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00:00To be continued...
00:30To be continued...
01:00Only two more days, Miss Stephen, until the opening of the trout fishing season.
01:08Is it really?
01:11Of course, for sea trout, it's rather later.
01:14There's tremendous sports we had on the D, even as early as February.
01:21It seems, Nessa, since your poor father's death, that you have been campaigning to put yourselves beyond the pale, as if removing from Kensington were not enough.
01:36There is the question, Toby, of how your sisters are being chaperoned now you're alone.
01:42I can only spare so much of my time.
01:46Chaperoned, Lord.
01:48By me, of course.
01:49The pillar of the legal profession.
01:51Surely I couldn't be more respectable.
01:53And Virginia's delicacy?
01:56I'm perfectly well now.
01:57As long as Virginia feeds and rests.
01:59Honestly, Aunt, the goat's no madder than the rest of us these days.
02:04Adrian.
02:05Which isn't sane, God knows.
02:07But we'll simply have to do.
02:10Nessa takes great care of her.
02:13Always.
02:13I understand you are at the painting schools every day.
02:18What your poor father would have thought of this arrangement.
02:22I cannot imagine.
02:27Have you ever caught a trout, Miss Stephen?
02:30Oh.
02:31We thank the Lord insanity exempts me from such nonsense.
02:36Goat.
02:37Aunt Mary won't rest until she's married you off to some purple squire of the family.
02:41Oh.
02:45Whatever you're doing.
02:52Feed them.
02:53Nessa.
02:55Dead conversations.
02:57Dead habits.
02:58Tea tables.
02:59Why not?
03:00Coffee.
03:01For once.
03:02They're so ugly.
03:02Piles of linen.
03:05I've decided we shall each just have the same napkin until there are two deaths to use.
03:10Or be rid of napkins entirely.
03:12One can always wash one's face.
03:13Is that your milk from this morning?
03:15Oh, yes.
03:15I must have forgotten it.
03:16It one even cares to wash.
03:18All those years of pleasing father.
03:21It seems impossible to see.
03:22We might be able to please ourselves now.
03:24I should warn you, Nessa, that most of my friends are highly unused to females.
03:36Females?
03:37There's really no saying how they'll behave in front of you and Ginia.
03:42Toby, do you really think this evening is a good idea?
03:45Well, if it isn't, there's no need to repeat the experiment.
03:47I want to see my friends.
03:48It was you who suggested it would be ridiculous to banish you in Virginia upstairs.
03:53Well, it would be.
03:56Society.
03:58I have no conversation, you know.
03:59Oh, then you must rely on your profile.
04:03Duncan, Toby's more of a brother than a friend to me.
04:06Your sisters are reputed to be as clever as they are beautiful.
04:09Still, let's presume they haven't abandoned civilization entirely.
04:13Entirely.
04:17Oh, cousins, you're so tiresomly unpersuadable on that point.
04:21Rest assured it'll be an evening of brilliant amusements.
04:28Mr. Keynes?
04:29Thank you, Miss Leaven.
04:34When you come down to it, though, Childe Harold is a load of posturing nonsense.
04:38This is abominable.
04:40Oh, it has its moments.
04:43You have to give Byron that.
04:45But it can't hold a candle to Don Dewan, even if the Alexandrines are forced to breaking point.
04:50Well...
04:50Thank you, Miss Stephen.
04:51How delicious.
04:59Mr. Grant.
05:02Mustn't leave you out?
05:05Now it becomes clear why you've made such poor progress in our essays, Strachey.
05:09What do you like?
05:10Your cousin?
05:11A distraction having him in the house, I imagine.
05:14Hmm.
05:14Torment to Maynard of the most delectable kind.
05:19Not very good.
05:21No.
05:23But this is.
05:28It's yours.
05:30I do apologise.
05:31Oh, please.
05:31I'd much rather honesty than praise.
05:34Braver than I am, then.
05:36Mr. Sargent says all my things are too grey.
05:39I thought I saw you at the painting schools.
05:43Everything's too something for him, isn't it?
05:45Why not?
05:46Too grey, too tonal.
05:48Too horizontal.
05:50Yes.
