1 00:00:55,090 --> 00:01:00,090 In the winter of 1924, I returned to England. 2 00:01:00,370 --> 00:01:02,730 Lady Marchmain had written to me in Paris 3 00:01:02,810 --> 00:01:04,640 to tell me that Sebastian would complete 4 00:01:04,690 --> 00:01:07,410 his tour with Mr Samgrass 5 00:01:07,570 --> 00:01:10,480 in time to spend Christmas with his family. 6 00:01:11,090 --> 00:01:13,080 She invited me to Brideshead. 7 00:01:15,090 --> 00:01:18,690 Christmas with my uncle, however, was an engagement I could not break. 8 00:01:19,090 --> 00:01:21,690 So it was two days later that I traveled across country 9 00:01:22,090 --> 00:01:25,690 expecting to find Sebastian already established. 10 00:01:47,130 --> 00:01:49,650 Thank you, thank you. And those two over there 11 00:01:49,690 --> 00:01:51,730 if you would be so kind 12 00:01:52,410 --> 00:01:54,050 o, no, those two over there. 13 00:01:55,170 --> 00:01:56,130 Thank you. 14 00:01:57,970 --> 00:02:01,360 Charles, Happy Christmas, or should I say Happy New Year? 15 00:02:01,410 --> 00:02:03,850 Happy New Year, Mr Samgrass. 16 00:02:04,210 --> 00:02:06,090 Sebastian, what are you doing on the train? 17 00:02:06,130 --> 00:02:09,040 I thought you were going to be home for Christmas. 18 00:02:09,090 --> 00:02:11,320 There was a delay. It was the luggage. 19 00:02:11,370 --> 00:02:14,330 Mr Atkinson at Cooks promised it would arrive by the 24th 20 00:02:14,370 --> 00:02:17,050 but unfortunately 21 00:02:17,210 --> 00:02:18,490 How was Egypt? 22 00:02:19,450 --> 00:02:21,120 I'll tell you later. 23 00:02:25,770 --> 00:02:28,890 This one is when we reached the top of the pass. 24 00:02:28,930 --> 00:02:31,000 We heard the galloping horses behind 25 00:02:31,050 --> 00:02:33,610 and two soldiers came to the head of the caravan 26 00:02:33,650 --> 00:02:36,120 and turned us back. 27 00:02:39,010 --> 00:02:43,240 There they are on the right. They reached us only just in time. 28 00:02:43,730 --> 00:02:46,040 There was a band not a mile ahead. 29 00:02:46,090 --> 00:02:46,920 A band? 30 00:02:47,490 --> 00:02:49,210 Goodness! A jazz band? 31 00:02:49,250 --> 00:02:50,890 Dear Lady Julia, no. 32 00:02:51,530 --> 00:02:55,450 I suppose the sort of folk-music you get in those parts is very monotonous. 33 00:02:55,490 --> 00:02:57,960 Dear Lady Marchmain, a band of brigands. 34 00:02:58,010 --> 00:03:01,240 The mountains are full of them. Stragglers from Kemal's army 35 00:03:01,290 --> 00:03:03,810 Greeks who got cut off in the retreat. 36 00:03:03,850 --> 00:03:06,320 Very desperate follows, I assure you. 37 00:03:06,410 --> 00:03:07,370 Charles. 38 00:03:07,690 --> 00:03:08,520 Do pinch me. 39 00:03:10,330 --> 00:03:12,970 So you never got to wherever it was. 40 00:03:14,530 --> 00:03:17,250 Weren't you terribly disappointed, Sebastian? 41 00:03:19,810 --> 00:03:22,960 Me? Me? Oh, I don't think I was there that day. 42 00:03:26,930 --> 00:03:30,240 Was I Sammy? That was the day you were ill. 43 00:03:31,650 --> 00:03:33,720 Yes, that was the day I was ill 44 00:03:34,930 --> 00:03:39,160 so I shouldn't have got to wherever it was. 45 00:03:40,250 --> 00:03:41,400 Should I, Sammy? 46 00:03:45,890 --> 00:03:46,850 Sorry. 47 00:03:51,170 --> 00:03:54,480 Now this, Lady Marchmain, was our Turkish cook 48 00:03:54,530 --> 00:03:57,440 Ali Torkut, that's him on the left. 49 00:04:01,370 --> 00:04:03,120 That's me at Damascus. 50 00:04:06,010 --> 00:04:09,610 That’s me with a rather tiresome Turkish. 51 00:04:19,250 --> 00:04:22,850 This is a group taken near Jericho, I think 52 00:04:25,210 --> 00:04:27,170 no Jerusalem. 53 00:04:27,370 --> 00:04:29,760 All ruins and mules and you. 54 00:04:31,690 --> 00:04:33,330 Where's Sebastian? 55 00:04:37,690 --> 00:04:39,280 Ah, he He held the camera. 56 00:04:39,330 --> 00:04:41,290 He became quite an expert as soon as he learned 57 00:04:41,330 --> 00:04:44,960 not to put his hand over the lens, didn't you, Sebastian? 58 00:04:57,090 --> 00:05:00,970 This is us, taken by a street photographer in Beirut. 59 00:05:01,490 --> 00:05:02,930 There's Sebastian. 60 00:05:03,370 --> 00:05:05,410 Goodness, isn't that Anthony Blanche? 61 00:05:05,450 --> 00:05:07,250 Yes, we saw quite a lot of him. 62 00:05:07,850 --> 00:05:09,680 Met him by chance at Constantinople. 63 00:05:09,730 --> 00:05:14,890 A delightful companion. I can't think how I missed knowing him. 64 00:05:17,730 --> 00:05:21,010 Here we are again, at Krak-des-Chevaliers. 65 00:05:21,050 --> 00:05:22,410 There's Anthony again! 66 00:05:22,450 --> 00:05:25,090 Yes, he came with us all the way to Beirut. 67 00:05:27,090 --> 00:05:29,080 Well, that's it, I'm afraid. 68 00:05:41,410 --> 00:05:43,160 Thank you, Mr Samgrass. 69 00:05:43,650 --> 00:05:46,800 It must have been a wonderful tour for you both. 70 00:05:46,850 --> 00:05:50,370 May I have a word with you, Bridey? Of course, mother. 71 00:06:09,850 --> 00:06:12,890 It must have been an extraordinary trip? 72 00:06:14,210 --> 00:06:15,120 Yes. 73 00:06:31,530 --> 00:06:33,120 Did you ride a camel? 