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00:06Obviously what we gave was not sufficient.
00:08But that's preposterous.
00:10No woman living as she does here could possibly desire to spend so much.
00:13Who cares what she does with the money? I don't.
00:15We must cover the overdraft and increase the allowance.
00:18I think you're being very foolish, Philip.
00:20But why? We both agreed she should have an allowance. What's the matter?
00:23Don't you trust her?
00:24Not entirely.
00:26What?
00:28While I was in Exeter, I met some old friends.
00:30Oh, they're great travelers.
00:32Have wintered abroad in Italy and France for over a period of years.
00:37Well, it seems they met your cousin, Rachel, when she was married to her first husband, Sangaletti.
00:43So?
00:45They were notorious, Philip.
00:47Notorious for loose living and unbridled extravagance.
00:53Apparently people were horrified when they heard of Ambrose's marriage to the Countess Sangaletti.
00:57They said she'd run through his entire fortune within a matter of months.
01:01That's just gossip.
01:02Is it?
01:03Suppose it's true.
01:06Who are these people, anyway?
01:08And why should you trust them and not Rachel?
01:11Never mind that, now.
01:12My concern is with those pearls.
01:16I'm sorry, Philip, but as your guardian for another four months, I must insist that you ask Mrs. Ashley to
01:21return the collar.
01:22What?
01:23I will have it placed in the bank again with the rest of the jewelry.
01:25How can I possibly return that collar?
01:28I have just given it to her tonight as a Christmas present.
01:31Then I must do it for you.
01:33I'll be damned if you will.
01:35Well, she has a right to them.
01:37Lord knows, if anybody has a right to wear those pearls, it is she.
01:40Had Ambrose lived, yes, but not now.
01:42Those jewels remain in trust for your wife, Philip, when you marry.
01:46And if you won't ask Mrs. Ashley to return that collar, well, I shall.
01:49You shall not.
01:52Please!
01:59You must not quarrel on my account, please.
02:01How did you know we were quarreling?
02:02It's because of the pearls, isn't it?
02:05Yes.
02:07That collar is really part of the estate trust.
02:11Philip had no business to take it from the bank.
02:13It was a foolish, thoughtless action, but young men are headstrong.
02:16Of course.
02:18It was very dear of you, Philip, to let me wear the pearls tonight,
02:21and quite right of you, Mr. Kendall, to ask for their return.
02:25Here they are.
02:27No!
02:28Philip!
02:28Why the devil should you do that?
02:29Please!
02:50Thank you, Mrs. Ashley.
02:55I wish you both a happy Christmas.
03:07God damn it, and send him to hell!
03:21This is a very substantial sum, Mr. Philip.
03:25Yes, Mr. Cooch, but surely you cannot dispute the wisdom of keeping the house in good repair.
03:30Much of this work is long overdue.
03:31The roof especially is in a very poor condition.
03:34It's not just repairs, though, is it?
03:36These estimates seem to include a number of extensive alterations.
03:40Again, long overdue.
03:42Yes, perhaps.
03:44And this sum of page three.
03:46For the hollowing away and preparation of the ground for a sunken water garden in the very cruises.
03:51Yes.
03:52Well, is that absolutely necessary, would you say?
03:56Not necessary, perhaps, but desirable, certainly.
03:59Yes.
04:00I gather that your cousin, Mrs. Ashley, is a very keen gardener.
04:05It was Mr. Ambrose's intention to have the valley properly designed and laid out.
04:09I am merely trying to fulfill those wishes.
04:12Yes, I see.
04:15Have you spoken to your guardian about these plans?
04:18No.
04:19I prefer to discuss the matter with you first.
04:22I only ask because of the unhappy business with the jewels.
04:26He won't be very pleased by all this expenditure.
04:30No, Mr. Cooch.
04:32I don't suppose he will.
04:35Very well.
04:37I will advise Mr. Kentle of this conversation.
04:40When do you expect the work to begin?
04:43As soon as possible.
05:02Yeah, well, everything's taken.
