1 00:04:18,625 --> 00:04:21,788 Poor Mr. Adamson had no idea we were having a ball... 2 00:04:21,861 --> 00:04:24,295 at the beginning of his visit. 3 00:04:24,364 --> 00:04:26,924 Your father thought more of his eagerness... 4 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,900 to see Mr. Adamson's specimens... 5 00:04:28,968 --> 00:04:32,267 than he did of our own projected entertainment. 6 00:04:32,338 --> 00:04:36,604 Fortunately, he's much of a height with Edgar... 7 00:04:36,676 --> 00:04:40,476 who was able to help him with a suit. 8 00:04:40,546 --> 00:04:42,673 I should have had no dress suit in any event. 9 00:04:42,749 --> 00:04:44,239 All my earthly belongings... 10 00:04:44,317 --> 00:04:46,877 have burned or drowned or both in the shipwreck... 11 00:04:46,953 --> 00:04:49,751 and they never included a dress suit. 12 00:04:49,822 --> 00:04:52,757 Well, well. You must be possessed... 13 00:04:52,825 --> 00:04:57,455 of immense resources of strength and courage. 14 00:04:57,530 --> 00:04:59,157 I'm sure they'll be equal... 15 00:04:59,232 --> 00:05:00,961 to a turn around the dance floor. 16 00:05:01,034 --> 00:05:05,733 Once learned, a waltz can never be forgotten. 17 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,448 Are you free to dance? 18 00:05:44,310 --> 00:05:46,437 My father was so sorry to hear... 19 00:05:46,512 --> 00:05:49,003 you had lost so much in the terrible shipwreck... 20 00:05:49,082 --> 00:05:52,108 for your sake and for his own. 21 00:05:52,185 --> 00:05:54,619 He was eager to add to his collection. 22 00:05:54,687 --> 00:05:56,552 I did manage to save... 23 00:05:56,622 --> 00:06:00,388 one or two of the rarest, most beautiful butterflies. 24 00:06:00,460 --> 00:06:02,394 I suppose there's a certain pathos... 25 00:06:02,462 --> 00:06:04,396 in saving a dead butterfly... 26 00:06:04,464 --> 00:06:07,160 but one in particular is such a rarity. 27 00:06:07,233 --> 00:06:09,064 I'll say no more now... 28 00:06:09,135 --> 00:06:12,298 but I believe your father will be glad to have it... 29 00:06:12,372 --> 00:06:14,897 and you, too. 30 00:06:14,974 --> 00:06:17,568 It's to be a surprise, really. 31 00:06:17,643 --> 00:06:21,579 I hate people who tell me I am to have a surprise... 32 00:06:21,647 --> 00:06:24,081 and will not tell me what it is. 33 00:06:24,150 --> 00:06:26,118 You don't like suspense? 34 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:33,090 No, I don't. I am afraid of surprises. 35 00:06:33,159 --> 00:06:36,356 I must remember never to surprise you, then. 36 00:06:49,509 --> 00:06:54,446 Stop that! How dare you! What did you do to her? 37 00:06:54,514 --> 00:06:57,176 I'm so sorry. I have no idea. 38 00:06:57,250 --> 00:06:59,582 Can't imagine what I might have done. 39 00:06:59,652 --> 00:07:01,984 Something must have happened, mustn't it? 40 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:11,856 Too much dancing, I'll be bound. 41 00:07:11,931 --> 00:07:15,958 Eugenia loves to dance. She can't get enough of it. 42 00:07:16,035 --> 00:07:18,731 I see. 43 00:07:18,805 --> 00:07:21,899 Please, excuse my roughness. 44 00:07:24,777 --> 00:07:29,874 I'm Eugenia's brother, and thereby her protector. 45 00:07:29,949 --> 00:07:32,247 Of course. It's nothing. 46 00:07:32,318 --> 00:07:34,650 Good, good. 47 00:07:35,922 --> 00:07:39,688 Well, now. More dancing. 48 00:07:39,759 --> 00:07:43,752 Well? Let's have some more dancing. 49 00:07:51,270 --> 00:07:53,761 Please excuse Eugenia's behavior. 50 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:55,171 She's not feeling herself. 51 00:07:55,241 --> 00:07:58,608 It's of no importance. 52 00:07:58,678 --> 00:08:01,112 I want you to know that her leaving the ball... 53 00:08:01,180 --> 00:08:04,047 was no reflection on your behavior. 54 00:08:04,116 --> 00:08:06,482 I hope she'll feel better soon. 55 00:08:06,552 --> 00:08:09,544 Indeed. Although I'm not sure... 56 00:08:09,622 --> 00:08:11,214 she will ever be the same again. 57 00:08:13,226 --> 00:08:15,194 She was to be married... 58 00:08:15,261 --> 00:08:18,253 only her fiance Captain Hunt died quite suddenly. 59 00:08:18,331 --> 00:08:19,821 It was a terrible shock. 60 00:08:19,899 --> 00:08:22,390 Poor Eugenia's only just recovering. 61 00:08:22,468 --> 00:08:26,666 We don't talk about it, but everybody knows. 62 00:08:26,739 --> 00:08:28,798 I'm not tittle-tattling. 63 00:08:28,875 --> 00:08:31,275 I just thought it might be helpful to know. 64 00:08:31,344 --> 00:08:34,745 I see. Thank you very much for telling me. 65 00:09:36,142 --> 00:09:38,940 You are very fortunate to have escaped with your life. 66 00:09:39,011 --> 00:09:40,945 We must be glad of that. 67 00:09:41,013 --> 00:09:42,878 But the loss of your specimens... 68 00:09:42,949 --> 00:09:46,885 must have been a very severe setback. 69 00:09:49,355 --> 00:09:51,789 What will you do, Mr. Adamson? 70 00:09:51,857 --> 00:09:55,520 If you do not think it impertinent to ask. 71 00:09:55,595 --> 00:09:58,723 I've hardly had time to think. 72 00:09:58,798 --> 00:10:02,962 Your own family cannot help. 73 00:10:03,035 --> 00:10:05,902 No. My father's a butcher... 74 00:10:05,972 --> 00:10:07,496 and even if he had the wherewithal... 75 00:10:07,573 --> 00:10:09,165 I could not ask him. 76 00:10:09,241 --> 00:10:11,072 I'd hoped to sell enough... 77 00:10:11,143 --> 00:10:13,543 to be able to stay in England for some time... 78 00:10:13,613 --> 00:10:16,673 write about my travels and perhaps earn enough money... 79 00:10:16,749 --> 00:10:18,979 to equip myself to return to the Amazons. 80 00:10:19,051 --> 00:10:21,519 We've barely begun to pick up twigs... 81 00:10:21,587 --> 00:10:23,179 those of us who've worked there. 82 00:10:23,255 --> 00:10:25,689 There are millions of unexplored miles... 83 00:10:25,758 --> 00:10:28,886 countless unknown creatures... 84 00:10:28,961 --> 00:10:31,225 and yet I've never felt more profoundly alone... 85 00:10:31,297 --> 00:10:33,231 than I did there. 86 00:10:33,299 --> 00:10:36,826 You were so very kind in your letters, sir... 87 00:10:36,902 --> 00:10:40,201 the receipt of which was one of the very few moments... 88 00:10:40,272 --> 00:10:42,797 of luxury in my time in the forest. 89 00:10:42,875 --> 00:10:46,208 I used to ration the reading to savor them longer... 90 00:10:46,278 --> 00:10:48,803 as one rations sugar and flour. 91 00:10:50,516 --> 00:10:55,419 I am glad to have given such pleasure to anyone. 92 00:10:55,488 --> 00:10:59,390 I've brought you something rare. 93 00:10:59,458 --> 00:11:02,052 Something very rare. 94 00:11:05,164 --> 00:11:09,225 They fly in the broad, sunny roads in the forest. 95 00:11:09,301 --> 00:11:11,292 They float very slowly... 96 00:11:11,370 --> 00:11:14,567 occasionally flapping their wings like birds... 97 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:18,508 and they almost never come down below twenty feet... 98 00:11:18,577 --> 00:11:21,740 so they are almost impossible to catch. 99 00:11:21,814 --> 00:11:25,750 But I employed some agile, little lndian boys. 100 00:11:25,818 --> 00:11:31,279 They were able to climb up and fetch me this pair. 101 00:11:32,591 --> 00:11:36,083 Now, I must confess, I did not know then... 102 00:11:36,162 --> 00:11:40,223 how appropriate they were to add to your collection. 103 00:11:44,670 --> 00:11:49,437 They are Morpho Eugenia, Sir Harald. 104 00:11:52,845 --> 00:11:54,608 Well! 105 00:11:56,348 --> 00:12:00,182 What a lovely creature! 106 00:12:00,252 --> 00:12:04,211 What a beautiful, glittering blue she is! 107 00:12:04,290 --> 00:12:08,158 No. He. It's the male who is blue. 108 00:12:08,227 --> 00:12:10,491 The female is a tawny brown. 109 00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:16,399 What a pity! I prefer the shimmering blue... 110 00:12:16,469 --> 00:12:22,169 but then, I am female, so that is natural. 111 00:12:27,646 --> 00:12:32,811 It's hard not to agree with the Duke of Argyll... 112 00:12:32,885 --> 00:12:36,116 but the extraordinary beauty of these creatures is... 113 00:12:36,188 --> 00:12:40,454 in itself, evidence of the work of a Creator... 114 00:12:40,526 --> 00:12:44,189 who also gave us human sensitivity to beauty... 115 00:12:44,263 --> 00:12:51,567 design, delicate variation, and brilliant color. 116 00:12:51,637 --> 00:12:54,868 From our spontaneous response to them, sir... 117 00:12:54,940 --> 00:12:59,070 I feel instinctively drawn to agree with you... 118 00:12:59,145 --> 00:13:03,639 but from a scientific point of view, I must ask... 119 00:13:03,716 --> 00:13:06,048 what purpose of natures might be fulfilled... 120 00:13:06,118 --> 00:13:10,054 by all this brilliance and loveliness? 121 00:13:10,122 --> 00:13:13,216 Mr. Darwin inclines to think that the fact... 122 00:13:13,292 --> 00:13:15,783 it is very preponderantly male butterflies... 123 00:13:15,861 --> 00:13:17,954 and birds that are so brilliantly colored... 124 00:13:18,030 --> 00:13:20,999 while the females are often drab and unobtrusive... 125 00:13:21,066 --> 00:13:24,832 suggests there's some advantage to the male... 126 00:13:24,904 --> 00:13:27,099 in flaunting his scarlets and golds... 127 00:13:27,173 --> 00:13:30,040 that might help make the female select him as a mate. 128 00:13:30,109 --> 00:13:32,577 Could it be that the drabness of the female... 129 00:13:32,645 --> 00:13:34,078 might be protective? 130 00:13:34,146 --> 00:13:36,910 Yes, definitely. Mr. Wallace-- 131 00:13:39,685 --> 00:13:41,744 Don't worry, my dear. 132 00:13:41,821 --> 00:13:44,756 Forgive me, Mama. 133 00:14:14,753 --> 00:14:17,688 Did you live entirely without the company... 134 00:14:17,756 --> 00:14:21,817 of civilized peoples among naked savages? 135 00:14:21,894 --> 00:14:25,694 Not entirely. 136 00:14:25,764 --> 00:14:28,358 I had various friends of all colors and races... 137 00:14:28,434 --> 00:14:31,995 during my stays in various communities... 138 00:14:32,071 --> 00:14:36,132 but, yes, sometimes, I suppose... 139 00:14:36,208 --> 00:14:39,666 I was the only white guest in tribal villages. 140 00:14:40,813 --> 00:14:45,716 Are they really naked and painted? 141 00:14:45,784 --> 00:14:51,154 Some are partly clothed, some wholly clothed. 142 00:14:51,223 --> 00:14:54,090 They are greatly given to decorating their skins... 143 00:14:54,159 --> 00:14:56,684 with vegetable dyes. 144 00:15:02,101 --> 00:15:06,197 These floating clumps of twigs and grasses... 145 00:15:06,272 --> 00:15:08,934 even remind me of the great floating islands... 146 00:15:09,008 --> 00:15:13,968 of upturned trees, creepers, and bushes... 147 00:15:14,046 --> 00:15:17,573 that make their way down the great river. 148 00:15:17,650 --> 00:15:20,118 I used to compare those... 149 00:15:20,185 --> 00:15:22,278 to the passage in "Paradise Lost"... 150 00:15:22,354 --> 00:15:25,755 where Paradise is cast loose after the deluge. 151 00:15:25,824 --> 00:15:28,088 "Then shall this mount of Paradise... 152 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,526 "by might of waves be moved out of his place... 153 00:15:30,596 --> 00:15:32,496 "pushed by the horned flood... 154 00:15:32,564 --> 00:15:34,896 "with all his verdure spoiled and trees adrift... 