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Linda Radlett falls for and marries banker Tony Kroesig much to her father's disagreement. Her cousin Fanny is reunited with old friend Polly Hampton. Fanny meets and marries Alfred. Linda meets Christian, a Communist. Starring: Alan Bates, Celia Imrie, Anthony Andrews, Rosamund Pike, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Megan Dodds.
Linda Radlett falls for and marries banker Tony Kroesig much to her father's disagreement. Her cousin Fanny is reunited with old friend Polly Hampton. Fanny meets and marries Alfred. Linda meets Christian, a Communist. Starring: Alan Bates, Celia Imrie, Anthony Andrews, Rosamund Pike, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Megan Dodds.
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00:00I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:30Where are they?
00:40Fire!
01:00Fire!
01:26Got you at last!
01:30Let's go!
01:32MUSIC
01:36Linda Radlett was my age, my favourite cousin, and for many years, my favourite human being.
01:51Though I lived with Aunt Emily, I spent all my holidays at Alkenland with my cousins, the Radletts.
02:06Father's going to hunt us tomorrow.
02:09Well, enjoy yourselves, children, because we have got other things to do.
02:21Linda and I were coming out that summer.
02:25What do you think?
02:26And Aunt Sadie was giving us a ball.
02:28Oh, I like this!
02:30Heavenly Mrs Crowb copied it out of vogue for me. Look!
02:34Oh, do you think he'll come?
02:44You never can tell in the country. Somebody might bring him. He might break down in his motorcar on the way to Badminton.
02:51We were, of course, both in love with people we had never met.
02:54Who is that beautiful girl in pink?
02:57Linda with the Prince of Wales.
02:58It's Linda Radlett, Your Highness!
03:00And I with a fat, red-faced farmer I had seen in the village.
03:04These loves were strong and painfully delicious.
03:08They occupied all our thoughts, but we hoped they would be superseded by real people.
03:15We still haven't got enough men. We've got all the replies in now.
03:19We'll have to get Matt home from Eden.
03:21What about the curate?
03:22Oh, Fanny, why don't we invite Lord Merlin?
03:25Lord Merlin!
03:27While I've been for tea, he dyes his doves pink and dries them in the linen cupboard.
03:34Ha!
03:35And do you remember the whippets with their diamond necklaces?
03:37They have grander jewels than I do. He could bring a house party.
03:40If you ask that group Merlin to bring his friends, we'll get a lot of esthetes.
03:44Sewers from Oxford.
03:46I wouldn't put it past him to bring some foreigners.
03:49Foreigners?
03:50I hear he sometimes has frogs, even wops, to stay with him.
03:54I will not have my house filled with wops.
03:56But far!
03:57It's all right, darling. Leave it to me.
03:59What do you think you're doing?
04:00It's palsy practice.
04:02In a few years, when you're really old, you'll probably have palsy.
04:06I'm giving you a little practice now, before you actually get it.
04:10So you won't be dropping things all the time.
04:19Is that from the bolter?
04:20Don't call her that, dear.
04:23That's a fine-looking woman.
04:25She's still married to that sewer from London College.
04:34My mother, who was too beautiful and gay to be burdened with a child,
04:38had left when I was a month old,
04:40and had since run away so often, and with so many different people,
04:44that she became known as the bolter.
04:46She doesn't realise I've grown.
04:48Pags me wear it.
04:49You'll have to pay her.
04:51Sixpence.
04:52A shilling?
04:54Ninepence.
04:57Ninepence, all right.
04:59Fanny?
05:03And remember, you're paying us two shillings each, not to be embarrassing.
05:07Victoria say yes, Victoria.
05:13We spent the weeks before the ball in an agony of waiting for our lives to begin.
05:18If this comes out, I'll marry the man I love.
05:32If this comes out, I'll marry at eighteen.
05:35Linda was soft-hearted and horribly easy to tease.
05:50A little houseless match.
05:55Has no roof, no thatch.
05:58It lies alone, makes no moan.
06:01The little houseless match.
06:09As the only boy, my cousin Matt was the sole radlet allowed to go to school.
06:13All right, all right, all right, I'll tell you how it happens.
06:17The mother's stomach swells up.
06:19And then, it bursts open like a ripe pumpkin.
06:23And the infant shoots out.
06:25Oh, rot!
