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00:30Lord Warburton.
00:44Good heavens.
00:45Miss Archer.
00:47Are you alone?
00:49No, I'm with Ralph and one or two others.
00:51They've just gone up to see the bell tower.
00:54I felt so exhausted.
00:55Please do sit down again.
00:58The heat is unbearable, isn't it?
01:00But I have no idea you went to Rome.
01:04Oh, I'm just passing through.
01:06Ralph told me you were making journeys.
01:09Yes, sir.
01:10I left soon after I saw you last, in fact.
01:13I've been in Turkey and Asia Minor.
01:16I came from Athens the other day.
01:20Do you wish me to leave or may I stay a little?
01:22There's certainly no reason why you should leave.
01:25May I sit down?
01:25How is Ralph?
01:32Well, he's never very strong, but I think the climate here is better for him than in England.
01:37Yes, it's such a shame.
01:39He loves England so.
01:40You've been in Florence?
01:42Yes, with my aunt.
01:44We're just visiting Rome.
01:46And then?
01:47Then I shall go back to Florence.
01:49My aunt is planning some journeys.
01:52I think I will go with her.
01:53I've written to you several times.
01:58I've never received your letters.
02:00I never sent them.
02:02I burned them.
02:03It was better that you should do that than I.
02:05Well, it seemed after all that I had no right to trouble you with letters.
02:10Oh, I should have been glad to have news of you.
02:13I had hoped that...
02:14We'd hoped that we'd remain friends.
02:17I'm sorry.
02:19That was rather unkind of me.
02:21May I say something to you?
02:23I felt very strongly what I told you last year.
02:28I tried to forget about it, but I couldn't.
02:32I love you just as much.
02:35And everything I said to you then is just as true.
02:40I don't mean to insist.
02:42I know it troubles you.
02:44I won't mention it again.
02:46But I'd no thought of coming on you here today.
02:50And so if I didn't say that to you,
02:51I really think I should burst.
02:55I seem to have kept it to myself for so long.
02:58I've often thought of you, Lord Morberton.
03:01I see no harm in that on either side.
03:09When are you leaving Rome?
03:11In about ten days' time.
03:13Oh, not at once, then.
03:14Why do you say that if you were just passing through?
03:17Oh, well, when I said passing through,
03:19I didn't mean that one would treat Rome like...
03:21Cabin Junction.
03:24Say frankly,
03:25you intend to stay as long as I do.
03:28You afraid you'll see too much of me?
03:30No.
03:31No, I promise to be careful.
03:33I'm sorry if I've made you unhappy,
03:35but that is no reason to make me so.
03:39Oh,
03:40if I thought I could make you unhappy.
03:41Orberton?
03:44Well,
03:45how good to see you.
03:46Are you on your way home?
03:47Gracious, there's that Lord!
03:49Goodness,
03:49how extraordinary,
03:50coming on you all like this here.
03:52I don't suppose you remember me, sir.
03:53Indeed I do,
03:54Miss Daffel.
03:55You here too,
03:56Bantley?
03:57I didn't know you knew him.
03:59You don't know everyone I know.
04:01But I thought when an English man knew a Lord,
04:03he always told everybody.
04:04Well,
04:05I'm afraid Bantley's rather ashamed of me.
04:06Yes, rather.
04:07He has such a fearful reputation.
04:09Oh,
04:09but you still know me.
04:10Oh,
04:10yes.
04:11I like to strike out a line of my own,
04:13don't you?
04:14Let's go and find a cool drink somewhere,
04:16shall we?
04:17Will you be staying long?
04:18Yes,
04:19a few days.
04:19Good.
04:20We shall see something of you then.
04:21I sincerely hope so.
04:27Prego,
04:28Signore.
04:29Signorina Artis,
04:30da venendo giume.
04:31Grazie.
04:31Prego.
04:39So you decided to come?
04:47Yes,
04:47I came last night.
04:49I called here earlier,
04:50but you were out,
04:51so I went away
04:52and came back again.
04:53We went to St. Peter's.
04:55I had a headache
04:56and came home early.
04:57The others will be here shortly.
04:59Oh,
04:59I didn't come
04:59for the others.
05:01Well,
05:06I suppose you've seen everything.
05:09Oh,
05:09of course not.
05:10Though,
05:10if it had been left to Henrietta,
05:12we should have done by now.
05:13She is untiring.
05:15What did you think of St. Peter's?
