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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,493 Hey! Hey! 2 00:00:49,162 --> 00:00:50,580 There he is! 3 00:00:58,505 --> 00:01:00,341 Where's he going? 4 00:01:03,677 --> 00:01:06,555 -Bastard! 5 00:01:06,555 --> 00:01:08,015 Stop! 6 00:01:08,015 --> 00:01:10,226 You won't get away, sir! 7 00:01:10,226 --> 00:01:12,311 Time to pay your debt. 8 00:01:12,311 --> 00:01:13,520 Hey! 9 00:01:52,270 --> 00:01:54,230 Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? 10 00:01:54,230 --> 00:01:57,275 I didn't think it polite to listen, sir. 11 00:01:57,275 --> 00:02:00,737 I'm sorry for that, for your sake. 12 00:02:00,737 --> 00:02:05,617 I don't play accurately-- anyone can play accurately-- 13 00:02:05,617 --> 00:02:08,620 but I play with wonderful expression. 14 00:02:08,620 --> 00:02:10,330 Yes, sir. 15 00:02:10,330 --> 00:02:13,834 Bills. bills. bills-- all I ever get is bills. 16 00:02:13,834 --> 00:02:15,335 And then there's the matter... 17 00:02:15,335 --> 00:02:17,838 of my unpaid wages. sir. 18 00:02:24,721 --> 00:02:27,140 Yet again the wasteful habits of my brother Ernest... 19 00:02:27,140 --> 00:02:28,933 tear me from my duties here. 20 00:02:28,933 --> 00:02:30,351 Yes, sir. 21 00:02:30,351 --> 00:02:32,103 It's a terrible nuisance, but there's nothing to be done. 22 00:02:33,605 --> 00:02:35,356 I shall return Monday afternoon. 23 00:02:35,356 --> 00:02:36,357 Yes, sir. 24 00:02:41,946 --> 00:02:44,074 Pay particular attention. if you will. Miss Prism... 25 00:02:44,074 --> 00:02:45,451 to her German grammar. 26 00:02:45,451 --> 00:02:46,952 Yes, Mr. Worthing. 27 00:02:52,833 --> 00:02:54,668 I don't suppose you've found my cigarette case... 28 00:02:54,668 --> 00:02:55,878 have you, Merriman? 29 00:02:55,878 --> 00:02:57,338 We'restill looking, sir. 30 00:02:58,672 --> 00:02:59,840 Walk on. 31 00:03:25,284 --> 00:03:26,786 Hey! 32 00:03:52,854 --> 00:03:55,315 Excuse me. 33 00:04:08,830 --> 00:04:10,039 Ernest! 34 00:04:12,333 --> 00:04:14,502 -Algy! -How are you, my dear Ernest? 35 00:04:14,502 --> 00:04:17,130 -What brings you up to town? -Oh, pleasure, pleasure. 36 00:04:17,130 --> 00:04:18,423 What else should bring one anywhere? 37 00:04:19,090 --> 00:04:20,842 Where have you been since last Thursday? 38 00:04:20,842 --> 00:04:22,176 In the country. 39 00:04:22,176 --> 00:04:24,137 You're always in the country. What on earth do you do there? 40 00:04:24,137 --> 00:04:25,930 Well, when one is in town, one amuses oneself. 41 00:04:25,930 --> 00:04:28,057 When one is in the country, one amuses other people. 42 00:04:28,057 --> 00:04:29,435 It's excessively boring. 43 00:04:29,435 --> 00:04:32,229 -Who are these people you amuse? -Oh, neighbors, neighbors. 44 00:04:32,229 --> 00:04:33,939 Nice neighbors in your part of Shropshire? 45 00:04:33,939 --> 00:04:35,691 Perfectly horrid. Never speak to one of them. 46 00:04:35,691 --> 00:04:37,568 How immensely you must amuse them. 47 00:04:37,568 --> 00:04:40,446 By the way, Shropshire is your country, is it not? 48 00:04:40,446 --> 00:04:41,780 -What? -Shropshire. 49 00:04:41,780 --> 00:04:42,948 -Shropshire? -Mm. 50 00:04:42,948 --> 00:04:44,366 Oh, yes, of course. 51 00:04:47,369 --> 00:04:48,913 Say. dear boy... 52 00:04:48,913 --> 00:04:51,041 What plans have you got for tea tomorrow? 53 00:04:51,041 --> 00:04:52,125 You know perfectly well... 54 00:04:52,125 --> 00:04:53,960 that Aunt Augusta is coming to tea tomorrow. 55 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:58,465 -Aunt Augusta? -Yes. Aunt Augusta... 56 00:04:58,465 --> 00:05:00,050 And Gwendolen. 57 00:05:01,927 --> 00:05:03,929 How perfectly delightful. 58 00:05:05,347 --> 00:05:08,767 Perhaps I might pay my respects. 59 00:05:08,767 --> 00:05:10,477 Yes, that is all very well, but I'm afraid Aunt Augusta... 60 00:05:10,477 --> 00:05:11,771 won't approve of your being there. 61 00:05:11,771 --> 00:05:13,022 Why do you say that? 62 00:05:13,022 --> 00:05:14,815 My dear fellow, the way that you flirt with Gwendolen... 63 00:05:14,815 --> 00:05:16,317 is perfectly disgraceful. 64 00:05:16,317 --> 00:05:18,778 It's almost as bad as the way Gwendolen flirts with you. 65 00:05:18,778 --> 00:05:22,073 -I am in love with Gwendolen. -Ahh. 66 00:05:22,073 --> 00:05:24,700 And I have come up to town expressly to propose to her. 67 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:26,452 I thought you came up for pleasure. 68 00:05:26,452 --> 00:05:28,120 I call that business. 69 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:29,747 Oh, how utterly unromantic you are. 70 00:05:29,747 --> 00:05:31,959 I really don't see what there is romantic about proposing. 71 00:05:31,959 --> 00:05:34,294 Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. 72 00:05:34,294 --> 00:05:37,172 And then--Ha ha!-- the excitement is over. 73 00:05:37,172 --> 00:05:42,886 No. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. 74 00:05:44,054 --> 00:05:47,683 Twenty-five a player. 75 00:05:50,352 --> 00:05:52,521 Anyway, I certainly can't see... 76 00:05:52,521 --> 00:05:54,691 you and Gwendolen being married. 77 00:05:54,691 --> 00:05:56,025 Why on earth do you say that? 78 00:05:56,025 --> 00:05:57,860 Well, in the first place, I don't give my consent. 79 00:05:57,860 --> 00:05:59,112 Your consent? 80 00:05:59,112 --> 00:06:01,197 My dear fellow, Gwendolen is my cousin... 81 00:06:01,197 --> 00:06:03,241 and before I allow you to marry her... 82 00:06:03,241 --> 00:06:06,911 you shall have to clear up this whole question of Cecily. 83 00:06:06,911 --> 00:06:08,454 -Cecily? -Mm. 84 00:06:08,454 --> 00:06:10,540 What on earth do you mean? 85 00:06:10,540 --> 00:06:12,917 I don't know anyone by the name of Cecily. 86 00:06:12,917 --> 00:06:16,255 Do you mean you have had my cigarette case all this time? 87 00:06:16,255 --> 00:06:17,923 I wish to goodness you had let me know. 88 00:06:17,923 --> 00:06:20,426 I've been writing frantic letters to Scotland Yard. 89 00:06:20,426 --> 00:06:22,303 I was very nearly offering a very large reward. 90 00:06:22,303 --> 00:06:23,637 I wish you would offer one. 91 00:06:23,637 --> 00:06:25,764 I happen to be more than usually hard up. 92 00:06:25,764 --> 00:06:28,267 It makes no matter... 93 00:06:28,267 --> 00:06:29,935 for I see now the thing isn't yours after all. 94 00:06:29,935 --> 00:06:31,103 Of course it's mine. 95 00:06:31,103 --> 00:06:32,521 You have seen me with it a hundred times. 96 00:06:32,521 --> 00:06:33,814 Not according to the inscription. 97 00:06:33,814 --> 00:06:35,065 And you have no right whatsoever... 98 00:06:35,065 --> 00:06:36,401 to read what is written inside. 99 00:06:36,401 --> 00:06:37,903 It is a very ungentlemanly thing... 100 00:06:37,903 --> 00:06:39,529 to read a private cigarette case. 101 00:06:39,529 --> 00:06:41,281 Yes, but this isn't your cigarette case. 102 00:06:41,281 --> 00:06:43,116 This cigarette case is a present from someone... 103 00:06:43,116 --> 00:06:44,659 of the name of Cecily, and you said... 104 00:06:44,659 --> 00:06:46,161 you didn't know anyone of that name. 105 00:06:48,413 --> 00:06:52,375 Well, if you want to know, Cecily happens to be my aunt. 106 00:06:53,460 --> 00:06:54,669 Your aunt? 107 00:06:54,669 --> 00:06:56,087 Yes. Charming old lady she is, too. 108 00:06:56,087 --> 00:06:58,382 Lives at Tunbridge Wells. Just give it back to me, Algy. 109 00:06:58,382 --> 00:07:02,678 Yes, but why does your aunt call you her uncle? 110 00:07:10,478 --> 00:07:13,147 "From little Cecily, with her fondest love... 111 00:07:13,147 --> 00:07:15,858 "to her dear Uncle Jack." Mmm. 112 00:07:15,858 --> 00:07:19,738 There is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt... 113 00:07:19,738 --> 00:07:22,449 but why an aunt, no matter what her size may be... 114 00:07:22,449 --> 00:07:24,660 should call her own nephew her uncle... 115 00:07:24,660 --> 00:07:26,620 I can't quite make out. 116 00:07:26,620 --> 00:07:28,997 Besides, your name isn't Jack at all--it's Ernest. 117 00:07:28,997 --> 00:07:31,583 It isn't Ernest, it's Jack. 118 00:07:33,919 --> 00:07:35,504 You've always told me it was Ernest. 119 00:07:35,504 --> 00:07:37,422 I've introduced you to everyone as Ernest. 120 00:07:37,422 --> 00:07:40,218 It is perfectly absurd your saying your name isn't Ernest. 121 00:07:40,218 --> 00:07:42,095 It's on your cards. Here is one of them. 122 00:07:42,095 --> 00:07:44,889 "Mr. Ernest Worthing, B.4, The Albany." 123 00:07:44,889 --> 00:07:48,643 Well, it is Ernest in town and Jack in the country... 124 00:07:48,643 --> 00:07:51,604 and the cigarette case was given to me in the country. 125 00:07:53,898 --> 00:07:57,151 So I've always pretended to have a younger brother. 126 00:07:57,151 --> 00:08:01,615 Ah, of the name of Ernest. And little Cecily? 127 00:08:01,615 --> 00:08:04,493 My ward, Miss Cecily Cardew. 128 00:08:04,493 --> 00:08:07,121 Where is that place in the country. by the way? 129 00:08:07,121 --> 00:08:08,998 That is nothing to you. dear boy. 130 00:08:08,998 --> 00:08:11,208 You are certainly not going to be invited. 131 00:08:11,208 --> 00:08:13,627 I may tell you candidly the place is not in Shropshire. 132 00:08:13,627 --> 00:08:15,337 Oh, I suspected that, my dear fellow... 133 00:08:15,337 --> 00:08:18,841 just as I suspected you to be a Bunburyist. 134 00:08:18,841 --> 00:08:22,512 Indeed, you are one of the most advanced... 135 00:08:22,512 --> 00:08:24,222 Bunburyists I know. 136 00:08:25,849 --> 00:08:28,310 See you at five. 137 00:08:30,812 --> 00:08:32,439 Moncrieff! 138 00:08:32,439 --> 00:08:34,816 A quick word, sir! 139 00:08:35,901 --> 00:08:37,527 "Bunburyist"? 140 00:08:38,653 --> 00:08:42,198 Cecily, your German grammar is on the table. 141 00:08:42,198 --> 00:08:44,452 Pray open it at page fifteen. 142 00:08:44,452 --> 00:08:46,621 We will repeat yesterday's lesson. 143 00:08:46,621 --> 00:08:48,706 But I don't like German. 144 00:08:48,706 --> 00:08:51,208 It isn't at all a becoming language. 145 00:08:51,208 --> 00:08:52,835 I know perfectly well... 146 00:08:52,835 --> 00:08:55,379 I look quite plain after my German lesson. 147 00:08:55,379 --> 00:08:57,757 Child, you know how anxious your guardian is... 148 00:08:57,757 --> 00:09:00,259 that you should improve yourself in every way. 149 00:09:00,259 --> 00:09:03,095 Dear Uncle Jack is so very serious. 150 00:09:03,095 --> 00:09:07,392 Sometimes I think he is so serious he cannot be quite well. 151 00:09:07,392 --> 00:09:09,686 Cecily, I'm surprised at you. 152 00:09:09,686 --> 00:09:12,648 Mr. Worthing has many troubles in his life. 153 00:09:12,648 --> 00:09:15,275 You must remember his constant anxiety... 154 00:09:15,275 --> 00:09:19,404 about that unfortunate young man, his brother. 155 00:09:19,404 --> 00:09:22,532 I wish Uncle Jack would allow that unfortunate young man... 156 00:09:22,532 --> 00:09:25,410 his brother, to come down here sometimes. 157 00:09:25,410 --> 00:09:27,705 We might have a good influence over him, Miss Prism. 158 00:09:27,705 --> 00:09:30,583 I'm not sure that I would desire to reclaim him. 159 00:09:30,583 --> 00:09:33,378 I'm not in favor of this modern mania... 160 00:09:33,378 --> 00:09:35,129 for turning bad people into good people... 161 00:09:35,129 --> 00:09:37,257 at a moment's notice. 162 00:09:40,927 --> 00:09:42,554 Cecily? 163 00:09:43,596 --> 00:09:45,431 Do your work. child. 164 00:09:47,226 --> 00:09:51,730 He, she, it praises. 165 00:09:52,773 --> 00:09:54,567 "Bunburyist"? 166 00:09:54,567 --> 00:09:56,652 What on earth do you mean by a "Bunburyist"? 167 00:09:56,652 --> 00:10:00,030 You have invented a very useful younger brother... 168 00:10:00,030 --> 00:10:02,866 called Ernest in order that you may be able... 169 00:10:02,866 --> 00:10:04,827 to come up to town as often as you like. 170 00:10:04,827 --> 00:10:06,537 I have invented... 171 00:10:06,537 --> 00:10:10,166 an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury... 172 00:10:10,166 --> 00:10:12,752 in order that I may be able to go down... 173 00:10:12,752 --> 00:10:15,463 to the country as often as I choose. 174 00:10:15,463 --> 00:10:17,674 If it wasn't for Bunbury's extraordinary bad health... 175 00:10:17,674 --> 00:10:19,342 for instance, I wouldn't be able to dine with you... 176 00:10:19,342 --> 00:10:21,136 at the Savoy tonight, for I've had an appointment... 177 00:10:21,136 --> 00:10:22,637 with Aunt Augusta for more than a week. 178 00:10:22,637 --> 00:10:24,639 I haven't asked you to dine with me anywhere tonight. 179 00:10:24,639 --> 00:10:26,975 I know. You're absurdly careless... 180 00:10:26,975 --> 00:10:28,810 about giving out invitations. 181 00:10:28,810 --> 00:10:30,813 Don't touch the cucumber sandwiches. 182 00:10:30,813 --> 00:10:32,899 They were ordered especially for Aunt Augusta. 183 00:10:32,899 --> 00:10:34,609 You've been eating them all the time. 184 00:10:34,609 --> 00:10:35,902 Well, that is quite a different matter. 185 00:10:35,902 --> 00:10:37,236 She is my aunt. 186 00:10:38,988 --> 00:10:40,364 That must be her. 187 00:10:40,364 --> 00:10:42,575 Only relatives or creditors ever ring... 188 00:10:42,575 --> 00:10:44,452 in that Wagnerian manner. 189 00:10:44,452 --> 00:10:48,164 Now, if I manage to get her out of the way for 10 minutes... 190 00:10:48,164 --> 00:10:49,790 so that you may have an opportunity... 191 00:10:49,790 --> 00:10:51,335 for proposing to Gwendolen... 192 00:10:51,335 --> 00:10:53,837 may I dine with you at the Savoy tonight? 193 00:11:00,469 --> 00:11:04,264 Lady Bracknell and Miss Fairfax. 194 00:11:04,264 --> 00:11:06,016 Good afternoon, dear Algy. 195 00:11:06,016 --> 00:11:08,560 I hope you are behaving very well. 196 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:10,270 I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. 197 00:11:10,270 --> 00:11:12,690 That's not quite the same thing. 198 00:11:12,690 --> 00:11:14,859 In fact, the two things rarely go together. 199 00:11:14,859 --> 00:11:16,486 Lady Bracknell, l-- 200 00:11:16,486 --> 00:11:19,280 Oh, goodness, you are smart. 201 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,574 I'm always smart. Am I not, Mr. Worthing? 