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Lady Montdore is very upset by Polly's marriage announcement. The arrival of Lady Montdore's heir causes a stir. Linda becomes a Communist and both her and Polly both find new lovers. The war begins. Starring: Alan Bates, Celia Imrie, Anthony Andrews, Rosamund Pike, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Megan Dodds.
Lady Montdore is very upset by Polly's marriage announcement. The arrival of Lady Montdore's heir causes a stir. Linda becomes a Communist and both her and Polly both find new lovers. The war begins. Starring: Alan Bates, Celia Imrie, Anthony Andrews, Rosamund Pike, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Megan Dodds.
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00:00what's this soup ah what sort I don't know don't you discuss it with cook dear should I
00:30look what I bought with your wonderful birthday present did it cost all I sent you I thought you
00:45would like me to buy one thing with it and always remember it was you who gave it to me no that
00:49wasn't at all what I intended a thousand pounds is what you might call a capital sum and that means
00:55something on which you expect to return you shouldn't have spent it on a trinket which you
01:00wear three or four times a year and which is most unlikely to appreciate in value you should have
01:09asked me to invest it darling or you could have spent it on entertaining important people who
01:16would be of use to Tony in his career
01:18so
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01:54Oh, the horror of important people.
02:00You're lucky, Fanny, not to know any.
02:03We've got such a ghastly evening ahead of us.
02:07Some important Americans.
02:09Seems Tony wants to do a deal with them.
02:11And these Americans will only do the deal if they take a fancy to me.
02:15Well, can you explain that?
02:17I just know that I shall be sick all over them and Tony will be so coarse.
02:21Oh, why would you be sick?
02:23Because I'm in pig.
02:25Linda!
02:27Oh, how wonderful!
02:30Oh, what does Tony say?
02:33Oh, I haven't told him yet.
02:35Why not?
02:36I know he'll be pleased.
02:38I'll give her something to talk about.
02:40Hey, you two.
02:42What?
02:43What are you doing here?
02:45Shouldn't you be in school?
02:47Isn't he wonderful?
02:49It's Christian Torbott.
02:50He was in my house at school until he was expelled for printing leaflets.
02:53He's absolutely committed to the cause.
02:55Goodness sake, Matt!
02:57Stay and listen to him.
02:58We can't.
02:59Tony would have a fit.
03:01You don't care, do you?
03:02You'd rather be at one of your ghastly balls.
03:04How different was Polly's ball from our ramshackle affair?
03:16Royalty had stepped out of Lady Mondor's photograph frames and come to life.
03:21Dusty and less glamorous, poor dears, but royalty all the same.
03:24Oh, oh, trite.
03:40The fellow wouldn't be grinning.
03:42He'd be dead with all those arrows in him.
03:46That's a Van Dyke.
03:50Well, wouldn't give you seven and sixpence,
03:54for it.
03:55I saw a picture once
03:58of the army and navy.
04:01Shire horses in the snow.
04:04Nothing else.
04:06Just a bit of broken-down fence
04:08and three horses.
04:11It was dangerous good.
04:16If I'd been a rich man, I'd have bought that.
04:18I mean, you could see
04:22how cold those poor brutes really felt.
04:29All this rubbish is supposed to be valuable.
04:31That must be worth a fortune.
04:33She's not enjoying herself, is she?
04:37Wouldn't like one of my girls to look like that.
04:40Didn't she have something on her mind?
04:43Wonderful fellow, Mondor.
04:46Putting up with all this foreign trash in his house.
04:49Nobody, if I would.
04:50God knows why he married that hell hag.
04:54I'd drown her if I were him.
04:55So he had come after all.
05:03The back of a head, when seen at a ball,
05:05can have the most agitating effect on a young girl.
05:09There is the question,
05:11will he turn round?
05:13Will he see her?
05:14I must explain that the image
05:16of the Duke de Sauveterre
05:17having reigned in my hopeless heart for months
05:20had been replaced by something more serious,
05:24with more reality and promise.
05:26Who's that brute?
05:46Why is he coming over here?
