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Lady Montdore's heir Cedric arrives, Jassy runs away, Polly returns from abroad, and Linda falls for a communist.
Lady Montdore's heir Cedric arrives, Jassy runs away, Polly returns from abroad, and Linda falls for a communist.
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01:00Welcome. Welcome to Hampton.
01:05The beauty. I can only say I am quite drunk with it.
01:09England's so much more beautiful than I had imagined. I never had very good reports of England somehow.
01:14And this house. So romantic. Such a repository of treasures.
01:19And above all, you. The two most beautiful people I have ever seen.
01:24Won't you take off your spectacles? I should so like to see your eyes.
01:29Later, dear Lady Montau. Later, after my dreadful, my paralyzing shyness has quite worn off.
01:34They give me confidence, you see, like a mask. I should like my life to be a perpetual balamasque.
01:41Oh, this is Frances Wincham. I am enchanted to meet you.
01:47How do you do? I am so happy to be here.
01:51Oh, my dear boy, we are so happy to have you. You should have come before.
01:55But we thought you were always in Nova Scotia, you see.
02:01This table. Reister?
02:08Louis Kahn's.
02:12Oh, Fragonard.
02:15And Boucher.
02:17And what's this?
02:25China with Marie Antoinette's cypher. Oh, how delightful.
02:31At Chervre, we have the Meissen service she brought with her from Vienna.
02:35We have many relics of Marie Antoinette, poor dear, at Chervre.
02:38At Chervre? The house in which I live when I wish to be in the country.
02:42Oh, the gardens and fountains. Literally hundreds of fountains.
02:46And then, when I am weary of rural life, I have in Paris an apartment of all beauty, dear Lady Montau.
02:53One's idea of heaven.
02:55Lord Montau, Lady Montau, do come. They promised me that you will come.
02:59Oh, well, we shall have to see.
03:02Personally, I've never been very fond of France.
03:04The people are so frivolous. I greatly prefer the Germans.
03:07Germans? The frivolity of the Germans terrifies even one.
03:12I have a German friend in Paris, Lady Montau, and a more frivolous creature does not exist.
03:17I hope you will make some suitable English friends now, Cedric.
03:21That is what I long for, but please, please, can my chief English friend be you, dear?
03:26Dearest Lady Montau.
03:28I think you should call us Aunt Sonia and Uncle Montau.
03:32May I? May I really?
03:35Oh, I am so happy to be here.
03:38You seem, Aunt Sonia, to shower happiness around you.
03:42Yes, I do. I live for others. I suppose that's why.
03:46The sad thing is, people have not always appreciated it.
03:50Well, they're so very selfish themselves.
03:52Aren't they? Aren't they?
03:53I have been a victim to the selfishness of people all my life.
03:57That German friend I mentioned just now, his selfishness passes comprehension how one does suffer.
04:03Oh, it's a he, is it?
04:05A boy called Klug. I hope to forget all about him while I'm here.
04:09Now, Lady Montau, dearest Aunt Sonia.
04:12After dinner, I want you to do me a very great favor.
04:15Will you put on your jewels so I can see you sparkling in them?
04:19Well, Verdi, my dear boy.
04:22Are they down in the strong room? I don't know when they were last seen.
04:25Oh, please, don't say no. Don't shake your head.
04:27Because ever since I first set eyes on you, I've been thinking of nothing else.
04:31You must look truly glorious in them.
04:34Very well. After dinner, the jewels.
04:38Tell them to bring up the jewel cases to the Long Gallery.
04:41Yes, milady.
04:42Montau, the keys.
04:44Oh, but on this condition, that you take off your spectacles.
04:49Perhaps I could.
04:51Yes, I really think the last vestige of my shyness is quite gone.
05:00Anyone can tell you're apt.
05:03And let us never see those horrid spectacles again.
05:07Oh, Cedric, you must tell us about your life.
05:10When did you leave Canada?
05:14When I was 18.
05:16I was sent by my guardian, a banker, to Paris to learn some horrid sort of job.
05:21Oh, what sort of job?
05:23Oh, I quite forget as I never had to go near it.
05:25In Paris, it is not necessary to have jobs. One's friends are so very kind.
05:29Oh, really? I always thought the French were rather mean.
05:33Certainly not to one.
05:35One's needs are very simple, I admit, but such as they are,
05:38they have all been satisfied over and over again.
05:41What are your needs, Cedric?
05:44I need a very great deal of beauty around me.
05:47Beautiful objects wherever I look and beautiful people who see the point of one.
05:52Ah, the jewels!
05:57Thank you, thank you, thank you.
06:00Oh, oh!
06:03But no, no haste.
06:05One must create the spectacle with due care, with reverence.
06:10Now, first of all, Ansonia, darling, that dress simply won't do.
06:14Now, let me see. Oh, yes.
06:21There. Oh, yes.
06:24Now, then, a little brooch, I think.
06:26A nice big diamond brooch.
06:29There we are.
06:32Now, then, have you got some maquillage in your bag, dear, and coat?
06:35Oh, Fanny, dear, my bag?
06:37I'll get it, I'll get it.
06:42There.
06:49Thank you, dear.
06:51Ah.
06:56Oh, naughty, naughty you.
06:59Horrid, cheap stuff that flakes.
