0:00:02 > 0:00:04I have always thought the care of your sister and brother
0:00:04 > 0:00:06too great a burden to place upon a young woman of your tender years.
0:00:06 > 0:00:08Oh, I'm not saying you've done badly by Helen and Tibby, dear.
0:00:08 > 0:00:10- Just for yourself. - Aunt Juley!
0:00:10 > 0:00:13What sort of people are these Wilcoxes, Margaret?
0:00:13 > 0:00:15- I don't understand. - I don't know any more than you do.
0:00:15 > 0:00:19We met them in Germany. Then they invited us to visit them when we came home.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Then Tibby got hay fever and Helen went on alone.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23Paul and I are in love.
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Mother, are you aware that Paul has been playing the fool with that girl?
0:00:27 > 0:00:28They do not love any longer.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Do you think personal relations lead to sloppiness in the end?
0:00:31 > 0:00:33It's been a disgusting business.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35- Did you hear the concert? - I did, yes.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39That lady has quite inadvertently taken my umbrella.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41Oh, goodness gracious me, I'm so sorry!
0:00:41 > 0:00:43That is where we live.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45- Miss Schlegel! - It's the Wilcoxes again.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47They've taken a flat across the street.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49I should like to give you something worth your acquaintance.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52But I don't want a Yuletide gift, Mrs Wilcox.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55I suppose Mr Wilcox is quite independent himself.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59He has such a strong character. A very fine nature, really.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Come down with me now to Howards End. I want you to see it.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Some other day?
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Forgive me, I came, I'm so sorry!
0:01:07 > 0:01:09- Why, Ruth! - It is a lovely surprise!
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Miss Schlegel, our little outing must be another day.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07For as much as it hath pleased Almighty God in his great mercy
0:03:07 > 0:03:10to take unto himself the soul of our dear sister here departed.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15We therefore commit her body to the ground,
0:03:15 > 0:03:19earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust...
0:03:21 > 0:03:25..in the sure and certain hope of a resurrection unto eternal life,
0:03:25 > 0:03:27through our Lord, Jesus Christ...
0:03:29 > 0:03:32..who shall change the body
0:03:32 > 0:03:35that we be like unto his glorious body
0:03:35 > 0:03:38according to the mighty work,
0:03:38 > 0:03:42whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Mr Wilcox, I'm so dreadfully sorry.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11Miss Schlegel. You are very good to come.
0:04:14 > 0:04:15Very good.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25KNOCK AT DOOR
0:05:30 > 0:05:32The post's come, Father.
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Thanks. Put it down.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51- Was breakfast all right? - Yes, thanks.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Charles says do you want The Times?
0:05:56 > 0:05:58No, I'll read it later.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Ring if you want anything, Father, will you?
0:06:03 > 0:06:05I've all I want.
0:06:22 > 0:06:23Father's eaten nothing.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51I don't understand.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55That is only a covering letter from the matron of the nursing home.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57- Yes, I see that.- The other is from your mother, sealed inside...
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Yes, yes, I'm sorry, Father.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01I don't understand. Who is Miss Schlegel?
0:07:01 > 0:07:03- Miss Schlegel? - Yes.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07She came down to the funeral service. She visited your mother at the nursing home.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11- I know who she is.- She was a sort of friend of mother's.- Oh.- Yes. - But what does it say?
0:07:13 > 0:07:15"To my dear husband,
0:07:15 > 0:07:18I should like Miss Margaret Schlegel to have Howards End."
0:07:19 > 0:07:20What?
0:07:24 > 0:07:27No date, no signature.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30It has been forwarded from the matron of the nursing home.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32- Now, the question is... - But it can't be legal.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35Houses ought to be done by lawyers, Charles, surely.
0:07:35 > 0:07:36Give it to her, Charles.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Why, it's only in pencil! I said so. Pencil never counts.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43We know it is not legally binding, Dolly. Please, don't interfere.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46- The question is... - But she can't have meant to give Howards End to Miss Schlegel.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48I agree, it is very unlike her.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51You don't think Miss Schlegel...
0:07:51 > 0:07:52Whether she unduly...
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Oh, no. I don't think that.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57- Don't think what, Father? - That she would...
0:07:57 > 0:07:59That it is a case of undue influence.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02No, no, to my mind the question is...
0:08:04 > 0:08:06It's your mother's condition at the time that she wrote.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08The house meant so much to her.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11It isn't like her to leave it to an outsider, who'd never appreciate it.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14- The whole thing is very unlike her. - What about Miss Schlegel?
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Presumably she knows. Mother will have told her.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18She got twice or three times into the nursing home.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Presumably she is expecting developments.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23What a horrid woman. Why, she could be coming down to turn us out now!
0:08:23 > 0:08:25- I wish she would. I could then deal with her.- So could I.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29But she won't come.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31You're all a bit hard on Miss Schlegel.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Your mother admired her, and Miss Schlegel was very kind to her.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37She was kind to visit your mother, when she was ill.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39- That Paul business was pretty scandalous, though.- I want no more
0:08:39 > 0:08:41of the Paul business, Charles.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44- Upon my soul, she is honest. - But those chrysanthemums.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47- Or coming down to the funeral at all.- Why should she not come down?
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Certainly she should not have sent such flowers,
0:08:49 > 0:08:51but they may have seemed the right thing to her.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54And for all you know, they may be the custom in Germany.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Oh, I forget she's a German. That would explain a lot, I suppose.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58But she isn't a German. She is only half-German.
0:08:58 > 0:08:59But what about this letter?
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Surely she had no claim on Howards End? Even if mother...
0:09:02 > 0:09:04The letter is in pencil,
0:09:04 > 0:09:06and your mother cannot have been herself when it was written.
0:09:10 > 0:09:11There we are.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Charles, I'll take the newspaper, now, please, if you have finished reading it.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19- I jolly well wish she would come down here.- Charles! Will you give me that newspaper?
0:09:19 > 0:09:21- Here, Father.- Thank you, Evie.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Oh, you're back! You're back!
0:09:57 > 0:10:02ALL CHATTER
0:10:04 > 0:10:06ALL TALK AT ONCE
0:10:06 > 0:10:10We'll serve it in a moment. Nancy?
0:10:10 > 0:10:12TIBBY AND HELEN CHATTER
0:10:15 > 0:10:19Anyway, then, after that we went to...
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Helen,
0:10:31 > 0:10:34I told you about poor Mrs Wilcox, that sad business?
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Yes. I was sorry to hear it.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40I had a correspondence from her son, Charles. He was winding up the estate and he wrote to ask
0:10:40 > 0:10:42whether his mother had wanted me to have anything.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45- Did he?- I thought it very good of him, considering I knew her for so little.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48I said that she once spoke of giving me a Christmas present,
0:10:48 > 0:10:51but that we forgot about it afterwards.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53I hope Charles took the hint.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Yes. That is to say, her husband wrote on.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58He thanked me for being a little kind to her.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01He hoped that this wasn't the end of our acquaintance,
0:11:01 > 0:11:05but that you and I will go and stop with Evie some time in the future.
