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00:00:00The End
00:01:30Written in the last century by this man, the great poet Jeffrey Ashton, to the beautiful
00:01:37Juliana Bortereau.
00:01:40Over 30 years ago, I, Louis Vanderbilt, then an ambitious young publisher, read those letters.
00:01:46For a few amazing, tormented hours, I held them in my hand.
00:01:51Literary treasures that publishers from Europe and America had sought long and desperately.
00:01:56It all began with a brief tantalizing note from a derelict artist, Charles Russell, who
00:02:02had vanished years before on the continent.
00:02:39Venice.
00:02:40I remember the long journey from New York.
00:02:43I remember standing down on the footway of the canal waiting for Charles.
00:02:48And as I waited phrases from his letter to me echoed through my mind.
00:02:53Julianna Bordereau, still alive.
00:02:57Surely she has his letters, Lewis.
00:03:00What a success for you if you got them.
00:03:03The publishing triumph of the decade.
00:03:06What would you like to do about it?
00:03:16Welcome to Venice, Lewis.
00:03:18How have you been, Charles?
00:03:23Have you made the arrangements?
00:03:26Yes, I have.
00:03:28All right.
00:03:41There it is, Lewis.
00:03:44Juliana.
00:03:46In that house, still alive.
00:03:49The immortal Juliana.
00:03:52105.
00:03:54That is pretty close to immortal, isn't it?
00:03:57That's where they met.
00:03:59He came to this house as a guest to have Martin Bordereau paint his portrait.
00:04:04And he met Juliana.
00:04:06The exquisite Juliana.
00:04:08This is where it began.
00:04:10The same Lewis Venable.
00:04:13Always at home with the past.
00:04:16Who would ever have thought that she'd still be here, in Venice.
00:04:21In that house.
00:04:25Have you seen her?
00:04:27No, I doubt if anyone ever sees her.
00:04:30Except her niece, Miss Tina Bordereau, and the servants.
00:04:35They're expecting me.
00:04:36There'll be no slip-up.
00:04:37No, I left a deposit of 50 francs with the housekeeper.
00:04:40I think they needed the money badly.
00:04:42Tomorrow they're expecting you.
00:04:44I followed your instructions that you were William Burton, a young writer from America.
00:04:51Well, if everything is as you say it is.
00:04:54It is.
00:04:55You'll be well rewarded.
00:04:57How well?
00:04:59I'll send you $500 tomorrow.
00:05:03If you get the letters, Lewis, and publish them, you'll make a great deal of money.
00:05:12I'm not concerned about that, Charles.
00:05:15Whatever money may come of this will go to those who are entitled to it.
00:05:19To Juliana, perhaps.
00:05:22Do you know that Jeffrey Ashton was last seen in that house?
00:05:41One of these days she'll catch you in here and that'll be the end of you.
00:05:52Why don't you see who it is, Amelia?
00:06:13I think you should pull the drapes.
00:06:15The sun's beginning to come into the room.
00:06:22Amelia, did you lull the cats into the house?
00:06:24I thought I heard...
00:06:25No, Miss Tina.
00:06:26I didn't hear anything.
00:06:36Si, signore.
00:06:37Good day, signorina.
00:06:39I am William Burton from America.
00:06:44Would you be good enough to tell your lady that I...
00:06:46Miss Tina, he's come.
00:06:52Miss Bordereau.
00:06:55Miss Bordereau.
00:06:56How do you do, Mr. Burton?
00:06:58I've been expected.
00:06:59Yes, you've been expected.
00:07:02This seems a perfect place to write.
00:07:05If I'm not tempted away from work, I should finish my novel by the end of the summer.
00:07:09I'll tell my aunt you've arrived.
00:07:11You and your aunt live here by yourselves?
00:07:13Yes.
00:07:15Isn't it a bit lonely here for you?
00:07:16It's only being with people that makes one lonely.
00:07:20Miss Bordereau.
00:07:22I shouldn't like to come here against your will.
00:07:24It's her will that counts.
00:07:33My poor kiddies.
00:07:34You had to stay here all this time behind that curtain.
00:07:39Please, Kitty.
00:07:40Please.
00:07:41Do you want to get all of us in trouble?
00:07:42Please.
00:07:46She hates them.
00:07:47She told me if she ever finds them in here again...
00:07:49In that case, we'd better get them out of here.
00:07:51My poor kiddies.
00:07:52I won't let her hurt you.
00:07:53She, um...
00:07:54She wouldn't really hurt them, would she?
00:07:55You don't know, Miss Tina.
00:07:56The things she says.
00:07:57You mustn't tell her they were in here.
00:07:58I won't.
00:07:59I promise you, I won't.
00:08:00Don't be so frightened.
00:08:01You don't know her.
00:08:02You don't know this house.
00:08:04So far as I can see, this is the loveliest house in all Venice.
00:08:09Not only that.
00:08:10You and I shall be friends.
00:08:11Oh, yes, senor.
00:08:12Yes.
00:08:13Yes.
00:08:14Amelia.
00:08:15Amelia.
00:08:16Amelia.
00:08:17Amelia.
00:08:18What are you talking about?
00:08:19Making more trouble?
00:08:20I told you never to speak with strangers.
00:08:21Yes, senor.
00:08:22Yes.
00:08:23Yes.
00:08:24Amelia.
00:08:25You must not tell her they were in here.
00:08:26I won't.
00:08:27I promise you, I won't.
00:08:28Don't be so frightened.
00:08:29You don't know her.
00:08:30You don't know this house.
00:08:31So far as I can see, this is the loveliest house in all Venice.
00:08:33Not only that.
00:08:34You and I shall be friends.
00:08:36Oh, yes, senor.
00:08:37Yes.
00:08:38Amelia.
00:08:39What are you talking about?
00:08:40Making more trouble?
00:08:41I told you never to speak with strangers.
00:08:42Yes, ma'am.
00:08:43Yes.
00:08:44I'm just waiting for Miss Bortereau.
00:08:49Had Geoffrey Ashton once lived in this cold, forbidding house?