07:01But never mind. It'll do for now.
07:04We've got to show the bone structure.
07:07So beautiful.
07:09There.
07:11Now, then, I think we'll have to find you a new cuivre.
07:14It should go back like this, like this.
07:17There.
07:19Now, then.
07:21Hmm.
07:25Oh, yes.
07:34There. Now.
07:36Come and take a look.
07:38There we are.
07:40My turn now.
07:42Hmm.
07:44Well, I must say good night.
07:47But before I go, dear boy, I should like you to have this.
07:52Oh, Thomas Gray.
07:55So English.
07:57Just what I need. Now, I'm here.
07:59The flyleaf may interest you.
08:05Oh, Uncle Modder.
08:08What can I say?
08:10Oh, the fascination.
08:14I'm so glad you like it.
08:17Ahem.
08:32Now, Aunt Sonia, you really must pat your face more.
08:35Pat?
08:36With nourishing creams. I'll show you.
08:38Such a wonderful face you have, but so neglected, starved, and illicit betrayed.
08:43So, we must feed it up and exercise it from now on.
08:46And twice a week, you must sleep in a mask.
08:48A mask?
08:49Not like that poor man with the iron contraption, but one that you paint on at night.
08:53It goes a little hard, of course.
08:55So you must never telephone before you've removed it with a special remover.
08:58Because if you telephone with a hard face, you will sound cross.
09:02And if it happened to be one at the other end, one simply could not bear it.
09:06Oh, these heavenly tourmalines.
09:09Such a minor stone, I know, but so...
09:12...lambent somehow.
09:16Now, if I lend you these and these, and you'll lend me this and this.
09:20There.
09:21Now, how do I look?
09:23Marvellous. Do you think emeralds would improve me?
09:26Oh, yes, darling, Aunt Sonia. Absolute perfection.
09:29Miss Cedric, I have a teeny confession to make.
09:32I really rather like amethysts.
09:34Oh, my dear, and so do I.
09:35So long as they are huge, dark stones set in glittering diamonds,
09:39they look so very becoming on one.
09:42When are you going to introduce him to us?
09:44Not for a while, I think.
09:46Oh, come on. We'd be safe.
09:48I suppose it's little Matt you're worrying about.
09:51He goes back to Eton next week. Then you can introduce us.
09:54I don't see why all this worry about me.
09:56I can take care of myself with people like Cedric.
09:59I've had enough practice at Eton.
10:01Anyone we know...
10:02Oh, Matt, do tell.
10:03I might tell.
10:05If you lend me a fiver from your running-away money.
10:08I'm sorry, Matt.
10:09If there's one thing I hold sacred, it's my running-away money.
10:12You might tell all the same.
10:14I bet that spotty David Harvey from Stowe-on-the-Wold had a try.
10:19I saw him fancying Matt at Christmas.
10:22I'll tell you all about my sex life at Eton
10:25if Fanny will introduce us all to Cedric Hampton.
10:27Absolutely not. You'll just have to wait.
10:30Goodness, how mean, Fanny. Do admit.
10:32Fanny, why?
10:33We're not poor, simple little us any more. You know that.
10:36I'm afraid I cannot introduce you to Cedric
10:38until your father and mother have met him.
10:41But if that happens from the sound of it,
10:43I would just slaughter him with the entrenching tool.
10:46I fear so.
10:47What with all the talk of Paris and everything else,
10:50Cedric will count with your father as the very Prince of Sewers.
11:11.
11:12.
11:42.
11:56That purple.
11:57So regal, darling,
11:58and exactly who I'm signing to bring back all your splendour
12:02as Queen of the Raj.
12:04I don't know.
12:06Rather overdoing it, perhaps.
12:08What do you think, Fanny?
12:10No good asking me.
12:12As Cedric constantly reminds me,
12:14I'm just a frumpish Oxford housewife who knows nothing about clothes.
12:17No, no, Fanny.
12:18What one said was that you do very well in the country,
12:21so wholesome, darling,
12:22but that your relatively simple nature
12:24isn't suited by the highest sophistications.
12:27They require a combination of subtlety and majesty,
12:30which we have a magnificence on you.
12:34All great nonsense, of course, and transparent flattery.
12:38But there is no doubt, Davy, that Cedric has transformed her life.
12:42He's making Montdorff very happy, too.
12:45Montdorff says that Cedric knows more
12:47about the 18th century French editions at Hampton than he does himself.
12:51Always round happiness.
12:53It is agreeable to see people happy,
12:55but I cannot bring myself altogether to like Cedric.
12:58How couldn't you like him, Davy? I absolutely love him.
13:01I have seen too many Cedrics.
13:03Lucky old you. I couldn't see too many.
13:06You, for all your intelligence, are an innocent English rosebud.
13:10Not after all I've heard from you over the years.
13:13Then here's another item for you to treasure.
13:16The likes of Cedric Fanny always turn nasty in the end.
13:19The ormolu radiance will vanish,
13:21and the last state of Sonia will be far worse than her first.
13:24I've seen it so often.
13:25I don't believe it. Cedric loves Lady Montdorff.
13:28Cedric loves Cedric.
13:30Moreover, Fanny, he comes from the jungle,
13:33and just as soon as it suits him,
13:35he'll tear her to pieces and slink back into the undergrowth.
