00:00Ah, Fitch, come in.
00:04How do you do, sir?
00:05Do you have good holidays, Fitch?
00:06Yes, thank you, sir.
00:07Hello, Mrs Hartley.
00:08Mother asked me to give you this note.
00:09It's about my socks, I think.
00:11Oh, thank you, Fitch.
00:12Look, Fitch, you know the ropes here.
00:13Take Reid along to the dining hall, will you?
00:14There's a good chap.
00:15Yes, sir.
00:16And Fitch, show him his dormitory as well, will you?
00:17It's the same as yours.
00:18Very good, Mrs Hartley.
00:19Now, Reid, you run along with Fitch,
00:20and both of you get a good meal before it all disappears.
00:22Oh, no, thanks, Mrs Hartley.
00:30Well?
00:32Well, indeed.
00:34What is this school coming to?
00:36Give the boy a chance, Lloyd, dear, and come along and have your tea.
00:38Oh, by the way, Lady Tracey wants to know
00:40if David can wear his blue shirts with the collars attached.
00:42No, certainly not.
00:43It's a question of coupons.
00:44I will not have any boy letting down the standard, war or no war.
00:47White collars have been the rule at Cloisters for 30 years,
00:50and it's going on being the rule.
00:51You tell Lady Tracey with my compliments.
00:53If she can't buy any shirts with white collars,
00:55she'd better set to and make some.
00:56Out of what, Lloyd, dear?
01:00I don't propose to be dragged into an argument
01:02about an obviously incompetent woman.
01:10I'm very glad you've come here, Mr Lorraine.
01:12Although we won't admit it, Daddy's needed a house tutor for ages.
01:16Thanks.
01:17There are more boys here this term than ever before.
01:23No, no, don't move, Mr Lorraine.
01:26Well?
01:27He's arrived.
01:28Who?
01:29Reed.
01:30Ah, yes, Reed.
01:31We walked out from town together.
01:32He asked me the way here.
01:33Who's Reed?
01:34He comes from an elementary school in Walthamstow.
01:36His father's a tabacanist.
01:37The headmaster asked us to take him because of this Fleming report.
01:40Whatever's that?
01:41Ah, well, the Board of Education set up a committee on public schools.
01:44To find out if we're as black as some people like to paint us.
01:46Oh, and are we?
01:47Well, they've come to the conclusion that more boys like Reed
01:49should come to schools like St. Brett.
01:51That's right, Mr Lorraine.
01:52Yes.
01:54So the headmaster's persuaded the governors to give the boy a scholarship.
01:57It's an experiment.
01:58What do you think of the idea, Daddy?
01:59Will it work?
02:00Ah, the head's a very shrewd man.
02:02I don't think he believes in it for one moment.
02:03He just doesn't want to be labeled as a die-hard reactionary.
02:06What's in these?
02:07Fish paste.
02:08What do you mean to say?
02:09How are you going to mix a boy whose father's a general
02:11with a boy whose parents keep a grocer's shop in Pimlico?
02:13Eh, Lorraine?
02:14Well, boys are very malleable creatures.
02:16They usually fit in provided they give him a chance.
02:18Don't you think?
02:19Oh, yes, Daddy.
02:20You must give him a chance.
02:21Oh, naturally, I'll give him every chance.
02:23Oh, yes, fair's fair.
02:24And I haven't told anyone where he comes from, not even Grimmitt.
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