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(DOORBELL RINGING)

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Excuse me. Would Mrs
St Maugham live here?

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- She would.
- I'm sorry, I...

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came in answer to the advertisement.

5
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There's no need to be sorry.

6
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At least, not yet. Come in, please.

7
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Oh, goodness me.
It's very grand, isn't it?

8
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Built like a fort. It has to be.

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Pardon me, but are there many others?

10
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- You're number six.
- So many?

11
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Numbers one to five have already left,

12
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or rather fled.

13
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Oh, dear. The mistress
must be very hard to please.

14
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True. But, in fairness, the other
ladies didn't really want the job.

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- Why not?
- Because, er...

16
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let us say this is a nervous age.

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- Oh.
- Sit down, please.

18
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- (DOORBELL RINGING)
- Excuse me.

19
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Good morning. I should
like to see Mrs St Maugham.

20
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Do I have the wrong house?

21
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I'm sorry, madam.

22
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Mrs St Maugham is interviewing
applicants for a position here.

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- For a moment I thought...
- That's why I've come.

24
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For the job as governess?

25
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Is there some objection?

26
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Er... f-forgive me. No. (CHUCKLING)

27
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- Your name?
- The name is Madrigal.

28
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And yours?

29
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Er... Maitland.

30
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You've done such work before?

31
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Do you usually interview
applicants in the doorway?

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Er... I'm sorry.

33
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Please, come in.

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This way, please.

35
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Forgive me for staring at you.

36
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Why did you?

37
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Well, um...

38
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you're not the usual thing
in governesses, are you?

39
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Are you the usual thing in servants?

40
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I'll tell Mrs St Maugham you're here.

41
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Please sit... down.

42
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They say five have left already.

43
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Really.

44
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There must be something
terribly frightening in this house.

45
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That sounds like a
perfect description of me.

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Good morning, ladies.

47
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I presume you're both
here for the interview?

48
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Good morning.

49
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Are you the young lady
who requires a companion?

50
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I never shake hands. It's so animal.

51
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Please, be seated.

52
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Now, what are your qualifications?

53
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Twenty years' experience.

54
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What kind of whisky do you like?

55
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Oh!

56
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Well, if I had my choice, I'd...

57
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I'd take nothing.

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- Nothing less than a double, eh?
- (NERVOUS LAUGH)

59
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But I suppose you'd have
endless patience with me.

60
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APPLICANT: I'm so fond of young people.

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I set fire to things.

62
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I intend to burn the house down one day.

63
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Perhaps today.

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- Could you prevent me?
- Well, I...

65
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Maitland could, but he won't.

66
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He's a pyromaniac himself.
Did seven years for barratry.

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Barratry?

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Arson at sea.

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Oh, dear.

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I'm not permitted alone, except
in the garden or on the beach.

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Grandmother's rules.

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- Such lovely weather for the beach.
- (SEAGULL CRYING)

73
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If you don't mind sharks.

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I told a former governess
of mine there were sharks.

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She said I made them up.

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One day she was eaten by one.

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Ugh. Poor shark.

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I see.

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You live with your
grandmother. She must love you.

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She calls me her little immortality.

81
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She expects me to tell the
world about her when she's gone.

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I just might do it.

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Have you no mother of your own?

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Only legally.

85
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She married again for love.

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It's given me an adolescent
repugnance to her.

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My case is Freudian.

88
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What are <i>your</i> qualifications?

89
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I prefer to wait for Mrs St Maugham.

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Where do you live?

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In my room.

92
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How do you take to me?

93
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You're not what I'm used to.

94
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I'm fond of painting. Can you paint?

95
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What I can't do is wait much longer.

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Oh, she'll come. Grandmother will come.

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She's in the garden.

98
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She's a great gardener,
but nothing grows for her.

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Mrs St Maugham will ring when
she's ready for the interviews.

100
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I've laid the fire, Miss
Laurel. Do you wish to light it?

101
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See?

102
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- Did you use plenty of paraffin?
- Half a gallon.

103
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- 'Tisn't enough.
- It's all that's left.

104
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Oh, well. It'll have to do for a start.

105
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But later, Maitland. I'm busy now.

106
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Your grandmother would
prefer you to be busy elsewhere.

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She's probably right.

108
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No point in terrifying the applicants.

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But don't be discouraged, ladies.

110
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You'll find things can warm
up here quite suddenly.

111
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Er... during the interview,
ought we to be together?

112
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One of you ladies may wait
in the living room if you prefer.

113
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Oh, let it be me.

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I have nothing to do but wait. Really.

115
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I'll gladly wait in here.

116
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When you're ready, just call.

117
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She's a little light-fingered.

118
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What, that one?

119
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No more than a box of
matches or a magazine.

120
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- Well, do you know her?
- No.

121
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But I've met those
hands before many times.

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Oh.

123
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(FRONT DOOR CLOSING)

124
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She won't be back.

125
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- What are you doing?
- Locking the door.

126
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You're not going to escape so easily.

127
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If you get away, I shall end up by being
governess as well as everything else.

128
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With no time for barratry?

129
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Oh, that's my recreation.

130
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We prefer these not to light.

131
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The child uses them too frequently.

132
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The child's outlandish.

133
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This is an outlandish household.

134
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You may just find it to your liking.

135
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Because I'm outlandish?

136
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Unusual. Emphasise it.

137
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Mrs St Maugham cherishes the unusual.

138
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After all, I'm here.

139
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(BELL TINKLING)

140
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The lions are calling for a Christian.

141
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Oh. So this is our first applicant?

142
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The seventh, actually,
madam, and the last.

143
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The others have taken to the hills.

144
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Oh. Doesn't leave us
much choice, does it?

145
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll
have to hurry to have lunch ready.

146
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Hurry, Maitland, is
the curse of civilisation.

147
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The fact that I hurry, madam,

148
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gives certain people the leisure
time to make such observations.

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Insolent man.

150
00:10:16,991 --> 00:10:19,702
I suppose you're
wondering why I tolerate him.

151
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Because he amuses you?

152
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Fortunately, he hasn't
much time for that.

153
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He has too many other duties.

154
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He does them insufferably,
but he does them.

155
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Will you please sit down?

156
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Now...

157
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what questions do two total
strangers put to one another?

158
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The name is Madrigal.

159
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And what experience have you?

160
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I have never applied for
such a position before.

161
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And why did you apply to me?

162
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Your advertisement tempted me.

163
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I have been somewhat alone.

164
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You will be able, I suppose,
to give me references?

165
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References would be difficult.

166
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In fact, impossible.

167
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Really?

168
00:11:05,165 --> 00:11:08,626
Then perhaps you would like to
ask <i>me</i> questions, Miss Madrigal.

169
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Does one have a room to oneself?

170
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Life without a room to
oneself is a barbarity.

171
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Is this a quiet house?

172
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Absolutely.

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(SCREAMING)

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(SHRIEKING)

175
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(CHUCKLING) That's
my daughter's child, Laurel.

176
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- (SCREAMING)
- She's so fond of screaming.

177
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We met earlier.

178
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- Did she say anything?
- Nothing of consequence.

179
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Something about a governess
being eaten by a shark.

180
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- (LAUREL SCREAMING)
- (LAUGHING)

181
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That's only what she would <i>like</i>
to see happen to a governess.

182
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Anything to make a drama.

183
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When she wants the centre of the
stage, you cannot take it from her.

184
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(SCREAMING)

185
00:11:53,171 --> 00:11:56,341
MRS ST MAUGHAM: It's
rather early for her to be lighting it.

186
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(SHRIEKING)

187
00:12:00,386 --> 00:12:02,013
You encourage this?

188
00:12:02,096 --> 00:12:04,515
It would be far worse to discourage it.

189
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(SCREAMING)

190
00:12:14,234 --> 00:12:17,862
She's plagued with a compulsion
to burn down the house.

191
00:12:17,946 --> 00:12:20,198
However, we're curing that

192
00:12:20,281 --> 00:12:23,993
- with a sly psychological trick.
- What is that?

193
00:12:24,077 --> 00:12:27,872
Every day, we're making
the fire smaller and smaller.

194
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She hasn't noticed.

195
00:12:29,457 --> 00:12:31,501
One day, it won't be there.

196
00:12:31,584 --> 00:12:33,169
Do you see?

197
00:12:33,503 --> 00:12:34,921
I see.

198
00:12:40,593 --> 00:12:43,554
You study her as if you're
seeing something I don't.

199
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I am.

200
00:12:45,515 --> 00:12:47,600
I see myself at that age,

201
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as if I were looking
at an old photograph.

202
00:12:51,604 --> 00:12:56,025
I suppose that's your way of
saying you're qualified to care for her.

203
00:12:56,109 --> 00:12:58,945
Well, perhaps you are,
but her mother wasn't.

204
00:12:59,028 --> 00:13:00,613
Where is her mother?

205
00:13:00,697 --> 00:13:04,325
Unfortunately, she'll be here
in a few days to try to take her.

206
00:13:04,409 --> 00:13:05,326
And shouldn't she?

207
00:13:05,410 --> 00:13:08,204
That should be the worst
possible fate for the child.

208
00:13:08,288 --> 00:13:10,873
Her mother married a second time.

209
00:13:11,332 --> 00:13:13,084
And the child is alienated,

210
00:13:13,167 --> 00:13:15,878
because a love life has
broken out again in her mother.

211
00:13:15,962 --> 00:13:17,547
You put it well.

212
00:13:17,630 --> 00:13:19,007
Exactly.

213
00:13:19,090 --> 00:13:21,092
The child was frenzied.

214
00:13:21,175 --> 00:13:23,219
When nothing would stop the wedding,

215
00:13:23,303 --> 00:13:25,888
she ran from the hotel into the dark,

216
00:13:25,972 --> 00:13:29,100
and by some extraordinary
carelessness was attacked in Hyde Park

217
00:13:29,183 --> 00:13:30,435
at the age of 12.

218
00:13:30,518 --> 00:13:31,686
It's upset her nerves.

219
00:13:31,769 --> 00:13:34,856
Now, we spoke of references.
Who will speak for you?

220
00:13:35,523 --> 00:13:37,984
No-one will speak for me.

221
00:13:38,318 --> 00:13:39,485
Oh.

222
00:13:39,569 --> 00:13:42,030
Well, in that case, the, er...

223
00:13:42,113 --> 00:13:44,240
interview is over.

224
00:13:44,324 --> 00:13:46,868
I would not wish to waste your time.

225
00:13:46,951 --> 00:13:49,871
Come. I'll walk with you to the gate.

226
00:13:56,502 --> 00:13:59,505
Do you know anything about gardens? I do.

227
00:13:59,589 --> 00:14:02,050
But, this year, it's been going badly.

228
00:14:02,133 --> 00:14:05,470
Nothing I do for it does
any good. Just look.

229
00:14:05,636 --> 00:14:09,307
Nothing but grass and trees.
The flowers won't grow for me.

230
00:14:09,390 --> 00:14:11,768
I tell you, when a
flower dies in my garden,

231
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it hurts me as if a dear friend had died.

232
00:14:14,437 --> 00:14:16,439
I should think, as one grows older,

233
00:14:16,522 --> 00:14:18,274
death would seem more natural.

234
00:14:18,358 --> 00:14:22,320
Natural? The closer one gets,
the more unnatural it seems.

235
00:14:22,403 --> 00:14:24,322
In that case, a garden
should be a good lesson.

236
00:14:24,405 --> 00:14:26,741
- Why?
- So much dies in it,

237
00:14:26,824 --> 00:14:28,701
and so often, yet it goes on.

238
00:14:28,868 --> 00:14:31,268
Well, it's not a lesson
I look for, but a garden.

239
00:14:31,412 --> 00:14:34,874
I've tried everything. Extract
of humus on the seedlings...

240
00:14:34,957 --> 00:14:37,960
Extract of humus is
too rich for seedlings.

241
00:14:38,044 --> 00:14:39,379
What?

242
00:14:39,462 --> 00:14:42,465
It leads them on to expect
what life won't give them.

243
00:14:42,548 --> 00:14:45,134
The soil needs the early actinic rays.

244
00:14:45,218 --> 00:14:47,345
Exclude the sun again at midday.

245
00:14:47,428 --> 00:14:50,973
Counteract the high lime
content in your soil with potash.

246
00:14:52,225 --> 00:14:55,436
Where did you learn about such things?

247
00:14:56,396 --> 00:14:58,815
I was put in charge of a garden once.

248
00:15:00,149 --> 00:15:04,195
I will accept that as reference
enough, Miss Madrigal.

249
00:15:04,278 --> 00:15:07,573
You shall have the position
of governess to Laurel.

250
00:15:08,741 --> 00:15:11,411
- Thank you.
- But, I warn you,

251
00:15:11,911 --> 00:15:13,871
Laurel is mine.

252
00:15:13,955 --> 00:15:18,167
If she goes back to her mother,
you are dismissed immediately.

253
00:16:14,182 --> 00:16:17,185
Well, I suppose you know all about me.

254
00:16:17,268 --> 00:16:18,769
Not yet.

255
00:16:20,688 --> 00:16:23,441
Shall I get the book that explains me?

256
00:16:23,483 --> 00:16:25,359
Some rainy day.

257
00:16:33,826 --> 00:16:35,786
What else are you interested in?

258
00:16:35,870 --> 00:16:38,664
I mean, apart from
yourself and my belongings.

259
00:16:39,081 --> 00:16:41,250
What I don't like is to be questioned.

260
00:16:42,168 --> 00:16:43,503
I agree with you there.

261
00:16:43,586 --> 00:16:47,298
And I don't like to be agreed
with. I prefer a good argument.

262
00:16:47,381 --> 00:16:48,841
More stimulating.

263
00:16:48,925 --> 00:16:51,928
And I don't like to be
read to, unless I suggest it.

264
00:16:52,011 --> 00:16:55,806
And every morning I
don't like, "Good morning!"

265
00:16:56,098 --> 00:17:00,311
What is a good morning to someone
else is rarely a good morning to me.

266
00:17:00,394 --> 00:17:03,105
You must have had a
good many lady companions.

267
00:17:03,231 --> 00:17:04,732
Legions of them.

268
00:17:04,815 --> 00:17:08,361
And I presume you got rid of
them whenever you felt like it.

269
00:17:08,903 --> 00:17:11,989
My record is three in one week.

270
00:17:13,157 --> 00:17:15,159
How did you manage that?

271
00:17:15,243 --> 00:17:17,245
I exposed them.

272
00:17:17,328 --> 00:17:19,872
Oh? In what way?

273
00:17:20,456 --> 00:17:23,292
Everyone has something in their past.

274
00:17:23,376 --> 00:17:27,255
Some... dark and terrible secret.

275
00:17:27,338 --> 00:17:30,132
I find it out, and tell
it to my grandmother,

276
00:17:30,216 --> 00:17:33,219
who has a positive horror of scandal,

277
00:17:33,302 --> 00:17:35,429
and you start packing again.

278
00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:48,401
What if I were to expose you first?

279
00:17:48,484 --> 00:17:49,777
Try it.

280
00:17:50,069 --> 00:17:52,697
You'll find I have no secrets.

281
00:17:52,780 --> 00:17:55,866
I'm the only perfectly frank
person I've ever known.

282
00:17:55,950 --> 00:17:58,536
Very well. Be frank about yourself.

283
00:17:58,619 --> 00:18:00,121
Not on your first day.

284
00:18:00,204 --> 00:18:03,541
By tomorrow, someone
else will have told me.

285
00:18:03,624 --> 00:18:05,543
All right.

286
00:18:05,626 --> 00:18:07,295
I'm not to be trusted.

287
00:18:07,378 --> 00:18:10,089
I steal things. I cheat at cards.

288
00:18:10,172 --> 00:18:13,926
I make up dreadful lies about
people, and then I blackmail them.

289
00:18:14,343 --> 00:18:15,595
Is that all?

290
00:18:15,761 --> 00:18:17,555
That's not much.

291
00:18:21,142 --> 00:18:23,394
Here's the perfect place
for your family portraits

292
00:18:23,477 --> 00:18:25,021
or pictures of your loved ones,

293
00:18:25,104 --> 00:18:26,772
if you have any.

294
00:18:28,232 --> 00:18:30,151
What else do you occupy yourself with?

295
00:18:30,234 --> 00:18:31,611
Murder.

296
00:18:31,694 --> 00:18:33,404
Maitland and I share that interest.

297
00:18:33,487 --> 00:18:37,116
You see, he killed his wife and child.

298
00:18:37,199 --> 00:18:41,287
So, bit by bit, he and I are collecting
the Great True British Crime series.

299
00:18:41,370 --> 00:18:43,039
You're not interested in fiction?

300
00:18:43,122 --> 00:18:45,166
No. Real murder.

301
00:18:45,249 --> 00:18:48,544
I know all there is to know
about the criminal mind.

302
00:18:54,634 --> 00:18:56,177
Why do you come here?

303
00:18:57,595 --> 00:19:00,181
I have to do something with my life.

304
00:19:04,143 --> 00:19:08,272
Well, I give you fair
warning, Miss Madrigal.

