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Theo is eloping to South Africa with her lover but, having heard the news that her uncaring husband's financial empire is collapsing and he's in danger to be exposed as an embezzler, she prefers to return to him for sheer loyalty. But is it really the right thing to do? Starring: Ciaran Madden, Jeremy Clyde, Ralph Bates.
Theo is eloping to South Africa with her lover but, having heard the news that her uncaring husband's financial empire is collapsing and he's in danger to be exposed as an embezzler, she prefers to return to him for sheer loyalty. But is it really the right thing to do? Starring: Ciaran Madden, Jeremy Clyde, Ralph Bates.
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01:00Well, will you or won't you?
01:21I can't.
01:22Can't?
01:24Or won't?
01:25My dear girl, I am the host.
01:30Bates, have you seen my husband anywhere?
01:36Uh, not for the last few minutes, Maren, no.
01:39But I think you would like to know there's a gentleman in the garden.
01:44In the garden?
01:45The colonial gentleman.
02:00Are you hiding, Mr. Easton?
02:03Mr. Darrell, I do apologise.
02:04You must think me awfully rude.
02:06I didn't mean...
02:07It's perfectly all right.
02:11I was admiring the magnolia.
02:13It's too dark to see it properly.
02:20I'm rather proud of it.
02:22I wouldn't have thought that...
02:23I would have known a magnolia from a marrow.
02:26I wasn't going to say that.
02:27I know you wouldn't have said it, but you might have thought it.
02:31This room is a little unexpected.
02:33Is it yours?
02:35It's mine.
02:36My private retreat.
02:38I'm sorry.
02:39I didn't mean to trespass.
02:46Not many of my husband's friends are interested in gardens, or flowers, or trees.
02:54It's a fine specimen.
02:56Difficult to cultivate in this country.
02:57Oh, not really.
02:58They simply need care.
03:00Pruning can be a problem.
03:02You cut too close,
03:04and the wound will never heal.
03:05The tree will die.
03:07I'm sorry.
03:09I'm boring you.
03:10I was fascinated.
03:14To tell the truth, I was hiding.
03:17I'm not much of a party-goer, Mrs. Darrell.
03:19I'm not much of a party-goer, Mrs. Darrell.
03:19I'm not much of a fish out of water.
03:21It's not just the starched shirt and the black tie.
03:24No.
03:25No, it's all this.
03:26Cocktails, small talk,
03:28all the latest gossip.
03:29I mean, I feel rather out of it.
03:31What does one say?
03:32One talks about the weather, money, cricket, the latest fashion.
03:38Yes, I know.
03:42I mean, that is a jolly pretty frock you're wearing.
03:45Oh, please don't.
03:46My husband asked me to be especially nice to you.
03:51To me?
03:52Why?
03:53I don't know.
03:54Are you important, Mr. Easton?
03:56Me?
03:57I'm not important at all.
03:59Why do you ask?
04:02Then you're not one of Richard's money men.
04:04Richard?
04:06My husband.
04:08Of course, Darrell.
04:09No, I'm not one of his money men.
04:11I grow oranges.
04:14I know that must sound a bit odd,
04:15just like that in the middle of London.
04:17Oranges?
04:18In the Transvaal.
04:19I used to be an accountant.
04:20Then after the war, I couldn't settle,
04:22so I went to South Africa,
04:23bought myself a plantation,
04:24turned into a farmer.
04:26Are you a successful farmer?
04:28Comparatively.
04:29I've just bought the plantation that runs alongside mine.
04:32I bought it from Darrell, actually.
04:33Your husband.
04:35Richard.
04:36Richard.
04:37And are you happy?
04:42Well, I'd never regretted it.
04:44Of course, it can get pretty lonely out there sometimes.
04:50It must be very beautiful.
04:53The orange blossom.
04:56Yes.
05:00The magnolia is more delicate, as you said.
05:05Vulnerable.
05:07It's so dark.
05:14You ought to see it in daylight.
05:16Yes, I'd like to.
05:16Come tomorrow afternoon, can you?
05:18I don't want to be a nuisance, Mrs. Darrell.
05:20Please.
05:21Nobody ever calls me Mrs. Darrell.
05:23It's Theo.
05:24Theo.
05:25Theodora.
05:28My name is Vincent.
05:30I do hope you don't think I was laughing at you
05:32about growing oranges.
05:35Of course not.
05:38Yes, Bates?
05:38The Minister's party has vacated the dining room, madam,
05:40and appears to be about to leave.
05:42The Minister seems a little agitated.
05:45Oh, dear.
05:48Will you excuse me?
05:49It's time I went to.
05:53Bates, find Mr. Darrell and ward him.