06:26Don't be such an ass, Matt.
06:28And listen.
06:30What's that?
06:32Ducks and duck breeding.
06:34The Hans was our secret society.
06:36We met in the linen cupboard.
06:37It was the only warm place at Orkenly.
06:40Anybody we hated was a counter-Han.
06:42We, of course, were Hans.
06:44Ducks can only copulate in running water.
06:48Tell us about sex, Fanny. You must know.
06:51Oh, you are lucky, Fanny, having a wicked mother.
06:54I know.
06:56She must be copulating all the time.
06:59I wish I didn't have a mother.
07:02When I'm nineteen, I'm going to run away.
07:04Just like yours.
07:06Well, you can't have my money.
07:08How much have you got?
07:09My fare to London.
07:11And a month and two days in a bedsitter in Clapham.
07:15With basin and breakfast.
07:17I can't wait.
07:18You see, we're still twenty men short.
07:26How many is Lord Merlin bringing?
07:28Ah!
07:29Merlin!
07:33They don't know the way.
07:35Only six.
07:37What are we going to do?
07:39There's only five days left.
07:41It's all right.
07:49Leave it to me.
08:00Fine, fine.
08:02Carol, Carol, Carol.
08:03Where did he get them from?
08:06The Lord's.
08:11Look at him.
08:14His hair sort of slips off backwards, doesn't it?
08:18Like an eiderdown in the night.
08:22Poor old thing.
08:23I must say, if he was one's dog, one would have him put down.
08:34Oh, no.
08:36Bags are not the ring.
08:38May I have the honour?
08:39What's that thing hanging over your butt?
08:40That's my entrenching tool.
08:41Used it in 1915.
08:42Threat to death eight Germans, one by one, as they crawled out of a dugout.
09:02Sorry.
09:04Perfectly all right.
09:06I wish we'd been taught to dance.
09:08You're doing splendidly.
09:11I wish we'd been taught anything.
09:15I hope my wife is all right.
09:18I'm sorry I had to leave her at home.
09:21It's the first time we've been separated in 40 years.
09:38So this was it.
09:39This was what we had been waiting for all our lives.
09:51Lord Merlin's arrived.
09:52Oh, thank God.
09:53Lord Merlin.
09:54Oh, thank God.
09:55Lord Merlin.
09:56Oh, thank God.
09:57Lord Merlin.
09:58Oh, thank God.
10:00Oh, thank God.
10:01Lord Merlin.
10:02Oh, thank God.
10:04Oh, thank God.
10:05Oh, thank God.
10:09Lord Merlin's arrived.
10:12Oh, thank God.
10:15Lord Merlin.
10:24Say, hey, how lovely to meet you.
10:29I saw an agent in a week.
10:31Did you?
10:32He's still desperate.
10:33I don't like that.
10:34I don't like that.
10:34I don't like that.
10:35I don't like that.
10:36I don't like that.
10:45Linda.
10:48Fan.
10:49I've heard so much about you.
10:51Have you really got a folly with an angel on top?
10:54Every evening, to celebrate the hour of my birth, it blows its trumpet.
11:00The locals get frankly annoyed because it's at twenty past nine,
11:02just too late to remind them to switch on the news.
11:04Might I have the pleasure of the next dance?
11:10Oh, yes, please.
11:17Isn't Linda remarkable?
11:20I adore her.
11:22She comes to tea sometimes when she can get away from here.
11:25I suspect, with careful nurturing, she shall become one of the great beauties of the age.
11:35You know Polly Hampton, don't you?
11:37Yes.
11:39Oh, she used to be my best friend in the world, apart from Linda.
11:42Well, she's coming home from India next week.
11:45Oh, wonderful.
11:49Oh, I have missed her.
11:50It'll be lovely to see her again.
11:52Is that England?
12:11Who's that sewer with Linda?
12:12His name's Tony Crozet.
12:14His father runs the bank of England.
12:17Good God.
12:18I never expected to harbour a full-blown hunt in this house who would not have asked him.
12:21The Crozics aren't Huns, Matthew.
12:23They've been over here for generations.
12:25They're a highly respectable family of English bankers.
12:28Once a Hun, always a Hun.
12:33Master, dear, go and check the boilers.
12:35What?
12:36The boilers, with a hop.
