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In 1920s England, two young cousins, Fanny and Linda, grow up amid the chaos of the family seat at Alconleigh.
In 1920s England, two young cousins, Fanny and Linda, grow up amid the chaos of the family seat at Alconleigh.
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05:51Like my uncle Matthew, my aunt Sadie lived in a perpetual state of surprise at having filled so many gradles.
05:59About the future of whose occupants, they seem to have no particular policy.
06:03Where's Linda?
06:04She's saying goodnight to Labby.
06:06Filthy brute!
06:07La pauvre Labby, samourade de la chaise de papa.
06:13What is that?
06:14They're just repeating something which Mademoiselle said.
06:17I do think Mademoiselle should be more accurate.
06:19What I heard, Labby didn't samourade anywhere.
06:22She was sick.
06:23Yes, that's right.
06:24I think we've had enough of this subject.
06:26Gosh, I'm worried.
06:27Have some nice hot tea, Stuck.
06:32Fanny's mouse, Brenda.
06:35What about Fanny's mouse, Brenda?
06:37Brenda died.
06:38She got a sore back and died.
06:40I wonder why she got a sore back.
06:43Do you think Fanny had been riding her?
06:45Yes.
06:46Trust me.
06:47I didn't tell you because I knew it'd upset you.
06:49Where's Brenda buried?
06:50Next door to Fanny's robin.
06:52She's got a dear little cross.
06:54Her coffin was lined with pink satin.
06:56Shut up.
06:57Eat your toast, Duck.
06:58I have gentleman's relish on it.
07:00Oh, well.
07:01That would be horribly unfair.
07:03None of us is ever allowed gentleman's relish
07:05because it's bad for children
07:07and only here for far.
07:09And just because Linda pumps up a few crocodile tears,
07:12that hide-smelling Brenda...
07:13I'm thinking this is right, Duck.
07:14With so many of you, if I won't start making exceptions...
07:16It'll be the thin end of the whip.
07:18Oh, now, look what...
07:19Now, that was all your fault, children.
07:21If you hadn't started her off...
07:22Oh, Bob!
07:23Oh, hi, Bob.
07:24Fanny!
07:26Hello.
07:27Hello, Fanny.
07:28Now, don't call your mother, Fanny.
07:29Hello.
07:30Are you better?
07:31Hello.
07:32Victoria, qu'est-ce que vous faites?
07:34Allons-nous baigner?
07:36We can't come yet.
07:37Bob's only just got home.
07:39Now, look, no one can steal you two.
07:40There's plenty of time to see Bob tomorrow.
07:42It is unfair.
07:43I've just been telling you,
07:44with so many of you to look after,
07:45I can't start making exceptions.
07:47Bed for you two is now.
07:48Just this once.
07:50Oh, well, I...
07:51Now, you be firm, Miss Hedy.
07:52Otherwise, it'll be the thin end of the wedge.
07:54Just once, just once, here,
07:56et je serai malade, comme la vie.
07:58La vie des cendres de bain.
08:00Comme tu disais, Lucille, elle était malade.
08:03Hey, Dog!
08:04Allons-y!
08:05Mais la vie n'est pas de caca,
08:06de la chèvre de pain,
08:07c'est de l'hommage.
08:09What is all that about?
08:10Everyday French conversation.
08:12Oh, my Lord, my Lady,
08:13telephone for Miss Linda or Miss Frances.
08:15Come on, Fanny.
08:20Where have you hidden Labby?
08:21Guess.
08:22They'll never find her.
08:24Yes.
08:30Miss Linda Radnett.
08:32Oh, it's you, Polly.
08:34Polly Hanson.
08:36No, no, of course you haven't forgotten.
08:39Heavens, high five.
08:41Heavens, how exciting, do tell.
08:44All right, tomorrow then, I can hardly wait.
08:47Yes, yes, we'll be ready at half-past ten.
08:50Goodbye, Polly.
08:51Ready at half-past ten?
08:53She's got something special to show us, a surprise.
08:55Goodie.
08:56Now, shall we go and see darling Labby?
08:58No, if we're away any longer, they'll suspect.
09:00We want them in a good temper,
09:01tell us to go early tomorrow.
09:03Why should they mind that?
09:04We're missing your music lesson, for one thing.
09:06Anyhow, you know how funny grown-up people always get
09:09if anyone wants to change the arrangements.
09:11That's long enough.
09:12Yes, Father, we're finished.
09:15Where are they going to practice?
09:20Come on, shall we have a go at snakes and ladders?
09:22It's all right, haven't you got too much homework?
09:24No.
09:25What was all that about?
09:26Polly Hanson.
09:27They're sending the car early for me and Fanny tomorrow.
09:29Why is that, Duck?
