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Mr. Prodmore owns the mortgage to the Yule family estate. He will forgive the vast debt if Yule will marry his daughter. The enchanting Grace has other ideas. Starring: Diana Rigg, George Cole, Jeremy Brett.
Mr. Prodmore owns the mortgage to the Yule family estate. He will forgive the vast debt if Yule will marry his daughter. The enchanting Grace has other ideas. Starring: Diana Rigg, George Cole, Jeremy Brett.
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00:00The End
00:30I really can't thank you enough.
00:51That's all right miss.
00:53The coast clear.
00:54You can investigate to your heart's content.
00:57Oh sweet little ups and downs.
00:59Yes we've got plenty of those.
01:02And the dirty little crooked steps.
01:04You mind them little steps miss.
01:06There's something cruel in the dark corners.
01:20You took your time.
01:22No one here?
01:27I've had a telegram Mr. Prodmore from Captain the Honourable Clement Ewell.
01:31Not to say he ain't coming.
01:33He used to take the 220 train from Paddington.
01:35He certainly should be here sir.
01:37My flyaway daughter.
01:38Where the deuce is she?
01:40She and her maid were to have taken the 140 from her grandmother's place near Belvera.
01:44I was to drive over from the most convenient of my seats.
01:48Captain Ewell was finally to shake off for a few hours the peculiar occupations that engage him.
01:54We were to converge.
01:55I'm surprised he hasn't been here before sir just to see what has been left.
01:59I was expecting up here so as I could show him round.
02:01I'll take him round never fear.
02:04Round and round.
02:06Oh that's good sir.
02:07That's exactly what I've come for.
02:10He can't fail to be affected.
02:12Though he has been up to his neck in matters of a different class.
02:15In nothing I dare say but what's right sir.
02:18Then everything is diabolically wrong.
02:20There he is.
02:35Your daughter sir.
02:36Cora!
02:37What a dickens you mean by being late.
02:39I...
02:40I feel rather faint.
02:43Could I have some tea?
02:45Since I shall expect much of you this afternoon.
02:48Yes.
02:49Some tea!
02:50I did think it might be required sir.
02:53I lay it out in the morning room here.
02:55It was my train before I was so awfully behind.
02:58Also I walked up from the station.
03:01There's such a lovely footpath across the park.
03:04You've been roaming the countryside alone.
03:06Oh dear no no not alone.
03:07There were ever so many people about.
03:09I don't doubt there were.
03:11Where amongst these multitudes pray is your maid?
03:14I didn't bring her she was extremely unwell.
03:17I thought she understood at the first that we do not permit.
03:21Anything of the sort?
03:23Yes papa I thought she did.
03:24What on earth the matter with her?
03:26I think that a granny she eats too much.
03:28I'll soon put a stop to that.
03:30You expect to continue your adventures then into the night?
03:33Returning to Belbara as you came?
03:36At loose on the face of the planet?
03:38No papa dear.
03:39Under the protection of a new friend.
03:41A lady I met in the train who was also going back by the 619.
03:45She was like myself on her way to this place.
03:47I expected to find her here.
03:49What does she want in this house?
03:51She wants to see it.
03:53Today?
03:54Today won't do.
03:56So I suggested.
03:58Do you know what she said?
03:59How should I know what a nobody says?
04:01She's not a nobody.
04:03She's an American.
04:04An American?
04:06She asked me if this isn't a show house.
04:09I said I hadn't the least idea.
04:11It is.
04:12Of course it is.
04:13What the devil would she think of you for not knowing that?
04:17She's tremendously clever.
04:19There seems to be nothing she doesn't know.
04:22There seems to be nothing you do.
04:24You're not tremendously clever so you'll permit me to demand of you a slight effort of intelligence.
04:30I am expecting Captain the Honourable Clement Yule.
04:35The owner of this property?
04:36He came into it three months ago by the death of his great uncle.
04:40Never laid eyes on it.
04:42Doesn't Captain Yule live here now?
04:44On the contrary.
04:45He comes here for the first time.
04:47I have some business to discuss with him.
04:49I want you to take pains to make him welcome.
04:52In his own house?
04:53It is not his own house.
04:55That's precisely the point I am making.
04:57The way I look at it,
04:59it is my house.
05:01It's mortgaged for every penny of its value as it stands.
05:05And I'm in the happy position.
05:07You follow me?
05:08Of holding the mortgages?
05:10You follow every scrap of paper.
05:12Do you mean that you can come down on him?
05:14I don't need to come down, my dear.
05:16I am down.
05:18I came down, financially speaking, many weeks ago and I haven't budged since.
05:24Are you going to be very hard?
05:26Hard is a stupid shuffling term.
05:28What do you mean by it?
05:30I don't understand business.
05:32I think I understand you, Papa.
05:35Enough to gather that as usual you have a striking advantage.
05:38As usual I have scored.
05:40But my advantage will not be striking until I've sent the blow home.
05:44I look to you, as my daughter, to nerve my arm.
05:49For what?
05:50This, the most important transaction of my life.
05:54I brought you here to make an impression.
05:56On whom?
05:57On me, for a start, by not being a fool.
06:00Then, miss, on him.
06:03On Captain Yule?
06:05You must bring him to the point.
06:07For what point?
06:08The point where a gentleman has to.
06:10Go down on his knees, you mean?
06:13No, they don't do that now.
06:14What do they do?
06:15He will know himself.
06:16No, indeed he won't.
06:17They never do.
06:18The sooner they learn, whoever teaches them, the better.
06:21I guarantee he shall understand that, for I shall do my part.
06:24Father!
06:25All the great men get carried away sometime by their wonderful schemes.
06:31This is not how such things happen.
06:33In the first place, I've never even seen him.
06:35That you will do very soon.