05:55You will permit me to say, young man,
05:57you just don't know what you're talking about.
05:59I may not, but the Governor does,
06:01and he's really steamed up about it.
06:03He's threatening to come up to the House
06:05and actually speak.
06:07He hasn't done that since Lloyd George's ridiculous pension bill.
06:09Darkness the House will survive the honour.
06:12Oh, my dear Mrs. Darrell.
06:13Minister.
06:14What's your view, Theo?
06:16Now, how can I have a view
06:17unless I know what you're talking about?
06:19Well, changing the prayer book, of course.
06:21Willoughby here doesn't seem to think it's a serious matter.
06:24Well, some of us in the House do.
06:26Some of us take our moral and spiritual responsibilities seriously.
06:29Oh, I take it very seriously.
06:31I mean, what about the jolly old marriage service?
06:33Vanessa and I want to know what we're letting ourselves in for.
06:35Well, they couldn't change the marriage service.
06:38Love, honour, and obey.
06:40Well, they couldn't change that, could they, Theo?
06:42No, no, they couldn't change that.
06:45Well, it's ridiculous, Alanis.
06:46I mean, with this body I be worshipped,
06:49I don't care what you say.
06:51Thank you, Bates.
06:58Presently.
07:00I can't believe Parliament is going to give time to it.
07:03Not in this session, anyway.
07:05The marriage service is at the root of the British way of life.
07:09It's not a subject to be treated lightly.
07:11Likely? Well, of course it's not.
07:12Charlie, you're being terribly naughty.
07:14Imogen, take him away and try and make a happier, if not wiser, young man of him.
07:19Yes, come on, you old boy. We've outstayed our welcome.
07:21Many apologies, Theo.
07:23I didn't mean that at all. You know, you're always welcome.
07:26Why is young man such a demeaning expression?
07:32You're not going already, Minister.
07:33Oh, the opera, I'm afraid.
07:35The arts, you know.
07:36You see, I'm an imperfect barbarian.
07:38You're very big.
07:40Are you coming off quite?
07:41Perhaps.
07:42You must.
07:43I might see you later.
07:45Theo?
07:46Excuse me.
07:47I have to go out.
07:49Things to discuss with old Jaggers as a business.
07:52Would you like me to clear your study for you?
07:54No, Jaggers was going to meet Mrs. Hamilton's cousin.
07:57Who came into a quarter of a million earlier this year and doesn't know what to do with it.
08:00I understand.
08:01I'm sorry.
08:03Well, people seem to have enjoyed themselves, but I do wish they'd go away.
08:06Oh, don't be silly, Richard.
08:07You can't put a tiny bit on a cocktail party.
08:10All is the pity.
08:11I do.
08:11My dear Theodora, it's been delightful.
08:15Only one thing spoilt it.
08:17Why do you have to be quite so happily married?
08:20It gives the chap no hope.
08:21No hope at all.
08:23Colonel Jaggers, you're a terrible flirt.
08:27He is, isn't he, Theo?
08:28I think he's rather an accomplished one.
08:31Aren't you coming with us, Mrs. Daryl?
08:32I'm sure my cousin would be delighted.
08:35Poor old Theo's got to man the fort.
08:38Usual hangers-ons we dealt with.
08:39Trouble with some people, invite them for cocktails, they never know when to leave.
08:43I think you'd better find your coat, my dear.
08:46If you manage to get rid of the remainder and feel like coming on, we'll probably end up at Quaggs.
08:49I don't think so. I think perhaps I'll have an early night.
08:52Oh, and by the way, what happened to Easter?
08:56He left.
08:57Without saying goodnight?
08:59He said goodnight to me. Perhaps you were occupied.
09:02That's it, Theo. I purposely asked you to be especially nice to him.
09:05I was nice to him, Richard.
09:06Oh, come along, Richard.
09:07You know very well your adorable good lady is especially nice to everyone.
09:12The perfect hostess.
09:13Goodnight, my dear.
09:15Now, are we all ready?
09:16Indeed, we should be.
09:20Don't wait up for me, darling.
09:23Follow us.
09:25Goodnight, Mrs. Daryl.
09:27Goodnight, Mrs. Daryl.
09:30Goodnight.
09:39Goodnight, Mrs. Daryl.
09:52Goodnight, Mrs. Daryl.
09:53Goodnight, Mrs. Daryl.
10:23You're early, sir. Early or late. Difference it make.
10:35Shall I get you some tea, sir? No, you can bring me a brownie and soda. Very good, sir.
10:40Where's Mrs. Darrell? In the garden, sir. Where else? With Mr. Easton, sir.
10:45Easton? Yes, sir.
