All language subtitles for Upstairs Downstairs S02E07 Your Obedient Servant WEB-DL DDP2 0 H 264-squalor (1)_track3_[eng]

(orchestral music)

(hammering)

(giggling)

-[Mrs. Bridges] Oh Steadblack
take it out of here!

- It crossed the
threshold it did.

- Oh somethin' awful's
going to happen.

- Oh stop the nonsense.

It's only a cat.

(bell rings)

Oh that bell.

I'll be hearin' it
in my grave I will.

Jingle, jangle.

(hammering)

- Out with the old
in with the new.

- I beg your pardon?

- These electric bells are
soon get you on the up my lad.

This time next week you
lot won't know yourselves.

- Old bells or new bells
it's all work innit?

- Work my lad?

You don't know the meanin'
of the word.

- Telegram Mr. Hudson.

- Then take it to the
master Edward without delay.

You're probably tired
are you not?

- Yes.

- Then what are you
thinking off at once man.

- But Mr. Hudson--

- The essence of the
telegram Edward is speed.

Shall the good ship of
man's ingenuity to man

flounder on the rocks
of his idleness.

- Hey.

- At once Edward to the
master, to the morning room.

- But it's not for the master.

- What a wrong delivery again?

The postal system is a disgrace.

-[Edward] It's for you.

- Oh.

(hammering)

You may go Edward.

-[Edward] Not bad news I hope.

- Thank you Edward.

(door slams)

- Jerry building that's
what it is.

I've never seen plaster like it.

Just touch it and it's gone.

- Does the task of running
a single wire

behind a cornice
necessitate quite

so much noise and destruction?

I would've thought so
simple a task could've

been accomplished in
comparative silence.

- These aren't just wires.

These are electricity wires.

- A wire I think is a wire.

- That is exactly where
you are mistaken brother.

Like many a leman before you.

These wires run straight to
the very heart of the universe.

Now don't meddle with
what you don't understand.

- Oh please go more,

go more carefully or
you'll disturb the master.

(hammering)

- Yes Arthur, yes,
yes of course.

No, I can't send the
car to the station.

Marjorie's got Watkins
with her at Southwold.

Well can you get a cab?

You'll walk?

Alright if you must.

Yes, yes of course.

Good bye.

Hudson!

-[Hudson] Sir?

- The morning room
bell's not working.

- It has been disconnected sir.

We were given ample
warning if you remember.

All the bells are out
of action this morning.

- Yes we have to suffer
for progress I see.

Come inside will you?

-[Hudson] Very good sir.

Here.

- This is not the most
convenient time I know

but my brother Arthur will
be staying for the weekend.

- Very good sir I'm
sure we will manage.

- Yes he's coming up for a
medical conference of some kind.

He'll be in and out
mostly I suppose.

- I'll tell Violet
to make up the bed

in Captain James's room.

Will Mr. Arthur be arriving
in time for luncheon sir?

- He's walking from
the Royal Society.

How long will that take him?

- I have no idea sir.

- No.

But what's ordered for lunch?

- Isn't it gammon and
parsley sauce sir?

- Well don't ask me.

My brother's something
of a food reformist.

There are certain things he
does not permit himself to eat.

-[Hudson] I shall inform
Mrs. Bridges.

- Yes.

Does gammon and parsley
sauce does that--

- I have no idea.

- No.

- But I'm sure Mrs.
Bridges will.

- Well perhaps Edward
better serve luncheon

up here on trays.

No point in opening
up the dining room.

- It would appear suitably
informal sir.

(hammering)

- And tell those damn
workman to make less noise.

- I have already told them.

- Well,

well tell them again.

-[Hudson] Less noise
up there if you please.

- Progress is a very
noisy business.

- A convenient argument
but a false one.

Try to use a little more skill.

And less brute force.

Oh so we've got time
to sit down have we?

- Morning work's all
done Mr. Hudson.

I mean the master at home

and half the staff away--

- But that does not constitute

a general holiday Mrs. Bridges.

Violet there is dust everywhere
on the floors upstairs.

-[Violet] It's the
workman Mr. Hudson.

I've dusted six times
today already.

- Then you will dust a seventh,

and an eighth and a
hundred times if necessary.

Upstairs my girl.

And get the bed made up
in Captain James's room.

-[Violet] What for?

- Don't argue with me.

You look sharp now.

And what may ask is Ruby
doing chopping parsley

in the servant's hall?

- Well she can't work
in the kitchen.

Not without getting
plaster from the ceiling

in all the food.

I don't know.

Dratted workmen.

Black cats.

Electricity.

We'll all be struck
dead in our beds.

That we will.

(coughs)

- Edward tobacco slows
the nervous reflexes

and yours are quite slow enough.

Put that abominable
instrument away.

And lay out two trays.

-[Edward] Trays?

- What's that for?

Ruby you are not
cutting seaweed.

That's parsley that is.

Work at it girl.

