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Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat.

Heat

up here.

Heat.

Heat.

I'd hoped you were going to church. I

wanted to walk with you.

>> I'm very obliged to you, but I'm not

going to church.

Have you any special reason for not

going?

>> Yes, Mr. Brand.

>> May I ask what it is?

>> Why does the sky so blue?

>> I've heard of young ladies staying at

home for bad weather, but never for

good.

>> I was very wicked just now to my sister.

I said things that puzzled her on

purpose.

You say things that puzzle me.

>> I always know when I do it.

>> You asked me to tell you about my

my struggles.

>> Yes, let's talk about them. I have so

many things to say.

>> I think you'd better go to church now.

>> You know, I always have one thing to

say.

>> Please don't say it now.

>> We are all alone. All alone in this

beautiful Sunday stillness.

Do me a favor and go to church.

>> May I speak when I come back?

Heat. Heat.

She beheld the most beautiful youth she

had ever seen. And as she softly kissed

his sleeping brow,

she thought, "What a marvel of beauty he

must be when his eyes are open.

Would

you Kindly tell me if I have the honor

of speaking to Miss Wentworth.

>> My name is Gertrude Wentworth.

>> Then I have the honor,

the pleasure of being your cousin.

>> I had a different plan. I expected that

the servant would take in my card, that

you'd all put your heads together and

wonder who I was.

>> I know.

I know you come from Europe.

>> Well, you've heard of us then. We knew

we had relations in France.

>> Have you ever wanted to see us?

>> Yes.

>> We wanted to see you, so we came

>> on purpose.

>> Well, yes. On purpose.

>> Won't you come into the house?

I walked all the way from Boston. I

walked and I walked. It's a good many

miles.

>> 7 and a half.

Are you all alone?

>> Everyone has gone to church.

>> Oh, you're not afraid of being alone

with me, are you?

Oh, what a very pleasant house.

I don't believe you know my name. I'm

Felix Young.

Your father is my uncle. My mother was

his halfsister.

>> She turned Roman Catholic and then went

to live in Europe.

>> You know,

she married and she died.

Your your father's family didn't like

her husband.

I was born in France and my sister in

Vienna.

>> So, you're French?

>> No,

but though I could easily be French if

you'd like.

I really am very hungry. I'm not at all

tired, but I'm very hungry.

>> Tell me about your sister,

>> Eugeneia.

She is the Baroness Muncha.

>> Why didn't she come too?

>> But she did. She's in Boston at the

hotel.

>> When will she come? As soon as your

letter

tomorrow.

Yes.

>> Is she

Is she married?

>> She's married to Prince Adolf

of Zubstat Shrekenstein.

>> Zubashtenstein.

>> Shrekenstein.

Is she a princess?

>> No. They made her a baroness. That's all

they could do.

Now they want to dissolve her marriage.

>> Against her will,

>> against her right.

>> She must be very unhappy.

I'm glad she's come to us.

This is the prince. The prince of silver

statenstein.

>> And the daughters, how many of them are

there?

>> Two. Charlotte and Gertrude. Are they

pretty?

>> One of them.

>> Which one is that?

>> Charlotte.

>> So, you're in love with Gertrude.

>> And is there no one besides the

immediate family?

>> Yes. There's a Mr. Robert Actton.

>> I think that you're like Mr. Actton.

He's a man of the world. He's been to

China.

>> A man of the Chinese world. He sounds

very interesting.

I have an idea. He brought home a

fortune.

>> Ah, that's always interesting.

Wa.

be very gracious.

I see you have arranged your house, your

beautiful house in the in the Dutch

taste.

>> It's a very old house. General

Washington once spent a week here. Oh,

I've heard of Washington. My father used

to adore him.

>> This is my son, Clifford Wentworth.

>> Why didn't you come out to meet me, Mr.

Clifford Wentworth?

>> I didn't think you'd want me.

>> One always wants a handsome cousin.

>> This is my cousin, Mr. Robert Actton.

>> Your cousin, not mine.

>> Certainly yours, if you wish.

And may I also claim relationship with

this charming young lady.

>> This is my sister Lizzy.