305
00:19:08,356 --> 00:19:11,776
Exposing you will be the most fun of all.

306
00:19:12,318 --> 00:19:14,654
You're wonderfully odd.

307
00:19:15,946 --> 00:19:17,490
(DOOR CLOSING)

308
00:19:32,588 --> 00:19:34,590
(SEAGULL CRYING)

309
00:19:46,268 --> 00:19:47,561
May I see?

310
00:19:47,645 --> 00:19:49,188
It isn't finished yet.

311
00:19:50,815 --> 00:19:53,234
Do you mind if I talk while you draw?

312
00:19:53,317 --> 00:19:55,569
Not if you talk about
what I want to hear.

313
00:19:55,695 --> 00:19:57,238
What would that be?

314
00:19:57,321 --> 00:19:59,198
Where you were before you came here.

315
00:19:59,281 --> 00:20:01,242
What you did for a living.

316
00:20:01,325 --> 00:20:03,494
I had private means.

317
00:20:03,577 --> 00:20:05,871
But I'd much rather talk about you.

318
00:20:07,665 --> 00:20:09,875
Do you like living with your grandmother?

319
00:20:10,084 --> 00:20:11,293
Do you love her?

320
00:20:12,461 --> 00:20:13,713
Love her?

321
00:20:14,714 --> 00:20:16,465
I never really thought about it.

322
00:20:17,133 --> 00:20:18,801
You should.

323
00:20:18,884 --> 00:20:22,513
"Love" is the most important
word in any language.

324
00:20:22,596 --> 00:20:24,807
From love comes happiness.

325
00:20:24,890 --> 00:20:28,394
You talk easily about love and
happiness, but you never smile.

326
00:20:32,148 --> 00:20:33,524
You're right.

327
00:20:33,607 --> 00:20:35,276
You're absolutely right.

328
00:20:35,860 --> 00:20:38,860
You're beautiful when you smile.
You should smile more often.

329
00:20:40,740 --> 00:20:42,241
Is it finished?

330
00:20:42,616 --> 00:20:43,868
(SIGHING) Yes.

331
00:20:43,951 --> 00:20:45,870
But it isn't my best work.

332
00:20:45,953 --> 00:20:47,621
I'll show you mine.

333
00:20:49,373 --> 00:20:51,125
You're quite accomplished.

334
00:20:51,542 --> 00:20:53,043
Now yours.

335
00:20:53,127 --> 00:20:54,879
I don't think you'd like my drawing.

336
00:20:54,962 --> 00:20:58,591
Oh, come on, Laurel. I want to
see how much instruction you need.

337
00:21:05,931 --> 00:21:07,600
It's wonderful.

338
00:21:11,854 --> 00:21:13,439
Do you really think so?

339
00:21:13,522 --> 00:21:15,775
Far more imaginative than mine.

340
00:21:17,067 --> 00:21:18,402
Thanks for the compliment,

341
00:21:18,486 --> 00:21:21,197
but don't expect
anything in return for it.

342
00:21:32,041 --> 00:21:33,959
(OWL HOOTING)

343
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,842
(OWL HOOTING)

344
00:21:49,850 --> 00:21:51,352
(CREAKING)

345
00:22:09,662 --> 00:22:10,913
(CREAKING)

346
00:22:24,552 --> 00:22:26,554
(CREAKING)

347
00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:45,364
(CREAKING)

348
00:23:33,245 --> 00:23:34,997
Laurel?

349
00:23:35,664 --> 00:23:37,750
Laurel, darling.

350
00:23:37,833 --> 00:23:40,836
Did you think Mother'd forgotten you?

351
00:23:41,337 --> 00:23:43,631
You know better than that, don't you?

352
00:23:43,714 --> 00:23:45,966
It's just that Mother's been so busy,

353
00:23:46,050 --> 00:23:49,428
trying to keep the house
pretty and happy for you.

354
00:23:49,803 --> 00:23:51,931
You know how Mother loves you.

355
00:23:52,348 --> 00:23:53,933
Of course you do.

356
00:23:54,391 --> 00:23:59,063
She loves you more than any
little girl in the whole, wide world,

357
00:23:59,188 --> 00:24:01,607
more than any other person alive.

358
00:24:04,610 --> 00:24:06,779
If anything ever goes wrong,

359
00:24:06,862 --> 00:24:10,574
or if you just feel like
crying for no reason at all,

360
00:24:10,658 --> 00:24:12,993
you know I'll always be here,

361
00:24:13,077 --> 00:24:18,374
to put my arms around
you, hold you, protect you.

362
00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:20,834
You know all that without being told.

363
00:24:21,835 --> 00:24:25,047
So now Mother's going
to read you to sleep,

364
00:24:25,130 --> 00:24:28,384
with a beautiful, beautiful story.

365
00:24:29,134 --> 00:24:32,721
It's all about a good little girl
who thought nobody loved her.

366
00:24:32,805 --> 00:24:35,307
Can you imagine anything so silly?

367
00:24:36,392 --> 00:24:37,935
Now...

368
00:24:37,977 --> 00:24:42,439
"Once upon a time,
hundreds of years ago,"

369
00:24:42,523 --> 00:24:45,567
"when people lived
in great stone castles,"

370
00:24:45,651 --> 00:24:47,861
"and dragons roamed the earth..."

371
00:24:58,122 --> 00:25:01,250
How dare you open my
door without knocking!

372
00:25:01,792 --> 00:25:04,545
I did knock, Laurel.
You forgot your milk.

373
00:25:05,504 --> 00:25:07,047
And how did this thing get in here?

374
00:25:07,131 --> 00:25:09,633
I told you to get rid
of all my old dolls!

375
00:25:20,811 --> 00:25:22,855
Apparently, I forgot this one.

376
00:25:23,105 --> 00:25:24,481
It's that new governess.

377
00:25:24,565 --> 00:25:27,443
That Miss Madrigal. She's
the one. She slipped it in here.

378
00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:29,862
Trying to soften me.
Trying to break me down.

379
00:25:29,945 --> 00:25:32,448
But I don't break. I don't crack.

380
00:25:32,531 --> 00:25:35,617
- I'm hard.
- Harder than the doll, I'm afraid.

381
00:25:35,701 --> 00:25:37,578
Well, perhaps I can mend it.

382
00:25:37,661 --> 00:25:39,371
Who cares?

383
00:25:39,455 --> 00:25:41,855
Get it out of here. I
never want to see it again.

384
00:25:42,249 --> 00:25:43,667
You think about it.

385
00:25:44,835 --> 00:25:47,838
Perhaps you'll think of
some child who really needs it.

386
00:25:49,590 --> 00:25:51,008
Good night, Laurel.

387
00:25:59,224 --> 00:26:01,185
Is there anything I should do?

388
00:26:03,020 --> 00:26:04,021
No.

389
00:26:04,104 --> 00:26:06,023
No, she'll be all right.

390
00:26:06,857 --> 00:26:08,984
- Good night.
- Good night.

391
00:26:43,060 --> 00:26:45,062
(SOBBING)

392
00:27:17,678 --> 00:27:19,096
You are aware, Miss Madrigal,

393
00:27:19,179 --> 00:27:21,223
that, according to
Miss Laurel's timetable,

394
00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:23,934
the moment has come
when I should discharge you.

395
00:27:24,017 --> 00:27:25,769
Shall I start packing?

396
00:27:25,853 --> 00:27:27,563
Well, I must say,

397
00:27:27,646 --> 00:27:30,691
she's given me a very
sinister portrait of you.

398
00:27:30,774 --> 00:27:32,276
Sinister?

399
00:27:32,317 --> 00:27:34,903
She says you pace your room at night.

400
00:27:34,987 --> 00:27:37,781
In her words, "like a caged animal".

401
00:27:38,365 --> 00:27:39,533
Anything else?

402
00:27:39,616 --> 00:27:41,618
Let me think. Oh, yes.

403
00:27:41,702 --> 00:27:44,246
Yes, she says all your
things are brand new.

404
00:27:44,329 --> 00:27:46,248
Clothes, shoes,

405
00:27:46,331 --> 00:27:50,085
many of them still
bearing the original tags.

406
00:27:50,169 --> 00:27:53,088
She says you keep your
door open at all times,

407
00:27:53,547 --> 00:27:55,591
and you haven't a single
picture of a loved one

408
00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:57,134
on your dressing table.

409
00:27:57,217 --> 00:27:58,802
I have no loved one.

410
00:27:58,886 --> 00:28:01,430
Well, according to Laurel,

411
00:28:01,763 --> 00:28:03,098
it all adds up.

412
00:28:03,682 --> 00:28:04,892
To what?

413
00:28:04,975 --> 00:28:07,603
That you're running away from something.

414
00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:10,856
That you've just escaped
from a lunatic asylum.

415
00:28:11,315 --> 00:28:13,650
That could explain my being here.

416
00:28:14,651 --> 00:28:16,528
How do <i>you</i> explain it?

417
00:28:16,612 --> 00:28:18,947
The new clothes? Pacing my room?

418
00:28:19,031 --> 00:28:20,490
I don't.

419
00:28:20,574 --> 00:28:22,409
Everything she's told you is the truth.

420
00:28:22,492 --> 00:28:23,827
The truth?

421
00:28:23,911 --> 00:28:25,621
We're making progress.

422
00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:27,039
I congratulate you.

423
00:28:27,122 --> 00:28:28,582
I'm not discharged?

424
00:28:28,665 --> 00:28:29,833
Certainly not!

425
00:28:29,958 --> 00:28:32,461
I don't take instructions from the child.

426
00:28:33,086 --> 00:28:35,422
That seems to work both ways.

427
00:28:35,505 --> 00:28:37,758
Oh, don't be deceived, Miss Madrigal.

428
00:28:37,841 --> 00:28:41,345
I shall make something out of
her yet, in spite of her mother.

429
00:28:41,470 --> 00:28:43,972
And what did you make of her mother?

430
00:28:44,056 --> 00:28:46,433
Do you try to provoke me?

431
00:28:46,558 --> 00:28:47,768
Not at all.

432
00:28:47,851 --> 00:28:51,146
But it would help me to know
the child if I understood the mother.

433
00:28:51,313 --> 00:28:53,231
Well, I can be of no
assistance to you there.

434
00:28:53,315 --> 00:28:55,484
I don't understand her myself.

435
00:28:55,651 --> 00:28:59,696
I gave Olivia every advantage.
Background and breeding.

436
00:28:59,780 --> 00:29:02,950
And she threw it away
for a passing infatuation.

437
00:29:06,286 --> 00:29:08,288
You mean the man she's married to?

438
00:29:08,372 --> 00:29:10,666
Don't speak to me of <i>him.</i>

439
00:29:10,749 --> 00:29:13,710
Confine your attentions here to Laurel.

440
00:29:16,255 --> 00:29:17,422
And the garden!

441
00:29:17,506 --> 00:29:19,758
It's shrivelling up before my very eyes.

442
00:29:19,841 --> 00:29:21,885
MADRIGAL: This is a chalk
garden, Mrs St Maugham.

443
00:29:21,969 --> 00:29:24,221
You are trying to grow flowers in chalk.

444
00:29:24,388 --> 00:29:25,806
It's not the soil.

445
00:29:25,889 --> 00:29:27,933
It's the wind from the sea, the salt.

446
00:29:28,016 --> 00:29:30,102
They have been in pure lime.

447
00:29:30,227 --> 00:29:32,104
Not so much as a little leaf mould.

448
00:29:32,187 --> 00:29:35,023
They could have compost
or peat moss or soil food,

449
00:29:35,107 --> 00:29:37,943
but nothing in the world
has been done for them.

450
00:29:38,026 --> 00:29:39,903
Have you time, Mrs St
Maugham, before death,

451
00:29:39,987 --> 00:29:41,989
to throw away season after season?

452
00:29:42,072 --> 00:29:44,324
Of course, of course. I
know time is important, but...

453
00:29:44,408 --> 00:29:46,910
Your flowers need nourishment,
something to grow on.

454
00:29:46,994 --> 00:29:48,995
Your soil can't give
them what it doesn't have.

455
00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:50,872
Then you give them what they need.

456
00:29:50,956 --> 00:29:53,041
You're in charge of my garden.

457
00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:55,210
Am I?

458
00:29:55,294 --> 00:29:57,212
I wasn't sure.

459
00:29:57,796 --> 00:30:00,799
I'll do my best, Mrs St Maugham,
to help you with your garden.

460
00:30:00,882 --> 00:30:02,342
And the child.

461
00:30:02,426 --> 00:30:04,261
Their problems are similar.

462
00:30:41,590 --> 00:30:43,633
Good morning, Laurel.

463
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,052
I told you I could tell

464
00:30:45,135 --> 00:30:47,637
whether a morning was
good or not for myself.

465
00:30:48,347 --> 00:30:51,058
I wanted you to know how
I felt about the morning.

466
00:30:51,308 --> 00:30:52,934
Won't win any prizes.

467
00:30:53,018 --> 00:30:55,270
I thought you'd be packing by now.

468
00:30:55,354 --> 00:30:58,148
The charges against me have
been dropped for the moment.

469
00:30:58,273 --> 00:30:59,983
Insufficient evidence.

470
00:31:00,150 --> 00:31:01,318
Oh?

471
00:31:01,401 --> 00:31:03,820
Well, I'll have to
manufacture some, then.

472
00:31:03,904 --> 00:31:05,947
I'm quite capable of that, you know.

473
00:31:06,031 --> 00:31:07,991
I'm sure you are.

474
00:31:08,075 --> 00:31:12,371
- (SEAGULLS CRYING)
- Oh, what a lovely spot.

475
00:31:13,497 --> 00:31:16,124
Is this where the shark
ate the governess?

476
00:31:16,208 --> 00:31:17,584
Somewhere along here.

477
00:31:17,667 --> 00:31:19,294
What date was that?

478
00:31:19,378 --> 00:31:21,171
I'm not a walking almanac.

479
00:31:21,254 --> 00:31:24,007
You have no date
because it's pure fiction.

480
00:31:25,175 --> 00:31:27,469
Laurel, people who live on fantasy

481
00:31:27,552 --> 00:31:31,264
usually do so because they're
afraid no-one cares for them.

482
00:31:33,975 --> 00:31:37,020
Now then, today I'm going to read.

483
00:31:37,104 --> 00:31:38,647
Can't you remember anything?

484
00:31:38,730 --> 00:31:40,440
I don't like to be read to.

485
00:31:40,524 --> 00:31:42,734
Then you read to me.

486
00:31:42,818 --> 00:31:45,821
Stuffy. I can tell by the cover.

487
00:31:45,904 --> 00:31:47,823
What's it about?

488
00:31:47,906 --> 00:31:50,951
It's about a little girl
very much like I was.

489
00:31:52,202 --> 00:31:55,956
A girl who has everything
except the one thing she wants.

490
00:31:56,289 --> 00:31:57,624
And what's that?

491
00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:00,001
A friend.

492
00:32:02,212 --> 00:32:03,755
Well, I must go and tell Maitland

493
00:32:03,839 --> 00:32:05,549
he's forgotten to lay the bonfire.

494
00:32:05,632 --> 00:32:08,760
He didn't forget. I told him not to.

495
00:32:08,844 --> 00:32:10,345
Never again.

496
00:32:11,513 --> 00:32:13,723
You don't know what I'm liable to do.

497
00:32:13,849 --> 00:32:14,850
I know.

498
00:32:14,933 --> 00:32:17,227
You're liable to set fire to the house.

499
00:32:18,145 --> 00:32:19,688
Go ahead.

500
00:32:20,063 --> 00:32:21,481
Well, this is hardly the moment.

501
00:32:21,565 --> 00:32:24,526
You've been telling everyone
you're going to burn it down.

502
00:32:24,609 --> 00:32:26,236
Do it!

503
00:32:26,319 --> 00:32:29,114
I don't just do these
things to order, you know.

504
00:32:29,197 --> 00:32:31,324
That's another thing.
I never take orders.

505
00:32:31,408 --> 00:32:33,410
And you never burn down houses.

506
00:32:33,452 --> 00:32:36,079
And let me tell you
something more about yourself.

507
00:32:36,163 --> 00:32:38,457
You like being told how terrible you are.

508
00:32:38,540 --> 00:32:40,375
You'd like to shock the whole world

509
00:32:40,459 --> 00:32:41,960
for just one reason.

510
00:32:42,043 --> 00:32:43,962
So that someone in it
would know you existed,

511
00:32:44,045 --> 00:32:45,964
and <i>make</i> you do what you <i>should</i> do.

512
00:32:46,047 --> 00:32:48,884
And what's that? Stop hating people?

513
00:32:49,009 --> 00:32:50,844
Who do you hate,
Laurel, besides yourself?

514
00:32:50,927 --> 00:32:54,097
Everyone. My mother, most of all.

515
00:32:54,723 --> 00:32:57,017
I, too, hated my mother.

516
00:32:57,100 --> 00:32:59,060
I should say it was my stepmother.

517
00:32:59,144 --> 00:33:01,313
Oh, that's just an
ordinary sort of hatred.

518
00:33:01,396 --> 00:33:03,565
Mine's more special.

