- 5/2/2025
In 1930s Britain, three young aristocratic women find love as the world around them slowly descends into war.
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00:00what's this soup ah but what sort I don't know don't you discuss it with cook dear
00:25should I look what I bought with your wonderful birthday present did it cost all I sent you I
00:46thought you would like me to buy one thing with it and always remember it was you who gave it to me
00:51no that wasn't at all what I intended a thousand pounds is what you might call a capital sum and
00:57that means something on which you expect to return you shouldn't have spent it on a trinket which you
01:02wear three or four times a year and which is most unlikely to appreciate in value you should have
01:10asked me to invest it darling or you could have spent it on entertaining important people who
01:17would be of use to Tony in his career
01:19so
01:23It's already tearing apart neighbourhoods.
01:52Oh, the horror of important people.
02:00You're lucky, Fanny, not to know any.
02:02We've got such a ghastly evening ahead of us.
02:06Some important Americans.
02:07It seems Tony wants to do a deal with them.
02:10And these Americans will only do the deal if they take a fancy to me.
02:13Well, can you explain that?
02:15I just know that I shall be sick all over them and Tony will be so coarse.
02:19Oh, why would you be sick?
02:21Because I'm in pig.
02:23Linda!
02:25Oh, how wonderful!
02:28Oh, what does Tony say?
02:31Oh, I haven't told him yet.
02:32Why not?
02:34I know he'll be pleased.
02:35I'll give her something to talk about.
02:38Hey, you two.
02:39What?
02:40What are you doing here?
02:43Shouldn't you be in school?
02:44Isn't he wonderful?
02:46It's Christian Torbett.
02:47He was in my house at school until he was expelled for printing leaflets.
02:50He's absolutely committed to the cause.
02:52Goodness sake, Matt!
02:54Stay and listen to him.
02:55We can't.
02:56Tony would have a fit.
02:58You don't care, do you?
02:59You'd rather be at one of your ghastly balls.
03:01How different was Polly's ball from our ramshackle affair?
03:12Royalty had stepped out of Lady Mondor's photograph frames and come to life.
03:17Dusty and less glamorous, poor dears, but royalty all the same.
03:19Awful trite.
03:35The fellow wouldn't be grinning.
03:37He'd be dead with all his arrows in him.
03:41That's a Van Dyke.
03:42Well, wouldn't give you seven and sixpence for it.
03:50I saw a picture once with the army and navy.
03:55Shire horses in the snow.
03:58Nothing else.
04:00Just a bit of broken down fence and three horses.
04:03It was dangerous, Gordon.
04:10They might have been a rich man and I'd have bought that.
04:14I mean, you could see how cold those poor brutes really felt.
04:22All this rubbish is supposed to be valuable.
04:24That must be worth a fortune.
04:27She's not enjoying herself, is she?
04:30Wouldn't like one of my gals to look like that.
04:32I think she had something on her mind.
04:35Wonderful fellow, Mondor.
04:38Putting up with all this foreign trash in his house.
04:41Nobody if I would.
04:42God knows why he married that hell hang.
04:46I'd drown her if I were him.
04:50So he had come after all.
04:55The back of a head, when seen at a ball,
04:57can have the most agitating effect on a young girl.
05:00There is the question, will he turn round?
05:04Will he see her?
05:06I must explain that the image of the Duke de Sauveterre,
05:09having reigned in my hopeless heart for months,
05:12had been replaced by something more serious,
05:15with more reality and promise.
05:17Who's that brute?
05:36Why is he coming over here?
05:39Good evening.
05:41May I have the pleasure of this dance?
05:43Of course.
05:44I have a public spirit in one door.
06:02I ask you.
06:05Look at that sewer.
06:07Come now, Matthew.
06:08The Serves were our allies, you know.
06:10Oh.
06:11There's a Serve, is it?
06:12Just what one would expect.
06:14Needs a shave.
06:16Hogs.
06:17One and all.
06:18German ambassador, this is on her own.
06:23Serves are right.