05:17Oh,
05:18it is very large
05:20and very bright.
05:22It's too large.
05:23It makes one feel insignificant.
05:25Oh,
05:25isn't that the intention?
05:27Yes,
05:27I suppose so.
05:28There's something in me
05:29that resents it,
05:30though.
05:30I,
05:30I,
05:30I may be nobody in particular,
05:32but I don't like being reminded of it.
05:34You'd rather be the Pope?
05:37You go,
05:38as always,
05:39to the heart of the matter.
05:42Oh,
05:42what else have you seen?
05:44Oh,
05:45the Forum,
05:46the Colosseum,
05:47the Capitol,
05:48and the fountains
05:49are beautiful.
05:50There are some wonderful museums here,
05:52some quite small
05:53and some not generally known.
05:55I should like to show those to you.
05:57I should love to see them.
05:59I hope you won't mind
06:00in the company of my friends.
06:02I'll mind,
06:03but it's a small price
06:04to pay for yours.
06:07Ah,
06:08I see Mr. Osmond
06:09has arrived.
06:10Oh,
06:10who's he?
06:11He lives in Florence.
06:13Oh,
06:14what is he besides?
06:15Nothing at all.
06:16Well,
06:17an American,
06:17but one forgets
06:18he's a little one.
06:19I didn't realize
06:20he was going to be in Rome.
06:22Oh,
06:22not very fond of him.
06:23Oh,
06:23he's clever
06:24and amiable
06:25when he chooses.
06:26How long has he known her?
06:28About a month.
06:29Does she like him?
06:32She's trying to find out.
06:34And will she?
06:35Find out.
06:35Like him?
06:36Do you mean accept him?
06:41Oh,
06:41I see.
06:44Well,
06:45will she?
06:47I think not.
06:48If one does nothing
06:49to prevent it.
06:51Then we must be quiet.
06:52As the grave.
06:54Come on,
06:54let's go say hello.
06:55No, no,
06:55I think not.
06:57Tell her that I went
06:58straight back to the hotel.
07:00I'll see you tomorrow
07:01and the redoubtable
07:02Mr. Osmond.
07:29I saw you down there.
07:45I was just coming
07:46to join you.
07:47I need company.
07:48You have some very good
07:49company of your own.
07:50My cousin.
07:51She has a visitor
07:52and doesn't need me.
07:54Osmond.
07:54Yes.
07:55Miss Stackpole and Bantling
07:57went out for a nice cream
07:57halfway through.
07:59I can't say that I blame
08:00them.
08:00It's awful, isn't it?
08:01Women look like laundresses
08:02and sing like peacocks.
08:06I feel low.
08:08Why don't you go home?
08:10Leave my young lady alone.
08:11No, I must watch over her.
08:13Well, she seems to have
08:14plenty of friends.
08:15That's why I must watch.
08:17How did you know
08:18we were here?
08:18Oh, they tell me
08:19at the hotel.
08:21Sorry.
08:21So sorry.
08:22He seems to have been
08:29very much in evidence
08:30these last few days.
08:31Well, you can't blame him
08:32for trying.
08:33Oh, no.
08:34I'm afraid she blames me
08:35for trying.
08:36Perhaps you don't try
08:37hard enough.
08:38Go in.
08:40Now, if she doesn't need you,
08:41she certainly doesn't need me.
08:42No, you're different.
08:44Go in and stay there
08:45while I walk about.
08:45Come in.
08:57Oh, Lord Warburton.
08:59I thought I saw you down there.
09:01Do you know, Mr. Rossman?
09:02Oh, please sit down.
09:04Good evening.
09:06How are you enjoying it?
09:08Well, not very much.
09:10Perhaps it will get better.
09:12Well, hardly seems likely
09:13unless they change the cast.
09:15I'm leaving Rome.
09:22Oh, I'm sorry.
09:23Truly sorry.
09:24I thought you intended
09:26to stay a few days longer.
09:27I did.
09:27I changed my mind.
09:29I think I must get home.
09:30We must wish you
09:31bon voyage then.
09:32Yes.
09:35I do hope we'll meet again.
09:37Oh, I hope so.
09:38I'm sure we shall.
09:40I suppose the dear
09:41England is not on your list
09:43of itineraries.
09:44I doubt it being
09:45on my aunt's list.
09:46She's not fond of it,
09:47as you know.
09:47No, no.
09:51It must seem rather frivolous
09:53of me,
09:54my changing my mind like this.
09:56No.