05:49Good evening.
05:51May I have the pleasure of this dance?
05:53Of course.
05:54I am a public-spirited, Mondor.
06:15I ask you,
06:16look at that sewer.
06:19Come now, Matthew.
06:20The Serbs were our allies, you know.
06:23There's a Serb, is it?
06:24Just what one would expect.
06:26We need to shave.
06:28Hogs, one and all.
06:32German ambassador, this is on her own.
06:35Serbs are right.
06:36My dear Matthew, just the very man,
06:39Ernest von RavensbrÃŧck,
06:41may I introduce my neighbour, Lord Orkney?
06:45Supper is served in the music room,
06:47you know the way, Matthew.
06:48There's going to be trouble ahead, Sadie.
07:07Oh, I'm sure he'll behave himself.
07:09Storm clouds are gathering over Europe.
07:12We need some joy all this while we can.
07:19Excuse me, General Browning.
07:22The masks are round.
07:24Oh, she's a beauty.
07:45I quite see that.
07:47She doesn't attract me.
07:49That sulky expression.
07:51I'm sure she's very dull.
07:54Hello, my sweet.
07:58What news of the boulder?
08:01Are you still in love?
08:05What's all this?
08:07Who is that woman?
08:10Is it true that you're in love?
08:12Mrs. Chansley Corbett.
08:14And how about love?
08:17Nothing.
08:18Just a joke.
08:20Good.
08:21I should like you to be on the verge of love, but not quite yet in it.
08:29That's a very nice state of mind when it lasts.
08:31Engaged.
08:44Well, I suppose that's very nice.
08:47Alfred Winsham, did you say?
08:51Who is he?
08:52What is that name?
08:53He's a don at Oxford.
08:54Oh, dear.
08:55How extraordinary.
08:56You don't want to go and live at Oxford, surely?
08:59Oh, I do.
08:59In Spain, it's quite different.
09:02Don's a somebody there, I believe.
09:05Oh, well, I suppose this Mr. Thing can always settle down and write books.
09:10It always gives a man status if he writes a book.
09:12I advise you to start a morph on that immediately.
09:14I'm afraid I haven't much influence with him.
09:17Well, develop it, dear.
09:18Quick.
09:18No use marrying a man you can't influence.
09:21Men are so lazy by nature.
09:24Mondor, for example.
09:26Forever trying to take a little nap in the afternoon, but I won't hear of it.
09:29Once you start that, I tell him you might as well be dead.
09:32Now, what does your Aunt Emily think?
09:35Oh, she's awfully pleased.
09:36Oh, she's hopeless.
09:39You really should ask my advice about this sort of thing.
09:42And we'll have to get you out of it.
09:44I believe it will be the kindest in the long run.
09:46Oh, no.
09:47Why not, dear?
09:48It isn't in the paper yet.
09:50It will be tomorrow.
09:51I'll telephone Geoffrey Dawson now and have it stopped.
09:53Please.
09:54No, please not.
09:55She wants to marry him, Mummy.
09:57She's in love.
09:58Love?
09:59Whoever invented love ought to be shot.
10:02I should have thought the example of your mother would have taught you something.
10:05Where has love landed her?
10:08As for you, young lady, tell me, what exactly are you planning to do with your life?
10:16Not now, Mummy.
10:17Do you intend to live at home and go mooning on like this forever?
10:20What else can I do?
10:22You haven't exactly trained me for a career, have you?
10:24I've trained you for marriage, which in my opinion is by far the best career open to any woman.
10:30But how can I marry if nobody asks me?
10:35You should give them some encouragement.
10:38The number of young men who've said, isn't she lovely, and then gone off with some chinless
10:42little creature from Cadogan Square.
10:44Can't you be a little jollier, nicer with them?
10:49No man cares to make love to a dummy, you know.
10:51It's too discouraging.
10:52I don't want to be made love to.
10:56Then what do you want?
10:58To be hanging around forever, a sour old maid, and you'll be the sour kind.
11:03That's too obvious already.