155 00:15:34,967 --> 00:15:37,800 "down the great river to the opening gulf... 156 00:15:37,870 --> 00:15:39,633 "and there take root an island salt and bare... 157 00:15:39,705 --> 00:15:43,732 "the haunt of seals and orcs and sea-mews' clang." 158 00:15:43,809 --> 00:15:46,334 Clever Matty. 159 00:15:50,716 --> 00:15:52,741 Lady Alabaster would be pleased if you would... 160 00:15:52,818 --> 00:15:55,878 take tea with her when you've finished your work. 161 00:15:57,656 --> 00:16:02,355 You seem to have undertaken quite a labor of love. 162 00:16:02,428 --> 00:16:06,592 What's that? Looks quite alarming. 163 00:16:06,665 --> 00:16:08,530 It's become detached... 164 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,593 from whatever specimen it was attached to. 165 00:16:12,671 --> 00:16:16,198 Several parts of specimens have become detached. 166 00:16:16,275 --> 00:16:20,541 I keep a special box for the most puzzling. 167 00:16:20,612 --> 00:16:23,877 This foot and leg obviously belong... 168 00:16:23,949 --> 00:16:28,443 to some fairly large quadrumane. 169 00:16:30,122 --> 00:16:34,218 You might suppose they were those of some human infant. 170 00:16:34,293 --> 00:16:40,095 I assure you, they're not. The bones are too light. 171 00:16:40,165 --> 00:16:43,464 I must look to you as if I'm practicing witchcraft. 172 00:16:43,535 --> 00:16:46,868 No. I didn't mean to suggest such a thing. 173 00:16:46,939 --> 00:16:48,566 Of course not. 174 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,733 Indeed, I've noticed you take a great interest... 175 00:16:50,809 --> 00:16:52,743 in the natural sciences. 176 00:16:52,811 --> 00:16:56,042 Everyone seems to be taking an interest... 177 00:16:56,115 --> 00:17:01,314 in the natural sciences since your arrival. 178 00:17:01,387 --> 00:17:04,413 It's a worthwhile pursuit, I hope. 179 00:17:04,490 --> 00:17:06,287 My father seems to think so... 180 00:17:06,358 --> 00:17:10,158 which is fortunate for you. 181 00:17:10,229 --> 00:17:14,893 Saved you from the poorhouse, I'd say. 182 00:17:18,237 --> 00:17:19,670 My origins are humble... 183 00:17:19,738 --> 00:17:21,797 but I doubt it would have come to that. 184 00:17:21,874 --> 00:17:24,536 No, hopefully not. 185 00:17:24,610 --> 00:17:29,138 Indeed, my father's charity has served you rather well. 186 00:17:29,214 --> 00:17:31,375 Your father's been very kind... 187 00:17:31,450 --> 00:17:33,441 and I'm pleased to be able to repay him... 188 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:35,384 by organizing his collection... 189 00:17:35,454 --> 00:17:38,685 according to scientific principles. 190 00:17:38,757 --> 00:17:41,487 How long will the job take? 191 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:46,930 That depends on what I find in this mountain of boxes. 192 00:17:50,936 --> 00:17:54,497 That could take forever, I'll wager... 193 00:17:54,573 --> 00:17:57,235 since you have nowhere else to go. 194 00:17:57,309 --> 00:17:59,243 I'm so sorry. I must leave now. 195 00:17:59,311 --> 00:18:02,075 I have to take tea with Lady Alabaster. 196 00:18:02,147 --> 00:18:05,913 While you're taking tea with my mother... 197 00:18:05,984 --> 00:18:08,043 and talking about whatever it is... 198 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:10,520 that you talk to my father about... 199 00:18:10,589 --> 00:18:15,458 just don't get too comfortable. 200 00:18:15,527 --> 00:18:17,927 You're not one of us. 201 00:18:19,264 --> 00:18:22,961 I am aware of that. Good day. 202 00:18:41,753 --> 00:18:45,280 Come in, Matty. 203 00:18:45,357 --> 00:18:48,656 Mr. Adamson is here, Lady Alabaster. 204 00:19:05,210 --> 00:19:08,145 I hope you're comfortable here. 205 00:19:08,213 --> 00:19:11,478 Oh, yes, very much so. 206 00:19:11,550 --> 00:19:15,111 My husband is not overburdening you with work? 207 00:19:15,187 --> 00:19:21,251 No. I've a great deal of spare time. 208 00:19:21,326 --> 00:19:23,487 Lady Alabaster expressed the hope that you might... 209 00:19:23,562 --> 00:19:26,497 be able to spare a little time helping Miss Mead... 210 00:19:26,565 --> 00:19:29,090 and myself in the scientific education... 211 00:19:29,168 --> 00:19:31,227 of the younger members of the family. 212 00:19:31,303 --> 00:19:32,964 She feels that they should profit... 213 00:19:33,038 --> 00:19:37,975 from the presence of such a distinguished naturalist. 214 00:19:38,043 --> 00:19:42,912 Of course. I'd be happy to do what I can. 215 00:19:42,981 --> 00:19:49,682 Matty has such good ideas. So ingenious she is. 216 00:19:49,755 --> 00:19:51,279 Tell him, Matty. 217 00:19:51,356 --> 00:19:53,824 Lady Alabaster's twins are still too small... 218 00:19:53,892 --> 00:19:57,726 but I have taken the three older girls on rambles. 219 00:19:57,796 --> 00:20:02,460 I would be delighted to help. 220 00:20:02,534 --> 00:20:07,437 We shall truly profit from your presence amongst us. 221 00:22:44,663 --> 00:22:46,654 Oh, look! 222 00:22:47,899 --> 00:22:49,594 You would not suppose the queen... 223 00:22:49,668 --> 00:22:52,262 to be of the same species as her rapid servants. 224 00:22:52,337 --> 00:22:55,465 We've attempted to keep these insects before. 225 00:22:55,540 --> 00:22:57,337 We have a deathly touch, it appears. 226 00:22:57,409 --> 00:23:01,140 The creatures simply curl up and die. 227 00:23:01,213 --> 00:23:06,981 You probably had not captured a queen. 228 00:23:07,052 --> 00:23:09,987 Ants are social beings. They exist, it appears... 229 00:23:10,055 --> 00:23:12,114 only for the good of the whole nest. 230 00:23:12,190 --> 00:23:15,159 The center of that nest is the queen ant... 231 00:23:15,227 --> 00:23:19,721 whose laying and feeding the others tend ceaselessly. 232 00:23:19,798 --> 00:23:21,891 I'd like to believe humankind capable... 233 00:23:21,967 --> 00:23:24,527 of such altruistic behavior... 234 00:23:24,603 --> 00:23:25,900 though when I look around me... 235 00:23:25,971 --> 00:23:30,340 I think Socialist society may never be realized. 236 00:23:30,409 --> 00:23:34,038 You think a great deal, Miss Crompton. 237 00:23:34,112 --> 00:23:36,307 For a woman. 238 00:23:36,381 --> 00:23:37,780 You were about to say "for a woman"... 239 00:23:37,849 --> 00:23:40,545 and then refrained, which was courteous. 240 00:23:42,487 --> 00:23:45,752 It's my great amusement-- thinking. 241 00:24:20,492 --> 00:24:22,187 Wonderful, wasn't it? 242 00:24:32,504 --> 00:24:39,706 "1-8-6-0-2-5-3. Ventner, lsle of Wight." 243 00:24:39,778 --> 00:24:45,944 Young Mr. Swinnerton wishes to marry my daughter. 244 00:24:46,017 --> 00:24:48,281 I have given permission. 245 00:24:48,353 --> 00:24:52,449 He said he already knows what she will say. 246 00:24:52,524 --> 00:24:57,427 So you must wish me joy. 247 00:24:57,496 --> 00:24:59,430 I do, indeed. 248 00:24:59,498 --> 00:25:02,934 The first fledgling out of the nest. 249 00:25:03,001 --> 00:25:06,368 The others must soon follow in the course of things. 250 00:25:06,438 --> 00:25:11,501 I know they must, but I worry about Eugenia. 251 00:25:11,576 --> 00:25:16,138 I confess I feel this news is not calculated... 252 00:25:16,214 --> 00:25:17,442 to improve her happiness... 253 00:25:17,516 --> 00:25:22,112 but perhaps I underestimate her. 254 00:25:27,959 --> 00:25:32,123 Then it is not Miss Eugenia Alabaster... 255 00:25:32,197 --> 00:25:33,562 who's to be married? 256 00:25:33,632 --> 00:25:34,963 Oh, no! 257 00:25:35,033 --> 00:25:38,992 I was about to say, "Oh, no. Alas!" 258 00:25:39,070 --> 00:25:42,801 It is Rowena who is to marry Mr. Swinnerton. 259 00:25:42,874 --> 00:25:46,640 She's so beautiful, sir, so very beautiful... 260 00:25:46,711 --> 00:25:54,447 and, well, perfect, that she cannot be long... 261 00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:57,955 without finding some worthy partner. 262 00:25:58,023 --> 00:26:02,619 So I believe, but her mother is concerned. 263 00:26:02,694 --> 00:26:05,959 She will not be pleased if Rowena goes first. 264 00:26:06,031 --> 00:26:07,999 It is not right. 265 00:26:14,773 --> 00:26:20,006 Please, I beg you. I cannot. 266 00:26:23,281 --> 00:26:26,773 Please. It's no use. 267 00:26:59,384 --> 00:27:02,911 Couldn't help noticing you were in distress. 268 00:27:02,988 --> 00:27:05,422 Can I be of help? 269 00:27:05,490 --> 00:27:08,584 I will do anything to help if I can. 270 00:27:10,462 --> 00:27:15,399 You're very kind, but I cannot be helped. 271 00:27:15,467 --> 00:27:18,402 I'm beyond help. 272 00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:22,099 I wish I were dead, to speak truly. 273 00:27:22,173 --> 00:27:24,198 I wish I were dead. 274 00:27:24,275 --> 00:27:31,113 I ought to be dead, as Harry is dead. 275 00:27:31,182 --> 00:27:34,117 I know about your tragedy, Miss Alabaster. 276 00:27:34,185 --> 00:27:37,985 I'm very sorry. I hope you may be comforted. 277 00:27:38,056 --> 00:27:45,394 I don't think you do know, not at all. No one can. 278 00:27:45,463 --> 00:27:49,126 Well, it must be so. You've shown great courage. 279 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,760 Please don't be unhappy. 280 00:27:51,836 --> 00:27:56,273 So many people love you, you cannot be unhappy. 281 00:28:02,447 --> 00:28:09,011 It is you who are good and kind and brave... 282 00:28:09,087 --> 00:28:12,523 even though you don't understand. 283 00:28:12,590 --> 00:28:14,558 You've been kind to everyone... 284 00:28:14,626 --> 00:28:18,118 even the little girls. 285 00:28:18,196 --> 00:28:21,427 We are lucky to have you here. 286 00:28:21,499 --> 00:28:24,559 And I would feel lucky and honored... 287 00:28:24,636 --> 00:28:27,503 if you would feel you could let me be your friend. 288 00:28:27,572 --> 00:28:30,473 Despite the differences between us... 289 00:28:30,542 --> 00:28:33,010 if you could trust me a little. 290 00:28:33,078 --> 00:28:35,205 I don't know what I'm talking about. 291 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,874 Why should you trust me? 292 00:28:37,949 --> 00:28:40,213 I want so much to do something for you... 293 00:28:40,285 --> 00:28:41,912 anything at all. 294 00:28:41,986 --> 00:28:46,116 I own nothing, as you know, so it's all folly... 295 00:28:46,191 --> 00:28:51,527 but please command me if I can help in the least way. 296 00:29:23,428 --> 00:29:25,419 Miss Alabaster? 297 00:29:29,467 --> 00:29:31,901 So? What is it? 298 00:29:31,970 --> 00:29:35,064 I've something to show you. 299 00:29:49,287 --> 00:29:53,223 You'll have to come in quickly now. 300 00:29:53,291 --> 00:29:55,418 Am I safe? 301 00:29:55,493 --> 00:29:57,961 With me, quite safe. 302 00:30:47,612 --> 00:30:50,740 They take your dress for the sky itself. 303 00:30:52,250 --> 00:30:55,515 You don't find them disagreeable? 304 00:30:55,587 --> 00:31:02,823 They are so light, so soft. 305 00:31:02,894 --> 00:31:05,886 It's like colored air. 306 00:31:08,766 --> 00:31:12,031 It's almost a cloud. 307 00:31:12,337 --> 00:31:15,568 It is a cloud. 308 00:31:15,607 --> 00:31:19,134 You are a miracle worker. 309 00:31:19,210 --> 00:31:23,044 Well, it's for you. 310 00:31:23,114 --> 00:31:28,245 I have nothing real to give. No pearls, no emeralds. 311 00:31:28,319 --> 00:31:30,753 I've nothing... 312 00:31:30,822 --> 00:31:35,020 but I wanted so much to give you something. 313 00:31:40,131 --> 00:31:43,225 They are so terribly fragile. 314 00:31:43,301 --> 00:31:47,237 You could hurt them just by touching. 