0:00:02 > 0:00:03- I am asking you to be my wife. - I know.
0:00:03 > 0:00:05My letter's about Howards End.
0:00:05 > 0:00:07We ought to go and see the place sometime.
0:00:07 > 0:00:10Oh! Well, I took you for Ruth Wilcox!
0:00:10 > 0:00:13If we can't live at Howards End and you don't want to live in Ducie Street,
0:00:13 > 0:00:15- where do you propose we live? - Oniton.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18I do not intend to forget these Schlegels in a hurry.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21I find them monopolising my father. I intend to put my foot down!
0:00:21 > 0:00:23They're starving! I found them starving!
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Dempster's Bank reduced their staff, and now he's penniless.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28- Helen, are you mad? - I want to see Mr Wilcox.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31I will talk to Henry in my own way.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Don't take up that sentimental attitude over the poor.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37I mean to dislike your husband, and tell him so.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Henceforward I am going my own way.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Madam, you'll be more comfortable at the hotel...
0:00:42 > 0:00:43Why, it's Henry!
0:00:43 > 0:00:46I believe in personal responsibility, don't you?
0:00:46 > 0:00:49- So that woman has been your mistress?- Ten years ago.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52I have the honour to release you from your engagement.
0:02:16 > 0:02:17"My dearest boy...
0:02:20 > 0:02:21"..this is not to part us.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25"It is everything or nothing, and I mean it to be nothing.
0:02:25 > 0:02:29"It happened long before we met and, even if it had happened since,
0:02:29 > 0:02:31"I should be writing the same, I hope.
0:02:32 > 0:02:33"I do understand."
0:02:55 > 0:02:57"Dear Mr Bast, I have spoken to Mr Wilcox about you,
0:02:57 > 0:03:00"and am sorry to say he has no vacancy for you.
0:03:00 > 0:03:01"Yours truly, MJ Schlegel."
0:03:11 > 0:03:14"Helen, give him this. The Basts are no good.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16"I've had a room got up for you here,
0:03:16 > 0:03:19"and will you please come round on getting this?
0:03:19 > 0:03:21"I may go round to the Basts myself in the morning
0:03:21 > 0:03:23"and do anything that is fair. M."
0:03:25 > 0:03:27SHE RINGS BELL
0:03:37 > 0:03:38Henry, dear?
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Henry, dear, look at me.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55No, I won't have you shirking. Look at me.
0:04:00 > 0:04:01There. That's all.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06You're referring to last evening.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08I have released you from your engagement.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13I could find excuses, but I won't.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16No, I won't.
0:04:17 > 0:04:18It must be left at that.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Leave it where you will, my boy.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23It's not going to trouble us.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26I know what I'm talking about. It will make no difference.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27No difference?
0:04:29 > 0:04:32No difference, when you find that I am not the fellow you thought?
0:04:34 > 0:04:35I am not worthy of you.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Had I been worthy, I, er...
0:04:41 > 0:04:43I can't bear to talk of such things.
0:04:43 > 0:04:44We had better leave it.
0:04:50 > 0:04:55You and your sheltered life and your...
0:04:56 > 0:05:01..refined pursuits, friends, books.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04You and your sister, women like you,
0:05:04 > 0:05:07how can you guess the temptations that lie around a man? I know...
0:05:08 > 0:05:10..by bitter experience, and yet...
0:05:11 > 0:05:14- ..you say it makes no difference. - Not to me.
0:05:17 > 0:05:18HE LAUGHS BITTERLY
0:05:23 > 0:05:24Am I the last one down?
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Did Helen come?
0:05:33 > 0:05:36She didn't send any messages or anything?
0:05:36 > 0:05:37None that I've heard.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Will you ring the bell, please?
0:05:45 > 0:05:46What to do?
0:05:46 > 0:05:47Why, to inquire.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50There is no bell. The bell-pull is broken.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54There wasn't time to fix it. I've brought a little...gong.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56Have you?
0:05:56 > 0:05:57Yes. It's here.
0:06:01 > 0:06:02HE TAPS GONG
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Did you bring it from London?
0:06:06 > 0:06:07Yes.
0:06:07 > 0:06:08Where did you find it?
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Dolly picked it up at Harrods.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15No doubt you find our pretensions amusing.
0:06:15 > 0:06:16I don't. You mustn't think of me that way.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18You're certainly at liberty to dictate terms.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20You mustn't talk to me like that, either.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22I am scarcely in a position to argue.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24But you are.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26KNOCK ON DOOR
0:06:26 > 0:06:27Sir?
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Please, Mr Burton, have you discovered,
0:06:29 > 0:06:31did my sister stop here last night?
0:06:31 > 0:06:33No, Miss.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Miss Schlegel slept at The George in the village, so as far as I've heard.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39May I send someone to inquire? Or I could go round myself.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41I'll go. Thank you, Burton.
0:06:48 > 0:06:49It's a very simple story.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54Ten years ago in a garrison town in Cyprus...
0:06:56 > 0:07:00..I was far from good influences - far even from England.
0:07:02 > 0:07:07I was very, very lonely, and longed to hear a woman's voice.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15That's enough. I have said too much already for you to forgive me now.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17But I've already forgiven you, Henry.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35- HELEN:- Tibby?
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Yes? What is it?
0:07:37 > 0:07:39It's I, Tibby.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43Helen? Come in! Qing jinlai!
0:07:46 > 0:07:48I got your telegram. I hadn't...
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Shall I serve lunch now?
0:07:50 > 0:07:51- Oh, rather.- Very good, sir.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Are you all right? I didn't know where you got to.
0:07:55 > 0:07:56Yes, very well.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58What did you say to me when I came in?
0:07:58 > 0:08:03I? Oh, um, "Qing jinlai."
0:08:03 > 0:08:05It's Chinese for, "Come in, please."
0:08:05 > 0:08:07There are five ways to say "come in", actually.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11If you leave off the "qing", it's simply "come in" without the "please". Or nearly.
0:08:11 > 0:08:12Then there's, "Qing jinlai ba!"
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Tibby!
0:08:16 > 0:08:19You look rather a fright. Anything wrong?
0:08:19 > 0:08:21- I've come from Oniton. - Oniton? But I thought...
0:08:21 > 0:08:24I've come from Oniton. There has been a great deal of trouble there.
0:08:26 > 0:08:27Who's for lunch?
0:08:30 > 0:08:33I don't know what's to be done, Tibby.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35I'm very much upset at a piece of news that concerns Meg,
0:08:35 > 0:08:37and do not want to face her.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40I stopped here to tell you this.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43I mean to go to Munich or Bonn.
