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A wealthy doctor is suspicious of a handsome man courting Catherine, his plain daughter. Starring: Lynn Farleigh, Ian Ogilvy, Bernard Hepton.
A wealthy doctor is suspicious of a handsome man courting Catherine, his plain daughter. Starring: Lynn Farleigh, Ian Ogilvy, Bernard Hepton.
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00:00To be continued
00:30as soon as you finished your sherry you you should go and change dear Lavinia one of the few
00:54privileges of a longtime widower is that he may not be managed oh Kate managed you all right it
01:01was part of her grace that you never noticed well she had so many graces I do you she's still very
01:12young her mother was only six years older when she died bringing her into the world but her mother
01:18was exceptional the wittiest the prettiest the cleverest who knows Catherine might blossom when
01:25she meets the right young man you can't wait can you Vinnie you're aching for romance to invade our
01:30life and why not our cousin Marion is four years younger and it is her engagement we
01:36are to celebrate tonight what time are we expecting a beth said eight o'clock
01:41marion look who is here
01:55uncle austin how lovely
02:00how do you do sir madam miss Catherine Catherine and I practically grew up together she was quite a
02:12romp you still around for miss Catherine no no I don't think so
02:30what is your line now then is it holiness like the English girls
02:34no not really Catherine has hidden talents not easily apparent to the casual eye
02:39why yes only this afternoon she said something so witty
02:42what was it now Catherine the year I'm sure it was a fairy
02:46oh never mind you must come and dance
02:47you too are Lavinia
02:49uncle austin will find the kind of refreshments gentlemen seem to prefer with their cigars
02:53through there
02:54you're very kind dear niece and equally perceptive
02:57enjoy yourself my dear
03:00how's the back breath my dear
03:06how's the back breath my dear
03:10I'm Morris Townsend I'm Arthur Townsend's cousin I've been told to introduce myself to you
03:21I've been told to introduce myself to you
03:32I'm a sloper yes I know to tell you the truth nobody told me to introduce myself I saw you I asked who you were and I just thought I'd be bold do you mind if I sit down no no please do
03:48what a delightful party
03:51what a delightful party and what a pretty girl your cousin is it's very kind of you to take pity on me I feel very
03:59much the stranger here but you are Arthur Townsend's cousin you must know
04:03New York is my native place but I've not been
04:05I've been here for many years
04:07I've been knocking about the world living in strange corners
04:10New York is very pleasant but it is very lonely
04:13people forget you
04:15do they
04:16well perhaps not you
04:19it would be very hard to forget you
04:22but for us commoner folk oblivion is just around the corner
04:27oh I don't think so
04:28I think had I met you before I went on my travels
04:31I would have kept the liveliest memory of you all time I was away
04:35indeed had I met you before who knows I might not have gone away in the first place
04:41who's our young Adonis
04:45his name is Morris Townsend
04:47he's a distant cousin of my son-in-law to be Arthur
04:50one of the less royal branches according to Arthur's mother
04:54have you noticed how on these occasions the girl whose engagement it is becomes queen hen
05:01and so she has the advantage of every other lady in the room even the married one
05:05I have noticed something of the sort
05:08so for instance here comes dear Marian
05:10she's a mere child but you'll see she'll order me about like my own grandmother
05:13there you are you two we must break this up
05:15you've both been sitting there far too long
05:20oh very well
05:22if I'm not to be allowed to talk to you I shall go and talk to your aunt about you
05:26we shall meet again
05:31and what do you think of Morris Townsend
05:34is that his name
05:36oh nothing particular
05:38oh I'd half a mind to tell him that
05:40it will do him good he's so terribly conceited
05:43conceited
05:44so Arthur says and Arthur knows all about him
05:46he hasn't gone then back in New York but he's very sociable
05:49he wants to know everyone
05:51everyone
05:52well all the pretty girls
05:53like aunt Lavinia there
05:55I know his sister a little
05:58her name is Mrs Montgomery
06:01she's a widow with a little property
06:03with five children
06:05she lives on the second avenue
06:07what is present means of subsistence
06:09he inherited a little money
06:11used it to see the world
06:13I assume he has some left
06:15does he have a profession
06:16I have no idea
06:18he lives with his sister
06:20Mr Townsend you really must remove your heart from your sleeve
06:24somebody might see it
06:26I have been hit by the thunderbolt as they call it in Sicily