06:25My dear Matthew, just the very man.
06:27Ernest von Ravensbrook.
06:29May I introduce my neighbour, Lord of Orkhamley?
06:32Supper is served in the music room.
06:34You know the way, Matthew.
06:35She's going to be trouble ahead, Sadie.
06:53Oh, I'm sure he'll behave himself.
06:55Storm clouds are gathering over Europe.
06:59We must enjoy all this while we can.
07:01Oh, she's a beauty.
07:30I quite see that.
07:32She doesn't attract me.
07:34That sulky expression.
07:36I'm sure she's very dull.
07:39Hello, my sweet.
07:42What news of the boulder?
07:45Are you still in love?
07:50What's all this?
07:51Who is that woman?
07:54Is it true that you're in love?
07:55Mrs. Chancellor Corbett.
07:58And how about love?
08:01Nothing.
08:02Just a joke.
08:04Good.
08:06I should like you to be on the verge of love, but not quite yet in it.
08:12That's a very nice state of mind when it lasts.
08:14Engaged.
08:27Well, I suppose that's very nice.
08:30Alfred Winsham, did you say?
08:33Who is he?
08:34What is that name?
08:35He's a don at Oxford.
08:36Oh, dear.
08:37How extraordinary.
08:38You don't want to go and live at Oxford, surely.
08:41Oh, I do.
08:41In Spain, it's quite different.
08:44Don's a somebody there, I believe.
08:47Oh, well, I suppose this Mr. Thing can always settle down and write books.
08:51It always gives a man status if he writes a book.
08:53I advise you to start him off on that immediately.
08:56I'm afraid I haven't much influence with him.
08:58Well, develop it, dear.
08:59Quick.
09:00No use marrying a man you can't influence.
09:02Men are so lazy by nature.
09:05Mondor, for example.
09:06Forever trying to take a little nap in the afternoon, but I won't hear of it.
09:10Once you start that, I tell him, you might as well be dead.
09:13Now, what does your Aunt Emily think?
09:15Oh, she's awfully pleased.
09:17Oh, she's hopeless.
09:19You really should ask my advice about this sort of thing.
09:23We'll have to get you out of it.
09:24I believe it will be the kindest in the long run.
09:26Oh, no.
09:27Why not, dear?
09:28It isn't in the paper yet.
09:30It will be tomorrow.
09:31I'll telephone Geoffrey Dawson now and have it stopped.
09:33Please.
09:34No, please not.
09:35She wants to marry him, Mummy.
09:37She's in love.
09:38Love?
09:38Love?
09:39Whoever invented love ought to be shot.
09:42I should have thought the example of your mother would have taught you something.
09:44Where has love landed her?
09:46Ah.
09:47As for you, young lady, tell me, what exactly are you planning to do with your life?
09:54Not now, Mummy.
09:56Do you intend to live at home and go mooning on like this forever?
09:59What else can I do?
10:00You haven't exactly trained me for a career, have you?
10:03I've trained you for marriage, which, in my opinion, is by far the best career open to
10:07any woman.
10:08But how can I marry if nobody asks me?
10:13You should give them some encouragement.
10:16The number of young men who've said, isn't she lovely, and then gone off with some chinless
10:20little creature from Cadogan Square.
10:21Can't you be a little jollier, nicer with them?
10:26No man cares to make love to a dummy, you know.
10:28It's too discouraging.
10:30I don't want to be made love to.
10:33Then what do you want?
10:35To be hanging around forever, a sour old maid, and you'll be the sour kind.
10:40That's too obvious already.
10:42Whizzled up and sour.
10:43Shut up.
10:45Polly.
10:52Polly.
10:53Polly.
11:00Linda was very ill indeed at her confinement.
11:04The doctors told her she must never have another child, as it would almost certainly kill her
11:08if she did.
11:09Isn't it hideous?
11:11Like a howling orange in a black wig.
11:14Really, it's kinder not to look.
11:17What are you going to call her?
11:19Moira, I believe.
11:21Oh, not Moira, darling.
