cannot be that many people who have seen these drawings. 1250 01:16:35,803 --> 01:16:38,140 Who are these people that represent the world? 1251 01:16:38,141 --> 01:16:39,761 Seymour, Noyes, the Poulencs. 1252 01:16:39,762 --> 01:16:40,929 What do they see? 1253 01:16:40,930 --> 01:16:42,648 Enough to delight them... 1254 01:16:43,057 --> 01:16:45,731 to exercise their tongues, to discuss patrimony. 1255 01:16:46,227 --> 01:16:47,479 Or the lack of it. 1256 01:16:48,354 --> 01:16:51,153 They see then what they have long been searching for. 1257 01:16:51,154 --> 01:16:52,070 Do you think? 1258 01:16:53,109 --> 01:16:54,110 And that means? 1259 01:16:54,401 --> 01:16:57,746 An opportunity to braid you for not producing an heir. 1260 01:17:00,991 --> 01:17:03,244 Woman, it takes two. 1261 01:17:03,744 --> 01:17:06,042 It does indeed, Sir. 1262 01:17:06,872 --> 01:17:08,499 You amaze me. 1263 01:17:09,667 --> 01:17:11,757 What has that to do with Mr. Neville? 1264 01:17:11,758 --> 01:17:14,342 - I could ask you that. - You did not. You asked Mr. Noyes. 1265 01:17:14,343 --> 01:17:15,802 It was he who pointed it out to me. 1266 01:17:15,803 --> 01:17:18,597 With his long nose he could point you in any way he wishes. 1267 01:17:18,598 --> 01:17:19,514 Madam... 1268 01:17:19,927 --> 01:17:21,598 you'll look at those drawings... 1269 01:17:21,599 --> 01:17:22,971 and you'll explain to me... 1270 01:17:22,972 --> 01:17:26,224 why a ladder is placed under your window... 1271 01:17:26,225 --> 01:17:29,523 and why your revolting little dog is outside the bath-house... 1272 01:17:29,524 --> 01:17:31,773 and why your walking-clothes casually decorate... 1273 01:17:31,774 --> 01:17:33,317 the bushes of the yew-walk. 1274 01:17:33,318 --> 01:17:35,192 Your inventory, Louis, is unlimited... 1275 01:17:35,609 --> 01:17:38,328 like you long, clean, white breeches. 1276 01:17:39,071 --> 01:17:42,120 But there is nothing of substance in either of them. 1277 01:17:48,622 --> 01:17:49,623 Let me ask you. 1278 01:17:50,541 --> 01:17:53,839 Perhaps you can explain what your boots were doing in the sheep-field. 1279 01:17:53,840 --> 01:17:56,464 - They were not my boots. - Why was your undershirt idling... 1280 01:17:56,465 --> 01:17:58,885 on a hedge near the statue of Hermes? 1281 01:17:58,886 --> 01:18:00,008 It was not my shirt. 1282 01:18:00,009 --> 01:18:01,259 Can you not see... 1283 01:18:01,260 --> 01:18:03,479 the drift of this domestic inquisition? 1284 01:18:04,096 --> 01:18:06,392 You are answering me as I could answer you. 1285 01:18:06,393 --> 01:18:08,484 You cannot deny it is your dog. 1286 01:18:09,351 --> 01:18:11,816 And whereas, with your final accusation. 1287 01:18:11,817 --> 01:18:14,611 You pursue the ambiguity of an abandoned sunshade. 1288 01:18:15,149 --> 01:18:17,868 You are complete on paper... 1289 01:18:18,235 --> 01:18:20,656 in a borrowed hat and a borrowed coat... 1290 01:18:20,657 --> 01:18:23,282 and a borrowed shadow I shouldn't wonder. 1291 01:18:23,824 --> 01:18:26,703 Posing with your knees tucked in... 1292 01:18:26,952 --> 01:18:28,499 and arse tucked out... 1293 01:18:28,996 --> 01:18:31,044 and a face like a Dutch fig... 1294 01:18:31,415 --> 01:18:35,670 and a supercilious Protestant whistle, I shouldn't wonder... 1295 01:18:35,671 --> 01:18:37,717 on your supercilious smug lips. 1296 01:18:39,298 --> 01:18:40,140 And Louis... 1297 01:18:40,799 --> 01:18:43,848 you have always said that Mr. Neville has no imagination. 1298 01:18:44,428 --> 01:18:45,930 He draws what he sees. 1299 01:18:47,514 --> 01:18:49,516 Whose patrimony were you apeing then? 1300 01:18:50,351 --> 01:18:51,477 My father's? 1301 01:18:53,395 --> 01:18:55,568 The world knows that he is dead... 1302 01:18:57,566 --> 01:18:59,568 and is not certain who killed him. 1303 01:19:01,362 --> 01:19:03,238 The world might peer at those drawings... 1304 01:19:03,239 --> 01:19:05,660 and ask what conspiracy of inheritance... 