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A Neuveux riche family sends their daughters for a season in London to prepare for their entrance into American society. Once in England, they plot the girl' social life. Together with two friends they set off to conquer London society.
A Neuveux riche family sends their daughters for a season in London to prepare for their entrance into American society. Once in England, they plot the girl' social life. Together with two friends they set off to conquer London society.
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00:00Here, Jimmy. Jimmy, over here!
00:02Over here!
00:04Jimmy!
00:06Hi!
00:08Hi!
00:10Hi!
00:12Hi!
00:14Hi!
00:16Hi!
00:18Hi!
00:20Hi!
00:22Run!
00:24Here.
00:26As usual.
00:28As usual.
00:58Run!
01:02Hello.
01:04Mrs. St. George.
01:10I was just thinking, Mrs. St. George,
01:12that your Virginia just might have the advantage
01:14where her complexion is concerned.
01:16Ready?
01:18And, of course, her hair is just gorgeous.
01:20But I swear,
01:22my Lizzie's waist is an inch smaller.
01:24If not two.
01:26Oh, yes.
01:28Lizzie's waist, it's remarkable.
01:30Oh,
01:32that Clausen girl.
01:34Why, her head is too small
01:36and, well, her neck is just too long
01:38and that mouth is just
01:40too big.
01:42You don't think she has just that sort of
01:44plainness that one day when you're not looking
01:46turns into beauty?
01:48Beauty?
01:50You think a tiny nose
01:52and a too large mouth
01:54would make her beautiful, do you?
01:56I think the gentleman might.
01:58Ha, ha, ha, ha!
02:00I can help you!
02:02I can help you!
02:04Ah!
02:06Ah!
02:08Ah!
02:10Thank you!
02:12Good afternoon, Henderson.
02:14Would you like to sit by the bench?
02:18I don't want you to go around
02:20with that strange girl.
02:22Now, Ginny, would you listen
02:24to what I say?
02:26I don't even know who you're talking about.
02:28Why, that Clausen girl, of course.
02:30Oh, I think she's lovely.
02:32When Miss Tess Valley comes, you will find
02:34that she feels exactly the way I do about
02:36those people and you'll have to do as she says
02:38and no arguing.
02:40She's not really coming, is she?
02:42Oh, all stylish girls have governesses nowadays
02:44and this one's very special.
02:46She was with the Parmore girl.
02:48Her? She looks at us as if she doesn't
02:50even know us.
02:52That is how a lady is supposed to look at strangers.
02:54Well, then that's how I'll look at this governess.
03:20Oh, there goes one.
03:40Welcome to Newport, Miss Tess Valley!
03:44Well, which one of you
03:46charming young ladies is to be my pupil?
03:48Oh, don't you just love her accent?
03:50Say something more! Say something!
03:52Isn't one of you going to own up to being my pupil?
03:54Guess! Guess! You have to guess which one!
03:56Very well.
04:08I guess
04:10this is Miss Annabelle.
04:12Yes!
04:14How did you know?
04:16Anyone can see you. Nothing but a baby.
04:18Well, if I'm a baby,
04:20I want a nurse, not a beastly English governess.
04:22Annabelle May!
04:26My dearest Jackie,
04:28if you could only see
04:30what a shameless negotiator I have become.
04:32The New York agency
04:34informed me that the new people
04:36will give almost anything
04:38for an accomplished English governess,
04:40but that I would certainly be unhappy with them.
04:42I did not like to point out
04:44that I didn't come to America
04:46in search of distinguished people.
04:48I came in search of money.
04:50Since the St. Georges are very new indeed,
04:52I put up my salary accordingly,
04:54and once my employer
04:56had recovered from her shock,
04:58was accepted.
05:10I'm sorry I called you beastly, Annabelle.
05:14Papa!
05:16Papa!
05:18I'm so glad you've come.
05:24What's the news?
05:26Lots.
05:28Lots of news.
05:32Oh, how are the races?
05:34Well, Saratoga
05:36has always been kind to me, my dear.
05:38The governess has arrived.
05:40I have to talk to you.
05:42Yes.
05:44Can I go
05:46with you next time?
05:48In a few years, sweetheart.
05:50I've got a few
05:52fancy notions for you and your sister,
05:54and a real piece of class
05:56for your mother.
05:58Is it awfully expensive?
06:00Why, what if it is, you critical little mute?
06:02Well,
06:10of course I don't know any of the particulars,
06:12but Mrs. Clausen
06:14is hardly the kind of woman I would ever
06:16associate with. I've even heard that
06:18Mr. and Mrs. Clausen are not married.