0:08:43 > 0:08:44As regards my share of the furniture,
0:08:44 > 0:08:46you and she are to do exactly as you like.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49- But...- My head is rather wretched.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Has anything gone wrong at Evie's wedding?
0:09:07 > 0:09:08Not there.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19KNOCK ON DOOR
0:09:19 > 0:09:21That's Annie with the cutlets. They rather spoil by waiting.
0:09:21 > 0:09:25- Do you mind her coming in? Or I can get them from her at the door. - Could I bathe my eyes, Tibby?
0:09:25 > 0:09:28Annie, can you come back in a moment?
0:09:28 > 0:09:31Very good, sir. Are you quite well, Miss Helen?
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Yes, quite well, Annie, thank you.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Leonard knew about it all along.
0:09:46 > 0:09:50Meg cannot have heard it yet, I think. Let them marry.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54There remains the question of compensation.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57I don't see who is to pay it if I don't.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03This part is in confidence. Meg must not hear about it.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07As soon as possible, I am placing £5,000 to your account and,
0:10:07 > 0:10:11when I am in Germany, you will pay it over to Leonard and Mrs Bast.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12Good God alive!
0:10:12 > 0:10:14What's the good of driblets?
0:10:14 > 0:10:17To go through life, having done one thing,
0:10:17 > 0:10:20to have raised one person from the abyss.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23No doubt people will think me extraordinary.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24I don't give a damn what people think,
0:10:24 > 0:10:26but it is half of what you have.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Not nearly half. I have far too much.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34What I give will bring in 115 between two to live on.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38It isn't enough. I didn't expect you to understand me.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40I? I understand no-one.
0:10:43 > 0:10:44But you'll do it?
0:10:46 > 0:10:47Apparently.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Oh, thank you, Tibbykins. You have been very good to me.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58"Mr Theobald Schlegel, 2 Wickham Place.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01"While mindful of the generosity which prompted her kind offer,
0:11:01 > 0:11:05"I enclose Miss Schlegel's cheque for £5,000
0:11:05 > 0:11:08"being in no need of money, and beg you return it to her."
0:11:08 > 0:11:10"Dear Helen,
0:11:10 > 0:11:11"Mr Bast has returned me your cheque,
0:11:11 > 0:11:13"for which he claims he has no need."
0:11:13 > 0:11:16"Dear Tibby, in that case, you must go to South London yourself,
0:11:16 > 0:11:20"and you must find the Basts and make them take the cheque."
0:11:20 > 0:11:22THEY SPEAK IN GERMAN
0:11:22 > 0:11:25"Dear Helen, after taking a great deal of trouble to hunt up
0:11:25 > 0:11:27"your client's domicile in Lambeth,
0:11:27 > 0:11:30"I have tried time and again to find Mr Bast and his wife,
0:11:30 > 0:11:34"but they seem to have disappeared off the face of the Earth.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46"I must admit, in the fullness of my heart,
0:11:46 > 0:11:48"that, considering the temptation offered him,
0:11:48 > 0:11:52"your Leonard Bast seems to me a monumental person after all."
0:11:54 > 0:11:56"Dear Tibby, you must find them.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58"It is insupportable that they should be homeless
0:11:58 > 0:11:59"and that I should be the cause."
0:11:59 > 0:12:01"Dear Helen, it's no use.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04"I'm afraid you'll have to abandon your philanthropic venture
0:12:04 > 0:12:07"and reinvest your money in some sensible concern.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10"On the advice of our new future brother-in-law,
0:12:10 > 0:12:13"I myself have lately bought shares in the Nottingham and Derby Railway
0:12:13 > 0:12:16"and consequently become rather richer than I was before.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19"I suggest you do the same. Tibby."
0:12:27 > 0:12:30CHURCH BELLS TOLL
0:12:30 > 0:12:35"Dearest Helen, Henry and I were married Tuesday.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38"Tibby and Aunt Juley were there, also Charles and Mr Cahill,
0:12:38 > 0:12:40"to represent the Wilcoxes.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43"After Oniton, I didn't mind the smallness of the ceremony,
0:12:43 > 0:12:46"but I did wish my dear Helen had been there as well.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49"Henry and I wonder about coming to visit you in Innsbruck.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53"I'm really longing to meet you if you're stopping there still.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55"Dear Meg, I plan on leaving for Lake Garda,
0:12:55 > 0:12:57"where I mean to stop for a few weeks.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00"But I'm afraid my plans are uncertain and had better be ignored."
0:13:00 > 0:13:03"Although I shall most likely be spending the summer in Italy,
0:13:03 > 0:13:05"possibly Naples. H."
0:13:06 > 0:13:08What an unsatisfactory postcard.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Do you know? I believe she fled Innsbruck
0:13:10 > 0:13:12because we suggested coming there.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15I suppose she dislikes meeting you.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18I am sorry for that. Certainly, I bear her no ill will.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22Why should you not? She's lost all self-control. It's maddening!
0:13:22 > 0:13:23And not like her, Henry.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28I suppose, if there is a war, Helen will have to come back.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34Mind the Schlegels don't repatriate back to Prussia when it comes.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37- I shall not allow you to go with them.- No fear of that, my boy.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40The Schlegels are English to the backbone, as my Aunt Juley says.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Of course, she only says that when she suspects us of being unduly German!
0:13:46 > 0:13:48We should ask your aunt here to Ducie Street soon.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Henry, can't we invite her to Oniton instead? She's longing to see it.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Whatever for? I've only just let the place.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59- Let Oniton? Henry!- Yes?
0:13:59 > 0:14:03But...I thought... You said WE were going to live there.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Did I? Oh, no, it's no good, you know.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09- Why wasn't I consulted? - Well, I didn't want to bother you.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13Besides, I've only just heard for certain this morning.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16But where are we to live? Why isn't it good? I loved the place extraordinarily.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20Well, it's the wrong part of Shropshire, for one thing. I didn't realise, when I bought it.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22And, for another, the house is damp.
0:14:22 > 0:14:23Well, this is news.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26I never heard until this minute that Oniton Grange was damp!
0:14:26 > 0:14:29- My dear girl, have you not eyes? Have you not a skin?- I thought I had.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33How could it be anything other than damp in such a situation? The Grange is built on clay!
0:14:33 > 0:14:36- And there's that detestable little lake steaming all night... - Detestable?- ..like a kettle.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Well, detestable's perhaps too strong a word, but you know what I mean.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41These Shropshire valleys are notorious.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43- Why did you go there, then? - Because I...
