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It's been a disaster, and it's been a disaster entirely because of me.

Diplomat, I try to be sir. I try to be.

Thank you for the flowers. They're quite beautiful.

Thank you, Megan.

I wouldn't want Cook to get the wrong idea. The food was excellent.

But, well, Mrs. Costelek and I have had rather a lot of rich food.

I clearly understand, sir.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here.

I have had rather a lot of rich food. I clearly understand.

Will you be requiring anything else, Ma?

No, sir.

Sir?

No, thank you.

Oh, and, Medley, you've all worked very hard to make the house welcoming.

I think you might stand everyone down now until tomorrow morning.

Are you sure, sir?

Quite.

Well, thank you very much indeed, sir.

Well, you think you're going to like it here?

I'm sure I shall when I get used to it.

The staff seem very friendly.

Well, I think that after Alice Penn, Ma, they're glad to know where they are.

A downright regular mistress of Penn, Merrick is something they can understand.

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Don't tell me just to tell me to tell me to tell me to tell me to tell me to tell me to tell me to tell me to tell me to tell me to tell me to tell me to tell me to tell you.

Don't tell me to tell me to tell you to tell me to tell me to tell me to tell you tell me to tell me to tell you to tell me to tell you to tell you tell you to tell you to tell go away.

How positive?

How positive?

where did this video play this way?

I.

How saved, how created the forest?

How close are these forest?

ied Said, what are you learning about?

I'm looking for danger in questions and ac visibility is completely different at all.

What are we going to do?

What are we going to do?

Your GP assures me that physically or as healthy as specimen as he's encountered.

I should hope so.

And you have every confidence in Dr. Sauter.

He delivered me. He's looked after me for 30 years. Of course I trust him.

Forgive me, but I'd like to get this clear at the outset.

Was it Dr. Sauter who suggested that the only way of overcoming your problem was to consult someone like me?

Does it matter? The decision was reached. Here I am.

It matters a very great deal, Mr. Stellick.

Because if you come to me with Mark Treluctance, quite convinced in your own mind, this is all a waste of time, and I'm taking your money for nothing.

Yes, well, for myself I don't greatly care, but I do care about my wife.

This block, whatever you care to call it, is putting her in Nvidia's position.

So that you care enough about your wife's happiness to want this block removed?

Oh, Metlin? How pretty it all is, no.

Yes, ma'am. Mrs. Stellick's been working very hard on the hold house.

And what a different she's made.

Under how you, anyway, apart from being very efficient.

Very well, thank you, ma'am.

Get me married next month.

Married? You and my sons kept very quiet about it.

Oh, we kept it quiet, ma'am. My fiance and me.

Oh, I can't believe it.

Metlin's little boy. Married.

I'm so sorry, I can't keep waiting.

Nonsense. Just been admiring the room.

When you sit down, just over there where I can feel the sun.

This was always my favourite window.

I know I love this corner too.

Oh, clever you, Penelina.

Phil, it must be really proud of you.

Oh, I think he's quite pleased, you know.

And you're happy here.

Really, truly happy.

So long as Philip's happy, I'm happy.

So what is he doing in London for every sake?

Oh, he and Adrian have some meetings about your husband's monograph on Stephen and Matilda.

They're talking to a publisher, I believe.

Oh, publisher.

If you're not too old to take some advice, Eleanor,

see to it that when Philip has these London jaunts and future, he takes you with him.

These men, you know what they're like?

Shall we have tea?

So, why did it go wrong on your honeymoon?

I think because the hotel we stayed in brought back all the wrong memories.

When I was a boy, nine or ten years old,

my parents have been estranged for some time.

One horrific night when my mother and I were staying at Brighton.

We saw my father, his mistress, and his illegitimate sons,

enjoying a meal at the same hotel.

Could imagine how.

Later that night, I heard my father and mother have the most appalling rah,

bedroom suite in the hotel.

It ended with my father raping my mother.

And I heard it all.

It was too perplexed and too frightened to do anything about it.

And I suppose I was too stupid to acknowledge the effect that that might have on the first night of our honeymoon.

