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First broadcast 20th/27th May 1987.
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00:00:00I trust today has so far passed without event.
00:00:04Is lunch an event?
00:00:05What was lunch?
00:00:06Stuffed breast of lamb, and dare I say...
00:00:09Nut prunes again.
00:00:10What else?
00:00:12Tea warden.
00:00:14I really must speak to cook about this absolute deluge of dried clams.
00:00:19It's quite like one of the biblical plagues.
00:00:21Clearly a mistake by the supplier.
00:00:23A mistake which we are forced to remedy by devouring.
00:00:26But that all mistakes were so easily dealt with.
00:00:29I had luncheon at Somerville where, happily, prunes were not in evidence.
00:00:35Oh, um, talking of events, do either of you know how Miss Vane's inquiries are going?
00:00:41Oh, a touch irksomely.
00:00:43Oh, really? I hope not.
00:00:45Having someone around the place observing is bound to get under the skin a bit, warden.
00:00:49It depends how sensitive one's skin is.
00:00:52That's true.
00:00:54Does Miss Vane get under your skin, Miss Hilliard?
00:00:57In general, no.
00:00:59But an outsider in a community like this is bound to be something of an irritant.
00:01:03Miss Vane is one of us.
00:01:06Is that a fair assumption?
00:01:08What is it you're trying to say, Miss Hilliard?
00:01:11I'm not trying to say anything.
00:01:12But if you wish me to amplify, I will say this.
00:01:16Miss Vane is so far from being one of our number that she does not know, or has quite forgotten, basic college proprieties.
00:01:24Oh, I say, for such a trivial matter, aren't we making rather heavy weather on it?
00:01:28Well, since I don't know the substance of it, I can hardly advance a view.
00:01:32I do not accept that the conventions of a civilized community are trivial.
00:01:36Ladies, what is this convention that has been so grievously flouted?
00:01:41The disregard of customary observances leads to social friction.
00:01:45When we're discussing the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, what is it that has so vexed you?
00:01:52Oh, dear, this is going to sound awfully petty now.
00:01:54Well, I happened to observe Miss Vane with one of the college scouts in the fellow's garden.
00:02:00I merely pointed out that it was not the done thing.
00:02:04Good heavens, Miss Hilliard.
00:02:06Was it the convention, or you, who was outraged?
00:02:09Easily dismissed, I know, but Oxford is none the worse for such customs.
00:02:14Oh, I sometimes wonder about that.
00:02:16Well, I'm more concerned about Miss Vane.
00:02:18She is our guest.
00:02:19Does one preserve one convention by outraging another, I wonder?
00:02:25Is that a reprimand, warden?
00:02:27Oh, come now, I merely air the question.
00:02:30Intellectual honesty can surely permit that.
00:02:32Oh, yes, but I do see it is so easy to laugh old customs out of court.
00:02:37Yes, it is, but I'm not doing that, at least I hope I'm not.
00:02:40But Miss Vane is here because convention was outraged.
00:02:45Does it make sense to censure her for a minor infraction,
00:02:49and her whole purpose in being here
00:02:52is to investigate major affronts to the senses?
00:02:57Oh, I'm sure Miss Vane is far too level-headed
00:02:59to take exception to a perfectly proper reminder of college rules.
00:03:03I accept the reprimand, Miss Devane.
00:03:05Oh, I didn't mean it as a reprimand.
00:03:07But I accept it, with good grace.
00:03:10Yes, I hope Miss Vane will too.
00:03:30Hello, Miss Burrows.
00:03:32Miss Vane.
00:03:33Mind if I join you?
00:03:34Do, please.
00:03:39I'm afraid the teapot's empty.
00:03:41I don't want any. Thanks all the same.
00:03:48How's the charnel house?
00:03:50I beg your pardon?
00:03:51Well, you're stirring over other people's bones.
00:03:54A slow and dusty business, I'm afraid.
00:03:58Well, you're used to that, of course.
00:03:59Am I?
00:04:00In your capacity as a writer.
00:04:02Do you mind my being about the place?
00:04:06Why should I mind?
00:04:07I've no idea.
00:04:08I just sense a lack of warmth.
00:04:09I rather wondered why.
00:04:13Another one who wants to be loved.
00:04:15No, just to get on with a job I've been asked to do.
00:04:18Does your professional curiosity as a writer
00:04:20qualify you to understand what's going on here?
00:04:23I had hoped that my writer's imagination
00:04:25might lend some insight into it.
00:04:29But that's an aspect of make-believe.
00:04:31I don't think you should underestimate
00:04:33the imagination's ability to make sense
00:04:35out of disordered reality, Miss Burrys.
00:04:38And I don't think you should underestimate
00:04:40the academic world's ability to understand
00:04:42its own disorders.
00:04:43I'm not patronizing you.
00:04:47I didn't ask to come here.
00:04:48I just hoped for a little cooperation
00:04:50rather than thinly veiled hostility.
00:04:52Have you something to hide?
00:04:56Miss Vane, I don't question the special attributes
00:04:59of a writer of popular fiction.
00:05:02Indeed, it would be an impudence to do so
00:05:03since I know little of your work.
00:05:05But allow me to say it is dangerous
00:05:07to approach reality as though it were a work of fiction.
00:05:09You say you're not being patronizing.
00:05:12That's just what you are being in,
00:05:13poking around as if you had some key to the situation.
00:05:16Don't pretend that at all.
00:05:18That's quite unfair.
00:05:19But what do you know of our lives?
00:05:20A limited association as an undergraduate
00:05:23several years ago.
00:05:25What do you know of her life?
00:05:26An even slighter association, I should think.
00:05:29Your participation in art may be considerable,
00:05:31but what of your involvement in life?
00:05:33Oh, Miss Burrows!
00:05:34Now, if you'll forgive me,
00:05:35I've worked to attend him.
00:05:36Oh, my God.
00:06:06What happens like this at a ladies' college? It's hardly surprising, isn't it?
00:06:10Ladies' college? What do you mean?
00:06:12Academic ladies cloistered together, celibate, some sexually ambivalent, bound to throw up the odd hysteric.
00:06:21Peter, I don't believe what I'm hearing.
00:06:23Harriet?
00:06:24No. This male, this mighty male attitude. I knew I shouldn't have told you.
00:06:29Harriet, I express no male bias. You must know me better than that.
00:06:33I'd say the same about public schools, monasteries, any close society.