0:14:46 > 0:14:47Well, why...?
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Why do you want to go to Innsbruck, if it comes to that?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51- To visit Helen, Henry. - Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
0:14:51 > 0:14:54But one might go on asking questions indefinitely.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06The truth is that I took Oniton on account of Evie.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08She was so keen on a country wedding,
0:15:08 > 0:15:10wouldn't wait for me to make proper inquiries about the shooting.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12She was afraid it would be snapped up.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16Well, there is no shooting at Oniton Grange.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19There isn't a grouse or a partridge within five miles of the place.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Well, there's no harm done. She had her country wedding,
0:15:24 > 0:15:27and I've got rid of my house to some fellows who are starting a preparatory school.
0:15:27 > 0:15:28Won't the boys be damp?
0:15:29 > 0:15:31Well, that's their lookout.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34I've told the fellows the condition of the place. They've been through it themselves.
0:15:34 > 0:15:38Where are we to live? I should enjoy living somewhere.
0:15:38 > 0:15:39I have not yet decided.
0:15:45 > 0:15:46Well, it's not yet May.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49So, suppose we camp out here in Ducie Street for the moment,
0:15:49 > 0:15:50then look for somewhere in the summer.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Somewhere permanent, Henry. We leave Wickham in a few weeks.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55No fear! There are rooms enough here for your brother
0:15:55 > 0:15:57and your sister, Helen, too.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59- That's not what I mean.- Then what?
0:16:01 > 0:16:02KNOCK ON DOOR
0:16:03 > 0:16:04May I?
0:16:04 > 0:16:06- Yes, yes, yes.- Certainly.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15"Dearest Helen,
0:16:15 > 0:16:19"today the last box was packed, the last of the furniture wrapped
0:16:19 > 0:16:22"and the last van has rumbled away from Wickham Place.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26"I don't know if I should mind so much
0:16:26 > 0:16:29"if another family were to move in once we had gone.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32"But the house is to be torn down with the others
0:16:32 > 0:16:34"to make room for a new block of flats.
0:16:35 > 0:16:36"I am glad, though,
0:16:36 > 0:16:39"that you never saw the house with the life gone from it.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43"But it seems so odd to say goodbye to our home without you.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46"Henry would say it is only sentimentality,
0:16:46 > 0:16:48"as Tibby is no further away than Ducie Street
0:16:48 > 0:16:50"and you no farther away than ever -
0:16:50 > 0:16:53"which, oh, Helen, is too far!"
0:16:53 > 0:16:55SHE SOBS
0:16:56 > 0:17:00"Henry has most kindly offered Howards End as a warehouse.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03"Until he re-lets it, we are welcome to stack our furniture
0:17:03 > 0:17:05"and books in the garage and lower rooms.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08"They have been entrusted to the guardianship of Miss Avery,
0:17:08 > 0:17:11"whom, you will remember, lives at the farm down the road.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14"Meanwhile, after much discussion,
0:17:14 > 0:17:17"we have decided to go down to Sussex and build.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19"The plans will not be ready until the autumn.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20"We are to have a good many gables...
0:17:20 > 0:17:23"Dear Helen, do tell me when you are coming home.
0:17:23 > 0:17:24"Or command me to ask no more.
0:17:24 > 0:17:28"Tibby says you are inside the Triple Alliance and feeling encircled.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30"I told him you had moved south to Italy..."
0:17:30 > 0:17:33"Dear Helen, Dolly and Charles, who have had their latest baby,
0:17:33 > 0:17:34"have had to give up their motor car!
0:17:34 > 0:17:37"Why Charles has not more of the Wilcox fortune, I cannot fathom.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39"I urge Henry to give them all he can,
0:17:39 > 0:17:42"but he says a man must make his own way in the world.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45"I do miss you terribly,
0:17:45 > 0:17:48"and wish you would write me a proper letter..."
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Dolly! How are you?
0:17:50 > 0:17:51I'm well, how are you?
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Good! How are the boys and the baby?
0:17:53 > 0:17:54The boys and the baby are well.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Oh, are those the plans?
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Does it matter, me seeing them?
0:18:01 > 0:18:02No, of course not.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05How's Helen?
0:18:05 > 0:18:06Is she never coming back to England?
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Everyone thinks it's so awfully odd that she doesn't.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11So it is. Helen is odd, awfully.
0:18:12 > 0:18:13But hasn't she any address?
0:18:13 > 0:18:16A poste restante somewhere in Bavaria is her address.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Do drop her a line. I'll look it up for you.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Oh, no, don't bother.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Oh, have you heard the news?
0:18:22 > 0:18:25Miss Avery's been unpacking your packing cases.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Why has she done that? That wasn't necessary.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30Ask another. I supposed you'd ordered her to.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33I gave her no such orders. Perhaps she was airing the things.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36It was far more than air. The floor sounds covered with books.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Charles sent me to know what is to be done,
0:18:38 > 0:18:40for he feels certain that you don't know.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Books! Dolly are you serious? She's been touching our books?
0:18:43 > 0:18:45Hasn't she, though!
0:18:45 > 0:18:47What used to be the hall's full of them.
0:18:47 > 0:18:48Dolly, I'm much obliged.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50I must go down about them at once.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53Some of them belong to my brother, and they're quite valuable.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55She has no right to unpack our cases.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57I say she's dotty.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31SHE KNOCKS ON DOOR
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Miss Avery?
0:19:38 > 0:19:40It's Mrs Wilcox!
0:19:40 > 0:19:41Are you there, please?
0:19:44 > 0:19:45Miss Avery!
0:19:55 > 0:19:58Well, come right in, Mrs Wilcox!
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Thank you so much.
0:20:02 > 0:20:03I didn't know...
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Come right into the hall first.
0:20:07 > 0:20:08SHE INHALES SHARPLY
0:20:12 > 0:20:13But...
0:20:15 > 0:20:17..this is my father's sword.
0:20:17 > 0:20:21I didn't know if it was best hung with the scabbard or without.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Miss Avery, I'm afraid this isn't what we meant.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27Mr Wilcox and I never intended the cases to be touched.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29When you kindly undertook to look after these things,
0:20:29 > 0:20:31we never expected you to do so much.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34The house has been empty long enough.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36I dare say we didn't explain it.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39It's a mistake, very likely our mistake.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41Mrs Wilcox,
0:20:41 > 0:20:45it has been mistake upon mistake for 50 years.
0:20:46 > 0:20:47I don't know.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50MARGARET SIGHS
0:20:54 > 0:20:55I really don't know what's to be done.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03I dare say...
