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American heiress Jennie Jerome marries British aristocrat Lord Randolph Churchill, despite strong objections from both families.
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00:00Satsang with Mooji
02:02Who told you that?
02:04Oh, it's all right.
02:06The others don't even guess.
02:10Getting to be a very clever young girl, Jenny.
02:13Does your mother know that?
02:15Mama doesn't know anything.
02:17Come on.
02:19I'll race.
02:21Revolution is a very terrible thing, girls.
02:33All the dear emperor's beautiful things simply handed out of the palace windows and auctioned off in the garden.
02:38I went to see it.
02:40You still managed to get the dinner service, Mama?
02:42And brought it home in a wheelbarrow.
02:44I don't think you can have wet very much.
02:46Well, not just at that moment, Jenny.
02:48Of course.
02:49At that moment, what I felt was it was better his friends should have his things than his enemies.
02:54But afterwards, I felt...
02:55Well, we were friends.
02:56And he was such a friend to us.
02:58He wasn't a friend to me.
02:59I never met him.
03:00I know, love.
03:01I wish you had.
03:03He was so wonderful.
03:04So...
03:05Such a man.
03:06I'm not sure it wasn't a good thing he was deposed.
03:09Papa!
03:10Clary, you're an American, remember?
03:12I don't see what difference that makes, Papa.
03:14I think you sometimes forget you're the citizen of a republic.
03:17And your mother.
03:18Yes, indeed.
03:19We threw off the monstrous tyranny of kings years ago.
03:21You're a very bad influence on Jenny, Papa.
03:24Mom and I have been trying to make her fit for decent society.
03:27And along you come with your New York conversation...
03:30New York is where I happen to make our living.
03:32Yes, but we don't have to live there.
03:34Paris is the only place to bring up girls.
03:37I realized that at once when your father and I first came here.
03:40Only it's not what it once was.
03:42Without the Emperor Napoleon III.
03:45Well, no.
03:46It isn't, Jenny.
03:47Oh, I don't know.
03:49I do?
03:50Clara and I have noticed many very sad differences, my dear.
03:54Well, you find Paris all that sad and you're both so stuck on royalty.
03:57Why don't you try England?
03:58They haven't had a revolution there.
04:00Yeah.
04:01I suppose that's why they're so snobbish about Americans.
04:04Oh, they're not, Clara.
04:05We had a marvelous time at Cowes last year.
04:07Everyone was very nice to us.
04:08I like England.
04:09Well, Cowes is charming, of course.
04:11But it's only a little place to go for the summer.
04:13Oh, seems gay enough to me.
04:15What do you want?
04:16An invitation to Windsor Castle?
04:17Oh, Papa, the Queen wears black all the time and she never goes out.
04:21Yeah.
04:22Girls, your father is beginning to be humorous.
04:26I think it's time we left him to his cigar.
04:29My family.
04:30Now you can see why I'm getting tired of Paris, Papa.
04:44I think I shall die if I don't get a change of air.
04:47So we shall go to Cowes again this summer, shall we?
04:50Of course you shall.
04:51And you'll come too.
04:52Please.
04:53There's nothing I'd like better.
04:55But New York in August isn't like Paris, Jenny.
04:57The men go on working.
04:58And playing.
04:59Well, a little perhaps.
05:00But this summer, it's going to be mostly work.
05:01Oh, poor Papa.
05:02You make it sound as though we shouldn't go to Cowes.
05:03Oh, no.
05:04No.
05:05No.
05:06No.
05:07No.
05:08No.
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05:21No.
05:22No.
05:23No.
05:24No.
05:25No.
05:26No.
05:27No.
05:28There's nothing I'd like better than to see you girls enjoying yourselves.
05:30That's what I do it for.
05:31I'd like about to see you're happy.
05:32Oh, well.
05:33I always am.
05:34I'm not like Clara.
05:35No, you're not.
05:36Not at all.
05:37Clara?
05:38Well, she falls in out of love every six weeks.
05:43But you're not like that at all.
05:44How do you know?
05:46You're like your mother.
05:48When you fall in love.
05:49It'll be very dangerous.
05:51For me or for the man?
05:52Well, you weren't born to love lightly.
05:55It must be...
05:56way down or nothing if you get the right man then that's wonderful but if you're disappointed
06:03is mom unhappy
06:06what do you think
06:12she's certainly disappointed yeah
06:18you just be careful how you fall in love jenny
06:24you
06:35you
06:37you
06:43you
06:45you
06:47you
06:49you
06:54No, sir. The girl in white. The dark one.
06:59Jerome, sir. Miss Jenny Jerome.
07:02She and her sister were presented to you and the princess here last year, sir.
07:06American.
07:07Oh, yes. Yes.
07:09She's come on a lot, huh?
07:12She's an absolute charmer.
07:13And her sister.
07:14American, though, you say.
07:15Oh, good Lord, Randolph. I know several perfectly nice Americans.
07:18I don't.
07:20Frank, introduce me.
07:22I say, smitten.
07:24I'm sick of English girls. They're all so anemic.
07:27Come on.
07:29Even Randolph has noticed.
07:34Hello, Miss Jerome.
07:35Oh, hello.