74 00:06:38,090 --> 00:06:41,050 I don't know. Probably. 75 00:06:51,850 --> 00:06:54,690 Will you tell me about Paris, Charles? 76 00:06:56,170 --> 00:07:00,400 Well, it's not very exciting in comparison but it's going very well. 77 00:07:02,890 --> 00:07:05,570 When are you going to come and stay Sebastian? 78 00:07:06,730 --> 00:07:07,610 You'll like it. 79 00:07:10,370 --> 00:07:13,170 I suppose they all think you're wonderful over there? 80 00:07:14,170 --> 00:07:17,400 Well, it's amazing but I don't seem to have put a foot wrong. 81 00:07:18,210 --> 00:07:19,200 The teachers are very good. 82 00:07:19,250 --> 00:07:21,240 I'm not sure about the students. 83 00:07:21,290 --> 00:07:24,280 They never go near the Louvre. Half of them 84 00:07:24,330 --> 00:07:27,050 are only interested in making a popular splash like Picabia 85 00:07:27,090 --> 00:07:29,730 and the other half just want to do advertisements for Vogue 86 00:07:29,770 --> 00:07:31,810 and decorate night clubs. 87 00:07:31,850 --> 00:07:32,570 Charles 88 00:07:35,330 --> 00:07:38,010 Modern art is all bosh, isn't it? 89 00:07:38,050 --> 00:07:40,090 Great bosh, Cordelia. 90 00:07:40,450 --> 00:07:41,250 Oh, I am glad. 91 00:07:44,370 --> 00:07:48,410 Cordelia, why don't you run away and leave us in peace? 92 00:07:51,210 --> 00:07:54,050 Aren't you at all pleased to be home? 93 00:07:55,730 --> 00:07:57,250 Yes, of course I'm pleased. 94 00:07:59,850 --> 00:08:01,810 Well, you might show it. 95 00:08:02,570 --> 00:08:05,800 I've been looking forward to it so much. 96 00:08:16,970 --> 00:08:21,280 How extraordinary you running into Anthony Blanche. 97 00:08:21,330 --> 00:08:22,290 Yes, wasn't it? 98 00:08:24,890 --> 00:08:26,960 Dear old Antoine. 99 00:08:28,970 --> 00:08:31,040 Quite like old times. 100 00:08:31,890 --> 00:08:32,850 Excuse me, my lord. 101 00:08:40,850 --> 00:08:43,240 I say, where's the cocktail tray? 102 00:08:43,290 --> 00:08:47,290 Isn't it time they brought it in? It's still a bit early. 103 00:08:47,330 --> 00:08:51,410 Mr Wilcox is upstairs with Her Ladyship, my Lord. 104 00:08:51,450 --> 00:08:53,890 Well, never mind. Bring it in yourself. 105 00:08:53,930 --> 00:08:56,450 Mr Wilcox has the keys, my Lord. 106 00:08:56,490 --> 00:08:59,170 Well, send him in the moment he comes down. 107 00:09:00,890 --> 00:09:02,210 Very good, my Lord. 108 00:09:08,090 --> 00:09:11,640 Yes, extraordinary meeting Anthony like that. 109 00:09:14,690 --> 00:09:15,890 He’s very changed. 110 00:09:18,010 --> 00:09:19,890 You wouldn't have recognized him. 111 00:09:23,010 --> 00:09:27,770 He had grown a great beard in Istanbul. 112 00:09:33,890 --> 00:09:35,960 Where the hell is Wilcox? 113 00:09:40,570 --> 00:09:43,720 Very unbecoming and I made him shave it off. 114 00:09:53,570 --> 00:09:56,850 Well I don't think I want a cocktail, anyway. 115 00:10:00,130 --> 00:10:03,890 I'll go up and see anny and then I'll have my bath. 116 00:10:23,770 --> 00:10:28,160 Ah, Charles. Can you give me a moment? There's something I've got to explain. 117 00:10:28,810 --> 00:10:29,800 Of course. 118 00:10:30,530 --> 00:10:33,170 Mother's given orders that no drinks are to be left 119 00:10:33,210 --> 00:10:34,800 in any of the rooms. 120 00:10:34,850 --> 00:10:36,330 You'll understand why. 121 00:10:36,370 --> 00:10:38,840 If you want anything, ring and ask Wilcox 122 00:10:38,890 --> 00:10:41,280 only best wait until you're on your own. 123 00:10:41,330 --> 00:10:43,320 I'm sorry but there it is. 124 00:10:44,490 --> 00:10:48,010 Is that really necessary? I gather very necessary. 125 00:10:48,050 --> 00:10:49,330 You may or may not have heard 126 00:10:49,370 --> 00:10:53,080 Sebastian had another outbreak when he got back to England. 127 00:10:53,130 --> 00:10:58,410 He was lost over Christmas. Mr Samgrass only found him yesterday evening. 128 00:10:58,810 --> 00:11:01,610 I guessed something of the sort must have happened. 129 00:11:03,570 --> 00:11:06,210 Are you sure this is the best way of dealing with it? 130 00:11:06,250 --> 00:11:07,890 It's my mother's way. 131 00:11:08,450 --> 00:11:12,450 Oh, do have a drink yourself if you want now he's gone upstairs. 132 00:11:14,530 --> 00:11:15,970 It would choke me. 133 00:11:34,730 --> 00:11:38,930 Hello anny. I was looking for Sebastian. I thought he might be here. 134 00:11:39,370 --> 00:11:41,680 I told him he was looking peaky. 135 00:11:43,650 --> 00:11:47,730 All that foreign food I don't suppose it agreed with him. 136 00:11:48,170 --> 00:11:51,290 He looked as though he'd been having some late nights, too 137 00:11:51,330 --> 00:11:55,960 by the look of his eyes. Dancing, I suppose. 138 00:11:56,130 --> 00:11:58,280 And his shirt wanted darning. 139 00:11:59,770 --> 00:12:04,160 I told him to bring it here to me before it goes to the wash. 140 00:12:05,850 --> 00:12:06,970 Thank you, anny. 141 00:12:24,570 --> 00:12:25,560 Oh, it's you. 142 00:12:26,170 --> 00:12:27,400 You gave me a fright. 