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01:58I want to go.
01:59I want to go.
01:59Oh, my God.
02:51Catheryn, letter. Seems Lady Susan will finally visit. In fact, she's already on her way.
02:57What? Lady Susan Vernon. Congratulations on being about to receive the most accomplished
03:03flirt in all England. You misjudge her, Reginald. How so? Well, like many women of beauty and
03:10distinction, our sister-in-law has been a victim of the spirit of jealousy in our land.
03:14It's jealousy? Yes. Well, like anyone, Susan might be capable of an action or a remark which
03:20is open to misconstruction, but I can't help but admire the fortitude with which she has
03:24supported grave misfortune. Excuse me, I spoke out of turn.
03:32Why would Lady Susan, who was so well settled at Langford, suddenly want to visit us?
03:37What reason does she give?
03:38Her anxiety to meet me and to know the children has never concerned her before.
04:09You ready, Shannon?
04:11Susan, I can't breathe.
04:14My dear, it's a taste. How curious you are.
04:17Mr. Johnson's carriage is about to come into the street.
04:20Surely that must happen often.
04:22You didn't receive my letter.
04:24Letter?
04:25Mr. Johnson forbids my seeing you.
04:28That's preposterous.
04:33Sending me back to Connecticut.
04:36To be tarred and feathered.
04:38He claims to have important business at Hartford.
04:40And threatens to settle there if our connection isn't entirely severed.
04:44But for what possible reason or pretext?
04:47His former ward, Lucy Mannering, wrote to him.
04:50Did she?
04:57A horrid woman.
04:59I know.
05:00Deranged.
05:01But if she were going to be jealous, she should not have married such a charming man.
05:05I recall thinking as I approached Langford,
05:08I like this man.
05:10Pray heaven no harm come of it.
05:13I was determined to be discreet, and I have been.
05:16Admitting no one's attentions but mannerings,
05:18avoiding general flirtation entirely,
05:21except for a little notice bestowed on Sir James Martin.
05:23But if the world knew my motive there, it would honour me.
05:26Martin?
05:27Sir James Martin.
05:29Of Martindale.
05:31Vastly rich, rather simple.
05:32Ideal.
05:33Miss Maria Mannering has set her cap for him,
05:36considering such an income too large not to be shared.
05:38But with a little notice, I detached him
05:40and soon had him in love with Frederica.
05:43If my daughter were not the greatest simpleton on earth,
05:46she would be engaged to him now.
05:47What?
05:47She refused him.
05:49A baronet with ten thousand a year.
05:52It's all so provoking.
05:53But where will you live?
05:54If there were another place open to me,
05:56I would crawl there on my knees.
05:58The worst spot this side of the ocean.
06:01A country village.
06:02Churchill, my brother-in-law's seat.
06:05Mrs Cross, a gentlewoman in straightened circumstances,
06:08will come with me as my companion.
06:09To pack and unpack.
06:12That sort of thing.
06:14And as there's an element of friendship involved,
06:16I'm sure the paying of wages would be offensive to us both.
06:24My brother-in-law, Charles Vernon, is very rich.
06:27Once a man gets his name on a banking house,
06:29he rolls in money.
06:30So it's not very rational for his lady to begrudge the sums
06:33who's advanced me.
06:34Decidedly irrational.
06:35Not rational at all.
06:36I have no money.
06:37And no husband.
06:39No.
06:40In one's plight, they say, is one's opportunity.
06:43Not that I would ever want to think in opportunistic terms.
06:46Well, certainly not.
06:47Never.
06:49Churchill, coming into view your ladyship.
06:54Heavens, what a boy.
06:57Yes.
06:58Decidedly boring.
07:25Charles.
07:28Who is it?
07:29Well, thank you.
07:31Mrs. Cross.
07:32Mrs. Cross, as well.
07:34Frederick and Elway.
07:38Good afternoon, Frederick. Very pleased to meet you.
07:41Mrs. Cross is a friend of Lady Susan and should be in the adjoining room.
08:02No reason to complain of Mr. Vernon's reception.
08:05Not entirely satisfied with his ladies.
08:07No?
08:09She's perfectly well-bred, surprisingly so.
08:12Her manner doesn't persuade me she was disposed in my favour.
08:16As you might have noticed, I sought to be as amiable as possible.
08:19Exceptionally amiable. In fact, entirely charming.
08:23Excuse me for saying, sir.
08:24Oh, not at all. It's true.
08:26I wanted her to be delighted with me, but I didn't succeed.
08:30I can't understand it.
