0:01:32 > 0:01:39'Life's so extraordinarily pleasant for those of us who have been born in the right place.
0:01:39 > 0:01:43'Ought it to be so pleasant, and for so few of us?
0:01:43 > 0:01:47'And isn't there a kind of saiety about it all
0:01:47 > 0:01:50'and at the same time greed?
0:01:50 > 0:01:53'We seem to have become money-mad.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57'There's never been so much gambling, speculating, fortune-hunting.
0:01:57 > 0:02:05'People say the military regime in Germany will insist on a trial of strength, sooner or later.
0:02:05 > 0:02:13'And might that not cleanse us of our materialism, our cynicism, our lax, lazy hypocrisies?
0:02:13 > 0:02:17'Make us gird our sinews and find simplicity again?
0:02:17 > 0:02:22'And then should we not be fitter afterwards to make a better world?
0:02:22 > 0:02:30'For that must be what we're here for...to leave the world a better place than we found it.'
0:02:30 > 0:02:35 Better be ready, Mr Stephens, sir. Yes, yes. Quite right, Percy.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39RHYTHMIC BEATING >
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Over there on the right! >
0:02:59 > 0:03:03PANIC-STRICKEN SQUAWKS
0:03:06 > 0:03:11GUNFIRE AUDIBLE, BUT AT A DISTANCE
0:03:36 > 0:03:39All out now, Sir Randolph! >
0:03:43 > 0:03:48That's 62 pheasant, 2 hares and a woodcock today, sir.
0:03:48 > 0:03:55Percy, don't let Sir Randolph hear you keeping score. Our host considers it unsporting.
0:03:59 > 0:04:0471 pheasant, 3 woodcock and 2 hares, m'Lord.
0:04:04 > 0:04:12We are ahead of Mr Stephens? Ahead, my Lord, but not comfortably so.
0:04:29 > 0:04:36- Hello, isn't that Lionel Stephens? - Buried in a book as always!
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Hello, Bob! < 'Afternoon, Lionel!
0:04:40 > 0:04:43- Hello! - < Olivia!
0:04:52 > 0:04:57- You missed a good first day, Bob. - I'm desolate, Randolph!
0:04:59 > 0:05:03But one can't refuse to be one's brother's best man.
0:05:03 > 0:05:08- Especially at Godfrey's age. - Have you brought fancy dress?
0:05:08 > 0:05:12- You know Lady Hartlip? - Of course!
0:05:12 > 0:05:18- Dressing up isn't really my style, Minnie. - You're as bad as Randolph.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20You did nicely today.
0:05:20 > 0:05:25Doubtless Olivia has brought some ravishing confection(!)
0:05:27 > 0:05:29- Another Greek classic?- No, no.
0:05:29 > 0:05:34Ruskin! I love Ruskin. Even when he's talking nonsense, I love it.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41- Here you are.- ..Thank you.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Hopkins! A mustard bath for Sir Reuben!
0:05:44 > 0:05:48- Lady Nettleby!- Olivia, my dear!
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Come along!
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Forgive us for arriving late.
0:05:55 > 0:06:00It seems everything will depend on your turn-out tomorrow night.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04- You know Lord and Lady Hartlip? - Yes.
0:06:04 > 0:06:08- Hello, Gilbert.- Hello, Bob. - Aline.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12- And Count Tibor Rakassyi,- > - visiting from Hungary.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15(Rakassyi!)
0:06:15 > 0:06:18- Lord and Lady Lilburn.- Hello.
0:06:20 > 0:06:27You must know our daughter-in-law, Ida. Her children, Cicely and Marcus.
0:06:27 > 0:06:33- We've met. At Henley, wasn't it? - I expect you'd like to unpack.
0:06:33 > 0:06:38I'll get Rogers to send someone to bring your things in from the car.
0:06:53 > 0:06:58You're not having any more! Just one, Flo!
0:06:58 > 0:07:04Hello, Flo. Dad's back is bad again. He won't be fit to beat tomorrow.
0:07:04 > 0:07:09Can't Dr West do nothing for it, then?
0:07:10 > 0:07:18What's this? Lardy cakes from Mum. How many has Dan eaten?!
0:07:18 > 0:07:25Will you tell Tom Harker I'll need him as a beater? 8.00 sharp. Batty Clump.
0:07:25 > 0:07:31You said you'd not use him after catching him again. I don't like it.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35Gives him a free reccy, but it can't be helped.
0:07:35 > 0:07:40He knows what he's doing, and I need a reliable stop.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Besides, he only poaches for the pot.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Good evening! >
0:07:51 > 0:07:56- 'Evening, sir! - I want the Nettleby Arms.
0:07:56 > 0:08:01- I'll point you in the right direction. - That would be very kind.
0:08:07 > 0:08:12I see you've got a bad leg. Is that from the South African War?
0:08:12 > 0:08:18- No, it was a man-trap, sir. - Good God! But that's illegal!
0:08:18 > 0:08:23I bear no grudge. The game-keeper was doing his duty as he saw it.
0:08:23 > 0:08:28His DUTY? To trap a fellow human and cripple him for life?
0:08:28 > 0:08:35- All to ensure a few more birds for someone else to murder? - You might say so.
0:08:35 > 0:08:42The birds are our brothers and sisters! We can survive on the fruits of field and orchard.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45They say the Lord will provide.
0:08:45 > 0:08:52- There's a massacre tomorrow? - I know nothing of the pastimes of the upper classes, sir.
0:08:54 > 0:08:59That silly arse Matthews has left half my things behind.
0:08:59 > 0:09:04What a nuisance! But you look very nice.
0:09:04 > 0:09:10- The studs are wrong.- No-one could guess.- They're too smart.
0:09:10 > 0:09:15It's frightfully bad form. It looks as though I'm going to a damn ball!
0:09:15 > 0:09:17Oh, Bob!
0:09:18 > 0:09:23It's all very well... You can dismiss these things if you like.
0:09:27 > 0:09:31But they're part of the structure...
0:09:33 > 0:09:37..of our lives. If we lose respect for them...
0:09:39 > 0:09:42..we lose respect for ourselves.
0:09:42 > 0:09:48My self-respect is not connected with your shirt studs!
0:09:48 > 0:09:54But you mean I can be frivolous because I am supported by you
0:09:54 > 0:10:00- and the position you confer on me by making me your wife.- I- say...
0:10:00 > 0:10:05"It is far better for a gentleman to mow his OWN fields,
0:10:05 > 0:10:09"than to ride over other people's."
0:10:12 > 0:10:18You're trying to provoke me, but I shall NOT rise.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Who is this ape, anyway?
0:10:21 > 0:10:24John Ruskin! There you are, then.
0:10:28 > 0:10:33Art and Life are different things, as he found out on marriage.
0:10:33 > 0:10:39- Who gave you this rubbish?- Lionel Stephens was looking at it and...
0:10:39 > 0:10:44..he gave it to me when I said I liked Ruskin.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Good man, Stephens.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15This is where I turn off.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19The Nettleby Arms is 100 yards on.
0:11:19 > 0:11:24Oh, by the way... SIR! Let me give you one of my leaflets.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28One moment.
0:11:30 > 0:11:35Here we are! I can see you're a fellow spirit.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39Good day to you, sir.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47Fellow bloody spirit indeed(!)
0:11:47 > 0:11:55- MUTTERING: - Bloody lunatic! 'Murder', indeed! Bloody barmy, if you ask me.
0:11:59 > 0:12:04- What...? What's this, then? - < I've a message from Mr Glass.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08Will you beat for him? 8.00 tomorrow.
0:12:08 > 0:12:13- Batty Clump.- Beat for him, eh? Who's fallen out?
0:12:13 > 0:12:17- My dad.- Has he? - It's his back.
0:12:21 > 0:12:26- What do you think of that? - "The Rights Of Animals".
0:12:26 > 0:12:29Animals haven't GOT rights!
0:12:30 > 0:12:33Shouldn't think so. I don't know.
0:12:33 > 0:12:38Except to hunt and be hunted. ..Here then, look what I've got!
0:12:38 > 0:12:42Liquorice. It's for waiting for me.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Thank you, Mr Harker.
0:13:06 > 0:13:11- Hello, John. - I think that's everything, sir.
0:13:11 > 0:13:18I'll empty this for you. No hurry. I've done all the writing I'm going to do.
0:13:20 > 0:13:27The way she talks about Lady Hartlip, that Hortense! I couldn't repeat it!
0:13:27 > 0:13:29No, you'd better not!
0:13:29 > 0:13:36- Is she a flirt? French maids are supposed to be.- She flirts with John.
0:13:36 > 0:13:43- You must marry John quickly, to keep him in order. - Miss, we couldn't.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48- Not yet. Not without any prospects. - John won't be a footman for ever.
