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Linda announces her pregnancy, Fanny marries, and a death occurs which will alter Polly's future irreparably.
Linda announces her pregnancy, Fanny marries, and a death occurs which will alter Polly's future irreparably.
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00:00You
00:30Oh
01:00Such a fuss
01:06Celestia gave me 2,000 pounds for my birthday
01:09Are you really asking Veronica Chattersley Corbett? Oh how I long to meet her
01:152,000 lovely pounds he gave me so I bought myself a pretty necklace and they were all
01:20Horrified and said it was meant to be a capital sum for Tony to invest for me bankers always were a mean lot
01:26You don't know how mean when I spoke to Tony about a wedding present for Fanny
01:30He said he hardly knew her even though she was with me for that famous luncheon in Oxford. Never mind darling
01:36You'll be my dearest person there next to our foot in Emily present or no present
01:41I'm not sure that I'll be able to come
01:46The thing is I may not be at all myself when it happens not at all at all
01:51You
01:52See, I'm in pig. What do you think of that a most hideous expression Linda dear?
01:58But I suppose we must congratulate you. I suppose so. I
02:03Feel awfully ill. I must say. Ah, but think how much good it will do you in the long run such a wonderful clear out
02:11Gosh leave me ahead of one
02:14Some important Americans. They'll only do a deal with Tony if they take a fancy to his wife
02:19Aren't Americans ridiculous. I should probably be sick all over them
02:32I was married at the beginning of the Christmas vacation
02:36And when Alfred and I returned from our honeymoon, we went to stay at Alcon while our own little house in Oxford was being got ready
02:49I
02:53Don't love you on this morning thing man's long agony and lift shop
02:58Mine's got a different version slowly crushed to death in lift not at all funny children disgusting and dull
03:05You're far too old to be so vulgar and heartless
03:09Man drops marmalade on fly buttons no more of that chanting
03:14It was certainly vulgar no more chanting. Do you hear your mother?
03:19Yes far
03:28Time I was off lecture at 10
03:32You think your car will start this morning. I very much hope so well if your car does start this morning Alfred
03:39Please try not to back it into the front door as you did on Friday before advancing it to Oxford man backs car into Alcon Lee
03:49I
03:59Wish so much I could be in the country down at dear old Alcon Lee perhaps not stuck here in beastly London
04:06What does Tony say? Oh?
04:09That Alcon is too cold and uncomfortable
04:13He's very solicitous
04:15all the crows exiled
04:17They particularly want a son yes bankers like Kings have need of many sons
04:25What do you want I?
04:29Don't much care if only I could get out of beastly London
04:33Well if Tony would allow it should be welcome at Merlinford. That's warm enough I
04:38Knew you'd say that I
04:40Was fishing how kind you are how kind?
04:47It's you Merlin
04:49How good of you to call on us like this I must be off now. I'm afraid
04:54Yes, we certainly seem to have cheered Linda up a good old session of gossip. Eh not exactly gossip. I
05:00Expect you'll pass it on to you
05:06Hi
05:08Oh
05:13Tony such wonderful news. He's asked me to go and stay at Merlinford. Oh, I do so long for the country
05:20The doctors want to keep a constant eye on you up here, but Merlin says you get
05:24We cross six go as we have always gone to Sir Connings be robbed
05:28Sir Connings B has a select but demanding medical practice which occasionally includes attendance at the palace
05:35I doubt if you'll have time to call on you at Merlinford
05:39And in a case your place
05:42And your people are now here
05:46On the other hand Louisa says that once you get used to it
05:49It's utter utter utter bliss against
05:54Which does rather surprise us when we think of Fort William. What's wrong with poor John dull and old come on fanny out with it
06:01What's it like with Alfred I?