08:33It's true. I've always detested her.
08:36And that, before her marriage, I went to great lengths to prevent it.
08:39Yes, it shows an illiberal spirit to resent the long plan which didn't succeed.
08:43Decidedly illiberal. Not liberal at all.
08:46My opposing her marriage and then later preventing her and Charles from buying Vernon Castle
08:51might have given her an unfavourable impression of me.
08:54But I've noticed that where there's a disposition to dislike, a pretext will soon be found.
08:59You mustn't reproach yourself.
09:00I shan't. The past is done. My project will be the children.
09:04I know a couple of their names already and I've decided to attach myself to young Frederick in particular.
09:09Taking him on my lap and sighing over him for his dear uncle's sake.
09:15Come in.
09:18Mrs. Vernon's compliments, your ladyship. She asks if you and Mrs. Cross would join her for tea.
09:25With pleasure. Mrs. Cross would prefer her repose, but thank Mrs. Vernon. I'll join her directly.
09:37Yes, Frederick, I see you have quite an appetite. You will grow tall and handsome like you are.
09:45Don't touch that.
09:47Frederick, be careful.
09:48I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
10:01He's a genius with fabrics.
10:02Are you sure?
10:03Oh, yes.
10:04How much Frederick reminds me of his dear uncle.
10:07Do you think there's a resemblance?
10:09Oh, remarkable. The eyes.
10:12Weren't Frederick Vernon's eyes brown?
10:15I refer more to the shape and slope of the brow.
10:18Oh.
10:19I must thank you for this visit. I'm afraid the short notice must have come as a surprise.
10:24Only because I understood you to be so happily settled at Langford.
10:27Well, it's true Lady Manoring and her husband made me feel very welcome, but their outgoing
10:33dispositions led them so often into society.
10:36I might have tolerated such a life at one time, but the loss of a husband such as Mr. Vernon
10:41cannot be borne easily.
10:43To stay with you here at your charming retirement became my fondest wish.
10:49I was happy to have the chance to meet.
10:52Might I confide something?
10:54Langford was not ideal for my daughter.
10:57Her education has been neglected, by which I thought myself.
11:00Mr. Vernon's illness prevented me from giving her the attention that both duty and affection
11:04required.
11:05I've therefore placed her at this excellent school Miss Summers keeps.
11:09I trust Frederick will visit soon.
11:11Well.
11:12A visit, as delightful as that might be, would represent so many hours and days deducted
11:17from the grand affair of education, and I'm afraid Frederick can't afford such deductions.
11:22But she'll come for Christmas.
11:25Alas, no.
11:26Miss Summers can only give her the concentrated attention she requires then.
11:30I'm so sorry.
11:32Not at all.
11:33If you'll excuse me, I'll give it to Mrs. Cross, who, when rested, craves activity.
11:38Once she's applied her genius to it, all traces of little Frederick's interesting design will disappear.
11:46The fees at Frederica's school are far too high to even think of paying.
11:50So, in a sense, it's an economy.
12:11Yes, we are all right, we are from Mrs. Cross, and upstairs resting.
12:15I confess to curiosity.
12:17To know this lady, see first hand her bewitching powers.
12:20She's beautiful, as they say.
12:22You worry me, Reginald.
12:23And I understand Lady Susan possesses a degree of captivating deceit,
12:28which might be pleasing to detect.
12:30You truly worry me.
12:32Good evening.
12:34What charming expressions.
12:38Susan, let me introduce my brother, Reginald de Corsi.
12:41Reginald, may I present Frederick Vernon's widow, Lady Susan,
12:44and her friend, Mrs Cross.
12:49Delighted to make your acquaintance.
12:51Your renown precedes you.
12:54I'm afraid the illusion escapes me.
12:57Your reputation as an ornament to our society.
13:01Oh, what you say surprises me.
13:03Since the great sadness of my husband's death,
13:06I've lived in nearly perfect isolation.
13:08To better know his family and to further remove myself from society,
13:12I came to Churchill.
13:13Not to make new acquaintances a frivolous sort,
13:16but, of course, I'm pleased to know my sister's relations.
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13:32состав佛, we stand in brightailing...
13:33If so, that is from them.
13:40What we viewing his favourite私は?
13:42The syntax is absolutely in счит perhaps,
13:43the attributes of her that I have,
13:44but the denominations of the nature.
13:45The title of the variable Geshek's life.
13:45I was so sadly it,
13:45because if we join our children and the disciples might also enjoy.
13:45What are our histories that they life about?