06:29if you knew the turmoil inside you would in fact praise my coolness
06:32I suppose she is much sought after
06:34oh why yes indeed she has no end of vows
06:39of the more discerning kind
06:41may I then enlist you in a conspiracy
06:43a conspiracy
06:45if I have evidently much ground to make up
06:47I want you to smooth my path
06:49if I mean to come accordingly
06:51very direct Mr Townsend
06:53I know no other way
06:55my aunt seems to like him very much
06:59most people like him
07:00he's so brilliant
07:01Arthur says some people find him too much so
07:04oh I don't think it's possible to be too brilliant
07:07I say we are talking about him
07:11oh well as far as you are concerned my dear Marion
07:13I'm afraid I can't return the compliment
07:15as regard Miss Sloper however that is another affair
07:19the doctor is out on his calls
07:23otherwise I know he would have been delighted to see you
07:26and I him
07:27although he is not my principal interest
07:30well if you'll excuse me there are many things I have to attend to downstairs with Cook
07:35Catherine knows she has only to ring for tea if you should want it later
07:40I am very bad at artifice Miss Sloper
07:48and I can only say what I feel
07:50and you made a deep impression on me last evening
07:51you are very kind sir
07:55oh if you were some flighty girl I didn't care about
07:58I'd have a million pretty speeches
08:01it's very hard Miss Sloper but in the company of those who affect me
08:03my brain seems to freeze
08:06so does my tongue
08:08I understand that
08:09do you do you really
08:11um please tell me something about yourself
08:13there's little to tell
08:20that's just how I feel myself when someone asks me a question like that
08:23I can't even remember if I like music
08:25I like music
08:27whom?
08:29Bellini Donizetti
08:31oh you like the opera then so do I
08:33so I've heard all the great singers
08:34in Paris and London
08:37Pasteur, Rubini
08:39and Blablache
08:42I sing a little myself too
08:43someday I'll show you if
08:45if you will play for me
08:46oh I don't play well
08:48so while I sing very indifferently myself
08:50we shall make a harmonious concert
08:51be so good as to tell me what's going on in this house Lavinia
09:07going on Austin why I'm sure I don't know
09:10I believe the old gray cat had kittens last night
09:13at her age the idea is startling not to say shocking
09:17I don't know why
09:19your sympathy with cats Lavinia rises from a feline element in your own character
09:24cats are very graceful and very clean
09:27and very stealthy
09:31why have I had to find it out from the servants that Mr. Morris Townsend has been here five times in the last two weeks
09:37dear Austin I am incapable of betraying confidences I would rather suffer anything
09:43oh have no fear you will not suffer
09:45I keep my thumbscrews for my patience
09:49has Catherine made you take a vow of eternal secrecy
09:53no
09:53ah then it's the young man who has made you his confidant
09:57allow me to say it is extremely indiscreet of you to form secret alliances with young men
10:02you never know where they may lead you
10:04I take a great interest in Mr. Townsend I won't conceal that
10:08what makes him so interesting I wonder
10:10his misfortunes Austin
10:12ah he has had misfortunes well that of course is always interesting
10:17are you at liberty to inform me of some of Mr. Townsend's
10:20I don't know if he would like it he would tell them to you himself I'm sure if he thought that
10:24you would listen to him kindly oh with kindness one may do anything with him
10:29ah do you think he's sincere in his admiration for Catherine deeply sincere he has said to me
10:36the most charming things about her he would say them to you if he was sure that you would
10:40listen to him gently Mr. Townsend seems to require a great deal of kindness and gentleness
10:47he has a sympathetic and sensitive nature we must have the tender plant to Sunday luncheon
10:55ask sister Beth too I'd like her reading of him
10:57an excellent luncheon Dr. Sloper if I may presume to say so I haven't eaten so well since Paris
11:03you have a cultivated palate Mr. Townsend do sit down
11:07the claret was particularly fine I envy your cellar
11:10oh it takes a long time and a great deal of hard work
11:13cigar Mr. Townsend please
11:15Cuban or homegrown a Cuban I think don't you thank you
11:25the French say that claret won't travel to these brutal shores they say it bruises
11:30well you said a great store by the French and what they say Mr. Townsend
11:33oh no sir not at all no I was about to add that you proved them wrong
11:37but then who better than a great doctor to heal a claret's bruises
11:40you're very flattering they tell me you are seeking for a position now that you're back from
11:46your travels position sounds so fine all I wanted some quiet work something to turn an honest penny
11:52what should you prefer what am I fit for you mean well very little I'm afraid I have only my