06:04Agree with Louisa
06:06Really rather bliss making but exactly how it's much too hard to explain
06:12We'll just have to wait and find out for yourself very well
06:15Then we shall go to our marriage beds and ignorance like Victorian ladies in the morning
06:19We shall be found stark staring mad with horror and if 60 more years in an expensive bin
06:25Tis unfair oh
06:28Well back to the medical dictionary in the Bible what we need is some clean-minded married woman to explain to us
06:35But where are we to find her I
06:49Hear Polly and her mother are on very bad terms again that hell hag I
06:54Drowned her if I were Montauk
06:56Oh
06:56He could cut it to pieces with nail scissors like that French Duke the lecturer's lecturer was telling you all about Sadie when you weren't
07:02Listening and we were don't call me say to children and don't call mr.. Dugdale the lecturers
07:14He's made of strong stuff David nothing wears him up. He has come here to convalesce
07:19Oh
07:28Are you all right David no no
07:31Something go wrong with your treatment. No
07:33But they brought Patricia Dugdale into the Radcliffe just as I was leaving. Oh poor dear
07:38I knew she was having a horrid winter. Did you manage to have a word with her? She was dead before they got her to a
07:44room
07:47We therefore commit her body to the ground earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust
07:54Ensure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ
08:00We shall change our vile body. They're back
08:05They look as if they'd been to their own funeral I sometimes thank heaven for your uncle's old-fashioned ideas no women at burials a
08:13poor Patricia I
08:16Fear she had a sad life of it with that boring old lecturer
08:20You always said no one was allowed to call him that and then you do you'll be charting headlines next
08:25Woman locks herself in public convenience decomposing body found five months later. You go on being so silly children
08:31I should be obliged to send you to school
08:34Can you afford it you'd have to buy themselves and gym tunics and underclothes in a decent state girls going off to school are smothered in
08:40Expensive things of course we've longed for it
08:43Rags in the door and patches for the games mistress
08:46School has a very sexy side Sadie. Why the very word mistress very naughty and silly and don't call me Sadie
08:53Davey
09:07I only saw her last week in the Clarendon car park
09:13I
09:20It's the dropping off the perches I've always dreaded when that begins
09:25Well very soon. We shall all have gone. Oh well never mind
09:31Modern science will keep us all alive and young too for many a long day yet I
09:36Am I had a word with dr. Simpson Patricia's inside were a terrible mess quite obviously a miracle
09:42She didn't die ten years ago when the children have gone to bed. I'll tell you all about
09:47How old was she older than we are I
09:51seem to remember
09:53When they married she was supposed to be a lot older than boy. That's sure I thought he seemed awfully cut up
10:00poor boy
10:02Poor little Polly was looking dreadful
10:05But what a bloody fool of a mother ought never to have let her come
10:08Well, I had no idea that Polly was so particularly fond of Patricia nor had I
10:12Tell about the grief. They lined it with Heather because she loves Scotland so much
10:18It's in the Dugdale ploset silken bang underneath boy's window incidentally. Oh promise. You'll bury me at home. Whatever happens
10:25I know the exact place I want next to that old lady who was nearly a hundred
10:30That's not our part of the churchyard. No, but it's the bit I want
10:33I once saw a dear little dead baby foal there
10:37But you're a runaway long before then with all your running away money
10:40How much have you got now Jesse fifty three pounds and six shillings if I've gone you must bring me back pickled
10:46I'll pay I swear
11:00Write it down
11:02Well, I'll want a deposit of ten shillings. You can pay it out of your running away money
11:06No, I shall mean all that when I actually run away
11:09Take it out of my birthday present for that's not for months only ten weeks
11:15there
11:16I've made a map for you to bury me like in Treasure Island
11:22Yes, I think that's clear right we'll put it in the safe
11:30Oh
11:35Do let's see
11:38There's that darling little gun for shooting blue bottles and a piece of shrapnel that was in fast groin for a week
11:45Must have been relieved and it got out and the skeleton of the little fish
11:50absolutely perfect
11:52Young tench it was ah
11:54delicious
11:56Monks always swore by tench pie is course fish so stimulating to the brain course fish
12:02Dad you mentioned that been gobbling all the baby trout up as usual. So once again now listen all of you
12:09We will be having the chub fuddling a week today
12:12The fuddler chappie should be here at 2.30. So I want you all on parade by 2 15
12:1723
12:25And a quarter minutes past 2 in precisely six and three quarter minutes that damn fellow will be late
12:33But well Emily and Davy I should like to know in their room
12:37Davy said that chub fuddling wasn't madly him and little Matt saw them sneaking off
12:41Aunt Emily said they ought to make a polite excuse
12:43But Davy said he wanted to finish writing the chapter on cause fish and anyway
12:47He needed no excuse for not wanting his mid extremities frozen stiff. Oh
12:52Deep one that Davy suits himself independent type
12:59My goodness the chub fuddlers bought a Rolls-Royce now do admit
13:05pleasures
13:07Surely people would know better to call us this day of all days
13:10if
13:12It's that hog Merlin
13:14Matthew duck you look very carefully before you throw that step
13:21Why Joe so it is
13:23I
13:42Think
13:53I
14:01Heard one you go in then you can tell later
14:17You're late damn your eyes
14:20I
14:21Don't mean so late. We could have got started before they got here as it is. I'm stuck. Oh darling. What's going on?
