00:00I confess I regarded Blanche Ingram with special interest.
00:05First, to see whether she resembled at all the imagined miniature I'd painted of her.
00:10In many points she did.
00:12And secondly, it will out
00:15to discover if she was such as I should fancy lightly to suit Mr. Rochester's taste.
00:21I could not tell.
00:23But to me she appeared remarkably self-conscious.
00:26Where are the gentlemen?
00:28I cannot stand female company.
00:31So insipid.
00:32Mr. Rochester said they would be out of men.
00:35My splendid piece of horseflesh.
00:38You refuse to wager, Ingram?
00:40Well, at such odds, who would not?
00:42Miss Eshton.
00:43I guess where your colour has risen.
00:45Has Miss Louisa been trailing you?
00:47Oh, a little. She likes to.
00:48Give thanks you've not fallen prey to my sister Blanche.
00:51She's a cruel tease.
00:53An ill-considered reform so which I fear the Tories will lift to repent.
00:56What say you, Rochester?
00:58I detest politics.
01:00The calculated clashings of opposed party interests.
01:03Rutting stags battling for the doubtful favours of a docile public.
01:06Senor Eduardo?
01:08Donna Bianca.
01:08I thought you detested children.
01:14Usually, yes.
01:16But how did you come to take upon such a little doll as that?
01:20Where did you pick her up?
01:21She was left on my hands.
01:23You should have sent her to school.
01:27I could not afford to, Donna Bianca.
01:29Really?
01:30No, you tease.
01:32I suppose you have a governess for her.
01:34I saw a person just now.
01:36Is she gone?
01:39No, she's still there.
01:41I would have thought it quite as expensive.
01:44I've not considered the subject.
01:45No, you men never do.
01:47Oh, you should hear Mama on the subject of governesses.
01:50Mary and I have had a dozen.
01:52Half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous.
01:55All incubi, were they not, Mama?
01:57Did you speak, my own?
01:58Of governesses, Mama.
02:00Oh, don't, dearest.
02:01I've suffered martyrdoms from their incompetency and caprice.
02:04We do have Miss Adele's governess here with us.
02:09Tant pis.
02:10Better hear what she will.
02:11It may do her good.
02:13I'm a judge of physiognomy.
02:15And in her, I see all the faults of her class.
02:18And what are they, Madam?
02:19Oh, ask Blanche.
02:21She's as good a judge as I am.
02:23Oh, I have only one word to say of the whole tribe.
02:26They're a nuisance.
02:27Lacrimose, low-spirited creatures.
02:29I see.
02:31Senor Eduardo,
02:33I move the introduction of a new topic.
02:35And I seconded Donna Bianca.
02:38Are you in good voice tonight?
02:40If you command it.
02:42Here, then,
02:44is a corsair song.
02:49Know that I dote on corsairs.
02:53Banditti.
02:54Any man with the devil in him.
02:58Oh, young men of today.
03:00They're such puny things.
03:02They're not fit to stir a step beyond past park gates.
03:05Nor go so far without Mama's permission.
03:08Creatures so absorbed
03:10with care of their own pretty looks.
03:12As if a man had anything to do with beauty.
03:15As if loveliness were not the special prerogative of woman.
03:18I grant an ugly woman
03:22is a blot on the face of creation.
03:25But as to the gentlemen,
03:26let them possess only strength
03:28to hunt, shoot, and fight.
03:30The rest is not worth a fillip.
03:32Do you know it, Senor Eduardo?
03:38How could I not, since it was you who taught me it?
03:41Then sing.
03:42Con spirito.
03:43My boat's by the tower,
03:49my box in the bay,
03:51and both must be gone
03:53ere the dawn of the day.
03:55The moon's in her shroud,
03:57but to guide thee afar,
03:59on the deck of the daring's
04:01a love-lighted star.
04:03Then wake, lady, wake,
04:04I am waiting for thee,
04:06and this night or never
04:08my bride thou shalt be.
04:10Then wake, lady, wake,
04:12I am waiting for thee,
04:14and this night or never
04:18my bride thou shalt be.
04:22Jane?
04:39Why did you not come and speak to me?
04:42You seemed engaged, sir.
04:44I did not wish to disturb you.
04:48What have you been doing during my absence?
04:50Nothing in particular.
04:52I've been teaching Adele, as usual.
04:54And getting a good deal paler than you were,
04:56as I saw at first sight.
04:58Did you take cold that night
05:00you half-drowned me?
05:02Not in the least.
05:04Return to the drawing room.
05:05You're deserting too early.
05:07I'm tired, sir.
05:08And depressed.
05:09I'm not.
05:10But I affirm you are.
05:13So much depressed
05:14that a few more words would bring tears.
05:17Indeed, they're there, shining.
05:18If I had time,
05:21I would know what this means.
05:23Tonight, I excuse you.
05:25But not tomorrow, nor the next night.
05:28Now go and send Sophie for Adele.
05:29Good night.
05:31Good night.
05:43Despite all intentions,
05:45all the dictates of common sense,
05:47I had learned to love Mr. Rochester.
05:52That he would marry Blanche Ingram
05:54was certain, however.
05:56Though why was less so.
05:58For family, perhaps political reasons.
06:02But he had not given her his love.
06:04That I knew.
06:05Knowledge has no power to lessen pain.
