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[Woman]
♪At last the glittering queen of night♪
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♪With black caress kills off♪
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♪Kills off the day♪
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Mr. Chandos was a man
who spent more time with his gardener...
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than with his wife.
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They discussed plum trees...
ad nauseam.
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♪♪[Woman Continues Singing In Distance]
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He gave his family and his tenants
cause to dread September...
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for they were regaled with plums
until their guts rumbled like thunder...
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and their backsides ached
from overuse.
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He built the chapel at Fovant...
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where the pew seats
are of plum wood...
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so the tenants still have cause to
remember Chandos through their backsides...
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on account of the splinters.
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♪At last the glittering queen of night♪
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♪With black caress kills off♪
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♪Kills off the day♪
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Some years ago,
two gentlemen went back to Amsterdam...
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saying that Allhevinghay
was just like home.
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There was so much water,
so many ornamental ponds...
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so many canals,
so many sinks and basins.
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There was even a wind pump.
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What they had not realized was...
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my father had made his land
into a pattern of reservoirs...
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because he was terrified of fire.
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There was even a room
under the front stairs...
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that housed 200 buckets...
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all of them filled with water.
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I know because
whenever I was taken short...
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my brothers and I used to
rush in there and use them.
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[Laughing]
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[Sighs] Those buckets were filled
before my mother died.
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I expect them to be still there...
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with the same water of 30 years ago,
I shouldn't wonder...
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mixed with a little of myself, of course.
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I used to pee like a horse.
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I still do.
[Chuckling]
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♪For those that walk♪
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♪That walk♪
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♪With hopeful step♪
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♪In garden♪
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♪In garden♪
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♪In garden love to find♪
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At Southampton,
there is a house I have admired...
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because from the side
it looks so flat.
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It is of white Portland stone...
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and on a cloudy day, it looks as though
it might be attached to the sky.
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- Especially in the evening.
- Its owner is a Miss Anterim.
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She is a lady without a husband.
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From the side, Miss Anterim is
also a lady without significance.
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Maybe that is why, unlike her house,
the lady is unattached.
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What with one flatness
and another, Mr. Neville...
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as a painter
and as a draughtsman-
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You could be entertained, it seems.
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[Together]
Especially in the evening, from the side.
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♪For those that walk♪
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♪That walk♪
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It is said that the Duc de Courcy
invited his water mechanic...
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to the top of an elaborate cascade
he had built...
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and asked him if he could build
such a marvel for anyone else.
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The man, after offering
various thanks and pleasantries...
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finally admitted that with
sufficient patronage he probably could.
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The Duc de Courcy pushed him
gently in the small of the back...
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and the wretched man
plummeted to a watery death.
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[All Laughing]
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♪Their hope to find success♪
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♪They're sure to make♪
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Now, Mr. Noyes, do you have
a ribald piece of gossip for me?
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Madam, I am here to fulfill
a role as entertainer...
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sol am sure that sooner or later
I could find something for you.
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Then you are here on merit- a characteristic
that the rest of the company does not share...
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being here merely to express
confidence in one another's money.
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- Madam, you are one of the company.
- My meretricious conduct-
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- [Man Laughing]
- in the company of Mr. Seymour
has been my invitation.
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I am strictly not of the company,
but a part of its property.
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Since that is what the company
is here to discuss and to revel in...
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you should be well favored.
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I would well favor you myself above
two parterres and a drive of orange trees.
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You are not extravagant
in your compliments, Mr. Noyes.
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As yet I'm not wealthy enough to
offer you more, but I intend to be so soon.
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In the present company of 13
that owns a fair slice of England...
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two parterres and a drive
of orange trees is a beginning.
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And being a lady of the, uh,
Italian fashion, madam...
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you will appreciate
the value of oranges.
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They smell so sweet.
They are so invigorating.
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♪The very statues breathe♪♪
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- [Applause]
- Do you think your father will ask
Mr. Neville to draw the house?
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Why not improve Mr. Neville's chances,
and yours, by inviting Mr. Neville yourself?
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Oh, that is a too imaginative
stratagem for me.
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Your father would find it
uncharacteristically bold.
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Then you could surprise him...
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and perhaps surprise
Mr. Neville as well.
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And if that frightens you, Mother,
we could lay the blame on Mr. Neville.
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I hold the delight or despondency
of a man of property...
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by putting his house in shadow
orin sunlight.
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Even, possibly, I have some control
over the jealousy...
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or satisfaction of a husband...
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by depicting his wife, sir,
dressed or undressed.
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-♪♪[Harpsichord]
- Mrs. Clement asked me if I had a wife...
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which has a ring of impertinence.
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She knows I have a garden.
How come she does not know I have a wife?
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Perhaps because you boast of one
and not the other...
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but I suspect a sense of modesty is an
impertinence to such a lady as Mrs. Clement.
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Your mother takes a sense of modesty
an unprecedented distance.
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Why doesn't she come out more?
She frets in the shadows.
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She does not fret, Father.
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Or if she does, you well know
the cause is your indifference.
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A house, a garden, a horse, a wife-
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- the preferential order.
- Nonsense.
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I am anxious, Mr. Neville,
that you should draw my husband's estate.
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Why is that, madam?
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My husband is a proud man
who is delighted to be associated...
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with every brick and every tree
of his property...
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at every moment of his waking life,
and no doubt in his dreams as well...
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though I have not been
too well acquainted with his dreams since-
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Madam, with such an excellent relationship
as your husband has with his property...
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he surely, having the real thing,
does not need a copy.
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I do not take well
to young men who preen.
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Their vanity usually
outweighs their prowess.
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Mr. Neville has prowess enough,
enough to charm where he cannot impress.
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And he can charm and impress
the wives of rich men.
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That's not so uncommon,
Mr. Seymour.
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You come with me
to Southampton tomorrow.
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I'll show you how to impress a lady
with a good drawing on.
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My father's property, Mr. Neville...
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is a little more forward than humble.
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And since humility in a building
is not antithetical to you...
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perhaps I can prevail on you
to draw my father's house?
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Ah. The same proposition
from a different quarter.
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A concerted effort naturally
intrigues me...
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but I feel, madam,
things being as they are-
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May I be bold? I do not think that you
or your mother could afford my services.
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- ♪♪[Continues]
- Why not enjoy our patronage?
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Come and walk in Mr. Herbert's
garden tomorrow.
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Madam, I cannot say
that I would not be delighted...
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but I fear, despite your persistence...
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that I have work to do
up and beyond this coming apple season...
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and will be in the service
of Lord Charborough...
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until next year's apples
have all been drunk as cider.
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Your mother, madam, is excessively keen
to have this house down on paper.
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Or perhaps it is you that is keen,
and your mother is merely your surrogate.
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I admit, Mr. Neville, to being
a supplicant on my mother's behalf...
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but she does not want it for herself,
but for her husband.
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The supplication then
has a long and diverse path.
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I am flattered.
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But may not Mr. Herbert himself
do his own commissioning?
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The point of the exercise, Mr. Neville,
is to avoid that one thing.
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You, Mr. Neville, are to be
the instrument of a hopeful reconciliation.
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Mr. Neville...
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how can I persuade you
to stay with us at Compton Anstey?
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You cannot, madam.
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But you can be bought, Mr. Neville.
How much will it cost?
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- More than you can afford, madam.
- ♪♪[Ends]
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- But I must confess, my prime reason is indolence.
- [Applauding]
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I increase my price in proportion
to my expectation of pleasure.
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I do not expect
great pleasure here, madam.
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- [fluttering]
- [Woman Laughing]
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- [Woman Cackling]
- [Man Laughing]
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Madam, I'm to leave very early
in the morning for Southampton.
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I've come to take
my leave of you now.
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Do not order the hay to be cut.
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Do not leave the estate,
and do not drink my claret.
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And do not expect me back until I am ready,
which at the very least will be 14 days.
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Good night, madam.
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[Woman]
♪She loves and she♪
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I have decided...
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that it is most important
that you stay here...
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to make for me 12 drawings
of my husband's estate.
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My husband is to go to Southampton
for at least 12 days.
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- Will that be enough time for you?
- First, madam, you make a demand...
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that suggests we have not discussed
the proposition at all this evening.
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Second, you increase
your demand by at least 12.
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Third, you add to the proposition
a time limit.
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And, fourth,
you expect me to start at once.
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Four factors, Mr. Neville, you have convinced
us are well within your talents and capabilities.
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♪♪[Continues]
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Your terms are exorbitant.
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So must mine be.
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♪She loves, and she confesses to♪
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♪There is then at last♪
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♪No more to do♪♪
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The conditions of the agreement,
Mr. Noyes, are:
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my services as draughtsman for 12 days...
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for the manufacture of12 drawings...
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of the estate and gardens,
parks and outlying buildings...
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of Mr. Herbert's property;
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the sites for the I 2 drawings
to be chosen at my discretion...
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though advised by Mrs. Herbert.
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For which, Thomas, I am willing
to pay eight pounds a drawing...
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um, to provide full board
for Mr. Neville and his servant...
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and, uh-
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And, madam?
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And to agree to meet
Mr. Neville in private...
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and to comply with his requests
concerning his pleasure with me.
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[Neville] Curriculum for the execution
of the drawings at Compton Anstey.
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For drawing number one...
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from 7:00 in the morning
until 9:00 in the morning...
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the whole of the back of the house...
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from the stable block to the laundry garden,
will be kept clean
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No person shall use the main
stable yard gates whatsoever.
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And no person shall use
the back doom.
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Or interfere with the windows
or furniture of the back part of the house.
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[Woman]
"A" is for apricot.
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"M" is for Marilla.
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"C" is for Citrona.
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Citrona.
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"A" is for Ananas.
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- Ananas,
- [Girl] Ananas,
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[Woman]
"P” is for pineapple,
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[Neville]
For drawing number two...
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from 9:00 in the morning
until 11:00..
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the lower lawns of the house,
including the formal garden...
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Will be kept clean
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No window in the upper part
of the house will be opened...
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closed or otherwise disturbed.
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[Rapping]
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[Man]
Your Mr. Neville, Sarah...
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has the godlike power
of emptying the landscape,
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It is a wonder the birds still sing.
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If they stopped, I doubt whether Mr. Neville
would appreciate the difference.
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His attitude to nature
is strictly material.
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[Mrs. Herbert] Thomas, why is Mr. Neville
interested in my sheets?
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[Noyes] Madam, he is to
draw them wet outside the laundry
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[Mrs. Herbert]
Wet? Why does he want them wet?
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[Noyes]
Madam, I cannot answer you that
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Perhaps he has ford memories
of being a baby
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[Neville]
For drawing number three...
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from 11:00 in the morning until 1:00...
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The back and north side of the house
will be kept clean
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This area that is used
as a place for drying linen...
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Will be left as asked for
on an arrangement made...
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between the draughtsman
and the laundress...
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who will take full responsibility...
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for the disposition of the linen.
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Madam, I am delighted to see that you've
loosened your clothing as I requested.
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When your husband
had the pear trees grafted...
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do you know if he asked for the advice
of Mr. Seymour's gardener?
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[Gasps]
We-
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- [Groans]
- Sorry, madam, you do not speak very loud.
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We-
[Coughing]
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We do not know
Mr. Seymour's gardener-
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-I see.
- Mr. Neville.
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The trees have been
poorly ca red for.
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The angle between the branches
and the main trunk is, uh, too steep.
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- But the original work is good.
- [Moans]
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And what of
the pears themselves, madam?
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In season, are they presentable?
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[Woman Speaking German]
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[Continues In German]
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[Gags]
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[Neville]
For drawing number four...
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from 2:00 until 4:00 in the afternoon...
253
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the front of the house
that faces west will be kept clean
254
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No horses, carriages
or other vehicles...
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Will be allowed to be placed there...
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And the gravel on the drive
will be left undisturbed.
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No coals are to be burned that will
issue smoke from the front of the house.
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[Neville]
And hurry up!
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[Neville]
For drawing number five...
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from 4:00 in the afternoon
until 6:00 in the afternoon...
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the hilltop prospect of the estate
to the north of the house...
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will be kept clear of all members
of the household staff and farm servants.
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Such animals as are presently
grazing in the fields...
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will be permitted
to continue to do so.
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- Good day, Mr. Neville.
- [Neville] Mr. Talmann.
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[Mr. Talmann Gasps]
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I see you have selected a fine view
for my son to inherit.
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[Neville]
I prefer, for the moment at least...
269
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to regard the view
as the property of Mr. Herbert.
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Thomas...
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see that Clarissa does not go
to the laundry around noon.
272
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[Mrs. Herbert] And come to my
withdrawing room this afternoon with some ink.
273
00:19:31,706 --> 00:19:35,912
I want to send to Mr. Herbert to know
by which road he in tends to re turn.
274
00:19:43,819 --> 00:19:47,491
Is it your intention to continue
to stand there, Mr. Talmann?
275
00:19:49,224 --> 00:19:52,827
I can see the view very adequately
from here, Mr. Neville. Thank you.
276
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Will you be wearing
the same clothes tomorrow?
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00:20:02,838 --> 00:20:04,816
Why?
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00:20:06,241 --> 00:20:08,515
I have not decided.
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♪♪[Whistling]
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Depends on my servants.
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Is it important?
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Maybe I will.
283
00:20:26,995 --> 00:20:28,973
[Neville]
For drawing number six...
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from 6:00 in the evening until 8:00...
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the lower lawn of the garden
by the statue of Hermes...
286
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will be kept clear
of all members of the household..
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staff horses and other animals.
288
00:20:40,741 --> 00:20:43,515
Philip, go and ask those people to move.
289
00:20:43,611 --> 00:20:45,885
And ask them nicely. Smile.
290
00:20:45,981 --> 00:20:47,890
Don't trot.
291
00:20:52,988 --> 00:20:55,898
[Chattering, Laughing]
292
00:20:58,860 --> 00:21:01,701
[No Audible Dialogue]
293
00:21:15,444 --> 00:21:18,012
[Chattering, Laughing Continue]
294
00:21:20,715 --> 00:21:25,023
- [No Audible Dialogue]
- [Man Laughing Loudly]
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00:21:27,289 --> 00:21:31,461
[Laughing]
Go away.
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00:21:31,559 --> 00:21:33,901
Where?
297
00:21:33,996 --> 00:21:37,906
Really? Not that I know.
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00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,773
Oh.
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00:21:40,869 --> 00:21:43,847
[Laughing]
300
00:21:50,045 --> 00:21:52,682
[Noyes]
Mr. Lucas was a man whose enthusiasms...
301
00:21:52,781 --> 00:21:56,089
Were divided equally
between his garden and his children.
302
00:21:56,184 --> 00:22:00,525
Whenever his wire conceived
Mr. Lucas planted fruit trees,
303
00:22:00,621 --> 00:22:04,588
[Sniffs] His wife seldom came to, um,
a successful labor...
304
00:22:04,693 --> 00:22:07,467
and those children she was blessed with
died before weaning
305
00:22:07,561 --> 00:22:10,630
Mr. Lucas threatened to cut
his trees down, but he never did
306
00:22:10,732 --> 00:22:13,903
To date there are 11 trees
in his fruit garden...
307
00:22:14,002 --> 00:22:15,911
and he knows them all
by their Christian names.
308
00:22:16,004 --> 00:22:18,175
-[Neville Chuckling]
- The English are not blessed...
309
00:22:18,273 --> 00:22:20,750
with the most appropriate fecundity
at the moment.
