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Man, narrating: Langford.

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Langford.

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If only if it hadn't been for Langford.

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How happy we might have been.

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Manwaring!

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Manwaring, don't turn
your back to me, please!

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I can't bear it!

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Frederica!

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Wait! I beg you!

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Catherine, a letter.

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Seems Lady Susan will finally visit.
In fact, she is already on her way.

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- What?
- Lady Susan Vernon?

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Congratulations on
being about to receive

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the most accomplished
flirt in all England.

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- You misjudge her, Reginald.
- How so?

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Well, like many women
of beauty and distinction,

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our sister-in-law has been a victim of
the spirit of jealousy and all that.

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- It's jealousy?
- Yes.

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Well, like anyone,
Susan might be capable

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of an action or a remark
which is open to misconstruction,

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but I can't help
but admire the fortitude

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with which she has
supported grave misfortune.

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Excuse me.
I spoke out of turn.

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Why would Lady Susan,
who was so well settled at Langford

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- suddenly want to visit us?
- What reason does she give?

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Her "anxiety to meet me
and to know the children"

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has never concerned her before.

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Your Ladyship.

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Susan. Come, hurry.

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My dear, such haste.
How curious you are.

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Mr. Johnson's carriage is about
to come into the street.

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Surely that must happen often.

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- You didn't receive my letter.
- Letter?

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Mr. Johnson forbids
my seeing you.

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Why, that's preposterous.
By what means "forbids?"

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He threatens the severest
punishment imaginable:

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sending me back to Connecticut.

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Oh, to be tarred and feathered.

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He claims to have important
business at Hartford.

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He threatens to settle there if our
connection isn't entirely severed.

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And for what possible
reason or pretext?

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His former ward Lucy
Manwaring wrote to him.

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Did she?

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- Horrid woman.
- I know.

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Deranged.
If she were going to be jealous,

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she should not have married
such a charming man.

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I recall thinking
as I approached Langford,

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I like this man.
Pray heaven no harm come of it.

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I was determined to be discrete,
and I have been,

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admitting no one's attentions
but Manwaring's,

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avoiding general flirtation entirely...

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except for a little notice
bestowed on Sir James Martin,

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but if the world knew my motive there,
it would honor me.

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- Martin?
- Sir James Martin,

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of Martindale.

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- Vastly rich, rather simple.
- Ideal.

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Miss Maria Manwaring
has set her cap for him,

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considering such an income too large
not to be shared,

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but with a little notice, I detached him
and soon had him in love with Frederica.

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If my daughter were not the
greatest simpleton on earth,

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- she'd be engaged to him now.
- What?

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She refused him...
a baronet with 10,000 a year.

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- It's all so provoking.
- But where will you live?

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If there were another place open to me,
I would crawl there on my knees.

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The worst spot this side of the ocean.

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A country village.
Churchill, my brother-in-law's seat.

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Mrs. Cross, a gentlewoman
in strait and circumstances,

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will come with me as my companion,

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to pack and unpack, you know,
that sort of thing.

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And, as there's an element
of friendship involved,

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I'm sure the paying of wages
would be offensive to us both.

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My brother-in-law
Charles Vernon is very rich.

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Once a man gets his name on a
banking house, he rolls in money.

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So it's not very rational for his lady
to begrudge the sums he's advanced me.

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Decidedly irrational.
Not rational at all.

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I have no money and no husband.

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Well, in one's plight, they say,
is one's opportunity.

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Not that I would ever want to think
in opportunistic terms.

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Oh, certainly not. Never.

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Churchill coming
into view, Your Ladyship.

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Heavens, what a bore.

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Yes. Decidedly boring.

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Charles.

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- Susan, welcome.
- Thank you.

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- This is Mrs. Cross.
- Mrs. Cross.

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You're quite welcome to Churchill.
This is Frederick and Ellen.

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Good afternoon, Frederick.
Very pleased to meet you.

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Mrs. Cross is a friend
of Lady Susan

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and should be in the adjoining room.

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No reason to complain
of Mr. Vernon's reception.

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Not entirely satisfied with his lady's.

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- No?
- Mm-mm.

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She's perfectly well bred...
surprisingly so.

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But her manner doesn't persuade me
she was disposed in my favor.

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As you might have noticed,
I sought to be as amiable as possible.

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Exceptionally amiable.
In fact, entirely charming.

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- Excuse me for saying so.
- Oh, not at all. It's true.

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I wanted her to be delighted with me,
but I didn't succeed.

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I can't understand it.

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It's true I've always detested her

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and that, before her marriage,
I went to great lengths to prevent it.

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Yet it shows an illiberal spirit to resent
for long a plan which didn't succeed.

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Decidedly illiberal.
Not liberal at all.

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My opposing her marriage

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and then later preventing her and
Charles from buying Vernon Castle

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might have given her
an unfavorable impression of me,

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but I've noticed that where
there's a disposition to dislike,

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a pretext will soon be found.

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- You mustn't reproach yourself.
- I shan't. The past is done.

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My project will be the children.

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I know a couple of their names already,

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and I've decided to attach myself
to young Frederick in particular...

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taking him on my lap and sighing
over him for his dear aunt's sake.

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[knock on door]

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Come in.

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Mrs. Vernon's compliments,
Your Ladyship.

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She asks if you and Mrs. Cross
would join her for tea.

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With pleasure.

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Mrs. Cross would prefer her repose,
but thank Mrs. Vernon.

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I'll join her directly.

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[woman speaking French]

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Susan: Yes, Frederick, I see
you have quite an appetite.

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You will grow tall and
handsome like your uncle.

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- [Frederick giggles]
- Ellen: Fred, dear, be good.

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[speaking French]

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Ellen:
Don't touch that.

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[crash]

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Frederick, be careful.
Oh, I'm so sorry.

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- No, not at all.
- <i>Les enfants...</i>

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Such a family resemblance.
Rather moves me.

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You'll want to change.

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No, no. Let's have our tea
while it's still warm.

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Mrs. Cross is a genius
with fabrics.

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- You sure?
- Oh, yes.

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How much Frederick reminds
me of his dear uncle.

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Do you think there's a resemblance?

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Oh, remarkable.
The eyes.

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Weren't Frederick Vernon's eyes brown?

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I refer more to the shape
and slope of the brow.

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Oh.

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I must thank you for this visit.

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I'm afraid the short notice
must have come as a surprise.

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Only because I understood you
to be so happily settled at Langford.

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Well, it's true Lady Manwaring and
her husband made me feel very welcome,

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but their outgoing dispositions
led them so often into society.

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I might have tolerated
such a life at one time,

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but the loss of a husband such as
Mr. Vernon cannot be borne easily.

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To stay with you here at your...

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charming environment
became my fondest wish.

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I was happy to have the chance to meet.

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Might I confide something?

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Langford was not ideal for my daughter.

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Her education has been neglected,
for which I fault myself.

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Mr. Vernon's illness prevented
me from giving her the attention

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that both duty and affection required.

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I therefore placed her at this
excellent school: Miss Somers-Keeve's.

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I trust Frederica will visit soon.

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Well, a visit, as delightful
as that might be,

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would represent so many hours and days

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deducted from the grand
affair of education,

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and I'm afraid Frederica can't
afford such deductions.

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But she'll come for Christmas.

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Alas, no.

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Miss Somers could only give her the
concentrated attention she requires then.

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- I'm so sorry.
- Not at all.

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If you'll excuse me,
I'll give it to Mrs. Cross,

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who, when rested, craves activity.

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Once she's applied her genius to it,

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all traces of little Frederick's
interesting design will disappear.

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The fees at Frederica's school

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are far too high
to even think of paying.

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So in a sense it's an economy.

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Yes, although Mrs. Cross
is upstairs resting.

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I confess to curiosity
to know this lady,

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to see firsthand her bewitching powers.

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- Is she as beautiful as they say?
- You worry me, Reginald.

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Don't. I understand Lady Susan
possesses a degree of captivating deceit

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- which might be pleasing to detect.
- You truly worry me.

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Good evening.

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What charming expressions.

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Susan, uh, let me introduce
my brother Reginald DeCourcy.

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Reginald, may I present
Frederick Vernon's widow

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Lady Susan and her
friend Mrs. Cross?

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Delighted to make your acquaintance.

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Your renown precedes you.

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I'm afraid the allusion escapes me.

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Your reputation

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as an ornament to our society.

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Oh, what you say surprises me.

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Since the great sadness
of my husband's death,

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I've lived in nearly perfect isolation.

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To better know his family and to
further remove myself from society,

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I came to Churchill,

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not to make new acquaintances
of frivolous sort,

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but of course I'm pleased
to know my sister's relations.

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** [woman singing opera]

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Mrs. Cross: I take it you are finding
Mr. DeCourcy's society more pleasurable.

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To some degree.

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At first, his conversation
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which is my aversion,
but since I've found

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a quality of callow idleness
which rather interests me.

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When I've inspired him
with greater respect

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than his sister's kind
offices have allowed,

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- he might in fact be an agreeable flirt.
- He's handsome, isn't he?

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In a cough-like way...
not like Manwaring, of course,

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but there's a certain pleasure in
making a person predetermined to dislike

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instead acknowledge one's superiority.

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How delightful it will be to humble
the pride of these pompous DeCourcys.

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A letter for you, my dear.

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- Letter?
- Yes, from Catherine.

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I hope she'll arrive soon.

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The season's cheerless
without children.

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Well?

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I'm afraid this cold
has affected my eyes.

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Save your eyes, my dear.
I'll read for you.

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- No, it's all right.
- No, I just...

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Here. Uh...

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Let's see.

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Mm.

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Catherine hopes you are well

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and asks most particularly
that you give me her love.

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Yes, and?

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Uh...

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Oh, Reginald has decided to stay
at Churchill to hunt with Charles.

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He cites the fine open weather. What
nonsense. The weather's not open at all.

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Well, maybe it is there, or it was when
she wrote. My dear, could you just read?

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- Verbatim?
- Yes, the words.

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Some of Catherine's
voice will be in them.

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Well, I'll read every word, comma,
and dash if that's what you wish.

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Here...

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Just the words, please.

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No punctuation at all?
All right. That's much easier.

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- Lady Susan?
- Yes, she has been visiting Churchill.

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- Lady Susan Vernon?
- Yes.

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Well, how could Reginald engage in
conversations with Lady Susan Vernon?

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Conversations which are...

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What would they talk about?

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My eyes have definitely cleared.
I can read it. Don't trouble yourself.

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00:16:49,785 --> 00:16:54,184
No, no. If my son and heir's involved
with such a lady, I must trouble myself.

241
00:17:06,001 --> 00:17:07,459
[clock chimes]

242
00:17:07,584 --> 00:17:10,292
- Well, I must go.
- No. I'll write.

243
00:17:10,417 --> 00:17:13,142
No, no.
If this is happening, there's no time.

244
00:17:24,459 --> 00:17:26,059
Thank you.

245
00:17:33,293 --> 00:17:34,709
- Father.
- Reginald.

246
00:17:34,834 --> 00:17:36,626
How extraordinary for you to be here.

247
00:17:36,751 --> 00:17:39,584
- You're in good health, I trust?
- No.

248
00:17:39,709 --> 00:17:42,168
How's Mother?

249
00:17:42,293 --> 00:17:44,043
What brings you to these parts?

250
00:17:44,168 --> 00:17:45,501
Take a seat.

251
00:17:45,626 --> 00:17:48,251
I won't dissemble and say I
have business in the district.

252
00:17:48,376 --> 00:17:50,834
What I've come about is more important.

253
00:17:50,959 --> 00:17:52,834
What's of such importance?

254
00:17:52,959 --> 00:17:56,584
I know young men don't admit inquiry
into affairs of the heart,

255
00:17:56,709 --> 00:18:00,251
but, as the sole son
of an ancient family,

256
00:18:00,376 --> 00:18:03,251
you must know that your conduct
is most important to us.

257
00:18:03,376 --> 00:18:07,084
Your happiness, ours, the credit of
the family name, its very survival...

258
00:18:07,209 --> 00:18:08,959
- Father.
- No, no, no. Hear me out.

259
00:18:09,084 --> 00:18:12,918
I know that you'd not deliberately form
an engagement without informing us.

260
00:18:14,126 --> 00:18:18,126
But I can't help fear
that you'll fall into an obligation

261
00:18:18,251 --> 00:18:20,459
which everyone near you must oppose.

262
00:18:20,584 --> 00:18:23,459
- What do you mean, sir?
- Well, Lady Susan Vernon's age alone...

263
00:18:23,584 --> 00:18:25,418
Father, you astonish me.

264
00:18:25,543 --> 00:18:26,834
What surprises you?

265
00:18:26,959 --> 00:18:30,709
Impugning such ambitions to Lady Susan.
She'd never think of such a thing.

266
00:18:30,834 --> 00:18:35,751
My sole interest has been to enjoy the
lively conversation of a superior lady.

267
00:18:35,876 --> 00:18:37,959
Catherine's prejudice is so great.

268
00:18:38,084 --> 00:18:41,209
Prejudice? Lady Susan's
neglect of her late husband,

269
00:18:41,334 --> 00:18:42,793
her extravagance and dissipation,

270
00:18:42,918 --> 00:18:45,418
her encouragement of other men
are so notorious...

271
00:18:45,543 --> 00:18:47,143
These are vile calumnies.

272
00:18:48,168 --> 00:18:51,084
I could explain each
but would not so dignify them.

273
00:18:53,418 --> 00:18:56,709
- I know you spend little time in society.
- Oh, none.

274
00:18:56,834 --> 00:18:59,626
Should you have frequented it more,
you'd know the astonishing degree

275
00:18:59,751 --> 00:19:01,751
of vile, hateful jealousy
in our country.

276
00:19:01,876 --> 00:19:04,043
Don't deprecate our country, sir.

277
00:19:07,251 --> 00:19:09,751
I can't prevent you
inheriting the family estate,

278
00:19:09,876 --> 00:19:12,084
and my ability to distress
you during my life

279
00:19:12,209 --> 00:19:14,459
is not the kind of revenge
that I would choose to take.

280
00:19:14,584 --> 00:19:17,293
- Father, this is unnecessary.
- No, no. Let me continue.

281
00:19:17,418 --> 00:19:22,168
A permanent connection
between you and Lady Susan Vernon

282
00:19:22,293 --> 00:19:25,043
would destroy every
comfort of our lives.

283
00:19:25,168 --> 00:19:29,126
It would be the death
of the honest pride

284
00:19:29,251 --> 00:19:32,126
with which we've always considered you.

285
00:19:32,251 --> 00:19:35,918
We'd blush to see you, to hear of you,
to think of you.

286
00:19:36,043 --> 00:19:37,334
Father,

287
00:19:37,459 --> 00:19:41,251
with the utmost humility,
let me say that what you imagine...

288
00:19:42,418 --> 00:19:44,018
is impossible.

289
00:19:59,959 --> 00:20:01,626
Susan:
Poor Mrs. Cross was obliged

290
00:20:01,751 --> 00:20:03,959
to accept a paid position
in Buckinghamshire.

291
00:20:04,084 --> 00:20:06,793
As there was an element
of friendship between us,

292
00:20:06,918 --> 00:20:09,584
I realized the paying of wages
would be offensive to us both.

293
00:20:09,709 --> 00:20:11,251
You value friendship highly.

294
00:20:11,376 --> 00:20:13,834
Yes. I hope I was
of some help to her.

295
00:20:13,959 --> 00:20:16,001
And your friends don't neglect you.

296
00:20:19,126 --> 00:20:20,793
Thank you, Charles.

297
00:20:24,501 --> 00:20:26,668
It's from Frederica's school.

298
00:20:32,084 --> 00:20:34,251
No.