519
00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:05,400
Why?

520
00:33:05,484 --> 00:33:08,445
Because my mother's a Jezebel.

521
00:33:08,487 --> 00:33:12,240
She's so overloaded
with sex that it sparkles.

522
00:33:12,324 --> 00:33:14,117
She's golden and striped,

523
00:33:14,201 --> 00:33:16,077
like something in the jungle.

524
00:33:16,161 --> 00:33:18,205
You sound proud of her.

525
00:33:18,288 --> 00:33:21,041
Oh! How could you be
expected to understand?

526
00:33:21,124 --> 00:33:23,043
Here. I'll read your silly old book.

527
00:33:23,126 --> 00:33:25,837
Anything's better than talking to you.

528
00:33:30,091 --> 00:33:32,636
Page one, chapter one.

529
00:33:32,677 --> 00:33:35,597
"Dainty little Daphne,
only four years old,"

530
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,557
"smiled with childish glee"

531
00:33:37,641 --> 00:33:39,559
"as she picked up a hatchet"

532
00:33:39,643 --> 00:33:42,979
"and nimbly chopped her
governess into many small pieces."

533
00:33:43,063 --> 00:33:45,690
"Then, bounding up the
stairs to her mother's room..."

534
00:33:45,774 --> 00:33:47,692
She'll be here tomorrow, you know.

535
00:33:47,776 --> 00:33:49,152
Who will?

536
00:33:49,236 --> 00:33:50,987
Your mother.

537
00:33:51,071 --> 00:33:52,280
Oh?

538
00:33:52,364 --> 00:33:54,324
I wasn't informed.

539
00:33:54,407 --> 00:33:55,742
Well, I'm not interested.

540
00:33:55,825 --> 00:33:57,953
What she does has nothing to do with me.

541
00:33:58,036 --> 00:33:59,621
I see.

542
00:33:59,704 --> 00:34:01,915
Now, suppose you begin again.

543
00:34:01,998 --> 00:34:04,042
The original version this time.

544
00:34:05,043 --> 00:34:07,003
I suppose I'll have to.

545
00:34:07,087 --> 00:34:08,964
You're the boss, aren't you?

546
00:34:09,047 --> 00:34:10,423
Yes.

547
00:34:15,637 --> 00:34:17,889
"It was a lovely summer's morning."

548
00:34:17,973 --> 00:34:20,308
"The cathedral bells tolled harmoniously"

549
00:34:20,392 --> 00:34:23,562
"over the great and fruitful valley."

550
00:34:23,645 --> 00:34:26,439
"Ding-dong, ding-dong."

551
00:34:32,612 --> 00:34:35,198
Oh, Maitland, one thing more.

552
00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:38,994
Don't greet Miss Olivia too effusively.

553
00:34:39,077 --> 00:34:41,663
I want her to understand
that her comings and goings

554
00:34:41,746 --> 00:34:44,165
do not disturb us in the very least.

555
00:34:44,249 --> 00:34:46,209
Not too effusively.

556
00:34:50,297 --> 00:34:52,299
(TYRES SCREECHING)

557
00:35:07,147 --> 00:35:09,149
(CAR DOOR CLOSING)

558
00:35:28,877 --> 00:35:32,922
(DOORBELL RINGING)

559
00:35:40,722 --> 00:35:43,433
(DOORBELL RINGING)

560
00:35:45,226 --> 00:35:46,978
- (DOOR OPENING)
- MAITLAND: Welcome home, Miss Olivia.

561
00:35:47,062 --> 00:35:48,771
OLIVIA: Maitland, how good to see you.

562
00:35:48,855 --> 00:35:51,650
<i>- Now tell me-Where's Laurel?</i>
- MAITLAND: <i>I think she's up in her room.</i>

563
00:35:51,733 --> 00:35:54,277
<i>And your mother is in the drawing room.</i>

564
00:35:58,740 --> 00:36:00,283
Mother.

565
00:36:01,117 --> 00:36:02,702
Olivia, my girl.

566
00:36:08,625 --> 00:36:10,043
Now...

567
00:36:13,046 --> 00:36:14,798
Let me look at you.

568
00:36:19,636 --> 00:36:21,471
Yes, I'm pregnant.

569
00:36:21,596 --> 00:36:23,139
I'd no idea.

570
00:36:23,223 --> 00:36:24,724
A little surprise.

571
00:36:24,808 --> 00:36:27,060
You're so healthy and
tanned, in spite of it.

572
00:36:27,143 --> 00:36:30,271
Mother, how's Laurel? Where
is she? Has she changed?

573
00:36:30,355 --> 00:36:32,440
Ask about me, Olivia. Ask about me.

574
00:36:32,524 --> 00:36:34,442
I do. I would.

575
00:36:34,526 --> 00:36:38,113
All I can seem to say
is Laurel, Laurel, Laurel.

576
00:36:38,530 --> 00:36:40,031
Where is she?

577
00:36:40,156 --> 00:36:42,117
Tell me about her.

578
00:36:43,451 --> 00:36:45,370
Does she ask about me?

579
00:36:46,871 --> 00:36:49,666
What does she feel about
my coming to see her?

580
00:36:50,250 --> 00:36:51,501
Mother!

581
00:36:51,584 --> 00:36:54,546
At my age, I've earned
a drink in the afternoon.

582
00:36:54,629 --> 00:36:57,298
That's not what I meant.
You haven't answered me.

583
00:36:57,382 --> 00:36:58,883
Where's Laurel?

584
00:36:58,967 --> 00:37:02,637
You know, you shouldn't wear
beige with your skin that colour.

585
00:37:02,721 --> 00:37:06,558
So, we take up where we left off.

586
00:37:06,933 --> 00:37:09,483
Laurel is happy here. Why
don't you leave her alone?

587
00:37:09,728 --> 00:37:12,313
Because she's <i>my</i> daughter, not yours.

588
00:37:12,814 --> 00:37:15,233
Did you wear the scarf
on purpose to annoy me?

589
00:37:15,650 --> 00:37:18,111
What you wear is a language to me.

590
00:37:18,194 --> 00:37:21,865
Does it never become possible to
talk as one grown woman to another?

591
00:37:21,990 --> 00:37:24,117
Not so long as you refuse to grow up.

592
00:37:24,325 --> 00:37:27,871
Please. I don't want
to fight old battles.

593
00:37:27,996 --> 00:37:30,373
I just want to see my daughter.

594
00:37:34,335 --> 00:37:36,671
(BELL TINKLING)

595
00:37:40,633 --> 00:37:41,718
Yes, madam?

596
00:37:41,885 --> 00:37:43,762
Tell Miss Laurel her mother is here.

597
00:37:43,845 --> 00:37:45,597
Very good, madam.

598
00:37:46,389 --> 00:37:48,308
Why do you come here now?

599
00:37:48,391 --> 00:37:51,394
- Why try to see her now?
- Now? But I always want...

600
00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:53,354
But you're going to have another child.

601
00:37:53,438 --> 00:37:56,608
This child's the unknown.
Laurel's my daughter.

602
00:37:56,775 --> 00:37:59,985
That's why I want her now, before
I begin to love the baby too much.

603
00:38:00,069 --> 00:38:03,156
So, when it suits your
convenience you want her.

604
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,116
You want to take her,

605
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,577
who came to me, who ran to me

606
00:38:07,660 --> 00:38:10,413
as an asylum from your indifference.

607
00:38:10,538 --> 00:38:12,373
It was not indifference.

608
00:38:12,457 --> 00:38:15,627
It was a difficult and
painful thing to do.

609
00:38:15,710 --> 00:38:19,547
I tried to explain, but you
wouldn't let her read my letters.

610
00:38:19,631 --> 00:38:21,841
You never even let
her meet the man I love.

611
00:38:21,925 --> 00:38:23,927
- The man I married.
- You deserted her.

612
00:38:24,010 --> 00:38:27,555
You left her in the ruins of a
marriage, a marriage I made.

613
00:38:27,639 --> 00:38:29,682
- For you, not me.
- You left her.

614
00:38:29,808 --> 00:38:31,184
You left your husband.

615
00:38:31,267 --> 00:38:33,228
You drove him to his death.

616
00:38:33,478 --> 00:38:34,729
You lie!

617
00:38:34,813 --> 00:38:36,648
I had nothing to do with it.

618
00:38:40,735 --> 00:38:42,654
Oh, Mother,

619
00:38:42,737 --> 00:38:46,574
of a thousand thousand
rows between you and me...

620
00:38:46,658 --> 00:38:49,619
And this not, I know, the last one...

621
00:38:50,036 --> 00:38:51,955
Be on my side.

622
00:38:52,914 --> 00:38:55,583
Oh, for once be on my side.

623
00:38:56,292 --> 00:38:57,961
Help me.

624
00:38:58,044 --> 00:39:00,213
How dare you ask that.

625
00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:03,925
You, who've hated and
fought me every day of your life,

626
00:39:04,008 --> 00:39:05,969
scorned my principles,

627
00:39:06,135 --> 00:39:08,429
scoffed at my ideals,

628
00:39:08,513 --> 00:39:10,557
ripped decency to shreds.

629
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,934
How dare you even set foot in this house,

630
00:39:13,017 --> 00:39:15,395
- let alone try to take Laurel back.
- (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

631
00:39:15,478 --> 00:39:17,981
MAITLAND: (DISCREET COUGH) I'm sorry.

632
00:39:18,064 --> 00:39:20,399
I've looked for Miss Laurel.
She's not in her room or...

633
00:39:20,483 --> 00:39:22,610
Then get Miss Madrigal to help you!

634
00:39:22,694 --> 00:39:24,612
Find Laurel and bring her here.

635
00:39:25,029 --> 00:39:26,739
Yes, madam.

636
00:39:43,923 --> 00:39:45,466
(CLATTERING)

637
00:39:50,972 --> 00:39:52,265
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

638
00:39:53,057 --> 00:39:55,852
Well, that's the last of
her <i>usual</i> hiding places.

639
00:39:55,935 --> 00:39:57,729
Isn't there anywhere else?

640
00:39:57,812 --> 00:39:58,938
You know as well as I do,

641
00:39:59,022 --> 00:40:01,649
she won't be found before
she wants to be found.

642
00:40:01,733 --> 00:40:03,526
Then, she'll be quite
impossible to avoid.

643
00:40:03,610 --> 00:40:04,986
You give up easily.

644
00:40:05,069 --> 00:40:08,031
You wouldn't conspire to keep
Laurel from her mother, would you?

645
00:40:08,114 --> 00:40:11,075
Miss Madrigal, you and I
want the same thing for Laurel.

646
00:40:11,159 --> 00:40:13,494
Her happiness, wherever it takes her.

647
00:40:13,578 --> 00:40:16,039
Yes, of course. I'm sorry.

648
00:40:25,798 --> 00:40:27,800
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

649
00:40:28,301 --> 00:40:30,303
Well? Is she coming?

650
00:40:30,386 --> 00:40:32,486
We can't find her
anywhere, Mrs St Maugham.

651
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,599
I see.

652
00:40:34,682 --> 00:40:37,352
- Do you think...
- This is Laurel's mother.

653
00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:40,188
This is Miss Madrigal,
Laurel's governess.

654
00:40:40,313 --> 00:40:42,565
How do you do? Do you think
something's happened to her?

655
00:40:42,649 --> 00:40:44,817
It's not likely. She's
a resourceful girl.

656
00:40:44,901 --> 00:40:46,861
She'll probably pick her
own time to present herself.

657
00:40:46,945 --> 00:40:48,780
She likes to make a good entrance.

658
00:40:48,947 --> 00:40:50,531
Yes, now you're both dismissed.

659
00:40:50,615 --> 00:40:53,660
No, wait. I'd like to
hear more about Laurel.

660
00:40:53,743 --> 00:40:57,163
Some other time. They have other duties.

661
00:40:57,372 --> 00:40:58,998
Please, please, get on with them.

662
00:40:59,082 --> 00:41:00,833
Laurel has good instincts.

663
00:41:00,917 --> 00:41:03,544
I think, in the end,
they will serve her well.

664
00:41:03,628 --> 00:41:08,299
Miss Madrigal, I did not
engage you as a fortune-teller.

665
00:41:16,015 --> 00:41:17,225
(DOOR CLOSING)

666
00:41:17,308 --> 00:41:19,978
- She was only being kind.
- Yes. She pities you.

667
00:41:20,144 --> 00:41:22,313
Because it's quite
obvious to everyone else

668
00:41:22,397 --> 00:41:24,732
that Laurel can't stand the sight of you.

669
00:41:24,816 --> 00:41:27,694
I don't believe that. I won't.

670
00:41:27,777 --> 00:41:30,238
I don't even believe she knows I'm here.

671
00:41:30,321 --> 00:41:32,365
I think you've hidden her, miles away.

672
00:41:32,448 --> 00:41:35,827
No, she's running from
you, as you ran from me.

673
00:41:35,952 --> 00:41:37,912
A family trait.

674
00:41:37,996 --> 00:41:40,456
Very well. I'll go.

675
00:41:40,540 --> 00:41:42,375
- But I'll be back.
- What for?

676
00:41:42,458 --> 00:41:44,627
To take Laurel out of here, and with me.

677
00:41:44,711 --> 00:41:46,879
- You can't!
- I can, and will.

678
00:41:46,963 --> 00:41:49,424
I'll have the necessary
legal papers then.

679
00:41:49,507 --> 00:41:51,592
If Laurel's not here when I return,

680
00:41:51,676 --> 00:41:54,095
I'll use the full weight
of the law against you.

681
00:41:54,178 --> 00:41:55,805
I'm still her mother.

682
00:41:55,888 --> 00:41:58,307
An unfit mother, and I can prove it.

683
00:41:58,391 --> 00:41:59,684
I give you warning.

684
00:41:59,767 --> 00:42:02,145
Don't fail to have her
here when I return.

685
00:42:11,154 --> 00:42:12,989
(DOOR CLOSING)

686
00:42:16,534 --> 00:42:18,536
(PHONE RINGING)

687
00:42:19,954 --> 00:42:22,707
(WAVES CRASHING)

688
00:42:28,838 --> 00:42:31,549
MRS ST MAUGHAM: Hello? Hello? Yes?

689
00:42:31,632 --> 00:42:34,052
This is Litlington 39.

690
00:42:34,135 --> 00:42:37,805
Yes, this is Mrs Drexel
St Maugham speaking.

691
00:42:37,889 --> 00:42:40,892
Yes, well, I want to
speak to Judge McWhirrey.

692
00:42:40,975 --> 00:42:42,643
Oh! Oh, he's there?

693
00:42:42,727 --> 00:42:44,604
Oh, all right. I'll hold on.

694
00:42:48,024 --> 00:42:50,526
Puppy? Is that you?

695
00:42:50,610 --> 00:42:53,404
Yes, I've been trying
to get you for ages.

696
00:42:53,488 --> 00:42:56,074
Oh, fine, fine.

697
00:42:56,157 --> 00:42:58,785
Yes, I'm quite indestructible.

698
00:42:58,868 --> 00:43:02,663
Yes, but the truth is, I'm in
the most desperate need of you.

699
00:43:02,747 --> 00:43:04,665
In a legal sense.

700
00:43:04,749 --> 00:43:08,086
No, no. No, not over the telephone.

701
00:43:08,169 --> 00:43:10,129
Can't you come here?

702
00:43:10,213 --> 00:43:13,091
Spend a day or more
with us at Bellfontaine?

703
00:43:14,509 --> 00:43:17,970
Yes, yes, it is quite that important.

704
00:43:18,054 --> 00:43:20,556
Laurel's whole life may depend on it.

705
00:43:20,932 --> 00:43:23,559
(LOUD CRACKLING)

706
00:43:26,896 --> 00:43:28,898
(WAVES CRASHING)

707
00:44:29,709 --> 00:44:31,586
Don't be frightened, Laurel.

708
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:34,088
- I've been looking for you.
- What for?

709
00:44:34,172 --> 00:44:37,175
I've been worried about
you. Then I saw your fire.

710
00:44:37,258 --> 00:44:39,760
I told you I'd light one
whenever I felt like it.

711
00:44:39,844 --> 00:44:44,056
Yes, and Maitland told me you'd
be found whenever you felt like it.

712
00:44:44,140 --> 00:44:45,683
I'm hungry.

713
00:44:46,767 --> 00:44:48,853
Has she gone?

714
00:44:48,936 --> 00:44:51,314
Why didn't you have the
courtesy to speak to her?

715
00:44:51,397 --> 00:44:54,609
Miss Madrigal, you are
a £12-a-week governess,

716
00:44:54,692 --> 00:44:56,611
which means you are a failure in life.

717
00:44:56,652 --> 00:44:58,321
So please don't try to run mine.

718
00:44:58,362 --> 00:45:00,114
Now look here!

719
00:45:00,198 --> 00:45:02,742
I can be ten times as hard as you,

720
00:45:02,825 --> 00:45:04,410
with words or anything else.

721
00:45:04,827 --> 00:45:08,915
You will no longer speak to me or
any other adult as if we were cattle.

