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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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00:20:53,669 --> 00:20:56,087
who was allowed to wear black
satin at her coming out ball?

243
00:20:56,171 --> 00:20:57,213
(CHUCKLING)

244
00:20:57,297 --> 00:20:59,507
It's odd she should've kept
such an ugly name as Ellen

245
00:20:59,591 --> 00:21:01,425
when she married the Count.

246
00:21:01,510 --> 00:21:03,344
I should have
changed it to Elaine.

247
00:21:04,179 --> 00:21:05,513
Why?

248
00:21:06,556 --> 00:21:10,726
I don't know.
It sounds more Polish.

249
00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:15,147
It certainly sounds
more conspicuous,

250
00:21:15,232 --> 00:21:17,024
and that can hardly
be what she wishes.

251
00:21:17,109 --> 00:21:20,236
NEWLAND: Why not? Why shouldn't
she be conspicuous if she chooses?

252
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:21,612
She made an awful marriage.
But should she

253
00:21:21,697 --> 00:21:23,698
hide her head as
if it's her fault?

254
00:21:23,865 --> 00:21:26,701
Should she go slinking around
as if she disgraced herself?

255
00:21:28,036 --> 00:21:31,038
She's had an unhappy life. That
doesn't make her an outcast.

256
00:21:32,291 --> 00:21:34,709
I'm sure that's the line
the Mingotts mean to take.

257
00:21:36,753 --> 00:21:39,797
I don't have to wait for their
cue if that's what you mean, sir.

258
00:21:40,465 --> 00:21:43,217
I'm told she's
looking for a house.

259
00:21:43,302 --> 00:21:44,927
She intends to live here.

260
00:21:45,012 --> 00:21:47,346
I hear she means
to get a divorce.

261
00:21:49,391 --> 00:21:50,975
I hope she will.

262
00:21:53,562 --> 00:21:56,480
SILLERTON: Understandably
her marriage was intolerable.

263
00:21:58,358 --> 00:21:59,984
But there are
the rumours, too.

264
00:22:00,068 --> 00:22:02,403
I've heard them.
The secretary.

265
00:22:05,282 --> 00:22:07,241
He helped get her
away from the husband.

266
00:22:10,162 --> 00:22:13,331
They say the Count kept her
practically a prisoner.

267
00:22:13,415 --> 00:22:16,751
Certainly the Count
had his own way of life.

268
00:22:19,296 --> 00:22:20,338
You knew him?

269
00:22:20,422 --> 00:22:22,298
I heard of him at Nice.

270
00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:25,134
Handsome,
they say, but, um...

271
00:22:26,428 --> 00:22:28,679
Eyes with a lot of lashes.

272
00:22:29,598 --> 00:22:34,060
When he wasn't with women,
he was collecting china.

273
00:22:35,604 --> 00:22:37,897
Paying any price for both,
I understand.

274
00:22:37,981 --> 00:22:40,107
Then where's the blame?

275
00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:41,734
Anyone of us under
the same circumstances

276
00:22:41,818 --> 00:22:42,943
would have
helped the Countess,

277
00:22:43,028 --> 00:22:44,820
just as the secretary did.

278
00:22:45,655 --> 00:22:48,032
He was still helping
her a year later then,

279
00:22:48,116 --> 00:22:51,035
because somebody met them
living together at Lausanne.

280
00:22:52,788 --> 00:22:54,372
Living together?

281
00:22:55,874 --> 00:22:57,208
Well, why not?

282
00:22:57,292 --> 00:22:58,876
Who has the right to make
her life over if she hasn't?

283
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:00,294
Why should we
bury a woman alive

284
00:23:00,379 --> 00:23:02,213
if her husband prefers
to live with whores?

285
00:23:02,297 --> 00:23:04,465
Oh, it's hardly
a question of entombment.

286
00:23:05,092 --> 00:23:07,259
The Countess is
here after all.

287
00:23:08,387 --> 00:23:10,763
Or do you believe

288
00:23:10,847 --> 00:23:13,849
a woman should share
the same freedoms as men?

289
00:23:15,018 --> 00:23:17,395
I suppose I do.
Yes, I do.

290
00:23:17,479 --> 00:23:21,315
Well, apparently Count Olenski
takes a similarly modern view.

291
00:23:22,025 --> 00:23:25,736
I never heard of him lifting
a finger to get his wife back.

292
00:23:29,032 --> 00:23:32,076
NARRATOR: Three days later,
the unthinkable happened.

293
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,371
Mrs Manson Mingott
sent out invitations

294
00:23:35,455 --> 00:23:38,165
summoning everyone
to a formal dinner.

295
00:23:38,583 --> 00:23:42,461
Such an occasion demanded the
most careful consideration.

296
00:23:42,546 --> 00:23:44,922
It required
the appropriated plate.

297
00:23:45,257 --> 00:23:47,299
It called for
three extra footmen,

298
00:23:47,384 --> 00:23:49,176
two dishes for each course

299
00:23:49,261 --> 00:23:51,137
and a Roman punch
in the middle.

300
00:23:53,974 --> 00:23:56,559
The dinner, New York
read on the invitation,

301
00:23:56,643 --> 00:23:59,270
was "to meet
the Countess Olenska. "

302
00:24:03,358 --> 00:24:05,484
And New York declined.

303
00:24:07,988 --> 00:24:10,489
MRS ARCHER:
"Regret unable to accept. "

304
00:24:10,657 --> 00:24:12,533
And from some
of our own family.

305
00:24:12,701 --> 00:24:17,955
No one cares enough even to conceal
their feelings about the Countess.

306
00:24:18,039 --> 00:24:19,123
This is a disgrace.

307
00:24:19,207 --> 00:24:22,585
They all lived in a kind of
hieroglyphic world.

308
00:24:22,669 --> 00:24:26,297
The reaI thing was never said
or done or even thought,

309
00:24:26,381 --> 00:24:30,426
but only represented
by a set of arbitrary signs.

310
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,804
Archer knew these signs.

311
00:24:33,889 --> 00:24:36,849
They were not subtle
and were not meant to be.

312
00:24:36,933 --> 00:24:39,435
They were more than
a simple snubbing.

313
00:24:39,519 --> 00:24:42,146
They were an eradication.

314
00:24:43,398 --> 00:24:45,774
There was
a single court of appeaI.

315
00:24:45,859 --> 00:24:49,487
He would plead their case
before the van der Luydens.

316
00:24:49,571 --> 00:24:55,075
And all this, you think, is due to
some intentional interference by...

317
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,244
Larry Lefferts.
Yes, sir, I'm certain of it.

318
00:24:57,329 --> 00:25:00,831
The van der Luydens dwelled
above the city's families

319
00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:04,668
in a kind of
super-terrestriaI twilight.

320
00:25:04,753 --> 00:25:09,507
Archer appealed to their exquisitely
refined sense of tribal order.

321
00:25:09,799 --> 00:25:11,300
And he spoke plainly.

322
00:25:11,384 --> 00:25:12,843
Whenever poor
Gertrude Lefferts begins

323
00:25:12,928 --> 00:25:16,222
to suspect her
husband of something,

324
00:25:16,306 --> 00:25:20,392
Larry starts making some great
diversionary fuss to show how moral he is.

325
00:25:20,477 --> 00:25:23,938
Well, it's the principle that I dislike.

326
00:25:25,065 --> 00:25:27,816
I mean to say, if a member
of a well-known family

327
00:25:27,901 --> 00:25:30,319
is backed
by that family,

328
00:25:30,403 --> 00:25:32,321
it should be
considered final.

329
00:25:32,405 --> 00:25:34,782
We all felt this slight
on the Countess should

330
00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:37,284
not pass without
our consulting you.

331
00:25:37,452 --> 00:25:39,328
So, we are giving
a little dinner

332
00:25:39,412 --> 00:25:41,455
for our cousin,
the Duke of St Austrey,

333
00:25:42,249 --> 00:25:44,833
who arrives next
week on the Russia.

334
00:25:45,377 --> 00:25:48,087
I'm sure Louisa will
be as glad as I am,

335
00:25:48,547 --> 00:25:52,800
if Countess Olenska will let
us include her among our guests.

336
00:25:57,847 --> 00:25:59,974
The occasion was a solemn one,

337
00:26:00,058 --> 00:26:02,935
but the Countess Olenska
arrived rather late,

338
00:26:03,019 --> 00:26:07,648
signalling a carelessness of
which she was entirely unaware.

339
00:26:08,149 --> 00:26:10,776
She entered without
haste or embarrassment

340
00:26:10,860 --> 00:26:14,822
the drawing room in which
New York's most chosen company

341
00:26:14,906 --> 00:26:17,825
was somewhat
awfully assembled.

342
00:26:18,410 --> 00:26:20,035
Ah, Countess Olenska.

343
00:26:22,122 --> 00:26:23,622
Good evening.

344
00:26:24,332 --> 00:26:26,125
We're delighted you're
here. Good evening.

345
00:26:26,209 --> 00:26:28,335
The Duke of St Austrey, may
I present Countess Olenska.