299
00:20:34,376 --> 00:20:37,334
I can't believe it.
It defies comprehension.

300
00:20:37,459 --> 00:20:40,084
- What?
- Frederica has run away.

301
00:20:40,209 --> 00:20:43,334
- She's run away from school.
- Heavens. Where to?

302
00:20:43,459 --> 00:20:46,293
- They don't know.
- She's lost?

303
00:20:46,418 --> 00:20:49,751
No. They detected her plan
early enough to intercept her.

304
00:20:49,876 --> 00:20:52,168
What folly. Where could she
have thought of going?

305
00:20:52,293 --> 00:20:53,459
Surely here.

306
00:20:53,584 --> 00:20:56,251
No, this is the last
place she would come.

307
00:20:56,376 --> 00:20:59,584
- I mean, rather...
- But she must miss you terribly.

308
00:20:59,709 --> 00:21:03,709
Certainly. I just don't think
Churchill would be her object.

309
00:21:03,834 --> 00:21:06,084
Oh. This is outrageous.

310
00:21:06,209 --> 00:21:09,876
Miss Somers requires
that Frederica be removed from school.

311
00:21:10,001 --> 00:21:13,168
Miss Somers must be under the impression
that, as a widow without fortune,

312
00:21:13,293 --> 00:21:16,918
I may be bullied. Evidently she's
forgotten Frederica is a Vernon.

313
00:21:17,043 --> 00:21:19,126
But Charles must put this right.

314
00:21:19,251 --> 00:21:21,126
Confronted with his imposing words,

315
00:21:21,251 --> 00:21:24,584
even the mistress of a school
must be persuaded to act rightly.

316
00:21:32,751 --> 00:21:34,293
[bell tolls]

317
00:21:34,418 --> 00:21:37,626
I have no notion of Frederica
being so contrary.

318
00:21:37,751 --> 00:21:39,876
She seemed all Vernon milkiness.

319
00:21:40,001 --> 00:21:43,793
But it confirms the rightness
of my plan. Did Sir James call?

320
00:21:43,918 --> 00:21:45,793
- Several times.
- Excellent.

321
00:21:45,918 --> 00:21:47,834
I followed your instructions,

322
00:21:47,959 --> 00:21:51,584
scolding him roundly for making
love to Maria Manwaring.

323
00:21:51,709 --> 00:21:54,084
He protested that it had
only been in joke.

324
00:21:54,209 --> 00:21:56,459
You're right.
He's wonderfully silly.

325
00:21:56,584 --> 00:21:59,584
But we must not let Sir James forget
with whom he's in love.

326
00:21:59,709 --> 00:22:02,584
A man so rich and foolish
will not remain single long.

327
00:22:02,709 --> 00:22:04,834
Sir James is so far from
having forgotten the Vernons,

328
00:22:04,959 --> 00:22:07,584
I'm sure he'd marry either
of you in an instant.

329
00:22:07,709 --> 00:22:09,626
I must go back to Churchill.

330
00:22:09,751 --> 00:22:11,959
But I may need your help
finding a school

331
00:22:12,084 --> 00:22:14,084
if Miss Somers
won't take Frederica back.

332
00:22:14,209 --> 00:22:17,001
Under no circumstances will I
have Frederica at Churchill.

333
00:22:17,126 --> 00:22:18,251
That's wise.

334
00:22:18,376 --> 00:22:20,168
What do you mean?

335
00:22:20,293 --> 00:22:23,918
The nearness of their ages,
her and Reginald's.

336
00:22:24,043 --> 00:22:25,293
How unkind.

337
00:22:25,418 --> 00:22:27,584
- Forgive me.
- Forgiven.

338
00:22:27,709 --> 00:22:29,084
The fallacy of youth.

339
00:22:29,209 --> 00:22:33,043
Isn't it rather clear that it is we,
women of decision, who hold the trumps?

340
00:22:34,168 --> 00:22:36,876
Lady Susan?
Lady Susan Vernon.

341
00:22:37,001 --> 00:22:38,793
How dare you address me, sir.

342
00:22:38,918 --> 00:22:42,309
- But, Lady Susan...
- Begone, sir, or I will have you whipped.

343
00:22:43,334 --> 00:22:45,918
- Outrageous.
- Have you never met him?

344
00:22:46,043 --> 00:22:49,334
No. I know him well. I would never
speak to a stranger like that.

345
00:23:00,251 --> 00:23:02,459
I hope you will see my friend Alicia.

346
00:23:02,584 --> 00:23:06,793
She's an American from the Connecticut
branch of the Delancey family.

347
00:23:06,918 --> 00:23:10,834
Well, though even the best bred
Americans don't sound particularly fine,

348
00:23:10,959 --> 00:23:14,251
there's a freshness to her manner
I find rather tonic.

349
00:23:14,376 --> 00:23:17,793
Her family were treated outrageously
there during the late war,

350
00:23:17,918 --> 00:23:20,001
punished for their very
loyalty to the Crown.

351
00:23:20,126 --> 00:23:23,168
Americans really have shown themselves
to be a nation of ingrates.

352
00:23:23,293 --> 00:23:27,126
Only by having children can one begin
to understand such a dynamic.

353
00:23:27,251 --> 00:23:28,851
Yes.

354
00:23:36,751 --> 00:23:38,709
Susan, I've been looking for you.

355
00:23:38,834 --> 00:23:40,834
The afternoon coach brought this note.

356
00:23:42,043 --> 00:23:44,918
Perhaps Charles has
succeeded with Miss Somers.

357
00:23:50,418 --> 00:23:52,018
Oh, it's as I've feared.

358
00:23:52,143 --> 00:23:54,668
Miss Somers refuses to keep Frederica.

359
00:23:54,793 --> 00:23:57,209
She says she must think
of her school's reputation.

360
00:23:57,334 --> 00:24:00,001
Preposterous. I've never
heard of her school.

361
00:24:04,959 --> 00:24:07,959
- Could that be them?
- What, Frederica?

362
00:24:08,084 --> 00:24:10,251
Here.

363
00:24:10,376 --> 00:24:12,376
Hello, hello. Here we are.

364
00:24:12,501 --> 00:24:14,334
- Is this Frederica?
- Yes.

365
00:24:14,459 --> 00:24:17,709
Allow me to introduce
our niece... charming girl...

366
00:24:17,834 --> 00:24:19,584
uh, Miss Frederica Vernon.

367
00:24:20,793 --> 00:24:22,751
Welcome, Frederica.
We've longed to know you.

368
00:24:22,876 --> 00:24:24,793
My brother Reginald DeCourcy.

369
00:24:24,918 --> 00:24:26,751
Hello.
Pleased to meet you.

370
00:24:26,876 --> 00:24:28,710
Good afternoon, Frederica.

371
00:24:28,835 --> 00:24:30,751
Good afternoon, Mother.

372
00:24:34,085 --> 00:24:37,626
It's as I've feared.
Excuse me. I must go to my daughter.

373
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,293
Poor Frederica.

374
00:24:43,418 --> 00:24:45,835
- Poor mother of Frederica.
- What?

375
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,793
The daughter is, I understand,

376
00:24:48,918 --> 00:24:51,668
- a troubled girl.
- How do you so fear?

377
00:24:53,418 --> 00:24:56,876
She hasn't had tea.
Could be a lack of nourishment.

378
00:25:14,585 --> 00:25:15,918
Where is Frederica?

379
00:25:16,043 --> 00:25:19,710
In her rooms,
practicing the pianoforte.

380
00:25:19,835 --> 00:25:21,793
She practices quietly.

381
00:25:21,918 --> 00:25:24,085
Don't look.
Frederica's watching us.

382
00:25:24,210 --> 00:25:27,418
- Watching us?
- Through the window. Don't look.

383
00:25:27,543 --> 00:25:31,168
How odd to be spied upon.

384
00:25:31,293 --> 00:25:32,835
That's the parent's lot.

385
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,585
We bring these delightful
creatures into the world,

386
00:25:35,710 --> 00:25:38,126
eagerly, happily,
and then, before long,

387
00:25:38,251 --> 00:25:41,626
they're spying upon and judging us,
rarely favorably.

388
00:25:41,751 --> 00:25:46,335
Having children is our fondest wish, but
in doing so, we breed our acutest critics..

389
00:25:46,460 --> 00:25:50,460
It's a preposterous situation
but entirely of our own making.

390
00:25:50,585 --> 00:25:53,626
- I marvel at your good humor.
- Well, what alternative have we?

391
00:25:53,751 --> 00:25:56,835
It's the way of the world.
We must accept it with a smile.

392
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:58,960
Of course, when the little
ones are very small,

393
00:25:59,085 --> 00:26:01,835
there's a kind of sweetness
which partially compensates

394
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,918
for the dreadfulness which comes after.

395
00:26:04,043 --> 00:26:07,585
- You worry for Frederica's future?
- I worry for her present,

396
00:26:07,710 --> 00:26:11,710
acknowledging that the responsibility
for securing her future rests with me.

397
00:26:15,460 --> 00:26:17,835
** [woman singing opera]

398
00:26:33,835 --> 00:26:35,626
Go.

399
00:26:35,751 --> 00:26:37,668
[laughing] Come on.

400
00:26:47,751 --> 00:26:49,710
Pretty? You think so?

401
00:26:49,835 --> 00:26:51,543
Yes. You don't?

402
00:26:51,668 --> 00:26:53,626
No, I ought not to have said that.

403
00:26:53,751 --> 00:26:55,668
In any case, beauty matters little.

404
00:26:55,793 --> 00:27:00,585
It's vivacity and a lively intelligence
one looks for, even from the young.

405
00:27:13,418 --> 00:27:15,018
[laughing]

406
00:27:17,585 --> 00:27:20,382
Oh, I'm sorry.
Please excuse me.

407
00:27:20,507 --> 00:27:21,835
I beg your pardon.

408
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,585
- What is it, my dear?
- James: Miss Vernon!

409
00:27:23,710 --> 00:27:24,751
He's here.

410
00:27:24,876 --> 00:27:26,751
He is here.
Sir James is here.

411
00:27:26,876 --> 00:27:30,185
- Who?
- I'm so sorry. Please excuse me.

412
00:27:31,585 --> 00:27:33,126
James: Oh, Frederica!

413
00:27:33,251 --> 00:27:35,293
Fre...

414
00:27:35,418 --> 00:27:37,126
Oh. Sorry
to come like this.

415
00:27:37,251 --> 00:27:39,793
I... I suppose you weren't expecting me.

416
00:27:39,918 --> 00:27:43,251
Sir James, allow me
to introduce my sister-in-law

417
00:27:43,376 --> 00:27:46,960
Mrs. Catherine Vernon and her brother
Mr. Reginald DeCourcy.

418
00:27:47,085 --> 00:27:49,251
- How do you do?
- How do you do?

419
00:27:51,126 --> 00:27:53,835
How kind of you to ask.
Uh, excellent.

420
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,293
Truly, very well.
Thank you.

421
00:27:56,418 --> 00:27:58,835
Uh, excuse my hurry in coming,

422
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,876
the lack of notice beforehand,
et cetera, et cetera.

423
00:28:02,001 --> 00:28:04,835
The truth is I forgot to write.

424
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,126
Then it was too late.
Now I'm here.

425
00:28:08,251 --> 00:28:12,168
Took the liberty of a relation,
hoping to be one soon.

426
00:28:13,585 --> 00:28:15,751
I must say, you look surprised.

427
00:28:15,876 --> 00:28:19,043
You were astonished
to see me, no? Not?

428
00:28:19,168 --> 00:28:20,585
That's how it looked.

429
00:28:20,710 --> 00:28:23,168
Yes. I was astonished,
and I still am.

430
00:28:23,293 --> 00:28:28,335
Uh, an impressive establishment you
have here, sir. My congratulations.

431
00:28:28,460 --> 00:28:29,793
Immaculate.

432
00:28:29,918 --> 00:28:32,085
Mr. DeCourcy is
Mrs. Vernon's brother.

433
00:28:32,210 --> 00:28:33,335
Very good.

434
00:28:33,460 --> 00:28:37,168
It's her husband Charles Vernon
who has Churchill.

435
00:28:37,293 --> 00:28:38,626
Churchill.

436
00:28:38,751 --> 00:28:41,626
That's how you say it.

437
00:28:41,751 --> 00:28:44,835
All together like that:
Churchill. Ha ha!

438
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,168
Oh, well, that explains a lot.

439
00:28:47,293 --> 00:28:51,626
You see, I'd heard "church" and "hill"
but couldn't find either.

440
00:28:51,751 --> 00:28:55,251
All I could see was this big house.
Ha ha!

441
00:28:55,376 --> 00:28:57,626
Fine name, Churchill.

442
00:28:57,751 --> 00:29:01,751
Marlborough, right? The general.
Showed the French.

443
00:29:01,876 --> 00:29:05,585
- You must be very proud.
- No connection.

444
00:29:05,710 --> 00:29:08,835
But I believe I have
heard it spoken of.

445
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,460
I... I think you mentioned it.
Churchill.

446
00:29:12,585 --> 00:29:18,335
Yes, I think you did.
But, again, I heard "church" and "hill,"

447
00:29:18,460 --> 00:29:20,585
and I couldn't see either.

448
00:29:20,710 --> 00:29:26,626
But I realized I was in mistake
and now stand corrected.

449
00:29:26,751 --> 00:29:29,335
Ah, happens
quite a lot. Ha ha!

450
00:29:29,460 --> 00:29:32,585
Reginald, would you be so kind
as to take Sir James to see Charles?

451
00:29:32,710 --> 00:29:34,918
I think you'll find
Charles very well versed

452
00:29:35,043 --> 00:29:38,918
in the advanced agricultural methods
in which you've taken such an interest.

453
00:29:39,043 --> 00:29:43,001
Oh, yes. Advanced agricultural methods.
Very much so.

454
00:29:43,126 --> 00:29:47,293
Collins, who supervises Martindale
for me, speaks of them often.

455
00:29:47,418 --> 00:29:51,668
A landowner of the current day
must know all sorts of things.

456
00:29:51,793 --> 00:29:53,626
That is our role.

457
00:29:53,751 --> 00:29:56,293
"Hello, Collins," I say.

458
00:29:56,418 --> 00:30:00,268
"What advanced agricultural methods
have we today?"

459
00:30:01,918 --> 00:30:03,518
Excellent.

460
00:30:05,585 --> 00:30:07,918
Oh. There you are.

461
00:30:09,210 --> 00:30:10,810
Are you asleep?

462
00:30:12,418 --> 00:30:15,585
- No, Mama.
- Well, what, then?

463
00:30:15,710 --> 00:30:17,418
You were hiding from me.

464
00:30:17,543 --> 00:30:19,210
Please explain.

465
00:30:19,335 --> 00:30:21,543
No.

466
00:30:21,668 --> 00:30:23,543
My strange girl.

467
00:30:25,335 --> 00:30:28,668
- What were you up to back there?
- What?

468
00:30:28,793 --> 00:30:31,418
Rushing out before Sir
James entered the room.

469
00:30:31,543 --> 00:30:33,001
I couldn't bear to see him.

470
00:30:33,126 --> 00:30:38,251
Couldn't bear.
Ungenerous manner of speech.

471
00:30:38,376 --> 00:30:40,126
Frederica, dear,

472
00:30:40,251 --> 00:30:42,668
Sir James Martin is
a kindhearted young man

473
00:30:42,793 --> 00:30:46,960
whose only offense seems to be wanting
to provide you with a life of comfort.

474
00:30:49,460 --> 00:30:51,060
Have you nothing to say?

475
00:30:52,585 --> 00:30:55,335
Dear, our present comfortable state

476
00:30:55,460 --> 00:30:57,668
is at the most precarious sort.

