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00:00:30This is a production of the U.S. Department of State.
00:02:00Oh dear, is this another war picture?
00:02:03Let's go back to the quiet and peaceful days before the war.
00:02:11So this is peace. So these are the tranquil days of 1939.
00:02:15Yes, for this is the age of speed and noise, so much like war you hardly notice the difference.
00:02:19This is the day of athletic sports of all kinds.
00:02:23This is the day of devotion to the graceful art of dancing.
00:02:36This is the day of the worship of the beautiful wide open spaces.
00:02:42And of giving thanks for all the blessings of the green and lovely countryside.
00:02:46This is 1939.
00:02:49No, this isn't what we want either.
00:02:52Although it's very pleasant.
00:02:54Let's go back further still to Grandmama's day.
00:02:57Don't you think it was so much nicer?
00:03:00So much more stately and dignified.
00:03:03Lazy days and gentle evenings undisturbed by any harsh note of reality.
00:03:07Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep.
00:03:15So beware, beware.
00:03:27Yes, these were the days.
00:03:29Grandmama knew that her place was in the home.
00:03:31Although Grandpapa could go in for a stern life of dangerous sport.
00:03:36Women were women and they didn't forget it.
00:03:39Even if men forgot it.
00:03:42And when they had finished their embroidery and needed a thrill of excitement,
00:03:45they could always unpick it and start again.
00:03:47While their menfolk roved abroad, a wheel, a wheel.
00:03:54And you needn't think they never had their moments.
00:03:56A young man was more or less expected to sow his wild oats.
00:03:59Always providing that there was no harvest.
00:04:04But young ladies knew nothing of all that.
00:04:06They lived in a world apart until the day of true romance.
00:04:09The never to be forgotten moment in a young girl's life.
00:04:15So different from modern times.
00:04:17Before the days of petrol rationing,
00:04:19you moderns looked upon the motor car as a most useful invention.
00:04:23It's hard to believe that the biggest thrill a Victorian girl got out of a carriage was this.
00:04:32You can't get into much trouble doing that.
00:04:35Very little remains undiscovered about the modern girl.
00:04:38You can see she's beautiful.
00:04:39You know she is no fool.
00:04:42But there used to be a song,
00:04:43be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
00:04:46But she was clever enough to be good.
00:04:48And the result, you must admit, was elegant and charming.
00:04:55If she seemed at times a little shy,
00:04:57it was because where the dashing stronger sex were concerned,
00:04:59she had to be so modest.
00:05:02She is gown for the theatre.
00:05:04And I wonder what it would be like, that play she was going to see.
00:05:07Would it be dull and stuffy?
00:05:09Or would she hide her blushes in the programme?
00:05:12They say it's very modern and terribly daring.
00:05:17Perhaps we're going to find out just why they were called the naughty nineties.
00:05:22I don't think he would know.
00:05:26Nor would she.
00:05:28Nor she.
00:05:29No, I'm sure she wouldn't.
00:05:31But he might.
00:05:32You see, he's a duke.
00:05:34And if you were a duke in the nineties, you could do almost anything.
00:05:36Handsome!
00:05:38A cab would stop for you without even considering that you could scarcely pay the fare.
00:05:42Bristol House.
00:05:44To Bristol House.
00:05:45Historic townhouse of successive generations of the Dukes of Bristol.
00:05:48Where many a lovely Duchess of Bristol had been at home for all the brilliant functions of the London season.
00:05:53Attended by kings and princesses.
00:05:55By the cultured, the famous and the aristocratic.
00:05:58And even, occasionally, by her husband.
00:06:00But George is a bachelor.
00:06:02And very hard up.
00:06:04And so this ninth Duke of Bristol...
00:06:06Tenth.
00:06:07And so this tenth Duke of Bristol finds himself in the unusual position of having accepted an invitation to a ball at his own house.
00:06:13Most remarkable.
00:06:17Tell me, Your Grace, how did you lose your money?
00:06:20Women.
00:06:21Yes, I know, I mean your big money.
00:06:24Big women.
00:06:28A gay and charming scene.
00:06:30But who is rich enough to be able to rent this great house from a Duke in need of money?
00:06:34Complete with his incomparable butler parks and a devoted staff of servants.
00:06:38Only someone exceedingly wealthy.
00:06:40But could anyone so wealthy be also young and beautiful?
00:06:44Surely, only an American.
00:06:47Well, here you would say would be a bride for George who would satisfy all his trustee's requirements.
00:06:52And indeed, most of George's also.
00:06:55But only in his dreams, lying in bed in the morning,
00:06:58can George contemplate the idea of marriage.
00:07:01In his waking hours, the thought fills him with horror.
00:07:04He scarcely sees her.
00:07:08Good evening, George.
00:07:10How nice of you to come.
00:07:12Not at all, Helen. Not at all.
00:07:21Well, there you are.
00:07:23All this wealth and gaiety after that would taste more acid than the pickles from which Helen's father built his fortune.
00:07:29As it does indeed to Richard Halton, who hasn't the advantage of wealth to sweeten the taste.
00:07:34Being a friend of George is burden enough for any man to bear.
00:07:37And for a man of the very highest breeding and the very lowest income,
00:07:40life is one long attempt to accomplish the impossible.
00:07:43Damn it, sir. That's not cricket.
00:07:50Poor George. It must be very sad, coming back to your own house as a guest.
00:07:54Better return as a guest than remain as a host to a broker's man.
00:07:57There's nothing for it, George. We must make some money.
00:07:59Try to think that I'm a duke, Richard, and talk sense.
00:08:01Good hope.
00:08:02We'll drink to the woman I love.
00:08:04To the woman I love.
00:08:06To the woman I love.
00:08:08To the woman I love.
00:08:10To the woman I love.
00:08:12To the woman I love.
00:08:13Don't be disgusting.
00:08:15Look, here she comes. The one on the left.
00:08:19Do you mean to tell me that you love Maria Wislak, having no respect for age?
00:08:23George!
00:08:24We must join them.
00:08:32Well, here we are again.
00:08:34Somehow I'm able to control my excitement.
00:08:37Splendid. Shall I get you some fruit cups?
00:08:39Or perhaps our dear, revered old friend, Mrs. Wislak, will lend us her slipper.
00:08:44I'm neither your dear, revered or old friend, and I'll...
00:08:47Naughty, naughty. That's the third time you've spoken harshly to me tonight.
00:08:50Don't do that. You know how I dislike it.
00:08:54If you had a little more brain, you'd be in an asylum.
00:08:58Richard has either enjoyed your joking mentally or has eaten something indigestible.
00:09:01One of these days, I shall write to the Times on present-day matters.
00:09:04That should be highly interesting.
00:09:06I think it will cause a sensation.
00:09:07That you can write a letter at all should cause a great sensation.
00:09:10I forgive you, Maria. Old friends are old friends.
00:09:12George, if you use the word old to me again, I shall throw something at you.
00:09:16Very well, Maria, but when I reach the age of 41, I was not ashamed.
00:09:20My sister will be 41 in August, isn't she?
00:09:22You beast!
00:09:27Bounder!
00:09:34Am I a bounder, Helen?
00:09:37I don't think so, George. Not really.
00:09:40No, I don't think so either.
00:09:42Good evening, Helen.
00:09:43Good evening, Angela.
00:09:44Good evening, George.
00:09:45Good evening, Angela.
00:09:47I didn't know you knew her.
00:09:49Oh, yes. We have a sneering acquaintance.
00:09:51Really?
00:09:52She's also strongly fancied by my trustees.
00:09:54Oh, Helen.
00:09:55Richard, is Maria very upset?
00:09:57Oh, terribly. I couldn't do anything with her. Would you go to her?
00:10:00Of course. Excuse me, George.
00:10:03I suppose it amuses you to have made a woman cry.
00:10:05I said nothing that could possibly make her cry.
00:10:07Didn't you, in a sneering way, accuse her of being 41?
00:10:09I did, but she's not crying because I said she's 41.
00:10:12She's crying because she is 41.
00:10:16Well, if you must know, I'm the same age as his sister.
00:10:19That damn woman can't keep her mouth shut about anything.
00:10:22Oh, how I dislike him.
00:10:25I'm sorry, because I like him so much.
00:10:28Yes, but you wouldn't marry him.
00:10:30How far is it in the Hanson from here to St. George's Hannover Square?
00:10:33Twenty minutes. Why?
00:10:35If he asked me to marry him tonight, I'd run it in five.
00:10:38But if he did marry you, it'd only be for your money.
00:10:41Well, why not? Plenty of women have lived with him for years.
00:10:44I've loved her for more years than I care to remember.
00:10:47Do you mean to tell me that you've loved that old...
