0:01:17 > 0:01:18HORN HONKS
0:02:00 > 0:02:04"My darling sister, it isn't going to be at all what we expected.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11"The house is old and quaint and altogether delightful -
0:02:11 > 0:02:12"red brick.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20"The hall itself is practically a room.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23"From there you go right or left into dining room or drawing room.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29"Straight ahead there are the stairs going up to the first floor -
0:02:29 > 0:02:33"three bedrooms there, and three attics above.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37"There's a very big wych-elm in the field behind the house.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39"I quite love that tree already...
0:02:43 > 0:02:46"..and, of course, more ordinary trees,
0:02:46 > 0:02:49"flowerbeds, bluebells, forget-me-nots,
0:02:49 > 0:02:51"peonies, irises and azaleas...
0:02:51 > 0:02:55"..and a wisteria and clematis which grows all around the house."
0:03:00 > 0:03:02"And now for the family themselves..."
0:03:03 > 0:03:04CLACKING OUTSIDE
0:03:04 > 0:03:06"This morning I was awakened by a clicketing sound,
0:03:06 > 0:03:08"coming from the garden..."
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Oh, blast!
0:03:14 > 0:03:18"It was Charles, the older son, practising his croquet on the lawn.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21"I must stress the word 'practising'.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25"A bit later I heard more clacketing.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34"At first I thought they were having a game...
0:03:37 > 0:03:41"..but no, it was Mr Wilcox, practising HIS croquet.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44"Mr Wilcox prefers three hoops, Charles, one.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49"After a bit comes Miss Evie Wilcox.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56"She does exercises on a callisthenics machine
0:03:56 > 0:03:58"that is hanging from a pergola.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04"At last comes Mrs Wilcox,
0:04:04 > 0:04:08"who is a creature of a very different sort...
0:04:13 > 0:04:16"..because, for all their croquet and callisthenics,
0:04:16 > 0:04:19"Mrs Wilcox seems, of all of them,
0:04:19 > 0:04:22"to belong most completely to Howards End -
0:04:22 > 0:04:24"and it to her.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28"Paul, younger son, arrives this morning."
0:04:28 > 0:04:30"Much love..."
0:04:30 > 0:04:31"Modified love to Tibby..."
0:04:31 > 0:04:32"..and love to Aunt Juley.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35"So good of her to come and keep you company..."
0:04:35 > 0:04:37"..but what a bore for you. Burn this."
0:04:37 > 0:04:39"Will write again Thursday. Helen."
0:04:40 > 0:04:43But what sort of people are these Wilcoxes, Margaret?
0:04:43 > 0:04:44I don't understand.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47- I don't know any more than you do. We met them in Germany.- Oh.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50We had an awful expedition from Heidelberg to Speyer,
0:04:50 > 0:04:51to see the old cathedral there.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53We met the Wilcoxes in the public gardens.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55They hadn't any German, and we took some drives together.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Then they invited us to visit them when we came home.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Then Tibby got hay fever and Helen went on alone.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01That's really all I can tell you.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04Oh, you girls have always been so independent.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Isn't that generally reckoned to be a good thing, Aunt Juley?
0:05:06 > 0:05:07I'm sure I don't know -
0:05:07 > 0:05:10but I have always thought that the care of your sister and brother
0:05:10 > 0:05:14too great a burden to place upon a young woman of your tender years.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Your youth has practically been thrown away
0:05:16 > 0:05:17on your precious independence.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Practically!
0:05:19 > 0:05:20Yes, Margaret, it has!
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Who is to say what the result might have proved by now,
0:05:23 > 0:05:24had your father left you in my care,
0:05:24 > 0:05:26which I know your dear mother would have wished, and as I...
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Oh, dear Aunt Juley, let's not go over that again.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Poor Mother left it up to Papa to decide, Papa left it up to me,
0:05:32 > 0:05:33and I don't think I have done so badly after all -
0:05:33 > 0:05:35and I've always valued your advice.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Yes, but you never take it.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41Oh, I'm not saying you've done badly by Helen and Tibby, dear.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43- Just for yourself.- Aunt Juley!
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Excuse me, Miss, but Master Tibby's asking for you again.
0:05:46 > 0:05:47Thank you, Nancy.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Annie, I think you can clear away the breakfast things now.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Yes, Miss.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24"Dearest Meg, I do wish you were here.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26"The Wilcoxes continue to fascinate."
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Ah - Miss Schlegel. This is my brother Paul.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Paul, Miss Schlegel is stopping with us for the week.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34- How do you do?- How do you do?
0:06:36 > 0:06:39"Paul, younger brother, is quite the handsomest of the lot,
0:06:39 > 0:06:41"but not a bit conceited,
0:06:41 > 0:06:44"nor over-serious, like Charles - older brother.
0:06:44 > 0:06:49"Mr Wilcox runs the Imperial and West African Rubber Company,
0:06:49 > 0:06:53"and says the most horrid things so nicely.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55"When I said I believed in equality between the sexes
0:06:55 > 0:06:59"he gave me such a setting down as I have never had.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02"Like all really strong people, he did it without hurting me."
0:07:02 > 0:07:04My dear Miss Schlegel, there is no equality among men -
0:07:04 > 0:07:07how can there be equality between men and women?
0:07:07 > 0:07:09What civilisation has ever existed
0:07:09 > 0:07:11on terms of perfect equality among its constituents?
0:07:11 > 0:07:12What household, for that matter?
0:07:12 > 0:07:15"Only Paul tried to come to my rescue,
0:07:15 > 0:07:17"but he was quite overmatched."
0:07:17 > 0:07:19But then oughtn't your anti-Suffragists
0:07:19 > 0:07:21object to being ruled by a woman for 63 years?
0:07:21 > 0:07:23- Bosh.- 64.- No, it was 63. - But why is it bosh?
0:07:23 > 0:07:26- Because...- All right, then, 63. - And it's no good saying "bosh"
0:07:26 > 0:07:28- when someone disagrees with you. - You can if it is bosh.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30It's bosh because the exception proves the rule -
0:07:30 > 0:07:32and you will search in vain
0:07:32 > 0:07:35for as violent an enemy of your Suffragists as the late Queen.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37But, well, wasn't that hypocrisy in her?
0:07:37 > 0:07:38Not at all.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40- Bosh. - THEY LAUGH
0:07:40 > 0:07:41There was no hypocrisy in it.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44It showed her perfect disinterest in the controversy.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46"In five minutes he took up everything
0:07:46 > 0:07:49"we were raised to believe in and ripped it entirely to shreds.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51"It was lovely." Oh, dear.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55One sound man of business does more good to the world
0:07:55 > 0:07:57than a dozen of your social reformers.
0:07:57 > 0:07:58Oh!
0:07:58 > 0:08:00"But I have saved the best part for last."