1305 01:19:05,661 --> 01:19:07,331 did Mr. Neville have for you. 1306 01:19:10,955 --> 01:19:13,003 You are disreputable. 1307 01:19:15,125 --> 01:19:19,096 You side with a tenant-farmer's son against your husband. 1308 01:19:21,423 --> 01:19:24,518 You have married the grand-daughter of an army victualler. 1309 01:19:26,303 --> 01:19:29,898 There is nothing that I have said that suggests I side with Mr. Neville. 1310 01:19:30,766 --> 01:19:34,191 I hope you will agree that he has been useful to us all. 1311 01:19:34,895 --> 01:19:36,646 What have you done with his drawings? 1312 01:19:36,647 --> 01:19:39,526 I've bought them for 600 guineas and plan to destroy them. 1313 01:19:39,527 --> 01:19:41,152 It would be a pity to destroy them. 1314 01:19:42,403 --> 01:19:44,862 You are concerned that posterity... 1315 01:19:44,863 --> 01:19:46,410 will know of your duplicity. 1316 01:19:47,157 --> 01:19:48,124 Louis... 1317 01:19:49,159 --> 01:19:51,662 they contain evidence of another kind. 1318 01:19:52,746 --> 01:19:56,376 A kind more valuable than that seized upon by those titillated... 1319 01:19:56,377 --> 01:19:58,753 by a scandal that smears your honor. 1320 01:20:00,045 --> 01:20:02,510 Evidence that Mr. Neville may be cogniscent... 1321 01:20:02,511 --> 01:20:03,883 to the death of my father. 1322 01:20:52,139 --> 01:20:53,186 Good morning, Madam. 1323 01:20:54,141 --> 01:20:55,108 Mr. Neville. 1324 01:20:56,101 --> 01:20:57,273 Good morning, Sir. 1325 01:20:59,188 --> 01:21:00,314 Good morning. 1326 01:21:01,106 --> 01:21:04,576 Though the summer suddenly seems past and the weather less than good. 1327 01:21:05,652 --> 01:21:07,992 What has brought you back to Anstey so soon? 1328 01:21:07,993 --> 01:21:10,284 I thought our humble estate had seen the last of you. 1329 01:21:10,285 --> 01:21:13,242 I am staying at Radstock with the Duke of Lauderdale... 1330 01:21:13,243 --> 01:21:15,166 and have come at the invitation of Mr. Seymour... 1331 01:21:15,167 --> 01:21:18,917 to find that curiously he is out and most of his house is shut up. 1332 01:21:20,501 --> 01:21:24,051 Mr. Seymour is in Southampton with my husband. 1333 01:21:26,215 --> 01:21:29,310 The funeral was three days ago and they are discussing property. 1334 01:21:30,302 --> 01:21:32,680 It would seem then that my visit is poorly timed. 1335 01:21:34,139 --> 01:21:36,437 May I ask after the health of your mother? 1336 01:21:37,726 --> 01:21:40,147 Although my mother was understandably disturbed... 1337 01:21:40,148 --> 01:21:42,193 by my father's death, she is now... 1338 01:21:43,023 --> 01:21:45,151 from the knowledge that her affection for my father... 1339 01:21:45,152 --> 01:21:46,777 can never be reciprocated... 1340 01:21:47,277 --> 01:21:48,369 at ease. 1341 01:21:48,779 --> 01:21:50,076 And what of yourself? 1342 01:21:50,989 --> 01:21:52,536 I am very well, Mr. Neville. 1343 01:21:53,242 --> 01:21:54,334 And we are thriving. 1344 01:21:54,952 --> 01:21:58,331 Mr. Van Hoyten is to consider for us a new management... 1345 01:21:58,332 --> 01:22:00,879 of the grounds in an entirely fresh approach. 1346 01:22:01,542 --> 01:22:05,294 He has come at our request to soften the geometry... 1347 01:22:05,295 --> 01:22:07,548 that my father found to his taste, and to... 1348 01:22:08,173 --> 01:22:12,053 introduce a new ease and complexion to the garden. 1349 01:22:13,220 --> 01:22:15,348 Mr. Van Hoyten has worked in The Hague... 1350 01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,018 and he has presented Mr. Talmann with some novel... 1351 01:22:19,019 --> 01:22:21,770 introductions which we will commence next spring. 1352 01:22:23,355 --> 01:22:24,902 He is a draughtsman too. 1353 01:23:03,061 --> 01:23:04,779 Mr. Neville has come, Mother... 1354 01:23:05,397 --> 01:23:06,865 as we both believed he might. 1355 01:23:07,649 --> 01:23:10,448 He has brought with him a rare gift from Radstock. 1356 01:23:11,195 --> 01:23:13,744 Three pomegranates from Lauderdale's gardener... 