Lady Windermere's Fan (2014) _ Full Movie _ Oscar Wilde Adaptation

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Lady Windermere's Fan (2014) | Full Movie | Oscar Wilde Adaptation  Step into the dazzling world of Victorian London with Lady Windermere's Fan, a 2014 cinematic adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s timeless play. With sharp wit, scandalous secrets, and unforgettable dialogue, this period drama explores morality, social judgment, and the complexities of love and marriage.  💬 “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde  📜 Plot Summary: When Lady Windermere suspects her husband is having an affair with a mysterious woman, she confronts him—only to discover deeper truths about love, sacrifice, and society. This faithful adaptation captures Wilde’s satirical brilliance and emotional depth.  🎭 Genre: Period Drama, Comedy of Manners, Classic Literature 🎞️ Based on: The 1892 play by Oscar Wilde 📅 Release: 2014 🕰️ Runtime: Approx. 90 mins  Love Period Dramas? Get 30 Days of Free Audiobooks! Listen to Oscar Wilde’s full works or other Victorian classics on Audible with your free trial. 👉 Try Audible Free for 30 Days: https://amzn.to/3ES2Ggv  📚 Recommended Audiobooks:  The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen Great Expectations – Charles Dickens  ✅ Don’t Forget to: 👍 Like 💬 Comment your favorite quote 🔔 Subscribe for more classic films  #LadyWindermeresFan #OscarWilde #PeriodDrama #VictorianEra #ClassicMovie #FullMovie #LiteratureAdaptation #HistoricalDrama #BritishFilm #WildeAdaptation #PublicDomainMovie #ClassicCinema #VictorianLondon #TimelessDrama #BritishClassics #CostumeDrama #ClassicAdaptation #LoveAndBetrayal #TheatreToScreen #FeminineStrength #HighSocietyDrama #WittyDialogue #OscarWildeQuotes #OldMovieLovers #DailymotionCinema #FilmBuff #AudibleAffiliate #ClassicLoveStory #19thCenturyDrama #ScandalAndSecrets

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00:00:00You

00:01:00Is your ladyship at home this afternoon?

00:01:04Oh, yes. Who is called?

00:01:06Lord Darlington, my lady.

00:01:09Show him up.

00:01:11And I'm at home to anyone who calls.

00:01:13Yes, my lady.

00:01:16Lord Darlington.

00:01:20How do you do, Lady Wendell?

00:01:23How do you do, Lord Darlington?

00:01:25No, I can't shake hands with you.

00:01:27My hands are all wet with these roses.

00:01:29Aren't they lovely?

00:01:30They came up from Selby this morning.

00:01:32Oh, they are quite perfect.

00:01:34And what a wonderful fan.

00:01:36May I look at it?

00:01:37Ew, pretty, isn't it?

00:01:39Look, it's got my name on it and everything.

00:01:41I've only just seen it myself.

00:01:43It's my husband's birthday present to me.

00:01:46Oh, you know today's my birthday.

00:01:48No, is it really?

00:01:49Yes, I am of age today.

00:01:52Quite an important day in my life, isn't it?

00:01:54That's why I'm giving this party tonight.

00:01:55Oh, do sit down.

00:01:57I wish you had told me it was your birthday, Lady Windermere.

00:02:00I would have covered the whole street in front of your house

00:02:03with flowers for you to walk on.

00:02:06They are made for you.

00:02:08Lord Darlington.

00:02:09Hmm?

00:02:10You annoyed me last night at the Foreign Office.

00:02:12I'm afraid you are going to annoy me again.

00:02:14Aye, Lady Windermere.

00:02:20Oh, put it there, Parker.

00:02:21That will do.

00:02:28Won't you come over, Lord Darlington?

00:02:30I'm quite miserable, Lady Windermere.

00:02:32You must tell me what I did.

00:02:35Well, you kept on paying me elaborate compliments the whole evening.

00:02:39Ah.

00:02:41Nowadays, we are all of us so hard up

00:02:43that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments.

00:02:47They are the only things we can pay.

00:02:49No, I'm talking very seriously.

00:02:52You must not laugh.

00:02:54I'm quite serious.

00:02:55Now, I don't like compliments.

00:02:57And I don't see why a man should think

00:03:00he's pleasing a woman enormously

00:03:01when he says to her a whole heap of things

00:03:04that he doesn't mean.

00:03:05Ah, but I did mean them.

00:03:06I should hope not.

00:03:10I would be very sorry to quarrel with you, Lord Darlington.

00:03:14I like you very much, you know that.

00:03:15But I shouldn't like you at all

00:03:17if I thought you were what most other men are.

00:03:20Believe me, you're better than most other men.

00:03:22And I sometimes think you pretend to be worse.

00:03:26We all have our little vanities, Lady Windermere.

00:03:30Why do you make that your special one?

00:03:33Nowadays, so many conceited people

00:03:35go about society pretending to be good

00:03:38that I think it shows a rather sweet

00:03:40and modest disposition to pretend to be bad.

00:03:43Besides, there's this to be said.

00:03:45If you pretend to be good,

00:03:47the world takes you very seriously.

00:03:49If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't.

00:03:52Such is the standing stupidity of optimism.

00:03:57Don't you want the world

00:03:58to take you seriously then, Lord Darlington?

00:04:00No, not the world.

00:04:03Who are the people that the world takes seriously?

00:04:05All the dull people one can think of

00:04:07from the bishops down to the boars.

00:04:10I should like you to take me very seriously,

00:04:15Lady Windermere.

00:04:16You more than anyone else in life.

00:04:19Why?

00:04:21Why me?

00:04:22Because I think we might be great friends.

00:04:30Let us be great friends, Lady Windermere.

00:04:33You may want a friend someday.

00:04:36Why do you say that?

00:04:38Oh, we all want friends at times.

00:04:43I think we are very good friends already, Lord Darlington.

00:04:47And we can always remain so, as long as you don't...

00:04:50Don't what?

00:04:50Don't spoil it by saying extravagant silly things to me.

00:04:56The Duchess of Berwick and Lady Agatha Carlyne.

00:05:01Dear Margaret, I am so pleased to see you.

00:05:05You remember Agatha, don't you?

00:05:06How do you do, Lord Darlington?

00:05:09I won't let you know, my daughter, you are far too wicked.

00:05:13Oh, don't say that, Duchess.

00:05:15As a wicked man, I am a complete failure.

00:05:18Why, there are lots of people who say I've never really done anything wrong in the course of my entire life.

00:05:24Of course, they only say it behind my back.

00:05:28Isn't he dreadful?

00:05:31Agatha, this is Lord Darlington, mind you.

00:05:34Don't believe a word he says.

00:05:36Oh, no, no tea, thank you, dear.

00:05:40We've just had tea at Lady Markby's.

00:05:43Such bad tea, too.

00:05:44It was quite undrinkable.

00:05:46I wasn't at all surprised her own son-in-law supplies it.

00:05:50Agatha is looking forward so much to your ball tonight, dear.

00:05:53Oh, you mustn't think it's going to be a ball, Duchess.

00:05:56It is merely a dance-in-on of my birthday, small and early.

00:06:00Very small, very early, and very select, Duchess.

00:06:04Of course it's going to be select.

00:06:07But we know that, my dear, about your house.

00:06:11Just one of the few houses in London I can take, Agatha.

00:06:14And where I feel perfectly secure about, dear Berwick.

00:06:17I don't know what society is coming to.

00:06:19The most dreadful people seem to go everywhere.

00:06:22They certainly come to my parties.

00:06:25The men get quite furious if one doesn't ask them.

00:06:29Really, someone should make a stand against it.

00:06:31I will, Duchess.

00:06:32I shall have no one in my house about whom there is any scandal.

00:06:35Oh, don't say that, Lady Windermere.

00:06:37I should never be admitted.

00:06:39Oh, men don't matter.

00:06:41With women, it is different.

00:06:44We are good.

00:06:46Some of us are, at least.

00:06:48But we are positively getting elbowed into the corner.

00:06:51Our husbands would really forget our existence if we didn't remind them from time to time and nag them just to remind them that we have a perfectly legal right to do so.

00:07:00It's a curious thing, Duchess.

00:07:02The game of marriage, which is a game, by the way, that is going out of fashion.

00:07:08The wives hold all the honors and invariably lose the odd trick.

00:07:13The odd trick?

00:07:14Is that the husband, Lord Darlington?

00:07:17It would rather be a good name for the modern husband.

00:07:20Dear Lord Darlington, how thoroughly depraved you are.

00:07:24Oh, Lord Darlington is trivial.

00:07:26Oh, don't say that, Lady Windermere.

00:07:28Why do you talk so trivially about life, then?

00:07:31Because I think life is far too important a thing to ever talk seriously about it.

00:07:36What does he mean?

00:07:38Do, as a concession to my poor wits, Lord Darlington, just explain to me what you really mean.

00:07:45I think I had better not, Duchess.

00:07:49Nowadays, to be intelligible is to be found out.

00:07:53Goodbye.

00:07:53And now, Lady Windermere, goodbye.

00:07:58I may come tonight, mayn't I?

00:08:00Do let me come.

00:08:01Yes, certainly.

00:08:02But you are not to say insincere foolish things to people.

00:08:06Ah, you are beginning to reform me.

00:08:09It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone, Lady Windermere.

00:08:16What a charming, wicked creature.

00:08:18I like him so much.

00:08:21I'm quite delighted he's gone.

00:08:24How sweet you're looking.

00:08:25Where do you get your gowns?

00:08:28And now, I must tell you how very sorry I am for you, dear Margaret.

00:08:33Agatha!

00:08:34Will you go look over the photograph album I see there?

00:08:37Yes, Mama.

00:08:40Sweet girl.

00:08:41So fond of photographs of Switzerland.

00:08:44Such a pure taste, I think.

00:08:47But I really am so sorry for you, Margaret.

00:08:50Why, Duchess?

00:08:51On account of that horrid woman.

00:08:53Oh, and she dresses so well, too.

00:08:56Which only makes it worse.

00:08:58Set such a dreadful example.

00:09:00Huh, Augustus.

00:09:02You know my disreputable brother.

00:09:04Such a trial to us all.

00:09:06Well, Augustus is completely infatuated over her.

00:09:10Tis quite scandalous, for she is absolutely inadmissible into society.

00:09:14Many a woman has a past.

00:09:16But I am told she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

00:09:20But whom are you talking about, Duchess?

00:09:23About Mrs. Erlin.

00:09:25Mrs. Erlin?

00:09:26I never heard of her, Duchess.

00:09:29What has she to do with me?

00:09:30Oh, poor child.

00:09:33Oh.

00:09:35Agatha, darling?

00:09:36Yes, Mama?

00:09:37Will you go out on the terrace and look at the sunset?

00:09:40Yes, Mama.

00:09:42Such a sweet girl.

00:09:44So devoted to sunsets.

00:09:46She has such refinement of feeling, don't you think?

00:09:48After all, there is nothing like nature, is there?

00:09:51But what is it, Duchess?

00:09:52Why are you talking to me about this person?

00:09:55Don't you really know?

00:09:58I assure you, we are all so distressed about it.

00:10:01Only last night at dear Lady Jansons,

00:10:03everyone was saying how extraordinary it was

00:10:06that of all men in London,

00:10:07Windermere should behave in such a way.

00:10:10My husband?

00:10:12What has he got to do with any woman of that kind?

00:10:15Ah, what indeed, dear.

00:10:17That is the point.

00:10:18He goes to see her continually

00:10:21and stops for hours at a time.

00:10:24And while he is there, she is not at home to anyone.

00:10:27Not that many ladies call on her, dear,

00:10:29but she has a great many disreputable men friends,

00:10:32my own brother particularly, as I told you.

00:10:35And that is what makes it so dreadful about Windermere.

00:10:38How we all looked upon him as being such a model husband.

00:10:42Oh, but I'm afraid there is no doubt about it.

00:10:45And the worst of it all is that I am told

00:10:49that this woman has got a great deal of money out of somebody.