>> Now this is quite another type. This is

a different outline, my uncle. A

different character from that of your

own daughters.

>> I didn't believe that you'd come back.

>> Come back?

Fine. What did you think would become of

me?

>> I don't know.

I thought

I thought you might melt away.

>> The gentleman is I suppose some sort of

ecclesiastic.

>> He is a minister.

>> A Protestant.

>> I'm a Unitarian, madam.

>> I see something new.

>> You've come very far.

>> Very far.

very

far.

I came to

to look to

ask

to to try.

I'm very tired. I want to rest.

I should like to stay here. Will you

take me in?

>> My dear niece,

Cousin William, do you want to do

something handsome?

Make them a present for 3 or 4 months of

the other house over the way.

Oh father, do let them.

It would be very interesting.

It would be a new place to go to.

It would be a foreign house.

>> Are we very sure that we need a foreign

house?

>> You talk as if it were a question of the

poor baroness opening a wine shop or a

gaming table.

It would be lovely.

>> You should be careful.

You should watch.

We must all be careful. This is a great

change.

We're to be exposed to peculiar

influences.

I don't say they're bad. I don't judge

them in advance. But

we should employ a great deal of wisdom

and self-control.

>> She'll have a budoir

and she'll invite us to dinner very

late.

She'll have breakfast in her room.

>> I want you to make me a promise,

Gertrude.

What is it?

>> Not to get

excited.

>> I don't think I can promise you that,

father.

I'm excited already.

I think they'd better go to the other

house.

I shall keep them in the other house.

We need to die.

Don't think she likes us to drop in

uninvited.

Why do you think that? Because of what

she said about our house being like an

inn with people dropping in and out of

it all day.

But she said that was charming.

But she meant just the reverse.

I only wish she'd speak in French.

Seem more in keeping.

What I'd like to know is just what the

devil has brought her here.

Heat. Heat.

I think if you move back a little,

you might get the sun.

Sit down.

Now, keep your chin up.

>> Do you find us good company?

>> Company for a king.

>> There must be a thousand different ways

to be dreary.

And sometimes I think we make use of

them all.

Father,

Father Felix has a great deal of talent.

>> No, no, nothing at all remarkable. The

world will never hear about me.

I'm little more than a featherhead, a a

sort of bohemian, a species of

adventure.

No, at bottom, I'm really a terrible

philistine.

I mean,

that is to say, a plain god-fearing man.

I trust I shall enjoy a venerable and

venerated old age.

>> It's natural that one should desire to

prolong an agreeable life.

>> Sir, I would very much like to do your

head.

It's very interesting. It's medieval.

The Lord made it. I don't think it's for

a man to make it over again.

>> Well, I I could do it as a prelet or or

an old cardinal or the prior of an

order.

Cardinal Prelet,

do you refer to the Roman Catholic

priesthood?

Oh,

well, I could do you as an old

ecclesiastic who's lived a very pure and

abstinent life.

I take that is the case with you, sir.

I can see it in your face. You've been

very moderate.

Don't you think one can always see that

in a man's face?

You see more in a man's face than I

should think of looking for.

I think sitting for one's portrait is

only one of the various forms of

idleness.

Their name is Legion.

I'm sure you find it very strange that I

should come to this part of the world.

I'm certain you're wondering about my

motives. They're very pure.

>> No, I don't find it at all strange that

a clever woman should turn up in Boston

or at Suburbs. It's a very fine place,

especially at this moment.

>> It was precisely not to hear such things

that I came.

I longed to come into those natural

relations I knew I should find here.

Over there I had only

um artificial relations.

Do you see the difference?

>> I suppose I'm an artificial relation.

Well, there's one way in which a lady

and a gentleman may easily become

natural.

Yes,

but

>> Oh, do you understand French?

>> A little

You are very beautiful.

I didn't think you were at first,

but you come to seem more so little by

little.

You seem so different from your father

and your sister and from most of the

people you've lived with.

>> They say themselves that I'm different.

It makes them unhappy.

Many things make them unhappy.

>> Yes,

>> that's what strikes me. I mean, they

don't get the pleasure out of life that

they might.