10:47Evening papers arrived. On your desk, sir.
10:53Where did you learn about gardens? I grew up in Dorset.
11:09Shall I inform Mrs. Darrell that you've returned, sir?
11:19No, I don't think so.
11:28Very good, sir.
11:29We have one of the most beautiful gardens for miles in the island. One of the most patient head gardeners.
11:53When I was five, he gave me my own patch of ground and taught me how to look after it.
12:01I'm a country girl at heart.
12:03But that's my special bride.
12:15Thea.
12:16No.
12:19No.
12:24I must say something.
12:27No.
12:28Thea.
12:33Don't speak, please. Don't ask me anything.
12:38Oh, my dear. Have you seen Quentin Harbour?
12:42Thea, my dear. Have you seen Quentin Harbour?
12:44Not for ages.
12:45Oh, hell, my dear.
12:47How did you do it? Come on, own up. How did you do it?
12:49Well, I sort of said, will you?
12:51And I sort of said, yes.
12:52That's no way to propose.
12:54You young people have the faintest notion of how these things ought to be done.
12:57Have you, Colonel Jaggers?
12:59Ah, give them the right source of inspiration, dear lady.
13:02Dear lady, you are my love, my dream, my destiny, the captain of my heart.
13:08Will you be mine?
13:10Stop making love to my wife, Jaggers.
13:13That was beautifully done, Colonel.
13:15But no one ever accepted.
13:19Oh, really?
13:19Oh, poor girl.
13:21I've got to do it.
13:25I've had a quick look at your ledgers, old chap.
13:28Of course, they're more your province than mine, but they seem perfectly all right to me.
13:31Then why has the minister sent his apologies?
13:33Why isn't he coming to dinner?
13:34Well, you know what politicians are.
13:36Meetings, committees, probably been offered a better meal somewhere else.
13:38I'll get Bates to bundle this lot up for you.
13:41You can take them with you when you go home.
13:43Right.
13:45Lovely to see you again, Mrs. Hubbard.
13:48You haven't met my cousin, Jack Anderson, have you?
13:51Glad you could make it, Anderson.
13:53He doesn't look like a man with caution and a million, does he?
13:56Young fool, invested in some South African mining shares.
14:00You'll lose the lot.
14:02Pity.
14:02He's a very boring man.
14:04It's a really hot summer.
14:06It's a bad summer.
14:06I can take in the amount of sunshine.
14:08It burns poor people.
14:09It burns poor people.
14:09It burns poor people.
14:12None have yours any idea what real he is like.
14:15Now, out in India, he's rising.
14:17I thought you took to the hills when it became too hot.
14:20Oh, we packed the men's hearts off of country right enough.
14:22Don't mind you, some of the dear ladies wouldn't go over us.
14:25Is this an indiscreet story coming on, Colonel Jaggers?
14:28The very rum things went on in the heat, I can tell you.
14:31Very rum.
14:31Oh, my lips are sealed.
14:34I feel them too.
14:36It plays funny tricks.
14:38Some chaps, well, it goes to their head.
14:42I don't think that's what the Colonel had in mind, Vanessa.
14:45What about the women, the ones who refused to move up?
14:48Well, they are, you see.
14:49No names, no factual, of course.
14:51But I could tell a tale or two.
14:54I remember it must have been about 1907.
14:56There was one particular lady.
14:58It is straight late.
14:59He doesn't bear thinking about it, does it?
15:00The old school.
15:01Oh, was I surprised that?
15:02Regimental commanders, qua damage.
15:04Army wives can be very peculiar.
15:07Oh, so my brother tells me.
15:09The fact is, she suddenly developed an almighty passion for the viceroy's ADC who was succunded to the garrison.
15:15Quite everyone knew about it.
15:17Can't keep that sort of thing quiet.
15:19The grand passion, everybody called it.
15:22How romantic.
15:23Grand passions don't happen nowadays.
15:26Oh, thank you very much.
15:27Oh, you know what I mean.
15:29Oh, you know what I mean.
15:29Rudolf Valentino, that sort of thing.
15:32Well, I think everyone ought to have one grand passion in their lives.
15:36Yeah, yeah.
15:37What do you think, Claire?
15:38How about an average passion with a very large bank balance?
15:44The whole thing ended in tragedy, of course.
15:46The fellow shot himself.
15:48ADC in the viceroy.
15:49Ladies, I think perhaps we might take coffee in the library.
15:55These things happen, you know, worse for the woman, I dare say, but a bit beyond me.
16:02Never could fathom this love business.
16:19But, it's nice.
16:34Hiding again, Mr. Easter.
16:38Not hiding.
16:39Waiting.
