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(WOMAN SINGING OPERA)

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Well...

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I didn't think the Mingotts
would have tried it on.

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Parading her at
the opera like that,

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sitting her next
to May Welland.

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It's all very odd.

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Well, she's had
such an odd life.

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Will they even bring her to the
Beauforts' ball, do you suppose?

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If they do, the talk
will be of little else.

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(SINGING CONTINUES)

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NEWLAND: Good evening, Mrs
Welland. Good evening, May.

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Newland. You know my
niece Countess Olenska.

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Countess.

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I hope you've
told Madame Olenska.

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What?

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That we're engaged.

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I want everybody to know.

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Let me announce it
this evening at the ball.

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If you can persuade Mamma.

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Why should we change
what is already settled?

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But you can tell
my cousin yourself.

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She remembers you.
(SHUSHING)

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I remember
we played together.

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How this brings
it all back to me.

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I remember everybody
here the same way,

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in knickerbockers and
pantalettes. (LAUGHING)

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(CLEARS THROAT)

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You were horrid. You kissed
me once behind a door.

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But it was your
cousin Vandie,

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the one who never looked
at me, I was in love with.

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Yes, you have been away
a very long time. Oh...

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Centuries and centuries.

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So long, I'm sure
I'm dead and buried,

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and this dear old
place is heaven.

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(BOTH SINGING)

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NARRATOR:
It invariably happened,

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as everything happened in
those days, in the same way.

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As usual,
Mrs Julius Beaufort appeared,

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unaccompanied by her husband,

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just before The Jewel Song.

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And again, as usual,
rose at the end

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of the third act
and disappeared.

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New York then knew
that a half hour later,

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the Beauforts' AnnuaI
Opera Ball would begin.

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Carriages waited at the kerb
for the entire performance.

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It was widely known in New
York, but never acknowledged,

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that Americans want
to get away from amusement,

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even more quickly than
they want to get to it.

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The Beauforts' house was
one of the few in New York

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that possessed a ballroom.

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Such a room, shuttered in
darkness 364 days of the year,

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was felt to compensate

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for whatever was regrettable
in the Beaufort past.

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Regina Beaufort came from
an old South Carolina family,

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but her husband Julius,
who passed for an Englishman,

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was known to have
dissipated habits,

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a bitter tongue and
mysterious antecedents.

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His marriage assured
him a sociaI position,

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but not necessarily respect.

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(LIVELY TUNE PLAYING)

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Newland Archer had
not stopped at his club,

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as young men usually did,

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but came directly
to the Beauforts.

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He wanted the announcement
of his engagement

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to divert gossip
away from the Countess,

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and show his most ardent support
for May and her whole family.

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The Beaufort house
had been boldly planned.

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Instead of squeezing
through a narrow passage

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to get to the ballroom,
one marched solemnly

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down a vista of
enfiladed drawing rooms.

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Good evening.

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(CHATTERING)

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But only by actually passing
through the Crimson Drawing Room

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could one see
The Return of Spring,

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the much-discussed
nude by Bouguereau,

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which Beaufort had had the
audacity to hang in plain sight.

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Good evening.
Good evening, Mr Archer.

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Archer enjoyed such
challenges to convention.

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He questioned
conformity in private,

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but in public he upheld
family and tradition.

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This was a world
balanced so precariously

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that its harmony could
be shattered by a whisper.

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On the whole,
Archer was amused

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by the smooth
hypocrisies of his peers.

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He may even have envied them.

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Lawrence Lefferts,
for instance,

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was New York's
foremost authority on form.

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And his opinion on pumps
versus patent-leather oxfords

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had never been disputed.

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On matters of
surreptitious romance,

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his skills went unquestioned.

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Old Mr Sillerton Jackson was
as great an authority on family

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as Lawrence Lefferts
was on form.

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The mean and
melancholy history

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of Countess Olenska's
European marriage

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was a buried treasure
he hastened to excavate.

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He carried,
like a calling card,

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an entire register
of the scandals and mysteries

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that had smouldered
under the unruffled surface

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of society for
the last 50 years.

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Julius Beaufort's secret was
the way he carried things off.

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He could arrive
casually at his own party,

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as if he were another guest,

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and might also leave
early for a more modest,

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but comforting
address in the East 30s.

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Beaufort was
intrepid in his business,

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but in his personaI affairs
absolutely audacious.

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Archer's fiancée was innocent to all
of these intrigues and of much else.

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May Welland represented for Archer
all that was best in their world,

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all that he honoured,
and she anchored him to it.

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You see, I've told all my
friends, just as you've asked.

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Yes, I couldn't wait. Only I wish
it hadn't had to be at a ball.

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But even here,
we're alone together.

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The worst of it is that I
want to kiss you, and I can't.

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Newland.

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Did you tell Ellen
as I asked you to?

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No, I didn't have
the chance after all.

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She's my cousin, Newland. If
others know before she does...

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It's just that she's been away for
so long. She's rather sensitive.

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Of course I'll tell her,
dearest, but I didn't see her yet.

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She decided not to
come at the last minute.

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At the last minute?

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She was afraid her dress
wasn't smart enough.

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We all thought
it was so lovely,

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but she asked my aunt
to take her home.

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Oh, well.

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Very handsome.
Very liberal.

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In my time,
a cameo set in pearls

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was thought
to be sufficient.

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But it's the hand that sets off the
ring, isn't it, my dear Mr Archer?

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It's the new setting. It
shows the stone beautifully.

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But it looks a little bare
to old-fashioned eyes.

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I hope you don't
mean mine, my dear.

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I like all the novelties.

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My hands were modelled in
Paris by the great Roche.

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He should do May's.

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Show me, child.

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Her hand is so tempered.

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It's these modern sports that spread
the joints. But the skin is white.

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And when's the wedding to be? Oh...

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As soon as ever it can, if only
you'll back me up, Mrs Mingott.

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We must give them time to get to know
each other a little better, Mamma.

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Know each other? Everybody in New
York has always known everybody.

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Don't wait till
the bubble's off the wine.

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Marry them before Lent.

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I may catch
pneumonia any winter now,

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and I want to give
the wedding breakfast.

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Oh, what a kind offer.

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NARRATOR: Even ifshe had
not been grandmother to May,

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Mrs Manson Mingott would
still have been the first

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to receive
the required betrothaI visit.

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She was not only
the matriarch of this world,

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she was nearly
its dowager empress.

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Much of New York was
already related to her,

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and she knew the remainder
by marriage or by reputation.

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Though brownstone
was the norm,

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she lived magisterially
within a large house

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of controversial
pale cream-coloured stone

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in an inaccessible wilderness
near the Central Park.

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The burden of her flesh had
long since made it impossible

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for her to go up
and down stairs.

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So with characteristic
independence,

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she had established herself on
the ground floor of her house.

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From her sitting room,
there was

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an unexpected
vista of her bedroom.

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Her visitors were
startled and fascinated

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by the foreignness
of this arrangement,

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which recalled
scenes in French fiction.

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This was how women with lovers
lived in the wicked old societies.

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But if Mrs Mingott
had wanted a lover,

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the intrepid woman
would have had him, too.

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For now she was content
simply for life and passion

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to flow northward to her door

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and to anticipate eagerly
the union of Newland Archer

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with her granddaughter, May.

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In them, two of
New York's best families

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would finally and
momentously be joined.

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Bye, Mamma.
Good-bye.

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Ellen!
Ladies.

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Aunt Tessa, May.
Archer.

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Beaufort,
this is a rare favour.

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Unnecessarily rare, I'd
say. (GREETS IN FRENCH)

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I met Countess Ellen
in Madison Square,

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and she was good enough
to let me walk home with her.

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This house will be merrier
now that she's here.

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Thank you. Beaufort,
pull up that tuffet.

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This one?
I want a good gossip.

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Of course, you already
know about May and me.

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She scolded me for not
telling you at the opera.

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Of course I know,
and I'm so glad.

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One doesn't tell such
news first in a crowd.

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Oh! Careful there. Don't let
your ring catch on your sleeve.

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Good-bye, Ellen.
Good-bye. Good-bye.

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Good-bye.

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Come and see me someday.

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It's a mistake for Ellen
to be seen parading up

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Fifth Avenue with
Julius Beaufort,

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at the crowded hour, the
very day after her arrival.

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His behaviour is
always so flagrant.

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Even his wife must
know about Annie Ring.

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NARRATOR: Sillerton Jackson
enjoyed his frequent visits

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to the Archer home more than
the actuaI dining. (INAUDIBLE)

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Newland Archer's mother and his
sister Janey were both shy women

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and shrank from society,
but they like

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to be well-informed
of its doings

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and doted on
their bachelor friend.

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Certain nuances
escape Beaufort.

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Oh, necessarily.
Beaufort is a vulgar man.

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Nevertheless, no business
nuances escape him.

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Most of New York
trusts him with its affairs.

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My grandfather Newland
always used to say to Mother,

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"Don't let that fellow Beaufort
be introduced to the girls. "

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(CHUCKLING)

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At least he's had the advantage
of association with gentlemen.

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NARRATOR: The Archers and the Mingotts
were two of the sturdiest branches

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of New York's
tangled family tree.

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Granny Mingott's family could
embrace May's traditionalism

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and tolerate
Ellen's unconventionality.

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But Archer's family
held fast to the old ways.

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His mother and sister relied
on him for every security.

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He would always be, Mrs
Archer assured May's mother,

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their "strong right hand. "

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And our new cousin,
was she at the ball, too?

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I appreciate the Mingotts
wanting to support her,

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to have her at the opera.

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I admire their
esprit de corps.

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But why my son's engagement

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should be mixed up with this
woman's comings and goings,

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I don't see.

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Well, in any case,
she was not at the ball.

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At least she had that decency.

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Sir?

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Oh, no.

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JANEY: I wonder if she wears a round
hat or a bonnet in the afternoon.

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The dress she wore to the
opera was so plain and flat.

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I'm sure it was in better
taste not to go to the ball.

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It don't think it was
a question of taste, Mother.

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May said the Countess decided
her dress wasn't smart enough.

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Poor Ellen.

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We must always remember the
eccentric bringing-up she had.

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What can you expect of a girl

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who was allowed to wear black
satin at her coming out ball?

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(CHUCKLING)

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It's odd she should've kept
such an ugly name as Ellen

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when she married the Count.

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I should have
changed it to Elaine.

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Why?

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I don't know.
It sounds more Polish.

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It certainly sounds
more conspicuous,

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and that can hardly
be what she wishes.

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NEWLAND: Why not? Why shouldn't
she be conspicuous if she chooses?

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She made an awful marriage.
But should she

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hide her head as
if it's her fault?

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Should she go slinking around
as if she disgraced herself?

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She's had an unhappy life. That
doesn't make her an outcast.

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I'm sure that's the line
the Mingotts mean to take.

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I don't have to wait for their
cue if that's what you mean, sir.

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I'm told she's
looking for a house.

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She intends to live here.

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I hear she means
to get a divorce.

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I hope she will.

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SILLERTON: Understandably
her marriage was intolerable.

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But there are
the rumours, too.

00:22:00.068 --> 00:22:02.403
I've heard them.
The secretary.

00:22:05.282 --> 00:22:07.241
He helped get her
away from the husband.

00:22:10.162 --> 00:22:13.331
They say the Count kept her
practically a prisoner.

00:22:13.415 --> 00:22:16.751
Certainly the Count
had his own way of life.

00:22:19.296 --> 00:22:20.338
You knew him?

00:22:20.422 --> 00:22:22.298
I heard of him at Nice.

00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:25.134
Handsome,
they say, but, um...

00:22:26.428 --> 00:22:28.679
Eyes with a lot of lashes.

00:22:29.598 --> 00:22:34.060
When he wasn't with women,
he was collecting china.

00:22:35.604 --> 00:22:37.897
Paying any price for both,
I understand.

00:22:37.981 --> 00:22:40.107
Then where's the blame?

00:22:40.192 --> 00:22:41.734
Anyone of us under
the same circumstances

00:22:41.818 --> 00:22:42.943
would have
helped the Countess,

00:22:43.028 --> 00:22:44.820
just as the secretary did.

00:22:45.655 --> 00:22:48.032
He was still helping
her a year later then,

00:22:48.116 --> 00:22:51.035
because somebody met them
living together at Lausanne.

00:22:52.788 --> 00:22:54.372
Living together?

00:22:55.874 --> 00:22:57.208
Well, why not?

00:22:57.292 --> 00:22:58.876
Who has the right to make
her life over if she hasn't?

00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:00.294
Why should we
bury a woman alive

00:23:00.379 --> 00:23:02.213
if her husband prefers
to live with whores?

00:23:02.297 --> 00:23:04.465
Oh, it's hardly
a question of entombment.

00:23:05.092 --> 00:23:07.259
The Countess is
here after all.

00:23:08.387 --> 00:23:10.763
Or do you believe

00:23:10.847 --> 00:23:13.849
a woman should share
the same freedoms as men?

00:23:15.018 --> 00:23:17.395
I suppose I do.
Yes, I do.

00:23:17.479 --> 00:23:21.315
Well, apparently Count Olenski
takes a similarly modern view.

00:23:22.025 --> 00:23:25.736
I never heard of him lifting
a finger to get his wife back.

00:23:29.032 --> 00:23:32.076
NARRATOR: Three days later,
the unthinkable happened.

00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:35.371
Mrs Manson Mingott
sent out invitations

00:23:35.455 --> 00:23:38.165
summoning everyone
to a formal dinner.

00:23:38.583 --> 00:23:42.461
Such an occasion demanded the
most careful consideration.

00:23:42.546 --> 00:23:44.922
It required
the appropriated plate.

00:23:45.257 --> 00:23:47.299
It called for
three extra footmen,

00:23:47.384 --> 00:23:49.176
two dishes for each course

00:23:49.261 --> 00:23:51.137
and a Roman punch
in the middle.

00:23:53.974 --> 00:23:56.559
The dinner, New York
read on the invitation,

00:23:56.643 --> 00:23:59.270
was "to meet
the Countess Olenska. "

00:24:03.358 --> 00:24:05.484
And New York declined.

00:24:07.988 --> 00:24:10.489
MRS ARCHER:
"Regret unable to accept. "

00:24:10.657 --> 00:24:12.533
And from some
of our own family.

00:24:12.701 --> 00:24:17.955
No one cares enough even to conceal
their feelings about the Countess.

00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:19.123
This is a disgrace.

00:24:19.207 --> 00:24:22.585
They all lived in a kind of
hieroglyphic world.

00:24:22.669 --> 00:24:26.297
The reaI thing was never said
or done or even thought,

00:24:26.381 --> 00:24:30.426
but only represented
by a set of arbitrary signs.

00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:33.804
Archer knew these signs.

00:24:33.889 --> 00:24:36.849
They were not subtle
and were not meant to be.

00:24:36.933 --> 00:24:39.435
They were more than
a simple snubbing.

00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:42.146
They were an eradication.

00:24:43.398 --> 00:24:45.774
There was
a single court of appeaI.

00:24:45.859 --> 00:24:49.487
He would plead their case
before the van der Luydens.

00:24:49.571 --> 00:24:55.075
And all this, you think, is due to
some intentional interference by...

00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:57.244
Larry Lefferts.
Yes, sir, I'm certain of it.

00:24:57.329 --> 00:25:00.831
The van der Luydens dwelled
above the city's families

00:25:00.916 --> 00:25:04.668
in a kind of
super-terrestriaI twilight.

00:25:04.753 --> 00:25:09.507
Archer appealed to their exquisitely
refined sense of tribal order.

00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:11.300
And he spoke plainly.

00:25:11.384 --> 00:25:12.843
Whenever poor
Gertrude Lefferts begins

00:25:12.928 --> 00:25:16.222
to suspect her
husband of something,

00:25:16.306 --> 00:25:20.392
Larry starts making some great
diversionary fuss to show how moral he is.

00:25:20.477 --> 00:25:23.938
Well, it's the principle that I dislike.

00:25:25.065 --> 00:25:27.816
I mean to say, if a member
of a well-known family

00:25:27.901 --> 00:25:30.319
is backed
by that family,

00:25:30.403 --> 00:25:32.321
it should be
considered final.

00:25:32.405 --> 00:25:34.782
We all felt this slight
on the Countess should

00:25:34.950 --> 00:25:37.284
not pass without
our consulting you.

00:25:37.452 --> 00:25:39.328
So, we are giving
a little dinner

00:25:39.412 --> 00:25:41.455
for our cousin,
the Duke of St Austrey,

00:25:42.249 --> 00:25:44.833
who arrives next
week on the Russia.

00:25:45.377 --> 00:25:48.087
I'm sure Louisa will
be as glad as I am,

00:25:48.547 --> 00:25:52.800
if Countess Olenska will let
us include her among our guests.

00:25:57.847 --> 00:25:59.974
The occasion was a solemn one,

00:26:00.058 --> 00:26:02.935
but the Countess Olenska
arrived rather late,

00:26:03.019 --> 00:26:07.648
signalling a carelessness of
which she was entirely unaware.

00:26:08.149 --> 00:26:10.776
She entered without
haste or embarrassment

00:26:10.860 --> 00:26:14.822
the drawing room in which
New York's most chosen company

00:26:14.906 --> 00:26:17.825
was somewhat
awfully assembled.

00:26:18.410 --> 00:26:20.035
Ah, Countess Olenska.