09:30Oh, she isn't mean.
09:31Polly's got a surprise for us.
09:33What about your music lesson?
09:34Oh, please, just this once.
09:35What will Farr say?
09:36That it's the thin end of the wedge.
09:38No, you won't.
09:39You know how he always, always gives him in.
09:41It's anything to do with Lord and Lady Montel.
09:44How very noticing you've become these days.
09:46Well, I won't say you're wrong, Duck,
09:49so I suppose it'll be all right
09:50as long as Lady Montel doesn't mind about the car.
09:52I can't think why she insists on sending it.
09:54Couldn't have said that.
09:55I could just as well take her in mind.
09:57Oh, but the Montels' roles are such heaven.
09:59Real fair on the seat,
10:00and the bliss at rubbing on one's bottom.
10:02Not like the horrid scratchy stuff in yours.
10:04So, you're getting too stuck up to go and save his car anymore?
10:07A few more invitations to Hampton and you won't want to know us.
10:10Bob's jealous because he's not invited over there tomorrow.
10:13And what would there be for me to do
10:14with a lot of silly little girls?
10:16Delicious lunch.
10:17And Lord and Lady Montel will be there as well as us.
10:20He's like a waxwork and she's like a vampire.
10:23And Lord Montel's sister,
10:25and her husband, Boy Dugdale.
10:27Soppy Boy Dugdale and his wet, soppy books.
10:30He came over to the Women's Institute
10:32and gave a lecture the other day,
10:34just before Fanny came.
10:37Well, I'm glad I missed it.
10:39Can't think what there is to laugh about.
10:41It's very difficult to get someone to talk at the Institute.
10:43I was very grateful to Mr Dugdale.
10:45I still think he's soppy.
10:46Lady Montel doesn't think that.
10:48She don't.
10:49Oh, Doug, now that's quite enough.
10:51I'm sure she does nothing of the sort.
10:52I tell you, Lady Montel dotes on Boy Dugdale.
10:56Though I'm not sure how much he dotes back.
10:59Keep a good look out tomorrow, you two.
11:02I shall expect a full report.
11:07Oh, isn't it blitzy?
11:11Aunt Sadie, at last Uncle Matthew's got a new record.
11:28If the Radlet children were always in gales of giggles or floods of tears,
11:32Polly Hampton was never in either.
11:35Polly was still in deep.
11:37I always thought it was just a boring old well.
11:40And it isn't, and it's the same as ever to me.
11:42Well, it isn't.
11:43And here's the surprise.
11:45Old Peter on the home farm told me that a long time ago
11:48a lady was caught out here by her husband.
11:51Caught out?
11:52Doing it?
11:54Yes, with her lover.
11:55Took in the fleshly deed, was how old Peter put it.
11:58The husband was so furious, he ran the lover through with his sword.
12:02Then to use the jewels the lover had given his wife
12:05and flung them down the well.
12:07Then flung the lover down after them and his wife to top it all off.
12:11Goodness, what a temper.
12:12All because she was doing it.
12:14Grown-ups get very cross if you do it with more than one person.
12:18Like your mother.
12:20But I suppose if you really love someone,
12:22you don't want to do it with anyone else.
12:24Later on, they got the lover and the lady out,
12:26because they were worried the well might get poisoned.
12:29But the jewels had never been found.
12:31Old Peter says.
12:33So I thought we'd find them.
12:36You mean go down that bucket?
12:38What fun! Can I be the one to go down?
12:40No, you're my guest, and it might be dangerous.
12:43You two wind me down.
13:02Don't worry. I'll share the jewels with you.
13:04I don't think it's a very good idea.
13:06Wind me down. Go on.
13:07I don't think your parents will like it. They'll be furious when they hear.
13:10My parents are not going to hear. Now, wind me down.
13:14WHISTLE BLOWS
13:28What's the light down there?
13:30Very dark and very damp.
13:33Can you see any jewels?
13:35No, not yet. Wind me down a bit further.
13:38I bet old Peter was just telling tales.
13:40Even if there are jewels down there, she'll never find them in all the mud.
13:43Don't spoil it, Fanny.
13:53Look, a rope!
13:57Up again. Very slowly.
14:03Fanny, what are you doing?
14:06Why did you bring me up?
14:08I got tired of holding on to the handle.
14:10How are you going to explain all this mud?
14:12Well, Sarah slipped in the garden. I suppose we'd better go in now.
14:15Mummy says we'll absorb rest before luncheon.
14:19I can't believe that, said Alice.
14:22Can't you, the Queen said in a pitying tone?
14:25Try again.
14:27Draw a long breath and shrug your eyes.
14:30Alice laughed.
14:32There's no use trying, she said.
14:35One can't believe impossible things.
