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Cedric works to revitalize Lady Montdore, Lady Montdore and Polly reconcile, and Linda tries to help Christian's cause.
Cedric works to revitalize Lady Montdore, Lady Montdore and Polly reconcile, and Linda tries to help Christian's cause.
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01:00Cedric Hampton is coming to stay. I must put the word around the undergraduates not to
01:05drop in for the next few days. why? he sounds absolute heaven. not the sort of thing the
01:10comrades would approve of but pure bliss all the same. I'm sure the undergraduates would
01:14adore him. just what I'm afraid of. Alfred would be furious. oh dear you do make him
01:20sound gloomy. just moral. it's the same with Christian. gloomy or moral whichever you care
01:26to call it. he was full of disapproval about my lovely new present from Lord Merlin which
01:31is what I've come to tell you about. yes he said he was going to call in on you. and so he did.
01:34and you'll never guess so don't even try. he's given me the sweetest little house in Cheney
01:39Walk. almost a doll's house it is. full of sunshine and reflections from the river. oh
01:45Fanny darling do admit. oh darling I'm so pleased. somewhere of yours. he said not to thank him. he
01:51was only doing it to annoy the Crozigs in which he certainly succeeded. the trouble is he also
01:57annoyed Christian. don't tell me Christian's jealous. no but he does not approve of private
02:01property. he's got a flat. flats all right because it's what all the workers in Russia have. the
02:06point is he says that while I've got his flat to live in I should not be permitted to own a house.
02:10so with great difficulty I've persuaded him that we should give up the flat and move into the house
02:15instead. I think he really wanted to give it to the Cormorants as a kind of doss down.
02:20oh Fanny darling there's been the most dreadful telephone call from Sonia. it seems they've
02:33caught her stealing the nurses breakfast. you said she'd cheat. now don't be heartless Fanny.
02:38do imagine. no dinner then half a jill of turnip juice at midnight. and then my dear woken up by
02:44the smell of kippers. so naturally the poor darling sneaked out and pinched one and they
02:49caught her with it under a nightie. greedy old monster it serves her right. now don't be vindictive
02:53dear. oh now that's the really awful part. it seems they've given her the sack and one has to go
02:59immediately and collect her. I mean after only five days the disgrace of it. but Cedric you are
03:04coming to stay. oh Fanny darling the wretchedness of it I can't. oh Cedric I was so looking forward
03:10to it. all the gossip. I know I know but I've simply got to send her somewhere to get rid of
03:14all those kilos and kilos. I mean I've got to get her up to scratch or rather down to scratch for
03:19this Venetian ball we're giving. Venetian ball darling. Sonia and I are going to utterly transform
03:24the hall of her London house into a scene from olden Venice and one will be arranging tableau
03:29vivant and so on. so you see I must get her legs at least down to size. I had rather thought of
03:35Barden Barden though all those Germans goose-stepping all over the place might just
03:39overexcite one. anyway I must be off absolutely at once to pick up errant auntie. goodbye Cedric.
03:45I hope they haven't locked her up. thank you darling. there isn't going to be any wedding breakfast
03:54because Christian has something on with the comrades. but you will come and see us soon in
03:58Cheney Walk. are you going anywhere at all? oh dear no. it's very kind of Christian to marry me at
04:04all. I can't expect any more bushwhacking sessions. I just thought that you... that both of you might
04:10enjoy a little fun. fun Fanny darling. whatever are you thinking of when Christian and the comrades
04:15have so much to worry them.
05:33I must reduce her intake of benzina. she's positively flooded her carburettor.
05:37I'll guess what you are if you'll guess what I am. right you first. the black death darling. all
06:06those worms and skulls now at last. now what am I? a superior tot. now that's Veronica if we can
06:16ever get her dry outside. I give up. I am the Adriatic Sea dear and soon the Doge will come
06:24to marry me ceremoniously on behalf of Venice. oh lucky old Doge. yes isn't he. but it's only ceremonious.
