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After Daniel meets his mother in Genoa and learns the circumstances of his birth and childhood, the Grandcourts have serious trouble while small boat sailing. Ultimately, Daniel makes decisions on a marriage and his life.
After Daniel meets his mother in Genoa and learns the circumstances of his birth and childhood, the Grandcourts have serious trouble while small boat sailing. Ultimately, Daniel makes decisions on a marriage and his life.
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00:00I have heard word from your mother, dear.
00:07After all these years, she has decided at last that she wishes to see you.
00:18To my son, Daniel Doronda, my good friend Sir Hugo will have told you that I wish to
00:41see you.
00:42Please come to the Hotel de Inglaterra in Genoa and wait for me there.
00:47I will join you as soon as I can, Contessa Maria Carisi.
00:58My mother is a Contessa.
01:02That and much more.
01:05I always thought she must have been very poor.
01:13Why did she give me up?
01:18She will tell you, dear.
01:21It should come from her.
01:25And my father?
01:30Are you my father?
01:35No.
01:36Perhaps I was wrong, Dan, to undertake what I did, but it was all she would let me do
01:51for her.
01:56She was the love of my life, you see.
02:01The love of your life isn't always the one you marry.
02:11I would have done anything for her, anything.
02:20You understand me?
02:25Perhaps I liked it a little too well, having you to myself.
02:36But if I've caused you any pain, which could have been avoided, I hope you will forgive
02:44me.
02:48No.
02:51You have never caused me any pain.
02:58You have been the best of fathers to me, and you have been the best of sons.
03:44Dear Mr. de Ronda, please come and see me off.
04:13Please come and see me on Wednesday between five and six.
04:17I would be most grateful.
04:20Gwendolyn Grancourt.
04:36Are you not going to the club this afternoon?
04:43It's a bore.
05:07But I suppose I may as well.
05:13I shan't be more than a couple of hours.
05:17Mr. de Ronda, madam.
05:47It is so good of you to come without asking why.
05:58And now you're here, I don't know where to start.
06:02You think I am ignorant, and I am.
06:07So what could I do but appeal to you?
06:10I'm sorry.
06:11I can be of so little use to you.
06:12No, don't say that.
06:13I...
06:18I wanted to tell you I have been trying to be a better person.
06:24To be less selfish.
06:28But I can't change anything.
06:31I hate almost everybody.
06:32I hate myself.
06:37If you knew what my life was like with him.
06:42He seems thoroughly corrupted to you.
06:45Perhaps if he understood how unhappy you are.
06:49Of course he knows I'm unhappy.
06:54He takes pleasure in it.
06:57You deserve better than that.
06:59Do I?
07:01Some people would say I'd got exactly what I deserve.
07:05You should never think that.
07:07Then what can I do?
07:09I'm leaving him, but if I did that I would be alone.
07:12Without friends.
07:13No.
07:15Your true friends would not desert you.
07:18But I know what it's like.
07:22The life of a woman who has left her husband.
07:26I don't think I would be strong enough.
07:31Unless there was someone.
07:35Do you understand?
07:40You must.
07:45If you feel you don't want anything more to do with me then please say so and put me out of my misery.
07:52Will you stand by me?
07:56Help me.
08:03Of course I will.
08:23We can't talk much longer.
08:30Will you come back tomorrow?
08:32I can't.
08:34I'm leaving for Genoa almost at once.
08:38My mother has sent for me.
08:41Your mother?
08:45When you return then...
09:10Goodbye.
09:25Goodbye.
09:40Goodbye.
09:50You're a fool, Gwendolyn.
09:52If you expect anything from that quarter, he's not for you.
10:00We're two of a kind, you and I.
10:03I thought you would have learned that by now.
10:06I've decided to take a little holiday.
10:10The yacht's at Marseilles, ready to sail.
10:14I think I'd better get you away from London for a bit, eh?
10:18But what about our party on the 4th? You know I've engaged Miss Lafferty.
10:21Well, cancel it, of course.
10:23I'll have no argument about this, Gwendolyn.
10:29Gwendolyn?
10:34Very well.
10:36Good.