00:08:54I felt the past close in around me like a fog, filling me with a nameless fear.
00:09:15I had a sudden impulse to turn and leave.
00:09:19Then I remembered the letters.
00:09:22The door to the present shut behind me.
00:09:52Mr. Burton, my aunt will see you.
00:09:59My aunt is very, very old.
00:10:18Try not to stay too long.
00:10:21Mr. Burton is here.
00:10:26Mr. Burton is here.
00:10:28Sorry, but yes.
00:10:29Can I see you man?
00:10:30I have to keep you by paying attention.
00:10:32This is the divine Juliana of Ashton's poem.
00:10:38this was the divine juliana of ashton's poem
00:10:53an ancient hooded skull old old beyond my wildest expectations i sit down
00:11:08tina doesn't like strangers strangers sometimes prowl i assure you i'd hear you
00:11:24i never sleep i hear every sound in this house
00:11:32tina thinks i should send you away and juliana i warned you
00:11:41be quiet we don't want anyone in this house it's not wanting it's needing
00:11:47and you're quite unpleasant to this young man
00:11:53do you think that's right when he leaves he should remember us pleasantly
00:12:01be nice tina be nice
00:12:05mr burton if you want to live here it will cost you a great deal of money
00:12:13i thought the arrangements had been made things have changed 200 francs a month for a furnished
00:12:20nothing is furnished and if you want to live here i do i want a thousand francs a month
00:12:35i'll pay it i want it in gold today three months in advance today
00:12:46go now very well
00:12:53bye miss boiro
00:13:00your rooms are across the galleria i'll show them to you now
00:13:18there are three rooms here that connect with each other
00:13:36you have your own entrance from the garden
00:13:43your mail will be brought to you
00:13:49you're determined to seal me off from the rest of the house
00:13:55why the arrangements were made for these rooms mr burton
00:13:59since you uh feel so strongly about me
00:14:03perhaps it'd be better if my ad insists we have very little choice in the matter
00:14:08we need the money and you're willing to pay an extravagant price for this why mr burton
00:14:27i'd hope to be here earlier but by the time i've been to the bank and bought some things
00:14:34i'm not coming at a bad time it doesn't matter in that event if pietro could have the keys
00:14:41amelia will you show this man where mr burton's rooms are
00:14:48come in please
00:15:03i thought if you didn't mind pietro could have the keys
00:15:07come in please
00:15:14i thought if you didn't mind pietro could take care of the garden
00:15:17he'll uh
00:15:19he'll have plenty of time
00:15:20i wrote out an agreement
00:15:22we can both sign it if it's satisfactory to you
00:15:25we you mean your aunt i mean i'll sign it for her
00:15:28thank you
00:15:53thank you
00:16:14was that parish priest i saw leaving the house yes father rinaldo your aunt isn't
00:16:19you needn't worry it's nothing serious
00:16:22i'm glad
00:16:23she seems so old so frail
00:16:27she couldn't really be your aunt
00:16:30there must be generations between you
00:16:33here's your copy of the agreement mr burton
00:16:36here's your
00:16:49and
00:16:51here's
00:16:53here's
00:16:54here's
00:16:55what i'm gonna say
00:16:56what i'm gonna say
00:16:57here's
00:16:59Amelia.
00:17:05Come here, Amelia.
00:17:13You wanted to talk to me about something?
00:17:17I'm pleased you wanted to see me. Come in.
00:17:26You can sit there, Amelia. It's very comfortable.
00:17:30You can visit me whenever you like.
00:17:36Or did someone send you?
00:17:39Oh, no. I just wanted to see.
00:17:46It's going to be a pretty room now.
00:17:48I'm glad you like it.
00:17:51My mother would beat me if she knew I was here.
00:17:55They don't like you.
00:17:56Who doesn't like me?
00:18:00I'd better...
00:18:02Miss Tina.
00:18:03I heard them talking.
00:18:06But I like you.
00:18:08What did they say, Amelia?
00:18:10My mother said...
00:18:12You'd bring bad luck.
00:18:13And Miss Tina?
00:18:14She's waking now.
00:18:15She gave my captivator.
00:18:20Don't do that.
00:18:21We'll draw her.
00:18:22Draw your tears.
00:18:24Go on.
00:18:25It's yours.
00:18:26I'll give it to you.
00:18:27I'll give it to you.
00:18:29Remember, I said we were going to be friends.
00:18:30It's so soft.
00:18:31Pretty.
00:18:32It's charming, Amelia.
00:18:33I can wear it to church.
00:18:34Yes.
00:18:35Yes.
00:18:36Yes.
00:18:37Yes.
00:18:38It's charming, Amelia.
00:18:39I can wear it to church.
00:18:40Yes.
00:18:41Yes.
00:18:42Yes.
00:18:43Yes.
00:18:44Yes.
00:18:45Amelia.
00:18:46Is Miss Tina always wicked?
00:18:48No.
00:18:49Sometimes.
00:18:50Sometimes I'm in trouble.
00:18:52I'm in trouble.
00:18:54I'm in trouble.
00:18:55It's so soft.
00:18:56And pretty.
00:18:58And pretty.
00:18:59It's charming, Amelia.
00:19:00I can wear it to church.
00:19:01Yes.
00:19:02Yes.
00:19:04Amelia.
00:19:07Is Miss Tina always wicked?
00:19:10No.
00:19:12Sometimes I'm naked.
00:19:14Sometimes she's kind.
00:19:17Sometimes she...
00:19:19It's better when she's wicked.
00:19:23Mother, protect me.
00:19:25I saw her once.
00:19:26What did you see, Amelia?
00:19:29I have to go back.
00:19:30So soon.
00:19:31I need some milk for my kittens.
00:19:36It's very dark.
00:19:37Shall I light a candle for you?
00:19:39Oh, no.
00:19:41I know my way.
00:19:44I know all the rooms and all the ways to get to them.
00:19:47I hide sometimes.
00:19:49I have secret places.
00:19:53I know everything about this house.