06:20Hold on.
06:22I know what you think.
06:24The fact is Clausen is about to put me
06:26onto something big, and if you go turning your nose
06:28up at his family, you're going to wreck the whole business.
06:30Mr. Clausen is little better than a gangster.
06:32Sweetie, a man
06:34can make his money from hotels and casinos
06:36without being a gangster.
06:38The fact is,
06:40Clausen has the ears of some of the most powerful men
06:42in town, from Gould to Vanderbilt,
06:44and I need him.
06:46I'm sure I just can't bear to think of the kind
06:48of men that you have to deal with.
06:50Well, I ain't asking you to think either.
06:52I'm asking you to
06:54smile, and ain't you
06:56got the prettiest smile in all
06:58the union?
07:18I rely on you. You know that,
07:20don't you?
07:22That is the result of my
07:24first turnover, madam.
07:26What do you say, sweetheart?
07:30But you know, dear, I still have the girls
07:32to think about, and if they're ever to meet
07:34any nice young men...
07:36Nice young men will show up in greater numbers
07:38if I can put this deal through.
07:40Which
07:42reminds me.
07:44Clausen is coming up
07:46on the evening train,
07:48bringing his stepson and a nice
07:50young English gentleman with him.
07:52New dancing partners
07:54eh?
07:56Now, what say you invite
07:58the Clausens to join us for supper, my dear?
08:04Well, this poor
08:06man had a devil of a time in South America
08:08riding western sets. Now, of course,
08:10we considered it an honor to have Lord Richard on my
08:12wife's society, but one of
08:14our wild little horses took a different view.
08:16Mr. Clausen,
08:18if the subject of this story
08:20may be allowed to speak. Oh, please, Lord Richard,
08:22go right ahead. I'd just like to say
08:24that at home I'm considered
08:26no worse a rider than the mixed man.
08:30I don't doubt you're a fine horseman,
08:32English style, but those little
08:34Pueblo horses have fire in their blood.
08:36Fire, you call it?
08:38Brimstone, or like.
08:44Pure Brazilian blood, Richard.
08:46Cheers, gentlemen.
08:50Now that you're in the United States, Lord Richard,
08:52do you see a great deal about us
08:54to criticize?
08:56On the contrary, Mrs. St. George.
09:00I see much to admire.
09:16I see much to admire.
09:46Let's go.
09:52Tell me, have you always
09:54lived in New York? No, we're originally
09:56from West Virginia.
09:58We were very poor, you know, when I was young.
10:00But after the Civil War, you know we had a war.
10:02Yes, dear. Well, right after that
10:04we had nothing. Mother used to cry
10:06because we couldn't buy new curtains.
10:08Well, after it was all over, we moved to New York
10:10and Papa got rich on the Pacific Railroad
10:12or something.
10:14And we got a house on Madison Avenue.
10:16Only, as soon as we moved in,
10:18Mother realized no one lives on
10:20Madison Avenue anymore.
10:24Are you looking forward to going back to New York?
10:26No.
10:28Because it will be the same as it always is.
10:30Mother will send her cards to the right people
10:32and we still won't get invited to the right parties.
10:34And Mother in Virginia will spend the whole time
10:36moaning about it.
10:38Can't imagine how boring it is.
10:40Don't do that, dear.
10:42What I'd really like to be
10:44is a rich man's mistress.
10:46Not some classy Englishman's wife
10:48like Connie.
10:50Well, even a rich man's mistress
10:52has her boring moments.
10:54She has to take the greatest care of her person
10:56and her clothes.
10:58In the meantime, I think you should take the greatest care
11:00of your grammar.
11:02Now, Mrs. Palmore is one of the right people
11:04your mother talks about, so do your best
11:06to be polite.
11:12And who is this?
11:14This is my new pupil, Mrs. Palmore.
11:16Miss Annabelle St. George.
11:18St. George?
11:20Yes, I...
11:22No. It's not a name I'm familiar with.
11:26Now, Miss Tutspally,
11:28my memory does not deceive me.
11:30You were governess to Lord Richard's sisters,
11:32were you not?
11:34I was with the ladies Honoré and Felicia
11:36for three years, yes.
11:38But, of course, I didn't know
11:40very much of the sons.
11:42Of course.
11:44But now tell me,
11:46Lord Richard is not the Brittlesea heir, is he?
11:48Oh, good gracious, no.
11:50No, Lord Richard has an older brother.
11:54Even so, his intended marriage
11:56to this Clausen girl is surely
11:58somewhat overhasty.