00:06:38I'm sorry, maybe I'm over-sensitive on the subject.
00:06:41Of course, sir. If it comes to it, I'll help. Though, I do have to go away.
00:06:46Is this the Foreign Office?
00:06:48Hmm. Of course, if you need me, you can always get me through the embassies.
00:06:53What's for an after-dinner stroll in the garden?
00:06:56I have some letters I must write.
00:06:58Miss Faye? Would you like to come? No, thank you.
00:07:00I thought I'd go to the library.
00:07:01At this time, that shows great devotion to scholarship.
00:07:03No. I just work better in the evening.
00:07:05Maybe tomorrow.
00:07:06Good night.
00:07:07Good night.
00:07:08Good night, Miss Devine.
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00:07:11Good night, Miss Devine.
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00:07:16Good night, Miss Devine.
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00:07:20Good night, Miss Devine.
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00:07:29Good night, Miss Devine.
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00:07:32Good night, Miss Devine.
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00:14:51We are indebted to Miss Vane for her efforts on our behalf,
00:14:55and I'm sure we all share a sense of outrage of the assault upon her.
00:15:00It is clear that whoever is responsible for the mischief
00:15:04with which this college has been afflicted for the past two months
00:15:08intended a particularly damaging occurrence,
00:15:12and it is due to Miss Vane that that plan has largely been frustrated.
00:15:16Now, tomorrow, we honour Dame Agatha Browning.
00:15:22Now, apart from what she did for Shosbury College
00:15:25during her almost 22 years as warden,
00:15:28Dame Agatha was a guiding light in the cause of university education
00:15:33for women in this country.
00:15:35Now, for that occasion to be dishonoured in any way
00:15:38would be both a personal insult and an affront
00:15:42to all that this college stands for.
00:15:44As you know, the unveiling of Dame Agatha's portrait
00:15:48was to have taken place in the library,
00:15:50but now that cannot be.
00:15:53The bursar has consulted decorators,
00:15:55but there just isn't time to put things to rights.
00:15:58So, I have decided that the ceremony will proceed as planned,
00:16:04but in the fellow's garden.
00:16:06But I understood that the painting had disappeared.
00:16:09Again, we have Miss Vane to thank.
00:16:20What should never take them to face value?
00:16:23Some of the mythology doesn't bear too close examination.
00:16:26Oh, you mean Europa and the bull and all that.
00:16:29Not to mention Lucius Apollaeus, quite sat a fair, Rougire.
00:16:33Yes, of course, I do agree, absolutely.
00:16:36Mind you, the Ambrosian rite can still be heard.
00:16:38It was Ambrosian and Gregory
00:16:40were both so very much influenced by Constantinople.
00:16:44Oh, remind me.
00:16:46I remember looking into that garden
00:16:47with awe and trepidation
00:16:49the summer before I came up.
00:16:50It must have been 1920.
00:16:52People still quaked at the name Dame Agatha Browning.
00:16:55Oh, yes, Dame Agatha Browning.
00:16:58One didn't leave out the surname lightly.
00:17:00Not twice, anyway.
00:17:01Can that be thee, Cedric?
00:17:06It looks quite personable.
00:17:08A touch overbred, perhaps.
00:17:09Really?
00:17:10Oh, yes.
00:17:10Look at the receding chin.
00:17:12Can anything be done?
00:17:14Put into some common stock?
00:17:16Good, healthy country girl?
00:17:18Oh, like sweet Fotis in the golden ass, perhaps.
00:17:21He's an Oxford man himself, of course.
00:17:24Oh, is he?
00:17:25I heard you give a lecture
00:17:27at King's College London about two years ago.
00:17:30In the music that has meant much to me series,
00:17:32I think it was.
00:17:33This is very knowledgeable, musically.
00:17:35Yes.
00:17:36And very much a man of the world, too, I should say.
00:17:39Too much so.
00:17:41At the moment, he's working abroad somewhere.
00:17:51Car all right outside, Mr. Paget?
00:18:11Perfectly safe, Mr. Bunder.
00:18:14Would you look favorably on a cup of tea, Mr. Bunder?
00:18:17Very favorably, Mr. Paget.
00:18:39But isn't that it most certainly is?
00:18:43Ladies and gentlemen,
00:18:44it gives me great pleasure to invite the Chancellor
00:18:47of the University of Oxford, Lord Tintagel,
00:18:49to unveil in her distinguished presence
00:18:52a portrait of Dame Agatha Browning,
00:18:55sometime warden of this college.
00:18:57Lord Tintagel.
00:19:03Bearing.
00:19:05Ladies and gentlemen,
00:19:07University chancellors are called upon
00:19:09to officiate at many and varied occasions,
00:19:12but none gives me so much personal and public pleasure
00:19:16as to do so here today.
00:19:19Dame Agatha Browning was,
00:19:21is responsible for the first generation of women students
00:19:25to be awarded the degree of Bachelor of Arts
00:19:27of this ancient university.
00:19:29They and we are the richer for her wisdom,
00:19:33her integrity,
00:19:34her sense of purpose.
00:19:35Yeah.
00:19:36Without her,
00:19:39the course of higher education for women
00:19:41could not have been so smooth.
00:19:44And so,
00:19:45colleagues and friends
00:19:46of Dame Agatha,
00:19:47I knew when I saw him,
00:20:02his lordship was one of our young gentlemen.
00:20:04Yes,
00:20:05Balliol,
00:20:05before the war.
00:20:06History,
00:20:07got a first.
00:20:08A lot of them sort didn't bother,
00:20:10you know,
00:20:11swanning round in fast cars,
00:20:13parties and that.
00:20:14No need to work.
00:20:15Know what I mean?
00:20:16Oh,
00:20:18I didn't mean to imply that all people were...
00:20:19Do not be fooled by the eyeglass and the manner,
00:20:22Mr. Paget.
00:20:22Oh,
00:20:23no,
00:20:23for a moment,
00:20:24but when is the time I've seen that mistake made?
00:20:27Mind like a razor,
00:20:28he is.
00:20:31More tea,
00:20:32Mr. Bunda?
00:20:33Thank you,
00:20:33Mr. Paget.
00:20:35Oh,
00:20:36Miss Vane.
00:20:37Oh,
00:20:37Miss Vane.
00:20:39Oh,
00:20:39Miss Vane.
00:20:41Oh,
00:20:41Miss Vane.
00:20:43Oh,
00:20:43Miss Vane.