0:11:05 > 0:11:06I like Mr Wilcox.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11He is taking up his work. Rubber. It is a big business.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14Yes, it is the business of killing black Africans in the Congo.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16- Oh, Tibby. - Shut up, Tibby.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19Ask your pious, lecturing friends if it isn't.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Women don't understand economics.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23I am sure Mr Wilcox is not a murderer.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25How do you think they get the rubber out of the trees, hmm?
0:11:25 > 0:11:29They get great gangs of natives out of the villages, put them into camps
0:11:29 > 0:11:31and set them about pulling the rubber out of the trees,
0:11:31 > 0:11:34boiling it in great vats and then they shoot them if they try to run away.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37Didn't you tell me that he runs the Imperial Rubber Company
0:11:37 > 0:11:39of West Africa or some such company, Helen? That's not in the Congo.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42I really don't remember. Certainly he is murdering someone.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44It is not funny, you know.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46What I wanted to tell you, Helen,
0:11:46 > 0:11:50is that Mr Wilcox actually gave me his wife's silver vinaigrette.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Don't you think that is extraordinarily generous?
0:12:05 > 0:12:08- It makes me like him very much. - It's lovely.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11I suppose the silver doesn't come from an African silver mine.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13I'm sure somebody died mining it.
0:12:30 > 0:12:36LIVELY PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Helen, I was just across the street and I saw Charles Wilcox.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56You'll never guess what? They're moving out!
0:12:56 > 0:12:58What do you think about that?
0:13:25 > 0:13:26BELL RINGS
0:14:14 > 0:14:16What's the matter, Len? You've not been yourself lately.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22- You do love me, don't you? - Jacky, you know I do.
0:14:23 > 0:14:24But...
0:14:26 > 0:14:27Well? What is it?
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Well, just... You will make it all right, won't you, Len?
0:14:32 > 0:14:35- Between us, I mean. - I've said so, haven't I?
0:14:35 > 0:14:37- Don't be angry. - Haven't I said so a dozen times?
0:14:37 > 0:14:39Yes, you have, Len.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42It's just Cecile told the most dreadful story today about a girl she knows.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45- What's that got to do with me? - Nothing, darling. Don't be angry.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Only...
0:14:48 > 0:14:50Only it's not right we keep pretending.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53- You will make it all right, won't you, Len? - I can't have you ask me that again!
0:14:53 > 0:14:55- I'm sorry. - My word is my word.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57I will marry you as soon as ever I'm 21.
0:14:57 > 0:15:01- It's not long now. - I know, darling. - I can't keep on being worried!
0:15:02 > 0:15:05When a man gives his word... If my brother knew about us...
0:15:05 > 0:15:08- I know, Len. I'm sorry.- Haven't I worries enough? Look at that.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10- That's another cuff gone. - I'll mend it for you.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12That's six miles walking all this week to pay for a new pair!
0:15:12 > 0:15:15- I shall be for it tomorrow if anyone notices.- I'm sorry. I am.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18I can't breathe in here. It's too close.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27LIVELY TUNE
0:16:29 > 0:16:32- What the devil are you playing? - Isn't it lovely?
0:16:32 > 0:16:33No, it is not. You are giving me a headache.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36Both of you are giving me a headache. Do stop quarrelling.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39I've another one here called Who Threw The Overalls In Mrs Murphy's Chowder?
0:16:39 > 0:16:42- Meg!- Oh, do please stop quarrelling! - Sorry.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44MUSIC STOPS
0:16:44 > 0:16:46What's in that letter, Meg? Bad news?
0:16:46 > 0:16:49Oh, it's only a letter reminding us that the lease has expired
0:16:49 > 0:16:50and we have until May to clear out.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53I know it doesn't rate as one of life's great tragedies,
0:16:53 > 0:16:55we knew it was coming, but it's still a bit of a shock.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Good God. Where will we move?
0:16:57 > 0:17:00I expect we'll find some place, Meg. Don't be too downhearted.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02Yes, luckily we have some money, too.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05- What is it, Annie?- This lady, ma'am. She...- Good afternoon.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Have I the honour of speaking to Miss Margaret Schlegel?
0:17:08 > 0:17:09No. I'm Helen.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12VOICES CONTINUE OUTSIDE
0:17:12 > 0:17:14I don't know why I should be so upset.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18It's been such a happy house. Why does it have to be swept away?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20- TIBBY PLAYS PIANO - Meg!
0:17:21 > 0:17:23Helen? Whatever is the matter? It's all right, Annie.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26- How do you do? I'm Miss Schlegel. - Good afternoon, Miss Schlegel.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28If I have the honour of addressing Miss Margaret Schlegel...
0:17:28 > 0:17:30HELEN AND ANNIE TALK AT ONCE Yes, I'm Margaret.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32I have come in search of my husband, Mr Bast, who I have some reason
0:17:32 > 0:17:35to believe may be visiting the premises, if I may be so bold.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37- It's all right Annie. Thank you. - Annie, will you go?
0:17:37 > 0:17:40Yes, Miss. I'm terribly sorry, Miss.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42- Now, Mrs... I'm so sorry. - Bast, Miss.
0:17:42 > 0:17:46Mrs Leonard Bast, as I think Miss Schlegel has good reason to understand,
0:17:46 > 0:17:48- without her being told twice by me. - I'm afraid I don't, quite.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51I say, what is all the hullabaloo?
0:17:51 > 0:17:53- Can't a chap play the piano in peace and quiet?- Go away, Tibby.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Won't you tell us what this is about, Mrs Bast?
0:17:56 > 0:17:57I think perhaps, Miss Schlegel,
0:17:57 > 0:18:01that the explanation rests on the other side, if you please.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03But...I don't understand.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05That is your card, is it not?
0:18:05 > 0:18:06Yes, an old one, by the look of it.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Then will you please oblige me by explaining how my husband came to have it?
0:18:09 > 0:18:11And where he might be at this moment?
0:18:11 > 0:18:13And if he is here I should like a word with him, if you don't mind.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16- Here? Your husband? - We don't know who your husband is.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Truly we don't. We've never met a Mr Bast.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Yes, you have.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22The chap with the umbrella at the Prince Regent's Hall.
0:18:22 > 0:18:27- What?- Helen stole his brolly, Meg brought him home, and Aunt Juley was afraid he'd take the silver.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- Don't be an idiot.- Take the silver? - No, you must forgive my brother.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32- My Len take your silver?- You must remember?- No-one has taken anything,
0:18:32 > 0:18:33and no-one is accused of taking anything.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36- But this gentleman just said... - Please, won't you come in and have some tea?
0:18:36 > 0:18:38I only said our Aunt was afraid he'd take the silver.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40We never thought so. I wasn't so jolly sure, but...
0:18:40 > 0:18:42My Len would never steal so much as a lump of coal.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45- He didn't have time, he was only here ten minutes.- Tibby be quiet!
0:18:45 > 0:18:46Won't you come in?
0:18:46 > 0:18:49No, no, no, thank you, Miss Schlegel. I just... I want my Len.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51And I can see now I was wrong.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Please, what's become of him?
0:18:53 > 0:18:56- Tibby! Do go away at once! - Stop crying, Mrs Bast. And tell us what it is you want?