1357 01:23:14,281 --> 01:23:17,285 reared in English soil under an English sun. 1358 01:23:17,286 --> 01:23:20,206 But with the help of one hundred panes of glass... 1359 01:23:20,207 --> 01:23:22,548 and half a year's supply of artificial heat. 1360 01:23:23,207 --> 01:23:24,379 Thank you Mr. Neville. 1361 01:23:26,335 --> 01:23:28,337 We must see what we can do for you in return. 1362 01:23:29,087 --> 01:23:31,681 I was about to take Mr. Van Hoyten to the river. 1363 01:23:32,299 --> 01:23:34,017 He has plans to make a dam... 1364 01:23:34,718 --> 01:23:36,345 and flood the lower field. 1365 01:23:37,596 --> 01:23:39,598 I will no doubt see you later, Mr. Neville. 1366 01:23:44,144 --> 01:23:45,566 Flooded fields, Madam? 1367 01:23:46,980 --> 01:23:48,653 Do you plan to join Anstey to the sea? 1368 01:23:49,816 --> 01:23:51,534 We are to have an ornamental lake. 1369 01:23:52,569 --> 01:23:54,659 My son-in-law has ambitions for his countrymen. 1370 01:23:54,660 --> 01:23:57,370 It is probably you that has opened his eyes... 1371 01:23:57,371 --> 01:23:59,164 to the possibilities of our landscape. 1372 01:24:02,412 --> 01:24:04,665 Why is this Dutchman waving his arms about? 1373 01:24:04,998 --> 01:24:06,466 Is he homesick for windmills? 1374 01:24:08,418 --> 01:24:09,585 Who knows? 1375 01:24:09,586 --> 01:24:10,962 He's a man with new ideas. 1376 01:24:10,963 --> 01:24:13,011 New ideas demand new methods, perhaps. 1377 01:24:14,174 --> 01:24:15,300 How was Radstock? 1378 01:24:16,218 --> 01:24:17,310 Fine enough, Madam... 1379 01:24:18,345 --> 01:24:20,814 but dull after the excitements of Anstey. 1380 01:24:22,140 --> 01:24:24,518 Have you now come here to renew those excitements? 1381 01:24:25,018 --> 01:24:26,520 That would be presumptuous. 1382 01:24:26,895 --> 01:24:28,021 It would indeed. 1383 01:24:28,814 --> 01:24:30,782 All contracts have been honored... 1384 01:24:31,775 --> 01:24:33,402 and the body has been buried. 1385 01:24:33,735 --> 01:24:34,907 That was blunt. 1386 01:24:36,363 --> 01:24:37,910 I remember that you were blunt... 1387 01:24:38,282 --> 01:24:39,784 in your dealings with me. 1388 01:24:41,868 --> 01:24:43,189 I was glad to see Mrs. Talmann... 1389 01:24:44,162 --> 01:24:47,084 and in all truth, put as much a possibility as I could... 1390 01:24:47,085 --> 01:24:49,301 to see that a meeting with yourself might occur. 1391 01:24:50,085 --> 01:24:53,089 I was curious to see the house and gardens again. 1392 01:24:53,090 --> 01:24:56,809 To see what appearance they'd put on after this week of changing weather. 1393 01:24:57,551 --> 01:25:01,306 But I admit that it was out of curiosity to see you... 1394 01:25:01,805 --> 01:25:03,227 was behind the reason for my wishing... 1395 01:25:03,228 --> 01:25:05,100 to be invited to Mr. Seymour's house. 1396 01:25:05,934 --> 01:25:07,231 Curiosity... 1397 01:25:08,186 --> 01:25:11,065 dies bit sound a very respectful reason to visit a lady. 1398 01:25:11,356 --> 01:25:13,108 Even one you've had the pleasure of. 1399 01:25:13,900 --> 01:25:17,575 Is it really myself that is the center of your interest and not my daughter? 1400 01:25:17,576 --> 01:25:18,572 Yes, Madam. 1401 01:25:20,907 --> 01:25:21,874 How's that? 1402 01:25:22,701 --> 01:25:24,829 My former contractual obligations... 1403 01:25:25,954 --> 01:25:29,083 tied us together to my advantage, and at your husband's death... 1404 01:25:29,084 --> 01:25:31,585 it was again I who gained and you who lost. 1405 01:25:33,211 --> 01:25:35,088 Very confident of that, Mr. Neville. 1406 01:25:35,547 --> 01:25:37,218 I must confess that in losing... 1407 01:25:37,219 --> 01:25:39,968 you have excited my curiosity further. 1408 01:25:42,763 --> 01:25:44,436 How do you imagine my losses... 1409 01:25:44,890 --> 01:25:45,891 Mr. Neville? 1410 01:25:46,933 --> 01:25:48,105 Humiliations, Madam. 1411 01:25:48,435 --> 01:25:49,857 Each one exceeding the other. 1412 01:25:51,063 --> 01:25:53,566 Is losing a husband a humiliation... 