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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:45,836 --> 00:00:48,130 Hey! Hey! 2 00:00:49,798 --> 00:00:51,216 There he is! 3 00:00:59,141 --> 00:01:00,976 Where's he going? 4 00:01:04,313 --> 00:01:07,191 -Bastard! 5 00:01:07,191 --> 00:01:08,651 Stop! 6 00:01:08,651 --> 00:01:10,861 You won't get away, sir! 7 00:01:10,861 --> 00:01:12,946 Time to pay your debt. 8 00:01:12,946 --> 00:01:14,156 Hey! 9 00:01:52,903 --> 00:01:54,863 Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? 10 00:01:54,863 --> 00:01:57,908 I didn't think it polite to listen, sir. 11 00:01:57,908 --> 00:02:01,370 I'm sorry for that, for your sake. 12 00:02:01,370 --> 00:02:06,250 I don't play accurately-- anyone can play accurately-- 13 00:02:06,250 --> 00:02:09,253 but I play with wonderful expression. 14 00:02:09,253 --> 00:02:10,963 Yes, sir. 15 00:02:10,963 --> 00:02:14,466 Bills, bills, bills-- all I ever get is bills. 16 00:02:14,466 --> 00:02:15,968 And then there's the matter... 17 00:02:15,968 --> 00:02:18,470 of my unpaid wages, sir. 18 00:02:25,352 --> 00:02:27,771 Yet again the wasteful habits of my brother Ernest... 19 00:02:27,771 --> 00:02:29,565 tear me from my duties here. 20 00:02:29,565 --> 00:02:30,983 Yes, sir. 21 00:02:30,983 --> 00:02:32,735 It's a terrible nuisance, but there's nothing to be done. 22 00:02:34,236 --> 00:02:35,988 I shall return Monday afternoon. 23 00:02:35,988 --> 00:02:36,989 Yes, sir. 24 00:02:42,578 --> 00:02:44,705 Pay particular attention, if you will, Miss Prism... 25 00:02:44,705 --> 00:02:46,081 to her German grammar. 26 00:02:46,081 --> 00:02:47,583 Yes, Mr. Worthing. 27 00:02:53,464 --> 00:02:55,299 I don't suppose you've found my cigarette case... 28 00:02:55,299 --> 00:02:56,508 have you, Merriman? 29 00:02:56,508 --> 00:02:57,968 We're still looking, sir. 30 00:02:59,303 --> 00:03:00,471 Walk on. 31 00:03:25,913 --> 00:03:27,414 Hey! 32 00:03:53,482 --> 00:03:55,943 Excuse me. 33 00:04:09,456 --> 00:04:10,666 Ernest! 34 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:15,129 -Algy! -How are you, my dear Ernest? 35 00:04:15,129 --> 00:04:17,756 -What brings you up to town? -Oh, pleasure, pleasure. 36 00:04:17,756 --> 00:04:19,049 What else should bring one anywhere? 37 00:04:19,717 --> 00:04:21,468 Where have you been since last Thursday? 38 00:04:21,468 --> 00:04:22,803 In the country. 39 00:04:22,803 --> 00:04:24,763 You're always in the country. What on earth do you do there? 40 00:04:24,763 --> 00:04:26,557 Well, when one is in town, one amuses oneself. 41 00:04:26,557 --> 00:04:28,684 When one is in the country, one amuses other people. 42 00:04:28,684 --> 00:04:30,060 It's excessively boring. 43 00:04:30,060 --> 00:04:32,855 -Who are these people you amuse? -Oh, neighbours, neighbours. 44 00:04:32,855 --> 00:04:34,565 Nice neighbours in your part of Shropshire? 45 00:04:34,565 --> 00:04:36,317 Perfectly horrid. Never speak to one of them. 46 00:04:36,317 --> 00:04:38,194 How immensely you must amuse them. 47 00:04:38,194 --> 00:04:41,071 By the way, Shropshire is your country, is it not? 48 00:04:41,071 --> 00:04:42,406 -What? -Shropshire. 49 00:04:42,406 --> 00:04:43,574 -Shropshire? -Mm. 50 00:04:43,574 --> 00:04:44,992 Oh, yes, of course. 51 00:04:47,995 --> 00:04:49,538 Say. dear boy... 52 00:04:49,538 --> 00:04:51,665 What plans have you got for tea tomorrow? 53 00:04:51,665 --> 00:04:52,750 You know perfectly well... 54 00:04:52,750 --> 00:04:54,585 that Aunt Augusta is coming to tea tomorrow. 55 00:04:54,585 --> 00:04:59,089 -Aunt Augusta? -Yes. Aunt Augusta... 56 00:04:59,089 --> 00:05:00,674 And Gwendolen. 57 00:05:02,551 --> 00:05:04,553 How perfectly delightful. 58 00:05:05,971 --> 00:05:09,391 Perhaps I might pay my respects. 59 00:05:09,391 --> 00:05:11,101 Yes, that is all very well, but I'm afraid Aunt Augusta... 60 00:05:11,101 --> 00:05:12,394 won't approve of your being there. 61 00:05:12,394 --> 00:05:13,646 Why do you say that? 62 00:05:13,646 --> 00:05:15,439 My dear fellow, the way that you flirt with Gwendolen... 63 00:05:15,439 --> 00:05:16,941 is perfectly disgraceful. 64 00:05:16,941 --> 00:05:19,401 It's almost as bad as the way Gwendolen flirts with you. 65 00:05:19,401 --> 00:05:22,696 -I am in love with Gwendolen. -Ahh. 66 00:05:22,696 --> 00:05:25,324 And I have come up to town expressly to propose to her. 67 00:05:25,324 --> 00:05:27,076 I thought you came up for pleasure. 68 00:05:27,076 --> 00:05:28,744 I call that business. 69 00:05:28,744 --> 00:05:30,371 Oh, how utterly unromantic you are. 70 00:05:30,371 --> 00:05:32,581 I really don't see what there is romantic about proposing. 71 00:05:32,581 --> 00:05:34,917 Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. 72 00:05:34,917 --> 00:05:37,795 And then--Ha ha!-- the excitement is over. 73 00:05:37,795 --> 00:05:43,509 No. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. 74 00:05:44,677 --> 00:05:48,305 Twenty-five a player. 75 00:05:50,975 --> 00:05:53,144 Anyway, I certainly can't see... 76 00:05:53,144 --> 00:05:55,312 you and Gwendolen being married. 77 00:05:55,312 --> 00:05:56,647 Why on earth do you say that? 78 00:05:56,647 --> 00:05:58,482 Well, in the first place, I don't give my consent. 79 00:05:58,482 --> 00:05:59,733 Your consent? 80 00:05:59,733 --> 00:06:01,819 My dear fellow, Gwendolen is my cousin... 81 00:06:01,819 --> 00:06:03,863 and before I allow you to marry her... 82 00:06:03,863 --> 00:06:07,533 you shall have to clear up this whole question of Cecily. 83 00:06:07,533 --> 00:06:09,076 -Cecily? -Mm. 84 00:06:09,076 --> 00:06:11,162 What on earth do you mean? 85 00:06:11,162 --> 00:06:13,539 I don't know anyone by the name of Cecily. 86 00:06:13,539 --> 00:06:16,876 Do you mean you have had my cigarette case all this time? 87 00:06:16,876 --> 00:06:18,544 I wish to goodness you had let me know. 88 00:06:18,544 --> 00:06:21,046 I've been writing frantic letters to Scotland Yard. 89 00:06:21,046 --> 00:06:22,923 I was very nearly offering a very large reward. 90 00:06:22,923 --> 00:06:24,258 I wish you would offer one. 91 00:06:24,258 --> 00:06:26,385 I happen to be more than usually hard up. 92 00:06:26,385 --> 00:06:28,888 It makes no matter... 93 00:06:28,888 --> 00:06:30,556 for I see now the thing isn't yours after all. 94 00:06:30,556 --> 00:06:31,724 Of course it's mine. 95 00:06:31,724 --> 00:06:33,142 You have seen me with it a hundred times. 96 00:06:33,142 --> 00:06:34,435 Not according to the inscription. 97 00:06:34,435 --> 00:06:35,686 And you have no right whatsoever... 98 00:06:35,686 --> 00:06:37,021 to read what is written inside. 99 00:06:37,021 --> 00:06:38,522 It is a very ungentlemanly thing... 100 00:06:38,522 --> 00:06:40,149 to read a private cigarette case. 101 00:06:40,149 --> 00:06:41,901 Yes, but this isn't your cigarette case. 102 00:06:41,901 --> 00:06:43,736 This cigarette case is a present from someone... 103 00:06:43,736 --> 00:06:45,279 of the name of Cecily, and you said... 104 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:46,781 you didn't know anyone of that name. 105 00:06:49,033 --> 00:06:52,995 Well, if you want to know, Cecily happens to be my aunt. 106 00:06:54,079 --> 00:06:55,289 Your aunt? 107 00:06:55,289 --> 00:06:56,707 Yes. charming old lady she is, too. 108 00:06:56,707 --> 00:06:59,001 Lives at Tunbridge Wells. Just give it back to me, Algy. 109 00:06:59,001 --> 00:07:03,297 Yes, but why does your aunt call you her uncle? 110 00:07:11,097 --> 00:07:13,766 "From little Cecily, with her fondest love... 111 00:07:13,766 --> 00:07:16,477 "to her dear Uncle Jack." Mmm. 112 00:07:16,477 --> 00:07:20,356 There is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt... 113 00:07:20,356 --> 00:07:23,067 but why an aunt, no matter what her size may be... 114 00:07:23,067 --> 00:07:25,277 should call her own nephew her uncle... 115 00:07:25,277 --> 00:07:27,238 I can't quite make out. 116 00:07:27,238 --> 00:07:29,615 Besides, your name isn't Jack at all--it's Ernest. 117 00:07:29,615 --> 00:07:32,201 It isn't Ernest, it's Jack. 118 00:07:34,537 --> 00:07:36,122 You've always told me it was Ernest. 119 00:07:36,122 --> 00:07:38,040 I've introduced you to everyone as Ernest. 120 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,835 It is perfectly absurd your saying your name isn't Ernest. 121 00:07:40,835 --> 00:07:42,711 It's on your cards. Here is one of them. 122 00:07:42,711 --> 00:07:45,506 "Mr. Ernest Worthing, B.4, The Albany." 123 00:07:45,506 --> 00:07:49,260 Well, it is Ernest in town and Jack in the country... 124 00:07:49,260 --> 00:07:52,221 and the cigarette case was given to me in the country. 125 00:07:54,515 --> 00:07:57,768 So I've always pretended to have a younger brother. 126 00:07:57,768 --> 00:08:02,231 Ah, of the name of Ernest. And little Cecily? 127 00:08:02,231 --> 00:08:05,109 My ward, Miss Cecily Cardew. 128 00:08:05,109 --> 00:08:07,737 Where is that place in the country, by the way? 129 00:08:07,737 --> 00:08:09,613 That is nothing to you, dear boy. 130 00:08:09,613 --> 00:08:11,824 You are certainly not going to be invited. 131 00:08:11,824 --> 00:08:14,243 I may tell you candidly the place is not in Shropshire. 132 00:08:14,243 --> 00:08:15,953 Oh, I suspected that, my dear fellow... 133 00:08:15,953 --> 00:08:19,457 just as I suspected you to be a Bunburyist. 134 00:08:19,457 --> 00:08:23,127 Indeed, you are one of the most advanced... 135 00:08:23,127 --> 00:08:24,837 Bunburyists I know. 136 00:08:26,464 --> 00:08:28,924 See you at five. 137 00:08:31,427 --> 00:08:33,054 Moncrieff! 138 00:08:33,054 --> 00:08:35,431 A quick word, sir! 139 00:08:36,515 --> 00:08:38,142 "Bunburyist"? 140 00:08:39,268 --> 00:08:42,813 Cecily, your German grammar is on the table. 141 00:08:42,813 --> 00:08:45,066 Pray open it at page fifteen. 142 00:08:45,066 --> 00:08:47,234 We will repeat yesterday's lesson. 143 00:08:47,234 --> 00:08:49,320 But I don't like German. 144 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,822 It isn't at all a becoming language. 145 00:08:51,822 --> 00:08:53,449 I know perfectly well... 146 00:08:53,449 --> 00:08:55,993 I look quite plain after my German lesson. 147 00:08:55,993 --> 00:08:58,371 Child, you know how anxious your guardian is... 148 00:08:58,371 --> 00:09:00,873 that you should improve yourself in every way. 149 00:09:00,873 --> 00:09:03,709 Dear Uncle Jack is so very serious. 150 00:09:03,709 --> 00:09:08,005 Sometimes I think he is so serious he cannot be quite well. 151 00:09:08,005 --> 00:09:10,299 Cecily, I'm surprised at you. 152 00:09:10,299 --> 00:09:13,260 Mr. Worthing has many troubles in his life. 153 00:09:13,260 --> 00:09:15,888 You must remember his constant anxiety... 154 00:09:15,888 --> 00:09:20,017 about that unfortunate young man, his brother. 155 00:09:20,017 --> 00:09:23,145 I wish Uncle Jack would allow that unfortunate young man... 156 00:09:23,145 --> 00:09:26,023 his brother, to come down here sometimes. 157 00:09:26,023 --> 00:09:28,317 We might have a good influence over him, Miss Prism. 158 00:09:28,317 --> 00:09:31,195 I'm not sure that I would desire to reclaim him. 159 00:09:31,195 --> 00:09:33,989 I'm not in favour of this modern mania... 160 00:09:33,989 --> 00:09:35,741 for turning bad people into good people... 161 00:09:35,741 --> 00:09:37,868 at a moment's notice. 162 00:09:41,539 --> 00:09:43,165 Cecily? 163 00:09:44,208 --> 00:09:46,043 Do your work, child. 164 00:09:47,837 --> 00:09:52,341 He, she, it praises. 165 00:09:53,384 --> 00:09:55,177 "Bunburyist"? 166 00:09:55,177 --> 00:09:57,263 What on earth do you mean by a "Bunburyist"? 167 00:09:57,263 --> 00:10:00,641 You have invented a very useful younger brother... 168 00:10:00,641 --> 00:10:03,477 called Ernest in order that you may be able... 169 00:10:03,477 --> 00:10:05,438 to come up to town as often as you like. 170 00:10:05,438 --> 00:10:07,148 I have invented... 171 00:10:07,148 --> 00:10:10,776 an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury... 172 00:10:10,776 --> 00:10:13,362 in order that I may be able to go down... 173 00:10:13,362 --> 00:10:16,073 to the country as often as I choose. 174 00:10:16,073 --> 00:10:18,284 If it wasn't for Bunbury's extraordinary bad health... 175 00:10:18,284 --> 00:10:19,952 for instance, I wouldn't be able to dine with you... 176 00:10:19,952 --> 00:10:21,746 at the Savoy tonight, for I've had an appointment... 177 00:10:21,746 --> 00:10:23,247 with Aunt Augusta for more than a week. 178 00:10:23,247 --> 00:10:25,249 I haven't asked you to dine with me anywhere tonight. 179 00:10:25,249 --> 00:10:27,585 I know. You're absurdly careless... 180 00:10:27,585 --> 00:10:29,420 about giving out invitations. 181 00:10:29,420 --> 00:10:31,422 Don't touch the cucumber sandwiches. 182 00:10:31,422 --> 00:10:33,507 They were ordered especially for Aunt Augusta. 183 00:10:33,507 --> 00:10:35,217 You've been eating them all the time. 184 00:10:35,217 --> 00:10:36,510 Well, that is quite a different matter. 185 00:10:36,510 --> 00:10:37,845 She is my aunt. 186 00:10:39,597 --> 00:10:40,973 That must be her. 187 00:10:40,973 --> 00:10:43,184 Only relatives or creditors ever ring... 188 00:10:43,184 --> 00:10:45,061 in that Wagnerian manner. 189 00:10:45,061 --> 00:10:48,773 Now, if I manage to get her out of the way for 10 minutes... 190 00:10:48,773 --> 00:10:50,399 so that you may have an opportunity... 191 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:51,942 for proposing to Gwendolen... 192 00:10:51,942 --> 00:10:54,445 may I dine with you at the Savoy tonight? 193 00:11:01,077 --> 00:11:04,872 Lady Bracknell and Miss Fairfax. 194 00:11:04,872 --> 00:11:06,624 Good afternoon, dear Algy. 195 00:11:06,624 --> 00:11:09,168 I hope you are behaving very well. 196 00:11:09,168 --> 00:11:10,878 I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. 197 00:11:10,878 --> 00:11:13,297 That's not quite the same thing. 198 00:11:13,297 --> 00:11:15,466 In fact, the two things rarely go together. 199 00:11:15,466 --> 00:11:17,093 Lady Bracknell, I-- 200 00:11:17,093 --> 00:11:19,887 Oh, goodness, you are smart. 201 00:11:19,887 --> 00:11:22,181 I'm always smart. Am I not, Mr. Worthing? 