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Adela, who has taken on the role of running the family since her mother's death, must work to 'save' her father from re-marrying and her brother from a scheming music hall artiste. Starring: Anna Calder-Marshall, Vivian Pickles, Richard Vernon.
Adela, who has taken on the role of running the family since her mother's death, must work to 'save' her father from re-marrying and her brother from a scheming music hall artiste. Starring: Anna Calder-Marshall, Vivian Pickles, Richard Vernon.
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00:00To be continued...
00:30To be continued...
01:00To be continued...
01:29Then you mustn't be late.
01:33I don't think it's being disloyal to say that I'd much rather stay here, you know.
01:37Should you like that, Mrs. Churchley?
01:40I should have to get to know you a lot better before I answer that, Colonel.
01:46Yes.
01:48Right.
01:49Damn this thing.
01:55Oi, language.
01:57Now, listen.
02:02You'll be late home for dinner.
02:04And you know what you get if you are.
02:05I'm not a child.
02:07Besides, I've got another show to do.
02:09Oh, bother the show.
02:10I've got a surprise for you.
02:14Oh, what?
02:15I've written to you about it.
02:17You should have it tomorrow.
02:18Well, can't you tell me now?
02:20No.
02:20No, I can't.
02:21Why not?
02:23Dinner.
02:24Listen, if it wasn't for me, you wouldn't get home at all.
02:27And they lived together in their lovely palace and were happy ever after.
02:33Oh, that'll be Papa.
02:35I'll send him up to say goodnight to you.
02:37And then you must go straight to sleep.
02:41Goodnight, Beatrice.
02:43Goodnight, Eddie.
02:44Night, Muriel.
02:45I don't want to hear that you've given Miss Flynn any trouble at all.
02:58Oh, they're never any trouble, the little angels.
03:02Bless them.
03:09Where's dinner?
03:09You're late.
03:10Where on earth have you been?
03:12Not as late as father, evidently.
03:13Sorry, I'm late, my dear.
03:15I haven't got caught up.
03:16It's not for myself, I mind,
03:17but it does make things very difficult for Mrs. Newton in the kitchen.
03:20Yes, my dear, I know.
03:21Now, you must be quick and say goodnight to the children.
03:24They won't sleep until you do,
03:26and then Miss Flynn will find them practice in the morning.
03:28Of course.
03:32Yes, Beatrice, Muriel, you may get down.
03:35Go with Miss Flynn like good little girls.
03:37Learn your nice lessons.
03:42There.
03:43Me now, me now.
03:47Father, you're not to forget your appointment with Dr. Matley.
03:50He struck me as quite concerned about that writing spray.
03:53No, I shan't forget.
03:56Godfrey, aren't you going to be late for your crammer?
03:58No, Mama.
03:59Today's private study, Mama.
04:01The post, Miss Adela.
04:02Thank you, Ledbrook.
04:03And if you please, Miss Cook presents your compliments,
04:06and would appreciate a word with you at your convenience.
04:08Very well, Ledbrook.
04:09Will you tell her I'll be down immediately?
04:11Very well, Miss.
04:12Two for you, Father.
04:15Two for you, Godfrey.
04:19One for me.
04:23Shall you be at home for luncheon, Father?
04:25What?
04:25Um, no.
04:27No, I shan't.
04:29Very well.
04:36Make sure you eat properly.
04:38I shall be home, and as hungry as a hunter.
04:44Oh, you.
04:44If eating were part of your exam,
04:46you'll pass into the Foreign Office, top of the list.
04:52I shouldn't tease Adela too much.
04:54She's taken her role as Lady of the House
04:56very seriously in the years since your mother died.
04:58I know, Father.
04:59I never push it too far,
05:01but I sometimes wonder if she doesn't.
05:03After all, she's only a slip of a girl.
05:06She should be out and about, enjoying herself.
05:09No, I believe she is enjoying herself.
05:13Have you noticed how she does everything
05:15the way Mother used to do?
05:16I mean, to the last detail.
05:18I think it's got something to do
05:19with keeping her memory alive.
05:21I think that she loved her more than any of us,
05:23if that were possible.
05:25There was love and despair in this house
05:26when Elizabeth was alive.
05:28I don't think you can measure it out like that.
05:31How's the studying, coming along?
05:35Purgatory.
05:36Well, if you will go to the Foreign Office,
05:38you could have done much better in the Army.
05:40I'm not the brightest chap over to sit a horse,
05:42yet I made Colonel.
05:44What could you have done?
05:45The Colonel's qualities comes out under fire.
05:47I shouldn't be too fond of that.
05:49Rubbish.
05:54Oh, my God.
05:55It's the silliest thing in the world, I know,
06:02but I really do feel rather nervous
06:05at the prospect of meeting your children tonight.
06:08I don't see why you've met them before.
06:10Oh, that was merely un passant.
06:12A flick of the glove, no more.
06:14They're the most amiable youngsters in the world.
06:17All the same.
06:18Charles, do you suppose you could all stay on a little
06:21after the other guests have gone?
06:23I'd like to get to know them better,
06:26on my own ground, as it were.
06:28Nothing simpler.
06:29And if it could appear spontaneous.
06:32I do believe you're a scheming woman.
06:37Godfrey.
06:40Do you remember Mrs. Churchley?
06:42That huge great woman who called here last month?
06:45Oh, yes, a widow of an Army friend of Father's, I remember.
06:48Well, I saw a father coming out of Mrs. Churchley's.
06:51Well, he was paying a courtesy call.
06:53Well, that's what makes it so odd.
06:55He couldn't have been.
06:56Why not?
06:56Because we're all going to dinner at Mrs. Churchley's tonight.
07:00What is the point of making a courtesy call the same day?
07:04I don't know, Addy.
