00:00I have heard word from your mother, dear.
00:07After all these years, she has decided at last that she wishes to see you.
00:18To my son, Daniel Doronda, my good friend Sir Hugo will have told you that I wish to
00:41see you.
00:42Please come to the Hotel de Inglaterra in Genoa and wait for me there.
00:47I will join you as soon as I can, Contessa Maria Carisi.
00:58My mother is a Contessa.
01:02That and much more.
01:05I always thought she must have been very poor.
01:13Why did she give me up?
01:18She will tell you, dear.
01:21It should come from her.
01:25And my father?
01:30Are you my father?
01:35No.
01:36Perhaps I was wrong, Dan, to undertake what I did, but it was all she would let me do
01:51for her.
01:56She was the love of my life, you see.
02:01The love of your life isn't always the one you marry.
02:11I would have done anything for her, anything.
02:20You understand me?
02:25Perhaps I liked it a little too well, having you to myself.
02:36But if I've caused you any pain, which could have been avoided, I hope you will forgive
02:44me.
02:48No.
02:51You have never caused me any pain.
02:58You have been the best of fathers to me, and you have been the best of sons.
03:44Dear Mr. de Ronda, please come and see me off.
04:13Please come and see me on Wednesday between five and six.
04:17I would be most grateful.
04:20Gwendolyn Grancourt.
04:36Are you not going to the club this afternoon?
04:43It's a bore.
05:07But I suppose I may as well.
05:13I shan't be more than a couple of hours.
05:17Mr. de Ronda, madam.
05:47It is so good of you to come without asking why.
05:58And now you're here, I don't know where to start.
06:02You think I am ignorant, and I am.
06:07So what could I do but appeal to you?
06:10I'm sorry.
06:11I can be of so little use to you.
06:12No, don't say that.
06:13I...
06:18I wanted to tell you I have been trying to be a better person.
06:24To be less selfish.
06:28But I can't change anything.
06:31I hate almost everybody.
06:32I hate myself.
06:37If you knew what my life was like with him.
06:42He seems thoroughly corrupted to you.
06:45Perhaps if he understood how unhappy you are.
06:49Of course he knows I'm unhappy.
06:54He takes pleasure in it.
06:57You deserve better than that.
06:59Do I?
07:01Some people would say I'd got exactly what I deserve.
07:05You should never think that.
07:07Then what can I do?
07:09I'm leaving him, but if I did that I would be alone.
07:12Without friends.
07:13No.
07:15Your true friends would not desert you.
07:18But I know what it's like.
07:22The life of a woman who has left her husband.
07:26I don't think I would be strong enough.
07:31Unless there was someone.
07:35Do you understand?
07:40You must.
07:45If you feel you don't want anything more to do with me then please say so and put me out of my misery.
07:52Will you stand by me?
07:56Help me.
08:03Of course I will.
08:23We can't talk much longer.
08:30Will you come back tomorrow?
08:32I can't.
08:34I'm leaving for Genoa almost at once.
08:38My mother has sent for me.
08:41Your mother?
08:45When you return then...
09:10Goodbye.
09:25Goodbye.
09:40Goodbye.
09:50You're a fool, Gwendolyn.
09:52If you expect anything from that quarter, he's not for you.
10:00We're two of a kind, you and I.
10:03I thought you would have learned that by now.
10:06I've decided to take a little holiday.
10:10The yacht's at Marseilles, ready to sail.
10:14I think I'd better get you away from London for a bit, eh?
10:18But what about our party on the 4th? You know I've engaged Miss Lafferty.
10:21Well, cancel it, of course.
10:23I'll have no argument about this, Gwendolyn.
10:29Gwendolyn?
10:34Very well.
10:36Good.
10:38That's settled.
10:40We shall leave tomorrow.
11:07Goodbye.
11:09Goodbye.
11:11Goodbye.
11:13Goodbye.
11:15Goodbye.
11:17Goodbye.
11:19Goodbye.
11:21Goodbye.
11:23Goodbye.
11:25Goodbye.
