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00:00Good morning, come and meet me, sir.
00:57Good morning, sir.
01:17Good morning, Mr Wakeman. Shall we go in the morning room?
01:45Thank you, Miss Carberry. I was hoping to see Lady Carberry or Sir Felix.
01:49My brother is out and my mother is unwell. How can I help you?
01:55It occurred to me that perhaps your mother has overlooked the payment of accounts for wines and spirits.
01:59It's been seven months now.
02:04I see.
02:05Sir Felix was kind enough to honour us with another order just the other day.
02:11Sir Felix is expecting to draw a substantial sum of money very soon.
02:15He has become a director of the Mexican Railway, you know.
02:18Ah, the Mexican Railway. I had thought of going in for that myself in a small way.
02:23Sir, you should not have to wait much longer.
02:26If you could give me a definite...
02:27You should be so very sorry to have to go to another wine merchant.
02:35Of course we shall hear from you at your convenience.
02:39Thank you, Mr Wakeman.
02:46Has he gone?
02:47Yes.
02:49I hate having to do that.
02:51Why should the poor man not be paid?
02:53Because we have nothing to bail him with.
02:55Yes, we know whose fault that is, don't we?
02:57I think you would see me thrown onto the street rather than marry your cousin Roger,
03:00who is a dear, good man and has loved you ever since you were a little girl.
03:05I wish I could love Roger the way he would like me to.
03:07It would be most convenient, but I can't, Mother.
03:09He's been most generous to us.
03:11He's helped us out with small sums of money on numerous occasions.
03:14Are you suggesting that he's agreed to buy me in installments?
03:17I shall marry for love if I marry at all.
03:20I would rather work the telegraph at a city office or be a nurse in a women's hospital
03:24or be a writer like you, Mama, than marry simply for security.
03:27At least I should be earning my keep honestly.
03:29To marry without love is nothing better than prostitution.
03:32Hedda, sorry, but it's what I believe.
03:34You never spoke like this until you met that young adventurer, Paul Montague.
03:37I suppose you imagine yourself in love with him.
03:46Things have changed.
03:53So, you feel nothing for me now?
04:01No, I could never say that.
04:05Well, look at me and tell me what it is.
04:23You've met someone else. That's what it is, isn't it?
04:26A year ago, when we parted, you promised to follow me to San Francisco.
04:32But you never came. Not a word, not a letter.
04:35There were circumstances.
04:37I told you everything about myself, and you told me nothing.
04:40What was I to think, except that you were tired of our affair, that you had found someone else?
04:45There was never anyone else.
04:47I told myself that it was over. I threw myself into my work.
04:49You've become the man I always knew you could be.
04:54Winifred.
04:55Winifred. At last.
04:59I called you Paul from the first moment.
05:06Well, speak out. Is there another woman that you love?
05:14Yes. Yes, there is.
05:18And have you promised to marry her as well?
05:22No. No, not as yet.
05:26But she loves you.
05:27She has never said so.
05:29And you have never told her of your love?
05:33Never.
05:36Then there is nothing that binds you to her.
05:40Quite the reverse in our case. We are bound in every way, aren't we?
05:52Isn't it the case in your country that an offer of marriage is binding on the man?
05:58Only the woman may break off the engagement.
06:04Winifred.
06:08I am begging you to release me now.
06:12And I refuse.
06:15Because I know what is good for you.
06:19I know what is good for you better than you know yourself.
06:24You say I told you nothing of myself.
06:28But I gave you everything a woman has to give.
06:32Can you tell me that meant nothing?
06:35Means nothing to you?
06:41No.
06:44Can you tell me you feel nothing for me?
06:50No.
06:53Then kiss me, Paul.
06:56And friendship is nothing more.
07:12I must go.
07:16Farewell.
07:20I'll let you go for now.
07:22But I know you're too honourable to make love to your little English rose while you're still bound to me.
07:29And I know you wouldn't be so unkind as to leave me all alone and friendless in London.
07:36So long as friendship is all you ask?
07:38For the present.
07:40For the present.
07:46It can be a kind of a game, you see.