14:38The Earl of Montdore was beautiful to look at.
14:41But empty.
14:43Like a woman who has no sex appeal.
14:46But Lady Montdore, however, she was flesh and blood all right.
14:50A legend of worldly greed and snobbishness.
14:53And therefore often supposed to be of low or transatlantic origin.
14:58But in fact she was perfectly well-born and decently brought up.
15:02And so she ought to have known better.
15:06Did you hear me, boy?
15:08Sorry, sorry, say again, please.
15:10This new book you're planning.
15:12Well, it's about the emergence of some of our leading ducal families.
15:15Oh, you'll have to tread carefully.
15:18Most of them wouldn't bear much investigation.
15:21Not when they were emerging.
15:24I mean, take the Marlboroughs.
15:26No, no, perhaps we'd better not.
15:28The first Duke of Marlborough,
15:30when he was still John Churchill, sold his sister for money.
15:33Where did you learn that, Linda?
15:35Oh, I just picked it up, Lady Patricia.
15:37Well, you shouldn't mention it, Linda.
15:39There are certain things which we all know, but don't say aloud.
15:42Yes, Lady Montdore.
15:44Fanny's very sensible about all that kind of thing.
15:46You must advise your cousin Linda Fanny on what not to say out loud.
15:49Yes, Lady Montdore.
15:52Is there anything you want, Mr Dugdale?
15:55No, thank you, Fanny.
15:57Why don't you call me Uncle Boy? You too, Linda.
15:59Because you're not our uncle, you're Polly's uncle.
16:01I know, but you could all call me Uncle.
16:03It's what's known as a courtesy title.
16:05I suppose you need one, because you're the only person in the room
16:08who hasn't got a real title already.
16:10That's another subject we don't mention, Linda.
16:13In any case, you're the only person in the room
16:16who hasn't got a real title already.
16:18That's another subject we don't mention, Linda.
16:20In any case, you and Fanny should always refer to yourselves as Miss.
16:24Oh, we do, but we still actually have our hons, don't we?
16:27Unlike poor Uncle Boy.
16:31I hear you all had a very nice time in the garden this morning.
16:34I'm told Polly was smothered in mud when she came in.
16:37So very unlike her. Whatever could have happened?
16:40Nothing much, Mother. I just slipped down a bank.
16:43That's right, Lady Montdore.
16:45She tripped over a worm cast and slipped down a bank.
16:47Tripped over a worm cast?
16:50A very large one, Lady Montdore.
16:52Worms can be very busy, you know.
16:55Did you ever have worms, Polly?
16:58I did.
16:59You can't imagine how fidgety they are, and then, oh, the heaven of it,
17:03Dr Simpson came and wormed me.
17:05Well, you know how Dr Simpson has always been the love of my life.
17:08So you do see.
17:11So what on earth did Lady Montdore say then?
17:14Everyone went very quiet.
17:16Not for the first time.
17:17And then I told them about Fanny's Brenda and made myself cry.
17:20It'll be some time before they ask you again.
17:22Oh, Fanny's one that Lady Montdore likes.
17:24She's so very well behaved.
17:26They only asked me out of politeness because Fanny's staying here.
17:29It'll be some time before they ask any of you again.
17:31They're going away.
17:33They never said so at lunch.
17:35It's still meant to be a secret.
17:38It's still meant to be a secret.
17:40They're going to India.
17:41Lord Montdore's going to be viceroy.
17:43They'll be away for at least five years.
17:45Is Polly going too?
17:46Yes.
17:48I'm surprised she didn't say anything.
17:51She's a close little thing, Polly.
17:54She's close beyond her years.
17:58Sadie?
17:59I want you.
18:00I can't find the tin of gramophone needles.
18:04It's in here, I think.
18:06Do tell quickly before Sadie comes back and gets annoyed.
18:09How was the lecturer's lecturer?
18:11Boy Dugdale.
18:12He had a go at you?
18:13Footy footy at lunch.
18:15You too, I take it.
18:17It was when he came to give his lecture at Sadie's institute place,
18:20all about duchesses.
18:22And I suppose talking about them excites him
18:24because after the lecture he gave us a foretaste of sex.
18:28Didn't you thrill?
18:30Didn't you thrill?
18:32He took Louisa up onto the roof
18:34and did all sorts of blissful things to her.
18:36Well, at least she could see how they would be blissful
18:38with anyone except the lecturer.
18:40And I got some great sexy pictures as he passed the nursery landing.
18:44To admit, Fanny.
18:46There seems to be no limit to his interests.
18:50I suppose he likes Lady Patricia.
18:52Or did once.
18:54But he's always making sheep's eyes at Lady Montdore.
18:57Then there was me on the roof.
18:59And even little girls like you too.