07:05Nor do I very much care.
07:06More concerned with the war of succession at the moment
07:08than with your Mrs. Churchley.
07:10They may well amount to the same thing.
07:12What?
07:13Oh, won't you stay a little longer?
07:16People do rush off so early these days.
07:19It's too absurd.
07:20I feel quite deserted.
07:23I believe there is a lot on this evening.
07:25Oh, where are you going on?
07:27Oh, um, we don't do that sort of thing.
07:29We're still rather, well, a little bit in mourning, you know.
07:33Ah, yes, of course.
07:35Surely you must be going on somewhere yourself.
07:39Yes, you must have a lot of places.
07:42I'll give them all up for you.
07:45Oh, do stay a little.
07:47I always think this is such a nice hour.
07:50One can rarely talk.
07:51It wouldn't be fair on you.
07:53Oh, allow me to be the judge of what is fair to me.
07:56Be it on your head.
07:58Do sit down.
08:00It's the only time to have any talk.
08:02I find this the restless hour.
08:06I think I'll wander a little.
08:13Please excuse me.
08:17I must say your son is the perfect gentleman.
08:21Adela is sweet too.
08:23Is she?
08:24Where she arrived from?
08:26I mean, not being an American or Australian,
08:28where does she get that loud voice?
08:30What are you talking about?
08:31There's nothing wrong with her voice.
08:32Oh, she's so loud.
08:34Can't you see she's the kind of person
08:35who'd refer to you as the perfect little gentleman?
08:38What?
08:39And as to this being the nicest time,
08:41I think it's quite the queerest hour in the whole of London.
08:44The flight of guests after dinner,
08:46the panic fear of being left alone
08:48with one's host and hostess,
08:49it wakes ladies up in the night
08:51with the shame of being the last to go.
08:53And you are such a strange little old young thing.
08:58Sometimes I don't know what to make of you.
09:01Anyway, tonight's my night for mugging up my French.
09:04I ought to go.
09:04You slip away.
09:06They won't mind.
09:07Oh, well, I would better make my apologies.
09:09That's all right.
09:09I'll do it for you.
09:11I don't want to appear rude.
09:12You'll never get away.
09:13They keep you here all night.
09:15Yes, I suppose you're right.
09:17Well, you won't make my apologies for me, won't you?
09:21I'll come up and see you when Father and I get back.
09:24My, you are a puzzle and no mistake.
09:38That's Godfrey God.
09:39He asked me to make his apologies.
09:41Oh, dear.
09:42I was so looking forward to a talk with him.
09:45He evidently felt his studies were more vital.
09:48He's preoccupied with his books.
09:50Scarcely thinks of anything else.
09:51Oh, he enjoys casual social contacts,
09:54but he feels they have no importance in his life.
09:57Never mind.
09:58We still have you.
10:00Yes.
10:01We can be relaxed and exchange views, I mean.
10:10What would you like to exchange views about?
10:12You haven't said a word all the way back in the carriage.
10:18There's nothing to say.
10:20Good night.
10:21Good night, Father.
10:24Oh, you may lock up, Ledbrook.
10:27Carry around, miss.
10:29Good night, miss.
10:30Good night, Ledbrook.
10:31Father's going to marry her.
10:42What are you talking about?
10:43Well, you saw it with your own eyes.
10:45He's in love with her.
10:47She's in love with him.
10:48They'll arrange it.
10:49They seem pretty fond of each other.
10:50That's what I saw.
10:51No.
10:52He knows that I know.
10:54He also knows that I disapprove.
10:56He's angry with me.
10:57He didn't kiss me good night.
10:59Oh, Addy, you and your subtleties and signs, really.
11:01Well, we're a kissing family.
11:03You know that more than ever since Mama died.
11:06She left behind her such a passion of regret.
11:09It's been almost as if in kissing each other,
11:11we're a little bit kissing her too.
11:15Perhaps that's another reason why he wouldn't kiss me tonight.
11:18He knows he's going to betray her.
11:20I say.
11:23He mustn't do that, must he?
11:24Oh, think of her.
11:25Think of her.
11:27Yes, yes, you ought to think of Mama.
11:29To such a woman as that after her.
11:32It's like an insult to her.
11:34It's as if he denied her.
11:36It's as if at a stroke he rubbed out all their years of happiness together.
11:40Think of what she did for him.
11:42For all of us.
11:44Gentle, kind, beautiful angels.
11:46Steady on.
11:47This does no good, you know.
11:48Well, you remember what the princess wrote to father afterwards?
11:52And she never writes to anyone.
11:54Her soft distinction gladdened all of London.
11:57Yes, yes.
11:58Yes, they were awfully happy.
12:00Well, I suppose he's not happy now, that's all.
12:02Of course he isn't any more than you or I are.
12:04And it's dreadful of him to want to be.
12:06Well, don't make yourself miserable until you're sure.
12:09I am sure.
12:10I can see it quite clearly now.
12:13He's been to see her every day since she called here.
12:16Every afternoon when I thought he was at his club.
12:19She's just like a club anyway.
12:22A rather inferior one.
12:24What do you mean by that?
12:26She's large.
12:28Mannish.
12:28Showy.
12:29I dare say she's all right.
12:32All right to come and take darling Mama's place
12:34to sit where she used to sit to lay our horrible hands on her things?
12:38Well, I mean, nothing will come of it.
12:40Not if we do our duty.
12:44Our duty?
12:44You must speak to him.
12:47You must tell him how we feel,
12:48that we can never forgive him,
12:49that we can't endure it.
12:51He'll say I'm impertinent.
12:52To plead for her memory?
12:53Well, he'll say it's none of my business.
12:56Addy, there are certain things that men do.
12:58One has no right to...
12:59Then you believe he'll do it.
13:01He didn't say that.
