1 00:02:47,252 --> 00:02:49,337 - Now, now, Charles, that's not being chivalrous. 2 00:02:49,546 --> 00:02:50,746 - And don't worry, Mr. Wilcox. 3 00:02:50,839 --> 00:02:52,399 There's no place in this game for chivalry. 4 00:02:52,423 --> 00:02:56,177 It tends to bring out the animal in all of us. 5 00:02:58,680 --> 00:02:59,889 Evie, not fair! 6 00:04:27,936 --> 00:04:30,688 - "Dearest Meg, I'm having a glorious time. 7 00:04:30,897 --> 00:04:32,023 "I like them all. 8 00:04:32,231 --> 00:04:33,900 "They are the very happiest, jolliest 9 00:04:34,108 --> 00:04:35,652 "family that you could imagine. 10 00:04:35,860 --> 00:04:37,946 "The fun of it is that they think me a noodle 11 00:04:38,154 --> 00:04:42,158 "and say so, at least Ms. Wilcox does. 12 00:04:42,367 --> 00:04:44,494 "Oh, Meg, shall we ever learn to talk less? 13 00:04:44,702 --> 00:04:48,581 "Oh, but, Meg, Meg, dearest, dearest Meg, 14 00:04:48,790 --> 00:04:52,293 "I don't know what to say or what you will say. 15 00:04:52,502 --> 00:04:54,420 "Paul Wilcox and I are in love. 16 00:04:54,629 --> 00:04:55,880 "We are engaged." 17 00:04:58,883 --> 00:04:59,467 Annie. 18 00:04:59,676 --> 00:05:02,470 - Well, you Schlegel girls. 19 00:05:02,679 --> 00:05:03,930 - Tibby, look. 20 00:05:04,138 --> 00:05:07,809 - Margaret, if I may interfere, what on earth is going on? 21 00:05:08,017 --> 00:05:10,311 - I can tell you nothing, Aunt Juley. 22 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,231 I know no more than you do. 23 00:05:13,439 --> 00:05:15,817 We only met the Wilcoxes last spring 24 00:05:16,025 --> 00:05:17,819 while we were hiking in Germany. 25 00:05:18,027 --> 00:05:19,612 - Oh, dear. 26 00:05:19,821 --> 00:05:21,239 Obviously, someone must go down to 27 00:05:21,447 --> 00:05:22,927 this Howards House and make inquiries. 28 00:05:23,116 --> 00:05:24,116 - Howards End. 29 00:05:24,283 --> 00:05:25,910 - No, Margaret, inquiries are necessary. 30 00:05:26,119 --> 00:05:27,578 What do we know about these Wilcoxes? 31 00:05:27,787 --> 00:05:28,579 Are they our sort? 32 00:05:28,788 --> 00:05:30,832 Are they likely people? 33 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,085 - But Aunt Juley, what does it matter? 34 00:05:34,293 --> 00:05:36,212 Helen's in love. 35 00:05:36,421 --> 00:05:38,548 That's all I need to know. 36 00:05:40,216 --> 00:05:42,593 - Would you please get me a train timetable, dear? 37 00:06:01,070 --> 00:06:02,070 - Morning. 38 00:06:02,196 --> 00:06:03,196 - Morning. 39 00:06:07,243 --> 00:06:08,243 - Paul? 40 00:06:12,498 --> 00:06:15,001 - I'm afraid Crane has reported sick again. 41 00:06:15,209 --> 00:06:16,335 - But he was to take me 42 00:06:16,544 --> 00:06:17,771 to the Warringtons today for tennis. 43 00:06:17,795 --> 00:06:19,047 I told him. 44 00:06:19,255 --> 00:06:21,507 - Probably shamming, of course. 45 00:06:21,716 --> 00:06:22,818 You should get rid of him, Father. 46 00:06:22,842 --> 00:06:23,842 Hire a new chauffeur. 47 00:06:26,596 --> 00:06:28,598 Mother, we're off, goodbye. 48 00:06:28,806 --> 00:06:30,892 - But Charlie, Charlie, wait, wait! 49 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:31,684 - What? 50 00:06:31,893 --> 00:06:32,894 - Is Papa there? 51 00:06:33,102 --> 00:06:34,353 Wait a minute. 52 00:06:34,562 --> 00:06:36,522 We've got some cherries. 53 00:06:48,451 --> 00:06:49,451 Evie. 54 00:06:50,828 --> 00:06:52,914 - All right, we're off! 55 00:06:53,122 --> 00:06:54,122 - Bye-bye. 56 00:06:58,836 --> 00:06:59,837 - About last night. 57 00:07:00,046 --> 00:07:01,631 - Nothing happened. 58 00:07:03,633 --> 00:07:04,818 - I'm afraid I lost my head, rather. 59 00:07:04,842 --> 00:07:06,427 - Yes, we both did. 60 00:07:06,636 --> 00:07:10,431 It must have been the moonlight, except there was no moon. 61 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:12,892 Well, that's quite all right. 62 00:07:15,436 --> 00:07:16,729 - Do you mind? 63 00:07:16,938 --> 00:07:17,938 - No. 64 00:07:24,278 --> 00:07:25,655 - You see, I've no money of my own, 65 00:07:25,863 --> 00:07:29,534 and I still have to make my way in Nigeria. 66 00:07:29,742 --> 00:07:31,136 It's beastly out there for a white woman, 67 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:36,165 what with the climate and the natives and all that. 68 00:07:36,374 --> 00:07:37,851 I say, I do think you're a ripping girl. 69 00:07:37,875 --> 00:07:39,252 - It's quite all right. 70 00:07:39,460 --> 00:07:41,212 No one knows about it. 71 00:07:42,672 --> 00:07:44,132 Meg, I wrote to my sister. 72 00:07:44,340 --> 00:07:45,508 - Oh no, you didn't. 73 00:07:45,716 --> 00:07:46,717 - Yes, I'm sorry. 74 00:07:46,926 --> 00:07:48,177 Look, she's sure to come down. 75 00:07:48,386 --> 00:07:49,595 We must stop her. 76 00:07:49,804 --> 00:07:51,031 - We'll have to send a telegram. 77 00:07:51,055 --> 00:07:52,098 Oh, Crane's off sick. 78 00:07:52,306 --> 00:07:53,599 - Isn't there a bicycle? 79 00:07:53,808 --> 00:07:55,601 - Oh yes, there is, somewhere. 80 00:08:05,027 --> 00:08:05,736 - That will be one 81 00:08:05,945 --> 00:08:08,072 and threepence, halfpenny, sir. 82 00:08:08,281 --> 00:08:12,410 - M.J. Schlegel, Six Wickham Place, London, West. 83 00:08:14,036 --> 00:08:15,413 Dear Meg, all over. 84 00:08:16,622 --> 00:08:17,957 Wish I'd never written. 85 00:08:18,166 --> 00:08:19,834 Tell no one, Helen. 86 00:08:46,110 --> 00:08:49,071 - Excuse me, I'm looking for somewhere called Howards House. 87 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:50,364 - My parcel? 88 00:08:50,573 --> 00:08:51,908 - The porter has it. 89 00:08:52,116 --> 00:08:55,870 - Mr. Wilcox, this lady wants Howards End. 90 00:08:56,078 --> 00:08:57,455 - Forgive my asking, are you the 91 00:08:57,663 --> 00:09:00,249 younger Mr. Wilcox or the elder? 92 00:09:00,458 --> 00:09:01,834 - The younger, ah. 93 00:09:03,002 --> 00:09:04,420 This station's abominably organized. 94 00:09:04,629 --> 00:09:06,356 If I had my way, the whole lot of them should get the sack. 95 00:09:06,380 --> 00:09:07,089 Thank you. Bernard. 96 00:09:07,298 --> 00:09:08,758 - Thank you. Sir. 97 00:09:08,966 --> 00:09:10,760 - Perhaps I should introduce myself. 98 00:09:10,968 --> 00:09:12,720 I am Ms. Schlegel's aunt. 99 00:09:12,929 --> 00:09:14,929 - Oh, rather, yes, Ms. Schlegel's stopping with us. 100 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:16,766 Do you want to see her? 101 00:09:16,974 --> 00:09:17,993 - Well, that would be very nice, yes. 102 00:09:18,017 --> 00:09:20,519 - I could run you up in the motor. 103 00:09:27,318 --> 00:09:30,196 - All the Schlegels are exceptional. 104 00:09:30,404 --> 00:09:32,124 They are, of course, British to the backbone 105 00:09:32,323 --> 00:09:35,243 but their father was German, and that is why 106 00:09:35,451 --> 00:09:38,829 they care for literature and art. 107 00:09:39,038 --> 00:09:40,331 - Just one minute. 108 00:09:44,794 --> 00:09:46,254 Wilcox, Howards End. 109 00:09:46,462 --> 00:09:47,782 - I'd like you to know that I come 110 00:09:47,838 --> 00:09:49,966 in no spirit of interference. 111 00:09:50,174 --> 00:09:54,262 I'm here to represent the family, and to talk to you 112 00:09:54,470 --> 00:09:58,307 about Helen, Mr. Wilcox, my niece and you. 113 00:09:58,516 --> 00:10:00,476 - Ms. Schlegel and myself? 114 00:10:01,978 --> 00:10:03,729 - I trust there's been no misunderstanding. 115 00:10:03,938 --> 00:10:05,898 - Well, it is true that I am engaged to be married 116 00:10:05,982 --> 00:10:08,651 but to another young lady, not to Ms. Schlegel. 117 00:10:08,859 --> 00:10:10,152 - Helen wrote to us, Mr. Wilcox. 118 00:10:10,361 --> 00:10:12,738 She has told us everything. 119 00:10:12,947 --> 00:10:16,534 - Good God, it's some foolery of Paul's. 120 00:10:16,742 --> 00:10:18,119 - But you are Paul. 121 00:10:18,327 --> 00:10:19,537 - No, I'm not. 122 00:10:19,745 --> 00:10:21,181 - Then why did you say so at the station? 123 00:10:21,205 --> 00:10:21,914 - I said nothing of the sort. 124 00:10:22,123 --> 00:10:22,832 - I beg your pardon, you did. 125 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,101 - I beg your pardon, I did not. 126 00:10:24,125 --> 00:10:25,960 My name is Charles. 127 00:10:26,168 --> 00:10:29,046 Do you mean to tell me that Paul and your niece have... 128 00:10:29,255 --> 00:10:30,255 The idiot! 129 00:10:31,173 --> 00:10:32,173 Damn fool! 130 00:10:33,843 --> 00:10:35,803 Look, I warn you. 131 00:10:36,012 --> 00:10:37,513 It's useless. 132 00:10:37,722 --> 00:10:38,472 Paul hasn't a penny. 133 00:10:38,681 --> 00:10:40,016 - No need to warn us. 134 00:10:40,224 --> 00:10:41,851 The warning is all the other way. 135 00:10:42,059 --> 00:10:43,936 - Oh, but he hasn't told us, whereas your niece 136 00:10:44,145 --> 00:10:45,980 has lost no time in publishing the news. 137 00:10:46,188 --> 00:10:47,940 - If I were a man, Mr. Wilcox, for that 138 00:10:48,149 --> 00:10:49,900 last remark, I'd box your ears. 139 00:10:50,109 --> 00:10:52,004 You're not fit to sit in the same room as my niece. 140 00:10:52,028 --> 00:10:53,468 - All I know is she spread the news— 141 00:10:54,947 --> 00:10:56,216 - Might I finish my sentence, please? 142 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:58,159 - No, I decline to argue with such a person! 143 00:10:58,367 --> 00:11:00,453 Let me out of this car this instant! 144 00:11:00,661 --> 00:11:02,038 - Don't try and stand up! 145 00:11:02,246 --> 00:11:03,307 - Stop, stop! - Sit down, sit down! 146 00:11:03,331 --> 00:11:04,915 - Stop! - Just sit down! 147 00:11:05,124 --> 00:11:07,376 For goodness sakes, just... 148 00:11:33,069 --> 00:11:34,111 Push it down. 149 00:11:43,496 --> 00:11:44,997 - It's all right. 150 00:12:23,202 --> 00:12:24,995 - It will, I think, be generally 151 00:12:25,204 --> 00:12:28,124 admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony 152 00:12:28,332 --> 00:12:31,377 is the most sublime noise ever to 153 00:12:31,585 --> 00:12:34,213 have penetrated the ear of man. 154 00:12:35,131 --> 00:12:36,966 What does it mean? 155 00:12:37,174 --> 00:12:40,136 We can hardly fail to recognize in this music 156 00:12:40,344 --> 00:12:44,014 a mighty drama, the struggle of a hero 157 00:12:44,223 --> 00:12:48,060 beset by perils, riding to magnificent 158 00:12:48,269 --> 00:12:51,605 victory and ultimate triumph, as described 159 00:12:53,190 --> 00:12:55,526 in the development section of the first movement. 160 00:12:55,734 --> 00:12:57,695 What I want to draw your attention to now 161 00:12:57,903 --> 00:12:59,613 is the third movement. 162 00:13:00,906 --> 00:13:04,952 We no longer hear the hero, but a goblin. 163 00:13:05,161 --> 00:13:06,745 Thank you, Mother. 164 00:13:09,457 --> 00:13:11,750 - A single, solitary goblin, 165 00:13:13,461 --> 00:13:15,796 walking across the universe, 166 00:13:17,715 --> 00:13:19,425 from beginning to end. 167 00:13:26,265 --> 00:13:27,475 - Why a goblin? 168 00:13:29,143 --> 00:13:30,186 - I beg your pardon? 169 00:13:30,394 --> 00:13:32,021 - Why a goblin? 170 00:13:32,229 --> 00:13:33,439 - Well, it's obvious. 171 00:13:33,647 --> 00:13:36,984 The goblin signifies the spirit of negation. 172 00:13:37,193 --> 00:13:40,571 - But why specifically a goblin? 173 00:13:40,779 --> 00:13:45,534 - Panic and emptiness, that is what the goblin signifies. 174 00:13:45,743 --> 00:13:47,453 Minor, spelling panic. 175 00:13:49,371 --> 00:13:51,499 Major, magnificent. 176 00:13:53,209 --> 00:13:54,668 A hero, triumphant. 177 00:13:59,298 --> 00:14:00,298 - Miss. 178 00:14:01,342 --> 00:14:03,552 Excuse me, Miss, my umbrella. 179 00:14:09,308 --> 00:14:10,308 Miss. 180 00:14:30,371 --> 00:14:31,371 Miss, miss! 181 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:44,343 - Mrs. Wilcox, I haven't got her wedding dress wet. 182 00:14:44,552 --> 00:14:46,095 - Hurry up, Charles. 183 00:14:49,848 --> 00:14:51,308 - Go on, in you go. 184 00:14:58,357 --> 00:15:00,192 Paul, my hat's in your hand. 185 00:15:00,401 --> 00:15:01,610 - Goodbye. 186 00:15:01,819 --> 00:15:02,987 See you there. 187 00:15:31,390 --> 00:15:33,892 - What astonishing bad luck, that in the whole 188 00:15:34,101 --> 00:15:36,729 of London, they could find no flat to rent 189 00:15:36,937 --> 00:15:39,273 except the one bottled right up against our library window. 190 00:15:39,481 --> 00:15:41,442 - Who could find no flat? 191 00:15:41,650 --> 00:15:43,694 - Oh Tibby, the Wilcoxes. 192 00:15:45,362 --> 00:15:46,864 Surely even you remember that business 193 00:15:47,072 --> 00:15:49,950 last summer with Helen and Paul Wilcox. 194 00:15:50,159 --> 00:15:51,827 - Paul Wilcox. 195 00:15:52,036 --> 00:15:54,872 The one I was expected to thrash within an inch of his life? 196 00:15:56,498 --> 00:15:58,167 - Oh, miss! 197 00:16:18,437 --> 00:16:19,229 - What is it? 198 00:16:19,438 --> 00:16:20,981 - Is Tibby ill? 199 00:16:21,190 --> 00:16:22,983 - Tibby's making tea. 200 00:16:23,192 --> 00:16:27,363 - Oh, well, if it's nothing worse than that. 201 00:16:27,571 --> 00:16:32,034 - Now, Helen, oh dear, something odd has happened. 202 00:16:32,242 --> 00:16:34,370 Promise me you won't mind. 203 00:16:36,163 --> 00:16:37,456 It's the Wilcoxes. 204 00:16:39,291 --> 00:16:40,709 They've taken the flat opposite for 205 00:16:40,918 --> 00:16:44,254 the wedding of their son, the other son. 206 00:16:48,842 --> 00:16:49,842 You do mind. 207 00:16:57,351 --> 00:16:59,687 - Will Paul Wilcox point at our house and say, 208 00:16:59,895 --> 00:17:01,655 "There lives the girl who tried to catch me?" 209 00:17:01,689 --> 00:17:02,731 - Ridiculous. 210 00:17:04,817 --> 00:17:05,567 They've only taken the flat for 211 00:17:05,776 --> 00:17:08,237 a few weeks, the porter said. 212 00:17:11,407 --> 00:17:15,160 - Do we bow, or do we cut them dead? 213 00:17:15,369 --> 00:17:19,248 - Darling, why don't you take up Cousin Frieda's invitation 214 00:17:19,456 --> 00:17:22,751 and go to Hamburg for those few weeks? 215 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:24,461 - Yes, I think I shall. 216 00:17:24,670 --> 00:17:27,256 Not that it matters, but... 217 00:17:27,464 --> 00:17:31,427 one wouldn't want to keep bumping into Wilcoxes. 218 00:17:34,596 --> 00:17:37,516 - Don't hog all those scones, Tibby. 219 00:17:42,604 --> 00:17:46,692 - Is that young man for us, do you suppose? 220 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:47,943 He is for us. 221 00:17:56,118 --> 00:17:59,371 - If you'll pardon me, Miss, you took my umbrella. 222 00:17:59,580 --> 00:18:01,248 Quite inadvertently, I'm sure. 223 00:18:01,457 --> 00:18:05,586 At the Ethical Hall, "Music and Meaning." 224 00:18:05,794 --> 00:18:07,629 - I'm so sorry. 225 00:18:07,838 --> 00:18:09,506 I do nothing but steal umbrellas. 226 00:18:09,715 --> 00:18:10,424 Do come in and choose one. 227 00:18:10,632 --> 00:18:12,301 It's all right, Annie. 228 00:18:12,509 --> 00:18:14,928 Now let's see, is yours a hooky or a knobbly? 229 00:18:15,137 --> 00:18:15,721 Mine's a knobbly. 230 00:18:15,929 --> 00:18:16,513 At least, I think it is. 231 00:18:16,722 --> 00:18:17,723 No, that's Tibby's. 232 00:18:17,931 --> 00:18:19,349 How about this one? 233 00:18:19,558 --> 00:18:21,619 I suppose you really oughtn't open these things indoors. 234 00:18:21,643 --> 00:18:22,643 Oh well, never mind. 235 00:18:22,686 --> 00:18:24,146 No, it's all gone along the seams. 236 00:18:24,354 --> 00:18:25,434 It's an appalling umbrella. 237 00:18:25,606 --> 00:18:26,732 It must be mine. 238 00:18:29,318 --> 00:18:31,028 Oh, I'm so sorry. 239 00:18:31,236 --> 00:18:33,614 - Has my sister stolen your umbrella? 240 00:18:33,822 --> 00:18:35,157 Oh, not again, Helen. 241 00:18:35,365 --> 00:18:36,525 She is an incorrigible thief. 242 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:37,993 I am so sorry. 243 00:18:38,202 --> 00:18:40,496 - I say, do stay for tea, Mister... 244 00:18:40,704 --> 00:18:41,704 - Bast. 245 00:18:41,789 --> 00:18:43,099 - Mr. Bast, won't you stay for tea? 246 00:18:43,123 --> 00:18:44,476 - Oh yes, do stay for tea, Mr. Bast. 247 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:46,460 It's the least we can do, having made you all wet. 248 00:18:46,627 --> 00:18:48,587 Our brother's upstairs, so you'll have a chaperon. 249 00:18:48,754 --> 00:18:50,839 - Look, he's soaked, Meg, please come up. 250 00:18:51,048 --> 00:18:54,051 - Helen, bring him upstairs. 251 00:18:54,259 --> 00:18:55,719 - What did you think of the lecture? 252 00:18:55,928 --> 00:18:57,488 I don't agree about the goblins, do you? 253 00:18:57,596 --> 00:18:59,348 But I do about the heroes and shipwreck. 254 00:18:59,556 --> 00:19:00,916 You see, I'd always imagined a trio 255 00:19:01,016 --> 00:19:02,851 of elephants dancing at that point. 256 00:19:03,060 --> 00:19:04,100 Well, he obviously didn't. 257 00:19:04,186 --> 00:19:05,246 "Music and Meaning," Margaret. 258 00:19:05,270 --> 00:19:06,438 - Oh, "Music and Meaning." 259 00:19:06,647 --> 00:19:09,149 Does music have meaning, of the literary kind, I mean? 260 00:19:09,358 --> 00:19:10,358 - That's pure slush. 261 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:11,400 - A guest. 262 00:19:11,568 --> 00:19:12,921 Mr. Bast, won't you take off your coat? 263 00:19:12,945 --> 00:19:14,446 - And trust us with your umbrella? 264 00:19:14,655 --> 00:19:16,198 And sit down. 265 00:19:16,406 --> 00:19:17,574 - Have some tea, won't you? 266 00:19:17,783 --> 00:19:19,594 - How boring it would be if it were only the score. 267 00:19:19,618 --> 00:19:20,202 - China tea? 268 00:19:20,410 --> 00:19:21,453 - Do you take sugar? 269 00:19:21,662 --> 00:19:23,056 - Only the score, what an insidious only. 270 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:24,849 - Now, we do have the other kind of tea, if you prefer. 271 00:19:24,873 --> 00:19:26,041 - Well, thank you, but— 272 00:19:27,626 --> 00:19:31,171 - Here are some scones that Tibby hasn't yet consumed. 273 00:19:37,719 --> 00:19:38,919 - We are so very sorry to have 274 00:19:38,971 --> 00:19:40,889 put you to this inconvenience. 275 00:19:41,098 --> 00:19:42,766 I hope you will come another day. 276 00:19:42,975 --> 00:19:43,975 Would you? 277 00:19:45,769 --> 00:19:47,688 We should be so glad. 278 00:19:47,896 --> 00:19:49,314 Do take our card. 279 00:19:49,523 --> 00:19:53,610 - Thank you, if you'll excuse me, I really must be going. 280 00:19:58,740 --> 00:20:00,117 - I'll see you out. 281 00:20:00,325 --> 00:20:02,095 Are you sure you don't want a scone for the journey? 282 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:07,332 - No, no, thank you, I must be going, goodbye. 283 00:20:29,104 --> 00:20:34,359 - Why didn't you make that young man welcome, Tibby, hmm? 284 00:20:34,568 --> 00:20:38,155 You must do the host a little, you know. 285 00:20:38,363 --> 00:20:40,032 You could've coaxed him into stopping, 286 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,369 instead of letting him be swamped by screaming women. 287 00:21:01,470 --> 00:21:03,013 - Get your hot soup here. 288 00:21:03,221 --> 00:21:05,390 Hot soup, lovely and warm. 289 00:21:13,148 --> 00:21:14,483 - That you, Len? 290 00:21:16,610 --> 00:21:18,111 Where have you been? 291 00:21:19,655 --> 00:21:20,855 I'm off my head with worrying. 292 00:21:20,906 --> 00:21:21,490 - About what? 293 00:21:21,698 --> 00:21:22,491 - About you. 294 00:21:22,699 --> 00:21:24,242 - Let go, Jacky. 295 00:21:24,451 --> 00:21:25,720 Every time I'm five minutes late, 296 00:21:25,744 --> 00:21:27,064 you see me lying dead in the road, 297 00:21:27,245 --> 00:21:29,164 crushed and killed in a gruesome accident. 298 00:21:29,373 --> 00:21:30,613 - Well, people do get killed in 299 00:21:30,749 --> 00:21:32,584 accidents and don't come home no more. 300 00:21:32,793 --> 00:21:33,961 - Anymore, Jacky. 301 00:21:35,545 --> 00:21:40,175 I told you I was going to a lecture on "Music and Meaning." 302 00:21:40,384 --> 00:21:42,260 I lost my umbrella. 303 00:21:42,469 --> 00:21:43,053 It's all right. 304 00:21:43,261 --> 00:21:44,388 I got it back. 305 00:21:50,602 --> 00:21:52,062 - Have you had your tea? 306 00:21:52,270 --> 00:21:54,523 I've kept you a bit of tongue in jelly. 307 00:21:54,731 --> 00:21:55,731 - No. 308 00:21:55,899 --> 00:21:56,899 - Sure? 309 00:21:58,235 --> 00:22:00,153 I'll have it then. 310 00:22:00,362 --> 00:22:01,613 Funny, isn't it? 311 00:22:02,906 --> 00:22:05,867 Every time I worry, I get starving hungry. 