11:05Whistened up and sour.
11:06Shut up.
11:09Holly.
11:15Holly.
11:16Holly.
11:16Holly.
11:16Linda was very ill indeed at her confinement.
11:28The doctors told her she must never have another child, as it would almost certainly kill her if she did.
11:34Isn't it hideous?
11:36Like a howling orange in a black wig.
11:39Really, it's kind of not to look.
11:41What's he going to call her?
11:43Moira, I believe.
11:46Oh, not Moira, darling.
11:48I never heard such an awful name.
11:49It's too unkind.
11:51Well, it'll have to grow up on Moira if the Crozies are going to like it.
11:54And they might as well like it.
11:56Because, frankly, I don't.
11:59Linda, how can you be so naughty?
12:01You can't possibly tell whether you like her a lot yet.
12:04Oh, yes, I can.
12:05I can always tell if I like people from the start.
12:07And I don't like Moira.
12:09She's a fearful counter-hot.
12:13Oh, do take it away, Manny.
12:17Poor thing must have caught sight of itself in the glass.
12:20Oh, don't pay any attention to her.
12:23She pretends to be a wicked woman.
12:25But it's all put on.
12:29Oh.
12:29Now, you must tell me all about you and Alfred.
12:38When are you going to get married?
12:40In the spring.
12:42You really love him, don't you?
12:45Yes.
12:47How lucky Moira.
12:49Fancy being able to marry a man you love.
12:51I hate the lower classes.
12:58Ravening beasts trying to get my money.
13:00I'll just let them try, that's all.
13:02I love them.
13:04Anyway, I was brought up with them.
13:06Nobody should be in Parliament who hasn't lived in the country.
13:10My old father knows more what he's talking about in the House than you do.
13:12The last time your father made a speech,
13:16his only argument for keeping peeresses out of the Lords
13:19was that they might use the Peer's lavatory.
13:22Isn't he a love?
13:24It's what they all thought, but he was the only one who dared say it.
13:27Well, that's the worst of the House of Lords.
13:30These backwardsmen bringing the whole place into disrepute
13:34with a few dotty remarks
13:35which give people the impression we are governed by a lot of lunatics.
13:39Tell me.
13:44Communism is the way for it.
13:46Communism is the way of justice.
13:48After a terrible war that caused so much suffering
13:51and animals to fall and fall,
13:52the working classes are once again being treated like dogs,
13:58kicked and beaten by their masters.
14:01The storm clouds are gathering across Europe.
14:04The ruling classes are blind to the threat of war.
14:07Appeasement is their watchword
14:09and by appeasing they end all our hopes of peace.
14:13It is the working classes who have most to lose
14:15if the Spanish war spreads through Europe.
14:18It is the working classes
14:19who will be taken from their families
14:21and made to fight like animals for their lives.
14:24We can come together as one great brotherhood of man
14:27to forge a better life for all classes,
14:30but we must act now.
14:33Communism is the way forward.
14:35Communism is the way of justice.
14:37Communism is the only system
14:39that will save the dispossessed throughout Europe
14:41from once again being led like cattle to the slaughter.
14:44It is the working classes
14:46who will be taken from their families
14:48and treated like animals
14:50in the service of their masters.
14:52We can fight back.
14:54The working people of Europe need your help
14:57if they are to unite and fight the oppressors.
15:00Join the struggle now.
15:01Go on, mate.
15:03Accept responsibility.
15:05Would you like on the breeze?
15:19That was so interesting
15:23and so sad about the animals.
15:29Oh, isn't everything absolutely awful?
15:32I'm so glad somebody was listening.
15:34We must all embrace the struggle,
15:37all the classes.
15:39We must unite to make people's lives better.
15:42Oh, I do so agree.
15:47My brother Matt's in your old house at evening.
15:52Matt.
15:53Radlett.
15:54Of course.
15:56He admires your work so much.
15:58Would you like to come and have some tea?
16:03Yes, please.
16:04But Matt wasn't in school.
16:27For he had just run away to Spain
16:29to fight against the fascists.
