0:00:02 > 0:00:03"To my dear husband,
0:00:03 > 0:00:05"I should like Miss Margaret Schlegel to have Howards End."
0:00:05 > 0:00:07Your mother cannot have been herself when it was written.
0:00:07 > 0:00:11- Oh, what an age it has been since I last saw you, Mr Wilcox.- He is a beast, he has no human feeling.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13He's not a beast! I thought him rather splendid.
0:00:13 > 0:00:15- You do love me, don't you? - I've said so, haven't I?
0:00:15 > 0:00:17Only it's not right we keep pretending.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19We've just come across a young fellow who's evidently very poor.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Now, how should such a man be helped?
0:00:21 > 0:00:22Porphyrion is a bad, bad concern.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25- A friend of ours said that it was bound to smash by Easter. - Where are you going?
0:00:25 > 0:00:27What do you want to have me in there for?
0:00:27 > 0:00:30It's only a letter reminding us that we have until May to clear out.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32"I have decided to give up the house in Ducie Street..."
0:00:32 > 0:00:34"..and to let it out on a yearly tenancy."
0:00:34 > 0:00:35Shall I say yes or shall I say no?
0:00:35 > 0:00:37- Say yes.- Say no.
0:00:37 > 0:00:38That's decided, then.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44I think our race is degenerating.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46We cannot settle even this little thing.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48What will it be like when we have to settle a big one?
0:01:48 > 0:01:51It's the little things one bungles at.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53The big, real ones are nothing when they come.
0:01:53 > 0:01:54I was thinking of Father,
0:01:54 > 0:01:57having to leave Germany at 40, adopt a new country
0:01:57 > 0:01:58and new ideals.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00And we, at our age, can't even change houses.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03I wish you'd come with me.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05No. I'd rather leave it to you.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08But you won't do anything rash, will you, Margaret?
0:02:08 > 0:02:10There's nothing rash to do.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25This is awfully kind, but I'm afraid it's not going to do.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27The house has not been built that suits the Schlegel family.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30- What, have you come determined not to deal?- Not exactly.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Not exactly? Well, in that case, let's be starting.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35- Is this a new motor car, Mr Wilcox?- Yes.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Presumably, it's very beautiful. How do you like it, Crane?
0:02:38 > 0:02:39Very much, Ma'am.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41Is it a steam car?
0:02:41 > 0:02:43No, no. I don't hold with steam engines.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45No, of course not. There's no thingummy. But aren't they faster?
0:02:45 > 0:02:47- I read...- They are just now... - Not for long, no, but...
0:02:47 > 0:02:48Crane, thank you.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52But the potentialities of the internal combustion engine are infinite...
0:02:52 > 0:02:55- No future in the steam car, Miss. - Crane!- Beg your pardon, sir.- May I?
0:02:55 > 0:02:58- No, thank you. I can manage. - No, nonsense! Let me help you.- Um...
0:03:09 > 0:03:11So how on earth did you know my chauffeur was called Crane?
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Oh, I know Crane. I've been driving with Mrs Wilcox.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17I know you have a housekeeper called Mazy.
0:03:17 > 0:03:18I know all sorts of things.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22How does Evie do?
0:03:22 > 0:03:26Oh, Evie? Oh, you won't see her. She's gone out with Cahill.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28I tell you, it's no fun, being left so much alone.
0:03:28 > 0:03:29I have my work all day,
0:03:29 > 0:03:32but I come home in the evening and I can't stand the house, I tell you.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35In my absurd way, I'm lonely too.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38It's heart-breaking, having to leave one's old home.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40I scarcely remember anything before Wickham Place.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Helen and Tibby were born there, and Helen says...
0:03:42 > 0:03:44You too feel lonely?
0:03:44 > 0:03:45Horribly.
0:03:47 > 0:03:52ENGINE STARTS
0:03:54 > 0:03:58- You were just saying, sorry?- Oh, just some rubbish about furniture.
0:03:58 > 0:03:59Ha!
0:03:59 > 0:04:02Well, you're not as unpractical as you pretend.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04- I shall never believe that. - Oh, but I am quite as unpractical.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07At all events, you responded to my letter very promptly.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Oh, well, I know a good thing when I see it.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45I want to go over the whole house.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47And as soon as I get back to Wickham Place, I'll talk it over with
0:04:47 > 0:04:51Helen and Tibby, and then write to you yes or no.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Right. The entrance hall.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58- It's paved.- Yes.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05And that's the Bible that Charles brought back from the Boer War.
0:05:05 > 0:05:06Mm!
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Here we fellows smoke.
0:05:10 > 0:05:11Oh, jolly!
0:05:15 > 0:05:16HE CHUCKLES
0:05:16 > 0:05:21You do like it? It's all rubbish, not making oneself comfortable.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- Isn't it?- Yes. Are these Cruikshanks?
0:05:24 > 0:05:25Gillrays.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Shall we go upstairs?
0:05:30 > 0:05:31Hm!
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Does all this furniture come from Howards End?
0:05:36 > 0:05:39No, all the Howards End furniture has gone to the house in Oniton.
0:05:39 > 0:05:40Does... I'm so sorry.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43However, I'm concerned with the house, not the furniture.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46How big is this drawing room?
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Um, 30 by 22. Oh, no, wait a minute.
0:05:49 > 0:05:5022 and a half.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55- Shall we...- Miss Schlegel?- Yes?
0:05:57 > 0:05:58Miss Schlegel.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02I've had you here on false pretences.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08I want to speak to you about a much more serious matter than a house.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11I know. I mean...
0:06:11 > 0:06:12You know?
0:06:12 > 0:06:15No, I mean, I... I mean...
0:06:15 > 0:06:16Miss Schlegel.
0:06:16 > 0:06:17Yes?
0:06:19 > 0:06:23Could you be induced to share my...
0:06:25 > 0:06:27- Is it probable... - Mr Wilcox, I see, I see.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32I will write to you afterward, if I may.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Miss Schlegel...Margaret...Miss Schlegel, no, you don't understand.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Oh, yes! Indeed, yes.
0:06:42 > 0:06:43I am asking you to be my wife.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48I know. I did think...
0:06:49 > 0:06:53- I know.- You aren't offended?
0:06:53 > 0:06:54How could I be offended?
0:06:56 > 0:06:58- I...- Mr Wilcox... - I am not of your set.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00- No, you're not. - And I am much older than you.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02- Yes, you are.- But I...
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Mr Wilcox, you quite take my breath away.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06There's no need to advance your cause.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08I thought perhaps there might be.
0:07:08 > 0:07:09Oh, no, indeed.
0:07:13 > 0:07:14Well.
0:07:18 > 0:07:19Well.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Shall we tour the rest of the house?
0:07:23 > 0:07:25- Perhaps not today.- Of course.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29You will have a letter from me.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31We go down to Swanage to my aunt's tomorrow.
0:07:31 > 0:07:32Thank you.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35Goodbye.