312 00:22:07,744 --> 00:22:12,249 The thoughts that go through my head, you'd laugh. 313 00:22:12,457 --> 00:22:14,668 You listening, Len? 314 00:22:14,876 --> 00:22:16,670 Not only accidents. 315 00:22:16,878 --> 00:22:19,381 That you'll get wet in the rain. 316 00:22:19,589 --> 00:22:20,589 - Did you? 317 00:22:20,757 --> 00:22:21,758 - No. 318 00:22:21,967 --> 00:22:23,287 - You said you lost your umbrella. 319 00:22:23,427 --> 00:22:25,637 I'll think, "Lord, he'll catch cold. 320 00:22:25,846 --> 00:22:27,723 "It'll go to his chest. 321 00:22:27,931 --> 00:22:30,267 "And where's the money to come from for the doctor? 322 00:22:30,475 --> 00:22:32,269 "And what if he is in an accident, 323 00:22:32,477 --> 00:22:35,063 "and they take him to the hospital in the ambulance? 324 00:22:35,272 --> 00:22:36,606 "And him with holes in his socks." 325 00:22:36,815 --> 00:22:37,815 - Hey, Jacky. 326 00:22:37,858 --> 00:22:38,858 - I want to see. 327 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:39,693 - What? 328 00:22:39,901 --> 00:22:40,694 - If there's holes in your socks. 329 00:22:40,902 --> 00:22:42,154 - Oh, stop it, Jacky. 330 00:22:46,533 --> 00:22:47,533 - Len. 331 00:22:57,919 --> 00:22:59,379 Come to bed. 332 00:22:59,588 --> 00:23:02,049 - I'll just finish this chapter. 333 00:23:03,133 --> 00:23:04,133 - Len. 334 00:23:11,183 --> 00:23:12,517 You love your Jacky, do you, Len? 335 00:23:12,726 --> 00:23:13,894 - Let me read. 336 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:22,359 - Len. 337 00:23:24,738 --> 00:23:25,965 Are you gonna make it all right? 338 00:23:25,989 --> 00:23:28,784 - You're not starting on that again. 339 00:23:28,992 --> 00:23:30,636 I've told you a hundred times if I've told you once, 340 00:23:30,660 --> 00:23:33,330 we'll get married the day I'm 21. 341 00:23:33,538 --> 00:23:34,974 I'd do it before if it weren't for my brother 342 00:23:34,998 --> 00:23:36,291 would come and put a stop to it. 343 00:23:40,879 --> 00:23:41,588 What's it to him? 344 00:23:41,797 --> 00:23:43,090 What's he ever done for me? 345 00:23:43,298 --> 00:23:44,007 - That's right. 346 00:23:44,216 --> 00:23:46,384 What's anyone ever done? 347 00:23:46,593 --> 00:23:47,928 It's just you and me. 348 00:23:48,136 --> 00:23:50,680 And if you was to go and leave me, I don't know what I'd do. 349 00:23:50,889 --> 00:23:52,057 I truly don't. 350 00:23:56,770 --> 00:23:57,979 - Now, go to bed. 351 00:24:00,065 --> 00:24:01,942 - You come too, come on! 352 00:24:06,988 --> 00:24:08,490 - Book marker. 353 00:24:08,698 --> 00:24:13,662 - "Margaret Schlegel," and who is Margaret Schlegel? 354 00:24:13,870 --> 00:24:14,621 - Just a lady I met. 355 00:24:14,830 --> 00:24:16,957 - Oh, a lady, la-di-da. 356 00:24:17,833 --> 00:24:18,833 - Come off it, Jacky. 357 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:19,709 She's a hundred years old. 358 00:24:19,918 --> 00:24:21,002 - Says you. 359 00:24:21,211 --> 00:24:22,963 So that's where you had your tea. 360 00:24:23,171 --> 00:24:26,716 Nice cucumber sandwiches cut ever so thin. 361 00:24:43,233 --> 00:24:46,820 - "Ankle-deep, he waded through the bluebells. 362 00:24:47,028 --> 00:24:48,822 "His spirit rose and exulted as 363 00:24:49,030 --> 00:24:52,075 "he breathed in the sun-drenched air. 364 00:24:53,368 --> 00:24:56,288 "The glorious day was in its last decline. 365 00:24:56,496 --> 00:24:59,082 "Long shadows lay on the sward, 366 00:24:59,291 --> 00:25:01,459 "and from above, the leaves dripped 367 00:25:01,668 --> 00:25:04,671 "their shimmering drops of gold-green light. 368 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,133 "Moths and butterflies swarmed in merry hosts, 369 00:25:08,341 --> 00:25:11,178 "flittering here, glimmering there. 370 00:25:11,386 --> 00:25:14,055 "But hush, could that be a deer?" 371 00:26:05,065 --> 00:26:07,609 - Oh, please show her in. 372 00:26:16,534 --> 00:26:19,204 - Hello, I'm so sorry. 373 00:26:20,497 --> 00:26:22,040 - Why, Ms. Schlegel, 374 00:26:23,458 --> 00:26:25,168 how kind of you to call. 375 00:26:25,377 --> 00:26:27,963 - I've wanted to for ever so long. 376 00:26:28,171 --> 00:26:32,717 - But we haven't been here for ever so long. 377 00:26:32,926 --> 00:26:34,552 - Mrs. Wilcox, may I? 378 00:26:36,805 --> 00:26:41,017 You see, all that business last summer at Howards End, 379 00:26:41,226 --> 00:26:43,061 oh no, it goes further than that. 380 00:26:43,270 --> 00:26:45,939 Since we met at Speyer, do you remember? 381 00:26:46,147 --> 00:26:48,984 That restored cathedral that we all hated so. 382 00:26:49,192 --> 00:26:52,779 - What I remember principally about Speyer 383 00:26:52,988 --> 00:26:57,158 was the great pleasure of meeting you, Ms. Schlegel. 384 00:26:58,576 --> 00:26:59,995 - Helen's gone to Germany. 385 00:27:00,203 --> 00:27:02,622 - And Paul's gone to Nigeria. 386 00:27:05,125 --> 00:27:09,087 - So, you see, now we can meet because they can't. 387 00:27:09,296 --> 00:27:10,656 It's no use beating about the bush. 388 00:27:10,797 --> 00:27:13,300 What happened in the summer was unfortunate 389 00:27:13,508 --> 00:27:14,884 for both of them, don't you feel? 390 00:27:15,093 --> 00:27:17,387 Because I'm sure you think the same way. 391 00:27:17,595 --> 00:27:19,139 Because they should not meet. 392 00:27:19,347 --> 00:27:20,682 - Yes, I feel that. 393 00:27:20,890 --> 00:27:22,159 - They belong to types that can fall 394 00:27:22,183 --> 00:27:24,269 in love but can't live together. 395 00:27:24,477 --> 00:27:27,605 I'm afraid that in nine cases out of 10, 396 00:27:27,814 --> 00:27:31,735 nature pulls one way and human nature the other. 397 00:27:33,778 --> 00:27:34,988 I do rattle on. 398 00:27:35,196 --> 00:27:37,657 I'm afraid I shall tire you out in no time. 399 00:27:37,866 --> 00:27:42,037 - It is true I am not particularly well just today. 400 00:27:43,913 --> 00:27:46,124 But I'm so grateful for your visit. 401 00:27:46,333 --> 00:27:48,043 Ms. Schlegel, you see, I'm quite alone. 402 00:27:48,251 --> 00:27:49,919 My husband and daughter have gone off 403 00:27:50,128 --> 00:27:52,380 on a motoring tour in Yorkshire, 404 00:27:52,589 --> 00:27:55,467 and the young couple are on their honeymoon. 405 00:27:55,675 --> 00:27:56,926 - Charles and Dolly. 406 00:27:57,135 --> 00:27:57,719 - Oh, may I see? 407 00:27:57,927 --> 00:27:58,927 How lovely. 408 00:28:00,096 --> 00:28:01,765 - They've gone to Naples. 409 00:28:01,973 --> 00:28:05,018 I can hardly imagine my Charles in Naples. 410 00:28:05,226 --> 00:28:06,346 - Doesn't he like traveling? 411 00:28:06,436 --> 00:28:08,855 - Oh yes, he likes travel, 412 00:28:09,064 --> 00:28:11,941 but he does see through foreigners so. 413 00:28:12,150 --> 00:28:16,738 What he would enjoy most is a motor tour through England. 414 00:28:16,946 --> 00:28:19,908 Charles takes after me, Ms. Schlegel. 415 00:28:20,116 --> 00:28:21,910 He truly loves England. 416 00:28:24,829 --> 00:28:25,997 Not, of course, London. 417 00:28:26,206 --> 00:28:28,041 None of us love London. 418 00:28:33,380 --> 00:28:34,380 It's so... 419 00:28:36,174 --> 00:28:39,803 It makes one feel so unstable, impermanent, 420 00:28:41,554 --> 00:28:45,016 with houses being torn down on all sides. 421 00:28:46,309 --> 00:28:50,980 - Including, in the foreseeable future, ours. 422 00:28:51,189 --> 00:28:53,608 - Are you having to leave Wickham Place? 423 00:28:53,817 --> 00:28:56,736 - Yes, in 18 months or so when the lease expires. 424 00:28:56,945 --> 00:28:58,071 - Have you been there long? 425 00:28:58,279 --> 00:29:00,031 - All our lives, we were born there. 426 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,240 - Oh, 427 00:29:02,617 --> 00:29:04,828 that is monstrous. 428 00:29:05,036 --> 00:29:07,038 Oh, I do pity you, from the bottom of my heart. 429 00:29:07,247 --> 00:29:10,792 I had no idea this thing was hanging over you. 430 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,293 - How dreadful. 431 00:29:12,502 --> 00:29:13,211 - Oh. 432 00:29:13,420 --> 00:29:14,754 - Oh, you poor, poor girls. 433 00:29:14,963 --> 00:29:18,091 - Well, of course, we are fond of the house, 434 00:29:18,299 --> 00:29:21,094 but it is an ordinary London house. 435 00:29:21,302 --> 00:29:22,971 We shall easily find another. 436 00:29:23,179 --> 00:29:24,180 - No. 437 00:29:25,181 --> 00:29:26,724 Not in this world. 438 00:29:29,477 --> 00:29:31,980 Not the house that you were born in. 439 00:29:32,188 --> 00:29:35,900 You'll never find that again, poor, poor girls. 440 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,739 Howards End was almost pulled down once. 441 00:29:41,948 --> 00:29:43,950 It would have killed me. 442 00:29:44,159 --> 00:29:45,326 It's my house, you know. 443 00:29:45,535 --> 00:29:49,164 It was left to me by my brother who died out in India. 444 00:29:49,372 --> 00:29:50,415 I love it so. 445 00:29:51,875 --> 00:29:54,836 I even resisted when Henry, my husband, 446 00:29:55,044 --> 00:29:58,840 wanted to make changes to improve the property. 447 00:29:59,048 --> 00:30:01,009 He knew best, of course. 448 00:30:03,678 --> 00:30:05,388 We even have a garage. 449 00:30:11,060 --> 00:30:13,062 To the west of the house, 450 00:30:13,980 --> 00:30:16,316 just beyond the chestnut tree, 451 00:30:17,775 --> 00:30:21,279 in the paddock where the pony used to be. 452 00:30:23,031 --> 00:30:24,949 - Where's the pony gone? 453 00:30:27,035 --> 00:30:30,246 - The pony, oh, dead, ever so long ago. 454 00:30:32,499 --> 00:30:34,834 - The vice of the pan-German mind 455 00:30:35,043 --> 00:30:37,003 is that it only cares for what it can use. 456 00:30:37,212 --> 00:30:38,689 - No, that is the vice of the imperial mind. 457 00:30:38,713 --> 00:30:40,757 - No, that is the vice of the vulgar mind. 458 00:30:40,965 --> 00:30:42,842 - But, and this is the tremendous part, 459 00:30:43,051 --> 00:30:44,844 they take poetry seriously. 460 00:30:45,053 --> 00:30:46,387 They do take poetry seriously. 461 00:30:46,596 --> 00:30:48,076 - Yes, but is anything gained by that? 462 00:30:48,181 --> 00:30:51,226 - Yes, the Germans are always striving for beauty. 463 00:30:51,434 --> 00:30:53,228 - Oh, but Mrs. Wilcox, my father 464 00:30:53,436 --> 00:30:56,231 was a German of the old school, a philosopher, 465 00:30:56,439 --> 00:30:59,567 an idealist, the countryman of Hegel and Kant. 466 00:30:59,776 --> 00:31:01,045 - But isn't that your father's sword 467 00:31:01,069 --> 00:31:02,379 you have upstairs in the drawing room? 468 00:31:02,403 --> 00:31:04,822 - Oh yes, he was a soldier too when he had to be, 469 00:31:05,031 --> 00:31:07,367 but he was so uncomfortable about being on the winning side 470 00:31:07,575 --> 00:31:11,871 that he just hung up his sword and never used it again. 471 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,415 - My idea has always been that 472 00:31:18,378 --> 00:31:20,588 if we could bring the mothers 473 00:31:23,091 --> 00:31:25,635 of the various nations together, 474 00:31:29,180 --> 00:31:32,016 then there would be no more war. 475 00:31:32,225 --> 00:31:33,268 - Well, indeed, yes. 476 00:31:33,476 --> 00:31:35,853 - Absolutely, I mean, if the mothers went to war, 477 00:31:36,062 --> 00:31:37,342 there'd be no one left to defend. 478 00:31:38,481 --> 00:31:40,316 - Mrs. Wilcox, will you have another jelly? 479 00:31:40,525 --> 00:31:41,859 - Thank you. 480 00:31:42,068 --> 00:31:44,445 You are fortunate in your cook. 481 00:31:44,654 --> 00:31:46,197 We have found it difficult to get 482 00:31:46,406 --> 00:31:48,199 reliable servants in London. 483 00:31:48,408 --> 00:31:49,576 - It is difficult. 484 00:31:49,784 --> 00:31:51,720 - Your servants have become as unreliable as we are, 485 00:31:51,744 --> 00:31:53,097 and we can hardly expect them to listen 486 00:31:53,121 --> 00:31:54,881 to radical discussions at the luncheon table. 487 00:31:54,914 --> 00:31:56,583 - Annie does very well, don't you, Annie? 488 00:31:56,791 --> 00:31:58,960 You're very patient with us. 489 00:31:59,168 --> 00:32:02,213 - We never discuss at Howards End, 490 00:32:02,422 --> 00:32:04,132 except perhaps sport. 491 00:32:04,340 --> 00:32:05,842 - Oh, but you should. 492 00:32:06,050 --> 00:32:07,760 Discussion keeps a house alive. 493 00:32:07,969 --> 00:32:10,179 - You will laugh at my old-fashioned ideas. 494 00:32:10,388 --> 00:32:12,890 - I will not. 495 00:32:13,099 --> 00:32:14,809 - I sometimes think... 496 00:32:18,688 --> 00:32:23,109 it would be wiser to leave action and discussion to men. 497 00:32:23,318 --> 00:32:27,071 - But then where would we be with the suffrage? 498 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:31,451 - I am only too thankful not to have the vote myself. 499 00:32:37,498 --> 00:32:40,043 - Shall we go up for coffee? 500 00:32:40,251 --> 00:32:41,461 Duncan, will you lead the way? 501 00:32:59,354 --> 00:33:01,397 - What interesting lives you all lead. 502 00:33:01,606 --> 00:33:02,857 - No, we don't. 503 00:33:04,859 --> 00:33:06,527 It's no use pretending you enjoyed lunch, 504 00:33:06,736 --> 00:33:10,531 for you loathed it, but I hope you will forgive me 505 00:33:10,740 --> 00:33:13,534 by coming again, alone, or by asking me to you. 506 00:33:13,743 --> 00:33:15,995 - I enjoyed my lunch very much. 507 00:33:16,204 --> 00:33:17,244 Ms. Schlegel, truly I did. 508 00:33:17,413 --> 00:33:20,541 I only wish I could've joined in more. 509 00:33:21,959 --> 00:33:24,837 You're so clever, and yet, so good. 510 00:33:26,422 --> 00:33:30,385 - No, that's very kind of you, but I am neither, I'm afraid. 511 00:33:30,593 --> 00:33:31,969 - You've been very good to me. 512 00:33:32,178 --> 00:33:33,388 You've kept me from brooding. 513 00:33:33,596 --> 00:33:36,057 I'm too apt to brood. 514 00:33:36,265 --> 00:33:37,308 - About what? 515 00:33:38,559 --> 00:33:39,310 - Well, I don't know. 516 00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:41,062 I really don't know. 517 00:33:42,814 --> 00:33:45,942 I think about my house a great deal. 518 00:33:46,150 --> 00:33:47,568 You've never seen Howards End. 519 00:33:47,777 --> 00:33:49,070 I want to show it to you. 520 00:34:14,137 --> 00:34:15,614 - Now, this is the scientific approach 521 00:34:15,638 --> 00:34:17,181 to Christmas shopping, a list. 522 00:34:17,390 --> 00:34:20,768 - A list, what a good idea. 523 00:34:20,977 --> 00:34:23,646 Why don't you put your own name at the top of the list? 524 00:34:23,855 --> 00:34:29,068 - Oh hooray, how very kind of you to start with me. 525 00:34:29,277 --> 00:34:32,947 "Schlegel," now, next, shall I put Mr. Wilcox? 526 00:34:57,013 --> 00:34:58,514 Now, what do you think of that? 527 00:34:58,723 --> 00:34:59,307 And a pretty box. 528 00:34:59,515 --> 00:35:00,808 - Oh, yes. 529 00:35:01,017 --> 00:35:02,351 Oh, thank you very much. 530 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:03,936 - Good, I'm glad. 531 00:35:04,145 --> 00:35:05,897 - Oh, you are wonderfully efficient. 532 00:35:06,105 --> 00:35:07,833 - Thank you, could we wrap that with a nice bow, please? 533 00:35:07,857 --> 00:35:09,442 - Certainly, Madam. 534 00:35:09,650 --> 00:35:11,503 - But your name still remains at the top of the list. 535 00:35:11,527 --> 00:35:14,822 - Yes, so, Dolly, there she goes. 536 00:35:15,031 --> 00:35:19,202 - I would like to give you something worth your friendship. 537 00:35:21,078 --> 00:35:23,414 Couldn't you get it renewed? 538 00:35:24,582 --> 00:35:25,374 - I beg your pardon? 539 00:35:25,583 --> 00:35:26,834 - The lease of your house? 540 00:35:27,043 --> 00:35:28,479 - Oh, have you been thinking of that? 541 00:35:28,503 --> 00:35:29,545 How very kind of you. 542 00:35:29,754 --> 00:35:31,506 - Why, surely something could be done. 543 00:35:31,714 --> 00:35:33,234 - No, values have risen too enormously. 544 00:35:33,341 --> 00:35:34,526 They mean to pull down Wickham Place 545 00:35:34,550 --> 00:35:35,718 and build flats like yours. 546 00:35:35,927 --> 00:35:37,303 - But how horrible. 547 00:35:37,512 --> 00:35:38,638 - Landlords are horrible. 548 00:35:38,846 --> 00:35:41,349 - And so are the flats they build. 549 00:35:41,557 --> 00:35:43,810 I fail to understand how people 550 00:35:44,018 --> 00:35:46,938 can actually choose to live in them. 551 00:35:49,315 --> 00:35:51,651 - There we are. 552 00:35:51,859 --> 00:35:54,862 Oh dear, there, there we are, thank you. 553 00:35:55,071 --> 00:35:56,197 Thank you. 554 00:35:56,405 --> 00:35:58,533 - Thank you, Madam. 555 00:36:05,957 --> 00:36:06,957 - Thank you. 556 00:36:13,965 --> 00:36:15,049 Oh, I'm so sorry. 557 00:36:15,258 --> 00:36:16,843 We shouldn't have done this today. 558 00:36:17,051 --> 00:36:20,012 - No, no, we had to do it before. 559 00:36:20,221 --> 00:36:21,389 - Before? 560 00:36:21,597 --> 00:36:24,016 - Before my operation. 561 00:36:24,225 --> 00:36:26,602 I still haven't told my family yet, Ms. Schlegel. 562 00:36:26,811 --> 00:36:29,272 Everyone hates illnesses. 563 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,524 Ah, it's as it should be. 564 00:36:33,317 --> 00:36:36,529 There's a chestnut tree at Howards End 565 00:36:36,737 --> 00:36:39,699 that has pigs' teeth stuck into the trunk 566 00:36:39,907 --> 00:36:42,952 about four feet from the ground. 567 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,079 Yes, the teeth of a pig. 568 00:36:46,581 --> 00:36:49,083 The country people put them there long ago, 569 00:36:49,292 --> 00:36:54,422 and they think that if they chew a piece of the bark, 570 00:36:54,630 --> 00:36:56,674 it will cure the toothache. 571 00:36:59,302 --> 00:37:02,763 - I love folklore and the old superstitions. 572 00:37:04,223 --> 00:37:06,350 Isn't it is curious though, that unlike Greece, 573 00:37:06,559 --> 00:37:08,269 England has no true mythology. 574 00:37:08,477 --> 00:37:12,648 All we have are witches and fairies. 575 00:37:13,858 --> 00:37:18,029 - Will you come with me to Howards End? 576 00:37:18,237 --> 00:37:19,530 - Oh, I would so much like to. 577 00:37:19,739 --> 00:37:21,490 - Come with me now, now, come with me now. 578 00:37:21,699 --> 00:37:22,718 - Now, but it is too late. 579 00:37:22,742 --> 00:37:24,327 - There is a train from St. Pancras 580 00:37:24,535 --> 00:37:25,703 at 5 o'clock if we hurry. 581 00:37:25,912 --> 00:37:26,912 I want you to see it. 582 00:37:27,079 --> 00:37:28,623 - And I want to see it. 583 00:37:28,831 --> 00:37:31,334 It sounds such a glorious place, so redolent and— 584 00:37:35,755 --> 00:37:36,923 I was born there. 585 00:37:38,174 --> 00:37:40,801 - Well, might I come some other day? 586 00:37:42,511 --> 00:37:43,511 - Yes. 587 00:37:45,598 --> 00:37:46,641 Some other day. 588 00:37:53,564 --> 00:37:56,275 Well, a thousands thanks, Ms. Schlegel, for your help. 589 00:37:56,484 --> 00:37:59,612 It is a comfort to have the presents off my mind, 590 00:37:59,820 --> 00:38:02,031 the Christmas cards especially. 591 00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:03,741 I do admire your choice. 592 00:38:19,173 --> 00:38:20,883 - Whoa! 593 00:38:36,315 --> 00:38:37,441 - Mrs. Wilcox. 594 00:38:39,151 --> 00:38:40,151 - Ms. Schlegel. 595 00:38:40,277 --> 00:38:41,296 - I will come if I still may. 596 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,531 - Return to Hilton, please. 597 00:38:44,699 --> 00:38:46,534 We'll stop the night, my dear. 598 00:38:46,742 --> 00:38:47,868 - Yes. 599 00:38:48,077 --> 00:38:50,121 - It's in the morning my house looks most beautiful. 600 00:38:50,329 --> 00:38:51,872 Two returns, please. 601 00:38:52,915 --> 00:38:53,915 - Thank you. 602 00:38:56,335 --> 00:38:57,712 This is yours? 603 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,840 - I can't show you my meadow properly except in the sunrise. 604 00:39:01,048 --> 00:39:02,591 - It was so romantic. 605 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:03,884 It was in Italy. 606 00:39:04,093 --> 00:39:05,511 - In Italy? 607 00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:06,738 - Yes, and the two trains stopped on either side, 608 00:39:06,762 --> 00:39:08,305 you see, and I opened the window, 609 00:39:08,514 --> 00:39:11,642 and this man just handed a rose across. 610 00:39:11,851 --> 00:39:14,061 I don't know where he got it. 611 00:39:14,270 --> 00:39:15,354 - Was he Italian? 612 00:39:15,563 --> 00:39:16,689 - Yes, I think so, Italian. 613 00:39:16,897 --> 00:39:18,577 - Ah, he'd have to be Italian, wouldn't he? 614 00:39:18,774 --> 00:39:19,774 - Mother! 