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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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(APPLAUSE)

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SIEGFRIED: The audience

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pricks an intellectual ear.

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Stravinsky quite the concert
of the year.

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Forgetting now
the hullabaloo they made,

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the audience pricks
an intellectual ear.

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Bassoons begin,

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sonority envelopes
our auditory innocence,

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and brings to me,
I must admit,

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some drift of things omnific,
seminal, and adolescent.

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Men in boaters,
far from Henley,

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girls in pink
and blue taffeta.

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In that long summer,

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I hunted, played cricket,
but only watched tennis.

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God was in His heaven

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and there were sausages
for breakfast.

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And in small
recruiting offices,

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dull young men wait
to inscribe in paper quires,

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the names of the living
and the dead.

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Mr Sassoon.

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BOTH: Yes.

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I'm Siegfried.

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And I'm Hamo, younger brother.

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And we've both
come for our fitting.

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TAILOR: Just so, sir.

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I think we should
start with the shirts.

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You can't have your shirts
too dark, sir.

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Ah, war! A la mode!

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(SIEGFRIED CHUCKLES)

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SIEGFRIED: I never
said goodbye to him.

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(PEOPLE SHOUTING)

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(MAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

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(WHISTLE BLOWS)

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(STEAM HISSING)

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SIEGFRIED:
On the idle hill of summer,

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sleepy with
the flow of streams,

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far I hear the steady drummer,

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drumming like a noise
in dreams.

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Far and near
and low and louder,

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on the roads of Earth go by,

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dear to friends
and food for powder,

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soldiers marching, all to die.

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(THUNDER CRASHING)

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East and west
in fields forgotten

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bleach the bones
of comrades slain.

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(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)

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Lovely lads
and dead and rotten.

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None that go return again.

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Far the calling bugles hollo,

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high the screaming
fife replies.

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Gay the files
of scarlet follow:

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Woman bore me, I will rise.

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(SIEGFRIED EXHALES DEEPLY)

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I was anxious to know
what you were suffering from.

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(SIEGFRIED CLICKS TONGUE)

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It's only trench fever,
nothing fatal,

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just debilitating.

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I dread everything now.

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The telephone...

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the telegram.

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There's only one thing worse

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than remaining
in the past, Mother,

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and that's begrudging
the future.

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The future,
without either of my sons,

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is to be dreaded, not enjoyed.

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SIEGFRIED: I am writing you
this private letter

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with the greatest
possible regret.

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I must inform you
that it is my intention

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to refuse to perform
any further military duties.

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I am doing this as a protest

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against the policy
of the government

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in prolonging the war

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by failing to state
their conditions for peace.

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I have written a statement
of my reasons,

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of which I enclose a copy.

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I am making this statement

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as an act of wilful defiance
of military authority

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because I believe that the war

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is being
deliberately prolonged

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by those who have
the power to end it.

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I am a soldier

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convinced that I am acting
on behalf of soldiers.

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I believe that the war
upon which I entered

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as a war of defence
and liberation

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has now become a war
of aggression and conquest.

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I believe that the purpose for
which I and my fellow soldiers

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entered upon this war

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should have been
made so clearly stated

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as to have made it impossible
to change them.

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And that had this been done,
the objects that actuated us

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would now be attainable
by negotiation.

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I have seen and endured
the sufferings of the troops

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and I can no longer be a party

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to prolong these sufferings
for ends

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which I believe
to be evil and unjust.

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I am not protesting against
the conduct of the war,

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but against
the political errors

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and insincerities for which

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the fighting men
are being sacrificed.

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On behalf of those
who are suffering now,

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I make this protest
against the deception

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which is being practised
upon them.

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Also, I believe
it may help to destroy

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the callous complacency

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with which the majority
of those at home

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regard the continuance
of agonies

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which they do not share

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and which they have not
enough imagination to realize.

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(EXPLOSIONS)

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(GUNFIRE)

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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I suppose this was your doing.

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Yes, and Eddie Marsh.

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I take this very ill, Robbie.

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Why did you involve Marsh?

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Because he's Principal Private
Secretary to Winston Churchill

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and he wanted to help.

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He was instrumental
in getting you

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a Medical Board examination
instead of a court martial.

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If you were found guilty
at a court martial,

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you could be shot.

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That was a risk
I was prepared to take.

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But there are those
who care for you

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and who were not.

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A court martial would
have been a platform

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to state my opposition
to the conduct of the war,

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and you have
prevented me doing so.

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And not only
for this Times article

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but for my statement
to be read out

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on the floor of the House.

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You've rendered me
impotent, Robbie.

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You've robbed me
of my dignity.

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Better that than
a firing squad.

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That is a matter of opinion.

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Don't be angry
with me, Siegfried.

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My intentions were honourable.

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(OLD COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING)

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MAN: (SINGING)
An old cowpoke went ridin' out

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One dark and windy day

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Upon a ridge he rested
as he went along his way

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When all at once, a mighty
herd of red-eyed cows he saw

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A-ploughing through
the ragged skies

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And up a cloudy draw

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Yippee-yi-ay

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Yippee-yi-oh

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The ghost herd in the sky

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Their brands
were still on fire

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And their hooves
were made of steel

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Their horns were black
and shiny

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And their hot breath
he could feel

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A bolt of fear
went through him

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As they thundered
through the sky

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For he saw the riders
coming hard

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And he heard
their mournful cries

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Yippee-yi-ay

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Yippee-yi-oh

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Ghost riders in the sky

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As the riders loped on by him

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He heard one call his name

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If you wanna save
your soul from hell

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A-riding on our range

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Then, cowboy
change your ways today

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Or with us you will ride

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Trying to catch
the devil's herd

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Across these endless skies

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Yippee-yi-ay

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Yippee-yi-oh

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Yippee-yi-oh

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Yippee-yi-oh

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Ghost riders in the sky

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Yippee-yi-ay

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Yippee-yi-oh

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I'm intrinsically against
any kind of conversion.

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It's too much
like wishful thinking.

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Besides, in a poet,

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it seems to imply he has

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nothing interesting
left to say.

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I said I was only
thinking about it.

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Surely you're not
looking for God?

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That's one way of putting it.

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(SCOFFS)

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Well, speaking as one of the
spiritually-undernourished,

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if you find him, make sure
he's still an Englishman,

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doesn't live on the wrong side
of the park.

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I assume that was
supposed to be amusing.

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(GEORGE SIGHS)

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Why Catholicism, Father?

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Something permanent,

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unchanging.

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You can get that from dressage
but without the guilt.

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There is no need to be snide.

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If all you can do is ridicule,

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it would be better
if you remained silent.

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Better still, go outside
and wait in the car.

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Well, it's a long drive
back to London,

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so the sooner we
can get started, the better.

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PRIEST: Siegfried,

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what do you ask
of the Church of God?

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OLDER SIEGFRIED: Faith.

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PRIEST: What does
faith offer you?

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OLDER SIEGFRIED:
Life everlasting.

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PRIEST: If you then desire
to enter into life,

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keep the commandments.

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"Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with thy whole heart

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"and with thy whole soul
and with thy whole mind."

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Siegfried,
do you renounce Satan?

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OLDER SIEGFRIED:
I do renounce him.

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And all his works?

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OLDER SIEGFRIED:
I do renounce him.

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And all his pomps?

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OLDER SIEGFRIED:
I do renounce him.

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Receive this burning light

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and keep thy baptism
so as to be without blame.

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Keep the commandments of God,

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that when the Lord
shall come to the nuptials,

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thou mayest meet Him

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together with all the Saints
in the heavenly court,

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and mayest thou have eternal
life for ever and ever.

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Siegfried, go in peace
and the Lord be with you.

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The fool hath said in his
heart there is no God.

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You will be drawn up
in your feelings

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above understanding

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to the radiance
of divine darkness

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that transcends all being.

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OLDER SIEGFRIED:
Christ, receive my soul

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and release me from
the imprisonment of doubt.

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And grant me peace.

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(TRAIN HORN BLARING)

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ROSS: I'm quite appalled
by what you've done.

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I can only hope
your CO in Liverpool

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will ignore your letter.

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I'm terrified that you will
be put under arrest.

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We read your statement,
Lieutenant, with some alarm.

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You may sit
if you wish, Lieutenant.

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Thank you, sir.

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Why did you make it?

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I wanted to state my position

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regarding the conduct
of the war.

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It is not your place
to question

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how the war
is being prosecuted.

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Your duty lies
in obeying orders.

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Duty?

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That word covers
a multitude of sins.

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In the face of such slaughter,

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one cannot simply
order one's conscience.

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One can do better than that.

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One can ignore it.

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That reply was so disgraceful,
you ought to be in politics.

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That was impertinent,
Lieutenant.

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Are you pro-German?

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No. I'm pro-human.

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We are not here
to discuss humanity,

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that is religion's sphere
of operations.

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And what of morality?

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Morality is a luxury

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that we can only afford
during peace time.

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I would be very grateful
if you would take

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that offensive tone
out of your voice.

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00:16:47,460 --> 00:16:50,460
Voices raised in anger
only perpetuates war.

261
00:16:50,501 --> 00:16:54,293
And passive resistance
only invites defeat.

262
00:16:58,835 --> 00:17:00,335
I simply cannot remain silent

263
00:17:00,376 --> 00:17:02,126
in the face
of such casualties.

264
00:17:04,084 --> 00:17:07,126
Someone must,
should be brought to book.

265
00:17:07,168 --> 00:17:09,084
The casualties, young man,

266
00:17:09,126 --> 00:17:12,043
are a matter for the
Imperial General Staff.

267
00:17:12,084 --> 00:17:16,126
And your statement,
indeed your entire attitude,

268
00:17:16,168 --> 00:17:17,334
is both offensive

269
00:17:17,376 --> 00:17:19,543
and detrimental
to military discipline.

270
00:17:19,584 --> 00:17:20,876
My colleague is quite right.

271
00:17:20,918 --> 00:17:23,084
It is not your place
to question your superiors,

272
00:17:23,126 --> 00:17:26,418
much less to imply
that they are not honourable.

273
00:17:26,459 --> 00:17:28,626
Perhaps, sir,
if you, if any of you

274
00:17:28,668 --> 00:17:30,793
were to visit the front,

275
00:17:30,835 --> 00:17:32,251
then you might at least
spare a thought

276
00:17:32,293 --> 00:17:35,543
for the many bereaved families
and the pain they suffer.

277
00:17:35,585 --> 00:17:39,210
You are out of order, sir!

278
00:17:39,251 --> 00:17:40,543
I thought that was
the very reason

279
00:17:40,585 --> 00:17:42,668
for my being
brought before you.

280
00:17:42,710 --> 00:17:43,918
This has gone far enough.

281
00:17:45,668 --> 00:17:47,585
-(WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)
-Yes, of course.

282
00:17:49,460 --> 00:17:50,751
ARMY DOCTOR 1: Yes, I agree.

283
00:17:53,210 --> 00:17:54,793
Myself and my fellow officers

284
00:17:54,835 --> 00:17:56,501
feel that your mind
is still in chaos

285
00:17:56,543 --> 00:18:00,168
and that you are unfit to be
trusted with men's lives.

286
00:18:00,210 --> 00:18:01,585
It is therefore
the Board's decision

287
00:18:01,626 --> 00:18:02,960
that you should
be sent to a hospital

288
00:18:03,001 --> 00:18:05,085
for nervous diseases
in Scotland.

289
00:18:06,751 --> 00:18:09,751
We therefore order you
to report immediately

290
00:18:09,793 --> 00:18:11,668
to Craiglockhart,
in Edinburgh.

291
00:18:12,168 --> 00:18:14,085
(TRAIN CHUGGING)

292
00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:28,960
(DOORBELL RINGING)

293
00:18:40,751 --> 00:18:42,335
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER:
Good morning, Lieutenant.

294
00:18:42,376 --> 00:18:45,001
You may leave your coat
and luggage here.

295
00:18:45,043 --> 00:18:47,335
A porter will take them
up to your room.

296
00:18:59,293 --> 00:19:00,585
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER: Name?

297
00:19:00,626 --> 00:19:01,918
Sassoon, Siegfried.

298
00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:03,210
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER: Rank?

299
00:19:03,251 --> 00:19:05,043
-SIEGFRIED: Second Lieutenant.
-Age?

300
00:19:05,085 --> 00:19:06,418
SIEGFRIED: 30.

301
00:19:06,460 --> 00:19:08,668
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER:
Years of complete service?

302
00:19:08,710 --> 00:19:10,293
SIEGFRIED: Two years,
eleven months.

303
00:19:10,335 --> 00:19:11,543
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER:
Completed months

304
00:19:11,585 --> 00:19:13,085
with Field Force?

305
00:19:13,126 --> 00:19:15,126
SIEGFRIED: Thirteen months.

306
00:19:15,168 --> 00:19:16,335
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER:
Disease?

307
00:19:18,626 --> 00:19:20,418
I've had some
sort of breakdown.

308
00:19:21,751 --> 00:19:23,543
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER:
Nervous debility?

309
00:19:24,918 --> 00:19:27,085
Yes, I believe
that's what they call it.

310
00:19:27,126 --> 00:19:28,793
Enter it as
neurasthenia, Matron.

311
00:19:31,335 --> 00:19:33,085
As we came in, sir,
I noticed several men

312
00:19:33,126 --> 00:19:34,960
with blue dots on their faces.

313
00:19:35,001 --> 00:19:36,293
MATRON: Morphine.

314
00:19:37,293 --> 00:19:38,460
Morphine?

315
00:19:38,501 --> 00:19:40,918
The dots denote that
they've had their doses,

316
00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,501
so that they are given no more
until the appropriate time.

317
00:19:44,543 --> 00:19:46,793
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER:
Who will be treating this man?

318
00:19:46,835 --> 00:19:50,543
-MATRON: Doctor Rivers.
-Rivers' office is next door.

319
00:19:50,585 --> 00:19:52,876
I think it would be polite
if you introduced yourself.

320
00:19:52,918 --> 00:19:54,043
Yes, sir.

321
00:19:54,085 --> 00:19:55,168
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER:
And in your room,

322
00:19:55,210 --> 00:19:56,293
you will find an armband.

323
00:19:56,335 --> 00:19:58,251
It is to be worn at all times,

324
00:19:58,293 --> 00:20:00,710
especially outside
the hospital grounds.

325
00:20:00,751 --> 00:20:04,376
It is to show that you are
a serving soldier in hospital

326
00:20:04,418 --> 00:20:06,918
and not
a conscientious objector.

327
00:20:08,168 --> 00:20:10,210
We wouldn't want you
to be attacked

328
00:20:10,251 --> 00:20:12,793
in Princes Street,
now, would we?

329
00:20:14,085 --> 00:20:16,501
Which arm
shall I wear it on, sir?

330
00:20:16,543 --> 00:20:18,710
The pleasure of that
choice, Lieutenant,

331
00:20:18,751 --> 00:20:21,335
is entirely yours.

332
00:20:21,376 --> 00:20:23,043
Your room
is on the upper floor

333
00:20:23,085 --> 00:20:24,918
at the end of the corridor.

334
00:20:28,335 --> 00:20:29,501
Dismissed.

335
00:20:35,793 --> 00:20:37,418
(KNOCK AT DOOR)

336
00:20:37,460 --> 00:20:39,376
Hmm?

337
00:20:39,418 --> 00:20:41,751
Sassoon, Siegfried,
Lieutenant.

338
00:20:45,585 --> 00:20:48,210
Your burgeoning fame
precedes you.

339
00:20:49,751 --> 00:20:51,960
I enjoyed The Old Huntsman
very much.

340
00:20:54,543 --> 00:20:55,710
You may not know,

341
00:20:55,751 --> 00:20:59,751
but we have
a house magazine, The Hydra.

342
00:20:59,793 --> 00:21:02,001
I'm sure it would welcome
a contribution from you.

343
00:21:03,876 --> 00:21:05,085
Well, I'll, erm,

344
00:21:06,376 --> 00:21:08,918
try to write something
light and amusing.

345
00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,710
Oh, there's no need
to go that far.

346
00:21:11,751 --> 00:21:14,168
You have an appointment to see
me at 10:30 in the morning.

347
00:21:44,543 --> 00:21:45,835
Dear Mother,

348
00:21:47,001 --> 00:21:49,168
have arrived in Dottyville.

349
00:21:53,460 --> 00:21:54,460
Wish you were here.

350
00:21:58,418 --> 00:21:59,418
(KNOCKS ON DOOR)

351
00:22:02,543 --> 00:22:03,543
Good morning, Doctor.

352
00:22:04,835 --> 00:22:06,960
DR RIVERS:
Good morning, Sassoon.

353
00:22:07,001 --> 00:22:09,710
Please, sit down.
We're quite relaxed here.

354
00:22:13,918 --> 00:22:15,126
(CLEARS THROAT)

355
00:22:17,918 --> 00:22:19,168
Although we do seem
to go through

356
00:22:19,210 --> 00:22:21,418
rather too many
chief medical officers,

357
00:22:23,001 --> 00:22:24,668
some are more flexible
than others.

358
00:22:24,710 --> 00:22:26,293
Then they're replaced
by someone

359
00:22:26,335 --> 00:22:29,543
who wants everything
to be as taut as Aldershot.

360
00:22:29,585 --> 00:22:30,876
Then they too are replaced.

361
00:22:32,168 --> 00:22:33,418
And what's your persuasion?

362
00:22:34,668 --> 00:22:37,460
Oh, I prefer a certain
measure of laxity.

363
00:22:38,835 --> 00:22:40,335
One can't be
at attention forever,

364
00:22:40,376 --> 00:22:42,043
it plays havoc
with the nerves.

365
00:22:42,085 --> 00:22:43,085
(CHUCKLES)

366
00:22:46,335 --> 00:22:47,335
(CLEARS THROAT)

367
00:22:50,876 --> 00:22:53,293
From the, er, little I know of
your method of treatment here,

368
00:22:53,335 --> 00:22:56,626
I understand that
from whatever I say

369
00:22:56,668 --> 00:22:57,710
you can deduce whether or not

370
00:22:57,751 --> 00:23:00,043
my grandmother
was a dipsomaniac.

371
00:23:00,585 --> 00:23:01,876
Was she?

372
00:23:01,918 --> 00:23:03,626
Alas, no, no.

373
00:23:03,668 --> 00:23:06,668
Just a sweet sherry at
Christmas and on birthdays.

374
00:23:06,710 --> 00:23:08,001
Well done, your grandmother.

