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Emma agrees to a pretend engagement with a young Earl in order to protect him from the horde of eligible young women besieging him. Starring: Cheryl Campbell, Jeremy Clyde, Lally Bowers.
Emma agrees to a pretend engagement with a young Earl in order to protect him from the horde of eligible young women besieging him. Starring: Cheryl Campbell, Jeremy Clyde, Lally Bowers.
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00:30Mine, I think!
01:00See?
01:02Indisputably mine, Emma, actually.
01:06All right, guy.
01:08Now hurry up.
01:09Mama will never forgive us if we don't put an appearance bin before the Ashburys leave.
01:13Oh, must we?
01:15Yes, we must.
01:17The ravishing Maud will no doubt be making a set for your brother.
01:21He isn't rich enough.
01:22Yeah, but Mrs. Ashbury is wise enough to envisage the prospect.
01:26No, not you.
01:28If we don't get back soon, they'll believe that you are setting your cap at me.
01:32I shall demand protection from your mama.
01:36May I help you to more tea, Mrs. Ashbury?
01:39No, I thank you.
01:41You must be the only Englishman on Wall Street, Mr. Gosselin. Maud?
01:46Well, there aren't many of us there, no.
01:48And you deal all the time with the Rockefellers and the Morgans, you say?
01:52Well, one has a bit to do with them, you know.
01:55Must be a fearfully responsible job, Mr. Gosselin.
01:59Yes.
02:00I believe I'm right in saying that my son also takes care of all Lord Northerley's American business.
02:08Lord Northerley?
02:09Guy, come and join us.
02:12Emma will be here presently.
02:13She went to remove the stains of battle first.
02:16Your energy is too exhausting to contemplate.
02:20Your daughter gets a better shot every time I see her, Mrs. Gosselin.
02:24I hear someone mention Charles Northerley.
02:27I was there to dinner last night.
02:29At Northerley?
02:30Yes, I came on from there today.
02:33With as much speed as the aftermath of Northerley's excellent claret would allow.
02:38Interesting company?
02:39Very, except for young Raddle.
02:41Oh, is he staying there?
02:44For a few days, I believe.
02:46A few days? Are you sure?
02:49Oh, he'll stick like his late father's patent glue. Thank you.
02:53Young Raddle dearly loves the Lord.
02:56His father's glued handsomely by him nevertheless.
02:59He's a millionaire at least.
03:00Good afternoon, Mrs. Ashbury.
03:02Maud.
03:03Thank you, Hugh.
03:05I don't know why all you men are so beastly to the poor little fellow.
03:09Oh, he's not such a bad chap.
03:11As his governor's rotten posters all over the countryside get him off to a bad start.
03:16Come, Maud. We must be stirring.
03:19You pay us a very short visit.
03:21We have cousins expected at home.
03:24Come, Maud.
03:26You know how easily they can be offended.
03:29I'll see you to your carriage, Mrs. Ashbury.
03:31We'll all see you off.
03:32No, I wouldn't dream of putting you to so much trouble.
03:35Thank you so much for your kindness.
03:41Thank you, Mrs. Gosselin. The tea was quite delightful.
03:45Come, Maud.
03:52I shall be very surprised if their carriage ends up anywhere near home.
03:57Where do you suppose they're going, then?
03:59Shall we say your mother suspects they'll be heading in a northerly direction?
04:04That's pure supposition.
04:06Have a good journey.
04:26Now, if you'll excuse me, Mother, I must go and pack.
04:29I return to America tomorrow, remember?
04:31He's going to be enormously rich and outshine us all.
04:34It's my American partner, Jefferson Brown, who's going to do that.
04:38I shall bring him back with me next spring.
04:40Do you good to see one of America's coming men?
04:43Before you go, would you think me grossly inquisitive
04:46if I asked you in which direction Mrs. Ashbury told the coachman to drive?
04:52On my word, I didn't particularly notice.
04:54But I believe Mrs. Ashbury said home.
04:58There, Mama dear.
05:00A transparent faint.
05:02She will already have changed direction.
05:04That's why she didn't want us all to see her off.
05:07She knows the ladies would have spotted her.
05:10She's positively frantic to unleash Maud on young Mr. Rattle.
05:14Ah.
05:15You sound very wise, but ah, what?
05:18We all know that Maud has failed to bring down two Viscounts and a millionaire in her last three seasons.
05:24Her mother means her not to fail with Mr. Rattle.
05:27I could almost feel sorry for the poor sticky little chap.
05:31You speak as if you know something about it.
05:33I do.
05:34Things are becoming frightful for us defenceless bachelors.
05:37We're hunted like the ostrich.
05:39We're stalked and trapped and run to earth.
05:41We go in fear.
05:43I assure you we do.
05:45Are you hunted guy?
05:46Yes, Mrs. Gosling.
05:48Even a third rater like myself, inconceivable as it may seem.
05:52And of whom do you go in fear?
05:55My dear child of the huntress Diana and her nymphs.
05:58Of the spinster at large.
06:00She's always out with her rifle.
06:02And it's not only that.
06:04You know there's always a second gun, a walking arsenal at her heels.
06:08Her mother.
06:09Who was Diana's mother, dear?
06:11She was a beautiful old lady with pink ribbons in her hat and a genius for knitting.
06:17I'm not speaking of you two dears.
06:20You're not like anyone else.
06:21I mean, Emmy and I practically grew up together.
06:23One can relax with you.
06:25You're very kind, sir.
06:27But the others have reduced it to a science.
06:29I assure you that if I were anyone in particular, my life would be a burden.
06:33I've seen it.
06:34Look at my cousin, poor Beaupre.
06:36Look at poor little Raddle.