346
00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:29,420
(GREETS IN FRENCH)

347
00:26:29,504 --> 00:26:32,673
The Trevenna George ll
plate was out.

348
00:26:32,757 --> 00:26:36,427
So was the van der Luyden Lowestoft
from the East India Company.

349
00:26:36,511 --> 00:26:39,430
And the Dagonet Crown Derby.

350
00:26:39,514 --> 00:26:43,350
Dining with the van der Luydens
was at best no light matter.

351
00:26:43,435 --> 00:26:46,562
Dining there with a duke
who was their cousin

352
00:26:46,646 --> 00:26:50,024
was almost
a religious solemnity.

353
00:26:50,108 --> 00:26:52,151
When the
van der Luydens chose,

354
00:26:52,277 --> 00:26:54,320
they knew how
to give a lesson.

355
00:27:34,194 --> 00:27:35,611
Excuse me.

356
00:27:39,282 --> 00:27:42,326
It was not the custom
in New York drawing rooms

357
00:27:42,410 --> 00:27:45,579
for a lady to get up and
walk away from one gentleman

358
00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:48,999
in order to seek
the company of another,

359
00:27:49,084 --> 00:27:51,960
but the Countess
did not observe this rule.

360
00:27:57,592 --> 00:27:59,718
I want you to
talk to me about May.

361
00:28:01,763 --> 00:28:03,430
You knew
the Duke before?

362
00:28:03,932 --> 00:28:06,600
From Nice. We used to
see him every winter.

363
00:28:06,685 --> 00:28:08,018
He's very fond
of gambling,

364
00:28:08,103 --> 00:28:10,437
and he used to come
to our house a great deal.

365
00:28:11,439 --> 00:28:13,732
He likes to wear
the same suit every evening.

366
00:28:13,817 --> 00:28:16,568
He thinks it
brings him luck.

367
00:28:16,653 --> 00:28:19,029
I think he's
the dullest man I ever met.

368
00:28:20,448 --> 00:28:23,033
But he... He seems
to be admired here.

369
00:28:24,869 --> 00:28:27,538
May I tell you what most
interests me about New York?

370
00:28:27,622 --> 00:28:32,626
Not all the blind obeying of
tradition, somebody else's tradition.

371
00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:34,253
It seems stupid to
have discovered America

372
00:28:34,337 --> 00:28:36,714
only to make it
a copy of another country.

373
00:28:36,798 --> 00:28:37,923
Do you suppose
Christopher Columbus

374
00:28:38,007 --> 00:28:39,258
would have taken
all that trouble

375
00:28:39,342 --> 00:28:41,427
just to go to the opera
with Larry Lefferts?

376
00:28:45,140 --> 00:28:48,809
Well, I think if he'd suspected
that Lefferts were here,

377
00:28:48,893 --> 00:28:51,812
the Santa Maria might
never have left port.

378
00:28:54,065 --> 00:28:56,358
And May, does she
share these views?

379
00:28:56,443 --> 00:28:58,694
Oh, if she does,
she'd never say so.

380
00:28:59,571 --> 00:29:01,947
Are you very much
in love with her?

381
00:29:02,574 --> 00:29:04,324
As much as a man can be.

382
00:29:04,492 --> 00:29:06,160
Do you think
there's a limit?

383
00:29:10,123 --> 00:29:14,501
If there is, I haven't
found it. Oh. C'est bon.

384
00:29:15,086 --> 00:29:17,671
It's really and
truly a romance then,

385
00:29:18,339 --> 00:29:20,424
not in the least arranged.

386
00:29:20,508 --> 00:29:22,301
Have you forgotten? In
our country we don't allow

387
00:29:22,385 --> 00:29:24,595
our marriages
to be arranged.

388
00:29:27,015 --> 00:29:28,390
Yes, I forgot. I'm sorry.

389
00:29:28,475 --> 00:29:31,477
(STAMMERING) I sometimes
make these mistakes.

390
00:29:32,437 --> 00:29:36,523
I don't always remember that
everything here is good that was...

391
00:29:36,608 --> 00:29:39,693
That was bad
where I came from.

392
00:29:43,782 --> 00:29:46,116
I'm so sorry.
No.

393
00:29:50,371 --> 00:29:52,956
But you know you are
among friends here.

394
00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:56,043
Yes, I know.
That's why I came home.

395
00:29:56,211 --> 00:29:57,711
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

396
00:30:00,924 --> 00:30:02,090
Good evening, Louisa.

397
00:30:02,175 --> 00:30:03,592
MAN: May I present
May Welland.

398
00:30:03,676 --> 00:30:05,135
You'll want
to be with May.

399
00:30:06,346 --> 00:30:07,513
I'm so pleased
to meet you.

400
00:30:07,597 --> 00:30:10,265
She's already surrounded.
I have so many rivals.

401
00:30:10,350 --> 00:30:12,392
Yes. (SIGHS)

402
00:30:12,477 --> 00:30:14,895
Then stay with me
a little longer.

403
00:30:16,356 --> 00:30:18,190
Yes.

404
00:30:18,358 --> 00:30:21,735
Mr Urban Dagonet, may I
present the Countess Olenska.

405
00:30:21,820 --> 00:30:23,362
How do you do, my dear?

406
00:30:23,446 --> 00:30:24,655
How do you do?

407
00:30:24,739 --> 00:30:27,449
Tomorrow then,
after 5:00 I'll expect you.

408
00:30:29,035 --> 00:30:30,452
Tomorrow.

409
00:30:30,954 --> 00:30:32,329
Excuse me.

410
00:30:40,588 --> 00:30:44,132
It was good of you to devote
yourself to Madame Olenska

411
00:30:44,217 --> 00:30:46,969
so unselfishly,
dear Newland.

412
00:30:47,053 --> 00:30:49,763
I told Henry he
really must rescue you.

413
00:30:50,932 --> 00:30:53,934
I think I've never
seen May looking lovelier.

414
00:30:54,727 --> 00:30:58,564
The Duke thinks her the
handsomest woman in the room.

415
00:31:43,735 --> 00:31:44,735
(DOOR OPENS)

416
00:31:55,330 --> 00:31:56,330
(CHATTERING)

417
00:32:01,544 --> 00:32:04,296
It was my pleasure.
(DOOR CLOSES)

418
00:32:06,341 --> 00:32:08,342
Mr Archer.

419
00:32:09,052 --> 00:32:13,096
So how do you like
this odd little house?

420
00:32:13,181 --> 00:32:14,556
To me, it's like heaven.

421
00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:16,266
You've arranged
it delightfully.

422
00:32:16,517 --> 00:32:18,060
Yes.

423
00:32:18,144 --> 00:32:20,771
Some of the things I
managed to bring with me.

424
00:32:20,855 --> 00:32:23,815
Little pieces
of wreckage.

425
00:32:24,859 --> 00:32:27,945
At least it's less gloomy
than the van der Luydens',

426
00:32:28,029 --> 00:32:30,781
and not so
difficult to be alone.

427
00:32:30,865 --> 00:32:34,117
I am sure it's often thought
the van der Luydens' is gloomy,

428
00:32:34,202 --> 00:32:36,536
though I've never
heard it said before.

429
00:32:36,871 --> 00:32:38,997
But tell me, do you
really like to be alone?

430
00:32:39,624 --> 00:32:42,709
As long as my friends
keep me from being lonely.

431
00:32:45,254 --> 00:32:48,507
I see you've already
chosen your corner.

432
00:32:48,591 --> 00:32:49,633
Yes.

433
00:32:49,717 --> 00:32:50,801
Please, sit.
Thank you.

434
00:32:55,556 --> 00:32:57,724
This is the hour
I like best.

435
00:32:58,601 --> 00:32:59,977
Don't you?

436
00:33:00,061 --> 00:33:02,187
I was afraid you'd
forgotten the hour.

437
00:33:02,271 --> 00:33:05,107
I am sure Beaufort
can be very intriguing.

438
00:33:06,943 --> 00:33:11,738
He took me to see some
houses. I'm told I must move.

439
00:33:12,699 --> 00:33:15,075
Even though this street
seems perfectly respectable.

440
00:33:15,159 --> 00:33:16,994
Yes, but it's
not fashionable.

441
00:33:17,078 --> 00:33:18,203
Fashionable?

442
00:33:18,287 --> 00:33:20,956
Is fashion such
a serious consideration?

443
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,584
Among people who have nothing
more serious to consider.

444
00:33:27,255 --> 00:33:29,715
Perhaps I've been
too independent.

445
00:33:32,051 --> 00:33:35,429
All I really want is to
feel cared for and safe.

446
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,686
Thank you. The van der
Luydens do nothing by halves.

447
00:33:42,770 --> 00:33:45,814
All New York laid itself
out for you last night.

448
00:33:45,898 --> 00:33:49,192
It was so kind.
Such a nice party.

449
00:33:49,277 --> 00:33:50,777
Cream or lemon?

450
00:33:51,738 --> 00:33:52,738
Um...

451
00:33:53,281 --> 00:33:54,364
Lemon, please.