05:04Everything, everything.
05:05So, you can get the first bridge over there.
05:08See?
05:09And then you have the steps going all the way up.
05:14And here, all the way up.
05:19And here, all the way down.
05:20Just here.
05:24And then you have a little path going all the way down.
05:30You feel it?
05:31A little path going all the way down.
05:35Then the bridge and the path all the way to the house.
05:37And here, all the way up, a rock garden.
05:43Yes?
05:47Sam Betts' granddaughter's downstairs, sir.
05:50She says the old man's ill wants to see you.
05:54Most important, she says it is.
05:57Any idea what it's all about?
05:58No, sir.
05:59Can't say that I have.
06:01But you know Sam Betts, sir.
06:04He'd make a mystery out of anything.
06:14Oh, well, you'll remember, sir, how you and Mrs. Ashley kindly gave us some clothes and things belonging to the
06:23Lake Master.
06:24Well, this coat here, you see, sir.
06:28This was a gift to me.
06:30I'm very, very proud of it.
06:32I was to.
06:33But, well, sir, it's a gentleman's coat.
06:37Not the kind of thing I'd wear.
06:40So I put her in the press yonder.
06:44I hadn't so much as even tried her on.
06:49But when this here, of course, seized me and I lay a bit up here, I don't know how it
06:56was, sir, but I suddenly had the feeling to wear this coat.
07:01Sitting up in bed like, just as you see me now.
07:05Oh, well, this is a lot like this coat, sir.
07:09Easy on my back.
07:11But it was then, sir, when I put the coat on, that I, that I found this ladder.
07:19She'd slip right down inside the lining, see.
07:23Well, it's addressed to you, sir.
07:41Dearest boy, if my letters have been infrequent, it is not because I have not thought of you.
07:48You have been in my mind these past weeks, perhaps more than ever before.
07:53But a letter can miscarry or be read by others, and I would not wish either of those things to
07:59happen.
08:10Philip, dear boy.
08:30I am much disturbed.
08:32That is likely said.
08:34I am in agony of mind.
08:39I wrote to you last month, but was ill shortly afterwards, and have no recollection of what happened to the
08:46letter.
08:48In it, I believe I told you of the fault in my wife's character that causes me so much concern.
08:55This recklessness with money is becoming progressive, and I perceive in her a tendency to evasion, to lies, to withdrawal
09:05from me,
09:06that is completely contrary to the warm nature that was her such a short time ago.
09:12As the weeks pass, I notice more and more how she turns for advice to a man I have mentioned
09:18before in my letters.
09:21Signor Rinaldi.
09:24I believe this man to have a pernicious influence upon her.
09:28I suspect him of having been in love with her for years, even when Sangha Leite was alive.
09:34And although I do not for an instant believe that she ever thought of him in such a connection, up
09:39to a short while ago,
09:42now, since she has altered in her manner to me, I cannot be sure.
09:50There is a shadow in her eye, a tone in her voice, when this name is said, that awakens in
09:55my mind the most terrible suspicion.
10:01One day last week, when Rinaldi and I were alone, he asked me an abrupt question as to my will.
10:08Well, this he had seen, incidentally, when we were married.
10:13He told me that as it stood, and should I die, I would leave my wife without provision.
10:22But this I knew, and had anyway drawn up a will myself that would correct the error,
10:27and would have put my signature to it and had it witnessed.
10:30Could I be certain that her fault of spending was a temporary, passing thing, and not deep-rooted?
10:42This new will, by the way, would give her the house and the estate for her lifetime only,
10:50and so to you upon her death,
10:52with the proviso that the running of the estate be left in your hands entirely.
10:59It still remains unsigned, and for the reasons I have told you.
11:07Mark you, it is Rinaldi who asked questions on the will.
11:12Well, Rinaldi, who drew my attention to the omissions of the one that stands at present,
11:18she does not speak of it.
11:21To me.
11:23But do they speak of it together?
11:26What is it that they say to one another when I am not there?