0:13:48 > 0:13:55- He did think of applying to be Mr Stephens' valet. He thinks he's nice.- I do, too. Very nice!
0:13:55 > 0:14:00And yet, in a funny way, he's SO nice,
0:14:00 > 0:14:09and so GOOD at everything, so kind and elegant and clever, I wonder if he's quite real.
0:14:09 > 0:14:15Count Rakassyi's more your sort, Miss. He's more 'lively'.
0:14:15 > 0:14:22- Ellen, you're just saying that to find out what I think about him! - Miss, please sit down!
0:14:24 > 0:14:32- Of course he's more my sort of gentleman. But he's nearly thirty, you know?- Is he really?
0:14:32 > 0:14:39- He's well-preserved, if you know what I mean. - I shall have to marry him, then.
0:14:39 > 0:14:44And you and John will come to Hungary as valet and lady's maid.
0:14:44 > 0:14:51And we'll gallop across the Hungarian snow-covered plain from palace to palace!
0:14:51 > 0:14:55- I never fancied snow. - You're very particular!
0:14:55 > 0:15:02 Cicely, please DON'T borrow my things again without asking.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05Good evening, m'Lady.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08(Good luck, Miss!)
0:15:09 > 0:15:17You shouldn't encourage her. I don't NEED to. She does very well on her own.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Don't fawn on her. It insults her.
0:15:59 > 0:16:04You're always writing in that big, brown book, Grandpapa.
0:16:04 > 0:16:12It's my Game Book. Well, part of it is my Game Book. Part of it is my thoughts. It's not a bad idea...
0:16:12 > 0:16:19..writing down one's thoughts. It saves bothering others with them.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23I HATE writing.
0:16:23 > 0:16:30That's because you're not very good at it. One doesn't enjoy doing what one's not very good at.
0:16:34 > 0:16:42'My wife and I are very fond of each other... But she cares for society more than I do...'
0:16:43 > 0:16:47I have to cover my legs with powder, it's the only way.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51And lie on my back with my legs in the air.
0:16:51 > 0:16:56And then my maid and I have to pull hard for hours!
0:16:56 > 0:17:02Can it be worth the agony? Oh, YES ! They look wonderful.
0:17:02 > 0:17:07- What do?! My hunting boots. - Oh, yes!
0:17:07 > 0:17:09(Boring conversation!)
0:17:11 > 0:17:17- Is the Israelite not amongst us? - No, he got his feet wet in a ditch.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21I've sent Hopkins up to him with a mustard bath.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24If he was inadequately shod...
0:17:24 > 0:17:30He was not inadequately shod. He was shod the same as everyone else.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34We don't want too many people about with imagination.
0:17:34 > 0:17:39LIONEL AND OLIVIA CHAT INTIMATELY >
0:17:39 > 0:17:42There's absolutely nothing in it!
0:17:42 > 0:17:48- I don't know to what you refer, but it'll be wickedness.- Speculation.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06A thousand apologies for being late.
0:18:06 > 0:18:14I'm sure it was Hopkins' fault. Meet Harry and Mildred Stamp. Sir Reuben Hergesheimer.
0:18:14 > 0:18:20- Oh! I've heard so much about you! - You flatter me!
0:18:20 > 0:18:25- A glass of sherry...wine, Hergesheimer?- A thousand thanks.
0:18:25 > 0:18:33How perfect your coverts are. As good, in my opinion, as Sandringham, though smaller.
0:18:33 > 0:18:39- We copied them.- I didn't realise. - Almost bankrupting the estate.
0:18:39 > 0:18:45Mildred, there's been something I've been wanting to ask you...
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Ah, Sandringham...
0:18:48 > 0:18:52We were there twice, a long time ago.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55- Dinner is served. - Thank you, Rogers.
0:18:55 > 0:19:00- Sir Reuben, would you escort Mildred in?- It would be my pleasure.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39CICELY: Oh, do look!
0:19:43 > 0:19:49- How beautiful!- Rogers, I think we have a need for Master Osbert.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54< How divine!
0:19:54 > 0:19:58Osbert will catch it. What a naughty boy!
0:19:58 > 0:20:05- I'm sorry!- Nonsense! But I agree we should wait for Osbert.
0:20:07 > 0:20:12- It's thinking!- I hope she doesn't come to any sudden decisions.
0:20:15 > 0:20:20IDA: Osbert, apologise to Granny!
0:20:20 > 0:20:23- I'm sorry, Granny.- Never mind, dear.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27Rogers, I think it's safe to serve dinner now.
0:20:27 > 0:20:33- A wild duck is an unusual pet. - I found her on the river last year.
0:20:33 > 0:20:37A chick? > About 4 days old.
0:20:37 > 0:20:45- Dear boy, won't she fly away? - Oh, she DOES. But she comes back.
0:20:45 > 0:20:51She pleases herself when she arrives and then she comes to look for me.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54 Best hang on to her tomorrow.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58< If she's with the wild ducks, she'll be for it.
0:20:58 > 0:21:04- Keep her in, Os. Don't forget. - Do you HEAR that, Duck?! >
0:21:04 > 0:21:11If you fly over me, I can tell you you haven't a hope.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Bang, bang! And it will ALL be over!
0:21:13 > 0:21:16If you kill her, I will kill you.
0:21:16 > 0:21:23Osbert! Oh, you will ?! How do you propose to do that?
0:21:23 > 0:21:26I will kill you by prayer.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39Tell me, Mr Stephens, which sport do you excel at?
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Billiards. Billiards?!
0:21:42 > 0:21:47Very droll! Tricky game, billiards.
0:21:47 > 0:21:52ALINE: You should say shooting after today!
0:21:52 > 0:21:55- Not before the finest shot of all.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57- Very civil of you.
0:21:59 > 0:22:04It's more than what the sentences actually say. Just like music.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Art makes us better. Do you agree?
0:22:23 > 0:22:31LIONEL'S VOICE: 'I couldn't look at you when you smiled. Did you notice?
0:22:31 > 0:22:35'Not because it dazzles, but because it is so innocent.
0:22:35 > 0:22:40'You are Truth because you are Beauty; Beauty because you are Truth.
0:22:40 > 0:22:48'You cannot stop me dying for you, although I would much rather live for you...if you would let me.'
0:22:48 > 0:22:51I hope you like the port.
0:22:51 > 0:22:55 If it's as good as the shooting, I, for one, shan't complain!
0:22:55 > 0:23:02- I hear you're successful at the Bar, Stephens. - Thank you, Sir Reuben.
0:23:02 > 0:23:07- Ever considered politics? - Yes, but it's not my style.
0:23:07 > 0:23:12- You could never relax on an estate, Lionel.- Each to his own.
0:23:12 > 0:23:18Isn't it time you put down roots, Hergesheimer?
0:23:18 > 0:23:25< Letting all those millions go to charity! If I had an heir,
0:23:25 > 0:23:33I don't know how I would wish him to behave. Should he assimilate into your society?
0:23:33 > 0:23:38< Or should he remember his ancestors in the Polish ghetto?
0:23:38 > 0:23:41BOB: Well...
0:23:41 > 0:23:48..don't stay undecided for too long. If the land-owning class goes, everything goes.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51What do you say, Lionel?
0:23:51 > 0:23:59I don't know. I think an age, perhaps even a civilisation, is coming to an end.
0:23:59 > 0:24:07- GILBERT: I wouldn't agree with you there. - I believe it to be true.
0:24:07 > 0:24:15Take away the proper function of the aristocracy and what can it do but play games too seriously?
0:24:15 > 0:24:22It happened at the end of feudalism and it's happening now. I must write a pamphlet about it.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28Private circulation, decently printed and so forth.
0:24:28 > 0:24:35MARCUS: Death, disease and dentistry are subjects that are forbidden at table.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC
0:24:38 > 0:24:43And how long have you had Lionel Stephens under your spell?
0:24:45 > 0:24:52- I think you must be mistaken. - Oh, don't worry! I've set my cap at Sir Reuben and his millions.
0:24:52 > 0:24:56- Is this the book you wanted? - Yes, thank you.
0:24:56 > 0:25:03- What a competitive pair you are, you and Gilbert. - He doesn't even join in the game(!)
0:25:03 > 0:25:08- It was sport I was referring to in his case.- Oh, sport!
0:25:08 > 0:25:12Sport doesn't interest me at ALL!
0:25:12 > 0:25:18Although, of course, one likes a man to be good at it.
0:25:18 > 0:25:23- Then you've chosen well for a husband.- One would think so.
0:25:23 > 0:25:29But do you know, something very odd was happening today.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33Somebody was actually out to beat him.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37I MEAN...your 'inamorata'.
0:25:37 > 0:25:43- What do you mean?!- Everybody wants to beat the champion.