The associations were too much for you.

I bolted.

I... I got to the bathroom, vomited.

And after that it was hopeless.

Hopeless.

Did you attempt intimacy there after?

A couple of times.

Disasters.

Mr. Costello, have you had any satisfactory relationship with a woman before or since you're married?

What the hell is that supposed to mean? You've come to me for help. I didn't solicit your cost.

Yes, I'm sorry.

I... I bought the services of a girl in Dorky during our honeymoon.

Would it be accurate to say that on every occasion when you've attempted to make love to your wife,

and during that one occasion with the Dorky prostitute, the memory of that traumatic scene between your father and mother,

effectively intervened?

The first time with Helena, certainly.

The memories they... they swamped everything afterwards.

Well, it's difficult to know, but I think it was probably after my failures in bed

that I remembered that awful night again.

Well, what do you think?

I'm a very long way from making any sort of informed opinion.

This is not going to be a fast process, like taking a pill to get rid of a headache.

And these improvements are vital.

Well, if we once send in Garth to show profit next year, then the year after that.

How much will your modifications cost?

Quite a lot. At least 21,000.

That's a fortune.

Yes, I'm afraid it is.

Of that, how much can you and your colleagues raise?

Well, optimistically about 6,000.

I can match you at six, but no more than that.

Darling, it's still a gamble.

You're prepared to gamble, aren't you?

Hey, I find more to admire in you.

Oh, really?

You took me for better or for worse.

So far you've had precious little but the worse.

Only because I know it'll get better.

So, it's a deal, Mr. Castallak?

Mrs. Castallak, it is.

Listen here.

How long have I been calling on you?

Oh, not more than five months.

It's quite long enough to provoke comment from your father, the neighbors and staff.

You do have a bit of a reputation as a lady killer, old soldier.

You know something.

I think you're the only female I've ever met who's company I utterly enjoy.

Dearly the vast.

Could you be leading up to a proposition of interest to respect?

Oh, one for the road.

I should damn well hope so.

Wow.

Mm.

Now look for dear old horse, fancier.

As you know, I am absolutely penniless.

But I do have expectations.

And I know all about those expectations of yours, dear heart.

Just use a snafel a moment, would you?

After all, I am heir to Penn Maric.

You were, sweet nurse.

I don't care that you want to marry me for my money.

At least you've admitted it.

So why don't you join me? Go ahead.

Please.

Hey.

Dr. Ormott, this is my, my what?

Sixth visit?

I think by now I'm entitled to some plain talking.

I mean, this is the moment when I should be screaming, Erika.

You know every detail of my relationship with Helena.

You know all about my parents and their problems?

You know of my obsession with a mind.

I think in return I'm entitled to know a little from you.

Let me reassure you on one's call at least.

Despite your reluctance to see me, you've become property miners forthcoming patient.

I'm going to wish for more intelligent cooperation.

Well then.

Well then.

You're aware by now that he's not the object of the psychiatrist, provide answers for his patient.

He's the patient's object through communication with his analyst to come up with answers for himself.

By your own admission you're still prepared to put the blame for your problem down to the fact that when you were child you heard your father rape your mother.

So?

Now you're asking for my interpretation.

All right.

I don't underestimate the importance of that episode.

I believe it's just a symptom.

A symptom of a far more fundamental maladjustment.

Consider it from this point of view.

You have a command built into your mind which says do not have sexual relations with a woman.

You may not be aware of it but it certainly exists and it sends out signals you're unable to ignore.

You're unable to ignore them the first night of your marriage and you've been unable to ignore them ever since.

Yes but for God's sake we reached that conclusion during our very first interview.

Did we? Now think before you reply I urge you.

Perhaps not.

Are you prepared to answer without Demur a very few simple questions?

Of course.

Do you love your wife?

No.

Do you really want to be married?

No.

Are you interested in becoming a father?

Except in so far as I want an heir?

No.

Do you enjoy your current lifestyle as master of pen-maric?

God I do not.

Well done.

Then I think it's unnecessary for us to meet again.

I'd like to talk over the record for a moment.