202 00:11:21,574 --> 00:11:24,160 You are quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. 203 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:25,536 I hope I am not that. 204 00:11:25,536 --> 00:11:27,664 It would leave no room for development... 205 00:11:27,664 --> 00:11:31,209 and I intend to develop in many directions. 206 00:11:31,209 --> 00:11:33,963 I'm sorry if we're a little late. Algy. 207 00:11:33,963 --> 00:11:36,090 I was obliged to call on dear Lady Harbury. 208 00:11:36,090 --> 00:11:38,300 I had not been there since her poor husband's death. 209 00:11:38,300 --> 00:11:40,719 I never saw a woman so altered. 210 00:11:40,719 --> 00:11:43,847 She looks quite twenty years younger. 211 00:11:45,391 --> 00:11:47,101 And now I'll have a cup of tea and one of those... 212 00:11:47,101 --> 00:11:49,687 nice cucumber sandwiches you promised me. 213 00:11:49,687 --> 00:11:50,854 Certainly, Aunt Augusta. 214 00:11:52,064 --> 00:11:53,816 Won't you sit here, Gwendolen? 215 00:11:53,816 --> 00:11:55,860 Thanks, Mama, I'm quite comfortable where I am. 216 00:11:57,612 --> 00:12:00,073 Good heavens, Lane, why are there no cucumber sandwiches? 217 00:12:00,073 --> 00:12:02,826 There were no cucumbers in the market this morning, sir. 218 00:12:02,826 --> 00:12:05,328 -I went down twice. -Oh, no cucumbers? 219 00:12:05,328 --> 00:12:07,247 No, sir. Not even for ready money. 220 00:12:07,247 --> 00:12:09,374 -That will do, Lane. -Thank you, sir. 221 00:12:16,882 --> 00:12:19,010 I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta... 222 00:12:19,010 --> 00:12:22,430 about there being no cucumbers, not even for ready money. 223 00:12:22,430 --> 00:12:24,390 It really makes no matter, Algy. 224 00:12:24,390 --> 00:12:26,934 I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury. 225 00:12:26,934 --> 00:12:29,604 I've got quite a treat for you tonight, Algy. 226 00:12:29,604 --> 00:12:31,856 I'm going to send you down with Mary Farquhar. 227 00:12:31,856 --> 00:12:34,150 -She is such a nice-- -I'm afraid, Aunt Augusta... 228 00:12:34,150 --> 00:12:35,568 I shall have to give up the pleasure... 229 00:12:35,568 --> 00:12:37,154 of dining with you tonight. 230 00:12:37,154 --> 00:12:38,488 I hope not, Algy. 231 00:12:38,488 --> 00:12:41,074 It will put my table completely out. 232 00:12:41,074 --> 00:12:43,118 It is a great bore, and I need hardly say... 233 00:12:43,118 --> 00:12:44,369 a terrible disappointment to me... 234 00:12:44,369 --> 00:12:45,746 but I've just had a telegram to say... 235 00:12:45,746 --> 00:12:47,998 that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again. 236 00:12:47,998 --> 00:12:51,043 They seem to think I should be with him. 237 00:12:51,043 --> 00:12:52,628 Very strange. 238 00:12:52,628 --> 00:12:54,546 This Mr. Bunbury seems to suffer... 239 00:12:54,546 --> 00:12:56,798 from curiously bad health. 240 00:12:56,798 --> 00:12:59,636 Yes, poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. 241 00:12:59,636 --> 00:13:01,930 I must say. Algy. I think it is high time... 242 00:13:01,930 --> 00:13:05,433 Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether to live or die. 243 00:13:05,433 --> 00:13:07,894 This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. 244 00:13:07,894 --> 00:13:09,812 I should be much obliged if you would ask... 245 00:13:09,812 --> 00:13:12,273 Mr. Bunbury from me to be kind enough... 246 00:13:12,273 --> 00:13:14,192 not to have a relapse next Saturday. 247 00:13:14,192 --> 00:13:16,653 It is my last reception, and I rely on you... 248 00:13:16,653 --> 00:13:19,198 to arrange my music for me. 249 00:13:19,198 --> 00:13:21,325 I'll speak to Bunbury, Aunt Augusta... 250 00:13:21,325 --> 00:13:22,785 if he's still conscious. 251 00:13:22,785 --> 00:13:24,787 Now, if you'll follow me into the next room... 252 00:13:24,787 --> 00:13:26,330 I'll run over the musical program... 253 00:13:26,330 --> 00:13:27,957 I've already drawn up for the occasion. 254 00:13:27,957 --> 00:13:29,959 Thank you, Algy. 255 00:13:29,959 --> 00:13:32,086 It is very thoughtful of you. 256 00:13:34,171 --> 00:13:35,631 Gwendolen, you will accompany me. 257 00:13:35,631 --> 00:13:37,591 Certainly, Mama. 258 00:13:48,853 --> 00:13:51,273 Charming day it has been, Miss Fairfax. 259 00:13:51,273 --> 00:13:54,276 Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. 260 00:13:54,276 --> 00:13:56,236 Whenever people talk to me about the weather... 261 00:13:56,236 --> 00:13:59,573 I always feel quite certain that they mean something else... 262 00:13:59,573 --> 00:14:01,408 and that makes me so nervous. 263 00:14:01,408 --> 00:14:03,953 -I do mean something else. -I thought so. 264 00:14:03,953 --> 00:14:05,538 And I would like to take advantage... 265 00:14:05,538 --> 00:14:07,290 of Lady Bracknell's temporary absence-- 266 00:14:07,290 --> 00:14:09,333 I would certainly advise you to do so. 267 00:14:09,333 --> 00:14:11,460 Mama has a way of coming back suddenly into a room... 268 00:14:11,460 --> 00:14:13,588 that I've often had to speak to her about. 269 00:14:15,381 --> 00:14:19,343 Miss Fairfax, ever since I met you... 270 00:14:19,343 --> 00:14:21,387 I have admired you more than any girl... 271 00:14:21,387 --> 00:14:25,642 I have ever met since I met you. 272 00:14:25,642 --> 00:14:28,312 Yes. I'm quite aware of the fact. 273 00:14:28,312 --> 00:14:30,898 And I often wish that in public, at any rate... 274 00:14:30,898 --> 00:14:33,025 you had been more demonstrative. 275 00:14:33,025 --> 00:14:36,486 For me... 276 00:14:36,486 --> 00:14:38,822 you have always had an irresistible fascination. 277 00:14:38,822 --> 00:14:40,032 Gwendolen-- 278 00:14:40,032 --> 00:14:41,950 Even before I met you... 279 00:14:41,950 --> 00:14:44,036 I was far from indifferent to you. 280 00:14:47,582 --> 00:14:51,085 We live, as I hope you know, Mr. Worthing... 281 00:14:51,085 --> 00:14:55,381 in an age of ideals, and my ideal has always been... 282 00:14:55,381 --> 00:14:58,593 to love someone of the name of Ernest. 283 00:15:00,386 --> 00:15:01,930 There's something in that name... 284 00:15:01,930 --> 00:15:04,515 that inspires absolute confidence. 285 00:15:04,515 --> 00:15:06,685 The moment Algy first mentioned to me... 286 00:15:06,685 --> 00:15:08,896 that he had a friend called Ernest... 287 00:15:08,896 --> 00:15:13,067 I knew I was destined to love you. 288 00:15:13,067 --> 00:15:16,487 -You really love me, Gwendolen? -Passionately. 289 00:15:16,487 --> 00:15:19,531 Darling, you don't know how happy you've made me. 290 00:15:19,531 --> 00:15:20,991 My own Ernest. 291 00:15:22,785 --> 00:15:24,870 You don't mean to say though, dear... 292 00:15:24,870 --> 00:15:27,374 you couldn't love me if my name wasn't Ernest. 293 00:15:27,374 --> 00:15:29,542 But your name is Ernest. 294 00:15:29,542 --> 00:15:31,294 Yes, I know it is... 295 00:15:31,294 --> 00:15:34,256 but supposing it was something else? 296 00:15:34,256 --> 00:15:39,844 Ah. Well, that is clearly a metaphysical speculation... 297 00:15:39,844 --> 00:15:44,307 and like most metaphysical speculations... 298 00:15:44,307 --> 00:15:46,977 has very little reference at all... 299 00:15:46,977 --> 00:15:50,481 to the actual facts of real life as we know them. 300 00:15:52,233 --> 00:15:54,610 Personally, darling, to speak quite candidly... 301 00:15:54,610 --> 00:15:57,029 I don't much care about the name of Ernest. 302 00:15:57,029 --> 00:15:59,073 I don't think it suits me at all. 303 00:15:59,073 --> 00:16:01,826 It suits you perfectly. It is a divine name. 304 00:16:01,826 --> 00:16:04,161 It has a music of its own. 305 00:16:04,161 --> 00:16:07,582 It produces vibrations. 306 00:16:09,501 --> 00:16:10,877 Well, really, Gwendolen... 307 00:16:10,877 --> 00:16:14,423 I must say I think there are lots of other much nicer names. 308 00:16:14,423 --> 00:16:15,674 I think... 309 00:16:17,259 --> 00:16:20,304 Jack, for instance, a charming name. 310 00:16:20,304 --> 00:16:21,638 Jack? 311 00:16:21,638 --> 00:16:23,807 I've known several Jacks, and they all... 312 00:16:23,807 --> 00:16:26,143 without exception, were more than usually plain. 313 00:16:26,143 --> 00:16:27,269 Mm. 314 00:16:27,269 --> 00:16:30,815 The only really safe name is Ernest. 315 00:16:30,815 --> 00:16:33,693 Gwendolen, we must get married at once. 316 00:16:35,528 --> 00:16:37,864 Married, Mr. Worthing? 317 00:16:37,864 --> 00:16:39,490 Well, surely. 318 00:16:39,490 --> 00:16:43,620 You know that I love you, and you led me to believe... 319 00:16:43,620 --> 00:16:47,749 Miss Fairfax, that you were not absolutely indifferent to me. 320 00:16:47,749 --> 00:16:49,375 I adore you. 321 00:16:49,375 --> 00:16:51,336 But you haven't proposed to me yet. 322 00:16:51,336 --> 00:16:53,547 Nothing's been said at all about marriage. 323 00:16:53,547 --> 00:16:56,592 The subject has not even been touched on. 324 00:17:05,434 --> 00:17:06,810 Gwendolen. 325 00:17:06,810 --> 00:17:09,897 Yes, Mr. Worthing, what have you to say to me? 326 00:17:09,897 --> 00:17:12,316 You know what I have to say to you. 327 00:17:12,316 --> 00:17:14,986 Yes, but you don't say it. 328 00:17:18,782 --> 00:17:22,369 Gwendolen, will you marry me? 329 00:17:24,204 --> 00:17:26,081 Mr. Worthing! 330 00:17:26,081 --> 00:17:28,416 Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. 331 00:17:28,416 --> 00:17:30,126 It is most indecorous. 332 00:17:30,126 --> 00:17:32,587 Mama! I must beg you to retire. 333 00:17:32,587 --> 00:17:34,382 Mr. Worthing has not quite finished yet. 334 00:17:34,382 --> 00:17:36,175 Finished what, may I ask? 335 00:17:36,175 --> 00:17:39,470 I am engaged to be married to Mr. Worthing, Mama. 336 00:17:39,470 --> 00:17:41,973 Pardon me. Gwendolen. You are not engaged to anyone. 337 00:17:41,973 --> 00:17:43,766 When you do become engaged to someone... 338 00:17:43,766 --> 00:17:46,852 I or your father, should his health permit him... 339 00:17:46,852 --> 00:17:49,939 will inform you of the fact. 340 00:17:49,939 --> 00:17:52,942 You will wait for me below in the carriage. 341 00:17:52,942 --> 00:17:55,696 -Mama-- -ln the carriage, Gwendolen. 342 00:18:06,623 --> 00:18:09,459 Gwendolen! The carriage! 343 00:18:17,093 --> 00:18:19,429 I feel bound to tell you, Mr. Worthing... 344 00:18:19,429 --> 00:18:22,890 you are not down on my list of eligible young men. 345 00:18:22,890 --> 00:18:24,726 However, I'm quite ready... 346 00:18:24,726 --> 00:18:26,811 to enter your name as a possible candidate. 347 00:18:26,811 --> 00:18:29,731 Perhaps you would attend a meeting at my house... 348 00:18:29,731 --> 00:18:32,025 at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning. 349 00:18:32,025 --> 00:18:35,486 I shall have a few questions to put to you. 350 00:18:36,988 --> 00:18:38,949 Algernon? 351 00:18:38,991 --> 00:18:43,537 So. did you tell Gwendolen the truth... 352 00:18:43,537 --> 00:18:46,832 about being Ernest in town and Jack in the country? 353 00:18:46,832 --> 00:18:48,083 My dear fellow... 354 00:18:48,083 --> 00:18:49,793 the truth isn't quite the sort of thing... 355 00:18:49,793 --> 00:18:51,837 one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. 356 00:18:51,837 --> 00:18:53,255 What extraordinary ideas you have... 357 00:18:53,255 --> 00:18:54,715 about the way to behave to a woman. 358 00:18:54,715 --> 00:18:56,216 The only way to behave to a woman... 359 00:18:56,216 --> 00:18:57,676 is to make love to her if she's pretty... 360 00:18:57,676 --> 00:18:59,262 and to someone else if she is plain. 361 00:18:59,262 --> 00:19:00,513 That is nonsense. 362 00:19:00,513 --> 00:19:02,223 You never talk anything but nonsense. 363 00:19:02,223 --> 00:19:04,017 Well, nobody ever does. 364 00:19:04,017 --> 00:19:07,145 Oh, my dear fellow, you forgot to pay the bill. 365 00:19:07,145 --> 00:19:10,649 Not at all. I make it a point never to pay at the Savoy. 366 00:19:12,901 --> 00:19:15,153 Why on earth not? You have heaps of money. 367 00:19:15,153 --> 00:19:17,364 Yes, but Ernest hasn't... 368 00:19:17,364 --> 00:19:19,574 and he's got quite a reputation to keep up. 369 00:19:28,334 --> 00:19:30,920 Cecily? 370 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,757 More intellectual pleasures await you, my child. 371 00:19:37,969 --> 00:19:41,055 You should put away your diary, Cecily. 372 00:19:41,055 --> 00:19:44,268 I really don't see why you should keep a diary at all. 373 00:19:44,268 --> 00:19:45,811 I keep a diary in order to enter... 374 00:19:45,811 --> 00:19:48,063 the wonderful secrets of my life. 375 00:19:48,063 --> 00:19:49,398 If I didn't write them down... 376 00:19:49,398 --> 00:19:51,775 I should probably forget all about them. 377 00:19:51,775 --> 00:19:53,402 Memory, my dear Cecily... 378 00:19:53,402 --> 00:19:55,487 is the diary that we all carry about with us. 379 00:19:55,487 --> 00:19:57,364 I believe memory is responsible... 380 00:19:57,364 --> 00:19:59,324 for nearly all these three-volume novels... 381 00:19:59,324 --> 00:20:00,951 people write nowadays. 382 00:20:00,951 --> 00:20:04,497 Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. 383 00:20:04,497 --> 00:20:07,125 I wrote one myself in earlier days. 384 00:20:07,125 --> 00:20:09,419 Did you really, Miss Prism? 385 00:20:09,419 --> 00:20:11,462 I hope it did not end happily. 386 00:20:11,462 --> 00:20:14,591 The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. 387 00:20:14,591 --> 00:20:16,801 That is what fiction means. 388 00:20:18,052 --> 00:20:19,262 Do your work, child. 389 00:20:19,262 --> 00:20:21,598 These speculations are profitless. 390 00:20:23,016 --> 00:20:25,477 But I see dear Dr. Chasuble... 391 00:20:25,477 --> 00:20:27,646 coming through the garden. 392 00:20:27,646 --> 00:20:29,440 Oh, Dr. Chasuble! 393 00:20:32,568 --> 00:20:34,612 This is indeed a pleasure. 394 00:20:34,612 --> 00:20:36,447 And how are we today? 395 00:20:36,447 --> 00:20:39,116 Miss Prism, you are, I trust, well. 396 00:20:39,116 --> 00:20:40,909 Miss Prism has just been complaining... 397 00:20:40,909 --> 00:20:42,912 of a slight headache. I think it would do her... 398 00:20:42,912 --> 00:20:44,747 so much good to have a short stroll with you... 399 00:20:44,747 --> 00:20:46,291 in the park, Dr. Chasuble. 