0:08:00 > 0:08:01Well, I dread to hear it!
0:08:01 > 0:08:03I do suppose the arguments against women's suffrage
0:08:03 > 0:08:05are frightfully strong, Mrs Wilcox?
0:08:05 > 0:08:06Are they?
0:08:06 > 0:08:08I never follow any arguments.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10I am only too thankful not to have the vote myself.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13- Would you pour the coffee, please? - Yes, Miss.- Thank you.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19"And suddenly the discussion was over.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21"I was never so much surprised in my life!
0:08:23 > 0:08:26"So you see, Meg, I've got everything upso-down again.
0:08:26 > 0:08:31"It is not Mr Wilcox who rules at Howards End, but his wife.
0:08:31 > 0:08:36"She slams no doors, states no facts, and does no callisthenics.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39"They worship and obey her.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41"It makes one worship them in turn."
0:08:45 > 0:08:47- JULEY:- But why our Helen should be so charmed
0:08:47 > 0:08:50to find her deepest convictions so easily disaggregated,
0:08:50 > 0:08:52I simply cannot imagine.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55I think she's infatuated with the lot of them.
0:08:57 > 0:08:58THEY LAUGH
0:09:11 > 0:09:12Off we go! Onwards!
0:09:22 > 0:09:25They sound to me quite the wrong sort of people for Helen.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Not our sort of people at all.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30They are rather a breath of fresh air.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Sometimes I feel that we are swathed in cant,
0:09:32 > 0:09:35and it is good for us to be stripped of it.
0:09:35 > 0:09:36Stripped of what, dear?
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Cant. Argot. Jargon, hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43Sometimes I long for someone dominating
0:09:43 > 0:09:46to tell me that my ideas are sheltered and academic,
0:09:46 > 0:09:48that equality is...
0:09:48 > 0:09:50- Bosh.- Socialism?
0:09:50 > 0:09:51Dangerous bosh.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Art and literature...
0:09:53 > 0:09:54Oh, Margaret...!
0:09:54 > 0:09:55Bosh!
0:09:55 > 0:09:57This is really too much.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Except of course when conducive to strengthening the character.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Of course.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04You have a strong character, Miss Schlegel...
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Yes, it has been strengthened by art and literature.
0:10:07 > 0:10:08Aha! You prove my point.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12You are really the most peculiar girl.
0:10:17 > 0:10:18"Yes, my darling Meg,
0:10:18 > 0:10:22"one by one my Schlegel fetiches have been overthrown.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26"The Wilcox men see everything with such freshness
0:10:26 > 0:10:29"and clarity that nothing seems to muddle them."
0:10:29 > 0:10:31The ruin dates from the eleventh century.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34We can stop here for half an hour
0:10:34 > 0:10:36and still be in time for some cricket.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51But surely, Margaret, dear,
0:10:51 > 0:10:54you can find in yourself no answering feeling
0:10:54 > 0:10:55for that kind of push?
0:10:55 > 0:10:57No, but I do sometimes think that the real world
0:10:57 > 0:10:59has been marching past us for some time now,
0:10:59 > 0:11:02and there's nothing wrong with Helen joining in the parade
0:11:02 > 0:11:03for a week or two -
0:11:03 > 0:11:07if only to ensure that we're not wholly and entirely left behind.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Well, I, for one, have never marched in a parade,
0:11:09 > 0:11:12and I have no wish to do so now.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14You and Helen may do as you choose, of course.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Oh, don't let's worry about Helen!
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Her head may be easily turned,
0:11:18 > 0:11:20but it does go on turning, if you see what I mean.
0:11:20 > 0:11:24That's why it's got so much more sense in it than most people's.
0:11:24 > 0:11:25At least...sometimes it does.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31Miss Schlegel...
0:11:31 > 0:11:33I...
0:11:33 > 0:11:35- Helen...- Yes, do.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10"Dearest, dearest Meg. I do not know what you will say.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13"Paul, younger son, and I are in love."
0:12:13 > 0:12:14Oh, dear.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19But this is far too sudden, surely.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22Has the young man made an offer?
0:12:22 > 0:12:24She doesn't say.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26Our Helen is not a girl to be trifled with -
0:12:26 > 0:12:28and if he has not made an offer...
0:12:28 > 0:12:31- She doesn't say, Aunt Juley. - What's to be done?
0:12:31 > 0:12:34I don't think anything needs doing but I must go down to see her.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Margaret, dear. Quite frankly - you won't be offended?
0:12:37 > 0:12:39I feel you are not up to this business.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42This requires an older person.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44You Schlegels, you are so impetuous.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48You see far too many people here. Unshaven musicians. Actresses, even.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49German cousins...
0:12:49 > 0:12:52- Oh, Aunt Juley!- Acquaintances picked up at foreign hotels.- Really...
0:12:52 > 0:12:54Disaster was bound to come.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57How lucky that I happened to be on the spot when it came.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59You would say the wrong thing. To a certainty you would.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01In your anxiety for Helen's happiness,
0:13:01 > 0:13:02you would offend the whole of these Wilcoxes
0:13:02 > 0:13:04by asking one of your impetuous questions.
0:13:04 > 0:13:05I shall ask no questions.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07I have it from Helen that she is in love.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09There is no question to ask, as long as she keeps to that.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11A long engagement, if you like, but...
0:13:11 > 0:13:13- Is there an engagement? - ..I shall make no inquiries.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15I don't know, Auntie. I presume, if they are in love...
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Well, in that case, dear, why go down?
0:13:17 > 0:13:20Because I love her and I must be near her in this crisis in her life.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24If only to say brava for finding happiness, and, "Here I am, Helen!"
0:13:24 > 0:13:26If you can't see that, I can't explain it to you.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29- But...- Aunt Juley, I must go to Howards End myself.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31I can never thank you properly for offering.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34I mean to go down tomorrow, if Tibby is well enough, and that's flat.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42HE SNEEZES Oh, dear.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47I told you I was worse.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49He does seem a bit feverish.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51I might stop breathing at any moment.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53I nearly suffocated in my sleep last night.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56I really ought to have someone with me all the time
0:13:56 > 0:14:00and Meg has promised to read to me from Walter Savage Landor.
0:14:00 > 0:14:01Oh, really, Tibby.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05- Helen...- I don't think he's in any grave danger
0:14:05 > 0:14:07but I do recommend that someone keep an eye on him.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09There!
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Now, you will remember not to be drawn into any discussions
0:14:21 > 0:14:23about an engagement, Aunt Juley?
0:14:23 > 0:14:24Just give my letter to Helen
0:14:24 > 0:14:27and say whatever you feel yourself to her
0:14:27 > 0:14:30but only to her, and do keep clear of the relatives.