310
00:22:20,842 --> 00:22:23,843
They can raise colonies
but not heirs to the throne.
311
00:22:23,945 --> 00:22:27,514
It depends, Mr. Talmann,
which colonies you are speaking of.
312
00:22:27,615 --> 00:22:30,684
Some of England's oldest colonies
have heirs in plenty.
313
00:22:30,786 --> 00:22:32,730
Ah, Mr. Neville...
314
00:22:32,821 --> 00:22:35,425
do we have an indication
of Scottish sympathies?
315
00:22:35,523 --> 00:22:40,400
Madam, you would be reading far too much
into what is simply a statement of fact.
316
00:22:40,494 --> 00:22:44,303
If the best Englishmen
are foreigners, Mr. Neville...
317
00:22:44,399 --> 00:22:48,275
and that seems to me to be
a simple statement of fact...
318
00:22:48,370 --> 00:22:52,780
then the best English painters
are foreigners too.
319
00:22:52,874 --> 00:22:56,647
There's no English painter
worthy of the name.
320
00:22:56,745 --> 00:22:58,654
Would you agree, Mr. Neville...
321
00:22:58,747 --> 00:23:03,487
to be an English painter
is a contradictory term?
322
00:23:03,584 --> 00:23:07,460
Then Mr. Herbert shows some sense
In encouraging Mr. Neville.
323
00:23:07,555 --> 00:23:10,658
Mr. Herbert, madam, as we all know,
is full of contradictions.
324
00:23:10,759 --> 00:23:13,566
Contradictory enough, sir,
to have invited you into this house...
325
00:23:13,662 --> 00:23:16,231
despite his being a man
without airs and graces.
326
00:23:16,331 --> 00:23:20,036
But not privy to whom his wire
welcomes into his house madam,
327
00:23:20,135 --> 00:23:22,044
when my father is away, Louis...
328
00:23:22,137 --> 00:23:26,047
My mother is at liberty
to run his house as she feels fit.
329
00:23:26,141 --> 00:23:30,210
- And she has seen fit to invite Mr. Neville.
- A gracious speech, Mrs. Talmann.
330
00:23:30,312 --> 00:23:32,221
[Mr. Talmann]
To hide all manner of inconveniences.
331
00:23:32,314 --> 00:23:34,484
- How is that, sir?
- It is apparent, sir, is it not...
332
00:23:34,582 --> 00:23:37,560
from our meeting this afternoon,
that your presumptory regime...
333
00:23:37,652 --> 00:23:41,960
not only extends to confining the household
like animals in reservations...
334
00:23:42,057 --> 00:23:44,660
but directing us as to whether or not
we should wear a coat...
335
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,669
carry a walking stick or whistle.
336
00:23:46,762 --> 00:23:50,831
When I met you in the garden this afternoon,
you were doing all three of those things, sir.
337
00:23:50,932 --> 00:23:52,876
If you intend being there tomorrow...
338
00:23:52,968 --> 00:23:56,003
I would wish you to dress
and to behave in the same way.
339
00:23:56,104 --> 00:23:59,570
However, it's beyond my power
to describe a whistle pictorially...
340
00:23:59,674 --> 00:24:03,050
whether it comes from an Englishman
or from a German dressed as an Englishman.
341
00:24:03,145 --> 00:24:07,089
-[Noyes Chuckling]
- And what do you do about the birds, Mr. Neville?
342
00:24:07,182 --> 00:24:09,319
If you ignore their song,
you can hardly prevent them...
343
00:24:09,417 --> 00:24:11,452
from flying across
the field of your vision.
344
00:24:11,553 --> 00:24:14,327
Madam, the prospect
of12 fine-weather days...
345
00:24:14,422 --> 00:24:17,230
with clear skies and sharp shadows...
346
00:24:17,325 --> 00:24:20,393
is an excellent proposition,
but not to be guaranteed.
347
00:24:20,494 --> 00:24:24,905
So I am naturally anxious
that time should not be wasted
348
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,944
It would assist me greedy
therefore, madam...
349
00:24:27,035 --> 00:24:32,945
if my instructions, which have been given
great consideration, should be observed.
350
00:24:33,041 --> 00:24:37,951
I'm painstaking enough to notice
quite small changes in the landscape.
351
00:24:38,046 --> 00:24:40,751
Once started, I make that a committal, madam...
352
00:24:40,849 --> 00:24:42,793
Whatsoever ensues.
353
00:24:42,884 --> 00:24:45,192
And I think you can surmise...
354
00:24:45,287 --> 00:24:49,560
that it is an attitude from which
I obtain great satisfaction...
355
00:24:49,658 --> 00:24:52,330
and some entertainment.
356
00:25:14,015 --> 00:25:16,652
[No Audible Dialogue]
357
00:25:28,129 --> 00:25:31,538
Thomas, can you remember...
358
00:25:31,633 --> 00:25:35,975
when Mr. Herbert had his clothes packed,
whether he took his French boots?
359
00:25:44,846 --> 00:25:49,188
How is it, Mr. Neville, that you have contrived
to make the garden so empty of people?
360
00:25:49,283 --> 00:25:52,727
The authority for these drawings, Mr. Talmann,
comes from Mrs. Herbert.
361
00:25:52,821 --> 00:25:55,799
Do you think that she is a woman
who enjoys having a crowd of people...
362
00:25:55,891 --> 00:26:00,392
kick her gravel around or move her earth
like a pack of dogs in a herb garden?
363
00:26:00,495 --> 00:26:03,632
I would seek peace and quiet
in a garden...
364
00:26:03,732 --> 00:26:07,676
and noise and excitement
at a carnival.
365
00:26:07,769 --> 00:26:10,008
Carnem levare.
366
00:26:10,105 --> 00:26:15,243
So, Mr. Neville, you would reserve
your revelries for a religious occasion?
367
00:26:15,342 --> 00:26:19,548
- And what of Gethsemane?
- A wild sort of garden, I shouldn't wonder.
368
00:26:19,648 --> 00:26:25,025
Certainly, Mr. Talmann, there would be
no geometric paths and no Dutch bulbs.
369
00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:30,359
Well, we have a cedar of Lebanon
and a judas tree.
370
00:26:30,458 --> 00:26:33,164
Perhaps we could cultivate
a tree of heaven.
371
00:26:33,260 --> 00:26:35,534
The gardens of England
are becoming veritable jungles.
372
00:26:35,630 --> 00:26:38,165
Such exotics are grossly unsuitable,
373
00:26:38,265 --> 00:26:41,243
If the Garden Of Eden was planned for England
God would have seen to it.
374
00:26:41,335 --> 00:26:45,302
The Garden of Eden, Mr. Talmann,
was originally intended for Ireland...
375
00:26:45,407 --> 00:26:48,977
for it was there, after all,
that Saint Patrick eradicated the snake.
376
00:26:49,077 --> 00:26:52,112
The only useful eradication that
ever happened in Ireland, Mr. Neville...
377
00:26:52,213 --> 00:26:55,486
was performed by William of Orange
four years ago on my birthday.
378
00:26:55,584 --> 00:26:58,425
And happy birthday to you, Mr. Talmann.
379
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,055
And if you are not too old
to receive presents...
380
00:27:01,156 --> 00:27:04,895
perhaps the gardener and I
can find a snake for your orangery.
381
00:27:06,661 --> 00:27:08,570
What?
382
00:27:08,663 --> 00:27:11,164
- Good day to you, Mr. Neville.
- Good day, madam.
383
00:27:24,112 --> 00:27:26,090
[Neville]
Philip.
384
00:27:46,001 --> 00:27:48,036
I see the company
is assembled, madam.
385
00:27:48,136 --> 00:27:50,170
And what are we to be spectators of?
386
00:27:50,270 --> 00:27:54,806
You must not be surprised, Mr. Neville.
We are here at your request.
387
00:27:54,909 --> 00:27:59,047
I did not request an audience, madam,
nor a dinner on the grass.
388
00:27:59,147 --> 00:28:02,181
Ah, perhaps we are
to applaud the view.
389
00:28:02,282 --> 00:28:06,192
The scribbler is never satisfied.
He is as insatiable as a-
390
00:28:06,286 --> 00:28:08,560
You have said
that Mr. Talmann should be here...
391
00:28:08,657 --> 00:28:11,430
dressed as you asked
and carrying a gold-topped cane.
392
00:28:11,526 --> 00:28:14,527
We have taken you at your word.
393
00:28:14,629 --> 00:28:18,437
There was another instruction,
but conveniently I have forgotten it.
394
00:28:18,533 --> 00:28:21,773
- Whistling, Sarah.
- So much for convenience.
395
00:28:21,870 --> 00:28:25,837
You do not catch me in the best of tempers,
Mr. Neville, wearing yesterday's clothes.
396
00:28:25,940 --> 00:28:28,941
And I give you 2O minutes only.
I have a horse to exercise.
397
00:28:29,044 --> 00:28:31,214
[Neville]
Then, sir, please take your place.
398
00:28:31,312 --> 00:28:34,018
I will take a walk.
Come with me, Maria.
399
00:28:34,115 --> 00:28:36,786
We have a dog to exercise.
400
00:28:44,526 --> 00:28:46,970
[Neville]
A little to the left, sir, if you please,
401
00:28:47,996 --> 00:28:49,905
And puff out your cheeks.
402
00:28:49,998 --> 00:28:53,601
- Why should I do that?
- Because last time, sir, you were whistling.
403
00:28:54,636 --> 00:28:58,808
A tune perhaps not readily recognizable,
even by its own composer.
404
00:29:01,076 --> 00:29:02,985
[Neville]
Look, madam.
405
00:29:03,078 --> 00:29:05,988
[Chuckles]
This man has no head-
406
00:29:06,081 --> 00:29:07,990
a typical German characteristic.
407
00:29:08,082 --> 00:29:10,321
Mr. Neville...
408
00:29:10,418 --> 00:29:12,987
you're talking about my son-in-law.
409
00:29:13,087 --> 00:29:17,691
By the grace of God, madam, you are
to have a grandson by him... someday.
410
00:29:17,792 --> 00:29:21,167
-[Sighs]
- Is that not a better thing to talk of?
411
00:29:22,731 --> 00:29:26,732
Then you mock my money
and my person to draw caricatures.
412
00:29:27,769 --> 00:29:29,872
With my memory,
three pictures in the house...
413
00:29:29,971 --> 00:29:32,141
and your personal knowledge
of the subject...
414
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,548
I intend to place the head
of Mr. Herbert on these shoulders...
415
00:29:36,644 --> 00:29:42,213
as a fitting and appropriate acknowledgement
of your husband and his property.
416
00:29:42,317 --> 00:29:45,523
[Mrs. Herbert]
if he should return,
417
00:29:45,620 --> 00:29:49,223
Why, madam, what a strange thing to say.
418
00:29:49,324 --> 00:29:51,598
If he should return home to me.
419
00:30:44,077 --> 00:30:46,385
[Crying]
420
00:30:49,116 --> 00:30:51,856
Mother.
421
00:30:51,953 --> 00:30:54,089
[Sniffles, Gasps]
422
00:30:58,259 --> 00:31:01,430
So...
423
00:31:01,529 --> 00:31:04,995
I am grieving...
424
00:31:05,098 --> 00:31:07,804
because Mr. Herbert is away.
425
00:31:12,340 --> 00:31:14,579
Yes, Mother.
426
00:32:42,830 --> 00:32:46,103
The contract is void, Mr. Neville.
427
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,303
I cannot meet you again.
428
00:32:48,403 --> 00:32:51,472
Mrs. Herbert, sit here.
Move your head into the shade.
429
00:33:00,048 --> 00:33:02,720
Do you not think the gardeners
have excelled themselves?
430
00:33:07,921 --> 00:33:11,195
You should not continue
to draw, Mr. Neville.
431
00:33:11,292 --> 00:33:13,702
I no longer feel able to continue
the terms of our contract.
432
00:33:13,795 --> 00:33:16,170
The fee is yours,
as is the hospitality.
433
00:33:16,264 --> 00:33:19,333
I was about to say
that despite all my satisfaction...
434
00:33:19,434 --> 00:33:23,207
at the prospect of continuing the commission
under such delightful circumstances...
435
00:33:23,304 --> 00:33:25,373
the peak of my delight, madam...
436
00:33:25,473 --> 00:33:29,076
is obtained in those short minutes
when we are together.
437
00:33:29,177 --> 00:33:31,553
I would regret losing them.
438
00:33:32,980 --> 00:33:34,889
Besides, I do not need to remind you...
439
00:33:34,983 --> 00:33:38,189
that the contract was made
between two people.
440
00:33:38,286 --> 00:33:43,390
It will take the consent
of both signatories to make it void.
441
00:33:43,491 --> 00:33:45,799
And now, madam,
I feel that from this position...
442
00:33:45,892 --> 00:33:48,666
I cannot adequately see
what I am supposed to be seeing...
443
00:33:48,763 --> 00:33:52,070
and I must therefore request
that you find some other resting place.
444
00:33:52,166 --> 00:33:56,871
At least until 4:00, when our next meeting
is to be consummated as arranged.
445
00:34:10,284 --> 00:34:14,853
Madam, who is this child who walks the garden
with such a solemn look on his face?
446
00:34:14,956 --> 00:34:17,764
That is my husband's nephew, Mr. Neville.
447
00:34:17,858 --> 00:34:21,802
He attracts servants
like a little midget king.
448
00:34:21,895 --> 00:34:23,964
What is his patrimony, madam?
449
00:34:24,065 --> 00:34:26,770
His father was killed at Ausbergenfeld.
450
00:34:26,867 --> 00:34:29,675
His mother became a Catholic,
so my husband had him brought to England.
451
00:34:29,770 --> 00:34:32,044
To be reared as a little Protestant.
452
00:34:32,140 --> 00:34:34,913
He was an orphan, Mr. Neville,
and needed to be looked after.
453
00:34:35,009 --> 00:34:38,385
An orphan, madam,
because his mother became a Catholic?
454
00:34:42,717 --> 00:34:45,922
[Bell Tolling in Distance]
455
00:35:01,536 --> 00:35:03,809
[Neville]
Philip, find out what's happening
456
00:35:13,081 --> 00:35:16,752
Mr. Neville, sir, I'm sorry about the coat.
457
00:35:16,850 --> 00:35:18,759
It was not I that put it there.
458
00:35:18,852 --> 00:35:21,626
Is that so, madam?
459
00:35:21,721 --> 00:35:24,858
- And who did?
- I'll ask, sir
460
00:35:24,959 --> 00:35:27,130
No. No, don't ask.
Leave it there.
461
00:35:28,762 --> 00:35:31,763
Someone's getting careless.
The garden is becoming a robe room.
462
00:35:31,866 --> 00:35:35,072
I wonder what they keep
in their clothespress-plants perhaps.
463
00:35:35,169 --> 00:35:37,545
[Footsteps Approaching]
464
00:35:39,307 --> 00:35:42,308
Who will be your husband's
direct heir after you?
465
00:35:42,410 --> 00:35:46,751
A future grandson, Mr. Neville,
though not after me.
466
00:35:46,848 --> 00:35:51,259
Mr. Herbert does not believe
in a woman owning property.
467
00:35:51,352 --> 00:35:53,591
And what about your daughter
and her husband?
468
00:35:53,687 --> 00:35:56,222
Well, they would be guardians
on the grandson's behalf.