12:00It has rather taken us by surprise, yes.
12:02But Lord Richard met Miss Clausen
12:04some months ago
12:06on the family plantation in Brazil.
12:08I trust my own daughter
12:10would never consent to an engagement
12:12of less than two years.
12:14But I suppose,
12:16among the people that you're with now,
12:18there are no social traditions.
12:20Well, it is naturally
12:22a very different experience
12:24from being with you, Mrs. Palmore.
12:26I consider myself very fortunate
12:28to have had such a distinguished introduction
12:30to America.
12:34Poor young man.
12:36Does his family realize
12:38what a deplorable choice he's made?
12:40On the other hand, does her family realize
12:42nothing, of course, can alter the fact
12:44that he is the son of a Marquess.
12:48Nevertheless,
12:50it has been said
12:52that Lord Richard has been
12:54somewhat dissipated.
12:56Governess, as you know,
12:58hears so much less gossip
13:00than ladies' maids.
13:02Quite so.
13:06Did you recall, Miss Tess Valley,
13:08that it is my daughter Alida's
13:1018th birthday next week?
13:12So it is.
13:14My last child.
13:16We shall have the cream of Newport society
13:18at her birthday party.
13:20I flatter myself that even an English
13:22aristocrat would be impressed.
13:24Oh, no doubt he would.
13:26But, of course,
13:28one cannot invite Lord Richard
13:30without his fiancée.
13:36I think
13:38Richard will like it, no?
13:42Can anyone tell me
13:44why Miss Watson is the only one invited
13:46to Miss Palmer's ball?
13:48Because of Lord Richard, of course.
13:50And who are the Clausons, pray? And where do they come from?
13:52For that matter, Mother, who are we?
13:54Where do we come from?
13:57Laura.
14:01May I speak to you alone?
14:03Oh, please.
14:05I need you.
14:07Am I signed?
14:13It's about Clauson.
14:16He's taken it rather badly
14:18that there's been no word from home about our marriage.
14:20He keeps nagging me
14:22about what he calls my circumstances.
14:24You know, I honestly think
14:26he despises me for not being in business of some kind.
14:31But the point is
14:33you're the sort.
14:35People talk to them.
14:37And if anything else upsets him, I can quite see him
14:39taking it into his head to question you about me.
14:41Why question me?
14:43Devil take it, Laura. Everyone knows you were part of the family.
14:45And?
14:47Look.
14:49The fact is, I know my mother
14:51blurted out all that stupid business to you
14:53before I left All Fries.
14:55Oh, you mean your little experiment with fraud.
14:57Yes, well, I was an idiot, of course,
14:59but I didn't understand half of what I was doing.
15:01Yes.
15:03Your mother did say something.
15:07Things are bad enough as it is,
15:09but that Clauson getting wind of all that...
15:11Oh, yes, I do see.
15:13A prospective son-in-law
15:15with straying hands.
15:17You're so hard on a fellow.
15:19Am I?
15:22I don't think so.
15:27Your secret is safe with me.
15:31You're a brick, Laura.
15:33You always were.
15:35And you don't think
15:37too unkindly of me, do you?
15:39I don't think of you at all, Lord Richard.
15:45You know, I shall marry her anyway,
15:47with or without my parents' blessing.
15:51Besides,
15:53they'll come round
15:55once they realise her stepfather's filthy with money.
15:59Soon will be.
16:01Oh, thank you.
16:07It's from your mother.
16:09Is she black, his anguished mother,
16:11Selina Brittlesy?
16:13LAUGHTER
16:19Promise me something, will you?
16:21Promise me
16:23that you'll never do anything to hurt Conchita.
16:27I swear I'd rather shoot myself
16:29than harm a hair off her head.
16:31Good.
16:33Richard, if I'm to keep your secret,
16:35let me ask
16:37a trifling favour in return.
16:39Oh,
16:41to be in England...
16:43Oh?
16:45Oh!
16:47Now that April's there...
16:49Now that April...
16:51Now that April...
16:53And after April...
16:55And after April,
16:57when May follows...
16:59And after April,
17:01when May follows...
17:03And the White Throat builds...
17:05Oh, the White Throat swallows!
17:07Now, come on, you've got to take this seriously.
17:09Now, Virginia, Lizzie,
17:11look at my lips.
17:15All right?
17:17Say after me,
17:19Oh, to be in England...
17:23Please, now come on.
17:25Oh, oh, it's very simple.
17:27Oh, to be in England.
17:29England.