05:52I suspect what he really means is too unlike one of my paintings.
05:55Miss Stephen, might I trouble you for another of those remarkable buns?
05:59Of course, Mr. Bell.
06:01I like your socks.
06:08Cullen.
06:10I'm so glad.
06:12Your brother loves nothing more than to tease me for my sartorial flourishes.
06:17Mr. Bell is a fearful parakeet.
06:20Isn't he?
06:22And yet Toby is fonder of him than all the others.
06:25They're also unattractive.
06:27Miss Schollers.
06:29Mr. Grant's certainly the only one of them one can even begin to imagine marrying, don't you think?
06:34Well, I was unaware either of us were contemplating matrimony.
06:38Just one word empty or escape from all that.
06:43Mr. Grant has a fine head.
06:45It's true.
06:45Yes, probably because it contains a brain undeformed by Cambridge.
06:55Still, we shall marry eventually, I suppose.
06:58What?
06:58Children, Billy.
07:00Copulation.
07:01No, really.
07:02I mean, I know copulation is something like sodomy and Plato, but...
07:05Surely you can imagine.
07:06No.
07:08Snout.
07:10Yes, on the snout.
07:11Promise, if you marry, you must only marry me.
07:19Just us, Stephens.
07:22Very well then.
07:24Just us, Stephens.
09:04Ah. Looks just like it, doesn't it?
09:12I, uh, I know a nice view up there a bit.
09:17Really artistic.
09:18Perhaps...
09:22Perhaps it might show me.
09:25Okay.
09:26Yeah.
09:29Yeah.
09:31Yeah.
09:33Yeah.
09:34Yeah.
09:34Yeah.
09:37Yeah.
09:38Yeah.
09:38Mm-hmm.
09:39Oh, my God.
10:09Can it be true what I hear, Toby, that you've been holding some sort of degenerate salon?
10:19Hi.
10:20You can't meet our Thursday nights. A few friends aren't, that's all. It's all terribly high-minded.
10:26Oh. Hello, Aunt Mary. You look flourishing.
10:31How was it, Ginny?
10:33Well, I'm not sure the least thing I said went in.
10:35I mean, the poor shop girls can barely keep their eyes open. And there's a very difficult socialist, Mr. Zeldwin. A Jew, I think. He asks the most vexing questions.
10:43You're a tremendous goat. Literature for the working man.
10:46The working man? Well, it's competition, as a matter of fact. Morley College.
10:52You've kept this from me, Nessa. Virginia, you know you must take great care not to overstrain yourself, to tire out your brain.
11:03Aunt Mary's right, Virginia. I don't know how tired your brain can get.
11:06Shut up, Adrian. There's like a feeble little echo.
11:10Smoking, really. This can't be.
11:14I fear I must speak out on behalf of your dear father.
11:18He would have despaired to see his daughter.
11:22Father's dead, Aunt Mary.
11:26He's dead.
11:27And since he didn't believe in an afterlife, I don't think even he could claim further sacrifice from Virginia and me.
11:36We intend to live in our own way.
11:39Now, all of us.
11:41If that is distressing to you, I'm sorry.
11:45But in that case, it may be better for you not to call again.
11:57Bloomsbury.
12:04Aunt Mary banished, and you are entirely magnificent.
12:09Perhaps I went too far.
12:10No.
12:10But she's bound now to believe every room.
12:12Was she here?
12:12Well, let her.
12:13Though we alone know the purity of our intentions.
12:16Indeed.
12:17Chastity shall be our shield.
12:20Oh, Lord, is it really so late?
12:22Mr Bell's accompanying me to see some paintings.
12:24Mr Bell?
12:25Mr Bell?
12:34It's almost French.
12:36And yet not French enough, don't you think?
12:41Of course, English painting was only in its infancy.
12:46Duncan says there's something disturbing about Gainsborough's handling of tone.
12:50I don't know if you agree.
12:53Stimulating, though.
12:55Well, perhaps that's the best thing about him.
12:58Perhaps you could say that Gainsborough is the turner of portrait painters.
13:02I think you could say anything, Mr Bell.
13:08It doesn't make it true.