11:27Goodbye.
11:29Goodbye.
11:31Goodbye.
11:33Go to the Hotel d'Inglaterra in Genoa and wait for me there.
11:37I will join you as soon as I can.
11:43Signor de Ronda.
11:47Prego.
11:50I am ready to receive you.
12:20Signor de Ronda.
12:50Well.
13:03You are a beautiful creature.
13:07I thought you would be.
13:09Come here.
13:18Yes.
13:20I am your mother.
13:27But of course you can have no love for me.
13:31I have thought of you more than anyone in the world.
13:35I'm not as you thought I would be.
13:38Am I?
13:40No.
13:42I used to think you might be suffering.
13:46I used to wish I could be a comfort to you.
13:49I am suffering.
13:53But not at this moment.
13:57And I didn't send for you to comfort me.
14:00Come, sit down.
14:07Now.
14:10I'm not foolish enough to imagine that you would love a mother who gave you away.
14:16But I chose something better for you than being with me.
14:20I didn't deprive you of anything worth having.
14:24Your love.
14:26Wasn't that worth having?
14:29No.
14:31I didn't have much love to give you.
14:35I didn't want to be hampered with other lives.
14:44I was a singer.
14:46A great singer.
14:48An artist, do you understand?
14:50I didn't want a child.
14:53I was forced into marrying your father.
14:56Forced by my father's wishes and commands.
15:00But it turned out to be the best way of getting some freedom.
15:05I could rule my husband, but I couldn't rule my father, you see.
15:13And I had a right to be free.
15:18I had a right to live the life that was in me.
15:23We all had that right.
15:27And the bondage I hated most, I wanted to keep you from it if I could.
15:34What better could the most loving mother have done?
15:38I released you from the bondage of having been born a Jew.
15:47And I am a Jew.
15:52My father was a Jew, and you are a Jewess.
15:57Yes.
15:59I'm glad of it.
16:03Why do you say that you're glad?
16:06You are an English gentleman, I secured you that.
16:08How could you decide my birthright for me?
16:12I chose for you what I would have chosen for myself.
16:16How could I know that you would love what I hated?
16:22Oh, forgive me, you are not well.
16:24It will pass.
16:28Mother.
16:32Take comfort.
16:36Isn't it possible I could be near you often and comfort you?
16:42No, not possible.
16:48I'm tired now.
16:50Will you come to me again tomorrow?
16:54If you don't hate me too much.
17:04How beautiful!
17:14How beautiful!
17:20I've never seen anything like it.
17:30How beautiful!
17:40I suppose this is all your doing?
17:50I don't know what you're talking about.
17:52This is why you wanted to put in a Genoa.
17:56You knew Doronda would be here.
18:01And what if I did?
18:03Fine.
18:17I thought we might do a bit of small boat sailing for a couple of days.
18:22Something I can manage alone with you at the tiller.
18:25It'll pass the time.
18:27I'd rather not, if you don't mind.
18:30Gwendolyn.
18:34Let us understand each other.
18:38I know very well what all this nonsense means.
18:41What nonsense?
18:43I don't know what you're talking about.
18:55If you suppose I'm going to let you make a fool of me,
18:58just dismiss that notion from your mind.
19:04Let's go then.
19:16Oh, the reasons for one's actions.
19:19Every woman's supposed to be the same.
19:22Or be a monster.
19:24But I never felt quite what I was supposed to feel.
19:29But to give up your own child.
19:33To renounce your own family.
19:35Oh, you couldn't. You're not a woman.
19:37You could never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you
19:42and suffer the slavery of being a girl.
19:44This is all you were wanted for.
19:46A daughter, a wife, a mother.
19:49Something for the man.
19:56Your father was different.
19:59All lovingness and affection.
20:02He died when you were very young.
20:07I was just coming into the height of my fame then.
20:12The name Maria Carisi was spoken everywhere.
20:16Your up America.
20:19When your father died, I resolved I would have no more ties
20:22except ties I could easily free myself from.
20:28Unfortunately, I was sought after by many men.