11:57good right arm as they say in the melodrama oh you're too modest you have also your subtle brain
12:03I know nothing of you but what I see yet you strike me as extremely intelligent
12:10I don't know how to answer when you say that you advise me then not to despair
12:16I'll be very sorry to admit that any robust and well-disclosed young man need ever despair
12:24if he doesn't succeed at one thing he can always try another only I should add that he should choose
12:29his line with discretion oh yes discretion well I have been indiscreet formally but I believe I'm over
12:36it I'm very steady now were you intending to propose something to my advantage no I had no particular
12:42proposal to make it occurred to me to let you know that I have your mind one sometimes hears of
12:48opportunities for instance uh should you object to leaving new york oh I shouldn't be able to manage
12:54that I'm afraid you know I must seek my fortune here or nowhere you see I have ties here I have
12:59responsibilities I have a sister a widow to whom I am everything she rather depends on me you see
13:04no that's very proper family feeling is very proper I think I've heard of your sister it is
13:11possible though I rather doubt it she lives so very quietly you see as quietly you mean as lady
13:16may with several small children my little nephews and nieces is well that's the very point you see
13:23sir I'm helping to bring them up I'm a kind of amateur tutor to them oh that's very proper
13:27it's hardly a career no it certainly won't make my fortune ah you must not be too much bent on a
13:34fortune mr townsend but be assured I will keep you in mind I shall not lose sight of you shall we join
13:43the ladies well he is extremely seductive but it's a vulgar nature he's altogether too familiar
13:53he's a plausible coxcomb but Lavinia tells me that Catherine is in love with him well she
13:59must get over it he's selfish idle and has no means of support why he's looking for a position most
14:05earnestly yes precisely he's looking for it right now in my garden the position of husband to a weak
14:11minded girl with a large fortune would suit him to perfection I'm afraid he shan't have it
14:17miss loper there is something particular I wish to say to you something very particular will you
14:27meet me tonight in the square in the square why not here I feel constrained here always conscious of
14:34possible interruption there will be none father has a meeting about a convention he is to attend in
14:39paris aunt lavinia will be tactful but what is very well then here what time eight o'clock but what
14:48trust me what is it mr townsend why did you want to see me
14:56your father doesn't like me he doesn't like me at all I don't see how you can know that
15:02this afternoon he insulted me he taunted me with my poverty
15:06he laughed at me for having no position I only took it quietly because he belongs to you
15:10you must have misunderstood him
15:14perhaps I am too proud and too sensitive
15:18but would you have me otherwise he's really the soul of fairness and honor you must not be too proud
15:23I'm sure he likes you very well
15:27you should ask him and see I would rather not
15:30if you are right about what he thinks of you
15:34it uh it wouldn't perhaps give you pleasure to contradict him
15:37I never contradict him
15:40it would make me so proud if you could
15:43you know how little there is in me to be proud of
15:47I am ugly and stupid no no no I am not even brave oh miss catherine
15:56catherine you don't have to be brave
15:59I can be brave for both of us
16:03when I'm with you I'm as brave as any man that ever lived
16:07please mr townsend this isn't right no it's got to be said it's true that it's only two weeks
16:12since we met but for those two weeks I have been on fire
16:15I've not slept I've hardly eaten after our meetings I've thought only of you until the next one
16:19but I'm not anything you are everything to me
16:26catherine my darling I love you
16:30I adore you and I won't go through the rest of my life without you
16:42Catherine this is the most important decision we'll have to make in our lives
16:50my darling will you marry me oh yes
17:02I'm the happiest man in the world are you happy oh yes
17:06do you love me more than you could ever know
17:12now we must do our duty we must speak to my father I will do it tonight
17:17you must do it tomorrow it's very good of you to do it first you'll need all your powers of
17:20persuasion I'm sure you're wrong do you know the first thing your father will say to you no
17:26he will tell you I am mercenary then I shall simply say that he is mistaken that other men may
17:32be that way but you are not yes you must make a great point of that catherine
17:36I shall persuade him but I am glad we shall be rich
17:42no that is a misfortune it is from that and our difficulty will come well if it is our worst