00:26:22.122 --> 00:26:23.622
Good evening.

00:26:24.332 --> 00:26:26.125
We're delighted you're
here. Good evening.

00:26:26.209 --> 00:26:28.335
The Duke of St Austrey, may
I present Countess Olenska.

00:26:28.420 --> 00:26:29.420
(GREETS IN FRENCH)

00:26:29.504 --> 00:26:32.673
The Trevenna George ll
plate was out.

00:26:32.757 --> 00:26:36.427
So was the van der Luyden Lowestoft
from the East India Company.

00:26:36.511 --> 00:26:39.430
And the Dagonet Crown Derby.

00:26:39.514 --> 00:26:43.350
Dining with the van der Luydens
was at best no light matter.

00:26:43.435 --> 00:26:46.562
Dining there with a duke
who was their cousin

00:26:46.646 --> 00:26:50.024
was almost
a religious solemnity.

00:26:50.108 --> 00:26:52.151
When the
van der Luydens chose,

00:26:52.277 --> 00:26:54.320
they knew how
to give a lesson.

00:27:34.194 --> 00:27:35.611
Excuse me.

00:27:39.282 --> 00:27:42.326
It was not the custom
in New York drawing rooms

00:27:42.410 --> 00:27:45.579
for a lady to get up and
walk away from one gentleman

00:27:45.664 --> 00:27:48.999
in order to seek
the company of another,

00:27:49.084 --> 00:27:51.960
but the Countess
did not observe this rule.

00:27:57.592 --> 00:27:59.718
I want you to
talk to me about May.

00:28:01.763 --> 00:28:03.430
You knew
the Duke before?

00:28:03.932 --> 00:28:06.600
From Nice. We used to
see him every winter.

00:28:06.685 --> 00:28:08.018
He's very fond
of gambling,

00:28:08.103 --> 00:28:10.437
and he used to come
to our house a great deal.

00:28:11.439 --> 00:28:13.732
He likes to wear
the same suit every evening.

00:28:13.817 --> 00:28:16.568
He thinks it
brings him luck.

00:28:16.653 --> 00:28:19.029
I think he's
the dullest man I ever met.

00:28:20.448 --> 00:28:23.033
But he... He seems
to be admired here.

00:28:24.869 --> 00:28:27.538
May I tell you what most
interests me about New York?

00:28:27.622 --> 00:28:32.626
Not all the blind obeying of
tradition, somebody else's tradition.

00:28:32.711 --> 00:28:34.253
It seems stupid to
have discovered America

00:28:34.337 --> 00:28:36.714
only to make it
a copy of another country.

00:28:36.798 --> 00:28:37.923
Do you suppose
Christopher Columbus

00:28:38.007 --> 00:28:39.258
would have taken
all that trouble

00:28:39.342 --> 00:28:41.427
just to go to the opera
with Larry Lefferts?

00:28:45.140 --> 00:28:48.809
Well, I think if he'd suspected
that Lefferts were here,

00:28:48.893 --> 00:28:51.812
the Santa Maria might
never have left port.

00:28:54.065 --> 00:28:56.358
And May, does she
share these views?

00:28:56.443 --> 00:28:58.694
Oh, if she does,
she'd never say so.

00:28:59.571 --> 00:29:01.947
Are you very much
in love with her?

00:29:02.574 --> 00:29:04.324
As much as a man can be.

00:29:04.492 --> 00:29:06.160
Do you think
there's a limit?

00:29:10.123 --> 00:29:14.501
If there is, I haven't
found it. Oh. C'est bon.

00:29:15.086 --> 00:29:17.671
It's really and
truly a romance then,

00:29:18.339 --> 00:29:20.424
not in the least arranged.

00:29:20.508 --> 00:29:22.301
Have you forgotten? In
our country we don't allow

00:29:22.385 --> 00:29:24.595
our marriages
to be arranged.

00:29:27.015 --> 00:29:28.390
Yes, I forgot. I'm sorry.

00:29:28.475 --> 00:29:31.477
(STAMMERING) I sometimes
make these mistakes.

00:29:32.437 --> 00:29:36.523
I don't always remember that
everything here is good that was...

00:29:36.608 --> 00:29:39.693
That was bad
where I came from.

00:29:43.782 --> 00:29:46.116
I'm so sorry.
No.

00:29:50.371 --> 00:29:52.956
But you know you are
among friends here.

00:29:53.500 --> 00:29:56.043
Yes, I know.
That's why I came home.

00:29:56.211 --> 00:29:57.711
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

00:30:00.924 --> 00:30:02.090
Good evening, Louisa.

00:30:02.175 --> 00:30:03.592
MAN: May I present
May Welland.

00:30:03.676 --> 00:30:05.135
You'll want
to be with May.

00:30:06.346 --> 00:30:07.513
I'm so pleased
to meet you.

00:30:07.597 --> 00:30:10.265
She's already surrounded.
I have so many rivals.

00:30:10.350 --> 00:30:12.392
Yes. (SIGHS)

00:30:12.477 --> 00:30:14.895
Then stay with me
a little longer.

00:30:16.356 --> 00:30:18.190
Yes.

00:30:18.358 --> 00:30:21.735
Mr Urban Dagonet, may I
present the Countess Olenska.

00:30:21.820 --> 00:30:23.362
How do you do, my dear?

00:30:23.446 --> 00:30:24.655
How do you do?

00:30:24.739 --> 00:30:27.449
Tomorrow then,
after 5:00 I'll expect you.

00:30:29.035 --> 00:30:30.452
Tomorrow.

00:30:30.954 --> 00:30:32.329
Excuse me.

00:30:40.588 --> 00:30:44.132
It was good of you to devote
yourself to Madame Olenska

00:30:44.217 --> 00:30:46.969
so unselfishly,
dear Newland.

00:30:47.053 --> 00:30:49.763
I told Henry he
really must rescue you.

00:30:50.932 --> 00:30:53.934
I think I've never
seen May looking lovelier.

00:30:54.727 --> 00:30:58.564
The Duke thinks her the
handsomest woman in the room.

00:31:43.735 --> 00:31:44.735
(DOOR OPENS)

00:31:55.330 --> 00:31:56.330
(CHATTERING)

00:32:01.544 --> 00:32:04.296
It was my pleasure.
(DOOR CLOSES)

00:32:06.341 --> 00:32:08.342
Mr Archer.

00:32:09.052 --> 00:32:13.096
So how do you like
this odd little house?

00:32:13.181 --> 00:32:14.556
To me, it's like heaven.

00:32:14.766 --> 00:32:16.266
You've arranged
it delightfully.

00:32:16.517 --> 00:32:18.060
Yes.

00:32:18.144 --> 00:32:20.771
Some of the things I
managed to bring with me.

00:32:20.855 --> 00:32:23.815
Little pieces
of wreckage.

00:32:24.859 --> 00:32:27.945
At least it's less gloomy
than the van der Luydens',

00:32:28.029 --> 00:32:30.781
and not so
difficult to be alone.

00:32:30.865 --> 00:32:34.117
I am sure it's often thought
the van der Luydens' is gloomy,

00:32:34.202 --> 00:32:36.536
though I've never
heard it said before.

00:32:36.871 --> 00:32:38.997
But tell me, do you
really like to be alone?

00:32:39.624 --> 00:32:42.709
As long as my friends
keep me from being lonely.

00:32:45.254 --> 00:32:48.507
I see you've already
chosen your corner.

00:32:48.591 --> 00:32:49.633
Yes.

00:32:49.717 --> 00:32:50.801
Please, sit.
Thank you.

00:32:55.556 --> 00:32:57.724
This is the hour
I like best.

00:32:58.601 --> 00:32:59.977
Don't you?

00:33:00.061 --> 00:33:02.187
I was afraid you'd
forgotten the hour.

00:33:02.271 --> 00:33:05.107
I am sure Beaufort
can be very intriguing.

00:33:06.943 --> 00:33:11.738
He took me to see some
houses. I'm told I must move.

00:33:12.699 --> 00:33:15.075
Even though this street
seems perfectly respectable.

00:33:15.159 --> 00:33:16.994
Yes, but it's
not fashionable.

00:33:17.078 --> 00:33:18.203
Fashionable?

00:33:18.287 --> 00:33:20.956
Is fashion such
a serious consideration?

00:33:21.040 --> 00:33:24.584
Among people who have nothing
more serious to consider.

00:33:27.255 --> 00:33:29.715
Perhaps I've been
too independent.

00:33:32.051 --> 00:33:35.429
All I really want is to
feel cared for and safe.

00:33:39.600 --> 00:33:42.686
Thank you. The van der
Luydens do nothing by halves.

00:33:42.770 --> 00:33:45.814
All New York laid itself
out for you last night.

00:33:45.898 --> 00:33:49.192
It was so kind.
Such a nice party.

00:33:49.277 --> 00:33:50.777
Cream or lemon?

00:33:51.738 --> 00:33:52.738
Um...

00:33:53.281 --> 00:33:54.364
Lemon, please.

00:33:54.449 --> 00:33:58.660
The van der Luydens are the most
powerful influence in New York society.

00:33:58.745 --> 00:34:02.330
They very seldom receive because
of Cousin Louisa's health.

00:34:02.415 --> 00:34:04.791
Perhaps that's
the reason then.

00:34:04.876 --> 00:34:06.168
Thank you.
"The reason"?

00:34:06.252 --> 00:34:09.463
For their influence. They
make themselves so rare.

00:34:10.673 --> 00:34:13.091
But, of course,
you must tell me.

00:34:14.010 --> 00:34:15.594
No, it's you telling me.

00:34:19.182 --> 00:34:22.184
Thank you. Then we can
both help each other.

00:34:22.268 --> 00:34:24.686
But I need help
so much more.

00:34:25.521 --> 00:34:30.025
There are so many people all
ready to tell you what to do.

00:34:33.154 --> 00:34:37.407
I think they're all a little angry
with me for setting up for myself.

00:34:37.492 --> 00:34:41.036
Still your family can
advise you, show you the way.

00:34:42.330 --> 00:34:44.164
Is New York
such a labyrinth?

00:34:44.248 --> 00:34:48.627
I thought it was all straight
up and down, like Fifth Avenue.

00:34:48.711 --> 00:34:51.254
All the cross
streets numbered,

00:34:51.339 --> 00:34:53.090
and big, honest labels
on everything.

00:34:53.174 --> 00:34:56.635
Everything is labelled,
but everybody is not.

00:35:00.598 --> 00:35:02.808
Then I must count on
you for warnings, too.

00:35:02.934 --> 00:35:05.811
All the older women like and
admire you. They want to help.

00:35:05.895 --> 00:35:09.815
I know. I know, as long as they
don't hear anything unpleasant.

00:35:11.109 --> 00:35:15.779
Does no one here want to
know the truth, Mr Archer?

00:35:15.863 --> 00:35:18.782
The real loneliness is living
among all these kind people

00:35:18.866 --> 00:35:21.326
who only ask
you to pretend.

00:35:26.082 --> 00:35:27.874
No, no, you mustn't.

00:35:29.877 --> 00:35:31.336
Madame Olenska.

00:35:34.924 --> 00:35:36.007
Ellen.

00:35:39.137 --> 00:35:40.887
Does no one
cry here either?

00:35:41.472 --> 00:35:43.682
I suppose
there's no need to.

00:36:00.575 --> 00:36:02.367
MAN: Oh, Mr Archer,
good evening.

00:36:02.451 --> 00:36:04.536
We didn't see you
this morning

00:36:04.620 --> 00:36:06.997
and we weren't sure whether to
send Miss Welland the usual...

00:36:07.081 --> 00:36:10.125
Lilies-of-the-valley. Yes, I think
we better make that a standing order.

00:36:10.209 --> 00:36:11.585
Very good, sir.

00:36:15.715 --> 00:36:20.010
And those yellow roses.
I'll give you another address.

00:36:20.094 --> 00:36:21.094
Very good.

00:36:25.016 --> 00:36:26.099
George!

00:36:28.144 --> 00:36:30.478
Mr Archer,
two separate orders.

00:36:35.776 --> 00:36:36.860
They'll go at once?

00:36:36.944 --> 00:36:37.986
At once, sir.

00:36:57.298 --> 00:36:58.882
MAY: It's wonderful
to wake every morning

00:36:58.966 --> 00:37:00.550
with lilies-of-the-valley
in my room.

00:37:00.635 --> 00:37:01.885
It's like being with you.

00:37:01.969 --> 00:37:03.178
They came late
yesterday, I know.

00:37:03.262 --> 00:37:04.971
Somehow the time
got away from me.

00:37:05.556 --> 00:37:07.724
But still
you always remember.

00:37:07.808 --> 00:37:10.852
I sent some roses to your Cousin
Ellen, too. Was that right?

00:37:10.937 --> 00:37:15.106
Very right. She didn't mention
it at lunch today though.

00:37:15.191 --> 00:37:18.151
She said she got some wonderful
orchids from Mr Beaufort,

00:37:18.236 --> 00:37:19.402
and a whole
hamper of carnations

00:37:19.487 --> 00:37:21.238
from Cousin
Henry van der Luyden.

00:37:21.906 --> 00:37:24.199
She was
so very delighted.

00:37:24.325 --> 00:37:27.327
Don't people send flowers
in Europe? (SQUAWKING)

00:37:27.411 --> 00:37:29.829
I know you do
consider it a long time.

00:37:29.914 --> 00:37:30.956
Very long.

00:37:31.040 --> 00:37:33.041
But the Chiverses were
engaged for a year and a half.

00:37:33.125 --> 00:37:35.585
Larry Lefferts and Gertrude
were engaged for two.

00:37:35.836 --> 00:37:38.255
I'm sure Mamma expects
something customary.

00:37:38.339 --> 00:37:40.173
Ever since you were little, your
parents let you have your way.

00:37:40.258 --> 00:37:43.343
You're almost 22. Just tell
your mother what you want.

00:37:43.511 --> 00:37:45.262
I couldn't refuse
her the very last thing

00:37:45.346 --> 00:37:47.097
she'd ask of me
as a little girl.

00:37:47.181 --> 00:37:49.849
Can't we just strike
out for ourselves, May?

00:37:51.811 --> 00:37:53.520
Shall we elope?

00:37:54.021 --> 00:37:56.022
Well, if you would,
why not?

00:37:57.275 --> 00:38:00.443
You do love me, Newland.
I'm so happy.

00:38:00.528 --> 00:38:02.612
Well, why not be happier?

00:38:02.697 --> 00:38:05.156
I couldn't be happier,
dearest.

00:38:05.241 --> 00:38:07.284
Did I tell you
I showed Ellen the ring?

00:38:07.368 --> 00:38:09.911
She thought it was the most
beautiful setting she ever saw.

00:38:09.996 --> 00:38:13.581
She said there was nothing
like it in the Rue de la Paix.

00:38:15.001 --> 00:38:17.002
I do love you, Newland.

00:38:17.378 --> 00:38:19.713
Everything you do
is so special.

00:38:21.549 --> 00:38:25.135
MR LETTERBLAIR: I want to call on your
legaI skills for a rather delicate matter.

00:38:25.219 --> 00:38:28.054
Countess Olenska wants to
sue her husband for divorce.

00:38:28.264 --> 00:38:32.350
It's been suggested she means to
marry again, although she denies it.

00:38:32.435 --> 00:38:35.645
Because of... I beg your pardon,
sir, but because of my engagement,

00:38:35.855 --> 00:38:39.482
perhaps one of the other members of
the firm could consider this matter.

00:38:39.608 --> 00:38:42.235
But precisely because of
your prospective alliance,

00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:43.737
and considering
that several members

00:38:43.821 --> 00:38:45.989
of the family have
already asked for you,

00:38:46.073 --> 00:38:47.407
I'd like you to
consider the case.

00:38:47.491 --> 00:38:51.911
It's a family matter. Perhaps
it's best settled by the family.

00:38:51.996 --> 00:38:53.413
Their position is clear.

00:38:53.539 --> 00:38:57.709
They're entirely and
rightly against a divorce.

00:38:57.918 --> 00:39:02.005
But Countess Olenska still
insists on a legal opinion.

00:39:02.089 --> 00:39:04.966
But really, what's
the use of a divorce?

00:39:05.051 --> 00:39:07.802
She's here. He's there.

00:39:08.012 --> 00:39:10.513
The whole Atlantic's
between them.

00:39:10.598 --> 00:39:14.434
As things go,
Olenski's acted generously.

00:39:14.518 --> 00:39:18.188
He's already returned some of
the money without being asked.

00:39:18.272 --> 00:39:20.607
She'll never get
a dollar more than that.

00:39:20.941 --> 00:39:24.861
Although I understand she attaches
no importance to the money.

00:39:25.613 --> 00:39:29.908
Considering all that, the wisest thing
really, is to do as the family say.

00:39:31.619 --> 00:39:33.745
Just let well enough alone.

00:39:37.625 --> 00:39:40.043
I think that's
for her to decide.

00:39:45.549 --> 00:39:47.759
Have you considered
the consequences

00:39:47.843 --> 00:39:49.928
if the Countess
decides for divorce?

00:39:50.012 --> 00:39:51.888
The consequences
for the Countess?

00:39:51.972 --> 00:39:53.264
For everyone.

00:39:53.349 --> 00:39:55.642
I don't think the
Count's accusations amount

00:39:55.768 --> 00:39:58.061
to anything more
than vague charges.