0:07:36 > 0:07:37And it's you I thank.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40If it is to be no, you may say so at once.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43- But I don't...- And if it is,
0:07:43 > 0:07:47you can depend on my letting you the house under the same conditions.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49I didn't mean to imply that I had deceived you on that.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50Of course not.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53And you should deal only with the house agent directly.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55I would never dream of intruding myself in the person
0:07:55 > 0:08:00of a landlord under...well, under circumstances which you might find awkward,
0:08:00 > 0:08:03should the circumstances be. But you see what I mean?
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Certainly, I do. But I'm not thinking of that.
0:08:06 > 0:08:07Right.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13I may order the motor car round?
0:08:13 > 0:08:15That would be most kind.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Just one question.
0:08:32 > 0:08:37Oh, I do wonder. I do wonder whether she's taken the house.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40I hope she hasn't been hasty.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43So do I. So do I.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46FRONT DOOR OPENS
0:08:46 > 0:08:48- Have you got the house? - Thank you, Annie.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Have you got the house?
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Oh, what a nuisance! So we're as we were?
0:08:54 > 0:08:55Not exactly.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Some mystery. We're to be enlightened presently.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Aunt Juley, will you ask Annie to make the tea?
0:09:01 > 0:09:03We have to talk houses, and we'll be down afterward.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Mr Wilcox has made me an offer of marriage.
0:09:12 > 0:09:13HELEN SIGHS
0:09:13 > 0:09:16It's just like a widower. They've cheek enough for anything,
0:09:16 > 0:09:19and invariably select one of their first wife's friends. That type...
0:09:23 > 0:09:26But you've never conceivably... You never...
0:09:28 > 0:09:30- HELEN GASPS - Oh, really!
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Don't, don't, don't! Meg, don't do such a thing!
0:09:32 > 0:09:35I tell you not to! I know... Don't!
0:09:35 > 0:09:38- What do you know?- Don't!
0:09:38 > 0:09:41- We would still see each other very often, and...- It's not a thing like that!
0:09:41 > 0:09:43What has happened to you?
0:09:43 > 0:09:44Meg...
0:09:44 > 0:09:45Look here, sit down!
0:09:48 > 0:09:49I'll sit down if you sit down.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56It is a wonderful feeling, knowing a real man cares for you.
0:09:58 > 0:10:03And remember, I have known and liked him for a long while now.
0:10:03 > 0:10:04But loved him?
0:10:04 > 0:10:06No.
0:10:06 > 0:10:07But you will?
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Yes. Of that I'm pretty sure.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15And have settled to marry him?
0:10:15 > 0:10:18I had. What is it against him?
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Helen, you must try and say.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24It's ever since Paul.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28- What has Mr Wilcox to do with Paul? - But he was there.
0:10:28 > 0:10:33They were all there that morning when I came down to breakfast.
0:10:33 > 0:10:39I saw that Paul was so frightened - all his paraphernalia had fallen
0:10:39 > 0:10:43so that I knew it was impossible - because personal relations
0:10:43 > 0:10:47are the important thing, not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
0:10:48 > 0:10:54I know Mr Wilcox's faults. He's afraid of emotion.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57He cares too much about success, too little about the past.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01I'd even say, spiritually, he's not as honest as I am.
0:11:03 > 0:11:04Doesn't that satisfy you?
0:11:04 > 0:11:08No, it doesn't. It makes me feel worse and worse.
0:11:08 > 0:11:09You must be mad!
0:11:09 > 0:11:14I don't intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19There are heaps of things in me that he doesn't,
0:11:19 > 0:11:21and never shall, understand.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26And so, with him, there are heaps of things in him -
0:11:26 > 0:11:30more especially things he does - which will always be hidden from me.
0:11:32 > 0:11:36He has all those public qualities that you so despise
0:11:36 > 0:11:38and enable all of this.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44More and more do I refuse to draw my income
0:11:44 > 0:11:46and sneer at those who guarantee it.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53I don't intend to correct him or to reform him.
0:11:55 > 0:11:56Only connect.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00That is the whole of my sermon.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05I have not undertaken to fashion a husband to suit myself...
0:12:06 > 0:12:08..using Henry's soul as raw materials.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13It would be contemptible and unfair.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22SHE SIGHS
0:12:24 > 0:12:26One would lose something.
0:12:38 > 0:12:43- Oh, look, he's here! He's here! Hello!- Hello!
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Hello, Mr Wilcox!
0:12:44 > 0:12:47- Well, well, well! All of you! - Congratulations!- How very nice!
0:12:47 > 0:12:52Mrs Munt, how do you do? How do you do? Helen. Mr Schlegel.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55- Oh, come along, Henry. - Where are you staying, Mr Wilcox?
0:12:55 > 0:12:57I've engaged a room at the Grand. I'm told it's the best hotel now.
0:12:57 > 0:12:58It's the biggest.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01No, but the old Victoria's gone down a little in the last ten years.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04- But you will lunch with us, though, Henry?- Of course, of course, of course!
0:13:04 > 0:13:08If you're interested in archaeology, there's a pretty decent sort of Roman ruin that they've excavated.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Oh, yes? Wonderful.
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Lunch!
0:13:33 > 0:13:36I was thinking, if you don't mind,
0:13:36 > 0:13:39that we ought to spend this afternoon in a business talk.
0:13:39 > 0:13:40I think so, too.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43How did you get on with Tibby during cigarettes after lunch?
0:13:43 > 0:13:45- Oh, very well.- Oh, I am glad. What did you talk about?
0:13:45 > 0:13:47- Me, presumably?- No, Greece.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Oh, good! Tibby's terribly keen on the Greeks.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53Yes, I have shares in a currant farm in Kalamata.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Ha! What a delightful thing to have shares in!
0:13:56 > 0:13:59- Can't we go there for our honeymoon? - What to do?
0:13:59 > 0:14:01To eat the currants. Isn't there marvellous scenery?
0:14:01 > 0:14:05Moderately. It's not the sort of place one could possibly take a lady.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07- Why not?- There's no hotels.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Some ladies do without hotels.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Are you aware that Helen and I walked alone over the Apennines
0:14:12 > 0:14:14with the luggage on our backs?
0:14:14 > 0:14:17No, I was not aware, and, if I can manage it,
0:14:17 > 0:14:20I will make sure that you never do such a thing again.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24You haven't found time for a talk with Helen yet, I suppose?
0:14:24 > 0:14:26- No.- Do, before you leave.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28I'm so anxious the two of you should be friends.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Your sister and I have always hit it off.
0:14:31 > 0:14:32Yes.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42Haven't you got anything besides Ernest Pike?
0:14:42 > 0:14:46Helen, come and play Bezique. Margaret will be home soon.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48- I wonder what they're talking about.- Shares.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53He is winning Margaret body and soul, like Othello.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55Only instead of disastrous chances
0:14:55 > 0:15:00and hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,
0:15:00 > 0:15:04Mr Wilcox is telling her about his adventures in mustard production.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08Does Mr Wilcox make mustard? How extraordinary.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10Mr Wilcox is in rubber. African rubber.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Yes, but he's got shares in everything.
