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As Linda and Tony desperately try to obtain permission to marry, Fanny visits Polly at Hampton, where oddness abounds.
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01:00I deprecate any idea of your marrying until you're well advanced on your career in the
01:08city. in particular I deprecate any idea of such a marriage as this. I think father that
01:16most people would rather covet such a marriage as this. after all Lord Alkinley. I say these
01:24families were well enough in their day. what I'm hoping for is a more practical type of
01:30alliance with one of the big families in our own line. but father will you at least consent
01:35to talk to Lord Alkinley if only on neutral ground. I can hardly decline that honor.
01:54I do hope Farr hasn't been too energetic with Celesta. he only wants what's best for you duck.
02:00oh I know mommy but sometimes he has such a funny way of showing it. do admit. Farr! have you seen him?
02:07we met on neutral ground. the savage club. suitable place. the fellow's no better than a fuzzy was he?
02:14I'd have taken this to him for two pins. wish I'd had my entrenching tool. the only thing for bloody
02:20Huns. quite apart from his offensive personal manner Lord Alkinley confirms everything I'd
02:35ever thought about these landed families. but still with large capital sums at their disposal father.
02:40so if you ask me you're well out of it. young Kroesig may look like something out of a picture
02:48book now but soon enough he'll be the spit of his father. like some truffling pig who's woofed all
02:53the truffles and is wetting himself with anxiety in case there's still a few around for someone else.
02:58so I'm sending you off next week to our clearing house in New York to start learning your business
03:11in life. Jassie darling Jassie do lend me your running away money to go to New York. no Linda
03:30I've saved and scraped for years and years. I simply can't begin all over again now. besides
03:37I shall want it for when I run away myself. but I'll give it you back. Tony will when we're
03:41married. I know men. oh if only Lord Merlin were here he would help me. no good thinking about that.
03:47Lord Merlin's in Rome. you are all unkind to me. not a word of comfort and even Fanny's deserting
03:56me now. sorry Linda but I do have to go to aunt Emily sometimes. I'm sure Jassie and Vic can
04:03listen to Tony's letters just as well as I can. oh my goodness they are dreary. at least they're
04:09short. such funny immature handwriting he has. I sometimes wonder whether he can be quite all
04:15there. horrible beastly counter honish pigs. oh don't go away darling Fanny. don't go. you know
04:23I must darling but I'll come back as soon as I can. ah Fanny. there's been a most interesting
04:33invitation for you. but aunt Emily I've only just come home. nevertheless you can't fail to be
04:38intrigued by this. Lord and Lady Montau are finally back from India with Polly. you remember them all
04:45I expect. what do you? just some years now since Lord Montau went away to be Viceroy. oh yes I
04:51remember them very clearly. well now Lady Montau wants you to go again for a while as company for
04:57Polly. pretty Polly. how long for aunt Emily? only a few days. Lady Montau is having a house party.
05:05rather a grown-up affair she says. well that's why she wants you for Polly. what does uncle Davy say?
05:12I'm afraid we can't consult Davy just now dear. it's his day for getting drunk. I long to tell him
05:18he'll be so much interested. drunk? uncle Davy drunk? oh nothing vicious dear. just his new health idea.
05:25ah he'll tell you all about it himself.
05:48the aim is to warm up your glands with a series of jokes. worst thing in the world for the body
06:02is a quiet life full of regular habits. that way lies speedy old age and death.
06:07but shock your glands, force them to react, startle them back into youth, keep them on tiptoes so they
06:22never know what to expect next and they have to stay young and healthy to deal with all the surprises.
06:27but surely the thing is that you do have to surprise the body. if you get drunk on regular
06:34days then the body will know just what to expect. yes you have a point. Emily when is my next day for
06:42overeating? next Wednesday dear. every fortnight you said. in order to surprise and shock my glands
06:49and intestinal organs I'll put it back to Friday. oh what a good idea. Fanny will have gone by then.
06:57oh Fanny gone? where might one ask? she's been invited by the Montours to Hampton.