12:37Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
12:51Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
13:09Who do you hunt with?
13:12Oh, the Heathrow.
13:14What, are you coming to the meet tomorrow?
13:18We've got a house full of guests.
13:22They'll never let me.
13:24It's all right.
13:39Turn, turn!
13:45We've got a house full of guests.
13:51We're going to have a house full of guests.
13:55Oh, the Heathrow.
13:57Oh, the Heathrow.
14:00Oh, the Heathrow.
14:03Oh, the Heathrow.
14:07Oh, the Heathrow.
14:11Oh, the Heathrow.
14:14Oh, that poor hair!
14:44Unfortunately, rescuing a hair was the one romantic gesture of Tony Krasig's life.
15:14The next month, having come home from ruling India, the Mondors invited me to a house party.
15:33Life with the Radletts was tempestuous, but underneath it I felt loved.
15:39The terror at Hampton, however, was of a different kind and I would never have dared go there if it wasn't for Polly.
16:09Miss Frances Logan.
16:21You're not by any chance a bolter's daughter?
16:28Yes.
16:29Yes, I am.
16:30The bolter's girl!
16:31Oh, don't be funny.
16:32How could the bolter have a grown-up daughter?
16:33Oh, Veronica, do come here a minute.
16:34It's the bolter's child.
16:35Ah, Fanny!
16:36There you are.
16:37Come and have some tea, dear.
16:38But surely the bolter can't be more than 36.
16:39That's right, bird brain.
16:40Just do the subs.
16:41What about the nine months?
16:42Not nine, darling.
16:43Don't you remember how bogus it all was and how shamingly huge her bouquet had to be?
16:46It was sweet.
16:47Do you know the first person she ever bolted with was Mike Chad.
16:49Lucky me got him next.
16:50But only after she'd bolted from him again.
16:51So, Fanny, how are the rattlet girls?
16:52Do sit down, dear.
16:53Go and fetch Polly.
16:54She's in the billiards room with boy.
16:55Linda got engaged.
16:56She's in the billiards room with a boy.
16:57That's right.
16:58Is that a six?
16:59That's right, bird brain.
17:00You're not a six?
17:01Yes, she did.
17:02What about the nine months?
17:03Not nine, darling.
17:04Don't you remember how bogus it all was and how shamingly huge her bouquet had to be?
17:06Poor sweet.
17:07Do you know the first person she ever bolted with was Mike Chad?
17:10Lucky me got him next.
17:11But only after she'd bolted from him again.
17:12So, Fanny, how are the rattlet girls?
17:15Do sit down, dear.
17:16Go and fetch Polly.
17:17in the billiards room with boy.
17:20Linda got engaged yet?
17:22No, not yet.
17:24Say there's a wonderful woman, of course, and I'm devoted to her,
17:27but she hasn't the very smallest idea of how to bring up girls.
17:30Tell me, are you in love?
17:37Oh, of course she is.
17:39Poor sweet.
17:40Just look at that blush.
17:43Now, we're not going to worm,
17:45but what we really want to know, to settle a bet, is
17:49have you always fancied somebody, ever since you can remember?
17:55Oh, yes.
17:57Lord Byron, Rudolf Valentino.
17:59Yeah, but there you are, you see.
18:02From Kirikata Huss, darling. I couldn't know it better.
18:06After all, would there be to think about women's alone otherwise?
18:10The Duke de Sauveterre.
18:15He's still not married.
18:21He came to us in India. Such fun.
18:24He was very much taken up with the little Rani of Rawalpur.
18:28In fact, they do say her last baby.
18:31Oh, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo.
18:32Poor creatures. It's one baby after another.
18:34One can't help feeling sorry for them.
18:36Like little birds, you know.
18:39Of course, they simply worshipped me.
18:41It was rarely touching.
18:43Where is boy?
18:45Playing billiards with Polly.
18:47I've sent one once.
18:50Ah, here they are.
18:52Ah-ha!
18:55Here at last, my lady wife.
19:03Polly.
19:04Oh, Fanny, I've missed you.
19:06I'm dying to hear about everything.
19:10Let's go upstairs and talk.
19:12Hello.
19:22That's boy Dugdale, isn't it?
19:24Yes, you remember him.
19:25He's married to my Aunt Patricia.
19:27Why is he called boy?