09:57In any case,
09:57you've stayed a few days
09:58longer than you intended.
10:00Yes, yes.
10:01Well, goodbye.
10:06Good luck to you on your travels.
10:08Oh, thank you.
10:09Please give my regards to your sisters
10:11and tell them I often think of them
10:13in that beautiful house of yours.
10:15Indeed I will.
10:16Goodbye.
10:16What exactly is he like?
10:26As you see,
10:27he is very nice.
10:28He owns half of England,
10:30I'm told.
10:31Oh, he's a great proprietor
10:32at any rate.
10:33But he's also a great radical.
10:35You know him well?
10:36Well enough.
10:37Enough for what?
10:38For the purposes of my knowing him.
10:42He has great ability,
10:43I should think.
10:44Yes, he has.
10:46How detestably fortunate
10:47to be a great English magnate
10:49and handsome and clever
10:51into the bargain.
10:52And in addition,
10:53to enjoy your favor.
10:55You make it sound
10:56even better
10:57than being the Pope.
10:59Well, perhaps it is.
11:01Though it would hardly be given
11:02to his holiness
11:03to admire you
11:04as much as your friend
11:05clearly does.
11:07Is it so clear?
11:08Oh, I think so.
11:10I'm sorry for him there.
11:12Why sorry?
11:13I think you've been
11:14rather cruel to him.
11:15On the contrary.
11:17I was being scrupulously kind.
11:20That's what I meant.
11:33Well, you should stay out of England.
11:35I should stay out of the world.
11:37No, I mean it.
11:39I'll go to Corfu in the winter.
11:41Oh, I doubt it'll make much difference
11:43in the end.
11:45Well,
11:46in the end,
11:47it makes no difference
11:48for any of us.
11:49Oh, I don't think I'll stay for the rest of this.
11:57You'll leave tomorrow?
12:00Yes.
12:02Great.
12:04You take care of yourself now.
12:05Excuse me.
12:07Excuse me.
12:20Thanks.
12:21I'm going to see you still here.
12:24I'll see you.
13:06Correspondence?
13:07I'm trying to catch up.
13:09I've been very lax.
13:11Please sit down.
13:12I thought perhaps you might like to walk in the Villa Borghese and take some tea there.
13:16Oh why not?
13:17Ralph will be back shortly.
13:19He's just making arrangements for our journey tomorrow.
13:22We're leaving.
13:23Leaving?
13:24That's sooner than you expected.
13:26Yes.
13:28From my aunt.
13:30Leave Florence on 4th of June for Bellagio.
13:33We'll take you if you've no other ideas.
13:35But can't wait if you dawdle in Rome.
13:38I shall not dawdle.
13:39You'll be gone quite some time.
13:41Oh several months anyway.
13:43They're not all the way with my aunt.
13:45I can plan journeys as well as she.
13:48Will you come back to Italy?
13:50Oh I think so.
13:51But you're not sure.
13:53Well why should you be?
13:54You're under no obligation.
13:56You can roam the world as you please.
13:59Italy is part of the world.
14:00I can take it in on the way.
14:02Oh don't do that.
14:03Don't put us in a parenthesis.
14:04Give us a chapter to ourselves.
14:07You wouldn't care to see me if I were just passing through again?
14:10I'd rather not see you.
14:13Until your travels are over.
14:15Until you're tired and sated with the world.
14:19You've no respect for my travels have you?
14:21What makes you say that?
14:22Oh you think I blunder about the world as if it belonged to me.
14:26For a woman you think that bold and ungraceful.
14:30I think it beautiful.
14:33I told you before one ought to make one's life into a work of art.
14:38I think that's what you're trying to do.
14:41I don't laugh at you really.
14:43You must believe that.
14:45Go everywhere.
14:47Do everything.
14:49Be happy.
14:51Be triumphant.
14:55Triumphant?
14:56In what way?
14:57By doing as you please.
14:59Doing everything that pleases one can become tiresome in the end.
15:04Good.
15:04It's better to do them all and then grow tired of them properly.
15:07You'll be tired one day.
15:11I don't know whether I ought to wait until then
15:14for something that I want to say to you.
15:17Well how can I advise you when I don't know what it is?
15:21Though I ought to warn you.
15:23I'm horrid when I'm tired.
15:25I don't believe you're ever cross.
15:26Not even when I lose my temple.
15:28You don't lose it.
15:30You find it.
15:32And that must be beautiful to see.
