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DRAMA Anthology of Agatha Christie short stories: Theo is eloping to South Africa with her lover but, having heard the news that her uncaring husband's financial empire is collapsing and he's in danger to be exposed as an embezzler, she prefers to return to him for sheer loyalty. But is it really the right thing to do? Starring Ralph Bates, Jeremy Clyde & Ciaran Madden.
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01:30My dear girl, I am the host.
01:39Bates, have you seen my husband anywhere?
01:42Not for the last few minutes, Maren, no.
01:44But I think you would like to know there's a gentleman in the garden.
01:49In the garden? The colonial gentleman.
02:04Are you hiding, Mr. Easton?
02:08Mr. Darrell, I do apologize. You must think me awfully rude.
02:11I didn't mean...
02:12It's perfectly all right.
02:16I was admiring the Magnolia.
02:23It's too dark to see it properly. I'm rather proud of it.
02:27I wouldn't have thought that...
02:28I would have known a Magnolia from a marrow.
02:31I wasn't going to say that.
02:32I know you wouldn't have said it but you might have thought it.
02:36This room is a little unexpected. Is it yours?
02:40It's mine. My private retreat.
02:43I'm sorry. I didn't mean to trespass.
02:51Not many of my husband's friends are interested in gardens or flowers or trees.
02:59It's a fine specimen. Difficult to cultivate in this country.
03:02Not really. They simply need care.
03:05Pruning can be a problem.
03:07You cut too close and the wound will never heal. The tree will die.
03:13I'm sorry. I'm boring you.
03:15I was fascinated.
03:19To tell the truth, I was hiding.
03:22I'm not much of a party-goer, Mrs. Darrell, but of a fish out of water.
03:27It's not just the stark shirt and the black tie.
03:29No.
03:30No, it's all this. Cocktails, small talk, all the latest gossip.
03:34I mean, I feel rather out of it.
03:36What does one say?
03:39One talks about the weather, money, cricket, the latest fashion.
03:44Yes, I know.
03:46I mean, that is a jolly pretty frock you're wearing.
03:50Oh, please don't.
03:53My husband asked me to be especially nice to you.
03:56To me? Why?
03:58I don't know. Are you important, Mrs. Treeston?
04:01Me?
04:02I'm not important at all.
04:04Why do you ask?
04:07Then you're not one of Richard's money men?
04:10Richard?
04:11My husband.
04:13Of course, Darrell.
04:14No, I'm not one of his money men.
04:16I grow oranges.
04:19I know that must sound a bit odd, just like that in the middle of London.
04:22Oranges?
04:23In the Transvaal.
04:24I used to be an accountant.
04:25Then after the war, I couldn't settle.
04:27So I went to South Africa.
04:28Bought myself a plantation, turned into a farmer.
04:31Are you a successful farmer?
04:33Comparatively.
04:34I've just bought the plantation that runs alongside mine.
04:37I bought it from Darrell, actually. Your husband.
04:40Richard.
04:42Richard.
04:44And are you happy?
04:47Well, I'd never regretted it.
04:49Of course, it can get pretty lonely out there sometimes.
04:54It must be very beautiful.
04:58The orange blossom.
05:01Yes.
05:05The magnolia is more delicate, as you said.
05:09Vulnerable.
05:18Pity it's so dark.
05:19You ought to see it in daylight.
05:21Yes, I'd like to.
05:21Come tomorrow afternoon, can you?
05:23I don't want to be a nuisance, Mrs. Darrell.
05:25Please.
05:26Nobody ever calls me Mrs. Darrell.
05:28It's Theo.
05:30Theo.
05:32Theodora.
05:33My name is Vincent.
05:35I do hope you don't think I was laughing at you about growing oranges.
05:40Of course not.
05:43Yes, Bates?
05:43The minister's party has vacated the dining room, madam, and appears to be about to leave.
05:47The minister seems a little agitated.
05:51Oh, dear.
05:53Will you excuse me?
05:54It's time I went to.
05:58Bates, find Mr. Darrell and warn him.
06:00You will permit me to say, young man, we just don't know what you're talking about.
06:04I may not, but the governor does, and he's really steamed up about it.
06:08He's threatening to come up to the house and actually speak.
06:11He hasn't done that since Lloyd George's ridiculous pension bill.
06:14The darkness of the house will survive the honour.
06:17Oh, my dear Mrs. Darrell.
06:18The minister.
06:19What's your view, Theo?
06:21Now, how can I have a view unless I know what you're talking about?
06:24Well, changing the prayer book, of course.
06:26Willoughby here doesn't seem to think it's a serious matter.