19:29He's frankly old.
19:33He doesn't think he's old one bit.
19:35He's a little bit.
19:39Polly!
19:50Are you pleased to be back in this room?
19:56It's the one you used to have.
19:57Do you remember?
19:58Of course I do.
20:00I used to think about her sometimes in India.
20:03Those black velvet dresses with red sashes we had
20:07for coming down after tea.
20:08Oh, that seems so long ago now.
20:15I suppose you came out in India.
20:17Yes, I've been out two years, actually.
20:21It was all very dull.
20:22Do you enjoy it?
20:26I like the dressing up.
20:28So do I.
20:30Do you think about dresses and hats all the time,
20:34even in church?
20:36I do too.
20:39But what is coming out in England like?
20:43Does everybody talk about love all the time?
20:46Yes.
20:47Yes, I suppose they do.
20:49And all going on like the people downstairs.
20:54Yes.
20:56Yes.
20:56Oh, bother.
20:59I thought it would be different in a cold climate.
21:04Have you fallen in love yet?
21:07I could have.
21:08Lots of times.
21:10Some of the Rajas are awfully attractive.
21:13And honestly, Fanny,
21:14I believe Mama would rather I fell in love with an Indian
21:16than not at all.
21:18But don't you want to fall in love?
21:21Oh, I do.
21:26Oh, Fanny.
21:27Fanny.
21:38What was the matter with Polly?
21:41There was something I didn't understand,
21:44not then,
21:45about the atmosphere at Hampton.
21:47I wondered if Lord Mondor felt it.
21:53He never reacted to anything.
21:56He seemed somehow to be made of cardboard.
21:59Is your uncle Lord Orkney?
22:02Isn't he quite barmy?
22:04Doesn't he hunt people with bloodhounds by full moon?
22:07Oh, but we love it.
22:09Oh, you can't imagine what fun it is.
22:11I hear those red-lit girls are simply killing rats in their pockets.
22:16God knows what.
22:17But rats are very intelligent.
22:20No, no, no, Veronica.
22:21The whole point was,
22:23he brought the microscope to look at his own room leg.
22:28How dare you to use that word at dinner?
22:30Stephen, if you know how to pronounce it, which I doubt.
22:33It's too shame-making.
22:34Not a dinner thing at all.
22:36Dear Fanny,
22:57I remember you when you were little.
23:04My, you may have grown.
23:14Have I?
23:18And hasn't Polly turned out to be a beauty?
23:22Dear Sonia,
23:25she's done absolutely everything for that girl.
23:28Some man's going to be very lucky.
23:35Don't you think?
23:38I mean,
23:40with her inheriting all of this,
23:43she's probably the wealthiest young woman in Britain.
23:49Oh, yes.
23:50We expect a splendid match.
23:58I know people do say he's a daisy,
24:00whatever that may be,
24:02but half these rumours are put about by anarchists.
24:05I must go and powder my nose.
24:08I go in the morning and that's that.
24:12I don't have to be let out like a dog at intervals.
24:14Thank goodness there's nothing so common to my mind.
24:17I think the worst...
24:18Really, Polly, it's too bad.
24:21Just chatter, can't you?
24:23It's of no consequence what you say.
24:25Let her recite out of the ABC
24:26then sit there like a deaf mute.
24:28What did they think of you?
24:34Sit here, Fanny, and talk to us.
24:36Dear,
24:40what is the matter with my daughter?
24:43She takes no notice of the young men I provide for her
24:46and they take no notice of her.
24:49They worship me, of course,
24:50but what is the good of that?
24:53She's bound to fall for some nice chap in London, darling.
24:57It's all very well,
24:58but she was out for two years in India, you know.
25:01Why, even poor Delia's girl fell in love with a raja.
25:04I don't blame her.
25:05Raja's must be perfect heaven.
25:07All those diamonds.
25:09Oh, no, my dear.
25:10Any English family has better stones than they do.
25:13I never saw anything to compare with mine when I was there.
25:17Oh, it's such a relief to have you here, Fanny.
25:37She only asked that Frenchman
25:38because she thinks no one can resist him.
25:41Even me.
25:42Even me.
25:42I've been thinking of porridge for hours.
26:09It's funny how a huge dinner makes you even hungrier next morning.
26:15Curious, isn't it?
