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00:00The End
00:30well child what have you to say about it? it's very pretty papa. did you really doubt yourself?
00:40yes of course. it's very clever. I too have learned to paint. she draws very well. she's grown. yes but
00:50I think she has finished now. I'm not sorry. I prefer women like books. very good but not too
00:57long. go into the garden my mignon and gather some flowers for these good
01:02ladies. do as your father bids my child. you've done well with her. she's really
01:09very pretty. she's perfect. she's no force. of all those we shall lose this year she's
01:16the one we shall miss the most. we shall hold her up to the new ones as our
01:20example. it's not certain that you'll lose her yet. we should be happy to believe
01:26that. do you go back to Rome tonight? yes we take the train back. we have much to do.
01:31though it is very tempting to stay in Florence the night. aren't you tired? oh we're
01:37never tired. well sometimes. thank you my child. they'll comfort us on our way to Rome.
01:47oh but they won't last. I wish I could give you something that would last. you've
01:52given us a good memory of yourself. that will last.
01:58thank you for receiving us so well.
02:10madame. yes it is. come to welcome you home. the good sisters have brought her home and are now taking their leave.
02:16I remember you madame. you came sometimes to see Pansy. yes. this lady is a great friend of ours.
02:23we have much faith in her judgment. she'll help me to decide whether my
02:27daughter shall return to the convent after the end of the holidays. I hope you
02:32will decide in our favor madame. and now if you will permit us to retire.
02:45stay with me child.
02:50come here.
02:50I hope you will always wear gloves. young girls usually dislike them. oh I used to but I don't
03:02anymore. I'll make you a present of a dozen. you fond of pretty things? yes but not too fond I hope.
03:10will you miss your convent mothers? oh yes very much. well perhaps someday you'll have another mother.
03:17go into the garden child. we'll see you in a moment.
03:29how long have you been in Florence? a week. I'm staying at the Palazzo Crescentini.
03:34mrs. touchett's place. you're looking extremely well. I think I always look the same.
03:39I thought you were staying in Rome. I have a reason for being in Florence. but friends? yes.
03:44I never knew anyone whose life touched so many other lives. what do you call one's life?
03:50oh I call your life your ambitions. my ambitions are mostly for you.
03:57then they're unnecessary. you are indolent. it's your worst fault. no no it's my best.
04:14how long is it since you made a new acquaintance? not since I made yours.
04:20it's time you made another. what good would it do me? it will amuse you.
04:26and you made profit by it. are you sure? it will depend on you.
04:29ah you'll forget my indolence. don't be tiresome.
04:33no one knows better than you what's worth an effort. who is your friend?
04:37the person I came to Florence to see. she's a niece of mrs. touchett's.
04:41I met her some months ago in England. we struck up a friendship.
04:44it sounds almost as if you like her. i do. and so will you.
04:50she's beautiful. accomplished. clever. and she has a fortune.
04:55you've not looked at the easel. is it the venetian alps? one of last year's sketches?
05:06you'll guess everything don't you? what do you want to do with uh...
05:10miss archie. put her in your way. you've never liked my drawings have you?
05:16it's the only thing you do. it's very little. the only thing?
05:21now your rooms are perfect. i'm always struck by that. you have exquisite taste for your collection.
05:28i'm sick of my exquisite taste. nevertheless you must let miss archer see it. i've told her about it.
05:34did you say she was rich? she has 70 000 pounds.
05:40has it been counted? there's no doubt of it. i assure you.
05:44you really are a remarkable woman. uh and you say she has looks?
05:49come and see for yourself. make a beginning. of what?
05:54naturally. i want you to marry her. you touch me with your ambitions.
06:05very well then. get me an invitation.
06:07ralph? cousin.
06:28when did you arrive? not long.
06:30you look tired. but better than when i last saw you. and you?
06:35strange. a little older. oh i think that's a good thing. why not?