1413 01:25:54,566 --> 01:25:55,613 Mr. Neville? 1414 01:26:25,222 --> 01:26:27,598 In making my arrangements here... 1415 01:26:27,599 --> 01:26:30,434 I concluded with the possibility of 13 sites... 1416 01:26:30,435 --> 01:26:32,233 one of which had to be rejected to comply... 1417 01:26:32,234 --> 01:26:33,947 with the 12 drawings as commissioned. 1418 01:26:34,356 --> 01:26:36,484 The site that was rejected was... 1419 01:26:36,817 --> 01:26:39,282 as you will recall, to the south of the house... 1420 01:26:39,283 --> 01:26:41,700 and included the monument to the horse. 1421 01:26:42,447 --> 01:26:44,950 It is the site where your husband's body was found. 1422 01:26:46,618 --> 01:26:50,668 It was that irony that was uppermost in enquiring minds... 1423 01:26:50,997 --> 01:26:52,840 at the discovery of Mr. Herbert's body. 1424 01:26:53,333 --> 01:26:55,427 The thirteenth site was rejected... 1425 01:26:55,428 --> 01:26:57,378 for no clear reason. 1426 01:26:57,379 --> 01:26:59,427 It contained no view of the house... 1427 01:27:00,090 --> 01:27:02,637 then that was true of several other of the drawings. 1428 01:27:02,638 --> 01:27:05,934 It was the least characteristic of the garden's viewpoints... 1429 01:27:06,430 --> 01:27:10,151 and was most powerful at the least advantageous times of day. 1430 01:27:10,152 --> 01:27:13,066 And that is why, with your permission... 1431 01:27:14,187 --> 01:27:15,734 I would like, if I may... 1432 01:27:16,857 --> 01:27:19,861 to attempt to accomplish that drawing this afternoon. 1433 01:27:19,862 --> 01:27:21,783 That is, if you have no objection. 1434 01:27:23,530 --> 01:27:24,497 Mr. Neville... 1435 01:27:25,073 --> 01:27:27,792 your approach is full of hesitant pleasantries. 1436 01:27:28,243 --> 01:27:31,996 That is because I am still unable to fully judge... 1437 01:27:31,997 --> 01:27:34,625 your present feelings as to past events. 1438 01:27:51,933 --> 01:27:55,654 Mr. Neville, suffice it to say that the object of my life has changed. 1439 01:27:55,937 --> 01:27:58,235 I am a widow whereas I was a wife. 1440 01:27:59,065 --> 01:28:01,818 It could be construed that I was a widow whilst being a wife. 1441 01:28:03,069 --> 01:28:06,198 I've only exchanged a false position that made me unhappy for... 1442 01:28:06,698 --> 01:28:07,665 a true position... 1443 01:28:08,408 --> 01:28:10,160 that has left me without any emotion. 1444 01:28:12,162 --> 01:28:14,164 Mr. Neville, I propose to eat... 1445 01:28:16,666 --> 01:28:20,011 and I propose that you should eat with me. 1446 01:28:20,921 --> 01:28:22,138 When we are ready... 1447 01:28:23,298 --> 01:28:26,801 I will show, along with my gardener, Mr. Porringer... 1448 01:28:26,802 --> 01:28:29,021 what we at Anstey are capable of cultivating. 1449 01:28:29,346 --> 01:28:32,896 It will be by way of returning your gift in kind. 1450 01:28:33,934 --> 01:28:36,312 And, who knows? It may be that we could revive... 1451 01:28:37,270 --> 01:28:38,396 one more time... 1452 01:28:39,147 --> 01:28:42,447 a liaison, outside of a contract... 1453 01:28:42,901 --> 01:28:46,622 to our mutual satisfaction. 1454 01:28:48,365 --> 01:28:50,912 Then you must accomplish your thirteenth drawing. 1455 01:28:50,913 --> 01:28:52,752 Is all that acceptable to you? 1456 01:28:52,753 --> 01:28:54,838 It is as if you'd planed it. 1457 01:28:55,789 --> 01:28:57,541 I'm surprised... 1458 01:28:57,958 --> 01:28:59,084 delighted. 1459 01:28:59,709 --> 01:29:01,168 I am overwhelmed. 1460 01:29:01,169 --> 01:29:03,888 Mr. Neville, I will take all three states... 1461 01:29:04,589 --> 01:29:06,591 of your satisfaction into consideration. 1462 01:29:07,551 --> 01:29:08,643 I have... 1463 01:29:09,886 --> 01:29:12,014 quite legitimately, a freedom to exploit... 1464 01:29:13,014 --> 01:29:15,187 and I might as well exploit it with you... 1465 01:29:16,226 --> 01:29:18,103 considering our past experience. 1466 01:30:07,402 --> 01:30:08,824 A pomegranate, Mr. Neville. 