00:39:58.145 --> 00:40:00.271
It will make
for some talk.

00:40:00.356 --> 00:40:03.358
Well, I have heard talk about
the Countess and the secretary.

00:40:03.442 --> 00:40:05.443
I heard it even before
I read the legal papers.

00:40:05.820 --> 00:40:07.654
It's certain
to be unpleasant.

00:40:08.614 --> 00:40:09.864
Unpleasant?

00:40:10.491 --> 00:40:13.827
Divorce is always
unpleasant. Don't you agree?

00:40:16.163 --> 00:40:17.205
Naturally.

00:40:17.289 --> 00:40:18.748
Then I can count on you?

00:40:18.833 --> 00:40:20.875
The family
can count on you.

00:40:21.085 --> 00:40:23.336
You will use your
influence against a divorce?

00:40:24.088 --> 00:40:27.674
I can't promise that, not until
I've talked to the Countess.

00:40:28.926 --> 00:40:30.677
I don't understand
you, Mr Archer.

00:40:31.345 --> 00:40:32.554
You want to
marry into a family

00:40:32.638 --> 00:40:36.015
with a scandalous divorce
suit hanging over it?

00:40:36.100 --> 00:40:40.061
I don't think that has
anything to do with the case.

00:40:40.354 --> 00:40:43.731
Can someone take this for me
to the Countess, please?

00:40:49.405 --> 00:40:50.738
Thank you.

00:40:52.700 --> 00:40:55.285
MAN: You refuse such an
invitation on threat of death.

00:40:55.369 --> 00:40:56.661
ELLEN: Is it so bad?

00:40:56.745 --> 00:40:59.080
MAN: Not if you have
a taste for slow agony.

00:40:59.165 --> 00:41:00.957
ELLEN: That's something
I've neglected to cultivate.

00:41:01.041 --> 00:41:03.376
MAN: Three days at Skuytercliff
with the van der Luydens.

00:41:03.711 --> 00:41:05.336
I think you better take your
fur and a hot water bottle.

00:41:05.421 --> 00:41:06.796
Is the house that cold?

00:41:06.881 --> 00:41:08.089
No, but Louisa is.

00:41:08.174 --> 00:41:09.507
Mr Archer.

00:41:09.592 --> 00:41:11.968
Join me at Delmonico's
on Sunday instead.

00:41:12.052 --> 00:41:15.013
I'm having a nice oyster
supper in your honour.

00:41:15.097 --> 00:41:18.433
Private room, congenial
company. Artists and so on.

00:41:18.517 --> 00:41:19.976
That's very tempting.
I haven't met

00:41:20.060 --> 00:41:21.811
a single artist
since I've been here.

00:41:21.896 --> 00:41:25.190
I know one or two painters I could
bring to see you if you'd allow me.

00:41:25.733 --> 00:41:28.651
Painters? Are there any
painters in New York?

00:41:29.069 --> 00:41:32.322
Thank you, but I was
really thinking of singers,

00:41:32.406 --> 00:41:35.158
actors, musicians,
dramatic artists.

00:41:36.368 --> 00:41:39.329
There were always so many
at my husband's house.

00:41:39.455 --> 00:41:41.498
May I write tomorrow
and let you know?

00:41:41.582 --> 00:41:43.791
It's too late to
decide this evening.

00:41:43.876 --> 00:41:46.294
Is this late?
Yes.

00:41:46.378 --> 00:41:49.797
Because I still have to
talk business with Mr Archer.

00:41:49.882 --> 00:41:50.882
Ah.

00:41:54.637 --> 00:41:57.263
Of course, Newland, if you
can persuade the Countess

00:41:57.348 --> 00:42:01.267
to change her mind about
Sunday, you can join us, too.

00:42:03.771 --> 00:42:06.689
You know painters then?
You live in their milieu?

00:42:06.774 --> 00:42:08.191
Not exactly.

00:42:08.275 --> 00:42:09.943
But you care
about such things?

00:42:10.027 --> 00:42:13.821
Immensely. When I'm in Paris or
London, I never miss an exhibition.

00:42:13.906 --> 00:42:15.573
I try to keep up.

00:42:15.658 --> 00:42:17.283
I used to care
immensely, too.

00:42:17.368 --> 00:42:19.827
My life was full
of such things,

00:42:19.912 --> 00:42:25.291
but now I want to cast off all my
old life to become a complete American

00:42:25.376 --> 00:42:27.335
and try to be
like everybody else.

00:42:28.504 --> 00:42:31.381
I don't think you'll ever
quite be like everybody else.

00:42:31.465 --> 00:42:32.715
Don't say that
to me, please.

00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:34.884
I just want to put all
the old things behind me.

00:42:34.969 --> 00:42:36.052
I know.

00:42:36.845 --> 00:42:38.805
Mr Letterblair told me.

00:42:39.848 --> 00:42:41.474
Mr Letterblair?

00:42:42.184 --> 00:42:45.603
Yes, I've... I've come because
he asked me to. I'm in the firm.

00:42:46.814 --> 00:42:50.233
You mean it'll be you who'll
manage everything for me?

00:42:50.317 --> 00:42:51.943
I can talk to you.
That's so much easier.

00:42:52.027 --> 00:42:54.070
Yes, I'm here
to talk about it.

00:42:54.154 --> 00:42:56.406
I've read all
the legal papers.

00:42:57.658 --> 00:43:00.660
And the letter
from the Count.

00:43:05.958 --> 00:43:07.333
It was vile.

00:43:08.669 --> 00:43:10.253
But if he chooses
to fight the case,

00:43:10.337 --> 00:43:12.839
he can say things
that might be...

00:43:13.799 --> 00:43:14.799
Uh...

00:43:17.886 --> 00:43:19.262
That might be
disagreeable to you.

00:43:19.346 --> 00:43:23.349
And say them publicly, so that
they could be damaging even if...

00:43:25.227 --> 00:43:26.269
If?

00:43:29.023 --> 00:43:31.190
Even if they were unfounded.

00:43:33.611 --> 00:43:36.821
What harm could accusations
like that do me here?

00:43:37.698 --> 00:43:40.783
Perhaps more harm
than anywhere else.

00:43:40.868 --> 00:43:44.704
Our legislation favours divorce,
but our social customs don't.

00:43:46.874 --> 00:43:48.082
Never?

00:43:48.167 --> 00:43:50.335
Well, not if the woman

00:43:50.711 --> 00:43:55.089
has appearances in the
least degree against her,

00:43:55.174 --> 00:43:59.636
has exposed herself by any
unconventional behaviour,

00:44:00.554 --> 00:44:05.016
to offensive
insinuations and...

00:44:06.268 --> 00:44:08.686
Yes, so my family
tell me.

00:44:12.566 --> 00:44:15.193
Our family.
You'll be my cousin soon.

00:44:18.364 --> 00:44:20.615
And you agree with them?

00:44:30.584 --> 00:44:33.920
What could you possibly gain that
would make up for the scandal?

00:44:36.507 --> 00:44:37.882
My freedom.

00:44:39.802 --> 00:44:41.886
But aren't you
free already?

00:44:44.848 --> 00:44:46.933
It's my business to help you
see these things just the way

00:44:47.017 --> 00:44:49.185
the people who are
fondest of you see them,

00:44:49.311 --> 00:44:51.521
all your
friends and relations.

00:44:51.605 --> 00:44:54.691
If I didn't show you honestly
how they judge such matters,

00:44:54.775 --> 00:44:56.484
it wouldn't be
fair of me, would it?

00:44:59.780 --> 00:45:01.739
No, it wouldn't be fair.

00:45:09.748 --> 00:45:11.416
Very well. I'll...

00:45:12.876 --> 00:45:14.419
Do as you wish.

00:45:17.339 --> 00:45:18.631
I...

00:45:20.134 --> 00:45:21.592
I do want to help you.

00:45:22.094 --> 00:45:23.761
You do help me.

00:45:28.475 --> 00:45:30.226
Good night, cousin.

00:45:45.993 --> 00:45:48.369
MAN: For mercy's sake,
don't cry so bitterly.

00:45:48.454 --> 00:45:49.912
Forget what I've done.

00:45:49.997 --> 00:45:51.497
WOMAN: On one condition.

00:45:52.291 --> 00:45:54.792
I accept it,
whatever it may be.

00:45:56.003 --> 00:45:58.921
Never speak a word
of love to me again!

00:45:59.006 --> 00:46:00.173
Never!

00:46:05.971 --> 00:46:07.346
On my honour.

00:46:28.535 --> 00:46:30.203
Heaven bless you.

00:46:47.846 --> 00:46:49.096
Farewell.

00:46:54.853 --> 00:46:56.103
(SOBBING)

00:47:22.756 --> 00:47:25.675
It's fascinating.
Every season, the same play,

00:47:25.759 --> 00:47:28.219
the same scene, the same
effect on the audience.

00:47:28.303 --> 00:47:30.221
Remarkable,
isn't it, Newland?

00:47:30.305 --> 00:47:32.723
I'm enjoying it even more
than the London production.

00:47:32.808 --> 00:47:35.726
You see this play
even when you travel?

00:47:35.811 --> 00:47:36.936
I travel to get
away from it.

00:47:37.104 --> 00:47:38.229
So was it a dinner?

00:47:38.313 --> 00:47:40.648
It was a reception
at Mrs Struthers'

00:47:40.732 --> 00:47:43.776
given on the Lord's Day
but with champagne

00:47:43.861 --> 00:47:45.903
and singing from
the table tops.

00:47:45.988 --> 00:47:48.030
People say
there was dancing.

00:47:48.115 --> 00:47:50.032
It was a real
French Sunday then?

00:47:50.117 --> 00:47:54.370
Well, dissipation can be wonderfully
energising in the early stages...

00:47:58.625 --> 00:48:00.334
Do you think
her lover will send her

00:48:00.419 --> 00:48:02.628
a box of yellow roses
tomorrow morning?

00:48:11.555 --> 00:48:12.930
I...

00:48:13.015 --> 00:48:15.308
I was thinking
about that, too.

00:48:18.312 --> 00:48:20.062
The farewell scene.

00:48:22.399 --> 00:48:23.816
Yes, I know.

00:48:25.152 --> 00:48:26.569
It touches me as well.

00:48:26.653 --> 00:48:28.988
I usually leave
the theatre after that scene

00:48:29.114 --> 00:48:31.407
to take the picture
away with me.

00:48:36.830 --> 00:48:40.041
I had a letter from
May from St Augustine.

00:48:40.125 --> 00:48:42.209
They always spend
the winter there,

00:48:42.294 --> 00:48:44.545
on account of her
mother's bronchitis.

00:48:47.215 --> 00:48:49.842
And what do you do
while May is away?

00:48:54.932 --> 00:48:56.390
I do my work.

00:49:07.945 --> 00:49:11.572
I do want you to know what
you advised me was right.

00:49:12.824 --> 00:49:18.120
Things can be so difficult
sometimes, and I'm so grateful.

00:49:32.552 --> 00:49:35.888
NARRATOR: The next day Newland
Archer searched the city in vain

00:49:35.973 --> 00:49:37.807
for yellow roses.

00:49:37.933 --> 00:49:40.601
From his office, he sent
a note to Madame Olenska

00:49:40.686 --> 00:49:42.812
asking to call that afternoon,

00:49:42.896 --> 00:49:46.232
and requesting
reply by messenger.

00:49:46.316 --> 00:49:49.694
There was no reply
that day or the next.

00:49:50.445 --> 00:49:55.241
And when yellow roses were again
available, Archer passed them by.

00:49:56.702 --> 00:50:00.329
It was only on the third day
that he heard from her by post,

00:50:00.414 --> 00:50:02.957
from the van der
Luydens' country home.

00:50:03.041 --> 00:50:08.170
"Newland, I ran away the day
after I saw you at the play,

00:50:08.255 --> 00:50:10.506
"and these kind friends
have taken me in.

00:50:10.590 --> 00:50:14.218
"I wanted to be quiet
and think things over.

00:50:14.302 --> 00:50:18.222
"I feel so safe here.
I wish that you were with us.

00:50:18.306 --> 00:50:20.057
"Yours sincerely. "

00:50:23.770 --> 00:50:26.355
He had received an invitation
from the Lefferts

00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:30.860
for a weekend on the Hudson, and he
hoped it was not too late to reply.

00:50:30.944 --> 00:50:34.238
Their house was not far
from the van der Luydens'.

00:50:48.170 --> 00:50:50.838
I came to see what you
were running away from.

00:50:52.674 --> 00:50:53.883
I knew you'd come.

00:50:53.967 --> 00:50:55.426
That shows
you wanted me to.

00:50:55.510 --> 00:50:57.803
Cousin May wrote. She asked
you to take care of me.

00:50:57.888 --> 00:50:58.971
I didn't need to be asked.

00:50:59.097 --> 00:51:00.097
Why?

00:51:00.182 --> 00:51:02.892
Does that mean I'm so
helpless and defenceless?

00:51:02.976 --> 00:51:06.020
Or that women here are so
blessed, they never feel need?

00:51:06.104 --> 00:51:07.521
What sort of need?

00:51:07.606 --> 00:51:08.981
Oh, please don't ask me.

00:51:09.066 --> 00:51:11.067
I don't speak your language.

00:51:14.279 --> 00:51:18.407
Henry left the old Patroon house
open for me. I want you to see it.

00:51:27.834 --> 00:51:30.336
When you wrote me,
you were unhappy.

00:51:31.338 --> 00:51:34.465
Yes, but I can't feel
unhappy when you're here.

00:51:42.974 --> 00:51:44.809
I shan't be here long.

00:51:44.893 --> 00:51:46.143
I know.

00:51:46.228 --> 00:51:49.730
Ellen, if you really
wanted me to come,

00:51:52.651 --> 00:51:54.693
if I'm really
to help you,

00:51:58.365 --> 00:52:01.200
you must tell me what
you're running from.

00:52:50.208 --> 00:52:52.751
Is he what you
were running from?

00:52:55.088 --> 00:52:57.256
Or what you expected? I
didn't know he was here.

00:53:02.554 --> 00:53:04.180
Hello, Beaufort.
This way.

00:53:04.264 --> 00:53:06.557
Madame Olenska
was expecting you.

00:53:06.641 --> 00:53:07.683
Hello.

00:53:07.767 --> 00:53:10.728
Well, you've certainly
led me on a bit of a chase.

00:53:12.355 --> 00:53:13.355
(CHUCKLES)

00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:17.234
All this way just to tell you I'd
found the perfect little house for you.

00:53:17.319 --> 00:53:18.319
Oh.

00:53:18.904 --> 00:53:22.072
It's not on the market yet,
so you must take it at once.

00:53:23.325 --> 00:53:25.951
Well, Archer, rusticating?

00:53:33.752 --> 00:53:36.712
NARRATOR: That night he did
not take the customary comfort

00:53:36.796 --> 00:53:40.007
in his monthly shipment
of books from London.

00:53:40.091 --> 00:53:44.261
The taste of the usual
was like cinders in his mouth.

00:53:44.346 --> 00:53:45.846
And there were
moments when he felt

00:53:45.931 --> 00:53:49.141
as if he were being buried
alive under his future.

00:53:52.687 --> 00:53:55.522
"Newland, come late tomorrow.
I must explain to you.

00:53:55.607 --> 00:53:56.815
"Ellen. "

00:54:20.590 --> 00:54:23.968
Newland.
Has anything happened?

00:54:24.052 --> 00:54:26.679
Yes. I found
I had to see you.

00:54:32.352 --> 00:54:34.520
What is it?
Nothing.

00:54:37.190 --> 00:54:39.525
So tell me what
you do all day.

00:54:41.361 --> 00:54:44.113
Well, uh, there are a few
very pleasant people

00:54:44.197 --> 00:54:48.284
from Philadelphia and Baltimore
who are picnicking at the inn,

00:54:48.368 --> 00:54:51.370
and the Merrys are setting
up a lawn tennis court,

00:54:51.454 --> 00:54:54.915
but nobody here's really
heard of the game yet.

00:54:55.000 --> 00:54:56.292
I have my racket,
of course,

00:54:56.376 --> 00:55:00.796
and so does Kate Merry, but she's
had this terrible case of bronchitis.

00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:03.799
She's still not quite
got over it yet, so...

00:55:07.846 --> 00:55:10.306
But I thought...
I came here because I thought

00:55:10.390 --> 00:55:13.934
I could persuade you
to break away from all that,

00:55:14.019 --> 00:55:16.061
to advance our engagement.

00:55:17.897 --> 00:55:21.317
Don't you understand
how much I want to marry you?

00:55:21.401 --> 00:55:23.902
Why should we dream
away another year?

00:55:23.987 --> 00:55:25.988
I'm not sure I do
understand, Newland.

00:55:28.908 --> 00:55:30.284
Is it because
you're not certain

00:55:30.368 --> 00:55:32.369
of feeling
the same way about me?

00:55:34.122 --> 00:55:35.581
What on earth
do you mean?

00:55:37.208 --> 00:55:39.084
Is there someone else?

00:55:40.170 --> 00:55:41.628
Someone else?

00:55:42.547 --> 00:55:44.256
Between you and me?

00:55:46.468 --> 00:55:48.927
Let's talk
frankly, Newland.

00:55:49.012 --> 00:55:52.014
I've felt a difference in you,
especially since our engagement.

00:55:52.098 --> 00:55:53.140
Since our engagement?