06:28Well, some of us in the house do.
06:31Some of us take our moral and spiritual responsibilities seriously.
06:34Oh, I take it very seriously.
06:36I mean, what about the jolly old marriage service?
06:38Vanessa and I want to know what we're letting ourselves in for.
06:40They couldn't change the marriage service.
06:43Love, honour, and obey.
06:45Well, they couldn't change that, could they, Theo?
06:48No, no, they couldn't change that.
06:50But it's ridiculous, some of it.
06:51I mean, with this body I thee worship, I don't care what you say.
06:56Thank you, Bates.
07:03Presently.
07:05I can't believe Parliament is going to give time to it.
07:08Not in this session, anyway.
07:10The marriage service is at the root of the British way of life.
07:14It's not a subject to be treated lightly.
07:16Likely? Well, of course it's not.
07:17Charlie, you're being terribly naughty.
07:19Imogen, take him away and try to make a happier, if not wiser, young man of him.
07:24Yes, come on, you old boy, we've outstayed our welcome.
07:26Many apologies, Theo.
07:28I didn't mean that at all.
07:30You know, you're always welcome.
07:33Why is young man such a demeaning expression?
07:37You're not going already, Minister.
07:38The opera, I'm afraid.
07:40Ah.
07:40The arts, you know.
07:41You see, I'm an imperfect barbarian.
07:44You're very big.
07:45Are you telling me what's cracked?
07:47Perhaps.
07:47You must.
07:48I might see you later.
07:50Theo.
07:51Excuse me.
07:53I have to go out.
07:54Things to discuss with old Jagger.
07:56It was a business.
07:57Would you like me to clear your study for you?
07:59No.
08:00Jagger's what's been to meet Mrs. Hamilton's cousin,
08:02who came into a quarter of a millionaire this year
08:03and doesn't know what to do with him.
08:05I understand.
08:06I'm sorry.
08:08Well, people seem to have enjoyed themselves
08:10but I do wish they'd go away.
08:11Don't be silly, Richard.
08:12You can't put a tiny limit on a cocktail.
08:14All is the pity.
08:17My dear Theodora,
08:19it's been delightful.
08:20Only one thing spoilt it.
08:22Why do you have to be quite so happily married?
08:25It gives a chap no hope.
08:26No hope at all.
08:28Colonel Jagger, you're a terrible flirt.
08:32He is, isn't he Theo?
08:33I think he's rather an accomplished one.
08:36Aren't you coming with us, Mrs. Darrell?
08:37I'm sure my cousin would be delighted.
08:40Poor old Theo's got to man the fort.
08:42Usual hangers-on to be dealt with.
08:44Trouble with some people.
08:46Invite them for cocktails.
08:47They never know when to leave.
08:48I think we'd better find your coat, my dear.
08:50If you manage to get rid of the remainder
08:52and feel like coming on,
08:53we'll probably end up at quags.
08:55I don't think so.
08:56I think perhaps I'll have an early night.
08:57Oh, and by the way,
08:59what happened to Easton?
09:01He left.
09:02Without saying goodnight.
09:04He said goodnight to me.
09:06Perhaps you were occupied.
09:07Actually, don't you, Theo.
09:08I purposely asked him to be especially nice to him.
09:10I was nice to him, Richard.
09:11Oh, come along, Richard.
09:13You know very well your adorable good lady
09:15is especially nice to everyone.
09:16The perfect hostess.
09:19Goodnight, my dear.
09:20Now, are we all ready?
09:30Good night, Mrs. Dalton.
09:34Goodnight, Mrs. Dalton.
09:54Mm-hmm Definitely didn't know
10:01the new forever dude.
10:01Yes, please do much.
10:06I was gonna sit together
10:06up, and run it inside the reply.
10:06Nothing to do.
10:06the onze- Katie-Jun.
10:07The Hughes table the question,
10:07I want you to go.
10:07Here I青-Jun too.
10:07The Woup of the Watt dragrat
10:36you're early sir early or late difference it makes shall I get you some tea son no you can
10:43bring me a brandy and soda how good sir where's mrs. Darrell in the garden sir with mr. Easton
10:48sir Eastern yes evening papers arrived on your desk I grew up in Dorset
11:20and shall I inform mrs. Darrell that you've returned sir no I don't think so
11:33very good sir
12:06I'm a country girl at heart
12:15but that's my special bride
12:18Theo
12:21no
12:24no
12:28I must say something
12:30no
12:33Theo
12:38don't speak please don't ask me anything
12:43oh my dear have you seen Quentin Harper? Theo my dear have you seen Quentin Harper? not for ages
12:50oh my dear how did you do it? come on own up how did you do it? well I sort
12:55of said will you?
