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Mr. Chandos was a man
who spent more time with his gardener...
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than with his wife.
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They discussed plum trees...
ad nauseam.
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He gave his family and his tenants
cause to dread September...
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for they were regaled with plums
until their guts rumbled like thunder...
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and their backsides ached
from overuse.
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He built the chapel at Fovant...
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where the pew seats
are of plum wood...
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so the tenants still have cause to
remember Chandos through their backsides...
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on account of the splinters.
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Some years ago,
two gentlemen went back to Amsterdam...
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saying that Allhevinghay
was just like home.
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There was so much water,
so many ornamental ponds...
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so many canals,
so many sinks and basins.
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There was even a wind pump.
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What they had not realized was...
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my father had made his land
into a pattern of reservoirs...
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because he was terrified of fire.
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There was even a room
under the front stairs...
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that housed 200 buckets...
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all of them filled with water.
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I know because
whenever I was taken short...
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my brothers and I used to
rush in there and use them.
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Those buckets were filled
before my mother died.
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I expect them to be still there...
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with the same water of 30 years ago,
I shouldn't wonder...
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mixed with a little of myself, of course.
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I used to pee like a horse.
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I still do.
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At Southampton,
there is a house I have admired...
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because from the side
it looks so flat.
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It is of white Portland stone...
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and on a cloudy day, it looks as though
it might be attached to the sky.
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- Especially in the evening.
- Its owner is a Miss Anterim.
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She is a lady without a husband.
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From the side, Miss Anterim is
also a lady without significance.
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Maybe that is why, unlike her house,
the lady is unattached.
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What with one flatness
and another, Mr. Neville...
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as a painter
and as a draughtsman-
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You could be entertained, it seems.
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Especially in the evening, from the side.
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It is said that the Duc de Courcy
invited his water mechanic...
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to the top of an elaborate cascade
he had built...
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and asked him if he could build
such a marvel for anyone else.
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The man, after offering
various thanks and pleasantries...
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finally admitted that with
sufficient patronage he probably could.
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The Duc de Courcy pushed him
gently in the small of the back...
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and the wretched man
plummeted to a watery death.
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Now, Mr. Noyes, do you have
a ribald piece of gossip for me?
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Madam, I am here to fulfill
a role as entertainer...
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sol am sure that sooner or later
I could find something for you.
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Then you are here on merit- a characteristic
that the rest of the company does not share...
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being here merely to express
confidence in one another's money.
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- Madam, you are one of the company.
- My meretricious conduct-
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in the company of Mr. Seymour
has been my invitation.
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I am strictly not of the company,
but a part of its property.
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Since that is what the company
is here to discuss and to revel in...
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you should be well favored.
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I would well favor you myself above
two parterres and a drive of orange trees.
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You are not extravagant
in your compliments, Mr. Noyes.
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As yet I'm not wealthy enough to
offer you more, but I intend to be so soon.
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In the present company of 13
that owns a fair slice of England...
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two parterres and a drive
of orange trees is a beginning.
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And being a lady of the, uh,
Italian fashion, madam...
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you will appreciate
the value of oranges.
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They smell so sweet.
They are so invigorating.
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Do you think your father will ask
Mr. Neville to draw the house?
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Why not improve Mr. Neville's chances,
and yours, by inviting Mr. Neville yourself?
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Oh, that is a too imaginative
stratagem for me.
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Your father would find it
uncharacteristically bold.
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Then you could surprise him...
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and perhaps surprise
Mr. Neville as well.
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And if that frightens you, Mother,
we could lay the blame on Mr. Neville.
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I hold the delight or despondency
of a man of property...
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by putting his house in shadow
orin sunlight.
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Even, possibly, I have some control
over the jealousy...
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or satisfaction of a husband...
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by depicting his wife, sir,
dressed or undressed.
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which has a ring of impertinence.
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She knows I have a garden.
How come she does not know I have a wife?
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Perhaps because you boast of one
and not the other...
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but I suspect a sense of modesty is an
impertinence to such a lady as Mrs. Clement.
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Your mother takes a sense of modesty
an unprecedented distance.
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Why doesn't she come out more?
She frets in the shadows.
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She does not fret, Father.
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Or if she does, you well know
the cause is your indifference.
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A house, a garden, a horse, a wife-
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- the preferential order.
- Nonsense.
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I am anxious, Mr. Neville,
that you should draw my husband's estate.
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Why is that, madam?
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My husband is a proud man
who is delighted to be associated...
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with every brick and every tree
of his property...
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at every moment of his waking life,
and no doubt in his dreams as well...
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though I have not been
too well acquainted with his dreams since-
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Madam, with such an excellent relationship
as your husband has with his property...
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he surely, having the real thing,
does not need a copy.
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I do not take well
to young men who preen.
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Their vanity usually
outweighs their prowess.
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Mr. Neville has prowess enough,
enough to charm where he cannot impress.
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And he can charm and impress
the wives of rich men.
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That's not so uncommon,
Mr. Seymour.
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You come with me
to Southampton tomorrow.
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I'll show you how to impress a lady
with a good drawing on.
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My father's property, Mr. Neville...
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is a little more forward than humble.
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And since humility in a building
is not antithetical to you...
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perhaps I can prevail on you
to draw my father's house?
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Ah. The same proposition
from a different quarter.
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A concerted effort naturally
intrigues me...
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but I feel, madam,
things being as they are-
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May I be bold? I do not think that you
or your mother could afford my services.
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Come and walk in Mr. Herbert's
garden tomorrow.
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Madam, I cannot say
that I would not be delighted...
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but I fear, despite your persistence...
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that I have work to do
up and beyond this coming apple season...
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and will be in the service
of Lord Charborough...
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until next year's apples
have all been drunk as cider.
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Your mother, madam, is excessively keen
to have this house down on paper.
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Or perhaps it is you that is keen,
and your mother is merely your surrogate.
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I admit, Mr. Neville, to being
a supplicant on my mother's behalf...
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but she does not want it for herself,
but for her husband.
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The supplication then
has a long and diverse path.
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I am flattered.
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But may not Mr. Herbert himself
do his own commissioning?
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The point of the exercise, Mr. Neville,
is to avoid that one thing.
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You, Mr. Neville, are to be
the instrument of a hopeful reconciliation.
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Mr. Neville...
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how can I persuade you
to stay with us at Compton Anstey?
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You cannot, madam.
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But you can be bought, Mr. Neville.
How much will it cost?
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But I must confess, my prime reason is indolence.
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I increase my price in proportion
to my expectation of pleasure.
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I do not expect
great pleasure here, madam.
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Madam, I'm to leave very early
in the morning for Southampton.
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I've come to take
my leave of you now.
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Do not order the hay to be cut.
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Do not leave the estate,
and do not drink my claret.
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And do not expect me back until I am ready,
which at the very least will be 14 days.
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Good night, madam.
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I have decided...
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that it is most important
that you stay here...
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to make for me 12 drawings
of my husband's estate.
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My husband is to go to Southampton
for at least 12 days.
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- Will that be enough time for you?
- First, madam, you make a demand...
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that suggests we have not discussed
the proposition at all this evening.
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Second, you increase
your demand by at least 12.
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Third, you add to the proposition
a time limit.
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And, fourth,
you expect me to start at once.
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Four factors, Mr. Neville, you have convinced
us are well within your talents and capabilities.
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Your terms are exorbitant.
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So must mine be.
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The conditions of the agreement,
Mr. Noyes, are:
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my services as draughtsman for 12 days...
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for the manufacture of12 drawings...
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of the estate and gardens,
parks and outlying buildings...
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of Mr. Herbert's property;
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the sites for the I 2 drawings
to be chosen at my discretion...
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though advised by Mrs. Herbert.
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For which, Thomas, I am willing
to pay eight pounds a drawing...
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um, to provide full board
for Mr. Neville and his servant...
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and, uh-
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And, madam?
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And to agree to meet
Mr. Neville in private...
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and to comply with his requests
concerning his pleasure with me.
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Curriculum for the execution
of the drawings at Compton Anstey.
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For drawing number one...
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from 7:00 in the morning
until 9:00 in the morning...
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the whole of the back of the house...
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from the stable block to the laundry garden,
will be kept clean
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No person shall use the main
stable yard gates whatsoever.
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And no person shall use
the back doom.
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Or interfere with the windows
or furniture of the back part of the house.
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"A" is for apricot.
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"M" is for Marilla.
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"C" is for Citrona.
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Citrona.
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"A" is for Ananas.
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- Ananas,
- Ananas,
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"P” is for pineapple,
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For drawing number two...
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from 9:00 in the morning
until 11:00..
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the lower lawns of the house,
including the formal garden...
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Will be kept clean
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No window in the upper part
of the house will be opened...
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closed or otherwise disturbed.
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Your Mr. Neville, Sarah...
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has the godlike power
of emptying the landscape,
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It is a wonder the birds still sing.
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If they stopped, I doubt whether Mr. Neville
would appreciate the difference.
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His attitude to nature
is strictly material.
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Thomas, why is Mr. Neville
interested in my sheets?
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Madam, he is to
draw them wet outside the laundry
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Wet? Why does he want them wet?
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Madam, I cannot answer you that
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Perhaps he has ford memories
of being a baby
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For drawing number three...
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from 11:00 in the morning until 1:00...
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The back and north side of the house
will be kept clean
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This area that is used
as a place for drying linen...
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Will be left as asked for
on an arrangement made...
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between the draughtsman
and the laundress...
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who will take full responsibility...
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for the disposition of the linen.
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Madam, I am delighted to see that you've
loosened your clothing as I requested.
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When your husband
had the pear trees grafted...
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do you know if he asked for the advice
of Mr. Seymour's gardener?
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We-
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Sorry, madam, you do not speak very loud.
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We-
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We do not know
Mr. Seymour's gardener-
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-I see.
- Mr. Neville.
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The trees have been
poorly ca red for.
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The angle between the branches
and the main trunk is, uh, too steep.
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But the original work is good.
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And what of
the pears themselves, madam?
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In season, are they presentable?
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For drawing number four...
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from 2:00 until 4:00 in the afternoon...
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the front of the house
that faces west will be kept clean
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No horses, carriages
or other vehicles...
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Will be allowed to be placed there...
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And the gravel on the drive
will be left undisturbed.
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No coals are to be burned that will
issue smoke from the front of the house.
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And hurry up!
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For drawing number five...
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from 4:00 in the afternoon
until 6:00 in the afternoon...
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the hilltop prospect of the estate
to the north of the house...
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will be kept clear of all members
of the household staff and farm servants.
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Such animals as are presently
grazing in the fields...
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will be permitted
to continue to do so.
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- Good day, Mr. Neville.
- Mr. Talmann.
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I see you have selected a fine view
for my son to inherit.
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I prefer, for the moment at least...
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to regard the view
as the property of Mr. Herbert.
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Thomas...
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see that Clarissa does not go
to the laundry around noon.
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And come to my
withdrawing room this afternoon with some ink.
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I want to send to Mr. Herbert to know
by which road he in tends to re turn.
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Is it your intention to continue
to stand there, Mr. Talmann?
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I can see the view very adequately
from here, Mr. Neville. Thank you.
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Will you be wearing
the same clothes tomorrow?
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Why?
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I have not decided.
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Depends on my servants.
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Is it important?
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Maybe I will.
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For drawing number six...
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from 6:00 in the evening until 8:00...
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the lower lawn of the garden
by the statue of Hermes...
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will be kept clear
of all members of the household..
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staff horses and other animals.
254
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Philip, go and ask those people to move.
255
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And ask them nicely. Smile.
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Don't trot.
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Go away.
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Where?
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Really? Not that I know.
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Oh.
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Mr. Lucas was a man whose enthusiasms...
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Were divided equally
between his garden and his children.
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Whenever his wire conceived
Mr. Lucas planted fruit trees,
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His wife seldom came to, um,
a successful labor...
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and those children she was blessed with
died before weaning
266
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Mr. Lucas threatened to cut
his trees down, but he never did
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To date there are 11 trees
in his fruit garden...
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and he knows them all
by their Christian names.
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-- The English are not blessed...
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with the most appropriate fecundity
at the moment.
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They can raise colonies
but not heirs to the throne.
272
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It depends, Mr. Talmann,
which colonies you are speaking of.
273
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Some of England's oldest colonies
have heirs in plenty.
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Ah, Mr. Neville...
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do we have an indication
of Scottish sympathies?
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Madam, you would be reading far too much
into what is simply a statement of fact.
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If the best Englishmen
are foreigners, Mr. Neville...
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and that seems to me to be
a simple statement of fact...
279
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then the best English painters
are foreigners too.
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There's no English painter
worthy of the name.
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Would you agree, Mr. Neville...
282
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to be an English painter
is a contradictory term?
283
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Then Mr. Herbert shows some sense
In encouraging Mr. Neville.
284
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Mr. Herbert, madam, as we all know,
is full of contradictions.
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Contradictory enough, sir,
to have invited you into this house...
286
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despite his being a man
without airs and graces.
287
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But not privy to whom his wire
welcomes into his house madam,
288
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when my father is away, Louis...
289
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My mother is at liberty
to run his house as she feels fit.
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- And she has seen fit to invite Mr. Neville.
- A gracious speech, Mrs. Talmann.
291
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To hide all manner of inconveniences.
292
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- How is that, sir?
- It is apparent, sir, is it not...
293
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from our meeting this afternoon,
that your presumptory regime...
294
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not only extends to confining the household
like animals in reservations...
295
00:23:12,149 --> 00:23:14,755
but directing us as to whether or not
we should wear a coat...
296
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carry a walking stick or whistle.
297
00:23:16,859 --> 00:23:20,932
When I met you in the garden this afternoon,
you were doing all three of those things, sir.
298
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If you intend being there tomorrow...
299
00:23:23,071 --> 00:23:26,109
I would wish you to dress
and to behave in the same way.
300
00:23:26,210 --> 00:23:29,680
However, it's beyond my power
to describe a whistle pictorially...
301
00:23:29,784 --> 00:23:33,163
whether it comes from an Englishman
or from a German dressed as an Englishman.
302
00:23:33,258 --> 00:23:37,206
-- And what do you do about the birds, Mr. Neville?
303
00:23:37,299 --> 00:23:39,438
If you ignore their song,
you can hardly prevent them...
304
00:23:39,537 --> 00:23:41,574
from flying across
the field of your vision.