143 00:12:28,930 --> 00:12:32,530 So you got a drink. I don't know what you mean. 144 00:12:33,850 --> 00:12:35,970 Oh, come on, you don't have to pretend with me. 145 00:12:36,010 --> 00:12:37,290 You might offer me one. 146 00:12:40,330 --> 00:12:44,480 It's just a little something I had in my flask. It's empty now. 147 00:12:45,330 --> 00:12:46,970 What's going on? 148 00:12:48,090 --> 00:12:49,050 Nothing. 149 00:12:51,650 --> 00:12:52,560 A lot. 150 00:12:54,130 --> 00:12:55,800 I'll tell you sometime. 151 00:12:58,690 --> 00:13:01,210 Well, I'd better go and get changed. 152 00:13:07,570 --> 00:13:11,720 It is certainly true, Lady Marchmain, about the Levantine cuisine 153 00:13:11,770 --> 00:13:15,850 it can have the most alarming aspects for the uninitiated. 154 00:13:16,290 --> 00:13:18,850 When we were dining with the Patriarch at Trebizond 155 00:13:18,890 --> 00:13:22,730 we were offered that most special delicacy 156 00:13:23,410 --> 00:13:26,370 the eye of the sheep in a bed of cous cous. 157 00:13:26,410 --> 00:13:27,610 How very disgusting. 158 00:13:27,650 --> 00:13:31,960 Indeed, I was struggling to find my demotic Greek for 159 00:13:32,010 --> 00:13:36,210 I like sheep's eye but sheep's eye doesn't like me" 160 00:13:36,250 --> 00:13:40,130 You seem to have borne your hardships very well, Mr Samgrass. 161 00:13:40,170 --> 00:13:41,160 Yes. 162 00:13:43,690 --> 00:13:45,410 Who's hunting tomorrow? 163 00:13:45,450 --> 00:13:46,330 I am. 164 00:13:46,370 --> 00:13:48,360 I'm taking that horse of yours, Julia, if you don't mind. 165 00:13:48,410 --> 00:13:49,810 Just to show him to the hounds. 166 00:13:49,850 --> 00:13:52,810 That's all right I think Rex is arriving sometime tomorrow. 167 00:14:00,170 --> 00:14:03,010 I suppose I'd better stay and see him. 168 00:14:07,930 --> 00:14:09,520 Sorry. Bit late. 169 00:14:16,530 --> 00:14:19,600 I've promised an outing on Mr Beelzebub tomorrow. 170 00:14:19,650 --> 00:14:22,690 Really Cordelia, what an unfortunate name for a pony. 171 00:14:22,730 --> 00:14:24,960 You don't get the point, Mummy. 172 00:14:25,970 --> 00:14:29,520 Sister Bridget said that if you can ride the devil 173 00:14:29,570 --> 00:14:31,320 you can ride anything. 174 00:14:38,210 --> 00:14:39,960 Where is this meat? Is it here? 175 00:14:40,010 --> 00:14:40,890 Yes, it is. 176 00:14:43,530 --> 00:14:46,970 Well, if it's here, I'd like to hunt please. 177 00:14:47,090 --> 00:14:50,320 That's if there’s something for me. Of course. Be delighted. 178 00:14:50,370 --> 00:14:53,520 I would have asked you, Sebastian, but you always used to complain 179 00:14:53,570 --> 00:14:55,880 of being made to go out. 180 00:14:55,930 --> 00:14:59,930 Well, tomorrow I'd like to. It's perfectly simple, then. 181 00:15:00,210 --> 00:15:04,520 You can have Tinker bell, she's been going very nicely this season. 182 00:15:05,290 --> 00:15:06,250 o, thank you. 183 00:15:09,050 --> 00:15:10,450 I'll have whisky, please. 184 00:15:22,090 --> 00:15:24,400 I'm so glad you're going out tomorrow, Sebastian 185 00:15:24,450 --> 00:15:27,010 a day out will be so good for you. 186 00:15:27,850 --> 00:15:29,650 Mr Samgrass was telling me 187 00:15:29,690 --> 00:15:32,000 how you both stood up to the hardships of your journey together. 188 00:15:32,050 --> 00:15:35,520 I'd no idea you had to endure such discomfort. 189 00:15:35,570 --> 00:15:36,480 Has he? 190 00:15:37,250 --> 00:15:41,130 I was explaining about the time we were held at the Turkish border 191 00:15:41,170 --> 00:15:43,130 and had to share the guards' supper. 192 00:15:43,170 --> 00:15:44,210 Don't you remember? 193 00:15:47,770 --> 00:15:48,570 Yes, of course 194 00:15:50,690 --> 00:15:52,570 the guards' supper. 195 00:16:01,890 --> 00:16:04,170 Are we going to chapel tonight, Mummy? 196 00:16:04,210 --> 00:16:05,800 o, no. I don't think so. 197 00:16:07,210 --> 00:16:10,360 I think an early night will do us all good. 198 00:16:11,010 --> 00:16:14,320 Someone remind me to write out a note for the stables. 199 00:16:14,370 --> 00:16:17,600 I think Tinker bell will suit you very well, Sebastian. 200 00:16:20,650 --> 00:16:23,120 You won't let me down tomorrow, promise? 201 00:16:23,570 --> 00:16:25,480 You will try and look smart? 202 00:16:25,850 --> 00:16:26,810 Of course. 203 00:16:36,530 --> 00:16:39,890 I rather wish I was coming out with you tomorrow. 204 00:16:41,530 --> 00:16:43,360 You wouldn't see much sport. 205 00:16:48,930 --> 00:16:52,530 I can tell you exactly what I'm going to do. 206 00:16:53,970 --> 00:16:57,090 I shall leave Bridey at the first cover 207 00:16:59,130 --> 00:17:01,170 hack across to the nearest pub 208 00:17:02,690 --> 00:17:06,920 and spend the entire day quietly soaking in the bar parlour. 209 00:17:12,090 --> 00:17:14,080 If they treat me like a dipsomaniac, they can bloody well 210 00:17:14,170 --> 00:17:15,570 have a dipsomaniac. 211 00:17:18,890 --> 00:17:20,290 I hate hunting, anyway. 