315 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:55,109 One careless pinch would be enough. 316 00:31:55,179 --> 00:31:59,912 I would never hurt one of those. Never. 317 00:32:07,892 --> 00:32:11,555 How can I thank you? 318 00:32:11,629 --> 00:32:14,860 You've already done so with your appreciation. 319 00:32:18,803 --> 00:32:22,068 Would you come back again this evening? 320 00:33:13,791 --> 00:33:16,885 Your moths are trying to perform suttee. 321 00:33:20,131 --> 00:33:22,292 I don't know why they're so driven... 322 00:33:22,367 --> 00:33:25,097 to make burned offerings of themselves. 323 00:33:26,704 --> 00:33:29,468 I've wondered if they navigate by moonlight... 324 00:33:29,540 --> 00:33:33,067 and mistake candles for very bright, heavenly bodies. 325 00:33:34,479 --> 00:33:36,470 Won't you sit down... 326 00:33:36,547 --> 00:33:39,573 and see if the moths think you are the moon... 327 00:33:39,650 --> 00:33:43,780 as the butterflies took you for the flowers and sky? 328 00:33:57,535 --> 00:33:59,196 What is that? 329 00:33:59,270 --> 00:34:02,262 It's a newly-hatched hawk moth. 330 00:34:02,340 --> 00:34:05,605 A female. 331 00:34:05,676 --> 00:34:07,837 In a little time, when she's strong... 332 00:34:07,912 --> 00:34:10,608 I'll take away the cage and release her. 333 00:34:10,681 --> 00:34:13,548 She seems very weak. 334 00:34:13,618 --> 00:34:18,681 Takes a great deal of force to break out of the pupa. 335 00:34:18,756 --> 00:34:20,986 Insects are all at their most vulnerable... 336 00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:22,617 at the moment of metamorphosis. 337 00:34:22,693 --> 00:34:26,060 They can easily be snapped up by any predator. 338 00:34:26,130 --> 00:34:28,655 There are none here, I hope. 339 00:34:28,733 --> 00:34:29,893 Oh, no. 340 00:34:29,967 --> 00:34:32,333 Good. 341 00:34:34,472 --> 00:34:38,101 How lovely it is in the moonlight! 342 00:34:41,145 --> 00:34:43,375 This is what I promised myself... 343 00:34:43,448 --> 00:34:46,076 for making you a cloud of butterflies. 344 00:34:49,487 --> 00:34:50,886 Don't answer this... 345 00:34:50,955 --> 00:34:54,857 and don't feel that I speak to alarm you. 346 00:34:54,926 --> 00:34:58,225 I only want to say that you cannot know... 347 00:34:58,296 --> 00:35:01,390 how much these few moments can mean to me. 348 00:35:01,466 --> 00:35:03,730 I shall remember them always-- 349 00:35:03,801 --> 00:35:07,498 your closeness, your calm. 350 00:35:07,572 --> 00:35:09,597 If things were only different... 351 00:35:09,674 --> 00:35:12,507 I might say quite different things to you... 352 00:35:12,577 --> 00:35:14,772 but I know how the land lies. 353 00:35:16,114 --> 00:35:18,241 I've no hopes except perhaps... 354 00:35:18,316 --> 00:35:22,047 to be able to speak briefly and honestly to you... 355 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,714 for I do not see how that could hurt you. 356 00:35:26,958 --> 00:35:31,156 Take them away! I don't like these! 357 00:35:31,229 --> 00:35:33,288 They're the male hawk moths. 358 00:35:33,364 --> 00:35:36,026 They're drawn by the female in some mysterious way. 359 00:35:36,100 --> 00:35:37,158 Please get them away. 360 00:35:37,235 --> 00:35:38,167 They're quite harmless. 361 00:35:38,236 --> 00:35:39,225 Get them away! 362 00:35:39,303 --> 00:35:41,203 There's no reason to fear them. 363 00:35:47,678 --> 00:35:50,442 I'll carry her to the other end of the conservatory. 364 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,216 Now they'll follow her and leave you. 365 00:35:58,289 --> 00:35:59,984 There is another trapped here. 366 00:36:00,057 --> 00:36:04,016 Quickly! I shall scream! 367 00:36:04,095 --> 00:36:05,619 Please! 368 00:36:05,696 --> 00:36:07,357 It must be the scent. 369 00:36:09,433 --> 00:36:12,368 Oh, that was terrible! 370 00:36:12,436 --> 00:36:15,530 It was like bats, like ghosts. 371 00:36:15,606 --> 00:36:18,700 It was foul! 372 00:36:18,776 --> 00:36:21,939 I didn't mean to frighten you. 373 00:36:22,013 --> 00:36:26,382 My dear, I didn't mean to... 374 00:36:26,450 --> 00:36:30,284 It isn't you. 375 00:36:30,354 --> 00:36:32,879 It is everything. 376 00:36:32,957 --> 00:36:36,222 I'm so unhappy. 377 00:36:36,294 --> 00:36:39,559 Is it because of Captain Hunt? 378 00:36:39,630 --> 00:36:43,225 Do you still grieve for him so? 379 00:36:43,301 --> 00:36:45,895 He didn't want to marry me. 380 00:36:45,970 --> 00:36:50,202 He died because he didn't want to marry me. 381 00:36:54,645 --> 00:36:57,239 That must be nonsense. 382 00:36:57,315 --> 00:36:59,951 Anyone would want to marry you. 383 00:36:59,951 --> 00:37:02,852 It wasn't really an accident. 384 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,388 That is only what they say. 385 00:37:07,391 --> 00:37:14,092 He did it because he didn't want to marry me. 386 00:37:15,266 --> 00:37:17,029 Why didn't he? 387 00:37:17,101 --> 00:37:20,798 How should I know? Only it is so. 388 00:37:20,871 --> 00:37:23,840 It is just clear to me that he didn't-- 389 00:37:23,908 --> 00:37:26,308 You torture me saying this. 390 00:37:28,879 --> 00:37:32,042 My dearest wish in the world... 391 00:37:32,116 --> 00:37:35,381 as you must know... 392 00:37:35,453 --> 00:37:40,550 would be to be able to ask you to be my wife... 393 00:37:40,625 --> 00:37:42,616 which I can never do... 394 00:37:42,693 --> 00:37:46,220 because I cannot support a wife or even myself. 395 00:37:46,297 --> 00:37:48,765 I do know that. 396 00:37:51,636 --> 00:37:53,934 But it's unbearably painful to me... 397 00:37:54,005 --> 00:37:56,371 to hear you speaking like this... 398 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,500 and not be able myself... 399 00:37:59,577 --> 00:38:03,206 I do not need to marry a fortune. 400 00:38:05,249 --> 00:38:08,047 I have one of my own. 401 00:38:08,119 --> 00:38:10,246 What are you saying? 402 00:38:10,321 --> 00:38:15,258 There could be a double wedding. 403 00:38:15,326 --> 00:38:20,025 I should not be married after Rowena. 404 00:38:20,097 --> 00:38:22,588 Not... 405 00:38:22,667 --> 00:38:25,693 Not if I am to be married at all. 406 00:38:28,072 --> 00:38:32,839 Shall I speak to your father? Tomorrow? 407 00:38:50,528 --> 00:38:53,292 Arms up, please, Alice. 408 00:38:53,364 --> 00:38:56,800 Seven. Five. 409 00:39:38,342 --> 00:39:41,971 So with all the wagers on, I drove the gigs... 410 00:39:42,046 --> 00:39:45,607 through narrow gaps in seven hedges... 411 00:39:45,683 --> 00:39:48,345 and only one wheel fell off... 412 00:39:48,419 --> 00:39:50,649 and that was right at the very end. 413 00:39:50,721 --> 00:39:52,655 The horse wanted to go on... 414 00:39:52,723 --> 00:39:54,350 but with all the fences behind us... 415 00:39:54,425 --> 00:39:56,586 there was no further point. 416 00:39:59,964 --> 00:40:04,230 You, sir, must not have the nerve or the strength... 417 00:40:04,301 --> 00:40:05,666 to do such a thing. 418 00:40:05,736 --> 00:40:09,866 You sit there, and you smile fatuously... 419 00:40:09,940 --> 00:40:12,738 but you could not bring such a thing off. 420 00:40:12,810 --> 00:40:14,675 No doubt I could not. 421 00:40:14,745 --> 00:40:17,839 I don't like your attitude, sir. 422 00:40:17,915 --> 00:40:20,179 I have never liked it. 423 00:40:20,251 --> 00:40:23,846 I believe you sneer in your heart. 424 00:40:23,921 --> 00:40:26,981 I do not mean to sneer. 425 00:40:27,057 --> 00:40:28,991 Since we are to be brothers... 426 00:40:29,059 --> 00:40:30,686 I hope I would not give such an appearance. 427 00:40:30,761 --> 00:40:32,194 It would be most wrong. 428 00:40:32,263 --> 00:40:36,495 Brothers, you say. I don't like that. 429 00:40:36,567 --> 00:40:38,728 You are underbred, sir... 430 00:40:38,803 --> 00:40:41,772 and you are no good match for my sister. 431 00:40:41,839 --> 00:40:45,172 There is bad blood in you, vulgar blood. 432 00:40:45,242 --> 00:40:49,338 I do not accept either bad or vulgar. 433 00:40:49,413 --> 00:40:52,280 I am aware that I'm no good match... 434 00:40:52,349 --> 00:40:55,045 and that I have few prospects and no future. 435 00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:56,780 Your father and Eugenia have done me... 436 00:40:56,854 --> 00:40:58,879 the great kindness of overlooking that... 437 00:40:58,956 --> 00:41:02,289 and I hope you may come to accept their decision. 438 00:41:02,359 --> 00:41:04,657 You should rather wish to fight me. 439 00:41:04,728 --> 00:41:07,822 I insulted you. 440 00:41:07,898 --> 00:41:10,025 You are a miserable creature... 441 00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:13,069 without breeding or courage. 442 00:41:13,137 --> 00:41:15,833 You should stand up, sir, and face me. 443 00:41:17,641 --> 00:41:20,633 I think not. 444 00:41:20,711 --> 00:41:23,305 As for breeding, I count my father... 445 00:41:23,380 --> 00:41:25,507 as a kind man, an honest man... 446 00:41:25,583 --> 00:41:27,915 and I know no other good reason for respect. 447 00:41:27,985 --> 00:41:30,579 As for courage, I think I may claim... 448 00:41:30,654 --> 00:41:32,815 that to have lived for ten years on the Amazons... 449 00:41:32,890 --> 00:41:34,517 to have survived murder plots... 450 00:41:34,592 --> 00:41:36,184 poisonous snakes, shipwreck... 451 00:41:36,260 --> 00:41:39,161 fifteen days on a lifeboat in the mid-Atlantic... 452 00:41:39,230 --> 00:41:42,199 may reasonably compare with driving a poor horse... 453 00:41:42,266 --> 00:41:44,131 into a house through a window. 454 00:41:44,201 --> 00:41:46,931 I think I know what true courage is. 455 00:41:47,004 --> 00:41:49,063 It does not consist in fisticuffs... 456 00:41:49,139 --> 00:41:50,970 as a response to an insult. 457 00:41:51,041 --> 00:41:52,838 Well said, William Adamson. 458 00:41:52,910 --> 00:41:55,140 Well-said, my fellow bridegroom. 459 00:41:55,212 --> 00:41:57,612 You shall not have her, do you hear? 460 00:41:57,681 --> 00:41:59,911 She is not for such as you. 461 00:41:59,984 --> 00:42:01,542 Please do not breathe in my face. 462 00:42:01,619 --> 00:42:03,712 You resemble nothing more than an angry dragon. 463 00:42:03,787 --> 00:42:06,221 Stand up! 464 00:42:06,290 --> 00:42:09,123 You shall not provoke me into disgracing... 465 00:42:09,193 --> 00:42:11,127 a house and a family I hope to belong to. 466 00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:12,287 Stand up! 467 00:42:12,363 --> 00:42:14,831 In the Amazons, young men who make themselves... 468 00:42:14,899 --> 00:42:16,628 stupid with spirits behave as you do. 469 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:18,964 They often end by killing each other inadvertently. 470 00:42:19,036 --> 00:42:20,833 I should not care if you were killed. 471 00:42:20,905 --> 00:42:23,772 Eugenia might care very deeply if I were. 472 00:42:23,841 --> 00:42:25,536 She's already lost one hus-- 473 00:42:38,589 --> 00:42:45,995 I beg you not to make too much of Edgar. 474 00:42:46,063 --> 00:42:52,662 He is wild in his cups, and he is quiet after. 475 00:42:52,736 --> 00:42:57,332 He often does not remember what has passed. 476 00:42:57,408 --> 00:43:01,572 It was the drink insulted you. 477 00:43:01,645 --> 00:43:05,479 I'm happy to accept such an explanation. 