06:33you see darling Aunt Sonia a total success. all those very royalties you wanted to ask
06:54would have ruined. I do see that you're right Cedric. I did just wish we could have asked the
07:00Infanta Dallarosa. poor little thing. poor little nothing? the woman is a walking penance.
07:05now our royalties are only all right in Paris because there they've been put in their place.
07:11Polly's baby was born a few days later. it took one look at its father according to uncle Matthew
07:31and quickly died. when I went to see Polly she simply did not seem to have noticed either its
07:37arrival or its departure. sit down darling. what do you think of the camellias Geoffrey Paddington
07:46sent them? I thought you said he was so poor. for a Duke. his father spent rather a lot on chorus
07:51ladies you see. but of course Dukes have such lovely credit. weeks since I've seen you Fanny.
07:56I know I'm sorry. Lady Polly. yes your mother. Lady Montdore has just arrived with a sort of
08:04friend. Cedric. oh has my husband seen her? yes he's with her now. are they tearing each other's
08:11eyes out? I beg your pardon Lady Polly. do they seem all right sister? oh yes indeed. mr. Dugdale
08:18sent word to say will you see her? but of course if you don't want to see her Lady Polly I can
08:23quite truthfully send word to say that you may not have another visitor today. I'll go. no no no
08:27Fanny darling you mustn't. I'm not sure I will see her but I couldn't possibly be left alone with
08:32her. oh don't go to the window Fanny. is it them? yes it is and Cedric's with them.
08:42they're all three walking through the graveyard together and they're looking at Lady Patricia's
08:49grave. oh but I must see Cedric. sister do be a darling. go down and tell them all to come up.
08:54now Lady Polly no we mustn't overdo it. you know what dr. Simpson said. close friends and
09:00relations only. no strangers. Cedric Hampton's a cousin. yes ten times removed and totally unknown
09:07to you. I suppose we must allow your mother up if you really want to see her but certainly not a
09:12strange young man. strange in more ways than one if you ask me. I suppose I'd better see mummy or
09:21else this silly feud will go on forever. besides I really can't wait to see all the new things
09:26Cedric's done for her. not quite a new figure. the old model is still apparent there. anyway she
09:32seemed to be in a very friendly mood laughing and chatting. very smart in navy blue with a sailor
09:37hat. oh I'd die for the sailor hat. I'd die still more for Cedric. boy he's being wonderful. I thought
09:44he'd been knocked groggy by your mother's appearance but he's pretending not to notice.
09:48he's looking at Cedric all the time. they're getting on like mad. all this round poor Patricia's grave?
09:54no they're moving off towards the garden now. well here comes sister floating down to your mother.
09:59she's detaching her from the rest and bringing her back across the lawn. your mother looks so
10:05happy I feel almost sentimental. you can see how she must have been missing you all this time at
10:10the bottom of her heart. oh nonsense. I do feel I should be in the way. let me escape while there's
10:16still time. on no account whatever. I can't face her alone. keep up the running commentary.
10:22boys admiring Cedric's suit. sort of coarse blue tweed. very pretty and piped with scarlet.
10:30now they're wandering off together.
10:45oh you've moved the dressing table dear. much better like that. more light. poor Patricia never
10:51had much of an eye for that kind of thing. oh camellias. can I have one for Cedric's buttonhole?
10:58Paddington sent them didn't he? poor Geoffrey. I fear he's a bit petulia. his mother Louelia Paddington
11:07was perfectly lovely you know. people used to stand on chairs. so the poor little baby died.
11:14I expect it was just as well. children are such an expense nowadays. what a pity you couldn't have
11:21come to the Venetian ball Fanny. they all said there hadn't been such a party since the days of
11:26Robert de Montesquieu and I can well believe it. it cost 4,000 pounds you know. all the water for
11:32the gondolas was so heavy for one thing. well it shows those foreigners England isn't done for yet.