375
00:23:09,501 --> 00:23:11,501
She didn't know
what she wasn't missing.

376
00:23:11,543 --> 00:23:12,543
(CHUCKLES)

377
00:23:13,710 --> 00:23:14,710
(CLEARS THROAT)

378
00:23:15,543 --> 00:23:16,543
(INHALES DEEPLY)

379
00:23:18,251 --> 00:23:20,043
Well, just tell me whatever
it is you want me to do,

380
00:23:20,085 --> 00:23:22,293
and I'll comply
with your wishes.

381
00:23:22,335 --> 00:23:23,876
It isn't a question
of what I want.

382
00:23:25,418 --> 00:23:28,168
It's a question
of what you think you need.

383
00:23:29,668 --> 00:23:32,335
Am I to start? Or do you?

384
00:23:33,585 --> 00:23:35,501
Is there anything you feel
you wish to say?

385
00:23:38,710 --> 00:23:41,585
What I feel cannot be talked
away or soothed into silence.

386
00:23:42,710 --> 00:23:43,710
DR RIVERS: Why?

387
00:23:45,710 --> 00:23:47,001
Too many have died.

388
00:23:48,418 --> 00:23:50,001
Too much has been destroyed.

389
00:23:53,460 --> 00:23:56,626
There can be
an easement of pain.

390
00:23:58,668 --> 00:24:00,918
A move towards acceptance.

391
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,543
Pain is not the only terror.

392
00:24:03,543 --> 00:24:04,710
There are many more.

393
00:24:06,293 --> 00:24:08,043
Can you name them?

394
00:24:08,085 --> 00:24:10,710
If I could name them, they
would cease to be terrors.

395
00:24:10,751 --> 00:24:13,501
That's a very elegant way
of avoiding an answer.

396
00:24:13,543 --> 00:24:14,835
All evasions are elegant.

397
00:24:14,876 --> 00:24:17,043
Think of politics.

398
00:24:17,085 --> 00:24:18,626
I've always thought
that politicians

399
00:24:18,668 --> 00:24:21,043
were too stupid to be subtle.

400
00:24:21,085 --> 00:24:24,001
Perhaps they're just
too subtle to be inelegant.

401
00:24:29,751 --> 00:24:31,085
(INHALES DEEPLY)

402
00:24:42,585 --> 00:24:44,210
Are you a good soldier?

403
00:24:45,835 --> 00:24:47,126
Passable.

404
00:24:48,710 --> 00:24:49,751
I was a poor marksman.

405
00:24:49,793 --> 00:24:51,710
I never knew
which eye to shut.

406
00:24:51,751 --> 00:24:53,793
I understand you were
awarded the MC.

407
00:24:53,835 --> 00:24:56,043
SIEGFRIED: Yes.

408
00:24:56,085 --> 00:24:57,960
It's supposed
to signify gallantry.

409
00:25:00,335 --> 00:25:02,293
Bravery is only cowardice
in extremis.

410
00:25:03,835 --> 00:25:05,960
At the root of bravery
lies terror

411
00:25:06,876 --> 00:25:08,751
and the fear of fear.

412
00:25:08,793 --> 00:25:11,668
But you were conspicuous
by your courage.

413
00:25:14,835 --> 00:25:17,251
Why did you discard
the Military Cross?

414
00:25:19,210 --> 00:25:21,293
Disgust at my own
dwindling standards

415
00:25:22,751 --> 00:25:24,335
and the men I felt
I had betrayed.

416
00:25:24,376 --> 00:25:25,960
It was nothing short
of duplicity.

417
00:25:26,001 --> 00:25:27,418
And yet the men
under your command

418
00:25:27,460 --> 00:25:29,668
held you in the highest
esteem, I'm told.

419
00:25:29,710 --> 00:25:30,960
And I them.

420
00:25:32,710 --> 00:25:33,751
They seemed to me to be all

421
00:25:33,793 --> 00:25:35,376
that was good and true
in this world.

422
00:25:39,418 --> 00:25:41,085
Are you searching for truth?

423
00:25:41,126 --> 00:25:42,168
Isn't everyone?

424
00:25:44,085 --> 00:25:45,210
And if you find it,

425
00:25:47,460 --> 00:25:48,585
what then?

426
00:25:48,626 --> 00:25:49,751
(INHALES SHARPLY)

427
00:25:51,585 --> 00:25:54,918
Peace of mind, contentment.

428
00:25:58,668 --> 00:26:00,876
No longer yearning
for what's been lost.

429
00:26:07,835 --> 00:26:10,460
(SOFT PIANO MUSIC PLAYING)

430
00:26:19,460 --> 00:26:26,460
MAN: (SINGING)
Loveliest of trees

431
00:26:28,043 --> 00:26:32,335
The cherry now

432
00:26:32,376 --> 00:26:36,751
Is hung with bloom

433
00:26:36,793 --> 00:26:43,210
Along the bough

434
00:26:45,835 --> 00:26:49,918
And stands about

435
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:56,960
The woodland ride

436
00:27:00,251 --> 00:27:07,210
Wearing white

437
00:27:07,251 --> 00:27:13,751
For Eastertide

438
00:27:13,793 --> 00:27:15,668
(KNOCK ON DOOR)

439
00:27:15,710 --> 00:27:17,085
Come in.

440
00:27:21,918 --> 00:27:23,710
Lieutenant Sassoon?

441
00:27:24,918 --> 00:27:25,918
Yes.

442
00:27:26,835 --> 00:27:29,585
(STUTTERS) I'm Wilfred Owen.

443
00:27:34,210 --> 00:27:37,043
(MAN SCREAMING)

444
00:27:39,585 --> 00:27:41,501
(OBJECT RATTLING)

445
00:27:42,710 --> 00:27:44,835
(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING)

446
00:27:44,876 --> 00:27:46,335
(DOCTOR AND MATRON
SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

447
00:27:46,376 --> 00:27:49,251
(SCREAMING INTENSIFIES)

448
00:27:49,293 --> 00:27:52,626
(MATRON SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

449
00:27:53,626 --> 00:27:56,126
(MAN CONTINUES SCREAMING)

450
00:28:00,418 --> 00:28:01,918
There was howling last night.

451
00:28:03,793 --> 00:28:05,085
(INHALES DEEPLY)

452
00:28:06,918 --> 00:28:08,543
Like a wolf. (EXHALES DEEPLY)

453
00:28:09,876 --> 00:28:12,126
Strictly speaking,
wolves ululate.

454
00:28:13,585 --> 00:28:15,001
But howling will do.

455
00:28:15,043 --> 00:28:18,043
Now, don't make light of it
like that, Doctor, please.

456
00:28:18,085 --> 00:28:19,335
That isn't what I'm doing.

457
00:28:20,835 --> 00:28:23,126
I'm merely keeping it
in perspective.

458
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,418
I'm sorry
if I sounded uncaring.

459
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,418
His screams were terrible.

460
00:28:38,210 --> 00:28:39,626
Worse than an animal.

461
00:28:42,543 --> 00:28:43,876
Such anguish in them.

462
00:28:46,543 --> 00:28:47,543
(SIGHS)

463
00:28:51,710 --> 00:28:54,251
Why do all the worst terrors
come at night? (CHUCKLES)

464
00:28:57,876 --> 00:29:00,918
The night is, I think,

465
00:29:02,751 --> 00:29:03,876
like the unconscious.

466
00:29:06,543 --> 00:29:10,168
Waiting all day so that it can
steal over you in the dark.

467
00:29:13,251 --> 00:29:14,251
(EXHALES DEEPLY)

468
00:29:19,335 --> 00:29:21,626
You make it sound
almost benign.

469
00:29:23,418 --> 00:29:24,418
Perhaps it is.

470
00:29:31,668 --> 00:29:34,376
(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)

471
00:29:47,293 --> 00:29:48,501
I believe Wilfred Owen

472
00:29:48,543 --> 00:29:50,793
introduced himself to you
the other day.

473
00:29:51,460 --> 00:29:52,460
Yes.

474
00:29:55,418 --> 00:29:56,543
He seems so gentle.

475
00:29:58,043 --> 00:29:59,710
Feel rather protective of him.

476
00:30:01,251 --> 00:30:03,876
Does that protectiveness
hide something deeper?

477
00:30:04,710 --> 00:30:06,168
(INHALES DEEPLY)

478
00:30:06,210 --> 00:30:07,210
Yes.

479
00:30:09,376 --> 00:30:10,876
All my friendships do.

480
00:30:13,543 --> 00:30:16,168
But I've never allowed my
emotions to mar or spoil them,

481
00:30:16,210 --> 00:30:17,210
I remain passive.

482
00:30:19,043 --> 00:30:20,543
It's how I cope.

483
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,710
You never act on impulse?

484
00:30:23,751 --> 00:30:26,293
No, never.

485
00:30:29,376 --> 00:30:30,960
I'm unable to take risks.

486
00:30:33,251 --> 00:30:34,460
It's the hero in me.

487
00:30:35,543 --> 00:30:36,793
Why not?

488
00:30:37,876 --> 00:30:39,043
Too afraid,

489
00:30:40,751 --> 00:30:42,043
too inhibited.

490
00:30:44,293 --> 00:30:46,126
Shamed by an inner corruption.

491
00:30:49,085 --> 00:30:50,835
Or perhaps
it's simply because of...

492
00:30:52,418 --> 00:30:53,501
What's the phrase?

493
00:30:53,543 --> 00:30:55,960
"The love that dare not
speak its name."

494
00:31:01,751 --> 00:31:03,668
You are not alone
in that respect.

495
00:31:12,710 --> 00:31:14,543
Frankly, Doctor,
I'm surprised.

496
00:31:17,751 --> 00:31:18,751
Why?

497
00:31:20,876 --> 00:31:22,710
The world
is full of anomalies.

498
00:31:24,710 --> 00:31:25,751
(CHUCKLES)

499
00:31:27,168 --> 00:31:30,126
Well, speaking as
one anomaly to another,

500
00:31:30,168 --> 00:31:31,793
how do you cope with the law?

501
00:31:33,418 --> 00:31:34,418
(EXHALES)

502
00:31:36,043 --> 00:31:38,668
I adopt a less than honest
respect for it.

503
00:31:44,085 --> 00:31:48,126
So evasion is not confined
solely to second lieutenants?

504
00:31:48,168 --> 00:31:51,501
No, it affects all ranks.

505
00:31:56,168 --> 00:31:59,210
I trust after this disclosure,
you will be discreet.

506
00:32:01,335 --> 00:32:03,001
Discretion is my middle name.

507
00:32:04,835 --> 00:32:07,251
Well, it's better
than Ethel anyway.

508
00:32:07,293 --> 00:32:09,710
(LAUGHING)

509
00:32:10,543 --> 00:32:11,793
(CHUCKLES)

510
00:32:11,835 --> 00:32:14,710
(PIANO PLAYING)

511
00:32:29,585 --> 00:32:30,585
(PIANO STOPS)

512
00:32:31,876 --> 00:32:33,043
(SIEGFRIED CLEARS THROAT)

513
00:32:36,585 --> 00:32:41,168
One assumes these theatricals
have some deeper purpose.

514
00:32:42,168 --> 00:32:43,835
Well, sir, I think
they help to give

515
00:32:43,876 --> 00:32:46,251
some sort of ease
away from the front line.

516
00:32:46,293 --> 00:32:47,876
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER:
I doubt that.

517
00:32:47,918 --> 00:32:49,418
Should the enemy perceive

518
00:32:49,460 --> 00:32:52,543
that the British Army is
always preparing for a tango,

519
00:32:52,585 --> 00:32:54,293
the war is lost.

520
00:32:55,293 --> 00:32:58,543
Besides, the spectacle of men

521
00:32:58,585 --> 00:33:02,001
dancing with men
is never palatable.

522
00:33:02,043 --> 00:33:04,085
I had always thought
such creatures

523
00:33:04,126 --> 00:33:05,501
went into the library

524
00:33:05,543 --> 00:33:08,376
with their service revolvers
and did the decent thing.

525
00:33:12,210 --> 00:33:16,835
And how is your treatment
progressing, Lieutenant?

526
00:33:16,876 --> 00:33:19,293
Oh, it has
its unique moments, sir.

527
00:33:19,335 --> 00:33:21,668
Well, let us hope
these unique moments

528
00:33:21,710 --> 00:33:24,876
coalesce enough to get you
back to active service,

529
00:33:24,918 --> 00:33:27,418
fighting fit, as it were.

530
00:33:27,460 --> 00:33:28,793
Doesn't that rather
depend, sir,

531
00:33:28,835 --> 00:33:31,043
on what's fit to fight for?

532
00:33:31,085 --> 00:33:32,668
But perhaps
I'm just being syndromatic.

533
00:33:33,918 --> 00:33:36,418
Or is that a lapsus linguae?

534
00:33:36,460 --> 00:33:37,960
I beg your pardon?

535
00:33:38,001 --> 00:33:39,543
SIEGFRIED:
Lapsus linguae, sir.

536
00:33:40,376 --> 00:33:41,418
Slip of the tongue.

537
00:33:41,460 --> 00:33:43,876
I know what it means,
Lieutenant.

538
00:33:43,918 --> 00:33:45,751
The rest of us may be unable

539
00:33:45,793 --> 00:33:47,668
to read Beowulf
in the original,

540
00:33:47,710 --> 00:33:50,835
but we're not all
complete Philistines.

541
00:33:50,876 --> 00:33:52,251
Of course not, sir.

542
00:33:59,585 --> 00:34:00,585
Carry on.

543
00:34:08,251 --> 00:34:09,960
-Ready?
-Yes.

544
00:34:10,668 --> 00:34:12,876
(PIANO RESUMES)

545
00:34:25,876 --> 00:34:27,751
(SINGING) Halitosis!

546
00:34:27,793 --> 00:34:29,793
Halitosis!

547
00:34:29,835 --> 00:34:31,710
Your first poem in Hydra.

548
00:34:31,751 --> 00:34:33,585
Long live the editor!

549
00:34:33,626 --> 00:34:34,960
I am the editor.

550
00:34:35,001 --> 00:34:37,251
Hooray for nepotism!

551
00:34:37,293 --> 00:34:39,043
(LAUGHS)

552
00:34:39,085 --> 00:34:41,710
And what do you think
of my verse, Siegfried?

553
00:34:43,460 --> 00:34:44,835
It seemed
a little too dependent

554
00:34:44,876 --> 00:34:46,460
on 19th century models.

555
00:34:47,293 --> 00:34:48,376
You make it sound like

556
00:34:48,418 --> 00:34:49,876
The Courtship
of Miles Standish.

557
00:34:49,918 --> 00:34:51,960
SIEGFRIED: Oh, God, no.
Nothing's ever as bad as that.

558
00:34:53,168 --> 00:34:56,876
But you do find
my work derivative?

559
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,960
While I was at Clare,

560
00:35:03,001 --> 00:35:06,210
I wasted far too much time
reading Swinburne.

561
00:35:06,251 --> 00:35:08,710
It was very bad
for my adjectives.

562
00:35:08,751 --> 00:35:12,835
You have to speak directly,
not with another's voice.

563
00:35:18,085 --> 00:35:20,918
Look, at first,
everyone's work is derivative.

564
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,710
We all have to start
somewhere.

565
00:35:23,751 --> 00:35:25,418
At Cambridge,
apart from Swinburne,

566
00:35:25,460 --> 00:35:28,585
I did nothing except read
William Morris in a punt

567
00:35:28,626 --> 00:35:31,126
and staggered through Maud.

568
00:35:35,668 --> 00:35:39,126
Perhaps, er, my latest effort

569
00:35:39,168 --> 00:35:40,501
will please you.

570
00:35:42,876 --> 00:35:44,293
It's called Disabled.

571
00:36:39,835 --> 00:36:41,043
It's magnificent.

572
00:36:45,293 --> 00:36:46,793
It pierces the heart.

573
00:36:51,168 --> 00:36:52,501
What a gift you have.

574
00:36:59,085 --> 00:37:01,710
I have been passed

575
00:37:01,751 --> 00:37:05,293
by the Medical Board
as fit for active service.

576
00:37:16,626 --> 00:37:19,210
When do you rejoin
your regiment?

577
00:37:19,251 --> 00:37:20,376
WILFRED: December.

578
00:37:21,626 --> 00:37:22,835
Just before Christmas.

579
00:37:30,126 --> 00:37:31,126
Oh.

580
00:37:32,668 --> 00:37:34,376
(PIANO MUSIC PLAYING)

581
00:37:34,418 --> 00:37:38,335
(SINGING) There was I
waiting at the church

582
00:37:38,376 --> 00:37:42,085
Waiting at the church
Waiting at the church

583
00:37:42,126 --> 00:37:46,001
When I found
he left me in the lurch

584
00:37:46,043 --> 00:37:50,251
Lord, how it did upset me

585
00:37:50,293 --> 00:37:53,793
All at once
he sent me round a note

586
00:37:53,835 --> 00:37:55,751
Here's the very note

587
00:37:55,793 --> 00:37:58,210
This is what he wrote

588
00:37:58,251 --> 00:38:01,710
"Can't get away
to marry you today

589
00:38:01,751 --> 00:38:06,293
"My wife won't let me"

590
00:38:06,335 --> 00:38:08,335
SOLDIERS: (SINGING)
There was I

591
00:38:08,376 --> 00:38:10,126
Waiting at the church

592
00:38:10,168 --> 00:38:14,210
Waiting at the church
Waiting at the church

593
00:38:14,251 --> 00:38:18,126
When I found
he left me in the lurch

594
00:38:18,168 --> 00:38:22,126
Lord, how it did upset me

595
00:38:22,168 --> 00:38:26,126
All at once
he sent me round a note

596
00:38:26,168 --> 00:38:28,043
Here's the very note

597
00:38:28,085 --> 00:38:29,918
This is what he wrote

598
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,918
"Can't get away
to marry you today

599
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:37,001
"My wife won't let me"

600
00:38:37,043 --> 00:38:39,168
(SOLDIERS CHEERING)

601
00:38:44,418 --> 00:38:47,126
(STUTTERS)
What is it, Siegfried?

602
00:38:48,626 --> 00:38:49,626
Nothing.

603
00:38:54,210 --> 00:38:57,335
Wilfred's about to return
to duty. (CLEARS THROAT)

604
00:38:58,126 --> 00:38:59,126
I know.

605
00:39:08,460 --> 00:39:09,668
What will you do?

606
00:39:10,710 --> 00:39:11,710
Nothing.

607
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,751
I will not do anything to make
the parting even more painful.