13:02Now, for heaven's sake,
13:03go to bed and stop worrying.
13:04I'll speak to him.
13:05Don't cry out until your heart
13:07more than until he speaks to you.
13:08He won't, he won't.
13:09He'll do it without telling us.
13:11He'll bring her home in the night
13:12like a great street lamp
13:14and the first thing we'll know
13:15she'll be standing up in the drawing room,
13:17shining at the ceiling.
13:23Is Mrs Churchley very rich?
13:26I haven't got the least idea.
13:28What's that got to do with it, anyway?
13:30Well, she certainly lives as if she were.
13:32She's got a lot of showy things, certainly,
13:34but then so has the bar at the Trocadero.
13:38Yes, we'll all have to keep our eyes open.
13:41Now, for heaven's sake, let me get on.
13:43Oh, why did Mama leave us?
13:46Why?
13:47Yes, yes, why indeed.
13:52It's five days since we dined at Mrs Churchley's.
13:54Have you called on her yet?
13:56No, indeed.
13:57Why should I?
13:59Don't you know why I call on people
14:00after you've dined with them?
14:02Yes, within the course of time.
14:04I don't rush off within the week.
14:06Then you'll please rush off tomorrow.
14:08She is to dine with us on the 12th.
14:11I see.
14:12I should expect your sisters to come down.
14:14To a dinner party?
14:15No, it's not to be a dinner party.
14:17It's a family party.
14:18I simply wish the girls to meet Mrs Churchley.
14:20Is there to be nobody else there?
14:21Godfrey, of course.
14:28Well, if that's not an announcement of impending marriage,
14:31I don't know what is.
14:32I don't know why you haven't been to see her.
14:33I have.
14:35What?
14:35Why on earth did you do that?
14:37What?
14:37Father told me he wished it.
14:39Then he has told you.
14:41Tell me what?
14:42Of their engagement, of course.
14:43What else can all this mean?
14:45Well, not exactly, but...
14:47Do you know, she improves on closer acquaintance.
14:50I like her.
14:51Like her?
14:52Yes, she's very kind, really.
14:54To thrust herself upon us when we hate her,
14:56is that what you call kind?
14:58I don't hate her.
14:59I'm so glad you called, my dear.
15:07I do believe in keeping in touch
15:09when there's an affinity, don't you?
15:12Have you been in London long, Mrs Churchley?
15:15Oh, about a year, I suppose.
15:17Milk?
15:18No milk and no sugar.
15:19Oh.
15:20I usually take it with a slice of lemon.
15:22Then you shall have some, my dear.
15:25No, it's of no consequence.
15:26Oh, but it was...
15:26No, please don't bother.
15:28I was wrong to mention it.
15:29Oh.
15:31You were saying?
15:33About London?
15:34Oh, my late husband and I are both from Staffordshire.
15:38My family have extensive interests in the potteries.
15:42Of course, we came up here quite often,
15:44but it wasn't until after he died
15:46I decided to make a set at it.
15:48Make a set?
15:50Oh, take it seriously.
15:52Settle down here.
15:53Take up society.
15:56Had you known my father before?
15:59Met him once at a hunt ball years ago.
16:02Met him again at the Hayworths a few months ago
16:04and I felt at home with him right away.
16:07Now, that's what I mean about affinities.
16:12Oh, a piece of cake.
16:14I try not to eat too much cake.
16:17Have to keep your strength up, you know.
16:19It must be a lot of work, that big house,
16:22for a delicate little lady like you.
16:24Oh, I'm stronger than I look.
16:26Still, looking after two hulking great men
16:29and the two little chicks and the staff.
16:32When do you get any time to yourself?
16:34I get all I need.
16:36I like to think that I'm carrying on where my mother left off.
16:40I feel very close to her.
16:42I feel she approves.
16:43It's almost like a sacred trust.
16:46Very touching.
16:47My father, my brother and the children feel the same.
16:50We feel it most in the summer in our old dear house in the country.
16:53We're so happy there with the air of summer,
16:57the haunted rooms in Mama's garden
16:59and the talking oaks and the nightingales.
17:02Mother left behind a special sort of fragrance in the house.
17:06We all try to preserve it.
17:08I'm sure you do.
17:10And you'll create it in your own house too
17:12when you get married and have your own little chicks.
17:16Oh, I don't suppose I shall ever get married.
17:19If that's why I like the country,
17:20I can train for old age with my gardening.
17:23I'm determined not to depend upon whist.
17:26That's the queerest philosophy for a young girl I've ever heard.
17:32I know perfectly well what my future will be.
17:35A little garden of my own under a hill
17:37where I spend most of my old age on my knees
17:40with an apron, stout gloves and a trowel
17:43steeped in the comfort of being thought mad.
17:47That, of course, will be after my duty to the family is over.
17:51In the potteries, Miss Charles,
17:54you would be known as a card.
17:58Have you ever seen a picture of Mama?
18:03Wasn't she lovely?
18:05I just know that I can never compete with her.
18:08Had eyes that looked right through you
18:11and a very dark hair
18:14and an evil laugh
18:16and she ate everything that crossed her path
18:20right down to the bones.
18:24But her favourite delicacy of all
18:26was little girls.
18:29She hunted them down on a big black horse
18:32and she crunched them up, bones and all.
18:36When she went to London?
18:37Yes, tell us when she got to London.
18:39Well, soon the ogress had eaten
18:40all the little girls in Transylvania.
18:43But she was still hungry.
18:47So, one day,
18:49she packed up all her belongings,
18:51her jewels and her rings,
18:53of which she had many,
18:54and she came to live in London.
18:58Everybody thought she was an ordinary lady.
19:01They didn't know that she was an ogress
19:04because they didn't know
19:06that the sign of an ogress
19:08is a big red ring
19:10on the middle finger of the left hand.
