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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:18,036 --> 00:01:21,163 Do you remember the storm? 2 00:01:21,290 --> 00:01:24,542 The bronze doors banging. 3 00:01:24,668 --> 00:01:28,754 The roses in cellophane. 4 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,506 The man who gave the get-together party 5 00:01:30,632 --> 00:01:33,968 and was never seen again. 6 00:01:34,094 --> 00:01:37,888 Do you remember how the sun came out on our last evening 7 00:01:38,015 --> 00:01:40,474 just as it has done today? 8 00:01:45,188 --> 00:01:47,398 So much to remember. 9 00:01:50,986 --> 00:01:52,820 How many days have there been since then 10 00:01:52,946 --> 00:01:55,698 when we haven't seen each other? 11 00:01:55,824 --> 00:01:57,116 A hundred, do you think? 12 00:01:57,242 --> 00:01:59,035 Oh, not so many. 13 00:01:59,161 --> 00:02:01,912 Two Christmases 14 00:02:02,039 --> 00:02:05,791 to keep up appearances for the sake of the children. 15 00:02:09,588 --> 00:02:12,298 Oh, and the three days of good taste 16 00:02:12,424 --> 00:02:14,383 before I followed you to Capri. 17 00:02:14,509 --> 00:02:16,260 Our first summer. 18 00:02:19,514 --> 00:02:21,641 Do you remember how I hung about in Naples 19 00:02:21,767 --> 00:02:23,559 and then followed? 20 00:02:23,685 --> 00:02:26,187 How we met by arrangement on the hill path 21 00:02:26,313 --> 00:02:27,688 and how flat it felt? 22 00:02:27,814 --> 00:02:29,357 I went back to the villa and said, 23 00:02:29,483 --> 00:02:31,567 "Papa, who do you think's arrived at the hotel?" 24 00:02:31,693 --> 00:02:33,986 And he said, "Charles Ryder, I suppose." 25 00:02:34,112 --> 00:02:36,030 And I said, "Whatever made you think of him?" 26 00:02:36,156 --> 00:02:40,785 And he said, "He seems to have a penchant for my children." 27 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:44,440 There was the time you had jaundice 28 00:02:44,498 --> 00:02:45,998 and wouldn't let me see you. 29 00:02:46,124 --> 00:02:47,977 And when I had flu, and you were afraid to come. 30 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:49,377 Yes. 31 00:02:52,631 --> 00:02:55,007 A hundred days. 32 00:02:55,133 --> 00:02:58,761 Out of two years and a bit. 33 00:02:58,887 --> 00:03:03,557 Not a day's coldness or mistrust or disappointment. 34 00:03:03,684 --> 00:03:05,559 Never that. 35 00:03:12,442 --> 00:03:14,026 Let's go and change. 36 00:03:24,705 --> 00:03:28,082 How many more do you think? 37 00:03:28,208 --> 00:03:30,000 Another hundred? 38 00:03:30,127 --> 00:03:32,628 A lifetime. 39 00:03:32,754 --> 00:03:35,506 I want to marry you, Charles. 40 00:03:35,632 --> 00:03:37,717 One day. Why now? 41 00:03:37,843 --> 00:03:43,389 War, this year, next year, sometime soon. 42 00:03:43,515 --> 00:03:47,810 I want a year or two with you of real peace. 43 00:03:47,936 --> 00:03:50,312 Isn't this peace? 44 00:03:57,237 --> 00:04:00,156 What do you mean by peace if not this? 45 00:04:00,282 --> 00:04:03,576 So much more. 46 00:04:03,702 --> 00:04:05,286 Marriage isn't a thing we can take 47 00:04:05,412 --> 00:04:06,996 when the mood strikes us. 48 00:04:07,122 --> 00:04:10,332 There must be a divorce, two divorces. 49 00:04:10,459 --> 00:04:12,793 We must make plans. 50 00:04:12,919 --> 00:04:17,923 Plans, divorce, war. 51 00:04:18,049 --> 00:04:21,427 On an evening like this? 52 00:04:21,553 --> 00:04:23,304 Sometimes I feel the past and future 53 00:04:23,430 --> 00:04:25,264 pressing so hard on either side, 54 00:04:25,390 --> 00:04:28,851 there doesn't seem room for the present at all. 55 00:04:28,977 --> 00:04:30,478 Yes, Wilcox? 56 00:04:30,604 --> 00:04:32,730 Lord Brideshead's just telephoned, milady. 57 00:04:32,856 --> 00:04:34,536 He says not to wait dinner for him, please. 58 00:04:34,649 --> 00:04:35,900 He'll be a little late. 59 00:04:36,026 --> 00:04:37,443 Thank you, Wilcox. 60 00:04:41,364 --> 00:04:44,200 It seems months since he was last here. 61 00:04:44,326 --> 00:04:45,576 Yes. 62 00:04:45,702 --> 00:04:47,912 What does he do in London? 63 00:04:48,038 --> 00:04:50,873 It was often a matter for speculation between us, 64 00:04:50,999 --> 00:04:53,167 giving birth to many fantasies, 65 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:55,795 for Bridey was a mystery. 66 00:04:55,921 --> 00:04:58,214 The talk of his going into the army 67 00:04:58,340 --> 00:05:01,342 and into parliament and into a monastery 68 00:05:01,468 --> 00:05:03,427 had all come to nothing. 69 00:05:03,553 --> 00:05:06,138 All that he was known with certainty to have done- 70 00:05:06,264 --> 00:05:08,891 and this because, in a season of scant news, 71 00:05:09,017 --> 00:05:11,227 it had formed the subject of a newspaper article 72 00:05:11,353 --> 00:05:14,188 entitled "Peer's Unusual Hobby"- 73 00:05:14,314 --> 00:05:17,733 was to form a collection of matchboxes. 74 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:20,361 You mean it's all your fault? 75 00:05:20,487 --> 00:05:22,613 Well... 76 00:05:24,574 --> 00:05:25,908 Hello, Bridey. 77 00:05:26,034 --> 00:05:27,618 Bridey, we're almost finished. 78 00:05:27,744 --> 00:05:30,371 Oh, well. Only you two? 79 00:05:30,497 --> 00:05:33,958 I hoped to find Rex here. 80 00:05:34,084 --> 00:05:35,668 How are you? 81 00:05:35,794 --> 00:05:37,378 What's the news? 82 00:05:37,504 --> 00:05:39,880 Well, as a matter of fact, I do have some news, 83 00:05:40,006 --> 00:05:41,549 but it can wait. 84 00:05:41,675 --> 00:05:44,051 Tell us now. 85 00:05:47,180 --> 00:05:48,597 How's the painting, Charles? 86 00:05:48,723 --> 00:05:50,015 Which painting? 87 00:05:50,141 --> 00:05:52,184 Whatever you have on the stocks. 88 00:05:52,310 --> 00:05:55,604 Well, I've begun a picture of Julia, 89 00:05:55,730 --> 00:05:57,857 but the light was difficult all day today. 90 00:05:57,983 --> 00:06:00,442 Julia? Haven't you done her before? 91 00:06:00,569 --> 00:06:02,319 I suppose it's a change from architecture 92 00:06:02,445 --> 00:06:04,154 and much more difficult. 93 00:06:04,281 --> 00:06:06,282 The world is full of different subjects. 94 00:06:06,408 --> 00:06:08,826 Very true, Bridey. 95 00:06:08,952 --> 00:06:11,579 If I were a painter, 96 00:06:11,705 --> 00:06:13,914 I should choose a different subject every time. 97 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,958 Really? 98 00:06:16,084 --> 00:06:17,960 What sort of subjects? 99 00:06:18,086 --> 00:06:20,546 Oh, I don't know really. 