305
00:23:41,675 --> 00:23:44,451
Madam, the prospect
of12 fine-weather days...
306
00:23:44,547 --> 00:23:47,357
with clear skies and sharp shadows...
307
00:23:47,452 --> 00:23:50,524
is an excellent proposition,
but not to be guaranteed.
308
00:23:50,625 --> 00:23:55,040
So I am naturally anxious
that time should not be wasted
309
00:23:55,135 --> 00:23:57,081
It would assist me greedy
therefore, madam...
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if my instructions, which have been given
great consideration, should be observed.
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I'm painstaking enough to notice
quite small changes in the landscape.
312
00:24:08,194 --> 00:24:10,902
Once started, I make that a committal, madam...
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Whatsoever ensues.
314
00:24:13,037 --> 00:24:15,347
And I think you can surmise...
315
00:24:15,442 --> 00:24:19,720
that it is an attitude from which
I obtain great satisfaction...
316
00:24:19,818 --> 00:24:22,492
and some entertainment.
317
00:24:58,327 --> 00:25:01,740
Thomas, can you remember...
318
00:25:01,835 --> 00:25:06,181
when Mr. Herbert had his clothes packed,
whether he took his French boots?
319
00:25:15,061 --> 00:25:19,407
How is it, Mr. Neville, that you have contrived
to make the garden so empty of people?
320
00:25:19,503 --> 00:25:22,950
The authority for these drawings, Mr. Talmann,
comes from Mrs. Herbert.
321
00:25:23,044 --> 00:25:26,025
Do you think that she is a woman
who enjoys having a crowd of people...
322
00:25:26,117 --> 00:25:30,623
kick her gravel around or move her earth
like a pack of dogs in a herb garden?
323
00:25:30,726 --> 00:25:33,866
I would seek peace and quiet
in a garden...
324
00:25:33,966 --> 00:25:37,914
and noise and excitement
at a carnival.
325
00:25:38,007 --> 00:25:40,248
Carnem levare.
326
00:25:40,345 --> 00:25:45,488
So, Mr. Neville, you would reserve
your revelries for a religious occasion?
327
00:25:45,588 --> 00:25:49,798
- And what of Gethsemane?
- A wild sort of garden, I shouldn't wonder.
328
00:25:49,898 --> 00:25:55,280
Certainly, Mr. Talmann, there would be
no geometric paths and no Dutch bulbs.
329
00:25:55,375 --> 00:26:00,620
Well, we have a cedar of Lebanon
and a judas tree.
330
00:26:00,719 --> 00:26:03,427
Perhaps we could cultivate
a tree of heaven.
331
00:26:03,524 --> 00:26:05,800
The gardens of England
are becoming veritable jungles.
332
00:26:05,896 --> 00:26:08,433
Such exotics are grossly unsuitable,
333
00:26:08,534 --> 00:26:11,515
If the Garden Of Eden was planned for England
God would have seen to it.
334
00:26:11,607 --> 00:26:15,578
The Garden of Eden, Mr. Talmann,
was originally intended for Ireland...
335
00:26:15,683 --> 00:26:19,256
for it was there, after all,
that Saint Patrick eradicated the snake.
336
00:26:19,356 --> 00:26:22,394
The only useful eradication that
ever happened in Ireland, Mr. Neville...
337
00:26:22,495 --> 00:26:25,772
was performed by William of Orange
four years ago on my birthday.
338
00:26:25,870 --> 00:26:28,714
And happy birthday to you, Mr. Talmann.
339
00:26:28,809 --> 00:26:31,346
And if you are not too old
to receive presents...
340
00:26:31,447 --> 00:26:35,190
perhaps the gardener and I
can find a snake for your orangery.
341
00:26:36,958 --> 00:26:38,869
What?
342
00:26:38,962 --> 00:26:41,465
- Good day to you, Mr. Neville.
- Good day, madam.
343
00:26:54,426 --> 00:26:56,406
Philip.
344
00:27:16,337 --> 00:27:18,374
I see the company
is assembled, madam.
345
00:27:18,474 --> 00:27:20,511
And what are we to be spectators of?
346
00:27:20,611 --> 00:27:25,151
You must not be surprised, Mr. Neville.
We are here at your request.
347
00:27:25,254 --> 00:27:29,396
I did not request an audience, madam,
nor a dinner on the grass.
348
00:27:29,496 --> 00:27:32,534
Ah, perhaps we are
to applaud the view.
349
00:27:32,635 --> 00:27:36,549
The scribbler is never satisfied.
He is as insatiable as a-
350
00:27:36,643 --> 00:27:38,919
You have said
that Mr. Talmann should be here...
351
00:27:39,016 --> 00:27:41,792
dressed as you asked
and carrying a gold-topped cane.
352
00:27:41,888 --> 00:27:44,892
We have taken you at your word.
353
00:27:44,994 --> 00:27:48,806
There was another instruction,
but conveniently I have forgotten it.
354
00:27:48,902 --> 00:27:52,145
- Whistling, Sarah.
- So much for convenience.
355
00:27:52,242 --> 00:27:56,213
You do not catch me in the best of tempers,
Mr. Neville, wearing yesterday's clothes.
356
00:27:56,316 --> 00:27:59,320
And I give you 2O minutes only.
I have a horse to exercise.
357
00:27:59,423 --> 00:28:01,596
Then, sir, please take your place.
358
00:28:01,694 --> 00:28:04,402
I will take a walk.
Come with me, Maria.
359
00:28:04,499 --> 00:28:07,173
We have a dog to exercise.
360
00:28:14,921 --> 00:28:17,367
A little to the left, sir, if you please,
361
00:28:18,394 --> 00:28:20,305
And puff out your cheeks.
362
00:28:20,398 --> 00:28:24,005
- Why should I do that?
- Because last time, sir, you were whistling.
363
00:28:25,041 --> 00:28:29,217
A tune perhaps not readily recognizable,
even by its own composer.
364
00:28:31,487 --> 00:28:33,398
Look, madam.
365
00:28:33,491 --> 00:28:36,404
This man has no head-
366
00:28:36,497 --> 00:28:38,408
a typical German characteristic.
367
00:28:38,501 --> 00:28:40,742
Mr. Neville...
368
00:28:40,839 --> 00:28:43,410
you're talking about my son-in-law.
369
00:28:43,511 --> 00:28:48,119
By the grace of God, madam, you are
to have a grandson by him... someday.
370
00:28:48,220 --> 00:28:51,599
-- Is that not a better thing to talk of?
371
00:28:53,164 --> 00:28:57,169
Then you mock my money
and my person to draw caricatures.
372
00:28:58,207 --> 00:29:00,312
With my memory,
three pictures in the house...
373
00:29:00,411 --> 00:29:02,584
and your personal knowledge
of the subject...
374
00:29:02,683 --> 00:29:06,995
I intend to place the head
of Mr. Herbert on these shoulders...
375
00:29:07,091 --> 00:29:12,666
as a fitting and appropriate acknowledgement
of your husband and his property.
376
00:29:12,770 --> 00:29:15,979
if he should return,
377
00:29:16,076 --> 00:29:19,683
Why, madam, what a strange thing to say.
378
00:29:19,784 --> 00:29:22,060
If he should return home to me.
379
00:30:19,636 --> 00:30:22,378
Mother.
380
00:30:28,788 --> 00:30:31,962
So...
381
00:30:32,061 --> 00:30:35,531
I am grieving...
382
00:30:35,634 --> 00:30:38,342
because Mr. Herbert is away.
383
00:30:42,883 --> 00:30:45,124
Yes, Mother.
384
00:32:13,463 --> 00:32:16,740
The contract is void, Mr. Neville.
385
00:32:16,837 --> 00:32:18,942
I cannot meet you again.
386
00:32:19,042 --> 00:32:22,114
Mrs. Herbert, sit here.
Move your head into the shade.
387
00:32:30,699 --> 00:32:33,373
Do you not think the gardeners
have excelled themselves?
388
00:32:38,580 --> 00:32:41,857
You should not continue
to draw, Mr. Neville.
389
00:32:41,954 --> 00:32:44,366
I no longer feel able to continue
the terms of our contract.
390
00:32:44,459 --> 00:32:46,837
The fee is yours,
as is the hospitality.
391
00:32:46,931 --> 00:32:50,003
I was about to say
that despite all my satisfaction...
392
00:32:50,104 --> 00:32:53,881
at the prospect of continuing the commission
under such delightful circumstances...
393
00:32:53,978 --> 00:32:56,049
the peak of my delight, madam...
394
00:32:56,149 --> 00:32:59,756
is obtained in those short minutes
when we are together.
395
00:32:59,857 --> 00:33:02,235
I would regret losing them.
396
00:33:03,664 --> 00:33:05,575
Besides, I do not need to remind you...
397
00:33:05,669 --> 00:33:08,878
that the contract was made
between two people.
398
00:33:08,975 --> 00:33:14,084
It will take the consent
of both signatories to make it void.
399
00:33:14,185 --> 00:33:16,495
And now, madam,
I feel that from this position...
400
00:33:16,589 --> 00:33:19,365
I cannot adequately see
what I am supposed to be seeing...
401
00:33:19,462 --> 00:33:22,773
and I must therefore request
that you find some other resting place.
402
00:33:22,869 --> 00:33:27,579
At least until 4:00, when our next meeting
is to be consummated as arranged.
403
00:33:41,005 --> 00:33:45,579
Madam, who is this child who walks the garden
with such a solemn look on his face?
404
00:33:45,682 --> 00:33:48,492
That is my husband's nephew, Mr. Neville.
405
00:33:48,587 --> 00:33:52,535
He attracts servants
like a little midget king.
406
00:33:52,628 --> 00:33:54,699
What is his patrimony, madam?
407
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,508
His father was killed at Ausbergenfeld.
408
00:33:57,605 --> 00:34:00,415
His mother became a Catholic,
so my husband had him brought to England.
409
00:34:00,511 --> 00:34:02,787
To be reared as a little Protestant.
410
00:34:02,883 --> 00:34:05,659
He was an orphan, Mr. Neville,
and needed to be looked after.
411
00:34:05,755 --> 00:34:09,134
An orphan, madam,
because his mother became a Catholic?
412
00:34:32,308 --> 00:34:34,584
Philip, find out what's happening
413
00:34:43,865 --> 00:34:47,540
Mr. Neville, sir, I'm sorry about the coat.
414
00:34:47,638 --> 00:34:49,549
It was not I that put it there.
415
00:34:49,642 --> 00:34:52,418
Is that so, madam?
416
00:34:52,514 --> 00:34:55,654
- And who did?
- I'll ask, sir
417
00:34:55,755 --> 00:34:57,928
No. No, don't ask.
Leave it there.
418
00:34:59,562 --> 00:35:02,566
Someone's getting careless.
The garden is becoming a robe room.
419
00:35:02,669 --> 00:35:05,878
I wonder what they keep
in their clothespress-plants perhaps.
420
00:35:10,117 --> 00:35:13,121
Who will be your husband's
direct heir after you?
421
00:35:13,223 --> 00:35:17,569
A future grandson, Mr. Neville,
though not after me.
422
00:35:17,666 --> 00:35:22,081
Mr. Herbert does not believe
in a woman owning property.
423
00:35:22,174 --> 00:35:24,415
And what about your daughter
and her husband?
424
00:35:24,512 --> 00:35:27,049
Well, they would be guardians
on the grandson's behalf.
425
00:35:27,151 --> 00:35:29,222
Do you intend
to study legal matters, Mr. Neville?
426
00:35:29,322 --> 00:35:32,826
You must forgive
my curiosity, madam, and open your knees.
427
00:35:34,332 --> 00:35:36,243
To have possession, sir, of my person...
428
00:35:36,336 --> 00:35:39,215
is not an excuse
to be privy to my husband's will.
429
00:35:39,308 --> 00:35:42,312
Your loyalty is exemplary, madam.
430
00:35:42,414 --> 00:35:46,055
But what will happen to the estate
if your daughter has no heirs?
431
00:35:47,458 --> 00:35:49,734
I do not like to think of it.
432
00:35:49,830 --> 00:35:52,606
The estate was my father's.
433
00:35:52,702 --> 00:35:55,945
Mr. Herbert obtained it
through marriage to me.
434
00:36:02,989 --> 00:36:05,993
It is imperative, Augustus,
that in representing me...
435
00:36:06,095 --> 00:36:08,405
You ask of yourself
the very best...
436
00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:12,277
and you do not fraternize
with whomsoever you choose.
437
00:36:12,374 --> 00:36:16,754
And chasing sheep is a tiresome habit
best left to shepherds.
438
00:36:16,850 --> 00:36:19,956
If Mr. Neville chases sheep,
he is not to be emulated.
439
00:36:20,057 --> 00:36:22,503
Drawing is an attribution
worth very little...
440
00:36:22,594 --> 00:36:25,006
and in England,
worth nothing at all.
441
00:36:25,100 --> 00:36:30,743
If you must scribble, I suggest that your time
would be better spent in studying mathematics.
442
00:36:30,845 --> 00:36:32,825
I will engage a tutor.
443
00:36:32,916 --> 00:36:35,760
And who knows?
One clay you, Augustus...
444
00:36:35,855 --> 00:36:38,961
may add the Talmann name
to the Royal Society.
445
00:36:40,731 --> 00:36:42,642
Augustus!
446
00:36:46,142 --> 00:36:48,053
Your tutor, of course,
must be German.
447
00:36:48,146 --> 00:36:51,184
There are already far too many
English influences on your life as it is.
448
00:37:06,315 --> 00:37:09,888
Mr. Neville is our resident draughtsman.
449
00:37:09,990 --> 00:37:13,335
He is making one or two drawings
of Mr. Herbert's house and estate.
450
00:37:13,429 --> 00:37:16,103
I've heard of your prowess, Mr. Neville.
451
00:37:16,202 --> 00:37:19,411
Indeed I've heard more than that.
I've heard you're not a conventional man.
452
00:37:19,508 --> 00:37:24,582
Mr. Neville has planned his stay here
like an officer in an hostile billet.
453
00:37:24,686 --> 00:37:26,597
We have orders to appear and disappear...
454
00:37:26,690 --> 00:37:29,296
to wear cocked hats,
to eat meals in the open air...
455
00:37:29,395 --> 00:37:31,898
and to prepare furniture
for inspection.