00:19:56Perhaps, Sal,
00:19:58one day you'll take me with you.
00:20:11No!
00:20:12I don't do anything.
00:20:14I don't do anything.
00:20:15I don't do anything.
00:20:16I don't do anything.
00:20:16Give it, girl.
00:20:17No!
00:20:18It's mine.
00:20:20It's mine.
00:20:21No!
00:20:21No!
00:20:22I don't like strangers.
00:20:27We haven't had a cut of beef like that in a year.
00:20:41We haven't had a cut of beef like that in a year.
00:20:48What are you looking at?
00:20:50The gardener.
00:20:52He's putting weeds.
00:20:54Your eyes and your head.
00:20:55You have enough to tell the priest already, taking that handkerchief.
00:20:59You want to be sent away?
00:21:00Good morning.
00:21:02Good morning.
00:21:04It looks like another warm day.
00:21:06The kettle's boiling.
00:21:07That's good.
00:21:09Miss Juliana's feeling very well this morning.
00:21:11She's sitting out on the balcony in the sun.
00:21:13You've been crying, Amelia.
00:21:19That lodger.
00:21:20It brings us bad luck, Miss Tina.
00:21:23Sugar jar fell and broke this morning.
00:21:26Last night there was a ring around the moon.
00:21:29Saints preserve us.
00:21:30In all the years I've been here, there's never been a man in this house.
00:21:34And now a stranger.
00:21:35All those boxes and books.
00:21:38He's carrying a walking stick.
00:21:50Mr. Burton must have some business in the city.
00:22:05That's a different place.
00:22:09Let's go.
00:22:10Let's go.
00:22:11Here come here.
00:22:12Ursula╨╜╨╛╨╣, husus,
00:22:14and David Wallacher.
00:22:19We have a wonderful house.
00:22:22We are together, as well as Father.
00:22:23Of all the heads.
00:22:24We're together.
00:22:25Here comes the annualуГмik we have.
00:22:28The parents are moving to the chair,
00:22:31All theurers are moving.
00:22:34I hope I haven't taken up too much of your time.
00:23:04No, but I did want to get to know you.
00:23:07I am pleased.
00:23:09You must be very lonely where you are, Mr. Burton.
00:23:12At times I am.
00:23:14They're rather strange people, Father.
00:23:19In what way?
00:23:21This may interest you.
00:23:24Just look at those signatures.
00:23:27Miss Juliana signed it?
00:23:28No.
00:23:30Miss Tina signed both of them.
00:23:33Oh.
00:23:34Are you concerned about its legality, Mr. Burton?
00:23:38No.
00:23:39I just, uh, I thought it was very odd.
00:23:43You did?
00:23:47Mr. Burton, let us be frank with each other.
00:23:51When Miss Tina told me that you were coming into their house as a lodger, I wondered about it.
00:23:56What would a young man mean, obviously, wanting a place like that?
00:24:02Escape from the world, perhaps?
00:24:05Forget an unhappy affair?
00:24:06Yeah.
00:24:06Well, which is it, Mr. Burton?
00:24:10Well, neither, Father.
00:24:12I, uh, write, as I explained to Miss Tina.
00:24:15Of course, I do confess a certain amount of, uh, curiosity.
00:24:19I put it out of my mind, Mr. Burton.
00:24:22A normal young man wouldn't want to live in that house and him into time.
00:24:25Unless he had a special reason.
00:24:30What are you suspecting, your father?
00:24:34Miss Tina and Miss Juliana are not average people.
00:24:38They have a life of their own.
00:24:41A world of their own.
00:24:43And a stranger upsetting the balance of that world, even unwittingly.
00:24:49You wouldn't want to cause a tragedy, would you, Mr. Burton?
00:24:53You seem to feel that I have some, uh, deep, dark motive.
00:24:58What, Father?
00:24:59I don't know.
00:25:01But I do know that a blunder might unleash things far beyond your control.
00:25:05And my control.
00:25:09I would be very careful, Mr. Burton.
00:25:19If I had any hopes of finding the letters quickly, they would soon dispel.
00:25:23I was in a blind alley.
00:25:26I had never even so much as caught a glimpse of Miss Juliana or Miss Tina.
00:25:32I wondered what they did and what they talked about.
00:25:35They seemed to me like hunted creatures feigning death.
00:26:05I n├гo sei se euer.
00:26:09I temometer contra concentration.
00:26:10I amavors.
00:26:12I don't know.
00:26:12I should alone so manyookie people.
00:26:13I don't know.
00:26:18I amirim to paint┘О.
00:26:22I am missing out.
00:26:23You can't wait.
00:26:24I don't know.
00:26:25I don't know.
00:26:26I am so young.
00:26:27I am so young.
00:26:29No╪│╪к m├йdico indуГЧensal.
00:26:30I am well able to see them.
00:26:31I amShowast.
00:27:01Is that you, Mr. Burton?
00:27:31Please do come in.
00:27:33It would seem I'm not the only one who can't sleep.
00:27:52Well, I...
00:27:54No need to explain.
00:27:56There's no need.
00:27:59I was afraid for a moment I hadn't heard anything.
00:28:04That would be awful, wouldn't it?
00:28:07Just to imagine things.
00:28:11Yes, it would.
00:28:13Mr. Burton?
00:28:14Oh, yes.
00:28:24You must be a very rich young man.
00:28:29I've been very fortunate.
00:28:30They want to take my house away, but they can't.
00:28:39They can't.
00:28:42Because as long as I stay here, I'll never die.
00:28:49Never.
00:28:50Do you know much about curiosities, Mr. Burton?
00:28:56Curiosities?
00:28:58Antiquities.
00:28:59Old Jim Cracks.
00:29:01Do you know the kind of price they bring?
00:29:06Do you want to sell something?
00:29:10Yes, I...
00:29:11I want to sell.
00:29:15Go on.
00:29:17Take it.
00:29:19Look at it.
00:29:20Look at it in the candlelight.
00:29:23It is lit, isn't it?
00:29:31Yes.
00:29:33It's lit.