00:10:54For it seems that she came to London six months ago

00:10:57without anything at all to speak of.

00:10:59And now she has this charming house in Mayfair,

00:11:02drives her ponies in the park every afternoon,

00:11:04and all, well, all since she has known poor dear Windermere.

00:11:08I can't believe it.

00:11:10Oh, but it's quite true, my dear.

00:11:14The whole of London knows it.

00:11:16That is why I thought it best to come and talk to you

00:11:20and advise you to take Windermere away at once.

00:11:23To Homburg or to X,

00:11:26where he'll have something to amuse him

00:11:27and where you can watch him all day long.

00:11:29I assure you, my dear,

00:11:31that on several occasions after I was first married,

00:11:34I had to pretend to be very ill

00:11:36and was obliged to drink the most unpleasant mineral waters

00:11:39merely to get Beric out of town.

00:11:41He was so extremely susceptible.

00:11:44Although I am bound to say

00:11:45he never gave away any money to anybody.

00:11:48He was far too high priesthood for that.

00:11:50Duchess, Duchess, it's impossible.

00:11:53We only married two years

00:11:54and our child is about six months old.

00:11:56Ah, the dear pretty baby.

00:11:57How is the little darling?

00:11:59Is it a boy or a girl?

00:12:01Oh, I hope it's a girl.

00:12:03Oh, no, I remember it's a boy.

00:12:06I am so sorry.

00:12:07Boys are so wicked.

00:12:09My boy is excessively immoral.

00:12:11You wouldn't believe at what hours he comes home.

00:12:13And he's only left Oxford a few months.

00:12:16I really don't know what they teach them there.

00:12:18Are all men bad?

00:12:20Oh, all of them, my dear.

00:12:22All of them, without exception.

00:12:24And they never grow any better.

00:12:26Men become old, but they never become good.

00:12:31Windermere and I married for love.

00:12:33Huh, yes.

00:12:34We begin like that.

00:12:35And now I must go as we are dining out.

00:12:39And don't take this aberration of Windermere's too much to heart.

00:12:43Just take him abroad and he'll come back to you all right.

00:12:46Come back to me?

00:12:48Yes, dear.

00:12:48These wicked women get our husbands away from us, but they always come back.

00:12:54Slightly damaged, of course.

00:12:56And don't make scenes.

00:12:57Men hate them.

00:12:59It's very kind of you, Duchess, to come and tell me all this, but I can't believe my husband is untrue to me.

00:13:05Pretty child.

00:13:06I was like that once.

00:13:08Now I know that all men are monsters.

00:13:10The only thing to do is to feed the wretches well.

00:13:14A good cook works wonders, and that I know you have.

00:13:18Margaret, you are not going to cry.

00:13:20Oh, you needn't worry, Duchess.

00:13:22I never cry.

00:13:23That's quite right, dear.

00:13:25Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.

00:13:29Agatha, darling.

00:13:30Yes, Mama.

00:13:31Come bid goodbye to Lady Wintermere and thank her for your charming visit.

00:13:35Oh.

00:13:36And, by the way, I must thank you for sending a card to Mr. Hopper.

00:13:41He's that rich young Australian people are taking such notice of just at present.

00:13:46His father made a great fortune selling some kind of food in circular tins.

00:13:52Most palatable, I believe.

00:13:55I fancy it is the thing the servants always refuse to eat.

00:13:58But the son is most interesting.

00:14:01I think he's attracted to Agatha's clever talk.

00:14:05Of course, we should be very sorry to lose her,

00:14:07but I think that a mother that doesn't part with a daughter every season has no real affection.

00:14:14And goodbye once more.

00:14:17Come, Agatha.

00:14:19No, I did copy, True.

00:14:25She spoke of enormous sums of money paid this woman.

00:14:31I know why Arthur keeps his bank books.

00:14:33I knew it.

00:14:43There is not a word of truth in that stupid story.

00:14:52The second book.

00:14:54Private.

00:14:55Locked.

00:14:56Mrs. Erland, 600 pounds.

00:15:06Mrs. Erland, 700 pounds.

00:15:08Mrs. Erland, 400 pounds.

00:15:11Oh, it is true.

00:15:12It is true.

00:15:13How horrible.

00:15:14Well, dear, has the fan been sent home yet?

00:15:25Margaret, you have cut open my bank book.

00:15:26You have no right to do such a thing.

00:15:27You think it wrong you are found out, don't you?

00:15:29I think it wrong that a wife should spy on her husband.

00:15:32I did not spy on you.

00:15:33I never even knew of this woman's existence till half an hour ago.

00:15:37Someone who pitied me was kind enough to tell me what everyone in London knows already.

00:15:43Your daily visits to Curzon Street, your mad infatuation, the monstrous sums of money

00:15:48you squander on this infamous woman.

00:15:50Margaret, don't talk like that of Mrs. Erland.

00:15:53You don't know how unjust it is.

00:15:54You are very jealous of Mrs. Erland's honour.

00:15:57I wish you had been as jealous of mine.

00:16:00Your honour is untouched, Margaret.

00:16:02I think you spend your money strangely, that is all.

00:16:05Oh, don't imagine I mind about the money.

00:16:08Oh, as far as I am concerned, you may squander everything we have.

00:16:12But what I do mind is that you, who have loved me,

00:16:17you who have taught me to love you,

00:16:19should pass from the love that is given to the love that is bought.

00:16:23Oh, it's horrible.

00:16:25And it is I who feel degraded.

00:16:26You don't feel anything.

00:16:28I feel stained, utterly stained.

00:16:31But you can't realise how hideous the last six months seem to me now.

00:16:35Every kiss you have given me is tainted in my memory.

00:16:39Don't say that, Margaret.

00:16:41I never loved anyone in the whole world but you.

00:16:44Who is this woman, then?

00:16:46Why do you take a house for her?

00:16:47I did not take a house for her.

00:16:49But you gave her the money to do it, which is the same thing.

00:16:52Margaret, as far as I have known, Mrs. Erland...

00:16:54Is there Mr. Erland, or is he a myth?

00:16:57Her husband died many years ago.

00:16:59She is alone in the world.

00:17:00No relations?

00:17:01None.

00:17:04Rather curious, isn't it?

00:17:06Margaret, I was saying to you, and I beg you to listen to me,

00:17:09that as far as I have known Mrs. Erland, she has conducted herself well.

00:17:13If years ago...

00:17:14Oh, I don't want details about her life.

00:17:16I'm not going to give you any details about her life.

00:17:18I tell you simply this.

00:17:19Mrs. Erland was once honoured, loved, respected.

00:17:22She was well-born.

00:17:24She had position.

00:17:25She lost everything.

00:17:27Threw it away, if you like.

00:17:28That makes it all the more bitter.

00:17:32Misfortunes one can endure.

00:17:33They come from outside.

00:17:34They are accidents.

00:17:36But to suffer for one's own faults, there is the sting of life.

00:17:41It was twenty years ago, too.

00:17:42She was little more than a girl, then.

00:17:44She had been a wife for even less time than you have.

00:17:46I am not interested in her.

00:17:48And you should not mention this woman and me in the same breath.

00:17:51It is an air of taste.

00:17:53Margaret, you could save this woman.

00:17:55She wants to get back into society.

00:17:58And she wants you to help her.

00:18:00Me?

00:18:00Yes, you.

00:18:02How impertinent of her.

00:18:04Margaret, I came to ask you a great favour.

00:18:07And I still ask it of you.

00:18:09Though you have discovered what I intended,

00:18:10you should never have known that I have given Mrs. Erland a large sum of money.

00:18:15I want you to send her an invitation for our party tonight.

00:18:20You're mad.

00:18:21I entreat you.

00:18:23People may chatter about her, do chatter about her, of course.

00:18:26But they don't know anything definite against her.

00:18:29She has been to several houses.

00:18:31Not to houses where you would go, I admit.

00:18:33But still to houses where women who are in what is called society nowadays do go.

00:18:37That does not content her.

00:18:39She wants you to receive her once.

00:18:41Has it dry in for her, I suppose?

00:18:43No.

00:18:44But because she knows that you are a good woman.

00:18:46And that if she comes here once, she will have a chance of a happier, a surer lad than she has had.

00:18:52She will make no further effort to know you.

00:18:54Won't you help a woman who is trying to get back?

00:18:57No.

00:18:58If a woman really repents, she never wishes to return to the society that has made or seen her ruin.

00:19:04I beg of you.

00:19:04I am going to dress for dinner.

00:19:08And don't mention the subject again this evening.

00:19:15Arthur, you fancy because I have no father or mother that I am alone in the world.

00:19:18You are wrong.

00:19:20I have friends, many friends.

00:19:22Margaret, you are talking foolishly.

00:19:24Recklessly.

00:19:25I won't argue with you, but I insist upon you asking Mrs. Erling tonight.

00:19:29I shall do nothing of the kind.

00:19:31You refuse?

00:19:32Absolutely.

00:19:33Margaret, do this for my sake.

00:19:35It is her last chance.

00:19:37What has that to do with me?

00:19:39How hard good women are.

00:19:40How weak bad men are.

00:19:42Margaret, none of us men may be good enough for the women we marry.

00:19:46That is quite true.

00:19:48But you don't imagine I would ever...

00:19:50Oh, the suggestion is monstrous.

00:19:52Why should you be different from other men?

00:19:55I am told that there is hardly a husband in London who does not waste his life over some shameful passion.

00:20:00I am not one of them.

00:20:01I am not sure of that.

00:20:03You are sure in your heart.

00:20:05But don't make chasm after chasm between us.

00:20:08God knows the last few minutes of thrusters widened up apart.

00:20:11Sit down and write the card.

00:20:13Nothing in the whole world would induce me.

00:20:16Then I will.

00:20:17You are going to invite this woman?

00:20:20Yes.

00:20:21Parker?

00:20:24Yes, ma'am.

00:20:25This note sent to Mrs. Erling at number 84A, Curzon Street.

00:20:31There is no answer.

00:20:32Yes, ma'am.

00:20:34Arthur, if that woman comes here, I shall insult her.

00:20:37Barbara, don't say that.

00:20:38I mean it.

00:20:39Child, if you did such a thing, there's not a woman in London who wouldn't pity you.

00:20:43There is not a good woman in London who would not applaud me.

00:20:46We have been too lax.

00:20:48And we must make an example.

00:20:50Yes, I propose we begin tonight.

00:20:53Yes.

00:20:55You gave me this fan.

00:20:56It was your birthday present.

00:20:58If that woman crosses my threshold, I shall strike her across the face with it.

00:21:03Why but you couldn't do such a thing?

00:21:04You don't know me.

00:21:06Parker?

00:21:07Yes, ma'am.

00:21:09I shall dine in my own room tonight.

00:21:12Actually, I don't want dinner, in fact.

00:21:14See that everything is ready by half past ten.

00:21:17Oh, and Parker, be sure you pronounce the names of the guests very distinctly tonight.

00:21:22Sometimes you speak so fast that I miss them.

00:21:24I am particularly anxious to hear the names of the guests very clearly so as to make no mistake.

00:21:31You understand, Parker?

00:21:33Yes, ma'am.

00:21:34That will do.

00:21:39Arthur, if that woman comes here, I warn you.

00:21:43Margaret, you'll ruin us.

00:21:44Oh, awesome.

00:21:45Oh, from this moment, my life shall be separate from yours.

00:21:48But if you wish to avoid a public scandal, write at once to this woman and tell her I forbid her to come here.

00:21:54I will not.

00:21:55I cannot.

00:21:55She must come.

00:21:56Then I shall do exactly as I have said.

00:21:59You leave me no choice.

00:22:00Margaret.

00:22:02Margaret.

00:22:15Margaret, I want to speak to you.

00:22:18Lord Darlington.

00:22:19In a moment.

00:22:20Lord Augustus Lawton.

00:22:28Good evening, Lady Windermere.

00:22:29Good evening.

00:22:30I want to speak to you particularly, dear boy.

00:22:35I'm worn to a shadow.

00:22:37No, I don't look it.

00:22:38None of us men do look what we really are.