212 00:17:22,250 --> 00:17:23,690 Well, I can't stop you. 213 00:17:26,370 --> 00:17:28,120 You can, as a matter of fact. 214 00:17:30,890 --> 00:17:32,800 By not giving me any money. 215 00:17:36,330 --> 00:17:39,320 They stopped my banking account, you know, in the summer. 216 00:17:41,650 --> 00:17:44,040 It's been one of my chief difficulties. 217 00:17:46,530 --> 00:17:50,890 I pawned my watch and cigarette case to ensure a happy Christmas. 218 00:17:52,930 --> 00:17:57,160 So I shall have to come to you tomorrow for my day's expenses. 219 00:17:57,610 --> 00:17:58,520 I won't. 220 00:18:00,530 --> 00:18:02,600 You know perfectly well I can't. 221 00:18:04,010 --> 00:18:05,730 Won't you, Charles? 222 00:18:09,730 --> 00:18:12,850 Oh well, I daresay I shall manage on my own somehow. 223 00:18:14,210 --> 00:18:18,520 I've got pretty clever at that recently, managing on my own. 224 00:18:18,610 --> 00:18:20,130 I've had to. 225 00:18:20,170 --> 00:18:24,170 Sebastian, what have you and Mr Samgrass been up to? 226 00:18:25,210 --> 00:18:27,010 He told you at dinner. 227 00:18:29,050 --> 00:18:30,960 Ruins and guides 228 00:18:31,970 --> 00:18:32,960 and mules. 229 00:18:34,650 --> 00:18:37,120 That's what Sammy's been up to. 230 00:18:38,690 --> 00:18:39,650 And you? 231 00:18:43,530 --> 00:18:45,600 I suppose I may as well tell you 232 00:18:46,890 --> 00:18:49,280 since he unfortunately seems to have been very indiscreet 233 00:18:49,330 --> 00:18:52,010 about my happy Christmas. 234 00:18:52,330 --> 00:18:54,210 I gave Sammy the slip. 235 00:18:58,650 --> 00:19:00,370 I had begun to guess. 236 00:19:09,810 --> 00:19:13,250 I got lucky at cards in Constantinople 237 00:19:14,050 --> 00:19:18,050 and I was just enjoying a very happy hour in a bar 238 00:19:18,090 --> 00:19:21,610 when who should walk in, but Anthony Blanche 239 00:19:21,650 --> 00:19:25,010 with a beard, and a very pretty little Jew boy. 240 00:19:28,090 --> 00:19:30,560 Anthony lent me a tenner 241 00:19:30,930 --> 00:19:32,970 to help me escape 242 00:19:35,290 --> 00:19:39,600 just before Sammy came panting in to recapture me. 243 00:19:39,690 --> 00:19:42,410 After that he wouldn't let me out of his sight. 244 00:19:44,210 --> 00:19:48,090 But in Athens it was easy. We stayed in the Legation. 245 00:19:49,690 --> 00:19:52,730 One day after lunch I simply walked out 246 00:19:53,010 --> 00:19:55,050 cashed the money at Cooks 247 00:19:55,090 --> 00:19:58,530 found a sailor who spoke American 248 00:19:58,730 --> 00:20:00,400 lay up with him until his ship sailed 249 00:20:00,450 --> 00:20:02,890 and popped back to Constantinople and that was that. 250 00:20:02,930 --> 00:20:04,520 Didn't Sammy mind? 251 00:20:04,570 --> 00:20:07,930 He was a bit anxious at first. I didn't want him to get 252 00:20:07,970 --> 00:20:11,250 the entire Mediterranean Fleet out, so I cabled him saying 253 00:20:11,290 --> 00:20:14,130 that I am quite well and please send half our money 254 00:20:14,170 --> 00:20:16,930 to the Ottoman Bank and keep the rest for yourself. 255 00:20:16,970 --> 00:20:20,040 Poor old Sammy. Poor old Sammy. 256 00:20:21,490 --> 00:20:23,370 I almost feel sorry for him. 257 00:20:25,930 --> 00:20:28,400 In the end I think he quite enjoyed himself 258 00:20:28,650 --> 00:20:31,770 in his own ghastly little way. 259 00:20:33,330 --> 00:20:34,400 So here I am. 260 00:20:37,130 --> 00:20:38,720 After Christmas. 261 00:20:39,610 --> 00:20:40,520 Yes. 262 00:20:42,290 --> 00:20:44,970 I was determined to have a happy Christmas. 263 00:20:45,050 --> 00:20:47,120 Did you? I think so. 264 00:20:50,730 --> 00:20:54,610 I don't remember much about it. That's always a good sign, isn't it? 265 00:21:07,590 --> 00:21:08,420 Sebastian! 266 00:21:11,230 --> 00:21:12,060 Sebastian? 267 00:21:17,270 --> 00:21:20,500 You can't go dressed like that. Do go and change. 268 00:21:21,630 --> 00:21:24,270 You look so lovely in your hunting clothes. 269 00:21:24,310 --> 00:21:27,190 They're all locked away somewhere. Gibbs couldn't find them. 270 00:21:27,230 --> 00:21:29,510 That's a fib. I helped get them out myself 271 00:21:29,550 --> 00:21:31,670 before you were called. 272 00:21:32,590 --> 00:21:36,220 You promised me. There are all sorts of bits missing. 273 00:21:37,830 --> 00:21:41,620 Well, it just encourages the Strickland Venables. They've been 274 00:21:41,670 --> 00:21:45,430 behaving rottenly. They've even taken their grooms out of top hats. 275 00:23:04,710 --> 00:23:07,590 You see. They won't even trust me that far. 276 00:23:08,390 --> 00:23:10,190 It's they who are mad, not me. 277 00:23:10,230 --> 00:23:11,900 Good morning. 278 00:23:12,430 --> 00:23:14,790 Now you can't refuse me money. 279 00:23:22,630 --> 00:23:23,590 More! 280 00:23:42,670 --> 00:23:43,420 Sebastian! 281 00:23:44,470 --> 00:23:45,270 Lunch! 282 00:23:58,590 --> 00:24:00,310 Good morning, Sebastian. 283 00:24:12,710 --> 00:24:15,670 So, Sebastian is in pursuit of the fox 284 00:24:15,710 --> 00:24:19,790 and our little problem is shelved for an hour or two. 285 00:25:07,550 --> 00:25:10,070 I heard all about your Grand Tour, last night. 