10:38That's settled.
10:40We shall leave tomorrow.
11:07Goodbye.
11:09Goodbye.
11:11Goodbye.
11:13Goodbye.
11:15Goodbye.
11:17Goodbye.
11:19Goodbye.
11:21Goodbye.
11:23Goodbye.
11:25Goodbye.
11:27Goodbye.
11:29Goodbye.
11:31Goodbye.
11:33Go to the Hotel d'Inglaterra in Genoa and wait for me there.
11:37I will join you as soon as I can.
11:43Signor de Ronda.
11:47Prego.
11:50I am ready to receive you.
12:20Signor de Ronda.
12:50Well.
13:03You are a beautiful creature.
13:07I thought you would be.
13:09Come here.
13:18Yes.
13:20I am your mother.
13:27But of course you can have no love for me.
13:31I have thought of you more than anyone in the world.
13:35I'm not as you thought I would be.
13:38Am I?
13:40No.
13:42I used to think you might be suffering.
13:46I used to wish I could be a comfort to you.
13:49I am suffering.
13:53But not at this moment.
13:57And I didn't send for you to comfort me.
14:00Come, sit down.
14:07Now.
14:10I'm not foolish enough to imagine that you would love a mother who gave you away.
14:16But I chose something better for you than being with me.
14:20I didn't deprive you of anything worth having.
14:24Your love.
14:26Wasn't that worth having?
14:29No.
14:31I didn't have much love to give you.
14:35I didn't want to be hampered with other lives.
14:44I was a singer.
14:46A great singer.
14:48An artist, do you understand?
14:50I didn't want a child.
14:53I was forced into marrying your father.
14:56Forced by my father's wishes and commands.
15:00But it turned out to be the best way of getting some freedom.
15:05I could rule my husband, but I couldn't rule my father, you see.
15:13And I had a right to be free.
15:18I had a right to live the life that was in me.
15:23We all had that right.
15:27And the bondage I hated most, I wanted to keep you from it if I could.
15:34What better could the most loving mother have done?
15:38I released you from the bondage of having been born a Jew.
15:47And I am a Jew.
15:52My father was a Jew, and you are a Jewess.
15:57Yes.
15:59I'm glad of it.
16:03Why do you say that you're glad?
16:06You are an English gentleman, I secured you that.
16:08How could you decide my birthright for me?
16:12I chose for you what I would have chosen for myself.
16:16How could I know that you would love what I hated?
16:22Oh, forgive me, you are not well.
16:24It will pass.
16:28Mother.
16:32Take comfort.
16:36Isn't it possible I could be near you often and comfort you?
16:42No, not possible.
16:48I'm tired now.
16:50Will you come to me again tomorrow?
16:54If you don't hate me too much.
17:04How beautiful!
17:14How beautiful!
17:20I've never seen anything like it.
17:30How beautiful!
17:40I suppose this is all your doing?
17:50I don't know what you're talking about.
17:52This is why you wanted to put in a Genoa.
17:56You knew Doronda would be here.
18:01And what if I did?
18:03Fine.
18:17I thought we might do a bit of small boat sailing for a couple of days.
18:22Something I can manage alone with you at the tiller.
18:25It'll pass the time.
18:27I'd rather not, if you don't mind.
18:30Gwendolyn.
18:34Let us understand each other.
18:38I know very well what all this nonsense means.
18:41What nonsense?
18:43I don't know what you're talking about.
18:55If you suppose I'm going to let you make a fool of me,
18:58just dismiss that notion from your mind.
19:04Let's go then.
19:16Oh, the reasons for one's actions.
19:19Every woman's supposed to be the same.
19:22Or be a monster.
19:24But I never felt quite what I was supposed to feel.
19:29But to give up your own child.
19:33To renounce your own family.
19:35Oh, you couldn't. You're not a woman.
19:37You could never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you
19:42and suffer the slavery of being a girl.
19:44This is all you were wanted for.
19:46A daughter, a wife, a mother.
19:49Something for the man.
19:56Your father was different.
19:59All lovingness and affection.
20:02He died when you were very young.