722
00:45:08,998 --> 00:45:12,793
You will recognise that we have
had experiences in life beyond yours,

723
00:45:12,877 --> 00:45:14,879
and that your mother loves you,

724
00:45:14,962 --> 00:45:17,965
or is trying to love
you, with all her heart.

725
00:45:19,842 --> 00:45:22,845
My mother never loved
anybody in the world but herself.

726
00:45:22,929 --> 00:45:24,847
You don't believe that.

727
00:45:24,931 --> 00:45:27,808
My mother was married
to a very important man,

728
00:45:27,892 --> 00:45:29,685
my father.

729
00:45:29,769 --> 00:45:31,687
One night she didn't come
and kiss me good night.

730
00:45:31,771 --> 00:45:32,813
She didn't have time.

731
00:45:32,897 --> 00:45:35,397
Oh, it's a little thing. It
grows big in your mind.

732
00:45:35,483 --> 00:45:39,779
I sat up in my room, and I
cried because she <i>did</i> have time.

733
00:45:39,862 --> 00:45:41,906
But not for me,

734
00:45:42,198 --> 00:45:43,699
or my father,

735
00:45:43,783 --> 00:45:48,329
but for somebody she stood with in
the shadows of the doorway downstairs,

736
00:45:48,371 --> 00:45:52,792
somebody she stood there kissing
and hugging and making love to,

737
00:45:52,875 --> 00:45:54,919
somebody she got into the car with,

738
00:45:55,002 --> 00:45:57,296
and drove <i>off</i> with and <i>lived</i> with,

739
00:45:57,546 --> 00:46:00,633
and never came back to
see me or my father again.

740
00:46:01,092 --> 00:46:02,093
Come, Laurel.

741
00:46:02,218 --> 00:46:04,679
Tell me how much she
loves me, Miss Madrigal.

742
00:46:04,762 --> 00:46:07,765
Quote me something philosophical.

743
00:46:07,848 --> 00:46:11,894
Do you know what my father did when
he realised what she'd done to him?

744
00:46:12,395 --> 00:46:14,689
He put a gun to his head,

745
00:46:14,772 --> 00:46:16,607
and killed himself.

746
00:46:17,775 --> 00:46:19,360
I was in the room.

747
00:46:21,279 --> 00:46:23,155
Now, Miss Madrigal,

748
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:26,867
you clever, ingenious, experienced woman,

749
00:46:27,034 --> 00:46:29,829
tell me how to love
everybody in the world.

750
00:46:30,037 --> 00:46:32,039
Quote me a proverb, a motto.

751
00:46:32,331 --> 00:46:33,791
Give me a piece of sugar

752
00:46:33,874 --> 00:46:37,753
that will make life taste
like one big lollipop.

753
00:46:38,838 --> 00:46:40,715
Try!

754
00:46:42,508 --> 00:46:44,051
Laurel!

755
00:46:45,886 --> 00:46:47,263
Laurel!

756
00:46:50,266 --> 00:46:52,268
(LAUREL SOBBING)

757
00:46:52,935 --> 00:46:55,229
Go ahead and cry, Laurel.

758
00:46:55,313 --> 00:46:58,024
Cry as long and as hard as you want.

759
00:46:58,107 --> 00:47:00,693
Cry until you can't cry anymore.

760
00:47:00,776 --> 00:47:03,404
No, no, no. I hate to cry.

761
00:47:03,487 --> 00:47:04,447
- Don't.
- I hate it.

762
00:47:04,530 --> 00:47:06,741
God made tears to be cried.

763
00:47:07,867 --> 00:47:12,246
Oh, why must everywhere
else in the world be so beautiful,

764
00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:15,708
and this place be so ugly?

765
00:47:15,791 --> 00:47:19,420
Oh, if only I could be
anywhere but where I am,

766
00:47:19,545 --> 00:47:21,339
anybody but who I am.

767
00:47:21,422 --> 00:47:23,090
Oh, come on.

768
00:47:23,174 --> 00:47:26,469
Now then, where and
what do you want to be?

769
00:47:30,306 --> 00:47:31,766
Dead...

770
00:47:32,058 --> 00:47:33,768
and in Hell.

771
00:47:34,518 --> 00:47:35,519
Laurel!

772
00:47:35,603 --> 00:47:37,897
- Let me go!
- Laurel, you don't mean that.

773
00:47:37,980 --> 00:47:39,648
I meant every word of it!

774
00:47:39,774 --> 00:47:41,192
You do not!

775
00:47:41,275 --> 00:47:43,235
(HARD SLAP)

776
00:47:44,612 --> 00:47:46,155
(SOBBING)

777
00:47:46,238 --> 00:47:48,491
Oh, no. I don't mean it.

778
00:47:49,158 --> 00:47:51,202
I don't mean it at all!

779
00:47:55,623 --> 00:47:57,875
Don't you come near me.

780
00:47:57,958 --> 00:48:00,836
And don't you get the wrong
impression about what I just did.

781
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:01,629
Laurel...

782
00:48:01,712 --> 00:48:04,173
I'd have put my arms around
a post or a rock just then.

783
00:48:04,256 --> 00:48:05,758
Laurel...

784
00:48:05,841 --> 00:48:08,427
I don't trust you any more
than I trust my own mother!

785
00:48:08,511 --> 00:48:10,262
Laurel!

786
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,002
(CREAKING)

787
00:48:58,936 --> 00:49:00,938
(CREAKING)

788
00:49:49,778 --> 00:49:51,530
Miss Madrigal. Won't you come in?

789
00:49:51,655 --> 00:49:53,908
I'm sorry. I didn't know you were here.

790
00:49:53,991 --> 00:49:55,409
I came down for a book.

791
00:49:55,743 --> 00:49:58,996
That's quite all right.
Come and sit down.

792
00:49:59,163 --> 00:50:00,956
MISS MADIGAL: <i>It doesn't
matter-Don't let me disturb you.</i>

793
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:02,249
MAITLAND: <i>You're not disturbing me.</i>

794
00:50:02,333 --> 00:50:06,587
<i>On the contrary, I have far too
much of my own company these days.</i>

795
00:50:10,174 --> 00:50:11,717
(DOOR CLOSING)

796
00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:15,596
Laurel is not at her
best through mahogany.

797
00:50:16,096 --> 00:50:17,264
- Is she?
- Yes.

798
00:50:17,348 --> 00:50:20,351
- Oh...
- Now, may I help?

799
00:50:20,434 --> 00:50:22,603
Something to, er... keep you awake...

800
00:50:22,686 --> 00:50:24,605
or put you to sleep?

801
00:50:28,943 --> 00:50:30,319
Will you tell me something?

802
00:50:30,361 --> 00:50:31,987
About what?

803
00:50:32,071 --> 00:50:33,614
Laurel's father.

804
00:50:33,656 --> 00:50:36,617
Did he really shoot
himself in front of her?

805
00:50:36,867 --> 00:50:39,828
He died of a liver ailment,
the result of too much liquor.

806
00:50:41,747 --> 00:50:42,998
(TUTTING)

807
00:50:43,082 --> 00:50:46,126
How to tell the truths from the lies?

808
00:50:46,377 --> 00:50:48,629
Most of what Laurel
says is <i>dramatised</i> truth.

809
00:50:48,712 --> 00:50:51,632
The lies are very carefully salted in.

810
00:50:51,715 --> 00:50:53,884
She told me you killed
your wife and child.

811
00:50:53,968 --> 00:50:55,511
Truth.

812
00:50:56,011 --> 00:50:58,889
A motorcar accident. I was driving.

813
00:50:58,973 --> 00:51:00,724
I'm sorry.

814
00:51:03,561 --> 00:51:05,437
And the Hyde Park incident?

815
00:51:05,521 --> 00:51:07,127
Well, the truth of that could be no more

816
00:51:07,169 --> 00:51:08,941
than a smile or a wink
by some passing man.

817
00:51:09,024 --> 00:51:10,818
You don't believe she was attacked?

818
00:51:10,901 --> 00:51:13,779
Mrs St Maugham would never
allow a doctor to examine her,

819
00:51:13,862 --> 00:51:15,322
or the police to question her.

820
00:51:15,406 --> 00:51:17,575
I know it sounds incredible,
a twelve-year-old child

821
00:51:17,658 --> 00:51:21,036
- to make up this fantastic...
- An only child is never twelve.

822
00:51:22,454 --> 00:51:24,623
You'll like this. It's a good year.

823
00:51:24,707 --> 00:51:26,584
I usually keep it for myself.

824
00:51:26,917 --> 00:51:30,921
- Please.
- No, I... I think you need it.

825
00:51:51,066 --> 00:51:54,695
Odd. I feel as if you've
taken me into your own house.

826
00:51:55,154 --> 00:51:58,324
When it's quiet like
this, I think of it that way.

827
00:51:58,866 --> 00:52:00,534
My house.

828
00:52:00,618 --> 00:52:03,370
Fine library, great wine cellar,

829
00:52:03,454 --> 00:52:05,497
warm, comfortable rooms.

830
00:52:05,998 --> 00:52:07,875
An estate, Miss Madrigal.

831
00:52:08,584 --> 00:52:10,711
What more could any man want?

832
00:52:10,919 --> 00:52:13,213
And how else can I acquire so much?

833
00:52:13,297 --> 00:52:16,091
I have it all to myself eight
months out of the year.

834
00:52:16,175 --> 00:52:20,179
It's only in the summer that
I open my house to others.

835
00:52:20,554 --> 00:52:23,265
Are your guests always so active?

836
00:52:24,224 --> 00:52:26,393
Well, that depends on the climate.

837
00:52:26,477 --> 00:52:29,480
But, now <i>you're</i> here,
even that's improving.

838
00:52:31,357 --> 00:52:33,484
Now, don't misunderstand me.

839
00:52:33,567 --> 00:52:36,695
This is my family, whatever their faults.

840
00:52:36,779 --> 00:52:39,573
But you mustn't take on
their emotional burdens.

841
00:52:39,740 --> 00:52:41,617
You're not paid enough for that.

842
00:52:41,867 --> 00:52:43,160
I might say the same of you.

843
00:52:43,243 --> 00:52:44,286
No.

844
00:52:44,370 --> 00:52:47,081
No, it's, er... It's different with me.

845
00:52:47,164 --> 00:52:49,375
Mrs St Maugham needed you.

846
00:52:49,458 --> 00:52:52,169
She took me in because I needed her.

847
00:52:52,294 --> 00:52:53,504
When the war finished,

848
00:52:53,587 --> 00:52:56,590
my wife and I bought a
small hotel near Brighton.

849
00:52:56,674 --> 00:52:59,218
Mrs St Maugham used
to come and stay with us.

850
00:52:59,301 --> 00:53:01,553
After the accident, I, um...

851
00:53:02,304 --> 00:53:03,764
I went to pieces.

852
00:53:03,806 --> 00:53:05,766
She was very kind.

853
00:53:05,849 --> 00:53:07,601
She made a place for me here.

854
00:53:07,685 --> 00:53:09,937
- And you've stayed ever since.
- Yes.

855
00:53:10,020 --> 00:53:12,940
I've made a new life for myself.

856
00:53:13,023 --> 00:53:16,527
I've been able to continue
my interrupted education.

857
00:53:16,610 --> 00:53:20,406
By reading the Great
True British Crime series?

858
00:53:20,489 --> 00:53:22,439
(CHUCKLING) Well, this is an education.

859
00:53:22,616 --> 00:53:24,284
An education on the reason for killing.

860
00:53:24,368 --> 00:53:26,662
- It's fascinating.
- I'm sure.

861
00:53:26,745 --> 00:53:29,873
When a man kills, it's the
one act he does totally alone.

862
00:53:30,082 --> 00:53:31,709
The world isn't with him.

863
00:53:31,792 --> 00:53:35,129
Therefore, his convictions
must be tremendous.

864
00:53:35,462 --> 00:53:37,506
I admire people with convictions.

865
00:53:38,841 --> 00:53:41,552
People don't kill reasonably.

866
00:53:41,635 --> 00:53:46,014
They kill unreasonably, passionately.

867
00:53:50,310 --> 00:53:52,479
Thank you for the wine.

868
00:53:52,813 --> 00:53:55,023
Er... before you go,
let me give you a book.

869
00:53:55,524 --> 00:53:57,151
Any book.

870
00:53:57,234 --> 00:54:00,195
For Laurel's benefit,
if she's still about.

871
00:54:00,779 --> 00:54:03,198
Now, what do you fancy?

872
00:54:03,282 --> 00:54:06,118
Arnold Bennett. Conan Doyle.

873
00:54:06,410 --> 00:54:07,911
Hemingway.

874
00:54:08,078 --> 00:54:10,122
Er... HG Wells.

875
00:54:11,373 --> 00:54:15,169
Or perhaps you feel like
something a bit more contemporary...

876
00:54:16,962 --> 00:54:18,797
How about this one?

877
00:54:21,008 --> 00:54:23,969
That's Mrs Maugham's
collection of old admirers.

878
00:54:24,219 --> 00:54:25,679
Three Members of Parliament.

879
00:54:25,763 --> 00:54:27,806
The usual percentage
of undiscovered artists.

880
00:54:27,890 --> 00:54:29,850
A Lord Mayor.

881
00:54:30,225 --> 00:54:31,852
Do you know one of them?

882
00:54:33,228 --> 00:54:34,563
Thank you.

883
00:54:36,857 --> 00:54:39,943
I have a feeling you want
to finish this conversation.

884
00:54:40,027 --> 00:54:41,320
Good night.

885
00:54:50,454 --> 00:54:52,456
(WAVES CRASHING)

886
00:54:53,916 --> 00:54:55,918
(BIRDSONG)

887
00:55:00,088 --> 00:55:01,715
LAUREL: <i>Ah!</i>

888
00:55:01,799 --> 00:55:03,383
Good morning! Good morning!

889
00:55:03,467 --> 00:55:05,344
Good morning, Grandloo.

890
00:55:05,427 --> 00:55:08,388
Oh, what a glorious morning.

891
00:55:08,472 --> 00:55:11,767
What a marvellous morning
for intrigue and for secrets.

892
00:55:12,893 --> 00:55:15,479
Ah, here comes dear, dear Maitland.

893
00:55:15,562 --> 00:55:17,481
I was just saying, Maitland dear,

894
00:55:17,564 --> 00:55:21,193
that some mornings are
better for secrets than others.

895
00:55:21,276 --> 00:55:23,278
This one, for instance, has that...

896
00:55:23,362 --> 00:55:25,739
(SHARPLY INHALING) special feeling.

897
00:55:25,823 --> 00:55:27,825
For making secrets, or breaking them?

898
00:55:27,908 --> 00:55:29,868
I haven't decided that yet.

899
00:55:29,952 --> 00:55:32,246
- More coffee, Miss Madrigal?
- No, thank you.

900
00:55:32,287 --> 00:55:34,206
Oh, Maitland.

901
00:55:34,289 --> 00:55:36,959
You'll make some woman
a marvellous husband.

902
00:55:37,042 --> 00:55:39,211
None for me, thank
you. I'll just have brandy.

903
00:55:39,294 --> 00:55:41,171
Straight or with soda, Miss Laurel?

904
00:55:41,255 --> 00:55:44,633
Laurel, when you take
your first drink, if ever,

905
00:55:44,716 --> 00:55:46,802
it will not be brandy at breakfast.

906
00:55:46,885 --> 00:55:49,680
Oh, Grandloo, I've been
drinking heavily for years,

907
00:55:49,763 --> 00:55:52,224
ever since that terrible night.

908
00:55:52,307 --> 00:55:54,309
Ask Maitland. I've
drunk all the Burgundy,

909
00:55:54,393 --> 00:55:56,645
from 1917 to 1941.

910
00:55:56,728 --> 00:55:58,355
Quite impossible, madam.

911
00:55:58,438 --> 00:56:00,338
- How do you know?
- I drank it myself.

912
00:56:00,607 --> 00:56:03,944
(GIGGLING)

913
00:56:04,027 --> 00:56:06,613
And what else is on the
menu this morning, boss?

914
00:56:06,697 --> 00:56:09,324
Mathematics? Personality development?

915
00:56:09,491 --> 00:56:11,869
- Sex education?
- Laurel!

916
00:56:11,952 --> 00:56:15,038
Well, I've got to learn sometime
or I'll never get the hang of it.

917
00:56:15,122 --> 00:56:17,624
You may get the sketching
materials from your room.

918
00:56:17,708 --> 00:56:19,835
After you finish breakfast.

919
00:56:20,794 --> 00:56:22,713
To hear is to obey.

920
00:56:22,796 --> 00:56:27,092
Why should I be the only one
to resist your persuasive charm?

921
00:56:36,518 --> 00:56:38,812
"More coffee, Miss Madrigal?"

922
00:56:38,896 --> 00:56:41,440
"Oh, certainly, Miss Madrigal."

923
00:56:41,523 --> 00:56:44,276
"Oh, whatever you say, Miss Madrigal."

924
00:56:44,359 --> 00:56:48,989
Oh, Maitland, is love blossoming
in the servants' quarters?