26:18We can't stay here.
26:20It's too sad.
26:21Don't you think Polly is very beautiful?
26:36Yeah.
26:37But she's also a riddle to me.
26:41Perhaps she's not having a properly organised sex life.
26:44Very few English girls of 19 have a properly organised sex life.
26:51They go hunting instead.
26:54She is a beauty, despite those terrible clothes.
26:59When she has had a little love, she may blossom.
27:02Or she may cram her head on her head and become a Lady Patricia Dugdale.
27:06Everything depends on the love.
27:07I'm so confused in this house.
27:13Who's who's lover?
27:15It doesn't make a pin-up difference.
27:18Sooner or later, everybody becomes the lover of everybody else.
27:21When they change lovers, it's more like a cabinet reshuffle than a new government.
27:25Is it like that in France?
27:28Oh, no.
27:29The ministers stay longer in their posts.
27:31Why?
27:33French women generally keep their lovers if they want to,
27:36because they know there is one infallible method of doing so.
27:39No.
27:41Oh, do tell.
27:42It's very simple.
27:43They give in to them.
27:44In every respect.
27:47These English femmes du monde,
27:48they play their little games out when you telephone.
27:52All that.
27:52No Frenchman would put up with it for a moment.
27:57They're very nasty, aren't they?
27:59Not at all.
28:00Poor things.
28:02I love them.
28:03So easy to get on with.
28:06And I love la Mère Mondor.
28:08How amusing she is with her snobbishness.
28:11I'm very fond of snobbs.
28:13They are always so charming to me.
28:16And dear old Mondor,
28:18he can't see what's going on under his nose.
28:22What is going on under his nose?
28:32And so, Fenadier,
28:33are you going to be a boater?
28:35Like a mother?
28:37Oh, no.
28:39A tremendous sticker.
28:40You've ruffled a few feathers here, Mourchelle.
28:58Our hostess was hoping you'd pay court to her daughter
29:01rather than bowling over the rabbits.
29:04If this comes out, he'll telephone.
29:14If this comes out, he'll telephone.
29:14What's the time, darling?
29:30Guess.
29:32A quarter to six.
29:34Better than that?
29:35Six?
29:36Not quite so good.
29:38Five, two.
29:39Yes.
29:42If this comes out,
29:44he's thinking about me.
29:47A little houseless match.
29:51Victoria!
29:52Go away!
29:53Go away!
29:54Tony!
30:07Hello?
30:09Go away!
30:10Go away!
30:11Go away!
30:12Tony!
30:13Tony!
30:13That was Lavender Davis on the telephone.
30:33She wants Fanny and me to lunch there on Thursday.
30:36Oh, Doug, you can't have my car, I'm afraid.
30:38Oh, but, Mummy, please, I do so terribly want to go.
30:41To Lavenders?
30:42Hmm.
30:42Last time you said you never wanted to go there as long as you lived.
30:45Great haunches of cod, you said.
30:48But, um, her brother's got a baby badger.
30:52When you go to London for the season, you'll be far too busy to think about badgers.
30:57Please, Mummy.
30:59Oh, well.
31:00Perhaps Perkins can take me the day, ma'am.
31:08We must get hold of some rouge.
31:11I think you can use geranium juice.
31:13But geraniums aren't out at this time of year, silly.
31:17We can blow our eyelids out of Jazzy's paint box.
31:20Yes.
31:20I'll get the babina soap from Mummy's bathroom.
31:23We can let it melt in the bath and we shall smell delicious.
31:30Nanny?
31:32Nanny?
31:32Nanny?
31:33Where do you keep that powder that you used to dust our bottoms with?
31:39I thought you'd know, Lavender Davis.
31:42Oh, shut up.
31:43Last time you said she was the dullest girl you ever met and you'd like to bash her in the face with the horn's mallets.
31:47I didn't.
31:49Why have you got that red stuff on your cheeks?
31:52Oh, do go away.
31:53Why are you starting already?
31:54You'll be hours too early.
31:55If you don't shut up, I'll put your newt back in the pond.
32:04Why don't you bring Lavender Davis back for a nice long visit?
32:11You're not very hornish, are them.
32:13You don't think they'll tell far?
32:15You don't think they'll tell us.
32:45Oh...
32:46We look like Dutch dolls.
33:13Cigarette?