202 00:11:22,181 --> 00:11:24,767 You are quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. 203 00:11:24,767 --> 00:11:26,143 I hope I am not that. 204 00:11:26,143 --> 00:11:28,271 It would leave no room for development... 205 00:11:28,271 --> 00:11:31,816 and I intend to develop in many directions. 206 00:11:31,816 --> 00:11:34,568 I'm sorry if we're a little late, Algy. 207 00:11:34,568 --> 00:11:36,696 I was obliged to call on dear Lady Harbury. 208 00:11:36,696 --> 00:11:38,906 I had not been there since her poor husband's death. 209 00:11:38,906 --> 00:11:41,325 I never saw a woman so altered. 210 00:11:41,325 --> 00:11:44,453 She looks quite twenty years younger. 211 00:11:45,997 --> 00:11:47,707 And now I'll have a cup of tea and one of those... 212 00:11:47,707 --> 00:11:50,293 nice cucumber sandwiches you promised me. 213 00:11:50,293 --> 00:11:51,460 Certainly, Aunt Augusta. 214 00:11:52,670 --> 00:11:54,422 Won't you sit here, Gwendolen? 215 00:11:54,422 --> 00:11:56,465 Thanks, Mama, I'm quite comfortable where I am. 216 00:11:58,217 --> 00:12:00,678 Good heavens, Lane, why are there no cucumber sandwiches? 217 00:12:00,678 --> 00:12:03,431 There were no cucumbers in the market this morning, sir. 218 00:12:03,431 --> 00:12:05,933 -I went down twice. -Oh, no cucumbers? 219 00:12:05,933 --> 00:12:07,852 No, sir. Not even for ready money. 220 00:12:07,852 --> 00:12:09,979 -That will do, Lane. -Thank you, sir. 221 00:12:17,486 --> 00:12:19,614 I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta... 222 00:12:19,614 --> 00:12:23,034 about there being no cucumbers, not even for ready money. 223 00:12:23,034 --> 00:12:24,994 It really makes no matter, Algy. 224 00:12:24,994 --> 00:12:27,538 I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury. 225 00:12:27,538 --> 00:12:30,207 I've got quite a treat for you tonight, Algy. 226 00:12:30,207 --> 00:12:32,460 I'm going to send you down with Mary Farquhar. 227 00:12:32,460 --> 00:12:34,754 -She is such a nice-- -I'm afraid, Aunt Augusta... 228 00:12:34,754 --> 00:12:36,172 I shall have to give up the pleasure... 229 00:12:36,172 --> 00:12:37,757 of dining with you tonight. 230 00:12:37,757 --> 00:12:39,091 I hope not, Algy. 231 00:12:39,091 --> 00:12:41,677 It will put my table completely out. 232 00:12:41,677 --> 00:12:43,721 It is a great bore, and I need hardly say... 233 00:12:43,721 --> 00:12:44,972 a terrible disappointment to me... 234 00:12:44,972 --> 00:12:46,349 but I've just had a telegram to say... 235 00:12:46,349 --> 00:12:48,601 that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again. 236 00:12:48,601 --> 00:12:51,646 They seem to think I should be with him. 237 00:12:51,646 --> 00:12:53,231 Very strange. 238 00:12:53,231 --> 00:12:55,149 This Mr. Bunbury seems to suffer... 239 00:12:55,149 --> 00:12:57,401 from curiously bad health. 240 00:12:57,401 --> 00:13:00,238 Yes, poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. 241 00:13:00,238 --> 00:13:02,531 I must say, Algy, I think it is high time... 242 00:13:02,531 --> 00:13:06,035 Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether to live or die. 243 00:13:06,035 --> 00:13:08,496 This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. 244 00:13:08,496 --> 00:13:10,414 I should be much obliged if you would ask... 245 00:13:10,414 --> 00:13:12,875 Mr. Bunbury from me to be kind enough... 246 00:13:12,875 --> 00:13:14,794 not to have a relapse next Saturday. 247 00:13:14,794 --> 00:13:17,255 It is my last reception, and I rely on you... 248 00:13:17,255 --> 00:13:19,799 to arrange my music for me. 249 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:21,926 I'll speak to Bunbury, Aunt Augusta... 250 00:13:21,926 --> 00:13:23,386 if he's still conscious. 251 00:13:23,386 --> 00:13:25,388 Now, if you'll follow me into the next room... 252 00:13:25,388 --> 00:13:26,931 I'll run over the musical program... 253 00:13:26,931 --> 00:13:28,558 I've already drawn up for the occasion. 254 00:13:28,558 --> 00:13:30,560 Thank you, Algy. 255 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:32,687 It is very thoughtful of you. 256 00:13:34,772 --> 00:13:36,232 Gwendolen, you will accompany me. 257 00:13:36,232 --> 00:13:38,192 Certainly, Mama. 258 00:13:49,453 --> 00:13:51,873 Charming day it has been, Miss Fairfax. 259 00:13:51,873 --> 00:13:54,876 Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. 260 00:13:54,876 --> 00:13:56,836 Whenever people talk to me about the weather... 261 00:13:56,836 --> 00:14:00,173 I always feel quite certain that they mean something else... 262 00:14:00,173 --> 00:14:02,008 and that makes me so nervous. 263 00:14:02,008 --> 00:14:04,552 -I do mean something else. -I thought so. 264 00:14:04,552 --> 00:14:06,137 And I would like to take advantage... 265 00:14:06,137 --> 00:14:07,889 of Lady Bracknell's temporary absence-- 266 00:14:07,889 --> 00:14:09,932 I would certainly advise you to do so. 267 00:14:09,932 --> 00:14:12,059 Mama has a way of coming back suddenly into a room... 268 00:14:12,059 --> 00:14:14,187 that I've often had to speak to her about. 269 00:14:15,980 --> 00:14:19,942 Miss Fairfax, ever since I met you... 270 00:14:19,942 --> 00:14:21,986 I have admired you more than any girl... 271 00:14:21,986 --> 00:14:26,240 I have ever met since I met you. 272 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,910 Yes, I'm quite aware of the fact. 273 00:14:28,910 --> 00:14:31,496 And I often wish that in public, at any rate... 274 00:14:31,496 --> 00:14:33,623 you had been more demonstrative. 275 00:14:33,623 --> 00:14:37,084 For me... 276 00:14:37,084 --> 00:14:39,420 you have always had an irresistible fascination. 277 00:14:39,420 --> 00:14:40,630 Gwendolen-- 278 00:14:40,630 --> 00:14:42,548 Even before I met you... 279 00:14:42,548 --> 00:14:44,634 I was far from indifferent to you. 280 00:14:48,179 --> 00:14:51,682 We live, as I hope you know, Mr. Worthing... 281 00:14:51,682 --> 00:14:55,978 in an age of ideals, and my ideal has always been... 282 00:14:55,978 --> 00:14:59,190 to love someone of the name of Ernest. 283 00:15:00,983 --> 00:15:02,527 There's something in that name... 284 00:15:02,527 --> 00:15:05,112 that inspires absolute confidence. 285 00:15:05,112 --> 00:15:07,281 The moment Algy first mentioned to me... 286 00:15:07,281 --> 00:15:09,492 that he had a friend called Ernest... 287 00:15:09,492 --> 00:15:13,663 I knew I was destined to love you. 288 00:15:13,663 --> 00:15:17,083 -You really love me, Gwendolen? -Passionately. 289 00:15:17,083 --> 00:15:20,128 Darling, you don't know how happy you've made me. 290 00:15:20,128 --> 00:15:21,587 My own Ernest. 291 00:15:23,381 --> 00:15:25,466 You don't mean to say though, dear... 292 00:15:25,466 --> 00:15:27,969 you couldn't love me if my name wasn't Ernest. 293 00:15:27,969 --> 00:15:30,138 But your name is Ernest. 294 00:15:30,138 --> 00:15:31,889 Yes, I know it is... 295 00:15:31,889 --> 00:15:34,851 but supposing it was something else? 296 00:15:34,851 --> 00:15:40,440 Ah. Well, that is clearly a metaphysical speculation... 297 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:44,902 and like most metaphysical speculations... 298 00:15:44,902 --> 00:15:47,572 has very little reference at all... 299 00:15:47,572 --> 00:15:51,075 to the actual facts of real life as we know them. 300 00:15:52,827 --> 00:15:55,204 Personally, darling, to speak quite candidly... 301 00:15:55,204 --> 00:15:57,623 I don't much care about the name of Ernest. 302 00:15:57,623 --> 00:15:59,667 I don't think it suits me at all. 303 00:15:59,667 --> 00:16:02,420 It suits you perfectly. It is a divine name. 304 00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:04,755 It has a music of its own. 305 00:16:04,755 --> 00:16:08,176 It produces vibrations. 306 00:16:10,094 --> 00:16:11,471 Well, really, Gwendolen... 307 00:16:11,471 --> 00:16:15,016 I must say I think there are lots of other much nicer names. 308 00:16:15,016 --> 00:16:16,267 I think... 309 00:16:17,852 --> 00:16:20,897 Jack, for instance, a charming name. 310 00:16:20,897 --> 00:16:22,231 Jack? 311 00:16:22,231 --> 00:16:24,400 I've known several Jacks, and they all... 312 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:26,736 without exception, were more than usually plain. 313 00:16:26,736 --> 00:16:27,862 Mm. 314 00:16:27,862 --> 00:16:31,407 The only really safe name is Ernest. 315 00:16:31,407 --> 00:16:34,285 Gwendolen, we must get married at once. 316 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,456 Married, Mr. Worthing? 317 00:16:38,456 --> 00:16:40,083 Well, surely. 318 00:16:40,083 --> 00:16:44,212 You know that I love you, and you led me to believe... 319 00:16:44,212 --> 00:16:48,341 Miss Fairfax, that you were not absolutely indifferent to me. 320 00:16:48,341 --> 00:16:49,967 I adore you. 321 00:16:49,967 --> 00:16:51,928 But you haven't proposed to me yet. 322 00:16:51,928 --> 00:16:54,138 Nothing's been said at all about marriage. 323 00:16:54,138 --> 00:16:57,183 The subject has not even been touched on. 324 00:17:06,025 --> 00:17:07,402 Gwendolen. 325 00:17:07,402 --> 00:17:10,488 Yes, Mr. Worthing, what have you to say to me? 326 00:17:10,488 --> 00:17:12,907 You know what I have to say to you. 327 00:17:12,907 --> 00:17:15,576 Yes, but you don't say it. 328 00:17:19,372 --> 00:17:22,959 Gwendolen, will you marry me? 329 00:17:24,794 --> 00:17:26,671 Mr. Worthing! 330 00:17:26,671 --> 00:17:29,006 Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. 331 00:17:29,006 --> 00:17:30,717 It is most indecorous. 332 00:17:30,717 --> 00:17:33,177 Mama! I must beg you to retire. 333 00:17:33,177 --> 00:17:34,971 Mr. Worthing has not quite finished yet. 334 00:17:34,971 --> 00:17:36,764 Finished what, may I ask? 335 00:17:36,764 --> 00:17:40,059 I am engaged to be married to Mr. Worthing, Mama. 336 00:17:40,059 --> 00:17:42,562 Pardon me, Gwendolen. You are not engaged to anyone. 337 00:17:42,562 --> 00:17:44,355 When you do become engaged to someone... 338 00:17:44,355 --> 00:17:47,442 I or your father, should his health permit him... 339 00:17:47,442 --> 00:17:50,528 will inform you of the fact. 340 00:17:50,528 --> 00:17:53,531 You will wait for me below in the carriage. 341 00:17:53,531 --> 00:17:56,284 -Mama-- -In the carriage, Gwendolen. 342 00:18:07,211 --> 00:18:10,048 Gwendolen! The carriage! 343 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,016 I feel bound to tell you, Mr. Worthing... 344 00:18:20,016 --> 00:18:23,478 you are not down on my list of eligible young men. 345 00:18:23,478 --> 00:18:25,313 However, I'm quite ready... 346 00:18:25,313 --> 00:18:27,398 to enter your name as a possible candidate. 347 00:18:27,398 --> 00:18:30,318 Perhaps you would attend a meeting at my house... 348 00:18:30,318 --> 00:18:32,612 at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning. 349 00:18:32,612 --> 00:18:36,074 I shall have a few questions to put to you. 350 00:18:37,575 --> 00:18:39,535 Algernon? 351 00:18:39,577 --> 00:18:44,123 So, did you tell Gwendolen the truth... 352 00:18:44,123 --> 00:18:47,418 about being Ernest in town and Jack in the country? 353 00:18:47,418 --> 00:18:48,670 My dear fellow... 354 00:18:48,670 --> 00:18:50,380 the truth isn't quite the sort of thing... 355 00:18:50,380 --> 00:18:52,423 one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. 356 00:18:52,423 --> 00:18:53,841 What extraordinary ideas you have... 357 00:18:53,841 --> 00:18:55,301 about the way to behave to a woman. 358 00:18:55,301 --> 00:18:56,803 The only way to behave to a woman... 359 00:18:56,803 --> 00:18:58,262 is to make love to her if she's pretty... 360 00:18:58,262 --> 00:18:59,847 and to someone else if she is plain. 361 00:18:59,847 --> 00:19:01,099 That is nonsense. 362 00:19:01,099 --> 00:19:02,809 You never talk anything but nonsense. 363 00:19:02,809 --> 00:19:04,602 Well, nobody ever does. 364 00:19:04,602 --> 00:19:07,730 Oh, my dear fellow, you forgot to pay the bill. 365 00:19:07,730 --> 00:19:11,234 Not at all, I make it a point never to pay at the Savoy. 366 00:19:13,486 --> 00:19:15,738 Why on earth not? You have heaps of money. 367 00:19:15,738 --> 00:19:17,949 Yes, but Ernest hasn't... 368 00:19:17,949 --> 00:19:20,159 and he's got quite a reputation to keep up. 369 00:19:28,918 --> 00:19:31,504 Cecily? 370 00:19:31,504 --> 00:19:35,341 More intellectual pleasures await you, my child. 371 00:19:38,553 --> 00:19:41,639 You should put away your diary, Cecily. 372 00:19:41,639 --> 00:19:44,851 I really don't see why you should keep a diary at all. 373 00:19:44,851 --> 00:19:46,394 I keep a diary in order to enter... 374 00:19:46,394 --> 00:19:48,646 the wonderful secrets of my life. 375 00:19:48,646 --> 00:19:49,981 If I didn't write them down... 376 00:19:49,981 --> 00:19:52,358 I should probably forget all about them. 377 00:19:52,358 --> 00:19:53,985 Memory, my dear Cecily... 378 00:19:53,985 --> 00:19:56,070 is the diary that we all carry about with us. 379 00:19:56,070 --> 00:19:57,947 I believe memory is responsible... 380 00:19:57,947 --> 00:19:59,907 for nearly all these three-volume novels... 381 00:19:59,907 --> 00:20:01,534 people write nowadays. 382 00:20:01,534 --> 00:20:05,079 Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. 383 00:20:05,079 --> 00:20:07,707 I wrote one myself in earlier days. 384 00:20:07,707 --> 00:20:10,001 Did you really, Miss Prism? 385 00:20:10,001 --> 00:20:12,045 I hope it did not end happily. 386 00:20:12,045 --> 00:20:15,173 The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. 387 00:20:15,173 --> 00:20:17,383 That is what fiction means. 388 00:20:18,635 --> 00:20:19,844 Do your work, child. 389 00:20:19,844 --> 00:20:22,180 These speculations are profitless. 390 00:20:23,598 --> 00:20:26,059 But I see dear Dr. Chasuble... 391 00:20:26,059 --> 00:20:28,227 coming through the garden. 392 00:20:28,227 --> 00:20:30,021 Oh, Dr. Chasuble! 393 00:20:33,149 --> 00:20:35,193 This is indeed a pleasure. 394 00:20:35,193 --> 00:20:37,028 And how are we today? 395 00:20:37,028 --> 00:20:39,697 Miss Prism, you are, I trust, well. 396 00:20:39,697 --> 00:20:41,491 Miss Prism has just been complaining... 