286 00:25:10,950 --> 00:25:13,710 Ah, I rather supposed you might have. 287 00:25:13,750 --> 00:25:16,350 I did not harrow our hostess with all that. 288 00:25:16,390 --> 00:25:18,950 After all, it turned out far better than 289 00:25:18,990 --> 00:25:20,790 anyone had any right to expect. 290 00:25:20,830 --> 00:25:24,140 I did feel, however, that some explanation was due to her 291 00:25:24,190 --> 00:25:26,910 for Sebastian's Christmas festivities. 292 00:25:26,950 --> 00:25:31,390 You may have observed last night that there were certain precautions. 293 00:25:31,430 --> 00:25:32,390 I did. 294 00:25:34,910 --> 00:25:37,380 You thought them excessive? 295 00:25:41,710 --> 00:25:43,030 I am with you. 296 00:25:43,390 --> 00:25:45,750 Particularly as they tend to compromise the comfort 297 00:25:45,790 --> 00:25:48,350 of our own little visit. 298 00:25:48,710 --> 00:25:51,390 I have seen Lady Marchmain this morning. 299 00:25:51,430 --> 00:25:53,990 You must not suppose I am just out of bed. 300 00:25:54,030 --> 00:25:57,500 I have had a little talk upstairs with our hostess. 301 00:25:57,550 --> 00:26:00,910 I think we may hope for some relaxation tonight. 302 00:26:00,950 --> 00:26:05,790 Yesterday was not an evening that any of us would wish to have repeated. 303 00:26:08,390 --> 00:26:12,350 I'm not sure that tonight is quite the time to start the relaxation. 304 00:26:12,390 --> 00:26:14,670 Sebastian can come to no mischief today. 305 00:26:14,710 --> 00:26:17,940 For one thing, he has no money, I happen to know. 306 00:26:17,990 --> 00:26:21,910 I saw to it. I even have his watch and cigarette case upstairs. 307 00:26:22,150 --> 00:26:23,470 He will be quite harmless. 308 00:26:25,550 --> 00:26:29,990 As long as no one is so wicked as to give him any. 309 00:27:50,150 --> 00:27:52,220 Don't you get bored with the subject? 310 00:27:56,070 --> 00:28:00,070 Why must everyone make such a thing about it? 311 00:28:00,110 --> 00:28:01,630 Because we're fond of him. 312 00:28:01,670 --> 00:28:03,110 Well, I'm fond of him too 313 00:28:03,150 --> 00:28:04,980 in a way, I suppose. 314 00:28:05,190 --> 00:28:08,180 Only I wish he'd behave like anyone else. 315 00:28:08,510 --> 00:28:11,190 I grew up with one family skeleton, you know Poppa. 316 00:28:11,310 --> 00:28:13,220 Not to be talked of in front of the servants 317 00:28:13,270 --> 00:28:17,390 not to be talked of in front of us when we were children. 318 00:28:18,030 --> 00:28:20,790 If Mummy is going to start making a skeleton out of Sebastian 319 00:28:20,830 --> 00:28:22,310 it's too much. 320 00:28:23,790 --> 00:28:26,830 If he wants to be always tight, why doesn't he go off to Kenya 321 00:28:26,870 --> 00:28:30,070 or somewhere, where it doesn't matter? 322 00:28:30,990 --> 00:28:33,110 Why does it matter less being unhappy in Kenya 323 00:28:33,150 --> 00:28:34,820 than anywhere else? 324 00:28:35,030 --> 00:28:37,420 Don't pretend to be stupid, Charles. 325 00:28:39,990 --> 00:28:42,270 You understand perfectly. 326 00:28:43,110 --> 00:28:47,660 You mean there won't be so many embarrassing situations for you? 327 00:29:58,550 --> 00:30:01,070 When do you go to Paris, Charles? 328 00:30:01,230 --> 00:30:02,590 In about a month. 329 00:30:06,510 --> 00:30:09,350 I think I'm beginning to miss it. 330 00:30:12,870 --> 00:30:17,310 Now I have got a new studio on the Ile St Louis. 331 00:30:17,630 --> 00:30:20,990 It's up about six flights of stairs but 332 00:30:21,030 --> 00:30:23,340 there's a wonderful view. 333 00:30:24,950 --> 00:30:27,230 The light's quite different in Paris. 334 00:30:28,550 --> 00:30:32,020 I love that part, the river and otre Dame. 335 00:30:33,750 --> 00:30:35,390 You must be happy there. 336 00:30:37,310 --> 00:30:41,350 I'm hoping Sebastian will come and stay with me when I go back. 337 00:30:41,390 --> 00:30:43,430 That would have been lovely, Charles. 338 00:30:48,950 --> 00:30:51,990 I hope he will be coming to stay with me in London. 339 00:30:53,350 --> 00:30:55,070 You know that's impossible. 340 00:30:57,830 --> 00:31:00,430 London is the worst place. 341 00:31:00,590 --> 00:31:04,350 Even Mr Samgrass couldn't find him there. 342 00:31:05,550 --> 00:31:08,070 We have no secrets in this house. 343 00:31:10,270 --> 00:31:13,900 He was lost, you know, all through Christmas. 344 00:31:15,830 --> 00:31:18,190 Mr Samgrass only found him because he couldn't pay 345 00:31:18,230 --> 00:31:22,700 the bill where he was, so they had to telephone our house. 346 00:31:22,750 --> 00:31:23,660 It's too horrible. 347 00:31:25,190 --> 00:31:29,820 o, London is impossible. If he can't behave himself here with us 348 00:31:33,150 --> 00:31:37,150 we shall have to keep him healthy and happy here for a while 349 00:31:37,790 --> 00:31:41,830 and then send him abroad again with Mr Samgrass. 350 00:31:43,190 --> 00:31:45,830 You see, I've been through all this before. 