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The life of a duchess overwhelms Nan; Connie has a baby; Lizzie marries Hector; Guy returns to English politics.
The life of a duchess overwhelms Nan; Connie has a baby; Lizzie marries Hector; Guy returns to English politics.
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01:12There you are.
01:13Julius.
01:15I was hoping to see you.
01:17♪
01:19What are you doing sitting there?
01:22It's the middle of the night.
01:23I couldn't sleep.
01:25I've just been looking at these pictures of the man
01:29who used to look.
01:30It's marvelous.
01:32♪
01:37What are you doing?
01:38♪
01:43I'm going to get you.
01:45♪
01:51I'm blind and see.
01:53Julius, you're worse than a child.
01:55I don't feel a bit like I'm seeing.
01:57One, two, three, four.
02:02♪
02:05You naughty little piggy.
02:07♪
02:12♪
02:17♪
02:24Are you in here?
02:26Are you?
02:27♪
02:36Ah!
02:37Ah!
02:38Ah!
02:39Ah!
02:40Ah!
02:41Ah!
02:42Ah!
02:43Ah!
02:44Ah!
02:45Ah!
02:46Ah!
02:47Ah!
02:48Ah!
02:49Ah!
02:50Ah!
02:51Ah!
02:52Ah!
02:53Ah!
02:54Ah!
02:55Ah!
02:56Ah!
02:57Ah!
02:58Ah!
02:59Ah!
03:00Ah!
03:01Ah!
03:02Ah!
03:03Ah!
03:04Ah!
03:05Ah!
03:06Ah!
03:07I've got you.
03:09Ah!
03:10Ah!
03:11Ah!
03:12Ah!
03:13Ah!
03:14Ah!
03:15Ah!
03:16Ah!
03:17Ah!
03:18Ah!
03:19Ah!
03:21Ah!
03:22Ah!
03:23Julius.
03:24Ah!
03:25Wait.
03:26Ah!
03:27Julius?
03:28Ah!
03:29Ah!
03:30Julius?
03:31Stop it!
03:32Ah!
03:33Ah!
03:34Stop it! It's what you've been waiting for, isn't it?
03:40Stop it! Stop this damn fuss!
03:43For God's sake!
04:04My darling girl, you may well imagine the pain I feel at having to write these words.
04:22I am ruined.
04:24Wall Street is a fickle friend and a murderous enemy.
04:30Today, I am dead, professionally speaking, and my corpse is littered with worthless shares.
04:36Tomorrow, who knows?
04:39Hope springs eternal.
04:42Meanwhile, I shall be writing to your father-in-law, and you may be sure I shall do everything in my power for my darling girls.
04:59Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for being here this morning.
05:11I have been asked by Lord Brittlesea to make certain facts absolutely plain.
05:19As you all know, we have recently suffered the unforeseen and total loss of Lady Sedan's very substantial annuity.
05:31Over the last four years, bad harvests and falling prices have reduced our income by half.
05:39There must now be a corresponding fall in expenditure.
05:45I take it you've put our case to the trustees?
05:49An application was made to sell some of the estate's less prestigious treasures. We were refused.
05:56I have the following suggestions to make.
05:59Please, his letter.
06:00Most immediately, there must be a dramatic reduction in personal spending, including so-called fixed annuities.
06:15Oh, please. Terribly sorry. Go on.
06:31Expenditure on the estate must be limited to essential work on the land, by which I primarily mean adequate drainage.
06:44Repairs to the west wing will not commence.
06:49The installation of electricity to all friars will not proceed.
06:56What was that?
06:58Blair's just said that the installation of father's electricity is to be stopped.
07:03Well, thank heavens for that.
07:14What?
07:21Hector!
07:23Lizzie?
07:25Hector! It's beautiful!
07:32I can't believe it!
07:36It's wonderful.
07:38It's not bad, is it?
07:40My new house!
07:43There was just one thing that I wanted to ask you, Lizzie.
07:49What was that?
07:53Well, why me?
08:00Well, has it never occurred to you that I've married you for your money?
08:06You mean, why didn't I go after Seton when I had the chance?
08:13Well, if you ask me, Seton is one of God's less adventurous efforts.
08:18Besides, I like getting my own way. I hope you've noticed.
08:22I haven't noticed.
08:23One wouldn't dare cross Lady Brittlesleep if you were being run over.
08:28Poor Virginia.
08:30She's lost all of her money, you know.
08:34I know.