397 00:20:41,491 --> 00:20:43,493 of a slight headache. I think it would do her... 398 00:20:43,493 --> 00:20:45,328 so much good to have a short stroll with you... 399 00:20:45,328 --> 00:20:46,871 in the park, Dr. Chasuble. 400 00:20:46,871 --> 00:20:50,166 Cecily! I have not mentioned anything about a headache. 401 00:20:50,166 --> 00:20:52,418 No, dear Miss Prism. I know that... 402 00:20:52,418 --> 00:20:54,545 but I felt instinctively that you had a headache. 403 00:20:54,545 --> 00:20:56,130 Indeed, I was thinking about that... 404 00:20:56,130 --> 00:20:58,633 and not my German lesson when the rector came along. 405 00:20:58,633 --> 00:21:00,635 I hope, Cecily, you are not inattentive. 406 00:21:00,635 --> 00:21:04,013 -I am afraid I am. -That's strange. 407 00:21:04,013 --> 00:21:06,724 Were I fortunate enough to be Miss Prism's pupil... 408 00:21:06,724 --> 00:21:09,185 I would hang upon her lips. 409 00:21:13,690 --> 00:21:18,486 I spoke metaphorically. 410 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:24,325 My metaphor was drawn from...bees. 411 00:21:28,204 --> 00:21:30,456 Ahem. I shall, um... 412 00:21:30,456 --> 00:21:34,586 see you both, no doubt, at Evensong. 413 00:22:00,778 --> 00:22:02,530 Good luck, sir. 414 00:22:14,751 --> 00:22:16,294 Ernest! 415 00:22:22,050 --> 00:22:24,761 -This way, sir. -Shall I, uh-- 416 00:22:50,411 --> 00:22:52,747 You can take a seat, Mr. Worthing. 417 00:22:55,542 --> 00:22:58,127 Thank you, Lady Bracknell. I prefer standing. 418 00:23:08,012 --> 00:23:09,556 Do you smoke? 419 00:23:13,893 --> 00:23:16,938 Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. 420 00:23:16,938 --> 00:23:18,731 I'm glad to hear it. 421 00:23:18,731 --> 00:23:21,568 A man should always have an occupation of some kind. 422 00:23:21,568 --> 00:23:24,028 There are far too many idle men in London as it is. 423 00:23:25,738 --> 00:23:29,450 -How old are you? -Thirty-five. 424 00:23:29,450 --> 00:23:31,703 A very good age to be married at. 425 00:23:33,204 --> 00:23:34,622 I've always been of opinion... 426 00:23:34,622 --> 00:23:36,583 that a man who desires to get married... 427 00:23:36,583 --> 00:23:39,419 should know either everything or nothing. 428 00:23:39,419 --> 00:23:41,337 Which do you know? 429 00:23:43,923 --> 00:23:45,967 I know nothing, Lady Bracknell. 430 00:23:45,967 --> 00:23:47,802 I'm pleased to hear it. 431 00:23:49,220 --> 00:23:51,472 I do not approve of anything that tampers... 432 00:23:51,472 --> 00:23:53,474 with natural ignorance. 433 00:23:53,474 --> 00:23:57,187 Ignorance is like a delicate, exotic fruit. 434 00:23:57,187 --> 00:24:00,148 Touch it, and the bloom is gone. 435 00:24:00,148 --> 00:24:02,275 The whole theory of modern education... 436 00:24:02,275 --> 00:24:03,943 is radically unsound. 437 00:24:03,943 --> 00:24:05,570 Fortunately, in England, at any rate... 438 00:24:05,570 --> 00:24:07,780 education produces no effect whatsoever. 439 00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:09,741 If it did, it would prove a serious danger... 440 00:24:09,741 --> 00:24:11,534 to the upper classes and probably lead... 441 00:24:11,534 --> 00:24:14,662 to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. 442 00:24:14,662 --> 00:24:18,124 -What is your income? -Between 7 and 8,000 a year. 443 00:24:18,124 --> 00:24:22,212 -In land or in investments? -In investments, chiefly. 444 00:24:22,212 --> 00:24:24,589 Oh, that is satisfactory. 445 00:24:26,299 --> 00:24:28,593 I have a country house with some land... 446 00:24:28,593 --> 00:24:30,303 of course, attached to it. 447 00:24:30,303 --> 00:24:31,888 About 1,500 acres, I believe. 448 00:24:31,888 --> 00:24:33,807 You have a town house, I hope. 449 00:24:33,807 --> 00:24:36,226 A girl with a simple, unspoiled nature like Gwendolen... 450 00:24:36,226 --> 00:24:39,103 could hardly be expected to reside in the country. 451 00:24:39,103 --> 00:24:41,481 Well, of course I also own a house in Belgrave Square. 452 00:24:41,481 --> 00:24:43,233 -Number? -A hundred and forty-nine. 453 00:24:44,442 --> 00:24:49,697 The unfashionable side. I thought there was something. 454 00:24:54,994 --> 00:24:57,705 However, that could easily be altered. 455 00:24:57,705 --> 00:25:00,500 Do you mean the fashion or the side? 456 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:02,585 Well, both, if necessary, I presume. 457 00:25:06,005 --> 00:25:07,882 Are your parents living? 458 00:25:09,634 --> 00:25:11,386 I have lost both my parents. 459 00:25:11,386 --> 00:25:14,097 To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing... 460 00:25:14,097 --> 00:25:16,724 may be regarded as a misfortune. 461 00:25:16,724 --> 00:25:20,145 To lose both looks like carelessness. 462 00:25:21,146 --> 00:25:22,772 Who was your father? 463 00:25:22,772 --> 00:25:25,150 He was evidently a man of some wealth. 464 00:25:25,150 --> 00:25:27,110 I'm afraid I really don't know. 465 00:25:29,529 --> 00:25:33,616 The fact is, Lady Bracknell, I said I had lost my parents. 466 00:25:33,616 --> 00:25:35,076 It would be nearer the truth... 467 00:25:35,076 --> 00:25:37,120 to say my parents seem to have lost me. 468 00:25:38,955 --> 00:25:41,249 I actually don't know who I am by birth. 469 00:25:42,667 --> 00:25:44,919 I was-- 470 00:25:44,919 --> 00:25:47,255 Well, I was found. 471 00:25:47,255 --> 00:25:48,882 Found? 472 00:25:48,882 --> 00:25:51,176 The late Mr. Thomas Cardew, an old gentleman... 473 00:25:51,176 --> 00:25:53,219 of a very charitable and kindly disposition... 474 00:25:53,219 --> 00:25:55,597 found me and gave me the name of Worthing... 475 00:25:55,597 --> 00:25:57,515 because he happened to have a first-class ticket... 476 00:25:57,515 --> 00:25:59,267 for Worthing in his pocket at the time. 477 00:25:59,267 --> 00:26:04,647 Worthing is a place in Sussex. It is a seaside resort. 478 00:26:04,647 --> 00:26:06,733 And where did this charitable gentlemen... 479 00:26:06,733 --> 00:26:08,860 with a first-class ticket for the seaside resort... 480 00:26:08,860 --> 00:26:10,236 find you? 481 00:26:10,236 --> 00:26:12,947 In a handbag. 482 00:26:16,534 --> 00:26:20,038 -A handbag? -Yes, Lady Bracknell. 483 00:26:20,038 --> 00:26:22,749 I was in a handbag-- 484 00:26:22,749 --> 00:26:30,215 a somewhat large, um, black leather handbag... 485 00:26:30,215 --> 00:26:32,384 with handles to it. 486 00:26:33,426 --> 00:26:36,971 An ordinary handbag, in fact. 487 00:26:36,971 --> 00:26:42,727 In what locality did this Mr. James or Thomas Cardew... 488 00:26:42,727 --> 00:26:45,021 come across this ordinary handbag? 489 00:26:45,021 --> 00:26:47,357 In the cloakroom at Victoria Station. 490 00:26:47,357 --> 00:26:49,442 It was given him in mistake for his own. 491 00:26:49,442 --> 00:26:52,070 The cloakroom at Victoria Station? 492 00:26:52,070 --> 00:26:53,947 Yes. The Brighton line. 493 00:26:53,947 --> 00:26:56,533 The line is immaterial. 494 00:26:59,202 --> 00:27:01,788 Mr. Worthing, I confess I am somewhat bewildered... 495 00:27:01,788 --> 00:27:03,915 by what you have just told me. 496 00:27:03,915 --> 00:27:07,043 To be born or at any rate bred in a handbag... 497 00:27:07,043 --> 00:27:08,962 whether it has handles or not... 498 00:27:08,962 --> 00:27:11,047 seems to me to display a contempt... 499 00:27:11,047 --> 00:27:13,341 for the ordinary decencies of family life... 500 00:27:13,341 --> 00:27:15,593 which remind one of the worst excesses... 501 00:27:15,593 --> 00:27:17,262 of the French Revolution. 502 00:27:17,262 --> 00:27:18,763 And I presume you know... 503 00:27:18,763 --> 00:27:21,224 what that unfortunate movement led to. 504 00:27:21,224 --> 00:27:23,059 May I ask you then... 505 00:27:23,059 --> 00:27:24,936 what you would advise me to do? 506 00:27:24,936 --> 00:27:27,063 I need hardly say I would do anything... 507 00:27:27,063 --> 00:27:28,690 in the world to ensure Gwendolen's happiness. 508 00:27:28,690 --> 00:27:31,192 I would strongly advise you, Mr. Worthing... 509 00:27:31,192 --> 00:27:33,695 to try and acquire some relations as soon as possible... 510 00:27:33,695 --> 00:27:37,198 and to make a definite effort to produce at any rate... 511 00:27:37,198 --> 00:27:40,785 one parent of either sex before the season is quite over. 512 00:27:40,785 --> 00:27:42,829 I don't see how I could possibly manage to do that. 513 00:27:42,829 --> 00:27:44,748 I can produce the handbag at any moment. 514 00:27:44,748 --> 00:27:46,583 It's in my storeroom at home. 515 00:27:46,583 --> 00:27:48,960 I really think that should satisfy you, Lady Bracknell. 516 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,462 Me, sir? 517 00:27:50,462 --> 00:27:53,882 What has it to do with me? 518 00:27:53,882 --> 00:27:56,426 You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell... 519 00:27:56,426 --> 00:27:59,262 would dream of allowing our only daughter-- 520 00:27:59,262 --> 00:28:01,681 a girl brought up with the utmost care-- 521 00:28:01,681 --> 00:28:03,516 to marry into a cloakroom... 522 00:28:03,516 --> 00:28:07,103 and form an alliance with a parcel. 523 00:28:11,358 --> 00:28:13,234 Good morning, Mr. Worthing. 524 00:28:15,654 --> 00:28:17,113 Good morning. 525 00:28:22,285 --> 00:28:24,913 You don't think there's any chance of Gwendolen becoming... 526 00:28:24,913 --> 00:28:27,624 like her mother in about 150 years, do you, Algy? 527 00:28:27,624 --> 00:28:29,459 My dear fellow, all women become... 528 00:28:29,459 --> 00:28:31,503 like their mothers. That is their tragedy. 529 00:28:31,503 --> 00:28:33,672 No man does, and that's his. 530 00:28:33,672 --> 00:28:35,674 Is that clever? 531 00:28:35,674 --> 00:28:37,842 It's perfectly phrased and about as true... 532 00:28:37,842 --> 00:28:40,553 as any observation in civilized life should be. 533 00:28:40,553 --> 00:28:42,097 Ernest. 534 00:28:42,097 --> 00:28:44,683 -Gwendolen! -Ernest, my dear Ernest. 535 00:28:44,683 --> 00:28:46,059 Algy, please, I have something... 536 00:28:46,059 --> 00:28:48,269 very particular to say to Mr. Worthing. 537 00:28:49,688 --> 00:28:51,064 My own darling. 538 00:28:51,064 --> 00:28:53,817 Ernest, the story of your romantic origin... 539 00:28:53,817 --> 00:28:56,987 as related to me by Mama with unpleasing comments... 540 00:28:56,987 --> 00:29:00,073 has naturally stirred the deeper fibres of my nature. 541 00:29:00,073 --> 00:29:02,200 I followed you here to reassure you... 542 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,536 that there is nothing that she can possibly do... 543 00:29:04,536 --> 00:29:07,080 can alter my eternal devotion to you. 544 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,707 Dear Gwendolen. 545 00:29:08,707 --> 00:29:12,002 Your town address at The Albany I have. 546 00:29:12,002 --> 00:29:15,338 What is your address in the country? 547 00:29:15,338 --> 00:29:22,262 The Manor, Woolton, Hertfordshire. 548 00:29:22,262 --> 00:29:24,347 I will communicate with you daily. 549 00:29:24,347 --> 00:29:25,640 My own one. 550 00:29:30,103 --> 00:29:32,147 Yes. I must confess. I do smoke. 551 00:29:32,147 --> 00:29:34,774 I know nothing, Lady Bracknell. 552 00:29:39,237 --> 00:29:41,406 I can produce the handbag at a moment's notice. 553 00:29:41,406 --> 00:29:43,325 Shh! Shh. 554 00:29:43,325 --> 00:29:44,909 Before you can be found... 555 00:29:44,909 --> 00:29:46,620 in a handbag at a railway station... 556 00:29:46,620 --> 00:29:48,371 someone must have lost you in a handbag... 557 00:29:48,371 --> 00:29:50,040 at a railway station. Do you see? 558 00:29:55,837 --> 00:29:57,964 In the first place, what with Lady Bracknell... 559 00:29:57,964 --> 00:30:00,133 sniffing about, dear, dissolute Ernest... 560 00:30:00,133 --> 00:30:02,260 is a risk I can no longer afford. 561 00:30:02,260 --> 00:30:04,721 And secondly, Cecily is becoming a little too much... 562 00:30:04,721 --> 00:30:06,765 interested in him. It's rather a bore. 563 00:30:06,765 --> 00:30:08,600 I'd rather like to meet Cecily. 564 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,645 Well. I shall take very good care you never do. 565 00:30:11,645 --> 00:30:15,482 She is excessively pretty and only just eighteen. 566 00:30:15,482 --> 00:30:21,446 No, I'll say he died in Paris of apoplexy. 567 00:30:21,446 --> 00:30:23,198 But it's hereditary, my dear fellow. 568 00:30:23,198 --> 00:30:25,158 It's the sort of thing that runs in families. 569 00:30:25,158 --> 00:30:26,701 You had much better say it was a severe chill. 570 00:30:26,701 --> 00:30:28,453 Very well. then. 571 00:30:28,453 --> 00:30:31,289 Poor brother Ernest is carried off suddenly... 572 00:30:31,289 --> 00:30:35,710 in Paris by a severe chill. 573 00:30:35,710 --> 00:30:37,629 That gets rid of him. 574 00:30:40,173 --> 00:30:42,133 Have you told Gwendolen that you have... 575 00:30:42,133 --> 00:30:45,428 an excessively pretty ward who's only just eighteen? 576 00:30:45,428 --> 00:30:48,056 No. One doesn't blurt these things out to people. 577 00:30:48,056 --> 00:30:50,558 Cecily and Gwendolen are perfectly certain... 578 00:30:50,558 --> 00:30:52,561 to become extremely great friends. 579 00:30:52,561 --> 00:30:55,230 I bet you anything half an hour after they've met... 580 00:30:55,230 --> 00:30:56,815 they will be calling each other sister. 581 00:30:56,815 --> 00:30:59,442 Women only do that when they have... 582 00:30:59,442 --> 00:31:02,862 called each other a lot of other things first. 583 00:31:34,811 --> 00:31:36,813 Don't let me disturb you. 584 00:31:38,940 --> 00:31:42,068 I hope tomorrow will be a fine day, Lane. 585 00:31:42,068 --> 00:31:44,154 It never is, sir. 586 00:31:45,864 --> 00:31:48,700 You are a perfect pessimist. 587 00:31:48,700 --> 00:31:51,786 I do my best to give satisfaction, sir. 588 00:31:51,786 --> 00:31:53,163 Thank you. 589 00:31:59,836 --> 00:32:02,214 You can put out my dress clothes... 590 00:32:02,214 --> 00:32:04,049 my smoking jacket... 591 00:32:04,049 --> 00:32:07,469 and even bring on the curling tongs. 592 00:32:07,469 --> 00:32:09,054 Yes, sir. 593 00:32:09,054 --> 00:32:10,555 Tomorrow, Lane... 594 00:32:12,641 --> 00:32:14,518 I'm going Bunburying. 595 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:16,895 Yes. sir. 596 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,405 That must be it over there. 