17:47misfortune we will not be so unhappy I leave my defense in your hands
17:52it's a charge a man has to stoop to defend himself from
17:57maurice are you very sure you love me oh my own dearest can you doubt it
18:04I have only known it a moment but it seems to me as if I could never do without it
18:13you will never have to and now there is something that you must promise me
18:17you must promise me that even if your father is dead against me even if he absolutely forbids
18:21our marriage you will stick to me you'll still be faithful I promise you are your own mistress
18:28you know you're of age there is nothing he can do about it I love you that's all that matters
18:34Catherine Lavinia in here father aunt Lavinia has gone to bed
18:51father I'm engaged to be married
18:57well now there's a piece of news
19:01do you mind if I sit down
19:04oh that's better
19:11and who's the fortunate gentleman
19:14it's Morris Townsend
19:20when was this arrangement made this evening an hour ago oh he came back did he after I'd gone
19:26well yes he's a man of swift perceptions and bold decision oh yes
19:34you have moved very fast yes yes I think we have
19:41you love mr. Townsend of course oh very much
19:44that's why you were willing to shoulder his task and make the announcement yourself oh he will be
19:51speaking to you tomorrow it's not quite the same thing not in a man's world anyway it's because he
19:56thinks you have taken against him he thinks you believe him to be mercenary mercenary
20:01that's interesting he should use the word first before anyone has even accused him
20:06I think he's right I think you don't like him
20:12my liking him is of no importance the question is does he love you and will he make you happy
20:17yes I believe he does love me which is a kind of miracle to me I never expected
20:27and now to have got the best the kindest the handsomest young man anyone's ever seen
20:31you hold yourself too cheaply my dear you have a higher value on the market than you know
20:36the market
20:41at what time tomorrow will mr. Townsend be following up your gallant advance patrol my
20:46dear at 11 o'clock he said
20:49i will be here please father
20:54treat him with kindness
20:56he is proud and sensitive
20:59don't worry my dear
21:03you have my word for it as a doctor that the young man does not bruise too easily
21:11why austin how nice
21:13bet townsend's sister and mrs montgomery
21:17you were telling me about her have you her address she lives on the second avenue number 25
21:23why do you want it katherine engaged herself last night to mr morris townsend why that's
21:29wonderful
21:31is it of course it is
21:33you have always had a little way of alluding to her as an unmarriageable girl
21:38katherine is not unmarriageable not with the prospect of 30 000 a year
21:42but she is absolutely unattractive certainly you have always made her think she is
21:46i suspect that the only attraction to mr townsend is her money
21:51i know what you think of morris townsend
21:54but austin
21:56the fact that katherine will have 30 000 a year is as inescapable a part of her as the color of her eyes
22:02it's bound to weigh in her favor with any man
22:05well mr townsend it is the only thing in her favor are you sure of that
22:09how can you know it is katherine so incapable of inspiring love this could be her chance to marry
22:16a man she loves a man who will look after her and her money if he loves her a little more because of
22:23it that is all to her good fortune it is purely the money he loves not katherine
22:28there's a smug greed in his face whenever he eyes my possessions through as it were the window of
22:33my daughter which i confess enrages me it seems a very masculine thing you feel
22:40you could be doing them both an injustice well if i am i will find it out from his sister
22:45where can he be i don't know he went hard home he did say he'd see me he will be here don't worry dearest
23:02good morning sir i hope you've had a pleasant drive sit down mr townsend
23:20katherine told me yesterday what has been going on between you
23:24it would have been becoming of you to inform me of your intentions before they had gone so far
23:29i should have done so sir had you not left your daughter so much at liberty i took it that she
23:32was her own mistress oh she is but she wouldn't choose a husband without consulting me the truth
23:39is that the speed of your little affair has taken me by surprise it was only the other day that katherine
23:44made your acquaintance it is certainly not long ago that we met my interest in miss sloper began the
23:50first time i saw her did it not by chance precede your first meeting i certainly had already heard
23:56that she was an enchanting girl an enchanting girl that's what you think her yes assuredly otherwise
24:01i should not be sitting here my dear young man you must be very susceptible as katherine's father i
