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First broadcast 20th August 1972.
David Masterman is an artist and a teacher who has the pleasure of teaching an art class to a group of lovely young women.
Ian McKellen - David Masterman
Prunella Ransome - Katherine Forrest
Susan Penhaligon - Ianthe Forrest
Marilyn Taylerson - Julia Tern
Joe Holmes - Mr. Foulkes
David Masterman is an artist and a teacher who has the pleasure of teaching an art class to a group of lovely young women.
Ian McKellen - David Masterman
Prunella Ransome - Katherine Forrest
Susan Penhaligon - Ianthe Forrest
Marilyn Taylerson - Julia Tern
Joe Holmes - Mr. Foulkes
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00:38I think I'm quite a lucky man I don't mind if some people regard me as a bit
00:44solitary I rather enjoy my lonely artists life yes I sometimes wish I
00:52were a better painter but never mind I like painting and I don't fool myself I
00:59do masterpieces but I sell a few then two evenings a week there's my voluntary
01:06art class quite popular especially with young women they've about as much feeling
01:13for art as pork pies except one of them but they all keep on coming for some
01:23reason yes Yancy Forrest one of my most loyal pupils and her elder sister
01:36Catherine they never miss a class they've about as much talent as ink stands there's
01:42a question of balance isn't that I mean actual physical balance I'm rather afraid
01:46he'd fall over try and remember what I said about equilibrium the lines of
01:51gravity do you see oh yes mr. masterman I always think of the weight of the body
02:02oh it was all wrong how can I help you no it was awful I couldn't bend to see it
02:09I'm sure it wasn't as bad as that I'm sure it was but Julia adorable enigmatic Julia
02:19turn there's real talent there's nothing I can teach her well now that seems to be
02:32time finished sir yes mr. Fuchs I want to get locked up in five minutes yes well we're packing up
02:37now
02:38miss Forrest I'm thinking of doing a little outdoor sketching tomorrow I wonder if you'd care to come
02:44along with my sister I suppose you mean with my sister yes of course she's already said she'd like to
02:49come
02:51all right good right good night good night see you all next Tuesday evening bye miss
02:59Cochran mr. Taylor goodbye miss Forrest until tomorrow miss Forrest very good excellent I have something else I
03:15wanted to show you this is extraordinarily beautiful yes I'm in the execution the
03:28presentation and so on um and did you come to do this I just want to do you're a
03:34good subject you seemed an obvious choice my head I mean I'm sure it's been done
03:39dozens of times not that many and not like this so I watched you a good deal oh yes of
03:47course
03:47who didn't you realize I didn't know no I didn't well anyway there you are it is delicious I
03:56envy you I can't touch a decent head not even yours I know because I tried once can I see
04:02I was no
04:03I threw it away this is very flattering not particularly but it is you've idealized me sir I
04:09haven't but we just look at that nobility that gravity and calm I drew you as I saw you I'm
04:16not a bit
04:16back there but you are like that but you are like that that's how I see you
04:22at the moment
04:25good night
04:32oh look at the view
04:39isn't it extraordinary we all think we see the same thing but put half a dozen painters in front of
04:45that
04:45and what would you get six totally different versions each one expressing the man's own reality
04:55suppose I painted it to express some special dream of my own then that dream would still be my reality
05:03there's no absolute
05:04do you know what I used to dream about being married to a duke or something like that running a
05:10huge house
05:11with hundreds of servants and endless parties
05:15what do you do mr masterman if you had more money than you could possibly spend
05:20thank you I never really thought about it I don't bother much about money as long as I got enough
05:23to live on
05:25I might go abroad
05:28think Venice France that's what I think
05:30of course it's different for an artist
05:32why is it different?
05:34well everything's different isn't it I mean
05:36no I don't know what you mean we have the same needs as other people the same desires
05:39we're not a different animal
05:41are you?
05:42no
05:46it's rather beautiful isn't it
05:49sense of space
05:51where's miss turn I'm on the ground ground
05:57well now what are we all going to do um look why don't we make a start by looking at
06:03detail
06:03I mean there's a change from being overwhelmed by all this fantastic abundance
06:07uh wildflowers ferns toadstools moss let's really look at things as if they're waiting for us to sketch
06:14yes yes mr masterman yes
06:23I don't have to teach you the art of observation
06:28are you going to do this?