351 00:31:51,270 --> 00:31:54,180 I hope he's having a good day. 352 00:32:04,150 --> 00:32:08,860 The retort was there. Unspoken, well understood by both of us. 353 00:32:08,910 --> 00:32:11,950 You couldn't keep your husband, he ran away. 354 00:32:12,110 --> 00:32:16,110 So will Sebastian, because they both hate you. 355 00:32:19,150 --> 00:32:21,110 Thus, with Julia and Lady Marchmain 356 00:32:21,150 --> 00:32:23,540 I reached deadlock. 357 00:32:23,590 --> 00:32:26,190 Not because we failed to understand one another 358 00:32:26,230 --> 00:32:29,700 but because we understood too well. 359 00:32:30,590 --> 00:32:33,950 The subject was everywhere in the house 360 00:32:33,990 --> 00:32:36,750 like a fire deep in the hold of a ship. 361 00:32:36,790 --> 00:32:39,550 And you think you can find a reference? 362 00:32:39,590 --> 00:32:40,910 Yes, I do. 363 00:32:49,470 --> 00:32:52,540 Mummy, do look at Rex's Christmas present. 364 00:32:56,710 --> 00:32:57,510 Hello, Rex. 365 00:33:00,910 --> 00:33:03,470 Mr Mottram. Hello, Samgrass. 366 00:33:17,750 --> 00:33:18,500 Dear me 367 00:33:20,910 --> 00:33:25,220 I wonder if it eats the same kinds of things as an ordinary tortoise? 368 00:33:25,270 --> 00:33:27,500 What will you do when it's dead? 369 00:33:28,190 --> 00:33:31,420 Can you have another tortoise fitted into the shell? 370 00:33:32,390 --> 00:33:34,220 This slightly obscene object 371 00:33:34,270 --> 00:33:37,150 became a memorable part of the evening. 372 00:33:37,190 --> 00:33:40,660 One of those needle-hooks of experience which catch the attention 373 00:33:40,710 --> 00:33:43,020 when larger matters are at stake 374 00:33:43,070 --> 00:33:46,220 and remain in the mind when they are forgotten 375 00:33:46,270 --> 00:33:50,630 so that years later it is a bit of gilding, or a certain smell 376 00:33:50,670 --> 00:33:54,980 or the tone of a clock ticking, which recall one to a tragedy. 377 00:33:56,070 --> 00:33:58,030 I hope it's dipsomania. 378 00:33:58,350 --> 00:34:01,950 That's simply a great misfortune we must all help him bear. 379 00:34:04,230 --> 00:34:07,670 What I used to fear was that he just got drunk deliberately 380 00:34:07,710 --> 00:34:10,100 when he liked and because he liked. 381 00:34:10,150 --> 00:34:13,300 But that's exactly what he did, that's what we both did. 382 00:34:13,350 --> 00:34:15,630 It's what he does with me now. 383 00:34:15,950 --> 00:34:19,340 I can keep him to that if only your mother would trust me. 384 00:34:19,390 --> 00:34:21,510 If you worry him with keepers and cures 385 00:34:21,550 --> 00:34:23,590 he'll be a physical wreck in a few years. 386 00:34:24,430 --> 00:34:27,070 There's nothing wrong with being a physical wreck, you know? 387 00:34:27,110 --> 00:34:29,500 There's no moral obligation to become 388 00:34:29,550 --> 00:34:32,230 Master of Foxhounds or Postmaster General 389 00:34:32,270 --> 00:34:34,910 or to live to walk ten miles at eighty. 390 00:34:34,950 --> 00:34:38,070 Wrong, moral obligation Now you're back on religion. 391 00:34:38,110 --> 00:34:39,590 I never left it. 392 00:34:41,070 --> 00:34:45,190 Do you know, Bridey? If ever I thought about becoming a Catholic 393 00:34:45,270 --> 00:34:46,910 I'd only have to talk to you for five minutes 394 00:34:46,950 --> 00:34:48,510 to be cured. 395 00:34:48,950 --> 00:34:50,830 You manage to reduce what seem quite sensible propositions 396 00:34:50,870 --> 00:34:52,780 into stark nonsense. 397 00:34:52,830 --> 00:34:56,380 It's odd you should say that. I've heard it before from other people. 398 00:34:56,470 --> 00:34:58,140 It's one of the reasons why I don't think I should have made 399 00:34:58,190 --> 00:34:59,470 a good priest. 400 00:34:59,510 --> 00:35:03,590 It's something in the way my mind works, I suppose. 401 00:35:18,350 --> 00:35:22,900 Send him to Borethus in Zurich. Borethus is the man. 402 00:35:25,750 --> 00:35:29,220 He performs miracles every day at that Sanatorium of his. 403 00:35:30,950 --> 00:35:33,990 You know how Charlie Kilcartney used to drink 404 00:35:35,150 --> 00:35:39,230 o. o, I'm afraid I don't know how Charlie Kilcartney drank. 405 00:35:39,270 --> 00:35:41,260 Two wives despaired of him. 406 00:35:42,190 --> 00:35:44,230 When he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that 407 00:35:44,270 --> 00:35:46,870 he go to Zurich and take the cure. And it worked. 408 00:35:46,910 --> 00:35:49,380 He came back three months later a different man. 409 00:35:49,430 --> 00:35:52,790 And he hasn't touched a drop since, even though Sylvia walked out on him. 410 00:35:52,830 --> 00:35:54,150 Why did she do that? 411 00:35:54,590 --> 00:35:55,550 Well 412 00:35:56,670 --> 00:35:58,980 Charlie got to be a bit of a bore when he stopped drinking. 413 00:35:59,030 --> 00:36:01,390 But that's not the point of the story. 414 00:36:01,950 --> 00:36:05,830 o, I suppose, really it's meant to be an encouraging story. 415 00:36:06,510 --> 00:36:09,230 He takes sex cases too, you know. 416 00:36:09,790 --> 00:36:13,500 Oh dear, what very peculiar friends poor Sebastian will make in Zurich. 