13:55I take it you are finding Mr. de Corsi's society more pleasurable?
13:59To some degree.
14:01At first, his conversation betrayed a sourciness and familiarity,
14:05which is my aversion,
14:06but since, I found a quality of callow idealism which rather interests me.
14:10When I've inspired him with greater respect
14:12than his sister's kind offices have allowed,
14:14he might, in fact, be an agreeable flirt.
14:17He's handsome, isn't he?
14:18In a calf-like way, not like mannering, of course,
14:21but there's a certain pleasure in making a person predetermined to dislike
14:25instead acknowledge one's superiority.
14:28How delightful it will be to humble the pride of these pompous de Corsi's.
14:51A letter for you, my dear.
14:53A letter?
14:54Yes, for Catherine.
14:57I hope she'll arrive soon.
15:00The season's cheerless without the children.
15:06I'm afraid this cold is affected by her eyes.
15:09Save your eyes, my dear.
15:10I'll read for you.
15:11No, that's all right.
15:12No, it's just...
15:14No, it's just...
15:14Here, no.
15:16Let's see.
15:19Catherine hopes you are well
15:21and asks most particularly that you give me her love.
15:24Yes, and?
15:29Oh, Reginald has decided to stare at Churchill to hunt with Charles.
15:33He cites the fine open weather.
15:35What nonsense.
15:36It is not open at all.
15:37Maybe it is there, or it was, when she wrote.
15:39My dear, could you just read?
15:42Verbatant?
15:42Yes, the words.
15:43Some of Catherine's voice will be in them.
15:45I'll read every word, comma, and dash, if that's what you wish.
15:48Here.
15:50I grow deeply uneasy, comma, my dearest mother, comma, about Reginald, comma,
15:55from witnessing the very rapid increase in her influence, semicolon.
16:00That's the words, please.
16:02No punctuation at all.
16:03All right.
16:04That's much easier.
16:06He and Lady Susan are now on terms of the most particular friendship,
16:10frequently engaged in long conversations together.
16:13Lady Susan?
16:14Yes, Lady Susan has been visiting Churchill.
16:16Lady Susan Vernon?
16:17Yes.
16:19Well, how could Reginald engage in conversations with Lady Susan Vernon?
16:25Conversations which are long.
16:29What would they talk about?
16:30My eyes have definitely cleared.
16:32I can read it.
16:33Don't trouble yourself.
16:33No, no, no.
16:34If my son and heir's evolved with such a lady, I must trouble myself.
16:37How sincerely do I grieve she ever entered this house.
16:40Her power over him is boundless.
16:42She has not only entirely effaced his former ill opinion,
16:45but persuaded him to justify her conduct
16:47in the most passionate of terms.
16:51Well, I must go.
16:52No.
16:53Oh, right.
16:53No, no, no.
16:54This is happening.
16:55There's no time.
17:01No, sir.
17:17Father.
17:18How extraordinary for you to be here.
17:20You're in good health, I trust?
17:22No.
17:23How's mother?
17:26What brings you to these parts?
17:28Take a seat.
17:29I won't dissemble and say I have business in the district,
17:32but I have come about it's more important.
17:34What's of such importance?
17:36I know young men don't admit inquiry into affairs of the heart,
17:39but as the sole son of an ancient family,
17:44you must know that your conduct is most important to us.
17:46Very good, sir.
17:47Your happiness, ours, the credit of the family name,
17:50it's very survival.
17:51Father.
17:51No, no, no, hear me out.
17:53I know that you'd not deliberately form an engagement
17:55without informing us,
17:57but I can't help fear that you'll fall into an obligation
18:02which everyone near you must oppose.
18:04What do you mean, sir?
18:05Well, Lady Susan Vernon's age alone is...
18:07Father, you astonish me.
18:09What surprises you?
18:10Impuging such ambitions to Lady Susan.
18:13She'd never think of such a thing.
18:14My sole interest has been to enjoy the lively conversation
18:17of a superior lady.
18:20Catherine's prejudice is so great.
18:22Prejudice?
18:22Lady Susan's neglect of her late husband,
18:24her extravagance and dissipation,
18:27her encouragement of other men,
18:28are so notorious...
18:29These are vile calumnies.
18:32I could explain each, but would not so dignify them.
18:37I know you spend little time in society.
18:40None.
18:40Should you have frequented it more,
18:41you'd know the astonishing degree
18:43of vile, hateful jealousy in our country.
18:45Do not deprecate our country, sir.
18:51I can't prevent you inheriting the family estate
18:53and my ability to distress you during my life
18:56is not the kind of revenge that I would choose today.