477
00:30:57,793 --> 00:31:00,543
We don't live.
We visit.

478
00:31:00,668 --> 00:31:03,460
We're entirely at the mercy of
our friends and relations,

479
00:31:03,585 --> 00:31:06,668
as we discovered
so painfully at Langford.

480
00:31:06,793 --> 00:31:10,460
Here, you seem to have won
your aunt's affections.

481
00:31:10,585 --> 00:31:13,626
I think I served you well there, for I
believe she'd do anything to spite me.

482
00:31:13,751 --> 00:31:15,918
But such a dynamic
cannot continue forever.

483
00:31:16,043 --> 00:31:18,293
- But Mama...
- But Mama.

484
00:31:18,418 --> 00:31:21,918
I will not always be here
for you to contradict me.

485
00:31:22,043 --> 00:31:24,668
If a life of comfort
such as Sir James has to offer

486
00:31:24,793 --> 00:31:28,293
is not to your taste, what will you do?
How will you live?

487
00:31:28,418 --> 00:31:30,918
- I... I could teach.
- Teach.

488
00:31:31,043 --> 00:31:34,418
Had you been more in school,
you'd not consider such a thing.

489
00:31:34,543 --> 00:31:35,835
Answer this.

490
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,918
When our Lord wrote his commandments,

491
00:31:38,043 --> 00:31:42,377
which did he consider so important
that he put it in the fourth position?

492
00:31:42,502 --> 00:31:44,252
The fourth position?

493
00:31:44,377 --> 00:31:46,835
Yes, the fourth commandment.

494
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,252
I know the commandments,
but not their order.

495
00:31:50,377 --> 00:31:55,252
See? This is what comes of
an irregular education.

496
00:31:55,377 --> 00:31:57,335
Yes. Fourth commandment.

497
00:31:57,460 --> 00:32:00,293
- Thou shalt not...
- No, it's not a shalt not.

498
00:32:00,418 --> 00:32:02,252
- It's a shalt.
- A shalt?

499
00:32:02,377 --> 00:32:06,960
If I had not myself been present,
I would wonder if I were even your mother.

500
00:32:07,085 --> 00:32:10,043
"Honor thy father
and mother."

501
00:32:10,168 --> 00:32:13,585
I'm sorry, have I done anything
that's dishonored you or Father?

502
00:32:13,710 --> 00:32:15,252
To honor means, among other things,

503
00:32:15,377 --> 00:32:18,085
to listen with respect
to a parent's sincere council.

504
00:32:18,210 --> 00:32:21,002
I do listen with respect, Mama.
It's just that...

505
00:32:21,127 --> 00:32:24,585
If you will not pay attention to me, then
perhaps you will to a larger imperative.

506
00:32:24,710 --> 00:32:26,918
The law of the universe.

507
00:32:27,043 --> 00:32:30,835
An offer as splendid as Sir James's
is not likely to come around again.

508
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,252
He has offered you the one
thing he has of value to give,

509
00:32:34,377 --> 00:32:36,502
his income.

510
00:32:36,627 --> 00:32:38,335
I fear and reproach myself

511
00:32:38,460 --> 00:32:40,918
having shielded you for far too long.

512
00:32:41,043 --> 00:32:43,335
Had I let you starve a little bit more,

513
00:32:43,460 --> 00:32:45,335
you would resist much less.

514
00:32:45,460 --> 00:32:47,460
Mama, I was often hungry at school.

515
00:32:47,585 --> 00:32:49,127
Well, evidently, not hungry enough.

516
00:32:49,252 --> 00:32:51,293
In any case, the starvation
at the schoolhouse

517
00:32:51,418 --> 00:32:54,710
is nothing like that of a destitute.
Is that what you want?

518
00:32:54,835 --> 00:32:56,877
No.

519
00:32:57,002 --> 00:32:59,127
I can see Sir James is a kind man,

520
00:32:59,252 --> 00:33:03,460
and if it weren't a matter of marriage,
I'm sure I could like him.

521
00:33:03,585 --> 00:33:05,627
But marriage is for one's whole life.

522
00:33:05,752 --> 00:33:07,460
Not in my experience.

523
00:33:07,585 --> 00:33:10,585
Meanwhile, I must ask you not to speak
to your aunt and uncle about this matter,

524
00:33:10,710 --> 00:33:13,460
or seek their interference in any way.

525
00:33:13,585 --> 00:33:16,793
I insist.
Promise?

526
00:33:16,918 --> 00:33:19,768
- Remember the commandment.
- Yes, Mama.

527
00:33:23,877 --> 00:33:26,460
Sir James's arrival and suddenness

528
00:33:26,585 --> 00:33:28,335
requires some explanation.

529
00:33:28,460 --> 00:33:30,668
You were not too surprised, I hope.

530
00:33:30,793 --> 00:33:32,460
It was unexpected.

531
00:33:32,585 --> 00:33:35,918
Certainly.
To me as much as anyone.

532
00:33:36,043 --> 00:33:39,835
I'm afraid Sir James's best qualities
are not immediately apparent.

533
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,627
- Certainly, he's no Solomon.
- Solomon?

534
00:33:42,752 --> 00:33:44,335
The wise king in The Bible

535
00:33:44,460 --> 00:33:48,418
who had the idea of dividing the infant
disputed by two mothers in half.

536
00:33:48,543 --> 00:33:52,168
Or in two. I don't recall
the exact wording.

537
00:33:52,293 --> 00:33:55,627
- Yes, of course.
- So, Sir James is no Solomon.

538
00:33:55,752 --> 00:33:59,293
How many suitors of great wisdom could
a young woman expect to find these days?

539
00:33:59,418 --> 00:34:00,960
- I don't know.
- None.

540
00:34:01,085 --> 00:34:06,377
And, I confess, I ask myself is such
a quality even desirable in a husband?

541
00:34:06,502 --> 00:34:10,293
[chuckling]
How jolly.

542
00:34:10,418 --> 00:34:12,018
Tiny green balls.

543
00:34:13,585 --> 00:34:17,252
Mm. Yes.
Good tasting.

544
00:34:17,377 --> 00:34:20,460
Quite sweet.
What are they called?

545
00:34:20,585 --> 00:34:21,752
Peas.

546
00:34:21,877 --> 00:34:23,918
Oh, yes.
No, I knew that.

547
00:34:24,043 --> 00:34:25,877
I recall now.

548
00:34:26,002 --> 00:34:29,585
I must get Collins to cultivate
these at Martindale.

549
00:34:29,710 --> 00:34:33,460
Novelty vegetables.
Could make quite a packet.

550
00:34:33,585 --> 00:34:35,127
[laughs]

551
00:34:35,252 --> 00:34:37,168
Ohh. Tiny.

552
00:34:40,918 --> 00:34:42,585
I'm enjoying Sir James's visit.

553
00:34:42,710 --> 00:34:45,543
His conversation's lively.
Brings a new angle to things.

554
00:34:45,668 --> 00:34:48,085
What would you think, uh, to come
and see the Fredricksville Farm?

555
00:34:48,210 --> 00:34:51,043
He mentioned he had an interest
in agricultural methods.

556
00:34:51,168 --> 00:34:52,768
Yes.

557
00:34:54,418 --> 00:34:58,585
- Frederick, be careful.
- Frederick, you must try to be good.

558
00:35:06,460 --> 00:35:09,677
- He's utterly ridiculous.
- Certainly, he's no Solomon. But...

559
00:35:09,802 --> 00:35:12,710
- Solomon?
- The wise king from The Bible.

560
00:35:12,835 --> 00:35:14,835
I know he's not that.

561
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,918
But any man navigating the
cascades of romantic courtship,

562
00:35:18,043 --> 00:35:23,385
and occasionally falling into its foaming
waters is apt not to appear at his best.

563
00:35:23,510 --> 00:35:26,377
- What?
- A simple word, Reginald.

564
00:35:26,502 --> 00:35:28,335
Comprehension.

565
00:35:28,460 --> 00:35:29,877
I admire your caustic mind,

566
00:35:30,002 --> 00:35:32,127
but I think you're
not entirely sensible

567
00:35:32,252 --> 00:35:34,252
at the degree to which
you can intimidate others.

568
00:35:34,377 --> 00:35:37,585
Particularly a young man over
whom you have every advantage of,

569
00:35:37,710 --> 00:35:40,752
position, looks, and character.

570
00:35:40,877 --> 00:35:42,627
Sir James Martin
is a fool because of me.

571
00:35:42,752 --> 00:35:45,460
Yes. Around you,
he seems very silly.

572
00:35:45,585 --> 00:35:48,085
- Isn't he silly around everyone?
- No.

573
00:35:48,210 --> 00:35:49,960
I believe he's given everyone
the same impression.

574
00:35:50,085 --> 00:35:53,127
Well, they've only seen him around you.

575
00:35:53,252 --> 00:35:55,335
But you deny Sir James's
intentions toward you.

576
00:35:55,460 --> 00:35:57,918
- Toward me?
- He's clearly besotted with you.

577
00:35:58,043 --> 00:36:01,335
Oh, it's with Frederica he's smitten.

578
00:36:01,460 --> 00:36:05,793
- That's not possible.
- Well, he's proposed to her.

579
00:36:05,918 --> 00:36:08,585
How could such a blockhead
even be allowed to court your daughter?

580
00:36:08,710 --> 00:36:10,127
It's incomprehensible.

581
00:36:10,252 --> 00:36:13,543
This is the incomprehension
of the rich and easeful.

582
00:36:13,668 --> 00:36:16,752
You can afford to take the high ground,
and add another layer to your pride.

583
00:36:16,877 --> 00:36:19,585
If you realized the full
extent of ridiculous manhood

584
00:36:19,710 --> 00:36:22,043
a young girl without
fortune must endure,

585
00:36:22,168 --> 00:36:24,252
you'd be more generous to Sir James.

586
00:36:31,418 --> 00:36:34,168
Lady Susan: It was so good
you could steal away.

587
00:36:34,293 --> 00:36:37,168
We can only meet through
such subterfuges.

588
00:36:37,293 --> 00:36:38,960
Mr. Johnson
is relentless.

589
00:36:39,085 --> 00:36:41,168
I'll not be sent back to Connecticut.

590
00:36:41,293 --> 00:36:43,793
I don't see why he believes
that association with me

591
00:36:43,918 --> 00:36:46,252
would lower your reputation.

592
00:36:46,377 --> 00:36:48,293
But a question.

593
00:36:48,418 --> 00:36:51,293
Did Sir James mention to you
any plans to come to Churchill?

594
00:36:51,418 --> 00:36:53,835
Heavens no.
What folly.

595
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,585
How did Mr. DeCourcy
react?

596
00:36:55,710 --> 00:36:58,252
Well, I had some gratification there.

597
00:36:58,377 --> 00:37:01,710
At first, he observed Sir James with
attention not untinged with jealousy,

598
00:37:01,835 --> 00:37:04,252
but it was impossible
to really torture him,

599
00:37:04,377 --> 00:37:07,585
for I had to finally reveal
that his object was Frederica.

600
00:37:07,710 --> 00:37:10,060
Then he was all astonishment.

601
00:37:10,185 --> 00:37:11,164
Left to ourselves,

602
00:37:11,289 --> 00:37:14,043
I had no great difficulty
in convincing him I was justified.

603
00:37:14,168 --> 00:37:18,585
I don't remember the exact reasoning,
but it was all comfortably arranged.

604
00:37:18,710 --> 00:37:21,460
So what's your verdict
on young DeCourcy?

605
00:37:21,585 --> 00:37:24,085
Well, he's not stupid, and
he has a great deal to say,

606
00:37:24,210 --> 00:37:26,752
but I can't help but look
with a certain contempt

607
00:37:26,877 --> 00:37:31,293
on the fancies of a heart so doubting
the reasonableness of it's own emotions.

608
00:37:31,418 --> 00:37:33,960
I vastly prefer the generous
spirit of a Manwaring

609
00:37:34,085 --> 00:37:36,210
who deeply convinced of one's marriage

610
00:37:36,335 --> 00:37:39,627
can be satisfied that what
everyone does is right.

611
00:37:39,752 --> 00:37:45,043
I know that no one really deserves you,
but young DeCourcy might be worth having.

612
00:38:09,293 --> 00:38:12,252
Excuse me, Frederica.

613
00:38:12,377 --> 00:38:15,585
When I came down this morning, I...
I couldn't help but notice

614
00:38:15,710 --> 00:38:18,585
you were reading a book.

615
00:38:18,710 --> 00:38:21,918
Which book was that?

616
00:38:22,043 --> 00:38:25,127
This volume of Cooper's verse.

617
00:38:25,252 --> 00:38:29,585
Cooper the poet?
He... He also writes verse?

618
00:38:29,710 --> 00:38:31,460
Most impressive.

619
00:38:31,585 --> 00:38:33,585
Yes, he's versatile in that way.

620
00:38:38,919 --> 00:38:44,127
So, Frederica, you read
both verse and poetry.

621
00:38:44,252 --> 00:38:48,460
In this, I believe,
you take after your mother,

622
00:38:48,585 --> 00:38:50,585
who knows a great many things.

623
00:38:50,710 --> 00:38:54,627
Just yesterday, she cited to me
a story from The Bible

624
00:38:54,752 --> 00:38:57,460
about a very wise king.

625
00:38:57,585 --> 00:39:03,002
This reminded me of many such accounts
one learns in childhood.

626
00:39:03,127 --> 00:39:07,294
Perhaps most significant
in forming one's principles

627
00:39:07,419 --> 00:39:12,835
is that of the old prophet who came
down from the mount with tablets,

628
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,877
pleading the 12 commandments,

629
00:39:16,002 --> 00:39:21,169
which our Lord has taught us to obey
without fail.

630
00:39:21,294 --> 00:39:24,002
- 12 commandments.
- Mm.

631
00:39:24,127 --> 00:39:27,919
Excuse me but, uh,
I believe there were only 10.

632
00:39:30,585 --> 00:39:32,960
Really?

633
00:39:33,085 --> 00:39:35,252
Only 10 must be obeyed.
Excellent.

634
00:39:35,377 --> 00:39:40,585
[chuckles] Well, then,
wh... which two to take off?

635
00:39:40,710 --> 00:39:44,252
Perhaps the one about the Sabbath.
I prefer to hunt.

636
00:39:44,377 --> 00:39:47,877
- Well...
- After that, it becomes tricky.

637
00:39:48,002 --> 00:39:51,585
Many of the thou shalt nots.
Don't murder.

638
00:39:51,710 --> 00:39:54,710
Uh, don't covet
thy neighbor's house or wife.

639
00:39:54,835 --> 00:39:56,877
You... One simply
wouldn't do, anyway.

640
00:39:57,002 --> 00:39:59,794
[chuckles]
Because they are wrong.

641
00:39:59,919 --> 00:40:03,794
Whether the Lord allows us
to take them off or not.

642
00:40:09,335 --> 00:40:10,935
[chuckles]

643
00:40:16,627 --> 00:40:18,544
It's so kind of you.

644
00:40:18,669 --> 00:40:20,377
No, uh, delighted.

645
00:40:20,502 --> 00:40:23,502
Honored.
My... my pleasure.

646
00:40:23,627 --> 00:40:25,710
Would you like me to sign a note?

647
00:40:25,835 --> 00:40:27,502
Uh, no, no documents.

648
00:40:27,627 --> 00:40:29,585
Uh, no note necessary.

649
00:40:29,710 --> 00:40:33,710
All in the family,
or hoping to be soon.

650
00:40:33,835 --> 00:40:36,377
And, uh...
and the carriage?

651
00:40:36,502 --> 00:40:40,252
Oh, yes. The carriage.
Definitely. Certainly.

652
00:40:40,377 --> 00:40:42,752
My pleasure.
Honored.