06:30I might
06:32the clouds are very fine they're studying themselves
06:37isn't it extraordinary the difference between the reflected light and the light that comes through them
06:41and the hard and soft outlines
06:45aren't they beautiful?
06:46I suppose they are
06:47you suppose don't you know?
06:50beautiful ugly what does it matter?
06:53they're there aren't they?
06:54what's important is whether you like looking at them
06:58sometimes I do
06:59then wanna try sketching them?
07:01sketch lumps of steam
07:03oh that's not a very romantic view
07:04I don't want to be a romantic
07:27I've been hiding from kate it's gone off in a silk
07:30oh why?
07:31I've looked I found all these different flowers and some toadstools
07:34I didn't know what they were
07:36I'm not sure I do anymore let me see
07:39there's comfrey
07:41bluebell
07:43I can't think what that might admit
07:47you're not very interested are you?
07:49oh yes yes I am
07:51oh look there's a pretty one
07:55don't
07:55for god's sake don't pick it
07:59just look at it
08:03it's a hellebureen
08:05do you see how delicate it is?
08:08it's called the poached egg plant
08:11what a funny name
08:13yes but you see it looks like a poached egg if you open the flowers
08:17oh yes
08:19very shy flowers
08:22they keep their petals closed
08:24yes
08:25is it rare?
08:27not particularly it's a kind of orchid
08:29poisonous incidentally so don't eat it
08:34and I think I ought to go and find your sister
08:46I don't think I'm going to go and find your sister
08:46heavens above you do get away with it quick
08:48life's short there's no time to lose I'd do as I'd be done by
08:51there are so many of us
08:53do you mind?
08:53all the same if I do I should think
09:05have you done anything?
09:06no I didn't feel like it
09:09so what have you done?
09:11nothing
09:15where's mr. masterman?
09:16in there
09:18in the wood
09:20oh
09:21oh I see
09:21some splendid wildfires down there by the streams and quite rare ones
09:26did either of you see them?
09:27yes
09:28yes I did
09:33Mr. Tern have you ever thought of going to art school for full time?
09:37yes I've thought about it
09:39it would be a pity if you didn't waste
09:42don't you want to go any further?
09:43I don't know I haven't decided
09:46what will decide you?
09:48oh feeling it's the most important thing to do I suppose
09:51or the realist thing
09:52if you need any advice please let me know
09:55if you're waiting for art to be realer than life then you'll never go
09:59shall I see you all again next week?
10:00yes
10:01yes
10:01goodbye then it has been delightful we must have these expeditions more often
10:04goodbye
10:05goodbye
10:05mr. masterman
10:07David
10:08what is it?
10:09just goodbye
10:12what on earth will you tell the others you came back for?
10:14oh I don't know I shall think of something
10:17is the poor dear afraid he might be found out?
10:20no of course not
10:21shall I see you again?
10:23yes
10:26are you ready Kate?
10:28I can't seem to find my hat
10:30someone must have moved it I'm sure I put it here
10:32excuse me
10:33ask the caretaker
10:34oh I can look for it properly when everyone's gone don't wait for me
10:37all right
10:40oh Julia
10:42Julia why can I never catch those fawn-like eyes
10:47for that matter why can I never get near to you?
10:50bye
10:51goodbye
10:53oh if only it were you and not the answer then I would be a holy happy man
10:58thank you
11:14mr. Forrest
11:17oh
11:19oh I'm
11:20Catherine
11:22would you come in here one moment mr. Forrest?