100 00:06:20,672 --> 00:06:22,548 Subjects with plenty of action in them, 101 00:06:22,674 --> 00:06:26,635 like Macbeth, perhaps. 102 00:06:33,935 --> 00:06:35,853 By the way, I've been meaning to ask you, 103 00:06:35,979 --> 00:06:37,605 what happened to Mother's jewels? 104 00:06:37,731 --> 00:06:40,733 Cordelia and I had most of her things. 105 00:06:40,859 --> 00:06:42,151 This was hers. 106 00:06:42,277 --> 00:06:43,903 And this. 107 00:06:44,029 --> 00:06:45,529 The rest went to the bank. 108 00:06:45,655 --> 00:06:47,948 Aren't there some rather famous rubies 109 00:06:48,074 --> 00:06:49,533 someone was telling me? 110 00:06:49,659 --> 00:06:51,419 Yes, a necklace. Mummy often used to wear it. 111 00:06:51,536 --> 00:06:52,786 Don't you remember? 112 00:06:52,913 --> 00:06:54,705 Why, anyway? 113 00:06:54,831 --> 00:06:58,000 I just thought I'd like to take a look at them someday. 114 00:07:03,173 --> 00:07:06,175 I say Papa isn't going to pop them, is he? 115 00:07:06,301 --> 00:07:07,968 He's not in debt again? 116 00:07:08,094 --> 00:07:10,304 No, no, nothing like that. 117 00:07:13,391 --> 00:07:16,101 Come on, Bridey, don't be so mysterious. 118 00:07:16,227 --> 00:07:18,020 Out with it. 119 00:07:30,325 --> 00:07:31,992 Well, you have only to wait until Monday 120 00:07:32,118 --> 00:07:34,954 to see it in black and white in the newspapers. 121 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,664 I am engaged to be married. 122 00:07:36,790 --> 00:07:38,207 I hope you're pleased. 123 00:07:38,333 --> 00:07:40,167 Bridey! How very excitingl. 124 00:07:40,293 --> 00:07:41,502 Who to? 125 00:07:41,628 --> 00:07:43,337 Oh, no one you know. 126 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:45,255 Is she pretty? 127 00:07:45,382 --> 00:07:48,759 I don't think you would exactly call her pretty. 128 00:07:48,885 --> 00:07:51,887 Comely is the word I think of in her connection. 129 00:07:52,013 --> 00:07:54,056 She's a big woman. 130 00:07:54,182 --> 00:07:55,641 What, fat? 131 00:07:55,767 --> 00:07:58,143 No, big. 132 00:07:58,269 --> 00:08:00,521 She's called Mrs. Muspratt. 133 00:08:00,647 --> 00:08:02,356 Her Christian name is Beryl. 134 00:08:02,482 --> 00:08:04,525 I've known her for quite a long time, 135 00:08:04,651 --> 00:08:07,027 but until last year, she had a husband. 136 00:08:07,153 --> 00:08:08,988 Now she's a widow. 137 00:08:09,114 --> 00:08:10,739 Why do you laugh? 138 00:08:10,865 --> 00:08:13,575 I'm sorry. It's not in the least funny. 139 00:08:13,702 --> 00:08:16,286 It's just so unexpected. 140 00:08:19,165 --> 00:08:21,875 Is she... 141 00:08:22,002 --> 00:08:23,419 is she about your own age? 142 00:08:23,545 --> 00:08:25,295 Just about, I believe. 143 00:08:25,422 --> 00:08:27,381 She has three children. 144 00:08:27,507 --> 00:08:30,134 The eldest boy has just gone to Ampleforth. 145 00:08:30,260 --> 00:08:31,844 She is not at all well off. 146 00:08:31,970 --> 00:08:35,723 Where did you find her? 147 00:08:35,849 --> 00:08:37,683 Her late husband, Admiral Muspratt, 148 00:08:37,809 --> 00:08:39,643 collected matchboxes. 149 00:08:45,150 --> 00:08:47,317 You're not marrying her for her matchboxes? 150 00:08:47,444 --> 00:08:50,279 No, the whole collection went to Falmouth Town Library. 151 00:08:50,405 --> 00:08:52,823 I have a great affection for her. 152 00:08:52,949 --> 00:08:54,783 In spite of all her difficulties, 153 00:08:54,909 --> 00:08:57,244 she's a very cheerful woman, 154 00:08:57,370 --> 00:08:58,829 very fond of acting. 155 00:08:58,955 --> 00:09:01,206 She's a member of the Catholic Players Guild. 156 00:09:03,418 --> 00:09:04,793 Does Papa know? 157 00:09:04,919 --> 00:09:06,545 I had a letter from him this morning 158 00:09:06,671 --> 00:09:08,255 giving me his approval. 159 00:09:08,381 --> 00:09:10,466 He's been urging me for some time to marry. 160 00:09:10,592 --> 00:09:15,095 Well... 161 00:09:15,221 --> 00:09:16,722 congratulations, Bridey. 162 00:09:16,848 --> 00:09:18,682 Yes. 163 00:09:18,808 --> 00:09:20,559 Congratulations. 164 00:09:20,685 --> 00:09:23,228 Thank you. Thank you. 165 00:09:23,354 --> 00:09:25,856 I think I'm very fortunate. 166 00:09:47,003 --> 00:09:49,129 Bridey, when are we going to meet her? 167 00:09:49,255 --> 00:09:52,466 I do think you might have brought her down with you. 168 00:09:52,592 --> 00:09:55,302 Bridey, 169 00:09:55,428 --> 00:09:57,429 you sly, smug old brute, 170 00:09:57,555 --> 00:09:58,847 why didn't you bring her here? 171 00:09:58,973 --> 00:10:00,307 Oh, I couldn't do that, you know. 172 00:10:00,433 --> 00:10:01,850 Why couldn't you? 173 00:10:01,976 --> 00:10:04,186 I'm dying to meet her. 174 00:10:04,312 --> 00:10:06,605 Let's ring her up and ask her. 175 00:10:06,731 --> 00:10:08,398 She'll think us most peculiar 176 00:10:08,525 --> 00:10:10,234 leaving her alone at a time like this. 177 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:11,860 She has the children. 178 00:10:11,986 --> 00:10:16,657 Besides, you are peculiar, aren't you? 179 00:10:16,783 --> 00:10:18,283 What can you mean? 180 00:10:18,409 --> 00:10:20,869 I could hardly ask her here as things are. 181 00:10:20,995 --> 00:10:22,204 It wouldn't be suitable. 182 00:10:22,330 --> 00:10:24,289 After all, I'm only a lodger here. 183 00:10:24,415 --> 00:10:25,749 This is Rex's house at the moment 184 00:10:25,875 --> 00:10:27,251 so far as it's anybody's. 185 00:10:27,377 --> 00:10:29,378 What goes on here is his business. 186 00:10:29,504 --> 00:10:33,257 But I couldn't bring Beryl here. 187 00:10:33,383 --> 00:10:36,593 I simply don't understand. 188 00:10:36,719 --> 00:10:39,346 Of course Rex and I want her to come. 189 00:10:39,472 --> 00:10:41,056 Oh, yes, I don't doubt that. 190 00:10:41,182 --> 00:10:43,433 But the difficulty is quite otherwise. 191 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:45,811 You must understand that Beryl is a woman 192 00:10:45,937 --> 00:10:47,771 of strict Catholic principle, 193 00:10:47,897 --> 00:10:50,732 fortified by the prejudices of the middle classes. 194 00:10:50,859 --> 00:10:52,943 I couldn't possibly bring her here. 195 00:10:53,069 --> 00:10:54,611 It is a matter of indifference 196 00:10:54,737 --> 00:10:56,196 whether you choose to live in sin 197 00:10:56,322 --> 00:10:58,115 with Rex or Charles or both. 198 00:10:58,241 --> 00:11:01,493 I have always avoided inquiry into the details of your ménage, 199 00:11:01,619 --> 00:11:04,621 but in no case would Beryl consent to be your guest. 