00:22:40Damn good thing, too.

00:22:42What I want to know is this.

00:22:44Who is she?

00:22:45Where does she come from?

00:22:47Why hasn't she got any damn relations?

00:22:49Damn nuisance relations, but they make one so damn respectable.

00:22:52You are talking of Mrs. Erling, I suppose?

00:22:54I only met her six months ago.

00:22:56Till then, I never knew of her existence.

00:22:58Oh, you have seen a good deal of her since then.

00:23:01Yes, I have seen a good deal of her since then.

00:23:04I have just seen her.

00:23:06Egan.

00:23:06Well, the women are very down on her.

00:23:10I've been dining with Arabella this evening.

00:23:12Boy, Jobe, you should have heard what she said about Mrs. Erling.

00:23:14Didn't leave a rag on her.

00:23:17Barak and I told her that didn't matter much,

00:23:18as the lady in question must have an extremely fine figure.

00:23:22You should have seen Arabella's expression.

00:23:24But look here, dear boy.

00:23:25I don't know what to do about Mrs. Erling.

00:23:28Egan.

00:23:28I might be married to her.

00:23:29She treats me with such damned indifference.

00:23:32She's juicet clever, too.

00:23:33She explains everything.

00:23:36Egad, she explains you.

00:23:38She's got any amount of explanations for you,

00:23:39all of them different.

00:23:40No explanations are necessary about my friendship with Mrs. Erling.

00:23:43Yes, well...

00:23:45Look here, dear old fellow.

00:23:46Do you think she will ever get into this damn thing called society?

00:23:50Would you introduce her to your wife?

00:23:51No use beating about the confounded bush.

00:23:53Would you do that?

00:23:54Mrs. Erling is coming here tonight.

00:23:56Your wife has sent her a card?

00:23:58Mrs. Erling has received a card.

00:24:00Well, she's all right, then.

00:24:01But why didn't you tell me this before?

00:24:03It would have saved me a heap of worry and damned misunderstandings.

00:24:07Mr. Cecil Graham.

00:24:14Good evening, Arthur.

00:24:16Why don't you ask me how I am?

00:24:17I like it when people ask me how I am.

00:24:19Now, tonight, I'm not at all well.

00:24:22Been dining with my people.

00:24:23Wonder why it is one's people are always so tedious?

00:24:26My father would talk morality after dinner.

00:24:29I told him he was old enough to know better.

00:24:31But from my experience, as soon as people are old enough to know better,

00:24:34they don't know anything at all.

00:24:37Oh, hello, Tuppy.

00:24:39Heard you're going to be married again.

00:24:41Thought you were tired of that game.

00:24:42You're excessively trivial, dear boy.

00:24:44Excessively trivial.

00:24:45By the way, Tuppy, which is it?

00:24:47Have you been twice married and once divorced?

00:24:50Or twice divorced and once married?

00:24:52I say you've been twice divorced and once married.

00:24:55It seems so much more probable.

00:24:56I have a very bad memory.

00:24:58I really don't remember which.

00:24:59Mr. Hopper.

00:25:06How do you do, Lady Windermere?

00:25:08How do you do?

00:25:10Please.

00:25:11How do you do, Duchess?

00:25:13Dear Mr. Hopper, how nice of you to come so early.

00:25:17We all know how you are run after in London.

00:25:19Capital Place London, but not nearly so exclusive in London as they are in Sydney.

00:25:23Ah, we know your value, Mr. Hopper.

00:25:26We wish they were more like you.

00:25:27It would make life so much easier.

00:25:30Do you know, Mr. Hopper, Agatha and I are so much interested in Australia.

00:25:34It must be so pretty with all the dear little kangaroos flying about.

00:25:39Agatha has found it on the map.

00:25:42Such a curious shape it is.

00:25:43Just like a large packing case.

00:25:46However, it is a very young country, isn't it?

00:25:48Wasn't it made at the same time as the others, Duchess?

00:25:54How clever you are, Mr. Hopper.

00:25:56Oh, you have a cleverness all of your own.

00:26:00Now, I mustn't keep you.

00:26:02But I should like to dance with Lady Agatha, Duchess.

00:26:04Oh, well, I hope she has a dance left.

00:26:07Have you a dance left, Agatha?

00:26:10Yes, Mama.

00:26:11The next one.

00:26:14Yes, Mama.

00:26:15May I have the pleasure?

00:26:16Mind you, take great care of my little chatterbox.

00:26:24Mrs. Erling.

00:26:34Lady Winery.

00:26:36Do you have dropped your fan?

00:26:37How charming your sweet wife looks.

00:26:42Quite a picture.

00:26:43It was terribly rash of you to come.

00:26:45The wisest thing I ever did in my life.

00:26:48And by the way, you must pay me a good deal of attention this evening.

00:26:51I'm afraid of the women.

00:26:53You must introduce me to some of them.

00:26:56The men I can always manage.

00:26:58How do you do, Lord Augustus?

00:27:00You have quite neglected me lately.

00:27:02I haven't seen you since yesterday.

00:27:04I'm afraid you're faithless.

00:27:06Everyone told me so.

00:27:07Now, really, Mrs. Erling.

00:27:09Allow me to explain.

00:27:10No, dear Lord Augustus.

00:27:12You can't explain anything.

00:27:14It's your chief charm.

00:27:16If you find charms in me, Mrs. Erling.

00:27:18I do indeed.

00:27:20Come.

00:27:21You look faint.

00:27:21Come out from the hall.

00:27:23How do you do, Mr. Graham?

00:27:26Isn't that your Aunt Lady Jedbra?

00:27:28I should so much like to know her.

00:27:30Oh, certainly, if you like.

00:27:32Aunt Caroline, may I introduce to you Mrs. Erling?

00:27:36So pleased to meet you, Lady Jedbra.

00:27:39Your nephew and I are great friends.

00:27:42I'm so much interested in his political career.

00:27:44I think he's sure to be a wonderful success.

00:27:47He thinks like a Tory and talks like a radical,

00:27:49and that's so important nowadays.

00:27:52He's such a brilliant talker, too.

00:27:54But we all know from whom he inherits that.

00:27:57Lord Allendale was saying to me only yesterday in the park

00:28:00that Mr. Graham talks almost as well as his aunt.

00:28:05Most kind of you to say these charming things to me.

00:28:09Did you introduce Mrs. Erling to Lady Jedbra?

00:28:13Couldn't help it.

00:28:15That woman can make one do anything she wants.

00:28:18How, I don't know.

00:28:21Hope to goodness she won't speak to me.

00:28:22Yes, yes, her coming here is monstrous, unbearable.

00:28:30He insisted on her coming, against my entreaties,

00:28:32against my commands.

00:28:34The house is tainted for me now.

00:28:36But I feel that every woman here sneers at me

00:28:38as she dances by with my husband.

00:28:41What have I done to deserve this?

00:28:43I gave him my life.

00:28:45He took it, used it, spoiled it.

00:28:47I am degraded in my own eyes, and I have no courage.

00:28:52I'm a coward.

00:28:53If I know you at all,

00:28:55I know you can't stand to live with a man

00:28:58who treats you like this.

00:29:00What sort of life would you have with him?

00:29:03You would feel that he was lying to you

00:29:04every moment of the day.

00:29:06You would feel that the look in his eyes was false.

00:29:09His voice, false.

00:29:10His touch, false.

00:29:12His passion, false.

00:29:17He would come to you

00:29:17when he was weary of others.

00:29:20You would have to comfort him.

00:29:22He would come to you

00:29:23when he was devoted to others.

00:29:24You would have to charm him.

00:29:26You would have to be to him

00:29:28the mask of his real life,

00:29:30the cloak, to hide his secret.

00:29:33But you are right.

00:29:34But you are entirely right.

00:29:37Oh, but where am I to turn to, Lord Darlington?

00:29:39You said you would be my friend.

00:29:41Tell me, what am I to do?

00:29:42Be my friend now.

00:29:44Between men and women,

00:29:45there is no friendship possible.

00:29:48There is passion,

00:29:51enmity, worship, love.

00:29:53But no friendship.

00:29:56I love you.

00:29:58No.

00:29:59Yes.

00:29:59No.

00:30:00Yes, I love you.

00:30:02More than anything in the whole world.

00:30:04What does your husband give you?

00:30:06Nothing.

00:30:07I offer you my life.

00:30:11Your darling dinner.

00:30:12Yes, my life.

00:30:14My whole life.

00:30:15Take it and do with it what you will.

00:30:18On Thursday, with great pleasure.

00:30:26What a bore it is to have to be civil to these old dowagers,

00:30:29but they always insist on it.

00:30:32Who is that well-dressed woman talking to Windermere?

00:30:36I haven't the slightest idea.

00:30:38Looks to be an addition de luxe of a wicked French novel.

00:30:42Meant specially for the English market.

00:30:45So that is poor Dumbie with Lady Plymdale.

00:30:47I hear she's frightfully jealous of him.

00:30:51He doesn't seem anxious to speak to me tonight.

00:30:54I suppose he's afraid of her.

00:30:55Those straw-coloured women have dreadful tempers.

00:31:00Do you know,

00:31:01I think I'll dance with you first, Windermere.

00:31:03It'll make Lord Augustus so jealous.

00:31:06Lord Augustus,

00:31:07Lord Windermere insists on my dancing with him first,

00:31:10and as it's his own house,

00:31:12I can't well refuse.

00:31:13You know I would much sooner dance with you.

00:31:16I wish I could believe so, Mrs. Earline.

00:31:18You know it far too well.

00:31:21I can fancy a person dancing through life with you

00:31:24and finding it charming.

00:31:25Oh, thank you.

00:31:27You are the most adorable of all ladies.

00:31:30Oh, what a nice speech.

00:31:32So simple and so sincere.

00:31:34Well,

00:31:36you shall hold my bouquet.

00:31:40I love you.

00:31:46Oh, I love you like I have never loved any living thing.

00:31:50From the moment I met you,

00:31:51I loved you.

00:31:53Blindly,

00:31:54adoringly,

00:31:55madly.

00:31:56You did not know it then,

00:31:58you know it now.

00:32:00Leave this house tonight.

00:32:02Now, I won't tell you that the world matters nothing,

00:32:04or the world's voice,

00:32:05or the voice of society.

00:32:06They matter a great deal.

00:32:08They matter far too much.

00:32:09But there comes a time

00:32:11in one's life

00:32:12when one has to choose

00:32:13between living one's own life

00:32:15fully,

00:32:15completely,

00:32:16entirely,

00:32:17or dragging out some false,

00:32:19shallow,

00:32:19degrading existence

00:32:21that the world

00:32:21and its hypocrisy

00:32:22demands.

00:32:24You have that moment now.

00:32:25Choose.

00:32:26Oh, my love,

00:32:27choose.

00:32:29Why?

00:32:29I have not the courage.

00:32:31Yes.

00:32:32Yes,

00:32:32you have the courage.

00:32:34There may be

00:32:34six months of pain,

00:32:36of disgrace even.

00:32:37But when you

00:32:39no longer

00:32:40bear his name,

00:32:41when you bear mine,

00:32:42all will be well.

00:32:45Oh, Margaret,

00:32:46my love,

00:32:48my wife,

00:32:49that shall be someday.

00:32:50Yes,

00:32:51my wife,

00:32:52you know it.

00:32:54What are you now?

00:32:56This woman

00:32:56has the place

00:32:57that by right

00:32:58belongs to you.

00:33:00Oh, go,

00:33:01go out of this house

00:33:02with head erect,

00:33:04with courage in your eyes,

00:33:06with a smile

00:33:07upon your lips.

00:33:09All London

00:33:10will know why you did it

00:33:11and who will blame you.

00:33:12No one.

00:33:16Oh, Mr. Dunby,

00:33:17how are you?

00:33:18I'm so sorry

00:33:19I have been out

00:33:20the last three times

00:33:21you have called.

00:33:22Come and lunch on Friday.

00:33:24Delighted.

00:33:25What an absolute brute

00:33:29you are.