11:25er it shan't be long mr. Forrest
11:26oh that's all right mr. Masterman
11:34I'm sorry take no no sir it's all quite meaningless
11:44oh this is silly look I must go
11:46stay a while
11:49shall I walk home no
11:51I expect deanthe is waiting for me
11:57what are you thinking
12:01nothing important
12:02what
12:04it's just I'm unlucky I always fall in love with men who can't love me
12:08oh but I could easily love you Catherine you loved me Kate
12:13go on loving me I'm not
12:16well I'm not very wicked
12:19no I know you couldn't
12:21how do you know
12:24it's Julia turn
12:28you must think me very fickle indeed
12:32dear Kate
12:37I really think I could love you
12:41I know you you couldn't it's
12:45it's not possible for you
12:48tell me
12:50how long have you felt like this
12:52always
12:54since the first day I came to your class
13:01what is it what's the matter
13:04nothing I'm I'm happy
13:10we often talk of you
13:12we often talk of you at night in bed
13:15often
13:15and what do you say about me in bed
13:17who
13:18Janthe and I
13:19Janthe
13:20yes she likes you
13:22has she said so
13:23no but I can tell that she likes you
13:26not as I do though
13:28not like this
13:30have you told her
13:32what
13:33that you feel
13:35no
13:37then what do you both say about me in bed
13:41oh
13:43I must go
13:53it'll be all right
13:54take no notice
13:55it doesn't matter what I said
13:56you're not at all
13:57it'll be all right
13:59I will see you again
14:03good night good night good night
14:17what a surprise
14:19but what on earth have I let myself in for
14:23and why on earth was I so responsive
14:26she's good looking
14:28but
14:30you can't turn a woman away
14:32a loving woman like that
14:33not at once
14:35a man must be kind
14:36do it gently
14:39if only she weren't so disturbing
14:42those demanding eyes
14:44those passionate advances
14:46oh god if only
14:47and they were not so desirable
14:49if only julia were more responsive
14:51if only it had been julia
14:53if only
14:55oh lord what an idiotic situation
14:59why can't I live without women
15:02or with all of them
15:08do you mind this
15:09no
15:10no
15:10I like it
15:12I like you
15:13I like you
15:14I like you
15:15what a fool to be so fond of this wretched imp of a girl
15:20really I'm not sure I don't dislike her
15:22childish
15:23artful
15:24luscious
15:25stupid
15:28this is no way to behave for a man of standards
15:31furtively embracing in an arts called cloakroom
15:34damnable necessities of life
15:37and yet
15:38at the same time
15:40how much do you like me david
15:42what an impossible question
15:44do you like me better than her
15:46then whom
15:48you know
15:49you know
15:50never mind her
15:52i don't like her
15:53she's so awfully fond of you
15:55oh confound her
15:56you mustn't mind my speaking so sharply
15:59i'm sorry
16:01you don't mind do you
16:03hello
16:05the unscrupulousness of sisters
16:08i've heard of such cases before
16:11but it is rather delightful
16:13they're both jealous
16:15actually it's a little awkward
16:18what is
16:19the difficulty is
16:21i'm reluctant to wound her
16:22she is so gone so absolutely gone
16:26gone
16:27she's really really in love deeply
16:31deeply
16:33she seems so vulnerable
16:36kate of course
16:38kate in love
16:40with chris halton do you mean
16:42chris who
16:42good lord no
16:43with me
16:45with me isn't she
16:46in love with you
16:48kate
16:49you must be mad
16:50she dislikes you as a matter of fact mr prince charming so there
16:53but you were saying yourself
16:55oh you do flatter yourself
16:57if you want to know
16:58she thinks you're just the worst kind of man there is
17:02i should know
17:03we talk about you sometimes in bed at night
17:07we sleep in the same bedroom
17:09we tell each other everything
17:12uh you've told her
17:14you've told her about us
17:16well she knows what i think of you
17:18but she hates you
17:19she doesn't trust you she's been warning me against you
17:21against me what has she got against me
17:23everything i thought you'd have guessed
17:26she thinks you are vain and cold and weak and self-centered and i think she's probably right too
17:32do you care
17:33no i don't care what she thinks do you
17:35you'll have to find out won't you
17:37oh who were you talking about
17:39you are vain
17:41no i'm not i'm only asking
17:43well julia of course who do you think
17:45that's why i dislike julia because she's too fond of you
17:49julia fond of me
17:50yes of course didn't you know
17:59i think it's all a pose
18:02what
18:04living alone like that in that ramshackle way
18:09why do you think i do
18:10oh because you're an artist
18:12because you think it's the thing to do
18:15it's not a pose
18:17if i wanted to play the artist i'd go to paris and live like a real bohemian
18:24that wouldn't suit you either
18:26i like living by myself i like the solitude
18:31i like my own thoughts i like the freedom of not having to see other people when i don't want
18:35to
18:36it's a selfish way to live
18:37no it's not
18:39i'm not snubbing or hurting anyone am i
18:42i just make sure there's nobody there to hurt
18:46i couldn't live like that
18:50you can't live like that all your life
18:52why not
18:53it leaves too much out
18:55what does it leave out
18:57love
18:58i can love
18:59no you can't
19:00well not properly
19:02why have i not
19:04well i think love is being prepared to live with someone for the whole of your life
19:09i mean to live for him
19:11and to share the whole of your life
19:14you can't preserve me from that
19:15oh you don't seriously mean that
19:17i do
19:18the idea absolutely terrifies me
19:19the idea of
19:20marriage being caged together in that cruel way may be all right for people without imagination
19:27i'm not capable of it
19:29you say you're not
19:30i told you i'm not
19:32i'm
19:33i'm not constant
19:35kate i'm not
19:37i'm not in charge of what i need want i can't regulate my needs and desires to some absurd artificial
19:43bond
19:46oh kate i don't know what i want but it's not marriage
19:56yes i do know what i want
19:58i'm not in charge of it
19:59you know
20:00you know
20:01i've told you
20:03simplest thing in the world
20:04oh david
20:06come home with me now. come home with me. no.