>> Do you mind me saying this?

>> To me, you can say anything.

>> I don't believe you've seen people like

us.

>> How do you know what I've seen?

How can I tell you?

You might tell me a great many things if

only you would.

>> What?

>> Everything.

>> Now, if you can only keep that look

until tomorrow's sitting.

Goodbye.

That's true.

That's true.

We're very much preoccupied.

You have new interests.

I love you, Gertrude. I love you very

much. I love you more than ever.

You've let me feel that I have an

influence over you.

You've opened your mind to me.

>> I've never opened my mind to you, Mr.

Brand.

>> Then you weren't as frank as I thought.

As we all thought,

>> I don't see what anyone else had to do

with it.

>> I mean, your father and your sister. You

know, it makes them happy to think you

listen to me.

>> Nothing makes them happy.

>> Very much changed.

I'm glad to hear it.

>> I'm not.

I've known you a long time and I've

loved you as you were.

>> May I walk back with you?

I'm not going back, Mr. Brand.

Oh yeah.

Heat. Heat.

There are some ants in there.

I'll take you to meet them.

Must I sit in there? I see you think it

is my natural place.

Would you like to dance then?

They're very energetic, aren't they?

the odds either.

You Americans are very strange. You

never ask anything outright.

>> We Americans are very polite. We don't

like to tread upon people's toes.

>> I should think you'd want to know about

my marriage.

>> Yes, I should like that very much.

>> The prince fell in love with me. I was

very young and I confess rather

flattered.

I was living with an old countess, a

friend of my father's in Dresden. She

encouraged the prince. I was very young.

>> I congratulate your brother on his

treasures.

I dust them every day, don't I? With my

own hands. You must be the perfect

little household fairy. Sometimes I feel

like dropping them.

>> I'll just go and see if mother's ready.

>> Yes, you do that.

Is she very critical? She looks down her

nose at everybody like this.

Perhaps I should have my list kept.

She likes Robert, though.

I have a little document at my writing

desk which I have only to sign and send

back to the prince. Then your marriage

will be over.

>> Well, of course I shall keep my title.

One must have a name. And I'll keep my

pension. Very small. It's wretchedly

small, but it's what I live on.

>> And you only have to sign that paper.

>> Do you urge it?

>> Mother will see you now.

>> If you go away, I shall never see you

again. I shall write to you.

>> Don't. I won't answer you.

>> Oh, but you can. You know, I'm very

discreet. I'll burn your letters.

>> Burn my letters.

>> You do say strange things.

>> I've tried very hard.

I've explained. I've reasoned. But

reason does not always penetrate as

deeply as

some other emotions.

Gertrude has learned a great deal from

you.

>> We all have.

I've sometimes wished that Miss Gertrude

had some share of your soundness,

your sense,

your very fine understanding. Miss

Charlotte,

>> I'll keep your letters.

>> I never write.

I don't know how to

>> Your sister is not indifferent to her

clever companion.

>> She has the highest opinion of Mr.

Brand.

Well, she's not in love with him. She

wants him to marry me.

>> But why did you never tell me this

before?

>> I don't like to speak about it.

>> You don't want to marry Mr. Brandon?

>> No.

>> But your father and your sister think

that you ought to.

>> I shall never marry Mr. Brandon.

If he would address himself to your

sister,

>> I'm sure she'd listen to him.

>> Oh, Felix.

>> Why shouldn't they marry?

>> Try to make them marry.

>> Well, I believe she does care for him.

>> We'll marry them off. That will make

them happy. It will make everybody

happy.

>> It would make me happy

>> to be rid of Mr. Brand.

to see my sister married to so good a

man.

What a delightful retreat. I must admit

I've fallen quite in love with your

American arrangements. Everything is so

tremendously

natural, primitive, patriarchal.

Even your domestics have an heir, a

style of their own.

That is Haddie.

>> Yes, I'd love to have one for myself,

but I brought my own maid with me from

Paris.

>> There was a French maid in the play that

Robert took me to see. She wore pink

stockings.

I suppose your maid's too old to wear

pink stockings. She must have been with

you for ages.

>> Is he?