19:12Well, they started inviting her to their houses
19:17and she started visiting them,
19:20looking around for little girls
19:23to crunch her chicks, as she called them.
19:27And that's all for tonight.
19:29Oh, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma.
19:30No, no, it's time for sleepy-bys now,
19:32the way mama would have wanted.
19:35Now, if you settle down
19:36and be good girls,
19:38next time I'll tell you
19:39how she got on in London.
19:42Good night, Bertie.
19:43Good night, Daddy.
19:44Good night, Miriam.
19:52Excuse me, Miss Adela,
19:54but do you think these stories are wise?
19:57They've had nightmares
19:58the last couple of nights.
20:00You may be right, Miss Flynn.
20:02It's only I remember
20:03I adored being terrified
20:04when I was their age.
20:06It's just that you're so good at it.
20:08and what do you make it sound so real?
20:11Well, they won't need
20:12any storytelling tomorrow night.
20:14They'll be so tired
20:16by the time they've been down to dinner,
20:18they'll fall asleep
20:18on the way back upstairs.
20:22There's nothing wrong with France
20:25that couldn't be cured
20:25by getting rid of the French.
20:27What a preposterous
20:28and typically military statement.
20:30Oh, he's just being provocative.
20:32Well, if that's the kind of thing
20:33I'm to expect from the army
20:34when I joined the Foreign Service...
20:35Oh, don't be so pompous, Godfrey.
20:37You'll be emptying waste paper baskets
20:39for the first five years.
20:40Oh, I believe they have a tendency
20:42to throw their young men
20:43into deep water
20:44straight away these days.
20:46Oh, heaven help the poor empire
20:47if Godfrey's going to be
20:48thrashing about
20:50out of his depth.
20:51Beware, sister of mine.
20:53You're still not too old
20:54to have your hair pulled, you know.
20:55I'd like to see you try.
20:57You remind me
20:58of my own brother, Godfrey.
21:00He used to bully me unmercifully
21:03until one day
21:04I learned how to cope with him.
21:06Oh, really?
21:07You do tell me how.
21:08I learned how not to cry.
21:14Beatrice, Muriel,
21:16sit up straight,
21:17slumping is bad for the digestion.
21:20Of course, weeping
21:21is not an exclusively feminine reaction,
21:24any.
21:24Some of the bravest men I've known
21:26after an action,
21:27sometimes during an action,
21:28fighting like tigers,
21:29tears streaming down their faces.
21:31Never understood it myself,
21:33but never thought
21:33any of the less
21:34of a fellow officer for it.
21:36We finally flushed one out
21:38in larder's copse,
21:39ran him like thunder
21:40right across five-mile bottom,
21:43caught, killed and blooded
21:44the other side of paddock wood.
21:47You much of a huntsman,
21:48are you, Godfrey?
21:49Oh, I used to do a bit,
21:51you know,
21:51but I don't have so much time now
21:53what with all this cramming
21:54and other worries.
21:55Poor old boy.
21:56The worry is to have
21:57the cares and burdens
21:58of 20 on one's shoulders.
22:00Never you mind, Godfrey.
22:02I've got a sympathetic ear
22:03if your heartless father hasn't.
22:07I've seen you on
22:09a great big horse in the row.
22:11Is that the one you do
22:11your hunting on?
22:12Oh, no.
22:14I've several others in the country.
22:17They can run down
22:18anything, I should think.
22:20Not much can escape me.
22:22Oh, dear, is this silly pub
22:30not to your liking,
22:31Mrs. Churchley?
22:32Oh, dear, no.
22:33No, it's just that
22:34I'm not really a pudding person.
22:37Oh, I can see
22:38that you're one of the world's carnivores.
22:40Hey, Della, you frighten the children
22:43with words like that.
22:44Don't be silly.
22:45All it means is meat eat up.
22:48If you're finished,
22:49you may get down.
22:50It's long past your bedtime.
22:52Say goodnight to Daddy.
22:56Night.
22:58Night.
22:58Night to Godfrey.
23:03Night.
23:05Night.
23:05And to Mrs. Churchley.
23:12Come on, say goodnight to Mrs. Churchley.
23:16Don't be silly.
23:18Say goodnight.
23:20Goodnight.
23:21Goodnight.
23:23And a big kiss for me, too.
23:27Oh, there's my little chicks.
23:30Oh, I'm so sorry.
23:38I've never known them
23:39do anything like that before.
23:41If you'll excuse me,
23:42I'll put them to bed myself.
23:49I don't understand it.
23:52Children are usually very fond of me.
23:54Oh, it's just nerves.
23:55They'll get over it.
23:56Carriage it here, Colonel.
23:58I'll see you safely home.
23:59Don't blame me.
24:18I didn't shudder at the sight of her.
24:21I've got more self-control.
24:24Anyway, isn't it natural
24:25that little girls used to Mama
24:26should take an alarmed view
24:28of Mrs. Churchley?
24:29Addie, you've always been
24:30far too clever for me
24:31in these kind of things.
24:32But I can tell you
24:33it nearly ruined everything.
24:34I mean nearly.
24:35Mrs. Churchley was very hurt
24:37and very upset.
24:39What was everything?
24:40Their engagement, of course.
24:43Do you mean they've told you?
24:45Father did.
24:47What did you say to him?
24:49Nothing.
24:49I said nothing.
24:50There's nothing to say.
24:50Is that how it strikes you?
24:55He asked me to talk to her.
24:56To talk to her?
24:58To tell her I was glad.
25:01Did you?
25:03Did you?
25:04Yes, I said something.
25:07She kissed me.
25:07I kissed her.
25:08How could you?
25:09It seemed like the thing to do.
25:11When?