07:37Splendid, isn't it?
07:38Yes. It's the first time I've ever been on a battleship.
07:41It's not a battleship. It's a cruiser.
07:43Mr. Rome, may I present an old friend who's just arrived in Cowers, Lord Randolph Churchill.
07:47How do you do?
07:47How do you do?
07:49Is this your first visit to Cowers, Mr. Rome?
07:51No. We come every year.
07:52In that case, I can't think how I've missed seeing you.
07:55May I write my name in your programme, Mr. Rome?
07:57Thank you, Mr. Barth.
08:08Are you a yachting man, Lord Randolph?
08:10No.
08:10I know he's only interested in hunting, and there's nothing to catch in the sea.
08:14For a fish, surely?
08:15Yes, and wet feet and colds. That's not my idea of sport. I think one's much better off on dry land any day.
08:21I don't agree at all. And especially not tonight. I can't think of a nicer place to be.
08:26I believe you're American, Mr. Rome.
08:30Really?
08:31Wow.
08:31I've been told so.
08:33That's all right, then. I thought perhaps I'd given myself away somehow.
08:37My parents have spent so long trying to eradicate my transatlantic vowels.
08:41I haven't even been allowed back to America.
08:43Why, yes?
08:43Your vowels. I assure you, your axes. Your manners, generally, are delightful.
08:48Ah, but they seem English. That's the point.
08:53They're indistinguishable from the real thing.
08:55How odd. They should seem rather French. We live in Paris, you see.
08:59Oh, well. Many French things are charming, of course.
09:01Except for government.
09:03You take an interest in politics, Mr. Rome?
09:05I say, now that is un-English, frankly. May I have that now, please?
09:09Oh, with pleasure.
09:12I've claimed the dance after next, Mr. Rome, with your permission.
09:15Thank you, Mr. Barth.
09:16I suppose the French dance quite disgustingly well, being progged.
09:22Well, they don't pop like some Englishmen, I've met.
09:26Well, no true Englishman dances really well, you know. It's not done.
09:28Why ever not?
09:30It's not manly.
09:32Oh, so that's why the English always tread on their ladies' toes.
09:35It proves their manliness.
09:36I've wondered.
09:38Mr. Rome, if I promise to try not to tread on your toes,
09:42may I have the pleasure of this dance?
09:43The pleasure, I hope, will be mutual.
09:46Yes, well, we can only try.
10:01Poor Randolph looks so lost
10:03when he's chasing something without a pack of hounds.
10:06Oh, I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Rome.
10:12Perhaps I shouldn't have ventured on anything quite so extremely,
10:15one might say offensively, French as a quadrille.
10:18Why did you then?
10:20Well, I wanted to get to know you.
10:21And if I hadn't asked you to dance, someone else would have done.
10:24And then it would have been impossible.
10:25Well, what have you learned about me so far?
10:29That you dance very much better than I do.
10:31What have you learned about me?
10:33That a little French polish could not come amiss.
10:36Don't deny it for a moment.
10:38May I now criticise you?
10:40By all means.
10:42A little English discretion would save some of my blushes.
10:45Oh, I'm sorry, but I believe in speaking the truth.
10:47Surely not about a chap's dancing.
10:49Why ever not?
10:50You need improvement, Lord Randolph.
10:52It would not be the act of a friend to pretend otherwise.
10:54Ah, then you're my friend.
10:57I say, that is progress.
11:22You see, they're interested in politics, Mr. Earl.
11:47You see, before you, two men who between them will rule half the world.
11:53A future Tsar of Russia and a future King of England.
11:58Doesn't it stir your blood?
12:01Oh, surely it does.
12:03It must do.
12:05An American, Lord Randolph.
12:07Oh, Alexander, my dear fellow.
12:33You suppose they'll dance?
12:46I certainly hope so.
12:47Because when royalty takes the floor, even aristocrats and Americans must stand and watch.
12:51Thank God.
12:52Do you really hate dancing so much?
12:54No, how can I?
12:55It's brought us together.
12:56We've been admin for this ball, these poor sailors deprived of feminine company and tired of horn piping to each other.
13:03We should never have met.
13:06As a matter of fact, I found myself very much in favour of dancing, after all.
13:09You're not going to suggest that?
13:10Yes.
13:12Oh, I'm awfully sorry, but I promised the next dance for Mr. Barty.
13:15May I see your programme, please, Miss Jerome?
13:16Don't you believe me?
13:17Oh, yes, of course I believe you.
13:19Now I've freed you from your promise, and you can dance with me.
13:22You can't do that.
13:23Oh, it's all right.
13:24If you can cut Frank, he won't mind.
13:25He's an old friend of mine.
13:26Lord Randolph.
13:27It's all right.
13:28I'll explain to him later.
13:29As a matter of fact, I'm not half bad as a waltz.
13:31Am I, Frank?
13:38Clara, Lord Randolph is dancing with Jenny again.
13:42Poor Jenny.
13:44One would have expected the son of a duke to dance rather better than that.
13:48Really, dukes aren't like our French dukes, Mama.
13:51They all live in the country and hunt.
13:57King and Giddy?
13:58No.
13:58Oh, good.