16:30And the last might let us place
16:39The international party
16:43He united the human race
16:47And the last might let us place
16:51The international party
16:55He united the human race
16:59Alfred and I had just returned
17:02from our honeymoon.
17:04Thank you, sir.
17:10Wait, don't answer it.
17:12No, no, no.
17:15Come on, Mr. Bencher.
17:17But she said she'd be back today.
17:30I wish I could run away.
17:31I have nearly enough money now.
17:35He's only 17.
17:41Well, at least I've got a sense
17:42to bump off a lot of idolatrous priests.
17:46Still seems a pity
17:47to fight a second-class war
17:49when there's soon to be
17:50a first-class one available.
18:00Your family, honestly...
18:03Oh, shut up, Tony.
18:05That isn't even fighting for the right side.
18:07What people need
18:09is strong leadership.
18:14You know, I have more and more faith
18:15in this Herr Hitler.
18:19You know, my father visited him in Germany.
18:21Yes, Tony.
18:25Now, Linda, do try to behave yourself
18:27at the Altringhams.
18:31And don't, for God's sake,
18:33mention your brother.
18:33He's a perfect heaven.
18:44I never knew politics
18:45could be so interesting.
18:47But you hate politics.
18:50Well, it's always so boring
18:52when Tony talks about it.
18:54You know, whether some infinitely old man
18:56is going to get some infinitely dull job.
18:58But Christian knows so much
19:01about what people suffer
19:02and how to make life better for them.
19:09So are you a communist now?
19:12Well, at least one knows
19:13they're doing good, not harm,
19:15and not living on people's slavery
19:16like Celeste.
19:18So what does Christian do all day?
19:21He's writing a book about famine.
19:24It's so sad.
19:25And there's this dear little Chinese comrade
19:27who comes and tells him
19:28what famine is like.
19:29You never saw such a fat man
19:32in your life.
19:33Linda was ready for a cause
19:35or a love affair.
19:36And that a cause should be presented
19:38by an attractive young man
19:39made it and him irresistible.
19:42Well, there's an anarchist, too.
19:44I always thought that communists
19:46and anarchists were the same thing,
19:47but they're not at all.
19:48The communists hate the anarchists,
19:50except for this one,
19:52because he threw a bomb
19:53at the King of Spain.
19:54You must say it's romantic.
19:56Lady Polly?
20:02Lady Polly, you want it
20:03in the drawing room.
20:08Why?
20:09I'm not to say, miss.
20:11Polly, dear,
20:39something terrible has happened.
20:40Your aunt Patricia is dead.
20:52Oh!
20:53It's the dropping off the perches.
21:10I've always dreaded
21:10when that begins.
21:13Soon we shall all be gone.
21:14Oh, well, I'm among her.
21:23I don't understand
21:24why Polly isn't here.
21:26Sonia says she's been known
21:27for the past two days.
21:28She took her terribly badly.
21:30I had no idea
21:31she was particularly devoted
21:33to Lady Polly.
21:33She's...
21:34I don't know.
21:35I don't know.
21:35I don't know.
21:35I don't know.
21:36I don't know.
21:37I don't know.
21:38I don't know.
21:39Come on, come on.
22:09Let's go.
22:39Linzer.
23:09Boy, dear, I've just been talking to the stonemason.
23:29I thought she shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
23:34What do you think?
23:36Mm-hmm.
23:40Polly, what are you doing?
23:42It's very late.
23:42Go and get dressed.
23:43There's a good girl.
23:45I've got something to tell you.
23:49Boy and I are going to be married.
23:51What?
24:17What?
24:47There's a car coming.
24:50What?
24:51A car.
24:52Inside, Emma.
24:53Come on.
24:54Get out of there.
24:56Jessie.
25:17Get down, everyone!
25:35We're not at home!
25:48Good God.
25:57The Mondaws!
25:59Polly's going to marry boy.
26:02Aunt Patricia not cold in her grave.
26:05But he's Polly's uncle.
26:07Well, only by marriage.
26:09How could he do this to me?