615 00:39:19,942 --> 00:39:21,402 - Evie, my dearest girl. 616 00:39:21,610 --> 00:39:22,611 - The motor's smashed. 617 00:39:22,820 --> 00:39:23,880 - Ruth, what on earth are you doing here? 618 00:39:23,904 --> 00:39:25,322 - Why aren't you in Yorkshire? 619 00:39:25,531 --> 00:39:27,074 - We crashed the car. 620 00:39:27,283 --> 00:39:29,702 Are you going to Howards End, why? 621 00:39:29,910 --> 00:39:30,995 How are you? 622 00:39:31,203 --> 00:39:31,746 - It's all such a lovely surprise. 623 00:39:31,954 --> 00:39:32,997 I'm fit as a fiddle. 624 00:39:33,205 --> 00:39:34,582 You remember Ms. Schlegel? 625 00:39:34,790 --> 00:39:36,625 - Ms. Schlegel, oh yes, Helen's sister, hello. 626 00:39:36,834 --> 00:39:38,878 Evie crashed the car in Yorkshire. 627 00:39:39,086 --> 00:39:40,629 - How do you do? 628 00:39:40,838 --> 00:39:41,547 - We must go home. 629 00:39:41,756 --> 00:39:43,215 We can't go to Howards End. 630 00:39:43,424 --> 00:39:44,550 It's 10 to five. 631 00:39:44,759 --> 00:39:46,639 - Oh, Ms. Schlegel, I'm afraid our little outing 632 00:39:46,802 --> 00:39:48,304 is going to have to be another day. 633 00:39:48,512 --> 00:39:49,638 - Oh, before I forget— 634 00:39:50,931 --> 00:39:52,211 for that I believe, Ms. Schlegel 635 00:39:53,934 --> 00:39:55,770 Yes, not canceled, but postponed. 636 00:39:55,978 --> 00:39:56,562 - Postponed. 637 00:39:56,771 --> 00:39:57,438 - Come home with us. 638 00:39:57,646 --> 00:39:58,230 - No, no. 639 00:39:58,439 --> 00:39:59,023 - You sure? 640 00:39:59,231 --> 00:39:59,815 - Please, goodbye. 641 00:40:00,024 --> 00:40:01,400 - Goodbye. 642 00:40:01,609 --> 00:40:02,651 - Till later. 643 00:40:03,861 --> 00:40:06,655 - How lovely to see you. 644 00:40:19,668 --> 00:40:22,379 - I've been thinking of you. 645 00:40:25,299 --> 00:40:26,884 And of our meadow. 646 00:40:27,802 --> 00:40:28,802 - Here. 647 00:40:33,849 --> 00:40:36,393 The day you are strong enough, 648 00:40:36,602 --> 00:40:39,230 I shall hold you to your promise. 649 00:41:29,196 --> 00:41:30,823 - Oh, Ms. Schlegel. 650 00:42:51,612 --> 00:42:55,366 So, to repeat, we have here, forwarded by 651 00:42:55,574 --> 00:42:59,745 the matron of that nursing home, sealed and addressed to me, 652 00:43:01,622 --> 00:43:04,708 a note purporting to be in your mother's handwriting. 653 00:43:04,917 --> 00:43:08,087 And it says, "I would like Ms. Schlegel, 654 00:43:08,295 --> 00:43:11,048 "Margaret, to have Howards End." 655 00:43:12,341 --> 00:43:14,468 - Mother never wrote that. 656 00:43:17,471 --> 00:43:18,471 - No date. 657 00:43:19,306 --> 00:43:20,808 No signature. 658 00:43:21,016 --> 00:43:23,143 - Of course, it's a forgery. 659 00:43:26,939 --> 00:43:29,900 - Not now, please, later, thank you. 660 00:43:31,277 --> 00:43:32,477 The house was, of course, your 661 00:43:32,569 --> 00:43:35,739 mother's to leave to whom she wished. 662 00:43:35,948 --> 00:43:37,074 - Let me see it. 663 00:43:41,495 --> 00:43:42,871 Why, it's only in pencil. 664 00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:44,707 Pencil never counts. 665 00:43:44,915 --> 00:43:47,084 - Yes, we know that it is not legally binding, Dolly. 666 00:43:47,293 --> 00:43:48,919 We are aware of that. 667 00:43:50,587 --> 00:43:53,674 Of course, my dear, we consider you as one of the family, 668 00:43:53,882 --> 00:43:55,402 but it will be better if you don't interfere 669 00:43:55,426 --> 00:43:56,444 with what you don't understand. 670 00:43:56,468 --> 00:43:57,468 Thank you. 671 00:43:58,429 --> 00:44:01,682 - The question is whether, during the time 672 00:44:01,890 --> 00:44:04,310 that this Ms. Schlegel managed to befriend my mother— 673 00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,273 As to my mind, the question is 674 00:44:09,481 --> 00:44:11,984 the invalid's condition when the note was written. 675 00:44:12,192 --> 00:44:14,820 - My dear father, consult an expert if you wish, 676 00:44:15,029 --> 00:44:17,489 but I don't admit that it is my mother's handwriting. 677 00:44:17,698 --> 00:44:19,366 - You just said it was. 678 00:44:19,575 --> 00:44:21,285 - Never mind if I did. 679 00:44:25,122 --> 00:44:26,915 - So we are all agreed then that legally, 680 00:44:27,124 --> 00:44:28,564 I would be quite justified in tearing 681 00:44:28,667 --> 00:44:31,003 this up and throwing it into the fire. 682 00:44:31,211 --> 00:44:33,797 - All else aside, how is this gift 683 00:44:34,006 --> 00:44:35,799 to be conveyed to Ms. Schlegel? 684 00:44:36,008 --> 00:44:37,319 Is she to have a life interest in it, 685 00:44:37,343 --> 00:44:38,677 or is she to own it absolutely? 686 00:44:38,886 --> 00:44:40,166 - She may be on her way down this 687 00:44:40,346 --> 00:44:43,557 very minute to turn us all out. 688 00:44:43,766 --> 00:44:45,452 - I don't believe Ms. Schlegel knows anything 689 00:44:45,476 --> 00:44:48,771 about this, this whim of your mother's. 690 00:44:50,356 --> 00:44:52,107 - Mother believed so in ancestors. 691 00:44:52,316 --> 00:44:56,070 She would never have left anything to an outsider. 692 00:44:56,278 --> 00:44:57,613 - If Ms. Schlegel had been poor, 693 00:44:57,821 --> 00:45:00,657 if she had wanted a house... 694 00:45:00,866 --> 00:45:02,493 but she has a house. 695 00:45:02,701 --> 00:45:05,079 Why should she want another? 696 00:45:07,664 --> 00:45:10,542 - She wouldn't have wanted us to even see this thing. 697 00:45:10,751 --> 00:45:14,671 - No, your poor mother would not have wanted it. 698 00:45:55,254 --> 00:45:57,297 - Len, you coming in? 699 00:45:57,506 --> 00:45:59,049 - In a minute. 700 00:45:59,258 --> 00:46:00,634 Yeah, all right. 701 00:46:08,225 --> 00:46:10,060 - What are you looking at? 702 00:46:10,269 --> 00:46:11,728 - See that big one up there? 703 00:46:11,937 --> 00:46:14,440 It's Ursa Major, the great bear. 704 00:46:15,732 --> 00:46:18,026 You follow those two down about four times, 705 00:46:18,235 --> 00:46:19,736 and that one there is the polestar. 706 00:46:19,945 --> 00:46:21,423 I'm fairly certain that's it, and they all— 707 00:46:23,824 --> 00:46:24,824 - Jacky, stop it. 708 00:46:24,867 --> 00:46:26,076 It's important. 709 00:46:27,369 --> 00:46:29,955 - You'll catch your death. 710 00:46:59,568 --> 00:47:01,987 - Excuse me, sir, Mr. Purefour's policy. 711 00:47:02,196 --> 00:47:05,073 - Yes, yes, yes, yes, that's all signed. 712 00:47:05,282 --> 00:47:07,284 It seems fine with me, thank you. 713 00:47:07,493 --> 00:47:11,538 - So may I expect to receive that? 714 00:47:27,137 --> 00:47:29,014 - Could you complete that? 715 00:47:29,223 --> 00:47:31,183 - Yes, of course, sir. 716 00:47:53,288 --> 00:47:56,500 "The trees reared in mighty columns, 717 00:47:56,708 --> 00:48:00,045 "their tops still radiant in sunlight which, 718 00:48:00,254 --> 00:48:03,423 "spilling downward through the wealth of leaves, 719 00:48:03,632 --> 00:48:07,761 "dissolved at last in the darkness of the mossy earth. 720 00:48:09,304 --> 00:48:13,016 "Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers, 721 00:48:13,225 --> 00:48:17,396 but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed." 722 00:48:51,430 --> 00:48:54,057 - There's a woman to see you, Ma'am. 723 00:48:54,266 --> 00:48:55,809 - A woman and not a lady, Annie? 724 00:48:56,018 --> 00:48:57,519 - She won't give her name. 725 00:48:57,728 --> 00:48:59,146 - Well, ask her to come up. 726 00:48:59,354 --> 00:49:01,648 - She says she won't come up. 727 00:49:01,857 --> 00:49:05,027 - Well, then we shall have to go down. 728 00:49:11,283 --> 00:49:12,283 Good afternoon. 729 00:49:12,367 --> 00:49:13,910 - I'm looking for my husband. 730 00:49:14,119 --> 00:49:14,703 - Here? 731 00:49:14,911 --> 00:49:16,121 - Thank you, Annie. 732 00:49:16,330 --> 00:49:20,208 - I have my reasons to believe that he is here. 733 00:49:20,417 --> 00:49:21,894 - Well, you're welcome to search for him, certainly. 734 00:49:21,918 --> 00:49:24,254 - I'm so sorry, your husband's name? 735 00:49:24,463 --> 00:49:27,174 - Leonard Bast, as I'm sure you're aware of. 736 00:49:27,382 --> 00:49:31,303 - Margaret, are we concealing a Mr. Leonard Bast? 737 00:49:32,721 --> 00:49:34,699 - There appears to have been some mistake, Mrs. Bast. 738 00:49:34,723 --> 00:49:37,142 I do not think we are acquainted with your husband. 739 00:49:37,351 --> 00:49:39,311 - Oh no, there's no mistake. 740 00:49:39,519 --> 00:49:41,980 I know for a fact that he has visited in this house. 741 00:49:42,189 --> 00:49:43,315 He had his tea here. 742 00:49:43,523 --> 00:49:45,067 - That is a grave allegation. 743 00:49:45,275 --> 00:49:48,111 - Yes, to have corrupted a married man with giving him tea. 744 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,322 - I wish we could help you. Mrs. Bast. 745 00:49:50,530 --> 00:49:53,492 - It seems you can't, or won't, 746 00:49:53,700 --> 00:49:56,203 except to have a laugh at my expense. 747 00:49:56,411 --> 00:49:58,163 So I'm very sorry to have troubled you 748 00:49:58,372 --> 00:50:01,458 and wish you a very good afternoon. 749 00:50:06,046 --> 00:50:07,398 - You do what you can for the house. 750 00:50:07,422 --> 00:50:08,840 The drawing room reeks of smoke. 751 00:50:09,049 --> 00:50:10,109 - If you start smoking too, the 752 00:50:10,133 --> 00:50:10,801 house might be even more musty. 753 00:50:11,009 --> 00:50:12,052 - I doubt it. 754 00:50:13,345 --> 00:50:14,805 This is lovely. Annie. 755 00:50:15,013 --> 00:50:16,473 - There's a Mr. Leonard Bast. 756 00:50:16,682 --> 00:50:18,934 - Oh no, I don't believe it. 757 00:50:19,142 --> 00:50:20,227 - The missing husband. 758 00:50:20,435 --> 00:50:22,270 - He must be brought in immediately, Annie. 759 00:50:22,479 --> 00:50:23,479 - I'll do the host. 760 00:50:23,563 --> 00:50:24,856 - Thank you. 761 00:50:25,065 --> 00:50:27,442 - Mr. Bast, come this way. 762 00:50:27,651 --> 00:50:29,486 - Do come in, Mr. Bast. 763 00:50:29,695 --> 00:50:30,696 Good evening. 764 00:50:30,904 --> 00:50:31,613 - Good evening, do come in 765 00:50:31,822 --> 00:50:33,022 and have some pudding with us. 766 00:50:33,156 --> 00:50:34,676 - Yes, or would you prefer some dinner? 767 00:50:34,783 --> 00:50:35,492 - I've had my tea, thank you. 768 00:50:35,701 --> 00:50:37,494 - Have a chair, a glass of wine? 769 00:50:37,703 --> 00:50:38,286 - No. 770 00:50:38,495 --> 00:50:39,204 - Port? 771 00:50:39,413 --> 00:50:40,455 - No, thank you. 772 00:50:40,664 --> 00:50:42,424 - Well, do take a seat in any case, Mr. Bast, 773 00:50:42,499 --> 00:50:45,460 and let us know how we can help you. 774 00:50:50,382 --> 00:50:53,385 - You wouldn't remember giving me this? 775 00:50:53,593 --> 00:50:54,720 - Not as such. 776 00:50:54,928 --> 00:50:56,568 - Well, that was how it happened, you see. 777 00:50:56,722 --> 00:50:58,098 - How what happened? 778 00:50:58,306 --> 00:50:59,683 - Where did we meet, Mr. Bast? 779 00:50:59,891 --> 00:51:01,226 For the moment, I don't remember. 780 00:51:01,435 --> 00:51:05,355 - It was more than a year ago at the Ethical Society. 781 00:51:05,564 --> 00:51:07,357 The lecture was on "Music and Meaning." 782 00:51:07,566 --> 00:51:10,318 - Oh, I see, so the mistake arose out of my card, did it? 783 00:51:10,527 --> 00:51:11,754 The lady who called here yesterday 784 00:51:11,778 --> 00:51:13,005 thought you were calling as well 785 00:51:13,029 --> 00:51:15,365 and that she would find you here. 786 00:51:15,574 --> 00:51:17,284 - In the afternoon, I said to my wife, 787 00:51:17,492 --> 00:51:20,704 I said to Mrs. Bast, "I have to pay a call on some friends." 788 00:51:20,912 --> 00:51:23,290 And Mrs. Bast said to me, "Do go." 789 00:51:23,498 --> 00:51:27,127 But while I was gone, she wanted me on important business 790 00:51:27,335 --> 00:51:29,921 and thought I had come here, owing to the card. 791 00:51:30,130 --> 00:51:32,132 And I beg to tender my apologies, and hers too, 792 00:51:32,340 --> 00:51:34,801 for any inconvenience we may have caused you. 793 00:51:35,010 --> 00:51:36,386 - None at all, truly. 794 00:51:36,595 --> 00:51:37,804 - I still don't understand. 795 00:51:38,013 --> 00:51:41,183 When did you say you paid this call, this afternoon call? 796 00:51:41,391 --> 00:51:43,059 - In the afternoon, of course. 797 00:51:43,268 --> 00:51:46,021 - Saturday afternoon or Sunday? 798 00:51:46,229 --> 00:51:46,813 - Saturday. 799 00:51:47,022 --> 00:51:48,190 - Really? 800 00:51:48,398 --> 00:51:49,751 And you were still calling on Sunday 801 00:51:49,775 --> 00:51:51,359 when your wife came here? 802 00:51:51,568 --> 00:51:53,069 A long visit. 803 00:51:53,278 --> 00:51:55,006 - It was very good of you to come and explain, Mr. Bast. 804 00:51:55,030 --> 00:51:57,407 The rest is, naturally, no concern of ours. 805 00:51:57,616 --> 00:51:59,201 We are going to go upstairs for coffee. 806 00:51:59,409 --> 00:52:02,329 I do hope that you will join us. 807 00:52:02,537 --> 00:52:03,681 Annie, pour the coffee, please. 808 00:52:03,705 --> 00:52:05,874 - It's not what you think. 809 00:52:07,417 --> 00:52:08,417 I was... 810 00:52:09,836 --> 00:52:14,841 I left my office and walked right out of London. 811 00:52:15,050 --> 00:52:17,093 I was walking all Saturday night. 812 00:52:17,302 --> 00:52:19,346 - All night, in the dark? 813 00:52:20,597 --> 00:52:22,390 - It got so dark I couldn't see my own hand. 814 00:52:22,599 --> 00:52:25,727 - Mr. Bast, you must be a born explorer. 815 00:52:27,687 --> 00:52:29,665 - I tried to steer by the polestar, but once out of doors, 816 00:52:29,689 --> 00:52:31,483 everything gets so mixed, and I lost it. 817 00:52:31,691 --> 00:52:32,442 - Don't tell me about the polestar. 818 00:52:32,651 --> 00:52:33,819 I know its little ways. 819 00:52:34,027 --> 00:52:37,614 It goes round and round, and you go round with it. 820 00:52:45,163 --> 00:52:46,373 - Yes, but why? 821 00:52:46,581 --> 00:52:47,874 Why did you do it? 822 00:52:49,584 --> 00:52:51,294 I wanted to just walk, 823 00:52:53,213 --> 00:52:54,256 just get out. 824 00:52:55,590 --> 00:52:57,509 I've been reading The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. 825 00:52:57,717 --> 00:52:58,927 - Yes, I remember. 826 00:52:59,135 --> 00:53:00,404 There's that chapter where Richard walks all night. 827 00:53:00,428 --> 00:53:01,508 - In a forest by moonlight. 828 00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:03,400 - Yes, and Margaret, what's that wonderful— 829 00:53:06,268 --> 00:53:10,105 - "The forest drooped glimmeringly." 830 00:53:10,313 --> 00:53:11,731 - Wait, I'll get it. 831 00:53:11,940 --> 00:53:14,442 - The chapter's called "Nature Speaks." 832 00:53:14,651 --> 00:53:17,279 - Where do your people come from? 833 00:53:17,487 --> 00:53:18,572 - London. 834 00:53:18,780 --> 00:53:20,615 - Yes, I know, but I mean before that. 835 00:53:20,824 --> 00:53:23,201 They didn't always live in a town. 836 00:53:23,410 --> 00:53:25,370 - No, they came from around Shropshire. 837 00:53:25,579 --> 00:53:27,789 They worked on the land. 838 00:53:27,998 --> 00:53:29,624 They were agricultural laborers. 839 00:53:29,833 --> 00:53:31,585 - There, you see? 840 00:53:31,793 --> 00:53:34,713 It was ancestral voices calling you. 841 00:53:36,923 --> 00:53:38,466 - Yes, here it is. 842 00:53:38,675 --> 00:53:40,844 "Richard was walking hurriedly. 843 00:53:41,052 --> 00:53:42,470 "A pale gray light on the skirts of 844 00:53:42,679 --> 00:53:44,639 "the flying tempest displayed the dawn." 845 00:53:44,848 --> 00:53:46,099 Did you see the dawn? 846 00:53:46,308 --> 00:53:47,468 - Yes, suddenly it got light. 847 00:53:47,601 --> 00:53:48,268 - And was it wonderful? 848 00:53:48,476 --> 00:53:49,476 - No. 849 00:53:51,313 --> 00:53:52,898 It was only gray. 850 00:53:53,106 --> 00:53:55,567 And anyway, by that time, I was so tired and so hungry. 851 00:53:55,775 --> 00:53:57,055 I didn't know when you're walking 852 00:53:57,152 --> 00:53:58,352 you want a breakfast and lunch 853 00:53:58,445 --> 00:53:59,589 and tea during the night as well, 854 00:53:59,613 --> 00:54:01,740 and all I had was a packet of Woodbines. 855 00:54:05,994 --> 00:54:07,412 - No, money, give Mr. Bast money. 856 00:54:07,621 --> 00:54:10,624 - We really must go, Meg, come on. 857 00:54:10,832 --> 00:54:12,626 - Your Leonard Bast wouldn't know 858 00:54:12,834 --> 00:54:14,628 what to do if you just gave him money. 859 00:54:14,836 --> 00:54:16,796 - Nonsense, money is very educational, 860 00:54:17,005 --> 00:54:18,445 much more so than the things it buys. 861 00:54:18,632 --> 00:54:20,712 - Such crass materialism out of your mouth, Margaret. 862 00:54:20,884 --> 00:54:21,593 - Give them money. 863 00:54:21,801 --> 00:54:23,136 Let us give Mr. Bast money. 864 00:54:28,683 --> 00:54:30,003 - But he won't gain his soul until 865 00:54:30,101 --> 00:54:32,020 he has enough money to do it with. 866 00:54:32,228 --> 00:54:33,480 Give Mr. Bast money. 867 00:54:37,275 --> 00:54:39,319 - Good night, yes, well, you worry about the first. 868 00:54:39,527 --> 00:54:41,821 - Goodbye, goodbye. 869 00:54:44,658 --> 00:54:46,660 - Good night, good night. 870 00:54:59,422 --> 00:55:00,691 - So what do you think is the most 871 00:55:00,715 --> 00:55:02,509 important thing in the world, then? 872 00:55:02,717 --> 00:55:07,347 - Well, I suppose it is whatever matters to you most. 873 00:55:07,555 --> 00:55:08,835 - What, like love, for instance? 874 00:55:08,974 --> 00:55:11,160 - Yes, like love for instance, or Oxford if you're Tibby. 875 00:55:11,184 --> 00:55:12,686 - Ms. Schlegel? 876 00:55:12,894 --> 00:55:13,645 Henry Wilcox. 877 00:55:13,853 --> 00:55:14,437 - Oh, hello. 878 00:55:14,646 --> 00:55:15,689 - Hello, good evening. 879 00:55:15,897 --> 00:55:16,916 - Good evening, how nice to see you. 880 00:55:16,940 --> 00:55:18,060 - What a wonderful surprise. 881 00:55:18,233 --> 00:55:19,593 I heard two ladies talking of love. 882 00:55:19,734 --> 00:55:21,111 - Oh, no. 883 00:55:21,319 --> 00:55:23,405 - No, we were continuing a serious discussion. 884 00:55:23,613 --> 00:55:24,698 - Yes? 885 00:55:24,906 --> 00:55:26,706 - Yes, we belong to a sort of club which meets 886 00:55:26,825 --> 00:55:29,160 once a week to discuss various subjects. 887 00:55:29,369 --> 00:55:30,495 How are you? 888 00:55:30,704 --> 00:55:33,039 I would've thought you would be down at Howards End. 889 00:55:33,248 --> 00:55:34,248 - Howards End is let. 890 00:55:34,290 --> 00:55:35,583 We've bought a house in Mayfair. 891 00:55:35,792 --> 00:55:37,919 - Yes, Mr. Wilcox, supposing you were a millionaire. 892 00:55:38,128 --> 00:55:40,714 - Oh, but I expect you are one. 893 00:55:40,922 --> 00:55:43,299 - We have met a young man who is very poor, 894 00:55:43,508 --> 00:55:45,885 and we think sensitive and intelligent, and we wondered 895 00:55:46,094 --> 00:55:48,430 if one was a millionaire, how one could help him. 896 00:55:48,638 --> 00:55:49,638 - What's his profession? 897 00:55:49,806 --> 00:55:51,406 - He's a clerk in, what was it, Margaret? 898 00:55:51,558 --> 00:55:54,102 - The Porphyrion Fire Insurance Company. 899 00:55:54,310 --> 00:55:54,894 - Porphyrion? 900 00:55:55,103 --> 00:55:56,103 - Yes. 901 00:55:57,063 --> 00:55:59,899 - Ah, then Ms. Schlegel, if I were 902 00:56:00,108 --> 00:56:02,861 to help your young clerk, I'd advise him to clear out of 903 00:56:03,069 --> 00:56:04,589 the Porphyrion with all possible speed. 904 00:56:04,779 --> 00:56:05,864 - Why? 905 00:56:06,072 --> 00:56:07,633 - Now, this is between friends, you understand, 906 00:56:07,657 --> 00:56:09,534 but the Porphyrion is insufficiently reinsured. 907 00:56:09,743 --> 00:56:11,703 It'll be in the receivers' hands before Christmas. 908 00:56:11,911 --> 00:56:13,621 In other words, it will smash. 909 00:56:13,830 --> 00:56:14,830 - Oh, do you hear? 910 00:56:14,998 --> 00:56:16,583 Helen, the Porphyrion will smash. 911 00:56:16,791 --> 00:56:17,584 - We'll have to warn Mr. Bast. 912 00:56:17,792 --> 00:56:18,853 He'll have to get another place. 913 00:56:18,877 --> 00:56:20,420 - I hope he'll get one very quickly. 914 00:56:20,628 --> 00:56:22,213 - But rather than wait to make sure? 915 00:56:22,422 --> 00:56:23,673 - Yes, decidedly. 916 00:56:23,882 --> 00:56:25,776 You understand, the man who is already in a situation when 917 00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:29,721 he applies for work stands a much better chance, naturally. 