20:07I was just coming into the height of my fame then.
20:12The name Maria Carisi was spoken everywhere.
20:16Your up America.
20:19When your father died, I resolved I would have no more ties
20:22except ties I could easily free myself from.
20:28Unfortunately, I was sought after by many men.
20:33So Hugo was one of those who wished to marry me.
20:36He was madly in love with me.
20:39One day I asked him,
20:41is there a man in the world capable of doing something for love of me
20:45and expecting nothing in return?
20:47He said, what is it you want done?
20:50I said, take my boy and bring him up as an Englishman
20:56and let him never know anything about his parents.
21:02You were two years old and you were sitting on his foot.
21:07He had owed you, of course.
21:13So that is what I did.
21:16I'm not ashamed that I did it.
21:19It was the better for you.
21:21Was it?
21:23Was it truly?
21:25Then why have you undone the secrecy now?
21:31I think it is this illness and thinking about what is to come.
21:38What do I know of life and death?
21:45And what my father called right.
21:50Maybe laying hold of me, I cannot go into this darkness without satisfying him.
21:58Nor could I, I found, without seeing you again.
22:09So what will you do now?
22:12Make yourself just like your grandfather?
22:15No.
22:20But I do want to identify with our people.
22:22I want to find some task that I can put my whole heart into.
22:28I know.
22:31You're in love with a Jewess, aren't you?
22:37Even if I were, that's beside the point.
22:40I know better.
22:42Yes, you're in love, of course.
22:45She draws you after her as I drew your father after me.
22:51Is she beautiful?
22:57Yes.
23:01She is a singer like you.
23:05I wonder how it would have been if I kept you with me.
23:10I expect you would have turned your heart to the old things against mine and we should have quarreled.
23:16I think my affection might have lasted through our quarreling.
23:20Perhaps.
23:22But I'm not a loving woman, Daniel.
23:26It is a talent to love.
23:29I lacked it.
23:31And I know very well what love makes of men and women.
23:35It is subjection.
23:38I was never willingly subject to any man.
23:42Men have been subject to me.
23:54I'm dying, Daniel.
23:57We shan't see each other again.
24:01If I had my time to live over,
24:05I would do the same.
24:11Can you forgive me?
24:35Oh, my sorrow,
24:45My sighs,
24:57Oh, let me die!
25:09Oh, let me die!
25:18Oh, let me die!
25:36What's happened?
25:38It's the English, milord.
25:40No, no, it's the lady.
25:49Oh, my God.
25:51She's dead.
25:53I think she's dead.
25:55What a tragedy.
25:57Gwendolyn?
25:59Please, please, Susy, make way.
26:01She's dead.
26:13She's moving.
26:15I know this lady.
26:17Bear up to the hotel there.
26:19Make way.
26:20Be careful.
26:35How is she?
26:37She's not injured, but shocked, yes.
26:40Shocked and distressed.
26:42You are Signor de Ronda?
26:44Yes.
26:45Please, go in.
26:46She wants to see you.
27:03You came.
27:08It's done.
27:10He's dead.
27:12Please, please, you must rest.
27:18How much do you know?
27:20Nothing at all.
27:22Except there was a boating accident.
27:25I didn't even know you were coming to Genoa.
27:27A boating accident?
27:30Is that what they are saying?
27:32Yes.
27:34What else?
27:37If I tell you what happened,
27:40you won't say that I ought to tell the world,
27:43that I ought to be disgraced.
27:46I couldn't do it.
27:48I couldn't bear it.
27:50I couldn't have my mother know.
27:53Know what?
27:55If I tell you that I am guilty, a murderess,
27:59would you forsake me?
28:01But it was an accident.
28:03It was an accident.
28:04Please, let me tell you.
28:09His face, Daniel.
28:12His dead face.
28:22When I was a child, I used to fancy sailing away
28:25from the people I didn't like.
28:29And now the opposite had come to me.
28:34Take it.
28:52I was trapped in a boat with him.
28:55And that's what my life had become.
28:58I think I'll smoke a cigar.
29:01You shan't mind.
29:07I began to pray for him to die.
29:10I fancied impossible things.