00:55:53.224 --> 00:55:55.309
If it's untrue, then it
won't hurt to talk about it.

00:55:55.393 --> 00:55:57.686
And if it is true, then why
shouldn't we talk about it now?

00:55:57.771 --> 00:55:59.855
I mean, you might
have made a mistake.

00:55:59.939 --> 00:56:02.316
If I'd made some sort of a
mistake, would I be down here,

00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:04.193
asking you to
hurry our marriage?

00:56:04.361 --> 00:56:07.029
I don't know.
You might.

00:56:07.113 --> 00:56:09.531
It would be one way
to settle the question.

00:56:13.620 --> 00:56:16.163
In Newport, two years ago,

00:56:16.247 --> 00:56:18.916
before we were promised,

00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:21.460
everyone said there was
someone else for you.

00:56:21.628 --> 00:56:23.253
I even saw you
with her once,

00:56:23.338 --> 00:56:25.589
sitting together on
a veranda at a dance.

00:56:26.091 --> 00:56:29.218
When she came into the
house, her face looked so sad.

00:56:29.302 --> 00:56:33.055
I felt sorry for her, and even
after, when we were engaged,

00:56:33.139 --> 00:56:35.140
I could still see
how she looked and...

00:56:35.642 --> 00:56:38.936
Is that... Is that all
you've been concerned about?

00:56:40.897 --> 00:56:42.940
It's long passed.

00:56:46.236 --> 00:56:48.112
Then is there
something else?

00:56:48.196 --> 00:56:51.156
No. Of course not.

00:56:53.535 --> 00:56:56.286
Whatever it may have been,
Newland, I can't have my happiness

00:56:56.371 --> 00:56:58.789
made out of a wrong
to somebody else.

00:56:58.873 --> 00:57:00.666
If promises were made,
or if you feel

00:57:00.834 --> 00:57:02.584
in some way
pledged to this person,

00:57:02.669 --> 00:57:04.753
even if it means
her getting a divorce,

00:57:04.838 --> 00:57:07.423
then, Newland, don't
give her up because of me.

00:57:07.507 --> 00:57:08.882
There are no pledges.

00:57:09.342 --> 00:57:11.760
There are no
promises that matter.

00:57:13.221 --> 00:57:14.430
That's all I've
been trying to say.

00:57:14.514 --> 00:57:18.183
There is no one between us.
There is nothing between us, May.

00:57:20.979 --> 00:57:24.231
Which is precisely my
argument for getting married.

00:57:25.358 --> 00:57:26.608
Quickly.

00:57:33.575 --> 00:57:38.537
NARRATOR: He could feeI her dropping
back to inexpressive girlishness.

00:57:38.621 --> 00:57:41.707
Her conscience had been
eased of its burden.

00:57:41.791 --> 00:57:45.627
It was wonderfuI, he thought,
how such depths of feeling

00:57:45.712 --> 00:57:49.506
could coexist with such
an absence of imagination.

00:57:51.092 --> 00:57:52.092
Mmm-hmm.

00:57:52.385 --> 00:57:54.636
And did you succeed?
NEWLAND: No.

00:57:55.180 --> 00:57:58.015
No, I'd still like to be
married in April, with your help.

00:57:58.099 --> 00:58:00.392
Now you're seeing
the Mingott way.

00:58:00.477 --> 00:58:02.060
Is this really
so difficult?

00:58:02.145 --> 00:58:04.521
The entire
family is difficult.

00:58:04.606 --> 00:58:06.482
Not one of them
wants to be different.

00:58:06.566 --> 00:58:09.276
When they are different, they
end up like Ellen's parents.

00:58:09.486 --> 00:58:12.154
Nomads,
continental wanderers.

00:58:12.238 --> 00:58:14.323
Dragging Ellen about,

00:58:14.574 --> 00:58:17.951
lavishing on her an expensive,
but incoherent education.

00:58:18.953 --> 00:58:20.704
Out of all of them,
I don't believe there's one

00:58:20.788 --> 00:58:24.374
that takes after me
but my little Ellen.

00:58:24.459 --> 00:58:26.210
You've got a quick eye.

00:58:26.294 --> 00:58:28.754
Why in the world
didn't you marry her?

00:58:31.841 --> 00:58:33.884
Well, for one thing, she
wasn't there to be married.

00:58:33.968 --> 00:58:36.303
(LAUGHS) No, to be sure.

00:58:37.305 --> 00:58:41.308
And she's still not.
The Count, you know.

00:58:41.392 --> 00:58:43.352
He's written to
Mr Letterblair.

00:58:44.979 --> 00:58:48.649
He wants her back,
on her own terms.

00:58:49.734 --> 00:58:53.445
The Count doesn't defend
himself, I will say that.

00:58:53.530 --> 00:58:57.449
And Ellen will be losing a
great deal if she stayed here.

00:58:57.534 --> 00:58:59.159
There's her old life,

00:58:59.244 --> 00:59:03.872
gardens at Nice, jewels, of
course, music and conversation.

00:59:03.957 --> 00:59:07.042
She says she goes
unnoticed in Europe,

00:59:07.126 --> 00:59:10.587
but I know her portrait's
been painted nine times.

00:59:11.798 --> 00:59:15.634
All this, and the remorse
of a guilty husband.

00:59:15.718 --> 00:59:17.678
I'd rather see her dead.

00:59:18.846 --> 00:59:19.930
Would you really?

00:59:21.474 --> 00:59:25.269
We should remember marriage is
marriage, and Ellen is still a wife.

00:59:25.353 --> 00:59:26.353
(DOOR OPENS)

00:59:27.063 --> 00:59:29.565
Ellen! See who's here!

00:59:30.567 --> 00:59:32.192
Yes, I know. I...

00:59:32.277 --> 00:59:35.529
I went to see your mother
to ask where you've gone.

00:59:36.990 --> 00:59:41.243
Since you never answered my note,
I was afraid you might be ill.

00:59:41.327 --> 00:59:43.870
Well, he was in such a rush
to get married, that's why.

00:59:44.122 --> 00:59:45.914
Fresh off the train,
and straight here.

00:59:45.999 --> 00:59:48.083
He wants me to
use all my influence

00:59:48.167 --> 00:59:50.294
just to marry his
sweetheart sooner.

00:59:52.672 --> 00:59:55.591
Well, surely, Granny,
between us,

00:59:55.675 --> 00:59:58.218
we can persuade the Wellands
to do as he wishes.

00:59:58.595 --> 01:00:01.638
There, Newland, you see? Right to
the quick of the problem, like me.

01:00:01.973 --> 01:00:04.141
I told him he
should have married you.

01:00:05.435 --> 01:00:07.603
And what did he say?

01:00:07.687 --> 01:00:11.189
Oh, my darling, I leave
you to find that out.

01:00:18.281 --> 01:00:19.865
I wish I didn't
have to leave.

01:00:19.949 --> 01:00:21.867
I shall see you
very soon, I hope.

01:00:21.951 --> 01:00:23.076
Fine.

01:00:24.621 --> 01:00:26.246
I'll see you out.

01:00:28.041 --> 01:00:29.791
When can I see you?

01:00:46.309 --> 01:00:47.309
(THUDDING)

01:00:48.102 --> 01:00:52.022
ELLEN: The Struthers are
sending the carriage at 7:00.

01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:54.149
(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

01:00:56.653 --> 01:00:57.653
Good evening.

01:00:59.530 --> 01:01:01.657
Who's ridiculous enough
to send me a bouquet?

01:01:01.741 --> 01:01:04.493
I'm not going to a ball,
and I'm not engaged.

01:01:04.577 --> 01:01:05.827
Nastasia!

01:01:05.912 --> 01:01:08.038
Some people are
always ridiculous.

01:01:08.122 --> 01:01:10.374
Take these to that nice
family down the street.

01:01:10.458 --> 01:01:12.209
(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

01:01:13.753 --> 01:01:15.921
(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

01:01:17.340 --> 01:01:20.425
Well, I'll tell you, in
almost everything she says,

01:01:20.510 --> 01:01:23.637
there's something true
and something untrue.

01:01:24.263 --> 01:01:27.224
Why? What has Granny
been telling you?

01:01:28.768 --> 01:01:31.728
I think she believes you
might go back to your husband.

01:01:34.941 --> 01:01:37.484
I think she believes you
might at least consider it.

01:01:37.568 --> 01:01:40.362
A lot of things have
been believed of me.

01:01:42.031 --> 01:01:43.699
But if she thinks
I would consider it,

01:01:43.783 --> 01:01:46.660
that also means she
would consider it for me,

01:01:46.911 --> 01:01:50.997
as Granny is weighing your
idea of advancing the marriage.

01:02:01.592 --> 01:02:04.344
May and I had
a frank talk in Florida.

01:02:06.931 --> 01:02:08.765
It's probably our first.

01:02:10.643 --> 01:02:13.562
She wants a long engagement,
to give me time.

01:02:16.274 --> 01:02:17.774
Time for what?

01:02:19.444 --> 01:02:22.237
She thinks I want to
marry her at once...

01:02:23.406 --> 01:02:26.742
To get away from
someone that I care for

01:02:27.910 --> 01:02:28.910
more.

01:02:34.500 --> 01:02:37.127
Time to give her up
for another woman?

01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:40.380
If I want to.

01:02:42.091 --> 01:02:44.092
That's very noble.

01:02:44.177 --> 01:02:45.218
Yes.

01:02:46.262 --> 01:02:48.054
But it's ridiculous.

01:02:49.390 --> 01:02:50.390
Why?

01:02:51.601 --> 01:02:54.478
Because there is
no other woman?

01:02:54.562 --> 01:02:58.565
No. Because I don't mean
to marry anyone else.

01:03:06.407 --> 01:03:09.326
This other woman,
does she love you too?

01:03:09.410 --> 01:03:12.913
There is no other woman! The person
May was thinking of was never...

01:03:12.997 --> 01:03:14.539
(BELL DINGING)

01:03:15.291 --> 01:03:16.500
(CHATTERING)

01:03:21.589 --> 01:03:23.590
That must be
your carriage.

01:03:23.674 --> 01:03:24.925
Yes, I...

01:03:26.886 --> 01:03:29.387
I suppose I should
be leaving soon.

01:03:32.934 --> 01:03:34.684
To Mrs Struthers'?

01:03:36.646 --> 01:03:41.566
Yes. I must go where I'm invited,
or I should be too lonely.

01:03:47.073 --> 01:03:48.865
Why not come with me?

01:04:12.890 --> 01:04:14.766
May guessed the truth.

01:04:17.937 --> 01:04:19.855
There is another woman.

01:04:24.443 --> 01:04:26.611
Only, not the one
she thinks.

01:04:31.617 --> 01:04:33.910
Don't make love to me, too
many people have done that.

01:04:33.995 --> 01:04:35.203
I've never
made love to you.

01:04:35.288 --> 01:04:36.580
But you are the woman
I would've married

01:04:36.664 --> 01:04:37.998
if it had been
possible for either of us.

01:04:38.082 --> 01:04:40.083
You can say that when you're
the one who's made it impossible?

01:04:40.209 --> 01:04:43.169
I've made it? Isn't it you
who made me give up divorcing?

01:04:43.254 --> 01:04:45.547
Didn't you talk to me here,
in this house,

01:04:45.631 --> 01:04:48.216
about sacrifice
and sparing scandal?

01:04:48.593 --> 01:04:51.219
And for May's sake, and for
yours, I did what you asked me!

01:04:51.304 --> 01:04:53.179
There were things in
your husband's letter...

01:04:53.306 --> 01:04:56.099
I had nothing to fear from
that letter, absolutely nothing.

01:04:56.517 --> 01:05:00.270
I was just afraid of scandal
for the family and you and May.

01:05:05.651 --> 01:05:06.860
Ellen.

01:05:09.155 --> 01:05:10.322
Ellen.

01:05:11.949 --> 01:05:13.450
Nothing's...

01:05:14.201 --> 01:05:16.745
Nothing's done
that can't be undone.

01:05:17.538 --> 01:05:19.080
I'm still free.

01:05:22.001 --> 01:05:23.585
You can be, too.

01:05:25.504 --> 01:05:27.005
Please, Ellen.

01:06:06.462 --> 01:06:10.590
Lord, can I marry May now? Do
you see me marrying May now?

01:06:10.675 --> 01:06:13.051
I don't see you putting
that question to May, do you?

01:06:13.177 --> 01:06:15.971
But I have to. It's too
late to do anything else.

01:06:16.055 --> 01:06:18.640
You say that because it's the
easiest thing to say at this moment,

01:06:18.724 --> 01:06:20.225
not because it's true.

01:06:20.601 --> 01:06:21.977
I don't understand you.

01:06:22.061 --> 01:06:24.771
You don't understand
because you don't yet realise

01:06:24.855 --> 01:06:27.399
how you've
changed things for me.

01:06:27.483 --> 01:06:29.609
You don't know all
that you've done.

01:06:29.694 --> 01:06:30.735
All I've done?

01:06:30.820 --> 01:06:34.990
All the good things you've done
for me, Newland, that I never knew.

01:06:35.074 --> 01:06:38.827
Going to the van der Luydens'
because people refused to meet me.

01:06:38.911 --> 01:06:41.079
Announcing your engagement
at the ball so there would be

01:06:41.163 --> 01:06:44.541
two families standing
behind me instead of one.

01:06:45.251 --> 01:06:48.670
I never understood how
dreadful people thought I was.

01:06:48.754 --> 01:06:51.214
Granny blurted it out
one day.

01:06:51.298 --> 01:06:53.800
I was stupid.
I never thought...

01:06:53.884 --> 01:06:56.344
New York meant
freedom to me.

01:06:56.429 --> 01:07:00.306
Everyone seemed so kind,
and glad to see me.

01:07:02.268 --> 01:07:05.895
But they never knew
what it meant to be tempted,

01:07:05.980 --> 01:07:08.106
but you did,
you understood.

01:07:09.316 --> 01:07:11.443
I'd never known that before.

01:07:12.778 --> 01:07:15.613
And it's better than
anything I've known.

01:07:21.829 --> 01:07:25.290
Newland, you couldn't be
happy if it meant being cruel.

01:07:26.959 --> 01:07:28.168
If we act any other way,

01:07:28.252 --> 01:07:31.713
I'll be making you act against
what I love in you most.

01:07:33.049 --> 01:07:35.967
And I can't go back to
that way of thinking.

01:07:37.595 --> 01:07:41.014
Don't you see? I can't love
you, unless I give you up.

01:08:22.973 --> 01:08:25.683
"Ellen, Granny's
telegram was successful.

01:08:25.768 --> 01:08:29.646
"Grandma and Mamma agreed to
marriage after Easter, only a month.

01:08:29.730 --> 01:08:33.608
"I will telegraph Newland. I'm too
happy for words, and love you dearly.

01:08:33.692 --> 01:08:35.860
"Your grateful cousin, May. "

01:08:56.006 --> 01:08:58.883
NARRATOR: There had been wild
rumours right up to the wedding day

01:08:58.968 --> 01:09:02.345
that Mrs Mingott would
actually attend the ceremony.

01:09:03.430 --> 01:09:06.724
It was known that she had sent a
carpenter to measure the front pew,

01:09:06.809 --> 01:09:09.894
in case it might be altered
to accommodate her.

01:09:09.979 --> 01:09:14.440
But this idea, like the great lady
herself, proved to be unwieldy,

01:09:14.525 --> 01:09:17.694
and she settled for giving
the wedding-breakfast.

01:09:19.238 --> 01:09:21.990
The Countess Olenska
sent her regrets.

01:09:22.074 --> 01:09:24.325
She was
travelling with an aunt.

01:09:24.410 --> 01:09:29.164
But gave the bride and groom
an exquisite piece of old lace.

01:09:29.248 --> 01:09:33.668
Two elderly aunts in Rhinebeck
offered a honeymoon cottage.

01:09:33.752 --> 01:09:35.962
And, since it was
thought very English

01:09:36.046 --> 01:09:38.506
to have a country house
on loan,

01:09:38.883 --> 01:09:41.551
their offer was accepted.

01:09:41.635 --> 01:09:45.513
When the house proved suddenly
uninhabitable, however,

01:09:45.598 --> 01:09:49.017
Henry van der Luyden stepped
in to offer an old cottage

01:09:49.101 --> 01:09:52.353
on his property nearby.

01:09:52.438 --> 01:09:56.024
May accepted the offer
as a surprise for her husband.

01:09:56.108 --> 01:09:57.859
She'd never seen the house,

01:09:57.943 --> 01:10:00.570
but her cousin, Ellen,
had mentioned it once.

01:10:00.654 --> 01:10:03.823
She had said it was
the only house in America

01:10:03.908 --> 01:10:06.910
where she could imagine
being perfectly happy.

01:10:09.079 --> 01:10:13.708
They travelled to the expected
places, which May had never seen.

01:10:13.792 --> 01:10:16.628
In London,
Archer ordered his clothes.

01:10:16.712 --> 01:10:20.048
And they went to the National
Gallery, and sometimes to the theatre.

01:10:20.132 --> 01:10:22.217
I hope I don't
look ridiculous.

01:10:22.301 --> 01:10:25.053
I've never
dined out in London.

01:10:25.137 --> 01:10:28.389
English women dress just like everybody
else in the evening, don't they?