0:14:30 > 0:14:31You may depend on me.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43TRAIN WHISTLE ECHOES
0:14:59 > 0:15:01"All over. Wish I had never written.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04"Tell no-one. Helen."
0:15:04 > 0:15:05Oh, crikey.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12I want a house. Its name is Howards Lodge.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Do you know where it is?
0:15:14 > 0:15:15Mr Wilcox...!
0:15:16 > 0:15:18- Oh, dear. - The lady's wanting Howards End.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26Excuse me asking, but are you the younger Mr Wilcox, or the elder?
0:15:26 > 0:15:29The younger. Can I do anything for you?
0:15:29 > 0:15:32Oh, well... Really. Are you?
0:15:35 > 0:15:38My niece isn't with you, by any chance?
0:15:38 > 0:15:39No, I came over with my father.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41He has gone on north on your train.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43You'll see Miss Schlegel at lunch.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45- You're coming up to lunch, I hope? - Mm!
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Oh, this is very good of you. Very good indeed.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57So, you see, we have just heard from Helen last night.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Oh, yes?
0:15:59 > 0:16:01So, naturally I am very anxious to talk to you.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Mr Wilcox, Margaret has told me everything.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19I have seen Helen's letter.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21I beg your pardon. I didn't catch.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24About Helen. About Helen, of course!
0:16:24 > 0:16:27I'm afraid I don't quite see what you're getting at.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Helen, Mr Wilcox. My niece and you.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Miss Schlegel and myself?
0:16:32 > 0:16:34I trust there has been no misunderstanding.
0:16:34 > 0:16:35You are Mr Paul Wilcox?
0:16:35 > 0:16:37I'm not.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Then why did you say so at the station?
0:16:39 > 0:16:40I beg your pardon, I said no such thing.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42My name is Charles.
0:16:42 > 0:16:43Charles!
0:16:43 > 0:16:46You don't mean to say my brother Paul and Miss Schlegel...
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Good God!
0:16:48 > 0:16:49Mr Wilcox, my niece...
0:16:49 > 0:16:51But he's going to Africa. The plans have all been made!
0:16:51 > 0:16:54Well, perhaps they have, Mr Wilcox, but we are not in Africa now.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Has he promised to marry her?
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Well, I have no such information, Mr Wilcox.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00- Idiot! The idiot!- Why...?!
0:17:00 > 0:17:01- GEARS GRIND - Oh!
0:17:03 > 0:17:06Let me tell you, the thing's impossible and must be stopped.
0:17:06 > 0:17:07Yes. Yes, it is impossible.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Yes, it will be stopped and I shall stop it.
0:17:09 > 0:17:10I warn you, Paul hasn't a penny.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12There's no need to warn us. The warning is all the other way.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14- My niece... - He's to make his way out to Nigeria.
0:17:14 > 0:17:15..is an exceptional person.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18- He couldn't think of marrying for years.- I will not stand idle...
0:17:18 > 0:17:21- When he does, it must be a woman... - ..while she throws herself away
0:17:21 > 0:17:23- on people who will not appreciate her. Will you let me finish?- No!
0:17:33 > 0:17:35All I know is, she's spread the thing, and he hasn't.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38- He was ashamed to tell us.- Will you please let me out of this motor car?
0:17:38 > 0:17:41- He knows he's been a damned fool. - Aunt Juley!- Paul!
0:17:41 > 0:17:42Oh, my poor Helen...!
0:17:44 > 0:17:45- I have just had a telegram from Margaret.- Paul!
0:17:45 > 0:17:49- I-I meant to stop your coming. It isn't - it's over.- Paul!
0:17:49 > 0:17:50Over?
0:17:50 > 0:17:52- Aunt Juley, dear, don't, please...! - Paul!
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Don't let them know I've been so silly. It wasn't anything.
0:17:55 > 0:17:56Paul, is there any truth to this?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Don't let them know. They are never to know.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00- I didn't...- Do bear up, for my sake. - I don't...
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Yes or no, man. Plain question. Plain answer.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Did or didn't Miss Schlegel...?
0:18:04 > 0:18:05Charles?
0:18:14 > 0:18:15Miss Schlegel,
0:18:15 > 0:18:18would you take your aunt up to your room,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21or to my room, if you think that's best?
0:18:21 > 0:18:24Paul, do find Evie, and tell her lunch for six
0:18:24 > 0:18:27but I'm not sure we shall all be downstairs for it.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Mother!
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Are you aware that Paul has been playing the fool with that girl?
0:18:40 > 0:18:44It's all right. They have broken off their engagement.
0:18:44 > 0:18:45Engagement?!
0:18:45 > 0:18:49- They do not love any longer, if you prefer it put that way.- Hm!
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Would you please put the car away, and come in for lunch?
0:18:57 > 0:18:59Yes, Mother.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55It was the silliest thing. It was over at once.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58As soon as I went into the dining room the next morning,
0:19:58 > 0:20:00I knew it was no good.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03There was Evie managing the tea urn - I can't explain -
0:20:03 > 0:20:06and Mr Wilcox reading The Times,
0:20:06 > 0:20:10and Charles talking to Paul about stocks and shares, and...
0:20:13 > 0:20:16..he looked so frightened...
0:20:17 > 0:20:21..and when I saw all the others so placid, with their newspapers,
0:20:21 > 0:20:25and Paul mad with terror in case I said the wrong thing...
0:20:25 > 0:20:27It was awful.
0:20:27 > 0:20:28Good morning.
0:20:30 > 0:20:31Good morning.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Oh, Meg, it was too idiotic.
0:20:37 > 0:20:42I felt for a moment that the whole Wilcox family was a fraud -
0:20:42 > 0:20:46just a wall of newspapers and motorcars and golf clubs,
0:20:46 > 0:20:49and that if it fell, I should find nothing behind it
0:20:49 > 0:20:53but panic and emptiness...
0:20:53 > 0:20:58..and somehow I saw Mr Wilcox behind the whole miserable affair.
0:20:58 > 0:21:03Reading his Times, thinking his mercenary thoughts,
0:21:03 > 0:21:05reclining in his little kingdom
0:21:05 > 0:21:08with Charles and Evie and Paul his little toy soldiers,
0:21:08 > 0:21:09and not real people at all,
0:21:09 > 0:21:13and Mrs Wilcox his only master, and then...
0:21:13 > 0:21:14Ah, Miss Schlegel, I...
0:21:14 > 0:21:17If you could just let me...
0:21:18 > 0:21:20- I'm dreadfully sorry if I... - Oh, please...
0:21:20 > 0:21:24You see...I leave for Africa in a couple of months.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Nigeria, in fact, and...
0:21:26 > 0:21:30..I should like you to know that if I were free...
0:21:30 > 0:21:32..I should feel obliged to...well...