25:11When you were upstairs.
25:13Well, why hasn't father told me?
25:16He knows what your reaction will be.
25:17He's not looking forward to it.
25:19He wanted you to prepare the ground.
25:21Yes, you could say that.
25:23He'll tell you tomorrow.
25:24God free, my dear brother.
25:25You seem very busy in this affair.
25:28You're a positive matchmaker.
25:30I'm sure I don't know what you mean.
25:31When Mrs. Churchley first came up,
25:33you were in agreement with me
25:34that the thought of her taking Mama's place
25:36was intolerable.
25:37I don't think I ever went that far.
25:38Now suddenly you can't wait for them to get married.
25:41Will you let me get on with my work?
25:44The exam's on the 23rd and I'm very far behind.
25:46You've always waltzed through exams.
25:48Everybody says you're brilliant.
25:50Why are you so far behind?
25:51Well, I just am, that's all.
25:53Now, will you let me go?
26:05Yes.
26:11It's all part of the same thing, isn't it?
26:22Where?
26:23What?
26:23The worry that's stopping you from working.
26:27Your sudden enthusiasm about the marriage,
26:29they're connected.
26:31Aren't they?
26:32Godfrey, you're in trouble in some way.
26:37Brother and sister, Godfrey.
26:39Only husband and wife is closer than that.
26:42You can't keep secrets from me.
26:47All I know about young men is that if they're in trouble,
26:50it's either money or a woman.
26:53Is it money, Godfrey?
26:55Is that why you asked if Mrs. Churchley was rich?
26:58Yes.
27:17Where did you meet her?
27:19At a music hall.
27:20She's a dancer.
27:22Will the child be yours?
27:24Yes.
27:25Father doesn't know?
27:28Why didn't you tell me?
27:30Addy, you're worse than he is over things like that.
27:33So you were going to ask for Mrs. Churchley's help?
27:35I was working my way around to it.
27:38She won't see me.
27:39Well, have you replied to her letter?
27:41No.
27:41Well, that's why she won't see you.
27:42She wants something in writing first.
27:45Well, I knew I'd have to tell someone in the end,
27:46and I thought Mrs. Churchley's a woman of the world,
27:49sympathetic,
27:49and if I'm to be her stepson,
27:51she might agree to buy the girl off,
27:52and father would never have to know anything about it.
27:55And it was for that you were prepared to see Mrs. Churchley married to...
27:58Oh, no.
28:02Oh, I'm sorry.
28:06Oh, it must have been dreadful for you.
28:12Will you promise me something?
28:16What?
28:16Will you leave Miss Lola Skinner to me?
28:23To you?
28:24What can you do?
28:24All I ask is that once I've settled the problem,
28:28you will raise no further objections to my disposal of Mrs. Churchley.
28:32Have I your word?
28:36My word, yes.
28:38But what about father?
28:39Father's wrong.
28:40I'm ashamed of him,
28:43and that is horrible.
28:45Father must be saved from himself.
28:48Stop worrying.
28:51Get on with your work.
28:53I want to see you pass out top of the list.
28:56Good morning, father.
29:13Good morning, my dear.
29:14I, um, have a piece of news for you
29:26that will probably shock you,
29:28feeling as you do about things.
29:31I don't know if Godfrey's mentioned anything.
29:35Fact is, I'm going to marry Mrs. Churchley.
29:39Oh, yes, yes, I know.
29:41I'm so sorry.
29:48It's silly of me.
29:50After all, it's your life.
29:52I hope you'll be very happy.
29:57Papa's going to marry Mrs. Churchley.
30:03What the f*** is wrong with those children?
30:05Mrs. Churchley is the kindest, most gentle woman in the world.
30:08All she wants is to make them happy.
30:21Who places are you?
30:23I'm Adela Chod.
30:25Well, I've heard of sending a boy
30:28to do a man's job,
30:29but, uh,
30:30this is the first time I've ever known anyone
30:33send a girl.
30:34I think you'll find that I'm perfectly competent to do it.
30:38Would you mind if I sat down?
30:43You claim to be carrying my brother's child.
30:46Yes, I am.
30:48How far gone?
30:49Nearly three months.
30:51Well, if you come to term,
30:52which, having just watched the violence of your performance,
30:55I would think is very...
30:55You seem to know an awful lot about it
30:58for, uh,
30:59an oity-toity bit.
31:02I do a great deal of voluntary work
31:04at the Islington Maternity Hospital.
31:07Oh, I see.
31:08You, uh,
31:09help out!
31:10As I say,
31:12if you do not miscarry first,
31:13I will arrange for you
31:15to have the finest bed
31:16and the finest obstetrician in the hospital.
31:19I will see that the child
31:20is adopted into an excellent family
31:22immediately afterwards,
31:24and I will give you
31:25an ex gratia payment of £100.
31:30That's, um,
31:31all very fine,
31:32but it doesn't suit me.
31:35I don't want to give my baby away.
31:37I'm planning marriage
31:39with your brother.
31:40It's out of the question.
31:42Out of the question?
31:43Is it?
31:45Your darling Godfrey
31:47is going in for the diplomatics,
31:49isn't he?
31:50I mean,
31:50how would it look
31:51if this lot got out?
31:54It would hurt his career quite badly.
31:56It would reflect upon his taste
31:58and his judgment.
32:00You what?
32:01On the other hand,
32:01being married to you
32:02would wreck his career completely.
32:05Be honest, Miss Skinner.
32:06Can you see yourself
32:07at an embassy reception
32:08in Paris?
32:09Well, you're a little baggage,
32:10aren't you?
32:11No, just realistic.
32:12You'd stick out
32:13like a cockatoo at a funeral.
32:14Now, listen, Miss...
32:15But you're intelligent enough
32:16to know that.