13:38Cedric!
13:39Darling Fanny, door open as usual.
13:41So, in I popped.
13:45Dear Davy, looking so radiant after your last cure,
13:51écoutez bien, I am the bearer of news.
13:54Sonia is in the most terrible taking
13:57because Polly and boy, how one longs to meet them,
14:00have rented a house in Sicily from Uncle Montdorff's old friend,
14:03the Principe di Palermo.
14:04Now, I've just had the most ghastly job quietening Sonia down.
14:08But why should Sonia object?
14:10It seems that she and Uncle Montdorff
14:12spent two days of their honeymoon in the house.
14:14She, therefore, thinks it tasteless of the Principe
14:16to let Polly and boy have it,
14:18and, oh dears, of Polly and boy to want it.
14:20Foolish old woman.
14:21Why should anyone remember the last little details of her honeymoon?
14:25Try putting that question to Sonia yourself.
14:27You know, I may be able to inspect Polly and boy
14:30in their new home before long.
14:32I'm off on a cruise.
14:33How delicious! Where?
14:35To Crete and back.
14:36I give a daily lecture based on my book
14:38in sickness and in health, and go cheap.
14:41But the point is that on the way
14:43we call it several parts of the Sicilian coast.
14:46Ha, ha, ha.
15:03Play it.
15:29Polly and boy.
15:31The absent influence so boring and overdone in literature,
15:34but I see now that in real life it can eat you with curiosity.
15:38How one dies to meet the... Oh, describe that. Describe.
15:42Well, she's so beautiful that all you want to do is just gaze and gaze and gaze.
15:47More beautiful than one?
15:49Very much like you, Cedric.
15:50So you may say, but I don't find that you just gaze and gaze at one.
15:54You listen carefully, but you do not always look.
15:57She is very much like you, Cedric, but I think she must be more beautiful
16:01just because of the thing about the gazing.
16:03I know exactly why. It's all this horrible shaving.
16:06I shall send away to New York this very day for some of this new wax.
16:09You can't conceive the agony of Fanny, dear, but if it will make you gaze, it will be worth it.
16:14Please don't bother, Cedric.
16:16It's not the shaving. It's some little extra thing which Polly has.
16:20You're so lucky not to be a beauty, dear. You'll never know the agony of losing your looks.
16:25Thank you very much.
16:27Since talking about pretty Polly makes us both so disagreeable, let us pass on to Boy.
16:33No gazing there. Boy is old and grizzled and hideous.
16:36Now, Fanny, that is simply not true, dear. I have seen many photographs of Boy.
16:40Sonia's scrapbooks are full of them.
16:42Boy on his polo pony. Boy in his uniform for the war. Boy with his Indian bearer.
16:48Rather a look of Klug, I thought.
16:50Klug?
16:51The German boy I told you about.
16:53The one who was so selfish?
16:54Very, very naughty.
16:56He took a fancy to so many of the general's things.
16:59Which general?
17:00One's friend, dear.
17:02The one who owned beautiful sheriff with all the fountains?
17:04No, no, that was the baron.
17:06The general hadn't much taste.
17:07Klug seemed to think he had.
17:10The general's things were very vulgar, dear, but very expensive.
17:16I see a young girl and a delicious boy who are heading straight for us.
17:25Victoria, Matthew, what on earth are you doing here?
17:28Pursuing you both. Buzzles said you'd gone for a walk.
17:30We don't want to be pursued.
17:32News, Fanny, urgent news.
17:34But we shan't tell till you introduce us.
17:36Anyway, darling, it's a rule not to.
17:39Cedric, these are my cousins, Victoria and Matthew Radlett.
17:42Mr. Cedric Hampton.
17:43My dears, I am quite bewitched.
17:47This news!
17:49Jessie's run away.
17:51How?
17:52Sadie's had a cable saying, on way to Hollywood, love.
17:54Hollywood?
17:56But she's never been interested in the cinema.
17:58Ah, she did go once, about a month ago.
18:01And she's fallen in love with a film star called...
18:04Carrie Goon.
18:06Or Gary Coon, I can't quite remember which.
18:08So she wrote to him, asking if he was married,
18:11and saying that if he wasn't, she'd go straight out there to marry him herself.
18:14So we suppose she got a letter saying he's not married and just went off.
18:18Lucky she had her running away money.
18:20What on earth are Aunt Sadie and Uncle Matthew going to do?
18:23Oh, far things from the person that can deal with it is Davy Warbeck.
18:26You know how keen Farr is on him.
18:28But Davy's off on a cruise.
18:30Of course, people have said that one is quite knowledgeable about the situation.
18:34You stop out of this, Cedric.
18:36Poor old Farr.
18:38It looks as if he'll have to go chasing off to America himself.
18:42Of course, that's too much to ask, bless his heart.
18:45The whole thing will just have to simmer down until Davy gets back.
18:50Meanwhile, Alkeny's besieged by Germans.
18:53And I only hope none of them gets beheaded with the entrenching tube.
18:56Uncle Matt will be glad of new opponents.
19:00Oh, dear, how I wish I was there.
19:02And not just for the knockabout.
19:04Country. Real country.
19:07The great difference between proper country and this hideous Surrey
19:10is that in Surrey, when you see blossom, you know there will be no fruit.