200 00:11:09,627 --> 00:11:11,336 Why, you pompous ass. 201 00:11:13,965 --> 00:11:15,382 I may have given the impression 202 00:11:15,508 --> 00:11:17,509 that this was a marriage of convenience. 203 00:11:17,635 --> 00:11:19,970 I cannot speak for Beryl. 204 00:11:20,096 --> 00:11:22,055 No doubt the security of my position 205 00:11:22,182 --> 00:11:24,975 has some influence on her. 206 00:11:25,101 --> 00:11:27,603 Indeed, she has said as much. 207 00:11:27,729 --> 00:11:29,855 But for myself, let me emphasize 208 00:11:29,981 --> 00:11:32,232 I am ardently attracted. 209 00:11:32,358 --> 00:11:34,443 Bridey, 210 00:11:34,569 --> 00:11:36,862 what a bloody offensive thing to say to Julia. 211 00:11:36,988 --> 00:11:40,115 There was nothing she should object to. 212 00:11:40,241 --> 00:11:43,368 I was merely stating a fact well known to her. 213 00:13:17,505 --> 00:13:20,257 Aren't you cold? 214 00:13:24,846 --> 00:13:26,972 My darling, what is it? 215 00:13:30,059 --> 00:13:32,894 Why do you mind? 216 00:13:33,021 --> 00:13:36,315 What does it matter what the old booby says? 217 00:13:36,441 --> 00:13:38,442 I don't. 218 00:13:38,568 --> 00:13:40,736 It doesn't. 219 00:13:40,862 --> 00:13:42,612 It's just the shock. 220 00:13:45,199 --> 00:13:47,284 Don't laugh at me. 221 00:13:49,162 --> 00:13:52,789 How dare he speak to you like that? 222 00:13:52,915 --> 00:13:55,334 The cold-blooded old humbug. 223 00:13:58,254 --> 00:14:00,047 No, it's not that. 224 00:14:00,173 --> 00:14:01,840 He's quite right. 225 00:14:04,677 --> 00:14:07,721 They know all about it, Bridey and his widow. 226 00:14:10,183 --> 00:14:14,561 They bought it for a penny at the church door. 227 00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:17,022 You can get anything there for a penny in black and white, 228 00:14:17,148 --> 00:14:18,774 and nobody to see that you paid. 229 00:14:18,900 --> 00:14:20,108 Just take your tract. 230 00:14:20,234 --> 00:14:22,027 There you've got it. 231 00:14:26,157 --> 00:14:28,241 All in one word too, 232 00:14:28,368 --> 00:14:33,372 one little, flat, deadly word that covers a lifetime. 233 00:14:33,498 --> 00:14:35,332 Living in sin, 234 00:14:35,458 --> 00:14:38,960 not just doing wrong, as I did when I went to America, 235 00:14:39,087 --> 00:14:40,462 doing wrong, knowing it's wrong, 236 00:14:40,588 --> 00:14:43,590 stopping doing it, forgetting it. 237 00:14:43,716 --> 00:14:46,968 That's not what they mean. That's not Bridey's pennyworth. 238 00:14:50,431 --> 00:14:53,517 He means just what it says. 239 00:14:53,643 --> 00:14:56,103 Living in sin every hour, 240 00:14:56,229 --> 00:15:01,149 every day, year in, year out. 241 00:15:01,275 --> 00:15:04,111 It's always the same. 242 00:15:05,947 --> 00:15:08,031 Like an idiot child, carefully nursed, 243 00:15:08,157 --> 00:15:10,409 guarded from the world. 244 00:15:10,535 --> 00:15:12,411 "Poor Julia," they say. "She can't go out. 245 00:15:12,537 --> 00:15:14,538 "She's got to take care of her little sin. 246 00:15:14,664 --> 00:15:16,123 "A pity it ever lived," they say. 247 00:15:16,249 --> 00:15:19,835 But it's so strong. 248 00:15:22,171 --> 00:15:24,714 Children like that always are. 249 00:15:24,841 --> 00:15:28,802 Julia's so good to her little, mad sin. 250 00:15:36,686 --> 00:15:41,648 All those years when I was trying... 251 00:15:41,774 --> 00:15:44,776 to be a good wife 252 00:15:44,902 --> 00:15:50,532 in the cigar smoke... 253 00:15:50,658 --> 00:15:58,081 when I was trying to bear his child... 254 00:15:58,207 --> 00:16:04,212 torn in pieces by something already dead, 255 00:16:04,338 --> 00:16:07,382 putting him away, forgetting him, 256 00:16:07,508 --> 00:16:10,260 finding you, 257 00:16:10,386 --> 00:16:15,557 the past two years with you... 258 00:16:15,683 --> 00:16:21,480 all the future with you or without you... 259 00:16:21,606 --> 00:16:26,985 war coming... 260 00:16:27,111 --> 00:16:29,905 world ending, 261 00:16:30,031 --> 00:16:32,866 sin. 262 00:16:40,208 --> 00:16:42,834 It's a word from so long ago. 263 00:16:47,089 --> 00:16:50,800 From Nanny Hawkins stitching by the hearth 264 00:16:50,927 --> 00:16:54,846 and the night-light burning before the Sacred Heart. 265 00:16:58,768 --> 00:17:00,936 Me and Cordelia with the catechism 266 00:17:01,062 --> 00:17:03,980 in Mummy's room before lunch and on Sundays. 267 00:17:08,694 --> 00:17:12,989 Mummy carrying my sin with her to church, 268 00:17:13,115 --> 00:17:15,367 bowed under it. 269 00:17:19,539 --> 00:17:24,167 Mummy dying with my sin eating at her 270 00:17:24,293 --> 00:17:27,754 more cruelly than her own deadly illness. 271 00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:32,008 Mummy dying with it. 272 00:17:32,134 --> 00:17:33,468 Christ dying with it, 273 00:17:33,594 --> 00:17:38,723 nailed hand and foot, 274 00:17:38,849 --> 00:17:42,978 high among the crowds and the soldiers. 275 00:17:43,104 --> 00:17:47,399 There's no comfort except a sponge of vinegar 276 00:17:47,525 --> 00:17:52,862 and the kind words of a thief, 277 00:17:52,989 --> 00:17:56,741 hanging forever 278 00:17:56,867 --> 00:18:00,328 over the bed in the night nursery. 279 00:18:08,838 --> 00:18:11,256 There's no way back. 280 00:18:14,385 --> 00:18:16,886 The gate's barred. 281 00:18:17,013 --> 00:18:20,515 All the saints and angels posted along the wall. 282 00:18:23,561 --> 00:18:27,272 Thrown away, scrapped, rotting down. 283 00:18:31,861 --> 00:18:34,195 Nameless and dead. 284 00:18:38,492 --> 00:18:40,327 Like the baby they wrapped up 285 00:18:40,453 --> 00:18:45,165 and took away before I had a chance to see her. 286 00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:33,088 Well, Bridey is one for bombshells, isn't he? 287 00:20:01,701 --> 00:20:03,410 Considering that I've just recovered 288 00:20:03,536 --> 00:20:05,745 from a fit of hysteria, 289 00:20:05,871 --> 00:20:09,582 I don't call that at all bad. 290 00:20:09,709 --> 00:20:14,295 Most hysterical women look as if they got a bad cold. 291 00:20:14,422 --> 00:20:15,922 Come on. 292 00:20:16,048 --> 00:20:17,674 We're not going down again? 293 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:19,467 Of course. 294 00:20:19,593 --> 00:20:22,554 We can't leave Bridey alone on his engagement night. 295 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:24,013 Can't we? 296 00:20:28,769 --> 00:20:32,188 I'm sorry about that appalling scene, Charles. 