07:49Your part is to persuade me to release you.
07:53Mine to make you realise you're better off with me.
08:00A game?
08:05You call this a game?
08:07A game with high stakes, played in deadly earnest.
08:11Don't be tempted into treating it lightly, Paul.
08:14Or you may wish you had never been born.
08:19There.
08:23Go now.
08:25I'll know you'll come again soon.
08:29No.
08:35And finally, your chairman is happy to announce formally, what I suppose you all know,
08:42that the first issue of public shares one week ago went, shall we say, according to plan.
08:48I should say.
08:50And that at the close of trading yesterday, the value of the shares had gone up by 500%.
08:56Not bad.
09:00So if we wanted to cash in our shares now, we'd get five times the amount we put in?
09:05Yes, you would, Mr Longestaff.
09:07But the best thing you could do with your money is to buy more railway shares.
09:10They're going to go up a great deal higher than that, so you might as well leave your money where it is.
09:14And if any of you gentlemen have any other further available liquidity...
09:18What's liquidity?
09:20Liquidity is ready cash, my lord.
09:23And if you have any, my advice is to build up your holdings now.
09:28This is the opportunity of the century.
09:37And I'm telling you to beg, borrow, sell all other assets and get into this now, while it's going up.
09:46And then you can tell your grandchildren that you were in at the very start of the best thing this century.
09:56Yes, Mr Montague.
09:58I assume that there is a regular release of funds into the work itself.
10:02The surveying can go ahead immediately and the building itself as soon after that as possible.
10:07That's it, Mr Montague. All in hand.
10:11Well, gentlemen...
10:13Could we know what sums have been dispensed and how the payments relate to the schedule of works?
10:18It's all in the accounts, Mr Montague.
10:19Right, and these may be inspected.
10:20In the company offices, Mr Montague, in due course.
10:24As I say, the work is all in hand.
10:28And now, if there's nothing more to discuss...
10:33I declare the meeting...
10:36closed.
10:42Don't put off so easy that one.
10:45Well, run him up a set of bigger scrolls, set his mind at rest.
10:48I think he really wants his railway, Mr Melmott.
10:51Well, so do we, don't we?
10:53Don't we?
10:55If you say so, Mr Melmott.
10:57Come on, my old crow.
10:59We've seen off bigger fish than him.
11:04I saw her.
11:07You have a beautiful house, sir.
11:19Sir Felix Carbridge to see Mr Melmott at once.
11:22I'm expected.
11:29I am expected.
11:31Wait here, sir.
11:36Psst.
11:38Psst.
11:40Are you Sir Felix?
11:42Yes.
11:46I am, dido.
11:48Come with me.
11:50Come, come, quick.
11:52All right.
11:54If you say so.
12:07I have got him for you.
12:12Why didn't you come before?
12:14I've been longing and longing for you.
12:17I say, steady on, steady on.
12:19Oh, dido knows everything.
12:22So, you'll see him.
12:24Man said he was busy.
12:26No, he's in for you, out to everyone else.
12:28Oh, jolly good.
12:30Go now. Don't let him bully you.
12:32No.
12:33Come.
12:34Absolutely, absolutely.
12:47In you go.
12:55Go.
13:04Go.
13:29How do you do, Sir Felix?
13:34You come to see the ladies, have you?
13:36Yes.
13:38But I thought I'd look in on you, you know.
13:44Very good of you.
13:50Well.
13:52Mr Melmott.
13:54I'm come to...
13:56I'm come...
13:58In short, Mr Melmott.
14:00I want to propose myself
14:02as a suitor for your daughter's hand.
14:04The deuce you do.
14:06Well, yes.
14:08And we hope you'll give us your consent, sir.
14:10We?
14:12Who's we?
14:14Your daughter and I, sir.
14:16Oh, she knows you're coming then.
14:18Yes, she knows.
14:20I've been attached to her ever since I saw her and all that.
14:22You know how that kind of thing goes on.
14:24No, I'm damned if I do.
14:26I know how it ought to go on.
14:28The young man ought to speak to the father before the girl.
14:30It ought to go on.