01:10:28.474 --> 01:10:30.683
How can you say that when
they're always at the theatre

01:10:30.768 --> 01:10:33.645
in old ball dresses
and bare heads?

01:10:33.729 --> 01:10:37.106
Well, maybe they save
their new dresses for home.

01:10:37.191 --> 01:10:38.399
Then I shouldn't
have worn this.

01:10:38.484 --> 01:10:40.902
No, you look very fine.

01:10:42.655 --> 01:10:44.572
Really quite beautiful.

01:10:50.829 --> 01:10:53.581
NARRATOR: In Paris,
she ordered her clothes.

01:10:53.666 --> 01:10:56.459
There were trunks
of dresses from Worth.

01:10:56.543 --> 01:10:58.670
They visited the Tuileries.

01:11:06.387 --> 01:11:10.848
May's hands were modelled
in marble at Roche's studio.

01:11:10.933 --> 01:11:13.351
And occasionally,
they dined out.

01:11:15.020 --> 01:11:16.437
(CHATTERING)

01:11:17.982 --> 01:11:19.399
But tell me. You were
saying that you were

01:11:19.483 --> 01:11:21.401
actually advised
here by Maupassant?

01:11:21.485 --> 01:11:25.613
Yes. Unfortunately,
I was advised not to write.

01:11:26.115 --> 01:11:27.282
(CHUCKLES)

01:11:29.201 --> 01:11:31.119
Archer embraced
his new marriage,

01:11:31.203 --> 01:11:35.581
even as he reverted to his old
inherited ideas about matrimony.

01:11:36.166 --> 01:11:39.794
It was less trouble to
conform with tradition.

01:11:39.878 --> 01:11:42.463
There was no use
trying to emancipate a wife

01:11:42.548 --> 01:11:45.300
who hadn't the dimmest notion
that she was not free.

01:11:45.384 --> 01:11:46.426
When we were in London,

01:11:46.510 --> 01:11:48.678
we could only manage
one day at the National.

01:11:48.846 --> 01:11:52.098
We were taken up by a Mrs
Carfry and Mrs Harle...

01:11:53.392 --> 01:11:55.935
We had an awfully good talk.
He's an interesting fellow.

01:11:56.061 --> 01:11:59.230
We talked about books,
and many different things.

01:12:00.816 --> 01:12:02.859
I thought I'd
invite him to dinner.

01:12:02.943 --> 01:12:04.944
The Frenchman?
Yes.

01:12:05.029 --> 01:12:06.988
I didn't have much
chance to talk to him,

01:12:07.072 --> 01:12:09.866
but wasn't he
a little common?

01:12:09.950 --> 01:12:11.159
Common?

01:12:12.536 --> 01:12:15.121
I thought he was clever.

01:12:15.205 --> 01:12:18.416
I suppose I shouldn't have
known if he was clever.

01:12:22.379 --> 01:12:24.589
Then, I won't
ask him to dine.

01:12:27.259 --> 01:12:30.845
With a chill,
he knew that in future,

01:12:30.929 --> 01:12:34.974
many problems would be solved
for him in this same way.

01:12:37.603 --> 01:12:39.729
The first six
months of marriage

01:12:39.855 --> 01:12:41.898
were usually said
to be the hardest.

01:12:41.982 --> 01:12:44.025
And after that,
he thought, they would have

01:12:44.109 --> 01:12:48.029
pretty nearly finished polishing
down all the rough edges.

01:12:48.113 --> 01:12:50.823
But May's pressure
was already wearing down

01:12:50.908 --> 01:12:54.535
the very roughness
he most wanted to keep.

01:12:54.620 --> 01:12:57.163
As for the madness
with Madame Olenska,

01:12:57.247 --> 01:12:59.374
Archer trained
himself to remember it

01:12:59.458 --> 01:13:03.294
as the last of his
discarded experiments.

01:13:03.379 --> 01:13:07.382
She remained in his memory
simply as the most plaintive,

01:13:07.466 --> 01:13:10.676
and poignant of
a line of ghosts.

01:13:17.309 --> 01:13:18.518
(APPLAUSE)

01:13:45.129 --> 01:13:46.879
She's very deft.

01:13:46.964 --> 01:13:50.591
Yes, well, that's the only
kind of target she'll ever hit.

01:13:54.596 --> 01:13:55.680
(APPLAUSE)

01:13:57.141 --> 01:13:59.934
No one could ever be jealous
of May's triumphs.

01:14:00.769 --> 01:14:02.603
She managed to give the
feeling that she would have been

01:14:02.688 --> 01:14:04.856
just as serene without them.

01:14:08.193 --> 01:14:11.821
But what if all her calm,
her niceness

01:14:11.905 --> 01:14:13.739
were just a negation,

01:14:14.283 --> 01:14:17.618
a curtain dropped in
front of an emptiness?

01:14:18.120 --> 01:14:21.289
Archer felt he had never
yet lifted that curtain.

01:14:23.500 --> 01:14:25.793
MRS MINGOTT:
Quite stunning, isn't it?

01:14:26.545 --> 01:14:30.423
It's Julius Beaufort who donates
the club's prizes, isn't it?

01:14:30.507 --> 01:14:32.717
This looks like him,
of course.

01:14:32.801 --> 01:14:34.927
It will make quite
an heirloom, my dear.

01:14:35.012 --> 01:14:38.181
You should leave it
to your eldest daughter.

01:14:38.265 --> 01:14:39.474
What's the matter?
Aren't there going

01:14:39.558 --> 01:14:41.934
to be any daughters?
Only sons? (LAUGHS)

01:14:42.019 --> 01:14:43.644
What, can't I say
that either?

01:14:43.729 --> 01:14:45.146
Look at her blushing.

01:14:46.190 --> 01:14:48.858
Ellen! Ellen,
are you upstairs?

01:14:48.942 --> 01:14:51.819
She's over from Portsmouth,
spending the day with me.

01:14:51.904 --> 01:14:55.239
It's such a nuisance. She
just won't stay in Newport.

01:14:55.365 --> 01:14:59.452
Insists on putting up with those...
What's their names? Blenkers.

01:14:59.620 --> 01:15:03.748
But I gave up arguing with
young people 50 years ago. Ellen!

01:15:04.082 --> 01:15:07.210
I'm sorry, ma'am. Miss
Ellen's not in the house.

01:15:07.586 --> 01:15:08.794
MRS MINGOTT: She's left?

01:15:08.879 --> 01:15:11.422
MAID: I saw her going
down the shore path.

01:15:13.842 --> 01:15:16.552
Run down and fetch her
like a good grandson.

01:15:16.637 --> 01:15:19.263
May and I will have a
gossip about Julius Beaufort.

01:15:19.431 --> 01:15:22.225
Go ahead. I know she'll
want to see you both.

01:15:22.893 --> 01:15:26.354
Is it true Beaufort has given
Annie Ring a diamond bracelet?

01:15:26.438 --> 01:15:29.440
I hear he even plans
to bring her to Newport.

01:15:37.449 --> 01:15:39.367
NARRATOR: He had heard
her name often enough

01:15:39.451 --> 01:15:42.495
during the year and a half
since they had last met.

01:15:42.579 --> 01:15:46.582
He was even familiar with the
main incidents of her life.

01:15:46.667 --> 01:15:50.336
But he heard all these
accounts with detachment,

01:15:50.420 --> 01:15:54.465
as if listening to reminiscences
of someone long-dead.

01:15:55.467 --> 01:15:59.053
But the past had come
again into the present,

01:15:59.137 --> 01:16:02.557
as in those newly-discovered
caverns in Tuscany,

01:16:02.641 --> 01:16:05.643
where children had
lit bunches of straw,

01:16:05.727 --> 01:16:09.647
and seen old images
staring from the wall.

01:16:20.492 --> 01:16:23.160
He gave himself
a single chance.

01:16:23.245 --> 01:16:27.331
She must turn before the sailboat
crosses the lime rock light.

01:16:28.542 --> 01:16:30.543
Then, he would go to her.

01:17:20.427 --> 01:17:23.888
I'm sorry you didn't find her,
but I've heard she's so changed.

01:17:23.972 --> 01:17:25.014
Changed?

01:17:25.098 --> 01:17:27.016
So indifferent to
her old friends,

01:17:27.100 --> 01:17:30.853
summering in Portsmouth,
moving to Washington.

01:17:30.937 --> 01:17:33.481
Sometimes, I think
we've always bored her.

01:17:33.565 --> 01:17:36.692
I wonder if she wouldn't be
happier with her husband after all.

01:17:36.777 --> 01:17:39.320
I don't think I've ever
heard you be cruel before.

01:17:39.404 --> 01:17:40.696
Cruel?

01:17:40.781 --> 01:17:44.742
Even demons don't think
people are happier in Hell.

01:17:44.826 --> 01:17:47.620
Then she shouldn't
have married abroad.

01:17:47.704 --> 01:17:50.039
Here, let me.
Go on. Walk on.

01:17:50.499 --> 01:17:53.834
The Blenkers?
A party for the Blenkers?

01:17:54.753 --> 01:17:56.253
Who are they?

01:17:56.880 --> 01:17:58.339
The Portsmouth people,
I think.

01:17:58.423 --> 01:18:00.508
The ones Countess
Olenska is staying with.

01:18:00.592 --> 01:18:02.301
"Professor and
Mrs Emerson Sillerton

01:18:02.386 --> 01:18:04.595
"request the pleasure
Wednesday afternoon,

01:18:04.680 --> 01:18:08.891
"At 3:00 o'clock, punctually to
meet Mrs and the Misses Blenker.

01:18:09.142 --> 01:18:11.352
"Red gables,
Catherine Street. "

01:18:11.436 --> 01:18:13.646
I don't think
we can decline.

01:18:14.481 --> 01:18:18.025
I don't see why, really.
He's an archaeologist.

01:18:18.110 --> 01:18:21.028
And he's
Sillerton Jackson's cousin.

01:18:22.072 --> 01:18:23.364
Of course.

01:18:23.448 --> 01:18:25.032
Some of us will have to go.

01:18:25.117 --> 01:18:28.202
I'll go over. And, Janey,
why don't you come with me?

01:18:28.286 --> 01:18:29.787
I'm sure Cousin Ellen
will be there.

01:18:29.871 --> 01:18:31.956
It will give you
a chance to see her.

01:18:32.624 --> 01:18:37.002
Newland, you can find a way to
spend your afternoon, can't you?

01:18:37.087 --> 01:18:40.965
Oh, I think for a change, I'll
just save it instead of spending it.

01:18:42.718 --> 01:18:46.804
Maybe I'll drive to the farm to see
about a new horse for the brougham.

01:18:46.888 --> 01:18:49.473
Well, at least
the Jacksons didn't choose

01:18:49.641 --> 01:18:52.184
the day of the Cup Race
for their party.

01:18:52.269 --> 01:18:54.395
Of course, I shouldn't
be surprised if they had.

01:19:59.169 --> 01:20:00.586
(RUSTLING)

01:20:07.385 --> 01:20:08.552
GIRL: Hello?

01:20:12.265 --> 01:20:15.851
I'm sorry. Did you ring? I've
been asleep in the hammock.

01:20:19.022 --> 01:20:21.315
Well, I didn't
mean to disturb you.

01:20:21.399 --> 01:20:24.068
Are you Miss Blenker?
I'm Newland Archer.

01:20:24.444 --> 01:20:26.612
Oh, yes. I've heard
so much about you.

01:20:26.696 --> 01:20:29.198
I came to the island
to look for a new horse.

01:20:29.282 --> 01:20:31.575
I thought I'd call, but
the house seems to be empty.

01:20:31.660 --> 01:20:33.661
It is empty.
They're all at the party.

01:20:33.745 --> 01:20:38.332
Everyone's there, but me with
my fever, and Countess Olenska.

01:20:38.416 --> 01:20:41.126
Oh, you found my parasol.

01:20:43.505 --> 01:20:46.340
It's my best one.
It's from the Cameroons.

01:20:46.424 --> 01:20:49.009
Well, it's very pretty.

01:20:49.094 --> 01:20:50.803
The Countess
was called away?

01:20:50.887 --> 01:20:53.347
Yes. A telegram
came from Boston.

01:20:53.431 --> 01:20:55.933
She said she might
be gone for two days.

01:20:56.268 --> 01:20:59.186
I do love the way she
does her hair, don't you?

01:20:59.271 --> 01:21:01.730
It reminds me of
Sir Walter Scott.

01:21:03.942 --> 01:21:07.361
You don't know... I'm sorry, but
I have to be in Boston tomorrow.

01:21:07.445 --> 01:21:10.364
You wouldn't happen to know
where she was staying?

01:21:35.724 --> 01:21:37.224
(READING)

01:21:42.147 --> 01:21:43.147
Oh.

01:21:43.440 --> 01:21:44.648
Ellen.

01:21:44.733 --> 01:21:47.985
I'm here on business.
I just got here, actually.

01:21:59.164 --> 01:22:00.497
You're doing your
hair differently.

01:22:00.582 --> 01:22:02.458
Only because my maid's
not with me.

01:22:02.542 --> 01:22:04.126
She stayed back
in Portsmouth.

01:22:04.210 --> 01:22:07.087
I'm here only for two days.
It didn't seem worthwhile.

01:22:07.672 --> 01:22:09.381
You are
travelling alone?

01:22:10.258 --> 01:22:11.508
Yes.

01:22:11.593 --> 01:22:14.929
Why? Do you think
it's a little dangerous?

01:22:15.180 --> 01:22:17.097
Well, it's unconventional.

01:22:17.182 --> 01:22:18.390
Yes, I suppose it is.

01:22:18.475 --> 01:22:21.936
I've just done something
so much more unconventional.

01:22:22.020 --> 01:22:25.064
I refused to take back
money that belonged to me.

01:22:27.359 --> 01:22:29.234
Someone came
with an offer?

01:22:32.989 --> 01:22:34.406
What were
the conditions?

01:22:35.700 --> 01:22:37.242
I refused.

01:22:37.369 --> 01:22:39.870
Tell me the conditions.
Nothing unbearable, really.

01:22:39.955 --> 01:22:43.290
Just to sit at the head
of his table now and then.

01:22:45.794 --> 01:22:48.253
And he wants you
back at any price?

01:22:49.172 --> 01:22:51.715
Well, it's a
considerable price.

01:22:53.051 --> 01:22:55.552
At least,
it's considerable for me.

01:22:57.222 --> 01:22:58.722
So, you came
to see him?

01:22:58.807 --> 01:23:02.559
My husband? Here?
No, of course not.

01:23:02.644 --> 01:23:04.395
No. He sent someone.

01:23:06.231 --> 01:23:07.564
His secretary?

01:23:09.859 --> 01:23:11.193
Yes.

01:23:13.029 --> 01:23:14.822
He's still here, in fact.

01:23:14.906 --> 01:23:19.034
He insisted on waiting,
in case I changed my mind.

01:23:25.041 --> 01:23:27.251
You haven't
changed, Newland.

01:23:31.214 --> 01:23:33.757
I had changed
until I saw you again.

01:23:34.968 --> 01:23:36.051
Please don't.

01:23:36.136 --> 01:23:38.345
Just give me the day. I'll say
anything you like, or nothing.

01:23:38.430 --> 01:23:41.598
I won't speak
unless you tell me to.

01:23:41.808 --> 01:23:44.226
All I want is
some time with you.

01:23:45.437 --> 01:23:47.813
I want to get you away from
that man. Is he coming to hotel?

01:23:47.897 --> 01:23:50.232
At 11:00...
Well, let's go now.

01:23:55.613 --> 01:23:57.865
I'll have to leave
a note at the hotel.

01:23:57.949 --> 01:23:59.450
Write on this.
I have the paper.

01:23:59.534 --> 01:24:02.661
You see how everything
is predestined?

01:24:02.746 --> 01:24:06.415
And these? Have you seen
these? The new stylographic pen.

01:24:06.499 --> 01:24:07.624
It's just like...

01:24:07.709 --> 01:24:12.087
It's like jerking down the
mercury in a thermometer. Now.

01:24:12.797 --> 01:24:14.089
Try that.

01:24:15.592 --> 01:24:17.217
It's not working.

01:24:18.344 --> 01:24:20.304
That should do it.

01:24:21.848 --> 01:24:24.767
Shall I take it in?
I'll be only a moment.

01:25:06.768 --> 01:25:08.310
Why didn't you
come down to the beach

01:25:08.394 --> 01:25:10.479
to get me the day
I was at Granny's?

01:25:11.064 --> 01:25:13.690
Because you didn't
turn around. I swore...

01:25:15.693 --> 01:25:18.946
I swore I wouldn't call you
unless you turned around.

01:25:19.697 --> 01:25:22.157
But I didn't look
around on purpose.

01:25:23.743 --> 01:25:25.244
You knew?

01:25:25.328 --> 01:25:27.996
I recognised the carriage
when you drove in.

01:25:29.165 --> 01:25:31.333
So, I went to the beach.

01:25:32.544 --> 01:25:34.294
To get as far away
from me as you could.

01:25:34.379 --> 01:25:35.796
As I could, yes.

01:25:35.880 --> 01:25:38.423
Well, you see, it's no use. It's
better if we face each other.

01:25:38.508 --> 01:25:40.342
I only want to be
honest with you.

01:25:40.426 --> 01:25:43.303
Honest? Isn't that why you
always admired Julius Beaufort?

01:25:43.388 --> 01:25:45.514
He was more honest than
the rest of us, wasn't he?

