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In Paris, Linda meets Fabrice de Sauveterre and an affair begins, but their happiness is soon threatened by war.
In Paris, Linda meets Fabrice de Sauveterre and an affair begins, but their happiness is soon threatened by war.
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00:30In London, there was a society, Lynda knew, which looked after ladies.
00:59They were stranded at railway stations.
01:01In France, more likely, there would be one for shipping them off to South America.
01:06Any moment now, somebody, some genial old woman or jolly French gentleman,
01:11might come up and give her an injection, after which she would disappear forever.
01:16Fiends! Fiends!
01:19Oh, how right Burr always was!
01:22Abroad, he's a bloody abhorrent of the fiends!
01:28Allez-vous-en!
01:30Bonjour, bonjour!
01:32Voulez-vous vous en aller?
01:37It is necessary that I explain to you that I am not a white slave.
01:44I am the daughter of a very important milord Anglais.
01:50One does not have to be Sherlock Holmes to get that.
01:55The French ladies, covered with the exterior sand of Wales,
01:59do not sit crying in their suitcases at the Gare du Nord at this hour of the morning.
02:04White slaves, on the other hand, always have protectors,
02:08and it's only to clear that just now you are unprotected.
02:12Alors, I invite you to luncheon with me, but first you must have a bath and a rest,
02:16and a cold compress on your face.
02:19Maintenant, venez!
02:23I ask to be excused for not taking you to the Ritz,
02:25but I have a feeling for the Hotel Montalembert just now,
02:28that it will suit your mood this morning.
02:30The food here is excellent, in a discreet way.
02:33I shall return at one o'clock, when you will join me in the dining room for luncheon.
02:38A tout à l'heure, madame.
02:53A tout à l'heure, madame.
03:14You've kept me waiting for half an hour.
03:18That's a very good sign.
03:20Of what?
03:21Oh, of this and that.
03:23A good agree for our affair. It will be happy and last long.
03:27We are not having an affair.
03:29My name is Fabrice. May one ask yours?
03:31Linda.
03:32Linda. Ah, comme c'est joli.
03:35With me, it usually lasts five years.
03:37Ah, let me see now.
03:39What would madame wish to eat?
03:41If madame could see a menu.
03:43Alors, le foie gras frais de canard,
03:45les quenelles de homard avec une salade verte,
03:49et un bâtard morache et trente-deux avec évian.
03:52Messieurs.
03:54I adore les femmes, but some matters are too important for them to be allowed to interfere.
04:00And now, madame, recount.
04:02Recount what?
04:04But of course, the story.
04:06Who was it that left you the cry on that suitcase?
04:09He didn't. I left him.
04:11It was my second husband, and I have left him forever,
04:14because he has fallen in love with a welfare worker.
04:17Not that you'd know what that is,
04:19because I'm sure they do not exist in France.
04:22What a very curious reason for leaving one's second husband.
04:27Surely with your experience of husbands,
04:29you must have noticed that falling in love with other women is one of the things they do.
04:35However, it's an ill omen, as they say, and I do not complain.
04:40But why the suitcase?
04:42Why did you not put yourself in the train and take yourself back to Monsieur,
04:46the very important miller and anglais, your father?
04:50It's a very long story.
04:52Oh, then please, tell it.
04:54Moi, j'adore les histoires.
05:01Perpignan.
05:03And in the name of heaven, what were you and your husband doing there?
05:07Trying to stop you frogs from teasing the poor Spaniards.
05:10Teasing them? Where were we?
05:12Herding them into camps.
05:14And what were we supposed to do with them?
05:17We never invited them, you know.
05:19You made them go into camps and then gave them no shelter.
05:22It's quite a job to provide shelter.
05:25At the moment, it's for half a million people.
05:28Then if you couldn't give them shelter, why did you make them go into your camps?
05:32Because there we could and did feed them.
05:38In any case, you could hardly expect us to turn them loose on the countryside with no money.
05:43What would have been the result of that?
05:45Do use your common sense.
05:47You should mobilize them all to fight in the war against fascism,
05:50which is coming any day now.
05:52Talk about what you know, madame, and you will not get so angry.
