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Bessie and Lord Lambeth meet in Newport and both seem smitten. Everyone assumes that when Bessie visits London the next spring, she is set on marrying him. Starring; Sinéad Cusack, Anna Palk, Christopher Cazenove.
Bessie and Lord Lambeth meet in Newport and both seem smitten. Everyone assumes that when Bessie visits London the next spring, she is set on marrying him. Starring; Sinéad Cusack, Anna Palk, Christopher Cazenove.
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00:00To be continued...
00:30I cannot conceive why you wish to visit America anyway.
00:53Well, Percy is going, ain't he?
00:56Your cousin has business there. You have none.
01:00To sue a railway will surely take time, Percy.
01:03It may not be necessary to sue. My clients would be happy to settle.
01:07That is what I go to investigate.
01:09And you, James, what do you go to investigate?
01:12I go for the lark, Mother, and for the further observation of humanity.
01:17Bear in mind, please, that humanity of the American variety will also be observing you,
01:22especially the young women.
01:24Oh, Mother!
01:25I hear the American girls are extremely forward. Isn't that so, Captain Littledale?
01:30Well, they're certainly more free than an English girl.
01:33Free? Why is it that this generation will never use a hard word when a soft one will do?
01:39For free, you may read loose and bold, and predatory put an English marquis down in their midst.
01:45Oh, fiddlesticks, Mother!
01:48I'm sure that they are the best-hearted people in the world.
01:52Percy, I look to you. You are older than my son.
01:55You are certainly wiser. Keep him within bounds.
01:58And who, pray, will keep Percy within bounds?
02:01That's slander, Julia.
02:02I would be very happy to think so.
02:04And then consider your happiness assured.
02:06Our American cousins are not to be tested.
02:08How do you know? You've never met any.
02:10In any event, the question was not about me, but about James.
02:13I'm sure he won't need my chaperonage.
02:16Be that as it may, I want your promise, James, that you will write to me...
02:19Oh, Mother!
02:20Once a week.
02:21What?
02:22The whole of the time that you are there.
02:24Once a week?
02:25I should have thought it was the very least a mother could ask.
02:30Oh, very well.
02:32I shall see you in the morning before you leave.
02:36Mother?
02:37No, Chris.
02:40Chris.
02:41Lady Julia.
02:42Lady Julia.
02:45A little drop more brandy for anyone.
02:48Thank you. No, I have an early appointment tomorrow before we go.
02:50I'll just write the letter, I promise, then I must go too.
02:53Westgate's a capital fellow.
02:55Tremendously hospitable.
02:57And he knows everyone in New York.
02:59Trust him to put you into circulation.
03:00Oh, he's got a tremendously pretty wife, too.
03:06I shall write a whole lot of lies about you.
03:08So you should be well received.
03:11It's a rum-looking place, New York.
03:14It's very odd.
03:15All that chocolate-colored stone and white marble.
03:18It is so beastly hot.
03:22New York's on a low latitude.
03:24It's a southern city by our standards.
03:26I dare say.
03:28I do wish J.L. Westgate would put in an appearance.
03:31He won't be long.
03:32A hotel-restaur last night.
03:35Open to the street and all that.
03:36It was rather like Paris.
03:37It was mainly the French waiters.
03:38Why don't they have French waiters in London?
03:41I say.
03:42Imagine a French waiter at a club.
03:45You know, in Paris, I'm rather apt to dine at a place where they have an English waiter.
03:49They always set this English waiter at me.
03:52I suppose they think I can't speak French.
03:54No more you can.
03:55I say, Percy.
03:57Those girls on Fifth Avenue last evening,
03:59they're sitting around on their doorsteps like that in their white dresses,
04:01calling across to each other.
04:02They weren't the first families, you know.
04:04The first families get out of New York for the summer.
04:06Well, I know they weren't the first families.
04:08Well, what about it, then?
04:10Well, it's just that one had the impression that if one were to have wished them good evening...
04:15We must not begin by making mistakes.
04:17They were perfectly respectable young ladies.
04:20You really must get used to the American style, my dear chap.
04:23No, but the fellow on the boat told us.
04:25Well, you know he told us.
04:26Well, never mind what he told us.
04:34Oh, we can't stand this, you know.
04:36And those gnats last night.
04:38They were mosquitoes.
04:39They're endemic in New York.
04:41Gentlemen, my apologies.
04:43Lord Blameth?
04:46And Mr...
04:46Percy Beaumont.
04:48Well, this is very pleasant indeed.
04:49Do we seat a gentleman?
04:52How are you standing up to the heat?
04:54Well, I can't say we like it.
04:56It was very hot when Captain Littledale was here.
04:58He did nothing but drink sherry cobblers.
05:00Would you care for one?
05:01No, thank you.
05:01No.
05:02He...
05:03He mentions some doubt here whether I shall remember him.
05:06As if I could ever forget making six sherry cobblers in a row for him one day in the space of 20 minutes.
05:13Well, uh...
05:15How is the captain?
05:16He's well.
05:16He has the best memories of you.
05:17I'm always glad to see you, countryman.
05:20A friend of mine was just saying a day or two ago, it's time for the watermelons and the Englishmen.
05:25Yes, well, the watermelons and the Englishmen just now are about the same thing.
05:29Just have to put you on ice as we do the melons.
05:32Where are you staying?
05:33No, thank you.
05:33At the Hanover, I think they call it.
05:36Yeah, pretty comfortable.
05:36Oh, it seems a capital place.
05:38No, thanks.
05:39I can't say we like the Nats, though.
05:41Oh, of course.
05:42You wouldn't like the Nats.
05:44We can expect you to like a great many things over here, but we shan't insist on your liking the Nats.
05:52Now, are you going to make something of your stay while you're over here?
05:55No, not really.
05:56My cousin here came over on some business or other, and I just came across it an hour's notice for the lark.
06:01Oh, what business is that, Mr. Le Bonhomme?
06:03Well, I'm by way of being a barrister.
06:04And I know some people over here who think of bringing you a suit against one of your railways.
06:08They asked me to come over and take measures accordingly.
06:11Which of our railroads?
06:13The Tennessee Central.
06:15I'm very sorry to hear you're going to attack one of our sacred institutions.
06:19Anyway, I didn't think you Englishmen ever did any work in the upper classes.
06:22Oh, we do a lot of work, don't we, Lambeth?
06:25Well, I've certainly got to be back home by the 12th of August.
06:28Ah, is that for the hunting, or is it the fishing?
06:31It's the shooting, actually.
06:32Well, I can see you both have very serious matters afoot.
06:36You better enjoy yourselves first.
06:38I certainly couldn't work in this weather, anyway.