00:29:35Of course, if you don't know who he is, it may not seem so valuable.
00:29:42I know who he is.
00:29:45Jeffrey Ashton.
00:29:47Yes.
00:29:49May I ask who you got this?
00:29:51My father tainted it.
00:29:55Your father?
00:29:58I happen to know something about Jeffrey Ashton.
00:30:02That's what writer doesn't.
00:30:05He lived a long time ago, my dear lady.
00:30:09A long time ago?
00:30:12No, it was only yesterday.
00:30:16The music floated out over the garden.
00:30:21You have no idea what famous people used to come here.
00:30:26The greatest of our time.
00:30:29The most brilliant, the gaiest.
00:30:33Dancing and talking.
00:30:36The house all lighted up.
00:30:38But when he came into the house, that dreadful night.
00:30:50Jeffrey.
00:30:51What happened to him?
00:30:55The letters he wrote you.
00:30:57Do you have them?
00:30:59Would you pay my price for the painting?
00:31:02Would you really sell it?
00:31:05What is your price?
00:31:07I know the least I would take.
00:31:10What might that be?
00:31:11A thousand English pounds.
00:31:23I'll give you a thousand English pounds.
00:31:25No, not to me.
00:31:28Give it to Father Ronaldo.
00:31:30He'll know what it's for.
00:31:33Tina must not know.
00:31:36Is that clear?
00:31:37I can take this with me now?
00:31:39Yes.
00:31:40May I come again sometime and talk to you about him?
00:31:45Who was that playing?
00:31:47Good night, Mr. Burton.
00:31:49You will take the money to Father Ronaldo.
00:31:53It will take a little time to get the money transferred from the bank.
00:31:57But I will see him.
00:32:00Good night.
00:32:01Please go.
00:32:03Quickly.
00:32:03Quickly.
00:32:03That eerie music still rang and echoed in my ears.
00:32:17Where did it come from?
00:32:18Good night.
00:32:19Good night.
00:32:20Good night.
00:32:21Good night.
00:32:22Good night.
00:32:23Good night.
00:32:24Good night.
00:32:25Good night.
00:32:26Good night.
00:32:27Good night.
00:32:28Good night.
00:32:29Good night.
00:32:30Good night.
00:32:31Good night.
00:32:32Good night.
00:32:33Good night.
00:32:34Good night.
00:32:35Good night.
00:32:36Good night.
00:32:37Good night.
00:32:38Good night.
00:32:39Good night.
00:32:40Good night.
00:32:41Good night.
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00:32:46Good night.
00:32:47Good night.
00:36:26I want so to be lovely, for him, and yet I suppose, after all the beautiful women he's
00:36:42known, but he does love me.
00:36:45I know he loves me.
00:36:51I thought you'd never come.
00:36:54You're very beautiful.
00:36:55Am I?
00:36:56Yes.
00:36:57I never realized before.
00:37:00I've never seen your hair that way.
00:37:02You haven't?
00:37:03No, your eyes shine like that.
00:37:05One would think you'd never seen me before.
00:37:07Never like this.
00:37:09Your dress.
00:37:11It's the same one I wore when we first danced together.
00:37:15Yes, I know.
00:37:17Hold me close, Jeffrey.
00:37:20For a moment I was afraid.
00:37:23I don't know of what.
00:37:24He's asleep.
00:37:34She is too, I think, although you can never tell about her.
00:37:37Father told me he saw you.
00:37:42I can imagine how unpleasant it must have been.
00:37:45In a way, I pity him, Jeffrey.
00:37:50He's leaving for Rome next week to paint Cardinal Pettucci.
00:37:53And I'm not going with him.
00:37:55And I'm not going with him.
00:37:56He'll be gone a month.
00:37:57It can be a month away from here, away from his suspicion and hate and that horrible spying old woman.
00:38:04And after that, nothing matters.
00:38:08You can write to your friend and tell him we're coming.
00:38:12A month up there in the cold, white snow.
00:38:15Just the two of us.
00:38:18Nothing to be afraid of.
00:38:19No secrecy.
00:38:20Isn't that what you want, darling?
00:38:28Tell me, why do you love me, Jeffrey?
00:38:30I love you because your name is Juliana and because of a thousand things I cannot name.
00:38:38Your ring is so beautiful, Jeffrey.
00:38:56Only.
00:38:57Only what?
00:39:01I wish you'd inscribe something in it.
00:39:06I will.
00:39:08I have a feeling someone's been searching this room.
00:39:14Why?
00:39:15Your letters.
00:39:16It may have been farther.
00:39:19No woman since time began has ever received such letters.
00:39:38My life before you was so empty.
00:39:54With you...
00:39:54Show up the candle.
00:39:58Someone may have seen the light.
00:39:59Oh, Jeffrey, to be with you is all I ever wish for.
00:40:17Love me, love me.
00:40:19Good morning, Pietro.
00:40:32Good morning, senora.
00:40:33You're doing very well.
00:40:35I'm not doing so good to my back.
00:40:37This is not proper work for a gondoliere.
00:40:39But it's proper pay, hmm?
00:40:42Si, senor.
00:40:43This is a funny spot, senora.
00:40:46The grass will not come up.
00:40:49No?
00:40:49No.
00:40:52Perhaps there's too much clay.
00:40:53Yes, but why just here, senora?
00:40:55I'm sure I don't know, Pietro.
00:40:57I saw the senorina this morning.
00:41:01And I said to her, like you told me, if she wished to use the gondola, I am always at her service.
00:41:06Good for you.
00:41:07She says she have no use for the gondola.
00:41:10These are not friendly people, senora.
00:41:13Just the same.
00:41:14Cut a basket full of roses and have them sent up to Miss Julie.
00:41:21This came for you a little while ago.
00:41:27It's a beautiful day.
00:41:29I hadn't noticed it especially.
00:41:32If you'll excuse me.
00:41:34I asked Pietro to cut some roses for your aunt.
00:41:36That was very considerate of you, Mr. Burton, but...
00:41:38Don't you think she'd like them?