14:00Are you?
14:01No, more, um, light-headed.
14:04Do you want to stop?
14:05Absolutely not.
14:06Now, stand by.
14:08I'm going to attempt to reverse.
14:10Oh.
14:11Oh, I should.
14:14Randolph never reversed on principle, just as he never apologised.
14:18Perhaps she insisted, sir.
14:20You know what these Americans are.
14:21Oh, yes.
14:28Who's that?
14:29Mother.
14:34She's not that bad, Lord Randolph.
14:36Men are the best judges of mothers, Miss Jerome.
14:38Does yours let you ride?
14:44She couldn't stop me if she wanted to.
14:46And do you want to?
14:47I've ridden since I was a child.
14:49My father's a great racing man, you see.
14:51He founded the American Jockey Club.
14:53God heavens, did he really?
14:55Yes.
14:55I mean, uh, I didn't know the one.
14:58Have you ever heard of a horse called Kentucky?
15:00Of course.
15:01I've used my father's.
15:02I've ridden Kentucky.
15:04I don't believe it.
15:05Well, my father put me on his back after he won a race once.
15:09Good heavens.
15:10So what's a sensible girl who knows about racing doing,
15:13wasting her time in a hole like Paris?
15:15Well, I ride every day in the summer, in the Bordeaux-Logne.
15:18Bordeaux-Logne?
15:19That's not racing.
15:20And this isn't dancing.
15:22Well, that wasn't so bad, was it?
15:34Ah, good.
15:35Now we can have a breather.
15:39This way, I think.
15:48Ah, good.
15:50Now we can talk.
15:52I thought we had been talking.
15:53How'd it start it?
15:54Now, tell me.
15:55Why, if you're American, do you live in Paris?
15:57Because my mother refuses to live in New York.
15:59Ah.
16:00New York's pretty awful, I imagine.
16:02Oh, you imagine quite wrong.
16:04I wish we'd spent more time there.
16:05We have the most beautiful house.
16:07And my father loves opera,
16:08so he's built a little theatre in one of the wings.
16:11But my mother...
16:12Is tone deaf.
16:13Almost.
16:14And politically speaking, completely so.
16:17Why do you say that?
16:18Well, you came to Paris five years ago, Miss Jerome.
16:22You were just in time for a major European war,
16:24closely followed by the bloodiest revolution in modern history.
16:29But your mother found New York too quiet for her.
16:32She wanted more passion and violence in her life.
16:35Hmm?
16:37Well, she could hardly know there was going to be
16:39the war and the commune, Lord Randolph.
16:42I suppose you fled.
16:45Naturally.
16:46As a matter of fact, we were on the last train out of Paris
16:48before the Prashens began the siege.
16:50Good.
16:50I'd hate to think of you easing rats like the people left behind.
16:53Rats must be so unnourishing.
16:55My father said there weren't even enough of those to go around.
16:58Oh, you mean he was left behind?
16:59No.
17:00He went back with some peace proposals
17:01from the American government to Bismarck.
17:04Bismarck?
17:05You mean you met Bismarck in the middle of the siege of Paris?
17:08Yes.
17:09Oh, God, I wish I could have done it.
17:12Bismarck.
17:14There's a great man.
17:15A really, really great man.
17:18We all think he's a monster.
17:20I dare say, but great.
17:21Is that what you want to be?
17:26A great man?
17:27Of course.
17:30They're not a monster, I hope.
17:33Can one be great without being a monster?
17:37I shall try.
17:44What's Paris like without an emperor?
17:47Paris is Paris.
17:49Mama says it isn't what it was.
17:50Your mama sounds very difficult to please.
17:53I should have thought she'd been grateful for a quiet life after all that.
17:56You don't know my mother?
17:58No, but...
17:59I know very few Americans, to tell you the truth.
18:03There are plenty about.
18:05I expect you don't think they're good enough for you.
18:07Well, very few people are, you know.
18:10But why'd you say it in that tone of voice?
18:14We didn't find people very friendly when we were in London.
18:17I am sorry.
18:17But what a very interesting life you've led, Miss Jerome.
18:22Well, it makes up for being dull in myself, I suppose.
18:25Oh, don't talk like that!
18:26My dear Miss Jerome,
18:33do you really know why I hate dances so much?
18:38Because of the nonsense people talk.
18:41Polite conversation is the greatest single bane of life.
18:44Well, I can see you must think that.
18:47Why?
18:49You don't attempt it.
18:50Why should I?
18:51And why should you?
18:53I'll be too intelligent for that sort of thing.
18:57My dear Miss Jerome, life's dreadfully short.
18:59It's a pity to fill it with tosh.
19:02Well, that's what I say.
19:04But no one in my family will ever listen.
19:06I will.
19:07I say, do you mind awfully if we dance again?
19:14We could sit out.
19:15No, I rather think we might be disturbed.
19:17May I have the pleasure?
19:18Your programme's empty.
19:19I've seen it.
19:19You haven't given me a chance to fill it.
19:21Quite.
19:24I'm afraid you're being rather monopolised by your friends, Mr Barty.
19:29Oh, really?
19:29She'll enjoy that.
19:30It's jolly good company.