06:38Unaware that the furies are even now descending on him.
06:42Lord Beaupre won't marry again.
06:45So much the worse for him.
06:46Careful now.
06:47You'll be paying our sex a compliment.
06:49I mean that to be married's the only protection or else to be engaged.
06:52To be permanently engaged.
06:54Isn't that the answer?
06:55Beautifully.
06:56I'd do it if ever I were really desperate.
06:59And how is the little boy?
07:03What little boy?
07:04Your little cousin, Lord Beaupre's heir.
07:07Oh, poor little beggar.
07:08He isn't up to much.
07:09He was frightfully cut up by scarlet fever.
07:12Oh.
07:13And the boy's uncle, the second in line.
07:16Still taking his fences as fast as ever.
07:19I swear I've never seen a fiercer man after a fox.
07:22And then there's you.
07:24You're hardly the belted earl, but you're tolerably near it.
07:28My dear Mrs Gosling, I'm not even the buckle.
07:31Well, I admit there are three lives in the way.
07:34Dear lady, don't be homicidal.
07:35Mother.
07:36I'm merely being realistic.
07:38We're all mortal.
07:40And with an earldom and 50,000 a year at stake,
07:43it's a possibility every mother in the country will have in mind.
07:46Take care, Mama.
07:48We shall be thought to be out with our guns.
07:50Very well then.
07:51I shall do what I said just now.
07:52I shall get some good plausible girl to see me through.
07:55Pretend we were engaged.
07:57I say, old Emma, wouldn't you do?
07:59Should I be plausible enough?
08:01Of course.
08:02Everyone knows we've known each other since childhood sunny hour.
08:05Nothing can be more plausible than our engagement.
08:08Everyone would believe it.
08:09And is it your idea that one should pretend to be engaged to
08:12for the rest of one's life?
08:13No.
08:14Simply till I should have had time to look around.
08:16I'm determined not to be hassled into matrimony
08:20and dragged to the slaughter before I know where I am.
08:23And with this idea, I'd be able to take my time,
08:26make my choice, keep my head.
08:28And suppose in the middle of it, the foolish young lady
08:30wished to be really engaged.
08:32You mean to me?
08:34Not to you, you idiot. To someone else.
08:37Oh, if she'd give me a notice, I'd let her off.
08:39And what advantage would she have got out of the whole nonsensical business?
08:43Only the satisfaction of doing chap a good turn.
08:46You must think people are keen to oblige you.
08:49Well, surely I can count on you, old girl, can't I?
08:55What a preposterous conversation.
09:05Why has our Emma left us?
09:07To fetch a little stick to beat you with, perhaps.
09:11Oh.
09:12I haven't been objectionable, have I?
09:14Dear, no.
09:16I was only joking.
09:17So was I.
09:18I'm as far from the earldom as you are from the moon.
09:27Do you know what I look forward to most?
09:29The tranquility of England.
09:31The feeling that everything's been fixed in amber.
09:33My dear Jefferson, there's very little that's fixed in amber in England.
09:36Are you sure your mother won't mind you springing me on her?
09:39There's no question of springing you.
09:40I told her you were coming.
09:42Your hotel is just round the corner from her house in Chester Street
09:45where she and Emma are for the season.
09:46Fixed in amber?
09:47Rubbish.
09:48Do you know what's happened to a friend of mine, for instance,
09:50a chap called Guy Furminger?
09:52A year ago, he was in decent obscurity.
09:55Third in succession to an earl who was only 33 himself.
09:58So what happens?
10:00First of all, the earl pops off with typhoid in Naples.
10:03His tiny son succeeds him and promptly succumbs to diphtheria.
10:06The earl's brother then succeeds him, only to break his neck a week later on the hunting field,
10:11leaving four inconsolable and exceedingly plain daughters
10:15who thought their father was going to be a very rich peer.
10:18Suddenly, dear old Guy, is the Earl of Beaupre with one of the biggest estates
10:22and biggest fortunes in the country.
10:24Oh, believe me, there's very little that's fixed in amber in England.
10:27A bit hard on the homely daughters, isn't it?
10:29My mother writes that that is their opinion, too.
10:31They feel the least he can do is marry one of them.
10:34I'm so sorry.
10:36Preferably Charlotte, the plainest.
10:38How will he do that?
10:39I don't know.
10:41He's a kind man, but he's also unmistakably selfish.
10:44Perhaps that'll be his safeguard.
10:46His safeguard from Charlotte?
10:48From everyone.
10:50He'll be the most tremendous rush for him.
10:52I've had four letters from her this week alone, Emmy.
10:55You were never a great reader, Guy.
10:58How will you manage?
11:00Emma, when a girl with a jaw like Charlotte has marked you,
11:03really marked you, mind, you feel your safety oozing away,
11:06particularly when she considers one has a duty.
11:09Fulfill your duty in some other way.
11:11I've sent her and her terrible sisters every sort of present
11:13in the last three months that Bond Street can supply.
11:16They regard them only as further proofs of the guilt that I feel
11:19that I'm wearing their dead father's coronet.
11:22What's a fella to do?
11:24Hide up a tree in the park.
11:26That's what you always used to do as a boy when I was after you.
11:29And it isn't only, Charlotte.
11:31The sky is dark with vultures.
11:33The birds of prey are flocking from every corner of the shires.
11:35Every girl in England's about to be thrown at my head.
11:38Well, how can I stand here and face such a charge single-handed?
11:41Then take your magnetic presence abroad.
11:44It wouldn't do any good.
11:45There'll be 50 of them there before me.
11:47Mrs Gosselin.
11:48My dear boy, how are you?
11:49In a greater state of panic than ever, Mama.