14:32Well, of course, we know it all depends on you, sir.
14:36Not at all.
14:42She's of age.
14:46She can marry you tomorrow if she chooses.
14:54You're a baronet, I believe.
14:56Yes, I'm a baronet, all right.
14:58No...
15:00money cares, eh?
15:04Not exactly that.
15:06I suppose we'll give your daughter a fortune, of course.
15:08She don't get a farthing
15:10if she marries to please herself
15:12without my consent.
15:14I had rather hoped you would give your consent, sir.
15:16Heaven said I won't.
15:18It's possible.
15:28Ah.
15:34What's your property, Sir Felix?
15:36Well, it isn't a very large property, you know.
15:38Not like the Marquis of Westminster's, then?
15:42No, not quite like that.
15:44So where's your family seen?
15:46Carberry Hall.
15:48Down in Suffolk, near the Longstaffs.
15:50Carberry Hall?
15:52I didn't know that was yours.
15:54Well, it isn't.
15:56Exactly. Not yet.
15:58But I am the heir.
16:00I see.
16:02The heir.
16:06Who's got it now?
16:08My cousin, Mr Roger Carberry.
16:18And he's an old man, is he?
16:20He's not what you call a young man.
16:26He's not very old.
16:28I see.
16:30Not very old.
16:32Able-bodied, is he?
16:34Able to shake a leg?
16:36Well...
16:38Yes, I suppose he is.
16:40So how would it be if he was to marry and have children?
16:42I don't know how that would be.
16:44I don't think it's very likely that he'll marry.
16:46And in the meantime,
16:48what is your own property?
16:50Mr Melmott,
16:52the fact is
16:54I love your daughter.
16:56And she loves me.
16:58And I may not be possessed
17:00of great wealth or property,
17:02but I am a baronet and a gentleman.
17:04And I'm not, you imply?
17:06No. No, no, no. That is not what I meant at all.
17:08I think we understand each other very well.
17:10You are to provide the rank of position
17:12and I am to provide the money.
17:14That's the bargain.
17:16I buy my daughter a place in society
17:18by paying you to marry her.
17:20That's your understanding of it?
17:22Well, listen, I must protest.
17:24One shouldn't cheapen it by...
17:26It's all right, Sir Felix. I'll think on it.
17:28But don't get your hopes up too high.
17:30Money.
17:32Expect money, you know.
17:42Isn't he lovely?
17:44He has a very pretty face.
17:46And he's a very good kisser.
17:48I have seen better.
17:50And Niederdale is a real lord.
17:52But you like this one.
17:54Oh, Titon, I do. I do.
17:58I love him.
18:04I never knew Felix Carbery
18:06was so fond of the country.
18:08I know I'm not.
18:12How long are we to be kept here, Father?
18:14I don't know what you mean
18:16by being kept here.
18:18Georgiana, this is your home.
18:20You might as well make up your mind to live in it.
18:22But if we're not to be in London for the rest of the season,
18:24we will never meet anyone.
18:26And you know what that means for me.
18:28I have to be in London for the end of the season.
18:30It's my last chance.
18:32There's no have to about it, Georgiana.
18:34I can't afford it, and that's that.
18:38Father,
18:40if you won't take me up to town yourself,
18:42could you not let me stay with friends?
18:44The Primeros are in town for the season.
18:46As a matter of fact,
18:48I have received an invitation for you
18:50to stay up in London, Georgiana.
18:52You have? From whom?
18:54The Melmonts.
18:58Those dreadful people.
19:00Why shouldn't I go to the Primeros
19:02or Julian Monogram?
19:04It's that or stay in the country, my dear.
19:06You know your father
19:08especially dislikes the Primeros.
19:12Very well, then.
19:14I shall go to the Melmonts,
19:16if it's to be them or nothing.
19:18And the first man that comes to me
19:20with four or five thousand a year,
19:22I'll take him, even though he came out of Newgate or Bedlam.
19:24And I shall always say
19:26it was Papa's fault.
19:30Oh!
19:40Why, I wish we could have each other
19:42for a bit longer, Felix.