20:15has anyone else loved you like that? like what?
20:22like you want me to love you. what's it matter? oh tell me. yes yes of course
20:28they have.
20:30what do you expect?
20:33oh what does it matter?
20:37i wish i could explain it to you.
20:40i can't separate life into categories what i'm allowed to what i'm not allowed to.
20:45people like you think love comes in little boxes.
20:48some presents you can have now some labels not to be opened until marriage.
20:51don't let's talk about it. it'll still be there whether we talk about it or not.
20:55your trouble is you're afraid. you're afraid of expressing yourself.
21:00yes you are. you're afraid of freedom. i think you're even afraid of joy.
21:03i wonder you dare talk to me of love.
21:05love is something that expresses itself.
21:08if it doesn't express itself it dies. what we don't express dies.
21:13it dies.
21:19i'm sorry.
21:26you know what's going to happen to us don't you?
21:31yes.
21:32we'll end up hating each other.
21:36oh david i'll make it up to you someday.
21:39we've got all our lives in front of us. i won't alter.
21:43will you?
21:44not alter?
21:47no i shall not alter.
21:50don't make it up to you someday.
21:53you'll see.
21:56someday what preposterous future have you got planned for me?
21:59okay.
22:13where's your sister today? isn't she coming in?
22:15no as a matter of fact she's not.
22:19didn't you know?
22:20know what?
22:22thought she might have told you.
22:23told me?
22:24she's decided not to come anymore.
22:29did she say what?
22:30yes.
22:31she said she wasn't making any progress.
22:35she said she didn't want to waste her time.
22:39i see.
23:08the modeling is getting better.
23:10that's quite an improvement.
23:11practice makes perfect.
23:13i am sorry your sister felt she should give up the class.
23:16i thought she was quite talented.
23:18do tell her.
23:19perhaps you'll see her again one day.
23:21then you can tell yourself mr masterman.
23:24if only i had the chance.
23:27it's so strange all these weeks she's been away.
23:30good night.
23:31i'm surprised how miserable it's made me.
23:34why do i miss her?
23:37and so profoundly.
23:39it couldn't be that i'm in love with her.
23:42could that be possible?
23:43with that mournful woman?
23:46no i'd never love a woman like that.
23:49now you can tell yourself mr prince charming.
23:52miss forrest.
23:55you've come back.
23:56no no i've come to collect the anthem.
23:57we're going to an evening party.
23:58good night miss forrest.
24:00kate i must see you.
24:01i must talk to you.
24:02it'll do no good.
24:03please come to my house.
24:05no.
24:05you've never seen it.
24:06no i couldn't.
24:07i couldn't possibly.
24:08come on kate.
24:10i couldn't possibly.
24:10i can't see you.
24:11i can't see you.
24:12okay.
24:15okay.
24:18okay.
24:19okay.
24:27okay.
24:55Well, that's Ed coming.
24:58Why do I never do you justice?
25:00Why do I half forget your marvellously irresistibly lovely...
25:03I'm just the same.
25:04Then I'm criminally forgetful.
25:06Let me take your rap.
25:07No, there's no need. We're going, aren't we?
25:08Of course we're not.
25:09We're going to have breakfast first, breakfast and then a picnic.
25:11Oh, I don't know. I'm not sure.
25:13What are you not sure about?
25:14Well, I was thinking on the way up here that it just doesn't seem quite right.