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Thank you very much, Miss Avery.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Yes...
0:21:10 > 0:21:11..that's all right.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14It's delightful.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17It's delightful.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21There's still the parlour, and the dining room.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38It's all a mistake. It's a misunderstanding.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41Mr Wilcox and I are not going to live at Howards End.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Oh, indeed?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46We've settled on building a new home for ourselves in Sussex.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Part of the furniture - my part - will be going down there presently.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54You think you are not coming back to live here, Mrs Wilcox,
0:21:54 > 0:21:56but you will.
0:21:56 > 0:21:57That remains to be seen.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00We have no intentions of doing so presently.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02We happen to need a larger house.
0:22:02 > 0:22:03Circumstances...
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Of course, some day...
0:22:05 > 0:22:07One never knows, does one?
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Some day!
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Don't talk about some day.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13You are living here now.
0:22:15 > 0:22:16Am I?
0:22:25 > 0:22:28"To Miss Helen Schlegel, poste restante, Munich.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30"Aunt Juley ill, stop.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32"Come at once to Swanage, stop.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33"Love, stop. M."
0:22:37 > 0:22:39Aunt Juley? Darling?
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Oh, dear children.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47You see, doctor?
0:22:47 > 0:22:49These are my sister's children.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52I said all the time they would come,
0:22:52 > 0:22:54and now they're here.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56But we've been here for days, Aunt Juley.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58You say the same thing every morning.
0:22:58 > 0:22:59Do I?
0:22:59 > 0:23:00Tibby, hush.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03It doesn't matter, darling. You've been ill.
0:23:03 > 0:23:04But what's the matter with me?
0:23:04 > 0:23:06- It's only a chill.- You've got pneumonia.- Tibby!
0:23:06 > 0:23:08But she has got pneumonia. You've got pneumonia, Aunt Juley.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11- Pneumonia?- You caught a chill, and it developed into pneumonia.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14But the doctor says you may be getting stronger.
0:23:14 > 0:23:15Where's Helen?
0:23:16 > 0:23:18We telegraphed her to come.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20We had a telegram from Munich.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22She'll be in London on the morrow, down by the first train.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25- She...- There are three of them, you see, doctor.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Such eccentric children.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29But lovable, oh, very lovable.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Not to everyone, you know.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35But I am very partial to them.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Especially the girls.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40I think perhaps your aunt should rest.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47The truth is, she seems to be getting stronger.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49With a bit of luck, she may yet pull through.
0:23:49 > 0:23:50Oh, I do hope so.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Margaret.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Could you not take some steamer expeditions,
0:23:57 > 0:23:58when Helen comes?
0:23:58 > 0:24:01The weather is so beautiful.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03And Tibby can do his Chinese.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06Helen won't be able to stop, Aunt Juley.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08She telegraphed that she can only get away just to see you.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10She must go back to Germany as soon as you're well.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Really?
0:24:12 > 0:24:13Helen is odd.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17Helen is odd, very.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Read this letter she's written me.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26She doesn't mean to come down at all!
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Her London address will be care of the bankers
0:24:28 > 0:24:31and we are to write or wire her there.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35"Is our furniture still at Howards End?
0:24:35 > 0:24:37"I should like to take out one or two books.
0:24:37 > 0:24:38"The rest are for you.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40"Your loving Helen."
0:24:40 > 0:24:42What does it mean?
0:24:42 > 0:24:43Perhaps she's mad.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Oh, Tibby.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48If you write to her that Aunt Juley is still in danger,
0:24:48 > 0:24:49she is sure to come down.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52You wouldn't even lie to Aunt Juley about pneumonia.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54I didn't consider that Aunt Juley was unbalanced.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56And you consider Helen is?
0:24:56 > 0:24:58You said so yourself.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00I said she was out of balance.
0:25:00 > 0:25:01What?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03I don't know what to think, Tibby. I don't.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06It's been ever so long. I'm dreadfully worried.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11We'll tell her to meet us at the bankers in London
0:25:11 > 0:25:15if she wants us to tell her where to find her bloody furniture.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17Let's try that.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33I was so sure she'd turn up.
0:25:35 > 0:25:36What now, Tibby, love?
0:25:36 > 0:25:38It's extraordinary.
0:25:38 > 0:25:39Why don't you ask Mr Wilcox?
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Henry? Why?
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Well, you know best.
0:25:43 > 0:25:44But he is practical.
0:25:52 > 0:25:53Margaret's point is this -
0:25:53 > 0:25:55our sister may be mad.
0:25:55 > 0:25:56Surely not.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59Charles, come in. Charles, can you help us at all?
0:25:59 > 0:26:01We are again in trouble.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03I'm afraid I cannot.
0:26:03 > 0:26:04What are the facts?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Surely you don't mean she really is mad?
0:26:06 > 0:26:10The facts are that Helen has been in England for three days
0:26:10 > 0:26:12and she will not see us.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15She has forbidden the bankers to give us her address.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17There are other facts, but these are the most striking.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Has she never behaved like this before?
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Of course not!
0:26:20 > 0:26:22She's grieving us, deeply.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24That's why I'm sure that she is not well.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27Mad is too terrible a word, but she is not well.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Well, it's perfectly easy. Leave it to me.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33You want to get a hold of her. She wants her books.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35So we send her down to Howards End,
0:26:35 > 0:26:37tell her that she must unpack them herself,
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- and you can meet her there.- That's just what she won't let me do.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Of course, you won't tell her you're going.
0:26:41 > 0:26:42- It's quite impossible.- Why?
0:26:42 > 0:26:44It doesn't seem impossible to me.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Nor me.
0:26:47 > 0:26:48It's impossible because...
0:26:50 > 0:26:52..because it's not the particular language that Helen and I talk,
0:26:52 > 0:26:54- if you see what I mean. - I see. No, I see.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56- You have scruples.- Yes!
0:26:56 > 0:26:57Sooner than go against them,
0:26:57 > 0:27:00you would have your sister suffer alone, because she wishes it.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02She may be ill, she may be mad, as you fear,
0:27:02 > 0:27:05but your...your scruples forbid a deception.
0:27:05 > 0:27:06I deny it's madness.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08My dear. Do you want my help or not?
0:27:08 > 0:27:12- Yes, but not in this way. - Pater, we may as well keep Howards End out of it.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14The whole house is at sixes and sevens.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Who's "We"?
0:27:15 > 0:27:17My boy, pray, who's "we"?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21I'm sure I beg your pardon.