17:31Oh, to be in England
17:33now that April's there...
17:35And after...
17:37No, no, no, it's
17:39Oh, to be in England
17:41now that April's there, yes?
17:43Very good, Conchita.
17:45Thank you, darling.
17:47But you're hopeless.
17:49Hopeless.
17:51And it's Oh, and after.
17:53Oh!
17:55Oh, to be in England
17:57now that April's there.
17:59Yes, very good.
18:01The baby, yes.
18:03Senator
18:05Mansfield Douglas
18:07and Mrs. Douglas.
18:09His Excellency
18:11the Ambassador from the Netherlands
18:13Mr. Van Der Rohe
18:15and Mrs. Van Der Rohe.
18:17Commodore
18:19Ethan McCowan.
18:47Lord Richard Marable
18:49and his fiancée
18:51Miss Conchita
18:53Lawson.
19:19Mr. Palmer
19:21my charming daughter, Alida.
19:29The ladies
19:31Honoria and Felicia Marable.
19:33Lord Richard's sisters.
19:49Your appearance
19:51is somewhat surprising.
19:53I gave you the impression
19:55this was to be a fancy dress ball.
20:01Welcome
20:03to America.
20:05We can't say
20:07how charmed we are
20:09to be here, Mrs. Palmer.
20:11Charmed.
20:35Oh, that's
20:37perfect for a ride.
20:41Oh,
20:43Senator's baby.
20:45Mrs. Douglas.
20:49Mrs. Farmore's party
20:51at her height of the season.
20:53Wonderful, darling.
20:55Oh,
20:57I did want to go to the ball
20:59really, even though I said
21:01I didn't care. Well, now that Virginia
21:03and Lizzie have found an entree, I'm sure there'll be
21:05plenty of balls for you to attend
21:07when the time comes.
21:11Cold.
21:13Come under the covers.
21:15Come on.
21:19Ha, ha, ha.
21:23Willows whiten,
21:25aspens quiver,
21:27little breezes dusk and shiver
21:29through the wave that
21:31runs forever by the
21:33island in the river flowing
21:35down to Camelot.
21:37That's lovely. Who wrote it?
21:39Alfred Tennyson.
21:41Is he English? Yes.
21:43I'm sure England is full of poets.
21:45I know if
21:47ever I met an English poet,
21:49I should fall in love with him.
21:51Well, let's hope you never meet one.
21:55Are you younger than my mother?
21:59I believe we
22:01are probably about the same age.
22:03You seem much younger.
22:07Perhaps it's because you don't have a husband.
22:09Oh, Annabelle.
22:11Haven't you noticed that when ladies marry,
22:13they go sort of quiet and dull?
22:15I have not.
22:17Well, it's true.
22:19I...
22:21I'd rather be like you.
22:23Free.
22:27When a woman wants to be free,
22:29Annabelle,
22:31there's a price to pay.
22:33Don't ever forget that.
22:39It's probably best for a lady to marry wisely.
22:41You didn't get married.
22:43We're not talking about me.
22:45And I'm not a lady.
22:47Now, listen, do.
22:49Please.
22:51On either side the river lie
22:53long fields of barley and of rye
22:55that clothe the world
22:57and meet the sky.
22:59And through the field,
23:01the road runs by
23:03to many-towered Camelot.
23:09You do realize that Conchita
23:11will soon be part of one of the
23:13finest families in England.
23:15I mean to say that
23:17if Virginia and Annabelle
23:19ever wanted to do a London season,
23:21knowing the Brittleseas
23:23would be an enormous help.
23:25And if they got on well over there,
23:27well, when they came back
23:29to America, they would be
23:31invited everywhere.
23:33Oh. Oh, no.
23:35I couldn't.
23:37I couldn't face a strange country
23:39all alone, really. No, I couldn't.
23:47You're alone.
23:53It's worth thinking about.
24:09Oh!
24:15They're in
24:17the Van Dyke room, my lord.
24:19Hurry.
24:27It may be
24:29natural for a newly married man
24:31to visit his parents,
24:33but damn it, Serena,
24:35I know how the boy's mind
24:37works.
24:39He's after something.
24:41I thought we'd finally
24:43got rid of the young
24:45blighter.
24:49But here he is,
24:51back again, like the proverbial
24:53bad Kenny. Come on, Charlie.
24:55Come on. Wait.
24:59Go on, boys.
25:01Mother.
25:03Father.
25:05Allow me to introduce my wife,
25:07Conchita.
25:19We did not
25:21expect you.
25:25So very pleased, my dear.
25:27Incented.