597 00:32:32,911 --> 00:32:36,122 Bring it down there, Mr. Smithers. 598 00:32:58,228 --> 00:33:00,272 Ask Mr. Ernest Worthing to come here. 599 00:33:00,272 --> 00:33:01,690 Yes. Miss. 600 00:33:13,785 --> 00:33:17,122 You are my little cousin Cecily, I'm sure. 601 00:33:17,122 --> 00:33:19,416 You are under some strange mistake. 602 00:33:19,416 --> 00:33:22,127 I'm not little. In fact, I believe... 603 00:33:22,127 --> 00:33:23,962 I'm more than usually tall for my age. 604 00:33:23,962 --> 00:33:26,339 But I am your cousin Cecily. 605 00:33:26,339 --> 00:33:30,469 And you--you, I see from your card... 606 00:33:30,469 --> 00:33:32,846 are Uncle Jack's brother, my cousin Ernest. 607 00:33:32,846 --> 00:33:35,474 My wicked cousin Ernest. 608 00:33:35,474 --> 00:33:37,225 I'm not really wicked at all, Cousin Cecily. 609 00:33:37,225 --> 00:33:39,019 You mustn't think that I'm wicked. 610 00:33:39,019 --> 00:33:40,770 Well, if you are not, then you've certainly... 611 00:33:40,770 --> 00:33:43,440 been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. 612 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,400 Well, I have been rather reckless. 613 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:46,693 I'm glad to hear it. 614 00:33:46,693 --> 00:33:48,487 In fact, now that you mention the subject... 615 00:33:48,487 --> 00:33:51,615 I have been very bad in my own small way. 616 00:33:51,615 --> 00:33:53,825 Well, I don't think you should be so proud of that... 617 00:33:53,825 --> 00:33:55,786 though I am sure it must've been very pleasant. 618 00:33:55,786 --> 00:33:57,454 It's much pleasanter being here with you. 619 00:33:57,454 --> 00:33:59,498 I can't understand how you're here at all. 620 00:33:59,498 --> 00:34:01,583 Uncle Jack won't be back till Monday afternoon. 621 00:34:01,583 --> 00:34:03,502 Oh, that is a great disappointment. 622 00:34:03,502 --> 00:34:04,961 I'm obliged to go out... 623 00:34:04,961 --> 00:34:06,463 by the first train on Monday morning. 624 00:34:06,463 --> 00:34:09,466 I have a business appointment that I'm anxious to miss. 625 00:34:09,466 --> 00:34:12,677 That's all very well, but still... 626 00:34:12,677 --> 00:34:15,430 I think you had better wait until Uncle Jack arrives. 627 00:34:15,430 --> 00:34:18,058 I know he wants to speak to you about your emigrating. 628 00:34:18,058 --> 00:34:19,309 About my what? 629 00:34:19,309 --> 00:34:21,061 Uncle Jack is sending you to Australia. 630 00:34:21,061 --> 00:34:23,647 Australia? I'd sooner die. 631 00:34:23,647 --> 00:34:25,524 He said at dinner on Wednesday night... 632 00:34:25,524 --> 00:34:27,609 that you would have to choose between this world... 633 00:34:27,609 --> 00:34:29,402 the next world, and Australia. 634 00:34:29,402 --> 00:34:30,779 Oh, well. 635 00:34:30,779 --> 00:34:33,031 The accounts I have received of Australia... 636 00:34:33,031 --> 00:34:34,908 and the next world are not particularly... 637 00:34:34,908 --> 00:34:36,910 encouraging, Cousin Cecily. 638 00:34:36,910 --> 00:34:39,121 This world is good enough for me. 639 00:34:39,121 --> 00:34:40,956 Yes, but are you good enough for it? 640 00:34:40,956 --> 00:34:42,499 No, I'm afraid not. 641 00:34:42,499 --> 00:34:44,876 That is why I want you to reform me. 642 00:34:44,876 --> 00:34:46,628 You might make that your mission... 643 00:34:46,628 --> 00:34:48,004 if you don't mind, Cousin Cecily. 644 00:34:48,004 --> 00:34:50,424 I'm afraid I've no time this afternoon. 645 00:34:50,424 --> 00:34:52,384 Well, would you mind me... 646 00:34:52,384 --> 00:34:54,636 reforming myself this afternoon? 647 00:34:57,889 --> 00:35:02,227 It is rather quixotic of you, but I think you should try. 648 00:35:02,227 --> 00:35:04,354 I will. 649 00:35:05,897 --> 00:35:09,317 -I feel better already. -You're looking a little worse. 650 00:35:09,317 --> 00:35:11,236 Well, that's because I'm hungry. 651 00:35:18,618 --> 00:35:20,412 -Mr. Worthing! -Mr. Worthing! 652 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,124 This is indeed a surprise. 653 00:35:24,124 --> 00:35:26,585 We did not look for you till Monday afternoon. 654 00:35:26,585 --> 00:35:29,379 I have returned sooner than I expected. 655 00:35:29,379 --> 00:35:31,965 Dear Mr. Worthing, I trust this garb of woe... 656 00:35:31,965 --> 00:35:34,634 does not betoken some terrible calamity. 657 00:35:34,634 --> 00:35:36,720 My brother. 658 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:39,264 More shameful debts and extravagance. 659 00:35:39,264 --> 00:35:42,142 Still leading a life of pleasure. 660 00:35:42,142 --> 00:35:44,102 Dead. 661 00:35:47,856 --> 00:35:51,359 Your brother Ernest is dead? 662 00:35:51,359 --> 00:35:52,903 Quite dead. 663 00:35:52,903 --> 00:35:57,115 What a lesson for him! I trust he will profit by it. 664 00:35:57,115 --> 00:36:00,327 He had many faults, but it is a sad, sad blow. 665 00:36:00,327 --> 00:36:02,120 Yes. indeed. sad. 666 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:08,919 Um, were you with him at the end? 667 00:36:08,919 --> 00:36:13,131 No. He died abroad. In Paris, in fact. 668 00:36:13,131 --> 00:36:15,884 I had a telegram last night... 669 00:36:15,884 --> 00:36:18,637 from the manager of the Grand Hotel. 670 00:36:18,637 --> 00:36:21,932 Is the cause of death mentioned? 671 00:36:21,932 --> 00:36:24,059 A severe chill, it seems. 672 00:36:24,059 --> 00:36:27,312 As a man sows, so shall he reap. 673 00:36:27,312 --> 00:36:29,064 Oh, charity, Miss Prism, charity. 674 00:36:29,064 --> 00:36:32,943 I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draft. 675 00:36:32,943 --> 00:36:38,031 Ah...ah...Ah-choo! 676 00:36:38,031 --> 00:36:39,908 Bless you. 677 00:36:39,908 --> 00:36:44,871 Uncle Jack, I'm so pleased to see you back. 678 00:36:44,871 --> 00:36:48,291 What is the matter, Uncle Jack? Do look happy. 679 00:36:48,291 --> 00:36:49,960 You look as if you had toothache... 680 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,461 and I have such a surprise for you. 681 00:36:51,461 --> 00:36:53,505 Who do you think is in the rose garden? 682 00:36:55,048 --> 00:36:56,216 Your brother. 683 00:36:56,216 --> 00:36:59,344 -Who? -Your brother Ernest. 684 00:36:59,344 --> 00:37:01,304 He arrived about half an hour ago. 685 00:37:01,304 --> 00:37:03,432 Nonsense. I haven't got a brother. 686 00:37:03,432 --> 00:37:04,850 -I mean... -Well, he's... 687 00:37:04,850 --> 00:37:08,395 Come, he'll be so pleased to see you've returned so soon. 688 00:37:10,689 --> 00:37:11,857 I-- 689 00:37:14,568 --> 00:37:16,611 These are joyful tidings. 690 00:37:33,045 --> 00:37:34,713 Good heavens. 691 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,403 Brother John, I've come down from town... 692 00:37:58,403 --> 00:38:00,238 to tell you that I'm very sorry... 693 00:38:00,238 --> 00:38:01,990 for all the trouble I have given you... 694 00:38:01,990 --> 00:38:03,533 and that I fully intend... 695 00:38:03,533 --> 00:38:05,619 to lead a better life in the future. 696 00:38:15,629 --> 00:38:17,339 Well, what can I say? 697 00:38:17,339 --> 00:38:20,926 The old Ernest is dead. Long live the new Ernest. 698 00:38:20,926 --> 00:38:23,095 I thought you'd like my little joke. 699 00:38:23,095 --> 00:38:24,471 Your little joke? 700 00:38:24,471 --> 00:38:26,473 Knowing me as you do, brother John... 701 00:38:26,473 --> 00:38:27,933 I'm surprised you took it so seriously. 702 00:38:27,933 --> 00:38:30,435 At any rate, I stand before you now... 703 00:38:30,435 --> 00:38:33,939 an entirely new man, risen, as it were... 704 00:38:33,939 --> 00:38:35,983 like a phoenix from the ashes. 705 00:38:37,567 --> 00:38:40,821 Uncle Jack, you're not going to refuse... 706 00:38:40,821 --> 00:38:42,072 your own brother's hand. 707 00:38:42,072 --> 00:38:43,699 Nothing would induce me to take his hand. 708 00:38:43,699 --> 00:38:45,117 I think his behaviour utterly disgraceful. 709 00:38:45,117 --> 00:38:47,327 He knows perfectly well why! 710 00:38:47,327 --> 00:38:49,746 Do shake his hand, Uncle Jack. 711 00:38:49,746 --> 00:38:54,418 After all, it could be worse. I could be dead in Paris. 712 00:38:54,418 --> 00:38:56,003 You could, indeed. 713 00:38:56,003 --> 00:38:57,796 Of a severe chill. 714 00:39:05,679 --> 00:39:08,473 Sorry about that, Jack. Shake. Go on. 715 00:39:13,270 --> 00:39:14,938 Excuse me, sir. 716 00:39:14,938 --> 00:39:17,524 We're putting Mr. Ernest's things... 717 00:39:17,524 --> 00:39:19,276 in the blue room on the second floor. 718 00:39:19,276 --> 00:39:21,570 Very nice to see you, Doctor. Do tell me, when is confession? 719 00:39:21,570 --> 00:39:22,738 What? 720 00:39:22,738 --> 00:39:24,489 Mr. Ernest's luggage, sir. 721 00:39:24,489 --> 00:39:26,533 We're taking it up to the blue room. 722 00:39:26,533 --> 00:39:28,827 -His luggage? -Yes, sir. 723 00:39:28,827 --> 00:39:30,746 Two portmanteaus, two dressing cases... 724 00:39:30,746 --> 00:39:33,457 two hat boxes, and a large luncheon basket. 725 00:39:33,457 --> 00:39:35,626 I fear I can only stay a week this time. 726 00:39:37,669 --> 00:39:39,254 Heh heh. 727 00:39:39,254 --> 00:39:42,257 -You scoundrel, Algy. -Mm? 728 00:39:42,257 --> 00:39:44,801 What have you to say for yourself? 729 00:39:44,801 --> 00:39:46,553 What I have to say, Uncle Jack... 730 00:39:46,553 --> 00:39:49,306 is that little Cecily is a darling. 731 00:39:49,306 --> 00:39:53,435 You are not to talk of Miss Cardew like that! 732 00:39:53,435 --> 00:39:55,812 I don't like it. 733 00:39:55,812 --> 00:39:57,397 Your vanity is ridiculous... 734 00:39:57,397 --> 00:39:59,483 your conduct an outrage, and your presence... 735 00:39:59,483 --> 00:40:01,360 in my house utterly absurd! 736 00:40:02,527 --> 00:40:05,072 However, you have got to catch the four-five train. 737 00:40:05,072 --> 00:40:06,782 I hope you have a pleasant journey back to town. 738 00:40:06,782 --> 00:40:09,368 This Bunburying, as you call it... 739 00:40:09,368 --> 00:40:12,037 has not been a great success for you. 740 00:40:28,887 --> 00:40:30,639 It's pleasant. is it not... 741 00:40:30,639 --> 00:40:33,350 to see so perfect a reconciliation. 742 00:40:35,269 --> 00:40:39,356 I think it's been a great success. 743 00:41:42,502 --> 00:41:44,046 Dinner is served. 744 00:41:44,046 --> 00:41:45,631 Cecily. 745 00:41:45,631 --> 00:41:48,592 Might I have a buttonhole first? 746 00:41:48,592 --> 00:41:51,428 I never have an appetite unless I have a buttonhole. 747 00:41:51,428 --> 00:41:53,096 Mr. Worthing. 748 00:41:57,226 --> 00:41:59,353 -Marigold? -No. 749 00:41:59,353 --> 00:42:01,313 I'd sooner have a pink rose. 750 00:42:01,313 --> 00:42:02,523 Why? 751 00:42:02,523 --> 00:42:05,817 Because you are like a pink rose, Cousin Cecily. 752 00:42:05,817 --> 00:42:07,236 I don't think it could be right... 753 00:42:07,236 --> 00:42:08,529 for you to talk to me like that. 754 00:42:08,529 --> 00:42:10,989 Miss Prism never says such things to me. 755 00:42:10,989 --> 00:42:13,700 Then Miss Prism is a short-sighted old lady. 756 00:42:17,579 --> 00:42:19,623 You are the prettiest girl I ever saw. 757 00:42:22,125 --> 00:42:25,212 You see, Uncle Jack, there is some good in everyone. 758 00:42:25,212 --> 00:42:28,006 Ernest has just been telling me about his poor invalid friend... 759 00:42:28,006 --> 00:42:29,591 whom he goes to visit so often. 760 00:42:29,591 --> 00:42:32,344 Oh, he has been talking about poor Mr. Bunbury, has he? 761 00:42:32,344 --> 00:42:33,846 And surely there must be much good... 762 00:42:33,846 --> 00:42:35,389 in one who is kind to an invalid... 763 00:42:35,389 --> 00:42:37,015 and leaves the pleasures of London... 764 00:42:37,015 --> 00:42:39,726 to sit by a bed of pain. 765 00:43:20,184 --> 00:43:21,727 Right. It's first class. 766 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,750 -Good morning, sir. -Good morning. 767 00:44:02,559 --> 00:44:05,479 Dear Ernest... 768 00:44:05,479 --> 00:44:08,565 how desperately I have missed you. 769 00:44:08,565 --> 00:44:11,610 It seems an age since I last saw you... 770 00:44:11,610 --> 00:44:16,240 and our separation is now proving an intolerable strain. 771 00:44:25,332 --> 00:44:28,627 The feelings you have aroused within me... 772 00:44:28,627 --> 00:44:32,464 are at once delightful and exquisitely... 773 00:44:32,464 --> 00:44:34,174 painful. 774 00:44:34,174 --> 00:44:38,887 My dearest darling Ernest... 775 00:44:38,887 --> 00:44:41,974 it is your very name that inspires me now... 776 00:44:41,974 --> 00:44:43,851 to take my future in my hands-- 777 00:44:43,851 --> 00:44:49,314 burnt. as it were. into my very being. 778 00:44:49,314 --> 00:44:52,985 And so it is. I have resolved to flee these prison walls... 779 00:44:52,985 --> 00:44:56,405 and make my way directly to your side... 780 00:44:56,405 --> 00:44:59,324 to my one and only... 781 00:44:59,324 --> 00:45:01,994 Ernest. 782 00:45:01,994 --> 00:45:03,537 Ernest. 783 00:45:08,333 --> 00:45:09,501 Algy. 784 00:45:16,550 --> 00:45:17,760 Algy. 785 00:45:20,512 --> 00:45:22,139 Ernest. 786 00:45:24,475 --> 00:45:26,852 Ah. Good morning, my dear fellow. 787 00:45:28,145 --> 00:45:30,522 We have to talk. You have to leave. 788 00:45:30,522 --> 00:45:32,191 If I leave, how can we talk? 789 00:45:32,191 --> 00:45:34,026 We cannot both be called Ernest 790 00:45:34,026 --> 00:45:35,861 I don't believe we are, Brother Jack. 791 00:45:44,870 --> 00:45:49,083 I believe you are praiseworthy. 792 00:45:49,083 --> 00:45:52,127 He, she, it praises. 793 00:45:55,881 --> 00:45:58,050 You're snoring? 794 00:46:04,682 --> 00:46:07,559 I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you... 795 00:46:07,559 --> 00:46:11,814 if I state quite openly and frankly... 796 00:46:13,399 --> 00:46:15,734 You seem to me to be in every way... 797 00:46:15,734 --> 00:46:21,573 the visible personification of absolute perfection. 798 00:46:21,573 --> 00:46:24,243 I think your frankness does you great credit, Ernest. 799 00:46:24,243 --> 00:46:27,204 If you will allow me, I will copy your remarks into my diary. 800 00:46:27,204 --> 00:46:30,124 Do you keep a diary? I'd give anything to see it. 801 00:46:30,124 --> 00:46:33,335 Oh, no. You'd see it as simply a very young girl's record... 