06:40Well, leave that to us natives.
06:43I'll have a word with the Tennessee Central, and we'll see if we can't square things up.
06:50In the meantime, you're to consider yourselves my property.
06:54You know, it's a matter of national pride with me that all Englishmen are to have a good time.
06:58So you're to go forth into the cool.
07:02You're to go down to stay with my wife.
07:04We should be very happy.
07:06It's what you would call a watering place.
07:08You'll see what it is.
07:09It's cool, and that's the principal thing.
07:11Oh, yes.
07:12Half of New York goes there in the summertime.
07:14I have a house there that's always full of guests.
07:16Now, I'd be very obliged to you if you just put yourselves in my wife's hands.
07:20Now, it perhaps isn't for me to say, but you couldn't be in better hands.
07:26And those of her sisters who are staying with her.
07:28She's very fond of Englishmen.
07:30She thinks there's nothing right for them.
07:31Your wife or her sister?
07:32Oh, no.
07:33My wife.
07:34I don't suppose her sister knows much about them.
07:36She's always had a very quiet life.
07:38She lived in Boston.
07:39Oh, that, I believe, is the most intellectual town.
07:41Oh, I say.
07:42We must go there.
07:43Wait till the great heat is over, Lord Lambeth.
07:45It's not the temperature for intellectual exercise.
07:47You know, in Boston, you have to pass an examination of the city limits.
07:52And when you come away, they give you a degree.
07:57Well, I dare say it's very jolly.
07:59Well, I'll write my wife by this afternoon's mail,
08:01and tomorrow she and her sister Bessie will be expecting you.
08:04It's really most extraordinarily kind of you.
08:06Now, the boat leaves from this part of the city,
08:08so I'll send out now to get you a cabin.
08:09A boat?
08:10Well, I say.
08:11If you'll call for me here at half past four this afternoon,
08:16then I'll go with you to see that you get on board.
08:18And then in a few days, I'll join you down in Newport,
08:21see how you're getting on.
08:22Well, gentlemen, it's a great pleasure having you both here.
08:26Till this afternoon, then.
08:29Thanks.
08:36Hey, fancy him thinking we do no work in England.
08:38I don't know how you, of all people, could support such a slug.
08:41Well, I suppose they don't know very much about England, though, would you?
08:48He was devilish civil.
08:51Nothing certainly could have been more civil.
08:54Little Dale said his wife was great man.
08:56Whose wife?
08:57Mrs Westgate.
09:04Hello?
09:05Hello?
09:11You must be Lord Lambeth.
09:13And, Mr Beaumont, we have been expecting you.
09:16I'm Mrs Westgate.
09:17How do you do?
09:18How do you do?
09:19How do you do?
09:20And this is my sister, Miss Bessie Alden.
09:22How do you do?
09:23How do you do?
09:24Frightfully sorry to invade you like this.
09:26Yes, it was all the doors and windows being opened, you see.
09:29We couldn't decide which was the front.
09:30Please don't concern yourselves.
09:32This is open house.
09:33I really couldn't tell you where the front door is myself.
09:36Oh, my husband's letter made me really anxious for you.
09:40He said you were so terribly frustrated.
09:42Oh, yes.
09:43Well, the heat in New York did rather knock us out, but we feel wonderfully better.
09:46Yes, we had a refreshing voyage down here.
09:48I'm on a marvelous little walk from the boat.
09:50All those smart little villas with their jolly lawns and flower beds and spanking gravel drives.
09:54Yes, and the ladies in their pretty dresses and veil, driving about all over the shop in their smart little carts.
09:59Oh, Newport is the preserver of the ladies.
10:02All the husbands and fathers are in New York making money.
10:04Are your things at the dock?
10:07Yes.
10:08I'll send for them presently.
10:09Come and meet some of the others, Mr. Beaumont.
10:11Excuse me.
10:12My husband tells me that you are friends of Captain Littledale.
10:25He is such a charming man.
10:27Englishmen are so popular here.
10:30He had a lovely time here.
10:31It could not have been pleasant of him in his own country.
10:34Though I suppose it is pleasant in England for English people.
10:37Have you been there much?
10:38Oh, very little.
10:39All I know of England is London.
10:41And all I know of London is Brown's Hotel in Dover Street.
10:44Do you know it?
10:44Yes, I believe so.
10:46I always get my hats in Paris.
10:48You can't wear an English hat unless you dress your hair in the English fashion.
10:52Now, in Paris, they try to suit your peculiarities.
10:55But in London, you have to suit theirs.
10:57Oh, dear.
10:59I dare say you think I don't take a favorable view.
11:01But you know you can't take a favorable view in Dover Street in the month of November.
11:06It's not the best month of the year.
11:08There was always the most frightful fog.
11:10I couldn't see to try things on.
11:13When I got back to America, in the light, I usually found they were twice too big.
11:18That's the most fearful exaggeration I've ever heard.
11:21The next time I mean to go in the season.
11:23I think I shall go next year.
11:30I want very much to take my sister.
11:33She has never been.
11:35Jolly place, isn't it?
11:37Very jolly place to sit.
11:39It's very charming.
11:40It's a pity you couldn't have brought my brother-in-law with you.
11:42It must be dreadful in New York.
11:44Oh, it is.
11:46Still, I dare say he's very busy.
11:47He certainly seems so.
11:49The gentlemen in America work too hard.
11:51Oh, do they?
11:53Well, I dare say they like it.
11:54I don't like it.
11:55One never sees them.
11:57I suppose you think that's very strange.
11:59Only, you see, we don't have a leisure class over here.
12:02Still, I dare say it's very jolly here.
12:04All the same.
12:04I mean, you must have lots of balls and parties and so forth.
12:07Well, there is a great deal going on.
12:09There are not so many balls.
12:11There are a great many other things.
12:13But I thought you Americans were always dancing.
12:16I suppose we do dance a good deal.
12:19Though I have not seen much of it.
12:21But not in summer.
12:22And certainly we don't have so many dances as you do in England.
12:25Really?
12:26You will not think much of our gaieties.
12:29Those things with us are much less splendid than they are in England.
12:32Now, I fancy you don't mean that.
12:34I assure you, I mean everything I say.
12:37Always.
12:39Certainly, from what I have read in English novels, it is very different.
12:43Ah, now, you must not go by the novels.
12:46You know, those things are very often described by chaps who know nothing about it.
12:49Now, you must not go by the novels.
12:51But I must go by them.
12:53When I read Thackeray and George Eliot, how could I not go by them?
12:58Ah, well, Thackeray and Eliot, I've not read much of them.
13:03Don't you suppose they know about society?
13:06Oh, yes, I'm sure they do.
13:07They were very clever.