469
00:35:56,324 --> 00:35:58,393
Do you intend
to study legal matters, Mr. Neville?
470
00:35:58,493 --> 00:36:01,993
[Chuckles] You must forgive
my curiosity, madam, and open your knees.
471
00:36:03,498 --> 00:36:05,407
To have possession, sir, of my person...
472
00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:08,376
is not an excuse
to be privy to my husband's will.
473
00:36:08,469 --> 00:36:11,470
Your loyalty is exemplary, madam.
474
00:36:11,572 --> 00:36:15,209
But what will happen to the estate
if your daughter has no heirs?
475
00:36:16,611 --> 00:36:18,884
I do not like to think of it.
476
00:36:18,980 --> 00:36:21,753
[Sighs]
The estate was my father's.
477
00:36:21,849 --> 00:36:25,089
Mr. Herbert obtained it
through marriage to me.
478
00:36:27,588 --> 00:36:30,589
[Gasps, Shouts]
479
00:36:32,126 --> 00:36:35,127
It is imperative, Augustus,
that in representing me...
480
00:36:35,229 --> 00:36:37,537
You ask of yourself
the very best...
481
00:36:37,632 --> 00:36:41,405
and you do not fraternize
with whomsoever you choose.
482
00:36:41,502 --> 00:36:45,877
And chasing sheep is a tiresome habit
best left to shepherds.
483
00:36:45,973 --> 00:36:49,076
If Mr. Neville chases sheep,
he is not to be emulated.
484
00:36:49,177 --> 00:36:51,620
Drawing is an attribution
worth very little...
485
00:36:51,711 --> 00:36:54,121
and in England,
worth nothing at all.
486
00:36:54,215 --> 00:36:59,852
If you must scribble, I suggest that your time
would be better spent in studying mathematics.
487
00:36:59,954 --> 00:37:01,932
I will engage a tutor.
488
00:37:02,023 --> 00:37:04,864
And who knows?
One clay you, Augustus...
489
00:37:04,959 --> 00:37:08,062
may add the Talmann name
to the Royal Society.
490
00:37:09,830 --> 00:37:11,739
Augustus!
491
00:37:15,236 --> 00:37:17,145
Your tutor, of course,
must be German.
492
00:37:17,238 --> 00:37:20,273
There are already far too many
English influences on your life as it is.
493
00:37:35,389 --> 00:37:38,958
[Mr. Talmann]
Mr. Neville is our resident draughtsman.
494
00:37:39,060 --> 00:37:42,402
He is making one or two drawings
of Mr. Herbert's house and estate.
495
00:37:42,496 --> 00:37:45,167
[Man]
I've heard of your prowess, Mr. Neville.
496
00:37:45,266 --> 00:37:48,472
Indeed I've heard more than that.
I've heard you're not a conventional man.
497
00:37:48,568 --> 00:37:53,637
Mr. Neville has planned his stay here
like an officer in an hostile billet.
498
00:37:53,741 --> 00:37:55,650
We have orders to appear and disappear...
499
00:37:55,743 --> 00:37:58,347
to wear cocked hats,
to eat meals in the open air...
500
00:37:58,446 --> 00:38:00,946
and to prepare furniture
for inspection.
501
00:38:01,048 --> 00:38:03,821
And yet, Louis,
I hear that you are not averse...
502
00:38:03,918 --> 00:38:06,453
to exchanging exercise
on a new horse...
503
00:38:06,553 --> 00:38:10,759
for standing to attention
in the hot sun like a halberdier
504
00:38:10,858 --> 00:38:14,768
[Man]
What control you must exercise, Mr. Neville.
505
00:38:14,862 --> 00:38:17,863
It sounds as if you might be
better employed as a military man...
506
00:38:17,965 --> 00:38:20,943
rather than as someone
who merely draws a landscape,
507
00:38:21,035 --> 00:38:24,945
- [Guests Laughing]
- Mrs. Herbert, whatever is the price you must pay...
508
00:38:25,039 --> 00:38:27,710
to capture this general
who leads the wheat by the ear?
509
00:38:27,808 --> 00:38:30,684
[Neville] Gentlemen, Mrs. Herbert
pays no price she cannot afford
510
00:38:30,778 --> 00:38:33,619
And thanks to her generosity,
I am permitted..
511
00:38:33,714 --> 00:38:37,658
to take my pleasure
without hindrance on her property...
512
00:38:37,752 --> 00:38:42,094
And to enjoy the, uh, maturing delights
of her country garden.
513
00:38:42,189 --> 00:38:44,666
And, gentlemen-
514
00:38:44,759 --> 00:38:48,726
[Chuckles] there is much there
to be surprised at, and applauded.
515
00:38:48,829 --> 00:38:52,967
[Flapping]
516
00:40:01,568 --> 00:40:04,410
[Snaps Fingers]
Board.
517
00:40:04,504 --> 00:40:07,415
[Rooster Crows]
518
00:40:25,793 --> 00:40:27,702
[Chuckling]
519
00:40:34,101 --> 00:40:37,442
- Good afternoon, Mr. Talmann.
- Good afternoon, Mr. Neville.
520
00:40:37,537 --> 00:40:40,674
You are late. I heard the clock strike 4:00
some several minutes ago.
521
00:40:40,775 --> 00:40:43,117
That is indeed true.
I met Mr. Porringer.
522
00:40:43,210 --> 00:40:45,619
I'm becoming
Mr. Porringer's taster of vittles.
523
00:40:45,713 --> 00:40:47,748
Does the same thing happen to you?
524
00:40:47,848 --> 00:40:49,951
Today, it was raspberries.
525
00:40:50,050 --> 00:40:53,789
I congratulate you on today's raspberries
but not on yesterday's damsons.
526
00:40:53,888 --> 00:40:57,162
They were tasteless-
geschmacklos--
527
00:40:57,258 --> 00:40:59,167
like your coat, Mr. Talmann.
528
00:40:59,260 --> 00:41:02,794
There is no way, Mr. Neville,
that I was going to wear that coat a third day.
529
00:41:02,897 --> 00:41:06,137
We are indeed, Mr. Talmann,
losing the novelty of this situation.
530
00:41:06,233 --> 00:41:08,676
First, I was graced
with the presence of Mrs. Talmann...
531
00:41:08,769 --> 00:41:11,338
two servants, a maid
and a meal served on silver plate.
532
00:41:11,438 --> 00:41:14,473
Now what have we?
Yourself dressed in the wrong clothes.
533
00:41:14,575 --> 00:41:18,951
Mr. Neville, enough.
Your enthusiasm for complaint knows no limit.
534
00:41:19,046 --> 00:41:21,614
For a fee of eight pounds,
your impertinence is too expensive!
535
00:41:21,715 --> 00:41:24,193
Would you have me be
impertinent for nothing, sir?
536
00:41:24,285 --> 00:41:28,660
For nothing, Mr. Neville, I would have you
run off my property! Good clay!
537
00:41:28,756 --> 00:41:32,257
Your property, Mr. Talmann?
[Chuckling]
538
00:41:32,358 --> 00:41:35,632
Mr. Talmann.
Ah, you've forgotten your riding boots.
539
00:41:35,729 --> 00:41:39,037
[Exhales]
They are not mine, Mr. Neville.
540
00:41:39,133 --> 00:41:41,667
I felt sure that they were yours.
541
00:42:05,159 --> 00:42:08,693
[Neville] Why doesn't your husband
have the moat cleaned out?
542
00:42:08,796 --> 00:42:11,672
He doesn't like to see the fish.
Carp live too long.
543
00:42:11,765 --> 00:42:14,572
They remind him of Catholics.
544
00:42:14,668 --> 00:42:18,044
Besides, from his window
the duckweed could be mistaken for lawn.
545
00:42:18,138 --> 00:42:20,547
[Neville] Can he swim?
546
00:42:20,641 --> 00:42:22,983
[Mrs. Herbert]
I've never seen him swim,
547
00:42:28,916 --> 00:42:31,393
[Snoring]
548
00:43:14,962 --> 00:43:16,962
Ah, good morning, Mrs. Herbert.
549
00:43:19,667 --> 00:43:22,111
This morning I'm progressing well.
550
00:43:22,202 --> 00:43:25,304
I am beginning to enjoy myself.
551
00:43:25,406 --> 00:43:28,010
Madam, would you be so good as to sit?
552
00:43:38,552 --> 00:43:41,928
It's a little chilly perhaps,
but I think you tremble too much.
553
00:43:43,490 --> 00:43:46,900
It is not easy for me this way
to use your person as I would like to.
554
00:43:46,994 --> 00:43:48,972
Madam, would you stand?
555
00:43:54,267 --> 00:43:56,768
The ladder, madam, as you can see,
has now become...
556
00:43:56,870 --> 00:44:00,144
a meretricious vertical...
557
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,184
But I forgive you
for standing it there,
558
00:44:02,275 --> 00:44:06,015
What use have I for the ladder, Mr. Neville?
It does not go anywhere,
559
00:44:10,484 --> 00:44:12,723
Madam, would you be so good as to kneel?
560
00:44:36,810 --> 00:44:38,788
Kneel, madam.
561
00:44:44,084 --> 00:44:47,755
[Neville]
If you have any influence over your son-in-law...
562
00:44:47,855 --> 00:44:50,094
could I suggest that he travel over
to Mr. Seymour's...
563
00:44:50,189 --> 00:44:55,566
to see what can be done with limes
by doing as little as possible,
564
00:44:58,131 --> 00:45:02,633
Limes, madam, can smell so sweet.
565
00:45:04,438 --> 00:45:07,609
Especially when they are allowed
to bloom without hindrance,
566
00:45:09,777 --> 00:45:12,448
And it will shortly be time to bloom.
567
00:45:14,548 --> 00:45:18,651
Is it true, Mr. Noyes, that you would wish
to see Mr. Herbert dead?
568
00:45:18,752 --> 00:45:21,161
I've no great love for Mr. Herbert.
569
00:45:21,254 --> 00:45:24,789
- Goodness, Mr. Neville, a provocative question.
- [Neville] Then why stay?
570
00:45:24,892 --> 00:45:28,836
Mr. Noyes has a great attachment
to my mother, Mr. Neville.
571
00:45:28,929 --> 00:45:31,133
[Noyes]
I'm employed by Mr. Herbert as estate manager
572
00:45:31,230 --> 00:45:34,834
Mr. Herbert is very often away, and I believe
I can make myself useful to Mrs. Herbert
573
00:45:34,935 --> 00:45:37,503
[Neville]
In more ways than one I presume,
574
00:45:37,604 --> 00:45:39,878
But is it not that way
which is most important?
575
00:45:39,973 --> 00:45:43,940
Your questions, Mr. Neville, are far too
imprudent and provocative in this company.
576
00:45:44,044 --> 00:45:46,453
Then you would rather I asked them
behind your back, Mr. Talmann?
577
00:45:46,547 --> 00:45:50,889
Mr. Noyes' position in this house
is well known to us all, Mr. Neville.
578
00:45:50,984 --> 00:45:54,860
[Neville]
It is a- a difficult position.
579
00:45:54,955 --> 00:45:57,432
I'm surprised
that you all concur in it.
580
00:45:57,524 --> 00:46:00,502
[Noyes] The organization of this house
is Mr. Herbert's affair
581
00:46:00,594 --> 00:46:05,231
- My father and Mr. Noyes were once great friends.
- [Neville] And then?
582
00:46:05,332 --> 00:46:08,139
My mother was at one time
promised to Mr. Noyes.
583
00:46:08,235 --> 00:46:12,543
Ah. Your position, Mr. Noyes,
is then a consolation,
584
00:46:12,639 --> 00:46:15,742
You overstep your privileges
in being a guest in Mrs. Herbert's house!
585
00:46:15,843 --> 00:46:19,582
Sit down, Mr. Noyes.
I merely pursue an inquiry.
586
00:46:21,515 --> 00:46:23,925
It may help me to understand
what is happening in the garden.
587
00:46:45,806 --> 00:46:49,614
[Mrs. Talmann] That shirt, Mr. Neville,
is prominent enough in your drawing
588
00:46:51,245 --> 00:46:54,189
Would it be possible, do you think,
to disguise its presence?
589
00:46:54,281 --> 00:46:59,783
Madam, I try very hard
never to distort or to dissemble,
590
00:47:01,053 --> 00:47:03,657
Would that always be
your method of working Mr. Neville?
591
00:47:03,757 --> 00:47:06,132
It would.
592
00:47:06,226 --> 00:47:10,568
Well, let me make a little speech.
593
00:47:11,598 --> 00:47:15,440
In your drawing
of the north side of the house...
594
00:47:15,536 --> 00:47:20,207
my father's cloak lies wrapped
around the feet of a figure of Bacchus.
595
00:47:20,307 --> 00:47:25,274
In the drawing of the prospect over which
my husband turns an appreciative gaze...
596
00:47:25,379 --> 00:47:29,949
you will have noticed that
there is unclaimed a pair of riding boots.
597
00:47:30,049 --> 00:47:32,891
In the drawing of the park
from the east side...
598
00:47:32,985 --> 00:47:35,986
it is possible to see
leaning against my father's wardroom...
599
00:47:36,088 --> 00:47:39,589
a ladder usually put to use
for the collecting of apples.
600
00:47:39,693 --> 00:47:41,602
And in the drawing of the laundry...
601
00:47:41,695 --> 00:47:46,139
there is a jacket of my father's
slit across the chest.
602
00:47:47,568 --> 00:47:52,205
Do you not think that before long you might find
the body that inhabited all those clothes?
603
00:47:52,306 --> 00:47:55,807
I am thinking very hard, madam,
about the drawing you've left out.
604
00:47:55,909 --> 00:47:58,250
And you, madam, were in that drawing.
605
00:47:58,345 --> 00:48:01,323
- Are you sure, Mr. Neville?
- Well, the sound of you was in the drawing.
606
00:48:01,415 --> 00:48:03,359
You were playing the spinet.
607
00:48:03,450 --> 00:48:05,587
I thought, Mr. Neville,
that we had discussed...
608
00:48:05,686 --> 00:48:09,459
the pictorial equivalents
of noise without conclusion.
609
00:48:09,556 --> 00:48:13,125
Perhaps it was not me playing the spinet.
Have you thought of that?
610
00:48:13,227 --> 00:48:15,535
- Then who, madam, was it?
- You see, Mr. Neville...
611
00:48:15,629 --> 00:48:18,970
you are already beginning
to play the game rather skillfully.
612
00:48:19,065 --> 00:48:22,202
Four garments and a ladder
do not lead us to a corpse.
613
00:48:22,302 --> 00:48:27,246
[Clicks Tongue]
Mr. Neville, I said nothing about a corpse.
614
00:48:27,341 --> 00:48:30,581
Madam, you are ingenious.
615
00:48:30,677 --> 00:48:33,712
It is as if you had planned it.
616
00:48:33,814 --> 00:48:38,588
Your father is in Southampton.
He would not miss his clothes or notice the ladder.
617
00:48:38,685 --> 00:48:41,686
Is my father in Southampton, Mr. Neville?
618
00:48:41,788 --> 00:48:44,061
My mother told you that.
619
00:48:44,157 --> 00:48:46,964
And you must realize
that she is a lady of few words...
620
00:48:47,060 --> 00:48:51,266
and not incapable
of a few stratagems.