08:35Well, maybe she won't look down her nose at us anymore.
08:39She might even come to our housewarming if she can run away.
08:43I don't know.
08:45I don't know.
08:47I don't know.
08:49I don't know.
08:51I don't know.
08:53I don't know.
08:55She might even come to our housewarming if she can run to a new dress.
08:59I don't know.
09:01I don't know, then.
09:03Just let me curl for five minutes.
09:06I swear I'll never curl again.
09:26Ugh.
09:45Ugh!
09:47Ugh!
10:17Ugh!
10:32Ah, Julius.
10:35I'm so glad you're here.
10:40You must come with me at once to the Linfrey's cottage.
10:44The damp little place under the bridge.
10:46The one that looks so lovely in the summer with the roses all over it.
10:49Ah.
10:50The eldest boy, he's come down with typhoid and the drains, they must be seen to at once.
10:54Who told you all this?
10:56I've just been there.
10:58I've seen it with my own two eyes.
11:01You've just been there? The house is reeking of disease.
11:05Your state of health, Annabelle.
11:07Oh, bother my state of health.
11:09I'm fine.
11:10And besides, if their house reeks of disease, whose fault is it but our own?
11:16That is a ridiculous and ignorant remark.
11:20No, you are being ignorant, Julius.
11:23Typhoid comes from bad drains and infected milk.
11:28And if these people are our tenants, how can it not be our fault?
11:33I should provide a hospital nurse for every cottage aspect.
11:36Oh, please, Julius.
11:38I can't urge you to just come and see what's happening.
11:41Please, come with me and smell the drains.
11:44I've got the geek waiting.
11:45You're in no fit state to go poking about damp cottages on a night like this.
12:09Don't look so tragic.
12:13In the morning I'll see Cartwright. He'll look into the drains.
12:18Promise.
12:30And try to remember, these small matters concern my agent far more than they concern me.
12:35They don't concern you at all.
12:39I don't understand you.
12:42You call it a small matter that the Linfrey's child, their only son, is probably dying.
12:49And yet it is for the sake of your own child that you forbid me to go.
12:53Not just for the child's sake. The household is your province.
12:57Well, I'll tell you this.
12:59If he is to be brought up to think like you, I don't want a child.
13:03If he is to be taught that it is right and natural to live in a house with 50 servants and not care a jot for any of them,
13:10I would rather be dead than have a child of mine grow up like you.
13:16I don't care a jot for any of them.
13:18I would rather be dead than have a child of mine grow up like you.
13:46Annabelle?
14:02Annabelle?
14:03Annabelle?
14:15There you are, Your Grace.
14:17I was just coming to tell you the Duchess appears to have gone out.
14:22I cannot find her anywhere, Your Grace.
14:33Help! Help us!
14:44Help! Help us!
14:49Don't die!
15:04Over here!
15:08What's that?
15:15Over here! We found her!
15:17Where?
15:18Come on, lads!
15:25Come on!
15:30Annabelle?
15:31Annabelle?
15:34Annabelle?
15:39Annabelle?
15:44Annabelle?
16:03Annabelle?
16:34Come here, Colonel.
16:35Come on.
16:36Come on, boy.
16:37Come here.
16:38Oh, he's so big now.
16:40Isn't he sweet?
16:42So carry on now.
16:43Come on, boy.
16:46You know, as soon as we returned here after the honeymoon,
16:49Julius turned into a stranger.
16:52It was extraordinary.
16:54I have no idea what he feels for me.
16:57I don't know either.
17:00I have no idea what he feels for me.
17:04Nothing much, I suspect.
17:07Well, he certainly didn't marry you for your money.
17:10Nor did he follow his mother's wishes.
17:13So what else could he have done but follow his heart?
17:16Inadequate though that organ may be.
17:20I don't know.
17:22I can't explain.
17:24But I have told him that I don't want to be the mother of Dukes.
17:29Well, you should have thought of that before you became the wife of one.
17:34Life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, Nat.
17:39Do you remember that night in Newport when I didn't get to go to the ball
17:43and I said to you, I didn't want to marry, I wanted to be free like you?
17:48Yes, I do.
17:50And I told you there's a price to pay for freedom.
17:53Well, there is.
17:54Does that mean you've been unhappy as a governess?
17:58Oh, nothing.
17:59Now tell me, Val, I want to know.
18:01I don't want to go on and on talking and thinking about myself.
18:07Well, I started out with a certain idealism.