13:12All of you.
13:13Talking and talking.
13:16As though everything can be talked.
13:20Well, not everything.
13:21Indecency.
13:28I can assure you this has got absolutely nothing to do with me.
13:36Good God, Lytton.
13:37Mrs. Elvis found it while she was putting away Duncan's linen.
13:42I'm dumbstruck.
13:43Quite.
13:44Now, you are closer to your cousin than any of us.
13:47Have you noted signs of depravity?
13:51He's pale, of course.
13:54Vague.
13:54Mother, he's always been vague.
13:56It wouldn't be fair to trouble Duncan's parents until we establish if the tendency is far gone.
14:03I shall consult an expert.
14:05Oh, Christ.
14:10Dr. Hislop.
14:11She met him through her work with the Women's Progressive Movement.
14:16He's the head of Bedlam.
14:18Honestly, it's fairly tame compared to the sort of thing that did the rounds at school.
14:22Oh, you know, Mother.
14:24Thirteen children, but she remains untroubled by knowledge of anything that occurs below the waist and above the knee.
14:30Still, I'm the more shocked.
14:32Young ladies.
14:35Hmm.
14:35Don't worry.
14:37I'm sure Dr. Hislop will confirm I'm fully an invert.
14:40Hmm.
14:43Courage.
14:47It could be a great deal worse.
14:59Well, no signs of disease.
15:02Your aunt is concerned that your inability to finish a painting may be the result of, um, unclean habits.
15:15Yes.
15:16No.
15:17I...
15:17I don't know why.
15:23Aunt Jane has quite the...
15:24She has got hold of the wrong end of the stick, truly.
15:30I am not dissipated.
15:34Not in that way.
15:35I, um...
15:50I painted myself when I was young.
15:55Quite the enthusiast.
15:58For a time.
15:59It's not so much knowing one is degenerate, criminal even.
16:13It's sitting at meals, or making conversation, and knowing that everything one thinks and feels,
16:22what one finds amusing, or important, or beautiful, everything is different from those around you.
16:31And if they knew they'd think you're an imbecile, or lock you up...
16:35My dear fellow...
16:36You don't think that's why I can't...
16:44Why I find it hard to finish my work?
16:46You, yourself, are unfinished.
16:47At your age, one passes through many...
16:51phases.
16:52And as an artist, many styles.
16:54Until one finds what seems.
16:57And until a phase passes, the sympathy of true friends is a wonderful thing.
17:03I shall set your aunt's mind at rest.
17:05I shall set your aunt's mind at rest.
17:06I shall set your aunt's mind at rest.
17:14Oh...
17:16I wish I could see what it is that so beguiles you.
17:38Some passages of paint.
17:44You feel them in your marrow.
17:53You know what it must have been like to make that mark.
17:59Painting can be a sort of physical knowledge.
18:09Thank you for being so patient.
18:13I know not everyone enjoys looking at the same thing over and over again.
18:17I never tired of looking at you.
18:22If you were a painting, Miss Stephen, I shouldn't tire of it.
18:31Ah-ha! Your expeditions with Mr. Bell get ever longer. The collection must be of a size to rival the National Gallery.
18:40I did tell you I'd be out all afternoon.
18:41Well I'm not sure Mr. Bell's intentions are honourable. I think he intends rape and pillage.
18:49Virginia?
18:58Well you're wrong. It's proposed actually. What could be more honourable than that?
19:03You've finished with your cup, haven't you?
19:08You turned him down of course.
19:10Of course.
19:12Well Thursday night's going to be a mite awkward from now on.
19:16Really, Toby.
19:18Are you suggesting I should have accepted Mr. Bell purely to avoid embarrassment?
19:23No.
19:25Of course not.
19:26I don't see why there should be any awkwardness.
19:28Explained I have no desire whatsoever to be married, that's all.
19:32To anyone.
19:34You seem to understand perfectly.
19:41Milk's off.
19:43Don't tell me you both drank it without noticing.
19:47Mabel!
19:49Really, sometimes I despair.
19:55I did nothing to encourage him.
19:57Listen, cake without eating it simply isn't cake.
20:05Art doesn't exist apart from the artefact.