19:02I thought I told you to leave this sewer of a labby in the stables.
19:06That was yesterday, Father.
19:07Until further notice, I said.
19:09And now your mother and I have just been in the tradesman's lab
19:11looking for the gramophone needles.
19:13Why should the gramophone needles be in the tradesman's lab?
19:15Don't interrupt.
19:16And there was labby lolling on an expensive horse blanket
19:19like that pumpered and insolent brute that she is.
19:22So now, misery, you take this sewer of a dog
19:24and you chain her in the stables
19:26and leave her there for the next month.
19:29THE END
20:00There's a voice gives you full value for money.
20:19Fanny.
20:20Fanny.
20:21Oh, was he chained up?
20:23Poor thing.
20:24Was Josh a tremendous hum again?
20:26Of course he was.
20:28Oh, so he was.
20:39Can I be seen now?
20:41He's first coming.
20:42Quick.
20:43Quick, hide her.
20:54Ah!
20:55Ah!
20:56I told you not an hour ago to take that sewer of a dog...
20:58Can I ask a question?
21:01One for you, Sadie.
21:02Don't call your mother Sadie.
21:03In Aunt Henry's handwriting.
21:04I told you to take that sewer of a dog...
21:06This is very interesting, Farr.
21:08With a crest.
21:09It must be old regimental association.
21:11About the annual dinner.
21:12It always happens around now.
21:14You could tell them about your entrenching tool.
21:16Oh, tell us now, Farr, to get into practice.
21:18It's my favourite story ever.
21:20Well...
21:21Oh, please let labby stay just while you're telling it.
21:24You see?
21:25The thin end of the wedge.
21:26All right.
21:27She can stay this time.
21:29But if she's ever sick again, I'll have her destroyed.
21:32And don't say I didn't warn you.
21:34Thank you, Farr.
21:35Darling labby.
21:38Uncle Matt's going to tell us about his entrenching tool.
21:40Oh, yes, Aunt Henry.
21:41Come on, Farr.
21:42There was this German dugout, you see,
21:44which my sergeant major had spotted.
21:46He thought there was still some Huns in it,
21:48although it was now behind our lines.
21:50So, I told my sergeant major to ball at them,
21:53to drop their weapons in the trench,
21:55and come out with their hands up, shouting,
21:57Camerad! Camerad!
21:59My sergeant major had got a voice
22:01that would put the fear of God up a crocodile.
22:03Young recruits used to faint if they even so much as whispered at them.
22:07So, of course, these filthy Huns came out shouting,
22:09Camerad! Camerad!
22:11But you know what the swine did?
22:13They came out with their rifles and bayonets at the ready,
22:16hoping to knock us for six.
22:18Luckily, the entrance was very narrow,
22:20so they had to come out one by one.
22:22And as they lifted their rifles,
22:25I lifted my entrenching tool...
22:28Oh, Matthew.
22:30And whack!
22:32Wham!
22:34Wallop! Whack! Wham! Wallop!
22:36Whack! Wham! Wallop!
22:38Whack! Wham! Wallop!
22:40Whack! Wham! Wallop!
22:42Later that evening, Linda called a special midnight meeting of the Huns,
22:46the Radlet Secret Society.
22:48So called because we all had to be children of a lord.
22:51Honourables.
23:01Long life and happiness to all Huns.
23:03And death to the horrible Count of Huns.
23:06This is a special meeting of the Huns,
23:09called by Linda.
23:11But before we hear her news,
23:13I suggest we clear up one or two outstanding items of Hunnish business.
23:18Item one.
23:20As you know, it is not necessary to have been born a Hun.
23:24To be one.
23:26There are quite a lot of honorary Huns.
23:28But just lately we haven't elected any.
23:31And I think it's time we chose at least one more.
23:34Any suggestions?
23:36Josh was a tremendous Hun about helping me smuggle in Nabby.
23:39But Josh has been an honorary Hun for ages.
23:41I thought we might sort of double it.
23:43Having double Huns will make complications and jealousies.
23:46Sensible, Fanny.
23:48We want a new Hun.
23:50Lucille was terrific about letting Vic to me at this meeting.
23:53She even lent us her torch.
23:55She said,
23:59What a good idea.
24:01All in favour, please say it.
24:04Jassie and Vic can tell her in the morning.
24:07Item two.
24:09It was agreed that all Huns should mount an investigation
24:13to find out what Oscar Wilde actually did.
24:16Has anyone anything to report?
24:18I asked Far and he just ground his tinctures and roared at me.
24:22If you mention that sore's name in this house,
24:25you'll be thrashed, damn you.
24:28I asked Aunt Sadie and she said,
24:31Oh, Duck, I never really quite knew.
24:33Whatever it was, Far was the murderer.