11:23I never heard such an awful name.
11:24It's too unkind.
11:26Well, it'll have to grow up on Moira if the Crozes are going to like it.
11:29And they might as well like it.
11:31Because, frankly, I don't.
11:34Linda, how can you be so naughty?
11:36You can't possibly tell whether you like her a lot yet.
11:38Oh, yes, I can.
11:39I can always tell if I like people from the start.
11:42And I don't like Moira.
11:44She's a fearful counter-hon.
11:49Oh, do take it away, Manny.
11:51Poor thing must have caught sight of itself in the glass.
11:54Oh, don't pay any attention to her.
11:57She pretends to be a wicked woman.
11:59But it's all put on.
12:00Now, you must tell me all about you and Alfred.
12:11When are you going to get married?
12:13In the spring.
12:14You really love him, don't you?
12:18Yes.
12:20I love you, Moira.
12:22Fancy being able to marry a man you love.
12:24I hate the lower classes.
12:30Ravening beasts trying to get my money.
12:33I'll just let them try, that's all.
12:34I love them.
12:36Anyway, I was brought up with them.
12:38Nobody should be in Parliament who hasn't lived in the country.
12:41My old father knows more what he's talking about in the house than you do.
12:44The last time your father made a speech,
12:48his only argument for keeping peeresses out of the Lords
12:51was that they might use the Peer's lavatory.
12:54Isn't he a love?
12:55It's what they all thought, but he was the only one who dared say it.
12:58Well, that's the worst of the House of Lords.
13:01These backwardsmen bringing the whole place into disrepute
13:05with a few dotty remarks
13:06which give people the impression we are governed by a lot of lunatics.
13:11Tony!
13:11Communism is the way forward.
13:16Communism is the way of justice.
13:19After a terrible war that caused so much suffering
13:21and animals as weak as the Europe citizens,
13:23the working class are once again being treated like dogs,
13:28kicked and beaten by their marcians.
13:30The storm clouds are gathering across Europe.
13:34The ruling classes are blind to the threat of war.
13:37Appeasement is their watchword,
13:38and by appeasing they end all our hopes of peace.
13:42It is the working classes who have most to lose if the Spanish war spreads through Europe.
13:47It is the working classes who will be taken from their families
13:50and made to fight like animals for their lives.
13:53We can come together as one great brotherhood of man
13:56to forge a better life for all classes,
13:58but we must act now.
14:01Communism is the way forward.
14:03Communism is the way of justice.
14:05Communism is the only system that will save the dispossessed throughout Europe
14:09from once again being led like cattle to the slaughter.
14:12It is the working classes who will be taken from their families
14:16and treated like animals in the service of their masters.
14:20We can fight back.
14:21The working people of Europe need your help.
14:24If they are to unite and fight the oppressors,
14:27join the struggle now.
14:29Go on, mate!
14:30Accept responsibility!
14:32Would you like what it is?
14:46That was so interesting.
14:51I'm so sad about the animals.
14:55Oh, isn't everything absolutely awful?
14:58I'm so glad somebody was listening.
15:00We must all embrace the struggle, all the classes.
15:04We must unite to make people's lives better.
15:07Oh, I do so agree.
15:13My brother Matt's in your old house at evening.
15:17Matt?
15:18Radlett.
15:19Of course.
15:21He admires your work so much.
15:23Would you like to come and have some tea?
15:28Yes, please.
15:30But Matt wasn't in school.
15:51He had just run away to Spain to fight against the fascists.
15:54He said the long way to Germany
15:58And the last fight let us face
16:02The international rally
16:06Unites in the human race
16:10Let the war was not
16:14Alfred and I had just returned from our honeymoon.
16:26Thank you, sir.
16:32Wait, don't answer it.
16:34No, no, no.
16:35Come on, Mr. Pencher.
16:48But she said she'd be back today.
16:51I wish I could run away.
16:52I have nearly enough money now.
16:53Well, at least I've got a sense to bump off a lot of idolatrous priests.