400 00:20:46,291 --> 00:20:49,586 Cecily! I have not mentioned anything about a headache. 401 00:20:49,586 --> 00:20:51,838 No. dear Miss Prism. I know that... 402 00:20:51,838 --> 00:20:53,965 but I felt instinctively that you had a headache. 403 00:20:53,965 --> 00:20:55,550 Indeed, I was thinking about that... 404 00:20:55,550 --> 00:20:58,053 and not my German lesson when the rector came along. 405 00:20:58,053 --> 00:21:00,055 I hope, Cecily, you are not inattentive. 406 00:21:00,055 --> 00:21:03,433 -I am afraid I am. -That's strange. 407 00:21:03,433 --> 00:21:06,144 Were I fortunate enough to be Miss Prism's pupil... 408 00:21:06,144 --> 00:21:08,606 I would hang upon her lips. 409 00:21:13,110 --> 00:21:17,907 I spoke metaphorically. 410 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:23,746 My metaphor was drawn from...bees. 411 00:21:27,626 --> 00:21:29,878 Ahem. I shall, um... 412 00:21:29,878 --> 00:21:34,007 see you both, no doubt, at Evensong. 413 00:22:00,201 --> 00:22:01,953 Good luck, sir. 414 00:22:14,174 --> 00:22:15,718 Ernest! 415 00:22:21,473 --> 00:22:24,184 -This way, sir. -Shall I, uh-- 416 00:22:49,836 --> 00:22:52,172 You can take a seat, Mr. Worthing. 417 00:22:54,967 --> 00:22:57,553 Thank you, Lady Bracknell. I prefer standing. 418 00:23:07,438 --> 00:23:08,981 Do you smoke? 419 00:23:13,319 --> 00:23:16,365 Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. 420 00:23:16,365 --> 00:23:18,158 I'm glad to hear it. 421 00:23:18,158 --> 00:23:20,994 A man should always have an occupation of some kind. 422 00:23:20,994 --> 00:23:23,455 There are far too many idle men in London as it is. 423 00:23:25,165 --> 00:23:28,877 -How old are you? -Thirty-five. 424 00:23:28,877 --> 00:23:31,129 A very good age to be married at. 425 00:23:32,631 --> 00:23:34,049 I've always been of opinion... 426 00:23:34,049 --> 00:23:36,010 that a man who desires to get married... 427 00:23:36,010 --> 00:23:38,846 should know either everything or nothing. 428 00:23:38,846 --> 00:23:40,765 Which do you know? 429 00:23:43,351 --> 00:23:45,395 I know nothing, Lady Bracknell. 430 00:23:45,395 --> 00:23:47,230 I'm pleased to hear it. 431 00:23:48,648 --> 00:23:50,900 I do not approve of anything that tampers... 432 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:52,902 with natural ignorance. 433 00:23:52,902 --> 00:23:56,615 Ignorance is like a delicate, exotic fruit. 434 00:23:56,615 --> 00:23:59,576 Touch it, and the bloom is gone. 435 00:23:59,576 --> 00:24:01,704 The whole theory of modern education... 436 00:24:01,704 --> 00:24:03,372 is radically unsound. 437 00:24:03,372 --> 00:24:04,999 Fortunately, in England, at any rate... 438 00:24:04,999 --> 00:24:07,209 education produces no effect whatsoever. 439 00:24:07,209 --> 00:24:09,169 If it did. it would prove a serious danger... 440 00:24:09,169 --> 00:24:10,963 to the upper classes and probably lead... 441 00:24:10,963 --> 00:24:14,091 to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. 442 00:24:14,091 --> 00:24:17,554 -What is your income? -Between 7 and 8,000 a year. 443 00:24:17,554 --> 00:24:21,641 -ln land or in investments? -ln investments, chiefly. 444 00:24:21,641 --> 00:24:24,019 Oh, that is satisfactory. 445 00:24:25,729 --> 00:24:28,023 I have a country house with some land... 446 00:24:28,023 --> 00:24:29,733 of course, attached to it. 447 00:24:29,733 --> 00:24:31,318 About 1,500 acres, I believe. 448 00:24:31,318 --> 00:24:33,236 You have a town house, I hope. 449 00:24:33,236 --> 00:24:35,655 A girl with a simple, unspoiled nature like Gwendolen... 450 00:24:35,655 --> 00:24:38,533 could hardly be expected to reside in the country. 451 00:24:38,533 --> 00:24:40,911 Well, of course I also own a house in Belgrave Square. 452 00:24:40,911 --> 00:24:42,663 -Number? -A hundred and forty-nine. 453 00:24:43,873 --> 00:24:49,128 The unfashionable side. I thought there was something. 454 00:24:54,425 --> 00:24:57,136 However, that could easily be altered. 455 00:24:57,136 --> 00:24:59,932 Do you mean the fashion or the side? 456 00:24:59,932 --> 00:25:02,017 Well, both, if necessary, I presume. 457 00:25:05,437 --> 00:25:07,314 Are your parents living? 458 00:25:09,066 --> 00:25:10,817 I have lost both my parents. 459 00:25:10,817 --> 00:25:13,528 To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing... 460 00:25:13,528 --> 00:25:16,156 may be regarded as a misfortune. 461 00:25:16,156 --> 00:25:19,576 To lose both looks like carelessness. 462 00:25:20,577 --> 00:25:22,205 Who was your father? 463 00:25:22,205 --> 00:25:24,582 He was evidently a man of some wealth. 464 00:25:24,582 --> 00:25:26,542 I'm afraid I really don't know. 465 00:25:28,962 --> 00:25:33,049 The fact is, Lady Bracknell, I said I had lost my parents. 466 00:25:33,049 --> 00:25:34,509 It would be nearer the truth... 467 00:25:34,509 --> 00:25:36,552 to say my parents seem to have lost me. 468 00:25:38,388 --> 00:25:40,682 I actually don't know who I am by birth. 469 00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:44,353 I was-- 470 00:25:44,353 --> 00:25:46,689 Well, I was found. 471 00:25:46,689 --> 00:25:48,315 Found? 472 00:25:48,315 --> 00:25:50,609 The late Mr. Thomas Cardew, an old gentleman... 473 00:25:50,609 --> 00:25:52,653 of a very charitable and kindly disposition... 474 00:25:52,653 --> 00:25:55,030 found me and gave me the name of Worthing... 475 00:25:55,030 --> 00:25:56,949 because he happened to have a first-class ticket... 476 00:25:56,949 --> 00:25:58,701 for Worthing in his pocket at the time. 477 00:25:58,701 --> 00:26:04,082 Worthing is a place in Sussex. It is a seaside resort. 478 00:26:04,082 --> 00:26:06,167 And where did this charitable gentlemen... 479 00:26:06,167 --> 00:26:08,295 with a first-class ticket for the seaside resort... 480 00:26:08,295 --> 00:26:09,671 find you? 481 00:26:09,671 --> 00:26:12,382 In a handbag. 482 00:26:15,969 --> 00:26:19,472 -A handbag? -Yes, Lady Bracknell. 483 00:26:19,472 --> 00:26:22,183 I was in a handbag-- 484 00:26:22,183 --> 00:26:29,650 a somewhat large, um, black leather handbag... 485 00:26:29,650 --> 00:26:31,819 with handles to it. 486 00:26:32,862 --> 00:26:36,407 An ordinary handbag, in fact. 487 00:26:36,407 --> 00:26:42,163 In what locality did this Mr. James or Thomas Cardew... 488 00:26:42,163 --> 00:26:44,457 come across this ordinary handbag? 489 00:26:44,457 --> 00:26:46,793 In the cloakroom at Victoria Station. 490 00:26:46,793 --> 00:26:48,879 It was given him in mistake for his own. 491 00:26:48,879 --> 00:26:51,506 The cloakroom at Victoria Station? 492 00:26:51,506 --> 00:26:53,383 Yes. The Brighton line. 493 00:26:53,383 --> 00:26:55,969 The line is immaterial. 494 00:26:58,639 --> 00:27:01,224 Mr. Worthing, I confess I am somewhat bewildered... 495 00:27:01,224 --> 00:27:03,352 by what you have just told me. 496 00:27:03,352 --> 00:27:06,480 To be born or at any rate bred in a handbag... 497 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,399 whether it has handles or not... 498 00:27:08,399 --> 00:27:10,485 seems to me to display a contempt... 499 00:27:10,485 --> 00:27:12,779 for the ordinary decencies of family life... 500 00:27:12,779 --> 00:27:15,031 which remind one of the worst excesses... 501 00:27:15,031 --> 00:27:16,699 of the French Revolution. 502 00:27:16,699 --> 00:27:18,201 And I presume you know... 503 00:27:18,201 --> 00:27:20,662 what that unfortunate movement led to. 504 00:27:20,662 --> 00:27:22,497 May I ask you then... 505 00:27:22,497 --> 00:27:24,374 what you would advise me to do? 506 00:27:24,374 --> 00:27:26,501 I need hardly say I would do anything... 507 00:27:26,501 --> 00:27:28,127 in the world to ensure Gwendolen's happiness. 508 00:27:28,127 --> 00:27:30,631 I would strongly advise you, Mr. Worthing... 509 00:27:30,631 --> 00:27:33,133 to try and acquire some relations as soon as possible... 510 00:27:33,133 --> 00:27:36,637 and to make a definite effort to produce at any rate... 511 00:27:36,637 --> 00:27:40,224 one parent of either sex before the season is quite over. 512 00:27:40,224 --> 00:27:42,268 I don't see how I could possibly manage to do that. 513 00:27:42,268 --> 00:27:44,186 I can produce the handbag at any moment. 514 00:27:44,186 --> 00:27:46,021 It's in my storeroom at home. 515 00:27:46,021 --> 00:27:48,399 I really think that should satisfy you, Lady Bracknell. 516 00:27:48,399 --> 00:27:49,901 Me, sir? 517 00:27:49,901 --> 00:27:53,321 What has it to do with me? 518 00:27:53,321 --> 00:27:55,865 You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell... 519 00:27:55,865 --> 00:27:58,702 would dream of allowing our only daughter-- 520 00:27:58,702 --> 00:28:01,121 a girl brought up with the utmost care-- 521 00:28:01,121 --> 00:28:02,956 to marry into a cloakroom... 522 00:28:02,956 --> 00:28:06,543 and form an alliance with a parcel. 523 00:28:10,797 --> 00:28:12,675 Good morning, Mr. Worthing. 524 00:28:15,094 --> 00:28:16,554 Good morning. 525 00:28:21,726 --> 00:28:24,353 You don't think there's any chance of Gwendolen becoming... 526 00:28:24,353 --> 00:28:27,064 Iike her mother in about 150 years, do you, Algy? 527 00:28:27,064 --> 00:28:28,899 My dear fellow, all women become... 528 00:28:28,899 --> 00:28:30,943 Iike their mothers. That is their tragedy. 529 00:28:30,943 --> 00:28:33,113 No man does, and that's his. 530 00:28:33,113 --> 00:28:35,115 Is that clever? 531 00:28:35,115 --> 00:28:37,284 It's perfectly phrased and about as true... 532 00:28:37,284 --> 00:28:39,995 as any observation in civilized life should be. 533 00:28:39,995 --> 00:28:41,538 Ernest. 534 00:28:41,538 --> 00:28:44,124 -Gwendolen! -Ernest, my dear Ernest. 535 00:28:44,124 --> 00:28:45,500 Algy, please, I have something... 536 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:47,711 very particular to say to Mr. Worthing. 537 00:28:49,129 --> 00:28:50,505 My own darling. 538 00:28:50,505 --> 00:28:53,258 Ernest, the story of your romantic origin... 539 00:28:53,258 --> 00:28:56,429 as related to me by Mama with unpleasing comments... 540 00:28:56,429 --> 00:28:59,515 has naturally stirred the deeper fibers of my nature. 541 00:28:59,515 --> 00:29:01,643 I followed you here to reassure you... 542 00:29:01,643 --> 00:29:03,978 that there is nothing that she can possibly do... 543 00:29:03,978 --> 00:29:06,522 can alter my eternal devotion to you. 544 00:29:06,522 --> 00:29:08,149 Dear Gwendolen. 545 00:29:08,149 --> 00:29:11,444 Your town address at The Albany I have. 546 00:29:11,444 --> 00:29:14,782 What is your address in the country? 547 00:29:14,782 --> 00:29:21,705 The Manor. Woolton. Hertfordshire. 548 00:29:21,705 --> 00:29:23,791 I will communicate with you daily. 549 00:29:23,791 --> 00:29:25,084 My own one. 550 00:29:29,546 --> 00:29:31,590 Yes. I must confess. I do smoke. 551 00:29:31,590 --> 00:29:34,218 I know nothing. Lady Bracknell. 552 00:29:38,682 --> 00:29:40,850 I can produce the handbag at a moment's notice. 553 00:29:40,850 --> 00:29:42,769 Shh! Shh. 554 00:29:42,769 --> 00:29:44,354 Before you can be found... 555 00:29:44,354 --> 00:29:46,064 in a handbag at a railway station... 556 00:29:46,064 --> 00:29:47,816 someone must have lost you in a handbag... 557 00:29:47,816 --> 00:29:49,484 at a railway station. Do you see? 558 00:29:55,282 --> 00:29:57,410 In the first place, what with Lady Bracknell... 559 00:29:57,410 --> 00:29:59,578 sniffing about, dear, dissolute Ernest... 560 00:29:59,578 --> 00:30:01,706 is a risk I can no longer afford. 561 00:30:01,706 --> 00:30:04,166 And secondly, Cecily is becoming a little too much... 562 00:30:04,166 --> 00:30:06,210 interested in him. It's rather a bore. 563 00:30:06,210 --> 00:30:08,045 I'd rather like to meet Cecily. 564 00:30:08,045 --> 00:30:11,090 Well. I shall take very good care you never do. 565 00:30:11,090 --> 00:30:14,927 She is excessively pretty and only just eighteen. 566 00:30:14,927 --> 00:30:20,892 No, I'll say he died in Paris of apoplexy. 567 00:30:20,892 --> 00:30:22,644 But it's hereditary, my dear fellow. 568 00:30:22,644 --> 00:30:24,605 It's the sort of thing that runs in families. 569 00:30:24,605 --> 00:30:26,148 You had much better say it was a severe chill. 570 00:30:26,148 --> 00:30:27,899 Very well. then. 571 00:30:27,899 --> 00:30:30,736 Poor brother Ernest is carried off suddenly... 572 00:30:30,736 --> 00:30:35,157 in Paris by a severe chill. 573 00:30:35,157 --> 00:30:37,075 That gets rid of him. 574 00:30:39,620 --> 00:30:41,581 Have you told Gwendolen that you have... 575 00:30:41,581 --> 00:30:44,876 an excessively pretty ward who's only just eighteen? 576 00:30:44,876 --> 00:30:47,503 No. One doesn't blurt these things out to people. 577 00:30:47,503 --> 00:30:50,006 Cecily and Gwendolen are perfectly certain... 578 00:30:50,006 --> 00:30:52,008 to become extremely great friends. 579 00:30:52,008 --> 00:30:54,677 I bet you anything half an hour after they've met... 580 00:30:54,677 --> 00:30:56,262 they will be calling each other sister. 581 00:30:56,262 --> 00:30:58,890 Women only do that when they have... 582 00:30:58,890 --> 00:31:02,311 called each other a lot of other things first. 583 00:31:34,260 --> 00:31:36,262 Don't let me disturb you. 584 00:31:38,390 --> 00:31:41,518 I hope tomorrow will be a fine day, Lane. 585 00:31:41,518 --> 00:31:43,604 It never is, sir. 586 00:31:45,314 --> 00:31:48,150 You are a perfect pessimist. 587 00:31:48,150 --> 00:31:51,237 I do my best to give satisfaction, sir. 588 00:31:51,237 --> 00:31:52,613 Thank you. 589 00:31:59,287 --> 00:32:01,664 You can put out my dress clothes... 590 00:32:01,664 --> 00:32:03,499 my smoking jacket... 591 00:32:03,499 --> 00:32:06,920 and even bring on the curling tongs. 592 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,505 Yes, sir. 593 00:32:08,505 --> 00:32:10,007 Tomorrow, Lane... 594 00:32:12,092 --> 00:32:13,969 I'm going Bunburying. 595 00:32:15,012 --> 00:32:16,346 Yes. sir. 596 00:32:24,771 --> 00:32:26,858 That must be it over there. 597 00:32:32,363 --> 00:32:35,575 Bring it down there, Mr. Smithers. 