0:21:32 > 0:21:35- Please!- It's wrong to lead a girl,
0:21:35 > 0:21:38- and I was brought up to... - Please don't go on.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40It was nothing.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Paul? Anything wrong?
0:21:48 > 0:21:52And when I couldn't get to the station to send another telegram...
0:21:53 > 0:21:56It's been a disgusting business and to think that...
0:21:56 > 0:22:00And to think that because you and a young man meet for a moment
0:22:00 > 0:22:03there must be all these telegrams and anger.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06Do you think personal relations lead to sloppiness in the end?
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Oh, Meg, that's what I felt,
0:22:09 > 0:22:11only not so clearly, when the Wilcoxes were so...competent,
0:22:11 > 0:22:15and seemed to have their hands on all the ropes.
0:22:15 > 0:22:16You don't feel that way now?
0:22:17 > 0:22:20I remember Paul at breakfast.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22I shall never forget him.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25He had nothing to fall back upon.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Tibby, dear! Are you feeling any better?
0:22:30 > 0:22:31I suppose so.
0:22:31 > 0:22:32Hello, Helen.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34How are all your Wilcoxes, then?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Don't tease her, Tibby.
0:22:36 > 0:22:37I'm sorry.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39Cheer up, old pal.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Someone's bound to marry you one of these days.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43- No, thanks.- They are.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45What about me?
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Am I never to marry, Tibby?
0:22:46 > 0:22:47Oh, gosh, no.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49You could. You don't want anyone.
0:22:49 > 0:22:50Don't I?
0:22:50 > 0:22:53And soon no-one will want you.
0:22:53 > 0:22:54Yes, they will!
0:22:54 > 0:22:56THEY CHUCKLE But they shan't have her.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58- Shall they, Tibs? - I shouldn't think so.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30GENERAL CHATTER
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Who's that sitting next to Helen?
0:23:37 > 0:23:38I don't know.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56MUSIC: Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven
0:25:31 > 0:25:33SHE MURMURS APOLOGY
0:25:35 > 0:25:36I say...
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- Margaret, is Helen all right? - Oh, yes.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48She is always running away in the middle of a programme.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Excuse me...
0:25:52 > 0:25:55..that lady has...quite inadvertently taken my umbrella.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58Oh, goodness gracious me! I'm so sorry.
0:25:58 > 0:25:59Tibby, run after Helen.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01I shall miss the Four Serious Songs if I do.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03It isn't of any consequence.
0:26:03 > 0:26:04Of course it is!
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Tibby, you must go. Tibby!
0:26:10 > 0:26:11APPLAUSE
0:26:11 > 0:26:13Well, I can't go now.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18My sister is so careless.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Not at all.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22If you gave me your address...
0:26:22 > 0:26:23Not at all, not at all.
0:26:30 > 0:26:31That is where we live.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34If you preferred, you could call for your umbrella after the concert.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Though I don't like to trouble you, when it's been all our fault.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39- MAN:- # Denn es gehet... #
0:26:39 > 0:26:42Oh, dear, it's the Brahms.
0:26:42 > 0:26:47# ..dem Menschen wie Vieh
0:26:47 > 0:26:52# Wie dies stirbt... #
0:26:56 > 0:26:57Please, allow me.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00Oh, that really isn't necessary, thank you.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04May I carry your programme for you?
0:27:04 > 0:27:05I'm really quite able... Oh, thank you.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21It was a fine programme today, was it not?
0:27:21 > 0:27:24The Beethoven was fine. I don't like the Brahms, though.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28When my work permits, I attend the gallery for the Royal Opera.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Oh?
0:27:30 > 0:27:32This year I have been three times.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34To Faust, Tosca, and the Tannhauser.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Mm!
0:27:37 > 0:27:39But surely you haven't forgotten the sound of the drum
0:27:39 > 0:27:41steadily beating on the low C, Aunt Juley?
0:27:41 > 0:27:42No-one could.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44A specially loud part?
0:27:44 > 0:27:47No, no - between the scherzo and the finale.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Do you think music is so different to pictures?
0:27:49 > 0:27:51I...
0:27:51 > 0:27:53- ..should have thought so, sort of. - So should I.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Now, my sister declares they're just the same.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Do you agree, Mr Bast?
0:27:57 > 0:27:59Oh, thank you.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01We have great arguments over it. She says I'm dense.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03I say she's sloppy.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05Now doesn't that seem absurd to you?
0:28:05 > 0:28:07What's the point of the arts if they're interchangeable?
0:28:07 > 0:28:10At the moment, I think music is in a very serious state.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13- Yes...!- Of course the real villain is Wagner.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19Well... I do hope you'll stay for tea, Mr Bast.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21We should be so glad.
0:28:21 > 0:28:22We've dragged you so far out of your way.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25Tibby, do you have the latchkey? Of course I've forgotten mine.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27- Here.- Oh, never mind.
0:28:31 > 0:28:32Helen! Let us in!
0:28:34 > 0:28:35All right!
0:28:35 > 0:28:37It's all right, Annie.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Helen! You've been taking this gentleman's umbrella
0:28:41 > 0:28:42from the Prince Regent's Hall.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44He's had the trouble of coming all this way for it.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46- Taken a what? Oh!- His umbrella.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48Helen, you must not be so ramshackly.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50Oh, I'm so sorry! I do nothing but steal umbrellas.
0:28:50 > 0:28:51I'm so very sorry.
0:28:51 > 0:28:52Do come in and choose one.
0:28:52 > 0:28:56Annie, another place for tea, please.
0:28:56 > 0:28:59Is yours a hooky or a nobbly?
0:28:59 > 0:29:01Mine's a nobbly. At least I think it is.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04Tibby, do tell the maids to hurry tea up.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06What about this one...?
0:29:09 > 0:29:12No, it's all gone along the seams. It's an appalling umbrella.
0:29:12 > 0:29:14- It must be mine.- No. It's mine.
0:29:15 > 0:29:16Thank you.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18I'm sorry to have put you to the trouble.
0:29:18 > 0:29:19Oh, but...
0:29:19 > 0:29:21Goodbye.
0:29:21 > 0:29:22- But will you stop...? - Thank you. Goodbye.
0:29:24 > 0:29:25Now, Helen, how stupid you've been!
0:29:25 > 0:29:26What ever have I done?
0:29:26 > 0:29:28Well, don't you see, you've frightened him away?
0:29:28 > 0:29:29I meant him to stop for tea.
0:29:29 > 0:29:32You oughtn't to talk about stealing or holes in umbrellas.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36Well, no, it won't do a bit of good now!
0:29:38 > 0:29:39Oh, do stop!
0:29:56 > 0:29:58Well, I dare say it's for the best.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00We know nothing about the young man, Margaret.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03He might have stolen something.