13:08No, it's those fashionable novels.
13:10They're awful rot, you know.
13:11Oh, you mean Mrs. Gore, for instance?
13:14Well, I've not read that, either.
13:16I'm afraid you'll think I'm not very intellectual.
13:19Reading Mrs. Gore is no proof of intellect.
13:21But I like reading everything about English life, even the poor books.
13:27I'm so curious about it.
13:29But aren't ladies always curious?
13:31I don't think so.
13:33I don't think we care about enough things.
13:35So it's all the more a compliment that I should want to know so much about England.
13:39Well, I expect you know a great deal more than I do.
13:41I really do think I know a great deal.
13:43Oh, for a person who's never been there.
13:47Oh, have you really never been there?
13:50Never.
13:51Except in imagination.
13:53Well, fancy.
13:55Pesto, I dare say you'll go there quite soon, won't you?
13:58Well, it's the dream of my life.
14:01Of course, we haven't your country life.
14:03I know that when you were among yourselves in the country, you had the most beautiful time.
14:08Oh, I don't know that I'd go that far.
14:10Well, I would.
14:11I've heard all about it.
14:13Well, we've got nothing like that.
14:14Well, you have your equivalence.
14:16Oh, no, we have not.
14:17Nothing on the same scale.
14:19Not that I'm apologizing, mind.
14:21Americans are always apologizing.
14:23You must have noticed that.
14:24No, I can't say that I have.
14:26Oh, you must have done.
14:28No, I haven't.
14:29Of course you have.
14:30The American flag has quite gone out of fashion.
14:33We've rolled it up like an old tablecloth.
14:36Why should we apologize?
14:38The English never apologize.
14:40I must say, your sister seems to know a great deal about Englishmen.
14:44Oh, my sister and I are very different persons.
14:46She's been in England several times.
14:48She's known a great many English people.
14:49Oh, but you must have met some too, surely?
14:52I don't think I've ever spoken to one before.
14:55You're the first Englishman I have ever talked with.
14:58Oh, well, I'm sorry.
14:59I'm not a better specimen.
15:01You must remember, you're only the beginning.
15:03Oh, dear.
15:04Perhaps I shall go to England next year.
15:06I want to immensely.
15:08My sister Kitty's gone to Europe and she's asked me to go with her.
15:10Oh, well, now, you must come in July.
15:12Now, that's when there's most going on.
15:13I don't think I can wait till July.
15:15At the first of May, I should be very impatient.
15:18Very attractive young lady, your sister.
15:20I don't know that I should say very attractive.
15:23But she's certainly charming when you get to know her.
15:25She's very shy.
15:27Is she really?
15:29Extremely shy.
15:30But she's a dear, good girl.
15:32She is not in the least of flirts.
15:34She simply wouldn't know how.
15:37She's very simple and serious.
15:39She's lived a great deal in Boston.
15:41Ah.
15:42She's very cultivated.
15:43She's studied immensely and read everything.
15:46She's what they call in Boston thought.
15:48A lamb of a bit of loss, I must say.
15:50Kitty, I have given out that we're going to London next May.
15:54So please conduct yourself accordingly.
15:56You had better wait until the time comes.
15:58Perhaps next May you won't care so much about London.
16:01Mr Beaumont and I have had a tremendous discussion.
16:04We don't agree about anything.
16:06It's perfectly delightful.
16:08Kitty, I have to go into town.
16:09May I have a little red phaeton?
16:10Of course you may.
16:12Why don't you take Lord Lambert?
16:13If he wants to go, that is.
16:15Oh, but I'd love to.
16:16If Miss Alton wouldn't mind taking me.
16:18I'd be very happy.
16:20I'm only going to some shops.
16:21But I will show you around and show you the place.
16:25Oh, good.
16:25Au revoir, Mr Beaumont.
16:27Well, then, the same for me, too.
16:30What?
16:31An American woman who respects herself
16:34must buy something every day of her life.
16:37If she cannot do it herself,
16:38she must send out some member of the family for the purpose.
16:41So, Bessie goes forth to fulfill my mission.
16:45I'm sure she must have missions of her own.
16:51Please don't get up, Lord Lambert.
16:57You look so comfortable.
16:59Well, everything about your arrangement is so dashed comfortable.
17:02A chap would get quite idle.
17:04You and Mr Beaumont are enjoying yourselves.
17:06Oh, upon my word, Miss Alden.
17:07How can you doubt it?
17:08The jolliness of everyone.
17:10Your splendid lawns in the morning,
17:13drives along the beach in the p.m.
17:14And your, you know, your jolly tea parties
17:16and all your friends and so forth
17:17and making sure we know everyone.
17:19It's, well, it's just absolutely about the most top-class ones known.
17:22And you've nothing like it at home?
17:24Well, nothing quite this sort of style, you know.
17:26I'm so glad.
17:27Oh, yes.
17:28I assure you.
17:34Are you a hereditary legislator, Lord Lambert?
17:36Oh, I say.
17:37Steady on.
17:39You mustn't call me such names as that.
17:41But you are a Member of Parliament.
17:42Not a bit of it, thank you very much.
17:44Doesn't your father sit in the House of Lords?
17:46Very seldom.
17:47Isn't it a great position?
17:49Good gracious, no.
17:51Oh, I should think it would be very grand
17:53to be born with a right to make laws for a great nation.
17:56Oh, we do nothing of the kind.
17:58It's all a great humbug.
17:59Oh, I don't believe that.
18:01It must be a great privilege.
18:03And if one thought about it in the right way,
18:05it would be very inspiring.
18:06Well, the less one thinks about it, the better.
18:10Have you any tenantry?
18:12You know, tenants in farms and villages and things?
18:16Why?
18:17Do you want to buy up their leases, dear girl?
18:19You'll never be serious.
18:22I'm simply seeking enlightenment.
18:24I cannot help it if I sound naive.
18:27I'm sorry.
18:31I know nothing about your sort of Englishman
18:33except what I've read in books.
18:36I don't know if you live in a house or a castle.
18:38Well, I shall try and be a regular mine of information.
18:42Yes, we do have a castle.
18:43It's in Scotland, though, I'm afraid.
18:45Does it have a mould?
18:45Oh, yes, it has.
18:46Yes, and a drawbridge and towers and dungeons
18:48and those funny slit things they used to fire arrows through.
18:52It would be most awfully kind of you
18:54to come and stay there sometime.
18:55Oh, I'd love to.
18:58Oh, hello, Percy.
18:59I was just saying to Miss Alden
19:00she must come and see the castle sometime.
19:02Oh, you, indeed.
19:04Excuse me.
19:04Mr. Beaumont, please tell me about Lord Lambeth's family.