456
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,776
And yet, Louis,
I hear that you are not averse...
457
00:37:34,873 --> 00:37:37,410
to exchanging exercise
on a new horse...
458
00:37:37,511 --> 00:37:41,721
for standing to attention
in the hot sun like a halberdier
459
00:37:41,820 --> 00:37:45,734
What control you must exercise, Mr. Neville.
460
00:37:45,828 --> 00:37:48,832
It sounds as if you might be
better employed as a military man...
461
00:37:48,934 --> 00:37:51,915
rather than as someone
who merely draws a landscape,
462
00:37:52,007 --> 00:37:55,921
Mrs. Herbert, whatever is the price you must pay...
463
00:37:56,015 --> 00:37:58,689
to capture this general
who leads the wheat by the ear?
464
00:37:58,787 --> 00:38:01,666
Gentlemen, Mrs. Herbert
pays no price she cannot afford
465
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,604
And thanks to her generosity,
I am permitted..
466
00:38:04,699 --> 00:38:08,647
to take my pleasure
without hindrance on her property...
467
00:38:08,741 --> 00:38:13,087
And to enjoy the, uh, maturing delights
of her country garden.
468
00:38:13,182 --> 00:38:15,662
And, gentlemen-
469
00:38:15,755 --> 00:38:19,726
there is much there
to be surprised at, and applauded.
470
00:39:32,641 --> 00:39:35,485
Board.
471
00:40:05,206 --> 00:40:08,551
- Good afternoon, Mr. Talmann.
- Good afternoon, Mr. Neville.
472
00:40:08,646 --> 00:40:11,786
You are late. I heard the clock strike 4:00
some several minutes ago.
473
00:40:11,887 --> 00:40:14,231
That is indeed true.
I met Mr. Porringer.
474
00:40:14,324 --> 00:40:16,736
I'm becoming
Mr. Porringer's taster of vittles.
475
00:40:16,830 --> 00:40:18,867
Does the same thing happen to you?
476
00:40:18,967 --> 00:40:21,072
Today, it was raspberries.
477
00:40:21,171 --> 00:40:24,914
I congratulate you on today's raspberries
but not on yesterday's damsons.
478
00:40:25,013 --> 00:40:28,290
They were tasteless-
geschmacklos--
479
00:40:28,386 --> 00:40:30,297
like your coat, Mr. Talmann.
480
00:40:30,390 --> 00:40:33,928
There is no way, Mr. Neville,
that I was going to wear that coat a third day.
481
00:40:34,031 --> 00:40:37,274
We are indeed, Mr. Talmann,
losing the novelty of this situation.
482
00:40:37,370 --> 00:40:39,816
First, I was graced
with the presence of Mrs. Talmann...
483
00:40:39,909 --> 00:40:42,480
two servants, a maid
and a meal served on silver plate.
484
00:40:42,581 --> 00:40:45,619
Now what have we?
Yourself dressed in the wrong clothes.
485
00:40:45,721 --> 00:40:50,101
Mr. Neville, enough.
Your enthusiasm for complaint knows no limit.
486
00:40:50,196 --> 00:40:52,767
For a fee of eight pounds,
your impertinence is too expensive!
487
00:40:52,868 --> 00:40:55,348
Would you have me be
impertinent for nothing, sir?
488
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:59,820
For nothing, Mr. Neville, I would have you
run off my property! Good clay!
489
00:40:59,916 --> 00:41:03,420
Your property, Mr. Talmann?
490
00:41:03,522 --> 00:41:06,799
Mr. Talmann.
Ah, you've forgotten your riding boots.
491
00:41:06,896 --> 00:41:10,207
They are not mine, Mr. Neville.
492
00:41:10,303 --> 00:41:12,840
I felt sure that they were yours.
493
00:41:36,355 --> 00:41:39,893
Why doesn't your husband
have the moat cleaned out?
494
00:41:39,996 --> 00:41:42,875
He doesn't like to see the fish.
Carp live too long.
495
00:41:42,968 --> 00:41:45,778
They remind him of Catholics.
496
00:41:45,874 --> 00:41:49,253
Besides, from his window
the duckweed could be mistaken for lawn.
497
00:41:49,347 --> 00:41:51,759
Can he swim?
498
00:41:51,853 --> 00:41:54,197
I've never seen him swim,
499
00:42:46,228 --> 00:42:48,230
Ah, good morning, Mrs. Herbert.
500
00:42:50,938 --> 00:42:53,384
This morning I'm progressing well.
501
00:42:53,475 --> 00:42:56,581
I am beginning to enjoy myself.
502
00:42:56,683 --> 00:42:59,289
Madam, would you be so good as to sit?
503
00:43:09,842 --> 00:43:13,221
It's a little chilly perhaps,
but I think you tremble too much.
504
00:43:14,785 --> 00:43:18,198
It is not easy for me this way
to use your person as I would like to.
505
00:43:18,292 --> 00:43:20,272
Madam, would you stand?
506
00:43:25,573 --> 00:43:28,076
The ladder, madam, as you can see,
has now become...
507
00:43:28,178 --> 00:43:31,455
a meretricious vertical...
508
00:43:31,551 --> 00:43:33,497
But I forgive you
for standing it there,
509
00:43:33,589 --> 00:43:37,332
What use have I for the ladder, Mr. Neville?
It does not go anywhere,
510
00:43:41,806 --> 00:43:44,047
Madam, would you be so good as to kneel?
511
00:44:08,158 --> 00:44:10,138
Kneel, madam.
512
00:44:15,439 --> 00:44:19,114
If you have any influence over your son-in-law...
513
00:44:19,214 --> 00:44:21,455
could I suggest that he travel over
to Mr. Seymour's...
514
00:44:21,551 --> 00:44:26,933
to see what can be done with limes
by doing as little as possible,
515
00:44:29,501 --> 00:44:34,007
Limes, madam, can smell so sweet.
516
00:44:35,814 --> 00:44:38,988
Especially when they are allowed
to bloom without hindrance,
517
00:44:41,158 --> 00:44:43,832
And it will shortly be time to bloom.
518
00:44:45,934 --> 00:44:50,041
Is it true, Mr. Noyes, that you would wish
to see Mr. Herbert dead?
519
00:44:50,142 --> 00:44:52,554
I've no great love for Mr. Herbert.
520
00:44:52,647 --> 00:44:56,185
- Goodness, Mr. Neville, a provocative question.
- Then why stay?
521
00:44:56,288 --> 00:45:00,236
Mr. Noyes has a great attachment
to my mother, Mr. Neville.
522
00:45:00,329 --> 00:45:02,536
I'm employed by Mr. Herbert as estate manager
523
00:45:02,633 --> 00:45:06,240
Mr. Herbert is very often away, and I believe
I can make myself useful to Mrs. Herbert
524
00:45:06,341 --> 00:45:08,912
In more ways than one I presume,
525
00:45:09,013 --> 00:45:11,289
But is it not that way
which is most important?
526
00:45:11,384 --> 00:45:15,355
Your questions, Mr. Neville, are far too
imprudent and provocative in this company.
527
00:45:15,459 --> 00:45:17,871
Then you would rather I asked them
behind your back, Mr. Talmann?
528
00:45:17,965 --> 00:45:22,311
Mr. Noyes' position in this house
is well known to us all, Mr. Neville.
529
00:45:22,406 --> 00:45:26,286
It is a- a difficult position.
530
00:45:26,381 --> 00:45:28,861
I'm surprised
that you all concur in it.
531
00:45:28,953 --> 00:45:31,934
The organization of this house
is Mr. Herbert's affair
532
00:45:32,026 --> 00:45:36,668
- My father and Mr. Noyes were once great friends.
- And then?
533
00:45:36,769 --> 00:45:39,579
My mother was at one time
promised to Mr. Noyes.
534
00:45:39,675 --> 00:45:43,987
Ah. Your position, Mr. Noyes,
is then a consolation,
535
00:45:44,083 --> 00:45:47,189
You overstep your privileges
in being a guest in Mrs. Herbert's house!
536
00:45:47,290 --> 00:45:51,033
Sit down, Mr. Noyes.
I merely pursue an inquiry.
537
00:45:52,968 --> 00:45:55,380
It may help me to understand
what is happening in the garden.
538
00:46:17,283 --> 00:46:21,095
That shirt, Mr. Neville,
is prominent enough in your drawing
539
00:46:22,728 --> 00:46:25,675
Would it be possible, do you think,
to disguise its presence?
540
00:46:25,767 --> 00:46:31,274
Madam, I try very hard
never to distort or to dissemble,
541
00:46:32,546 --> 00:46:35,152
Would that always be
your method of working Mr. Neville?
542
00:46:35,252 --> 00:46:37,630
It would.
543
00:46:37,724 --> 00:46:42,070
Well, let me make a little speech.
544
00:46:43,101 --> 00:46:46,947
In your drawing
of the north side of the house...
545
00:46:47,043 --> 00:46:51,719
my father's cloak lies wrapped
around the feet of a figure of Bacchus.
546
00:46:51,819 --> 00:46:56,791
In the drawing of the prospect over which
my husband turns an appreciative gaze...
547
00:46:56,896 --> 00:47:01,470
you will have noticed that
there is unclaimed a pair of riding boots.
548
00:47:01,571 --> 00:47:04,415
In the drawing of the park
from the east side...
549
00:47:04,510 --> 00:47:07,514
it is possible to see
leaning against my father's wardroom...
550
00:47:07,616 --> 00:47:11,120
a ladder usually put to use
for the collecting of apples.
551
00:47:11,224 --> 00:47:13,135
And in the drawing of the laundry...
552
00:47:13,228 --> 00:47:17,677
there is a jacket of my father's
slit across the chest.
553
00:47:19,107 --> 00:47:23,749
Do you not think that before long you might find
the body that inhabited all those clothes?
554
00:47:23,850 --> 00:47:27,354
I am thinking very hard, madam,
about the drawing you've left out.
555
00:47:27,456 --> 00:47:29,800
And you, madam, were in that drawing.
556
00:47:29,895 --> 00:47:32,876
- Are you sure, Mr. Neville?
- Well, the sound of you was in the drawing.
557
00:47:32,968 --> 00:47:34,914
You were playing the spinet.
558
00:47:35,005 --> 00:47:37,144
I thought, Mr. Neville,
that we had discussed...
559
00:47:37,243 --> 00:47:41,020
the pictorial equivalents
of noise without conclusion.
560
00:47:41,117 --> 00:47:44,690
Perhaps it was not me playing the spinet.
Have you thought of that?
561
00:47:44,792 --> 00:47:47,102
- Then who, madam, was it?
- You see, Mr. Neville...
562
00:47:47,196 --> 00:47:50,541
you are already beginning
to play the game rather skillfully.
563
00:47:50,636 --> 00:47:53,776
Four garments and a ladder
do not lead us to a corpse.
564
00:47:53,876 --> 00:47:58,825
Mr. Neville, I said nothing about a corpse.
565
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,163
Madam, you are ingenious.
566
00:48:02,259 --> 00:48:05,297
It is as if you had planned it.
567
00:48:05,399 --> 00:48:10,178
Your father is in Southampton.
He would not miss his clothes or notice the ladder.
568
00:48:10,275 --> 00:48:13,279
Is my father in Southampton, Mr. Neville?
569
00:48:13,381 --> 00:48:15,657
My mother told you that.
570
00:48:15,753 --> 00:48:18,563
And you must realize
that she is a lady of few words...
571
00:48:18,659 --> 00:48:22,869
and not incapable
of a few stratagems.
572
00:48:22,968 --> 00:48:26,575
Have you not thought how hard
she persuaded you to be her draughtsman-
573
00:48:26,675 --> 00:48:29,918
to draw her husband's house
while her husband was away?
574
00:48:30,015 --> 00:48:31,995
Her explanation for that
can be supported.
575
00:48:32,086 --> 00:48:35,795
Perhaps, Mr. Neville,
you have taken a great deal on trust.
576
00:48:35,894 --> 00:48:41,003
I look forward, Mrs. Talmann, to the eventual
purpose and outcome of this ingenuity.
577
00:48:41,104 --> 00:48:45,553
My last six drawings
will be redolent of the mystery.
578
00:48:45,646 --> 00:48:49,389
I will proceed step-by-step
to the heart of the matter.
579
00:48:49,487 --> 00:48:52,866
Perhaps to the heart
of my father, Mr. Neville.
580
00:48:52,961 --> 00:48:55,840
Lying crimson on a piece of green grass?
581
00:48:55,934 --> 00:48:59,074
What a pity, Mr. Neville,
that your drawings are in black-and-white.
582
00:48:59,173 --> 00:49:01,084
You rush ahead, Mrs. Talmann.
583
00:49:01,177 --> 00:49:03,589
The items are innocent.
584
00:49:03,683 --> 00:49:05,959
Taken one by one,
they could so be construed.
585
00:49:06,054 --> 00:49:10,127
Taken together, you could be regarded
as a witness to misadventure.
586
00:49:10,228 --> 00:49:12,640
Misadventure, madam?
587
00:49:12,734 --> 00:49:14,645
What misadventure?
There is no misadventure.
588
00:49:14,738 --> 00:49:17,309
More than a witness, Mr. Neville-
589
00:49:17,409 --> 00:49:20,913
an accessory to misadventure.
590
00:49:21,017 --> 00:49:22,928
Madam, you are fanciful.
591
00:49:23,021 --> 00:49:24,932
Mr. Neville...
592
00:49:25,025 --> 00:49:27,972
I have grown to believe
that a really intelligent man...
593
00:49:28,064 --> 00:49:30,977
makes an indifferent painter...
594
00:49:31,070 --> 00:49:34,813
for painting requires a certain blindness...
595
00:49:34,911 --> 00:49:38,984
a partial refusal to be aware
of all the options.
596
00:49:39,086 --> 00:49:43,592
An intelligent man will know more about
what he is drawing than he will see.
597
00:49:43,696 --> 00:49:46,142
And in the space between
knowing and seeing...
598
00:49:46,234 --> 00:49:49,477
he will become constrained...
599
00:49:49,573 --> 00:49:52,520
unable to pursue an idea strongly...
600
00:49:52,613 --> 00:49:54,524
fearing that the discerning...
601
00:49:54,617 --> 00:49:57,223
those who he is eager to please,
will find him wanting...