598 00:32:57,681 --> 00:32:59,725 Ask Mr. Ernest Worthing to come here. 599 00:32:59,725 --> 00:33:01,143 Yes. Miss. 600 00:33:13,239 --> 00:33:16,576 You are my little cousin Cecily, I'm sure. 601 00:33:16,576 --> 00:33:18,870 You are under some strange mistake. 602 00:33:18,870 --> 00:33:21,581 I'm not little. In fact, I believe... 603 00:33:21,581 --> 00:33:23,416 I'm more than usually tall for my age. 604 00:33:23,416 --> 00:33:25,794 But I am your cousin Cecily. 605 00:33:25,794 --> 00:33:29,924 And you--you, I see from your card... 606 00:33:29,924 --> 00:33:32,301 are Uncle Jack's brother, my cousin Ernest. 607 00:33:32,301 --> 00:33:34,929 My wicked cousin Ernest. 608 00:33:34,929 --> 00:33:36,681 I'm not really wicked at all, Cousin Cecily. 609 00:33:36,681 --> 00:33:38,474 You mustn't think that I'm wicked. 610 00:33:38,474 --> 00:33:40,226 Well, if you are not, then you've certainly... 611 00:33:40,226 --> 00:33:42,895 been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. 612 00:33:42,895 --> 00:33:44,855 Well, I have been rather reckless. 613 00:33:44,855 --> 00:33:46,148 I'm glad to hear it. 614 00:33:46,148 --> 00:33:47,942 In fact, now that you mention the subject... 615 00:33:47,942 --> 00:33:51,071 I have been very bad in my own small way. 616 00:33:51,071 --> 00:33:53,282 Well, I don't think you should be so proud of that... 617 00:33:53,282 --> 00:33:55,242 though I am sure it must've been very pleasant. 618 00:33:55,242 --> 00:33:56,910 It's much pleasanter being here with you. 619 00:33:56,910 --> 00:33:58,954 I can't understand how you're here at all. 620 00:33:58,954 --> 00:34:01,039 Uncle Jack won't be back till Monday afternoon. 621 00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:02,958 Oh, that is a great disappointment. 622 00:34:02,958 --> 00:34:04,418 I'm obliged to go out... 623 00:34:04,418 --> 00:34:05,919 by the first train on Monday morning. 624 00:34:05,919 --> 00:34:08,922 I have a business appointment that I'm anxious to miss. 625 00:34:08,922 --> 00:34:12,135 That's all very well, but still... 626 00:34:12,135 --> 00:34:14,887 I think you had better wait until Uncle Jack arrives. 627 00:34:14,887 --> 00:34:17,515 I know he wants to speak to you about your emigrating. 628 00:34:17,515 --> 00:34:18,766 About my what? 629 00:34:18,766 --> 00:34:20,518 Uncle Jack is sending you to Australia. 630 00:34:20,518 --> 00:34:23,104 Australia? I'd sooner die. 631 00:34:23,104 --> 00:34:24,981 He said at dinner on Wednesday night... 632 00:34:24,981 --> 00:34:27,066 that you would have to choose between this world... 633 00:34:27,066 --> 00:34:28,860 the next world, and Australia. 634 00:34:28,860 --> 00:34:30,236 Oh, well. 635 00:34:30,236 --> 00:34:32,488 The accounts I have received of Australia... 636 00:34:32,488 --> 00:34:34,366 and the next world are not particularly... 637 00:34:34,366 --> 00:34:36,368 encouraging, Cousin Cecily. 638 00:34:36,368 --> 00:34:38,579 This world is good enough for me. 639 00:34:38,579 --> 00:34:40,414 Yes, but are you good enough for it? 640 00:34:40,414 --> 00:34:41,957 No, I'm afraid not. 641 00:34:41,957 --> 00:34:44,335 That is why I want you to reform me. 642 00:34:44,335 --> 00:34:46,086 You might make that your mission... 643 00:34:46,086 --> 00:34:47,463 if you don't mind, Cousin Cecily. 644 00:34:47,463 --> 00:34:49,882 I'm afraid I've no time this afternoon. 645 00:34:49,882 --> 00:34:51,842 Well,wouldyou mind me... 646 00:34:51,842 --> 00:34:54,094 reforming myself this afternoon? 647 00:34:57,349 --> 00:35:01,686 It is rather quixotic of you, but I think you should try. 648 00:35:01,686 --> 00:35:03,813 I will. 649 00:35:05,357 --> 00:35:08,777 -I feel better already. -You're looking a little worse. 650 00:35:08,777 --> 00:35:10,695 Well, that's because I'm hungry. 651 00:35:18,079 --> 00:35:19,872 -Mr. Worthing! -Mr. Worthing! 652 00:35:21,540 --> 00:35:23,584 This is indeed a surprise. 653 00:35:23,584 --> 00:35:26,045 We did not look for you till Monday afternoon. 654 00:35:26,045 --> 00:35:28,839 I have returned sooner than I expected. 655 00:35:28,839 --> 00:35:31,425 Dear Mr. Worthing, I trust this garb of woe... 656 00:35:31,425 --> 00:35:34,095 does not betoken some terrible calamity. 657 00:35:34,095 --> 00:35:36,180 My brother. 658 00:35:36,180 --> 00:35:38,725 More shameful debts and extravagance. 659 00:35:38,725 --> 00:35:41,603 Still leading a life of pleasure. 660 00:35:41,603 --> 00:35:43,563 Dead. 661 00:35:47,317 --> 00:35:50,821 Your brother Ernest is dead? 662 00:35:50,821 --> 00:35:52,364 Quite dead. 663 00:35:52,364 --> 00:35:56,576 What a lesson for him! I trust he will profit by it. 664 00:35:56,576 --> 00:35:59,789 He had many faults, but it is a sad, sad blow. 665 00:35:59,789 --> 00:36:01,582 Yes. indeed. sad. 666 00:36:01,582 --> 00:36:08,381 Um, were you with him at the end? 667 00:36:08,381 --> 00:36:12,593 No. He died abroad. In Paris, in fact. 668 00:36:12,593 --> 00:36:15,346 I had a telegram last night... 669 00:36:15,346 --> 00:36:18,099 from the manager of the Grand Hotel. 670 00:36:18,099 --> 00:36:21,395 Is the cause of death mentioned? 671 00:36:21,395 --> 00:36:23,522 A severe chill, it seems. 672 00:36:23,522 --> 00:36:26,775 As a man sows, so shall he reap. 673 00:36:26,775 --> 00:36:28,527 Oh, charity, Miss Prism, charity. 674 00:36:28,527 --> 00:36:32,406 I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draft. 675 00:36:32,406 --> 00:36:37,494 Ah...ah...Ah-choo! 676 00:36:37,494 --> 00:36:39,371 Bless you. 677 00:36:39,371 --> 00:36:44,336 Uncle Jack, I'm so pleased to see you back. 678 00:36:44,336 --> 00:36:47,756 What is the matter, Uncle Jack? Do look happy. 679 00:36:47,756 --> 00:36:49,424 You look as if you had toothache... 680 00:36:49,424 --> 00:36:50,925 and I have such a surprise for you. 681 00:36:50,925 --> 00:36:52,969 Who do you think is in the rose garden? 682 00:36:54,512 --> 00:36:55,680 Your brother. 683 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,808 -Who? -Your brother Ernest. 684 00:36:58,808 --> 00:37:00,769 He arrived about half an hour ago. 685 00:37:00,769 --> 00:37:02,897 Nonsense. I haven't got a brother. 686 00:37:02,897 --> 00:37:04,315 -I mean... -Well, he's... 687 00:37:04,315 --> 00:37:07,860 Come, he'll be so pleased to see you've returned so soon. 688 00:37:10,154 --> 00:37:11,322 I-- 689 00:37:14,033 --> 00:37:16,077 These are joyful tidings. 690 00:37:32,511 --> 00:37:34,179 Good heavens. 691 00:37:54,867 --> 00:37:57,870 Brother John, I've come down from town... 692 00:37:57,870 --> 00:37:59,706 to tell you that I'm very sorry... 693 00:37:59,706 --> 00:38:01,457 for all the trouble I have given you... 694 00:38:01,457 --> 00:38:03,001 and that I fully intend... 695 00:38:03,001 --> 00:38:05,086 to lead a better life in the future. 696 00:38:15,097 --> 00:38:16,807 Well, what can I say? 697 00:38:16,807 --> 00:38:20,394 The old Ernest is dead. Long live the new Ernest. 698 00:38:20,394 --> 00:38:22,563 I thought you'd like my little joke. 699 00:38:22,563 --> 00:38:23,939 Your little joke? 700 00:38:23,939 --> 00:38:25,941 Knowing me as you do, brother John... 701 00:38:25,941 --> 00:38:27,402 I'm surprised you took it so seriously. 702 00:38:27,402 --> 00:38:29,904 At any rate, I stand before you now... 703 00:38:29,904 --> 00:38:33,408 an entirely new man, risen, as it were... 704 00:38:33,408 --> 00:38:35,452 Iike a phoenix from the ashes. 705 00:38:37,037 --> 00:38:40,290 Uncle Jack, you're not going to refuse... 706 00:38:40,290 --> 00:38:41,541 your own brother's hand. 707 00:38:41,541 --> 00:38:43,168 Nothing would induce me to take his hand. 708 00:38:43,168 --> 00:38:44,586 I think his behavior utterly disgraceful. 709 00:38:44,586 --> 00:38:46,796 He knows perfectly well why! 710 00:38:46,796 --> 00:38:49,216 Do shake his hand, Uncle Jack. 711 00:38:49,216 --> 00:38:53,888 After all, it could be worse. I could be dead in Paris. 712 00:38:53,888 --> 00:38:55,473 You could, indeed. 713 00:38:55,473 --> 00:38:57,266 Of a severe chill. 714 00:39:05,149 --> 00:39:07,943 Sorry about that, Jack. Shake. Go on. 715 00:39:12,741 --> 00:39:14,409 Excuse me, sir. 716 00:39:14,409 --> 00:39:16,995 We're putting Mr. Ernest's things... 717 00:39:16,995 --> 00:39:18,747 in the blue room on the second floor. 718 00:39:18,747 --> 00:39:21,041 Very nice to see you, Doctor. Do tell me, when is confession? 719 00:39:21,041 --> 00:39:22,209 What? 720 00:39:22,209 --> 00:39:23,961 Mr. Ernest's luggage, sir. 721 00:39:23,961 --> 00:39:26,004 We're taking it up to the blue room. 722 00:39:26,004 --> 00:39:28,298 -His luggage? -Yes, sir. 723 00:39:28,298 --> 00:39:30,217 Two portmanteaus, two dressing cases... 724 00:39:30,217 --> 00:39:32,929 two hat boxes, and a large luncheon basket. 725 00:39:32,929 --> 00:39:35,098 I fear I can only stay a week this time. 726 00:39:37,141 --> 00:39:38,726 Heh heh. 727 00:39:38,726 --> 00:39:41,729 -You scoundrel, Algy. -Mm? 728 00:39:41,729 --> 00:39:44,273 What have you to say for yourself? 729 00:39:44,273 --> 00:39:46,025 What I have to say, Uncle Jack... 730 00:39:46,025 --> 00:39:48,778 is that little Cecily is a darling. 731 00:39:48,778 --> 00:39:52,908 You are not to talk of Miss Cardew like that! 732 00:39:52,908 --> 00:39:55,285 I don't like it. 733 00:39:55,285 --> 00:39:56,870 Your vanity is ridiculous... 734 00:39:56,870 --> 00:39:58,956 your conduct an outrage, and your presence... 735 00:39:58,956 --> 00:40:00,833 in my house utterly absurd! 736 00:40:02,001 --> 00:40:04,545 However, you have got to catch the four-five train. 737 00:40:04,545 --> 00:40:06,255 I hope you have a pleasant journey back to town. 738 00:40:06,255 --> 00:40:08,841 This Bunburying, as you call it... 739 00:40:08,841 --> 00:40:11,510 has not been a great success for you. 740 00:40:28,361 --> 00:40:30,113 It's pleasant. is it not... 741 00:40:30,113 --> 00:40:32,824 to see so perfect a reconciliation. 742 00:40:34,744 --> 00:40:38,831 I think it's been a great success. 743 00:41:41,981 --> 00:41:43,524 Dinner is served. 744 00:41:43,524 --> 00:41:45,109 Cecily. 745 00:41:45,109 --> 00:41:48,070 Might I have a buttonhole first? 746 00:41:48,070 --> 00:41:50,906 I never have an appetite unless I have a buttonhole. 747 00:41:50,906 --> 00:41:52,574 Mr. Worthing. 748 00:41:56,704 --> 00:41:58,831 -Marigold? -No. 749 00:41:58,831 --> 00:42:00,792 I'd sooner have a pink rose. 750 00:42:00,792 --> 00:42:02,002 Why? 751 00:42:02,002 --> 00:42:05,297 Because you are like a pink rose, Cousin Cecily. 752 00:42:05,297 --> 00:42:06,715 I don't think it could be right... 753 00:42:06,715 --> 00:42:08,008 for you to talk to me like that. 754 00:42:08,008 --> 00:42:10,468 Miss Prism never says such things to me. 755 00:42:10,468 --> 00:42:13,179 Then Miss Prism is a short-sighted old lady. 756 00:42:17,058 --> 00:42:19,102 You are the prettiest girl I ever saw. 757 00:42:21,605 --> 00:42:24,692 You see, Uncle Jack, there is some good in everyone. 758 00:42:24,692 --> 00:42:27,486 Ernest has just been telling me about his poor invalid friend... 759 00:42:27,486 --> 00:42:29,071 whom he goes to visit so often. 760 00:42:29,071 --> 00:42:31,824 Oh, he has been talking about poor Mr. Bunbury, has he? 761 00:42:31,824 --> 00:42:33,326 And surely there must be much good... 762 00:42:33,326 --> 00:42:34,869 in one who is kind to an invalid... 763 00:42:34,869 --> 00:42:36,495 and leaves the pleasures of London... 764 00:42:36,495 --> 00:42:39,206 to sit by a bed of pain. 765 00:43:19,666 --> 00:43:21,209 Right. It's first class. 766 00:43:41,563 --> 00:43:44,233 -Good morning, sir. -Good morning. 767 00:44:02,043 --> 00:44:04,963 Dear Ernest... 768 00:44:04,963 --> 00:44:08,050 how desperately I have missed you. 769 00:44:08,050 --> 00:44:11,095 It seems an age since I last saw you... 770 00:44:11,095 --> 00:44:15,725 and our separation is now proving an intolerable strain. 771 00:44:24,817 --> 00:44:28,113 The feelings you have aroused within me... 772 00:44:28,113 --> 00:44:31,950 are at once delightful and exquisitely... 773 00:44:31,950 --> 00:44:33,660 painful. 774 00:44:33,660 --> 00:44:38,373 My dearest darling Ernest... 775 00:44:38,373 --> 00:44:41,460 it is your very name that inspires me now... 776 00:44:41,460 --> 00:44:43,337 to take my future in my hands-- 777 00:44:43,337 --> 00:44:48,800 burnt. as it were. into my very being. 778 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,472 And so it is. I have resolved to flee these prison walls... 779 00:44:52,472 --> 00:44:55,892 and make my way directly to your side... 780 00:44:55,892 --> 00:44:58,811 to my one and only... 781 00:44:58,811 --> 00:45:01,481 Ernest. 782 00:45:01,481 --> 00:45:03,024 Ernest. 783 00:45:07,820 --> 00:45:08,988 Algy. 784 00:45:16,038 --> 00:45:17,247 Algy. 785 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,627 Ernest. 786 00:45:23,962 --> 00:45:26,340 Ah. Good morning, my dear fellow. 787 00:45:27,633 --> 00:45:30,010 We have to talk. You have to leave. 788 00:45:30,010 --> 00:45:31,680 If I leave, how can we talk? 789 00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,515 Wcannot boh becalled Ernest 790 00:45:33,515 --> 00:45:35,350 I don't believe we are, Brother Jack. 791 00:45:44,359 --> 00:45:48,571 I believe you are praiseworthy. 792 00:45:48,571 --> 00:45:51,616 He, she, it praises. 793 00:45:55,371 --> 00:45:57,540 You're snoring? 794 00:46:04,171 --> 00:46:07,049 I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you... 795 00:46:07,049 --> 00:46:11,303 if I state quite openly and frankly... 796 00:46:12,888 --> 00:46:15,225 You seem to me to be in every way... 797 00:46:15,225 --> 00:46:21,064 the visible personification of absolute perfection. 798 00:46:21,064 --> 00:46:23,734 I think your frankness does you great credit, Ernest. 799 00:46:23,734 --> 00:46:26,695 If you will allow me, I will copy your remarks into my diary. 800 00:46:26,695 --> 00:46:29,614 Do you keep a diary? I'd give anything to see it. 801 00:46:29,614 --> 00:46:32,826 Oh, no. You'd see it as simply a very young girl's record... 802 00:46:32,826 --> 00:46:34,578 of her own thoughts and impressions. 