20:08Human relations don't exist apart from.
20:10Population.
20:12Humanity.
20:13Calm, Mr. H, I think you have to concede Keynes' point.
20:15I'm not giving up.
20:16Thank you, God.
20:18Glad someone finds it possible to see sense through this morassive ill will.
20:21The cricket.
20:22Keep lobbing balls at each other.
20:23Giving up what?
20:25Oh.
20:26Nonsense.
20:29One has to keep hold of painting.
20:31It's the most important thing.
20:33What did you find?
20:34I suppose.
20:35Must be you've argued yourself into a corner.
20:36Not for the first time.
20:38Only because you've manoeuvred him there.
20:39Like the most craven sort of bullies.
20:41I'm with you, Mr. Strachey.
20:43No one can be with me.
20:44That is evidently to be-
20:45Though I find that I'm only interested in theories of painting when I can't actually paint.
20:50Or when I'm miserable.
20:52The two often go together in my case.
20:54Not at the moment.
20:55As much as I wish I would dare.
20:56Good night.
20:57That's following my character.
20:58Oh, Strachey.
20:59You're taking this far too personally.
21:00Mr. Strachey.
21:01You turn.
21:02Oh dear.
21:04Well, of all prostitutes, the spiritual ones are the worst.
21:07You mean Maynard.
21:08I thought you two were rather going at it.
21:11Hop House?
21:12Maynard lacks the imagination even to be a jade.
21:15He's a safety bicycle with genitals.
21:19Hop House?
21:20The blonde boy.
21:21The one at Cambridge.
21:22Maynard knew.
21:23He knew, Duncan, that I'd given my heart.
21:27And I'd have gladly given my penis, but Hobber always claimed he was sworn to chastity.
21:33And it appears that vowed chastity applied only to me.
21:38He and Maynard have copulated freely, have fucked and sucked all summer.
21:46Of course, guilt compelled Hop House to write to me about it.
21:53The whole world stinks in my nostrils.
21:57God, I stench in my own nostrils.
22:00Oh, Christ, I'm ridiculous.
22:05No, you're not.
22:07Litton.
22:12Truly.
22:16Are they all sodomites, then?
22:40No.
22:41Virginia.
22:42Mabel could come in at any moment.
22:44I was a shock with you.
22:45You're good.
22:46It's hardly a question of shock.
22:47The eyes of the Lawrence jail and hard labour.
22:51Even if Mr. Strater does prefer to call it the higher sodomy.
22:55Naturally.
22:56The exalted love of man for man.
22:58I mean, it makes perfect sense.
22:59If they all consider women so thoroughly inferior.
23:02God, what a bore of them the world must be peopled.
23:05But really, why should we be content with the scraps from their table?
23:09That's what they do, Nessa.
23:10They exclude us.
23:11Schools, colleges, clubs, orifices.
23:14You know, I don't see why we should concern ourselves as men at all.
23:17I much prefer women.
23:19I should take a leaf from their book, the higher sophistry.
23:22Do you prefer?
23:23What does it matter?
23:25Who puts what where and with whom?
23:28Friendship is a thing.
23:30They're not making other people unhappy.
23:32Or even making each other happy.
23:35Just think strong feeling of any kind tends to go badly.
23:40You're all people should know that.
23:42Oh, yes.
23:43Back where madness lies.
23:47You know, the king exposed himself in the bushes.
23:52And the birds sang to me in Greek.
23:54Virginia.
23:55Do you think I tried to kill myself from grief because father was dead
23:58or because I was so very relieved?
24:00I genuinely don't know still.
24:05There's no need to say absolutely everything out loud, you know?
24:07I'm sorry I'm so quiet, Mr. Bell.
24:16Although you've been unusually quiet yourself.
24:20It's killing me.
24:22Three floors of the army and navy isn't enough to finish any one off.
24:25Miss Stephen, have your sentiments changed at all since my proposal?
24:28Or developed in any way?
24:31Couldn't we mould marriage to suit our own ends rather than be moulded by it?
24:35Adrian.
24:37Success.
24:38As you see.
24:39There are more packages in the hall.