0:18:56 > 0:18:58I just want my husband. And I thought he might be here.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01- But why would you imagine that? - Because he'd got your card, Meg.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03But if he's missing, oughtn't we to call the police?
0:19:03 > 0:19:06No, no. Thank you, Miss. I'm so sorry.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08- Please - let me go. - All right. If you had rather not.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10- May I have the card, please? - Surely. But why...?
0:19:10 > 0:19:13Len'll be furious if he knows I've come here.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15Goodness. He won't strike you?
0:19:16 > 0:19:19My Len? Put his hands on me?
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Oh, Miss, please!
0:19:21 > 0:19:23I do so beg your pardon!
0:19:28 > 0:19:30- How extraordinary! - Poor girl.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37It's all right now, Annie. No-one's to blame.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41- Yes, Miss. Thank you, Miss. - Oh, Helen.
0:19:41 > 0:19:46So often I feel we live chattering away at the edge of a great abyss.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48I don't want to close my eyes to it,
0:19:48 > 0:19:50or comfortably pretend it isn't there,
0:19:50 > 0:19:52but I don't want to live in it.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55Is that very wicked and selfish of me?
0:19:55 > 0:19:58It's better than your friends the Wilcoxes, who batter their way
0:19:58 > 0:20:00through the abyss, pulling heaps of money from it.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03- Not the Wilcoxes. - That's wrong and unfair.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06At least they live in the world and not on it, or...or above it.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08- What? - Don't make fun, Tibby.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Oh, I'm tired of the whole subject. TIBBY PLAYS PIANO
0:20:10 > 0:20:14I despise proofs. I despise cant. I loathe taking positions.
0:20:14 > 0:20:15I can only react to feelings.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18They are the only guide that matters.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Yes, I think so, too. The personal is what's important.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Your precious Ws don't think so.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Even the Ws will come face to face with the personal some day.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Dearest Meg, there we differ.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33I have seen, rather up close, I'm afraid,
0:20:33 > 0:20:35what they are like in a crisis.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39A rather small and tawdry one, I grant you - mine.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41I'm afraid that, for them, the personal was
0:20:41 > 0:20:43a whirlwind which they refused to see,
0:20:43 > 0:20:47and which knocked them about the room while they tried to
0:20:47 > 0:20:50sort out the best policy using practical business methods,
0:20:50 > 0:20:53which don't include whirlwinds in the balance sheet.
0:20:53 > 0:20:58But they were quite undone, because the main force in the room was invisible to them.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02But you said the best thing about them was how they treated Mrs Wilcox, didn't you?
0:21:04 > 0:21:07- Yes.- That shows something fine in them, doesn't it?
0:21:09 > 0:21:12- PIANO STOPS - Yes. - This passage is deuced difficult.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16Can you imagine, really imagine, writing it when he was deaf,
0:21:16 > 0:21:18let alone playing it?
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Tibby, when do you go back to Oxford?
0:21:20 > 0:21:22I've just come back. I might not go back at all.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24- BOTH AT ONCE: You have to, Tibby. - Oh, you must go, Tibby!
0:21:24 > 0:21:25You can't live on your inheritance, you know.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Yours and Meg's supports the two of you. Why shouldn't mine?
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Because you're a man, Tibby. Yes, you are. You must work.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33It is a universal impulse.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36I thought you were opposed to cant and principles and positions,
0:21:36 > 0:21:38and cared only for feelings and personal relations.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41I don't know what I think any more at this moment, except that I wish
0:21:41 > 0:21:44the two of you would stop using the piano as a form of self-expression.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46- It's very wearing.- Dear Meg. - It's only Beethoven.
0:21:46 > 0:21:47I'm sorry.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52That woman upset me. She really did.
0:21:52 > 0:21:53And the letter.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58Where shall we live? I don't want to move.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00I've lived here all my life, and now it's to be swept away
0:22:00 > 0:22:03and turned into another block of flats like Wickham Mansions.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06I don't see why they should have the right to do that to every family on the street,
0:22:06 > 0:22:08even if they do own the freehold of Wickham. It's not just.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10I know we shall find somewhere to live, but..
0:22:10 > 0:22:13- That's how your Mr W would handle it.- Leave Meg alone.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17Oh, yes. Well, that's right. When it's my chance to score, I'm told to be quiet.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19- When you're having a go at me... - Please don't make me quarrel!
0:22:19 > 0:22:23I want to go to my room, my head is bursting. I'm sorry.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31TIBBY PLAYS PIANO
0:22:47 > 0:22:50BELL RINGS
0:22:50 > 0:22:53MUTED CHATTER
0:23:11 > 0:23:14- Is that Mr Bast? - It looks like him.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29- Do you suppose it's he?- Yes, it must be.- Annie, we'll be three for tea.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32- Yes, miss. Will you have it in the drawing room?- Yes, the drawing room, Annie, thank you.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Now, Helen, don't let's act like fluttering idiots.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38- Oh, yes, I agree.- He's bound to be very much ashamed of himself and I want to make him feel at home.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40I think he'll be very grateful to find we didn't mind Mrs Bast
0:23:40 > 0:23:42and have nearly forgotten the entire incident.
0:23:42 > 0:23:43- Helen, I'm being serious! - So am I serious.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46I won't have him treated like a social experiment! Do open the door.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48He hasn't rung the bell. If we open the door before he rings
0:23:48 > 0:23:52- he will certainly feel like a social experiment.- Please be quiet!
0:23:52 > 0:23:53KNOCK AT DOOR
0:23:53 > 0:23:56- Yes?- Good afternoon. - Good afternoon.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01No doubt you can remember the last occasion on which we met.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03- Well, not exactly. - We remember some of it.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06My brother said that we stole your umbrella from the Prince Regent's.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Yes. They were playing Beethoven's Fifth that day.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10We always go to the Fifth when they play it.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13- I do remember stealing your umbrella.- Quite inadvertently.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18I suppose you can guess the reason for my visit today.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20- Has it gone missing again? - Helen!
0:24:20 > 0:24:22No, no, it hasn't. That's all right, Miss Schlegel.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25I'm so sorry. What an idiotic joke. Would you like to come inside?
0:24:25 > 0:24:26Thank you. I should like to explain.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28We are just about to sit down to some tea.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31- I do hope you will join us. - I don't like to impose.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33- Oh, do, please! - Yes, please don't refuse us!
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Thanks. I should be very happy to.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38- Won't you come this way? - Thank you.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40After you.
0:24:40 > 0:24:41Thank you.
0:24:48 > 0:24:49I still don't understand.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57I went walking. That's all.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00I walked all night, you see...
0:25:00 > 0:25:02- Did you?!- Did you?
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Yes.
0:25:04 > 0:25:08While I was gone, however, Mrs Bast needed me on important business,
0:25:08 > 0:25:10and thought I had come here, owing to the card
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Why should she think that?
0:25:12 > 0:25:16Well, a card, belonging to a lady whose name she didn't know...
0:25:16 > 0:25:20Why did you never tell her about your adventure, the time I took your umbrella?
0:25:20 > 0:25:23- I didn't like to. - Why not?