653
00:40:44,544 --> 00:40:47,669
**

654
00:40:51,419 --> 00:40:53,585
[clapping]

655
00:41:45,585 --> 00:41:47,585
- Good day, Charles.
- Good day.

656
00:42:02,585 --> 00:42:05,460
Oh, hello.

657
00:42:05,585 --> 00:42:07,502
- Good day.
- Good day.

658
00:42:07,627 --> 00:42:10,335
Do you know where
I might find your mother?

659
00:42:10,460 --> 00:42:12,585
I believe she has gone out.

660
00:42:12,710 --> 00:42:14,310
Gone out?

661
00:42:16,585 --> 00:42:19,169
- Are you all right?
- Mm-hm.

662
00:42:19,294 --> 00:42:20,894
What is it?

663
00:42:22,752 --> 00:42:24,352
Tell me what's wrong.

664
00:42:28,252 --> 00:42:29,852
Please say.

665
00:42:32,169 --> 00:42:34,877
Sir, I...

666
00:42:35,002 --> 00:42:37,210
I do not know to whom I can apply.

667
00:42:37,335 --> 00:42:40,460
What is it?
Please tell me.

668
00:42:40,585 --> 00:42:43,210
I'm sorry, I shouldn't
have said anything.

669
00:42:43,335 --> 00:42:44,919
It's just that...

670
00:42:45,044 --> 00:42:47,585
You're the only one I think
Mother might listen to.

671
00:42:47,710 --> 00:42:49,585
Why would you say that?

672
00:42:49,710 --> 00:42:52,419
Well, she pays no one such regard as
she does you, except Lord Manwaring.

673
00:42:52,544 --> 00:42:54,836
- What do you mean, Manwaring?
- No.

674
00:42:54,961 --> 00:42:57,044
I'm sorry.

675
00:42:57,169 --> 00:42:58,960
It... It's just that

676
00:42:59,085 --> 00:43:02,085
of all the people, I thought
Mother would listen most to you.

677
00:43:05,252 --> 00:43:07,794
Let me understand this.

678
00:43:07,919 --> 00:43:10,794
It's that you find
Sir James's presence,

679
00:43:10,919 --> 00:43:14,544
and courtship of you unwelcome.

680
00:43:14,669 --> 00:43:18,585
If his presence here disturbs you, it's
to Charles and my sister you should apply.

681
00:43:18,710 --> 00:43:20,585
I promised Mother I would not.

682
00:43:20,710 --> 00:43:24,210
I don't understand.
Why would you promise that?

683
00:43:24,335 --> 00:43:26,460
She required it.

684
00:43:26,585 --> 00:43:28,930
What does she require?

685
00:43:29,055 --> 00:43:31,127
What?

686
00:43:31,252 --> 00:43:33,585
These silences are vexing.

687
00:43:33,710 --> 00:43:36,877
- Mama forbade it.
- I don't understand.

688
00:43:37,002 --> 00:43:39,127
I promised not to speak to my
aunt and uncle on this subject.

689
00:43:39,252 --> 00:43:41,252
- For what possible reason?
- It's wrong of me to speak now,

690
00:43:41,377 --> 00:43:44,460
and I'd not have
if I weren't at my wit's end.

691
00:43:44,585 --> 00:43:47,044
But I can't marry Sir James.

692
00:43:47,169 --> 00:43:48,794
To what do you object?

693
00:43:51,460 --> 00:43:53,585
You must have noticed.

694
00:43:53,710 --> 00:43:55,377
He's very silly.

695
00:43:55,502 --> 00:43:57,252
But besides that.

696
00:43:57,377 --> 00:43:58,835
Besides that?

697
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:02,127
Yes, I confess the first impression
he made on me was also...

698
00:44:02,252 --> 00:44:03,460
indifferent,

699
00:44:03,585 --> 00:44:05,919
but don't those
knowledgeable of such matters

700
00:44:06,044 --> 00:44:08,002
consider Sir James a good catch,

701
00:44:08,127 --> 00:44:10,835
or match or whatever it is they say?

702
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,210
A man of cheerful temperament,

703
00:44:13,335 --> 00:44:16,252
happy to devote a large
income to a wife's comfort.

704
00:44:16,377 --> 00:44:18,085
I would rather work for my bread.

705
00:44:18,210 --> 00:44:20,210
But what could you do?

706
00:44:20,335 --> 00:44:21,544
I could teach.

707
00:44:21,669 --> 00:44:22,960
- Teach.
- I could...

708
00:44:23,085 --> 00:44:24,210
Yes.

709
00:44:24,335 --> 00:44:28,419
You must have been very little
in school to think that.

710
00:44:28,544 --> 00:44:30,877
Tell me, how did this happen?

711
00:44:31,002 --> 00:44:32,919
Your mother is a woman
of excellent understanding.

712
00:44:33,044 --> 00:44:36,669
Her concern for you is great,
though wise and clear-eyed.

713
00:44:36,794 --> 00:44:41,252
How could she be as mistaken as you
suggest, if you truly despise Sir James?

714
00:44:41,377 --> 00:44:43,585
I don't despise Sir James.

715
00:44:43,710 --> 00:44:46,460
I'm sure he's a kind man.

716
00:44:46,585 --> 00:44:48,460
And he has a...

717
00:44:48,585 --> 00:44:50,835
charm of a kind.

718
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,044
And certainly he is likable,

719
00:44:53,169 --> 00:44:57,460
and I'm sure I could like him if he
were a cousin or a cousin's cousin,

720
00:44:57,585 --> 00:45:02,585
or a friend or a friend's friend,
or an in-law or a step something.

721
00:45:02,710 --> 00:45:06,294
I just don't want to marry him.

722
00:45:06,419 --> 00:45:09,669
Come.
Tell me the particulars.

723
00:45:09,794 --> 00:45:11,669
If they are as you say,

724
00:45:11,794 --> 00:45:15,252
I can't for the world imagine your
mother would remain deaf to your wishes.

725
00:45:19,419 --> 00:45:21,019
Thank you.

726
00:45:27,086 --> 00:45:29,794
Catherine.
I'd like to thank you for this visit.

727
00:45:29,919 --> 00:45:32,002
- You're leaving?
- Yes, I must.

728
00:45:32,127 --> 00:45:33,252
Why?

729
00:45:33,377 --> 00:45:36,294
As you've said, it's important that this
season one of us be with our parents.

730
00:45:36,419 --> 00:45:37,669
You've just decided this now?

731
00:45:37,794 --> 00:45:41,836
Yes, but before going
I must ask one thing.

732
00:45:43,586 --> 00:45:46,502
I'd be grateful if you could see
justice is done Frederica.

733
00:45:46,627 --> 00:45:48,794
She's a sweet girl
who deserves a better fate.

734
00:45:48,919 --> 00:45:50,836
I'm glad you now see her worth.

735
00:45:50,961 --> 00:45:54,086
Yes. My eyes have opened
to many things.

736
00:46:02,461 --> 00:46:07,127
- Aunt, I did something very wrong.
- I'm sure not.

737
00:46:07,252 --> 00:46:10,752
No, I... I did. And now
he and my mother have quarreled.

738
00:46:10,877 --> 00:46:13,294
He's to leave and it is my fault.

739
00:46:13,419 --> 00:46:16,336
- Mama will never forgive me.
- Don't worry.

740
00:46:16,461 --> 00:46:19,769
If any of what you fear comes to pass,
I'll happily intercede.

741
00:46:33,627 --> 00:46:35,252
Good afternoon, Catherine.

742
00:46:35,377 --> 00:46:38,127
That cough of young
Frederick's worries me.

743
00:46:38,252 --> 00:46:40,752
I have from London some of Dr.
Preston's excellent lozenges.

744
00:46:40,877 --> 00:46:43,919
- Would you like them for the dear boy?
- Yes. Thank you.

745
00:46:44,044 --> 00:46:47,211
Also, is it true that we're losing Mr.
DeCourcy today?

746
00:46:47,336 --> 00:46:48,752
Yes, it seems that we will.

747
00:46:48,877 --> 00:46:50,627
How remarkable.

748
00:46:50,752 --> 00:46:55,794
When he and I spoke barely an hour ago,
he made no mention of it.

749
00:46:55,919 --> 00:46:58,169
But perhaps he did not
then know himself.

750
00:46:58,294 --> 00:47:01,127
Young men are so impetuous
in their resolutions.

751
00:47:01,252 --> 00:47:03,377
Why, I wouldn't say
Reginald's impetuous.

752
00:47:03,502 --> 00:47:06,586
Oh, yes, he is.
He's like other young men that way.

753
00:47:06,711 --> 00:47:10,461
Hasty in making resolutions,
and then just as quick to unmake them.

754
00:47:10,586 --> 00:47:13,294
I would not be surprised if he were to
change his mind and stay.

755
00:47:13,419 --> 00:47:15,461
He seemed quite decided.

756
00:47:15,586 --> 00:47:17,294
Well, we'll see.

757
00:47:17,419 --> 00:47:20,502
Some strangeness also seems
to be affecting Frederica.

758
00:47:20,627 --> 00:47:24,794
I believe the girl's actually fallen
in love. With your brother the object.

759
00:47:38,919 --> 00:47:42,294
Sir, Lady Susan asked if she
might have a word with you.

760
00:47:42,419 --> 00:47:46,794
She asked if you would be so kind
as to visit her in her dressing room.

761
00:47:59,377 --> 00:48:01,711
[knocking]

762
00:48:01,836 --> 00:48:03,436
Lady Susan:
Come in.

763
00:48:11,919 --> 00:48:13,836
I beg your pardon
for calling you here, sir,

764
00:48:13,961 --> 00:48:18,502
but I've just learned of
your intention to leave today.

765
00:48:18,627 --> 00:48:22,461
- Is that true?
- Yes, it is.

766
00:48:22,586 --> 00:48:24,186
May we close the door?

767
00:48:29,919 --> 00:48:34,586
I entreat you not, on my account,
to shorten your visit by even an hour.

768
00:48:34,711 --> 00:48:36,961
Well...

769
00:48:37,086 --> 00:48:41,086
I'm perfectly aware that after
what has passed between us,

770
00:48:41,211 --> 00:48:46,461
it will ill suit either of us
to remain in the same house.

771
00:48:46,586 --> 00:48:48,586
It is I who should go.

772
00:48:48,711 --> 00:48:50,627
No. Why?

773
00:48:50,752 --> 00:48:54,294
My visit has already been
inconvenient for your family.

774
00:48:54,419 --> 00:48:59,294
For me to stay risks dividing a clan
affectionately attached to one another.

775
00:48:59,419 --> 00:49:04,586
Where I go is of little consequence.
Whereas your presence is important to all.

776
00:49:17,377 --> 00:49:19,794
Lady Susan: It's terrifying how
close I came to destruction.

777
00:49:19,919 --> 00:49:23,627
It all started with Frederica,
in a grip of a madness of some kind,

778
00:49:23,752 --> 00:49:25,961
entreating Reginald
to intercede on her behalf

779
00:49:26,086 --> 00:49:29,752
as if I were some kind of unkind mother
not wanting the best for her child.

780
00:49:29,877 --> 00:49:33,877
Next, Reginald paid a visit to my rooms
with an expression of the utmost solemnity

781
00:49:34,002 --> 00:49:35,961
to inform me of the impropriety

782
00:49:36,086 --> 00:49:38,586
of allowing Sir James
Martin to court Frederica.

783
00:49:38,711 --> 00:49:41,877
I tried to joke him out of it,
but he refused to be.

784
00:49:42,002 --> 00:49:43,627
Heavens, is he really so pompous?

785
00:49:43,752 --> 00:49:47,544
The pomposity, I assume.
It was his disloyalty, which outraged me.

786
00:49:47,669 --> 00:49:52,086
If he held me in true regard, he would not
believe such insinuations in my disfavor.

787
00:49:52,211 --> 00:49:56,336
A worthy lover should assume one has
unanswerable motives for all one does.

788
00:49:56,461 --> 00:49:58,502
Certainly.

789
00:49:58,627 --> 00:50:00,252
Scarcely an hour had gone by

790
00:50:00,377 --> 00:50:03,336
when I learned that Reginald
was leaving Churchill.

791
00:50:03,461 --> 00:50:04,752
Well, something had to be done.

792
00:50:04,877 --> 00:50:08,044
Condescension was necessary,
though I abhor it.

793
00:50:08,169 --> 00:50:11,377
I sent for Reginald. When he appeared,
he seemed astonished at the silence,

794
00:50:11,502 --> 00:50:14,544
and he seemed as though he
were half-fearing, half-wishing

795
00:50:14,669 --> 00:50:16,377
to be softened by what I might say.

796
00:50:16,502 --> 00:50:19,086
The outcome justifies some
portion of vanity, my dear,

797
00:50:19,211 --> 00:50:21,586
for the effect was no less
favorable than immediate.

798
00:50:21,711 --> 00:50:24,919
- You brilliant creature.
- So now I have many tasks.

799
00:50:25,044 --> 00:50:27,752
I must punish Frederica for
her application to Reginald,

800
00:50:27,877 --> 00:50:30,627
and punish him for
receiving it so favorably.

801
00:50:30,752 --> 00:50:32,377
And I must make myself serious amends

802
00:50:32,502 --> 00:50:34,877
for the humiliations
I've been obliged to undergo.

803
00:50:36,586 --> 00:50:38,127
Manwaring's in town.

804
00:50:38,252 --> 00:50:41,211
Manwaring.
How is he, the divine man?

805
00:50:41,336 --> 00:50:45,002
Absolutely miserable about you.
And jealous of DeCourcy.

806
00:50:45,127 --> 00:50:48,294
To such a degree I can't answer for his
not committing some great imprudence

807
00:50:48,419 --> 00:50:50,877
- such as following you to Churchill.
- Heavens.

808
00:50:51,002 --> 00:50:53,794
[chuckles] I think I've
dissuaded him from it.

809
00:50:53,919 --> 00:50:55,627
If you do follow my advice
and marry DeCourcy,

810
00:50:55,752 --> 00:50:58,877
it will be indispensable for you
to get Manwaring out of the way.

811
00:50:59,002 --> 00:51:00,836
Only you have the influence
to send him home.

812
00:51:00,961 --> 00:51:04,586
And by remaining in town, I'll be able
to reward a long penance at Churchill.

813
00:51:04,711 --> 00:51:05,627
[door opens]

814
00:51:05,752 --> 00:51:08,336
With a little wealth anticipation.

815
00:51:08,461 --> 00:51:12,627
Madam, Lord Manwaring has arrived,
and begs to be admitted.

816
00:51:12,752 --> 00:51:14,352
Please ask him to wait.

817
00:51:28,169 --> 00:51:29,711
Miss Vernon?

818
00:51:29,836 --> 00:51:32,086
It's so good to see you here.

819
00:51:32,211 --> 00:51:34,252
Might I help you?

820
00:51:34,377 --> 00:51:38,002
Yes. A friend was asking...

821
00:51:38,127 --> 00:51:42,127
how in accord with Christian teaching
the fourth commandment should be honored?

822
00:51:42,252 --> 00:51:47,002
The fourth commandment? Yes, remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

823
00:51:47,127 --> 00:51:51,336
No, I meant the commandment
"Honor thy mother and father."

824
00:51:51,461 --> 00:51:53,961
The fifth commandment.
My favorite.

825
00:51:54,086 --> 00:51:56,711
It's the church of Rome
that has it as the fourth.

826
00:51:56,836 --> 00:51:59,752
Yes, the fifth commandment,
Honor thy father and thy mother

827
00:51:59,877 --> 00:52:05,252
that thy days may be long upon the land
which the Lord, thy God, giveth thee.

828
00:52:05,377 --> 00:52:07,336
Beautiful. Profound.