15:36What I wanted to say to you is
15:38I find myself in love with you.
15:43No.
15:46You must keep that
15:48till I am tired.
15:50Tired of hearing it from others?
15:53You must hear it now
15:54or never as you please.
15:56But after all
15:59I must say it now.
16:04I'm absolutely in love with you.
16:08No.
16:09Don't say that.
16:10Please.
16:12I haven't the idea that it will matter much to you.
16:14I have so little to offer.
16:16I only tell you because I think it can't offend you.
16:19and someday or other it may give you pleasure.
16:24It gives me pleasure at any rate.
16:27For me you'll always be the most important woman in the world.
16:34I...
16:34I'm not offended.
16:36You're surprised of course.
16:38But if it's only that it will pass away.
16:41And perhaps something else will be left.
16:45I'm not sure what will be left.
16:49All I can say is that
16:50I'm very troubled
16:51and
16:51perhaps it's a good thing that I'm going away.
16:55I
16:55I don't at all know you.
16:59If you weren't going away you'd know me better.
17:03But perhaps you will when you return.
17:06Do come back again.
17:08There are so many things we could talk about.
17:14There's one small favor you could do for me.
17:17I shan't be returning to Florence for a few days.
17:20I left my daughter at the villa.
17:22It seemed best after all.
17:25Go and see her for me.
17:27And take her my love.
17:28Well, I think our little stroll in the Borghese Gardens is hardly to the point after all, is it?
17:43Goodbye.
17:45And good luck.
17:46Oh, Miss Archer.
18:02Hello, Pansy.
18:05Oh, Miss Archer, how very good of you to come and see me.
18:08Well, I promised your father I would call and bring you his love.
18:11When's he coming home?
18:12In a few days.
18:13You'll see him soon.
18:14I do so miss him.
18:15That's only natural.
18:17Were you painting?
18:18Oh, it's nothing.
18:19Well, let me see.
18:22That is very good.
18:24No.
18:25Compared to what Papa does, it's nothing.
18:28Did you see him in Rome a lot?
18:29Oh, yes, quite a lot.
18:31Did he go to see Mère Catherine at the convent?
18:33He said he would.
18:33Well, if he said he would, then I'm sure he did.
18:39Do you miss the convent, Pansy?
18:41Oh, yes.
18:42I should like to go back to finish my education.
18:46But I'm sure Papa can't afford it.
18:48Is it so costly?
18:50It is if you're not rich.
18:51And Papa is not rich.
18:53And I know what he's thinking of.
18:55My dowry.
18:57I see.
18:58He's saving the money for that.
19:00It costs so much to marry him.
19:01But you were young yet, Pansy.
19:04Oh, I don't think about it.
19:07There's no one I care for in any case except him.
19:11I'd rather be his daughter than the wife of some stranger.
19:16It's to be hoped, Pansy, that your husband will not be a stranger to you.
19:21Will you be seeing him again?
19:23Not for some time.
19:25Oh, I'm very sorry.
19:26He'll be sorry too, I know.
19:28Of everyone who comes here, I like you the best.
19:38It was kind of you to come today.
19:40I'm sure you have so many important things to do.
19:44Are you going away?
19:45Yes.
19:46To exciting places.
19:48Or should I not ask?
19:50There's no harm in asking.
19:51I wasn't sure if it was proper.
19:53They're very strict at the convent on what is proper.
19:57Well, I'm going on a short trip with my aunt.
20:00And then on some longer ones without her.
20:03Will you go alone?
20:05I don't think so.
20:07Perhaps I should persuade Madame Mel to come with me.
20:10Oh, Madame Mel.
20:11Oh, she too is fun to be with when she's not severe or scolding me.
20:17Does she do that?
20:18Sometimes.
20:20Oh, but then she's always taken a great interest in me.
20:23Will you come again when you get back?
20:27I think so.
20:29Well, now I must go.
20:30I'll go with you to the door.
20:31Oh, no, that isn't necessary.
20:33Stay and finish your painting.
20:35Be very good.
20:37Give pleasure to your father.
20:38I think I live for that.
20:41He doesn't have much pleasure.
20:43He's rather a sad man.
20:47Not too sad, I think.
20:49No, not all the time.
20:51But sometimes I see him
20:53when he thinks he's alone.
20:56And he stares at nothing
20:58and looks so sad.
21:01Well, I'm sure he has
21:06many things on his mind.
21:09Goodbye, Pansy.