14:28Never you mind miss you lot. I better go down and start little Matt you take charge
14:38Whatever's going on in there must be the most riveting thing since the Great War ended
14:49Oh
15:19The government's fallen why should that make me cry?
15:22Well, you know, she's always getting you to do little jobs for her. There'd soon be another lot for her to bag
15:28Conservatives this time perhaps she'd really like that better
15:31Do you think Polly's dead?
15:34No
15:36They'd be mourning her her lovely corpse not driving about in motorcars and seeing people Christ. I live
15:42They're about to ride, but we shan't know until somebody tells us
15:47Better keep warm
16:10Come on my honey
16:16Ah
16:25Put that lot back at once
16:27Consciously, they're grayling. Oh God incompetence of women. Have they gone use your eyes
16:38That's Montdore Lord Montdore, but where's my dad I can see her all sort of screwed up like a wet
16:46Thank you. Come on, Sammy. Take it all down here. Anyway, I'll be loving it all out of Sadie
16:57Bloody
17:11Come on
17:13tell
17:14Well, what do you think Emily?
17:16Please if you tell we'll never chant man's long agony again as long as we live or anything else
17:22Good bargain if you ask me
17:25After all, they'll have to know sometime
17:31It seems the boy was over at Hampton yesterday and was asked to stay to dinner without dressing because of the cold
17:38He's caught at the funeral
17:39Well Sonia and Lord Montdore went up to change and when Sonia came down again, there was Polly sitting on the rug
17:46Oh that's rugged Hampton. It's such bliss to sit on it gives you such a marvelous. Is this my story or yours miss?
17:53There was Polly sitting on the rug
17:56Still in her day clothes
17:59So Sonia said go up and change at once Polly and where's boy and Polly?
18:04Polly got up stretched herself and said he's gone home and I have something to tell you
18:10The boy and I are going to be married
18:15The wretched Patricia not yet cold in her grave well cooling in this weather
18:20But how can she marry him if he's wrong? It seems with an uncle by marriage you can I say come on day
18:25Oh, no, thank you, my dear Mary. What have you demons?
18:28Oh, not for any money the end of family life a thing like that
18:32Except it's the beginning for Polly first Sonia thought she was joking, but Polly never makes checks
18:38When Sonia saw that she was in deadly earnest
18:40She sort of rushed at Polly in a fury and boxed her ears whereupon Polly gave her a great shove into an armchair and ran upstairs
18:47By this time Sonia was completely hysterical
18:50But he just managed to ring for the maid and get herself put to bed
18:53Or meanwhile Polly had dressed and come down again, and then she calmly spent the rest of the evening with her father
19:01Can you believe it?
19:03Without saying a word about it to him simply saying that Sonia had a headache and wouldn't die
19:08So on top of everything else poor Sonia had to tell him this morning
19:12Which is it was quite a poorly as he adores Polly, so he'll be madly jealous of boy Wilkins
19:20Now my goodness. What a disgusting smell of fish
19:23Don't wash your hands at once. This is the very limit. You're obviously going to say things while we're away
19:30About Fanny's hands they smell just as bad. Fanny's a grown-up. She'll wash her hands when she wants to now go on or no tea
19:44Can you imagine it
19:46Sonia so far lost control of herself this afternoon that she even hinted the boy had once been her lover
19:53Oh
19:55Sadie you're so innocent darling. It's a famous love affair that everyone except you was known about for years
20:03Poor lady Montour her daughter and her lover both gone at a stroke
20:09What I feel sorry for is the unhappy boy Oh Davey what nonsense
20:15Just imagine Polly told him something that she'd been in love with him since she was a little girl of 13
20:21His fault was it
20:25Probably had no idea
20:28Little girls of 13 don't fall in love without encouragement
20:31And we do know that he went for little girls because look at all those strokes and pinchings he gave Louisa and Linda
20:37Did he?