0:25:23 > 0:25:26I suppose it was a secret I wanted to keep for myself.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30I don't blame her.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32But she should not have come here. If I had imagined...
0:25:32 > 0:25:34It doesn't matter about that.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36And all this time you were only walking?
0:25:36 > 0:25:39- Yes. - But how marvellous!
0:25:40 > 0:25:43- Was it?- Of course it was!
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Where did you start from? Tell us more.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47I...
0:25:49 > 0:25:53Well, I took the Underground to Wimbledon and I had a bite to eat.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55But not good country there, is it?
0:25:55 > 0:25:58It was gas lamps for hours.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02I did get into the woods presently, and...
0:26:02 > 0:26:04being out was the great thing.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Were you walking alone, may I ask?
0:26:06 > 0:26:09Yes. I don't know where, nor for how long.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12It got too dark to see my watch.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16I rather fancy it was those North Downs.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17Then I found a road to a station,
0:26:17 > 0:26:21and I got the first train I could back to London.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23Was the dawn wonderful?
0:26:23 > 0:26:27No. No, the dawn was only grey. Nothing to mention.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Yes. Just a grey evening turned upside down. I know.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Yes. Yes. And...
0:26:33 > 0:26:36I was too tired to lift my head to look at it.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Looking back, it wasn't what you'd call enjoyment.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42It was more a case of sticking to it.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Oh, hang it!
0:26:45 > 0:26:47What's the good in living in a room forever?
0:26:47 > 0:26:51There one goes, one day after day, same old game,
0:26:51 > 0:26:55same up and down to town, until you forget there is any other game.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59You ought to see once, in a way, what's going on outside.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02- I should just think you ought. - Yes.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Have you ever read Richard Jeffries?
0:27:08 > 0:27:09Yes.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Or George Borrow, Stonehenge?
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Yes, of course we have. But...
0:27:16 > 0:27:17Well...
0:27:24 > 0:27:27I've... I'm afraid I've imposed too far on your kindness.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Thank you for the tea.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31I must be going.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34- But why must you go? - You will come another time, I hope.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27MOTOR CAR PASSES
0:28:44 > 0:28:46SHIP'S HORN SOUNDS
0:29:27 > 0:29:29I say, Helen.
0:29:29 > 0:29:30Well?
0:29:30 > 0:29:33Do you think we'll really follow up Mr Bast?
0:29:35 > 0:29:38- I don't know. - Do you think we might try to?
0:29:38 > 0:29:40How do you do?
0:29:40 > 0:29:43I thought I recognised your voices. Whatever are you both doing here?
0:29:43 > 0:29:46What an age it has been since I last saw you, Mr Wilcox.
0:29:46 > 0:29:48We're just admiring the sunlight on the water.
0:29:51 > 0:29:55- Now, tell me all your news. - Oh, we've had a splendid afternoon.
0:29:55 > 0:29:58We belong to a club that reads papers. There's a discussion after.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00Today it was on how one ought to leave one's money.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03whether to a friend, or to the poor, and, if so, how. Most interesting.
0:30:03 > 0:30:05Sounds a most original entertainment.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07I wish my Evie would go in for that sort of thing.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09She's taken to breeding Aberdeen Terriers.
0:30:09 > 0:30:12We pretend we're improving ourselves, you see.
0:30:12 > 0:30:13Doubtless you find it wasteful.
0:30:13 > 0:30:16Not at all, no. Nothing like a debate to teach you to be quick.
0:30:16 > 0:30:19- Doesn't matter much on what subject. - Does it not?
0:30:19 > 0:30:20Oh, no, we won't argue.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22I'll just put our special case to Mr Wilcox.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24He knows about the poor and what's to be done with them.
0:30:24 > 0:30:26- I don't know about that. - Helen only means...
0:30:26 > 0:30:30We've just come across a young fellow who's evidently very poor indeed,
0:30:30 > 0:30:34although he aspires to higher things, however awkwardly, and he got mixed up in our debate.
0:30:34 > 0:30:37- Yes? What's his profession? - Clerk.- Clerk.
0:30:37 > 0:30:40- What in?- What in? - Oh. Do you remember, Helen?
0:30:40 > 0:30:41The Porphyrion Fire Insurance Company.
0:30:41 > 0:30:43- Porphyrion?- That's it. - Oh, well, in that case...
0:30:43 > 0:30:45Now, how should such a man be helped?
0:30:45 > 0:30:49Should he be given £300 a year direct, which was Margaret's plan?
0:30:49 > 0:30:51Should he and those like him be given free libraries?
0:30:51 > 0:30:55My suggestion was that he be given something every year towards a summer holiday.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58- But then there's his wife... - My dear Miss Schlegel, I will not rush in
0:30:58 > 0:31:00where your sex has been unable to tread
0:31:00 > 0:31:01Oh, why ever not?
0:31:01 > 0:31:03Helen, Mr Wilcox will think you rude.
0:31:05 > 0:31:06- Will he? I'm sorry.- Not at all.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09However, I'm afraid that my only contribution would be
0:31:09 > 0:31:13to let your young friend clear out of the Porphyrion Fire Insurance Company with all possible speed.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15Why?
0:31:15 > 0:31:18I oughtn't to have spoken, but I happen to know, being more or less
0:31:18 > 0:31:22behind the scenes, that it'll be in the Receiver's hands before Easter.
0:31:22 > 0:31:25The Porphyrion's a bad, bad, concern. Don't say I said so.
0:31:25 > 0:31:28- It's outside the Tariff Ring. - Well, certainly we won't say.
0:31:28 > 0:31:30We don't know what it means.
0:31:30 > 0:31:32The Tariff Ring is an association of insurance companies.
0:31:32 > 0:31:36I thought an insurance company never smashed. Don't the others always run in and save them?
0:31:36 > 0:31:37You're thinking of reinsurance.
0:31:37 > 0:31:40It's exactly there that the Porphyrion is weak, I'm afraid.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43- We must warn Mr Bast.- Yes. Thank you ever so much, Mr Wilcox.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46And you are still in Wickham Place?
0:31:46 > 0:31:49No... Yes. We've got to move out by May.
0:31:49 > 0:31:50Oh, I'm sorry.
0:31:50 > 0:31:53We've just taken a place in Ducie Street, near to Sloane Street.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55And a place down in Shropshire, Oniton Grange.
0:31:55 > 0:31:58Have you heard of Oniton? Do come and visit us.
0:31:58 > 0:32:00Right away from everywhere, it's up toward Wales.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03Oh, we shall. And Howards End?
0:32:03 > 0:32:05- Oh, it's let. - Oh, what change!
0:32:05 > 0:32:09I can't imagine Howards End or Helton existing without you.
0:32:09 > 0:32:12I should have kept such a remarkable place in the family.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15Oh, it is. It is, I haven't sold it, I don't mean to.
0:32:15 > 0:32:16No, but none of you are there.
0:32:16 > 0:32:20And we have a splendid tenant now, a Mr Bryce, an invalid.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22Charles and his wife live very near the old place.
0:32:22 > 0:32:25- I forget whether you've been up there.- The house, never.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28No. Well...
0:32:30 > 0:32:33Well, do remind Evie to come and see us. 2 Wickham Place.