0:15:12 > 0:15:16I don't think I should feel comfortable owning shares in rubber.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18One feels so badly for the natives.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21But you have got shares in rubber, Aunt Juley. We all have.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Do we? I hadn't the smallest notion.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27I can write to your broker if you want to sell them.
0:15:27 > 0:15:28I...
0:15:28 > 0:15:30I don't know.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32I suppose we shall have to have Caruso.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Oh, Tibby, can't we have something a bit more jolly?
0:15:38 > 0:15:41RECORD PLAYS
0:15:44 > 0:15:48JAUNTY SINGING IN ITALIAN
0:15:51 > 0:15:54You know that Evie is going to marry Percy Cahill, Dolly's uncle,
0:15:54 > 0:15:57- who must have a suitable provision. - Of course.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59- And Paul is struggling away in Africa.- Yes.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Charles and Dolly have an increasing family, and increasing expenses.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Poor fellow!
0:16:03 > 0:16:05Charles will someday inherit Howards End.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08But I am anxious, in my own happiness,
0:16:08 > 0:16:09not to be unjust to my other children.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Oh, you mean money! How stupid I am.
0:16:13 > 0:16:14Yes, of course not.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Yes, since you put it so frankly.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20I'm determined to be just to them, and just to you.
0:16:20 > 0:16:21Be generous to them. Bother just.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23I've already written to Charles to that effect.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25How much have you got?
0:16:26 > 0:16:29What? My... What, my income?
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Yes, how much a year? I've got 600.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37I must say you're a downright young woman.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39What a question to spring on a fellow!
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Well, don't you know your own income?
0:16:41 > 0:16:42Or don't you want to tell it me?
0:16:48 > 0:16:50- Well...- It's all right. Don't tell me. I don't want to know.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53But won't Charles come into the business someday?
0:16:53 > 0:16:55In the usual way, he would.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59But I have raised Charles, and the others, to be self-sufficient.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02If Charles can show an aptitude for business sufficient to safeguard
0:17:02 > 0:17:05the company, and my other interests, and everything that involves -
0:17:05 > 0:17:08well, then, yes, he should be the proper person to succeed me.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10If not, well...
0:17:10 > 0:17:13The fact is, my dear, I hadn't any intention of bothering you
0:17:13 > 0:17:15with the details. I just wanted to let you know...
0:17:15 > 0:17:16Yes, we've settled all that.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Go ahead, give away as much as you can,
0:17:18 > 0:17:20bearing in mind I've a clear 600.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34There's one other point,
0:17:34 > 0:17:36- and then I must go back to the hotel and write some letters.- Hmm?
0:17:36 > 0:17:39What's to be done now about the house in Ducie Street?
0:17:39 > 0:17:41I don't expect we'll want to live there.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44It'll be a little crowded with your brother and your sister,
0:17:44 > 0:17:47- too, and your aunt visiting. - Oh, yes.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49I don't know where Helen and Tibby will want to live in the end.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52It depends. When do you want to marry me?
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Getting' a bit hot, eh?
0:17:54 > 0:17:56- I say!- It doesn't matter, Henry.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59MEN LAUGH
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Evie will probably be married in April.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12We could scarcely think about anything before then.
0:18:12 > 0:18:13What about April for us too?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19THEY TALK, INDISTINCTLY
0:18:25 > 0:18:27I could have managed perfectly well alone, Henry.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29You'll miss the post.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31That's a fine start, if your aunt saw you walk in alone.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34I always go about alone.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Considering I galloped over the Apennines...
0:18:36 > 0:18:38- Oh, dear! I'm sorry!- Sorry.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41It's only common sense.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Margaret...
0:19:07 > 0:19:08Goodbye.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Goodbye, my dear.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Miss Schlegel has got us fairly on toast, thanks to you.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42I? I could scratch that woman's eyes out.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44And to say it's my fault is most unfair.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47Rum-ti-foo, rackety-tackety Tompkin!
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Father would have never dreamt marrying as long as Evie was
0:19:49 > 0:19:51there to make him comfortable.
0:19:51 > 0:19:52But you must needs start match-making
0:19:52 > 0:19:55and ask my sister down to meet your Uncle Percy,
0:19:55 > 0:19:57and send them out in the motor car, day after day.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59I am not responsible for what Uncle Percy does,
0:19:59 > 0:20:03nor for anybody else or anything, so there.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Oh, well! We're in a bad hole
0:20:05 > 0:20:07and must make the most of it.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09I shall answer the pater's letter civilly
0:20:09 > 0:20:12but I do not intend to forget these Schlegels in a hurry.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14- Tootle, tootle! - Dolly, are you listening?
0:20:14 > 0:20:15Yes, I'm listening.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18As long as they're on their best behaviour, we'll behave too.
0:20:18 > 0:20:23But if I find them giving themselves airs, or monopolising my father,
0:20:23 > 0:20:27or ill-treating him, or worrying him with their artistic beastliness,
0:20:27 > 0:20:28I intend to put my foot down.
0:20:30 > 0:20:31Yes, and firmly.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Taking my mother's place.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41She always meant to get her hands on Howards End and now she's got it.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51- 15.- I'll give you 10.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53- 10?- I've got the money.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56- No, they're worth twice as much. - I'll give you 12. Final offer?
0:20:56 > 0:20:57- Yes, fine.- All right.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05- Thank you.- Thank you.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22Go on, Len, do go on.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24You must write. You must!
0:21:24 > 0:21:27It's their doing, isn't it? They told you to leave the Porphyrion.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29I don't know. But a man...
0:21:29 > 0:21:31- Well, isn't it?- All right!
0:21:33 > 0:21:34They only meant to be kind.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38- Don't you snip at me, my boy. - I'm not...snipping. I...
0:21:38 > 0:21:41I'll write. I promise. Just...
0:21:41 > 0:21:42Go to bed.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45All right, darling. I'm sorry.
0:21:45 > 0:21:46It's all right.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56"Dear Miss Schlegel...
0:21:57 > 0:22:00"I wanted to thank you for your consideration in forewarning me
0:22:00 > 0:22:04"of the expected collapse of the Porphyrion Fire Insurance Company.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07"Taking your advice, I have resigned from my position.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10"I have now taken a role as a clerk at Dempster's bank.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14"Whilst my salary is much lower than before,
0:22:14 > 0:22:18"and I find myself in more reduced circumstances,
0:22:18 > 0:22:21"I can be thankful that my position is now secure.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24"Yours gratefully, Leonard Bast."
0:22:26 > 0:22:28But how dreadful!
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Hello!
0:22:30 > 0:22:31Here we all are!
0:22:31 > 0:22:32Morning, Helen.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Morning, Mr Wilcox.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37Henry, she's had a letter from that queer, cross boy.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39Do you remember? Very handsome but sad eyes.