19:22His, how would you say it in England, his position.
19:25His position?
19:27His rank, or whatever you call it.
19:30Unfortunately, we don't have that book,
19:31The Peerage, over here, like in Thackeray.
19:33Oh, that's a great pity.
19:34You'd find it all set forth there
19:36so much better than I could do it.
19:38He is a great noble, though.
19:40Oh, yes, he's a great noble.
19:42And has he any other title than Lord Lambeth?
19:45His title is the Marquess of Lambeth.
19:48And what about his father?
19:50His father is the Duke of Bayswater.
19:53Is he the eldest son?
19:54He is the only son.
19:56So that when his father dies,
19:58Lord Lambeth will become the Duke of Bayswater?
20:01Of course.
20:01But his father is in excellent health.
20:05And what about his mother?
20:06The Duchess is uncommonly robust.
20:09And has he any sisters?
20:10Two.
20:11What are they called?
20:13One of them is married.
20:14She is the Countess of Pimlico.
20:16And the other?
20:17The other is unmarried.
20:19She's playing Lady Julia.
20:23I see.
20:26Depend upon it.
20:27That girl means to try for you.
20:29It seems to me you're trying to make a fool of me.
20:32I wonder you should be so fond of her.
20:34Well, in the first place, how do you know I am fond of her?
20:37In the second, why shouldn't I be fond of her?
20:40I shouldn't have thought she'd have been in your line.
20:41What do you mean by my line?
20:43Well, I've never known you to be wildly in favor of blue stocking.
20:45Oh, is that what you call her?
20:48My sister tells me she's tremendously literary.
20:50Well, I don't know anything about that.
20:51She's certainly very clever.
20:53Well, I should have thought you would have found that sort of thing tremendously slow.
20:56Well, in point of fact, I find it uncommonly lively.
21:05Have you ridden to your mother, by the way?
21:06What?
21:07Well, once a week.
21:07You promised.
21:08We'd been here ten days.
21:09Oh, Lord.
21:12If there's one thing I hate worse than a bad horse, it's writing a letter.
21:15Well, you did give your word.
21:17Well, I'll do it directly after dinner.
21:19What the deuce shall I say?
21:20Well, just be free and amusing, you know?
21:23As if you were simply talking to her.
21:24Tell her what you've been doing, with whom.
21:27Whom you've been spending most of your time with.
21:30That sort of thing.
21:31Just a general gossip, you know?
21:34Yes, I suppose so.
21:36Mr. Beaumont must be in New York by now.
21:43Yes.
21:44I must say, your brother-in-law has certainly taken him under his wing.
21:47He seems to have found Percy the most tremendous shortcut
21:49so that he can sort out his business in a friendly way.
21:51Well, Mr. Westgate is very influential.
21:54Still, you must be used to that sort of thing.
21:57Oh?
21:58Influence.
21:59Authority.
22:00The power to do good.
22:01Oh, I can't compete with Mr. Westgate in that department.
22:04Oh, no, not here.
22:05But at home, in your natural habitat.
22:07Hey, steady on.
22:09You make me sound like a grizzly bear, or an antelope, or something.
22:12I am no longer deceived by your frivolity, Lord Lambert.
22:16I'm aware now that it's an Englishman's mask.
22:20Well, I am glad at any rate, Miss Alden, that you don't wear a mask.
22:24That would be a very great pity.
22:32Shall you ride today?
22:34Well, if you come with me again, you know,
22:36I'm afraid that your fast little American horses will run off with me.
22:39American horses are just as big as English ones.
22:41How do you know?
22:43You've never even seen an English one.
22:46Where are you going?
22:48To change, of course.
22:49Where do you ride in London?
23:07Richmond Park.
23:08Near Ladder-style gate, there's a very jolly ride.
23:10Welcome, strangers.
23:22We've been wondering where you've got to.
23:24Oh, Kitty, we rode all the way along the beach as far as one could go,
23:26and then we came back by the Sea Road.
23:28Oh, and then we had a race, which Bessie was kind enough to let me win.
23:30And then we dropped in at the Pearsons of Coombe Lane and had tea.
23:32Oh, Kitty, they've just had a huge consignment of the new French novels.
23:35Oh, and the most stunning pair of basset hounds sent out from England.
23:37Oh, I'm exhausted just listening to you.
23:39You were at the countryside between you.
23:42Oh, this telegram came for you this afternoon, Lord Lambert.
23:45Oh, well, I dare say it's from Percy in New York.
23:47No, Mr. Bournemouth returned this afternoon.
23:49Oh.
23:53Oh, the devil.
23:55What is it?
23:56It's from my mother.
23:58Father's been taken ill.
23:59I'm to come immediately.
24:05Oh, it's too bad, Bessie.
24:08Could have stayed forever.
24:10I needn't assure you that if you do come to London next year,
24:13I expect to be the first person you inform of it.
24:14Oh, if we do come to London, I should think you would hear of it.
24:24You know, Percy,
24:26if it had been anything else but father,
24:27I'm damned if I wouldn't have stayed.
24:30I do hope the old boy is not too bad.
24:33Very decent people.
24:35All of them.
24:37What did you put in your letter to the Duchess, Bournemouth?
24:41Oh, what you suggested, really.
24:43You know, a gossipy sort of thing.
24:47How many times have you mentioned Miss Alden?
24:50Oh, about six or seven, I suppose.
24:52How many times did you mention anybody else?
24:55About once each, I dare say.
24:58I wouldn't worry too much about your father's state of health.
25:01Oh, I say.
25:07You are a sly dog, Beaumont.
25:09I don't know what you're talking about.
25:10Yes, you do.
25:11You knew very well that I give myself in a way in a letter.
25:13That's why you made me write it.
25:15Oh, so you do admit there was something to give away
25:16between you and that little American girl.
25:19Oh, I'm interested in her.
25:23Yes.
25:24Very much so.
25:26But what my letter singularly failed to point out,
25:29and it's a pity because it could have saved everyone a lot of bother,
25:31is that she's not the slightest bit interested in me.
25:36My dear fellow,
25:38you're very far gone.
25:39I must say, Percy,
25:44you didn't look after him frightfully well.
25:47Who is this Miss...
25:49Bessie Alden that he mourned us on about?
25:52Oh, a charming little thing.
25:54A Boston-educated girl.
25:56The Americans fancy she has the English style.
25:59Do they?
26:00And how involved was Lambeth?
26:04Not very, I think.
26:07America, for some Englishmen,
26:08has the same effect as being upon board ship.
26:10And liaisons spring up,
26:11which are quite fierce at the time,
26:13but they cannot survive the touch of dry land.
26:15Or England.
26:16And this is in that category, you think?