1467 01:30:10,155 --> 01:30:13,034 Gift of Hades to Persephone. 1468 01:30:14,117 --> 01:30:16,211 My scholarship is not profound. 1469 01:30:17,704 --> 01:30:19,627 Unusual of you, Mr. Neville... 1470 01:30:20,248 --> 01:30:22,797 to profess to an ignorance of a subject which before... 1471 01:30:23,793 --> 01:30:26,170 you would be anxious to have us believe was an essential... 1472 01:30:26,171 --> 01:30:28,592 prerequisite to an artist's vocabulary. 1473 01:30:28,593 --> 01:30:32,436 Maybe I am hesitating to acknowledge an unintended allusion. 1474 01:30:34,930 --> 01:30:37,308 By eating the fruit of the pomegranate... 1475 01:30:40,101 --> 01:30:43,321 Pluto kept Persephone in the Underworld. 1476 01:30:43,897 --> 01:30:46,025 A symbolic fruit, Mrs. Herbert. 1477 01:30:46,441 --> 01:30:47,693 And you've brought me three. 1478 01:30:47,984 --> 01:30:50,362 That was all that Mr. Clancy would spare me. 1479 01:30:52,364 --> 01:30:55,709 Maybe Mr. Clancy is a contriver of allusions. 1480 01:30:56,868 --> 01:30:58,369 How is that Mrs. Herbert? 1481 01:30:58,370 --> 01:31:00,088 Are you acquainted with the man? 1482 01:31:00,872 --> 01:31:04,797 Having been tricked into eating the fruit of the pomegranate... 1483 01:31:06,294 --> 01:31:10,049 Persephone was forced to spend a period of each year underground. 1484 01:31:11,549 --> 01:31:14,598 During which time, as even Mr. Porringer will tell you... 1485 01:31:15,804 --> 01:31:19,223 Persephone's mother, the goddess of fields... 1486 01:31:19,224 --> 01:31:21,477 of gardens and of orchards... 1487 01:31:22,227 --> 01:31:25,071 was distraught, heart-broken. 1488 01:31:26,564 --> 01:31:27,565 She sulks... 1489 01:31:28,441 --> 01:31:31,527 and she refuses, adamantly refuses... 1490 01:31:31,528 --> 01:31:33,906 to bless the world with fruitfulness. 1491 01:31:35,824 --> 01:31:37,792 Mr. Porringer and... 1492 01:31:38,660 --> 01:31:41,789 your Mr. Clancy try hard... 1493 01:31:42,205 --> 01:31:44,674 to defeat the influence of the pomegranate... 1494 01:31:45,458 --> 01:31:48,428 by building places like these. 1495 01:31:49,295 --> 01:31:50,296 Don't you think? 1496 01:31:51,631 --> 01:31:55,511 And having built them and stocked them and patiently tended them. 1497 01:31:56,594 --> 01:31:57,720 What do they grow? 1498 01:31:58,513 --> 01:32:02,063 Why, the pomegranate? 1499 01:32:03,435 --> 01:32:05,904 And we are turned full circle again. 1500 01:32:08,148 --> 01:32:10,992 Certainly a cautionary tale for gardeners. 1501 01:32:11,609 --> 01:32:15,239 And for mothers with daughters, Mr. Neville. 1502 01:32:16,614 --> 01:32:19,411 Who knows? Pomegranates grown in England... 1503 01:32:19,412 --> 01:32:21,958 might not have such unhappy allegorical significance. 1504 01:32:26,082 --> 01:32:29,882 Plants from the hot-house, according to Mr. Porringer, are seldom fertile. 1505 01:32:31,046 --> 01:32:32,764 Fertile enough, Mrs. Talmann... 1506 01:32:33,339 --> 01:32:36,969 to engender felicitous allusions if not their own offspring. 1507 01:32:36,970 --> 01:32:38,970 And, of course, there are more. 1508 01:32:39,387 --> 01:32:40,559 More of what? 1509 01:32:41,639 --> 01:32:45,564 We well know your delight in the visual conceit. 1510 01:32:47,020 --> 01:32:49,569 The juice of the pomegranate... 1511 01:32:50,440 --> 01:32:52,442 may be taken for... 1512 01:32:54,027 --> 01:32:55,119 blood... 1513 01:32:56,237 --> 01:32:59,207 and in particular the blood of the new born... 1514 01:33:00,825 --> 01:33:02,202 and of murder. 1515 01:33:04,120 --> 01:33:06,214 Then thanks to your botanical scholarship... 1516 01:33:06,915 --> 01:33:10,260 you must find it cruelly apt that I was persuaded to bring such fruit. 1517 01:33:10,261 --> 01:33:11,377 Mr. Neville... 1518 01:33:11,711 --> 01:33:14,180 I suspected you were innocent in the insight... 1519 01:33:15,173 --> 01:33:17,471 as you have been innocent of much else. 1520 01:33:19,302 --> 01:33:20,224 Innocent, Madam? 