>> I regret to say that Clifford has a

vice.

>> You mean that he drinks?

>> I quite agree. That is a low taste.

>> Not a vice for a gentleman.

>> Thank you.

>> Mr. Brand has undertaken to help him.

>> Ah, Mr. friend.

>> Yes, he's an excellent influence.

>> But perhaps Clifford ought to cultivate

the society of some agreeable woman. A

clever, agreeable woman who would give

him a sense of how very ridiculous it is

to be fled.

>> What lady would you suggest?

>> Well, there's a clever woman under your

hand. My sister

under my hand.

>> I have my heart set on having a cook. I

must have a cook. An old in a

yellow turban. I want to look out of the

window and see her sitting there under

the crooked little apple tree pulling

the husks off a lap full of Indian core.

Now that would be local color, you know.

I fear I'm tiring your mother.

I haven't been used to a great deal of

conversation lately. I see you live a

life of the most exquisite retirement

with your your flowers, your book.

Is Mr. Emerson?

He is so very

improving.

You don't need much improving, mother.

Now, it is the rest of us who need that.

>> We have always been very quiet.

I I I fear I must hire you no further.

Thank you again for allowing me to come.

>> I must go.

>> Why? What has happened?

>> I would like to leave.

>> Please tell me why.

>> I feel uh out of tune.

>> I hope not out of temper.

>> No, no, no, no. Out of tune.

I sing too loud.

>> Robert,

mother wants you.

>> I'm coming directly.

>> I like your mother very much.

>> I'm sure she likes you. As she said,

we've always been very quiet.

>> Yes.

>> That's what I want now.

>> Ah, yes.

The quiet.

>> Robert.

>> Yes. Come here.

Excuse me a moment. I

>> I've almost decided to dispatch that

letter.

>> Well, when you have in fact done so, I I

hope you'll let me know.

>> Say a word to Clifford. Give him a hint

to come and see her, to come often. Tell

him to be bold.

Do I understand that I'm to suggest to

my son to make a profession of affection

to Madam Müster?

>> Yes, he has a profession.

But as I understand it, Madam Müster is

a married woman. Oh,

>> but of course you can't marry him. But

she'll do what she can.

>> I don't think I can undertake to

recommend my son any such course. Would

you call a carriage for me, please?

>> But the fun is only just starting.

>> I have a migraine. A headache.

>> Edward.

Are you sure you want to go home?

>> What can you say to make me stay?

>> We're having ice cream.

>> You made my share.

>> Encourage Clifford to come and see you.

His taste of the present are somewhat

vulgar.

>> You mean he gets tipsy? Inspire him with

a taste for conversation.

And even if he should in the process

fall in love with you, doesn't matter.

>> I'm to offer myself as a superior form

of intoxication. A substitute for the

brand new, by the way.

>> Truly, in this country, one comes to

strange uses.

>> It's unbecoming for Clifford to drink.

After all, he will be one day the

principal gentleman in this

neighborhood.

Yes, he and Mr. Actton.

Are you by any chance offering me a

second string to my bow?

But alas,

self-interest, sensuality, and passion

struggle together in the human breast.

There is a wilderness to be subdued and

made fruitful. Tempests of passion to be

calmed, luxurious, of sensuality to be

loved.

All the benefits of a useful education

may be lost by acquaintance with

companions of bad habits. Such is the

natural propensity of evil. So great is

the vivacity, the curiosity, the love of

novelty, and the want of caution at a

tender age. So lively is the sympathy,

so active the spirit of imitation that

even occasional intercourse with

dangerous companions will seldom fail to

be highly injurious.

I once was for several weeks with a

foreigner of very fair natural

abilities, but never subjected to the

disciplines of early study, who would

often arrive at his own conclusions by a

kind of jump.

In giving you an account of any piece of

history which you

>> and when my heart does upward soar

>> fly and float aloft

>> and then

>> and then looks down and sees on earth

the spire of bar stony church

>> with some regularity what he had found

in his offer. fears to be impaled there

>> lively and sometimes to the purpose but

produced by a sort of theatrical

exhibition and not by a narration of

consecutive facts.