19:31May I?
19:32Hmm.
19:32Take the Napoleons, for instance.
19:38Now, who were they?
19:39Nobodies.
19:40You think the first one became an emperor
19:42by chatting to a lot of fat dowagers in drawing rooms?
19:45A man must act if he's going to be anyone.
19:49How do you act, Lord Randolph?
19:52I don't.
19:53Yet.
19:55But I shall.
19:56I shall.
19:58How?
19:59Oh, I'll go into politics.
20:00I can have the family seat in Parliament any time I want it.
20:03Well, that doesn't sound like much of a challenge.
20:04That's exactly it.
20:06That's exactly my trouble.
20:07Things are too, too easy for me.
20:10Perhaps you're spoiled.
20:11Of course I am.
20:12And so are you.
20:14So are we all.
20:15We're all the spoiled darlings of our age.
20:19Perhaps the most spoiled of all time.
20:22Dancing on a warship on a lovely summer's night.
20:25All this.
20:27Ours and for nothing.
20:28Oh, not nothing, surely.
20:31No, what have we done to deserve it for?
20:33Our forefathers, yes, they struggled and fought and killed and starved.
20:38Just so that we can go round and round and round.
20:45Mind you, I'm very glad they did.
20:47But I'd rather be one of those who struggle than just one of those who go round and round.
20:52So would I.
20:53Why don't you do something, Lord Granol?
21:08I'm waiting for my challenge.
21:14A man has to wait for his moment.
21:18You know, like your emperor, Louis Napoleon.
21:20Oh, he's not my aunt, but he's my mother's.
21:23The last time we saw him was here, as a matter of fact.
21:26He'd invited us out on his yacht.
21:28His moment was over.
21:31He just leaned against the mast and stared at the sea, looking very old and very sad.
21:39He seemed to have nothing left to live for.
21:43But he had lived.
21:45My God, he'd lived.
21:48Yes, he took great risks.
21:50He gambled.
21:54And lost.
21:56Well, in the end.
21:58We all lose in the end.
22:00We all die, after all.
22:03What fun he had winning for 20 years first.
22:08Politics, you know, is a greasy pole.
22:1120 years is a long time to be at the top.
22:16And that's where you're going to be?
22:20Where else?
22:36Frank, one thing we must say for these Americans.
22:39They have courage and stamina.
22:41They'll need it, sir, if Randolph's going to pursue them.
22:44I wonder, do you suppose they have ambition, too?
22:50What?
22:52Why?
22:52Come on.
23:10Come on.
23:11I think I have a headache.
23:24It was crowded, wasn't it, Mama?
23:26Clara, it was the best ball I've ever beat.
23:29Of course. You haven't been to very many yet, have you?
23:32Mama.
23:34Will you invite Lord Randolph to dine tomorrow night?
23:38If you wish, dear.
23:39Did you think he was nice?
23:42Niceness hardly seemed to come into it.
23:44What do you mean?
23:47Well, he's so energetic.
23:52He didn't have time to think about whether he was nice or not.
23:57He said he doesn't believe in polite conversation, so...
24:01I suppose he's not.
24:04I believe he's one of the Marlborough house set.
24:08He's the son of the Duke of Marlborough.
24:10Oh, really, Ginny.
24:13The Marlboroughs don't live at Marlborough house.
24:15The Prince of Wales does.
24:17Don't you know anything?
24:21He's got very poppy eyes, doesn't he?
24:24He's only the younger son, of course.
24:30Oh, Mama.
24:32I'm not about to marry him.
24:34I've only just met him.
24:35Well?
24:37Clara, every time you and Mama meet a bachelor, you see a husband.
24:40What nonsense.
24:41One simply wants to know who someone is.
24:47If you invite him to dinner, Mom, you're not going to ask him yourself.
24:50I know.
24:51I know.
24:52I know.
24:53I know.
24:54I know.
24:55I know.
24:56I know.
24:57I know.
24:58I know.
24:59I know.
25:00I know.
25:01I know.
25:02I know.
25:03I know.
25:04I know.
25:05I know.
25:06You're just going to death when you're dead ab refugees.
25:08That's right, Bye-
25:08My friend here is a duper.
25:09I know.
25:10I know.
25:11I know.
25:12Whee-
25:12W 어�th snoring valley.
25:12...
25:18...
25:19...
25:19...
25:21...
25:24...
25:29It's a hun...
25:30...
25:31It's a fun guy.
25:32I know.
25:33...
25:34It's a hun...
25:35...
25:35...
25:36I don't know what talented girls they are.
26:06Do you know, I sometimes wonder if perhaps they don't play a little too well.
26:12How could they?
26:13Well, I like music, of course.
26:17Though I can't follow it the way the girls do.
26:20But I do wonder if perhaps people really want to listen to very good music after dinner.
26:36There. What about that?
26:42Tremendous.
26:45Miss Jerome, I owe you a sincere apology.
26:47Whatever for?
26:48I was so boorish and stupid about my dancing last night.
26:51I had no idea you were such a musician.
26:53Don't be so silly.
26:54No, I mean it.
26:55Anyone as musical as you must find my sort of galumphing painful in every way.