05:56We haven't enough equipment for our own soldiers during the war against Germany.
06:00That's coming.
06:01And not any day, my dear Linda.
06:03But probably after the harvest.
06:07And now, go on telling me about your husband Christian
06:10and why you had no money at the gardener.
06:13It is, I promise you, so much more interesting.
06:19So before the poor husband Christian,
06:22there was the rich husband Tony,
06:26who had more money than taste.
06:29Let me give you this truly hideous fur coat that you were wearing on the suitcase.
06:35You are very rude.
06:37It's a lovely fur coat.
06:39It's only expensive.
06:42Mink, a vison.
06:45Color is nightmare and the cut is bad.
06:48Anyway, coats are getting longer.
06:50I see I must get you some clothes.
06:53If you were well dressed, you would be quite good looking.
06:59Even so, your eyes are too small.
07:03Brown, a good color, but too small.
07:10In England, I am considered a beauty.
07:13Well, you have points.
07:18More coffee?
07:21Or will you come now and see my flat?
07:26I would rather see Paris.
07:30Do you know Paris well?
07:32I've never been here before in my life.
07:35Never been here before?
07:37Then what a pleasure for me to show it to you.
07:40There is so much to show.
07:43It will take weeks.
07:47Unfortunately, I leave for England tomorrow.
07:50Ah, yes, of course, yes.
07:53Then we must see it all this afternoon.
09:59Yes.
10:23Et après, we shall go to see my flat.
10:26You may go where you please.
10:28I will return to the Hotel Montalampère.
10:31Very well, madame.
10:40It's a magnificent resistance, madame,
10:42and I congratulate you with all my heart.
10:53Ah, be it never so humble. There is no place like home.
10:57A housekeeper to have a set of rooms prepared for Mr. Dugdale.
11:00The ones he always used to have.
11:02He will be staying indefinitely.
11:04Sonia, of course I'd love to stay for a few days, but...
11:07Hampton must be your home from now on.
11:11What about Polly?
11:12You simply have to face it, my darling.
11:14She's gone off with that old Paddington creature,
11:16and she's not coming back.
11:18Now, you know you're going to love being here with Sonia,
11:21not to mention one.
11:23So, just say thank you nicely in the way that Nanny taught you,
11:26and let's not have any more nonsense, eh?
11:37Hello?
11:38Hello, hello. Are you having breakfast?
11:40How clever of you to know.
11:42Is it good?
11:43It's delicious.
11:44I have to keep stopping to make it go on longer.
11:47Are you having yours?
11:48Had it.
11:49I must tell you that I like very long conversations in the morning,
11:52and I shall expect you to recount lots of histoires.
11:55Like Scheherazade?
11:56Yes, just like.
11:58But for now you must get up, because in one hour I must fetch you.
12:02I have something to show you.
12:04You have never before been to Paris.
12:07Of course, you know the old story of the two English ladies who were walking here,
12:11and suddenly they were surrounded by people in 18th century clothes,
12:15and they saw Marie Antoinette sitting in her garden at the little Trianon.
12:20A very silly and boring tale.
12:22Histoires are of interest only when they are true,
12:25or when you make them up specially to amuse me.
12:27Histoires of phantoms imagined by some dim old English virgins
12:31are neither true nor interesting,
12:33so no more stories of ghosts, madame, if you please.
12:37I'm only doing my best to please you.
12:40You tell a story.
12:42Yes, I will.
12:46And this story is true.
12:53My grandmother was very beautiful and had many lovers,
12:57all her life, even when she was quite old.
13:02A short time before she died, she was in Venice with my mother,
13:06and one day they saw from the gondola a little palazzo of pink marble,
13:11very exquisite.
13:13They stopped the gondola to look at it, and my mother said,
13:17I don't believe anybody lived there.
13:20Let's try to see the inside.
13:24So they rang the bell, and another servant came and said
13:27that nobody had lived there for many, many years,
13:31and that he would show it to them if they liked.
13:35So they went in and upstairs to the Salone,
13:38which had three windows looking over the canal,
13:42and was decorated in 15th-century plasterwork,
13:47white on the background of pale blue.
13:52It was a perfect room.