621
00:48:51,365 --> 00:48:54,968
Have you not thought how hard
she persuaded you to be her draughtsman-
622
00:48:55,068 --> 00:48:58,308
to draw her husband's house
while her husband was away?
623
00:48:58,405 --> 00:49:00,383
Her explanation for that
can be supported.
624
00:49:00,474 --> 00:49:04,179
Perhaps, Mr. Neville,
you have taken a great deal on trust.
625
00:49:04,278 --> 00:49:09,382
I look forward, Mrs. Talmann, to the eventual
purpose and outcome of this ingenuity.
626
00:49:09,483 --> 00:49:13,927
My last six drawings
will be redolent of the mystery.
627
00:49:14,020 --> 00:49:17,760
I will proceed step-by-step
to the heart of the matter.
628
00:49:17,858 --> 00:49:21,233
Perhaps to the heart
of my father, Mr. Neville.
629
00:49:21,328 --> 00:49:24,204
Lying crimson on a piece of green grass?
630
00:49:24,298 --> 00:49:27,435
What a pity, Mr. Neville,
that your drawings are in black-and-white.
631
00:49:27,534 --> 00:49:29,443
You rush ahead, Mrs. Talmann.
632
00:49:29,536 --> 00:49:31,945
The items are innocent.
633
00:49:32,039 --> 00:49:34,313
Taken one by one,
they could so be construed.
634
00:49:34,408 --> 00:49:38,477
Taken together, you could be regarded
as a witness to misadventure.
635
00:49:38,578 --> 00:49:40,987
Misadventure, madam?
636
00:49:41,081 --> 00:49:42,990
What misadventure?
There is no misadventure.
637
00:49:43,083 --> 00:49:45,652
More than a witness, Mr. Neville-
638
00:49:45,752 --> 00:49:49,252
an accessory to misadventure.
639
00:49:49,356 --> 00:49:51,265
Madam, you are fanciful.
640
00:49:51,358 --> 00:49:53,267
Mr. Neville...
641
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,304
I have grown to believe
that a really intelligent man...
642
00:49:56,396 --> 00:49:59,306
makes an indifferent painter...
643
00:49:59,399 --> 00:50:03,138
for painting requires a certain blindness...
644
00:50:03,236 --> 00:50:07,305
a partial refusal to be aware
of all the options.
645
00:50:07,407 --> 00:50:11,908
An intelligent man will know more about
what he is drawing than he will see.
646
00:50:12,012 --> 00:50:14,456
And in the space between
knowing and seeing...
647
00:50:14,548 --> 00:50:17,788
he will become constrained...
648
00:50:17,883 --> 00:50:20,827
unable to pursue an idea strongly...
649
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:22,829
fearing that the discerning...
650
00:50:22,922 --> 00:50:25,526
those who he is eager to please,
will find him wanting...
651
00:50:25,625 --> 00:50:28,000
if he does not put in
not only what he knows...
652
00:50:28,095 --> 00:50:30,834
but what they know as well.
653
00:50:30,930 --> 00:50:34,534
You, Mr. Neville,
if you are an intelligent man...
654
00:50:34,634 --> 00:50:36,543
and thus an indifferent painter...
655
00:50:36,636 --> 00:50:40,546
will perceive that a construction such as
I have suggested could well be placed...
656
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,743
on the evidence
contained in your drawing.
657
00:50:43,843 --> 00:50:49,686
If you are, as I have heard tell,
a talented draughtsman...
658
00:50:49,782 --> 00:50:52,124
then I could imagine
that you could suppose...
659
00:50:52,219 --> 00:50:56,027
that the objects I have drawn
your attention to form no plan...
660
00:50:56,123 --> 00:50:59,363
stratagem or indictment.
661
00:50:59,459 --> 00:51:01,596
Indictment, madam?
662
00:51:01,695 --> 00:51:04,900
[Chuckles]
You are ingenious.
663
00:51:04,998 --> 00:51:08,999
I-I am allowed to be neither of the two things
that I wish to be at the same time.
664
00:51:09,102 --> 00:51:12,080
[Chuckles]
I propose...
665
00:51:12,172 --> 00:51:14,650
since I am in a position
to throw a connecting plot...
666
00:51:14,741 --> 00:51:18,651
over the inconsequential items
in your drawing...
667
00:51:18,745 --> 00:51:21,348
an interpretative plot
that I could explain to others...
668
00:51:21,448 --> 00:51:23,722
to account for my father's disappearance.
669
00:51:23,816 --> 00:51:29,022
And there is no word now
of my father having arrived in Southampton.
670
00:51:29,122 --> 00:51:32,259
I propose that we could come to...
671
00:51:32,359 --> 00:51:34,268
some arrangement...
672
00:51:34,361 --> 00:51:39,704
that might protect you and humor me.
673
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,301
I suggest that we come
to a similar arrangement...
674
00:51:43,403 --> 00:51:45,971
as you have struck with my mother.
675
00:51:47,908 --> 00:51:50,614
I would like you now
to accompany me to the library...
676
00:51:50,710 --> 00:51:53,949
where I know that Mr. Noyes
is waiting for us.
677
00:52:18,004 --> 00:52:22,107
[Mrs. Talmann]
And for each remaining drawing, to agree-
678
00:52:22,209 --> 00:52:24,880
[Neville]
And for each remaining drawing, to agree-
679
00:52:24,978 --> 00:52:29,013
[Mrs. Talmann]
to meet Mrs. Talmann in private-
680
00:52:29,116 --> 00:52:31,855
[Neville]
to agree to meet Mrs. Talmann in private-
681
00:52:31,952 --> 00:52:35,226
and to comply with her requests...
682
00:52:35,322 --> 00:52:38,095
concerning her pleasure with me.
683
00:52:39,226 --> 00:52:43,863
And to comply with her requests
concerning her pleasure with me.
684
00:52:51,972 --> 00:52:55,973
[Neville] Drawing number seven.
From 7:00 in the morning until 9:00...
685
00:52:56,076 --> 00:52:58,883
the whole of the front prospect
of the house will be kept clean,
686
00:52:58,979 --> 00:53:01,423
of members of the household,
household servants...
687
00:53:01,515 --> 00:53:03,424
horses and carriages,
688
00:53:06,419 --> 00:53:10,522
Drawing number eight.
From 9:00 in the morning until 11:00...
689
00:53:10,624 --> 00:53:14,397
The gardens in front of
the bathhouse building will be kept clean
690
00:53:14,494 --> 00:53:18,699
No coals will be burnt to cause smoke
to issue from the bathhouse chimneys.
691
00:53:44,090 --> 00:53:46,534
From 11:00 in the morning until 1:00...
692
00:53:46,625 --> 00:53:49,103
The yew tree walk in the center
of the lower garden...
693
00:53:49,196 --> 00:53:53,106
will be kept completely clear
of all members of Mr. Herbert's family...
694
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,337
Members of this household staff
and animals.
695
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:35,818
It is time, Mr. Neville.
696
00:54:40,780 --> 00:54:43,349
[Neville]
From 2:00 in the afternoon until 4300...
697
00:54:43,450 --> 00:54:47,087
the back of the house
and the sheep pasture on the eastern side...
698
00:54:47,187 --> 00:54:51,359
will be kept free of all members
of the household and farm servants.
699
00:55:19,185 --> 00:55:22,129
The reason I suggested you come here...
700
00:55:22,222 --> 00:55:24,631
is because I have borrowed
this painting from the house.
701
00:55:24,724 --> 00:55:26,702
Madam, would you stand?
702
00:55:30,629 --> 00:55:32,607
Are you not intrigued by it?
703
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,507
I confess I have paid it little attention.
704
00:55:43,609 --> 00:55:48,576
Your husband surprises me
with his eccentric and eclectic taste.
705
00:55:48,682 --> 00:55:51,217
While most of his peers are content
to collect portraits...
706
00:55:51,318 --> 00:55:53,625
mostly of an edifying family connection...
707
00:55:53,720 --> 00:55:55,789
Mr. Herbert seems to collect anything.
708
00:55:57,791 --> 00:56:01,235
Perhaps he has an eye for optical theory...
709
00:56:01,328 --> 00:56:04,101
or the plight of lovers...
710
00:56:04,197 --> 00:56:07,606
or the passing of time.,
711
00:56:07,701 --> 00:56:10,645
What do you think?
712
00:56:10,737 --> 00:56:16,080
Perhaps, madam, he has-
and I would stand by him in this-
713
00:56:16,176 --> 00:56:19,382
an interest in the pictorial conceit.
714
00:56:21,715 --> 00:56:24,319
Can you see why your husband
had reason to buy it?
715
00:56:24,417 --> 00:56:26,395
It is of a garden.
That is probably reason enough.
716
00:56:26,485 --> 00:56:29,725
True, true. But what of the events
that are happening within it, hmm?
717
00:56:31,691 --> 00:56:33,669
Shall we peruse it together?
718
00:56:35,095 --> 00:56:40,005
Do you see, madam, a narrative
in these apparently unrelated episodes?
719
00:56:40,100 --> 00:56:43,873
There is drama, is there not,
in this overpopulated garden.
720
00:56:45,638 --> 00:56:47,980
What intrigue is here?
721
00:56:49,609 --> 00:56:52,213
Do you think the characters
have something to tell us?
722
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:57,217
Would you know, madam,
if your daughter...
723
00:56:57,317 --> 00:57:00,261
had any particular interest
in this painting?
724
00:57:01,855 --> 00:57:04,526
Madam, could you put a season to it?
725
00:57:04,624 --> 00:57:07,102
Madam 9 Do you have an opinion?
726
00:57:11,631 --> 00:57:14,109
What infidelities are portrayed here?
727
00:57:21,407 --> 00:57:25,874
Do you think...
that murder is being prepared?
728
00:57:32,819 --> 00:57:35,422
[Mrs. Talmann] Did you hear
that a horse had been found at Strides?
729
00:57:35,521 --> 00:57:39,125
Which is about three miles
from here on the road that...
730
00:57:39,225 --> 00:57:42,634
if followed long enough,
could lead you to Southampton.
731
00:57:42,729 --> 00:57:45,639
I will stay dressed, Mr. Neville.
You will not.
732
00:57:45,732 --> 00:57:49,642
Mr. Clarke says the horse
has been badly treated.
733
00:57:49,736 --> 00:57:52,214
[Neville] It could be said
that all roads can lead to Southampton...
734
00:57:52,305 --> 00:57:54,714
if the traveler on horse
is ingenious enough.
735
00:57:54,808 --> 00:57:58,275
I've heard of a horse
that found his way to Dover...
736
00:57:58,377 --> 00:58:01,480
and boarded a ship taking hay to Calais.
737
00:58:01,581 --> 00:58:04,957
The French, madam,
do not treat horses kindly.
738
00:58:05,051 --> 00:58:07,029
They eat them.
739
00:58:08,087 --> 00:58:10,997
Was your horse partly eaten, madam?
740
00:58:11,090 --> 00:58:12,999
May I leave my hat on?
741
00:58:13,092 --> 00:58:15,797
[Mrs. Talmann] Your chair looks
insignificant out there, Mr. Neville.
742
00:58:17,163 --> 00:58:19,868
[Neville] What significant assumption
are we to make, madam...
743
00:58:19,966 --> 00:58:23,103
of a wounded horse
belonging to your father...
744
00:58:23,203 --> 00:58:26,737
found on the road to Southampton?
745
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:31,750
The first assumption is that the horse
has no business being there without my father.
746
00:58:32,779 --> 00:58:37,087
And why is it wounded?
And what does that imply for my father?
747
00:58:37,183 --> 00:58:40,388
And the second assumption
will no doubt implicate me...
748
00:58:40,487 --> 00:58:44,159
since a saddleless horse has now
found its way into this morning's drawing.
749
00:58:45,959 --> 00:58:47,868
Mrs. Talmann...
750
00:58:47,961 --> 00:58:52,666
why don't you now leave the window
and come to the basin?
751
00:58:52,765 --> 00:58:55,868
Don't worry. Your position of superiority
will not be diminished.
752
00:58:55,969 --> 00:58:58,446
I will still have to look up to you.
753
00:59:02,242 --> 00:59:06,617
Since I have taken valuable time
to fill this basin with a little water...
754
00:59:06,713 --> 00:59:09,055
why not share it with me?
755
00:59:18,390 --> 00:59:20,698
[whimpering]
756
00:59:35,708 --> 00:59:38,276
[Neville]
You have a curious mole Mrs. Herbert...
757
00:59:38,377 --> 00:59:41,321
and it is ideally placed.
758
00:59:41,414 --> 00:59:45,188
Does your gardener catch moles,
Mrs. Herbert?
759
00:59:45,284 --> 00:59:48,421
No. He says they are
to be encouraged for good luck...
760
00:59:48,521 --> 00:59:51,362
and the destruction of one's enemies,
761
00:59:51,457 --> 00:59:53,526
They trip up horses, Mrs. Herbert.
762
00:59:53,626 --> 00:59:56,797
You will not persuade Mr. Porringer
to persecute them,
763
00:59:56,896 --> 01:00:00,204
A curious man and ideally placed.
764
01:00:00,299 --> 01:00:02,277
Ideally placed for what?
765
01:00:02,367 --> 01:00:07,402
Why, for persuading a fine white horse
from Southampton to go lame in the leg.
766
01:00:12,545 --> 01:00:15,989
[Mrs. Herbert] You have nothing to fear
from Mr. Porringer, Mr. Neville.
767
01:00:16,082 --> 01:00:19,389
He... watches you
for his own amusement.
768
01:00:19,485 --> 01:00:22,326
As I do you, madam.
769
01:00:22,422 --> 01:00:26,060
- You seem nonetheless to be curiously keen
to protect your gardener.
- [Bird Chirping]
770
01:00:26,159 --> 01:00:30,103
It is not you, madam,
but his breeches that are his best defense.
771
01:00:30,196 --> 01:00:35,606
A man in red breeches could scarcely be
considered an inconspicuous conspirator, madam...
772
01:00:35,702 --> 01:00:39,874
unlike that other fool who behaves
like a statue when you least expect.
773
01:00:54,087 --> 01:00:57,428
Away from the house,
Mr. Neville, I-
774
01:00:57,523 --> 01:01:00,001
I feel I grow smaller in significance.
775
01:01:00,093 --> 01:01:02,071
[Bell Tolling In Distance]
776
01:01:02,161 --> 01:01:05,366
Madam,what signifies
does not grow smaller for me.
777
01:01:06,899 --> 01:01:08,968
Your significance, Mr. Neville,
is attributable...
778
01:01:09,068 --> 01:01:13,170
to both innocence and arrogance
in equal parts.
779
01:01:13,271 --> 01:01:16,806
Ah, you can handle both with impunity,
Mrs. Talmann.
780
01:01:16,909 --> 01:01:21,478
But you will find
that they are not symmetrical.
781
01:01:21,581 --> 01:01:25,048
You will find that one
weighs heavier than the other.
782
01:01:26,953 --> 01:01:29,191
Which do you think is the heavier,
Mrs. Talmann?
783
01:01:30,823 --> 01:01:35,494
Your innocence, Mr. Neville,
is always sinister.
784
01:01:35,595 --> 01:01:39,630
So I will say that
the right one is the heaviest.
785
01:01:39,732 --> 01:01:42,108
[Neville]
Madam, your dexterity is admirable.
786
01:01:45,471 --> 01:01:49,075
You spend too much time
with Mr. Neville.
787
01:01:50,109 --> 01:01:53,245
- How is that?