1521 01:33:21,596 --> 01:33:24,270 By impute I was convinced you thought me guilty... 1522 01:33:24,849 --> 01:33:26,271 certainly of opportunism. 1523 01:33:26,768 --> 01:33:27,815 Probably of murder. 1524 01:33:29,437 --> 01:33:31,235 What I do think you guilty of... 1525 01:33:31,856 --> 01:33:33,733 I do not at all reproach you for. 1526 01:33:35,568 --> 01:33:37,161 In our need of an heir... 1527 01:33:38,947 --> 01:33:41,951 you may very likely have served us well. 1528 01:33:44,577 --> 01:33:45,499 Madam? 1529 01:33:48,540 --> 01:33:50,417 We had a contract, did we not? 1530 01:33:54,754 --> 01:33:57,175 You do not think I would have signed so much... 1531 01:33:57,176 --> 01:33:58,390 for pleasures alone? 1532 01:34:05,807 --> 01:34:06,649 Madam... 1533 01:34:07,433 --> 01:34:08,730 that was ingenious. 1534 01:34:08,731 --> 01:34:09,648 No. 1535 01:34:10,603 --> 01:34:12,605 Since when has adultery been ingenious? 1536 01:34:14,065 --> 01:34:15,738 Mr. Neville you are ridiculous. 1537 01:34:32,709 --> 01:34:34,757 And why should you have murdered Mr. Herbert? 1538 01:34:35,712 --> 01:34:36,759 For what reason? 1539 01:34:37,297 --> 01:34:39,766 Mr. Talmann believes I had reason enough. 1540 01:34:40,175 --> 01:34:42,968 Yes, Mr. Talmann is in Southampton... 1541 01:34:42,969 --> 01:34:45,222 still trying to find or invent... 1542 01:34:45,223 --> 01:34:47,394 some responsibility for you in the matter. 1543 01:34:48,349 --> 01:34:51,102 He will not forgive your indiscretion with Sarah. 1544 01:34:52,520 --> 01:34:54,484 But he won't disown his wife, for then... 1545 01:34:54,485 --> 01:34:56,027 he would lose Anstey. 1546 01:34:57,442 --> 01:35:00,036 I am sure that Mr. Talmann is not in Southampton... 1547 01:35:00,361 --> 01:35:03,410 for did I not see him on the carriage drive here this afternoon. 1548 01:35:04,365 --> 01:35:05,366 I think not. 1549 01:35:05,992 --> 01:35:08,415 He is in Southampton, with Mr. Seymour. 1550 01:35:08,953 --> 01:35:11,672 I do not think that Mr. Seymour can be in Southampton. 1551 01:35:12,457 --> 01:35:16,048 For he stopped my servant this morning at Radstock to ask after me. 1552 01:35:16,049 --> 01:35:18,841 And on the understanding that I had some hope of seeing you... 1553 01:35:18,842 --> 01:35:21,432 was according to my servant, more than pleased. 1554 01:35:21,799 --> 01:35:24,894 I am convinced that we will see him this afternoon. 1555 01:35:25,470 --> 01:35:28,724 I confess I am surprised if that is the case. 1556 01:35:29,349 --> 01:35:30,441 I will enquire. 1557 01:35:35,855 --> 01:35:36,731 Sarah... 1558 01:35:37,982 --> 01:35:40,531 ask Mr. Porringer to get Mr. Neville a chair. 1559 01:35:41,194 --> 01:35:43,617 He intends to make a drawing for me in the garden... 1560 01:35:44,280 --> 01:35:45,577 by that horse. 1561 01:35:47,659 --> 01:35:48,785 And, Sarah... 1562 01:35:49,994 --> 01:35:53,339 ask Mr. Porringer to bring Mr. Neville a pineapple. 1563 01:35:53,748 --> 01:35:55,421 A small one, they're sweeter. 1564 01:35:56,292 --> 01:35:58,966 You would care to try a pineapple would you not? 1565 01:35:58,967 --> 01:36:00,430 I would be delighted. 1566 01:36:24,195 --> 01:36:26,118 Good evening, Mr. Neville. 1567 01:36:28,700 --> 01:36:29,701 Good evening, Sir. 1568 01:36:30,660 --> 01:36:33,584 And why, Mr. Neville, do we find you here so late? 1569 01:36:34,580 --> 01:36:38,005 Surely the light is now too poor to see adequately. 1570 01:36:38,543 --> 01:36:40,295 That is true. I am finished. 1571 01:36:40,837 --> 01:36:41,929 Good. 1572 01:36:43,631 --> 01:36:45,133 Perhaps I could see it? 1573 01:36:45,425 --> 01:36:47,302 If we had light, that might be possible. 1574 01:36:47,760 --> 01:36:50,058 I'm sure we can find some light. 1575 01:37:09,324 --> 01:37:11,952 But it is not finished, Mr. Neville. 1576 01:37:12,618 --> 01:37:14,666 No, Mr. Talmann, it is not. 1577 01:37:15,872 --> 01:37:18,462 You may successfully hide your face in the dark... 1578 01:37:18,463 --> 01:37:22,631 but in England it is not easy for you to hide your accent. 