26:59Only when you trot on my toes.
27:01Oh, please forgive me and play again.
27:03Oh, Lord Randolph is very polite, Jenny, but I think perhaps...
27:08Oh, yes, Randolph, we ought to be going.
27:10Mr Barty's had quite enough.
27:12I say you are.
27:13Fine, that's not what I said at all.
27:15No.
27:15It seems your mother wants us to go.
27:20I don't.
27:22Look here.
27:23I'm leaving cows the day after tomorrow.
27:27Oh, I see.
27:28When can I see you?
27:30Whenever you like.
27:31We're here till September.
27:32No, I mean tomorrow, before I go.
27:33And where there's no polite conversation, where we can talk.
27:37I walk on the cliffs near Gurnard most mornings.
27:42Good night, Jenny.
27:43Good night, Miss Jerome.
27:46Good night, Randolph.
27:48Good night, Lord Randolph.
27:52Good night, Mrs Jerome.
27:54Thank you so much.
27:55Thank you so much for playing.
27:57These ladies are exhausted.
27:58You've kept them up far too long with all your chatter.
28:00Good night, Miss Jerome.
28:01Good night.
28:01Good night.
28:02Good night.
28:05Come on.
28:05Don't do that, Randolph.
28:06No, that's very painful.
28:07Come on.
28:08Well, I am rather tired.
28:16I think we should all go to bed.
28:18In a moment, Mama.
28:19Well, don't stay up too late, will you?
28:21No, Mama.
28:21Good night.
28:22Good night, Jenny.
28:23You know, I wish you wouldn't show off at the piano.
28:27People might think you were professional.
28:29Mama, go to bed.
28:31Good night, Dara.
28:32Good night.
28:33Lord Randolph does have poppy eyes.
28:41Isn't he fun?
28:43Oh, yes.
28:44Who?
28:45Playing party, of course.
28:46Lord Randolph's a little intense, don't you think?
28:49No.
28:50And that dreadful mustache.
28:53Clara?
28:54Hmm?
28:55I think I'm going to marry him.
28:57What?
29:00I don't know why.
29:01I just feel sure I'm going to marry him.
29:08Awfully jolly girls, aren't they?
29:09Hmm.
29:10Pity they're Americans.
29:12What's wrong with Americans?
29:13Oh, look at the mother.
29:14What a fearful snob.
29:16Ah, she's silly.
29:17Mothers always are.
29:18Oh, Lord, she goes on and on about the beastly French duke she knows.
29:22I really can't stick her.
29:23Then shut up about her.
29:25Hey, so you aren't really smitten, are you, Randolph?
29:27Yes.
29:29Good Lord.
29:30Good to see you when you met them yesterday.
29:32What does that matter?
29:33Well, good heaviness.
29:36Which one?
29:38Well, the fair ones, you know, with some frog marquis.
29:42Hmm.
29:43Ginny, then.
29:45Well, she's very pretty, I grant you.
29:47I'm going to marry her, if she'll have me.
29:54Good God.
29:57And she will.
29:58Good God.
30:24I think we're really very alike.
30:31Identical.
30:32You say you're very ambitious.
30:35So am I.
30:36With your mother, how could you not be?
30:39She only thinks about social things, money and marriages.
30:45I'm far more ambitious than that.
30:48Well, what are you ambitious for, Jenny?
30:50I don't know yet.
30:51That's why we're so alike.
30:55All I do know is I want far more out of life than anything anyone's even suggested yet.
31:04Look here. I'm leaving tomorrow. I must see you again.
31:08Well, I'll get Mama to invite you to dinner again.
31:11Can you do that, Jenny? Can you manage your Mama?
31:15When it's something important, yes.
31:21That is the dear Duke de Parisigny.
31:32Such a good friend, poor man.
31:35Nearly broke his father.
31:37The emperor was deposed. He never really recovered.
31:39And that's his father.
31:42And he went to the king and the emperor.
31:45One of them.
31:46Look here. There's no point in mucking about.
32:01Look here, there's no point in mucking about.
32:16I'm leaving tomorrow anyway.
32:17I know.
32:18When I've made up my mind to do something, Jenny, I do it.
32:22Will you marry me?
32:24Yes.
32:26I knew you would.
32:28I knew you'd ask me.
32:31I knew you'd ask me.
32:43I knew you'd ask me.
32:58Lord Randolph is very free and easy about his plans.
33:17He seemed so set on leaving this morning.
33:20I don't expect he has anything to do but please himself.
33:23I hope he's reliable.
33:25I do think it's a bad sign when people keep changing their plans.
33:38When shall we tell them?
33:39The sooner the better.
33:40The only reason for keeping it to ourselves would be that we weren't quite sure that we are, aren't we?
33:45I am.
33:46And shall we say we'll be married before Christmas?
33:49Tomorrow, if you like.
33:51Darling, Julie.
33:52What will everyone say?
33:53Does it matter?
33:54It is quite out of the question.
34:10I shall be the judge of that, Mama.
34:13You've only known the girl a week on your own admission.
34:17Who is she?
34:18Her name is Jeanette Jerome.
34:20I know that.
34:21Who is she?
34:22As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that matters is that she's going to be my wife.