13:55My grandmother seemed strangely moved
14:00and stood for a long time in silence.
14:05At last she said to my mother,
14:08If in the third drawer of that bureau
14:12there is a filigree box containing a small gold key
14:16and a black velvet ribbon, this house belongs to me.
14:22And my mother looked, and there was, and it did.
14:29One of my grandmother's lovers had given it to her
14:32years and years before when she was quite young,
14:35and she had forgotten all about it.
14:37Goodness, what fascinating lives you foreigners do lead.
14:44And it belongs to me now.
14:59I would take you there tomorrow, but...
15:01But what?
15:03One must stay here now, you see, for the war.
15:06Oh, I keep forgetting about the war.
15:09Yes, let's forget it.
15:14You are very badly coiffé, ma chérie.
15:19If you don't like my hair, and you don't like my clothes,
15:22and you think my eyes are so small,
15:25I don't know what you see in me.
15:28Nevertheless, I swear that there is...
15:34quelque chose.
15:58Such perfect meals you give a girl.
16:02Have you no other engagements?
16:04Of course. I've cancelled them.
16:07Who are your friends?
16:09Les gens du monde.
16:11The men and women of the polite world.
16:14And yours?
16:16When I was married to Tony, I used to go out in the monde.
16:19It was my life.
16:21But Christian disapproved of it.
16:23He stopped me going to parties and frightened away my friends,
16:26whom he considered frivolous and idiotic.
16:30Everybody's getting more serious.
16:32Is that the way things are going?
16:35But whatever one may be in politics,
16:37left, right, fascist, communist,
16:40les gens du monde are the only possible ones for friends.
16:45And what else is there to distinguish man from the animals
16:49but his social life?
16:52Who understands it so well?
16:54Who can make it so smooth and amusing as les gens du monde?
16:58But one cannot have le monde at the same time as a love affair.
17:04One must be wholehearted to enjoy it.
17:08So I have cancelled all my engagements.
17:13What a pity.
17:15Because I leave for London tomorrow.
17:18Oh, yes. I had forgotten.
17:22What a pity.
17:29Hello?
17:31Hello, hello. Are you asleep?
17:34What do you think? What time is it?
17:36About two.
17:38Shall I come round and see you?
17:40Do you mean now?
17:42Yes.
17:44I must say, that would be very nice.
17:46But the thing is, what would the night porter think?
17:49Oh, mon cher.
17:51How English you are.
17:53I must break it to you.
17:56He will not be under any illusion.
17:58I suppose not.
18:00But then, he is under no illusion as it is.
18:04After all, I come for you three or four times every day.
18:08And French people, even those who are not les gens du monde,
18:13are quite quick at noticing these things.
18:17In short, your reputation in the hotel
18:20will become no worse than it already is.
18:23Oh, I see.
18:25Very well. We understand each other.
18:29I shall be with you very shortly.
18:53Ah, this is Germaine.
18:55I will look after your every request.
18:58So, you see, it will be altogether plus commode
19:03than the Hotel Montalembert.
19:06Altogether, the most sensible and convenient thing.
19:12Yes, I do see, Fabrice. Extremely sensible.
19:16When I was young, I liked to be very romantic.
19:20And run all kinds of risks.
19:23I used to hide in wardrobes,
19:25to be brought into the house in a trunk,
19:28to climb up the stairs,
19:30to climb up the stairs,
19:32to climb up the stairs,
19:34to climb up the stairs,
19:36to climb up the stairs,
19:38to be brought into the house in a trunk,
19:41to climb in at windows,
19:43how I used to climb.
19:45Then one night, I climbed into a wasp's nest.
19:49The agony.
19:50So now I prefer to be comfortable
19:52and have my own key.
19:55I shall be back here for dinner,
19:57which Germaine will prepare at half past eight.
20:01I think it's important, you see,
20:04to have and follow a routine.
20:07It is necessary, when all is said,
20:10to be practical.
20:13Au revoir, madame.
20:15Indeed, Linda thought,
20:17nobody could be more practical than Fabrice.
20:20No nonsense about him.
20:22A little nonsense, she thought,
20:24would have been rather nice.
20:27And then Linda thought rather wistfully of her mother.