1579 01:37:22,632 --> 01:37:25,344 I did not think to hide my identity for long... 1580 01:37:25,345 --> 01:37:28,180 which even in the eyes of the English is no especial crime... 1581 01:37:28,181 --> 01:37:31,223 compared with the identity you care to assume with such ease. 1582 01:37:31,224 --> 01:37:33,310 And what identity might that be? 1583 01:37:33,311 --> 01:37:35,479 The identity of a man of some little talent... 1584 01:37:35,480 --> 01:37:39,571 some dubious honor, a proper dealer in contracts. 1585 01:37:39,896 --> 01:37:42,649 The identity of a man with an eye to the improper pursuit... 1586 01:37:42,650 --> 01:37:44,274 of dishonor to others. 1587 01:37:44,275 --> 01:37:46,990 You talk, Mr. Talmann, like one who has learnt abroad... 1588 01:37:46,991 --> 01:37:49,738 an archaic way of speaking that became unfashionable... 1589 01:37:49,739 --> 01:37:51,867 in England when my grandfather was a young man. 1590 01:37:52,116 --> 01:37:54,210 My speech is in no way dependable... 1591 01:37:54,211 --> 01:37:56,661 on your view of fashion. 1592 01:37:56,662 --> 01:37:59,084 We all know that in the field of deeds and of talent... 1593 01:37:59,085 --> 01:38:01,050 you in your field are an innovator. 1594 01:38:01,376 --> 01:38:03,595 That must be some sort of ﬂattery, Mr. Talmann. 1595 01:38:04,045 --> 01:38:06,260 Have your companions also come to flatter? 1596 01:38:06,261 --> 01:38:09,225 We have come merely as curious observers, Mr. Neville. 1597 01:38:09,842 --> 01:38:12,013 To wonder why after so much has happened... 1598 01:38:12,014 --> 01:38:15,231 you return to continue to fix Mr. Herbert's property on paper... 1599 01:38:15,848 --> 01:38:18,063 and chose to draw this particular site? 1600 01:38:18,064 --> 01:38:20,938 I might be inclined to answer those questions... 1601 01:38:21,437 --> 01:38:23,690 if I didn't feel that the truthful answers I would give... 1602 01:38:23,691 --> 01:38:25,860 would in no way be of interest to you. 1603 01:38:25,861 --> 01:38:29,406 It is our belief, Mr. Neville, that in returning here... 1604 01:38:29,407 --> 01:38:32,783 you are seeking a codicil to your original contract. 1605 01:38:33,116 --> 01:38:35,995 A codicil of a more permanent nature than the last one. 1606 01:38:36,577 --> 01:38:38,870 A lasting contract with a widow. 1607 01:38:38,871 --> 01:38:41,545 You speak, of course, Mr. Talmann, like a disinherited man. 1608 01:38:42,083 --> 01:38:44,427 Uninterested in painting or draughtsmanship. 1609 01:38:44,961 --> 01:38:47,305 Uninterested even in the prospect of the estate... 1610 01:38:47,547 --> 01:38:49,094 you covet from this position. 1611 01:38:49,715 --> 01:38:52,342 An ideal site for a memorial, perhaps. 1612 01:38:52,343 --> 01:38:54,890 Do you think Mr. Herbert would have appreciated... 1613 01:38:54,891 --> 01:38:56,184 the prospect of his estate? 1614 01:38:56,681 --> 01:38:58,645 As a landowner yourself, Mr. Seymour... 1615 01:38:58,646 --> 01:38:59,858 I leave you to judge. 1616 01:39:00,810 --> 01:39:03,438 For a man of property it is a view that might be enviable. 1617 01:39:03,896 --> 01:39:06,361 Though I think you are wrong to ascribe those... 1618 01:39:06,362 --> 01:39:07,984 enviable thoughts to me. 1619 01:39:08,317 --> 01:39:10,194 Perhaps they should be ascribed... 1620 01:39:10,445 --> 01:39:13,369 to my friend Mr. Noyes who is I think standing beside me. 1621 01:39:13,865 --> 01:39:15,708 A custodian of contracts. 1622 01:39:16,159 --> 01:39:19,081 A man who was given custody of private agreements... 1623 01:39:19,082 --> 01:39:20,421 in black and white. 1624 01:39:21,080 --> 01:39:23,126 And how do you feel that Mr. Herbert... 1625 01:39:23,127 --> 01:39:25,502 felt about these black and white contracts? 1626 01:39:27,753 --> 01:39:30,256 As his agent, his bailiff, his notary... 1627 01:39:30,506 --> 01:39:32,759 his one-time friend, the close... 