918 00:56:29,929 --> 00:56:31,699 This is letting you into state secrets, of course, 919 00:56:31,723 --> 00:56:35,101 but it does affect an employer greatly. 920 00:56:35,310 --> 00:56:36,644 Human nature, I'm afraid. 921 00:56:36,853 --> 00:56:38,122 - Well, our human nature appears 922 00:56:38,146 --> 00:56:39,373 to be quite the other way around. 923 00:56:39,397 --> 00:56:41,816 We employ people because they're unemployed. 924 00:56:42,025 --> 00:56:43,401 The bootman, for instance. 925 00:56:43,610 --> 00:56:44,235 - How does he clean the boots? 926 00:56:44,444 --> 00:56:45,028 - Not well. 927 00:56:45,236 --> 00:56:46,279 - There you are. 928 00:56:46,488 --> 00:56:48,281 - Mr. Wilcox, is it very difficult nowadays 929 00:56:48,490 --> 00:56:49,741 for a clerk to get a situation? 930 00:56:49,949 --> 00:56:50,992 - Yes, extremely. 931 00:56:51,201 --> 00:56:52,577 - I'm so sorry about Howards End. 932 00:56:52,786 --> 00:56:53,786 - Hmm? 933 00:56:53,912 --> 00:56:55,580 - I mean that you're not living there. 934 00:56:55,789 --> 00:56:58,124 I think I have some idea of how much 935 00:56:58,333 --> 00:57:00,710 her house meant to Mrs. Wilcox. 936 00:57:00,919 --> 00:57:03,379 - Yes, but to us, the family, it has certain drawbacks. 937 00:57:03,588 --> 00:57:05,507 - Would you be able to help, our friend, 938 00:57:05,715 --> 00:57:07,967 help him to a new situation? 939 00:57:08,176 --> 00:57:09,803 - Well, unfortunately, we have 940 00:57:10,011 --> 00:57:12,138 very few positions and vacancies, 941 00:57:12,347 --> 00:57:14,307 and when there is one, of course, 942 00:57:14,516 --> 00:57:16,142 always hundreds of applicants. 943 00:57:16,351 --> 00:57:17,477 - Of course. 944 00:57:17,685 --> 00:57:18,269 - Well, it has been a pleasure. 945 00:57:18,478 --> 00:57:19,187 - Yes, indeed. 946 00:57:19,395 --> 00:57:20,647 - Ms. Schlegel, Ms. Schlegel. 947 00:57:20,855 --> 00:57:22,816 I hope your young clerk finds success. 948 00:57:23,024 --> 00:57:26,528 - Thank you, good night. - Good night. 949 00:57:26,736 --> 00:57:28,656 - Well, he was in a hurry to get away, wasn't he? 950 00:57:39,249 --> 00:57:41,751 - Mr. Bast, I fear you may have 951 00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:44,337 thought our letter a little odd. 952 00:57:44,546 --> 00:57:45,255 - We're not odd, really. 953 00:57:45,463 --> 00:57:46,543 We're just over-expressive. 954 00:57:46,631 --> 00:57:47,715 That's all. 955 00:57:47,924 --> 00:57:49,524 - The more a lady has to say, the better. 956 00:57:49,634 --> 00:57:50,986 Ladies brighten every conversation. 957 00:57:51,010 --> 00:57:52,095 - Yes, I know. 958 00:57:52,303 --> 00:57:52,929 The darlings are regular sunbeams. 959 00:57:53,138 --> 00:57:54,764 Let me give you a plate. 960 00:57:54,973 --> 00:57:58,184 - Your company is the Porphyrion, isn't it? 961 00:57:58,393 --> 00:58:00,478 Would you call it a solid concern? 962 00:58:00,687 --> 00:58:01,813 - Cake? 963 00:58:02,021 --> 00:58:04,065 This big one or one of these little deadlies? 964 00:58:04,274 --> 00:58:06,818 - It depends what you mean by solid. 965 00:58:07,026 --> 00:58:09,028 - We were told the Porphyrion's a no-go. 966 00:58:09,237 --> 00:58:12,240 - A friend of ours did think that 967 00:58:12,448 --> 00:58:13,783 it's insufficiently reinsured. 968 00:58:13,992 --> 00:58:16,119 - And advised you to clear out. 969 00:58:16,327 --> 00:58:17,847 - You can tell your friend that he's wrong. 970 00:58:17,871 --> 00:58:18,871 - Oh, good! 971 00:58:21,332 --> 00:58:22,876 - Wrong, so to speak. 972 00:58:23,084 --> 00:58:25,420 - How, so to speak? 973 00:58:25,628 --> 00:58:27,839 - I mean, I wouldn't say he was right altogether. 974 00:58:28,047 --> 00:58:29,924 - Then he is right partly? 975 00:58:31,259 --> 00:58:33,887 - Tell your friend to mind his own business. 976 00:58:35,930 --> 00:58:37,098 - Annie. 977 00:58:37,307 --> 00:58:39,559 - Mr. Wilcox, Ms. Wilcox. 978 00:58:39,767 --> 00:58:40,767 - Oh. 979 00:58:41,603 --> 00:58:42,603 - What a surprise! 980 00:58:46,691 --> 00:58:47,734 - Oh, they're beautiful. 981 00:58:47,942 --> 00:58:49,235 - Mr. Wilcox, do come in. 982 00:58:49,444 --> 00:58:51,005 - Ms. Schlegel, pray forgive us for calling so unexpectedly. 983 00:58:51,029 --> 00:58:52,155 - How nice to see you. 984 00:58:52,363 --> 00:58:53,632 - Mr. Bast, look, come and play with the puppies. 985 00:58:53,656 --> 00:58:56,117 - Mr. Wilcox, this is Mr. Bast. 986 00:58:57,118 --> 00:58:57,702 - Aren't they beautiful? 987 00:58:57,911 --> 00:58:59,120 - I must be going. 988 00:58:59,329 --> 00:59:00,872 - Oh, must you really? 989 00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:02,290 - Oh, come again. 990 00:59:02,498 --> 00:59:03,082 - No, I shan't. 991 00:59:03,291 --> 00:59:05,043 I shan't come again. 992 00:59:06,586 --> 00:59:08,254 - I call that a very rude remark. 993 00:59:08,463 --> 00:59:10,423 What do you want to turn on me like that for? 994 00:59:10,632 --> 00:59:14,010 - I thought you invited me here as, for a friendly chat. 995 00:59:14,219 --> 00:59:15,529 Instead, it turns out you want to pick 996 00:59:15,553 --> 00:59:16,947 my brains about my place of business. 997 00:59:16,971 --> 00:59:17,555 Oh yes, "Send for him. 998 00:59:17,764 --> 00:59:18,348 "Cross-question him. 999 00:59:18,556 --> 00:59:19,265 "Pick his brains." 1000 00:59:19,474 --> 00:59:20,642 - No, no! 1001 00:59:20,850 --> 00:59:21,911 - Are we intruding, Ms. Schlegel? 1002 00:59:21,935 --> 00:59:22,935 Shall we go? 1003 00:59:22,977 --> 00:59:24,854 - No, no, thank you. 1004 00:59:25,063 --> 00:59:27,315 Helen, go after him, explain. 1005 00:59:34,030 --> 00:59:35,907 - What was all that about? 1006 00:59:36,115 --> 00:59:37,355 - I knew I shouldn't have come. 1007 00:59:37,408 --> 00:59:38,636 It was all right last time, but 1008 00:59:38,660 --> 00:59:40,060 things like that always get spoiled. 1009 00:59:40,119 --> 00:59:42,413 - Things do but people don't. 1010 00:59:42,622 --> 00:59:43,831 Don't you understand? 1011 00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:46,209 We really did want to warn you about the Porphyrion. 1012 00:59:46,417 --> 00:59:48,795 We were worried about you. 1013 00:59:49,003 --> 00:59:50,380 - Why should you worry about me? 1014 00:59:50,588 --> 00:59:52,507 - Because we like you. 1015 00:59:52,715 --> 00:59:54,550 That's why, you noodle. 1016 00:59:57,971 --> 00:59:59,531 - There's no cause to call a person names. 1017 00:59:59,555 --> 01:00:00,699 - Oh yes, there is when a person 1018 01:00:00,723 --> 01:00:02,934 is being tremendously stupid. 1019 01:00:04,727 --> 01:00:06,938 Oh, listen, this is serious. 1020 01:00:07,146 --> 01:00:08,707 Our friend said you should be looking around 1021 01:00:08,731 --> 01:00:11,276 for another post now before anything happens. 1022 01:00:11,484 --> 01:00:12,777 Will you? 1023 01:00:12,986 --> 01:00:14,070 - I'll think about it. 1024 01:00:14,279 --> 01:00:15,822 - No, you must do more than think. 1025 01:00:16,030 --> 01:00:19,742 You must search for another place while you still have one. 1026 01:00:19,951 --> 01:00:24,289 Now, promise you will do that at least, please. 1027 01:00:24,497 --> 01:00:29,085 - All right, thank you, Ms. Schlegel. 1028 01:00:29,294 --> 01:00:30,494 - Come and tell us when you've 1029 01:00:30,628 --> 01:00:32,255 found another place, or just come anyway. 1030 01:00:32,463 --> 01:00:35,591 And don't say no, don't dare to say no. 1031 01:00:37,135 --> 01:00:40,888 And don't forget your umbrella or you'll say we pinched it. 1032 01:00:48,313 --> 01:00:50,106 - You ought to be more careful, Ms. Schlegel. 1033 01:00:50,315 --> 01:00:51,458 Your servants ought to have orders 1034 01:00:51,482 --> 01:00:52,522 not to let such people in. 1035 01:00:52,650 --> 01:00:54,569 - Oh, but we invited him in. 1036 01:00:54,777 --> 01:00:56,779 Yes, we wanted to see him again and talk to him 1037 01:00:56,988 --> 01:01:00,450 and maybe help him, not only in a practical way. 1038 01:01:00,658 --> 01:01:01,909 - You're too kind. 1039 01:01:02,118 --> 01:01:04,438 You behave too well to people, and then they impose on you. 1040 01:01:04,495 --> 01:01:06,873 I know the world and that type of man. 1041 01:01:07,081 --> 01:01:08,833 - Oh, but he is not a type, Mr. Wilcox. 1042 01:01:10,209 --> 01:01:12,211 No, I think he is a quite unusual young man, 1043 01:01:12,420 --> 01:01:14,005 and he has something in him. 1044 01:01:14,213 --> 01:01:16,090 I don't know what it is except that 1045 01:01:16,299 --> 01:01:18,676 he wants something better than he's got. 1046 01:01:18,885 --> 01:01:19,969 - Oh. 1047 01:01:20,178 --> 01:01:23,139 - Yes, he has a sort of romantic ambition. 1048 01:01:24,682 --> 01:01:28,227 - It is your view of him that is romantic, Ms. Schlegel. 1049 01:01:31,856 --> 01:01:32,856 Evie. 1050 01:01:34,150 --> 01:01:36,170 We wish you to have something to remember Mrs. Wilcox by 1051 01:01:36,194 --> 01:01:39,280 in return for your kindness to her in those days. 1052 01:01:39,489 --> 01:01:41,574 - Oh, thank you so much. 1053 01:01:41,783 --> 01:01:43,826 What a lovely thought, thank you. 1054 01:01:44,035 --> 01:01:44,786 - She would want you to have it. 1055 01:01:44,994 --> 01:01:46,138 She spoke very fondly of you. 1056 01:01:46,162 --> 01:01:47,162 - It's beautiful. 1057 01:01:47,205 --> 01:01:48,205 Are you sure? 1058 01:01:49,916 --> 01:01:51,000 Is it 18th century? 1059 01:01:51,209 --> 01:01:52,627 It must be crystal. 1060 01:01:52,835 --> 01:01:55,088 Thank you, thank you, Evie. 1061 01:01:57,632 --> 01:01:58,925 - So what does she look like? 1062 01:01:59,133 --> 01:02:00,426 - Sort of an old-maid type. 1063 01:02:00,635 --> 01:02:02,475 Goodness knows why Father wanted me to ask her. 1064 01:02:02,553 --> 01:02:03,179 She talks and talks. 1065 01:02:03,388 --> 01:02:04,430 Here she is. 1066 01:02:04,639 --> 01:02:05,723 Ms. Schlegel. 1067 01:02:05,932 --> 01:02:07,141 - Hello. Ms. Wilcox. 1068 01:02:07,350 --> 01:02:08,350 - How do you do? 1069 01:02:08,518 --> 01:02:10,228 This is my fiance, Percy Cahill. 1070 01:02:10,436 --> 01:02:12,980 - How do you do? 1071 01:02:13,189 --> 01:02:14,357 - Ah, good afternoon. 1072 01:02:14,565 --> 01:02:17,402 - Hello, I didn't expect to see you. 1073 01:02:17,610 --> 01:02:18,962 - Well, Evie told me of her little plot, 1074 01:02:18,986 --> 01:02:20,586 so I just slipped in and secured a table. 1075 01:02:20,696 --> 01:02:21,489 Always secure a table first. 1076 01:02:21,697 --> 01:02:22,782 Evie, sit there. 1077 01:02:22,990 --> 01:02:24,093 Ms. Schlegel, if you please, here. 1078 01:02:24,117 --> 01:02:25,117 - Thank you very much. 1079 01:02:25,243 --> 01:02:26,744 - Mr. Cahill, there. 1080 01:02:28,329 --> 01:02:32,083 Well, are you still worrying around after your young clerks? 1081 01:02:32,291 --> 01:02:33,084 I hope you're hungry. 1082 01:02:33,292 --> 01:02:34,572 - Famished, I want to eat heaps. 1083 01:02:34,752 --> 01:02:36,629 - Good, what will you have? 1084 01:02:36,838 --> 01:02:37,922 - Fish pie. 1085 01:02:38,131 --> 01:02:39,715 - Ah, fish pie. 1086 01:02:39,924 --> 01:02:41,592 Fancy coming for fish pie to Simpson's. 1087 01:02:41,801 --> 01:02:43,195 It's not a good thing to go for here. 1088 01:02:43,219 --> 01:02:44,512 - Go for something for me then. 1089 01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:45,972 - Right, umm... 1090 01:02:47,432 --> 01:02:50,435 roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and... 1091 01:02:50,643 --> 01:02:51,227 - What will you have? 1092 01:02:51,436 --> 01:02:52,562 - Cider to drink. 1093 01:02:52,770 --> 01:02:53,354 That's the type of thing to go for. 1094 01:02:53,563 --> 01:02:54,981 - I'll have trout. 1095 01:02:55,189 --> 01:02:55,940 - Yes, I like this place for a joke once in a while. 1096 01:02:56,149 --> 01:02:57,389 It's so thoroughly old English. 1097 01:02:57,525 --> 01:02:58,525 Don't you agree? 1098 01:03:01,154 --> 01:03:03,406 - I began an inventory of our possessions. 1099 01:03:03,614 --> 01:03:05,616 There are over 300 things in the drawing room alone 1100 01:03:05,825 --> 01:03:07,118 Oh, thank you, lovely. 1101 01:03:07,326 --> 01:03:09,078 And that's not counting the books. 1102 01:03:09,287 --> 01:03:11,539 Whatever shall I do? 1103 01:03:11,747 --> 01:03:13,467 You see, the modern ownership of moveables— 1104 01:03:14,834 --> 01:03:15,376 - Is reducing us again to a nomadic— 1105 01:03:16,919 --> 01:03:18,188 - We are reverting to a civilization 1106 01:03:18,212 --> 01:03:20,047 of luggage, Mr. Wilcox. 1107 01:03:20,256 --> 01:03:21,256 - Thank you. 1108 01:03:21,299 --> 01:03:22,299 - Thank you, sir. 1109 01:03:22,383 --> 01:03:23,593 - Always tip the carver. 1110 01:03:23,801 --> 01:03:25,511 Tip everywhere is my motto. 1111 01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:27,156 - Perhaps it does make life more human. 1112 01:03:27,180 --> 01:03:28,282 - Yes, then these fellows remember 1113 01:03:28,306 --> 01:03:29,765 one again, especially in the East. 1114 01:03:29,974 --> 01:03:31,743 If you tip, they remember you from year's end to year's end. 1115 01:03:31,767 --> 01:03:33,144 - Have you been in the East? 1116 01:03:33,352 --> 01:03:34,512 - Yes, Greece and the Levant. 1117 01:03:34,645 --> 01:03:37,356 I used to go for sport and business to Cyprus. 1118 01:03:37,565 --> 01:03:38,925 A few piastres properly distributed 1119 01:03:39,108 --> 01:03:40,388 help to keep one's memory green. 1120 01:03:40,443 --> 01:03:42,111 - How shockingly cynical. 1121 01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:44,155 - Not a bit, simply realistic. 1122 01:03:44,363 --> 01:03:45,716 - Excuse me, sir, how would you like your beef done? 1123 01:03:45,740 --> 01:03:46,324 - Well done. 1124 01:03:46,532 --> 01:03:47,532 - Well done. 1125 01:03:49,911 --> 01:03:51,204 - You don't like cheese. 1126 01:03:51,412 --> 01:03:52,412 You never take cheese. 1127 01:03:52,538 --> 01:03:53,247 - Percy, I adore cheese. 1128 01:03:53,456 --> 01:03:54,916 - You said you didn't like it. 1129 01:03:55,124 --> 01:03:56,560 - That's the most despicable lie, Percy, and you know it. 1130 01:03:56,584 --> 01:03:57,960 You've gone quite pink. 1131 01:03:58,169 --> 01:03:58,753 - I haven't gone pink. 1132 01:03:58,961 --> 01:04:00,046 - Yes you have. 1133 01:04:00,254 --> 01:04:01,398 Your ears have gone slightly pink about the tips. 1134 01:04:01,422 --> 01:04:01,964 - Evie, I have not. 1135 01:04:02,173 --> 01:04:03,341 - Evie, I like that. 1136 01:04:03,549 --> 01:04:05,152 Ms. Schlegel expects me to act as house agent for her. 1137 01:04:05,176 --> 01:04:07,637 - I want a new home in September, 1138 01:04:07,845 --> 01:04:08,845 and someone must find it. 1139 01:04:09,013 --> 01:04:09,805 I can't. 1140 01:04:10,014 --> 01:04:11,933 - Do you know of anything, Percy? 1141 01:04:12,141 --> 01:04:13,351 - Can't say I do. 1142 01:04:13,559 --> 01:04:16,771 - I wish you would give us Howards End. 1143 01:04:18,397 --> 01:04:20,024 - Howards End, I'm afraid, is let. 1144 01:04:20,233 --> 01:04:23,152 - Can't you turn out your tenant and let it to us? 1145 01:04:23,361 --> 01:04:24,362 - No. 1146 01:04:25,780 --> 01:04:28,491 - We're nearly demented. 1147 01:04:28,699 --> 01:04:30,826 Mr. Wilcox, I am demented. 1148 01:04:32,620 --> 01:04:35,248 - One bit of advice, fix your district, 1149 01:04:35,456 --> 01:04:37,875 then fix your price, then don't budge. 1150 01:04:38,084 --> 01:04:41,254 That's how I got Ducie Street and Oniton. 1151 01:04:41,462 --> 01:04:45,508 Well, I shall, I shall look around a bit for you. 1152 01:04:47,426 --> 01:04:48,426 - Would you? 1153 01:04:48,469 --> 01:04:49,469 - Yes. 1154 01:04:49,554 --> 01:04:50,596 - Would you really? 1155 01:04:50,805 --> 01:04:53,224 - Yes. - Well, how kind. 1156 01:04:53,432 --> 01:04:55,226 But I warn you, the house has not been built 1157 01:04:55,434 --> 01:04:57,270 that would suit the Schlegel family. 1158 01:04:57,478 --> 01:04:59,814 It's no fun trying to help us. 1159 01:05:00,022 --> 01:05:02,108 - Fun, no, but it's a pleasure and a privilege 1160 01:05:02,316 --> 01:05:06,904 to do whatever I can for Ms. Margaret Schlegel. 1161 01:05:07,113 --> 01:05:08,823 - Thank you very much. 1162 01:05:10,032 --> 01:05:12,326 - Dear Ms. Schlegel, dare I intrude 1163 01:05:12,535 --> 01:05:15,288 on your holiday in Devon and request you to come up 1164 01:05:15,496 --> 01:05:18,583 to London, where, I may add, you are greatly missed? 1165 01:05:18,791 --> 01:05:20,918 Matter is of some urgency. 1166 01:05:22,253 --> 01:05:24,547 - But to interrupt your holiday, dear Margaret, 1167 01:05:24,755 --> 01:05:27,174 and before we have undertaken any of our excursions. 1168 01:05:27,383 --> 01:05:30,261 You haven't even been to Nine Barrows Down. 1169 01:05:30,469 --> 01:05:32,972 - I know, Aunt Juley, but I shall be back before long. 1170 01:05:33,180 --> 01:05:35,683 Let me go up to town today and take the house 1171 01:05:35,891 --> 01:05:37,310 if it's the least bit possible. 1172 01:05:37,518 --> 01:05:38,144 - I don't understand. 1173 01:05:38,352 --> 01:05:39,352 Whose house is this? 1174 01:05:39,437 --> 01:05:40,104 - It's Mr. Wilcox's, Tibby. 1175 01:05:40,313 --> 01:05:41,593 You are being remarkably obtuse. 1176 01:05:41,731 --> 01:05:43,566 Are you doing it on purpose? 1177 01:05:43,774 --> 01:05:45,776 Look, "Owing to changed circumstances," 1178 01:05:45,985 --> 01:05:47,425 he means that Evie's getting married. 1179 01:05:47,570 --> 01:05:48,988 That's his daughter. 1180 01:05:49,196 --> 01:05:51,490 "I no longer have need for a London house of this size 1181 01:05:51,699 --> 01:05:53,701 "and am willing to let it on a yearly tenancy." 1182 01:05:53,909 --> 01:05:55,244 Now, it's perfect. 1183 01:05:55,453 --> 01:05:56,893 - Out of all our hotel acquaintances, 1184 01:05:57,038 --> 01:05:58,558 Mr. Wilcox is the only one who's stuck, 1185 01:05:58,664 --> 01:06:00,875 and yet, we've met far more interesting people. 1186 01:06:01,083 --> 01:06:03,294 - Interesting people don't get one houses. 1187 01:06:03,502 --> 01:06:06,088 - I shall never forget that dreadful motor driver, 1188 01:06:06,297 --> 01:06:08,132 that perfectly dreadful Charles. 1189 01:06:08,341 --> 01:06:09,741 My one consolation is that for once, 1190 01:06:09,842 --> 01:06:12,303 I was able to be useful to you girls. 1191 01:06:12,511 --> 01:06:14,472 - Thank you, Aunt Juley. 1192 01:06:16,057 --> 01:06:18,893 And now it is my turn to be useful. 1193 01:06:54,345 --> 01:06:56,180 - This is the ballroom. 1194 01:06:56,389 --> 01:06:58,557 - Goodness, oh. 1195 01:06:59,475 --> 01:07:00,475 - Like it? 1196 01:07:00,518 --> 01:07:02,186 - Rather! 1197 01:07:02,395 --> 01:07:05,606 Even I know a good thing when I see it. 1198 01:07:08,526 --> 01:07:13,197 - Yes, but nowadays, with Evie always out with her fiance, 1199 01:07:13,406 --> 01:07:14,466 when I get home in the evenings, 1200 01:07:14,490 --> 01:07:16,367 I tell you, I can't stand the place. 1201 01:07:16,575 --> 01:07:18,285 - Yes, it would be very lonely for you. 1202 01:07:18,494 --> 01:07:19,494 - Yes. 1203 01:07:21,414 --> 01:07:23,374 Do you ever get lonely, Ms. Schlegel? 1204 01:07:23,582 --> 01:07:25,334 - I soon shall, horribly. 1205 01:07:26,669 --> 01:07:31,340 It's heartbreaking to leave one's old home. 1206 01:07:31,549 --> 01:07:34,135 Goodness, how high this ceiling must be. 1207 01:07:34,343 --> 01:07:35,343 - Hmm? 1208 01:07:35,511 --> 01:07:37,096 Yes, it must be over 30 feet. 1209 01:07:37,304 --> 01:07:41,267 No, maybe 40, I should think, perhaps even more. 1210 01:07:44,645 --> 01:07:45,646 Ms. Schlegel... 1211 01:07:48,691 --> 01:07:51,485 I've had you up here on false pretenses. 1212 01:07:51,694 --> 01:07:52,445 I want to speak on a much more 1213 01:07:52,653 --> 01:07:55,239 serious matter than the house. 1214 01:08:00,077 --> 01:08:03,414 Do you think you could be induced to share? 1215 01:08:05,416 --> 01:08:06,834 I mean, is it at all probable that— 1216 01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:17,011 - Ms. Schlegel. 1217 01:08:18,262 --> 01:08:19,262 Margaret. 1218 01:08:20,514 --> 01:08:22,057 I don't think you quite understand. 1219 01:08:22,266 --> 01:08:24,018 - Oh, yes, indeed, yes. 1220 01:08:24,226 --> 01:08:25,978 - I'm asking you to be my wife. 1221 01:08:26,187 --> 01:08:27,938 - Yes, I know, I know. 1222 01:08:29,732 --> 01:08:31,358 - Are you offended? 1223 01:08:31,567 --> 01:08:32,985 - How could I be? 1224 01:08:33,194 --> 01:08:34,796 - Well, perhaps I should've written first. 