602
00:49:57,322 --> 00:49:59,700
if he does not put in
not only what he knows...
603
00:49:59,795 --> 00:50:02,537
but what they know as well.
604
00:50:02,633 --> 00:50:06,240
You, Mr. Neville,
if you are an intelligent man...
605
00:50:06,340 --> 00:50:08,251
and thus an indifferent painter...
606
00:50:08,344 --> 00:50:12,258
will perceive that a construction such as
I have suggested could well be placed...
607
00:50:12,352 --> 00:50:15,458
on the evidence
contained in your drawing.
608
00:50:15,559 --> 00:50:21,407
If you are, as I have heard tell,
a talented draughtsman...
609
00:50:21,504 --> 00:50:23,848
then I could imagine
that you could suppose...
610
00:50:23,943 --> 00:50:27,755
that the objects I have drawn
your attention to form no plan...
611
00:50:27,851 --> 00:50:31,094
stratagem or indictment.
612
00:50:31,190 --> 00:50:33,329
Indictment, madam?
613
00:50:33,428 --> 00:50:36,637
You are ingenious.
614
00:50:36,735 --> 00:50:40,740
I-I am allowed to be neither of the two things
that I wish to be at the same time.
615
00:50:40,843 --> 00:50:43,824
I propose...
616
00:50:43,916 --> 00:50:46,396
since I am in a position
to throw a connecting plot...
617
00:50:46,487 --> 00:50:50,401
over the inconsequential items
in your drawing...
618
00:50:50,495 --> 00:50:53,101
an interpretative plot
that I could explain to others...
619
00:50:53,201 --> 00:50:55,477
to account for my father's disappearance.
620
00:50:55,572 --> 00:51:00,783
And there is no word now
of my father having arrived in Southampton.
621
00:51:00,883 --> 00:51:04,023
I propose that we could come to...
622
00:51:04,123 --> 00:51:06,034
some arrangement...
623
00:51:06,127 --> 00:51:11,475
that might protect you and humor me.
624
00:51:12,573 --> 00:51:15,076
I suggest that we come
to a similar arrangement...
625
00:51:15,178 --> 00:51:17,749
as you have struck with my mother.
626
00:51:19,688 --> 00:51:22,396
I would like you now
to accompany me to the library...
627
00:51:22,492 --> 00:51:25,735
where I know that Mr. Noyes
is waiting for us.
628
00:51:49,814 --> 00:51:53,921
And for each remaining drawing, to agree-
629
00:51:54,023 --> 00:51:56,697
And for each remaining drawing, to agree-
630
00:51:56,795 --> 00:52:00,834
to meet Mrs. Talmann in private-
631
00:52:00,937 --> 00:52:03,679
to agree to meet Mrs. Talmann in private-
632
00:52:03,776 --> 00:52:07,053
and to comply with her requests...
633
00:52:07,149 --> 00:52:09,925
concerning her pleasure with me.
634
00:52:11,057 --> 00:52:15,699
And to comply with her requests
concerning her pleasure with me.
635
00:52:23,816 --> 00:52:27,821
Drawing number seven.
From 7:00 in the morning until 9:00...
636
00:52:27,924 --> 00:52:30,734
the whole of the front prospect
of the house will be kept clean,
637
00:52:30,830 --> 00:52:33,276
of members of the household,
household servants...
638
00:52:33,368 --> 00:52:35,279
horses and carriages,
639
00:52:38,277 --> 00:52:42,384
Drawing number eight.
From 9:00 in the morning until 11:00...
640
00:52:42,486 --> 00:52:46,263
The gardens in front of
the bathhouse building will be kept clean
641
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:50,570
No coals will be burnt to cause smoke
to issue from the bathhouse chimneys.
642
00:53:15,986 --> 00:53:18,432
From 11:00 in the morning until 1:00...
643
00:53:18,524 --> 00:53:21,004
The yew tree walk in the center
of the lower garden...
644
00:53:21,097 --> 00:53:25,011
will be kept completely clear
of all members of Mr. Herbert's family...
645
00:53:25,105 --> 00:53:28,245
Members of this household staff
and animals.
646
00:54:05,786 --> 00:54:07,766
It is time, Mr. Neville.
647
00:54:12,733 --> 00:54:15,304
From 2:00 in the afternoon until 4300...
648
00:54:15,405 --> 00:54:19,046
the back of the house
and the sheep pasture on the eastern side...
649
00:54:19,146 --> 00:54:23,322
will be kept free of all members
of the household and farm servants.
650
00:54:51,176 --> 00:54:54,123
The reason I suggested you come here...
651
00:54:54,216 --> 00:54:56,628
is because I have borrowed
this painting from the house.
652
00:54:56,721 --> 00:54:58,701
Madam, would you stand?
653
00:55:02,632 --> 00:55:04,612
Are you not intrigued by it?
654
00:55:06,206 --> 00:55:08,516
I confess I have paid it little attention.
655
00:55:15,625 --> 00:55:20,597
Your husband surprises me
with his eccentric and eclectic taste.
656
00:55:20,703 --> 00:55:23,240
While most of his peers are content
to collect portraits...
657
00:55:23,341 --> 00:55:25,651
mostly of an edifying family connection...
658
00:55:25,746 --> 00:55:27,817
Mr. Herbert seems to collect anything.
659
00:55:29,821 --> 00:55:33,268
Perhaps he has an eye for optical theory...
660
00:55:33,361 --> 00:55:36,137
or the plight of lovers...
661
00:55:36,233 --> 00:55:39,646
or the passing of time.,
662
00:55:39,741 --> 00:55:42,688
What do you think?
663
00:55:42,780 --> 00:55:48,128
Perhaps, madam, he has-
and I would stand by him in this-
664
00:55:48,224 --> 00:55:51,433
an interest in the pictorial conceit.
665
00:55:53,769 --> 00:55:56,375
Can you see why your husband
had reason to buy it?
666
00:55:56,473 --> 00:55:58,453
It is of a garden.
That is probably reason enough.
667
00:55:58,544 --> 00:56:01,787
True, true. But what of the events
that are happening within it, hmm?
668
00:56:03,755 --> 00:56:05,735
Shall we peruse it together?
669
00:56:07,162 --> 00:56:12,077
Do you see, madam, a narrative
in these apparently unrelated episodes?
670
00:56:12,172 --> 00:56:15,949
There is drama, is there not,
in this overpopulated garden.
671
00:56:17,716 --> 00:56:20,060
What intrigue is here?
672
00:56:21,691 --> 00:56:24,297
Do you think the characters
have something to tell us?
673
00:56:26,166 --> 00:56:29,306
Would you know, madam,
if your daughter...
674
00:56:29,406 --> 00:56:32,353
had any particular interest
in this painting?
675
00:56:33,949 --> 00:56:36,623
Madam, could you put a season to it?
676
00:56:36,721 --> 00:56:39,201
Madam 9 Do you have an opinion?
677
00:56:43,735 --> 00:56:46,215
What infidelities are portrayed here?
678
00:56:53,521 --> 00:56:57,992
Do you think...
that murder is being prepared?
679
00:57:04,944 --> 00:57:07,550
Did you hear
that a horse had been found at Strides?
680
00:57:07,649 --> 00:57:11,256
Which is about three miles
from here on the road that...
681
00:57:11,356 --> 00:57:14,769
if followed long enough,
could lead you to Southampton.
682
00:57:14,864 --> 00:57:17,777
I will stay dressed, Mr. Neville.
You will not.
683
00:57:17,870 --> 00:57:21,784
Mr. Clarke says the horse
has been badly treated.
684
00:57:21,878 --> 00:57:24,358
It could be said
that all roads can lead to Southampton...
685
00:57:24,449 --> 00:57:26,861
if the traveler on horse
is ingenious enough.
686
00:57:26,955 --> 00:57:30,425
I've heard of a horse
that found his way to Dover...
687
00:57:30,528 --> 00:57:33,634
and boarded a ship taking hay to Calais.
688
00:57:33,735 --> 00:57:37,114
The French, madam,
do not treat horses kindly.
689
00:57:37,208 --> 00:57:39,188
They eat them.
690
00:57:40,247 --> 00:57:43,160
Was your horse partly eaten, madam?
691
00:57:43,253 --> 00:57:45,164
May I leave my hat on?
692
00:57:45,257 --> 00:57:47,965
Your chair looks
insignificant out there, Mr. Neville.
693
00:57:49,332 --> 00:57:52,040
What significant assumption
are we to make, madam...
694
00:57:52,138 --> 00:57:55,278
of a wounded horse
belonging to your father...
695
00:57:55,378 --> 00:57:58,916
found on the road to Southampton?
696
00:57:59,019 --> 00:58:03,934
The first assumption is that the horse
has no business being there without my father.
697
00:58:04,964 --> 00:58:09,276
And why is it wounded?
And what does that imply for my father?
698
00:58:09,372 --> 00:58:12,581
And the second assumption
will no doubt implicate me...
699
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:16,355
since a saddleless horse has now
found its way into this morning's drawing.
700
00:58:18,157 --> 00:58:20,068
Mrs. Talmann...
701
00:58:20,161 --> 00:58:24,871
why don't you now leave the window
and come to the basin?
702
00:58:24,970 --> 00:58:28,076
Don't worry. Your position of superiority
will not be diminished.
703
00:58:28,177 --> 00:58:30,657
I will still have to look up to you.
704
00:58:34,456 --> 00:58:38,836
Since I have taken valuable time
to fill this basin with a little water...
705
00:58:38,932 --> 00:58:41,276
why not share it with me?
706
00:59:07,956 --> 00:59:10,527
You have a curious mole Mrs. Herbert...
707
00:59:10,628 --> 00:59:13,575
and it is ideally placed.
708
00:59:13,668 --> 00:59:17,445
Does your gardener catch moles,
Mrs. Herbert?
709
00:59:17,542 --> 00:59:20,682
No. He says they are
to be encouraged for good luck...
710
00:59:20,782 --> 00:59:23,626
and the destruction of one's enemies,
711
00:59:23,721 --> 00:59:25,792
They trip up horses, Mrs. Herbert.
712
00:59:25,892 --> 00:59:29,066
You will not persuade Mr. Porringer
to persecute them,
713
00:59:29,165 --> 00:59:32,476
A curious man and ideally placed.
714
00:59:32,572 --> 00:59:34,552
Ideally placed for what?
715
00:59:34,642 --> 00:59:39,682
Why, for persuading a fine white horse
from Southampton to go lame in the leg.
716
00:59:44,830 --> 00:59:48,277
You have nothing to fear
from Mr. Porringer, Mr. Neville.
717
00:59:48,370 --> 00:59:51,681
He... watches you
for his own amusement.
718
00:59:51,777 --> 00:59:54,621
As I do you, madam.
719
00:59:54,717 --> 00:59:58,358
- You seem nonetheless to be curiously keen
to protect your gardener.
720
00:59:58,457 --> 01:00:02,405
It is not you, madam,
but his breeches that are his best defense.
721
01:00:02,498 --> 01:00:07,914
A man in red breeches could scarcely be
considered an inconspicuous conspirator, madam...
722
01:00:08,010 --> 01:00:12,186
unlike that other fool who behaves
like a statue when you least expect.
723
01:00:26,413 --> 01:00:29,758
Away from the house,
Mr. Neville, I-
724
01:00:29,853 --> 01:00:32,333
I feel I grow smaller in significance.
725
01:00:34,495 --> 01:00:37,704
Madam,what signifies
does not grow smaller for me.
726
01:00:39,238 --> 01:00:41,309
Your significance, Mr. Neville,
is attributable...
727
01:00:41,409 --> 01:00:45,516
to both innocence and arrogance
in equal parts.
728
01:00:45,617 --> 01:00:49,155
Ah, you can handle both with impunity,
Mrs. Talmann.
729
01:00:49,258 --> 01:00:53,832
But you will find
that they are not symmetrical.
730
01:00:53,935 --> 01:00:57,405
You will find that one
weighs heavier than the other.
731
01:00:59,312 --> 01:01:01,553
Which do you think is the heavier,
Mrs. Talmann?
732
01:01:03,186 --> 01:01:07,862
Your innocence, Mr. Neville,
is always sinister.
733
01:01:07,963 --> 01:01:12,002
So I will say that
the right one is the heaviest.
734
01:01:12,104 --> 01:01:14,482
Madam, your dexterity is admirable.
735
01:01:17,849 --> 01:01:21,456
You spend too much time
with Mr. Neville.
736
01:01:22,491 --> 01:01:25,631
- How is that?
- The man is a pariah.
737
01:01:25,732 --> 01:01:28,406
He eats like a vagrant
and dresses like a barber.
738
01:01:28,503 --> 01:01:32,815
What compliments. I think he would be amused.
739
01:01:32,913 --> 01:01:36,156
As for his servant,
he looks like a fleece with a foot disease.
740
01:01:38,356 --> 01:01:40,336
Do you not think
Mr. Neville is knowledgeable?
741
01:01:40,427 --> 01:01:42,338
About what?
742
01:01:43,567 --> 01:01:45,706
About what, madam?
743
01:01:48,376 --> 01:01:51,289
Madam, I could take your silence
as provocation.
744
01:01:51,382 --> 01:01:53,953
Why, sir, should I wish to provoke you?
745
01:01:54,055 --> 01:01:57,434
To excite me to think that you might
wish to compliment Mr. Neville...
746
01:01:57,528 --> 01:02:00,407
with more than praise
for his knowledgeability.
747
01:02:00,501 --> 01:02:02,708
The complexity of your speech
does you credit, Louis...
748
01:02:02,806 --> 01:02:04,843
but it far exceeds the complexity
of any relationship...
749
01:02:04,943 --> 01:02:09,119
I might have with Mr. Neville,
which is indeed very simple.
750
01:02:09,218 --> 01:02:15,066
He is a paid servant of my mother's,
bound by a contract. That is all.
751
01:02:15,164 --> 01:02:17,508
I'm encouraged by my mother
to see him honor it.
752
01:02:17,601 --> 01:02:20,741
Is his pleasure in your encouragement
so necessary?
753
01:02:20,842 --> 01:02:24,221
Although Mr. Neville has qualities,
he is neither as intelligent...
754
01:02:24,315 --> 01:02:27,296
nor, for that matter,
as talented as he thinks.
755
01:02:27,388 --> 01:02:30,961
Both characteristics you have observed
from the start, Louis...