478 00:43:05,549 --> 00:43:10,816 Good man, fellow bridegroom. Civilized man. 479 00:43:10,888 --> 00:43:15,086 We are not armed warriors now, are we? 480 00:43:15,159 --> 00:43:19,823 Civilized men who stay seated as we should, we are. 481 00:43:21,465 --> 00:43:23,899 I admire you, William. 482 00:43:25,135 --> 00:43:30,664 Edgar is an anachronism. 483 00:43:30,741 --> 00:43:35,235 You didn't think I knew that word, I'll be bound. 484 00:43:35,312 --> 00:43:37,280 On the contrary. 485 00:43:37,348 --> 00:43:40,408 Thank you for your kindness. 486 00:44:58,629 --> 00:45:01,462 We are both men of the outdoors. 487 00:45:01,532 --> 00:45:04,797 We have that in common, do we not? 488 00:45:04,868 --> 00:45:09,771 We do. And I hope that, in time... 489 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,775 we may come to find other common interests. 490 00:45:12,843 --> 00:45:17,303 Indeed. I'm sure we will. 491 00:45:21,919 --> 00:45:24,114 Good night, Edgar. 492 00:45:24,188 --> 00:45:27,453 Good night, William. 493 00:45:58,989 --> 00:46:01,924 A present from Miss Eugenia, sir. 494 00:46:55,779 --> 00:46:57,644 Well... 495 00:47:00,584 --> 00:47:04,179 here I am, you see. 496 00:47:06,924 --> 00:47:09,051 Here we are. 497 00:47:11,094 --> 00:47:13,995 I cannot believe my own happiness. 498 00:47:15,866 --> 00:47:17,629 Well, you will catch cold... 499 00:47:17,701 --> 00:47:21,228 if you cannot believe it enough to come in. 500 00:47:52,970 --> 00:47:55,564 I've loved you... 501 00:47:55,639 --> 00:47:58,540 from the first moment that I saw you. 502 00:48:29,539 --> 00:48:32,007 I don't want to hurt you. 503 00:49:28,565 --> 00:49:30,624 You're honey. 504 00:49:32,569 --> 00:49:34,867 Sweet as honey. 505 00:49:45,382 --> 00:49:48,078 We're going to be so happy together. 506 00:51:29,820 --> 00:51:34,553 Good morning. Hope I don't disturb you. 507 00:51:34,624 --> 00:51:37,286 By no means. I'm conducting experiments... 508 00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:38,452 on these fascinating creatures. 509 00:51:38,528 --> 00:51:40,291 You'll no doubt find my research is crude. 510 00:51:40,363 --> 00:51:45,266 On the contrary. What is it that you're studying? 511 00:51:45,335 --> 00:51:48,702 I've been placing various foods... 512 00:51:48,772 --> 00:51:50,865 upon the surface of the earth in the tank... 513 00:51:50,941 --> 00:51:52,374 and counting the number of ants... 514 00:51:52,442 --> 00:51:54,205 who hurry to avail themselves of the food... 515 00:51:54,277 --> 00:51:56,643 and how they dispose of it. 516 00:51:59,516 --> 00:52:01,279 Come and look. 517 00:52:02,953 --> 00:52:07,822 They're greatly attracted to fragments of grape and melon. 518 00:52:07,891 --> 00:52:10,223 It's taken half an hour almost exactly... 519 00:52:10,293 --> 00:52:12,158 for this scrap of sweet fruit... 520 00:52:12,229 --> 00:52:15,357 to become no more than a living pincushion. 521 00:52:15,432 --> 00:52:18,799 You cannot but admire the spirit of cooperation. 522 00:52:18,869 --> 00:52:21,394 I do hope my formica prima hasn't drowned in juice. 523 00:52:21,471 --> 00:52:24,963 She hasn't stirred for quite ten minutes. 524 00:52:25,041 --> 00:52:28,374 You're at the point of recognizing individual ants. 525 00:52:28,445 --> 00:52:30,845 May I see your book? 526 00:52:59,843 --> 00:53:04,280 You put me to shame, Miss Crompton. 527 00:53:04,347 --> 00:53:08,807 I've been secretly worrying about... 528 00:53:08,885 --> 00:53:11,945 the cutting short of my hoped-for researches... 529 00:53:12,022 --> 00:53:14,684 into the insect life in the Amazon basin. 530 00:53:14,758 --> 00:53:18,353 My present good fortune, and here you are... 531 00:53:18,428 --> 00:53:21,454 doing what I should be doing-- 532 00:53:21,531 --> 00:53:25,092 observing the unknown world which is to hand. 533 00:53:25,168 --> 00:53:27,102 My sphere is naturally more limited. 534 00:53:27,170 --> 00:53:31,630 I naturally look closer to hand. 535 00:53:37,814 --> 00:53:39,372 Good night, sir. 536 00:53:39,449 --> 00:53:41,417 Good night, Arthur. 537 00:54:45,248 --> 00:54:49,878 I believe we can expect a happy event. 538 00:54:49,953 --> 00:54:52,922 I believe I am with child. 539 00:54:54,624 --> 00:55:01,792 Congratulations, my dear. That's wonderful news. 540 00:55:01,865 --> 00:55:06,632 You look quite different-- a new creature. 541 00:55:06,703 --> 00:55:11,731 You look wonderfully mysterious. 542 00:55:11,808 --> 00:55:17,804 I am a little peaked. I do not quite feel myself. 543 00:55:17,881 --> 00:55:22,750 I am somewhat nauseous, no doubt quite naturally. 544 00:55:32,796 --> 00:55:36,823 Poor Eugenia, it's so hot. 545 00:55:36,900 --> 00:55:41,667 I must confess, I am quite uncomfortable. 546 00:55:41,738 --> 00:55:44,673 I shall be until the baby arrives. 547 00:56:02,425 --> 00:56:07,488 I don't like these ants! Please! Have them go away! 548 00:56:11,568 --> 00:56:13,934 I think the formica fusca have chosen today... 549 00:56:14,003 --> 00:56:15,971 for their annual nuptial dance. 550 00:57:01,284 --> 00:57:04,276 Like cygnets. 551 00:57:04,354 --> 00:57:08,518 You're like swan's down, and they're like cygnets. 552 00:57:08,591 --> 00:57:11,719 They do not seem to resemble me at all. 553 00:57:13,430 --> 00:57:15,955 They will, you know. 554 00:57:16,032 --> 00:57:18,262 I've seen ever so many babies... 555 00:57:18,334 --> 00:57:21,098 and they change from week to week... 556 00:57:21,171 --> 00:57:23,571 even from day to day. 557 00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:28,509 Resemblances run across their faces like clouds. 558 00:57:28,578 --> 00:57:32,344 Papa today, Grandpapa tomorrow... 559 00:57:32,415 --> 00:57:34,883 Aunt Ponsonby on Tuesday... 560 00:57:34,951 --> 00:57:38,546 and Great-Grandmama at Friday dinnertime. 561 00:57:38,621 --> 00:57:42,216 It's because they're so soft, the dears... 562 00:57:42,292 --> 00:57:44,817 so plastic. 563 00:57:46,463 --> 00:57:51,958 You'll suddenly see your own chin on Agnes. 564 00:57:52,035 --> 00:57:54,401 And one or other of your grandmothers... 565 00:57:54,471 --> 00:57:57,338 smiling out of Dora's eyes. 566 00:58:02,245 --> 00:58:04,736 I'm sure you're right. 567 00:59:45,582 --> 00:59:47,345 What are you doing? 568 00:59:47,417 --> 00:59:49,009 When I come down... 569 00:59:49,085 --> 00:59:51,076 the scullery's a-run with creatures, sir. 570 00:59:51,154 --> 00:59:54,351 I have to set traps at night. 571 00:59:54,424 --> 00:59:56,255 You put molasses in one of the empty tins... 572 00:59:56,326 --> 00:59:58,089 and they fall in and can't right themselves. 573 00:59:58,161 --> 00:59:59,526 Then I have to take them out... 574 00:59:59,596 --> 01:00:00,858 and pour boiling water on them. 575 01:00:00,930 --> 01:00:02,989 You'd be amazed how quick they come back 576 01:00:03,066 --> 01:00:05,057 no matter how many of them you boil to death. 577 01:00:05,134 --> 01:00:07,125 I hate the smell. 578 01:00:11,307 --> 01:00:13,298 I beg your pardon. 579 01:01:33,289 --> 01:01:34,722 And an eight. 580 01:01:34,791 --> 01:01:36,725 A little cherub-- 581 01:01:36,793 --> 01:01:39,227 That's exactly what you are. 582 01:01:39,295 --> 01:01:41,229 A beautiful baby. 583 01:01:41,297 --> 01:01:42,730 Yes, you are. 584 01:01:42,799 --> 01:01:45,734 My turn? 585 01:01:45,802 --> 01:01:47,599 Thank you, nurse. 586 01:01:51,808 --> 01:01:53,275 A six. 587 01:01:55,545 --> 01:01:58,241 Can't we keep them down a little longer? 588 01:01:58,314 --> 01:02:00,839 I should so like to hold them a little longer. 589 01:02:00,917 --> 01:02:03,750 Rowena, dear, there is tomorrow, too. 590 01:02:03,820 --> 01:02:07,347 Nurse has to feed and ready them for bed now. 591 01:02:11,828 --> 01:02:14,729 I so rarely hold a baby. 592 01:02:17,533 --> 01:02:19,558 My dear Rowena. 593 01:02:19,635 --> 01:02:21,626 Your turn, Rowena. 594 01:02:23,206 --> 01:02:24,366 Rowena? 595 01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:28,137 Eugenia, please. Let me go to her. 596 01:02:28,211 --> 01:02:31,305 I think it would be better. 597 01:02:33,850 --> 01:02:36,410 You and William are so blessed-- 598 01:02:36,486 --> 01:02:40,149 two beautiful children and another expected. 599 01:02:40,223 --> 01:02:43,659 It is very hard for Rowena. 600 01:02:43,726 --> 01:02:47,162 You are...so blessed. 601 01:02:55,671 --> 01:02:57,332 It was incredible. 602 01:02:57,406 --> 01:03:00,307 The people in the train were waving and cheering... 603 01:03:00,376 --> 01:03:01,707 as we overtook them. 604 01:03:01,778 --> 01:03:03,643 We went on for three miles. 605 01:03:03,713 --> 01:03:07,205 Were it not for the river, we could have gone longer. 606 01:03:07,283 --> 01:03:09,683 There's no future in those locomotives. 607 01:03:09,752 --> 01:03:12,653 Give me a purebred Arab stallion any day. 608 01:03:12,722 --> 01:03:13,814 No question about it. 609 01:03:13,890 --> 01:03:16,358 For speed and strength, the Arab is unmatched. 610 01:03:16,425 --> 01:03:21,158 There is no substitute for pure blood, Robin. 611 01:03:21,230 --> 01:03:22,663 Keep the breeds separate... 612 01:03:22,732 --> 01:03:24,324 and you can't go far wrong. 613 01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:27,164 That is the cardinal rule. 614 01:03:27,236 --> 01:03:29,329 God made creatures distinct. 615 01:03:29,405 --> 01:03:32,169 It is our job to keep them that way. 616 01:03:32,241 --> 01:03:34,141 Am I not right? 617 01:03:34,210 --> 01:03:38,203 Well, a breed, like a dialect of language... 618 01:03:38,281 --> 01:03:40,476 can hardly be said to have a distinct origin. 619 01:03:40,550 --> 01:03:42,677 Indeed, the evidence is that all horses... 620 01:03:42,752 --> 01:03:45,016 have descended from the same animal. 621 01:03:45,087 --> 01:03:46,213 If you look-- 622 01:03:46,289 --> 01:03:49,520 Don't be absurd. 623 01:03:49,592 --> 01:03:53,323 A dray horse has nothing in common with an Arab. 624 01:03:53,396 --> 01:03:55,557 There is no blood shared there. 625 01:03:55,631 --> 01:03:57,690 They're different, quite different... 626 01:03:57,767 --> 01:04:00,133 and if you knew horses, you'd see that. 627 01:04:04,707 --> 01:04:06,766 It is hard to believe, I agree. 628 01:04:06,843 --> 01:04:08,902 However, you do not need to take my word for it. 629 01:04:08,978 --> 01:04:10,809 There's ample eviden-- 630 01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:14,145 Mr. Darwin makes his argument very clear... 631 01:04:14,217 --> 01:04:17,277 in the "Origin of Species," which you would know... 632 01:04:17,353 --> 01:04:19,150 if you ever took any interest... 633 01:04:19,222 --> 01:04:22,123 in the important ideas of our time. 634 01:04:22,191 --> 01:04:25,820 Indeed, we need look no further... 635 01:04:25,895 --> 01:04:28,659 than our own flock of small, black sheep... 636 01:04:28,731 --> 01:04:31,097 to see that careful breeding... 637 01:04:31,167 --> 01:04:33,658 with our own flock and that of our neighbors... 638 01:04:33,736 --> 01:04:36,466 has produced an entirely new breed. 639 01:04:36,539 --> 01:04:38,370 Father. 640 01:04:39,742 --> 01:04:44,406 Think, Edgar, before you speak. 641 01:05:15,244 --> 01:05:18,873 The boy's name must be Edgar. 642 01:05:21,250 --> 01:05:22,649 Why? 643 01:05:22,718 --> 01:05:24,185 Why? 644 01:05:24,253 --> 01:05:28,781 There is an Edgar in every generation of Alabasters. 645 01:05:28,858 --> 01:05:30,189 My son is not an Alabaster. 