18:11As you did.
18:13I was determined to do my best.
18:15Anxious my best wouldn't be good enough.
18:18But you know, a governess is rarely too ignorant for her pupils.
18:21Oh.
18:22Oh, well, with a few honourable exceptions, my darling, such as yourself,
18:27my work consists of finishing young ladies whom nature has hardly begun.
18:33And after a lifetime of that, I have very little to look forward to
18:38but the very thin benevolence of the governess's institute.
18:42Oh, Val.
18:45I wish you could stay with me forever.
18:47I should take care of you.
18:52Make it one of my firmest rules never to hang around my former pupils.
18:57Well, I'm... I'm not talking about your former pupils.
19:01I'm talking about me.
19:03Nan St George.
19:07Oh, Sir Helmsley has arrived.
19:17Sir Helmsley.
19:18Duchess.
19:19Good to see you looking so well again, my dear.
19:22And Miss Tess Valley, great pleasure, long overdue.
19:25Sir Helmsley.
19:27So nice to have you join us, Sir Helmsley.
19:29Yes, Honours Love Without Guy is a lonely sort of place,
19:32but the boy is on his way home now.
19:34Oh.
19:35How delightful for you, Sir Helmsley.
19:38Shall we?
19:39Yes.
19:42What a pleasant surprise.
19:46Your favourite, Annabelle.
19:49Do help yourself, Sir Helmsley.
19:51I will. Thank you.
19:55Here we go.
19:57So you say your son's homecoming will change everything, Sir Helmsley?
20:01Oh, indeed it does, yes.
20:03Guy comes back a rich man, as he intended,
20:06and he will now be able to afford to stand at last.
20:09I had no idea Mr Thwaite had political ambitions.
20:12Will he stand as a Liberal or a Tory?
20:14Oh, well, I should like to say as a Whig.
20:16But I suppose Liberal will have to do.
20:19A Whig, you see, is born.
20:21You can no more become a Whig than you can become an aristocrat.
20:24Whigs have leadership in their veins,
20:26whereas Tories, you see, are opportunists.
20:30And Liberals, well, little better than sentimental socialists.
20:34You should scarcely be supporting your son then, Sir Helmsley.
20:37Quite right, Miss Tess Valley.
20:39But you see, we Whigs are a dying breed,
20:43and we must fall in line behind the new men.
20:48And perhaps when you are next in London,
20:51we might visit the Whistler exhibition and see what all the fuss is about.
20:55I have rooms in Fleet Street,
20:57and you'd be most welcome to avail yourself of my hospitality.
21:03Heaven knows when I shall next find myself in London, Sir Helmsley.
21:09I go back to Allfriars this evening.
21:13Yes, I came to visit Annabel for a weekend, and I stayed for over two weeks.
21:16Well, I don't wonder that she held on to you.
21:20Aren't you her very favourite person in the world?
21:25The Duchess is a married woman now.
21:28And our young man has a thing or two to learn, no doubt.
21:33As most young men do.
21:38Well, if you'll excuse me, Sir Helmsley,
21:40I'd like to spend my last few moments with Annabel.
21:42Oh, well, yes, of course.
21:47Miss Tess Valley, may I call on you at the Brittleses?
21:53You may.
22:05There you are.
22:17Not asleep yet?
22:24Splendid news, isn't it, about Guy?
22:26Oh, yes, splendid.
22:28It's always been our ambition, you know, to have Guy as our MP.
22:35Doesn't your maid normally do that for you?
22:37Usually, yes.
22:39I have arms and legs of my own.
22:43You'll be splendid, don't you think?
22:45Splendid. Thank you.
22:48So long as he's thrown away some of that liberal nonsense.
22:52What sort of liberal nonsense?
22:54Oh, I don't want to bore you with all that.
22:57How would you know what bores me, Julius?
23:00Well, why don't you tell me?
23:02What bores you?
23:05Tell me anything you like.
23:07Please don't.
23:10Of course, you're tired. I'll... I'll leave you.
23:37Welcome home, Mr Guy.
23:41Walk on.
23:44How have I seen you?
23:49Happy?
23:50Ah, it's good to be home.
23:59Honour's love is in my bones.
24:03Honour's love is in my bones.
24:06You see, it's been in our family, not just for generations, but for centuries.
24:11Every tree, every stone is precious.
24:15Honour's love, does it have a meaning?
24:17Well, no one really knows.