0:25:43 > 0:25:48Aveline, our young friend's mind doesn't work like that.
0:25:48 > 0:25:56Even in the full madness of love? To shine in front of her? Why DO you think men do these things(!)
0:25:56 > 0:26:02< MEN ENTER Men do acts of valour to win women.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05 What other reasons could there be?!
0:26:05 > 0:26:10A deed of valour for any man is to partner my wife at bridge.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13I did it once...thirty years ago.
0:26:13 > 0:26:20I can see by the look in her eye that somebody is going to have to do it.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24- We have one expert here. - Too kind!
0:26:24 > 0:26:31- One or two rubbers would be nice. Bob...?- Of course. - Olivia...?- I'd rather read.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36Let's play the gramophone and do that new dance!
0:26:36 > 0:26:40Dance?! Anything but word games.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Shall we test your famous billiards?
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Yes, why not?!
0:26:49 > 0:26:53CICELY: I'm sure these are the steps.
0:26:53 > 0:26:57MARCUS: It can't possibly be!
0:26:57 > 0:27:01THEY ARGUE ON, AMIDST GIGGLES
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Oh, you're HOPELESS !
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Tibor, YOU try.
0:27:16 > 0:27:23- It's not a waltz, Tibor! - What do you call it? - It's certainly not a waltz!
0:27:27 > 0:27:28Erm...
0:27:29 > 0:27:33MUSIC OFF Let's go and play a game!
0:27:35 > 0:27:40Is there much shooting here? This is the Nettleby estate.
0:27:40 > 0:27:45- It's renowned. - The King himself has shot here.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49- How ghastly! - How's that?
0:27:49 > 0:27:51 It's gives me a few bob.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55- Murder! - I won't listen to this!
0:27:55 > 0:28:04Until we recognise our universal kinship with all living creatures, we shall remain in outer darkness!
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Dear me!
0:28:24 > 0:28:29I hope you gentlemen won't refuse my hospitality.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31Thank you, sir.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36(Gentlemen, indeed!)
0:28:58 > 0:29:02That give you something to think about?
0:29:03 > 0:29:10- Did I see you with new Purdeys today, Gilbert?- Yes, indeed. Best guns I've ever had.
0:29:14 > 0:29:20Made to fit me. Nothing like Purdeys for smoothness and finish.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23Good.
0:29:23 > 0:29:28< Perhaps if it's a tricky customer, funny shoulders or whatever,
0:29:28 > 0:29:32then Henry Holland has the experience.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36But I only go to Purdey now.
0:29:42 > 0:29:47- You've done it again. - Well done, partner!
0:29:47 > 0:29:52I shall write you a cheque. No, please, allow me.
0:29:52 > 0:29:56- What a dear man! - I can only agree!
0:29:59 > 0:30:04Cogswell and Harrison's are good. Got my first elephant gun there.
0:30:08 > 0:30:13I imagine you must be pursued by them all now, Gilbert.
0:30:13 > 0:30:16Yes, very vulgar.
0:30:18 > 0:30:24Now the ONLY people to whom I'd give a testimonial are Purdey.
0:30:48 > 0:30:52PLAYS CLASSICAL PIECE
0:31:28 > 0:31:32KNOCK AT DOOR >
0:34:09 > 0:34:13ELFRIDA! You've not had breakfast!
0:34:14 > 0:34:16- Sue...!
0:34:16 > 0:34:21- Watch out! What're you doing?! - It's a letter.- A letter?
0:34:21 > 0:34:26Read it when you're alone. It's quite long.
0:34:26 > 0:34:29- Is it serious?- Yes. - ..Two more, Sue!
0:34:29 > 0:34:32- What is it?- You'll see.
0:34:32 > 0:34:34'Yes?'
0:34:34 > 0:34:38- 'Thank you. Put it down there.' - Thank you, my Lady.
0:34:40 > 0:34:46- What does it say?- Read it.- I can't. I've got to finish the teas first.
0:34:48 > 0:34:53Master Osbert, whatever have you been doing?!
0:34:53 > 0:34:58The thing is, I went to feed Elfrida and I was just moving the cage...
0:34:58 > 0:35:02- ..to the better grass. - You're soaking!- And it tipped.
0:35:02 > 0:35:06- And I fell in the pond.- And Elfrida?
0:35:06 > 0:35:11She flew off, but she'll come back soon.
0:35:11 > 0:35:15Does she come when you call?
0:35:15 > 0:35:18Yes. When she can see me.
0:35:18 > 0:35:23All right, then. Run and get dry and don't let anyone catch you!
0:35:30 > 0:35:34- OLIVIA: - I wish we hadn't laughed at Osbert.
0:35:34 > 0:35:42- But you didn't.- It wasn't funny. He'll be educated and taught to be on the side of the guns.
0:35:42 > 0:35:47- It's such a pity.- We all have to learn to school our emotions.
0:35:47 > 0:35:52Yes, but who has decided it is the height of heroism to kill?
0:35:52 > 0:35:55Why the need for living sacrifices?
0:35:55 > 0:35:59I knew you had such fire but didn't think you'd show it to me.
0:35:59 > 0:36:05- I feel I can because you are a TRUE friend and won't laugh.- No.
0:36:05 > 0:36:14- We're being very serious. I think that might be breaking one of the rules.- I'm quite sure it is.
0:36:14 > 0:36:18- Lionel, do you think he's sound? - Let's have a look.
0:36:20 > 0:36:22Thank you.
0:36:26 > 0:36:28Come on, Bart!
0:36:28 > 0:36:32Having a son of my own makes me aware how DIFFERENTLY I feel from a man!
0:36:32 > 0:36:39How I would like to rebel against the world men have made!
0:36:39 > 0:36:46I see the beauty of a good shoot, but not of the sacrifice, the BLOOD.
0:36:46 > 0:36:52- Why do men have to have that, too? - Nature includes the note of death.
0:36:52 > 0:36:57- You don't have to seek it out! - Do we do that?
0:36:57 > 0:37:02- You've never wanted a war? - One answers the battle call.
0:37:02 > 0:37:06- There you are, then.- There I am.
0:37:06 > 0:37:11- But I shall not, if I can help it, shoot Osbert's duck.- That I believe!
0:37:11 > 0:37:15- Shall we walk back, then? - All right.
0:37:24 > 0:37:28GILBERT: Single!
0:37:37 > 0:37:40Ah, Gilbert!
0:37:40 > 0:37:45- I didn't realise it was you. - My dear fellow, do forgive me.
0:37:45 > 0:37:51I wasn't about to take a pot-shot at a Roman Emperor. It's my new guns.
0:37:51 > 0:38:00- I thought we would have a moment's drill.- I wouldn't have thought you'd need it. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
0:38:00 > 0:38:08Julius Caesar - it's just a cast from the British Museum. Not that you'd have been loaded.
0:38:09 > 0:38:12(At least I hope you wouldn't.)
0:39:07 > 0:39:16- The asters - shouldn't they be divided?- Best not lift them now, m'Lady. Not until the Spring.
0:39:17 > 0:39:20They won't thank us for it.
0:39:20 > 0:39:26- But if you insist...- No. One despot is enough in the garden, Ogden(!)
0:39:26 > 0:39:33- Where are you going?- To look for Elfrida Beetle for Osbert.
0:39:33 > 0:39:38- Who is Elfrida Beetle?! - < It's the name of the duck, m'Lady.
0:39:38 > 0:39:45She was called Alfred, but then she turned into a female so Alfreda became Elfrida.
0:39:45 > 0:39:52- She'd just swallowed a beetle and 'elle' is French for 'she'.- Oh! - She freed the beetle by eating it.
0:39:52 > 0:39:58She freed it from life's miseries. 'Elle'-freed-a-beetle. A silly name!
0:39:58 > 0:40:01- She's run away? - Yes, greedy animal!
0:40:01 > 0:40:04Bird! No need to be pert.
0:40:04 > 0:40:09# Pert bird, pert bird! Perty birdie...! #
0:40:09 > 0:40:13RAPID SUCCESSION OF SHOTS
0:40:29 > 0:40:32Cads! Unspeakable cads!
0:40:43 > 0:40:45There, m'Lord!
0:40:50 > 0:40:53GLASS: All out, Sir Randolph!
0:40:53 > 0:40:55Fifteen, sir.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59Seventeen, m'Lord.
0:41:09 > 0:41:13- Too pretty... Nottingham?- Bruges.
0:41:14 > 0:41:19An old admirer... The sweetest thing.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21A Norwegian!
0:41:21 > 0:41:27I always thought your taste in men to be more Ibsenite than Chekhovian.
0:41:27 > 0:41:32Oh, Minnie, you are a beast! What shall I do with it?
0:41:32 > 0:41:36It's TOO pretty for a petticoat.