Let then the skilled teacher make a

point of accustoming his pupils to

reason and regularity and especially his

pupils of the female gender whose

natural volatility most needs this

discipline.

I've sometimes wished Miss Gertrude had

some share of your soundness,

your sense.

You're very fine and understanding, Miss

Charlotte.

Think of all that we owe Mr. Brand.

He's helped you sew.

He's helped you struggle with your

peculiarities.

You told me that he taught you how to

govern your temper.

I want to be wicked again.

Charlotte,

you're in love with him.

I wish he'd marry you.

This is very cruel of you.

Not if it's true.

I do wish he'd marry you. You mustn't

say things like that.

>> I mean to tell him so. Gertrude,

he speaks to me again about myself. I

shall say, "Why don't you marry

Charlotte? She's a thousand times better

than I."

>> You are wicked. You are changed.

You make yourself out worse than you are

to please him.

He doesn't care for the things we care

for. For the great questions of life.

>> Neither do I. I've been pretending all

this time. I've been dishonest.

It's pleasure that I care for.

Pleasure and amusement.

>> Gertrude.

Gertrude.

Am I really losing you?

Charlotte cares for the great questions

of life. Mr. Brand,

>> when will he be back?

>> In a week.

>> You think she'll miss him?

Don't you like her?

She thinks that you're the most charming

girl in the world.

>> When did she tell you that?

>> Anyway, she doesn't.

>> You think that everything she said has

to be taken the opposite way?

>> Yeah, I think that is.

Right.

>> Goodbye, Robert.

Is this the prince?

the Mount Vuvius.

>> Yes,

you must go to Europe and make the tour.

>> Well, I know some fellas have been. They

say you can have better fun here.

>> Your friends probably weren't

introduced. They had no opportunity of

going into society. They formed no

relassium.

Well, they went to a ball in Paris. I

know that.

>> No, you must go. You need it for your

manners.

>> I haven't got any.

>> Precisely. You must go to Europe and get

a few

You must remember

there is no agreeable man

who hasn't been to school to a clever

woman.

Usually a little older than himself.

Trust me, Clifford.

Laugh out. Laugh out if I am. I'm here

for that.

>> Are you seriously making love to your

little cousin, Lizzy?

>> Those things ought to be known.

>> I don't care if it's known or not, but I

don't want people looking at me. A young

man of your importance ought to learn to

be looked at.

And don't tell me you're not a young man

of importance.

>> Oh, no. You don't catch me saying that.

>> You must come to Europe. You'll be

talked about, of course, with me. It

will be said that you're my lover.

>> I'll show you how little one may mind

that. How little I shall mind it.

>> I'd mind it a good deal.

Well, not too much. You know,

that would be univil.

What is It

>> I thought I heard someone.

>> Who is it?

>> No one. Made a mistake.

>> Why are you so nervous?

>> I'm not.

>> Your father doesn't like you coming

here.

>> I thought it was Robert Actton.

>> Oh, yes. Of course. He's expected back

tonight.

You never answered my question about his

little sister. What's her name? If one

is arranging a marriage, you know, one

ought to tell one's friends.

>> I'm not arranging anything.

>> Then you don't intend to marry your

cousin?

>> Well, I expect I'll do as I choose.

Oh, you're back, Bob.

>> Ah, half an hour ago.

>> Where are all your companions?

>> Charlotte's with Mr. Brian in the

parlor. Gertrude is for the hundth time

doing the honors of the house to a

foreign cousin. And Clifford,

>> he is, I suppose, calling on the other

foreign cousin.

>> Hasn't the baroness been to visit you

today?

>> The baroness has not honored us for 3

days,

>> she ill.

>> No, I went to see her.

>> What's the matter with her?

>> I infer she's tired of us.

>> It's late. You going home?

I think I'll go and take a look at the

baroness.

If we ever had any virtue among us, we'd

better keep hold of it now.

>> Your cousin, Miss Actton, is very

charming.

>> She's the prettiest girl in this place.

>> I'm afraid you're entangled.

>> I'm not entangled.

Are you engaged?

>> What's the matter?

>> There is someone.

Oh,

>> it's your father. Come, come quickly.