1225 01:08:34,820 --> 01:08:38,282 - No, no, rather, you will receive a letter from me. 1226 01:08:38,491 --> 01:08:39,617 - Thank you. 1227 01:08:39,825 --> 01:08:42,369 - Not at all, and it's you I thank. 1228 01:08:47,917 --> 01:08:50,961 - Should I order the motor round now? 1229 01:08:52,630 --> 01:08:54,799 - That would be most kind. 1230 01:09:21,700 --> 01:09:22,785 - I am warning you, Evie. 1231 01:09:22,993 --> 01:09:24,473 She will never set foot in this house! 1232 01:09:24,662 --> 01:09:25,662 - It's not my fault! 1233 01:09:25,788 --> 01:09:28,541 - Of course it's your fault. 1234 01:09:28,749 --> 01:09:31,377 Going around hobnobbing with those Schlegel girls. 1235 01:09:31,585 --> 01:09:32,169 - Girls? 1236 01:09:32,378 --> 01:09:34,380 They're hardly girls. 1237 01:09:34,588 --> 01:09:36,382 I never dreamt of such a thing. 1238 01:09:36,590 --> 01:09:37,990 Dad took me to call and then made me 1239 01:09:38,175 --> 01:09:40,511 ask her to Simpson's, that's all. 1240 01:09:40,719 --> 01:09:41,929 Well, I'm altogether off Dad. 1241 01:09:42,930 --> 01:09:43,597 - You've woken Didums. 1242 01:09:43,806 --> 01:09:45,349 I knew you would. 1243 01:09:45,558 --> 01:09:50,020 - Well, Ms. Schlegel's fairly got us on toast. 1244 01:09:50,229 --> 01:09:53,440 You know, she always meant to get hold of Howards End. 1245 01:09:53,649 --> 01:09:56,569 Now, thanks to you, she's got it. 1246 01:09:56,777 --> 01:09:58,779 - I call that most unfair. 1247 01:09:58,988 --> 01:10:00,739 - Oh, Evie, why don't you pretend 1248 01:10:00,948 --> 01:10:02,324 to break off your engagement? 1249 01:10:02,533 --> 01:10:03,635 Then, perhaps, your father will 1250 01:10:03,659 --> 01:10:05,578 also quarrel with Ms. Schlegel. 1251 01:10:05,786 --> 01:10:07,204 - Stop talking nonsense, darling. 1252 01:10:07,413 --> 01:10:09,915 - I'm jolly well going to get married as soon as possible. 1253 01:10:10,124 --> 01:10:11,792 And Dad can do what he likes. 1254 01:10:12,001 --> 01:10:14,670 - She's taking Mother's place. 1255 01:10:14,879 --> 01:10:16,171 The idea! 1256 01:10:16,380 --> 01:10:19,550 - I could simply scratch that woman's eyes out. 1257 01:10:19,758 --> 01:10:21,385 Toto, Toto, play. 1258 01:10:21,594 --> 01:10:22,928 - Come on, Dolly. 1259 01:10:23,137 --> 01:10:24,722 I'll have a try. 1260 01:10:24,930 --> 01:10:25,723 Come on. 1261 01:10:25,931 --> 01:10:28,309 Well, it's no use talking. 1262 01:10:28,517 --> 01:10:32,521 We're in a bad hole and must make the best of it. 1263 01:10:32,730 --> 01:10:36,150 But I'll keep my eye on those Schlegels. 1264 01:10:36,358 --> 01:10:38,861 And if I find them putting on airs 1265 01:10:39,069 --> 01:10:42,156 with their artistic beastliness, 1266 01:10:42,364 --> 01:10:43,991 I intend to put my foot down. 1267 01:10:44,199 --> 01:10:45,199 Yes, firmly. 1268 01:11:03,427 --> 01:11:05,429 - I've had a letter too, not a nice one. 1269 01:11:05,638 --> 01:11:07,431 I want to talk it over with you. 1270 01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:09,850 My letter is about Howards End. 1271 01:11:10,059 --> 01:11:12,478 The tenants have decamped. 1272 01:11:12,686 --> 01:11:13,395 And what is worse, he's trying 1273 01:11:13,604 --> 01:11:14,897 to sublet the house, Margaret. 1274 01:11:15,105 --> 01:11:16,585 Here, he's trying to sublet the house. 1275 01:11:16,690 --> 01:11:17,690 What are you laughing at? 1276 01:11:17,816 --> 01:11:20,444 - Henry, you haven't had a chance 1277 01:11:20,653 --> 01:11:22,255 for a talk with Helen yet have you, I suppose? 1278 01:11:22,279 --> 01:11:23,590 - What do you mean, a talk with her? 1279 01:11:23,614 --> 01:11:24,782 - Well, do before you go. 1280 01:11:24,990 --> 01:11:26,367 - Why, what's the matter? 1281 01:11:26,575 --> 01:11:29,328 - No, nothing, I'm just anxious you two should be friends. 1282 01:11:29,536 --> 01:11:30,680 - We've always hit it off together. 1283 01:11:30,704 --> 01:11:31,455 - Shh. 1284 01:11:31,664 --> 01:11:32,998 - Well, we do. 1285 01:11:33,207 --> 01:11:35,143 There's no clause in the agreement to allow subletting. 1286 01:11:35,167 --> 01:11:36,627 There you are, read it yourself. 1287 01:11:36,835 --> 01:11:37,835 That's awfully jolly. 1288 01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:39,004 - Thank you. 1289 01:11:39,213 --> 01:11:41,006 - Yes, especially that, foxgloves. 1290 01:11:41,215 --> 01:11:42,967 - Yes, dear old digitalis. 1291 01:11:43,175 --> 01:11:45,594 - Digitalis, sounds like a sneeze. 1292 01:11:47,846 --> 01:11:50,557 - Margaret, such nice news from Mr. Bast. 1293 01:11:50,766 --> 01:11:51,350 - Really? 1294 01:11:51,558 --> 01:11:52,226 Good. 1295 01:11:52,434 --> 01:11:54,478 - Here we all are then. 1296 01:11:54,687 --> 01:11:56,563 Mr. Bast is now with Dempster's Bank. 1297 01:11:56,772 --> 01:11:58,190 That's his news. - Good. 1298 01:11:58,399 --> 01:12:01,485 - Thanks to your hint, he cleared out of the Porphyrion. 1299 01:12:01,694 --> 01:12:03,779 - Not a bad business, the Porphyrion. 1300 01:12:03,988 --> 01:12:06,348 Margaret, I shall have to go to Howards End and take charge, 1301 01:12:06,407 --> 01:12:08,283 and I would like you to come with me. 1302 01:12:08,492 --> 01:12:09,535 - Not a bad business? 1303 01:12:09,743 --> 01:12:10,887 - Yes, I would like that very much. 1304 01:12:10,911 --> 01:12:12,013 - Good, what about tomorrow? 1305 01:12:12,037 --> 01:12:13,037 - Tomorrow? 1306 01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:14,456 Oh no, I couldn't well do that. 1307 01:12:14,665 --> 01:12:15,916 - Why not? 1308 01:12:16,125 --> 01:12:16,834 - You told us the Porphyrion would smash before Christmas. 1309 01:12:17,042 --> 01:12:18,460 - Did I? 1310 01:12:18,669 --> 01:12:21,171 Yes, well, it was outside the tariff ring at the time. 1311 01:12:21,380 --> 01:12:23,132 Took some rather bad policies. 1312 01:12:23,340 --> 01:12:26,510 But lately, it came in, safe as houses now. 1313 01:12:26,719 --> 01:12:27,970 What's wrong with tomorrow? 1314 01:12:28,178 --> 01:12:30,459 - Well, Aunt Juley would be so disappointed if I left now. 1315 01:12:30,514 --> 01:12:31,594 - Didn't Mr. Wilcox clearly 1316 01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:32,784 tell us that the Porphyrion would— 1317 01:12:35,602 --> 01:12:36,913 - Henry, Aunt Juley regards this visit as a— 1318 01:12:38,939 --> 01:12:40,219 and Mr. Bast need never have left 1319 01:12:40,357 --> 01:12:42,818 and taken another post at a greatly reduced salary. 1320 01:12:43,027 --> 01:12:44,403 - My dear Helen. 1321 01:12:44,611 --> 01:12:46,822 I grieve for your clerk, I really do. 1322 01:12:47,031 --> 01:12:49,074 But it is all part of the battle of life. 1323 01:12:49,283 --> 01:12:49,867 - Battle of life? 1324 01:12:50,075 --> 01:12:51,452 - Yes. 1325 01:12:51,660 --> 01:12:53,221 - A man who had little money has less, owing to us. 1326 01:12:53,245 --> 01:12:54,997 - Oh, come, come, you're not to blame. 1327 01:12:55,205 --> 01:12:56,205 No one is to blame. 1328 01:12:56,290 --> 01:12:57,041 - No one? 1329 01:12:57,249 --> 01:12:58,584 Is no one to blame for anything? 1330 01:12:58,792 --> 01:12:59,792 - I didn't say that. 1331 01:12:59,877 --> 01:13:01,021 You take things far too seriously. 1332 01:13:01,045 --> 01:13:01,670 - Margaret! 1333 01:13:01,879 --> 01:13:02,671 - There's your aunt. 1334 01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:03,672 I'll go and have a word with her. 1335 01:13:03,881 --> 01:13:04,631 - Margaret! 1336 01:13:04,840 --> 01:13:06,383 - Helen. 1337 01:13:06,592 --> 01:13:08,719 - Helen, a word of advice— 1338 01:13:10,846 --> 01:13:13,599 - Don't take up a sentimental attitude over the poor. 1339 01:13:13,807 --> 01:13:15,726 See that she doesn't, Margaret. 1340 01:13:15,934 --> 01:13:16,977 The poor are poor. 1341 01:13:17,186 --> 01:13:20,230 One is sorry for them, but there it is. 1342 01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:21,791 I'll talk to Aunt Juley about tomorrow. 1343 01:13:21,815 --> 01:13:22,815 Don't you bother. 1344 01:13:22,941 --> 01:13:26,737 - Girls, aren't you cold? 1345 01:13:26,945 --> 01:13:29,656 - Helen, I am very sorry about Mr. Bast, 1346 01:13:29,865 --> 01:13:31,325 but you must be civil to Henry. 1347 01:13:31,533 --> 01:13:32,743 - You yourself are a witness. 1348 01:13:32,951 --> 01:13:36,747 - Yes, I know there may be another side to this question. 1349 01:13:36,955 --> 01:13:41,085 But Henry is my future husband, and I must be on his side. 1350 01:13:44,630 --> 01:13:47,424 Why are you so bitter, dearie, hmm? 1351 01:13:49,635 --> 01:13:50,886 - Because I'm an old maid. 1352 01:13:51,095 --> 01:13:52,095 - Oh, Helen. 1353 01:13:54,264 --> 01:13:55,264 No, darling. 1354 01:13:59,019 --> 01:14:00,019 Helen! 1355 01:14:03,023 --> 01:14:04,023 - Margaret will explain. 1356 01:14:04,108 --> 01:14:06,819 - Margaret, Magsy, if it isn't true, 1357 01:14:07,027 --> 01:14:08,403 surely, what Mr. Wilcox is saying, 1358 01:14:08,612 --> 01:14:09,947 that you want to go away tomorrow? 1359 01:14:10,155 --> 01:14:12,366 - Yes, we must leave tomorrow. 1360 01:14:12,574 --> 01:14:14,660 I have business at Howards End, and my business 1361 01:14:14,868 --> 01:14:17,496 is now also, unfortunately, my Margaret's. 1362 01:14:17,704 --> 01:14:18,944 - So we'll go for our walk now. 1363 01:14:19,081 --> 01:14:20,833 See you at tea time, unless it rains. 1364 01:14:21,041 --> 01:14:22,852 In which case, we'll see you a great deal sooner, bye. 1365 01:14:22,876 --> 01:14:24,253 - Have a good walk. 1366 01:14:38,392 --> 01:14:39,476 - Yes, that's him. 1367 01:14:39,685 --> 01:14:40,435 - So this is the famous office? 1368 01:14:40,644 --> 01:14:41,812 - What? 1369 01:14:42,020 --> 01:14:42,729 - I'd expected something more African. 1370 01:14:42,938 --> 01:14:44,648 - Oh, heavens, no. 1371 01:14:44,857 --> 01:14:47,734 - Spears and animal skins and that sort of thing, 1372 01:14:47,943 --> 01:14:49,653 but I suppose this is the imperial part 1373 01:14:49,862 --> 01:14:51,742 of the Imperial and West African Rubber Company. 1374 01:14:51,822 --> 01:14:53,007 - Yes, we still haven't settled 1375 01:14:53,031 --> 01:14:54,509 the question of the London house, have we? 1376 01:14:54,533 --> 01:14:55,927 - Well, that all depends, doesn't it? 1377 01:14:55,951 --> 01:14:56,951 - On what? 1378 01:14:57,035 --> 01:14:58,054 - When do you want to marry me? 1379 01:14:58,078 --> 01:14:59,246 - How you do fly around. 1380 01:14:59,454 --> 01:15:00,038 My head's in a whirl. 1381 01:15:00,247 --> 01:15:01,247 Let's dance! 1382 01:15:09,506 --> 01:15:12,259 - I hope that my wife, oh, how do you do, 1383 01:15:12,467 --> 01:15:13,736 will give you a decent lunch after 1384 01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:15,304 you've had a good look at Howards End. 1385 01:15:15,512 --> 01:15:16,573 - I can hardly wait to see it, 1386 01:15:16,597 --> 01:15:18,307 although I almost feel I have. 1387 01:15:18,515 --> 01:15:20,684 - I don't know in what state you'll find it. 1388 01:15:20,893 --> 01:15:23,228 The tenant decamped without even arranging 1389 01:15:23,437 --> 01:15:25,606 for a charwoman to clear up after him. 1390 01:15:25,814 --> 01:15:26,523 - Oh, dear. 1391 01:15:26,732 --> 01:15:28,025 - Yes, I've more than a little 1392 01:15:28,233 --> 01:15:29,693 bone to pick with that tenant. 1393 01:15:29,902 --> 01:15:31,737 Margaret, here's an idea. 1394 01:15:31,945 --> 01:15:32,945 - Yes? 1395 01:15:33,113 --> 01:15:34,907 - Why don't we use Howards End to store 1396 01:15:35,115 --> 01:15:36,742 your furniture from Wickham Place 1397 01:15:36,950 --> 01:15:38,702 'til you decide what to do with it? 1398 01:15:38,911 --> 01:15:40,370 - Oh, would you, would you really? 1399 01:15:40,579 --> 01:15:41,163 - Good idea? 1400 01:15:41,371 --> 01:15:42,998 - Oh, how kind. 1401 01:15:43,207 --> 01:15:47,544 Only until Helen and Tibby are settled of course, Charles. 1402 01:15:47,753 --> 01:15:49,796 - I hope you won't be disappointed. 1403 01:15:50,005 --> 01:15:52,299 It's quite a measly little place. 1404 01:15:52,507 --> 01:15:54,092 Never really suited us. 1405 01:15:54,301 --> 01:15:55,469 - Heavens, no. 1406 01:16:21,620 --> 01:16:22,788 - Oh, it's lovely. 1407 01:16:22,996 --> 01:16:24,206 - Margaret. - Oh, dear. 1408 01:16:24,414 --> 01:16:25,457 - What? 1409 01:16:25,666 --> 01:16:26,124 - I seem to have forgotten the keys. 1410 01:16:26,333 --> 01:16:26,917 - What? 1411 01:16:27,125 --> 01:16:27,834 - I've lost the keys. 1412 01:16:28,043 --> 01:16:29,283 - Crane, we'll have to go back. 1413 01:16:29,378 --> 01:16:30,730 - Oh, well, won't you leave me here? 1414 01:16:30,754 --> 01:16:31,463 - You sure? 1415 01:16:31,672 --> 01:16:32,872 - Yes, yes, I'll wait for you. 1416 01:16:32,923 --> 01:16:34,841 Dolly, have a nice glass of milk at the farm. 1417 01:16:35,050 --> 01:16:36,885 Henry, see that she gets a nice glass of milk. 1418 01:16:37,094 --> 01:16:38,334 I'll walk around in the garden. 1419 01:16:42,224 --> 01:16:43,224 Goodbye. 1420 01:16:44,184 --> 01:16:45,328 - Why did you forget the key? 1421 01:16:45,352 --> 01:16:46,392 - I'm sorry, I don't know. 1422 01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:47,813 - Where did you leave it? 1423 01:16:48,021 --> 01:16:50,565 - Well, it could be with Didums. 1424 01:18:19,988 --> 01:18:21,365 - Hello? 1425 01:18:24,368 --> 01:18:26,912 - I took you for Ruth Wilcox. 1426 01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:28,872 - I, like Mrs. Wilcox? 1427 01:18:30,582 --> 01:18:33,085 - You have her way of walking... 1428 01:18:34,127 --> 01:18:35,629 'round the house. 1429 01:19:27,180 --> 01:19:29,307 - Henry, Henry! 1430 01:19:31,726 --> 01:19:33,562 Henry, I've found the teeth. 1431 01:19:33,770 --> 01:19:35,480 - Yes, what? - The pigs' teeth. 1432 01:19:35,689 --> 01:19:36,398 - Teeth, where? 1433 01:19:36,606 --> 01:19:38,650 - The pigs' teeth in the bark. 1434 01:19:38,859 --> 01:19:40,777 Yes, look, just here. 1435 01:19:40,986 --> 01:19:42,028 You see? 1436 01:19:42,237 --> 01:19:43,237 Four feet up. 1437 01:19:43,363 --> 01:19:44,739 - How extraordinary. 1438 01:19:44,948 --> 01:19:47,117 - Yes, and you chew the bark to cure the toothache. 1439 01:19:47,325 --> 01:19:48,118 - What a rum notion. 1440 01:19:48,326 --> 01:19:50,704 - Surely, you knew that. 1441 01:19:50,912 --> 01:19:53,224 - Did that silly old Ms. Avery give you a fright, Margaret? 1442 01:19:53,248 --> 01:19:56,042 None of you girls has any nerve. 1443 01:19:56,251 --> 01:19:57,502 - Did you take her for a spook? 1444 01:19:57,711 --> 01:19:58,795 She's very odd. 1445 01:19:59,004 --> 01:20:00,881 She carries on as if she owned Howards End. 1446 01:20:01,089 --> 01:20:02,757 - Ms. Avery has always lived on the place? 1447 01:20:02,966 --> 01:20:05,802 - Oh yes, she grew up there on the farm like Mrs. Wilcox. 1448 01:20:06,011 --> 01:20:07,512 Weren't she and Mrs. Wilcox friends 1449 01:20:07,721 --> 01:20:09,681 when Howards End, too, was a farm? 1450 01:20:09,890 --> 01:20:11,266 They do say that Mrs. Wilcox had 1451 01:20:11,475 --> 01:20:13,101 a brother, or was it an uncle? 1452 01:20:13,310 --> 01:20:16,980 Anyhow, he popped the question, and Ms. Avery, she said no. 1453 01:20:17,189 --> 01:20:19,065 Just imagine if she'd said yes. 1454 01:20:19,274 --> 01:20:20,984 She'd have been Charles's aunt. 1455 01:20:21,193 --> 01:20:24,237 Oh, I say, that's rather good, Charlie's aunt. 1456 01:20:24,446 --> 01:20:26,031 I must chaff him about that. 1457 01:20:29,618 --> 01:20:31,328 She's so mad about Howards End. 1458 01:20:31,536 --> 01:20:32,763 Goodness knows what she'll do when 1459 01:20:32,787 --> 01:20:35,040 your furniture gets there, Margaret. 1460 01:20:35,248 --> 01:20:37,501 She might fling it all out, or she might 1461 01:20:37,709 --> 01:20:40,253 simply adopt it for Howards End. 1462 01:21:25,131 --> 01:21:26,371 - Excuse me, sir, where would I 1463 01:21:26,424 --> 01:21:28,176 go to inquire about a position? 1464 01:21:28,385 --> 01:21:30,804 - What position would that be, sir? 1465 01:21:31,012 --> 01:21:32,389 - I heard there was one. 1466 01:21:32,597 --> 01:21:34,266 - Not at this time. 1467 01:21:59,249 --> 01:21:59,833 - I thought it was you. 1468 01:22:00,041 --> 01:22:01,209 How do you do? 1469 01:22:01,418 --> 01:22:03,295 Why did you never come to see us again? 1470 01:22:03,503 --> 01:22:04,838 You promised. 1471 01:22:05,046 --> 01:22:06,089 But this isn't your bank. 1472 01:22:06,298 --> 01:22:07,316 You took a situation with Dempster's. 1473 01:22:07,340 --> 01:22:08,425 - I lost it. 1474 01:22:08,633 --> 01:22:10,260 - Sorry? 1475 01:22:10,468 --> 01:22:12,762 - I lost the situation. 1476 01:22:12,971 --> 01:22:15,223 They cut back on their staff and the last to join, 1477 01:22:15,432 --> 01:22:18,018 like me, were the first to be let go. 1478 01:22:18,226 --> 01:22:20,562 I've been inquiring for another place here. 1479 01:22:20,770 --> 01:22:22,689 The way they look at you when you come to ask. 1480 01:22:22,897 --> 01:22:24,297 They're sure you've stolen something 1481 01:22:24,441 --> 01:22:26,818 or why else would any decent person be out of work? 1482 01:22:27,027 --> 01:22:28,028 - It's our fault. 1483 01:22:28,236 --> 01:22:29,279 - No. 1484 01:22:29,487 --> 01:22:30,280 - No, we made you leave the Porphyrion, 1485 01:22:30,488 --> 01:22:32,198 I and my sister and Mr. Wilcox, 1486 01:22:32,407 --> 01:22:34,200 who is at this very moment, celebrating 1487 01:22:34,409 --> 01:22:36,620 his daughter's wedding at his castle in Shropshire, 1488 01:22:36,828 --> 01:22:38,997 with the maximum expense and ostentation, of course. 1489 01:22:39,205 --> 01:22:40,665 I could murder him! 1490 01:22:41,916 --> 01:22:44,794 - "Murder will out, it is most foul." 1491 01:22:46,046 --> 01:22:47,273 How have you been, Ms. Schlegel? 1492 01:22:47,297 --> 01:22:48,465 Any interesting lectures? 1493 01:22:48,673 --> 01:22:52,385 - You know, he jolly well owes you a situation. 1494 01:22:54,471 --> 01:22:55,639 - What nice houses you have 1495 01:22:55,847 --> 01:22:58,350 all over the place, I like this one too. 1496 01:22:58,558 --> 01:23:01,269 - Oniton Grange, waiting to get it off my hands. 1497 01:23:01,478 --> 01:23:02,478 - Why? 1498 01:23:02,520 --> 01:23:03,938 - Well, what is one to do? 1499 01:23:04,147 --> 01:23:05,750 The shooting is bad and the fishing is even worse. 1500 01:23:05,774 --> 01:23:08,151 Anyway, it's in the wrong part of Shropshire. 1501 01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:10,570 - Henry, are these all Wilcoxes? 1502 01:23:10,779 --> 01:23:12,155 - Heavens, no. 1503 01:23:12,364 --> 01:23:14,366 I bought the place lock, stock and barrel. 1504 01:23:14,574 --> 01:23:16,117 The fellow just took the money 1505 01:23:16,326 --> 01:23:18,370 and cleared off to Italy, I think. 1506 01:23:18,578 --> 01:23:19,639 I'm told some of these are rather good. 1507 01:23:19,663 --> 01:23:20,372 What do you think? 1508 01:23:20,580 --> 01:23:21,580 - I think they're lovely. 1509 01:23:21,665 --> 01:23:22,248 - Rather good, isn't it? 1510 01:23:22,457 --> 01:23:23,124 - Which one? 1511 01:23:23,333 --> 01:23:24,333 - Top one. 1512 01:23:24,501 --> 01:23:26,252 - Yes, very grand, it's rather like you. 1513 01:23:26,461 --> 01:23:30,382 - So, I'll show you the cellar. 1514 01:23:33,468 --> 01:23:35,261 It's very damp, isn't it? 1515 01:23:43,061 --> 01:23:43,853 Do you have enough ice now? 1516 01:23:44,062 --> 01:23:45,062 - Yes, sir. 1517 01:23:45,146 --> 01:23:46,207 - Second orders? - Yes, sir. 1518 01:23:46,231 --> 01:23:47,899 - Good, all right. 1519 01:23:48,108 --> 01:23:49,150 - Good afternoon. 1520 01:23:49,359 --> 01:23:50,777 - It's this way. - Right. 1521 01:23:50,985 --> 01:23:51,985 Thank you. 1522 01:23:53,780 --> 01:23:56,616 - It is difficult to decide what to do about the children. 1523 01:23:56,825 --> 01:23:58,743 Yes, here we are. 1524 01:23:58,952 --> 01:24:01,272 Now, Charles, as the eldest, will someday have Howards End. 1525 01:24:01,454 --> 01:24:03,307 And I'm just anxious not to be unjust to the others. 1526 01:24:03,331 --> 01:24:05,250 - Of course not, you mean money? 1527 01:24:05,458 --> 01:24:07,061 - Yes, money, since you put it so frankly. 1528 01:24:07,085 --> 01:24:10,088 - Goodness, we'll never get through all this wine. 1529 01:24:10,296 --> 01:24:11,416 Well, how much have you got? 1530 01:24:11,548 --> 01:24:12,590 - What? 1531 01:24:12,799 --> 01:24:14,039 - How much have you got a year? 1532 01:24:14,175 --> 01:24:14,926 I have 600. 