12:56and I sort of said yes
12:57that's no way to propose you young people have the faintest notion of how these things ought to be done
13:02have you Colonel Jaggers? ah give them the right source of inspiration dear lady
13:07dear lady you are my love my dream my destiny the captain of my heart will you be mine?
13:15stop making love to my wife Jaggers
13:17oh that was beautifully done Colonel
13:20he's a gentleman to stand as many Germans
13:22but no one ever accepted
13:24oh really?
13:25oh good girl
13:25thank you
13:26thank you
13:27thank you
13:27thank you
13:27thank you
13:28thank you
13:28thank you
13:29thank you
13:31I've had a quick look at your ledgers old chap
13:33of course they're more your province than mine but they seem perfectly all right to me
13:36then why has the minister sent us apologies why isn't he coming to dinner
13:39well you know what politicians are meetings committees probably been offered a better meal somewhere else
13:44I'll get Bates to bundle this lot up for you or you can take them with you when you go
13:48home
13:48right
13:50lovely to see you again Mrs. Hubble
13:53you haven't met my cousin Jack Anderson have you?
13:56glad you could make it Anderson
13:58he doesn't look like a man with caution of a million does he?
14:02young fool invested in some South African mining shares you'll lose the lot
14:06he's hard to surprise and he's a very boring man
14:09it's a really hot summer
14:10I can take any amount of sunshine
14:12it burns your feet to an absolute frazzle
14:15young people
14:17none of you has any idea what real he is like
14:19now out in India
14:20I thought you took to the hills when it became too hot
14:25oh in fact the men's hearts are hot country right enough
14:27don't mind you some of the dear ladies wouldn't go over us
14:30is this an indiscreet story coming on Colonel Jaggers?
14:33the very rum things went on in the heat aggro menu
14:36very rum scandal
14:37oh my lips are sealed
14:39I'll seal them too
14:40each plays funny tricks
14:43some chaps well it goes to their heads
14:47I don't think that's what the Colonel had in mind Vanessa
14:50what about the women the ones who refuse to move up?
14:53well they are you see
14:54no names no factual of course
14:56but I could tell a tale or two
14:58I remember it must have been about 1907
15:00there was one particular lady
15:03certainly doesn't bear thinking about it
15:05the old school
15:06was I surprised that didn't bring her out as well
15:08army wives can be very peculiar
15:11oh so my brother tells me
15:14the fact is
15:15she suddenly developed an almighty passion for the viceroy's ADC who was succumbed to the garrison
15:21quite everyone knew about it can't keep that sort of thing quiet
15:24the grand passion everybody called it
15:27how romantic
15:28grand passions don't happen nowadays
15:30oh thank you very much
15:32oh you know what I mean
15:35Rudolf Valentino
15:36that sort of thing
15:37well I think everyone ought to have one grand passion in their lives
15:41yes
15:42what do you think Clare?
15:44how about an average passion with a very large bank balance?
15:49the whole thing ended in tragedy of course
15:51the fellow shot himself
15:53ADC in the viceroy
15:55ladies I think perhaps we might take coffee in the library
15:59oh god
16:00these things happen you know
16:03worse for the woman I dare say
16:05but a bit beyond me
16:07never could fathom this love business
16:13yes
16:39Hiding again Mr. Easton.
16:42Not hiding.
16:44Waiting.
16:47Waiting?
16:50For you.
16:57I knew you'd come.
17:06I shouldn't have really.
17:09I didn't want to.
17:11Didn't you?
17:17This isn't...
17:19...possible. It mustn't.
17:24We mustn't.
17:27My dear, darling, dearest Theo.
17:41I love you.
17:46I'm sorry, I'll go.
18:04Oh, my love.
18:07Oh, my love.
18:08My love.
18:08Oh, my love.
18:29What's the matter?
18:32Nothing, really.
18:35Just for a moment.
18:37In the tunnel, I was afraid.
18:40No, I was the one who was afraid.
18:42Waiting for you at the station.
18:43I thought you might have changed your mind.
18:46No, I couldn't have done that.
18:48I hardly dared let myself believe.
18:52I promised.
19:03But you are afraid.
19:09I think, perhaps, I'm afraid of happiness.
19:10I think, perhaps, I'm afraid of happiness.
19:12You deserve it so very much, my darling.
19:15You will find it.
19:18Together.
19:19I'm afraid of happiness.
19:22I'm afraid of happiness.
19:24Reserve compartment.
19:26First class fortunae, Mr. Mr. Easton.