- The man is a pariah.
788
01:01:53,346 --> 01:01:56,018
He eats like a vagrant
and dresses like a barber.
789
01:01:56,114 --> 01:02:00,422
[Chuckles]
What compliments. I think he would be amused.
790
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:03,760
As for his servant,
he looks like a fleece with a foot disease.
791
01:02:03,856 --> 01:02:05,856
[Chuckling]
792
01:02:05,958 --> 01:02:07,936
Do you not think
Mr. Neville is knowledgeable?
793
01:02:08,027 --> 01:02:09,936
About what?
794
01:02:11,163 --> 01:02:13,300
About what, madam?
795
01:02:15,968 --> 01:02:18,878
Madam, I could take your silence
as provocation.
796
01:02:18,971 --> 01:02:21,539
Why, sir, should I wish to provoke you?
797
01:02:21,641 --> 01:02:25,017
To excite me to think that you might
wish to compliment Mr. Neville...
798
01:02:25,110 --> 01:02:27,987
with more than praise
for his knowledgeability.
799
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,285
The complexity of your speech
does you credit, Louis...
800
01:02:30,383 --> 01:02:32,418
but it far exceeds the complexity
of any relationship...
801
01:02:32,518 --> 01:02:36,690
I might have with Mr. Neville,
which is indeed very simple.
802
01:02:36,789 --> 01:02:42,631
He is a paid servant of my mother's,
bound by a contract. That is all.
803
01:02:42,729 --> 01:02:45,070
I'm encouraged by my mother
to see him honor it.
804
01:02:45,163 --> 01:02:48,300
Is his pleasure in your encouragement
so necessary?
805
01:02:48,401 --> 01:02:51,777
Although Mr. Neville has qualities,
he is neither as intelligent...
806
01:02:51,871 --> 01:02:54,849
nor, for that matter,
as talented as he thinks.
807
01:02:54,941 --> 01:02:58,510
Both characteristics you have observed
from the start, Louis...
808
01:02:58,611 --> 01:03:01,214
though I admit more by prejudice
than by observation.
809
01:03:12,992 --> 01:03:16,765
I understand that you will
be leaving us tonight, Mr. Neville.
810
01:03:16,863 --> 01:03:20,739
With Mrs. Herbert's permission, I will be
leaving after the arrival of Mr. Herbert...
811
01:03:20,833 --> 01:03:24,402
after he has passed an opinion
on the drawings of his house.
812
01:03:24,504 --> 01:03:28,573
If my servant has obtained a vehicle,
I will be leaving in the morning.
813
01:03:28,674 --> 01:03:33,482
And of course, Mr. Neville, the sooner the better-
as you no doubt expected me to say.
814
01:03:33,579 --> 01:03:37,352
You, sir, have acquainted me with your opinion
on drawing, on horticulture...
815
01:03:37,450 --> 01:03:39,826
the Roman Church, childbearing...
816
01:03:39,919 --> 01:03:42,260
the place of women in English life...
817
01:03:42,355 --> 01:03:45,458
the history and politics of Lübeck
and the training of dogs.
818
01:03:45,558 --> 01:03:50,434
Sol am in a fair position to anticipate
your opinion as to my departure.
819
01:03:50,530 --> 01:03:54,565
And is Radstock to greet you
with such devoted hospitality?
820
01:03:54,667 --> 01:03:57,474
Mr. Talmann, sir, I have been treated...
821
01:03:57,570 --> 01:04:01,708
with as great hospitality as I could wish for
in Mrs. Herbert's house.
822
01:04:12,485 --> 01:04:16,759
[Man] Your drawings are full of
the most unexpected observation, Mr. Neville...
823
01:04:16,856 --> 01:04:20,732
and looking at them is akin to pursuing
a complicated allegory.
824
01:04:20,827 --> 01:04:23,100
- Are you sure this ladder was there?
- Indisputably.
825
01:04:23,196 --> 01:04:26,003
- And what is this? It looks like a-
- Whatever it is, it was there.
826
01:04:26,097 --> 01:04:28,905
- Mrs. Talmann will confirm it.
- How is that?
827
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:30,978
How will my wife confirm it?
828
01:04:31,069 --> 01:04:33,843
Mr. Neville is probably
too encompassing in his statement.
829
01:04:33,940 --> 01:04:37,349
I can, however,
confirm the sighting of a ladder
830
01:04:37,443 --> 01:04:40,944
It is propped against
my father's withdrawing room.
831
01:04:41,046 --> 01:04:43,990
It is indeed, madam.
You have an exact knowledge.
832
01:04:44,082 --> 01:04:46,287
As exact a knowledge as though, madam...
833
01:04:46,385 --> 01:04:48,454
you had placed it there yourself,
would you say?
834
01:04:48,554 --> 01:04:51,760
[Mrs. Talmann]
Mr. Neville, if ever I had such a mind to...
835
01:04:51,858 --> 01:04:53,893
I would have found it impossible
to have lifted it.
836
01:04:53,992 --> 01:04:58,630
- It would have taken... two men.
- Halt!
837
01:04:58,731 --> 01:05:00,709
- Away!
- [Murmurs]
838
01:05:05,238 --> 01:05:07,216
[Mr. Talmann]
What do you want, Mr. Clarke?
839
01:05:07,306 --> 01:05:09,977
Can you come with me, sir?
It's important.
840
01:05:18,885 --> 01:05:21,362
[No Audible Dialogue]
841
01:06:14,340 --> 01:06:16,318
Madam, it is most important
that I speak with you.
842
01:06:16,409 --> 01:06:19,546
- I cannot now, Thomas.
- I'm in a position to insist.
843
01:06:19,645 --> 01:06:22,714
Thomas, after what has happened,
I refuse to speak to you just now.
844
01:06:22,815 --> 01:06:26,258
You must take care of affairs yourself, or,
in the last resort, you must ask Mr. Talmann.
845
01:06:26,352 --> 01:06:29,125
Telling Mr. Talmann what is on my mind
will not help you.
846
01:06:29,221 --> 01:06:31,130
What do you mean?
847
01:06:31,223 --> 01:06:34,928
I mean, madam, that I am sure I'm shortly
to be accused of the murder of your husband...
848
01:06:35,027 --> 01:06:38,801
and I am determined
to confront that eventuality well protected.
849
01:06:38,897 --> 01:06:40,807
And who will accuse you?
850
01:06:40,899 --> 01:06:43,275
Firstly, I think, will be your son-in-law...
851
01:06:43,369 --> 01:06:45,779
abetted and witnessed
probably by his servants.
852
01:06:45,870 --> 01:06:48,348
- How can that be?
- I need your assistance.
853
01:06:48,441 --> 01:06:50,350
To what end...
854
01:06:50,443 --> 01:06:53,444
if my son-in-law believes that you're guilty
of the murder of Mr. Herbert?
855
01:06:56,415 --> 01:06:58,393
Leave me.
856
01:06:59,618 --> 01:07:02,596
- Maria!
- Calling your servants is not going to help.
857
01:07:02,688 --> 01:07:04,666
What do you mean? Maria!
858
01:07:04,757 --> 01:07:07,325
- I mean the draughtsman's contract, madam.
- What of it?
859
01:07:07,426 --> 01:07:09,335
Maria, call Mr. Talmann.
860
01:07:09,428 --> 01:07:12,338
I mean your contractual obligations
to Mr. Neville.
861
01:07:12,431 --> 01:07:14,340
What of them?
862
01:07:14,433 --> 01:07:16,570
Madam, you are disingenuous
beyond words.
863
01:07:17,603 --> 01:07:20,876
Maria, don't bother to call Mr. Talmann.
Fetch me instead a-
864
01:07:22,375 --> 01:07:24,852
Fetch me nothing.
I'm not thirsty just at present.
865
01:07:31,916 --> 01:07:36,224
Now, Mr. Noyes, what are you inferring?
866
01:07:36,322 --> 01:07:40,391
I am to be unjustly and unscrupulously accused
of the murder of your husband.
867
01:07:40,493 --> 01:07:42,402
On what grounds?
868
01:07:42,495 --> 01:07:45,564
That I was the most likely person
to have done it.
869
01:07:45,664 --> 01:07:48,073
That I was the only person,
with the exception of your servants...
870
01:07:48,167 --> 01:07:50,543
to know of Mr. Herbert's return on Friday.
871
01:07:50,636 --> 01:07:54,205
That I am culpable because of my known
feelings towards your husband.
872
01:07:54,306 --> 01:07:56,215
That is ridiculous. There was-
873
01:07:56,308 --> 01:07:59,751
And, madam, I am the only person in the group
of people you are about to mention...
874
01:07:59,844 --> 01:08:02,754
who was not at home awaiting
the arrival of Mr. Herbert.
875
01:08:02,847 --> 01:08:05,825
And, further, madam,
because of my known feelings towards you.
876
01:08:08,587 --> 01:08:12,030
- Is all that sufficient reason?
- There is more.
877
01:08:12,124 --> 01:08:15,500
[Noyes] Mr. Herbert's study
is mysteriously littered with papers...
878
01:08:15,594 --> 01:08:18,265
and my gloves are there.
879
01:08:18,364 --> 01:08:20,501
Now against this conspiracy,
880
01:08:20,599 --> 01:08:24,372
I need your protection and more.
881
01:08:26,672 --> 01:08:28,979
[Mrs. Herbert]
If you're guilty Thomas, you shall have neither
882
01:08:29,075 --> 01:08:32,485
[Noyes] With Mr. Neville's contract, madam,
I shall have them both.
883
01:08:32,578 --> 01:08:35,681
For your protection
and for 700 guineas...
884
01:08:35,780 --> 01:08:38,657
I will trade you the contract
of your infidelities.
885
01:08:40,352 --> 01:08:44,660
I have no money.
700 is a calculated sum.
886
01:08:48,127 --> 01:08:51,628
I will trade you the contract
for the drawings.
887
01:08:52,764 --> 01:08:56,334
You have I 2 drawings,
and Mr. Neville has a reputation.
888
01:08:56,435 --> 01:08:59,003
What, for 12 drawings executed privately?
889
01:08:59,105 --> 01:09:02,878
Consider, madam. The drawings could be
construed as an embarrassment to you...
890
01:09:02,975 --> 01:09:05,317
and the original purpose and significance
of the drawings...
891
01:09:05,411 --> 01:09:09,150
as a gift to your husband is absolved.
892
01:09:09,248 --> 01:09:14,056
Those drawings, Mr. Noyes,
have cost me too much already.
893
01:09:14,153 --> 01:09:17,154
They may cost you
a great deal more.
894
01:09:17,256 --> 01:09:19,427
They may cost you possibly everything.
895
01:09:19,525 --> 01:09:23,128
An adulteress with a dead husband
is no reputation to relish.
896
01:09:24,363 --> 01:09:27,500
- [Mrs. Herbert] And Mr. Neville?
- What of Mr. Neville? He's gone to Radcot.
897
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:31,408
- What part has he in this stratagem?
- He is not a part of my stratagem.
898
01:09:31,504 --> 01:09:34,607
He could be party to a future arrangement
with the same intent.
899
01:09:35,740 --> 01:09:37,650
You paid him a fee, madam...
900
01:09:37,742 --> 01:09:41,652
and you offered him full board
on your property during the commission.
901
01:09:41,746 --> 01:09:45,054
To the prying eye,
that is as much as he is usually worth.
902
01:09:45,151 --> 01:09:47,129
With the contract in your hand
and destroyed...
903
01:09:47,219 --> 01:09:49,197
why should the world think
you've offered him more?
904
01:09:52,558 --> 01:09:54,536
Where is that contract now?
905
01:09:54,627 --> 01:09:57,127
I have it here, madam.
Where are the drawings?
906
01:09:57,229 --> 01:10:00,264
What would be said
if I no longer had the drawings?
907
01:10:00,366 --> 01:10:02,275
That you destroyed them...
908
01:10:02,368 --> 01:10:05,471
for, without your husband,
they were valueless to you.
909
01:10:05,571 --> 01:10:08,208
What would happen
if it were known that they were for sale?
910
01:10:08,307 --> 01:10:10,216
Your stratagem is weak.
911
01:10:10,309 --> 01:10:14,583
That you sold them in order to afford
a memorial to your husband...
912
01:10:14,679 --> 01:10:17,680
or, alternatively, that you sold them in order
to rid the house of something...
913
01:10:17,783 --> 01:10:20,523
which pains you
each time you look at them.
914
01:10:22,821 --> 01:10:27,129
You once asked me, Mrs. Pierpoint, if I could
supply you with a ribald piece of gossip.
915
01:10:27,226 --> 01:10:29,760
And I remember your friendly gesture
at the time.
916
01:10:29,862 --> 01:10:32,363
[Chuckling]
Ah, madam...
917
01:10:32,464 --> 01:10:35,169
you Romans know how to be charitable.
918
01:10:39,371 --> 01:10:42,247
I can supply you
with a little more than gossip.
919
01:10:42,341 --> 01:10:44,376
I'm in a position to invite you
to help me...
920
01:10:44,476 --> 01:10:48,749
elaborate and decorate such an item-
an entertaining item.
921
01:10:48,847 --> 01:10:53,314
We need not work too hard,
for the rump of the matter has been well laid.
922
01:10:53,419 --> 01:10:57,794
And what real benefit do you think
I might gain from this exercise?
923
01:10:57,890 --> 01:11:02,766
Amusement and a certain delight
in a symmetrical stratagem...
924
01:11:02,861 --> 01:11:06,032
and the satisfaction that our betters
might be seriously discomforted.
925
01:11:06,131 --> 01:11:11,303
And who knows? Perhaps two parterres
and a grove of orange trees...
926
01:11:11,403 --> 01:11:13,846
- [Chuckling]
- if Mrs. Herbert is generous.
927
01:11:13,939 --> 01:11:16,849
And why Mrs. Herbert?
928
01:11:16,942 --> 01:11:19,715
Because I think you will find
she is mistress of strategy.
929
01:11:19,812 --> 01:11:22,813
And if you do not benefit from her directly,
I think that, by and by...
930
01:11:22,915 --> 01:11:25,654
if you wait a few years,
then you will achieve them from me...
931
01:11:25,751 --> 01:11:27,729
as a token of my esteem.
932
01:11:28,754 --> 01:11:30,663
From the same source?
933
01:11:30,756 --> 01:11:32,734
Madam, I think you have understood me.
934
01:11:35,894 --> 01:11:37,803
[Man]
A monument would need a designer.
935
01:11:37,896 --> 01:11:41,999
Would a certain pecuniary draughtsman
be eager to sign another contract?
936
01:11:42,101 --> 01:11:44,772
As far as I am aware, sir,
the idea is Mrs. Herbert's...
937
01:11:44,870 --> 01:11:46,973
though the expenses might be laid
at Mr. Neville's door.
938
01:11:47,072 --> 01:11:48,981
An about-face.
939
01:11:49,074 --> 01:11:53,212
It is his drawings that are to be sold,
not more of his talent.
940
01:11:53,312 --> 01:11:57,154
By Mr. Neville's growing reputation,
12 drawings could be profitably sold...
941
01:11:57,249 --> 01:11:59,726
to furnish a more solid
and enduring monument.
942
01:11:59,818 --> 01:12:02,422
It is said that Mr. Neville
is to be invited to the Hague.
943
01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:05,964
Aha. If I had the wherewithal...