06:41isn't this beautiful? trust my mother to live in something like this.
06:45oh have you seen her? well briefly. as i arrived she was going for a rest. she said i may visit her at
06:50seven. and what about florence? and what about florence? oh it is too much. yes i entirely agree.
06:59i find all italy too much of a good thing. oh i didn't mean that. it's it's just overwhelming.
07:06how long are you staying? oh for a while. if you'll let me show you florence.
07:11i should love it. and it will stop your mother complaining that i walk about too much alone.
07:18ralph. there's something i want to ask you. i've i've been meaning to ask it for a long time ever
07:26since your father died. well ask away then. did you know your father intended to leave me so much money?
07:35what does it matter? you did know? yes he told me. but why did he do it? why? as a kind of compliment.
07:47compliment of what? on your so beautifully existing.
07:54he thought too highly of me. highly that's all.
07:59does it trouble you?
08:00do you think it good for me to be made suddenly so rich? i'm delighted. i think it very good for
08:07you to have means. are you really sure you know what's good for me?
08:13you know you really mustn't do this to yourself. do what? question your conscience so much.
08:20leave it for great occasions. don't try so hard to form your character. it's like
08:27trying to pull open a tender young rose. live as you like best. your character will take care of itself.
08:36you've too much power of thought cousin. it's your only danger.
08:40is thought a danger? when it's self-indulgent.
08:43i try to care more about the world than i do about myself. but i always come back to myself.
08:55it's because i'm afraid. a large fortune means freedom and i'm afraid of that. and it means a
09:03certain power. i'm not sure it's not a greater happiness to be powerless. only for the weak.
09:11and how do you know that i am not weak?
09:14well if you are. i'm awfully sold.
09:21but surely gilbert modern music was created out of the despair of the italian people.
09:35it was a refuge against foreign oppression. so they say. i instinctively distrust the despair of
09:42the italians. they're a very difficult people to oppress. i think there must have been more
09:46despair amongst their oppressors. and what sort of music did they create? mr osmond affects to despise
09:54the italians. you must ask him then why he chooses to live in italy. it's the only possible
09:58mode of existence here. to live in italy and to adore the italians is to invite disaster.
10:05but i'm sure miss archer is not yet weary of them. i find them fascinating. of course they are.
10:12they've contributed more to the culture of the western world than any other single nation.
10:17but i know no connoisseur of their arts who can abide them. it's a perpetual mystery.
10:25a mystery that would take too long to solve. it was very kind of you to invite me.
10:32i hope you will come again. that would give me great pleasure. then please do.
10:36madame merle consents to come to my villa one day next week and drink tea in the garden. it would give
10:43me great pleasure if you too would come. that is very kind of you. it's not quite pretty and i have
10:50one or two pieces that might interest you. your collections are unsurpassed in florence gilbert.
10:54i think we can allow you to say that. perhaps madame merle has told you i have a daughter.
10:59she's only just come out of convent. i should so like you to know her. i would be delighted.
11:05if madame merle will fix the day i'll come with her.
11:11please don't disturb yourself.
11:14i must confess it's been a policy of mine to avoid company.
11:20but meeting you has given me more pleasure than i can say.
11:23thank you. oh goodbye.
11:32my dear you were charming. you were just as one would have wished.
11:37i am under no obligation that i know of to charm mr osmond.
11:42no of course not. the obligation is not to him but to yourself.
11:46i mean a young girl in your position must know many people once. development depends on it.
11:54at the top of the list one must willy-nilly place gilbert osmond.
11:58did you not like him? well enough. well well he's one of the cleverest and most agreeable men
12:04when he chooses in europe and i know most of them. you know you're quick to take a fed sometimes.
12:11i am sorry if you think so. has ralph offered a contrary opinion of mr osmond?
12:18i have not discussed mr osmond with ralph. why do you ask?