646 01:05:30,259 --> 01:05:32,193 My son is an Adamson... 647 01:05:32,261 --> 01:05:36,254 and I wish to give my child a name from my own family... 648 01:05:36,332 --> 01:05:38,027 however undistinguished. 649 01:05:38,100 --> 01:05:40,193 I do not see why. 650 01:05:40,269 --> 01:05:42,703 We do not see your family or speak... 651 01:05:42,772 --> 01:05:45,206 or seem likely to do so. 652 01:05:45,274 --> 01:05:47,208 Your family does not come here... 653 01:05:47,276 --> 01:05:50,905 and Edgar will not know them, I suppose. 654 01:05:50,980 --> 01:05:52,641 We are your family... 655 01:05:52,715 --> 01:05:55,843 and I think you must own we have been good to you. 656 01:05:55,918 --> 01:05:59,217 More than good, my dear. More than good. 657 01:05:59,288 --> 01:06:01,188 Only l... 658 01:06:01,257 --> 01:06:02,588 Only? 659 01:06:02,658 --> 01:06:06,219 Well, I wish to have something of my own... 660 01:06:06,295 --> 01:06:10,561 and my son is my own, in some sense. 661 01:06:12,301 --> 01:06:17,398 We could call him... William Edgar. 662 01:06:17,473 --> 01:06:22,206 Not my name. My father's--Robert. 663 01:06:22,278 --> 01:06:25,247 Robert's a good English name. 664 01:06:27,283 --> 01:06:28,910 Robert Edgar. 665 01:06:43,799 --> 01:06:45,232 Abraham? 666 01:06:45,301 --> 01:06:48,236 Methuselah? 667 01:06:48,304 --> 01:06:50,966 I am what I am. 668 01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:52,667 Moses? 669 01:06:52,742 --> 01:06:55,336 I am! 670 01:06:55,411 --> 01:06:58,209 Am. Am. 671 01:07:06,255 --> 01:07:07,722 Lesson? 672 01:07:10,526 --> 01:07:11,720 Apple? 673 01:07:15,698 --> 01:07:16,858 Bee? 674 01:07:19,702 --> 01:07:21,135 What's that? 675 01:07:21,203 --> 01:07:23,194 A crocodile. 676 01:07:23,272 --> 01:07:25,035 Nope, nope. Alphabet lesson. 677 01:07:26,375 --> 01:07:28,639 "A." 678 01:07:28,711 --> 01:07:30,611 You're so clever. 679 01:07:35,718 --> 01:07:37,185 Belt? 680 01:07:39,722 --> 01:07:40,882 Girdle? 681 01:07:44,226 --> 01:07:45,659 Zone. 682 01:07:45,728 --> 01:07:47,525 Oh, well done, Miss Mead. 683 01:08:02,144 --> 01:08:05,045 Am-a-zon. 684 01:08:05,114 --> 01:08:06,411 Come on. 685 01:08:10,619 --> 01:08:11,813 Lovely! 686 01:08:14,457 --> 01:08:16,049 It's very strange. 687 01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:18,720 When I was in the Amazons... 688 01:08:18,794 --> 01:08:21,729 I used to wake daily from a dream... 689 01:08:21,797 --> 01:08:23,424 of mild English sunshine... 690 01:08:23,499 --> 01:08:25,262 simple and wonderful things... 691 01:08:25,334 --> 01:08:28,770 such as bread and butter, instead of endless cassava. 692 01:08:29,805 --> 01:08:33,241 Now, I wake... 693 01:08:33,309 --> 01:08:36,244 from dreams of the forest curtain... 694 01:08:36,312 --> 01:08:38,746 the movement of the river... 695 01:08:38,814 --> 01:08:41,442 and my work. 696 01:08:41,517 --> 01:08:45,544 You work, I believe, with Sir Harald on his book. 697 01:08:45,621 --> 01:08:48,647 I do, but I'm not really needed... 698 01:08:48,724 --> 01:08:51,022 and my views... 699 01:08:52,728 --> 01:08:56,892 In short, my views do not wholly agree with his. 700 01:08:56,966 --> 01:08:59,594 Perhaps you should write your own book. 701 01:08:59,668 --> 01:09:01,158 No, no, no. 702 01:09:01,237 --> 01:09:03,671 I've no settled opinions to advance... 703 01:09:03,739 --> 01:09:05,673 and no wish to convert anyone... 704 01:09:05,741 --> 01:09:08,767 to my own rather uncertain views on things. 705 01:09:10,412 --> 01:09:12,812 I did not mean opinions. 706 01:09:12,882 --> 01:09:14,907 I meant a book of facts... 707 01:09:14,984 --> 01:09:16,884 a book of scientific facts... 708 01:09:16,952 --> 01:09:20,115 such as you are uniquely qualified to write. 709 01:09:20,189 --> 01:09:24,626 I have thought about writing a book about my travels. 710 01:09:24,693 --> 01:09:27,127 Such books are very successful, I know... 711 01:09:27,196 --> 01:09:31,599 but all my detailed notes, all my specimens... 712 01:09:31,667 --> 01:09:33,658 all lost in the shipwreck. 713 01:09:33,736 --> 01:09:37,172 I've not the heart to invent, even if I could. 714 01:09:37,239 --> 01:09:39,230 But nearer to hand lie things... 715 01:09:39,308 --> 01:09:41,367 you could observe and write about. 716 01:09:41,443 --> 01:09:42,876 Yes, yes. 717 01:09:45,047 --> 01:09:46,173 You've said this before. 718 01:09:46,248 --> 01:09:47,545 I'm certain you're right. 719 01:09:47,616 --> 01:09:49,311 I'm very grateful to you... 720 01:09:49,385 --> 01:09:51,182 but a detailed scientific study... 721 01:09:51,253 --> 01:09:53,050 would take many years, much rigor... 722 01:09:53,122 --> 01:09:55,181 and I'd hoped to... 723 01:09:55,257 --> 01:09:56,724 You'd hoped? 724 01:10:00,763 --> 01:10:04,199 I had hoped to set out again on a foreign journey... 725 01:10:04,266 --> 01:10:08,202 to collect more information about the untraveled world. 726 01:10:08,270 --> 01:10:11,728 I wish to do that. 727 01:10:11,807 --> 01:10:16,005 Sir Harald has suggested that he might be sympathetic. 728 01:10:16,078 --> 01:10:18,171 The book I should like to see you write... 729 01:10:18,247 --> 01:10:19,942 is not a major scientific study... 730 01:10:20,015 --> 01:10:23,473 not the work of a lifetime... 731 01:10:23,552 --> 01:10:26,146 it's a book I think may prove useful... 732 01:10:26,222 --> 01:10:28,656 and I daresay, profitable to you... 733 01:10:28,724 --> 01:10:30,214 in the quite near future. 734 01:10:30,292 --> 01:10:32,419 I think if you were to write... 735 01:10:32,494 --> 01:10:35,088 a natural history of the ant colonies over a year... 736 01:10:35,164 --> 01:10:37,189 you'd have something very interesting... 737 01:10:37,266 --> 01:10:41,703 to a very general public and yet of scientific value. 738 01:10:45,241 --> 01:10:47,607 It might be interesting. 739 01:10:47,676 --> 01:10:48,836 It might be fun. 740 01:10:48,911 --> 01:10:50,037 Fun. 741 01:10:50,112 --> 01:10:52,171 The children could be usefully employed... 742 01:10:52,248 --> 01:10:53,545 and I myself would be proud to assist. 743 01:10:53,616 --> 01:10:56,107 Miss Mead would do what she could. 744 01:10:56,185 --> 01:10:58,210 I see the children as characters in the drama. 745 01:10:58,287 --> 01:11:02,690 There has to be a drama for it to appeal to the public. 746 01:11:02,758 --> 01:11:04,385 Why don't you write it yourself? 747 01:11:04,460 --> 01:11:06,325 It's your idea. You should get credit. 748 01:11:06,395 --> 01:11:08,693 No, I've not the requisite knowledge... 749 01:11:08,764 --> 01:11:10,197 nor the time... 750 01:11:10,266 --> 01:11:12,700 though I don't know where my days go. 751 01:11:12,768 --> 01:11:16,670 I don't see myself as a writer but as an assistant. 752 01:11:16,739 --> 01:11:19,299 If you would accept me, I would be honored. 753 01:11:19,375 --> 01:11:20,808 I can draw. I can write. 754 01:11:20,876 --> 01:11:24,175 I can copy, if necessary. 755 01:11:24,246 --> 01:11:26,180 I... 756 01:11:26,248 --> 01:11:29,684 I'm extraordinarily grateful to you, Miss Crompton. 757 01:11:29,752 --> 01:11:32,550 I do believe you've transfigured my prospects. 758 01:11:32,621 --> 01:11:36,148 Hardly, but it may be the answer... 759 01:11:36,225 --> 01:11:38,250 with good will and hard work. 760 01:11:47,803 --> 01:11:49,862 What name shall we give to the home... 761 01:11:49,938 --> 01:11:51,963 of the blood-red slavemakers? 762 01:11:52,041 --> 01:11:55,135 It is a horrible trade. 763 01:11:55,210 --> 01:11:56,700 Never have I wept so over a book... 764 01:11:56,779 --> 01:11:59,213 as I wept over "Uncle Tom's Cabin." 765 01:11:59,281 --> 01:12:02,216 I pray nightly for the cause of President Lincoln. 766 01:12:02,284 --> 01:12:04,718 We could call the nest Bredely Hall. 767 01:12:04,787 --> 01:12:06,220 We have lots of servants. 768 01:12:06,288 --> 01:12:08,222 That wouldn't be appropriate, Margaret. 769 01:12:08,290 --> 01:12:11,282 Well, I propose Red Fort. 770 01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:13,021 That sounds war-like enough... 771 01:12:13,095 --> 01:12:15,859 and brings in the color of the sanguinea. 772 01:12:15,931 --> 01:12:18,024 -That's appropriate. -Yes. 773 01:12:19,568 --> 01:12:21,661 In the spring of 1862... 774 01:12:21,737 --> 01:12:24,365 we began the organized ant watch. 775 01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:28,035 The colony was busily preparing for the breeding season. 776 01:12:30,779 --> 01:12:33,339 As the red ants set about their tasks... 777 01:12:33,415 --> 01:12:35,178 we set about ours... 778 01:12:35,250 --> 01:12:38,185 observing and recording the colony at work. 779 01:12:38,253 --> 01:12:40,187 On our first sentry duty... 780 01:12:40,255 --> 01:12:44,191 Edith noticed worker ants cleaning their nest... 781 01:12:44,259 --> 01:12:48,195 much as human beings spring-clean their houses. 782 01:12:48,263 --> 01:12:50,891 Margaret, Elaine, and Miss Crompton... 783 01:12:50,966 --> 01:12:54,129 carefully mapped out the city and its satellite suburbs. 784 01:12:54,203 --> 01:12:57,832 There were numerous entrances and exits... 785 01:12:57,906 --> 01:13:00,739 with well-worn paths winding across the forest floor. 786 01:13:00,809 --> 01:13:04,745 The girls illustrated the scene with a column of worker ants... 787 01:13:04,813 --> 01:13:07,281 setting forth on a foraging expedition. 788 01:13:09,818 --> 01:13:12,252 Miss Crompton's evening watches had revealed... 789 01:13:12,321 --> 01:13:15,688 that the city was never defenseless against outsiders. 790 01:13:15,758 --> 01:13:18,693 Nighttime guards were posted behind gates... 791 01:13:18,761 --> 01:13:21,229 barricaded with twigs and leaves. 792 01:13:21,296 --> 01:13:25,096 Not all outsiders were unwelcome. 793 01:13:25,167 --> 01:13:26,964 With much patient observation... 794 01:13:27,035 --> 01:13:29,196 and the help of Miss Mead's umbrella... 795 01:13:29,271 --> 01:13:32,206 we uncovered a thriving population of nitidulidae. 796 01:13:32,274 --> 01:13:34,105 These small beetles... 797 01:13:34,176 --> 01:13:36,167 Iive peacefully on the fringes of the city... 798 01:13:36,245 --> 01:13:39,476 scavenging after the ants' leftovers. 799 01:13:39,548 --> 01:13:42,210 As the weeks passed, we came to understand... 800 01:13:42,284 --> 01:13:45,219 the ants' activities in Red Fort... 801 01:13:45,287 --> 01:13:46,754 as well as any man would know... 802 01:13:46,822 --> 01:13:49,382 the comings and goings of his own house... 803 01:13:49,458 --> 01:13:50,982 if not better. 804 01:13:56,298 --> 01:13:57,731 Oh, there you are. 805 01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:00,234 I've recruited Amy to keep an eye on the nest... 806 01:14:00,302 --> 01:14:02,736 of the fusca ants on her afternoons off. 807 01:14:02,805 --> 01:14:04,397 I'm certain your assistance... 808 01:14:04,473 --> 01:14:07,237 will prove to be extremely useful, Amy. 809 01:14:07,309 --> 01:14:08,742 Thank you, sir. 810 01:14:08,811 --> 01:14:10,244 Go and join Tom now. 811 01:14:10,312 --> 01:14:11,574 Miss Mead and the girls... 812 01:14:11,647 --> 01:14:13,274 will be here to relieve you both later. 813 01:14:15,751 --> 01:14:18,686 It will do her good to get a bit of fresh air... 814 01:14:18,754 --> 01:14:20,722 having no family and nowhere to go... 815 01:14:20,789 --> 01:14:22,757 and earn a few extra pennies. 