24:20Do you know the poem by Lovelace?
24:22He was leaving his lady to go to the wars,
24:25and he said,
24:27and he said,
24:29I could not love thee dear so much,
24:32loved I not Honour more.
24:36I can see why Conchita says this is the most beautiful place in England.
24:40Well, I suppose if one were married to a woman one adored,
24:44one would soon get beyond her beauty.
24:50Are you all right, my love?
24:52Yes.
24:55But it would probably cost us both fortune.
25:01You used to say that if this ever happened, you'd...
25:06well, you'd pop back into bed with Richard and pass it off as his.
25:11Well, popping back into bed with Richard isn't something I can do any longer.
25:20You're all alone here, darling?
25:22Julius isn't lurking about anywhere?
25:25Julius, oh, no, no, he's out with the guns.
25:29Oh, they love it, don't they?
25:31Out there killing everything that moves.
25:33That's very nice.
25:34Thank you, Rose.
25:36Tell Cook I'll be down shortly, and if you could please bring us some Madeira.
25:39Yes, yes.
25:42Hmm.
25:49My name.
25:50Do you realize how lovely you've become?
25:53I always knew that one day you'd outshine the rest of us.
25:59But you should burn his arms, his dressing gown.
26:01Stop.
26:03Why don't you let me buy your things for you?
26:05And what a lovely excuse for me to pop over to Paris at your expense.
26:09Fine.
26:11Oh, Ned.
26:13Isn't it odd how life turns out?
26:17Connie?
26:19What is it?
26:21Come sit with me.
26:24What is it?
26:28Oh, I can't possibly tell you.
26:32Connie, tell me. Tell me what it is.
26:36Well, pretty much everything's wrong, but...
26:40What's the use? You wouldn't understand.
26:45I mean, how would you know about having no money
26:50and being tied to one man when you're in love with another?
26:54Tied into one of those awful English marriages
26:57which strangle you in the noose when you try to get away from them.
27:03I'm sorry.
27:04I'm sorry.
27:06I suppose now I've shocked you past forgiveness.
27:14Oh, darling.
27:16You see?
27:18I mean, they told us that it all ended at the church door.
27:24And after that, we just...
27:27We just go on having babies
27:30and living happily ever after.
27:35Oh.
27:37Connie, you know what I dream of?
27:39Sometimes I dream of packing up and just creeping away.
27:45Sometimes I think maybe I could get passage money from Papa
27:49and go home and just pretend none of this ever happened.
27:52Oh, dear little goose.
27:55Is that your solution to run home?
27:58I would rather stay and freeze here
28:01than return to all the emptiness back on Madison Avenue.
28:04But darling, you're a duchess.
28:07You're an English duchess.
28:08Everything the world can offer, you have heaped at your feet.
28:12Whereas I...
28:14I have nothing.
28:16I am stone broke.
28:19And if I can't raise 500 pounds,
28:24I am in real trouble.
28:28The worst.
28:32Thank you, Rose.
28:37Connie.
28:39Please don't think that I don't want help.
28:43It's, uh...
28:45You see, the baby would not be Richard's.
28:53Oh, you're so untouched by anything sordid.
28:57It's not sordid to be unhappy.
29:01Maybe not.
29:04Still, I know what you must think of the way I control myself.
29:09But I can't live without love.
29:11What else is there?
29:14Connie.
29:16You say you need a loan.
29:18The fact is,
29:21Julius is very careful with his money.
29:25And since Papa's allowance stopped,
29:28I have almost nothing.
29:30Why, they all skinflint.
29:33And I suppose you don't know how to ask?
29:37Julius hates to be asked for anything.
29:45But I will, Connie.
29:48I'll judge the right moment, and I'll ask.
30:01Lord B?
30:08Was it a good afternoon?
30:10It was, yes. I believe everyone enjoyed it very well.
30:13Tables.
30:16Splendid, Annabelle.
30:18Julius, thank you.
30:23May I speak to you for a moment?
30:25There's something I'd like to ask you.
30:27Well, there's only a quarter of an hour before we must dress for dinner.
30:31Yes, I'm already dressed.
30:34So you are.
30:35Shall we?
30:44Cheers. Cheers.
30:49What is this money for?
30:51Have you been running up debts?
30:53What is this money for?
30:55Have you been running up debts?
30:58The fact is,
31:00I never really know exactly what my means are.
31:04I mean, what is mine to spend as I like?