00:33:30I really never can

00:33:31believe a word you say.

00:33:32Why did you tell me

00:33:33you didn't know her?

00:33:34And what do you mean

00:33:35by calling on her

00:33:36three times running?

00:33:37You are not to go

00:33:38to lunch there.

00:33:39Of course you understand that.

00:33:41My dear Laura,

00:33:42I wouldn't dream

00:33:43of going.

00:33:44You haven't told me

00:33:45her name yet.

00:33:46Who is she?

00:33:47Mrs. Erlin.

00:33:49That woman?

00:33:50Yes.

00:33:50That is what

00:33:51everyone calls her.

00:33:52How very interesting.

00:33:54How intensely interesting.

00:33:56I really must have

00:33:56a good stare at her.

00:33:58I have heard

00:33:58the most shocking

00:33:59things about her.

00:34:00They say she's

00:34:01ruining poor Windermere.

00:34:03And Lady Windermere,

00:34:04who goes in

00:34:04for being so proper,

00:34:06invites her.

00:34:07How extremely amusing.

00:34:09It takes a thoroughly

00:34:10good woman

00:34:10to do a thoroughly

00:34:11stupid thing.

00:34:13You are to lunch

00:34:14there on Friday.

00:34:15Why?

00:34:17Because I want you

00:34:17to take my husband

00:34:18with you.

00:34:20He's been so attentive

00:34:21lately that he's

00:34:22become a perfect nuisance.

00:34:24Now, this woman

00:34:24is just the thing

00:34:25for him.

00:34:26He'll dance attendance

00:34:27upon her as long

00:34:28as she lets him

00:34:29and won't bother me.

00:34:31I assure you,

00:34:32women of that kind

00:34:32are most useful.

00:34:34They form the basis

00:34:35of other people's

00:34:36marriages.

00:34:37What a mystery

00:34:38you are.

00:34:39I wish you were.

00:34:41Oh, I am.

00:34:42To myself.

00:34:43I'm the only person

00:34:44in the world

00:34:44I should like to know

00:34:45thoroughly.

00:34:46I just don't see

00:34:47a chance of it

00:34:48just at present.

00:34:48Just give me time

00:34:59to think.

00:35:01Look, I cannot

00:35:01answer you now.

00:35:02It must be now

00:35:03or not at all.

00:35:06Then not at all.

00:35:07You break my heart.

00:35:16Mine is already broken.

00:35:19Tomorrow,

00:35:20I leave England.

00:35:22This is the last time

00:35:24I shall ever look on you.

00:35:26We shall never see

00:35:27each other again.

00:35:30For one moment,

00:35:31our lives met,

00:35:32our souls touched.

00:35:34They shall never meet

00:35:36or touch again.

00:35:41Goodbye, Margaret.

00:35:43God, how alone

00:35:54I am in life.

00:35:57Oh, terribly alone.

00:36:04Oh, dear Margaret,

00:36:06I have just been having

00:36:08the most delightful chat

00:36:09with Mrs. Erlin.

00:36:11I am so sorry

00:36:13for what I said

00:36:13this afternoon about her.

00:36:15Of course,

00:36:16she must be all right

00:36:17if you invite her.

00:36:18Such an attractive woman

00:36:20and has such sensible

00:36:21views on life.

00:36:23Told me she entirely

00:36:24disapproved of people

00:36:25marrying more than once.

00:36:26So, of course,

00:36:27I feel quite safe

00:36:28about poor Augustus.

00:36:30Oh, I can't imagine

00:36:32why people speak

00:36:33against her.

00:36:35Oh, it's those

00:36:36horrid nieces of mine,

00:36:38the Saville girls.

00:36:39They're always

00:36:40talking scandal.

00:36:41Still, I should go

00:36:43to Hamburg.

00:36:44I really should.

00:36:45But where is Agatha?

00:36:46Ah, there she is.

00:36:48Agatha, darling.

00:36:49Yes, ma'am.

00:36:49Mr. Hopper,

00:36:51I am very, very

00:36:52angry with you.

00:36:53You have taken Agatha

00:36:54out on the terrace

00:36:55and she is most delicate.

00:36:56Awfully sorry, Duchess.

00:36:58You stepped out

00:36:59for a moment

00:36:59and got chatting together.

00:37:01Ah, about Australia.

00:37:03Yes.

00:37:04Hmm.

00:37:05Agatha, darling.

00:37:06Yes, ma'am.

00:37:07Did Mr. Hopper

00:37:08most definitely?

00:37:09Yes, ma'am.

00:37:10And what answer

00:37:11did you give him,

00:37:12dear child?

00:37:13Yes, ma'am.

00:37:14Oh, my dear one.

00:37:16You always say

00:37:17the right thing.

00:37:19Mr. Hopper.

00:37:21James,

00:37:22Agatha has told me

00:37:23everything.

00:37:24How cleverly you both

00:37:25have kept your secret.

00:37:26Then you don't mind

00:37:27my taking Agatha

00:37:28off to Australia,

00:37:29then, Duchess.

00:37:30To Australia?

00:37:31Yes.

00:37:31Oh, don't mention

00:37:33that dreadful vulgar place.

00:37:35But she said

00:37:36she'd like to come

00:37:36with me, Duchess.

00:37:38Agatha, did you say that?

00:37:40Yes, ma'am.

00:37:42My dear Agatha,

00:37:43you say the silliest

00:37:44things possible.

00:37:45I think on the whole

00:37:48I think on the whole

00:37:48that Grosvenor Square

00:37:50is a much healthier place

00:37:51to reside in.

00:37:52There are lots of vulgar people

00:37:54living in Grosvenor Square,

00:37:55but at any rate,

00:37:56there are no horrid kangaroos

00:37:58crawling about.

00:37:59But we'll talk about that tomorrow.

00:38:02You may take Agatha down, James.

00:38:05You'll come to lunch tomorrow,

00:38:07of course,

00:38:08at half past one

00:38:09instead of two.

00:38:11The Duke will have a few words

00:38:12to you to say, I'm sure.

00:38:13I should like to speak

00:38:15with the Duke, Duchess.

00:38:16He hasn't said

00:38:16a single word to me yet.

00:38:18Oh, I'm sure you'll find

00:38:20he has quite a few words

00:38:21to say to you tomorrow.

00:38:26And now, good night, Margaret.

00:38:29I'm afraid it's the old, old story.

00:38:32Love.

00:38:34Well, not love at first sight,

00:38:36but love at the end of the season,

00:38:38which I think is so much

00:38:40more satisfactory.

00:38:43My dear Margaret,

00:38:50what a handsome woman

00:38:51your husband has been dancing with.

00:38:53Is she a great friend of yours?

00:38:55No.

00:38:57Really?

00:38:59Good night, dear.

00:39:06Awful manners, young Harper has.

00:39:08Ah, Harper is one of nature's gentlemen.

00:39:11The worst kind of gentleman I know.

00:39:13A sensible woman, Lady Windermere?

00:39:16Most wives would have objected

00:39:17to Mrs. Erling coming.

00:39:20Lady Windermere has that uncommon thing,

00:39:23common sense.

00:39:24And Windermere knows

00:39:24nothing looks so like innocence

00:39:26as an indiscretion.

00:39:28Yes.

00:39:29Dear Windermere,

00:39:30he's becoming almost modern.

00:39:32Didn't think he would,

00:39:34nice time ago.

00:39:34Good night.

00:39:40Good night.

00:39:41Good night.

00:39:45Oh, good night, Lady Windermere.

00:39:48Oh, what a fascinating woman

00:39:50Mrs. Erling is.

00:39:51She's coming to lunch on Thursday.

00:39:53Won't you come too?

00:39:55I expect the bishop

00:39:56and dear Lady Merton.

00:39:58I am afraid

00:40:00I am otherwise engaged,

00:40:02Lady Chedbra.

00:40:02Oh, so sorry.

00:40:04Good night, dear.

00:40:07Charming ball it has been.

00:40:09Quite reminds me of old days.

00:40:11And I see that there are

00:40:12just as many fools in society

00:40:13as there used to be.

00:40:15So pleased to find

00:40:16that nothing has altered.

00:40:19Except Margaret.

00:40:20She's grown quite pretty.

00:40:23The last time I saw her,

00:40:2320 years ago,

00:40:24she was a frightened flannel.

00:40:26Positive fright, I assure you.

00:40:27Oh, the dear Duchess.

00:40:30And that sweet Lady Agatha,

00:40:32just the type of girl I like.

00:40:34Well,

00:40:35if I am to be

00:40:37the Duchess's sister-in-law...

00:40:39But are you?

00:40:40Oh, yes.

00:40:41He's to call tomorrow

00:40:42at 12 o'clock.

00:40:44He wanted to propose tonight.

00:40:46In fact, he did.

00:40:47He kept on proposing.

00:40:48Poor Augustus.

00:40:49You know how he repeats himself.

00:40:50Such a bad habit.

00:40:51But I told him

00:40:52I wouldn't give him

00:40:53an answer till tomorrow.

00:40:55Of course,

00:40:56I'm going to take him

00:40:57and I dare say

00:40:58I'll make him

00:40:59an admirable wife

00:41:00as wives go.

00:41:01And there's a great deal

00:41:02of good in Lord Augustus.

00:41:04Fortunately,

00:41:05it is all on the surface.

00:41:06Just where good qualities

00:41:07should be.

00:41:09Of course,

00:41:09you must help me

00:41:10in this matter.

00:41:12I'm not called on

00:41:13to encourage Lord Augustus,

00:41:14I suppose.

00:41:14Oh, no.

00:41:15I do the encouraging.

00:41:17But you will make me

00:41:19a handsome settlement,

00:41:20Windermere,

00:41:20won't you?

00:41:21Is that what you want

00:41:22to talk to me about tonight?

00:41:24Yes.

00:41:25I will not talk of that here.

00:41:27Then we shall talk of it

00:41:29in private.

00:41:42Won't tomorrow do as well?

00:41:44No.

00:41:45You see,

00:41:45tomorrow I'm going to accept him.

00:41:47And I think it would be

00:41:48a good idea

00:41:48if I was able to tell him

00:41:50that,

00:41:50well,

00:41:51what shall I say?

00:41:53Two thousand pounds

00:41:53a year left to me

00:41:54by a third cousin

00:41:55or a second husband

00:41:57or some distant relative

00:41:58of that kind?

00:41:59It would be

00:42:00an additional attraction,

00:42:01wouldn't it?

00:42:03You have a delightful

00:42:04opportunity now

00:42:05of paying me

00:42:06a compliment,

00:42:06Windermere.

00:42:08Oh, but you're not

00:42:08very clever

00:42:09at paying compliments.

00:42:10I'm afraid Margaret

00:42:11doesn't encourage you

00:42:12in that excellent habit.

00:42:14It's a great mistake

00:42:15on her part.

00:42:16When men give up

00:42:16saying what is charming,

00:42:17they give up thinking

00:42:18what is charming.

00:42:21But seriously,

00:42:22what do you say

00:42:23to two thousand pounds?

00:42:25Two thousand five hundred pounds,

00:42:26I think.

00:42:27In modern life,

00:42:28margin is everything.

00:42:29Oh, Windermere,

00:42:33don't you find the world

00:42:34an intensely amusing place?

00:42:37I do.

00:42:41To stay in this house

00:42:42any longer

00:42:43is impossible.

00:42:44So, tonight,

00:42:45a man who loves me

00:42:46offered me his whole life.

00:42:48I refused it.

00:42:49It was foolish of me.

00:42:51I will offer him mine now.

00:42:52I will give him mine.

00:42:54No,

00:42:56Arthur never understood me.

00:42:59Though when he reads

00:42:59this letter,

00:43:00he will.

00:43:01He may do

00:43:01as he chooses

00:43:02now with his life.

00:43:04I have done with mine

00:43:05as I think right,

00:43:05as I think best.

00:43:08It is he who has broken

00:43:09the bond of marriage,

00:43:10not I.

00:43:12Oh, I only break

00:43:13its bondage.

00:43:21Is Lady Windermere

00:43:22in the ballroom?