26:18Give him a winter's hard hunting.
26:20He'll have forgotten all about it by the time she comes over.
26:23She means to follow him, then?
26:25She plans to come over with her sister
26:27next May.
26:30Does she?
26:38London, I can hardly believe it.
26:44And it's just as I imagined it so far anyway.
26:47And it'll be so nice already having friends here.
26:50What do you mean by friends?
26:52Oh, all those English gentlemen
26:53whom you have known and entertained.
26:55Do you expect them to give us a very grand reception?
26:58Well, yes.
26:59My poor sweet child.
27:01Kitty, don't be such an elder sister.
27:02What have I said that's so silly?
27:04You're a little too simple.
27:05Just a little.
27:06It is very becoming,
27:07but it does please people at your expense.
27:09Well, I'm certainly too simple to understand you.
27:12Shall I tell you a story?
27:13If you would be so good,
27:15that is what they do to amuse simple people.
27:17Did you ever hear of the Duke of Green Aaron?
27:19I think not.
27:21Well, it's no matter.
27:23It's a proof of my simplicity.
27:26The Duke of Green Aaron
27:28is what they call in England
27:29a great swell.
27:30Some five years ago,
27:32he came to New York with the Butterworths.
27:33They did everything in the world for him.
27:36They gave him a dozen dinner parties and bowls
27:37and were the means of his being invited to 50 more.
27:40He had a beautiful time
27:41and they partied the best of friends in the world.
27:44Two years elapse
27:45and the Butterworths come to London.
27:47The first thing they see in all the papers
27:49is that the Duke of Green Aaron
27:50has arrived in town for the season.
27:52They wait a little
27:53and then Mr. Butterworth,
27:55as polite as ever,
27:56goes and leaves the car.
27:57They wait a little more.
27:59The visit is not returned.
28:01The Butterworths see a lot of other people
28:02and put down the Duke of Green Aaron
28:04as a rude, ungrateful man
28:05and forget all about him.
28:08One fine day,
28:09they go to Ascot races
28:10and there they meet him face to face.
28:13He stares for a moment.
28:15I'm glad to see you,
28:16Mr. Butterworth, he says,
28:18so that I can pay you that ten pounds
28:20I lost you in New York.
28:21I saw by your card
28:23that you remembered our bet.
28:25Here are the ten pounds.
28:26Goodbye, Mr. Butterworth.
28:27And off he goes.
28:29And that is the last they see
28:31of the Duke of Green Aaron.
28:34I don't believe it.
28:36There is no smoke without fire.
28:42Kitty, is that the way
28:43you expect your friends to treat you?
28:45No, because I shall not
28:47give them the opportunity.
28:48I shall not call.
28:50I don't see what makes you talk that way.
28:53The English are a great people.
28:54Exactly, and that is just the way
28:56they've grown great
28:57by dropping you
28:58when you've ceased to be useful.
28:59People say they are not clever.
29:01I think they're very clever.
29:03You know you've liked them.
29:04All the Englishmen you have seen.
29:06They have liked me,
29:07which is a different matter.
29:09Well, whether they like me or not,
29:11I intend to like them.
29:13And happily,
29:14none of them owes me ten pounds.
29:16Very well, dear sister.
29:18Don't you intend to write to anyone?
29:22For example?
29:24Well,
29:24for example,
29:26Mr. Beaumont.
29:28Don't you mean Lord Lamberth?
29:30Very well, yes,
29:31I do mean Lord Lamberth.
29:33Of course,
29:33I will let him know
29:34we are here.
29:35I confess I am curious
29:36to see how he will behave.
29:38He behaved very well
29:39at Newport.
29:40Newport is not London.
29:41At Newport,
29:42he could do as he liked.
29:43Here it is another affair.
29:45He has to have an eye
29:45to consequences.
29:46What consequences?
29:48The appearance of things.
29:49Kitty,
29:50I have never heard
29:51so many hints
29:51and innuendos
29:52in my life.
29:53Would you please
29:54tell me in plain English
29:55what you mean?
30:04It will be said of you
30:05that you have come after
30:07Lord Lamberth,
30:08that you pursue him.
30:09But I have.
30:11I do.
30:12Bessie,
30:13young ladies do not
30:14blithely admit
30:15that kind of thing.
30:16Not even in America.
30:17Not even today.
30:19I shall not go shouting
30:20at a long piccadilly
30:20if that's what you mean.
30:22But Lord Lamberth
30:23means a great deal to me.
30:24I see no reason
30:25to conceal it from you.
30:26Bessie,
30:27I do not wish you
30:27to get too involved
30:28in English society.
30:29Why?
30:30You will see why.
30:31Shall you write or not?
30:32I will not write.
30:33That is to risk too much.
30:34I shall simply
30:37have my card sent in.
30:43If he thinks
30:44you have followed him,
30:45he will not come.
31:04It's only a note
31:27from the milliner
31:27in Bond Street.
31:29I never thought
31:30of it as being
31:31anything else.
31:32I'm delighted
31:32to hear it.
31:33To expect anything
31:34from Lord Lamberth
31:35after this long interval
31:36will be only to invite
31:37further disappointment.
31:39Oh, I'm no longer
31:40disappointed.
31:41I confess I was at first.
31:44Now I'm merely curious
31:45to see how a man
31:46so well-bred
31:47can be so well-mannered.
31:49The English have
31:50the best manners
31:50in the world,
31:52but only when it
31:53serves their purpose.
31:55Did you arrange
31:56the horses for tomorrow?
31:57At least they
31:58are beautifully behaved.
32:01James, dear,
32:01there isn't a time
32:02you were getting changed.
32:04For what, Mother?
32:06Well, there are plenty
32:07of things on tonight.
32:09I wonder you're not
32:10going to one of them.
32:11Look, I am perfectly
32:12well as I am.
32:15I don't always have
32:16to be jostling
32:17in a crowd, you know.
32:18Miss Alden and Mrs. Westgate.
32:42Oh, really, you know.
32:44You might have let a man
32:45know you were here.
32:46You mean you really
32:47didn't know?
32:47Oh, upon my honour.
32:49Well, admittedly,
32:49I've only been in town
32:50three weeks,
32:50but you must have been
32:51hiding yourselves away.
32:52I've not seen you anywhere.
32:53But we sent up...
32:53You are too tall
32:54to stand up, Lord Lambeth.
32:55You are only tolerable
32:56when you sit down.
32:57It's so good
32:58as to take a chair.
33:00I must say,
33:01it was jolly lucky
33:01you chose that particular
33:02spot to ride.
33:03What made you pick it?
33:04Oh, pure chance.
33:06Oh.