07:05fascinating. why wasn't I told about this before? because your glands were too startled to take it
07:11in. of course you realize Emily dear that before child will die of terror. I'm not a child any
07:15longer Davy. grown-ups have died of terror at Hampton before now. first of all dear someone
07:23who's sure to be there is boy Dugdale the lecherous lecturer. you heard him? Lord Montours
07:30brother-in-law. and Lady Montours Cavalier. yes he played footy with me when I sat next to him
07:36once at luncheon. and as you're probably still just within his favorite age group there's no
07:41telling what fun and games you may not have with him at Hampton.
08:12I will not disguise it from you.
08:21the reports I've had of your work from New York are not what I had hoped for. they haven't been
08:27really bad father. they can't have been. I know how important this assignment has been and I have
08:31tried to concentrate. tried to? what is there to prevent you from succeeding? the continued
08:37uncertainty about my engagement to Linda Radlet. oh correct. well I don't see that that is an
08:45excuse for indifferent work. oh don't you father? well now let me tell you on my return to New York
08:51I cannot I will not give more than a fraction of my attention to business and my future career
08:55until I have your consent to my marrying Linda and the date for the wedding has been announced.
08:59surely I have sufficiently explained the disadvantages of such a union. and your
09:05points have been well taken. I know that Linda comes of a family that is from our
09:10point of view entirely obsolete both in habit and outlook.
09:16on the other hand Linda herself is young intelligent energetic
09:24intelligent energetic very much under my influence and I believe
09:31malleable to the point where she could become a tremendous asset.
09:37asset?
09:40she could become an asset so I believe. well well well well
09:54I don't wish to see your career delayed or jeopardized at this juncture.
09:58if you can assure me that you can only be serious about banking
10:01after this marriage has been agreed. I do assure you father.
10:07then I shall give you my consent. might have been worse. after all she is a lady.
10:25where is she? where's Linda? we're late starting. I don't suppose she'll be long Matthew.
10:32do you know what trouble she has getting her stock tied properly? ever since you refused to tie it
10:38for her. that's quite right too. can't be a child forever. got to grow up sometimes. that's right
10:42Farr and so I have. what's all this? I'm not coming out today. but to meets at Coxbarndock
10:52your very best thing. no point in riding out to Coxbarndock just to be miserable.
10:59I might as well stay in bed. stay in bed after eight o'clock? you're not ill are you?
11:08no Farr. not ill. sick. they call it love in case you've never heard of it. love for someone who
11:16loves me back. so everything should be could be would be absolutely all right. only you.
11:23you won't allow it. allow what? my engagement to Tony Krosick. first time I've heard of an
11:30engagement. I say I'm engaged to Tony and he says so. and even Celesta Krosick now says so.
11:37so who who who are you to be so cruel and obstinate? I'm your father missy. that's who.
11:47too old for bread and water. stiff dose of Glauber's salt should bring her to heel.
11:53Miss Frances Logan. Fanny dear such a long time.
12:22how you've grown. come and have a cup of tea. this is Frances Logan. Fanny. come along.
12:31not by any chance the Bolters daughter? yes. by Joe. the Bolters girl? you know who this is
12:38Veronica. she's the Bolters child that's all. come and have your tea Fanny.
12:45I couldn't be more fascinated considering that the very first person the Bolter ever bolted
12:51with was Chad wasn't it darling? lucky me got him next but that was only after she'd bolted from
12:58him again. never mind all of them Fanny. I don't. I'm just interested that's all. everyone adores
13:05your mother in a funny kind of way. they're always wanting to talk about her but it's lucky for you
13:10your aunt Emily took you over. Rory go and fetch Polly will you? I think she's playing billiards
13:15with boy. double six. oh bother bloody Sonia and her fag calls. get that out for me Chad.
13:33and this is my friend Fanny. and you remember the last time I saw you we were laughing together
13:38over Alice. have the Sauveterre not arrived yet Sonia? Sauveterre? do you mean thrilling Fabrice?
13:46don't tell me that he's married. of course not Veronica. he's bringing his mother to stay.
13:53of course we've always known Fabrice and he came out to us in India. he's very much taken up with
13:59the little Rani of Raupur. in fact they do say her last baby and I only hope it was dreadful old man
14:07the Raja. poor creatures. one baby after another. you have to feel sorry for them. like little birds.