0:32:33 > 0:32:36- We shan't be there much longer, either.- Everyone moving!
0:32:37 > 0:32:38Goodbye.
0:32:40 > 0:32:41- Goodbye.- Goodbye.
0:33:01 > 0:33:02"Dear Mr Bast, would you do us
0:33:02 > 0:33:06"the kindness of stopping at Wickham Place tomorrow at tea-time?
0:33:06 > 0:33:10"We should be so glad to see you. Your friend, Helen Schlegel."
0:33:25 > 0:33:27How do you like your work?
0:33:27 > 0:33:28My work?
0:33:28 > 0:33:32- Yes.- Oh, well enough.
0:33:32 > 0:33:35Your company is the Porphyrion, isn't it?
0:33:35 > 0:33:36Yes, that's so.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44We were told the Porphyrion's no-go. We wanted to tell you.
0:33:44 > 0:33:46That's why we wrote.
0:33:46 > 0:33:47I see.
0:33:49 > 0:33:53A friend of ours did say he thinks it is insufficiently reinsured.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56And he advised us to tell you to clear out by Easter.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59He did not advise us. He said it was bound to smash by Easter.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01He did not advise us to say so.
0:34:01 > 0:34:03You can tell your friend he's quite wrong.
0:34:03 > 0:34:07Oh, good! Our friend, who is also a businessman, was so positive.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09And he advised you to clear out of it.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11He's made quite a lot of money.
0:34:11 > 0:34:14I'm not one of those who mind their affairs being spoken of by others.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17- Oh, I am glad!- Men are so tactful. Women have no tact.
0:34:17 > 0:34:21- Our friend is quite rich, you see, and seems to have a hand in all manners of concerns.- Quite so.
0:34:21 > 0:34:23But I don't see why he should know better than you do.
0:34:23 > 0:34:27One can but see. As Ibsen says, "Things happen..."
0:34:27 > 0:34:29Mr Wilcox and Miss Wilcox.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34- Hello!- Oh, the dears!
0:34:34 > 0:34:36We brought the little fellows round.
0:34:36 > 0:34:39I bred them myself. This is Ahab, and that's Jezebel.
0:34:39 > 0:34:41Oh, really! Mr Bast, come play with the puppies.
0:34:41 > 0:34:43- Mr Wilcox, Mr Bast. - I must be going now.
0:34:43 > 0:34:45- Must you really? - Come again.
0:34:45 > 0:34:48No. No, I shan't.
0:34:48 > 0:34:50- But... - I call that a very rude remark.
0:34:50 > 0:34:53Are we intruding, Miss Schlegel? Or can we be of any use?
0:34:53 > 0:34:54It's all right, Mr Wilcox.
0:34:54 > 0:34:56I... Good day.
0:34:58 > 0:35:00Helen, go after him.
0:35:00 > 0:35:01Ought she to?
0:35:01 > 0:35:03Can I help you now?
0:35:03 > 0:35:05No, it's all right. Thank you. I'm very sorry.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08He's a nice creature, really. I cannot think what set him off.
0:35:13 > 0:35:14SHE LAUGHS
0:35:19 > 0:35:20Where are you going?
0:35:21 > 0:35:23What do you want to turn on me like that for?
0:35:23 > 0:35:24- You ask me why I turn on you?- Yes!
0:35:24 > 0:35:26What do you want to have me in there for?
0:35:26 > 0:35:28To help you, you silly boy. And don't shout.
0:35:28 > 0:35:32Why should you help me? Why should I not help you?
0:35:32 > 0:35:33Because... Well...
0:35:33 > 0:35:36I don't want your patronage. I don't want your tea.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39I was quite happy. What do you want to unsettle me for?
0:35:39 > 0:35:41But why should you say so? What are you looking for?
0:35:41 > 0:35:43- My hat!- Annie!
0:35:43 > 0:35:45Will you please bring Mr Bast his hat?
0:35:45 > 0:35:46Yes, Miss.
0:35:52 > 0:35:54When you asked me to tea, I...
0:35:54 > 0:35:55Yes?
0:35:58 > 0:36:00Of course, if there's been a misunderstanding...
0:36:00 > 0:36:03We did not have you here out of charity. But because
0:36:03 > 0:36:07we hoped there would be a connection between last Sunday and other days.
0:36:07 > 0:36:08- We thought...- It's no good.- But...
0:36:08 > 0:36:10You don't want to discuss books with me, or music,
0:36:10 > 0:36:13- or any of the things that I like... - Mr Bast...
0:36:13 > 0:36:16And I can't discuss them in your easy way.
0:36:16 > 0:36:18I don't know how.
0:36:18 > 0:36:21But I suppose they mean ever as much to me as they do to you.
0:36:23 > 0:36:24We don't discuss them in an easy way.
0:36:24 > 0:36:27You do! You think I am a... comic character.
0:36:27 > 0:36:29- I do not. - Here you are, sir.
0:36:31 > 0:36:33That's not mine.
0:36:33 > 0:36:35Annie, you have brought the gentleman Mr Wilcox's hat.
0:36:35 > 0:36:38I'm sorry, Miss. I won't be a moment.
0:36:38 > 0:36:40- We don't think you're a comic character.- But you do.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43You think I'm superficial if I want to talk about books.
0:36:43 > 0:36:48If I tell you about Carlyle. Or...or, erm...
0:36:48 > 0:36:51- Ruskin?- Ruskin, yes. Or Dostoevsky.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54- Oh. Yes. - You don't care for Dostoevsky.
0:36:54 > 0:36:55Well, I don't, no. But...
0:36:55 > 0:36:57Dostoevsky? I mean, does any body like him?
0:36:57 > 0:37:00- Tibby, please.- All that eternal fainting and screaming.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03You can't cut a single page without someone collapsing on the floor.
0:37:03 > 0:37:05- Tibby, go away. - Might I have my hat, do you suppose?
0:37:05 > 0:37:07Yes, yes, I can't think where's she's got to...
0:37:07 > 0:37:11Would you be so good as to introduce me to this gentleman, Helen?
0:37:11 > 0:37:13I will not. Go away, Tibby.
0:37:13 > 0:37:15- We have met before. - Have we?
0:37:15 > 0:37:17I can't remember.
0:37:17 > 0:37:19You're one of Meg and Helen's social experiments?
0:37:19 > 0:37:21- Tibby! - I'm sure I don't know.
0:37:21 > 0:37:24I say! Are you that poor devil of a clerk they have debates over,
0:37:24 > 0:37:27- at the Chelsea Women's Political Club?- He is not.
0:37:29 > 0:37:30I'm sure I couldn't say.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34I'm sure I should be honoured if I were.
0:37:34 > 0:37:35Oh, that's all right, then.
0:37:35 > 0:37:38Where do you chaps stand on the suffrage question?
0:37:38 > 0:37:42- We don't get much of the working man's view in our circle.- Nancy! - I have no fixed opinion.
0:37:42 > 0:37:44- Yes, Miss?- No fixed opinion? - Can you find Annie, please?
0:37:44 > 0:37:47- She has disappeared with the gentleman's hat.- Yes, Miss.