00:43:23No, madam.

00:43:23Her ladyship

00:43:24has just gone out.

00:43:25Gone out?

00:43:26She's not on the terrace.

00:43:28No, madam.

00:43:28Her ladyship

00:43:29has just gone out

00:43:29of the house.

00:43:30Out of the house?

00:43:31Yes, madam.

00:43:32Her ladyship

00:43:33has told me

00:43:33that she had left

00:43:34a letter for his lordship

00:43:35on the table.

00:43:36A letter for Lord Windermere?

00:43:38Yes, madam.

00:43:42Gone out of her house?

00:43:45A letter addressed

00:43:46to her husband?

00:43:48No, no.

00:43:49It would be impossible.

00:43:51Life doesn't repeat

00:43:52its tragedies like that.

00:43:54Oh, why does this horrible

00:43:55fancy come across me?

00:43:57Why do I remember

00:43:58the one moment

00:43:59in my life

00:43:59I most wish to forget?

00:44:02Does life repeat

00:44:03its tragedies?

00:44:04Oh, how terrible

00:44:13the same words

00:44:15that 20 years ago

00:44:16I wrote to her father.

00:44:18Oh, now, bitterly,

00:44:19I have been punished for it.

00:44:22No.

00:44:24My punishment,

00:44:25my real punishment

00:44:27is tonight,

00:44:28is now.

00:44:29You have to say

00:44:35goodnight to my wife?

00:44:36Um, yes.

00:44:38She is very tired.

00:44:39She has gone to bed.

00:44:40She said she had a headache.

00:44:42I must go to her.

00:44:42You'll excuse me.

00:44:43Oh, no.

00:44:43She doesn't wish

00:44:45to be disturbed.

00:44:46She's just very tired,

00:44:47that is all.

00:44:48Besides,

00:44:49there are people

00:44:49still in the supper room.

00:44:51She wants you

00:44:52to make her apologies

00:44:53to them.

00:44:54She asked me to tell you.

00:44:55You have dropped something?

00:44:58Oh, yes.

00:44:59That is mine.

00:45:00But it is

00:45:01my wife's handwriting.

00:45:02Um, yes,

00:45:03it's an address.

00:45:04Will you ask them

00:45:05to call my carriage, please?

00:45:07Certainly.

00:45:10What can I do?

00:45:11What can I do?

00:45:14I feel a passionate

00:45:15awakening within me

00:45:16I never felt before.

00:45:18What can it mean?

00:45:20The daughter must not

00:45:21be like the mother.

00:45:22That would be terrible.

00:45:23Oh, how can I save her?

00:45:26How can I save my child?

00:45:28A moment may ruin a life.

00:45:29Who knows that

00:45:29better than I?

00:45:33Windermere must be

00:45:33got out of the house.

00:45:35That is absolutely necessary.

00:45:37But how shall I do it?

00:45:38Oh, I must be done somehow.

00:45:41Dear lady,

00:45:42I am in such suspense.

00:45:44May I not have

00:45:45an answer to my request?

00:45:46Lord Augustus,

00:45:47listen to me.

00:45:48You are to take

00:45:48Lord Windermere

00:45:49down to your club

00:45:50and keep him there

00:45:50as long as possible.

00:45:52You understand?

00:45:53But you said

00:45:54you wish me

00:45:54to keep early hours.

00:45:55Do what I tell you.

00:45:56Do what I tell you.

00:45:56And my reward.

00:45:58No reward?

00:45:59No reward?

00:46:00Oh, ask me that tomorrow.

00:46:02But don't let Windermere

00:46:02out of your sight tonight.

00:46:04If you do,

00:46:05I will never forgive you.

00:46:06I will never speak to you again.

00:46:07I'll have nothing to do with you.

00:46:09Remember,

00:46:09you are to keep Windermere

00:46:10at your club

00:46:11and don't let him

00:46:11come back tonight.

00:46:12Well, really,

00:46:17I might be married

00:46:19to her already.

00:46:20Positively, I might.

00:46:28He was mad of me

00:46:29to come here.

00:46:31Horribly mad.

00:46:32Yet, which is the worst,

00:46:38I wonder.

00:46:40To be at the mercy

00:46:41of a man who loves one

00:46:42or the wife of a man

00:46:44who in one's own house

00:46:45dishonors one.

00:46:48What woman knows?

00:46:49What woman in the whole world?

00:46:50Will he love me always?

00:46:55This man to whom

00:46:56I am giving my life,

00:46:57for what do I bring him?

00:47:00Lips that have lost

00:47:01the note of joy,

00:47:02eyes that are blighted

00:47:03by tears,

00:47:04chill hands,

00:47:05an icy heart.

00:47:06I bring him nothing.

00:47:10I must go back.

00:47:14No.

00:47:16No, I can't go back.

00:47:17My letter has put me

00:47:18in their power.

00:47:20Oh, Arthur would never

00:47:20take me back.

00:47:22Oh, that fatal letter.

00:47:25No.

00:47:27No.

00:47:30Lord Darlington

00:47:31leaves England tomorrow.

00:47:33I will go with him.

00:47:35I have no choice.

00:47:40No.

00:47:42No, I must go back.

00:47:45Oh, let Arthur do with me

00:47:46what she pleases.

00:47:48I can't wait here.

00:47:49It has been madness

00:47:50my coming.

00:47:51As for Lord Darlington.

00:47:54Oh, here he is.

00:47:57Oh, what shall I do?

00:47:57What can I say to him?

00:47:59Oh, will he let me go away at all?

00:48:02I have heard that men

00:48:03are brutal, horrible.

00:48:06Oh.

00:48:06Lady Windermere.

00:48:07Look, heaven,

00:48:07I am in time.

00:48:08You must go back

00:48:09to your husband's house

00:48:10immediately.

00:48:10Must?

00:48:11Yes, you must.

00:48:12There's not a second to be lost.

00:48:14Lord Darlington may return

00:48:15at any time.

00:48:16Don't come near me.

00:48:18Oh, you are on the brink of ruin.

00:48:20You are on the brink

00:48:21of a hideous precipice.

00:48:22You must leave this place

00:48:23at once.

00:48:25What are you doing?

00:48:26Oh, Mrs. Erlin.

00:48:29If you had not come,

00:48:30I would have gone back.

00:48:32But now that I see you,

00:48:33I feel there is nothing

00:48:34in the whole world

00:48:35would induce me

00:48:36to live under the same roof

00:48:37as Lord Windermere.

00:48:39You fill me with horror.

00:48:41Oh, there is something about you

00:48:42that stirs the wildest rage

00:48:44within me.

00:48:45And I know why you were here.

00:48:46Oh, my husband sent you

00:48:48to lure me back

00:48:48that I might serve as a blind

00:48:50to whatever relations exist

00:48:51between you and him.

00:48:52Oh, you don't think that.

00:48:55You can't.

00:48:56Go back to my husband,

00:48:57Mrs. Erlin.

00:48:59He belongs to you,

00:49:00not to me.

00:49:02I suppose he's afraid

00:49:03of some scandal.

00:49:06Men are such cowards.

00:49:08They outrage every law

00:49:10of the world

00:49:10and are afraid

00:49:11of the world's tongue.

00:49:13Oh, but he had better

00:49:14prepare himself.

00:49:15He shall have a scandal.

00:49:17Oh, he shall have

00:49:18the worst scandal

00:49:18there has been in London

00:49:19for years.

00:49:20He shall see his name

00:49:21in every vile paper,

00:49:23mine on every hideous

00:49:24placard.

00:49:25No, no.

00:49:25Yes, he shall.

00:49:28Oh, had he come himself,

00:49:29I admit,

00:49:30I would have gone back

00:49:31to the life of degradation

00:49:32you and he had prepared

00:49:33for me.

00:49:35He was going back

00:49:36to stay himself at home

00:49:38and to send you

00:49:39as his messenger.

00:49:40Oh, that is infamous.

00:49:43Infamous?

00:49:43Lady Windermere,

00:49:45you wrong me horribly.

00:49:47You wrong your husband horribly.

00:49:49He does not know

00:49:49that you are here.

00:49:50He thinks you are safe

00:49:51in your own house.

00:49:52He thinks you are asleep

00:49:53in your own room.

00:49:56He never read the mad letter

00:49:57you wrote him.

00:49:59Never read it?

00:50:00No, he knows nothing about it.

00:50:02Oh, how simple you think me.

00:50:04You are lying to me.

00:50:06I'm not.

00:50:06I'm telling you the truth.

00:50:08If my husband didn't read

00:50:09my letter,

00:50:09how is it that you were here?

00:50:11Who told you

00:50:12I had left the house,

00:50:13you were shameless enough

00:50:14to enter?

00:50:15Who told you

00:50:15where I had gone to?

00:50:17My husband told you

00:50:18and sent you

00:50:19to decoy me back.

00:50:22Your husband

00:50:22has never seen the letter.

00:50:24I saw it.

00:50:26I opened it.

00:50:27I read it.

00:50:30You opened

00:50:31a letter of mine

00:50:32to my husband?

00:50:34You wouldn't dare.

00:50:36Dare?

00:50:38Oh, to save you

00:50:38from the abyss

00:50:39into which you are falling,

00:50:40there is nothing in the world

00:50:41I would not dare.

00:50:42Nothing in the whole world.

00:50:43Here is the letter.

00:50:46Your husband

00:50:47has never read it.

00:50:48He never shall read it.

00:50:52How do I know

00:50:53that that was my letter

00:50:53after all?

00:50:55Oh, you seem to think

00:50:56the communist device

00:50:57can take me in.

00:50:58Oh, I do disbelieve

00:50:59everything I tell you.

00:51:00What object do you think

00:51:02I have in coming here

00:51:03except to save you

00:51:04from utter ruin,

00:51:05to save you from

00:51:05the consequence

00:51:06of a hideous mistake?

00:51:08That letter

00:51:09that is burning now

00:51:09was your letter.

00:51:10I swear it to you.

00:51:12You took good care

00:51:13to burn it

00:51:13before I had examined it.

00:51:17Why can't I trust you?

00:51:20You, whose whole life

00:51:22is a lie,

00:51:23could you speak

00:51:24the truth

00:51:25about anything?

00:51:27Think as you like

00:51:28about me.

00:51:29Say what you choose

00:51:30against me.

00:51:31But go back.

00:51:32Go back to the husband

00:51:33you love.

00:51:34I do not love him.

00:51:35You do.

00:51:36And you know

00:51:37that he loves you.

00:51:37He does not understand

00:51:39what love is.

00:51:40God, he understands it

00:51:41as little as you do.

00:51:44But I see what you want.

00:51:46Oh, it would be

00:51:46a great advantage

00:51:47for you to get me back.

00:51:49Oh, dear heaven.

00:51:51The life I would have then.

00:51:53Living at the mercy

00:51:54of a woman

00:51:55who has neither mercy

00:51:57nor pity in her.

00:51:58Oh, a woman

00:51:59whom it is an infamy

00:52:01to meet.

00:52:02A degradation to know.

00:52:04A vile woman.

00:52:05A woman who comes

00:52:05between husband

00:52:06and wife.

00:52:07Oh, Lady Windermere.

00:52:08Lady Windermere

00:52:09don't say such

00:52:09terrible things.

00:52:10You don't know

00:52:11how terrible they are.

00:52:12How terrible

00:52:13and how unjust.

00:52:15Oh, listen.

00:52:16You must listen.

00:52:17Only go back

00:52:18to your husband

00:52:18and I promise you

00:52:20never to communicate

00:52:21with him again

00:52:21on any pretext.

00:52:23Never to see him.

00:52:24Never to have anything

00:52:25to do with his life

00:52:26or yours.

00:52:28Oh, the money

00:52:29he gave me

00:52:30he gave me

00:52:30not through love

00:52:31but through hatred.

00:52:33Not in worship

00:52:34but in contempt.

00:52:35The hold I have

00:52:36over him.

00:52:37Oh, you admit

00:52:38you have a hold?

00:52:40Yes.