14:15I used to go and visit the ones they kept in Purdah and of course they simply worshipped me.
14:19really touching. Lady Patricia Dugdale. oh my dear. I had seen the Dugdales from time to time while the
14:27Montdors were in India because they were neighbors at Alkenley. Lady Patricia was a perfect example of
14:34beauty that is but skin-deep. she looked like a classic old statue that had been put out in the
14:39weather. where is this? playing billions with Polly I think. ah here at last is my lady wife.
14:48and dear little Fanny. Fanny. oh Polly.
14:57nobody told me. have you been here long?
15:00how does my Francis for this many a day. it's so lovely to see you again.
15:09do you know when I was in India I used to think and think about you.
15:14do you remember the well in the wilderness and how Linda had worms?
15:21it does seem another life. so very long ago. they tell me Linda's more or less engaged.
15:27less I think. uncle Matt won't recognize it. fancy though. Louisa married and Linda
15:33at any rate half engaged.
15:46I suppose you came out in India. yes I did. it was all very dull. do you enjoy it Fanny?
15:55what I do enjoy is the dressing up. do you think about dresses and hats all the time?
16:01even in church? no I do too. but what about love? are they always having love conversations the
16:10whole time? incessantly. oh bother. it happened in India. I thought perhaps in a cold climate it
16:17might be a bit different. mother's in a perfect fit with me because I never fall in love with
16:22people. but it's no good because if you don't you don't. my age I should have thought it's natural
16:27not to. could you have fallen in love in India? Fanny darling what do you mean? of course I could
16:35have. why not? I just didn't happen to. white people? white or black. fall in love with blacks?
16:48what would uncle Matt say? we will do you know like anything. and I'll tell you something Fanny.
16:54I honestly believe mama would rather I fell in love with an Indian than not at all.
16:58what she hates is the not at all. I know she's only asked this Frenchman to stay because she
17:02thinks no woman can resist him. what Frenchman? the Duke de Sauterre. but would your mother like
17:09you to marry a Frenchman? oh not marry good gracious no. she'd just like to see if I'm like
17:15other women. well she'll see.
17:46yes I know.
18:04isn't your uncle Lord Arkenly and isn't he quite quite barmy? I wouldn't say. I mean doesn't he
18:10hunt people with bloodhounds by the light of the moon? yes but you see the thing is... oh Roly darling
18:16how too too outrageously riveting. do say that again. he bought a microscope Veronica so that
18:22he could look at... well look at his own... well effluvium. so you were saying darling but which
18:31effluvium? after all we all of us have such a lot. well you know he wanted to know if he was...
18:38well you know. darling you mean whether he'd caught something dreadful? no Veronica.
18:45those little things which swim about in...
18:59oh hold on that doesn't sound right. hasn't one his jockey?
19:04well that sounds... no Montauk you should know the idiom by now.
19:10means to get into the jockey club. oh of course. is it exact? yes I shall take another hole.
19:18Fabrice you hardly had time to meet my daughter I think before dinner.
19:23she's a good deal grown since you last saw her in India on the right.
19:27but quite charming.
19:34and the little girl four places down on the other side.
19:39Francis Logan. the Bolters daughter.
19:45howdering their noses they call it. I go once in the morning and that's that. I don't have to be
20:02let out like a dog thank goodness. nothing so common in my mind. who's the lady with the flat
20:06gold hair? the one with the five-legged lead. oh Veronica. Veronica Chadsley Corbett. she's very
20:12amusing. very daring. yes she's considered to be very fashionable just at the moment.
20:18the foolish habit of the men on the port. it is terrible. such infantile stories are telling.
20:24they're also planning a game of back row Lady Mondor and they are letting out to the ladies
20:28in condition I ask your permission for them. anything to keep them all amused. I'd better
20:33give orders for the back row table. go and talk to him. no. while you have the chance.
20:42you are Francis Logan? Fanny. where is Veronica Chadsley Corbett? she went to the lab. most of them did.
20:48oh they will soon come back. now they know I'm here. Fabrice darling. how is dear Loretta Lomb and
20:54Cora D'Ocuson and Jenny and Daisy de Gissoire? are all French women called after English housemaids?