20:31She hadn't liked it when Linda had committed adultery with Christian.
20:35But he at least was English.
20:37And Linda had been properly introduced to him
20:40and knew his surname.
20:42Also, Christian had all along intended to marry her.
20:47But how much less would my Aunt Sadie, like her daughter,
20:50to pick up an unknown, nameless foreigner
20:53and go off with him to live in luxury?
20:56Linda profoundly hoped she would never find out.
21:01Nor Uncle Matthew.
21:03If he knew her situation,
21:05he would come charging down the street with his shotgun.
21:08Or at the very least, one of his stock whips.
21:11Madame?
21:13Madame?
21:15I think it is time for Madame to take her bath.
21:18M. Le Duc will be here in three quarters of an hour.
21:26Merci, Germaine.
21:34Could one know your name?
21:38Haven't you discovered that?
21:41My name is Sauveteur.
21:44I'm happy to tell you, Madame,
21:46I am a very rich duke.
21:48A most agreeable thing to be, even in these days.
21:52How lovely for you.
21:54And while we're on the subject of your private life,
21:58are you married?
22:01No.
22:04Why not?
22:08My fiancée died.
22:11Oh, how sad.
22:15What was she like?
22:18Very pretty.
22:23Prettier than me?
22:27Much prettier.
22:31Very correct.
22:36More correct than me?
22:40You, Madame,
22:43one doesn't think of in terms of correctness.
22:50And then she was so gentle.
22:54Gentle.
22:58Mais d'une gentillesse à la pauvre.
23:04What was her name?
23:08Louise.
23:12Only child of the last Duc de Reims.
23:17You know, five years.
23:20You did say that with you it normally lasts five years.
23:24It's quite a long time when it's all in front of you.
23:31But Louise died more than five years ago.
23:37Fifteen years in the autumn.
23:41Fifteen years in the autumn.
23:47I always go and put late roses on her grave.
23:54Those little tight roses
23:57with very dark green leaves
24:01that never open properly.
24:05Adieu, que c'est triste.
24:10Do you always laugh when you make love?
24:13I haven't thought about it.
24:15But I suppose I do.
24:17Do you find it odd?
24:20Very disconcerting at first, I must say.
24:25Why? Don't most women laugh?
24:28Indeed, they do not.
24:30Indeed, they do not.
24:33More often, they cry.
24:35How extraordinary. Don't they enjoy it?
24:39It's nothing to do with enjoyment.
24:42If they are young, they call on their mothers.
24:46If they are religious, they call on the Virgin to forgive them.
24:52But I've never known one who laughed, except you.
24:57What else do they do?
25:00What they all do, except you, is say
25:05how you must despise me.
25:09Why should you despise them?
25:11Really, my dear, one does, that's all.
25:13How unfair.
25:15First you seduce them, then you despise them, poor things.
25:19What a monster you are.
25:21They like it.
25:22They like groveling about and saying,
25:25Oh, whatever have I done?
25:27Oh, my God, Fabrice, alas.
25:29Whatever must you think of me?
25:32Oh, how bitterly I'm ashamed.
25:37But you...
25:41You seem unaware of your shame.
25:47You just roar with laughter.
25:51It's very strange.
25:55And rather agreeable, I must admit.
26:04What about Louise, your fiancée?
26:09Didn't you despise her?
26:14Of course not.
26:16Of course not.
26:19She was a virtuous woman.
26:31Do you mean to say you never went to bed with her?
26:34Never.
26:37Never would such a thing have crossed my mind in a thousand years.
26:43Goodness.
26:45In England, we always do.
26:48My dear, it's well known, the animal side of the English.
26:54The English are a drunken and incontinent race.
26:58And the whole world agrees.
27:01The English don't know it.
27:04They think it's you foreigners that are all those things.
27:09French women are the most virtuous in the world.
27:16Good night, Basil. I'll come and tuck you in later.
27:19Good night, David.
27:27I narrowly avoided a domestic scene.
27:29What a pity, darling. I should have so enjoyed watching you playing the mother.
27:33Perhaps it's just as well you didn't. It is a very private role.
27:36Surely you wouldn't have resented an audience of one.
27:38After all, you've seen me often enough, playing the son.