608
00:39:20,043 --> 00:39:21,043
(EXHALES DEEPLY)

609
00:39:26,626 --> 00:39:28,293
I'd give everything I possess

610
00:39:28,335 --> 00:39:30,751
to have him stay
just one more hour.

611
00:39:31,835 --> 00:39:33,043
One more minute.

612
00:39:40,126 --> 00:39:43,501
Quick to tears, slow to love.

613
00:39:49,626 --> 00:39:51,335
You know,
when I first met him,

614
00:39:52,543 --> 00:39:54,168
he had a slight stammer.

615
00:39:56,668 --> 00:39:59,085
And spoke, I thought,
with a grammar school accent.

616
00:40:02,626 --> 00:40:04,043
How could I be such a snob?

617
00:40:07,835 --> 00:40:09,335
He really is a lovely man.

618
00:40:12,876 --> 00:40:14,501
And I think the greater poet.

619
00:40:17,501 --> 00:40:18,501
(SIGHS)

620
00:40:22,126 --> 00:40:23,835
What about your poetry?

621
00:40:27,043 --> 00:40:28,460
It's egotism, really.

622
00:40:31,751 --> 00:40:33,960
That seems a little harsh.

623
00:40:34,001 --> 00:40:35,210
Truth often is.

624
00:40:44,710 --> 00:40:46,835
I have no idea
why I come here.

625
00:40:49,251 --> 00:40:50,668
(SNIFFLES)

626
00:40:53,876 --> 00:40:55,501
It's really done
no good at all, this.

627
00:40:59,210 --> 00:41:01,960
Think of it as a cleansing
of the soul.

628
00:41:05,043 --> 00:41:07,251
Why do you have
to put it so beautifully?

629
00:41:10,751 --> 00:41:12,210
(RAIN PATTERING)

630
00:42:37,460 --> 00:42:42,376
Will you stay just
for a few more moments?

631
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:43,960
Yes.

632
00:43:06,376 --> 00:43:07,710
DRIVER: Whenever
you're ready, sir.

633
00:43:40,585 --> 00:43:42,001
SIEGFRIED: Wilfred was killed

634
00:43:42,043 --> 00:43:44,126
just a week
before the war ended.

635
00:43:51,585 --> 00:43:55,543
What passing-bells
for these who die as cattle?

636
00:43:55,585 --> 00:43:57,960
Only the monstrous anger
of the guns.

637
00:43:59,501 --> 00:44:02,293
Only the stuttering rifles'
rapid rattle

638
00:44:02,335 --> 00:44:04,793
can patter out
their hasty orisons.

639
00:44:06,168 --> 00:44:09,835
No mockeries for them
from prayers or bells,

640
00:44:09,876 --> 00:44:12,418
nor any voice of mourning,

641
00:44:12,460 --> 00:44:13,876
save the choir's.

642
00:44:15,293 --> 00:44:20,001
The shrill, demented choirs
of wailing shells

643
00:44:20,043 --> 00:44:24,960
and bugles calling for them
from sad shires.

644
00:44:25,001 --> 00:44:29,210
What candles may be held
to speed them all?

645
00:44:29,251 --> 00:44:33,043
Not in the hands of boys,
but in their eyes

646
00:44:33,085 --> 00:44:36,251
shall shine the holy glimmers
of goodbyes.

647
00:44:36,293 --> 00:44:39,876
The pallor of girls' brows
shall be their pall,

648
00:44:39,918 --> 00:44:44,043
their flowers, the tenderness
of silent minds,

649
00:44:44,085 --> 00:44:48,960
and each slow dusk
a drawing-down of blinds.

650
00:44:53,418 --> 00:44:58,376
The woman posing, who appears
to be wearing a spinnaker

651
00:44:58,418 --> 00:45:01,376
is Lady Ottoline Morrell.

652
00:45:01,418 --> 00:45:05,251
More hair than self-restraint,
but definitely nobody's fool.

653
00:45:05,293 --> 00:45:06,501
She looks as though

654
00:45:06,543 --> 00:45:08,335
she hasn't heard a joke
since the Boer War.

655
00:45:08,376 --> 00:45:10,710
For Ottoline, the Boer War
was the joke.

656
00:45:11,793 --> 00:45:13,085
Ottoline.

657
00:45:13,126 --> 00:45:15,043
May we pause
for a moment, Dorothy,

658
00:45:15,085 --> 00:45:17,835
-before rigor mortis sets in?
-Of course, Ottoline.

659
00:45:18,335 --> 00:45:19,335
(SIGHS)

660
00:45:22,126 --> 00:45:26,126
Who is this extremely
beautiful young man, Robbie?

661
00:45:26,168 --> 00:45:27,751
Sassoon, Siegfried.

662
00:45:27,793 --> 00:45:30,168
It sounds Wagnerian.

663
00:45:30,210 --> 00:45:32,876
It's just Home Counties,
I'm afraid.

664
00:45:32,918 --> 00:45:36,043
So you are not a keeper
of the flame at Bayreuth?

665
00:45:36,085 --> 00:45:38,460
No, no, I'm afraid not.

666
00:45:38,501 --> 00:45:40,918
What are your
musical tastes then?

667
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:48,376
Er, Ravel, Albeniz, Chausson.
Scriabin, if I must.

668
00:45:48,418 --> 00:45:50,085
Cesar Franck,
when I'm in the mood.

669
00:45:50,126 --> 00:45:51,960
And Bartok?

670
00:45:52,001 --> 00:45:53,626
Oh, no. Never Bartok, no.

671
00:45:54,751 --> 00:45:55,793
His music always sounds to me

672
00:45:55,835 --> 00:45:57,751
like a lunatic
playing the xylophone.

673
00:45:57,793 --> 00:45:59,418
(LAUGHS) Vice versa.

674
00:45:59,460 --> 00:46:00,876
(CHUCKLES)

675
00:46:00,918 --> 00:46:03,751
I once heard Paderewski play
Bartok at Tunbridge Wells,

676
00:46:03,793 --> 00:46:05,418
but I found it
rather disappointing.

677
00:46:05,460 --> 00:46:07,251
Well, what did you
expect, Robbie?

678
00:46:08,126 --> 00:46:09,835
It was Tunbridge Wells.

679
00:46:09,876 --> 00:46:11,751
(ALL CHUCKLE)

680
00:46:11,793 --> 00:46:16,543
Come into the main house
and have tea.

681
00:46:16,585 --> 00:46:18,501
DOROTHY:
May I join you, Ottoline?

682
00:46:18,543 --> 00:46:20,126
Of course. Dorothy,

683
00:46:20,168 --> 00:46:23,251
you are not a servant,
but an honourable.

684
00:46:24,376 --> 00:46:27,418
Now come along, Mr Bassoon,

685
00:46:27,460 --> 00:46:33,001
and tell me what you really
have against Mr Bartok.

686
00:46:33,043 --> 00:46:35,460
SIEGFRIED: Not a great deal.
I just don't like his music.

687
00:46:35,501 --> 00:46:38,418
ROSS: Oh, a word
into your shell-like,

688
00:46:38,460 --> 00:46:41,251
she'll ask you
to stay the night.

689
00:46:41,293 --> 00:46:44,376
She always asks attractive
young men to stay the night.

690
00:46:44,418 --> 00:46:47,418
So lock your bedroom door

691
00:46:47,460 --> 00:46:50,418
or wear something
very, very severe.

692
00:46:52,085 --> 00:46:53,501
(DOOR OPENS)

693
00:47:00,918 --> 00:47:04,918
I thought that I might be
more interesting than cocoa.

694
00:47:08,668 --> 00:47:10,710
I'm afraid I prefer cocoa.

695
00:47:10,751 --> 00:47:11,793
(LAUGHS)

696
00:47:12,585 --> 00:47:13,793
Sleep badly.

697
00:47:17,501 --> 00:47:18,501
(DOOR CLOSES)

698
00:47:21,876 --> 00:47:22,876
(CLEARS THROAT)

699
00:47:27,668 --> 00:47:33,001
SOLDIER: Dickie. Curse
the Wood! It's time to go.

700
00:47:33,043 --> 00:47:36,418
(GROANS) O Christ,
what's the good?

701
00:47:36,460 --> 00:47:41,460
We'll never take it,
and it's always raining.

702
00:47:41,501 --> 00:47:42,918
-(MAN SCREAMING)
- They snipe like hell!

703
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,376
(GRUNTS)
O Dickie, don't go out!

704
00:47:45,418 --> 00:47:48,960
(SCREAMING CONTINUES)

705
00:48:11,710 --> 00:48:13,918
(NURSES TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

706
00:48:17,460 --> 00:48:19,168
SIEGFRIED: I fell asleep.

707
00:48:19,210 --> 00:48:21,835
Next morning, he was dead.

708
00:48:21,876 --> 00:48:26,210
And some slight wound
lay smiling on the bed.

709
00:48:30,876 --> 00:48:32,918
(UPBEAT PIANO MUSIC PLAYING)

710
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:35,168
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

711
00:48:43,585 --> 00:48:45,001
Ivor Novello...

712
00:48:46,501 --> 00:48:48,918
of Keep The Home-Fires Burning
fame.

713
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:50,251
Hmm, yes.

714
00:48:50,293 --> 00:48:52,043
That loathsome little tune.

715
00:48:52,085 --> 00:48:55,293
Ah, he always writes
at the top of his voice,

716
00:48:55,335 --> 00:48:57,293
but we must try
to be charitable.

717
00:48:57,335 --> 00:49:00,210
Ah, Sybil, you ought to be
ashamed of yourself.

718
00:49:00,251 --> 00:49:01,543
Ragtime indeed.

719
00:49:01,585 --> 00:49:03,126
Yes, I know.

720
00:49:03,168 --> 00:49:07,418
But Mr Novello plays it
so well, it's almost music.

721
00:49:07,460 --> 00:49:10,626
Besides, at the moment,
he's appearing in the West End

722
00:49:10,668 --> 00:49:14,001
in a very successful play
called The Rat.

723
00:49:14,043 --> 00:49:15,543
I know.

724
00:49:15,585 --> 00:49:18,001
Someone asked me
if it was autobiographical,

725
00:49:18,043 --> 00:49:20,126
but I said I wasn't sure.

726
00:49:20,168 --> 00:49:23,668
One day, Robbie,
you will go too far.

727
00:49:23,710 --> 00:49:26,460
Oh, one day, Sybil,
we will all go too far.

728
00:49:28,210 --> 00:49:30,585
Thank you for coming,
Mr Sassoon.

729
00:49:30,626 --> 00:49:34,460
We're all very eager
to hear your recitation.

730
00:49:34,501 --> 00:49:37,210
-Thank you, Lady Colefax.
-(APPLAUSE)

731
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:47,293
Ladies and gentlemen,
pray silence for

732
00:49:47,335 --> 00:49:52,335
one of our greatest poets,
Mr Siegfried Sassoon.

733
00:49:59,543 --> 00:50:00,543
(CLEARS THROAT)

734
00:50:05,126 --> 00:50:06,918
When I'm among
a blaze of lights,

735
00:50:08,501 --> 00:50:11,335
with tawdry music and cigars

736
00:50:12,751 --> 00:50:15,418
and women dawdling
through delights

737
00:50:16,626 --> 00:50:18,835
and officers in cocktail bars,

738
00:50:20,085 --> 00:50:22,251
sometimes I think
of garden nights

739
00:50:24,293 --> 00:50:26,626
and elm trees
nodding at the stars.

740
00:50:28,626 --> 00:50:30,918
I dream of a small
fire-lit room.

741
00:50:32,251 --> 00:50:34,376
Yellow candles
burning straight,

742
00:50:35,835 --> 00:50:37,793
and glowing pictures
in the gloom,

743
00:50:38,793 --> 00:50:41,126
and kindly books
that hold me late.

744
00:50:43,460 --> 00:50:45,126
Of things like these
I choose to think

745
00:50:45,168 --> 00:50:46,751
when I can never be alone.

746
00:50:49,168 --> 00:50:51,460
And then someone says,
"Another drink,"

747
00:50:52,793 --> 00:50:55,793
and turns my living heart
to stone.

748
00:51:01,626 --> 00:51:04,501
-Hmm.
-(APPLAUSE)

749
00:51:09,210 --> 00:51:10,793
Thank you, Mr Sassoon.

750
00:51:11,543 --> 00:51:13,876
That was very touching.

751
00:51:13,918 --> 00:51:15,251
We both thank you, Sybil,

752
00:51:15,293 --> 00:51:17,126
and now go
and rejoin Lady Cunard

753
00:51:17,168 --> 00:51:18,960
before she starts
launching something.

754
00:51:19,001 --> 00:51:20,043
(CHUCKLES)

755
00:51:29,585 --> 00:51:31,168
(SCATTERED APPLAUSE)

756
00:51:31,210 --> 00:51:35,043
And to think he once played
the triangle so beautifully.

757
00:51:35,085 --> 00:51:37,251
-What a waste. (LAUGHING)
-(PIANO PLAYING)

758
00:51:37,293 --> 00:51:41,376
(SINGING) I seem to be
the victim of a cruel jest

759
00:51:41,418 --> 00:51:42,835
(FAINT LAUGHTER)

760
00:51:42,876 --> 00:51:48,376
It dogs my footsteps with
the girl I love the best

761
00:51:48,418 --> 00:51:54,668
She's just the sweetest thing
that I have ever known

762
00:51:54,710 --> 00:52:00,835
And yet we never get
the chance to be alone

763
00:52:00,876 --> 00:52:05,876
My car will meet her
and her mother comes, too

764
00:52:05,918 --> 00:52:07,251
(FAINT LAUGHTER)

765
00:52:07,293 --> 00:52:12,585
It's a two-seater
Still her mother comes, too

766
00:52:12,626 --> 00:52:18,335
At Ciro's when I am free
at dinner, supper or tea

767
00:52:18,376 --> 00:52:21,626
She loves to shimmy with me

768
00:52:21,668 --> 00:52:23,376
And her mother does, too

769
00:52:23,418 --> 00:52:24,751
(FAINT LAUGHTER)

770
00:52:24,793 --> 00:52:30,460
We buy her trousseau
And her mother comes, too

771
00:52:30,501 --> 00:52:36,626
Asked not to do so
Still her mother comes, too

772
00:52:36,668 --> 00:52:42,543
She simply can't take a snub
I go and sulk at the club

773
00:52:42,585 --> 00:52:47,210
Then have a bath and a rub
And her brother comes, too

774
00:52:47,251 --> 00:52:48,751
(LAUGHTER)

775
00:52:48,793 --> 00:52:53,710
To golf we started
And her mother came, too

776
00:52:54,501 --> 00:52:56,793
Three bags I carted

777
00:52:57,793 --> 00:53:00,710
When her mother came, too

778
00:53:00,751 --> 00:53:03,835
She fainted just off the tee

779
00:53:03,876 --> 00:53:07,251
My darling whispered to me

780
00:53:07,293 --> 00:53:10,751
"Jack dear, at last
we are free"

781
00:53:12,168 --> 00:53:13,626
But her mother came, too

782
00:53:13,668 --> 00:53:15,335
(LAUGHTER)

783
00:53:15,376 --> 00:53:17,460
(APPLAUSE)

784
00:53:19,626 --> 00:53:22,168
ROSS: He is considered
very beautiful.

785
00:53:22,210 --> 00:53:23,918
Look at those shoulders.

786
00:53:24,793 --> 00:53:27,835
Yeah, and look at his.

787
00:53:29,001 --> 00:53:30,043
(CHUCKLES)

788
00:53:30,085 --> 00:53:32,585
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

789
00:53:34,918 --> 00:53:36,626
Are we leaving, Ivor?

790
00:53:36,668 --> 00:53:38,335
No, precious.

791
00:53:38,376 --> 00:53:41,168
I'm anxious to meet
our distinguished guest,

792
00:53:41,210 --> 00:53:43,043
Mr Sassoon.

793
00:53:43,085 --> 00:53:45,251
I'm eager to have your advice
on my next musical.

794
00:53:45,293 --> 00:53:48,335
I'm thinking of writing
in terza rima.

795
00:53:48,376 --> 00:53:50,251
That's near Naples, isn't it?

796
00:53:51,251 --> 00:53:52,751
Oh, dear Robbie,

797
00:53:52,793 --> 00:53:53,960
whose silences are always

798
00:53:54,001 --> 00:53:56,460
so much more eloquent
than speech.

799
00:53:58,501 --> 00:53:59,501
(GLEN SNORTS)

800
00:54:09,460 --> 00:54:11,793
Robbie will give you a paw
to guide you home, Glen.

801
00:54:22,543 --> 00:54:24,501
-C'est la vie.
- ( CHUCKLES)

802
00:54:25,418 --> 00:54:26,460
C'est la guerre.

803
00:54:30,043 --> 00:54:31,418
(KISSING)

804
00:54:47,376 --> 00:54:49,960
(IVOR BREATHING HEAVILY)

805
00:54:52,585 --> 00:54:54,710
Oops.

806
00:54:54,751 --> 00:54:59,251
Just leave the keys
on the dresser, Glen.

807
00:55:00,835 --> 00:55:04,835
You know how absent-minded
I am with them.

808
00:55:04,876 --> 00:55:05,918
(KISSING CONTINUES)

809
00:55:14,001 --> 00:55:15,001
(KEYS THUD)

810
00:55:25,793 --> 00:55:26,793
(CIGARETTE CASE SNAPS)

811
00:55:38,001 --> 00:55:39,793
I think he's still
in love with you.

812
00:55:40,668 --> 00:55:42,710
The main drawback with love

813
00:55:42,751 --> 00:55:44,543
is that it descends,
all too quickly,

814
00:55:44,585 --> 00:55:45,918
into possessiveness.

815
00:55:52,043 --> 00:55:54,626
That really is a bore.

816
00:55:58,126 --> 00:55:59,668
What shall I do with these?

817
00:55:59,710 --> 00:56:02,251
Oh, they're for you.

818
00:56:34,626 --> 00:56:36,335
Hamo died so far away.

819
00:56:37,543 --> 00:56:40,460
While I have his sword,
I still have him.

820
00:56:42,751 --> 00:56:45,293
We never grieved
properly for him, Mother.

821
00:56:46,626 --> 00:56:48,585
Before grief, there's anger.

822
00:56:56,460 --> 00:57:00,710
SIEGFRIED: I watch you
on your constant way,

823
00:57:00,751 --> 00:57:03,460
in selfless duty
long grown grey.