21:00yes darling. so blush making in front of Fabrice. not at all. Frenchmen give their daughters common
21:08English names as it makes it easier for them to procure your incomparable English nannies.
21:14what English nanny would consent to take charge of a little girl called Melisande or Albertine?
21:23let's play back. I don't know how. neither do I but boy Dugdale has promised to teach us as soon
21:28as the gentlemen come through.
21:31ha ha ha my dear.
21:43I raise the maximum to 500. perhaps we ought to be playing for a small stake. I've no wish to win anything from Polly.
21:49you're also playing against me. let's say you get half a crown if you win and I get a nice friendly
21:54kiss if I don't. now let's see what he'll throw.
22:04now it's time to talk. during dinner I don't talk because your food here is so much better than your
22:11husband's conversation. now then tell me who are those girls with whom your brother-in-law
22:19whose conversation is even more on the beyond than your husband's? who are those girls with
22:24whom he now amuses himself? the fair one is my daughter Polly. she needs a husband at her age.
22:32she seems incapable of love. who said anything about love? a husband is what they all need to
22:38keep them occupied with bearing children until they are old enough and sensible enough to select
22:44suitable lovers. get her a husband dear lady Montauk to see her through the season of female silliness
22:54when she is 35 or 40. it will be time enough to talk of love.
23:14it is terrible looking at this empty table. I think we must be early. ah that's too bad.
23:20along for my porridge as you do. but shall we go for a promenade while it is coming?
23:34sesame of mists and mellow fruitfulness. am I not brilliant to coach your English kids?
23:40I do love getting on with the lark and going for a promenade before breakfast. do you always?
23:45never never never. but this morning I told my man to put a call through to Paris
23:49thinking it would take at least an hour in your execrable telephone system. but it came
23:54through straight away so now I'm at a lose end with time on my hands. is somebody ill?
23:59not exactly ill but she bores herself poor thing. I quite understand it. Paris must be
24:07terrible without me and I don't know how she can begin to bear it. who? a dear friend. dear friend?
24:29and who do you think is Veronica Chadsley Corbett's lover? what's that to you? I find her rather
24:34fascinating. how should I know? you seemed very interested in her last night. you asked where she was.
24:42perhaps it's because I am her lover or hope to become her lover
24:51or not to become her lover and wish to avoid her or have been a lover and want to be again
24:58or merely to gain a mild threesome by a discussion of all time.
25:05very well little Frances.
25:09Fanny. very well Fanny.
25:15it doesn't make a pin of difference who is a lover. she lived in one little tiny group
25:20and sooner or later everybody in that group become the lover of everybody else. it's like a
25:25cabinet reshuffle. they always choose out of the same old lot you see. a very nasty old lot.
25:30not at all poor things. they are les femmes du monde. voilà tout. and I love them. so easy to get on with.
25:36not nasty at all. lady Mondor. not nasty at all. that I love la mer Mondor. so amusing she is with her snobbishness.
25:46I stayed with them in India you know. she was so charming and so was lord Mondor or at least
25:52pretended to be. and Polly. was she charming? Polly's beautiful but she's rather a riddle to me.
26:01perhaps she's not having a properly organized sex life. I would see what I could do about it for her.
26:06but one knows so many people here. there will be no time left over.
26:12very few English girls in our position have a properly organized sex life.
26:16I certainly don't. so about you we shall not worry much.
26:23perhaps you will be a jolly bolter like your mother. oh no I'm going to be a tremendous sticker.
26:28then about you we shall worry even less.
26:33and the lady Polly. what a beauty. yet it's not certain. it never is with English women.
26:39she may just cram a felt hat on her head and become a lady Patricia Dugdale. everything depends
26:45on the lover. your car is here sir. oh yeah thank you. I must go. no porridge? unless no I'm going to
26:52new heaven to catch a boat to France. so now goodbye jolly bolter's daughter. you're the bolter
27:01deserting your own mother. she will be entirely happy as long as she's fed. but yet I'm a bolter I suppose.
27:10may I salute you miss Fanny as a sticker? a tremendous sticker for such you are. I see it now.
27:21I wish I had somebody like you to stick to me. I wish you had. but you would be unhappy
27:29because I shouldn't stick back. not for long. just as well for me perhaps. goodbye.