Elbow grease.

- Yes Mrs. Bridges.

- I spose you washed it first.

- You didn't tell me
too Mrs. Bridges.

- I don't know.

There's something wrong
with that poor girl.

I don't think she's
quite right in the head.

-[Hudson] Edward not the
best silver on the trays.

Get the electro plated
from canteen number three.

- What is the matter?

Is somebody ill?

- Mr. Arthur, the
master's brother

is coming for the weekend.

He may arrive in
time for luncheon

depending on the length
of his legs.

- Luncheon?

On a tray?

- In the morning room it's
what the master wants.

Oh and Mrs. Bridges,

Mr. Arthur belongs to
the food reform movement.

- The what?

- Ah Ms. Roberts I found
this glove laying

on the staircase just now.

Her ladyship's I believe.

- Oh so that's where it was.

I knew I dropped it.

- You knew it was missing

but you didn't go at
once to find it?

- I'm not a young thing
any longer Mr. Hudson

to go running up and down
stairs after a missing glove.

- Edward would of gone
if you'd asked him.

- Well it's only a glove.

I don't even like it.

The blues never quite matched

and the buttons have
always popped.

I'm sorry to see it again
if you really want to know.

- Ms. Roberts,

if you're not young and
strong enough to look after

her ladyship's property,

perhaps you do well to consider
an honorable retirement.

I think the time is
drawing very near.

Luncheon was six and
a half minutes

late yesterday Mrs. Bridges.

Just because her ladyship's away

and the master alone
is in residence,

that is no call for
idleness and disloyalty.

- It is luncheon on a
tray for Mr. Bellamy

in the morning room at
his special request.

And to be prepared
for Mr. Arthur,

Mr. Bellamy's brother,

in case he should of arrived

and not of had his luncheon,

that is right I think
Mr. Hudson.

- Those are the instructions
yes.

- Then I am prepared
Mr. Hudson aren't I?

Quite prepared.

- That tray cloth
is soiled Edward.

- Well the plate will
cover the stain Mr. Hudson.

I mean it's not as if it's on
her side of the family is it?

- It is for Mr. Arthur Bellamy.

The master's brother.

Fetch a clean cloth at once.

- I mean he's only a doctor.

- Respect is not something
we grade according to title

at wealth Edward.

It is a matter of what is
ordered by servant to master.

And a brother in
any walk of life

is someone to whom much is owed.

The greatest consideration,
the greatest formality.

No matter how the exigencies
of fate have led each

into different paths,
into different fortunes.

A clean cloth at once.

(knock on door)

Edward front door.

Cloth get rid of it.

- Morning sir.

- My brother still in?

- Mr. Richard is expecting
you in the morning room sir.

May I take your coat?

- If you insist.

- I'm sorry you had to
use the door knocker sir.

An electric bell system
is being installed.

- You forget I am
not London born.

I think my hand is not
so pampered and weak

that it needs electricity
to help it.

- Excuse me sir, I
will announce you.

- Announce me?

To my own brother?

- It is customary
in this house sir.

Mr. Arthur Bellamy sir.

- Arthur my dear fellow
you look splendid.

- I wish I could say the
same for you Richard.

You're looking rather liverish.

A hundred flunkies won't
preserve a man's good health.

- You mean the servants?

- God's good air was
clean and bright outside.

Your front door was opened
with a whiff of whiskey

that would've knocked a
lesser man unconscious.

- Edward?

You imagine it.

- Scots of any class
drink whiskey don't they?

- Hudson?

- Names do they have names?

I thought they rather chose
to throw their own away

and live like parasites
upon those of their betters.

So you have waited in for me.

- I imagine you'll be
out most of the time.

The Royal Society's
in session I see.

- I'm finished with
the Royal Society.

Quite finished.

- You weren't elected?

- I was not.

I thank the fates for it.

- But I--

- We will talk no further
on the subject Richard.

Electricians I see.

- Yes a new bell system
while Marjorie's away.

- Of course.

Plaster dust is hard on
sensitive nostrils like hers.

So is the existence of
impecunious in-laws

who can't even achieve
the doubtful honor

of the Fellowship of
the Royal Society.

Poor Marjorie.

So your house is to echo
to the tint and nebulation

of electric bells.

We could never afford
them I'm afraid.

Small though the old house is.

- Nothing to be ashamed
of in that.

- I never said there was.

It's where we were born
both of us after all.

(laughs)

- Arthur you don't change much.

Have a glass of sherry
or a cigarette?

- Are we lunching soon?

- Almost directly.

- Then I won't thank you.

- I know you don't appreciate
formalities

so we're eating in here.

- The dining room's too
good for me you mean?

- Arthur.

- I'm in a bad mood.

Nothing pleases me.

- Shall I serve luncheon sir?

- Yes please Edward.

Come and sit down over here.

You'll feel better after food.

Our Mrs. Bridges is
a splendid cook.

- You're a naive fellow Richard.