11:38I wore all my diamonds and I gave Cedric a revolving diamond star. goes by clockwork and
11:44he wore it on his shoulder. next time I come over I'll bring the photographs. mummy I must know what
11:51did you wear? a longie. not a very comprehensive description. a costume of someone in the style of
11:59a longie painting. Cedric chose it. one of those gambling ladies in the Redotto? certainly not.
12:05I've always regarded gaming as highly wasteful. immoral too. I was a nobleman's attendant or a
12:11squire with tights. Veronica Chansley Corbett was very good as a prostitute. they were called something
12:22different in those days. some word like marzipan. Davy Warbeck was tremendous. he came as the Black
12:29Death. such a terrible pity you gals couldn't have come. oh poor Patricia. well never mind that's all
12:38over now. such an excellent view of her grave from here. oh there's Cedric and Boye. I'm glad they're getting on so well.
12:47Boye was telling us about his book Free Dukes he says he's going to call it. and Cedric is very
12:54much interested because of course the Sicilian one Pinchio is a friend of his and the Duke
12:59de Sauveterre's cousin Baron d'Iveteau owns the house at Chevre which Cedric used to take every
13:05summer. so of course Cedric can tell Boye a great many things he never knew about them. so
13:10fascinating for them both. what is the matter with you Fanny dear? all that jerking about. I'm so sorry. it's my
13:19taxi arriving. I'm just waving to the driver. he's so sensitive he gets hurt if I keep him waiting.
13:24it's such a terrible bore but Alfred won't let me drive myself till after the baby. give Cedric
13:30this for me. please tell Boye to organize some tea up here for mummy. I'd say I've got some errands for him in the village.
13:39Polly says you're to order tea for Lady Montour and then go upstairs and hear what she wants doing. oh well we'll be in touch then. tomorrow. I have a great deal more to tell you about Pinchio.
13:56he's the ancestor I'm really writing about not our Pinchio. I do. when he gets to the bottom of it all you won't be able to tell them apart.
14:03oh well.
14:05Ã demain.
14:07un petit coup de téléphone.
14:09about 11?
14:11oh. 11.
14:16Aunt Sonia sends you this buttonhole.
14:19Polly burns to see you but that odious sister wouldn't allow it.
14:23oh well. I've had a very nice time down here.
14:30he loves me. he loves me not. Cedric do be careful. and what about the furniture polisher? utilitarian rather than romantic. yes I know. don't interrupt my evil.
14:43he loves me. he loves me not. he loves me. he loves me not.
14:50oh heaven heaven heaven. he loves me.
15:03I may as well tell you my darling but the second big thing in my life has begun. oh Cedric. and how are you going to explain to Lady Montour about the buttonhole?
15:21you
15:35ah the black death. Lady Montour said you were very convincing.
15:39not as convincing as Veronica Chadley Corbett playing the courtesan.
15:43Davy's life has been one long round of pleasure lately. parties, picnics, balls, balls, picnics, parties, cruises, even trips to Hollywood.
15:52that was duty.
15:54tell you what I find in Hollywood.
15:56thank you.
15:58no one's been near me in weeks and I've hardly left the house. poor Basil's had whooping cough.
16:04you're sure it's no longer infectious?
16:06yes yes Davy.
16:08what did you find in Hollywood?
16:10I couldn't bear to have escaped all the perils of the West where the pox came from you know. simply to come home and catch whooping cough from Basil.
16:16Hollywood Davy?
16:18hello.
16:20tell.
16:21I arrived just in time for Jassie's wedding. the whole place was full of it. shocking engagement to Carrie Goon.
16:28not Gary Coon.
16:30I'm still not sure which actually. but everyone was wowed. I think that's the word.
16:34by the sudden engagement of this absurd film star little man like a nut to the English aristocratic rose.
16:41wedding next morning paper said so. I made my presence known to Jassie and she asked me to give her away.
16:47will they be happy?
16:49I don't know.
16:51I got the impression she'd worked quite hard talking him into the church or rather the wedding parlor.
16:57so she made the running.
16:59that Polly Hampton with boy.