34:26But my dear old man, who is she?
34:30She's an American.
34:32She lives in Paris.
34:35Who is the father?
34:37Oh, I understand he's something on Wall Street.
34:40I really don't know.
34:41He's in New York.
34:41And you propose to marry a girl you know nothing about, with one parent in America and the other in Europe?
34:47Yes.
34:49But my dear boy, you are not ready to settle down.
34:53Now there, Randolph, Mama has a sizable point.
34:56Learn from my example.
34:58Marriage is best postponed for as long as possible.
35:01Preferably forever.
35:03Landford, be quiet.
35:04Now, Randolph, you must be reasonable.
35:09What, may I ask, do you propose to live on?
35:11Well, since I obviously cannot ask Mrs. Jerome for her daughter's hand on my present allowance...
35:17Indeed you cannot.
35:17I shall ask Papa to increase it.
35:19I see.
35:20And what do you imagine he will say?
35:23He will understand that my happiness is at stake and do so.
35:26Perfectly well.
35:26He'll do nothing of the sort.
35:28He will bow to the inevitable, Mama, as you will do.
35:31But I am afraid I cannot possibly give my approval to such a rash and foolhardy venture.
35:37I shall inform your father.
35:39I've already informed him.
35:41Very well, then.
35:42We will await his answer.
35:44Jenny, you hardly know him.
35:46I don't care.
35:47I know quite enough to know he's the only man I want in the whole world.
35:50Oh, you feel that now, Natty.
35:51I shall always feel it.
35:52But, Jenny, he's got no money of his own.
35:54I don't care.
35:55I don't care if we have to live on pig's trotters.
35:58I want to marry him.
35:59He wants to marry me.
36:00And what we want, we shall have.
36:01Now, there is no need to talk like that.
36:04I perfectly understand your feelings, but...
36:06Mama, I love him.
36:10Well, I can't possibly give my consent until we hear from your father.
36:14And at any case...
36:14Oh, Papa will say yes.
36:15I know he will.
36:16I am sure Papa will feel like I do that this is all very rash and precipitate, Jenny.
36:24Meanwhile, I'm afraid I must forbid you to see him.
36:26Oh, Mama, surely.
36:28I have decided that we will cut short our stay in England and return to Paris.
36:34I won't go.
36:36It's probably wisest, love.
36:38And you needn't think that just because you allowed Mama to bully you out of your marquee that I'm going to be bullied too.
36:43I won't be.
36:44You can do what you like and say what you like and lock me up if you want to.
36:48But I'm going to marry Randolph.
36:51I don't see how you could, Jenny.
36:53Hmm?
36:53His eyes really are poppy.
36:55Of course they're not.
36:57Clara says they are.
36:58Well, they're not.
36:59Give that to me.
37:00Oh, let me look.
37:01Give it to me.
37:01What's the matter?
37:02Did you promise you'd be fettered to him by this golden chain for life?
37:06You did?
37:07Why don't you go to bed?
37:08You shouldn't have taken it off.
37:09You promised not to?
37:10I didn't promise anything.
37:12Now, will you go away?
37:13Promise to marry him?
37:14Leonie!
37:15I wish I'd been there.
37:16I'm extremely glad you weren't poking your nose into everything.
37:19I'm always at school when something exciting happens, and you're as hopeless as Clara.
37:23You never tell me what I really want to know.
37:26What are you writing in your letters?
37:27Mind your own business.
37:29I don't know how you and Randolph find things to say every day.
37:33I should have thought one letter a week would have been quite enough.
37:37And so much more exciting.
37:39Think how you'd look forward to it.
37:41Leonie, will you please go away?
37:43Why?
37:43Because Randolph's always complaining that my letters aren't long enough, and if you
37:47don't stop chattering, I'll never even get to page two.
37:50Haven't you got any homework?
37:51I've done it.
37:52Well, go pester Clara.
37:53Oh, it's too easy.
37:55I can make her cry any time I want to.
37:57You are an extremely nasty, ugly little sister.
38:00Yes.
38:02What have you said so far?
38:04You may not see.
38:06I'll read one of his letters.
38:07No.
38:08Why not?
38:09Does he spell as badly as he dances?
38:13Missed.
38:15Go away.
38:17It's awfully light, isn't it?
38:20I suppose it is solid gold.
38:21It's a pity about having to get married.
38:27It would be so much nicer if men would just give us things when we wanted them.
38:31They just might want something in return.
38:33Yes.
38:34My dear Randolph, if her mother will not hear of it and your mother will not hear of it, surely...
38:39I'm at a loss to understand either of them, Papa.
38:41It would seem to be a maternal conspiracy to be resisted to the utmost.
38:46You should reflect a little older and wiser heads on both sides.
38:50How many elderly heads contain a great deal of folly, Mr. Gladstone's, for instance.
38:56Don't be pert, Randolph.
38:57You're not a boy.
38:58No, I am a man, and like all men, I wish to marry.
39:01Yes, I quite understand that, and I have no wish to dispute with you.
39:05But I cannot avoid saying that anyone on the outside cannot but be struck by the unwisdom of your proceedings.