925
00:56:49,072 --> 00:56:51,617
Simple kindness is so rare in this house

926
00:56:51,700 --> 00:56:53,827
that it's instantly mistaken for passion.

927
00:56:53,911 --> 00:56:56,455
Oh, Mrs Williams, I didn't
see you. How well you look.

928
00:56:56,538 --> 00:56:57,998
And how's dear Mr Williams?

929
00:56:58,081 --> 00:57:00,500
Oh, much better, thank
you, Miss Laurel. Much better.

930
00:57:00,584 --> 00:57:03,211
And what sort of kindnesses were
you and Miss Madrigal exchanging

931
00:57:03,295 --> 00:57:05,881
- in the library last night?
- We met quite by accident.

932
00:57:05,964 --> 00:57:09,259
Gentlemen of the jury, I ask you.

933
00:57:09,343 --> 00:57:11,845
And do you deny that you
like her a little, Maitland?

934
00:57:11,929 --> 00:57:15,432
Perhaps even love her a little?

935
00:57:15,515 --> 00:57:18,352
The very fact that you can't
answer proves that you do.

936
00:57:18,435 --> 00:57:20,354
In what court of law?

937
00:57:20,437 --> 00:57:22,522
In the court of the human heart.

938
00:57:22,606 --> 00:57:24,358
Oh, and what a shame.

939
00:57:24,441 --> 00:57:26,985
The great twentieth-century tragedy.

940
00:57:27,069 --> 00:57:29,613
- She's not in your class, Maitland.
- Now, that's enough.

941
00:57:29,696 --> 00:57:31,406
- But consider the evidence...
- That's enough.

942
00:57:31,490 --> 00:57:33,325
How she came to us with nothing.

943
00:57:33,408 --> 00:57:35,285
She writes no letters. She receives none.

944
00:57:35,369 --> 00:57:37,037
She's never even had a phone call.

945
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:38,872
Maybe she's out of something.

946
00:57:38,956 --> 00:57:41,083
Something like an alcoholic sanatorium,

947
00:57:41,208 --> 00:57:42,876
or a madhouse.

948
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:46,296
Do you think Grandloo would want
a madwoman watching over me?

949
00:57:46,380 --> 00:57:47,839
It would only be simple justice,

950
00:57:47,923 --> 00:57:50,258
considering all the
governesses you've <i>driven</i> mad.

951
00:57:50,342 --> 00:57:52,761
But we have to know, don't we, you and I?

952
00:57:52,844 --> 00:57:54,680
I hope you're not
asking me to spy for you.

953
00:57:54,763 --> 00:57:56,556
- To observe.
- No.

954
00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:58,392
- Maitland!
- No.

955
00:58:00,852 --> 00:58:02,562
All right, then.

956
00:58:02,646 --> 00:58:05,649
I'll have to do my own spying.

957
00:58:05,732 --> 00:58:08,402
Well, isn't that rather
beneath your talents?

958
00:58:08,485 --> 00:58:10,946
After all, she doesn't
even lock her door.

959
00:58:12,406 --> 00:58:14,408
It wouldn't matter.

960
00:58:14,491 --> 00:58:17,536
A locked door never kept
me out of your room, did it?

961
00:58:23,458 --> 00:58:24,835
SALESMAN: There we are, sir.

962
00:58:24,918 --> 00:58:29,423
Safety, security and privacy,
all in one neat package.

963
00:58:30,590 --> 00:58:33,677
Ah, the price, sir, will be
nine shillings and elevenpence.

964
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:35,429
(CHUCKLING) ls there anything else, sir?

965
00:58:35,512 --> 00:58:37,014
No, thank you. This
ought to do the trick.

966
00:58:37,097 --> 00:58:38,682
Right, sir.

967
00:58:39,975 --> 00:58:42,394
And, er... one penny change, sir.

968
00:58:42,477 --> 00:58:43,812
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye, sir.

969
00:58:43,895 --> 00:58:45,772
- Good day, madam.
- MISS MADRIGAL: Good day.

970
00:58:45,856 --> 00:58:46,982
(CHURCH BELLS RINGING)

971
00:58:47,065 --> 00:58:50,527
You must have something quite valuable
in the house to take such precautions.

972
00:58:50,610 --> 00:58:52,779
Well, that's one way
of putting it. For you.

973
00:58:52,863 --> 00:58:55,532
- For me? What for?
- Your door.

974
00:58:55,866 --> 00:58:58,702
Well, I'm not in the
habit of locking my door.

975
00:58:58,827 --> 00:59:01,747
Even if you were, a
skeleton key could still open it.

976
00:59:01,830 --> 00:59:03,957
Laurel has the idea
of searching your room.

977
00:59:04,041 --> 00:59:06,251
I advise a good padlock.

978
00:59:06,710 --> 00:59:09,046
I don't care much for locks.

979
00:59:09,129 --> 00:59:10,922
Nevertheless, they're
the principal reason

980
00:59:11,006 --> 00:59:14,301
for whatever honesty still
exists in our society today.

981
00:59:15,635 --> 00:59:17,679
Well, that completes my purchases.

982
00:59:17,763 --> 00:59:19,681
- Now, what about yours?
- There's nothing I need.

983
00:59:19,765 --> 00:59:22,976
Oh, there must be something.
Hairpins, nylons, cologne.

984
00:59:23,101 --> 00:59:24,478
Just the fresh air.

985
00:59:24,561 --> 00:59:27,481
That's what I really came
along for. Not this, certainly.

986
00:59:27,564 --> 00:59:29,608
I'm afraid that's a must.

987
00:59:29,691 --> 00:59:31,401
Laurel's in for a disappointment.

988
00:59:31,485 --> 00:59:33,445
I've nothing hidden in my room.

989
00:59:33,528 --> 00:59:35,113
Or anywhere?

990
00:59:36,073 --> 00:59:38,450
My life has been quite dull.

991
00:59:38,533 --> 00:59:40,202
I don't believe that's possible.

992
00:59:40,285 --> 00:59:42,621
In fact, in your own quiet way,

993
00:59:42,704 --> 00:59:45,832
you're the most exciting thing that's
happened to the St Maugham household

994
00:59:45,916 --> 00:59:47,667
since I've been there.

995
00:59:47,751 --> 00:59:51,546
- Maitland...
- Oh, I know what you're thinking.

996
00:59:51,630 --> 00:59:54,007
"Here comes another
problem for me to handle."

997
00:59:54,091 --> 00:59:55,675
Well, don't worry.

998
00:59:55,759 --> 00:59:57,928
My admiration knows its place.

999
00:59:58,011 --> 00:59:59,930
It wasn't that. It's...

1000
01:00:00,597 --> 01:00:02,224
Why "exciting"?

1001
01:00:02,307 --> 01:00:04,768
Have I done anything or said anything?

1002
01:00:04,851 --> 01:00:07,562
It's what you haven't
done and haven't said.

1003
01:00:07,604 --> 01:00:09,564
Now you sound like Laurel.

1004
01:00:10,232 --> 01:00:12,484
Well, we're both amateur detectives.

1005
01:00:12,567 --> 01:00:14,236
With one difference.

1006
01:00:14,319 --> 01:00:18,365
To me the unsolved mysteries
are far the most exciting.

1007
01:02:20,695 --> 01:02:22,489
(CLICKING)

1008
01:03:10,787 --> 01:03:12,247
(CAR DOOR OPENING)

1009
01:03:12,330 --> 01:03:13,790
(CAR DOOR CLOSING)

1010
01:04:40,001 --> 01:04:41,878
None for me, thank you.

1011
01:04:41,961 --> 01:04:44,130
But it's sherry trifle, your favourite.

1012
01:04:44,214 --> 01:04:46,383
I have a new favourite.

1013
01:04:46,466 --> 01:04:49,803
You've scarcely touched
your food. Is anything wrong?

1014
01:04:49,886 --> 01:04:51,471
Not really.

1015
01:04:51,554 --> 01:04:53,473
I'm in the middle of a mystery story.

1016
01:04:53,556 --> 01:04:55,850
The suspense is killing me.

1017
01:04:55,934 --> 01:04:56,584
May I be excused?

1018
01:04:56,626 --> 01:04:58,228
Well, certainly, but
I think you should...

1019
01:04:58,311 --> 01:05:00,611
I should have it finished
in less than an hour.

1020
01:05:00,814 --> 01:05:03,108
Then we'll have a smashing
game of backgammon.

1021
01:05:05,151 --> 01:05:07,862
She's been so nervous
and upset all evening.

1022
01:05:09,072 --> 01:05:11,199
Do you suppose she's been meeting a boy?

1023
01:05:11,282 --> 01:05:14,953
If so, it's more likely <i>he'd</i>
be nervous and upset.

1024
01:05:15,036 --> 01:05:17,747
I think it's something quite different.

1025
01:05:44,649 --> 01:05:46,234
(RATTLING)

1026
01:07:30,088 --> 01:07:32,090
(MUFFLED THUMPING)

1027
01:07:40,431 --> 01:07:42,433
(OBJECT SLIDING)

1028
01:08:48,458 --> 01:08:50,126
(SCREAMING)

1029
01:08:51,085 --> 01:08:52,545
Help me!

1030
01:08:52,629 --> 01:08:55,340
(SCREAMING) Help!

1031
01:08:56,174 --> 01:08:58,259
- (SCREAMING)
- Heavens, child.

1032
01:08:58,843 --> 01:09:00,637
Well, what are you both staring at?

1033
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:03,431
I happen to like climbing trees.

1034
01:09:03,514 --> 01:09:04,807
Come down at once.

1035
01:09:04,974 --> 01:09:07,310
Well, don't just stand
there like a fool, Maitland.

1036
01:09:07,393 --> 01:09:09,479
Come up and do something.

1037
01:09:29,207 --> 01:09:32,335
Really! She's getting out of hand.

1038
01:09:32,418 --> 01:09:36,171
Without even a word, she starts hacking
off the branch of a 200-year-old tree.

1039
01:09:36,255 --> 01:09:37,632
But the branch is dead.

1040
01:09:37,715 --> 01:09:40,760
Even dead things have their uses.

1041
01:09:40,843 --> 01:09:43,304
That was a very deep thought, dear.

1042
01:09:43,888 --> 01:09:47,225
Why don't you get rid of her?
Throw her out. I don't need her.

1043
01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:51,354
Well, for some
extraordinary reason, I can't.

1044
01:09:53,231 --> 01:09:55,775
You're not afraid of
her, are you, Grandloo?

1045
01:09:55,858 --> 01:09:57,568
Of course not.

1046
01:09:58,194 --> 01:10:00,071
Don't be ridiculous.

1047
01:10:06,828 --> 01:10:09,622
Your lady friend has the
oddest way of doing things.

1048
01:10:09,706 --> 01:10:11,541
I thought that was your stock in trade.

1049
01:10:11,624 --> 01:10:14,293
She's driving my madness underground.

1050
01:10:14,377 --> 01:10:18,131
In her warped imagination that
limb probably represents me.

1051
01:10:18,214 --> 01:10:20,341
Just because I happened
to be out on it last night.

1052
01:10:20,425 --> 01:10:22,552
(BRANCH CRACKING)

1053
01:10:22,635 --> 01:10:24,554
(BRANCH FALLING)

1054
01:10:24,846 --> 01:10:26,681
Sawdust to sawdust.

1055
01:10:26,764 --> 01:10:29,350
So, you think she suspects you, eh?

1056
01:10:29,517 --> 01:10:30,601
Suspects?

1057
01:10:30,727 --> 01:10:32,437
- She knows.
- Then I'd be careful.

1058
01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:36,149
At the moment, she has a better case
against you than you've got against her.

1059
01:10:36,232 --> 01:10:40,737
Oh, I wouldn't be too sure,
old ex-partner in crime.

1060
01:10:40,820 --> 01:10:44,407
I can pretty well guarantee she's
very unlikely to want the law called in.

1061
01:10:44,490 --> 01:10:46,325
Oh? Well, it's been called in.

1062
01:10:47,201 --> 01:10:50,246
- What, the police?
- Worse. The judge.

1063
01:10:50,329 --> 01:10:52,915
- Oh, what's he coming for?
- Lunch.

1064
01:10:53,249 --> 01:10:54,542
Oh.

1065
01:10:54,625 --> 01:10:56,669
Maitland, that's marvellous.

1066
01:10:56,753 --> 01:10:59,380
Here's our chance to talk
criminology and murder.

1067
01:11:00,381 --> 01:11:02,425
The judge!

1068
01:11:03,217 --> 01:11:05,553
Judge? What judge?

1069
01:11:05,803 --> 01:11:08,222
An old friend of Mrs St Maugham.

1070
01:11:08,306 --> 01:11:11,142
Oh? What's his name?

1071
01:11:11,225 --> 01:11:13,519
Well, Mrs St Maugham
refers to him as "Puppy".

1072
01:11:13,603 --> 01:11:15,563
She was once his mistress.

1073
01:11:15,646 --> 01:11:17,356
- Do you know that?
- No.

1074
01:11:17,440 --> 01:11:18,858
Then why do you say it?

1075
01:11:18,941 --> 01:11:21,486
Why do I say anything? For effect.

1076
01:11:21,569 --> 01:11:24,739
But if it's not true, and you're
believed, where are you?

1077
01:11:24,822 --> 01:11:27,366
- Where am I?
- Floating away.

1078
01:11:27,450 --> 01:11:29,744
The only hold we have
on this world is the truth.

1079
01:11:29,827 --> 01:11:32,747
There's nothing in this world
I care about holding on to.

1080
01:11:32,830 --> 01:11:34,874
Tell us more about the judge, Maitland.

1081
01:11:34,957 --> 01:11:37,335
He's hearing that murder case in
London on Monday. He's going...

1082
01:11:37,418 --> 01:11:40,254
Oh, no. That's too good
to be true. I've read about it.

1083
01:11:40,338 --> 01:11:42,715
The man who killed
his wife in a fit of...

1084
01:11:42,799 --> 01:11:45,343
Cover your ears, Miss Madrigal.

1085
01:11:45,426 --> 01:11:47,762
Uncontrollable passion.

1086
01:11:48,763 --> 01:11:50,515
Think of him now,

1087
01:11:50,598 --> 01:11:53,267
lying in his cell, or pacing it.

1088
01:11:53,351 --> 01:11:56,729
Yes. Pacing it like a caged
animal, back and forth.

1089
01:11:56,813 --> 01:11:59,232
His hot blood turned cold.

1090
01:11:59,315 --> 01:12:00,775
His murderer's blood frozen...

1091
01:12:00,817 --> 01:12:03,277
No man is a murderer
until he's convicted.

1092
01:12:03,319 --> 01:12:05,488
But when he first looks the
judge in the eye, he must know.

1093
01:12:05,571 --> 01:12:08,783
The judge never looks
up. He seems to sleep.

1094
01:12:08,866 --> 01:12:11,869
But it's the sleep of cruelty.

1095
01:12:11,953 --> 01:12:13,913
Why do you think only of the judge?

1096
01:12:13,996 --> 01:12:15,790
It's the jury they work on.

1097
01:12:16,123 --> 01:12:17,834
But when you read about such trials,

1098
01:12:17,917 --> 01:12:20,086
it seems it must be the judge.

1099
01:12:20,211 --> 01:12:23,339
Read more and you'll see
that it's neither, but fate.

1100
01:12:23,506 --> 01:12:25,299
But they work to get at the truth.

1101
01:12:25,466 --> 01:12:28,302
The truth doesn't always
ring true in a court of law.

1102
01:12:28,511 --> 01:12:31,430
- What does ring true?
- The likelihood.

1103
01:12:31,597 --> 01:12:33,057
The probability.

1104
01:12:33,140 --> 01:12:36,352
They work to make things hang together.

1105
01:12:36,435 --> 01:12:40,648
What the prisoner listens
to there is not his life.

1106
01:12:40,731 --> 01:12:43,734
It's the shape and shadow of his life,

1107
01:12:43,818 --> 01:12:46,612
with the accidents
of truth taken out of it.

1108
01:12:52,660 --> 01:12:55,538
How did you get into a courtroom?

1109
01:12:55,705 --> 01:12:57,874
It's surprisingly easy.

1110
01:12:58,249 --> 01:13:01,043
Now, go and put on
some rubber-soled shoes.

1111
01:13:01,210 --> 01:13:02,879
For what? To sneak into a court?

1112
01:13:03,254 --> 01:13:04,881
Yes. Really?

1113
01:13:04,964 --> 01:13:06,799
A tennis court.

1114
01:13:06,883 --> 01:13:08,509
Oh, aren't you the clever one?

1115
01:13:08,593 --> 01:13:10,136
You play tennis, too.

1116
01:13:10,219 --> 01:13:12,471
About as well as you play detective.

1117
01:13:34,785 --> 01:13:36,162
Oh!

1118
01:13:36,245 --> 01:13:38,539
Point. Game and set.

1119
01:13:39,665 --> 01:13:41,417
Change ends.

1120
01:13:42,919 --> 01:13:45,630
- Tell me something.
- If I can.

1121
01:13:45,713 --> 01:13:48,466
That trial you attended.
Was it a trial for murder?