12:23i just wondered. he doesn't like me you know. oh i don't blame him. but he sometimes looks at my
12:30friends with the same jaundiced eye. ralph looks at us all in the same way. it's his manner and his
12:37charm. now there i disagree with you. perhaps that's the difference in our ages.
12:44you don't like him. one can't choose but like mr touchard. he insists on it.
12:49i confess though i sometimes grow weary of his weariness. perhaps he'd improve if he found something
12:55to do. you forget that he is ill. true. his consumption is his career so to speak. a position
13:01he's taken up and works hard at. oh dear. i'm afraid this is my day for offending you.
13:10i thought you two were friends. we are. we make no secret of it. we smile a great deal when we meet.
13:18i sometimes think that prevents us from laughing out loud. at what?
13:21well we see through each other you see. we're like two panes of glass coming face to face unexpectedly.
13:32you talk as obliquely as he does. perhaps. but then you're young. you can be direct.
13:41i'd give a great deal to be your age again. but surely your whole life's in front of me.
13:47the best part's gone. but for nothing. i cannot believe that. well what have i got? husband, child,
13:55possessions, fortunes. none of them. you have many friends. you have great talents. talents bring me
14:03nothing but the pretense of movement in a life that's still as a part. and as for friends
14:12you'll be one till you find a better use for your friendship. you must see that i don't then. yes.
14:22i'll make an effort to keep you. tell me something. what should you like to do that you haven't already done?
14:30so much. were your ambitions so great? i'd make myself ridiculous talking about me.
14:41i'm old and stale and faded. i'm of no more interest than last week's magazine.
14:48you're young and fresh and of today. you actuality. i had it once. we all have it for an hour.
14:55you however will have it a little longer. it is impossible to think of you as old or stale
15:03or faded. oh my dear. i come from the old old world. i know it. i'd be a fool if i didn't.
15:15and how do i know it? from the pleasure i get in talking with younger people.
15:19it's a nice compensation. if you can't have youth within you, you can have it outside.
15:26the young touch me. you touch me. i've great hopes for you.
15:34do you find that impertinent? of course not. but what hopes have you for me? were they the same as
15:43your own work? no. i had only ambitions. hopes are better. to marry and live happily ever after? no.
15:55just to mold the world a little nearer to your heart's desire. is that so hard to do?
16:03the secret lies in knowing what the desire of the heart really is.
16:06it can speak in so many voices. and as in life, the loudest is seldom the truest.
16:17i suppose that's why i've always admired gilbert osmond.
16:21he seems to me to have listened to the right voice. such creatures are rare.
16:25that's why i wanted you to meet to like him. because you too are rare. well i did like him.
16:36then i'm satisfied.
16:40now i must go and write some letters.
16:44i'll see you at dinner. should we not fix a time to visit mr osmond?
16:49i've nearly forgotten. what day next week would you choose to go?
16:54wednesday or thursday. then let's make it wednesday. thursday i have some friends coming from rome.
17:19you're guests have deserted you. yes.
17:29do you know mr osmond roe? not well. why? i just wondered what you thought of him.
17:34ask madame merrill. she knows him better than i. i am asking you. who is he exactly?
17:42he's a vague unexplained american who's lived here for years. why vague?
17:45it's really me who's vague. i know very little about him. he used to live in rome until rome became
17:53too vulgar. he has a great horror of vulgarity. that's his special line. he has a daughter i believe.
18:01he married young and lost his wife. he also has a sister. married to some small count or other.
18:07i believe she supplies the ladies here with considerable gossip.
18:10does he have a profession? fastidiousness.
18:18does he interest you? he has invited me to visit him. madame merrill is to take me.
18:23oh well you can go anywhere with her. she knows none but the best.
18:27why do you always adopt this exaggerated attitude towards him? do i?
18:32well then it's because i find her merits exaggerated. by whom? me? no by madame merrill.
18:41i can't accept that. if ever there was a woman who made small claims... precisely.