19:14Think of the Vale of Evesham and then look at this pointless pink stuff
19:18with those dreary Crozigs waiting at the end of it.
19:22You are a brick to come with me.
19:24They're fond of you, you know, and your being there will make it all much better.
19:28I don't mind them, but I've never been on their Surrey ground before.
19:31What'll happen?
19:33I will have to hold Moira for a bit.
19:35Ugly little thing.
19:37Though I must say it does suit her being in Surrey,
19:39even if it's not proper country.
19:42She loves Pixie Townsend.
19:45Pixie Townsend?
19:47New name.
19:48But you know the type.
19:50Young face with white hair dyed blue.
20:06Married and divorced years ago.
20:09Lives near here and has taken a fancy to Moira.
20:12And to Moira's father.
20:14I'm only too grateful
20:16because now I needn't feel him the least bit guilty.
20:19They all get on so much better without me.
20:25Um...
20:26My daughter-in-law, you'll know, Pixie.
20:29And this is Mrs. Wincham, Mrs. Townsend.
20:33And where do you hail from, Mrs. Wincham?
20:35Oxford.
20:36Ah, all those dreamy spires and mouldy old dons.
20:39I'm married to one. He's younger than you are.
20:42Oh!
20:44I'm afraid I don't know much about the universities.
20:47Clearly not.
20:50Ah, as a special treat,
20:53I've asked little Moira to take lunch with us.
20:56Say hello to Mummy, Moira.
21:02Oh!
21:03Oh!
21:04Oh!
21:05Oh!
21:06Oh!
21:07Oh!
21:08Oh!
21:09Oh!
21:10Oh!
21:11Oh, God, you little sewer!
21:14My wife will be down in a minute.
21:17Now, I must warn you all
21:19that we have rather a rough diamond coming to lunch.
21:22Son of an ancient professor who lives in the village.
21:25The boy's by way of being a communist.
21:28Clever chap, gone wrong.
21:30Bit of a scribbler on some daily rag.
21:32I'd like to see something of these left-wing fellows.
21:35Quite easy to tame if you take a trouble.
21:38His name? Mr Talbot.
21:40Ah, my dear chap.
21:42How kind of you to come.
21:45Now, then.
21:46Mrs Wincham, Mr Talbot.
21:48Mrs Townsend, Mr Talbot.
21:50My daughter-in-law, Linda, Mr Talbot.
21:53Kristen Talbot.
21:54And this is Moira,
21:56Tony and Linda's little girl.
22:01I think perhaps it might be...
22:05Forgive me, my dear chap.
22:10So, that is yours?
22:12Yes.
22:13She doesn't seem to like me.
22:15That is entirely in your favour.
22:17I think she smells a class enemy.
22:19Whatever she smells, Mr Talbot, it comes from the same class.
22:23I am long since de classe, Mrs Wincham.
22:26You wear your disguise with too much style
22:28and anyway it's too obvious.
22:31Ah, you were to have sat next to Moira at lunch, Linda,
22:34with Nanny on her other side,
22:36but as it is I think it might be better if she returned to the nursery.
22:40I'm sorry, Sir Lester.
22:42I seem to have had an unsettling effect on Miss Moira.
22:44No, no, no, my dear chap.
22:46Not at all.
22:47It's just that Moira doesn't see her mother very often.
22:53He's certainly had an unsettling effect on me.
23:01Rough he may be.
23:03Communist he may be.
23:05Gone all wrong he may be.
23:07But I think he's pure heavenly.
23:31HE SIGHS
23:33HE SIGHS
23:58Idyllic.
24:00Torture.
24:01Pure torture.
24:03Unbearably hot now.
24:05Unbelievably cold last winter.
24:08Bloody fireplace is smoking all the time.
24:11No hot bath water.
24:13Well, of course, it can be rather beastly and sissily in the winter.
24:18It is beastly and sissily, full stop.
24:20Cheated the whole time.
24:22And quite expensive enough without that.
24:24Everything's going to be done tomorrow, but it never is.
24:27And when it is, it's botched.
24:32As for the horrible food...
24:34A little bit oily, I agree.
24:36Swimming in grease.
24:38But even the vegetables are rotten.
24:41But surely sissily is rather famous for its vegetables.
24:44Rotten vegetables.
24:46At least as far as we're concerned.
25:02Because although we grow our own,
25:04the gardener sells all the sound ones in the village and pockets the money.
25:08Just as my maid sells my stockings and her best blankets.
25:11The one she's left us was stiff as boards. You can't sleep.
25:14Or, apparently, do anything else.
25:18You just lie there.
25:20Waiting for day.
25:23Waiting for the bare half-hour at dawn
25:26when the vile mosquitoes have gone.
25:29Before this ghastly heat begins.
25:38It's wonderful how you've come on the last few months, Aunt Sonia.
25:41All those cruel bags and pouches gone.
25:43Well, almost.
25:45And your hair, my dear body-chellers, Venus, simply isn't in competition.
25:49There was one thing I was wondering.
25:51I have, well, an acquaintance who's a specialist of certain kinds of...
25:55Well, let's call it handicraft here.
25:57I was wondering whether you'd ask Uncle Montor to employ him
25:59to do expert cleaning and repairs under my very own supervision
26:02on some of the lovely things you have round the place that need it.