417 00:36:13,550 --> 00:36:16,670 He's booked up for months ahead 418 00:36:16,710 --> 00:36:19,310 but I think he might find room if I asked him. 419 00:36:19,350 --> 00:36:21,550 I could telephone him from here tonight. 420 00:36:22,550 --> 00:36:24,590 I'll think about it. Fine. 421 00:36:26,950 --> 00:36:27,860 Hello. 422 00:36:34,310 --> 00:36:36,590 Hello Rex. Hi, Cordelia. 423 00:36:38,630 --> 00:36:41,350 Oh Julia, what's that? How beastly. 424 00:36:43,390 --> 00:36:45,990 It's my Christmas present from Rex. 425 00:36:46,270 --> 00:36:49,710 Oh, I'm sorry. I'm always putting my foot in it. 426 00:36:49,910 --> 00:36:52,820 But how cruel. It must hurt frightfully. 427 00:36:52,870 --> 00:36:53,910 They can't feel. 428 00:36:54,910 --> 00:36:57,300 How do you know? I bet they can. 429 00:37:02,590 --> 00:37:05,150 I've already had one tea at Mrs. Barney's 430 00:37:05,690 --> 00:37:07,280 but I'm still hungry. 431 00:37:07,850 --> 00:37:09,730 It was a spiffing day. 432 00:37:10,130 --> 00:37:13,200 You should have seen Jean Strickland-Venables when 433 00:37:13,250 --> 00:37:15,610 she fell off in the mud. 434 00:37:16,390 --> 00:37:18,030 Where's Sebastian? 435 00:37:19,310 --> 00:37:23,190 He's in disgrace. Coming out in that beastly 436 00:37:24,230 --> 00:37:26,140 rat-catcher's coat and that mean little tie 437 00:37:26,190 --> 00:37:30,710 like something from Captain Morvin's Riding Academy. 438 00:37:30,750 --> 00:37:33,670 I just didn't recognize him in the meet 439 00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:34,660 and I hope nobody else did. 440 00:37:39,190 --> 00:37:40,830 Why? Isn't he back yet? 441 00:37:42,550 --> 00:37:44,860 I expect he got lost. 442 00:37:49,910 --> 00:37:51,390 Poor little thing 443 00:37:54,430 --> 00:37:56,100 and that horrid tortoise. 444 00:37:56,670 --> 00:37:57,870 Lady? 445 00:38:06,310 --> 00:38:08,620 Did I hear Lord Sebastian come back, Wilcox? 446 00:38:08,670 --> 00:38:10,550 Yes, my Lady. He's just arrived. 447 00:38:11,390 --> 00:38:12,750 He rang up from South Twining to be collected. 448 00:38:12,790 --> 00:38:15,670 He must have stopped for tea with someone. 449 00:38:15,710 --> 00:38:17,700 South Twining? Who lives there? 450 00:38:17,750 --> 00:38:20,390 He spoke from a hotel, my Lady. 451 00:38:20,430 --> 00:38:23,340 South Twining? Goodness, he did get lost! 452 00:38:23,390 --> 00:38:24,540 Thank you, Wilcox. 453 00:38:38,470 --> 00:38:42,230 Dear boy, how nice to see you looking so well again. 454 00:38:42,270 --> 00:38:43,990 Your day in the open has done you good. 455 00:38:44,030 --> 00:38:47,710 The drinks are on the table, do help yourself. 456 00:38:48,110 --> 00:38:49,430 Thank you, I will. 457 00:38:52,750 --> 00:38:53,950 There was nothing unusual in her speech 458 00:38:53,990 --> 00:38:56,460 but the fact of her saying it. 459 00:38:56,510 --> 00:39:00,110 Six months ago it would not have been said. 460 00:39:15,950 --> 00:39:17,990 That horse of yours, Bridey 461 00:39:20,870 --> 00:39:22,620 It's no damned use 462 00:39:28,310 --> 00:39:30,270 Couldn't get it over a molehill 463 00:39:36,390 --> 00:39:40,100 How do you expect me to keep up with the rests of the field 464 00:39:40,150 --> 00:39:41,190 even if I wanted to? 465 00:39:43,790 --> 00:39:45,940 Don't sit too long, Bridey. 466 00:40:09,550 --> 00:40:12,750 Shall I serve the port, my Lord? Yes, thank you. 467 00:40:34,910 --> 00:40:36,550 Charles, you saw it. 468 00:40:39,430 --> 00:40:42,340 You saw how pathetic it was 469 00:40:46,190 --> 00:40:47,590 you saw it. 470 00:40:51,150 --> 00:40:55,070 A blow, expected, repeated, falling on a bruise 471 00:40:57,110 --> 00:41:01,900 with no smart or shock of surprise, only a dull and sickening pain 472 00:41:02,590 --> 00:41:05,470 and the doubt whether another like it could be borne. 473 00:41:09,110 --> 00:41:11,260 That was how it felt sitting opposite Sebastian 474 00:41:11,310 --> 00:41:13,950 at dinner that night. 475 00:41:27,990 --> 00:41:31,540 You'd best go to bed, Sebastian. 476 00:41:32,510 --> 00:41:33,950 Have some port first. 477 00:41:45,390 --> 00:41:50,100 Have some port if you want it. But don't come into the drawing room. 478 00:41:54,070 --> 00:41:55,660 Too bloody drunk! 479 00:41:57,910 --> 00:42:00,270 Like golden times. 480 00:42:06,470 --> 00:42:08,300 Gentlemen always too drunk 481 00:42:09,470 --> 00:42:12,380 join ladies in olden times. 482 00:42:14,150 --> 00:42:15,350 April 26. 483 00:42:16,190 --> 00:42:17,860 Got some more red enamel paint 484 00:42:17,910 --> 00:42:20,030 red to my mind, being the best colour 485 00:42:20,070 --> 00:42:24,030 and painted the coal scuttle, and the backs of our Shakespeare 486 00:42:24,070 --> 00:42:27,350 the binding of which had almost worn out. 487 00:42:28,750 --> 00:42:30,500 Sebastian's gone to bed. 488 00:42:30,550 --> 00:42:33,910 I think we should go too. Cordelia? Julia? 489 00:42:34,630 --> 00:42:37,670 Oh, not just yet, Mummy. I'm staying up for a little. 