00:20:43Oh,
00:20:43Miss Vane.
00:20:43Oh,
00:20:43Miss Vane.
00:20:43Oh,
00:20:44Miss Vane.
00:20:44Oh,
00:20:44Miss Vane.
00:20:45Oh,
00:20:45Miss Vane.
00:20:45Oh,
00:20:45Miss Vane.
00:20:46I do say I want you to meet Dame Agatha Browning.
00:20:53You won't know Harriet Vane, I think, rather, since your time.
00:20:57Miss Harriet Vane,
00:20:58Dame Agatha Browning.
00:21:00Good afternoon, Dame Agatha Browning.
00:21:02And what do you do, Miss Vane?
00:21:04I write novels, Dame Agatha.
00:21:07What sort of novels?
00:21:08She writes mystery novels.
00:21:10And very good, they are, too.
00:21:13Oh,
00:21:13Lord Peter,
00:21:14I believe you know.
00:21:15Good afternoon,
00:21:15Good afternoon, Miss Vane.
00:21:17Lord Peter.
00:21:20First time I come across him,
00:21:21well,
00:21:22fell across him,
00:21:23to be exact,
00:21:24was in a shell hole in France,
00:21:26up to his neck in mud and choking from cordite fumes.
00:21:29Sergeant,
00:21:30he says.
00:21:30Sergeant.
00:21:32War is a damn noisy business.
00:21:34Upmost composure.
00:21:37What the froggies call sang-froid.
00:21:40Yeah.
00:21:40Always remember that.
00:21:43Bet they don't teach that here, eh, Mr. Padgett?
00:21:45Composure.
00:21:46Right in, yeah.
00:21:47Ain't it?
00:21:47Quite thought you engaged elsewhere.
00:21:51I was, I was.
00:21:53But, uh,
00:21:54then I thought affairs of state should give way to the former warden of Shrewsbury,
00:21:57don't you know?
00:21:59Oh, uh,
00:22:00permit me,
00:22:01Lord Peter.
00:22:03Dame Agatha,
00:22:04I do so want you to be there.
00:22:07Explain now, sir.
00:22:09Have you been an old lady's companion for long?
00:22:11Oh, no.
00:22:12Not very.
00:22:13Um,
00:22:14flew back only yesterday.
00:22:16Um,
00:22:17telephones from town that were out.
00:22:20Didn't like to leave my name somehow.
00:22:22And?
00:22:23Well,
00:22:24it so happens that the chancellor is the expert on the background to the not-a-little problem,
00:22:29uh,
00:22:29I'm, uh,
00:22:30looking into the foreign office.
00:22:32So, um,
00:22:33two birds with one stone, I thought.
00:22:35I mean, um,
00:22:36I didn't know how, um,
00:22:37delicate things had got here for you,
00:22:39and, uh,
00:22:41I thought, um,
00:22:41the ceremonial entrance would look sufficiently unsleuth-like.
00:22:45Forgive me,
00:22:46but, um,
00:22:47you are looking a little delicate.
00:22:50There speaks the great detective.
00:22:52As a matter of fact,
00:22:53there was attacked last night.
00:22:55Forgive me for interrupting,
00:22:57but, uh,
00:22:57I do feel I should be looking after you, Miss Vane.
00:23:00Have no fear.
00:23:01I am in good hands.
00:23:02May I introduce you?
00:23:04Lord Peter Whimsey,
00:23:05Miss Martin, the dean.
00:23:06Dean, Miss Martin.
00:23:07How do you do?
00:23:08Lord Peter,
00:23:09I do hope you're not wearing Miss Vane out.
00:23:12She has had a most shocking experience.
00:23:14So I've been hearing.
00:23:15Not so much upsetting as ridiculous.
00:23:17It was nothing.
00:23:18She was knocked out, poor thing.
00:23:19I'm all right, really.
00:23:21Go ahead.
00:23:22Yes, indeed.
00:23:24Lord Peter,
00:23:25may I ask,
00:23:26were you intending to be in Oxford
00:23:28for any length of time?
00:23:30For a few days, yes.
00:23:32Capital.
00:23:34Then I am instructed to convey to you
00:23:36the fellow's invitation
00:23:38to high table tomorrow evening.
00:23:40Shall you come?
00:23:42An invitation to dinner
00:23:43and in the future interrogative mood.
00:23:46A most challenging form.
00:23:48And I shall.
00:23:49Come, let her.
00:23:51Till tomorrow, then.
00:23:52What, uh, happened exactly?
00:24:00I'd gone into the chapel.
00:24:02I'd heard somebody in there
00:24:03messing around, I thought.
00:24:06Suddenly, I was knocked to the ground
00:24:08by this absurd thing
00:24:09dressed up as a don.
00:24:11Nothing, really.
00:24:12The important thing is
00:24:14that attached to it
00:24:15was yet another note
00:24:16in Latin this time,
00:24:18which does rather narrow the feel,
00:24:19it being highly unlikely
00:24:20that the scouts
00:24:21should express themselves
00:24:22in Virgilian hexameters.
00:24:25Hmm.
00:24:25So things are looking rather bad
00:24:27for the senior common room.
00:24:29Very possibly.
00:24:32Well, now,
00:24:33short of watching at windows
00:24:34for creeping figures in the quad,
00:24:36I'm not sure what my next move is.
00:24:37Look, um,
00:24:40I'm bitten for sherry
00:24:41and then dinner with the chancellor.
00:24:43I'm staying at the mitre.
00:24:46I'll tell you then, you, if I may.
00:24:48Do take care.
00:24:51Uh, I intend to take a punt
00:24:53on the river in the morning.
00:24:55Shall you come?
00:24:57I never resist a challenge.
00:24:59That's why I love you.
00:25:07Oh, no, no.
00:25:20Oh, no, no!
00:25:26If the man will begin with
00:25:27certainties,
00:25:28he shall end in doubts.
00:25:31But if he will be content
00:25:33to begin with doubts,
00:25:35he shall end in certainties.
00:25:37The man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery.
00:25:43He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower.
00:25:47He fleeth as it were a shadow.
00:26:07The man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery.
00:26:37Oh, God, you did give me a fright, Miss.
00:26:49Carrie!
00:26:50What on earth is it?
00:26:51There's somebody in one of the lecture rooms, Miss.
00:26:53Annie Wilson sent me to fetch you.
00:26:55We didn't want to knock on the door for fear of waking the place.
00:26:57Sorry if I startled you.