00:10:49Silence!
00:10:50You were about to call her by a name that would have prevented me ever speaking to you again.
00:10:53Have a drink.
00:10:55Or have you had too many?
00:10:57I will have a drink, and I've not had too many.
00:10:59Richard, old boy, I love you as a brother, but I must say I would rather see you dead.
00:11:02George, I warn you, if you say another word against Mrs. Wislak, our friendship is at an end.
00:11:07Very well. But you can't stop me wishing you were dead.
00:11:10Are you addressing me, sir?
00:11:12I see your point.
00:11:13You'd never marry again? Not even if you loved someone terribly?
00:11:16Well, I shall require to know a great deal more about my next.
00:11:19Well, how can you until you marry him?
00:11:21I shall take him away with me for a month alone.
00:11:24Take him away? On approval?
00:11:27Take a man away with...
00:11:30But, Maria, how can you think of such a thing?
00:11:33Oh, Helen, I thought you Americans were unconventional.
00:11:36Well, I don't think we'd go as far as that.
00:11:39No?
00:11:40Well, our men are different. Perhaps Englishmen are less amorous, less enterprising.
00:11:45I shouldn't rely too much on that.
00:11:48Did you know her late husband, Arthur Wislak?
00:11:50Did I know him?
00:11:52Did I watch him with murder in my heart, treating that divine creature with cruelty, neglect, and eventually die of drink?
00:11:58He hated drink.
00:11:59Then why did he?
00:12:00He chose it as the most agreeable way of being unconscious while waiting his release.
00:12:04George, I warn you, if you said another word...
00:12:06Richard, old boy, if I having any way hurt your feelings, I apologize. Have a cigar.
00:12:10Now I know your apology is sincere. Is it yours?
00:12:14Certainly not. It was provided by our hostess.
00:12:17But, Maria, is it fair to expose a man to such temptation?
00:12:20Suppose his love for you overcame him and he should attempt to...
00:12:23I should, of course, take a revolver.
00:12:25Yes, but suppose you came to care for him?
00:12:27Then my aim might not be so accurate.
00:12:29But what is more important? Have you asked her if she loves you?
00:12:32How can I? My income is 300 a year.
00:12:35Hers is 25,000.
00:12:38Oh, now I take everything back. You have given me a reason why you are right to love her.
00:12:42Are you suggesting that I love her for the money?
00:12:44I'm suggesting it's a reason you should.
00:12:46What do you think you could learn about a man in a month?
00:12:48As much as I wish.
00:12:49But, Maria, the scandal.
00:12:51Oh, I should choose someone less inclined to gossip than those men.
00:12:54Maria, I believe you've got someone in mind.
00:12:57Well, as a matter of fact, there is a man in your party tonight who within a month might surprise me.
00:13:01There's nothing for it, Richard. You must propose to her.
00:13:04I haven't the courage.
00:13:05Ever tried brandy?
00:13:07One day I sat with a bottle of brandy in front of me and recited to it the language I should use when asking her to be my wife.
00:13:13With the result that when I went into the room I was unable even to wish her good evening.
00:13:17Ah, bad luck.
00:13:18But, Richard, do as I say and I give you my word that a month from tonight you'll pop into a bed with a cry,
00:13:24Maria, here I am.
00:13:26George, that is an observation which I consider most unsuitable.
00:13:30Either here or in the place you suggest.
00:13:32I'm speaking metaphorically.
00:13:34I trust, sir.
00:13:35You must have courage, Richard.
00:13:36Think what marriage to Maria means to you.
00:13:38Someone to be with, to talk to.
00:13:40No money cares.
00:13:41No cares of any kind.
00:13:42It's not for me.
00:13:43Think of the little ones prattling up and down the room.
00:13:46No, no, I take that back.
00:13:48Why?
00:13:49Very well, if you insist.
00:13:50My dear George, married life to me without children is...
00:13:54Are you laughing, George?
00:13:55No, no, I've got a cold coming up.
00:13:57It's the sort of thing you would laugh at.
00:14:01One other little thing.
00:14:02Please be polite to Maria.
00:14:04That's not a little thing, but I will help you, Richard.
00:14:06I'll even warm Maria up for you to make your proposal.
00:14:10Cigars and the drawing will not impress Maria favourably.
00:14:14Number 16 then, after the dancers.
00:14:16Charmed, I'm sure.
00:14:21Maria.
00:14:22Well?
00:14:23Tonight I apparently said something quite unintentionally that hurt your feelings.
00:14:27Oh, well?
00:14:28I'm sorry.
00:14:30Obviously you have been drinking.
00:14:31Why?
00:14:32Otherwise you would never have apologised.
00:14:37I admit I have been drinking.
00:14:39I drank because I was depressed.
00:14:41Richard depressed me.
00:14:42Oh.
00:14:44Richard has been pointing out to me my limitations,
00:14:46but so gently, so understandingly, that I was compelled to listen.
00:14:50Oh.
00:14:52Until tonight I never knew the real Richard.
00:14:54Dear Richard.
00:14:56Oh.
00:14:57Have you lost your voice by any chance?
00:14:58No. Why?
00:15:00It's unlike you, only to be able to say, oh, George.
00:15:03Ah, there you are. Let's all have some supper.
00:15:07Have a seat.
00:15:12Would you mind, Dr. Graham?
00:15:13What's that?
00:15:14May we join you?
00:15:16Oh, yes, yes, certainly. I'm just going when I finish this.
00:15:21Dr. Graham, famous air specialist.
00:15:23A great success, apparently.
00:15:24We were talking of Richard.
00:15:26You were talking of Richard.
00:15:28Of his gentleness, his love of little children.
00:15:31How many has he got?
00:15:32Richard is a bachelor.
00:15:33That has not answered my question.
00:15:35None.
00:15:36How do you know?
00:15:37Well, he's not that kind of a man.
00:15:39I trust not.
00:15:42And it is through Richard that tonight I have a feeling I'd like to get nearer to nature.
00:15:46To walk on grass, to hear the birds sing their simple songs of love.
00:15:50Birds don't sing at night.
00:15:52Perhaps not for you, Maria.
00:15:54Would it amuse you to accompany me, Helen?
00:15:56I'd love to, George.
00:15:57Well, how about supper?
00:15:58We are to move to eat.
00:16:02Besides, there's a buffet in the marquee.
00:16:04I had not forgotten that.
00:16:06Just what were you saying to George?
00:16:09I was telling him of the need men have for the affection of a good woman.
00:16:14Go on.
00:16:16I drew a little picture of returning to one's home in the evening.
00:16:20Where'd you be in the afternoon?
00:16:22Oh, nowhere in particular.
00:16:25I see.
00:16:26Go on.
00:16:28And there, seated at one's dinner table, a divine lady.
00:16:33To whom you would address a few kind words before going out to dine with someone else.
00:16:37Oh, not at all.
00:16:38I should stay and dine with her.
00:16:40That's original.
00:16:42I've never really thanked you for letting me rent this lovely house of yours.
00:16:45I've never really thanked you for renting it.
00:16:48Somehow I hate the thought of leaving it when I go back to America.
00:16:51Somehow so do I.
00:16:53You know, Helen, I am not appreciated.
00:16:56You easily could be.
00:16:58But how?
00:16:59Well, don't you ever want to do anything for anyone?
00:17:02My dear, the most that can be expected from any duke is to think.
00:17:06Well, then, if you feel you're not being appreciated, why don't you marry?
00:17:10Ah, that I will tell you.
00:17:13Feeling as you do, Richard, I wonder you never married.
00:17:16Ah.
00:17:17Meaning?
00:17:19Well, the love of a good woman is not for me.
00:17:22Then why not try one of the others?
00:17:24There's plenty to choose from.
00:17:26Oh, no, you don't understand.
00:17:28There's only one woman, and she's too good, too beautiful, too noble for such as me.
00:17:33Oh, shut up.
00:17:35I'm sorry.
00:17:36How much longer are you going on beating about the bush?
00:17:39Why not come out in the open like a man and say, Mariah, I love you?
00:17:42Will you or won't you be my wife?
00:17:44I've no idea, you know.
00:17:46Go on, then. Say it. Say it.
00:17:52You have a sweet voice, Helen.
00:17:54Thank you, George.
00:17:55But you seldom sing.
00:17:57That is a great accomplishment.
00:17:59You were talking of marriage.
00:18:01Alas, yes.
00:18:03It has no attraction for you?
00:18:05On the contrary, the husbands of no less than three women I've known have threatened me with it.
00:18:09No, I meant some unmarried girl who's fond of you and might make you happy.
00:18:14I've often thought of marriage.
00:18:15Yes?
00:18:16With distaste.
00:18:18But there is one woman.