756
01:02:31,062 --> 01:02:33,668
though I admit more by prejudice
than by observation.
757
01:02:45,457 --> 01:02:49,234
I understand that you will
be leaving us tonight, Mr. Neville.
758
01:02:49,332 --> 01:02:53,212
With Mrs. Herbert's permission, I will be
leaving after the arrival of Mr. Herbert...
759
01:02:53,306 --> 01:02:56,879
after he has passed an opinion
on the drawings of his house.
760
01:02:56,981 --> 01:03:01,054
If my servant has obtained a vehicle,
I will be leaving in the morning.
761
01:03:01,155 --> 01:03:05,968
And of course, Mr. Neville, the sooner the better-
as you no doubt expected me to say.
762
01:03:06,065 --> 01:03:09,842
You, sir, have acquainted me with your opinion
on drawing, on horticulture...
763
01:03:09,940 --> 01:03:12,318
the Roman Church, childbearing...
764
01:03:12,411 --> 01:03:14,755
the place of women in English life...
765
01:03:14,850 --> 01:03:17,956
the history and politics of Lübeck
and the training of dogs.
766
01:03:18,056 --> 01:03:22,937
Sol am in a fair position to anticipate
your opinion as to my departure.
767
01:03:23,033 --> 01:03:27,072
And is Radstock to greet you
with such devoted hospitality?
768
01:03:27,174 --> 01:03:29,984
Mr. Talmann, sir, I have been treated...
769
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:34,222
with as great hospitality as I could wish for
in Mrs. Herbert's house.
770
01:03:45,010 --> 01:03:49,288
Your drawings are full of
the most unexpected observation, Mr. Neville...
771
01:03:49,385 --> 01:03:53,265
and looking at them is akin to pursuing
a complicated allegory.
772
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:55,636
- Are you sure this ladder was there?
- Indisputably.
773
01:03:55,732 --> 01:03:58,542
- And what is this? It looks like a-
- Whatever it is, it was there.
774
01:03:58,636 --> 01:04:01,446
- Mrs. Talmann will confirm it.
- How is that?
775
01:04:01,542 --> 01:04:03,522
How will my wife confirm it?
776
01:04:03,613 --> 01:04:06,389
Mr. Neville is probably
too encompassing in his statement.
777
01:04:06,486 --> 01:04:09,899
I can, however,
confirm the sighting of a ladder
778
01:04:09,993 --> 01:04:13,497
It is propped against
my father's withdrawing room.
779
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:16,547
It is indeed, madam.
You have an exact knowledge.
780
01:04:16,639 --> 01:04:18,846
As exact a knowledge as though, madam...
781
01:04:18,944 --> 01:04:21,015
you had placed it there yourself,
would you say?
782
01:04:21,115 --> 01:04:24,324
Mr. Neville, if ever I had such a mind to...
783
01:04:24,422 --> 01:04:26,459
I would have found it impossible
to have lifted it.
784
01:04:26,559 --> 01:04:31,201
- It would have taken... two men.
- Halt!
785
01:04:31,302 --> 01:04:33,282
Away!
786
01:04:37,816 --> 01:04:39,796
What do you want, Mr. Clarke?
787
01:04:39,886 --> 01:04:42,560
Can you come with me, sir?
It's important.
788
01:05:46,987 --> 01:05:48,967
Madam, it is most important
that I speak with you.
789
01:05:49,058 --> 01:05:52,198
- I cannot now, Thomas.
- I'm in a position to insist.
790
01:05:52,297 --> 01:05:55,369
Thomas, after what has happened,
I refuse to speak to you just now.
791
01:05:55,470 --> 01:05:58,917
You must take care of affairs yourself, or,
in the last resort, you must ask Mr. Talmann.
792
01:05:59,011 --> 01:06:01,787
Telling Mr. Talmann what is on my mind
will not help you.
793
01:06:01,883 --> 01:06:03,794
What do you mean?
794
01:06:03,887 --> 01:06:07,596
I mean, madam, that I am sure I'm shortly
to be accused of the murder of your husband...
795
01:06:07,695 --> 01:06:11,472
and I am determined
to confront that eventuality well protected.
796
01:06:11,569 --> 01:06:13,480
And who will accuse you?
797
01:06:13,573 --> 01:06:15,951
Firstly, I think, will be your son-in-law...
798
01:06:16,045 --> 01:06:18,457
abetted and witnessed
probably by his servants.
799
01:06:18,549 --> 01:06:21,029
- How can that be?
- I need your assistance.
800
01:06:21,122 --> 01:06:23,033
To what end...
801
01:06:23,126 --> 01:06:26,130
if my son-in-law believes that you're guilty
of the murder of Mr. Herbert?
802
01:06:29,104 --> 01:06:31,084
Leave me.
803
01:06:32,310 --> 01:06:35,291
- Maria!
- Calling your servants is not going to help.
804
01:06:35,383 --> 01:06:37,363
What do you mean? Maria!
805
01:06:37,454 --> 01:06:40,025
- I mean the draughtsman's contract, madam.
- What of it?
806
01:06:40,126 --> 01:06:42,037
Maria, call Mr. Talmann.
807
01:06:42,130 --> 01:06:45,043
I mean your contractual obligations
to Mr. Neville.
808
01:06:45,136 --> 01:06:47,047
What of them?
809
01:06:47,140 --> 01:06:49,279
Madam, you are disingenuous
beyond words.
810
01:06:50,313 --> 01:06:53,590
Maria, don't bother to call Mr. Talmann.
Fetch me instead a-
811
01:06:55,090 --> 01:06:57,570
Fetch me nothing.
I'm not thirsty just at present.
812
01:07:04,641 --> 01:07:08,953
Now, Mr. Noyes, what are you inferring?
813
01:07:09,051 --> 01:07:13,124
I am to be unjustly and unscrupulously accused
of the murder of your husband.
814
01:07:13,226 --> 01:07:15,137
On what grounds?
815
01:07:15,230 --> 01:07:18,302
That I was the most likely person
to have done it.
816
01:07:18,402 --> 01:07:20,814
That I was the only person,
with the exception of your servants...
817
01:07:20,908 --> 01:07:23,286
to know of Mr. Herbert's return on Friday.
818
01:07:23,379 --> 01:07:26,952
That I am culpable because of my known
feelings towards your husband.
819
01:07:27,053 --> 01:07:28,964
That is ridiculous. There was-
820
01:07:29,057 --> 01:07:32,504
And, madam, I am the only person in the group
of people you are about to mention...
821
01:07:32,597 --> 01:07:35,510
who was not at home awaiting
the arrival of Mr. Herbert.
822
01:07:35,603 --> 01:07:38,584
And, further, madam,
because of my known feelings towards you.
823
01:07:41,348 --> 01:07:44,795
- Is all that sufficient reason?
- There is more.
824
01:07:44,889 --> 01:07:48,268
Mr. Herbert's study
is mysteriously littered with papers...
825
01:07:48,362 --> 01:07:51,036
and my gloves are there.
826
01:07:51,135 --> 01:07:53,274
Now against this conspiracy,
827
01:07:53,372 --> 01:07:57,149
I need your protection and more.
828
01:07:59,451 --> 01:08:01,761
If you're guilty Thomas, you shall have neither
829
01:08:01,857 --> 01:08:05,270
With Mr. Neville's contract, madam,
I shall have them both.
830
01:08:05,363 --> 01:08:08,469
For your protection
and for 700 guineas...
831
01:08:08,569 --> 01:08:11,448
I will trade you the contract
of your infidelities.
832
01:08:13,145 --> 01:08:17,457
I have no money.
700 is a calculated sum.
833
01:08:20,928 --> 01:08:24,432
I will trade you the contract
for the drawings.
834
01:08:25,570 --> 01:08:29,143
You have I 2 drawings,
and Mr. Neville has a reputation.
835
01:08:29,244 --> 01:08:31,815
What, for 12 drawings executed privately?
836
01:08:31,917 --> 01:08:35,694
Consider, madam. The drawings could be
construed as an embarrassment to you...
837
01:08:35,791 --> 01:08:38,135
and the original purpose and significance
of the drawings...
838
01:08:38,229 --> 01:08:41,972
as a gift to your husband is absolved.
839
01:08:42,070 --> 01:08:46,883
Those drawings, Mr. Noyes,
have cost me too much already.
840
01:08:46,980 --> 01:08:49,984
They may cost you
a great deal more.
841
01:08:50,086 --> 01:08:52,259
They may cost you possibly everything.
842
01:08:52,357 --> 01:08:55,964
An adulteress with a dead husband
is no reputation to relish.
843
01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:00,340
- And Mr. Neville?
- What of Mr. Neville? He's gone to Radcot.
844
01:09:00,440 --> 01:09:04,252
- What part has he in this stratagem?
- He is not a part of my stratagem.
845
01:09:04,348 --> 01:09:07,454
He could be party to a future arrangement
with the same intent.
846
01:09:08,589 --> 01:09:10,500
You paid him a fee, madam...
847
01:09:10,593 --> 01:09:14,507
and you offered him full board
on your property during the commission.
848
01:09:14,601 --> 01:09:17,912
To the prying eye,
that is as much as he is usually worth.
849
01:09:18,009 --> 01:09:19,989
With the contract in your hand
and destroyed...
850
01:09:20,079 --> 01:09:22,059
why should the world think
you've offered him more?
851
01:09:25,423 --> 01:09:27,403
Where is that contract now?
852
01:09:27,494 --> 01:09:29,997
I have it here, madam.
Where are the drawings?
853
01:09:30,099 --> 01:09:33,137
What would be said
if I no longer had the drawings?
854
01:09:33,239 --> 01:09:35,150
That you destroyed them...
855
01:09:35,243 --> 01:09:38,349
for, without your husband,
they were valueless to you.
856
01:09:38,449 --> 01:09:41,089
What would happen
if it were known that they were for sale?
857
01:09:41,188 --> 01:09:43,099
Your stratagem is weak.
858
01:09:43,192 --> 01:09:47,470
That you sold them in order to afford
a memorial to your husband...
859
01:09:47,567 --> 01:09:50,571
or, alternatively, that you sold them in order
to rid the house of something...
860
01:09:50,674 --> 01:09:53,416
which pains you
each time you look at them.
861
01:09:55,717 --> 01:10:00,029
You once asked me, Mrs. Pierpoint, if I could
supply you with a ribald piece of gossip.
862
01:10:00,126 --> 01:10:02,663
And I remember your friendly gesture
at the time.
863
01:10:02,765 --> 01:10:05,268
Ah, madam...
864
01:10:05,369 --> 01:10:08,077
you Romans know how to be charitable.
865
01:10:12,283 --> 01:10:15,162
I can supply you
with a little more than gossip.
866
01:10:15,256 --> 01:10:17,293
I'm in a position to invite you
to help me...
867
01:10:17,393 --> 01:10:21,671
elaborate and decorate such an item-
an entertaining item.
868
01:10:21,769 --> 01:10:26,240
We need not work too hard,
for the rump of the matter has been well laid.
869
01:10:26,345 --> 01:10:30,725
And what real benefit do you think
I might gain from this exercise?
870
01:10:30,821 --> 01:10:35,702
Amusement and a certain delight
in a symmetrical stratagem...
871
01:10:35,797 --> 01:10:38,971
and the satisfaction that our betters
might be seriously discomforted.
872
01:10:39,070 --> 01:10:44,247
And who knows? Perhaps two parterres
and a grove of orange trees...
873
01:10:44,347 --> 01:10:46,793
if Mrs. Herbert is generous.
874
01:10:46,886 --> 01:10:49,799
And why Mrs. Herbert?
875
01:10:49,892 --> 01:10:52,668
Because I think you will find
she is mistress of strategy.
876
01:10:52,765 --> 01:10:55,769
And if you do not benefit from her directly,
I think that, by and by...
877
01:10:55,871 --> 01:10:58,613
if you wait a few years,
then you will achieve them from me...
878
01:10:58,710 --> 01:11:00,690
as a token of my esteem.
879
01:11:01,716 --> 01:11:03,627
From the same source?
880
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:05,700
Madam, I think you have understood me.
881
01:11:08,863 --> 01:11:10,774
A monument would need a designer.
882
01:11:10,867 --> 01:11:14,974
Would a certain pecuniary draughtsman
be eager to sign another contract?
883
01:11:15,076 --> 01:11:17,750
As far as I am aware, sir,
the idea is Mrs. Herbert's...
884
01:11:17,848 --> 01:11:19,953
though the expenses might be laid
at Mr. Neville's door.
885
01:11:20,052 --> 01:11:21,963
An about-face.
886
01:11:22,056 --> 01:11:26,198
It is his drawings that are to be sold,
not more of his talent.
887
01:11:26,298 --> 01:11:30,144
By Mr. Neville's growing reputation,
12 drawings could be profitably sold...
888
01:11:30,239 --> 01:11:32,719
to furnish a more solid
and enduring monument.
889
01:11:32,811 --> 01:11:35,417
It is said that Mr. Neville
is to be invited to the Hague.
890
01:11:35,516 --> 01:11:38,963
Aha. If I had the wherewithal...
891
01:11:39,057 --> 01:11:42,595
I would advance Mrs. Herbert
100 guineas straightaway-
892
01:11:42,698 --> 01:11:47,113
for capital audacity,
for bravura in the face of grief.
893
01:11:47,206 --> 01:11:50,210
Mr. Herbert is no especial excuse
for such generosity...
894
01:11:50,313 --> 01:11:53,726
but how publicly directed
is the gesture?
895
01:11:53,820 --> 01:11:57,233
- How could posterity doubt her affection?
-just so.
896
01:11:57,327 --> 01:12:00,672
I shall offer 300 guineas-
not my own money, you understand.
897
01:12:00,767 --> 01:12:02,940
My father-in-laws.
He can afford it.
898
01:12:03,038 --> 01:12:06,144
He collects-
has no perspicacity, no knowledge.
899
01:12:06,244 --> 01:12:09,748
I shall tell him that they are Italian.
900
01:12:09,852 --> 01:12:12,128
- Guido Reni, uh, Modesta.
901
01:12:12,223 --> 01:12:15,329
He shall hang them
in a dark room somewhere...
902
01:12:15,429 --> 01:12:17,841
and they shall never be seen again.
903
01:12:17,935 --> 01:12:21,109
That is a great pity,
for they are full of illuminating details.