11:32Two days ago, which brings me to the reason for this letter,
11:37I had another attack of fever.
11:41The onset is sudden.
11:42I am seized with pains and sickness,
11:45which passes swiftly to great excitation of my brain,
11:48driving me near to violence.
11:51And I can hardly stand upon my feet for dizziness of mind and body.
11:56And this, in its turn, passes,
12:00and an intolerable desire for sleep comes upon me,
12:03so that I fall upon the floor or upon my bed
12:07with no power over my limbs.
12:10I do not recollect my father being thus.
12:14My headaches, yes,
12:15and some difficulty of temperament,
12:17but not the other symptoms.
12:21Philip, my boy,
12:23the only being in the world whom I can trust,
12:28tell me what it means.
12:30And if you can,
12:32come out to me.
12:36Say nothing to Nick Kendall.
12:40Say no word to any single soul.
12:46One thought possesses me,
12:49leaving me no peace.
12:52Are they trying to poison me?
12:57Ambrose.
12:59Hey!
13:32Why did you stay away so long?
13:35Have you been here?
13:38Do you know the fact?
14:05Fifteen long years.
14:07The little boy of ten who opened his birthday pie.
14:10I keep remembering that story.
14:17In three weeks time, it will be my birthday once again.
14:22I shall be 25.
14:25Do you know what happens on that day?
14:28In three weeks time, I must leave you, Philip.
14:31What?
14:32After your birthday.
14:34Why?
14:36I have stayed here too long.
14:39Supposing...
14:43Supposing Ambrose had made a will,
14:46leaving the property to you for your lifetime,
14:49with the proviso that I looked after the estate and ran it for you.
14:54What would you have done?
14:56Would you have lived here?
14:59Would you have turned me out?
15:03Turned you out of your own home?
15:05You would have stayed there.
15:07You would have lived here in the house and, in a sense, employed me in your business.
15:11We would be living here together.
15:14Just as we are now.
15:17Yes.
15:19Yes, I suppose.
15:20I never thought.
15:21It would be different though.
15:23How?
15:23How different?
15:25Because I'm a woman.
15:27What?
15:28Ask your godfather.
15:29He has said nothing, but I'm sure he feels the time has come for me to go.
15:34So...
15:35It would have been quite otherwise, had the house been mine and...
15:39you, in the sense you put it, in my employ.
15:43I should be Mrs. Ashley.
15:46And you my heir.
15:51But now, as it has turned out...
15:56What happened to the will?
16:00The will that Ambrose made and never signed, in which he left the property to you.
16:05How do you know of such a will?
16:07Well, I have always known that there must be one.
16:13What are you trying to make me say?
16:16Only confirm that it exists.
16:19Very well, yes.
16:21But that alters nothing.
16:23May I see it?
16:26Why? What for?
16:28May I see it?
16:39Why?
16:39Very well.
16:40Let's go.
17:12Why didn't Ambrose sign this will?
17:16I never knew.
17:17We never spoke of it.
17:20I suppose it was because what happened when...
17:24when he became ill.
17:25What did happen?
17:27You know.
17:29No, I don't.
17:31You never told me.
17:33Not properly.
17:39No, I don't.
17:42There was so much bitterness.
17:45So much suspicion.
17:48He seemed to mistrust everybody.
17:50Even the servants.
17:52Was that because of money?
17:55Poor Ambrose.
17:57It was a constant source of worry to him.
18:00What he considered my extravagance.
18:04I'm surprised he didn't tell you about it.
18:09At first he was so generous.
18:12You cannot imagine what it meant to me, Philippe.
18:16At last, someone I could trust.
18:19And more wonderful still than that, someone I could love as well.
18:24And when he became ill, everything changed.
18:28He...
18:30He would buy me things.
18:32Presents.
18:33Pieces of jewelry.
18:36Almost...
18:37Almost as if he were trying to test me in some...
18:42I can't explain it.
18:44And then if I asked for money,
18:46some little necessity for the house,
18:49he would...