18:47her claims are exaggeratedly small in view of her obvious talents.
18:51i don't understand you. well then i find her modesties exaggerated.
18:55i wish she would sometimes boast a little. at least it would be a fault. in other words you
19:01can find nothing bad to say about her. absolutely nothing. apart from the fact that she's to be
19:06highly recommended. you don't get on with her. on the contrary i adore her. but then i taste her in sips.
19:17i let her stand and sip again. well she's a woman of all the talents. one simply wonders why she hasn't
19:25won any prizes. you are determined that i should choose for myself aren't you?
19:36please go in.
19:39amy? oh my dear how pretty you're looking today. ah this is my sister.
19:46uh countess gemini. how do you do? hello. and this is my little girl pansy who's just come out of
19:54convent. hello pansy. you'll believe i'm pleased to see you when i tell you i only came because i knew
19:59you'd be here. i don't come to see my brother. i let him come to see me. she claims the hill reduces
20:05her horses to a state of exhaustion. well it's very disagreeable to hear one's horse is wheezing.
20:10makes one feel they're not what they should be. will you sit in the middle?
20:13i shouldn't sit there. that chair's not what it looks. oh there are some very good seats here
20:18but they're also some horrors. i don't see any horrors anywhere. i see many beautiful things.
20:25i've nothing bad i think but i've not what i should have liked. oh poor gilbert with
20:29his old curtains and crucifixes. i'll order some tea. you must be very tired. i'm not in the least
20:37tired. well you'll be tired when you go home if he shows you everything and lectures you into the
20:40bargain. at least i shall have learned something. very little i suspect but my sister is afraid of
20:45learning anything. well i think i know enough already. too much knowledge makes one unhappy.
20:51you shouldn't undervalue knowledge in front of pansy. oh pansy will never know how. pansy's a little
20:56convent flower. well know as much as you like. to me it's all a question of feeling. do you live here
21:02countess? yes. do you intend to settle here? would you advise it? none of us could answer that question
21:10without bias. it is a place that people pass through. although we're always willing to persuade the more
21:17agreeable ones to stay. it does spoil some people i think. in what way? it tends to make one idle and
21:23dilettentish and second-rate. those are hardly terms anyone could apply to you gilbert. i'm not
21:27sure. i think i might have been better if i lived somewhere else. sometimes i feel like an old rusty
21:32key without a lock. it polishes me to talk to you. shall we take tea in the garden? why not? pansy dear
21:40tell them to serve tea outside.
21:47are they not coming down? oh i expect so.
22:10i suppose i should congratulate you. on what? don't you have a little plan that you think
22:15he's coming along? rather well. you know i never do understand you very well. often through choice.
22:22you say things no one else would. i think it better that you do understand me. why? i might interfere
22:28with your little plan. you think me more calculating than i am. i like her. who? you're miss archer. so do i.
22:37you've a strange way of showing it. but by introducing her to you? indeed that is perhaps the best thing you
22:43could have done for her. oh my dear amy. i do advise you not to agitate yourself. the matter
22:48concerns three people of much stronger will than you. three? is miss archer of such strong will in
22:54this matter? as much as we. then i must persuade her to resist you. don't be absurd. she's not exposed to
23:01deception or compulsion. i'm not so sure. you and osmond are capable of anything. not alone perhaps. but
23:08together you're like a chemical combination. you'd better leave us alone then. i intend to. but i shall
23:15speak to that girl. how earth has got into you? i told you. i like her. i don't think she likes you.
23:24you are dangerous. even alone. is it really a courageous? yes. you can see his name down here in
23:37the corner. i found it painted on a panel in a house i visited and daubed over by some idiots. i bought it
23:43quite cheaply. you have many beautiful things. there are more if you care to come back. i think i shall.
23:54i hear you have plans for going round the world. i'm ashamed of my plans. i make a new one every day.