297 00:20:32,314 --> 00:20:34,441 I can't explain it. 298 00:20:46,203 --> 00:20:47,954 Was it nice out? 299 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,499 If I had known you were going, I'd have gone too. 300 00:20:51,625 --> 00:20:55,420 It was rather cold. 301 00:20:55,546 --> 00:20:57,839 I hope it's not going to be inconvenient for Rex 302 00:20:57,965 --> 00:20:59,632 moving out of here. 303 00:20:59,759 --> 00:21:01,676 You see, Barton Street is much too small for us 304 00:21:01,802 --> 00:21:03,052 and the three children. 305 00:21:03,179 --> 00:21:05,805 Besides, Beryl likes the country. 306 00:21:05,931 --> 00:21:07,599 In his letter, Papa proposed 307 00:21:07,725 --> 00:21:11,394 making over the whole estate right away. 308 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:15,648 I'm sure he'll be sorry to leave. 309 00:21:15,775 --> 00:21:17,192 Oh, don't worry. 310 00:21:17,318 --> 00:21:20,737 Rex will find another bargain somewhere. 311 00:21:20,863 --> 00:21:23,239 Trust him. 312 00:21:23,365 --> 00:21:25,325 Beryl has some furniture of her own 313 00:21:25,451 --> 00:21:27,035 she's very attached to. 314 00:21:27,161 --> 00:21:29,454 I don't think it would go very well here. 315 00:21:29,580 --> 00:21:32,332 You know, oak dressers and coffin stools and things. 316 00:21:32,458 --> 00:21:34,793 I thought you could put it in Mother's room. 317 00:21:34,919 --> 00:21:36,961 Yes, that would be the place for it. 318 00:21:37,087 --> 00:21:38,963 Of course, nobody's used that room for years... 319 00:21:39,089 --> 00:21:40,715 So brother and sister sat and talked 320 00:21:40,841 --> 00:21:44,677 about the arrangement of the house until bedtime. 321 00:21:44,804 --> 00:21:46,513 An hour ago, I thought, 322 00:21:46,639 --> 00:21:50,058 by the fountain, she wept her heart out 323 00:21:50,184 --> 00:21:52,143 for the death of her God. 324 00:21:52,269 --> 00:21:54,562 Now she is discussing whether Beryl's children 325 00:21:54,688 --> 00:21:56,356 shall take the old smoking room 326 00:21:56,482 --> 00:21:59,567 or the schoolroom for their own. 327 00:21:59,693 --> 00:22:01,903 I was all at sea. 328 00:22:06,367 --> 00:22:08,326 I won't believe that great spout of tears 329 00:22:08,452 --> 00:22:12,372 came just from a few words of Bridey's. 330 00:22:12,498 --> 00:22:15,041 You must have been thinking about it before. 331 00:22:15,167 --> 00:22:17,961 Hardly at all. 332 00:22:18,087 --> 00:22:20,672 Now and then. 333 00:22:20,798 --> 00:22:25,593 More lately with the Last Trump so near. 334 00:22:25,719 --> 00:22:28,805 Of course, it's a thing psychologists could explain. 335 00:22:32,476 --> 00:22:34,644 A pre-conditioning from childhood, 336 00:22:34,770 --> 00:22:36,354 feelings of guilt from all the nonsense 337 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,690 you were taught in the nursery. 338 00:22:48,742 --> 00:22:51,452 But you do know in your heart 339 00:22:51,579 --> 00:22:54,038 that it's all bosh, don't you? 340 00:22:57,126 --> 00:23:00,628 How I wish it was. 341 00:23:00,754 --> 00:23:02,171 Do you know, Sebastian once said 342 00:23:02,298 --> 00:23:04,674 almost the same thing to me. 343 00:23:07,761 --> 00:23:12,390 He's gone back to the Church, you know. 344 00:23:12,516 --> 00:23:17,520 Of course, he's never left it as definitely as I did. 345 00:23:17,646 --> 00:23:20,940 I've gone too far. 346 00:23:21,066 --> 00:23:24,152 There's no turning back. 347 00:23:24,278 --> 00:23:25,737 I know that, if that's what you mean 348 00:23:25,863 --> 00:23:28,698 by thinking it all bosh. 349 00:23:33,871 --> 00:23:36,748 Let's go out again. 350 00:24:14,328 --> 00:24:16,829 It's like the setting for a comedy. 351 00:24:16,956 --> 00:24:22,043 A baroque fountain in the nobleman's grounds. 352 00:24:24,421 --> 00:24:27,757 Act one, sunset. 353 00:24:27,883 --> 00:24:31,010 Act two, moonlight. 354 00:24:31,136 --> 00:24:33,805 Act three, towards dawn. 355 00:24:33,931 --> 00:24:35,890 The characters keep assembling at the fountain 356 00:24:36,016 --> 00:24:38,142 for no very clear reason. 357 00:24:38,268 --> 00:24:40,311 Comedy. 358 00:24:40,437 --> 00:24:41,980 Drama, 359 00:24:42,106 --> 00:24:45,316 tragedy, farce. 360 00:24:45,442 --> 00:24:47,860 What you will. 361 00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:53,866 This is the reconciliation scene. 362 00:24:56,203 --> 00:24:59,497 Was there a quarrel? 363 00:24:59,623 --> 00:25:03,751 Misunderstanding and estrangement in Act Two. 364 00:25:03,877 --> 00:25:06,671 Don't talk in that damned bounderish way. 365 00:25:06,797 --> 00:25:09,757 Why must you see everything secondhand? 366 00:25:09,883 --> 00:25:11,551 Why must this be a play? 367 00:25:15,806 --> 00:25:17,265 It's a way I have. 368 00:25:17,391 --> 00:25:19,225 I hate it. 369 00:25:25,524 --> 00:25:27,400 Now do you see how I hate it? 370 00:25:31,780 --> 00:25:33,698 Did that hurt? 371 00:25:33,824 --> 00:25:36,117 Yes. 372 00:25:36,243 --> 00:25:38,995 Did it? 373 00:25:39,121 --> 00:25:40,580 Did I? 374 00:25:43,083 --> 00:25:45,501 Cat on the rooftop. 375 00:25:45,627 --> 00:25:48,546 Oh, beast. 376 00:25:58,140 --> 00:26:01,100 Cat in the moonlight. 377 00:26:21,163 --> 00:26:23,748 Your poor face. 378 00:26:26,794 --> 00:26:28,961 Will there be a mark tomorrow? 379 00:26:29,088 --> 00:26:32,173 L... l expect so. 380 00:26:36,470 --> 00:26:39,472 Charles, am I going crazy? 381 00:26:42,601 --> 00:26:43,810 What's happened here tonight? 382 00:26:43,936 --> 00:26:46,354 Shh. 383 00:26:52,653 --> 00:26:54,821 I'm so tired. 384 00:27:00,035 --> 00:27:02,411 So tired. 385 00:27:04,498 --> 00:27:07,708 Tired and crazy and good for nothing. 386 00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:16,676 All I can hope to do is put my life in some sort of order. 387 00:27:16,802 --> 00:27:21,097 That's why I want to marry you. 388 00:27:21,223 --> 00:27:24,225 I should like to have a child. 389 00:27:27,688 --> 00:27:30,439 That's one thing I can do. 390 00:27:49,293 --> 00:27:50,960 So you're being divorced. 391 00:27:51,086 --> 00:27:52,670 Isn't that rather unnecessary 392 00:27:52,796 --> 00:27:57,258 after being happy together all these years? 393 00:27:57,384 --> 00:27:59,385 We weren't particularly happy, you know. 394 00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:00,970 Weren't you? 395 00:28:01,096 --> 00:28:02,930 Were you not? 396 00:28:03,056 --> 00:28:05,224 I distinctly remember last Christmas 397 00:28:05,350 --> 00:28:07,643 seeing you together and thinking how happy you looked 398 00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:10,396 and wondering why. 399 00:28:10,522 --> 00:28:13,065 You'll find it very disturbing, you know, starting off again. 