18:58Father, this is unnecessary.
18:59Let me continue.
19:01A permanent connection between you
19:03and Lady Susan Vernon
19:06would destroy every comfort of our lives.
19:09It would be the death
19:11of the honest pride
19:13with which we've always considered you.
19:16We'd blush to see you,
19:17to hear of you,
19:18to think of you.
19:19Father,
19:21with the utmost humility,
19:22let me say that what you imagine
19:26is impossible.
19:43Poor Mrs. Cross was obliged to accept a paid position
19:46in Buckinghamshire.
19:48As there was an element of friendship between us,
19:50I realised the paying of wages
19:51would be offensive to us both.
19:53You value friendship highly.
19:55Yes.
19:56I hope I was of some help to her.
19:57And your friends don't neglect you.
20:03Thank you, Charles.
20:08Oh, it's from Frederica's school.
20:15No.
20:18I can't believe it.
20:19It defies comprehension.
20:20What?
20:22Frederica has run away.
20:24She's run away from school.
20:26Heavens, where to?
20:27Well, they don't know.
20:29She's lost.
20:30No.
20:31They detected her plan early enough
20:32to intercept her.
20:33Well, folly,
20:34where could she have thought of going?
20:36Surely here.
20:36No, this is the last place she would come.
20:40I mean, rather.
20:41But she must miss you terribly.
20:43Certainly.
20:44I just don't think Churchill would be her object.
20:48Oh, no.
20:49This is outrageous.
20:50Miss Summers requires that Frederica
20:51be removed from school.
20:53Miss Summers must be under the impression
20:55that as a widow without fortune,
20:56I may be bullied.
20:57And evidently she's forgotten.
20:59Frederica is a Vernon.
21:01Well, Charles must put this right.
21:03Confronted with his imposing worth,
21:05even the mistress of his school
21:06must be persuaded to act rightly.
21:18I had no notion of Frederica being so contrary.
21:21She seemed all Vernon milkiness.
21:24But it confirms the rightness of my plan.
21:26Did Sir James call?
21:27Several times.
21:28Excellent.
21:30I followed your instructions,
21:32scolding him roundly
21:33for making love to Maria Manoring.
21:35He protested that it had only been in joke.
21:38You're right.
21:39He's wonderfully silly.
21:40But we must not let Sir James forget
21:42with whom he's in love.
21:43A man so rich and foolish
21:45will not remain single long.
21:46Sir James is so far from having forgotten the Vernons.
21:48I'm sure he'd marry either of you in an instant.
21:51I must go back to Churchill.
21:54But I may need your help finding a school
21:56if Miss Somers won't take Frederica back.
21:58Under no circumstances will I have Frederica at Churchill.
22:01That's wise.
22:02What do you mean?
22:04The nearness of their ages.
22:06Her and Reginal's.
22:08Oh, and kind.
22:09Forgive me.
22:10Forgiven.
22:11The fallacy of youth.
22:13Isn't it rather clear that it is we,
22:15women of decision,
22:15who hold the trumps?
22:17Lady Susan.
22:19Lady Susan Vernon.
22:21How dare you address me, sir?
22:23Lady Susan.
22:24Be gone, sir.
22:24I will have you whipped.
22:27Outrageous.
22:28Have you never met him?
22:30No, I know him well.
22:31I would never speak to a stranger like that.
22:43I hope you'll soon know my friend Alicia.
22:46She's an American
22:47from the Connecticut branch of the Delancey family.
22:51Although even the best-bred Americans
22:53don't sound particularly fine,
22:55there's a freshness to her manner,
22:56which I find rather tonic.
22:58Her family were treated outrageously there
23:00during the late war,
23:01punished for their very loyalty to the crown.
23:04Americans really have shown themselves
23:05to be a nation of ingrates.
23:07Only by having children
23:08can one begin to understand such a dynamic.
23:11Yes.
23:20Susan, I've been looking for you.
23:23The afternoon coach brought this note.
23:26Perhaps Charles has succeeded with Miss Summers.
23:36Miss Summers refuses to keep Frederica.
23:38She says she must think of her school's reputation.
23:42Preposterous.
23:42I've never heard of her school.
23:49Could that be them?
23:50What, Frederica?
23:52Here.
23:54Hello, hello.
23:55Here we are.
23:56Is this Frederica?
23:57Yes.
23:59Allow me to introduce
24:00our niece, charming girl,
24:02Miss Frederica Verner.
24:04Welcome, Frederica.