944
01:12:06,058 --> 01:12:09,592
I would advance Mrs. Herbert
100 guineas straightaway-
945
01:12:09,695 --> 01:12:14,106
for capital audacity,
for bravura in the face of grief.
946
01:12:14,199 --> 01:12:17,200
Mr. Herbert is no especial excuse
for such generosity...
947
01:12:17,303 --> 01:12:20,712
but how publicly directed
is the gesture?
948
01:12:20,806 --> 01:12:24,216
- How could posterity doubt her affection?
-just so.
949
01:12:24,310 --> 01:12:27,651
I shall offer 300 guineas-
not my own money, you understand.
950
01:12:27,746 --> 01:12:29,917
My father-in-laws.
He can afford it.
951
01:12:30,015 --> 01:12:33,118
He collects-
has no perspicacity, no knowledge.
952
01:12:33,218 --> 01:12:36,718
I shall tell him that they are Italian.
953
01:12:36,822 --> 01:12:39,096
- Guido Reni, uh, Modesta.
[Seymour Laughing]
954
01:12:39,191 --> 01:12:42,294
[Laughs] He shall hang them
in a dark room somewhere...
955
01:12:42,394 --> 01:12:44,803
and they shall never be seen again.
956
01:12:44,897 --> 01:12:48,068
That is a great pity,
for they are full of illuminating details.
957
01:12:48,167 --> 01:12:51,077
Mr. Neville moves forward
in Mrs. Herbert's susceptibilities...
958
01:12:51,170 --> 01:12:55,205
like a man pressing a lifework
by slow stages.
959
01:12:55,307 --> 01:12:58,546
Would there perhaps be an idea
in Mr. Neville's imagination...
960
01:12:58,644 --> 01:13:01,520
for a certain contract
to cap them all?
961
01:13:01,613 --> 01:13:05,557
On horseback- a dashing Saint George,
looking like a jacobite with, um-
962
01:13:05,651 --> 01:13:08,686
With a palette for a shield
and a quiver full of brushes...
963
01:13:08,787 --> 01:13:11,061
and a pen held crosswise in his teeth.
964
01:13:11,156 --> 01:13:13,395
With ink-stained fingers.
965
01:13:13,491 --> 01:13:15,469
What is in his fingers?
966
01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:17,595
Unmentionable.
967
01:13:17,696 --> 01:13:20,799
- Another pen?
- It's like a pen.
968
01:13:20,899 --> 01:13:23,536
- Is it a pen?
-A little pen.
969
01:13:23,635 --> 01:13:25,943
The pen is mightier than the sword.
970
01:13:26,038 --> 01:13:30,380
We will forward 400 guineas
to this scabrous monument to a pen.
971
01:13:30,475 --> 01:13:34,181
And our receipt will be Mr. Neville's drawing
in the bathhouse.
972
01:13:34,279 --> 01:13:36,882
- The one with the little dog.
- Mmm.Wagging its tail.
973
01:13:38,250 --> 01:13:41,887
[Mr. Talmann] Mrs. Herbert does well to sell them.
How much will they bring?
974
01:13:41,987 --> 01:13:44,658
[Noyes] They are worth
what those who buy them wish to pay.
975
01:13:44,757 --> 01:13:48,633
- Mr. Seymour has tentatively offered 400 guineas.
- [Mr. Talmann] Huh!
976
01:13:48,727 --> 01:13:52,500
[Noyes] I am inclined to think that he makes
his offer generous to Mrs. Herbert...
977
01:13:52,598 --> 01:13:57,202
in order to interest her in a larger and a-
a grander sale.
978
01:13:57,302 --> 01:14:00,768
- What other sale?
- Why, of course, of the house.
979
01:14:00,873 --> 01:14:02,942
Well, that was very forward of him.
980
01:14:03,041 --> 01:14:05,110
[Noyes]
I tested his ambition...
981
01:14:05,210 --> 01:14:08,619
by suggesting that he might buy a set
of distinguished drawings of it.
982
01:14:08,714 --> 01:14:12,419
Either way is a useful way
to help Mrs. Herbert to a-
983
01:14:12,517 --> 01:14:16,791
a more profitable bargain and thereby
to help her demonstrate her loss...
984
01:14:16,889 --> 01:14:18,992
in the knowledge that a larger sum...
985
01:14:19,091 --> 01:14:21,762
would make for a larger monument
for her husband.
986
01:14:21,860 --> 01:14:26,361
Mr. Herbert, one way or another,
stands to benefit by Mr. Neville's industry...
987
01:14:26,464 --> 01:14:28,373
as do we all, sir.
988
01:14:28,466 --> 01:14:31,933
I fail to see, for a start, my benefit
or, for that matter, yours.
989
01:14:32,037 --> 01:14:34,708
[Chuckling]
Mr. Talmann, you are disingenuous.
990
01:14:34,807 --> 01:14:38,876
You, sir, as, by your leave,
your future son's future guardian...
991
01:14:38,977 --> 01:14:40,955
stand in an enviable position.
992
01:14:41,046 --> 01:14:43,387
And consider the neatness of it, sir.
993
01:14:43,481 --> 01:14:47,584
The estate would have an endurable memorial
which is part of the landscape...
994
01:14:47,686 --> 01:14:51,494
instead of 12 perishable items
which are mere representations of it.
995
01:14:51,590 --> 01:14:56,001
I fail to see why Mr. Seymour's presumption
should gain him a part of my son's inheritance.
996
01:14:56,094 --> 01:14:59,469
[Noyes] Maybe there again
Mr. Seymour will be doing you a favor, sir.
997
01:14:59,565 --> 01:15:01,474
What do you mean?
998
01:15:01,567 --> 01:15:04,273
[Noyes] By taking away the possibility
of your son ever seeing them-
999
01:15:04,368 --> 01:15:07,040
when you have one, as I'm sure you will.
1000
01:15:07,139 --> 01:15:09,117
[Mr. Talmann]
Why should he not see them?
1001
01:15:09,208 --> 01:15:12,811
Because, sir, he might perceive
the allegorical evidence in them...
1002
01:15:12,911 --> 01:15:16,582
which you might, sir,
be stubborn enough to deny.
1003
01:15:16,682 --> 01:15:19,286
Mr. Neville had no use for allegory...
1004
01:15:19,383 --> 01:15:22,089
and I am unlikely to miss
what my son would appreciate.
1005
01:15:22,187 --> 01:15:25,596
[Noyes] An allegorical meaning, sir,
that might involve his mother.
1006
01:15:25,691 --> 01:15:29,931
What?
My wife? How is that?
1007
01:15:30,028 --> 01:15:33,597
It is fancifully imputed, sir...
1008
01:15:33,699 --> 01:15:36,836
that Mr. Neville saw you
as a deceived husband.
1009
01:15:40,105 --> 01:15:42,083
How was I deceived?
1010
01:15:49,248 --> 01:15:53,090
I've been convinced, Sarah,
that you have been deceiving me!
1011
01:15:53,185 --> 01:15:55,992
- What is the matter with your voice?
- Damn my voice!
1012
01:15:56,088 --> 01:15:58,066
If you did, it would scare me less.
1013
01:15:58,156 --> 01:16:01,032
What's the matter with your face?
Your face, Louis, is very red.
1014
01:16:01,126 --> 01:16:05,536
No redder than your backside, madam,
when Mr. Neville had finished with it!
1015
01:16:08,734 --> 01:16:11,905
[Mrs. Talmann]
When your speech is as coarse as your face, Louis...
1016
01:16:12,004 --> 01:16:15,277
you sound as impotent by day
as you perform by night.
1017
01:16:15,373 --> 01:16:18,840
Night and day, madam,
your behavior has been coarse...
1018
01:16:18,944 --> 01:16:21,717
and is now down
in corresponding black-and-white...
1019
01:16:21,813 --> 01:16:23,722
for all the world to peer at...
1020
01:16:23,815 --> 01:16:27,349
whether the sun shines
or the wind blows hot or cold.
1021
01:16:27,452 --> 01:16:30,896
Your speech, Louis,
is becoming meteorological.
1022
01:16:30,989 --> 01:16:32,898
You must explain your conceit.
1023
01:16:32,991 --> 01:16:35,764
It is no conceit, madam,
but Mr. Neville's drawings.
1024
01:16:35,861 --> 01:16:39,327
I was sure you believed Mr. Neville
incapable of complicated meaning.
1025
01:16:39,431 --> 01:16:41,340
What has he done now?
1026
01:16:41,433 --> 01:16:45,400
It is mostly what he has undone.
It seems to be your person.
1027
01:16:45,504 --> 01:16:48,607
I have no control
over Mr. Neville's drawings.
1028
01:16:48,707 --> 01:16:50,616
He draws what he pleases.
1029
01:16:50,709 --> 01:16:53,516
He is not paid to draw for his own pleasure
nor, madam, for yours.
1030
01:16:53,612 --> 01:16:56,215
- What makes you think he has done that?
- Probably the way it looks.
1031
01:16:56,314 --> 01:16:58,292
- How does it look?
- The way the world sees it.
1032
01:16:58,383 --> 01:17:02,486
The world? There cannot be that many people
who have seen these drawings.
1033
01:17:02,588 --> 01:17:04,793
Who are these people
that represent the world?
1034
01:17:04,890 --> 01:17:07,766
- Seymour, Noyes, the Poulencs.
- Ah! And what do they see?
1035
01:17:07,859 --> 01:17:10,769
Enough, madam, to delight them,
to exercise their tongues...
1036
01:17:10,862 --> 01:17:12,771
to discuss patrimony.
1037
01:17:12,864 --> 01:17:15,172
Or the lack of it.
1038
01:17:15,266 --> 01:17:19,608
They see then what they have long
been searching for, do you think?
1039
01:17:19,705 --> 01:17:21,614
And that means?
1040
01:17:21,707 --> 01:17:24,913
Opportunity to upbraid you
for not producing an heir.
1041
01:17:27,813 --> 01:17:30,450
Woman, it takes two.
1042
01:17:30,549 --> 01:17:33,618
It does indeed, sir.
1043
01:17:33,719 --> 01:17:36,163
You amaze me.
1044
01:17:36,253 --> 01:17:39,288
- And what has that to do with Mr. Neville?
- I could ask you that, madam.
1045
01:17:39,391 --> 01:17:42,665
- You did not. You asked Mr. Noyes.
- It was he who pointed it out to me.
1046
01:17:42,761 --> 01:17:45,432
With his long nose,
he could point you in anyway he wishes.
1047
01:17:45,530 --> 01:17:49,599
Madam, you will look at those drawings
and you will explain to me...
1048
01:17:49,701 --> 01:17:52,907
why a pleaching ladder is conveniently
placed under your window...
1049
01:17:53,005 --> 01:17:56,210
and why your revolting little clog
is outside the bathhouse...
1050
01:17:56,308 --> 01:18:00,048
and why your walking clothes
casually decorate the bushes of the yew walk.
1051
01:18:00,145 --> 01:18:05,680
Your inventory, Louis, is unlimited-
like your long, clean, white breeches.
1052
01:18:05,784 --> 01:18:09,126
But there is nothing of substance
in either of them.
1053
01:18:15,327 --> 01:18:17,236
Let me ask you.
1054
01:18:17,329 --> 01:18:20,239
Perhaps you can explain what your boots
were doing in the sheep field.
1055
01:18:20,332 --> 01:18:22,241
They were not my boots.
1056
01:18:22,334 --> 01:18:25,175
And why was your undershirt
idling on a hedge near the statue of Hermes?
1057
01:18:25,270 --> 01:18:27,179
It was not my shirt.
1058
01:18:27,272 --> 01:18:30,716
Can you not see the drift
of this domestic inquisition?
1059
01:18:30,809 --> 01:18:33,116
You are answering me
as I could answer you.
1060
01:18:33,210 --> 01:18:35,188
You cannot deny it is your dog.
1061
01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:38,554
[Sighs]
And whereas, with your final accusation...
1062
01:18:38,650 --> 01:18:41,787
you pursue the ambiguity
of an abandoned sunshade...
1063
01:18:41,887 --> 01:18:44,797
you, sir, are complete on paper...
1064
01:18:44,890 --> 01:18:47,333
in a borrowed hat
and a borrowed coat...
1065
01:18:47,426 --> 01:18:50,427
and a borrowed shadow,
I shouldn't wonder.
1066
01:18:50,529 --> 01:18:55,633
Posing, sir, with your knees tucked in
and your arse tucked out...
1067
01:18:55,734 --> 01:18:58,076
and a face like a Dutch fig...
1068
01:18:58,169 --> 01:19:02,238
and a supercilious Protestant whistle,
I shouldn't wonder...
1069
01:19:02,340 --> 01:19:05,807
on your supercilious, smug lips.
1070
01:19:05,911 --> 01:19:10,946
And, Louis, you have always said
that Mr. Neville has no imagination.
1071
01:19:11,049 --> 01:19:14,151
He draws what he sees.
1072
01:19:14,252 --> 01:19:18,196
Whose patrimony were you aping then-
my father's?
1073
01:19:20,191 --> 01:19:24,000
And the world knows that he is dead...
1074
01:19:24,095 --> 01:19:26,164
and is not certain who killed him.
1075
01:19:28,065 --> 01:19:30,044
The world
might peer at those drawings...
1076
01:19:30,134 --> 01:19:34,101
and ask what conspiracy of inheritance
did Mr. Neville have for you.
1077
01:19:37,542 --> 01:19:41,645
You are disreputable, madam...
1078
01:19:41,747 --> 01:19:45,953
and you side with a tenant-farmer's son
against your husband.
1079
01:19:48,152 --> 01:19:51,460
You have married the granddaughter
of an army victualler.
1080
01:19:53,024 --> 01:19:57,297
And there is nothing that I have said
that suggests I side with Mr. Neville.
1081
01:19:57,395 --> 01:20:01,032
But I hope you will agree
that he has been useful to us all.
1082
01:20:01,132 --> 01:20:03,110
What have you done with his drawings?
1083
01:20:03,201 --> 01:20:06,111
I've bought them for 600 guineas,
I plan to destroy them.
1084
01:20:06,204 --> 01:20:08,182
Oh, it would be a pity to destroy them.
1085
01:20:08,273 --> 01:20:13,718
[Yelps] You are concerned that posterity
will know of your duplicity!
1086
01:20:13,812 --> 01:20:15,721
Louis.
1087
01:20:15,814 --> 01:20:19,257
They contain evidence
of another kind...
1088
01:20:19,351 --> 01:20:21,693
a kind more valuable
than that seized upon...
1089
01:20:21,787 --> 01:20:26,527
by those titillated by a scandal
that smears your honor-
1090
01:20:26,625 --> 01:20:30,535
evidence that Mr. Neville may be cognizant
to the death of my father.
1091
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:11,071
[Person Coughing]
1092
01:21:18,577 --> 01:21:20,555
[Neville]
Good morning madam,
1093
01:21:20,645 --> 01:21:22,554
[Mrs. Talmann]
Mr. Neville.
1094
01:21:22,647 --> 01:21:24,625
Good morning, sir.
1095
01:21:25,784 --> 01:21:27,693
[Mrs. Talmann]
Good morning.
1096
01:21:27,786 --> 01:21:32,230
Though the summer suddenly seems past
and the weather less than good.
1097
01:21:32,324 --> 01:21:34,563
What, Mr. Neville, has brought you
back to Anstey so soon?