19:44So do I, Bijo. I wish you lived in town
19:46and I could see you every day, you know.
19:48Wouldn't that be jolly?
19:50Wouldn't it? And for two pins, I'd do it too.
19:52Oh, Lord, I must go.
19:54Grandfather's asked John Crumb over again.
19:58And who is John Crumb
20:00when he's at home?
20:02John Crumb the miller.
20:04He comes to see me,
20:06so you come back soon
20:08or you're still a match and you wee well.
20:12Ruby?
20:24Here she comes.
20:32Late again, little hussy?
20:34Ah, she's worth waiting for, though.
20:36Oh, why do you always have to say the same thing, John?
20:38Why can't you keep
20:40a simple tongue on your head
20:42when the poor man's trying to pay you a compliment?
20:44And where's our supper we've been sitting here
20:46waiting for? It was all done before.
20:48It only wants bringing out.
20:50You could have done that yourself.
20:52That's too much for you, I suppose.
20:54A damn good hiding wouldn't do you no harm.
20:56Ah, no, Mr Ruggles.
20:58That's not the way.
21:00That's what you think. I say women is better
21:02for a regular beating.
21:04Like carpets, eh?
21:06What?
21:08Sorry, now.
21:10Ah, Ruby.
21:12Ruby.
21:36Very tasty, Ruby.
21:38Thank you, John.
21:40Hold there a moment.
21:44John has something to say to you, Ruby.
21:46Haven't you, John?
21:56Only, like,
21:58I've got the house all ready now, Ruby.
22:02See, if you'd like to name the day,
22:04you and I shall be married as soon as you like.
22:06Tomorrow wouldn't be too soon for me.
22:08So say you will,
22:10and I'll always do my best
22:12to make you happy.
22:20I can't marry you, John.
22:22I'm sorry.
22:26What?
22:30You said you loved me, Ruby.
22:32You said you loved me, Ruby.
22:36You always said we would be married one day.
22:38Young women is allowed to change their minds.
22:42And I've changed mine.
22:44I'm sorry, John.
22:46I can't help her.
22:48Nasty, ungrateful,
22:50lying little slut.
22:52Treat a good man like that,
22:54I've a good mind to turn to hide off you.
22:56Don't you touch me.
22:58I can't help it if I love someone else.
23:00And who is that?
23:02Shall I tell you?
23:04I have a good mind to beat you.
23:06Come here.
23:08Come back.
23:10Come here.
23:12Come here.
23:14Come here.
23:16Come back.
23:18Come here.
23:38There's a ghost.
23:46There's a ghost.
23:52To Sir Felix Cadbury,
23:54the Burr Garden Club.
23:56Dear sir,
23:58I have done what I said,
24:00sooner than I thought.
24:02I refuse John Crumb,
24:04and father to me at the house.
24:06So I'm a come to London.
24:08When shall I see you again?
24:10Papa has said you are not to
24:12come to the house again.
24:14I'm not frightened of him,
24:16and nor should you be.
24:18You stupid woman.
24:20Why can't you get
24:22one simple thing right?
24:24I don't care about money,
24:26and on my word of honour,
24:28I'll never marry anyone.
24:30I long for you to take me dancing,
24:32and to see the music all,
24:34from your own loving ruby.
24:36Everything in order, Sir Felix?
24:38Hmm?
24:40Yes. I don't see why not, father.
24:44All to your liking,
24:46Miss Longestaff?
24:48Yes. Thank you, Mr. Melmott.
24:50How kind of you to ask.
24:52Well, let's have a little smile
24:54on that pretty face, then.
25:02Look,
25:04I'm buying one of your father's
25:06properties, you know.
25:08And I'm going to be
25:10the owner of it.
25:12My father's properties, you know.
25:14Pickering Park.
25:16Used to be that little
25:18madam's dowry.
25:20Oh, really? I thought that Adolphus
25:22hadn't agreed on the sale.
25:24That's all being dealt with.
25:26When I want a thing,
25:28I generally get it, you know.
25:30Yes, miss.
25:32How would you like to live in Pickering Park
25:34as Lady Nitterdale, eh?