I dare say you're the
pleasanter for it.

- Perhaps Mr. Hudson
should consider

an honorable retirement.

He's quite lost his
sense of time.

The first sign of
civility you know.

Mine is excellent.

- Oh perhaps he's just
popped round the corner

for a bottle of beer.

- Butler's shouldn't
pop it lacks dignity.

- Never known him to pop never.

He's just a little late
for his dinner.

Which is every man's
right on occasion.

- Perhaps he's gone
to the post office

to send off a cable gram.

- Cable gram whatever for?

- But in answer to
the one he got.

- Cable?

Who said Mr. Hudson had a cable?

- Edward.

- You never said.

- I thought I mentioned it.

- He's put his earnings
in a gold mine

and it's failed.

- Perhaps his mother's
been taken poorly.

- Mr. Hudson's mother
passed away

a year ago come Easter Ruby.

And Ms. Roberts, Mr. Hudson
is not the speculating kind.

- Well personally I'm
hungry, I want my dinner.

- You'd hardly know
the old village.

Ugly and new buildings
on the outskirts.

Motorcars filling the
air with dust and fumes.

Strangers everywhere.

Course you never come
down to witness it.

Too much of a backwater.

-[Bellamy] It's hard
to find the time.

- I do understand.

There's grit in the
parsley sauce.

-[Bellamy] Is there?

- Don't you notice it?

-[Bellamy] Come to think
of it there is.

- If you can't eat it,

it must be sent back
to the kitchen at once.

In your position you
must stand firm.

-[Bellamy] My position Arthur?

- Because you like me are
the son of a country parson,

is no reason to put up with
the insolence of servants.

-[Bellamy] But Arthur
I am hungry.

(forks dings against plate)

oh very well.

Hudson?

- Unwashed vegetables are
the cause of much disease

both physical and mental.

At home Anthea washes all such
foods in chlorinated water.

It's a humble abode but
we do have our standards.

- Humble abode?

Arthur it has 15 rooms
and two acres of land

and you live in extreme comfort.

- Two acres.

You have 20,000.

- My wife's father has
land that's true

- When the old man goes
she will be richer still.

The gulf between you widens.

- There is no gulf.

Fetch Hudson will you?

- I'm sorry sir Mr. Hudson
is not available sir.

- Well then ask Mrs. Bridges

to provide us with
something else.

The sauce is not edible.

-[Edward] Yes sir
I'll tell her sir.

- Not available?

Doesn't surprise me.

A furtive looking fellow
with whiskey on his breath.

- Hudson?

Furtive?

- Furtive.

- A beautiful fit sir.

Truly elegant.

What a pleasure to dress
a real gentlemen.

- One guinea did you say?

-[Shop Assistant] How long
will you be wanting the use

of the suit sir?

- Until Monday morning.

-[Shop Assistant]
25 Shillings Sir.

- I see.

Oh very well.

-[Shop Assistant]
The address sir?

- 165 Eaton Place.

Hudson is the name.

A. Hudson.

- For the account
to be sent off.

- Oh no I'll pay by
cash if you don't mind.

- As you wish Mr. Hudson.

-[Hudson] Thank you.

- If I might make a suggestion,

if you would consider
the purchase

of perhaps a cane.

- A cane.

Yes, yes why not and
gloves I think.

Yes gloves.

- Indeed sir, indeed.

They come a bit costly to some

but not I'm sure to you.

- Oh Hudson returned I see.

- Yes sir.

I regret any inconvenience
I may have caused.

I had to slip out for
awhile on a personal matter.

- Is that all you're
going to say?

-[Bellamy] Of course.

Never happened before.

I doubt it will happen again.

- That man's got a mistress.

- A mistress?

Oh really Arthur.

You're imagination
runs away with you.

- You can see it in his eyes.

The sly look of the
confirmed lecher.

- Hudson?

A lecher?

- He's bringing filth
and moral pollution

into this house and you
do nothing, nothing!

What's happening to you Richard?

Do you not see that
this indulgence

has been the root cause of the
trouble with your children?

Indeed with your wife.

Scandal gets round you know.

I'm sorry for you Richard.

- He came home at tea time
with a brown paper parcel.

Now that is all I know.

- Perhaps he's an anarchist.

Going to blow us all up.

(laughs)

- Well if Sarah was here,

she'd know what was what.

She knows everything.

Well I wish they'd send me away

to learn how to become
a nurse maid.

- You?

You'd drop Ms. Elizabeth's baby

on its poor little
head you would.

- Oh no Violet our Ruby
would only do that

by accident wouldn't
you now Sarah,

she would do that on purpose.

- Well you know what Edward says

about Ms. Elizabeth's baby.

- What?

- What have I told you,

never say anything
in front of Ruby.

You can't.

She can't keep secrets.

She can't be trusted.

Now Ruby what if I told you,

you can't be trusted
to say anything at all,

now listen.

- Put the valeezys
in that corner

for the time being my boy.