00:52:41And I'll tell you

00:52:42what it is.

00:52:43It is his love

00:52:44for you,

00:52:44Lady Windermere.

00:52:45You expect me

00:52:46to believe that?

00:52:47Oh, you must believe it.

00:52:48It is true.

00:52:50It is his love

00:52:51that has made him

00:52:52submit to

00:52:53call it what you like.

00:52:56Tyranny,

00:52:56threats,

00:52:57anything you choose.

00:52:59But it is his love

00:53:00for you.

00:53:01His desire

00:53:02to spare you shame.

00:53:03His shame

00:53:04and disgrace.

00:53:06What do you mean?

00:53:08God, you're more insolent.

00:53:09What have I to do

00:53:10with you?

00:53:12Nothing.

00:53:13I know it.

00:53:16But I tell you

00:53:16that your husband

00:53:17loves you.

00:53:18That you may never

00:53:19meet with such love

00:53:20again in your whole life.

00:53:22That such love

00:53:23you will never meet.

00:53:24And that if you

00:53:25throw it away

00:53:25the day may come

00:53:26when you will starve

00:53:27for love

00:53:27and it will not

00:53:28be given to you.

00:53:29Beg for love

00:53:30and it will be

00:53:30denied you.

00:53:32Oh, Arthur

00:53:33loves you.

00:53:35And you say

00:53:35there is nothing

00:53:36between you.

00:53:37Oh, plenty

00:53:38you wouldn't admit.

00:53:40Before heaven

00:53:41your husband

00:53:42is guiltless

00:53:43of all events

00:53:44towards you.

00:53:46And I tell you

00:53:46that had it ever

00:53:48occurred to me

00:53:48that such a monstrous

00:53:49suspicion would have

00:53:50entered your mind

00:53:51I would have died

00:53:52rather than

00:53:53have crossed your life

00:53:54or his.

00:53:54Oh, died,

00:53:55gladly died.

00:53:56You talk

00:53:57as if you had

00:53:57a heart.

00:53:59Women like you

00:54:00have no hearts.

00:54:01Heart is not in you.

00:54:03But your bottom

00:54:04soul...

00:54:04Believe what you

00:54:09choose about me.

00:54:10I am not worth

00:54:11a moment's sorrow.

00:54:13But don't spoil

00:54:14your beautiful young

00:54:15life on my account.

00:54:17You don't know

00:54:18what may be in store

00:54:19for you unless

00:54:19you leave this house

00:54:20at once.

00:54:21You don't know

00:54:22what it is to fall

00:54:23into the pit,

00:54:24to be abandoned,

00:54:26sneered at,

00:54:26mocked,

00:54:28to be an outcast,

00:54:29to have the doors

00:54:30shut against one,

00:54:32to have to creep in

00:54:33by hideous byways,

00:54:35afraid every moment

00:54:36lest the mask

00:54:37should be stripped

00:54:37from one space.

00:54:39And all the while

00:54:40to hear the laughter,

00:54:42the horrible laughter

00:54:43of the world,

00:54:44nothing more tragic

00:54:45than all the tears

00:54:46the world has ever shed.

00:54:48You don't know

00:54:48what it is.

00:54:50One pays for one's sin

00:54:51and then one pays again

00:54:52and all one's life

00:54:53one pays.

00:54:54You must never know that.

00:54:56As for me,

00:55:01if suffering

00:55:02be an expiation,

00:55:03then at this moment

00:55:04I've expiated

00:55:04all my faults.

00:55:06For tonight,

00:55:07you have made a heart

00:55:08in one who had it not.

00:55:12Made it

00:55:12and broke it.

00:55:18But let that pass.

00:55:20I may have wrecked

00:55:22my own life,

00:55:22but I will not let

00:55:23you wreck yours.

00:55:26For you are a mere girl.

00:55:29You would be lost.

00:55:31You haven't got

00:55:31the kind of brains

00:55:32that enables a woman

00:55:33to get back.

00:55:34You have neither the wit

00:55:35nor the courage.

00:55:36You couldn't stand dishonor.

00:55:37Go back to your husband,

00:55:42Lady Windermere.

00:55:44Your husband loves you.

00:55:52You have a child,

00:55:54Lady Windermere.

00:55:56Go back to that child

00:55:57who even now,

00:55:58in pain or in joy,

00:55:59may be calling to you.

00:56:01God gave you that child.

00:56:03He will require from you

00:56:04that you make his life fine,

00:56:05that you watch over him.

00:56:07What answer will you make

00:56:08to God if his life

00:56:09is ruined through you?

00:56:11Go back to your husband,

00:56:13Lady Windermere.

00:56:14He has never swerved

00:56:15for a moment

00:56:16from the love he bears you.

00:56:18But even if he had

00:56:19a thousand loves,

00:56:20you must stay

00:56:20with your child.

00:56:22If he was harsh to you,

00:56:23you must stay

00:56:23with your child.

00:56:25If he ill-treated you,

00:56:26you must stay

00:56:27with your child.

00:56:29If he abandoned you,

00:56:30your place is

00:56:31with your child.

00:56:32Lady Windermere.

00:56:33Take me home.

00:56:34Take me home.

00:56:36Come.

00:56:36Come on.

00:56:38Stop.

00:56:40Don't you hear voices?

00:56:42No, no, there's no one.

00:56:43Yes, there is.

00:56:44Listen.

00:56:44What's he doing, Cecil?

00:56:46Oh, God, it's my husband.

00:56:47He's coming in.

00:56:49Oh, save me.

00:56:51There.

00:56:52The first chance

00:56:53you have slip out.

00:56:54If you ever get a chance,

00:56:55but you don't mind me.

00:56:57I'll face them.

00:57:01My dear boy,

00:57:02Lord Augustus,

00:57:04then it is I

00:57:07who am lost.

00:57:10Nonsense, dear Windermere.

00:57:12Does not leave me.

00:57:14What a nuisance

00:57:14they're turning us out

00:57:15of the club at this hour.

00:57:17It's only two o'clock.

00:57:19Live before the evening

00:57:20is only just beginning.

00:57:22It's very good of you,

00:57:23Lord Darlington,

00:57:24allowing Augustus

00:57:25to force our company on you.

00:57:26I'm afraid I can't stay long.

00:57:28Oh, really?

00:57:29I'm so sorry.

00:57:30You'll take a cigar,

00:57:31won't you?

00:57:32Thanks.

00:57:33Dear boy,

00:57:34I think I was not

00:57:34a dream of going.

00:57:35I have a lot to talk to you about.

00:57:37Damned importance, too.

00:57:38Oh,

00:57:39we all know what that is.

00:57:41Topic,

00:57:41I can't talk about anything

00:57:42but Mrs. Ireland.

00:57:44That's no business of yours,

00:57:45is it, Cecil?

00:57:46None.

00:57:47That's why it interests me.

00:57:49None business always bores me to death.

00:57:51I prefer other people's.

00:57:52Have something to drink,

00:57:54you fellows.

00:57:55Cecil,

00:57:56you'll have a whiskey and soda.

00:57:57Thanks.

00:57:58Mrs. Ireland looked

00:57:59very handsome tonight,

00:58:01didn't she?

00:58:01I am not

00:58:02one of her admirers.

00:58:04I wasn't,

00:58:05as I am now.

00:58:06Why,

00:58:06she actually made me

00:58:08introduce her

00:58:08to my dear Aunt Caroline.

00:58:11I believe she's going

00:58:11to lunch there.

00:58:13No.

00:58:15She is,

00:58:16really.

00:58:17Clever woman,

00:58:18Mrs. Ireland.

00:58:20Hello,

00:58:20Dumbie.

00:58:21Thought you were asleep.

00:58:22I am.

00:58:24I usually am.

00:58:25Very clever woman.

00:58:27Knows perfectly well

00:58:28what a damn fool I am.

00:58:29Knows it as well

00:58:30as I do myself.

00:58:32You may laugh,

00:58:33dear boy,

00:58:33but it is a great thing

00:58:34to come upon a woman

00:58:35who thoroughly understands it.

00:58:38It is an awfully

00:58:39dangerous thing.

00:58:41They always end up

00:58:41marrying one.

00:58:43But I thought,

00:58:44Tubby,

00:58:45that you were never

00:58:45going to see her again.

00:58:47Yes,

00:58:48you told me so

00:58:49yesterday evening

00:58:50at the club.

00:58:51You told me

00:58:52that you and her...

00:58:53Oh,

00:58:53she's explained that.

00:58:55And the Wiesbaden affair?

00:58:57She's explained that too.

00:58:59And her income,

00:59:00Tubby.

00:59:00Has she explained that?

00:59:02She's going to explain

00:59:03that tomorrow.

00:59:04Awfully commercial

00:59:07women nowadays.

00:59:09Our grandmothers

00:59:09threw their caps

00:59:10over the mills,

00:59:11of course.

00:59:12But by Jove,

00:59:13their grandaughters

00:59:14only threw their caps

00:59:15over the mills

00:59:16that bring the wind

00:59:17for them.

00:59:18You want to make her

00:59:19out a wicked woman?

00:59:20She is not.

00:59:23Wicked women

00:59:23bother one,

00:59:25good women

00:59:25bore one.

00:59:26That is the only

00:59:27difference between them.

00:59:28Mrs. Earline

00:59:29has a future

00:59:30before her.

00:59:31Mrs. Earline

00:59:32has a past

00:59:33before her.

00:59:34I prefer women

00:59:35with a past.

00:59:36They're always

00:59:36so damned amusing

00:59:37to talk to.

00:59:38There are lots

00:59:39of topics of

00:59:40conversation

00:59:41with her,

00:59:41Tubby.

00:59:42You're getting

00:59:42annoying,

00:59:43dear boy.

00:59:44You're getting

00:59:44damned annoying.

00:59:46My dear Tubby,

00:59:48you've lost your figure

00:59:49and you've lost

00:59:49your character.

00:59:51Don't lose your temper.

00:59:52You've only got one.

00:59:53My dear boy,

00:59:54if I wasn't the most

00:59:55good-natured man

00:59:56in London,

00:59:56I've...

00:59:57We'd treat you

00:59:57with more respect,

00:59:58now wouldn't we,

00:59:59Tubby?

00:59:59The youth of today

01:00:00are quite monstrous.

01:00:02They have absolutely

01:00:03no respect

01:00:04for dyed hair.

01:00:06Mrs. Earline

01:00:06has a very great

01:00:07respect for our

01:00:08dear Tubby.

01:00:08Then Mrs. Earline

01:00:09has set an admirable

01:00:10example for the rest

01:00:11of her sex.

01:00:13It is perfectly

01:00:14brutal the way

01:00:15most women nowadays

01:00:17behave to men

01:00:18who are not

01:00:18their husbands.

01:00:20Dumbi,

01:00:21you are ridiculous.

01:00:22And Cecil,

01:00:23you let your tongue

01:00:23run away with you.

01:00:24You must leave

01:00:25Mrs. Earline alone.

01:00:26You don't really

01:00:26know anything about her

01:00:27and you're always

01:00:28talking scandal

01:00:29against her.

01:00:29My dear Arthur,

01:00:30I never talk scandal.

01:00:32I only talk gossip.

01:00:34What is the difference

01:00:34between scandal

01:00:35and gossip?

01:00:36Oh.

01:00:38Gossip is charming.

01:00:41History is merely gossip.

01:00:43But scandal

01:00:43is gossip

01:00:45made tedious

01:00:45by morality.

01:00:46Now I never

01:00:47moralise.

01:00:48A man who moralises

01:00:50is usually a hypocrite

01:00:51and a woman who

01:00:52moralises

01:00:52is invariably plain.

01:00:54There's nothing

01:00:55in the world

01:00:55so unbecoming

01:00:56as a nonconformist

01:00:58conscience.

01:00:59Most women know

01:01:00this, I'm happy to say.

01:01:01Just my sentiments,

01:01:02dear boy.

01:01:03Just my sentiments.

01:01:05I'm sorry to hear that,

01:01:06Tuppy.