25:36I don't care where I live, but I won't marry Lord Nitterdale.
25:38She fancies herself in love with that
25:40top of a baronet.
25:48What's a baronet?
25:50What could be a baronet?
25:52Nothing easier.
25:54Oh, I intend going into Parliament,
25:56Miss Longestaff, and when I get a seat,
25:58all I have to do is spend a bit of money on the proper side,
26:00the conservative side of God,
26:02throw a few dinners,
26:04and the thing is done.
26:06Sir Augustus Melmott
26:08Baronet.
26:10What do you think about that?
26:12Most interesting.
26:14Oh!
26:16Dommage!
26:20Ivan!
26:26Oh, really?
26:34Please.
26:38Oh.
26:42Oh, Lord.
26:52Forgive me, I didn't mean to...
26:56Gentlemen, shall we go where we can talk?
26:58Unencumbered.
27:00Follow me, gentlemen.
27:08What's all this, Neddy?
27:10Marie Melmott.
27:12The stakes are on again.
27:14I say, look here, that's not fair.
27:16Not my fault, old boy.
27:18It's the two governors.
27:20I can't do anything.
27:22Andrew!
27:30Come and sit down with us.
27:32No, he must not.
27:34He must go at once.
27:36Melmott, let go of her.
27:38Monsieur, il faut que vous retirez.
27:42But you must go, sir.
27:44He will kill you.
27:46Well, yes, under the circumstances.
27:48No, he shan't go. Let him kill us if he dare.
27:50I'll never marry Nidderdale, not if he cuts me to bits.
27:52We'll go down to Papa and tell him now.
27:54He shan't make me marry everyone.
27:56Oh, my dear.
27:58Felix, if you will be true to me,
28:00nothing can keep us apart.
28:02You will be great.
28:04Yes, of course I will, but don't you think...
28:06Now you be brave, and I will be brave.
28:08I really...
28:28Now listen to you,
28:30Sir Felix.
28:34My daughter is engaged to be married
28:36to Lord Nidderdale, all right?
28:38I am not.
28:40I won't marry him, not if you
28:42chug me to pieces.
28:44She will be married to Lord Nidderdale,
28:46so you might as well leave right now.
28:48Papa, he's my lover.
28:50Bosh!
28:52It is not bosh!
28:54I love him, and I won't have anyone else.
28:56Hit me if you like.
28:58It won't change anything.
29:00No!
29:02You get to your room.
29:04I'll go, but I still
29:06love him.
29:08Get out!
29:20I'm very sorry to have had a hand
29:22in causing this disturbance,
29:24Sir.
29:30You go away,
29:32and don't come back.
29:34You remember this.
29:36If she marries without my consent,
29:38she don't get a single shilling.
29:42Good day to you, Sir Felix.
29:46Happy to see you in the city
29:48any time.
30:00It's only me.
30:02My own, own darling Felix.
30:04You won't give me up, will you?
30:06Did you tell him you wouldn't give me up?
30:08Well, you see, he says he'll cut us off.
30:10I'll cut you off.
30:12I'll cut you off.
30:14I'll cut you off.
30:16I'll cut you off.
30:18I'll cut you off.
30:20I'll cut you off.
30:22I'll cut you off.
30:24I'll cut you off.
30:26I'll cut you off.
30:28Sir Felix won't give you up.
30:30Well, you see, he says he'll cut us off
30:32without a shilling, so...
30:38I have my own money.
30:51When we were in France,
30:53Papa put a lot of money in my name
30:55So you could tell his creditors he had none.
30:59We could run away together.
31:04Good God, there's more to you than meets the eye.
31:11Send me a note, Petito.
31:13No.
31:43So I like life, don't you think?
31:50I wonder whether any girl ever sat and cried like that because her lover talked to another woman.
31:57Women aren't all made the same.
31:59Luckily for you, ma'am.
32:02But you know, there's a dash of the savage princess about most of us.
32:07So watch out.
32:11I shall.
32:14Are you going to see me home?
32:16Of course.
32:17We'll meet, you know. I'm not afraid of taking a cab by myself.