17:01or Linda with Christian Talbot if you think about it.
17:05the Radlets are quite as determined as Polly to get the men they want.
17:09or the women. they say Matt proposed to Sadie the first time they met.
17:13that must have been impulse rather than determination.
17:16like what sent little Matt off to Spain.
17:19there's still no news of him I'm afraid.
17:23hmm
17:30oh come you home of Sunday
17:42when Ludlow streets are still
17:45and Ludlow bells are ringing
17:48or vale and field and hill
17:52or come you home of Monday
17:56when Ludlow market hums
17:59and Ludlow chimes are playing
18:02the conquering hero comes.
18:06come you home a hero
18:11or come not home
18:14at all
18:18I'm sorry.
18:20I'm afraid I get rather sentimental about you. I've been silly since I was one myself.
18:24there needs no apology Davy.
18:27no perhaps not.
18:31you know
18:33to run off to the wars
18:36and actually to get there which we must now assume he has
18:41takes more than mere impulse.
18:43it's guts.
18:45what his father's got.
18:47what all the Radlets have got.
18:50funnily enough come to think of it what's all your Montdore's got.
18:54and certainly Cedric
18:56to put up with her at close quarters all the time.
18:59Cedric is showing signs of being unfaithful.
19:02he's confessed to me that he's taken a fancy to Boye.
19:05don't tell me.
19:07he's going to desert the old woman for Boye as Polly did.
19:09and Boye did for Polly.
19:11just about slayer.
19:13if I know my Cedric he'll think of something cleverer than that.
19:15Hampton and the title he must have when Lord Montdore dies
19:18but not necessarily the money or the movables as we well know.
19:22and Cedric is hardly one to throw away a fortune.
19:25and for Boye Dugdale of all people.
19:27Polly did.
19:37and most of these are from the famous Galanx left book club.
19:40isn't there going to be one by George Orwell about Spain?
19:43there was going to be darling only Victor Galanx didn't quite like what Orwell had to say
19:47about some of the comrades.
19:49less than flattering it seems about the way they carried on.
19:52doesn't Galanx believe Orwell?
19:54I don't think darling that's quite the pointed issue.
19:56well I'm glad you've got as far as realizing that.
20:02you know Linda I'm rather surprised at you having anything to do with this.
20:06please don't be gross. I'm only helping out.
20:09it's really run by a comrade called Boris.
20:12he's a terrific hon only he does like to get drunk from Thursday afternoon.
20:17Thursday's early closing until Monday morning.
20:20so I'm sort of standing in every week until he's sober.
20:24of course the money will be handy.
20:26but I'd sooner be at home really.
20:28I'm sure the comrades are making a terrible mess of Cheney Walk.
20:31and what's Christian doing in the middle of all this?
20:34just at the moment he's writing a book on famine.
20:37goodness it's sad.
20:39and there's this dear little Chinese comrade who comes and tells him what famine is like.
20:44you never saw such a fat little man in your life.
20:48I may seem to laugh at the comrades.
20:50but at least one does know they are doing good and not harm.
20:53not living on other people's slavery like Celesta Kroesig.
20:57and they're all tremendous Hans and I love them like anything.
21:01even if I do wish they were a little more fond of chatting
21:05less sad and earnest and down on everybody else.
21:09and of course being a conservative is far more restful and agreeable.
21:13but one must remember that it is bad and not good.
21:19Linda dear
21:22you do realize that Fanny and I have been here for nearly half an hour
21:26and you've not had a single customer.
21:28and yet haven't I?
21:30now let us grant for the sake of argument that capitalism is bad.
21:34even so surely the comrades do want to make a profit from this shop in order to promote the good.
21:40well I think what they want to do really is to convert people.
21:44but well yes Christian says some money would be so useful to help the comrades in Spain and places.
21:49yes well I've no wish to help the comrades in Spain or anywhere else but out of love for you dear Linda.
21:55I'm going to offer you and Boris a little hint.
22:04oh goody goody.