27:41excuse me miss Frances. her ladyship would like to see you in the long room. yes yes tell lady Montaud que j'arrive j'arrive.
27:53I believe all you are.
28:02I believe
28:07I believe
28:11Matthew. Matthew you have to talk.
28:13Matthew.
28:15Matthew.
28:17Matthew.
28:19oh
28:24Matthew. Linda. what about her? she's poisoning her own life and everybody else's. why? because
28:32you won't let her have this boy Grosick. why bring that up now? because I've waited and hoped long
28:41enough for you to bring it up. why should I? because you must have seen how perfectly horrible she's
28:47being and because you know very well that his father has now given his permission. what's that
28:52got to do with it? Matthew Linda is being so disagreeable that it nearly passes all bounds.
29:03now very soon it will pass all bounds. so if you don't want something really nasty to happen
29:09and you don't want your favorite daughter to hate you and me forever you let her marry this
29:14Tony Grosick now that his father's given consent to put the best face you can on it.
29:19Grosick's a bloody hung. not ideal I know but it's what she wants or thinks she wants so badly.
29:29she's going to torture herself and everybody else in the house till she gets it.
29:34well just think she didn't go out with the meat at Cox's barn. well I mean. Linda marry a hung?
29:43oh merciful heavens Matthew his family's been here for generations
29:49and his father was knighted by the king.
29:55well I suppose it could have been worse. at least the fellow's not a Roman Catholic.
30:13Tony is bottom to Linda isn't he? bottom. this will be the first time I've seen them together.
30:34properly I mean not just dancing and so on. he's such a bore. b-o-r-e or b-o-a-r. all three.
30:45and as for the other Grosicks coming this weekend you'd think seeing the whole horrible
30:48phalanx of them must wake her up. sir Lester and lady Crosick and mr Anthony Crosick. oh god.
31:03I've got my knee on something. I'm sure it was a lad.
31:05Johnson for heaven's sake.
31:07don't keep his job sir.
31:09God's announcing against Mammon and the unclean.
31:11Blasphemy.
31:13David and his whole family.
31:15I will beg your pardon lady Crosick.
31:17is that by any chance your foot?
31:19Linda will see the light in time.
31:21but not before it's too late I fear.
31:23poor Linda.
31:25she has such an intensely romantic character.
31:27fatal for a woman.
31:29do you understand electricity Fanny?
31:31no.
31:33someone to the rescue.
31:35S.O.S. save our souls.
31:37mayday mayday mayday.
31:39stop making beastly foreign noises
31:41and tell me what the hell's all this.
31:43sorry Matthew dear. it's my health lamp.
31:45well why bring it in here?
31:47my business room.
31:49it was the only room with the right sort of plug.
31:51I need it for my duty.
31:53I need it for my business.
31:55I need it for my business.
31:58I need it for my digestion.
32:00you know how one can never digest anything during the winter months.
32:02I can Damiel.
32:04you think you can but you can't really.
32:06now this lamp
32:08pours its rays
32:10into your system.
32:12your glands begin to work
32:14and your food does you good again.
32:16don't pour any more rays until we've had the voltage altered.
32:18when the house is full of
32:20bloody Huns
32:22we'll be able to see what the hell they're all up to.
32:24good god.
32:28and how was the Kroesig visit?
32:30well Davy didn't help
32:32by fusing the lights.
32:34pity he didn't electrocute the lot of them.
32:36you don't seem to like them very much.
32:38aren't you pleased about my engagement?
32:40no of course not.
32:42why are you doing it?
32:44I'm in love.
32:46oh?
32:48what makes you think so?
32:50one doesn't think. one knows.
32:53fiddlesticks.
32:57well you obviously don't understand about love
32:59so what's the use of talking to you?
33:01neither do silly little half-baked girls
33:03understand about love.
33:05love as you will discover one of these days
33:07is for grown-up people.
33:09so for God's sake and for all our sakes
33:11don't go and marry a bore
33:13like Tony Kroesig.
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33:38when Linda's wedding was over
33:40I motored down to Hampton with Polly and Lady Montdore
33:42to spend a few days there.