00:18:19Yes?
00:18:20The one woman in the world.
00:18:22Beautiful, charming, gracious, intelligent.
00:18:26You'd marry her?
00:18:27Happily.
00:18:28But where is she?
00:18:29Where?
00:18:32Where indeed?
00:18:36Now tell me, Richard, do you love me?
00:18:38With all my heart, with all my...
00:18:39I love you embraces all that.
00:18:41Now then, is your object matrimony or the other thing?
00:18:46I'd give ten years of my life to be your husband.
00:18:49But I've no desire that our marriage ceremony should take the form of a burial service.
00:18:53Richard, I should like you to know I'm very fond of you.
00:18:57But I can't believe it. Why should you care for me?
00:19:00You'd be wise not to let me dwell on that.
00:19:02This is too wonderful.
00:19:04Don't get excited. You're getting the best part first.
00:19:06Now, get up and sit down.
00:19:10Now let's be practical.
00:19:12My income is 25,000 pounds a year.
00:19:15Many congratulations.
00:19:17Thank you. What's yours?
00:19:19Mine?
00:19:20Well, it varies. Sometimes it's up and then again it's down.
00:19:25What is it when it's up?
00:19:27Well, you know, money means so little to me I really haven't an idea.
00:19:31Where do you bank?
00:19:32Anywhere. I simply don't care.
00:19:34Fortunately, I can provide for both of us in the style to which I'm accustomed.
00:19:38I love you.
00:19:39Thank you. Now then, what is today?
00:19:42Tuesday.
00:19:43Very well. On Friday, we'll leave on the midday train to Scotland
00:19:46where, to all intents and purposes, we shall spend a month together as married people.
00:19:51Right.
00:19:52Well?
00:19:53Well?
00:19:54You and I spend a month together alone as married people.
00:19:57Yes.
00:19:58You're not serious?
00:19:59I am.
00:20:01But what an extremely good idea.
00:20:04What an intensely good idea.
00:20:07But this is perfectly delightful and the courage of it all.
00:20:11And if at the end of the month I find that we both feel alike, as it were,
00:20:14we will get married.
00:20:16If not, we'll have had a grand time and no harm done.
00:20:19None.
00:20:20Oh, I really must congratulate you.
00:20:22I never remember looking forward to anything so much and the courage of it.
00:20:26Oh, if there were only more women in the world like you,
00:20:29what a happy world the world would be.
00:20:34Really, George.
00:20:35But I feel Richard needs my protection.
00:20:37Oh, one more thing.
00:20:39Every night you'll hear the clock in the hall strike eleven.
00:20:42Oh, now that's original.
00:20:44I really must congratulate you again.
00:20:46Which will be the signal for you to start putting on your coat.
00:20:48We've got ideas.
00:20:49What's the idea of going out?
00:20:51Oh, that I should have had all the exercise I need during the day.
00:20:54Oh, I know, the dog.
00:20:56On the table in the hall you'll find a lantern,
00:20:58which will enable you to find your way down to the boat
00:21:00so that you can row across to the mainland.
00:21:02Oh, why should I want to go to the mainland?
00:21:04That is where you'll be sleeping.
00:21:06Oh.
00:21:08So I don't sleep in the house?
00:21:10You do not.
00:21:12Oh.
00:21:13How about wet nights?
00:21:15I should advise you to bring a raincoat.
00:21:17Raincoat.
00:21:18You know, I must say I feel you'd learn a great deal more about me
00:21:21if I were actually in the house the whole time.
00:21:24After all, I hope I'm a gentleman.
00:21:26That I should be able to decide in a month's time.
00:21:28Ah, number 15.
00:21:30Oh, let's sit this one out.
00:21:31Nonsense, I never sit out the lances.
00:21:33Your arm, Richard.
00:21:44Very hot.
00:21:45What do you mean?
00:21:46So you and she go off alone for a month together
00:21:48to see if you'll be all right married, hmm?
00:21:51I dislike your phraseology, but the answer is we do.
00:21:55What is George talking about?
00:21:57He's a bad influence, that man.
00:21:59I think they're only chatting.
00:22:01They look quite innocent.
00:22:17I sleep in a hotel on the mainland.
00:22:19You mean you leave her every night?
00:22:22I sleep in a hotel on the mainland.
00:22:24You mean you leave her every night?
00:22:52Very hot.
00:22:53What am I?
00:23:03You're not suggesting that I should stay in the same house
00:23:05at night alone with her, are you?
00:23:07Why not?
00:23:08How dare you?
00:23:21I suppose it's raining.
00:23:24I've got it, that.
00:23:25I'm taking a raincoat.
00:23:27You haven't got one?
00:23:28No, but Bruce hardly has.
00:23:35What are you two up to?
00:23:36Plotting, Maria, just plotting.
00:23:52I trust this is not too violent for you, Maria?
00:23:55No, I love it.
00:23:57Good.
00:24:00Help him out, George.
00:24:02Stop, George, stop!
00:24:13Handsome.
00:24:14Here's one.
00:24:22I'm sorry to disturb you.
00:24:23What is your name?
00:24:24Orish Oggs.
00:24:25I'm delighted.
00:24:26This is Mr. Richard Holden, Mr. Orish Oggs.
00:24:28How do you do?
00:24:29Pleased to meet you.
00:24:30Will you guard that for me?
00:24:31Yes, certainly.
00:24:32Thank you very much.
00:24:33Hurry, Richard, hurry.
00:24:40Here you go.
00:24:52Richard.
00:24:53Yeah?
00:24:54Do you really think you can convince Maria that you'll be all right married?
00:24:57I am all right.
00:24:58Of course, you know, you really ought to stay in the house with her.
00:25:00Maria will never consent.
00:25:01I wish you wouldn't refer to it again.
00:25:02Very well, but I still can't help wishing you were dead.
00:25:09Richard.
00:25:10It's a nice party.
00:25:11Yes, very nice.
00:25:13I forgot to say goodnight to Pops.
00:25:15Who's Pops?
00:25:16My butler.
00:25:17Left my house for the season.
00:25:18Lord.
00:25:19Yes?
00:25:20I forgot to go back and say goodnight to them.
00:25:21That's right.
00:25:22Round we go.
00:25:23Yeah!
00:25:48Is Mr. Pops below?
00:25:49Yes, Your Grace.
00:25:50Good.
00:25:51I wish to visit him.
00:25:53We have arrived, Mr. Odds, sir.
00:25:59Ooh!
00:26:01That'll be half a crown.
00:26:02Half a crown.
00:26:03Here's the sovereign change.
00:26:04Say goodnight to your horse for me, will you?
00:26:13Good evening, Pops.
00:26:14Good morning, Your Grace.
00:26:15Mr. Halton and I would like to take a drink with you.
00:26:17Pleasure.
00:26:18Your room's somewhere at the back here, isn't it?
00:26:19Yes, Your Grace.
00:26:20Near the cellar.
00:26:21You'll find Madam has made very few changes, Your Grace.
00:26:23That's very proper.
00:26:24Good evening, Mrs. Daggett.
00:26:25Good evening, Your Grace.
00:26:26How are you getting on with your new mistress?
00:26:27Well, things are very queer these days.
00:26:30Queer?
00:26:31Hardly any noise.
00:26:32No.
00:26:33Hardly any drinking.
00:26:34No.
00:26:35And hardly any...
00:26:36Oh, I'm surprised.
00:26:37And we gets paid regular.
00:26:38That's very queer.
00:26:43You weren't here in my time, were you?
00:26:45No, Your Grace.
00:26:46Pity.
00:26:47You beast.
00:26:48That's very handsome of you, Pops.
00:26:51I know Your Grace's preference.
00:26:55Have another drink?
00:26:57Definitely.
00:26:59Good.
00:27:01Whisper.
00:27:03Soda.
00:27:05Whisper.
00:27:08Soda.
00:27:10We'll drink to Miran.
00:27:11That's nice of you, George.
00:27:12Yeah, I'll talk.
00:27:13There you are.
00:27:14Thank you, George.
00:27:15To Miran.
00:27:16To Miran.
00:27:18I still can't help wishing you were dead.
00:27:20Good help.
00:27:22This whiskey tastes funny.
00:27:23You have no palate.
00:27:24Taste again.
00:27:26It's McQuish's Highland Liquor.
00:27:30All right.
00:27:31I apologize.
00:27:32Eh.
00:27:33If you apologize, I'll come to Scotland with you.
00:27:36Oh, no, George.
00:27:37I asked you not to.
00:27:39Give me another drink.
00:27:40Not so strong.
00:27:41All right.
00:27:42Whisper.
00:27:44Soda.
00:27:46Whisper.
00:27:48Soda.