33:14No, thank you.
33:15Oh, no.
33:17Oh, no.
33:19Oh, no, thank you.
33:43Been hunting lately?
33:57Oh, yes.
33:58We were out yesterday.
34:00Good day?
34:01Yes, very.
34:02We found it once and had a five-mile point and...
34:05But that's marvellous.
34:07A five-mile point.
34:09Well, I must come out with the Heathrop again.
34:11We're doing awfully well this season, I hear.
34:14We had a good day yesterday, too.
34:17Did you really?
34:19Well, the going was a bit sticky down in Bayless Meadow.
34:21Damn fool farmer never drains it, you know.
34:24But once we got up on the ridge, we had a splendid gallop.
34:34Ah, good.
34:36Here are the others.
34:41This was life, we felt.
34:45And we would have been quite happy just looking on,
34:48had it not been for that ghastly feeling of guilt,
34:51which was starting to give us a pain rather like indigestion.
34:55Oh, my God!
34:56Oh!
35:15Linda, Fanny!
35:16Far wants you in the business room now.
35:18Do you realise that if you were married women,
35:22your husbands could divorce you for this?
35:31You're poor Aunt Emily.
35:33All these years she's looked after you and this is her reward.
35:35It's not Fanny's fault.
35:37You can go straight home.
35:39Oh, you'll go the same way as your mother.
35:40Sure, his eggs is eggs.
35:41That's for you, miss.
35:43I'm lucky not to get a thrashing!
35:44Do you hear?
35:45There'll be no question of a London season now.
35:46You'll have to be watched every minute of the day.
35:50And I don't want that Hun's name ever mentioned in this house again.
35:51You'll have to be watched every minute of the day.
35:52And I don't want that Hun's name ever mentioned in this house again.
35:53You'll have to be watched every minute of the day.
35:54And I don't want that Hun's name ever mentioned in this house again.
35:56You'll have to be watched every minute of the day.
36:13And I don't want that Hun's name ever mentioned in this house again.
36:17I didn't tell, I promise!
36:45Somebody left a scarf in his room.
36:47Ah!
36:48It's Tony Crowe's room and he rang up to ask whether it was yours.
36:52It was Uncle Matthew's favourite superstition that if you wrote somebody's name on a piece
37:02of paper and put it in a drawer, that person would die within a year.
37:10The drawers were full of the names of people he hated.
37:23Bernard Shaw.
37:24Lloyd George.
37:25Gandhi.
37:26Tony Crowe's room.
37:30Tony Crowe's room.
37:42Tony Crowe's room.
37:51As always, Uncle Matthew's bark was worse than his bite.
37:56Relaxation began.
37:58The thin end of the wedge.
38:00And gradually things returned to normal.
38:04Plans for the London season went ahead, though under conditions of strict vigilance.
38:10However, not strict enough, and what I knew would happen inevitably did.
38:17At five in the morning in a beautiful house on the east side of Berkeley Square.
38:23Who'd be there at the centre we succeeded.
38:24And what happened then?
38:25Whatever.
38:26Any questions?
38:27What?
38:28What's up, Did you hear from the man who was there?
38:29How was he being in the house?
38:30And what one's in the house was out there?
38:31Go to the stairs.
38:32Your bed.
38:33You like an old man.
38:34You can walk in the house.
38:35And then you don't want to dress up.
38:36You go to the house.
38:37And then you get that.
38:38I love the house.
38:39Mr. Nick?
38:41I love the house.
38:42Who am I?
38:43You love the house.
38:44I love the house.
38:45You both wear the house.
38:46How was he doing?
38:47The house.
38:48You love the house.
38:49I love the house.
38:50You love the house.
38:51That bloody hun Krosig's just telephoned.
39:10Wanted to speak to you.
39:13I told him to get the hell out of it.
39:17I don't want you mixed up with any Germans.
39:19Do you understand?
39:20Well, I am mixed up.
39:22As it happens, I'm engaged to him.
39:31Sandy!
39:33Sandy!
39:35Sandy!
39:37Sandy!
39:38Sandy!
39:49Sandy!
39:49Sandy!
39:50Sandy!
39:50Sandy!
39:51Angie!
39:52Sandy!
39:52Jessie, Jessie, darling.
40:08Lend me your running away money.