802 00:46:33,335 --> 00:46:35,087 of her own thoughts and impressions. 803 00:46:35,087 --> 00:46:38,465 But, pray, Ernest, I delight in taking down from dictation. 804 00:46:38,465 --> 00:46:40,426 You can go on. 805 00:46:42,386 --> 00:46:45,139 Don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating... 806 00:46:45,139 --> 00:46:47,391 one should speak fluently and not cough. 807 00:46:53,856 --> 00:46:56,608 Cecily, ever since I first looked upon... 808 00:46:56,608 --> 00:46:58,944 your wondrous and incomparable beauty... 809 00:46:58,944 --> 00:47:01,989 I have dared to love you-- wildly... 810 00:47:03,782 --> 00:47:05,993 wildly... 811 00:47:05,993 --> 00:47:07,661 -passionately... -Ahem. 812 00:47:07,661 --> 00:47:10,622 devotedly, hopelessly. 813 00:47:10,622 --> 00:47:13,292 I beg your pardon, sir. 814 00:47:13,292 --> 00:47:16,086 There are two gentlemen wishing to see you. 815 00:47:28,599 --> 00:47:30,309 -Mr. Ernest Worthing? -Yes. 816 00:47:30,309 --> 00:47:33,562 -Of B.4, The Albany? -Yes, that is my address. 817 00:47:33,562 --> 00:47:34,938 I am very sorry. sir... 818 00:47:34,938 --> 00:47:36,774 but I have a writ of attachment against you... 819 00:47:36,774 --> 00:47:39,443 and the suit of the Savoy Hotel Company Limited... 820 00:47:39,443 --> 00:47:42,196 for 762 pounds, 14 shillings. 821 00:47:42,196 --> 00:47:43,739 What perfect nonsense. 822 00:47:43,739 --> 00:47:45,949 I never dine at the Savoy at my own expense. 823 00:47:45,949 --> 00:47:47,826 In the interests of our clients... 824 00:47:47,826 --> 00:47:49,745 we have no option but to take out an order... 825 00:47:49,745 --> 00:47:51,580 for committal of your person. 826 00:47:51,580 --> 00:47:55,042 -Committal? Of my person? -For six months. 827 00:47:55,042 --> 00:47:57,211 Oh, for six months? Ha ha! 828 00:47:57,211 --> 00:47:58,671 No doubt you'll prefer to pay the bill. 829 00:47:58,671 --> 00:48:01,382 Pay it? How on earth am I going to do that? 830 00:48:01,382 --> 00:48:03,300 No gentleman ever has any money. 831 00:48:03,300 --> 00:48:07,513 In my experience, it is usually relations who pay. 832 00:48:07,513 --> 00:48:09,807 Oh, all right. Uh, Brother Jack? 833 00:48:17,815 --> 00:48:22,486 762 pounds, 14 shillings, and a tuppence-- 834 00:48:22,486 --> 00:48:24,488 since last October. 835 00:48:24,488 --> 00:48:26,156 I'm bound to say... 836 00:48:26,156 --> 00:48:31,203 I never saw such reckless extravagance in all my life. 837 00:48:32,538 --> 00:48:34,248 My dear fellow, how ridiculous you are. 838 00:48:34,248 --> 00:48:37,042 You have your debts, and I have mine. 839 00:48:37,042 --> 00:48:38,919 You know quite well this bill is really yours. 840 00:48:38,919 --> 00:48:40,337 -Mine? -Yes, and you know it. 841 00:48:40,337 --> 00:48:41,714 -Mr. Worthing... 842 00:48:41,714 --> 00:48:44,758 if this is another jest, it is most out of place. 843 00:48:44,758 --> 00:48:46,594 -It is not. -It is gross effrontery. 844 00:48:46,594 --> 00:48:48,178 Just what I expected from him. 845 00:48:48,178 --> 00:48:51,265 And it is ingratitude. I didn't expect that. 846 00:48:51,265 --> 00:48:52,683 Next thing you know. he'll be denying... 847 00:48:52,683 --> 00:48:55,394 he's Ernest Worthing in the first place. 848 00:48:57,354 --> 00:49:00,107 I'm sorry to disturb this so pleasant family meeting... 849 00:49:00,107 --> 00:49:01,567 but time presses. 850 00:49:01,567 --> 00:49:03,652 We have to be at Holloway not later than four o'clock. 851 00:49:03,652 --> 00:49:05,571 Otherwise, it is difficult to obtain admission. 852 00:49:05,571 --> 00:49:07,823 The rules are very strict. 853 00:49:07,823 --> 00:49:11,035 Holloway? But--Get off me! 854 00:49:11,035 --> 00:49:12,411 It is at Holloway that detentions of this character... 855 00:49:12,411 --> 00:49:14,163 are made away. 856 00:49:14,163 --> 00:49:18,709 I will not be imprisoned for having dined in the West End! 857 00:49:18,709 --> 00:49:20,544 Jack! 858 00:49:21,879 --> 00:49:23,756 I agree to settle my brother's accounts... 859 00:49:25,424 --> 00:49:28,594 on the condition that he makes his way without delay... 860 00:49:28,594 --> 00:49:30,763 to the bedside of the poor bed-ridden Bunbury... 861 00:49:30,763 --> 00:49:32,389 whose health, I have recently been informed... 862 00:49:32,389 --> 00:49:34,391 is rapidly declining. 863 00:49:36,310 --> 00:49:39,188 Well, Ernest? 864 00:50:17,017 --> 00:50:20,271 ...it's only life. 865 00:50:22,815 --> 00:50:24,859 Mr. Worthing. 866 00:50:24,859 --> 00:50:26,694 I would ask you not to interrupt... 867 00:50:26,694 --> 00:50:28,487 Miss Cardew's studies. 868 00:50:28,487 --> 00:50:30,281 Miss Prism, I almost forgot to mention... 869 00:50:30,281 --> 00:50:32,825 that Dr. Chasuble is expecting you in the vestry. 870 00:50:32,825 --> 00:50:35,452 In the vestry? Dr. Chasuble? 871 00:50:35,452 --> 00:50:37,329 Expecting you, yes. 872 00:50:37,329 --> 00:50:39,290 That sounds serious. 873 00:50:39,290 --> 00:50:42,501 I do not think it would be right to keep him waiting, Cecily. 874 00:50:42,501 --> 00:50:44,253 It would be very, very wrong. 875 00:50:44,253 --> 00:50:47,506 The vestry is, I am told, excessively damp. 876 00:51:00,686 --> 00:51:04,732 This parting, Miss Cardew, is very painful. 877 00:51:04,732 --> 00:51:06,150 But I suppose you cannot desert... 878 00:51:06,150 --> 00:51:08,027 poor Mr. Bunbury in his hour of need. 879 00:51:08,027 --> 00:51:09,361 I don't care about Bunbury anymore. 880 00:51:09,361 --> 00:51:13,073 I don't seem to care about anything anymore. 881 00:51:13,073 --> 00:51:16,493 I only care for you. I love you, Cecily. 882 00:51:22,291 --> 00:51:24,418 Will you marry me, Cecily? Will you? 883 00:51:24,418 --> 00:51:26,378 Of course. 884 00:51:26,378 --> 00:51:29,215 Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. 885 00:51:30,716 --> 00:51:33,219 For the last three months? 886 00:51:33,219 --> 00:51:35,888 Yes. It will be exactly three months on Thursday. 887 00:51:37,389 --> 00:51:38,599 Darling... 888 00:51:38,599 --> 00:51:39,850 Aah! 889 00:51:42,895 --> 00:51:47,399 So, when was the engagement actually settled? 890 00:51:47,399 --> 00:51:49,902 On the fourteenth of February last. 891 00:51:49,902 --> 00:51:51,445 After a long struggle with myself... 892 00:51:51,445 --> 00:51:54,073 I accepted you under this dear old tree here. 893 00:51:54,073 --> 00:51:58,244 And this is the box in which I keep all your dear letters. 894 00:51:58,244 --> 00:51:59,662 My letters? 895 00:51:59,662 --> 00:52:01,914 But my own sweet Cecily, I have never written you any letters. 896 00:52:01,914 --> 00:52:04,208 You need hardly remind me of that, Ernest. 897 00:52:04,208 --> 00:52:05,376 I remember only too well... 898 00:52:05,376 --> 00:52:07,211 that I was forced to write your letters for you. 899 00:52:08,546 --> 00:52:10,881 I wrote always three times a week and sometimes oftener. 900 00:52:10,881 --> 00:52:13,634 -Do let me look at them. -Oh, no, I couldn't possibly. 901 00:52:13,634 --> 00:52:16,762 They would make you far too conceited. 902 00:52:16,762 --> 00:52:19,265 The three you wrote after I had broken off the engagement... 903 00:52:19,265 --> 00:52:22,268 were so beautiful and so badly spelled. 904 00:52:22,268 --> 00:52:24,979 Even now I can hardly read them without crying a little. 905 00:52:24,979 --> 00:52:26,939 Was our engagement ever broken off? 906 00:52:26,939 --> 00:52:29,024 -Yes, of course it was. -What? 907 00:52:29,024 --> 00:52:30,609 On the twenty-second of last March. 908 00:52:30,609 --> 00:52:32,945 You can see the entry if you like. 909 00:52:35,156 --> 00:52:38,284 "Today I broke off my engagement with Ernest. 910 00:52:38,284 --> 00:52:39,869 "The weather still continues charming." 911 00:52:39,869 --> 00:52:41,245 Why on earth did you break it off? 912 00:52:41,245 --> 00:52:43,205 What had I done? I had done nothing at all. 913 00:52:43,205 --> 00:52:45,666 I'm very much hurt indeed to hear you broke it off. 914 00:52:45,666 --> 00:52:47,460 Particularly when the weather was so charming. 915 00:52:47,460 --> 00:52:50,880 Well, it would hardly have been a really serious engagement... 916 00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,841 if I hadn't broken it off at least once, Ernest. 917 00:52:53,841 --> 00:52:56,802 But I forgave you before the week was out. 918 00:52:56,802 --> 00:52:59,555 Oh, you're a perfect angel. 919 00:52:59,555 --> 00:53:02,767 -You dear romantic boy. -Mmm. 920 00:53:24,330 --> 00:53:26,874 You know, I never really thought of myself... 921 00:53:26,874 --> 00:53:29,210 as the marrying kind until now. 922 00:53:29,210 --> 00:53:31,629 You mustn't break it off again, Cecily. 923 00:53:31,629 --> 00:53:33,589 Well, I don't think I could break it off... 924 00:53:33,589 --> 00:53:35,299 now that I've actually met you. 925 00:53:37,635 --> 00:53:40,513 Besides, of course, there is the question of your name. 926 00:53:42,681 --> 00:53:44,016 Yes, of course. 927 00:53:44,016 --> 00:53:45,434 You mustn't laugh at me, darling... 928 00:53:45,434 --> 00:53:47,770 but it has always been a girlish dream of mine... 929 00:53:47,770 --> 00:53:50,356 to love someone whose name is Ernest. 930 00:53:51,524 --> 00:53:52,817 There's something in that name... 931 00:53:52,817 --> 00:53:56,195 that seems to inspire absolute confidence. 932 00:53:56,195 --> 00:53:58,864 My own dear joy, do you mean to say you couldn't love me... 933 00:53:58,864 --> 00:54:00,324 if I had another name? 934 00:54:00,324 --> 00:54:04,036 -But what name? -Well... 935 00:54:04,036 --> 00:54:06,914 Algy, for instance. 936 00:54:06,914 --> 00:54:09,208 I might respect you, Ernest... 937 00:54:09,208 --> 00:54:12,211 I might admire your character... 938 00:54:12,211 --> 00:54:14,213 but I fear that I would never be able to give you... 939 00:54:14,213 --> 00:54:17,425 my undivided attention. 940 00:54:17,425 --> 00:54:20,302 Mmm. Mmm. 941 00:54:20,302 --> 00:54:22,221 Ahem. 942 00:54:22,221 --> 00:54:25,766 The dog cart is ready for you, sir. 943 00:54:25,766 --> 00:54:27,017 -Ahem. -Ahem. 944 00:54:27,017 --> 00:54:28,185 And now you must go, my love... 945 00:54:28,185 --> 00:54:29,854 for sooner then shall you return. 946 00:54:34,233 --> 00:54:37,611 Oh, what a charming boy. 947 00:54:37,611 --> 00:54:39,947 I like his hair so much. 948 00:54:47,955 --> 00:54:50,541 You wanted to see me, Dr. Chasuble? 949 00:54:53,753 --> 00:54:55,337 I didn't. 950 00:54:57,089 --> 00:54:59,008 Oh. 951 00:54:59,008 --> 00:55:00,259 You didn't? 952 00:55:02,928 --> 00:55:04,847 Oh. 953 00:55:10,269 --> 00:55:11,479 I'm sorry... 954 00:55:11,479 --> 00:55:14,148 but merely for the purposes of clarification... 955 00:55:14,148 --> 00:55:16,108 when you said you didn't... 956 00:55:16,108 --> 00:55:19,779 did you mean you didn't say you wanted to see me... 957 00:55:19,779 --> 00:55:23,115 or that you didn't, in fact, want to see me? 958 00:55:28,079 --> 00:55:30,790 Isn't language a curious thing? 959 00:55:32,625 --> 00:55:33,793 Will you excuse me? 960 00:55:33,793 --> 00:55:36,212 I have a double baptism this afternoon... 961 00:55:36,212 --> 00:55:38,923 and I have to top up the font. 962 00:56:09,036 --> 00:56:12,123 Bless you. 963 00:56:14,291 --> 00:56:17,753 A Miss Fairfax has called to see Mr. Worthing-- 964 00:56:17,753 --> 00:56:21,298 on very important business, Miss Fairfax states. 965 00:56:21,298 --> 00:56:23,217 Mr. Worthing is sure to be out soon, Merriman... 966 00:56:23,217 --> 00:56:24,969 so kindly bring some tea. 967 00:56:24,969 --> 00:56:26,220 Yes, miss. 968 00:56:30,308 --> 00:56:32,518 -Miss Cardew. -Thank you. 969 00:56:32,518 --> 00:56:36,188 Miss Fairfax, pray let me introduce myself to you. 970 00:56:36,188 --> 00:56:37,356 My name is Cecily Cardew. 971 00:56:37,356 --> 00:56:40,943 Cecily Cardew. What a very sweet name. 972 00:56:40,943 --> 00:56:43,446 Something tells me we're going to be great friends. 973 00:56:43,446 --> 00:56:45,448 I like you already more than I can say... 974 00:56:45,448 --> 00:56:47,992 and my first impressions of people are never wrong. 975 00:56:58,711 --> 00:57:00,671 You're here on a short visit, I suppose. 976 00:57:00,671 --> 00:57:02,715 -Oh, no, I live here. -Really? 977 00:57:02,715 --> 00:57:05,635 Your mother, no doubt, or some female relative... 978 00:57:05,635 --> 00:57:08,179 of advanced years resides here also. 979 00:57:08,179 --> 00:57:10,556 Oh, no. I have no mother, nor, in fact, any relations. 980 00:57:10,556 --> 00:57:11,932 -Indeed. -My dear guardian... 981 00:57:11,932 --> 00:57:13,726 has the arduous task of looking after me. 982 00:57:13,726 --> 00:57:17,480 -Your guardian? -I'm Mr. Worthing's ward. 983 00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:19,190 Oh. 984 00:57:20,608 --> 00:57:23,861 It is strange. He never mentioned it. 985 00:57:23,861 --> 00:57:26,155 How secretive of him. Ha ha ha! 986 00:57:26,155 --> 00:57:29,575 He grows more interesting hourly. 987 00:57:29,575 --> 00:57:32,912 But I am bound to state that... 988 00:57:32,912 --> 00:57:35,581 now that I know you are Mr. Worthing's ward... 989 00:57:35,581 --> 00:57:38,250 I cannot help expressing a wish that you were... 990 00:57:38,250 --> 00:57:41,963 well, just a little bit older than you seem to be... 991 00:57:41,963 --> 00:57:44,382 and not quite so very alluring in appearance. 992 00:57:45,549 --> 00:57:47,969 In fact, if I may speak candidly... 993 00:57:47,969 --> 00:57:49,553 Pray do. I think whenever one... 994 00:57:49,553 --> 00:57:51,097 has anything unpleasant to say... 995 00:57:51,097 --> 00:57:53,266 one should always be quite candid. 996 00:57:53,266 --> 00:57:57,645 Yes. Well, to speak with perfect candour, Cecily... 997 00:57:57,645 --> 00:57:59,730 I wish you were fully forty-two... 998 00:57:59,730 --> 00:58:02,733 and more than usually plain for your age. 999 00:58:06,112 --> 00:58:08,781 Ernest has a strong upright nature. 1000 00:58:08,781 --> 00:58:10,866 He's the very soul of truth and honour. 1001 00:58:10,866 --> 00:58:12,660 I think--I think Jack, for instance. 1002 00:58:12,660 --> 00:58:16,414 Jack. I think Jack, for instance, a charming name. 1003 00:58:16,414 --> 00:58:18,249 Oh. but it is not Mr. Ernest Worthing... 