27:40And I hope you're as dutiful as ever, Siegfried.
27:42Oh, yes. And it's so much easier now.
27:45Boy's in the house, you see, to take her off my hands a lot of the time.
27:48Still no sign of Polly coming back?
27:50Not a chance, my darling. She's far too engrossed with her randy old Paddington.
27:54And even if she wanted to come back, Boy wouldn't have her.
27:57Boy, my dear, has other fish to fry.
27:59A fish whose name begins with C?
28:01And will one day begin with M. Boy will love that.
28:05So, always round, my darling, things have worked out well for everybody.
28:08Poor old Montaud has retired into a mist of senility, but he's quite content inside it.
28:13Polly's happy with Poppa Paddington.
28:15Boy is quite potty about one, and one is in total blisseykins with Boy.
28:20And Sonia's absolutely delirious about both of us.
28:22So delirious, in fact, that she's forgotten how to be mean
28:25and pays the most alarming bills from Cartier's without a murmur.
28:28So, here we all are, my darling, having our lovely cake and eating it.
28:34One's great aim in life.
28:36I know. Alfred thinks it's terrible.
28:39Parcels, madame, from Leno and Molyneux.
28:43And there are two gentlemen to see madame, from England.
29:04Gracious heavens!
29:06Well, you do look pretty.
29:11Are you in disguise?
29:13What can you mean?
29:15Oh, the spectacles. Oh, I have to wear them when I'm abroad.
29:18I have such kind eyes, you see.
29:21Beggars and things cluster round and annoy me.
29:25What have you come for?
29:27Well, I've come to see you.
29:30What have you come for?
29:32Well, actually, we came to see if you were all right.
29:36As it's perfectly clear that you are,
29:39we might as well go away again.
29:41How did you find out? Do Mummy and Fa know?
29:44No, no, no. Not a thing.
29:46They still think you're in Perm, anyhow, with Christian.
29:49Thank God!
29:51But we heard that you'd left.
29:54So, I went round to Cheney Walk,
29:57where you obviously weren't,
29:59and Mur and I got faintly worried to think of you wandering about the continent,
30:03so ill-suited, we thought.
30:05Look after yourself.
30:07How wrong we were.
30:09And at the same time,
30:11we became madly curious to know what had become of you,
30:14so we put into motion a little discreet detective work,
30:17and here we are.
30:18You gave us quite a fright.
30:20Another time, when you're putting on this Clair de Merode act,
30:23you might send a postcard.
30:25For one thing, it's a great pleasure to see you in the part.
30:27I wouldn't have missed it for worlds.
30:29Deliveries, madame.
30:31From Fatou, Balenciaga, and from Fatou.
30:34Oh, goodness!
30:36How funny it all is.
30:38Parcels, fliers.
30:40So tremendously Victorian.
30:44Have you yet told him that he must give you up,
30:47and marry a pure young girl?
30:49Oh, don't tease, Dave.
30:51I'm so happy.
30:53Yes.
30:55Well, you look happy, I must say.
31:00This flat is a joke.
31:02There are some things here which raise the level.
31:05A Gauguin.
31:07These two Matisse.
31:09Chintzy, but accomplished.
31:11Your protector must be very rich.
31:14He is.
31:15I thought you knew all about him.
31:17You and your detective work.
31:19We found out where, but not who.
31:22Do Stan see him?
31:23He's a terrific Han.
31:24No, no, no.
31:25I think we've intruded enough for one day.
31:27Who is he?
31:29He is called the Duke of Sauveterre.
31:33Fabrice de Sauveterre?
31:35Do you know him?
31:36Well, of course we know him.
31:37No one will advise him.
31:39And so does everyone else in the whole world.
31:41Except you.
31:42Well, don't you think he's a terrific Han?
31:44Do admit.
31:46Fabrice is undoubtedly one of the wickedest men in Europe
31:49where women are concerned.
31:51What a scene there'll be when he smells my cigar.
31:54There'll be a creme passionnelle, I shouldn't wonder.
31:57Why, Linda, darling,
31:59we're off to dine with our intellectual friends.
32:02Oh, I shall pay for this later.