452
00:33:54,449 --> 00:33:58,660
The van der Luydens are the most
powerful influence in New York society.

453
00:33:58,745 --> 00:34:02,330
They very seldom receive because
of Cousin Louisa's health.

454
00:34:02,415 --> 00:34:04,791
Perhaps that's
the reason then.

455
00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:06,168
Thank you.
"The reason"?

456
00:34:06,252 --> 00:34:09,463
For their influence. They
make themselves so rare.

457
00:34:10,673 --> 00:34:13,091
But, of course,
you must tell me.

458
00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:15,594
No, it's you telling me.

459
00:34:19,182 --> 00:34:22,184
Thank you. Then we can
both help each other.

460
00:34:22,268 --> 00:34:24,686
But I need help
so much more.

461
00:34:25,521 --> 00:34:30,025
There are so many people all
ready to tell you what to do.

462
00:34:33,154 --> 00:34:37,407
I think they're all a little angry
with me for setting up for myself.

463
00:34:37,492 --> 00:34:41,036
Still your family can
advise you, show you the way.

464
00:34:42,330 --> 00:34:44,164
Is New York
such a labyrinth?

465
00:34:44,248 --> 00:34:48,627
I thought it was all straight
up and down, like Fifth Avenue.

466
00:34:48,711 --> 00:34:51,254
All the cross
streets numbered,

467
00:34:51,339 --> 00:34:53,090
and big, honest labels
on everything.

468
00:34:53,174 --> 00:34:56,635
Everything is labelled,
but everybody is not.

469
00:35:00,598 --> 00:35:02,808
Then I must count on
you for warnings, too.

470
00:35:02,934 --> 00:35:05,811
All the older women like and
admire you. They want to help.

471
00:35:05,895 --> 00:35:09,815
I know. I know, as long as they
don't hear anything unpleasant.

472
00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:15,779
Does no one here want to
know the truth, Mr Archer?

473
00:35:15,863 --> 00:35:18,782
The real loneliness is living
among all these kind people

474
00:35:18,866 --> 00:35:21,326
who only ask
you to pretend.

475
00:35:26,082 --> 00:35:27,874
No, no, you mustn't.

476
00:35:29,877 --> 00:35:31,336
Madame Olenska.

477
00:35:34,924 --> 00:35:36,007
Ellen.

478
00:35:39,137 --> 00:35:40,887
Does no one
cry here either?

479
00:35:41,472 --> 00:35:43,682
I suppose
there's no need to.

480
00:36:00,575 --> 00:36:02,367
MAN: Oh, Mr Archer,
good evening.

481
00:36:02,451 --> 00:36:04,536
We didn't see you
this morning

482
00:36:04,620 --> 00:36:06,997
and we weren't sure whether to
send Miss Welland the usual...

483
00:36:07,081 --> 00:36:10,125
Lilies-of-the-valley. Yes, I think
we better make that a standing order.

484
00:36:10,209 --> 00:36:11,585
Very good, sir.

485
00:36:15,715 --> 00:36:20,010
And those yellow roses.
I'll give you another address.

486
00:36:20,094 --> 00:36:21,094
Very good.

487
00:36:25,016 --> 00:36:26,099
George!

488
00:36:28,144 --> 00:36:30,478
Mr Archer,
two separate orders.

489
00:36:35,776 --> 00:36:36,860
They'll go at once?

490
00:36:36,944 --> 00:36:37,986
At once, sir.

491
00:36:57,298 --> 00:36:58,882
MAY: It's wonderful
to wake every morning

492
00:36:58,966 --> 00:37:00,550
with lilies-of-the-valley
in my room.

493
00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:01,885
It's like being with you.

494
00:37:01,969 --> 00:37:03,178
They came late
yesterday, I know.

495
00:37:03,262 --> 00:37:04,971
Somehow the time
got away from me.

496
00:37:05,556 --> 00:37:07,724
But still
you always remember.

497
00:37:07,808 --> 00:37:10,852
I sent some roses to your Cousin
Ellen, too. Was that right?

498
00:37:10,937 --> 00:37:15,106
Very right. She didn't mention
it at lunch today though.

499
00:37:15,191 --> 00:37:18,151
She said she got some wonderful
orchids from Mr Beaufort,

500
00:37:18,236 --> 00:37:19,402
and a whole
hamper of carnations

501
00:37:19,487 --> 00:37:21,238
from Cousin
Henry van der Luyden.

502
00:37:21,906 --> 00:37:24,199
She was
so very delighted.

503
00:37:24,325 --> 00:37:27,327
Don't people send flowers
in Europe? (SQUAWKING)

504
00:37:27,411 --> 00:37:29,829
I know you do
consider it a long time.

505
00:37:29,914 --> 00:37:30,956
Very long.

506
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,041
But the Chiverses were
engaged for a year and a half.

507
00:37:33,125 --> 00:37:35,585
Larry Lefferts and Gertrude
were engaged for two.

508
00:37:35,836 --> 00:37:38,255
I'm sure Mamma expects
something customary.

509
00:37:38,339 --> 00:37:40,173
Ever since you were little, your
parents let you have your way.

510
00:37:40,258 --> 00:37:43,343
You're almost 22. Just tell
your mother what you want.

511
00:37:43,511 --> 00:37:45,262
I couldn't refuse
her the very last thing

512
00:37:45,346 --> 00:37:47,097
she'd ask of me
as a little girl.

513
00:37:47,181 --> 00:37:49,849
Can't we just strike
out for ourselves, May?

514
00:37:51,811 --> 00:37:53,520
Shall we elope?

515
00:37:54,021 --> 00:37:56,022
Well, if you would,
why not?

516
00:37:57,275 --> 00:38:00,443
You do love me, Newland.
I'm so happy.

517
00:38:00,528 --> 00:38:02,612
Well, why not be happier?

518
00:38:02,697 --> 00:38:05,156
I couldn't be happier,
dearest.

519
00:38:05,241 --> 00:38:07,284
Did I tell you
I showed Ellen the ring?

520
00:38:07,368 --> 00:38:09,911
She thought it was the most
beautiful setting she ever saw.

521
00:38:09,996 --> 00:38:13,581
She said there was nothing
like it in the Rue de la Paix.

522
00:38:15,001 --> 00:38:17,002
I do love you, Newland.

523
00:38:17,378 --> 00:38:19,713
Everything you do
is so special.

524
00:38:21,549 --> 00:38:25,135
MR LETTERBLAIR: I want to call on your
legaI skills for a rather delicate matter.

525
00:38:25,219 --> 00:38:28,054
Countess Olenska wants to
sue her husband for divorce.

526
00:38:28,264 --> 00:38:32,350
It's been suggested she means to
marry again, although she denies it.

527
00:38:32,435 --> 00:38:35,645
Because of... I beg your pardon,
sir, but because of my engagement,

528
00:38:35,855 --> 00:38:39,482
perhaps one of the other members of
the firm could consider this matter.

529
00:38:39,608 --> 00:38:42,235
But precisely because of
your prospective alliance,

530
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:43,737
and considering
that several members

531
00:38:43,821 --> 00:38:45,989
of the family have
already asked for you,

532
00:38:46,073 --> 00:38:47,407
I'd like you to
consider the case.

533
00:38:47,491 --> 00:38:51,911
It's a family matter. Perhaps
it's best settled by the family.

534
00:38:51,996 --> 00:38:53,413
Their position is clear.

535
00:38:53,539 --> 00:38:57,709
They're entirely and
rightly against a divorce.

536
00:38:57,918 --> 00:39:02,005
But Countess Olenska still
insists on a legal opinion.

537
00:39:02,089 --> 00:39:04,966
But really, what's
the use of a divorce?

538
00:39:05,051 --> 00:39:07,802
She's here. He's there.

539
00:39:08,012 --> 00:39:10,513
The whole Atlantic's
between them.

540
00:39:10,598 --> 00:39:14,434
As things go,
Olenski's acted generously.

541
00:39:14,518 --> 00:39:18,188
He's already returned some of
the money without being asked.

542
00:39:18,272 --> 00:39:20,607
She'll never get
a dollar more than that.

543
00:39:20,941 --> 00:39:24,861
Although I understand she attaches
no importance to the money.

544
00:39:25,613 --> 00:39:29,908
Considering all that, the wisest thing
really, is to do as the family say.

545
00:39:31,619 --> 00:39:33,745
Just let well enough alone.

546
00:39:37,625 --> 00:39:40,043
I think that's
for her to decide.

547
00:39:45,549 --> 00:39:47,759
Have you considered
the consequences

548
00:39:47,843 --> 00:39:49,928
if the Countess
decides for divorce?

549
00:39:50,012 --> 00:39:51,888
The consequences
for the Countess?

550
00:39:51,972 --> 00:39:53,264
For everyone.

551
00:39:53,349 --> 00:39:55,642
I don't think the
Count's accusations amount

552
00:39:55,768 --> 00:39:58,061
to anything more
than vague charges.

553
00:39:58,145 --> 00:40:00,271
It will make
for some talk.

554
00:40:00,356 --> 00:40:03,358
Well, I have heard talk about
the Countess and the secretary.