25:29Incented.
25:31They're awfully quiet.
25:33Father can hardly throw
25:35Dickie out again. Why not?
25:37Because
25:39he has a wife now.
25:41A father would
25:43never throw a woman out of the house.
25:45Not even one who looks like a French
25:47actress.
25:49Especially not one who looks like a French
25:51actress.
25:53You know, Dickie says there are two more of them
25:55in London.
25:57Two more wives.
25:59Worse. Two more
26:01American girls. Sisters.
26:03Friends of Conchita.
26:05Unmarried.
26:15Now, my dear.
26:17Tell us something about yourself.
26:19Richard is not much
26:21of a correspondent. Really?
26:23He has told me all about you and our friars.
26:25Well, then you have the advantage.
26:27Where shall I begin?
26:29You might tell us about your parents.
26:31Well,
26:33my mother's family
26:35has a plantation in Brazil where
26:37we grow coffee and we raise horses.
26:39But, um,
26:41my father died when I was three.
26:43I'm so sorry.
26:45Some tropical disease,
26:47I suppose. No, he was shot
26:49by a horse rustler.
26:51That's gracious.
26:53Connie is a
26:55terrific horsewoman.
26:57Oh, splendid.
27:03And now I believe
27:05you have a stepfather. Yes.
27:07Well, the only father I remember.
27:09And does your stepfather
27:11rustle horses, too?
27:13No, he has a famous casino
27:15on 21st Street.
27:17Um,
27:1924th Street. Yes, ma'am.
27:21That's about as smart as you can get in New York.
27:31Now, my dear,
27:33you must be very tired
27:35after your long journey. Fisher
27:37will show you to your room.
28:05What exactly is
28:07Miss Clarson's financial
28:09position? Conchita
28:11is my wife, Father.
28:13Oh, quite.
28:15I can see she has a mischievous streak.
28:17I suspect we were
28:19treated to something of a performance
28:21just now, were we not?
28:25A stepfather's casino is actually the most
28:27sumptuous in New York.
28:29Advise her
28:31not to broadcast the fact.
28:35I take it
28:37you've agreed an acceptable
28:39settlement? Not exactly.
28:41Um,
28:43Connie gets an allowance, of course.
28:45But, to be frank,
28:47Clarson finds our idea of marriage settlements
28:49rather odd.
28:51Odd?
28:53Yeah, odd.
28:55I felt a bit of a heel to press the point.
28:57The fact is
28:59they find it rather ungentlemanly
29:01of a fellow not to support his wife
29:03on his own earnings.
29:05I hope I may expect
29:07an increase in my annuity, now that I'm
29:09a married man.
29:11Don't expect
29:13anything from me.
29:15You've already cost me more than I
29:17care to remember.
29:19When you left this house in the cloud two years ago,
29:21I swore
29:23I'd never be made a fool of by you
29:25again.
29:27Must we always hark back
29:29to that?
29:31Haven't I made up for my mistakes?
29:33Deuce, little.
29:35Dammit, boy!
29:37Other young fools have gone to America
29:39and made good!
29:45Why do you and
29:47Cedon both
29:49refuse to marry decent English girls?
30:03Poor old Richard.
30:07It's not just that the girl's as vulgar as hell.
30:09It's beginning to look as if she hasn't any money either.
30:11But then what
30:13did the ancestors expect?
30:15Someone to keep him in silk socks
30:17for the rest of his life?
30:19I mean, even on the other side of the Atlantic,
30:21I don't imagine Richard looked like much of a catch.
30:25Come on, you must admit it's funny, Adina.
30:29No, my love, it isn't.
30:31Why not?
30:33Because of us, Cedon.
30:35What's it to do with us, for pity's sake?
30:37It'll put ideas into your mother's head,
30:39she'll resent me
30:41even more.
30:43There'll be more pressure on you to make a good marriage
30:45to some cast-iron virgin.
30:47Oh, Lord, what a plague
30:49that brother of mine is.
30:53But nothing will take me from my darling girl.
30:55And she knows it.
30:59My love,
31:01I am older
31:03and wiser than you, and I know nothing of the kind.
31:09Sometimes I'm afraid
31:11I'll lose this place
31:13I love so much.
31:17It's costing me a small fortune.
31:19If I can't find the money for the rent,
31:21I'll have to let it for the summer.
31:23Then I shouldn't see you
31:25for months on end.
31:27We'll think of something.
31:35Yes!
31:37Oh, no, Jackie, I'm just kidding.
31:39I'm sorry.
31:41No, no, no, no...