1533 01:24:15,135 --> 01:24:16,135 - My income? 1534 01:24:17,178 --> 01:24:17,887 - Don't you know your income? 1535 01:24:18,096 --> 01:24:19,180 - Of course I do. 1536 01:24:19,389 --> 01:24:21,808 - Well, don't you want to tell it me? 1537 01:24:22,016 --> 01:24:23,393 Do it this way. 1538 01:24:23,601 --> 01:24:24,870 If you were to divide your income into 10 parts, 1539 01:24:24,894 --> 01:24:26,205 how many parts would you give to Charles, 1540 01:24:26,229 --> 01:24:28,189 how many to Evie and how many to Paul? 1541 01:24:28,398 --> 01:24:28,982 Go ahead. 1542 01:24:29,190 --> 01:24:29,774 Give away all you can. 1543 01:24:29,983 --> 01:24:31,443 Be generous. 1544 01:24:31,651 --> 01:24:33,211 - You don't beat about the bush, do you? 1545 01:24:34,487 --> 01:24:35,487 No. 1546 01:24:49,169 --> 01:24:50,396 - I suppose she'll get her hands 1547 01:24:50,420 --> 01:24:52,255 on this place as well as Howards End. 1548 01:24:52,464 --> 01:24:55,008 - It's only her furniture that's gone there. 1549 01:24:55,216 --> 01:24:58,553 - No, that's the thin edge of the wedge. 1550 01:25:00,680 --> 01:25:02,640 I don't know what's to happen to us, Dolly 1551 01:25:02,849 --> 01:25:04,434 Two children to bring up. 1552 01:25:04,642 --> 01:25:08,104 - Charles, you are pleased about the baby, aren't you? 1553 01:25:08,313 --> 01:25:09,313 - What? 1554 01:25:09,481 --> 01:25:11,107 Oh, pleased as punch. 1555 01:25:13,026 --> 01:25:14,486 Pleased as punch. 1556 01:25:19,491 --> 01:25:22,368 Though it's not going to be easy. 1557 01:25:22,577 --> 01:25:26,289 The pater wants to be fair, but money isn't elastic. 1558 01:25:26,498 --> 01:25:29,083 What if Evie has a family? 1559 01:25:29,292 --> 01:25:30,292 Or the pater himself? 1560 01:25:31,294 --> 01:25:31,878 What? 1561 01:25:32,086 --> 01:25:33,086 - Shh. 1562 01:25:38,134 --> 01:25:39,302 - Who's there? 1563 01:25:42,472 --> 01:25:43,598 Saxon or Celt? 1564 01:26:08,581 --> 01:26:10,416 It went like clockwork. 1565 01:26:11,626 --> 01:26:13,211 "Quite like a Durbar," Lady Edser said. 1566 01:26:13,419 --> 01:26:15,713 - Ah, you did awfully well. 1567 01:26:16,631 --> 01:26:18,258 I'm very proud of you. 1568 01:26:18,466 --> 01:26:19,801 Thank you. 1569 01:26:20,009 --> 01:26:22,220 It was very successful. 1570 01:26:22,428 --> 01:26:23,555 Who are those people? 1571 01:26:23,763 --> 01:26:25,163 - Well, perhaps they're townspeople, 1572 01:26:25,223 --> 01:26:27,183 come to see the wedding presents. 1573 01:26:27,392 --> 01:26:31,437 If you'll gracefully vanish, I'll deal with them. 1574 01:26:39,737 --> 01:26:40,488 What is it? 1575 01:26:40,697 --> 01:26:41,697 What's wrong? 1576 01:26:41,739 --> 01:26:42,323 Is Tibby ill? 1577 01:26:42,532 --> 01:26:43,116 They're starving! 1578 01:26:43,324 --> 01:26:43,992 I found them starving! 1579 01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:45,200 - Who is starving? 1580 01:26:45,285 --> 01:26:46,369 - The Basts. - Oh, Helen. 1581 01:26:46,578 --> 01:26:47,596 - He's lost his place because he's 1582 01:26:47,620 --> 01:26:49,038 been turned out of Dempster's bank. 1583 01:26:49,247 --> 01:26:51,499 They reduced their staff, and he was the first to go. 1584 01:26:51,708 --> 01:26:53,501 Yes, thanks to us, he's done for. 1585 01:26:53,710 --> 01:26:54,377 We've ruined him. 1586 01:26:54,586 --> 01:26:56,004 - Are you mad? 1587 01:26:56,212 --> 01:26:57,690 - If you like, I'm mad, but I'll stand for this no longer! 1588 01:26:57,714 --> 01:27:00,466 Two people starving, and meanwhile, all this vulgar show! 1589 01:27:05,138 --> 01:27:07,348 - Helen, have you actually brought 1590 01:27:07,557 --> 01:27:11,561 two starving people from London to Shropshire? 1591 01:27:11,769 --> 01:27:13,122 - There was a restaurant car on the train. 1592 01:27:13,146 --> 01:27:14,230 Don't be absurd. 1593 01:27:14,439 --> 01:27:15,749 I won't have such theatrical nonsense. 1594 01:27:15,773 --> 01:27:16,524 How dare you? 1595 01:27:16,733 --> 01:27:17,733 Yes, how dare you! 1596 01:27:17,901 --> 01:27:19,501 Bursting into Evie's wedding in this way. 1597 01:27:19,527 --> 01:27:20,612 My goodness, 1598 01:27:20,820 --> 01:27:22,822 but you've a perverted notion of philanthropy. 1599 01:27:23,031 --> 01:27:24,490 Look at them. 1600 01:27:24,699 --> 01:27:26,594 They think it's some vulgar scandal, and I must explain, 1601 01:27:26,618 --> 01:27:28,703 "Oh no, it's only my sister screaming, 1602 01:27:28,912 --> 01:27:30,747 "and only two hangers-on of ours whom she has 1603 01:27:30,955 --> 01:27:32,308 "brought here for no conceivable reason." 1604 01:27:32,332 --> 01:27:34,709 - We want to see Mr. Wilcox. 1605 01:27:36,461 --> 01:27:39,088 - Mr. Bast, this is an odd business. 1606 01:27:39,297 --> 01:27:40,965 What view do you take of it? 1607 01:27:41,174 --> 01:27:42,383 - There is Mrs. Bast too. 1608 01:27:42,592 --> 01:27:43,592 - Yes, how do you do? 1609 01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:44,469 - How do you do? 1610 01:27:44,677 --> 01:27:45,470 - She's not well. 1611 01:27:45,678 --> 01:27:46,678 She fainted on the train. 1612 01:27:46,721 --> 01:27:48,222 - Oh, I'm so sorry. 1613 01:27:48,431 --> 01:27:49,658 Won't you sit down for a minute? 1614 01:27:49,682 --> 01:27:51,082 - I'm sure we don't wish to intrude, 1615 01:27:51,142 --> 01:27:53,519 but you have been so kind in the past, you and your sister. 1616 01:27:53,728 --> 01:27:54,788 - Look, my sister has put you in 1617 01:27:54,812 --> 01:27:55,831 a false position, I'm afraid. 1618 01:27:55,855 --> 01:27:57,148 - Jacky, let's go. 1619 01:27:57,357 --> 01:27:59,067 - Please, Helen, offer them something. 1620 01:27:59,275 --> 01:28:03,321 Mrs. Bast, please, won't you have something to eat, please? 1621 01:28:09,619 --> 01:28:12,538 Now, Helen. I would like to do something for them, 1622 01:28:12,747 --> 01:28:14,832 because I agree, we are in some way responsible. 1623 01:28:15,041 --> 01:28:16,041 - Via Mr. Wilcox. 1624 01:28:16,209 --> 01:28:17,645 - Let me tell you, once and for all, that 1625 01:28:17,669 --> 01:28:22,215 if you take up that attitude, I'll do nothing, so choose. 1626 01:28:22,423 --> 01:28:25,134 If you promise to take them to the hotel 1627 01:28:25,343 --> 01:28:28,471 quietly as my guests, then I will speak to Henry 1628 01:28:28,680 --> 01:28:30,932 about finding work for Mr. Bast, in my own way, mind. 1629 01:28:31,140 --> 01:28:35,019 There is to be no more of this absurd screaming. 1630 01:28:35,228 --> 01:28:36,688 Well? 1631 01:28:36,896 --> 01:28:38,648 - All right. I promise. 1632 01:28:38,856 --> 01:28:41,401 - Very well, take them off to the George then, and I'll try. 1633 01:28:41,609 --> 01:28:42,609 But Helen... 1634 01:28:44,320 --> 01:28:46,864 you have been most self-indulgent. 1635 01:28:47,073 --> 01:28:49,534 You have less restraint, rather than more, as you get older. 1636 01:28:49,742 --> 01:28:53,705 Think it over, Helen, and alter yourself, 1637 01:28:53,913 --> 01:28:55,915 or we shan't have happy lives. 1638 01:29:03,131 --> 01:29:05,633 - Let's eat some cake, shall we? 1639 01:29:30,033 --> 01:29:31,576 - Sorry, excuse me. 1640 01:29:31,784 --> 01:29:33,344 - Now, I must see to getting some rooms. 1641 01:29:33,536 --> 01:29:34,638 - No, we don't want to be any trouble. 1642 01:29:34,662 --> 01:29:35,246 We should come with you. 1643 01:29:35,455 --> 01:29:36,456 - Len. 1644 01:29:36,664 --> 01:29:37,725 - Perhaps you'd like to stay. 1645 01:29:37,749 --> 01:29:39,459 - Look, there's all this pudding. 1646 01:29:39,667 --> 01:29:41,085 - Mrs. Bast is extremely tired. 1647 01:29:41,294 --> 01:29:42,336 - I'm hungry. 1648 01:29:43,629 --> 01:29:45,173 - Perhaps you should come back for her. 1649 01:29:45,381 --> 01:29:46,132 - Will you be all right? 1650 01:29:46,340 --> 01:29:47,884 - I'll be all right. 1651 01:29:55,433 --> 01:29:56,433 - Ah. 1652 01:30:18,206 --> 01:30:20,249 - Charles, Charles, look! 1653 01:30:25,129 --> 01:30:25,713 Whoever's that? 1654 01:30:25,922 --> 01:30:26,922 - Where? 1655 01:30:26,964 --> 01:30:28,549 - Pink scarf. 1656 01:30:39,936 --> 01:30:42,647 - Charles Wilcox, how do you do? 1657 01:30:42,855 --> 01:30:44,065 Bride or groom? 1658 01:30:49,737 --> 01:30:53,658 I'm very pleased to have made your acquaintance. 1659 01:30:55,326 --> 01:30:57,703 - Champagne, madam? 1660 01:30:59,872 --> 01:31:00,957 - Helen? 1661 01:31:01,165 --> 01:31:02,165 What, here? 1662 01:31:03,376 --> 01:31:04,877 But, she refused the invitation. 1663 01:31:05,086 --> 01:31:07,839 I thought she despised weddings. 1664 01:31:08,047 --> 01:31:08,798 Where is she now? 1665 01:31:09,006 --> 01:31:10,091 - She's gone now. 1666 01:31:10,299 --> 01:31:11,926 I've bundled her off to the George. 1667 01:31:12,135 --> 01:31:13,177 - George Hotel? 1668 01:31:13,386 --> 01:31:14,746 Well, you shouldn't have done that. 1669 01:31:14,929 --> 01:31:18,516 - Well, she has two of her proteges with her. 1670 01:31:19,892 --> 01:31:21,811 - Ah, yes, her proteges. 1671 01:31:22,812 --> 01:31:24,981 Well, let them all come. 1672 01:31:25,189 --> 01:31:26,816 - No, but later on, 1673 01:31:29,861 --> 01:31:32,029 I would like to talk to you about them. 1674 01:31:32,238 --> 01:31:32,947 - Well, why not now? 1675 01:31:33,156 --> 01:31:34,657 No time like the present. 1676 01:31:34,866 --> 01:31:35,867 - Shall I? 1677 01:31:36,075 --> 01:31:39,537 - Mmm, yes, if it isn't too long a story. 1678 01:31:39,745 --> 01:31:41,289 - It's not five minutes. 1679 01:31:41,497 --> 01:31:42,497 - Yes. 1680 01:31:43,457 --> 01:31:46,127 - But there's a sting at the end of it. 1681 01:31:46,335 --> 01:31:47,461 - Hmm? 1682 01:31:49,881 --> 01:31:53,843 - For I want you to find the man some work in your office. 1683 01:31:57,930 --> 01:32:00,808 - Well, what are his qualifications? 1684 01:32:02,393 --> 01:32:03,686 - He's a clerk, I think. 1685 01:32:03,895 --> 01:32:05,771 - Yes, where was he before? 1686 01:32:05,980 --> 01:32:07,857 - Dempster's Bank. 1687 01:32:08,065 --> 01:32:10,902 - Dempster's, why did he leave? 1688 01:32:11,110 --> 01:32:12,820 - They reduced their staff. 1689 01:32:13,029 --> 01:32:14,029 - Oh. 1690 01:32:15,531 --> 01:32:16,741 Yes, all right. 1691 01:32:19,243 --> 01:32:20,244 I'll see what I can do. 1692 01:32:20,453 --> 01:32:21,787 - Thank you. 1693 01:32:21,996 --> 01:32:24,874 - Margaret, this cannot be taken as a precedent, you know. 1694 01:32:25,082 --> 01:32:28,085 I can't fit in your proteges or Helen's proteges every day. 1695 01:32:28,294 --> 01:32:29,003 You do understand? 1696 01:32:29,212 --> 01:32:31,714 - Of course, of course not. 1697 01:32:31,923 --> 01:32:34,926 But he's, he's rather a special case. 1698 01:32:36,219 --> 01:32:39,931 - Yes, well, proteges always are, aren't they? 1699 01:32:58,991 --> 01:32:59,991 Well, goodbye. 1700 01:33:00,159 --> 01:33:01,786 Thank you so much. 1701 01:33:01,994 --> 01:33:02,994 - Goodbye. 1702 01:33:03,120 --> 01:33:07,250 - Why, if it isn't Henry. 1703 01:33:10,711 --> 01:33:13,881 Hello. Henry, fancy seeing you here. 1704 01:33:14,090 --> 01:33:15,883 - This is Mrs. Bast. 1705 01:33:16,092 --> 01:33:17,372 Sorry, she's a little overtired. 1706 01:33:17,426 --> 01:33:18,135 - She's drunk. 1707 01:33:18,344 --> 01:33:20,554 - Don't you remember Jacky? 1708 01:33:21,847 --> 01:33:25,101 Henry, aren't you gonna say hello? 1709 01:33:25,309 --> 01:33:26,560 - Do you know Mrs. Bast? 1710 01:33:26,769 --> 01:33:28,104 - No, I don't! 1711 01:33:28,312 --> 01:33:30,356 - Know Henry? 1712 01:33:30,564 --> 01:33:32,191 Who doesn't know Henry? - Henry? 1713 01:33:32,400 --> 01:33:34,086 - We've had some gay old times, haven't we, Hen? 1714 01:33:34,110 --> 01:33:35,319 - You're drunk! 1715 01:33:37,113 --> 01:33:38,113 - Henry? 1716 01:33:39,448 --> 01:33:40,449 Henry, Henry. 1717 01:33:41,993 --> 01:33:43,313 - Are you satisfied now, Margaret? 1718 01:33:43,369 --> 01:33:45,449 I can now understand your keen interest in the Basts. 1719 01:33:45,496 --> 01:33:46,747 I must say I congratulate you 1720 01:33:46,956 --> 01:33:47,748 on your little plan to trap me. 1721 01:33:47,957 --> 01:33:48,957 - Trap you? 1722 01:33:49,041 --> 01:33:49,834 - I release you from your engagement. 1723 01:33:50,042 --> 01:33:51,377 - Henry, Henry, Henry! 1724 01:34:00,052 --> 01:34:01,137 Here we are. 1725 01:34:01,345 --> 01:34:02,705 - Oh, please don't bother, my dear. 1726 01:34:02,805 --> 01:34:04,765 I'm sure I can manage. 1727 01:34:04,974 --> 01:34:09,854 - That's all right, I'll do that, I'll do it. 1728 01:34:10,062 --> 01:34:11,062 - So that's it. 1729 01:34:11,147 --> 01:34:12,315 - Oh, that is what? 1730 01:34:12,523 --> 01:34:14,442 Thank you, dear chap. 1731 01:34:14,650 --> 01:34:15,901 You were saying? 1732 01:34:16,110 --> 01:34:18,297 - No, Henry and I were just having the fiercest argument, 1733 01:34:18,321 --> 01:34:19,739 but I think he has forgiven me. 1734 01:34:19,947 --> 01:34:22,742 - Oh, I don't expect there's much to forgive. 1735 01:34:22,950 --> 01:34:24,076 - No. 1736 01:34:24,285 --> 01:34:26,996 - Well, I really must be going, or we shall be late. 1737 01:34:27,204 --> 01:34:28,998 Thank you so much for a lovely time. 1738 01:34:29,206 --> 01:34:31,167 And hasn't the weather been kind to us? 1739 01:34:31,375 --> 01:34:31,959 - Glorious. 1740 01:34:32,168 --> 01:34:33,252 - A lovely day. 1741 01:34:33,461 --> 01:34:35,129 Thank you, my dear, very much, thank you. 1742 01:34:35,338 --> 01:34:36,380 - Have a safe journey. 1743 01:34:36,589 --> 01:34:37,941 - Thank you, bye-bye, Dolly, bless you. 1744 01:34:37,965 --> 01:34:38,716 - Bye-bye, Albert. 1745 01:34:38,924 --> 01:34:39,592 - You take care of yourself. 1746 01:34:39,800 --> 01:34:40,509 - I shall. 1747 01:34:40,718 --> 01:34:41,427 - Bye-bye, Mrs.— 1748 01:34:43,262 --> 01:34:43,971 - No, it's all right, it's here, Father. 1749 01:34:44,180 --> 01:34:45,806 - Oh, ah, thank you, Albert. 1750 01:34:46,015 --> 01:34:47,015 - Safe journey. 1751 01:34:47,141 --> 01:34:48,702 - Ah, are the womenfolk all alright then? 1752 01:34:48,726 --> 01:34:49,852 - Yes. 1753 01:34:50,061 --> 01:34:51,705 - I'll shut the doors, then we're all ready. 1754 01:34:51,729 --> 01:34:53,230 Well, thank you. 1755 01:34:55,066 --> 01:34:56,817 Oh, oh, drive on then. 1756 01:35:38,192 --> 01:35:39,272 - What's the matter, Jacky? 1757 01:35:41,529 --> 01:35:43,948 - It was a shock, seeing him. 1758 01:35:45,116 --> 01:35:45,783 - Him? 1759 01:35:45,991 --> 01:35:46,991 Seeing who? 1760 01:35:47,159 --> 01:35:49,495 - I really don't want to talk about it. 1761 01:35:49,703 --> 01:35:50,788 - Too much champagne? 1762 01:35:50,996 --> 01:35:54,208 - What do you think you're looking at? 1763 01:35:54,417 --> 01:35:55,417 - Len. 1764 01:36:07,304 --> 01:36:08,304 - Henry. 1765 01:36:11,892 --> 01:36:13,227 Henry, look at me. 1766 01:36:19,108 --> 01:36:21,527 So you were that woman's lover. 1767 01:36:23,362 --> 01:36:24,071 - Since you put it with 1768 01:36:24,280 --> 01:36:25,656 your usual delicacy, yes, I was. 1769 01:36:25,865 --> 01:36:26,865 - When? 1770 01:36:28,325 --> 01:36:29,325 When, please? 1771 01:36:29,368 --> 01:36:30,368 - 10 years ago! 1772 01:36:32,246 --> 01:36:34,748 I'm sorry, 10 years ago. 1773 01:36:41,213 --> 01:36:44,758 - Henry, dear, it's not going to trouble us. 1774 01:36:50,806 --> 01:36:56,103 - Ah yes, we fellows all fall from grace once in our time. 1775 01:36:56,312 --> 01:36:56,896 Do you believe that, Margaret? 1776 01:36:57,104 --> 01:36:58,856 - Yes, I do believe it. 1777 01:36:59,064 --> 01:37:01,817 - You with your refined pursuits and your books. 1778 01:37:02,026 --> 01:37:04,278 What can you guess of any man's life? 1779 01:37:04,487 --> 01:37:06,989 The temptations, temptations. 1780 01:37:10,242 --> 01:37:12,036 Well, that's enough. 1781 01:37:12,244 --> 01:37:13,404 I've spoken too much already. 1782 01:37:13,579 --> 01:37:14,747 - Yes, that's enough, dear. 1783 01:37:17,500 --> 01:37:19,376 - It was in Cyprus. 1784 01:37:19,585 --> 01:37:20,586 It was very lonely. 1785 01:37:20,794 --> 01:37:22,114 You can never forgive me, can you? 1786 01:37:22,213 --> 01:37:24,381 - I have forgiven you. Henry. 1787 01:37:25,257 --> 01:37:26,257 - Well, I... 1788 01:37:29,553 --> 01:37:32,473 I could find an excuse, but I won't. 1789 01:37:34,225 --> 01:37:36,977 - Let us speak no more about it, dear. 1790 01:37:37,186 --> 01:37:38,646 It is all behind us. 1791 01:37:38,854 --> 01:37:39,854 - Really? 1792 01:37:41,273 --> 01:37:45,069 You can really bring yourself to forgive me? 1793 01:37:51,200 --> 01:37:54,119 You've learned that I'm far from a saint. 1794 01:37:54,328 --> 01:37:55,328 In fact, the reverse. 1795 01:37:55,454 --> 01:37:57,498 No, no, no, no, no. - Shh. 1796 01:37:57,706 --> 01:37:58,832 - The reverse. 1797 01:38:00,668 --> 01:38:01,961 Where are those people now? 1798 01:38:02,169 --> 01:38:03,879 - Helen has taken them to the George. 1799 01:38:04,088 --> 01:38:06,882 - Oh, then let them leave first thing in the morning 1800 01:38:07,091 --> 01:38:10,010 because there must be no gossip at the George. 1801 01:38:10,219 --> 01:38:12,388 And anyway, Helen should be here with us, 1802 01:38:12,596 --> 01:38:16,141 not stopping at a hotel with some ragtags. 1803 01:38:20,062 --> 01:38:21,188 Tell you what, Margaret. 1804 01:38:21,397 --> 01:38:23,041 Why don't you kindly write a note to that effect, 1805 01:38:23,065 --> 01:38:27,152 and I'll have Burton send it out to Helen straight away. 1806 01:38:28,862 --> 01:38:29,862 Burton! 1807 01:38:32,491 --> 01:38:33,491 Burton! 1808 01:38:34,785 --> 01:38:36,453 - Yes, sir. 1809 01:38:36,662 --> 01:38:37,847 - I want you to take a note over 1810 01:38:37,871 --> 01:38:39,191 to the George Hotel straight away. 1811 01:38:39,331 --> 01:38:40,457 - Yes, sir. 1812 01:38:40,666 --> 01:38:43,919 - There's far too much noise out there. 1813 01:38:47,464 --> 01:38:48,924 - I'm sorry to tell you 1814 01:38:49,133 --> 01:38:52,303 that Henry can do nothing for Mr. Bast. 1815 01:38:52,511 --> 01:38:54,638 He feels the Basts are not at all 1816 01:38:54,847 --> 01:38:57,474 the type we should trouble about. 1817 01:39:00,477 --> 01:39:02,354 We found the woman drunk on the lawn. 1818 01:39:02,563 --> 01:39:04,189 Please see that they leave first thing 1819 01:39:04,398 --> 01:39:07,192 in the morning and come here yourself. 1820 01:39:07,401 --> 01:39:08,944 - He made her write it. 1821 01:39:09,153 --> 01:39:10,571 This isn't Margaret. 1822 01:39:10,779 --> 01:39:13,282 Would you put it in the fire? 1823 01:39:23,751 --> 01:39:24,978 - You better let us be, Ms. Schlegel. 1824 01:39:25,002 --> 01:39:27,421 You don't want to get mixed up in this. 1825 01:39:27,630 --> 01:39:29,256 - Mixed up in what? 1826 01:39:32,176 --> 01:39:33,218 What is it? 1827 01:39:33,427 --> 01:39:36,472 You must trust me that far, at least. 1828 01:39:39,933 --> 01:39:42,853 - Mr. Wilcox met Jacky before, 1829 01:39:43,062 --> 01:39:45,481 out in Cyprus, when she was 16. 1830 01:39:48,025 --> 01:39:51,487 I told you you didn't want to hear about it. 1831 01:39:51,695 --> 01:39:52,695 - Go on. 1832 01:39:52,738 --> 01:39:54,823 Why was she in Cyprus? 1833 01:39:55,032 --> 01:39:57,076 - Her father was a clerk in an export business. 1834 01:39:57,284 --> 01:39:59,578 So after her mother died, she'd gone out to be with him. 1835 01:39:59,787 --> 01:40:00,829 Then he died. 1836 01:40:02,373 --> 01:40:05,918 Accidentally drowned because he couldn't swim. 1837 01:40:06,126 --> 01:40:08,545 Jacky was left having to fend for herself 1838 01:40:08,754 --> 01:40:11,507 'til she managed to get back home. 1839 01:40:46,709 --> 01:40:49,837 I didn't have to marry her, but I did. 1840 01:40:50,045 --> 01:40:51,439 My family wouldn't have anything to do with us. 1841 01:40:51,463 --> 01:40:55,134 They tried to stop me, but I married her all the same. 1842 01:40:55,342 --> 01:40:56,760 Because I promised. 1843 01:40:58,262 --> 01:40:59,698 Listen, if I hadn't, where would she be today, 1844 01:40:59,722 --> 01:41:01,449 after the Mr. Wilcoxes of this world had finished with her? 1845 01:41:01,473 --> 01:41:04,268 - It would never, never, not in a thousand years, 1846 01:41:04,476 --> 01:41:07,771 enter that man's mind that he'd done anything wrong 1847 01:41:07,980 --> 01:41:11,608 because there's nothing here and nothing here. 1848 01:41:11,817 --> 01:41:13,235 And you're the opposite. 1849 01:41:13,444 --> 01:41:15,821 You believe in personal responsibility 1850 01:41:16,029 --> 01:41:17,448 and personal everything. 