00:41:40I had the feeling that she loved beautiful things.
00:41:45And that once, she herself was beautiful.
00:41:50She was.
00:41:51Is there a portrait of her in the house?
00:41:54No.
00:41:55Oh, what a pity.
00:41:57I would have given anything to have seen what she was like.
00:42:01Her hair down about her shoulders.
00:42:05Her eyes shining.
00:42:07Her beauty, the despair of thoughts.
00:42:08Was she happy?
00:42:09I've often wondered if beauty doesn't bring more sorrow than happiness.
00:42:19Miss Tina, last night I heard music.
00:42:26Music?
00:42:27We're a long way from the piazza.
00:42:29It wasn't that kind of music.
00:42:31I heard it in my room.
00:42:32It was faintly.
00:42:33It was faint.
00:42:35Lovely.
00:42:35It seemed like music out of another century.
00:42:38That came from the other side of the house.
00:42:42You must be a writer of romantic stories, Mr. Burton.
00:42:46No one lives on the other side of the house, and there couldn't have been any music.
00:42:52Perhaps.
00:42:55After all, this place does stimulate one's imagination.
00:42:58Mr. Burton, I've never understood why you came here, but for whatever reason, it would be better if you left.
00:43:08This time I was instructed to see you, Father.
00:43:19By whom?
00:43:19Miss Bordereau, the elder.
00:43:21Oh.
00:43:23I purchased a painting from her, a miniature.
00:43:27The sum was a thousand pounds.
00:43:29She didn't want her niece to know about the transaction.
00:43:31She instructed me to bring the money to you.
00:43:33It is.
00:43:34She said you would know what to do with it.
00:43:36When did you see her?
00:43:38Last night, Father.
00:43:40And Miss Tina knows nothing about it?
00:43:42No.
00:43:45Well, thank you, Mr. Burton, for bringing the money.
00:43:48If I may, Father, I'd like to ask a question.
00:43:51Why, certainly.
00:43:52Well, I read a rather curious story yesterday.
00:43:57In a strange way, it was concerned with faith and the power of believing.
00:44:01What was the story, Mr. Burton?
00:44:03It was about a girl who seemed to lead two lives.
00:44:06One in the present and the other in the past.
00:44:12You have found out about Miss Tina.
00:44:14I was afraid that you would.
00:44:19My advice to you, Mr. Burton, is to leave.
00:44:21Before I caused the tragedy you spoke about?
00:44:24Yes.
00:44:25Isn't it a tragedy now, Father?
00:44:27Perhaps, Mr. Burton.
00:44:28But if she didn't have the past, she would have nothing.
00:44:32There she knows happiness.
00:44:34Even a kind of love.
00:44:37There is nothing, no one in the present who can give a debt.
00:44:40That's why, in her case, I prefer illusion to reality.
00:44:46Your money will save the Bordereau house.
00:44:49I can only trust that Miss Tina won't miss the painting.
00:44:55It was the painting of Geoffrey Ashton, wasn't it?
00:44:57I can only trust that Miss Tina.
00:45:27Good evening, Charles.
00:45:32Well, Lewis, when did you get back?
00:45:35You came to see Miss Bordereau?
00:45:36No, of course not.
00:45:38I waited at Florian's.
00:45:39Since I had to see you, I came here.
00:45:42Shall we go to my rooms?
00:45:51This is an interesting house.
00:45:52I literally feel crowded by ghosts.
00:45:55Why, this is charming, Lewis. Charming.
00:46:02Why did you want to see me?
00:46:04I was curious about the progress you're making.
00:46:07After all, it's been some time since you vanished into this tomb.
00:46:10When I sent you the money, Charles, our business was over.
00:46:16I thought that was clear.
00:46:17But your business?
00:46:19If, uh, if you find the love letters, Lewis, it'll be quite a windfall, won't it?
00:46:24The love letters of Geoffrey Ashton in a beautiful little volume?
00:46:27Why, they'll sell like wildfire.
00:46:31Every dreaming girl, every tongue-tied lover will carry the book next to his heart.
00:46:36A million copies, Lewis.
00:46:38A million dollars.
00:46:39Lewis, I told you I'm not after money.
00:46:43Yes, yes, Lewis.
00:46:44I know how noble your motives are.
00:46:47You're concerned for the world and its need for beauty.
00:46:52But I'm concerned about myself, and I have a desperate need for money.
00:46:55You're being tiresome.
00:46:56It'd be a shame if the divine Juliana should discover that her lodger was not William Burton, an eager young writer.
00:47:05But, uh, Lewis Venable, an unscrupulous publisher, grave-digging for the love letters of Geoffrey Ashton.
00:47:13Now, look here, Charles.
00:47:17I don't want to add her in the...
00:47:18I've been discussing your work with Miss Tina.
00:47:20She's quite interested in what you're doing.
00:47:23Don't you think she's a beautiful woman, Lewis?
00:47:26Strange, but don't you feel...
00:47:28Get out, Charles.
00:47:29You don't frighten me, Lewis.
00:47:31You've been paid for your services.
00:47:33Why didn't you get the letters yourself?
00:47:34It isn't too late.
00:47:36Get out.
00:47:56My aunt would like to see you, Mr. Burton.
00:48:20I know it's very late, but I saw the light coming from underneath your door.
00:48:26I haven't interrupted your writing, have I?
00:48:29No, no, I was just reading.
00:48:32If you'll excuse me for a moment.
00:48:33I hope that Charles, uh, Mr. Russell, didn't cause you any inconvenience this afternoon.
00:48:56I didn't mind.
00:48:57He's a great admirer of yours.
00:49:00He seems to think you're doing very important work.
00:49:02Oh, Charles was in one of his extravagant moods.
00:49:05Isn't it odd that I can't think of you as a writer at all?
00:49:10Mr. Burton is here.
00:49:12Oh, how nice.
00:49:14How kind of you, Mr. Burton.
00:49:16It's always a pleasure to see you, Miss Vortereau.
00:49:18Is it?
00:49:19Is it?