16:41Waiting.
16:44For you.
16:49I knew you'd come I shouldn't have really I I didn't want to didn't you
17:12this isn't possible it mustn't
17:19we mustn't my dear darling dearest Theo
17:36I love you
17:41I'm sorry I'll go
17:49oh my love my love
18:19what's the matter
18:25nothing really
18:28just for a moment in the tunnel I was afraid
18:34I was the one who was afraid waiting for you at the station
18:38I thought you might have changed your mind
18:40no I couldn't have done that
18:43I hardly dared let myself believe
18:47I promised
18:58but you are afraid
19:04I think perhaps I'm afraid of happiness
19:05you deserve it so very much my dear
19:10and we will find it
19:13together
19:19reserve compartment first class fortuna mr. mrs. easton
19:23excuse me sir madam
19:25that's quite all right
19:27the tickets please sir
19:31afternoon mrs. easton
19:35thank you sir
19:50taking the night fairy sir
19:52no tomorrow morning
19:53ah glass is set fair sir
19:55it should be a quiet crossing
19:59do you think we're having a grand passion
20:01very grand
20:02very passionate
20:07i never could fathom this love business
20:18it looks calm enough
20:30it's a calm sea in a smooth passage
20:34are you a good sailor i never thought to ask
20:38the sea doesn't frighten me
20:39even though you're a country girl
20:47even though i'm a country girl
20:50i'll put it on the table will you
20:57thank you that'll do
20:58thank you
21:00thank you sir
21:03i used to think that being a country girl was the end of the world
21:07so dull so tedious
21:10i married richard mainly to get away from all that tranquility all that safety
21:14you didn't ever love him
21:17i don't think i knew the meaning of the word
21:19i liked the glamour and excitement of his world it was so different
21:22oh richard married me for my money
21:27no that's not quite fair
21:29i suppose richard loved me
21:33loves me as much as he can
21:35as much as he can love anybody
21:38you're not regretting this
21:40i've made my decision i've turned my back on all that
21:43you're very brave the scandal
21:45oh it'll be a nine days wonder that's all
21:48oh colonel jaggers will add it to his repertoire of dinner party stories i dare say
21:51theodaryl who ran off with that
21:54dashed orange grower from the transvaal colonial boundar what
21:58you're very unkind
22:01you won't get afternoon tea on the plantation you know
22:04not unless you teach eliza how to make it
22:06eliza is my housekeeper black as the ace of spades and a heart of gold
22:13of course it can get pretty lonely out there sometimes
22:17what is it
22:21big city crash failure of imperial and overseas trust
22:25does it matter? richard is imperial and overseas trust
22:28well that doesn't have to affect us
22:29read it
22:30read it all
22:33the receiver has been appointed to wind up the affairs of the well-known land
22:36investment company it has understood that financial experts from scotland yard's fraud squad are
22:41investigating the company's activities
22:44and there are rumors of serious allegations to follow
22:48managing director richard darrell was today unavailable to comment
22:52what are you doing? i must go to him
22:54don't be absurd
22:55he's my husband i must go to him
22:57for god's sake
22:58don't you see this means ruin i can't choose today of all days to leave him
23:06bates
23:11bates where the hell are you?
23:13leo?
23:14i'm sorry sir
23:28where's mrs darrell?
23:31she's not at home sir
23:32well i realize that you fool where is she?
23:34she left this afternoon sir
23:39what can you do?
23:40what possible difference can it make whether you're with him or not
23:42possibly not
23:43then why?
23:44i'm his wife
23:45well this is ridiculous you've just admitted you don't love him
23:47love has nothing to do with it
23:51she must have said where she was going
23:53no sir
23:54did you take anything with her?
23:55some luggage sir
23:56how much luggage?
23:58two suitcases sir
24:03all right bates
24:06and bates i don't want to see or speak to anyone this evening
24:10anyone at all do you understand
24:12very well sir
24:35look you haven't had time to take the news in
24:37Leave it. Wait. Wait until the morning.
24:44Oh, my dearest love.
24:53He needs me.
24:55I need you.
25:02I want you. I love you so much.
25:07It's no good. I must go to him.
25:28I wouldn't have believed it, not of you.
25:32You encourage a man.
25:35You lead him on. You keep him on a string.
25:39For the excitement of it, the sense of power it gives you I suppose.
25:43And then when you reach the point of no return you cut and run back to your ever-loving husband.
25:48No. No then prove it.
25:51You must think what you will of me. I can only say this.
25:54I love you and I will always love you but I'm married to Richard.
26:01He needs me. I must go back to my husband.
26:08Thank God you've turned up.
26:10I heard the news.
26:17How bad is it?