25:18What doesn't?
25:19Me being here.
25:20Oh, damn whether it's right or not.
25:21It's done. You're here, so it can't be helped.
25:23Anyway, breakfast is ready.
25:24All except the eggs, which I shall now put on,
25:25and then we've got to pack lunch.
25:26and shortly, Kate, give me your rap because I'm going nowhere without my breakfast
25:28and neither are you.
25:32Have a look around.
25:40Ow!
25:53Is this all of it?
25:55No, what more would a solitary bachelor want?
25:57Oh, of course, you're wondering where I sleep, aren't you?
25:59No.
26:00What, you don't care whether I sleep or not?
26:02Right, where?
26:03There, behind that curtain.
26:04No, where?
26:05Oh, really?
26:06In this cubbyhole.
26:07Look.
26:10Voila.
26:12Oh, yes.
26:13It's more comfortable than it looks.
26:14Try it.
26:19Go on.
26:26Well, what do you think of the place?
26:28It's a little bear, isn't it?
26:30Bear?
26:30Oh, it's enough for me.
26:31There's only one ornament I miss here, Kate.
26:33What's that?
26:34You, and now here you are.
26:35Oh, no, not here.
26:36Why not here?
26:36No, it's not right.
26:37It just doesn't feel right.
26:38Oh, really, Kate?
26:38I don't feel right.
26:39Yes, well, never mind.
26:40Come and look at the view.
26:41But the eggs, they'll be done.
26:45Flowers, my dear Kate, are like men and women.
26:47They either stare brazenly at the sun or they bend humbly before it.
26:51But they all need it, and even the most modest desire it.
26:56Here, the eggs are a little bit up.
27:03Just because you want something, it doesn't mean it's right to have it.
27:06Well, that's the difference between us, I think it is.
27:09As long as you don't hurt anyone else in the process.
27:12What would it be like if we all did, just as we liked?
27:15You do just as you like.
27:17You just don't happen to like very much.
27:26Oh, isn't it sweet?
27:29Oh, it's so tame.
27:31Why doesn't it run away?
27:32Oh, it is tame.
27:33You see that white streak down its nose.
27:36Must have escaped from a farm somewhere.
27:49Got you.
27:51Oh.
27:55Oh, isn't it sweet?
28:00Oh.
28:07Oh, it's fleas. Oh, it's covered with fleas. Oh, awful. Oh, they're all over me. Come here. Let me look.
28:15Keep still and let me look.
28:17Awful and dirty. Oh, the creatures. I hate them. They're disgusting. They don't hurt you. There aren't any, aren't you?
28:22Are you sure? Absolutely sure.
28:24Oh, I like that blouse, Kate. I don't care for it. Not anymore. I shall never wear it again. I
28:28shall give it away to someone. We'll sell it.
28:30I'd love to take it from you. You? Yes, stitch by stitch. No! How dare you talk to me like
28:38that?
28:39Was it so very daring?
28:52Forgive me.
28:55I'll make it up to you someday. This year, next year, sometime, never.
28:59Oh, why are you like this?
29:02Why can't you just take things as they are? Isn't it enough what we have?
29:06What we have?
29:09What do we have?
29:11Don't you know?
29:12After we've known each other so long?
29:15I'm not sure I do.
29:17That's for knowing each other. Don't think we ever shall. We're poles apart.
29:20Oh, why do you say things like this?
29:22Because we are.
29:23Because you don't even recognise the difference between us.
29:26Oh, yes, I do.
29:29What do you think the difference is?
29:30The difference is that you treat everything like that tame rabbit.
29:33To be cooed over and fondled until you catch sight of its fleas.
29:36And I am not your tame rabbit and I won't...
29:37Oh, go to!
29:39Go to!
29:41Hell?
29:42Yes.
29:43And stop there and burn!
29:47Well, nearly.
29:48If you'll keep out of my way when I arrive.
29:55Damn the woman!
29:56Kate!
29:56Kate!
30:26Kate!
30:30Kate!
30:51I'm sorry Kate.
30:53I want my bicycle.
30:54What?
30:55You locked it in.
30:56The bicycle?
30:57Oh you're sorry I did.
30:59Well come in Kate.
30:59Let me get you something.
31:00I think there's some milk and certainly have cake.
31:02Oh come in Kate.
31:04What about beer?