No, no, no. This way. Your hat.

I don't think I ought to tell you to sit

down. It It's too late to begin a visit.

Well,

>> it's too early to end one.

I went first to the big house. I

expected to find you there. No, I

haven't been to the big house.

>> Not yesterday, nor the day before, eh?

>> Oh, I I don't know how many days it's

been.

>> You're tired of us. I expected something

of the kind.

>> I hope you enjoyed your journey.

>> Oh, I'd much rather have been here with

you.

>> I never get tired of people I like.

>> But you're not a poor, wicked, foreign

woman with irritable nerves.

Something's happened to you since I went

away.

If you're bored, you needn't be afraid

to say so. To me, at least.

I know we've made you lead a very dull

life here.

>> Someone there?

>> No, no, no. It's only my maid.

She always chooses the middle of the

night to arrange her things.

It's one of those odd French habits.

>> You know that document you were to send

to Germany?

You call it your renunciation.

Did you ever send it?

>> Why do you ask me that now?

>> I've wanted to ask you many times. I

thought you might tell me yourself.

I think I've told you too much.

>> I wish you'd asked something at me.

Isn't there anything I can do for you?

>> If you can't stand this dull life

anymore, let me amuse you.

>> You're very strange tonight.

>> Would you like to travel about or see

something of the country? Won't you

Won't you go to Niagara? You should see

Niagara, you know.

>> With you, Dine. I'd be delighted to take

you.

>> You alone?

>> Well, yes, we might go alone.

>> I think I ought to feel insulted.

>> You'd much better come to Niagara with

me.

>> Is that the extent of what you're

offering me?

Have you sent that document to Germany?

>> He was in Felix's studio. He wanted to

see some of his sketches.

>> He didn't have much light in there.

>> I didn't have any.

>> Oh, your candle went out. Eh,

>> I didn't have a candle.

You didn't give me any.

You had much better go home. Good night.

Good night.

>> What's the matter with him? He seemed

rather muddled. Was he uh Do you think

>> Oh, he doesn't drink anymore. I've cured

him of that. And in return,

he's in love with me.

He wasn't in the studio. I invented that

at the moment. He has an idea of being

romantic. He's adopted the habit of

coming to see me

at midnight. Stealing in by the backway.

It seems to amuse him.

Still sitting up at the big house. You

can see the lights.

>> The big house. I don't know what they do

up there.

I'm a quiet little

humrum woman.

So, good night.

Good night, Eugene.

She said the younger one begins the

better.

>> And what did she mean by that?

>> She called me a dear young Puritan and

said not to be afraid. She wants to

introduce me to her circle of charming

friends.

>> And just what is her circle of charming

friends?

Catch a code.

What were you doing at Madam Müster last

night?

What did she tell you? I'd want to tell

you the same.

I thought you were my father.

>> So, you ran away?

>> She told me to.

But I felt ashamed to be hiding away in

the dark like a coward.

So, I came back.

It was surprised to see you,

but Eugenia carried it off, didn't she?

beautifully.

>> What was her story?

>> Well, she said that she couldn't imagine

what had got into you,

but you appeared to have taken a violent

dislike to her.

>> What?

And that whenever you come to the house,

all you do is lock yourself up in

Felix's studio and

look at his sketches.

>> Oh, come.

>> Well, it's not true.

>> What do you think?

>> Well, Baroness wouldn't tell a lie,

>> wouldn't she?

Have you ever known her to tell an

untruth?

>> Yes, lots of them.

She knew it wasn't father coming in. She

knew it was you.

She knows everything.

>> Are you by any chance?

The least bit sweet on her.

>> No, sir.

Heat.

Heat.

I have a very bad conscience.

We ought to be together this way. Not

until I've got your father's consent.

>> I don't understand you.

>> You very often say that.

>> Considering how little we understand

each other, it's a wonder we get on so

well.

>> We've been alone together ever since you

came.

The first time I ever saw you, we were

alone.

Why is it different now?

Is it because everyone's at church?

>> The difference is G.

>> The difference is I love you more,

more and more.

Oh, pont TV. What a climate.

Christine, you

appears no one will be calling on us

today.