32:18I'm therefore obliged
32:19to assume
32:20that this talk of marriage
32:21is only a bargaining counter
32:23to try and get the price up.
32:25Now, listen here.
32:26What right have you got, eh?
32:28Coming in here,
32:29talking to me like that?
32:30I know, dear.
32:32I know I'm a working girl,
32:34but I've got my values.
32:35Don't you worry.
32:37I'd like to be married.
32:39Oh, I'd like to be married
32:40just like anybody else.
32:42And your darling brother,
32:44he promised me marriage.
32:45Otherwise,
32:46well, otherwise,
32:47I just couldn't have done it, see?
32:49I couldn't have done it.
32:50You must have surrendered
32:51your virtue.
32:53That, I believe,
32:54is a phrase
32:54you would use in court,
32:56suitably embellished as now
32:58with those really
32:58very convincing tears.
33:00There be streaming, dear.
33:02Don't you fear.
33:04I'll increase the payment
33:05to £200.
33:08There's, uh,
33:09nothing doing,
33:11Miss Lady Bird.
33:12I've got bigger fish
33:14to fry.
33:18I told you
33:19I did a great deal
33:20of voluntary work.
33:22Naturally,
33:22I have friends
33:23in wards
33:24of other London hospitals,
33:26registrars,
33:27people like that.
33:28What's that got to do
33:29with that?
33:29We're so far against
33:30Earl Skinner, Miss,
33:31eccentric dancer.
33:33I've got three
33:34illegitimate births,
33:36one miscarriage,
33:38one emergency operation,
33:39after a nasty accident,
33:41the hands of an old woman
33:42in Hammersmith.
33:45The surrender value
33:46of your virtue, Miss Skinner,
33:48has been declining
33:49steadily for years.
33:53I'll take the £200.
33:55£200.
33:56It's no longer an offer.
33:57You'll take £100.
33:58£150.
34:01£125.
34:03Well,
34:04that's what I'll reckon
34:06is about fair,
34:07anyway.
34:09I know.
34:11We'll, uh,
34:12shake on it.
34:13Shake on it.
34:14And, uh,
34:18since it is
34:20my brother's baby,
34:21I take it that it is.
34:23It really is.
34:24Well,
34:24I would like to see it
34:25properly adopted,
34:26unless, of course,
34:27you wish to keep it yourself.
34:29Well,
34:29if it's got the family blood,
34:31um,
34:32perhaps I'll better.
34:33Eh?
34:34Well,
34:34we'll talk about it later.
34:35Good-bye.
34:50Abby,
34:50you're superb.
34:52But tell me,
34:53how did you do it?
34:54That is no concern
34:55of yours,
34:56brother, dear.
34:56The simple fact is
34:58she won't trouble you again.
35:00Oh,
35:00the relief.
35:02Oh,
35:02heaven.
35:02If you knew
35:04how this has been
35:05hanging over me.
35:06And now,
35:07like Mephistopheles,
35:08I come for your promise.
35:10What promise?
35:11To help me
35:12with Mrs Cathedral.
35:13Uh, uh,
35:14I said.
35:15I didn't say I would help you.
35:16I said I wouldn't interfere.
35:18Oh,
35:18you're joining
35:19the right service,
35:20brother, dear.
35:22So you do not interfere.
35:23You give me a free hand.
35:24Is that accepted?
35:26What are you going to do?
35:28It's better
35:29that you shouldn't know.
35:31They say it's a very daring
35:32play.
35:33Yes,
35:33well,
35:33if that means what I think it means,
35:35we may be home earlier
35:36than we expect.
35:36Oh,
35:36don't be such an old
35:37philistine,
35:38daddy.
35:39You just make your fiancée
35:41sit it out,
35:42Caroline.
35:42It'll do him good.
35:44Oh,
35:44your dress looks gorgeous.
35:47Oh,
35:47sweet.
35:50All these damn
35:51Scandinavians.
35:52Have a lovely time,
35:54both of you.
35:56Dinner is served,
35:58Mr. Delight.
35:58Not that I'm criticising,
36:02but
36:02you seem to have changed
36:04your tune lately.
36:06Oh?
36:07You just make your fiancée
36:09sit it out,
36:10Caroline,
36:10dear.
36:10It'll do him good.
36:12Godfrey,
36:12my dear child,
36:13if you're to succeed
36:14in a foreign office,
36:15you must learn
36:16to look behind appearances.
36:18Do you mean to say
36:18that you haven't fallen
36:19for her bonhomie
36:20as I did?
36:20I hate her.
36:23And there'll be lace here
36:24and satin there
36:26and then quite a labrit
36:27embroidery down the front here.
36:29Oh,
36:29it's very pretty.
36:31You look absolutely ravishing
36:33in it.
36:34Oh,
36:34Adela,
36:35I can't tell you
36:36how glad I am
36:37that we'd get on.
36:39I didn't think
36:40we were going to
36:41at first.
36:42Make haste slowly
36:44is the best recipe
36:45for friendship,
36:45Caroline.
36:46Strange.
36:47You gave me
36:48a funny feeling.
36:49you were twice my age
36:51instead of the other way round.
36:53I suppose I had to grow up
36:55quickly in order to
36:56cope with certain things.
36:59What sort of things,
37:01my dear?
37:03Oh,
37:03Mama dying
37:04by having to take care
37:05of the household.
37:06Yes,
37:07of course.
37:08Your Mama's death
37:09must have been
37:09a great shock
37:10to all of you.
37:12It was as if
37:12the sun had gone out.
37:14The children seem
37:15not to have recovered
37:15from it even now
37:17they're so nervous.
37:18and they still
37:19haven't taken to me.
37:21It's most disconcerting.
37:23Well,
37:23perhaps they don't want
37:24to get too fond
37:25of anyone else
37:26in case they lose her too.