24:07have i trust a proper appreciation of her many good qualities but i don't mind telling you that i have
24:13never thought of her as an enchanting girl and never expected anyone else to do so you go far to avoid
24:19accepting my good faith sir did you really believe that i would delightedly throw my daughter into
24:25your arms oh no i had an idea you didn't like me what gave you that idea the fact that i'm poor
24:31well that has a harsh sound but it is about the truth and therefore i can only want your daughter's
24:35money no i don't say that i say simply you are in the wrong category
24:41your daughter doesn't marry a category she marries a man whom she loves
24:46man who offers so little in return is it possible to offer more than a lifelong devotion
24:51a lifelong devotion takes a lifetime to prove meanwhile it is usual to offer a few material securities
24:59now what are yours a very handsome face and figure and a very good manner there is something that you
25:05should add to them so the word of a gentleman that i am not mercenary i care no more for a fortune
25:11than for the ashes in that great i take note i take note you think i would squander her money is that
25:15it you squandered your own i hear that was precisely because it was my own i have been wild i have
25:21been foolish but i made no debts when he was gone i stopped i don't owe a penny in the world
25:30not even to your sister my sister what do you know about my sister i have just come from her
25:39you would learn nothing ill of me from her indeed she was more revealing in her defense of you than a
25:44score of prosecutors could have been i begin to see there is nothing that you would not do behind
25:49my back to get your own way tell me doctor do you enjoy the idea of making your daughter miserable
25:54i am perfectly resigned to her thinking me a tyrant for a 12 month a 12 month a lifetime then she may
26:00as well be miserable this way as with you you are not polite sir you push me to it you argue too i
26:05have a great deal at stake then you have lost no sir i think not i think were i to give the word your
26:11daughter would follow me out of the house this instant you have a pledge to that effect she promised to
26:16stand by me whatever you might say i have read you are right mr townsend i had expected a creature
26:23like you to take such a precaution i may tell you therefore of a precaution of my own what is the
26:28matter why are you at odds i love you both i asked you both to be quiet and kind be calm my dear
26:36i am just telling mr townsend of a simple fact of my life
26:44it is this sir the 10 000 a year that catherine has for my mother i can do nothing about
26:50but the 20 000 a year that will come to her from me on my death
26:54will go to a hospital instead if she marries against my wishes
26:58as you know my dear i go to paris soon for the medical convention
27:05i intend to take the opportunity to look around europe something i haven't done since my honeymoon
27:10with your dear mother i shall be away about six months now you will make me very happy were you to come
27:19with me let me know your father evidently believes that his talk of disinheritance will weaken my love
27:36and the six months absence will give the coup de grace to yours he's certainly wrong about me and
27:40about me i love my father but i won't go on his trip i don't care about his 20 000 i have enough from
27:47my mother we can get married now no no catherine no i cannot and i will not alienate you from your
27:52father i know that would be great pain to you no you must go to europe with him and he will soften
27:57there you'll know how to work on him and i shall be steadfast oh so shall i by the time you return
28:03you will have contrived to have both a loving husband and a loving father too but six months
28:07goodbye your wedding clothes in paris and i shall write to you every day
28:19glad to be going home yes father
28:24why it's natural to look forward to home
28:29you haven't given him up have you
28:35no father for heaven's sake leave that alone
28:42has he been writing to you all this time yes father and i to him i am very angry i'm sorry i am
28:49very angry indeed
28:54why has it taken you so suddenly it has not taken me suddenly
29:03it has not taken me suddenly i have been raging inwardly for the last six months
29:09i have shown you the finest cities the most exquisite art in europe you have looked at it all
29:15obediently placidly with the utmost cow-like composure
29:23do you know what your mother did when i showed her michelangelo's david
29:28she wept in paris she was like a flame down the boulevard
29:35in vienna they composed a song for her
29:38i am not i never could be my mother you've shown me that a long time ago
29:47yet the one thing that does strike a spark from that unresponsive organ you call your sensibility
29:52is a cheap and commonplace fortune hunter