24:01i only ever made one. to be as quiet as possible. not to struggle or strive to resign myself. to be content
24:12with little. well that amounts to a renunciation. perhaps. why? i took my measure early in life.
24:21i was poor and not a man of genius. if i couldn't be at the top i had no desire to be in the middle.
24:28but you were very gifted. your knowledge of the treasures of florence alone would make me a perfect
24:34museum guide. oh i'm not complaining. but i no longer have only myself to think of. my daughter
24:40is growing up and i shall have to do what's best for her. she is a treasure. she is my great happiness.
24:50it must have been very hard for you losing your wife so early.
24:54you're very sympathetic.
25:07do you believe papa would allow me to make the tea? your father's ideas are unfathomable to me my child.
25:14ask madame merle. she understands them better. i think so pansy.
25:18and what do you think of your visitor? well she's papa's not mine. oh miss archer came to see you as
25:24well. well then i i like her very much. and do you think she pleases your father? oh really can't it?
25:33go and call them into tea pansy.
25:35if miss archer is to become the girl's mother it's interesting to know if she likes her.
25:45if your brother marries again it won't be for the sake of the child.
25:48she's nearly 17. she'll need a husband herself soon. and i suppose you'll find her one too. we both will
25:54i hope. i'm not so in love with husbands as you appear to be. naturally i mean a good one. there are
25:59none. osmond won't be a good one either. i must say you're fabulous the pair of you. do you imagine
26:05he can marry anyone he picks out? he can try. his pretensions are incredible. and what are they
26:11founded? i'm his sister and i don't know. a man's appeal is not always evident to his sister. well i
26:17hope she refuses him. it'll take him down a little. unless you imagine her to have fallen in love already.
26:29all the same i don't like it. he's called here five times during the last two weeks.
26:40he never felt the urge to call him on twice a year before. but then osmond is a student of the exquisite.
26:47you've never had so rare an apparition staying here before. i don't know what he's a student of. i hardly
26:52know the man but his pretensions are pretty obvious. true. doesn't seem to worry you. no. oh i hope
27:02she won't listen to him. listening is one thing. answering is another. she'll have shooters wherever
27:08she goes. i hope they'll have clearer backgrounds than mr osmond's. you can't dictate a thing like that.
27:14he's good company. he's clever in a way and interesting. he has no money to speak of. you can't
27:20expect that to weigh heavily on her. she won't judge a man by his poverty any more than she'll judge him
27:25by his wealth. she's dismissed two already. she'll dismiss three and four and five. but she'll keep
27:31the door ajar and see all comers. you'll use too many figures of speech for my liking. only to illuminate
27:38the point. there are only two words i respect. yes and no. if she's gonna marry mr osmond she'd do it in
27:45spite of comparisons. true enough. but i don't think she will. you continually underestimate her. the best
27:55thing is to leave her alone. oh i'm not likely to offer advice. she pleases herself when it comes to it. and
28:03in pleasing herself she could find no harsher critic to satisfy. oh intelligent men are a wonder to me.
28:09they invent a whole philosophy of life and they don't know how to get on with their wives.
28:15what good will all her fine thoughts be if she marries mr osmond for the beauty of his opinions
28:23and his autograph of michelangelo. i'd take all that more seriously if i thought there'd be some
28:28suitors to whom you wouldn't object. i want simple proof of a poor man's disinterest in money when he
28:36takes an interest in a rich girl. that's all. but there's no proof that would satisfy you. perhaps
28:42not. frankly i can't think what you and your father were doing when you worked up a situation like this.
28:50my dear mother i'm not afraid. she'll make fools of us all. she started out on an expedition.
28:55she won't change course at a signal from osmond. she may slacken speed for an hour but before we know it
29:01she'll be steaming away again. if you'll pardon the metaphor.
29:18are you sure you won't stay and have some refreshment? oh it's very kind of you but i think not.