Were you expecting someone?

>> Whom should I be expecting in this

place?

>> What expectations could there be?

>> I hope you don't think I'm reduced to

waiting for a Mr. Robert act.

How long do you propose to remain in

this lovely spot?

Well, you don't want to go away already.

>> Already is delicious.

>> Do you intend to spend the rest of your

life making love to Gertrude won't work?

>> Yes.

>> Unfortunately, her father wants her to

marry Mr. Brand.

>> I know nothing about it.

Pleased to put on a log.

I think you're the most heartless person

living.

Don't you see that I'm in trouble?

Robert Actton wants to marry me.

Don't you believe me?

>> Why does it make you unhappy?

>> Because I can't decide.

>> Accept him.

Accept him.

He's immensely in love with me.

There's a party at the Barretts next

Saturday.

>> Well, I'm sure you'll be one of the

principal ornaments.

>> Everyone's tired of seeing me in my same

old blue or my green.

Miss Coffin has some pretty new patterns

no one else has seen.

>> And you better hurry before they do. She

promised not to show them till I've had

the first choice.

>> What I do?

>> There's a bullet, too.

What's this?

It's a present for someone.

>> Who?

>> I hope you're not giving gifts to that

baroness. Robert,

>> you're not in love with her.

>> I don't know.

>> That means you're not.

>> I like to be with her.

I think of her great deal.

But if this is love,

it's overrated.

>> No, it's not.

Wouldn't you like to get married

to someone really nice?

>> That's what I'm trying to decide.

>> I'll find her for you.

The prettiest,

the best girl in all this place.

>> That's you.

>> I mean, second to me.

It's for you.

I bought it for you.

Thank you, Robert.

I want to go. I have to go where?

Did you know that Felix was an actor

with a troop of strolling players? They

went everywhere and played Shakespeare.

They went to France and Poland and

Italy.

I can't endure it.

I think I wish to scream.

Have you been preaching one of your

beautiful sermons?

>> Did you bring me over here for the

purpose of making that inquiry?

>> No. No, not for that. No. I wanted to

tell you something only as it's rather

private. I thought perhaps we might go

into my studio.

>> It's very delicate what I wanted to say.

>> Least to say it as quickly as possible.

>> It's only because you're a clergyman.

You know, I don't think I'd venture to

say it to a common man.

>> It's a question of resenting an injury.

I'm afraid I'm a very common man indeed.

Both my sister and I have taken a great

fancy to our cousin Charlotte.

>> Cousin Charlotte.

>> We fell in love with her from the first.

>> You fell in love with Shan?

>> Well, she's a very charming person,

but she's not happy, Mr. Brand. She's

not happy.

Charlotte is in love

with you.

She's in love with you.

Is that what you wanted to say to me?

Well, I told you it was very delicate.

Don't let her languish.

I congratulate you.

It's in your interests.

You've interfered with me.

Well, I won't pretend. I don't know what

you mean.

But with one person, you've lost

nothing.

And think of what you've gained with

another.

Seems to me that I'm the proper judge on

both sides.

Good day. Let's see.

My dear cousin

Charlotte, I want you to help me.

>> Help you?

>> I mean, with your father and with the

world in general, including Mr. Brand.

>> Poor Mr. Brand.

>> Don't say poor Mr. brand. Well, I don't

pity him at all.

But it ought to be enough for any man

that you take an interest in him.

Oh, Charlotte, take pity on me.

Say a good word about me to your father.

Because

Well, because I'm terribly in love with

your sister.

In love, Charlotte. In love.

There is no great hope that we shall any

of us advance much till we make religion

a matter of business. Father

>> character is no dead capital it bears

interest like the pound in the parable

it gains£10.

>> Father I have

>> as it multiplies more like an immense

property it makes incalculable increase.

>> Father I have something to say to you

about Gertrude.

I hope to have bought a bouquet in

France. They always do.

>> We are not in France.

>> Dear uncle,

I desire very earnestly to marry your

daughter, Gertrude.

Huh?

You don't like it?

I was afraid.