33:44I love being so dry in here
33:46and seeing all those poor people so wet.
33:48I was grateful to Polly for suggesting this
33:50as I remembered all too well
33:52that horrible feeling of anticlimax
33:54that they'd been after Louisa's wedding.
33:58I was quite amused weren't you
34:00to see the difference between our side of the church
34:02and the Kroesig side.
34:04bankers don't seem to be much to look at.
34:06so extraordinarily unsuitable
34:08having to know them at all poor things
34:10let alone marry them.
34:12did you see what mingy things
34:14those Kroesigs gave poor Linda.
34:16a cheque.
34:18yes that's all very well but for how much I wonder.
34:20cultured pearls
34:22and a hideous little bracelet.
34:24empty horror?
34:26no necklace?
34:28what will the poor child wear at court?
34:30ah then Sadie was so nice.
34:32and Linda
34:34oh she was so pretty.
34:36lovely Lady Montdore.
34:38she was lovely.
34:40well yes dear I will admit coming down the aisle
34:42she looked quite lovely.
34:44now Polly I want to know exactly what you did
34:46yesterday in London.
34:48you got there about 12.
34:50wait a minute I must get rid of this thing. it's giving me a headache.
34:56you've no idea how that hurt.
34:58and so Polly you arrived in London about 12
35:00and then?
35:02Daddy went straight to his appointment and I had an early lunch at Rutland Gardens.
35:04by yourself?
35:06no boy was there.
35:08looked in to return some books about the Dukes of Norfolk
35:10and there was plenty of food so I made him stay.
35:12well go on.
35:14after lunch and?
35:16hair.
35:18washed and set?
35:20how else?
35:22you hardly think it.
35:24we must find you a better hairdresser.
35:26no use asking Fanny about one.
35:28her hair always looks like a mop.
35:30it was quite all right until I had to put that wreath on it.
35:32never mind that for now.
35:34after the hairdresser?
35:36tea with Daddy at the house and then back to Hunton.
35:38is that all?
35:42yes.
35:54mayday I think.
35:56mayday for what?
35:58mayday for Polly's ball.
36:00good. it must either be the first or the last ball of the season if people are to remember it.
36:02not the last on any account.
36:04I should have to invite all the gals
36:06whose dances Polly had been to.
36:08and nothing's as fatal to a ball as too many girls.
36:10what is the use
36:12of going into all this
36:14if I can get no help
36:16and no interest from Polly?
36:18take this evening for instance.
36:20she wouldn't even condescend to dine with us.
36:22the child did say she had a headache.
36:24do I never have a headache?
36:26one does everything for these girls.
36:28everything.
36:30haven't a minute to see my own friend.
36:32I keep the London house going
36:34with a huge staff eating their heads off
36:36simply for her convenience
36:38and you think she's grateful?
36:40sulky and disagreeable
36:42the entire day long.
36:44can hardly get a word out of her.
36:46and then I go to endless trouble
36:48to see that she can go and stay in nice houses
36:50and the only one she wants to go to
36:52that madhouse at Alcony
36:54in that little cottage which is all you can call it
36:56of Davy and Emily Warbecks
36:58and the plain fact remains
37:00Polly can't ever meet a single soul there.
37:02and if she never meets anyone
37:04how can she marry them?
37:06but is there so much hurry
37:08for her to marry?
37:10she'll be 20 in May.
37:12she can't go on like this forever.
37:14what can be the matter
37:16with her?
37:18so beautiful
37:20and no B.A. at all.
37:22S.A. Sonia
37:24or B.O.
37:26S.A. B.O.
37:28perfect rubbish and bosh.
37:30none of it existed when we were young.
37:32all the same
37:34now that they've been invented
37:36I suppose it's better if the girls
37:38do have them because their partners seem to like it.
37:40and Polly
37:42hasn't a vestige of either. you can see that.
37:44the one thing I never
37:46expected was that she might end up
37:48an old maid.
37:50come now Sonia. the poor girl is still in her teens.
37:52which does not
37:54explain why she has no come hither
37:56in her eye
37:58and why she leaves the light
38:00on in her bathroom
38:02night after night after night
38:04Lady Montdore
38:06was very mean about modern inventions
38:08such as the electric
38:10light.