31:09Well, in your father's account, what have we arranged?
31:14I believe you received exactly the same as my mother did when my father was alive.
31:20Ah, here it is.
31:22You may draw up to £10 a month from the account
31:25and up to £5 a week in cash from the safe, according to your needs.
31:28Julius, I haven't said this before, but I had this sort of money when I was 17.
31:34You mean marriage has reduced your circumstances?
31:39Of course not.
31:41But am I to have no independence?
31:44Independence? That's a curious word to use of a married woman.
31:47You're not an American colony. You're my wife.
31:50Yes, I know, Julius.
31:53And really, I have very small personal needs.
31:58It's just that sometimes...
32:01sometimes one is tempted to spend a trifle more.
32:11Well, of course, if some sort of debt has been incurred, then it must be settled.
32:15You've earned it. Send me the bill.
32:17No need for that. If you could just make the cheque out to me.
32:20Ah.
32:24Then it isn't a debt, after all.
32:32If you're asking me to advance you £500 at a moment's notice,
32:37it's only fair you should let me know what it's for.
32:40It's for one of my private Christmas charities.
32:43My dear, there should be nothing private between husband and wife.
32:47Are you saying you won't give me the money?
32:50Contrary. I'm perfectly prepared to give you the money if you just tell me what it's for.
32:54Julius, you cannot go on forever treating me like a child.
32:59Do you have any idea how long it's been since I've asked a favour of you?
33:04Have you forgotten how long it is since I asked a favour of you?
33:09If you don't like me treating you as a child,
33:12then I shall be forced to treat you as a wife.
33:23Stress-free dinner, dear.
33:38Yes!
33:39Yes!
33:40Yes!
33:41Yes!
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34:06Yes!
34:07Yes!
34:08Yes!
34:09Yes!
34:10Yes!
34:11Do you know how to play something a little bit more Latin-like?
34:41All right, everyone! Follow me!
35:01Come on, Felicia.
35:06Teach me how to do this.
35:10They're quite tricky steps, my lord. There's no need to hurry them.
35:26Come, everyone!
35:30This way!
35:36Good heavens!
35:40Come on, Felicia!
36:10Come on, Felicia!
36:41On dark days, they're my sunshine. I often sit here with them, without making a sound.
36:52This is an amazing story.
36:57The Seduction of Lida.
37:00Here she is as a young woman, being charmed by Zeus as a swan.
37:05And here, the seduction itself.
37:09And afterwards, being clothed and looking lovingly, she flies away.
37:15Perhaps one day, if I'm patient, I'll tame them and they'll come down to me.
37:22And what would you do with them then, Duchess?
37:28What on earth does Julius make of it when you say that sort of thing?
37:32I don't say that sort of thing to Julius.
37:40Did you never think of sweeping away all this other stuff?
37:45All these touching little family mementos.
37:48I've tried that. One day I smuggled in a ladder and I took them all down.
37:54The Duchess only put them back where they were before. Exactly.
37:59But you are the Duchess.
38:03Not the real one.
38:05My dear girl, you are the wife of the Duke.
38:07Please don't. Don't pat me on the head and send me back to the nursery.
38:12Please, please don't do that.
38:17You know, there is something about the Grand English Lady in full flight of her snobbish ignorance that makes me proud.
38:23I mean it, Laura. Proud to be American.
38:26Oh, quite right, Jackie.
38:28And what about the Grand English Gentleman?
38:32Ah, now you've touched on a weakness.
38:37But what about your own weakness in that regard?
38:42I see I've hit a nerve.
38:46Well, to be honest, I don't care. Who knows?
38:49My advice is that you strengthen your defenses post haste. Rumor has it that this...
38:54Oh, I know all about his reputation.
38:57A lot of men have Sir Helmsley's reputation. They don't all deserve it.
39:02Sir Helmsley has just settled a large amount on a young woman he was entangled with whilst his son was away.
39:10And they say he still has a one-time amour in a little house at Bath.
39:17Perhaps it's my Italian blood, but I don't necessarily disapprove of amours.
39:22More music!
39:32And where is Annabelle?
39:37If only you hadn't gone away for so long. We could have talked. I could have asked you things.
39:42But now that I'm here, can we not still talk?
39:45Annabelle, when we first met, do you remember...
39:47Please.
39:55Do you have a cigarette?
40:08The English are not an easy people to adapt to.
40:14We're a tight little island, and we hate change.