0:41:36 > 0:41:42Oh, you're so clever with those things. I'D simply trim a bodice.
0:41:42 > 0:41:50- Haven't you something being made it can go on?- I'm not using my dressmaker.
0:41:50 > 0:41:55- Not for a month or so. - (I'm sure I'm right!) ..H'm?
0:41:55 > 0:41:59I have to be elusive with people of that nature just now.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02Oh, BILLS!
0:42:03 > 0:42:09My bookmaker, mainly. He's so stingy with credit.
0:42:09 > 0:42:14I could let you have a little. ..For a few weeks.
0:42:14 > 0:42:21You are an angel, but I couldn't! I can't BEAR looting my friends.
0:42:21 > 0:42:28If only I hadn't had a rotten Ascot! I can't tell Gilbert. I promised to give up gambling.
0:42:32 > 0:42:37You'd get it back. Gilbert pays me my dress allowance on 1st December.
0:42:37 > 0:42:41Of course I will! It's horrid to worry about money!
0:42:42 > 0:42:48- A hundred...? Two...? - Minnie, you are an ANGEL!
0:42:48 > 0:42:53You are an angel. Could you possibly make it two?
0:42:53 > 0:43:00We'll go in and find my cheque book. And then, what about a game of whist?
0:43:00 > 0:43:04Too divine! As long as you don't make it double or quits!
0:43:06 > 0:43:09Ah, THERE!
0:43:09 > 0:43:11Go on! Get OUT of it!
0:43:26 > 0:43:30SOUND OF BEATERS IN WOOD
0:43:33 > 0:43:37CONTINUOUS GUNFIRE >
0:43:59 > 0:44:01< That's enough!
0:44:08 > 0:44:13- Look out! - What the hell...?
0:44:15 > 0:44:18Silly sodding bugger!
0:44:25 > 0:44:30- Fetch that man over here, Glass. - Right, hold the dog!
0:44:41 > 0:44:44You don't approve of our sport?
0:44:44 > 0:44:49- It's not my idea of sport. It's my idea of murder!- Ah, yes.
0:44:49 > 0:44:55- It's all right, Glass. We'll go on down to the marquee.- Aye, sir.
0:44:55 > 0:45:02Let the gentleman go. ..You've caught us at the end of our 'murderous' morning.
0:45:02 > 0:45:09We're about to have an ill-earned luncheon. Are you from these parts? We've never met.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12My own work!
0:45:15 > 0:45:20"The Rights of Animals. A Vindication...
0:45:20 > 0:45:24"..of the Doctrine of Universal Kinship."
0:45:24 > 0:45:32Well, these pheasants wouldn't have been here at all if we hadn't bred, hatched and reared them.
0:45:32 > 0:45:39One could argue that we give them life and then, after a bit, we take it away again,
0:45:39 > 0:45:45abrogating to ourselves somewhat God-like powers, I admit.
0:45:45 > 0:45:49This is a very well-produced pamphlet...
0:45:49 > 0:45:53Where did you get it printed? You don't mind my asking?
0:45:53 > 0:45:59Not at all. I know a very good man at Dorking, just near where I live.
0:45:59 > 0:46:04An excellent man of anarchistic views. He gives me very good rates.
0:46:04 > 0:46:10Special terms, h'm? He wouldn't give me such good ones, I suppose?
0:46:10 > 0:46:17- Are you a pamphleteer, too, sir? - I was thinking of making a foray in that direction.
0:46:17 > 0:46:20- A polemic?- I think that's the word.
0:46:20 > 0:46:27- A diatribe?- Yes, I think you COULD call it a diatribe, Mr Cardew.
0:46:27 > 0:46:31- "The Ruin of Rural England. A Diatribe!"- Yes.
0:46:31 > 0:46:36But I don't think we should continue our discussion here.
0:46:36 > 0:46:40My fellow murderers are impatient.
0:46:40 > 0:46:45- My card.- Ah! ..Hindhead. How charming.
0:46:45 > 0:46:50We'll keep in touch. And you will speak to your printer?
0:46:50 > 0:46:53He'll send an estimate. Good day!
0:46:53 > 0:46:57And I bid YOU good day, sir.
0:47:02 > 0:47:07I suppose you really do have to have him up in front of the Bench?
0:47:07 > 0:47:13He had to get back to Hindhead. ..Pretty place, Hindhead.
0:47:20 > 0:47:23There they are!
0:47:23 > 0:47:30IDA: I do hope her coltish ways don't encourage Count Rakassyi.
0:47:30 > 0:47:33 He's a little bit sur le tapis!
0:47:33 > 0:47:38IDA: Her father is against it. Things are rather too uncertain.
0:47:38 > 0:47:41The Rakassyis ARE wonderfully rich.
0:47:41 > 0:47:44 An English match is more secure.
0:47:44 > 0:47:48All those foreign relations could be a bore.
0:47:48 > 0:47:52And we can enjoy another year or two speculating!
0:47:52 > 0:47:56- How will Cicely feel about that? - She'll enjoy it.
0:47:56 > 0:48:04She's not got your high ideals which make you the Princess Lointaine of your admirers.
0:48:04 > 0:48:09- We're not all as spiritual as you. That's why we cherish you so!- Oh!
0:48:09 > 0:48:12Most of us are very mundane.
0:48:26 > 0:48:30GLASS: Right, stand back, you lot! Loaders first!
0:48:34 > 0:48:39It said the most wonderful things! What sort of things?
0:48:39 > 0:48:44That she was Truth because she was Beauty; Beauty because she was Truth.
0:48:44 > 0:48:50And that there was going to be a war and he would gird his loins for her!
0:48:50 > 0:48:52- <- Be careful! He'll hear you.
0:48:52 > 0:49:00Don't you think it's romantic? Sounds overdone. What would you think to such a letter?
0:49:00 > 0:49:03I should be fascinated! And you, Lydia?
0:49:03 > 0:49:10- I'd know I was not worthy of it. - But you'd be secretly pleased? Ellen was!
0:49:11 > 0:49:17See the deer? They like the bracken up top in Bowler's plantation.
0:49:17 > 0:49:22 Better not let my dad hear you've been up there.
0:49:22 > 0:49:27These are hard times for the locals. No-one cares about country matters.
0:49:27 > 0:49:35Surely the popular idea of England is the village green and woodsmoke from cottage chimneys,
0:49:35 > 0:49:39contented labourers, a benevolent squire?
0:49:39 > 0:49:42That idea is such a powerful one
0:49:42 > 0:49:46because it's a myth. It hasn't existed for many years.
0:49:50 > 0:49:54Is there no way of turning the myth into reality?
0:49:54 > 0:49:58It would mean working against the whole current of history.
0:49:58 > 0:50:04I wouldn't ENTIRELY agree. Why are you smiling?
0:50:07 > 0:50:16I can't imagine...except that when my thoughts about the future are PARTICULARLY gloomy,
0:50:16 > 0:50:21I find myself feeling more and more light-hearted.
0:50:23 > 0:50:31I suppose I've always fancied the idea of taking to the hills when the barbarian hordes take over.
0:50:33 > 0:50:35I think I should enjoy that.
0:50:35 > 0:50:39Randolph...lunch is served.
0:50:39 > 0:50:43- Mm...?- LUNCH is served!- ..Ah!
0:50:43 > 0:50:47Minnie would hate that marginally more than I should.
0:50:47 > 0:50:52She and I would have to stay and make friends with the barbarians.
0:50:52 > 0:50:55Come and eat!
0:51:00 > 0:51:04It'd be all right if we could get back.
0:51:04 > 0:51:08The landlord invents the laws and the punishments!
0:51:08 > 0:51:13If the land belonged to us all, there'd be no law of trespass.
0:51:13 > 0:51:17< That means belongs to the government.
0:51:17 > 0:51:23< Better work for the devil you know than for politicians! London trash!
0:51:23 > 0:51:29That may be so of most, but not of Lloyd George. A man of the people.
0:51:29 > 0:51:32- Welshman, isn't he? - So what?
0:51:32 > 0:51:40We've had them round here. Welsh miners doing Derbyshire men out of work.
0:51:40 > 0:51:44Never trust a bloody Welshman. Nor a gypsy, nor a Jew!
0:51:44 > 0:51:50BEETLE...! ELFRIDA...! ELFRIDA BEETLE...!
0:51:52 > 0:51:58ELRIDA...! ELFRIDA...! ELFRIDA...!
0:51:58 > 0:52:00- Where's Osbert?- Osbert?
0:52:00 > 0:52:06I expect by now he's searching for his duck. It was lost this morning.
0:52:06 > 0:52:13If it should FAIL to appear, I'd feel honoured to provide a successor.
0:52:13 > 0:52:17You're the kindest person in the world!