38:12next thing
38:14do you want to go to the Montdore's ball
38:16for Polly?
38:18Montdore's a great man
38:20in his way. if Montdore
38:22asks us I think we ought to go.
38:24it's Sonia who
38:26asks us. the old she-wolf.
38:28I shall never know what came
38:30over Montdore to make him marry her.
38:32I suppose at the time he didn't realize
38:34how utterly poisonously bloody she is.
38:36utterly bloody.
38:38but if Montdore
38:40asks us I suppose
38:42we ought to go. as we're between
38:44daughters too married and too not yet
38:46out there's no occasion
38:48whatsoever for us to go if you'd rather not.
38:50now if Montdore asks
38:52us to his ball it's because he expects to see us
38:54there.
38:56I think we ought to go.
39:00music
39:30well at least look at the
39:32Mongioli while you're here.
39:36an awful trite
39:38fellow wouldn't be simpering away
39:40like that. he'd be dead with all those arrows
39:42in him. I wouldn't give you seven and
39:44six for it.
39:54Montdore. pleasure and privilege to be
39:56here. happy occasion and all that.
39:58Montdore dear. the German
40:00ambassadress. sitting there quite alone.
40:02so they're right.
40:04but my dear Matthew just the very man.
40:10Baroness von Ravenbrook.
40:12may I present my neighbor Lord Alton.
40:16supper is quite ready
40:18in the music room.
40:20just over there.
40:28no man living other than
40:30your husband could have made Matthew
40:32take a German into supper.
40:34and here
40:36comes Emily. we always have ours together
40:38at dances. a sort of
40:40funny old sister thing
40:42left over from the nursery.
40:58music
41:28music
41:42when was the first ball you ever came to here?
41:44the year I
41:46came out. 1906.
41:48I remember the excitement
41:50of actually seeing Edward VII
41:52in the flesh.
41:54and hearing his loud foreign
41:56laugh. yes.
41:58yes I thought it was then.
42:00I remember that
42:02so well. just before
42:04Boy and I were married.
42:08do you remember?
42:10during the war people said we should never see
42:12this sort of thing again.
42:14and yet look. only look
42:16at the jewels.
42:18no jewel would I be having
42:20supper with. damned old German
42:22cannibal. kept on asking
42:24for more flesh. can't have swallowed
42:26her dinner. more than an hour ago
42:28I pretended not to hear her.
42:30I wasn't going to pander to the old ogre.
42:32after all who won the war?
42:34wonderful public
42:36spirited of Mont d'Or to put up
42:38with all this foreign trash in this house.
42:40I'm loathed if I were.
42:48I ask you.
42:50look at that sewer.
42:52the Serbs were our allies.
42:54so that's a Serb is it?
42:56needs a shave.
42:58hogs one and all. of course Mont d'Or
43:00only does it for the sake of his country.
43:02thinks of nothing but his duty.
43:04what an example to everybody.
43:06and Sonia too. she's
43:08phenomenal. better looking
43:10and better dressed than she's ever been.
43:12but a little tired.
43:14perhaps I should see if I can
43:16be of help.
43:22poor old Patricia.
43:24she's the one who's tired
43:26off of that liver and that ghastly
43:28husband.
43:30I'm talking of ghastly husbands. what have you done with yours?
43:32Tony's gone home early.
43:34tired after the city.
43:36so you're free to dance with me.
43:38bliss of it Dave.
43:40I've got ever so many questions.
43:42I hardly hear anything these days.
43:44Tony's such an old staid. we only go out to other bank people.
43:48oh you're such an old gossip.
43:52what's all this about Polly?
43:54Fanny reports daggers between her and old mother Mont d'Or.
43:56ha ha ha
43:58music
44:22Polly seems to spend
44:24all her time dancing with her father.
44:26boy Dugdale.
44:28blasted ladies maid.
44:30I can't stand the sewer.
44:34I'm talking of sewers.
44:36who's that young brute who's Fanny's dancing with?
44:38he's called Alfred Winchell.
44:40what? who is he?
44:42Winchell Matthew.
44:44he's a don at Oxford.
