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As Linda and Tony desperately try to obtain permission to marry, Fanny visits Polly at Hampton, where oddness abounds.
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