00:49:20Don't close the door, Tina.
00:49:22That is, uh, mightn't we all have some tea together?
00:49:26At this hour?
00:49:27Hour?
00:49:28There's no difference between hours for me.
00:49:31No morning, no night, no seasons.
00:49:34Please, Tina, some tea for Mr. Burton and myself.
00:49:38Mr. Burton may not care for tea.
00:49:41I'd like it very much.
00:49:42There.
00:49:43You see, Tina?
00:49:45Go on.
00:49:46Go on.
00:49:46It's so long since I've entertained.
00:49:49Very well.
00:49:49I won't be long.
00:49:52Our best silver service and our bone-china teacups.
00:49:57It will be a party.
00:49:59A tea party.
00:50:02It's kind of you to send the flowers, Mr. Burton.
00:50:06Amelia tells me you've done wonders with the garden.
00:50:09And, oh, what a wonderful garden it was.
00:50:13I can well imagine.
00:50:14Mr. Burton.
00:50:16Yes?
00:50:16Go to the door.
00:50:17See if she's there.
00:50:31She's gone.
00:50:32Mr. Burton.
00:50:34Give me my ring.
00:50:37Your ring?
00:50:38You have it.
00:50:39I know.
00:50:40I know how it happened.
00:50:42She's kept after me all day.
00:50:44She's searched the room.
00:50:46How could I have lost it?
00:50:49You see, she doesn't know.
00:50:51And I've been sitting here thinking.
00:50:54And all of a sudden, I knew.
00:50:57Last night, you heard the music, didn't you, Mr. Burton?
00:51:01You said so.
00:51:02Yes, I did.
00:51:03And you followed the music to my room.
00:51:06And you saw her.
00:51:08And somehow, you got the ring.
00:51:12Give it to me, Mr. Burton.
00:51:16Please.
00:51:17Please.
00:51:24Oh, thank you.
00:51:26Thank you, Mr. Burton.
00:51:30It's so terrible when she's like that.
00:51:33She's Juliana.
00:51:37Me.
00:51:39And do you know who she thinks I am?
00:51:42Rosa.
00:51:43Rosa.
00:51:45Our old housekeeper.
00:51:47How I hated her.
00:51:50Miss Tina hates her, too.
00:51:52Sometimes I'm afraid she's going to kill me.
00:51:56She wouldn't do that.
00:51:59Wouldn't she?
00:52:00Wouldn't she?
00:52:02Last night, she said I had been spying on her.
00:52:06And there was murder in her voice, Mr. Burton.
00:52:09You have nothing to fear.
00:52:12Miss Tina isn't capable of murder.
00:52:14What you know about murder.
00:52:16It's the gentle souls who seem sweet and loving to the world, with the innocence of children.
00:52:25And then, out of nowhere, something happens.
00:52:32And you have murder, Mr. Burton.
00:52:35The ring.
00:52:37How did you get it from her?
00:52:41Miss Tina wanted me to inscribe some words on it.
00:52:44I was going to return it to you.
00:52:46Oh, words, words.
00:52:49We had no need of that.
00:52:51You and Jeffrey.
00:52:53Yes.
00:52:54You must have been very proud.
00:52:56Oh, yes.
00:52:58And loved him.
00:52:59Yes, yes.
00:53:01But I wasn't as proud as she is, nor loved him as much.
00:53:08I feel sometimes that she's taken him away from me.
00:53:13No one could do that.
00:53:14Well, I was very beautiful.
00:53:21And he, he was like a god.
00:53:28The ring.
00:53:31Is that how it begins with Miss Tina?
00:53:33She comes here and takes it, and then becomes you, Juliana.
00:53:40The ring and the letters.
00:53:43The letters?
00:53:44How?
00:53:44I used to read them to her as a child.
00:53:49She liked to hear them over and over again.
00:53:54Her eyes would shine as if they were fairy tales.
00:53:58And when I couldn't see to read any more, I told her where I kept them hidden, and she'd read them to me.
00:54:07Then she wouldn't let me have them at all.
00:54:13And it began.
00:54:15She read them up there, alone.
00:54:18And became me.
00:54:24And I became Rosa.
00:54:27When I ask her for the letters, she doesn't hear me.
00:54:32But they're my letters, Mr. Burton.
00:54:35Mine.
00:54:37And if I had them, she'd never become Juliana again.
00:54:42Where are they?
00:54:43Do you know?
00:54:43Would you get them for me?
00:54:45Would you?
00:54:46Yes, of course.
00:54:47I've asked Father Rinaldo so many times, but he says they belong to her now.
00:54:52And the others, Maria, Amelia, I've asked them, and they're afraid.
00:54:57They know, and they're afraid of her and that room.
00:55:05Is that where they are, in that room?
00:55:08Yes.
00:55:08I want to touch them.
00:55:12Know that they're mine.
00:55:16I used to keep the letters in a box behind the Bible.
00:55:22Behind the Bible?
00:55:24No one knew where they were.
00:55:26Not even Jeffrey.
00:55:32You were so quick, Tina.
00:55:34We'll have our party now.
00:55:36I was telling Mr. Burton about the dahlias we used to have along the East Wall.
00:55:42He may put some in next week, although it's a little late for dahlias.
00:55:48Did you bring the bone-shiner cups?
00:55:50Yes.
00:55:51Lemon or cream, Mr. Burton?
00:56:09Lemon, please.
00:56:10Yes.
00:56:10Yes.
00:56:10Yes.
00:56:10Yes.
00:56:11Yes.
00:56:12Yes.
00:56:12Yes.
00:56:13Yes.
00:56:13Yes.
00:56:14Yes.
00:56:14Yes.
00:56:15Yes.
00:56:16Yes.
00:56:17Yes.
00:56:18Yes.
00:56:19Yes.
00:56:20Yes.
00:56:34Yes.
00:56:34Yes.
00:56:34Yes.
00:56:36It's quite late.
00:56:40I'd better go.
00:56:41You will come again, Mr. Burton?
00:56:44Yes, I will.
00:56:46Good night.