44:46Oxford? I hope she didn't meet the sewer
44:48while she was staying at my house.
44:50no Matthew dear.
44:52she met him with Davey and me while he was staying
44:54with his aunt in Herne Bay.
44:56I'm quite sure Fanny would introduce him to you at the end of this dance.
44:58British fake Emily.
45:00young hog.
45:02no passion.
45:04cannot keep all your female relations
45:06in a permanent condition of virginity.
45:10that Polly looks as if she's going to be a long time virgin.
45:14I shouldn't care for any of my girls to look like that.
45:18but Fanny looks happy.
45:20bless her heart.
45:22see what they mean about Polly Hampton.
45:24beauty all right.
45:26she doesn't attract me with that sullen expression.
45:32hello my sweet.
45:34what news of the boulter? and are you still in love?
45:38who is that woman?
45:40who's the boulter?
45:42and with whom are you in love?
45:44that woman is a celebrated
45:46Mrs. Chadsley Corbett.
45:48the boulter's the nickname for my mother.
45:50how about love?
45:52nothing. just a joke.
45:54good.
45:56I should like you to be
45:58on the verge of love
46:00and not yet quite in it.
46:02that's a very nice state of mind.
46:04while it lasts.
46:14don't say he had it on him.
46:16already.
46:18just like the making of a Marchioness.
46:20just like. except it's not a ruby.
46:22quite the size of a pigeon's egg though.
46:24you are lucky.
46:28oh I wish I was a boy.
46:30what an extraordinary notion.
46:32then there'd be none of this nagging
46:34and daddy would have a proper heir
46:36and not this cousin from Nova Scotia we've never even seen.
46:40ah the gals. talking balls I suppose.
46:42as usual.
46:44you're going to leverage tonight Fanny.
46:46oh get me some tea Polly dear.
46:48I'm quite dead. such an afternoon
46:50with the Grand Duchess.
46:52Fanny's engaged.
46:54to Alfred Wincham.
46:58well that's very nice I suppose.
47:00Alfred what?
47:02who is he?
47:04Alfred Wincham.
47:06he's a don at Oxford.
47:08a don? how extraordinary.
47:10daddy likes dons.
47:12he's always asking them to dinner.
47:14oh Montdore may have them over
47:16from time to time in the country
47:18but that's no reason why they should be allowed to go
47:20marrying people.
47:22very unsuitable of them.
47:24whatever does Emily say?
47:26she's awfully pleased.
47:28Emily and Sadie are hopeless.
47:30I must think how we can get you out of it.
47:32could you ring up and say you've changed your mind?
47:34no I can't.
47:36why not? it isn't in the paper yet.
47:38it will be tomorrow.
47:40that's where I can be so helpful.
47:42yes now and have it stopped.
47:44oh no Lady Montdore please not.
47:46but she wants to marry him mummy.
47:48she's in love.
47:50love? look where love landed her mother.
47:52whoever invented love ought to be shot.
47:54Fanny's engaged mummy.
47:56look at her pretty ring.
48:00I am looking at it
48:02and what I ask myself is
48:04love or no love
48:06when are you going to have one like it?
48:08oh better of course. far better than Fanny's.
48:10a real ruby to say the least.
48:12I'm not coming from any don but an engagement ring.
48:14do you intend to go
48:16mooning on like this forever?
48:18what else can I do?
48:20you haven't exactly
48:22trained me for a career have you?
48:24oh yes I have. I've trained you for marriage.
48:26and how can I marry if
48:28nobody asks me?
48:30and why don't they ask you?
48:32because you give them no encouragement.
48:34no man likes to make love to a dummy you know.
48:36it's far too gruesome.
48:38I don't want to be made love to.
48:40then what do you want?
48:42oh leave me alone mother please.
48:44to stay on here with us
48:46until you're old.
48:48daddy wouldn't mind. oh yes he would.
48:50well not for a year or two maybe
48:52but nobody wants their girls
48:54to be hanging about forever.
48:56the sour old men.
48:58you'll be the sour kind.
49:00that's obvious already.
49:02you'll be wizened up and sour.
49:04voila!
49:34© transcript Emily Beynon
50:04© transcript Emily Beynon
50:34© transcript Emily Beynon

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