00:27:49There.
00:27:51Thank you, George.
00:27:56Now you've drowned it.
00:28:00I mistrust you, George.
00:28:02Why do you want to come with me?
00:28:04Oh, trustee.
00:28:06Marriage.
00:28:07Bankruptcy.
00:28:09Get away from it all.
00:28:11You'll have to sleep in a hotel.
00:28:12Hotel's full.
00:28:14It isn't.
00:28:17Make it full.
00:28:18Just a minute.
00:28:22You're full.
00:28:23I'm full.
00:28:25But the hotel's not full.
00:28:29Why's the name a hotel?
00:28:30Eh?
00:28:32Dandranach Arms.
00:28:34Kyle of Loch Elch.
00:28:37Why's the name a hotel?
00:28:38Eh?
00:28:39Dandranach Arms.
00:28:41Kyle of Loch Elch.
00:28:44Reserve.
00:28:46Hall.
00:28:48Rooms.
00:28:50Saturday.
00:28:52Family.
00:28:53Eight.
00:28:55You think of a name.
00:28:57Twelve.
00:28:59Oh, yes.
00:29:00Very good.
00:29:02No, no.
00:29:03American name.
00:29:04All hotels.
00:29:05No, no.
00:29:06American name.
00:29:07All hotels.
00:29:08Impressed by Americans.
00:29:11Silas K.
00:29:12Must be Silas K.
00:29:14Oh, that's very good.
00:29:16Silas.
00:29:17K.
00:29:20McQuillis.
00:29:22That reminds me.
00:29:24Get me another drink.
00:29:28Shh.
00:29:29Shh.
00:29:31Who says birds don't sing at night?
00:29:33Eh?
00:29:36Good morning, Potts.
00:29:37Good morning, madam.
00:29:39Lovely party, don't you think?
00:29:40Yes, madam.
00:29:41I thought everything was perfect.
00:29:42They all stayed on and on.
00:29:44Yes, madam.
00:29:45And that's always a good sign, isn't it?
00:29:46Indeed it is, madam.
00:29:48In fact, eh.
00:29:49Yes, Potts?
00:29:50Some of them haven't gone yet.
00:29:52Haven't gone yet?
00:29:54Well, where are they?
00:30:06What is the matter with you, Richard?
00:30:22Why are you so nervous?
00:30:23I'm all right, Marat.
00:30:25I'm glad to see you've brought your raincoat.
00:30:27Yes, I hope I shan't have to use it, Marat.
00:30:29If you're still cherishing the hope that you're going to stay in the house with me,
00:30:32you're very much mistaken.
00:30:33Oh, no, Marat.
00:30:34I'm only cherishing the hope that it won't rain.
00:30:55We're off.
00:30:57Oh, dear, for goodness sake, stop fussing, Richard.
00:31:00You're making that gentleman most uncomfortable.
00:31:02Excuse me, sir.
00:31:03I hope we haven't bothered you too much.
00:31:05Not at all, madam.
00:31:07Did you remember to bring...
00:31:27Here we are.
00:31:29One of your hats, Marat, I believe.
00:31:32Goodbye, Marat.
00:31:34A pleasant holiday to you.
00:31:36I'm afraid we shan't meet till it's over.
00:31:38If then, goodbye.
00:31:40Goodbye.
00:31:41Hurry with the luggage, Richard.
00:31:46I shall expect you in the morning to breakfast at 8.30.
00:31:49We'll talk later.
00:31:51Goodbye.
00:31:53Goodbye.
00:31:54I shall expect you in the morning to breakfast at 8.30.
00:31:56We'll find the dinghy by the jetty,
00:31:58and you can row yourself across.
00:32:00Yes, Marat.
00:32:01I'm looking forward to our first day together, alone.
00:32:05You haven't any rooms, have you?
00:32:06No.
00:32:07Good.
00:32:10Stop, stop!
00:32:11What's happened?
00:32:12Is anything the matter?
00:32:13The hotel is full, not a room left.
00:32:15Richard, did you forget to reserve a room for yourself?
00:32:18He did not forget.
00:32:19They received his wire, but too late.
00:32:21McQuilsh has them all.
00:32:22McQuilsh?
00:32:24Silas K. McQuilsh, his wife and six children.
00:32:28I must look into this.
00:32:29Excuse me.
00:32:43Have you no accommodation, whatever?
00:32:45With who?
00:32:46Oh, but did you not receive a telegram from this gentleman?
00:32:48Mr. McQuilsh?
00:32:49No, no.
00:32:50Richard Halton.
00:32:51He says he sent one.
00:32:52Aye, he did.
00:32:53With who?
00:32:54Have you no odd corner where I can stand up and sleep like a horse?
00:32:57Why, Maria!
00:32:59Oh, Helen.
00:33:01Why, Helen, what on earth are you doing here?
00:33:03Darling, I've been trying to reach you.
00:33:05The McQuilshes are over from the States,
00:33:07and I'm showing them round.
00:33:08I told Silas he simply had to see your island.
00:33:13Did you receive a wire from Mr. McQuilsh?
00:33:15Aye.
00:33:16Unfortunately, your friends, the McQuilshes,
00:33:17have taken all the rooms,
00:33:18and the hotel's full, the new.
00:33:19Well, as it happens, that can be fixed.
00:33:21As Silas has had to go to a conference in Glasgow,
00:33:23and the family won't be here for two or three days,
00:33:25I'm the advance guard.
00:33:27Richard and George can have their rooms.
00:33:29Splendid!
00:33:31Splendid, splendid.
00:33:33One of the rooms Mr. McQuilsh reserved was for me,
00:33:35and I thought that...
00:33:36Mr. McQuilsh reserved no rooms.
00:33:38There were no rooms left for Mr. McQuilsh to reserve.
00:33:41Where for?
00:33:43The new.
00:33:44The new.
00:33:45If you'll excuse me,
00:33:46I've got to go.
00:33:47If you'll excuse me,
00:33:48I'll have my tea.
00:34:14Hurry along Richard, don't lag behind.
00:34:18Come on.
00:34:36You will guard this very carefully.
00:34:38It contains my old friend,
00:34:39Mrs. Wislak's favorite toque.
00:34:41Tell me, Marat,
00:34:43which is the late Mr. Wislak?
00:34:45Oh, George, please.
00:34:47Mrs. McQuilsh, are the rooms ready?
00:34:49You said in your letter it was only you and a guest.
00:34:51Well, that's quite right, but...
00:34:53You said nothing about the two gentlemen.
00:34:55I know, that happened afterwards.
00:34:57Afterwards?
00:34:58Is it your honeymoon you're on?
00:35:00Nonsense, I'm not married.
00:35:01Nobody's married.
00:35:03Go to the kitchen.
00:35:11Shut the door.
00:35:13Now, will you kindly explain?
00:35:15I don't have to explain anything.
00:35:17I won't say anything to you, Mrs. McQuilsh.
00:35:20Please see to the luggage.
00:35:22I'll take no part in your plans.
00:35:24You'll be here two weeks
00:35:25and you'll do as you're told
00:35:26or you won't receive a penny.
00:35:28Bring me a bottle of whiskey.
00:35:30I'll have nothing.
00:35:31No, you won't.
00:35:32Not a penny.
00:35:33Very well, I'll stay.
00:35:35But mind you,
00:35:36I'll be watching and biding my time.
00:35:38Bring me a bottle of whiskey.
00:35:40I'm the one to give orders in this house.
00:35:42The whiskey will be unpacked
00:35:43and locked up in due course.
00:35:44I like your little cottage, Maria.
00:35:46It's so simple.
00:35:48Thank you, George.
00:35:49I'm glad you like it.
00:35:50Where did you get the staircase?
00:35:52Arthur picked it up in Venice
00:35:54on the first night of our honeymoon.
00:35:56Picked it up on the first night of your honeymoon?
00:35:59What a man.
00:36:01Unpack for me, will you?
00:36:03Yes, mistress.
00:36:04Mistress?
00:36:05Not yet.
00:36:14It's a nightdress.
00:36:27I hope you'll find your bed comfortable.
00:36:29Eh?
00:36:30Oh, I can't use that very much.
00:36:35You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
00:36:37Can't you get me some whiskey?
00:36:45I can see through it.
00:36:47Come away.
00:36:49Richard, there's a speck of dust in my eye.
00:36:52Will you kindly remove it?
00:37:15Pack your things.
00:37:29Richard, count the silver.
00:37:35Well, is dinner ready?
00:37:37No.
00:37:38Don't be a fool, George.
00:37:39All the servants have left.
00:37:40Well, we'll have to manage ourselves.
00:37:42I'll cook.
00:37:43You and Helen, I know, will help.
00:37:44Delighted.