06:37He's remarkably handsome, remarkably ambitious and remarkably clever.
06:41Yes, but he probably...
06:42He has one of the best and oldest names in this part of the country.
06:45A name which far and wide here one could do so much with.
06:50I'm indignant to see him do so little.
06:52I propose, my dear, to do with it what he hasn't.
06:56And I further propose, to that end, first, to get hold of it.
07:02Through you.
07:04Father, I have just explained...
07:07Don't tell me that's not how these things are done.
07:09I've seen more marriages arranged between breeding and brass than any man in the country.
07:14You will pick his name up out of the dust.
07:17Then when we've rubbed it off and brushed it down, blown away the dust, touched up the rust,
07:25you will gracefully bear it. That is my plan.
07:28And pray, is it also Captain Newell's plan?
07:32His plans have not yet quite matured.
07:35But nothing is more natural than that they should do so on the sunny south wall of my daughter's best manor.
07:41You exaggerate, I think, the warmth of my manor.
07:45It has always been thought remarkably cold.
07:47Then you'll be so good, my dear, as to confound or perhaps even scandalise that opinion.
07:53I've spent 20 years giving you what your poor mother used to call advantages.
07:58It's cost me hundreds and thousands of pounds.
08:01The time has now come when both as a parent and a man of business I shall get my money back.
08:06I couldn't help your temper nor your taste nor your unfortunate resemblance
08:11to that estimable though far from ornamental woman who brought you forth.
08:16But I paid out a small fortune that you should have, damn you, a good manor.
08:20You'll never show it to me, certainly.
08:23You mean to tell me at this late hour you haven't got one?
08:25To people who are particularly civil to me, yes.
08:28Captain Newell may not think I have a good manor.
08:31Don't look at him like a sick turkey and he'll be sure to think right.
08:34What I don't understand is why you want him at all.
08:36After all I've heard you say about his socialism,
08:39his radical programme,
08:41the social revolution,
08:43the planned plundering of everyone and the destruction of everything.
08:46He will renounce his low opinions for you.
08:50He won't renounce them and that will be that.
08:52You mean you are of the same political persuasion and therefore will take him as he is.
08:56I won't take him at all.
08:58Well that must be he.
09:00Surely you don't want me to bounce on him like this.
09:03What are you telling me after what it cost me that your frock won't do?
09:06It's not my frock.
09:07He's thinking I'm here to be looked over.
09:10He doesn't think it and he shan't know it.
09:13He knows you want me to hook him.
09:15The way to hook him is not to be hopelessly vulgar.
09:17He doesn't know that you know anything.
09:19A waiter's in the morning room and mind you toe the line.
09:23Don't kill me father.
09:25Give me time.
09:37Captain the Honorable Clement Yule sir.
09:40Delighted to see you here at last sir.
09:43If I've not come here before Mr Prodmore it was very frankly from the dread of seeing you.
09:49Oh I hope you'll feel differently before long.
09:53Certainly I have no illusions about the basis of our meeting.
09:56Your remarkable financial acumen has placed me at your mercy.
10:01You hold me in the hollow of your hand.
10:03Well I won't deny when I go in deep.
10:06I don't go in for nothing.
10:08I make it pay double.
10:09Double hardly does you justice.
10:11Well you know you could always clear the property.
10:13Pay off the mortgages.
10:15Pay off with what?
10:17You could always raise money.
10:19On what?
10:20Your great political future.
10:22I haven't taken the lucrative line politically.
10:25I think you know that.
10:26I hold that politically you keep very dangerous company.
10:29I also hold that you're reckless because you've got nothing at stake.
10:33A man has the right opinions the minute he has something to lose by having the wrong.
10:39You brim over with worldly wisdom Mr Prodmore.
10:41You're only a firebrand because you're an impecunious bachelor.
10:45Haven't I already hinted what your course should be?
10:48Marry Captain.
10:50Marry money.
10:52Of course I could do that in a moment.
10:53I know any woman would jump at you.
10:55I don't like jumping women.
10:57More to the point I get to see the woman at whom I would jump.
10:59Well now I haven't asked you to jump at anyone.
11:02All I suggested a month ago was that you should think about things.
11:06Yes I have thought about it and it seems to me if the worst came to the worst I could always let it go.
11:13Throw up the property.
11:14Isn't it the property that's throwing me up?
11:16If I could afford neither to live in it nor to pay it off surely the simplest thing is to say take it dear sir and be hanged to you.
11:23You wouldn't be so shockingly rude.
11:26Why not if I'm a firebrand?
11:28Sacrifice for sacrifice that might well be the least.
11:32Oh come.
11:33Now that you stretch yourself for the first time in the ancient cradle of your line.
11:38Can you seriously entertain the idea of parting with it?
11:42The cradle of my line bears for me Mr. Prodmore a remarkable resemblance to its tomb.
11:47Musty, mangy, mouldy.
11:49Is this its character throughout?
11:51Well it does look a bit run down.
11:53I'll tell you what I'll do.
11:55I'll do it up for you.
11:56I'll throw that in.
11:58Will you put in electric light?
12:02Well you'll meet me halfway.
12:05We're dealing with uniqueness here you know.
12:08Don't you feel a kind of shiver down your spine as you take it all in?
12:12What I do feel is distinct ahead of depression, age, mercilessness.
12:17The human lives this place has eaten up.
12:19Look around a bit more.
12:20Make yourself at home.
12:21I'm sure you'll change your mind.
12:23Well it's very kind of you.
12:24Do you mind if I light a cigarette?
12:26Your own house captain.
12:28That's just the point.
12:29It seems so much less my own now than before I saw it.
12:32So as I understand you you lump your two conditions together.
12:37Either I accept both or neither.
12:41You will accept both.
12:43In so doing you'll clear the property at a stroke.
12:47The way I see it is this.