400 00:28:13,192 --> 00:28:15,443 How old are you? 34? 401 00:28:15,569 --> 00:28:18,988 That's no time to be starting. You ought to be settling down. 402 00:28:19,114 --> 00:28:20,907 Have you made any plans? 403 00:28:21,033 --> 00:28:22,617 Yes. 404 00:28:22,743 --> 00:28:23,951 I intend to get married again 405 00:28:24,077 --> 00:28:25,953 as soon as the divorce is through. 406 00:28:26,079 --> 00:28:29,415 Well, I do call that a lot of nonsense. 407 00:28:29,541 --> 00:28:31,542 I can understand a man wishing he hadn't married 408 00:28:31,668 --> 00:28:33,211 and trying to get out of it. 409 00:28:33,337 --> 00:28:36,214 Though I never felt anything of the kind myself. 410 00:28:36,340 --> 00:28:37,506 But to get rid of one wife 411 00:28:37,633 --> 00:28:39,091 and take up with another immediately 412 00:28:39,218 --> 00:28:41,594 is beyond all reason. 413 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,056 I've seen a few divorces in my time. 414 00:28:45,182 --> 00:28:49,727 I've never known one work out so happily for all concerned. 415 00:28:49,853 --> 00:28:52,021 Almost always, 416 00:28:52,147 --> 00:28:54,774 however matey people are at the start, 417 00:28:54,900 --> 00:29:00,238 bad blood crops up as soon as they get down to detail. 418 00:29:00,364 --> 00:29:02,281 Mind you, I don't mind saying 419 00:29:02,407 --> 00:29:04,492 there have been times in the last couple of years 420 00:29:04,618 --> 00:29:06,744 when I thought you were a bit rough on Celia. 421 00:29:14,795 --> 00:29:17,630 Of course it's different when it's one's own sister, 422 00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:23,344 but I've always thought her a jolly attractive girl. 423 00:29:23,470 --> 00:29:26,722 The sort of girl any chap would be glad to have. 424 00:29:26,848 --> 00:29:28,266 Artistic too. 425 00:29:28,392 --> 00:29:30,977 Just down your street. 426 00:29:37,234 --> 00:29:40,444 I must admit, you're a good picker. 427 00:29:43,198 --> 00:29:46,033 I've always had a soft spot for Julia. 428 00:29:46,159 --> 00:29:52,790 Well, I suppose if Julia insists on a divorce, 429 00:29:52,916 --> 00:29:56,085 she must have one. 430 00:29:56,211 --> 00:29:59,213 My God, she couldn't have chosen a worse time. 431 00:29:59,339 --> 00:30:01,132 Things had not gone as smoothly for Rex 432 00:30:01,258 --> 00:30:03,259 as he had planned. 433 00:30:03,385 --> 00:30:05,469 Only war could put his fortunes right 434 00:30:05,595 --> 00:30:07,722 and carry him into power. 435 00:30:07,848 --> 00:30:11,142 A divorce would do him no great harm, 436 00:30:11,268 --> 00:30:14,812 but he was like a gambler with a big bank running. 437 00:30:14,938 --> 00:30:17,565 He could not look up from the table. 438 00:30:17,691 --> 00:30:20,067 Tell her to... 439 00:30:20,193 --> 00:30:21,819 tell her to hang on a bit, Charles. 440 00:30:21,945 --> 00:30:24,780 There's a good fellow. 441 00:30:37,044 --> 00:30:40,755 I met the widow at luncheon. 442 00:30:40,881 --> 00:30:43,591 Did you? 443 00:30:43,717 --> 00:30:46,010 Do you know what she said to me? 444 00:30:46,136 --> 00:30:49,972 "So you're divorcing one divorced man 445 00:30:50,098 --> 00:30:51,515 "and marrying another. 446 00:30:51,641 --> 00:30:53,392 "It sounds rather complicated, 447 00:30:53,518 --> 00:30:54,685 but, my dear"- 448 00:30:54,811 --> 00:30:57,313 she called me "my dear" about 20 times- 449 00:30:57,439 --> 00:31:00,066 "I've usually found that every Catholic family 450 00:31:00,192 --> 00:31:01,817 "has one lapsed member, 451 00:31:01,943 --> 00:31:05,488 and it's often the nicest." 452 00:31:05,614 --> 00:31:06,822 What's she like? 453 00:31:06,948 --> 00:31:09,075 Majestic. 454 00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:10,493 And voluptuous. 455 00:31:10,619 --> 00:31:12,370 Common, of course. 456 00:31:12,496 --> 00:31:13,788 I'll tell you one thing. 457 00:31:13,914 --> 00:31:15,623 She's lied to Bridey about her age. 458 00:31:15,749 --> 00:31:17,500 She's a good 45. 459 00:31:17,626 --> 00:31:20,544 I don't see her providing an heir. 460 00:31:20,670 --> 00:31:22,963 Bridey can't take his eyes off her. 461 00:31:23,090 --> 00:31:24,970 He was gloating on her in the most revolting way 462 00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:27,051 all through luncheon. 463 00:31:27,177 --> 00:31:28,928 Was she friendly? 464 00:31:29,054 --> 00:31:30,596 Goodness, yes. 465 00:31:30,722 --> 00:31:33,391 In a condescending way. 466 00:31:33,517 --> 00:31:35,851 I think it put her rather at ease 467 00:31:35,977 --> 00:31:38,104 to have me there as the black sheep. 468 00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:39,855 She concentrated on me, in fact, 469 00:31:39,981 --> 00:31:43,984 said rather pointedly she hoped to see me often in London. 470 00:31:44,111 --> 00:31:46,695 I think Bridey's scruples only extend to her sleeping 471 00:31:46,822 --> 00:31:48,280 under the same roof with me. 472 00:31:48,407 --> 00:31:50,658 Apparently, I can do her no serious harm 473 00:31:50,784 --> 00:31:54,620 in a hat shop or hairdresser's. 474 00:31:54,746 --> 00:31:56,997 The scruples are all on Bridey's part, anyway. 475 00:31:57,124 --> 00:31:58,624 The widow is madly tough. 476 00:31:58,750 --> 00:31:59,917 Does she boss him? 477 00:32:00,043 --> 00:32:02,002 Not yet, much. 478 00:32:02,129 --> 00:32:04,505 He's in an amorous stupor, poor beast, 479 00:32:04,631 --> 00:32:07,842 and doesn't really know where he is. 480 00:32:07,968 --> 00:32:09,760 She's just a good-hearted woman 481 00:32:09,886 --> 00:32:11,804 who wants a good home for her children 482 00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:14,432 and isn't going to let anything stand in her way. 483 00:32:19,896 --> 00:32:22,356 A telephone message, milady, from Lady Cordelia. 484 00:32:22,482 --> 00:32:26,986 Lady Cordelia? How marvelous. 485 00:32:27,112 --> 00:32:28,320 Where is she? 486 00:32:28,447 --> 00:32:29,822 In London, milady. 487 00:32:29,948 --> 00:32:31,574 Wilcox, how lovely. 488 00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:32,825 Is she coming home? 489 00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:34,577 Just starting for the station, milady. 490 00:32:34,703 --> 00:32:35,870 She'll be here after dinner. 