00:37:45Delighted, Mariah.
00:37:46George, of course, will be utterly useless.
00:37:48On the contrary, Mariah,
00:37:49you'll find I'm incredibly useful.
00:37:51I'm at my best at beds,
00:37:52I welcome washing up,
00:37:53and I'm a dab at dusting.
00:37:55You can leave everything to me.
00:38:06I'm just 17 and I've never been...
00:38:14I'm just 17...
00:38:22I'm just 17...
00:38:29I'm nervous something's happened to George.
00:38:31I'm nervous that something hasn't.
00:38:33Having spent three weeks practically alone with him,
00:38:36I wonder you can tolerate his miserable selfishness.
00:38:39Well, he's completely unconscious.
00:38:40Richard's been a long time gone to the village.
00:38:42Well, it's a long pull there and back.
00:38:44Now, there's the kindest, sweetest man I've ever met.
00:38:47You don't think he's merely giving a good impression?
00:38:49Well, you haven't left much undone
00:38:50to find out if he has any weaknesses, have you, darling?
00:38:53Are you suggesting that I haven't been nice to him?
00:38:56How could I,
00:38:57when he always describes you as an angel?
00:39:00He probably knew you'd repeat it to me.
00:39:05I'm sorry.
00:39:07I'm sorry.
00:39:08I'm sorry.
00:39:16Oh, thank heaven you're safe.
00:39:18Why, Helen, did you think something had happened to me?
00:39:20Well, I did, rather.
00:39:22You see, when you went out and I asked you,
00:39:24as there were no servants to be back at one for lunch,
00:39:26well, naturally, when two o'clock came,
00:39:28I began to think something terrible must have happened.
00:39:30Oh, that's very charming of you, Helen,
00:39:32but I don't in the least mind having lunch late.
00:39:34Is it ready? I'm very hungry.
00:39:36Dinner's been ready for over an hour.
00:39:38It's point.
00:39:39I'll get it for you, George, dear.
00:39:41Well, I am.
00:40:08I'll get it.
00:40:39There you are, George, darling.
00:40:41Thank you, Helen.
00:40:42Some bread?
00:40:43Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:41:08It's OK.
00:41:32Bread, George, dear.
00:41:33Thank you, Helen.
00:41:34Some butter?
00:41:35Oh, yes.
00:41:38In the cellar, there's some champagne, Moselle, hock, please let me fetch it for you.
00:41:49Maria, you know I never drink at lunch.
00:41:51Oh, but I want you to. I want you to let me fetch it for you.
00:41:54If you'll allow me to say so, I find your jokes singularly unfunny.
00:41:57Would you like some rice pudding?
00:41:59To say I would like some rice pudding would be both inaccurate and insincere.
00:42:02To say that I'm hungry and will eat some is an entirely different matter. Where's the cream?
00:42:06There is no cream.
00:42:07What, no cream?
00:42:08George.
00:42:09Maria?
00:42:10Look at me. Does my face express anything to you?
00:42:15No.
00:42:16Do you know what would give me more pleasure than anything in the world?
00:42:20I can't imagine.
00:42:21To rub your nose in the rice pudding.
00:42:23You should try to avoid crudity, Maria.
00:42:26I'm afraid I haven't put enough milk in it.
00:42:28I agree, but what it lacks in milk it makes up for in rice.
00:42:31Throw it at him. Throw it at him.
00:42:33I can quite see why you don't keep your servants, Maria.
00:42:35George, please.
00:42:36Are you suggesting that it's my fault that my servants left me?
00:42:39I'll put it another way.
00:42:40I suggest that one has to like you very much to remain in the same house with you, Maria.
00:42:44Just one second.
00:43:02Richard, you must be quite exhausted.
00:43:04Oh, thank you, Helen. I am rather.
00:43:06Where's Maria?
00:43:07In the kitchen.
00:43:08Is she all right?
00:43:09Well, of course she's all right.
00:43:10That is not true.
00:43:11Richard, my dear fellow, I have some very bad news for you.
00:43:13You mean she's annoyed with me for being so long?
00:43:15Worse than that. Far worse.
00:43:16What?
00:43:17What do you think? She pulled my nose.
00:43:19Why isn't that damn thing bleeding?
00:43:21Why did she pull your nose?
00:43:22I've no idea.
00:43:23It doesn't seem to have improved it.
00:43:25So this is the return I get for coming up here to help you win her, hmm?
00:43:27Let me tell you something. I haven't got a chance in the world of winning her.
00:43:31And even if I had, it would be in spite of you at least 50 times.
00:43:34I don't want to hear any more. I shall go outside and read.
00:43:36Give me my newspaper.
00:43:37I didn't have time to get it.
00:43:38You mean to say you haven't brought me my time?
00:43:39I have not.
00:43:40Oh, of all the selfish devils.
00:43:41Oh, I've forgotten to send Maria's telegram.
00:43:43Good.
00:43:49Come on, Manchu.
00:43:50Oh, there you are at last, Richard.
00:43:52I hope you remembered to send my telegram.
00:43:54Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I'm afraid I didn't.
00:43:56Really, it's too bad of you.
00:43:57Do you realize I shall have nothing to read for two or three days?
00:44:00I know. I can't tell you how sorry I am.
00:44:02Well, if I'd known you weren't going to send it, I'd have gone myself.
00:44:04I noticed you've brought all the things you want.
00:44:09Tell her to go to hell.
00:44:11What did you say?
00:44:12Tell her to go to hell.
00:44:14What?
00:44:15I said you look tired and not at all well.
00:44:18Oh, I'm all right, really I am.
00:44:20He's quite all right, aren't you?
00:44:21Yes, of course.
00:44:22Oh, tell me something I can do to make up.
00:44:24Go on, give Manchu his little bath.
00:44:26Think you could?
00:44:27Oh, yes, of course.
00:44:29I have a way with animals. They take to me, you know.
00:44:36How you can hope to impress Maria favorably by ill-treating her little dog,
00:44:40I don't know.
00:44:42I bent down in a friendly way, nothing more than the little beast bit me.
00:44:45Oh, what's the use?
00:44:47Give me that, Richard.
00:44:48It's lucky for you that I feel particularly good-tempered tonight.
00:44:51What caused that? Drink, food, or money?
00:44:54None of those.
00:44:55I have decided to make Helen a faithful husband.
00:44:58Jolly decent of you.
00:44:59Well, it's a most unusual thing in our family.
00:45:01I agree.
00:45:02Yes, I've been watching Helen carefully and I've come to the conclusion
00:45:06that she's a fit and proper person to be the Duchess of Bristol.
00:45:10Does she think you're a fit and proper person to be the Duke?
00:45:12Tonight, after a simple meal, a glass of wine, I hope, and a cigar.
00:45:17Where do you hide your cigars?
00:45:19I only brought 50, very considerately.
00:45:21I only smoke them when you're not there.
00:45:23You mean devil.
00:45:24As I was saying, tonight, after a simple meal, et cetera, I shall ask her to become my wife.
00:45:30It's my experience that after a meal, simple or otherwise, you invariably go to sleep.
00:45:34Sleep? On this, my night of romance? Sleep? Ha!
00:45:55Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
00:45:59Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
00:46:04Dammit, is there no peace in this house?
00:46:06I agree.
00:46:07That's very, very interesting.
00:46:09Oh, I'm terribly sorry. You frightened me. I was asleep.
00:46:13Really?
00:46:14Oh, you know how one says things when one's half unconscious.
00:46:17The last man I married was frequently in that condition.
00:46:20I found that was the only time he spoke the truth.
00:46:22But you know I didn't mean it.
00:46:23Don't call me woman and don't shout at me. I'm not deaf.
00:46:25I'm sorry, ma'am.
00:46:26And if you must smoke cigars, which I've told you I hate,
00:46:29kindly don't drop your ash on the floor.
00:46:31I'll get something and clean it up.
00:46:33Yes, darling.
00:46:45There's another bit there.
00:46:53Why, Richard, what are you doing?
00:46:56Sweeping up George's cigar ash.
00:46:58I'm sorry to have interrupted your after-dinner nap, Richard.
00:47:02Since you're awake now, perhaps you've no objection to my going on practicing.
00:47:06No, of course not, Mariah.
00:47:10I can't understand it.
00:47:12Before I came here, she always gave me the impression that she liked me.
00:47:16It's too bad, Alfred.
00:47:18What do you suggest I should do?
00:47:20Tell her to go to hell.
00:47:22What?
00:47:23Tell her to go to h-e-l-l.
00:47:25Oh, I couldn't...
00:47:30Richard, when I'm married, you can live with us.
00:47:33I'll even insist on Helen making you a small allowance.
00:47:36Certainly not.