22:16how very kind of boy.
22:18I do hope he remembers one.
22:20but then of course one isn't a lifelong friend like you Aunt Sonia.
22:24darling Sonia with best love from boy and Polly.
22:28all the darlings. how very sweet and tactful.
22:32now the thing is Aunt Sonia darling what Polly and boy need is a lovely lovely treat.
22:39I've forgiven them both more or less but it's early days to talk of treats.
22:43now don't be mean darling.
22:45after all that horror about the poor baby dying and her being so ill and boy and such torture about all that
22:51and getting the book out surely you don't grudge them a little pleasure.
22:54not if they can pay for it.
22:56that is not being kind Aunt Sonia and if you go on like this I shall have to send you back to that place again.
23:02Cedric please not.
23:04only if you are unkind or too greedy.
23:09because it is being unkind to one after all one's trouble with you.
23:13now treat for Polly and boy.
23:18let me see.
23:21ah I have it.
23:23a trip to the Chateau of the Loire madly appropriate for boy
23:27and then on to the Pyrenees and Riviera for pure pleasure.
23:32oh do say yes Aunt Sonia and we can ring them straight away and ask them.
23:37if I say yes can I have another choccy?
23:43and now for rather an amusing tease.
23:48there.
23:50you can always say it's an attack on the aristocracy.
23:54it's so boring it's enough to put anyone off them.
24:03so one thing we know.
24:05little Matt's fighting on the side of the Reds.
24:08at least Linda will be pleased.
24:10I don't mind as much as you might think.
24:13they're brave boys those Reds.
24:16and they've had the sense to knock off a lot of bloody monks and nuns and priests.
24:20all those Roman Catholic sewers.
24:23so I think it's a pity to fight in a second-class war
24:27when there'll soon be a first-class one available.
24:30do you really think so?
24:33soon. quite soon now.
24:35Fort William thinks so too.
24:37and a letter from Louisa this morning.
24:40meanwhile I suppose you could say that little Matt's keeping his hand in.
24:44and now the thing we know is that he's finished his course of training and what there was of it
24:47and expects to be sent to the front any minute.
24:54I'm afraid Fanny.
24:56I'm very much afraid from what I hear.
24:59his size is going to get the worst of it.
25:03picnic fire escape.
25:05a medical chest. much smarter than silly old David's.
25:09Lady Motto's four cases. the Asprey ones in suede.
25:12and her leadership's molly new hat box.
25:23one's three cases with one's initials in onyx
25:26and one's manicure set in crocodile eye.
25:29Mr. Dugdale's two cases.
25:32imitation leather dear. naughty boy.
25:35I'll get you something double chic in Paris or two.
25:40such a pity Polly wouldn't come.
25:42but it does mean much more lovely room for all our heavenly things.
25:46no more abroad for Polly. she does not have her.
25:48she hates it in Sicily.
25:50she won't be lonely without us.
25:52she likes it at Silken. she'll go across to Alcony. she loves Matthew and Sadie.
25:55allo. en voiture.
26:05they've gone.
26:23ladies and gentlemen
26:25there has been a letter.
26:31dear comrade Boris
26:33we note that during the last four weeks
26:36the takings from the people's bookshop in Hampstead
26:39have increased by over 1,000%.
26:43our sincere and comradely thanks
26:46are due to you and to comrade Linda Talbot.
26:50I enclose two medals of commendation for you both to wear
26:54whilst engaged in your share of the great task.
26:58power to the workers by hand and brain
27:01yours under Lenin
27:03Lalogy Wretch.
27:07comrade Linda
27:09it is now my pleasure and privilege
27:12to present you on behalf of the grateful proletariat
27:15and its representatives here assembled
27:17with this emblem of their esteem.
27:22but such a squalid object will never do.
27:26by some happy chance
27:31okay
27:46of course I didn't dare tell Christian. I put it in the bank.
27:50I really ought to send it to the comrades.
27:52it's yours. you keep it.