1004 00:58:18,249 --> 00:58:19,500 who's my guardian. 1005 00:58:19,500 --> 00:58:21,836 It is his brother, his elder brother. 1006 00:58:21,836 --> 00:58:24,255 Oh. That accounts for it. 1007 00:58:25,423 --> 00:58:27,300 Cecily, you've lifted a load from my mind. 1008 00:58:27,300 --> 00:58:29,093 I was growing almost anxious. 1009 00:58:30,928 --> 00:58:32,388 Of course, you're quite sure... 1010 00:58:32,388 --> 00:58:35,099 it's not Mr. Ernest Worthing who is your guardian? 1011 00:58:35,099 --> 00:58:37,643 Quite sure. 1012 00:58:37,643 --> 00:58:39,437 In fact... 1013 00:58:40,855 --> 00:58:43,566 I am going to be his. 1014 00:58:45,067 --> 00:58:46,777 I beg your pardon? 1015 00:58:46,777 --> 00:58:50,656 Mr. Ernest Worthing and I are engaged to be married. 1016 00:58:53,618 --> 00:58:57,330 My darling Cecily, I think there must be some slight error. 1017 00:58:57,330 --> 00:59:00,499 Mr. Ernest Worthing is engaged to me. 1018 00:59:00,499 --> 00:59:02,418 The announcement will appear in the Morning Post... 1019 00:59:02,418 --> 00:59:04,879 on Saturday at the latest. 1020 00:59:04,879 --> 00:59:07,965 I'm afraid you must be under some misconception. 1021 00:59:07,965 --> 00:59:10,343 Ernest proposed to me exactly ten minutes ago. 1022 00:59:10,343 --> 00:59:13,971 Oh, it's very curious, for he asked me to be his wife... 1023 00:59:13,971 --> 00:59:16,974 yesterday afternoon at five thirty. 1024 00:59:16,974 --> 00:59:21,145 If you would care to verify the incident, pray do so. 1025 00:59:22,730 --> 00:59:24,482 I never travel without my diary. 1026 00:59:24,482 --> 00:59:26,692 One should always have something sensational to read... 1027 00:59:26,692 --> 00:59:28,152 in the train. 1028 00:59:28,152 --> 00:59:30,571 I'm so sorry, dear Cecily... 1029 00:59:30,571 --> 00:59:33,157 but I'm afraid I have the prior claim. 1030 01:00:05,606 --> 01:00:07,900 May I offer you some tea, Miss Fairfax? 1031 01:00:07,900 --> 01:00:09,944 Thank you, Miss Cardew. 1032 01:00:09,944 --> 01:00:11,696 Sugar? 1033 01:00:11,696 --> 01:00:14,699 No, thank you. Sugar is not fashionable anymore. 1034 01:00:33,593 --> 01:00:35,428 Cake or bread and butter? 1035 01:00:35,428 --> 01:00:36,762 Bread and butter, please. 1036 01:00:36,762 --> 01:00:39,724 Cake is rarely seen in the best houses nowadays. 1037 01:00:54,655 --> 01:00:56,782 From the moment I saw you, I distrusted you. 1038 01:00:56,782 --> 01:00:58,993 I felt that you were false and deceitful. 1039 01:00:58,993 --> 01:01:01,621 It seems to me, Miss Fairfax... 1040 01:01:01,621 --> 01:01:04,081 that I am trespassing on your valuable time. 1041 01:01:04,081 --> 01:01:05,500 No doubt, you have many other calls... 1042 01:01:05,500 --> 01:01:07,960 of a similar character to make in the neighbourhood. 1043 01:01:09,462 --> 01:01:10,755 Ernest. 1044 01:01:16,427 --> 01:01:18,721 -You're back so soon. -My own love. 1045 01:01:18,721 --> 01:01:19,931 A moment, Ernest. 1046 01:01:19,931 --> 01:01:21,307 May I ask you-- 1047 01:01:21,307 --> 01:01:23,476 are you engaged to be married to this young lady? 1048 01:01:23,476 --> 01:01:24,769 What young lady? 1049 01:01:26,187 --> 01:01:27,814 Good heavens, Gwendolen. 1050 01:01:27,814 --> 01:01:29,357 Yes, to "Good heavens, Gwendolen". 1051 01:01:29,357 --> 01:01:31,359 Of course not. What put such an idea... 1052 01:01:31,359 --> 01:01:32,527 into your pretty little head? 1053 01:01:32,527 --> 01:01:34,487 Thank you. You may. 1054 01:01:34,487 --> 01:01:36,864 I felt there must be some slight error, Miss Cardew. 1055 01:01:36,864 --> 01:01:38,533 The gentleman who is now embracing you... 1056 01:01:38,533 --> 01:01:42,328 is my cousin Mr. Algernon Moncrieff. 1057 01:01:42,328 --> 01:01:45,748 Algernon? Moncrieff? 1058 01:01:45,748 --> 01:01:47,792 -Yes. 1059 01:01:47,792 --> 01:01:49,836 Algy. 1060 01:01:51,504 --> 01:01:53,506 Here is Ernest. 1061 01:01:55,007 --> 01:01:56,467 Oh, my own Ernest. 1062 01:01:56,467 --> 01:01:58,678 Gwendolen, my darling. 1063 01:01:58,678 --> 01:02:01,681 I knew there must be some misunderstanding. Miss Fairfax. 1064 01:02:01,681 --> 01:02:03,683 The man whose arm is at present around your waist... 1065 01:02:03,683 --> 01:02:07,186 is my guardian Mr. John Worthing. 1066 01:02:07,186 --> 01:02:09,689 I beg your pardon? 1067 01:02:09,689 --> 01:02:12,567 This is Uncle Jack. 1068 01:02:12,567 --> 01:02:14,026 Jack? 1069 01:02:17,530 --> 01:02:19,907 Are you called Algy? 1070 01:02:19,907 --> 01:02:22,201 I cannot deny it. 1071 01:02:22,201 --> 01:02:26,205 Is your name really John? 1072 01:02:26,205 --> 01:02:28,040 I could deny it if I liked. 1073 01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:29,709 I could deny anything if I liked... 1074 01:02:29,709 --> 01:02:30,877 but it certainly is John. 1075 01:02:30,877 --> 01:02:32,545 It has been John for years. 1076 01:02:32,545 --> 01:02:34,714 A gross deception has been practiced on both of us. 1077 01:02:34,714 --> 01:02:37,550 -My poor wounded Cecily. -My sweet wronged Gwendolen. 1078 01:02:37,550 --> 01:02:39,051 Ohh. 1079 01:02:39,051 --> 01:02:41,554 You will call me sister, will you not? 1080 01:02:41,554 --> 01:02:42,889 Of course. 1081 01:02:42,889 --> 01:02:44,849 Let us go into the house, sister. 1082 01:02:44,849 --> 01:02:47,059 They will hardly venture to come after us there. 1083 01:02:47,059 --> 01:02:49,854 No. Men are so cowardly, aren't they? 1084 01:02:55,193 --> 01:02:57,904 How you can sit there calmly eating muffins... 1085 01:02:57,904 --> 01:02:59,906 when we're in this horrible trouble I can't make out. 1086 01:02:59,906 --> 01:03:01,616 You seem to me to be perfectly heartless. 1087 01:03:01,616 --> 01:03:05,787 I can hardly eat muffins in an agitated manner, can l? 1088 01:03:05,787 --> 01:03:07,914 The butter would probably get on my cuffs. 1089 01:03:07,914 --> 01:03:10,333 I say, it's perfectly heartless you're eating muffins at all... 1090 01:03:10,333 --> 01:03:11,751 under the circumstances. 1091 01:03:11,751 --> 01:03:14,128 When I'm in trouble, eating is my only consolation. 1092 01:03:14,128 --> 01:03:17,006 Indeed, when I'm in really great trouble... 1093 01:03:17,006 --> 01:03:19,842 as anyone who knows me intimately will tell you... 1094 01:03:19,842 --> 01:03:22,261 I refuse everything except food and drink. 1095 01:03:22,261 --> 01:03:24,263 At the present moment, I am eating muffins... 1096 01:03:24,263 --> 01:03:26,390 because I am unhappy. 1097 01:03:26,390 --> 01:03:29,102 Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins. 1098 01:03:29,102 --> 01:03:30,603 There's no reason why you should eat them all... 1099 01:03:30,603 --> 01:03:32,230 in that greedy way. 1100 01:03:37,443 --> 01:03:39,737 Would you like some tea cake? I don't like tea cake. 1101 01:03:39,737 --> 01:03:41,864 Good heavens! I suppose a man... 1102 01:03:41,864 --> 01:03:44,450 may eat his own muffins in his own garden. 1103 01:03:44,450 --> 01:03:46,577 They seem to be eating muffins. 1104 01:03:49,247 --> 01:03:50,998 But you just said it was perfectly heartless... 1105 01:03:50,998 --> 01:03:52,166 to eat muffins. 1106 01:03:52,166 --> 01:03:53,835 I said it was perfectly heartless... 1107 01:03:53,835 --> 01:03:55,712 of you under the circumstances. 1108 01:03:55,712 --> 01:03:57,130 That is a very different thing. 1109 01:03:57,130 --> 01:03:58,756 Maybe, but the muffins are the same. 1110 01:03:58,756 --> 01:04:00,133 No. 1111 01:04:00,133 --> 01:04:01,467 Give them to me! 1112 01:04:01,467 --> 01:04:02,885 Well, I certainly don't rate your chances... 1113 01:04:02,885 --> 01:04:04,846 with my ward, Algernon. 1114 01:04:04,846 --> 01:04:06,222 Well, I don't think there's much likelihood... 1115 01:04:06,222 --> 01:04:10,226 of you, Jack, and Miss Fairfax being united, Jack! 1116 01:04:26,034 --> 01:04:28,119 But is there any particular infant... 1117 01:04:28,119 --> 01:04:30,538 in whom you are interested, Mr. Worthing? 1118 01:04:30,538 --> 01:04:32,373 The fact is, dear doctor... 1119 01:04:32,373 --> 01:04:34,333 I would like to be christened myself. 1120 01:04:36,044 --> 01:04:38,296 This afternoon, if you have nothing better to do. 1121 01:04:40,006 --> 01:04:44,052 Surely, Mr. Worthing, you've been christened already. 1122 01:04:44,052 --> 01:04:46,346 I don't remember anything about it. 1123 01:04:46,346 --> 01:04:47,638 Of course, I don't know... 1124 01:04:47,638 --> 01:04:49,349 if the thing would bother you in any way... 1125 01:04:49,349 --> 01:04:52,852 or if you think that I'm a little too old now. 1126 01:04:52,852 --> 01:04:55,271 No, no, no. Not at all, not at all. 1127 01:04:55,271 --> 01:04:58,274 The sprinkling and, indeed, immersion... 1128 01:04:58,274 --> 01:05:02,820 of adults is a perfectly canonical practice. 1129 01:05:02,820 --> 01:05:07,200 What hour would you wish the ceremony performed? 1130 01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:09,035 I might trot round at about six o'clock... 1131 01:05:09,035 --> 01:05:10,203 if that would suit you. 1132 01:05:10,203 --> 01:05:12,330 Oh, perfectly, perfectly. 1133 01:05:12,330 --> 01:05:13,498 Thank you. 1134 01:05:18,544 --> 01:05:20,129 But we cannot both be christened Ernest. 1135 01:05:20,129 --> 01:05:21,714 It's absurd. 1136 01:05:21,714 --> 01:05:23,675 I have a perfect right to be christened if I like. 1137 01:05:23,675 --> 01:05:25,051 But you've been christened already. 1138 01:05:25,051 --> 01:05:26,386 Yes, but I haven't been christened for years. 1139 01:05:26,386 --> 01:05:28,221 But you've been christened. That is the important thing. 1140 01:05:28,221 --> 01:05:31,391 Quite so. So, I know my constitution can stand it. 1141 01:05:31,391 --> 01:05:32,684 If you're not quite sure... 1142 01:05:32,684 --> 01:05:34,185 about your ever having been christened... 1143 01:05:34,185 --> 01:05:35,978 I must say, I think it rather dangerous... 1144 01:05:35,978 --> 01:05:37,271 your venturing on it now. 1145 01:05:38,439 --> 01:05:40,566 Oh, nonsense. You are always talking nonsense. 1146 01:06:03,589 --> 01:06:05,758 Let us preserve a dignified silence. 1147 01:06:05,758 --> 01:06:08,386 Certainly. It's the only thing to do now. 1148 01:06:09,929 --> 01:06:13,850 The western wind is blowing fair 1149 01:06:13,850 --> 01:06:17,854 Across the dark Aegean Sea 1150 01:06:17,854 --> 01:06:21,858 And at the secret marble stair 1151 01:06:21,858 --> 01:06:24,319 My Tyrian galley waits for thee 1152 01:06:25,945 --> 01:06:29,824 Come down. the purple sail is spread 1153 01:06:29,824 --> 01:06:33,828 The watchman sleeps within the town 1154 01:06:33,828 --> 01:06:35,455 This dignified silence seems to have produced... 1155 01:06:35,455 --> 01:06:36,748 an unpleasant effect. 1156 01:06:36,748 --> 01:06:38,625 A most distasteful one. 1157 01:06:38,625 --> 01:06:40,793 O lady mine, come down 1158 01:06:40,793 --> 01:06:43,087 Come down 1159 01:06:43,087 --> 01:06:44,964 Dum dum dum dum 1160 01:06:44,964 --> 01:06:46,132 Lady, come down 1161 01:06:57,477 --> 01:07:01,481 She will not come. I know her well 1162 01:07:01,481 --> 01:07:05,485 Of lover's vows. she hath no care 1163 01:07:05,485 --> 01:07:09,155 And little good a man can tell 1164 01:07:09,155 --> 01:07:13,451 For one so cruel and so fair 1165 01:07:13,451 --> 01:07:17,580 True love is but a woman's toy 1166 01:07:17,580 --> 01:07:21,626 They never know the lover's pain 1167 01:07:21,626 --> 01:07:26,005 And I who loved as love's a boy 1168 01:07:26,005 --> 01:07:29,676 Must love in vain. must love in vain 1169 01:07:29,676 --> 01:07:31,094 Come down 1170 01:07:33,221 --> 01:07:34,722 Lady, come down 1171 01:07:37,267 --> 01:07:38,518 Come down 1172 01:07:40,186 --> 01:07:42,981 Lady, come down 1173 01:07:44,524 --> 01:07:46,109 Lady, come down 1174 01:07:46,109 --> 01:07:47,569 We will not be the first to speak. 1175 01:07:47,569 --> 01:07:48,903 Certainly not. 1176 01:07:48,903 --> 01:07:51,656 Mr. Worthing, I have something very particular to ask you. 1177 01:07:51,656 --> 01:07:53,074 Much depends on your reply. 1178 01:07:53,074 --> 01:07:55,660 Gwendolen, your common sense is invaluable. 1179 01:07:55,660 --> 01:07:59,414 Mr. Moncrieff, kindly answer me the following question. 1180 01:07:59,414 --> 01:08:02,208 Why did you pretend to be my guardian's brother? 1181 01:08:02,208 --> 01:08:04,586 In order that I might have an opportunity of meeting you. 1182 01:08:04,586 --> 01:08:07,505 That certainly seems a satisfactory explanation. 1183 01:08:07,505 --> 01:08:10,174 Yes, dear, if you can believe him. 1184 01:08:10,174 --> 01:08:12,260 Well, I don't, but that doesn't affect... 1185 01:08:12,260 --> 01:08:13,970 the wonderful beauty of his answer. 1186 01:08:13,970 --> 01:08:16,055 True. In matters of grave importance... 1187 01:08:16,055 --> 01:08:18,558 style, not sincerity, is the vital thing. 1188 01:08:18,558 --> 01:08:21,227 Mr. Worthing, what possible explanation... 1189 01:08:21,227 --> 01:08:24,522 can you offer me for pretending to have a brother? 1190 01:08:29,027 --> 01:08:31,446 Was it in order that you might have an opportunity... 1191 01:08:31,446 --> 01:08:35,533 of coming up to town to see me as often as possible? 1192 01:08:35,533 --> 01:08:38,453 Can you doubt it, Miss Fairfax? 1193 01:08:38,453 --> 01:08:40,413 I have the gravest doubts on the subject... 1194 01:08:40,413 --> 01:08:43,416 but I intend to crush them. 1195 01:08:45,043 --> 01:08:49,005 Their explanations appear to be quite satisfactory, espe-- 1196 01:08:50,340 --> 01:08:51,758 Especially Mr. Worthing's. 1197 01:08:51,758 --> 01:08:54,219 That seems to me to have the stamp of truth upon it. 1198 01:08:54,219 --> 01:08:56,930 I am more than content with what Mr. Moncrieff said. 1199 01:08:56,930 --> 01:09:00,391 His voice alone seemed to inspire absolute credulity. 1200 01:09:00,391 --> 01:09:01,601 Then you think we should forgive them? 1201 01:09:01,601 --> 01:09:02,769 Yes. 1202 01:09:04,771 --> 01:09:06,064 I mean, no. 1203 01:09:06,064 --> 01:09:07,732 True, there are principles at stake... 1204 01:09:07,732 --> 01:09:09,526 that one cannot surrender. 1205 01:09:19,077 --> 01:09:22,497 Your Christian names are still an insuperable barrier. 