904
01:12:21,208 --> 01:12:24,121
Mr. Neville moves forward
in Mrs. Herbert's susceptibilities...
905
01:12:24,214 --> 01:12:28,253
like a man pressing a lifework
by slow stages.
906
01:12:28,355 --> 01:12:31,598
Would there perhaps be an idea
in Mr. Neville's imagination...
907
01:12:31,696 --> 01:12:34,575
for a certain contract
to cap them all?
908
01:12:34,668 --> 01:12:38,616
On horseback- a dashing Saint George,
looking like a jacobite with, um-
909
01:12:38,710 --> 01:12:41,748
With a palette for a shield
and a quiver full of brushes...
910
01:12:41,849 --> 01:12:44,125
and a pen held crosswise in his teeth.
911
01:12:44,220 --> 01:12:46,461
With ink-stained fingers.
912
01:12:46,558 --> 01:12:48,538
What is in his fingers?
913
01:12:48,629 --> 01:12:50,666
Unmentionable.
914
01:12:50,767 --> 01:12:53,873
- Another pen?
- It's like a pen.
915
01:12:53,973 --> 01:12:56,613
- Is it a pen?
-A little pen.
916
01:12:56,712 --> 01:12:59,022
The pen is mightier than the sword.
917
01:12:59,117 --> 01:13:03,463
We will forward 400 guineas
to this scabrous monument to a pen.
918
01:13:03,559 --> 01:13:07,268
And our receipt will be Mr. Neville's drawing
in the bathhouse.
919
01:13:07,366 --> 01:13:09,972
- The one with the little dog.
- Mmm.Wagging its tail.
920
01:13:11,341 --> 01:13:14,982
Mrs. Herbert does well to sell them.
How much will they bring?
921
01:13:15,082 --> 01:13:17,756
They are worth
what those who buy them wish to pay.
922
01:13:17,855 --> 01:13:21,735
- Mr. Seymour has tentatively offered 400 guineas.
- Huh!
923
01:13:21,829 --> 01:13:25,606
I am inclined to think that he makes
his offer generous to Mrs. Herbert...
924
01:13:25,704 --> 01:13:30,312
in order to interest her in a larger and a-
a grander sale.
925
01:13:30,412 --> 01:13:33,882
- What other sale?
- Why, of course, of the house.
926
01:13:33,987 --> 01:13:36,058
Well, that was very forward of him.
927
01:13:36,157 --> 01:13:38,228
I tested his ambition...
928
01:13:38,328 --> 01:13:41,741
by suggesting that he might buy a set
of distinguished drawings of it.
929
01:13:41,836 --> 01:13:45,545
Either way is a useful way
to help Mrs. Herbert to a-
930
01:13:45,643 --> 01:13:49,921
a more profitable bargain and thereby
to help her demonstrate her loss...
931
01:13:50,019 --> 01:13:52,124
in the knowledge that a larger sum...
932
01:13:52,223 --> 01:13:54,897
would make for a larger monument
for her husband.
933
01:13:54,995 --> 01:13:59,501
Mr. Herbert, one way or another,
stands to benefit by Mr. Neville's industry...
934
01:13:59,604 --> 01:14:01,515
as do we all, sir.
935
01:14:01,608 --> 01:14:05,078
I fail to see, for a start, my benefit
or, for that matter, yours.
936
01:14:05,182 --> 01:14:07,856
Mr. Talmann, you are disingenuous.
937
01:14:07,955 --> 01:14:12,028
You, sir, as, by your leave,
your future son's future guardian...
938
01:14:12,129 --> 01:14:14,109
stand in an enviable position.
939
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:16,544
And consider the neatness of it, sir.
940
01:14:16,638 --> 01:14:20,745
The estate would have an endurable memorial
which is part of the landscape...
941
01:14:20,847 --> 01:14:24,659
instead of 12 perishable items
which are mere representations of it.
942
01:14:24,755 --> 01:14:29,170
I fail to see why Mr. Seymour's presumption
should gain him a part of my son's inheritance.
943
01:14:29,263 --> 01:14:32,642
Maybe there again
Mr. Seymour will be doing you a favor, sir.
944
01:14:32,738 --> 01:14:34,649
What do you mean?
945
01:14:34,742 --> 01:14:37,450
By taking away the possibility
of your son ever seeing them-
946
01:14:37,546 --> 01:14:40,220
when you have one, as I'm sure you will.
947
01:14:40,319 --> 01:14:42,299
Why should he not see them?
948
01:14:42,390 --> 01:14:45,997
Because, sir, he might perceive
the allegorical evidence in them...
949
01:14:46,097 --> 01:14:49,772
which you might, sir,
be stubborn enough to deny.
950
01:14:49,872 --> 01:14:52,478
Mr. Neville had no use for allegory...
951
01:14:52,576 --> 01:14:55,284
and I am unlikely to miss
what my son would appreciate.
952
01:14:55,382 --> 01:14:58,795
An allegorical meaning, sir,
that might involve his mother.
953
01:14:58,890 --> 01:15:03,134
What?
My wife? How is that?
954
01:15:03,231 --> 01:15:06,804
It is fancifully imputed, sir...
955
01:15:06,906 --> 01:15:10,046
that Mr. Neville saw you
as a deceived husband.
956
01:15:13,318 --> 01:15:15,298
How was I deceived?
957
01:15:22,470 --> 01:15:26,316
I've been convinced, Sarah,
that you have been deceiving me!
958
01:15:26,411 --> 01:15:29,221
- What is the matter with your voice?
- Damn my voice!
959
01:15:29,317 --> 01:15:31,297
If you did, it would scare me less.
960
01:15:31,387 --> 01:15:34,266
What's the matter with your face?
Your face, Louis, is very red.
961
01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:38,775
No redder than your backside, madam,
when Mr. Neville had finished with it!
962
01:15:41,976 --> 01:15:45,150
When your speech is as coarse as your face, Louis...
963
01:15:45,249 --> 01:15:48,526
you sound as impotent by day
as you perform by night.
964
01:15:48,622 --> 01:15:52,092
Night and day, madam,
your behavior has been coarse...
965
01:15:52,196 --> 01:15:54,972
and is now down
in corresponding black-and-white...
966
01:15:55,068 --> 01:15:56,979
for all the world to peer at...
967
01:15:57,072 --> 01:16:00,610
whether the sun shines
or the wind blows hot or cold.
968
01:16:00,713 --> 01:16:04,160
Your speech, Louis,
is becoming meteorological.
969
01:16:04,253 --> 01:16:06,164
You must explain your conceit.
970
01:16:06,257 --> 01:16:09,033
It is no conceit, madam,
but Mr. Neville's drawings.
971
01:16:09,130 --> 01:16:12,600
I was sure you believed Mr. Neville
incapable of complicated meaning.
972
01:16:12,704 --> 01:16:14,615
What has he done now?
973
01:16:14,708 --> 01:16:18,679
It is mostly what he has undone.
It seems to be your person.
974
01:16:18,783 --> 01:16:21,889
I have no control
over Mr. Neville's drawings.
975
01:16:21,989 --> 01:16:23,900
He draws what he pleases.
976
01:16:23,993 --> 01:16:26,803
He is not paid to draw for his own pleasure
nor, madam, for yours.
977
01:16:26,899 --> 01:16:29,505
- What makes you think he has done that?
- Probably the way it looks.
978
01:16:29,604 --> 01:16:31,584
- How does it look?
- The way the world sees it.
979
01:16:31,675 --> 01:16:35,782
The world? There cannot be that many people
who have seen these drawings.
980
01:16:35,884 --> 01:16:38,091
Who are these people
that represent the world?
981
01:16:38,188 --> 01:16:41,067
- Seymour, Noyes, the Poulencs.
- Ah! And what do they see?
982
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:44,073
Enough, madam, to delight them,
to exercise their tongues...
983
01:16:44,166 --> 01:16:46,077
to discuss patrimony.
984
01:16:46,170 --> 01:16:48,480
Or the lack of it.
985
01:16:48,575 --> 01:16:52,921
They see then what they have long
been searching for, do you think?
986
01:16:53,018 --> 01:16:54,929
And that means?
987
01:16:55,022 --> 01:16:58,231
Opportunity to upbraid you
for not producing an heir.
988
01:17:01,134 --> 01:17:03,774
Woman, it takes two.
989
01:17:03,873 --> 01:17:06,945
It does indeed, sir.
990
01:17:07,046 --> 01:17:09,492
You amaze me.
991
01:17:09,583 --> 01:17:12,621
- And what has that to do with Mr. Neville?
- I could ask you that, madam.
992
01:17:12,724 --> 01:17:16,001
- You did not. You asked Mr. Noyes.
- It was he who pointed it out to me.
993
01:17:16,097 --> 01:17:18,771
With his long nose,
he could point you in anyway he wishes.
994
01:17:18,869 --> 01:17:22,942
Madam, you will look at those drawings
and you will explain to me...
995
01:17:23,044 --> 01:17:26,253
why a pleaching ladder is conveniently
placed under your window...
996
01:17:26,351 --> 01:17:29,560
and why your revolting little clog
is outside the bathhouse...
997
01:17:29,658 --> 01:17:33,401
and why your walking clothes
casually decorate the bushes of the yew walk.
998
01:17:33,498 --> 01:17:39,039
Your inventory, Louis, is unlimited-
like your long, clean, white breeches.
999
01:17:39,143 --> 01:17:42,488
But there is nothing of substance
in either of them.
1000
01:17:48,696 --> 01:17:50,607
Let me ask you.
1001
01:17:50,700 --> 01:17:53,613
Perhaps you can explain what your boots
were doing in the sheep field.
1002
01:17:53,706 --> 01:17:55,617
They were not my boots.
1003
01:17:55,710 --> 01:17:58,554
And why was your undershirt
idling on a hedge near the statue of Hermes?
1004
01:17:58,649 --> 01:18:00,560
It was not my shirt.
1005
01:18:00,653 --> 01:18:04,100
Can you not see the drift
of this domestic inquisition?
1006
01:18:04,193 --> 01:18:06,503
You are answering me
as I could answer you.
1007
01:18:06,597 --> 01:18:08,577
You cannot deny it is your dog.
1008
01:18:08,669 --> 01:18:11,946
And whereas, with your final accusation...
1009
01:18:12,042 --> 01:18:15,182
you pursue the ambiguity
of an abandoned sunshade...
1010
01:18:15,282 --> 01:18:18,195
you, sir, are complete on paper...
1011
01:18:18,288 --> 01:18:20,734
in a borrowed hat
and a borrowed coat...
1012
01:18:20,827 --> 01:18:23,831
and a borrowed shadow,
I shouldn't wonder.
1013
01:18:23,933 --> 01:18:29,042
Posing, sir, with your knees tucked in
and your arse tucked out...
1014
01:18:29,143 --> 01:18:31,487
and a face like a Dutch fig...
1015
01:18:31,581 --> 01:18:35,654
and a supercilious Protestant whistle,
I shouldn't wonder...
1016
01:18:35,756 --> 01:18:39,226
on your supercilious, smug lips.
1017
01:18:39,330 --> 01:18:44,370
And, Louis, you have always said
that Mr. Neville has no imagination.
1018
01:18:44,473 --> 01:18:47,579
He draws what he sees.
1019
01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:51,628
Whose patrimony were you aping then-
my father's?
1020
01:18:53,625 --> 01:18:57,437
And the world knows that he is dead...
1021
01:18:57,533 --> 01:18:59,604
and is not certain who killed him.
1022
01:19:01,507 --> 01:19:03,487
The world
might peer at those drawings...
1023
01:19:03,578 --> 01:19:07,549
and ask what conspiracy of inheritance
did Mr. Neville have for you.
1024
01:19:10,993 --> 01:19:15,100
You are disreputable, madam...
1025
01:19:15,202 --> 01:19:19,412
and you side with a tenant-farmer's son
against your husband.
1026
01:19:21,614 --> 01:19:24,925
You have married the granddaughter
of an army victualler.
1027
01:19:26,490 --> 01:19:30,768
And there is nothing that I have said
that suggests I side with Mr. Neville.
1028
01:19:30,866 --> 01:19:34,507
But I hope you will agree
that he has been useful to us all.
1029
01:19:34,607 --> 01:19:36,587
What have you done with his drawings?
1030
01:19:36,678 --> 01:19:39,591
I've bought them for 600 guineas,
I plan to destroy them.
1031
01:19:39,684 --> 01:19:41,664
Oh, it would be a pity to destroy them.
1032
01:19:41,755 --> 01:19:47,205
You are concerned that posterity
will know of your duplicity!
1033
01:19:47,299 --> 01:19:49,210
Louis.
1034
01:19:49,303 --> 01:19:52,750
They contain evidence
of another kind...
1035
01:19:52,844 --> 01:19:55,188
a kind more valuable
than that seized upon...
1036
01:19:55,282 --> 01:20:00,027
by those titillated by a scandal
that smears your honor-
1037
01:20:00,125 --> 01:20:04,039
evidence that Mr. Neville may be cognizant
to the death of my father.
1038
01:20:52,129 --> 01:20:54,109
Good morning madam,
1039
01:20:54,199 --> 01:20:56,110
Mr. Neville.
1040
01:20:56,203 --> 01:20:58,183
Good morning, sir.
1041
01:20:59,343 --> 01:21:01,254
Good morning.
1042
01:21:01,347 --> 01:21:05,796
Though the summer suddenly seems past
and the weather less than good.
1043
01:21:05,890 --> 01:21:08,131
What, Mr. Neville, has brought you
back to Anstey so soon?
1044
01:21:08,227 --> 01:21:10,400
I thought our humble estate
had seen the last of you.
1045
01:21:10,498 --> 01:21:13,104
I am staying, madam, at Radstock
with the Duke of Lauderdale...
1046
01:21:13,204 --> 01:21:15,184
and have come at the invitation
of Mr. Seymour...
1047
01:21:15,275 --> 01:21:19,451
to find that curiously he is out
and most of his house is shut up.
1048
01:21:20,653 --> 01:21:24,601
Mr. Seymour, I understand,
is in Southampton with my husband.
1049
01:21:26,530 --> 01:21:30,171
The funeral was three days ago,
and they are discussing property.
1050
01:21:30,271 --> 01:21:34,151
It would seem then
that my visit is poorly timed.