01:25:45.598 --> 01:25:49.393
We've no character.
No colour, no variety.

01:25:51.062 --> 01:25:54.231
I don't know why you don't
just go back to Europe.

01:25:55.191 --> 01:25:57.025
I believe that's
because of you.

01:25:57.235 --> 01:25:59.486
Me? I'm the man who married one woman

01:25:59.571 --> 01:26:01.238
because another one
told him to.

01:26:04.742 --> 01:26:07.536
You promised not to
say such things today.

01:26:07.871 --> 01:26:10.122
I can't keep
that promise.

01:26:10.206 --> 01:26:13.375
What about May?
What about how May feels?

01:26:13.459 --> 01:26:16.545
If you're using my marriage
as some victory of ours,

01:26:16.629 --> 01:26:20.340
then there's really no reason on
earth why you shouldn't go back.

01:26:20.425 --> 01:26:24.511
You gave me my first
glimpse of a real life.

01:26:24.596 --> 01:26:27.764
And then you told me
to carry on with a false one.

01:26:30.435 --> 01:26:32.311
No one can endure that.

01:26:35.773 --> 01:26:37.399
I'm enduring it.

01:26:47.243 --> 01:26:49.119
What's the use?
I know you'll go back.

01:26:49.204 --> 01:26:51.747
I won't. Not yet.

01:26:53.208 --> 01:26:54.875
Not as long as we
both can stand it.

01:26:54.959 --> 01:26:56.460
This is not
a life for you.

01:26:57.295 --> 01:27:00.130
It is, as long as
it's part of yours.

01:27:15.146 --> 01:27:16.813
You won't go back?

01:27:18.441 --> 01:27:20.025
I won't go back.

01:27:26.908 --> 01:27:29.076
NARRATOR:
He would see her again.

01:27:29.160 --> 01:27:31.912
At the theatre,
or a reception.

01:27:31.996 --> 01:27:34.915
Perhaps he might be
seated next to her.

01:27:34.999 --> 01:27:38.919
Perhaps they might have
another time alone, somewhere.

01:27:39.003 --> 01:27:42.297
But he could not
live without seeing her.

01:27:43.383 --> 01:27:48.220
* But I also dreamt

01:27:48.304 --> 01:27:52.015
* Which charmed me most

01:27:52.475 --> 01:27:57.854
* That you loved me
still the same

01:27:58.147 --> 01:28:00.399
* That you loved me

01:28:00.483 --> 01:28:05.779
* You loved me still the same

01:28:05.905 --> 01:28:08.657
* That you loved me

01:28:08.741 --> 01:28:14.705
* You loved me still the same

01:28:16.457 --> 01:28:22.212
* The same *

01:28:26.009 --> 01:28:27.592
Mr Archer, I think.

01:28:28.219 --> 01:28:29.303
Yes.

01:28:29.387 --> 01:28:31.888
My name is Rivière.

01:28:31.973 --> 01:28:33.890
I dined with you
in Paris last year.

01:28:33.975 --> 01:28:36.643
Oh, yes. I'm sorry.
I didn't quite recall.

01:28:36.728 --> 01:28:41.523
Quite all right. I had the advantage.
I saw you in Boston yesterday.

01:28:45.403 --> 01:28:47.612
I came here on
Count Olenski's behalf.

01:28:47.697 --> 01:28:52.284
Because I believed in all good
faith that she should return to him.

01:28:52.368 --> 01:28:54.494
Forgive me.

01:28:54.579 --> 01:28:57.331
Forgive me, monsieur,

01:28:57.415 --> 01:29:00.876
but I really don't
understand your purpose

01:29:00.960 --> 01:29:02.753
in coming to see me.

01:29:04.422 --> 01:29:06.381
She's changed, monsieur.

01:29:07.759 --> 01:29:09.259
You knew her before?

01:29:10.053 --> 01:29:12.596
I used to see her
at her husband's house, yes.

01:29:12.680 --> 01:29:15.223
Well, the count would not have
entrusted my mission to a stranger.

01:29:15.308 --> 01:29:19.144
This change
that you mentioned.

01:29:19.228 --> 01:29:23.357
It may only have been my
seeing her for the first time,

01:29:23.441 --> 01:29:26.610
as she is,
as an American.

01:29:26.778 --> 01:29:29.279
She made her
marriage in good faith.

01:29:30.531 --> 01:29:33.408
It was a faith
the Count could not share,

01:29:33.493 --> 01:29:35.285
could not understand.

01:29:36.079 --> 01:29:40.540
So, her faith was...
Detruit?

01:29:40.625 --> 01:29:44.127
Broken. Destroyed.
Destroyed.

01:29:46.047 --> 01:29:50.717
Returning to Europe would
mean a life of some comfort,

01:29:50.802 --> 01:29:54.388
and considerable sacrifice.

01:29:54.472 --> 01:29:56.640
And, I would think,
no hope.

01:29:58.434 --> 01:30:02.270
I will, of course, fulfil
my obligation to the Count,

01:30:02.355 --> 01:30:03.480
and meet with the family.

01:30:03.564 --> 01:30:08.151
I will tell them everything that he
suggests, and wishes for the Countess.

01:30:08.236 --> 01:30:12.030
But I would ask you to use
your influence with them.

01:30:14.367 --> 01:30:17.327
I beg you, monsieur.
Do not let her go back.

01:30:20.331 --> 01:30:22.958
MRS ARCHER: When old
Mrs Baxter Pennilow died,

01:30:23.042 --> 01:30:24.626
they found her standing order,

01:30:24.710 --> 01:30:28.839
48 Worth dresses,
still wrapped in tissue paper.

01:30:28.923 --> 01:30:31.675
When her daughters
left off their mourning,

01:30:31.759 --> 01:30:34.428
they wore the first lot
to the symphony

01:30:34.512 --> 01:30:37.722
without looking in
advance of the fashion.

01:30:38.516 --> 01:30:42.018
NARRATOR: He had written
to her once in Washington,

01:30:42.103 --> 01:30:45.564
just a few lines asking
when they would meet again.

01:30:46.899 --> 01:30:49.943
And she wrote back, "Not yet. "

01:30:50.027 --> 01:30:53.697
And even that had
the front panel changed.

01:30:53.781 --> 01:30:56.992
No, I think it was Julius Beaufort
who started the new fashion.

01:30:57.076 --> 01:30:58.660
By making his wife
clap her new clothes

01:30:58.744 --> 01:31:00.662
on her back as soon
as they arrived.

01:31:01.080 --> 01:31:05.333
I must say, it takes all Regina's
distinction not to look like...

01:31:05.418 --> 01:31:07.085
Her rivals?

01:31:07.170 --> 01:31:08.587
Like that Annie Ring.

01:31:08.754 --> 01:31:10.338
Careful, dear.

01:31:11.048 --> 01:31:12.132
Everybody knows.

01:31:12.216 --> 01:31:13.508
Indeed.

01:31:13.593 --> 01:31:15.802
Beaufort always put
his business around.

01:31:15.887 --> 01:31:17.512
And now that his
business is gone,

01:31:17.638 --> 01:31:19.222
there are bound
to be disclosures.

01:31:19.640 --> 01:31:21.308
Gone?
Is it really that bad?

01:31:21.392 --> 01:31:23.977
As bad as anything
I ever heard of.

01:31:24.061 --> 01:31:27.522
Most everybody we know will
be hit one way or another.

01:31:29.650 --> 01:31:30.650
(SIGHS)

01:31:32.028 --> 01:31:35.864
Very difficult for Regina,
of course. And it's a pity.

01:31:35.948 --> 01:31:39.784
It's certainly a pity that Countess
Olenska refused her husband's offer.

01:31:40.786 --> 01:31:42.412
Why, for God's sake?

01:31:42.497 --> 01:31:44.039
Well, to put it on
the lowest ground,

01:31:44.165 --> 01:31:46.249
what's she going to
live on now? Live on?

01:31:46.375 --> 01:31:48.084
I mean, now that
Beaufort... (SLAMS GLASS)

01:31:48.169 --> 01:31:50.587
What the hell
does that mean, sir?

01:31:55.009 --> 01:31:58.136
Most of her money's
invested with Beaufort.

01:31:58.221 --> 01:31:59.721
And the allowance
she's been getting

01:31:59.805 --> 01:32:01.431
from the family
is so cut back.

01:32:01.641 --> 01:32:02.766
I'm sure
she has something.

01:32:02.850 --> 01:32:04.267
Oh, I would
think a little.

01:32:04.560 --> 01:32:07.479
Whatever remains after
sustaining more debt.

01:32:08.564 --> 01:32:11.525
I know the family paid close
attention to Monsieur Rivière,

01:32:11.609 --> 01:32:14.027
and considered the Count's
offer very carefully.

01:32:14.111 --> 01:32:16.112
If everyone had rather
she be Beaufort's mistress

01:32:16.197 --> 01:32:17.572
than some
decent fellow's wife,

01:32:17.698 --> 01:32:19.032
you've all gone
about it perfectly.

01:32:21.494 --> 01:32:23.119
She won't go back.

01:32:25.540 --> 01:32:27.541
That's your opinion, eh?

01:32:28.793 --> 01:32:30.919
Well, no doubt you know.

01:32:33.464 --> 01:32:36.007
I suppose she might still
soften Catherine Mingott,

01:32:36.092 --> 01:32:38.218
who could give her
any allowance she chooses,

01:32:38.302 --> 01:32:41.763
but the rest of the family have no
particular interest in keeping her here.

01:32:41.847 --> 01:32:44.307
They'll simply let her...

01:32:44.392 --> 01:32:46.142
Find her own level.

01:32:53.776 --> 01:32:55.235
Evening, sir.

01:32:59.031 --> 01:33:00.699
Thank you, Martin.

01:33:06.998 --> 01:33:10.083
That lamp is smoking again.
The servant should see to it.

01:33:10.167 --> 01:33:11.501
I'm sorry.

01:33:19.552 --> 01:33:22.429
I may have to go to
Washington for a few days.

01:33:22.513 --> 01:33:24.431
When?

01:33:24.515 --> 01:33:27.601
Tomorrow. I'm sorry.
I should have said it before.

01:33:28.519 --> 01:33:29.811
On business?

01:33:29.895 --> 01:33:31.938
On business, of course.
There's a patent case

01:33:32.023 --> 01:33:33.773
coming up before
the Supreme Court.

01:33:33.858 --> 01:33:35.984
I just got the papers
from Letterblair.

01:33:36.068 --> 01:33:37.193
It seems that he intended...

01:33:37.278 --> 01:33:40.071
Never mind.
It sounds too complicated.

01:33:40.156 --> 01:33:42.115
I have enough trouble
managing this lamp.

01:33:42.199 --> 01:33:44.326
Let me try that.

01:33:44.410 --> 01:33:47.203
But the change
will do you good.

01:33:47.288 --> 01:33:50.123
And you must be sure
to go and see Ellen.

01:33:57.048 --> 01:33:59.174
Excuse me, ma'am, but this
came for you while you were out.

01:34:01.218 --> 01:34:03.011
Do something about this,
will you, Alice?

01:34:03.095 --> 01:34:04.638
Certainly, sir.

01:34:07.642 --> 01:34:09.517
Granny's had a stroke.

01:34:11.979 --> 01:34:13.980
A stroke?

01:34:14.065 --> 01:34:15.982
Ridiculous.

01:34:16.067 --> 01:34:19.861
I told them all, it was just
an excessive Thanksgiving.

01:34:21.906 --> 01:34:24.574
Dr Bencomb
acted most concerned

01:34:24.700 --> 01:34:27.327
and insisted on
notifying everyone.

01:34:27.411 --> 01:34:30.622
As if it were the last reading
of my will and testament.

01:34:30.706 --> 01:34:32.040
You're very dear to come.

01:34:33.125 --> 01:34:36.336
But perhaps you only wanted
to see what I'd left you.

01:34:36.420 --> 01:34:38.004
Granny, that's shocking!

01:34:38.089 --> 01:34:40.674
It was shock
that did this to me.

01:34:40.758 --> 01:34:44.094
No. It's all due
to Regina Beaufort.

01:34:45.513 --> 01:34:49.307
She came here last night,
and she asked me...

01:34:50.226 --> 01:34:54.646
She asked me...
She had the effrontery

01:34:54.730 --> 01:34:58.191
to ask me to back Julius.

01:34:58.275 --> 01:35:01.236
Not to desert him, she said.

01:35:01.320 --> 01:35:05.740
To stand behind our common
lineage in the Townsend family.

01:35:06.534 --> 01:35:10.328
If you back Julius, you
can see the family through.

01:35:11.622 --> 01:35:13.581
If you don't,

01:35:13.666 --> 01:35:15.834
we will all,

01:35:15.918 --> 01:35:18.628
every one of us,
fall into dishonour.

01:35:19.797 --> 01:35:20.880
I said to her...

01:35:20.965 --> 01:35:23.800
Honour's always
been honour.

01:35:23.884 --> 01:35:27.303
And honesty's always been
honesty in Manson Mingott's house.

01:35:27.388 --> 01:35:31.433
And will be, till I'm
carried out feet-first.

01:35:32.518 --> 01:35:37.313
And then she said, if you can
believe this, "But my name, Auntie. "

01:35:37.648 --> 01:35:39.858
But my name, Auntie.

01:35:39.942 --> 01:35:42.152
My name's Regina Townsend.

01:35:42.236 --> 01:35:43.278
And I said to her...

01:35:43.362 --> 01:35:46.990
Your name was Beaufort when
he covered you with jewels,

01:35:47.074 --> 01:35:51.244
and it's got to stay Beaufort, now
that he's covered you with shame.

01:35:53.831 --> 01:35:55.582
And then I gave out,

01:35:57.084 --> 01:35:59.419
simply gave out.

01:35:59.503 --> 01:36:02.464
And now family is
arriving from all over,

01:36:02.548 --> 01:36:06.092
expecting a funeral, and
they'll have to be entertained.

01:36:06.177 --> 01:36:08.928
I don't know how many
notes Bencomb sent out.

01:36:09.013 --> 01:36:11.181
If there's anything we
can do to help out...

01:36:11.348 --> 01:36:13.558
Well, my Ellen is coming.

01:36:13.642 --> 01:36:15.935
I expressly asked for her.

01:36:16.020 --> 01:36:19.105
She arrives this afternoon on the
train. If you could fetch her...

01:36:19.190 --> 01:36:22.942
Of course. If May will send the
brougham, I'll take the ferry.

01:36:23.027 --> 01:36:25.570
Fine. Fine. Thank you.

01:36:27.031 --> 01:36:30.033
There? You see, Granny?
Everyone will be settled.

01:36:30.284 --> 01:36:33.244
Thank you, dear.
Bless you.

01:36:34.538 --> 01:36:35.872
I didn't want
to worry Granny,

01:36:35.956 --> 01:36:38.166
but how can you meet Ellen
and bring her back here

01:36:38.250 --> 01:36:41.044
if you have to go to Washington
yourself this afternoon?

01:36:41.128 --> 01:36:43.963
I'm not going.
The case is off, postponed.

01:36:44.048 --> 01:36:45.965
I heard from
Letterblair this morning.

01:36:46.050 --> 01:36:48.301
Postponed? How odd.

01:36:49.053 --> 01:36:51.429
Mama had a note from
him this morning as well.

01:36:51.514 --> 01:36:55.016
He was concerned about Granny,
but had to be away.

01:36:55.100 --> 01:36:58.228
He was arguing a big patent
case before the Supreme Court.

01:36:58.312 --> 01:37:00.146
You did say it was
a patent case, didn't you?

01:37:00.231 --> 01:37:01.940
Well, that's it.
The whole office can't go.

01:37:02.024 --> 01:37:04.192
Letterblair
decided to go himself.

01:37:04.276 --> 01:37:07.111
So then,
it's not postponed?

01:37:07.196 --> 01:37:09.155
No, but my going is.

01:37:18.415 --> 01:37:20.542
NARRATOR: He knew it
was two hours by ferry

01:37:20.626 --> 01:37:22.877
and carriage from
the Pennsylvania terminus

01:37:22.962 --> 01:37:25.380
in Jersey City
back to Mrs Mingott's.

01:37:28.259 --> 01:37:30.301
All of two hours.

01:37:30.386 --> 01:37:32.345
And maybe a little more.

01:37:35.975 --> 01:37:38.017
You didn't expect me today. No.

01:37:38.102 --> 01:37:39.644
I nearly came to
Washington to see you.

01:37:39.728 --> 01:37:41.396
We would have
missed each other.

01:37:41.605 --> 01:37:44.983
It was Granny Mingott who
sent me. She's much better.

01:37:56.579 --> 01:37:59.080
You know,
I hardly remembered you.

01:37:59.164 --> 01:38:00.290
Hardly remembered?

01:38:00.374 --> 01:38:03.751
I mean... I mean,
each time is the same.

01:38:05.546 --> 01:38:07.881
You happen to me
all over again.

01:38:09.133 --> 01:38:10.925
Yes, I know.

01:38:11.010 --> 01:38:12.594
For me, too.

01:39:05.481 --> 01:39:08.316
Ellen, we can't stay
like this. It can't last.

01:39:09.777 --> 01:39:11.861
I think we should look
at reality, not dreams.

01:39:11.946 --> 01:39:13.613
I just want us
to be together.

01:39:13.697 --> 01:39:15.073
I can't be
your wife, Newland.