0:22:39 > 0:22:40The back of his head was young.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42You told him to clear out of the Porphyrion.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44I told him? Told who? Of whom are you talking?
0:22:44 > 0:22:47I had a letter too - not a nice one. I want to talk it over with you.
0:22:47 > 0:22:48- Mr Bast.- Our friend.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51- You warned him about the Porphyrion. Don't you remember?- I do not.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53Yes. He cleared out, thanks to your hint.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55It's not a bad business, the Porphyrion.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57You say he's cleared out? On what grounds?
0:22:57 > 0:22:59- Not a bad business? - On the grounds of your advice to us.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01The Porphyrion? No, I shouldn't have said so.
0:23:01 > 0:23:02No, my letter's about Howards End.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06- My tenant, Mr Bryce, he's been ordered abroad.- But, surely on Chelsea Embankment...
0:23:06 > 0:23:07He wants to sublet it.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09- Morning, Mrs Munt. - But you did say...
0:23:09 > 0:23:10Good morning, good morning!
0:23:10 > 0:23:13- Fine view. Morning, Schlegel. - Good morning.- Isn't it?
0:23:13 > 0:23:15He has no right to do it. There's no clause in the contract.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18- Who, Henry?- My tenant at Howards End. I'm thinking of cancelling the agreement.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21- Do you think that's better than subletting?- Excuse me, I'm sorry.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23About the Porphyrion - I don't feel easy.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25- Might I bother you, Henry?- Yes, yes?
0:23:25 > 0:23:28You said it was a bad concern, so we advised this clerk to clear out.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30He writes this morning that he's taken our advice,
0:23:30 > 0:23:33and now you say it's not a bad concern.
0:23:33 > 0:23:34He's gone into a bank.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36It's a much lower salary, but he hopes to manage -
0:23:36 > 0:23:38a branch of Dempster's Bank. Is that all right?
0:23:38 > 0:23:41- Oh, my goodness me, yes. - More right than the Porphyrion?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Yes, yes, yes. Safe as houses - safer.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Oh, many thanks. I'm sorry... If you sublet Howards End...?
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Well, you have more control.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51We ought to go and see the place some time. It's pretty in its way.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Why don't we motor down next Wednesday and have lunch with Charles?
0:23:54 > 0:23:57He and Dolly are only 15 minutes' drive from Howards End now.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Come up to town, I'll show you the office
0:23:59 > 0:24:01and we can drive down together. It'll be fun.
0:24:01 > 0:24:02Oh, I should love to.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05But Aunt Juley expects us to stop at least another week.
0:24:05 > 0:24:06Well, you can give that up now.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08No, honestly. She counts on this visit year after year.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10She turns the house upside down for us.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13- That's all right. I'll speak to her. - Henry, I won't go. Don't bully me.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15- You do want to see the house, though?- Very much, but...
0:24:15 > 0:24:17That'll be all right, then.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Oh, Mr Wilcox, about the Porphyrion...
0:24:19 > 0:24:21It's all right! Dempster's Bank is better.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25But I think you told us
0:24:25 > 0:24:27the Porphyrion would smash before Easter.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Did I? Ah...
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Well, it was still outside the Tariff Ring.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Lately it's come in - safe as houses now.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36In other words, Mr Bast need never have left it
0:24:36 > 0:24:38and started life elsewhere at a greatly reduced salary.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40No, the fellow needn't.
0:24:40 > 0:24:41He only says "reduced."
0:24:41 > 0:24:44With a man so poor, every reduction must be great.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46I consider it a deplorable misfortune.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- Do you mean I'm responsible? - You're ridiculous, Helen.
0:24:49 > 0:24:50- The point is...- The point is,
0:24:50 > 0:24:53a man who had little money has less, owing to us.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54Who is this fellow?
0:24:54 > 0:24:56We have told you about the fellow twice.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58You have even met the fellow.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00- He is very poor and his wife... - Helen, please!- ..is a fool,
0:25:00 > 0:25:03and he is capable of better things. No, Meg!
0:25:03 > 0:25:07We thought we would help him from the height of our superior knowledge - and here's the result!
0:25:07 > 0:25:08A word of advice...
0:25:08 > 0:25:10I require no more advice.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12A word of advice.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15Don't take up that sentimental attitude over the poor.
0:25:15 > 0:25:16See that she doesn't, Margaret.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19You call it sentiment. I call it common humanity.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Indeed?
0:25:21 > 0:25:25- Well, you talk about this young man as if he were an exhibition in the circus.- I don't!
0:25:25 > 0:25:27As if there were not three millions more like him in London alone,
0:25:27 > 0:25:29besides their wives and children.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31And must we not do our best to...
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Are we not to help them if we can, when the chance comes?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36- When our paths cross? - Of course we must!
0:25:36 > 0:25:37But you haven't helped him.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42- No. I haven't. Oh, it's impossible. - Oh, don't let's row...
0:25:42 > 0:25:48My dear Helen, neither you, nor I nor my informant, nor the directors
0:25:48 > 0:25:51of the Porphyrion are to blame for this clerk's loss in salary.
0:25:51 > 0:25:52No-one is to blame.
0:25:52 > 0:25:53I am.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56You're too severe. You're guilty of nothing more than meddling
0:25:56 > 0:25:59in the life of a young man about whom you know practically nothing.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01- But we do know him, Henry.- This young man of yours is guilty of...
0:26:01 > 0:26:05- No!- He is guilty of an error in judgment, merely.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07Of quitting his situation for a worse one
0:26:07 > 0:26:10without determining the wisdom of his actions for himself.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12Do I misstate the case, Helen?
0:26:14 > 0:26:15Margaret?
0:26:17 > 0:26:19No.
0:26:19 > 0:26:20I don't know.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24My dears. What about going to Nine Barrows Down for the day?
0:26:24 > 0:26:28Mrs Munt, I did want to talk to you about some pressing business
0:26:28 > 0:26:30that calls Margaret and me to Hilton next week.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Oh, surely not!
0:26:32 > 0:26:36But they were going to stop for the next ten days at the least.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Yes, I know.
0:26:38 > 0:26:39The thing is, what I've done...
0:26:39 > 0:26:41CONVERSATION FADES OUT
0:26:47 > 0:26:50I can't think why I go on like this myself.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53But Helen, why should you put things so bitterly?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Because I'm an old maid.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Go on and marry him.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02I think you're splendid, and if anyone can pull it off, you will.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04There's nothing to "pull off."
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Yes, there is.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Go on and fight with him and help him.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Don't ask me for help, or even for sympathy.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Henceforward I am going my own way.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20I mean to dislike your husband, and tell him so.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23But I mean to love you more than ever.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Yes, I do.
0:27:25 > 0:27:26SHE KISSES HER
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Margaret! Magsy!
0:27:30 > 0:27:33Surely, it can't be true what Mr Wilcox is saying,
0:27:33 > 0:27:35that you want to go next week?