24:43Take them upstairs, would you?
24:45Put them by the steamer trunks.
24:48I'm sorry.
24:49I still don't see the need for marriage.
24:51Was it your sister?
24:52I know she needs your care.
24:54My freedom has been so late in coming and so hard won.
25:05I value your company, truly.
25:08I've...
25:09I've come to...
25:11to care for you.
25:14As a friend.
25:15Perhaps I'm being unfair.
25:22Yes, I see I am.
25:26Perhaps if you went away from England.
25:29That might be best.
25:30Since I'm only travelling myself for a few months.
25:33A year might help.
25:35It would clarify both our feelings.
25:37Believe me, I feel for you with perfect clarity.
25:40Too much.
25:44I am in love with you, Miss Stephen.
25:46But how is that even possible when we...
25:48we don't really know one another?
25:50Oh, God, enough.
25:51I'm sorry.
25:56Women are encouraged to be such idiots in these matters.
25:58I hate it.
25:59Please.
26:01Should I put the hatboxes with the others?
26:03Yes, please.
26:33I hate it.
26:43Marry.
26:45Or Bern.
27:04You're the full moon of heaven.
27:12Does heaven have a moon?
27:14Hmm.
27:17You'll never love me.
27:20Truly.
27:22Incontinently.
27:23That's not a request, by the way.
27:27Duncan.
27:29Tell me how you feel.
27:30When I'm not here, you don't miss me at all, do you?
27:38Society may condemn us to deceit,
27:40but that only makes it more vital
27:41that we are absolutely honest with each other
27:43about our feelings.
27:46So...
27:49You don't love me.
27:53Say it.
27:54Say Lytton.
27:55You mean nothing to me.
27:57But I really am fond of you.
27:59Oh, fond.
28:01I'm always fond of country dancing or milk pudding.
28:06All this is worthless unless you can tell me the truth.
28:11Say it.
28:15You mean nothing to me.
28:18You mean nothing to me.
28:22All right.
28:27You mean nothing to me.
28:28You mean nothing to me.
28:29You mean nothing to me.
28:30You mean nothing to me.
28:31You mean nothing to me.
28:32You mean nothing to me.
28:49Guild 2 & No.
28:51I'm so glad you've established yourself in Paris, and from everything you write, so very comfortably.
28:57I can assure you my indisposal when we arrived in Athens was no more than that, perhaps due to the heat.
29:04As you recommended, I took four glasses of brandy before we got on the train for Constantinople, which rendered the journey a pleasing blur.
29:13I'm sure you remember from your university walking tours that Toby sets a gruelling pace.
29:18I only hope that blisters might ensure us all a few days' rest once we reach Fethiers.
29:24You've probably heard that Mr Strachey has announced a determination to finish his dissertation once and for all, or die in the attempt, and to that end has shut himself away to work.
29:35Mr Grant reports that Mr Caines is in full pomp with his new fellowship, and has declared he longs to share his good fortune with us all.
29:43Virginia asks if you've heard any more from either horse's mouth to please pass it on.
29:49We're starved of gossip, and we need it far more than mosquito nets or malaria pills, even amid ancient splendour.
29:57I must confess, our Thursday nights are keenly missed, and I trust the rarest French cuisine cannot compare to penny buns dished out by the Stephen sisters.
30:07Pardon, monsieur.
30:39The doctor on the boat thinks this is appendix, possibly malaria.
30:45I can't thank you enough, Mr. Bell, for returning support.
30:48Let her! She needs attention herself.
30:50So I see.
30:52All will be well, Mr.
31:09Ann did not share these feelings.
31:20She persisted in a very determined, though very silent, disinclination for Bath.
31:26Caught the first dim view of the extensive buildings, smoking and rain.
31:32Without any wish of seeing them better.
31:36Felt their progress through the streets to be, however disagreeable, yet too rapid.
31:43For who would be glad to see her when she arrived?
31:46And looked back, with fond regret, to the bustles of Uppercross and the seclusion...
31:52Not heaven, then.
31:56My dear chap.
31:59Do you know...
32:01I have the most damnable craving for anchovy toast.
32:18To Toby and his recovery.