829
00:52:07,461 --> 00:52:12,211
I believe one should apply this
sentiment of gratitude and loyalty

830
00:52:12,336 --> 00:52:14,586
to every aspect of our lives.

831
00:52:14,711 --> 00:52:17,627
We're not born into a savage wilderness

832
00:52:17,752 --> 00:52:20,919
but into a beautiful mansion
of the Lord that

833
00:52:21,044 --> 00:52:25,461
the Lord and those who have
gone before us have constructed.

834
00:52:25,586 --> 00:52:30,461
We must avoid neglecting this mansion,
but rather glorify and preserve it.

835
00:52:30,586 --> 00:52:33,169
As we should all
of the Lord's creation.

836
00:52:33,294 --> 00:52:37,586
The superb Baumgarten has
outlined this aesthetic trinity

837
00:52:37,711 --> 00:52:41,336
as beauty, truth, and good.

838
00:52:41,461 --> 00:52:48,211
Truth is the perfect, perceived
by reason. Beauty by the senses.

839
00:52:48,336 --> 00:52:51,586
And the good by moral will.

840
00:53:06,419 --> 00:53:08,336
From where do you come?

841
00:53:08,461 --> 00:53:10,628
Church.

842
00:53:10,753 --> 00:53:13,378
Why were you in church?

843
00:53:13,503 --> 00:53:16,044
Well...

844
00:53:16,169 --> 00:53:17,794
It is our religion.

845
00:53:17,919 --> 00:53:22,044
Yes, but this time of day,
neither morning prayer nor vespers?

846
00:53:22,169 --> 00:53:25,378
The sky had clouded over.
I was sure there would be a downpour.

847
00:53:25,503 --> 00:53:27,669
There was.

848
00:53:27,794 --> 00:53:31,336
Oh, you are quite drenched!
You must get into some dry clothes!

849
00:53:31,461 --> 00:53:33,753
Oh, excuse me.

850
00:53:40,836 --> 00:53:43,086
[ birds crowing ]

851
00:53:51,003 --> 00:53:53,128
Dearest, welcome.

852
00:53:53,253 --> 00:53:55,294
What joy your letter gave us.

853
00:53:55,419 --> 00:53:57,919
- I wrote too hastily.
- What?

854
00:53:58,044 --> 00:54:01,919
I couldn't imagine that every expectation
I had would be dashed so quickly.

855
00:54:02,044 --> 00:54:03,128
You frighten me.

856
00:54:03,253 --> 00:54:06,544
Poor girl. Her one
chance to break free.

857
00:54:06,669 --> 00:54:09,169
Who knows what punishment
her mother will now impose.

858
00:54:09,294 --> 00:54:12,586
But Reginald can't be blind
to such a lovely girl.

859
00:54:12,711 --> 00:54:14,169
He's become blind.

860
00:54:14,294 --> 00:54:18,253
Reginald is more securely
Lady Susan's than ever.

861
00:54:18,378 --> 00:54:23,378
Please don't tell your father.
I worry for his constitution.

862
00:54:23,503 --> 00:54:25,836
Tell me what?

863
00:54:46,128 --> 00:54:47,961
Susan, stop!

864
00:54:48,086 --> 00:54:50,711
Dreadful news.
Mr. Johnson's been cured.

865
00:54:50,836 --> 00:54:51,961
Oh, how is that possible?

866
00:54:52,086 --> 00:54:55,003
No sooner had he heard you were
in London then he had a cure.

867
00:54:55,128 --> 00:54:56,919
Well, then could you do
me the greatest favor?

868
00:54:57,044 --> 00:55:00,086
Could you go to Seymour Street
and receive Reginald there?

869
00:55:00,211 --> 00:55:02,461
I dare not risk his
and Manwaring's meeting.

870
00:55:02,586 --> 00:55:05,211
Keep him with you
all evening if you can.

871
00:55:05,336 --> 00:55:07,211
Make up anything.

872
00:55:36,753 --> 00:55:38,836
I'm sorry I wasn't there to greet you.

873
00:55:38,961 --> 00:55:43,669
But didn't I provide
a charming substitute?

874
00:55:43,794 --> 00:55:46,628
Strange, you remain silent

875
00:55:46,753 --> 00:55:49,586
but Mrs. Johnson couldn't
stop singing your praises.

876
00:55:49,711 --> 00:55:50,961
Excuse me?

877
00:55:51,086 --> 00:55:53,378
I fear Alicia's rather
fallen in love with you.

878
00:55:53,503 --> 00:55:55,586
It's given me quite a scare.

879
00:55:55,711 --> 00:55:58,086
You're joking.

880
00:55:58,211 --> 00:55:59,586
But you did like her.

881
00:55:59,711 --> 00:56:02,919
Of course.

882
00:56:03,044 --> 00:56:04,253
I so admire Alicia.

883
00:56:04,378 --> 00:56:08,378
She has none of the uncouthness
one expects from Americans

884
00:56:08,503 --> 00:56:10,461
but all of the candor.

885
00:56:10,586 --> 00:56:13,378
Her husband, Mr. Johnson, is
older and rather disagreeable.

886
00:56:13,503 --> 00:56:16,586
But a word of complaint never
drops from Alicia's lips.

887
00:56:16,711 --> 00:56:18,794
Exemplary.

888
00:56:18,919 --> 00:56:21,461
Only by one's friends can
one truly be known.

889
00:56:21,586 --> 00:56:25,669
That Alicia is mine will, I hope,
help you think better of me.

890
00:56:25,794 --> 00:56:27,919
I already thought well of you.

891
00:56:28,044 --> 00:56:32,878
You are not plagued by doubt?

892
00:56:33,003 --> 00:56:35,586
Some things disconcerted me,
that you were not here...

893
00:56:35,711 --> 00:56:38,961
Please, Reginald, don't be severe.
I can't support reproaches.

894
00:56:39,086 --> 00:56:41,753
- But...
- No, I entreat you. I can't support them.

895
00:56:41,878 --> 00:56:46,586
My absence was to arrange a matter
so that we could be together.

896
00:56:46,711 --> 00:56:49,919
I'm forbidden to say more.
Please don't reproach me.

897
00:56:56,044 --> 00:56:58,294
Have you considered what I asked?

898
00:56:58,419 --> 00:57:02,211
I have, and I believe that
our affairs require a caution

899
00:57:02,336 --> 00:57:05,961
and delicacy that perhaps
in our candid enthusiasm,

900
00:57:06,086 --> 00:57:08,586
we might have insufficiently heeded.

901
00:57:08,711 --> 00:57:09,919
What do you mean?

902
00:57:10,044 --> 00:57:12,961
I fear that our feelings have
hurried us to a degree

903
00:57:13,086 --> 00:57:15,461
which is in ill accord with
the views of the world.

904
00:57:15,586 --> 00:57:17,294
I'm sure that in time...

905
00:57:17,419 --> 00:57:19,669
Perhaps with time, but...

906
00:57:19,794 --> 00:57:21,461
Given the poignancy or our feelings...

907
00:57:21,586 --> 00:57:22,836
You no longer wish to marry?

908
00:57:22,961 --> 00:57:25,961
No! No, all
I'm saying, or,

909
00:57:26,086 --> 00:57:28,169
or hesitantly suggesting
is that we postpone

910
00:57:28,294 --> 00:57:31,586
an open understanding until
the opinion of the world

911
00:57:31,711 --> 00:57:34,794
is more in accord with
our inclinations.

912
00:57:36,628 --> 00:57:39,586
- That could mean never.
- No, no.

913
00:57:39,711 --> 00:57:42,628
Perhaps... months.

914
00:57:42,753 --> 00:57:45,336
I confess that such delay is
against my every inclination.

915
00:57:45,461 --> 00:57:46,961
Then let's.

916
00:57:47,086 --> 00:57:51,586
No, Reginald, I will not be
responsible for dividing your family.

917
00:57:51,711 --> 00:57:54,003
I thought we'd decided.

918
00:57:54,128 --> 00:57:57,294
I know such delay is insupportable,

919
00:57:57,419 --> 00:57:59,544
especially when we're both in London.

920
00:57:59,669 --> 00:58:02,378
But separations, only those
that are also geographical

921
00:58:02,503 --> 00:58:05,294
can reasonably be tolerated.

922
00:58:05,419 --> 00:58:08,169
- What?
- I'm sorry, Reginald.

923
00:58:08,294 --> 00:58:11,294
Staying in London would be
the death of our reputations.

924
00:58:11,419 --> 00:58:14,086
We must not meet.

925
00:58:14,211 --> 00:58:18,086
And not to meet, we must not be near.

926
00:58:18,211 --> 00:58:22,253
As cruel as it may seem, the necessity
of it must be evident to you.

927
00:58:22,378 --> 00:58:24,044
Where will you go?

928
00:58:24,169 --> 00:58:26,211
Of course, it's necessary
that I remain in London.

929
00:58:26,336 --> 00:58:30,794
There are arrangements that I
must make for us to be together.

930
00:58:30,919 --> 00:58:34,211
But on the contrary, I know
your family crave your company.

931
00:58:34,336 --> 00:58:38,586
Particularly that elderly gentleman
to whom you owe so much.

932
00:58:38,711 --> 00:58:43,461
I would hate to be the cause of an
<i>�loignement</i> between you and your father.

933
00:58:43,586 --> 00:58:47,503
Who, forgive me,
might not have long left.

934
00:58:47,628 --> 00:58:50,586
There's no reason for
worry that I know of.

935
00:58:50,711 --> 00:58:53,586
- Father's rather in his prime.
- Oh, thank heavens.

936
00:58:53,711 --> 00:58:56,294
So he's not in decline.

937
00:58:56,419 --> 00:59:00,336
He has the usual aches and pains, but
he's overall, I believe, in good health.

938
00:59:00,461 --> 00:59:03,461
In any case, he'd not want
any concern on that account,

939
00:59:03,586 --> 00:59:06,961
- which he'd consider so much rubbish.
- Ah, mortality.

940
00:59:07,086 --> 00:59:10,378
Our mortality, and that of others,
but most particularly our own

941
00:59:10,503 --> 00:59:14,253
is the hardest and most intractable
hand life can deal us.

942
00:59:14,378 --> 00:59:17,336
I long to meet the dear gentleman.

943
00:59:17,461 --> 00:59:21,586
Of course, it's natural that he
would want to ignore or minimize

944
00:59:21,711 --> 00:59:24,461
the cold, sad end that awaits us all.

945
00:59:24,586 --> 00:59:26,378
Not at all.
Father's a Christian

946
00:59:26,503 --> 00:59:29,753
for whom the prospect of the
end is neither sad nor cold.

947
00:59:29,878 --> 00:59:32,920
Ah, yes. Well, thank heaven
for our religion.

948
00:59:33,045 --> 00:59:37,378
So important in this life and
most especially in the next.

949
00:59:37,503 --> 00:59:40,461
Must we really wait?

950
00:59:40,586 --> 00:59:43,128
I entreat you to reconsider.

951
00:59:44,628 --> 00:59:46,795
[ woman weeping ]

952
00:59:56,586 --> 00:59:57,920
Lady Manwaring.

953
00:59:58,045 --> 01:00:01,086
Excuse me, I'm in such a state.

954
01:00:01,211 --> 01:00:03,878
I don't know what to say.
Is Mr. Johnson at home?

955
01:00:04,003 --> 01:00:05,586
I must speak with my guardian!

956
01:00:05,711 --> 01:00:07,336
Yes, of course.
You poor dear.

957
01:00:07,461 --> 01:00:09,586
I'll let him know you're here.

958
01:00:11,836 --> 01:00:14,170
Lucy Manwaring is here to see you.

959
01:00:14,295 --> 01:00:16,628
- Mr. Johnson!
- Please go in.

960
01:00:16,753 --> 01:00:21,003
- You must help!
- Mr. Johnson: Dear, please.

961
01:00:21,128 --> 01:00:22,878
[ muffled voices ]

962
01:00:26,128 --> 01:00:28,878
Madam, Mr. DeCourcy.

963
01:00:30,128 --> 01:00:31,795
Oh, good day.

964
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,378
Mr. DeCourcy, what a surprise to see you.
So kind of you to call.

965
01:00:35,503 --> 01:00:38,503
I must thank you for last evening
for setting matters right.

966
01:00:38,628 --> 01:00:40,336
Lady Susan's explained everything.

967
01:00:40,461 --> 01:00:43,503
I am ashamed to have spoken as I did.
It was foolish of me.

968
01:00:43,628 --> 01:00:45,461
No, no, no, not at all.
Most sympathetic.

969
01:00:45,586 --> 01:00:48,878
But you did not have to come to thank me.
Courtesy did not dictate it.

970
01:00:49,003 --> 01:00:50,711
In fact, it's not my sole motive.

971
01:00:50,836 --> 01:00:53,378
Lady Susan has entrusted
me with a letter for you.

972
01:00:53,503 --> 01:00:57,170
Strictly private.
How intriguing.

973
01:00:57,295 --> 01:01:00,211
[ Mrs. Manwaring sobs ]

974
01:01:00,336 --> 01:01:04,170
- Has an animal been injured?
- No, private theatricals.

975
01:01:04,295 --> 01:01:07,961
Medea. They perform next week,
but prefer not to be watched rehearsing.

976
01:01:08,086 --> 01:01:10,961
Thanks again for the charming evening.

977
01:01:11,086 --> 01:01:14,711
She's with him now!
This can't continue! It mustn't!

978
01:01:14,836 --> 01:01:18,961
Lucy, please, don't. Stay here,
rest, recover your equanimity.

979
01:01:19,086 --> 01:01:21,753
Equanimity?
They're together now!

980
01:01:21,878 --> 01:01:25,461
I implore you, come with me.
Talk with Manwaring. Reason with him.

981
01:01:25,586 --> 01:01:27,753
As my guardian, won't you help?

982
01:01:27,878 --> 01:01:30,045
Even if I found them,
what good could be done?

983
01:01:30,170 --> 01:01:33,086
Yes, heed Mr. Johnson. His counsel's
excellent in such matters.

984
01:01:33,211 --> 01:01:36,128
What have you? A letter?
In her hand?

985
01:01:36,253 --> 01:01:37,961
Return that letter, madam.
It's not for you!

986
01:01:38,086 --> 01:01:40,461
- Lucy, no!
- Excuse me!

987
01:01:40,586 --> 01:01:44,670
Madam, I believe you are on the
verge of making a grave error.

988
01:01:46,586 --> 01:01:49,795
You are Lady Manwaring?
Lady Manwaring of Langford?

989
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:52,461
You've recognized your friend
Lady Susan Vernon's hand

990
01:01:52,586 --> 01:01:55,628
- and assumed the letter's for you.
- You think that lady is my friend?

991
01:01:55,753 --> 01:01:59,961
She's with my husband now.
As we speak.

992
01:02:00,086 --> 01:02:01,753
He visits her.

993
01:02:01,878 --> 01:02:04,711
That's not possible, Madam.
I've just left her. She's entirely alone.

994
01:02:04,836 --> 01:02:08,145
- Even her servant's sent off.
- Owen!

995
01:02:10,586 --> 01:02:12,920
Owen, come here.
Stand here.

996
01:02:13,045 --> 01:02:15,628
Tell this gentleman what you've seen.

997
01:02:15,753 --> 01:02:19,170
- Your ladyship...
- Repeat to him what you told me.

998
01:02:19,295 --> 01:02:22,878
Well, sir...
Lady Susan sent her servant away,

999
01:02:23,003 --> 01:02:25,670
and then you left,
and a few minutes later,

1000
01:02:25,795 --> 01:02:30,170
Lord Manwaring arrived
and was received by her Ladyship.