824
00:57:04,918 --> 00:57:06,085
and to myself,

825
00:57:06,126 --> 00:57:08,793
I say that I have
lived my life to learn

826
00:57:08,835 --> 00:57:12,210
how lives like your
unasking earn.

827
00:57:12,251 --> 00:57:16,043
Aureoles that guide and burn

828
00:57:16,085 --> 00:57:17,710
in heart's remembrance

829
00:57:17,751 --> 00:57:20,543
when the proud who snared
the suffrage of the crowd

830
00:57:20,585 --> 00:57:24,293
are dumb and dusty browed.

831
00:57:24,335 --> 00:57:27,585
For you live onward
in my thought

832
00:57:27,626 --> 00:57:31,418
because you have not sought
rewards that can be bought.

833
00:57:33,043 --> 00:57:35,918
And so when I remember you,

834
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,501
I think of all things
rich and true

835
00:57:38,543 --> 00:57:40,793
that I have reaped
and wrought.

836
00:57:44,835 --> 00:57:46,585
Thank God you survived.

837
00:57:57,585 --> 00:57:58,585
Good night, darling.

838
00:57:59,751 --> 00:58:00,751
Good night, Mother.

839
00:58:12,626 --> 00:58:14,960
Give me your hand, my brother.

840
00:58:15,876 --> 00:58:17,210
Search my face.

841
00:58:18,751 --> 00:58:21,585
Look in these eyes
lest I should think of shame.

842
00:58:22,918 --> 00:58:25,585
For we have made an end
of all things base.

843
00:58:26,751 --> 00:58:29,210
We are returning
by the road we came.

844
00:58:30,626 --> 00:58:34,668
Your lot is with the ghosts
of soldiers dead,

845
00:58:34,710 --> 00:58:37,126
and I am in the field
where men must fight.

846
00:58:38,918 --> 00:58:41,335
But in the gloom,
I see your laurelled head

847
00:58:41,376 --> 00:58:45,126
and through your victory
I shall win the light.

848
00:58:46,293 --> 00:58:50,293
(MAN SINGS SILENT NIGHT
IN GERMAN)

849
00:59:12,085 --> 00:59:18,793
(MALE CHOIR SINGS IN ENGLISH)
Sleep in heavenly peace

850
00:59:18,835 --> 00:59:20,085
(GUNSHOT)

851
00:59:25,501 --> 00:59:28,626
3,500 copies of
Counter-Attack sold.

852
00:59:29,626 --> 00:59:31,793
Your fame
is spreading, Siegfried.

853
00:59:32,918 --> 00:59:34,085
Like a virus?

854
00:59:34,126 --> 00:59:35,210
Oh, don't be contrary.

855
00:59:36,751 --> 00:59:38,126
So I wake up famous.

856
00:59:38,751 --> 00:59:39,835
Like Byron.

857
00:59:40,876 --> 00:59:42,460
And I believe you've
been overwhelmed

858
00:59:42,501 --> 00:59:44,085
by visits from all the great
and the good.

859
00:59:44,126 --> 00:59:45,168
Mmm.

860
00:59:45,210 --> 00:59:48,918
Massine, Lydia Lopokova,
Keynes,

861
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:51,085
Winston Churchill and mother.

862
00:59:52,168 --> 00:59:54,251
Even "boy actor" Noel Coward.

863
00:59:55,543 --> 00:59:57,001
Have I left anyone out?

864
00:59:57,043 --> 00:59:59,835
-The Pope.
-(LAUGHS)

865
00:59:59,876 --> 01:00:01,668
That's right, Siegfried,
think small.

866
01:00:03,335 --> 01:00:04,960
How did you find Mr Churchill?

867
01:00:06,376 --> 01:00:08,001
Imperial.

868
01:00:08,043 --> 01:00:09,085
And Mr Coward?

869
01:00:10,460 --> 01:00:11,960
Gushing.

870
01:00:12,001 --> 01:00:15,460
What would you have done
if Royalty had paid a call?

871
01:00:15,501 --> 01:00:16,835
Oh, well, then I'd
have tried to curtsey

872
01:00:16,876 --> 01:00:18,418
-from a sitting position.
-(LAUGHS)

873
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:21,710
Speaking of Royalty,
I've come with a command

874
01:00:21,751 --> 01:00:25,543
from Her Majesty
Edith Sitwell.

875
01:00:25,585 --> 01:00:26,626
You are to attend
a performance

876
01:00:26,668 --> 01:00:28,210
at Carlyle Square

877
01:00:28,251 --> 01:00:30,251
of her Entertainment-Façade.

878
01:00:31,626 --> 01:00:33,876
Poetry, by Edith.
Music, Willie Walton.

879
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:36,001
I've gone
to a great deal of trouble

880
01:00:36,043 --> 01:00:37,210
to get this
so don't let me down.

881
01:00:38,585 --> 01:00:39,960
If you don't attend,
La Sitwell

882
01:00:40,001 --> 01:00:41,376
has threatened
to come to your flat

883
01:00:41,418 --> 01:00:42,751
at Half Moon Street

884
01:00:42,793 --> 01:00:45,293
and hum the whole
of Tannhauser to you.

885
01:00:45,335 --> 01:00:46,918
(LAUGHS)

886
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:48,293
You have been warned.

887
01:00:50,126 --> 01:00:51,168
Oh, I, er...

888
01:00:51,210 --> 01:00:53,210
Ottoline Morell popped in

889
01:00:53,251 --> 01:00:54,710
and wished to be
remembered to you.

890
01:00:55,251 --> 01:00:56,251
How was she?

891
01:00:57,710 --> 01:00:59,626
Let's just say I've always
found lime green

892
01:00:59,668 --> 01:01:01,251
a very unforgiving colour.

893
01:01:01,293 --> 01:01:02,668
(LAUGHS)

894
01:01:03,210 --> 01:01:04,960
Poor Ottoline.

895
01:01:05,001 --> 01:01:07,001
She'll go to her grave
overdressed.

896
01:01:10,001 --> 01:01:12,501
I'm looking forward
to meeting your mother.

897
01:01:13,210 --> 01:01:14,585
What?

898
01:01:14,626 --> 01:01:17,710
I said I was looking forward
to meeting your mother.

899
01:01:19,376 --> 01:01:21,835
All mothers, good or bad

900
01:01:21,876 --> 01:01:23,376
are always fascinating.

901
01:01:25,293 --> 01:01:26,960
I tried to set fire
to mine once,

902
01:01:28,293 --> 01:01:30,001
but she was all asbestos.

903
01:01:30,043 --> 01:01:31,085
(CHUCKLES)

904
01:01:32,585 --> 01:01:33,835
IVOR: Oh, do come on!

905
01:01:33,876 --> 01:01:36,668
We shall never get down
to Kent at this rate.

906
01:01:36,710 --> 01:01:39,960
Oh, and I found this
for you on the floor.

907
01:01:40,001 --> 01:01:41,501
Oh, it'll be from Robbie Ross.

908
01:01:43,376 --> 01:01:45,335
Why are you so antipathetic
towards him?

909
01:01:45,376 --> 01:01:48,460
Because I resent the way
that he speaks to me.

910
01:01:48,501 --> 01:01:50,793
Like he's always
putting me in my place.

911
01:01:52,418 --> 01:01:54,335
You know, the only problem
with knowing one's place

912
01:01:54,376 --> 01:01:56,418
is that other people
never seem to know theirs.

913
01:01:56,460 --> 01:01:58,168
(LAUGHS)

914
01:01:58,210 --> 01:02:00,585
He's acerbic, I grant you,
but he's never malign,

915
01:02:01,626 --> 01:02:04,085
and as a friend,
very steadfast.

916
01:02:04,126 --> 01:02:05,668
Robbie Ross took
some considerable risk

917
01:02:05,710 --> 01:02:07,668
when he publicly supported
Oscar Wilde.

918
01:02:07,710 --> 01:02:09,918
He's been hounded ever since
by Lord Alfred Douglas.

919
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:12,918
Oh, please,
Bosie was always vindictive.

920
01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:14,418
Robbie should have known that
from the beginning.

921
01:02:14,460 --> 01:02:16,043
He's really only got
himself to blame.

922
01:02:16,085 --> 01:02:17,793
That's really unfair.

923
01:02:17,835 --> 01:02:19,251
His loyalty to Wilde
was exemplary.

924
01:02:19,293 --> 01:02:22,835
All right, all right.
Robbie's a saint.

925
01:02:22,876 --> 01:02:24,960
Now, how about
we drop the subject?

926
01:02:30,668 --> 01:02:32,168
Oh, that's a very fine sword.

927
01:02:33,168 --> 01:02:34,585
It was my brother's.

928
01:02:34,626 --> 01:02:35,668
Hmm.

929
01:02:35,710 --> 01:02:37,751
He was killed at Gallipoli.

930
01:02:41,376 --> 01:02:42,376
(BELL CHIMING)

931
01:02:44,710 --> 01:02:45,793
Oh, God.

932
01:02:46,376 --> 01:02:47,876
What is it?

933
01:02:47,918 --> 01:02:50,043
It's the first performance
of Façade,

934
01:02:50,085 --> 01:02:52,126
and I was supposed
to go to it.

935
01:02:52,168 --> 01:02:54,501
Well, where's it
being performed?

936
01:02:54,543 --> 01:02:57,710
Some private performance
in Carlyle Square.

937
01:02:58,085 --> 01:02:59,626
Chelsea.

938
01:02:59,668 --> 01:03:01,001
Well, even if we drove
like the wind,

939
01:03:01,043 --> 01:03:02,210
we should never make it.

940
01:03:02,251 --> 01:03:04,126
Robbie will be furious.

941
01:03:04,168 --> 01:03:05,751
And so will Edith Sitwell.

942
01:03:07,251 --> 01:03:09,960
It's being given
to a very select audience.

943
01:03:10,001 --> 01:03:11,751
I'm sure she'll understand
once you explain

944
01:03:11,793 --> 01:03:13,335
why you weren't able
to be there.

945
01:03:13,376 --> 01:03:15,335
Oh, no,
I don't think so, Mother.

946
01:03:15,376 --> 01:03:17,210
Edith can be a very
captious woman.

947
01:03:17,251 --> 01:03:18,585
She isn't a woman.

948
01:03:18,626 --> 01:03:20,251
She's an animated meringue.

949
01:03:21,085 --> 01:03:22,335
And those teeth.

950
01:03:22,376 --> 01:03:24,876
Don't be horrible, Ivor.

951
01:03:24,918 --> 01:03:26,460
She suffers, I believe,
from a complaint

952
01:03:26,501 --> 01:03:28,085
known as receding gums.

953
01:03:28,126 --> 01:03:29,293
She's so autocratic,

954
01:03:29,335 --> 01:03:31,168
I'm surprised she gave
them permission to.

955
01:03:33,668 --> 01:03:35,126
Oh, well, come along then.

956
01:03:35,168 --> 01:03:37,835
Might as well see
if we can catch some of it.

957
01:03:37,876 --> 01:03:39,876
I'm sorry to have to rush off
like this, Mother.

958
01:03:39,918 --> 01:03:41,043
It doesn't matter.

959
01:03:45,376 --> 01:03:48,376
Is he just another one
of your pretty boys?

960
01:03:49,668 --> 01:03:53,085
No, it's deeper than that,
much deeper.

961
01:03:55,876 --> 01:03:58,126
You don't like him,
do you, Mother?

962
01:03:58,168 --> 01:04:00,835
He's amusing, but unpleasant.

963
01:04:02,085 --> 01:04:05,585
It's his eyes.
I think they're cruel.

964
01:04:11,460 --> 01:04:12,960
SIEGFRIED: Good night, Mother.

965
01:04:13,001 --> 01:04:14,210
Good night, Siegfried.

966
01:04:22,668 --> 01:04:23,668
You never came.

967
01:04:24,710 --> 01:04:26,335
SIEGFRIED:
Please forgive me, Edith.

968
01:04:27,626 --> 01:04:28,960
I shall try.

969
01:04:29,835 --> 01:04:31,126
I'm entirely to blame.

970
01:04:31,168 --> 01:04:33,251
We visited my mother
in Kent and I simply

971
01:04:33,293 --> 01:04:34,543
lost all sense of time.

972
01:04:36,210 --> 01:04:37,960
-We?
-SIEGFRIED: Mmm.

973
01:04:39,626 --> 01:04:41,460
Myself and Ivor Novello.

974
01:04:42,918 --> 01:04:45,626
A man at the cheaper end
of poetry.

975
01:04:48,126 --> 01:04:49,710
I do hope you can
forgive me, Edith,

976
01:04:49,751 --> 01:04:52,335
for I am mortified
by my thoughtlessness.

977
01:04:53,210 --> 01:04:54,918
How was the work received?

978
01:04:55,668 --> 01:04:56,668
They tittered.

979
01:04:57,918 --> 01:04:59,001
Tittered?

980
01:04:59,043 --> 01:05:00,085
Tittered.

981
01:05:01,626 --> 01:05:06,001
I overheard someone say,
in the most odious manner,

982
01:05:06,043 --> 01:05:07,251
"It's this sort of thing

983
01:05:07,293 --> 01:05:09,418
"that makes one glad
to be semi-conscious."

984
01:05:10,626 --> 01:05:14,543
-I was deeply wounded.
-SIEGFRIED: Hmm.

985
01:05:14,585 --> 01:05:18,501
My poetry has wonderful
assonances and dissonances.

986
01:05:18,543 --> 01:05:20,585
I use words for their colour,

987
01:05:20,626 --> 01:05:24,376
not merely for what
they are supposed to mean.

988
01:05:24,418 --> 01:05:27,251
Great art may sometimes be
so ahead of its time, Edith,

989
01:05:27,293 --> 01:05:28,626
that its initial reception

990
01:05:28,668 --> 01:05:31,293
can be considered
a succès d'estime.

991
01:05:32,626 --> 01:05:33,751
Think of Stravinsky.

992
01:05:35,210 --> 01:05:37,710
But I do not wish
to think of Stravinsky.

993
01:05:42,918 --> 01:05:46,585
We are performing Façade
at the Aeolian Hall next week.

994
01:05:46,626 --> 01:05:48,210
I shall expect you there.

995
01:05:48,251 --> 01:05:49,626
Of course, Edith.

996
01:05:49,668 --> 01:05:52,835
I shall come with the speed
of a thousand gazelles.

997
01:05:52,876 --> 01:05:54,710
No need for hyperbole,
Siegfried.

998
01:05:55,918 --> 01:05:57,001
A taxi will do.

999
01:06:00,751 --> 01:06:04,918
In the early springtime
after their tea,

1000
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:09,085
through the young fields
of the springing Bohea,

1001
01:06:09,126 --> 01:06:12,793
Jemima, Jocasta, Dinah and Deb

1002
01:06:12,835 --> 01:06:16,626
walked with their father
Sir Joshua Jebb.

1003
01:06:16,668 --> 01:06:19,501
An admiral red
whose only notion,

1004
01:06:19,543 --> 01:06:22,876
a butterfly poised
on a pigtailed ocean

1005
01:06:22,918 --> 01:06:26,335
is of the peruked sea
whose swell

1006
01:06:26,376 --> 01:06:30,085
breaks on the flowerless rocks
of Hell.

1007
01:06:30,126 --> 01:06:33,835
For Hell is just
as properly proper,

1008
01:06:33,876 --> 01:06:37,960
as Greenwich, or as Bath,
or Joppa!

1009
01:06:38,001 --> 01:06:39,501
Oh, Christ!

1010
01:06:39,543 --> 01:06:41,043
I have to go backstage.

1011
01:06:41,085 --> 01:06:43,043
Rather you than me.

1012
01:06:43,085 --> 01:06:44,835
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

1013
01:06:44,876 --> 01:06:46,168
-(DOOR OPENS)
-Ah.

1014
01:06:46,793 --> 01:06:47,918
The prodigal.

1015
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:51,543
Well, Edith,
you've done it again.

1016
01:06:55,876 --> 01:06:57,085
(EXHALES DEEPLY)

1017
01:07:22,626 --> 01:07:24,126
(SLOW JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)

1018
01:07:29,210 --> 01:07:31,210
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1019
01:07:39,418 --> 01:07:41,626
All the fine young cannibals.

1020
01:07:43,293 --> 01:07:45,793
You make it sound
like a raiding party.

1021
01:07:45,835 --> 01:07:46,835
Isn't it?

1022
01:07:49,585 --> 01:07:52,126
(APPLAUSE)

1023
01:07:52,168 --> 01:07:53,793
Stephen Tennant.

1024
01:07:54,751 --> 01:07:56,751
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1025
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:04,126
I am...

1026
01:08:04,168 --> 01:08:07,293
Yes, we already know
who you are, Stephen.

1027
01:08:07,335 --> 01:08:09,335
But who is this absolute dream

1028
01:08:09,376 --> 01:08:11,293
in oyster grey silk?

1029
01:08:11,335 --> 01:08:13,210
Hester Gatty.

1030
01:08:13,251 --> 01:08:14,960
Lady Gatty's daughter?

1031
01:08:15,001 --> 01:08:16,875
Yes.

1032
01:08:16,918 --> 01:08:19,293
She once invited you
to Carlton House Terrace.

1033
01:08:20,210 --> 01:08:21,625
But you hardly noticed me.

1034
01:08:22,710 --> 01:08:26,168
Then I apologize
for my lack of taste.

1035
01:08:26,210 --> 01:08:28,793
We're great admirers
of your poetry, Siegfried.

1036
01:08:28,835 --> 01:08:30,710
(IVOR SCOFFS)

1037
01:08:30,750 --> 01:08:33,375
Before you take offence, Ivor,
we like your work, too.

1038
01:08:33,418 --> 01:08:34,543
Careful, Stephen,

1039
01:08:34,585 --> 01:08:36,750
that was almost enthusiasm.

1040
01:08:39,585 --> 01:08:42,375
Perhaps they will play
one of your charming songs,

1041
01:08:42,418 --> 01:08:44,418
Mr Novello, and then
we can dance to it.

1042
01:08:45,418 --> 01:08:47,043
I can't tempt Stephen, though.

1043
01:08:47,085 --> 01:08:48,500
Why not?

1044
01:08:48,543 --> 01:08:52,793
Because I only do the valeta
and only when pressed.

1045
01:08:53,835 --> 01:08:55,500
(UPBEAT JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)

1046
01:08:55,543 --> 01:08:56,710
I do love dancing.

1047
01:08:57,210 --> 01:08:58,543
So do I.

1048
01:08:58,585 --> 01:09:00,043
Come on, then.