17:05Still seems a pity to fight a second-class war when there's soon to be a first-class one available.
17:12You're family, honestly.
17:22Oh, shut up, Tony.
17:24And he's not even fighting for the right side.
17:26What people need is strong leadership.
17:33You know, I have more and more faith in this Herr Hitler.
17:38You know my father visited him in Germany.
17:40Yes, Tony.
17:41Now, Linda, do try to behave yourself with the Altringhams.
17:49And don't, for God's sake, mention your brother.
18:00He's perfect heaven.
18:02I never knew politics could be so interesting.
18:05But you hate politics.
18:08Well, it's always so boring when Tony talks about it.
18:11You know, whether some infinitely old man's going to get some infinitely dull job.
18:16But Christian knows so much about what people suffer and how to make life better for them.
18:26So are you a communist now?
18:29Well, at least one knows they're doing good, not harm.
18:31And not living on people's slavery, like Celeste.
18:35So what does Christian do all day?
18:37He's writing a book about famine.
18:39It's so sad.
18:42And there's this dear little Chinese comrade who comes and tells him what famine is like.
18:46You never saw such a fat man in your life.
18:49Linda was ready for a cause or a love affair.
18:52And that a cause should be presented by an attractive young man made it and him irresistible.
18:58Well, there's an anarchist, too.
19:00I always thought that communists and anarchists were the same thing, but they're not at all.
19:04The communists hate the anarchists, except for this one, because he threw a bomb at the king of Spain.
19:09You must say it's romantic.
19:11Lady Polly?
19:17Lady Polly, you want it in the drawing room.
19:22Why?
19:24I'm not to say, miss.
19:25Polly, dear, something terrible has happened.
19:54Your aunt Patricia is dead.
19:58It's the dropping off the perches.
20:22I've always dreaded when that begins.
20:25Soon we shall all be gone.
20:26I don't understand why Polly isn't here.
20:37Sonia says she's been there for the past two days.
20:39She took it terribly badly.
20:41I had no idea she was particularly devoted to Lady Polly.
20:44She...
20:45I had no idea she's been there for the past two days.
20:46She's been there for the past two days.
20:47She's been there for the past two days.
20:48She's been there for the past two days.
20:49She's been there for the past two days.
20:50She's been there for the past two days.
20:51She's been there for the past two days.
20:52She's been there for the past two days.
20:53She's been there for the past two days.
20:54She's been there for the past two days.
20:55She's been there for the past two days.
20:56She's been there for the past two days.
20:57She's been there for the past two days.
20:58She's been there for the past two days.
20:59She's been there for the past two days.
21:00She's been there for the past two days.
21:01She's been there for the past two days.
22:02Linda.
22:38As we that are left grow old.
22:40What do you think?
22:46Polly, what are you doing?
22:47It's very late.
22:48Go and get dressed.
22:49There's a good girl.
22:51I've got something to tell you.
22:52Boy and I are going to be married.
22:57What?
23:08What?
23:38There's a car coming!
23:54What?
23:55A car!
23:56Inside, everyone!
23:57Quick!
23:58Quick!
23:59Quick!
24:00Quick!
24:01Quick!
24:02Quick!
24:03Quick!
24:04Quick!
24:05Quick!
24:06Quick!
24:07Quick!
24:08Quick!
24:09Quick!
24:10Jesse!
24:27Get down, everyone!
24:34We're not at home!
24:37We're not at home!
24:49Good God!
24:57The Mondaws!
25:00Polly's going to marry boy!
25:02And Patricia not cold in her grave!
25:05But he's Polly's uncle!
25:07Not only by marriage!
25:09How could he do this to me?
25:12My beautiful daughter!
25:16I've always loathed that Dugdale!
25:18Boy Dugdale!
25:19Like a blasted lady's maid, creeping and crawling around!
25:22Matthew!
25:23I'll go there now and shoot the sewer!
25:24Matthew, dear, calm down!
25:25After all I've done for!
25:27When I think of all the suitable men!