27:54when I think of all the things they need money for
27:57all the families of comrades in prison or exile
28:00and all the poor people in the new refugee camps.
28:03there's a camp Christian may be going to
28:05to try and make things more bearable in the south of France.
28:08south of France?
28:09isn't that where those foul frogs
28:11display their beastly bodies on beaches?
28:13odd place for a refugee camp.
28:15not the Riviera.
28:17Perpignan.
28:18for the Spaniards who escape over the Pyrenees.
28:21I wish I wish I wish we could hear news of little Matt and Bob.
28:27you
28:46I'm wildly nervous.
28:48you know what Fowler always says
28:50frogs are slightly better than...
28:52but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.
28:58I'm immensely looking forward to it
29:00and to seeing Christian again.
29:02got your ticket.
29:03what? money?
29:04I know I've got my money. it's sewn into my stay.
29:06Farang begged me to and I must say it did seem quite an idea.
29:11why aren't you coming?
29:13I do feel so terrified.
29:15think of sleeping on the train all alone.
29:17perhaps you won't be alone.
29:18foreigners are I believe greatly given to rape.
29:20that would be nice as long as they didn't find my stays.
29:23goodbye darling. do think of me.
29:25do think of me.
29:27whistle
29:49I must explain that I didn't see her again for many months.
29:53but afterwards as you shall see
29:55we spent a long quiet time together
29:57during which she told it all to me
29:59over and over again.
30:24of course the journey was an enchantment to her.
30:28the fields of Picardy
30:30the steamy garlic smelling heat of the French train
30:32the delicious food
30:34the quarters in their blue overalls
30:36and then at last the umbrella pines that announce the south.
30:53I must go.
31:00Kristin didn't bother to meet her at Perpignan
31:02so she had to find her own way to the camp.
31:04he always assumed that people could look after themselves
31:07unless they told him they couldn't.
31:09whereupon except in the case of destitute
31:11colored, oppressed, leprous or otherwise uninviting strangers
31:16he would take absolutely no notice.
31:23whistle
31:29Kristin was interested only in mass wretchedness.
31:53music
32:20let me take those.
32:22hello darling.
32:24did you have a rotten journey? you look absolutely awful.
32:30this is Robert Parker.
32:32how do you do? it's nice to see a new face.
32:34thank you.
32:36well do sit down.
32:41I'll get you a drink.
32:44well you've come at an exciting time.
32:47we've raised the funds. we've chartered a ship.
32:49we're making plans for sending 6,000 Spaniards to Mexico.
32:53since no Spaniard will move without his entire family
32:56they've all got to be reunited from camps all over the place
32:59and assembled here convenient for the port it said.
33:02you must give me some work to do.
33:04yes there's masses of it.
33:06can you speak Spanish?
33:08no. well you'll soon pick it up.
33:10quite sure I shan't.
33:16what do you know about welfare work?
33:20dear
33:22how hopeless I seem to be. nothing I'm afraid.
33:24Lavender will find her a job.
33:26Lavender? a girl called Lavender Davis.
33:29no I know her quite well. she used to live near Alkermere.
33:33that's it. she said she knew you.
33:35I'd forgotten.
33:37she used to breed badgers.
33:39I always wanted a baby one.
33:41she does something a lot more useful now.
33:44she's rarely with the Quakers but she's a tremendous help to us too.
33:47I don't know what we'd do without Lavender.
33:49there's absolutely nothing she doesn't know about calories and disinfectants and nappies.
33:53she seems to be a trained midwife.
33:55and she's the hardest worker in the world.
33:57now where is she? I thought she was joining us for dinner.
33:59there's been a nasty fight in block 7.
34:01she's helping to mop up the blood.
34:03why didn't you tell me before?
34:05I was going to help her.
34:07they're a very rough lot in block 7.
34:09she's all right. Randolph's with her.
34:11no no she'll need my help. you stay and have dinner with Linda.
34:13I'll bring Lavender back later.
34:15oh dear
34:17on my first evening.