00:26:58That's all right.
00:27:00Did you manage to see who it was?
00:27:01I couldn't quite make out through the curtain who it was, Miss.
00:27:03Which lecture room?
00:27:04Science, Miss.
00:27:05Annie's gone to fetch the dean.
00:27:06All right.
00:27:08Now, did the person know he or she could have been seated?
00:27:10I don't think so, Miss.
00:27:11We were ever so quiet.
00:27:12Come in.
00:27:13How was it first noticed?
00:27:38Annie heard someone in the buttery, one of the underbrads, after some milk and sugar.
00:27:43I remember doing exactly the same thing myself.
00:27:46And she saw the lights on over here.
00:27:47There's a key on the inside.
00:28:12You can't see nothing.
00:28:13Don't.
00:28:21Damn.
00:28:26Is this the only way out?
00:28:27Yes, Miss.
00:28:27All the windows have got bars.
00:28:30Right.
00:28:30Shine the torch.
00:28:31Be careful, miss
00:28:40There is another way out
00:28:50Yes, I forgot the dark room
00:28:52Oh, help
00:28:53I'm sorry, miss
00:29:05It's all right, Carrie
00:29:07We couldn't have got round here in time anyway
00:29:08What, has the culprit got away?
00:29:13I'm afraid so, yes
00:29:14Could you tell me what's below this window?
00:29:17Yes, it's a flagstone path
00:29:19I don't think you'll find very much down there
00:29:21No, and it happens to be a spot
00:29:25That's overlooked by absolutely nothing
00:29:27So
00:29:32This is where it's dark
00:29:35Yes, I wonder why
00:29:37It does seem unnecessarily public
00:29:38It's best not to touch anything
00:29:40Oh, I'm so sorry
00:29:40You're not thinking of calling the police
00:29:43No, not the police
00:29:45Yes, of course
00:29:46Now, Carrie, you said you saw something
00:29:49What exactly was it?
00:29:49Well, as I said, miss
00:29:51I think I saw something
00:29:52But I wasn't a bit of a fluster
00:29:53I thought it was a woman
00:29:54She had something black on
00:29:56But you didn't see her face
00:29:57Not to recognize
00:29:58She was sitting with her back to the door
00:29:59All right, you two can go
00:30:01Miss Martin and I will see to things
00:30:03Yes, good night, miss
00:30:04Good night, miss
00:30:05Do you know what I'd like to do?
00:30:19I'd like to leave everything as it is
00:30:20Lock up, keep the key
00:30:22And in the morning get a second opinion
00:30:24Yes
00:30:26Yes, of course
00:30:27I should be most interested
00:30:29To know what he makes of this
00:30:31Am I really going to see
00:30:41Fingerprints discovered?
00:30:42But of course
00:30:43They won't actually tell us anything
00:30:46But they inspire confidence, you know
00:30:49And impress the spectator
00:30:52There you are, you see
00:30:56Oh, so many
00:30:58A mess of fingerprints
00:30:59How inveterate is the habit
00:31:02Of catching hold of a door
00:31:03When one opens it
00:31:04Hence the old-fashioned institution
00:31:06Of the fingerprint
00:31:06I shall need a chair
00:31:09Excuse me
00:31:11Oh, thank you, miss Vane
00:31:12I didn't actually mean you to bring it
00:31:14Surely you don't expect
00:31:16To find them so high up
00:31:18Nothing would surprise me more
00:31:20This is merely a shop window display
00:31:23Of thoroughness
00:31:25And efficiency
00:31:26Purely routine, as the policemen say
00:31:29Good heavens
00:31:31Your college is kept remarkably well-dusted
00:31:35Congratulations
00:31:37Finished in the darkroom, batter?
00:31:42Yes, my lord
00:31:42I've made three exposures
00:31:44Hard to do
00:31:45You might dust off this door
00:31:46Certainly, my lord
00:31:47We will now bend our Australian eyes
00:31:51And do the same thing for this door
00:31:53You see
00:31:57Even if we did identify
00:31:59All of these fingerprints
00:32:02They'd only turn out to belong to people
00:32:05Who had a perfect right to be here
00:32:07In any case, like anybody else these days
00:32:11Our culprit
00:32:12Probably knows enough to wear gloves
00:32:14Fewer fingerprints
00:32:16As you see
00:32:18Top of the door
00:32:21Equally well-dusted
00:32:22Which is more than a bit said
00:32:26For this windowsill
00:32:27Still, there's always something gets left out, isn't there?
00:32:32Made a bit of a meal of the exit
00:32:33Miss Vane?
00:32:40Yes
00:32:40Something worries you about this room
00:32:43What is it?
00:32:45You don't need to be told
00:32:47No, I'm quite sure our two hearts beat as one
00:32:50But tell Miss Martin
00:32:52Well
00:32:55When the
00:32:57Let's call her she
00:32:59Since Annie Wilson believes it's a woman
00:33:01When she turned out the light
00:33:03She must have been standing next to that door
00:33:05She then made her escape through the dark room
00:33:07So the mystery is
00:33:09How, after that, did she manage to knock over the blackboard
00:33:13Which was standing quite out of the line of the two doors
00:33:17Exactly
00:33:17Oh, that's nothing
00:33:18I can remember my reading lamp fused one night
00:33:22I got up to turn on the wall switch
00:33:24And I ended up with my nose against the wardrobe
00:33:26Ah
00:33:27The chill of common sense falls on our conjectures
00:33:31Like ice-cold water on hot glass
00:33:34And shatters them to bits
00:33:36I don't believe it
00:33:40We are saying, aren't we, that the board fell down after the light went out
00:33:47That's right, yes
00:33:48In that case, she only had to switch out the light
00:33:50And then grope her way along this wall
00:33:52She must have had a reason
00:33:55To grope him back into the middle of the room
00:33:57Perhaps she'd left something on the table
00:34:02Something that incriminated her
00:34:04A handkerchief used to press the letters down
00:34:07Perhaps
00:34:08Vain
00:34:10Vain
00:34:11You'll never get me
00:34:14You
00:34:14You what?
00:34:17Is this the first time you've been so honoured?
00:34:19The first time since
00:34:20The first time
00:34:22You
00:34:23You'll never know, will we?
00:34:27Here are only S's, Q's, P's
00:34:29Z's and other such useless
00:34:32And unhelpful consonants
00:34:34Difficult to know how the letter was meant to end
00:34:37What puzzles me is why did she use this room at all?