1001
01:02:30,295 --> 01:02:32,378
- Alone?
- Yes, sir, I believe so.

1002
01:02:32,503 --> 01:02:34,670
No one else came or went.

1003
01:02:34,795 --> 01:02:37,586
No, stop, the letter's for
Mr. Johnson only.

1004
01:02:37,711 --> 01:02:41,170
Here. I send Reginald
with this letter.

1005
01:02:41,295 --> 01:02:44,253
Keep him there all evening if you can.

1006
01:02:44,378 --> 01:02:47,461
Manwaring comes this very hour.

1007
01:02:47,586 --> 01:02:49,586
That's not possible.

1008
01:02:49,711 --> 01:02:51,336
I must stop this!

1009
01:02:51,461 --> 01:02:53,461
Please, sir, come with me.

1010
01:02:53,586 --> 01:02:56,961
What could possibly be gained?
It could even be dangerous.

1011
01:02:57,086 --> 01:02:59,128
This is a matter for your solicitors.

1012
01:02:59,253 --> 01:03:02,795
Mrs. Johnson, this is beyond
what I could have imagined.

1013
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:06,586
You promised that you would give up
all contact with this woman.

1014
01:03:06,711 --> 01:03:09,461
I have no idea what she writes.
She's gone mad.

1015
01:03:09,586 --> 01:03:11,878
I'm sorry to say, my dear, that
I hear the Atlantic passage

1016
01:03:12,003 --> 01:03:15,795
is very cold this time of year.

1017
01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:17,520
[ sobbing ]

1018
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:28,670
- Madam?
- Agonies, my dear.

1019
01:03:28,795 --> 01:03:30,920
- What's happened?
- The worst.

1020
01:03:31,045 --> 01:03:33,170
- Disaster.
- Disaster?

1021
01:03:33,295 --> 01:03:35,170
Mr. DeCourcy arrived
just when he shouldn't have.

1022
01:03:35,295 --> 01:03:39,461
Lucy Manwaring had just forced herself
into Mr. Johnson's study to sob her woes.

1023
01:03:39,586 --> 01:03:42,461
Oh, has she no pride?
No self-respect?

1024
01:03:42,586 --> 01:03:44,295
What an impression she makes.

1025
01:03:44,420 --> 01:03:47,628
Bursting from Mr. Johnson's library,
wailing like a stuck child.

1026
01:03:47,753 --> 01:03:51,461
Seeing the letter in your handwriting,
she tore it from Reginald to read aloud.

1027
01:03:51,586 --> 01:03:52,836
- No!
- Yes.

1028
01:03:52,961 --> 01:03:55,253
"Manwaring comes
this very hour."

1029
01:03:55,378 --> 01:03:58,461
- And Reginald heard that?
- He read it himself.

1030
01:03:58,586 --> 01:04:01,461
How ungentlemanly.

1031
01:04:01,586 --> 01:04:05,211
- It's shocking. I can't believe it.
- Yes, very shocking.

1032
01:04:05,336 --> 01:04:08,586
A gentleman entrusted with
correspondence marked private

1033
01:04:08,711 --> 01:04:12,711
reads it regardless, and then because
of a few confidential remarks,

1034
01:04:12,836 --> 01:04:13,961
the obloquy's mine?

1035
01:04:14,086 --> 01:04:16,295
Who has acted badly in this affair?

1036
01:04:16,420 --> 01:04:20,586
Only you and I stand innocent of
reading other people's correspondence.

1037
01:04:20,711 --> 01:04:23,003
Unluckily, Lady Manwaring
also wormed out

1038
01:04:23,128 --> 01:04:26,795
of her husband's servant that
Manwaring visited you in private.

1039
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:28,086
Oh.

1040
01:04:28,211 --> 01:04:31,336
Facts are horrid things.

1041
01:04:31,461 --> 01:04:34,753
Don't worry, I'll make my
story good with Reginald.

1042
01:04:34,878 --> 01:04:37,128
He'll be a little enraged at first,

1043
01:04:37,253 --> 01:04:39,920
but I vow that by dinner
tomorrow, all will be well.

1044
01:04:40,045 --> 01:04:42,961
I'm not sure, he was with
Mr. Johnson when I left.

1045
01:04:43,086 --> 01:04:45,211
Forgive me for saying it, but,

1046
01:04:45,336 --> 01:04:49,461
I dread to imagine what's
being said in your disfavor.

1047
01:04:49,586 --> 01:04:52,170
What a mistake you made
marrying Mr. Johnson.

1048
01:04:52,295 --> 01:04:56,795
Too old to be governable,
too young to die.

1049
01:05:15,711 --> 01:05:17,461
Good afternoon, madam.

1050
01:05:17,586 --> 01:05:20,961
Susan: Of course it might seem
outlandish or shocking to others,

1051
01:05:21,086 --> 01:05:24,045
but we're not expecting others
to read our correspondence.

1052
01:05:24,170 --> 01:05:26,586
And don't put things for their benefit.

1053
01:05:26,711 --> 01:05:29,461
Manwaring only visited me
as his wife's friend.

1054
01:05:29,586 --> 01:05:31,586
Friend?
She herself denies this.

1055
01:05:31,711 --> 01:05:33,295
Well, of course.

1056
01:05:33,420 --> 01:05:37,170
I was her friend when she was sane.
Her great enemy since.

1057
01:05:37,295 --> 01:05:41,086
Manwaring left Langford to
escape her deranged suspicions.

1058
01:05:41,211 --> 01:05:44,003
In granting him an interview,
my sole motive was

1059
01:05:44,128 --> 01:05:47,128
to persuade him to return to
her and see what might be done

1060
01:05:47,253 --> 01:05:51,461
- to ease the poor woman's mind.
- Yes, but why alone?

1061
01:05:51,586 --> 01:05:55,461
- Why did you arrange to see him alone?
- You cannot divine the motive there?

1062
01:05:55,586 --> 01:05:57,670
Servants have ears,

1063
01:05:57,795 --> 01:06:01,795
with the unfortunate tendency to repeat
whatever they imagine they've heard.

1064
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:05,253
I dreaded injuring the poor
woman's reputation still further.

1065
01:06:05,378 --> 01:06:07,628
You imagine I could accept
such an explanation?

1066
01:06:07,753 --> 01:06:10,267
I can only tell you what
I know to be true.

1067
01:06:11,420 --> 01:06:14,586
- Did you succeed?
- What?

1068
01:06:14,711 --> 01:06:16,670
Did you convince Manwaring
to return to his wife?

1069
01:06:16,795 --> 01:06:18,545
Yes, I did.

1070
01:06:18,670 --> 01:06:23,503
But it seems that her judgment
is too deteriorated to allow it.

1071
01:06:23,628 --> 01:06:28,087
Her jealous and suspicious condition is
not one that would allow reassurance.

1072
01:06:28,212 --> 01:06:29,962
You forget.

1073
01:06:30,087 --> 01:06:31,962
I saw the letter with my own eyes.

1074
01:06:32,087 --> 01:06:34,837
No, I do not forget.
I greatly resent it.

1075
01:06:34,962 --> 01:06:38,462
A fault you compounded by misinterpreting
what you should never have seen.

1076
01:06:38,587 --> 01:06:42,087
Do you think I would have confided
a letter to a third party

1077
01:06:42,212 --> 01:06:45,587
if I thought its contents
in any way dangerous?

1078
01:06:45,712 --> 01:06:47,337
Have I not already explained
everything which

1079
01:06:47,462 --> 01:06:51,962
the ill-nature of the world
could interpret to my discredit?

1080
01:06:53,212 --> 01:06:57,295
What could so stagger your
esteem for me now?

1081
01:06:57,420 --> 01:06:59,753
After all we've discussed
and meant to one another,

1082
01:06:59,878 --> 01:07:04,045
that you could doubt my actions,
my intentions? My word?

1083
01:07:04,170 --> 01:07:06,962
Sorry, Reginald, but I've
reflected upon this deeply.

1084
01:07:07,087 --> 01:07:11,128
I cannot marry a man with an
untrusting disposition. I cannot have it.

1085
01:07:11,253 --> 01:07:12,462
What?

1086
01:07:12,587 --> 01:07:14,462
We cannot marry.

1087
01:07:14,587 --> 01:07:17,087
Whatever commitment
was between us is severed.

1088
01:07:17,212 --> 01:07:20,337
Any connection impossible.

1089
01:07:20,462 --> 01:07:22,003
What are you saying?

1090
01:07:22,128 --> 01:07:25,420
Mistrust does not bode well
for any union.

1091
01:07:25,545 --> 01:07:28,170
I have a great regard for you.

1092
01:07:28,295 --> 01:07:33,712
Yes, a passionate one,
but I must master it.

1093
01:07:51,378 --> 01:07:54,295
Oh, Catherine?
Catherine?

1094
01:07:54,420 --> 01:07:56,462
- Reginald has returned.
- He's here?

1095
01:07:56,587 --> 01:07:59,462
- He's just going to find your father.
- It's not...

1096
01:07:59,587 --> 01:08:00,837
No, the most happy news.

1097
01:08:00,962 --> 01:08:03,462
- Our fears were in vain.
- What?

1098
01:08:03,587 --> 01:08:05,462
- The engagement's off.
- How?

1099
01:08:05,587 --> 01:08:07,795
Well, Lady Susan broke it off herself.

1100
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:09,295
She did?

1101
01:08:09,420 --> 01:08:12,003
Reginald's most cast down.

1102
01:08:12,128 --> 01:08:15,212
But I'm sure he'll soon
recover and, dare we hope,

1103
01:08:15,337 --> 01:08:16,962
cast his look elsewhere.

1104
01:08:18,587 --> 01:08:20,462
That woman's a fiend.

1105
01:08:20,587 --> 01:08:22,753
- What do you mean?
- Lady Susan.

1106
01:08:22,878 --> 01:08:25,587
She has an uncanny understanding
of men's natures.

1107
01:08:25,712 --> 01:08:29,378
By forcing the rupture herself,
she's engaged Reginald's pride.

1108
01:08:29,503 --> 01:08:31,295
Uncanny? I don't understand.

1109
01:08:31,420 --> 01:08:34,753
Reginald will start to doubt everything
he's heard to her detriment.

1110
01:08:34,878 --> 01:08:37,087
A guilty regret will overwhelm him and

1111
01:08:37,212 --> 01:08:40,003
slowly, surely, he'll convince
himself he's wronged her.

1112
01:08:40,128 --> 01:08:41,170
You frighten me.

1113
01:08:41,295 --> 01:08:43,920
Yes, if Frederick Vernon,
renowned for his good sense,

1114
01:08:44,045 --> 01:08:46,795
let Lady Susan ruin him,
what chance has Reginald?

1115
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:49,128
You speak as if your brother
were not wise.

1116
01:08:49,253 --> 01:08:53,087
I'm sure he is. Everyone comments
on his lively understanding.

1117
01:08:53,212 --> 01:08:56,045
You are the best of mothers,

1118
01:08:56,170 --> 01:08:58,087
but Reginald has just
the sort of sincere nature

1119
01:08:58,212 --> 01:09:00,337
most vulnerable to
a woman of her genius.

1120
01:09:00,462 --> 01:09:01,878
You think she's a genius?

1121
01:09:02,003 --> 01:09:05,753
Diabolically so, like the
serpent in Eden's garden.

1122
01:09:06,962 --> 01:09:09,128
Does this woman always get her way?

1123
01:09:09,253 --> 01:09:11,587
From what I understand,
only clever tradesmen

1124
01:09:11,712 --> 01:09:14,170
are astute enough to see
through her stratagems.

1125
01:09:14,295 --> 01:09:18,587
Several banded together to send their
agents to intercept her on Seymour Street,

1126
01:09:18,712 --> 01:09:21,045
obliging her to pawn
the last of her jewels.

1127
01:09:21,170 --> 01:09:24,462
Slay the fatted calf, my dear,
the prodigal's returned.

1128
01:09:24,587 --> 01:09:25,753
What's wrong, my boy?

1129
01:09:25,878 --> 01:09:29,378
The joy of seeing your
aged parents eludes you.

1130
01:09:29,503 --> 01:09:31,726
- Don't tease him, father.
- It's a father's right.

1131
01:09:31,851 --> 01:09:35,587
- You'll have him fleeing back to London.
- No risk of that, I assure you.

1132
01:09:35,712 --> 01:09:38,462
London holds no charm for me.

1133
01:09:38,587 --> 01:09:40,253
Oh, you've realized that?
Good.

1134
01:09:40,378 --> 01:09:42,462
Never appealed to me at all.

1135
01:09:42,587 --> 01:09:46,587
Dirty, noisy, noxious gases.
Soot.

1136
01:09:46,712 --> 01:09:48,295
I don't see the point of towns.

1137
01:09:48,420 --> 01:09:50,920
Far better to live on one's own land.
Everyone should.

1138
01:09:51,045 --> 01:09:53,045
I'm afraid this relates
to my sister-in-law.

1139
01:09:53,170 --> 01:09:54,628
Yes, sister.

1140
01:09:54,753 --> 01:09:56,920
Congratulations on your
entire vindication.

1141
01:09:57,045 --> 01:09:59,337
On the contrary, I don't
seem out of danger at all.

1142
01:09:59,462 --> 01:10:01,837
- I assuredly am.
- What's the matter?

1143
01:10:01,962 --> 01:10:03,378
What's happened?
I don't understand.

1144
01:10:03,503 --> 01:10:06,795
Reginald, dear, Frederica
has prepared a charming piece.

1145
01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:08,545
Help me persuade her to sing it for us.

1146
01:10:08,670 --> 01:10:11,420
No, you are too kind, Lady DeCourcy.
I am not ready.

1147
01:10:11,545 --> 01:10:13,295
Excuse me, Miss Vernon.

1148
01:10:13,420 --> 01:10:18,253
Mother, as much as I'd like to, I'm afraid
I'm too tired to be a suitable audience.

1149
01:10:18,378 --> 01:10:20,337
If you'll excuse me.

1150
01:10:20,462 --> 01:10:24,087
No, you must stay. Frederica's a
song-bird. Never heard anything like it.

1151
01:10:24,212 --> 01:10:27,587
Don't deny us this pleasure, my dear.
Reginald, we need you to insist.

1152
01:10:27,712 --> 01:10:30,962
- As I said...
- No, I'm sorry. Excuse me.

1153
01:10:31,087 --> 01:10:33,420
You must play it, my dear.
Please.

1154
01:10:33,545 --> 01:10:35,378
The Kentish Nightingale, I call her.

1155
01:10:35,503 --> 01:10:37,462
Voice is remarkable,
even to my hearing.

1156
01:10:37,587 --> 01:10:39,253
She must have it
from her mother's side.

1157
01:10:39,378 --> 01:10:43,420
Lady Susan's voice is a clear,
natural soprano, lovely.

1158
01:10:43,545 --> 01:10:45,003
Beautiful.

1159
01:10:45,128 --> 01:10:46,628
- [ horses approaching ]
- It is, is it?

1160
01:10:46,753 --> 01:10:50,795
- Do you expect visitors, mother?
- No. Who would visit us?

1161
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:54,545
Look who's come from London?
What an agreeable surprise.

1162
01:10:54,670 --> 01:10:57,003
Excuse me for arriving this way.

1163
01:10:57,128 --> 01:10:59,587
What a delightful family pose.

1164
01:10:59,712 --> 01:11:01,712
Yes, it is the season
for families to unite.

1165
01:11:01,837 --> 01:11:03,378
So it's especially welcome
to have you here.

1166
01:11:03,503 --> 01:11:04,837
Thank you, Charles.

1167
01:11:04,962 --> 01:11:07,795
I do hope that recognizing
a mother's anxiety

1168
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:10,878
to see her child, you might
excuse my abruptness.