20:39Yes, well I sometimes wondered
20:44You suppose they did it
20:46You've been telling things it is unfair and Fanny's hands are still reeking whatever did far say when he
20:55Never seen him so angry
20:57He wanted to take the horsewhip switches straight away, but fortunately as it's chub-fuddling day. He couldn't quite resist that
21:03But I haven't told you the final thing of all
21:06Polly's coming here for the next week or two
21:10Do you think the lecturer will have himself carried into the house dressed up as a sack of wood sharp meat under my roof
21:16I promise Sonia that
21:18But of course I pointed out that I can't control what Polly does
21:22elsewhere
21:26Now if you have any letters for the post you know what I mean a letter
21:29I could easily run it into the village on our bikes darling you are kind
21:33But they'll do just as quickly if I put them on the wall table, but everybody will see the envelope, and I just thought that
21:39Now about special messages. There's a telephone in the village rather public, but you could talk in French
21:44I'm afraid I don't know much French. I thought you had a telephone
21:47Yes, it's a real brute in France business room. He listens into every word like the Inquisition
21:54There's a hollow tree in the park just big enough for two people to hide in quite dry and comfy
21:59Should we show you it's too cold today? I think
22:07I
22:09Can't see the point of freezing to death in hollow tree trunks when very soon
22:13I shall be with boy for the whole of the rest of my life
22:16Polly
22:18What did boy say when he proposed
22:21boy never proposed at all I
22:24Don't think he ever would have being the sort of person. He is I mean so unselfish and considerate
22:30You see he knew mummy so well
22:32He understood just what sort of hullabaloo
22:34She'd make about leaving me out of wills and all that has she threatened that or your father. It's in the air
22:40Of course boy knew there'd be trouble. He worries tremendously about that kind of thing
22:45So I always realized that I'd have to do the proposing
22:48It wasn't very difficult
22:50After all I've loved him ever since I can remember
22:53Fanny it's all being happy wonderful
22:56There could be delays
22:58After all you're not yet 21
23:01Not far off
23:02What can it matter if we have a few more weeks of horrid waiting
23:06And they're going to live together for the rest of our lives and be buried in the same grave
23:11Fancy being buried in the same grave with the lecturer
23:14Jessie I think it's too awful the way you listen at doors tease fan
23:18I intend to be a novelist child novelist astounds the critics, and I'm studying human nature like mad
23:23I really ought to tell aunt Sadie now Sadie is being an absolute scream about the whole thing I hurt her
23:30She's trying to put Polly off by reminding her of what she calls that side of married life
23:35She simply doesn't realize it. That's what excited Polly in the first place
23:40Girls I'd find the lecture repulsive
23:42Well, he makes them positively sizzle and he must have made Polly sizzle
23:46And she was just a little girl like he tried to with Louisa
23:49And now all she wants is to roll and roll and roll about with him in a steaming double bed
24:00Oh
24:07You must believe me David the whole thing started with her not my idea at all. Yes, that's what I thought
24:14How do you feel about it?