00:47:37How much?
00:47:38Well, Helen's a very well-to-do girl.
00:47:40Five shillings a week.
00:47:47Why, Helen.
00:47:49What a charming answer to my thoughts.
00:47:52You were thinking of me, George.
00:47:54Indeed I was.
00:47:56Do you remember this music?
00:47:58Yes, I know it very well.
00:48:00Do you remember where you heard it last?
00:48:02Mmm, I've heard it so often, you know.
00:48:05Oh.
00:48:07You don't mind cigars?
00:48:09No, I like them.
00:48:11Ah, that's why you're so delightful, so sympathetic.
00:48:13You always seem to understand.
00:48:15I hope you will always think so, George, dear.
00:48:17I shall. Believe me.
00:48:19Helen...
00:48:21I am anxious to tell you something
00:48:23that's long been in my mind.
00:48:25Please do.
00:48:26I beg of you not to consider it
00:48:28the impulse of youth.
00:48:30I won't, George, dear.
00:48:32Very well.
00:48:35There is only one woman in the world
00:48:37I would ask to be the Duchess of Bristol.
00:48:39That's very interesting.
00:48:41And if you ask me who she is,
00:48:43I will tell you.
00:48:45Who is she, George?
00:48:47You, Helen.
00:48:50I am very touched and very glad.
00:48:52And I am very happy.
00:49:02Thank you, George.
00:49:04I suppose there's only one woman in this world
00:49:06who would refuse to be the Duchess of Bristol.
00:49:08And if you ask me who she is,
00:49:10I will tell you.
00:49:12Who is she, then?
00:49:14Me, George, dear.
00:49:16Do I hear correctly?
00:49:18You refuse to be the Duchess of Bristol?
00:49:20I do.
00:49:22May I ask why?
00:49:24Only because you happen to be the Duke.
00:49:28Are you insulting me, Helen?
00:49:30Not nearly as much
00:49:32as you've insulted me.
00:49:34What do you mean?
00:49:36You should have only asked me for my money.
00:49:38You should not have included me with it.
00:49:40I am fatigued to deny that I asked you
00:49:42to be my wife merely on account of your money.
00:49:44No.
00:49:46I am delighted to marry me.
00:49:48I'm sure there are many women
00:49:50who would have loved to have been the Duchess of Bristol.
00:49:52Frankly, I wanted to myself
00:49:54until I spent three weeks with you here.
00:49:58May I give you a piece of advice, George?
00:50:00Marry Maria.
00:50:02How dare you?
00:50:04For sheer selfishness, you'd both win the cup outright.
00:50:06You mean to tell me that I am anything like Maria?
00:50:08If she doesn't get away about everything, she sucks.
00:50:10So do you.
00:50:12If Richard doesn't wait on her hand and foot, she...
00:50:15Only because you were too busy allowing meat.
00:50:17I thought you liked it.
00:50:19Anyway, yours is a grand position.
00:50:21I envy you.
00:50:23It's something for a profiteer's daughter
00:50:25to have refused a duke.
00:50:29George, many years ago, there was a butcher's shop.
00:50:31An august person passing it one day
00:50:33was not attracted by the meat in the window
00:50:35but by the butcher's wife.
00:50:37The butcher,
00:50:39with an ambitious eye to a knighthood,
00:50:41encouraged him to pass it frequently.
00:50:43With the result,
00:50:45he became a baronet.
00:50:47Now the butcher's wife was encouraged.
00:50:49She, too, acquired an ambition.
00:50:51So she left the butcher.
00:50:53With the result,
00:50:55her son was born a duke.
00:50:59So far as I can see,
00:51:01the only difference between our two families is
00:51:03my father only profiteered in pickles.
00:51:13You're divine, George, dear.
00:51:15I hope I shall always know you.
00:51:18What are you laughing at?
00:51:20If ever another girl falls in love with you,
00:51:22marry her the next day.
00:51:32I don't know what's the matter with George today.
00:51:34Do you think we ought to break his door down?
00:51:36I'm getting quite worried about him.
00:51:38I don't think you need be,
00:51:40just because he stays in the kitchen.
00:51:43Because he stays in his room all day.
00:51:45He hasn't even eaten the food I left on the tray for him.
00:51:47That, I admit, is remarkable.
00:51:49You don't suppose he's cut his throat or hanged himself, do you?
00:51:51Nonsense. He would never be so considerate.
00:51:53I'm glad you didn't wait tea for me.
00:51:55The tide was stronger than I thought.
00:51:59The tide?
00:52:01Yes, it was my turn to row over and get the post.
00:52:03Look what you've done, you fool.
00:52:05Oh, it's all right. There's nothing broken.
00:52:07We just need some more milk.
00:52:09You must be tired. I'll get it.
00:52:13Somebody ought to go with him.
00:52:15He's not safe to be left alone.
00:52:17Nonsense.
00:52:19He's all right.
00:52:23Sorry I've been so long.
00:52:25You're quite well, George, old man.
00:52:27I feel terribly well, thank you, Richard.
00:52:29Where's the post?
00:52:31Post?
00:52:33There wasn't any.
00:52:35Pretty, don't you think?
00:52:41Stop!
00:52:43Stop!
00:52:45Stop him, Richard!
00:52:47Why, Mariah!
00:52:49Stop him!
00:52:51Stop him!
00:52:53Stop him!
00:52:55Stop him!
00:52:57Stop him!
00:52:59Stop him!
00:53:01Stop him!
00:53:03Why, Mariah, I'm so sorry.
00:53:05I was only playing for you. I thought you liked it.
00:53:07George, I've had enough of this.
00:53:09This what?
00:53:11This fooling, can't you see? You're frightening Mariah.
00:53:13Oh, I'm so sorry, Mariah. I didn't mean to.
00:53:15I'm very sorry.
00:53:17Careful, George, old man, careful!
00:53:19It's my turn to do the washing up.
00:53:21Oh, don't hurry with your tea.
00:53:23I'll go and put the kettle on.
00:53:25All this before he sets fire to the house.
00:53:33Why are you behaving like an idiot?
00:53:35Frightening us all?
00:53:37I'm showing Helen I'm not a bit like Mariah.
00:53:39What on earth are you talking about?
00:53:41Don't tell me I'm a liar because I'm not.
00:53:43You know what she said when I asked her to marry me?
00:53:45What?
00:53:47She said I'm an ass, I'm conceited, I'm selfish, I nag.
00:53:49I'm the descendant of a...
00:53:51No, no.
00:53:53I'll tell you who I am.
00:53:55Oh, she said I'm an ass, I'm conceited, I'm selfish, I nag.
00:53:57I'm the descendant of a...
00:53:59No, no.
00:54:02Oh, she said I am.
00:54:04I've never been so disappointed in anybody in all my life.
00:54:06Everything would have been all right
00:54:08if your old woman hadn't started this unapproval business.
00:54:10Are you referring to Mrs Wisdak?
00:54:12In the last three weeks, Helen's found out a thousand things about me
00:54:14and she doesn't like one of them.
00:54:16I'm leaving tomorrow in the midday train.
00:54:18Did you love her, George?
00:54:20How could a man harassed to death with financial troubles as I am
00:54:22concentrate on love?
00:54:24It's unreasonable, Richard.
00:54:26Anyway, you go and get your old woman to turn you down and see how you like it.
00:54:28Thank you, I have more sense than you have.
00:54:30I'm not risking it.
00:54:32I'm leaving with you.
00:54:34Coward.
00:54:36Not at all.
00:54:38I want to save her the embarrassment of telling me I failed her.
00:54:44Are you better?
00:54:46Are you better?
00:54:48Are you better?
00:54:50Please don't shout at me, Maria.
00:54:52I wish to tell you that your behavior was perfectly disgraceful.
00:54:54And shall I tell you why my behavior was perfectly disgraceful?
00:54:56Why?
00:54:59I wish to be known that I have not one thing in common, nor am I in the least like...
00:55:01George!
00:55:03Very well, Richard, for your sake, I won't.
00:55:05But I'm writing to you, Maria.
00:55:11Your hand is all wet, Richard.
00:55:13I'm sorry, Maria.
00:55:15I was about to wash up.
00:55:17You made such a noise.
00:55:19The washing up's to be done, Maria.
00:55:21Of course it is, and I'm very grateful to you.
00:55:23Richard, I want to tell you something.
00:55:25Oh, that's all right, Maria.
00:55:27I know, and I'm sorry.
00:55:29I brought you here for the purpose of finding out, as you know,
00:55:31that if we married, would there be a chance of us both being happy?
00:55:33Will you please be quiet?
00:55:35Sorry?
00:55:37When I left London, I liked you very much.