18:50He would look at me so strangely.
18:54So suspiciously.
18:57He would ask me why I wanted the money.
18:59How he intended to use it.
19:01Did I intend to give it to anyone?
19:06What?
19:06Eventually I had to go to Rinaldi.
19:10I had to go to Rinaldi, Philippe,
19:12to ask for money to pay the servants' wages.
19:16Did Ambrose find out that you did that?
19:20Yes.
19:23He never cared for Rinaldi.
19:25I believe I told you so before.
19:30And...
19:31When he found out...
19:34about the money...
19:37about the money...
19:38he...
19:38well...
19:40he...
19:43he...
19:44he...
19:44He...
19:45He suspected you?
19:46Yes.
19:49Of what?
19:52Of infidelity?
19:54Of what?
19:57Of everything.
20:02Oh, God, I should not be telling you these things.
20:06I want you to remember him as he was here with you.
20:10You have your picture of him in this house.
20:12He was your Ambrose then.
20:13The last weeks were mine.
20:15And I want no one to share them with me, least of all you.
20:19Go now, Philippe, please.
20:21Leave me to myself.
20:24I'm sorry.
20:24Just go.
20:26Go.
20:32May I keep this will for a day or so?
20:36Do what you want. It's over and done with.
20:38Why can't we leave the past alone?
21:10You should be like, what it is.
21:13You should have died.
21:14I'm sorry.
21:15I'm sorry.
21:19You should have to say...
21:23I'm sorry.
23:38I love you, Vaticano.
24:06Oh, good.
24:08I'm in time for tea.
24:10And two cups, Egan.
24:11How did you guess?
24:15Billy, look who's here.
24:18Who's come so far to see us both?
24:21I must congratulate you on your fine property.
24:25I do not wonder your cousin Rachel has become so much attached to it.
24:29I have never seen her look so well.
24:33My cousin has her origins in the West Country.
24:36She has merely returned where she belongs.
24:39It depends which tie of blood is strongest, does it not?
24:43Your young relative forgets your mother came from Rome.
24:47And I may add, you grow more like her every day.
24:51I hope you're in her face alone.
24:53Not in her line nor in her character.
25:00Have you succeeded in selling the Villa Sangaletti?
25:03Not as yet, no.
25:04In fact, and that is partly the reason why I came here,
25:07we are almost decided upon letting it instead.
25:10It would be not so final as selling.
25:14After all, your cousin may wish to return to Florence one day.
25:17It was her home for so many years.
25:21I have no intention of returning.
25:24Not to live anyway.
25:25Not to live anyway.
25:26Not to live anyway.
25:28Possibly not, but...
25:31We shall see.
25:42We have not forgotten.
25:47Philip.
25:48Philip.
25:51If you will excuse us, Reinaldi and I have much we must discuss.
25:55He has brought some papers I have to sign.
25:57And it would be best we do it in the boot war.
25:59Will you join us presently?
26:02No.
26:03I think not.
26:04I'm feeling rather tired.
26:08I'll bet you good night.
26:10Good night, Mr. Ashley.
26:12Good night, Philip.
26:39Good night.
26:43Oh, ok.
27:09You really should come to Italy, Miss Kelber.
27:12Can you not persuade your father to bring you for a holiday?
27:14Well, I'll certainly try.
27:16We'll give you a masked ball, alfresco in the open air.
27:20Young Philip here might find it amusing to dress himself up in masked domino
27:23and search about the bushes for Miss Kendal.
27:28I'm sure Louise would ask for nothing better.
28:33Are you glad we are alone again?
28:55What's all this about?
28:56I've got the uneasy feeling that I'm about to receive an unpleasant surprise.
29:00I want you both to read this.
29:03As you know, in a few hours time at midnight I should be 25.
29:07And this document will come into effect at that precise moment.
29:10Where did these papers come from?
29:11Did I draw them up?
29:12No, I went to Bodmin to Mr. Tewin.
29:14Tewin?
29:15But why?
29:15What on earth for?