00:34:41There's the mystery
00:34:42Excuse me, my lord
00:34:44I think this may contribute to our inquiries
00:34:48Bund her
00:34:50Good heavens
00:34:53This is like a leaf out of a forgotten story
00:34:55Does anybody use these things?
00:34:57Oh, lots of people
00:34:58Little buns are coming back
00:35:00Buns in the nape of the neck
00:35:02I use them myself, but mine are bronze
00:35:03I know who uses black ones, this shape
00:35:05Of course, Miss Divine
00:35:07Always the White Queen
00:35:09And of course she would drop them all over the place
00:35:11But she is one of the few members of the college
00:35:13Who would never use the darkroom
00:35:15Or consult scientific works
00:35:17And of course we don't know that this one is hers
00:35:20Perhaps Miss Vane could get Miss Divine to identify it
00:35:24And perhaps Miss Divine might volunteer some information
00:35:27Well, I think this lecture room offers no further scope for research
00:35:34Oh, well, in that case
00:35:36Please excuse me
00:35:37I should have loved to have shown you around the college, Lord Peter
00:35:42But alas, so much to do
00:35:43And so little time in which to do it
00:35:45It is the lot of man
00:35:47And a woman, too
00:35:49We shall meet at dinner
00:35:51Well, Lord
00:35:53Since we have the almost unique facility of a darkroom at hand
00:35:57Shall I set about developing the film immediately?
00:36:00Splendid
00:36:00Do take care
00:36:04What do you mean?
00:36:07Well
00:36:07These amazing events
00:36:09Getting knocked down in the chapel
00:36:11And now this message
00:36:12You
00:36:14You by name
00:36:15Have become a challenge to this person
00:36:17Could be dangerous
00:36:20All I'm saying
00:36:21Um
00:36:28You haven't forgotten that yesterday you seemed prepared to accept
00:36:32A somewhat less dangerous challenge
00:36:34By no means
00:36:36I shall come dressed for combat
00:36:39Half an hour
00:36:41Magdalen Bridge
00:36:42Oh
00:36:43You might bring your notes
00:36:45You might bring your notes
00:36:46You might bring your notes
00:36:47You might bring your notes
00:36:48You might bring your notes
00:36:49You might bring your notes
00:36:50You might bring your notes
00:36:51You might bring your notes
00:36:52You might bring your notes
00:36:53You might bring your notes
00:36:54You might bring your notes
00:36:55You might bring your notes
00:36:56You might bring your notes
00:36:57You might bring your notes
00:36:58You might bring your notes
00:36:59You might bring your notes
00:37:00You might bring your notes
00:37:01You might bring your notes
00:37:02You might bring your notes
00:37:03You might bring your notes
00:37:04You might bring your notes
00:37:05You might bring your notes
00:37:06You might bring your notes
00:37:07You might bring your notes
00:37:08You might bring your notes
00:37:09You might bring your notes
00:37:10You might bring your notes
00:37:11You might bring your notes
00:37:12You might bring your notes
00:37:13ORGAN PLAYS
00:37:43Well, I'll say this for the writing of detective fiction.
00:37:53You certainly know how to put your story together.
00:37:56How to lay out the evidence.
00:37:57I say, Holmes, that's terribly decent of you.
00:38:02Nevertheless, I can't say that it suggests to me the faintest glimmer of a motive.
00:38:08A motive only to painfully obvious.
00:38:12Not to me.
00:38:13The sexual overtones.
00:38:15The obscenity of some of the things.
00:38:18Ah, the Freudian view.
00:38:20The effects of sexual abstinence on the human psyche.
00:38:23Well, we could both of us deliver a thesis on that subject.
00:38:27Don't people the cloisters with bogies, Harriet,
00:38:29just because you've set your mind to a spot of celibacy.
00:38:32Well, I'm not talking about me and my feelings.
00:38:34We're talking about this beastly case in the college.
00:38:37But you can't keep your feelings out of the case.
00:38:42I admit, I am finding it hard to see things clearly.
00:38:46What is it, Harriet?
00:38:46I feel like Judas, Peter, allowing you in on the case.
00:38:52Siding with London against Oxford.
00:38:54The world against the cloister.
00:38:56Feeling like Judas is part of the job.
00:38:58I've always known it's no job for a gentleman.
00:39:00Nor a lady, it would seem.
00:39:08Well, shall we wash our hands like Pontius Pilate
00:39:12and become thoroughly respectful?
00:39:15No, we're both in it for now.
00:39:17We'll be degraded together.
00:39:19That'll be nice.
00:39:20I was beginning to think that almost any of them might be capable of it.
00:39:32And you calmly stood by
00:39:34and allowed me to accept their invitation to dinner.
00:39:39Look, leave your book with me
00:39:41and I'll see if it sparks anything off.
00:39:42Who knows?
00:39:43I might even come up with that good old
00:39:45fashion, pre-Freudian motive.
00:39:50Good Lord.
00:39:51You know.
00:39:53I'll swear those are the self-same ducks
00:39:55that I fed here 23 years ago.
00:39:58Ten years ago, I too fed them to bursting point.
00:40:13But probably, Lord Peter,
00:40:14you're not especially interested in all this question
00:40:16of women's education.
00:40:18Oh, is it still a question?
00:40:20It ought not to be.
00:40:20Oh, even here in Oxford,
00:40:22there are those for whom it remains very much one.
00:40:25Hence the particular need for circumspection, Lord Peter.
00:40:28I do see that.
00:40:30And I fondly supposed
00:40:31I was returning to civilization
00:40:32when I came back here.
00:40:35Actually,
00:40:36Carlisle should have added women's education
00:40:38to his three great elements of modern civilization.
00:40:41I don't think I know that, Ordon.
00:40:42A gunpowder printing
00:40:44and the Protestant religion, isn't it?
00:40:46You are extensively read, Lord Peter.
00:40:48A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought, Warden.
00:40:52Oh, I think you're excessively modest.
00:40:54The apt quotation is no mere intellectual sleight of hand.
00:40:57It's a form of wisdom.
00:40:59The only kind of wisdom that has any social use
00:41:01is the knowledge of one's own limitations, Lord.
00:41:04Not something that young dons and students
00:41:06are very ready to admit to.
00:41:08Thereby showing themselves less wise than Socrates
00:41:10who made the admission fairly frequently.
00:41:13They have in sake,
00:41:13please don't bring Socrates into the conversation.