32:06Will you have luncheon with us at the Ritz tomorrow?
32:09I'd like that.
32:10Fabrice has never taken me to the Ritz.
32:12One o'clock, then, in the bar.
32:15Give our love to Fabrice.
32:19Au revoir.
32:21Au revoir.
32:31Ah, your taste is improving every day, ma chère.
32:34Walk up and down.
32:36It will need a soupçon off there
32:40and a slight lensing there.
32:43Otherwise, admirable.
32:45Continue, continue, ma chère.
32:47Buy more, much more.
32:51I'm not, by any chance, taken to smoking cigars.
32:55Oh, that was an old friend of Mummy's and mine,
32:59Lord Merlin.
33:00He came with Davy Warbeck, who married my Aunt Emily.
33:04They say they know you.
33:06Oh, yes, indeed.
33:08Lord Merlin, tellement gentil.
33:11And that poor Warbeck, always thinking himself so ill.
33:14I knew them in Venice.
33:16What did they make of all this?
33:19They roared at the flat.
33:21Oh, yes, I can imagine.
33:23It's not suitable for you, this flat, but it's convenient.
33:27And with the war coming...
33:28Oh, but I love it!
33:30I wouldn't want anything else.
33:32Wasn't it clever of them, though, to find me?
33:36Do you mean to say
33:38you never told anybody where you were?
33:41I really didn't think of it.
33:44The days go by.
33:46You know,
33:47one simply doesn't remember these things.
33:49Doesn't one?
33:51And it was six weeks
33:53before anyone thought of looking for you?
33:56Oh, as a family,
33:58you seem to me remarkably casual.
34:02Never, never let me go back to them again.
34:07My darling.
34:09But you love them, hmm?
34:12Mummy and Fa,
34:14little Matt and Bob and Victoria and Fanny.
34:18What is all this?
34:20I never want to leave you as long as I live.
34:24Uh-huh.
34:26But you'll probably have to quite soon.
34:30The war is going to begin, you know.
34:32Oh, why can't I stay here?
34:35I could work.
34:36I could be a nurse.
34:38Well, perhaps not a nurse, but something.
34:41I was quite a success at Papineau.
34:45If you promise me
34:48to do what I tell you,
34:51you may stay here for a time.
34:54At the beginning,
34:55we shall sit and look at the Germans
34:57across the Maginot Line.
34:59Then I shall be a great deal in Paris,
35:02between Paris and the front, but mostly here.
35:05Then somebody, we or the Germans,
35:09I'm very much afraid the Germans
35:11will pour across the line
35:13and a war of movement will begin.
35:16I shall have notice of that.
35:19But what you must promise me
35:23is that the very minute
35:26I tell you to leave for London,
35:29you will leave,
35:31even you see no reason for doing so.
35:37I should be hampered beyond words in my duties
35:40if you are still here.
35:43So, will you solemnly promise me?
35:50All right, solemnly.
35:54I don't believe anything so dreadful
35:56could possibly happen to me.
35:59But I promise to do what you say.
36:02Now, in return,
36:05will you promise me
36:06that you will come to London
36:08as soon as this is all over
36:09and find me again?
36:12Promise?
36:19Yes, my chère.
36:21I will do that.
36:36I'm here to meet Lord Merlin.
36:39The bill has been delayed, madame.
36:41You have to make 1,000 regrets
36:43and serve madame with her choice.
36:45Nothing, thank you.
36:47I'll just wait over there.
36:49Madame.
36:51Oh, Pierre, dear.
36:53I'm so sorry.
36:55It's all right.
36:57It's all right.
36:59It's all right.
37:01It's all right.
37:03Oh, Pierre, dear.
37:05And have you seen Fabrice at all?
37:08Well, I have,
37:09because I quite often see him
37:10at all madame's au pairs.
37:12But he never goes out anywhere,
37:13as you know.
37:14Then what about Jacqueline?
37:16Still in England,
37:17waiting for her old aunt to die.
37:20She daren't leave her alone for a second
37:22in case she changes her will.
37:25Ah, mais le pauvre Fabrice
37:27is utterly lost without her,
37:29like a dog looking for its master.