555
00:40:03,442 --> 00:40:05,443
I heard it even before
I read the legal papers.

556
00:40:05,820 --> 00:40:07,654
It's certain
to be unpleasant.

557
00:40:08,614 --> 00:40:09,864
Unpleasant?

558
00:40:10,491 --> 00:40:13,827
Divorce is always
unpleasant. Don't you agree?

559
00:40:16,163 --> 00:40:17,205
Naturally.

560
00:40:17,289 --> 00:40:18,748
Then I can count on you?

561
00:40:18,833 --> 00:40:20,875
The family
can count on you.

562
00:40:21,085 --> 00:40:23,336
You will use your
influence against a divorce?

563
00:40:24,088 --> 00:40:27,674
I can't promise that, not until
I've talked to the Countess.

564
00:40:28,926 --> 00:40:30,677
I don't understand
you, Mr Archer.

565
00:40:31,345 --> 00:40:32,554
You want to
marry into a family

566
00:40:32,638 --> 00:40:36,015
with a scandalous divorce
suit hanging over it?

567
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:40,061
I don't think that has
anything to do with the case.

568
00:40:40,354 --> 00:40:43,731
Can someone take this for me
to the Countess, please?

569
00:40:49,405 --> 00:40:50,738
Thank you.

570
00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:55,285
MAN: You refuse such an
invitation on threat of death.

571
00:40:55,369 --> 00:40:56,661
ELLEN: Is it so bad?

572
00:40:56,745 --> 00:40:59,080
MAN: Not if you have
a taste for slow agony.

573
00:40:59,165 --> 00:41:00,957
ELLEN: That's something
I've neglected to cultivate.

574
00:41:01,041 --> 00:41:03,376
MAN: Three days at Skuytercliff
with the van der Luydens.

575
00:41:03,711 --> 00:41:05,336
I think you better take your
fur and a hot water bottle.

576
00:41:05,421 --> 00:41:06,796
Is the house that cold?

577
00:41:06,881 --> 00:41:08,089
No, but Louisa is.

578
00:41:08,174 --> 00:41:09,507
Mr Archer.

579
00:41:09,592 --> 00:41:11,968
Join me at Delmonico's
on Sunday instead.

580
00:41:12,052 --> 00:41:15,013
I'm having a nice oyster
supper in your honour.

581
00:41:15,097 --> 00:41:18,433
Private room, congenial
company. Artists and so on.

582
00:41:18,517 --> 00:41:19,976
That's very tempting.
I haven't met

583
00:41:20,060 --> 00:41:21,811
a single artist
since I've been here.

584
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.

585
00:41:25,733 --> 00:41:28,651
Painters? Are there any
painters in New York?

586
00:41:29,069 --> 00:41:32,322
Thank you, but I was
really thinking of singers,

587
00:41:32,406 --> 00:41:35,158
actors, musicians,
dramatic artists.

588
00:41:36,368 --> 00:41:39,329
There were always so many
at my husband's house.

589
00:41:39,455 --> 00:41:41,498
May I write tomorrow
and let you know?

590
00:41:41,582 --> 00:41:43,791
It's too late to
decide this evening.

591
00:41:43,876 --> 00:41:46,294
Is this late?
Yes.

592
00:41:46,378 --> 00:41:49,797
Because I still have to
talk business with Mr Archer.

593
00:41:49,882 --> 00:41:50,882
Ah.

594
00:41:54,637 --> 00:41:57,263
Of course, Newland, if you
can persuade the Countess

595
00:41:57,348 --> 00:42:01,267
to change her mind about
Sunday, you can join us, too.

596
00:42:03,771 --> 00:42:06,689
You know painters then?
You live in their milieu?

597
00:42:06,774 --> 00:42:08,191
Not exactly.

598
00:42:08,275 --> 00:42:09,943
But you care
about such things?

599
00:42:10,027 --> 00:42:13,821
Immensely. When I'm in Paris or
London, I never miss an exhibition.

600
00:42:13,906 --> 00:42:15,573
I try to keep up.

601
00:42:15,658 --> 00:42:17,283
I used to care
immensely, too.

602
00:42:17,368 --> 00:42:19,827
My life was full
of such things,

603
00:42:19,912 --> 00:42:25,291
but now I want to cast off all my
old life to become a complete American

604
00:42:25,376 --> 00:42:27,335
and try to be
like everybody else.

605
00:42:28,504 --> 00:42:31,381
I don't think you'll ever
quite be like everybody else.

606
00:42:31,465 --> 00:42:32,715
Don't say that
to me, please.

607
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,884
I just want to put all
the old things behind me.

608
00:42:34,969 --> 00:42:36,052
I know.

609
00:42:36,845 --> 00:42:38,805
Mr Letterblair told me.

610
00:42:39,848 --> 00:42:41,474
Mr Letterblair?

611
00:42:42,184 --> 00:42:45,603
Yes, I've... I've come because
he asked me to. I'm in the firm.

612
00:42:46,814 --> 00:42:50,233
You mean it'll be you who'll
manage everything for me?

613
00:42:50,317 --> 00:42:51,943
I can talk to you.
That's so much easier.

614
00:42:52,027 --> 00:42:54,070
Yes, I'm here
to talk about it.

615
00:42:54,154 --> 00:42:56,406
I've read all
the legal papers.

616
00:42:57,658 --> 00:43:00,660
And the letter
from the Count.

617
00:43:05,958 --> 00:43:07,333
It was vile.

618
00:43:08,669 --> 00:43:10,253
But if he chooses
to fight the case,

619
00:43:10,337 --> 00:43:12,839
he can say things
that might be...

620
00:43:13,799 --> 00:43:14,799
Uh...

621
00:43:17,886 --> 00:43:19,262
That might be
disagreeable to you.

622
00:43:19,346 --> 00:43:23,349
And say them publicly, so that
they could be damaging even if...

623
00:43:25,227 --> 00:43:26,269
If?

624
00:43:29,023 --> 00:43:31,190
Even if they were unfounded.

625
00:43:33,611 --> 00:43:36,821
What harm could accusations
like that do me here?

626
00:43:37,698 --> 00:43:40,783
Perhaps more harm
than anywhere else.

627
00:43:40,868 --> 00:43:44,704
Our legislation favours divorce,
but our social customs don't.

628
00:43:46,874 --> 00:43:48,082
Never?

629
00:43:48,167 --> 00:43:50,335
Well, not if the woman

630
00:43:50,711 --> 00:43:55,089
has appearances in the
least degree against her,

631
00:43:55,174 --> 00:43:59,636
has exposed herself by any
unconventional behaviour,

632
00:44:00,554 --> 00:44:05,016
to offensive
insinuations and...

633
00:44:06,268 --> 00:44:08,686
Yes, so my family
tell me.

634
00:44:12,566 --> 00:44:15,193
Our family.
You'll be my cousin soon.

635
00:44:18,364 --> 00:44:20,615
And you agree with them?

636
00:44:30,584 --> 00:44:33,920
What could you possibly gain that
would make up for the scandal?

637
00:44:36,507 --> 00:44:37,882
My freedom.

638
00:44:39,802 --> 00:44:41,886
But aren't you
free already?

639
00:44:44,848 --> 00:44:46,933
It's my business to help you
see these things just the way

640
00:44:47,017 --> 00:44:49,185
the people who are
fondest of you see them,

641
00:44:49,311 --> 00:44:51,521
all your
friends and relations.

642
00:44:51,605 --> 00:44:54,691
If I didn't show you honestly
how they judge such matters,

643
00:44:54,775 --> 00:44:56,484
it wouldn't be
fair of me, would it?

644
00:44:59,780 --> 00:45:01,739
No, it wouldn't be fair.

645
00:45:09,748 --> 00:45:11,416
Very well. I'll...

646
00:45:12,876 --> 00:45:14,419
Do as you wish.

647
00:45:17,339 --> 00:45:18,631
I...

648
00:45:20,134 --> 00:45:21,592
I do want to help you.

649
00:45:22,094 --> 00:45:23,761
You do help me.

650
00:45:28,475 --> 00:45:30,226
Good night, cousin.

651
00:45:45,993 --> 00:45:48,369
MAN: For mercy's sake,
don't cry so bitterly.

652
00:45:48,454 --> 00:45:49,912
Forget what I've done.

653
00:45:49,997 --> 00:45:51,497
WOMAN: On one condition.

654
00:45:52,291 --> 00:45:54,792
I accept it,
whatever it may be.

655
00:45:56,003 --> 00:45:58,921
Never speak a word
of love to me again!

656
00:45:59,006 --> 00:46:00,173
Never!

657
00:46:05,971 --> 00:46:07,346
On my honour.

658
00:46:28,535 --> 00:46:30,203
Heaven bless you.

659
00:46:47,846 --> 00:46:49,096
Farewell.

660
00:46:54,853 --> 00:46:56,103
(SOBBING)

661
00:47:22,756 --> 00:47:25,675
It's fascinating.
Every season, the same play,

662
00:47:25,759 --> 00:47:28,219
the same scene, the same
effect on the audience.