24:36And, Duck, don't mention it in front of your Uncle Matt, will you?
24:40We asked him, Sip, and she went into gales.
24:43She said,
24:47Not very helpful.
24:48We must find out.
24:50Bob said he would when he went to Eaton.
24:52I think I'm on the track.
24:54Apparently, he was a bit like the lecturer's lecturer with Louisa,
24:57but far, far worse.
24:59Oh, goodie, do you think he was worse than my mother and father?
25:02Oh, surely he couldn't be.
25:04Oh, you are so lucky to have wicked parents.
25:06A mother who's called the Bolter.
25:09The sheer heaven of it.
25:10It is rather thrilling.
25:12I should just say it is compared to the utterly boring lives we lead.
25:15I never actually see her being wicked or doing her bolting.
25:18When I'm not here, I'm with Aunt Emily at school.
25:21You were so lucky to be taught by Lucille and not have to go to school.
25:25I go to school?
25:26Because you're a boy.
25:28Uncle Matthew thinks it's wrong for girls.
25:30He says it makes them frumpish and middle class.
25:33Poor me.
25:34I'm sure you'll never be frumpish or middle class, Fanny.
25:37With a mother like the Bolter.
25:39Or those men.
25:41Why haven't you got any half-brothers or sisters?
25:43I'm not sure.
25:44Abortion!
25:47Well, tremendous jumpings and hot baths, anyway.
25:50But how do you know if you're never there?
25:52I once heard Aunt Sadie and Aunt Emily talking about it.
25:55Aunt Sadie says, how does she manage it?
25:58Aunt Emily said, skiing or hunting or just jumping off the kitchen table.
26:02Oh, you are so blissfully lucky having such a wicked mother.
26:06Aunt Emily's really my mother now.
26:08And my father, too.
26:10For all practical purposes.
26:12Ah, that's why I call this special meeting.
26:15Hot, hot news.
26:18Shh!
26:19It's only a couple.
26:39I was only going to say it's caught walking in her sleep.
26:42She wouldn't sneak on us, even if she did wake up.
26:44How did you notice her?
26:46The footsteps dot and carry one.
26:48Her left leg's longer than the other, you see.
26:50Because when she was little, her father used to get drunk and snatch her out of her cot.
26:54And whirl her round his head by the left ankle.
26:57Why does she walk in her sleep?
26:59Trying to escape from her father.
27:01Now that excitement is over, let us proceed with the meeting.
27:05It's Linda's turn.
27:07The news I have for Hans tonight, while of considerable Han interest generally,
27:12particularly concerns Fanny.
27:15I won't ask you to guess, because it's getting naked for Jassie and Vic.
27:18And anyway, you never could.
27:20So I'll tell you straight out.
27:22Aunt Emily's engaged.
27:24Linda, you've made it up.
27:26I pinched this from Sadie
27:28while Fa was making an exhibition of himself with the entrenching tool.
27:32I'll have to return it for her to find tomorrow, so listen carefully.
27:37Not to tell the children we're engaged.
27:40What do you think, darling? Just at first.
27:43But then suppose Fanny takes a dislike to him.
27:46I don't see how she could, but children are so funny.
27:49Won't it be more of a shock?
27:51Anyway, do what you think best, darling.
27:53We'll arrive on the Thursday after Christmas,
27:56and then we'll see how things go on.
27:58All love, Emily.
28:03CHILDREN SING
28:28Ha!
28:29My lord!
28:30Caught you, red-handed!
28:32Merry Christmas, my lord.
28:33Merry Christmas, Clara.
28:34How many times do I have to tell you that to make a wood fire work properly,
28:37all the ash must be left in the fireplace?
28:39I was only removing a very little, my lord, just to make room.
28:42Make room for what?
28:44It's my belief you just tried to get away with it, to assert yourself.
28:47Well, you've lost this round.
28:50Ha!
28:51At it again, are you?
28:53One speck of sick and...
28:55Pfft!
28:59He's so lovely, isn't he?
29:01Oh, he's so gentle.
29:05Yes.
29:10Oh!
29:11Oh!
29:12Oh!
29:13Oh!
29:14Oh!
29:15Oh!
29:16Oh!
29:18Stop.
29:20What on earth's that thing?
29:22Fanny's present from her mother, Alan wore down by the tree.
29:39Thor's in a funny mood.
29:41Thor, absolutely non-stop. Alan, stop it.
29:43If he puts on Tosca next, it means he's really worried.
29:46Perhaps it's been brought on by Aunt Emily's engagement.
29:49How do you close this, Jess?
29:51Would anyone like to buy my present from Louisa?
29:54Strictly for cash.
29:56But won't Louisa be hurt?