31:43no, no, no...
31:45no, no...
31:47no...
31:49no...
31:51no...
31:53no...
31:55oh no Jackie.
31:57I'll miss you it's true.
31:59please miss it's Lady Brittlesea.
32:01ah I hope I do not inconvenience you Miss March.
32:04dear Lady Brittlesea what a delightful surprise and Miss Test Valley here with me too.
32:09well how extraordinary. it's just the person I wanted to see.
32:14it is of course especially trying for my husband.
32:18the London house Conchita's father promised has failed to materialize
32:22and as far as I can gather sometimes she receives her allowance and sometimes not.
32:28Richard is not behaving as well as he might.
32:31well you know my younger son's faults Miss Test Valley.
32:36yes.
32:39fancy traveling alone to America.
32:43I do think it was awfully brave to venture into such a wild unknown country.
32:49oh they're quite civilized in their way.
32:55oh my daughter-in-law dances like a perfect savage.
32:58halfway between a red Indian and a gaiety girl.
33:01and she sings in Spanish. is Spanish their native tongue still?
33:05not in the United States Lady Brittlesea.
33:08the native language is English.
33:10though you or I might question it.
33:15but you know there is something endearing about her.
33:17I'm so glad you think so.
33:19well I do rather.
33:21and of course she's very beautiful.
33:23one can quite see why Richard lost his head.
33:28dogs adore her.
33:32your current employers...
33:35the St. Georges?
33:37are they from the same part of the United States? from Brazil?
33:43some further north I think.
33:45ah well they think nothing of distances here do they?
33:48now you must tell me all about them.
33:52what is their business in England?
33:54they have come for the London season.
33:57well do these Americans not have a season of their own?
34:00oh they do but naturally does not have the same cachet as our London season.
34:08my daughter-in-law tells me the elder daughter is a beauty.
34:12oh they are both delightful girls.
34:15they're from a very respectable family.
34:17now their father is not a cattle rustler I take it.
34:23no Lady Brittlesea.
34:24Colonel St. George is a wealthy man.
34:27I'm told he's one of Wall Street's rising stars.
34:33indeed.
34:36how very clever of you to find them.
34:38oh I do so wish to see Seedon married.
34:49but surely in Lord Seedon's case that will be only too easy.
34:53we're forgetting this wretched entanglement of his with Edina Hutton.
34:57oh it's so much worse you know than if she was a disreputable woman
35:03and if she cost him a small fortune.
35:06and obviously there's no question of marriage.
35:09well we've done our best but he just won't look at a nice girl.
35:16there certainly is something about these foreign girls that attracts the young men isn't there?
35:23I suppose in sheer desperation.
35:25you know Lord Seedon's interest could not be closer to my heart.
35:30I shall make inquiries.
35:34a little something for you.
35:36thank you.
35:38you must go down to Wallfry as you know.
35:41oh that would make me very happy.
35:50Jackie does she really not remember you're American?
35:54I think half of her brain remembers and half of it doesn't.
35:59you mean the half she speaks with doesn't.
36:01now then darling I forgive her.
36:05but you know my dear you really must introduce me to your girls as soon as possible.
36:09oh I shall of course.
36:12what are you hoping for them?
36:14oh just to give them a London season.
36:18so they can go home trailing clouds of glory.
36:21oh I think we might do rather better than that.
36:28Santé.
36:30Santé.
36:31the survival of the fittest.
36:33Jackie.
36:35what are you up to?
36:36oh dreams and schemes.
36:39you know me.
36:42of course things were still very closed when I came over 30 years ago.
36:47I was soon nothing more than a pretty little American who had been jilted at the altar by a nobleman.
36:53it took me 10 years to get over that.
36:59but I've made a life for myself.
37:01but I've made a life for myself here.
37:05I have my uses and my rewards.
37:09and now even the brashest little American could slip through my front door
37:13and find herself at the very heart of London society.
37:20there is nothing I'd like more than to help a new generation of buccaneers do better than I did.
37:32oh poor Adina.
37:41girls shall we continue?
37:44the eldest son of a duke takes rank after marquises and before earls.
37:49the eldest son of an earl after viscounts and before the younger sons of marquises and bishops.
37:55but you're not listening to a word I'm saying.
37:58oh I don't know.
38:00I've gathered that a duke is worth more than a lord.
38:03it's enough to make one giddy.
38:05are you not interested in how the universe works my dears?
38:11I guess we're as good as anybody.
38:13they act different than us and we're just not used to them yet.
38:18well I suggest you continue to act in your own way.