24:06We've longed to know you.
24:07My brother, Reginald de Courcy.
24:09Hello.
24:10Pleased to meet you.
24:11Good afternoon, Frederica.
24:12Good afternoon, Mother.
24:18It's as I feel.
24:20Excuse me.
24:20I'm straight to my daughter.
24:25Poor Frederica.
24:27Poor mother of Frederica.
24:29What?
24:30The daughter is, I understand,
24:32a troubled girl.
24:34I only saw fear.
24:37She hasn't had tea.
24:39Could be a lack of nourishment.
24:58Where is Frederica?
25:00In our rooms,
25:01practising the piano forte.
25:04She practises quietly.
25:06Don't look.
25:06Frederica's watching us.
25:08Watching us?
25:09Out the window.
25:10Don't look.
25:11How odd
25:12to be spied upon.
25:15That's the parents' lot.
25:17We bring these delightful creatures
25:19into the world,
25:19eagerly, happily,
25:21and then,
25:21before long,
25:22they're spying upon
25:23and judging us,
25:24rarely favourably.
25:26Having children
25:26is our fondest wish,
25:27but in doing so,
25:28we breed our acutest critics.
25:30It's a preposterous situation,
25:32but entirely of our own making.
25:34I marvel at your good humour.
25:36Well, what alternative have we?
25:38It's the way of the world.
25:39We must accept it with a smile.
25:41Of course,
25:42when the little ones
25:42are very small,
25:43there's a kind of sweetness
25:44which partially compensates
25:46for the dreadfulness
25:46who comes after.
25:48You worry for Frederica's future?
25:50I worry for her present,
25:52acknowledging that
25:52the responsibility
25:53for securing her future
25:54rests with me.
26:20Come on.
26:22Come on.
26:24Come on.
26:24Yeah.
26:32Pretty. You think so?
26:34Yes. You don't?
26:36No, I'd not have said that.
26:38In any case, beauty matters little.
26:40It's vivacity and a lively intelligence one looks for, even from the young.
27:01Oh, I'm sorry. Please excuse me. I beg your pardon.
27:06What is it, my dear?
27:07He's here. He is here. Sir James is here.
27:11Who?
27:11I'm so sorry. Please excuse me.
27:16Oh, Fredonica!
27:19So sorry to come like this. I suppose you weren't expecting me.
27:24Sir James, allow me to introduce my sister-in-law,
27:27Mrs Catherine Vernon, and her brother, Mr Reginald de Courcy.
27:31How do you do?
27:32How do you do?
27:35Kind of you to ask. Excellent.
27:38Truly, very well. Thank you.
27:41Excuse my hurry in coming.
27:43The lack of notice beforehand, etc, etc.
27:46Truth is, I forgot to write.
27:49Then it was too late. Now I'm here.
27:52Took the liberty of a relation.
27:54Hoping to be one soon.
27:57I must say, you look surprised.
28:00You were astonished to see me, no?
28:02Not?
28:03That's how it looked.
28:05Yes, I was astonished, and I still am.
28:08An impressive establishment you have here, sir.
28:11My congratulations.
28:12Immaculate.
28:14Mr Courcy is Mrs Vernon's brother.
28:16Very good.
28:17It's her husband, Charles Vernon, who has Churchill.
28:21Churchill.
28:23That's how you say it.
28:26All together like that.
28:27Churchill.
28:28Churchill.
28:28Ha ha.
28:29Oh, well, that explains a lot.
28:31You see, I'd heard Church and Hill, but couldn't find either.
28:35All I could see was this big house.
28:38Ha ha.
28:39Fine name.
28:40Churchill.
28:42Marlborough.
28:43Right?
28:43The general.
28:44Showed the French.
28:46You must be very proud.
28:48No connection.
28:50But I believe I have heard it spoken of.
28:53I think you mentioned it.
28:55Churchill.
28:57Yes, I think you did.
28:58But again, I heard Church and Hill, and I couldn't see either.
29:04But I realised I was in mistake, and now stand corrected.
29:11Ha.
29:11Happens quite a lot.
29:13Ha ha.
29:14Reginald, would you be so kind as to take Sir James to see Charles?
29:16I think you'll find Charles very well versed in the advanced agricultural methods in which
29:21you've taken such an interest.
29:28Who supervises Martindale for me speaks of them often.
29:31A landowner of the current day must know all sorts of things.
29:36That is our role.
29:38Hello, Collins, I say.
29:40What advanced agricultural methods have we today?
29:46Excellent.
29:46Excellent.
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