26:12My beautiful daughter.
26:15I've always loathed that, Dugdale.
26:19Boy Dugdale.
26:20Like a blasted lady's maid, creeping and crawling around.
26:23Matthew.
26:24I'll go there now and shoot the sewer.
26:25Matthew, dear, calm down.
26:26After all I've done for her!
26:29When I think of all the suitable men,
26:32I wouldn't even have minded if she'd married a banker like Linda.
26:36Not now.
26:37Not after this.
26:45What?
26:46Don't mention Linda.
26:47He's terribly upset.
26:48Why?
26:49She's left her husband.
26:50She ran away last week with a communist called Christian Talbot.
26:54Oh.
26:55Do we know him?
26:56We don't know what to do.
26:57Now, I want to send Polly here for a week or two.
26:58Of course.
26:59I can't deal with the sight of her.
27:00Sadie, I rely on you.
27:01Maybe you can make her see some sense.
27:02And, of course.
27:03I can't deal with the sight of her.
27:04Sadie, I rely on you.
27:05Maybe you can make her see some sense and stop this ridiculous fairy.
27:06It is.
27:07Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
27:08Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
27:09Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
27:10Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
27:29I've put his name in the drawer.
27:50I was invited down to Walkenley to help with this delicate situation.
27:54If Boy wants to stay here for a few days before you elope to Gret the Green,
27:59there's plenty of food for him and we'll buy school to the post office with any letters.
28:03There's a telephone there, rather public, but you could always talk in French.
28:07Oh, you are sweet.
28:09But I don't really see the point of making all those efforts
28:12when I shall soon be with Boy for the whole rest of my life.
28:15Besides, I don't want to annoy your mother when she's being such an angel to have me here.
28:24I won't be so boring when I run away.
28:28How can you marry him, Polly?
28:33We always used to laugh at him.
28:36Dear Fanny, you don't understand anything.
28:38I've been in love with him for years.
28:44Of course, he wasn't free to marry then.
28:50When did he propose?
28:52Oh, Boy didn't propose to me.
28:55I don't think he ever would have.
28:57I mean, being so wonderfully unselfish
28:59and thinking that it matters for me not being left things in wills and all that rubbish.
29:04Oh, is that true?
29:06You won't mind.
29:07Besides, he knew what a hullabaloo mummy would make.
29:11No, I knew I'd have to do the proposing, and I did.
29:15It wasn't very difficult.
29:19Oh, isn't being happy wonderful?
29:24Aunt Sadie tried, too.
29:28You have to remember, dear,
29:31that marriage is a very intimate relationship.
29:35It's not just sitting and chatting to a person.
29:43There are other things you know.
29:47I've seen no one for weeks.
30:00They've all been avoiding me.
30:03They think you're still in mourning.
30:05Oh, no, no, no.
30:08No, they've heard about my engagement.
30:11Becoming...
30:13...a social outcast.
30:19Are you all right?
30:23No.
30:23Sonia gave me this cold.
30:26I'm sure she'd be very pleased if she knew.
30:31Oh, dear, I do miss her.
30:33And my dear wife.
30:41Maybe you should delay things.
30:43Why?
30:45Do I long to marry Polly?
30:47But it wasn't even your idea.
30:50Well, of course it was.
30:51Once she'd suggested it.
30:56God sees all, knows all, is all.
31:01God shines a light into every corner of the human hearts
31:06and he does not like what he sees.
31:09They did not ask for this war.
31:11It is visited upon them
31:14by the forces of international fascism.
31:17For what happens in Spain today
31:20may happen here tomorrow.
31:24We simply can't sit back and do nothing
31:26when children are starved.
31:29Because the tools of production,
31:32the factories and farms and things,
31:34are in the hands of the awful, awful capitalist masters.
31:39For the women and foreigners
31:42are toiling in domestic slavery.
31:46There's no money.
31:48So we must fight, comrade,
31:51for the equality of all people.
31:54And knock down the class barriers
31:57between us and the poor working people.
32:00Not forgetting animals.