12:50You resign your present seat and stand for Gossage as a conservative.
12:55You stand for Gossage you'll get returned for Gossage.
12:59And if I'm a return for Gossage I marry your daughter.
13:01And if I marry your daughter...
13:02I make a bonfire before your eyes of every mortgage on the property.
13:06There won't be a penny to pay.
13:08You can settle down here in comfort and honor.
13:12There's very little honor in turning one's political coat.
13:17You'll only be turning it back to the way it was always worn by your family.
13:20Gossage will receive you with open arms and press you to a heaving Tory bosom.
13:27That bosom has never heaved but to sound conservative principles.
13:33The constituency of Gossage has been the political property of your family for generations.
13:39You stand in the old interests and you stand like a lion.
13:47If you're so hot for Gossage why the news don't you stand for it yourself?
13:50Because I'm not a handsome young man with a grand old home and the right old name.
13:58It is precisely because I do not have these advantages that I intend to see that my daughter has.
14:05You're prepared to pay a very high price.
14:08You come high.
14:10But you're the real thing.
14:13I intend captain that you shall be
14:17the true comfort of my life.
14:21I ask if Miss Prodmore's ideas have comforted as well defined as her father's.
14:26Is she parted to this ingenious arrangement?
14:30Miss Prodmore Captain Ewell
14:32may best be described as a large smooth sheet of blank though gilt-edged paper.
14:40For your signature to appear on it she has only to set eyes on you.
14:44Like the prince in the fairy tale.
14:46Do you remember what you said when I first in London laid this matter before you?
14:50Yes it struck me that I should first look at the house.
14:52That had started all the fuss.
14:54I'm willing to go even further.
14:56I'm ready to hear you say you should also first take a look at the young lady.
15:01There is something in that.
15:03I think you'll find there's everything.
15:05Which will you take first?
15:07Do you mean your daughter's here?
15:09In the morning room.
15:11Waiting for me?
15:13For as long as you like.
15:14Longer than this please.
15:16Do you mean she knows?
15:18That she's here on view?
15:20She knows nothing whatever.
15:23She is as unconscious as a rose on its stem.
15:26Please let her remain so.
15:29I'll first take the house.
15:31I'll go with you.
15:32No!
15:33On my own please.
15:34I'm begging your pardon Captain you sir but there's tea on.
15:37I'll join my daughter then.
15:39A rose on its stem.
15:53I say I...
15:54Chivers sir.
15:55Ah well then Chivers have you by any chance taken notice of the young lady in the morning room?
15:58I have marked her so yes.
16:00But you happen to notice if she's pretty?
16:02Well sir isn't it at the same time so largely like a matter of taste?
16:06Pre-eminently.
16:07That is why I appeal with such confidence to yours.
16:10Well sir I've always fancied something more merry-like.
16:13Which is not merry-like.
16:15Poor Miss Proudhon.
16:16If you come to that now then am I.
16:17What about you Chivers?
16:18Are you merry-like?
16:19Oh well sir I'm not quite that no.
16:21Whatever has there been to make me sir.
16:23To whom do you belong?
16:24If you could only just tell me sir.
16:26I seem quite a waste away for someone to take an order off.
16:29Who pays her wages?
16:30No one at all sir.
16:31Oh.
16:32Well then.
16:34Here's the sovereign.
16:35And I haven't many.
16:38Oh in that case sir shouldn't it stay in the family?
16:44I believe it does Chivers.
16:46I've served you her sir all my life.
16:50Then I shan't give you up.
16:53I hope you won't give anything up sir.
16:56Is that the gun?
16:59It was.
17:00No don't come.
17:03I want to think.
17:09Housekeeper.
17:11Butler.
17:12Old family servant.
17:15There you are.
17:17Oh Lord.
17:18Oh Lord.
17:19I forgot to tell anyone about you.
17:21Dear delightful man.
17:22Why didn't you tell me?
17:23Tell you mum?
17:24Why that you're so perfectly perfect.
17:25You're everything in the world you ought to be.
17:27And not the shade of a shade of anything you oughtn't.
17:28Me mum?
17:29Yes.
17:30You too you positive old picture.
17:32The house is a vision of beauty and you're simply worthy of it.
17:34I can't say more for you.
17:35Tell the truth I find a bit of a job forgotten what you do say mum.
17:38That's what everybody says.
17:39You are so fatally right and so deadly complete all the same that I can scarcely bear it.
17:44With every fascinating feature that I've already heard of and was prepared for.
17:47And ever so many others that I hadn't and wasn't.
17:50And that you just spring at me like a series of guns going off.
17:53Like some sort of royal salute.
17:55I knew as soon as you arrived you knew more than I'd ever heard of.
17:58Oh I had got you by heart from books and drawings and photos.
18:03It's all here.
18:05Every inch of it.
18:06And now at last I can do what I want.
18:09I pray mum what might that be?
18:10Why I take you right back with me to Missouri top.
18:12Do I understand mum you're required to take me?
18:15You mean to say you'd come?
18:17Then do you mum.
18:18This real thing is just what I'm dying for.
18:20An old family servant.
18:21This will have you packed.
18:23Put up in paper and bran.
18:24As I shall have my porcelain here.
18:26Don't you just love old crockery?
18:28This is the sweetest old Chelsea.
18:30Haven't I seen this very bit somewhere?
18:32I know the pew opener's house.
18:34Best bedroom are the chest of drawers.
18:36I got the chest of drawers too.
18:38And the brass fender and the fire irons and the chair her grandmother died in.
18:41I've had a hold of this a thousand times.
18:44Now it's yours I'm suddenly nervous.
18:46It wouldn't do that.
18:48Mercy on us mum what can I say.
18:51I brought shame to my old grey hairs.
18:54I'd sooner have broken a leg.
18:56Oh that's the way you take it.