490 00:42:37,710 --> 00:42:40,620 Come up and see me before you go to bed. 491 00:42:40,670 --> 00:42:41,900 I shan't be asleep. 492 00:42:41,950 --> 00:42:43,590 Goodnight, Rex. Goodnight Lady Marchmain. 493 00:42:43,630 --> 00:42:44,300 Goodnight Mother. 494 00:42:44,350 --> 00:42:45,310 Goodnight. 495 00:42:45,350 --> 00:42:47,630 Ah, Lady Marchmain, thank you for reading so delightfully. 496 00:42:47,670 --> 00:42:49,870 Goodnight, Mr Samgrass. 497 00:42:49,910 --> 00:42:51,470 Goodnight Charles. Goodnight Lady Marchmain. 498 00:42:51,510 --> 00:42:54,470 Goodnight Charles. Goodnight Cordelia. 499 00:42:54,510 --> 00:42:56,710 Mr Samgrass, are you coming? 500 00:42:57,590 --> 00:42:59,340 Oh yes, indeed. I'm more than ready. 501 00:43:01,990 --> 00:43:03,060 Goodnight. 502 00:43:05,190 --> 00:43:06,260 Goodnight. 503 00:43:06,590 --> 00:43:09,060 Goodnight. Goodnight. 504 00:44:16,830 --> 00:44:18,580 You're packing, Charles. 505 00:44:20,070 --> 00:44:20,870 What's happening? 506 00:44:22,990 --> 00:44:23,900 I'm going. 507 00:44:30,990 --> 00:44:31,870 Tell me honestly 508 00:44:34,030 --> 00:44:36,630 you don't want me to stay, do you? 509 00:44:40,190 --> 00:44:42,710 o, Charles. I don't believe I do. 510 00:44:49,310 --> 00:44:50,950 I'm no help, am I? 511 00:44:56,870 --> 00:44:57,940 o help. 512 00:45:13,950 --> 00:45:16,230 I'd better go and say goodbye to your mother. 513 00:45:34,190 --> 00:45:37,710 The problem is I've got a tremendous amount of work 514 00:45:37,750 --> 00:45:40,660 to get done before I go back to Paris. 515 00:45:43,150 --> 00:45:46,700 I'm sorry I'm not able to stay as long as I'd hoped 516 00:45:46,750 --> 00:45:50,270 And I hope you'll forgive me rushing off like this 517 00:45:50,310 --> 00:45:52,540 Well, then it's goodbye, Charles. 518 00:45:53,670 --> 00:45:55,310 Goodbye, Lady Marchmain 519 00:45:55,750 --> 00:45:58,550 and thank you very much for having me to stay. 520 00:45:58,630 --> 00:46:01,430 Charles, there's something I must ask you. 521 00:46:08,830 --> 00:46:11,430 Did you give Sebastian money yesterday? 522 00:46:12,710 --> 00:46:13,620 Yes. 523 00:46:14,150 --> 00:46:16,990 Knowing how he was likely to spend it? 524 00:46:18,950 --> 00:46:19,860 Yes. 525 00:46:22,230 --> 00:46:24,590 I don't understand it. I simply don't understand how anyone 526 00:46:24,630 --> 00:46:27,940 could do something so callously wicked. 527 00:46:31,070 --> 00:46:32,820 I'm not going to reproach you. 528 00:46:33,990 --> 00:46:37,220 God knows it's not for me to reproach anyone. 529 00:46:37,270 --> 00:46:40,420 Any failure in my children is my failure. 530 00:46:41,030 --> 00:46:42,910 But I don't understand it. 531 00:46:44,710 --> 00:46:46,860 I don't understand how you could have been so nice 532 00:46:46,910 --> 00:46:48,500 in so many ways 533 00:46:49,150 --> 00:46:52,380 and then do something so wantonly cruel. 534 00:46:52,790 --> 00:46:56,180 I don't understand how we all liked you so much. 535 00:46:56,230 --> 00:46:58,830 Did you hate us all the time? 536 00:46:59,790 --> 00:47:02,830 I don't understand how we deserved it. 537 00:47:11,070 --> 00:47:12,060 Goodbye. 538 00:47:24,870 --> 00:47:26,350 I remained unmoved. 539 00:47:27,550 --> 00:47:32,100 There was no part of me remotely touched by her distress. 540 00:47:32,230 --> 00:47:33,510 It was as I had often imagined 541 00:47:33,550 --> 00:47:38,390 being expelled from school. I almost expected to hear her say: 542 00:47:38,990 --> 00:47:42,700 I have already written to inform your unhappy father" 543 00:47:42,750 --> 00:47:44,230 But, as I drove away 544 00:47:45,910 --> 00:47:50,220 I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind 545 00:47:50,590 --> 00:47:54,270 and that wherever I went afterwards, I should feel the lack of it 546 00:47:55,030 --> 00:47:57,500 and search for it hopelessly 547 00:47:58,950 --> 00:48:01,940 as ghosts are said to do. 548 00:48:08,070 --> 00:48:13,310 I shall never go back, I said to myself. A door had shut. 549 00:48:13,990 --> 00:48:16,350 The low door in the wall I had sought and found 550 00:48:16,390 --> 00:48:17,140 at Oxford. 551 00:48:18,390 --> 00:48:22,910 Open it now and I should find no enchanted garden. 552 00:48:23,070 --> 00:48:24,470 I had come to the surface 553 00:48:24,510 --> 00:48:27,790 into the light of common day after a long captivity 554 00:48:27,830 --> 00:48:31,060 in the sunless coral palaces and waving forests 555 00:48:31,110 --> 00:48:33,070 of the ocean bed. 556 00:48:34,390 --> 00:48:37,830 I have left behind illusion, I said to myself: 557 00:48:38,710 --> 00:48:42,310 Henceforth, I live in a world of three dimensions 558 00:48:42,350 --> 00:48:45,340 with the aid of my five senses. 559 00:48:46,150 --> 00:48:49,700 I have since learned that there is no such world. 560 00:48:49,750 --> 00:48:53,590 But then, as the car turned out of sight of the house 561 00:48:53,630 --> 00:48:57,230 I thought it took no finding but lay all about me 562 00:48:57,310 --> 00:48:59,380 at the end of the avenue. 563