29:13I was afraid of our being drowned together.
29:16I was afraid to die myself.
29:32Oh!
29:40The rope! Throw the rope!
29:45Throw the rope! Help me!
29:50Help me.
29:58Throw the rope!
30:01Help me!
30:31Help me!
30:55That is what happened.
30:58His face, Daniel.
31:01His dead face.
31:04If he could swim, it must have been that he was seized with crime.
31:08I could have saved him.
31:10You hesitated.
31:12That was all.
31:15That is murder.
31:21And you won't make me tell anyone else.
31:26No.
31:28There's no injury that could be righted in that way.
31:31And you won't hate me for what I've done.
31:34No, I shan't hate you.
31:38And you won't forsake me.
31:41No.
31:44I wanted to tell you.
31:48I wanted you to know me utterly.
31:52I wanted you to know me utterly.
31:55No one else.
32:00Would you recognise me, I wonder, if you met me now?
32:06Would you think that was the girl I saw at the casino?
32:10Yes.
32:13Yes, of course I would.
32:17I shall never forget that moment.
32:21And do you wish that you had never seen me?
32:25Never.
32:36But we've changed since then, though, haven't we?
32:42You and I.
32:50You and I.
33:06Have you seen the paper?
33:09Manager Grancourt's dead.
33:11Drowned. Boating accident at Genoa.
33:14Well, that's terrible.
33:16Well, I doubt he'll be much missed.
33:18And certainly not by our friend Dan or his duchess.
33:21They'll be free to marry now.
33:29What's the matter?
33:31How can you speak like that?
33:34So callously.
33:36The poor man is dead.
33:39Who are you to say how people feel?
33:49SHE SIGHS
33:54Come on, Tom.
34:09Daniel!
34:11Mira's gone.
34:13Gone?
34:15Do you mean gone where?
34:17I don't know. Welcome home, Dan.
34:23She said she couldn't bear it.
34:26To see Han suffering all the pain of love when she couldn't return it.
34:33I think she was upset about something else, too.
34:36What?
34:38I think you know, Dan.
34:42I think I know where to find her.
34:47Avoiding me, Dan?
35:04Don't ever try and shift a bout of melancholy with three pipes of opium.
35:11Doesn't work.
35:13I'm sorry, Hand.
35:15Yeah, so you're down where I should be.
35:19I've dreamt of nothing but Mira since the first day that I met her.
35:24I gladly have converted for her.
35:29But it's no good.
35:31It's all right for you.
35:33You've got your duchess.
35:35Hands, you don't understand.
35:37Oh, I do.
35:39I've seen you with her.
35:42And I've seen you with Mira.
35:47You've deceived us all.
35:49Hans, that's ridiculous. Look...
35:51I'm in no mood for games, Dan.
35:55I can't bring myself to tell you what you don't seem to know.
35:59What?
36:02That Mira's jealous of the duchess.
36:05The duchess?
36:09Why do you think that is?
36:16Because she's in love with you.
36:24I'll get them, Dan.
36:27Mr. de Ronda, sir.
36:29I was just wondering how I could get word to you and here you are.
36:32How did you know you should come?
36:34I don't understand. I've just returned from Italy.
36:37I thought I might find Miss Lapidoff here.
36:40You have a leg. Mordecai's very ill, sir.
36:56Mordecai.
37:04Mordecai.
37:17I came to tell you...
37:20you were right.
37:22You knew me better than I knew myself.
37:25I am a Jew.
37:28We have the same people.
37:31I knew it.
37:37Don't be sad.
37:40I am happy to die.
37:43Now we shan't be separated by life or by death.
37:48And you will do what I dreamt of doing.
38:01Shabbat shalom.
38:25It seems so hard, Daniel...
38:28that I've only just found him again.
38:32And now he's...
38:33Mira.
38:36Let me share this sorrow.
38:42Let me share all your sorrows...
38:45and all your joys.
38:50I can speak freely now, at last.
38:54Now I know who I am.
38:58I love you, Mira.
39:02Say it.
39:03Say you will promise to be my wife.
39:09Say it now.