0:52:17 > 0:52:21CICELY: ..Straightforward for a Zulu.
0:52:21 > 0:52:23Zulus aren't cannibals. No?
0:52:23 > 0:52:31- Granny, isn't it true Mr Kerr was eaten by cannibals? - Indeed, yes, poor man.
0:52:31 > 0:52:34ELFRIDA...!
0:52:35 > 0:52:38Elfrida! ..Elfrida Beetle!
0:52:52 > 0:52:57Wouldn't it be lovely to live here always?
0:52:57 > 0:53:04If I could have my books, and were in love with my companion and we could keep warm!
0:53:04 > 0:53:08It would have to be an idyll for you, then.
0:53:08 > 0:53:15- I wouldn't ask so much. I could be happy here alone. - It would be a waste.- Of what?- Of you.
0:53:15 > 0:53:18It's no waste if I became wise.
0:53:18 > 0:53:21We're meant to share our lives, not develop in isolation.
0:53:21 > 0:53:23Besides, I think you're wise already.
0:53:23 > 0:53:27You can't know me very well if you think that.
0:53:27 > 0:53:29Then why do I feel as if I do?
0:53:29 > 0:53:32- I don't know.- You know me too. You know everything about me.
0:53:32 > 0:53:35- That's impossible! - Yes, but it's true.
0:53:35 > 0:53:38We recognise each other because...
0:53:38 > 0:53:41because our souls knew each other before.
0:53:41 > 0:53:44- Where?- Oh, in heaven or somewhere. I don't know.
0:53:44 > 0:53:47- You seem very sure.- I am.
0:53:47 > 0:53:49Quite, quite sure.
0:53:49 > 0:53:54- I think it's more as if... - <- What did I do with Lorna's leash?
0:53:54 > 0:53:56Will you walk with me tomorrow?
0:53:56 > 0:53:58Yes.
0:54:01 > 0:54:04On your feet! We're moving!
0:54:04 > 0:54:05Back to work!
0:54:05 > 0:54:07Enough of that.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11- <- Ah, look alive, boy!
0:54:17 > 0:54:21- It's only a bit of scribble. - No, you have her to the life.
0:54:21 > 0:54:23Thank you for sharing it with me.
0:54:24 > 0:54:27That's a real talent, Glass.
0:54:27 > 0:54:30I wish you'd let me put that boy through grammar school.
0:54:30 > 0:54:32He's happy enough where he is.
0:54:32 > 0:54:34He might get ideas above his station.
0:54:34 > 0:54:36Oh, well, if you change your mind.
0:54:36 > 0:54:38The offer is still there.
0:55:23 > 0:55:25Whatever's the matter, Master Osbert?
0:55:26 > 0:55:29Didn't you find your duck?
0:55:29 > 0:55:31Oh, never mind.
0:55:33 > 0:55:34Shooting's over.
0:55:34 > 0:55:38But if she doesn't come back, they'll shoot her tomorrow.
0:55:38 > 0:55:41Not if I've got anything to do with it they won't.
0:55:41 > 0:55:43How will you stop them?
0:55:44 > 0:55:49If she doesn't come back tonight, first thing in the morning, as soon as I've done me chores,
0:55:49 > 0:55:51I'll come and help you find her.
0:55:51 > 0:55:54Will you? Will you really?
0:55:55 > 0:55:58Promise. They'll have to shoot us before they shoot her.
0:55:59 > 0:56:01There.
0:56:01 > 0:56:03You are a brick, Ellen.
0:56:03 > 0:56:04Yeah.
0:56:04 > 0:56:06I know all about that.
0:56:06 > 0:56:11Now, get into your fancy dress before her ladyship starts creating.
0:56:13 > 0:56:15HE PLAYS A JAUNTY TUNE
0:56:15 > 0:56:17The Captain of the Pinafore!
0:56:22 > 0:56:24Oh!
0:56:24 > 0:56:28What are you supposed to be, Little Bo Peep?
0:56:28 > 0:56:30That's quite enough!
0:56:30 > 0:56:31Osbert, you are splendid.
0:56:31 > 0:56:34- Absolutely splendid! - Very good, Osbert!
0:56:36 > 0:56:37Who's next?
0:56:37 > 0:56:38Is this right?
0:56:38 > 0:56:40Spirit of Ragtime?
0:56:40 > 0:56:42You bet!
0:56:42 > 0:56:43Crikey!
0:56:43 > 0:56:46APPLAUSE
0:56:46 > 0:56:48Oscar Wilde.
0:56:48 > 0:56:50Oh, dear.
0:56:52 > 0:56:56- APPLAUSE - Not in the very best of taste.
0:56:56 > 0:56:58Who's Oscar Wilde?
0:56:59 > 0:57:02He wrote The Happy Prince, my dear.
0:57:02 > 0:57:06Hmm. The butterfly and a bumble bee.
0:57:06 > 0:57:08HE BUZZES
0:57:10 > 0:57:12She's beautiful!
0:57:14 > 0:57:18- She talked you into it, eh? - Afraid so!
0:57:18 > 0:57:20- APPLAUSE - A wicked highwayman.
0:57:27 > 0:57:30- APPLAUSE - Why is he wicked? I like him.
0:57:30 > 0:57:33A classical tableau.
0:57:35 > 0:57:37What is Marcus doing?
0:57:37 > 0:57:42- He's being a statue. - But he's breathing.- Oh, I give up!
0:57:42 > 0:57:44APPLAUSE
0:57:44 > 0:57:46Der Rosenkavalier.
0:57:49 > 0:57:51- Oh!- Isn't that dashing?!- Wunderbar!
0:57:51 > 0:57:53What's he so pleased about?
0:57:53 > 0:57:56- Himself.- Shut up, you.
0:57:56 > 0:57:58APPLAUSE
0:57:58 > 0:58:02La Dame aux Camelias... and Alfredo Germont.
0:58:02 > 0:58:04< Just a minute!
0:58:04 > 0:58:06Technical hitch!
0:58:06 > 0:58:10- < Perhaps I could help you? - I think not.
0:58:10 > 0:58:11Oh!
0:58:19 > 0:58:23- Is she ill?- No, dear, she's acting.
0:58:26 > 0:58:29Oh, Gilbert, you might have asked the children.
0:58:29 > 0:58:33- They'd have found something in the dressing up box.- Humiliated!
0:58:34 > 0:58:40Well, never mind. We must give away the prizes as it's past Violet's bedtime.
0:58:40 > 0:58:42Now, darling,
0:58:42 > 0:58:47here's a prize for the best-dressed lady and for the best gentleman
0:58:47 > 0:58:49and now you must choose.
0:58:49 > 0:58:51That's easy. Him.
0:58:51 > 0:58:53And her.
0:58:55 > 0:58:57BELL RINGS
0:58:57 > 0:59:02- How did you choose, Violet? - Because they're the best! - Is there a prize for the judge?
0:59:06 > 0:59:10Relieve me of that, will you? Gilbert, here's a prize for you.
0:59:10 > 0:59:12- How kind of you!- Are you all right?
0:59:12 > 0:59:16Yes, but if you would excuse me it's nothing a night's rest won't right.
0:59:16 > 0:59:21- I'd like to do you justice tomorrow. - My dear fellow.- Night.- Good night.
0:59:21 > 0:59:23POLITE CHATTER
0:59:23 > 0:59:25He does have terrible headaches.
0:59:25 > 0:59:30I've known a lot of men who shoot as much as Gilbert does to be afflicted by the same thing.
0:59:33 > 0:59:34Osbert!
0:59:34 > 0:59:36Violet?!
0:59:36 > 0:59:38It's bedtime!
0:59:38 > 0:59:41..Dora Davis and Lord Lucas. >
0:59:50 > 0:59:52That's babyish.
1:00:00 > 1:00:02APPLAUSE
1:00:02 > 1:00:05- KNOCK AT DOOR - Yes?
1:00:14 > 1:00:18- John Hoskins. - What did you think of my letter?
1:00:18 > 1:00:20To tell you the truth...
1:00:20 > 1:00:22I don't know.
1:00:23 > 1:00:26I thought you'd like it.
1:00:26 > 1:00:29I did at first...then somehow... Ouch!
1:00:29 > 1:00:31What?
1:00:31 > 1:00:33Well...
1:00:33 > 1:00:35all them long words.
1:00:35 > 1:00:38- Listen...- I need to think about it.
1:00:39 > 1:00:43And you need to be off out of it before someone catches you here,
1:00:43 > 1:00:46and we're both sacked without a reference between us.
1:00:46 > 1:00:48We'll talk about it in the morning.
1:00:48 > 1:00:50Not if you don't hop it now.
1:01:11 > 1:01:13It's a lot of nonsense.
1:01:14 > 1:01:16That's what it is.