00:41:16Lord Peter,
00:41:17I'm ashamed of you.
00:41:18One should always bring Socrates into the conversation,
00:41:21if for no other reason
00:41:22than that he was a seeker after truth,
00:41:24as I presume in your line,
00:41:26you are too.
00:41:27I stand reproached.
00:41:29Please,
00:41:30bring Socrates into the conversation
00:41:31as much as you like.
00:41:33Isn't there a problem of definition
00:41:35when it comes to truth?
00:41:36Surely not.
00:41:38In human terms...
00:41:38They seem to be getting on rather well over there.
00:41:41Miss Pike likes an audience.
00:41:43But man is...
00:41:44Well, it's good for a man
00:41:45to do the listening sometimes.
00:41:46Yes, I suppose so.
00:41:49By the way,
00:41:51Lord Peter tells me
00:41:52that he can obtain access for me
00:41:54to some private collections
00:41:56of historical documents in Florence.
00:41:59Do you suppose it means what he says?
00:42:02If he says so,
00:42:02you can be sure he can and will.
00:42:05That is a testimonial.
00:42:06I'm very glad to hear it.
00:42:08As choices.
00:42:10The other day,
00:42:11I heard the unfortunate story
00:42:12of an artist of genius.
00:42:14A married man
00:42:15whose work is so original
00:42:16that it brings in very little money.
00:42:18Now,
00:42:19there's a choice.
00:42:20Should he change his style
00:42:22and paint potboilers
00:42:23or
00:42:24fulfill his genius
00:42:26and let his family starve?
00:42:28Oh, it's very clear.
00:42:30He must cease painting.
00:42:31He mustn't paint potboilers.
00:42:33That would be immoral.
00:42:34If you can't agree about painters,
00:42:35make it someone else.
00:42:37A scientist.
00:42:38I've no objection
00:42:39to scientific potboilers.
00:42:41I mean,
00:42:41a popular book
00:42:42isn't necessarily unscientific.
00:42:44So long as it doesn't falsify the facts.
00:42:47But it might be
00:42:48a different kind of thing.
00:42:50To take a concrete example,
00:42:52someone read a novel
00:42:53called The Quest.
00:42:54Oh, yes, T.H. Black.
00:42:55I never read it.
00:42:56Oh, I did.
00:42:58It's about a man
00:42:59who starts out
00:42:59to be a scientist
00:43:00and gets on very well
00:43:02till just as he's going
00:43:04to be appointed
00:43:04to an important executive post,
00:43:06he discovers
00:43:07that he's made
00:43:08a careless error
00:43:09in a scientific paper.
00:43:11He doesn't get the job.
00:43:13Somebody finds out.
00:43:15So he decides
00:43:15he doesn't really care
00:43:16about science after all.
00:43:18Obviously not.
00:43:19He only cared about the post.
00:43:20But if it were only a mistake...
00:43:23The point is
00:43:24what an elderly colleague
00:43:26says to him.
00:43:27He tells him
00:43:27that the only principle
00:43:29that has made science possible
00:43:30is the ethical one,
00:43:32that the truth
00:43:33must be told
00:43:34at all times.
00:43:35And if we do not penalize
00:43:36false statements
00:43:37made in error,
00:43:38then we open up the way
00:43:39for false statements
00:43:40made by intent.
00:43:41And a falsification of fact
00:43:43made by intent
00:43:43is the most serious crime
00:43:45that a scientist can commit.
00:43:48That is the gist
00:43:50of the thing anyway.
00:43:51I may not be quoting accurately.
00:43:52Well, that's true, of course.
00:43:53Nothing could possibly
00:43:54excuse deliberate falsification.
00:43:56It sounds anyway
00:43:57like a manufactured case.
00:43:58It could seldom happen.
00:43:59And if it did...
00:44:00Oh, it happens.
00:44:01It happened to me.
00:44:02It happened to you,
00:44:04Mr. Vyfe.
00:44:05Yes, to me.
00:44:07Is it possible to...
00:44:09Oh, I don't mind telling you.
00:44:10Without names, of course.
00:44:13When I was at
00:44:14Flanborough College
00:44:15examining for the
00:44:17professorial thesis
00:44:18in Ripon University,
00:44:20there was a man
00:44:20who sent in
00:44:21a very interesting paper
00:44:23on a historical subject.
00:44:25It was a most persuasive
00:44:27piece of argument,
00:44:29but I happen to know
00:44:30that the whole contention
00:44:31was quite untrue
00:44:33because a document,
00:44:35a letter, as it so happened,
00:44:38that absolutely contradicted it
00:44:40was actually in existence
00:44:42in a certain very obscure library
00:44:44in a foreign town.
00:44:46Oh, I had come across it
00:44:48when I was reading something there.
00:44:50Well, that wouldn't have mattered,
00:44:52of course,
00:44:53but the internal evidence
00:44:55showed that the man
00:44:56must have had access
00:44:57to that library.
00:44:59So, I had to make an inquiry,
00:45:03and I found
00:45:03he really had been there
00:45:05and must have seen the letter
00:45:07and deliberately suppressed it.
00:45:11But how could you be so sure
00:45:12he had seen the letter?
00:45:14He might carelessly
00:45:14have overlooked it.
00:45:15Yes, and that would be
00:45:16a completely different matter.
00:45:18He not only had seen it,
00:45:20he stole it.
00:45:21We made him admit as much.
00:45:24He'd come upon the letter
00:45:25when his thesis
00:45:26was nearly complete
00:45:27and he had no time
00:45:28to rewrite it.
00:45:30But apart from that,
00:45:32he'd grown so enamored
00:45:33of his own theory,
00:45:34he couldn't bear to give it up.
00:45:37That's the mark
00:45:38of an unsound scholar,
00:45:39I'm afraid.
00:45:40But here's the curious thing.
00:45:43He was unscrupulous enough
00:45:45to let the false conclusion stand,
00:45:48but too good a historian
00:45:49to destroy the letter.
00:45:51He kept it.
00:45:52You'd think it'd be as painful
00:45:53as biting on a sore tooth.
00:45:55What happened to him?
00:45:57Oh, that was the end of him.
00:45:58He lost the professorship,
00:46:00naturally,
00:46:00and they took away
00:46:01his MA as well.
00:46:03A pity,
00:46:04because he was brilliant
00:46:05in his own way.
00:46:08Poor man.
00:46:09He must have needed
00:46:10the post very badly.