33:07Oh, I'd rather hoped
33:08it might have been
33:09because you had remembered
33:09my mentioning it
33:10during one of our rides
33:11at Newport.
33:13Well, how do you like
33:13London, Miss Alden?
33:14I think it's grand.
33:15I hope you're going
33:15to stay a long time.
33:16Oh, as long as I can.
33:19Where is Mr. Westgate?
33:20He's where he always is
33:22in that tiresome New York.
33:25Well, how do you like
33:27this place?
33:27Beastly hole, isn't it?
33:28I believe it's the best
33:29to tell in London.
33:30Well, they keep you
33:31awful rubbish to eat down there.
33:32Oh, yes.
33:33I'll tell you what.
33:34I shall dig out Beaumont.
33:35Now, he has one of the best
33:36cooks in London
33:37at his chambers.
33:38Now, you must come
33:38have lunch there tomorrow
33:39and she'll talk
33:40over old times
33:40at Newport
33:41if that wouldn't bore you.
33:43Oh, it sounds charming.
33:45They've arrived then
33:46and you're in for it.
33:48What exactly
33:49am I supposed to be in for?
33:50Well, let your mother
33:51give it a name
33:52with all respect to whom
33:53I must decline
33:54on this occasion
33:54to do any more police duty.
33:57Her grace must look
33:58after you herself.
33:59Well, I'll tell you what.
34:00I'll make a pact with her.
34:01I won't write her any letters
34:03and she won't send me
34:04and she won't send me
34:04any telegrams.
34:08Kitty?
34:09Hmm?
34:10Why did you stop me
34:12saying today
34:12that you had sent your card?
34:14Because it was perfectly obvious
34:15that Lord Lambeth
34:16really hadn't had it.
34:17Which could mean
34:18only one thing.
34:19What?
34:20That someone had intercepted it.
34:22His family
34:22had closed ranks.
34:24You mean to say
34:25they spy on him?
34:27Interfere with his affairs?
34:28I don't know
34:29what power they have
34:30to interfere
34:30but I do know
34:32that a British mama
34:33may worry her son's life out.
34:38I agree with Lord Lambeth,
34:40Mr. Burmert.
34:40You do have
34:41the best cook in London.
34:42How did you catch her?
34:43It's very simple, my dear.
34:45Just by being a bachelor.
34:46We're more appreciative.
34:47Oh, shame on you, sir.
34:48I protest.
34:49It's the absolute.
34:51Now, tell me,
34:51what have you been doing
34:52with yourselves all this time?
34:54Oh, lots.
34:54There's lots more
34:55I mean to do.
34:56On Thursday,
34:57I'm going to the Tower.
34:57The Tower?
34:59The Tower of London.
35:01Did you never hear of it?
35:02Yes, I've been there.
35:04I was taken there
35:05by my governess
35:05when I was six years old.
35:06It's a rum idea
35:07you're wanting to go there.
35:08Oh, do give me
35:09some more rum ideas.
35:10I want to see
35:10everything of that sort.
35:12I'm going to Hampton Court
35:13and to Windsor
35:14and wherever
35:15so many other places.
35:16Cat, I do believe
35:18you Americans
35:18would go anywhere.
35:20I must say
35:20London is a great deal
35:21brighter and prettier
35:22just now
35:23with all the flowers.
35:24I'm glad you think so.
35:25I have no doubt
35:25it is very charming
35:26for all you people
35:27and that you all
35:28amuse yourselves immensely.
35:30Everything is so beautifully
35:31arranged for you English.
35:33But it seems to me
35:33that we arrange things
35:34very well for you Americans,
35:35do we not?
35:36Do you complain
35:37of our hospitality?
35:38No,
35:39if one doesn't mind
35:40being patronized.
35:41Do you know
35:42what happened to me
35:42the last time I was here?
35:44A lady sent me a message
35:45that I was at liberty
35:46to come and see her.
35:47Oh dear,
35:47I hope you didn't go.
35:48No.
35:49We wish to go to Parliament.
35:50That's one of the prime things.
35:51Oh,
35:51but it would bore you to death.
35:53We wish to hear you speak.
35:55Oh,
35:55but I never speak
35:56except to young ladies.
35:59You're very strange.
36:01I don't think
36:01I approve of you.
36:03Oh,
36:03now don't be severe,
36:04Miss Alden.
36:05Please,
36:05don't be too severe.
36:06I want you to like me
36:07awfully.
36:09To like you
36:10awfully?
36:11Well,
36:11you must not laugh
36:12at me then
36:12when I make mistakes.
36:14I consider it my right
36:15as a freeborn American
36:16to make as many mistakes
36:17as I choose.
36:18Oh,
36:18now,
36:18upon my word,
36:19I wasn't laughing at you.
36:20And not only that,
36:21but I hold that all mistakes
36:22should be set down
36:23to my credit.
36:24You must think
36:25the better of me for them.
36:26But I can't think
36:27better of you
36:27than I do.
36:28You certainly speak
36:29very well to young ladies.
36:31But why don't you
36:32address the house?
36:33Isn't that what you call it?
36:34Because I have nothing to say.
36:36Haven't you a great position?
36:38I shall have to put that down
36:39as one of your mistakes
36:41to your credit.
36:43A little more coffee?
36:45Nothing.
36:45Mrs Westgate?
36:46Yes, please.
36:48No,
36:48but I do wish
36:48you'd let me come with you
36:49to Windsor
36:50and Hampton Court
36:51and all those other places.
36:53We'd be very happy
36:53to accept your company, sir.
36:55And, of course,
36:56I shall be delighted
36:56to show you
36:57the Houses of Parliament
36:58someday that suits you.
36:59There are lots of things
37:00I want to do for you.
37:00I want you both
37:01to have a splendid time.
37:04And then I should like
37:04very much to present
37:05some of my friends to you,
37:07if that wouldn't bore you.
37:08And then, of course,
37:09you must come down
37:09to Branches.
37:10We are much obliged
37:11to you, Lord Lamberth.
37:12What is Branches?
37:13Oh, it's a house
37:14in the country.
37:15I think you might like it.
37:17I'm sure it should be
37:17preferred to London
37:18in any event.
37:19Wouldn't you agree,
37:20Mr Beaumont?
37:21If you're trying
37:21to bring me to admit
37:22that London is an odious place,
37:24you'll not succeed.
37:25I'm extremely fond of it
37:26and I think it's
37:26the jolliest place
37:27in the world.
37:28For you English,
37:28of course,
37:29I never said the country.
37:30Well, where else
37:31should we be at home
37:32if not in our own country?
37:33I quite agree
37:34with a very clever
37:35countrywoman of mine.