21:11Goodbye, Miss Archer.
21:17Dear Henrietta,
21:19you really should be here.
21:22What a field day it will be
21:23for the readers of the interviewer.
21:25Athens was dead, but magnificent.
21:30Egypt, decayed and mysterious.
21:34Alas, a card is all I can manage.
21:37I understand Mr. Bantling
21:40has joined you in the States.
21:42Please give him my regards.
21:45My aunt returned to Florence last month.
21:48Madame Melle and I
21:49are embarking for South Africa.
21:50And then, who knows?
21:56My dear Ralph, how are you?
21:58As you can see, we are here in Japan.
22:01It is too strange to describe.
22:05Another world.
22:06I have need of your gentle irony
22:08to put it in perspective.
22:11We are leaving on the 16th of November
22:14and returning to Europe
22:16via South America.
22:18I have much to tell you.
22:20Dear cousin,
22:22take care of yourself.
22:25Madame Melle
22:26sends you her regards.
22:27THE END
22:33THE END
23:04I can't tell you how I hoped you wouldn't come.
23:16I have no doubt of that.
23:18Aren't you tired?
23:20Have you ever known me to be tired?
23:22I wish I had.
23:24When did you arrive?
23:26Last night. Very late.
23:28These Italian trains go at about the rate of an American funeral.
23:31Oh, that's in keeping.
23:33You must have felt that you were coming to bury me.
23:36I'd almost rather do that than see you marry to another man.
23:39Isn't that rather selfish?
23:42Very likely.
23:44But I don't mind your saying so. Not now.
23:47What further harm can it do me?
23:48When did you leave New York?
23:54Seventeen days ago.
23:56You travel fast in spite of your slow trains.
24:00I'd have come earlier if I could.
24:01It wouldn't have made any difference, Mr. Goodwood.
24:04Well, that's for me to judge.
24:05Oh, of course.
24:06But to me, it seems that you only torment yourself.
24:09Have you seen Henrietta?
24:17Yes.
24:18I saw her in Boston.
24:20The day I received your letter.
24:23Did you tell her?
24:25No.
24:26She'll find out soon enough.
24:29Does she know this Mr. Osmond?
24:32A little.
24:33Well, and she doesn't like him.
24:35But then I don't marry to please Henrietta.
24:40Well, when is the marriage taking place?
24:43Soon.
24:44I've told no one but yourself and one other person a friend of Mr. Osmond's.
24:48Oh?
24:49Is it a marriage your friends won't like?
24:51I haven't the least idea.
24:54As I said before, I don't marry to please my friends.
24:57Well, who then and what is Mr. Osmond?
25:02Who and what?
25:05He is nobody but a very good and honorable man.
25:10He is not rich and he is not known for anything in particular.
25:14Now, where does he come from?
25:15Well, he's an American.
25:16He left there as a small boy and hasn't been back there since.
25:20He contents himself with Italy.
25:22And with you.
25:24But what has he ever done?
25:25He is a complete non-entity, Mr. Goodwood.
25:30Can't you resign yourself to that?
25:32Oh, you don't mean that.
25:33You think he's grand, though no one else does.
25:36Oh, I don't understand why you came.
25:41I wanted to see you once more.
25:43Oh, you could have waited.
25:44Until after you were married.
25:46No.
25:47I'll still be a friend of yours.
25:49That would only make it worse.
25:51Well, I can't promise to dislike you.
25:55But I wouldn't care if you did.
25:59Do you mean you came all this way to look at me?
26:02I wish to hear the sound of your voice.
26:07Well, then you've heard it.
26:08And as you see, it says nothing sweet.
26:11It gives me pleasure all the same.
26:12I have not deceived you.
26:18I was perfectly free, you know.
26:20Yes.
26:20I gave you full warning.
26:21I'd do as I chose.
26:22You said you would probably never marry.
26:24I believed you.
26:25Well, perhaps I'm just as surprised as you are.
26:27What good would it do you that I shouldn't marry?
26:29Well, I should like it better than this.
26:32Then you are very selfish.
26:34I don't know what to say to you.
26:45There was another reason why I came.
26:49I wanted to hear what you would say by way of explanation, of changing your mind.
26:54Do you think I am bound to explain?
26:56You are very positive.
26:57I believed it.
26:58Well, so did I.
27:00That is all I can say to you.
27:05Very well, then.
27:07I've done what I've wanted.
27:10I've seen you.
27:13How little you make of these terrible journeys.