39:14You mean it.
39:17Truly.
39:22It's me that you want.
39:24I have spent my life in doubt and confusion.
39:29But now I realize...
39:32it was always your voice that I heard.
39:38Could you love me, Mira?
39:55Sir Hugo said to tell you he's in the library, sir.
40:07So...
40:09now you know your mother.
40:12Yes.
40:14How was she?
40:17I don't know.
40:20Yes.
40:22How was she?
40:24How did she seem to you?
40:28She told me she was dying.
40:32But at the same time, she seemed more alive...
40:36more powerfully present than anyone I've ever known.
40:41Yes.
40:44That was how she always seemed to me.
40:50She...
40:58Extraordinary business, the accident.
41:01I could hardly believe my ears.
41:04I never had much time for Grand Court, but I wouldn't have wished that end for him.
41:09No.
41:11But I suppose it leaves your way free to Mrs. Grand Court now, if you care to take it.
41:17I don't.
41:20I've asked Miss Lapidot to marry me.
41:25Blood devil you have.
41:27Is this some sort of perverse response to what you've learned from your mother?
41:32No, sir. It's something that's been growing inside me for some time.
41:36But what I learned from my mother confirmed me...
41:39not only in who I am...
41:42a Jew...
41:43and proud to be a Jew...
41:45but what I should do with my life...
41:47work for my people...
41:51in the best way I can find.
41:55So...
41:58all my efforts have been in vain.
42:01No.
42:04You have given me the best upbringing and education for my new life.
42:08You told me yourself you wanted me to aim high...
42:11that I had it in me to succeed.
42:13You told me to aim high...
42:15that I had it in me to be a leader of men.
42:17And now I believe that I could be that leader.
42:22At least I want to try.
42:26And I should like to have your blessing for that work.
42:31And for my marriage, too.
42:34I can't pretend that I'm happy about this, Daniel.
42:46Mr. De Ronda, sir!
42:50I told him. He...
42:54Daniel...
42:58Daniel...
43:00Daniel...
43:08He's gone.
43:29Daniel...
43:45I wanted to see you...
43:48to know that you are well...
43:50or recovering.
43:52I am better, yes.
43:56And...
43:58your material circumstances now?
44:00Do you have need of anything?
44:02No.
44:03My husband left me a small amount.
44:07Quite enough to support us here at Offendean.
44:12I want for nothing else.
44:17I have been trying to be a better daughter...
44:20a better sister.
44:24You were right.
44:26It does help to try to put others before oneself.
44:31Rather a novelty for me.
44:38My life has changed, too.
44:41Changed... utterly.
44:45I have found my true family.
44:49I am a Jew.
44:52But what difference should that make to you and me?
44:57I must tell you that I am going to marry Miss Lapidot.
45:06I hope...
45:11I hope you will be very happy.
45:16Happier than I have been.
45:22I always thought I was the best of gamblers.
45:25But now it seems I have lost in every way.
45:32So what will you do now...
45:35with your life?
45:38I want to travel to the East...
45:41and find out more about my people...
45:43and see if I can help them.
45:46So I am forsaken.
45:49I said I should be... and I am.
45:57You know...
46:00all my life I thought the world revolved around my hopes...
46:05my desires.
46:08Now I know the world goes on without me and my hopes...
46:11my desires mean nothing.
46:13No, don't say that.
46:15Don't be afraid.
46:18I mean to live.
46:21I am young after all and not all bad.
46:28I shall be better for having known you.
46:35Go now.
46:48Go.
47:18THE END
47:48Go.
48:06Dear Daniel...
48:09Don't think of me sorrowfully wherever you may go.
48:13You must live out the life that is in you...
48:16and I must live out my own.
48:21I shall remember your words...
48:23every one of them.
48:26I shall remember what you believe about me...
48:29that I am worth something after all.
48:33You have known me more deeply and cared more for me than anyone...
48:37and I only thought of myself...
48:39and made you grieve.
48:42You mustn't grieve any more for me.
48:46It is better.
48:49It shall be better with me because I have known you...
48:53Gwendolyn Grandcourt.
49:16THE END