11:52It's his fixed idea that is about to be tracked in a silken net
11:57woven by superior feminine intelligences.
12:00It is not a laughing matter.
12:03The construction of the trapped matrimonial is one of the wonders of the scientific age.
12:07I can feel it's my fate to be hypnotised into bondage.
12:11It's very simple.
12:13Fall genuinely in love.
12:15Then all the mothers and maids in Mayfair could not prevail against you.
12:18It takes leisure and calmness and a free mind to fall in love.
12:22Those are just things I haven't got.
12:24I'm literally fighting my way through.
12:26One blade against many.
12:28I know what I need.
12:31What is that, Brett?
12:33Well, that idea we talked about last summer.
12:36The pretend engagement.
12:37The idea you talked about last summer, you mean?
12:40No one else was much exercised about it, if I remember.
12:43There'll be a lot of fun in it for the happy couple.
12:45There always is in fooling the world.
12:47Why should they both be happy?
12:48I understand why you should, but frankly, I've never quite grasped the reason for her pleasure.
12:53Why, for the lark, you know, and that sort of thing.
12:55I should be awfully nice to her.
12:57Oh, heavens, what paradise.
12:59Well, I feel myself quite faint at the prospect of it.
13:02I should want a good sort, of course, of someone quiet and reasonable.
13:06She'd certainly have to be that to put up with the extreme disturbance it would cause her.
13:10What disturbance?
13:11By the time it would take up, the strain of the fraud could become intolerable.
13:15You mean I ought to pay her?
13:16Hire her for the season?
13:18Wouldn't marriage come cheaper at once?
13:21You're chaffing me.
13:23Of course, it would have to be someone good-natured enough to pity me.
13:26Ah, pity's akin to love.
13:28If she were good-natured enough to want to help you, she'd be interested enough to want to marry you.
13:33That would be her idea of help.
13:35Would it be yours?
13:37You're too absurd.
13:39You must sail your own boat.
13:42Yes.
13:43Well, I'm sure we all have things we want to be getting along with.
13:48It's been a pleasure as always, Agatha.
13:51Emma.
13:52Hugh gets back from New York tomorrow.
13:55He brings his American partner with him.
13:58He gives us great reports of him being a financial genius.
14:02You must come and meet him.
14:04I'd love to.
14:05Until tomorrow, then.
14:07Oh, did you ever see a smugness so dense, so serene?
14:16My dear, what do you mean?
14:18Oh, Mama, you know perfectly well.
14:20He's not vain.
14:21He's not proud.
14:22He's not pompous.
14:23He takes more things for granted than anyone I ever saw.
14:26What sort of things?
14:28Well, one's interest in his affairs.
14:31With old friends?
14:32Surely a gentleman may.
14:33And the old friends have a right to expect a corresponding interest on his part.
14:37Well, no one could be nicer to us.
14:40Or come to see us more often.
14:42He comes to talk about himself.
14:45There are thousands of girls who'd be delighted to listen to him.
14:48He's always been selfish.
14:50Ever since he was a small boy.
14:52What amazes me now is how shamelessly he shows it.
14:55Precisely, he shows it.
14:57It's all on the sunny surface.
14:59There are no nasty hidden depths of it underneath.
15:02He's not secretive or hard.
15:04I can't mean he's soft.
15:07I mean he's...
15:09yielding.
15:11Ha!
15:12You've always been such good companions.
15:14I wonder you don't wish to help the poor boy in his troubles.
15:18With that preposterous scheme.
15:20Besides, I don't believe his troubles are as great as he makes them out to be.
15:24If even silly little Mr Raddle can evade the clutches of the Maude Ashburys...
15:29If you please, Madam, Miss Charlotte Firminger to inquire if you are at home.
15:33Please show her up, Clement.
15:35The hounds have found the scent.
15:40Nonsense.
15:41I heard only this morning that poor Mr Raddle has just been gobbled up by his grandmother.
15:48Or at least by a widow old enough to fulfil that function.
15:53Miss Farminger, Madam.
15:56Agatha?
15:58Hammer?
15:59I expected to find my cousin here, Lord Beaupré.
16:03I'm afraid you've just missed him.
16:05Did he say where he was going?
16:08I'm afraid not.
16:09Oh.
16:10Hammer, I know it's a strange thing to say his being my cousin,
16:14but you know Lord Beaupré better than any of us.
16:17You've been like brother and sister for years.
16:19Could you not please use your influence on my behalf?
16:22I have no influence.
16:24It is only right in these matters that women should stand together.
16:28Men must be made to do what is right.
16:30I'm afraid men do not accept us as the arbiters of what is right.
16:34A Mrs Ashbury and a Miss Maude Ashbury to inquire if you are at home madam.
16:39Kindly show them up Clements.
16:41Agatha please allow me time to leave first.
16:48Agatha my dear.
16:50Emma.
16:51Charlotte.
16:52Mrs Ashbury.
16:53I thought you wouldn't mind my bouncing in like this.
16:57You know how I am.
16:59Yes dear I know.
17:01If you were hoping to find my cousin Lord Beaupré here you've missed him.
17:05It rather looks as if you have missed him too.
17:08I rather did want a word with him about some charity I wish him to support.
17:14Do you know where he went?
17:16To Rotten Row.
17:18Oh thank you so much.
17:21So sorry we couldn't stay longer.
17:24Come along.
17:26More.
17:31The only charity she wants Guy to support is her daughter.
17:45Now who do you believe the poor man exaggerates?
17:48I believe he has his harassments.
17:50You must tell him so tomorrow when he comes to meet your brother and his friend.
17:55I shan't be here.
17:56Why do you hate him so?
18:00I feel nothing so intense for him.
18:03Take care then how you avoid him.