You won't be charged this homily I promise you.

Go ahead.

You've come a very long way on the road to self-realization.

I've no doubt now that you'll be able to discover the signpost yourself without my help.

Oh yes.

You're in a dilemma that won't last forever.

In the meantime I believe that for a variety of reasons you married your wife for all the wrong reasons.

By continuing your way of life or perpetrating a grave moral wrong on an innocent woman.

Your predicament embraces your wife.

I urge you to discover for yourself the roots of that predicament as swiftly as possible.

To acknowledge the truth of what I've said.

How long will Uncle Philip be grabbed the bar? He should be here at night.

Then there's still ten minutes to go.

It's all impatient, you'll plan.

That's...

He says if I show promise he might just take you on.

If you have any sense at all isn't it? You'll keep all away from mine.

But why I like them. At least I like them and go.

You ready as moon?

Yes.

Now then it's fine stacked up.

Which I thought you said you were going to help me.

No, since if you're big enough to write him you're big enough to tag him up.

Come on, I'll put you quick. We've allowed to see you today.

Five minutes. Give me five minutes.

Three.

Morning, Omar.

So how are things?

I worry about that boy.

Marianna's giving evidence today and another wretched divorce case.

Why, with a child like him she has to go racking around with such unsavory people.

You'll soon be old enough to realise the kind of life she's leading.

Well, if things get really sticky I'm perfectly happy to have him at Panmeric.

No doubt you will. What about Eleanor?

My ship, Jack. He's a delightful boy.

She won't want you dividing your affections when you have a child of your own?

Give us time for heaven's sake. We've only been married in here.

For most midnight. What are you doing here?

I could ask the same of you.

You're here night after night. Is it essential?

Would I be here if it wasn't?

What's happened between you and your wife?

What?

What's gone wrong with your marriage?

None of my business, of course.

What's happened between you and your wife?

What?

What's gone wrong with your marriage?

None of my business, of course.

I don't want anyone else to know. Sure. It's down to the reason.

I should never have got married in the first place.

I warned you, didn't I? I told you what happened to my marriage.

Yes, you told me.

It seems to me that some people need to get married and other people don't.

You're like me. You're not the marrying kind. You should listen to me.

And what would you have advised?

I'll stay a bachelor.

Being a bachelor isn't everyone's idea of fun.

It's fun to be out. You know where to look.

I don't want to spend my spare time picking up tarts.

Okay, forget it.

Yes, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't enjoy an idea.

Why do we have supper together sometime in St. Dives next week?

Fine by me.

I'll be fine.

Oh, you're still up.

You're very late.

Quite late, yes.

You might have called this after me.

That's nice.

Oh, do you want some?

We've had dinner together twice in the last fortnight.

How long is this sort of thing going to go on?

I'll be in tomorrow evening. We have guests, haven't we?

That's not what I mean.

No.

Would you prefer it, divorce?

Did you ever...

love me?

It hasn't worked out tonight, I'm sorry.

If you want to leave me, I'm prepared to give grounds.

It becomes so callous for it.

Where the hell have you been? In the pub with friends?

You said you'd be that hour ago. It's almost one o'clock.

Yes, well, they know me, don't they?

And who was that pip squeak you were talking to all night?

What's the matter, Sonny?

Jealous?

For God's sake.

I'm sorry if you felt left out of it.

I just wanted to show you that, so...

Show me what?

The truth, of course. What else?

What's the matter?

Hello?

I think you ought to try to let him know what he was saying.

Hello, hello, hello, we cry.

Isn't he awful?

Awful, sensational. I have pulled it off at last.

He's actually popped the question. But I thought that you would have...

Oh, no, no, no, not to me, do you see? I'm a foregone conclusion.

No to Daddy, last night.

Looked at me as if it were absolutely insane and then said nothing for fully half an hour.

Nonsense.

Then he said to her, well, if that's too age, God, to be art reposed, we'd better have a drink or have an hour.

And we did, not one but dozens. Daddy got quite squiffy, you really do.

Yes, and we decided to carry on the celebrations this morning, so there.