31:06I should have been home hours ago.
31:28Don't go Kate.
31:30Don't go Kate.
31:31Let's be kind to each other.
31:36Won't you see me again?
31:37I'm always seeing you.
31:41Kate!
31:43Intolerable drab.
31:51Juliet.
31:53Hello.
31:55I didn't expect...
31:57Is it a difficult time?
32:03No.
32:05I'm delighted to see you.
32:07I decided I wanted to have that talk.
32:09About...
32:11About your future?
32:12Yes.
32:13Good.
32:15Good.
32:17You should have let me know yesterday.
32:19I didn't know yesterday.
32:20I hadn't decided.
32:21That you wanted to see me?
32:22Yes.
32:28Yes.
32:28I'm leaving you see.
32:30You're leaving the class?
32:31I'm going to London.
32:33To art school?
32:35For good?
32:36Yes I think so.
32:38I'm going to London anyway.
32:40I'm staying with friends until I can find a place of my own.
32:42A place of your own?
32:43Yes.
32:43I see.
32:44This is a surprise.
32:48I mean I have mixed feelings about it.
32:50I know.
32:51Do you?
32:52Yes I do.
32:54As you know.
32:58You are an extraordinary girl.
33:03When are you leaving?
33:05Next week.
33:06Next week?
33:07So this is the last...
33:08Yes.
33:09It's a bit sudden.
33:10I can hardly go to London gradually.
33:12I don't want you to go.
33:16Can I get you some tea?
33:18Or would you prefer beer?
33:19Yes please.
33:20Beer.
33:26What made you decide to go?
33:28I think it was decided long ago.
33:30I just needed a push.
33:32And what pushed you?
33:33Well nobody else did so I did it myself.
33:36So there's nothing to talk about.
33:37I mean it's done.
33:40Or are you just studying my head again?
33:48I asked you before if I could have that sketch.
33:50May I?
33:51No.
33:51I threw it away.
33:52Why?
33:53Why?
33:53It was very good.
33:56It wasn't.
33:59Well anyway I changed my mind about it.
34:01I found it facile.
34:03It embarrassed me.
34:05You have very high standards.
34:10Do you mind if I kiss you?
34:24Do you want to stop me going?
34:25I don't know I just wanted to.
34:27Did you?
34:27I've wanted to for a long time.
34:29But you never did.
34:30You never gave me any signs.
34:31I haven't now.
34:32I know.
34:34I feel so confused.
34:36Quite stupid.
34:39Did you want me to then?
34:42Yes.
34:44Yes I think I did.
34:47Shall I again?
35:03Julia?
35:04It's nothing.
35:06It means nothing.
35:08And if you say I love you I shall leave.
35:10Why?
35:11I do?
35:12Why?
35:13Don't you believe me?
35:14Oh yes.
35:15I love you too.
35:16Well then.
35:18And you're still going to London?
35:20Yes of course.
35:21Is that why you cried?
35:23Why then?
35:24I don't know.
35:25I told you it means nothing.
35:27I don't understand there's something you're not saying.
35:33Julia I feel lost.
35:35And horribly confused.
35:37Talk about it.
35:40Shall I?
35:41I'm really going.
35:44Yes I know.
35:49I don't understand what's expected of me you see.
35:52I don't mean from you.
35:53I love you Julia.
35:54I really honestly believe I love you.
35:56I always have.
35:59And that's supposed to supply some kind of solution.
36:03Resolution.
36:04But it doesn't does it?
36:08You know I've been going out.
36:13going about with them.
36:15Oh God you know don't you with Catherine and the answer.
36:19Julia I could say it was you I really wanted all the time but that wouldn't be altogether true.
36:23because I also love I think sometimes when I'm with her and often when I'm not Catherine.
36:31Not to mention Yancy in a kind of way.
36:35Julia there is no one on earth I would rather be with at this moment than you.
36:39And if I were to have to choose or were in a position to choose it would be you I'd
36:44choose.
36:46But I'm not constant.
36:49It's a condition Julia.
36:51Even my loyalty to you has been a zigzag affair.
36:56And Yancy is so simple you see.
36:58She's fun.
37:00But whenever I'm with her there comes a moment I say to myself what am I doing with this maddening
37:04superficial creature.
37:05I actively dislike her much of the time.
37:09And then Catherine.