24:18I can't resist it and yet it'll be ruined. I should be ostracized for a start. Yeah, I don't know
24:24Look at Fanny's mother the Bolter ghastly scandal after ghastly scandal
24:28Elopements horse whippings puts herself up for sweepstakes has an affair with a cannibal king and shares his diet
24:37Well, I don't know what all
24:39She only had to appear in London and her friends queued three deep to give parties for her
24:45People worship bad behavior. The Belters kind perhaps mind will be seen as rather different. Ah
24:51Thank you Freddy
24:54Yes, look splendid
24:57Well, if you're scared
25:01You could always chuck it and go abroad I thought of that in one way you see it's also frightening
25:06I shall miss Sonia dreadfully and they'd be trouble about money. I've got such a little of my own but in another way well
25:14To be married to Polly. It's quite dazzling David. I can't resist
25:26Oh
25:29Hear me
25:31Had to take me on a new young wife at our age
25:34How exhausting I do pity him. Oh pity him indeed
25:39All he had to do was to leave little girls alone. Oh Sadie. You're so implacable
25:43It's a heavy price. He has to pay for it for a bit of
25:47cuddling
25:50Years ago
25:52You containment of records from the army and Navy Fanny you fit Polly I know she'll want to hear them
25:58Polly's in her room writing a letter the letter can wait
26:22Oh
26:52Oh
27:16That was boy
27:18He wants to meet me in Oxford on Wednesday, oh well duck. I only promised your mother
27:21He shouldn't come to this house of course you must meet the lecturer mr.
27:25Dougdale in Oxford if you wish how kind you are lady. I can leave the only thing is I can't take you in
27:30I'm being up to London on the Monday for Linda's baby. It's any moment now
27:33I'll drive her in and shoot the swine when I get there. I just get another record Matthew
27:39I wonder but Josh take you in the Daimler Daimler's going for repairs
27:43I
27:46Alfred and I can take you in Polly. I've got to go and see how a new house is getting on
27:50So we shan't be in each other's way
28:12I
28:14I
28:16I
28:18I
28:41Such a ghastly mess I can't ask you in
28:43Do you want to look to Mr. Dougdale? I would like to. No he doesn't
29:06Well
29:07Everything's settled a month from today if I can get my parents consent
29:10I shall still be underage you see so the next thing is a tussle with mummy sooner you than me
29:15I want you to come to oh
29:17There's Alfred waiting for us
29:19We seem to go down well with mummy and I want a witness if she says yes in front of you
29:23She won't be able to wriggle out of it later
29:25I
29:38Saw Lady Montdore driving along the hire this morning. How did she look rather like a tiller the Hun?
29:45One month from today mummy and for that I must have your consent as I'm not of age until May
29:50But as that's only a few weeks more in any case you might as well bite on the pill
29:54Don't you think and get it done with all very pretty I must say when the breath has hardly left your poor aunt's body
30:00It doesn't make the slightest difference to aunt Patricia whether she's been dead three months or three centuries, so let's leave her out of it
30:06Do you realize Polly that the day you marry boy Dugdale your father's going to cut you out of his will yes?
30:13Yes, yes as if I cared the only thing I mind about is Hampton
30:17And he can't leave me that even if he wants to I wonder if you also know that boy Dugdale is a very poor man
30:24They lived really on Patricia's allowance, and this will stop the moment. He marries you yes
30:29Yes
30:29We've been through all that and don't count on your father changing his mind because I have no intention of allowing I'm quite sure you
30:36haven't I
30:37Wonder if you realize what it's like
30:40being poor
30:41We shall be poor like really poor people boy has 800 a year of his own besides what he makes from his books
30:47The parson and his wife here have 800 a year and just look at their dreary faces
30:53They were born with those. I did better. Thanks to you. Have you no idea what you're throwing away?
31:00You can't have the title and you can't have Hampton
31:03But you can have well you would have had just about everything else a huge
31:08Fortune in money some of the most valuable jewels and objects in Europe in the world
31:14If I can't have Hampton, I want nothing
31:17It's no good going on mummy. There's nothing you can do to stop us
31:21Well, then why have you come here, what do you want?
31:26To have the wedding next month for which I need your consent and to be married here in the chapel
31:32Or must we sneak off to London for it if you intend to go through with this indecent marriage at all costs
31:40It'll make the least talk if we have the marriage here and before your birthday
31:45Then I shan't have to explain why there are to be no coming-of-age celebrations. The tenants have begun asking questions already
31:52So I think you may take it that you can have the marriage here as you wish and before next month
31:59After which you incestuous little heart. I never want to set eyes on you or your uncle again
32:06boy, Dugdale on 800 a year a real test of true love that will be
32:13I wonder if she sticks to her guns who will get the money and the jewels? Oh, yeah
32:19well
32:20the mysterious heir
32:22Who is he? He's called Cedric Hampton
32:27He was born
32:29in
32:32Was born in 1907
32:35He's the son of Montours
32:37second cousin once removed Henry Hampton who
32:42Who was bad lot and is now dead Henry went west as they say?