18:07Or everyone will think you're in love with him.
18:10If you ask me.
18:11Now nobody has asked me.
18:12But if you did.
18:13Mr Brown you have a style all your own.
18:16Disservant man.
18:17I trust it's a style to your liking.
18:20We rough colonials are not to everyone's taste.
18:23Stop acting the New England rustic Jefferson.
18:26Don't let him deceive you.
18:27When Jefferson Brown deals Wall Street quivers.
18:30All I was going to say when.
18:31Despite all those silky English manners.
18:33I was so brutally interrupted.
18:35Is that if you ask me.
18:36Paradise is drinking champagne in England in April.
18:39In a room like this.
18:41Among company like that presently assembled.
18:43Oh well done Mr Brown.
18:45Jefferson please.
18:46Very well then Jefferson.
18:47As nicely turned a compliment as ever I heard.
18:50You must come and beguile us at Bosco next week.
18:53Bosco?
18:54Bosco.
18:55Guy's place in the country.
18:57I'm giving a little house party there.
18:59My first.
19:00We shall be going.
19:02Then I shall be delighted to be among your number.
19:04I drink to the prospect of Bosco.
19:13In heaven's name dear man.
19:15Let me at least get my breath.
19:16It's a long try.
19:17Maude Ashbury and her mother are here.
19:19Emmy it's all spoiled ruined.
19:21Then why did you invite them?
19:22I didn't.
19:23What?
19:24I wanted to feel relaxed and safe.
19:25You're the only unmarried girl I asked.
19:26Then how did they get here?
19:27They drove up to my door as they might have done to an inn.
19:29They asked for rooms and then complained to the ones that were given to them.
19:32But that's impossible.
19:33It's not impossible.
19:34It's not impossible.
19:35It's not impossible.
19:36It's simply a measure of how desperate they are.
19:38They rely on the fact that one can't be an absolute brute and turn them away.
19:42Poor guy.
19:43Don't laugh.
19:44It freezes my blood.
19:45Do you really mean you're afraid of them?
19:47They tremble like a leaf.
19:49Some monstrous fate seems to look at me out of their eyes.
19:52That's because you secretly admire Maude.
19:54She's extremely good looking.
19:56That's as may be.
19:57The only thing I ever saw anyone who happened to be less my taste.
19:59I'd been avoiding her for three hours.
20:01I don't know why I don't turn them out even now.
20:03Perhaps you can give her a worse time by making her stay.
20:06Oh God.
20:07There they are.
20:08In the drawing room.
20:09Like the faces in the window in the ghost story.
20:13Quickly.
20:18Quickly before they spot me.
20:20There they are.
20:21There they are.
20:22I'll walk away.
20:23With your eyes.
20:24Be sure to do.
20:25There they are.
20:26There they are.
20:27There they are.
20:28There they are.
20:29There they are.
20:30Can you see the world of the ghost?
20:32To the centre of the street?
20:33have you seen Lord Boebreton? no I'm afraid I haven't I've only just arrived I came down with
20:50Miss Emma Gosselin but I seem to have lost her too. Jepson Brown at your service. Charlotte
20:57Bermondra. shall we look for them together? your cross is small compared with your
21:07crown. you have everything in the world that most people desire. I'm bound to say I
21:12think your life is made very comfortable for you. that's easy talk. if you're
21:17oppressed by the quantity of interest and affection you inspire you ought
21:21simply to make up your mind to bear up. how do you know that I don't have my
21:28own cross? that I'm not persecuted? that my footsteps are not dogged? do you mean my
21:34fellows who want to marry you? you speak as if they couldn't be such madmen. of course
21:39I realize such a charming girl as you must be made up to. I don't speak of it. I
21:44suffer in silence. you admit then that it's all horrid when you don't care for
21:48them. there are worse tribulations. well if you're hunted as well as I then that
21:52dodge I proposed to be just the thing for us both. well wouldn't it?
22:00I mean your great point has always been what good would it do you? well now you
22:06see the good it would do you we'd both be left alone. the remedy's worse than the
22:10disease. I was not telling the truth just now about being hunted. you mean they
22:17don't buzz about you? they buzz about me but essentially it's flattering and I don't
22:25mind it. I wish I could find it so. oh god there's Lottie. she wasn't invited either.
22:32why she has our mr. Brown in tow too. does he buzz about you? happens what questions you ask.
22:39does he? yes he does but you know I I like it. hmm anyway I didn't invite that
22:49Gorgon who's with him. don't let her get at me. take her yourself. I'll keep the
22:53American. I don't object to him. I think I shall murder her someday.
22:59oh I I thought the gentlemen were following. so they were. oh dear they seem to have been
23:07waylaid. are you staying with friends in the neighborhood? yes. anyone I know? no I I shouldn't
23:16think so. are you staying with him for long? I'm not quite sure. Emma don't you think if one wants
23:25something enough and keeps it clearly in one's mind it's bound in the end to come
23:29to one? I don't know. I've never seen it demonstrated.
23:38Emma. Janet. Mrs. Ashbury. Agatha.
23:55I really think I must get a little more air. if you'll excuse me. of course.
24:10she's staying with friends round about. she's staying at the crown inn in the village on her own
24:16and she hired the fly in which she drove over here this afternoon. one might have trusted you to know.
24:22she's quite a frightening young woman. she makes me think of someone
24:25determined to walk ten miles with a glass full to overflowing without spilling a drop.
24:30you have some idea then of how hard-pressed Guy is?
24:35would it really cost you so much to agree to his little deception?
24:41dear mama do you really think I don't know you by now?
24:46do you know yourself I wonder?
24:52I've been looking for you guys. oh I've been here and there about the place you know.