Come away then.

Come on in all of you.

Make yourselves at home.

- Oh Angus our own
suite to ourselves.

You shouldn't of done that.

- What about this for luxury?

- Oh look The Thames
it's all lit up.

And there's a barge.

- It would've been more homely
at Eaton Place of course

but the workmen you know.

- What a brother I
told you Maudie,

I always told you.

- Always dear.

- I thought he'd look
like God with a beard.

I don't know nothing's
what you think

it's going to be is it?

- Maudie my dear.

Come and sit down you're
pale as a little ghost.

It was a terrible crossing.

I'm a brute Angus the way
I drag her about the world.

- I had six hat boxes
when I came

and now there are only five.

- I think the Thames is
positively narrow.

- Alice stop complaining
and help your mother

find her hat box.

- It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter at all.

What does matter is at last

I've met my dear, dear
brother in law

who was so good to my Donald
when he was a little boy.

The good kind brother
who made my husband

what he is today.

The goodest, kindest,
cleverest man in all the world.

- Well mine's absolutely tiny.

- Oh Alice dear do
stop complaining

and go out and look
in the corridor

to see if that horrid
little page

hasn't left it outside
on purpose.

He showed no respect whatsoever.

They do say the servant
problem here today

is quite terrible and I
believe it I really do

at least out in Panang
you could tell

who's who by their color.

- It was you who sent
the flowers Angus.

- Of course Donald.

It seemed the least I could
do to welcome you all.

- It's good to see
you again man,

yourself but more so
after all these years.

- Well you haven't wasted
them Donald I taught you well.

Persistence and endeavor eh?

Two bridges over the
mighty Zambezi.

You know you're one of
Scotland's heroes.

I'm very proud of you.

- Am I that famous?

- Well there was
a piece about you

in the Illustrated London News

but for that I wouldn't of
known of your achievements.

- I'm a shocking letter writer.

(laughs)

- Well I dare say the postmen
are very few and far between

way out in these parts.

- Oh come now you're
not much better.

What are you doing
with yourself?

- I work for Mr.
Richard Bellamy.

He's a member of parliament.

-[Donald] Bellamy,

wasn't he the undersecretary
of state of admiralty.

- Under the Tories yes.

- The one who married Lady
Marjorie Talbot-Carey?

- Yes how did you know?

- Oh everyone who's
anyone knows that.

I've seen her picture in
The Sketch many times.

She never wears the
same dress twice.

Well Donald always told me
you were quite a scholar

but I had no idea
how distinguished.

I would so love an introduction
one is so cut off at home.

Donald thinks I'm a snob
but it means so much.

Well a bridge builder after all

is only an engineer.

- Lady Marjorie is in the
country at the moment.

Her father is very ill.

Dying they say.

- Oh dear.

Still we will see lots
of you dear Angus,

you will try won't you
just this weekend

and then off we go on the
Lusitania think of that

not the maiden voyage.

We missed that so distressing.

Now Alice.

Alice must be taken for theater.

She's such a little colonial.

She's no idea what you
really should appreciate.

Alice perhaps that hat box
is on top of the wardrobe

in the bedroom, get
up on a chair

and have a look there's a dear.

- My Maudie she's my joy Angus.

She's like a little flower.

She's a thousand times
more than I deserve.

She was the netian of the
governor himself in Panang.

- Oh indeed.

- How far we have
come you and I.

These are good times
are they not?

When a man can be what
he makes himself

and not what he was born.

-[Maudie] Donald?

- Maudie.

Maudie don't distress yourself.

I'll buy you a new hat.

Oh I'm sure it's been stolen.

You can't trust anyone now.

All those people on
that channel boat,

so common of course
we go first class

but they are everywhere now.

Well as someone once said,

was it Jesus?

The poor are always with us.

Oh Alice.

Gertie Millar.

Angus you will take
us to the Gaiety.

We are dying to see
Gertie Millar.

- Well I believe seats
are very hard to come by.

It is short notice.

- But you will try, a box.

I've always wanted
to sit in a box.

-[Hudson] I'll see
what I can do.

- And luncheon at Spinelli's.

- Maudie.

- I read about Spinelli's.

You can show us who's who

and perhaps introduce us.

I'm so excited.

Who would've dreamt that
Donald's brother

would be so important in
the fashionable world.

-[Hudson] But your
husband is known

all over the world Maudie.

- Oh yes but not to
anyone important.

My poor head it's
in quite a whirl.

- I don't see enough
daylight that's the problem.

Down here in the dark and
one can feel the damp.

- The worst summer since 1894.

- Dreaded black cat.

Bad luck.

Nobodies ever sent a
sauce of mine back.

Not since I was first
in service.

When the cook fell
dead over dinner

and I had to step right
over and carry on.

I was only the kitchen maid.

They wasn't grateful.

They sent the hollandaise back.

Said it was curdled.

Well the look on that
poor dead woman's face.