40:21When you ask us why we do things the way we do, we reply because that's the way we've always done them.
40:29But then suddenly we give in.
40:32Without even arguing.
40:36You may still be able to be a real Duchess, but in your own way.
40:42In your own time.
40:46You've got plenty of that.
40:49Yes. Years and years of it.
40:52And yet, you know, sometimes life feels as short as a winter's day.
40:57You've had your chance, and you've missed it.
41:00No, don't say that, Annabelle. Please.
41:03No, please don't take notice of me. I'm...
41:06My spirits, they just go up and down.
41:09Things are never as bad as I think, or as good as I expect.
41:15Do you know what I would hate most of all?
41:17Would be to not care either way.
41:20Don't you think that would be the worst of all?
41:24I can't imagine that ever happening to you.
41:26I can't imagine that ever happening to you.
41:36Annabelle, my dear, the Duke is asking for you.
41:42Your guests are beginning to feel neglected.
41:46Well, wasn't I right, Mr. Thwaite?
41:48To insist on you coming up here to see the Correggios?
41:51I told the Duke it was my doing.
41:52I told the Duke it was my doing.
41:58When's the by-election, Mr. Thwaite?
42:00In February.
42:02I do so hope you win.
42:04Well, you know, the tenants must go with the Duke.
42:06Well, Percy, Julius.
42:08Annabelle?
42:10Aye?
42:13Well, perhaps we should join our guests.
42:53Come in.
42:55Oh.
42:57Oh, darling, darling man.
42:59You know, I can never thank you enough for this.
43:02It's all right.
43:04You saved my life.
43:06You're an angel.
43:08You deserve all the happiness in the world.
43:12Mm.
43:14I'm sorry.
43:16It's all right.
43:18It's all right.
43:20It's all right.
43:22It's all right.
43:37They're all sounding off down there like gatling guns.
43:40I left them to it.
43:44Very successful Christmas, Annabelle.
43:46Well done.
43:48Oh, I'm glad.
43:52Julius?
43:53Yes?
43:54I'll scratch your fingers, darling.
43:59I'll leave you.
44:06Aren't you going to thank me?
44:10Oh, Julius.
44:12Of course.
44:15Thank you so much.
44:17I'm truly grateful.
44:36What did you, uh...
44:39What did you think of Guy?
44:41Think of him?
44:43Yes, well, you spend enough time together.
44:46You seem at all changed.
44:50Not at all.
45:00I've been thinking of you all evening.
45:05Please don't, Julius.
45:08Please, I'm sorry.
45:10I...
45:12For God's sake, Annabelle.
45:18What am I supposed to do?
45:23I mean, haven't I kept my side of the bargain?
45:26What bargain?
45:27Well, you took the money!
45:32Oh, don't pretend you don't know what it was for.
45:38Do you want me to force you? Is that it?
45:42Of course not.
45:44What makes you think you can treat me like this, huh?
45:46Damn you! Damn you!
45:48You are ungrateful!
45:49Damn you, American!
45:50Damn you, American!
45:52Burned little bitch, you...
45:57Damn you!
45:58Damn!
46:05Annabelle, stop.
46:09Stop it!
46:11Annabelle, stop it!
46:20Oh, my God!
46:23Let me out of here!
46:24I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Annabelle. I'm so sorry, Annabelle.
46:27I can't stay.
46:28Let me out of here. I gotta go.
46:30Sorry, Annabelle. Please, I'm so sorry.
46:32I'm in a terrible state.
46:33Please, Annabelle, I'm so sorry.
46:34Oh, my God.
46:35I might arrange for you to go away somewhere and rest, Annabelle.
46:38For you to go away and be quiet, Annabelle.
46:40Please, Annabelle. Please be quiet.
46:43Please go and be quiet, Annabelle.
46:44Annabelle.
46:47Then I...
46:49Then I...
46:51Then I...
46:54Look, Annabelle, look, I'm going now.
46:57Oh, God.
47:15Come.
47:17Aha, good morning.
47:19Oh.
47:21My little loves.
47:24How are they?
47:25Sweetheart.
47:27Come over to your daddy.
47:31Oh, he's sleeping.
47:33All right.
47:35Thank you very much.
47:37That's lovely.
47:39You've got a full little tummy.
47:41Oh, there's one for you there.
47:44Wonderful.
47:46It's from Nan.
47:52Good gracious, I think she's coming to stay.
47:56Wait, Annabelle, the Duchess?