29:23oh couldn't we stay papa? i should so love to see the palace. oh you must come again pansy and i'll show
29:28you all over it. you've seen enough treasures for one day. it has been a most fascinating afternoon.
29:33i have to support that. even i wasn't bored and i've seen it all a thousand times. one can only be
29:38bored with the treasures of florence through the limitations of one's knowledge. the more one knows
29:42the more fascinating they become. you really ought to do a book on them. oh that's different. to share one's
29:49knowledge with a few well-chosen friends is like discovering it all over again. but to share it
29:54with a mass of anonymous readers that could only be a chore. isabel archer. henrietta. when did you arrive?
30:02this afternoon. but there's a postal service in italy. couldn't you have made use of it? it travels much
30:08slower than i do. well come down. who is that? miss stackpole. an old friend. she's a journalist covering
30:16europe for an american magazine. how quaint? oh i can assure you henrietta is anything but quaint.
30:25oh how wonderful to see you. miss stackpole. this is madame merle. buongiorno. mr osmond. how do you
30:32do sir? and his daughter pansy. why hello there. well how long have you been in italy? quite a while.
30:38i've been working my way through all the towns in northern italy. hello. no with a friend. mr bantling.
30:45he's been an absolute dear. he's inside now talking to ralph. and what do you think of italy miss
30:50stackpole? oh that's hard to say in a few words. but in many ways it's easier to write about than say
30:56england. the english are very opaque. unlike the italians? and the americans. unless they live
31:01abroad. and then they become opaque too. i think it's their sense of guilt for having left america. oh well
31:07i think i'd better take my sense of guilt home out of miss stackpole's probing eye. it's been a
31:13most pleasant that to know. for me too. goodbye pansy. goodbye miss archie. i'll walk with you
31:18to the gate. goodbye now. you don't look any different for being rich. should i? i must confess
31:28that when your letter finally reached me i was shattered. and very disapproving. well if mr touchett
31:34had consulted me i would have said don't do it. leave it to somebody you care less for.
31:38do you think it will ruin me? i think it'll confirm your worst tendencies. and what are those?
31:45romantic illusions about yourself.
31:50and how about yours? should we go and see him? mr bantling?
31:54bosh. he's nothing more than a very gay companion.
32:04i have a feeling bantling you're hooked. i wouldn't say that old boy. just ducy good friends.
32:10she's a remarkable woman all the same. what on earth do you talk about? what does miss stackpole talk
32:16about? no no i know what she talks about but what do you talk about? well i'll tell you something old boy.
32:22you see i've had a bit of a classical education. that gives me an advantage don't you know? americans
32:27don't really go into it. so you've come into your own since you got to italy. exactly. she relies on
32:32me a lot there. it'll be even better when we get to rome of course. so you are going to rome mr
32:37bantling. hello miss archer. by jove you're looking well. yes i was just telling your cousin. we're off in
32:43the next few days. why don't you come too? what a splendid idea. may's an ideal time to see rome.
32:49i'll come along myself. all right. well then that's all arranged. i like things to be done quickly.
33:03good morning. good morning.
33:16tell me something. is that curious creature making love to my niece?
33:33gilbert osmond? hasn't helped us off an idea. hadn't occurred to you? no. you make me feel an
33:39idiot but i confess it hadn't. i wonder if it's occurred to isabel. i'll ask her. no i shouldn't
33:45put it into her head. the thing would be to ask mr osmond. oh i can't do that. why not? because
33:54it's none of my business giving isabel's situation. and i have no desire to have him tell me so. i'll
34:00ask him then. well what business for him is it of yours? none whatever. so much less my business
34:06that anyone else's that i feel freer to ask him. well uh let me know the result.
34:16either way i shall speak to isabel. don't be too quick with her. you may inflame her imagination. i'm not
34:21likely to inflame anybody's imagination. but i have an obligation towards her and i intend to discharge it.
34:31she may not thank you for it. i'm not looking for her gratitude. i want her to use her common sense.