1851 01:41:17,656 --> 01:41:18,656 - Very nice. 1852 01:41:19,616 --> 01:41:21,660 What good am I to myself or to Jacky, 1853 01:41:21,869 --> 01:41:23,138 marrying her only to pull her down 1854 01:41:23,162 --> 01:41:25,372 with me so we can starve together? 1855 01:41:25,581 --> 01:41:27,684 - You'll find another position somewhere, surely you will. 1856 01:41:27,708 --> 01:41:29,543 - You don't know what you're talking about. 1857 01:41:29,752 --> 01:41:33,297 If rich people fail at one profession, they can try another. 1858 01:41:33,505 --> 01:41:36,300 But with us, once a man over 20 1859 01:41:36,508 --> 01:41:40,053 loses his own particular job, he's done for. 1860 01:41:42,598 --> 01:41:46,226 - I'd do anything in the world to help you. 1861 01:41:47,686 --> 01:41:48,937 - Well, help me row then. 1862 01:41:49,146 --> 01:41:50,146 I'm tired. 1863 01:42:11,668 --> 01:42:14,588 You're the one person who ever has helped me. 1864 01:42:14,797 --> 01:42:16,131 - You mean by passing on false 1865 01:42:16,340 --> 01:42:19,051 information to make you give up your job? 1866 01:42:19,259 --> 01:42:23,847 - I mean by being the sort of person you are. 1867 01:42:24,056 --> 01:42:25,408 I didn't think people like you existed 1868 01:42:25,432 --> 01:42:28,018 except in books, and books aren't real. 1869 01:42:28,227 --> 01:42:30,312 - Oh, no, they're more real than anything. 1870 01:42:30,521 --> 01:42:34,650 When people fail you, there's still "Music and Meaning." 1871 01:42:36,318 --> 01:42:37,545 - That's for rich people, to make 1872 01:42:37,569 --> 01:42:40,572 them feel good after their dinner. 1873 01:42:44,660 --> 01:42:48,413 - Everything's got spoiled for you, hasn't it? 1874 01:43:25,576 --> 01:43:30,873 Don't know what's to be done, Tibby, or what to say to Meg. 1875 01:43:31,081 --> 01:43:33,542 Don't want to face her or even to go back to Wickham Place. 1876 01:43:33,750 --> 01:43:36,587 - You mean because of Mr. Wilcox 1877 01:43:36,795 --> 01:43:38,088 and the woman you say he seduced 1878 01:43:38,297 --> 01:43:41,425 in between growing currants in Cyprus? 1879 01:43:43,135 --> 01:43:45,762 - I want you to give Meg my love and tell her, 1880 01:43:45,971 --> 01:43:50,976 tell her I'm going away to Germany, to Munich or else Bonn. 1881 01:43:51,184 --> 01:43:53,854 - Such a message is easily given. 1882 01:43:55,439 --> 01:43:57,566 God, I wish I could escape from Meg's wedding too. 1883 01:43:57,774 --> 01:43:59,401 - Is she really going through with it? 1884 01:43:59,610 --> 01:44:02,070 How is it possible for our Meg to be a Wilcox? 1885 01:44:02,279 --> 01:44:03,947 And now, after all this? 1886 01:44:04,156 --> 01:44:05,676 - You'd much better go away to Germany. 1887 01:44:06,825 --> 01:44:07,844 There's Martlett with the Apple Charlotte. 1888 01:44:07,868 --> 01:44:09,053 Do you mind if I take it from him? 1889 01:44:09,077 --> 01:44:10,913 It spoils with waiting. 1890 01:44:13,749 --> 01:44:14,749 Ah, Martlett. 1891 01:44:16,209 --> 01:44:17,336 - Shall I clear now, sir? 1892 01:44:17,544 --> 01:44:18,921 - Not now, later. 1893 01:44:19,129 --> 01:44:20,839 - Thank you very much. 1894 01:44:24,217 --> 01:44:28,013 - I feel, no, I know we owe the Basts some compensation. 1895 01:44:28,221 --> 01:44:29,221 - Oh, those people again? 1896 01:44:29,389 --> 01:44:31,308 - Yes, those people again. 1897 01:44:31,516 --> 01:44:33,518 Don't see who is to pay if I don't. 1898 01:44:33,727 --> 01:44:35,604 I'm placing what I consider is a minimum amount 1899 01:44:35,812 --> 01:44:37,731 to your account, and when I'm in Germany, 1900 01:44:37,940 --> 01:44:41,026 you'll pay it over to the Basts for me. 1901 01:44:41,234 --> 01:44:42,295 I shall never forget your kindness, 1902 01:44:42,319 --> 01:44:44,071 Tibbikins, if you do this. 1903 01:44:44,279 --> 01:44:45,447 - What's the sum? 1904 01:44:45,656 --> 01:44:46,323 - 5,000. 1905 01:44:46,531 --> 01:44:47,531 - Good God! 1906 01:44:47,699 --> 01:44:49,368 - It's useless just giving out driblets 1907 01:44:49,576 --> 01:44:52,329 of charity, just shillings and blankets. 1908 01:44:52,537 --> 01:44:54,247 No doubt people will think me mad. 1909 01:44:54,456 --> 01:44:57,250 - I don't give a damn what people think, 1910 01:44:57,459 --> 01:44:58,919 but I do mind if you ruin yourself 1911 01:44:59,127 --> 01:45:01,505 for some quixotic reason of your own. 1912 01:45:01,713 --> 01:45:04,132 - I didn't expect you to understand me. 1913 01:45:04,341 --> 01:45:06,093 - I understand nobody. 1914 01:45:06,301 --> 01:45:07,719 - But you'll do it? 1915 01:45:08,845 --> 01:45:09,846 - Apparently. 1916 01:45:22,693 --> 01:45:24,403 - Are you writing to your brother? 1917 01:45:24,611 --> 01:45:25,731 He could send us another 10. 1918 01:45:25,779 --> 01:45:27,614 - Yes, and a long lecture to go with it. 1919 01:45:27,823 --> 01:45:29,092 - Your sister could afford a fiver. 1920 01:45:29,116 --> 01:45:30,784 - Oh, leave me alone! 1921 01:45:35,789 --> 01:45:38,542 - Why are you taking it out on me? 1922 01:45:39,835 --> 01:45:42,212 - You can see I'm busy, can't you? 1923 01:45:57,894 --> 01:46:00,939 Dear Mr. Schlegel, I acknowledge receipt of your letter 1924 01:46:01,148 --> 01:46:04,985 dated 2nd of October, enclosing a check for 5,000 pounds. 1925 01:46:05,193 --> 01:46:06,737 I am very grateful for your concern, 1926 01:46:06,945 --> 01:46:08,280 but having no immediate necessity, 1927 01:46:08,488 --> 01:46:11,616 I have the honor to return your check herewith. 1928 01:46:11,825 --> 01:46:14,369 Yours sincerely, Leonard Bast. 1929 01:46:18,790 --> 01:46:22,210 Excuse me, sir, sorry to bother you. 1930 01:46:22,419 --> 01:46:25,088 I worked in this office for four years. 1931 01:46:25,297 --> 01:46:27,758 I was wondering if there were any vacancies at the moment? 1932 01:46:27,966 --> 01:46:28,592 - No, no, I'm sorry. 1933 01:46:28,800 --> 01:46:29,926 I've nothing. 1934 01:46:30,135 --> 01:46:31,219 - Nothing at all? 1935 01:46:31,428 --> 01:46:33,930 - Nothing at this time, thank you. 1936 01:47:22,395 --> 01:47:24,856 - All right, the servants will have the benefit 1937 01:47:25,065 --> 01:47:26,775 of the central heating if we keep 1938 01:47:26,983 --> 01:47:29,152 them here instead of at the back of the house. 1939 01:47:29,361 --> 01:47:30,737 That's what the architect prefers. 1940 01:47:30,946 --> 01:47:33,406 - Oh, if only it would hurry up and get itself built. 1941 01:47:33,615 --> 01:47:35,784 - All in good time. 1942 01:47:35,992 --> 01:47:37,552 - I'm getting tired of living in London. 1943 01:47:37,661 --> 01:47:38,787 - Are you? 1944 01:47:38,995 --> 01:47:40,181 - Yes, I can't be as young as I was. 1945 01:47:40,205 --> 01:47:41,206 - Yeah? 1946 01:47:41,414 --> 01:47:42,892 - So I'm perfectly happy to do without all 1947 01:47:42,916 --> 01:47:45,001 the new plays and discussion societies and— 1948 01:47:48,755 --> 01:47:52,300 - Yes, what I miss are trees and mountains and meadows. 1949 01:47:52,509 --> 01:47:53,509 - Yes. 1950 01:47:54,970 --> 01:47:57,472 - I also miss my own things. 1951 01:47:57,681 --> 01:47:59,121 - They're safe enough at Howards End. 1952 01:47:59,224 --> 01:48:01,601 - And, of course, I'm very grateful to have them there, 1953 01:48:01,810 --> 01:48:03,250 but I would so like to see everything 1954 01:48:03,311 --> 01:48:06,231 in our own home, my share at least. 1955 01:48:06,439 --> 01:48:10,360 Goodness only knows what Tibby intends to do with his. 1956 01:48:10,569 --> 01:48:11,569 Or Helen. 1957 01:48:14,072 --> 01:48:16,533 There's been another postcard from her. 1958 01:48:16,741 --> 01:48:19,828 Still the same poste restante address in Bavaria, 1959 01:48:20,036 --> 01:48:21,788 but now she speaks of going to Italy. 1960 01:48:21,997 --> 01:48:24,249 - Is she never coming back to England? 1961 01:48:24,457 --> 01:48:27,794 She's been away now the, how long has it been? 1962 01:48:28,003 --> 01:48:31,464 - It will be four months and three weeks on Tuesday. 1963 01:48:31,673 --> 01:48:32,673 - Yes. 1964 01:48:33,925 --> 01:48:35,051 Your sister is odd. 1965 01:48:35,260 --> 01:48:36,011 She always has been. 1966 01:48:36,219 --> 01:48:39,014 There's no getting away from it. 1967 01:48:39,931 --> 01:48:40,974 What is this? 1968 01:48:42,601 --> 01:48:44,561 How, what's been reading now? 1969 01:48:44,769 --> 01:48:45,437 Theo— 1970 01:48:46,563 --> 01:48:49,649 - Oh, yes. 1971 01:48:49,858 --> 01:48:54,946 Madame Blavatsky, now, what a clever little woman it is. 1972 01:48:55,155 --> 01:48:57,324 You see, that's what I mean about Helen. 1973 01:48:57,532 --> 01:49:00,535 She reads these things, and her mind gets addled. 1974 01:49:00,744 --> 01:49:03,997 My Margaret, she keeps her facts straight. 1975 01:49:04,206 --> 01:49:06,249 - What facts are those, dear? 1976 01:49:06,458 --> 01:49:08,919 - Hmm, about men and women and all that sort of thing, 1977 01:49:09,127 --> 01:49:11,922 who is who and what is what. 1978 01:49:12,130 --> 01:49:14,174 Yes, now, what is that? 1979 01:49:14,382 --> 01:49:17,093 - Mr. Schlegel, sir, you've forgotten these. 1980 01:49:17,302 --> 01:49:17,969 - Ah, thank you, Martlett. 1981 01:49:18,178 --> 01:49:19,596 - Thank you, sir. 1982 01:49:29,439 --> 01:49:31,149 - Ah, oh dear, Annie. 1983 01:49:34,444 --> 01:49:36,279 Look, it's another one. 1984 01:49:38,907 --> 01:49:40,033 And no letter. 1985 01:49:50,252 --> 01:49:54,839 See, I just can't feel that Helen's really alive. 1986 01:49:55,048 --> 01:49:56,208 These postcards and telegrams 1987 01:49:56,299 --> 01:49:57,884 don't seem to have come from her. 1988 01:49:58,093 --> 01:49:59,844 That's not her. 1989 01:50:00,053 --> 01:50:01,846 - I know what you mean. 1990 01:50:03,139 --> 01:50:04,450 You'll break that if you keep fiddling with it. 1991 01:50:04,474 --> 01:50:05,267 - Well, then put it on. 1992 01:50:05,475 --> 01:50:06,518 - Oh! 1993 01:50:07,519 --> 01:50:09,813 - Give me my card. 1994 01:50:10,021 --> 01:50:13,608 - M.J. Schlegel, The Rise, Straight Fleming, Devon. 1995 01:50:13,817 --> 01:50:16,861 Dearest Meg, arriving London Thursday. 1996 01:50:17,070 --> 01:50:18,822 Please telegraph, care my bank, 1997 01:50:19,030 --> 01:50:22,701 whether Aunt Juley is better or likely to become worse. 1998 01:50:22,909 --> 01:50:24,286 Give my love to the invalid and 1999 01:50:24,494 --> 01:50:26,913 keep some for yourselves, Helen. 2000 01:50:27,122 --> 01:50:31,126 - If only you had a companion to take your walks with. 2001 01:50:31,334 --> 01:50:34,129 - I have Tibby, dear Aunt Juley. 2002 01:50:36,089 --> 01:50:38,633 And it won't be long, thank you, Maggie, 2003 01:50:38,842 --> 01:50:41,303 before you'll be up and about. 2004 01:50:41,511 --> 01:50:43,471 - When is Helen coming? 2005 01:50:43,680 --> 01:50:44,931 - Well, very soon, dear. 2006 01:50:45,140 --> 01:50:47,934 She will already have reached London. 2007 01:50:56,735 --> 01:50:58,611 - She's got to London all right. 2008 01:50:58,820 --> 01:50:59,863 - Yes, but? 2009 01:51:00,071 --> 01:51:02,198 - She says to telegraph if Aunt Juley is better. 2010 01:51:02,407 --> 01:51:03,908 Obviously, if you want to see her, 2011 01:51:04,117 --> 01:51:05,869 you must telegraph she is not better. 2012 01:51:06,077 --> 01:51:07,871 - We can't start lying to each other. 2013 01:51:08,079 --> 01:51:08,663 But Helen wouldn't— 2014 01:51:10,206 --> 01:51:13,001 - She couldn't stay away at such a time. 2015 01:51:17,964 --> 01:51:20,383 Dearest Helen, Aunt Juley better 2016 01:51:20,592 --> 01:51:24,763 and eagerly expecting you, as am I, your Meg. 2017 01:51:24,971 --> 01:51:26,890 - Must return Germany at once. 2018 01:51:27,098 --> 01:51:28,258 Telegraph to bank whereabouts 2019 01:51:28,308 --> 01:51:30,810 our books and furniture, Helen. 2020 01:51:31,019 --> 01:51:33,646 - But why did she have to go back to Germany? 2021 01:51:33,855 --> 01:51:36,191 - I'll explain it all to you after your nap. 2022 01:51:36,399 --> 01:51:38,085 - You'd think she might have come to see her old aunt. 2023 01:51:38,109 --> 01:51:39,569 I haven't been well, you know. 2024 01:51:39,778 --> 01:51:43,073 Is Cook doing the mackerel the way Tibby likes them? 2025 01:51:43,281 --> 01:51:45,241 I know his whole day is spoiled 2026 01:51:45,450 --> 01:51:46,951 if his breakfast isn't right. 2027 01:51:47,160 --> 01:51:48,411 - The mackerel were perfect. 2028 01:51:48,620 --> 01:51:51,456 In fact, Tibby particularly mentioned them this morning. 2029 01:51:51,664 --> 01:51:53,144 Don't tell me, Tibby, that it is still 2030 01:51:53,333 --> 01:51:56,127 that business over Henry and that woman, Mrs. Bast. 2031 01:51:56,336 --> 01:51:58,254 Goodness me, how morbid. 2032 01:51:59,839 --> 01:52:01,966 His wife forgives him and his sister-in-law 2033 01:52:02,175 --> 01:52:04,928 cannot bear to look upon his face. 2034 01:52:05,136 --> 01:52:08,723 I don't believe it, not even of Helen. 2035 01:52:08,932 --> 01:52:11,810 - We all know to what extremes Helen goes. 2036 01:52:12,018 --> 01:52:13,579 We've all suffered under her temperament. 2037 01:52:13,603 --> 01:52:14,603 - But this is different. 2038 01:52:14,687 --> 01:52:17,065 This is not temperament, but a kind 2039 01:52:17,273 --> 01:52:19,651 of madness, as if she were mad. 2040 01:52:39,379 --> 01:52:43,258 - Margaret, you've got black marks again under your eyes. 2041 01:52:43,466 --> 01:52:45,927 Well, you know that's strictly forbidden, don't you? 2042 01:52:46,136 --> 01:52:48,763 I'll not have my girl looking as old as her husband. 2043 01:52:48,972 --> 01:52:50,332 - You haven't quite seen our point. 2044 01:52:50,473 --> 01:52:51,933 - No, I don't suppose I ever shall. 2045 01:52:52,142 --> 01:52:55,812 - Our point is this, our sister may be mad. 2046 01:52:57,480 --> 01:52:59,149 - Oh, Charles, do come in. 2047 01:52:59,357 --> 01:53:01,109 We are again in trouble. 2048 01:53:01,317 --> 01:53:03,027 Can you help us at all? 2049 01:53:03,236 --> 01:53:05,363 - No, I'm afraid I cannot. 2050 01:53:05,572 --> 01:53:06,906 What were the facts? 2051 01:53:07,115 --> 01:53:09,159 We're all mad, more or less, you know, these days. 2052 01:53:09,367 --> 01:53:11,035 - The facts are that our sister has been 2053 01:53:11,244 --> 01:53:13,455 in England three days and won't see us. 2054 01:53:13,663 --> 01:53:16,082 She's forbidden the bankers to give us her address. 2055 01:53:16,291 --> 01:53:18,501 She refuses to answer any questions. 2056 01:53:18,710 --> 01:53:21,212 All we have are these telegrams. 2057 01:53:21,421 --> 01:53:24,257 - And you want to get hold of her, is that it? 2058 01:53:24,466 --> 01:53:25,466 - Well, yes. 2059 01:53:27,385 --> 01:53:28,665 - It's perfectly easy, Margaret. 2060 01:53:28,761 --> 01:53:30,472 She wants her books, yes? 2061 01:53:30,680 --> 01:53:32,807 Send her after them, to Howards End. 2062 01:53:33,016 --> 01:53:34,809 When she's there, you just stroll in. 2063 01:53:35,018 --> 01:53:37,138 If there's nothing wrong with her, so much the better. 2064 01:53:37,270 --> 01:53:39,772 But remember, the motor will be around the corner. 2065 01:53:39,981 --> 01:53:41,292 We quite simply run her up to London 2066 01:53:41,316 --> 01:53:42,901 to a specialist, no time at all. 2067 01:53:43,109 --> 01:53:44,486 - That's impossible. 2068 01:53:44,694 --> 01:53:47,071 - Why is it impossible? 2069 01:53:47,280 --> 01:53:49,616 - Because Helen and I, we... 2070 01:53:51,201 --> 01:53:55,997 don't speak that particular language, if you see my meaning. 2071 01:53:56,206 --> 01:53:57,486 - Yes, because you have scruples, 2072 01:53:57,540 --> 01:54:00,126 and it's all very well, and I understand perfectly. 2073 01:54:00,335 --> 01:54:03,213 I'm as scrupulous as any man alive, I hope. 2074 01:54:03,421 --> 01:54:05,089 But when it is a case like this, 2075 01:54:05,298 --> 01:54:06,799 when it is a question of madness— 2076 01:54:09,010 --> 01:54:10,178 - You said yourself. 2077 01:54:10,386 --> 01:54:13,890 - It's madness when I say it but not when you say it. 2078 01:54:14,098 --> 01:54:17,602 - Pater, you may as well keep Howards End out of it. 2079 01:54:17,810 --> 01:54:19,103 - Why, Charles? 2080 01:54:21,481 --> 01:54:23,250 - Well, the whole house is at sixes and sevens. 2081 01:54:23,274 --> 01:54:25,360 We don't want any more mess. 2082 01:54:26,611 --> 01:54:27,987 - And who is we? 2083 01:54:29,948 --> 01:54:31,950 Pray, Charles, who is we? 2084 01:54:33,535 --> 01:54:35,370 - Beg your pardon, I'm sure. 2085 01:54:35,578 --> 01:54:38,623 I seem always to be intruding. 2086 01:54:38,831 --> 01:54:40,708 - No, Charles, Charles! 2087 01:54:44,420 --> 01:54:46,881 - Then let's send a telegram. 2088 01:54:48,299 --> 01:54:50,218 Come along, let's do it. 2089 01:54:56,140 --> 01:54:58,226 I really can't have this sort of behavior, Charles. 2090 01:54:58,434 --> 01:54:59,434 - What? 2091 01:54:59,602 --> 01:55:01,479 - Margaret, she's far too sweet-natured 2092 01:55:01,688 --> 01:55:04,065 to mind, but I mind for her. 2093 01:55:12,282 --> 01:55:14,158 - All your books now at Howards End. 2094 01:55:14,367 --> 01:55:17,704 Ms. Avery will let you in 3pm Monday, Meg. 2095 01:55:19,998 --> 01:55:21,541 - Our main object is not to frighten 2096 01:55:21,749 --> 01:55:24,043 Ms. Schlegel, you understand? 2097 01:55:24,252 --> 01:55:27,255 Trouble seems to be nervous, wouldn't you say so, Margaret? 2098 01:55:27,463 --> 01:55:29,882 - Would you say she was normal? 2099 01:55:30,091 --> 01:55:32,135 - Well, she's always been highly strung. 2100 01:55:32,343 --> 01:55:35,847 Musical, literary, artistic but quite normal, 2101 01:55:36,055 --> 01:55:38,224 quite a charming girl, really. 2102 01:55:38,433 --> 01:55:40,893 - Would you say there was anything congenital? 2103 01:55:41,102 --> 01:55:42,145 - No, no. 2104 01:55:42,353 --> 01:55:43,771 - Or anything hereditary? 2105 01:55:43,980 --> 01:55:44,980 - No. 2106 01:56:02,165 --> 01:56:03,291 Margaret? 2107 01:56:03,499 --> 01:56:07,962 - Yes, Henry, just wait here just for a second. 2108 01:56:08,171 --> 01:56:10,173 Oh, my darling, quickly, quickly 2109 01:56:10,381 --> 01:56:13,635 just get inside please, just quickly. 2110 01:56:13,843 --> 01:56:16,179 - Ms. Schlegel is managing. 2111 01:56:16,387 --> 01:56:17,972 You can go back to the motor. 2112 01:56:18,181 --> 01:56:19,349 Margaret? 2113 01:56:19,557 --> 01:56:21,768 - Henry, Henry I shall surely need your advice later, 2114 01:56:21,976 --> 01:56:23,603 but now I must be alone with Helen. 2115 01:56:23,811 --> 01:56:25,146 - Certainly. 2116 01:56:25,355 --> 01:56:26,715 - Yes, please, my dear, kind Henry. 2117 01:56:26,856 --> 01:56:27,440 - Yes. 2118 01:56:27,649 --> 01:56:28,649 - Thank you. 2119 01:56:47,293 --> 01:56:48,670 - Where are all our furniture? 2120 01:56:48,878 --> 01:56:51,381 - Ah, there's been a mistake. 2121 01:56:53,591 --> 01:56:55,718 - How well the carpet fits. 2122 01:56:55,927 --> 01:56:57,220 I'll be sending some milk 'round, 2123 01:56:57,428 --> 01:56:59,263 and we should be ordering coals. 2124 01:56:59,472 --> 01:57:00,866 - There's been a mistake, Ms. Avery. 2125 01:57:00,890 --> 01:57:02,183 You've been very kind, but we are 2126 01:57:02,392 --> 01:57:03,535 not going to live at Howards End. 2127 01:57:03,559 --> 01:57:05,269 This is not our house. 2128 01:57:10,483 --> 01:57:13,403 I think she may be a little touched. 2129 01:57:15,029 --> 01:57:16,489 I'm sorry, Helen. 2130 01:57:17,615 --> 01:57:18,991 I ought not to have— 2131 01:57:21,869 --> 01:57:23,329 - We thought you were ill. 2132 01:57:23,538 --> 01:57:24,556 - As you see, I'm not ill, but 2133 01:57:24,580 --> 01:57:27,709 I'm expecting a child in June. 2134 01:57:27,917 --> 01:57:28,917 Is the coast clear? 2135 01:57:29,043 --> 01:57:30,086 I must leave. 2136 01:57:30,294 --> 01:57:32,171 I'm going back to Germany in the morning. 2137 01:57:32,380 --> 01:57:34,215 Give my love to Aunt Juley and to Tibby. 2138 01:57:34,424 --> 01:57:35,007 - Let me get that. 2139 01:57:35,216 --> 01:57:36,467 - Don't. 2140 01:57:36,676 --> 01:57:40,388 It's curious, isn't it, that our carpet fits? 2141 01:57:40,596 --> 01:57:43,266 Yes, the sword looks right too. 2142 01:57:44,267 --> 01:57:45,560 - Yes, doesn't it? 2143 01:57:51,357 --> 01:57:53,109 Someone's polished it. 2144 01:57:53,317 --> 01:57:54,317 - Yes. 2145 01:57:56,654 --> 01:57:58,030 I'll carry this. 2146 01:58:02,493 --> 01:58:03,762 Even if you didn't want to tell me 2147 01:58:03,786 --> 01:58:05,371 because of Henry, I understand that. 2148 01:58:05,580 --> 01:58:07,248 - I thought I had to be by myself. 