32:22But I should like a little more of your company.
32:25Have you enjoyed this evening?
32:27Yes, very much.
32:31Good.
32:34So have I.
32:44Come in for one moment.
32:50Good night, Mrs. Hurtle.
32:52Good night, Ruby.
32:53Good night, sir.
32:57She's a new girl, just up from the country, the landlady's niece.
33:01I don't know what she thinks of me.
33:04I've told them we are engaged to be married.
33:08I hope you don't mind.
33:11I hope you don't mind.
33:14Do you think that's wise?
33:17Well, if it avoids unpleasantness and gossip.
33:28Shut the door for one moment.
33:41No.
33:43No, I won't be separated from you.
33:46I'll do anything for love of you, anything but lose you.
33:51Riffid.
33:57No, don't speak.
34:02I understand.
34:05Go now.
34:12Go now.
34:26My lords and ladies,
34:30my lords and gentlemen,
34:33I'm able to tell you that we are prospering.
34:37I wish I could show you the balance sheet. It's a sight for sore eyes.
34:41But in affairs of this nature, great discretion is required.
34:45So, on behalf of the shareholders at large, whose interests are in our hands,
34:52I think that any detailed statement should be postponed just for a short while.
34:56And I therefore move that this meeting be adjourned to this day week.
35:00Seconded.
35:02So, all those in favor.
35:03Mr. Butler.
35:05Yes, Mr. Montague.
35:07Could you at least give the board your assurance
35:10that the timetable for the building of the railway is on schedule?
35:13Thank you, Mr. Montague.
35:15All in favor.
35:17Under all the company accounts and records,
35:19be made freely available for inspection by the directors.
35:22Against.
35:24Motion carried. I think that concludes the business.
35:27Thank you, gentlemen.
35:41I understand.
35:43You are a fine young man, Mr. Montague, and this is a great project.
35:47And I'm well aware that you have a lot of experience.
35:50Mr. Montague, and this is a great project.
35:52And I'm well aware that it was you who brought it to me in the first place.
35:55And I'm very grateful.
35:57But...
36:00You don't understand the business side of a thing like this.
36:02You had much better leave it to me.
36:06I'll make you rich.
36:09And you'll have your railway, too.
36:12Trust me.
36:14You won't regret it.
36:16And don't cross me again, or you'll be sorry.
36:23Good afternoon to you.
36:33You do think he's all right, old Melmott?
36:35I'm supposed to be marrying his daughter, you know.
36:37Come on, Midderdale, we're wasting valuable time here.
36:45Come on.
37:06Well, you're still here, then, Mr. Montague?
37:11Well, I'm glad you stayed.
37:14Mr. Montague.
37:15Please, take a seat, Mr. Montague.
37:18No, thank you.
37:28I was a bit short with you just now.
37:32I beg your pardon.
37:37Good. But the thing is this.
37:39Unanimity is everything in a situation such as this.
37:43Even though I quarrel in the boardroom, there's no knowing the amount of evil that we do.
37:47We are carrying the hopes and dreams of thousands of shareholders on our shoulders.
37:53They're depending on us.
37:55Kroll knows.
37:57And there is nothing that can be done for them unless the shares keep rising.
38:01And that's what you have to understand.
38:04You don't want to see the whole thing fall to pieces.
38:08Do you?
38:10Look here.
38:13I'm in this to build a railway.
38:17And I don't see any signs of it at the moment.
38:20Now, never mind the share price.
38:22What about the survey?
38:25The labour?
38:26The purchase of materials? The equipment?
38:33Look, all that is in hand.
38:36Look here, Montague, all this that you talk of is... is nothing.
38:42It's... what is it? It's a mere matter of engineering.
38:45It's nuts and bolts and nuts and bolts.
38:47I could find myself a score of fellows to build me a railway.
38:50But some of us have to set our sights on higher matters than these.
38:56What would a mere engineer like you know about the building of a great business?
39:03The building of a great business empire.
39:09Then you would have no objection if this mere engineer
39:13went out to Mexico to see what progress has been made.
39:16No. Go, go, go, go.