34:38the man has nothing in the world to offer but a dozen or two early masters and a more or less pert
34:44little daughter. now it's not necessary to drag in the girl. she's there already. she has no money.
34:51she can't expect to marry here. isabel will find herself supplying her with a diary if she's not
34:57careful. perhaps. but you're leaping ahead a little. my niece is the sort of girl that needs
35:06a mission in life. well and good. but that sooner it wasn't to prove how noble a stepmother can be.
35:12she'd make a charming stepmother. still i agree with you. she should not decide on her mission too soon.
35:18fortunately she's going to rome in a few days time. oh. and then i have plans for some journeys which i hope
35:25she'll fall in with. don't be too quick with her. you know it sometimes has the wrong effect.
35:32i shall do what i think right. if necessary i shall stop him coming here. and that sister of
35:42his. now you can hardly blame him for his sister. i blame him for as far as he allows her to be seen
35:49in his presence in decent houses. now you go too far. if you're to exclude every lady who's
35:55mismanaged her little affairs you may as well shut up house. besides she has a horrid husband.
36:00don't they all? some are worse than others. well i shall do my best to see that my niece
36:07will be in want of no such excuse.
36:10it is very beautiful here. you chose your house well. it suits me.
36:22people complain that i'm fastidious.
36:26i don't think that's a bad thing to be in a world where vulgarity is the order of the day.
36:32i'm going to rome.
36:35when? on sunday.
36:38i have never been before.
36:39oh you like it. it's been spoiled of course but you still rave about it.
36:43ought i to dislike it then?
36:44oh no no of course not. it's been spoiled so often.
36:47i should like to be in rome with you. it has given me great pleasure to see you on that
36:53wonderful ground. you might come then.
36:56well but you'll you'll have friends with you. of course. i shan't be alone.
37:01well if i did come what would i do with my little girl? leave her here.
37:07i don't think i'd like that though there is a very good old lady who looks after her.
37:12bring her with you. well she just come back from the convent there and i think she's a bit
37:15young for journeys of pleasure. i was brought up differently. oh with you it succeeded. if i
37:23thought it would make her resemble you i think i'd be inclined to give her her head. don't make
37:27her resemble me. keep her like herself. i suppose i could send her to my sister's. would she like
37:35that? well she wouldn't mind. in any case it wouldn't be for very long would it?
37:45she wants me to go to rome with her. to go with her? to be there while she is there.
38:14did you suggest it? in a way i gave her the chance and she took it. she's encouraging. she's very
38:21encouraging. congratulations. but don't rejoice too soon. you smell problems? you're the opposition
38:31naturally. but mrs touchett? who else? the sun. oh he's a bit of a dog. no he's clever.
38:38well it's no more than you'd expect. your sister's rather hostile. there's jealousy that's all. she'll
38:46be ineffective as usual. of course you'll go to rome. ah it makes one work this idea of yours.
38:57pretend you're not enjoying it. no one knows better than you what's worth an effort. you forget i value
39:03my indolence. you've made a good impression. i can see that. the girl is not disagreeable.
39:27is that all you can find to say about her? isn't it enough? do i usually say more? she's not the usual
39:33sort. well then she's charming. i've scarcely met anyone more graceful, more open and direct. i'm glad
39:41to hear you say it. if you mean it. why? the better you like her the better i shall feel naturally. you
39:48seem rather fond of her. i am. then why the little scheme? she must marry someone. why shouldn't it be you?
39:56well i like her. so you can rest assured. she has only one fault. who's there? too many ideas. i told you she was clever.
40:12fortunately they're rather bad ones. what do you mean fortune? if they have to be sacrificed.
40:18you know sometimes you're just too exquisite.
40:26you're not having regrets.
40:28but i am frightened sometimes when i think of her.
40:36you can't draw back now.
40:40you must do the rest yourself.
40:41i shall do it.
40:54you know.
41:06you
41:08you
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