39:14When two people feel towards each other what Miss Jerome and I feel, Papa,
39:18it becomes a great responsibility for anyone to assist in thwarting their union.
39:24I have made inquiries about Mr. Jerome, and I must say they are not encouraging.
39:37It seems he is a sporting and, I should say, bulgar sort of man,
39:42and a rash and even violent speculator, mainly in railways,
39:46as a result of which he has recently suffered a severe loss.
39:49I cannot see that that has any bearing on the matter either way.
39:52Oh, dear Randolph, no one in their senses could call such a connection respectable.
39:59It appears that he drives six and even eight horses and has founded a race course.
40:04I do not understand you, Papa!
40:08American customs are different from our own, of course,
40:10but an interest in horses and horse racing is hardly a mark of vulgarity among our own class.
40:15Indeed, rather the opposite.
40:17Is your objection that he is not rich enough?
40:19Randolph, you will have to make your own way in the world.
40:23I know that, and I'm glad of it.
40:26Well, you know best how I can help you.
40:28There will be a general election soon.
40:30The seat here at Woodstock is yours for the asking.
40:32After that, it's up to you.
40:33You may have noticed, Papa, that I have rather lost interest in politics in recent months.
40:44To the great regret of your mother and myself.
40:47You know how much we've set our hearts and you're making a name for yourself in Parliament.
40:51I believe Miss Jerome would encourage me to do that.
40:54Indeed she does, already.
40:55I see.
40:59Hmm.
41:01I mean, I need support in anything I do, Papa.
41:05Without hers, I do not see myself having a career of any distinction.
41:09Indeed, I think I should find life very dreary altogether.
41:12No one goes through what I've gone through.
41:14Oh, my dear Randolph, you were engaged in three days.
41:18That surely indicates the intensity of my feelings, Papa.
41:37I think you must wait a year.
41:38But a year?
41:40You must show proof of your affection, and so must she.
41:44And if there is an election within the year?
41:48Um, that might alter my view.
41:51We shall have to wait and see.
41:52Then you do not positively refuse consent.
41:55My dear boy, all I'm thinking of is your own happiness.
41:59Why do people always say that when they are in fact creating as much unhappiness as they can?
42:04Of course, Randolph, they can see beyond the emotion of the moment.
42:07Happiness is not just a question of hours and days.
42:11Now, if at the end of one year's time you and Miss Jerome are of the same mind,
42:16then your mother and I will receive her as a daughter
42:20and with all the affection that you can desire.
42:28Thank you, Papa.
42:30So he thinks my daughter isn't good enough for his son.
42:32Papa, that's not what he said.
42:34Don't complain at that day.
42:34I only gave general permission.
42:37Now I see the lie of the land, I withdraw my consent.
42:39But you said...
42:40No son of his can be good enough for my daughter.
42:43Who does he think he is?
42:44English dukes don't walk on water.
42:46And let me tell you something else.
42:47I've been making inquiries about your young Lord Randolph
42:50and let me tell you, Jenny, I'm not too pleased with what I've heard.
42:52I don't think there's much truth in what you've heard of it.
42:54I thought he must love you.
42:56He does.
42:56Because the English are so damned prejudiced against Americans,
42:59only love could overcome it.
43:01Or money.
43:02And you are no heiress, so it couldn't be that.
43:04Papa, if he loves me, why do you object?
43:06Because I'm not having any damned English duke telling me
43:08that my daughter isn't good enough for his idle, wastrel son.
43:12That's why.
43:14It's all off, the whole thing.
43:16Papa.
43:19No one's going to stop me.
43:21Not even you.
43:26It was yours, and not another's hand
43:29that built the funeral pyre near which you tarry,
43:32but daggers plunged into its bleeding hilt
43:35thy fate is sealed
43:37if thou dost marry.
43:38Randolph, for God's sake, shut up.
43:40A very just started, old man.
43:42Perambulators and the baby's rusks
43:44shall be amongst thy chiefest cares.
43:46See thou to the bottle that it sucks.
43:49Revolt, thy spirit will not dare.
43:51And when thy better half shall whine or fret
43:54because thou dine is not at home,
43:56perchance the scene...
43:58I said shut up.
44:00Look here, I'm only trying to give you good advice.
44:03I don't care if the girl's the incarnation
44:05of all the physical beauties on God's earth.
44:07She is, and I want them now.
44:08But why do you want to marry her?
44:10For her fortune?
44:11No.
44:12To have children?
44:13No.
44:14Because you've adored her for years?
44:15No.
44:16Because I love her,
44:17which is something you could never possibly understand.
44:20You're in love with an ideal.
44:22My dear Randolph...
44:22Blanford, if you wish to live to inherit this damn great morgue,
44:26you will now shut up.
44:27But, Randolph, look at me.
44:29Look what marriage has done to me.
44:30I plan to learn from your mistakes.
44:33All I'm saying is marry in haste and...
44:35Blanford, any more advice from you
44:37will amount to sufficient grounds for fratricide.
44:40Well, you're a damn fool.
44:41That's all I can say.
44:42You don't know what you're letting yourself in for.
44:45This father of hers,
44:47he sounds like a first-rate crook.
44:49He seems a perfect gentleman to me.