1122
01:13:48,549 --> 01:13:50,927
It would have to be to satisfy you.

1123
01:13:52,637 --> 01:13:55,056
Who is "CDW"?

1124
01:13:58,184 --> 01:14:00,019
My married sister.

1125
01:14:03,522 --> 01:14:06,192
I thought you'd been born unrelated.

1126
01:14:06,275 --> 01:14:08,611
And now you have a sister.

1127
01:14:08,694 --> 01:14:10,363
Most people have someone.

1128
01:14:10,446 --> 01:14:14,033
Suppose you were to drop down
dead? To whom shall we write?

1129
01:14:14,325 --> 01:14:16,994
I shall not drop down dead.

1130
01:14:25,795 --> 01:14:27,463
Do you have to do that?

1131
01:14:27,546 --> 01:14:29,507
Oh, I hate just walking.

1132
01:14:30,007 --> 01:14:31,717
Let's play a game.

1133
01:14:31,801 --> 01:14:34,720
- What kind of a game?
- A guessing game.

1134
01:14:34,804 --> 01:14:36,263
Do you know one?

1135
01:14:36,347 --> 01:14:39,183
Maitland and I play one
called "The Sky's the Limit".

1136
01:14:39,266 --> 01:14:41,394
We ask three questions each.

1137
01:14:41,477 --> 01:14:44,522
But for each one you don't
answer, I get an extra one.

1138
01:14:44,605 --> 01:14:46,273
And what do we guess about?

1139
01:14:46,357 --> 01:14:48,401
Each other.

1140
01:14:48,651 --> 01:14:51,237
You know, boss, we're
both rather mysterious.

1141
01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:53,280
Does it have to be the truth?

1142
01:14:53,364 --> 01:14:54,824
Oh, you can lie.

1143
01:14:54,907 --> 01:14:57,743
But I get better and
better at spotting the lies.

1144
01:14:57,827 --> 01:14:59,662
Now, give me a moment to think.

1145
01:15:03,290 --> 01:15:05,292
Right. I'm ready.

1146
01:15:05,376 --> 01:15:07,586
First question.

1147
01:15:07,670 --> 01:15:10,965
Are you a maiden lady?

1148
01:15:11,048 --> 01:15:13,300
- I can't answer that one.
- Why?

1149
01:15:13,384 --> 01:15:15,970
Because you throw the emphasis so oddly.

1150
01:15:16,137 --> 01:15:19,557
Right. You don't answer,
so I get an extra question.

1151
01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:20,599
Mm-hmm.

1152
01:15:20,683 --> 01:15:23,102
Are you living under an assumed name?

1153
01:15:23,185 --> 01:15:25,563
- No.
- Careful, boss.

1154
01:15:25,646 --> 01:15:28,107
I've got my lie detector working.

1155
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:32,737
Do you take things at my
grandmother's house at face value?

1156
01:15:32,820 --> 01:15:34,864
- No.
- Wonderful.

1157
01:15:34,947 --> 01:15:37,283
- You're getting the idea.
- There's our bus.

1158
01:15:37,366 --> 01:15:39,618
Tell me the full name of
your married sister, quickly.

1159
01:15:39,702 --> 01:15:41,704
Clarissa Dalrymple Westerham.

1160
01:15:41,829 --> 01:15:45,374
- Is "Dalrymple Westerham" a double name?
- You've had your questions.

1161
01:15:45,458 --> 01:15:48,158
- (CONDUCTOR'S BELL RINGING)
- Hurry up. We'll miss it.

1162
01:15:51,297 --> 01:15:52,673
(LAUREL SHRIEKING)

1163
01:16:05,853 --> 01:16:07,688
Now your questions.

1164
01:16:07,772 --> 01:16:09,815
- What?
- The game. Your questions.

1165
01:16:09,899 --> 01:16:11,692
Oh, yes.

1166
01:16:12,276 --> 01:16:16,280
Were there any witnesses to
your famous Hyde Park affair?

1167
01:16:16,822 --> 01:16:17,865
No.

1168
01:16:17,948 --> 01:16:20,242
What was the charge by the police?

1169
01:16:20,326 --> 01:16:22,328
The police didn't come into it.

1170
01:16:22,411 --> 01:16:25,664
Did someone follow
you and try to kiss you?

1171
01:16:25,748 --> 01:16:28,167
Kiss me? He tried to...

1172
01:16:28,751 --> 01:16:31,462
It was an open-and-shut
case of criminal assault.

1173
01:16:31,545 --> 01:16:34,006
How do you know that, if there
wasn't a charge by the police?

1174
01:16:34,090 --> 01:16:35,674
Now you've had too many questions.

1175
01:16:35,758 --> 01:16:37,093
CONDUCTOR: Fares, please.

1176
01:16:37,176 --> 01:16:40,221
- Two one-and-threepennies, please.
- Two to Litlington.

1177
01:16:40,304 --> 01:16:42,056
- Thank you.
- Thank you, madam.

1178
01:16:42,139 --> 01:16:43,307
Now for the deductions.

1179
01:16:43,390 --> 01:16:45,309
Oh, you didn't tell me
there was a deduction.

1180
01:16:45,392 --> 01:16:47,645
Oh, I forgot. It's the whole point.

1181
01:16:47,728 --> 01:16:49,271
Mine's ready.

1182
01:16:49,355 --> 01:16:51,273
What do you deduce?

1183
01:16:51,732 --> 01:16:53,818
That you've changed so much,

1184
01:16:53,901 --> 01:16:56,362
you must have been
something quite different.

1185
01:16:56,445 --> 01:16:58,364
When you first came to Grandloo's,

1186
01:16:58,447 --> 01:17:01,784
you were like a rusty
hinge that wanted oiling.

1187
01:17:01,867 --> 01:17:03,828
You'd been alone.

1188
01:17:03,911 --> 01:17:06,080
You may have been a
missionary in darkest Africa.

1189
01:17:06,163 --> 01:17:10,042
You could have been almost
anything except a maiden lady.

1190
01:17:10,126 --> 01:17:13,754
You've had a sex life
of fire and brimstone.

1191
01:17:14,255 --> 01:17:17,091
Now, about your assumed
name, I'm not so sure.

1192
01:17:17,174 --> 01:17:19,969
But you have no married sister.

1193
01:17:21,428 --> 01:17:23,889
You take my breath away.

1194
01:17:23,973 --> 01:17:27,059
- Good at it, aren't I?
- Yes, for a mind under a cloud.

1195
01:17:27,143 --> 01:17:28,602
Now your deductions.

1196
01:17:28,686 --> 01:17:30,688
Oh, give me time. I'm new at this game.

1197
01:17:30,771 --> 01:17:32,773
And you've had an unfair advantage.

1198
01:17:32,857 --> 01:17:34,400
What's that mean?

1199
01:17:34,483 --> 01:17:37,236
It means that I should
first have the privilege

1200
01:17:37,319 --> 01:17:39,613
of searching your room, too.

1201
01:17:45,244 --> 01:17:48,247
MRS ST MAUGHAM: And
that, Puppy, is my problem.

1202
01:17:48,330 --> 01:17:51,709
Can Olivia take back
the child she deserted,

1203
01:17:51,792 --> 01:17:54,295
this pitiful, helpless child,

1204
01:17:54,378 --> 01:17:57,339
and make her play daughter to the
very man who broke up their home?

1205
01:17:57,423 --> 01:18:01,427
- Well...
- This little, frightened, insecure girl,

1206
01:18:01,510 --> 01:18:04,430
to whom I've given my
full devotion and attention,

1207
01:18:04,513 --> 01:18:06,390
spared no expense,

1208
01:18:06,473 --> 01:18:09,810
and for whom I've hired the finest
governess that money can buy.

1209
01:18:09,894 --> 01:18:12,771
- In these cases, it...
- Can she be actually torn

1210
01:18:12,855 --> 01:18:15,941
from an atmosphere of
love and understanding,

1211
01:18:16,233 --> 01:18:18,694
and made to fulfil a
cold, legal obligation

1212
01:18:18,819 --> 01:18:21,906
to a mother who considered
her an afterthought,

1213
01:18:21,989 --> 01:18:24,783
and a father who is no father at all?

1214
01:18:24,867 --> 01:18:27,953
The general legal view, I
would say, takes into account...

1215
01:18:28,037 --> 01:18:30,789
Now, don't make any
snap courtroom decisions.

1216
01:18:30,873 --> 01:18:33,334
After all, we're dealing
with real people here.

1217
01:18:33,417 --> 01:18:35,169
To make a snap judgement,

1218
01:18:35,252 --> 01:18:38,005
I should have to speak
somewhat faster than I do.

1219
01:18:38,047 --> 01:18:39,757
Dear Puppy.

1220
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:41,800
I feel better already.

1221
01:18:41,884 --> 01:18:44,511
Your views are always so helpful.

1222
01:18:58,859 --> 01:19:00,986
LAUREL: Hello, Puppy!

1223
01:19:01,362 --> 01:19:03,155
Good heavens. Laurel!

1224
01:19:03,239 --> 01:19:04,531
That's right.

1225
01:19:07,117 --> 01:19:10,454
Somehow I was still
expecting a little girl.

1226
01:19:10,537 --> 01:19:12,831
I'm sixteen now, but backward.

1227
01:19:13,082 --> 01:19:14,917
Olivia's daughter.

1228
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:18,295
Shy Olivia. How is your mother?

1229
01:19:18,629 --> 01:19:21,507
Hush. We don't speak of her here.

1230
01:19:21,590 --> 01:19:24,093
My dear girl, she's still living?

1231
01:19:24,176 --> 01:19:27,179
In sin, Judge. In sin.

1232
01:19:27,263 --> 01:19:29,890
MRS ST MAUGHAM: Ah,
so she's found you, Puppy.

1233
01:19:31,183 --> 01:19:34,019
The little girl of my little girl.

1234
01:19:34,103 --> 01:19:36,230
- Now, what do you think of her now?
- Well...

1235
01:19:36,313 --> 01:19:40,943
Or perhaps I shouldn't ask the judge to
compliment you in your presence, dear.

1236
01:19:41,026 --> 01:19:43,529
But come along, both
of you. Luncheon's ready.

1237
01:19:43,612 --> 01:19:46,991
It's not very grand, I'm afraid.
I don't entertain anymore.

1238
01:19:47,116 --> 01:19:48,867
The battle's over.

1239
01:19:48,951 --> 01:19:50,953
You see, even the table is laid

1240
01:19:51,036 --> 01:19:53,455
with fragments of forgotten ritual.

1241
01:19:53,539 --> 01:19:55,416
Faith is handed down that way.

1242
01:19:55,499 --> 01:19:57,251
When our era is dead,

1243
01:19:57,334 --> 01:20:00,754
we shan't know why we
have two glasses for one wine.

1244
01:20:00,963 --> 01:20:02,423
Ah, Miss Madrigal.

1245
01:20:02,506 --> 01:20:04,800
Puppy, I want you to meet my right hand,

1246
01:20:04,883 --> 01:20:07,511
my green thumb, the
mistress of my garden.

1247
01:20:07,594 --> 01:20:11,682
Miss Madrigal, this is an old, old
friend of mine, Judge McWhirrey.

1248
01:20:14,935 --> 01:20:16,436
JUDGE: One "old" would have been enough.

1249
01:20:16,520 --> 01:20:17,771
MRS ST MAUGHAM: Would
you have your youth back?

1250
01:20:17,855 --> 01:20:19,898
- JUDGE: No.
- I'd have it back if I could.

1251
01:20:19,982 --> 01:20:21,567
Even life's reverses.

1252
01:20:21,650 --> 01:20:23,610
Wouldn't you, Miss Madrigal?

1253
01:20:23,694 --> 01:20:26,071
Miss Madrigal, why don't you sit down?

1254
01:20:28,449 --> 01:20:29,992
I was saying,

1255
01:20:30,075 --> 01:20:34,413
do you think grief tastes more
sharply than pleasure on the palate?

1256
01:20:34,747 --> 01:20:36,165
Miss Madrigal?

1257
01:20:36,248 --> 01:20:37,666
I'm sorry.

1258
01:20:37,875 --> 01:20:41,211
I don't seem to have the
give-and-take of clever conversation.

1259
01:20:41,295 --> 01:20:44,340
Well, at least age does
give tone to certain things.

1260
01:20:44,423 --> 01:20:47,426
Violins, old wine,

1261
01:20:47,509 --> 01:20:50,429
old friends to drink it with.

1262
01:20:50,512 --> 01:20:52,264
Yes, Maitland, we'll have the wine.

1263
01:20:52,306 --> 01:20:54,350
None for me, thank you.

1264
01:20:54,433 --> 01:20:57,895
Alcohol in the middle of the
day is exciting when you're 30,

1265
01:20:57,978 --> 01:21:00,022
but disastrous at 70.

1266
01:21:00,105 --> 01:21:02,358
But it can make you feel 30 again.

1267
01:21:02,483 --> 01:21:03,942
(MAITLAND COUGHING DISCREETLY)

1268
01:21:04,026 --> 01:21:05,819
What? Oh.

1269
01:21:10,324 --> 01:21:13,410
Turn back the clock, Maitland.
The judge will have some.

1270
01:21:13,494 --> 01:21:15,037
- Judge.
- Yes?

1271
01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:17,498
You're trying a murder
case on Monday, aren't you?

1272
01:21:17,581 --> 01:21:19,291
- I am.
- Well, what...

1273
01:21:19,375 --> 01:21:22,544
I'd love to see you on the
bench again after all these years.

1274
01:21:22,628 --> 01:21:26,048
You should. You should.
Time decorates a judge.

1275
01:21:26,131 --> 01:21:29,301
- But what Maitland and I want to know...
- And Miss Madrigal.

1276
01:21:29,551 --> 01:21:32,221
Conversation should include everybody.

1277
01:21:32,304 --> 01:21:35,224
But it's Maitland and I who
collect the Great Crime series.

1278
01:21:35,307 --> 01:21:37,559
The trial, how will it begin?

1279
01:21:37,643 --> 01:21:39,395
When I enter court.

1280
01:21:39,478 --> 01:21:41,563
- How will you enter?
- Slowly.

1281
01:21:41,647 --> 01:21:44,983
Soberly, with deliberate gravity.

1282
01:21:45,192 --> 01:21:46,902
Robed in scarlet.

1283
01:21:46,985 --> 01:21:48,153
Terrifying.

1284
01:21:48,237 --> 01:21:50,239
(GLASS BREAKING)

1285
01:21:54,493 --> 01:21:56,203
She broke the glass.

1286
01:21:57,371 --> 01:21:58,997
I'm sorry.

1287
01:21:59,081 --> 01:22:00,749
My hand knocked it.

1288
01:22:00,916 --> 01:22:02,334
MRS ST MAUGHAM: Well, never mind.

1289
01:22:02,418 --> 01:22:05,212
Now we know why we have
two glasses for one wine.

1290
01:22:05,295 --> 01:22:05,787
JUDGE: Yes!

1291
01:22:05,829 --> 01:22:07,881
Maitland, pour some more
wine for Miss Madrigal.

1292
01:22:07,965 --> 01:22:09,675
I'm not used to wine.

1293
01:22:09,758 --> 01:22:12,261
But it helps one to keep
up one's end at table.

1294
01:22:12,344 --> 01:22:14,054
LAUREL: Go on, Judge.

1295
01:22:14,138 --> 01:22:15,681
- With what?
- The trial.

1296
01:22:15,764 --> 01:22:17,391
Heavens, Laurel.

1297
01:22:17,433 --> 01:22:19,226
Talk is a thoroughbred.

1298
01:22:19,309 --> 01:22:22,104
One doesn't say "go
on" as if it were a donkey.

1299
01:22:22,187 --> 01:22:23,647
No, no, let her be.

1300
01:22:24,022 --> 01:22:28,277
Well, first I'm driven
to church, to pray.

1301
01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:30,779
- To <i>pray?</i>
- Against my faults.

1302
01:22:30,863 --> 01:22:33,490
I pray against bias, and against vanity.

1303
01:22:33,574 --> 01:22:35,075
And for charity?

1304
01:22:35,200 --> 01:22:38,162
No, that's outside my job, Miss, er...

1305
01:22:38,245 --> 01:22:40,622
I'm so sorry. I've
forgotten how they call you.

1306
01:22:40,706 --> 01:22:42,541
The name is Madrigal.

1307
01:22:42,624 --> 01:22:45,043
I ignore the heart, Miss Madrigal,

1308
01:22:45,127 --> 01:22:46,962
and satisfy justice.

1309
01:22:47,045 --> 01:22:50,883
Every line on this face
is written by law, not life.

1310
01:22:51,133 --> 01:22:52,926
The trial, Judge. The trial.

1311
01:22:53,010 --> 01:22:54,887
MRS ST MAUGHAM:
Stop badgering him, Laurel.

1312
01:22:54,970 --> 01:22:57,389
No, no, let the trial begin.

1313
01:22:57,473 --> 01:23:02,019
At the gate, my trumpeters
knock three times,

1314
01:23:02,102 --> 01:23:04,480
then blow for my admittance.