1049
01:09:13,335 --> 01:09:14,335
Whoo!

1050
01:09:19,793 --> 01:09:21,085
(WOMAN LAUGHING)

1051
01:09:39,750 --> 01:09:41,210
(APPLAUSE)

1052
01:09:44,210 --> 01:09:47,085
I didn't know great poets
did the Charleston.

1053
01:09:47,125 --> 01:09:49,710
I didn't know the Charleston
did that to gay young things.

1054
01:09:49,750 --> 01:09:51,500
I think everyone should
be gay, don't you?

1055
01:09:52,293 --> 01:09:53,625
Only in the wider sense.

1056
01:09:56,918 --> 01:09:58,626
And this young man is...

1057
01:09:59,876 --> 01:10:01,001
Alexander Fenton.

1058
01:10:03,501 --> 01:10:04,585
Doesn't it sound as though

1059
01:10:04,626 --> 01:10:06,501
it should have a title
in front of it?

1060
01:10:06,543 --> 01:10:08,251
Sir Alexander Fenton.

1061
01:10:09,793 --> 01:10:12,460
For his services
to the theatre.

1062
01:10:12,501 --> 01:10:14,043
Well, that hasn't
happened yet.

1063
01:10:14,085 --> 01:10:15,210
It will, Ivor.

1064
01:10:16,418 --> 01:10:17,418
It will.

1065
01:10:27,418 --> 01:10:29,626
I hardly see you
these days, Ivor.

1066
01:10:30,668 --> 01:10:31,668
How are you?

1067
01:10:32,626 --> 01:10:33,876
Horizontally speaking.

1068
01:10:34,876 --> 01:10:36,418
Oh, busy, old thing.

1069
01:10:37,335 --> 01:10:39,418
Very, very busy.

1070
01:10:39,460 --> 01:10:41,293
Still gathering lilacs?

1071
01:10:41,335 --> 01:10:43,585
You could say that.

1072
01:10:43,626 --> 01:10:45,460
Well, when you've
exhausted botany,

1073
01:10:45,501 --> 01:10:46,543
you might consider moving

1074
01:10:46,585 --> 01:10:48,543
into the field
of blood sports.

1075
01:10:48,585 --> 01:10:50,668
I'm told that the men
who indulge in them

1076
01:10:50,710 --> 01:10:52,918
are very, very rugged.

1077
01:10:54,043 --> 01:10:55,835
Isn't that so, Mr Sassoon?

1078
01:10:56,918 --> 01:10:57,960
You know, I think that's what

1079
01:10:58,001 --> 01:10:59,960
I'm going to miss most
about you, Glen,

1080
01:11:00,001 --> 01:11:02,043
your quaint sense of humour.

1081
01:11:08,210 --> 01:11:09,501
(IVOR SIGHS)

1082
01:11:09,543 --> 01:11:11,876
And how have you been
passing your time?

1083
01:11:11,918 --> 01:11:13,585
Seeing lots
of musical theatre.

1084
01:11:13,626 --> 01:11:15,293
IVOR: Mmm, such as?

1085
01:11:15,335 --> 01:11:17,960
Rose-Marie, very enjoyable.

1086
01:11:18,001 --> 01:11:20,210
Yes, but so Rudolph Friml-ly.

1087
01:11:20,251 --> 01:11:21,501
But it is by Rudolph Friml.

1088
01:11:21,543 --> 01:11:23,585
It was a joke, Siegfried.

1089
01:11:27,418 --> 01:11:28,710
And how about tonight?

1090
01:11:29,376 --> 01:11:30,793
Lady, Be Good!

1091
01:11:30,835 --> 01:11:34,251
Gershwin,
an unsurpassed genius.

1092
01:11:35,418 --> 01:11:38,001
Oh, we really mustn't
keep you then, Glen.

1093
01:11:49,293 --> 01:11:50,335
You have to admit it,

1094
01:11:50,376 --> 01:11:52,043
Gershwin is an
exceptional talent.

1095
01:11:52,085 --> 01:11:54,001
I don't have
to admit anything.

1096
01:11:54,751 --> 01:11:55,751
What's wrong?

1097
01:11:56,335 --> 01:11:57,501
We're leaving.

1098
01:11:57,543 --> 01:11:58,710
But I thought
you wanted supper.

1099
01:11:58,751 --> 01:11:59,918
I'm no longer hungry!

1100
01:12:09,751 --> 01:12:11,335
-(CLEARS THROAT)
-Name, sir?

1101
01:12:12,668 --> 01:12:13,876
Mr Sassoon.

1102
01:12:14,418 --> 01:12:15,710
Sassoon, you say.

1103
01:12:16,210 --> 01:12:17,210
-Yes.
-Oh.

1104
01:12:20,543 --> 01:12:21,793
Hmm.

1105
01:12:21,835 --> 01:12:23,626
Would you mind spelling it
for me, please, sir?

1106
01:12:25,126 --> 01:12:30,126
S-A-S-S-O-O-N.

1107
01:12:30,168 --> 01:12:32,168
Hmm.

1108
01:12:32,210 --> 01:12:34,293
I'm afraid you're not
on the list, sir.

1109
01:12:37,001 --> 01:12:38,335
Well, I'm going up anyway.

1110
01:12:45,793 --> 01:12:48,043
Telephone me in a couple
of days, won't you?

1111
01:12:57,960 --> 01:12:59,418
(IVOR GRUNTS)

1112
01:13:15,751 --> 01:13:17,668
I practically
had to force my way in

1113
01:13:17,710 --> 01:13:19,001
past the stage doorman.

1114
01:13:19,043 --> 01:13:20,668
Hmm. You were lucky.

1115
01:13:20,710 --> 01:13:23,335
He's been told to shoot anyone
not on my list.

1116
01:13:23,376 --> 01:13:24,418
Why wasn't I on the list?

1117
01:13:24,460 --> 01:13:25,751
Oh, for Christ's sake!

1118
01:13:25,793 --> 01:13:28,501
Look, it's been
a long run, Siegfried.

1119
01:13:28,543 --> 01:13:30,668
I am tired.
I am exhausted.

1120
01:13:40,210 --> 01:13:41,835
-You still want supper?
-Yes!

1121
01:13:49,918 --> 01:13:51,376
I'm surprised to see
Fenton here.

1122
01:13:51,710 --> 01:13:52,710
Why?

1123
01:13:53,418 --> 01:13:55,168
I know lots of people.

1124
01:13:55,210 --> 01:13:57,126
-Fenton is just another...
-Admirer.

1125
01:13:58,251 --> 01:13:59,251
...fan.

1126
01:14:01,210 --> 01:14:02,793
You both seemed to me
to be very friendly

1127
01:14:02,835 --> 01:14:04,543
after so short
an acquaintance.

1128
01:14:04,585 --> 01:14:06,043
Now, I get the
distinct impression

1129
01:14:06,085 --> 01:14:07,543
that I am being grilled.

1130
01:14:07,585 --> 01:14:10,501
And that a storm
in an egg cup is brewing.

1131
01:14:12,543 --> 01:14:14,793
I'm sorry, I don't mean
to be petty, but I am...

1132
01:14:16,710 --> 01:14:18,585
I am very jealous
of you. (CHUCKLES)

1133
01:14:18,626 --> 01:14:21,918
Yes, well,
affairs are always messy.

1134
01:14:23,126 --> 01:14:25,710
Who can know the secrets
of a human heart?

1135
01:14:27,710 --> 01:14:29,918
Usually the people
who don't have one.

1136
01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:32,543
Oh, my, my,
hasn't it gone chilly in here?

1137
01:14:37,126 --> 01:14:38,543
But I love you.

1138
01:14:43,210 --> 01:14:44,210
Yes,

1139
01:14:45,460 --> 01:14:46,460
you've said.

1140
01:15:00,251 --> 01:15:01,918
-(LINE RINGING)
-(CLEARS THROAT)

1141
01:15:05,501 --> 01:15:06,543
Ivor.

1142
01:15:06,585 --> 01:15:08,251
(LINE DISCONNECTS)

1143
01:15:10,001 --> 01:15:11,001
Ivor.

1144
01:15:28,251 --> 01:15:29,335
Let me pass.

1145
01:15:29,376 --> 01:15:31,043
I'm sorry, sir.
I can't let you go up.

1146
01:15:31,585 --> 01:15:33,501
Why?

1147
01:15:33,543 --> 01:15:36,126
Mr Novello never sees anyone
after a matinee.

1148
01:15:42,418 --> 01:15:44,418
Well, would you please
inform Mr Novello

1149
01:15:44,460 --> 01:15:45,960
that I've booked a table
for 8 PM?

1150
01:15:46,001 --> 01:15:48,460
(SHOUTING) And I'll be
expecting him for dinner!

1151
01:15:50,293 --> 01:15:51,418
Yes, sir.

1152
01:15:51,460 --> 01:15:52,460
Thank you.

1153
01:15:57,710 --> 01:15:59,376
Is there someone else?

1154
01:16:00,668 --> 01:16:03,293
(SIGHS) There's always
someone else.

1155
01:16:05,918 --> 01:16:07,876
How do you justify
your behaviour?

1156
01:16:07,918 --> 01:16:09,460
By asking myself questions

1157
01:16:09,501 --> 01:16:11,376
to which I already
know the answers.

1158
01:16:11,418 --> 01:16:12,585
And when all is said and done,

1159
01:16:12,626 --> 01:16:16,668
my career comes before anyone
or anything.

1160
01:16:18,835 --> 01:16:19,835
And my work

1161
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:23,126
is as popular as I am.

1162
01:16:23,168 --> 01:16:25,835
There is a school of thought
that regards musical theatre

1163
01:16:25,876 --> 01:16:27,960
as a second-rate
means of expression.

1164
01:16:28,001 --> 01:16:30,751
Before you judge other
people's work, Siegfried,

1165
01:16:30,793 --> 01:16:33,376
I would make sure
your own is above criticism.

1166
01:16:33,418 --> 01:16:35,585
-What does that mean?
-IVOR: Just this,

1167
01:16:35,626 --> 01:16:38,835
that since 1918,
your poetry has gone

1168
01:16:38,876 --> 01:16:42,043
from the sublime
to the meticulous.

1169
01:16:42,085 --> 01:16:43,126
And tell me, Mr Novello,

1170
01:16:43,168 --> 01:16:45,293
what did you do
during the war?

1171
01:16:45,335 --> 01:16:48,126
I gave my talent
to my country.

1172
01:16:48,168 --> 01:16:51,418
I boosted morale by playing
every theatre in the land!

1173
01:16:51,460 --> 01:16:52,918
Oh, weren't you the lucky one!

1174
01:16:52,960 --> 01:16:55,793
We had the Somme
and you had Rhyl!

1175
01:16:59,460 --> 01:17:00,460
(SCOFFS)

1176
01:17:00,918 --> 01:17:02,085
(CHUCKLES)

1177
01:17:03,293 --> 01:17:06,376
Well, I see no point
in prolonging

1178
01:17:06,418 --> 01:17:07,960
this unpleasant conversation.

1179
01:17:08,001 --> 01:17:10,668
-No.
-(SNAPS FINGERS)

1180
01:17:10,710 --> 01:17:11,876
Oh, no.
After what's been said,

1181
01:17:11,918 --> 01:17:13,376
I don't expect you
to foot the bill as well.

1182
01:17:13,418 --> 01:17:16,168
Oh, always the gentleman,
eh, Siegfried?

1183
01:17:16,210 --> 01:17:17,751
It's better than being a cad.

1184
01:17:19,710 --> 01:17:21,585
I suspect this is
goodbye then.

1185
01:17:21,626 --> 01:17:23,335
Au revoir
might have been kinder.

1186
01:17:23,376 --> 01:17:25,751
Please don't undermine
yourself, Siegfried.

1187
01:17:25,793 --> 01:17:27,376
That's what friends are for.

1188
01:17:27,418 --> 01:17:29,918
If you wish to see me again,
I'll be at my flat.

1189
01:17:29,960 --> 01:17:31,085
(SCOFFS)

1190
01:17:31,126 --> 01:17:32,168
Well, at least
that's more original

1191
01:17:32,210 --> 01:17:33,626
than going home to mother.

1192
01:17:48,626 --> 01:17:50,293
(SNAPS FINGERS) Snap.

1193
01:17:52,460 --> 01:17:54,293
(EXHALES DEEPLY)

1194
01:17:54,335 --> 01:17:56,168
GLEN: May I sit down?

1195
01:17:56,210 --> 01:17:57,460
Yes, of course.

1196
01:18:00,376 --> 01:18:01,793
Do you still dine here?

1197
01:18:02,668 --> 01:18:04,626
-Of course.
-Why?

1198
01:18:06,835 --> 01:18:10,335
Let's just say I like
the trips down memory lane.

1199
01:18:10,793 --> 01:18:12,001
(LAUGHS)

1200
01:18:18,293 --> 01:18:19,460
What next?

1201
01:18:23,460 --> 01:18:27,793
Well, I suppose, in a bad
melodrama, I'd kill myself.

1202
01:18:27,835 --> 01:18:30,418
And in a really bad melodrama,
you kill Ivor.

1203
01:18:30,460 --> 01:18:31,501
(CHUCKLES)

1204
01:18:32,085 --> 01:18:33,835
(SIGHS DEEPLY)

1205
01:18:35,001 --> 01:18:36,585
Seriously, are you all right?

1206
01:18:38,751 --> 01:18:40,751
The moment passes,
but the hurt remains.

1207
01:18:46,460 --> 01:18:47,960
And I was supposed to go
and visit my mother

1208
01:18:48,001 --> 01:18:49,418
and now I've missed the train.

1209
01:18:49,460 --> 01:18:51,126
Drive down, why don't you?

1210
01:18:51,168 --> 01:18:52,668
I have no car. I can't drive.

1211
01:18:55,376 --> 01:18:57,710
I was going to motor
down to the coast.

1212
01:18:58,835 --> 01:19:00,501
Why don't I give you a lift?

1213
01:19:02,585 --> 01:19:03,918
That would be
very kind of you.

1214
01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:05,210
Where does she live?

1215
01:19:06,210 --> 01:19:07,460
Kent.

1216
01:19:08,251 --> 01:19:09,751
Then let's get going.

1217
01:19:25,001 --> 01:19:27,960
I have absolutely
no idea where we are.

1218
01:19:28,001 --> 01:19:29,335
(BOTH CHUCKLE)

1219
01:19:40,793 --> 01:19:42,168
Although I, erm,

1220
01:19:44,043 --> 01:19:45,751
don't possess the wit to woo,

1221
01:19:48,001 --> 01:19:49,168
may I see you again?

1222
01:19:52,001 --> 01:19:53,293
I live in Margate.

1223
01:19:54,501 --> 01:19:55,501
Oh.

1224
01:19:57,460 --> 01:19:59,210
Pity Margate is so far away.

1225
01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:03,168
It's not at the moment.

1226
01:20:05,751 --> 01:20:06,751
(CHUCKLES)

1227
01:20:12,376 --> 01:20:13,376
What about Ivor?

1228
01:20:14,835 --> 01:20:15,835
Oh.

1229
01:20:16,960 --> 01:20:19,126
Ivor's already been
to Margate.

1230
01:20:19,168 --> 01:20:21,293
(BOTH LAUGHING)

1231
01:20:25,168 --> 01:20:28,960
SIEGFRIED: At dawn, the ridge
emerges massed and dun

1232
01:20:29,001 --> 01:20:31,918
in wild purple
of the glow'ring sun,

1233
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:34,793
smouldering through spouts
of drifting smoke

1234
01:20:34,835 --> 01:20:37,376
that shroud the menacing
scarred slope.

1235
01:20:38,043 --> 01:20:39,793
And, one by one,

1236
01:20:39,835 --> 01:20:42,960
tanks creep and topple
forward to the wire.

1237
01:20:43,793 --> 01:20:46,960
The barrage roars and lifts.

1238
01:20:47,001 --> 01:20:49,585
Then, clumsily bowed
with bombs

1239
01:20:49,626 --> 01:20:51,126
and guns and battle-gear,

1240
01:20:51,168 --> 01:20:55,960
men jostle and climb
to meet the bristling fire.

1241
01:20:56,001 --> 01:21:00,710
Lines of grey, muttering
faces, masked with fear,

1242
01:21:00,751 --> 01:21:04,501
they leave their trenches,
going over the top,

1243
01:21:04,543 --> 01:21:08,335
while time ticks blank
and busy on their wrists,

1244
01:21:08,376 --> 01:21:12,126
and hope, with furtive eyes
and grappling fists,

1245
01:21:12,168 --> 01:21:13,835
flounders in the mud.

1246
01:21:16,251 --> 01:21:18,876
O Jesus, make it stop.

1247
01:21:30,626 --> 01:21:31,626
We have a guest.

1248
01:21:35,918 --> 01:21:37,293
Oh, he's not a guest.

1249
01:21:38,168 --> 01:21:39,751
He's an afterthought.

1250
01:21:44,126 --> 01:21:46,585
This is my life partner,
Bobby Andrews.

1251
01:21:46,626 --> 01:21:48,793
Bobby, Siegfried.
Siegfried, Bobby.

1252
01:21:50,210 --> 01:21:52,043
Well, don't look so shocked.

1253
01:21:52,085 --> 01:21:53,960
Love has nothing
to do with monogamy.

1254
01:21:55,001 --> 01:21:56,668
Or are you the faithful type?

1255
01:21:58,251 --> 01:21:59,335
I suppose I must be.

1256
01:22:00,668 --> 01:22:04,251
If you want fidelity,
Siegfried, buy a pet.

1257
01:22:05,835 --> 01:22:07,751
You kept very quiet
about this.

1258
01:22:07,793 --> 01:22:09,085
Well, that's because
I didn't want anyone else

1259
01:22:09,126 --> 01:22:10,251
to shake him down
from the tree.

1260
01:22:10,293 --> 01:22:11,835
(BOBBY CHUCKLES)

1261
01:22:11,876 --> 01:22:13,960
You really are a bastard,
aren't you?

1262
01:22:14,001 --> 01:22:15,293
I do my best.

1263
01:22:18,001 --> 01:22:19,376
Now you must excuse us.

1264
01:22:20,876 --> 01:22:22,835
We have a casserole waiting.

1265
01:22:26,418 --> 01:22:27,418
Oh.

1266
01:22:32,210 --> 01:22:34,293
Where shall I put your key?

1267
01:22:34,335 --> 01:22:35,626
Back on the floor.