0:30:03 > 0:30:05Oh, Aunt Juley! How can you?
0:30:05 > 0:30:07You make me more and more ashamed.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09We could have easily let him have the spoons.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11If you don't drink the tea now it will lose the aroma.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14Well, I didn't find the young man especially distinguished.
0:30:14 > 0:30:17You girls always have the most extraordinary people here.
0:30:17 > 0:30:19I just cannot account for it.
0:30:19 > 0:30:22I don't say he was distinguished. That's just it.
0:30:22 > 0:30:25He said the most ordinary things imaginable about Faust and Tosca,
0:30:25 > 0:30:29but he was so keen, and he had such nice, kind eyes.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31Have you got a cigarette, Meg?
0:30:33 > 0:30:35I suppose he was very good looking.
0:30:35 > 0:30:37If only his face were not so thin.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39Did you notice his right-hand cuff was frayed,
0:30:39 > 0:30:41and he kept tucking it in?
0:30:41 > 0:30:43I never notice the way anyone looks or dresses.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45That's because you are what is called "attractive".
0:30:45 > 0:30:48If you weren't, you shouldn't notice anything else.
0:30:48 > 0:30:49At all events,
0:30:49 > 0:30:51I do think we might have taken Mr Bast into the dining room.
0:30:51 > 0:30:53I am really distressed he had no tea.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55One more failure for Helen.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58Aunt Juley, did you really not hear the drum beating on the low C
0:30:58 > 0:31:01- all the time?- Oh, shut up, Tibby. - Oh, Tibby, don't go on, will you?
0:31:01 > 0:31:02But it is unmistakable.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08MUTED CHATTER
0:31:34 > 0:31:36Good evening, Mr Bast.
0:31:36 > 0:31:37Good evening, Mr Cunningham.
0:31:58 > 0:31:59Hello?
0:32:21 > 0:32:23DOOR OPENS
0:32:23 > 0:32:25- Hello, Jacky.- Hello, Len.
0:32:26 > 0:32:27SHE SIGHS
0:32:28 > 0:32:29You all right?
0:32:29 > 0:32:31Yes.
0:32:31 > 0:32:32Give us a kiss, darlin'.
0:32:37 > 0:32:38Did you hear the concert?
0:32:40 > 0:32:41I did, yes.
0:32:41 > 0:32:42What was it?
0:32:42 > 0:32:47Oh - a classical concert. At the Prince Regent's Hall.
0:32:47 > 0:32:50- What book is it?- It's just...
0:33:01 > 0:33:03I love you, Lenny.
0:33:06 > 0:33:07Jacky...
0:33:08 > 0:33:10You mustn't mind if I...
0:33:12 > 0:33:14Well, you mustn't mind me.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16I don't mind you, darlin'.
0:33:22 > 0:33:23BOOK FALLS
0:33:24 > 0:33:26Bookmark.
0:34:02 > 0:34:03Mr Wilcox!
0:34:05 > 0:34:07- Miss Schlegel!- But how extraordinary! How do you do?
0:34:07 > 0:34:08How do you do?
0:34:08 > 0:34:12I... Yes, very well, thank you - how does Mrs Wilcox do?
0:34:12 > 0:34:14Very well, very well. She's just upstairs.
0:34:14 > 0:34:15Upstairs?
0:34:15 > 0:34:18- But... Has... - We've taken a flat here.
0:34:18 > 0:34:19A flat? Have you really?
0:34:19 > 0:34:21Yes, we've just moved in! There's Evie, my daughter.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24Oh, Evie - I've been longing to meet her.
0:34:24 > 0:34:25Evie! Ah.
0:34:25 > 0:34:27Evie!
0:34:27 > 0:34:28Ah, well.
0:34:28 > 0:34:30- But, Mr Wilcox, you know we live just up the road?- Yes, I know.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32I know - how does your sister do?
0:34:32 > 0:34:34Helen? Oh, yes, very well.
0:34:34 > 0:34:35Please remember me to her.
0:34:35 > 0:34:37We must pop round once we've settled in.
0:34:37 > 0:34:39Evie will be so glad to make your acquaintance.
0:34:39 > 0:34:40Oh, yes - you must.
0:34:42 > 0:34:43Yes, well. This is jolly.
0:34:43 > 0:34:45Yes!
0:34:45 > 0:34:47Will you excuse me? My wife will be expecting me.
0:34:47 > 0:34:48There's so much to do.
0:34:48 > 0:34:50Yes, of course. Please give her my regards.
0:34:50 > 0:34:51- Indeed. Good morning.- Hm!
0:35:00 > 0:35:04But what a dreadful coincidence! Imagine the evenings.
0:35:04 > 0:35:05You turn on an electric light here or there,
0:35:05 > 0:35:08and it's almost the same room.
0:35:08 > 0:35:11One evening they may forget to draw their blinds down,
0:35:11 > 0:35:14and you'll see them, and they'll see you...
0:35:14 > 0:35:17Impossible to water the plants or even to speak!
0:35:17 > 0:35:18Does Helen know?
0:35:18 > 0:35:21They've only just moved in.
0:35:21 > 0:35:23But suppose Helen were to meet Paul on the street.
0:35:23 > 0:35:24She cannot very well not bow.
0:35:24 > 0:35:26Of course she must bow.
0:35:26 > 0:35:30We must bow, and pay calls and leave cards - but the other thing is dead.
0:35:30 > 0:35:32Helen doesn't mind, neither must we.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35Oh, if only I had not to go home to Swanage tomorrow,
0:35:35 > 0:35:37just when you girls are wanting me the most.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40What's dead, and what doesn't Helen mind?
0:35:40 > 0:35:43Oh, my poor, dear broken-hearted girl.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45Am I? What's the matter?
0:35:45 > 0:35:47It's the Wilcoxes again.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49They've taken a flat across the street.
0:35:49 > 0:35:51Have they? Well, that's...
0:35:53 > 0:35:54I...
0:35:57 > 0:35:58Oh, Helen!
0:35:58 > 0:36:00You don't mind them coming, do you?
0:36:00 > 0:36:02Of course she does!
0:36:02 > 0:36:03Of course you do!
0:36:03 > 0:36:04Of course I don't mind.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07Only you and Meg are being so grave about it
0:36:07 > 0:36:09when there's nothing to be grave about at all.
0:36:16 > 0:36:17Are you all right?
0:36:17 > 0:36:19I'm fine.
0:36:20 > 0:36:23JAUNTY MELODY PLAYS ON PIANO
0:36:28 > 0:36:29- Bye!- Bye!
0:36:29 > 0:36:31- Bye-bye!- Goodbye, Aunt Juley!- Bye!