25:14I cannot leave after tea as I intended. my horse has gone lame. I shall have to stay over.
25:19oh gracious we can't have you incommoded like that. oh there are horses,
25:24carriages, flies by the dozen about the place. you shall have one of those.
25:28oh no I wouldn't dream of troubling you. no trouble at all I do assure you.
25:32oh just a tiny room would do anywhere in the house. can't be done old thing.
25:37it's not a moses hole to be had in the whole place. oh but it would be more convenient.
25:41I'll go and see robins now. you shall have the finest equipage we've got to whisk you wherever you want to go.
26:07you shall have the finest equipage we've got to work to work.
26:25you shall have the finest equipage we've got to work.
26:30Emma Gosselin to the life. oh you startled me. you'll be in the academy yet sister.
26:35where did you leave little beau pray? in the middle of the famous maze in the
26:39South Park. when last seen Lottie Firminger was looking up a map of it in
26:43the library. and Maud Ashbery had set up a hide outside the only exit. you're very cruel.
26:49I thought painting in England on Sundays was rather frowned upon Miss Gosselin.
26:54so it is but I've never been over much of a conformist Mr. Brown. nor have I.
27:00did you do that? uh-huh. when did you do it? earlier. well you were not to be found so
27:09I consoled myself for the beauties of nature. but how did you catch that tree in
27:14just that mood? look here mine is nothing like so fetching. well I had the
27:20advantage of you. my son was from the southeast. now you see when the light
27:26strikes from this side. I promised to take tea with mother. I'm sure no
27:30absolutely vital conventions will be broken if I beg to abandon you together.
27:36you see I could imagine that this whole thing looks different from hour to hour.
27:40but you're absolutely right. this is one of my favorite corners of Bosco. do you
27:48know I've tried it a score of times. and this little bit here for instance. where?
27:53you did quite wrong to leave them together in the park unchaperoned. oh mother if I
27:58could count the number of times I've been left in peace with Jefferson's
28:01cousins in New York and they're just as stunning as Emma I do assure you. New
28:04New York is not Hampshire. if you owe social debts to Mr. Brown you have no
28:09right to pay with your sister. no I don't live in New York. I have a house in
28:15Connecticut. it's sort of like England except Warsaw. spring comes sooner. winter's a snow year.
28:22summer's a hotter. you like it there I think. I could have sent one of my coachmen over.
28:28but I prefer to return and thank you for myself. you're an excellent advocate for
28:32your state Mr. Brown. Jefferson please. oh ladies here do not proceed to first
28:39names on quite so short an acquaintance. I thought you told me you were not overly
28:43conventional. in some things I'm not. in others I am. in that case you don't know
28:50your own mind. that's the second time that's been said to me today. do you know
28:56yours? oh yes.
29:01the last one?
29:07we don't have a spot.
29:08we don't have a spot.
29:10oh my god.
29:12Oh.
29:13not at this moment.
29:17no.
29:18Jayie White-low. I'm sorry.
29:22when first I went to America. I must admit that I was surprised by their manners.
29:24but then young people
29:33Charlotte was packed up after tea
29:36Guy is sometimes capable of acting with decisions
29:39do you mean decisiveness is not normally one of his qualities?
29:43he's a great believer usually in floating with the tide
29:46and fetching up where it takes him
29:48so far it's taken him to this
29:51I could never be like that
29:53I tried to take hold of events
29:56make them go my way
29:58yes I can imagine you do
30:00are you desperately ruthless in business Jeffers?
30:04a kitten
30:05a mere kitten Emma I do assure you
30:07yes I believe that
30:09you can make me a kitten at least
30:10it's time you gave us older ladies a chance at you Mr. Brown
30:14you've been far too exclusive
30:16Emma
30:17Lady Whitelow was asking for you most particularly a moment
30:21then I must go and find her must I not
30:24if you'll excuse me Mr. Brown
30:27with reluctance Miss Gosselin
30:29I trust you're enjoying your first taste of our bizarre English weekend Mr. Brown
30:38very much so
30:39I've had an excellent guy
30:41yes so I've observed
30:44poor Lord Beaupre has evidently not been enjoying himself however
30:48very true
30:49and I think he's enjoying himself less at this moment than at any other point in the weekend
30:55oh well why is that?
30:57you can't have failed to notice his current absence
31:00nor to connect it with the absence also of Miss Maud Ashbury
31:05nor to observe the countenance of the dear girl's mother
31:10you mean he's taking a turn on the terrace with Maud by Starlight?
31:16well how has she managed that when he can't stand her?
31:19how indeed
31:20oh yeah
31:23do you suppose something's happened?
31:25yes
31:26something will have happened to Maud
31:29well what do you suppose?
31:30is she ill?
31:31who knows
31:32we shall see
31:33they're capable of anything
31:35yes
31:36she wants to have a grievance
31:38she'll have made a scene
31:40I don't follow
31:41you can be sure that Guy was out on that terrace against his will
31:45yes I'm sure of that
31:46she wants to be injured
31:49to provoke him to some act of impatience
31:52some failure of temper or courtesy
31:54she will have asked him
31:56if he wishes her to leave his house at midnight
31:59and he may have answered
32:01that
32:02that she may go to the devil for all he cares?
32:06is that what you might have said?
32:08pushed hard enough yes
32:09but she seems too quiet to push a man that hard
32:13her mother will have coached her
32:15yes
32:17they've got him to do something to them
32:20he'll have to make up for
32:22not to the extent of marrying her, sure
32:26the device has often led to that in other cases
32:29don't worry
32:30excuse me
32:35well
32:39you'll have guessed what happened
32:40roughly
32:41she says she's too unwell to return to London
32:43she'll have to stay
32:44let her stay
32:45yes but I'll have to stay too
32:47Agatha
32:48they've really got my back against the wall
32:50I wish you would stay with me
32:52to keep me company
32:53I will if you wish
32:54and Emma and Hugh and Jefferson Brown
32:57Hugh must please himself
32:59but don't keep the American
33:01why not?