32:48fell ill and
32:50Married his nurse an elderly Canadian woman
32:53Here described as a daughter of Stanley honks Esquire of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
33:01She bore Henry this one child Cedric
33:04Well, uh to where is he now?
33:07What does he do?
33:09nobody knows I
33:11Expect he's just sitting around somewhere waiting to become the next earl of Montour
33:16It's quite a pleasant occupation
33:18Providing he's not kept waiting too long
33:20What are you going to call her?
33:22And where is she anyway?
33:24It's in sister's room
33:26It shrieks
33:29Sister will bring it in soon. I
33:31Believe it's to be called Moira Moira
33:35But darling you can't
33:37Tony likes it he had a sister called Moira who died
33:41His other sister whacked her on the head with a hammer when she was four years old who told you not Tony
33:47crazy nanny
33:48She's rather a home the only one in the family
33:54If only this Moira had someone who would whack her on the head with a hammer
34:11Poor thing
34:13It's really kind enough to live
34:15You're not being very encouraging
34:18Just as I've joined the club
34:20Oh have you Fanny?
34:22Oh you poor darling
34:24Will God send you something better than this horrible Moira?
34:29She's too young
34:31I don't believe very young mothers ever get really wrapped up in their babies. It's when women are older. They so adore their children
34:37Perhaps it's better for the children to have young unadoring mothers to lead more detached lives. Linda seems positively to loathe it
34:46Linda's expression
34:48well
34:49Remember, she's been terribly ill
34:51Sadie was in despair twice. They thought she'd die
34:55Don't talk of it. I can't imagine the world without Linda. Oh, she'll get over it Fanny darling provided
35:01She never tries to have another Sadie said the doctors were very plain about that
35:08I've been going into Cedric the heir a bit more. Ah, there's boy
35:21Hair nicely curled I see. Yeah always did cut quite a good figure in mourning dress
35:28No, where was I?
35:30Cedric the heir. Ah yes, you know, they still don't even know where he lives or anything
35:34Wouldn't you think they'd show a bit more interest after all this Cedric fella is the only hope of the family being carried on
35:41Perhaps a little more to hated Cedric's father. No, no, no, I put it down to Sonia
35:45I expect she couldn't bear the thought of Hampton going away from Polly and pretended to herself that Cedric just didn't exist
35:53Can't say I blame her. Just imagine the idea of some great lump in colonial attempt
35:59She'll have to face up to him now under these new circumstances
36:04I
36:28Think she's up to something
36:30She
36:33Looks as if she were going to be sick or start keeling or rending her bosom. What a joy that would be
36:45Here comes the cortege
37:00I
37:27Who giveth this woman to be married to this man
37:30I
38:00I
38:25Know how you feel Sadie
38:30As if youth had left it forever
38:32Oh
38:34Oh
38:36Oh
38:59Please go ahead holding fan how you must adore him
39:04Mothers don't always adore their babies. Look at Linda and Moira Moira is just a beastly
39:09Counter-harnessed crowsick kraut. That's why you can see her turning into a kind of Valkyrie right under your eyes
39:15But Fanny's baby is pure heaven
39:19Just like heavenly Alfred. Oh, you are lucky to be you it is unfair
39:25I'm afraid you to over excite him
39:28One of the most blissful things about babies is getting rid of them from time to time
39:33Ungrateful, I call it if I had beautiful Basil, I'd never let him leave my arms and everything else here is such total paradise as well
39:41Oh
39:42the sheer heaven of it here
39:46That's fun you mustn't keep him waiting one single second blissful blissful
39:50Digestive biscuits come on that once vicked
39:53Fars got word that Lady Montdore's in Oxford today, and he knows she always calls on you
39:57Well, it's nice to have warning for once she usually arrives unannounced and fags me all round Oxford
40:02That's her rules coming down the street run for it. Jesse or foul bring everyone inside with a starting handle
40:23Oh
40:32The front door was open so I came right up
40:35Is this your tea? Would you like a cup? Oh, yes, please so refreshing and a biscuit would be nice
40:46Now
40:47What I came to tell you was this the bishop and Montdore was speaking of your husband at luncheon
40:53They were impressed by some article of his which they read so I suppose he really is a clever man
40:58The cleverest man I ever met then it's a thousand pities. He's a dreadfully poor
41:02I hate to see him living in this horrid little hovel
41:06It's so unsuitable and I can't bear you're not being more important. We're very contented. You know
41:12Simple pleasures books and so on
41:14It's all very well for funny little people like you and your husband to read books all the time
41:19You only have yourselves to consider
41:22Whereas Montdore and I have to wear ourselves out being public servants slightly stewed. Yeah, that's what we still are in a way
41:31public service
41:33Such a very great deal is expected of us traditions to live up to tiny bit still there
41:39duties to perform
41:42It's a hard life make no mistake about that hard and tiring
41:46But occasionally we have our awards
41:48When we came home from India for instance and the dear villagers pulled on motor car up to drive up. They worshipped us
41:56fairly touching now then
41:59Am I to see Moira?