0:27:35 > 0:27:36Not "want."
0:27:36 > 0:27:39But there's so much to settle, and I do want to see the Charleses.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43Oh, but you're going to miss out on going to Weymouth
0:27:43 > 0:27:45and the Lulworth trip, and...
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Helen, have you heard?
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Good! I did the breaking of the ice.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37Margaret Schlegel to see Mr Wilcox, please.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44One minute!
0:28:54 > 0:28:56Why, Charles. How do you do?
0:28:57 > 0:28:59I hope that my wife...
0:28:59 > 0:29:01How do you do?
0:29:01 > 0:29:04..will give you a decent lunch after you see Howards End.
0:29:06 > 0:29:09Miss Avery, from the farm, is looking after it.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11Do sit down!
0:29:13 > 0:29:15It's a measly little place.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17I wouldn't touch it with tongs myself.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19I shall enjoy seeing it.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21Hello! Hello. I won't be a moment.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34They're all right.
0:29:34 > 0:29:35The chickens? Or the children?
0:29:35 > 0:29:38They'll learn. Like the swallows and the telegraph lines.
0:29:38 > 0:29:39There's a pretty church.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41No, you aren't sharp enough.
0:29:50 > 0:29:52THUNDER RUMBLES
0:29:59 > 0:30:00What's happened?
0:30:00 > 0:30:02What do you suppose?
0:30:02 > 0:30:03Are we there already?
0:30:03 > 0:30:05We are.
0:30:05 > 0:30:06Well, I never!
0:30:11 > 0:30:13That's no good. It's locked.
0:30:13 > 0:30:15Margaret, why don't you wait in the dry?
0:30:15 > 0:30:17I'll go down to the farm for the key. It isn't 100 yards.
0:30:17 > 0:30:19- Mayn't I come too?- No, no. I'll be back before I'm gone.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23DOOR CLOSES
0:32:18 > 0:32:20CREAKING
0:32:21 > 0:32:23Is that you, Henry?
0:32:52 > 0:32:54Oh!
0:32:54 > 0:32:56Well, I took you for Ruth Wilcox!
0:32:57 > 0:33:00I? Mrs Wilcox?
0:33:01 > 0:33:03I?
0:33:04 > 0:33:05LAUGHTER
0:33:05 > 0:33:07But it did give her quite a turn.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09- Did she?- Yes, it did. - Old Miss Avery!
0:33:09 > 0:33:10I wasn't as foolish as you suggest.
0:33:10 > 0:33:13She only startled me, for the house was silent for so long.
0:33:13 > 0:33:14But who is she?
0:33:14 > 0:33:17Oh, she's just one of the crew from the farm.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20I say, if Crane has had enough tea, we ought to go.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22Children, come and say goodbye!
0:33:22 > 0:33:24Come and give Miss Schlegel a kiss.
0:33:24 > 0:33:26Oh, no, don't make them.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28It's such hard luck on the little things.
0:33:28 > 0:33:30What about Grand-papa? Shall he have his kisses?
0:33:30 > 0:33:32What about Grand-papa?
0:33:32 > 0:33:34What about me? I don't mind! They're fine little fellows!
0:33:34 > 0:33:35Little kiss?
0:33:37 > 0:33:39Thank you, Dolly.
0:33:39 > 0:33:41- Bye-bye!- Bye!
0:33:45 > 0:33:48Dolly is a good little woman, but a little of her goes a long way.
0:33:48 > 0:33:50I suppose that rules out Howards End.
0:33:50 > 0:33:52With Charles and Dolly 15 minutes' distance?
0:33:52 > 0:33:54I should think so!
0:33:55 > 0:33:58But Henry, if we can't live at Howards End and you don't want to live in Ducie Street,
0:33:58 > 0:34:00where do you propose we live?
0:34:00 > 0:34:02- Oniton.- Oniton?
0:34:02 > 0:34:04The house in Shropshire. Oniton Grange. Rather good country.
0:34:04 > 0:34:06Evie's going to be married there in April,
0:34:06 > 0:34:08and we can move in straightaway after that.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11Of course, we shall keep the house in Ducie Street as a pied-a-terre.
0:34:11 > 0:34:12Of course.
0:34:25 > 0:34:28TRAIN CHUGS PAST
0:34:37 > 0:34:39Jacky, what are you doing out of bed? Are you mad?
0:34:39 > 0:34:43Is this the letter? The letter to Miss What's-her-name?
0:34:49 > 0:34:51That was before.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Those are drafts of my letter.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55"...reduced circumstances?" Are you mad?
0:34:55 > 0:34:58I told the Miss Schlegels everything I thought necessary.
0:34:58 > 0:35:01Have you written again to say you've been discharged from Dempster's?
0:35:01 > 0:35:03- I wasn't discharged. - Call it what you like, my boy.
0:35:03 > 0:35:05- They reduced the staff.- How are we to live?- I won't ask for charity!
0:35:05 > 0:35:08- This isn't charity. All you want's a job.- I'll find a position.
0:35:08 > 0:35:11- I'll write to them myself.- You won't.- I'll write to your brother.
0:35:11 > 0:35:13- You'll do nothing of the kind. - Just see if I don't.
0:35:13 > 0:35:14You won't!
0:35:14 > 0:35:16SHE COUGHS
0:35:20 > 0:35:21Jacky.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27Come to bed.
0:35:27 > 0:35:29You're ill.
0:35:36 > 0:35:38I shall write to Miss Schlegel.
0:35:38 > 0:35:41And to my brother, and any one you like.
0:35:48 > 0:35:49I won't let you starve.
0:35:55 > 0:35:57Helen, are you sure you won't come?
0:35:57 > 0:35:59No, you must let me beg off Evie Wilcox, Meg.
0:35:59 > 0:36:02I shall come to your wedding, though. Never fear.
0:36:07 > 0:36:08Walk on.
0:36:20 > 0:36:24"Dear Miss Schlegel, whilst I hesitate to write a second time,
0:36:24 > 0:36:26"I felt I should inform you that
0:36:26 > 0:36:29"my circumstances have lately taken a turn.
0:36:29 > 0:36:33"My recent arrival at Dempster's has lamentably coincided with
0:36:33 > 0:36:34"a need for the bank to reduce staff, and
0:36:34 > 0:36:40"as one of the newer employees I now find myself without a position.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43"I apologise for being so forthright, but I wondered
0:36:43 > 0:36:46"if I might petition for some further help in finding employment.
0:36:46 > 0:36:50"I am not one to beg for charity,
0:36:50 > 0:36:53"but I find myself struggling to provide for my wife
0:36:53 > 0:36:55"and I am unsure how to proceed.
0:36:55 > 0:36:57"Yours truly, Leonard Bast."
0:37:01 > 0:37:02- Miss Schlegel!- Hello, Len.
0:37:02 > 0:37:05Please forgive me, Mr Bast. But I won't stand for it.
0:37:05 > 0:37:06I must insist that...