40:11I've saved and scraped for five years.
40:14I simply can't begin all over again.
40:16But I'll give it to you back.
40:17Tony will, when we're married.
40:20I know men.
40:30Yes?
40:34Linda!
40:36That hog Merlin's on the phone!
40:39I'm in love.
40:41What makes you think so?
40:43One doesn't think.
40:45One knows.
40:47Fiddlesticks.
40:49Well, you evidently don't know about love.
40:51So what's the use of talking to you?
40:53Love is for grown-up people.
40:56As you will one day discover.
40:57You will also discover that it has nothing to do with marriage.
41:03I'm all in favour of you marrying soon, in a year or two.
41:06Oh, but for God's sake, for all our sakes, don't go and marry a boar like Tony Creusie.
41:12Well, if he's such a boar, why did you ask him to stay?
41:17I didn't ask him.
41:18A baby brought him because Cecil had flu and couldn't come.
41:21Besides, I can't guess you'll marry every stopgap I have in my house.
41:24Well, you ought to be more careful.
41:27Anyhow, I can't think why you say Tony's a boar.
41:30Well, he knows about everything.
41:33Exactly.
41:42It was a terrible time.
41:46The Krozigs were as opposed to the marriage as the Olkenleys.
41:55Aunt Sadie tried to persuade Uncle Matthew that the marriage, though by no means ideal,
42:06was inevitable, and that if he didn't want to alienate forever his favourite child,
42:10he had better put a good face on it.
42:20Oh.
42:25The Krozigs.
42:26The Krozigs.
42:55Well, at least the fellow's not a Roman Catholic.
43:01So, Linda's marrying him, then.
43:24What a silly girl.
43:27Well, she always has been, in my opinion.
43:29He's rich, of course, but it's banker's money.
43:32It comes and it goes.
43:34And however much of it there may be, it's not like marrying all this.
43:40So, that's her accounted for.
43:42Now you must be the next one, Fanny.
43:45Oh, no.
43:48No one will ever marry me.
43:49Mm.
43:51Nonsense.
43:52And don't you go marrying just anybody.
43:54For love.
43:55Remember that love cannot last.
43:58It never, never does.
43:59But if you marry all this, it's for your life.
44:10Aha!
44:11Where are you going?
44:13To see your mother.
44:14She's not dressed yet.
44:16Lady Krozigs, this is my mother, Lady Orkinley.
44:42How do you do?
44:43My father, Lord Orkinley.
44:45Good evening.
44:46Good evening.
44:46Salasca.
44:47How do you do, Orkinley?
44:48How do you do?
44:49Good evening, Salasca.
44:50Good evening.
44:51Good evening.
44:52Let's go in, shall we?
44:53It's rather nippy out here.
44:54Good evening.
44:55Good evening.
44:55Good evening.
44:59We love the theatre.
45:02Don't we, dear?
45:04Yes.
45:06Have you seen any of the new shows?
45:08Well, we don't go up to London a great deal.
45:11Well, you did see Romeo and Juliet once, but your father got so upset.
45:15Oh, the fault of that damn pardry.
45:20That fellow Romeo might have known a blasted papist would mess up the whole thing.
45:26Damn fool of a nurse, too.
45:28Bet she was a Nazi.
45:30Dismal, old bitch.
45:31I expect they keep you very busy at the bank.
45:53I don't know how you can stand it.
45:57I was saying to the bank manager at Merlinford only yesterday.
46:00Must be the hell of a life.
46:03Fussing about with other fellow's money all day.
46:07Indoors.
46:09I miss me my whole life indoors.
46:12I have my roses.
46:14What a lot you London people always know about gardens.
46:17Well, I'm not really a London person.
46:19I work in London, but my home is in Surrey.
46:24I count that as the same.
46:25They're all so excited in the village, Lady Krosick.
46:27They've already planned the flowers for the church.
46:29But we presumed that you'd have a London wedding, my dear.
46:35But we thought, well, St Margaret's, of course.
46:40Nobody will come down to Gloucestershire.
46:44Aunt Linda will have half the number of wedding presents.
46:48Oh, ma, do, lads.
46:50I am not going to lead my daughter through a crowd of gaping strangers.
46:57Of course, Linda married for love.
47:21She was too much of a romantic to marry for anything else.
47:25But the odds were stacked against her from the start.