0:36:51 > 0:36:54# Puff, puff, puff, puff
0:36:54 > 0:36:58# Watching the smoke arising
0:36:58 > 0:37:01# Puff, puff, puff, puff
0:37:01 > 0:37:05# Soon you'll be realising
0:37:05 > 0:37:08# That which the poet has written is true
0:37:08 > 0:37:11# All love is a practical joke
0:37:11 > 0:37:14- # For a woman is only... # - Mrs Wilcox has left this.
0:37:14 > 0:37:16# ..a woman my boy
0:37:16 > 0:37:20# But a good cigar is a smoke. #
0:37:20 > 0:37:21Oh, bother, the whole family!
0:37:23 > 0:37:25Why won't this woman leave us alone?
0:37:25 > 0:37:28Mrs Wilcox has called.
0:37:28 > 0:37:30Oh! Well, I am going to Germany with Frieda,
0:37:30 > 0:37:33so, even if I were still in love with Paul,
0:37:33 > 0:37:35I should be perfectly safe.
0:37:35 > 0:37:37Fortunately, I am not -
0:37:37 > 0:37:40but you may be sure I will bob up and down in the street
0:37:40 > 0:37:42- like a jack-in-the-box whenever I meet the devils...- Oh, Helen!
0:37:42 > 0:37:45..blushing all the while for acting the fool at Howards End...
0:37:45 > 0:37:46Helen, you know I don't think that.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48..managing as best I can all the same,
0:37:48 > 0:37:50until the occasion of my next colossal blunder.
0:37:52 > 0:37:53All right.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03- Auf Wiedersehen!- Auf Wiedersehen!
0:38:06 > 0:38:07"Dear Mrs Wilcox,
0:38:07 > 0:38:09"I have to write something discourteous.
0:38:09 > 0:38:12"It would be better if we did not meet.
0:38:12 > 0:38:13"As far as I know,
0:38:13 > 0:38:16"Helen no longer occupies her thoughts with your son.
0:38:16 > 0:38:19"Both my sister and my aunt have given displeasure to your family,
0:38:19 > 0:38:22"and it is therefore right that our acquaintance,
0:38:22 > 0:38:26"which began so pleasantly in Germany, should end.
0:38:26 > 0:38:29"Believe me, yours truly, Margaret Schlegel."
0:38:40 > 0:38:41"Dear Miss Schlegel,
0:38:41 > 0:38:44"you should not have written me such a letter.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46"I called to tell you that Paul has gone abroad.
0:38:46 > 0:38:47"Ruth Wilcox."
0:38:58 > 0:39:00TIBBY: I say, Meg?
0:39:00 > 0:39:01Will you turn the pages for me?
0:39:38 > 0:39:40Good morning, Miss Schlegel.
0:39:40 > 0:39:43Oh, Mrs Wilcox, I have made the baddest blunder.
0:39:43 > 0:39:46I am more, more, more ashamed and sorry than I can say.
0:39:46 > 0:39:49I knew Paul was going to India in November, but I forgot.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53He sailed on the 17th for Nigeria, in Africa.
0:39:53 > 0:39:54I knew - I know.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57I have been too absurd all through.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59I am more sorry than I can say, and I hope you can forgive me.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01It doesn't matter, Miss Schlegel.
0:40:01 > 0:40:03It is good of you to have come round so promptly.
0:40:03 > 0:40:04It does matter!
0:40:04 > 0:40:07I have been rude - and my sister is not even at home,
0:40:07 > 0:40:10so there's not even that as an excuse.
0:40:10 > 0:40:12- Indeed?- She's just gone away to Germany.
0:40:15 > 0:40:16She's gone, as well...
0:40:17 > 0:40:18I see.
0:40:18 > 0:40:21You've been worrying, too! I can see that you have.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25I did think it best that they didn't meet again.
0:40:25 > 0:40:27Now, why?
0:40:27 > 0:40:28That is a most difficult question.
0:40:31 > 0:40:32I think you put it best in your letter -
0:40:32 > 0:40:35it was just an instinct, which may be wrong.
0:40:36 > 0:40:39I am always so anxious to protect Helen
0:40:39 > 0:40:42when really it is we that should be protected from her.
0:40:42 > 0:40:45I don't mean that she's foolish, or thoughtless,
0:40:45 > 0:40:48but her mind goes along so quickly, and she rushes in everywhere.
0:40:48 > 0:40:50Rather as I am now.
0:40:50 > 0:40:54I've raised her, you see, and her brother,
0:40:54 > 0:40:56ever since our father died, when they were still quite young,
0:40:56 > 0:41:01and I was quite young myself, as I didn't wholly understand.
0:41:03 > 0:41:06Oh, I shouldn't have sent my aunt away on such a commission.
0:41:06 > 0:41:09I would have come myself, only Tibby was in bed with hay fever -
0:41:09 > 0:41:11but I do hope it's perfectly all right now.
0:41:13 > 0:41:15- Yes. - KNOCK AT DOOR
0:41:15 > 0:41:17- DOOR OPENS - Yes, I'm sure it is.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23I must be going - you'll be getting up.
0:41:23 > 0:41:24No, please stop a little longer.
0:41:26 > 0:41:28I am taking a day in bed.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30Now and then I do.
0:41:30 > 0:41:32I thought of you as one of the early risers.
0:41:32 > 0:41:33At Howards End, yes.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35There's nothing to get up for in London.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37Nothing to get up for?
0:41:37 > 0:41:41What with all the winter exhibitions and Ysaye playing in the afternoon?
0:41:41 > 0:41:42Not to mention people.
0:41:42 > 0:41:44The truth is, I'm a little tired.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47First came the wedding, and then Paul went off,
0:41:47 > 0:41:50and instead of resting yesterday I did a round of calls,
0:41:50 > 0:41:53and now my family have gone to Yorkshire for a fortnight -
0:41:53 > 0:41:55so you find me quite on my own.
0:41:55 > 0:41:56Wedding?
0:41:56 > 0:41:58Yes, Charles, my older son, is married.
0:41:58 > 0:42:00- Indeed!- Yes.
0:42:00 > 0:42:03There's a photograph of Charles and Dolly -
0:42:03 > 0:42:06that is the name of his wife - in the double frame.
0:42:06 > 0:42:07Oh!
0:42:15 > 0:42:16She's very pretty.
0:42:18 > 0:42:20Her father and Charles belong to the same club
0:42:20 > 0:42:22and are both devoted to golf.
0:42:22 > 0:42:26Dolly plays golf, too, though I believe not so well.
0:42:26 > 0:42:29They first met in a mixed foursome.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31Your family are so wonderfully athletic.
0:42:31 > 0:42:32Do you play golf, Mrs Wilcox?
0:42:32 > 0:42:34Good heavens, no.
0:42:34 > 0:42:36But it amuses them.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38And your husband is away?
0:42:38 > 0:42:39All my family are away.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43Are you quite sure I'm not interrupting?