Well, I know I'm not the sort of man you

might have looked for. I have no

position and no fortune. I can give

Gertrude no place in the world. She'll

be hiding her light under a bushel. I

being the bushel.

Now, I know that you like me. Well,

you've shown that. But you think I'm

frivolous, penniless, and shabby.

Well, granted. Granted. Granted. A

thousand times. Granted, I've been a

loose fish. I've I've been a a fiddler,

a painter,

an actor. I've been a bohemian.

But in Bohemia, I always pass for a

gentleman.

Now, I find I can earn a living, a very

fair one, from going about the world and

painting bad portraits. Gertrude

declares she's willing to share my

wonderings and help to pose my models.

Well, that brings me to my third point.

The Gertrude likes me. Encourage her a

little and she'll tell you so.

>> We've been talking about you.

>> I know it. That's why I came.

>> It is better. You should be present. We

were discussing your future.

>> Well, you've never had any confidence in

me. Never. I don't know why.

>> I have never seen you so passionate.

You have not profited as we had hoped.

>> I have profited. You wanted to form my

character while it's formed. I know what

I want. I've chosen.

I'm determined to marry this gentleman.

>> Come in, sir. You should be here.

You would better consent, sir.

>> I'm not sure that I understand.

>> Mr. Brand asks you to let Felix take me

away.

>> Isn't this rather a change, sir?

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Where are our moral grounds?

I should like in my ministerial capacity

to unite this young couple.

>> Well, that's very beautiful of you, Mr.

Brand,

>> I should like to marry you. It would

give me great pleasure.

That is very nice

and very handsome.

Father, consent.

I consent

since Mr. Brand recommends it.

They tell me you are so comfortable

here, that you've got such a beautiful

little house, and my son is so fond of

going to see you. I'm afraid my son will

miss you.

>> Dear Madame,

I can't stay in America

for your son. I

want to see my children cheerful and

happy.

My daughter will probably marry her

cousin.

Two such interesting young people.

You seem to me all so happy here just as

you are.

So I wish you would stay.

It would it would be so pleasant for

Robert.

Goodbye. Dear madame, I must remember

your strength is precious.

>> Oh, you

you have been happy here, haven't you?

And and you like us, don't you? So, I

wish you'd stay in your beautiful little

house. Yes, my house is beautiful.

They're not to be compared with yours.

Goodbye, madam.

worship you.

He wasn't in Felix's studio. I invented

that at the moment.

He has an idea of being romantic.

He's adopted the habit of coming to see

me at midnight, stealing in by the back

way.

Excuse

my ridiculous position. I was uh

thinking of you.

>> The occupation of extreme leisure.

>> No, I'm delighted. I'm honored. Won't

you come into the house?

>> I've just come out of it. I've been

calling on your mother.

Bidding her farewell.

>> I'm going away.

>> When?

>> As soon as possible.

Why haven't you been to see me?

>> Must you go straight home?

>> Why don't you answer my question?

>> Let me walk with you.

>> Do what you like.

If you really are going away, it's very

serious.

Why are you going?

I uh had hoped

you would stay.

I asked you a question the other night,

but you haven't answered.

Have you sent off that document to

Germany?

Yes.

>> What could I say to keep you?

>> Tell me a reason why I should stay.

We all admire you. So,

that's no reason.

I'm admired also in Europe.

I will see you in your in your

>> Mhm.

>> It is the continent for really superior

women.

We are appreciated there.

You must wear this to the opera in

Paris.

>> Shall we go often to the opera?

>> Yes, to the opera. very often.

>> We had hope that your brother's marriage

might detain you.

>> I think I've grown rather tired of

marriages.

>> Well, since you are determined to leave

us, may I have one last request?

I would like to put my carriage at your

disposal for your departure. It would

give me great pleasure.

It gives me even greater pleasure to

accept your kind proposal.

Thank you, Mr. Actton.

The path of the railroad runs through

rocks and hills.

Just so must

>> must the path. Just so must the path of

salvation

cleave its way through the wilderness of

our passions.

And to awaken, to stir up another soul

to this necessity,

that

that is a noble exertion,

>> a higher power,

>> a greater ambition than Caesar.

Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

Heat. Heat.