37:32He sits sadly at home,
37:33never goes to parties,
37:34never goes to his classes,
37:35nobody.
37:37His mother is really worried about him.
37:39And yet it is such a happy ménage.
37:41He has been faithful for five years.
37:44Surely she will come back soon.
37:46On verra, on verra.
37:48But not until her aunt dies, I think.
37:51You know that his mother says
37:52he rings her up every morning
37:54and talks for an hour.
37:57Do you mind if I cut luncheon with you?
37:59I've just remembered something very urgent.
38:02Oh, my dear Linda,
38:03neither of us is in any condition to protest.
38:07Our intellectual friends have undone us quite.
38:10My main problem is how to get Davy
38:12home to England alive.
38:14You see.
38:15Then you'll excuse me?
38:17Oh, just a moment.
38:18Before you go,
38:20here, open it later.
38:24Oh, no.
38:39This is the house of the Duc de Sauterre?
38:41Yes, madame.
38:42Then I wish to speak with Monsieur le Duc
38:44at once, please.
38:46Monsieur le Duc has gone out
38:48with madame his mother.
38:50Then I shall wait.
39:13As she waited, Linda began to feel more calm.
39:16But at the same time,
39:17But at the same time, very sad.
39:19She saw that this room indicated
39:21a side of Fabrice's character
39:23which she had hardly been allowed to apprehend
39:25and which had its roots
39:27in old and civilized French grandeur.
39:29Something in which she could never have a share,
39:32from which she would always be kept rigidly apart
39:34in her sunny modern flat.
39:36Even if there really isn't one,
39:38she'd last forever.
39:40She began to realize
39:42that here were her competitors,
39:44her enemies.
39:46Here, in the grave of his fiancée Louise.
39:48And to come here and make a scene
39:50about a rival mistress would be utterly meaningless.
39:53She would be one non-reality
39:55complaining about another.
40:16I enclose something which may one day be useful, Merlin.
40:27For a man with such cruel eyes,
40:29he is extremely considerate.
40:47Yes, another month, I should think.
40:50As soon as they've got the harvesting.
40:53If it depended on the English,
40:55they'd wait until after the Christmas shopping.
40:59Oh, Fabrice, it won't last very long, will it?
41:02It will be very disagreeable, what it does.
41:05Did you come to my house today?
41:07Oh, yes.
41:09I suddenly felt I wanted to see you very, very much.
41:12Comme c'est gentil.
41:14But why didn't you wait?
41:16Your ancestors brightened me up.
41:18Oh, they did?
41:20But you have ancestors yourself, I believe, madame.
41:23Yes, but they don't hang about in quite the way that yours do.
41:27You should have waited.
41:29It's always a great pleasure to see you,
41:32both for me and my ancestors.
41:34It cheers us all up.
41:39Tell me, Fabrice,
41:41tell me, Fabrice,
41:44what did you think the first time you saw me?
41:49If you really want to know, I thought,
41:52tiens, she's like the little Bosquet.
41:56Who's that?
41:58There are two Bosquet sisters,
42:00the elder, who is a beauty,
42:03and the little one who looks like you.
42:07Thank you, sir.
42:09I would rather resemble the other.
42:11No, no, ma chère.
42:13To be too beautiful as she is to be untouchable.
42:17One doesn't dare dally with perfection.
42:22It's far more appetizing
42:27to dally with you.
42:39It's so sad, so many being away at Christmas.
42:43Little Matt and Bob.
42:46I did hope Jassie would come over from America.
42:49Of course, the war's made that impossible.
42:53Victor being a wren.
42:58No leave for her till she's been commissioned and passed out of her course.
43:04Oh, but it's lovely having Louisa and her three,
43:06and it's wonderful that you and Alfred and the boys could come.
43:09Otherwise it has hardly been worth doing the decorations.
43:13I remember these decorations from years and years ago.
43:18Oh.
43:22It's only right that some things should never change.
43:27I had a letter from Linda the other day.
43:29She seems very happy in Paris.
43:31Yes, Davy saw her.
43:33She's very busy doing her war work, providing comforts for the French troops.
43:38Matthew approves of that.
43:41He approves of war work.
43:45I only wish the war office would offer him a job.