42:03Moira is staying in Surrey with the Kroesigs
42:06She almost always is
42:08They like her and I don't I see
42:12Well, at least that leaves you free to devote yourself to Tony and his interests
42:16What have I to do with Tony's interests and as for Tony himself?
42:20Well, the waxwork started to melt the moment I married it and now there's nothing left but a puddle on the floor
42:27You warned me you were right and it's very kind of you not to say I told you so
42:32Let's try another cliche instead. You must now make the best of things
42:37Tony's out all day in the city very soon. He'll be out all night in the House of Commons
42:42He's bound to win that seat at the by-election
42:44This will leave you with even more free time on your hands than you already have
42:49What do you want me to do take a lover?
42:52No
42:54You are not yet mature enough to choose a satisfactory one and as I am NOT a pimp
42:58I do not intend to find you one myself, but I
43:02Can find you amusing company which will occupy your ample leisure and at the same time annoy those
43:09abominable Kroesigs
43:12I save Fanny's food toast with every meal. Why can't we live with Fanny always?
43:17Why can't I be you and walnut cake? We haven't had it at home since the financial crisis started dear
43:24Is it very bad this time?
43:25Usual sort of thing cheap gritty laugh paper, which nearly cuts you to pieces and red carbolic soap
43:31But far more interesting we've had news from horrible Polly a postcard horrible Polly
43:36They're not inviting us to the wedding after all the loyal support we gave her
43:39It's no use her bombarding us with postcards. We can never never forgive. Where was it from from Seville?
43:46That's in Spain. Did she sound happy? Do people ever sound unhappy on postcards?
43:50Isn't it always lovely weather and everything wonderful on postcards?
43:53Has she written to you only postcards one from Paris and one from Saint-Jean-de-louis
43:58It's as nice as she thought being in bed with a lecturer
44:02Marriage isn't only bed. There are other things
44:04I wonder if they're as nice as she thought with a lecturer
44:09Fars horn back to our country fastness like the lady of shallot with the pathetic lives we need
44:14Or Mariana of the moated Grange
44:17He cometh not she said oh, oh, I am a weary a weary. I would that I were dead
44:24Jesse and I love that first line Oh
44:26A new car? You know what Far is. He always buys a new car when he has a financial crisis.
44:36We think it gives him confidence.
44:47Come in and have some tea.
44:49No thank you Fanny. Very kind of you.
44:51There's a perfectly good cup of tea waiting for me at Alkenway.
44:53You know I never go inside other people's houses.
44:56Letter from Linda last week.
44:58Seems to be cheerful again.
45:00Rather a relief to say the I can tell you of.
45:02Wonderful. Topped off with a cherry.
45:04You must come and meet Peter and Paul.
45:06Come on.
45:08This is Linda.
45:10Now let's go and meet Angel.
45:12Angel in private.
45:14Friend of Linda's are you?
45:16I'm her.
45:18No need to go into details.
45:20Have you got a cigarette?
45:22No.
45:25Yes ma'am.
45:27Have you got a cigarette?
45:33Lady Montour.
45:35I'm so glad you found your way in.
45:39You'll stay and have some luncheon with me?