18:58You're too quaint to live.
19:00Your pardon mum?
19:01The way you said that just now.
19:02It's just a very good type.
19:04It's like everything over here.
19:05It's just natural to you.
19:06You can't help your own perfection.
19:07Oh nothing perfect of being clumsy mum.
19:09That's what comes of acting above my station.
19:12I'm a gardener really.
19:13Got promoted for the wanted competition you might say.
19:16There was a type in the train with me.
19:18The awfully nice girl of all the English novels.
19:20She couldn't help it either.
19:21She was coming here by the way.
19:22She can't.
19:23Miss Prodmore's here miss.
19:24She's having your tea.
19:26Oh that's exactly it.
19:28They're always having their tea.
19:30With Mr. Prodmore in the morning room.
19:32Captain Ewell is in the garden.
19:34I'm afraid none of them don't get you here mum.
19:37Who's Captain Ewell?
19:38Captain the honourable.
19:39His new master.
19:40He's just arrived.
19:41Oh she didn't tell me about him.
19:43Well mum it's a strange thing to tell.
19:45He'd never like so much as seen the place.
19:47His own house.
19:49Well I hope he likes it.
19:52Haven't seen many as like it as much as you mum.
19:54I should like it still better if it were my very own.
19:57Well mum if it wasn't against my duty.
19:59I could wish indeed it were.
20:01But the captain is the lawful heir.
20:03That's another of your lovely old things.
20:05I adore your lawful heirs.
20:07He's come to take possession.
20:08He's taking it now.
20:09What is he doing?
20:10How does he do it?
20:11Can I see?
20:12A grand fuss?
20:13I scarce think him the gentleman to make any fuss about anything.
20:16Well perhaps I like them better when they don't.
20:18I also have taken possession in my way.
20:21You took it first mum.
20:23Ah but for a poor little hour.
20:25He's for life.
20:26For mine mum I at least hope.
20:28I shall think of you you know.
20:30Here together.
20:31Will he be kind to you?
20:33He already has been mum.
20:35Then be sure to be so to him.
20:37That's Mr. Prodmore.
20:39He wants some more hot water.
20:41Oh.
20:42Oh.
20:43Captain Ewell.
20:44Hi Mrs. Grace to you.
20:45Mrs. Grace.
20:46I'm delighted to meet you.
20:47It's such a comfort to ask if I actually may.
20:48May.
20:49Oh don't tell me that I can't because I already have.
20:50I've been upstairs and downstairs and in my lady's chamber.
20:51I got round your old servant.
20:52If you don't look out I'll grab him.
20:53If you don't look out I'll grab everything.
20:54That's what I came over for.
20:55Just to lay your country waste.
20:56Your house is a wild old dream.
20:58And besides you've got some quite good things here.
21:00Don't you know you have?
21:01Wait.
21:02Just look at this.
21:03It's Limoges.
21:04Don't you know anything?
21:05Well it seems absurd but I'm not in the least acquainted with this house.
21:06In fact I've never in actual fact seen it.
21:07Then do let me show it to you.
21:08Well I should be delighted.
21:09Beg your pardon Captain Sir.
21:10Mr. Broadmoor would.
21:11If you don't look out I'll grab everything.
21:12If you don't look out I'll grab everything.
21:13If you don't look out I'll grab everything.
21:14That's what I came over for.
21:15Just to lay your country waste.
21:16Your house is a wild old dream.
21:17And besides you've got some quite good things here.
21:18Don't you know you have?
21:19Wait.
21:20Just look at this.
21:21It's Limoges.
21:22Don't you know anything?
21:23Well it seems absurd but I'm not in the least acquainted with this house.
21:26In fact I've never in actual fact seen it.
21:28Then do let me show it to you.
21:31Well I should be delighted.
21:33Beg your pardon Captain Sir.
21:35Mr. Broadmoor would like to know if you're kindly ready to look over the house.
21:39And er.
21:40And er.
21:41Will you tell Mr. Broadmoor that I'm just about to be shown the house.
21:44I promise to show Miss Broadmoor around too.
21:46Is she there Chivers?
21:47Yes ma'am but er.
21:48Won't you call her?
21:49My dear lady I don't even know her.
21:51Well Chivers.
21:52There she is.
21:54See she's charming.
21:56Miss Broadmoor my dear.
21:58Let me introduce Captain Ewell.
22:00Captain Ewell Miss Broadmoor.
22:01Miss Broadmoor Captain Ewell.
22:03Pa may I present you to Mrs. Gracedew.
22:06Mrs. Gracedew.
22:07Mr. Broadmoor.
22:08Mr. Broadmoor.
22:09Mrs. Gracedew.
22:10She's the American lady.
22:12Mr. Broadmoor.
22:13Delighted to meet the father of so perfect a specimen.
22:15So perfect a specimen.
22:16Yes.
22:17I was just about to show Captain Ewell around.
22:19Were you now?
22:20And Cora.
22:21I promised her.
22:22That's usually my job.
22:23I do it for all the parties like.
22:25Do we get parties Chivers?
22:26Oh yes sir.
22:27Oh from Gossage and Father of Field all the time.
22:29Is there any money in it?
22:30They sometimes show the appreciation of the guide sir.
22:34Then I vote that the magnificent Chivers does the honors.
22:36Agreed Captain Ewell?
22:37Agreed.
22:38Thank you sir.
22:39This ladies and gentlemen is perhaps the most important feature.
22:48The grand old funeral baronial hall.
22:51Being from all accounts the most ancient portion of the edifice.
22:55It was erected in the very earliest ages.
22:58Some do say in the course of the 16th century.
23:02I say in the 15th.
23:04My dear.
23:05You're robbing us of a hundred years.
23:07I do seem in them dark old centuries to trip a little.