1268
01:22:40,876 --> 01:22:42,376
(KEY THUDS)

1269
01:22:55,210 --> 01:22:58,335
I can't face tea
before 11 AM.

1270
01:22:58,376 --> 01:23:00,335
Drink it, you misery.

1271
01:23:04,001 --> 01:23:05,918
I don't do this for everyone,
you know.

1272
01:23:07,460 --> 01:23:09,210
I'm the invalid, remember?

1273
01:23:10,626 --> 01:23:11,626
Like Chekhov.

1274
01:23:12,793 --> 01:23:13,793
(MIMICS COUGH)

1275
01:23:16,293 --> 01:23:19,085
Oh, what should I do
about my hair?

1276
01:23:19,126 --> 01:23:20,960
Have you considered topiary?

1277
01:23:21,001 --> 01:23:22,085
(SNORTS)

1278
01:23:24,126 --> 01:23:25,418
I think I might dye it.

1279
01:23:27,668 --> 01:23:29,710
Or I could leave it
in its natural colour.

1280
01:23:31,835 --> 01:23:37,043
When I'm sunburnt,
it looks like spun gold.

1281
01:23:38,293 --> 01:23:39,335
(LAUGHS)

1282
01:23:39,376 --> 01:23:41,251
(CAR HONKING)

1283
01:23:47,668 --> 01:23:49,293
(HONKING CONTINUES)

1284
01:23:49,335 --> 01:23:50,543
I'll be with you in a moment.

1285
01:23:58,335 --> 01:23:59,501
It's Glen Byam Shaw.

1286
01:24:00,376 --> 01:24:02,293
Isn't that good news?

1287
01:24:07,751 --> 01:24:09,751
Siggy will be down in a trice.

1288
01:24:11,376 --> 01:24:12,876
He's suitably undressed.

1289
01:24:15,793 --> 01:24:18,585
We've just been
talking about you.

1290
01:24:18,626 --> 01:24:20,668
So I hope your ears
were burning,

1291
01:24:20,710 --> 01:24:21,918
all three of them.

1292
01:24:24,793 --> 01:24:26,626
Is Stephen
naturally unpleasant

1293
01:24:26,668 --> 01:24:28,126
or does he take
private tuition?

1294
01:24:28,168 --> 01:24:29,376
I heard that!

1295
01:24:29,418 --> 01:24:30,543
You were supposed to.

1296
01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:41,085
(CHUCKLES)

1297
01:24:42,543 --> 01:24:45,085
Siggy! Siggy!

1298
01:24:51,960 --> 01:24:53,085
I'm sorry.

1299
01:24:55,501 --> 01:24:57,376
What can I say?

1300
01:24:57,418 --> 01:24:58,876
There's nothing to say.

1301
01:25:00,501 --> 01:25:03,335
It's one of the inconveniences
of the shadow life we lead.

1302
01:25:04,668 --> 01:25:07,501
Friends may come,
friends may go.

1303
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:11,251
Enemies are always faithful.

1304
01:25:14,876 --> 01:25:15,960
How is Ivor?

1305
01:25:18,251 --> 01:25:20,210
I have no idea.
I don't see him any more.

1306
01:25:24,001 --> 01:25:25,418
Did you know about Bobby?

1307
01:25:28,001 --> 01:25:29,626
Yes.

1308
01:25:29,668 --> 01:25:31,460
You might have warned me.

1309
01:25:31,501 --> 01:25:32,960
I didn't want
to seem vindictive.

1310
01:25:33,668 --> 01:25:34,668
Sour grapes and all that.

1311
01:25:41,168 --> 01:25:43,835
I wanted to tell you
personally

1312
01:25:43,876 --> 01:25:45,460
that I'm planning to marry.

1313
01:25:48,126 --> 01:25:49,960
She's an actress
and a good sort,

1314
01:25:50,001 --> 01:25:53,376
I think, and we're very
fond of each other.

1315
01:25:57,085 --> 01:25:58,710
When did you decide?

1316
01:25:58,751 --> 01:26:00,210
GLEN: Some months ago.

1317
01:26:01,710 --> 01:26:03,126
You should give
a thought to it, too.

1318
01:26:04,918 --> 01:26:06,460
No, if the intention
wasn't pure,

1319
01:26:06,501 --> 01:26:09,918
I don't think
I could go through it.

1320
01:26:11,043 --> 01:26:13,418
Purity is like virginity.

1321
01:26:13,460 --> 01:26:15,376
As soon as you touch it,
it becomes corrupt.

1322
01:26:20,585 --> 01:26:22,501
I hope you both
will be very happy.

1323
01:26:23,751 --> 01:26:25,460
Thank you, Siegfried.

1324
01:26:27,668 --> 01:26:28,668
I shall do my best.

1325
01:26:43,793 --> 01:26:46,210
(COUGHING)

1326
01:26:55,335 --> 01:26:57,501
What's the matter? TB?

1327
01:26:59,210 --> 01:27:00,710
You should have told me.

1328
01:27:00,751 --> 01:27:01,835
Why?

1329
01:27:01,876 --> 01:27:03,168
There's nothing
you can do about it.

1330
01:27:03,210 --> 01:27:04,251
I could have taken you
somewhere,

1331
01:27:04,293 --> 01:27:06,126
to a warmer, drier climate.

1332
01:27:06,168 --> 01:27:08,418
(COUGHING)

1333
01:27:11,001 --> 01:27:12,876
That rules out Frinton then.

1334
01:27:14,543 --> 01:27:16,126
Is there somewhere
we can go to help you?

1335
01:27:18,210 --> 01:27:19,793
Yes.

1336
01:27:19,835 --> 01:27:21,210
I've been there before.

1337
01:27:21,918 --> 01:27:23,376
In Germany.

1338
01:27:23,418 --> 01:27:25,835
Haus Hirt in Bavaria.

1339
01:27:25,876 --> 01:27:29,710
All cow bells, lederhosen
and very, very thick thighs.

1340
01:27:31,043 --> 01:27:33,460
So idyllic,
you'll want to scream.

1341
01:27:34,376 --> 01:27:37,543
But the German men...
Gorgeous!

1342
01:27:39,210 --> 01:27:42,043
I wonder what the
collective noun for them is.

1343
01:27:43,501 --> 01:27:46,043
(COUGHING)

1344
01:27:50,335 --> 01:27:51,793
Oh, don't look
so glum, Siggy.

1345
01:27:51,835 --> 01:27:53,418
I'm not about to join
the Hitler Youth.

1346
01:27:56,543 --> 01:27:58,168
(PHONE RINGING)

1347
01:28:03,585 --> 01:28:05,043
Yes. Who is it?

1348
01:28:05,085 --> 01:28:06,960
(OVER PHONE) Hello, Siegfried,
it's Alexander.

1349
01:28:07,001 --> 01:28:09,251
Is Stephen there?

1350
01:28:09,293 --> 01:28:10,710
-Hello?
-Don't call here again.

1351
01:28:14,126 --> 01:28:15,126
It was Fenton.

1352
01:28:16,918 --> 01:28:19,168
I don't like this at all.

1353
01:28:19,210 --> 01:28:22,460
We bumped into each other
on Piccadilly the other day.

1354
01:28:22,501 --> 01:28:24,585
We had a harmless drink
and I gave him your number.

1355
01:28:24,626 --> 01:28:25,918
Don't do it again!

1356
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:28,043
If that were a request,
I might consider it.

1357
01:28:28,085 --> 01:28:30,668
If it's an order, I'll make
a point of disobeying it.

1358
01:28:35,835 --> 01:28:36,960
What did Glen want?

1359
01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:41,168
(INHALES DEEPLY)

1360
01:28:44,293 --> 01:28:46,668
-He's getting married.
-(LAUGHS)

1361
01:28:47,668 --> 01:28:49,960
The ultimate capitulation.

1362
01:28:52,168 --> 01:28:53,668
I'm sure
they'll be very happy.

1363
01:28:54,835 --> 01:28:57,376
She's probably
as mediocre as he is.

1364
01:28:59,001 --> 01:29:00,335
You'll be doing it next.

1365
01:29:03,335 --> 01:29:05,335
(WHISTLING TUNE)

1366
01:29:31,501 --> 01:29:34,335
Thought I'd try my hand
at some watercolours.

1367
01:29:34,376 --> 01:29:37,126
-Hmm.
-Landscapes and things.

1368
01:29:37,168 --> 01:29:38,168
It's the Magritte in me.

1369
01:29:39,418 --> 01:29:41,126
This is not a pipe.

1370
01:29:41,168 --> 01:29:42,585
-Rene will be pleased.
-(LAUGHS)

1371
01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:45,293
How would you describe
your style?

1372
01:29:46,168 --> 01:29:47,751
Erratic.

1373
01:29:47,793 --> 01:29:48,918
But then I'm giving this
to a friend

1374
01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:50,501
-whom I really detest.
-(LAUGHS)

1375
01:29:57,460 --> 01:29:59,251
You don't remember me
at all, do you?

1376
01:30:01,543 --> 01:30:02,543
The spa?

1377
01:30:04,043 --> 01:30:07,168
Ivor Novello? Stephen Tennant?

1378
01:30:08,460 --> 01:30:09,751
Oh, yes, of course.

1379
01:30:10,585 --> 01:30:11,585
Yes.

1380
01:30:12,293 --> 01:30:14,293
The oyster grey silk.

1381
01:30:14,335 --> 01:30:16,293
(BOTH CHUCKLE)

1382
01:30:16,335 --> 01:30:18,668
You're supposed to
remember me, not the dress.

1383
01:30:19,335 --> 01:30:20,335
(SIEGFRIED LAUGHS)

1384
01:30:30,126 --> 01:30:32,376
Before I met you for the first
time, I'd always thought

1385
01:30:32,418 --> 01:30:35,668
you'd be either mercurial
or dark.

1386
01:30:37,543 --> 01:30:39,126
And what am I,
dark or mercurial?

1387
01:30:39,710 --> 01:30:40,710
Oh, neither.

1388
01:30:41,876 --> 01:30:43,668
You're more opaque, I think.

1389
01:30:46,751 --> 01:30:48,251
So what brings you down here?

1390
01:30:49,335 --> 01:30:53,293
I... I should like to say
the picturesque,

1391
01:30:54,001 --> 01:30:55,210
but it wouldn't be true.

1392
01:30:58,418 --> 01:31:00,626
I came down in the hope
of seeing you again.

1393
01:31:01,918 --> 01:31:03,543
I used the painting as a ploy.

1394
01:31:05,543 --> 01:31:06,543
Oh.

1395
01:31:07,501 --> 01:31:08,668
Well, I'm touched.

1396
01:31:11,085 --> 01:31:14,335
No one's ever used subterfuge
before in order to see me.

1397
01:31:14,376 --> 01:31:17,876
It's the modern thing,
liberated woman and all that.

1398
01:31:27,001 --> 01:31:29,335
It would be very pleasant
if you invited me to lunch.

1399
01:31:32,626 --> 01:31:34,751
It would be very pleasant
if you accepted.

1400
01:31:37,418 --> 01:31:39,418
(ROMANTIC JAZZ PLAYS
ON GRAMOPHONE)

1401
01:31:51,418 --> 01:31:53,168
(HESTER HUMMING ALONG)

1402
01:32:04,876 --> 01:32:06,168
You really are very lovely.

1403
01:32:08,960 --> 01:32:09,960
May I kiss you?

1404
01:32:12,793 --> 01:32:14,251
You don't have to ask.

1405
01:32:14,293 --> 01:32:15,293
(SIEGFRIED CHUCKLES)

1406
01:32:33,710 --> 01:32:34,710
(MUSIC STOPS)

1407
01:32:48,335 --> 01:32:50,085
I've never had an affair
with a woman.

1408
01:32:53,460 --> 01:32:54,460
Only men.

1409
01:32:59,043 --> 01:33:01,251
Stephen told me
all I needed to know.

1410
01:33:17,335 --> 01:33:18,543
All my life, I feel as though

1411
01:33:18,585 --> 01:33:21,668
I've been waiting
for a catastrophe to happen.

1412
01:33:21,710 --> 01:33:25,210
Well, (CHUCKLES)
that's optimism for you.

1413
01:33:25,251 --> 01:33:26,251
(BOTH CHUCKLE)

1414
01:33:28,001 --> 01:33:30,043
My whole future
could depend on you.

1415
01:33:31,876 --> 01:33:33,751
You must redeem
my life for me, Hester.

1416
01:33:36,168 --> 01:33:38,376
That sounds like
some sort of proposal.

1417
01:33:40,501 --> 01:33:42,793
If I was selfish enough,
I'd ask you to marry me.

1418
01:33:44,751 --> 01:33:45,751
(CHUCKLES)

1419
01:33:51,543 --> 01:33:52,960
If I were foolish enough,

1420
01:33:54,960 --> 01:33:55,960
I'd accept.

1421
01:34:04,001 --> 01:34:07,001
Oh, I look 500 years old.

1422
01:34:12,501 --> 01:34:14,460
Some say I am beautiful.

1423
01:34:15,876 --> 01:34:17,251
And, as an aesthete,

1424
01:34:18,376 --> 01:34:20,751
I feel that beauty is eternal.

1425
01:34:23,960 --> 01:34:28,376
We see it in the eyes
of those who love us.

1426
01:34:32,168 --> 01:34:35,001
Although my mother thinks

1427
01:34:35,043 --> 01:34:37,960
that my eyes
are like cold seawater.

1428
01:34:43,001 --> 01:34:47,501
My buttocks and my shoulders
are very well-shaped.

1429
01:34:48,876 --> 01:34:54,835
But my best feature
is the beauty of my hands.

1430
01:34:54,876 --> 01:34:58,501
Almond milk and lemon creams
are perfect for them,

1431
01:34:59,793 --> 01:35:03,001
and one must never
laugh too much.

1432
01:35:04,085 --> 01:35:06,210
It coarsens one's face,

1433
01:35:06,251 --> 01:35:09,126
especially if the laughter
is gleeful.

1434
01:35:09,168 --> 01:35:12,376
Stephen, how can you
be so narcissistic?

1435
01:35:12,418 --> 01:35:15,460
It is my defence against
nihilism and the vulgar.

1436
01:35:15,501 --> 01:35:17,460
You cannot conduct a life
in that way.

1437
01:35:17,501 --> 01:35:18,543
Course one can.

1438
01:35:19,293 --> 01:35:21,001
My life is my art.

1439
01:35:21,043 --> 01:35:23,126
Yours isn't a life,
it's barely a hobby.

1440
01:35:23,168 --> 01:35:24,835
That was an ugly thing to say.

1441
01:35:24,876 --> 01:35:27,460
I know sometimes it's better
to be kind than honest,

1442
01:35:27,501 --> 01:35:29,626
but you are frittering
your life away

1443
01:35:29,668 --> 01:35:31,418
in pomades and powder.

1444
01:35:33,126 --> 01:35:34,293
And if you don't believe me,

1445
01:35:34,335 --> 01:35:36,168
ask someone with more sense
and less love.

1446
01:35:36,210 --> 01:35:38,835
You've made your antipathy
to me very obvious.

1447
01:35:38,876 --> 01:35:40,710
I don't need a second opinion.

1448
01:35:42,251 --> 01:35:44,085
I'm going to Salisbury
for the weekend.

1449
01:35:46,168 --> 01:35:47,293
Edith Oliver has found me

1450
01:35:47,335 --> 01:35:49,001
a cottage to rent
in Teffont Magna.

1451
01:35:51,085 --> 01:35:53,085
I thought we could
spend weekends there.

1452
01:35:55,460 --> 01:35:56,710
Will you come?

1453
01:35:56,751 --> 01:35:59,085
I, too, have had
an invitation.

1454
01:36:00,293 --> 01:36:01,585
From whom?

1455
01:36:01,626 --> 01:36:05,085
A German prince whom
I think you more than know.

1456
01:36:07,418 --> 01:36:09,335
Philip of Hesse, yes.

1457
01:36:09,376 --> 01:36:11,168
And one of
Edith Sitwell's proteges.

1458
01:36:12,293 --> 01:36:15,460
A concert pianist
called Tchelitchew.

1459
01:36:15,501 --> 01:36:20,626
Very Cyrillic, very Russian
and very divine.

1460
01:36:21,793 --> 01:36:23,960
And where are you going to?

1461
01:36:24,001 --> 01:36:26,376
Paris first.

1462
01:36:26,418 --> 01:36:29,376
Then we'll motor down to
Bavaria so I can recuperate

1463
01:36:29,418 --> 01:36:30,418
from life.

1464
01:36:32,793 --> 01:36:34,876
After Bavaria, they're going
to go on to Venice.

1465
01:36:36,043 --> 01:36:37,085
Philip told me that he once

1466
01:36:37,126 --> 01:36:38,543
tried to make love
in a gondola,

1467
01:36:38,585 --> 01:36:39,918
but that there wasn't
enough privacy.

1468
01:36:39,960 --> 01:36:41,460
Stability.

1469
01:36:43,501 --> 01:36:45,418
Oh.

1470
01:36:45,460 --> 01:36:48,835
So it was with you, was it?
You sly old thing.

1471
01:36:48,876 --> 01:36:51,126
This all seems very sudden.

1472
01:36:51,168 --> 01:36:52,793
Yes, it does, doesn't it?

1473
01:36:53,710 --> 01:36:56,960
But then, that's my life.

1474
01:36:59,710 --> 01:37:00,918
All go.

1475
01:37:05,751 --> 01:37:09,168
Older than God, but without
any of the influence.

1476
01:37:29,668 --> 01:37:31,876
(DOORBELL RINGS)

1477
01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:40,626
Am I welcome, Hester?

1478
01:37:43,876 --> 01:37:45,710
Come in and see.

1479
01:37:59,210 --> 01:38:00,835
Siegfried.

1480
01:38:00,876 --> 01:38:02,376
Stephen.

1481
01:38:06,126 --> 01:38:07,793
How dreadful we all look.

1482
01:38:10,668 --> 01:38:13,668
But I still have
beautiful hands, I think.

1483
01:38:18,918 --> 01:38:20,418
I'll make some tea.

1484
01:38:30,668 --> 01:38:33,210
I suppose you've heard
of Ivor's death.

1485
01:38:34,543 --> 01:38:35,543
Yes.

1486
01:38:38,751 --> 01:38:42,418
They say the funeral attracted
a thousand people.

1487
01:38:44,668 --> 01:38:47,501
Probably made up mostly by
all the people he slept with.

1488
01:38:54,376 --> 01:38:57,001
I still have a soft spot
for Ivor's work, though.