27:18As it turns out, that was the easiest part.
27:23Goodbye.
27:29I have something to tell you, Aunt Lydia.
27:55You needn't tell me.
27:56I know what is.
27:57I don't know how you know.
27:59The way I know when a window's open, by feeling the draft.
28:03You didn't stay three weeks at Madame Merle's for nothing.
28:06He was there too, wasn't he?
28:07You're going to marry that man.
28:10I don't know what you mean, that man.
28:12Madame Merle's friend.
28:14I don't know why you keep calling him Madame Merle's friend.
28:16Well, if he isn't, he ought to be.
28:19After all she's done for him.
28:20Madame Merle had nothing to do with my engagement.
28:23If you think that, you're a fool.
28:25It was obvious to me and everyone else that she put him up to it.
28:31He'd never have done it on his own.
28:32He doesn't think that much of himself.
28:34I find nothing displeasing in that.
28:37Was it for this you refused, Lord Warburty?
28:40I have no wish to discuss that.
28:43It was my duty to tell you, Aunt Lydia.
28:45But I have no need to explain.
28:47No.
28:48But I shall speak to Madame Merle just the same.
28:51I don't know why you keep bringing her into it.
28:54She's been a good friend to me.
28:55Possibly.
28:56But a poor one to me.
28:57Oh, I can't see that.
28:59She deceived me.
29:00She said she would prevent the engagement.
29:05She couldn't have done that.
29:06She couldn't do anything.
29:08That's what I've always liked her for.
29:11But while I was waiting for her to interfere,
29:13you were marching away and she was beating the drum.
29:17And if she'd sounded the alarm,
29:19would you have interfered?
29:22Possibly not.
29:24I'd try not to interfere.
29:27But somebody else might.
29:28Ralph?
29:32Yes.
29:33You might have listened to him.
29:35I would not have listened if he'd abused Mr. Osmond.
29:39Ralph doesn't abuse people.
29:42But he said you'd never do this.
29:45How do you know?
29:46Because I said you would and he argued the other way.
29:50Well, perhaps he did it for the sake of argument.
29:53He always likes to take the contrary view.
29:56When does he arrive?
29:58He's coming here tomorrow.
30:00Will you tell him?
30:01Of course I'll tell him!
30:02I only meant it was better the announcement should come from you rather than me.
30:08Tell me something.
30:11If you care so little for money,
30:14why did you accept the bequest?
30:16I care very much for money.
30:18That is why I want Mr. Osmond to have a little.
30:20Give it to him then.
30:22But don't marry him.
30:23I shall marry Mr. Osmond,
30:26Aunt Lydia.
30:27Should I order the tea, do you think?
30:40Is that your best frock?
30:42No, it's just one I keep for small occasions.
30:44Do you call it a small occasion when I come to visit you?
30:47No, Aunt Amy.
30:48To say nothing of Miss Archer.
30:49I have a pretty frock,
30:51but even that's very simple.
30:53Is it the prettiest?
30:54I think so.
30:55Well, then you should wear it.
30:56Go and put it on.
30:59I think I should ask the partners.
31:05She is lovely, isn't she?
31:06Do you like her?
31:12She's not by now.
31:14And that's really more important than being lovely.
31:18She still doesn't know?
31:21Oh, yes, I told her this morning.
31:23Well, what did she say?
31:24She was neither surprised nor alarmed.
31:26She just said,
31:27Oh, then I shall have a beautiful sister.
31:30I think it seems perfectly natural to her
31:32that you and I should be here together.
31:34It seems perfectly natural to me, too.
31:39Well, what's the matter?
31:41I was just thinking that
31:42it seems anything but natural to some.
31:46My Aunt.
31:48Well, how do you know what she thinks?
31:50Because you never told me she was pleased.
31:52And because I wrote her a note the other day
31:54which she never answered.
31:57Yes.
31:58She disapproves.
32:00She thinks, of course,
32:02that I'm in love with your money.
32:04My Aunt understands little else.
32:06Well, when a poor man marries a rich girl
32:09he must be prepared for imputations.
32:11I don't mind them.
32:13I care only for one thing.
32:16You're not having a shadow of doubt.
32:20You have less interest in money than I.
32:22That's probably true.
32:25But I won't pretend I'm sorry you're rich.
32:27I'm delighted.
32:28It'll make things much easier, that's all.
32:30And if the money were mine instead of yours
32:32your Aunt would sing a very different tune.