663
00:47:28,303 --> 00:47:30,221
Remarkable,
isn't it, Newland?

664
00:47:30,305 --> 00:47:32,723
I'm enjoying it even more
than the London production.

665
00:47:32,808 --> 00:47:35,726
You see this play
even when you travel?

666
00:47:35,811 --> 00:47:36,936
I travel to get
away from it.

667
00:47:37,104 --> 00:47:38,229
So was it a dinner?

668
00:47:38,313 --> 00:47:40,648
It was a reception
at Mrs Struthers'

669
00:47:40,732 --> 00:47:43,776
given on the Lord's Day
but with champagne

670
00:47:43,861 --> 00:47:45,903
and singing from
the table tops.

671
00:47:45,988 --> 00:47:48,030
People say
there was dancing.

672
00:47:48,115 --> 00:47:50,032
It was a real
French Sunday then?

673
00:47:50,117 --> 00:47:54,370
Well, dissipation can be wonderfully
energising in the early stages...

674
00:47:58,625 --> 00:48:00,334
Do you think
her lover will send her

675
00:48:00,419 --> 00:48:02,628
a box of yellow roses
tomorrow morning?

676
00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:12,930
I...

677
00:48:13,015 --> 00:48:15,308
I was thinking
about that, too.

678
00:48:18,312 --> 00:48:20,062
The farewell scene.

679
00:48:22,399 --> 00:48:23,816
Yes, I know.

680
00:48:25,152 --> 00:48:26,569
It touches me as well.

681
00:48:26,653 --> 00:48:28,988
I usually leave
the theatre after that scene

682
00:48:29,114 --> 00:48:31,407
to take the picture
away with me.

683
00:48:36,830 --> 00:48:40,041
I had a letter from
May from St Augustine.

684
00:48:40,125 --> 00:48:42,209
They always spend
the winter there,

685
00:48:42,294 --> 00:48:44,545
on account of her
mother's bronchitis.

686
00:48:47,215 --> 00:48:49,842
And what do you do
while May is away?

687
00:48:54,932 --> 00:48:56,390
I do my work.

688
00:49:07,945 --> 00:49:11,572
I do want you to know what
you advised me was right.

689
00:49:12,824 --> 00:49:18,120
Things can be so difficult
sometimes, and I'm so grateful.

690
00:49:32,552 --> 00:49:35,888
NARRATOR: The next day Newland
Archer searched the city in vain

691
00:49:35,973 --> 00:49:37,807
for yellow roses.

692
00:49:37,933 --> 00:49:40,601
From his office, he sent
a note to Madame Olenska

693
00:49:40,686 --> 00:49:42,812
asking to call that afternoon,

694
00:49:42,896 --> 00:49:46,232
and requesting
reply by messenger.

695
00:49:46,316 --> 00:49:49,694
There was no reply
that day or the next.

696
00:49:50,445 --> 00:49:55,241
And when yellow roses were again
available, Archer passed them by.

697
00:49:56,702 --> 00:50:00,329
It was only on the third day
that he heard from her by post,

698
00:50:00,414 --> 00:50:02,957
from the van der
Luydens' country home.

699
00:50:03,041 --> 00:50:08,170
"Newland, I ran away the day
after I saw you at the play,

700
00:50:08,255 --> 00:50:10,506
"and these kind friends
have taken me in.

701
00:50:10,590 --> 00:50:14,218
"I wanted to be quiet
and think things over.

702
00:50:14,302 --> 00:50:18,222
"I feel so safe here.
I wish that you were with us.

703
00:50:18,306 --> 00:50:20,057
"Yours sincerely. "

704
00:50:23,770 --> 00:50:26,355
He had received an invitation
from the Lefferts

705
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:30,860
for a weekend on the Hudson, and he
hoped it was not too late to reply.

706
00:50:30,944 --> 00:50:34,238
Their house was not far
from the van der Luydens'.

707
00:50:48,170 --> 00:50:50,838
I came to see what you
were running away from.

708
00:50:52,674 --> 00:50:53,883
I knew you'd come.

709
00:50:53,967 --> 00:50:55,426
That shows
you wanted me to.

710
00:50:55,510 --> 00:50:57,803
Cousin May wrote. She asked
you to take care of me.

711
00:50:57,888 --> 00:50:58,971
I didn't need to be asked.

712
00:50:59,097 --> 00:51:00,097
Why?

713
00:51:00,182 --> 00:51:02,892
Does that mean I'm so
helpless and defenceless?

714
00:51:02,976 --> 00:51:06,020
Or that women here are so
blessed, they never feel need?

715
00:51:06,104 --> 00:51:07,521
What sort of need?

716
00:51:07,606 --> 00:51:08,981
Oh, please don't ask me.

717
00:51:09,066 --> 00:51:11,067
I don't speak your language.

718
00:51:14,279 --> 00:51:18,407
Henry left the old Patroon house
open for me. I want you to see it.

719
00:51:27,834 --> 00:51:30,336
When you wrote me,
you were unhappy.

720
00:51:31,338 --> 00:51:34,465
Yes, but I can't feel
unhappy when you're here.

721
00:51:42,974 --> 00:51:44,809
I shan't be here long.

722
00:51:44,893 --> 00:51:46,143
I know.

723
00:51:46,228 --> 00:51:49,730
Ellen, if you really
wanted me to come,

724
00:51:52,651 --> 00:51:54,693
if I'm really
to help you,

725
00:51:58,365 --> 00:52:01,200
you must tell me what
you're running from.

726
00:52:50,208 --> 00:52:52,751
Is he what you
were running from?

727
00:52:55,088 --> 00:52:57,256
Or what you expected? I
didn't know he was here.

728
00:53:02,554 --> 00:53:04,180
Hello, Beaufort.
This way.

729
00:53:04,264 --> 00:53:06,557
Madame Olenska
was expecting you.

730
00:53:06,641 --> 00:53:07,683
Hello.

731
00:53:07,767 --> 00:53:10,728
Well, you've certainly
led me on a bit of a chase.

732
00:53:12,355 --> 00:53:13,355
(CHUCKLES)

733
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:17,234
All this way just to tell you I'd
found the perfect little house for you.

734
00:53:17,319 --> 00:53:18,319
Oh.

735
00:53:18,904 --> 00:53:22,072
It's not on the market yet,
so you must take it at once.

736
00:53:23,325 --> 00:53:25,951
Well, Archer, rusticating?

737
00:53:33,752 --> 00:53:36,712
NARRATOR: That night he did
not take the customary comfort

738
00:53:36,796 --> 00:53:40,007
in his monthly shipment
of books from London.

739
00:53:40,091 --> 00:53:44,261
The taste of the usual
was like cinders in his mouth.

740
00:53:44,346 --> 00:53:45,846
And there were
moments when he felt

741
00:53:45,931 --> 00:53:49,141
as if he were being buried
alive under his future.

742
00:53:52,687 --> 00:53:55,522
"Newland, come late tomorrow.
I must explain to you.

743
00:53:55,607 --> 00:53:56,815
"Ellen. "

744
00:54:20,590 --> 00:54:23,968
Newland.
Has anything happened?

745
00:54:24,052 --> 00:54:26,679
Yes. I found
I had to see you.

746
00:54:32,352 --> 00:54:34,520
What is it?
Nothing.

747
00:54:37,190 --> 00:54:39,525
So tell me what
you do all day.

748
00:54:41,361 --> 00:54:44,113
Well, uh, there are a few
very pleasant people

749
00:54:44,197 --> 00:54:48,284
from Philadelphia and Baltimore
who are picnicking at the inn,

750
00:54:48,368 --> 00:54:51,370
and the Merrys are setting
up a lawn tennis court,

751
00:54:51,454 --> 00:54:54,915
but nobody here's really
heard of the game yet.

752
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:56,292
I have my racket,
of course,

753
00:54:56,376 --> 00:55:00,796
and so does Kate Merry, but she's
had this terrible case of bronchitis.

754
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,799
She's still not quite
got over it yet, so...

755
00:55:07,846 --> 00:55:10,306
But I thought...
I came here because I thought

756
00:55:10,390 --> 00:55:13,934
I could persuade you
to break away from all that,

757
00:55:14,019 --> 00:55:16,061
to advance our engagement.

758
00:55:17,897 --> 00:55:21,317
Don't you understand
how much I want to marry you?

759
00:55:21,401 --> 00:55:23,902
Why should we dream
away another year?

760
00:55:23,987 --> 00:55:25,988
I'm not sure I do
understand, Newland.

761
00:55:28,908 --> 00:55:30,284
Is it because
you're not certain

762
00:55:30,368 --> 00:55:32,369
of feeling
the same way about me?

763
00:55:34,122 --> 00:55:35,581
What on earth
do you mean?

764
00:55:37,208 --> 00:55:39,084
Is there someone else?

765
00:55:40,170 --> 00:55:41,628
Someone else?

766
00:55:42,547 --> 00:55:44,256
Between you and me?

767
00:55:46,468 --> 00:55:48,927
Let's talk
frankly, Newland.