29:58Not really. She knows it's for my running away money.
30:01But it's a travelling club, Jess.
30:03It's for telling the right time when you do run away.
30:05I shall need... Very thoughtful of Louisa.
30:07I shall need money more.
30:09How are you getting on?
30:10I've got my fare to London,
30:12and I've got enough for a month and two days and an hour and a half
30:15in a bed sitting in the basin and breakfast.
30:17What about other meals?
30:19People who run away can't really expect more than a breakfast.
30:22So when shall you start?
30:24I must get a lot more yet.
30:26It would look very silly having to come home
30:28after a month and two days and an hour and a half.
30:31Well, I'll give you half a sod for that clock.
30:33Done.
30:34But, Chassie, it's worth far more.
30:36Thank you. Pay me more.
30:37I don't want it. Besides, I still think Louisa will be hurt.
30:39Cash!
30:40I don't carry cash in my dressing gown, silly.
30:42I'll hand it over as soon as I see the colour of your money, Bob.
30:45I want the deal closed before Christmas dinner.
30:49This is it.
30:50If he puts on Thor, I gain.
30:57Oh, dearie me, and so soon after it has stopped.
31:01So keep up.
31:10My wicked parents always turned up trumps at Christmas.
31:14My father sent me a pony and cart.
31:30And the Bolter really overdid it, as usual.
31:33Miss Frances Logan, from her mother.
31:36Open it and look at it.
31:39What's she got?
31:40Rubies!
31:42Most unsuitable for a child.
31:44Oh, the bliss of being funny.
31:46Why can't I have wicked parents?
31:48You'd best be satisfied with those you've got, miss.
31:50At least we're not so damn silly as the Bolter,
31:53chucking away money on jewels for a little girl who's hardly left her rattle.
31:56And Edward's an even bigger imbecile sending that pony trap here.
31:59But it's a heavenly pony trap.
32:01So it may be.
32:02But who's going to take the damn thing back to Emily's house in Chenley?
32:04And where's she going to put it?
32:06In the shed near the garage.
32:07And what about the ponies?
32:08Well, Fanny will be able to talk to Emily about it soon enough.
32:10She's coming on Thursday, Fanny, by the 3.35.
32:13And now that's all that can be said about the matter for now.
32:15Now, Matthew, please.
32:16But if there's any more jewellery for anyone,
32:19I shall throw up!
32:23Harry Bigsworth.
32:27Do you think that if Farr did throw up,
32:29the current would blow out his dentures?
32:31I mean, he's been doing an awful lot of grinding.
32:33Madam!
32:34Is it too late to get her a new set for Christmas?
32:57The day Aunt Emily was to arrive, we all went out hunting.
33:01The Ratlets loved animals.
33:03They loved foxes.
33:05They risked dreadful beatings in order to unstop their earths.
33:08But nevertheless, more than anything else in the world,
33:11they loved hunting.
33:14It was in their blood and bones,
33:16and in my blood and bones,
33:17and nothing could eradicate it.
33:19Though we knew it for a kind of original sin.
33:24Are you watching carefully?
33:26That's where he'll come, right across that field.
33:29There.
33:32Any minute now, I should think.
33:34Weep, weep.
33:59Wee!
34:07Wee!
34:09Wee!
34:28Wee!
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34:30Wee!
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35:10Wee!
35:11Wee!
35:12Wee!
35:17After three hours, Josh took me home.
35:20That's enough, Miss Sunny.
35:22Home, now.
35:24I was never allowed to stay out long, or I got tired and would be sick all night.
35:30Where's our ladyship hunting this year?
35:32Her mother's in Paris, Josh.
35:34Paris? What for?
35:36I suppose she likes it there.
35:38In my opinion, her ladyship's wasted.
35:40Darn right wasted. Every minute of her life, she's not on us.
35:43She's a wonderful rider, isn't she?
35:45Hands like velvet. But strong, strong as I am.
35:48Now look at you, jostling about in that saddle, first here, then there.
35:52There'll be one sore back tonight, that's one thing certain there will be.
35:56Josh, I'm so tired.
35:58Are you? I never knew a ladyship tired.
36:00I've seen her change hosses after a ten-mile point,
36:03get up onto a fresh young five-year-old, but end me not a week.
36:06Up like a bird. Never knew you had a foot in your hand.
36:09You catch up his head and, whoop, hop over a post and rails,
36:12cross the ridge and follow, sitting like a rock.
36:14Now Miss Linda, she takes after a ladyship something wonderful.
36:18She's really a... really big.
36:22Hello, Fanny.
36:41Oh, here she is.
36:43Hello, Fanny.
36:47Darling, may I introduce Captain Warbeck.
36:50Oh!
36:52Oh, darling, how wet you are.