1489
01:38:57,043 --> 01:39:00,668
All those tortured
princesses and lovers

1490
01:39:00,710 --> 01:39:03,585
who have no money,
but plenty of sex appeal.

1491
01:39:03,626 --> 01:39:06,251
His work was always
sentimental nonsense.

1492
01:39:07,751 --> 01:39:09,751
He cheapened everything
he touched.

1493
01:39:09,793 --> 01:39:12,543
I've always thought his
particular kind of mawkishness

1494
01:39:12,585 --> 01:39:14,085
was a kind of catharsis

1495
01:39:14,126 --> 01:39:18,293
for the dimmer members
among us.

1496
01:39:18,335 --> 01:39:19,501
That's because
you have never known

1497
01:39:19,543 --> 01:39:20,751
the difference
between the two.

1498
01:39:20,793 --> 01:39:22,793
We can't all possess
your purity of thought.

1499
01:39:22,835 --> 01:39:25,585
It isn't a question of purity,

1500
01:39:25,626 --> 01:39:27,960
but of discernment.

1501
01:39:28,001 --> 01:39:31,876
And you were never very good
at discernment.

1502
01:39:34,418 --> 01:39:37,126
That was rather too acerbic.

1503
01:39:37,168 --> 01:39:40,293
Mordant would be
the more accurate word.

1504
01:39:46,793 --> 01:39:48,710
Are you still very angry?

1505
01:39:49,751 --> 01:39:50,751
What do you expect?

1506
01:39:51,918 --> 01:39:52,960
You ended our relationship

1507
01:39:53,001 --> 01:39:54,626
with a letter
from your doctor.

1508
01:39:56,418 --> 01:39:58,293
How was I supposed to feel?

1509
01:39:58,335 --> 01:40:00,710
Still clearly very hurt,
I see.

1510
01:40:00,751 --> 01:40:03,251
I had hoped that
you might have been

1511
01:40:03,293 --> 01:40:04,626
a little more forgiving.

1512
01:40:04,668 --> 01:40:08,460
If I had treated you the way
in which you treated me,

1513
01:40:08,501 --> 01:40:10,376
how forgiving would you be?

1514
01:40:11,918 --> 01:40:14,376
Besides,
when the parade's gone by,

1515
01:40:14,418 --> 01:40:15,793
you have to have
enough sense to realize

1516
01:40:15,835 --> 01:40:17,501
that you are no longer
a part of it.

1517
01:40:17,543 --> 01:40:19,168
I'm trying to apologize.

1518
01:40:19,210 --> 01:40:21,793
You're 30 years too late!

1519
01:40:27,210 --> 01:40:28,960
Can't we still be friends?

1520
01:40:29,835 --> 01:40:30,835
OLDER SIEGFRIED: No.

1521
01:40:32,793 --> 01:40:36,668
You once meant so much.
Now you mean so little.

1522
01:40:36,710 --> 01:40:38,251
-Sieg...
-Don't trivialise it

1523
01:40:38,293 --> 01:40:40,876
by saying something glib.

1524
01:40:40,918 --> 01:40:42,960
Can I see you again?
In London perhaps?

1525
01:40:43,001 --> 01:40:44,335
OLDER SIEGFRIED: No!

1526
01:40:45,126 --> 01:40:46,543
I rarely go to London now.

1527
01:40:59,293 --> 01:41:00,918
And how is George?

1528
01:41:02,835 --> 01:41:03,835
Young.

1529
01:41:04,876 --> 01:41:06,126
Thriving.

1530
01:41:06,168 --> 01:41:07,918
He's like all children.

1531
01:41:07,960 --> 01:41:09,960
He has the worst aspects
of both his parents.

1532
01:41:11,460 --> 01:41:13,251
OLDER STEPHEN: How about
his parents' virtues?

1533
01:41:13,293 --> 01:41:15,168
He's cursed
with those as well.

1534
01:41:19,585 --> 01:41:22,043
I am...

1535
01:41:23,626 --> 01:41:25,751
very lonely, Siggy.

1536
01:41:26,668 --> 01:41:28,168
Is it agony?

1537
01:41:29,126 --> 01:41:30,751
One does hope so.

1538
01:41:32,751 --> 01:41:34,251
George has an
independent mind,

1539
01:41:34,293 --> 01:41:36,918
which sometimes
shocks Siegfried.

1540
01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:38,585
It isn't independence,
it's wilfulness.

1541
01:41:45,501 --> 01:41:46,960
Who's died?

1542
01:41:47,001 --> 01:41:48,793
All of us.

1543
01:41:48,835 --> 01:41:51,335
George, the pipe
was not a good idea.

1544
01:41:51,376 --> 01:41:53,043
Looks as if it's smoking you.

1545
01:41:53,085 --> 01:41:54,918
Old silver tongue.

1546
01:41:54,960 --> 01:41:56,710
We could do without the smoke.

1547
01:41:57,543 --> 01:41:58,543
OLDER HESTER: Tea, darling?

1548
01:41:59,293 --> 01:42:00,751
No, thank you, Mother.

1549
01:42:04,668 --> 01:42:06,168
Thank you for the tea.

1550
01:42:07,376 --> 01:42:08,793
George will see you out.

1551
01:42:11,960 --> 01:42:14,668
-Goodbye.
-OLDER HESTER: Goodbye.

1552
01:42:20,751 --> 01:42:21,793
(DOOR OPENS)

1553
01:42:21,835 --> 01:42:23,960
-Charming as ever.
-(DOOR CLOSES)

1554
01:42:24,001 --> 01:42:25,751
But there's still malice
at the edge of his voice,

1555
01:42:25,793 --> 01:42:26,793
as there always was.

1556
01:42:28,251 --> 01:42:30,335
Sometimes, Siegfried,
it's more humane

1557
01:42:30,376 --> 01:42:32,210
to be kind than to be honest.

1558
01:42:33,585 --> 01:42:36,251
He constantly goaded
my jealousy.

1559
01:42:36,293 --> 01:42:38,460
It was like being killed
by degrees.

1560
01:42:40,751 --> 01:42:42,876
He once told me
he thought you were matchless.

1561
01:42:44,835 --> 01:42:49,043
We are unique only to the
people who really loathe us.

1562
01:42:51,001 --> 01:42:53,835
HESTER: Will you come
to dinner tonight at Mother's?

1563
01:42:53,876 --> 01:42:56,293
She'd have invited God
if she thought He'd come.

1564
01:42:58,835 --> 01:43:00,793
I'm uncomfortable
with all that distinction.

1565
01:43:02,251 --> 01:43:03,293
I'm not at all
an intellectual,

1566
01:43:03,335 --> 01:43:05,126
I have a very cumbersome mind.

1567
01:43:06,626 --> 01:43:09,418
Oh, please come.

1568
01:43:10,668 --> 01:43:13,085
Max Beerbohm said he
might drop in for a drink.

1569
01:43:13,751 --> 01:43:15,418
Hmm.

1570
01:43:15,460 --> 01:43:18,043
-Then I shall come.
-(LAUGHS)

1571
01:43:18,085 --> 01:43:19,835
Just to hear Max's
delectable gossip.

1572
01:43:21,918 --> 01:43:23,876
You know, he, er... (LAUGHS)

1573
01:43:23,918 --> 01:43:25,918
he once described
TS Elliot as

1574
01:43:25,960 --> 01:43:27,835
"Poor old Tom
who sits there ironically

1575
01:43:27,876 --> 01:43:29,835
"analysing
an empty sardine tin."

1576
01:43:29,876 --> 01:43:30,876
(HESTER LAUGHS)

1577
01:43:33,043 --> 01:43:35,543
Well, you better
get your skates on,

1578
01:43:35,585 --> 01:43:37,793
and I better get my glad rags
out of mothballs.

1579
01:43:52,043 --> 01:43:53,543
(CAR APPROACHING)

1580
01:43:54,668 --> 01:43:56,668
(MEN CHATTERING)

1581
01:43:58,126 --> 01:44:00,126
Now don't miss me
too much, all right?

1582
01:44:00,168 --> 01:44:01,626
MAN: Bye!

1583
01:44:02,376 --> 01:44:04,126
Goodbye, darlings!

1584
01:44:25,418 --> 01:44:28,793
(INHALES AND EXHALES DEEPLY)

1585
01:44:34,168 --> 01:44:35,418
No welcome?

1586
01:44:37,626 --> 01:44:38,835
No bunting?

1587
01:44:41,001 --> 01:44:44,168
Not even, "You're looking
frightfully well, Stephen."

1588
01:44:49,960 --> 01:44:52,793
Am I going to get
the silent treatment?

1589
01:44:52,835 --> 01:44:55,876
Or are we going to conduct
the rest of this conversation

1590
01:44:55,918 --> 01:44:58,126
entirely in Braille?

1591
01:44:58,168 --> 01:45:00,501
Beware the wrath
of a patient man.

1592
01:45:00,543 --> 01:45:01,626
STEPHEN: Who said that?

1593
01:45:03,335 --> 01:45:04,751
Confucius, I think.

1594
01:45:07,668 --> 01:45:10,043
On one of his better days.

1595
01:45:10,085 --> 01:45:13,585
Well, if you're going to get
all profound on me,

1596
01:45:13,626 --> 01:45:16,668
perhaps you could throw in
Ol' Man River as a bonus.

1597
01:45:17,501 --> 01:45:19,168
How was Bavaria?

1598
01:45:19,668 --> 01:45:21,668
Bavarian.

1599
01:45:21,710 --> 01:45:23,543
Did your companion stay long?

1600
01:45:24,085 --> 01:45:26,001
Long enough.

1601
01:45:26,043 --> 01:45:27,460
And what did you do, Stephen?

1602
01:45:28,751 --> 01:45:30,668
Apart from cough?

1603
01:45:31,501 --> 01:45:34,668
I... Ooh, what's the phrase?

1604
01:45:35,918 --> 01:45:38,876
I lived life to the full.

1605
01:45:38,918 --> 01:45:41,210
-All three of you?
-Yes.

1606
01:45:41,251 --> 01:45:43,418
It's called troilism,
I believe.

1607
01:45:43,460 --> 01:45:45,668
-Or an orgy.
-Yes.

1608
01:45:45,710 --> 01:45:51,001
That's probably more accurate,
but I won't go into detail.

1609
01:45:51,043 --> 01:45:53,418
You know how discreet I am
in these matters.

1610
01:45:56,710 --> 01:46:01,710
My spies tell me you've been
seeing a lot of Hester Gatty.

1611
01:46:01,751 --> 01:46:03,835
Hester Gatty's been seeing
a lot of me.

1612
01:46:04,876 --> 01:46:06,626
I'm beginning
to see the light.

1613
01:46:08,126 --> 01:46:11,001
A new, secretive you.

1614
01:46:11,751 --> 01:46:13,376
Surely you're not jealous?

1615
01:46:13,418 --> 01:46:14,876
Of course not.

1616
01:46:16,210 --> 01:46:18,210
Now we can all
be girls together.

1617
01:46:19,376 --> 01:46:21,251
Like Roedean.

1618
01:46:25,126 --> 01:46:26,793
Have you slept with her?

1619
01:46:26,835 --> 01:46:28,710
SIEGFRIED: No.

1620
01:46:28,751 --> 01:46:31,168
Our relationship is as deep
as it is decorous.

1621
01:46:33,626 --> 01:46:36,793
I've even bought myself
some passion-killing pyjamas.

1622
01:46:36,835 --> 01:46:37,876
Are you going to marry her?

1623
01:46:37,918 --> 01:46:39,668
Yes, I think I probably shall.

1624
01:46:39,710 --> 01:46:42,001
You'll make
a vile partner, Siggy.

1625
01:46:42,043 --> 01:46:45,418
Perhaps, but then I have
been taught by a master.

1626
01:46:45,460 --> 01:46:48,001
You'll be taking a great risk.

1627
01:46:48,043 --> 01:46:49,793
I'll be taking the same risk
I took with you.

1628
01:46:49,835 --> 01:46:52,960
Couldn't be much worse.
May even be better.

1629
01:46:53,001 --> 01:46:56,501
I can see years ahead
for both of you.

1630
01:46:56,543 --> 01:46:59,376
Filled with
passionless silences

1631
01:46:59,418 --> 01:47:02,418
and compulsory cocoa
at bedtime.

1632
01:47:03,668 --> 01:47:06,335
Oh, by the way,

1633
01:47:06,376 --> 01:47:08,210
as we intend to be
living in the country,

1634
01:47:08,251 --> 01:47:10,460
I'll be giving up the lease
on this flat.

1635
01:47:11,876 --> 01:47:14,710
I didn't want to leave you
in the dark unnecessarily.

1636
01:47:14,751 --> 01:47:18,876
But once we've found a house,
you'll have to move out.

1637
01:47:18,918 --> 01:47:20,668
That sounds almost
like a threat.

1638
01:47:20,710 --> 01:47:22,543
It almost is.

1639
01:47:22,585 --> 01:47:23,710
So you're going
to throw baby's

1640
01:47:23,751 --> 01:47:27,460
little body out into
the cold, cold snow?

1641
01:47:27,501 --> 01:47:29,168
No, not immediately, no.

1642
01:47:30,793 --> 01:47:33,085
We'll wait for warmer weather.

1643
01:47:34,210 --> 01:47:36,210
(WOMAN TALKING
INDISTINCTLY ON RADIO)

1644
01:47:42,835 --> 01:47:44,793
OLDER HESTER: Can I get you
anything before I leave?

1645
01:47:44,835 --> 01:47:45,835
No.

1646
01:47:54,001 --> 01:47:56,543
I'll write
once I get to Scotland.

1647
01:48:00,543 --> 01:48:02,001
I said I'll write once...

1648
01:48:02,043 --> 01:48:04,251
I heard you. I'm trying
to listen to the radio.

1649
01:48:09,751 --> 01:48:11,835
-Shall I phone?
-No!

1650
01:48:24,626 --> 01:48:25,960
What time's your train,
Mother?

1651
01:48:26,001 --> 01:48:27,876
Not for an hour.

1652
01:48:27,918 --> 01:48:29,751
We've got plenty of time
to get to the station.

1653
01:48:37,043 --> 01:48:38,460
I'll come back for you later.

1654
01:48:43,376 --> 01:48:45,335
(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

1655
01:48:45,376 --> 01:48:47,668
ROBERT: Remember,
marry in haste,

1656
01:48:47,710 --> 01:48:49,543
repent at leisure.

1657
01:48:50,626 --> 01:48:52,251
I was shocked
when you got married

1658
01:48:52,293 --> 01:48:54,835
and for exactly
the same reason.

1659
01:48:54,876 --> 01:48:56,376
And now it's my turn
to be shocked.

1660
01:49:00,543 --> 01:49:01,710
(EXHALES)

1661
01:49:04,793 --> 01:49:06,668
I have given you all a bit
of a surprise, haven't I?

1662
01:49:08,126 --> 01:49:10,293
(SMACKS LIPS)

1663
01:49:10,335 --> 01:49:13,585
-Who's officiating?
-Er, Canon Gay.

1664
01:49:13,626 --> 01:49:15,043
-Ah.
-(MAN CHUCKLES)

1665
01:49:19,418 --> 01:49:22,543
Oh, I'm sorry, Lawrence,
have you met Glen Byam Shaw?

1666
01:49:22,585 --> 01:49:24,210
Glen this is TE Lawrence.

1667
01:49:25,835 --> 01:49:27,001
Of Arabia?

1668
01:49:27,043 --> 01:49:28,585
(CHUCKLES) Not recently.

1669
01:49:30,960 --> 01:49:32,585
Are you sure you know
what you're doing?

1670
01:49:35,710 --> 01:49:36,710
I think so.

1671
01:49:37,793 --> 01:49:40,418
In the end, we few,

1672
01:49:40,460 --> 01:49:43,460
we happy few
are always exogamous.

1673
01:49:43,501 --> 01:49:45,460
Christ, what does that mean?

1674
01:49:45,501 --> 01:49:48,376
To marry outside
of one's tribe or group.

1675
01:49:48,418 --> 01:49:51,001
Do you specialise in using
words no one understands?

1676
01:49:51,043 --> 01:49:53,626
Yes. It's my revenge on people

1677
01:49:53,668 --> 01:49:55,251
who don't know
what exogamous means.

1678
01:50:01,626 --> 01:50:02,835
Have you chosen any music?

1679
01:50:04,043 --> 01:50:05,585
No.

1680
01:50:05,626 --> 01:50:07,793
Oh, I'm disappointed.

1681
01:50:07,835 --> 01:50:10,293
I thought we'd get something
English and dismal.

1682
01:50:23,876 --> 01:50:24,876
What are you doing here?

1683
01:50:26,251 --> 01:50:27,460
Hester invited me.

1684
01:50:36,543 --> 01:50:38,335
I'm her maid of honour.

1685
01:50:40,001 --> 01:50:42,293
PRIEST: The vows that you
are about to take

1686
01:50:42,335 --> 01:50:45,251
are to be made
in the presence of God,

1687
01:50:45,293 --> 01:50:47,460
who is the judge of all

1688
01:50:47,501 --> 01:50:51,335
and knows all the secrets
of our hearts.

1689
01:50:51,376 --> 01:50:55,126
Therefore, if either of you
know any reason

1690
01:50:55,168 --> 01:50:57,835
why you may not
lawfully marry,

1691
01:50:57,876 --> 01:51:00,835
you must declare it now.

1692
01:51:02,126 --> 01:51:03,626
(BELLS TOLLING)

1693
01:51:04,876 --> 01:51:05,960
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

1694
01:51:09,960 --> 01:51:11,168
(BABY COOING)

1695
01:51:30,668 --> 01:51:31,668
SIEGFRIED: How are you?

1696
01:51:34,376 --> 01:51:35,876
Just very tired.

1697
01:51:39,751 --> 01:51:41,168
Is there anything
I can get you?

1698
01:51:58,043 --> 01:51:59,876
Have you thought of a name?

1699
01:52:01,210 --> 01:52:02,210
No.

1700
01:52:06,668 --> 01:52:08,876
HESTER: I thought
we might call him George.

1701
01:52:11,293 --> 01:52:12,293
Yes.

1702
01:52:19,210 --> 01:52:21,210
My whole future
depends on him.

1703
01:52:24,543 --> 01:52:26,418
You once said that about me.

1704
01:52:35,001 --> 01:52:36,210
Do you want to hold him?