00:46:11Yes,
00:46:12meant a great deal
00:46:13to him financially.
00:46:14He was married
00:46:15and not very well off.
00:46:16So where is he now?
00:46:18I have no idea.
00:46:19It's about six years ago.
00:46:21He disappeared completely.
00:46:24One was sorry about it,
00:46:25of course,
00:46:26but
00:46:26there it was.
00:46:30You couldn't possibly
00:46:31have done anything else.
00:46:33You'd think it'd have been
00:46:33a lesson to him.
00:46:35Didn't pay, did it?
00:46:36Say he sacrificed
00:46:37his professional honor
00:46:38for these women and children
00:46:40we hear so much about,
00:46:41but in the end
00:46:41it left him much worse off.
00:46:43But that was only because
00:46:44he'd committed the extra sin
00:46:46had been found out.
00:46:48It seems to me...
00:46:50Yes?
00:46:52Well,
00:46:53oughtn't the women and children
00:46:54to have a point of view?
00:46:56I mean,
00:46:56supposing the wife
00:46:57had known her husband
00:46:58had done such a thing for her,
00:47:00what would she feel about it?
00:47:02That's a very important point.
00:47:04She'd probably feel
00:47:04too ghastly for words.
00:47:06Oh, it depends.
00:47:07I don't believe
00:47:08nine out of ten women
00:47:09would give a dash.
00:47:10But that's a monstrous
00:47:11thing to say.
00:47:13Well, ask Mrs. Bones,
00:47:14the butcher's wife,
00:47:14or Miss Tape,
00:47:15the tailor's daughter,
00:47:16how much they'd worry
00:47:17about suppressing
00:47:17a moldy old fact
00:47:18from an historical thesis.
00:47:20We are most positive
00:47:21this evening,
00:47:21aren't we, Dean?
00:47:23Yes.
00:47:24I suppose we are.
00:47:27Lord Peter,
00:47:28I do apologise
00:47:29for the way
00:47:30we have all been
00:47:30clapping on
00:47:31about intellectual integrity
00:47:33in such an
00:47:34unwomanly fashion.
00:47:35Not at all.
00:47:36I mean, you're dead.
00:47:37I'm having the most
00:47:38stimulating
00:47:40and instructive evening.
00:47:41Just a minute.
00:48:05Come in.
00:48:08Hello, Carrie.
00:48:09Good morning, Miss.
00:48:10Paget asked me
00:48:10to give you this.
00:48:12What is it?
00:48:13Paget said it had
00:48:14been left at the lodge
00:48:15and you was to get it
00:48:16as soon as possible.
00:48:17All right, Carrie.
00:48:18Go.
00:48:18Thank you, Miss.
00:48:24Harriet,
00:48:25forgive me.
00:48:26I've gone to see
00:48:27a mail about a dog.
00:48:28Could you speak
00:48:29to Dr. Baring?
00:48:31Luncheon tomorrow?
00:48:32I'm a servant.
00:48:34Peter.
00:48:36Thank you very much.
00:48:38But where is the man
00:48:40and what is the dog?
00:48:44Rippon?
00:48:45He would say no more
00:48:46than that it was
00:48:46the mere speculation
00:48:47but that it related
00:48:49to hairpins.
00:48:51I do hope
00:48:52that makes sense.
00:48:53Barely, warden.
00:48:55I suspect Lord Peter
00:48:56of having a taste
00:48:57for mischief.
00:48:58Anyway, he wants,
00:48:59and I quote,
00:49:00hairpins to telephone
00:49:01the Grand Hotel Rippon.
00:49:03Clearly a coded message.
00:49:07Will you attend
00:49:08to his arcane instructions,
00:49:10Miss Vane?
00:49:11I shall, warden.
00:49:13That, uh,
00:49:15practiced air of inanity
00:49:17he's pleased to adopt
00:49:18conceals a sharp intellect.
00:49:21Does it not seem to you?
00:49:23I certainly hope so, warden.
00:49:25Miss Vane, Miss.
00:49:29You've just missed her.
00:49:30She's gone up to London.
00:49:32Oh, damn.
00:49:36When do you expect her back?
00:49:38Oh, she'll be up there
00:49:38all day, Miss.
00:49:40I know she's got a lecture
00:49:42at King's in the Strand
00:49:43this evening.
00:49:43I'd say,
00:49:44not until ten
00:49:45at the earliest.
00:49:46Oh.
00:49:47Can I do anything, Miss?
00:49:50No, Padgett, thanks.
00:49:51I had a message for her,
00:49:52that's all.
00:49:54Well, you could leave
00:49:54a note on the board, Miss,
00:49:56except that she might
00:49:57not see it.
00:49:58No.
00:50:00I may catch her later
00:50:01in her room.
00:50:02Very good, Miss.
00:50:17I'll see you next time.
00:50:47I'll see you next time.
00:51:17I'll see you next time.
00:51:47I'll see you next time.
00:52:17I'll see you next time.
00:52:47I'll see you next time.
00:53:17I'll see you next time.
00:53:47I'll see you next time.
00:54:17I'll see you next time.
00:54:47I'll see you next time.
00:55:17I'll see you next time.
00:55:47I'll see you next time.
00:57:17I'll see you next time.
00:59:47I'll see you next time.
01:01:19And his wife,
01:01:21whilst the sun,
01:01:23I'll see you next time,
01:01:25I'll see you next time.
01:01:27But this is...
01:01:31but this is...
01:01:33it's not possible,
01:01:35it's not possible, Lord Peter.
01:01:37It just isn't.
01:01:39I'll see you next time,
01:01:41I'll see you next time.
01:01:45I'll see you next time,
01:01:47I'll see you next time.
01:01:49I'll see you next time,
01:01:53I'll see you next time,
01:01:55I'll see you next time.
01:01:57I'll see you next time.
01:01:59I'll see you next time.
01:02:01I'll see you next time.
01:02:03I'll see you next time.
01:02:05I'll see you next time.
01:02:07I'll see you next time.
01:02:09I'll see you next time.
01:02:11Please,
01:02:13I'll see you next time.
01:02:14I will see you.
01:02:15Just so, Miss Pike.
01:02:20I have not taken your time
01:02:22by going through all the details
01:02:24of this confused case,
01:02:25but I've presented the salient
01:02:26points to you
01:02:27as they occur to me,
01:02:28and I've shown you the basis
01:02:30on which I founded my work in theory.