36:55I suppose the others won't be back for ages.
36:58Where have you come from?
36:59I left them during the spinny, by the old rows.
37:02I should go and have my bath if I were you.
37:04We're not built to keep out the dam forever.
37:06Yes, that's right, dear. You go and have your nice bath.
37:10I've just met him, have you?
37:12Yes, and no-one's said anything about their being engaged.
37:15He doesn't look much like a captain, does he?
37:17I mean, I can't see him killing Germans with an entrenching tool.
37:20Well, but why has no-one said they're engaged?
37:23Perhaps they're waiting to see if we like him.
37:25Or for Farr's approval.
37:26Aunt Emily doesn't have to have that.
37:28But she might want Sadie's. After all, Sadie is her sister.
37:31Aunt Sadie is my sister.
37:33Oh, dear.
37:35Poor Aunt Emily.
37:36Perhaps he'll make her keep him in the stable.
37:38Considering her age, I suppose, she's lucky to get anything.
37:42I can't wait to see him with Farr.
37:46What has your soil done here, Lady Albany?
37:49Ah, clay.
37:51Ah, yes, clay.
37:53So the water can't get in.
37:56And the water can't get in.
37:58And the water can't get in.
38:00And the water can't get in.
38:03So the water here will be madly binding.
38:07I must get my solids exactly right.
38:11So that they are not too solid.
38:14If you see what I mean.
38:19May I ask what we're to eat?
38:22Shepherd's pie, sir.
38:23There you are. Just right. Not too solid.
38:26Shepherd's pie. No, no, no, thank you.
38:28No twice-cooked meat.
38:30I'm a wretched invalid. I must be careful or I pay.
38:33What's the matter with twice-cooked meat?
38:35It imposes a most fearful strain on the juices.
38:38You might as well eat leather.
38:40Ah, but this delicious salad.
38:46Raw lettuce.
38:48It's anti-scorbutic.
38:56Protein.
38:57Ask Mrs. Crouch to quickly make some more snacks.
39:00Yes, milady.
39:01How delicious your bread is. I'm sure it contains the germ.
39:04The what, Duchess of Warwick?
39:06I was saying I feel sure that your delicious bread is made of stone-ground flour,
39:10which contains a high proportion of the germ.
39:12As you know, in white bread,
39:14the germ, with its wonderful health-giving properties,
39:17is eliminated, or rather extracted and put into hen food.
39:20With the result, the human race is becoming more and more infeable,
39:23while hens grow stronger and larger with every generation.
39:26So, in the end, hens will be hons and hons will be hens.
39:30Oh, how I should love to live in a dear little hon house.
39:34You wouldn't like your work much.
39:36I once saw a hen lay an egg, and she had a terrible expression on her face.
39:40You're about like going to the lab.
39:42Now, Linda, that's quite enough.
39:46Linda appears very unselfconscious in her conversation, Matthew.
39:49Does she?
39:50Well, Fanny has picked up some really dreadful expressions from that school of hers.
39:54I dare say she also picks up a good deal of education.
39:57What is this education?
39:59Fanny talks about mirrors and mantelpieces.
40:01She takes sugar in her tea.
40:04She has a tassel on her umbrella,
40:06and I've no doubt if she's ever fortunate enough to catch a husband,
40:09she will call his parents mother and father.
40:12All the wonderful education she is getting
40:14make it up to the unhappy brute for such endless irritation.
40:17Well, a lot of men would find ignorance more irritating.
40:20At least Fanny knows, well, for example,
40:23all about George III.
40:24Well, you don't have to go to some ghastly middle-class establishment
40:27to know about George III.
40:29Anyway, who was he?
40:31Fanny.
40:33Oh, he was a king.
40:36He went mad.
40:37Most original, full of information.
40:40Well worth losing every ounce of feminine charm to find that out.
40:44Legs like gateposts from playing hockey,
40:47and the worst seat on a horse of any woman I've ever known.
40:50Linda, you're uneducated, thank God,
40:53and unselfconscious.
40:55What do you say about George III?
40:57Well, he was the son of poor Fred, who died young,
41:01and the father of Beau Brommel's fat friend, Prince Regent.
41:05And he was one of those vacillators, you know.
41:08I am His Highness's dog, Q.
41:11Tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
41:13Oh, how sweet.
41:14Oh, it's lucky.
41:16Fanny's going to have 15,000 a year of her own,
41:18not to speak of any settlement the Boulto may have picked up
41:21in the course of her career.
41:23She'll get her husband with that, all right,
41:25even if she does talk about notepaper and lunch
41:28and put some milk in first.
41:30I only hope she doesn't drive the poor devil to drink
41:33after she's hooked him.
41:35All this is quite beside the point.