816 01:14:24,259 --> 01:14:25,692 What would you say... 817 01:14:25,761 --> 01:14:28,696 to a few cartoon-like illustrations to your text? 818 01:14:28,764 --> 01:14:31,733 Here I've drawn one with a stiletto... 819 01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:34,928 and here a string helmet and heavy wrench. 820 01:14:35,003 --> 01:14:37,096 I should think it might add greatly... 821 01:14:37,172 --> 01:14:39,265 to the human interest. 822 01:15:09,838 --> 01:15:11,271 Good-bye. 823 01:15:11,340 --> 01:15:12,773 Enjoy the hunt. 824 01:15:12,841 --> 01:15:14,069 We will. 825 01:15:27,289 --> 01:15:29,917 William? Is that you? 826 01:15:38,300 --> 01:15:40,768 It is you. 827 01:15:40,836 --> 01:15:42,770 I could tell by your step. 828 01:15:45,307 --> 01:15:47,207 Are you tired, dear? 829 01:15:48,977 --> 01:15:50,274 Somewhat. 830 01:15:52,748 --> 01:15:57,242 I am stiff from a day in the saddle... 831 01:15:57,319 --> 01:15:59,253 but, my dear... 832 01:15:59,321 --> 01:16:02,051 it was wonderful to be out with the hunt again... 833 01:16:02,124 --> 01:16:03,989 after my confinement. 834 01:16:04,059 --> 01:16:07,187 I do love it so. 835 01:16:11,300 --> 01:16:13,427 You look beautiful, my dear. 836 01:16:15,237 --> 01:16:16,704 Really? 837 01:16:18,740 --> 01:16:21,208 As beautiful as ever? 838 01:16:22,744 --> 01:16:24,541 More beautiful than ever. 839 01:17:17,633 --> 01:17:20,158 The world has changed so much, William... 840 01:17:20,235 --> 01:17:21,793 in my lifetime. 841 01:17:21,870 --> 01:17:24,668 I am old enough to have believed... 842 01:17:24,740 --> 01:17:27,174 in the first parents in Paradise... 843 01:17:27,242 --> 01:17:28,675 as a little boy... 844 01:17:28,744 --> 01:17:32,180 to have believed in Satan hidden in the serpent... 845 01:17:32,247 --> 01:17:34,681 and the Archangel with his flaming sword... 846 01:17:34,750 --> 01:17:37,184 closing the gate. 847 01:17:37,252 --> 01:17:41,689 And now I am supposed to believe in a world... 848 01:17:41,757 --> 01:17:44,692 in which we are what we are... 849 01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:47,194 because of the mutations... 850 01:17:47,262 --> 01:17:52,097 of soft jelly and calcius bone... 851 01:17:52,167 --> 01:17:58,538 which goes on and on through unimaginable millennia. 852 01:17:58,607 --> 01:18:01,667 A world in which angels and devils... 853 01:18:01,743 --> 01:18:04,234 do not do battle in Heaven for vice and virtue... 854 01:18:04,312 --> 01:18:06,746 but in which we eat and are eaten... 855 01:18:06,815 --> 01:18:09,807 and are absorbed into other flesh and blood. 856 01:18:11,286 --> 01:18:14,619 I shall molder like a mushroom... 857 01:18:14,690 --> 01:18:16,749 when my time comes... 858 01:18:16,825 --> 01:18:19,760 and it will always be soon. 859 01:18:19,828 --> 01:18:23,764 I shall end my life like a skeleton leaf... 860 01:18:23,832 --> 01:18:26,767 about to be humus... 861 01:18:26,835 --> 01:18:30,271 a mouse clutched by an owl... 862 01:18:30,338 --> 01:18:33,273 a bull calf going to the slaughter... 863 01:18:33,341 --> 01:18:37,277 through a gate which leads only to one way-- 864 01:18:37,345 --> 01:18:42,544 to blood and dust and destruction. 865 01:18:42,617 --> 01:18:47,611 And then I think no brute beast... 866 01:18:47,689 --> 01:18:50,157 would think such things. 867 01:18:50,225 --> 01:18:53,160 No frog, no hound, even... 868 01:18:53,228 --> 01:18:58,689 would have such a vision of the Angel of Annunciation. 869 01:19:01,236 --> 01:19:04,899 Where does it all come from? 870 01:19:06,408 --> 01:19:09,172 Come quick! Do come! 871 01:19:09,244 --> 01:19:10,677 What's the matter, Amy? 872 01:19:10,746 --> 01:19:14,409 Tom says the bloody ants are coming up in a great army. 873 01:19:14,483 --> 01:19:17,077 He says, "Come quick. Something's up." 874 01:19:17,152 --> 01:19:20,121 I saw them myself. They're like gravy boiling. 875 01:19:20,188 --> 01:19:21,485 Do come. 876 01:19:30,699 --> 01:19:33,668 The great slaving raid took place on a hot afternoon... 877 01:19:33,735 --> 01:19:37,671 after several days of frantic activity within Red Fort. 878 01:19:37,739 --> 01:19:39,673 We arrived at the nest... 879 01:19:39,741 --> 01:19:42,403 to see gossiping and seething crowds of red ants... 880 01:19:42,477 --> 01:19:44,672 massing for a clearly important event. 881 01:19:44,746 --> 01:19:46,577 We knew not what. 882 01:19:46,648 --> 01:19:49,776 And then, at some sign... 883 01:19:49,851 --> 01:19:53,218 the ants swarmed out of the city from every exit. 884 01:19:54,756 --> 01:19:57,850 Was it a little Napoleon who led the call to arms... 885 01:19:57,926 --> 01:19:59,393 or had the heat of the sun alone... 886 01:19:59,461 --> 01:20:02,089 signaled the ants to act in unison? 887 01:20:03,498 --> 01:20:07,229 We followed as the army set out across the forest floor. 888 01:20:09,004 --> 01:20:11,939 The rough terrain of twigs and leaves... 889 01:20:12,007 --> 01:20:13,872 separated the well-organized ranks... 890 01:20:13,942 --> 01:20:16,570 into seemingly raggle-taggle brigades. 891 01:20:20,782 --> 01:20:23,216 Fifteen yards from their own citadel... 892 01:20:23,285 --> 01:20:25,719 the red ants stopped, regrouped... 893 01:20:25,787 --> 01:20:27,220 and then descended... 894 01:20:27,289 --> 01:20:30,656 upon an unsuspecting nest of black ants... 895 01:20:30,725 --> 01:20:32,590 the formica fusca. 896 01:20:34,296 --> 01:20:36,662 The black ants sallied forth bravely... 897 01:20:36,731 --> 01:20:38,722 to beat off the thieves and kidnappers... 898 01:20:38,800 --> 01:20:40,392 waving their antennae. 899 01:20:40,468 --> 01:20:41,628 Hurrying furiously... 900 01:20:41,703 --> 01:20:43,864 they bit at the legs and heads and feelers... 901 01:20:43,939 --> 01:20:45,566 of the busy bloody ants. 902 01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:47,835 They attempted, sometimes with success... 903 01:20:47,909 --> 01:20:50,878 to grasp the red invaders and bite them to death. 904 01:20:50,946 --> 01:20:53,506 The red ants had one purpose only-- 905 01:20:53,582 --> 01:20:56,517 to snatch the unhatched black ants from the nest... 906 01:20:56,585 --> 01:21:00,487 and carry them in their fine jaws to Red Fort. 907 01:21:00,555 --> 01:21:02,580 From that moment on... 908 01:21:02,657 --> 01:21:06,286 the fate of the captured black ant nestlings was sealed. 909 01:21:06,361 --> 01:21:08,795 They would live and die as red ants... 910 01:21:08,864 --> 01:21:10,456 not as true black ants. 911 01:21:10,532 --> 01:21:13,831 They would feed and nourish little blood-red ants... 912 01:21:13,902 --> 01:21:15,836 and, in time, respond to the sun... 913 01:21:15,904 --> 01:21:19,863 by massing to attack their forgotten families. 914 01:21:19,941 --> 01:21:23,342 It is as if environment were everything... 915 01:21:23,411 --> 01:21:26,380 and inheritance nothing. 916 01:21:53,441 --> 01:21:54,874 Amy? 917 01:21:58,179 --> 01:22:00,079 I didn't know you had an interest... 918 01:22:00,148 --> 01:22:01,843 in this little thing. 919 01:22:01,917 --> 01:22:04,886 I don't. Not a personal one... 920 01:22:04,953 --> 01:22:07,251 but in her general well-being. 921 01:22:10,558 --> 01:22:12,389 Her general well-being. 922 01:22:12,460 --> 01:22:16,453 Well, tell him, Amy-- was I hurting you? 923 01:22:16,531 --> 01:22:18,897 Were my attentions unwelcome, perhaps? 924 01:22:18,967 --> 01:22:21,094 No. No, sir. 925 01:22:21,169 --> 01:22:24,104 I'm quite all right, Mr. Adamson. 926 01:22:24,172 --> 01:22:25,867 Please. 927 01:22:27,175 --> 01:22:29,803 I think you should apologize, sir... 928 01:22:29,878 --> 01:22:31,709 and leave us. 929 01:22:35,417 --> 01:22:38,250 I think Amy should run on. 930 01:22:38,320 --> 01:22:40,413 I think she'd do best to run on. 931 01:22:40,488 --> 01:22:42,388 Sir. 932 01:22:44,459 --> 01:22:46,825 Run off, then, child. 933 01:22:46,895 --> 01:22:49,420 I can always find you if I want you. 934 01:22:55,303 --> 01:22:59,899 Servants in this house are none of your concern... 935 01:22:59,975 --> 01:23:02,409 Mr. Adamson. 936 01:23:02,477 --> 01:23:05,412 You do not pay their wages... 937 01:23:05,480 --> 01:23:08,813 and I'll thank you not to interfere with them. 938 01:23:08,883 --> 01:23:11,909 That little creature is no more than a child... 939 01:23:11,987 --> 01:23:13,784 and one who's not had a proper childhood. 940 01:23:13,855 --> 01:23:15,720 Nonsense. 941 01:23:15,790 --> 01:23:19,351 She's a nice little packet of flesh... 942 01:23:19,427 --> 01:23:23,693 and her heart beats faster when I reach for it... 943 01:23:23,765 --> 01:23:27,895 and her little mouth opens sweetly and eagerly. 944 01:23:30,939 --> 01:23:33,430 You know nothing, Adamson. 945 01:23:33,508 --> 01:23:35,908 I've noticed that you know nothing. 946 01:23:37,846 --> 01:23:41,805 Go back to your beetles and your creepy-crawlies. 947 01:23:41,883 --> 01:23:45,614 I won't hurt the little puss, you can believe. 948 01:23:46,888 --> 01:23:50,324 Just add a little bit of natural spice. 949 01:23:50,392 --> 01:23:53,122 Anyway, it's none of your business. 950 01:23:53,194 --> 01:23:55,162 You're a hanger-on. 951 01:23:55,230 --> 01:23:58,097 And I've yet to learn what use you are to the world... 952 01:23:58,166 --> 01:24:00,066 or anyone in it. 953 01:24:00,135 --> 01:24:02,797 I told you. 954 01:24:02,871 --> 01:24:04,896 I've noticed that you know nothing. 955 01:24:17,786 --> 01:24:21,278 "And what of the fusca ant males? 956 01:24:21,356 --> 01:24:23,324 "Their fate exemplifies... 957 01:24:23,391 --> 01:24:25,689 "the remorseless, random purposefulness... 958 01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:28,695 "of Dame Nature, of natural selection. 959 01:24:28,763 --> 01:24:30,924 "Their whole existence is directed... 960 01:24:30,999 --> 01:24:32,330 "only to the nuptial dance... 961 01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:34,732 "and the fertilization of the queens. 962 01:24:34,803 --> 01:24:37,328 "They are flying amorous projectiles... 963 01:24:37,405 --> 01:24:40,067 "truly no more than the burning arrows... 964 01:24:40,141 --> 01:24:42,837 "of the winged and blindfold God of Love... 965 01:24:42,911 --> 01:24:44,640 "and after their day of glory... 966 01:24:44,712 --> 01:24:48,978 "they're unnecessary and unwanted. 967 01:24:49,050 --> 01:24:51,416 "They run hither and thither... 968 01:24:51,486 --> 01:24:53,386 "aimlessly draggle-winged. 969 01:24:53,455 --> 01:24:55,719 "They are beaten back for the most part... 970 01:24:55,790 --> 01:24:57,724 "from the doors of their home nests... 971 01:24:57,792 --> 01:24:59,726 "and driven away to mope and die... 972 01:24:59,794 --> 01:25:01,261 "in the cooling evenings... 973 01:25:01,329 --> 01:25:04,298 "of the late summer and early autumn." 974 01:25:06,434 --> 01:25:07,867 Very eloquent. 975 01:25:07,936 --> 01:25:09,870 I'm quite overcome with pity... 976 01:25:09,938 --> 01:25:11,872 for these poor, useless male creatures. 977 01:25:11,940 --> 01:25:16,309 I must admit, I'd never seen them in that light before. 978 01:25:16,377 --> 01:25:18,811 Do you not think you may have been... 979 01:25:18,880 --> 01:25:22,338 somewhat anthropomorphic in your choice of rhetoric? 980 01:25:24,385 --> 01:25:27,320 I thought that was our intention in this history-- 981 01:25:27,388 --> 01:25:30,824 to appeal to a wide audience by telling scientific truths... 