26:22About as bad as possible.
26:24Tell me.
26:25I'm not sure my darling. Imperial and overseas is washed up.
26:28Finished.
26:29Oh it's happening all the time.
26:31Post-war depression they call it.
26:33Just because our business is mainly in the colonies nobody could have expected us to be immune.
26:37The paper said something about serious revelations with the fraud squad.
26:41That's rubbish.
26:42The usual press speculation.
26:44Anyway they can't touch your money.
26:45That's one good thing.
26:46And the house is in your name too.
26:48On the other hand
26:50things won't be quite the same anymore.
26:51No.
26:52At least I've got you.
26:54Yes.
26:55Theo.
26:56I don't know what I'd do without you.
27:00Well if there's anything I can do to help.
27:02Bring me another brandy.
27:11There's a good go.
27:32Thea?
27:49Oh.
27:51Richard I didn't hear you.
27:52You were miles away.
27:54Yes.
27:55Well you wish you were.
27:57Of course I don't.
27:58Yes well.
27:59You're lucky.
28:00You've got your precious garden to help keep your mind off this mess.
28:03You can just carry on.
28:04Water the plants.
28:05Prune the roses.
28:06Open this damn thing to cut back a bit.
28:10What is it Richard?
28:12Jaggers was taken up this morning.
28:15Colonel.
28:16My honourable and gallant colleague has been arrested.
28:19Cooking the books they say.
28:20Naturally it's assumed I knew all about it.
28:23And did you?
28:24Well that my dear is the least of our worries.
28:30Thea.
28:46Don't you think you ought to tell me everything?
28:48The whole truth.
28:49My dear Thea.
28:50What possible good can it do to go through all the tedious details with you?
28:55If I'm going to help I ought to know.
28:58What makes you think I need your help?
29:00It's not a question of need.
29:01I'm your wife.
29:03Sit down.
29:04I don't know that you'll be able to follow all this.
29:10It's a bit technical.
29:11Business practice you know.
29:13The colonel's been arrested.
29:14I can understand that.
29:15Oh that's nothing.
29:16It's incompetence really.
29:18I would never have brought him in to begin with.
29:20Will you be blamed?
29:22For his errors?
29:23Oh no no.
29:24My problem.
29:25Our problem is quite different.
29:27You see in the business buying and selling land
29:30sometimes it's necessary to use unorthodox methods
29:33and sometimes there's a conflict.
29:36Between right and wrong?
29:37Well I'm not talking right and wrong.
29:38I'm talking of technicalities.
29:40The conflict between what is a technical business matter
29:42and what is a crime.
29:44To an outsider it's sometimes difficult to spot the difference.
29:46Richard please don't treat me like a child.
29:48Either you committed a crime or you haven't.
29:50You would see it like that wouldn't you?
29:52Everything has to be either black or white with you.
29:54I'm sorry please try to explain.
29:55I do want to understand.
29:59Most of our dealings,
30:00imperial and overseas I mean,
30:02are in the colonies.
30:03We buy and sell land.
30:05Farms, estates, mines, plantations.
30:07Now,
30:08sometimes it's not in the best interests of imperial and overseas
30:12to be seen to be involved in a particular deal.
30:14So we act through nominees.
30:16Sometimes I've had to pretend to be a private person
30:18rather than the trust's managing director.
30:20To pretend?
30:21To sign certificates of transfer for land property in my own name.
30:24Richard Darrell?
30:26Yes.
30:28When they belong to the company?
30:29When the company had originally financed the purchase.
30:32The company would always be reimbursed in full.
30:36After the sale?
30:38Standard procedure to avoid unacceptable profits for the trust.
30:41It's all above board looked at in a certain light.
30:45To an auditor perhaps it could seem fishy
30:48as if I'd been milking the trust for my own personal profit.
30:52Have you?
30:53Didn't lose eyes on the deals if that's what you mean.
30:55You hardly call that a crime.
30:58Some people might.
31:00Some people might.
31:02Auditors.
31:03Scotland Yard Ferrets.
31:05It's a technicality of course.
31:07It's trivial but it could be serious.
31:10How serious?
31:12If a transfer was unearthed bearing my name on it
31:14and the property concern still appeared in the company ledger
31:18it would be difficult to explain.
31:20I could go to prison.
31:23For a long time.
31:25Richard.
31:26Oh my dear.
31:27May not come to that.
31:28It didn't come out at all.
31:29You've broken the law.
31:31Technically I broke the law yes.
31:33But only technically.
31:35To cheat.
31:37To steal.
31:38I'm not trying to justify what I've done.
31:39Don't condemn me out of hand.
31:41What I did Theo I did for you.