491 00:32:35,996 --> 00:32:37,496 Thank you. 492 00:32:42,586 --> 00:32:45,754 I haven't seen her since I took her to dinner at the Ritz 493 00:32:45,881 --> 00:32:48,549 and she talked about becoming a nun. 494 00:32:48,675 --> 00:32:52,845 It must be 12 years. 495 00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:55,389 She was an enchanting child. 496 00:32:55,515 --> 00:32:58,309 She's had an odd life. 497 00:32:58,435 --> 00:32:59,894 First the convent, 498 00:33:00,020 --> 00:33:02,730 and when that was no good, the war in Spain. 499 00:33:02,856 --> 00:33:04,690 Then staying on when the war was over 500 00:33:04,816 --> 00:33:06,942 and helping in the camps. 501 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:21,832 She's grown up quite plain, you know. 502 00:33:21,958 --> 00:33:23,334 Does she know about us? 503 00:33:23,460 --> 00:33:25,419 Yes. 504 00:33:25,545 --> 00:33:28,881 She wrote me a sweet letter. 505 00:33:57,244 --> 00:34:02,414 It hurt to think of Cordelia growing up quite plain, 506 00:34:02,541 --> 00:34:04,833 to think of all that burning love 507 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,086 spending itself on serum injections 508 00:34:07,212 --> 00:34:09,713 and delousing powder. 509 00:34:09,839 --> 00:34:12,091 When she arrived, tired from her journey, 510 00:34:12,217 --> 00:34:13,926 rather shabby, 511 00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:17,429 moving in the manner of one who has no interest in pleasing, 512 00:34:17,556 --> 00:34:20,683 I thought her an ugly woman. 513 00:34:20,809 --> 00:34:22,309 It was odd, I thought, 514 00:34:22,435 --> 00:34:24,812 how the same ingredients, differently dispersed, 515 00:34:24,938 --> 00:34:32,194 could produce Brideshead, Sebastian, Julia, and her. 516 00:34:34,406 --> 00:34:38,534 It's wonderful to be home. 517 00:34:38,660 --> 00:34:41,996 My job's over in Spain. 518 00:34:42,122 --> 00:34:44,498 The authorities were very polite, 519 00:34:44,624 --> 00:34:46,500 thanked me for all I'd done, 520 00:34:46,626 --> 00:34:49,712 gave me a medal, 521 00:34:49,838 --> 00:34:54,300 and sent me packing. 522 00:34:54,426 --> 00:34:56,510 Mind you, it looks as though there'll be plenty 523 00:34:56,636 --> 00:34:59,054 of the same sort of work over here soon. 524 00:34:59,180 --> 00:35:02,600 Rex seems pretty certain. 525 00:35:02,726 --> 00:35:05,311 He's made up his mind there's going to be war. 526 00:35:08,148 --> 00:35:10,858 I wonder what Papa will do. 527 00:35:13,987 --> 00:35:16,238 Where is Rex? Is he coming down? 528 00:35:16,364 --> 00:35:17,740 No. 529 00:35:17,866 --> 00:35:19,658 The lawyers insisted on a formal separation, 530 00:35:19,784 --> 00:35:21,160 so he's moved back to London. 531 00:35:21,286 --> 00:35:23,537 I'm only staying until Bridey's installed 532 00:35:23,663 --> 00:35:27,041 with the widow and her children. 533 00:35:27,167 --> 00:35:30,711 He wrote to me and said if I was homeless, 534 00:35:30,837 --> 00:35:33,213 I could stay here after they moved in. 535 00:35:33,340 --> 00:35:36,175 I don't know, though. 536 00:35:36,301 --> 00:35:39,345 Mrs. Muspratt and the three boys. 537 00:35:43,516 --> 00:35:46,769 Maybe I'll get myself a flat in London. 538 00:35:51,066 --> 00:35:57,404 Situation became one of increasing gravity... 539 00:35:57,530 --> 00:35:58,781 till at last... 540 00:35:58,907 --> 00:36:02,368 Hello, Nanny. 541 00:36:02,494 --> 00:36:06,664 Ahl Ohl 542 00:36:06,790 --> 00:36:08,624 I knew you'd be up. 543 00:36:08,750 --> 00:36:12,878 Mr. Wilcox sent to tell me you were coming. 544 00:36:14,964 --> 00:36:17,257 I brought you some lace. 545 00:36:21,471 --> 00:36:24,682 Oh, that is nice, dear. 546 00:36:24,808 --> 00:36:28,352 Just like her poor ladyship used to wear at mass. 547 00:36:28,478 --> 00:36:32,356 Though why they made it black I never did understand, 548 00:36:32,482 --> 00:36:35,776 seeing lace is white naturally. 549 00:36:35,902 --> 00:36:39,697 Well, that'll be very welcome I'm sure. 550 00:36:44,619 --> 00:36:45,786 Now... 551 00:36:45,912 --> 00:36:47,913 May we turn the wireless off, Nanny? 552 00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:50,082 Oh, why, of course. 553 00:36:50,208 --> 00:36:51,792 I didn't notice it was on 554 00:36:51,918 --> 00:36:54,712 in the pleasure of seeing you. 555 00:36:54,838 --> 00:36:59,007 Isn't it splendid about Julia and Charles getting married? 556 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,932 Well, I hope it's all for the best. 557 00:37:07,058 --> 00:37:10,811 Brideshead has certainly taken long enough to make up his mind. 558 00:37:10,937 --> 00:37:15,691 I've hunted all through Debrett, and I couldn't find any mention 559 00:37:15,817 --> 00:37:18,068 of Mrs. Muspratt's connections. 560 00:37:18,194 --> 00:37:21,155 She caught him, I daresay. 561 00:37:23,491 --> 00:37:25,325 What have you done to your hair? 562 00:37:25,452 --> 00:37:28,579 Oh, I know, it's terrible. 563 00:37:28,705 --> 00:37:32,416 I must get all that put right now I'm back. 564 00:37:32,542 --> 00:37:35,043 Darling Nanny. 565 00:37:35,170 --> 00:37:37,421 I saw Sebastian last month. 566 00:37:37,547 --> 00:37:41,091 What a time he's been gone. Was he quite well? 567 00:37:41,217 --> 00:37:43,677 Not very. That's why I went. 568 00:37:43,803 --> 00:37:46,180 It's quite near, you know, from Spain to Tunis. 569 00:37:46,306 --> 00:37:48,515 He's with the monks there. 570 00:37:48,641 --> 00:37:51,477 Oh, well, I hope they look after him properly. 571 00:37:51,603 --> 00:37:55,063 I expect they find him a regular handful. 572 00:37:55,190 --> 00:37:57,608 He always sends to me at Christmas. 573 00:37:57,734 --> 00:38:01,195 Though it's not the same as having him home. 574 00:38:02,947 --> 00:38:06,700 He's got a beard now, and he's very religious. 575 00:38:06,826 --> 00:38:09,578 That I won't believe, not even if I see it. 576 00:38:09,704 --> 00:38:11,997 He was always a little heathen. 577 00:38:12,123 --> 00:38:17,002 Brideshead was one for church, not Sebastian. 578 00:38:17,128 --> 00:38:18,921 And a beardl. 579 00:38:19,047 --> 00:38:21,048 Only fancy. 580 00:38:21,174 --> 00:38:23,550 Such a nice, fair skin as he had, 581 00:38:23,676 --> 00:38:25,177 always looked clean, 582 00:38:25,303 --> 00:38:27,596 though he'd not been near water all day. 583 00:38:27,722 --> 00:38:33,060 While Brideshead, there was no doing anything with. 584 00:38:42,737 --> 00:38:44,780 Cordelial. 585 00:38:44,906 --> 00:38:47,574 What? 586 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:49,368 Come and tell me about Sebastian. 