26:05Constant vigilance being an absolute necessity, as I'm sure you'll be the first to admit.
26:09Don't try and speak, dear. It'll only upset your face.
26:11Just nod your head like this if you agree to ask Uncle Montor.
26:15Oh, thank you, Aunt Sonia. None of us will regret this, I promise you.
26:18I'll speak to Uncle Montor myself to save you the trouble.
26:21So, you see, my darling, she's really been most kind and reasonable
26:24doing everything one suggests.
26:26Of course, I shall have to be a little careful she doesn't find out
26:28that what dear Trevor really specialises in is one,
26:30but nobody can say that she's been grudging.
26:32All things considered, she owes you a few favours.
26:34Very much my view, darling.
26:36The only trouble is, I'm going to have to be rather strict with Sonia soon.
26:39I'm not quite sure how she's going to take it.
26:41Strict?
26:42Mmm.
26:43You see, she really has come on very well lately.
26:45I mean, she does begin to look like a vice-reign
26:47and not just some dowdy five-star mem-sob.
26:50But there is one little flaw.
26:52Well, it's not so little when you come to think of it.
26:54Her figure.
26:55A bit ample, one does see.
26:56My dear, kilos and kilos of it,
26:59and all in the worst places.
27:01It's all that stodgy Hampton food,
27:03and my dear, she's so greedy,
27:05just like a boa constrictor.
27:07Or should it be constrictress,
27:08swallowing whole camels or whatever it is they do.
27:10But if she's happy with her kilos, why not let her keep them?
27:13Because I want her to take herself seriously
27:15and become perfect in her way.
27:18You see, darling, I do rather love her.
27:21Well, at least I love creating her,
27:23and, of course, she adores one,
27:24and one must not let her down.
27:27She may not adore one quite so much
27:29when one tells her she's a greedy old boa constrictor
27:31or constrictress.
27:33Well, of course, one will raise the topic a little more discreetly,
27:36but the thick and the thin of it
27:37is that she will simply have to go to a place
27:40in the bitter end and drop about half a hundredweight.
27:43Still, I think that little problem can wait a little while
27:46until I've installed lovely Trevor
27:48to polish up a few of the objects.
27:50Benny!
27:52Here's delicious Davy,
27:55home from his cruise like Ulysses from Troy, darling,
27:58with twice as much news to tell by the look of him.
28:03Now sit down, my dear,
28:05and tell your two Penelopes absolutely everything.
28:08Well, I might as well start off by telling you
28:10that I don't think Polly and Boy are at all happy.
28:13Now, Davy, dear, you're going much too fast.
28:16You readers begin here.
28:18Now then.
28:21You left your boat.
28:22So, always right.
28:24Rather dispiriting.
28:26There they are, living in paradise,
28:28sending up one long whale.
28:30How do they look?
28:31Boy, very silly in shorts.
28:33And Polly, beautiful?
28:35Oh, less beautiful.
28:37Perhaps because of the heat,
28:39which she simply loathes.
28:41And lunch was no sooner over
28:42than she was in her room with everything drawn,
28:44and I had a session alone with Boy,
28:47and then I really saw how the land lay.
28:50I know it's wrong to arise the sexual instincts of little girls
28:53so that they fall madly in love with you,
28:56but poor Boy is taking a frightful punishment.
28:59Apart from that, he has literally nothing to do
29:02from morning until night except wart his geraniums,
29:05and that's not doing them much good.
29:09But I thought Boy was so fond of dukes.
29:11I mean, Sicily is full of the most heavenly dukes.
29:14Fairly heavenly, and they're nearly always somewhere else.
29:17In any case, he doesn't count them
29:19the same as French and English dukes.
29:20Oh, that's absolute nonsense.
29:21I mean, nobody could be grander than Piccio.
29:24But if he doesn't count them,
29:25and I do see that some of them are a bit unreal,
29:28and he's got to live abroad,
29:29why on earth doesn't he choose Paris?
29:31My dear Cedric, they are very poor.
29:33Oh, dear.
29:34And when you think of how rich Polly would have been...
29:36Now, now, no cruel looks at one.
29:38Fair is fair, you know.
29:40Anyway, it's a shocking business.
29:41Just goes to show you where dear old sex can land you.
29:44Oh, dear.
29:45If Boy isn't happy, then Polly can't be either.
29:48Poor Polly.
29:49It was her idea.
29:53And I think that Polly is having a spot of trouble with Boy.
29:59The old trouble.
30:01The old trouble.
30:02Oh, do explain to poor ignorant one.
30:06When Boy was married to Patricia,
30:08he liked little girls and kitchen maids,
30:10if possible, in combination.
30:12I see.
30:14So now he's chasing 12-year-old kitchen maids
30:17round and round the pasta pot.
30:19No, it is not the 12-year-old kitchen maids
30:21he chases round the pasta pot.
30:25So that over and over again, one comes back to the great rule.
30:29Since all men are equal,
30:31we must take from each according to his talents
30:33and give to each according to his needs.
30:38But that somehow makes it sound as though all men aren't equal.
30:42I mean, if some can give more than others
30:44and others need more than some...
30:45They are morally and politically equal.