1:01:18 > 1:01:20A lot of bloomin' nonsense.
1:01:21 > 1:01:24WALTZ PLAYS
1:01:28 > 1:01:29Hello. >
1:01:30 > 1:01:31Look.
1:01:33 > 1:01:35Osbert's army.
1:01:35 > 1:01:37Yes!
1:01:43 > 1:01:44Sweet!
1:01:52 > 1:01:54You said, "As if."
1:01:54 > 1:01:57- As if what?- Today, at luncheon.
1:01:57 > 1:01:59You didn't finish.
1:01:59 > 1:02:08- I said we'd known each other before and you said, "It was as if..."- As if you...were my long-lost brother.
1:02:08 > 1:02:10That puts me in my place!
1:02:10 > 1:02:13- I'm so sorry if...- I love you.
1:02:14 > 1:02:16I love you.
1:02:16 > 1:02:20- I've been so stupid!- Oh, no.
1:02:21 > 1:02:23I thought...
1:02:26 > 1:02:28..it was just that we...
1:02:29 > 1:02:31..liked each other.
1:02:33 > 1:02:36That we had things in common.
1:02:37 > 1:02:38And...
1:02:45 > 1:02:48KNOCK AT DOOR
1:03:09 > 1:03:10Bitch!
1:03:21 > 1:03:24- Gilbert.- I'm sorry, my dear, I didn't mean to bother you.
1:03:24 > 1:03:28Do you have any of those sachets - the ones the French doctor gave you?
1:03:28 > 1:03:30My head is agony again.
1:03:30 > 1:03:34Aren't they some terribly dangerous drug?
1:03:34 > 1:03:36You ought to be careful, you know.
1:03:36 > 1:03:41Who am I to know, anyway? I must have something.
1:03:41 > 1:03:43You poor thing.
1:03:54 > 1:03:57I...could stay a bit, if...you liked.
1:03:57 > 1:04:01Oh, my dear, it's not one of our weeks.
1:04:02 > 1:04:08Anyway, you need rest if you're going to do yourself justice tomorrow.
1:04:08 > 1:04:10Well, you can't let people think
1:04:10 > 1:04:14that Lionel Stephens is a better shot than you!
1:04:14 > 1:04:18- You know how people love to talk. - Is that what people are saying?
1:04:18 > 1:04:20Well, I don't know what they're saying.
1:04:22 > 1:04:27- Don't be shocked. You know you've been thinking about it.- Nonsense!
1:04:28 > 1:04:30What do they say?
1:04:30 > 1:04:32Well, tell me what anyone has said.
1:04:32 > 1:04:35I don't know! They're not saying anything! Don't yap at me, Gilbert!
1:04:35 > 1:04:38I'm not yapping. Somebody must have said something,
1:04:38 > 1:04:42- otherwise you wouldn't have thought it.- Yes, I would!
1:04:42 > 1:04:44Why not?
1:04:44 > 1:04:48- You never think about my shooting. - Of course I do!
1:04:49 > 1:04:52At least I...
1:04:52 > 1:04:55I do if I see anyone trying to be as good as you.
1:04:55 > 1:04:59I may not be interested in all you do but I am loyal to you.
1:04:59 > 1:05:01You know that!
1:05:05 > 1:05:06I'll show them.
1:05:09 > 1:05:14I'll get a good night's rest and I'll show them. You'll see.
1:05:14 > 1:05:16You do that.
1:05:16 > 1:05:19You can beat Lionel Stephens any day, the conceited young fool!
1:05:19 > 1:05:23No, I don't think he's that. I'll beat him, though.
1:05:24 > 1:05:26He is conceited.
1:05:26 > 1:05:27And a prig!
1:05:27 > 1:05:31You're only saying that because you're bored with Charles
1:05:31 > 1:05:35and would have liked to flirt with Lionel but he's pre-occupied.
1:05:38 > 1:05:41That's the sort of bitter remark we agreed not to make.
1:05:41 > 1:05:46It wasn't meant to be bitter. I don't feel bitter.
1:05:46 > 1:05:49Oh, don't try to sound pathetic!
1:05:50 > 1:05:53We made an agreement and I have stuck to it.
1:05:53 > 1:05:58You started it all with that disgusting old hag in Maida Vale.
1:05:58 > 1:06:03It's quite usual for men to have distractions which don't affect their devotion to their wives.
1:06:03 > 1:06:06My distractions don't affect my devotion to you.
1:06:06 > 1:06:08I have never been disloyal to you.
1:06:08 > 1:06:11And I have never let you down in public.
1:06:11 > 1:06:14Now, please go - I'm getting a headache.
1:06:14 > 1:06:16It must be infectious.
1:06:16 > 1:06:18Yes, I'll go.
1:06:23 > 1:06:25Thank you for these.
1:06:39 > 1:06:41Come on! Come on, boy!
1:06:41 > 1:06:43That's a good boy.
1:06:43 > 1:06:44Here!
1:06:44 > 1:06:46Heel!
1:06:47 > 1:06:48Here, boy.
1:06:59 > 1:07:01DOG BARKS
1:07:03 > 1:07:10- Will you really ask me to stay? - I shall ask my mother to write to yours as soon as I get home.
1:07:10 > 1:07:14- She can't speak Hungarian. - Nobody does. We speak French.
1:07:14 > 1:07:18- Her French isn't good, either. - It is. It's tres convenable, according to mademoiselle.
1:07:18 > 1:07:21Alors, vous vous comporterez tres bien.
1:07:21 > 1:07:25Nous ferons du cheval, de la chasse meme, si vous voulez.
1:07:28 > 1:07:31So we'll be going riding and hunting, will we? So there.
1:07:31 > 1:07:33Not bad.
1:07:33 > 1:07:38In the evening there'll be musicians and we can dance in the ballroom,
1:07:38 > 1:07:41all surrounded by Venetian looking glasses.
1:07:44 > 1:07:47- I think you would like to waltz there.- I know I should.
1:07:47 > 1:07:50- You won't forget, will you, when you get home?- No.
1:07:50 > 1:07:52I won't forget.
1:07:55 > 1:07:58Elfreda Beetle!
1:08:02 > 1:08:04Elfreda!
1:08:04 > 1:08:07Elfreda Beetle!
1:08:18 > 1:08:23LILBURN: They've been there with us. I was so intrigued because he's gonna give up money
1:08:23 > 1:08:27and go into politics. Whether or not it's a good idea I'm not persuaded.
1:08:27 > 1:08:32Because you know the Barlows at Rothermere, they're such good sorts.
1:08:32 > 1:08:35Yes, we were there with the Charlesworths.
1:08:35 > 1:08:37Of course you and Libby had left.
1:08:37 > 1:08:41I thought she was looking quite dreadful the last time I saw her.
1:08:43 > 1:08:47Talk at the club is that Raymond is drinking heavily again.
1:08:47 > 1:08:49- He's in the right place, isn't he? - LAUGHTER
1:08:49 > 1:08:52Things to do -
1:08:52 > 1:08:55move off at about half past nine, say,
1:08:55 > 1:08:59and we could take the duck at the end of the morning
1:08:59 > 1:09:02if that would, er, amuse any of you.
1:09:02 > 1:09:04- Ah, Aline.- Good morning.
1:09:04 > 1:09:07- Slept well, Gilbert?- Very well.
1:09:07 > 1:09:09Morning, Gilbert!
1:09:11 > 1:09:15..They are a strange bunch. They all look so dago.
1:09:15 > 1:09:19They look so Spanish. They say they're Cornish.
1:09:19 > 1:09:22- ..I think it's a result of...- Bob? - ..Armada survivors.
1:09:22 > 1:09:24And, erm...
1:09:24 > 1:09:27too many willing Cornish dames.
1:09:27 > 1:09:29My dear...
1:09:29 > 1:09:32Oh, thank you.
1:09:33 > 1:09:38Darling, suppose there are some other people somewhere,
1:09:38 > 1:09:40people we don't know.
1:09:40 > 1:09:42What sort of people?
1:09:42 > 1:09:46Oh...perfectly charming people, really delightful.
1:09:46 > 1:09:48Intelligent, amusing, civilised...
1:09:48 > 1:09:51And...we don't know them.
1:09:51 > 1:09:53And nobody we know knows them,
1:09:53 > 1:09:57and they don't know us or anybody who knows us...
1:09:59 > 1:10:01Well, let's hope it's impossible,
1:10:01 > 1:10:04but even if it were possible,
1:10:04 > 1:10:07I don't think I'd want to know such people
1:10:07 > 1:10:12because I don't think I'd find anything in common with them.
1:10:15 > 1:10:19- Will you walk with me today? - I'm sorry, Bob, but I...
1:10:19 > 1:10:21promised to walk with Lionel.