01:02:32I've also told you
01:02:34how you can add to the world
01:02:35and I've shown you the basis
01:02:37on which I founded my work in theory.
01:02:40i've also told you some of the evidence although it lacks as yet one detail i'm in a position to
01:02:48state conclusively the name of the culprit this is all very convincing lord peter except for one
01:03:05thing what is that warden well she was present at the discovery in the lecture room that is what she
01:03:11wanted us to believe but the whole thing was a clear fake the idea that the poltergeist was caught
01:03:18in discovery by preparing her messages in such a public place was rather absurd the ceiling lights
01:03:24had been used when there was a reading lamp in good working order on the table next to the box of
01:03:28cut out letters the very box containing insufficient vowels and consonants to complete the taunting
01:03:34message begun to miss vane it was annie who drew carrie's attention to the light at the window and
01:03:39it was only annie who claimed to have seen the figure at the table but miss vane and carrie heard
01:03:46the easel being knocked over in the lecture room when i was hurrying to join yes you having been
01:03:50alerted from the lodge telephone by annie who then just had time to stage manage that very convincing
01:03:56effect by rushing back and nipping in through the darkroom window and out again and round in time to
01:04:00arrive about the same time as you did yourself i must admit i was looking for evidence of strings
01:04:05over the tops of doors but the marks on the darkroom windowsill were commensurate with annie's necessary
01:04:10three trips to and fro and of course the suspicious hairpin just another plant come in
01:04:18excuse me my lord padgett asked me to give you this oh just a moment mr bunter lord peter i want to see
01:04:30annie wilson she must be found and brought here better not but you've just made a public accusation
01:04:36against this unfortunate woman i think it is only right that she be given the opportunity to answer it
01:04:42please tell padgett to bring her here at once very good ma the united spirit of the college as a whole
01:05:06has stood between us and the most unpleasant publicity but had it not been for miss vain's involvement
01:05:14i fear the matter would now be out of our hands we owe her a great deal
01:05:23come in
01:05:26you sent for me dr bearing yes annie come here please
01:05:36lord peter
01:05:51this is your key i believe key
01:05:56i don't know what you're talking about the duplicate key with which you locked yourself into the cellar
01:06:02after your mistaken attack on miss spain i imagine it was mistaken and that the attack was meant for miss
01:06:08divine mrs robinson
01:06:17annie we are giving you the opportunity to clear yourself
01:06:20clear myself yes
01:06:28what is this some court of law no i'd like to see you bring me to a real court
01:06:35then i could tell the judge how that woman there killed my husband enough annie what you've done is
01:06:40very wicked broke him and killed him mrs robinson i'm immensely disturbed to hear about all this i knew
01:06:46nothing about it until now you didn't give a damn but you must understand i had no choice in the
01:06:52matter you murdered him i couldn't possibly have foreseen the outcome i say you murdered him what harm
01:06:58had he done to anybody he told a lie about someone who's dead and dust hundreds of years ago who was
01:07:03the worst for that you broke him and killed him all for nothing do you think that's a woman's job
01:07:08a woman's job is to look after her husband and children i wish i could kill you all annie that's
01:07:17enough don't you think you can shut me up you cold bitch you're the worst of the lot you run this place
01:07:23and you all stick together don't you even though you don't trust each other you can't agree about
01:07:28anything except hating decent women and their men there's nothing in your books about real life
01:07:35and marriage and children is there nothing about people who are desperate or or love or or hate or
01:07:43anything that's human you brought him here i know about you i'm sorry why are you sorry you're the
01:07:56dirtiest hypocrite of the lot i know who you are you had a lover once he died you chucked him out because
01:08:02you were too proud to marry him i suppose you'd say you loved him you don't know what love is and
01:08:07you'll probably do the same thing well what are you going to do now all of you run away to the
01:08:16magistrate i don't think you dare you're afraid to come out into the light you're afraid of your
01:08:22precious college and your precious selves and you always will be
01:08:44oh peter i apologize for letting the scene take place i should have known better you're quite right
01:08:52and mr vine i'm sure i speak for everyone when i say that no sane person could possibly think of
01:09:02blaming you thank you warden nobody perhaps but myself not for my original action which was right
01:09:12and unavoidable it's the sequel for which i hold myself to blame the lack of concern for a fellow human
01:09:20being no matter that he brought about his own downfall i should have made it my responsibility
01:09:29to see what became of that unhappy man and his wife and family
01:09:37and speaking of responsibility to and for others what about you and lord peter
01:09:43i'm not sure i've ever thought of him as a responsibility of mine
01:09:46i don't mean to pry miss vain but isn't it time you faced facts i've been facing one fact for some
01:09:52time now if i once gave way to peter i should burn up like straw that is moderately obvious how often
01:10:01does he use the knowledge of that as a weapon against you never
01:10:04never then what are you afraid of yourself maybe
01:10:18i shouldn't be at all an easy person to live with i've got a devilish temper i'd make his life a
01:10:21misery oh well if you're determined you're not fit to black his boots tell him so and send him away
01:10:27i've been trying to send peter away ever since i first met him if you'd really tried you could have
01:10:31sent him away in five minutes meaning i didn't want to miss vain bring your scholar's mind to the
01:10:38question and be true to yourself for he will never make up your mind for you
01:10:43it looks as if i should have to go back to the world again next week
01:10:54but um i thought i'd stay on for a couple of days here
01:10:58how about you i haven't made any plans
01:11:02not thinking of uh rooting yourself here among grass and stones ask for the old paths and walk
01:11:13therein and ye shall find rest for your souls can it be done no but there are times here away from
01:11:24the haste and violence one man thinks it can
01:11:34funny we should be here talking like this
01:11:39do you remember wilvercombe when all we could find to throw at one another was cheap wit
01:11:45and spiteful remarks oh at least i was spiteful you never were oh that was the watering place atmosphere
01:11:52one is always vulgar the watering places thank heavens it's almost impossible to be cheap at oxford
01:12:00after one second year at least there's something about this place that
01:12:03alters one's values considerably yes there is
01:12:09for instance you may have noticed that i haven't proposed to you whilst i've been in oxford
01:12:16yes i had noticed that
01:12:17the fact is i'm afraid that anything you say here will be final no going back
01:12:29that is a risk
01:12:29i say this arcade is rather jolly a touch of vanborough oh harriet you know i love you will you marry me
01:12:45dear idiot
01:12:59dear idiot
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