0:37:47 > 0:37:49If you lived with Meg and Helen you'd have a fixed opinion, and no mistake!
0:37:49 > 0:37:52A lot of footle, if you ask me. I say the world's gone off its onion.
0:37:52 > 0:37:55- Tibby, if you don't go this instant, I shall scream.- All right, then.
0:37:58 > 0:37:59Mr Bast, I...
0:37:59 > 0:38:02Thank you for your advice about the Porphyrion.
0:38:02 > 0:38:04I am not a businessman, like your friend.
0:38:04 > 0:38:08- He is not our friend.- I am only a clerk. But even a clerk...
0:38:12 > 0:38:15- No, it's useless. - But we're not... We only...
0:38:15 > 0:38:18- Your hat, sir.- Thank you.- Annie! Whatever has been keeping you?
0:38:18 > 0:38:21I'm sorry, Miss. I'd got them muddled and...
0:38:22 > 0:38:23Oh, it's all right.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45Miss Schlegel...
0:38:46 > 0:38:48All I can do is go.
0:38:51 > 0:38:53Thank you for trying to help me.
0:38:55 > 0:38:56Goodbye.
0:39:08 > 0:39:09But who was he?
0:39:09 > 0:39:12He was the young man we were to warn against the Porphyrion.
0:39:12 > 0:39:14We warn him and look!
0:39:15 > 0:39:17Miss Schlegel, may I speak to you as a friend?
0:39:17 > 0:39:22- Yes, of course.- In that case, well, oughtn't you to be more careful?
0:39:22 > 0:39:24- Careful?- You're too kind.
0:39:24 > 0:39:25Yes, indeed.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28You behave much too well to people, and then they impose on you.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30When I came in and saw that young man
0:39:30 > 0:39:32I could tell straight away that you weren't treating him properly.
0:39:32 > 0:39:35I know the type. You have to keep them at a distance
0:39:35 > 0:39:37or they take advantage. It's sad, but true.
0:39:37 > 0:39:40Let me explain why we like this young man, and why we want to see him again.
0:39:40 > 0:39:43Oh, you shall never make me believe that you really like him!
0:39:43 > 0:39:44We do. We do.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47I'm afraid that you and your sister...
0:39:47 > 0:39:50We want to show him how he may get upsides with life.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52Something to relieve life's daily grey.
0:39:52 > 0:39:56Ah, well, that that is where you make your mistake, Miss Schlegel. And it is a great mistake.
0:39:56 > 0:39:58- Yes, indeed.- Evie. - Where? I mean, why?
0:39:58 > 0:40:00This young man has his own life.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03What right have you to conclude it is an unsuccessful one?
0:40:03 > 0:40:06- Or, as you call it, "grey"? - Because...
0:40:06 > 0:40:08- One minute.- Well... - One minute! You know nothing of him.
0:40:08 > 0:40:11He probably has his own joys and interests.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13A wife, children, snug little home.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16I look at the faces of the clerks in my own office.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18I don't know what's going on beneath, I don't presume to.
0:40:18 > 0:40:22- So, by the way, with London.- Yes? - What do you know about London?
0:40:22 > 0:40:26Yesterday you were pleased to admire the sunlight on the Thames at high tide.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29Well, the tide is higher and the sunlight more pleasant because
0:40:29 > 0:40:32my fellow capitalists and I have shares in the lock at Teddington
0:40:32 > 0:40:35and now we've shortened the tidal trough under London Bridge.
0:40:35 > 0:40:39Result - higher tides for shipping, more sunlight on the water.
0:40:39 > 0:40:41Yes, I see.
0:40:41 > 0:40:44You do have a nice way of taking the poetry out of everything, Mr Wilcox.
0:40:44 > 0:40:45Why should you say so?
0:40:45 > 0:40:47If your poetry means what you say it does,
0:40:47 > 0:40:50why should it not be proof against a piece of civil engineering
0:40:50 > 0:40:53which means millions of pounds a year in reduced shipping costs
0:40:53 > 0:40:55for every sort of business under the sun?
0:40:55 > 0:40:57Your mistake, Miss Schlegel,
0:40:57 > 0:40:59is only to see civilisation from the outside.
0:41:01 > 0:41:03All I can say is that we like this young man
0:41:03 > 0:41:05and we see something fine in him.
0:41:06 > 0:41:09Miss Schlegel, you're a pair of charitable creatures,
0:41:09 > 0:41:12but you really ought to be more careful in this uncharitable world.
0:41:14 > 0:41:17What about your brother? What does he say?
0:41:17 > 0:41:19As the man of the house, oughtn't he to take an interest?
0:41:19 > 0:41:21Excuse me. I must see what Helen is doing.
0:41:25 > 0:41:27Well! What about this?
0:41:31 > 0:41:33Helen?
0:41:33 > 0:41:35Why, you're all alone!
0:41:35 > 0:41:37Yes, he's been gone some time.
0:41:37 > 0:41:38But what happened?
0:41:40 > 0:41:43It's all right. Such a muddle of a man.
0:41:43 > 0:41:45I like him so much.
0:41:45 > 0:41:48Well, come back to the Wilcoxes and tell me later.
0:41:48 > 0:41:51Mr W is much concerned, and slightly titillated.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53Oh, I have no patience with him. I hate him.
0:41:53 > 0:41:57You hate him? I thought him rather splendid.
0:41:57 > 0:41:59Only because you dissect him.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02Why should you say so? Don't you dissect Mr Bast?
0:42:02 > 0:42:06- I don't.- You do. We both do. We're always dissecting people.
0:42:06 > 0:42:09It does sound rather disgusting when you say it like that.
0:42:10 > 0:42:14Come play with puppies. And don't discuss Mr Bast with the Wilcoxes.
0:42:14 > 0:42:16They don't understand him.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06MARGARET SIGHS
0:43:06 > 0:43:10- Hello! Where have you been? - BOTH: Looking at houses.
0:43:10 > 0:43:12I do wish you'd find something.
0:43:17 > 0:43:21I can't bear to look at any more. I don't know what I'm looking for.
0:43:21 > 0:43:24What are we going to do with all this furniture?
0:43:24 > 0:43:26And father's books? We are simply running out of time.
0:43:26 > 0:43:31We are to go nowhere and be at home for no-one until we've found a house.
0:43:32 > 0:43:34DOORBELL CHIMES
0:43:52 > 0:43:54It's from Evie Wilcox,
0:43:54 > 0:43:57inviting me to lunch at Simpson's tomorrow with her fiance, Mr Cahill.
0:43:57 > 0:44:00"The three of us can have a jolly chat."
0:44:00 > 0:44:01Egads.
0:44:01 > 0:44:05It is kind of her to remember. Perhaps I've misjudged her.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07She is so excessively athletic.
0:44:07 > 0:44:09Perhaps it blocks out her other good qualities.
0:44:09 > 0:44:12I don't see why she invites me and not you. I thought she disliked me.
0:44:12 > 0:44:15Perhaps it is a ploy to drive you into the arms of her father.
0:44:15 > 0:44:17Do you think so?
0:44:17 > 0:44:20It would save us the trouble of finding a house.