1315
01:23:04,563 --> 01:23:06,565
- Then?
- Then,

1316
01:23:06,648 --> 01:23:10,277
garbed and toff ed
with medieval meanings,

1317
01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:12,237
obscured by ritual,

1318
01:23:12,779 --> 01:23:14,740
carrying the gloves of justice,

1319
01:23:14,823 --> 01:23:19,328
and the cap of death,
on a hollow knock...

1320
01:23:19,620 --> 01:23:22,456
- (KNOCKING ONCE ON TABLE)
- I go in.

1321
01:23:22,873 --> 01:23:24,708
And the prisoner. What about him?

1322
01:23:24,791 --> 01:23:27,044
He killed his wife, didn't he?

1323
01:23:27,127 --> 01:23:29,338
Oh, please, Judge. We're mad on murder.

1324
01:23:29,421 --> 01:23:31,131
That's not a subject for discussion.

1325
01:23:31,215 --> 01:23:34,301
LAUREL: But murder cracks open
the lives of people you don't know.

1326
01:23:34,384 --> 01:23:36,053
And, as a judge, you hear everything.

1327
01:23:36,136 --> 01:23:37,679
In principle.

1328
01:23:38,180 --> 01:23:42,100
Miss Madrigal says the judge
doesn't even listen. She says he sleeps.

1329
01:23:42,726 --> 01:23:45,145
I said he seemed to sleep.

1330
01:23:45,229 --> 01:23:47,439
With one eye open, like a tiger.

1331
01:23:47,523 --> 01:23:49,107
Have you been to a trial, then?

1332
01:23:49,191 --> 01:23:50,567
Yes, she has. She told me.

1333
01:23:50,651 --> 01:23:54,196
MRS ST MAUGHAM: You
defeat my purpose. Let her answer.

1334
01:23:54,279 --> 01:23:56,573
Have you heard me on
the bench, Miss Madrigal?

1335
01:23:57,449 --> 01:24:01,537
When I spoke to Laurel of
judges, it was in a general sense.

1336
01:24:02,162 --> 01:24:04,122
But I heard you give a judgement.

1337
01:24:04,206 --> 01:24:06,250
I hope it was a good one.

1338
01:24:06,333 --> 01:24:08,293
I think, if I remember,

1339
01:24:08,377 --> 01:24:10,629
I would not have come to your conclusion.

1340
01:24:10,712 --> 01:24:13,799
Miss Madrigal has such answers to life.

1341
01:24:13,882 --> 01:24:15,968
But that was a strange one.

1342
01:24:16,051 --> 01:24:18,971
Well, a judge doesn't always
get to the bottom of things.

1343
01:24:19,054 --> 01:24:21,974
No. It would take the pity of
God to get to the bottom of things.

1344
01:24:22,057 --> 01:24:25,310
- Now, that is enough.
- Forgive me, but you insisted.

1345
01:24:25,519 --> 01:24:27,479
It has removed my inhibitions.

1346
01:24:27,604 --> 01:24:29,565
When it's a murderer,

1347
01:24:29,648 --> 01:24:34,111
and when you have to say whether
he'll live or die, how do you feel?

1348
01:24:34,194 --> 01:24:36,363
- Do you suffer?
- Nobody suffers.

1349
01:24:36,446 --> 01:24:38,615
They all go into a dream together.

1350
01:24:38,740 --> 01:24:39,908
Even the prisoner?

1351
01:24:40,284 --> 01:24:43,787
The prisoner thinks he is at
the judgement seat of justice,

1352
01:24:43,912 --> 01:24:46,623
the place where all the
motives are taken into account.

1353
01:24:46,707 --> 01:24:49,001
- And aren't they?
- Absolutely not.

1354
01:24:49,084 --> 01:24:50,836
Now, that will be all.

1355
01:24:50,919 --> 01:24:52,087
LAUREL: Miss Madrigal says

1356
01:24:52,170 --> 01:24:53,630
that when everything has
gone against the prisoner...

1357
01:24:53,714 --> 01:24:54,756
I'm quoted enough.

1358
01:24:54,840 --> 01:24:57,550
That after the verdict, when he's asked,
"Have you anything to say before..."

1359
01:24:57,634 --> 01:25:00,846
The prisoner is mercifully in a
state of shock and says nothing.

1360
01:25:00,929 --> 01:25:04,099
Not always. Some have
said remarkable things.

1361
01:25:04,182 --> 01:25:06,268
I remember a woman...

1362
01:25:06,351 --> 01:25:12,065
Maitland, have you the case
of Constance Doris Wakeland?

1363
01:25:12,232 --> 01:25:14,484
MAITLAND: No, I don't
think I've got that one.

1364
01:25:14,610 --> 01:25:16,153
MRS ST MAUGHAM: Do sit down, Laurel.

1365
01:25:16,236 --> 01:25:18,113
We haven't finished our soup yet.

1366
01:25:18,196 --> 01:25:19,781
JUDGE: You should
read it for what she said

1367
01:25:19,865 --> 01:25:21,533
when she stood before me.

1368
01:25:21,617 --> 01:25:23,910
Hardly more than a child she was,

1369
01:25:24,077 --> 01:25:26,913
but old beyond her years.

1370
01:25:26,997 --> 01:25:30,375
"What I have been listening
to in court," she said,

1371
01:25:30,459 --> 01:25:32,669
"is not my life."

1372
01:25:32,753 --> 01:25:35,422
"It is the shape and shadow of my life,"

1373
01:25:36,131 --> 01:25:39,718
"with the accidents
of truth taken out of it."

1374
01:25:42,054 --> 01:25:44,181
What was she tried for, Judge?

1375
01:25:44,264 --> 01:25:45,307
Murder.

1376
01:25:45,432 --> 01:25:47,893
She killed her stepsister, brutally,

1377
01:25:47,976 --> 01:25:50,228
from unreasonable jealousy.

1378
01:25:54,900 --> 01:25:56,860
I remember the case.

1379
01:25:59,112 --> 01:26:01,740
A pathological imaginer.

1380
01:26:02,783 --> 01:26:04,076
A liar.

1381
01:26:04,951 --> 01:26:08,830
A girl who lied, and lied and lied.

1382
01:26:09,164 --> 01:26:12,125
And, when she told the
truth, it didn't save her.

1383
01:26:12,209 --> 01:26:13,960
Excuse me.

1384
01:26:14,461 --> 01:26:16,338
MRS ST MAUGHAM: Miss
Madrigal. Miss Madrigal!

1385
01:26:16,421 --> 01:26:17,798
Where are you going?

1386
01:26:17,881 --> 01:26:19,758
Now, really, this is too much.

1387
01:26:19,841 --> 01:26:21,385
They didn't hang her, Judge.

1388
01:26:21,551 --> 01:26:24,971
That's quite enough,
Laurel. You've gone too far.

1389
01:26:25,555 --> 01:26:26,973
Yes.

1390
01:26:29,601 --> 01:26:31,353
I didn't mean to.

1391
01:26:39,945 --> 01:26:41,988
I really didn't mean to.

1392
01:26:53,291 --> 01:26:56,169
Oh! Let me go. Let me go.

1393
01:26:56,336 --> 01:26:57,796
What are you up to?

1394
01:26:57,879 --> 01:26:59,631
Maitland, let me go. I have to see her.

1395
01:26:59,715 --> 01:27:02,426
Oh, of course. This is
your moment, isn't it?

1396
01:27:02,509 --> 01:27:05,094
You've caught her, trapped
her, run her to the ground.

1397
01:27:05,178 --> 01:27:06,680
You can't let her escape now.

1398
01:27:06,763 --> 01:27:08,765
Oh, Maitland, please.

1399
01:27:08,849 --> 01:27:10,976
She's wounded, dangerous.

1400
01:27:11,017 --> 01:27:12,894
Go on. Finish her off.

1401
01:27:13,729 --> 01:27:16,189
But I didn't mean it.

1402
01:27:16,815 --> 01:27:18,859
I never meant it to go so far.

1403
01:27:18,942 --> 01:27:21,403
We were playing a game. A game.

1404
01:27:21,486 --> 01:27:22,904
Then, all at once, it wasn't a game.

1405
01:27:22,988 --> 01:27:24,573
Don't you see? I have to explain.

1406
01:27:24,656 --> 01:27:26,825
- I have to make her believe that.
- How?

1407
01:27:26,950 --> 01:27:29,828
How? How can anyone
believe a word you say?

1408
01:27:29,911 --> 01:27:32,789
When you believe in no-one, in nothing.

1409
01:27:35,041 --> 01:27:36,668
You're right.

1410
01:27:37,210 --> 01:27:39,546
I can't. I don't know how.

1411
01:27:40,797 --> 01:27:43,592
And she'd never listen to me, not now.

1412
01:27:43,675 --> 01:27:46,595
But somehow I have
to put it right. I have to.

1413
01:27:46,928 --> 01:27:49,431
Help me, Maitland. Make me a promise.

1414
01:27:49,514 --> 01:27:51,099
What?

1415
01:27:51,183 --> 01:27:53,268
That we'll never talk about
what happened down there.

1416
01:27:53,351 --> 01:27:56,480
Not to each other, not to
anyone who wasn't there, ever.

1417
01:27:58,482 --> 01:28:00,025
All right.

1418
01:28:00,650 --> 01:28:02,152
That's a promise.

1419
01:28:03,570 --> 01:28:05,071
Leave it to me.

1420
01:28:09,993 --> 01:28:11,995
(SOBBING)

1421
01:28:33,683 --> 01:28:36,812
Your door was... open, er...

1422
01:28:37,521 --> 01:28:39,022
Yes.

1423
01:28:40,106 --> 01:28:41,942
You see, I was right.

1424
01:28:42,943 --> 01:28:45,153
It's no good locking doors.

1425
01:28:46,530 --> 01:28:48,406
There's no place...

1426
01:28:48,782 --> 01:28:51,618
No safe or private place...

1427
01:28:52,285 --> 01:28:54,162
Not for people like me.

1428
01:28:54,246 --> 01:28:56,081
There are no people like you, Madrigal.

1429
01:28:56,164 --> 01:28:59,584
You're yourself,
something quite original.

1430
01:28:59,668 --> 01:29:01,962
Even the name is a lie.

1431
01:29:02,003 --> 01:29:04,047
Nothing about you is a lie.

1432
01:29:06,466 --> 01:29:09,511
Well, you know the truth about me now.

1433
01:29:09,594 --> 01:29:11,555
At least the way it's written down.

1434
01:29:13,890 --> 01:29:18,895
Constance Doris Wakeland
still stands condemned of murder.

1435
01:29:18,979 --> 01:29:21,064
That happened before you were born.

1436
01:29:21,147 --> 01:29:23,775
This is where Madrigal came into being.

1437
01:29:24,234 --> 01:29:26,444
You're kind and... and generous.

1438
01:29:26,528 --> 01:29:28,613
I'm selfish.

1439
01:29:28,697 --> 01:29:30,407
I want you to stay here.

1440
01:29:31,032 --> 01:29:33,076
Well, I can't.

1441
01:29:33,618 --> 01:29:34,953
Don't you see?

1442
01:29:35,036 --> 01:29:36,872
There's nothing for me here.

1443
01:29:36,955 --> 01:29:38,832
Nothing more I can do.

1444
01:29:40,375 --> 01:29:43,920
Any influence I might have
had with Laurel, that's finished.

1445
01:29:44,004 --> 01:29:45,755
She finished it.

1446
01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:48,842
She made good her promise.

1447
01:29:48,925 --> 01:29:50,343
She exposed me.

1448
01:29:50,468 --> 01:29:52,095
Or set you free...

1449
01:29:52,178 --> 01:29:54,347
Free of the fear of being exposed.

1450
01:29:55,724 --> 01:29:58,852
Now I'll always be afraid of that.

1451
01:29:58,935 --> 01:30:01,771
Now I know there'll be another Laurel,

1452
01:30:01,855 --> 01:30:04,107
another Judge McWhirrey wherever I go.

1453
01:30:04,190 --> 01:30:06,526
But not if you stay here.

1454
01:30:06,610 --> 01:30:09,154
Even if I wanted to,

1455
01:30:09,279 --> 01:30:12,407
do you believe Mrs St
Maugham would allow it?

1456
01:30:12,490 --> 01:30:14,951
A convicted murderess under her roof?

1457
01:30:15,035 --> 01:30:17,662
All she's sure of is you
behaved strangely at lunch.

1458
01:30:17,746 --> 01:30:19,706
Perhaps because of the
wine. She doesn't know.

1459
01:30:19,789 --> 01:30:21,791
By now, she's been told.

1460
01:30:22,459 --> 01:30:23,877
No, she hasn't.

1461
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:26,212
Laurel has just begged
me to keep the secret.

1462
01:30:27,255 --> 01:30:29,466
But why? She hates me.

1463
01:30:29,591 --> 01:30:33,136
At the table downstairs, she
finally lit a fire she couldn't put out.

1464
01:30:33,261 --> 01:30:35,055
She got caught up in it. But now, she...

1465
01:30:35,138 --> 01:30:37,098
Now, it's too late.

1466
01:30:37,682 --> 01:30:40,852
You can't put things back
as they were out of ashes.

1467
01:30:42,854 --> 01:30:44,522
If you spoke to the judge...

1468
01:30:44,606 --> 01:30:46,816
I did that once. It didn't help.

1469
01:30:46,900 --> 01:30:49,194
And by now, even if Laurel hasn't,

1470
01:30:49,277 --> 01:30:51,821
he will have handed down his
judgement to Mrs St Maugham.

1471
01:30:51,905 --> 01:30:54,032
He's a judge. He knows better than anyone

1472
01:30:54,115 --> 01:30:55,867
you can't be tried twice
for the same crime.

1473
01:30:55,951 --> 01:30:57,827
- Talk to him.
- Oh, what good will it do?

1474
01:30:57,911 --> 01:31:00,413
For Laurel, all the good.

1475
01:31:00,497 --> 01:31:03,875
Unless, of course, it's
you who hate her now.

1476
01:31:03,959 --> 01:31:07,587
Hate her? I'm afraid for her.

1477
01:31:07,671 --> 01:31:09,881
More and more, she's the child I was.

1478
01:31:09,965 --> 01:31:11,716
And shouldn't the judge know that?

1479
01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:15,053
He's come down here
to help decide her future.

1480
01:31:15,220 --> 01:31:18,765
Your influence now could
be stronger than ever.

1481
01:31:31,236 --> 01:31:33,238
Do you really believe that?

1482
01:31:33,571 --> 01:31:36,282
Yes. I really believe it.

1483
01:31:38,159 --> 01:31:39,661
Thank you, Maitland.

1484
01:31:40,453 --> 01:31:41,746
No.

1485
01:31:41,830 --> 01:31:45,125
As I said, I'm a selfish man.

1486
01:32:03,101 --> 01:32:04,894
(CLOSING DOOR LOUDLY)

1487
01:32:04,978 --> 01:32:07,564
I'm sorry to disturb you.

1488
01:32:07,897 --> 01:32:11,776
I could hardly be more disturbed
than I have been already.

1489
01:32:11,860 --> 01:32:13,236
What do you want?

1490
01:32:13,319 --> 01:32:15,196
I know what you must think.

1491
01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:18,199
I don't belong here. I shouldn't be here.

1492
01:32:18,283 --> 01:32:22,120
But it is a kind of work so fitted to me.

1493
01:32:22,203 --> 01:32:24,289
Do you believe in God?

1494
01:32:24,372 --> 01:32:27,500
At times, I've thought it
was He who sent me here.

1495
01:32:28,293 --> 01:32:32,338
Oh, don't look at me as if I were
a sad piece of news, a curiosity.

1496
01:32:32,422 --> 01:32:34,299
Why don't you answer?

1497
01:32:35,341 --> 01:32:37,886
Answers to questions involving God

1498
01:32:37,969 --> 01:32:39,804
must be carefully phrased.

1499
01:32:39,888 --> 01:32:41,973
One thing I <i>must</i> know.

1500
01:32:42,057 --> 01:32:44,684
When did you recognise me?

1501
01:32:44,768 --> 01:32:47,145
The moment you saw me, or later?

1502
01:32:49,856 --> 01:32:51,232
So that's it.

1503
01:32:51,983 --> 01:32:53,401
What?

1504
01:32:54,235 --> 01:32:57,906
It finally comes to me who you are.

1505
01:32:57,989 --> 01:33:00,950
Constance Doris Wakeland.

1506
01:33:02,577 --> 01:33:04,913
But surely, you...

1507
01:33:04,996 --> 01:33:07,665
- I thought you knew.
- Not until this moment.

1508
01:33:07,916 --> 01:33:11,044
Then, if I hadn't come in... Incredible.

1509
01:33:11,127 --> 01:33:12,921
I'd never have remembered.

1510
01:33:13,004 --> 01:33:14,547
Oh, no.

1511
01:33:15,173 --> 01:33:19,302
Fifteen years, and
you've greatly changed.

1512
01:33:22,305 --> 01:33:25,683
At our last meeting, I died.

1513
01:33:25,767 --> 01:33:28,019
It alters the appearance.