Enough to curdle
anything it was.

- As for poor Mr. Hudson,

I don't know what the matter is.

I fear for his sanity.

I haven't been spoken to
like that since my father,

saw me walking out
with a young man.

Only the once of course.

They sent me into service after

and I soon forgot him.

And I'm very happy as long
as people speak nicely to me.

He was a pleasant young
man, well set up.

But not well spoken you see

it wouldn't have done.

I've always afterwards
mixed with a very nice class

of people well above
stairs at any rate.

Well one lives as one
can doesn't one?

-[Mrs. Bridges] So you're
back Mr. Hudson.

- I am here which is what
is significant Mrs. Bridges.

-[Ms. Roberts] Seem to be
coming and going a great deal

lately Mr. Hudson.

- I have certain personal
matters to attend

to outside Ms. Roberts.

With the master's permission.

Excuse me they'll be
requiring the glog tray

up in the morning room.

-[Arthur] And in the
constituency of course

you have to mix with
the plebeians.

I can understand
your reluctance.

- Reluctance no.

Boredom is my worst enemy.

I'm sitting in the commons
losing division after division.

It scarcely seems
like real life.

- Well there are compensations.

Comfortable house
to come home to.

Bells that work by electricity.

Reward indeed.

-[Bellamy] Well they
are efficient.

- Oh you don't have to
justify them to me.

They're amusing toys
what's wrong with that?

Please don't speak of efficiency

when what you are seeking
is mere diversion.

- I beg your pardon.

-[Bellamy] That's
alright Hudson.

You may go to bed now.

- Thank you sir.

Good night.

- Sound advice let
him sleep it off.

-[Bellamy] There's
nothing wrong with Hudson.

- No?

Man's as pale as
the driven snow.

You can see from the
parallel what the trouble is.

That man's got a mistress.

He's depleted by
lust and passion.

His energies are drained.

His eyes are haggard.

His face drawn.

I've seen time and time
again in my patients.

The growing ability,
the laxness, the langur

that over takes even
the most robust

when the sexual animal
instincts are indulged.

Why do you surround yourself
with such filth Richard?

- If you're still referring
to my butler--

- A son sent to the
colonies his doxy harbored

under your roof,
a scarlet woman.

- Little Sarah?

Scarlet?

A bit pink about the
edges that's true

but poor child, her
baby died you know?

- God's mercy on those
that least deserved it.

A daughter separated
from her husband

after only weeks of marriage

in your circle such things
are a matter of course.

- Hardly and still painful.

- And under your roof
your servants run riot.

Under your roof the
thrashing limbs, the sweat,

the foul rankness of
animal degradation.

- Arthur for God's sake.

- Are you happy Richard?

Are you?

- I only have the thirty pounds.

My life savings but you're
welcome to it.

I should've had more I know

but I got that carried
away by the tales

in the Sunday papers.

Them poor little pagans.

Destined to suffer the torment
of the burning fires of hell.

I sent all of 20 pounds
to the missionary fund.

That was just after,

well you remember that
dreadful time Mr. Hudson.

I don't like to think about it

and to tell you the truth,

I think I was a little
bit out of my mind.

Well I don't see much
daylight you see,

only on my day off.

I don't think that helps
a woman's mind.

- Only alone Kate

until such times I can
realize my capital.

-[Mrs. Bridges] Take it Angus.

- I'm temporarily embarrassed
that's all.

- I don't ask no questions.

The horses was it?

- Oh Kate you know me
better than that.

I've never had a wager
on a horse in my life.

- Well so long as i see
the money back sometime

before it's too late.

I would like to see a
little bit of sunshine,

especially now with the
winter coming on.

I kept it in my little teapot.

Lustrid, it's me aunt's.

Nobody'd think of looking
for it there.

I don't ask no questions.

You've got to trust
people haven't ya?

- Yes Kate thank you.

I'm sorry you're feeling
a bit low in spirit.

- Oh it was that parsley sauce

that's done it.

Do you think they'll
tell Lady Marjorie?

Oh what a dreadful thing
for her to come back to,

poor soul and her father so ill.

Passing on they say.

Well it's a world to be out of.

- Pardon me sir.

- Yes Hudson?

- Might I request an afternoon
and an evening off sir?

This evening and tomorrow
afternoon.

-[Bellamy] This is most unusual.

- It is sir.

-[Bellamy] You're not
in any trouble are you?

You would feel free
to come to me.

- Oh indeed sir.

- If I say no--

- It is your right sir.

- I had not finished speaking.

If I say no you might simply
take the time off in any case

and I would not know would I?

- That is not the way
things are sir.

- No perhaps we should
thank God he did not make us

with eyes in the backs
of our head.

No doubt he's saved us all
a good deal of distress.

- Sir?

- That'll be all take off
as much time as you wish.

My brother will be staying
another night,

see his room is comfortable.

There seems to be a
great deal of dust about.