1:10:21 > 1:10:25Fine. Never mind, we'll have plenty of other opportunities.
1:10:25 > 1:10:28I wanted to remind you of how we ordinary mortals shoot.
1:10:28 > 1:10:32It's a sport, Bob, not a duel we're engaged in.
1:10:35 > 1:10:38That's a welcome assurance, Stephens.
1:10:47 > 1:10:49- Tom?- Huh?
1:10:49 > 1:10:51Matches?
1:10:51 > 1:10:54Good day, Sir Randolph.
1:10:54 > 1:10:56< Good day, Sir Randolph.
1:10:56 > 1:10:58- Briggs.- Good day, Sir Randolph. - Sutcliffe.- Sir Randolph.
1:10:58 > 1:11:00- Dodds.- Sir Randolph.
1:11:00 > 1:11:02We'd best be on our way.
1:11:02 > 1:11:03Here, my matches!
1:11:03 > 1:11:07- How are you keeping, Harker? - Can't complain, sir.
1:11:07 > 1:11:10- His mercies are manifold. - Yes, indeed they are.
1:11:10 > 1:11:15That was a very good piece of work you did on that roof in Hamlingham.
1:11:15 > 1:11:17Why, thank you, sir.
1:11:17 > 1:11:20Rooks. My first job scaring them, age of eight.
1:11:20 > 1:11:26- Rook pie, you don't want too much of it.- Sorry, Sir Randolph...
1:11:27 > 1:11:32I see you've got one of your favourite characters beating today.
1:11:32 > 1:11:36- Against my better judgement, Sir Randolph.- I like him.
1:11:36 > 1:11:39Get over there. Wait for me.
1:11:40 > 1:11:43Him and me are counting, all right.
1:11:43 > 1:11:46We're gonna smash the other fellow today.
1:11:46 > 1:11:50- You keep a lookout. If Sir Randolph catches you...- Bugger that.
1:11:53 > 1:11:57I suppose he is really one of the best-looking people one knows.
1:11:57 > 1:12:00- Oh, who?- Lionel Stephens.
1:12:00 > 1:12:03He has such a sensitive face.
1:12:03 > 1:12:07"Like Phoebus Apollo turned fasting friar."
1:12:07 > 1:12:09What?
1:12:09 > 1:12:11George Meredith.
1:12:11 > 1:12:15In The Egoist, the hero - I can't remember his name -
1:12:15 > 1:12:20- the er...the man she loves... Not The Egoist.- Oh.
1:12:20 > 1:12:22Can't think what you mean.
1:12:22 > 1:12:25Oh, you do sound cross.
1:12:25 > 1:12:28I am cross, your friend Lionel Stephens has been annoying.
1:12:28 > 1:12:32For some unknown reason he's setting himself up in competition with me.
1:12:32 > 1:12:34Well, you've got all the day to beat him in.
1:12:34 > 1:12:37I can't shoot any more birds than I'm shooting already.
1:12:37 > 1:12:41Well, you'll have to try a bit harder.
1:12:42 > 1:12:44Poach a bit or something.
1:12:44 > 1:12:46Why not? It's more fun.
1:12:46 > 1:12:50I don't see why Lionel Stephens should get everything his own way.
1:12:53 > 1:12:56Everyone else stand still when we stand still.
1:12:56 > 1:13:01Then you move forward, taking your cue from Tom and Walter.
1:13:01 > 1:13:05Now we do the same again three or four times till we get to the end.
1:13:05 > 1:13:08Now you can be stop. BEATERS: Yeah!
1:13:08 > 1:13:10And I don't care if it is favouritism.
1:13:10 > 1:13:13He may not see shooting like we'll see today,
1:13:13 > 1:13:17- not even if he lives to be 100. Eh? - Yeah.- Right.
1:13:17 > 1:13:20Everyone clear? BEATERS: Yes.
1:13:20 > 1:13:22Off we go, then.
1:13:39 > 1:13:42What I said last night... I shouldn't have said it.
1:13:42 > 1:13:46Don't let it mean that you change, that you avoid me.
1:13:46 > 1:13:50It's wrong to avoid things, or not to recognise them.
1:13:50 > 1:13:54- That was what it was all the time. - All the time.
1:13:55 > 1:13:58That was what it was.
1:13:59 > 1:14:01That is what it IS.
1:14:03 > 1:14:04I love you, too.
1:14:04 > 1:14:09Mr Stephens, sir. Over on the left. Your bird, sir.
1:14:16 > 1:14:19GUNSHOTS
1:14:42 > 1:14:46They're going to shoot her, Ellen. Going to shoot her.
1:14:46 > 1:14:48We'll find her. Don't you worry.
1:15:12 > 1:15:14They're 15 ahead now, m'lord.
1:16:02 > 1:16:04Oh, beater, God.
1:16:11 > 1:16:14All out, Sir Randolph.
1:16:21 > 1:16:23< Aaargh!
1:16:24 > 1:16:27'Ere, what's going on over there, then?
1:16:27 > 1:16:29He's been shot!
1:16:29 > 1:16:31< He's been shot!
1:16:32 > 1:16:35Stay where you are.
1:16:37 > 1:16:40Oh, dear, Gilbert has over-reached himself.
1:16:48 > 1:16:50MAN GROANS
1:16:50 > 1:16:52Keep back! Don't crowd!
1:16:52 > 1:16:54Out!
1:16:54 > 1:16:56I thought it was you.
1:16:56 > 1:16:59You was stop, wasn't you?
1:16:59 > 1:17:02Tom said one stop wasn't enough.
1:17:02 > 1:17:04< My eyes. I don't want to lose my eyes!
1:17:04 > 1:17:07Take your hands away so we can have a look at you.
1:17:07 > 1:17:10There you are... Yes.
1:17:10 > 1:17:12TOM PANTS
1:17:12 > 1:17:16Hold this up to your face with your left hand.
1:17:18 > 1:17:20Who's the fastest runner here?
1:17:20 > 1:17:23- I am, sir.- Ah, well run as fast as you can
1:17:23 > 1:17:25to Dr West and bring him here.
1:17:25 > 1:17:28Go with him, Walter.
1:17:28 > 1:17:31- Can one do anything?- I don't think so, sir, I'm going for the doctor.
1:17:31 > 1:17:34Oh, God.
1:17:34 > 1:17:36Better tell the men to go home. All of them.
1:17:36 > 1:17:38There's nothing they can do here.
1:17:38 > 1:17:43Get some of them to make a litter, you know, to carry him on.
1:17:43 > 1:17:46Right, you lot. Off you go!
1:17:46 > 1:17:48And the rest of you, come with me.
1:17:48 > 1:17:51And Lionel, tell them everything is under control here.
1:17:51 > 1:17:55The best thing they can do is to go home.
1:17:55 > 1:17:58Get a message to bring the car.
1:17:58 > 1:17:59Right-oh.
1:17:59 > 1:18:02When the time comes I'll go,
1:18:02 > 1:18:04but I don't want to be a blind man.
1:18:04 > 1:18:05Of course not.
1:18:05 > 1:18:10Don't worry, Dr West will come here soon.
1:18:10 > 1:18:12Awful thing to happen.
1:18:16 > 1:18:18..Yes.
1:18:21 > 1:18:23It was woodcock.
1:18:23 > 1:18:26I'd no chance of getting it unless I swung fast.
1:18:26 > 1:18:30Of course, I'd no idea that the man was so close.
1:18:30 > 1:18:32- TOM GROANS - Oh, Tom...
1:18:32 > 1:18:34I'll make it all right for you.
1:18:38 > 1:18:40Financially, I mean.
1:18:40 > 1:18:45You weren't shooting like a gentleman, Gilbert.
1:18:45 > 1:18:47TOM CRIES OUT
1:18:47 > 1:18:51What are you doing sitting there? We'll need some sacking.
1:18:51 > 1:18:55- Is the man badly hurt? - Caught him in the face, sir.
1:18:55 > 1:18:59- Dr West's been sent for. - Blinded? Expensive.
1:18:59 > 1:19:04I suppose we'd better be getting back to the house if there's nothing we can do here.
1:19:04 > 1:19:07Oh, they're not going to shoot the duck?
1:19:15 > 1:19:18My dear Aline, a man has been shot in the face.
1:19:18 > 1:19:21It's not as if he's just been peppered, you know.
1:19:24 > 1:19:26Oh...
1:19:26 > 1:19:30The poor creature, they've shot it already.
1:19:30 > 1:19:34You poor thing, we'll get you another one.
1:19:35 > 1:19:40- It's alive.- Course it's alive. It's tired, that's all.
1:19:40 > 1:19:43Like you, my dear, I think she's a survivor.
1:19:46 > 1:19:51- Who are the water sprites, pray? - God knows.