00:56:47Soon.
00:56:48Soon.
00:56:50Good night, Miss Tina.
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01:01:27you do love me jeffrey yes juliana yes
01:01:35this afternoon i ran out of the house past st mark's and the old man who sold the pears
01:01:47i tried to remember all the things we said to each other and how we felt
01:01:55i remembered nothing
01:01:58i was alone
01:02:01and you had gone from me forever
01:02:05i had to have something that was you i went up to my room to get your letters
01:02:13not to read them just to hold them and i came down here to be alone with them
01:02:25with you
01:02:27remember our first dance together
01:02:44you
01:02:48and
01:02:55the
01:03:03Oh, my God.
01:03:33Oh, my God.
01:04:03Is there anything that I can...
01:04:18Mr. Burton, would you be kind enough to send Pietro for Dr. Cassiano and Father Rinaldo?
01:04:25Of course, at once.
01:04:28Someone was in my aunt's room.
01:04:30Yes.
01:04:33I saw him leap through the window.
01:04:35Did you?
01:04:36Yes.
01:04:38I was in the garden.
01:04:40I ran after him, but he got away.
01:04:42Did he, Mr. Burton?
01:04:47I'd better send for Dr. Cassiano.
01:04:49The events of the night had unnerved me.
01:05:03I kept thinking of one thing only.
01:05:06The letters.
01:05:07The letters.
01:05:09So as to keep myself from going to pieces.
01:05:10I got it, senor.
01:05:31I got it for you.
01:05:34She went in to see the old one, and I found it in her room.
01:05:39You're a good girl, Amelia.
01:05:42For you, senor.
01:05:44I did it for you.
01:05:46Yes, Amelia.
01:05:49You better go now.
01:05:49They may miss you in the house.
01:05:53Go, Amelia.
01:05:53How long would she stay there, blocking my path to the letters, and to the end of this terrifying
01:06:11venture?
01:06:11I didn't mean to startle you, Mr. Burton.
01:06:37No, no.
01:06:37That's all right, Father.
01:06:38Have you been out walking?
01:06:44I can imagine it would be difficult to sleep after what's happened to you tonight.
01:06:49I wanted to have a talk with you.
01:06:51How's Miss Giuliano?
01:06:53One never knows about her.
01:06:56Dr. Cassiano just left.
01:06:58From a medical point of view, she's dying.
01:07:01But then, she's been dying for a great many years.
01:07:05Won't you sit down?
01:07:07Yes, thank you.
01:07:07I'd like to put your mind at rest, if that's necessary, Mr. Burton.
01:07:13Miss Tina seemed to think that you were the intruder.
01:07:17A little while ago, Miss Giuliano was able to speak for a few moments.
01:07:21She said it wasn't you.
01:07:23How are you an apology, Mr. Burton?
01:07:30An apology?
01:07:31For what?
01:07:32Oh.
01:07:33The way I reacted to your humane curiosity about Miss Tina.
01:07:37I thought about it after you left.
01:07:39Like my good friend, Dr. Cassiano, I sometimes have a tendency to form snap judgments.
01:07:46We look at the color of a man's eyes, notice his posture, sniff the air, and we not only guess his illness, but decide whether he's a decent fellow or a scoundrel.
01:07:58And, uh, your diagnosis was that, uh, I was a scoundrel.
01:08:06A mistaken diagnosis.
01:08:10I was mistaken about Miss Tina, too.
01:08:13Because to love a shadow is not love.
01:08:17I was in this house when she was brought into the world.
01:08:23She never had a chance.
01:08:25There was no escape.
01:08:29I thought about you for a long time, Mr. Burton.
01:08:33It seemed to me that you were in love with Miss Tina.
01:08:37And that you might win out over your rival.
01:08:41Jeffrey Ashton.
01:08:47If Miss Tina were to love someone in the present, love him deeply, Mr. Burton, that love might cure her.
01:09:02Good night, Mr. Burton.
01:09:04Good night, Father.
01:09:17Miss Tina.
01:09:26Can I do anything?
01:09:28No, thank you.
01:09:29I'm sorry.
01:09:30You'd rather be alone?
01:09:33No.
01:09:35Do you think she'll die?
01:09:37No, Miss Tina.
01:09:38I don't think she will.
01:09:40There'd be nothing.
01:09:41I'd be lost without her.
01:09:44She's better.
01:09:46It's fantastic, but she's better.
01:09:48No, Tina.
01:09:49She must be left alone.
01:09:51She would know when you came into the room and it would excite her.
01:09:56There's nothing to worry about.
01:09:59I'd like you to get out of this house for a while, Tina.
01:10:03When can I see her?
01:10:05In the morning.
01:10:07If I may be so bold, I would like to suggest that Mr. Burton take you out to dinner.
01:10:12To the Floria, perhaps.
01:10:15You're not keeping something from me?
01:10:17No, Tina.
01:10:18Miss Tina.
01:10:19Yes?
01:10:19It would be a great pleasure if you had dinner with me tonight.
01:10:24I'll stay with Miss Juliana.
01:10:26Everything will be all right, or I won't tell you to go.
01:10:29Miss Tina, will you please?
01:10:33Yes.
01:10:34If you want me to.
01:10:35Will you wear this?
01:10:56For me.
01:10:57For me.
01:10:57For me.
01:11:05Let's go.
01:11:28What?
01:11:29When are you going away?
01:11:38Away?
01:11:40To America.
01:11:42You are going, aren't you?
01:11:44Yes, of course.
01:11:49Will you have finished your book?
01:11:52I think so.
01:11:54Will you be glad to go?
01:11:57Not exactly.
01:11:59I'm sorry.
01:12:12I know this place.
01:12:15The proprietor will take good care of us.
01:12:17The food is magnificent.
01:12:18Are you hungry?
01:12:19Yes.
01:12:20I don't want the signorina to be disappointed, so you order the dinner for us.
01:12:46Sissing, you will not be disappointed.
01:12:48Sissing, you will not be disappointed.
01:12:50You think you'll sing again?