39:18You do what you like, sir. It's all one to me.
39:22Then I shall.
39:25And if I find that no preparations have been made,
39:29I shall start the work myself.
39:32Good idea, sir.
39:38He will, too.
39:39Oh, let him go, Kroll. Mexico's a long way away, and our work is here.
40:02Mr. Montague.
40:04I'm sorry. I hadn't realized you were here alone.
40:07Mamaia's out with Roger.
40:10Roger is in town?
40:11Yes. He comes to London much more often now.
40:19I'm sorry.
40:21I'm sorry.
40:23I'm sorry.
40:25I'm sorry.
40:27I'm sorry.
40:29I'm sorry.
40:32It seems so long since we last met.
40:34Yes. Yes, if the man wants all.
40:38I suppose you have been very busy.
40:42Yes, I have.
40:43With your railway?
40:44Yes.
40:48Come and sit down.
40:50I came to tell you I shall have to go out to Mexico sooner than I planned.
40:55In two weeks' time.
40:57Why do you frown? Shan't you like that?
41:02I'm not quite sure what I shall find there.
41:05I'm beginning to think that Melmott doesn't know or care.
41:10I'm not quite sure what I shall find there.
41:13I'm beginning to think that Melmott doesn't know or care.
41:16I'm beginning to think that Melmott doesn't know or care.
41:19Much about railways.
41:24But there are things and people I shall be very sorry to leave behind.
41:32Hedda.
41:36You must have thought me very remiss in not coming to see you before now.
41:40Believe me, I have thought of you every day since we last met.
41:47But I have found myself in difficulties.
41:50There is my friendship for Roger, for one thing, and...
41:55other obligations.
41:57I don't think your friendship for Roger should make you think you can't see me or talk to me.
42:02Why should it?
42:04I promised I wouldn't come between you and him.
42:06He made you promise that?
42:08He had no right to.
42:10I'm not engaged to Roger.
42:13Though I care very much for him.
42:16Could you love him as much as a woman can love a man?
42:23Because if you can, I shall leave England at once and never return to it.
42:31Desmond Lowe.
42:33Desmond Lowe.
42:44Mr Montague.
42:46What a very unexpected pleasure.
42:53Yes, I'm going abroad soon, so I thought I would come up and see you before I go.
42:58Roger, I had no idea you were in London.
43:02What brings you here?
43:03A little business, that's all.
43:06Did you have a pleasant evening, Mother?
43:08Very pleasant.
43:09Did you?
43:10No, not at all.
43:12Until Mr Montague saved me from Felix's cigar and brandy bills.
43:20I hate to be ill-mannered.
43:21Yes, of course.
43:23I didn't mean to stay so long.
43:24I'll walk you back to your club.
43:26Goodbye, Mr Montague.
43:27And if we don't see you again before you leave...
43:30Bon voyage.
43:36Goodbye.
43:37Goodbye.
43:39I shall think of you.
43:45I didn't know you were in the habit of calling on Hetta and speaking to her alone.
43:52This is the first time I've seen her since I spoke to you last.
44:00Don't try deceiving you, Roger.
44:05I love her.
44:14What brought him here?
44:16He brought himself.
44:18It wasn't arranged, if that's what you mean.
44:21How long was he here?
44:23Only a couple of minutes before you came in.
44:25There is something between you and that young man, what is it?
44:30You haven't engaged yourself to him, have you?
44:32No, I have not.
44:33What then?
44:36I love him, Mother.
44:38And I'm sure he loves me.
44:40And this on three or four short meetings.
44:42What do you know of that young man? Nothing.
44:45And what about your poor cousin, Roger?
44:47I'm sorry.
44:49But you can't help who you love, can you?
44:53You seem to think you've behaved honourably.
44:55You seem to think you've behaved honourably.
44:57But you promised not to come between Hetta and myself, and you have done.
45:01Have mercy, Paul. For God's sake, leave Will alone.
45:06Hetta is the only one for me.
45:09For the sake of our friendship, Paul.
45:12Don't, don't take Hetta from me.
45:14I wouldn't do that, Roger, even if I could.