29:55it is godly light that has dimmed the glories that i have tried to show you
29:59very well
30:08if that's your true level you may try for him
30:11and much joy will you get of it
30:14for i stand by what i said six months ago
30:17your mother's money i can do nothing about
30:20but you will not have a penny of mine
30:22how could i now ever take the penny of yours
30:25let's see how you get on with mr townsend without it
30:31oh thank you mrs pennerman i shudder to think what i would have done
30:36without your kindness these past six months
30:38we've been company for each other after all they left me alone too
30:42still the waiting's nearly over now
30:44yes if only i knew what to expect
30:46has she brought him round has he accepted me
30:50what difference does it make if he hasn't
30:53she was quite willing to marry you despite austin before she'll still be willing now
30:57my dear lavinia it makes a difference of 20 000 a year as you were well aware
31:02well of course it would be delightful to have 30 000 but one can be extremely comfortable on 10.
31:08there is a strange mathematical law which i have often observed but i have never seen to find and it
31:12is this the people with 30 000 a year do not simply live three times better than those with
31:1810. they live in a different dimension they breathe a different air and this cannot be
31:24explained by the multiplication tables i shall enter that in the books of the metaphysical society as
31:29townsend's law you can add that townsend's law also states that where a man has been responsible
31:35for his wife losing a fortune that fact will sooner or later be regretted by one of them now where
31:41in all this philosophizing does it explain why you have gone to the bother of getting a special
31:45license before you knew the best or the worst well if he has softened i let things take their normal
31:51course if he is not well i'm boldly go ahead and marry his daughter anyway i will then have shown
31:56him that firstly i have waited six months and been steadfast and secondly i acceded to his wishes
32:02when i could have married his daughter will he nilly at any time and thirdly that it is his daughter
32:07i want and not his 20 000 a year but you said i will then have laid down a sufficient store of grace
32:13with him despite himself to marry catherine first and to uh to win him round later you would bring the
32:20devil himself around you bad boy i may have to catherine aunt levy you're earlier than i expected
32:33i was uh i was doing something at the back where's austin he's got a chill he's gone upstairs oh well
32:40i shall go up and see him later but first i have a surprise for you
32:51maurice catherine dearest catherine oh let me look at you you are prettier you're more poised
33:02i confess what continental cavaliers have you practiced on oh none we were very quiet we makes
33:07very little and all those pretty statues of gods and goddesses i dare say they've sent you back with
33:13sterner conceptions of symmetry oh the gods reminded me of you i mean their faces what else oh catherine
33:21dear i swear you'll be the death of me yet did you miss me
33:29austin i was on my way up to see you how do you feel did you have a glorious time i do so want to hear
33:35all about it he's here isn't he who dear oh come lavinia at my age a doctor has acquired fine
33:42perceptions he's been here a great deal all winter has he not taking his ease in my chairs warming
33:48himself at my fires i don't begrudge him the comfort of it it's all he'll ever enjoy at my expense
33:54you haven't budged then not by a millimeter i hope you haven't persuaded him to think otherwise
34:03he may take it out on you beware the just resentment of a deluded fortune hunter
34:10i've had a sort of foolish hope that you would come home without that odious ironical tone
34:16with which you treat the most sacred subjects i don't undervalue irony it is often a kindness
34:26good day to you sir i'm delighted to see you though i'm sorry to hear you're a little
34:29indisposed very kind of you to concern yourself with my health mr townsend since you have nothing
34:33to gain from it either way it was a genuine sentiment sir am i to take it that you retain the
34:38same view of me as when you left did you really believe it will be otherwise you have evidently made
34:44yourself believe that i could be tired out this is the most baseless hallucination that ever visited
34:49the mind of a genial optimist well i am not in the least tired i'm just as fresh as when i started and
34:54if you take my daughter you take her with what she has now with no further expectations from me
35:00i see mind you she's a better bargain than she was even at that i've done a mighty good thing for
35:05you in taking her abroad a year ago she was a little rustic a little limited europe has polished her
35:14she'll make an excellent chatelaine for a modestly comfortable home