0:37:19 > 0:37:20Charles!
0:37:22 > 0:37:23No, please.
0:37:23 > 0:37:27Oh, thank you, Charles. I could have easily managed.
0:37:27 > 0:37:30Well, we made good time, at any rate.
0:37:30 > 0:37:33Why, Mr Warrington! Albert! How good of you to come!
0:37:35 > 0:37:37Miss Schlegel!
0:37:37 > 0:37:39Well, we are to be sisters soon! Yes, let me kiss you!
0:37:39 > 0:37:41- It's so beautiful! - The house? Oh, I don't know.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44- The view is rather nice, though. - That's what I meant.
0:37:44 > 0:37:46What a pity that your brother and sister couldn't come.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48Mr Fussel! What do you think?
0:37:48 > 0:37:50You must be choked with dust from the drive.
0:37:50 > 0:37:52I'll have someone show you to your room.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54I quite enjoyed the drive. There wasn't any dust.
0:37:54 > 0:37:56Burton. Will you take Miss Schlegel to her room?
0:37:56 > 0:37:58- She wants to clean up. - Very good, sir.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01Margaret! Well, well, well!
0:38:01 > 0:38:03Henry, what a beautiful place!
0:38:03 > 0:38:04Ah, yes?
0:38:04 > 0:38:06Ah, I'm glad you like it, I'm glad you like it.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08It's not the right part of Shropshire,
0:38:08 > 0:38:10so I've discovered, but I'll admit it's a fine prospect.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12Now then, Margaret, will you come inside?
0:38:12 > 0:38:14Burton, Miss Schlegel will want to clean up.
0:38:14 > 0:38:15If you'll accompany me, Miss.
0:38:15 > 0:38:18No, I'd rather walk about the grounds a bit. Will you come, Henry?
0:38:18 > 0:38:20Not just now. And I should like you to help greet our guests.
0:38:20 > 0:38:22Of course, Henry.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25Mr Burton, may you show me my room? I should like to clean up a bit.
0:38:25 > 0:38:26Certainly, Miss.
0:38:28 > 0:38:29Now then, my boy!
0:38:29 > 0:38:32Your little sister married. What do you think?
0:38:32 > 0:38:34I? I think he's too old for her. But it's not my wedding.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36Oh! What's this? Sulks?
0:38:36 > 0:38:37No, of course not.
0:38:37 > 0:38:40My goodness! What a muscle! What a muscle!
0:38:40 > 0:38:43Duncan! Come and feel this boy's arm! Like steel!
0:38:43 > 0:38:46Billy Hague, this chap! Billy Hague!
0:38:50 > 0:38:53Well, I'm altogether off Dad.
0:38:53 > 0:38:54Marrying that woman!
0:38:54 > 0:38:56I never dreamed of such a thing.
0:38:56 > 0:38:58He made me ask her to Simpson's. What could I do?
0:38:58 > 0:39:00Don't talk nonsense. You'll be all right.
0:39:02 > 0:39:06I've two children to look after, and another coming.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09It's all very well, the pater saying he'll be just to all of us.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12But one can't be just indefinitely.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15Money isn't elastic.
0:39:15 > 0:39:18What's to happen if you have a family?
0:39:18 > 0:39:21Come to that, so may the pater.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23I expect we shall be in for some shares,
0:39:23 > 0:39:25but it's a sad lookout for me if my own father doesn't trust me
0:39:25 > 0:39:28to manage the company I've worked for my entire life...
0:39:28 > 0:39:31This is very jolly, I must say, the day before my wedding!
0:39:33 > 0:39:34I'm sorry, old pal.
0:39:36 > 0:39:37It's all right, old pal.
0:39:40 > 0:39:43I love this place, Henry.
0:39:43 > 0:39:44I'm glad that it will be my home.
0:39:45 > 0:39:48Ah, dear, what a comfort to have arrived!
0:39:58 > 0:40:00MEN SHOUT: Come on!
0:40:06 > 0:40:08SPLASHING
0:40:16 > 0:40:20APPLAUSE
0:40:55 > 0:40:56This is a mistake.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59Mr Bast. You promised me...
0:40:59 > 0:41:00I had no right promising.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03It is humiliating beyond what any man should be obliged to submit to.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05Why? You've done nothing wrong.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07She's no business taking a trip like this. Even if...
0:41:07 > 0:41:09I'm not ill. I could do with a bite.
0:41:09 > 0:41:11We can put that right easily enough.
0:41:11 > 0:41:13No. I cannot allow you to pay for another meal.
0:41:13 > 0:41:14The train tickets alone...
0:41:14 > 0:41:17I'm sorry. But if Mrs Bast is hungry or unwell, it's my fault.
0:41:17 > 0:41:19Mine and Mr Wilcox's.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21He must be made to see reason, or justice, or both.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24Please don't stand in my way.
0:41:24 > 0:41:27Mr Wilcox? Is that your gentleman's name?
0:41:27 > 0:41:29He's not my gentleman. But, yes.
0:41:29 > 0:41:34Henry Wilcox of the Imperial and West African what-do-you-call-it.
0:41:34 > 0:41:36I don't suppose you know him?
0:41:36 > 0:41:37Not I.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40Miss Schlegel, I must insist on turning round at the next station.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42- No, Len.- Mr Bast...- I shall repay you for the tickets as soon
0:41:42 > 0:41:45- as I am able, but I cannot... - Oh, let it alone, Len! Please do!
0:41:50 > 0:41:52CROWD CHATS
0:41:55 > 0:41:58INDISTINCT CONVERSATION AND LAUGHTER
0:42:07 > 0:42:09Well, Cahill. You're a Wilcox, now. What do you say?
0:42:09 > 0:42:11But he's not a Wilcox, Dad. I'm a Cahill.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14I was rather hoping to be a Wilcox.
0:42:14 > 0:42:16Well, you are, so you are!
0:42:16 > 0:42:17Cheers.
0:42:45 > 0:42:46I must say I'm very pleased.
0:42:47 > 0:42:49Do you know, I'm quite tired.
0:42:51 > 0:42:53I think it did go off very well.
0:42:53 > 0:42:57I am so very glad about that, Henry, dear.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59Who are those people?
0:42:59 > 0:43:02Callers? It's too late for callers.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05Well, hide here, and if I can, I'll stop them.
0:43:12 > 0:43:14Helen! What is it?
0:43:14 > 0:43:15Wait here.
0:43:15 > 0:43:16Oh, what's wrong? Is Tibby ill?
0:43:16 > 0:43:18They're starving! I found them starving!
0:43:18 > 0:43:20Oh, Helen! What have you done now?
0:43:20 > 0:43:22He's been turned out of his bank. We've ruined him.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24His wife is ill. Starving. She fainted on the train.
0:43:24 > 0:43:25Helen, are you mad?
0:43:25 > 0:43:27Perhaps. Yes. If you like.
0:43:27 > 0:43:28I'm mad. But I've brought them.