01:39:15.157 --> 01:39:17.450
Is it your idea I should live
with you as your mistress?

01:39:17.534 --> 01:39:18.952
I want...

01:39:19.620 --> 01:39:22.246
Somehow I want to
get away with you,

01:39:22.331 --> 01:39:24.958
and find a world where
words like that don't exist.

01:39:25.042 --> 01:39:26.709
Oh, my dear.

01:39:29.088 --> 01:39:32.215
Where is that country?
Have you ever been there?

01:39:34.134 --> 01:39:35.593
Is there anywhere
we can be happy

01:39:35.678 --> 01:39:37.845
behind the backs of
people who trust us?

01:39:37.930 --> 01:39:39.305
I'm beyond
caring about that.

01:39:39.390 --> 01:39:41.641
No, you're not.

01:39:41.725 --> 01:39:43.977
You've never been
beyond that.

01:39:44.895 --> 01:39:46.145
I have.

01:39:48.065 --> 01:39:51.234
I know what it looks like.
It's no place for us.

01:40:01.370 --> 01:40:02.578
(BELL RINGS)

01:40:03.247 --> 01:40:06.916
Why are... Why are we
stopping? This isn't Granny's.

01:40:07.042 --> 01:40:08.918
No. I'll get out here.

01:40:14.008 --> 01:40:16.926
You were right. I
shouldn't have come today.

01:40:18.554 --> 01:40:19.595
(URGES HORSE)

01:40:58.302 --> 01:40:59.886
What are you reading?

01:41:02.681 --> 01:41:04.640
It's a book about Japan.

01:41:06.226 --> 01:41:07.477
Why?

01:41:09.271 --> 01:41:11.564
I don't know.

01:41:11.648 --> 01:41:14.025
Because it's
a different country.

01:41:15.235 --> 01:41:17.403
You used to read poetry.

01:41:17.488 --> 01:41:20.156
It was so nice when
you read it to me.

01:41:32.961 --> 01:41:34.212
Newland.

01:41:34.338 --> 01:41:36.130
You'll catch your death.

01:41:42.721 --> 01:41:44.055
Of course.

01:41:45.599 --> 01:41:48.476
NARRATOR: But then he
realised, "I am dead.

01:41:48.977 --> 01:41:52.313
"I've been dead for
months and months. "

01:41:52.397 --> 01:41:55.274
Then it occurred
to him that she might die.

01:41:56.110 --> 01:41:59.529
People did. Young people,
healthy people did.

01:42:00.239 --> 01:42:03.324
She might die
and set him free.

01:42:08.997 --> 01:42:10.206
Newland?

01:42:25.389 --> 01:42:27.348
Ellen, I have to see you.

01:42:29.518 --> 01:42:31.477
I didn't know when
you were leaving again.

01:42:31.562 --> 01:42:32.854
I'm... I'm not leaving.

01:42:32.938 --> 01:42:35.314
Granny's asked me to stay
and take care of her.

01:42:35.399 --> 01:42:37.233
Then we have to talk now.

01:42:37.317 --> 01:42:40.319
I'm due at Regina Beaufort's.
Granny lent me her carriage.

01:42:40.404 --> 01:42:42.947
I know Granny says Julius
Beaufort is a scoundrel,

01:42:43.031 --> 01:42:46.576
but so is my husband, and the family
still want me to go back to him.

01:42:46.660 --> 01:42:51.080
Only Granny understands. She's
even seen to my allowance.

01:42:51.540 --> 01:42:53.583
I have to see you,
somewhere we can be alone.

01:42:53.709 --> 01:42:56.169
In New York? Alone.
Somewhere we can be alone.

01:42:56.253 --> 01:42:59.255
The art museum in the
park, 2:30 tomorrow.

01:42:59.339 --> 01:43:01.090
I'll be at the door.

01:43:09.766 --> 01:43:13.394
NEWLAND: You came to New York
because you were afraid.

01:43:13.520 --> 01:43:15.563
ELLEN: Afraid? NEWLAND:
Ofmy coming to Washington.

01:43:15.647 --> 01:43:17.857
ELLEN: I thought
I would be safer.

01:43:17.941 --> 01:43:19.442
Safer from me?

01:43:23.447 --> 01:43:24.864
Ellen?

01:43:28.785 --> 01:43:29.785
S...

01:43:31.747 --> 01:43:33.623
Safer from loving me?

01:43:41.298 --> 01:43:44.175
Shall I come to you
once and then go home?

01:43:55.270 --> 01:43:57.063
Come to me once then.

01:44:02.861 --> 01:44:03.986
When?

01:44:07.658 --> 01:44:08.991
Tomorrow.

01:44:16.041 --> 01:44:17.541
The day after.

01:44:48.865 --> 01:44:52.743
I'm sorry I'm late. You
weren't worried, were you?

01:44:53.704 --> 01:44:55.079
Is it late?

01:44:55.163 --> 01:44:56.664
It's past 7:00.

01:44:56.748 --> 01:44:59.750
I stayed at Granny's
because Cousin Ellen came in.

01:44:59.835 --> 01:45:04.630
We had a wonderful talk. She was
so dear, just like the old Ellen.

01:45:04.715 --> 01:45:07.466
Granny was
so charmed by her.

01:45:07.551 --> 01:45:09.010
But you can see,
though, how the family's

01:45:09.094 --> 01:45:10.970
been annoyed
with her at times.

01:45:11.054 --> 01:45:13.973
Going to see Regina Beaufort
in Granny's carriage and...

01:45:14.057 --> 01:45:16.058
Are we dining out tonight?

01:45:20.230 --> 01:45:22.398
You haven't
kissed me today.

01:45:35.120 --> 01:45:36.454
(WOMAN SINGING OPERA)

01:45:38.415 --> 01:45:41.125
NARRATOR: It was the
custom in old New York

01:45:41.209 --> 01:45:43.669
for brides to appear
in their wedding dress

01:45:43.754 --> 01:45:46.839
during the first
year or two of marriage.

01:45:46.923 --> 01:45:49.216
But May, since
returning from Europe,

01:45:49.301 --> 01:45:52.595
had not worn her bridal satin
untiI this evening.

01:46:35.806 --> 01:46:38.724
May, I'm sorry.
My head's bursting.

01:46:38.809 --> 01:46:41.894
Please don't tell anyone.
Come home with me now.

01:46:54.991 --> 01:46:56.700
Shouldn't you rest?

01:46:58.161 --> 01:47:00.996
My head's not
as bad as that.

01:47:01.081 --> 01:47:02.706
And there's
something important

01:47:02.791 --> 01:47:04.708
I have to say
to you right away.

01:47:26.690 --> 01:47:29.900
May, there is something
that I've got to tell you.

01:47:31.611 --> 01:47:33.237
About myself.

01:47:38.243 --> 01:47:39.452
Madame Olenska...

01:47:39.744 --> 01:47:42.079
Why should we talk
about Ellen tonight?

01:47:42.247 --> 01:47:43.539
(CLEARS THROAT)

01:47:44.624 --> 01:47:47.126
Because I should have
spoken before and...

01:47:47.210 --> 01:47:48.836
Is it really
worthwhile, dear?

01:47:49.212 --> 01:47:52.006
I know I've been
unfair to her at times.

01:47:52.090 --> 01:47:54.216
Perhaps we all have.

01:47:54.301 --> 01:47:56.635
You've understood her better
than any of us, I suppose,

01:47:56.720 --> 01:47:59.388
but does it really matter
now that it's all over?

01:48:01.683 --> 01:48:03.309
How do you mean, "over"?

01:48:04.227 --> 01:48:07.480
Why, since she's going
back to Europe so soon.

01:48:08.231 --> 01:48:10.357
Granny's approved,
and understands.

01:48:10.442 --> 01:48:11.734
She's disappointed,
of course,

01:48:11.818 --> 01:48:13.819
but she's arranged
to make Ellen

01:48:13.904 --> 01:48:15.946
financially
independent of the Count.

01:48:16.239 --> 01:48:19.533
I... I thought you would have
heard today at your offices.

01:48:33.089 --> 01:48:34.256
It's impossible.

01:48:34.424 --> 01:48:35.549
Impossible?

01:48:35.634 --> 01:48:38.302
Certainly she could have stayed
here with Granny's extra money,

01:48:38.386 --> 01:48:41.180
but I guess she's
given us up, after all.

01:48:42.307 --> 01:48:44.099
How do you know that?

01:48:45.602 --> 01:48:49.522
From Ellen. I told you, I
saw her at Granny's yesterday.

01:48:49.606 --> 01:48:51.857
And she told you that,
yesterday?

01:48:53.777 --> 01:48:57.321
No. She sent me
a note this afternoon.

01:49:02.118 --> 01:49:03.994
Do you want to see it?

01:49:13.588 --> 01:49:14.797
I thought you knew.

01:49:29.938 --> 01:49:33.607
NEWLAND: "May, dear, I have
at last made Granny understand

01:49:33.692 --> 01:49:37.319
"that my visit to her could
be no more than a visit,

01:49:37.404 --> 01:49:39.697
"and she has been as kind
and generous as ever. "

01:49:39.781 --> 01:49:43.200
ELLEN: "And she has been as
kind and generous as ever.

01:49:43.285 --> 01:49:47.580
"She sees now that if I return
to Europe, I must live by myself.

01:49:47.664 --> 01:49:49.540
"I am hurrying back to
Washington to pack up,

01:49:49.624 --> 01:49:51.875
"and I sail next week.

01:49:52.294 --> 01:49:55.254
"You be must very good
to Granny when I'm gone,

01:49:55.338 --> 01:49:57.965
"as good as you've
always been to me.

01:49:59.175 --> 01:50:01.760
"If any of my friends wish
to urge me to change my mind,

01:50:01.845 --> 01:50:03.637
"please tell them it
would be utterly useless. "

01:50:03.847 --> 01:50:06.765
NEWLAND: "... tell them it
would be utterly useless. "

01:50:17.652 --> 01:50:19.528
Why did she write this?

01:50:21.531 --> 01:50:24.700
I suppose because we talked
things over yesterday.

01:50:25.744 --> 01:50:27.161
What things?

01:50:27.329 --> 01:50:31.707
I told her that I was afraid I
hadn't always been fair to her,

01:50:31.916 --> 01:50:33.125
that I hadn't
always understood

01:50:33.209 --> 01:50:35.544
how hard it must
have been for her here.

01:50:36.713 --> 01:50:38.130
I knew you'd be
the one friend she could

01:50:38.214 --> 01:50:39.965
always count on,
and I wanted her to know

01:50:40.050 --> 01:50:43.385
that you and I were the
same in all of our feelings.

01:50:45.388 --> 01:50:48.641
She understood why I
wanted to tell her this.

01:50:48.725 --> 01:50:51.226
I think she
understands everything.

01:51:02.530 --> 01:51:04.198
My head aches too.

01:51:07.285 --> 01:51:09.536
Good night, dear.
Good night.

01:51:27.931 --> 01:51:30.724
NARRATOR: It was, as Mrs
Archer said to Mrs Welland,

01:51:30.809 --> 01:51:33.977
a great event for a young couple
to give their first dinner,

01:51:34.062 --> 01:51:37.106
and it was not to be
undertaken lightly.

01:51:37.190 --> 01:51:38.565
There was a hired chef,

01:51:38.650 --> 01:51:41.777
two borrowed footmen,
roses from Henderson's,

01:51:41.861 --> 01:51:45.823
Roman punch and menus
on gilt-edged cards.

01:51:45.907 --> 01:51:49.535
It was considered a particular
triumph that the van der Luydens,

01:51:49.619 --> 01:51:53.205
at May's request, stayed
in the city to be present

01:51:53.289 --> 01:51:57.418
at her farewell dinner
for the Countess Olenska.

01:51:57.502 --> 01:52:00.629
WOMAN: You have to leave New
York after the disgrace...

01:52:00.714 --> 01:52:03.716
Archer saw all
the harmless-looking people

01:52:03.800 --> 01:52:07.136
at the table as a band
of quiet conspirators,

01:52:08.054 --> 01:52:11.473
with himself and Ellen the
centre of their conspiracy.

01:52:13.643 --> 01:52:16.228
He guessed himself to have
been for months the centre

01:52:16.312 --> 01:52:19.481
of countless
silently observing eyes

01:52:19.566 --> 01:52:22.067
and patiently listening ears.

01:52:24.320 --> 01:52:27.698
He understood that
somehow the separation

01:52:27.782 --> 01:52:31.660
between himself and the partner
of his guilt had been achieved.

01:52:33.121 --> 01:52:37.583
And he knew that now the whole
tribe had rallied around his wife.

01:52:39.586 --> 01:52:43.505
He was a prisoner in the
centre of an armed camp.

01:52:44.299 --> 01:52:46.091
I wonder if
they'll ever get it back.

01:52:46.176 --> 01:52:47.593
Regina's not well at all,

01:52:47.677 --> 01:52:50.429
but that doesn't stop Beaufort
from devoting as much time

01:52:50.513 --> 01:52:52.139
to Annie Ring
as he can manage.

01:52:52.223 --> 01:52:53.724
The best thing
Beaufort could do

01:52:53.808 --> 01:52:57.644
would be to go and stay at Regina's
little place in North Carolina.

01:52:57.729 --> 01:52:59.772
He could breed trotters...

01:52:59.856 --> 01:53:01.523
And the key to his release

01:53:01.608 --> 01:53:04.443
had been returned
the day before.

01:53:04.527 --> 01:53:06.987
By maiI. Unopened.

01:53:08.740 --> 01:53:12.576
MAN: He may stay here as a deliberate
challenge to the outrage he's created.

01:53:12.660 --> 01:53:14.745
Perhaps he'll run
for public office.

01:53:14.829 --> 01:53:17.998
WOMAN: Then will Annie Ring
be his first lady?

01:53:18.082 --> 01:53:19.249
(LAUGHING)

01:53:20.710 --> 01:53:22.878
Was your trip from
Washington very tiring?

01:53:25.173 --> 01:53:27.966
The heat on the train
was dreadful.

01:53:29.469 --> 01:53:31.762
But all travel
has its hardships.

01:53:31.846 --> 01:53:32.971
Well, whatever
they may be,

01:53:33.056 --> 01:53:34.932
they're worth it
just to get away.

01:53:36.851 --> 01:53:39.269
I mean to do a lot of
travelling myself soon.

01:53:39.521 --> 01:53:40.521
Mmm-hmm?

01:53:45.318 --> 01:53:47.861
What about you, Philip? What
about a little adventure?

01:53:47.946 --> 01:53:51.615
Athens and Smyrna,
maybe even Constantinople.

01:53:51.699 --> 01:53:52.866
Possibly. Possibly.

01:53:52.951 --> 01:53:54.910
But not Naples.

01:53:54.994 --> 01:53:57.412
Dr Bencomb says
there's a fever.

01:53:58.248 --> 01:54:00.958
Oh, really?
A fever in Naples.

01:54:02.669 --> 01:54:04.419
Well, there's
always India, of course.

01:54:04.504 --> 01:54:06.255
You must have three weeks
to do India properly.

01:54:06.339 --> 01:54:07.714
Absolutely.

01:54:10.468 --> 01:54:12.928
Beaufort may not receive
invitations any more,

01:54:13.012 --> 01:54:15.764
but it's clear he still
maintains a certain position.

01:54:15.849 --> 01:54:17.307
Horizontal from
all I've heard.

01:54:17.392 --> 01:54:19.852
If things go on like this,
we'll be seeing our children

01:54:19.936 --> 01:54:22.104
fighting for invitations
to swindlers' houses

01:54:22.272 --> 01:54:24.439
and marrying
Beaufort's bastards.

01:54:24.524 --> 01:54:26.024
Has he got any?

01:54:26.109 --> 01:54:29.528
Be careful there, gentlemen.
Draw it mild. Draw it mild.

01:54:29.612 --> 01:54:33.949
Society has a history of
tolerating vulgar women after all.

01:54:34.033 --> 01:54:35.701
Up to a point.

01:54:35.785 --> 01:54:37.286
But once it tolerates
a man of that kind,

01:54:37.370 --> 01:54:38.829
the only prospect is
total disinheritance...

01:54:38.955 --> 01:54:40.372
Have you ever noticed

01:54:40.456 --> 01:54:43.667
it's the people with the worst
cooks who are always yelling

01:54:43.751 --> 01:54:47.462
about being poisoned
when they dine out?

01:54:47.547 --> 01:54:51.550
Lefferts used to be a
little more adept, I thought.

01:54:51.634 --> 01:54:55.053
But then grace is
not always required

01:54:55.138 --> 01:54:57.472
as long as one
knows the steps.

01:54:57.682 --> 01:54:59.474
(CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)

01:55:05.773 --> 01:55:09.192
MAN 1: I've never heard Lefferts
so abound in the sentiments

01:55:09.277 --> 01:55:11.361
that adorn
Christian manhood.

01:55:11.446 --> 01:55:13.530
MAN 2: Indignation lends
a scathing eloquence.

01:55:13.615 --> 01:55:15.949
It's almost as
effective as fear.

01:55:16.075 --> 01:55:18.410
The pressure at home
must be unrelenting.

01:55:18.494 --> 01:55:21.079
I never expected to hear such
a paean to the sanctity...

01:55:21.164 --> 01:55:22.581
WOMAN: My mother had
a bronze reduction

01:55:22.665 --> 01:55:24.875
of the Venus De Milo
she wanted to give us...