41:38Fanny may possibly, in the far future,
41:40have a little money of her own,
41:42though it's ludicrous to talk of 15,000 a year.
41:45On the other hand, the modern world being what it is,
41:47whether or not she gets a husband,
41:49she may well have to earn her own living,
41:51and that is what education is for.
41:53It will also make her a more mature, a happier,
41:56a more interesting and interested person,
41:58if she knows...
41:59But George III was a king and went mad.
42:29Sir?
42:30No, no, no, not for me, thank you.
42:33Delicious drink, but it's the acid in the port
42:36that makes one feel so delicate now.
42:42Been a great port drinker, have you?
42:44No, not me, he never touched the stuff.
42:46My ancestors did the damage.
42:50I do wish Matthew hadn't been quite so fierce at dinner.
42:53Gave him as good as you got, Aunt Emily.
42:55Perhaps that was a bad thing. May have upset him.
42:57Make him all the fiercer to my nice Davy.
42:59No, duck.
43:00You have the good sense to let him get the last word
43:02in about George III.
43:04That'll have made him frightfully pleased with himself.
43:06May increase his appetite for putting people down.
43:09And if he tries to put Davy down,
43:11and Davy gets the best of him...
43:15The children know the news about you and Emily, Captain Warbeck.
43:18Oh, I suppose they think it's a big joke.
43:21Old people like us getting married.
43:23No, of course not.
43:25He's an extraordinary fellow, this Davy.
43:29He knows everything.
43:31He says those Charles II sugar casters
43:33are only a Georgian imitation.
43:35Not valuable at all.
43:37Tomorrow, I'll take you round the house,
43:39show you all our things, and you can go home.
43:41Tomorrow, I'll take you round the house,
43:43show you all our things, and you can tell us what's what.
43:45Quite useful having a fellow like you in the family, I must say.
43:49Darling Matthew.
43:51That would be very nice.
43:53Now, if you don't mind, I think I'll go to bed.
43:56Morning tea, Captain...
43:58Davy.
43:59Oh, yes, please.
44:01So necessary to replace the evaporation of the night.
44:05Oh, wooing.
44:07So tiring.
44:13I tell you, he's frightfully clever.
44:17You wouldn't believe the things he does.
44:20He writes books, criticises pictures...
44:22Plays the piano.
44:24Does he now. Extraordinary cove.
44:27I bet you anything you like,
44:29he whacks hell out of the bloody thing.
44:32David Warbeck is a hon.
44:34Yes, he's a terrific hon. Have you asked him about Oscar Wilde yet?
44:37No, not yet, but I'm sure he'll tell.
44:39But what I meant was, he's a real hon.
44:41I've looked it up, and it's true, the Honourable David Warbeck.
44:43He's only a second son, according to the book.
44:45So I'm afraid Aunt Emily won't be a lady.
44:47And his father's only the second baron.
44:49Still, he's a hon all right, all ways round.
44:51He's certainly is. He's given me something for my running away from home.
44:55He's given me something for my running away from home.
44:58He's certainly is. He's given me something for my running away from home.
45:01You've been quick off the mark.
45:03I've now got a mark for a month and five days and 13 hours.
45:07Couldn't possibly be a Reynolds.
45:10Prince Howard is very worst.
45:14If you're lucky.
45:17Big stinkers, Davy.
45:19Yes, please, Matthew. I mean brains. So digestible.
45:24What do you think of my eagle?
45:27Ah.
45:29Yes, well, if that were Chinese now, it would be a treasure.
45:33But it's Jap, I'm afraid. Not worth the bronze it's cast in.
45:37After breakfast, I'll show you our collection of minerals in Corridor.
45:41I bet even you'll agree we got something there.
45:43They say it's the finest collection in England.
45:50What a beautiful collection.
45:52I knew we'd find something decent for you in the end.
45:54Suppose you know they're all diseased.
45:56Diseased?
45:58Yes, badly and too far gone for treatment.
46:00Might as well throw the whole lot away.
46:02Damn fella, nothing's right for him.
46:04Even the minerals have got foot and mouth.
46:14And a day or two later, we all celebrated the new year.
46:19A happy new year, well begun.
46:21Emily.
46:22The year of Aunt Emily's marriage.
46:24And the year when Polly Hampton went to India with her father, the Viceroy.
46:54And the year which was to transform Linda and me, from children, young for our ages,
47:22into lounging adolescents waiting for love.
47:53And the year which was to transform Linda and me, from children, young for our ages,
48:21into lounging adolescents waiting for love.
48:52And the year which was to transform Linda and me, from children, young for our ages,
48:58into lounging adolescents waiting for love.
49:00And the year which was to transform Linda and me, from children, young for our ages,
49:04into lounging adolescents waiting for love.