1206 01:09:22,497 --> 01:09:23,915 That is all. 1207 01:09:23,915 --> 01:09:26,334 -Our Christian names? -Is that all? 1208 01:09:26,334 --> 01:09:28,753 We're going to be christened this afternoon. 1209 01:09:28,753 --> 01:09:31,631 For my sake, you're prepared to do this terrible thing? 1210 01:09:31,631 --> 01:09:32,924 I am. 1211 01:09:32,924 --> 01:09:36,135 To please me, you're ready to face this fearful ordeal? 1212 01:09:36,135 --> 01:09:37,303 I am. 1213 01:09:37,303 --> 01:09:38,763 Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned... 1214 01:09:38,763 --> 01:09:40,014 men are infinitely beyond us. 1215 01:09:40,014 --> 01:09:42,308 -We are. -Darling. 1216 01:09:42,308 --> 01:09:43,810 Darling. 1217 01:09:46,145 --> 01:09:49,148 -Lady Bracknell. -Gwendolen! 1218 01:09:49,148 --> 01:09:51,651 What does this mean? 1219 01:09:51,651 --> 01:09:55,613 Merely that I am engaged to be married to Mr. Worthing, Mama. 1220 01:09:55,613 --> 01:09:57,240 Come here. 1221 01:09:57,240 --> 01:09:58,449 Sit down. 1222 01:09:59,951 --> 01:10:02,287 Sit down immediately. 1223 01:10:08,501 --> 01:10:10,128 Of course, you will clearly understand, sir... 1224 01:10:10,128 --> 01:10:12,297 that all communication between yourself and my daughter... 1225 01:10:12,297 --> 01:10:14,632 must cease immediately from this moment. 1226 01:10:14,632 --> 01:10:17,177 On this point, as indeed on all points, I am firm. 1227 01:10:17,177 --> 01:10:19,429 I am engaged to be married to Gwendolen, Lady Bracknell. 1228 01:10:19,429 --> 01:10:22,682 You are nothing of the kind, sir. 1229 01:10:25,477 --> 01:10:28,855 And now, as regards Algy... 1230 01:10:31,524 --> 01:10:32,984 Algy? 1231 01:10:32,984 --> 01:10:34,736 Yes, Aunt Augusta. 1232 01:10:34,736 --> 01:10:36,863 May I ask if it is in this house... 1233 01:10:36,863 --> 01:10:39,199 that your invalid friend Mr. Bunbury resides? 1234 01:10:39,199 --> 01:10:41,284 Oh, no, Bunbury doesn't live here. 1235 01:10:41,284 --> 01:10:43,495 Bunbury's somewhere else at the present. 1236 01:10:43,495 --> 01:10:46,372 In fact, um, ahem... 1237 01:10:46,372 --> 01:10:48,500 Bunbury is dead. 1238 01:10:49,876 --> 01:10:53,421 -Dead? -Dead. 1239 01:10:53,421 --> 01:10:55,215 When did Mr. Bunbury die? 1240 01:10:55,215 --> 01:10:57,008 His death must've been extremely sudden. 1241 01:10:57,008 --> 01:10:59,552 Bunbury died this afternoon. 1242 01:10:59,552 --> 01:11:01,346 What did he die of? 1243 01:11:01,346 --> 01:11:03,348 Bunbury? 1244 01:11:03,348 --> 01:11:05,725 He was quite exploded. 1245 01:11:05,725 --> 01:11:08,686 Exploded? 1246 01:11:08,686 --> 01:11:10,063 Mm. 1247 01:11:10,063 --> 01:11:12,816 Was he the victim of some revolutionary outrage? 1248 01:11:12,816 --> 01:11:14,484 I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested... 1249 01:11:14,484 --> 01:11:15,860 in social legislation. 1250 01:11:15,860 --> 01:11:19,572 My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out. 1251 01:11:19,572 --> 01:11:22,117 The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live. 1252 01:11:22,117 --> 01:11:23,868 That is what I mean. 1253 01:11:23,868 --> 01:11:25,120 So Bunbury died. 1254 01:11:26,329 --> 01:11:28,164 He seems to have had great confidence... 1255 01:11:28,164 --> 01:11:30,416 in the opinion of his physicians. 1256 01:11:30,416 --> 01:11:32,252 I am glad, however, that he made his up mind... 1257 01:11:32,252 --> 01:11:34,504 at the last to some definite course of action... 1258 01:11:34,504 --> 01:11:37,132 and acted under proper medical advice. 1259 01:11:37,132 --> 01:11:41,469 And now that we have finally got rid of this Mr. Bunbury... 1260 01:11:41,469 --> 01:11:44,764 may I ask, Mr. Worthing, who is that young person... 1261 01:11:44,764 --> 01:11:47,100 whose hand my nephew Algernon is now holding... 1262 01:11:47,100 --> 01:11:51,438 in what seems to me to be a peculiarly unnecessary manner? 1263 01:11:51,438 --> 01:11:54,065 That lady is Miss Cecily Cardew, my ward. 1264 01:11:54,065 --> 01:11:57,110 Yes, I am engaged to be married to Cecily, Aunt Augusta. 1265 01:11:57,110 --> 01:11:58,278 I beg your pardon? 1266 01:11:58,278 --> 01:12:00,989 Mr. Moncrieff and I are engaged to be married, Lady Bracknell. 1267 01:12:00,989 --> 01:12:03,116 I do not know whether there's anything... 1268 01:12:03,116 --> 01:12:04,909 peculiarly exciting about the air... 1269 01:12:04,909 --> 01:12:07,245 of this particular part of Hertfordshire... 1270 01:12:07,245 --> 01:12:09,664 but the number of engagements that go on seem to me... 1271 01:12:09,664 --> 01:12:11,791 to be considerably above the proper average... 1272 01:12:11,791 --> 01:12:15,628 that statistics have laid down for our guidance. 1273 01:12:15,628 --> 01:12:16,796 Mr. Worthing... 1274 01:12:16,796 --> 01:12:19,340 is Miss Cardew at all connected... 1275 01:12:19,340 --> 01:12:22,260 with any of the larger railway stations in London? 1276 01:12:22,260 --> 01:12:26,264 I merely desire information. 1277 01:12:26,264 --> 01:12:27,515 Until recently, I was not aware... 1278 01:12:27,515 --> 01:12:29,976 that there were any families or persons... 1279 01:12:29,976 --> 01:12:31,978 whose origin was a terminus. 1280 01:12:34,647 --> 01:12:37,442 Gwendolen, the time approaches for our departure. 1281 01:12:37,442 --> 01:12:38,777 We have not a moment to lose. 1282 01:12:38,777 --> 01:12:40,111 As a matter of form, Mr. Worthing, I'd better ask... 1283 01:12:40,111 --> 01:12:42,030 if Miss Cardew has any little fortune. 1284 01:12:42,030 --> 01:12:46,618 Oh, about �130,000 in the funds, that is all. 1285 01:12:46,618 --> 01:12:48,661 Good-bye, Lady Bracknell, so pleased to have seen you. 1286 01:12:48,661 --> 01:12:51,748 A moment, Mr. Worthing. 1287 01:12:51,748 --> 01:12:55,210 A hundred and thirty thousand pounds? 1288 01:12:56,669 --> 01:12:58,588 And in the funds? 1289 01:13:01,925 --> 01:13:04,844 Miss Cardew seems to me to be a most attractive young lady... 1290 01:13:04,844 --> 01:13:07,180 now that I look at her. 1291 01:13:07,180 --> 01:13:09,808 Come over here, dear. 1292 01:13:12,852 --> 01:13:15,480 The chin a little higher, dear. 1293 01:13:15,480 --> 01:13:18,858 Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. 1294 01:13:18,858 --> 01:13:21,528 They're worn very high just at present. 1295 01:13:21,528 --> 01:13:23,863 -Algy? -Yes, Aunt Augusta. 1296 01:13:23,863 --> 01:13:25,156 There are distinct social possibilities... 1297 01:13:25,156 --> 01:13:26,574 in Miss Cardew's profile. 1298 01:13:26,574 --> 01:13:28,785 Cecily is the sweetest, dearest, prettiest girl... 1299 01:13:28,785 --> 01:13:30,370 in the whole world, and I don't give tuppence... 1300 01:13:30,370 --> 01:13:31,913 for her social possibilities. 1301 01:13:31,913 --> 01:13:35,333 Never speak disrespectfully of society, Algernon. 1302 01:13:35,333 --> 01:13:38,378 Only people who can't get into it do that. 1303 01:13:39,629 --> 01:13:40,880 Dear child, you know, of course... 1304 01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:44,467 that Algy has nothing but his debts to depend upon. 1305 01:13:44,467 --> 01:13:48,430 But I do not approve of mercenary marriages. 1306 01:13:48,430 --> 01:13:51,516 Indeed, when I married Lord Bracknell... 1307 01:13:51,516 --> 01:13:53,852 I had no fortune of any kind. 1308 01:14:04,904 --> 01:14:07,866 But I never dreamed for a moment... 1309 01:14:07,866 --> 01:14:10,744 of allowing that to stand in my way. 1310 01:14:14,581 --> 01:14:16,583 Well, I suppose I must give my consent. 1311 01:14:16,583 --> 01:14:18,460 Thank you, Aunt Augusta. 1312 01:14:18,460 --> 01:14:20,420 I beg your pardon for interrupting you... 1313 01:14:20,420 --> 01:14:22,088 Lady Bracknell, but I am Miss Cardew's guardian. 1314 01:14:22,088 --> 01:14:24,049 She cannot marry without my consent... 1315 01:14:24,049 --> 01:14:25,383 until she comes of age... 1316 01:14:25,383 --> 01:14:29,220 and that consent I absolutely decline to give. 1317 01:14:29,220 --> 01:14:32,098 Upon what grounds, may I ask? 1318 01:14:32,098 --> 01:14:35,310 I suspect him of being untruthful. 1319 01:14:35,310 --> 01:14:36,978 Untruthful? 1320 01:14:36,978 --> 01:14:39,147 My nephew Algy? 1321 01:14:39,147 --> 01:14:42,442 I fear there can be no possible doubt about the matter. 1322 01:14:46,821 --> 01:14:49,157 During my temporary absence in London... 1323 01:14:49,157 --> 01:14:51,743 on an important question of romance... 1324 01:14:51,743 --> 01:14:54,162 he obtained admission to my house... 1325 01:14:54,162 --> 01:14:58,249 by means of the false pretence of being my brother. 1326 01:14:59,542 --> 01:15:00,960 He then proceeded to win over... 1327 01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:02,170 the affections of my only ward... 1328 01:15:02,170 --> 01:15:04,089 when his own intentions, I'm utterly convinced... 1329 01:15:04,089 --> 01:15:05,840 were purely financial. 1330 01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:07,634 Deny it if you dare. 1331 01:15:07,634 --> 01:15:09,719 He subsequently stayed to tea... 1332 01:15:09,719 --> 01:15:12,889 and devoured every single muffin... 1333 01:15:12,889 --> 01:15:15,141 and what makes his behaviour all the more heartless... 1334 01:15:15,141 --> 01:15:16,476 is that he was perfectly aware from the start... 1335 01:15:16,476 --> 01:15:18,478 that I have no brother, that I never had a brother... 1336 01:15:18,478 --> 01:15:20,939 and that I don't intend to have a brother, not even of any kind. 1337 01:15:20,939 --> 01:15:23,149 -Uncle Jack, please! -On my word, Jack. 1338 01:15:23,149 --> 01:15:26,569 Come here, sweet child. 1339 01:15:26,569 --> 01:15:28,655 How old are you, dear? 1340 01:15:28,655 --> 01:15:31,950 -Eighteen, Aunt Augusta. -Eighteen! 1341 01:15:31,950 --> 01:15:34,327 Well, it will not be long before you are of age... 1342 01:15:34,327 --> 01:15:36,621 and free from the restraints of your guardian. 1343 01:15:36,621 --> 01:15:39,374 According to the terms of her grandfather's will... 1344 01:15:39,374 --> 01:15:43,336 she does not come legally of age until she is thirty-five. 1345 01:15:43,336 --> 01:15:46,715 That does not seem to me to be a grave objection. 1346 01:15:46,715 --> 01:15:49,009 Thirty-five is a very attractive age. 1347 01:15:49,009 --> 01:15:50,593 London society is full of women... 1348 01:15:50,593 --> 01:15:52,846 of the very highest birth who have... 1349 01:15:52,846 --> 01:15:56,516 of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. 1350 01:15:56,516 --> 01:15:59,352 Algy, could you wait for me till I was thirty-five? 1351 01:15:59,352 --> 01:16:01,271 Of course, I could. You know I could. 1352 01:16:01,271 --> 01:16:03,231 Yes, I felt it instinctively. 1353 01:16:03,231 --> 01:16:05,150 But I couldn't wait all that time. 1354 01:16:05,150 --> 01:16:07,235 Then what is to be done, Cecily? 1355 01:16:07,235 --> 01:16:09,946 I don't know, Mr. Moncrieff. 1356 01:16:11,781 --> 01:16:13,491 My dear Mr. Worthing... 1357 01:16:13,491 --> 01:16:16,828 as Miss Cardew states quite positively... 1358 01:16:16,828 --> 01:16:19,331 that she cannot wait until she is thirty-five-- 1359 01:16:19,331 --> 01:16:20,874 a remark which I am bound to say... 1360 01:16:20,874 --> 01:16:23,918 seems to me to show a somewhat impatient nature-- 1361 01:16:23,918 --> 01:16:28,256 I would beg you to reconsider your decision. 1362 01:16:28,256 --> 01:16:31,593 Dear Lady Bracknell, the matter is entirely in your own hands. 1363 01:16:31,593 --> 01:16:33,803 The moment you consent to my marriage with Gwendolen... 1364 01:16:33,803 --> 01:16:35,764 I will most gladly allow your nephew... 1365 01:16:35,764 --> 01:16:38,016 to form an alliance with my ward. 1366 01:16:39,768 --> 01:16:44,731 You must be aware that what you propose is out of the question. 1367 01:16:44,731 --> 01:16:46,066 Then a passionate celibacy... 1368 01:16:46,066 --> 01:16:49,736 is all any of us can look forward to. 1369 01:16:49,736 --> 01:16:51,321 -Oh, but Mama. -Come, dear. 1370 01:16:51,321 --> 01:16:53,615 We've already missed five, if not six, trains. 1371 01:16:53,615 --> 01:16:56,409 To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform. 1372 01:16:57,577 --> 01:16:59,371 Everything is quite ready for the christenings. 1373 01:17:00,872 --> 01:17:02,540 The christenings, sir? 1374 01:17:02,540 --> 01:17:04,918 Is not that somewhat premature? 1375 01:17:04,918 --> 01:17:07,921 But both of these gentlemen have expressed a desire... 1376 01:17:07,921 --> 01:17:09,923 for immediate baptism. 1377 01:17:09,923 --> 01:17:14,052 At their age? The idea is grotesque and irreligious. 1378 01:17:14,052 --> 01:17:16,096 Algy, I forbid you to be baptized. 1379 01:17:16,096 --> 01:17:18,598 I will not hear of such excesses. 1380 01:17:20,100 --> 01:17:24,729 I'm sorry to interrupt, Dr. Chasuble. 1381 01:17:24,729 --> 01:17:26,022 Yes, yes. 1382 01:17:30,193 --> 01:17:32,988 Miss Prism has asked me to tell you... 1383 01:17:32,988 --> 01:17:35,448 she's waiting for you in the vestry. 1384 01:17:35,448 --> 01:17:38,243 Indeed. I believe she's been waiting for some time. 1385 01:17:38,243 --> 01:17:43,248 Miss Prism in the vestry. 1386 01:17:43,248 --> 01:17:45,166 Waiting for you. 1387 01:17:45,166 --> 01:17:46,793 Yes. 1388 01:17:46,793 --> 01:17:48,378 Miss Prism? 1389 01:17:49,754 --> 01:17:52,048 Did I hear you mention a Miss Prism? 1390 01:17:52,048 --> 01:17:53,466 Yes, madame. I'm-- 1391 01:17:53,466 --> 01:17:55,802 I'm on my-- 1392 01:17:57,304 --> 01:17:59,472 -Bless you. -Yes, madame, I'm on my way... 1393 01:17:59,472 --> 01:18:00,974 to--to--to join her. 1394 01:18:00,974 --> 01:18:03,602 Is this Miss Prism a female of repellent aspect... 1395 01:18:03,602 --> 01:18:05,812 remotely connected with education? 1396 01:18:05,812 --> 01:18:08,690 She is the most cultivated of ladies... 1397 01:18:08,690 --> 01:18:11,151 and the picture of respectability. 1398 01:18:11,151 --> 01:18:13,111 It is obviously the same person. 1399 01:18:13,111 --> 01:18:16,323 Dr. Chasuble, take me to the vestry at once. 1400 01:18:25,832 --> 01:18:28,501 I've been expecting you, dear doctor. 1401 01:18:31,338 --> 01:18:32,797 Prism! 1402 01:18:38,845 --> 01:18:40,096 Prism. 1403 01:18:48,688 --> 01:18:49,856 Prism! 1404 01:18:55,529 --> 01:18:57,197 Where is that baby? 1405 01:19:14,214 --> 01:19:16,550 Thirty-four years ago. Prism... 