0:27:22 > 0:27:23I appear always to be intruding.
0:27:27 > 0:27:28Now, then.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30If you want my help, you have it.
0:27:32 > 0:27:33Meg?
0:27:39 > 0:27:40Yes, all right.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41Good.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43I will dictate.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48"Dear Helen, the furniture is all at Howards End,
0:27:48 > 0:27:51"but can be seen on Monday next at 3pm,
0:27:51 > 0:27:55"when a charwoman will be in attendance.
0:27:57 > 0:27:58"Margaret."
0:27:58 > 0:28:00Or what you will.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15And after luncheon, Henry and I will ambush Helen in the garden,
0:28:15 > 0:28:18and then pack her away to the madhouse, I suppose,
0:28:18 > 0:28:22if she doesn't appear to be overjoyed when she sees us.
0:28:22 > 0:28:23Oh, Tibby.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Mi...
0:28:39 > 0:28:41DOOR OPENS
0:28:43 > 0:28:46Is anything wrong with you, Charles, this afternoon?
0:28:48 > 0:28:49No, Pater.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54But you may be taking on a bigger business than you reckon.
0:28:54 > 0:28:55How so?
0:28:58 > 0:28:59Don't ask me.
0:29:13 > 0:29:16Well, she is at the house.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18I went round to the livery stable,
0:29:18 > 0:29:21and they say a lady arrived after lunch and took a cab to Howards End.
0:29:21 > 0:29:22I cannot make it out.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24Finish your coffee, dear. We must be off.
0:29:24 > 0:29:26Yes, Margaret, you know you must take plenty.
0:29:26 > 0:29:28I... Yes.
0:29:31 > 0:29:33Margaret, you're not fit for it, let me go.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35Let me go alone. I know exactly what to do.
0:29:35 > 0:29:38Oh, yes, I am fit. Only most frightfully worried.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52There. We'll be off.
0:30:15 > 0:30:17SPEECH INAUDIBLE
0:30:29 > 0:30:31There's a gentleman downstairs asking for Mrs Wilcox.
0:30:31 > 0:30:33She's not here.
0:30:33 > 0:30:36- But he's in quite a state. - Tell him she's at Howards End.
0:30:36 > 0:30:39Mr and Mrs Wilcox have taken the car to Howards End.
0:30:39 > 0:30:40When will they be back?
0:30:40 > 0:30:41Mr Schlegel doesn't know.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48Her cab should have already arrived at Howards End,
0:30:48 > 0:30:51and our first move will be to send it down to wait at the farm.
0:30:51 > 0:30:52Now, Crane won't drive in,
0:30:52 > 0:30:55but he'll wait a little short of the front gate, behind the laurels.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58- Do you have the keys to the house? - Oh, Henry, really.
0:30:58 > 0:30:59And if we don't find her at the porch,
0:30:59 > 0:31:01then we can stroll round into the garden.
0:31:01 > 0:31:02Our object... Oh.
0:31:04 > 0:31:05Why have we stopped?
0:31:05 > 0:31:06To pick up the local doctor.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08Is that the doctor?
0:31:08 > 0:31:10- He's a very good man. - He is scarcely older than Tibby.
0:31:10 > 0:31:11She needs to see a doctor.
0:31:11 > 0:31:14We can take her to see an older one, if we get the chance, later.
0:31:14 > 0:31:17Margaret, you've asked me to help, so I'm helping.
0:31:17 > 0:31:18Good afternoon, Mansbridge.
0:31:18 > 0:31:19Good afternoon, Mr Wilcox.
0:31:19 > 0:31:22May I present Mrs Wilcox? Margaret, this is Mr Mansbridge, the doctor.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24How do you do?
0:31:24 > 0:31:25On we go, Crane.
0:31:30 > 0:31:31I was saying to my wife, Mr Mansbridge,
0:31:31 > 0:31:34that our main object should not be to frighten Miss Schlegel.
0:31:34 > 0:31:37The trouble is evidently nervous - wouldn't you say so, Margaret?
0:31:37 > 0:31:39I must ask if the girl has had any sort of shock?
0:31:39 > 0:31:41No, no, nothing like that.
0:31:41 > 0:31:43Is there anything hereditary or congenital?
0:31:43 > 0:31:45She was always highly strung, a tendency to...spiritualism,
0:31:45 > 0:31:48that sort of thing, nothing serious.
0:31:48 > 0:31:51Musical, literary, artistic, that sort of thing.
0:31:51 > 0:31:55But I should say normal - a charming girl.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07- Please wait here for me. - Margaret, I...- I am going first.
0:32:07 > 0:32:09Margaret. Margaret!
0:32:19 > 0:32:21Margaret!
0:32:21 > 0:32:22No...
0:32:22 > 0:32:24Meg!
0:32:26 > 0:32:28Oh, my darling!
0:32:32 > 0:32:33Is the truant all right?
0:32:33 > 0:32:35Yes, yes, all right!
0:32:36 > 0:32:39Oh, my darling, forgive me!
0:33:08 > 0:33:10Margaret, you look upset. Let me come inside.
0:33:10 > 0:33:11I want you to wait in the car.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13- Go away, Henry. - Margaret, give me the keys.
0:33:13 > 0:33:14What have you been doing with Helen?
0:33:14 > 0:33:16Oh dearest, do go away, I will manage it.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18Manage what?
0:33:18 > 0:33:21- Stop that at least! - Stop? Stop what?
0:33:21 > 0:33:24Stop what? Come, this is an odd beginning.
0:33:24 > 0:33:25I cannot help it.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27Please, all four of you must go now.
0:33:27 > 0:33:29- Mr Wilcox...- Stop!
0:33:39 > 0:33:42We are relying on you to help us, Mrs Wilcox.
0:33:42 > 0:33:45- Can you persuade your sister to come out?- On what grounds?
0:33:47 > 0:33:49Come, come, Margaret.
0:33:50 > 0:33:52This is an appalling business!
0:33:52 > 0:33:53Doctor's orders. Open the door.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56- Forgive me, but I will not.- You need us, Mrs Wilcox, and we need you.
0:33:56 > 0:33:58- Quite so.- I do not need you in the least.
0:33:58 > 0:34:01Nor does my sister, who is still many weeks from her confinement.
0:34:01 > 0:34:02Margaret, Margaret!
0:34:02 > 0:34:04From whom do you pretend to hide this dreadful secret?
0:34:04 > 0:34:05Mrs Wilcox...
0:34:05 > 0:34:08You are not qualified to attend my sister, Mr Mansbridge.