38:24it'll amuse them more than if you try to copy them.
38:27Val I hate having to go without you.
38:30you shan't need me.
38:32not with miss March to show you the ropes.
38:34well what will you do?
38:36I think I shall go shopping and then I'll take the opportunity to visit my family.
38:43and remember never never take seconds of soup or fish.
38:49and don't go expressing any of your outlandish opinions.
38:52and there's another thing.
38:54in England the greater the man is the less likely he is to be entertaining.
39:00his dullness is always in proportion to his distinction.
39:05the poor boy is four-armed.
39:53I can't wait to write Lizzie.
39:55won't you just die of envy?
40:03I can't believe you're really here.
40:07all right come with me.
40:10yes I do and it is awfully dull.
40:23it's very cold too.
40:24you have to get used to it.
40:25they have ice in their veins.
40:27all right I'm going to show you two rooms and you don't have to meet the in-laws until dinner.
40:32and even then it will only be a small family party because they don't have many visitors here.
40:40where the devil's your mother at seven o'clock?
40:44mama's talking with Seaton I think.
40:47I saw him going to her dressing room.
40:50odd time for your mother to be talking in her dressing room.
40:54who else is here?
40:56no one in particular.
40:58just two American gals.
41:00friends of Conchita's.
41:03mama told her to ask them down.
41:06odd thing for her to do.
41:08Americans.
41:10damn it.
41:11she knows I hate that whole outlandish tobacco-chewing crew
41:15with their swagger and their nasal twangs.
41:19oh and miss March is here too.
41:22March?
41:24March?
41:26that's a name I know.
41:28Jack.
41:28I should think so papa.
41:31mama told me to be sure to remind you.
41:33remind me of what?
41:35I think you jilted her and broke her heart.
41:37I did what?
41:38yes you did papa. the very last minute too.
41:43after the wedding dress had been ordered.
41:46that old nonsense.
41:49you women.
41:51memories like elephants.
41:53well you're to be particularly nice to her.
41:56and be sure not to ask if she's ever been to all friars before.
42:00well I hope I'm nice as you call it to everyone who comes to my house.
42:06checkmate.
42:08good evening papa.
42:24Lord Briddlesea.
42:26I'm Virginia St. George.
42:30and this is my sister Annabel.
42:38charmed my dears.
42:41charmed.
42:47Lord Briddlesea.
42:50madam.
42:56oh yes of course.
42:58good lord.
43:01I didn't recognize you.
43:05it's difficult for us chaps.
43:08ladies with your hair and so on.
43:23Miss St. George.
43:25I should never have taken you for an American.
43:38uh
43:56oh
44:07uh
44:28I'm sorry.
44:29don't worry my dear.
44:30the greens ain't worth eating.
44:38so
44:44the girls would love to see the rubens papa.
44:47then they shall.
44:49certainly.
44:51which one is the rubens?
44:53good lord I don't know.
44:56isn't it the sickly pink one in the optical room?
44:58yes that's it.
45:08so
45:23are they really as dull as they seem?
45:27they're much worse.
45:29you have to take a pitchfork to them to get anything out of them.
45:33honestly if I don't get up to London soon
45:37I shall turn wicked.
45:41can you undo me darling a little?
45:42come back here.
45:44just loosen it up.
45:46oh hurry up.
45:51the baby's getting drunk.
45:55oh thank you darling.
45:59feeling much better.
46:01now what did you think of Stephen Jamie?
46:04I thought he looked a bit sad.
46:06oh he always does poor old Siddy.
46:13he can't help it.
46:15lord knows why he's his parents blue-eyed boy.
46:18and my Richard is the black sheep of the family.
46:21pity I didn't know that before I married.
46:24but you have said no.
46:26oh I don't expect so.
46:28where is he?
46:31well.
46:33he can't be fishing yet so I would say he's at the races.
46:36it doesn't give me informed what he's up to these days.
46:40now if only some nice little girl would come along and hold out her hand to Siddy.
46:51don't look at me!
46:54well you girls may not know what's good for you but I am on the lookout for a new friend.
47:01someone with a large disposable income who can't quite think how to spend.
47:06Connie!
47:08oh I'm sorry your little puritans haven't been broken in yet.
47:16well don't worry you'll soon come down off your high horses.
47:20in fact tomorrow you better hold on to your hearts because we are going over to honor's love
47:25to have tea with Guy Foyt and his father sir Helmsley who is an old heartbreaker.
47:32and Guy is one of the most fascinating detrimentals in all of England.
47:37what's a detrimental?