32:02So join the Communist Party today.
32:10We've been most grateful
32:11if we would contribute to the cause.
32:13It is a disaster.
32:15But she was so unhappy with Tony.
32:17Naturally, she could never have stayed with her husband.
32:19Nobody expected that.
32:22But Christian Talbot?
32:26If she's in love with him,
32:27he will make her miserable.
32:28And if not,
32:31it means that she has embarked upon a career
32:33like your mother's,
32:34and that for Linda would be very bad indeed.
32:37She says she's happy.
32:39He'll never sit and chat to her
32:42or concentrate upon her in any way.
32:45And she is a woman who requires, above all things,
32:47a great deal of concentration.
32:49Really, it is too bad.
32:51Being a Communist is so tiring.
32:55I had no idea.
32:56Linda.
32:57Do give me some tea.
32:58Linda?
32:59And their parties are simply killing.
33:02They're always held in these gloomy places.
33:04Well, I don't see the point of sad parties, do you?
33:07Linda.
33:08My dear.
33:10You are making a terrible mistake.
33:14Left-wing people are always dreadfully gloomy
33:17because they mind so much about their causes.
33:19And their causes are always going so terribly badly.
33:22How has Tony taken all this?
33:28Oh, he's awfully pleased
33:29because now he can marry his mistress without having a scandal.
33:33Linda, his mistress?
33:34She's a terrific counterhorn.
33:37Father works in the foreign office, frightfully grand.
33:40Looks like a deep-sea monster, you know.
33:42What about your baby?
33:46Well, she adores Moira, so that's all right.
33:48I didn't feel the least bit guilty.
33:50They'll all do much better without me.
33:52Now, do tell me about Polly and boy.
34:01Well, how could she marry him?
34:04He groped fanny once under the table.
34:07Do you remember when we were children
34:10all those sexy pinches on the nursery landing?
34:13Do you remember when we were children?
34:43Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?
35:07Please say after me,
35:20I, Harvey, take thee, Leopoldina.
35:24I, Harvey, take thee, Leopoldina.
35:28To be my lawful wedded wife.
35:44To be...
35:45To be my lawful wedded wife.
35:48To have unto hold from this day forward.
35:51To have unto hold from this day forward.
35:53For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer.
35:57So, Hampton House, Mondore House,
36:03Craigside Castle,
36:04the property and coal mines in Northumberland,
36:08the extensive further properties in London,
36:10and the remaining estate of your father,
36:13valued at ÂŖ2 million sterling,
36:16will henceforth be transferred
36:18to Lord Mondore's single, surviving male heir,
36:21Cedric Hampton.
36:23Cedric Hampton.
36:24Cedric Hampton.
36:25Cedric Hampton.
36:26Cedric Hampton.
36:53Well, who is this Cedric Hampton?
37:07Oh, some long-lost cousin.
37:09He comes from Nova Scotia.
37:11In Canada?
37:13What is he?
37:15A lumberjack?
37:16One thing we do know, he's going to be terribly rich.
37:22I do mean a capitalist oppressor.
37:26Being a conservative was easy.
37:28It takes place within certain hours, and then it finishes.
37:32Whereas being a communist seems to eat up all of one's life.
37:36Still, the comrades are such horny, Fanny.
37:39At least one knows they're not doing any harm.
37:42What sort of comrade runs this place?
37:44A huge, perfectly silent one called Boris.
37:47But Thursday is his day for getting drunk.
37:52Linda, my dear.
37:57What's that?
37:59Good morning.
38:00Good morning.
38:01Good morning.
38:02Hi.
38:03I always come here on Thursdays.
38:06Why?
38:07Because Linda puts her favourite books out.
38:09So instead of a challenge to coal owners, we get King Solomon's Mines.
38:13And instead of Karl Marx's The Formative Years.
38:15The Making of a Martianess.
38:16What a bliss!
38:17I've been looking for it for ages.
38:19It's the only red bookshop in England that makes a profit.
38:22Have you heard from Polly?
38:26No.
38:27Well, not since I moved to Italy.