1051
01:21:34,246 --> 01:21:36,783
Madam, may I ask
after the health of your mother?
1052
01:21:36,885 --> 01:21:41,334
Although my mother was understandably
disturbed by my father's death...
1053
01:21:41,427 --> 01:21:45,273
she is now, in the knowledge
that her affection for my father...
1054
01:21:45,368 --> 01:21:48,872
can never be reciprocated, at ease.
1055
01:21:48,976 --> 01:21:51,081
And what of yourself, madam?
1056
01:21:51,180 --> 01:21:55,026
I am very well, Mr. Neville,
and we are thriving.
1057
01:21:55,121 --> 01:21:57,101
Mr. van Hoyten is to consider for us...
1058
01:21:57,192 --> 01:22:01,607
a new management of the grounds
in an entirely fresh approach.
1059
01:22:01,701 --> 01:22:03,681
He has come at our request to...
1060
01:22:03,772 --> 01:22:07,219
soften the geometry
that my father found to his taste...
1061
01:22:07,312 --> 01:22:13,160
and to introduce a new ease
and complexion into the garden.
1062
01:22:13,257 --> 01:22:16,568
Mr. van Hoyten has worked in the Hague...
1063
01:22:16,665 --> 01:22:19,646
and he has presented Mr. Talmann
with some novel introductions...
1064
01:22:19,737 --> 01:22:23,344
which we will commence next spring.
1065
01:22:23,444 --> 01:22:26,152
He is a draughtsman too.
1066
01:23:03,290 --> 01:23:07,534
Mr. Neville has come, Mother,
as we both believed he might...
1067
01:23:07,632 --> 01:23:11,079
and he has brought with him
a rare gift from Radstock-
1068
01:23:11,173 --> 01:23:14,245
three pomegranates
from Lauderdale's gardener...
1069
01:23:14,346 --> 01:23:17,259
reared in English soil
under an English sun.
1070
01:23:17,352 --> 01:23:20,128
But with the help, madam,
of 100 panes of glass...
1071
01:23:20,224 --> 01:23:23,364
and half a year's supply
of artificial heat.
1072
01:23:23,464 --> 01:23:26,240
Thank you, Mr. Neville.
1073
01:23:26,336 --> 01:23:29,044
We must see
what we can do for you in return.
1074
01:23:29,142 --> 01:23:32,351
I was about
to take Mr. van Hoyten to the river.
1075
01:23:32,449 --> 01:23:36,420
He has plans to make a dam
and flood the lower field.
1076
01:23:37,625 --> 01:23:39,832
I will no doubt see you later, Mr. Neville.
1077
01:23:44,239 --> 01:23:46,651
Flooded fields, madam?
1078
01:23:46,745 --> 01:23:48,884
Do you intend to join Anstey to the sea?
1079
01:23:48,982 --> 01:23:52,520
We are to have an ornamental lake.
1080
01:23:52,622 --> 01:23:54,568
My son-in-law has ambitions
for his countrymen.
1081
01:23:54,660 --> 01:23:57,163
It is probably you, Mr. Neville,
that has opened his eyes...
1082
01:23:57,265 --> 01:23:59,404
To the possibilities of our landscape.
1083
01:24:01,775 --> 01:24:04,847
Why is this Dutchman wagging his arms about?
1084
01:24:04,947 --> 01:24:06,927
Is he homesick for windmills?
1085
01:24:07,018 --> 01:24:09,589
Who knows?
1086
01:24:09,690 --> 01:24:14,070
He's a man with new ideas.
New ideas demand new methods perhaps.
1087
01:24:14,166 --> 01:24:16,112
How was Radstock?
1088
01:24:16,203 --> 01:24:18,308
Fine enough, madam...
1089
01:24:18,407 --> 01:24:20,819
but dull after the excitements
of Anstey.
1090
01:24:20,913 --> 01:24:24,656
Ah, and have you now come here
to renew those excitements?
1091
01:24:24,754 --> 01:24:26,734
Oh, madam,
that would be presumptuous.
1092
01:24:26,825 --> 01:24:28,805
It would indeed, sir.
1093
01:24:28,895 --> 01:24:31,671
All contracts have, after all,
been honored...
1094
01:24:31,768 --> 01:24:33,748
and the body has been buried.
1095
01:24:33,839 --> 01:24:36,285
Madam, that was blunt.
1096
01:24:36,376 --> 01:24:39,789
I remember, sir, that you were blunt
in your dealings with me.
1097
01:24:41,955 --> 01:24:44,094
I was glad to see Mrs. Talmann...
1098
01:24:44,192 --> 01:24:47,002
and, in all truth, put as much
a possibility as I could...
1099
01:24:47,098 --> 01:24:49,977
to see that a meeting
with yourself might occur.
1100
01:24:50,071 --> 01:24:53,018
I confess that I was curious
to see the house and gardens again...
1101
01:24:53,110 --> 01:24:57,490
to see what appearance they'd put on
after this week of changing weather.
1102
01:24:57,585 --> 01:25:01,692
But I admit, madam,
that it was out of curiosity to see you...
1103
01:25:01,794 --> 01:25:05,901
that was behind the reason for my wishing
to be invited to Mr. Seymour's house.
1104
01:25:06,003 --> 01:25:11,248
Curiosity does not sound
a very respectful reason to visit a lady...
1105
01:25:11,346 --> 01:25:13,826
even one you've had the pleasure of.
1106
01:25:13,919 --> 01:25:17,628
And is it really myself that is the center
of your interest and not my daughter?
1107
01:25:17,726 --> 01:25:20,707
- Yes, madam.
- Ah.
1108
01:25:20,799 --> 01:25:22,710
How's that?
1109
01:25:22,803 --> 01:25:27,946
My former contractual obligations, madam,
tied us together to my advantage.
1110
01:25:28,047 --> 01:25:33,224
And at your husband's death, it was again
I who gained and you who lost.
1111
01:25:33,324 --> 01:25:35,497
You're very confident of that, Mr. Neville.
1112
01:25:35,594 --> 01:25:40,668
And I must confess that, in losing,
you have excited my curiosity further.
1113
01:25:42,843 --> 01:25:46,757
How do you imagine my losses,
Mr. Neville?
1114
01:25:46,851 --> 01:25:50,924
Humiliations, madam-
each one exceeding the other.
1115
01:25:51,026 --> 01:25:56,374
Is losing a husband a humiliation,
Mr. Neville?
1116
01:26:25,361 --> 01:26:27,534
Madam,
in making my arrangements here...
1117
01:26:27,632 --> 01:26:30,374
I concluded with the possibility
of 13 sites...
1118
01:26:30,471 --> 01:26:34,351
one of which had to be rejected to comply
with the I 2 drawings as commissioned.
1119
01:26:34,446 --> 01:26:39,327
The site that was rejected was,
as you will recall, to the south of the house...
1120
01:26:39,422 --> 01:26:42,426
and included
the monument to the horse.
1121
01:26:42,528 --> 01:26:45,634
It is the site
where your husband's body was found.
1122
01:26:46,671 --> 01:26:50,915
It was that irony, Mr. Neville,
that was uppermost in inquiring minds...
1123
01:26:51,012 --> 01:26:53,253
at the discovery of Mr. Herbert's body.
1124
01:26:53,350 --> 01:26:57,298
The 13th site, madam,
was rejected for no clear reason.
1125
01:26:57,391 --> 01:27:00,031
It contained no view of the house.
1126
01:27:00,131 --> 01:27:02,509
Then that was true
of several other of the drawings.
1127
01:27:02,602 --> 01:27:06,311
Possibly it was the least characteristic
of the garden's viewpoints...
1128
01:27:06,409 --> 01:27:10,050
and was most powerful
at the least advantageous times of clay.
1129
01:27:10,151 --> 01:27:14,065
And that is why, madam,
with your permission...
1130
01:27:14,159 --> 01:27:16,833
I would like, if I may...
1131
01:27:16,931 --> 01:27:20,037
to attempt to accomplish
that drawing this afternoon.
1132
01:27:20,137 --> 01:27:22,139
That is, if you have no objection.
1133
01:27:23,778 --> 01:27:28,227
Mr. Neville, your approach
is full of hesitant pleasantries.
1134
01:27:28,320 --> 01:27:31,164
Madam, that is because
I am still unable...
1135
01:27:31,259 --> 01:27:34,570
to fully judge your present feelings
as to past events.
1136
01:27:51,366 --> 01:27:55,872
Mr. Neville, suffice it to say
that the object of my life has changed.
1137
01:27:55,976 --> 01:27:59,048
I am a widow,
whereas I was a wife.
1138
01:27:59,148 --> 01:28:02,857
It could be construed
that I was a widow whilst being a wife.
1139
01:28:02,956 --> 01:28:05,459
I have only exchanged a false position
that made me unhappy...
1140
01:28:05,561 --> 01:28:10,476
for a true position that has left me
without any emotion.
1141
01:28:12,475 --> 01:28:16,617
Mr. Neville, I propose to eat.
1142
01:28:16,717 --> 01:28:21,029
And, uh, I propose
that you should eat with me.
1143
01:28:21,126 --> 01:28:26,804
And when we are ready, I will show-
along with my gardener, Mr. Porringer-
1144
01:28:26,904 --> 01:28:29,316
what we at Anstey
are capable of cultivating.
1145
01:28:29,409 --> 01:28:33,619
It will be by way of
returning your gift in kind.
1146
01:28:33,718 --> 01:28:37,256
And who knows?
It may be that we could revive...
1147
01:28:37,358 --> 01:28:39,269
one more time...
1148
01:28:39,362 --> 01:28:42,502
a liaison, outside of a contract...
1149
01:28:42,601 --> 01:28:46,674
to our mutual satisfaction.
1150
01:28:48,413 --> 01:28:52,657
And then you must accomplish your 13th drawing.
ls all that acceptable to you?
1151
01:28:52,756 --> 01:28:55,862
Madam, it is as if you'd planned it.
1152
01:28:55,962 --> 01:28:58,909
I'm surprised, delighted.
1153
01:28:59,001 --> 01:29:00,981
Madam, I am overwhelmed.
1154
01:29:01,072 --> 01:29:06,579
Mr. Neville, I will take all three states
of your satisfaction into consideration.
1155
01:29:07,618 --> 01:29:12,089
I have, quite legitimately,
a freedom to exploit...
1156
01:29:13,130 --> 01:29:16,134
and I might as well
exploit it with you...
1157
01:29:16,236 --> 01:29:18,216
considering our past experience.
1158
01:30:07,505 --> 01:30:10,247
A pomegranate, Mr. Neville-
1159
01:30:10,344 --> 01:30:14,087
gift of Hades to Persephone.
1160
01:30:14,185 --> 01:30:17,758
Madam, my scholarship is not profound.
1161
01:30:17,859 --> 01:30:21,932
Unusual of you, Mr. Neville, to profess
to an ignorance of a subject...
1162
01:30:22,034 --> 01:30:25,311
which, before, you would be anxious
to have us believe...
1163
01:30:25,407 --> 01:30:28,547
was an essential prerequisite
to an artist's vocabulary.
1164
01:30:28,648 --> 01:30:32,653
Maybe, madam, I am hesitating
to acknowledge an unintended allusion.
1165
01:30:35,227 --> 01:30:37,901
By eating the fruit of the pomegranate,
Mr. Neville...
1166
01:30:40,170 --> 01:30:43,549
Pluto kept Persephone
in the underworld.
1167
01:30:43,644 --> 01:30:46,250
Oh, a symbolic fruit, Mrs. Herbert.
1168
01:30:46,349 --> 01:30:48,260
And you've brought me three.
1169
01:30:48,353 --> 01:30:50,993
That was all, madam,
that Mr. Clancy would spare me.
1170
01:30:52,528 --> 01:30:56,977
Maybe Mr. Clancy
is a contriver of allusions.
1171
01:30:57,071 --> 01:30:59,881
How- How is that, Mrs. Herbert?
Are you acquainted with the man?
1172
01:31:01,045 --> 01:31:06,188
Having been tricked into eating the fruit
of the pomegranate, Mr. Neville...
1173
01:31:06,289 --> 01:31:11,432
Persephone was forced to spend
a period of each year underground...
1174
01:31:11,532 --> 01:31:15,776
during which time,
as even Mr. Porringer will tell you...
1175
01:31:15,875 --> 01:31:21,120
Persephone's mother- the goddess of fields,
of gardens and of orchards-
1176
01:31:21,219 --> 01:31:25,429
was distraught, heartbroken.
1177
01:31:26,697 --> 01:31:31,476
She sulks, and she refuses-
adamantly refuses-
1178
01:31:31,572 --> 01:31:33,745
to bless the world with fruitfulness.
1179
01:31:33,844 --> 01:31:35,881
Now...
1180
01:31:35,982 --> 01:31:40,522
my Mr. Porringer and your Mr. Clancy...
1181
01:31:40,624 --> 01:31:45,505
try hard to defeat
the influence of the pomegranate...
1182
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:50,606
by building places like these,
don't you think?
1183
01:31:51,780 --> 01:31:56,752
And having built them and stocked them
and patiently tended them...
1184
01:31:56,857 --> 01:31:58,837
what do they grow?
1185
01:31:58,928 --> 01:32:02,068
Why, the pomegranate.
1186
01:32:03,570 --> 01:32:06,141
And we are turned full circle again.
1187
01:32:08,279 --> 01:32:11,692
Certainly a cautionary tale
for gardeners, madam.
1188
01:32:11,787 --> 01:32:16,702
And for mothers with daughters,
Mr. Neville.
1189
01:32:16,797 --> 01:32:19,403
But, who knows, madam?
Pomegranates grown in England...
1190
01:32:19,502 --> 01:32:22,483
might not have such unhappy
allegorical significance.
1191
01:32:26,249 --> 01:32:28,695
Plants from the hothouse,
according to Mr. Porringer...
1192
01:32:28,788 --> 01:32:30,995
are seldom fertile.
1193
01:32:31,092 --> 01:32:35,006
Fertile enough, Mrs. Talmann,
to engender felicitous allusions...
1194
01:32:35,100 --> 01:32:37,011
if not their own offspring.
1195
01:32:37,104 --> 01:32:39,448
And of course, there are more.
1196
01:32:39,542 --> 01:32:41,749
More of what, madam?