0:34:08 > 0:34:09Henry, send your doctor away.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11- What possible use is he now? - I must ask you to be calm.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17For one sensible remark, I will let you in.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19But you cannot make it.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21You will trouble my sister for no reason.
0:34:21 > 0:34:22I will not permit it.
0:34:22 > 0:34:24I will stand here all the day sooner.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32Perhaps not now, Mr Mansbridge.
0:34:35 > 0:34:37Now, Henry, you.
0:34:37 > 0:34:39Go away now, dear.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42I shall want your advice later, no doubt.
0:34:42 > 0:34:44Helen and I will stop here.
0:34:45 > 0:34:49Forgive me if I have been cross, but you must go.
0:34:49 > 0:34:52Come now, Mr Wilcox.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:36:14 > 0:36:15But why go at all?
0:36:15 > 0:36:18Helen, I must speak to Henry. He is my husband.
0:36:18 > 0:36:21This is his house, not ours.
0:36:21 > 0:36:22Charles may say no.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25Well, then, we won't consult him. Expect me back before dark.
0:36:47 > 0:36:49Dolly has not been told.
0:36:49 > 0:36:51- Has she not?- No.
0:36:51 > 0:36:56Margaret, you're come! Will I bring tea, Mr Wilcox?
0:36:56 > 0:36:57No, thank you, Dolly.
0:36:57 > 0:36:59Will you wheel the baby inside, please?
0:36:59 > 0:37:02But the diddums can't listen, he isn't six months old!
0:37:02 > 0:37:04That's not what I was saying. We desire to be alone.
0:37:04 > 0:37:05Oh.
0:37:05 > 0:37:08It is I who is to be sent away!
0:37:08 > 0:37:11Well, we'll go inside together, diddums! Yes, we will.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14Can I bring you nothing, Margaret? Mr Wilcox?
0:37:14 > 0:37:16Nothing at present. Thank you, Dolly. You are very kind.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25Will you sit, my dear? You must be very tired.
0:37:25 > 0:37:27Thank you, I am well enough.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31Er...
0:37:31 > 0:37:32Is it what we feared?
0:37:32 > 0:37:33Yes.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37My dear girl, there is troublesome business ahead,
0:37:37 > 0:37:40and nothing but the most absolute honesty and plain speech will do.
0:37:40 > 0:37:43Now, I am... As you know, I am not one of your Bernard Shaws,
0:37:43 > 0:37:44who consider nothing sacred.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48We are husband and wife, you and I, not children.
0:37:48 > 0:37:52I am a man of the world, and you are a most exceptional woman.
0:37:54 > 0:37:57Was your sister wearing a wedding ring?
0:37:57 > 0:37:59No.
0:37:59 > 0:38:00I see.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05I am now obliged to ask the name of her seducer.
0:38:05 > 0:38:08Seducer? I don't know her seducer's name.
0:38:08 > 0:38:09She would not tell you?
0:38:09 > 0:38:12I never even asked her who seduced her.
0:38:12 > 0:38:13- That is singular.- Why?
0:38:13 > 0:38:16- It is in Helen's interests that we are acting.- Who is "we"?
0:38:16 > 0:38:18I thought it best to ring Charles.
0:38:18 > 0:38:20- He has at once gone to call on your brother.- Oh. That was unnecessary.
0:38:20 > 0:38:22It is still not too late to save her name.
0:38:22 > 0:38:24Are we to make her seducer marry her?
0:38:24 > 0:38:26If possible, yes.
0:38:26 > 0:38:28Henry, suppose it turns out that he is married already?
0:38:28 > 0:38:30- One has heard of such cases. - If that is the case,
0:38:30 > 0:38:33then he should be thrashed within an inch of his life.
0:38:33 > 0:38:36And as for Helen staying the night at Howards End,
0:38:36 > 0:38:38I think that is... I think that is highly inadvisable.
0:38:38 > 0:38:42I will take her to London tomorrow. She cannot stay in England.
0:38:42 > 0:38:44She will go to Munich until the child is born.
0:38:44 > 0:38:48I only ask that she and I be permitted to spend one night
0:38:48 > 0:38:51amongst our own things before she goes.
0:38:51 > 0:38:52Will you give us leave?
0:38:52 > 0:38:53I cannot.
0:38:53 > 0:38:56Why? Would her condition depreciate the property?
0:38:56 > 0:38:59My dear, you are forgetting yourself.
0:38:59 > 0:39:01Helen commands my sympathy.
0:39:01 > 0:39:04As your husband, I... I will do all for her that I can,
0:39:04 > 0:39:06but I cannot treat her as if nothing has happened.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09It is my request, and the request of an unhappy girl.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12Tomorrow she will go to Germany, and trouble you no longer.
0:39:12 > 0:39:14Tonight she asks - we ask -
0:39:14 > 0:39:17to spend one night in your empty house -
0:39:17 > 0:39:19a house you do not care about,
0:39:19 > 0:39:21a house that you have not occupied for a year.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23May she?
0:39:24 > 0:39:26Will you give my sister leave?
0:39:26 > 0:39:28Will you forgive her?
0:39:28 > 0:39:30As you hope to be forgiven?
0:39:32 > 0:39:34As you actually have been forgiven?
0:39:36 > 0:39:39As I actually have been forgiven?
0:39:39 > 0:39:40Yes.
0:39:45 > 0:39:49I have my children, and the memory of my dear Ruth to consider.
0:39:49 > 0:39:51I am afraid that your sister had better sleep at the hotel.
0:39:51 > 0:39:55I am sorry, but see that she leaves my house at once.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57You mentioned Mrs Wilcox.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59- I beg your pardon? - A rare occurrence.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01In reply, may I mention Mrs Bast?
0:40:01 > 0:40:03You have not been yourself all day.
0:40:03 > 0:40:04No more of this, Henry!
0:40:04 > 0:40:06You will see the connection if it kills you!
0:40:06 > 0:40:08You have had a mistress - I forgave you.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10Helen has a lover - you drive her from the house.
0:40:10 > 0:40:12I've had enough of your unweeded kindness.
0:40:12 > 0:40:13You have been spoiled long enough.
0:40:13 > 0:40:15All your life you have been spoiled.
0:40:15 > 0:40:17Mrs Wilcox spoiled you.
0:40:17 > 0:40:19No-one has ever told you what you are.
0:40:20 > 0:40:22You are muddled.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24Criminally muddled.
0:40:24 > 0:40:25Don't repent!
0:40:25 > 0:40:27Just say to yourself, "What Helen has done, I have done."