30:48Of course, some men are more able than others,
30:51and it is their duty and privilege
30:53to provide for their comrades and brothers,
30:55as they now do in Russia.
30:57So bravo, Russia.
30:59Yes, bravo, Mother Russia.
31:01Prison camps and all, Christian.
31:03Execution, censorship and all the rest of it.
31:05I told you that.
31:07It is rather in the air, you know.
31:09Yes.
31:10Put there by a corrupt and lying capitalist press.
31:13We've got a meeting about that soon.
31:15To protest against the falsification and bias of the British press.
31:20Tomorrow afternoon, by Jove, in Battersea Town Hall.
31:23And in the evening, the party for the Ethiopian students
31:26in Paddington Baths.
31:28Busy day.
31:30If you don't mind, Christian,
31:32I had got a party of my own to go to tomorrow.
31:35Just this once.
31:37What party? Whose?
31:39An old friend. Name of Chadsley Corbett.
31:42Ah, yes.
31:44A brilliant and fashionable flapper.
31:46Not so fashionable any more.
31:48Rather sad.
31:50But still rich.
31:52Champagne and caviar?
31:54I suppose.
31:55And you thought of getting your jewels out of the bank?
31:58I shall simply wear one of my old dresses, Christian.
32:01Veronica will understand.
32:03That you've gone off with a penniless revolutionary?
32:06We must all make alliances for poor Linda, my dears.
32:10I can't warrant the Veronicas of this world.
32:12So superior, they think nothing can ever unseat them.
32:15They'll learn. Oh, yes, they'll learn.
32:18Then you mustn't grudge me a little fun with them first.
32:21You're your own mistress, Linda.
32:23You go where you like tomorrow night.
32:26If you go to your friend, name of Chadsley Corbett,
32:30I don't think I shall much want to see you
32:32when I get back from Paddington Baths.
32:40Mmm. Fuller's walnut cake.
32:43You'll never know how I longed for this sort of thing in Sicily.
32:46Do you remember how we used to come here from Alkindy?
32:49It seems a century ago.
32:51What made you come back?
32:53Remember my old auntie Edna?
32:55In the Grace and Favour house in St James's Palace?
32:57Well, the good old girl died and left me all her money.
33:00Although Mummy tried to stop her.
33:02Not very much, but we think we can afford to live at Silken.
33:04Then boy's writing a book. He's had to come back for that.
33:06London Library in Paddington.
33:08Paddington? Do you call?
33:10Oh, yes.
33:12He came to Louisa's coming out ball.
33:14He must be about a thousand years old by now.
33:16Don't be so silly, Fanny. He fought in the war with your Uncle Matthew.
33:19Anyway, he's got this muniment room which boy wants to go through for his book.
33:23Then there's this baby.
33:25One can't have them in Sicily. Poor thing's not a cow in the place.
33:28But I don't think boy wants to settle down here for good.
33:31I think he's still frightened of Mummy, you know.
33:34I know I am.
33:36Not frightened exactly, but bored by the idea of sins.
33:40There's really nothing more she can do to us, is there?
33:43I don't think you need worry about her.
33:45She's changed completely in the last year or so.
33:48There's someone new in her life.
33:50Cedric Hampton.
33:52So I hear.
33:54I remember that when I was a little girl, I used to look him up to see if he would do.
33:57Well, he wouldn't have done. That's one thing quite certain.
34:00So I imagine.
34:02I really think he loves your mother, you know.
34:04He's such a slave to her.
34:06Never leaves her side for a moment.
34:08Always in such high spirits.
34:10I don't believe anyone can put it on to that extent.
34:12It must be love.
34:14And she certainly loves him.
34:16But is she in love with him?
34:18In love? I don't know.
34:21She loves him like anything.
34:23We make such fun for you, see.
34:25But she must know that ladies...
34:28Well, falling for him wouldn't be quite his thing, poor Cedric.
34:31No, I don't agree.
34:33Boy and I are certain she knows nothing, nothing whatever about all that.
34:36He says she once made a fearful gaffe about sodomites,
34:39mixing them up with the Dolomites.
34:41It was all over London.
34:43So my guess is that she doesn't know about Cedric
34:46and that she's in love with him.
34:48She's a great faller in love, you know.
34:51I used to think at one time that she rather fancied Boy.
34:54But Boy says not.
34:58Front door open, Fanny, so I...
35:00Oh, yes, of course. That's quite all right.
35:04Tea. Oh, please.
35:09Oh, never mind. I can soon get some more made.
35:11No, no, don't bother. We must go.
35:14I suppose you've lost the key of the car, as usual.
35:18No, no. Here it is, on my key ring.
35:21Quite a miracle.
35:23Goodbye, then, darling. I'll telephone soon from Silke.
35:30Bye, Fanny.
35:34SHE SIGHS
35:37It was clear just in those few seconds, Alfred.
35:40She's not in love with him any more.
35:42Do you never think of anything but who is or is not in love with whom?
35:46This is very sad, Alfred.
35:48After all, she's carrying his child.
35:51The child I'm sorry for.
36:04MUSIC CONTINUES
36:17Oh, Fanny.
36:22Darling.
36:24I want to talk to Fanny, Boy.
36:26Don't you hang around pestering us. Go and get on with your work.