37:12Oh Catherine she can turn those doleful eyes on me and I'm submerged.
37:20And yet our love has been without ecstasy.
37:23A pedestrian thing.
37:26She really is an extraordinary egotist.
37:28She believes more in her virtue than in her love for me.
37:32That's not love at all.
37:33It's like a suicide loving the pond she drowns.
37:35And she wants to absorb me to devote herself to me to marry me forever.
37:40Julia I have a morbid horror of marriage.
37:42I'm too meandering a man for it.
37:44She has a domestic mind.
37:46A mind like a kitchen garden with neat rows of ideas like beans and carrots and rounded to fence as
37:50tough as iron.
37:51Oh I'm being so unfair.
37:52But she asks too much of me.
37:54No she doesn't even ask.
37:55That's her terrible strength.
37:57That constant heart is a constant reproach.
37:59And she's sure I'll love her forever.
38:02The vanity of it.
38:03And that implacable virtue in those hands.
38:07Those bloodless white hands.
38:08I dislike everything about her.
38:14Except herself.
38:20The clothes, her walk, her speech, her piety, her melancholy.
38:28Even the way she carries her umbrella.
38:33This is awful what I'm saying.
38:36Julia what is wrong with me?
38:39Am I simply a thief and a seducer?
38:44And all this has happened under your ironical gaze.
38:49It wasn't directed at you.
38:53You are an extraordinary woman.
38:57I wish I'd kissed you earlier.
39:00It wouldn't have made any difference.
39:02It's very sad but there's no necessity in this.
39:06Is that what you're after?
39:07I suppose so.
39:08Is your art necessary to you?
39:13Nor is my love
39:16necessary either I suppose.
39:21I wish I understood my desires.
39:33I was lying.
39:36I hadn't thrown this away.
39:39But I hadn't decided whether to let you have it.
39:47Goodbye.
40:25In short our notions of what is love our standards of behavior are too unrelated to allow any purpose in
40:32our meeting again.
40:34Let us recognize then that we have come to the end of the tether without once having put an ounce
40:38of strain on its delightful but very tense chord.
40:44But the effort to keep the affair down to the level of which you seem satisfied has wearied me.
40:50I congratulate you my dear Kate on coming through unscathed.
40:55The only appropriate condolences are my own.
41:00For myself.
41:01For myself.
41:05I'm glad I've written to Kate.
41:08It was a good letter.
41:10Bit pompous perhaps but she won't notice that.
41:13It expressed my feelings perfectly.
41:17In the meantime there is always Yancy.
41:21She's impossible but still delicious.
41:24Are you free afterwards?
41:27Yes.
41:33You didn't think you were getting away with it did you?
41:36I don't know. Were you very angry?
41:38What do you think?
41:40I was furious.
41:41I could have killed Kate when I found out.
41:44I was quite cruel to her I can tell you.
41:47Poor Kate.
41:50Are you still angry?
41:51No not now.
41:52Not anymore.
41:55How is she?
41:56Oh I don't know.
41:58All right I think.
42:00You don't know she's in Scotland.
42:02No.
42:04I didn't know.
42:05She went away over a month ago.
42:07Oh.
42:09Why?
42:10On this day with relatives she called it family business.
42:15Oh.
42:18Mr. Prince Charming.
42:28Yancy.
42:30You do know don't you that you are not necessary to me.
42:34That goes for both of us.
42:38You don't mind.
42:40Why should I?
42:44Yancy darling.
42:46Will you?
42:49Can I?
42:51Yes.
42:51Yes.
42:56I wonder if she'll report this to Kate.
43:00I rather hope she does.
43:11And some of the things you said I did not understand.
43:14And still don't.
43:16But I've had a lot of time since to think things over.
43:19It was not that I did not love you enough.
43:22Please forgive me.
43:24I did not understand how you could be so hurt.
43:29I will wait for you to write and tell me you would like to see me again.
43:32And I will come.
43:35Please write.
43:36I hope you will.
43:38I think only of you.
43:50Hello.
43:51Hello.
43:51Here I am.
43:52Hello Kate.
43:54Am I late?
43:55Not much.
43:57I'll shelter from the rain.
43:59I couldn't wait any longer.
44:00Are you wet?
44:01Not much.
44:02I ran.
44:05What in heaven's name made you pick this place?
44:08I couldn't think of anywhere else.