34:39one of the things Christian is trying to do
34:42is get the refugees out of camps and prisons.
34:49surely they're destitute. where else can they go?
34:52in some cases they can be lent money.
34:55or given railway tickets
34:57so that they can join relations in France or French Morocco.
35:03a lot of them seem to be waiting.
35:06most of them wait all day.
35:09only to be told there is no hope for them.
35:13what do they do then?
35:16they apologize for having been a nuisance.
35:21so politely it breaks your bloody heart.
35:26and then they withdraw.
35:29back to the refugee camp.
35:39this is where they get their food.
35:41not very good I'm afraid.
35:43best we can do.
35:46and this is where we work.
35:48come inside.
36:05and then if we can't do anything they're left to rot behind barbed wire.
36:10don't simply blame the French.
36:12what are they to do with tens of thousands of uninvited Spaniards?
36:16anyway one of our jobs is to make a new life for them.
36:19talk about bricks without straw.
36:21but we have positively got this ship which will be taking several thousands to Mexico
36:25and that'll certainly ease the problem.
36:27and here's where you come in Linda.
36:29there's a job simply crying out for you.
36:31you can arrange the accommodation on the ship.
36:34oh thank you Lavender.
36:36not at all.
36:37it's absolutely super to see you again after all this time.
36:40now let's see. you can have that table over there.
36:43whoops there's Christian. I must rush.
36:47ready Lavender? yes.
36:50Lavender's found me a job arranging the accommodation on your ship.
36:54oh good.
36:56how exactly do I set about it? won't somebody please explain?
36:59Robert will show you. come on Lavender.
37:01bye.
37:04you can have that table.
37:14you can have that table.
37:16I'm so sorry.
37:18and this chair.
37:26what delicious scent you have.
37:29I pray long day.
37:31I thought so.
37:33now.
37:35here is a map of the ship.
37:39best cabins, not such good cabins, lousy cabins
37:44and batten down under the hatches.
37:47and here is a list of the families who are going.
37:50all you have to do is allocate each family its cabin.
37:59how do I decide who gets decent cabins and who gets battened?
38:13very tricky I'd say.
38:15not really.
38:17the point is it's a Democratic ship run on Republican principles.
38:22class doesn't come into it.
38:24I should give decent cabins to families with young children or babies.
38:29it doesn't give their ages. how am I to know there are babies?
38:43easy answer.
38:45for once.
38:47before the Civil War they were mostly called either after Saints or after episodes in the life of the Virgin.
38:53Anunciation, Asuncion and so on.
38:56since the war they've been called Carlos after Karl Marx or else after some piece of jargon like Solidaridad.
39:05so if a person is called Carlos or Libertad or Proletariat you know he's under three.
39:11how rightfully ingenious of you.
39:14but there is one nasty complication.
39:16Spanish husbands and wives do not share a surname.
39:20so in the case of large families with grannies and daughters-in-law and whatever
39:26it is not at all easy to know who is married to whom.
39:36best cabin.
39:41best cabin.
39:45best.
39:48lousy.
39:55not so good.
40:17a week before the ship sails they said.
40:21should just about do it.
40:23hello Linda.
40:48Matt! oh Matt is it really you!
40:50yes, it's really me. that Christian fellow of yours told me you were here.
40:55what are you doing here? your war's over. yes. lost.
40:59but you're lucky. unlike these poor people you still have a home and a country to go to.
41:04why not go back to England?
41:06I'm an officer you see. must stay with the boys.
41:09does mummy know you're all right?
41:11I sent a letter. she won't have had it yet. I only got here yesterday.
41:14met Christian this afternoon.
41:16funny. he didn't tell me. but then I haven't seen him since this morning.
41:20he seemed very busy and the arrival of my lot didn't help.
41:24Lavender Davis was with him. she was very efficient at de-lousing.
41:28come on. let's go out and have some supper.
41:31you're so thin. I must have it back there with the rest.
41:35well is there anything I can get for you?
41:37thrillers and cigarettes? I see some long days ahead.