19:28Excuse me, sir.
19:29Madam.
19:30That's quite all right.
19:32The tickets, please, sir.
19:34Oh.
19:37Afternoon, Mrs. Easton.
19:53Thank you, sir.
19:56Are you taking the night fare, sir?
19:57No, tomorrow morning.
19:58Ah.
19:59Glasses set fare, sir.
20:00It should be a quiet crossing.
20:04Do you think we're having a grand passion?
20:06Very grand.
20:08Very passionate.
20:12I never could fathom this love business.
20:32It looks calm enough.
20:34It's a calm sea and a smooth passage.
20:39Are you a good sailor?
20:40I never thought to ask.
20:43The sea doesn't frighten me.
20:50Even though you're a country girl?
20:52Even though I'm a country girl.
20:55Put it on the table, will you?
21:02Thank you, that'll do.
21:05Thank you, sir.
21:08I used to think that being a country girl was the end of the world.
21:12So dull, so tedious.
21:15I married Richard mainly to get away from all that tranquility, all that safety.
21:19You didn't ever love him?
21:22I don't think I knew the meaning of the word.
21:24I liked the glamour and excitement of his world.
21:26It was so different.
21:28Oh, Richard married me for my money.
21:32No, that's not quite fair.
21:34I suppose Richard loved me.
21:38Loves me as much as he can.
21:40As much as he can love anybody.
21:43You're not regretting this?
21:46I've made my decision.
21:47I've turned my back on all that.
21:48You're very brave.
21:49The scandal.
21:50Oh, it'll be a nine days' wonder, that's all.
21:53Oh, Colonel Jaggers will add it to his repertoire of dinner party stories, I dare say.
21:57Theo Daryl who ran off with a dashed orange grower from the Transvaal.
22:02Colonial boundar, what?
22:03You're very unkind.
22:06You won't get afternoon tea on the plantation, you know.
22:09Not unless you teach Eliza how to make it.
22:11Eliza is my housekeeper.
22:12Black as the ace of spades and a heart of gold.
22:18Of course it can get pretty lonely out there sometimes.
22:22What is it?
22:26Big city crash, failure of imperial and overseas trust.
22:30What does it matter?
22:31Richard is imperial and overseas trust.
22:33Well that doesn't have to affect us.
22:34Read it.
22:35Read it all.
22:38The receiver has been appointed to wind up the affairs of the well-known land investment company.
22:42It has understood that financial experts from Scotland Yard's fraud squad are investigating the company's activities.
22:48And there are rumors of serious allegations to follow.
22:53Managing director Richard Daryl was today unavailable to comment.
22:57What are you doing?
22:58I must go to him.
22:59Don't be absurd.
23:01He's my husband.
23:01I must go to him.
23:02For God's sake.
23:03Don't you see this means ruin.
23:05I can't choose today of all days to leave him.
23:12Bates!
23:16Bates!
23:16Bates!
23:16Where the hell are you?
23:18Theo?
23:29Theo?
23:32I'm sorry, sir.
23:34I'm sorry.
23:34Where's Mrs. Daryl?
23:35Where are you from?
23:36She's not at home, sir.
23:37Well I realize that, you fool.
23:39Where is she?
23:39She left this afternoon, sir.
23:44What can you do?
23:46What possible difference can it make whether you're with him or not?
23:48Possibly not.
23:48Then why?
23:49I'm his wife.
23:50This is ridiculous.
23:51He just admitted you don't love him.
23:52Love has nothing to do with it.
23:56She must have said where she was going.
23:57No, sir.
23:59Did you take anything with her?
24:00Some luggage, sir.
24:01How much luggage?
24:03Two suitcases, sir.
24:08All right, Bates.
24:10And Bates, I don't want to see or speak to anyone this evening.
24:15Anyone at all.
24:16Do you understand?
24:17Very well, sir.
24:40Look, you haven't had time to take the news in.
24:43Leave it.
24:45Wait.
24:48Wait until the morning.
24:52Oh, my dearest love.
25:00He needs me.
25:01I need you.
25:08I want you.
25:10I love you, sir.
25:23It's no good.
25:26I must go to him.
25:34I wouldn't have believed it.
25:35Not of you.
25:38You encourage a man.
25:41You lead him on.
25:42You keep him on a string.
25:44For the excitement of it.
25:46The sense of power it gives you, I suppose.
25:49And then when you reach the point of no return,
25:50you cut and run back to your ever-loving husband.
25:53No.
25:54No, then prove it.
25:56You must think what you will of me.
25:58I can only say this.