37:28No fear of that.
37:29I'm as strong as a horse.
37:32Oh,
37:33so was Mama.
37:34Oh,
37:35she was graceful
37:36and fragile
37:36but she had
37:37a wonderful constitution.
37:40That's why
37:40it was so unexpected.
37:42In one way.
37:43In one way.
37:48Oh,
37:48altogether in every way.
37:51Oh,
37:51this is very fine.
37:54What's it for?
37:55I'm considering it
37:56for the dining room curtains.
37:59Or maybe
38:00the curtains in here.
38:02It seems
38:02an odd time
38:03to redecorate.
38:05There's only another month
38:06to the wedding
38:06and then father
38:07will bring you home
38:07to us.
38:08Can you keep a secret?
38:10I have high hopes
38:11of persuading your father
38:13we should all live here.
38:15Well,
38:16it's so much bigger
38:17and I too like
38:18to have space
38:19around me.
38:21What about
38:22all Mama's things?
38:24Oh,
38:25bless your heart.
38:26We'll fit them in somehow.
38:30The best of them
38:32anyway.
38:33Yes,
38:34I see.
38:36Mrs Churchley
38:37tells me
38:37we're going to move
38:38to her house
38:39when you're married,
38:40father.
38:40There was
38:41some talk of it.
38:44Shall you like
38:45doing that?
38:45Oh,
38:47one place
38:48is as good
38:49as another
38:49for me.
38:51What do you say,
38:52Godfrey?
38:53Oh,
38:53I shall be abroad
38:54most of the time
38:55if I get through.
38:59But I must say
39:00I always thought
39:00it was the man
39:01who provided the house
39:02and then of course
39:03there's all of
39:04Mother's things.
39:05What will happen to those?
39:05Oh,
39:06Mrs Churchley says
39:07she'll find room
39:07for those.
39:09They'll disappear
39:10without trace.
39:11It is only a suggestion.
39:13Nothing's settled here.
39:14I'm sure
39:15you'll do
39:15what's best
39:16for all of us,
39:17father.
39:28Godfrey is not
39:29best pleased.
39:30He's very conservative.
39:32He'll always hate change.
39:35I must say,
39:36Adela,
39:36I'm very pleased
39:38with the way
39:38you've adapted
39:39and adjusted
39:40yourself to the situation
39:41when I know
39:42how much you must
39:43have hated it
39:43to begin with.
39:44It was just
39:45Mother
39:45I was thinking of.
39:47I realise now
39:48how he's being
39:49unrealistic and childish.
39:52It isn't that
39:53I love your mother's
39:54memory any the less.
39:54I'm sure you know that.
39:56It's just
39:56that I'm the kind
39:59of man, Addy,
39:59who needs a woman
40:01in his life.
40:03I'm a poor,
40:04gloomy creature
40:05without one.
40:07Caroline Churchley
40:08will soon cheer you up.
40:10The dear creature
40:10gets so animated
40:12sometimes,
40:12especially in the afternoon.
40:14She gets quite hectic,
40:16her eyes shining,
40:18two bright red spots
40:19on her cheeks.
40:20she talks such
40:21wild, endearing nonsense
40:23bobbing in
40:24and out
40:25of the drawing room
40:25on funny little errands
40:27which she invents
40:28for herself.
40:29She does make me laugh,
40:31so.
40:32I've never seen her
40:33like that.
40:34Oh, no.
40:35I believe she thinks
40:36you're too grave
40:37and grand
40:38to approve
40:38of such behaviour.
40:42Bobbing in
40:43and out
40:43of the drawing, huh?
40:45Yes, that's
40:46what's so amusing.
40:47Each time
40:48she comes back
40:49she seems wilder
40:50and gayer
40:50than she was before.
40:52She really is
40:53better than the theatre.
40:58Now, then,
40:59where did we get to?
41:01Um,
41:0250 sovereigns,
41:03wasn't it?
41:03On top of
41:04the 125
41:05for the other business.
41:0725
41:08is what I said,
41:10Lola.
41:10It's more than enough
41:11for a simple little joke.
41:12Pardon me,
41:13Miss Adel.
41:14I mean,
41:14no disrespect meant like,
41:16but I don't think
41:17you've ever been
41:18in for a little joke
41:19in your life.
41:21Some little jokes
41:22are more serious
41:22than others.
41:2413
41:25is my last word.
41:2640
41:26and it's mine.
41:2835.
41:29Done.
41:30I'll keep in touch.
41:32You don't show much,
41:33do you?
41:34Well,
41:35I'll never have done.
41:37Will you have to show
41:38more for our little joke?
41:39Oh,
41:40I will,
41:40Miss.
41:41I will.
41:4648,
41:4649,
41:48150 on our side.
41:50Oh, dear.
41:51I've got 250.
41:53Well,
41:54it won't do.
41:55It just won't do.
41:56We can't have
41:56400 people
41:58thrashing about.
41:59After all,
41:59we don't want
42:00a big splash.
42:01It is the second time
42:03for both of us.
42:04What's that bit
42:05of the bard?
42:07The fever
42:07in the blood
42:08is cool.
42:09I don't think
42:10Papa's blood
42:11is particularly cool.
42:13Well,
42:13I should hope
42:14not too cool.
42:16Not cool at all,
42:17I surmise.
42:19Oh, dear girl,
42:20what do you mean?
42:22Oh, heavens,
42:22I forgot the
42:24cumber inside.
42:25There's another clutch
42:26of charts around
42:26Cockermouth.
42:28I demand to see
42:29the colonel.
42:30Colonel Charty's
42:31not at home.
42:32Your father
42:33has been a little
42:34odd just recently.
42:36Odd?
42:37Well, he's been
42:38asking strange questions.