2149 01:58:07,457 --> 01:58:09,625 That's why I hid away in Germany. 2150 01:58:09,834 --> 01:58:11,294 - What about Tibby? 2151 01:58:11,502 --> 01:58:14,297 - You know, Meg, really, I alone must be responsible 2152 01:58:14,505 --> 01:58:18,968 for myself and this child, and I want to be. 2153 01:58:19,177 --> 01:58:21,137 Of course, Leonard doesn't know. 2154 01:58:21,345 --> 01:58:22,345 - Leonard? 2155 01:58:24,307 --> 01:58:25,349 Leonard Bast? 2156 01:58:26,809 --> 01:58:27,809 - Yes. 2157 01:58:29,020 --> 01:58:32,064 Oh, Meg, did you ever hear from him again? 2158 01:58:35,485 --> 01:58:39,322 I have no idea what he's doing now 2159 01:58:39,530 --> 01:58:42,617 or what's happened to either of them. 2160 01:58:48,080 --> 01:58:49,415 - Dolly. 2161 01:58:49,624 --> 01:58:51,584 - Hello. - Hello. 2162 01:58:53,586 --> 01:58:56,005 - My dear, I must ask you. 2163 01:58:56,214 --> 01:58:58,382 Was your sister wearing a wedding ring? 2164 01:58:58,591 --> 01:58:59,591 - No. 2165 01:58:59,634 --> 01:59:00,634 - What? 2166 01:59:00,676 --> 01:59:01,676 - No. 2167 01:59:02,720 --> 01:59:05,932 Henry, I really came just to ask a favor about Howards End. 2168 01:59:06,140 --> 01:59:07,308 - Yes, one point at a time. 2169 01:59:07,517 --> 01:59:08,726 Please, sit down. 2170 01:59:11,437 --> 01:59:12,437 Margaret, 2171 01:59:14,273 --> 01:59:18,361 I must now ask you for the name of her seducer. 2172 01:59:18,569 --> 01:59:19,362 You may have some inkling, and 2173 01:59:19,570 --> 01:59:21,113 the slightest hint would help us. 2174 01:59:21,322 --> 01:59:22,406 - Us, who is "us"? 2175 01:59:22,615 --> 01:59:23,783 - Hmm? 2176 01:59:23,991 --> 01:59:27,203 Well, I thought it best to ring Charles. 2177 01:59:27,411 --> 01:59:29,455 - That was unnecessary. 2178 01:59:29,664 --> 01:59:31,582 - My dear, listen to me. 2179 01:59:31,791 --> 01:59:35,253 Charles and I wish to act in your sister's best interests. 2180 01:59:35,461 --> 01:59:38,506 It's still not too late to clear her name. 2181 01:59:38,714 --> 01:59:41,801 - What are we to make her seducer marry her? 2182 01:59:42,009 --> 01:59:44,428 But Henry, suppose he turned out to be married already? 2183 01:59:44,637 --> 01:59:46,722 One has heard of such cases. 2184 01:59:52,019 --> 01:59:56,566 - Then he must pay heavily for his misconduct, mustn't he? 2185 01:59:56,774 --> 01:59:58,067 Now, stay calm. 2186 02:00:01,654 --> 02:00:03,447 I want to talk to you. 2187 02:00:03,656 --> 02:00:05,491 Listen to me, Margaret. 2188 02:00:07,535 --> 02:00:08,535 Come here. 2189 02:00:09,787 --> 02:00:11,497 Look at me. 2190 02:00:11,706 --> 02:00:13,040 What's the matter? 2191 02:00:16,460 --> 02:00:17,460 Hmm? 2192 02:00:17,503 --> 02:00:19,380 - May I ask you my question now? 2193 02:00:19,589 --> 02:00:20,590 - Certainly. 2194 02:00:20,798 --> 02:00:22,383 - Tomorrow Helen goes to Germany. 2195 02:00:22,592 --> 02:00:23,175 - Yes. 2196 02:00:23,384 --> 02:00:24,427 - I'm fine. 2197 02:00:24,635 --> 02:00:26,220 Tonight. With your permission— 2198 02:00:27,722 --> 02:00:30,683 - She would like to sleep at Howards End. 2199 02:00:32,143 --> 02:00:33,769 - But why at Howards End? 2200 02:00:33,978 --> 02:00:34,687 I don't understand. 2201 02:00:34,896 --> 02:00:36,522 - It is an odd request, but you 2202 02:00:36,731 --> 02:00:38,274 know what women in her state are. 2203 02:00:38,482 --> 02:00:40,401 - Yes, I could understand if it were 2204 02:00:40,610 --> 02:00:42,278 her own home associations and so on, 2205 02:00:42,486 --> 02:00:44,488 but Helen has no associations with Howards End. 2206 02:00:44,697 --> 02:00:46,490 I don't see why she wants to stay there. 2207 02:00:46,699 --> 02:00:48,034 She'll only catch cold anyway. 2208 02:00:48,242 --> 02:00:51,078 - Call it fancy, but she wants to. 2209 02:00:51,287 --> 02:00:52,330 - I don't understand. 2210 02:00:52,538 --> 02:00:53,640 If she wants to sleep there one night, 2211 02:00:53,664 --> 02:00:54,290 she'll want to sleep there two. 2212 02:00:54,498 --> 02:00:55,498 - No, no, just— 2213 02:00:56,626 --> 02:00:57,906 - But that matters so very much? 2214 02:00:57,960 --> 02:00:59,128 - But of course it would— 2215 02:01:00,296 --> 02:01:01,797 Howards End for this one night. 2216 02:01:02,006 --> 02:01:03,257 I shall stay with her 2217 02:01:03,466 --> 02:01:04,776 - No, that's quite impossible and that's madness. 2218 02:01:04,800 --> 02:01:06,069 I want you here to meet Charles. 2219 02:01:06,093 --> 02:01:07,470 - What has Charles to do with this? 2220 02:01:07,678 --> 02:01:09,518 - Margaret, as the future owner of Howards End, 2221 02:01:09,555 --> 02:01:10,699 it has everything to do with Charles. 2222 02:01:10,723 --> 02:01:11,849 - In what way? 2223 02:01:12,058 --> 02:01:13,643 Please answer me, Henry. 2224 02:01:13,851 --> 02:01:14,560 - You're forgetting yourself. 2225 02:01:14,769 --> 02:01:15,829 There's Dolly and the servants. 2226 02:01:15,853 --> 02:01:16,979 - In what way? 2227 02:01:17,188 --> 02:01:18,665 Would Helen's condition depreciate the property? 2228 02:01:18,689 --> 02:01:19,774 - Margaret! 2229 02:01:24,904 --> 02:01:25,904 Margaret. 2230 02:01:31,202 --> 02:01:33,079 I shall do what I can for your sister, 2231 02:01:33,287 --> 02:01:35,623 but I cannot treat it as if nothing has happened. 2232 02:01:35,831 --> 02:01:38,031 I should be forced from my position in society if I did. 2233 02:01:38,209 --> 02:01:40,002 - Tomorrow, she will go to Germany 2234 02:01:40,211 --> 02:01:42,672 and trouble society no longer. 2235 02:01:42,880 --> 02:01:46,717 Tonight, she asks to sleep in your empty house. 2236 02:01:48,302 --> 02:01:49,053 May she? 2237 02:01:49,261 --> 02:01:51,681 Will you give my sister leave? 2238 02:01:51,889 --> 02:01:53,516 Will you forgive her, 2239 02:01:55,851 --> 02:01:59,563 as you yourself have been forgiven? 2240 02:01:59,772 --> 02:02:00,856 - As I myself have been— 2241 02:02:04,694 --> 02:02:06,445 - Your sister can sleep at the hotel. 2242 02:02:06,654 --> 02:02:07,923 I have my children and the memory 2243 02:02:07,947 --> 02:02:10,282 of my dear wife to consider. 2244 02:02:11,450 --> 02:02:13,661 - You have mentioned Mrs. Wilcox. 2245 02:02:13,869 --> 02:02:16,622 In reply, may I mention Mrs. Bast? 2246 02:02:19,667 --> 02:02:20,418 - You have not been yourself all day— 2247 02:02:22,211 --> 02:02:23,212 You have had a mistress. 2248 02:02:23,421 --> 02:02:24,005 I forgave you. 2249 02:02:24,213 --> 02:02:25,506 My sister has a lover. 2250 02:02:25,715 --> 02:02:27,591 You drive her from the house! 2251 02:02:27,800 --> 02:02:29,640 Why can you not be honest for once in your life 2252 02:02:29,760 --> 02:02:33,889 and say to yourself, "What Helen has done, I have done"? 2253 02:02:39,103 --> 02:02:41,397 - I repeat what I said before. 2254 02:02:41,605 --> 02:02:45,609 I do not give your sister leave to sleep at Howards End. 2255 02:02:45,818 --> 02:02:47,653 Now, do you understand? 2256 02:02:58,789 --> 02:03:00,458 - If a man played about with my sister, 2257 02:03:00,666 --> 02:03:01,876 I'd send a bullet through him, 2258 02:03:02,084 --> 02:03:07,298 but I suppose you're sunk too deep in books and rubbish. 2259 02:03:07,506 --> 02:03:09,216 Do you mind what happens to your sister? 2260 02:03:09,425 --> 02:03:10,745 - As a matter of fact, I mind very 2261 02:03:10,885 --> 02:03:13,345 much what happens to my sister, 2262 02:03:13,554 --> 02:03:16,432 but I have a different way of expressing it from yours, 2263 02:03:16,640 --> 02:03:17,975 not to speak of different manners. 2264 02:03:18,184 --> 02:03:20,728 - By Jove, I'm glad of my way! 2265 02:03:22,605 --> 02:03:23,999 I'm glad that my father never sent me 2266 02:03:24,023 --> 02:03:27,568 to the varsity if this is what they teach you here. 2267 02:03:27,777 --> 02:03:31,947 Look, you must know something of your sister's life. 2268 02:03:33,365 --> 02:03:34,992 Do you know of anyone? 2269 02:03:35,201 --> 02:03:35,785 - No. 2270 02:03:35,993 --> 02:03:37,703 - Whom do you suspect? 2271 02:03:40,790 --> 02:03:43,626 Did she mention anyone by name? 2272 02:03:43,834 --> 02:03:44,834 Come on, yes or no. 2273 02:03:44,960 --> 02:03:45,586 You're hiding something, man. 2274 02:03:45,795 --> 02:03:47,129 Speak up. 2275 02:03:47,338 --> 02:03:49,107 - She did mention some friend called Leonard Bast. 2276 02:03:49,131 --> 02:03:50,758 - Leonard Bast, eh? 2277 02:03:52,968 --> 02:03:55,304 Leonard Bast, do you know him? 2278 02:03:56,972 --> 02:04:00,476 Have you had any dealings with him? 2279 02:04:00,684 --> 02:04:02,561 Oh, what a family. 2280 02:04:02,770 --> 02:04:03,771 What a family! 2281 02:04:03,979 --> 02:04:05,356 God help the poor pater. 2282 02:04:05,564 --> 02:04:08,442 - I'd say God help my poor sisters. 2283 02:04:12,780 --> 02:04:14,260 - Admiring isn't purchasing, you know. 2284 02:04:14,448 --> 02:04:15,848 - But they were ordered on approval. 2285 02:04:15,950 --> 02:04:17,034 - Excuse me. 2286 02:04:17,243 --> 02:04:17,618 - We do not accept things on approval. 2287 02:04:17,827 --> 02:04:18,828 - Excuse me. 2288 02:04:19,036 --> 02:04:21,914 - Wait. - Ma'am. 2289 02:04:22,123 --> 02:04:24,834 - Excuse me, I was looking for Ms. Schlegel. 2290 02:04:25,042 --> 02:04:26,168 - It's... 2291 02:04:26,377 --> 02:04:27,044 - Leonard Bast, I used to call at Wickham Place. 2292 02:04:27,253 --> 02:04:28,838 Is Ms. Schlegel in? 2293 02:04:29,046 --> 02:04:30,046 Or Mrs. Wilcox? 2294 02:04:30,089 --> 02:04:31,799 - They're all down at Howards End. 2295 02:04:32,007 --> 02:04:34,176 - Where would that be now, Howards End? 2296 02:04:34,385 --> 02:04:37,596 - It's at Hilton, near Hilton Junction. 2297 02:04:38,848 --> 02:04:40,182 Are you all right? 2298 02:04:41,642 --> 02:04:42,268 Let me get you a drink of water. 2299 02:04:42,476 --> 02:04:43,811 - No, thank you. 2300 02:04:47,857 --> 02:04:48,897 - Please take them, Ma'am. 2301 02:04:48,941 --> 02:04:49,650 This is— 2302 02:04:56,490 --> 02:04:59,869 - I don't want you to conclude that my wife and I 2303 02:05:00,077 --> 02:05:02,371 have had anything like a quarrel. 2304 02:05:02,580 --> 02:05:04,915 She is overwrought, as who would not be, naturally. 2305 02:05:05,124 --> 02:05:06,124 - Naturally. 2306 02:05:07,626 --> 02:05:09,020 - The question, to my mind, is connected 2307 02:05:09,044 --> 02:05:12,339 to something far greater, the rights of property itself. 2308 02:05:12,548 --> 02:05:13,716 - Absolutely. 2309 02:05:13,924 --> 02:05:17,011 - The house is mine and will one day be yours, Charles. 2310 02:05:17,219 --> 02:05:20,556 When I say that I don't want anyone living at Howards End, 2311 02:05:20,764 --> 02:05:23,225 I mean that no one is to live at Howards End. 2312 02:05:23,434 --> 02:05:24,619 - Then I take it tomorrow morning, 2313 02:05:24,643 --> 02:05:27,021 I may go up in the motor? - Mmm. 2314 02:05:28,522 --> 02:05:31,483 Yes, say that you're acting as my representative, 2315 02:05:31,692 --> 02:05:34,612 and that they must clear out at once. 2316 02:05:34,820 --> 02:05:35,529 You must go to bed now. 2317 02:05:35,738 --> 02:05:36,938 I've kept you up far too late. 2318 02:05:40,201 --> 02:05:42,494 - Can I do anything for you, sir? 2319 02:05:42,703 --> 02:05:43,746 - Hmm? 2320 02:05:43,954 --> 02:05:46,373 No, nothing, thank you, my boy. 2321 02:05:47,625 --> 02:05:48,709 Good night. 2322 02:05:48,918 --> 02:05:50,002 - Night, sir. 2323 02:06:04,850 --> 02:06:06,602 - It's only the train. 2324 02:06:54,233 --> 02:06:57,486 Len, have you got that pain again, Len? 2325 02:07:01,365 --> 02:07:02,574 You're all dressed! 2326 02:07:02,783 --> 02:07:05,244 - I'm just going out for a bit. 2327 02:07:08,080 --> 02:07:09,248 - What ho, Len. 2328 02:07:09,456 --> 02:07:11,166 - What ho, Jacky. 2329 02:07:11,375 --> 02:07:13,502 See you again later. 2330 02:08:55,813 --> 02:08:57,898 - Did you see the dawn? 2331 02:08:58,107 --> 02:08:59,274 And was it wonderful? 2332 02:08:59,483 --> 02:09:00,483 - No. 2333 02:09:01,902 --> 02:09:03,153 It was only gray. 2334 02:09:21,880 --> 02:09:23,680 Excuse me, could you direct me to Howards End? 2335 02:09:23,715 --> 02:09:25,467 - This is Howards End. 2336 02:09:36,687 --> 02:09:38,981 - Yes, thank you very much, Charles. 2337 02:09:39,189 --> 02:09:42,401 There are two boxes of books in the... 2338 02:09:48,198 --> 02:09:53,036 - Ms. Schlegel, Mrs. Wilcox, you'll have forgotten me. 2339 02:09:53,245 --> 02:09:56,457 - No, Mr. Bast, I have not forgotten you. 2340 02:09:58,041 --> 02:10:00,544 - I only want to know where your sister is, where Helen is. 2341 02:10:00,752 --> 02:10:01,336 - Who is it? 2342 02:10:01,545 --> 02:10:02,545 - Helen? 2343 02:10:04,506 --> 02:10:05,506 - Leonard! 2344 02:10:07,384 --> 02:10:09,970 - Oh, so this is Leonard Bast. 2345 02:10:11,305 --> 02:10:12,931 This is for insulting the name of woman. 2346 02:10:14,183 --> 02:10:15,601 Get me a stick, Margaret, a stick. 2347 02:10:15,809 --> 02:10:18,049 - Charles, we are perfectly capable of dealing with this. 2348 02:10:19,396 --> 02:10:20,396 - Get back! 2349 02:10:22,524 --> 02:10:23,524 Stand up! 2350 02:10:23,692 --> 02:10:24,443 - Charles! 2351 02:10:24,651 --> 02:10:25,360 - Stand up! 2352 02:10:25,569 --> 02:10:26,569 - Stop it, Charles! 2353 02:10:48,008 --> 02:10:49,051 - So it is your opinion 2354 02:10:49,259 --> 02:10:52,054 that he was in the last stages of heart disease? 2355 02:10:52,262 --> 02:10:53,462 - It would not be professional 2356 02:10:53,555 --> 02:10:57,184 to say so before an autopsy, but in private, 2357 02:10:57,392 --> 02:10:59,937 that could well be my diagnosis. 2358 02:11:01,230 --> 02:11:02,373 Obviously, he was in the last stage 2359 02:11:02,397 --> 02:11:04,816 because the moment I touched him 2360 02:11:05,025 --> 02:11:06,568 with the sword, he simply crumpled up. 2361 02:11:06,777 --> 02:11:10,489 - Excuse me, sir, what sword would that have been? 2362 02:11:10,697 --> 02:11:12,866 - Well, it's inside. 2363 02:11:13,075 --> 02:11:14,910 You'd better follow me. 2364 02:11:23,043 --> 02:11:26,046 It's their father's old German sword. 2365 02:11:27,339 --> 02:11:30,217 Course, I only touched him with the flat of it. 2366 02:11:30,425 --> 02:11:31,134 - Just once? 2367 02:11:31,343 --> 02:11:33,595 - Yes, once, perhaps twice. 2368 02:11:37,516 --> 02:11:40,394 - I presume you will be staying in Hilton, Mr. Wilcox, sir? 2369 02:11:40,602 --> 02:11:41,603 - Ah, yes, yes, 2370 02:11:41,812 --> 02:11:45,148 I'll be available as long as is necessary. 2371 02:11:45,190 --> 02:11:47,693 - And, Mr. Charles Wilcox, we shall be 2372 02:11:47,901 --> 02:11:51,655 requesting your presence at the inquest, sir. 2373 02:11:51,863 --> 02:11:53,103 - Yes, well, I did expect that. 2374 02:11:53,282 --> 02:11:57,244 I shall naturally be the most important witness. 2375 02:12:36,742 --> 02:12:37,742 - Margaret? 2376 02:12:43,498 --> 02:12:44,642 - Good, Henry, I was going to come 2377 02:12:44,666 --> 02:12:46,460 up to Hilton to give you these. 2378 02:12:46,668 --> 02:12:48,629 - Yes, I have something to tell you, Margaret. 2379 02:12:48,837 --> 02:12:50,597 - Never mind, Henry, I don't need to hear it. 2380 02:12:50,631 --> 02:12:51,840 I'm leaving you. 2381 02:12:52,049 --> 02:12:53,675 My life is with Helen now. 2382 02:12:53,884 --> 02:12:55,302 - Yes. 2383 02:12:55,510 --> 02:12:57,054 I'm extremely tired. 2384 02:12:58,555 --> 02:13:00,932 Come and sit down for a moment. 2385 02:13:02,309 --> 02:13:03,328 - Yes, for a moment, we'll have 2386 02:13:03,352 --> 02:13:04,770 to sit here on the grass then. 2387 02:13:04,978 --> 02:13:05,978 - Yes. 2388 02:13:11,401 --> 02:13:12,569 - Here are your keys. 2389 02:13:12,778 --> 02:13:14,098 We shall be staying with Ms. Avery 2390 02:13:14,279 --> 02:13:16,198 at the farm 'til we can leave. 2391 02:13:16,406 --> 02:13:18,700 - Yes, where are you going? 2392 02:13:20,619 --> 02:13:21,953 - To Germany. 2393 02:13:22,162 --> 02:13:24,790 We'll start as soon as possible after the inquest. 2394 02:13:24,998 --> 02:13:25,999 - After the inquest. 2395 02:13:26,208 --> 02:13:27,376 - If Helen is well enough. 2396 02:13:27,584 --> 02:13:31,213 - You realize what the verdict will be, don't you? 2397 02:13:31,421 --> 02:13:33,006 - Yes, heart disease. 2398 02:13:34,383 --> 02:13:37,010 - No, manslaughter, if not worse. 2399 02:13:38,553 --> 02:13:40,347 Charles may go to prison. 2400 02:13:40,555 --> 02:13:42,349 I dare not tell him. 2401 02:13:43,392 --> 02:13:45,352 I don't know what to do. 2402 02:13:47,521 --> 02:13:49,439 I don't know what to do. 2403 02:13:55,445 --> 02:13:56,445 I'm sorry. 2404 02:15:32,626 --> 02:15:34,336 Now, is this going to suit everyone? 2405 02:15:34,544 --> 02:15:36,464 Because I don't want you all coming here later on 2406 02:15:36,671 --> 02:15:39,132 and complaining that I've been unfair, Paul? 2407 02:15:39,341 --> 02:15:42,427 - Apparently, it's got to suit us. 2408 02:15:42,636 --> 02:15:44,095 - You've only to speak, my boy, 2409 02:15:44,304 --> 02:15:46,306 and I'll leave the house to you entirely. 2410 02:15:46,515 --> 02:15:47,867 - Since I have to be at the business all week, 2411 02:15:47,891 --> 02:15:50,602 I'll find something that suits me better. 2412 02:15:50,811 --> 02:15:52,251 This place is not really the country, 2413 02:15:52,312 --> 02:15:55,607 and, well, it's certainly not the town. 2414 02:15:57,818 --> 02:16:00,195 - Does my arrangement suit you, Evie? 2415 02:16:00,403 --> 02:16:01,488 - Of course, Father. 2416 02:16:01,696 --> 02:16:03,114 - Good, you, Dolly? 2417 02:16:04,366 --> 02:16:06,451 - I thought Charles wanted it for the boys, 2418 02:16:06,660 --> 02:16:09,412 but last time I saw him, he said no, 2419 02:16:09,621 --> 02:16:10,821 because we can't possibly live 2420 02:16:10,956 --> 02:16:13,208 in this part of England again. 2421 02:16:13,416 --> 02:16:14,769 Charles even says we ought to change 2422 02:16:14,793 --> 02:16:17,587 our name, but I can't think what to. 2423 02:16:17,796 --> 02:16:20,549 Wilcox just suits Charles and me, 2424 02:16:20,757 --> 02:16:23,718 and I can't think of any other name. 2425 02:16:25,387 --> 02:16:26,387 - Yes. 2426 02:16:27,597 --> 02:16:30,517 Then I leave Howards End to my wife absolutely. 2427 02:16:30,725 --> 02:16:33,436 Let everyone understand that, and after I'm dead, 2428 02:16:33,645 --> 02:16:36,815 let there be no jealousy and no surprise. 2429 02:16:37,023 --> 02:16:39,359 In consequence, I leave my wife no money, 2430 02:16:39,568 --> 02:16:41,486 that is her own wish, and all my 2431 02:16:41,695 --> 02:16:45,490 other assets are to be divided among you. 2432 02:16:45,699 --> 02:16:47,534 This house, Howards End, she intends, 2433 02:16:47,742 --> 02:16:49,452 at her death, to leave to her nephew. 2434 02:16:55,500 --> 02:16:57,335 - Whoop! 2435 02:17:00,213 --> 02:17:01,506 - It does seem curious. 2436 02:17:01,715 --> 02:17:03,475 Mrs. Wilcox wanted Margaret to have Howards— 2437 02:17:04,801 --> 02:17:07,137 - And now she gets it after all. 2438 02:17:07,345 --> 02:17:08,054 - Dolly. 2439 02:17:08,263 --> 02:17:10,307 - Did I put my foot in it? 2440 02:17:18,315 --> 02:17:18,982 - Hmm? 2441 02:17:19,190 --> 02:17:20,190 Yeah, yeah. 2442 02:17:27,866 --> 02:17:29,266 - Come on, let's get out of the way. 2443 02:17:29,326 --> 02:17:31,536 Tom, Tom, take baby's hand. 2444 02:17:38,752 --> 02:17:41,129 Oh, look, what's over there? 2445 02:17:42,714 --> 02:17:44,466 I wonder what it is. 2446 02:17:45,926 --> 02:17:47,719 - Oh, it's a sweet child, 2447 02:17:47,928 --> 02:17:49,679 rather like Didums was at that age. 2448 02:17:49,888 --> 02:17:51,640 - Come along, Dolly. 2449 02:17:55,602 --> 02:17:56,603 - Safe journey. - Goodbye. 2450 02:17:56,811 --> 02:17:58,605 - Is it trapped? 2451 02:17:58,813 --> 02:18:02,067 Come on, it's time away we came from the jungle. 2452 02:18:02,275 --> 02:18:04,736 Look, look who's there, look! 2453 02:18:09,824 --> 02:18:11,576 - What did Dolly mean about Howards End? 2454 02:18:11,785 --> 02:18:12,785 - Hmm? 2455 02:18:13,870 --> 02:18:16,706 My poor Ruth, during her last days, 2456 02:18:18,041 --> 02:18:20,251 scribbled your name on a piece of paper. 2457 02:18:20,460 --> 02:18:24,881 Knowing her not to be herself, I set it aside. 2458 02:18:25,090 --> 02:18:27,008 Didn't do wrong, did I? 2459 02:18:27,217 --> 02:18:28,217 There, they're off. 2460 02:18:29,469 --> 02:18:30,929 There they go, bye. 2461 02:18:32,931 --> 02:18:34,015 Bye.