- It is the electricians sir.

The bells will be connected
this evening.

We will then be back to normal.

Would you care for a
fire to be lit sir?

It does seem a wee
bit chilly in here.

A fire makes things
much more cheerful.

- Leave it as it is.

- Very good sir.

-[Alice] What does Uncle
Angus do Mother?

- Do what I don't know.

Not really much I don't suppose.

Gentlemen don't work.

Only your father building
his silly bridges.

Well we must look upon
it as a hobby.

That's right Alice.

Tell all your friends
it's just a hobby.

- There's something
strange about Uncle Angus.

- Strange?

What can you mean?

- The way he keeps
stepping backwards

and sort of bowing.

- Backwards and bowing
what can you mean?

- Like a waiter.

The most distinguished
people I've met in London

have been the waiters.

- Oh Alice waiters
aren't people.

Sometimes wish we had
never left the east.

Ideas are so confusing when
there are too many of them.

-[Bellamy] Well I must confess
I shall miss the old bells.

-[Edward] The old
jingle jangle sir.

-[Bellamy] That's right Edward.

- If you care to take
this in your hand sir

and press the button
when I tell you,

looking at little window
up there marked study--

-[Arthur] You'll hear a buzz
no doubt and see a red marker

in the window concerned,
devilish scientific.

- Seems so simple to
the layman's as always.

But ignorance begets confidence

and when it's a matter
of electricity,

confidence kills even
quicker than curiosity.

Do you know sir,

I've seen grown men
shriveled up like--

- Oh come along now, come along.

-[Arthur] What about your
inauguration address Richard?

(clapping)

- Well yes,

well here we are then,

about to drag ourselves
kicking and screaming

yet one step further
into the new world.

A small step but significant.

- Linked by wire through
the miracles of science

to the very power source
of the universe.

- Yes and at the mere
touch of a button.

- Where's Hudson?

- He has the evening off.

- What for?

- I have no idea.

Saying at the mere
touch of button.

(screams)

(talks over each other)

-[Bellamy] What happened?

- It's a fuse, a
fuse that's all.

Too heavy a load.

I'll mend it where's
the fuse box.

- You can mend it?

Alright well show us quickly.

- Cost of all this wine
would support a normal family

for a year or two.

- Yes or a month or two.

- At least you keep it locked.

That's something.

- Well Hudson has a key.

- Of course.

- And he keeps the wines
listed in a book.

- How often do you check the
book against your stocks?

- Oh Arthur you're wrong.

- I hope I am.

- I'm sure you are.

- Yes wire's burnt out.

Too thin.

- Oh Angus a private supper.

I never thought to have
a private supper.

How daring.

Look Alice there's salmon.

That child is stage struck.

Where do you think that
silliness comes from Donald?

Can it be me?

- Oh no of course not my love.

- Where is the champagne
I ordered champagne.

Oh I do apologize
for the slackness

of the servants here Maudie.

- Champagne, champagne
and Gertie Millar.

London really is the very
hub of the world is it not?

- Well nothing appears
to be missing.

- Except this now.

- What's that?

- One bottle of Taylor's
'87 vintage port wine.

To comfort us.

-[Arthur] What for?

- Because we thought
we were gentlemen

and discover we are
common spies.

Where does he keep
the cork screw?

-[Arthur] Tell me
something Richard.

-[Bellamy] Yes?

- Do you visit the
theater much these days?

- Oh hardly ever.

What was the last thing we saw?

The Man From Blancas.

Haughtry was marvelous.

But that was sometime ago.

- Musical comedy?

- Never.

Marjorie can't bear them.

- I thought not.

- Well let's take this
upstairs shall we?

- There you are my dear.

Well to my dear brother
and to his family,

welcome to London
and good health.

-[Maudie] Go on Donald
dear reply.

- Oh yes and we wish
to acknowledge

our gratitude to my dear brother

for giving us such a good time.

The sight seeing, the
shopping, and the theater.

It's a long way from
Panang but it was worth it.

- Uncle Angus.

Oh I don't like champagne
it gets up my nose.

(laughs)

- There try that.

- Oh I don't doubt its quality.

It's the gout I fear.

- Well don't drink it.

- I'll risk it.

Very good I must admit it.

- No it does not soothe
me as I hoped.

I'm all rough edges Arthur.

There's something
vulgar in checking

on another human being
whether he be servant or,

dammit Arthur you could
persuade an angel

that the harp he played
was out of tune.

- You're quite right.

I shall make amends.

I shall take you out to
luncheon tomorrow

before my train departs
for Noridge.

I suggest we go to Spinelli's.

- Well that would be delightful.

- Yes I haven't been
there for years.

(laughs)

should be interesting.

Come along sit down
enjoy your port.

- Please a barley water
for the wee girl.

- I'm not a wee girl.

Why can't I have a brandy?

- Alice.

I must imprint this
scene upon my mind.

It's all I have in
the years to come

and you too Alice.