23:11The gothic roof is much admired.
23:15But the west gallery is a modern edition.
23:18What in the name of Methuselah do you call modern?
23:20It was here at the visit of James the first in 1611.
23:23And is supposed to have served in the charming detail of its ornament.
23:26As a model for several that were constructed in his reign.
23:29The great fireplace is Jacobean.
23:32Observe in the center compartment the family arms.
23:35And observe.
23:36The family legs.
23:38The third earl died of a rage he fell into.
23:40When Henry the eighth won his favorite hound off him at tennis.
23:43Observe.
23:44The suit of armor worn at Tewkesbury.
23:46Observe.
23:47The tatted colors carried at uh.
23:49At Blenheim.
23:50At Blenheim.
23:51Observe.
23:52The hole here in the paneling.
23:53Where a jealous neighbor discharged a pistol.
23:55The sixth earl after losing it a game of cards.
23:58Observe above all.
24:00That you're in one of the most interesting old houses of its type in England.
24:04For which the ages have been tender and the generations wise.
24:08Letting it change so slowly that there's always more left than taken.
24:13Living their lives in it but letting it shape their lives.
24:18You do madam bring the whole thing out.
24:20Doesn't she indeed Cora?
24:22But who in the world wants to keep it in?
24:24Just look at those lovely lines.
24:25Look at the tone of that glass and the carving of that chair and the cutting of that oak and
24:29the dear old flags of the very floor.
24:32To look in this place is to love.
24:34You hear that captain?
24:36I don't think captain you cares.
24:38He doesn't do justice to.
24:40To what madam?
24:41To the value of your house.
24:43I like to hear you express it.
24:45I can't express it.
24:46It's inexpressible.
24:48Try madam.
24:49Try a little assessment.
24:51Well.
24:53The value's a fancy value.
24:55Exactly.
24:56When a thing's unique it's unique.
24:57It's worth anything you like.
24:5820,000?
24:59I wouldn't look at 20,000.
25:01She wouldn't look at 20,000.
25:0330 as it stands.
25:04We'll be giving it away.
25:05You hear that captain?
25:06You'd hold out for 40.
25:0850?
25:09Is I think what I should propose if I were selling the house and not a penny less.
25:1250,000.
25:14Ah but he wouldn't part with it.
25:16Not the ancestral home.
25:18Mrs. Grace, may I speak to you alone?
25:20Mrs. Grace, may I speak to you alone?
25:22After the captain child.
25:24Meanwhile Chivers can show you the rest of the house.
25:27Chivers on with the tour.
25:28Yes sir.
25:29I should be in the morning room.
25:30Hold on.
25:32Hold on.
25:33Hold on.
25:39How do you come to know so much about my house?
25:41How do you come to know so little?
25:43Well a combination of misfortunes has forbidden me until they started to come within a mile of it.
25:46Why you poor thing.
25:47Now at last you've got here I hope at least you'll stay.
25:49Do.
25:50Make yourself comfortable.
25:51Don't mind me.
25:52Well that's just what I wanted to say to you.
25:53I already have made myself comfortable wouldn't you say.
25:56You certainly have the air of mistress of the house.
25:58Then you must let me put you up.
26:00Up to what?
26:01Up to everything.
26:02You were smoking as you came in.
26:03Where's your cigarette?
26:04Well I thought perhaps it wasn't permitted in here.
26:05It's permitted everywhere.
26:06Everywhere?
26:07It's a rule of the house.
26:08What delightful rules.
26:09How could such a house have any others?
26:11I may go up just once more to the long gallery may not.
26:14The long what?
26:15Oh I forgot.
26:16You've never even seen it.
26:17It's what I mainly came over for.
26:18Come right after.
26:19Where in heaven's name did you come over from?
26:24From Missouri Top.
26:25Where I'm building just in this time.
26:27I came over for ideas.
26:28I felt I must look right at you.
26:30What did you know about us?
26:31Everything.
26:32At Missouri Top?
26:34It's a growing place.
26:3540,000 at the last census.
26:37My husband left it to me.
26:39You're a widow.
26:41A very lone woman.
26:43You see I had a drawing.
26:45Watercolors of your divine south front that I found in Boston.
26:48The drawing so struck me that I got you up in the books.
26:50Are we in the books?
26:51Where in heaven's name have you come over from?
26:53The east end of London.
26:54What were you doing there?
26:55Working.
26:56You see when I left the army life was too slow for me.
26:59And then I realized that for a fighting man it was terribly important.
27:02There's always someone to do battle with.
27:04Yes the enemy.
27:05Misery, ignorance, injustice, privilege.
27:08As an MP my place has been with my constituents.
27:10That's why you haven't been able to get down here.
27:12Yes that and a family feud.
27:13A family feud.
27:14That just rounds it off.
27:16And completes the heartbreak with which I shall leave this place.
27:19I may go up just once more for a last location.
27:22Only if you tell me this.
27:23If you absolutely meant what you said a while back about this old thing being so precious.
27:26Can you stand here and not feel it?
27:28It's a place to love.
27:29As what?
27:31As you love a person.
27:33Goodbye.
27:34The greater the pity then that I shall have to give it up.
27:37Why on earth?
27:38It's mortgaged up to the hilt.
27:40And I haven't even the money to pay off the interest.
27:42So I see it at last only to lose it.
27:44I never heard of anything so dreadful.
27:47Surely there's a way of arranging.
27:50One has already been proposed.
27:51And for heaven's sake accept it.
27:52I've decided that I can't.
27:53Why not?
27:54The devouring wolf who has gathered all the mortgages requires me to do something.
27:59Something wrong?
28:01Infinitely.
28:02Is it too bad to tell?
28:07He requires me to change my politics.
28:11Oh.
28:12Is that all?
28:14I changed mine for that set of fire irons.