25:31Why I wouldn't even have minded if she'd married a banker like Linda!
25:34Not now!
25:35Not after this!
25:45What?!
25:52Don't mention Linda.
25:53He's terribly upset.
25:55Why?
25:56She's left her husband.
25:58She ran away last week with a communist called Christian Talbot.
26:04Oh!
26:05Do we know him?
26:07We don't know what to do.
26:09Now, I want to send Polly here for a week or two.
26:13Of course.
26:14I can't endure the sight of her.
26:18Say, dear, I rely on you.
26:21Maybe you can make her see some sense and stop this ridiculous marriage!
26:26Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
26:39I have put his name in the drawer.
26:41Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
26:43I was invited down to Walkenlay to help with this delicate situation.
26:50If Boy wants to stay here for a few days before you elope to Gretla Green...
26:54There's plenty of food for him and we'll bicycle to the post office with any letters.
26:58There's a telephone there. Rather public, but you could always talk in French.
27:02Oh, you are sweet.
27:04But I don't really see the point of making all those efforts
27:07when I shall soon be with Boy for the whole rest of my life.
27:09Like, besides, I don't want to annoy your mother when she's being such an angel to have me here.
27:18I won't be too boring when I run away.
27:22How can you marry him, Polly?
27:27We always used to laugh at him.
27:29Dear Fanny, you don't understand anything.
27:34I've been in love with him for years.
27:36Of course, he wasn't free to marry then.
27:43When did he propose?
27:45Oh, Boy didn't propose to me.
27:48I don't think he ever would have.
27:50I mean, being so wonderfully unselfish and thinking that it matters for me
27:54not being left things in wills and all that rubbish.
27:57Oh, is that true?
27:59You won't mind.
28:00Besides, he knew what a hullabaloo mummy would make.
28:03No, I knew I'd have to do the proposing, and I did.
28:07It wasn't very difficult.
28:11Oh, isn't being happy wonderful?
28:16Aunt Sadie tried too.
28:20You have to remember, dear,
28:22that marriage is a very intimate relationship.
28:26It's not just sitting and chatting to a person.
28:34There are other things you know.
28:45I've seen no one for weeks.
28:48They've all been avoiding me.
28:53They think you're still in mourning.
28:55Oh, no, no, no.
28:58No, they've heard about my engagement.
29:02I'm becoming a social outcast.
29:09Are you all right?
29:12No.
29:13Sonia gave me this cold.
29:14I'm sure she'd be very pleased if she knew.
29:20Oh, dear, I do miss her.
29:24And my dear wife.
29:29Maybe you should delay things.
29:32Why?
29:34I long to marry Polly.
29:36But it wasn't even your idea.
29:38Well, of course it was.
29:41Once she'd suggested it.
29:43God sees all, knows all, is all.
29:48God shines a light into every corner of the human heart,
29:53and he does not like what he sees.
29:57They did not ask for this war.
29:59It is visited upon them by the forces of international fascism.
30:04For what happens in Spain today may happen here tomorrow.
30:11We simply can't sit back and do nothing when children are starved.
30:16Because the tools of production, the factories and farms and things,
30:21are in the hands of the awful, awful capitalist plastics,
30:26where women and foreigners are toiling in domestic slavery.
30:32There's no money.
30:34So we must fight, comrades, for the equality of all people.
30:39And knock down the class barriers between us and the poor working people.
30:44Not forgetting animals.
30:52So join the Communist Party today.
30:55We would be most grateful if you would contribute to the cause.
30:58It is a disaster.
31:00But she was so unhappy with Tony.
31:02Naturally, she could never have stayed with her husband.
31:04Nobody expected that.
31:07But Christian Talbot...
31:09If she's in love with him, he will make her miserable.
31:14And if not,
31:15it means that she has embarked upon a career like your mother's,
31:18and that for Linda would be very bad indeed.
31:21She says she's happy.
31:23Maybe he'll never sit and chat to her
31:26or concentrate upon her in any way.