26:00I love you and I will always love you,
26:02but I'm married to Richard.
26:06He needs me.
26:08I must go back to my husband.
26:13Thank God you've turned up.
26:15I heard the news.
26:23How bad is it?
26:28About as bad as possible.
26:29Tell me.
26:30Well, in a nutshell, my darling.
26:31Imperial and overseas is washed up.
26:33Finished.
26:35Oh, it's happening all the time.
26:36Post-war depression, they call it.
26:38Just because our business is mainly in the colonies,
26:41nobody could have expected us to be immune.
26:43The paper said something about serious revelations
26:46with the fraud squad.
26:47Oh, that's rubbish.
26:48The usual press speculation.
26:50Anyway, they can't touch your money.
26:51That's one good thing.
26:52And the house is in your name too.
26:54On the other hand,
26:55things won't be quite the same anymore.
26:57No.
26:58At least I've got you.
27:00Yes.
27:00Theo.
27:02I don't know what I'd do without you.
27:05Well, if there's anything I can do to help,
27:15bring me another brandy.
27:17There's a good girl.
27:54Thea?
27:55Oh, Richard, I didn't hear you.
27:58You were miles away.
27:59Yes.
28:00Oh, you wish you were.
28:02Of course I don't.
28:03Yes, well.
28:05You're lucky.
28:06You've got your precious garden to help keep your mind off this mess.
28:09You can just carry on, water the plants, prune the roses,
28:12open this damn thing to cut back a bit.
28:16What is it, Richard?
28:18Jaggers was taken up this morning.
28:21Colonel!
28:22Oh, my honourable and gallant colleague has been arrested.
28:25Cooking the books, they say.
28:26Naturally, it's assumed I knew all about it.
28:29And did you?
28:30Well, that, my dear, is the least of our worries.
28:52Don't you think you ought to tell me everything?
28:54The whole truth.
28:55My dear Thea, what possible good can it do to go through all the tedious details with you?
29:01If I'm going to help, I ought to know.
29:04What makes you think I need your help?
29:06It's not a question of need.
29:07I'm your wife.
29:09Sit down.
29:13I don't know that you'll be able to follow all this.
29:15It's a bit technical.
29:16Business practice, you know.
29:18The Colonel's been arrested.
29:19I can understand that.
29:21Oh, that's nothing.
29:22It's incompetence, really.
29:23I would never have brought him in to begin with.
29:26Will you be blamed?
29:27For his errors?
29:28Oh, no, no.
29:30My problem, our problem, is quite different.
29:33You see, in the business, buying and selling land,
29:36sometimes it's necessary to use unorthodox methods,
29:39and sometimes there's a conflict.
29:42Between right and wrong?
29:43Well, I'm not talking right and wrong.
29:44I'm talking of technicalities.
29:46The conflict between what is a technical business matter and what is a crime.
29:50To an outsider, it's sometimes difficult to spot the difference.
29:52Richard, please don't treat me like a child.
29:54Either you've committed a crime or you haven't.
29:56You would see it like that, wouldn't you?
29:57Everything has to be either black or white with you.
29:59I'm sorry.
30:00Please try to explain.
30:01I do want to understand.
30:05Most of our dealings, Imperial and overseas, I mean,
30:08are in the colonies.
30:09We buy and sell land.
30:11Farms, estates, mines, plantations.
30:12Now, sometimes it's not in the best interests of Imperial and overseas
30:17to be seen to be involved in a particular deal,
30:19so we act through nominees.
30:22Sometimes I've had to pretend to be a private person
30:24rather than the Trust's managing director.
30:26To pretend?
30:27To sign certificates of transfer for land property in my own name.
30:31Richard Darrell?
30:32Yes.
30:33When they belong to the company?
30:35When the company had originally financed the purchase.
30:38The company would always be reimbursed in full.
30:42After the sale?
30:44It's standard procedure to avoid unacceptable profits for the Trust.
30:47It's all above board, looked at in a certain light.
30:51To an auditor, perhaps, it could seem fishy
30:54as if I'd been milking the Trust for my own personal profit.
30:58Have you?
30:59Didn't lose out on the deals, if that's what you mean.
31:01You hardly call that a crime.
31:04Some people might.
31:06Some people might.
31:08Auditors.
31:09Scotland Yard Ferrets.
31:11It's a technicality, of course.
31:12It's trivial, but it could be serious.
31:16How serious?
31:17If a transfer was unearthed, bearing my name on it,
31:20and the property concern still appeared in the company ledger,
31:24it would be difficult to explain.
31:25I could go to prison.
31:28For a long time.
31:30Richard!