31:43For me?
31:44I know what people say.
31:45About what?
31:46That I married you for your money.
31:47And didn't you?
31:48No.
31:49No I damn well didn't!
31:53But when the woman you love has money and you haven't
31:55how on earth do you convince anyone of the truth let alone her?
31:58What was the truth?
32:00That I loved you then that I love you now.
32:03No one was more surprised than I when you agreed to become my wife.
32:07I've never been a rich man not really rich.
32:10That's not important.
32:13I wanted you to be proud of me.
32:15I wanted to treat you the way you deserve.
32:16You mean so very much to me.
32:23What can we do?
32:26You mean it?
32:27Your stick by me?
32:32With you by my side there may be a way out of this mess.
32:35There may be a way.
32:36Do you have a plan?
32:37The ghastly thing about this whole business.
32:39I feel I betrayed you.
32:40Oh don't please.
32:41Of course I should never have gone into the business.
32:43I should have gone in for farming.
32:45Gone to Africa.
32:46Bought a plantation.
32:47Grown oranges.
32:48Would you like that my dearest darling Theo?
32:50What do you mean?
32:52Nothing.
32:53I'll go and change.
32:59We'll talk about it later.
33:01At dinner.
33:02I wondered if I might have a word madam.
33:18I'm sorry Rates.
33:19What did you say?
33:20Well madam.
33:21Madam knows that Mr. Darrell the master has given me a month's warning.
33:26Well I do appreciate the situation madam but I wondered in the circumstances.
33:31Well I've worked for your family nearly all my life madam.
33:34Madam will understand that I should be most unhappy to leave your employment.
33:39Of course Bates.
33:40I absolutely understand.
33:43If it's a question of economizing and the household of cutting back.
33:47What did you say?
33:48Well I should be content to accept a reduction in my own remuneration madam if from there.
33:53Thank you Bates.
33:54We'll talk about it later shall we?
33:55Theo.
33:57It just struck me.
33:58I haven't seen you in that dress for ages.
34:00Remember the one you wore in Paris last year?
34:03A taille?
34:04Creamy thing of me Bob.
34:06Cost the earth.
34:07Put it on tonight.
34:09It's an original.
34:10I know.
34:13But for an evening at home.
34:14Please.
34:15Just the two of us.
34:16For me.
34:18Love to see you in it.
34:32Stunny.
34:33Ah.
34:36Absolutely.
34:37Stunny.
34:38Stunny.
34:39Spacciendo.
34:40Ooh.
34:49A point.
34:50A point.
34:51A point.
34:52But you're welcome.
34:53You're welcome.
34:54How're we are today?
34:55I'm gonna say that.
34:56We're here.
34:57I'm gonna ask you, let me show in.
34:58I'll call far over the fill in this place.
35:00Hope, Cherry6, won't a day.
35:01Oh.
35:02He's not advanced parfois at Lat Schneider?
35:03May as well finish this, darling.
35:20Will that be all, madam? All right, that'll do. Cut along now.
35:24Take good, son.
35:26Madam?
35:33Richard, is it necessary to be quite so curt with Bates?
35:36He's a servant.
35:38He's an old and trusted servant whom you've dismissed without a word to me.
35:43My dear, you said you wanted to help.
35:45I did. And of course I do.
35:48What does it matter? Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow who knows what.
35:51Don't!
35:53Not funny? No.
35:58I think perhaps I'll cut along now too.
36:00Not yet. Don't go yet.
36:02I've got something I want to say.
36:05You know, about all this.
36:12Things may not be quite as bad as they seem.
36:15No?
36:16And I know I've been a bit on edge tonight.
36:17Papa Jagger's being taken up. I'm sorry.
36:19I understand.
36:20We must look on the bright side.
36:22Is there one?
36:23Well, there may be.
36:24You see, whatever the police may suspect, there's nothing they can actually prove.
36:29There's no evidence.
36:31I don't think so.
36:32I'm not a fool.
36:33I've covered my tracks pretty thoroughly.
36:35Cold?
36:37The thing is, there are some papers.
36:39Some papers with my name on them.
36:41Now, they mean nothing on their own, but if certain people were to get hold of them...
36:44The police?
36:45They might start putting two and two together.
36:47And those papers are the one damnable piece of hard evidence that could finish this.
36:50So you're going to destroy them?
36:51I'd destroy them as fast as I could if they were in my hands.
36:53That's the devil of it.
36:54If somebody else has them.
36:56Yes, and I'm pretty certain he doesn't know what they mean.
36:58Who?
36:59Easton.
37:00Somehow I never seem to have gone on really friendly terms with the man.
37:04Barely got to know him.