0:43:28 > 0:43:31Don't be absurd. They are not starving and you know it.
0:43:31 > 0:43:34I won't take such theatrical nonsense. How dare you!
0:43:34 > 0:43:35Yes, how dare you!
0:43:35 > 0:43:38Bursting into Evie's wedding in this heartless way!
0:43:38 > 0:43:40I want to see Mr Wilcox.
0:43:44 > 0:43:46How do you do, Mr Bast?
0:43:46 > 0:43:48This is an odd business. What view do you take of it?
0:43:48 > 0:43:49There is Mrs Bast, too.
0:43:49 > 0:43:51How do you do, Miss Schlegel?
0:43:51 > 0:43:53I'm afraid we're making a dreadful nuisance of ourselves.
0:43:53 > 0:43:54Miss Schlegel...
0:43:54 > 0:43:57Dempster's Bank reduced their staff and now he's penniless.
0:43:57 > 0:44:00I consider that we and our informant are directly to blame.
0:44:00 > 0:44:02We want Mr Wilcox to get him back into the Porphyrion.
0:44:02 > 0:44:04Excuse me. I told your sister...
0:44:04 > 0:44:06I hate all this. I only thought...
0:44:06 > 0:44:08I hope you do, Mr Bast. It's no good mincing matters.
0:44:08 > 0:44:10If you intend to confront Mr Wilcox
0:44:10 > 0:44:12and to call him to account for a chance remark,
0:44:12 > 0:44:14you will make a great mistake.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16I intend no such thing, I promise you.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19- I made them come! I did it! - Kindly lower your voice.
0:44:19 > 0:44:20I can only advise you to go at once.
0:44:20 > 0:44:22My sister has put you in a false position,
0:44:22 > 0:44:24and it is kindest to tell you so.
0:44:24 > 0:44:26You'll find a comfortable hotel in the village,
0:44:26 > 0:44:29where Mrs Bast may rest, and I hope you'll be my guests there.
0:44:29 > 0:44:31It's work he wants. Not a holiday in Oniton.
0:44:31 > 0:44:33He can't get back now, thanks to you.
0:44:33 > 0:44:34- I want...- Do be quiet.
0:44:34 > 0:44:36It's all right, Miss Schlegel.
0:44:36 > 0:44:39I was wrong to write you. Wrong to ask for your assistance.
0:44:39 > 0:44:40You were not.
0:44:40 > 0:44:43Please, please, won't you go to the hotel and have a good night's rest
0:44:43 > 0:44:45and some day you may pay me back, if you prefer.
0:44:45 > 0:44:47I don't know what to do. This isn't my house.
0:44:47 > 0:44:50Helen, offer them something. Do try a sandwich, Mrs Bast.
0:44:53 > 0:44:56Helen, take them quietly to the George in Oniton,
0:44:56 > 0:44:58and I will talk to Henry - in my own way.
0:44:58 > 0:45:02If you don't, I will do nothing. Now choose.
0:45:11 > 0:45:13Was it townies?
0:45:13 > 0:45:14You'll never believe me.
0:45:14 > 0:45:16It's all right now, but it was my sister.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19- I've bundled her off to the George. - Helen - here?
0:45:19 > 0:45:22But she refused an invitation. I thought she despised weddings!
0:45:22 > 0:45:23She's not come to the wedding.
0:45:23 > 0:45:27- Well, she must stay here, there's plenty of room. We can't have her going off...- It's all right.
0:45:27 > 0:45:30She brought two of her proteges with her. She must keep with them.
0:45:30 > 0:45:32- Let 'em all come. - They want to speak to me.
0:45:32 > 0:45:34- Later on I want to talk to you about them.- Why not now?
0:45:34 > 0:45:36No time like the present.
0:45:36 > 0:45:37There's a sting at the end of it,
0:45:37 > 0:45:39for I want you to find the man some work.
0:45:39 > 0:45:41What are his qualifications?
0:45:41 > 0:45:44You've met him before, in fact. He's in a bit of trouble.
0:45:46 > 0:45:47Oh, no thank you, dearie.
0:45:47 > 0:45:50Just one glass, Miss. To toast the happy couple?
0:45:50 > 0:45:51The happy couple? All right.
0:46:04 > 0:46:06- That's quite nice, actually. - That's right, Miss.
0:46:10 > 0:46:11Where was he before?
0:46:11 > 0:46:14Dempster's Bank. They reduced their staff.
0:46:14 > 0:46:15All right. I'll see him.
0:46:15 > 0:46:18Mind you, Margaret, this mustn't be taken as a precedent.
0:46:18 > 0:46:20I can't fit in your proteges every day.
0:46:20 > 0:46:22I promise this is the last. He's rather a special case.
0:46:22 > 0:46:24Proteges always are.
0:46:36 > 0:46:38Oh, Henry, I'm so sorry.
0:46:39 > 0:46:42Helen was to take them both to a hotel in the village.
0:46:42 > 0:46:44I'm afraid she's overtired.
0:46:44 > 0:46:48She's something else. This won't do. I can't have her in my garden.
0:46:48 > 0:46:51Madam, you'll be more comfortable at the hotel...
0:46:51 > 0:46:53Why, it's Henry!
0:46:53 > 0:46:55Bless us, what a person!
0:46:55 > 0:46:57Oh, Hen. I'm sorry. I'm...
0:46:57 > 0:46:58I didn't know.
0:46:58 > 0:47:02I should've stayed at home. I'm so sorry, Hen. Truly, I am. I didn't...
0:47:03 > 0:47:05I can't congratulate you enough on your protege.
0:47:05 > 0:47:08- Henry, I am awfully sorry. - Pray, don't apologise.
0:47:08 > 0:47:10Don't be angry, Hen. I'll go.
0:47:10 > 0:47:13Why does she call you Henry? Has she ever seen you before?
0:47:13 > 0:47:16Seen him before? Seen Henry?
0:47:17 > 0:47:19Oh, these boys, and still, we love 'em.
0:47:22 > 0:47:23Are you now satisfied?
0:47:24 > 0:47:26I don't know what it is all about.
0:47:26 > 0:47:27Let's come in.
0:47:27 > 0:47:29I now understand your interest in the Basts.
0:47:29 > 0:47:30I don't understand!
0:47:30 > 0:47:34You do not? I do. I am a man. I have lived a man's past.
0:47:34 > 0:47:38I have the honour now to release you from your engagement.
0:47:38 > 0:47:39Henry...!
0:47:42 > 0:47:43Henry!
0:47:44 > 0:47:46Yes, Margaret?
0:47:46 > 0:47:48So that woman has been your mistress?
0:47:50 > 0:47:51You put it with your usual delicacy.
0:47:53 > 0:47:55When, please?
0:47:57 > 0:47:59Ten years ago.
0:47:59 > 0:48:01Ten years...?
0:48:01 > 0:48:02Please excuse me.
0:48:15 > 0:48:17I'm so sorry, Len.