1098
01:21:34,659 --> 01:21:36,830
I thought our humble estate
had seen the last of you.
1099
01:21:36,928 --> 01:21:39,531
I am staying, madam, at Radstock
with the Duke of Lauderdale...
1100
01:21:39,631 --> 01:21:41,609
and have come at the invitation
of Mr. Seymour...
1101
01:21:41,700 --> 01:21:45,872
to find that curiously he is out
and most of his house is shut up.
1102
01:21:47,072 --> 01:21:51,016
Mr. Seymour, I understand,
is in Southampton with my husband.
1103
01:21:52,943 --> 01:21:56,581
The funeral was three days ago,
and they are discussing property.
1104
01:21:56,681 --> 01:22:00,557
It would seem then
that my visit is poorly timed.
1105
01:22:00,652 --> 01:22:03,186
Madam, may I ask
after the health of your mother?
1106
01:22:03,288 --> 01:22:07,733
Although my mother was understandably
disturbed by my father's death...
1107
01:22:07,826 --> 01:22:11,668
she is now, in the knowledge
that her affection for my father...
1108
01:22:11,763 --> 01:22:15,263
can never be reciprocated, at ease.
1109
01:22:15,367 --> 01:22:17,470
And what of yourself, madam?
1110
01:22:17,569 --> 01:22:21,411
I am very well, Mr. Neville,
and we are thriving.
1111
01:22:21,506 --> 01:22:23,484
Mr. van Hoyten is to consider for us...
1112
01:22:23,575 --> 01:22:27,985
a new management of the grounds
in an entirely fresh approach.
1113
01:22:28,079 --> 01:22:30,057
He has come at our request to...
1114
01:22:30,148 --> 01:22:33,592
soften the geometry
that my father found to his taste...
1115
01:22:33,685 --> 01:22:39,527
and to introduce a new ease
and complexion into the garden.
1116
01:22:39,624 --> 01:22:42,931
Mr. van Hoyten has worked in the Hague...
1117
01:22:43,028 --> 01:22:46,006
and he has presented Mr. Talmann
with some novel introductions...
1118
01:22:46,097 --> 01:22:49,701
which we will commence next spring.
1119
01:22:49,801 --> 01:22:52,506
He is a draughtsman too.
1120
01:22:52,604 --> 01:22:55,081
[Speaking Dutch]
1121
01:23:04,949 --> 01:23:07,120
[Dutch]
1122
01:23:29,607 --> 01:23:33,846
Mr. Neville has come, Mother,
as we both believed he might...
1123
01:23:33,944 --> 01:23:37,388
and he has brought with him
a rare gift from Radstock-
1124
01:23:37,482 --> 01:23:40,551
three pomegranates
from Lauderdale's gardener...
1125
01:23:40,652 --> 01:23:43,562
reared in English soil
under an English sun.
1126
01:23:43,655 --> 01:23:46,428
But with the help, madam,
of 100 panes of glass...
1127
01:23:46,524 --> 01:23:49,661
and half a year's supply
of artificial heat.
1128
01:23:49,761 --> 01:23:52,534
Thank you, Mr. Neville.
1129
01:23:52,630 --> 01:23:55,335
We must see
what we can do for you in return.
1130
01:23:55,433 --> 01:23:58,639
[Mrs. Talmann] I was about
to take Mr. van Hoyten to the river.
1131
01:23:58,737 --> 01:24:02,704
He has plans to make a dam
and flood the lower field.
1132
01:24:03,907 --> 01:24:06,112
I will no doubt see you later, Mr. Neville.
1133
01:24:10,515 --> 01:24:12,924
Flooded fields, madam?
1134
01:24:13,018 --> 01:24:15,155
Do you intend to join Anstey to the sea?
1135
01:24:15,253 --> 01:24:18,787
[Mrs. Talmann Chuckling]
We are to have an ornamental lake.
1136
01:24:18,889 --> 01:24:20,833
My son-in-law has ambitions
for his countrymen.
1137
01:24:20,925 --> 01:24:23,426
It is probably you, Mr. Neville,
that has opened his eyes...
1138
01:24:23,528 --> 01:24:25,665
To the possibilities of our landscape.
1139
01:24:28,033 --> 01:24:31,102
[Neville]
Why is this Dutchman wagging his arms about?
1140
01:24:31,202 --> 01:24:33,180
Is he homesick for windmills?
1141
01:24:33,271 --> 01:24:35,839
[Laughs]
Who knows?
1142
01:24:35,940 --> 01:24:40,316
He's a man with new ideas.
New ideas demand new methods perhaps.
1143
01:24:40,412 --> 01:24:42,356
How was Radstock?
1144
01:24:42,447 --> 01:24:44,550
Fine enough, madam...
1145
01:24:44,649 --> 01:24:47,058
but dull after the excitements
of Anstey.
1146
01:24:47,152 --> 01:24:50,891
Ah, and have you now come here
to renew those excitements?
1147
01:24:50,989 --> 01:24:52,967
Oh, madam,
that would be presumptuous.
1148
01:24:53,058 --> 01:24:55,036
It would indeed, sir.
1149
01:24:55,126 --> 01:24:57,899
All contracts have, after all,
been honored...
1150
01:24:57,996 --> 01:24:59,974
and the body has been buried.
1151
01:25:00,065 --> 01:25:02,509
Madam, that was blunt.
1152
01:25:02,600 --> 01:25:06,009
I remember, sir, that you were blunt
in your dealings with me.
1153
01:25:08,173 --> 01:25:10,310
I was glad to see Mrs. Talmann...
1154
01:25:10,408 --> 01:25:13,215
and, in all truth, put as much
a possibility as I could...
1155
01:25:13,311 --> 01:25:16,187
to see that a meeting
with yourself might occur.
1156
01:25:16,281 --> 01:25:19,225
I confess that I was curious
to see the house and gardens again...
1157
01:25:19,317 --> 01:25:23,693
to see what appearance they'd put on
after this week of changing weather.
1158
01:25:23,787 --> 01:25:27,890
But I admit, madam,
that it was out of curiosity to see you...
1159
01:25:27,992 --> 01:25:32,095
that was behind the reason for my wishing
to be invited to Mr. Seymour's house.
1160
01:25:32,197 --> 01:25:37,437
Curiosity does not sound
a very respectful reason to visit a lady...
1161
01:25:37,535 --> 01:25:40,012
even one you've had the pleasure of.
1162
01:25:40,105 --> 01:25:43,810
And is it really myself that is the center
of your interest and not my daughter?
1163
01:25:43,908 --> 01:25:46,886
- Yes, madam.
- Ah.
1164
01:25:46,978 --> 01:25:48,887
How's that?
1165
01:25:48,980 --> 01:25:54,118
My former contractual obligations, madam,
tied us together to my advantage.
1166
01:25:54,219 --> 01:25:59,391
And at your husband's death, it was again
I who gained and you who lost.
1167
01:25:59,491 --> 01:26:01,662
You're very confident of that, Mr. Neville.
1168
01:26:01,758 --> 01:26:06,827
And I must confess that, in losing,
you have excited my curiosity further.
1169
01:26:06,931 --> 01:26:08,909
[inhales Deeply]
1170
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:12,910
How do you imagine my losses,
Mr. Neville?
1171
01:26:13,004 --> 01:26:17,073
Humiliations, madam-
each one exceeding the other.
1172
01:26:17,175 --> 01:26:22,518
Is losing a husband a humiliation,
Mr. Neville?
1173
01:26:22,614 --> 01:26:24,592
[Whistles, Clicks Tongue]
1174
01:26:29,387 --> 01:26:31,864
[Sheep Bleating]
1175
01:26:51,476 --> 01:26:53,646
Madam,
in making my arrangements here...
1176
01:26:53,744 --> 01:26:56,484
I concluded with the possibility
of 13 sites...
1177
01:26:56,581 --> 01:27:00,457
one of which had to be rejected to comply
with the I 2 drawings as commissioned.
1178
01:27:00,552 --> 01:27:05,428
The site that was rejected was,
as you will recall, to the south of the house...
1179
01:27:05,523 --> 01:27:08,524
and included
the monument to the horse.
1180
01:27:08,625 --> 01:27:11,728
It is the site
where your husband's body was found.
1181
01:27:12,764 --> 01:27:17,004
It was that irony, Mr. Neville,
that was uppermost in inquiring minds...
1182
01:27:17,101 --> 01:27:19,340
at the discovery of Mr. Herbert's body.
1183
01:27:19,437 --> 01:27:23,381
The 13th site, madam,
was rejected for no clear reason.
1184
01:27:23,474 --> 01:27:26,111
It contained no view of the house.
1185
01:27:26,211 --> 01:27:28,586
Then that was true
of several other of the drawings.
1186
01:27:28,679 --> 01:27:32,385
Possibly it was the least characteristic
of the garden's viewpoints...
1187
01:27:32,483 --> 01:27:36,120
and was most powerful
at the least advantageous times of clay.
1188
01:27:36,221 --> 01:27:40,131
And that is why, madam,
with your permission...
1189
01:27:40,225 --> 01:27:42,896
I would like, if I may...
1190
01:27:42,994 --> 01:27:46,097
to attempt to accomplish
that drawing this afternoon.
1191
01:27:46,197 --> 01:27:48,197
That is, if you have no objection.
1192
01:27:49,834 --> 01:27:54,279
Mr. Neville, your approach
is full of hesitant pleasantries.
1193
01:27:54,372 --> 01:27:57,213
Madam, that is because
I am still unable...
1194
01:27:57,308 --> 01:28:00,615
to fully judge your present feelings
as to past events.
1195
01:28:00,712 --> 01:28:03,190
[Footsteps Approaching]
1196
01:28:17,395 --> 01:28:21,896
Mr. Neville, suffice it to say
that the object of my life has changed.
1197
01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:25,069
I am a widow,
whereas I was a wife.
1198
01:28:25,169 --> 01:28:28,874
It could be construed
that I was a widow whilst being a wife.
1199
01:28:28,973 --> 01:28:31,474
I have only exchanged a false position
that made me unhappy...
1200
01:28:31,575 --> 01:28:36,486
for a true position that has left me
without any emotion.
1201
01:28:38,483 --> 01:28:42,620
Mr. Neville, I propose to eat.
1202
01:28:42,720 --> 01:28:47,028
And, uh, I propose
that you should eat with me.
1203
01:28:47,125 --> 01:28:52,797
And when we are ready, I will show-
along with my gardener, Mr. Porringer-
1204
01:28:52,897 --> 01:28:55,307
what we at Anstey
are capable of cultivating.
1205
01:28:55,400 --> 01:28:59,605
It will be by way of
returning your gift in kind.
1206
01:28:59,704 --> 01:29:03,239
And who knows?
It may be that we could revive...
1207
01:29:03,341 --> 01:29:05,250
one more time...
1208
01:29:05,343 --> 01:29:08,479
a liaison, outside of a contract...
1209
01:29:08,578 --> 01:29:12,647
to our mutual satisfaction.
1210
01:29:14,385 --> 01:29:18,624
And then you must accomplish your 13th drawing.
ls all that acceptable to you?
1211
01:29:18,723 --> 01:29:21,826
Madam, it is as if you'd planned it.
1212
01:29:21,926 --> 01:29:24,870
I'm surprised, delighted.
1213
01:29:24,962 --> 01:29:26,940
Madam, I am overwhelmed.
1214
01:29:27,031 --> 01:29:32,532
Mr. Neville, I will take all three states
of your satisfaction into consideration.
1215
01:29:33,570 --> 01:29:38,037
I have, quite legitimately,
a freedom to exploit...
1216
01:29:39,077 --> 01:29:42,078
and I might as well
exploit it with you...
1217
01:29:42,180 --> 01:29:44,158
considering our past experience.
1218
01:30:33,397 --> 01:30:36,137
A pomegranate, Mr. Neville-
1219
01:30:36,234 --> 01:30:39,973
gift of Hades to Persephone.
1220
01:30:40,071 --> 01:30:43,640
Madam, my scholarship is not profound.
1221
01:30:43,741 --> 01:30:47,810
Unusual of you, Mr. Neville, to profess
to an ignorance of a subject...
1222
01:30:47,912 --> 01:30:51,186
which, before, you would be anxious
to have us believe...
1223
01:30:51,282 --> 01:30:54,418
was an essential prerequisite
to an artist's vocabulary.
1224
01:30:54,519 --> 01:30:58,520
Maybe, madam, I am hesitating
to acknowledge an unintended allusion.
1225
01:31:01,092 --> 01:31:03,763
By eating the fruit of the pomegranate,
Mr. Neville...
1226
01:31:06,030 --> 01:31:09,405
Pluto kept Persephone
in the underworld.
1227
01:31:09,500 --> 01:31:12,104
Oh, a symbolic fruit, Mrs. Herbert.
1228
01:31:12,203 --> 01:31:14,112
And you've brought me three.
1229
01:31:14,205 --> 01:31:16,842
That was all, madam,
that Mr. Clancy would spare me.
1230
01:31:18,375 --> 01:31:22,820
Maybe Mr. Clancy
is a contriver of allusions.
1231
01:31:22,914 --> 01:31:25,721
How- How is that, Mrs. Herbert?
Are you acquainted with the man?
1232
01:31:26,884 --> 01:31:32,022
Having been tricked into eating the fruit
of the pomegranate, Mr. Neville...
1233
01:31:32,123 --> 01:31:37,261
Persephone was forced to spend
a period of each year underground...
1234
01:31:37,360 --> 01:31:41,600
during which time,
as even Mr. Porringer will tell you...
1235
01:31:41,699 --> 01:31:46,939
Persephone's mother- the goddess of fields,
of gardens and of orchards-
1236
01:31:47,038 --> 01:31:51,244
was distraught, heartbroken.
1237
01:31:52,510 --> 01:31:57,285
She sulks, and she refuses-
adamantly refuses-
1238
01:31:57,380 --> 01:31:59,551
to bless the world with fruitfulness.
1239
01:31:59,650 --> 01:32:01,685
Now...
1240
01:32:01,786 --> 01:32:06,321
my Mr. Porringer and your Mr. Clancy...
1241
01:32:06,423 --> 01:32:11,299
try hard to defeat
the influence of the pomegranate...
1242
01:32:11,394 --> 01:32:16,395
by building places like these,
don't you think?
1243
01:32:17,568 --> 01:32:22,535
And having built them and stocked them
and patiently tended them...
1244
01:32:22,640 --> 01:32:24,618
what do they grow?
1245
01:32:24,709 --> 01:32:27,846
Why, the pomegranate.
1246
01:32:29,346 --> 01:32:31,915
And we are turned full circle again.
1247
01:32:34,051 --> 01:32:37,460
Certainly a cautionary tale
for gardeners, madam.
1248
01:32:37,555 --> 01:32:42,465
And for mothers with daughters,
Mr. Neville.
1249
01:32:42,560 --> 01:32:45,164
But, who knows, madam?
Pomegranates grown in England...
1250
01:32:45,262 --> 01:32:48,241
might not have such unhappy
allegorical significance.
1251
01:32:48,331 --> 01:32:50,309
[Door Clatters]
1252
01:32:52,003 --> 01:32:54,446
Plants from the hothouse,
according to Mr. Porringer...
1253
01:32:54,539 --> 01:32:56,744
are seldom fertile.
1254
01:32:56,841 --> 01:33:00,751
Fertile enough, Mrs. Talmann,
to engender felicitous allusions...