29:16Well, I think you should read it and then you will see why.
29:18But Mr. Philip, sir, this disposes of your entire property.
29:24What?
29:24Yes, Mr. Cooch, it does.
29:26At midnight tonight my entire property will be transferred to Mrs. Ambrose Ashley.
29:30But this is madness, Philip.
29:32Before you say anything further, I think you should see this.
29:35It was not given to me willingly but only after much argument and discussion.
29:38I had long felt such a paper must be in existence.
29:41Ambrose wrote it some weeks before he died and in it he leaves everything, everything, to Mrs. Ashley.
29:47Is it genuine?
29:49This is undoubtedly Ambrose's handwriting.
29:53But it is unsigned.
29:54Ambrose intended to sign it.
29:56But his illness caused fears and delusions which clouded his judgment.
30:00By transferring my property to my cousin Rachel, I am merely carrying out what Ambrose would have done,
30:05had he not been taken ill.
30:07Well, does her cousin have any knowledge of what you're doing?
30:10None whatsoever.
30:11She doesn't even know that I am here or that I have shown you the will.
30:14Are you absolutely determined upon this course?
30:18Quite.
30:20Well, does her advisor, Senior Rinaldi, know of this document?
30:24Well, certainly not.
30:25Oh, I wish you'd told me of it, Philip. I could have discussed it with him.
30:28He seemed to me a man of sense.
30:30I had a word with him the other evening and he admitted that extravagance was a fault and always had
30:37been.
30:39It caused trouble not only with Ambrose but also with her first husband, Sangaletti.
30:44And he gave me to understand that he, Senior Rinaldi, is the only person who knows how to deal with
30:48her.
30:48I don't give a job what the man said.
30:50I dislike him.
30:51And I believe he uses this argument for his own purposes.
30:54He intends to entice her back to Florence.
30:57Oh, there is one thing further, Mr. Cooch.
30:59Yes?
31:00I want to have custody of the family jewels.
31:03Custody?
31:04You mean now?
31:06Yes, Mr. Cooch.
31:07I mean now.
31:24Philip.
31:27Forgive me for asking you this question.
31:29But you are completely infatuated with Ilkhaus, now you're not.
31:33I don't know what you mean.
31:34No.
31:36Infatuation is a futile and most ugly word.
31:40I love her.
31:41And I respect her.
31:44Yes, well.
31:47There is much talk, you know, about her being so long a visitor to your house.
31:51The whole of the county whispers of little else.
31:53Let them continue.
31:55After tomorrow they will have something else to discuss.
31:57The transfer of property and fortune can hardly be kept secret.
32:01If your cousin Rachel has any wisdom, and if she wishes to keep her self-respect,
32:06she will either go to London or ask you to live elsewhere.
32:11This situation is very wrong for you both.
32:15Look, be on your guard, Philip.
32:16There are some women, good women perhaps, who through no fault of their own, impelled disaster.
32:25Whatever they touch, somehow turns to tragedy.
32:30Be careful.
32:39If you and Louise are both at liberty tomorrow evening, why not come and dine?
32:43And drink my health upon my birthday.
32:47I'm not certain if we're free.
32:50I will at any rate send word to you by noon.
32:54Ah, Mr. Cooch.
32:58Thank you so very much.
33:38Thank you so much.
34:13Who is he?
34:15Philip.
34:15Philip.
34:26What did you want?
34:29I was three parts of sleep, you know.
34:31Shh!
34:33Listen.
34:37Listen.
34:41there
34:42at this moment
34:44I've become
34:4625
34:53you can read that later
34:55but this
35:00this I want to give you now
35:06everything I have
35:08is yours
35:11everything
35:17oh Philip
35:22my Philip
35:26oh
35:27I'm
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37:32I love you.
38:18Mr. Philip, sir, may I take the liberty
38:23of wishing you many, many happy returns of your birthday.
38:28I hope you will not be offended, sir,
38:30and might be pleased to accept this as a gift.
38:36Oh.
38:37Thank you, Segan.