20:33So Hugo was one of those who wished to marry me.
20:36He was madly in love with me.
20:39One day I asked him,
20:41is there a man in the world capable of doing something for love of me
20:45and expecting nothing in return?
20:47He said, what is it you want done?
20:50I said, take my boy and bring him up as an Englishman
20:56and let him never know anything about his parents.
21:02You were two years old and you were sitting on his foot.
21:07He had owed you, of course.
21:13So that is what I did.
21:16I'm not ashamed that I did it.
21:19It was the better for you.
21:21Was it?
21:23Was it truly?
21:25Then why have you undone the secrecy now?
21:31I think it is this illness and thinking about what is to come.
21:38What do I know of life and death?
21:45And what my father called right.
21:50Maybe laying hold of me, I cannot go into this darkness without satisfying him.
21:58Nor could I, I found, without seeing you again.
22:09So what will you do now?
22:12Make yourself just like your grandfather?
22:15No.
22:20But I do want to identify with our people.
22:22I want to find some task that I can put my whole heart into.
22:28I know.
22:31You're in love with a Jewess, aren't you?
22:37Even if I were, that's beside the point.
22:40I know better.
22:42Yes, you're in love, of course.
22:45She draws you after her as I drew your father after me.
22:51Is she beautiful?
22:57Yes.
23:01She is a singer like you.
23:05I wonder how it would have been if I kept you with me.
23:10I expect you would have turned your heart to the old things against mine and we should have quarreled.
23:16I think my affection might have lasted through our quarreling.
23:20Perhaps.
23:22But I'm not a loving woman, Daniel.
23:26It is a talent to love.
23:29I lacked it.
23:31And I know very well what love makes of men and women.
23:35It is subjection.
23:38I was never willingly subject to any man.
23:42Men have been subject to me.
23:54I'm dying, Daniel.
23:57We shan't see each other again.
24:01If I had my time to live over,
24:05I would do the same.
24:11Can you forgive me?
24:35Oh, my sorrow,
24:45My sighs,
24:57Oh, let me die!
25:09Oh, let me die!
25:18Oh, let me die!
25:36What's happened?
25:38It's the English, milord.
25:40No, no, it's the lady.
25:49Oh, my God.
25:51She's dead.
25:53I think she's dead.
25:55What a tragedy.
25:57Gwendolyn?
25:59Please, please, Susy, make way.
26:01She's dead.
26:13She's moving.
26:15I know this lady.
26:17Bear up to the hotel there.
26:19Make way.
26:20Be careful.
26:35How is she?
26:37She's not injured, but shocked, yes.
26:40Shocked and distressed.
26:42You are Signor de Ronda?
26:44Yes.
26:45Please, go in.
26:46She wants to see you.
27:03You came.
27:08It's done.
27:10He's dead.
27:12Please, please, you must rest.
27:18How much do you know?
27:20Nothing at all.
27:22Except there was a boating accident.
27:25I didn't even know you were coming to Genoa.
27:27A boating accident?
27:30Is that what they are saying?
27:32Yes.
27:34What else?
27:37If I tell you what happened,
27:40you won't say that I ought to tell the world,
27:43that I ought to be disgraced.
27:46I couldn't do it.
27:48I couldn't bear it.
27:50I couldn't have my mother know.
27:53Know what?
27:55If I tell you that I am guilty, a murderess,
27:59would you forsake me?
28:01But it was an accident.
28:03It was an accident.
28:04Please, let me tell you.
28:09His face, Daniel.
28:12His dead face.
28:22When I was a child, I used to fancy sailing away
28:25from the people I didn't like.
28:29And now the opposite had come to me.
28:34Take it.
28:52I was trapped in a boat with him.
28:55And that's what my life had become.
28:58I think I'll smoke a cigar.
29:01You shan't mind.
29:07I began to pray for him to die.
29:10I fancied impossible things.
29:13I was afraid of our being drowned together.
29:16I was afraid to die myself.
29:32Oh!
29:40The rope! Throw the rope!