Oh to think Angus
you can come here

whenever you want.

- Poor little Maudie.

- You think I'm silly?

- Of course I don't my love.

I think I'm a dull fellow.

I am moved by canta
levers and concrete

and not by names and faces.

Perhaps you should've
married Angus here.

(laughs)

Isn't that the actor
we saw last night

at the Gaiety?

- Alice sit down.

- Oh yes, yes that is Mr.
George Rosemith yes indeed.

Lunching with Granval
Barker no less.

- Oh dear Alice isn't
that fascinating?

And if you care to glance at
the table just beyond there,

the one under the midder,

you will see in the
flesh Sir Edward Carson.

One of our most distinguished
advocates.

- I find lawyers rather
tedious frankly.

Is that very naughty of me?

- See how she sparkles Angus?

Eat up my precious.

You've hardly touched your food.

-[Maudie] Oh I know I have
the appetite of a little bird.

Oh I do wish we could've
been a month earlier.

Then we could've been
on the maiden voyage.

(coughs)

such a glittering assembly.

Oh Angus such a swoony boat.

But now we'll have to
travel with the nuvo riche.

It's so distressing.

-[Donald] I did the best
I could my love.

It was the rains
that held us up.

- Well they always do.

You and your silly bridges.

Why can't you build them
in more convenient places.

- My pretty sweet I build
them in these places

to make them more convenient.

You understand?

-[Maudie] No I don't.

I'm only a woman and
thinking gives me a headache.

- Who's that man
who looked at you

when he went past Uncle Angus.

Is he a friend?

I had a friend look like
that at me once.

I put honey in her hair.

She had very long hair.

She could sit on it
and the honey--

- Angus are you alright?

You're as white as a sheet.

Are you feeling faint?

I'll order you a glass of water.

Boy?

Boy? (claps)

-[Donald] Maudie.
-[Alice] Mother.

-[Hudson] Please, please
I'm alright.

- You see how he
apes his betters?

-[Bellamy] You knew
he'd be here didn't you?

- I did.

-[Bellamy] How?

The careless fellow who
noted the reservation

of his table on the
telephone pad in his pantry.

- Why was the deceit necessary?

-[Arthur] If you'd known
you would not have come.

- No I would not.

- Well you can't deny the
evidence of your eyes.

- My eyes see a man
lunching with what

might well be a friend.

A friend's wife and
their daughter.

- You see your butler
got up as a gentlemen,

mixing with people of
superior social standing

who for one reason or
another he wishes to impress.

Can he afford to come
here on what you pay him?

Then what other heinous
ways does he gather luca

to his seamy bosom.

You've allowed to much
license for too long.

How else could I bring
you to see Richard

that fatal flaw in
your character.

That aim ability which
is no virtue.

But the worst of vices.

- Sorry they didn't elect
you as a fellow

of The Royal Society Arthur.

-[Arthur] What?

- What a pleasant
surprise to meet you here.

- Yes indeed sir, a surprise.

- Won't you introduce
me to your friends.

- Indeed sir Mr.
Richard Bellamy,

Mrs. Hudson my sister-in-law.

And Ms. Alice Hudson my niece

and Mr. Donald Hudson
my brother.

- How do you do?

-[Hudson] They are
visiting London

from the near east states.

- May I join you for a moment?

- Oh please yes oh please do.

Mr. Bellamy I would've
known you anywhere

from your photograph
so distinguished

and charming.

I was so thrilled when Angus
told us he worked for you

and I never knew.

- Sit down Angus.

- I have the honor of
knowing a distant relative

of yours, a second cousin I
believe a Miss Jaunita Bringel.

She is a little foreign
it's true.

Oh I'm quite overcome.

London is so strong.

- Are you here for long?

- No we leave this very evening

at last for the United States.

Oh we've had a wonderful time.

I've been so very happy.

Angus here knows everybody
everywhere

and he has spent so
much money on us.

Money means nothing I know

now we've met you Mr. Bellamy.

One is so cut off for
most of one's life.

- Oh well the feeling is mutual.

Are you not the Donald
Hudson who built

that astounding bridge
over the Zambizi?

- A bridge yes.

Astounding I hope not.

A bridge that astounded
would fall down I think.

This one merely stands but
it will stand forever I hope.

And are you not on your way
to the Grand Canyon itself?

We've heard about
you Mr. Hudson.

Angus here keeps his
secrets very well.

He's a modest man.

- You've heard about
his bridges?

- I'm honored to have made

your husband's acquaintance
Mrs. Hudson.

You must be very proud
of your brother Angus.

I must go I have a friend
waiting for his lunch.

It's been a bit great,
great pleasure.

Sit down man, sit down.

-[Maudie] Oh what a
delightful person.

- Yes.

- Uncle Angus do you
work with him?

- Believe in plain
speaking Arthur?

-[Arthur] I do.

- I have something plain
to say to you.

This has been a malicious
and quite unnecessary

act on your part.