768
00:55:49,012 --> 00:55:52,014
I've felt a difference in you,
especially since our engagement.

769
00:55:52,098 --> 00:55:53,140
Since our engagement?

770
00:55:53,224 --> 00:55:55,309
If it's untrue, then it
won't hurt to talk about it.

771
00:55:55,393 --> 00:55:57,686
And if it is true, then why
shouldn't we talk about it now?

772
00:55:57,771 --> 00:55:59,855
I mean, you might
have made a mistake.

773
00:55:59,939 --> 00:56:02,316
If I'd made some sort of a
mistake, would I be down here,

774
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:04,193
asking you to
hurry our marriage?

775
00:56:04,361 --> 00:56:07,029
I don't know.
You might.

776
00:56:07,113 --> 00:56:09,531
It would be one way
to settle the question.

777
00:56:13,620 --> 00:56:16,163
In Newport, two years ago,

778
00:56:16,247 --> 00:56:18,916
before we were promised,

779
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,460
everyone said there was
someone else for you.

780
00:56:21,628 --> 00:56:23,253
I even saw you
with her once,

781
00:56:23,338 --> 00:56:25,589
sitting together on
a veranda at a dance.

782
00:56:26,091 --> 00:56:29,218
When she came into the
house, her face looked so sad.

783
00:56:29,302 --> 00:56:33,055
I felt sorry for her, and even
after, when we were engaged,

784
00:56:33,139 --> 00:56:35,140
I could still see
how she looked and...

785
00:56:35,642 --> 00:56:38,936
Is that... Is that all
you've been concerned about?

786
00:56:40,897 --> 00:56:42,940
It's long passed.

787
00:56:46,236 --> 00:56:48,112
Then is there
something else?

788
00:56:48,196 --> 00:56:51,156
No. Of course not.

789
00:56:53,535 --> 00:56:56,286
Whatever it may have been,
Newland, I can't have my happiness

790
00:56:56,371 --> 00:56:58,789
made out of a wrong
to somebody else.

791
00:56:58,873 --> 00:57:00,666
If promises were made,
or if you feel

792
00:57:00,834 --> 00:57:02,584
in some way
pledged to this person,

793
00:57:02,669 --> 00:57:04,753
even if it means
her getting a divorce,

794
00:57:04,838 --> 00:57:07,423
then, Newland, don't
give her up because of me.

795
00:57:07,507 --> 00:57:08,882
There are no pledges.

796
00:57:09,342 --> 00:57:11,760
There are no
promises that matter.

797
00:57:13,221 --> 00:57:14,430
That's all I've
been trying to say.

798
00:57:14,514 --> 00:57:18,183
There is no one between us.
There is nothing between us, May.

799
00:57:20,979 --> 00:57:24,231
Which is precisely my
argument for getting married.

800
00:57:25,358 --> 00:57:26,608
Quickly.

801
00:57:33,575 --> 00:57:38,537
NARRATOR: He could feeI her dropping
back to inexpressive girlishness.

802
00:57:38,621 --> 00:57:41,707
Her conscience had been
eased of its burden.

803
00:57:41,791 --> 00:57:45,627
It was wonderfuI, he thought,
how such depths of feeling

804
00:57:45,712 --> 00:57:49,506
could coexist with such
an absence of imagination.

805
00:57:51,092 --> 00:57:52,092
Mmm-hmm.

806
00:57:52,385 --> 00:57:54,636
And did you succeed?
NEWLAND: No.

807
00:57:55,180 --> 00:57:58,015
No, I'd still like to be
married in April, with your help.

808
00:57:58,099 --> 00:58:00,392
Now you're seeing
the Mingott way.

809
00:58:00,477 --> 00:58:02,060
Is this really
so difficult?

810
00:58:02,145 --> 00:58:04,521
The entire
family is difficult.

811
00:58:04,606 --> 00:58:06,482
Not one of them
wants to be different.

812
00:58:06,566 --> 00:58:09,276
When they are different, they
end up like Ellen's parents.

813
00:58:09,486 --> 00:58:12,154
Nomads,
continental wanderers.

814
00:58:12,238 --> 00:58:14,323
Dragging Ellen about,

815
00:58:14,574 --> 00:58:17,951
lavishing on her an expensive,
but incoherent education.

816
00:58:18,953 --> 00:58:20,704
Out of all of them,
I don't believe there's one

817
00:58:20,788 --> 00:58:24,374
that takes after me
but my little Ellen.

818
00:58:24,459 --> 00:58:26,210
You've got a quick eye.

819
00:58:26,294 --> 00:58:28,754
Why in the world
didn't you marry her?

820
00:58:31,841 --> 00:58:33,884
Well, for one thing, she
wasn't there to be married.

821
00:58:33,968 --> 00:58:36,303
(LAUGHS) No, to be sure.

822
00:58:37,305 --> 00:58:41,308
And she's still not.
The Count, you know.

823
00:58:41,392 --> 00:58:43,352
He's written to
Mr Letterblair.

824
00:58:44,979 --> 00:58:48,649
He wants her back,
on her own terms.

825
00:58:49,734 --> 00:58:53,445
The Count doesn't defend
himself, I will say that.

826
00:58:53,530 --> 00:58:57,449
And Ellen will be losing a
great deal if she stayed here.

827
00:58:57,534 --> 00:58:59,159
There's her old life,

828
00:58:59,244 --> 00:59:03,872
gardens at Nice, jewels, of
course, music and conversation.

829
00:59:03,957 --> 00:59:07,042
She says she goes
unnoticed in Europe,

830
00:59:07,126 --> 00:59:10,587
but I know her portrait's
been painted nine times.

831
00:59:11,798 --> 00:59:15,634
All this, and the remorse
of a guilty husband.

832
00:59:15,718 --> 00:59:17,678
I'd rather see her dead.

833
00:59:18,846 --> 00:59:19,930
Would you really?

834
00:59:21,474 --> 00:59:25,269
We should remember marriage is
marriage, and Ellen is still a wife.

835
00:59:25,353 --> 00:59:26,353
(DOOR OPENS)

836
00:59:27,063 --> 00:59:29,565
Ellen! See who's here!

837
00:59:30,567 --> 00:59:32,192
Yes, I know. I...

838
00:59:32,277 --> 00:59:35,529
I went to see your mother
to ask where you've gone.

839
00:59:36,990 --> 00:59:41,243
Since you never answered my note,
I was afraid you might be ill.

840
00:59:41,327 --> 00:59:43,870
Well, he was in such a rush
to get married, that's why.

841
00:59:44,122 --> 00:59:45,914
Fresh off the train,
and straight here.

842
00:59:45,999 --> 00:59:48,083
He wants me to
use all my influence

843
00:59:48,167 --> 00:59:50,294
just to marry his
sweetheart sooner.

844
00:59:52,672 --> 00:59:55,591
Well, surely, Granny,
between us,

845
00:59:55,675 --> 00:59:58,218
we can persuade the Wellands
to do as he wishes.

846
00:59:58,595 --> 01:00:01,638
There, Newland, you see? Right to
the quick of the problem, like me.

847
01:00:01,973 --> 01:00:04,141
I told him he
should have married you.

848
01:00:05,435 --> 01:00:07,603
And what did he say?

849
01:00:07,687 --> 01:00:11,189
Oh, my darling, I leave
you to find that out.

850
01:00:18,281 --> 01:00:19,865
I wish I didn't
have to leave.

851
01:00:19,949 --> 01:00:21,867
I shall see you
very soon, I hope.

852
01:00:21,951 --> 01:00:23,076
Fine.

853
01:00:24,621 --> 01:00:26,246
I'll see you out.

854
01:00:28,041 --> 01:00:29,791
When can I see you?

855
01:00:46,309 --> 01:00:47,309
(THUDDING)

856
01:00:48,102 --> 01:00:52,022
ELLEN: The Struthers are
sending the carriage at 7:00.

857
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:54,149
(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

858
01:00:56,653 --> 01:00:57,653
Good evening.

859
01:00:59,530 --> 01:01:01,657
Who's ridiculous enough
to send me a bouquet?

860
01:01:01,741 --> 01:01:04,493
I'm not going to a ball,
and I'm not engaged.

861
01:01:04,577 --> 01:01:05,827
Nastasia!

862
01:01:05,912 --> 01:01:08,038
Some people are
always ridiculous.

863
01:01:08,122 --> 01:01:10,374
Take these to that nice
family down the street.

864
01:01:10,458 --> 01:01:12,209
(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

865
01:01:13,753 --> 01:01:15,921
(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

866
01:01:17,340 --> 01:01:20,425
Well, I'll tell you, in
almost everything she says,

867
01:01:20,510 --> 01:01:23,637
there's something true
and something untrue.

868
01:01:24,263 --> 01:01:27,224
Why? What has Granny
been telling you?

869
01:01:28,768 --> 01:01:31,728
I think she believes you
might go back to your husband.

870
01:01:34,941 --> 01:01:37,484
I think she believes you
might at least consider it.

871
01:01:37,568 --> 01:01:40,362
A lot of things have
been believed of me.