0:44:20 > 0:44:21Yes, that's true.
0:44:21 > 0:44:22Will you go?
0:44:24 > 0:44:25Oh, I must.
0:44:25 > 0:44:27Stalwart Meg.
0:44:33 > 0:44:36Did I tell you Father might be at the party?
0:44:36 > 0:44:37Yes, there he is!
0:44:39 > 0:44:40I thought I'd get round if I could.
0:44:40 > 0:44:42When I heard about Evie's little plan,
0:44:42 > 0:44:44I slipped in to secure a table. Always secure a table first.
0:44:44 > 0:44:48And tip the carver. That's the golden rule. "Tip everywhere" is my motto.
0:44:48 > 0:44:51Now, Evie, don't pretend you want to sit by your old father,
0:44:51 > 0:44:54because I know you don't. Miss Schlegel, come round my side.
0:45:05 > 0:45:06That's it.
0:45:09 > 0:45:11INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE
0:45:31 > 0:45:35- How's your discussion society getting on? Any new utopias?- No.
0:45:35 > 0:45:36My goodness, you look tired.
0:45:36 > 0:45:38Have you been worrying after your young clerks?
0:45:38 > 0:45:40No, houses. Do you know of any?
0:45:40 > 0:45:42- No, I'm afraid I don't. - What's that, Father?
0:45:42 > 0:45:44We must find a new home in May.
0:45:44 > 0:45:48- Someone has to find it. I can't. - Percy, do you know of anything?
0:45:48 > 0:45:50Can't say I do.
0:45:50 > 0:45:53- How like you! You're never any good. - Never any good! Just listen to her!
0:45:53 > 0:45:55Never any good. Oh, come!
0:45:55 > 0:45:57Well, you aren't. Miss Schlegel, is he?
0:45:57 > 0:46:00- Miss Schlegel? Gruyere? Or Stilton? - Gruyere, please.
0:46:00 > 0:46:03- Better have Stilton. Evie? - Oh, Stilton, please.- Mr Cahill?
0:46:11 > 0:46:14- Have you any Gouda?- Of course they haven't any Gouda at Simpson's.
0:46:14 > 0:46:16- He'll have the Stilton. - I don't want Stilton.
0:46:16 > 0:46:19You should have whatever you like, Mr Cahill.
0:46:19 > 0:46:20Don't let Evie bully you.
0:46:20 > 0:46:23How about a nice bit of Altenburger Ziegenkase?
0:46:23 > 0:46:25- I beg your pardon? - Altenburger Ziegenkase.
0:46:25 > 0:46:28It's Saxon, or Thuringian, depending on one's loyalties.
0:46:28 > 0:46:31It gets a bit gooey in the warm weather, but otherwise it's excellent.
0:46:31 > 0:46:33- I suppose you've run out? - I'm afraid...
0:46:33 > 0:46:36Well done, Miss Schlegel! Very well done!
0:46:36 > 0:46:38- I'll have the Gruyere. - Thank you, sir.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41Are you coming with us to the Hippodrome, Miss Schlegel?
0:46:41 > 0:46:44No, thank you. I must get back to my house hunting.
0:46:44 > 0:46:46Oh, but you must! It's meant to be marvellous.
0:46:46 > 0:46:49They release 300,000 gallons of water on a village wedding
0:46:49 > 0:46:51and sweep away the huntsmen and all show folk,
0:46:51 > 0:46:54and the entire wedding party into oblivion.
0:46:54 > 0:46:56I should be sorry to miss that.
0:46:56 > 0:46:58They say it's very realistic.
0:46:58 > 0:47:00Yes, but why put Aimee Roberts on the stage only to sweep her off
0:47:00 > 0:47:03again along with 300,000 gallons of water and a lot of huntsmen?
0:47:03 > 0:47:06Why come to Simpson's to get a French cheese?
0:47:06 > 0:47:08You see? You see how she chafes me?
0:47:08 > 0:47:10How's your house?
0:47:10 > 0:47:12Ducie Street? Much the same. Comfortable enough.
0:47:12 > 0:47:15I don't mean Ducie Street. I meant Howards End, of course.
0:47:15 > 0:47:17- Why, "of course?"- Can't you turn out your tenants
0:47:17 > 0:47:19and let it to us instead? We're nearly demented.
0:47:19 > 0:47:22Oh, we couldn't do that. It's let for three years.
0:47:22 > 0:47:25Can't you help us, Mr Wilcox? We're merely looking for
0:47:25 > 0:47:28a small house with large rooms, and plenty of them.
0:47:28 > 0:47:30I wish I could. A piece of advice.
0:47:30 > 0:47:33Fix your district and your price and then don't budge.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36That's how I got both Ducie Street and the house in Oniton.
0:47:36 > 0:47:38I thought to myself, "I mean to be exactly here."
0:47:38 > 0:47:39And I was.
0:47:44 > 0:47:46Thank you ever so much, Mr Wilcox.
0:47:46 > 0:47:49Next time you shall come for lunch with me at Mr Eustace Miles.
0:47:49 > 0:47:52- Pleasure.- No, you'll hate it. It's full of proteins and body-buildings
0:47:52 > 0:47:53and people coming up to you
0:47:53 > 0:47:56- begging your pardon, but you have such a beautiful aura.- A what?
0:48:01 > 0:48:04Do you know, I suspect Mr Wilcox of planning the whole entertainment?
0:48:04 > 0:48:07Not really? I meant that as a joke.
0:48:07 > 0:48:10Yes, but if you reflect - I was very fond of his wife.
0:48:10 > 0:48:12She really was an extraordinary person.
0:48:12 > 0:48:14- You still think so, don't you? - Oh, yes.
0:48:14 > 0:48:17And he's always preferred me to you, which most men don't.
0:48:17 > 0:48:19Well, that's something in his favour, anyhow.
0:48:24 > 0:48:29Chaperone you and Mr Wilcox at lunch at Eustace Miles?
0:48:29 > 0:48:30Are you mad?
0:48:30 > 0:48:32Yes. I want to ask him. He promised to go.
0:48:32 > 0:48:34He promised to eat proteins and body-builders.
0:48:34 > 0:48:37But you don't really need a chaperone at your age?
0:48:37 > 0:48:40It may surprise you, Tibby, to learn that I am only 28.
0:48:40 > 0:48:42It does, rather.
0:48:42 > 0:48:45I dare say you think of me as an old maid.
0:48:45 > 0:48:48But I can't go to lunch with a single gentleman unchaperoned, that's flat.
0:48:48 > 0:48:50If you don't go, I can't invite him.
0:48:53 > 0:48:54All right, then.
0:49:00 > 0:49:04ANIMATED CHATTER
0:49:21 > 0:49:23This is ghastly.
0:49:23 > 0:49:26What do you think of it, Mr Wilcox? I told you that you would hate it.
0:49:26 > 0:49:29Not at all. Not at all. It may not suit every taste,
0:49:29 > 0:49:32but it's widely known to be the healthiest kind of food.
0:49:33 > 0:49:35Tell me, though, Miss Schlegel,
0:49:35 > 0:49:37do you really believe in the supernatural?
0:49:37 > 0:49:40Auras, and astral planes?