0:48:17 > 0:48:18Sorry for what?
0:48:20 > 0:48:22Was that the man?
0:48:22 > 0:48:24The man you knew in Cyprus?
0:48:27 > 0:48:31I never would have come. As God is my judge, Len.
0:48:31 > 0:48:34We neither of us should have come.
0:48:34 > 0:48:36I suppose I was desperate.
0:48:36 > 0:48:38We had to, Len.
0:48:38 > 0:48:40I'm no use to you.
0:48:40 > 0:48:41That's all right.
0:48:45 > 0:48:49You're a good 'un, my Len. You're a kind boy.
0:48:52 > 0:48:54You love me, don't you, darling?
0:48:54 > 0:48:57Yes, I love you.
0:49:00 > 0:49:02It's all right, Jacky.
0:49:03 > 0:49:04Go to sleep.
0:49:47 > 0:49:51I make it £8 I have spent making your wife ill and my sister angry.
0:49:53 > 0:49:55She may disapprove my methods,
0:49:55 > 0:49:57but I know you and Mrs Bast will benefit by them.
0:49:57 > 0:50:01I can never thank you sufficiently, Miss Schlegel.
0:50:01 > 0:50:03£8 is a lot of money.
0:50:03 > 0:50:06I don't know when I can repay you, but I promise...
0:50:06 > 0:50:08It is a lot of money to you.
0:50:08 > 0:50:12It is nothing to me. Nothing. Can you imagine that?
0:50:15 > 0:50:16No.
0:50:19 > 0:50:22Is she very tired? Mrs Bast?
0:50:22 > 0:50:24Shall I sit up with her?
0:50:24 > 0:50:27No, thank you. She does not need company. She's sleeping now.
0:50:27 > 0:50:29It is better if she stops in her room.
0:50:33 > 0:50:34Mr Bast...
0:50:36 > 0:50:38What kind of woman is your wife?
0:50:41 > 0:50:43You know my ways by now. Does that question offend you?
0:50:43 > 0:50:45No.
0:50:45 > 0:50:49I don't want to buy your confidence with influence.
0:50:49 > 0:50:52Or £8 on railway tickets and rooms in a hotel.
0:50:52 > 0:50:54Of course not.
0:50:54 > 0:50:57But, what I mean is...
0:50:57 > 0:50:59you don't pretend your marriage has been a happy one.
0:51:04 > 0:51:06I suppose that's pretty obvious.
0:51:07 > 0:51:09But she's a good sort.
0:51:11 > 0:51:13But you and she can have nothing in common.
0:51:13 > 0:51:15We have companionship in common.
0:51:16 > 0:51:19I needn't have married her.
0:51:20 > 0:51:24But as I have, I must stick to her and keep her.
0:51:25 > 0:51:27What did your people say?
0:51:27 > 0:51:31They will not have anything to do with us.
0:51:33 > 0:51:36They had a sort of family council when they heard I was married,
0:51:36 > 0:51:38and cut us off altogether.
0:51:40 > 0:51:42Who are your people?
0:51:45 > 0:51:48My parents were in trade.
0:51:48 > 0:51:53I have two sisters, both married to commercial travellers.
0:51:53 > 0:51:57And my brother is a lay reader.
0:51:59 > 0:52:00He is head of the family now.
0:52:04 > 0:52:05And your grandparents?
0:52:07 > 0:52:09They were just nothing at all.
0:52:09 > 0:52:13Agricultural labourers and that sort, from Lincolnshire, mostly.
0:52:32 > 0:52:36And why...why do your brothers and sisters object to Mrs Bast?
0:52:42 > 0:52:44I knew there was a man.
0:52:45 > 0:52:47I didn't know his name until today.
0:52:54 > 0:52:58I am frightfully, dreadfully sorry.
0:53:01 > 0:53:05But it does not make the least difference to me.
0:53:07 > 0:53:10I blame not your wife for these things, but men.
0:53:13 > 0:53:16We shall be all right if I get work.
0:53:16 > 0:53:18Then things won't be so bad again.
0:53:20 > 0:53:24I don't trouble after books as I used.
0:53:24 > 0:53:28If I could just get something regular to do,
0:53:28 > 0:53:31we should settle down again.
0:53:31 > 0:53:33It stops one thinking.
0:53:33 > 0:53:35Settle down to what?
0:53:35 > 0:53:38Oh, just settle down.
0:53:40 > 0:53:41And that's to be life?
0:53:41 > 0:53:42What else?
0:53:42 > 0:53:45But... And I am not naive,
0:53:45 > 0:53:49but with all the beautiful things to see and do. With music.
0:53:49 > 0:53:51With walking at night. With...
0:53:51 > 0:53:54Oh, I did talk a lot of nonsense once.
0:53:56 > 0:53:59Why should you say so?
0:53:59 > 0:54:02Because I see one must have money.
0:54:05 > 0:54:06Well, you're wrong.
0:54:06 > 0:54:09I wish I was wrong, but...
0:54:09 > 0:54:14The clergyman - he has money of his own, or else he's paid.
0:54:14 > 0:54:17The poet or the musician - just the same.
0:54:17 > 0:54:20The tramp goes to the workhouse in the end,
0:54:20 > 0:54:22and is paid for by other people's money.
0:54:22 > 0:54:23The rest is a dream.
0:54:25 > 0:54:28You're still wrong.
0:54:32 > 0:54:34If you say I am, then I am.
0:54:42 > 0:54:45We are all in a mist.
0:54:45 > 0:54:49But men like the Wilcoxes are deeper in the mist than any.
0:54:50 > 0:54:53Sane, sound Englishmen!
0:54:53 > 0:54:54Building up empires,
0:54:54 > 0:54:57levelling all the world into what they call common sense.
0:54:57 > 0:55:02It isn't real. Upon my life, it isn't real.
0:55:02 > 0:55:04I must be stupid.
0:55:17 > 0:55:18Oh, dear...
0:56:00 > 0:56:02"My dearest boy..."
0:56:08 > 0:56:10You and your sister, women like you -
0:56:10 > 0:56:13how can you guess at the temptations that lie around a man?
0:56:13 > 0:56:15"Mr Bast, I have spoken to Mr Wilcox, and am sorry to say
0:56:15 > 0:56:17"he has no vacancy for you."
0:56:17 > 0:56:20I am placing £5,000 to your account and when I am in Germany
0:56:20 > 0:56:22you will pay it over to Leonard and Mrs Bast.
0:56:22 > 0:56:23Where's Helen?
0:56:23 > 0:56:26It's been ever so long. I'm dreadfully worried.
0:56:26 > 0:56:27I don't know what to think, Tibby.
0:56:27 > 0:56:29If you want my help, you have it.
0:56:29 > 0:56:31Margaret!
0:56:31 > 0:56:32- Is it what we feared?- Yes.
0:56:32 > 0:56:35If a man played about with my sister I'd send a bullet through him.
0:56:35 > 0:56:36Oh, my darling, forgive me!