42:40What sort of questions?
42:41About women
42:42and drink.
42:43About whether
42:44I approve
42:45of women
42:45imbibing alcohol.
42:47Or when I told him
42:48I wasn't averse
42:49to a stirrup cup
42:50before a hunt
42:51but personally
42:52never touched it
42:53otherwise,
42:54well, he
42:54in some way
42:56didn't look
42:57satisfied.
42:58It may not be
42:59what you think.
43:00that father
43:01disapproves
43:02of women
43:02taking alcohol.
43:04Not in all cases.
43:07Oh.
43:07There are
43:08certain circumstances
43:09in which father
43:10thinks the taking
43:10of alcohol
43:11advantageous
43:13to a woman.
43:15In what way?
43:17In the sense
43:18of making her
43:18a better wife.
43:23Excuse me,
43:24Miss Adler.
43:25A person
43:26has called.
43:27Miss Skinner.
43:28She first asked
43:29to the colonel
43:30and when he was told
43:31he was not at home
43:31she insists on seeing you.
43:33I do not wish to see her,
43:34Ledbrook.
43:35Tell her I am not at home.
43:37Very good, Miss.
43:38Miss Charm!
43:39No, there, my girl.
43:40Oi, listen,
43:41leave me vain.
43:42There's duties owed
43:44to me in this house
43:45by the father
43:46and if the father
43:47ain't paying for him
43:48then the daughter must.
43:49Oh, very well,
43:50Ledbrook.
43:51Show Miss Skinner
43:52into the morning room.
43:53Very well, Miss.
43:54Will you excuse me, Caroline?
44:03I won't be long.
44:03who was that frightful person?
44:20Oh, uh, Miss Skinner.
44:35Skinner was someone
44:36we employed as a maid once.
44:38She seems to think
44:39she's been hard done by.
44:41Strange, your butler
44:43didn't seem to know her.
44:45Well, she was before his time.
44:47I understood from your father
44:50Ledbrook's been with the family
44:5120 years.
44:53Yes, well, so he has.
44:54He was away ill in hospital
44:56when Skinner was with us.
44:58I also understand
44:59that Ledbrook enjoys
45:00phenomenal health
45:02never having been ill
45:03in his life.
45:04Caroline,
45:05are you catechizing me?
45:07Adela,
45:09we're friends,
45:10are we not?
45:11Yes.
45:12Well, you don't lie
45:13very well, my dear.
45:15That creature
45:17has something to do
45:18with your father,
45:19hasn't she?
45:20I've had a feeling
45:22for days
45:23you've been holding
45:23something back,
45:25some sort of struggle
45:26going on inside you.
45:28It's about your father,
45:30isn't it?
45:31Who was that woman?
45:33What is it?
45:35I think you owe it
45:37to me, Adela.
45:38You must swear
45:40never to repeat
45:40what I tell you now.
45:42No, I won't repeat it.
45:43No, but swear.
45:45I swear.
45:50Oh, I've been so miserable.
45:53It's made it worse
45:54that we've become friends.
45:56I could scarcely tell
45:57where my duty to my father
45:59lay off
45:59and my duty to you began.
46:01I think you ought to know
46:02that Mama was wretched.
46:05Wretched?
46:06Papa made her so.
46:07Oh, her life with him
46:10was one
46:10long martyrdom.
46:13Oh, she hid it
46:14wonderfully from the world,
46:15but we saw it
46:16and pitied it horribly.
46:18Father has
46:19certain peculiarities.
46:23What?
46:24Certain requirements,
46:25unusual tastes
46:27and demands.
46:28Oh, she was so loyal
46:30to him.
46:31She did everything
46:32to make him happy,
46:33but even when
46:34she was alive
46:35he used to resort
46:36to those women.
46:39Oh, I haven't known
46:41what to do
46:41these past few weeks.
46:46But I'm sure
46:47that you can change him.
46:49I'm sure with you
46:50he will be different.
46:52As you said,
46:53you're neither
46:53of your children.
46:55But at least now
46:56I can't approach myself.
46:59My conscience
47:00is clear.
47:01Would you like some tea?
47:11No, no, no, thank you.
47:14You did right
47:15to tell me.
47:17Some sherry?
47:18No, good heavens, no.
47:21Shall we go on
47:22with the lists?
47:23No, no.
47:25There are things
47:26to do at home.
47:27Great many things.
47:29I'd better get back.
47:32Thank you
47:32for your candor
47:34and honesty.
47:36We must keep in touch.
47:38I shall never forget you.
47:43Oh, let me come down
47:45with you.
47:46No, please.
47:47Let me ring for Letbrook.
47:48No, really, I just want
47:50to slip away quietly.
47:52Goodbye.
47:54Goodbye, Caroline.
47:55Goodbye.
47:56Goodbye, Caroline.
47:57Goodbye.
47:58Goodbye.
47:59Goodbye.
47:59Goodbye.
48:00Goodbye.
48:01Goodbye.
48:06Abbas, top of the list.
48:08They're sending me to Madrid.
48:16Starting to snow.
48:22Haven't seen him any time since summer.
48:24Does Godfrey say he'll be home for Christmas?
48:28He believes so.
48:30But since it's his first post, he's not going to make an issue of it.
48:35Shall you be at home for luncheon, Father?
48:39I guess I shall, yes.
48:42The club seems deucely dull just lately.
48:45Well, I'll ask Cook to prepare a surprise for you.
48:54You must be here.
48:56I'll give it to you.
48:58You must be here.
49:00We can be here.
49:02I'll give it to you.
49:05I love you.
49:07Come here.
49:10Here's your�ard.
49:13Come here, Father.
49:17Go, Father, Father.
49:19I know you love you.
49:22VIOLIN PLAYS
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