32:20And to Duncan.
32:21How many paintings finished?
32:23Oh, er...
32:25Three.
32:26Remarkable.
32:27A new epoch.
32:28Well, on that matter...
32:29The completion of your dissertation.
32:31And a far greater accomplishment.
32:33Your beard.
32:36Do try to savour it, Maynard. It's Montrachet, not ginger beer.
32:39Sorry.
32:40Become rather spoiled by the sellers at King's.
32:42You'll be the same.
32:43Let's hope I get the opportunity.
32:44I don't know what I'll do otherwise.
32:46Hasn't Aunt Jane arranged for you to go to this sanatorium in Sweden?
32:49She has.
32:50But I do consider being an invalid more of a hobby than a career.
32:53Swedes.
32:55Here.
32:58Last.
33:01Thank you so much.
33:06Lytton, you should know...
33:09Maynard and I are...
33:12Well...
33:13There's no point pretending to you.
33:17While you've been so occupied...
33:18You're into meds?
33:20Yeah.
33:21I know you prefer honesty with these things.
33:24Feelings and such.
33:26And it's not as though you thought I was in love with you.
33:29You are extremely clear about that.
33:30Another toast, then.
33:41To friendship...
33:43That rarest good deed in the naughtiest of worlds.
33:49Saxon, old chap.
33:51What is it?
33:54What's happened?
33:55Just wait to keep my eyes open.
33:56And it's been quiet and built nothing for me at all.
34:17Oh God, oh God, it's like iron, that's right.
34:30What are we going to do?
34:35I don't know.
34:47I don't know.
35:12Mr. Bell?
35:17He didn't suffer.
35:22That's what one is supposed to say, isn't it?
35:26It's true.
35:27He even had time to...
35:35...to say goodbye.
35:47Oh, she's gone.
35:51Oh...
35:56Oh...
35:58Oh, my God.
36:04Oh, my God.
36:07nothing will change everything everything will change yes it's probably what I want isn't it
36:24I thought you wanted freedom oh that's what we both wanted just us Stevens
36:28Eddie Coat husband is not a sister no he's a parakeet and you agreed with me oh god Virginia
36:35we can't always agree it just seems more important than ever Toby to try to at least try to be happy
36:47Clive has a talent for that as I said when parakeets are to my taste I didn't know but you should have
36:57you should have you know I know what I feel too much you always say but you I mean for god's sake
37:03a painter your work is meant to show the world your vision of the world I mean what use can it
37:09be to live as a mystery to yourself as well as to the rest of us you might as well be colorblind
37:13I feel I should thank you Mrs Ravenhill
37:30to the excellence of her instruction
37:35some things can't be taught
37:39is it really like this for everybody servants and cabinet ministers
37:48possibly not the home secretary
37:53I am in heaven here with Clive the weather is divine as is the food the sunsets are a revelation
38:11and copulation continues to be a tremendous success it could only be improved by your presence Nessa
38:19are you meant to be resting at this stage
38:48I've never had more energy in my life have I Clive
38:51you had rather a terrifying amount of energy before compared to me anyhow
38:55that's different
38:56I've struggled in Fitzroy Square
38:59oh yes
39:00now Adrian and I are orphans
39:03Duncan says Maynard's rooms are very comfortable
39:06it's what you should know since he's in them most of the time
39:09you should hear Aunt Mary
39:12Virginia all alone in a house of men
39:15is it a boarding house or a brocco
39:18surely what it most resembles is a library
39:23which is disappointing
39:25best of everything
39:26there's Clive for you
39:28now you mustn't mind Virginia
39:31your sister's not as intelligent as you of course
39:34but she's still terribly clever
39:36I wonder how long it'll take her to discover that Clive isn't
39:39oh I can't didn't you know on account of being cracked I'm forbidden stimulants
39:57glad to see you're flourishing truly I can scarcely believe you've been so good about it Maynard and me
40:04I can scarcely believe it myself
40:07come and decide
40:09both of you
40:10is this any good
40:12oh dear