1169
01:11:11,003 --> 01:11:13,420
Nothing to excuse.
Sir Reginald, Lady DeCourcy,

1170
01:11:13,545 --> 01:11:16,587
might I introduce my
sister-in-law, Lady Susan Vernon.

1171
01:11:16,712 --> 01:11:19,837
Enchant�.
Please, forgive this intrusion.

1172
01:11:19,962 --> 01:11:22,712
Now that I'm fixed in town, I
can't rest with Frederica away.

1173
01:11:22,837 --> 01:11:26,128
- Isn't such anxiety new?
- Yes, it is, I entirely agree.

1174
01:11:26,253 --> 01:11:29,628
But now I'm in London where the
instruction Frederica needs

1175
01:11:29,753 --> 01:11:31,670
can so readily be found.

1176
01:11:31,795 --> 01:11:33,462
Her voice has some promise.

1177
01:11:33,587 --> 01:11:37,587
Some? She's a veritable songbird.
The Kentish Nightingale, I call her.

1178
01:11:37,712 --> 01:11:40,337
Do you?
Is this really Kent?

1179
01:11:40,462 --> 01:11:42,128
Delightful.

1180
01:11:42,253 --> 01:11:44,587
You're right sir, Frederica
has the native talent

1181
01:11:44,712 --> 01:11:48,878
a bird might, but those few
notes can get repetitive.

1182
01:11:50,420 --> 01:11:52,795
But mama, couldn't I stay?

1183
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:56,378
But mama, couldn't I stay?

1184
01:11:56,503 --> 01:11:57,795
Charming.

1185
01:11:57,920 --> 01:12:02,295
I thank you, dear sister, for making
Frederica feel so at home and welcome

1186
01:12:02,420 --> 01:12:03,920
wherever she goes.

1187
01:12:04,045 --> 01:12:07,212
I've secured you a lesson
with Signor Valtroni.

1188
01:12:07,337 --> 01:12:09,837
Where the grand affair
of education is concerned,

1189
01:12:09,962 --> 01:12:12,670
there's no excuse
for half-measures.

1190
01:12:12,795 --> 01:12:16,628
Isn't it key, sir,
to cultivate her voice?

1191
01:12:16,753 --> 01:12:20,795
- A nightingale, didn't you say?
- Yes, that's right.

1192
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:23,337
The Kentish Nightingale, I call her.

1193
01:12:23,462 --> 01:12:27,170
Delightful appellation, and perhaps,
with a teacher such as Signor Valtroni,

1194
01:12:27,295 --> 01:12:29,337
it could even become true.

1195
01:12:29,462 --> 01:12:32,295
- Frederica, have you your things?
- Leave for London now?

1196
01:12:32,420 --> 01:12:34,337
We'd so looked forward to
having Frederica with us.

1197
01:12:34,462 --> 01:12:35,962
How remarkable.

1198
01:12:36,087 --> 01:12:39,462
Only a few weeks ago it was hard
to find anywhere for Frederica.

1199
01:12:39,587 --> 01:12:41,587
Now the world fights for her company.

1200
01:12:41,712 --> 01:12:43,128
Astonishing.

1201
01:12:43,253 --> 01:12:46,337
Astonishing that she was neglected
then, or is fought over now?

1202
01:12:46,462 --> 01:12:50,170
Excellent observation, dear sister,
but I will stop now,

1203
01:12:50,295 --> 01:12:53,587
because I know how my daughter
hates to be praised.

1204
01:12:54,628 --> 01:12:58,003
How are you, sir?
I hope well.

1205
01:12:58,128 --> 01:12:59,670
We should go.

1206
01:12:59,795 --> 01:13:02,045
Excuse me, mama.
I must collect my things.

1207
01:13:02,170 --> 01:13:03,753
Yes, you must.

1208
01:13:03,878 --> 01:13:06,795
We cannot buy a new wardrobe
for each displacement.

1209
01:13:10,212 --> 01:13:13,303
That poor girl.
Did you see her face?

1210
01:13:13,428 --> 01:13:15,883
I must talk to her and remind her that
she will always have a home with us.

1211
01:13:16,008 --> 01:13:16,962
Or with us.

1212
01:13:17,087 --> 01:13:19,087
If you are referring to the past,

1213
01:13:19,212 --> 01:13:22,503
I doubt her mother will
again risk misinterpretation.

1214
01:13:22,628 --> 01:13:25,837
Henceforth, we can rest assured that
Lady Susan will make clear to Frederica

1215
01:13:25,962 --> 01:13:30,087
the consideration and affection
which guide her actions.

1216
01:13:42,212 --> 01:13:43,962
I have not gone to
the trouble of retrieving

1217
01:13:44,087 --> 01:13:46,587
Frederica from Parklands
to again be thwarted.

1218
01:13:46,712 --> 01:13:51,337
Maria Manwaring may sob, Frederica may
whimper, and the Vernons may storm,

1219
01:13:51,462 --> 01:13:53,837
but Sir James will be Frederica's
husband before the winter is out.

1220
01:13:53,962 --> 01:13:57,670
- You brilliant creature.
- Thank you, my dear.

1221
01:13:57,795 --> 01:14:00,629
I am done submitting my will
to the caprices of others.

1222
01:14:00,754 --> 01:14:03,337
Of resigning my own
judgment and deference

1223
01:14:03,462 --> 01:14:07,045
to those to whom I owe no duty
and have very little respect.

1224
01:14:07,170 --> 01:14:10,254
Too easily have I
let my resolve weaken.

1225
01:14:10,379 --> 01:14:12,295
Frederica shall know the difference.

1226
01:14:12,420 --> 01:14:14,170
You're too indulgent with the girl.

1227
01:14:14,295 --> 01:14:17,295
Why let Frederica have him when
you could grab him yourself?

1228
01:14:17,420 --> 01:14:19,004
Sir James?

1229
01:14:19,129 --> 01:14:20,962
Yes, I know your unselfish nature,

1230
01:14:21,087 --> 01:14:23,795
but can you afford to bestow
Sir James on Frederica

1231
01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:26,045
while having no Sir James of your own?

1232
01:14:27,420 --> 01:14:30,587
Madam, Mr. Johnson sends word
he returns to dine.

1233
01:14:30,712 --> 01:14:32,045
Thank you.

1234
01:14:32,170 --> 01:14:34,545
- How insulting.
- The opposite.

1235
01:14:34,670 --> 01:14:37,754
I don't doubt your ability to get
DeCourcy whenever you want him.

1236
01:14:37,879 --> 01:14:39,920
But is he really worth having?

1237
01:14:40,045 --> 01:14:44,754
Isn't his father just the sort of
enraging old man who will live forever?

1238
01:14:44,879 --> 01:14:46,504
And how will you survive?

1239
01:14:46,629 --> 01:14:49,379
On the allowance that Frederica
as Lady Martin might grant you?

1240
01:14:49,504 --> 01:14:51,629
As guests at Churchill?

1241
01:14:51,754 --> 01:14:53,170
I'd rather be married to my own husband

1242
01:14:53,295 --> 01:14:55,712
than dependent on the
hospitality of others.

1243
01:14:59,170 --> 01:15:03,254
We must protect her. Not just for her
own sake, but for her dear late father's.

1244
01:15:03,379 --> 01:15:05,129
What can we do?

1245
01:15:05,254 --> 01:15:09,989
We must find the argument to persuade
her mother it's in her best interest,

1246
01:15:10,114 --> 01:15:12,670
which, of course, is her only guide.

1247
01:15:12,795 --> 01:15:14,629
That will mean a trip to London.

1248
01:15:14,754 --> 01:15:18,962
Fortunately, Charles must have some
business there to justify such a trip.

1249
01:15:19,087 --> 01:15:21,379
What a marvelous husband
you have, my dear.

1250
01:15:21,504 --> 01:15:24,170
Charles seems to live to oblige.

1251
01:15:24,295 --> 01:15:27,087
It's true.
I've been lucky.

1252
01:15:27,212 --> 01:15:31,354
Charles always seems to have some pretext
or other for doing just what's wanted.

1253
01:15:33,004 --> 01:15:35,129
[ humming ]

1254
01:15:35,254 --> 01:15:38,379
Dearest, I believe you have
pressing business in London.

1255
01:15:38,504 --> 01:15:41,879
Oh, um, yes.

1256
01:15:42,004 --> 01:15:44,670
Frederica?

1257
01:15:44,795 --> 01:15:46,754
You're so kind to visit.

1258
01:15:46,879 --> 01:15:48,804
Frederica will be delighted.

1259
01:15:48,929 --> 01:15:51,586
And how are the children?
Especially my dear Frederick.

1260
01:15:51,711 --> 01:15:53,504
Very well, thank you.

1261
01:15:53,629 --> 01:15:55,170
Frederica, come and see who's here.

1262
01:15:55,295 --> 01:15:59,045
I can't express my gratitude for
the hospitality you've extended us.

1263
01:15:59,170 --> 01:16:00,712
Not at all.
Our great pleasure.

1264
01:16:00,837 --> 01:16:02,709
- Hello, Frederica.
- Good afternoon, my dear.

1265
01:16:02,834 --> 01:16:05,462
- Hope you're well.
- Thank you.

1266
01:16:05,587 --> 01:16:08,254
Oh, it's so good to see you.

1267
01:16:08,379 --> 01:16:10,587
Frederica, why don't you
go upstairs and play a piece?

1268
01:16:10,712 --> 01:16:14,254
Select something charming to show your
aunt and uncle what you've studied.

1269
01:16:14,379 --> 01:16:16,670
With pleasure.

1270
01:16:18,587 --> 01:16:20,629
You'll see the strides
she's been making.

1271
01:16:20,754 --> 01:16:22,337
Oh, do mind your head.

1272
01:16:22,462 --> 01:16:24,379
Frederica plays all the new music.

1273
01:16:24,504 --> 01:16:27,295
Haydn, Himmel.
Bernadini.

1274
01:16:27,420 --> 01:16:28,837
Carabini.

1275
01:16:28,962 --> 01:16:30,795
Do sit down.

1276
01:16:32,379 --> 01:16:35,462
So you're happy with
the progress she's making?

1277
01:16:35,587 --> 01:16:37,462
Yes.

1278
01:16:37,587 --> 01:16:42,129
Only in a city such as London, I believe,
could she have had such instruction.

1279
01:16:42,254 --> 01:16:44,420
Well, if Frederica is making
such good progress in London,

1280
01:16:44,545 --> 01:16:46,795
that complicates matters.

1281
01:16:46,920 --> 01:16:48,795
What complication would that be?

1282
01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:51,295
We'd hoped that Frederica
might return to Churchill.

1283
01:16:51,420 --> 01:16:53,587
She's greatly missed,
especially by the little ones.

1284
01:16:53,712 --> 01:16:57,587
Oh, what a moving sentiment
of cousinly regard.

1285
01:16:57,712 --> 01:17:01,129
But my concern, my obligation,

1286
01:17:01,254 --> 01:17:04,129
is to see the defects in
Frederica's education repaired.

1287
01:17:04,254 --> 01:17:08,212
Could we invite one of her teachers to
Churchill to continue her lessons there?

1288
01:17:08,337 --> 01:17:09,587
What a kind thought.

1289
01:17:09,712 --> 01:17:12,587
But these are London's
most sought after Masters.

1290
01:17:12,712 --> 01:17:15,170
No invitation to a country retreat,

1291
01:17:15,295 --> 01:17:19,129
even such a delightful one as Churchill,
would be in their power to accept.

1292
01:17:19,254 --> 01:17:20,837
Perhaps a private tutor.

1293
01:17:20,962 --> 01:17:22,962
Might I confess something?

1294
01:17:23,087 --> 01:17:25,295
Frederica and I have become
such great friends,

1295
01:17:25,420 --> 01:17:27,379
it would be hard for
me to part with her.

1296
01:17:27,504 --> 01:17:29,920
You might have noticed
for a time there was a...

1297
01:17:30,045 --> 01:17:32,587
strange tension between us.

1298
01:17:32,712 --> 01:17:34,712
That is now happily disappeared.

1299
01:17:36,587 --> 01:17:37,962
Excuse me, are you well?

1300
01:17:38,087 --> 01:17:43,087
Sorry, we so set our hearts
on Frederica's return.

1301
01:17:43,212 --> 01:17:46,462
I understand completely.
She's become an agreeable companion.

1302
01:17:46,587 --> 01:17:51,504
Even her tendency to extreme quiet
I've grown to find rather soothing.

1303
01:17:51,629 --> 01:17:54,212
But there is one
factor that concerns me.

1304
01:17:54,337 --> 01:17:56,462
Does she look quite well?

1305
01:17:56,587 --> 01:17:58,462
- Oh, yes.
- That was your impression.

1306
01:17:58,587 --> 01:18:03,545
London's vaporous air is not, I think,
healthy for her.

1307
01:18:03,670 --> 01:18:05,754
- Does she not seem pale?
- She does.

1308
01:18:05,879 --> 01:18:11,170
The London air, these smoky gasses
cannot be salutary for her.

1309
01:18:11,295 --> 01:18:14,587
Fresh country air is
what the young require.

1310
01:18:14,712 --> 01:18:17,254
Yes, how curious they are.

1311
01:18:17,379 --> 01:18:22,504
Does not the town's dank air
favor the spread of influenza?

1312
01:18:22,629 --> 01:18:23,920
The influenza in London?

1313
01:18:24,045 --> 01:18:27,087
Several cases have been reported.
It is, after all, the season for it.

1314
01:18:27,212 --> 01:18:29,920
Of all the disorders in the world,

1315
01:18:30,045 --> 01:18:32,462
the risk of influenza contagion
is the one I dread the most

1316
01:18:32,587 --> 01:18:34,170
for Frederica's constitution.

1317
01:18:34,295 --> 01:18:36,962
Shouldn't we consider, then,
removing her from this danger?

1318
01:18:37,087 --> 01:18:39,462
What you say does give me pause.

1319
01:18:39,587 --> 01:18:43,045
But it would be such a hardship to
lose my daughter's companionship

1320
01:18:43,170 --> 01:18:46,462
just when I've grown to rely on it.

1321
01:18:46,587 --> 01:18:48,629
And, of course, her studies.

1322
01:19:03,629 --> 01:19:04,462
[ sighs ]

1323
01:19:04,587 --> 01:19:06,295
Congratulate me, my dear.

1324
01:19:06,420 --> 01:19:08,587
Frederica's aunt and uncle have
taken her back to Churchill.

1325
01:19:08,712 --> 01:19:12,254
I thought you'd grown to
enjoy Frederica's company so.

1326
01:19:12,379 --> 01:19:14,587
Comparatively. A bit.

1327
01:19:14,712 --> 01:19:19,420
But I'm not so self-indulgent as to want
to wallow in the companionship of a child.

1328
01:19:19,545 --> 01:19:22,462
Alas, I fear this is our last meeting.

1329
01:19:22,587 --> 01:19:24,504
At least while
Mr. Johnson is alive.

1330
01:19:24,629 --> 01:19:26,795
His business at Hartford
has become extensive.

1331
01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:30,129
If I continue to see you, he vows
to settle in Connecticut forever.

1332
01:19:30,254 --> 01:19:32,754
Oh, you could be scalped!

1333
01:19:35,170 --> 01:19:39,087
I had a feeling that the great word
"respectable" would some day divide us.

1334
01:19:39,212 --> 01:19:42,337
Your husband, I abhor, but
we must yield to necessity.

1335
01:19:42,462 --> 01:19:44,379
Our affection cannot be impaired by it,

1336
01:19:44,504 --> 01:19:49,254
and in happier times when your
situation is as independent as mine,

1337
01:19:49,379 --> 01:19:50,837
we will again unite.