37:36For me,
37:37there are only two
37:37social positions
37:38worth speaking of,
37:39that of an American lady
37:41and that of the
37:42Emperor of Russia.
37:44What do you do
37:44with American gentlemen?
37:46She leaves them
37:46in America.
37:48I think I both
37:49didn't know the answer.
37:50I don't see
37:51why Lord Lamberth
37:52did.
37:52Quite.
37:53Now, you can't expect
37:54everyone to know
37:54as much as you do,
37:55Betty.
37:55I should expect you
37:56to know a great deal more.
37:58But women always
37:59know more than men
38:00about names
38:01and dates
38:01and that sort of thing.
38:03I mean,
38:03remember last week
38:04of the town
38:04we heard about
38:05Lady Jane Grey
38:05who knew about
38:06Latin and Greek
38:08and all the learning
38:08of her age.
38:09But you've lived
38:10in the middle
38:10of all these things.
38:11In the middle of what?
38:13Axes and thumbscrews?
38:15You belong to
38:16a historical family.
38:18You're very
38:18disappointing,
38:19James.
38:20Oh, now,
38:20Bessie,
38:21don't say that.
38:22That is the worst
38:23possible thing
38:24you could have said.
38:25No,
38:25it's not a bad
38:26saying I'd expected
38:26nothing of you.
38:27Oh,
38:28I don't know.
38:28give me a notion
38:33of the kind
38:34of thing
38:34you expected.
38:36Well,
38:38you would be
38:39more like
38:40what I should
38:41try to be
38:42in your place.
38:43Ah,
38:44my place.
38:46Bessie,
38:46you're always
38:47talking about
38:47my place.
38:49Am I?
38:51I suppose I am.
38:53I thought about
38:53it a great deal,
38:55about your
38:56responsibility
38:56as a hereditary
38:57legislator.
38:58A hereditary
38:59legislator
39:00ought to know
39:00a great many
39:01things.
39:02But not if he
39:02doesn't legislate.
39:04Oh,
39:04but you will
39:04legislate.
39:05It's absurd
39:05to say you
39:06won't.
39:10You're very
39:11much looked up
39:11to here.
39:12I'm assured
39:12of that.
39:13Can't say I've
39:14ever noticed it.
39:15That's because
39:15you're used to it,
39:16then.
39:17You ought to
39:18fill your position.
39:20How do you
39:21mean,
39:21fill it?
39:22You ought to be
39:23very clever
39:24and brilliant
39:25and to know
39:26almost everything
39:27and to have
39:28a great mind
39:29and a great
39:30character.
39:33Shall I tell you
39:33something?
39:35A young person
39:36in my position,
39:37as you call it.
39:38I didn't invent
39:38the term.
39:39I've seen it
39:40in a great
39:40many books.
39:41Oh,
39:41hang it,
39:42Bessie.
39:42You're always
39:43at your books.
39:43a chap in my
39:47position,
39:47then,
39:48does very well
39:49whatever he does.
39:51That's about
39:52what I meant to say.
39:54Well,
39:55if your own people
39:56are content with you,
39:57who am I to complain?
39:59Very sensible
40:00viewpoint.
40:01Your mother asks me
40:13every time I see her
40:14if you're lost.
40:15It's rather embarrassing.
40:17Why, then,
40:18do you go to see her?
40:19I do not go to see her.
40:20I go to see Julia.
40:22Every time I turn up,
40:23your mama pounces
40:24and I'm hanged
40:25if I'll stop seeing
40:26your sister
40:26for fear of meeting
40:27your mother.
40:28What do you tell them
40:30when they quiz you
40:31about Bessie and me?
40:32I tell them
40:33that I know
40:34nothing about it.
40:35Oh,
40:36that's devilish
40:36considered of you,
40:37but what?
40:38You know,
40:38they never question me.
40:40Does your mother
40:41quiz you,
40:42pray,
40:42about Julia?
40:42No,
40:43but her reticence
40:44is a different source.
40:46My mother
40:46approves of Julia.
40:48Lucky Percy.
40:50Your mama and Julia
40:52say nothing
40:52because they're afraid
40:53of you.
40:54They're afraid
40:54of irritating you
40:55and making you worse.
40:56They think,
40:56quite naturally,
40:57that when you
40:57take to visiting
40:58the sights
40:59of the metropolis
41:00with a little
41:00American girl,
41:01there is serious
41:02cause for alarm.
41:03Well,
41:04if they interfere,
41:05they shall find me
41:06dangerous,
41:07I promise.
41:07Seeing the sights.
41:09The historical things,
41:10you know,
41:11from the books.
41:13Today,
41:13it's Hampton Court.
41:14Curious taste.
41:16And Lambeth
41:16is their courier?
41:19He's never so much
41:20as opened
41:20a history book.
41:22She must be a witch.
41:23He has asked me
41:30to call on her,
41:31but I shan't go.
41:34James!
41:37At your service,
41:38ma'am.
41:39Well,
41:40it's been very kind
41:41of you to introduce
41:41me and Kitty
41:42to so many
41:42of your friends.
41:44Why are there
41:45no intellectual people?
41:47You know,
41:48writers,
41:49philosophers,
41:50artists,
41:50people like that
41:51among them.
41:52Yes,
41:52I've noticed you seem
41:53to be awfully fond
41:53of that type of people.
41:54They are the people
41:55in England
41:55I'm most curious to see.
41:57I suppose that's
41:57because you've read so much.
41:59No,
42:00it's because we think
42:01so much of them at home.
42:02Oh,
42:02I see,
42:03in Boston.
42:04Not only in Boston,
42:05everywhere.
42:07We hold them
42:07in great honour.
42:08They go to the best
42:09dinner parties.
42:10Well,
42:10I dare say you're right.
42:12I just don't seem
42:12to know very many of them.
42:14It's pity you don't.
42:15It might do you good.
42:19Well,
42:19I dare say it might.
42:20I must say
42:21I don't like the looks
42:22of some of them.
42:23Most of them are charming.
42:24I've talked to two
42:25or three of them
42:26and I've always found
42:26they had a sort of
42:27fawning manner.
42:29Why should they fawn?
42:30I'm sure.
42:31I don't know why indeed.
42:33Maybe you only thought so.
42:35Well,
42:35that's the type of thing
42:36that can't be proved.
42:37In America,
42:38they don't fawn.
42:39Ah,
42:40well then,
42:41they must be better company.
42:42he is convinced
42:48that she's not
42:48that struck on him
42:49and that if she likes him
42:51at all,
42:52she likes him for himself.
42:53For himself?
42:55These little American
42:56madams would marry
42:57a monkey
42:57if you called it
42:58Marquess
42:58and put a coronet
42:59between its ears.