41:40yes of course. good night.
41:44night.
41:50♪
42:21now that we found Matt I think we should see that he gets home.
42:25that's up to him.
42:27he can come and go as he pleases.
42:29unlike most of these poor devils.
42:32he stays because he thinks it right.
42:35bless her bleach.
42:37he thinks it right Christian.
42:39why do you want him to go home?
42:43people say there's going to be a war.
42:45a really big war.
42:47a world war Linda yes.
42:50he should leave here before that begins.
42:53don't worry I'll see he gets out before then.
42:55thank you Christian.
42:57Lavender.
42:59she's taking me to a committee meeting to arrange the embarkation.
43:02would you like me to come?
43:04to tell them about the allocation of the cabins?
43:06I'm getting on pretty well with it.
43:08no no this is about transport of the ship.
43:10give the allocations to Robert as soon as you finish them.
43:19...
43:32embarkation go off all right?
43:34perfect thank you for holding the fort.
43:36did you work on any special plan
43:38when you were arranging the cabins?
43:40how did you do it? why was it all right?
43:42it was excellent.
43:44everybody had a place and made for it.
43:46but we wondered what you went by when you allocated the good cabins.
43:49I simply gave the best cabins to the people who had Labrador on their card.
43:53because I had one when I was little.
43:55I remember her.
43:57oh do you Lavender? I adored her.
43:59she was called Labby.
44:01then all is now explained.
44:03Labrador in Spanish happens to mean laborer.
44:07so under your splendidly democratic scheme
44:09the patents will found themselves a luxury
44:11while the intellectuals were battened.
44:13that'll teach them not to be so clever.
44:18...
44:48...
44:50...
44:52...
44:54...
44:56now darling presents from home.
44:58a parcel of shirts from mummy and vitamin pills from Davy Warbeck.
45:00I don't think my chap
45:02would understand vitamin pills.
45:04how many shirts? six.
45:06that's one amongst every five of them.
45:08they can draw lots.
45:10Matt mummy did send them for you.
45:12I have two shirts already Linda.
45:14oh well.
45:16I'll put them here so you don't forget.
45:33Matt would you mind?
45:35I think I must go to bed.
45:37too much sun.
45:39yes you don't look too good.
45:41can I help?
45:43no I'll be all right if I just go to bed.
45:46of course.
45:48pity though.
45:50I shan't be seeing you for a while you see.
45:52I might not have been moved to a camp
45:54in the Camargue tomorrow.
45:56sudden thing.
45:58see you when it's all over then?
46:00yes.
46:02when it's all over.
46:08it's one of those things which have to be done at once.
46:11so I'm off now Christian
46:13before you get back.
46:15I haven't much money but I've got my return ticket
46:17so don't worry about me.
46:19look after little Matt if you can.
46:21he's being sent to a place in the Camargue.
46:24and see he gets the shirts which mummy sent.
46:27he forgot them just now.
46:29I think he will be very happy with lavender.
46:331st service.
46:381st service.
46:421st service madame.
46:461st service.
46:491st service.
47:021st service.
47:11heavenly those unpop French trains.
47:15I once went on one which had a hairdresser shop
47:17and a famous Parisian tart in store for the season.
47:21she was called La Pepe I remember.
47:24La Pepe?
47:26after one of her specialities.
47:33oh dear.
47:35so sad to be moving north again.
47:38but home sweet home my dears.
47:40lovely Hampton and delicious Silken
47:42with Polly on the doorstep.
48:02so Linda had burned her boats and arrived in Paris for the first time on her way back to London.
48:22she hoped that she had the taxi fare from the Gard d'Austerlitz to the Gard du Nord.
48:27combien?
48:29150 francs madame.
48:35les bagages s'il vous plait.
48:37les bagages?
48:39cool.
48:53madame le 29.
48:55aujourd'hui c'est le 30 n'est-ce pas?
48:58you're only one day out of date.
49:00aloha.
49:57bonjour.
50:27you