1705
01:52:38,293 --> 01:52:41,126
FEMALE SINGER: (OVER RADIO)
...with homes that are rented

1706
01:52:41,168 --> 01:52:45,293
So I have invented my own

1707
01:52:45,335 --> 01:52:49,293
Darling, this place
is a lover's oasis

1708
01:52:49,335 --> 01:52:54,001
Where life's weary chase
is unknown...

1709
01:52:54,043 --> 01:52:55,751
I'm very happy.

1710
01:52:57,335 --> 01:52:59,168
And this is the reason.
(CHUCKLES)

1711
01:52:59,210 --> 01:53:01,043
(APPLAUSE)

1712
01:53:02,501 --> 01:53:04,876
Cosy to hide in

1713
01:53:04,918 --> 01:53:06,918
To live side by side in

1714
01:53:06,960 --> 01:53:10,543
Don't let it abide in my dream

1715
01:53:13,210 --> 01:53:17,168
Picture me upon your knee

1716
01:53:17,210 --> 01:53:21,293
Just tea for two
and two for tea

1717
01:53:21,335 --> 01:53:25,585
Just me for you and you for me

1718
01:53:25,626 --> 01:53:30,043
Alone

1719
01:53:30,085 --> 01:53:33,835
Nobody near us
to see us or hear us

1720
01:53:33,876 --> 01:53:37,793
No friends or relations
on weekend vacations

1721
01:53:37,835 --> 01:53:39,918
We won't have it known, dear

1722
01:53:39,960 --> 01:53:46,043
That we own a telephone, dear

1723
01:53:46,085 --> 01:53:50,126
Day will break and I'll awake

1724
01:53:50,168 --> 01:53:54,168
And start to bake a sugar cake

1725
01:53:54,210 --> 01:54:01,210
For you to take
for all the boys to see

1726
01:54:02,501 --> 01:54:06,585
We will raise a family

1727
01:54:06,626 --> 01:54:10,710
A boy for you, a girl for me

1728
01:54:10,751 --> 01:54:13,251
Oh, can't you see

1729
01:54:13,293 --> 01:54:20,293
How happy we would be?

1730
01:54:24,168 --> 01:54:26,335
SIEGFRIED:
How beautifully blue the sky.

1731
01:54:27,335 --> 01:54:29,793
The glass is rising very high.

1732
01:54:30,835 --> 01:54:33,043
Continue fine I hope it may.

1733
01:54:34,126 --> 01:54:36,418
And yet it rained
but yesterday.

1734
01:54:37,418 --> 01:54:39,418
Tomorrow, it may pour again.

1735
01:54:40,543 --> 01:54:42,835
I hear the country
needs some rain.

1736
01:54:44,668 --> 01:54:46,793
OLDER SIEGFRIED:
I stood with the dead.

1737
01:54:48,335 --> 01:54:50,418
SIEGFRIED: Come down
from Heaven to meet me

1738
01:54:50,460 --> 01:54:53,043
when my breath chokes.

1739
01:54:53,085 --> 01:54:55,585
And through drumming shafts
of stifling death

1740
01:54:55,626 --> 01:54:57,501
I stumble towards escape,

1741
01:54:58,835 --> 01:55:01,501
to find the door
opening on morn

1742
01:55:01,543 --> 01:55:03,501
where I may breathe once more

1743
01:55:03,543 --> 01:55:05,251
clear cock-crow airs

1744
01:55:05,293 --> 01:55:08,460
across some valley
dim with whispering trees.

1745
01:55:09,960 --> 01:55:12,710
While dawn along the rim
of night's horizon

1746
01:55:12,751 --> 01:55:14,418
flows in lakes of fire,

1747
01:55:15,501 --> 01:55:17,585
come down from
Heaven's bright hill,

1748
01:55:17,626 --> 01:55:19,293
my song's desire.

1749
01:55:20,793 --> 01:55:22,293
Belov'd and faithful,

1750
01:55:22,335 --> 01:55:25,585
teach my soul to wake
in glades deep-ranked

1751
01:55:25,626 --> 01:55:27,335
with flowers that gleam

1752
01:55:27,376 --> 01:55:30,668
and shake and flock
your paths with wonder.

1753
01:55:31,918 --> 01:55:33,668
In your gaze, show me,

1754
01:55:33,710 --> 01:55:37,001
the vanquished vigil
of my days.

1755
01:55:37,043 --> 01:55:41,085
Mute in that golden silence
hung with green,

1756
01:55:41,126 --> 01:55:44,043
come down from Heaven
and bring me in your eyes

1757
01:55:44,085 --> 01:55:47,335
remembrance of all beauty
that has been.

1758
01:55:47,376 --> 01:55:50,335
And stillness from
the pools of Paradise.

1759
01:55:55,168 --> 01:55:57,043
OLDER SIEGFRIED: Rising,

1760
01:55:57,085 --> 01:56:01,001
rising the voices
of the muffled dead.

1761
01:56:08,918 --> 01:56:10,668
(SPOON CLANKS)

1762
01:56:10,710 --> 01:56:12,168
Are you going to keep
this silence up

1763
01:56:12,210 --> 01:56:13,418
for the rest of the day?

1764
01:56:20,710 --> 01:56:22,335
Look, I brought you
down to London

1765
01:56:22,376 --> 01:56:23,585
because I was worried
about you!

1766
01:56:23,626 --> 01:56:26,460
-I'm fine.
-No, you're not!

1767
01:56:26,501 --> 01:56:28,835
There was no food
in the house! No heating!

1768
01:56:28,876 --> 01:56:30,543
And you were sitting there
in the dark

1769
01:56:30,585 --> 01:56:31,751
like a Protestant bishop!

1770
01:56:31,793 --> 01:56:34,543
-I can manage!
-No, you can't!

1771
01:56:42,335 --> 01:56:45,085
If you're going to sulk,
I'm going upstairs.

1772
01:56:52,251 --> 01:56:55,751
(POP MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)

1773
01:56:55,793 --> 01:56:57,668
Turn that rubbish off!

1774
01:56:57,710 --> 01:57:00,710
GEORGE: I'll do as I like!
It's my house!

1775
01:57:00,751 --> 01:57:03,126
-It's my music!
-That isn't music!

1776
01:57:03,168 --> 01:57:05,543
It's commercially
grotesque noise

1777
01:57:05,585 --> 01:57:09,126
made by stupid people
for stupid people!

1778
01:57:09,168 --> 01:57:11,251
GEORGE: Oh,
don't be so bigoted!

1779
01:57:11,293 --> 01:57:14,710
-(GROWLS IN ANGER)
-(MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)

1780
01:57:23,918 --> 01:57:25,793
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)

1781
01:57:35,251 --> 01:57:36,460
MAN: The official numbers

1782
01:57:36,501 --> 01:57:39,835
of those killed
in the First World War.

1783
01:57:39,876 --> 01:57:42,626
The United Kingdom
and its colonies:

1784
01:57:42,668 --> 01:57:47,876
1,225,914.

1785
01:57:48,710 --> 01:57:55,543
France: 1,697,798.

1786
01:57:56,376 --> 01:58:03,751
Germany: 2,476,897.

1787
01:58:03,793 --> 01:58:10,751
Austria-Hungary: 1,567,202.

1788
01:58:11,668 --> 01:58:17,501
Russia: 3,311,251...

1789
01:58:22,710 --> 01:58:26,293
OLDER SIEGFRIED: These are
the statistics of catastrophe.

1790
01:58:26,335 --> 01:58:32,085
Yet from Prime to Compline,
life goes slowly on.

1791
01:58:51,960 --> 01:58:53,918
Are you thinking
great thoughts?

1792
01:58:53,960 --> 01:58:55,085
No.

1793
01:58:57,376 --> 01:58:58,585
Just sitting here being petty.

1794
01:59:01,626 --> 01:59:06,043
Trying to understand
the enigma of other people.

1795
01:59:13,376 --> 01:59:14,585
So many have died.

1796
01:59:20,210 --> 01:59:21,251
Too many.

1797
01:59:27,210 --> 01:59:29,376
Most people live
for the moment.

1798
01:59:29,418 --> 01:59:30,918
You live for eternity.

1799
01:59:30,960 --> 01:59:32,668
-Don't say that.
-Why not?

1800
01:59:32,710 --> 01:59:34,126
Because I'm afraid
I might believe it.

1801
01:59:38,418 --> 01:59:39,751
(SNIFFLES)

1802
01:59:45,585 --> 01:59:47,751
I would have liked to have
been recognised, though.

1803
01:59:49,335 --> 01:59:52,710
In some significant way
for my work.

1804
01:59:56,168 --> 02:00:01,543
Eliot got the Order of Merit
and the Nobel Prize.

1805
02:00:03,543 --> 02:00:06,585
I've had to make do with
the Queen's Award for Poetry.

1806
02:00:12,126 --> 02:00:16,543
But Sir Siegfried Sassoon,
it would have been nice.

1807
02:00:17,876 --> 02:00:20,960
-Despite all the sibilants.
-Oh, Father.

1808
02:00:23,876 --> 02:00:27,501
How can you be seduced by
all that Ruritanian nonsense?

1809
02:00:29,668 --> 02:00:31,043
The greatest argument against

1810
02:00:31,085 --> 02:00:32,793
Damehoods
and Knighthoods is...

1811
02:00:34,126 --> 02:00:36,543
Just look at the people
who've got them.

1812
02:00:42,418 --> 02:00:44,876
Why do you hate
the modern world, Father?

1813
02:00:44,918 --> 02:00:46,543
Because it's younger
than I am.

1814
02:00:47,793 --> 02:00:50,376
Well, you've got to bathe
and change.

1815
02:00:51,793 --> 02:00:53,460
We're going to the theatre,
remember?

1816
02:00:54,335 --> 02:00:55,376
Do I have to?

1817
02:00:55,418 --> 02:00:57,335
Yes, you promised.

1818
02:00:58,585 --> 02:01:01,126
Besides, it's a witty
and elegant score.

1819
02:01:02,335 --> 02:01:04,293
Even you might enjoy it.

1820
02:01:10,001 --> 02:01:11,126
I'm sorry I shouted.

1821
02:01:12,876 --> 02:01:14,835
It's... So am I.

1822
02:01:20,626 --> 02:01:21,918
Peace?

1823
02:01:24,793 --> 02:01:26,168
Peace.

1824
02:01:30,835 --> 02:01:33,293
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

1825
02:01:33,335 --> 02:01:36,210
WOMAN: (SINGING)
My mother said I never should

1826
02:01:36,251 --> 02:01:39,168
Play with the young man
in the wood

1827
02:01:39,210 --> 02:01:41,751
If I did, she would say

1828
02:01:41,793 --> 02:01:45,460
"Naughty little girl
to disobey"

1829
02:01:48,876 --> 02:01:51,126
I'm a typically English rose

1830
02:01:51,168 --> 02:01:54,126
But born of typically
English stock

1831
02:01:54,168 --> 02:01:59,335
With a typically Anglo-Saxon
family tree

1832
02:01:59,376 --> 02:02:04,626
I received my education
from a typically English way

1833
02:02:04,668 --> 02:02:09,210
In a typically
English girl's academy

1834
02:02:12,376 --> 02:02:15,043
I play typically
English tennis

1835
02:02:15,085 --> 02:02:17,543
At a typically English club

1836
02:02:17,585 --> 02:02:22,751
With my typically
English feelings for fair play

1837
02:02:22,793 --> 02:02:25,626
I eat typically
English crumpets

1838
02:02:25,668 --> 02:02:26,710
-(MUSIC STOPS)
-(AUDIENCE CHUCKLES)

1839
02:02:26,751 --> 02:02:27,793
(MUSIC STARTS)

1840
02:02:27,835 --> 02:02:29,543
With my typically English tea

1841
02:02:29,585 --> 02:02:35,001
At the end
of every typically English day

1842
02:02:35,043 --> 02:02:40,293
Father is a typically
English colonel

1843
02:02:40,335 --> 02:02:44,085
Home is a typically
English county town

1844
02:02:45,626 --> 02:02:49,501
Mummy and I play
typically English patients

1845
02:02:49,543 --> 02:02:54,293
As the typically English rain
is pouring down

1846
02:02:55,585 --> 02:02:57,960
With a typically
English spaniel

1847
02:02:58,001 --> 02:03:00,585
Who likes typically
English walks

1848
02:03:00,626 --> 02:03:03,085
Cause there's typically
English trees

1849
02:03:03,126 --> 02:03:04,626
Upon the heath

1850
02:03:06,085 --> 02:03:08,210
And if anyone asked me

1851
02:03:08,251 --> 02:03:11,085
How I like
this typically English life

1852
02:03:11,126 --> 02:03:15,918
I am fed up
to my typically English tea

1853
02:03:15,960 --> 02:03:18,960
-(APPLAUSE)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1854
02:03:35,918 --> 02:03:37,543
Shall we take a cab?

1855
02:03:42,960 --> 02:03:43,960
No, I'll walk home.

1856
02:03:48,210 --> 02:03:49,960
Are you sure?

1857
02:03:50,001 --> 02:03:52,835
It's getting very chilly.

1858
02:03:59,460 --> 02:04:00,460
I'd rather walk.

1859
02:05:17,376 --> 02:05:19,376
WILFRED: Perhaps my latest
effort will please you.

1860
02:05:20,376 --> 02:05:21,918
It's called Disabled.

1861
02:05:28,876 --> 02:05:29,960
I'll come and get you.

1862
02:05:30,001 --> 02:05:31,001
Thank you.

1863
02:05:33,751 --> 02:05:35,876
SIEGFRIED: He sat
in a wheeled chair,

1864
02:05:35,918 --> 02:05:38,001
waiting for dark

1865
02:05:38,043 --> 02:05:41,960
and shivered in his ghastly
suit of grey, legless,

1866
02:05:42,793 --> 02:05:44,543
sewn short at elbow.

1867
02:05:46,085 --> 02:05:47,293
Through the park,

1868
02:05:47,335 --> 02:05:50,585
voices of boys rang
saddening like a hymn.

1869
02:05:50,626 --> 02:05:53,835
Voices of play and pleasure
after day.

1870
02:05:53,876 --> 02:05:56,501
Till gathering sleep
had mothered them from him.

1871
02:05:57,751 --> 02:05:59,001
About this time,

1872
02:05:59,043 --> 02:06:00,876
town used to swing so gay

1873
02:06:00,918 --> 02:06:03,876
when glow-lamps budded
in the light blue trees,

1874
02:06:03,918 --> 02:06:06,126
and girls glanced lovelier

1875
02:06:06,168 --> 02:06:10,460
as the air grew dim
in the old times,

1876
02:06:11,835 --> 02:06:13,918
before we threw away
his knees.

1877
02:06:15,751 --> 02:06:20,043
Now he will never feel again
how slim girls' waists are

1878
02:06:20,085 --> 02:06:23,043
or how warm
their subtle hands.

1879
02:06:23,085 --> 02:06:26,585
All of them touch him
like some queer disease.

1880
02:06:28,668 --> 02:06:30,751
There was an artist
silly for his face,

1881
02:06:32,085 --> 02:06:34,543
for it was younger
than his youth, last year.

1882
02:06:36,376 --> 02:06:41,543
Now he is old,
his back will never brace.

1883
02:06:41,585 --> 02:06:44,793
He's lost his colour
very far from here.

1884
02:06:44,835 --> 02:06:47,585
Poured it down shell-holes
till the veins ran dry,

1885
02:06:47,626 --> 02:06:50,710
and half his lifetime lapsed
in the hot race.

1886
02:06:50,751 --> 02:06:53,293
And leap of purple
spurted from his thigh.

1887
02:06:55,001 --> 02:06:57,876
One time he liked
a blood-smear down his leg,

1888
02:06:57,918 --> 02:07:00,501
after the matches
carried shoulder-high.

1889
02:07:01,876 --> 02:07:04,585
It was after football
when he'd drunk a peg,

1890
02:07:04,626 --> 02:07:06,543
he thought he'd better join.

1891
02:07:06,585 --> 02:07:08,001
He wonders why.

1892
02:07:09,293 --> 02:07:11,585
Someone had said
he'd looked a god in kilts.

1893
02:07:12,751 --> 02:07:14,210
That's why.

1894
02:07:14,251 --> 02:07:16,626
And maybe, too,
to please his Meg.

1895
02:07:16,668 --> 02:07:18,668
Aye, that was it,

1896
02:07:18,710 --> 02:07:21,876
to please the giddy jilts,
he'd asked to join.

1897
02:07:21,918 --> 02:07:23,793
He didn't have to beg.

1898
02:07:23,835 --> 02:07:25,335
Smiling they wrote his lie:

1899
02:07:26,168 --> 02:07:28,168
aged 19 years.

1900
02:07:29,710 --> 02:07:33,210
Germans he scarcely
thought of, all their guilt,

1901
02:07:33,251 --> 02:07:35,501
and Austria's,
did not move him.

1902
02:07:36,876 --> 02:07:39,335
And no fears of fear came yet.

1903
02:07:41,376 --> 02:07:42,793
He thought of jewelled hilts

1904
02:07:42,835 --> 02:07:47,293
for daggers in plaid socks,
of smart salutes,

1905
02:07:47,335 --> 02:07:52,460
and care of arms, and leave,
and pay arrears,

1906
02:07:52,501 --> 02:07:55,793
esprit de corps,
and hints for young recruits.

1907
02:07:57,793 --> 02:08:00,793
And soon, he was drafted out
with drums and cheers.

1908
02:08:02,793 --> 02:08:08,460
Some cheered him home,
but not as crowds cheer goal.

1909
02:08:08,501 --> 02:08:12,585
Only a solemn man who brought
him fruits thanked him.

1910
02:08:12,626 --> 02:08:15,210
And then inquired
about his soul.

1911
02:08:17,876 --> 02:08:21,710
Now he will spend a few
sick years in institutes

1912
02:08:21,751 --> 02:08:24,876
and do what things
the rules consider wise,

1913
02:08:24,918 --> 02:08:27,335
and take whatever pity
they may dole.

1914
02:08:28,918 --> 02:08:30,585
Tonight he noticed
how women's eyes

1915
02:08:30,626 --> 02:08:33,626
passed from him to the
strong men who were whole.

1916
02:08:36,335 --> 02:08:38,501
How cold and late it is.

1917
02:08:40,085 --> 02:08:42,335
Why don't they come
and put him into bed?

1918
02:08:44,793 --> 02:08:46,418
Why don't they come?

1919
02:08:52,210 --> 02:08:54,835
(SOMBRE MUSIC PLAYING)

1920
02:10:26,418 --> 02:10:29,251
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)