1628 01:39:32,760 --> 01:39:34,977 though not close enough confidant of his wife. 1629 01:39:35,261 --> 01:39:38,013 I would have thought you would be the best person to answer that. 1630 01:39:38,014 --> 01:39:41,812 It is curious that you persist in asking me questions... 1631 01:39:41,813 --> 01:39:44,312 which you are the most suitably situated to answer. 1632 01:39:45,438 --> 01:39:48,356 It has occurred to me that you might have advanced... 1633 01:39:48,357 --> 01:39:50,655 Mr. Herbert the information that was so discretionally... 1634 01:39:50,656 --> 01:39:52,153 set down in black and white. 1635 01:39:52,987 --> 01:39:55,831 If he could have appreciated what it stood for is another matter. 1636 01:39:55,832 --> 01:39:57,621 He was blind to so much. 1637 01:39:58,159 --> 01:40:00,499 Certainly blind to considerable unhappiness. 1638 01:40:00,500 --> 01:40:02,710 Your understanding of Mrs. Herbert's unhappiness... 1639 01:40:02,711 --> 01:40:05,671 could in no way be considered profound or relevant. 1640 01:40:05,672 --> 01:40:07,631 I had access to some considerable... 1641 01:40:07,632 --> 01:40:09,254 observation of her state of mind. 1642 01:40:09,587 --> 01:40:12,056 You won't forget that I was helped in that respect by... 1643 01:40:12,057 --> 01:40:14,090 her daughter, your wife. 1644 01:40:14,091 --> 01:40:17,844 And was persistently persuaded by both ladies... 1645 01:40:17,845 --> 01:40:19,688 to undertake the commission in the first place. 1646 01:40:19,689 --> 01:40:21,808 And they persuaded you with a view... 1647 01:40:21,809 --> 01:40:25,152 that you might reconcile differences and not plunder them. 1648 01:40:25,436 --> 01:40:27,687 I am in no way responsible... 1649 01:40:27,688 --> 01:40:29,156 for Mr. Herbert's death. 1650 01:40:29,524 --> 01:40:31,117 The affair is a mystery to me... 1651 01:40:31,651 --> 01:40:33,866 though I have suspicions Mr. Talmann... 1652 01:40:33,867 --> 01:40:35,532 Mr. Seymour, Mr. Noyes. 1653 01:40:35,533 --> 01:40:39,034 And if they were here, indeed of Mrs. Herbert herself and Mrs. Talmann. 1654 01:40:39,408 --> 01:40:42,624 Ladies who both after all entered willingly into their contracts. 1655 01:40:42,625 --> 01:40:46,750 Is that why, Mr. Neville, you have just abused Mrs. Herbert further? 1656 01:40:54,131 --> 01:40:55,098 What a pity. 1657 01:40:57,385 --> 01:40:58,477 That was clever. 1658 01:41:00,513 --> 01:41:04,108 We now have a contract with you, Mr. Neville... 1659 01:41:04,934 --> 01:41:07,528 and under conditions of our choosing. 1660 01:41:08,312 --> 01:41:11,731 The contract concerning our present pleasure... 1661 01:41:11,732 --> 01:41:12,904 has three conditions. 1662 01:41:13,317 --> 01:41:16,537 It would be best served when you have removed your finery. 1663 01:41:17,238 --> 01:41:18,660 Take off you hat. 1664 01:41:20,241 --> 01:41:24,212 My hat has no contractual obligations with anyone. 1665 01:41:31,210 --> 01:41:33,587 The contract's first condition... 1666 01:41:33,588 --> 01:41:35,261 and there's no need to write it down for you... 1667 01:41:35,262 --> 01:41:38,635 will never see it, is to cancel your eyes. 1668 01:41:43,472 --> 01:41:46,851 Since we have now deprived you of your access to a living... 1669 01:41:47,560 --> 01:41:50,983 this shirt on your back will be of no value to you. 1670 01:41:50,984 --> 01:41:53,779 It may well dress a scarecrow to frighten the crows. 1671 01:41:53,780 --> 01:41:56,401 Or be scattered about an estate... 1672 01:41:56,402 --> 01:41:58,278 as ambiguous evidence... 1673 01:41:58,279 --> 01:42:00,405 of an obscure allegory. 1674 01:42:00,406 --> 01:42:02,534 And the third condition of your contract... 1675 01:42:02,908 --> 01:42:04,451 concomitant to the other two... 1676 01:42:04,452 --> 01:42:05,452 and legally binding... 1677 01:42:05,620 --> 01:42:07,245 and efficiently undertaken... 1678 01:42:07,246 --> 01:42:08,747 and for what is a man without property... 1679 01:42:08,748 --> 01:42:09,965 and foresight... 1680 01:42:09,966 --> 01:42:11,504 is your death.131508