I'm sure Medley can find some champagne somewhere, can't he?

Oh, I'm sure he can.

I'm sorry.

No, no, that's plenty.

He's so guilty.

He's talking.

No, no, no, no.

What the hell was that?

I don't know.

Hey, my lord!

What the hell was that?

Yes, sir. The bell's six.

What?

Six, damn you! Right.

Come on, come on.

It's a quirky guess.

I'm sorry.

It's an answer.

An answer!

No, no, Philip!

Philip!

What a debate, then.

A pint of cider.

A

whiskey, please.

The bottle.

The bottle, Ireland.

And two glasses.

To the moral.

All 127 of them.

You might have drink on my own.

You know I never drink during the day.

But this is not just another day.

What are you going to do?

The mine's finished.

To drain the flooded charts and rebuild would cost the kind of money I could never hope to find.

Helen has agreed to sink the rest of her capital into a restoration attempt, but...

Well, that would only be a fraction of the entire amount needed.

So...

Zenon Gath's dead.

The life of the village is over.

It would have been better for me if I could have gone down with the rest of them.

How long are you going to go on wringing your hands because you're lucky enough to be alive?

I beg your pardon.

You have your health.

Your youth.

Your wife.

Your certain income.

What about the 88 widows and all the fatherless children of southern Gath?

What have they got?

Do you think I hadn't thought of anything else?

What sort of a man do you take me for?

I think you're wallowing in self-pity.

Philip.

I know you've been out terribly.

Of course your grief's real.

But grief isn't going to help them.

I've... I've talked to the penmeric trustees.

They're prepared to advance a thousand pounds.

Nigel, of course arrange for it to be distributed to the dependents of the victims.

No, God knows.

It's a start and a good one.

But how long can even a thousand pounds feed and clothe upwards of what?

250 people?

A month?

At best.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

At best?

Oh, I don't know.

I just don't know.

But I think I do.

I'm afraid to inform you where a fellow Daddy is getting just the winsiest bit inpatient.

Pigeon?

What?

For the call from that one great landowner in the sky.

It's going to be dark.

Impatient, I mean.

For the announcement of our wedding date.

Simpleton.

This would you see Daddy King grumbling on about that young man of yours coming out here.

He'd give me best food, drink him your best wine.

Never a word or sign of making good his engagement promises.

I thought it could only be a matter of time to an old boy rumble, man.

No, he's humbled you all right.

Don't you worry your pretty little head about that.

But he does have the trump card, my Sly O'Dolly.

He could, and he just might.

And he just might withhold my diary.

Until he sees a wedding date very close indeed on our particular horizon.

I think...

Time for the wedding date.

Hello mate.

It's still coming in.

It's really been quite incredible this morning money from Canada, France, Belgium.

America, and Britain, of course.

How much have we had in our, if you reckon?

Must be well over £7,000.

People have been quite extraordinary generous.

So thanks to you, you know.

Not since you did the speeches, the publicity, the organisation.

And you gave me the jolt I needed.

And still be a pan-American alcoholic dispair if you hadn't chippered me off.

No, it's true.

I am tired.

God, I'm tired.

Boom, weary.

You need a break.

You ought to get away. The pair of you.

Elna's been alone a lot over the past few months,

and you haven't had a proper holiday since you're any moved.

Don't want a holiday.

I want to change.

But I don't want a holiday.

That doesn't make sense.

And I think you owe something to Elna.

Helena manages very well indeed.

She needs a child. You both do.

Is that all you ever think about?

There is, of course, the latter of the single bit.

Yes, there is, isn't there?

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

That was the perfect little light for you.

I wouldn't like to think I'd miss out on something.

Don't worry about the annulling.

I'm sorry about the things I could do to help you.

I didn't want to do anything.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I didn't want to do anything.

I mean, I didn't know.

Don't worry about the annulment, Jen Darling.

I'm sure we can rustle up a little adultery.

We're hard-pressed for legal separation later.

Mrs. Viscilla, you are all right.

That's nice.

I wonder if Alice is going to take the mind living under her roof.