47:39it's a young man that all the women are mad for but they can't afford to marry.
47:48now I come to think of it.
47:52Guy would be just perfect to run in tandem with that rich lover I'm after.
48:02good night ladies.
48:04good night Connie.
48:13Lady Richard.
48:16Mr. George allow me to introduce Mr. Thwaite.
48:18Mr. George.
48:20please do come in.
48:22Siddy Helmsley.
48:23Guy.
48:24I showed the girls the gardens.
48:25oh they're looking beautiful.
48:27um do come and meet my father.
48:32it is a great pleasure to have you here Mr. George.
48:37you're most welcome.
49:02why did you say that Mr. Thwaite can't afford to marry?
49:07because Guy's father played dice with his inheritance and lost.
49:10played dice?
49:12when Guy's mother died she left him 20 maybe 50,000 pounds depending on who's telling the story.
49:18well Guy was only 13 so the father took the money and tried to invest it for him.
49:23he lost every last penny.
49:25ladies can I interest you in a glass of lemonade?
49:27you may.
49:29you're in very good health.
49:31thank you very much.
49:33thank you.
49:35thank you.
49:37Mr. George.
49:39stay just a minute.
49:41eyeglove.
49:54beautiful.
49:57it's the magic hour.
50:04you see it's been in our family not just for generations but for centuries.
50:09every tree, every stone is precious.
50:12honest love does it have a meaning?
50:14well no one really knows.
50:17do you know the poem by Lovelace?
50:20he was leaving his lady to go off to the wars and he ends...
50:25I could not love thee dear so much loved I not honor more.
50:33I can see why Conchita says this is the most beautiful place in England.
50:38I don't know.
50:42I suppose if one were married to a woman one adored one would soon get beyond her beauty.
50:47then you understand.
50:48understand?
50:50I mean about the the beyondness of things.
50:53you know I know there's no such word but...
50:54no no no but there is such a feeling.
50:59you have no idea how strange it is for me to be here.
51:03when I was little my reading primers they were all English.
51:07I remember one called uh McGuffey's second reader.
51:11we lived in a timber house in West Virginia but my book it was all
51:15larks and milkmaids and fox hunting.
51:18well you know when I was a boy your civil war was my most passionate interest.
51:22my papa fought in a civil war.
51:26on the confederate side I think my mother married beneath her.
51:30but our papa he was very handsome.
51:32oh well that's all right then.
51:37as my father's singing...
51:41it's taken rather a shine to your sister.
51:44everybody does.
51:47everybody?
51:53do you stay long at Allfriars Miss St. George?
51:55I'm afraid not.
51:57we have to go to London soon.
52:03that's the way I like them.
52:04golden and divinely dull.
52:08oh you mean the elder Miss St. Georgia.
52:10take it.
52:13but about as expensive to acquire as the Venus de Milo and as difficult to fit in domestic life.
52:20what do you imagine they make of us?
52:23I mean beneath that surface gush these Americans have a sort of reticence.
52:29I mean they look and they say well isn't that just divine.
52:33but you wonder what the hell they're really thinking.
52:48yes it's funny how things never really work out as planned.
52:53well
52:58I realize I've disappointed you.
53:01disappointed? disappointed? what are you talking about?
53:07on the contrary.
53:10you imagine I'd have got through those years of drudgery?
53:13no to stick to your training as you did.
53:16how could I not admire that?
53:17you know engineering is uh it's not career for a gentleman.
53:24certainly not what your mother would have wanted.
53:26and it'll never make a wealthy man of you.
53:28not working at home perhaps but if I were to go abroad...
53:32don't speak of going abroad.
53:34that's exactly what I did want to speak of.
53:35no I won't hear of it please.
53:37no.
53:51see I was born with such a passionate desire to be a model of my own class
53:55but there's a there's a contradictory streak in my nature as you know only too well.
54:00so what have I done instead?
54:01I've translated a little Horace.
54:03I've painted a few landscapes.
54:05I've hobnobbed with artists and actresses.
54:09in short been nothing but a brilliant failure.
54:11so you see I rely on you to make up for my shortcomings.
54:14well then maybe I'll try and be a dismal success.
54:20dear boy dear boy.
54:22surely it's the ambition of every educated Englishman to sit in parliament.
54:26I couldn't agree with you more.
54:27you know it's always been my ambition but a politician needs money.
54:31well you'd hardly be short of patronage.
54:33I don't want patronage.
54:34I want independence.
54:37I mean to make a fortune not marry one.
54:44little unfair.
55:04you