982 01:25:30,892 --> 01:25:33,360 with a note of the fabulous. 983 01:25:35,230 --> 01:25:36,822 Perhaps I've overdone it. 984 01:25:36,898 --> 01:25:39,332 I could tone it down. 985 01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:41,334 I'm quite sure you should not. 986 01:25:41,402 --> 01:25:43,370 It will do excellently as it is. 987 01:25:43,438 --> 01:25:46,839 It will appeal greatly to the dramatic emotions. 988 01:25:46,908 --> 01:25:49,342 The book is to be delightful... 989 01:25:49,410 --> 01:25:52,573 as well as profound and truthful, is it not? 990 01:25:54,415 --> 01:25:57,248 I've been making a collection of literary citations... 991 01:25:57,318 --> 01:26:01,049 which I thought you might place at the head of your chapters. 992 01:26:01,122 --> 01:26:04,956 I found a wonderful sonnet by poor, mad John Clare... 993 01:26:05,026 --> 01:26:07,790 which seems to suggest that our ideas of fairies... 994 01:26:07,862 --> 01:26:11,389 are only anthropomorphizing of insects... 995 01:26:11,466 --> 01:26:12,899 and I've had an idea... 996 01:26:12,967 --> 01:26:16,130 to put my little drawings of fairy insects into a book. 997 01:26:16,204 --> 01:26:18,331 A book? 998 01:26:18,406 --> 01:26:20,840 I'm amazed at your accomplishments-- 999 01:26:20,909 --> 01:26:24,401 Latin, Greek, draftsmanship of a high quality... 1000 01:26:24,479 --> 01:26:27,380 a thorough knowledge of English literature. 1001 01:26:27,448 --> 01:26:29,348 I was educated with my betters... 1002 01:26:29,417 --> 01:26:30,818 in the schoolroom of a bishop. 1003 01:26:30,818 --> 01:26:31,750 in the schoolroom of a bishop. 1004 01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:33,353 My father was the tutor... 1005 01:26:33,421 --> 01:26:36,515 and the bishop's lady kindly intentioned. 1006 01:26:36,591 --> 01:26:40,857 You should publish on your own behalf. 1007 01:26:40,929 --> 01:26:43,397 This is for my own entertainment. 1008 01:26:44,933 --> 01:26:48,369 The ants, you know, were my muse. 1009 01:26:48,436 --> 01:26:50,563 They inspired me. 1010 01:27:30,311 --> 01:27:32,211 I'll take it into town on the pretext... 1011 01:27:32,280 --> 01:27:34,407 of looking for new winter boots. 1012 01:27:34,482 --> 01:27:36,677 I do not trust that village postmistress... 1013 01:27:36,751 --> 01:27:40,380 not to tell everyone that a fat packet has gone off. 1014 01:27:40,455 --> 01:27:42,889 We do not wish to attract attention... 1015 01:27:42,957 --> 01:27:45,391 to what may be a completely fruitless endeavor. 1016 01:27:45,460 --> 01:27:48,827 No. When the book is handsomely bound... 1017 01:27:48,896 --> 01:27:50,261 and ready for review... 1018 01:27:50,331 --> 01:27:52,094 then we shall be open. 1019 01:28:22,497 --> 01:28:25,432 She can't be expected to do any more... 1020 01:28:25,500 --> 01:28:27,434 in her condition. 1021 01:28:27,502 --> 01:28:29,436 Get this cushion here. 1022 01:28:29,504 --> 01:28:31,597 That's better. 1023 01:28:38,513 --> 01:28:40,481 Can I have a drink? 1024 01:29:33,768 --> 01:29:36,202 Mother? 1025 01:30:08,202 --> 01:30:11,000 There. 1026 01:30:26,821 --> 01:30:28,288 Good. 1027 01:30:52,847 --> 01:30:54,815 "Dear Mr. Adamson... 1028 01:30:54,882 --> 01:30:57,476 "You are to be heartily congratulated... 1029 01:30:57,552 --> 01:30:59,816 "upon your ingenious natural history... 1030 01:30:59,887 --> 01:31:01,752 "which is just the kind of book... 1031 01:31:01,823 --> 01:31:03,814 "which the world of letters at present cannot have enough. 1032 01:31:03,891 --> 01:31:05,324 "We are very happy... 1033 01:31:05,393 --> 01:31:07,327 "you've chosen our house as the publishers... 1034 01:31:07,395 --> 01:31:09,329 "and hope we may come to a happy arrangement... 1035 01:31:09,397 --> 01:31:11,797 "for what will be a fruitful partnership. 1036 01:31:11,866 --> 01:31:13,458 "Yours sincerely, J. Marion, publisher." 1037 01:31:13,534 --> 01:31:15,263 I was so afraid. 1038 01:31:15,336 --> 01:31:17,270 I can hardly believe it. 1039 01:31:17,338 --> 01:31:18,771 We must not be oversanguine. 1040 01:31:18,840 --> 01:31:20,330 I have no idea of the profit... 1041 01:31:20,408 --> 01:31:22,103 from a successful book. 1042 01:31:22,176 --> 01:31:24,770 Nor l, nor l. 1043 01:31:24,846 --> 01:31:28,942 I hardly like to mention it to Sir Harald. 1044 01:31:29,016 --> 01:31:32,281 He's in a very bad way with his own project. 1045 01:31:32,353 --> 01:31:34,617 He's torn up several sheaves of writing... 1046 01:31:34,689 --> 01:31:37,089 only yesterday. 1047 01:31:37,158 --> 01:31:40,059 I don't feel I've given him the support he needs. 1048 01:31:41,362 --> 01:31:44,957 Oh, I understand. 1049 01:31:45,032 --> 01:31:46,761 Perhaps-- 1050 01:31:46,834 --> 01:31:48,859 It's not certain enough yet to be revealed... 1051 01:31:48,936 --> 01:31:50,995 perhaps we should keep our own counsel. 1052 01:31:51,072 --> 01:31:52,972 I'm quite happy to go on as we are. 1053 01:31:53,040 --> 01:31:55,975 The shock--the surprise, I should say-- 1054 01:31:56,043 --> 01:31:57,806 will be all the more complete... 1055 01:31:57,879 --> 01:32:01,280 when we come to reveal what has been in the making. 1056 01:32:12,894 --> 01:32:15,260 Mr. William, I can tell you now... 1057 01:32:15,329 --> 01:32:18,093 that you are the father of not one, but two infant girls... 1058 01:32:18,165 --> 01:32:21,259 both living, both doing well. 1059 01:32:44,892 --> 01:32:47,588 Hounds, gentlemen, please! 1060 01:33:09,216 --> 01:33:10,843 Mr. Adamson! 1061 01:33:10,918 --> 01:33:12,351 Whoa! 1062 01:33:12,420 --> 01:33:14,285 Mr. Adamson, sir! 1063 01:33:14,355 --> 01:33:17,290 You're asked to come back to Miss Eugenia, please. 1064 01:33:17,358 --> 01:33:19,792 Is she ill? Is anything wrong? 1065 01:33:19,860 --> 01:33:22,727 Didn't say, sir. Just come back to Miss Eugenia. 1066 01:33:48,889 --> 01:33:50,322 Is my wife well? 1067 01:33:50,391 --> 01:33:52,325 I think so, sir. 1068 01:33:52,393 --> 01:33:53,951 Do you know where she is? 1069 01:33:54,028 --> 01:33:56,326 In her room, sir, I think. 1070 01:33:56,397 --> 01:34:00,094 She told me she was not to be disturbed until after dinner. 1071 01:34:37,905 --> 01:34:39,736 Get dressed. 1072 01:34:51,919 --> 01:34:54,012 Go. Go now. 1073 01:34:56,424 --> 01:34:57,857 You must take those. 1074 01:34:57,925 --> 01:35:00,894 Take them in your hand and anything else and leave. 1075 01:35:03,164 --> 01:35:06,656 I told you to go now! 1076 01:35:14,875 --> 01:35:17,207 You, too. Dress yourself. 1077 01:35:17,278 --> 01:35:20,213 Cover up now. Just cover up. 1078 01:35:22,883 --> 01:35:23,815 William... 1079 01:35:23,884 --> 01:35:25,476 Dress yourself! 1080 01:35:25,553 --> 01:35:27,987 Just dress yourself! 1081 01:35:28,055 --> 01:35:30,421 Dress yourself! 1082 01:35:33,794 --> 01:35:37,025 It's like a whorehouse! 1083 01:35:37,098 --> 01:35:39,328 It's disgusting. 1084 01:35:41,368 --> 01:35:42,835 You are disgusting. 1085 01:35:44,371 --> 01:35:47,340 I can't put this on without Martha. 1086 01:35:49,877 --> 01:35:52,345 Will you help me? 1087 01:35:52,413 --> 01:35:54,847 I shan't touch you. 1088 01:35:54,915 --> 01:35:57,349 Why don't you just cover yourself? 1089 01:35:57,418 --> 01:36:00,387 Cover yourself! You're horrible to see! 1090 01:36:05,426 --> 01:36:06,893 Hurry up! 1091 01:36:20,374 --> 01:36:21,841 This... 1092 01:36:23,177 --> 01:36:28,046 This has been going on for some time, hasn't it? 1093 01:36:28,115 --> 01:36:30,310 Has it? 1094 01:36:30,384 --> 01:36:32,852 All the time I've been here. 1095 01:36:38,159 --> 01:36:39,285 Yes. 1096 01:36:45,699 --> 01:36:47,223 How long? 1097 01:36:49,403 --> 01:36:53,032 Since I was very little. 1098 01:36:53,107 --> 01:36:55,371 Very little. Yes. 1099 01:36:57,411 --> 01:37:00,312 You cannot possibly understand. 1100 01:37:02,416 --> 01:37:04,816 No, I cannot. 1101 01:37:04,885 --> 01:37:08,616 At first, it seemed... 1102 01:37:08,689 --> 01:37:11,351 nothing to do with the rest of my life. 1103 01:37:11,425 --> 01:37:14,792 It was just something secret... 1104 01:37:14,862 --> 01:37:17,831 that was. You know? 1105 01:37:19,867 --> 01:37:25,305 Like other things you must not do and do... 1106 01:37:25,372 --> 01:37:27,840 Iike touching yourself in the dark. 1107 01:37:29,910 --> 01:37:31,901 You don't understand. 1108 01:37:35,149 --> 01:37:39,711 When I was going to marry Captain Hunt, he saw. 1109 01:37:39,787 --> 01:37:41,948 He saw. 1110 01:37:42,022 --> 01:37:46,356 Not so much as you have seen, but enough to guess. 1111 01:37:46,427 --> 01:37:49,487 And it preyed on his mind. 1112 01:37:49,563 --> 01:37:51,861 It preyed on his mind. 1113 01:37:51,932 --> 01:37:55,368 I swore then I would stop it... 1114 01:37:55,436 --> 01:37:57,927 and I did stop it... 1115 01:37:58,005 --> 01:38:00,872 because I wanted to be married... 1116 01:38:00,941 --> 01:38:04,399 and good and like other people... 1117 01:38:04,478 --> 01:38:08,414 and I did persuade him that he was mistaken in me. 1118 01:38:09,950 --> 01:38:12,475 It was so hard... 1119 01:38:12,553 --> 01:38:15,386 for he could not say what he feared. 1120 01:38:15,456 --> 01:38:18,425 He would not speak it out loud. 1121 01:38:19,960 --> 01:38:24,420 That was when I saw how very terrible it was... 1122 01:38:25,966 --> 01:38:27,433 I was. 1123 01:38:29,970 --> 01:38:32,438 Only we could not stop. 1124 01:38:33,974 --> 01:38:36,067 I don't think... 1125 01:38:36,143 --> 01:38:38,441 that he meant even to stop. 1126 01:38:39,980 --> 01:38:42,175 He's strong, William. 1127 01:38:42,249 --> 01:38:45,184 And, of course, Captain Hunt-- 1128 01:38:45,252 --> 01:38:47,220 someone led him to see it... 1129 01:38:47,288 --> 01:38:51,418 and he wrote a terrible letter to both of us... 1130 01:38:51,492 --> 01:38:53,926 and he said... 1131 01:38:53,994 --> 01:38:57,361 oh, that he could not live with the knowledge... 1132 01:38:57,431 --> 01:38:59,092 even if we could-- 1133 01:38:59,166 --> 01:39:01,430 that is what he said-- 1134 01:39:01,502 --> 01:39:04,266 and then he shot himself. 1135 01:39:04,338 --> 01:39:06,568 In the desk, there was a note to me... 1136 01:39:06,640 --> 01:39:08,699 saying I would know why he had died... 1137 01:39:08,943 --> 01:39:12,640 and he hoped that I would be able to be happy. 1138 01:39:13,914 --> 01:39:17,281 And even after that, you just went right on. 1139 01:39:17,351 --> 01:39:20,946 Who else could I turn to? 1140 01:39:21,021 --> 01:39:22,750 Well, you turned to me. 1141 01:39:22,823 --> 01:39:25,257 You made use of me anyhow. 1142 01:39:25,326 --> 01:39:27,760 All the children, who revert so shockingly... 1143 01:39:27,828 --> 01:39:29,557 to the ancestral type-- 1144 01:39:29,630 --> 01:39:34,761 No! I don't know! 1145 01:39:34,835 --> 01:39:37,269 Well, I know, don't l? 1146 01:39:37,338 --> 01:39:38,771 Perfectly obvious! 1147 01:39:38,839 --> 01:39:40,864 You just have to look at them! 1148 01:39:50,851 --> 01:39:52,045 I'll go now. 1149 01:39:52,119 --> 01:39:53,814 We can talk again later. 1150 01:39:57,858 --> 01:39:59,325 What will you do? 1151 01:40:01,862 --> 01:40:04,797 I don't know what I shall do. 1152 01:40:04,865 --> 01:40:07,834 I shall tell you when I do know. 1153 01:40:09,870 --> 01:40:13,807 You need not be afraid that I shall kill myself... 