803 00:46:34,578 --> 00:46:37,957 But, pray, Ernest, I delight in taking down from dictation. 804 00:46:37,957 --> 00:46:39,917 You can go on. 805 00:46:41,878 --> 00:46:44,630 Don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating... 806 00:46:44,630 --> 00:46:46,883 one should speak fluently and not cough. 807 00:46:53,348 --> 00:46:56,100 Cecily, ever since I first looked upon... 808 00:46:56,100 --> 00:46:58,437 your wondrous and incomparable beauty... 809 00:46:58,437 --> 00:47:01,482 I have dared to love you-- wildly... 810 00:47:03,275 --> 00:47:05,486 wildly... 811 00:47:05,486 --> 00:47:07,154 -passionately... -Ahem. 812 00:47:07,154 --> 00:47:10,115 devotedly, hopelessly. 813 00:47:10,115 --> 00:47:12,785 I beg your pardon, sir. 814 00:47:12,785 --> 00:47:15,579 There are two gentlemen wishing to see you. 815 00:47:28,093 --> 00:47:29,803 -Mr. Ernest Worthing? -Yes. 816 00:47:29,803 --> 00:47:33,056 -Of B.4, The Albany? -Yes, that is my address. 817 00:47:33,056 --> 00:47:34,432 I am very sorry. sir... 818 00:47:34,432 --> 00:47:36,267 but I have a writ of attachment against you... 819 00:47:36,267 --> 00:47:38,937 and the suit of the Savoy Hotel Company Limited... 820 00:47:38,937 --> 00:47:41,691 for 762 pounds, 14 shillings. 821 00:47:41,691 --> 00:47:43,234 What perfect nonsense. 822 00:47:43,234 --> 00:47:45,444 I never dine at the Savoy at my own expense. 823 00:47:45,444 --> 00:47:47,321 In the interests of our clients... 824 00:47:47,321 --> 00:47:49,240 we have no option but to take out an order... 825 00:47:49,240 --> 00:47:51,075 for committal of your person. 826 00:47:51,075 --> 00:47:54,537 -Committal? Of my person? -For six months. 827 00:47:54,537 --> 00:47:56,706 Oh, for six months? Ha ha! 828 00:47:56,706 --> 00:47:58,165 No doubt you'll prefer to pay the bill. 829 00:47:58,165 --> 00:48:00,877 Pay it? How on earth am I going to do that? 830 00:48:00,877 --> 00:48:02,796 No gentleman ever has any money. 831 00:48:02,796 --> 00:48:07,009 In my experience, it is usually relations who pay. 832 00:48:07,009 --> 00:48:09,302 Oh, all right. Uh, Brother Jack? 833 00:48:17,311 --> 00:48:21,983 762 pounds, 14 shillings, and a tuppence-- 834 00:48:21,983 --> 00:48:23,985 since last October. 835 00:48:23,985 --> 00:48:25,653 I'm bound to say... 836 00:48:25,653 --> 00:48:30,700 I never saw such reckless extravagance in all my life. 837 00:48:32,035 --> 00:48:33,745 My dear fellow, how ridiculous you are. 838 00:48:33,745 --> 00:48:36,539 You have your debts, and I have mine. 839 00:48:36,539 --> 00:48:38,416 You know quite well this bill is really yours. 840 00:48:38,416 --> 00:48:39,834 -Mine? -Yes, and you know it. 841 00:48:39,834 --> 00:48:41,210 -Mr. Worthing... 842 00:48:41,210 --> 00:48:44,256 if this is another jest, it is most out of place. 843 00:48:44,256 --> 00:48:46,091 -lt is not. -lt is gross effrontery. 844 00:48:46,091 --> 00:48:47,676 Just what I expected from him. 845 00:48:47,676 --> 00:48:50,763 And it is ingratitude. I didn't expect that. 846 00:48:50,763 --> 00:48:52,181 Next thing you know. he'll be denying... 847 00:48:52,181 --> 00:48:54,892 he's Ernest Worthing in the first place. 848 00:48:56,852 --> 00:48:59,605 I'm sorry to disturb this so pleasant family meeting... 849 00:48:59,605 --> 00:49:01,065 but time presses. 850 00:49:01,065 --> 00:49:03,150 We have to be at Holloway not later than four o'clock. 851 00:49:03,150 --> 00:49:05,070 Otherwise, it is difficult to obtain admission. 852 00:49:05,070 --> 00:49:07,322 The rules are very strict. 853 00:49:07,322 --> 00:49:10,533 Holloway? But--Get off me! 854 00:49:10,533 --> 00:49:11,910 It is at Holloway that detentions of this character... 855 00:49:11,910 --> 00:49:13,662 are made away. 856 00:49:13,662 --> 00:49:18,208 I will not be imprisoned for having dined in the West End! 857 00:49:18,208 --> 00:49:20,043 Jack! 858 00:49:21,378 --> 00:49:23,254 I agree to settle my brother's accounts... 859 00:49:24,923 --> 00:49:28,094 on the condition that he makes his way without delay... 860 00:49:28,094 --> 00:49:30,262 to the bedside of the poor bed-ridden Bunbury... 861 00:49:30,262 --> 00:49:31,889 whose health, I have recently been informed... 862 00:49:31,889 --> 00:49:33,891 is rapidly declining. 863 00:49:35,810 --> 00:49:38,688 Well, Ernest? 864 00:50:16,519 --> 00:50:19,772 ...it's only life. 865 00:50:22,317 --> 00:50:24,360 Mr. Worthing. 866 00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,195 I would ask you not to interrupt... 867 00:50:26,195 --> 00:50:27,989 Miss Cardew's studies. 868 00:50:27,989 --> 00:50:29,783 Miss Prism, I almost forgot to mention... 869 00:50:29,783 --> 00:50:32,328 that Dr. Chasuble is expecting you in the vestry. 870 00:50:32,328 --> 00:50:34,955 In the vestry? Dr. Chasuble? 871 00:50:34,955 --> 00:50:36,832 Expecting you, yes. 872 00:50:36,832 --> 00:50:38,792 That sounds serious. 873 00:50:38,792 --> 00:50:42,004 I do not think it would be right to keep him waiting, Cecily. 874 00:50:42,004 --> 00:50:43,756 It would be very, very wrong. 875 00:50:43,756 --> 00:50:47,009 The vestry is, I am told, excessively damp. 876 00:51:00,190 --> 00:51:04,235 This parting, Miss Cardew, is very painful. 877 00:51:04,235 --> 00:51:05,654 But I suppose you cannot desert... 878 00:51:05,654 --> 00:51:07,530 poor Mr. Bunbury in his hour of need. 879 00:51:07,530 --> 00:51:08,865 I don't care about Bunbury anymore. 880 00:51:08,865 --> 00:51:12,578 I don't seem to care about anything anymore. 881 00:51:12,578 --> 00:51:15,998 I only care for you. I love you, Cecily. 882 00:51:21,796 --> 00:51:23,923 Will you marry me, Cecily? Will you? 883 00:51:23,923 --> 00:51:25,883 Of course. 884 00:51:25,883 --> 00:51:28,719 Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. 885 00:51:30,221 --> 00:51:32,724 For the last three months? 886 00:51:32,724 --> 00:51:35,394 Yes. It will be exactly three months on Thursday. 887 00:51:36,895 --> 00:51:38,105 Darling... 888 00:51:38,105 --> 00:51:39,356 Aah! 889 00:51:42,401 --> 00:51:46,905 So, when was the engagement actually settled? 890 00:51:46,905 --> 00:51:49,408 On the fourteenth of February last. 891 00:51:49,408 --> 00:51:50,951 After a long struggle with myself... 892 00:51:50,951 --> 00:51:53,578 I accepted you under this dear old tree here. 893 00:51:53,578 --> 00:51:57,750 And this is the box in which I keep all your dear letters. 894 00:51:57,750 --> 00:51:59,168 My letters? 895 00:51:59,168 --> 00:52:01,421 But my own sweet Cecily, I have never written you any letters. 896 00:52:01,421 --> 00:52:03,715 You need hardly remind me of that, Ernest. 897 00:52:03,715 --> 00:52:04,882 I remember only too well... 898 00:52:04,882 --> 00:52:06,718 that I was forced to write your letters for you. 899 00:52:08,052 --> 00:52:10,388 I wrote always three times a week and sometimes oftener. 900 00:52:10,388 --> 00:52:13,141 -Do let me look at them. -Oh, no, I couldn't possibly. 901 00:52:13,141 --> 00:52:16,270 They would make you far too conceited. 902 00:52:16,270 --> 00:52:18,772 The three you wrote after I had broken off the engagement... 903 00:52:18,772 --> 00:52:21,775 were so beautiful and so badly spelled. 904 00:52:21,775 --> 00:52:24,486 Even now I can hardly read them without crying a little. 905 00:52:24,486 --> 00:52:26,447 Was our engagement ever broken off? 906 00:52:26,447 --> 00:52:28,532 -Yes, of course it was. -What? 907 00:52:28,532 --> 00:52:30,117 On the twenty-second of last March. 908 00:52:30,117 --> 00:52:32,453 You can see the entry if you like. 909 00:52:34,663 --> 00:52:37,792 "Today I broke off my engagement with Ernest. 910 00:52:37,792 --> 00:52:39,377 "The weather still continues charming." 911 00:52:39,377 --> 00:52:40,754 Why on earth did you break it off? 912 00:52:40,754 --> 00:52:42,714 What had I done? I had done nothing at all. 913 00:52:42,714 --> 00:52:45,175 I'm very much hurt indeed to hear you broke it off. 914 00:52:45,175 --> 00:52:46,968 Particularly when the weather was so charming. 915 00:52:46,968 --> 00:52:50,388 Well, it would hardly have been a really serious engagement... 916 00:52:50,388 --> 00:52:53,350 if I hadn't broken it off at least once, Ernest. 917 00:52:53,350 --> 00:52:56,311 But I forgave you before the week was out. 918 00:52:56,311 --> 00:52:59,065 Oh, you're a perfect angel. 919 00:52:59,065 --> 00:53:02,276 -You dear romantic boy. -Mmm. 920 00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:26,385 You know, I never really thought of myself... 921 00:53:26,385 --> 00:53:28,720 as the marrying kind until now. 922 00:53:28,720 --> 00:53:31,139 You mustn't break it off again, Cecily. 923 00:53:31,139 --> 00:53:33,100 Well, I don't think I could break it off... 924 00:53:33,100 --> 00:53:34,810 now that I've actually met you. 925 00:53:37,145 --> 00:53:40,023 Besides, of course, there is the question of your name. 926 00:53:42,193 --> 00:53:43,528 Yes, of course. 927 00:53:43,528 --> 00:53:44,946 You mustn't laugh at me, darling... 928 00:53:44,946 --> 00:53:47,281 but it has always been a girlish dream of mine... 929 00:53:47,281 --> 00:53:49,867 to love someone whose name is Ernest. 930 00:53:51,035 --> 00:53:52,328 There's something in that name... 931 00:53:52,328 --> 00:53:55,707 that seems to inspire absolute confidence. 932 00:53:55,707 --> 00:53:58,376 My own dear joy, do you mean to say you couldn't love me... 933 00:53:58,376 --> 00:53:59,836 if I had another name? 934 00:53:59,836 --> 00:54:03,549 -But what name? -Well... 935 00:54:03,549 --> 00:54:06,427 Algy, for instance. 936 00:54:06,427 --> 00:54:08,721 I might respect you, Ernest... 937 00:54:08,721 --> 00:54:11,724 I might admire your character... 938 00:54:11,724 --> 00:54:13,726 but I fear that I would never be able to give you... 939 00:54:13,726 --> 00:54:16,937 my undivided attention. 940 00:54:16,937 --> 00:54:19,815 Mmm. Mmm. 941 00:54:19,815 --> 00:54:21,734 Ahem. 942 00:54:21,734 --> 00:54:25,280 The dog cart is ready for you, sir. 943 00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:26,531 -Ahem. -Ahem. 944 00:54:26,531 --> 00:54:27,699 And now you must go, my love... 945 00:54:27,699 --> 00:54:29,367 for sooner then shall you return. 946 00:54:33,747 --> 00:54:37,125 Oh, what a charming boy. 947 00:54:37,125 --> 00:54:39,461 I like his hair so much. 948 00:54:47,470 --> 00:54:50,056 You wanted to see me, Dr. Chasuble? 949 00:54:53,267 --> 00:54:54,852 I didn't. 950 00:54:56,604 --> 00:54:58,522 Oh. 951 00:54:58,522 --> 00:54:59,774 You didn't? 952 00:55:02,443 --> 00:55:04,362 Oh. 953 00:55:09,785 --> 00:55:10,994 I'm sorry... 954 00:55:10,994 --> 00:55:13,664 but merely for the purposes of clarification... 955 00:55:13,664 --> 00:55:15,624 when you said you didn't... 956 00:55:15,624 --> 00:55:19,294 did you mean you didn't say you wanted to see me... 957 00:55:19,294 --> 00:55:22,631 or that you didn't, in fact, want to see me? 958 00:55:27,595 --> 00:55:30,306 Isn't language a curious thing? 959 00:55:32,141 --> 00:55:33,309 Will you excuse me? 960 00:55:33,309 --> 00:55:35,728 I have a double baptism this afternoon... 961 00:55:35,728 --> 00:55:38,439 and I have to top up the font. 962 00:56:08,554 --> 00:56:11,641 Bless you. 963 00:56:13,810 --> 00:56:17,272 A Miss Fairfax has called to see Mr. Worthing-- 964 00:56:17,272 --> 00:56:20,817 on very important business, Miss Fairfax states. 965 00:56:20,817 --> 00:56:22,736 Mr. Worthing is sure to be out soon, Merriman... 966 00:56:22,736 --> 00:56:24,487 so kindly bring some tea. 967 00:56:24,487 --> 00:56:25,739 Yes, miss. 968 00:56:29,826 --> 00:56:32,038 -Miss Cardew. -Thank you. 969 00:56:32,038 --> 00:56:35,708 Miss Fairfax, pray let me introduce myself to you. 970 00:56:35,708 --> 00:56:36,876 My name is Cecily Cardew. 971 00:56:36,876 --> 00:56:40,463 Cecily Cardew. What a very sweet name. 972 00:56:40,463 --> 00:56:42,965 Something tells me we're going to be great friends. 973 00:56:42,965 --> 00:56:44,967 I like you already more than I can say... 974 00:56:44,967 --> 00:56:47,511 and my first impressions of people are never wrong. 975 00:56:58,231 --> 00:57:00,192 You're here on a short visit, I suppose. 976 00:57:00,192 --> 00:57:02,235 -Oh, no, I live here. -Really? 977 00:57:02,235 --> 00:57:05,155 Your mother, no doubt, or some female relative... 978 00:57:05,155 --> 00:57:07,699 of advanced years resides here also. 979 00:57:07,699 --> 00:57:10,077 Oh, no. I have no mother, nor, in fact, any relations. 980 00:57:10,077 --> 00:57:11,453 -lndeed. -My dear guardian... 981 00:57:11,453 --> 00:57:13,247 has the arduous task of looking after me. 982 00:57:13,247 --> 00:57:17,001 -Your guardian? -I'm Mr. Worthing's ward. 983 00:57:17,001 --> 00:57:18,711 Oh. 984 00:57:20,129 --> 00:57:23,383 It is strange. He never mentioned it. 985 00:57:23,383 --> 00:57:25,677 How secretive of him. Ha ha ha! 986 00:57:25,677 --> 00:57:29,097 He grows more interesting hourly. 987 00:57:29,097 --> 00:57:32,433 But I am bound to state that... 988 00:57:32,433 --> 00:57:35,104 now that I know you are Mr. Worthing's ward... 989 00:57:35,104 --> 00:57:37,773 I cannot help expressing a wish that you were... 990 00:57:37,773 --> 00:57:41,485 well, just a little bit older than you seem to be... 991 00:57:41,485 --> 00:57:43,904 and not quite so very alluring in appearance. 992 00:57:45,072 --> 00:57:47,491 In fact, if I may speak candidly... 993 00:57:47,491 --> 00:57:49,076 Pray do. I think whenever one... 994 00:57:49,076 --> 00:57:50,619 has anything unpleasant to say... 995 00:57:50,619 --> 00:57:52,788 one should always be quite candid. 996 00:57:52,788 --> 00:57:57,168 Yes. Well, to speak with perfect candor, Cecily... 997 00:57:57,168 --> 00:57:59,254 I wish you were fully forty-two... 998 00:57:59,254 --> 00:58:02,257 and more than usually plain for your age. 999 00:58:05,635 --> 00:58:08,304 Ernest has a strong upright nature. 1000 00:58:08,304 --> 00:58:10,390 He's the very soul of truth and honor. 1001 00:58:10,390 --> 00:58:12,183 I think--I think Jack, for instance. 1002 00:58:12,183 --> 00:58:15,937 Jack. I think Jack, for instance, a charming name. 1003 00:58:15,937 --> 00:58:17,773 Oh. but it is not Mr. Ernest Worthing... 