35:18maurice take me take me away now well maurice will you catherine i have a special license i got
35:29it for just such a contingency if you say the word we can be married this afternoon yes maurice yes yes
35:37that showed him that's the way to bring him around present him with a fait accompli
35:48oh he must wear the wedding clothes you bought in paris the ones you wrote and told me about
35:53there must be no more talk of bringing him round we must not expect it and we must do without it
36:01now my dear girl think no more about it there's plenty of time now leave him to me i shall turn him
36:05please don't think of it maurice please don't we must ask no favors of him we must ask nothing
36:12he won't relent i know it now i have a very good reason let's not talk any more about it we have to
36:17get those paris clothes out of your trunk what what what is your reason my little goose my father does
36:23not like me oh what great nonsense why you're the apple of his eye i would not say such a thing unless
36:30i was sure i realized it on the ship you can tell when a person feels that way i marvel that he's
36:38hidden it so well all these years he can't help it but we can never be reconciled and i can take
36:44nothing from him i feel separated from him now upon my word you are a queer fan oh don't say that
36:52don't say anything unkind you must be very kind to me maurice because i have done a great deal for
36:58you yes i know it is a great thing to be separated like that from your father when you have worshipped
37:04him before it has made me very unhappy you can tell when a person speaks to you as if what as if they
37:16despised you he spoke that way one dreadful night on the ship it wasn't much but it was enough
37:24and i thought of it all the way home i will never ask him for anything again or accept anything from
37:31him it would not be natural we must be very happy together on what we've got and maurice
37:39you must you must never despise me oh come my love that will never do
37:49and now you must go and put on your finery and i must race around to my sisters to pick up the
37:54marriage license and to let her know we should be spending the night there oh maurice i shall be
37:58back in 40 minutes lavinia since you are to be the witness i expect to see you looking like the first
38:03lady of the state uh-huh catherine pack only what you need for the night we can think about the rest
38:08when we decided upon the honeymoon oh catherine catherine i'm so happy for you
38:17catherine my dear you look a dream do you think you like me he'll adore you
38:28we're very happy for you miss catherine more than we can say and we know you'll be very happy too
38:34thank you mary and you deborah and you abigail
38:41now we must compose the picture the one that he sees when he first comes in
38:48it will be the one that you will remember the best for the rest of your life quickly dear quickly you'll be here at any moment
38:55oh aunt i'm not a china dog sometimes dear i wish you were if only you knew how you had my heart in my
39:04mouth just before how do you mean i'll tell you one day when you're an old married woman
39:18she will come now he will come my dear girl he has had some mishap which delays him he will come
39:43how long will you sit here she will not be long now you may sit here till doomsday that scandal will not
39:58reappear in this house
40:14this come for you miss catherine
40:23i would have liked to have been wrong about him
40:45i would like to think you understand me
40:55i understand you father
40:58i understand a great many things now about life as they say they have been slow to come to me because
41:06i haven't a quick mind like my mother had but those with quick minds are wrong to think that
41:11that we dull ones cannot feel pain
41:15i understand that you saved me from a fortune hunter
41:19you were able to do that because of your own contempt for me
41:23it showed you very clearly that any man who said he found me lovable was a liar
41:30you know now that he would have made you miserable
41:34not a necessity
41:35he was a good liar
41:39you were a good liar for years
41:41if it had not been for all this and if you'd continue to be clever enough
41:46you'd have deceived me that you loved me for the rest of your life
41:51it would not have been for long
41:55austin
41:56it's this chill
41:58it's turned to congestion of the lungs it happened on the last day of the voyage
42:01oh then we must get you to bed i will take to my bed tomorrow i will need careful nursing
42:06but it will make no difference i shall not recover
42:08austin of course you will
42:11i am never wrong in these cases
42:18you may have thought me brutally in haste to smash you mr townsend catherine
42:23now you know why
42:25you have not smashed him father
42:27he has fled only to new orleans to hide his shame
42:33i dare say the scent of dollars would soon fetch him back