43:47He goes about like a bear with a sore head.
43:49What makes it worse is that Little Matt is an officer in his own regiment.
43:52And Christian too, it seems.
43:54Yes.
43:56They're training in one of those secret areas up in the north of Scotland.
44:00Oh, I expect that's why Linda's free to stay on in Paris for a bit.
44:11What are you thinking of?
44:13Of Christmas at home.
44:15I would much rather be here with you.
44:18But I think of them.
44:20Open your presents, ma chère.
44:30Oh.
44:52For you, I have this.
45:01I bought it with some money Lord Merlin gave me.
45:09Merlin gave you money?
45:13I think it was in case something went very wrong and I had to go away in a hurry.
45:19But I won't have to go away, so I spent his money on this.
45:25Money. Money is nothing.
45:30Mais écoutez-moi, ma chère.
45:33What I said will happen may still happen.
45:36Will happen.
45:38Sooner or later, probably sooner.
45:41I shall have to send you to England.
45:43Where shall you go?
45:45Home to your father?
45:47Oh, no.
45:48Anyway, it won't happen.
45:50All the English papers say we are killing Germany with our blockade.
45:54Le blocus, quelle blague.
45:55I must tell you, madame, they don't give a rap for your blockade.
45:58So, where would you go?
46:01To my own house in Chelsea.
46:03To wait for you to come.
46:06It might be a month.
46:09Or years.
46:12I shall wait.
46:17What a beautiful day.
46:19Easter is always fine in Paris.
46:23On Sunday, I must remember to go to church.
46:26But, Louise, how can you go to church when there's no...
46:29Why not?
46:30You're a Catholic, aren't you?
46:32Of course.
46:33Do I look like a Calvinist?
46:36Then aren't you living in mortal sin?
46:39So, what about when you confess?
46:41One need not to be too precise.
46:44In any case, these little sins of the body are quite unimportant.
46:48Would Louise agree?
46:51Louise?
46:53What are you saying of Louise?
46:55All that climbing in at people's bedroom windows.
46:58Wouldn't that have upset her?
47:01After marriage, there would have been no more climbing.
47:07My whole life would have been devoted to making Louise happy.
47:11Then the sins of the body are important.
47:16The English are mad.
47:18The English are mad.
47:20I've always said so.
47:22You almost sound as if you want to be given up.
47:26Not tired of your war work, I hope?
47:28No, no, Fabrice. I just wondered, that's all.
47:31But you look so sad, ma chérie.
47:33What is it?
47:35Perhaps it is because I want to be more than just a little sin of the body.
47:40Mais vous êtes, madame.
47:43You are the most enticing,
47:45most enchanting thing,
47:48and such laughter,
47:50as never I heard to go with it.
47:53I suppose that will have to do.
47:55Is it not enough?
47:58It's time now to go chez nous, ma chérie,
48:02for more of your special laughter.
48:16What is it, Fabrice?
48:20What has happened?
48:23What had to happen,
48:25or rather, very soon will.
48:29Meanwhile, there will be a place for you in the airport this afternoon.
48:34You must pack a small suitcase and the rest of your things.
48:38You must go after you by train.
48:40I have to go to the Ministère de la Guerre.
48:42I have to go to the Ministère de la Guerre
48:45and get your ticket and your special visa.
48:48When I come back, I must take you straight to Le Bourget.
48:54But before I go to the Ministère,
48:58there is just time for that little spot of war work
49:03of which we were speaking in Dubois.
49:09Madame,
49:12Madame.
49:24Jamais. No, no.
49:32Tatia, what is this?
49:34A fancy dress party?
49:36Fabrice, I cannot take away the things you have given me.
49:39I loved having them while I was here
49:41and while it gave you pleasure to see me wearing them.
49:43But I have some pride,
49:45and I was not brought up dans un bordel.
49:47Oh, ma chère, try not to be so middle class.
49:50It doesn't suit you at all.
49:52There is no time for you to change, but take this.
49:55And I will send your thing after you.
49:57Come now, you must go.
49:59I must explain to Germain why I am leaving so suddenly.
50:01There is no time, Germain understands.
50:03Au revoir, Germain. Adieu, Madame.
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