28:16What?
28:17They're 300 years old.
28:19How old are your richard political opinions?
28:21Now madam you are speaking to a committed radical.
28:24It's my entire political history that we're talking about.
28:26Everything I've said and done.
28:28He wants me to turn back to front and stand for Gossage as the highest of Tories.
28:33Why doesn't Mr. Prodmore stand himself?
28:35I'm the bearer of my name.
28:36The representative of my family.
28:37Of course you're adored by the countryside.
28:39Only it's a genuine yule.
28:40A genuine yule is a Tory of Tories.
28:42Why does Mr. Prodmore want a conservative at Gossage?
28:45It's born of his fear.
28:46His terror on behalf of property of which he owns a great deal.
28:49He thinks things have gone too far getting out of hand.
28:51Well so they are.
28:53Aren't you then a lover of justice?
28:55Passionately.
28:56Where's the justice of your losing this house?
28:58To keep it you must stand for Gossage.
29:00As a turncoat?
29:01As a yule.
29:02What right of you to be anything else?
29:04If you do, I will conduct your campaign.
29:07That puts the temptation high.
29:08Look at me as if I were the temptation.
29:10Look at this old human home.
29:12And feel all its gathered memories.
29:15Do you know what they say to you?
29:16They say you must do, for their sake, what Mr. Prodmore wants.
29:20Gathered memories are all very well, but you see I deal with real human beings.
29:23And my ancestral memories aren't going to do anything to improve the wretchedness of their lives.
29:27We share the fate of poor humanity whatever we do.
29:30And we do something to console when we have something precious to show.
29:34What on earth is more precious than what the ages have slowly wrought?
29:39It's such a virtue in anything to have lasted.
29:45What a plea for looking backward, my dear lady, to come from Missoura Top.
29:50We're making a past at Missoura Top as fast as ever we can.
29:54You've no idea how lucky you are over here to have been born into one.
29:57It's delicious.
29:58It's like hearing you defend her meditory gout.
30:01I suddenly realized why I'm here.
30:05I'm here for an act of salvation.
30:08To averted sacrifice.
30:10You're here, dear madam.
30:12I think to be a memory for all of my future.
30:15If I can retain you standing by that hearth, you'll be one for mine.
30:22Why do you make such a fuss about changing your politics?
30:27Parties and programs come and go, but a duty like this abides.
30:31This is a temple.
30:33Don't profane it.
30:34Keep up the old altar kindly.
30:36You can't set up a new one as good.
30:38You must have beauty in your life, don't you see?
30:42That's the only sure way of keeping it in the lives of others.
30:45Keep leaving it to the others, to all the poor others.
30:48Heaven only knows what would become of it.
30:50Does it take an American to make you see that?
30:53Then it's a good job we came over to see what you're up to.
30:59You know, you've a style which the Commons hasn't fitted me to deal with.
31:03You know, when you talk of this house, it's as though your voice comes to me like the south wind in its chin.
31:10I hope you don't mean I roar.
31:12The wind doesn't roar here.
31:14It whispers.
31:15It sighs.
31:16I hope it sometimes laughs.
31:17Whatever it does, it's all right.
31:23Then you promise?
31:24Promise what?
31:25To meet Mr. Broadmore.
31:26Not yet. I must think.
31:27When have you to answer him?
31:28He gives me time.
31:29I wouldn't give you time.
31:30I'd give you a shaking.
31:31For God's sake, at least go and see him.
31:32Do you mean literally seek the dreadful man out?
31:38May I confide in you?
31:40You too.
31:43It is a good job we came over.
31:45It is indeed.
31:48What I want to tell you is that when I finally got here from the station, I was met with the most tremendous news.
31:54He wants me to marry him.
31:56Oh, that's good.
31:57Who?
31:58Papa settled it.
31:59Settled what?
32:00The whole question that I must take him.
32:02My dear, take whom?
32:04By Captain Ewell, of course.
32:05Oh.
32:06Oh.
32:07I thought you would know.
32:08No.
32:09No, I didn't know.
32:10Has Captain Ewell asked you?
32:11Nobody will.
32:12To keep the house.
32:13That's Papa's price.
32:14To marry me and change his politics.
32:16Of course, it'll only happen if he loves the house enough.
32:17And if he's willing to change.
32:18Does he?
32:19Will he?
32:20Will he?
32:21Will he?
32:22Yes.
32:23I think he does.
32:24Yes.
32:25I believe he will.
32:27Now.
32:28Oh.
32:29Oh.
32:30Oh.
32:31I...
32:32I...
32:33Have you seen Mrs. Grace to you about at all?
32:34She went out into the garden.
32:35She said she wanted to think.
32:36I want to talk to her some more, but when I went out there she wasn't there.
32:39There you are.
32:40How did you arrive there?
32:41There are more ways into this house I believe than even dear old Chivers knows about.
32:44But when I went out there she wasn't there.
32:46There you are.
32:47How did you arrive there?
32:48There are more ways into this house I believe than even dear old Chivers knows about.
32:51Oh.
32:52I've never thought you're waiting to learn if I've close with this to Prodmore.
32:53I thought he gave you time.
32:54Yes.
32:55But you produced just now so deep an effect on me I thought it best not to take any.
32:58Oh.
32:59I felt that the the one that forced me to come into the house of my home though.
33:01That's how I always wanted to come with my home and I was so sick and I thought
33:04I was so sick and that was going to take care of the house.
33:05I thought you would rather not take care of the house.
33:07I thought she would never have done something for a dump of my home.
33:08There you are.
33:09Oh.
33:10Oh I don't know.
33:11Well thank you.
33:12I don't know I could've gone.
33:13You're not waiting.
33:14Well no.
33:15He don't know.
33:16No.
33:17Oh no.