00:55:39I almost believed you possessed qualities that might endear you to me.
00:55:41I know.
00:55:43But I had no idea how nice you really are.
00:55:45What did you say?
00:55:47Don't interrupt, please.
00:55:49I was going to say, I think you're a thousand times nicer than I ever thought you were.
00:55:51Please don't interrupt. It's very irritating.
00:55:53Now, what was I saying?
00:55:55I'm not going to marry you, but to prove to you how much I trust you.
00:55:57I'm going to settle 5,000 a year on you for life.
00:55:59Are you pleased?
00:56:01Pleased?
00:56:03But I'm delighted.
00:56:05And all this time, I thought you disliked me.
00:56:07You'll never begin to know how miserable I've been.
00:56:09Oh, but why?
00:56:11Well, you were so intolerant, so horrid to me.
00:56:13Horrid to you?
00:56:15What are you talking about?
00:56:17Oh, now, let's straighten this out.
00:56:19You know you tried every way of provoking me
00:56:21to see whether I was bad-tempered or not.
00:56:24I did nothing of the kind.
00:56:26I'd never descend to anything so mean.
00:56:28You don't mean to tell me
00:56:30that that was really you all the time?
00:56:32Of course.
00:56:34Is that how you'd be
00:56:36if we were married?
00:56:38Naturally.
00:56:40How long did your late husband live with you, Maria?
00:56:4218 years. Why?
00:56:44What a man.
00:56:46What a constitution.
00:56:48How dare you speak to me like that?
00:56:50If you had the faintest idea
00:56:52how you've been speaking to me during the last three weeks,
00:56:54you'd know how and why I dared.
00:56:56Richard, are you mad?
00:56:58Maria, dear, double that 5,000.
00:57:00Treble that 5,000.
00:57:02Give me every shilling you have in the world,
00:57:04and then the answer will be no.
00:57:06Oh, Richard.
00:57:08Maria, I shall always love you
00:57:10for having given me the opportunity of finding you out.
00:57:12I would have married you, not knowing.
00:57:14You beast.
00:57:16May I remind you, Maria,
00:57:18there's a great deal more washing up to be done.
00:57:22George?
00:57:24If you have anything to say to me,
00:57:26kindly address me through a third person.
00:57:28What have you been doing in your room all this evening?
00:57:30Seeking repose.
00:57:32And just now?
00:57:34Seeking alcohol, without much success, I may say.
00:57:36George, will you come and talk to me?
00:57:38If you promise not to revile me again.
00:57:40Not tonight, anyway.
00:57:42Helen,
00:57:44once there was a time
00:57:46when I thought you liked me.
00:57:48Liked you?
00:57:51Three weeks ago, I adored you.
00:57:53If you'd asked me to marry you then,
00:57:55I would have.
00:57:57I adored you so much.
00:57:59And now?
00:58:01I've spent the last three weeks with you,
00:58:03and I think it's been my greatest disappointment.
00:58:05You mean I died on you?
00:58:07The second day.
00:58:09The second day?
00:58:11Well, that's not the experience of other women
00:58:13who have known me.
00:58:15You know, Helen, I'm always being asked out
00:58:17to dinner parties because people find me amusing.
00:58:19A dinner party only lasts two hours.
00:58:21A marriage has been known to last
00:58:23for two years.
00:58:25Yes.
00:58:27Helen,
00:58:29these last three weeks,
00:58:31are they indelibly imprinted on your mind?
00:58:33They are imprinted.
00:58:35Why?
00:58:37I only asked.
00:58:45I suppose it's because I'm a woman
00:58:47or infinitely foolish.
00:58:49But I think I could forget these past three weeks
00:58:51if you could tell me one thing.
00:58:53Dadly.
00:58:55The color of my eyes?
00:58:57Blue.
00:59:13Good night, George, dear.
00:59:17Come in.
00:59:19Helen!
00:59:21Come away from the door.
00:59:23I thought for a moment you were Maria.
00:59:25Maria's lying in bed stunned by the shock you gave her.
00:59:27I find myself curiously unmoved.
00:59:29I'm afraid I've given George a bit of a shock, too.
00:59:31Oh? Where's he?
00:59:33Poor dear, he's sitting at the bottom of the stairs
00:59:35trying to convince himself he's colorblind.
00:59:37Colorblind?
00:59:39Oh, it doesn't matter, Richard. He'll recover.
00:59:41I'm afraid I've given George a bit of a shock, too.
00:59:43Oh? Where's he?
00:59:46Oh, it doesn't matter, Richard. He'll recover.
00:59:48To do any good, I'm afraid he needs at least six months
00:59:50on a desert island.
00:59:52Alone with Maria.
00:59:54Alone with Maria.
00:59:56Richard, I really came to ask
00:59:58whether you were enjoying it here very much.
01:00:00Oh, Helen, you know I'm having a perfectly awful time.
01:00:02Then why go on having a perfectly awful time?
01:00:06Oh, I see what you mean.
01:00:08Oh, you are clever, Helen.
01:00:10But of course, and the sooner the better.
01:00:12Then you agree that the island should be deserted?
01:00:14As far as I'm concerned, tomorrow.
01:00:16All right, then. Tomorrow. Good night.
01:00:18I'll see if the coast is clear.
01:00:20Richard? Yes?
01:00:22I wonder if you could tell me something.
01:00:24Of course, Helen. What?
01:00:26The color of my eyes.
01:00:28What a funny question. Green, of course.
01:00:30How observant you are.
01:00:32Thank you, Richard.
01:00:36Tomorrow. Tomorrow.
01:00:44Tomorrow.
01:00:46Tomorrow.
01:00:48Tomorrow.
01:01:14Not a sound.
01:01:16Not a sound.
01:01:18You'd hardly believe they were in the house.
01:01:20Well, how dare they stay here?
01:01:22Well, you can't expect them to wait
01:01:24on a cold railway platform.
01:01:26Why not?
01:01:28To think that I brought that brute here
01:01:30to see if I liked him.
01:01:32And he has the audacity to say he doesn't like me.
01:01:34My stomach is cold.
01:01:36My head is hot.
01:01:38My arteries are burning.
01:01:40My heart is pounding.
01:01:43My head is hot. My arteries are heartening.
01:01:45Only alcohol will get me on the train.
01:01:47Nonsense.
01:01:49Never again do I raise a finger.
01:01:51Besides, you shouldn't have drunk all the cooking, Sherry.
01:01:53I would not have asked you, Richard,
01:01:55were it not for the fact that I meet
01:01:57those extremely unpleasant women.
01:01:59As it is, I shall die standing.
01:02:01I'm not sure which of us is the luckier.
01:02:03I, to have lost a vulgar little man.
01:02:05Or you, to have avoided
01:02:07marrying a congenital idiot.
01:02:09Well, George isn't entirely an idiot.
01:02:11I quite agree.
01:02:13What do you want?
01:02:15The rain is now coming through the roof in 15 places.
01:02:17Well, what of it?
01:02:19We have only 14 receptacles.
01:02:21Well?
01:02:23What do you suggest?
01:02:25I suggest that you will find the railway platform
01:02:27far less uncomfortable than my house.
01:02:29Richard and I have talked it over and decided we'll find it exactly the same.
01:02:31Then why not get Richard to mend the roof?
01:02:33I don't think he'd agree.
01:02:35Ever since he told you the truth about yourself,
01:02:37he's so conceited there's no holding him.
01:02:39Now he's bragging that one day he'll turn you into a decent woman.
01:02:41How dare he?
01:02:43He says it can be done. He's very childish today.
01:02:47Mrs. Wislak,
01:02:49would you give me the key of the alcohol cupboard?
01:02:51I will not.
01:02:53Did you have that brandy and sodas I told you?
01:02:55She whom you once loved
01:02:57refuses to cough up the key.
01:02:59Give me the key of that cupboard which should never be locked.
01:03:01I'll do nothing of the sort.
01:03:03Give it to me, I tell you.
01:03:05No.
01:03:08I'm having to reveal myself as a man
01:03:10who has always known where it was.
01:03:18You mean to say that all this time you've had access to the liquor without telling me?
01:03:20You had your cigars.
01:03:22And it's only because you're cold
01:03:24that I'm relenting.
01:03:26Hello.
01:03:28Yes?
01:03:30Be good enough to get George a small brandy and soda.
01:03:32You'd better go and get ready.
01:03:34How dare you whisper to my late fiancée?
01:03:36Ah,
01:03:38you libertine,
01:03:40blowing kisses to a girl young enough to be your daughter.
01:03:42Mrs. Wislak,
01:03:44for me to have been Helen's father,
01:03:46I should have had to have been an enterprising boy of 14.
01:03:52How long?
01:03:54Four minutes.