- You can't speak
to me like that

when I'm taking you
out to luncheon

and I'm your host.

- I will speak to you as I wish.

You are a bullying,
self-righteous, prig of a
little boy

and you made my childhood
a living hell.

And if I hid behind
my mother's skirts,

it was because you were
stronger than me.

- You were a physical
coward then

as you are a moral coward now.

- And because you were
trying to wrench

my arm from its socket

which once you succeeded
in doing.

- It was an accident.

- It was not.

On wet days it still aches
and reminds me of you Arthur.

(laughing)

I am richer than you.

I am happier.

I am freer in my mind

and in my attitudes than you.

I make more effect
upon the world

and I spread less
trouble about me.

- This is not to be tolerated.

I shall take a cab
to Liverpool Street

and sit in the hotel until my
train departs for Norridge.

I'm indebted to you
for putting me up.

I do not think we shall
see each other again.

- And neither do I.

(snaps)

-[Hudson] Of course I
will have to resign.

- Yes I suppose so.

- I can expect no reference.

- After all these years.

- Quite.

- Luncheon at Spinelli's.

That's a very posh place.

-[Hudson] Yes.

- What was it like?

- The service was slow.

Our second waiter had a
gravy splash in his front.

There was some trouble over a
shortage of Yorkshire pudding.

And one waiter ran Mrs. Bridges.

- Ran Mr. Hudson?

I never dared.

- I believe he was foreign.

- And the food?

- You do much better Kate.

- I know.

Oh Angus what a dreadful thing

it is you've done.

What will Lady Marjorie say?

- Oh Kate, Kate

it seems like the
end of my life.

I feel like a felon on
the sentence of death.

Mr. Bellamy assured me
nothing but kindness

and consideration

and how I've repaid it?

- You had a right to see
your brother and his family.

- I had no right to
ape my betters.

I didn't have to spend
all my savings

and most of yours doing it.

I should've had the
courage to speak the truth

when there was time.

- You didn't exactly tell a lie.

- I lived one.

For a wee while Kate

and the worst of it
was I enjoyed it.

- Now you'll be punished.

- Yes.

- That's life.

You have to pay for every
bit of happiness you have.

I sometimes wonder what
awful thing we all committed

in the beginning.

(bell rings)

That'll be morning room.

- Yes.

- We'll miss you Angus.

All of us.

- You rang sir?

- Yes Hudson.

Her ladyship will
be back shortly.

And Lord Southwold is a
little better it seems.

- I am very thankful
to hear that sir.

- I've asked Edward
to tell Mrs. Bridges

we'll have something
light in here about 8:30.

- Very good sir.

- So.

You are brother to Donald Hudson
the construction engineer.

You kept that very quiet.

- Sir.

-[Bellamy] You keep many
things quiet I think.

- Yes sir.

- I was very pleased
to meet your brother.

Though somewhat surprised
on circumstances.

You must keep me informed
of his whereabouts,

his successes.

- Forgive me sir but this
is not worthy of you.

-[Bellamy] What?

- I am a servant but
I'm also a man.

I'm humiliated enough sir.

I brought disgrace upon you,

upon myself, I'm wounded and

you're twisting the
knife in the wound.

-[Bellamy] Hudson.

- I will pack my things
and leave at once sir.

You won't wish me to
work out my notice.

- What are you talking about?

What is the matter with you?

- In front of your family
sir I must ask you.

Never in all my,

I can't even request
a reference.

- Families can be very
trying I agree.

They make us more
emotional than they should.

My own brother's visit here
has left me somewhat at a loss.

But Hudson if you wish
to go to a theater

or lunch at a fashionable
restaurant,

your money is as good
as the next man's.

You're appearance
better than most.

- That is all together
too liberal of you sir.

A servant is a servant
and must know his place

or the world would crumble
about our ears.

- That's more like Hudson.

Forget it now.

Forget it.

You did me a favor
as it so happens.

- I did sir?

- A man must have his
own review of himself

whether he be master or
servant, right or wrong.

There's dignity in that
you're quite right.

I take it you had your own
reason for acting as you did.

- It was for the sake
of others Mr. Bellamy.

You checked the cellars
I believe.

- I did.

They were quite in order.

- Of course.

My faith in my fellow
men fled for a while.

It has returned.

We must all of us
learn to trust--

- Our fellow man perhaps
sir but not all the women.

That new parlor maid
for instance,

I wouldn't trust her as far

as a flick of her
feather duster.

- You made a joke Hudson.

- Well it was a wee attempt
at one sir I'm sorry.

- Not at all.

- By in large I enjoyed
my brother's visit sir.

I am very proud of him.

- And I enjoyed my brother's
departure.

Alas he is not proud of me.

(doorbell rings)

That sounds like the doorbell.

- Yes sir.

- Perhaps you'd like
to go to the door

and open it for her ladyship.

- Thank you sir.

(orchestral music)