38:58Do you think it does me justice, sir?
39:03Well, a perfection in a portrait is impossible, Segan.
39:07The artist seems to have given a harshness to the features,
39:12especially the nose.
39:14I am not altogether satisfied.
39:17I shall hang it in a place of honour near the stairs.
39:20Ask John to bring a hammer and nail.
39:22Very good, sir.
39:23Oh, and when he's done that,
39:24tell him to pack a luncheon basket for a picnic.
39:26I'm thinking of taking Mrs. Ashley for a drive.
39:28Oh, but the mistress has gone out, sir.
39:31Gone out?
39:32Just now, as I was crossing the hall.
39:34She ordered the carriage for ten
39:36when I took up her breakfast tray.
39:38But she never goes driving in the morning.
39:40Where has she gone, do you know?
39:41No, sir, I cannot say.
39:44Perhaps to town.
39:47Yes.
39:50All right, thank you, Segan.
40:12All right, thank you, Segan.
40:14Thank you, Segan.
40:14Thank you, Segan.
40:14Thank you, Segan.
40:14Thank you, Segan.
40:14Thank you, Segan.
40:14Thank you, Segan.
40:16Thank you, Segan.
40:19Thank you, Segan.
40:20I don't know.
40:53I don't know.
41:44I don't know.
41:54I don't know.
41:56I don't know.
42:02I don't know.
42:02I don't know.
42:06Nothing more to be said on the matter?
42:08Nothing.
42:11Here.
42:31I don't know.
42:59I don't know.
43:01I don't know.
43:31I don't know.
43:31I don't know.
43:32You are the best and sweetest companion a man could wish to have.
43:36And I want you both to raise your glasses, Nick and Louise.
43:40I want you both to raise your glasses and drink a toast to Rachel.
43:46Oh.
43:47Who is to be my wife.
43:53Philip, have you quite lost your sense?
44:00I'm sorry, was it premature to break the news?
44:05Where is my birthday?
44:06Hey.
44:08These are my oldest friends.
44:12I think the birthday and the wine have gone to Philip's head.
44:17Please forgive this piece of schoolboy folly.
44:21And forget it if you can.
44:25He will apologize when he is himself again.
44:27Shall we move to the drawing room?
44:28Do forgive us, my Duke.
44:31But I think it's time we went home.
44:54You'd better go to bed before you do any more damage.
44:57Rachel, I must talk to you, please.
44:59I am tired.
45:02Forgive me, please.
45:03Look, you can trust me, Kent.
45:06They won't give away our secret.
45:09Good God, I should hope not since they know nothing of it.
45:13You make me feel like a back stairs servant.
45:17Creeping up to some attic with a groom.
45:20I have known shame before, but this is the worst.
45:23You were not ashamed last night.
45:25You gave me your promise then and you were not angry.
45:28My promise?
45:29What promise?
45:31To marry me.
45:35You dare to stand there and bluster to me that I promised to marry you last night?
45:39You heard me say you had lost your sense and so you have.
45:43You know very well I gave you no such promise.
45:46But that's not true.
45:48You asked me what I wanted.
45:51And you promised.
45:53I promised nothing, Philip.
45:56If you thought otherwise, I'm sorry.
45:58It was not my intention to mislead you.
46:04Do you not love me then?
46:06Let go of me.
46:07Why, for God's sake, didn't you speak the truth last night?
46:10And tell me to go?
46:13You dare approach me for what happened?
46:16I wanted to thank you, that was all.
46:19You had given me the jewels.
46:20There was nothing more to it than that.
46:22Now do as I say and let me go.
46:28Never leave me.
46:30Swear it!
46:37Never leave me.
46:53Never leave me.
46:57We need you.
46:59They were.
47:03Let me go.
47:05Bye.
47:05Bye.
47:08Bye.
47:11Bye.
47:12Bye.
47:13Bye.
47:15Bye.
47:18Bye.
47:37Oh, sorry, Mr. Seagland.
47:39What's what?
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