47:59Apparently, she's been with Laura at Allfriars since Christmas.
48:03Recovering from something or other.
48:06I don't know.
48:08And now she's coming here.
48:11I think she's bored to death and she's longing for a change.
48:16Oh, Annabelle.
48:19Shall I write that she can?
48:23Her inviting herself is unconventional, to say the least.
48:27Annabelle's a dear friend.
48:29Are there any way of knowing if the Duke approves?
48:32I'd like to know.
48:33Are there any way of knowing if the Duke approves?
48:36I'd like to see him try and refuse.
48:45That's your Hail Columbia voice, Lizzie. I love it.
48:49As a matter of fact, any little favours I can do the St George family just now are all to the good.
48:54There's been another change in the Colonel's fortunes.
48:58This time, very much for the better.
49:04How strange to be here after so long.
49:07So long.
49:10Years and years.
49:12Only three, surely.
49:14Can it be?
49:16Three years is a long time in a woman's life.
49:21What a beautiful necklace.
49:23It was an anniversary present from my husband.
49:27We're expecting our second child in September. Did you know?
49:30No, I didn't.
49:32How on earth should I?
49:35Congratulations.
49:38How can I help you, Lady Seedon? Surely you're not in some kind of trouble, are you?
49:45What does my husband still see in you?
49:53I haven't seen Lord Seedon for almost a year.
49:56You both must think me not a fool.
49:59Oh, no, I've never thought you a fool.
50:06Poor Seedy.
50:15After he married you, I gave him rather a rough time.
50:20I went to pieces.
50:21He deserted me for a younger, happier woman.
50:27A pretty hard-headed little thing of 19.
50:31So you see, my dear, we're both in the same boat.
50:35How dare you compare us?
50:38Who are you?
50:40I am his wife.
50:43You are little better than a prostitute.
50:46My child is the future Lord Brittlesea.
50:52You are nothing.
50:59No, you're right. There's no comparison between us.
51:03Seedon paid me rather well.
51:06You, I believe, pay Seedon.
51:09Now that we've both said what we really feel, I would be grateful if you would leave.
51:22So you've been coming to the House of Commons without telling me.
51:26Were you never going to let me know you were here?
51:29I'm not going to tell you.
51:31I'm not going to tell you.
51:33I'm not going to tell you.
51:35I'm not going to tell you.
51:36Were you never going to let me know you were here?
51:39I was afraid it might ruin your career to be seen with a married woman.
51:43Well, so long as we stay in public sight and keep, what, 18 inches between us, I'm sure my reputation will survive.
52:00Why did you come to London, Annabel?
52:02Because I couldn't bear to go home.
52:06Because I suppose I knew we would meet eventually.
52:10And then?
52:12Don't know.
52:14I, uh, I hope I can count on you as a friend.
52:19Well, I can hardly call myself anything less.
52:24Can I say yes without misleading you?
52:28I, uh, I can't think any further yet, Guy.
52:32What is the reason for this rather inconvenient pleasure, Sir Helmsley?
52:38Well, uh, well, in the first place, it gives me the chance to spend an hour alone in your company without being surrounded by a flock of girls.
52:45And, uh, and secondly, what in God's name is a duchess up to?
52:51I'm sure she's not up to anything.
52:54Well, then what is my son up to?
52:57I mean, leaving aside the question of what part you may have played in his life,
52:59I mean, leaving aside the question of what part you may have played in the duchess's flight to London,
53:04no, no, surely you must, like me, have heard the rumours.
53:07Rumours?
53:09Well, God damn it, woman, I'm not deaf and blind, and nor, unfortunately, are Julius and his mother.
53:14I gather from the dowager that Annabel has been seen daily at the House of Commons, and I repeat, what is my son up to?
53:20Guy can do nothing without Julius's backing.
53:22I mean, things may have changed, but they haven't changed that much.
53:24Men haven't changed that much.
53:26Nor have women come to that.
53:27You're the one should know.
53:32Who's that remarks with me?
53:34You're a man.
53:36And I hear you have considerable experience of women.
53:39Oh, I see, I see.
53:41You're selective with rumours.
53:43Is that it?
53:46Quite since, um, the beginning of, uh, negotiation?
53:53Negotiation?
53:55Between you and me?
53:57Long overdue.
54:01I think, Sir Helmsley, when you say that, you should look me in the eye,
54:06so that I know whether to believe you or not.
54:09Ooh.
54:57Please, please.