43:01She seems an adroit
43:02little thing.
43:03Has she enlisted you
43:04in her defence,
43:05Percy?
43:06I attempt neutrality.
43:08I swore I would not
43:09spy on James.
43:10I'm sure we require
43:11no such thing of you,
43:12my dear.
43:12A little interesting
43:13gossip is all we ask.
43:17He has asked them
43:18down to branches.
43:20Has he indeed?
43:23He, uh,
43:24has been asking us
43:26to call on them.
43:27We shall go.
43:29Tomorrow.
43:32I dare say my son
43:33has told you
43:34that we've been wanting
43:35to come and see you.
43:36He says you were
43:37so kind to him
43:38in America.
43:39We are very glad
43:40to have been able
43:40to make him comfortable.
43:42I believe he stayed
43:42at your house.
43:43Only a short time.
43:44Oh.
43:45Do you like London?
43:47Oh, very much indeed.
43:48Do you like this hotel?
43:49I find it very comfortable.
43:51Do you like stopping
43:52at hotels?
43:53I'm very fond of travelling
43:54and hotels are
43:56a necessary part of it.
43:57Oh.
43:58I hate travelling.
44:00My son tells me
44:01you're going to branches.
44:03Lord Lambeth
44:03has been so good
44:04as to ask us.
44:05He has asked me to go
44:06but I'm not sure
44:07I shall be able.
44:08Oh, I'm sure
44:08he will be desolate.
44:10I hate the country
44:12at this season.
44:13It's a matter of choice.
44:14I dare say
44:15you go out a great deal.
44:16Very little.
44:17We are strangers.
44:18We didn't come here
44:19for society.
44:20We only go and see
44:21a few people
44:21who we really like.
44:24Of course,
44:24one cannot like everyone.
44:26It depends
44:27on one's taste.
44:29My son tells me
44:30that the young ladies
44:31in America
44:31are so clever.
44:33I'm glad they made
44:34so good an impression
44:35on him.
44:35He is very susceptible.
44:37He thinks everyone clever.
44:38And sometimes they are.
44:40Sometimes.
44:41Yes, Lambeth is very susceptible
44:43but he's very volatile too.
44:46Volatile?
44:47Inconstant.
44:48It doesn't do
44:48to depend on him.
44:50Oh.
44:51I don't recognize
44:52that description.
44:53We have depended
44:53on him a great deal.
44:54He has never disappointed us.
44:56He will disappoint you yet?
44:58I suppose that will depend
44:59on what we expect of him.
45:01The less you expect
45:02the better.
45:03Well, we expect
45:04nothing unreasonable.
45:07Lambeth says he's seen
45:08a great deal of you.
45:10Oh, he's been to see us
45:10very often.
45:11He's been very kind.
45:13Do I dare say
45:14you're used to that?
45:15I'm told there's a great deal
45:16of that in America.
45:18A great deal of kindness?
45:19Oh, is that what you call it?
45:21I know you have
45:21different expressions.
45:22We certainly don't
45:23always understand each other.
45:25I'm speaking of the young men
45:26calling so much
45:27on the young ladies.
45:28But surely in England
45:29the young ladies
45:30don't call upon the young men.
45:33Some of them do,
45:34almost.
45:35If the young man
45:36is a great catch.
45:37Bessie,
45:38you must make a note of that.
45:40My sister is a model traveler.
45:41She writes down
45:42all the curious facts
45:43she hears
45:44in a little book
45:44she keeps for the purpose.
45:46Shall you be long
45:47at Branches?
45:48Lord Lambeth
45:49has asked us
45:50for three days.
45:51I shall go.
45:52And my daughter too.
45:53Oh, that will be charming.
45:55Delightful.
45:55I'll hope to see
45:56a great deal of you.
45:57When I go to Branches
45:58I always monopolize
45:59my son's guests.
46:00They must be most happy.
46:02I very much want to see it.
46:04Ah, you are fond
46:05of large country houses.
46:06Oh, immensely.
46:07It has been the dream
46:08of my life
46:09to live in one.
46:11Well, I will show you
46:12Branches myself.
46:14Every stone of it.
46:16Until then.
46:17Until then.
46:18So kind.
46:18Goodbye.
46:20Oh, by the way.
46:22Yes?
46:24I'm inclined to think
46:25that Lord Lambeth
46:26intends to propose
46:27to me at Branches.
46:28It would be a kindness
46:30were you tactfully
46:31to dissuade him.
46:32I would have to turn him down.
46:36Oh, did you see
46:46their faces?
46:47They came here
46:48to snubbers
46:49and you cut their heads off.
46:50Oh, Bessie.
46:52You are a deep one.
46:54I was sorry
46:55to have to tell them
46:56but they were so worried
46:57and I thought
46:59it might be kinder
47:00to Lord Lambeth.
47:01You mean you meant it?
47:04Oh, yes.
47:06Bessie, why?
47:08I do not love you, James.
47:10I thought that perhaps
47:11I could but I can't.
47:13But I thought
47:14I felt at given time.
47:17I was attracted
47:18by your picturesqueness.
47:21Your rank and glory.
47:23I associated you
47:24with everything
47:24I'd ever read
47:25about England
47:26and her great history.
47:28I would adore
47:29to be the Marchioness
47:30of Lambeth
47:31and live in a castle.
47:32But...
47:33But?
47:38Well,
47:39I find
47:40that I have
47:41a higher conception
47:42of what it means
47:43to be an aristocrat
47:44than you have.
47:46Newport,
47:47I thought you were
47:47hiding behind a mask
47:49and here I find
47:50the mask is you.
47:51But
47:52all those
47:53criticisms,
47:54I thought that was gammon.
47:56I thought you were
47:57pulling my leg.
47:58I told you once
47:59I meant everything I said.
48:01I always do.
48:04Oh, you're a dear,
48:06good man.
48:07And I would have
48:08made your life
48:08a misery
48:09by trying to turn you
48:10into some sort of
48:11lordly genius.
48:13Certainly I'm no genius.
48:16I should have thought
48:17it deuced uncomfortable
48:18if I were.
48:19You'll have a wonderful life.
48:21You'll be an adornment
48:22to society
48:23and you'll look
48:24marvellous
48:24when you're 70.
48:26Thank you for that.
48:28Is there nothing
48:29I can say?
48:31Peers should never plead.
48:33Goodbye.
48:36You will not come
48:37to branches then?
48:39I think not now,
48:40don't you?
48:40Well,
48:45goodbye.
48:57Seems a pity.
48:58Didn't you like him
48:59just a little bit?
49:00Oh, yes,
49:01very much.
49:02Well, then.
49:04I guess he just
49:05wasn't good enough
49:06for me.
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