44:51Belongs to our first-rate club, anyway.
44:53As if all crooks didn't.
44:55They said I drank.
44:58I'm afraid so.
45:01Well, of course I drink.
45:03Every gentleman drinks.
45:04But look here.
45:05I mean, I don't drink.
45:09Well, I can see that for myself now.
45:13Do you, uh, know what they said about you?
45:17Who?
45:19You had your spies on me.
45:22My father had his on you.
45:25Did he, by God?
45:30They said you're very extravagant.
45:32Spend all your money on horses and opera singers.
45:35And, uh, oh, you belong to a very fast set, Mr. Jerome.
45:44Well, it's all true.
45:46Did they tell you I used to be rich?
45:47Hey, said you've had difficulties recently.
45:52I most certainly have.
45:53But don't you worry.
45:54We'll arrange everything, your father and I.
45:56That's very decent of you, sir.
45:58It's just one thing.
45:59I love Jenny.
46:00Well, I wouldn't go against her choice for anything in the world, unless it was a Frenchman.
46:12She said you'd be on our side.
46:15Well, I am.
46:18Jenny's very special.
46:20I hope you are.
46:22What do you mean?
46:23What are you going to do with your life and hers?
46:27I'm going into Parliament.
46:30Don't worry about me.
46:36I'll make a name for myself, all right.
46:38They'll even hear of me in New York.
46:42I'm sorry, Mr. Jerome.
46:44Well, I'm sorry too, Marlborough, but that's the way we do it in America.
46:46Well, it's really not at all the way we do it in England.
46:51But what do you suggest would make your daughter quite independent of Randolph from a financial point of view?
46:55Well, indeed it would.
46:56In my country, a married woman's property is absolutely and entirely her own.
47:04Jeanette is marrying an Englishman and thereby loses her American nationality.
47:09She will become an Englishwoman, Mr. Jerome, and therefore the settlement really must be in accordance with English laws and customs.
47:17But that would make her completely dependent upon Randolph.
47:20Yes, that is the way we do it.
47:23I see.
47:25I consider that most unwise.
47:28I hope you're not implying that Randolph is in any way untrustworthy.
47:32No, no, no, not at all.
47:33I can't think of a safer young man.
47:34No, it's just that, well, it's a matter of principle.
47:38I'm afraid you must yield, Mr. Jerome.
47:44Very well.
47:46You have some very curious customs, Marlborough.
47:49I don't know how your women put up them.
47:51We found it better on the whole not to allow the women any say in these matters.
47:56Yeah.
47:59So it's entirely your decision, is it, that neither you nor the Duchess will be attending the wedding?
48:06I regret very much that we will be prevented from coming over.
48:12My wife, the Duchess, and I are both extremely fond of Randolph, Mr. Jerome.
48:18We've had a little trouble with our elder boy.
48:22I quite understand.
48:23All our hopes are in Randolph.
48:26So are mine.
48:27I'm very glad he took his chance and did so well at the election.
48:30He needed something to do.
48:33Well, we were very pleased, naturally.
48:36That's why we agreed to let the marriage take place earlier than we had originally said.
48:40The House of Commons would...
48:41Yes, you're quite right, of course.
48:45It will give him something serious to do.
48:48I have great faith in Randolph.
48:50Believe me, I have no doubts about your daughter.
48:53I assure you, we both wish them every happiness.
48:59Merci, mademoiselle.
49:00I wonder if you've got enough dresses, Jenny.
49:04How many are there?
49:05There are 23.
49:07I think it'll be enough, Clara.
49:08Well, don't I don't want my mother...
49:10Well, you know how badly English women dress.
49:12I shouldn't think there'd be anyone at Blenheim with as many Paris dresses as me.
49:1523?
49:16Yes, but you mustn't let us down, Jenny.
49:18If the Duke and Duchess are too proud to come to the wedding...
49:21I don't care if nobody comes, just so long as Randolph does.
49:24And he, I expect, will want to see you without your dresses.
49:27It's raining.
49:31It's not for you to give me.
49:32You're too young.
49:34I'm sorry they're not coming.
49:36I don't care.
49:39I'm a favourite son, I'm afraid.
49:42Well, then, obviously, no one could ever be good enough for you, and I refuse to be offended.
49:46Oh, you do take it well, Jenny.
49:47Oh, but we've won.
49:49They tried to stop us, and they couldn't.
49:51If they're too grand to admit defeat, don't be.
49:54My goodness, but we did defeat them, didn't we?
49:56We vanquished them.
49:57At least you did.
49:58Well, thanks to the election.
50:00Compared to winning over Mama, that was a walkover.
50:02Nonsense.
50:03You fought very hard.
50:04You weren't there.
50:05Oh, I would have been if I could.
50:07You've not had any doubts, then?
50:09Never.
50:10I have.
50:11Randolph?
50:12Well, after the last few months, isn't married life going to seem rather humdrum?
50:16With this ring, I thee wed.
50:23With my body, I thee worship.
50:26With my body, I thee worship.
50:28And with all my worldly goods, I thee endow.
50:33And with all my worldly goods, I thee endow.
50:37In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
50:42Amen.
50:42Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
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