40:17semen I presume
40:19can one really say such things without being thought mad
40:23well human nature has changed
40:26among friends anyhow
40:27or relations
40:29friends
40:31you and I have a chance to be good friends now Virginia
40:35how pretty you look
40:38of course Nessa was born to be a mother
40:45she'll adore it
40:47not too much I hope
40:50I didn't marry her to see her tan into a brooding milk cow
40:53oh Ginia
41:00I'm so happy
41:04Julian Hewitt Bell
41:09I thought it'd be Toby but
41:12I mean look at him
41:14there's not a scrap of Stephen in him
41:16he's a pure bell
41:17he's quite splendid
41:20yes
41:22entirely
41:25I can't tell you how it feels
41:30the Times Literary Supplement have asked me to write another review
41:34oh Billy how wonderful for you
41:36I'm not surprised
41:38just in time for autumn plans
41:42oh god all those years dreaming of escape
41:45plotting away
41:47plotting
41:48squashed
41:49writing for out of Virginia
41:51painting for me
41:53plans
41:55now there's no need
41:56isn't there
41:58you just need to carry on now regardless
42:01read reviews and
42:03well that book of yours will be finished someday
42:06published a roaring acclaim
42:08and you'll live
42:09happily ever after
42:11like me
42:14feel as though you've tidied me into a drawer
42:21oh dear are you hungry
42:42what's the matter
42:48this is impossible
42:48I'm going to go and sleep in the dressing room
42:55yes sir
42:57oh dear
43:00huh
43:07uh
43:12uh
43:16uh
43:27Anything I can get you?
43:43Nothing whatsoever.
43:57They're only suggestions.
44:02You did like it, though.
44:06Virginia, you've written passages of pure prose poetry.
44:10Perhaps a few too many have marked their surplus.
44:15Thank you for reading it so closely.
44:20I must confess, I didn't expect you to do more than glance at it.
44:24Well, I have the time.
44:36Billy.
44:39So sorry.
44:42Snatching an owl while Julian has his nap.
44:45And my hands are covered in paint.
44:48Do you want me to bring him down for you?
44:50Oh, no, no. Don't disturb him.
44:52I must go. I'm afraid I'm teaching.
44:54So on the snout.
44:55Oh.
44:56Not too wet.
44:57It's English poetry since 1750, so not the least interest.
45:00Oh.
45:01Well, write to me from Cornwall, will you?
45:04Doors in.
45:11I hope you looked after her.
45:13I know you know I need the money.
45:22I asked Clive to buy it because it's the best painting I've seen in at least five years.
45:28And he loves it too.
45:30You know I can't lie.
45:31Famous for it.
45:32Anyway, I thought Maynard was richer than Watsit these days with the King's Chair and all his stock market things.
45:44I can't live off Maynard for the rest of my days.
45:47It's not as if we're...
45:51...married.
45:54Oh. Hello, Duncan.
45:56Darling, you realise we're expected for aid?
46:00Auguration.
46:02You're coming too, aren't you? To the Morels.
46:06I didn't tend to shave.
46:07Well, and I must have a bath.
46:09You certainly must.
46:10It's going to be smart.
46:11The Asquiths are going to be there.
46:16The Prime Minister and his wife?
46:18Oh.
46:19No.
46:20It's far too late to make your excuses.
46:22Go and get ready.
46:24You must shave.
46:26You don't mind, dear darling, so it's done with an invert.
46:32Not so different, though.
46:34You and Maynard.
46:36And being married.
46:38I want to know.
46:42Well, I might be best suited to say, am I?
46:47I suppose...
46:51...we don't expect the same things of each other.
46:54Children, obviously.
46:56Fidelity.
46:58Loyalty?
46:59That's something else, isn't it?
47:01Loyalty is...
47:03...a primary colour.
47:04Yes.
47:05Good.
47:06There must be two others, then.
47:08Companionship, I suppose.
47:10Or rather, friendship.
47:14Being able to say what one means.
47:16Anyway.
47:18Without being thought depraved.
47:21Or mad.
47:23Loyalty, friendship and...
47:26...sex, of course.
47:28And the grace of these is...
47:31...sex.
47:33Friendship.
47:37Well, thank God we're so much more sensible than our parents, with all this kind of thing.