01:55:25.752 --> 01:55:27.711
NARRATOR:
The silent organisation

01:55:27.795 --> 01:55:30.422
which held this whole
small world together

01:55:30.548 --> 01:55:33.216
was determined to
put itself on record.

01:55:34.761 --> 01:55:36.762
It had never for
a moment questioned

01:55:36.846 --> 01:55:39.181
the propriety of
Madame Olenska's conduct.

01:55:40.350 --> 01:55:43.352
It had never
questioned Archer's fidelity.

01:55:45.313 --> 01:55:49.816
And it had never heard of,
suspected or even conceived possible

01:55:49.901 --> 01:55:51.860
anything at all
to the contrary.

01:55:51.945 --> 01:55:53.111
Ellen.

01:55:54.864 --> 01:55:57.783
From the seamless
performance of this rituaI,

01:55:57.867 --> 01:56:02.287
Archer knew that New York believed
him to be Madame Olenska's lover.

01:56:02.372 --> 01:56:04.623
We were discussing
the Martha Washington ball.

01:56:04.707 --> 01:56:07.876
Yes, we have it during Easter
week to benefit the blind society.

01:56:07.961 --> 01:56:09.086
They do excellent work.

01:56:09.170 --> 01:56:11.505
Lawrence. Lawrence...

01:56:11.589 --> 01:56:14.466
And he understood
for the first time

01:56:14.550 --> 01:56:16.885
that his wife
shared the belief.

01:56:26.854 --> 01:56:29.147
You must come
visit me when you do.

01:56:29.232 --> 01:56:32.985
I'll write you as soon as I'm
settled and let you know where I am.

01:56:33.069 --> 01:56:34.903
Yes, that would
be lovely.

01:56:34.988 --> 01:56:36.780
Shall I see you
to your carriage?

01:56:38.074 --> 01:56:40.200
We are driving
dear Ellen home.

01:56:41.911 --> 01:56:43.161
Goodbye.

01:56:44.247 --> 01:56:47.416
Good-bye. And I'll see
you very soon in Paris.

01:56:47.875 --> 01:56:50.460
Oh, if you and May
could come.

01:56:52.005 --> 01:56:55.090
Shall we make our way
to the carriage, my dear?

01:57:06.686 --> 01:57:08.186
Delightful evening,
Newland.

01:57:08.271 --> 01:57:09.855
Good night, Newland.

01:57:09.939 --> 01:57:12.774
Good night, Sillerton.
Good night, Larry.

01:57:21.784 --> 01:57:23.410
(DRIVER URGES HORSE)

01:57:37.175 --> 01:57:39.551
It did go off
beautifully, didn't it?

01:57:39.635 --> 01:57:40.886
Oh, yes.

01:57:43.222 --> 01:57:44.848
May I come in
and talk it over?

01:57:45.224 --> 01:57:48.560
Of course.
But you must be very sleepy.

01:57:48.644 --> 01:57:50.854
No, I'm not. I'd like
to be with you a little.

01:57:50.938 --> 01:57:51.938
Fine.

01:58:11.084 --> 01:58:13.168
If you feel
up to it, May,

01:58:14.754 --> 01:58:18.215
there is something that I've
been wanting to talk to you about.

01:58:18.299 --> 01:58:21.384
And I tried to talk
to you the other evening.

01:58:22.345 --> 01:58:23.970
Oh, yes, dear.
Something about yourself.

01:58:24.055 --> 01:58:25.722
About myself, yes.

01:58:27.225 --> 01:58:30.852
It's so difficult to
find the right words.

01:58:30.937 --> 01:58:35.357
But it's just that I feel so
terribly tired at the moment.

01:58:37.527 --> 01:58:39.027
And I think...

01:58:40.071 --> 01:58:42.114
Each day a little more so.

01:58:43.658 --> 01:58:47.911
And I think it would be better for
everyone if I were to make a break.

01:58:49.789 --> 01:58:51.832
You mean give up the law?

01:58:55.211 --> 01:58:59.840
Well, certainly that would be
a part of it. And also just to...

01:58:59.924 --> 01:59:01.174
Just to get away.

01:59:01.259 --> 01:59:03.718
I... I'd like to
do some travelling.

01:59:08.432 --> 01:59:09.975
To Europe or...

01:59:11.727 --> 01:59:13.520
Perhaps even farther.

01:59:15.898 --> 01:59:17.149
How far?

01:59:18.151 --> 01:59:20.193
I don't know. I thought...

01:59:21.237 --> 01:59:23.989
India or Japan. Um...

01:59:26.868 --> 01:59:28.410
As far as that?

01:59:34.333 --> 01:59:35.542
Well...

01:59:39.714 --> 01:59:41.798
I'm afraid
you can't, dear.

01:59:43.926 --> 01:59:46.261
Not unless you
take me with you.

01:59:50.057 --> 01:59:54.102
That is, if the doctors will let
me go, and I'm afraid they won't.

01:59:57.940 --> 02:00:02.485
Newland, I've been sure of
something since this morning,

02:00:02.570 --> 02:00:04.988
and I've been
longing to tell you.

02:00:20.296 --> 02:00:21.671
Oh, my dear.

02:00:21.797 --> 02:00:23.423
You didn't guess?

02:00:24.967 --> 02:00:28.637
No. I mean, of course,
I... I hoped, but...

02:00:39.482 --> 02:00:41.524
Have you told anyone else?

02:00:43.569 --> 02:00:46.571
Only Mamma
and your mother...

02:00:46.656 --> 02:00:47.989
And Ellen.

02:00:51.494 --> 02:00:53.745
I told you we had
a long talk one afternoon

02:00:53.871 --> 02:00:56.122
and how wonderful
she was to me.

02:01:04.799 --> 02:01:07.384
Did you mind my
telling her, Newland?

02:01:08.844 --> 02:01:10.929
Mind? Why should I?

02:01:11.013 --> 02:01:13.682
But that was two
weeks ago, wasn't it?

02:01:16.018 --> 02:01:19.312
I thought you just said
you weren't sure till today?

02:01:21.190 --> 02:01:24.109
No, I...
I wasn't sure then,

02:01:24.193 --> 02:01:26.653
but I told her I was.

02:01:30.449 --> 02:01:34.119
And you see, I was right.

02:01:52.555 --> 02:01:54.889
NARRATOR:
It was the room

02:01:54.974 --> 02:01:59.644
in which most of the reaI
things of his life had happened.

02:02:09.363 --> 02:02:11.489
Their eldest boy, Theodore,

02:02:11.574 --> 02:02:15.035
too delicate to be taken
to church in midwinter,

02:02:15.119 --> 02:02:17.037
had been christened there.

02:02:17.121 --> 02:02:21.499
I baptise thee in
the name of the Father,

02:02:21.584 --> 02:02:23.543
and of the son,

02:02:23.627 --> 02:02:25.420
and of the holy spirit.

02:02:35.723 --> 02:02:38.558
It was here that Ted
took his first steps.

02:02:40.061 --> 02:02:43.480
And it was here that Archer
and his wife always discussed

02:02:43.564 --> 02:02:45.982
the future of
all their children.

02:02:46.567 --> 02:02:49.194
Bill's interest
in archaeology,

02:02:49.278 --> 02:02:53.198
Mary's passion for
sports and philanthropy,

02:02:53.282 --> 02:02:58.370
Ted's inclination toward art that
led to a job with an architect,

02:02:58.454 --> 02:03:01.331
as well as some
considerable redecoration.

02:03:03.667 --> 02:03:07.295
It was in this room that Mary
had announced her engagement...

02:03:07.380 --> 02:03:09.130
I'm so happy for you.

02:03:09.215 --> 02:03:13.843
To the dullest and most reliable
of Larry Lefferts' many sons.

02:03:21.560 --> 02:03:24.729
And it was in this room, too,
that her father had kissed her

02:03:24.814 --> 02:03:28.942
through her wedding veiI before
they motored to Grace Church.

02:03:37.952 --> 02:03:41.663
He was a dutiful and loving
father, and a faithful husband.

02:03:43.374 --> 02:03:45.750
When May died of
infectious pneumonia

02:03:45.876 --> 02:03:48.253
after nursing
Bill safely through,

02:03:48.337 --> 02:03:50.755
he had honestly mourned her.

02:03:50.840 --> 02:03:53.425
The world of her youth
had fallen into pieces

02:03:53.509 --> 02:03:57.387
and rebuilt itself
without her ever noticing.

02:03:58.013 --> 02:04:01.182
This hard, bright blindness,

02:04:01.267 --> 02:04:04.352
her incapacity to
recognise change,

02:04:04.437 --> 02:04:06.688
made her children
conceal their views

02:04:06.814 --> 02:04:09.023
from her,
just as Archer concealed his.

02:04:10.526 --> 02:04:13.987
She died thinking
the world a good place,

02:04:14.071 --> 02:04:17.657
full of loving and harmonious
households like her own.

02:04:19.201 --> 02:04:22.579
Newland Archer,
in his 57th year,

02:04:22.663 --> 02:04:25.498
mourned his past and
honoured it. (PHONE RINGING)

02:04:29.503 --> 02:04:31.629
Yes, hello? Hello?

02:04:31.714 --> 02:04:33.381
Chicago wants you.

02:04:33.466 --> 02:04:34.674
Hello?

02:04:34.758 --> 02:04:36.593
Dad?
Is that you, Ted?

02:04:36.677 --> 02:04:38.386
Dad, I'm just about
finished out here,

02:04:38.471 --> 02:04:41.389
but my client wants me to look at
some gardens before I start designing.

02:04:41.474 --> 02:04:42.849
That sounds fine. Where?

02:04:42.933 --> 02:04:44.601
Europe.
Gracious.

02:04:44.685 --> 02:04:47.479
I'll have to saiI next
Wednesday on the Mauretania.

02:04:47.563 --> 02:04:49.814
(CHUCKLES) What,
and miss the wedding?

02:04:49.899 --> 02:04:51.232
I think Annie
will wait for me.

02:04:51.317 --> 02:04:53.651
I'll be back on the 1 st, and
our wedding's not till the 5th.

02:04:53.736 --> 02:04:55.320
I'm surprised you
remember the date.

02:04:55.404 --> 02:04:57.697
Well... Dad,
I was hoping you'd join me.

02:04:57.781 --> 02:04:59.157
What?

02:04:59.241 --> 02:05:01.701
I'll need you to remind me
of what's important.

02:05:01.785 --> 02:05:04.162
What do you say? It will be
our last father-and-son trip.

02:05:04.246 --> 02:05:06.706
Well, Ted, I do appreciate
the invitation... Wonderful!

02:05:06.790 --> 02:05:08.791
Can you call the Cunard office
first thing tomorrow?

02:05:08.876 --> 02:05:11.503
But it would take me till next
Wednesday just to cancel my...

02:05:11.587 --> 02:05:15.131
I won't hear it, Dad.
The Atlantic is calling us.

02:05:15.216 --> 02:05:17.550
I'll be in New York on Monday,
and I'll contact you then.

02:05:17.635 --> 02:05:19.302
You'll be in New...
On Monday.

02:05:19.386 --> 02:05:20.595
I'll see what I can do.

02:05:20.679 --> 02:05:21.846
Settle the tickets, Dad.

02:05:21.931 --> 02:05:25.183
I can't promise anything, Ted.
I'll see what I can do. All right.

02:05:25.267 --> 02:05:26.559
Bye-bye.
Bye.

02:05:45.412 --> 02:05:48.331
I'm going out to Versailles
with Tourneur. Will you join us?

02:05:48.415 --> 02:05:51.125
I thought I'd
go to the Louvre.

02:05:51.210 --> 02:05:52.877
I'll meet you
there later then.

02:05:52.962 --> 02:05:55.797
Countess Olenska's
expecting us at 5:30.

02:05:56.423 --> 02:05:58.216
What?

02:05:58.300 --> 02:05:59.425
Oh, didn't I tell you?

02:06:00.177 --> 02:06:03.263
Annie made me swear to
do three things in Paris.

02:06:03.347 --> 02:06:05.723
Get her the score of
the last Debussy songs,

02:06:05.808 --> 02:06:09.310
go to the Grand Guignol,
and see Madame Olenska.

02:06:09.395 --> 02:06:10.562
You know, she was
awfully good to Annie

02:06:10.646 --> 02:06:13.439
when Mr Beaufort sent her
over to the Sorbonne.

02:06:13.524 --> 02:06:16.442
Wasn't the Countess friendly with Mr
Beaufort's first wife or something?

02:06:16.527 --> 02:06:19.237
I think Mrs Beaufort
said that she was.

02:06:19.321 --> 02:06:22.407
In any case, I called the
Countess first thing this morning,

02:06:22.491 --> 02:06:24.701
introduced
myself as her cousin.

02:06:24.785 --> 02:06:27.328
Did you tell her
I was here, Ted?

02:06:27.413 --> 02:06:30.206
Of course. Why not?

02:06:30.291 --> 02:06:32.667
She sounds lovely.
Was she?

02:06:37.131 --> 02:06:38.339
Lovely?

02:06:41.385 --> 02:06:44.137
I don't know.
She was different.

02:06:57.568 --> 02:07:00.903
NARRATOR: Whenever
he thought of Ellen Olenska,

02:07:00.988 --> 02:07:03.948
it had been abstractly,
serenely,

02:07:04.033 --> 02:07:07.410
like an imaginary loved one
in a book or picture.

02:07:12.249 --> 02:07:16.044
She had become the complete
vision of all that he had missed.

02:07:21.050 --> 02:07:22.884
NEWLAND: I'm only 57.

02:07:28.390 --> 02:07:30.433
TED: Did Mr Beaufort really
have such a bad time of it

02:07:30.517 --> 02:07:32.101
when he wanted
to remarry?

02:07:32.186 --> 02:07:34.312
No one wanted to
give him an inch?

02:07:34.396 --> 02:07:37.315
Perhaps because he'd
already taken so much.

02:07:38.567 --> 02:07:41.444
As if anyone remembers
any more, or cares.

02:07:42.613 --> 02:07:47.075
Well, Annie Ring and he did have a
lovely daughter. You're very lucky.

02:07:47.951 --> 02:07:50.119
We're very lucky,
you mean.

02:07:50.704 --> 02:07:52.872
Yes, of course
that's what I mean.

02:07:52.956 --> 02:07:54.415
TED: So considering
how that all turned out,

02:07:54.500 --> 02:07:56.584
and all the time
that's gone by,

02:07:56.669 --> 02:07:58.878
I don't see how
you can resist.

02:07:58.962 --> 02:08:02.215
I did have some resistance at first
to your marriage, as I told you...

02:08:02.299 --> 02:08:04.801
No. I mean resist
seeing the woman

02:08:04.885 --> 02:08:06.761
you almost threw
everything over for.

02:08:07.888 --> 02:08:09.555
Only you didn't.

02:08:10.391 --> 02:08:11.641
I didn't?

02:08:12.851 --> 02:08:14.018
No.

02:08:15.187 --> 02:08:16.437
But Mother said
that she knew

02:08:16.480 --> 02:08:19.148
we would be safe with you. Your mother?

02:08:19.233 --> 02:08:23.236
Yes. The day before she died she
asked to see me alone. Remember?

02:08:24.613 --> 02:08:26.864
She said she knew
we were safe with you,

02:08:26.949 --> 02:08:29.033
and always would be,

02:08:29.118 --> 02:08:32.161
because once,
when she asked you to,

02:08:33.455 --> 02:08:36.290
you gave up the thing
that you wanted most.

02:08:49.012 --> 02:08:50.638
She never asked.

02:08:53.809 --> 02:08:55.727
She never asked me.

02:09:03.235 --> 02:09:07.196
NARRATOR: After a little while he
did not regret Ted's indiscretion.

02:09:08.282 --> 02:09:12.076
It seemed to take an iron band
from his heart to know that,

02:09:12.161 --> 02:09:16.080
after all, someone
had guessed and pitied,

02:09:16.957 --> 02:09:21.878
and that it should have been
his wife moved him inexpressibly.

02:09:40.522 --> 02:09:43.107
The porter says
it's the third floor.

02:09:45.444 --> 02:09:47.862
Must be the one
with the awnings.

02:09:50.824 --> 02:09:52.450
It's nearly 6:00.

02:09:54.953 --> 02:09:57.371
I think I'll just
sit for a while.

02:10:00.709 --> 02:10:02.835
Do you mean
you won't come?

02:10:05.589 --> 02:10:08.549
You really won't come
at all? I don't know.

02:10:10.552 --> 02:10:12.345
She won't understand.

02:10:13.722 --> 02:10:16.140
Go on, Ted.
Maybe I'll follow you.

02:10:19.978 --> 02:10:21.229
What will I tell her?

02:10:22.606 --> 02:10:25.316
Don't you always
have something to say?

02:10:28.487 --> 02:10:29.987
I'll tell her
you're old-fashioned,

02:10:30.072 --> 02:10:32.031
and you insist on
walking up three flights

02:10:32.115 --> 02:10:34.325
instead of
taking the elevator.

02:10:42.584 --> 02:10:44.752
Just say
I'm old-fashioned.

02:10:45.963 --> 02:10:48.464
That should be enough.
Go on.

02:10:50.676 --> 02:10:51.843
Go on.

02:10:51.867 --> 02:11:11.867
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