47:29The families were no longer on speaking terms.
47:31The Krosicks considered her eccentric and extravagant,
47:36and her family uncouth,
47:37while the Radlitz considered the Krosicks' vulgar,
47:41and Tony a first-class war.
47:43Did you ever see anything so ghastly as Lady Krosick's hat?
47:56Bankers don't appear to be much to look at.
47:59It's extraordinarily unsuitable having to know them at all,
48:01let alone marry them.
48:03But these sort of people have got megalomania nowadays
48:06one can't get away from.
48:07Really, Orkhamley's not fit to have children
48:10if this is the best he can do.
48:17You'll never get all this into your coffin.
48:20What do you mean?
48:22Women are always buried in their wedding dresses.
48:25Don't be such a ghoul.
48:26Come on, Jessie, let's not upset Linda today.
48:30Did you see what mingy little things they gave poor Linda?
48:34A cheque?
48:34I mean, it's all very well, but for how much, I wonder?
48:38No tiara, no necklace.
48:40What will the poor child wear at court?
48:42Hardly worth being called by that nasty German name, I should say.
48:46And a horrible house in one of those squares near Marble Arch.
48:51Oh, Lord Merlin.
48:53Oh, hello, Merlin.
48:54Morning.
48:55Have you seen the Krosick sister?
48:58They'll have a job getting her off.
49:00She's training to be a vet.
49:02First sensible thing I've heard about any of them.
49:04No point in cluttering up the ballrooms of girls who look like that.
49:07It's simply not fair on anybody.
49:11How do you know why, Dudley?
49:13Oh, he wrote a history of my family.
49:16He's an expert on what you call genealogy.
49:19Oh, he is.
49:20He used to give talks at the Women's Institute when I was little.
49:23He did such stupid things to us.
49:29Linda and I called him the lecturer's lecturer.
49:32Oh, he's certainly very fond of dukes and duchesses.
49:37Is that why he trails around after Lady Mondor everywhere?
49:41They do say he's her lover.
49:45Her lover?
49:45But I think it's more complicated than that.
49:52What do you mean?
49:53Poor Patricia.
49:56Suffering in silence.
50:01Mayday, I think.
50:03Well, that's good.
50:04It must either be the first or, indeed, the last ball of the season,
50:10if people are going to remember it.
50:17Polly!
50:19Honestly, you'd think she'd be grateful, wouldn't you?
50:23Not at all.
50:24Sulky and disagreeable, I can hardly get a word out of her.
50:27She never meets anybody.
50:30And if she never meets people, how can she marry them?
50:33Is there so much hurry for her to marry?
50:36Well, you know, she'll be 21 in May.
50:38She can't go on like this forever.
50:41Polly, my dear.
50:44Come over here.
50:46Well, marriage doesn't solve everything, you know.
50:49You don't want her to make an unfortunate choice.
50:57What can be the matter with her?
50:59So beautiful and no B.A. at all.
51:02Oh, no, no, no.
51:03It's S.A., my darling.
51:06Sex appeal.
51:07Or B.O.
51:10When we were young, none of that existed, thank goodness.
51:13One was either a beauty or a jolly lady, and that was that.
51:17All the same.
51:18Now it's been invented, this sex appeal.
51:21I suppose it's better if the girls have it.
51:22Their partners seem to like it.
51:24And Polly hasn't a vestige.
51:26You could see that.
51:28Ever since she was born, I've worried and fussed over that child
51:31and thought of all the awful things that might happen to her.
51:34That Mondor might die before she was settled,
51:36that her looks would go,
51:37that she might have a terrible accident
51:39and spend the rest of her days in a spinal chair.
51:42All sorts of things.
51:43But the one thing that never crossed my mind
51:46was that she might end up an old maid.
51:51Oh.
51:52Where's she gone?
51:53After the honeymoon,
51:57Tony started work in his father's old bank
51:59and prepared to step into a safe, conservative seat.
52:02Come back to bed.
52:04An ambition which was soon realised.
52:05What, dear?
52:06Yeah.
52:06Now, you haven't forgotten about tonight, have you?
52:28No.
52:29I think Linda's marriage was a failure almost from the start.
52:34But being Linda, she maintained,
52:37for as long as possible,
52:39a good shop front.
52:40Here we are.
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