0:40:27 > 0:40:30- The two cases are different. - In what way different?
0:40:30 > 0:40:33You have betrayed Mrs Wilcox, Helen only herself.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36You remain in society, she can't.
0:40:36 > 0:40:38You have had only pleasure.
0:40:38 > 0:40:39She may die.
0:40:39 > 0:40:42You were lonely! You were lonely!
0:40:42 > 0:40:46You have the insolence to talk to me about differences, Henry?
0:40:48 > 0:40:53I do not give you and your sister leave to sleep at Howards End.
0:41:13 > 0:41:15If a man played about with my sister,
0:41:15 > 0:41:17I'd send a bullet through him, but perhaps you don't mind.
0:41:17 > 0:41:20- I mind very much. - You are hiding something.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23When you saw her last, did she mention anyone's name?
0:41:23 > 0:41:24Yes or no?
0:41:24 > 0:41:27At Wickham Place she mentioned some friends called the Basts.
0:41:27 > 0:41:28Great Scott.
0:41:28 > 0:41:31One of the guests at the wedding told me about some rag-tag.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33- Was she full of them when you saw her?- Excuse me?
0:41:33 > 0:41:35I ask you, was there a man?
0:41:35 > 0:41:36Did Helen speak of the man?
0:41:36 > 0:41:38Have you had any dealings with him?
0:41:38 > 0:41:39See here, Wilcox.
0:41:39 > 0:41:43She is my sister, and whatever she's done, I am not to be bullied,
0:41:43 > 0:41:45not even in your father's house.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47I see. You are in his confidence.
0:41:47 > 0:41:50They met at your house in Wickham Place, or she spoke of them.
0:41:50 > 0:41:53I know nothing of the matter, and have nothing more to say.
0:41:53 > 0:41:56Oh, what a family! What a family!
0:41:56 > 0:41:58God help the poor Pater.
0:42:16 > 0:42:19Are you sure we won't be evicted before dawn?
0:42:19 > 0:42:20Quite sure.
0:42:22 > 0:42:24I do hope so.
0:42:24 > 0:42:26I'm so tired, Meg.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31But I am steady now.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34I shall never rave against Wilcoxes any more.
0:42:36 > 0:42:40I understand how you married him. You will now be very happy.
0:42:42 > 0:42:43My Helen.
0:42:48 > 0:42:52Poor Leonard! He was not to blame.
0:42:53 > 0:42:56Right up to the end, we were Mr Bast and Miss Schlegel.
0:42:59 > 0:43:01I was very lonely.
0:43:03 > 0:43:07I want never to see him again, though it sounds appalling.
0:43:07 > 0:43:11He would have gone on... worshipping me.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15Oh, Meg!
0:43:15 > 0:43:17The little that is known about these things!
0:43:25 > 0:43:30Except Mrs Wilcox, dearest, no-one understands our little movements.
0:43:50 > 0:43:51KNOCKING
0:43:53 > 0:43:55Can I do anything for you, sir?
0:43:55 > 0:43:57I can't sleep, my boy.
0:43:57 > 0:44:01I think we had better have a talk. Get it over.
0:44:03 > 0:44:06I cannot let this kind of thing continue.
0:44:06 > 0:44:08I shall do all I can for Helen,
0:44:08 > 0:44:11but on the understanding that they clear out of the house.
0:44:11 > 0:44:13Do you see?
0:44:13 > 0:44:15Then at eight tomorrow, I may go up in the car?
0:44:15 > 0:44:17Eight, or earlier.
0:44:17 > 0:44:19And of course, use no violence, Charles.
0:44:50 > 0:44:52Hello, Len!
0:44:53 > 0:44:55What ho, Len?
0:44:55 > 0:44:57What ho, Jacky.
0:45:00 > 0:45:02I am going out for a bit.
0:45:02 > 0:45:04Going out? What time is it?
0:45:04 > 0:45:07It's early yet. Go back to sleep.
0:45:09 > 0:45:10See you again later.
0:46:15 > 0:46:17- MUFFLED:- I really must insist you leave at once.
0:46:17 > 0:46:18It wouldn't do for others to see.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21Our family is quite the most respected in the village,
0:46:21 > 0:46:23- so if anyone, God forbid, should see you...- Mr Bast!
0:46:26 > 0:46:29Oh, is he here?
0:46:30 > 0:46:31I am not surprised.
0:46:33 > 0:46:35Now I shall thrash him within an inch of his life.
0:46:35 > 0:46:38Mrs Wilcox, I have done wrong.
0:46:38 > 0:46:39No!
0:46:39 > 0:46:41Charles!
0:46:41 > 0:46:42Where's a stick? Damn you!
0:46:42 > 0:46:45Charles! Charles, no, no!
0:46:45 > 0:46:47No!
0:46:53 > 0:46:56Stop! Please, stop!
0:46:58 > 0:46:59No!
0:47:07 > 0:47:09Leonard...
0:47:13 > 0:47:15- WHISPERS:- Leonard.
0:47:58 > 0:48:01- Thank you for coming. - Did you get my message?
0:48:01 > 0:48:03Message? No.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06I am going to Germany with my sister.
0:48:08 > 0:48:11I must tell you now, I shall make it my permanent home.
0:48:11 > 0:48:13I...am unable to forgive you, and I'm leaving you.
0:48:13 > 0:48:15Here are your keys.
0:48:17 > 0:48:20I... I have something I'd like to tell you.
0:48:20 > 0:48:21I don't want to hear it.
0:48:21 > 0:48:23My sister is going to be ill.
0:48:23 > 0:48:25My life is going to be with her now.
0:48:28 > 0:48:29Where are you going?
0:48:29 > 0:48:31Munich.
0:48:31 > 0:48:32We start after the inquest.
0:48:32 > 0:48:34After the inquest?
0:48:34 > 0:48:35Yes.
0:48:37 > 0:48:41Have you realised what the verdict at the inquest will be?
0:48:41 > 0:48:44Yes. Mr Bast had heart disease.
0:48:44 > 0:48:45He had not long to live.
0:48:45 > 0:48:48The... What happened only brought on the inevitable.
0:48:48 > 0:48:50That's what the doctor said.
0:48:50 > 0:48:53The verdict at the inquest will be manslaughter.
0:48:54 > 0:48:57Manslaughter.
0:48:57 > 0:48:59There can be no other.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03I have spoken to the police.
0:49:03 > 0:49:08I have spoken to the magistrate. I have used all my influence.
0:49:10 > 0:49:12But Charles will go to prison.