33:18not to take any. oh. I felt the tremendous effect of all that you said to me. you're
33:23perhaps not aware that you wield an influence that is practically
33:27irresistible. I have rarely been exposed to such a fire. when I burn well I do it
33:33as Chicago does. down to the ground. I suppose you've still the formalities to go
33:38through? none. you've concluded totally then. I've turned him down. why? I dare not
33:47reflect further. your magnetism is frightening. I had to follow my
33:50conscience instantly if I was not to surrender to your silent song. you've
33:55just given me the most flattering proof of my persuasive powers I've ever had in my life.
33:58I've no doubt that you're disgusted with me and I am sorry but you see I see
34:01something else in the world other than the beauty of old show houses and the
34:05glory of old show families. there are thousands of people in England who can
34:12show no houses at all and I'm more concerned with them were I to turn my
34:16coat and abandon them I could live in the greatest palace in the world and
34:20still hate myself. no! I'll listen to no more of your enchantments. things done I stand by it.
34:32what was he telling you? as he concluded with my father? not exactly. he wants to look me
34:51over more thoroughly perhaps as he did the house. I think not. Cora my dear would you mind
34:57very much if he turned your father down? mind? he'd make me the happiest girl alive.
35:03what but I thought you said? I said I'd be ordered him like a dose of nuts. oh excuse me I I misunderstood I
35:14somehow took it for granted that you you took it for granted that I'd jump at him. well I don't and I
35:22shan't. I don't care what father says. my dear you won't have to. he's turned your
35:28father down. you mean I won't have to marry him? I must say I would not have
35:36thought captain you was such a terrible fate for a girl. I agree with you. he seems a
35:41gentleman full of grace. it's just that there's well there's there's someone else. I've been
35:51trying this hour in my terrible need of advice to tell you about him. after we parted you and I
35:57at the station you suddenly turned up there. this someone else and I took a quiet little
36:03walk with him which is why you got here before me and of which my father is in a state of
36:08ignorance that I don't know whether to regard as desirable or dreadful. you want
36:14me then to inform your father? I really don't know what I want. I think I just want
36:19kindness and help. you see I love him. and does he love you? oh yes he's waiting for me
36:24now in that funny old grotto in the park. does your father know about him? my father
36:27has met him yes but we've been so sure that Papa would hate any liaison between us
36:32that we've had to be so awfully careful. why? what's wrong with him? there's nothing
36:35wrong with him. he's the son of the richest man in belborough. he'll inherit his father's
36:39business just simply amends and from the point of view of things he thinks he's
36:42quite as good as Papa himself. well then why would your father object? his name and his
36:47politics. what's his name? it's hyphenated. the first part is hat with a double t.
36:52well. second part is peg with a double g. mrs. hat peg. yes. and his politics? radical. oh dear me.
37:04is the whole of england turning anarchist or what?
37:08i will help you. oh you have a living. go to mr. hat peg. if all goes well we shall meet at the station. go.
37:23where's my daughter? i thought i heard her. your daughter is not here but it is a convenience to me mr. prodmore that you are. i've something very particular to ask you. i'll be happy to answer your question but i must first put my hand on miss prodmore.
37:36unless she's occupied out there with captain yule she may be brighter than i think.
37:43there's more than one way to skin a cat. i don't think she's occupied with cats or captain yule anywhere.
37:47well where the deuce is she? i wish to instruct her.
37:49she is not open to instruction. at this moment her mind is too preoccupied with young mr. peg.
37:54with whom? i mean young mr. peg. a bellbrook. mr. hat peg. the associate of his father in their flourishing firm to whom miss prodmore is devotedly attached.
38:07hat peg. attached to hat peg. it's gone as far as that?
38:15it has gone so far you might as well let it go the rest of the way.
38:19how monstrous to have plotted to keep me in the dark.
38:22it's your fault for making your daughter afraid of you.
38:25she's an honest girl and she's not a baby.
38:27she's a perfect right to her preference.
38:29have i no right to mine?
38:30not at her expense.
38:32i see your hand in this. you turned yule against me and now my daughter.
38:36on the contrary. i threw everything into the battle on your side. i'm so glad we lost.
38:41we? i'm the only one who's lost. i've lost captain yule. i've lost gossage.
38:46i'm threatened with a radical for a son-in-law and i'm landed with this mausoleum.
38:52i thought you adored it. adored it i? madam i live in a modern house. built these five years to my own specification.
39:01i wouldn't be paid to live in one of these old rat traps.
39:04then you'd be quite relieved to have it taken off your hands.
39:08ah well now that would depend. in what way would you mean dear lady?
39:16i know sir of only one way. if you will name your figure i will buy you out.
39:21oh but i'm not sure that i wish to sell.
39:24why you just said...
39:25i said i wouldn't live in it.
39:27that's not the same as saying i don't know its value.
39:30i know a lot of people who would live in it and pay through the nose to do so.
39:34that is insubstantial conjecture.
39:36i am here as flesh and blood to make you an offer.
39:39i will refund you whatever you are in for in return for your interest in the house.
39:45the value of the house is far greater than that.
39:47but surely the value of the house is what you paid for.
39:49on the contrary dear lady it is what you are willing to pay for it.
39:53i will pay what you paid plus a small profit for you.
39:59yeah i'm afraid not.
40:00you see you put your own excellent valuation on this house not a great deal of time ago.
40:04you were very eloquent i recall.
40:07i was play acting pretending to be a guy.
40:09you were more like an auctioneer taking bids.
40:12oh you ran it up high.
40:14i said it was charming certainly.
40:15charming?
40:16you said it was magnificent.
40:17you said it was unique.
40:18you talked to fancy values.
40:20the perfect specimen of its class in england you called it.
40:26you got in deep.
40:28possibly.
40:29for taunting me with my absurd high spirits.