38:30She told me they couldn't afford to live in England.
38:32You know you had to rent out Selkin.
38:34Yes.
38:35What a mess.
38:37Still at least you're happy, dear Fanny.
38:41When are you going to get married?
38:45Next month.
38:46I think it's rather silly.
38:48Once is enough.
38:49But Ma says I'm the sort of person one marries if one's living with them.
38:54Besides, Christian wants to.
38:56Even though he is a communist.
39:02Lord Merlin was right.
39:03I was happy.
39:05But as the months passed, I feared for my friends Polly and Linda.
39:09I feared that they had just glimpsed a mirage rather than a real happiness.
39:14Though they wouldn't, of course, admit it.
39:17I didn't expect anyone.
39:26It's Lady Mondore.
39:29I'm going to my study.
39:30Oh, well, don't leave me alone with her.
39:33I have got to finish those essays.
39:35Oh, coward!
39:37Oh, tea.
39:50It's a thousand pitters you're so dreadfully poor.
39:54I hate to see you living in this horrid little hovel.
39:57Oh, how weak you have it.
40:00No, no, no, no, no.
40:02This will do quite well.
40:03Yes, Mondore was talking to the bishop only the other day, and he says your husband is really quite clever.
40:13Oh, he is.
40:15He is the cleverest man I've ever met.
40:17I suppose he thinks I'm a very stupid person.
40:20No, no, no, he doesn't.
40:24I suppose he thinks I never read.
40:26Many people think that because they see me leading this active life, wearing myself out for others.
40:32I mean, it's all very well for funny little people like you, who have only yourselves to consider.
40:40And if I might offer you a little advice, Fanny, it would be to read fewer books and to make your home slightly more comfortable.
40:47That is what a man appreciates in the long run.
40:53Now, dear, I want you to come to Hampton next Tuesday.
40:57Cedric Hampton is coming to stay.
40:59Cedric Hampton?
41:01He comes for a fortnight.
41:03I wrote out the dates very carefully indeed.
41:05I always do when it's a question of a country house visit.
41:08Then there is no awkwardness about the length of it.
41:31Oh, it's only you.
41:37Hello.
41:40Hello.
41:45Do you think we shall hear the motor when it comes up the drive?
41:47Why shall? I hear everything.
41:49We're not stone deaf, you know.
41:51I expect you'll be the outdoors type.
41:54They all are in Nova Scotia.
41:56Or maybe he could help with the tree felling.
41:59I do hope he won't bring in any mud.
42:02We should have covered the Oberson.
42:04Mr. Cedric Hampton.
42:05Mr. Cedric Hampton.
42:14Don't speak.
42:15Just for a moment.
42:29Just let me go on looking at you wonderful, wonderful people.
42:36Welcome to Hampton.
42:49The beauty of it.
42:51This house so romantic.
42:54Such a repository of treasures.
42:57And above all, you two.
43:00The most beautiful people I have ever seen.
43:08Won't you take off your spectacles?
43:10I should like to see your eyes.
43:12Later, dear Lady Munt, or later.
43:15When my dreadful, paralyzing shyness is quite worn off.
43:20Oh.
43:21This is a cousin of ours and a distant relation of yours, Cedric.
43:29Fanny Winsham.
43:34I'm enchanted to meet you, Mrs. Winsham.
43:38You are a missus, I hope, aren't you?
43:41Yes.
43:43Oh, yes.
43:44I can tell you are not a spinster.
43:47Oh, bull.
43:51Mm.
43:52Mm.
43:56Senor Bossi.
43:59Limoges.
44:00What very important pieces.
44:03You're obviously an expert.
44:05I adore France, you see.
44:08It's one's idea of heaven.
44:11Did you live there?
44:12I was sent to Paris by my guardian, a banker, to learn some horrid sort of job.
44:17I quite forget what, as I never had to go near it.
44:21Why not?
44:23It is not necessary to have jobs in Paris.
44:27One's friends are so very, very kind.
44:31I've never been very fond of France.
44:33The people are so frivolous.