1004 00:58:17,773 --> 00:58:19,025 who's my guardian. 1005 00:58:19,025 --> 00:58:21,360 It is his brother, his elder brother. 1006 00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,779 Oh. That accounts for it. 1007 00:58:24,947 --> 00:58:26,824 Cecily, you've lifted a load from my mind. 1008 00:58:26,824 --> 00:58:28,617 I was growing almost anxious. 1009 00:58:30,453 --> 00:58:31,912 Of course, you're quite sure... 1010 00:58:31,912 --> 00:58:34,623 it's not Mr. Ernest Worthing who is your guardian? 1011 00:58:34,623 --> 00:58:37,168 Quite sure. 1012 00:58:37,168 --> 00:58:38,962 In fact... 1013 00:58:40,380 --> 00:58:43,091 I am going to be his. 1014 00:58:44,593 --> 00:58:46,303 I beg your pardon? 1015 00:58:46,303 --> 00:58:50,182 Mr. Ernest Worthing and l are engaged to be married. 1016 00:58:53,143 --> 00:58:56,855 My darling Cecily, I think there must be some slight error. 1017 00:58:56,855 --> 00:59:00,026 Mr. Ernest Worthing is engaged to me. 1018 00:59:00,026 --> 00:59:01,944 The announcement will appear in the Morning Post... 1019 00:59:01,944 --> 00:59:04,405 on Saturday at the latest. 1020 00:59:04,405 --> 00:59:07,492 I'm afraid you must be under some misconception. 1021 00:59:07,492 --> 00:59:09,869 Ernest proposed to me exactly ten minutes ago. 1022 00:59:09,869 --> 00:59:13,498 Oh, it's very curious, for he asked me to be his wife... 1023 00:59:13,498 --> 00:59:16,501 yesterday afternoon at five thirty. 1024 00:59:16,501 --> 00:59:20,673 If you would care to verify the incident, pray do so. 1025 00:59:22,257 --> 00:59:24,009 I never travel without my diary. 1026 00:59:24,009 --> 00:59:26,220 One should always have something sensational to read... 1027 00:59:26,220 --> 00:59:27,680 in the train. 1028 00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:30,099 I'm so sorry, dear Cecily... 1029 00:59:30,099 --> 00:59:32,685 but I'm afraid I have the prior claim. 1030 01:00:05,136 --> 01:00:07,430 May I offer you some tea, Miss Fairfax? 1031 01:00:07,430 --> 01:00:09,473 Thank you, Miss Cardew. 1032 01:00:09,473 --> 01:00:11,225 Sugar? 1033 01:00:11,225 --> 01:00:14,228 No, thank you. Sugar is not fashionable anymore. 1034 01:00:33,123 --> 01:00:34,958 Cake or bread and butter? 1035 01:00:34,958 --> 01:00:36,293 Bread and butter, please. 1036 01:00:36,293 --> 01:00:39,254 Cake is rarely seen in the best houses nowadays. 1037 01:00:54,187 --> 01:00:56,314 From the moment I saw you, I distrusted you. 1038 01:00:56,314 --> 01:00:58,524 I felt that you were false and deceitful. 1039 01:00:58,524 --> 01:01:01,152 It seems to me, Miss Fairfax... 1040 01:01:01,152 --> 01:01:03,613 that I am trespassing on your valuable time. 1041 01:01:03,613 --> 01:01:05,031 No doubt, you have many other calls... 1042 01:01:05,031 --> 01:01:07,493 of a similar character to make in the neighborhood. 1043 01:01:08,994 --> 01:01:10,287 Ernest. 1044 01:01:15,959 --> 01:01:18,253 -You're back so soon. -My own love. 1045 01:01:18,253 --> 01:01:19,463 A moment, Ernest. 1046 01:01:19,463 --> 01:01:20,839 May I ask you-- 1047 01:01:20,839 --> 01:01:23,008 are you engaged to be married to this young lady? 1048 01:01:23,008 --> 01:01:24,301 What young lady? 1049 01:01:25,719 --> 01:01:27,347 Good heavens, Gwendolen. 1050 01:01:27,347 --> 01:01:28,890 Yes. to "Good heavens. Gwendolen. '" 1051 01:01:28,890 --> 01:01:30,892 Of course not. What put such an idea... 1052 01:01:30,892 --> 01:01:32,060 into your pretty little head? 1053 01:01:32,060 --> 01:01:34,020 Thank you. You may. 1054 01:01:34,020 --> 01:01:36,398 I felt there must be some slight error, Miss Cardew. 1055 01:01:36,398 --> 01:01:38,066 The gentleman who is now embracing you... 1056 01:01:38,066 --> 01:01:41,861 is my cousin Mr. Algernon Moncrieff. 1057 01:01:41,861 --> 01:01:45,281 Algernon? Moncrieff? 1058 01:01:45,281 --> 01:01:47,325 -Yes. 1059 01:01:47,325 --> 01:01:49,370 Algy. 1060 01:01:51,038 --> 01:01:53,040 Here is Ernest. 1061 01:01:54,542 --> 01:01:56,001 Oh. my own Ernest. 1062 01:01:56,001 --> 01:01:58,212 Gwendolen, my darling. 1063 01:01:58,212 --> 01:02:01,215 I knew there must be some misunderstanding. Miss Fairfax. 1064 01:02:01,215 --> 01:02:03,217 The man whose arm is at present around your waist... 1065 01:02:03,217 --> 01:02:06,721 is my guardian Mr. John Worthing. 1066 01:02:06,721 --> 01:02:09,223 I beg your pardon? 1067 01:02:09,223 --> 01:02:12,102 This is Uncle Jack. 1068 01:02:12,102 --> 01:02:13,562 Jack? 1069 01:02:17,065 --> 01:02:19,443 Are you called Algy? 1070 01:02:19,443 --> 01:02:21,737 I cannot deny it. 1071 01:02:21,737 --> 01:02:25,741 Is your name really John? 1072 01:02:25,741 --> 01:02:27,576 I could deny it if I liked. 1073 01:02:27,576 --> 01:02:29,244 I could deny anything if I liked... 1074 01:02:29,244 --> 01:02:30,412 but it certainly is John. 1075 01:02:30,412 --> 01:02:32,081 It has been John foryears. 1076 01:02:32,081 --> 01:02:34,250 A gross deception has been practiced on both of us. 1077 01:02:34,250 --> 01:02:37,086 -My poor wounded Cecily. -My sweet wronged Gwendolen. 1078 01:02:37,086 --> 01:02:38,588 Ohh. 1079 01:02:38,588 --> 01:02:41,090 You will call me sister, will you not? 1080 01:02:41,090 --> 01:02:42,425 Of course. 1081 01:02:42,425 --> 01:02:44,385 Let us go into the house. sister. 1082 01:02:44,385 --> 01:02:46,596 They will hardly venture to come after us there. 1083 01:02:46,596 --> 01:02:49,390 No. Men are so cowardly, aren't they? 1084 01:02:54,730 --> 01:02:57,441 How you can sit there calmly eating muffins... 1085 01:02:57,441 --> 01:02:59,443 when we're in this horrible trouble I can't make out. 1086 01:02:59,443 --> 01:03:01,153 You seem to me to be perfectly heartless. 1087 01:03:01,153 --> 01:03:05,324 I can hardly eat muffins in an agitated manner, can l? 1088 01:03:05,324 --> 01:03:07,451 The butter would probably get on my cuffs. 1089 01:03:07,451 --> 01:03:09,870 I say, it's perfectly heartless you're eating muffins at all... 1090 01:03:09,870 --> 01:03:11,288 under the circumstances. 1091 01:03:11,288 --> 01:03:13,666 When I'm in trouble. eating is my only consolation. 1092 01:03:13,666 --> 01:03:16,544 Indeed, when I'm in really great trouble... 1093 01:03:16,544 --> 01:03:19,381 as anyone who knows me intimately will tell you... 1094 01:03:19,381 --> 01:03:21,800 I refuse everything except food and drink. 1095 01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:23,802 At the present moment, I am eating muffins... 1096 01:03:23,802 --> 01:03:25,929 because I am unhappy. 1097 01:03:25,929 --> 01:03:28,640 Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins. 1098 01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:30,141 There's no reason why you should eat them all... 1099 01:03:30,141 --> 01:03:31,768 in that greedy way. 1100 01:03:36,982 --> 01:03:39,276 Would you like some tea cake? I don't like tea cake. 1101 01:03:39,276 --> 01:03:41,404 Good heavens. I suppose a man... 1102 01:03:41,404 --> 01:03:43,989 may eat his own muffins in his own garden. 1103 01:03:43,989 --> 01:03:46,117 They seem to be eating muffins. 1104 01:03:48,786 --> 01:03:50,538 But you just said it was perfectly heartless... 1105 01:03:50,538 --> 01:03:51,706 to eat muffins. 1106 01:03:51,706 --> 01:03:53,374 I said it was perfectly heartless... 1107 01:03:53,374 --> 01:03:55,251 of you under the circumstances. 1108 01:03:55,251 --> 01:03:56,670 That is a very different thing. 1109 01:03:56,670 --> 01:03:58,296 Maybe, but the muffins are the same. 1110 01:03:58,296 --> 01:03:59,673 No. 1111 01:03:59,673 --> 01:04:01,007 Give them to me! 1112 01:04:01,007 --> 01:04:02,426 Well, I certainly don't rate your chances... 1113 01:04:02,426 --> 01:04:04,386 with my ward, Algernon. 1114 01:04:04,386 --> 01:04:05,762 Well, I don't think there's much likelihood... 1115 01:04:05,762 --> 01:04:09,766 of you, Jack, and Miss Fairfax being united, Jack! 1116 01:04:25,575 --> 01:04:27,660 But is there any particular infant... 1117 01:04:27,660 --> 01:04:30,079 in whom you are interested, Mr. Worthing? 1118 01:04:30,079 --> 01:04:31,914 The fact is, dear doctor... 1119 01:04:31,914 --> 01:04:33,875 I would like to be christened myself. 1120 01:04:35,585 --> 01:04:37,837 This afternoon, if you have nothing better to do. 1121 01:04:39,548 --> 01:04:43,594 Surely, Mr. Worthing, you've been christened already. 1122 01:04:43,594 --> 01:04:45,888 I don't remember anything about it. 1123 01:04:45,888 --> 01:04:47,181 Of course, I don't know... 1124 01:04:47,181 --> 01:04:48,891 if the thing would bother you in any way... 1125 01:04:48,891 --> 01:04:52,394 or if you think that I'm a little too old now. 1126 01:04:52,394 --> 01:04:54,813 No, no, no. Not at all, not at all. 1127 01:04:54,813 --> 01:04:57,816 The sprinkling and, indeed, immersion... 1128 01:04:57,816 --> 01:05:02,364 of adults is a perfectly canonical practice. 1129 01:05:02,364 --> 01:05:06,743 What hour would you wish the ceremony performed? 1130 01:05:06,743 --> 01:05:08,578 I might trot round at about six o'clock... 1131 01:05:08,578 --> 01:05:09,746 if that would suit you. 1132 01:05:09,746 --> 01:05:11,873 Oh, perfectly, perfectly. 1133 01:05:11,873 --> 01:05:13,041 Thank you. 1134 01:05:18,088 --> 01:05:19,672 But we cannot both be christened Ernest. 1135 01:05:19,672 --> 01:05:21,258 It's absurd. 1136 01:05:21,258 --> 01:05:23,219 I have a perfect right to be christened if I like. 1137 01:05:23,219 --> 01:05:24,595 But you've been christened already. 1138 01:05:24,595 --> 01:05:25,930 Yes, but I haven't been christened for years. 1139 01:05:25,930 --> 01:05:27,765 But you've been christened. That is the important thing. 1140 01:05:27,765 --> 01:05:30,935 Quite so. So, I know my constitution can stand it. 1141 01:05:30,935 --> 01:05:32,228 If you're not quite sure... 1142 01:05:32,228 --> 01:05:33,729 about your ever having been christened... 1143 01:05:33,729 --> 01:05:35,523 I must say, I think it rather dangerous... 1144 01:05:35,523 --> 01:05:36,816 your venturing on it now. 1145 01:05:37,983 --> 01:05:40,111 Oh, nonsense. You are always talking nonsense. 1146 01:06:03,135 --> 01:06:05,304 Let us preserve a dignified silence. 1147 01:06:05,304 --> 01:06:07,932 Certainly. It's the only thing to do now. 1148 01:06:09,475 --> 01:06:13,396 The western wind is blowing fair 1149 01:06:13,396 --> 01:06:17,400 Across the dark Aegean Sea 1150 01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:21,404 And at the secret marble stair 1151 01:06:21,404 --> 01:06:23,865 My Tyrian galley waits for thee 1152 01:06:25,492 --> 01:06:29,371 Come down. the purple sail is spread 1153 01:06:29,371 --> 01:06:33,375 The watchman sleeps within the town 1154 01:06:33,375 --> 01:06:35,002 This dignified silence seems to have produced... 1155 01:06:35,002 --> 01:06:36,295 an unpleasant effect. 1156 01:06:36,295 --> 01:06:38,172 A most distasteful one. 1157 01:06:38,172 --> 01:06:40,340 O lady mine. come down 1158 01:06:40,340 --> 01:06:42,634 Come down 1159 01:06:42,634 --> 01:06:44,511 Dum dum dum dum 1160 01:06:44,511 --> 01:06:45,679 Lady. come down 1161 01:06:57,025 --> 01:07:01,029 She will not come. I know her well 1162 01:07:01,029 --> 01:07:05,033 Of lover's vows. she hath no care 1163 01:07:05,033 --> 01:07:08,704 And little good a man can tell 1164 01:07:08,704 --> 01:07:13,000 For one so cruel and so fair 1165 01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:17,129 True love is but a woman's toy 1166 01:07:17,129 --> 01:07:21,175 They never know the lover's pain 1167 01:07:21,175 --> 01:07:25,554 And I who loved as love's a boy 1168 01:07:25,554 --> 01:07:29,226 Must love in vain. must love in vain 1169 01:07:29,226 --> 01:07:30,644 Come down 1170 01:07:32,771 --> 01:07:34,272 Lady. come down 1171 01:07:36,817 --> 01:07:38,068 Come down 1172 01:07:39,736 --> 01:07:42,531 Lady. come down 1173 01:07:44,074 --> 01:07:45,659 Lady. come down 1174 01:07:45,659 --> 01:07:47,119 We will not be the first to speak. 1175 01:07:47,119 --> 01:07:48,453 Certainly not. 1176 01:07:48,453 --> 01:07:51,207 Mr. Worthing, I have something very particular to ask you. 1177 01:07:51,207 --> 01:07:52,625 Much depends on your reply. 1178 01:07:52,625 --> 01:07:55,211 Gwendolen, your common sense is invaluable. 1179 01:07:55,211 --> 01:07:58,965 Mr. Moncrieff, kindly answer me the following question. 1180 01:07:58,965 --> 01:08:01,759 Why did you pretend to be my guardian's brother? 1181 01:08:01,759 --> 01:08:04,137 In order that I might have an opportunity of meeting you. 1182 01:08:04,137 --> 01:08:07,056 That certainly seems a satisfactory explanation. 1183 01:08:07,056 --> 01:08:09,726 Yes, dear, if you can believe him. 1184 01:08:09,726 --> 01:08:11,812 Well, I don't, but that doesn't affect... 1185 01:08:11,812 --> 01:08:13,522 the wonderful beauty of his answer. 1186 01:08:13,522 --> 01:08:15,607 True. In matters of grave importance... 1187 01:08:15,607 --> 01:08:18,110 style, not sincerity, is the vital thing. 1188 01:08:18,110 --> 01:08:20,779 Mr. Worthing, what possible explanation... 1189 01:08:20,779 --> 01:08:24,074 can you offer me for pretending to have a brother? 1190 01:08:28,579 --> 01:08:30,998 Was it in order that you might have an opportunity... 1191 01:08:30,998 --> 01:08:35,086 of coming up to town to see me as often as possible? 1192 01:08:35,086 --> 01:08:38,006 Can you doubt it, Miss Fairfax? 1193 01:08:38,006 --> 01:08:39,966 I have the gravest doubts on the subject... 1194 01:08:39,966 --> 01:08:42,969 but I intend to crush them. 1195 01:08:44,596 --> 01:08:48,558 Their explanations appear to be quite satisfactory, espe-- 1196 01:08:49,893 --> 01:08:51,311 Especially Mr. Worthing's. 1197 01:08:51,311 --> 01:08:53,773 That seems to me to have the stamp of truth upon it. 1198 01:08:53,773 --> 01:08:56,484 I am more than content with what Mr. Moncrieff said. 1199 01:08:56,484 --> 01:08:59,945 His voice alone seemed to inspire absolute credulity. 1200 01:08:59,945 --> 01:09:01,155 Then you think we should forgive them? 1201 01:09:01,155 --> 01:09:02,323 Yes. 1202 01:09:04,325 --> 01:09:05,618 I mean, no. 1203 01:09:05,618 --> 01:09:07,286 True, there are principles at stake... 1204 01:09:07,286 --> 01:09:09,080 that one cannot surrender. 