0:42:43 > 0:42:45Yes.
0:42:45 > 0:42:46Quite.
0:42:49 > 0:42:52I do hope you'll like Wickham Place, Mrs Wilcox.
0:42:52 > 0:42:54I love our little house...
0:42:54 > 0:42:57..though it's not half so glamorous as your lovely flat.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59I should like to see it.
0:42:59 > 0:43:01I should love to show it you!
0:43:01 > 0:43:03It's a lovely old house.
0:43:03 > 0:43:05We've lived there all our lives.
0:43:05 > 0:43:07Our father came from Germany, you see,
0:43:07 > 0:43:09just after the unification, and...
0:43:14 > 0:43:16"My dear Mrs Wilcox.
0:43:16 > 0:43:18"I wonder if I might tempt you to come to a little luncheon party
0:43:18 > 0:43:21"I should like to give in your honour, next Thursday,
0:43:21 > 0:43:23"to welcome you to Wickham Place.
0:43:23 > 0:43:26"I should so like for you to meet my friends,
0:43:26 > 0:43:28"and they are very keen to make your acquaintance.
0:43:28 > 0:43:31"So, you see, I do hope you will join us.
0:43:31 > 0:43:34"Yours truly, Margaret Schlegel."
0:43:34 > 0:43:36- ALL CHATTER - ..C-sharp minor as it passes...
0:43:36 > 0:43:39The people at Stettin drop things into boats...
0:43:39 > 0:43:41..affectation to compare the Rhine to music.
0:43:41 > 0:43:45- ..more liberty of action... - ..out of overhanging warehouses.
0:43:45 > 0:43:46But - but I should like to say something!
0:43:46 > 0:43:49Now, don't say the Germans have no taste, or I shall scream.
0:43:49 > 0:43:53They haven't, but they take poetry seriously.
0:43:53 > 0:43:55The German is always on the lookout for beauty.
0:43:55 > 0:43:57My blood boils -
0:43:57 > 0:43:59well, I'm half German, so put it down to patriotism -
0:43:59 > 0:44:02when I listen to the tasteful contempt of the average islander
0:44:02 > 0:44:04for things Teutonic.
0:44:04 > 0:44:05What do you think, Mrs Wilcox?
0:44:06 > 0:44:08I'm not sure.
0:44:08 > 0:44:12I think perhaps I am too old to discuss anything,
0:44:12 > 0:44:15with or without humility.
0:44:15 > 0:44:17We never discuss anything at Howards End.
0:44:17 > 0:44:19THEY LAUGH
0:44:19 > 0:44:24And I sometimes think - but I cannot expect your generation to agree...
0:44:24 > 0:44:27- No, never mind us. Do say! - Please say!- Do say!
0:44:29 > 0:44:33I think Miss Schlegel puts everything splendidly...
0:44:33 > 0:44:35..but I sometimes think it is wiser
0:44:35 > 0:44:39to leave action and discussion to men.
0:44:45 > 0:44:47What an interesting life you live in London.
0:44:47 > 0:44:50No, we don't. We lead the lives of gibbering monkeys.
0:44:50 > 0:44:52Don't pretend you enjoyed your lunch,
0:44:52 > 0:44:54Mrs Wilcox, for you loathed it!
0:44:54 > 0:44:58But forgive me by coming again, alone, or by asking me to you.
0:44:58 > 0:44:59I am used to young people,
0:44:59 > 0:45:03and I enjoyed my lunch very much, Miss Schlegel, dear -
0:45:03 > 0:45:05I'm not pretending!
0:45:05 > 0:45:08I hear a great deal of chatter at home,
0:45:08 > 0:45:12only with my family it's more sport and politics.
0:45:12 > 0:45:15I only wish that I could have joined in more -
0:45:15 > 0:45:20but you younger people, you move so quickly that it dazes me.
0:45:20 > 0:45:22Oh, Mrs Wilcox, I like you so much!
0:45:25 > 0:45:27- Goodbye.- Goodbye.
0:45:29 > 0:45:31"Dear Miss Schlegel,
0:45:31 > 0:45:34"would you like to join me tomorrow for some Christmas shopping?
0:45:34 > 0:45:38"I have needed to take several days in bed and feel behindhand,
0:45:38 > 0:45:41"and am anxious to make up for lost time.
0:45:41 > 0:45:43"As ever, your friend, Ruth Wilcox."
0:45:44 > 0:45:47First of all, we must make a list and tick off people's names.
0:45:47 > 0:45:49Do you have any ideas?
0:45:49 > 0:45:50I am not a good shopper.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53Take my notebook, then,
0:45:53 > 0:45:56- and write your own name at the top.- Oh, hooray!
0:45:56 > 0:45:58How kind you are to start with me!
0:45:58 > 0:46:00But I don't want a Yuletide gift, Mrs Wilcox.
0:46:00 > 0:46:02I should like to give you something
0:46:02 > 0:46:04worth your acquaintance, Miss Schlegel.
0:46:04 > 0:46:07In memory of your kindness to me during my lonely fortnight,
0:46:07 > 0:46:08with all my family away.
0:46:08 > 0:46:11You have stopped me from brooding.
0:46:11 > 0:46:15I am too apt to brood when Mr Wilcox is away.
0:46:15 > 0:46:17I suppose it may be reckoned a fault.
0:46:17 > 0:46:19To be fond of one's husband? I shouldn't think so.
0:46:19 > 0:46:21To be too dependent.
0:46:21 > 0:46:23I'm desperately dependent on Helen -
0:46:23 > 0:46:26but if I have been of use to you, which I didn't know,
0:46:26 > 0:46:28you can't repay me with anything tangible.
0:46:28 > 0:46:30But one would like to.
0:46:30 > 0:46:34Perhaps I shall think of something as we go about.
0:46:34 > 0:46:37I suppose Mr Wilcox is quite independent, himself?
0:46:37 > 0:46:38Mr Wilcox?
0:46:38 > 0:46:41Well, he has such a strong character.
0:46:41 > 0:46:45A very fine nature, really. Has he not?
0:46:45 > 0:46:48You are so intellectual.
0:46:48 > 0:46:49Am I?
0:46:49 > 0:46:50Yes.
0:46:50 > 0:46:52I admire you for it.
0:46:56 > 0:46:58Well, usually we put the tree in the powder closet,
0:46:58 > 0:47:01and draw a curtain when the candles are lighted - it's quite pretty.
0:47:01 > 0:47:04I do wish we might have a powder closet in the next house.
0:47:04 > 0:47:06Of course, the tree will have to be small,
0:47:06 > 0:47:08and the presents don't hang on it.
0:47:08 > 0:47:10Then you are leaving Wickham Place?
0:47:10 > 0:47:14Yes. Quite soon, when the lease expires.