1154 01:40:13,807 --> 01:40:16,401 or him. 1155 01:40:16,477 --> 01:40:21,574 I want to be a free man, not a convicted murderer. 1156 01:40:39,833 --> 01:40:41,266 Remember, William... 1157 01:40:41,335 --> 01:40:44,361 the aim is to get rid of all your letters. 1158 01:42:04,918 --> 01:42:07,853 Phoenix. 1159 01:42:07,921 --> 01:42:10,389 I only had this left. 1160 01:42:15,863 --> 01:42:17,797 No, not now. Later. 1161 01:42:17,865 --> 01:42:19,833 I'll find a time later. 1162 01:42:57,905 --> 01:43:00,339 Please take a seat. 1163 01:43:00,407 --> 01:43:03,865 I hope you don't think this is too conspiratorial. 1164 01:43:17,858 --> 01:43:20,190 You wish to talk. 1165 01:43:20,260 --> 01:43:24,924 You sent me a word tonight... 1166 01:43:24,998 --> 01:43:28,934 and someone sent for me to come back to the house today... 1167 01:43:29,002 --> 01:43:30,435 when I was not wanted... 1168 01:43:30,504 --> 01:43:32,995 when I was anything but wanted. 1169 01:43:33,073 --> 01:43:35,439 I didn't send for you... 1170 01:43:35,509 --> 01:43:37,477 if that's what you're thinking. 1171 01:43:39,012 --> 01:43:41,947 There are people in a house, you know... 1172 01:43:42,015 --> 01:43:44,449 who can know everything that's going on-- 1173 01:43:44,518 --> 01:43:45,951 invisible people. 1174 01:43:46,019 --> 01:43:48,453 Now and then, the house simply decides... 1175 01:43:48,522 --> 01:43:49,989 that something must happen. 1176 01:43:52,025 --> 01:43:53,515 I think your message came to you... 1177 01:43:53,594 --> 01:43:56,085 after a series of misunderstandings... 1178 01:43:56,163 --> 01:43:58,461 that were at some level deliberate. 1179 01:43:58,532 --> 01:44:01,990 But you know what I saw. 1180 01:44:08,542 --> 01:44:10,305 There are people in houses... 1181 01:44:10,377 --> 01:44:13,471 between the visible inhabitants and the invisible-- 1182 01:44:13,547 --> 01:44:14,912 Iargely invisible to both-- 1183 01:44:14,982 --> 01:44:19,419 who can know a very great deal if they choose. 1184 01:44:19,486 --> 01:44:21,977 I choose to know about some things... 1185 01:44:22,055 --> 01:44:23,955 and not about others. 1186 01:44:25,993 --> 01:44:27,426 I've become interested... 1187 01:44:27,494 --> 01:44:30,554 in knowing about things that concern you. 1188 01:44:30,631 --> 01:44:32,565 I've been used. 1189 01:44:32,633 --> 01:44:34,658 I've been made a fool of. 1190 01:44:34,735 --> 01:44:37,203 Even so, that's not the most important thing. 1191 01:44:37,271 --> 01:44:39,501 What I want to know is what you feel. 1192 01:44:39,573 --> 01:44:41,734 I want to know what you're going to do. 1193 01:44:44,011 --> 01:44:48,038 I find that my most powerful feeling... 1194 01:44:48,115 --> 01:44:49,980 is that I'm free. 1195 01:44:53,020 --> 01:44:58,617 I ought to feel shocked or vengeful, humiliated... 1196 01:44:58,692 --> 01:45:01,684 and I do feel all these things from time to time... 1197 01:45:01,762 --> 01:45:06,131 but mostly, I feel I can go now. 1198 01:45:07,534 --> 01:45:09,968 I can leave this house. 1199 01:45:10,037 --> 01:45:13,700 I can return to my true work. 1200 01:45:13,774 --> 01:45:17,266 There was talk of equipping a further Amazon venture. 1201 01:45:19,346 --> 01:45:21,405 I cannot now take one Alabaster penny. 1202 01:45:21,481 --> 01:45:22,914 You must see that. 1203 01:45:22,983 --> 01:45:25,451 You see everything, I begin to think. 1204 01:45:26,987 --> 01:45:32,323 I must go away and soon... and never return. 1205 01:45:32,392 --> 01:45:35,793 You are all that I shall miss here. 1206 01:45:37,998 --> 01:45:39,932 I've never felt anything... 1207 01:45:40,000 --> 01:45:42,730 in my heart of hearts... 1208 01:45:42,803 --> 01:45:45,169 for all those white children. 1209 01:45:45,238 --> 01:45:48,696 This may be only of the moment. 1210 01:45:50,043 --> 01:45:54,036 No, I can go. I shall go. 1211 01:45:54,114 --> 01:45:57,606 My book--our book-- will provide something. 1212 01:45:57,684 --> 01:45:59,083 More can be earned. 1213 01:45:59,152 --> 01:46:01,916 I've sold my book. 1214 01:46:01,988 --> 01:46:05,389 Your book? 1215 01:46:05,459 --> 01:46:07,689 Yes. I told you I was preparing... 1216 01:46:07,761 --> 01:46:09,956 a book of drawings and writings... 1217 01:46:10,030 --> 01:46:14,660 integrating the insect realm with fairy tales. 1218 01:46:14,735 --> 01:46:16,430 When did you write it? 1219 01:46:16,503 --> 01:46:18,801 Why didn't you tell me? 1220 01:46:21,475 --> 01:46:24,410 I wrote it here. 1221 01:46:24,478 --> 01:46:25,672 I had to do it alone. 1222 01:46:25,746 --> 01:46:29,409 I had to do something that would be mine. 1223 01:46:29,483 --> 01:46:32,452 All my life, I've worked for others for their good. 1224 01:46:34,488 --> 01:46:37,013 Everything I had, even this... 1225 01:46:37,090 --> 01:46:41,049 could be taken away from me on someone else's whim. 1226 01:46:41,128 --> 01:46:44,427 My book was my secret... 1227 01:46:44,498 --> 01:46:47,626 just as now it's my gift. 1228 01:46:47,701 --> 01:46:50,795 You are not offering... 1229 01:46:50,871 --> 01:46:52,930 I've taken certain steps... 1230 01:46:53,006 --> 01:46:55,304 entirely subject to your approval. 1231 01:46:59,012 --> 01:47:02,948 I have a banker's draft from Mr. John Marion, publisher... 1232 01:47:03,016 --> 01:47:04,244 which would be more than sufficient... 1233 01:47:04,317 --> 01:47:06,512 and a letter from Mr. Stevens... 1234 01:47:06,586 --> 01:47:09,578 offering to negotiate the sales of specimens as before... 1235 01:47:09,656 --> 01:47:11,453 and a letter from Captain Papagay... 1236 01:47:11,525 --> 01:47:13,993 who sails from Liverpool to Rio in a month. 1237 01:47:14,060 --> 01:47:16,051 He has two berths free. 1238 01:47:16,129 --> 01:47:17,892 You truly are a good fairy. 1239 01:47:17,964 --> 01:47:19,397 You wave your wand... 1240 01:47:19,466 --> 01:47:20,899 and I have everything I desire... 1241 01:47:20,967 --> 01:47:22,400 before I can think of desiring it. 1242 01:47:22,469 --> 01:47:25,404 I watch and contrive and write letters... 1243 01:47:25,472 --> 01:47:27,997 and consider your nature, and you do desire it. 1244 01:47:28,074 --> 01:47:29,905 You've just said so. 1245 01:47:29,976 --> 01:47:32,103 Two berths? 1246 01:47:35,816 --> 01:47:37,340 I would come with you. 1247 01:47:37,417 --> 01:47:39,908 You've filled me with a desire for paradisal places. 1248 01:47:39,986 --> 01:47:42,750 I shall not rest until I've seen the great river... 1249 01:47:42,823 --> 01:47:44,882 and felt the air of the tropics. 1250 01:47:44,958 --> 01:47:47,358 You cannot do that. 1251 01:47:47,427 --> 01:47:50,225 Think of the fever... 1252 01:47:50,297 --> 01:47:51,924 think of the terrible, biting creatures... 1253 01:47:51,998 --> 01:47:54,592 think of the monotonous, insufficient food... 1254 01:47:54,668 --> 01:47:57,432 of the rough men out there, the drunkenness. 1255 01:47:57,504 --> 01:47:59,438 Yet you will go there. 1256 01:47:59,506 --> 01:48:01,098 -I'm not a woman. -Oh, I am. 1257 01:48:01,174 --> 01:48:03,404 It's no place for a woman. 1258 01:48:03,477 --> 01:48:04,501 There are women there. 1259 01:48:04,578 --> 01:48:07,069 Yes, but not of your kind. 1260 01:48:07,147 --> 01:48:11,447 I don't think you know what kind of woman I am. 1261 01:48:11,518 --> 01:48:14,385 I don't think you know that I am a woman. 1262 01:48:18,992 --> 01:48:20,823 You've never seen me. 1263 01:48:20,894 --> 01:48:23,454 Why should that not continue as it is? 1264 01:48:23,530 --> 01:48:26,499 You have no idea who I am. 1265 01:48:26,566 --> 01:48:29,763 You have no idea even how old I am. 1266 01:48:29,836 --> 01:48:33,294 You think I am between 30 and 50. Confess it. 1267 01:48:33,373 --> 01:48:36,638 If you know so precisely what it is I think... 1268 01:48:36,710 --> 01:48:39,679 it's because you've meant me to think it. 1269 01:48:42,048 --> 01:48:44,482 All right, tell me. 1270 01:48:44,551 --> 01:48:47,520 Since you invite the question, how old are you? 1271 01:48:50,557 --> 01:48:53,526 I'm 27. 1272 01:48:55,061 --> 01:48:57,154 I've one life... 1273 01:48:57,230 --> 01:48:59,221 and 27 years of it have passed... 1274 01:48:59,299 --> 01:49:00,459 and I intend to begin living. 1275 01:49:00,534 --> 01:49:03,503 Not in the rain forest. Not in the Amazons. 1276 01:49:03,570 --> 01:49:05,265 The place is very much an inferno. 1277 01:49:05,338 --> 01:49:06,999 But you will go there. 1278 01:49:07,073 --> 01:49:08,506 My work is there, Matty. 1279 01:49:08,575 --> 01:49:09,769 I know how to live that life. 1280 01:49:09,843 --> 01:49:12,744 I can learn. I'm strong, resourceful. 1281 01:49:12,812 --> 01:49:16,646 I have not lived softly, contrary to appearances. 1282 01:49:16,716 --> 01:49:18,946 You need not heed me once the voyage is over. 1283 01:49:19,019 --> 01:49:19,986 It's a daydream. 1284 01:49:20,053 --> 01:49:21,179 It is what I will do! 1285 01:49:21,254 --> 01:49:22,812 Matty, Miss Crompton... 1286 01:49:22,889 --> 01:49:26,950 Up here, at night, there is no Matty. 1287 01:49:27,027 --> 01:49:29,427 My name is Matilda. 1288 01:49:37,037 --> 01:49:39,130 Look at me! 1289 01:49:41,541 --> 01:49:44,009 I have looked at you. 1290 01:50:02,062 --> 01:50:04,690 I've seen your wrists, Matilda. 1291 01:50:14,507 --> 01:50:18,273 I only wanted you to see me. 1292 01:50:18,345 --> 01:50:23,078 I don't think that was all you wanted. 1293 01:50:27,354 --> 01:50:29,481 Shall I stay here? 1294 01:50:31,524 --> 01:50:33,321 Or shall I go back now? 1295 01:50:38,031 --> 01:50:39,965 I should like you to stay... 1296 01:50:40,033 --> 01:50:41,728 but it's not very comfortable here. 1297 01:50:46,039 --> 01:50:51,306 If we are to travel together... 1298 01:50:51,378 --> 01:50:56,475 you'll find that we'll look back on this... 1299 01:50:56,549 --> 01:50:59,609 as a paradise of comfort. 1300 01:51:18,004 --> 01:51:21,940 So...you have decided. 1301 01:51:22,008 --> 01:51:23,839 What is to be my fate? 1302 01:51:23,910 --> 01:51:27,676 I must confess, I'm more interested in my own. 1303 01:51:29,516 --> 01:51:32,917 I've decided to leave you, Eugenia. 1304 01:51:32,986 --> 01:51:38,481 And...shall you speak to anyone? 1305 01:51:40,026 --> 01:51:43,427 Shall you tell? 1306 01:51:43,496 --> 01:51:46,954 Who can I tell, Eugenia... 1307 01:51:47,033 --> 01:51:51,197 whom I should not destroy in the telling? 1308 01:51:51,271 --> 01:51:53,466 You must live with yourself. 1309 01:51:53,540 --> 01:51:55,974 That's all I can say. 1310 01:51:56,042 --> 01:51:58,510 You must live with yourself. 1311 01:52:00,547 --> 01:52:03,516 I know it was bad. 1312 01:52:05,385 --> 01:52:08,980 I know it was bad... 1313 01:52:09,055 --> 01:52:13,992 but you must understand-- it didn't feel bad. 1314 01:52:14,060 --> 01:52:16,460 Breeders know even first-cousin marriages... 1315 01:52:16,529 --> 01:52:18,929 produce inherited defects, increase the likelihood-- 1316 01:52:18,998 --> 01:52:21,967 That is a cruel thing to say. 1317 01:52:35,749 --> 01:52:38,946 Morpho Eugenia... 1318 01:52:39,018 --> 01:52:41,282 you are very lovely. 1319 01:52:43,022 --> 01:52:46,856 It has not done me any good to look pretty... 1320 01:52:46,926 --> 01:52:48,826 to be admired. 1321 01:52:51,030 --> 01:52:53,658 I would like to be different. 1322 01:53:00,540 --> 01:53:05,910 Good-bye, Eugenia. I shall not return. 1323 01:54:01,668 --> 01:54:04,660 Be off. Come on.