1205 01:09:18,632 --> 01:09:22,052 Your Christian names are still an insuperable barrier. 1206 01:09:22,052 --> 01:09:23,470 That is all. 1207 01:09:23,470 --> 01:09:25,889 -Our Christian names? -ls that all? 1208 01:09:25,889 --> 01:09:28,308 We're going to be christened this afternoon. 1209 01:09:28,308 --> 01:09:31,186 For my sake, you're prepared to do this terrible thing? 1210 01:09:31,186 --> 01:09:32,479 I am. 1211 01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:35,690 To please me, you're ready to face this fearful ordeal? 1212 01:09:35,690 --> 01:09:36,859 I am. 1213 01:09:36,859 --> 01:09:38,319 Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned... 1214 01:09:38,319 --> 01:09:39,570 men are infinitely beyond us. 1215 01:09:39,570 --> 01:09:41,864 -We are. -Darling. 1216 01:09:41,864 --> 01:09:43,366 Darling. 1217 01:09:45,702 --> 01:09:48,705 -Lady Bracknell. -Gwendolen! 1218 01:09:48,705 --> 01:09:51,207 What does this mean? 1219 01:09:51,207 --> 01:09:55,169 Merely that I am engaged to be married to Mr. Worthing, Mama. 1220 01:09:55,169 --> 01:09:56,796 Come here. 1221 01:09:56,796 --> 01:09:58,006 Sit down. 1222 01:09:59,508 --> 01:10:01,844 Sit down immediately. 1223 01:10:08,058 --> 01:10:09,685 Of course, you will clearly understand, sir... 1224 01:10:09,685 --> 01:10:11,854 that all communication between yourself and my daughter... 1225 01:10:11,854 --> 01:10:14,189 must cease immediately from this moment. 1226 01:10:14,189 --> 01:10:16,734 On this point, as indeed on all points, I am firm. 1227 01:10:16,734 --> 01:10:18,987 I am engaged to be married to Gwendolen, Lady Bracknell. 1228 01:10:18,987 --> 01:10:22,240 You are nothing of the kind, sir. 1229 01:10:25,035 --> 01:10:28,413 And now, as regards Algy... 1230 01:10:31,082 --> 01:10:32,542 Algy? 1231 01:10:32,542 --> 01:10:34,294 Yes, Aunt Augusta. 1232 01:10:34,294 --> 01:10:36,421 May I ask if it is in this house... 1233 01:10:36,421 --> 01:10:38,757 that your invalid friend Mr. Bunbury resides? 1234 01:10:38,757 --> 01:10:40,843 Oh, no, Bunbury doesn't live here. 1235 01:10:40,843 --> 01:10:43,054 Bunbury's somewhere else at the present. 1236 01:10:43,054 --> 01:10:45,931 In fact, um, ahem... 1237 01:10:45,931 --> 01:10:48,059 Bunbury is dead. 1238 01:10:49,435 --> 01:10:52,980 -Dead? -Dead. 1239 01:10:52,980 --> 01:10:54,774 When did Mr. Bunbury die? 1240 01:10:54,774 --> 01:10:56,567 His death must've been extremely sudden. 1241 01:10:56,567 --> 01:10:59,111 Bunbury died this afternoon. 1242 01:10:59,111 --> 01:11:00,906 What did he die of? 1243 01:11:00,906 --> 01:11:02,908 Bunbury? 1244 01:11:02,908 --> 01:11:05,285 He was quite exploded. 1245 01:11:05,285 --> 01:11:08,246 Exploded? 1246 01:11:08,246 --> 01:11:09,623 Mm. 1247 01:11:09,623 --> 01:11:12,376 Was he the victim of some revolutionary outrage? 1248 01:11:12,376 --> 01:11:14,044 I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested... 1249 01:11:14,044 --> 01:11:15,420 in social legislation. 1250 01:11:15,420 --> 01:11:19,132 My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out. 1251 01:11:19,132 --> 01:11:21,676 The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live. 1252 01:11:21,676 --> 01:11:23,429 That is what I mean. 1253 01:11:23,429 --> 01:11:24,680 So Bunbury died. 1254 01:11:25,890 --> 01:11:27,725 He seems to have had great confidence... 1255 01:11:27,725 --> 01:11:29,977 in the opinion of his physicians. 1256 01:11:29,977 --> 01:11:31,813 I am glad, however, that he made his up mind... 1257 01:11:31,813 --> 01:11:34,065 at the last to some definite course of action... 1258 01:11:34,065 --> 01:11:36,692 and acted under proper medical advice. 1259 01:11:36,692 --> 01:11:41,030 And now that we have finally got rid of this Mr. Bunbury... 1260 01:11:41,030 --> 01:11:44,326 may I ask, Mr. Worthing, who is that young person... 1261 01:11:44,326 --> 01:11:46,662 whose hand my nephew Algernon is now holding... 1262 01:11:46,662 --> 01:11:50,999 in what seems to me to be a peculiarly unnecessary manner? 1263 01:11:50,999 --> 01:11:53,627 That lady is Miss Cecily Cardew, my ward. 1264 01:11:53,627 --> 01:11:56,672 I am engaged to be married. Aunt Augusta. 1265 01:11:56,672 --> 01:11:57,840 I beg your pardon? 1266 01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:00,551 Mr. Moncrieff and l are engaged, Lady Bracknell. 1267 01:12:00,551 --> 01:12:02,678 I do not know whether there's anything... 1268 01:12:02,678 --> 01:12:04,472 peculiarly exciting about the air... 1269 01:12:04,472 --> 01:12:06,808 of this particular part of Hertfordshire... 1270 01:12:06,808 --> 01:12:09,227 but the number of engagements that go on seem to me... 1271 01:12:09,227 --> 01:12:11,354 to be considerably above the proper average... 1272 01:12:11,354 --> 01:12:15,191 that statistics have laid down for our guidance. 1273 01:12:15,191 --> 01:12:16,359 Mr. Worthing... 1274 01:12:16,359 --> 01:12:18,903 is Miss Cardew at all connected... 1275 01:12:18,903 --> 01:12:21,823 with any of the larger railway stations in London? 1276 01:12:21,823 --> 01:12:25,828 I merely desire information. 1277 01:12:25,828 --> 01:12:27,079 Until recently, I was not aware... 1278 01:12:27,079 --> 01:12:29,540 that there were any families or persons... 1279 01:12:29,540 --> 01:12:31,542 whose origin was a terminus. 1280 01:12:34,211 --> 01:12:37,006 Gwendolen, the time approaches for our departure. 1281 01:12:37,006 --> 01:12:38,340 W have nota momentto lose. 1282 01:12:38,340 --> 01:12:39,675 As a matter of form, Mr. Worthing, I'd better ask... 1283 01:12:39,675 --> 01:12:41,594 if Miss Cardew has any little fortune. 1284 01:12:41,594 --> 01:12:46,182 Oh, about £130,000 in the funds, that is all. 1285 01:12:46,182 --> 01:12:48,226 Good-bye, Lady Bracknell. So pleased to have seen you. 1286 01:12:48,226 --> 01:12:51,313 A moment, Mr. Worthing. 1287 01:12:51,313 --> 01:12:54,775 A hundred and thirty thousand pounds? 1288 01:12:56,234 --> 01:12:58,153 And in the funds? 1289 01:13:01,490 --> 01:13:04,409 Miss Cardew seems to me to be a most attractive young lady... 1290 01:13:04,409 --> 01:13:06,745 now that I look at her. 1291 01:13:06,745 --> 01:13:09,374 Come over here, dear. 1292 01:13:12,418 --> 01:13:15,046 The chin a little higher, dear. 1293 01:13:15,046 --> 01:13:18,424 Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. 1294 01:13:18,424 --> 01:13:21,094 They're worn very high just at present. 1295 01:13:21,094 --> 01:13:23,429 -Algy? -Yes, Aunt Augusta. 1296 01:13:23,429 --> 01:13:24,722 There are distinct social possibilities... 1297 01:13:24,722 --> 01:13:26,140 in Miss Cardew's profile. 1298 01:13:26,140 --> 01:13:28,351 Cecily is the sweetest, dearest, prettiest girl... 1299 01:13:28,351 --> 01:13:29,937 in the whole world, and I don't give tuppence... 1300 01:13:29,937 --> 01:13:31,480 for her social possibilities. 1301 01:13:31,480 --> 01:13:34,900 Never speak disrespectfully of society, Algernon. 1302 01:13:34,900 --> 01:13:37,945 Only people who can't get into it do that. 1303 01:13:39,196 --> 01:13:40,447 Dear child. you know. of course... 1304 01:13:40,447 --> 01:13:44,034 that Algy has nothing but his debts to depend upon. 1305 01:13:44,034 --> 01:13:47,996 But I do not approve of mercenary marriages. 1306 01:13:47,996 --> 01:13:51,084 Indeed, when I married Lord Bracknell... 1307 01:13:51,084 --> 01:13:53,420 I had no fortune of any kind. 1308 01:14:04,472 --> 01:14:07,434 But I never dreamed for a moment... 1309 01:14:07,434 --> 01:14:10,311 of allowing that to stand in my way. 1310 01:14:14,150 --> 01:14:16,152 Well, I suppose I must give my consent. 1311 01:14:16,152 --> 01:14:18,028 Thank you, Aunt Augusta. 1312 01:14:18,028 --> 01:14:19,989 I beg your pardon for interrupting you... 1313 01:14:19,989 --> 01:14:21,657 Lady Bracknell, but I am Miss Cardew's guardian. 1314 01:14:21,657 --> 01:14:23,617 She cannot marry without my consent... 1315 01:14:23,617 --> 01:14:24,952 until she comes of age... 1316 01:14:24,952 --> 01:14:28,789 and that consent I absolutely decline to give. 1317 01:14:28,789 --> 01:14:31,667 Upon what grounds, may I ask? 1318 01:14:31,667 --> 01:14:34,880 I suspect him of being untruthful. 1319 01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:36,548 Untruthful? 1320 01:14:36,548 --> 01:14:38,717 My nephew Algy? 1321 01:14:38,717 --> 01:14:42,012 I fear there can be no possible doubt about the matter. 1322 01:14:46,391 --> 01:14:48,727 During my temporary absence in London... 1323 01:14:48,727 --> 01:14:51,313 on an important question of romance... 1324 01:14:51,313 --> 01:14:53,732 he obtained admission to my house... 1325 01:14:53,732 --> 01:14:57,820 by means of the false pretense of being my brother. 1326 01:14:59,113 --> 01:15:00,531 He then proceeded to win over... 1327 01:15:00,531 --> 01:15:01,741 the affections of my only ward... 1328 01:15:01,741 --> 01:15:03,659 when his own intentions, I'm utterly convinced... 1329 01:15:03,659 --> 01:15:05,411 were purely financial. 1330 01:15:05,411 --> 01:15:07,205 Deny it if you dare. 1331 01:15:07,205 --> 01:15:09,290 He subsequently stayed to tea... 1332 01:15:09,290 --> 01:15:12,460 and devoured every single muffin... 1333 01:15:12,460 --> 01:15:14,712 and what makes his behavior all the more heartless... 1334 01:15:14,712 --> 01:15:16,048 is that he was perfectly aware from the start... 1335 01:15:16,048 --> 01:15:18,050 that I have no brother, that I never had a brother... 1336 01:15:18,050 --> 01:15:20,511 and that I don't intend to have a brother, not even of any kind. 1337 01:15:20,511 --> 01:15:22,721 -Uncle Jack, please! -On my word, Jack. 1338 01:15:22,721 --> 01:15:26,141 Come here, sweet child. 1339 01:15:26,141 --> 01:15:28,227 How old are you, dear? 1340 01:15:28,227 --> 01:15:31,522 -Eighteen, Aunt Augusta. -Eighteen. 1341 01:15:31,522 --> 01:15:33,899 Well, it will not be long before you are of age... 1342 01:15:33,899 --> 01:15:36,193 and free from the restraints of your guardian. 1343 01:15:36,193 --> 01:15:38,947 According to the terms of her grandfather's will... 1344 01:15:38,947 --> 01:15:42,909 she does not come legally of age until she is thirty-five. 1345 01:15:42,909 --> 01:15:46,287 That does not seem to me to be a grave objection. 1346 01:15:46,287 --> 01:15:48,581 Thirty-five is a very attractive age. 1347 01:15:48,581 --> 01:15:50,166 London society is full of women... 1348 01:15:50,166 --> 01:15:52,419 of the very highest birth who have... 1349 01:15:52,419 --> 01:15:56,089 of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. 1350 01:15:56,089 --> 01:15:58,926 Algy, could you wait for me till I was thirty-five? 1351 01:15:58,926 --> 01:16:00,845 Of course, I could. You know I could. 1352 01:16:00,845 --> 01:16:02,805 Yes, I felt it instinctively. 1353 01:16:02,805 --> 01:16:04,724 But I couldn't wait all that time. 1354 01:16:04,724 --> 01:16:06,809 Then what is to be done, Cecily? 1355 01:16:06,809 --> 01:16:09,520 I don't know, Mr. Moncrieff. 1356 01:16:11,355 --> 01:16:13,065 My dear Mr. Worthing... 1357 01:16:13,065 --> 01:16:16,402 as Miss Cardew states quite positively... 1358 01:16:16,402 --> 01:16:18,904 that she cannot wait until she is thirty-five-- 1359 01:16:18,904 --> 01:16:20,449 a remark which I am bound to say... 1360 01:16:20,449 --> 01:16:23,493 seems to me to show a somewhat impatient nature-- 1361 01:16:23,493 --> 01:16:27,831 I would beg you to reconsider your decision. 1362 01:16:27,831 --> 01:16:31,168 Dear Lady Bracknell, the matter is entirely in your own hands. 1363 01:16:31,168 --> 01:16:33,378 The moment you consent to my marriage with Gwendolen... 1364 01:16:33,378 --> 01:16:35,338 I will most gladly allow your nephew... 1365 01:16:35,338 --> 01:16:37,591 to form an alliance with my ward. 1366 01:16:39,342 --> 01:16:44,307 You must be aware that what you propose is out of the question. 1367 01:16:44,307 --> 01:16:45,641 Then a passionate celibacy... 1368 01:16:45,641 --> 01:16:49,312 is all any of us can look forward to. 1369 01:16:49,312 --> 01:16:50,897 -Oh, but Mama. -Come, dear. 1370 01:16:50,897 --> 01:16:53,191 We've already missed five, if not six, trains. 1371 01:16:53,191 --> 01:16:55,985 To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform. 1372 01:16:57,153 --> 01:16:58,946 Everything is quite ready for the christenings. 1373 01:17:00,448 --> 01:17:02,117 The christenings, sir? 1374 01:17:02,117 --> 01:17:04,495 Is not that somewhat premature? 1375 01:17:04,495 --> 01:17:07,498 But both of these gentlemen have expressed a desire... 1376 01:17:07,498 --> 01:17:09,500 for immediate baptism. 1377 01:17:09,500 --> 01:17:13,629 At their age? The idea is grotesque and irreligious. 1378 01:17:13,629 --> 01:17:15,672 Algy, I forbid you to be baptized. 1379 01:17:15,672 --> 01:17:18,175 I will not hear of such excesses. 1380 01:17:19,676 --> 01:17:24,307 I'm sorry to interrupt, Dr. Chasuble. 1381 01:17:24,307 --> 01:17:25,600 Yes, yes. 1382 01:17:29,771 --> 01:17:32,565 Miss Prism has asked me to tell you... 1383 01:17:32,565 --> 01:17:35,026 she's waiting for you in the vestry. 1384 01:17:35,026 --> 01:17:37,821 Indeed. I believe she's been waiting for some time. 1385 01:17:37,821 --> 01:17:42,826 Miss Prism in the vestry. 1386 01:17:42,826 --> 01:17:44,745 Waiting foryou. 1387 01:17:44,745 --> 01:17:46,372 Yes. 1388 01:17:46,372 --> 01:17:47,957 Miss Prism? 1389 01:17:49,333 --> 01:17:51,627 Did I hear you mention a Miss Prism? 1390 01:17:51,627 --> 01:17:53,045 Yes. madame. I'm-- 1391 01:17:53,045 --> 01:17:55,381 I'm on my-- 1392 01:17:56,882 --> 01:17:59,051 -Bless you. -Yes, madame, I'm on my way... 1393 01:17:59,051 --> 01:18:00,553 to--to--to join her. 1394 01:18:00,553 --> 01:18:03,180 Is this Miss Prism a female of repellent aspect... 1395 01:18:03,180 --> 01:18:05,391 remotely connected with education? 1396 01:18:05,391 --> 01:18:08,270 She is the most cultivated of ladies... 1397 01:18:08,270 --> 01:18:10,731 and the picture of respectability. 1398 01:18:10,731 --> 01:18:12,691 It is obviously the same person. 1399 01:18:12,691 --> 01:18:15,902 Dr. Chasuble, take me to the vestry at once. 1400 01:18:25,412 --> 01:18:28,082 I've been expecting you. dear doctor. 1401 01:18:30,918 --> 01:18:32,378 Prism! 