45:41Oh indeed I will.
45:43Hungry work shopping.
45:45And where is your husband today?
45:47Lunching in college.
45:49Just as well.
45:51As what I've got to tell isn't exactly intellectual.
45:54Oh no thank you Fanny.
45:56Never take vegetables with fish.
46:02Cedric.
46:04Cedric?
46:06Well you know Montour's there.
46:08Do put that jug down and pay attention.
46:10We found him at last.
46:12The idiotic thing was his ghastly mother kept moving.
46:14Fancy moving in Canada.
46:16You'd think one place there would be exactly the same as another.
46:19Now
46:21it turned out
46:23that Cedric wasn't in Canada at all
46:25but in Paris.
46:27Whatever could a Canadian be doing in Paris?
46:29This was a little too dry.
46:31Paris indeed.
46:33Well we must wait and see what comes
46:35and if necessary change it.
46:37I mean he'll have to learn to behave suitably now.
46:39I've already written to invite him to Hampton.
46:43Linda darling!
46:45Ta da!
46:48Poppy!
46:50What?
46:52And Frankie and dear little Maxie.
46:54Oh come in darling.
46:56Bring it down.
46:58And then dozens and dozens of chatterers and hangers on arrived
47:00and I got no more sense out of her at all.
47:02Lord Merlin has a lot to answer for
47:04filling a house with bohemians.
47:06I agree.
47:08But Linda gives one so much pleasure
47:10she's like a bunch of flowers.
47:12Seems so odd that she doesn't even have love affairs.
47:14I don't see what she gets out of her life.
47:17Dear Alfred.
47:19He does like to file people away under clear headings.
47:21Virtuous wife or scarlet woman.
47:23The trouble is Linda's neither.
47:25Linda believes in love.
47:27Casual affairs simply don't interest her.
47:31She's waiting I'm sure if only subconsciously
47:33for the irresistible temptation.
47:37When it comes one can only hope
47:39it will not prove to be another bottom
47:41in the Shakespearean sense of course.
47:43I suppose she really is rather like my mother.
47:46All of hers have been bottoms.
47:48Poor Boater.
47:50In almost all affairs of high passion
47:52women fall for bottoms.
47:54Oh I've had a letter from Mother Montdorff.
47:56Cedric the heir is coming to stay next Thursday.
48:00Tell more.
48:02We are sending to Dover for him
48:04so that he'll arrive in time for dinner.
48:06Montdorff and I have decided not to dress that evening
48:08as most likely he has no evening clothes
48:10and one doesn't wish to make him feel shy
48:12at the very beginning of his visit.
48:14Oh for a ringside seat.
48:16I've got one.
48:18We should be so pleased and grateful
48:20if you'd come over for the night.
48:22It will make things much easier to have another young person
48:24there when Cedric arrives.
48:26You see I told you there'd be
48:28rewards for being nice to her.
48:30If you consider this sufficient reward
48:32for being patronized by an evil old woman.
48:34Of course she does.
48:36Oh lucky Fanny.
48:38Please tell me that you're going.
48:40I can hardly wait.
48:42Do you think we shall hear the motor coming up the drive?
48:44We generally can if the wind is in the west.
48:46I expect I shall.
48:48I hear everything.
48:50We're not stone deaf ourselves.
48:52Show Fanny what you've got for Cedric Montdorff.
48:54Oh yes.
48:56Now if you look at the flyleaf
48:58you will see that it was given to my grandfather
49:00by the late Lord Palmerston
49:02the day that Cedric's grandfather was born.
49:04They evidently happened to be dining together.
49:06We think that that should please him.
49:08Thomas Gray.
49:10Thomas Gray?
49:12Yes he should like that.
49:14Well Canadians should know all about the poet Gray
49:16because General Wolfe at the taking of Quebec
49:18read Elegy
49:20written in a country churchyard
49:22out loud to all his staff officers
49:24in order to keep them calm.
49:26I always think there's something rather contrived about that story.
49:28Oh.
49:30Mr. Cedric Hunton.
49:32I thought you heard everything.
49:40Don't speak.
49:42Just for a moment.
49:44Just let me go on looking at you.
49:46You wonderful
49:48wonderful people.
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