0:49:41 > 0:49:43That's too big a question.
0:49:43 > 0:49:44No, it isn't.
0:49:47 > 0:49:50- Why's that?- Because although I don't believe in auras,
0:49:50 > 0:49:52and think theosophy may only be a halfway house.
0:49:52 > 0:49:54- There may be something there after all.- Not even that.
0:49:54 > 0:49:57It may be halfway in the wrong direction. I can't explain.
0:49:57 > 0:49:59I don't believe in all these fads,
0:49:59 > 0:50:02but I don't like to say I don't believe in them.
0:50:02 > 0:50:04I'm a little out of my depth.
0:50:04 > 0:50:07Do you talk rather like this to your office boy?
0:50:07 > 0:50:09I talk the same way to everyone. Or try to.
0:50:09 > 0:50:13I don't believe in suiting my conversation to my company.
0:50:13 > 0:50:15One can doubtless hit upon some medium of exchange
0:50:15 > 0:50:18that seems to do well enough, but there's no nourishment in it.
0:50:18 > 0:50:20You pass it down to the lower classes,
0:50:20 > 0:50:23they pass it back up to you, and you call this a mutual endeavour,
0:50:23 > 0:50:25when it's mutual priggishness if it's anything.
0:50:25 > 0:50:27Our friends at Chelsea don't see this.
0:50:27 > 0:50:30They say one ought to be, at all costs, intelligible,
0:50:30 > 0:50:34- and sacrifice...- You do admit there are rich and poor. That's something.
0:50:34 > 0:50:36But of course I do.
0:50:36 > 0:50:38And you do admit that, if wealth were divided equally,
0:50:38 > 0:50:40in a few years there would be rich and poor again.
0:50:40 > 0:50:43- Everyone admits that. - Your socialists don't.
0:50:43 > 0:50:45- My socialists do. Yours mayn't. - I don't care.
0:50:45 > 0:50:47You've just made two damaging admissions,
0:50:47 > 0:50:48and I'm heartily with you in both.
0:50:48 > 0:50:51Do you know that this wretched hash is called Reform Food?
0:50:51 > 0:50:54Have you ever heard such a monstrous combination of words?
0:50:54 > 0:50:56I think you are too severe, Mr Schlegel.
0:50:56 > 0:50:58I think one should try new things occasionally.
0:50:58 > 0:51:00Yes, but not this.
0:51:00 > 0:51:01I find it quite good.
0:51:04 > 0:51:06Yes, it's quite good.
0:51:17 > 0:51:18"Dear Miss Schlegel..."
0:51:20 > 0:51:22Perhaps we ought to give up for a while
0:51:22 > 0:51:24and go down to the seaside for a month.
0:51:24 > 0:51:26Oh, Margaret, do come!
0:51:26 > 0:51:29London is so unhealthy at this time of year.
0:51:29 > 0:51:30It's from Mr Wilcox.
0:51:30 > 0:51:33He is announcing an important change in his plans.
0:51:33 > 0:51:35- Who? - BOTH:- Mr Wilcox.
0:51:35 > 0:51:38- He says owing to Evie's marriage, he has decided...- Not your Wilcoxes,
0:51:38 > 0:51:41- surely, Helen.- They're Meg's. - They are not!
0:51:41 > 0:51:44"Owing to Evie's marriage, I have decided to give up
0:51:44 > 0:51:45"the house in Ducie Street..."
0:51:45 > 0:51:47- ..and to let it out on a yearly tenancy.- Where?
0:51:47 > 0:51:49Ducie Street. Where Mr Wilcox lives.
0:51:49 > 0:51:52- But I thought...- He writes, if you and your family approve the rent,
0:51:52 > 0:51:55please notify him at once - that's underlined twice -
0:51:55 > 0:51:57- when I can go over the house with him.- He's in love with you.
0:51:57 > 0:51:59Oh, really. It's a very business-like letter.
0:51:59 > 0:52:01- Why should he be in love with me? - Why should he not be?
0:52:01 > 0:52:04Good heavens, you're not going to marry that old man from the protein restaurant?
0:52:04 > 0:52:06Marry? Margaret is engaged to marry?
0:52:06 > 0:52:08Why shouldn't I, if he asks?
0:52:08 > 0:52:10Oh, Meg, you wouldn't. I'm only joking.
0:52:10 > 0:52:12Well, I think someone might have told me.
0:52:12 > 0:52:16There's nothing to tell, Aunt Juley. I know he's been quite attentive...
0:52:16 > 0:52:19The idea's appalling. He's a beast. He has no human feeling.
0:52:19 > 0:52:21He is not a beast. You should have seen him
0:52:21 > 0:52:23humbly eating his protein-builders at Eustace Miles.
0:52:23 > 0:52:26- No-one could have been kinder. I was proud of him.- Meg!
0:52:26 > 0:52:28- Of Tibby? Well, naturally.- It was rather a strain.- Of Mr Wilcox!
0:52:28 > 0:52:30I am sorry.
0:52:30 > 0:52:31But what have I said?
0:52:31 > 0:52:33Oh, honestly, Aunt Juley, nothing.
0:52:33 > 0:52:35I'm only so anxious about finding a place to live.
0:52:35 > 0:52:37Well, how do I prevent you?
0:52:37 > 0:52:40Oh, dear, you don't.
0:52:42 > 0:52:46Now, children, what's it to be? You all know Ducie Street?
0:52:46 > 0:52:49Shall I say yes or should I say no? Tibby, which?
0:52:49 > 0:52:51I specially want to pin you both.
0:52:51 > 0:52:53- Say no.- Say yes.
0:52:55 > 0:52:56That's decided, then.
0:53:01 > 0:53:03This is awfully kind, the house has not been built
0:53:03 > 0:53:04that suits the Schlegel family.
0:53:04 > 0:53:06- Have you come determined not to deal?- Not exactly.
0:53:06 > 0:53:08I hope she hasn't been hasty.
0:53:08 > 0:53:10Well, well, well, all of you!
0:53:10 > 0:53:13I do not intend to forget these Schlegels in a hurry.
0:53:13 > 0:53:16If I find them monopolising my father I intend to put my foot down.
0:53:16 > 0:53:18It's heartbreaking having to leave one's old home.
0:53:18 > 0:53:20I scarcely remember anything before Wickham Place.
0:53:20 > 0:53:24- Helen and Tibby were born there. Helen says...- You, too, feel lonely?
0:53:25 > 0:53:27Horribly.
0:53:27 > 0:53:29You must write.
0:53:29 > 0:53:31I'll write, I promise.
0:53:31 > 0:53:34A man who had little money has less, owing to us.
0:53:34 > 0:53:37Helen, neither you, nor I, nor the directors of the Porphyrion
0:53:37 > 0:53:39are to blame for this clerk's loss in salary.
0:53:39 > 0:53:41No-one is to blame.
0:53:41 > 0:53:42I am.
0:53:42 > 0:53:45More and more do I refuse to draw my income
0:53:45 > 0:53:48and sneer at those who guarantee it.
0:53:48 > 0:53:49Only connect.
0:53:49 > 0:53:51That is the whole of my sermon.