1338
01:19:50,962 --> 01:19:54,087
For this, I will impatiently await.

1339
01:19:54,212 --> 01:19:56,212
I also.

1340
01:19:56,337 --> 01:19:59,462
May Mr. Johnson's next gouty
attack end more favorably.

1341
01:19:59,587 --> 01:20:01,587
[ chuckles ]

1342
01:20:17,170 --> 01:20:18,795
[ chattering ]

1343
01:20:40,337 --> 01:20:41,937
Thank you.

1344
01:20:49,754 --> 01:20:53,296
Do you know where Frederica is?
Lady Susan's written to her.

1345
01:20:53,421 --> 01:20:55,046
Oh.

1346
01:20:55,171 --> 01:20:57,296
Frederica?

1347
01:20:57,421 --> 01:21:00,629
Frederica, a letter from your mother.

1348
01:21:00,754 --> 01:21:03,254
Thank you, Aunt Catherine.
What does she say?

1349
01:21:03,379 --> 01:21:05,587
She's written to you herself.

1350
01:21:20,046 --> 01:21:24,129
My mother and
Sir James Martin have wed.

1351
01:21:24,254 --> 01:21:26,004
What?
How could that happen?

1352
01:21:26,129 --> 01:21:27,921
How could they possibly marry?

1353
01:21:28,046 --> 01:21:29,629
To what do you refer?
Both were free to do so.

1354
01:21:29,754 --> 01:21:31,379
He a bachelor, Susan a widow.

1355
01:21:31,504 --> 01:21:33,296
Sir James Martin is a fool.

1356
01:21:33,421 --> 01:21:35,171
Well, a bit of a rattle, perhaps.

1357
01:21:35,296 --> 01:21:38,004
A bit of a rattle?
He's a complete blockhead.

1358
01:21:38,129 --> 01:21:41,462
Well, there are three possible
explanations as I see it.

1359
01:21:41,587 --> 01:21:44,962
First, perhaps Sir James has
more merit than we've allowed.

1360
01:21:45,087 --> 01:21:46,504
No.

1361
01:21:46,629 --> 01:21:49,254
Well, second, perhaps in order
to secure your future, Frederica

1362
01:21:49,379 --> 01:21:52,254
your mother found it necessary
to make a prudent match herself.

1363
01:21:52,379 --> 01:21:53,629
That could be the case.

1364
01:21:53,754 --> 01:21:56,087
Mama has always been
concerned with my future.

1365
01:21:56,212 --> 01:21:58,171
And the third possible explanation?

1366
01:21:58,296 --> 01:22:00,212
That she came to love him.

1367
01:22:00,337 --> 01:22:04,087
There is a saying:
"the heart has its strangeness"

1368
01:22:04,212 --> 01:22:05,796
or words to that effect.

1369
01:22:05,921 --> 01:22:09,462
The heart is an instrument we
possess but do not truly know.

1370
01:22:09,587 --> 01:22:13,671
Human love partakes of the divine,
or at least it has in my case.

1371
01:22:15,379 --> 01:22:17,296
You'll find it in
the writings of Rousseau.

1372
01:22:17,421 --> 01:22:19,962
Julie.
Or The New Heloise, I think.

1373
01:22:20,087 --> 01:22:21,587
I'll will confirm the citation,
if you're interested.

1374
01:22:21,712 --> 01:22:26,129
I just find it incomprehensible that so
brilliant a woman could marry such a...

1375
01:22:26,254 --> 01:22:29,004
pea brain.
Or peas brain.

1376
01:22:29,129 --> 01:22:31,254
- It happens all the time.
- It strains credulity.

1377
01:22:31,379 --> 01:22:33,462
Certainly, as you said,
Sir James is no Solomon.

1378
01:22:33,587 --> 01:22:36,754
But if she can give Lady Susan
the happiness and security

1379
01:22:36,879 --> 01:22:38,921
which the sad events of
recent years deprived her of,

1380
01:22:39,046 --> 01:22:42,296
then he is someone that I,
and all of us, should value.

1381
01:22:42,421 --> 01:22:45,962
I very much agree, Uncle.
We all should.

1382
01:22:46,087 --> 01:22:49,962
I wish them every happiness
in their life together.

1383
01:23:06,212 --> 01:23:10,129
Congratulations, sir,
on the match I long favored.

1384
01:23:10,254 --> 01:23:12,087
There's a rightness to
your being together.

1385
01:23:12,212 --> 01:23:14,837
Not that any man could
really deserve Lady Susan.

1386
01:23:14,962 --> 01:23:17,462
I agree most heartily.

1387
01:23:17,587 --> 01:23:21,462
And I've pleasure is adding double
congratulations are in order.

1388
01:23:21,587 --> 01:23:23,046
What?

1389
01:23:23,171 --> 01:23:26,087
The most beautiful woman in
England, present company excepted,

1390
01:23:26,212 --> 01:23:29,962
will soon be the most beautiful mother.

1391
01:23:30,087 --> 01:23:32,171
Yes, I'm to be a father.

1392
01:23:32,296 --> 01:23:33,837
Marvelous.

1393
01:23:33,962 --> 01:23:36,962
You certainly don't delay matters.
Congratulations, sir.

1394
01:23:37,087 --> 01:23:39,379
Yes, the very morning
after the wedding,

1395
01:23:39,504 --> 01:23:43,587
Lady Susan hinted at the happy news
which was shortly confirmed.

1396
01:23:43,712 --> 01:23:45,171
Truly marvelous.

1397
01:23:45,296 --> 01:23:47,962
I'm as proud as you can imagine.

1398
01:23:48,087 --> 01:23:50,129
[ sobbing ]

1399
01:23:50,254 --> 01:23:51,854
What's that?

1400
01:23:54,254 --> 01:23:57,462
Such a burden.

1401
01:23:57,587 --> 01:23:59,212
When Lord and Lady Manwaring separated,

1402
01:23:59,337 --> 01:24:03,879
Mr. Johnson, who is Lucy Manwaring's
guardian, invited her to live with us.

1403
01:24:04,004 --> 01:24:06,671
Really?
What upsets her?

1404
01:24:06,796 --> 01:24:08,462
The separation, still.

1405
01:24:08,587 --> 01:24:10,129
- She goes on about it.
- What?

1406
01:24:10,254 --> 01:24:14,462
This carrying on about a
marriage that ended weeks ago.

1407
01:24:14,587 --> 01:24:16,129
If a woman fails to please her husband,

1408
01:24:16,254 --> 01:24:19,087
why go on about it,
advertising one's failure?

1409
01:24:19,212 --> 01:24:21,379
Why announce to the world
that the man who knows you best

1410
01:24:21,504 --> 01:24:23,171
would rather be with someone else?

1411
01:24:23,296 --> 01:24:25,296
It seems as if
Lady Manwaring has failed

1412
01:24:25,421 --> 01:24:28,087
to consider the difference
between the sexes.

1413
01:24:28,212 --> 01:24:31,462
For a husband to wander
is not the same as vice versa.

1414
01:24:31,587 --> 01:24:36,296
If a husband strays, he's merely
responding to his biology.

1415
01:24:36,421 --> 01:24:38,296
That is how men are made.

1416
01:24:38,421 --> 01:24:42,296
But for a woman to act
in a similar way is ridiculous.

1417
01:24:42,421 --> 01:24:44,129
Unimaginable.

1418
01:24:44,254 --> 01:24:46,379
Just the idea is funny.

1419
01:24:46,504 --> 01:24:47,462
[ laughs ]

1420
01:24:47,587 --> 01:24:50,587
Couldn't agree more.
Quite funny.

1421
01:24:54,587 --> 01:24:59,587
I rather blame Lady Manwaring's
scene-making for driving her husband away.

1422
01:24:59,712 --> 01:25:02,087
But her loss has been our gain.

1423
01:25:02,212 --> 01:25:04,921
As a result of the trouble
her solicitors caused,

1424
01:25:05,046 --> 01:25:07,587
we've had Manwaring stay
with us these past weeks.

1425
01:25:07,712 --> 01:25:09,754
That's not inconvenient?

1426
01:25:09,879 --> 01:25:12,296
Not at all.
Capital fellow.

1427
01:25:12,421 --> 01:25:14,671
Couldn't get on better.
Loves to hunt.

1428
01:25:14,796 --> 01:25:16,587
Small and large game.

1429
01:25:16,712 --> 01:25:19,462
Excellent, excellent to have a guest.

1430
01:25:19,587 --> 01:25:21,587
And the talk that comes with it.

1431
01:25:21,712 --> 01:25:26,671
Of course, Lady Susan's sharp,
but it's easier to talk with a fellow,

1432
01:25:26,796 --> 01:25:29,421
particularly one who shares
one's interests.

1433
01:25:29,546 --> 01:25:32,171
Before long, we'll have another guest.

1434
01:25:32,296 --> 01:25:33,462
Frederica?

1435
01:25:33,587 --> 01:25:36,212
No, of course.
The baby!

1436
01:25:36,337 --> 01:25:38,629
Manwaring?
Manwaring?

1437
01:25:38,754 --> 01:25:40,462
Have you seen my husband?

1438
01:25:40,587 --> 01:25:43,962
What have you been saying, tell me.
How is he?

1439
01:25:44,087 --> 01:25:48,171
Well, Madam.
Very well, I believe.

1440
01:25:48,296 --> 01:25:50,587
Couldn't be better.

1441
01:25:51,837 --> 01:25:53,437
[ sobs ]

1442
01:25:59,004 --> 01:26:01,854
- Tea?
- Quite.

1443
01:26:15,087 --> 01:26:16,296
Oh!

1444
01:26:16,421 --> 01:26:18,754
Look up!

1445
01:26:25,462 --> 01:26:28,921
Ah, so, here's the church.

1446
01:26:30,587 --> 01:26:32,587
But where's the hill?

1447
01:26:32,712 --> 01:26:37,087
Don't see it.
Doesn't seem to be one.

1448
01:26:37,212 --> 01:26:40,046
Strange.
Odd.

1449
01:26:45,421 --> 01:26:47,212
[ church bells ringing ]

1450
01:26:47,337 --> 01:26:48,937
[ people cheering ]

1451
01:26:52,087 --> 01:26:54,129
God Bless you all!

1452
01:26:57,587 --> 01:26:59,712
[ chattering ]

1453
01:27:01,421 --> 01:27:03,021
Please excuse me.

1454
01:27:04,337 --> 01:27:06,087
Your mother must be very proud.

1455
01:27:06,212 --> 01:27:08,087
And I am enormously grateful to her.

1456
01:27:08,212 --> 01:27:12,337
Without her efforts, I never
would have found such happiness.

1457
01:27:12,462 --> 01:27:14,629
Do excuse me.

1458
01:27:14,754 --> 01:27:16,462
And bearing false witness?

1459
01:27:16,587 --> 01:27:18,754
Oh, no, that would be the ninth.

1460
01:27:18,879 --> 01:27:21,254
You must be most proud of Frederica.

1461
01:27:21,379 --> 01:27:23,796
I would not say proud.

1462
01:27:23,921 --> 01:27:26,754
I'm glad I was able to
attend to her education.

1463
01:27:26,879 --> 01:27:30,588
My daughter has shown herself
to be cunning and manipulative.

1464
01:27:30,713 --> 01:27:34,088
I couldn't be more pleased.
A Vernon will never go hungry.

1465
01:27:34,213 --> 01:27:35,796
We must ask Frederica to sing.

1466
01:27:35,921 --> 01:27:38,635
That would be delightful.
Surry Songbird, we call her.

1467
01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:40,254
What? No.

1468
01:27:40,379 --> 01:27:43,129
The Kentish Nightingale.
Always called her that.

1469
01:27:43,254 --> 01:27:46,463
Surry songbird?
What nonsense. Rubbish.

1470
01:27:46,588 --> 01:27:48,188
Ridiculous.

1471
01:27:50,671 --> 01:27:52,588
Ladies and gentlemen,

1472
01:27:52,713 --> 01:27:54,754
Mr. Reginald DeCourcy.

1473
01:27:54,879 --> 01:27:57,963
Over the past months I have
continued to be startled

1474
01:27:58,088 --> 01:28:01,296
by Frederica's
loveliness and good heart.

1475
01:28:01,421 --> 01:28:07,296
I had wanted to write some verses
as a memorial to these discoveries.

1476
01:28:07,421 --> 01:28:11,171
But they are now so extensive,
they would form a volume.

1477
01:28:11,296 --> 01:28:14,046
So I'll just read these few lines.

1478
01:28:23,529 --> 01:28:24,796
Mean engaging?

1479
01:28:24,921 --> 01:28:27,671
Mien. Appearance,
or countenance.

1480
01:28:27,796 --> 01:28:30,463
It's from the French, mien, I believe.

1481
01:28:30,588 --> 01:28:32,588
I can find you the citation.

1482
01:28:41,129 --> 01:28:42,729
[ applause ]

1483
01:28:46,671 --> 01:28:50,004
Mrs. Reginald DeCourcy.

1484
01:28:50,129 --> 01:28:54,963
As you may already know, I take Lady
DeCourcy's requests as commands,

1485
01:28:55,088 --> 01:28:57,671
and therefore I will sing this piece.

1486
01:28:57,796 --> 01:29:01,379
* Over the mountains *

1487
01:29:01,504 --> 01:29:05,546
* And over the waves *

1488
01:29:05,671 --> 01:29:08,379
* Under the fountains *

1489
01:29:08,504 --> 01:29:12,088
* And under the graves *

1490
01:29:12,213 --> 01:29:16,379
* Under floods that are the deepest *

1491
01:29:16,504 --> 01:29:20,046
* Which Neptune obey *

1492
01:29:20,171 --> 01:29:24,588
* Over rocks that are the steepest *

1493
01:29:24,713 --> 01:29:29,588
* Love will find out the way *

1494
01:29:32,838 --> 01:29:37,463
Thought I detest imprudence
and sincere emotions of all kinds,

1495
01:29:37,588 --> 01:29:40,838
where Manwaring's concerned...

1496
01:29:41,921 --> 01:29:44,004
And very quickly, he was in good humor?

1497
01:29:44,129 --> 01:29:48,671
I see what you mean, how flattery
alters a man's spirits. It's delightful.

1498
01:29:48,796 --> 01:29:51,754
Such a posture, resenting
a well-meaning parent

1499
01:29:51,879 --> 01:29:54,379
is apparently common
among girls her age.

1500
01:29:54,504 --> 01:29:56,463
They are, perhaps, undercooked.

1501
01:29:56,588 --> 01:29:57,963
Not at all.
They're perfect.

1502
01:29:58,088 --> 01:30:02,754
Mmm. Yes, good tasting.
Quite sweet.

1503
01:30:02,879 --> 01:30:05,213
I shouldn't have said anything at all.

1504
01:30:07,171 --> 01:30:08,771
[sobs]

1505
01:30:10,171 --> 01:30:11,963
She's lovely.

1506
01:30:12,088 --> 01:30:15,088
No DeCourcy should forget the lengths
to which Lady Susan went

1507
01:30:15,213 --> 01:30:17,088
to prevent Charles Vernon
marrying Catherine,

1508
01:30:17,213 --> 01:30:20,171
which, had she succeeded, would have
ruined your sister's happiness forever.

1509
01:30:20,296 --> 01:30:22,588
Lady Susan sent her servant away?

1510
01:30:22,713 --> 01:30:25,463
And then you left, and
a few minutes later...

1511
01:30:25,588 --> 01:30:29,546
Mrs. Johnson, this is beyond
what I could have imagined.

1512
01:30:29,671 --> 01:30:32,088
I'll never forgive
the trouble he's caused.

1513
01:30:32,213 --> 01:30:36,213
Thank you, my dear. May his next
gouty attack be a severe one.