01:13:02Do you think he'll sing again?
01:13:17Yes, I'm sure he will.
01:13:20Glad you came?
01:13:21Yes.
01:13:23I think so.
01:13:26You know when we were on the Grand Canal and heard the music there?
01:13:29Yes.
01:13:30Sometimes you can hear it from our house.
01:13:32When the night is very still.
01:13:35When I was little, I used to wonder about it.
01:13:38And when you grew up?
01:13:40I never thought about it.
01:13:44Do you, uh, remember your family?
01:13:49My parents?
01:13:52I never knew them.
01:13:54They lived with my aunt when I was born.
01:13:57Much later, I was told that they died in an accident.
01:14:01There was no feeling.
01:14:03Because there was no memory.
01:14:07There will always be memories of Miss Juliana.
01:14:10She's my family.
01:14:11Would you care to dance, Miss Tina?
01:14:29Would you?
01:14:29I never at├й younger.
01:14:40Uh-oh.
01:14:44Oh.
01:14:47Bye.
01:14:49Bye.
01:14:51Bye.
01:14:51Bye.
01:14:52Bye.
01:14:53Bye.
01:14:54Bye.
01:14:54Bye.
01:14:54Bye.
01:14:55Bye.
01:14:56Bye.
01:14:56Bye.
01:15:27It was so strange.
01:15:48I closed my eyes and I thought...
01:15:51I thought that you're the loveliest woman I've ever known.
01:15:57What are you doing there?
01:16:03I saw him he was trying to reach for the signorina purse.
01:16:32He was a thief.
01:16:34That's strange.
01:16:37He seems to have taken nothing.
01:16:38Oh, no, no, signorina.
01:16:39I saw him before he couldn't steal anything.
01:16:42Well, thank you very much, Alberto.
01:16:43Well, signora.
01:16:44Is our dinner ready?
01:16:44Oh, si, signora.
01:16:45Right away.
01:16:46Right away.
01:16:56I'll always remember this evening.
01:16:59I, too.
01:17:00When I think how rudely I've behaved toward you these past weeks...
01:17:07No, I understood.
01:17:09But I don't understand.
01:17:12And tonight...
01:17:14Tonight.
01:17:14You've been very kind.
01:17:20After you've gone...
01:17:22I hope you won't think too poorly of your stay here.
01:17:25I promise you I won't.
01:17:27Isn't there someone waiting for you?
01:17:33I saw her picture in your room.
01:17:37Do you love her?
01:17:38I would imagine you loved her very much.
01:17:47I'm not sure that we...
01:17:49ever cared for each other...
01:17:51the way it's possible to care.
01:17:53It was more as if we...
01:17:55comforted each other...
01:17:58while waiting for someone else.
01:18:00I'll see you next time.
01:18:30I never thought I'd be standing here like this with you, not wanting to say goodnight.
01:18:38I thought it.
01:18:39When?
01:18:40Often.
01:18:42At times I'd watch you in the garden.
01:18:46And when you'd leave.
01:18:49And when you'd come back from the city.
01:18:50I wondered why you avoided me sometimes.
01:18:54You know what I used to think?
01:18:55No.
01:18:56That there was some awful secret you were hiding.
01:18:59A secret?
01:19:00And when your aunt told me that she knew Jeffrey Ashton, I thought it had something to do with that.
01:19:09I was afraid that you wanted his letters.
01:19:12His letters?
01:19:14Many months ago, a publisher wrote and asked about them.
01:19:20His name was Louis Venable.
01:19:22I wrote him that we knew nothing about such letters.
01:19:25But they do exist.
01:19:27The love she knew.
01:19:29The love he gave her was hers alone, not to be shared with anyone.
01:19:32Tina.
01:19:33To have known that kind of love.
01:19:35To have filled one's life with it.
01:19:36Tina, listen to me.
01:19:38Men like Jeffrey Ashton happen very rarely.
01:19:42And what they leave behind, Tina,
01:19:43the glow,
01:19:45the shadow,
01:19:47every scrap of memory,
01:19:49every remembered speech,
01:19:50every letter,
01:19:52belongs to the millions who live after them.
01:19:54Do you want the letters?
01:20:01If I did,
01:20:02would you get them for me?
01:20:06I don't know what I'd do.
01:20:09Or wouldn't do.
01:20:10I must go.
01:20:17Good night.
01:20:18Good night, Tina.
01:20:19Good night, Tina.
01:20:19Let's go.
01:20:49For a moment I hesitated.
01:21:03The memory of the evening, of Tina, lovely beyond words, held me.
01:21:11But no, it was an illusion.
01:21:15The letters, the letters alone were what I had come for.
01:21:18Or what I wanted.
01:21:36Is that you, Mr. Burton?
01:21:39Sir?
01:22:09Sir?
01:22:39Sir?
01:23:39Where are the letters?
01:23:56Oh, don't.
01:23:58You've spied on us.
01:24:00Two lies to my father.
01:24:01Taken his bribes.
01:24:03And now you've stolen the letters, Rosa.
01:24:05I'm Juliana, not you.
01:24:07Give me the letters, Rosa.
01:24:08They're my letters.
01:24:10You took them.
01:24:11Give them to me.
01:24:12He has them now, Mr. Burton.
01:24:15I told him where they were to bring them to me.
01:24:17They're mine.
01:24:18Give them to me.
01:24:20Jeffrey's waiting for me now.
01:24:21Nobody's waiting for you.
01:24:23Jeffrey is dead, Tina.
01:24:25Dead for both of us.
01:24:27Father buried him in the garden near the bower.
01:24:32I killed him.
01:24:34I killed him.
01:24:36He was going to leave me and I killed him.
01:24:40Give them to me.
01:24:41Tina!
01:24:42Tina!
01:24:43Tina!
01:24:52Tina.
01:24:53Here are the letters, Tina.
01:25:05Let's go.
01:25:35Let's go.
01:26:05Let's go.
01:26:35Let's go.
01:27:05Let's go.
01:27:34Let's go.
01:28:04Let's go.
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