45:16But if she should choose of her own free will...
45:18After all we've been to each other,
45:21you would take her from me, would you?
45:25For God's sake, man, she's not a piece of property for one man to take or another to keep.
45:30She has a will of her own, and a heart of her own.
45:35And in the end, she will decide.
45:37She may not choose either of us.
45:56Hello, John. Come in.
45:59I don't mean to disturb you, Squire.
46:01Were you just off to London again?
46:03No, I felt the need for a change of air.
46:06I'm in a bit of solitude.
46:08I was hoping it might be London, sir.
46:10Why's that?
46:11Well, sir, it's Ruby.
46:13She's run away.
46:15And I reckon it's to London that she's gone.
46:17She's gone?
46:18Yes, sir.
46:19She's gone?
46:20Yes, sir.
46:21Ruby.
46:22She's run away.
46:24And I reckon it's to London that she's gone.
46:26Ruby's gone, you say?
46:28Yes, sir.
46:29She quarrelled with her grandfather.
46:31He don't treat her very kindly, sir.
46:33Well, it's as much his fault as hers.
46:36But he's sorry now, and he want her back.
46:39And so do I.
46:41I don't mean to hold you up, sir.
46:43Well, I'll do what I can when I'm next there.
46:45But London's a big place, you know, John.
46:47Aye, sir.
46:48I do know that.
46:50Well, do what you can, eh?
46:52She's very precious to me.
46:54I'll do my best.
46:56I promise.
46:57Thank you, sir.
47:11You won't keep me out too late, will you, Felix?
47:13Mrs. Pipkin's awful strapped.
47:15Oh, bother Mrs. Pipkin.
47:17She knows there's someone, but I haven't said who.
47:21I think she'd fall down in a faint
47:23if she knew I was walking out with a baronet.
47:25Not so loud.
47:26You know, I'd pass very well as one of the local ruffians.
47:29Two glasses here, cocky.
47:31Coming up, my lord.
47:39You know, when I've sold my shares off and profit,
47:43I'm going to set you up in a little place of your own.
47:46We won't have to bother about Mrs. Pipkin.
47:48A little place of our own, you mean?
47:51Yes, of course.
47:53Oh, Felix, I do love you.
48:01That's for you.
48:03And this is for me.
48:04Another one, standing by, please.
48:13My dear friend,
48:15Mr. Melmott's daughter and my Felix wish to marry.
48:22Though Mr. Melmott is reluctant to give his consent.
48:26Do you think it would be a good match?
48:30A very good one, if they love each other.
48:35But if the young people were to take the affair
48:40into their own hands, so to speak...
48:43If Felix were to run away with her, you mean, to elope?
48:47Exactly.
48:50Would Mr. Melmott forgive his daughter
48:54and make them an allowance?
48:57Well, yes, I believe he would.
48:59I believe any father who loved his daughter would.
49:04Oh, Mr. Prout,
49:06you have set my mind at rest.
49:08I have been so worried about poor Felix.
49:13Ah!
49:18Lady Carberry,
49:20I think you know that I should like to set all your anxieties to rest.
49:28We are not as young as we used to be.
49:32Indeed we are not, Mr. Brown.
49:35But I like to think that we are not too old
49:40to love.
49:44Hello, Brown. At it again!
49:47Felix, what are you doing in that extraordinary costume?
49:51What, this?
49:52Oh, the rage!
49:54Felix, I've been asking Mr. Brown's advice
49:57and he agrees, as I do,
50:00that it might be best to take the bull by the horns.
50:05Which bull is this, Mother?
50:07To run away with Miss Melmott and obtain her father's consent
50:10after the marriage.
50:12Oh, I don't know about that, Mother.
50:14He cut up pretty rough when he warned me off.
50:16Thought he was going to bite my head off.
50:18Well, damn it, Brown, if you're so behind me,
50:20perhaps I'll go after it after all, you know,
50:22and if Melmott makes a fuss, I'll refer him to you.
50:25Shall I?
50:26No, no, no.
50:27My advice was couched in very general terms
50:30and given to your mother in strict confidence.