29:45Throw the rope! Help me!
29:50Help me.
29:58Throw the rope!
30:01Help me!
30:31Help me!
30:55That is what happened.
30:58His face, Daniel.
31:01His dead face.
31:04If he could swim, it must have been that he was seized with crime.
31:08I could have saved him.
31:10You hesitated.
31:12That was all.
31:15That is murder.
31:21And you won't make me tell anyone else.
31:26No.
31:28There's no injury that could be righted in that way.
31:31And you won't hate me for what I've done.
31:34No, I shan't hate you.
31:38And you won't forsake me.
31:41No.
31:44I wanted to tell you.
31:48I wanted you to know me utterly.
31:52I wanted you to know me utterly.
31:55No one else.
32:00Would you recognise me, I wonder, if you met me now?
32:06Would you think that was the girl I saw at the casino?
32:10Yes.
32:13Yes, of course I would.
32:17I shall never forget that moment.
32:21And do you wish that you had never seen me?
32:25Never.
32:36But we've changed since then, though, haven't we?
32:42You and I.
32:50You and I.
33:06Have you seen the paper?
33:09Manager Grancourt's dead.
33:11Drowned. Boating accident at Genoa.
33:14Well, that's terrible.
33:16Well, I doubt he'll be much missed.
33:18And certainly not by our friend Dan or his duchess.
33:21They'll be free to marry now.
33:29What's the matter?
33:31How can you speak like that?
33:34So callously.
33:36The poor man is dead.
33:39Who are you to say how people feel?
33:49SHE SIGHS
33:54Come on, Tom.
34:09Daniel!
34:11Mira's gone.
34:13Gone?
34:15Do you mean gone where?
34:17I don't know. Welcome home, Dan.
34:23She said she couldn't bear it.
34:26To see Han suffering all the pain of love when she couldn't return it.
34:33I think she was upset about something else, too.
34:36What?
34:38I think you know, Dan.
34:42I think I know where to find her.
34:47Avoiding me, Dan?
35:04Don't ever try and shift a bout of melancholy with three pipes of opium.
35:11Doesn't work.
35:13I'm sorry, Hand.
35:15Yeah, so you're down where I should be.
35:19I've dreamt of nothing but Mira since the first day that I met her.
35:24I gladly have converted for her.
35:29But it's no good.
35:31It's all right for you.
35:33You've got your duchess.
35:35Hands, you don't understand.
35:37Oh, I do.
35:39I've seen you with her.
35:42And I've seen you with Mira.
35:47You've deceived us all.
35:49Hans, that's ridiculous. Look...
35:51I'm in no mood for games, Dan.
35:55I can't bring myself to tell you what you don't seem to know.
35:59What?
36:02That Mira's jealous of the duchess.
36:05The duchess?
36:09Why do you think that is?
36:16Because she's in love with you.
36:24I'll get them, Dan.
36:27Mr. de Ronda, sir.
36:29I was just wondering how I could get word to you and here you are.
36:32How did you know you should come?
36:34I don't understand. I've just returned from Italy.
36:37I thought I might find Miss Lapidoff here.
36:40You have a leg. Mordecai's very ill, sir.
36:56Mordecai.
37:04Mordecai.
37:17I came to tell you...
37:20you were right.
37:22You knew me better than I knew myself.
37:25I am a Jew.
37:28We have the same people.
37:31I knew it.
37:37Don't be sad.
37:40I am happy to die.
37:43Now we shan't be separated by life or by death.
37:48And you will do what I dreamt of doing.
38:01Shabbat shalom.
38:25It seems so hard, Daniel...
38:28that I've only just found him again.
38:32And now he's...
38:33Mira.
38:36Let me share this sorrow.
38:42Let me share all your sorrows...
38:45and all your joys.
38:50I can speak freely now, at last.
38:54Now I know who I am.
38:58I love you, Mira.
39:02Say it.
39:03Say you will promise to be my wife.
39:09Say it now.
39:14You mean it.
39:17Truly.
39:22It's me that you want.