587 00:38:49,494 --> 00:38:51,411 Not now, Charles. 588 00:38:51,538 --> 00:38:54,373 It's a long story. Tomorrow. 589 00:38:54,499 --> 00:38:57,334 Good night. 590 00:38:57,460 --> 00:38:59,461 Good night. 591 00:39:02,841 --> 00:39:06,093 I had not forgotten Sebastian. 592 00:39:06,219 --> 00:39:09,179 He was with me daily in Julia, 593 00:39:09,305 --> 00:39:11,557 or perhaps it was Julia I had known in him 594 00:39:11,683 --> 00:39:15,644 in those distant Arcadian days. 595 00:39:15,770 --> 00:39:19,731 Every stone of the house had a memory of him, 596 00:39:19,858 --> 00:39:22,484 and hearing him spoken of by Cordelia 597 00:39:22,610 --> 00:39:25,571 as someone she had seen a month ago, 598 00:39:25,697 --> 00:39:28,991 my lost friend filled my thoughts. 599 00:39:31,035 --> 00:39:33,996 I heard he was dying. 600 00:39:34,122 --> 00:39:36,206 A journalist in Burgos told me 601 00:39:36,332 --> 00:39:40,210 who'd just arrived from North Africa. 602 00:39:40,336 --> 00:39:44,715 A down-and-out called Flyte, 603 00:39:44,841 --> 00:39:47,342 whom the people said was an English lord, 604 00:39:47,468 --> 00:39:49,011 had been found starving 605 00:39:49,137 --> 00:39:52,764 and taken in to a monastery near Carthage. 606 00:39:52,891 --> 00:39:55,559 That was how the story reached me. 607 00:39:55,685 --> 00:39:58,478 I knew it couldn't quite be true. 608 00:39:58,605 --> 00:40:00,439 However little we did for Sebastian, 609 00:40:00,565 --> 00:40:04,026 at least he got his money sent to him. 610 00:40:04,152 --> 00:40:08,238 But I started off at once. 611 00:40:08,364 --> 00:40:11,742 It was quite easy to find him. 612 00:40:11,868 --> 00:40:14,828 I just went to the consulate. 613 00:40:14,954 --> 00:40:18,415 Apparently he'd turned up in Tunis one day 614 00:40:18,541 --> 00:40:23,962 and applied to be taken on as a missionary lay brother. 615 00:40:24,088 --> 00:40:28,759 The fathers took one look at him and turned him down. 616 00:40:28,885 --> 00:40:32,095 Then he started drinking again. 617 00:40:35,224 --> 00:40:40,187 He lived in a little hotel on the edge of the Arab Quarter. 618 00:40:40,313 --> 00:40:43,690 I went to see the place later. 619 00:40:43,816 --> 00:40:46,693 It was a bar with a few rooms over it 620 00:40:46,819 --> 00:40:52,532 smelling of hot oil and garlic and stale wine. 621 00:40:52,659 --> 00:40:56,328 He stayed there a month drinking Greek absinthe. 622 00:41:00,541 --> 00:41:03,752 They loved him there. 623 00:41:03,878 --> 00:41:05,879 He's still loved, you see, 624 00:41:06,005 --> 00:41:09,508 whatever he does, whatever condition he's in. 625 00:41:12,637 --> 00:41:16,306 It's a thing about him that he'll never lose. 626 00:41:19,435 --> 00:41:21,186 They thought very ill of his family 627 00:41:21,312 --> 00:41:24,189 for leaving him like that. 628 00:41:24,315 --> 00:41:28,694 It wouldn't happen with their people, they said. 629 00:41:28,820 --> 00:41:32,990 And I daresay they're right. 630 00:41:33,116 --> 00:41:35,409 Anyway, that was later. 631 00:41:35,535 --> 00:41:37,703 After the consulate, I went straight to the monastery, 632 00:41:37,829 --> 00:41:40,372 and I saw the superior. 633 00:41:40,498 --> 00:41:42,499 He told me his part of the story. 634 00:41:46,129 --> 00:41:48,505 So I sent him away. 635 00:41:48,631 --> 00:41:53,218 He kept coming back two, three times a week, 636 00:41:53,344 --> 00:41:55,387 always drunk, 637 00:41:55,513 --> 00:42:00,225 until I gave orders to the porter to keep him out. 638 00:42:00,351 --> 00:42:02,894 He must have been a terrible nuisance to you. 639 00:42:03,021 --> 00:42:06,064 I don't know what I can do to help him, 640 00:42:06,190 --> 00:42:08,608 except pray. 641 00:42:08,735 --> 00:42:11,194 Finally, we found him unconscious 642 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,363 outside the main gate. 643 00:42:13,489 --> 00:42:18,577 He had fallen down and had lain there all night. 644 00:42:18,703 --> 00:42:20,871 At first, we thought that he was merely drunk again. 645 00:42:20,997 --> 00:42:24,541 Then we realized that he was very ill. 646 00:42:24,667 --> 00:42:27,169 So we took him to the infirmary. 647 00:42:27,295 --> 00:42:29,629 He has been there ever since. 648 00:42:33,051 --> 00:42:34,885 They'd given him a room to himself 649 00:42:35,011 --> 00:42:38,555 just off the cloisters. 650 00:42:38,681 --> 00:42:41,183 He looked terrible. 651 00:42:41,309 --> 00:42:43,643 Any age. 652 00:42:43,770 --> 00:42:45,854 At first, he couldn't talk much. 653 00:42:45,980 --> 00:42:47,397 But I stayed a fortnight with him 654 00:42:47,523 --> 00:42:50,275 until he was over the worst of his illness. 655 00:42:50,401 --> 00:42:54,071 And then he told me what had been happening to him. 656 00:42:54,197 --> 00:42:59,409 It was mostly about Kurt, his German friend. 657 00:42:59,535 --> 00:43:02,913 Well, you've met him, so you know all about that. 658 00:43:03,039 --> 00:43:06,208 He sounds gruesome. 659 00:43:06,334 --> 00:43:08,919 He said they went to Greece, 660 00:43:09,045 --> 00:43:11,379 and Kurt had got arrested after some brawl 661 00:43:11,506 --> 00:43:13,965 and sent back to Germany. 662 00:43:14,092 --> 00:43:17,177 It was the time when they were rounding up all their nationals 663 00:43:17,303 --> 00:43:20,639 from all parts of the world to make them into Nazis. 664 00:43:23,768 --> 00:43:25,977 Sebastian followed. 665 00:43:37,698 --> 00:43:41,827 For a year, he couldn't find any trace of him. 666 00:43:41,953 --> 00:43:43,829 Then in the end, he ran him to earth 667 00:43:43,955 --> 00:43:48,875 dressed as a storm trooper in a provincial town. 668 00:43:49,001 --> 00:43:54,047 At first, he wouldn't have anything to do with Sebastian, 669 00:43:54,173 --> 00:43:56,174 spouting all that official jargon 670 00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:58,260 about the rebirth of his country. 671 00:44:00,513 --> 00:44:02,472 But it was only skin-deep with him. 672 00:44:05,726 --> 00:44:07,686 Six years of Sebastian 673 00:44:07,812 --> 00:44:10,272 had taught him more than a year of Hitler. 674 00:44:13,401 --> 00:44:14,776 Eventually, Kurt chucked it 675 00:44:14,902 --> 00:44:16,403 and admitted that he hated Germany 676 00:44:16,529 --> 00:44:20,282 and wanted to get out. 677 00:44:20,408 --> 00:44:23,368 I don't know how much it was simply the call of the easy life 678 00:44:23,494 --> 00:44:27,247 sponging on Sebastian. 