1:19:54 > 1:19:58I think my place is with our hostess.
1:19:58 > 1:20:01And yours is with your husband.
1:20:06 > 1:20:08You dear old-fashioned thing.
1:20:10 > 1:20:12Is it getting dark?
1:20:15 > 1:20:17Yes, it's beginning to get dark.
1:20:17 > 1:20:19No window.
1:20:19 > 1:20:22Another breath of wind.
1:20:22 > 1:20:26A dark night, a dry wind, and you'll get rabbits.
1:20:26 > 1:20:34- No wind, no rabbits, I always say. - Come on, now, Tom, remember who you're talking to.
1:20:34 > 1:20:35I remember, I remember.
1:20:39 > 1:20:42Is it dark?
1:20:42 > 1:20:44It's not very dark yet, Tom.
1:20:44 > 1:20:47Looks dark to me.
1:20:47 > 1:20:50It's getting dark to me.
1:20:51 > 1:20:56My beliefs are that the bullet has penetrated the brain and I feel it so.
1:20:56 > 1:20:59You shan't have long to wait, Tom.
1:20:59 > 1:21:01The doctor must be here soon.
1:21:03 > 1:21:06Osbert! Osbert!
1:21:06 > 1:21:09Who's been hurt?
1:21:09 > 1:21:12Tom Harker.
1:21:12 > 1:21:15Who'll look after his dog if he is dead?
1:21:15 > 1:21:19He is not dead.
1:21:19 > 1:21:23Go home, I'll find someone and make sure they look after the dog.
1:21:23 > 1:21:26- Promise?- I promise. Go on. Run.
1:21:30 > 1:21:33HE GROANS
1:21:34 > 1:21:38It can't be long, Tom, before the doctor comes.
1:21:38 > 1:21:40Where's that flask again?
1:21:43 > 1:21:45Here, Tom, sip.
1:21:45 > 1:21:48HE COUGHS
1:21:49 > 1:21:52Alcohol never interested me.
1:21:52 > 1:21:56- I've seen what it can do to a man. - This is medicinal, Tom.
1:21:56 > 1:21:58A smoke, I'd like.
1:21:58 > 1:22:01A smoke and a chat is a sociable thing.
1:22:01 > 1:22:06I've seen too many men brought old by drink and gambling.
1:22:06 > 1:22:09Stay quiet, I would, Tom.
1:22:09 > 1:22:11Relax.
1:22:11 > 1:22:13That's what you want to do.
1:22:13 > 1:22:15Don't try to talk.
1:22:15 > 1:22:17"Not talk", he says!
1:22:17 > 1:22:22I've all eternity not to talk, haven't I?
1:22:31 > 1:22:34That's tobacco, that is.
1:22:34 > 1:22:36Turkish, I shouldn't wonder.
1:22:36 > 1:22:38Yes, it's Turkish.
1:22:38 > 1:22:42That's fine tobacco, that is.
1:22:44 > 1:22:48If I'm to go, I might as well smoke.
1:22:49 > 1:22:54It gives me some strength, to replace what I feel,
1:22:54 > 1:22:56draining out of me.
1:22:56 > 1:22:59Draining out of me!
1:22:59 > 1:23:03Mr Glass?
1:23:12 > 1:23:19I know it's not really important but I promised Osbert I'd ask to make sure someone looked after Tom's dog.
1:23:19 > 1:23:22I'll see to it myself, miss.
1:23:22 > 1:23:24Tell Master Osbert not to worry.
1:23:24 > 1:23:26Give me your prayer, sir.
1:23:26 > 1:23:29Don't deny me that,
1:23:29 > 1:23:31it's your way to pray.
1:23:31 > 1:23:34It's you that orders up the prayers in church.
1:23:34 > 1:23:38The vicar only prays what prayers you tell him.
1:23:38 > 1:23:43Even I know that that hardly crosses the doorstep of the church from year to year.
1:23:45 > 1:23:46Say a prayer, sir.
1:23:46 > 1:23:49I'll say amen.
1:23:50 > 1:23:53I'll say a prayer, Tom, if that's what you want...
1:23:56 > 1:23:59Oh...almighty and er...
1:23:59 > 1:24:01most merciful God,
1:24:01 > 1:24:07of Thy bountiful goodness, keep us we beseech Thee from all things that may hurt us,
1:24:07 > 1:24:13that we being ready in body and soul may...
1:24:13 > 1:24:16cheerfully accomplish those things that Thou would us have done.
1:24:21 > 1:24:24So Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.
1:24:24 > 1:24:26Amen.
1:24:26 > 1:24:28Amen, I say.
1:24:28 > 1:24:31Amen, amen, amen.
1:24:31 > 1:24:36I should have stopped you, such a scene is not suitable for a young girl.
1:24:36 > 1:24:40As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not suitable for a young girl,
1:24:40 > 1:24:45- not even murder.- Come, Cicely, this was an accident. - Accidental murder, then.
1:24:45 > 1:24:47He was only a peasant.
1:24:47 > 1:24:51Thing is you see, that we all knew him.
1:24:53 > 1:24:56When you come and visit me, in Hungary...
1:24:56 > 1:24:59Oh, I think I shall never visit you in Hungary.
1:25:10 > 1:25:13Don't stop, sir, I beg you.
1:25:13 > 1:25:14More prayers, more.
1:25:14 > 1:25:17More prayers.
1:25:17 > 1:25:19We could...
1:25:20 > 1:25:23We could say the Lord's Prayer, Tom.
1:25:25 > 1:25:28Our Father which art in heaven...
1:25:28 > 1:25:32- Our Father which art in heaven... - Hallowed be thy name.
1:25:32 > 1:25:34Hallowed be thy name.
1:25:34 > 1:25:37Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,
1:25:37 > 1:25:39On Earth as it is in Heaven...
1:25:39 > 1:25:42On Earth as it is in Heaven.
1:25:42 > 1:25:46- Give us this day our daily bread... - Give us this day our daily bread...
1:25:46 > 1:25:48- And forgive us our trespasses... - TOM MURMURS
1:25:48 > 1:25:52As we forgive those who trespass against us.
1:25:54 > 1:25:58Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil,
1:25:58 > 1:26:02for Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory,
1:26:02 > 1:26:06- forever and ever, amen.- Amen.
1:26:09 > 1:26:13Oh, Lord, into Thy hands, I commend my spirit.
1:26:13 > 1:26:15My spirit...
1:26:21 > 1:26:24God save the British Empire.
1:26:29 > 1:26:31Tom, it's all right.
1:26:31 > 1:26:33It's the doctor coming.
1:27:32 > 1:27:34BIRDSONG
1:27:36 > 1:27:38I could have prevented it.
1:27:38 > 1:27:40No.
1:27:40 > 1:27:43- If I'd refused to join in that absurd rivalry.- He provoked you.
1:27:43 > 1:27:45HE SIGHS
1:27:45 > 1:27:48I wasn't as insane as he was,
1:27:48 > 1:27:52but I was reckless, I was carried away.
1:27:52 > 1:27:55Because of what we were talking about.
1:27:55 > 1:27:57- Perhaps.- Yes.
1:27:59 > 1:28:05We were talking about something that was impossible as if it were possible.
1:28:05 > 1:28:07- It was still true.- Yes.
1:28:08 > 1:28:11But we have to live in the real world,
1:28:11 > 1:28:14a world with other people in it.
1:28:17 > 1:28:20It is still true that we love each other.
1:28:20 > 1:28:21Oh, yes.
1:28:21 > 1:28:24It is true.
1:29:18 > 1:29:22Looking across this wasteland, where no birds sing,
1:29:22 > 1:29:26my mind keeps going back to that shooting party at Nettleby.
1:29:26 > 1:29:29Perhaps it was a premonition.
1:29:29 > 1:29:34I know only that it was then that for me, killing of any kind ceased to be a sport.
1:29:34 > 1:29:41And in this past year I have done nothing but seek to kill my fellow man before he kills me.
1:29:41 > 1:29:45And maybe that crackpot Cardew has the last laugh in the end.
1:29:46 > 1:29:52By loving me, you made me out to be a better thing altogether than I am.
1:29:52 > 1:29:58So much so, that then the strange thought crossed my mind that if you have illusions,
1:29:58 > 1:30:00perhaps I have them too.
1:30:00 > 1:30:03And perhaps you are less perfect than I think you.
1:30:03 > 1:30:08And when I stopped scolding myself for the baseness of that idea,
1:30:08 > 1:30:10I thought any way...
1:30:10 > 1:30:14any way, my dearest and most adored Olivia,
1:30:14 > 1:30:18while we can for as long as we can,
1:30:18 > 1:30:21oh, let us believe.
1:32:22 > 1:32:26Subtitles by Laura Moodie Red Bee Media Ltd 2007
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