39:24I have spent my life in doubt and confusion.
39:29But now I realize...
39:32it was always your voice that I heard.
39:38Could you love me, Mira?
39:55Sir Hugo said to tell you he's in the library, sir.
40:07So...
40:09now you know your mother.
40:12Yes.
40:14How was she?
40:17I don't know.
40:20Yes.
40:22How was she?
40:24How did she seem to you?
40:28She told me she was dying.
40:32But at the same time, she seemed more alive...
40:36more powerfully present than anyone I've ever known.
40:41Yes.
40:44That was how she always seemed to me.
40:50She...
40:58Extraordinary business, the accident.
41:01I could hardly believe my ears.
41:04I never had much time for Grand Court, but I wouldn't have wished that end for him.
41:09No.
41:11But I suppose it leaves your way free to Mrs. Grand Court now, if you care to take it.
41:17I don't.
41:20I've asked Miss Lapidot to marry me.
41:25Blood devil you have.
41:27Is this some sort of perverse response to what you've learned from your mother?
41:32No, sir. It's something that's been growing inside me for some time.
41:36But what I learned from my mother confirmed me...
41:39not only in who I am...
41:42a Jew...
41:43and proud to be a Jew...
41:45but what I should do with my life...
41:47work for my people...
41:51in the best way I can find.
41:55So...
41:58all my efforts have been in vain.
42:01No.
42:04You have given me the best upbringing and education for my new life.
42:08You told me yourself you wanted me to aim high...
42:11that I had it in me to succeed.
42:13You told me to aim high...
42:15that I had it in me to be a leader of men.
42:17And now I believe that I could be that leader.
42:22At least I want to try.
42:26And I should like to have your blessing for that work.
42:31And for my marriage, too.
42:34I can't pretend that I'm happy about this, Daniel.
42:46Mr. De Ronda, sir!
42:50I told him. He...
42:54Daniel...
42:58Daniel...
43:00Daniel...
43:08He's gone.
43:29Daniel...
43:45I wanted to see you...
43:48to know that you are well...
43:50or recovering.
43:52I am better, yes.
43:56And...
43:58your material circumstances now?
44:00Do you have need of anything?
44:02No.
44:03My husband left me a small amount.
44:07Quite enough to support us here at Offendean.
44:12I want for nothing else.
44:17I have been trying to be a better daughter...
44:20a better sister.
44:24You were right.
44:26It does help to try to put others before oneself.
44:31Rather a novelty for me.
44:38My life has changed, too.
44:41Changed... utterly.
44:45I have found my true family.
44:49I am a Jew.
44:52But what difference should that make to you and me?
44:57I must tell you that I am going to marry Miss Lapidot.
45:06I hope...
45:11I hope you will be very happy.
45:16Happier than I have been.
45:22I always thought I was the best of gamblers.
45:25But now it seems I have lost in every way.
45:32So what will you do now...
45:35with your life?
45:38I want to travel to the East...
45:41and find out more about my people...
45:43and see if I can help them.
45:46So I am forsaken.
45:49I said I should be... and I am.
45:57You know...
46:00all my life I thought the world revolved around my hopes...
46:05my desires.
46:08Now I know the world goes on without me and my hopes...
46:11my desires mean nothing.
46:13No, don't say that.
46:15Don't be afraid.
46:18I mean to live.
46:21I am young after all and not all bad.
46:28I shall be better for having known you.
46:35Go now.
46:48Go.
47:18THE END
47:48Go.
48:06Dear Daniel...
48:09Don't think of me sorrowfully wherever you may go.
48:13You must live out the life that is in you...
48:16and I must live out my own.
48:21I shall remember your words...
48:23every one of them.
48:26I shall remember what you believe about me...
48:29that I am worth something after all.
48:33You have known me more deeply and cared more for me than anyone...
48:37and I only thought of myself...
48:39and made you grieve.
48:42You mustn't grieve any more for me.
48:46It is better.
48:49It shall be better with me because I have known you...
48:53Gwendolyn Grandcourt.
49:16THE END
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