32:35My Aunt will like you better someday.
32:37So will you for that matter.
32:40Loving you has made me better.
32:41I love you as you are.
32:46Tell me one thing.
32:48What does your cousin say?
32:50Wrong.
32:51So far he has said nothing.
32:54That means he thinks the same as the others.
32:56One can never tell with my cousin.
32:59And anyway, it's not important.
33:02You're right.
33:03Life stretches before us
33:05like the latter half of an Italian day
33:07with a golden haze
33:09and that divine delicacy in the air.
33:12You're right.
33:36Papa?
33:40Aunt Amy thinks I should change my frock.
33:42Do you have a nicer one?
33:44I think so.
33:45Well, why not?
33:46Come, we'll go and choose one together
33:48and then I'll order some tea.
33:50Excuse us.
34:01It is very peaceful here.
34:06Will you live in Florence?
34:08Oh, I think not.
34:10We shall look for a house in Rome.
34:12Oh, Rome has more to offer.
34:18You seem very happy.
34:21Shouldn't I be?
34:22Well, I suppose it's the convention.
34:25Personally, I could never congratulate any girl
34:27on getting married.
34:28To me, it's nothing but a steel trap.
34:30That is a view that is obviously
34:32colored by your own experience.
34:34Oh, I don't deny it.
34:35My husband's a horror.
34:36But most of them are.
34:39When I realized that my brother had designs on you,
34:42I thought of writing to you.
34:44To put me on my guard?
34:46Of course.
34:46Well, why didn't you?
34:47I don't really like being disloyal.
34:53And I thought it would be very good for us.
34:58Though I couldn't pretend it would be good for you.
35:01That sounds rather selfish.
35:04Oh, it is utterly.
35:07By the way, you won't respect me
35:08and we should never be intimate.
35:10I should like it, but you won't.
35:13All the same, someday we'll be better friends
35:15than you'd believe at first.
35:16Well, we must let time take care of that.
35:32Why don't you go indoors for a while?
35:34I was going out to walk.
35:36I certainly felt too tired,
35:37so I sat down here instead and thought of you.
35:40Aren't you tired of that?
35:42Yes.
35:43It leads to nothing.
35:44The road is long and I never arrive.
35:47What do you wish to arrive at?
35:51At the point of expressing to myself properly
35:54what I think of your engagement.
36:00Don't think too much of it.
36:03You mean it's none of my business?
36:05Beyond a certain point, yes.
36:06All winter, as I
36:13read your delightful letters,
36:15I had no idea you were choosing.
36:17It was hardly something I was likely to write to you about.
36:20I wish I'd known.
36:23What would you have done?
36:25I'd have said wait a little longer.
36:27Wait for what?
36:28A little more light.
36:33And where should my light have come from?
36:35From you?
36:36I might have struck a spark or two.
36:40You're beating about the bush ruff.
36:42You don't like Mr. Osman,
36:44but you're afraid to say so.
36:47If you marry him,
36:48it wouldn't have been a fortunate way
36:52for me to have spoken.
36:53If.
36:54Do you expect to dissuade me?
36:56Does that seem fatuous?
36:58No.
37:01Touch him.
37:02Oh.
37:03You prefer to make me ridiculous.
37:05I know you have a great affection for me.
37:07Well, it should tell you
37:07how much I want you to do well.
37:09And how little you trust me.
37:10I trust you.
37:12I don't trust him.
37:18You have said it now.
37:23And I'm glad you've made it so clear.
37:26But you will suffer by it.
37:28Not if you're just.
37:30I am just.
37:32I sit here listening to you
37:34abusing the man I wish to marry.
37:36And I sit here quietly and without anger.
37:39And why do I?
37:40Because I know you've no special interest
37:42in abusing him
37:43other than your belief
37:44that I've made a mistake.
37:46Well, all right, I'll listen.
37:48But you will not dissuade me.
37:52And knowing this,
37:52you must accept the full responsibility
37:54if you decide to press on.
37:56Responsibility?
37:57Of the damage that you will do
37:59to our friendship.
38:08Well.
38:12In a way, I'm sunk already.
38:14So what have I got to lose?
38:18It's not in the least
38:20the sort of marriage
38:21I thought you'd make.
38:23And what sort of marriage
38:24was that, pray?
38:26Well, it's hard to say.
38:30I didn't think you'd decide for...
38:32well, that type.
38:34Type?
38:35We can all be typed.