01:03:56In the kitchen.
01:03:58Go down the back stairs.
01:04:00Four minutes.
01:04:02Mrs. Wislak!
01:04:05I don't want to speak to you, but I must.
01:04:07I don't want to speak to you, and I won't.
01:04:09Stop! You love Richard?
01:04:11Shh, don't shout.
01:04:13Do you love Richard?
01:04:15Yes, you beast.
01:04:17Must you shout the facts of life outside Richard's bedroom?
01:04:19Come to my room.
01:04:25I never thought I would willingly enter here.
01:04:29Please be seated.
01:04:31I feel less frightened of you when you're sitting down.
01:04:33Would you care to call a truce for ten minutes?
01:04:35For reason?
01:04:37Love.
01:04:39Five minutes.
01:04:41Very well.
01:04:43In a few hours, Richard and I will have left this house forever.
01:04:45Thank heaven.
01:04:47Stop pretending.
01:04:49Well, surely a woman's entitled to some modesty.
01:04:51Not when you're about to lose your loved one.
01:04:53I close my eyes.
01:04:55I see her divine face, her little hands.
01:04:57I am in love.
01:04:59With yourself, perhaps.
01:05:01What are you doing?
01:05:03Kindly put down my nightdress.
01:05:05It's a nightdress no longer.
01:05:07It's a flag of truce.
01:05:09Sit down.
01:05:11Now, to continue.
01:05:13I propose to stay here and keep Richard too.
01:05:15Oh.
01:05:17In such moments, damnable as it is,
01:05:19we must forget the word honour.
01:05:21That should be easy for you.
01:05:23Aye.
01:05:25I beg your pardon.
01:05:27Granted.
01:05:30Mariah.
01:05:32I imagine few men have been in love with you.
01:05:34I beg your pardon.
01:05:36Granted.
01:05:38Of one thing I am certain.
01:05:40I must never let Helen see my heart is broken.
01:05:42I have a pain here.
01:05:44Wind.
01:05:46I beg your pardon.
01:05:48Granted, but you try me very hard, Mariah.
01:05:50Now, what I suggest is
01:05:52that we shall be so pleasant and friendly
01:05:54and even affectionate to each other
01:05:56that Richard will not dare to leave me here with you.
01:05:58If we show them a united front,
01:06:00we will lose confidence.
01:06:02Drink to me only
01:06:04with thine eyes
01:06:08and I will
01:06:10pledge
01:06:12thee mine.
01:06:16You hurry down to the boat.
01:06:18I'll meet you with the luggage in a few minutes.
01:06:20You're quite sure we're doing the right thing?
01:06:22Of course I'm sure.
01:06:24Oh, very well then, but don't be too long.
01:06:27I thought I heard.
01:06:29I did.
01:06:33The first
01:06:35from
01:06:37the soul
01:06:39doth rise
01:06:41doth ask
01:06:43a drink
01:06:45divine.
01:06:49But
01:06:51might I
01:06:53of Job's
01:06:55heart
01:06:57stop
01:06:59I would
01:07:01not change
01:07:05all
01:07:07mine.
01:07:13Charming, my dear, charming.
01:07:15What a delightful voice you have.
01:07:17Thank you, George.
01:07:19What did you say, George, just then?
01:07:21Charming, my dear, charming. What a delightful voice you have.
01:07:23By the way, Richard, Maria's persuaded me to stay on.
01:07:25I hope your journey south will not be too lonely.
01:07:27What did you say, George?
01:07:29Oh, pay no attention to that vulgar little man.
01:07:31I'm not a vulgar little man.
01:07:33You look vulgar. You're quite right, George.
01:07:35Ah, bless you, Maria, bless you.
01:07:37Don't you think Patti's quite wonderful this season?
01:07:39Personally, I prefer Caviar.
01:07:41No, I mean the singer, Adelina.
01:07:43Oh, the cotton garden woman.
01:07:45Well, Maria, there are voices and there are voices.
01:07:47That's what I feel about yours.
01:07:49You know, your voice has a certain rare quality.
01:07:52Fortunately.
01:07:54Thank you, Maria.
01:07:56What would you like me to sing?
01:07:58That one about when you were 41.
01:08:00What?
01:08:0217.
01:08:04Oh, you mean this one?
01:08:06That's the one.
01:08:08Richard, instead of standing there gaping,
01:08:10you could be upstairs unpacking my suitcases.
01:08:12All of them?
01:08:14All of them, and put out my pajamas.
01:08:16Maria, what is your favorite color?
01:08:18Pink.
01:08:20Then don't be shy, but let your music be only for me.
01:08:26I'm just 17, and I've never been
01:08:28to any stately ball.
01:08:34What have you been doing?
01:08:36Putting out George's pink pajamas.
01:08:50I have opened wide my lattice
01:08:52Letting in the laughing breeze
01:08:54Telling happy stories
01:08:56To the flowers and the trees
01:08:58Telling happy stories
01:09:00To the flowers
01:09:02And the trees
01:09:06Oh, the spring
01:09:08Oh, the spring
01:09:12Is coming
01:09:16Oh, the spring
01:09:19Is coming
01:09:23They're coming.
01:09:25Let them find us in a more romantic setting.
01:09:27Come.
01:09:33They've both gone.
01:09:37Idiots!
01:09:49It's all your fault.
01:09:51Stop them. Stop them. Why don't you do something?
01:09:53Perhaps you'd like me to swim out like a dog
01:09:55and bring them both back to my teeth.
01:09:57Bite him, Manchu. Bite him.
01:09:59I warn you. One move from that loathsome creature
01:10:01and I'll hurl her into the water.
01:10:03And I may not stop at her.
01:10:05Him.
01:10:07Come on, then.
01:10:13Maria.
01:10:15Maria.
01:10:17Maria.
01:10:19Maria!
01:10:21Well? Do boats ever come near this island?
01:10:23Not for weeks on end.
01:10:25Couldn't we signal to the mainland?
01:10:27But how?
01:10:29We could burn down the house.
01:10:31You try.
01:10:33That means you and I alone here.
01:10:35Yes, and just think what people will say.
01:10:37They'll say nothing.
01:10:39My reputation will save you from that.
01:10:41Your what?
01:10:43My reputation as a man of taste.
01:10:45Hey, you wouldn't want to come in, eh?
01:11:01George.
01:11:15George.
01:11:23No!
01:11:45George.
01:11:47George.
01:11:49George.
01:11:51George.
01:11:53George.
01:11:55George.
01:12:09George.
01:12:11George.
01:12:13George.
01:12:44Ho!
01:12:54Maria.
01:12:56Quiet, Wislak!
01:12:58Ho!
01:13:00Maria.
01:13:02Darling George.
01:13:04George.
01:13:06George.
01:13:08Ho!
01:13:10George.
01:13:12Ho!
01:13:16Ho!
01:13:18Ho!
01:13:20Ho!
01:13:22Ho!
01:13:24Ah!
01:13:36George!
01:13:38George!
01:13:41Ho!
01:13:43Ah!
01:13:45Richard, whatever's the matter?
01:13:47Oh, it's you again.
01:13:49Oh, I can't sleep at all.
01:13:51I'm having such terrible dreams.
01:13:53Oh, so am I. It's the haggis.
01:13:55I want to go back.
01:13:57So do I.
01:13:59Get out! You!
01:14:01Move!
01:14:10George.
01:14:12George.
01:14:34George.
01:14:36George.
01:14:38There's a man in my room.
01:14:40Why?
01:14:42She's not in her bed.
01:15:03Ah, there they are.
01:15:05I thought it was you breaking into Maria's bedroom.
01:15:07What are you doing with Maria?
01:15:08What are you doing in George's room?
01:15:09I thought you'd finished with him.
01:15:10Bounder!
01:15:11You burglar!
01:15:12How dare you!
01:15:13How dare I what?
01:15:14Make love to Maria!
01:15:15Oh, I'm very fond of Maria.
01:15:16I'm very fond of you.
01:15:29And that's Grandmama.
01:15:32And that's Grandpa.
01:15:38Oh, and that's a picture of your daddy taken on our honeymoon.
01:15:41Honeymoon is when you go away together after you are married.
01:15:45Pardon me, Lady Bristol.
01:15:46Haven't you made a mistake?
01:15:48Oh, I'm not Lady Bristol.
01:15:50And I don't think I made a mistake.
01:15:52You mean you married Richard?
01:15:54That's right.
01:15:56But what happened to George?
01:15:57Whom did he marry in the end?
01:15:59You'd be surprised.
01:16:01Look.
01:16:03You're joking.
01:16:05Believe me, it's no joke.
01:16:07George?
01:16:08Coming, darling.
01:16:15Ho!