31:31Oh, my dear.
31:32I may not come to that.
31:34It didn't come out at all.
31:35You've broken the law.
31:37Technically, I broke the law, yes.
31:39But only technically.
31:40To cheat?
31:42To steal?
31:43I'm not trying to justify what I've done.
31:44Don't condemn me out of hand.
31:47What I did, Theo, I did for you.
31:49For me?
31:49I know what people say.
31:51About what?
31:51That I married you for your money.
31:53And didn't you?
31:53No.
31:53No, I damn well didn't!
31:58But when the woman you love has money and you haven't,
32:01how on earth do you convince anyone of the truth, let alone her?
32:04What was the truth?
32:05That I loved you then, that I love you now.
32:09No one was more surprised than I when you agreed to become my wife.
32:12I've never been a rich man, not really rich.
32:16That's not important.
32:19I wanted you to be proud of me.
32:20I wanted to treat you the way you deserve.
32:22You mean so very much to me.
32:29What can we do?
32:31You mean it?
32:33Your stick by me?
32:38With you by my side there may be a way out of this mess.
32:41There may be a way.
32:42Do you have a plan?
32:43I was ghastly thinking about this whole business.
32:45I feel I betrayed you.
32:46Oh don't, please.
32:47Of course I should never have gone into the business.
32:49I should have gone in for farming, gone to Africa,
32:51bought a plantation, grown oranges.
32:54Do you like that, my dearest darling Theo?
32:56What do you mean?
32:57Nothing.
32:58Nothing.
33:01I'll go and change.
33:04We'll talk about it later.
33:07At dinner.
33:18I wondered if I might have a word, madam.
33:24I'm sorry, Rates.
33:25What did you say?
33:27Madam knows that Mr. Darrell, the master, has given me a month's warning.
33:32Well I do appreciate the situation, madam, but I wondered in the circumstances...
33:37Well I've worked for your family nearly all my life, madam.
33:40Madam will understand that I should be most unhappy to leave your employment.
33:45Of course, Bates.
33:46I absolutely understand.
33:48If it's a question of economising and the household of cutting back...
33:53What did you say?
33:54Well I should be content to accept a reduction in my own remuneration, madam.
33:58Thank you, Bates.
33:59We'll talk about it later, shall we?
34:01Theo?
34:01Theo?
34:03It just struck me.
34:04I haven't seen you in that dress for ages.
34:06Remember the one you bought in Paris last year?
34:09A coyote?
34:10Creamy thing of me, Bob.
34:12Cost the earth.
34:13Put it on tonight.
34:15It's an original.
34:16I know.
34:19But for an evening at home?
34:20Please.
34:21Just the two of us?
34:22For me.
34:24Love to see you in it.
34:38Stopped.
34:41Absolutely stuffed.
35:16May as well finish this, darling.
35:26Will that be all, madam?
35:27All right, Bates.
35:27That'll do.
35:28Cut along now.
35:30Be good, sir.
35:32Madam.
35:39Richard, is it necessary to be quite so curt with Bates?
35:41He's a servant.
35:43He's an old and trusted servant.
35:46Whom you've dismissed without a word to me.
35:49My dear, you said you wanted to help.
35:51I did.
35:52And of course I do.
35:53What does it matter?
35:55Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow who knows what.
35:57Don't.
35:59Not funny?
36:00No.
36:03I think perhaps I'll cut along now too.
36:06Not yet.
36:06Don't go yet.
36:08Got something I want to say.
36:10You know, about all this.
36:18Things may not be quite as bad as they seem.
36:21No?
36:21And I know I've been a bit on edge tonight.
36:23Probably jaggers being taken up.
36:25I'm sorry.
36:25I understand.
36:26But we must look on the bright side.
36:28Is there one?
36:29Well, there may be.
36:30You see, whatever the police may suspect,
36:32there's nothing they can actually prove.
36:35There's no evidence.
36:36I don't think so.
36:37I'm not a fool.
36:38I've covered my tracks pretty thoroughly.
36:41Cold?
36:42The thing is, there are some papers.
36:45Some papers with my name on them.
36:47Now, they mean nothing on their own,
36:48but if certain people were to get hold of them...
36:50The police?
36:50They might start putting two and two together.
36:52And those papers are the one damnable piece of hard evidence that could finish this.
36:56So you're going to destroy them?
36:57I'd destroy them as fast as I could if they were in my hands.
36:59That's the devil of it.
37:00Well, somebody else has them.
37:02Yes, and I'm pretty certain he doesn't know what they mean.
37:04Who?
37:05Easton.