872
01:01:42,031 --> 01:01:43,699
But if she thinks
I would consider it,

873
01:01:43,783 --> 01:01:46,660
that also means she
would consider it for me,

874
01:01:46,911 --> 01:01:50,997
as Granny is weighing your
idea of advancing the marriage.

875
01:02:01,592 --> 01:02:04,344
May and I had
a frank talk in Florida.

876
01:02:06,931 --> 01:02:08,765
It's probably our first.

877
01:02:10,643 --> 01:02:13,562
She wants a long engagement,
to give me time.

878
01:02:16,274 --> 01:02:17,774
Time for what?

879
01:02:19,444 --> 01:02:22,237
She thinks I want to
marry her at once...

880
01:02:23,406 --> 01:02:26,742
To get away from
someone that I care for

881
01:02:27,910 --> 01:02:28,910
more.

882
01:02:34,500 --> 01:02:37,127
Time to give her up
for another woman?

883
01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:40,380
If I want to.

884
01:02:42,091 --> 01:02:44,092
That's very noble.

885
01:02:44,177 --> 01:02:45,218
Yes.

886
01:02:46,262 --> 01:02:48,054
But it's ridiculous.

887
01:02:49,390 --> 01:02:50,390
Why?

888
01:02:51,601 --> 01:02:54,478
Because there is
no other woman?

889
01:02:54,562 --> 01:02:58,565
No. Because I don't mean
to marry anyone else.

890
01:03:06,407 --> 01:03:09,326
This other woman,
does she love you too?

891
01:03:09,410 --> 01:03:12,913
There is no other woman! The person
May was thinking of was never...

892
01:03:12,997 --> 01:03:14,539
(BELL DINGING)

893
01:03:15,291 --> 01:03:16,500
(CHATTERING)

894
01:03:21,589 --> 01:03:23,590
That must be
your carriage.

895
01:03:23,674 --> 01:03:24,925
Yes, I...

896
01:03:26,886 --> 01:03:29,387
I suppose I should
be leaving soon.

897
01:03:32,934 --> 01:03:34,684
To Mrs Struthers'?

898
01:03:36,646 --> 01:03:41,566
Yes. I must go where I'm invited,
or I should be too lonely.

899
01:03:47,073 --> 01:03:48,865
Why not come with me?

900
01:04:12,890 --> 01:04:14,766
May guessed the truth.

901
01:04:17,937 --> 01:04:19,855
There is another woman.

902
01:04:24,443 --> 01:04:26,611
Only, not the one
she thinks.

903
01:04:31,617 --> 01:04:33,910
Don't make love to me, too
many people have done that.

904
01:04:33,995 --> 01:04:35,203
I've never
made love to you.

905
01:04:35,288 --> 01:04:36,580
But you are the woman
I would've married

906
01:04:36,664 --> 01:04:37,998
if it had been
possible for either of us.

907
01:04:38,082 --> 01:04:40,083
You can say that when you're
the one who's made it impossible?

908
01:04:40,209 --> 01:04:43,169
I've made it? Isn't it you
who made me give up divorcing?

909
01:04:43,254 --> 01:04:45,547
Didn't you talk to me here,
in this house,

910
01:04:45,631 --> 01:04:48,216
about sacrifice
and sparing scandal?

911
01:04:48,593 --> 01:04:51,219
And for May's sake, and for
yours, I did what you asked me!

912
01:04:51,304 --> 01:04:53,179
There were things in
your husband's letter...

913
01:04:53,306 --> 01:04:56,099
I had nothing to fear from
that letter, absolutely nothing.

914
01:04:56,517 --> 01:05:00,270
I was just afraid of scandal
for the family and you and May.

915
01:05:05,651 --> 01:05:06,860
Ellen.

916
01:05:09,155 --> 01:05:10,322
Ellen.

917
01:05:11,949 --> 01:05:13,450
Nothing's...

918
01:05:14,201 --> 01:05:16,745
Nothing's done
that can't be undone.

919
01:05:17,538 --> 01:05:19,080
I'm still free.

920
01:05:22,001 --> 01:05:23,585
You can be, too.

921
01:05:25,504 --> 01:05:27,005
Please, Ellen.

922
01:06:06,462 --> 01:06:10,590
Lord, can I marry May now? Do
you see me marrying May now?

923
01:06:10,675 --> 01:06:13,051
I don't see you putting
that question to May, do you?

924
01:06:13,177 --> 01:06:15,971
But I have to. It's too
late to do anything else.

925
01:06:16,055 --> 01:06:18,640
You say that because it's the
easiest thing to say at this moment,

926
01:06:18,724 --> 01:06:20,225
not because it's true.

927
01:06:20,601 --> 01:06:21,977
I don't understand you.

928
01:06:22,061 --> 01:06:24,771
You don't understand
because you don't yet realise

929
01:06:24,855 --> 01:06:27,399
how you've
changed things for me.

930
01:06:27,483 --> 01:06:29,609
You don't know all
that you've done.

931
01:06:29,694 --> 01:06:30,735
All I've done?

932
01:06:30,820 --> 01:06:34,990
All the good things you've done
for me, Newland, that I never knew.

933
01:06:35,074 --> 01:06:38,827
Going to the van der Luydens'
because people refused to meet me.

934
01:06:38,911 --> 01:06:41,079
Announcing your engagement
at the ball so there would be

935
01:06:41,163 --> 01:06:44,541
two families standing
behind me instead of one.

936
01:06:45,251 --> 01:06:48,670
I never understood how
dreadful people thought I was.

937
01:06:48,754 --> 01:06:51,214
Granny blurted it out
one day.

938
01:06:51,298 --> 01:06:53,800
I was stupid.
I never thought...

939
01:06:53,884 --> 01:06:56,344
New York meant
freedom to me.

940
01:06:56,429 --> 01:07:00,306
Everyone seemed so kind,
and glad to see me.

941
01:07:02,268 --> 01:07:05,895
But they never knew
what it meant to be tempted,

942
01:07:05,980 --> 01:07:08,106
but you did,
you understood.

943
01:07:09,316 --> 01:07:11,443
I'd never known that before.

944
01:07:12,778 --> 01:07:15,613
And it's better than
anything I've known.

945
01:07:21,829 --> 01:07:25,290
Newland, you couldn't be
happy if it meant being cruel.

946
01:07:26,959 --> 01:07:28,168
If we act any other way,

947
01:07:28,252 --> 01:07:31,713
I'll be making you act against
what I love in you most.

948
01:07:33,049 --> 01:07:35,967
And I can't go back to
that way of thinking.

949
01:07:37,595 --> 01:07:41,014
Don't you see? I can't love
you, unless I give you up.

950
01:08:22,973 --> 01:08:25,683
"Ellen, Granny's
telegram was successful.

951
01:08:25,768 --> 01:08:29,646
"Grandma and Mamma agreed to
marriage after Easter, only a month.

952
01:08:29,730 --> 01:08:33,608
"I will telegraph Newland. I'm too
happy for words, and love you dearly.

953
01:08:33,692 --> 01:08:35,860
"Your grateful cousin, May. "

954
01:08:56,006 --> 01:08:58,883
NARRATOR: There had been wild
rumours right up to the wedding day

955
01:08:58,968 --> 01:09:02,345
that Mrs Mingott would
actually attend the ceremony.

956
01:09:03,430 --> 01:09:06,724
It was known that she had sent a
carpenter to measure the front pew,

957
01:09:06,809 --> 01:09:09,894
in case it might be altered
to accommodate her.

958
01:09:09,979 --> 01:09:14,440
But this idea, like the great lady
herself, proved to be unwieldy,

959
01:09:14,525 --> 01:09:17,694
and she settled for giving
the wedding-breakfast.

960
01:09:19,238 --> 01:09:21,990
The Countess Olenska
sent her regrets.

961
01:09:22,074 --> 01:09:24,325
She was
travelling with an aunt.

962
01:09:24,410 --> 01:09:29,164
But gave the bride and groom
an exquisite piece of old lace.

963
01:09:29,248 --> 01:09:33,668
Two elderly aunts in Rhinebeck
offered a honeymoon cottage.

964
01:09:33,752 --> 01:09:35,962
And, since it was
thought very English

965
01:09:36,046 --> 01:09:38,506
to have a country house
on loan,

966
01:09:38,883 --> 01:09:41,551
their offer was accepted.

967
01:09:41,635 --> 01:09:45,513
When the house proved suddenly
uninhabitable, however,

968
01:09:45,598 --> 01:09:49,017
Henry van der Luyden stepped
in to offer an old cottage

969
01:09:49,101 --> 01:09:52,353
on his property nearby.

970
01:09:52,438 --> 01:09:56,024
May accepted the offer
as a surprise for her husband.

971
01:09:56,108 --> 01:09:57,859
She'd never seen the house,

972
01:09:57,943 --> 01:10:00,570
but her cousin, Ellen,
had mentioned it once.

973
01:10:00,654 --> 01:10:03,823
She had said it was
the only house in America

974
01:10:03,908 --> 01:10:06,910
where she could imagine
being perfectly happy.