1402 01:18:38,426 --> 01:18:39,677 Prism. 1403 01:18:48,270 --> 01:18:49,438 Prism! 1404 01:18:55,110 --> 01:18:56,779 Where is that baby? 1405 01:19:13,797 --> 01:19:16,132 Thirty-four years ago. Prism... 1406 01:19:16,132 --> 01:19:17,759 you left Lord Bracknell's house... 1407 01:19:17,759 --> 01:19:20,011 Number 104. Upper Grosvenor Street... 1408 01:19:20,011 --> 01:19:21,304 in charge of a perambulator... 1409 01:19:21,304 --> 01:19:24,307 that contained a baby of the male sex. 1410 01:19:26,142 --> 01:19:28,144 You never returned. 1411 01:19:28,144 --> 01:19:31,148 A few weeks later, through the elaborate investigations... 1412 01:19:31,148 --> 01:19:32,775 of the metropolitan police... 1413 01:19:32,775 --> 01:19:35,486 the perambulator was discovered at midnight... 1414 01:19:35,486 --> 01:19:40,157 standing by itself in a remote corner of Bayswater. 1415 01:19:40,157 --> 01:19:43,035 It contained the manuscript of a three-volume novel... 1416 01:19:43,035 --> 01:19:47,331 of more than usually revolting sentimentality. 1417 01:19:48,749 --> 01:19:51,419 But the baby was not there. 1418 01:19:51,419 --> 01:19:54,172 Prism, where is that baby? 1419 01:19:54,172 --> 01:19:56,341 Lady Bracknell... 1420 01:19:56,341 --> 01:19:59,719 I admit with shame that I do not know. 1421 01:19:59,719 --> 01:20:03,473 The plain facts of the case are these-- 1422 01:20:03,473 --> 01:20:05,684 on the morning of the day in question-- 1423 01:20:05,684 --> 01:20:08,562 a day that is forever branded on my memory-- 1424 01:20:08,562 --> 01:20:10,188 I prepared, as usual... 1425 01:20:10,188 --> 01:20:13,526 to take the baby out in its perambulator. 1426 01:20:13,526 --> 01:20:19,615 I had also with me a somewhat old, but capacious handbag... 1427 01:20:19,615 --> 01:20:22,118 in which I had intended to place the manuscript... 1428 01:20:22,118 --> 01:20:24,412 of a work of fiction that I had written... 1429 01:20:24,412 --> 01:20:28,166 during my few unoccupied hours. 1430 01:20:28,166 --> 01:20:31,711 In a moment of mental abstraction... 1431 01:20:31,711 --> 01:20:34,381 for which I never can forgive myself... 1432 01:20:34,381 --> 01:20:37,926 I deposited the manuscript in the bassinet... 1433 01:20:41,472 --> 01:20:45,517 and placed the baby in the handbag. 1434 01:20:50,814 --> 01:20:53,692 ...manuscript in the bassinet... 1435 01:20:53,692 --> 01:20:57,155 and placed the baby in the handbag. 1436 01:20:59,115 --> 01:21:01,826 But where did you deposit the handbag? 1437 01:21:03,244 --> 01:21:05,121 Do not ask me, Mr. Worthing. 1438 01:21:05,121 --> 01:21:08,249 Miss Prism. this is a matter of no small importance to me. 1439 01:21:08,249 --> 01:21:10,460 I insist on knowing where you deposited the handbag... 1440 01:21:10,460 --> 01:21:12,087 that contained that infant. 1441 01:21:13,630 --> 01:21:15,590 I left it in the cloakroom... 1442 01:21:15,590 --> 01:21:18,886 of one of the larger railway stations in London. 1443 01:21:18,886 --> 01:21:20,763 What railway station? 1444 01:21:20,763 --> 01:21:22,890 Victoria. 1445 01:21:22,890 --> 01:21:25,601 The Brighton line. 1446 01:21:27,436 --> 01:21:28,813 I-- 1447 01:21:39,991 --> 01:21:42,953 Uncle Jack seems strangely agitated. 1448 01:21:50,710 --> 01:21:53,171 Is this the handbag, Miss Prism? 1449 01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:01,806 Examine it carefully before you speak. 1450 01:22:01,806 --> 01:22:05,810 The happiness of more than one life depends on your answer. 1451 01:22:05,810 --> 01:22:07,770 The bag is undoubtedly mine. 1452 01:22:07,770 --> 01:22:12,150 I am delighted to have it so unexpectedly restored to me. 1453 01:22:12,150 --> 01:22:13,985 It has been a great inconvenience... 1454 01:22:13,985 --> 01:22:16,028 being without it all these years. 1455 01:22:16,028 --> 01:22:19,198 Miss Prism, more is restored to you than this handbag. 1456 01:22:19,198 --> 01:22:22,828 I was the baby you placed in it. 1457 01:22:22,828 --> 01:22:24,663 -You? -Yes. 1458 01:22:24,663 --> 01:22:26,206 Mother! 1459 01:22:26,206 --> 01:22:29,835 Oh, Mr. Worthing. I am unmarried. 1460 01:22:29,835 --> 01:22:31,378 Unmarried? 1461 01:22:31,378 --> 01:22:33,922 I cannot deny that is a serious blow. 1462 01:22:33,922 --> 01:22:36,008 But after all, who has the right... 1463 01:22:36,008 --> 01:22:38,677 to cast a stone against one who has suffered? 1464 01:22:38,677 --> 01:22:42,265 Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? 1465 01:22:42,265 --> 01:22:44,851 -Mother, I forgive you! -No, Mr. Worthing! 1466 01:22:44,851 --> 01:22:46,519 There is some error. 1467 01:22:48,313 --> 01:22:50,065 There is the lady... 1468 01:22:50,065 --> 01:22:52,692 who can tell you who you really are. 1469 01:22:55,862 --> 01:22:58,323 Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive... 1470 01:22:58,323 --> 01:23:02,368 but would you kindly inform me who I am? 1471 01:23:02,368 --> 01:23:06,415 You are the son of my poor sister Mrs. Moncrieff... 1472 01:23:06,415 --> 01:23:10,294 and consequently Algy's younger brother. 1473 01:23:14,840 --> 01:23:17,635 Algy's younger brother? 1474 01:23:43,578 --> 01:23:46,332 So... 1475 01:23:46,332 --> 01:23:49,085 I have a brother after all. 1476 01:23:49,085 --> 01:23:50,878 Yes. 1477 01:23:56,551 --> 01:23:58,594 I knew I had a brother! 1478 01:24:01,597 --> 01:24:03,558 I always said I had a brother. Heh. 1479 01:24:03,558 --> 01:24:07,020 Cecily, how could you ever have doubted that I had a brother? 1480 01:24:07,020 --> 01:24:09,106 Dr. Chasuble, my unfortunate brother. 1481 01:24:09,106 --> 01:24:10,274 How do you do? 1482 01:24:10,274 --> 01:24:11,775 Miss Prism, my unfortunate brother. 1483 01:24:11,775 --> 01:24:12,943 How do you do? 1484 01:24:12,943 --> 01:24:14,403 Gwendolen, my unfortunate brother. 1485 01:24:14,403 --> 01:24:15,654 How do you do? 1486 01:24:15,654 --> 01:24:18,949 Lady Bracknell, my--my brother. 1487 01:24:18,949 --> 01:24:20,617 -Algy! -Algy! 1488 01:24:20,617 --> 01:24:22,161 Oh! 1489 01:24:22,161 --> 01:24:24,455 Oh! 1490 01:24:24,455 --> 01:24:25,622 -So? -Oh! 1491 01:24:36,134 --> 01:24:39,012 Under these strange and unforeseen circumstances... 1492 01:24:39,012 --> 01:24:41,473 Mr. Moncrieff... 1493 01:24:41,473 --> 01:24:44,017 you may kiss your Aunt Augusta. 1494 01:24:50,524 --> 01:24:52,818 John! 1495 01:24:56,197 --> 01:24:58,657 MISS Mr. Moncrieff. 1496 01:24:58,657 --> 01:25:01,535 After all that has occurred... 1497 01:25:01,535 --> 01:25:04,663 and any inconvenience I may have caused you... 1498 01:25:04,663 --> 01:25:06,332 in your infancy... 1499 01:25:06,332 --> 01:25:10,337 I feel it is my duty to resign my position in this household. 1500 01:25:10,337 --> 01:25:13,006 The suggestion is absurd. I won't hear of it. 1501 01:25:13,006 --> 01:25:16,593 Sir, it is my duty to leave. 1502 01:25:16,593 --> 01:25:20,514 I have really nothing more to teach dear Cecily. 1503 01:25:20,514 --> 01:25:23,350 In the very difficult accomplishment... 1504 01:25:23,350 --> 01:25:25,185 of getting married... 1505 01:25:25,185 --> 01:25:27,229 I fear my sweet and clever pupil... 1506 01:25:27,229 --> 01:25:30,357 has far outstripped her teacher. 1507 01:25:32,693 --> 01:25:34,362 No. 1508 01:25:50,128 --> 01:25:52,631 A moment. Miss Prism. 1509 01:25:55,926 --> 01:25:58,011 Dr. Chasuble. 1510 01:25:58,011 --> 01:25:59,888 I've come to the conclusion... 1511 01:25:59,888 --> 01:26:02,641 that the primitive church is in error... 1512 01:26:02,641 --> 01:26:06,019 on certain points on the question of matrimony. 1513 01:26:06,019 --> 01:26:11,692 Corrupt readings seem to have crept into the text. 1514 01:26:11,692 --> 01:26:15,280 In consequence. I-- 1515 01:26:15,280 --> 01:26:18,158 I beg to solicit... 1516 01:26:18,158 --> 01:26:20,910 the honor of your hand. 1517 01:26:20,910 --> 01:26:24,706 Frederick. 1518 01:26:24,706 --> 01:26:26,040 Laetitia. 1519 01:26:27,584 --> 01:26:29,961 -My dear Cecily. -My dearest Algernon. 1520 01:26:29,961 --> 01:26:31,254 My own Gwendolen. 1521 01:26:31,254 --> 01:26:33,590 My own-- But wait! Who are you? 1522 01:26:33,590 --> 01:26:36,635 I mean, what is your Christian name, Mr. Moncrieff? 1523 01:26:36,635 --> 01:26:39,096 Now you have become someone else. 1524 01:26:39,096 --> 01:26:41,223 Good heavens, I'd quite forgotten that point. 1525 01:26:41,223 --> 01:26:44,101 The question had better be cleared up at once. 1526 01:26:44,101 --> 01:26:45,853 Aunt Augusta, a moment. 1527 01:26:45,853 --> 01:26:47,938 At the time when Miss Prism left me in the handbag... 1528 01:26:47,938 --> 01:26:49,940 had I been christened already? 1529 01:26:49,940 --> 01:26:52,943 Yes, I think you were christened after your father. 1530 01:26:52,943 --> 01:26:55,905 I see. Then what was my father's Christian name? 1531 01:26:55,905 --> 01:26:58,200 I cannot at the present moment recall... 1532 01:26:58,200 --> 01:27:01,328 what the general's name was. I have no doubt he had one. 1533 01:27:01,328 --> 01:27:04,164 Algy, can't you recollect what our father's Christian name was? 1534 01:27:04,164 --> 01:27:05,999 My dear fellow, we were hardly on speaking terms. 1535 01:27:05,999 --> 01:27:07,751 He died when I was only three. 1536 01:27:07,751 --> 01:27:09,294 His name would appear on the army lists... 1537 01:27:09,294 --> 01:27:11,421 of the period, I suppose, Aunt Augusta. 1538 01:27:11,421 --> 01:27:14,049 The general was essentially a man of peace... 1539 01:27:14,049 --> 01:27:16,426 except in his domestic life. 1540 01:27:16,426 --> 01:27:18,304 But no doubt his name would appear... 1541 01:27:18,304 --> 01:27:19,972 on any military directory. 1542 01:27:23,643 --> 01:27:25,812 The army lists of the last 40 years are here. 1543 01:27:25,812 --> 01:27:28,815 These delightful records should have been my constant study. 1544 01:27:28,815 --> 01:27:31,943 Lieutenants. captains... 1545 01:27:31,943 --> 01:27:34,028 colonels... 1546 01:27:34,028 --> 01:27:35,822 -Oh! -colonels... 1547 01:27:35,822 --> 01:27:37,115 generals. 1548 01:27:37,115 --> 01:27:39,284 "M." 1549 01:27:39,284 --> 01:27:42,162 "Maxbohm," "Magley"... 1550 01:27:42,162 --> 01:27:44,748 "Markby," "Migsby," "Mobbs," "Moncrieff." 1551 01:27:44,748 --> 01:27:46,667 "Lieutenant, 1860. 1552 01:27:46,667 --> 01:27:49,002 "Christian names..." 1553 01:28:03,435 --> 01:28:05,937 I always told you, Gwendolen... 1554 01:28:05,937 --> 01:28:09,149 that my name was Ernest, didn't l? 1555 01:28:11,484 --> 01:28:13,486 Well, it is Ernestafterall. 1556 01:28:17,782 --> 01:28:19,617 I mean, it naturally is Ernest. 1557 01:28:19,617 --> 01:28:22,538 Ernest. My own Ernest. 1558 01:28:22,538 --> 01:28:26,333 I felt from the first that you could have no other name. 1559 01:29:05,041 --> 01:29:06,209 My nephew. 1560 01:29:07,752 --> 01:29:10,713 You seem to be displaying signs of triviality. 1561 01:29:11,839 --> 01:29:13,716 On the contrary, Aunt Augusta. 1562 01:29:13,716 --> 01:29:15,802 I've now realized for the first time in my life... 1563 01:29:15,802 --> 01:29:18,179 the vital importance of being earnest. 1564 01:29:54,300 --> 01:29:58,221 The western wind is blowing fair 1565 01:29:58,221 --> 01:30:02,183 Across the dark Aegean Sea 1566 01:30:02,183 --> 01:30:05,979 And at the secret marble stair 1567 01:30:05,979 --> 01:30:09,775 My Tyrian galley waits for thee 1568 01:30:09,775 --> 01:30:14,155 Come down. the purple sail is spread 1569 01:30:14,155 --> 01:30:17,992 The watchman sleeps within the town 1570 01:30:17,992 --> 01:30:21,871 O leave thy lily-flowered bed 1571 01:30:21,871 --> 01:30:25,666 O lady mine. come down 1572 01:30:25,666 --> 01:30:29,254 Come down 1573 01:30:29,254 --> 01:30:31,798 Lady. come down 1574 01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:36,970 Come down 1575 01:30:36,970 --> 01:30:41,016 Lady. come down 1576 01:30:41,016 --> 01:30:43,894 O lady. come down 1577 01:30:46,062 --> 01:30:50,026 She will not come. I know her well 1578 01:30:50,026 --> 01:30:54,030 Of lover's vows. she hath no care 1579 01:30:54,030 --> 01:30:57,909 And little good a man can tell 1580 01:30:57,909 --> 01:31:01,871 Of one so cruel and so fair 1581 01:31:01,871 --> 01:31:05,958 True love is but a woman's toy 1582 01:31:05,958 --> 01:31:09,962 They never know the lover's pain 1583 01:31:09,962 --> 01:31:13,884 And I who loved as loves a boy 1584 01:31:13,884 --> 01:31:15,928 Must love in vain 1585 01:31:15,928 --> 01:31:17,679 Must love in vain 1586 01:31:17,679 --> 01:31:19,848 Come down 1587 01:31:19,848 --> 01:31:21,350 Come down 1588 01:31:21,350 --> 01:31:24,061 Lady. come down 1589 01:31:24,061 --> 01:31:25,729 Come down 1590 01:31:25,729 --> 01:31:27,815 Come down 1591 01:31:29,274 --> 01:31:31,527 Lady. come down 1592 01:31:34,072 --> 01:31:35,323 I think your high notes... 1593 01:31:35,323 --> 01:31:36,825 may have damaged our chances. old boy. 1594 01:31:36,825 --> 01:31:38,159 You do want them to come down. don 't you? 1595 01:31:38,159 --> 01:31:39,577 She's never going to come down... 1596 01:31:39,577 --> 01:31:41,538 if you're singing like that. Completely out of tune. 1597 01:31:41,538 --> 01:31:43,706 -How dare you? -I'll take this. 1598 01:31:43,706 --> 01:31:45,375 You leave this to me. Have a lie down. old man. 1599 01:31:45,375 --> 01:31:46,626 No. I'll take this bit. 1600 01:31:46,626 --> 01:31:48,253 Out of my way. I'm coming through. 1601 01:31:48,253 --> 01:31:49,712 Go easy. my dear fellow. 1602 01:31:49,712 --> 01:31:51,589 Come do-o-o-own 1603 01:31:51,589 --> 01:31:55,136 Come down 1604 01:31:55,136 --> 01:31:56,595 Lady. come down 1605 01:31:56,595 --> 01:31:58,305 Overdoing it. Less is more. 1606 01:31:58,305 --> 01:31:59,765 Come down 1607 01:31:59,765 --> 01:32:03,102 Come down 1608 01:32:03,102 --> 01:32:06,147 Lady. come down 1609 01:32:11,444 --> 01:32:14,238 That wasn 't so bad. was it? 1610 01:32:16,616 --> 01:32:18,326 Maybe they're not going to come down. 1611 01:32:18,326 --> 01:32:21,079 Think we should go up? Maybe we should go up. 1612 01:32:21,079 --> 01:32:23,123 Algy. you're always talking nonsense. 1613 01:32:23,123 --> 01:32:25,500 Well. it's better than listening to it. 1614 01:32:25,500 --> 01:32:32,632 Lady. come down 114591