0:47:14 > 0:47:15We must.
0:47:17 > 0:47:20But couldn't you get the lease renewed?
0:47:20 > 0:47:24No, they mean to pull down Wickham Place and build flats like yours.
0:47:24 > 0:47:27I had no idea you had this hanging over you.
0:47:27 > 0:47:30Howards End was nearly pulled down once. It would have killed me.
0:47:30 > 0:47:32I lived there long before Mr Wilcox knew it.
0:47:32 > 0:47:33I was born there.
0:47:33 > 0:47:35It must be a very different sort of house to ours.
0:47:35 > 0:47:38We are fond of it, but there's nothing distinctive about it.
0:47:38 > 0:47:40We shall easily find another.
0:47:40 > 0:47:41So you think.
0:47:44 > 0:47:46Again, my lack of experience, I suppose!
0:47:47 > 0:47:50I wish I could see myself the way you see me.
0:47:50 > 0:47:53Wonderfully well read, but incapable of...
0:47:54 > 0:47:56SHE LAUGHS
0:47:57 > 0:48:01That's not at all how I see you, Miss Schlegel.
0:48:01 > 0:48:03Come down with me now to Howards End.
0:48:03 > 0:48:04I want you to see it.
0:48:04 > 0:48:06Oh, Mrs Wilcox...
0:48:06 > 0:48:08Later on, I would love it...
0:48:08 > 0:48:11..but it's hardly the weather for such an expedition.
0:48:11 > 0:48:13Might I come again some other day?
0:48:16 > 0:48:19We can find a carriage back to Wickham Place.
0:48:19 > 0:48:22A thousand thanks for all your help, Miss Schlegel.
0:48:22 > 0:48:23Well...
0:48:23 > 0:48:24Not at all.
0:48:27 > 0:48:29But if I married and moved to Scotland,
0:48:29 > 0:48:31would you call my son a Scot or an Englishman?
0:48:33 > 0:48:34I haven't the faintest idea.
0:48:34 > 0:48:37But it's the same question put a different way.
0:48:48 > 0:48:49Now, take a Jew...
0:48:49 > 0:48:51I shall go mad.
0:49:02 > 0:49:03Mrs Wilcox!
0:49:33 > 0:49:34Mrs Wilcox!
0:49:39 > 0:49:42Forgive me, I came, I'm so sorry!
0:49:42 > 0:49:44Thank you, Miss Schlegel!
0:49:44 > 0:49:45I will come if I still may.
0:49:45 > 0:49:48Yes - and you are coming to sleep, too, dear.
0:49:48 > 0:49:51- Oh, but I haven't got my things... - We have everything you need.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53You must see my house in the morning.
0:49:53 > 0:49:54These London fogs never stray far.
0:49:54 > 0:49:58I dare say they are sitting in the sun in Hertfordshire -
0:49:58 > 0:50:00and you will never repent joining them.
0:50:00 > 0:50:02I will never repent joining you.
0:50:02 > 0:50:04- Mother? Mother!- Evie!
0:50:04 > 0:50:06- Father, I say!- Evie, my pet! - Look who's here!
0:50:06 > 0:50:08Why aren't you in Yorkshire?
0:50:08 > 0:50:10- No - motor smash - the plans were changed.- Why, Ruth!
0:50:10 > 0:50:12What in the name of all that's wonderful are you doing here?
0:50:12 > 0:50:15Henry, dear! Here's a lovely surprise.
0:50:15 > 0:50:16You know Miss Schlegel.
0:50:16 > 0:50:19Oh, yes, of course, Miss Schlegel. How do you do?
0:50:19 > 0:50:20- How do you do, Mr Wilcox?- Yes!
0:50:20 > 0:50:24- Evie.- Miss Schlegel has been so kind to me in your absence, Henry.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26Has she? Well, I'm very much indebted to you, Miss Schlegel.
0:50:26 > 0:50:28- But how's yourself, Ruth? - Oh, I'm fine.
0:50:28 > 0:50:30So are we - so was our car, before Ripon.
0:50:30 > 0:50:33This wretched horse and cart with a foolish driver...
0:50:33 > 0:50:35Miss Schlegel, our little outing must be another day.
0:50:35 > 0:50:37As I was saying, this fool of a driver,
0:50:37 > 0:50:39as the policeman himself admits...
0:50:39 > 0:50:41Another day, Mrs Wilcox, of course.
0:50:41 > 0:50:43As we're insured against third-party risks,
0:50:43 > 0:50:44it won't matter so much...
0:51:12 > 0:51:16Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
0:51:16 > 0:51:18I am so dreadfully sorry.
0:51:18 > 0:51:21Miss Schlegel, you are very good to come.
0:51:23 > 0:51:24The post's come.
0:51:24 > 0:51:25Who is Miss Schlegel?
0:51:25 > 0:51:27I don't understand.
0:51:27 > 0:51:29Your mother cannot have been herself when it was written.
0:51:29 > 0:51:32- Bad news?- Oh, it's only a letter reminding us
0:51:32 > 0:51:34that the lease has expired and we need to clear out.
0:51:34 > 0:51:36You will make it all right, won't you?
0:51:36 > 0:51:37Haven't I said so, a dozen times?
0:51:37 > 0:51:39That is your card, is it not?
0:51:39 > 0:51:40Yes, an old one.
0:51:40 > 0:51:41Then will you please oblige me
0:51:41 > 0:51:43by explaining how my husband came to have it -
0:51:43 > 0:51:45and where he might be at this moment?
0:51:45 > 0:51:47I thought I recognised your voices.
0:51:47 > 0:51:49Oh, what an age it has been since I last saw you, Mr Wilcox.
0:51:49 > 0:51:51Am I never to marry, Tibby?
0:51:51 > 0:51:52Oh, gosh, no.
0:51:52 > 0:51:54You could. You don't want anyone.
0:51:54 > 0:51:55Don't I?
0:51:55 > 0:51:58It's from Evie Wilcox, inviting me to lunch at Simpson's tomorrow.
0:51:58 > 0:52:01Perhaps it is a ploy to drive you into the arms of her father.
0:52:01 > 0:52:03Miss Schlegel - come round my side.
0:52:04 > 0:52:06I like Mr Wilcox.
0:52:06 > 0:52:07He is in love with you.
0:52:07 > 0:52:09Oh, really! Why should he be in love with me?
0:52:09 > 0:52:10"Dear Miss Schlegel...
0:52:10 > 0:52:12"I have decided to give up the house in Ducie Street..."
0:52:12 > 0:52:14"..and to let it out on a yearly tenancy."
0:52:14 > 0:52:16He's a beast. He has no human feeling.
0:52:16 > 0:52:17He is not a beast.
0:52:17 > 0:52:19I thought him rather splendid.