37:07Somehow, I never seem to have gone on really friendly terms with the man.
37:10Barely got to know him.
37:10But he seemed like you.
37:13He does.
37:14You see what I'm driving at?
37:16I've an idea that if you were to go to Easton and ask him for the certificate,
37:19I'm sure he wouldn't refuse.
37:22I can't do that.
37:24Too proud to beg, is that it? Even for me?
37:27That has nothing to do with it.
37:29Don't you understand?
37:30If this business comes out, you're liable to find yourself married to a jailbird.
37:33Vincent Easton won't use those papers against you, I'm certain of that.
37:37Oh, he may not wish to ruin this,
37:38but as long as that certificate of transfer exists,
37:41he's a danger to our safety.
37:42That paper must be destroyed.
37:44Can't you write to him and explain that you're in difficulties
37:46and ask him to return them?
37:47There isn't time Jagger's in custody,
37:49there's no knowing what he might tell the police.
37:52He knows nothing, of course, poor fool.
37:54Has he been taken up for what you've done?
37:56Look, this is desperately urgent.
37:58I want you to go and see Easton, now.
38:01At this time of night?
38:02We're not living in the Middle Ages.
38:03No, Richard, I will not be bully-ragged.
38:05All you have to do is to see the man and ask him to give you a piece of paper.
38:08I can't!
38:14Theo, Rowling, I wouldn't ask you to do this if there was any other way.
38:18No.
38:18Look, my dear girl, I know it's a beastly thing to have to do
38:21to beg a favour of someone you hardly know.
38:23That's not the point.
38:24Theo, you said you wanted to help.
38:25Now, this is a matter of life and death.
38:28You won't let me down.
38:30Please!
38:32I can't explain that there are reasons why I can't do what you ask.
38:40Very well.
39:01Richard, what are you going to do?
39:05No.
39:07You can't.
39:10You mustn't.
39:15You leave me no alternative?
39:16No.
39:17Life or death, I said.
39:20It's very melodramatic but I mean it, Theo.
39:23Disgrace.
39:25Ruin.
39:26For you too.
39:28I can't face that.
39:31Better finish it now.
39:32You shan't do it.
39:35You can't.
39:38No!
39:38No!
39:43If you love me, if you never love me, please help me.
39:50I've no one else to turn to.
40:15I've been trying to write to you all day.
40:17I wanted to make one last attempt to get you to change your mind.
40:21The words wouldn't come in how suddenly miraculously you're here.
40:24No.
40:24You don't understand.
40:25My dearest love...
40:26I'm here on behalf of my husband.
40:27My husband thinks...
40:30He believes you have some papers in your possession that may do him some harm.
40:33I've come to ask you to give them to me.
40:35I don't understand.
40:37A title deed?
40:39I have the deeds of my new plantation that's all.
40:43A title deed, certificate of transfer...
40:47From Richard to you?
40:49Of course I'd never heard of Imperial overseas.
40:52I didn't realize...
40:55This is what you came for.
41:04Have you a match?
41:16This practice is a job.
41:30Well I was a little girl we used to have a fender just like this in the nursery.
41:33a club fender. isn't that what they're called?
41:37the gravest of all nursery crimes was burning papers in the fireplace.
41:42and you did?
41:43oh no.
41:44I was much too well-behaved.
41:47we're a very old-fashioned family.
41:49see not really part of the 20th century at all.
41:51strict discipline.
41:54we simply stuck to the rules that's all.
41:57what were the rules?
41:59your rules.
42:00duty, honor, love.
42:02duty first.
42:03always.
42:04before love.
42:07go back to Africa.
42:09back to your plantation.
42:10you'll find your happiness.
42:12and you?
42:14go back to your husband.
42:15and your garden.
42:17i'm needed.
42:17i need you.
42:19you're content to act out the rest of your life married to a crook.
42:21i have to.
42:22what sort of a world do you think you're living in?
42:24you can't turn your back on reality.
42:26all this talk of loyalty is meaningless.
42:29you owe no loyalty to a man like that.
42:31a man you despise.
42:32think what your life would be like if you stayed with him.
42:34every day a reminder of what you turned your back on.
42:37happiness.
42:40talk of duty.
42:42don't you owe a duty to yourself?
42:44to that happiness we can make together?
42:49come with me.
42:59i do hope i didn't disturb you calling so late.
43:04may i get you a cab?
43:06no thank you i have one waiting.
43:07shall i come down with you?
43:08no please don't bother.
43:12good night mr east.
43:13good night mrs darrow.
43:24i'm again miss?
43:25no just go.
43:26anywhere just keep on driving.