We have our own beige-wing, Darling. Why should we worry?

I don't like Alice. She doesn't like me. I think she could cause trouble.

Well, she knows all about you and Rebecca, naturally.

When she taxed me with it, I told her it was all old hat, and to mind her own ruddy business and that sort of thing.

You should tell your father.

Well, if she has, he's kept it very much to himself, which isn't a bit like Daddy.

All the same, I would feel a damn sight more comfortable if we were living in Penn Mary.

Jan Sweet is very nice for you and all that to think of yourself as heir to Penn Mary.

But honestly, what sort of hope have you of ever inheriting it?

Philip is scarcely ten years older than you are.

He's fit and he's attractive, and he has a pretty stunning wife.

Of course they're going to have children quite soon, and where will my poor darling be then in the inheritance order?

Let me tell you a thing or two about Philip.

For his sake, I want you to promise me never to repeat this to anyone, anyone at all.

Cross my heart and hope to death.

Seriously?

Seriously.

Philip is never going to have a son and heir.

How can you possibly know that?

Because he's a homosexual.

Jan.

Honestly, what a perfectly preposterous thing to say.

I was never more serious in my life.

During the past year he had a relationship with Alan Drew Vos, I know because I saw them together.

Philip, and that uncouth traverse.

It can't be possible. You must be mistaken.

No, I'm certain.

And when Alan died with arrested Sen and Garth, I thought for a long time, Philip was going to kill himself too.

The Marl put him over the worst of it.

He still has a death wish about him.

A very strong death wish.

Jan Eve, thanks for being so punctual.

Well, help us off to a drink.

Thank you.

Do you?

I'm on the way.

Temporally, please.

I'd be making plans for the future.

Oh, yes?

I've decided to leave Penmarig.

You've what?

There's nothing to keep me here.

Yes, what will you do?

I'm going to Canada.

There's a tin mine in the Rockies that I'm interested in.

If I like it and they like me, I'll stay on.

For good.

I'm giving myself three years.

Yes, by yourself.

What's mother going to say by having sex?

Well, you should know perfectly well that Marl is not going to have hysterics because I intend to go abroad for three years.

Oh, and let me say that I'm relying on you to call on her, at least once a week while I'm away.

Will you promise me you'll do that and look after her properly?

Yes, yes, of course.

There's another matter concerning Marl that I think you should know about.

Adrian will be replacing old Barnwell as rector of Zillen.

Oh, sure.

The least we can do is respect him.

But if there should be any awkwardness between Marl and him, I shall expect you to mediate.

Now, I've made up my mind that no one in the family except Marl shall have any part in running Pan-Marik while I'm away.

Oh, Smithson's doing well here.

He can look after the practical details. He's a tri-professional.

Yes, but surely our own sake. It's better this way.

Are you telling me I'm not to set foot in Pan-Marik while you're abroad?

Huh?

Suppose Smithson steps out of line. Who's going to bet?

You can't. You surely can't expect Helena to do that.

Helena's going back to Pozillen.

I shall retain a skeleton staff here, and Mother and Michael Vincent will have power of attorney and keep an eye on the accounts.

Vincent will be sending Simon Peter Roslin over once a month to check on the account.

Simon, for God's sake!

Vincent tells me he's very efficient. That's all I require.

It seems pretty hard.

I see.

Well, Rebecca and Jonas will be very pleased.

Jonas has nothing but the name Gestauk.

I shall pay for his education and bring him up to know every inch of the estate he'll administer when I'm gone.

Yes, well, I thought I should tell you before I told anyone else since after Jonas you're the person most concerned.

Thank you so much.

I shall tell Rebecca all this tomorrow and give me a chance to see Jonas again. I hardly know the child.

Frankly, I'd far rather have Isman as my heir, but, well, as you know, he was excluded under the terms of father's will.

So you've given up any hope of having a son of your own?

Well, I'm very sorry to hear that, Philip.

The marriage is a failure. I'm better off by myself.

You look as if you could do with a refill.

No, thank you.

Damn you.

Damn you.

Thank you.

Thank you.