1197
01:32:41,847 --> 01:32:45,659
Mr. Neville, we well know your delight
in the visual conceit.
1198
01:32:47,057 --> 01:32:50,527
The juice of the pomegranate...
1199
01:32:50,630 --> 01:32:54,134
may be taken for...
1200
01:32:54,238 --> 01:32:56,411
blood...
1201
01:32:56,509 --> 01:32:59,547
and in particular
the blood of the newborn...
1202
01:33:01,052 --> 01:33:03,032
and of murder.
1203
01:33:04,358 --> 01:33:07,032
Then thanks
to your botanical scholarship...
1204
01:33:07,130 --> 01:33:10,475
you must find it cruelly apt
that I was persuaded to bring such fruit.
1205
01:33:10,570 --> 01:33:15,178
Oh, Mr. Neville, I suspect
that you were innocent of the insight...
1206
01:33:15,280 --> 01:33:18,261
as you have been innocent of much else.
1207
01:33:18,353 --> 01:33:21,493
Innocent, madam?
1208
01:33:21,592 --> 01:33:24,903
By impute, I was convinced
you thought me guilty-
1209
01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:27,981
certainly of opportunism,
probably of murder.
1210
01:33:29,575 --> 01:33:34,046
What I do think you guilty of
I do not at all reproach you for.
1211
01:33:35,620 --> 01:33:38,931
In our need of an heir...
1212
01:33:39,028 --> 01:33:42,202
you may very likely
have served us well.
1213
01:33:45,073 --> 01:33:47,053
Madam?
1214
01:33:48,647 --> 01:33:50,718
We had a contract, did we not?
1215
01:33:54,960 --> 01:33:58,772
You do not think I would have signed
so much for pleasure alone?
1216
01:34:04,345 --> 01:34:08,987
Madam, that was ingenious.
1217
01:34:10,557 --> 01:34:14,004
Since when has adultery been ingenious?
1218
01:34:14,098 --> 01:34:16,271
Mr. Neville, you are ridiculous.
1219
01:34:32,835 --> 01:34:35,714
And why should you
have murdered Mr. Herbert?
1220
01:34:35,808 --> 01:34:40,052
- For what reason?
- Mr. Talmann believes I had reason enough.
1221
01:34:40,150 --> 01:34:42,892
Yes. Mr. Talmann is in Southampton...
1222
01:34:42,989 --> 01:34:48,200
still trying to find or invent
some responsibility for you in the matter
1223
01:34:48,299 --> 01:34:52,441
He will not forgive
your indiscretion with Sarah...
1224
01:34:52,541 --> 01:34:57,422
but he will not disown his wife
for then, you see, he would lose Anstey.
1225
01:34:57,517 --> 01:35:00,430
I am sure that Mr. Talmann
is not in Southampton...
1226
01:35:00,523 --> 01:35:04,096
for did I not see him
on the carriage drive here this afternoon?
1227
01:35:04,198 --> 01:35:06,109
Why I think not.
1228
01:35:06,202 --> 01:35:08,375
He is in Southampton with Mr. Seymour
1229
01:35:08,473 --> 01:35:12,444
I do not think
that Mr. Seymour can be in Southampton...
1230
01:35:12,547 --> 01:35:16,017
for he stopped my servant this morning
at Radstock to ask after me.
1231
01:35:16,122 --> 01:35:18,659
And on the understanding
that I had some hope of seeing you...
1232
01:35:18,760 --> 01:35:21,764
was, according to my servant,
more than pleased.
1233
01:35:21,867 --> 01:35:25,576
I am convinced
that we will see him this afternoon.
1234
01:35:25,674 --> 01:35:29,315
I confess I am surprised, Mr. Neville,
if that is the case.
1235
01:35:29,414 --> 01:35:31,325
I will inquire.
1236
01:35:35,961 --> 01:35:37,941
Sarah.
1237
01:35:38,032 --> 01:35:41,275
Ask Mr. Porringer
to get Mr. Neville a chair.
1238
01:35:41,372 --> 01:35:45,821
He intends to make a drawing for me
in the garden by that horse.
1239
01:35:47,919 --> 01:35:49,990
And, Sarah.
1240
01:35:50,089 --> 01:35:54,299
Ask Mr. Porringer to bring Mr. Neville
a pineapple, a small one.
1241
01:35:54,398 --> 01:35:56,309
They're sweeter.
1242
01:35:56,402 --> 01:35:59,008
You would care to try a pineapple,
would you not, Mr. Neville?
1243
01:35:59,107 --> 01:36:02,281
- Madam, I would be delighted.
1244
01:36:24,324 --> 01:36:26,668
Good evening, Mr. Neville.
1245
01:36:28,800 --> 01:36:30,711
Good evening, sir.
1246
01:36:30,804 --> 01:36:34,616
And why, Mr. Neville,
do we find you here so late?
1247
01:36:34,712 --> 01:36:38,455
Surely the light is now too poor
to see adequately.
1248
01:36:38,552 --> 01:36:40,862
That is true. I am finished.
1249
01:36:40,958 --> 01:36:43,336
Good.
1250
01:36:43,429 --> 01:36:45,409
Perhaps I could see it.
1251
01:36:45,500 --> 01:36:47,810
If we had light,
that might be possible.
1252
01:36:47,905 --> 01:36:50,442
I'm sure we can find some light.
1253
01:37:09,414 --> 01:37:12,486
But it is not finished Mr. Neville.
1254
01:37:12,587 --> 01:37:15,932
No, Mr. Talmann, it is not.
1255
01:37:16,028 --> 01:37:18,531
You may successfully
hide your face in the dark...
1256
01:37:18,632 --> 01:37:22,603
but in England, at least, it is not easy for you,
surely, sir, to hide your accent.
1257
01:37:22,708 --> 01:37:25,416
I did not think to hide my identity
for long, Mr. Neville...
1258
01:37:25,513 --> 01:37:28,153
which even in the eyes of the English
is no especial crime...
1259
01:37:28,252 --> 01:37:31,199
compared with the identity
you care to assume with such ease.
1260
01:37:31,291 --> 01:37:33,293
And what identity
might that be, Mr. Talmann?
1261
01:37:33,396 --> 01:37:37,173
The identity of a man of some little talent,
some dubious honor...
1262
01:37:37,270 --> 01:37:39,841
a proper dealer in contracts-
1263
01:37:39,942 --> 01:37:44,288
the identity of a man with an eye
to the improper pursuit of dishonor to others.
1264
01:37:44,384 --> 01:37:46,887
You talk, Mr. Talmann,
like one who has learnt abroad...
1265
01:37:46,990 --> 01:37:50,028
an archaic way of speaking
that became unfashionable in England...
1266
01:37:50,129 --> 01:37:52,109
when my grandfather
was a young man.
1267
01:37:52,200 --> 01:37:56,615
My speech is in no way dependable
on your view of fashion, Mr. Neville.
1268
01:37:56,709 --> 01:37:59,121
We all know that in the field
of deeds and of talent...
1269
01:37:59,214 --> 01:38:01,353
you in your field are an innovator.
1270
01:38:01,452 --> 01:38:03,989
That must be some sort of flattery,
Mr. Talmann.
1271
01:38:04,090 --> 01:38:06,161
Have your companions
also come to flatter?
1272
01:38:06,261 --> 01:38:09,799
We have come merely
as curious observers, Mr. Neville...
1273
01:38:09,902 --> 01:38:11,939
to wonder why,
after so much has happened...
1274
01:38:12,040 --> 01:38:15,783
you return to continue to fix
Mr. Herbert's property on paper...
1275
01:38:15,881 --> 01:38:18,122
and chose to draw this particular site.
1276
01:38:18,219 --> 01:38:21,063
I might be inclined
to answer those questions, Mr. Seymour...
1277
01:38:21,158 --> 01:38:23,570
if I did not feel
that the truthful answers I would give...
1278
01:38:23,663 --> 01:38:25,904
would in no way
be of interest to you.
1279
01:38:26,001 --> 01:38:29,414
It is our belief, Mr. Neville,
that in returning here...
1280
01:38:29,508 --> 01:38:33,081
you are seeking a codicil
to your original contract...
1281
01:38:33,182 --> 01:38:36,629
a codicil of a more permanent nature
than the last one-
1282
01:38:36,723 --> 01:38:38,964
a lasting contract with a widow.
1283
01:38:39,060 --> 01:38:42,098
You speak, of course, Mr. Talmann,
like a disinherited man...
1284
01:38:42,200 --> 01:38:44,976
uninterested in painting
or draftsmanship-
1285
01:38:45,072 --> 01:38:49,646
uninterested even in the prospect
of the estate you covet from this position.
1286
01:38:49,749 --> 01:38:52,389
An ideal site for a memorial perhaps.
1287
01:38:52,487 --> 01:38:56,299
Do you think Mr. Herbert would have
appreciated the prospect of his estate?
1288
01:38:56,395 --> 01:39:00,810
Oh. As a landowner yourself, Mr. Seymour,
I leave you to judge.
1289
01:39:00,904 --> 01:39:03,908
For a man of property,
it is a view that might be enviable.
1290
01:39:04,010 --> 01:39:08,390
Though I think you are wrong
to ascribe those enviable thoughts to me.
1291
01:39:08,485 --> 01:39:11,625
Perhaps, I would suggest, they should be
ascribed to my friend Mr. Noyes...
1292
01:39:11,726 --> 01:39:13,706
Who is I think standing beside me.
1293
01:39:13,797 --> 01:39:16,175
A custodian of contracts...
1294
01:39:16,268 --> 01:39:20,580
a man who was given custody
of private agreements in black-and-white.
1295
01:39:20,677 --> 01:39:22,657
And how do you feel, Mr. Neville...
1296
01:39:22,748 --> 01:39:27,094
that Mr. Herbert felt
about these black-and-white contracts?
1297
01:39:27,190 --> 01:39:30,535
As his agent, his bailiff, his notary...
1298
01:39:30,630 --> 01:39:35,170
his one-time friend, the close- though not
close enough- confidante of his wife...
1299
01:39:35,272 --> 01:39:37,980
I would have thought you would be
the best person to answer that.
1300
01:39:38,078 --> 01:39:41,821
It is curious, gentlemen,
that you persist in asking me questions...
1301
01:39:41,919 --> 01:39:45,298
which you are the most suitably situated
to answer.
1302
01:39:45,393 --> 01:39:47,634
It has, of course, occurred to me
that you, Mr. Noyes...
1303
01:39:47,731 --> 01:39:49,711
might have
advanced Mr. Herbert the information...
1304
01:39:49,802 --> 01:39:52,976
that was so discretionably set down
in black-and-white.
1305
01:39:53,075 --> 01:39:55,749
Whether he could have appreciated
what it stood for is another matter.
1306
01:39:55,847 --> 01:40:00,592
He was blind to so much-
certainly blind to considerable unhappiness.
1307
01:40:00,691 --> 01:40:02,671
Your understanding
of Mrs. Herbert's unhappiness...
1308
01:40:02,761 --> 01:40:05,503
could in no possible way
be considered profound or relevant.
1309
01:40:05,599 --> 01:40:09,445
I had access to some considerable observation
of her state of mind.
1310
01:40:09,541 --> 01:40:13,853
And you will not forget, sir, that I was helped
in that respect by her daughter- your wife, sir-
1311
01:40:13,950 --> 01:40:17,693
and was persuaded- and was
persistently persuaded by both ladies...
1312
01:40:17,791 --> 01:40:19,702
to undertake the commission
in the first place.
1313
01:40:19,795 --> 01:40:21,706
And they persuaded you, sir...
1314
01:40:21,799 --> 01:40:25,406
with a view that you might reconcile
differences, sir, and not plunder them,
1315
01:40:25,506 --> 01:40:29,545
I am in no way responsible
for Mr. Herbert's death.
1316
01:40:29,648 --> 01:40:31,628
The affair is a mystery to me...
1317
01:40:31,719 --> 01:40:35,496
though I have strong suspicions,
Mr. Talmann, Mr. Seymour, Mr. Noyes...
1318
01:40:35,593 --> 01:40:39,370
and, if they were here, indeed
of Mrs. Herbert herself and Mrs. Talmann-
1319
01:40:39,467 --> 01:40:43,347
ladies who both, after all,
entered willingly into their contracts.
1320
01:40:43,442 --> 01:40:47,481
Is that why, Mr. Neville, you have just
abused Mrs. Herbert further?
1321
01:40:51,491 --> 01:40:54,199
Ah.
1322
01:40:54,297 --> 01:40:57,608
What a pity.
1323
01:40:57,704 --> 01:40:59,911
That was clever.
1324
01:41:00,009 --> 01:41:04,890
We now have a contract with you, Mr. Neville...
1325
01:41:04,985 --> 01:41:08,159
and under conditions of our choosing.
1326
01:41:08,258 --> 01:41:11,637
The contract concerning
our present pleasure, Mr. Neville...
1327
01:41:11,732 --> 01:41:13,643
has three conditions.
1328
01:41:13,736 --> 01:41:17,206
It will be best served, sir,
when you have removed your finery.
1329
01:41:17,310 --> 01:41:19,290
Take off your hat, sir.
1330
01:41:19,380 --> 01:41:21,986
My hat, gentlemen...
1331
01:41:22,086 --> 01:41:24,566
has no contractual obligations
with anyone.
1332
01:41:31,438 --> 01:41:33,679
The contract's first condition, Mr. Neville-
1333
01:41:33,776 --> 01:41:36,814
and there is no need to write it down
for you will never see it-
1334
01:41:36,916 --> 01:41:39,658
is to cancel your eyes.
1335
01:41:43,328 --> 01:41:47,435
Since we have now
deprived you of your access to a living...
1336
01:41:47,536 --> 01:41:51,109
the shirt on your back
will be of no value to you.
1337
01:41:51,211 --> 01:41:53,817
It may well dress a scarecrow
to frighten the crows.
1338
01:41:53,917 --> 01:41:56,454
Or be scattered about an estate...
1339
01:41:56,554 --> 01:42:00,297
as ambiguous evidence
of an obscure allegory.
1340
01:42:00,396 --> 01:42:04,344
And the third condition of your contract,
concomitant to the other two-
1341
01:42:04,437 --> 01:42:07,247
- And legally binding...
- And efficiently undertaken...
1342
01:42:07,343 --> 01:42:09,914
- for what is a man without property-
- and foresight-
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