31:28And she is a woman who requires, above all things,
31:30a great deal of concentration.
31:33Really, it is too bad.
31:35Being a Communist is so tiring.
31:38I had no idea.
31:39Linda.
31:40Do give me some tea.
31:41Linda.
31:42And their parties are simply killing.
31:45They're always held in these gloomy places.
31:47Well, I don't see the point of sad parties, do you?
31:49Linda.
31:51My dear.
31:53You are making a terrible mistake.
31:57Left-wing people are always dreadfully gloomy
31:59because they mind so much about their causes.
32:02And their causes are always going so terribly badly.
32:04How has Tony taken all this?
32:10Oh, he's awfully pleased
32:11because now he can marry his mistress without having a scandal.
32:14Linda, his mistress?
32:16She's a terrific counter-horn.
32:18Father works in the foreign office, frightfully grand.
32:21Looks like a deep-sea monster, you know.
32:25What about your baby?
32:27Oh, she adores Moira, so that's all right.
32:29I didn't feel the least bit guilty.
32:31They'll all do much better without me.
32:37Now, do tell me about Polly and Boy.
32:41Well, how could she marry him?
32:44He groped Fanny once under the table.
32:47Do you remember when we were children
32:50and all those sexy pinches on the nursery landing?
32:53Do you?
32:54What?
32:55What?
32:55What?
33:17Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?
33:45Please say after me,
33:57I, Harvey, take thee, Leopoldina.
34:02I, Harvey, take thee, Leopoldina.
34:05To be my lawful wedded wife.
34:21To be...
34:21To be my lawful wedded wife.
34:24To have and to hold from this day forward.
34:27To have and to hold from this day forward.
34:29For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer.
34:32So, Hampton House, Mondore House,
34:38Craigside Castle,
34:40the property and coal mines in Northumberland,
34:43the extensive further properties in London,
34:46and the remaining estate of your father,
34:48valued at £2 million sterling,
34:51will henceforth be transferred
34:53to Lord Mondore's single, surviving male heir,
34:57Cedric Hampton.
34:57Ooh.
35:02Come on.
35:32Well, who is this Cedric Hampton?
35:40Oh, some long-lost cousin.
35:42He comes from Nova Scotia.
35:44In Canada?
35:45What is he, a lumberjack?
35:48One thing we do know, he's going to be terribly rich.
35:54You mean a capitalist oppressor.
35:57Being a conservative was easy.
36:01It takes place within certain hours, and then it finishes.
36:03Whereas being a communist seems to eat up all of one's life.
36:08Still the comrades are such horns, Fanny.
36:10At least one knows they're not doing any harm.
36:13What sort of comrade runs this place?
36:15A huge, perfectly silent one called Boris.
36:18But Thursday is his day for getting drunk.
36:22I always come here on Thursdays.
36:36Why?
36:37Because Linda puts her favourite books up.
36:39So instead of a challenge to coal owners, we get King Solomon's mines.
36:43And instead of Karl Marx, the formative years.
36:46The making of a marchioness.
36:47What bliss!
36:48I've been looking for it for ages.
36:50It's the only red bookshop in England that makes a profit.
36:53Have you heard from Polly?
36:57No.
36:58Well, not since I moved to Italy.
37:00She told me they couldn't afford to live in England.
37:02You know you had to rent out Selkin?
37:04Yes.
37:05What a mess.
37:07Still at least you're happy, dear Fanny.
37:13When are you going to get married?
37:15Next month.
37:16I think it's rather silly.
37:18Once is enough.
37:20But Ma says I'm the sort of person one marries if one's living with them.
37:24Besides, Christian wants to, even though he is a communist.
37:31Lord Merlin was right.
37:32I was happy.
37:34Well, as the months passed, I feared for my friends Polly and Linda.
37:39I feared that they had just glimpsed a mirage rather than a real happiness, so they wouldn't
37:44of course admit it.
37:45I'm expecting anyone.
37:49It's Lady Mondore.
37:55I'm going to my study.