44:10I wanted somewhere quiet and empty.
44:12Neutral ground.
44:14Where better.
44:16Though it's hardly a place to talk.
44:17Oh I'm sorry.
44:19We'll go as soon as it stops raining.
44:20Now if you like.
44:22Where?
44:23I don't mind.
44:38Have you been well?
44:39Yes.
44:41And happy?
44:42Yes.
44:44Then how unwise of you to come back.
44:45I've come back to be happier.
44:50Somehow you're different.
44:52You're different.
44:53You're different.
44:55Shall we ever be happy again?
44:57Why not?
44:59Why not before?
45:15Love me David.
45:17I've come back to make it all up to you.
45:30Oh it's a dreadful place this is.
45:34Everything's dead here Kate.
45:36Look at that bird.
45:37It's been stuffed so long it looks junk.
45:39Can't even wear its beak straight.
45:43I feel like a specimen awaiting a vacant glass case.
45:47Oh it's dreadful.
45:54It's a lecture room.
46:30Come on let's get out of here.
46:33Go and get some tea.
46:37It's just like a little theatre.
46:40Like a play as if we were acting.
46:44Have you ever acted?
46:45I'm sure you do it very well.
46:47No I do say that.
46:48Am I at all histiotic?
46:50Does that mean insincere?
46:52No.
46:54You're just the kind of person that one would expect to do everything well.
46:58You do don't you?
46:59Everything.
47:00Nonsense.
47:00I've never acted.
47:03I suppose I could.
47:03You don't have to be clever only courageous.
47:05But I expect I'm wrong.
47:10I did try and write a play once.
47:13Did you?
47:14Oh let me hear it.
47:16I couldn't get any further than the first act.
47:18Oh let me hear some of it just to speech.
47:19Do you want to?
47:21It's rather silly.
47:25All right.
47:26Come over here.
47:35Curtain up.
47:40Ladies and gentlemen.
47:41This is a play about a man.
47:44A modern man.
47:45A man of the 20th century.
47:47This man had a passionate belief in freedom.
47:51He wanted to express himself in his own way.
47:53He felt that the only real warrant for holding a belief was not that it was true but that it
47:56gave you satisfaction.
48:00What could be more rational, more sensible.
48:02And with all his brave ideas about truth.
48:05He also had a fine, a very fine appreciation of love.
48:08He adored women.
48:11Oh yes, adored them quite helplessly, hopelessly.
48:13And he was a fortunate man because, for the most part, women responded to him.
48:18They cheered his advanced ideas.
48:20They forgave him his infidelities.
48:22They didn't even care when the sound of marriage bells made him jump as if the earth beneath his feet
48:25had burst into fire.
48:28But for a happy philanderer he had a flaw.
48:32He couldn't bear to wound.
48:34He suffered from a tender heart.
48:37So, when he suddenly came across a woman whose defences were as solid as rock, what was the poor wretch
48:41to do?
48:42There she was, this quiet, craven creature.
48:46Innocent, chaste, implacably virtuous.
48:49Her mind held fast.
48:50Her only desire to be good.
48:53Very good.
48:56And what else could she do, poor dear, but suspect the impulses of others, especially of men like him.
49:00They were at opposite ends of a tilted beam.
49:03All she could do was lead him on and then swart him.
49:06And why?
49:08Why to save herself for marriage?
49:11While offering nothing but compassion and pity for his bad thoughts.
49:18What a pity.
49:22What a pity it all was, for she was surely a bodily treasure.
49:30And she was almost lost to him.
49:37Kate.
49:43Kate.
49:43Kate.
49:47Is that all?
49:51Yes, that's all.
49:56That's the closing bell.
49:57How will you stay in here at the end of the plane?
50:00What is no plane?
50:02Come along. Do you want to be locked in here all night?
50:04Oh, I don't mind, David. Don't leave me.
50:06I've come to make it all up to you.
50:08Oh, beautiful. I adore you.
50:13Come on. We must go.
50:15I'm going to buy you something.
50:16What?
50:17A present.
50:18I'm going to buy you a ring with a diamond as big as a bar.
50:21An engagement ring. Come along.
50:22Or the shops will be shut.
50:43Well, it isn't.
50:56Go.
51:00In and down the margin.
51:02Ah.
51:11It's all.
51:12Oh, my God.
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