1514
01:33:29,145 --> 01:33:31,898
So, what will you do now?

1515
01:33:33,817 --> 01:33:36,694
I'm an old man, Miss Madrigal,

1516
01:33:36,778 --> 01:33:38,947
and very learned.

1517
01:33:39,030 --> 01:33:40,907
I don't know.

1518
01:33:41,407 --> 01:33:42,951
What, in heaven's name,

1519
01:33:43,034 --> 01:33:44,828
made you choose this occupation,

1520
01:33:44,911 --> 01:33:46,121
with your history?

1521
01:33:46,204 --> 01:33:48,790
- And in <i>this</i> family?
- This family?

1522
01:33:48,873 --> 01:33:50,083
With any family.

1523
01:33:50,166 --> 01:33:53,128
I remember the girl,
and the lies she told.

1524
01:33:53,294 --> 01:33:57,132
Yes, and you've seen her again
today in Laurel, haven't you?

1525
01:33:57,423 --> 01:33:59,300
Hardly more than a child.

1526
01:33:59,467 --> 01:34:01,845
Yet, one day, she may
be facing you in court.

1527
01:34:02,095 --> 01:34:04,097
Why are you telling me this?

1528
01:34:04,180 --> 01:34:08,017
In answer to your
question, "Why this family?"

1529
01:34:08,101 --> 01:34:10,186
Why stay on?

1530
01:34:10,270 --> 01:34:15,316
Because when I came here,
I felt I had met myself again.

1531
01:34:15,400 --> 01:34:17,735
The cobwebs and the fantasies.

1532
01:34:17,819 --> 01:34:19,863
The same evasions.

1533
01:34:19,946 --> 01:34:22,824
I could have left at the first
sign of trouble, had I wanted to.

1534
01:34:22,907 --> 01:34:24,533
That might have been your best solution.

1535
01:34:24,617 --> 01:34:25,827
But not hers.

1536
01:34:25,910 --> 01:34:27,912
She needed me. Needs me now.

1537
01:34:27,996 --> 01:34:32,083
And I won't leave before I finish
the job I was sent here to do.

1538
01:34:32,167 --> 01:34:34,294
Finish it? How?

1539
01:34:34,627 --> 01:34:36,337
By giving it up to you.

1540
01:34:36,462 --> 01:34:40,675
You have the influence and the
power to return her to her mother.

1541
01:34:40,800 --> 01:34:43,761
Please, believe me now,
if you never did before.

1542
01:34:43,845 --> 01:34:46,389
It's where she belongs, what she needs,

1543
01:34:46,472 --> 01:34:48,892
what I needed and never had.

1544
01:34:48,975 --> 01:34:51,519
And if she goes, what becomes of you?

1545
01:34:51,603 --> 01:34:53,688
I shall be leaving in any case.

1546
01:34:56,691 --> 01:35:00,945
Constance Doris Wakeland,
be assured of one thing.

1547
01:35:01,029 --> 01:35:04,115
I'll not pass sentence
on you a second time.

1548
01:35:04,199 --> 01:35:06,117
Thank you for that, but Laurel is the...

1549
01:35:06,201 --> 01:35:08,870
Laurel's case must be decided by Laurel.

1550
01:35:08,953 --> 01:35:11,414
She can't decide. She hates her mother.

1551
01:35:11,497 --> 01:35:13,791
- Unreasonably, but...
- You're not the judge here.

1552
01:35:13,875 --> 01:35:16,127
Nor do I choose to be.

1553
01:35:16,211 --> 01:35:18,213
Whether or not you go,

1554
01:35:18,296 --> 01:35:20,840
whether or not she stays,

1555
01:35:20,924 --> 01:35:23,843
must rest with you and Laurel.

1556
01:35:28,181 --> 01:35:30,099
So you see, Miss Madrigal,

1557
01:35:30,183 --> 01:35:34,312
you can't finish your job
here by giving it up to me.

1558
01:35:39,525 --> 01:35:41,194
Shall you come again, Puppy?

1559
01:35:41,277 --> 01:35:43,613
When your trial is over and you can rest?

1560
01:35:43,696 --> 01:35:46,824
I shall rest <i>before</i> I
come next time, my dear.

1561
01:35:46,908 --> 01:35:49,869
Too much happens in
this house for an old man.

1562
01:35:49,953 --> 01:35:51,329
Oh!

1563
01:35:53,915 --> 01:35:55,875
(CAR ENGINE STARTING)

1564
01:35:57,835 --> 01:36:00,755
MRS ST MAUGHAM: Goodbye,
Puppy. Look after yourself.

1565
01:36:16,271 --> 01:36:17,855
No, there's no answer.

1566
01:36:21,192 --> 01:36:24,153
- You sent for me, Mrs St Maugham?
- I did.

1567
01:36:24,237 --> 01:36:28,116
I've just received word from Miss
Olivia that she's on her way here now.

1568
01:36:28,199 --> 01:36:31,077
She expects us to have Laurel
ready, and her things packed.

1569
01:36:31,160 --> 01:36:32,537
I can do that in five minutes.

1570
01:36:32,620 --> 01:36:35,248
Please, don't anticipate me.

1571
01:36:35,331 --> 01:36:39,460
Her things will not be packed,
and she will not be taken.

1572
01:36:39,544 --> 01:36:43,923
You will kindly listen to what I
say, and carry out my instructions.

1573
01:36:44,132 --> 01:36:47,218
MISS MADRIGAL: Mrs St
Maugham, she <i>needs</i> to be taken.

1574
01:36:47,302 --> 01:36:48,678
MRS ST MAUGHAM: What?

1575
01:36:48,761 --> 01:36:52,223
MISS MADRIGAL: She must go.
Laurel must go back with her mother.

1576
01:36:52,598 --> 01:36:55,852
You astonish me with
the liberties you take.

1577
01:36:56,102 --> 01:36:59,230
I made allowance at
luncheon yesterday. The wine.

1578
01:36:59,314 --> 01:37:01,065
- But this...
- I'm quite clear-headed now.

1579
01:37:01,149 --> 01:37:05,778
To take this child of
special soil, transplant her...

1580
01:37:05,862 --> 01:37:08,990
Mrs St Maugham, you
have not a green thumb,

1581
01:37:09,073 --> 01:37:11,367
either with a garden or a child.

1582
01:37:11,451 --> 01:37:14,162
This is a house where nothing
good can be made of her.

1583
01:37:14,287 --> 01:37:15,663
- My house?!
- Your house.

1584
01:37:15,747 --> 01:37:18,207
Why, even your garden is demented.

1585
01:37:18,291 --> 01:37:21,919
But her mother... You know what
she is. Even Laurel has told you.

1586
01:37:22,003 --> 01:37:24,464
MISS MADRIGAL: <i>She has told me
what has been</i> made <i>of her mother,</i>

1587
01:37:24,547 --> 01:37:26,841
<i>what you have helped
her to make in her mind.</i>

1588
01:37:26,924 --> 01:37:29,385
<i>Not what she is, not
even what you believe.</i>

1589
01:37:29,469 --> 01:37:30,678
<i>You couldn't.</i>

1590
01:37:30,762 --> 01:37:33,139
<i>Her mother is still your child.</i>

1591
01:37:33,264 --> 01:37:35,350
MRS ST MAUGHAM: <i>But
she's going to have another child.</i>

1592
01:37:35,433 --> 01:37:37,060
<i>There won't be room for Laurel-</i>

1593
01:37:37,185 --> 01:37:41,272
The heart is a house with a
room for every person it loves.

1594
01:37:41,439 --> 01:37:46,235
Neither you nor Olivia can
understand Laurel as I do.

1595
01:37:46,319 --> 01:37:49,238
I have a special knowledge of her.

1596
01:37:49,322 --> 01:37:52,784
To me, she's like a porcelain on a shelf,

1597
01:37:52,867 --> 01:37:56,829
marred, in some
marvellous way, for the better.

1598
01:37:56,913 --> 01:38:00,083
- My knowledge of her...
- We'll not compare ourselves.

1599
01:38:02,502 --> 01:38:04,796
I called you in here, Miss Madrigal,

1600
01:38:04,879 --> 01:38:08,508
because on Miss Olivia's last
visit you attempted to interfere.

1601
01:38:08,591 --> 01:38:10,843
Now, I will not tolerate that today.

1602
01:38:11,219 --> 01:38:13,221
I advise you to remain
quietly in the background.

1603
01:38:13,263 --> 01:38:14,305
Your advice is foreseen.

1604
01:38:14,389 --> 01:38:17,809
But, before I go, Laurel must leave.

1605
01:38:17,934 --> 01:38:19,936
The flaming impudence!

1606
01:38:21,354 --> 01:38:24,315
- You must be mad.
- That has been said of me.

1607
01:38:26,359 --> 01:38:29,153
What collusion has been
worked behind my back?

1608
01:38:29,570 --> 01:38:32,573
To take my money, and
then turn against me?

1609
01:38:32,657 --> 01:38:36,911
And I... lavish, trusting, leaning.

1610
01:38:36,994 --> 01:38:39,664
How could you do this to me?

1611
01:38:40,081 --> 01:38:43,126
What exactly are you, Miss Madrigal?

1612
01:38:43,334 --> 01:38:47,088
A woman who has lost
touch with unessential things,

1613
01:38:47,380 --> 01:38:50,508
with confusion over
two glasses for one wine.

1614
01:38:50,591 --> 01:38:53,678
No, by heaven, this
time I want the truth.

1615
01:38:54,011 --> 01:38:56,514
<i>Who are you? Where do you come from?</i>

1616
01:38:56,597 --> 01:38:59,142
<i>Out of what dark past?</i>

1617
01:38:59,225 --> 01:39:02,687
MISS MADRIGAL: <i>The past is
an ugly wound not yet healed.</i>

1618
01:39:02,770 --> 01:39:07,191
<i>But, if it must be opened up
for Laurel's sake, I'll do that.</i>

1619
01:39:07,275 --> 01:39:09,610
Don't go too far for me, boss.

1620
01:39:09,777 --> 01:39:12,697
The words that passed between
you and Judge McWhirrey...

1621
01:39:12,780 --> 01:39:15,158
Now, I demand to know.

1622
01:39:15,241 --> 01:39:16,909
Have you two met before?

1623
01:39:17,118 --> 01:39:20,872
Judge McWhirrey once
sentenced me to death.

1624
01:39:21,372 --> 01:39:22,748
To death?

1625
01:39:23,082 --> 01:39:24,625
But there you are.

1626
01:39:24,709 --> 01:39:27,336
Those who go on living must be somewhere.

1627
01:39:27,753 --> 01:39:30,631
It was a commuted
sentence because of my youth.

1628
01:39:30,715 --> 01:39:32,717
It was many years ago.

1629
01:39:33,009 --> 01:39:34,969
And where have you been since?

1630
01:39:35,136 --> 01:39:38,014
I came to you directly out of prison.

1631
01:39:39,223 --> 01:39:41,100
MRS ST MAUGHAM: <i>Oh, my God. My God.</i>

1632
01:39:41,184 --> 01:39:44,353
<i>My Laurel, entrusted to a criminal.</i>

1633
01:39:44,437 --> 01:39:49,192
<i>A felon, a monster-It's frightening-</i>

1634
01:39:49,275 --> 01:39:50,860
MISS MADRIGAL: <i>You should be frightened.</i>

1635
01:39:50,943 --> 01:39:54,030
<i>You see before you the
woman Laurel may yet become.</i>

1636
01:39:54,113 --> 01:39:57,450
<i>The child who lied and cheated and hated,</i>

1637
01:39:57,533 --> 01:40:00,369
<i>because she could not
believe one simple fact.</i>

1638
01:40:00,453 --> 01:40:01,871
<i>That she was loved.</i>

1639
01:40:01,954 --> 01:40:05,041
MRS ST MAUGHAM: <i>I have
loved her, thought only of her.</i>

1640
01:40:05,124 --> 01:40:07,752
MISS MADRIGAL: <i>You've
thought only of yourself.</i>

1641
01:40:07,835 --> 01:40:10,546
<i>You've used Laurel to hurt her mother.</i>

1642
01:40:10,630 --> 01:40:12,423
<i>You wanted the truth,</i>

1643
01:40:12,507 --> 01:40:14,675
<i>and the truth may still save Laurel.</i>

1644
01:40:15,009 --> 01:40:16,719
Leave me alone.

1645
01:40:17,428 --> 01:40:19,096
Go away.

1646
01:40:20,014 --> 01:40:21,599
Leave me alone.

1647
01:40:21,682 --> 01:40:23,518
So that you can cry?

1648
01:40:23,601 --> 01:40:26,103
I am far from tears.

1649
01:40:28,481 --> 01:40:31,108
If I were you, I'd cry.

1650
01:40:31,192 --> 01:40:34,320
Cry with relief that her
mother still wants her,

1651
01:40:34,362 --> 01:40:36,447
is still prepared to take her.

1652
01:40:36,531 --> 01:40:40,660
But have a care. Even a
mother can't wait forever.

1653
01:40:47,375 --> 01:40:49,001
(DOOR CLOSING)

1654
01:40:51,504 --> 01:40:53,047
(BIRDSONG)

1655
01:41:06,185 --> 01:41:07,645
Not in the summer house.

1656
01:41:07,728 --> 01:41:10,106
Not in the toolshed or the
greenhouses. I'll try the attics.

1657
01:41:10,189 --> 01:41:11,857
I'll go to the beach.

1658
01:41:43,180 --> 01:41:44,682
Laurel?

1659
01:41:44,765 --> 01:41:46,559
What are you doing here?

1660
01:41:47,768 --> 01:41:49,437
I'm waiting for my mother.

1661
01:42:11,500 --> 01:42:13,628
You see, boss,

1662
01:42:14,211 --> 01:42:16,255
you finally convinced me.

1663
01:42:22,762 --> 01:42:24,972
And what I want is to be with my mother.

1664
01:42:25,097 --> 01:42:26,724
You made me want to.

1665
01:42:26,807 --> 01:42:28,684
You taught me what love is, boss.

1666
01:42:28,809 --> 01:42:31,062
(CAR APPROACHING)

1667
01:43:00,257 --> 01:43:04,387
You've grown up, Laurel,
and you seem smaller.

1668
01:43:06,972 --> 01:43:08,432
Goodbye.

1669
01:43:08,599 --> 01:43:11,602
No. We'll never say goodbye.

1670
01:43:11,686 --> 01:43:13,604
Never, never, never.

1671
01:43:23,114 --> 01:43:24,407
Let's go home, Mother.

1672
01:43:25,157 --> 01:43:26,409
Oh, Laurel.

1673
01:43:29,245 --> 01:43:30,705
(CAR DOOR CLOSING)

1674
01:43:31,455 --> 01:43:33,124
Thank you.

1675
01:43:36,502 --> 01:43:38,452
- (CAR DOOR CLOSING)
- (ENGINE STARTING)

1676
01:44:06,407 --> 01:44:08,617
What will you do now?

1677
01:44:09,326 --> 01:44:12,913
Continue to explore the
astonishment of living.

1678
01:44:25,885 --> 01:44:28,846
Is it a crime to want to be remembered?

1679
01:44:29,430 --> 01:44:30,848
No.

1680
01:44:30,931 --> 01:44:34,685
The pharaohs built the
pyramids for that reason.

1681
01:44:34,769 --> 01:44:38,856
What do women do... in my case?

1682
01:44:39,440 --> 01:44:42,109
It wouldn't hurt to go on gardening.

1683
01:44:42,485 --> 01:44:45,654
I've made a muddle of my garden...

1684
01:44:45,738 --> 01:44:47,448
and my heart.

1685
01:44:48,199 --> 01:44:50,534
Will Olivia forgive me?

1686
01:44:50,826 --> 01:44:53,287
MISS MADRIGAL: In time, perhaps.

1687
01:44:54,705 --> 01:44:56,582
Would you stay with me?

1688
01:44:58,083 --> 01:44:59,418
Would you?

1689
01:45:00,669 --> 01:45:04,381
I'll stay as long as I'm wanted.

1690
01:45:04,882 --> 01:45:10,346
You know, we could make
this place so full of life.

1691
01:45:10,429 --> 01:45:12,556
A good life.

1692
01:45:12,640 --> 01:45:15,476
That people would come
from everywhere to see us.

1693
01:45:16,018 --> 01:45:17,895
What do you think?

1694
01:45:26,028 --> 01:45:29,031
I must know one thing.

1695
01:45:29,240 --> 01:45:30,699
What's that?

1696
01:45:30,783 --> 01:45:32,743
Did you do it?

1697
01:45:35,162 --> 01:45:38,249
What many learned men,
at the top of their profession,

1698
01:45:38,332 --> 01:45:41,877
couldn't find out
after a long, long trial,

1699
01:45:41,961 --> 01:45:43,754
why should you know?

1700
01:45:44,964 --> 01:45:48,551
Forty years ago, I should
have said the same thing.

1701
01:45:48,634 --> 01:45:52,972
But I warn you, before I die,

1702
01:45:53,639 --> 01:45:55,641
I'll find out.

1703
01:46:09,154 --> 01:46:11,991
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