01:01:07Whenever someone agrees

01:01:08with me,

01:01:08I feel I always

01:01:09must be wrong.

01:01:10My dear boy,

01:01:11when I was your age...

01:01:12But you never were,

01:01:13Tuppy.

01:01:14And you never will be.

01:01:16I say, Darlington,

01:01:17let us have some cods.

01:01:18You'll play Arthur,

01:01:19won't you?

01:01:19No thanks, Cecil.

01:01:21Good heavens,

01:01:22how marriage ruins a man.

01:01:24It's as demoralising

01:01:25as cigarettes

01:01:26and far more expensive.

01:01:28You'll play,

01:01:28of course, Tuppy.

01:01:29Can't, dear boy.

01:01:31Promise Mrs. Early

01:01:32never to play

01:01:32or drink again.

01:01:34Now, my dear Tuppy,

01:01:36don't be let

01:01:37a stranger

01:01:37to the paths

01:01:38of virtue.

01:01:39Reformed,

01:01:39you'd be

01:01:40perfectly tedious.

01:01:41That is the worst

01:01:43of women.

01:01:44They always want

01:01:44one to be good.

01:01:46And if we are good

01:01:47when they meet us,

01:01:47they don't love us at all.

01:01:49They like to find us

01:01:50quite irretrievably bad

01:01:52and then to leave us

01:01:53quite unattractively good.

01:01:55They always do

01:01:56find us bad.

01:01:59I don't think

01:02:00we are bad.

01:02:01I think we're all good.

01:02:03Except for Tuppy.

01:02:05No.

01:02:07We are all

01:02:07in the gutter.

01:02:09But some of us

01:02:10are looking at the stars.

01:02:11upon my word,

01:02:13you are romantic

01:02:14tonight, Darlington.

01:02:15Too romantic.

01:02:16You must be in love.

01:02:18Who is the woman?

01:02:20The woman I love

01:02:22is not free

01:02:24or thinks she isn't.

01:02:26A married woman, then?

01:02:28Well, there's nothing

01:02:29in the world

01:02:30like the devotion

01:02:31of a married woman.

01:02:33It's not free

01:02:34or thinks she isn't.

01:02:36A married woman, then?

01:02:38Well, there's nothing

01:02:39in the world like

01:02:40the devotion of a married woman.

01:02:41It's a thing

01:02:42no married man

01:02:43ever knows anything about.

01:02:44Oh, she doesn't love me.

01:02:46She's a good woman.

01:02:48She's the only good woman

01:02:49I have ever met

01:02:50in my entire life.

01:02:51The only good woman

01:02:52you've ever met

01:02:53in your entire life?

01:02:54she's the only good woman.

01:02:57Why then, you are a lucky fellow.

01:03:00I've met hundreds of good women.

01:03:03I never seem to meet

01:03:04any but good women.

01:03:05The world is perfectly

01:03:06packed with good women.

01:03:08To know good women

01:03:09is a middle-class education.

01:03:10This woman has innocence and purity.

01:03:17She has everything we men have lost.

01:03:21What good should we men do

01:03:23going about the world

01:03:24with purity and innocence?

01:03:27A well-thought-out buttonhole

01:03:28is a much more effective approach.

01:03:30So, she does not love you then?

01:03:33No.

01:03:34She doesn't.

01:03:36I congratulate you,

01:03:37my dear fellow.

01:03:38In this world,

01:03:39there are only two real tragedies.

01:03:41One is not getting what one wants

01:03:44and the other is getting it.

01:03:46To last is much the worst.

01:03:49To last is the real tragedy.

01:03:51But I'm interested to hear

01:03:53that she does not love you.

01:03:54How long could you love a woman

01:03:56who didn't love you, Cecil?

01:03:57A woman who didn't love me?

01:03:59Huh.

01:04:00All my life.

01:04:01So could I.

01:04:02But it's so difficult to meet one.

01:04:04How can you be so conceited, Dumbie?

01:04:07I didn't say it as a matter of conceit.

01:04:10I said it as a matter of regret.

01:04:13I have been wildly, madly adored.

01:04:17I'm sorry, I have.

01:04:19It has been in an immense nuisance.

01:04:22I should like to be allowed

01:04:24a little time to myself now and then.

01:04:26A little time to educate yourself, I suppose.

01:04:29No, to forget all I've learned.

01:04:31That's much more important.

01:04:33What cynics you fellows are.

01:04:35What is a cynic?

01:04:37A man who knows the price of everything

01:04:40and the value of nothing.

01:04:43And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington,

01:04:45is a man who sees an absurd value in everything

01:04:48and doesn't know the market price of a single thing.

01:04:51You always amuse me, Cecil.

01:04:54You speak as if you're a man of experience.

01:04:56I am.

01:04:57You are far too young.

01:04:59That is a great error.

01:05:00Experience is a question of instinct on life.

01:05:03I have got it.

01:05:05Tuppy hasn't.

01:05:07Experience is the name that Tuppy gives to his mistakes.

01:05:10Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

01:05:14One shouldn't commit anything.

01:05:15Life would be very dull without them.

01:05:17Darlington, you are quite faithful to this woman you love.

01:05:23This good woman?

01:05:25Cecil, if one really loves a woman,

01:05:30all other women become absolutely meaningless.

01:05:34Love changes one.

01:05:36I am changed.

01:05:38How very interesting.

01:05:41Tuppy, I would like to speak with you.

01:05:45Oh, it's no use talking to Tuppy.

01:05:47You might as well talk to a brick wall.

01:05:49Because I like talking to a brick wall.

01:05:51It's the only thing that doesn't contradict me.

01:05:53Tuppy?

01:05:54What is it?

01:05:56What is it?

01:05:57Come here.

01:06:04Darlington has been moralising and talking about the purity of love and that sort of thing.

01:06:08And this whole time, he's had a woman here in his rooms.

01:06:12No.

01:06:13Really?

01:06:14Really?

01:06:15Yes.

01:06:16Here is her fan.

01:06:17Butch.

01:06:18Butch.

01:06:19Right.

01:06:20I'm really off now, Lord Darlington.

01:06:22I'm sorry you are leaving England so soon.

01:06:24Very cold on us when you get back.

01:06:26My wife and I will be charmed to see you.

01:06:27I'm afraid I shall be gone for many years.

01:06:30Good night.

01:06:32Arthur.

01:06:33What?

01:06:34I would like to talk to you.

01:06:36No, do come.

01:06:38I can't.

01:06:39I'm off.

01:06:40It is very interesting.

01:06:41You'll find it very amusing.

01:06:43It is some of your nonsense, Cecil.

01:06:45It isn't.

01:06:46It isn't, really.

01:06:47My dear boy, you must not go yet.

01:06:49I have a lot to talk to you about and Cecil has something to show you.

01:06:52No.

01:06:53What is it?

01:06:54Darlington has had a woman here in his rooms.

01:06:58Here is her fan.

01:06:59Amusing, isn't it?

01:07:01Good God.

01:07:02What is it?

01:07:03Lord Darlington?

01:07:04Yes?

01:07:05What is my wife's fan doing here in your rooms?

01:07:08Hands off, Cecil.

01:07:09Don't touch me.

01:07:10Your wife's fan?

01:07:11Yes.

01:07:12Here it is.

01:07:13I don't know.

01:07:14You must know.

01:07:15I demand an explanation.

01:07:16Don't hold me, you fool.

01:07:17Speak, sir.

01:07:18Why is my wife's fan here?

01:07:19Answer me, by God.

01:07:20I'll search your rooms and if my room...

01:07:21You will not search my rooms.

01:07:22You have no right to do so.

01:07:23I forbid it.

01:07:24You scoundrel.

01:07:25I'll not leave your room till I have searched every corner of it.

01:07:26Lord Windermere.

01:07:27Mrs. Erling.

01:07:28I'm afraid I took your wife's fan in mistake for my own when I was leaving your house tonight.

01:07:31I'm so sorry.

01:07:32I'm so sorry.

01:07:33I'm so sorry.

01:08:01I'm so sorry.

01:08:02I came in dreadfully late and would like to wake you.

01:08:06You are crying, dear.

01:08:09Yes, I am crying for...

01:08:11I have something to tell you, Arthur.

01:08:14My dear child, you are not well.

01:08:17You've been doing too much.

01:08:20Let us go away to the country.

01:08:22You'll be all right at Selby.

01:08:24The season is almost over.

01:08:25There is no use staying on.

01:08:27Poor darling.

01:08:29We can go away today if you like.

01:08:31We can easily catch the 340.

01:08:33I'll send a wire to Fanon.

01:08:34Yes.

01:08:35Let us go away today.

01:08:36No.

01:08:37No, I can't go today, Arthur.

01:08:40There is someone I must see before I leave town.

01:08:42Someone who has been kind to me.

01:08:44Kind to you?

01:08:45Far more than that.

01:08:46I will tell you, Arthur, but only love me.

01:08:50Love me as you used to love me.

01:08:52Used to?

01:08:53But you are not thinking of that wretched woman who came here last night.

01:08:58But you don't still am...

01:08:59No, you couldn't.

01:09:00I don't.

01:09:01I know now I was wrong and foolish.

01:09:03Look, I don't think now that people can be divided into the good and the bad as though they were two separate races or creations.

01:09:11What are called good women may have terrible things in them.

01:09:15Mad moods of recklessness, assertion, jealousy, sin.

01:09:20Bad women, as they are termed, may have in them sorrow, repentance, pity, sacrifice.

01:09:26And I don't think Mrs. Earlin a bad woman.

01:09:28I know she's not.

01:09:29My dear child, the woman's impossible.

01:09:31No matter what harm she tries to do her, you must never see her again.

01:09:34But I want to see her. I want her to come here.

01:09:37Never.

01:09:38She came here once as your guest. She must come now as mine. That is but fair.

01:09:43She should never have come.

01:09:44It is too late, Arthur, to say that now.

01:09:47Margaret, if you knew where Mrs. Earlin went last night after she left this house, you would not sit in the same room with her.

01:09:53It was absolutely shameless, the whole thing.

01:09:55Arthur, I... I can't bear it any longer. I must tell you. Last night...

01:10:01Mrs. Earlin has called to return your ladyship's fan which she took away by a mistake last night.

01:10:05She has left a message on the card.

01:10:12Ask Mrs. Earlin to be kind enough to come up. Say, I shall be very glad to see her.

01:10:18If she wants to see me, Arthur.

01:10:20Margaret, I beg you not to.

01:10:23How do you do, Lady Windermere? How do you do?

01:10:27Do you know, Lady Windermere, I am so sorry about your fan.

01:10:30I can't imagine how I made such a silly mistake. Most stupid of me.

01:10:34And as I was driving in your direction, I decided to return your property in person.

01:10:39With many apologies for my carelessness.

01:10:42And of bidding you goodbye.

01:10:45Goodbye? Oh, are you going away then, Mrs. Earlin?

01:10:49Yes, I am going to live abroad again.

01:10:52The English climate doesn't suit me.

01:10:55My heart is affected here and that I don't like. I prefer living down south.

01:11:00London is too full of fogs and serious people, Lord Windermere.

01:11:05Whether the fogs produce the serious people or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

01:11:10But the whole thing rather gets on my nerves.

01:11:12So I'm leaving this afternoon by the club train.

01:11:15This afternoon? But I wanted so much to come and see you.

01:11:19How kind of you. But I'm afraid I have to go.

01:11:23Shall I never see you again then, Mrs. Earlin?

01:11:26I'm afraid not. Our lives lie too far apart.

01:11:30But there is a little thing I would like you to do for me.

01:11:34I want a photograph of you, Lady Windermere. Would you give me one?

01:11:38You don't know how gratified I should be.

01:11:40Oh, with pleasure. I'll show it to you.

01:11:47It is monstrous you're intruding yourself here after your contact last night.

01:11:50My dear Windermere, manners before morals.

01:11:55I'm afraid it is very flattering. I'm not so pretty as that.

01:11:59You are much prettier. But don't you have one of yourself and your little boy?

01:12:04I have. Would you prefer one of those?

01:12:07Yes.