36:30I know, darling, but it's all for his own good.
36:32He pretends he can't concentrate until after the baby now,
36:35so he wonders about getting on everybody's nerves
36:37when he ought to be getting on with Paddington's documents.
36:39He must hurry, you know, if the book's to be out for Christmas.
36:42He's still got Softare to do.
36:44Have you ever met Geoffrey Paddington, Fanny?
36:46Yes, I told you.
36:48He comes to see Boy about the book,
36:50and quite often he pops in on me for a chat.
36:52He sent all these flowers, which he shouldn't have done
36:55because he's not at all rich. For a duke, anyway.
36:59That'll be him now.
37:23I do hope Boy brings him up.
37:25I expect they've got work to do together.
37:29What are you going to call him?
37:31If it's a boy.
37:33I hadn't really thought. What about you?
37:35If it's a boy and I'd like another boy to be a friend for Basil,
37:38we're going to call him David.
37:40Why shouldn't a girl be a friend for Basil?
37:42I wonder what's keeping Geoffrey.
37:44Girls can't play cricket.
37:46I brought Geoffrey Paddington, Fanny.
37:49Little Fanny Logan, the boater's girl.
37:51Winchham. From the Alchemy Ball.
37:58Caviar.
37:59Oh, Geoffrey.
38:01Sorry you've got to be going so soon, Fanny.
38:03Boy will see you out on the way back to his study.
38:17No, darling, naughty.
38:18Now, remember what I told you about your figure.
38:20Oh, please, Cedric, just one more.
38:23Oh, very well, Aunt Sarnie, you can have one more.
38:26You can even have two more.
38:28Two?
38:29Yes, two, Aunt Sarnie, on condition, Aunt Sarnie,
38:32that you go to that place I told you about for a fortnight's diet.
38:35That one Davey Warbeck's gone to?
38:37Well, yes, darling, only he went there to put on weight
38:39after all his exhausting lectures he did on his cruise,
38:42whereas you, my darling, will be going there to take it off.
38:45Now, remember, you eat that muffin
38:48and you are solemnly contracted to go to that place on a diet.
38:53Well, I don't suppose it would be too bad.
38:56Lots of egg salads and things.
38:58Half a carrot a day and some warm turnip juice at bedtime,
39:01if you're lucky.
39:04Anyway, it's too late to back out now
39:06because you've eaten that muffin.
39:11She doesn't behave like a mother-to-be.
39:14She's far more interested in the Duke of Paddington.
39:16I shouldn't lose any sleep over her.
39:19Even more worrying is his business of Linda and Christian Talbot.
39:23She's definitely going to move in with him now.
39:26Tony will have to take steps, as Uncle Matthew used to say.
39:29Mm.
39:31I wonder if there's anything I can do to help.
39:34Or that I ought to try and dissuade her.
39:38Fanny?
39:40Come here.
39:42After all, she's my oldest and dearest friend.
39:45Linda Krosick, née Radlet,
39:48is a grown woman,
39:50believed by her acquaintances to be sane and known to be self-willed.
39:54She will therefore do what she will do.
39:57And the consequences will be what they will be.
40:02And she and fate alone
40:05will decide what she will do.
40:07I'm sure she will.
40:09The consequences will be what they will be.
40:13And she and fate alone must take the blame.
40:20Well, as usual, there's a good deal in what Alfred says.
40:24But I still think I might have done something to deter Linda,
40:27if I'd only been in England.
40:29But you weren't. You were amusing yourself in Venice.
40:33Don't be govenessy, Frances.
40:36That will help nobody.
40:38How far has it gone?
40:40She's written from his address.
40:47Disaster.
40:49I've known Christian from a child.
40:52The women who've been in love with him have suffered bitterly
40:54because he's not even noticed that they're there.
40:57I expect he's hardly aware that Linda's moved in on him.
41:01Linda and Christian Talbot.
41:04It's as bad as can be.
41:06She's happy with Tony.
41:07Well, nobody expected her to be.
41:09The point is that she's out of the frying pan
41:12and into the empty grate.
41:14I think she was attracted by the communist bit of it.
41:17Linda's always felt the need of a cause.
41:19Oh, my dear Fanny,
41:21I think you're mixing up cause with effect.
41:25Christian's an attractive fellow,
41:26and I quite see that he'd provide the perfect reaction to Tony,
41:29but the thing is quite catastrophic.
41:31I mean, if she's in love with him, he'll make her miserable.
41:34If she's not,
41:35it means that she's embarked on a career like your mother's,
41:39and that, for Linda, would be very bad indeed.
41:43And no money either, of course.
41:45And she needs money.
41:47She's sure to have it.
41:50What are they living on?
41:51Very little.
41:53Linda has a small allowance from Uncle Matthew, I believe,
41:56and I suppose Christian makes something from his journalism.
41:58Oh.
41:59I hear the Croisics are saying that there is one good thing.
42:02She's bound to starve.
42:04Oh, they are, are they?
42:07Can I, um...
42:09have that new address of Linda's, please?
42:20I'm on my way to London now.
42:30See what you've done to your mother?
42:32On top of all this wretched business with Jassy.
42:35Divorce, indeed.
42:37We relatives believe in sticking.
42:39Married is married, and once is enough.
42:41There's never been a divorce before in this family.