33:03he's a charming chap
33:04that's exactly why I want him to go
33:07oh
33:09but if they're determined to outstay us
33:13there's very little we can do
33:14we've already been here two extra days
33:17there's a great deal you could do
33:19oh mother
33:21it could solve everything
33:23it would be an absurdity
33:25Emma
33:26you've known each other since you were children
33:29he's like family
33:30if Maud gets him
33:32he'll be miserable for the rest of his life
33:34you'll do it soon enough for Mr. Brown
33:40what?
33:44I've got eyes in my head
33:46it would do you know
33:48he's quite unsuitable
33:49I don't know what you're talking about
33:51you'd hate New York
33:52American manners would eventually become repugnant to you
33:56he'd spend his whole time in commerce
33:58while you languished at home with the other Wall Street widows
34:01hit out fiercely against
34:03what is after all a phantom of your own mind
34:06do you swear to me then
34:08that there is not a rapport building up between you and Mr. Brown
34:11swear?
34:12Mamma will not be catechized in this manner
34:14if there is not
34:15prove it
34:16how?
34:17by letting me announce your engagement to Guy Bopre in the morning post
34:20oh do what you like
34:24I knew that Emma pitied you really as much as I did
34:27and what she saw at Bosco was a revelation
34:30but I knew she'd be shy about offering her help
34:34so I forced her hand a little
34:37it won't be any trouble to her and you'll be comfortable
34:40yes I'll certainly be that
34:42there is just one point
34:45yes
34:46some girls in Emma's position
34:50might take advantage
34:52refuse to let you go when the time came
34:55hold you to it
34:58yes but it's not a question of girls is it
35:00I mean it's dear old Emma
35:02very well
35:04I just thought I'd mention it
35:05I should like to see her
35:07to thank her you know
35:08and to arrange our performance for the world
35:11of course
35:13I'll send her to you
35:14Emma
35:43my dear old girl
35:44before you speak a word please understand this
35:46that it's holy mama's doing
35:48I hadn't dreamed of it
35:49but she took advantage of an impatient moment
35:51it was charming of her
35:53it's charming of you
35:54it's not charming of anyone in my view
35:56it's simply idiotic
35:57if it hadn't been announced
35:58and I could in any way get out of it
36:00without making you look a fool
36:01I would
36:02don't be nasty about it
36:03it'll be tremendous fun
36:03I consent it only because
36:05mama says we owe it to you
36:06never mind the reason
36:08I can never thank you enough
36:09nor tell you what a weight you've lifted
36:11from my shoulders
36:11do you and I feel the difference already
36:12but it's childish
36:14how can such a feeble fiction last
36:16we shall be ingenious
36:17we shall make it last
36:18you'll have to act
36:20a little of course
36:20but that'll be part of the fun
36:21people scarcely ever see us together
36:24but they will see us together
36:26I mean we've been together
36:27well we've known each other all our lives
36:29I don't mean in that way
36:31trust me to work it right
36:32look we'll go to no end of
36:33balls and parties
36:35and weekends and races
36:36we'll have a glorious time
36:37set up a tremendous swell
36:38you'll find it a dreadful ball
36:40then I'll drop it
36:40just as you'll drop it
36:41the moment you've had enough
36:42and when we do break it off
36:43what reason shall we give
36:44I'll say you're sick of me
36:47I'll tell them you've chucked me
36:48you have worked it out
36:50I shall be intensely considerate
36:51the greatest consideration you can pay me
36:53is to get on as quickly
36:54as conveniently possible
36:56with finding a girl who suits you
36:57and letting me out
36:58oh that's just the comfort of it
37:00I have all the time in the world
37:01I need to be in a hurry now
37:02what will you do with your American
37:04by the way
37:05what do you mean
37:08well you led me to believe
37:09a Bosco who's a man
37:10who entertained hopes
37:11if you mean will I let you down
37:14by bringing Mr Brown
37:16into our grotesque secret
37:17no I will not
37:18I have given my word
37:20and I will keep it
37:20I resent your implication
37:22that I might not
37:22I also resent your prying
37:24into my relationships
37:25with other men
37:26as if you were my real fiance
37:27instead of a bogus one
37:28I'm sorry
37:32I didn't realize
37:34I thought that
37:35look here
37:38hear me old girl
37:39if you feel that strongly about it
37:42well perhaps we better
37:43break it off right away
37:44no
37:46no
37:48to break it off immediately
37:50would only make us look
37:51more ridiculous
37:51not less
37:52the game has been started
37:56over my head
37:58we'd better play it
38:00but you were due to stay
38:03another month
38:04why return to New York
38:06so soon
38:06because I can't stand
38:07what's going on
38:08it's lacking in dignity
38:09dignity
38:10poor guy was fighting
38:12for his life
38:13then let him fight for it
38:14with his own arms
38:15and his own legs
38:15like a man
38:16not shelter behind my sister
38:17you know very well
38:19that if we were drowning
38:20he'd be the first to jump in afterwards
38:22if it were a hot day
38:23and he felt like cooling off
38:24yes
38:24oh that was unkind
38:26besides I'll be hanged
38:27if I'll tell my friends
38:28a pack of lies
38:28I'd sooner not be here
38:30there's no need to tell lies
38:33the only question
38:34that could conceivably
38:35be embarrassing
38:36would be an inquiry
38:38as to the date of the wedding
38:39and what is one expected
38:40to say to that
38:41simply that nothing is fixed yet
38:43which can hardly be called
38:46a deflection from the truth