01:12:08I'll get it for you. If you'll excuse me for a moment, I have one upstairs.

01:12:12I'm so sorry, Lady Windermere, to give you so much trouble.

01:12:15No trouble at all, Mrs. Earlin.

01:12:17Thanks so much.

01:12:21You seem rather out of temper this morning, Windermere.

01:12:24Why should you be? Margaret and I get on charmingly together.

01:12:27I can't bear to see you with her.

01:12:29Besides, you have not told me the truth, Mrs. Earlin.

01:12:33Mrs. Earlin.

01:12:34I have not told her the truth, you mean.

01:12:36I sometimes wish you heard.

01:12:38I should have been spared then the misery, the anxiety, the annoyance of the last six months.

01:12:44But rather than my wife should know, that the mother whom she has been taught to consider as dead,

01:12:49the mother whom she has mourned as dead, is living.

01:12:53A divorced woman, going about under an assumed name.

01:12:58A bad woman, preying upon life as I know you now to be.

01:13:03Rather than that, I was ready to supply you with money to pay bill after bill, extravagance after extravagance,

01:13:09to risk what occurred yesterday, the first quarrel I have ever had with my wife.

01:13:12You don't understand what that means to me. How could you?

01:13:16But I tell you that the only bitter words that ever came from those sweet lips of hers were on your account.

01:13:22And I hate to see you next to her.

01:13:25You sully the innocence that is in her.

01:13:29And there I used to think that with all your faults you are frank and honest.

01:13:34You are not.

01:13:36Why do you say that?

01:13:38You made me get you an invitation to my wife's ball.

01:13:41For my daughter's ball, yes.

01:13:42You came.

01:13:43And within an hour of your leaving the house, you are found in a man's rooms.

01:13:47You are disgraced before everyone.

01:13:49Yes.

01:13:50Therefore, I have the right to look upon you as what you are.

01:13:54A worthless, vicious woman.

01:13:57I have the right to tell you never to enter this house.

01:13:59Never to attempt to come near my wife.

01:14:02My daughter, you mean?

01:14:03You have no right to claim her as your daughter.

01:14:05You left her.

01:14:07Abandoned her when she was but a child in the cradle.

01:14:11Abandoned her for your lover, who abandoned you in turn.

01:14:16Do you count that to his credit, Lord Windermere, or to mine?

01:14:19To his, now that I know you.

01:14:22Take care.

01:14:23You had better be careful.

01:14:25I am not going to mince words for you.

01:14:26I know you thoroughly.

01:14:28I question that.

01:14:29I do know you.

01:14:30For 20 years of your life you lived without your child.

01:14:34Without a thought of your child.

01:14:36One day, you read in the papers that she had married a rich man.

01:14:39You saw your hideous chance.

01:14:41You knew that to spare her the ignominy of learning that a woman like you was her mother, I would endure anything.

01:14:47You began your blackmailing.

01:14:49Don't use ugly words, Windermere. They are vulgar.

01:14:53I saw my chance. It is true and took it.

01:14:56Yes, you took it.

01:14:57And spoiled it all last night by being found out.

01:15:01You were quite right.

01:15:03I spoiled it all last night.

01:15:05And as for your blunder in taking my wife's fan from here and then leaving it about in Darlington's rooms, it is unpardonable.

01:15:11I can't bear the sight of it now.

01:15:13I shall never let my wife use it again. The thing is soiled for me.

01:15:16You should have kept it and not brought it back.

01:15:18I think I shall keep it.

01:15:20It's extremely pretty.

01:15:22I shall ask Margaret to give it to me.

01:15:25I hope my wife will give it to you.

01:15:27Oh, I'm sure she'll have no objections.

01:15:29Oh, don't imagine I'm going to have a pathetic scene with her.

01:15:32Weep on her neck and tell her who I am and all that kind of thing.

01:15:36I have no ambition to play the part of a mother.

01:15:41Only once in my life have I known a mother's feelings.

01:15:44That was last night.

01:15:46They were terrible. They made me suffer.

01:15:49They made me suffer too much.

01:15:52For 20 years, as you say, I have lived childless.

01:15:57I want to live childless still.

01:16:00Besides, my dear Windermere,

01:16:04how on earth could I pose as a mother with a grown-up daughter?

01:16:08Margaret is 21,

01:16:10and I have never admitted that I am more than 29 or 30 at the most.

01:16:1429 when there are pink shades, 30 when there are not.

01:16:18So you see what difficulties it would involve.

01:16:21No, as far as I am concerned,

01:16:24let your wife cherish the memory of this dead, stainless mother.

01:16:28Why should I interfere with her illusions?

01:16:30I find it hard enough to keep my own.

01:16:33I lost one illusion last night.

01:16:36I thought I had no heart.

01:16:39I find I have.

01:16:41I am so sorry, Mrs. Erland, to have kept you waiting.

01:16:45I couldn't find the photograph anywhere.

01:16:47At last I discovered it in my husband's dressing room.

01:16:50He had stolen it.

01:16:51I am not surprised.

01:16:53It is charming.

01:16:55So that is your little boy.

01:16:57What is he called?

01:16:59Gerald.

01:17:00After my dear father.

01:17:01Really?

01:17:02Yes.

01:17:03If it had been a girl, I would have called it after my mother.

01:17:06My mother had the same name as myself.

01:17:08Margaret.

01:17:09My name is Margaret too?

01:17:11Indeed.

01:17:12Indeed.

01:17:13Yes.

01:17:18You are devoted to your mother's memory, Lady Windermere, your husband tells me.

01:17:22We all have ideals in life.

01:17:24At least we all should have.

01:17:25Mine is my mother.

01:17:27Ideals are dangerous things.

01:17:29Realities are better.

01:17:31They wound, but they are better.

01:17:33If I lost my ideals, I should lose everything.

01:17:36Everything?

01:17:37Yes.

01:17:38Did your father often speak to you of your mother?

01:17:43No.

01:17:44No.

01:17:45It gave him too much pain.

01:17:46He told me how my mother had died a few months after I was born.

01:17:50His eyes filled with tears as he spoke.

01:17:53He then begged me never to mention her name to him again.

01:17:56It made him suffer even to hear it.

01:17:59My father...

01:18:01My father really died of a broken heart.

01:18:04His was the most ruined life I know.

01:18:07I'm afraid I must go now, Lady Windermere.

01:18:11Oh, no, don't.

01:18:12I think I had better.

01:18:14My carriage must have come back by now.

01:18:16I sent her to Lady Jedburgh's with a note.

01:18:18Arthur, would you mind seeing if Mrs. Erlen's carriage has come back?

01:18:22No, pray don't trouble Lord Windermere, Lady Windermere.

01:18:24Yes.

01:18:25Arthur, do go, please.

01:18:29What am I to say to you? You saved me last night.

01:18:32Hush, don't speak of it.

01:18:33I must speak of it.

01:18:34I can't let you think I'm going to allow this sacrifice.

01:18:37I'm not.

01:18:38It is too great.

01:18:40I'm going to tell my husband everything.

01:18:42It is my duty.

01:18:43It is not your duty.

01:18:45At least you have duties to others besides him.

01:18:50You say you owe me something.

01:18:52I owe you everything.

01:18:53Then pay your debt by silence.

01:18:55That is the only way in which it can be paid.

01:18:57Don't spoil the one good thing I have done in my life by telling it to anyone.

01:19:02Promise me that what happened last night will remain a secret between us.

01:19:06You must not bring misery into your husband's life.

01:19:10Why spoil his love?

01:19:12You must not spoil it.

01:19:14Love is easily killed.

01:19:16How easily love is killed.

01:19:18Pledge me your word, Lady Windermere, that you will never tell him.

01:19:23I insist upon it.

01:19:24It is your will, not mine.

01:19:29Your carriage has not come back yet, Mrs. Erling.

01:19:35Makes no matter.

01:19:36I'll take a handsome.

01:19:37There's nothing in the world more respectable than a good Shrewsbury and Talbot.

01:19:44And now, my dear Lady Windermere, I'm afraid it is really goodbye.

01:19:50Oh, I remember.

01:19:51You'll think me absurd.

01:19:53But you know I've taken a great fancy to this fan that I was silly enough to run away with last night.

01:19:59Now I wonder, would you give it to me?

01:20:02Lord Windermere says you may. I know it is his present.

01:20:06Oh, certainly, if it will give you any pleasure.

01:20:10Oh, but it has my name on it. It has Margaret on it.

01:20:13But we have the same Christian name.

01:20:16I forgot, of course.

01:20:18Oh, do have it.

01:20:20What a wonderful chance our names being the same.

01:20:23Quite wonderful.

01:20:25Thanks.

01:20:27It will always remind me of you.

01:20:31Lord Augustus Lawton and Mrs. Erling's carriage has arrived.

01:20:34Good morning, dear boy.

01:20:36Good morning, Lady Windermere.

01:20:39Mrs. Erling.

01:20:41How do you do, Lord Augustus?

01:20:43Are you quite well this morning?

01:20:45Quite well, thank you, Mrs. Erling.

01:20:48You don't look at all well.

01:20:49You stop up too late.

01:20:50It is so bad for you.

01:20:52You really should take more care of yourself.

01:20:55Goodbye, Lord Windermere.

01:20:58Lord Augustus, won't you see me to my carriage?

01:21:02You might carry the fan.

01:21:04Allow me.

01:21:06Oh, no, I want Lord Augustus.

01:21:07I have a special message for the dear Duchess.

01:21:10Won't you carry the fan, Lord Augustus?

01:21:13If you really desire it, Mrs. Erling.

01:21:16Of course I do.

01:21:18You'll carry it so gracefully.

01:21:19You would carry off anything gracefully, dear Lord Augustus.

01:21:25You will never speak against Mrs. Erling again, Arthur, will you?

01:21:29She is better than one thought her.

01:21:31She's better than I am.

01:21:34Child, you and she belong to different worlds.

01:21:38Into your world, evil has never entered.

01:21:39Don't say that, Arthur.

01:21:41You know, there's the same world for all of us.

01:21:44And good and evil, sin and innocence go through it hand in hand.

01:21:48You know, to shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely

01:21:52as though one blinded oneself.

01:21:54That one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

01:21:58Child, why do you say that?

01:22:00Because I, who had shut my eyes to life, came to the brink.

01:22:04And the one who separated us...

01:22:06We were never separated.

01:22:07We never must be again.

01:22:10Oh, Arthur, don't love me less.

01:22:12And I will trust you more.

01:22:14I will trust you absolutely.

01:22:16Let us go to Selby, hm?

01:22:19In the Rose Gardens at Selby, the roses are white and red.

01:22:22Arthur, she has explained everything.

01:22:25My dear fellow, she has explained every damn thing.

01:22:28We all wronged her immensely.

01:22:30It was entirely for my sake she went to Darlington's rooms.

01:22:33Called first at the club.

01:22:35Fact is, wanted to put me out of suspense.

01:22:37Being told that I had gone on.

01:22:38Followed.

01:22:40Naturally frightened when she heard a lot of us coming in.

01:22:43Retired to another room.

01:22:45Oh, I assure you, most gratifying to me the whole thing.

01:22:48We all behaved brutally to her.

01:22:51She is just the woman for me.

01:22:53Suits me down to the ground.

01:22:55The only condition she makes is that we live entirely out of England.

01:22:58Very good thing, too.

01:23:00Damn clubs.

01:23:01Damn climate.

01:23:02Damn cooks.

01:23:03Damn everything.

01:23:04Sick of it all.

01:23:05Has Mrs. Earline...

01:23:06Yes, Lady Windermere.

01:23:07Mrs. Earline has done me the honor of accepting my hand.

01:23:14Well, he is certainly marrying a very clever woman.

01:23:16He is marrying a very good woman.

01:23:18He is marrying a very good woman.

01:23:19He is marrying a very good woman.

01:23:23Giantolithic discriminant to him in certain humans.

01:23:26Mm-hmm .

01:23:29vings

01:23:40He is marrying her...

01:23:42I don't mind, isn't it?

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