43:29there you go miss.
43:49there you go.
43:52you
44:17You all right, miss?
44:19Yes.
44:22Time to go home, miss?
44:25Home.
44:27A bit cooler now, miss.
44:43I'm sorry for keeping you up, Sir Lippitz.
44:45Not at all, madam.
44:46Here.
44:53You've been a long time.
44:55Have I?
44:56A damned long time.
44:58Good night, sir.
44:59Madam.
45:05Is it all right?
45:06You're sure?
45:07I burnt the papers.
45:08With the right papers?
45:09Did you look?
45:10No.
45:10Then how'd you know?
45:11I'm sure I tell you.
45:13Don't bother me, Richard.
45:14I can't bear any more tonight.
45:15Don't touch me.
45:17I'm sorry.
45:17My nerves are all on edge.
45:19I simply can't bear to be touched.
45:21I understand.
45:23Do you?
45:44I'm sorry.
45:46What?
45:46I'm sorry if I had to let you in for such a rotten job.
45:49I hope there wasn't any unpleasantness.
45:51You don't know, Richard, what this night has cost me.
45:56Oh, God.
45:57I...
45:58I never meant...
46:00You did that for me?
46:03If I'd have known, I'd have done, I'd have realised.
46:06I told you, I hardly knew the matter.
46:09But if I'd have guessed, I'd have never asked you to go.
46:11Now please believe me, I never meant that you...
46:16You never meant what?
46:19Tell me, what was it that you never meant?
46:21Well, don't let speak about it.
46:22I don't want to know.
46:23I don't even want to think about it.
46:29What do you think happened tonight?
46:31Well, it didn't happen.
46:32We'll say it didn't happen.
46:34You think he asked a price for those papers?
46:36If I thought he'd do anything like that, behave like that, I never dreamt.
46:39Didn't you?
46:41Why did you ask me to wear this dress tonight?
46:43Why did you send me there alone so late?
46:46You guessed he cared for me.
46:48You expected...
46:49I expected nothing.
46:50You planned it.
46:50You said you had a plan.
46:52You intended this from the very beginning.
46:54You knew all along he had those papers,
46:56so you planned to save your skin with my body.
46:59You meant me to whore for you.
47:00Good Theo!
47:01Can you deny it?
47:16If it gives you any satisfaction your plan worked.
47:20Though not in the way you imagined.
47:22There was an element you hadn't bargained for.
47:25You see, Vincent and I fell in love.
47:28Fell in love?
47:29A week ago he asked me to leave you to go away with him and I agreed.
47:33You're making this up?
47:34It was the day the news broke of the collapse.
47:37We were at an atel in Dover.
47:39I happened to see a newspaper.
47:41It was pure chance.
47:42Dover!
47:43It seemed to me that I owed you a duty as you were in trouble so I came back.
47:49Did you go to bed with him?
47:57No.
47:58But I wanted to.
48:00Don't believe it.
48:01Why not?
48:03You're quite ready to believe that to save you I'd go to bed with a man I barely knew.
48:07Why can't you believe that I'd happily give myself to a man I love?
48:10We'll say no more about it.
48:12Don't you understand the difference?
48:14Is there a difference?
48:16Perhaps there isn't.
48:18I don't want to talk about it.
48:20We need never mention it again.
48:22I don't understand you but I can forgive.
48:26I cannot.
48:29What did you say?
48:31I can't forgive you.
48:34I was willing to forgive you when I knew you to be a liar and a thief.
48:37I suppose I've always known deep down you weren't quite straight with the world.
48:40I've forgiven.
48:42Pretended not to notice your infidelities.
48:44You're women.
48:44I'm not blind.
48:45Well that isn't the same thing.
48:46For a man it's...
48:46I was prepared to forgive because despite everything I believed in your love for me.
48:50I believed you needed me as a wife.
48:52I do.
48:52What you've done tonight cancels everything.
49:04Don't go Theo.
49:06I do need you.
49:09What for?
49:10Who do you want me to sleep with next?
49:26I won't let you go.
49:44Where will you go?
49:45Back to him?
49:47No I can't do that.
49:50Theo.
49:52I'm all the things you said.
49:54I'm worthless.
49:55But I do love you.
49:59Richard I was unfaithful to you in intention at any rate.
50:02For that betrayal I pay in loneliness.
50:06But you.
50:07You betrayed honor and love.
50:09You gambled on my sense of duty.
50:12You gambled on the thing you loved and lost.
50:15But where are you going?
50:18To a...
50:20A sort of freedom.
50:22There's nothing to bind me here.
51:13You gambled on my se
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