37:05But he seemed like you.
37:07He does.
37:08You see what I'm driving at?
37:10I've an idea that if you were to go to Easton and ask him for the certificate, I'm sure he wouldn't refuse.
37:16I can't do that.
37:18Too proud to beg, is that it? Even for me?
37:21That has nothing to do with it.
37:23Don't you understand?
37:24If this business comes out, you're liable to find yourself married to a jailbird.
37:27Vincent Easton won't use those papers against you. I'm certain of that.
37:31Oh, he may not wish to ruin us.
37:33But as long as that certificate of transfer exists, he's a danger to our safety.
37:36That paper must be destroyed.
37:38Can't you write to him and explain that you're in difficulties and ask him to return them?
37:42There isn't time Jagger's in custody. There's no knowing what he might tell the police.
37:46He knows nothing, of course, poor fool.
37:48Has he been taken up for what you've done?
37:50Look, this is desperately urgent. I want you to go and see Easton. Now.
37:54At this time of night?
37:56We're not living in the Middle Ages.
37:57No, Richard. I will not be bully-ragged.
37:59All you have to do is to see the man and ask him to give you a piece of paper.
38:02I can't!
38:04Theo! Rowling!
38:09I wouldn't ask you to do this if there was any other way!
38:12No!
38:13Look, my dear girl, I know it's a beastly thing to have to do to beg a favour of someone you hardly know.
38:17That's not the point.
38:18Theo, you said you wanted to help.
38:20Now this is a matter of life and death.
38:22You won't let me down. Please!
38:25I can't explain that there are reasons why I can't do what you ask.
38:34Very well.
38:55Richard, what are you going to do?
38:59No.
39:01You can't.
39:04You mustn't.
39:09You leave me no alternative?
39:11No.
39:12Life or death, I said.
39:14It's very melodramatic, but I mean it Theo.
39:18Disgrace?
39:19Ruin?
39:20For you too?
39:22I can't face that.
39:25Better finish it now.
39:27You shan't do it.
39:29You can't.
39:32No!
39:33No!
39:38If you love me, if you never love me, please help me.
39:45I've no one else to turn to.
40:03I've been trying to write to you all day.
40:10I wanted to make one last attempt to get you to change your mind.
40:15The words wouldn't come in how suddenly miraculously you're here.
40:18No.
40:19You don't understand.
40:20I'm here on behalf of my husband.
40:22My husband thinks...
40:24He believes you have some papers in your possession that may do him some harm.
40:28I've come to ask you to give them to me.
40:30I don't understand.
40:32A title deed?
40:34I have the deeds of my new plantation that's all.
40:37A title deed, certificate of transfer...
40:41From Richard to you?
40:44Of course I'd never heard of Imperial overseas.
40:46I didn't realize...
40:49This is what you came for.
40:59Have you a match?
41:03Well, I was a little girl we used to have a fender just like this in the nursery.
41:19when I was a little girl we used to have a fender just like this in the nursery
41:28a club fender. isn't that what they're called?
41:32the gravest of all nursery crimes was burning papers in the fireplace.
41:36and you did?
41:38oh no. I was much too well behaved.
41:42we're a very old-fashioned family so you're not really part of the 20th century at all.
41:46strict discipline.
41:49we're simply stuck to the rules that's all.
41:52what were the rules?
41:54your rules.
41:55duty, honor, love.
41:57duty first.
41:58always.
41:59before love.
42:02go back to africa back to your plantation you'll find your happiness.
42:06and you?
42:09go back to your husband and your garden.
42:12I'm needed.
42:12I need you.
42:14you're content to act out the rest of your life married to a crook.
42:16I have to.
42:17what sort of a world do you think you're living in?
42:20you can't turn your back on reality. all this talk of loyalty is meaningless.
42:24you owe no loyalty to a man like that. a man you despise.
42:27think what your life will be like if you stayed with him. every day a reminder of what you turned
42:31and you're back on happiness.
42:35you talk of duty.
42:37don't you owe a duty to yourself?
42:39to that happiness we can make together?
42:41come with me.
42:54i do hope i didn't disturb you calling so late.
42:59may i get you a cab?
43:00no thank you i have one waiting.
43:02shall i come down with you?
43:03no please don't bother.
43:07good night mr east.
43:08good night mrs darrow.
43:19time again miss?
43:20no just go anywhere. just just keep on driving.
43:24there is.
43:50i will wait.
43:51come on.
43:52i can do it.
43:53i will be angry.
44:04i will be angry.
44:04Are you all right, miss?
44:14Yes.
44:17Time to go home, miss?
44:20Um.
44:22A bit cooler now, miss.