42:43There will be now, Farr.
42:47Not you, Alas!
42:49Another steward of a journalist
42:51hanging round for news of your sister.
42:53You, Victoria, go and get my entrenchy tool.
42:56Properly scraggy in the neck, we'll have yours off in one.
42:59Oh, no, my lord, please.
43:01Then be off with you.
43:03For the entrenching load it is, if I catch you round here again.
43:08So you understand this, Miss?
43:10You'll now be driven to Oxford Station
43:12and away from this house for ever.
43:19Ah!
43:22Ah!
43:29When Linda came to see me
43:31before catching a train from Oxford,
43:33the first thing she asked for, most unlike her, was a drink.
43:40Goodness, I've forgotten how terrifying Farr can be.
43:43Poor Mummy looks simply miserable.
43:45She was furious, too.
43:47Accused me of betraying and desertion.
43:49Accused me of betraying and deserting Moira.
43:52When I told her I was already in Christian's flat, she nearly exploded.
43:56In their book, I'm absolutely the Scarlet Woman from now on.
43:59How are you getting on in the flat?
44:01Oh, how dreadful it is.
44:03Especially the cooking.
44:05That oven and the cruel hot blast
44:07hitting you in the face when you open it.
44:09I don't wonder people sometimes put their heads in
44:12and leave them there out of sheer misery.
44:14Oh, no more about all that, darling, please.
44:16What about Tony? Has he taken it?
44:18Oh, he's awfully pleased, actually,
44:20because now he can marry Pixie Townsend
44:22without being the guilty party and upsetting the Conservative Association.
44:26And Christian is heaven.
44:28He's a frightfully serious communist, you know, and so am I now.
44:32We're surrounded by comrades all day, and they're terrific Hans.
44:36Yes, darling, but what about Christian?
44:38Perfect heaven, darling.
44:40You must come and stay,
44:42or perhaps that wouldn't be very comfortable.
44:45Come and see us.
44:47I do hope he cares for you.
44:49Well, I think he does.
44:51He just is very strange and absent-minded.
44:54What are your plans?
44:56Well, he says he's going to marry me when I'm divorced.
44:59That's one thing he seems quite clear about.
45:01I think it's rather silly.
45:03I agree with Daddy that once is enough,
45:05though I mean it differently, of course.
45:08The thing is, it will be bliss not to be called Kroesig any more.
45:18So, on with this and that. It's getting us down a bit.
45:21There's no arguing with Linda, you know that.
45:24Once she gets some man into her head,
45:26and she did with that damn Kroesig,
45:28now this bloody Talbot,
45:30she'll have him if the rest of us rot for it.
45:36But there's one thing we can get straight.
45:38Jassy.
45:40Any word from Hollywood?
45:42No. Now you've finished this damn silly cure of yours
45:44and not writing another book,
45:46we want you to go and find her.
45:48You're the only chap I know who can bring it off.
45:50Madly inconvenient,
45:52just as I've started on this new course of peakure.
45:55But of course I'll go, Matthew, in all the circumstances.
45:58But there will be one tiny delay.
46:00Oh, that's all right, Davey, busy fellow and all that.
46:02You see, if I'm to cross the Atlantic and all of America,
46:06I must have a new medical chest run up.
46:08The old one's quite worn out.
46:10You know, travelling is so debilitating.
46:12And who knows what germs they may have in Hollywood.
46:15What a damn fellow you are.
46:17Think of everything, don't you?
46:19I'm very sorry, my lord, but you're wanted on the telephone.
46:21Tell him I'm still at dinner.
46:23It's Lady Alkindy, my lord.
46:25Ah, she better have something worth saying.
46:29Oh, Petrie,
46:31could you please telephone Throssel and Thrush, the cabinet makers,
46:34and make an appointment for me with old Mr Throssel
46:37for 3.30 tomorrow afternoon?
46:39Very good, Captain Warbeck.
46:43Hmm.
46:47Compartment for appearance.
46:52Another for powders.
46:54Soothe and, if necessary, seal the bowels.
46:59Rack for bottle of concentrated lime juice
47:03in case of scurvy on board ship.
47:06Ah, memo.
47:08Some leftover from cruise.
47:13Ample compartment for snakebite serum
47:16and antidotes to wounds caused by poisoned arrows, etc.
47:22Even more ample compartment
47:25for bottles of brandy and whisky.
47:28Medicinal, of course,
47:30for when I'm crossing T-total states.
47:37A drawer for anti-sex tablets.
47:41Stop me making a fool of myself over those film stars.
47:47Hmm.
47:49Oh, my goodness, Matthew, dear.
47:52You do look peculiar.
47:57It's young Matt.
47:59His tutor rang up Sadie from Eton.
48:02He's gone.
48:04He's gone to fight in Spain.
48:07At least, that's what all his friends at Eton say.
48:10Can you beat that?
48:12Which side?
48:14What does it matter?
48:16Bloody foreigners on both sides.
48:18The point is, Davy,
48:20the point is the boy's got off his arse
48:23and has gone off to fight.
48:25So here's his health.
48:29In bumpers.
48:31Poor, sir.
48:33So acid-making.
48:37But just this once, I do see.
48:39Young Matt?
48:41Young Matt.
48:45Damn his eyes!
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