37:58Oh, well, don't leave me alone with her.
38:01I have got to finish those essays.
38:03Oh!
38:04Coward!
38:05Oh!
38:06Tea!
38:07It's a thousand bitters you're so dreadfully poor.
38:21I hate to see you living in this horrid little hovel.
38:23Oh!
38:24How weak you have it.
38:26No, no, no, no, no.
38:28This will do quite well.
38:30Yes.
38:31Mondore was talking to the bishop only the other day and he says your husband is really quite
38:38clever.
38:39Oh, he is.
38:40He's the cleverest man I've ever met.
38:42I suppose he thinks I'm a very stupid person.
38:45No.
38:46No, he doesn't.
38:47I suppose he thinks I never read.
38:49Many people think that because they see me leading this active life, wearing myself out
38:55for others.
38:56I mean, it's all very well for funny little people like you who have only yourselves to
39:01consider.
39:02And if I might offer you a little advice, Fanny, it would be to read fewer books and to make
39:08your home slightly more comfortable.
39:10That is what a man appreciates in the long run.
39:17Now, dear, I want you to come to Hampton next Tuesday.
39:21Cedric Hampton is coming to stay.
39:23Cedric Hampton?
39:24He comes for a fortnight.
39:26I wrote out the dates very carefully indeed.
39:28I always do when it's a question of a country house visit.
39:31Then there is no awkwardness about the length of it.
39:40Oh, it's only you.
39:58Hello.
40:01Hello.
40:06Do you think we shall hear the motor when it comes up the drive?
40:09Why shall I hear everything?
40:10We're not stone deaf, you know.
40:12I expect you'll be the outdoors type.
40:15They all are in Nova Scotia.
40:17Or maybe he could help with the tree felling.
40:19I do hope he won't bring in any mud.
40:22We should have covered the Oberson.
40:33Mr Cedric Hampton.
40:35Don't speak.
40:48Just for a moment.
40:50Just let me go on looking at you wonderful, wonderful people.
40:56Welcome to Hampton.
41:09The beauty of it.
41:10This house.
41:11So romantic.
41:12Such a repository of treasures.
41:15And above all, you too.
41:18The most beautiful people I have ever seen.
41:26Won't you take off your spectacles?
41:28I should like to see your eyes.
41:30Later, dear Lady Munt, or later.
41:32When my dreadful, paralyzing shyness is quite worn off.
41:37Oh.
41:38This is a cousin of ours, and a distant relation of yours, Cedric.
41:47Fanny Winsham.
41:51I'm enchanted to meet you, Mrs Winsham.
41:54You are Mrs, I hope, aren't you?
41:57Yes.
41:58Oh, yes.
41:59Oh, yes.
42:00I can tell you are not a spinster.
42:02Oh.
42:03Bull.
42:04Mmm.
42:05Senor Bossi.
42:06Limoges.
42:07What very important pieces.
42:08You're obviously an expert.
42:09I adore France, you see.
42:11It's one's idea of heaven.
42:13Did you live there?
42:14I was sent to Paris by my guardian, a banker, to learn some horrid sort of job.
42:29I quite forget what, as I never had to go near it.
42:31Why not?
42:32It is not necessary to have jobs in Paris.
42:35One's friends are so very, very important.
42:38You're obviously an expert.
42:41One's friends are so very, very kind.
42:44I've never been very fond of France.
42:47The people are so frivolous.
42:49I prefer the Germans.
42:50Germans?
42:52The frivolity of the Germans terrifies even one.
42:56I have a German friend in Paris.
42:59And a more frivolous creature, Lady Montour, does not exist.
43:02Oh.
43:03He has caused me many a heartache.
43:07I hope you will make some suitable English friends now, Cedric.
43:10Yes.
43:11Yes.
43:12That I long for.
43:15But please, can my chief English friend be you, dear Lady Montour?
43:21I think you should call us Aunt Sonia and Uncle Montour.
43:27May I really?
43:28Oh, how charming you are.
43:37Aunt Sonia, you seem to shower happiness around you.