44:34I'm sorry for keeping you up, Sir Littlepitz.
44:40Not at all, madam.
44:41Here.
44:48You've been a long time.
44:50Have I?
44:51A damned long time.
44:53Good night, sir.
44:54Madam.
44:59Is it all right?
45:01You're sure?
45:02I burnt the papers.
45:03With the right papers.
45:04Did you look?
45:05No.
45:05Then how'd you look?
45:06I'm sure I tell you.
45:08Don't bother me, Richard.
45:08I can't bear any more tonight.
45:10Don't touch me.
45:12I'm sorry.
45:12My nerves are all on edge.
45:14I simply can't bear to be touched.
45:16I understand.
45:18Do you?
45:19I'm sorry.
45:31I'm sorry.
45:31Theo I'm damn sorry. what? well I'm sorry if I had to let you in for such a rotten job I hope
45:44there wasn't any unpleasantness. you don't know Richard what this night has cost me.
45:49God I never meant. you did that for me? if I'd have known I'd done I'd realize it. I told you I hardly knew the matter but if I'd have guessed I'd have never asked you to go. now please believe me I never meant that you...
46:10you never meant what? tell me what was it that you never meant? well don't let speak about it I don't want to know I don't even want to think about it.
46:19what do you think happened tonight? well it didn't happen. we'll say it didn't happen.
46:29you think he asked a price for those papers? if I thought he'd do anything like that behave like that I never dreamt. didn't you?
46:36why did you ask me to wear this dress tonight? why did you send me there alone so late? you guessed he cared for me. you expected...
46:44I expected nothing. you planned it. you said you had a plan. you intended this from the very beginning.
46:49you knew all along he had those papers so you planned to save your skin with my body.
46:53you meant me to whore for you. can you deny it?
46:57if it gives you any satisfaction your plan worked.
47:15though not in the way you imagined. there was an element you hadn't bargained for.
47:19you see Vincent and I fell in love.
47:22fell in love?
47:24a week ago he asked me to leave you to go away with him and I agreed.
47:27you're making this up?
47:29it was the day the news broke of the collapse. we were at an atel in Dover.
47:33I happened to see a newspaper. it was pure chance.
47:37Dover?
47:38it seemed to me that I owed you a duty as you were in trouble so I came back.
47:42did you... did you go to bed with him?
47:51no.
47:53but I wanted to.
47:55don't believe it.
47:56why not?
47:57you're quite ready to believe that to save you I'd go to bed with a man I barely knew.
48:02why can't you believe that I'd happily give myself to a man I love?
48:05we'll say no more about it.
48:07don't you understand the difference?
48:09is there a difference?
48:11perhaps there isn't?
48:13I don't want to talk about it.
48:14we need never mention it again.
48:16I don't understand you.
48:18but I can forgive.
48:20I cannot.
48:24what did you say?
48:26I can't forgive you.
48:28I was willing to forgive you when I knew you to be a liar and a thief.
48:32I suppose I've always known deep down you weren't quite straight with the world.
48:35I've forgiven.
48:36pretended not to notice your infidelities, your women. I'm not blind.
48:39well that is the same thing.
48:41for a man it's quite...
48:42I was prepared to forgive because despite everything I believed in your love for me.
48:45I believed you needed me as a wife.
48:47I do.
48:48what you've done tonight cancels everything.
48:51don't go Theo.
49:01I do need you.
49:03what for?
49:05who do you want me to sleep with next?
49:21I won't let you go.
49:39where will you go?
49:40back to him?
49:42no I can't do that.
49:45Theo.
49:47I'm all the things you said.
49:49I'm worthless.
49:51but I do love you.
49:54Richard I was unfaithful to you.
49:56in intention at any rate.
49:58for that betrayal our pain loneliness.
50:01with you.
50:02you betrayed honor and love.
50:04you gambled on my sense of duty.
50:06you gambled on the thing you loved and lost.
50:10but where are you going?
50:14to a...
50:15a sort of freedom.
50:17there's nothing to bind me here.
50:36you so...
50:37you succeed.
50:38I could still have a witness with you.
50:39that's an amenity.
50:41he had to be seen for you.
50:44he got that dimly Origination of waiting.
50:46for themitage of waiting for you in peace.
50:48of waiting for you.
50:49it's big.
50:50Huh.
50:51in any hello.
50:52you Org Ðund you.
50:53I'm all at the following time for you.
50:54today I'm already fighting for you.
50:55asking for question.
50:56so you love him.
50:58and you imagine.
50:59I know him.
51:00I'll never forget about it.
51:02we didn't even judge father or father or mother or mother.
51:03at least we've asked for you.
51:05I'll never forget yourå§.
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