1406 01:19:16,550 --> 01:19:18,176 you left Lord Bracknell's house... 1407 01:19:18,176 --> 01:19:20,428 Number 104. Upper Grosvenor Street... 1408 01:19:20,428 --> 01:19:21,721 in charge of a perambulator... 1409 01:19:21,721 --> 01:19:24,724 that contained a baby of the male sex. 1410 01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:28,562 You never returned. 1411 01:19:28,562 --> 01:19:31,565 A few weeks later, through the elaborate investigations... 1412 01:19:31,565 --> 01:19:33,191 of the metropolitan police... 1413 01:19:33,191 --> 01:19:35,902 the perambulator was discovered at midnight... 1414 01:19:35,902 --> 01:19:40,574 standing by itself in a remote corner of Bayswater. 1415 01:19:40,574 --> 01:19:43,451 It contained the manuscript of a three-volume novel... 1416 01:19:43,451 --> 01:19:47,747 of more than usually revolting sentimentality. 1417 01:19:49,166 --> 01:19:51,835 But the baby was not there. 1418 01:19:51,835 --> 01:19:54,588 Prism, where is that baby? 1419 01:19:54,588 --> 01:19:56,756 Lady Bracknell... 1420 01:19:56,756 --> 01:20:00,135 I admit with shame that I do not know. 1421 01:20:00,135 --> 01:20:03,889 The plain facts of the case are these-- 1422 01:20:03,889 --> 01:20:06,099 on the morning of the day in question-- 1423 01:20:06,099 --> 01:20:08,977 a day that is forever branded on my memory-- 1424 01:20:08,977 --> 01:20:10,604 I prepared, as usual... 1425 01:20:10,604 --> 01:20:13,940 to take the baby out in its perambulator. 1426 01:20:13,940 --> 01:20:20,030 I had also with me a somewhat old, but capacious handbag... 1427 01:20:20,030 --> 01:20:22,532 in which I had intended to place the manuscript... 1428 01:20:22,532 --> 01:20:24,826 of a work of fiction that I had written... 1429 01:20:24,826 --> 01:20:28,580 during my few unoccupied hours. 1430 01:20:28,580 --> 01:20:32,125 In a moment of mental abstraction... 1431 01:20:32,125 --> 01:20:34,795 for which I never can forgive myself... 1432 01:20:34,795 --> 01:20:38,340 I deposited the manuscript in the bassinet... 1433 01:20:41,885 --> 01:20:45,931 and placed the baby in the handbag. 1434 01:20:51,228 --> 01:20:54,106 ...manuscript in the bassinet... 1435 01:20:54,106 --> 01:20:57,567 and placed the baby in the handbag. 1436 01:20:59,528 --> 01:21:02,239 But where did you deposit the handbag? 1437 01:21:03,657 --> 01:21:05,534 Do not ask me, Mr. Worthing. 1438 01:21:05,534 --> 01:21:08,662 Miss Prism. this is a matter of no small importance to me. 1439 01:21:08,662 --> 01:21:10,872 I insist on knowing where you deposited the handbag... 1440 01:21:10,872 --> 01:21:12,499 that contained that infant. 1441 01:21:14,042 --> 01:21:16,002 I left it in the cloakroom... 1442 01:21:16,002 --> 01:21:19,297 of one of the larger railway stations in London. 1443 01:21:19,297 --> 01:21:21,174 What railway station? 1444 01:21:21,174 --> 01:21:23,301 Victoria, 1445 01:21:23,301 --> 01:21:26,012 the Brighton line. 1446 01:21:27,848 --> 01:21:29,224 I-- 1447 01:21:40,402 --> 01:21:43,363 Uncle Jack seems strangely agitated. 1448 01:21:51,121 --> 01:21:53,582 Is this the handbag, Miss Prism? 1449 01:21:59,171 --> 01:22:02,215 Examine it carefully before you speak. 1450 01:22:02,215 --> 01:22:06,219 The happiness of more than one life depends on your answer. 1451 01:22:06,219 --> 01:22:08,180 The bag is undoubtedly mine. 1452 01:22:08,180 --> 01:22:12,559 I am delighted to have it so unexpectedly restored to me. 1453 01:22:12,559 --> 01:22:14,394 It has been a great inconvenience... 1454 01:22:14,394 --> 01:22:16,438 being without it all these years. 1455 01:22:16,438 --> 01:22:19,608 Miss Prism, more is restored to you than this handbag. 1456 01:22:19,608 --> 01:22:23,236 I was the baby you placed in it. 1457 01:22:23,236 --> 01:22:25,072 -You? -Yes. 1458 01:22:25,072 --> 01:22:26,615 Mother! 1459 01:22:26,615 --> 01:22:30,243 Oh, Mr. Worthing. I am unmarried. 1460 01:22:30,243 --> 01:22:31,787 Unmarried? 1461 01:22:31,787 --> 01:22:34,331 I cannot deny that is a serious blow. 1462 01:22:34,331 --> 01:22:36,416 But after all, who has the right... 1463 01:22:36,416 --> 01:22:39,086 to cast a stone against one who has suffered? 1464 01:22:39,086 --> 01:22:42,672 Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? 1465 01:22:42,672 --> 01:22:45,258 -Mother, I forgive you! -No, Mr. Worthing! 1466 01:22:45,258 --> 01:22:46,927 There is some error. 1467 01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:50,472 There is the lady... 1468 01:22:50,472 --> 01:22:53,100 who can tell you who you really are. 1469 01:22:56,269 --> 01:22:58,730 Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive... 1470 01:22:58,730 --> 01:23:02,776 but would you kindly inform me who I am? 1471 01:23:02,776 --> 01:23:06,822 You are the son of my poor sister Mrs. Moncrieff... 1472 01:23:06,822 --> 01:23:10,701 and consequently Algy's younger brother. 1473 01:23:15,247 --> 01:23:18,041 Algy's younger brother? 1474 01:23:43,984 --> 01:23:46,737 So... 1475 01:23:46,737 --> 01:23:49,489 I have a brother after all. 1476 01:23:49,489 --> 01:23:51,283 Yes. 1477 01:23:56,955 --> 01:23:58,999 I knew I had a brother! 1478 01:24:02,002 --> 01:24:03,962 I always said I had a brother. Huh. 1479 01:24:03,962 --> 01:24:07,424 Cecily, how could you ever have doubted that I had a brother? 1480 01:24:07,424 --> 01:24:09,509 Dr. Chasuble, my unfortunate brother. 1481 01:24:09,509 --> 01:24:10,677 How do you do? 1482 01:24:10,677 --> 01:24:12,179 Miss Prism, my unfortunate brother. 1483 01:24:12,179 --> 01:24:13,347 How do you do? 1484 01:24:13,347 --> 01:24:14,806 Gwendolen, my unfortunate brother. 1485 01:24:14,806 --> 01:24:16,058 How do you do? 1486 01:24:16,058 --> 01:24:19,353 Lady Bracknell, my--my brother. 1487 01:24:19,353 --> 01:24:21,021 -Algy! -Algy! 1488 01:24:21,021 --> 01:24:22,564 Oh! 1489 01:24:22,564 --> 01:24:24,858 Oh! 1490 01:24:24,858 --> 01:24:26,026 -So? -Oh! 1491 01:24:36,536 --> 01:24:39,414 Under these strange and unforeseen circumstances... 1492 01:24:39,414 --> 01:24:41,875 Mr. Moncrieff... 1493 01:24:41,875 --> 01:24:44,419 you may kiss your Aunt Augusta. 1494 01:24:50,926 --> 01:24:53,220 John! 1495 01:24:56,598 --> 01:24:59,059 Mr. Moncrieff. 1496 01:24:59,059 --> 01:25:01,937 After all that has occurred... 1497 01:25:01,937 --> 01:25:05,065 and any inconvenience I may have caused you... 1498 01:25:05,065 --> 01:25:06,733 in your infancy... 1499 01:25:06,733 --> 01:25:10,737 I feel it is my duty to resign my position in this household. 1500 01:25:10,737 --> 01:25:13,407 The suggestion is absurd. I won't hear of it. 1501 01:25:13,407 --> 01:25:16,994 Sir, it is my duty to leave. 1502 01:25:16,994 --> 01:25:20,914 I have really nothing more to teach dear Cecily. 1503 01:25:20,914 --> 01:25:23,750 In the very difficult accomplishment... 1504 01:25:23,750 --> 01:25:25,585 of getting married... 1505 01:25:25,585 --> 01:25:27,629 I fear my sweet and clever pupil... 1506 01:25:27,629 --> 01:25:30,757 has far outstripped her teacher. 1507 01:25:33,093 --> 01:25:34,761 No. 1508 01:25:50,527 --> 01:25:53,030 A moment, um, Miss Prism. 1509 01:25:56,325 --> 01:25:58,410 Dr. Chasuble. 1510 01:25:58,410 --> 01:26:00,287 I've come to the conclusion... 1511 01:26:00,287 --> 01:26:03,040 that the primitive church is in error... 1512 01:26:03,040 --> 01:26:06,418 on certain points on the question of matrimony. 1513 01:26:06,418 --> 01:26:12,090 Corrupt readings seem to have crept into the text. 1514 01:26:12,090 --> 01:26:15,677 In consequence. I-- 1515 01:26:15,677 --> 01:26:18,555 I beg to solicit... 1516 01:26:18,555 --> 01:26:21,308 the honour of your hand. 1517 01:26:21,308 --> 01:26:25,103 Frederick. 1518 01:26:25,103 --> 01:26:26,438 Laetitia. 1519 01:26:27,981 --> 01:26:30,359 -My dear Cecily. -My dearest Algernon. 1520 01:26:30,359 --> 01:26:31,652 My own Gwendolen. 1521 01:26:31,652 --> 01:26:33,987 My own-- But wait! Who are you? 1522 01:26:33,987 --> 01:26:37,032 I mean, what is your Christian name, Mr. Moncrieff? 1523 01:26:37,032 --> 01:26:39,493 Now you have become someone else. 1524 01:26:39,493 --> 01:26:41,620 Good heavens, I'd quite forgotten that point. 1525 01:26:41,620 --> 01:26:44,498 The question had better be cleared up at once. 1526 01:26:44,498 --> 01:26:46,250 Aunt Augusta, a moment. 1527 01:26:46,250 --> 01:26:48,335 At the time when Miss Prism left me in the handbag... 1528 01:26:48,335 --> 01:26:50,337 had I been christened already? 1529 01:26:50,337 --> 01:26:53,340 Yes, I think you were christened after your father. 1530 01:26:53,340 --> 01:26:56,301 I see. Then what was my father's Christian name? 1531 01:26:56,301 --> 01:26:58,595 I cannot at the present moment recall... 1532 01:26:58,595 --> 01:27:01,723 what the general's name was. I have no doubt he had one. 1533 01:27:01,723 --> 01:27:04,560 Algy, can't you recollect what our father's Christian name was? 1534 01:27:04,560 --> 01:27:06,395 My dear fellow, we were hardly on speaking terms. 1535 01:27:06,395 --> 01:27:08,146 He died when I was only three. 1536 01:27:08,146 --> 01:27:09,690 His name would appear on the army lists... 1537 01:27:09,690 --> 01:27:11,817 of the period, I suppose, Aunt Augusta. 1538 01:27:11,817 --> 01:27:14,444 The general was essentially a man of peace... 1539 01:27:14,444 --> 01:27:16,822 except in his domestic life. 1540 01:27:16,822 --> 01:27:18,699 But no doubt his name would appear... 1541 01:27:18,699 --> 01:27:20,367 on any military directory. 1542 01:27:24,037 --> 01:27:26,206 The army lists of the last 40 years are here. 1543 01:27:26,206 --> 01:27:29,209 These delightful records should have been my constant study. 1544 01:27:29,209 --> 01:27:32,337 Lieutenants. captains... 1545 01:27:32,337 --> 01:27:34,423 colonels... 1546 01:27:34,423 --> 01:27:36,216 -Oh! -colonels... 1547 01:27:36,216 --> 01:27:37,509 generals. 1548 01:27:37,509 --> 01:27:39,678 "M." 1549 01:27:39,678 --> 01:27:42,556 "Maxbohm," "Magley"... 1550 01:27:42,556 --> 01:27:45,142 "Markby," "Migsby," "Mobbs," "Moncrieff." 1551 01:27:45,142 --> 01:27:47,060 "Lieutenant, 1860. 1552 01:27:47,060 --> 01:27:49,396 "Christian names..." 1553 01:28:03,827 --> 01:28:06,330 I always told you, Gwendolen... 1554 01:28:06,330 --> 01:28:09,541 that my name was Ernest, didn't I? 1555 01:28:11,877 --> 01:28:13,879 Well, it is Ernest after all. 1556 01:28:18,175 --> 01:28:20,010 I mean, it naturally is Ernest. 1557 01:28:20,010 --> 01:28:22,930 Ernest. My own Ernest. 1558 01:28:22,930 --> 01:28:26,725 I felt from the first that you could have no other name. 1559 01:29:05,430 --> 01:29:06,598 My nephew. 1560 01:29:08,142 --> 01:29:11,103 You seem to be displaying signs of triviality. 1561 01:29:12,229 --> 01:29:14,106 On the contrary, Aunt Augusta. 1562 01:29:14,106 --> 01:29:16,191 I've now realized for the first time in my life... 1563 01:29:16,191 --> 01:29:18,569 the vital importance of being earnest. 1564 01:29:54,688 --> 01:29:58,609 The western wind is blowing fair 1565 01:29:58,609 --> 01:30:02,571 Across the dark Aegean Sea 1566 01:30:02,571 --> 01:30:06,366 And at the secret marble stair 1567 01:30:06,366 --> 01:30:10,162 My Tyrian galley waits for thee 1568 01:30:10,162 --> 01:30:14,541 Come down, the purple sail is spread 1569 01:30:14,541 --> 01:30:18,378 The watchman sleeps within the town 1570 01:30:18,378 --> 01:30:22,257 Oh leave thy lily-flowered bed 1571 01:30:22,257 --> 01:30:26,053 Oh lady mine, come down 1572 01:30:26,053 --> 01:30:29,640 Come down 1573 01:30:29,640 --> 01:30:32,184 Lady, come down 1574 01:30:34,186 --> 01:30:37,356 Come down 1575 01:30:37,356 --> 01:30:41,401 Lady, come down 1576 01:30:41,401 --> 01:30:44,279 Oh lady, come down 1577 01:30:46,448 --> 01:30:50,411 She will not come. I know her well 1578 01:30:50,411 --> 01:30:54,415 Of lover's vows. she hath no care 1579 01:30:54,415 --> 01:30:58,293 And little good a man can tell 1580 01:30:58,293 --> 01:31:02,256 Of one so cruel and so fair 1581 01:31:02,256 --> 01:31:06,343 True love is but a woman's toy 1582 01:31:06,343 --> 01:31:10,347 They never know the lover's pain 1583 01:31:10,347 --> 01:31:14,268 And I who loved as loves a boy 1584 01:31:14,268 --> 01:31:16,311 Must love in vain 1585 01:31:16,311 --> 01:31:18,063 Must love in vain 1586 01:31:18,063 --> 01:31:20,232 Come down 1587 01:31:20,232 --> 01:31:21,734 Come down 1588 01:31:21,734 --> 01:31:24,445 Lady, come down 1589 01:31:24,445 --> 01:31:26,113 Come down 1590 01:31:26,113 --> 01:31:28,198 Come down 1591 01:31:29,658 --> 01:31:31,910 Lady, come down 1592 01:31:34,455 --> 01:31:35,706 I think your high notes... 1593 01:31:35,706 --> 01:31:37,207 may have damaged our chances, old boy. 1594 01:31:37,207 --> 01:31:38,542 You do want them to come down, don't you? 1595 01:31:38,542 --> 01:31:39,960 She's never going to come down... 1596 01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:41,920 if you're singing like that, you�re completely out of tune. 1597 01:31:41,920 --> 01:31:44,089 -How dare you? -I'll take this. 1598 01:31:44,089 --> 01:31:45,758 You leave this to me, you go and have a lie down, old man. 1599 01:31:45,758 --> 01:31:47,009 No, I'll take this bit. 1600 01:31:47,009 --> 01:31:48,635 Out of my way, I'm coming through. 1601 01:31:48,635 --> 01:31:50,095 Go easy, my dear fellow. 1602 01:31:50,095 --> 01:31:51,972 Come do-o-o-own 1603 01:31:51,972 --> 01:31:55,517 Come down 1604 01:31:55,517 --> 01:31:56,977 Lady, come down 1605 01:31:56,977 --> 01:31:58,687 Overdoing it, less is more. 1606 01:31:58,687 --> 01:32:00,147 Come down 1607 01:32:00,147 --> 01:32:03,484 Come down 1608 01:32:03,484 --> 01:32:06,528 Lady, come down 1609 01:32:11,825 --> 01:32:14,620 That wasn't so bad, was it? 1610 01:32:16,997 --> 01:32:18,707 Maybe they're not going to come down. 1611 01:32:18,707 --> 01:32:21,460 Think we should go up? Maybe we should go up. 1612 01:32:21,460 --> 01:32:23,504 Algy, you're always talking nonsense. 1613 01:32:23,504 --> 01:32:25,881 Well, it's better than listening to it. 1614 01:32:25,881 --> 01:32:33,013 Lady, come down 1615 01:33:38,370 --> 01:33:41,749 Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? 1616 01:33:41,749 --> 01:33:44,251 I didn't think it polite to listen, sir. 123598