0:49:14 > 0:49:16I dare not tell him.
0:49:18 > 0:49:19I don't know what to do.
0:49:23 > 0:49:28I'm... I'm broken. I'm ended.
0:49:29 > 0:49:31HE SOBS
0:49:41 > 0:49:43But...
0:50:20 > 0:50:24I wish Henry was out here to enjoy this.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26This lovely weather.
0:50:27 > 0:50:29To be shut up in the house,
0:50:29 > 0:50:32it's very hard.
0:50:32 > 0:50:34Meg, is he ill? I can't make it out.
0:50:34 > 0:50:36Not ill.
0:50:36 > 0:50:37Eternally tired.
0:50:39 > 0:50:42He has worked hard all his life, and noticed nothing.
0:50:43 > 0:50:46Those people collapse when they do notice a thing.
0:50:48 > 0:50:51Meg, may I tell you something?
0:50:52 > 0:50:53I like Henry.
0:50:53 > 0:50:55You'd be odd if you didn't.
0:50:55 > 0:50:56I usen't to.
0:50:56 > 0:50:58Usen't!
0:51:03 > 0:51:06I do hope it will be permanent, Meg.
0:51:06 > 0:51:09Two years ago, I should never have guessed.
0:51:09 > 0:51:11You did it all, sweetest.
0:51:11 > 0:51:15- I?- Yes, though you're far too stupid to see.
0:51:16 > 0:51:20You picked up the pieces, and made us a home.
0:51:20 > 0:51:22Can't it strike you, even for a moment,
0:51:22 > 0:51:24that your life has been heroic?
0:51:24 > 0:51:27No, darling. It's not like that at all.
0:51:27 > 0:51:29But it is!
0:51:29 > 0:51:30- Oh, take care.- Oh...
0:51:30 > 0:51:33- The conclave's breaking at last. - I'll go.
0:51:44 > 0:51:46My father has asked for you.
0:51:46 > 0:51:47We have been talking business,
0:51:47 > 0:51:50but I dare say you knew about it beforehand.
0:51:50 > 0:51:51Yes, I did.
0:52:01 > 0:52:04Is this going to suit everyone?
0:52:04 > 0:52:06Because I don't want you all coming here later on,
0:52:06 > 0:52:08complaining that I have been unfair.
0:52:09 > 0:52:10It's apparently got to suit us.
0:52:10 > 0:52:12I beg your pardon, my boy.
0:52:12 > 0:52:15You have only to speak, and I shall leave the house to you instead.
0:52:15 > 0:52:17And what would I do with the house when I am in Africa?
0:52:17 > 0:52:19Well, you may not be in Africa for much longer, my boy,
0:52:19 > 0:52:20the way things are looking now.
0:52:20 > 0:52:23Nevertheless, I shall not want to be here.
0:52:25 > 0:52:27Does this arrangement suit you, Evie?
0:52:27 > 0:52:28Of course, Father.
0:52:28 > 0:52:30And you, Dolly?
0:52:30 > 0:52:31Perfectly splendidly.
0:52:31 > 0:52:33I thought Charles wanted it for the boys,
0:52:33 > 0:52:35but last time I saw him, he said no,
0:52:35 > 0:52:38because he cannot possibly live in this part of England again.
0:52:38 > 0:52:40Charles says we ought to change our name,
0:52:40 > 0:52:44but I cannot think what to, for Wilcox just suits Charles and me,
0:52:44 > 0:52:47and I can't think of any other name.
0:52:51 > 0:52:54Then I leave Howards End to my wife absolutely.
0:52:54 > 0:52:57And let everyone understand that.
0:52:57 > 0:53:01And after I am dead, let there be no jealousy, and no surprise.
0:53:03 > 0:53:05In consequence, I leave my wife no money.
0:53:05 > 0:53:08That is her own wish.
0:53:08 > 0:53:10All that she would have had will be divided among you.
0:53:10 > 0:53:14She intends after she dies to leave the house to her...
0:53:15 > 0:53:17..her nephew, down in the field.
0:53:17 > 0:53:19Does everyone understand?
0:53:19 > 0:53:21Down in the field? Oh, come!
0:53:21 > 0:53:23Paul, you promised to take care.
0:53:30 > 0:53:32Goodbye, old girl. Don't you worry about me.
0:53:32 > 0:53:33Goodbye, Dad.
0:53:33 > 0:53:35Goodbye, Mr Wilcox.
0:53:35 > 0:53:38It does seem curious that Mrs Wilcox should have left Margaret
0:53:38 > 0:53:42Howards End all that time ago, and yet she gets it, after all.
0:53:47 > 0:53:49Goodbye.
0:53:49 > 0:53:50Goodbye.
0:53:53 > 0:53:54Goodbye, Dolly.
0:53:56 > 0:53:59So long, Father.
0:53:59 > 0:54:00Bye, my boy.
0:54:03 > 0:54:05Always take care of yourself.
0:54:06 > 0:54:07Goodbye, Mrs Wilcox.
0:54:07 > 0:54:09Goodbye.
0:54:34 > 0:54:35Could you tell me, Henry...
0:54:37 > 0:54:40..what was that about Mrs Wilcox leaving me Howards End?
0:54:42 > 0:54:44Yes, she did.
0:54:45 > 0:54:48But that is a very old story.
0:54:50 > 0:54:54When she was ill, and you were so kind to her,
0:54:54 > 0:54:58she wanted to make you some return, and, not being herself,
0:54:58 > 0:55:01she scribbled on a piece of paper, "Howards End."
0:55:01 > 0:55:04I went into it thoroughly, and as it was clearly fanciful,
0:55:04 > 0:55:05I set it to one side,
0:55:05 > 0:55:08little knowing what my Margaret would be to me in the future.
0:55:11 > 0:55:14I didn't do wrong, did I?
0:55:14 > 0:55:16You didn't, darling.
0:55:18 > 0:55:21Nothing has been done wrong.
0:55:23 > 0:55:25HELEN'S VOICE NEARBY
0:55:25 > 0:55:26What is that?
0:55:29 > 0:55:31Oh, here they are at last!
0:55:33 > 0:55:35Oh, dear. I'm sorry, darling.
0:55:35 > 0:55:36I'm sorry!
0:55:36 > 0:55:38Helen, what is it?
0:55:38 > 0:55:40The grass is coming up like mad!
0:55:40 > 0:55:42We've seen to the very end,
0:55:42 > 0:55:44and it'll be such a crop of hay as never!
0:56:31 > 0:56:34THUNDER RUMBLES