38:47if the wedding isn't fixed
38:48then nothing is fixed
38:49a fact which will soon be remarked
38:51the whole thing will be exploded
38:53as play acting
38:53why go in for anything
38:55in such bad taste
38:56to end in something so absurd
38:57all I can tell you
38:59is that it's working
39:00at the moment
39:00those dreadful women
39:02have called off the chase
39:03they've already found
39:04some other victim
39:05and how is it all to end please
39:07perhaps it won't end
39:10do you mean that the engagement
39:15will become real
39:16my dear boy
39:19can't you trust me
39:20is that your speculation
39:22is it Emma's
39:24I've never heard of anything
39:25so odious
39:26it is not Emma's speculation
39:29left to herself
39:31Emma would prefer
39:32Mr. Jefferson Brown
39:33left to herself then
39:34she'd show a great deal
39:35more sense than you do
39:36Brown is that rare bird
39:37a maker of money
39:38who is also a man of culture
39:39he's a gentleman
39:40to his fingertips
39:41his fortune is already considerable
39:42that may very well be true
39:44but as a matrimonial prospect
39:46he can't begin to compare
39:47with the Earl of Beaupre
39:48then you are laying traps for him
39:50how horrible
39:51to ensnare him
39:52by pretending to protect him
39:53from others who wish to do the same
39:55ugh
39:55please Hugh
39:56I would ask you to be a little less rough
39:58with your mother
39:59it's a course I wouldn't have dreamed of taking
40:01if Guy hadn't given certain signs
40:04if you mean that he really cares for her
40:05then there's that much less excuse
40:07for his taking liberties with her
40:08he's either in love with her
40:10or he isn't
40:10if he is let him make her a serious offer
40:12if he isn't let him leave her alone
40:14he is in love with her
40:15but he doesn't know it
40:17then it's time he was told
40:18he either makes sense of Emma's situation
40:20or he vanishes
40:21great heavens
40:23how you remonstrated with me
40:24for leaving my sister alone
40:25in the park with Jefferson
40:26what monstrous thing may I ask
40:28are you doing with her
40:29this has gone far enough
40:30I shall speak to Beaupre myself
40:31you do nothing of the kind
40:33and I refuse to be spoken to
40:35like that by my own son
40:36you're very cruel
40:38you're also wrongheaded
40:40mother
40:42I'm thinking only of Emma's well-being
40:44do you think I'm not
40:46do you think I'd do anything to harm her
40:48please you must leave it to me
40:51I know what I'm doing
40:53mother please
40:54please promise me you won't interfere
40:57you could wreck your sister's life forever
41:00promise
41:01very well
41:04but what do I tell poor Jefferson Brown
41:08why must you tell him anything
41:11his relationship with Emma
41:13was in its infancy
41:14he can't be held to have any rights
41:17the sooner I get back to New York
41:19the better
41:19I really don't understand London anymore
41:23your brother and I sail for New York tomorrow
41:30as you know
41:31I just wanted to thank you
41:33and your mother
41:34for all your kindness
41:35and to say that in my remembrance
41:38what you are
41:38will always be England for me
41:40the first thing I ever heard you say
41:44was charmingly put
41:45Mr. Brown
41:46you maintain your standard
41:49I can't pretend to understand yet
41:53all your little ways
41:53but
41:54no doubt
41:55a bit of recollection
41:56and tranquility will help
41:57you're very wise
42:00Mr. Brown
42:01it was a great explorer
42:03I think
42:03who said that strange countries
42:05need digesting
42:07it's just that I hadn't expected to find this
42:16a strange country
42:17ah
42:18it's the superficial similarities
42:20which are the most confusing
42:22I've no doubt you're right
42:25goodbye Mrs. Galsner
42:28goodbye
42:28goodbye Mrs. Galsner
42:34I hope you have what you want
42:38and that you'll be happy
42:39such a nice man
42:58for an American
43:00you've dropped a stitch
43:06I can't think when I've felt so happy Emmy
43:16or so free
43:18it's a tremendous thing you're doing for me
43:20then please do something tremendous for me
43:22and pick out with great expedition
43:24the little girl will be the Countess of Beaupere
43:26surely you're not bored already
43:28bored and embarrassed
43:29it doesn't sit right
43:31people are beginning to sense the falseness of it
43:33oh I'm sure not
43:34the hounds would be after me again
43:36if that were the case
43:37and you can see it isn't so
43:38I thought you used to enjoy spending your time with me
43:41so I did
43:42I simply don't like pretending to enjoy it
43:45I'm not pretending
43:46not in the least
43:48there you ought to
43:50I shall do a little painting
43:52not that same corner of the park again
43:55New York tomorrow
44:20all that bustle
44:22England seems very faint
44:24and far off
44:24not all of it
44:27which parts don't
44:29I believe you know
44:32you've got it badly I think
44:34I don't know how badly one can get it
44:38but
44:38it'll suffice
44:40I didn't quite realise
44:43it wasn't very long
44:46I mean your acquaintance with her
44:47how long do these things take
44:50in one way I could
44:53I could almost wish I'd never set eyes on England
44:56it's possible my sister might not marry Lord Beaupere after all
45:08what do you mean
45:10you speak as if you've had later news
45:13yet you can't have done
45:13we've been at sea
45:14there's a situation
45:15what does that mean
45:17mother will have understood me to have given my word
45:21but I didn't
45:22I didn't promise not to tell you
45:24I've been struggling with it
45:25promise to tell me what man
45:27struggling with what
45:28the fact is she won't marry him
45:30they're not engaged
45:32not really
45:32it's a preposterous secret between them