47:41Virginia says...
47:42I couldn't borrow a pair of studs, could I?
47:45Oh, of course.
47:46Five seems to have hundreds.
47:48Virginia says that's what led to no end of trouble with their lot.
47:51Not just...
47:53...madness, but...
47:55...wars.
47:56And so on.
47:58Naturally, she puts it much better.
48:00But anyway, all that nonsense about never mentioning the WC, or...
48:06...copulation, or...
48:08...or anything of that sort.
48:10We tend to be about Julian quite differently.
48:13We weren't allowed to say WC when I was a child.
48:17We called it...
48:19What did we call it?
48:22Paying a visit!
48:24Which was rather confusing, given the actual visits people were always paying.
48:29One did rather think of the vicar shitting on the drawing room carpet.
48:32The vicar shitting on the drawing room carpet.
48:51Loyalty.
48:54I'm sorry?
48:55Three primary colours.
49:03Surely, loyalty's...
49:07...the most important.
49:11I have to write.
49:19Just the ticket.
49:25There have to be two rows.
49:27Three...
49:33Shhhhhh.
49:43T워.
49:49Okay, let's come.
49:51You are holding me magically, as I have to...
50:23Who sent is that, Clive?
50:30You must tell me, Virginia, you never were sent.
50:33Who is it?
50:34I shall mind, I promise, as long as I know.
50:37You've been with another woman.
50:39Your clothes are heavy with it.
50:40Tell me.
50:45It's, um...
50:47It's Mrs. Raven.
50:53I saw her again, and...
51:06Now, look here, you must know I don't love you any less.
51:09It's just...
51:10The wretched baby.
51:13Not wretched.
51:15You know I love the little chap, adore him, but...
51:19You've been so shut off.
51:24And one thing led to another, as they say.
51:28Stupid.
51:29I've been very stupid.
51:30I adore you.
51:33You must believe me.
51:35Men have a weakness.
51:41I'm so wretchedly susceptible to beauty.
51:45Yes.
51:46I'm sorry.
52:05Oh, my darling.
52:06Listen to me.
52:10I don't want...
52:11I...
52:12I don't think either of us should be hemmed in.
52:19Or unhappy, just because we're married.
52:25But we have a son.
52:30What a beautiful boy.
52:32And friends, and a house.
52:37We must be honest with each other.
52:42Yes.
52:45And realistic.
52:49If one is reasonable, we can overcome almost anything.
52:55Nessa, you...
52:57amaze me.
52:58Good.
53:11Well, you must...
53:13end it with Virginia.
53:16Nothing happened between us, I swear.
53:18Whatever it is, I couldn't bear it.
53:22And neither could she, really.
53:24You know she couldn't.
53:28I don't know.
53:58Virginia?
54:14Where is she?
54:17Julian's showing her the new bar.
54:20You mustn't forget all those wretched hats.
54:23If they're on refusal, it'll cost you a fortune.
54:26Virginia in hands. Prepare to be astonished.
54:30Life don't be cruel.
54:34They're ready to find her husband.
54:38Virginia.
54:40Shall I go and load them up, shall I?
54:46This is Vita's great project.
54:48Turning Virginia into a fashion place.
54:50Apparently, my guinea hat is essential if she is to be taken at all seriously.
54:54In the public eye.
54:56In the public eye.
54:58It must be rather a bore, all this romance business.
55:16Her and Vita.
55:18Well, I can hardly begrudge her a hat or two.
55:22She'll have her fling.
55:24As long as it's my slippers under the bed.
55:28I suppose.
55:30You know all about that, I imagine.
55:35I suppose it might just be the price of love.
55:37Perhaps.
55:39Freedom.
55:40END
55:56Friday room.
55:57Virginia's letter says she finds the climax immensely exaggerated.
56:02Is it the tool or the workman?
56:04the workmen you never speak to me anymore you're not properly they speak all the time
56:13you're still planning to visit us in the country aren't you and bunny of course
56:19nessa is an absolute saint aren't you lucky to have the devotion of an actual living saint
56:26you know nessa if we fucked you'd probably find me less irritating i wish so much i could make you
56:32happy
57:02you
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