42:37you must swear to me
42:40you must swear you will have nothing further to do with him
42:43why father if your diagnosis of yourself is right
42:47what possible further interest can you have in the matter
42:50catherine
43:06oh my dear it's so hot
43:10have you ever known a new york august that wasn't
43:14why we're not at the seaside i do not know we always went to newport when your dear father was alive
43:19the square is positively deserted
43:24not as if you can't afford it
43:26why heavens if you so wished you could have the the whole house the whole square move to the seaside on block
43:33next year perhaps when we are out of mourning
43:37we could look like crows among the sea gulls
43:39catherine
43:43catherine yes
43:46shall you be very angry if i speak to you about
43:49him
43:51him
43:52maurice townsend
43:54i shall not be angry but i shall not like it
43:57i met him in the avenue he sent you a message and i promised to deliver it
44:01i don't care what you do with your promise i have gone too far to retreat
44:07mr townsend wishes most particularly to see you catherine there can be no good reason
44:14he says his happiness depends on it is that not a good reason
44:17no he knows he can never be to you what he once was but he wishes to justify himself and
44:26he believes that in a very few words he could do so please say to mr townsend
44:34that i wish he would leave me alone
44:40aunt devinia you didn't
44:42you're to tell him i'm not home
44:48mr morris townsend to see mrs pennerman by appointment
44:57miss sloper
45:00mr townsend mrs pennerman will be back in a minute i'm sure
45:05it wasn't her i came to see i think you know that well it certainly can't be me
45:10you fled in terror as i recall the last time i fled in fear of what i was about to do to you
45:18i can't really hope that you'll understand but i'm only back for a short while i owe it to both of
45:22us to try back from where new orleans i have this small commission agency there it really could be
45:29quite brilliant i'm only here drumming up trade well don't let me keep you from it miss sloper
45:34oh the hell with it catherine i fled from you yes why because to gratify myself to get you i was
45:41alienating you from your father i was disinheriting you from your fortune i was losing you all this
45:48now what kind of love was there what bitter recriminations was i storing up for myself in
45:53future years when you could sit back and add up everything i'd lost you i would never have counted
45:58the cost morris you were all i wanted and you were all i wanted ah but i think you would have
46:05counted the cost of little come morris we have both been through the fire i'm not the little goose i was
46:13can you tell me in your heart that the thought of 20 000 a year less didn't throw a little chill
46:19into the coziness i can't deny that true love runs more smoothly on gold wheels
46:28you know you're different suddenly you're a woman of the world you're exciting
46:37catherine couldn't we forget all this couldn't we start again
46:40it was probably sent to try us to put us through it
46:43it you i love you so much more now what do you mean start again i mean well we don't have to do it
46:54this way but wouldn't it be loving sport to get a special license again do the thing suddenly rush
46:59off like we always intended to get married you mean yes what else oh i'm gonna love you like nobody
47:06has ever been loved before
47:15trust me catherine put yourself in my hands we're going to be happier than two people have ever been
47:25oh maurice maurice your perfection
47:28my father was right about you you really are worthless aren't you you're a lying cheating scoundrel
47:41a cheap and plausible adventurer of the worst sort without conscience without shame and with a kind
47:47of nerve that can bring you insinuating your way back in here the minute you know i've got my fortune safe
47:53i saw a proverb in an arab shop in marseilles it was on an old sword translated it said take what you
48:05want and pay for it i want you but we play my rules i don't put myself in your hands my dear you put
48:17yourself in mine the money stays in my control you get a monthly allowance for clothes and so on as i
48:25expect you to go on looking handsome and since i do not expect you to work you will naturally be at my
48:31disposal at all times all financial decisions property investment and so on stays in my hands
48:41there will be no special license there will be a long engagement we shall have three children and no more
48:50and i want no smoking in the drawing room
48:55now kindly ring the bell for the servants and go and find lavinia
48:59we are going to the seaside you will find it refreshing after your arduous labors in the south
49:11the east of the south
49:24i'm sorry i couldn't be like your mother it turns out i'm more like father
49:37maurice
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