679 00:44:27,373 --> 00:44:30,834 He said it wasn't entirely that, 680 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,920 but Kurt had just begun to grow up. 681 00:44:36,257 --> 00:44:40,135 Maybe he's right. 682 00:44:40,261 --> 00:44:43,471 Anyway, it didn't work. 683 00:44:43,598 --> 00:44:46,766 Kurt always got into trouble whatever he did. 684 00:44:46,893 --> 00:44:48,101 Finally, they caught him, 685 00:44:48,227 --> 00:44:50,770 and they put him in a concentration camp. 686 00:44:52,982 --> 00:44:55,275 Sebastian couldn't get near him. 687 00:44:58,070 --> 00:45:00,614 He didn't even know what camp he was in. 688 00:45:03,451 --> 00:45:07,204 So he hung about in Germany for another year, 689 00:45:07,330 --> 00:45:12,125 drinking again, 690 00:45:12,251 --> 00:45:15,295 until one day in his cups, 691 00:45:15,421 --> 00:45:18,173 he took up with a man who'd just been out of the camp 692 00:45:18,299 --> 00:45:23,136 where Kurt had been... 693 00:45:23,262 --> 00:45:25,847 and learned that he'd hanged himself in his hut 694 00:45:25,973 --> 00:45:27,766 in the first week. 695 00:45:33,272 --> 00:45:36,524 So that was the end of Europe for Sebastian. 696 00:45:44,450 --> 00:45:49,996 He went back to North Africa where he'd been happy. 697 00:46:42,258 --> 00:46:43,800 I once had a governess 698 00:46:43,926 --> 00:46:48,513 who jumped off this bridge and drowned herself. 699 00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:50,849 I know. 700 00:46:50,975 --> 00:46:53,476 How could you know? 701 00:46:53,602 --> 00:46:55,645 It was the first thing I ever heard about you 702 00:46:55,771 --> 00:46:58,732 before I ever met you. 703 00:46:58,858 --> 00:47:00,734 How very odd. 704 00:47:18,753 --> 00:47:20,920 Have you told Julia this about Sebastian? 705 00:47:23,007 --> 00:47:26,301 The substance of it. 706 00:47:26,427 --> 00:47:30,138 Not quite as I told you. 707 00:47:30,264 --> 00:47:34,225 She never really loved him, you know, 708 00:47:34,352 --> 00:47:36,353 as we do. 709 00:47:43,694 --> 00:47:46,196 Poor old Sebastian. 710 00:47:46,322 --> 00:47:49,699 It's quite pitiful. 711 00:47:49,825 --> 00:47:52,577 How will it end? 712 00:47:52,703 --> 00:47:56,122 I think I can tell you exactly, Charles. 713 00:47:56,248 --> 00:47:58,833 I've seen others like him. 714 00:47:58,959 --> 00:48:04,214 And I believe that they are very near and dear to God. 715 00:48:04,340 --> 00:48:06,549 They'll let him stay there, 716 00:48:06,675 --> 00:48:11,054 living half in and half out of the community. 717 00:48:11,180 --> 00:48:14,140 He'll be a great favorite with the old fathers 718 00:48:14,266 --> 00:48:19,270 and something of a joke with the novices. 719 00:48:19,397 --> 00:48:21,648 There are usually a few odd hangers-on 720 00:48:21,774 --> 00:48:24,067 in a religious house. 721 00:48:24,193 --> 00:48:26,403 You know, 722 00:48:26,529 --> 00:48:29,072 people who don't quite fit in to either the world 723 00:48:29,198 --> 00:48:32,534 or the monastic rule. 724 00:48:32,660 --> 00:48:36,496 I suppose I'm something of that sort myself, 725 00:48:36,622 --> 00:48:39,749 but as I don't happen to drink, I'm more employable. 726 00:48:43,712 --> 00:48:47,841 He'll disappear for two or three days every month or so, 727 00:48:47,967 --> 00:48:51,553 and they'll all nod and smile and say, 728 00:48:51,679 --> 00:48:57,434 "Old Sebastian on a spree again." 729 00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:01,563 Then one day, after one of his drinking bouts, 730 00:49:01,689 --> 00:49:05,316 he'll be picked up at the gate dying 731 00:49:05,443 --> 00:49:08,695 and show by the mere flicker of his eyelids 732 00:49:08,821 --> 00:49:10,405 that he is conscious 733 00:49:10,531 --> 00:49:13,241 when they give him the last sacraments. 734 00:49:17,496 --> 00:49:21,082 Not such a bad way of getting through one's life. 735 00:49:21,208 --> 00:49:24,294 It's not what one would have foretold. 736 00:49:29,508 --> 00:49:31,426 I suppose he doesn't suffer? 737 00:49:34,805 --> 00:49:37,807 Oh, yes, I think he does. 738 00:49:40,561 --> 00:49:44,939 One has no idea what the suffering may be 739 00:49:45,065 --> 00:49:48,401 to be as maimed as he is. 740 00:49:50,321 --> 00:49:52,739 No dignity. 741 00:49:52,865 --> 00:49:55,074 No power of will. 742 00:49:58,162 --> 00:50:01,998 No one is truly holy without suffering. 743 00:50:04,877 --> 00:50:06,794 Holy? 744 00:50:06,921 --> 00:50:09,589 Yes. 745 00:50:11,675 --> 00:50:14,928 That's what you've got to understand about Sebastian. 746 00:50:23,187 --> 00:50:26,397 He's in a very beautiful place, you know. 747 00:50:26,524 --> 00:50:29,692 White cloisters, a bell tower, 748 00:50:29,818 --> 00:50:31,110 rows of green vegetables, 749 00:50:31,237 --> 00:50:33,404 and a monk watering them when the sun is low. 750 00:50:33,531 --> 00:50:35,740 You knew I wouldn't understand. 751 00:50:41,205 --> 00:50:43,414 You and Julia. 752 00:50:59,139 --> 00:51:01,474 Tell me, Charles, 753 00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,477 when you first met me last night, 754 00:51:04,603 --> 00:51:09,524 did you think, "Poor Cordelia, such an engaging child", 755 00:51:09,650 --> 00:51:12,443 "grown into a plain and pious spinster, 756 00:51:12,570 --> 00:51:14,821 full of good works"? 757 00:51:14,947 --> 00:51:18,449 Did you think... 758 00:51:18,576 --> 00:51:22,704 thwarted? 759 00:51:22,830 --> 00:51:24,956 Yes, I did. 760 00:51:28,043 --> 00:51:31,170 But now I'm not so sure. 761 00:51:31,297 --> 00:51:32,839 It's funny, you know. 762 00:51:32,965 --> 00:51:35,508 That's exactly the word that I thought for you and Julia 763 00:51:35,634 --> 00:51:38,928 when I saw you up in the nursery with Nanny. 764 00:51:39,054 --> 00:51:41,431 Thwarted passion, I thought. 765 00:51:41,557 --> 00:51:43,057 My divorce case, 766 00:51:43,183 --> 00:51:44,892 or rather my wife's, 767 00:51:45,019 --> 00:51:46,853 was due to be heard about the same time 768 00:51:46,979 --> 00:51:49,105 as Brideshead was married. 769 00:51:49,231 --> 00:51:52,358 But he was to have no triumphal return. 770 00:51:52,484 --> 00:51:53,943 Lord Marchmain, 771 00:51:54,069 --> 00:51:57,113 with a taste for the dramatically inopportune, 772 00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:58,656 declared his intention, 773 00:51:58,782 --> 00:52:00,992 in view of the international situation, 774 00:52:01,118 --> 00:52:02,660 of returning to England 775 00:52:02,786 --> 00:52:06,873 and passing his declining years in his old home. 55119

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