38:38What do you know of him?
38:39Very little, it's true.
38:40But I can't help feeling
38:43you're running a grave risk.
38:44Well, marriage is always a grave risk.
38:46His risk is as grave as mine.
38:49I don't understand
38:51what you're talking about.
38:53I suppose I thought
38:54you'd marry a man of...
38:55of more importance.
38:58Of more importance to whom?
39:01Let me try and tell you
39:02what I mean.
39:04I had, perhaps wrongly,
39:07treated myself to a...
39:09a charming vision
39:11of your future.
39:13There was nothing
39:14of this sort in it.
39:16You were not to come down
39:17so easily.
39:18What do you mean, come down?
39:20You seem to be soaring,
39:21sailing in bright light
39:23over the heads of men.
39:25And suddenly,
39:25someone tosses up
39:26a faded rosebud,
39:28a missile that should
39:29never have reached you,
39:29and straight away
39:30you fall to the ground.
39:33It hurts me
39:34as if I'd fallen myself.
39:35Surely a girl can't sail
39:37any higher than
39:37to marry someone she likes.
39:39It's your liking him
39:40that worries me.
39:42I should have thought
39:43the man you liked
39:44would have been a...
39:45a more active,
39:46larger, freer nature.
39:48He is...
39:49somehow...
39:51small.
39:54Small?
39:54Narrow.
39:56Selfish.
39:57He takes himself
39:58so seriously.
39:59I find nothing
40:00displeasing in that.
40:01Yes, but everything
40:02is relative.
40:04He's...
40:04he's the incarnation
40:06of taste.
40:08He judges,
40:09measures,
40:09approves,
40:10and condemns
40:11everything by that.
40:12It's fortunate, then,
40:13that his taste
40:13is so exquisite.
40:14Oh, yes,
40:15it's exquisite.
40:15It led him to you.
40:17But have you ever seen
40:17such a taste ruffled?
40:19I hope it may never
40:20be my fortune
40:21to fail to gratify
40:22that of my husband.
40:23Oh, that's unworthy
40:24of you.
40:25You weren't meant
40:26to be measured
40:27in that way.
40:29You were meant
40:30for something more
40:30than to keep guard
40:32over the sensibilities
40:33of a sterile dilettante.
40:35I think you have
40:36said enough.
40:37I can't enter into
40:42your idea
40:42of Mr. Osmond.
40:44I can't do it justice
40:45because I see it
40:46in quite another way.
40:48He is not important.
40:50No.
40:51He's a man
40:51to whom importance
40:52means nothing.
40:54If that's what you mean,
40:55my small,
40:56then he's as small
40:57as you like.
40:58I call it large.
40:59It's the largest thing
41:00I know.
41:03Do you complain of him
41:04because he is not rich?
41:06Well, that's what
41:07I like him for.
41:08Fortunately,
41:09I have money enough.
41:11There have been times
41:12when I've wanted
41:13to kneel at your father's grave
41:15and thank him
41:16for putting it in my power
41:17to marry a poor man,
41:18a man who's borne
41:19his poverty with dignity.
41:21He's never scrambled
41:22nor struggled.
41:23He's cared for no worldly prize.
41:25And now,
41:27now I can give
41:28rather than take
41:29and I rejoice in it.
41:32Oh,
41:33you talk of
41:34soaring and sailing.
41:37But if one marries at all,
41:38one touches the earth.
41:41One has human feelings
41:43and needs.
41:43One has a heart
41:45in one's bosom
41:45and one must marry
41:46the person who makes
41:47that heartbeat loudest.
41:49And that is he,
41:51Mr. Osmond,
41:52who has nothing,
41:54no property,
41:56titles,
41:57honours,
41:58houses,
41:58lands,
41:59position,
41:59reputation,
42:00nor brilliant belongings
42:01of any sort.
42:03He
42:04and no one else.
42:11You've invented
42:13a fine theory
42:14which is in error.
42:19You must think
42:21as you please.
42:24But remember this.
42:26If it is,
42:28I shall never complain to you.
42:54Anna
42:57even
42:59for you.
43:00So
43:01that's
43:02I'll never
43:02you
43:03because
43:03in
43:03the
43:04learning
43:04has
43:05added
43:05to the
43:07same light
43:08as you say.
43:08You've never been
43:08watching the
43:09but that's
43:10and that's
43:12in the
43:12better
43:13you
43:16and
43:17for you to
43:17ask
43:20is
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