40:31doesn't in the least tell me how deep you are in.
40:33for you mrs gracedew i am in to the tune of fifty thousand.
40:40that is a great deal of money.
40:45yes.
40:46isn't it.
40:47if it's a larger one for you it's even larger one for me.
40:51we women have more modest ideas.
40:54modest?
40:55is that what you call your intrusion into my affairs?
40:57i mean we measure things often more exactly.
40:59you measured this thing exactly about half an hour ago.
41:02you said you'd offer fifty.
41:03i was trying to please you.
41:05have you seen miss prodmore?
41:07if you haven't find her.
41:08you won't find her chivers.
41:10she's gone for a walk.
41:11alone?
41:12no.
41:13with mr peg.
41:14peg has been here?
41:16he walked her from the station.
41:17so that's why she was late.
41:18which direction did they take?
41:20i think i must let you find that out for yourself.
41:22get my carriage!
41:23i was right.
41:24you aided and abetted this wicked low intrigue.
41:27believe me i did not.
41:28but i did promise cora i'd speak up for her.
41:30i can't see her made miserable by losing the chance of her life.
41:34you can't see her.
41:35do drive after them if you must.
41:38but do so only to forgive them.
41:40if you do that i'll pay your price.
41:43what is your idea of my price?
41:48why there's some you just mentioned.
41:50fifty thousand.
41:52that's not my price.
41:54it never for one moment was.
41:56besides my price is up.
41:59up?
42:00seventy thousand.
42:02seventy thousand.
42:03oh deary me.
42:05take it or leave it.
42:09seventy thousand then.
42:10done.
42:11i've been waiting for it to go.
42:22i wanted to apologize.
42:24i must have seemed very ambitious just now.
42:26and i know you're right about the house and my duties to it.
42:28and i do care about it really.
42:30for me.
42:31the conditions laid down were impossible.
42:33the conditions no longer exist.
42:35you mean prodmore relents.
42:36he'll deal with me like a decent human being.
42:37you do not deal with mr prodmore.
42:41i've taken it over.
42:42you?
42:44taken over the house?
42:45yes.
42:46i do know that you love it so.
42:47yes.
42:48well i i don't mind losing it to you.
42:51oh but you don't lose it.
42:53you arrange with me to keep it.
42:54how do i do that?
42:57we must wait.
42:59we must think.
43:00we must find a way.
43:03in what way is there to find it?
43:05with prodmore it was simple.
43:06all i had to do was to sell my soul as it were.
43:08i should require no spiritual sacrifice.
43:11all i want you to do is to live in the house as you were meant to.
43:13how can i now that it's yours?
43:16i move over for you.
43:18you surrender your rights?
43:19weren't you ready to surrender yours?
43:20i hadn't any.
43:21i hadn't paid for.
43:22your ancestors had.
43:23it's the same thing.
43:24you'll be in a manner my tenant.
43:26on what terms?
43:27on any terms the easiest.
43:29you can write to me about them to missouri top.
43:31i really must go if i'm to catch my train.
43:33but how did you do it?
43:34how did you manage prodmore?
43:36never you might.
43:37the only way that he would conceive of this surrender would be if you bought him out.
43:40that's what you did. you bought much.
43:41what if i did?
43:42how much i must know.
43:43that you shall never know.
43:45i'll get it from him then.
43:46i think not.
43:47you mean he won't tell me because he did you.
43:54the scandal.
43:56the important thing is that now you can get on with your life's work.
44:00your precious social revolution without having to give up your home to do it.
44:03can i?
44:04i'm not so sure.
44:05what do you mean?
44:06what do i mean to say?
44:08how can i lead a socialist revolution from a country seat like this?
44:11rubbish.
44:12i never knew a prominent socialist yet who couldn't find the money for a country cottage and they give very large those country cottages.
44:17they like to associate themselves in the public's mind with england's traditions and england's countryside.
44:22the two things oddly they're usually most active in trying to destroy.
44:25you are the most dreadful tory.
44:27the most beautiful mind you that i've ever seen.
44:29i know a great deal more about the common touch than you ever will.
44:32indeed.
44:33if you're really serious about leading the have-nots, first of all get rid of that honourable.
44:39i see. and what about the title that i'll be coming into in due course? what do i do about that?
44:42you renounce it.
44:43there's no machinery for that.
44:44your legislator make the machinery.
44:46what about my name?
44:47clement.
44:48marmaduke.
44:50clarence.
44:51fitzroy.
44:52darbley.
44:53you.
44:54you shorten the whole thing to clemule.
44:56and you drop the captain also.
44:58you hold house parties here.
45:00where you invite the snobs of the radical movement, and don't tell me there aren't any, for policy-making seminars.
45:05you all rough it here together in the name of the revolution.
45:08you're also the most dreadful political cynic that i've ever encountered.
45:11and you are the most delightful dunce.
45:13women see things as they are.
45:15they'll sacrifice any number of policies, yes.
45:18and politicians.
45:19in the name of human comfort and happiness.
45:21that is just one thing.
45:23oh, not another objection.
45:25i must catch my train.
45:28it is really rather important.
45:31shall you like being called mrs clare mule?
45:35shall i what?
45:38shall i like?
45:40well you really can't come here.
45:42move mountains.
45:44clear my way.
45:45turn my head.
45:46and then expect to be let go.
45:49but i...
45:50excuse me captain sir.
45:51yes what is it?
45:52it's madam really.
45:54there's an excellent cook in the village madam.
45:57she's bound to be snapped up if you don't get in first.
46:00shall i tell her she'll be needed like?
46:10yes cheevers.
46:12do that.
46:16darling grace.
46:17dearest clare mule.
46:21we've put in the electric light.
46:22and the telephone.
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46:24and there's a marvelous new...
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47:01it's good.
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47:03it's really good.
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