44:35I prefer the Germans.
44:37Germans?
44:39The frivolity of the Germans terrifies even one.
44:43I have a German friend in Paris.
44:45And a more frivolous creature, Lady Montar, does not exist.
44:49Oh.
44:51He has caused me many a heartache.
44:54I hope you'll make some suitable English friends now, Cedric.
44:57Yes.
44:59Yes.
45:00That I long for.
45:02But please, can my chief English friend be you, dear Lady Montar?
45:09I think you should call us Aunt Sonia and Uncle Montar.
45:16May I really?
45:21Oh, how charming you are.
45:23Aunt Sonia, you seem to shower happiness around you.
45:34Yes, I do.
45:36I live for others, I suppose, that's why.
45:40The sad thing is that people have not always appreciated it.
45:43They are so selfish themselves.
45:46You were in India here.
45:48They must have worshipped you there.
45:50Worshipped?
45:51I can see you riding on your elephant like a goddess.
45:56It was quite touching.
45:59And, of course, we did a very great deal for them.
46:02I think I may say that we put India on the map.
46:05Hardly any of one's friends in England had ever even heard of India before we went there, you know.
46:10How fascinating.
46:12Did you keep a journal when you were there?
46:14Oh, please say yes. I would so love to read it.
46:17It's really a sort of scrapbook.
46:20Um, journeys up country.
46:23Um, letters of appreciation from Rogers.
46:27And Indian poetry translated by Mondor.
46:31Oh.
46:33Mm-hmm.
46:35Prayer of a widow before Suti.
46:37Death of an old mahout.
46:39Touching, isn't it?
46:41Makes you cry.
46:43Oh, I must read it every word. I can hardly wait.
46:48From that moment there was no question of Cedric coming to Hampton for a fortnight.
46:53He was obviously there for good.
46:55And after dinner, Aunt Sonia, will you let me see you and your jewels?
47:00My jewels.
47:02My jewels.
47:06Have you some maculage in your bag, dear? And a cone?
47:17Naughty you.
47:19Oh, never mind.
47:20We've got to show the bone structure so beautiful on you.
47:27I think we'll have to find you a new croffer.
47:30Over the next few months, Lady Mondor became transformed.
47:36It goes quite hard.
47:39And in the morning, you can't smile.
47:43Not a glimmer.
47:45Not even at one.
47:46So you can't telephone until you've removed it.
47:51Because you know if you telephone smilessly, you sound cross.
47:56And if it happened to be one on the other end, well...
48:00One couldn't bear that.
48:06Before you come into a room, say brush.
48:11Brush?
48:12Brush.
48:13I got it out of a very old book on deportment.
48:17It fixes this very gay smile on one's face.
48:22Brush.
48:24Brush.
48:28No, no.
48:30Brush.
48:32Brush.
48:34Brush.
48:36Brush.
48:38Brush.
48:40Brush.
48:41Brush.
48:42Brush.
48:43Brush.
48:44Brush.
48:45Brush.
48:46Brush.
48:47Brush.
48:48Brush.
48:49Brush.
48:50Brush.
48:51Brush.
48:52Brush.
48:53Brush.
48:55Brush.
48:57Brush.
49:01She's a darling.
49:03So young.
49:04So delicious.
49:06I do hope I should be just like her when I'm a hundred.
49:09Darling.
49:10Darling, darling Muffet.
49:11Aren't they heaven, men like that?
49:14Nature's form of birth control, I always think.
49:17Look how she adores him.
49:19No, of course not.
49:20Quite forgotten her daughter.
49:22Cedric, darling.
49:24Verontes.
49:25Well, you have done well for yourself.
49:26I'm not bad for a working girl.
49:27Well, you have done well for yourself.
49:28I'm not bad for a working girl.
49:32An hour.
49:45Early in 1939, the population of Catalonia streamed over the Pyrenees into France.
49:53Where they found no promised land, for the French put them into camps and forgot all about them.
49:58Christian rushed off to Perpignan to work with the refugees, and he sent for Linda to join him.
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