1255
01:33:00,845 --> 01:33:02,754
if not their own offspring.
1256
01:33:02,847 --> 01:33:05,189
And of course, there are more.
1257
01:33:05,282 --> 01:33:07,487
More of what, madam?
1258
01:33:07,585 --> 01:33:11,393
Mr. Neville, we well know your delight
in the visual conceit.
1259
01:33:12,790 --> 01:33:16,256
The juice of the pomegranate...
1260
01:33:16,359 --> 01:33:19,860
may be taken for...
1261
01:33:19,964 --> 01:33:22,135
blood...
1262
01:33:22,232 --> 01:33:25,267
and in particular
the blood of the newborn...
1263
01:33:26,771 --> 01:33:28,749
and of murder.
1264
01:33:30,074 --> 01:33:32,745
Then thanks
to your botanical scholarship...
1265
01:33:32,843 --> 01:33:36,185
you must find it cruelly apt
that I was persuaded to bring such fruit.
1266
01:33:36,279 --> 01:33:40,883
Oh, Mr. Neville, I suspect
that you were innocent of the insight...
1267
01:33:40,985 --> 01:33:43,963
as you have been innocent of much else.
1268
01:33:44,055 --> 01:33:47,192
[Scoffs]
Innocent, madam?
1269
01:33:47,290 --> 01:33:50,598
By impute, I was convinced
you thought me guilty-
1270
01:33:50,695 --> 01:33:53,673
certainly of opportunism,
probably of murder.
1271
01:33:55,265 --> 01:33:59,732
What I do think you guilty of
I do not at all reproach you for.
1272
01:34:01,304 --> 01:34:04,612
In our need of an heir...
1273
01:34:04,709 --> 01:34:07,880
you may very likely
have served us well.
1274
01:34:10,748 --> 01:34:12,726
Madam?
1275
01:34:14,318 --> 01:34:16,387
We had a contract, did we not?
1276
01:34:20,625 --> 01:34:24,433
You do not think I would have signed
so much for pleasure alone?
1277
01:34:30,001 --> 01:34:34,638
[Sighs]
Madam, that was ingenious.
1278
01:34:36,206 --> 01:34:39,650
Since when has adultery been ingenious?
1279
01:34:39,744 --> 01:34:41,915
Mr. Neville, you are ridiculous.
1280
01:34:58,462 --> 01:35:01,338
[Mrs. Talmann] And why should you
have murdered Mr. Herbert?
1281
01:35:01,432 --> 01:35:05,672
- For what reason?
- Mr. Talmann believes I had reason enough.
1282
01:35:05,770 --> 01:35:08,509
Yes. Mr. Talmann is in Southampton...
1283
01:35:08,606 --> 01:35:13,812
still trying to find or invent
some responsibility for you in the matter
1284
01:35:13,911 --> 01:35:18,049
[Mrs. Herbert] He will not forgive
your indiscretion with Sarah...
1285
01:35:18,148 --> 01:35:23,025
but he will not disown his wife
for then, you see, he would lose Anstey.
1286
01:35:23,119 --> 01:35:26,030
I am sure that Mr. Talmann
is not in Southampton...
1287
01:35:26,122 --> 01:35:29,692
for did I not see him
on the carriage drive here this afternoon?
1288
01:35:29,794 --> 01:35:31,703
[Mrs. Talmann]
Why I think not.
1289
01:35:31,796 --> 01:35:33,967
He is in Southampton with Mr. Seymour
1290
01:35:34,065 --> 01:35:38,032
[Neville] I do not think
that Mr. Seymour can be in Southampton...
1291
01:35:38,134 --> 01:35:41,601
for he stopped my servant this morning
at Radstock to ask after me.
1292
01:35:41,706 --> 01:35:44,240
And on the understanding
that I had some hope of seeing you...
1293
01:35:44,341 --> 01:35:47,342
was, according to my servant,
more than pleased.
1294
01:35:47,445 --> 01:35:51,150
I am convinced
that we will see him this afternoon.
1295
01:35:51,248 --> 01:35:54,886
I confess I am surprised, Mr. Neville,
if that is the case.
1296
01:35:54,985 --> 01:35:56,894
I will inquire.
1297
01:36:01,525 --> 01:36:03,503
Sarah.
1298
01:36:03,594 --> 01:36:06,834
Ask Mr. Porringer
to get Mr. Neville a chair.
1299
01:36:06,931 --> 01:36:11,375
He intends to make a drawing for me
in the garden by that horse.
1300
01:36:13,471 --> 01:36:15,540
And, Sarah.
1301
01:36:15,639 --> 01:36:19,845
Ask Mr. Porringer to bring Mr. Neville
a pineapple, a small one.
1302
01:36:19,944 --> 01:36:21,853
They're sweeter.
1303
01:36:21,946 --> 01:36:24,549
You would care to try a pineapple,
would you not, Mr. Neville?
1304
01:36:24,648 --> 01:36:27,819
- [Neville] Madam, I would be delighted.
-[Door Closes]
1305
01:36:28,051 --> 01:36:32,189
[Bell Tolling In Distance]
1306
01:36:49,840 --> 01:36:52,181
[Mr.Talmann]
Good evening, Mr. Neville.
1307
01:36:54,311 --> 01:36:56,220
Good evening, sir.
1308
01:36:56,313 --> 01:37:00,121
And why, Mr. Neville,
do we find you here so late?
1309
01:37:00,217 --> 01:37:03,957
Surely the light is now too poor
to see adequately.
1310
01:37:04,053 --> 01:37:06,361
That is true. I am finished.
1311
01:37:06,457 --> 01:37:08,833
Good.
1312
01:37:08,926 --> 01:37:10,904
Perhaps I could see it.
1313
01:37:10,995 --> 01:37:13,302
If we had light,
that might be possible.
1314
01:37:13,397 --> 01:37:15,932
I'm sure we can find some light.
1315
01:37:34,885 --> 01:37:37,954
[Mr. Talmann]
But it is not finished Mr. Neville.
1316
01:37:38,054 --> 01:37:41,396
No, Mr. Talmann, it is not.
1317
01:37:41,492 --> 01:37:43,992
You may successfully
hide your face in the dark...
1318
01:37:44,093 --> 01:37:48,060
but in England, at least, it is not easy for you,
surely, sir, to hide your accent.
1319
01:37:48,165 --> 01:37:50,871
I did not think to hide my identity
for long, Mr. Neville...
1320
01:37:50,967 --> 01:37:53,605
which even in the eyes of the English
is no especial crime...
1321
01:37:53,704 --> 01:37:56,648
compared with the identity
you care to assume with such ease.
1322
01:37:56,740 --> 01:37:58,740
And what identity
might that be, Mr. Talmann?
1323
01:37:58,843 --> 01:38:02,616
The identity of a man of some little talent,
some dubious honor...
1324
01:38:02,713 --> 01:38:05,281
a proper dealer in contracts-
1325
01:38:05,382 --> 01:38:09,724
the identity of a man with an eye
to the improper pursuit of dishonor to others.
1326
01:38:09,820 --> 01:38:12,320
You talk, Mr. Talmann,
like one who has learnt abroad...
1327
01:38:12,423 --> 01:38:15,458
an archaic way of speaking
that became unfashionable in England...
1328
01:38:15,559 --> 01:38:17,537
when my grandfather
was a young man.
1329
01:38:17,628 --> 01:38:22,038
My speech is in no way dependable
on your view of fashion, Mr. Neville.
1330
01:38:22,132 --> 01:38:24,542
We all know that in the field
of deeds and of talent...
1331
01:38:24,635 --> 01:38:26,772
you in your field are an innovator.
1332
01:38:26,871 --> 01:38:29,405
That must be some sort of flattery,
Mr. Talmann.
1333
01:38:29,506 --> 01:38:31,575
Have your companions
also come to flatter?
1334
01:38:31,675 --> 01:38:35,209
[Seymour] We have come merely
as curious observers, Mr. Neville...
1335
01:38:35,312 --> 01:38:37,347
to wonder why,
after so much has happened...
1336
01:38:37,448 --> 01:38:41,187
you return to continue to fix
Mr. Herbert's property on paper...
1337
01:38:41,285 --> 01:38:43,524
and chose to draw this particular site.
1338
01:38:43,621 --> 01:38:46,462
I might be inclined
to answer those questions, Mr. Seymour...
1339
01:38:46,557 --> 01:38:48,966
if I did not feel
that the truthful answers I would give...
1340
01:38:49,059 --> 01:38:51,298
would in no way
be of interest to you.
1341
01:38:51,395 --> 01:38:54,805
[Mr. Talmann] It is our belief, Mr. Neville,
that in returning here...
1342
01:38:54,898 --> 01:38:58,468
you are seeking a codicil
to your original contract...
1343
01:38:58,569 --> 01:39:02,012
a codicil of a more permanent nature
than the last one-
1344
01:39:02,106 --> 01:39:04,345
a lasting contract with a widow.
1345
01:39:04,441 --> 01:39:07,476
You speak, of course, Mr. Talmann,
like a disinherited man...
1346
01:39:07,578 --> 01:39:10,351
uninterested in painting
or draftsmanship-
1347
01:39:10,447 --> 01:39:15,016
uninterested even in the prospect
of the estate you covet from this position.
1348
01:39:15,119 --> 01:39:17,757
An ideal site for a memorial perhaps.
1349
01:39:17,855 --> 01:39:21,663
[Seymour] Do you think Mr. Herbert would have
appreciated the prospect of his estate?
1350
01:39:21,759 --> 01:39:26,169
Oh. As a landowner yourself, Mr. Seymour,
I leave you to judge.
1351
01:39:26,263 --> 01:39:29,264
For a man of property,
it is a view that might be enviable.
1352
01:39:29,366 --> 01:39:33,742
Though I think you are wrong
to ascribe those enviable thoughts to me.
1353
01:39:33,837 --> 01:39:36,973
Perhaps, I would suggest, they should be
ascribed to my friend Mr. Noyes...
1354
01:39:37,074 --> 01:39:39,052
Who is I think standing beside me.
1355
01:39:39,143 --> 01:39:41,519
A custodian of contracts...
1356
01:39:41,612 --> 01:39:45,919
a man who was given custody
of private agreements in black-and-white.
1357
01:39:46,016 --> 01:39:47,994
[Noyes]
And how do you feel, Mr. Neville...
1358
01:39:48,085 --> 01:39:52,427
that Mr. Herbert felt
about these black-and-white contracts?
1359
01:39:52,523 --> 01:39:55,864
[Scoffs]
As his agent, his bailiff, his notary...
1360
01:39:55,959 --> 01:40:00,495
his one-time friend, the close- though not
close enough- confidante of his wife...
1361
01:40:00,597 --> 01:40:03,302
I would have thought you would be
the best person to answer that.
1362
01:40:03,400 --> 01:40:07,139
It is curious, gentlemen,
that you persist in asking me questions...
1363
01:40:07,237 --> 01:40:10,613
which you are the most suitably situated
to answer.
1364
01:40:10,708 --> 01:40:12,946
It has, of course, occurred to me
that you, Mr. Noyes...
1365
01:40:13,043 --> 01:40:15,021
might have
advanced Mr. Herbert the information...
1366
01:40:15,112 --> 01:40:18,283
that was so discretionably set down
in black-and-white.
1367
01:40:18,382 --> 01:40:21,053
Whether he could have appreciated
what it stood for is another matter.
1368
01:40:21,151 --> 01:40:25,891
He was blind to so much-
certainly blind to considerable unhappiness.
1369
01:40:25,990 --> 01:40:27,968
Your understanding
of Mrs. Herbert's unhappiness...
1370
01:40:28,058 --> 01:40:30,797
could in no possible way
be considered profound or relevant.
1371
01:40:30,893 --> 01:40:34,736
I had access to some considerable observation
of her state of mind.
1372
01:40:34,831 --> 01:40:39,139
And you will not forget, sir, that I was helped
in that respect by her daughter- your wife, sir-
1373
01:40:39,236 --> 01:40:42,975
and was persuaded- and was
persistently persuaded by both ladies...
1374
01:40:43,073 --> 01:40:44,982
to undertake the commission
in the first place.
1375
01:40:45,075 --> 01:40:46,984
[Seymour]
And they persuaded you, sir...
1376
01:40:47,077 --> 01:40:50,681
with a view that you might reconcile
differences, sir, and not plunder them,
1377
01:40:50,780 --> 01:40:54,815
I am in no way responsible
for Mr. Herbert's death.
1378
01:40:54,918 --> 01:40:56,896
The affair is a mystery to me...
1379
01:40:56,987 --> 01:41:00,761
though I have strong suspicions,
Mr. Talmann, Mr. Seymour, Mr. Noyes...
1380
01:41:00,857 --> 01:41:04,631
and, if they were here, indeed
of Mrs. Herbert herself and Mrs. Talmann-
1381
01:41:04,728 --> 01:41:08,604
ladies who both, after all,
entered willingly into their contracts.
1382
01:41:08,699 --> 01:41:12,734
Is that why, Mr. Neville, you have just
abused Mrs. Herbert further?
1383
01:41:16,740 --> 01:41:19,445
Ah.
1384
01:41:19,543 --> 01:41:22,850
What a pity.
1385
01:41:22,946 --> 01:41:25,151
That was clever.
1386
01:41:25,249 --> 01:41:30,125
[Mr. Talmann]
We now have a contract with you, Mr. Neville...
1387
01:41:30,220 --> 01:41:33,391
and under conditions of our choosing.
1388
01:41:33,490 --> 01:41:36,865
[Noyes] The contract concerning
our present pleasure, Mr. Neville...
1389
01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:38,869
has three conditions.
1390
01:41:38,962 --> 01:41:42,429
It will be best served, sir,
when you have removed your finery.
1391
01:41:42,533 --> 01:41:44,511
Take off your hat, sir.
1392
01:41:44,601 --> 01:41:47,204
[Laughs]
My hat, gentlemen...
1393
01:41:47,304 --> 01:41:49,781
has no contractual obligations
with anyone.
1394
01:41:56,647 --> 01:41:58,885
[Noyes]
The contract's first condition, Mr. Neville-
1395
01:41:58,982 --> 01:42:02,017
and there is no need to write it down
for you will never see it-
1396
01:42:02,119 --> 01:42:04,858
is to cancel your eyes.
1397
01:42:04,955 --> 01:42:08,422
[Neville Screaming]
1398
01:42:08,525 --> 01:42:12,628
[Mr. Talmann] Since we have now
deprived you of your access to a living...
1399
01:42:12,728 --> 01:42:16,298
the shirt on your back
will be of no value to you.
1400
01:42:16,400 --> 01:42:19,003
[Noyes] It may well dress a scarecrow
to frighten the crows.
1401
01:42:19,103 --> 01:42:21,638
[Seymour]
Or be scattered about an estate...
1402
01:42:21,737 --> 01:42:25,477
as ambiguous evidence
of an obscure allegory.
1403
01:42:25,576 --> 01:42:29,520
And the third condition of your contract,
concomitant to the other two-
1404
01:42:29,613 --> 01:42:32,420
- And legally binding...
- And efficiently undertaken...
1405
01:42:32,516 --> 01:42:35,084
- for what is a man without property-
- and foresight-
1406
01:42:35,185 --> 01:42:37,094
is your death.
1407
01:43:32,075 --> 01:43:34,383
[Water Splashes]
1408
01:44:23,060 --> 01:44:25,538
[Water Splashes]
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