43:44Yes, I do.
43:45I live for others, I suppose.
43:46That's why.
43:47The sad thing is that people have not always appreciated it.
43:48They are so selfish themselves.
43:49You were in India here.
43:50They must have worshipped you there.
43:51Worshipped?
43:52Yes.
43:53I can see you riding on your elephant like a goddess.
43:54It was quite touching.
43:57And, of course, we did a very great deal for them.
43:58I think I may say that we put India on the map.
43:59Hardly any of one's friends in England had ever even heard of India before we went there, you
44:00know.
44:01How fascinating.
44:02Did you keep a journal when you were there?
44:03Oh, please say yes.
44:04I would so love to read it.
44:05It's really a sort of scrapbook.
44:06Um.
44:07Journeys Up Country.
44:08Um.
44:09Letters of Appreciation from Rogers.
44:10And, of course, we did a very great deal for them.
44:13I think I may say that we put India on the map.
44:15Hardly any of one's friends in England had ever even heard of India before we went there,
44:20you know.
44:21How fascinating.
44:22Did you keep a journal when you were there?
44:24Oh, please say yes.
44:25I would so love to read it.
44:27It's really a sort of scrapbook.
44:30Um.
44:31Journeys Up Country.
44:33Um.
44:34Letters of Appreciation from Rogers.
44:36And Indian poetry translated by Mondor.
44:41Oh.
44:42Mm-hmm.
44:43Prayer of a widow before Suti.
44:47Death of an old mahut.
44:49Touching, isn't it?
44:51Makes you cry.
44:52Oh, I must read it.
44:54Every word.
44:55I can hardly wait.
44:57From that moment there was no question of Cedric coming to Hampton for a fortnight.
45:01He was obviously there for good.
45:03And after dinner, Aunt Sonia, will you let me see you and your jewels?
45:09My jewels.
45:11Have you some maculage in your bag, dear?
45:17And a cone?
45:24Naughty you!
45:26Oh, never mind.
45:28We've got to show the bone structure so beautiful on you.
45:33I think we'll have to find you a new croffer.
45:37Over the next few months, Lady Mondor became transformed.
45:41It goes quite hard.
45:44And in the morning, you can't smile.
45:49Not a glimmer.
45:51Not even at one.
45:53So you can't telephone until you've removed it.
45:57Because you know if you telephone smilessly, you sound cross.
46:02And if it happened to be one on the other end, well, one couldn't bear that.
46:12Before you come into a room, say brush.
46:17Brush.
46:18I got it out of a very old book on deportment.
46:22It fixes this very gay smile on one's face.
46:27Brush.
46:29Brush.
46:31No, no.
46:34Brush.
46:36Brush.
46:38Brush.
46:40Brush.
46:41Brush.
46:42Brush.
46:43Brush.
46:44Brush.
46:45Yes.
46:46Brush.
46:47Brush.
46:48Brush.
46:49Brush.
46:50Brush.
46:51Yes.
46:52Brush.
46:53Brush.
46:54Brush.
46:55Brush.
46:56Brush.
46:57Brush.
47:00Brush.
47:04She's a darling.
47:06So young.
47:07So delicious.
47:09I do hope I should be just like her when I'm a hundred.
47:12Darling, darling Muffin.
47:14Aren't they heaven, men like that?
47:16Nature's form of birth control, I always think.
47:19Look how she adores him.
47:21No, of course not.
47:22I've gotten her daughter.
47:23Cedric, darling.
47:25Veronica.
47:26Tessa.
47:27Well, you have done well for yourself.
47:32I'm not bad for a working girl.
47:34You know, I'm a beautiful girl.
47:49Early in 1939, the population of Catalonia streamed over the Pyrenees into France, where they found no promised land for the French put them into camps and forgot all about them.
47:56his land for the French put them into camps and forgot all about them.
48:02Christian rushed off to Perpignan to work with the refugees and he sent for Linda to
48:08join him.
48:38Christian rushed off to Perpignan.
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