45:35they're very old friends from childhood
45:36and it's all a put-up job
45:37to give him some breathing space
45:39from the women who pursue him
45:40it's all utterly absurd and distasteful
45:43and I promise not to interfere
45:44but
45:44I felt obliged to tell you
45:47because I think it might make a difference to you
45:49can you do without me for a while
45:51you're not in the least indispensable
45:53I'm going back
45:56what a tremendous season you're having my dear
46:15you and Guy are the talk of London
46:17you go so well together
46:19please ma'am you seem to think
46:20that if you talk as if we're really engaged
46:22you might somehow make it happen
46:23I don't care what you say to others
46:26please don't keep up the pretense with me
46:28I'm sorry you're out of humor dear
46:30it's you that makes me so
46:33and if we are the talk of London
46:34it's because we're an engaged couple
46:36who can never answer the principal question
46:38when is the wedding
46:39I cringe every time I'm asked
46:41but surely a bridegroom
46:43who suffered a triple bereavement
46:45as Guy has done
46:46might be allowed a period of mourning
46:48and an interval to set his affairs in order
46:51if love were present
46:52there would be no such interval
46:53I don't agree
46:55people are not stupid mama
46:57they eventually know
46:58when they're being imposed upon
46:59only this evening
47:00Lady Whiteclow asked me
47:01what I imagined I was doing
47:03postponing the date for so long
47:04Lady Whiteclow
47:05and that odious Mrs Ashbury
47:07looked me straight in the eye
47:08and asked if I minded
47:09inviting her dreadful maude
47:11to the next party here with Guy
47:12well she always was pushy
47:15oh be sensible mama
47:16she'd never have dreamed of asking that
47:18unless she suspected something was wrong
47:20it's no good
47:22I can't go on with it
47:23I propose to end it
47:24have you told Guy
47:25I shall do so tomorrow
47:27and she's coming down here this morning
47:30in advance of the others
47:32in order to tell you
47:33I thought you should be warned
47:35but it's a beautiful arrangement
47:36these have been weeks of perfect happiness for me
47:38why does she want to end it
47:40it's evidently not been happy for her
47:42I thought it had
47:43besides I didn't admit it
47:44but she is right
47:45the world is beginning to wander
47:47oh the world
47:48hang the world
47:49unfortunately that's something
47:51none of us can do
47:52so all the grimness and misery
47:53is about to start again
47:54it needn't
47:57what
47:58there is a way
48:00tell me show me
48:02for heaven's sake
48:02I'll do anything
48:03oh it's nothing so dreadful
48:05you said these weeks
48:07have been happy for you
48:08they have
48:09has it just been the absence
48:11of pursuit and harassment
48:13well yes
48:14that and old Emma
48:16she's the most tremendous company
48:18you know
48:18can you imagine finding anyone
48:21who'd be
48:22better company
48:23I've been thinking about that myself
48:26I feel I've been unbelievably dense
48:29good day
48:39have you seen
48:40hi miss firminger
48:43miss lebrown
48:44I was about to ask
48:46if you'd seen
48:46lord beauprecht
48:47I'm afraid I haven't seen anyone
48:48I've come straight off the boat
48:50at liverpool
48:51to london
48:51and then to here
48:52I'm looking for miss goslin
48:53I do hope she's here
48:54she is here
48:56shall we join forces again
48:58in the search
48:59a very splendid idea
49:01I suspect that this time
49:04we have a great deal in common
49:05mr brunt
49:06there is a way
49:09a way whereby
49:10we needn't break off
49:11we needn't go on
49:12pretending either
49:12what way
49:13we simply turn it into the real thing
49:15and get married
49:16what
49:20I know it's not the
49:22best phrase proposal
49:24a girl ever had
49:25but
49:25dash it
49:26we've known each other so long
49:27I'd feel embarrassed
49:28it's odd
49:29familiarity
49:31for a woman works differently
49:33seeing the boy and the man
49:34in Richmond of now
49:36by memories of then
49:37the insight from the past
49:39I think I've always been
49:42a little in love with you
49:43and there was a time
49:45I might have jumped at it
49:46until quite recently
49:48in fact
49:48but you made me realize
49:51that for you
49:51it doesn't work that way
49:53it does
49:53it does
49:55no guy
49:56I've always been
49:57good old Emma to you
49:59good sport
50:00good shot
50:01good billiards player
50:02almost as good company
50:03as a man really
50:04no that's not true
50:05over these last weeks
50:06I really started to see you
50:08it's true guy
50:09you'd never have asked of me
50:10what you did
50:11if you had any real feeling
50:12for me
50:13and once I'd consented
50:14to do it
50:15I knew I no longer
50:16had any love left for you
50:17how
50:18why
50:20I couldn't have done it
50:21otherwise
50:22knowing you
50:23knowing that you could
50:24quite easily have let it
50:25slip into a real
50:26engagement
50:27perhaps at the back of my
50:28mind it's what I wanted
50:30all along
50:30I think perhaps you did
50:32that would be the way
50:34to marry old Emma
50:34wouldn't it
50:35it'd be too absurd
50:36to have to be sentimental
50:37about the dear old thing
50:38better just to muddle
50:39into it by default
50:40well
50:42that's not how
50:44I want to marry
50:45how do you want
50:47to marry then
50:48forgive my rude
50:51colonial manners
50:52but I think I know
51:00we do have a tradition
51:01of knocking
51:02Miss Emma
51:15I wish to be
51:17formally sentimental
51:18Mr. Brown
51:20whatever happened
51:22to Wall Street
51:23I wish to be
51:53I wish to be
52:16I wish to be
52:17I wish to be
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