975
01:10:09,079 --> 01:10:13,708
They travelled to the expected
places, which May had never seen.

976
01:10:13,792 --> 01:10:16,628
In London,
Archer ordered his clothes.

977
01:10:16,712 --> 01:10:20,048
And they went to the National
Gallery, and sometimes to the theatre.

978
01:10:20,132 --> 01:10:22,217
I hope I don't
look ridiculous.

979
01:10:22,301 --> 01:10:25,053
I've never
dined out in London.

980
01:10:25,137 --> 01:10:28,389
English women dress just like everybody
else in the evening, don't they?

981
01:10:28,474 --> 01:10:30,683
How can you say that when
they're always at the theatre

982
01:10:30,768 --> 01:10:33,645
in old ball dresses
and bare heads?

983
01:10:33,729 --> 01:10:37,106
Well, maybe they save
their new dresses for home.

984
01:10:37,191 --> 01:10:38,399
Then I shouldn't
have worn this.

985
01:10:38,484 --> 01:10:40,902
No, you look very fine.

986
01:10:42,655 --> 01:10:44,572
Really quite beautiful.

987
01:10:50,829 --> 01:10:53,581
NARRATOR: In Paris,
she ordered her clothes.

988
01:10:53,666 --> 01:10:56,459
There were trunks
of dresses from Worth.

989
01:10:56,543 --> 01:10:58,670
They visited the Tuileries.

990
01:11:06,387 --> 01:11:10,848
May's hands were modelled
in marble at Roche's studio.

991
01:11:10,933 --> 01:11:13,351
And occasionally,
they dined out.

992
01:11:15,020 --> 01:11:16,437
(CHATTERING)

993
01:11:17,982 --> 01:11:19,399
But tell me. You were
saying that you were

994
01:11:19,483 --> 01:11:21,401
actually advised
here by Maupassant?

995
01:11:21,485 --> 01:11:25,613
Yes. Unfortunately,
I was advised not to write.

996
01:11:26,115 --> 01:11:27,282
(CHUCKLES)

997
01:11:29,201 --> 01:11:31,119
Archer embraced
his new marriage,

998
01:11:31,203 --> 01:11:35,581
even as he reverted to his old
inherited ideas about matrimony.

999
01:11:36,166 --> 01:11:39,794
It was less trouble to
conform with tradition.

1000
01:11:39,878 --> 01:11:42,463
There was no use
trying to emancipate a wife

1001
01:11:42,548 --> 01:11:45,300
who hadn't the dimmest notion
that she was not free.

1002
01:11:45,384 --> 01:11:46,426
When we were in London,

1003
01:11:46,510 --> 01:11:48,678
we could only manage
one day at the National.

1004
01:11:48,846 --> 01:11:52,098
We were taken up by a Mrs
Carfry and Mrs Harle...

1005
01:11:53,392 --> 01:11:55,935
We had an awfully good talk.
He's an interesting fellow.

1006
01:11:56,061 --> 01:11:59,230
We talked about books,
and many different things.

1007
01:12:00,816 --> 01:12:02,859
I thought I'd
invite him to dinner.

1008
01:12:02,943 --> 01:12:04,944
The Frenchman?
Yes.

1009
01:12:05,029 --> 01:12:06,988
I didn't have much
chance to talk to him,

1010
01:12:07,072 --> 01:12:09,866
but wasn't he
a little common?

1011
01:12:09,950 --> 01:12:11,159
Common?

1012
01:12:12,536 --> 01:12:15,121
I thought he was clever.

1013
01:12:15,205 --> 01:12:18,416
I suppose I shouldn't have
known if he was clever.

1014
01:12:22,379 --> 01:12:24,589
Then, I won't
ask him to dine.

1015
01:12:27,259 --> 01:12:30,845
With a chill,
he knew that in future,

1016
01:12:30,929 --> 01:12:34,974
many problems would be solved
for him in this same way.

1017
01:12:37,603 --> 01:12:39,729
The first six
months of marriage

1018
01:12:39,855 --> 01:12:41,898
were usually said
to be the hardest.

1019
01:12:41,982 --> 01:12:44,025
And after that,
he thought, they would have

1020
01:12:44,109 --> 01:12:48,029
pretty nearly finished polishing
down all the rough edges.

1021
01:12:48,113 --> 01:12:50,823
But May's pressure
was already wearing down

1022
01:12:50,908 --> 01:12:54,535
the very roughness
he most wanted to keep.

1023
01:12:54,620 --> 01:12:57,163
As for the madness
with Madame Olenska,

1024
01:12:57,247 --> 01:12:59,374
Archer trained
himself to remember it

1025
01:12:59,458 --> 01:13:03,294
as the last of his
discarded experiments.

1026
01:13:03,379 --> 01:13:07,382
She remained in his memory
simply as the most plaintive,

1027
01:13:07,466 --> 01:13:10,676
and poignant of
a line of ghosts.

1028
01:13:17,309 --> 01:13:18,518
(APPLAUSE)

1029
01:13:45,129 --> 01:13:46,879
She's very deft.

1030
01:13:46,964 --> 01:13:50,591
Yes, well, that's the only
kind of target she'll ever hit.

1031
01:13:54,596 --> 01:13:55,680
(APPLAUSE)

1032
01:13:57,141 --> 01:13:59,934
No one could ever be jealous
of May's triumphs.

1033
01:14:00,769 --> 01:14:02,603
She managed to give the
feeling that she would have been

1034
01:14:02,688 --> 01:14:04,856
just as serene without them.

1035
01:14:08,193 --> 01:14:11,821
But what if all her calm,
her niceness

1036
01:14:11,905 --> 01:14:13,739
were just a negation,

1037
01:14:14,283 --> 01:14:17,618
a curtain dropped in
front of an emptiness?

1038
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:21,289
Archer felt he had never
yet lifted that curtain.

1039
01:14:23,500 --> 01:14:25,793
MRS MINGOTT:
Quite stunning, isn't it?

1040
01:14:26,545 --> 01:14:30,423
It's Julius Beaufort who donates
the club's prizes, isn't it?

1041
01:14:30,507 --> 01:14:32,717
This looks like him,
of course.

1042
01:14:32,801 --> 01:14:34,927
It will make quite
an heirloom, my dear.

1043
01:14:35,012 --> 01:14:38,181
You should leave it
to your eldest daughter.

1044
01:14:38,265 --> 01:14:39,474
What's the matter?
Aren't there going

1045
01:14:39,558 --> 01:14:41,934
to be any daughters?
Only sons? (LAUGHS)

1046
01:14:42,019 --> 01:14:43,644
What, can't I say
that either?

1047
01:14:43,729 --> 01:14:45,146
Look at her blushing.

1048
01:14:46,190 --> 01:14:48,858
Ellen! Ellen,
are you upstairs?

1049
01:14:48,942 --> 01:14:51,819
She's over from Portsmouth,
spending the day with me.

1050
01:14:51,904 --> 01:14:55,239
It's such a nuisance. She
just won't stay in Newport.

1051
01:14:55,365 --> 01:14:59,452
Insists on putting up with those...
What's their names? Blenkers.

1052
01:14:59,620 --> 01:15:03,748
But I gave up arguing with
young people 50 years ago. Ellen!

1053
01:15:04,082 --> 01:15:07,210
I'm sorry, ma'am. Miss
Ellen's not in the house.

1054
01:15:07,586 --> 01:15:08,794
MRS MINGOTT: She's left?

1055
01:15:08,879 --> 01:15:11,422
MAID: I saw her going
down the shore path.

1056
01:15:13,842 --> 01:15:16,552
Run down and fetch her
like a good grandson.

1057
01:15:16,637 --> 01:15:19,263
May and I will have a
gossip about Julius Beaufort.

1058
01:15:19,431 --> 01:15:22,225
Go ahead. I know she'll
want to see you both.

1059
01:15:22,893 --> 01:15:26,354
Is it true Beaufort has given
Annie Ring a diamond bracelet?

1060
01:15:26,438 --> 01:15:29,440
I hear he even plans
to bring her to Newport.

1061
01:15:37,449 --> 01:15:39,367
NARRATOR: He had heard
her name often enough

1062
01:15:39,451 --> 01:15:42,495
during the year and a half
since they had last met.

1063
01:15:42,579 --> 01:15:46,582
He was even familiar with the
main incidents of her life.

1064
01:15:46,667 --> 01:15:50,336
But he heard all these
accounts with detachment,

1065
01:15:50,420 --> 01:15:54,465
as if listening to reminiscences
of someone long-dead.

1066
01:15:55,467 --> 01:15:59,053
But the past had come
again into the present,

1067
01:15:59,137 --> 01:16:02,557
as in those newly-discovered
caverns in Tuscany,

1068
01:16:02,641 --> 01:16:05,643
where children had
lit bunches of straw,

1069
01:16:05,727 --> 01:16:09,647
and seen old images
staring from the wall.

1070
01:16:20,492 --> 01:16:23,160
He gave himself
a single chance.

1071
01:16:23,245 --> 01:16:27,331
She must turn before the sailboat
crosses the lime rock light.

1072
01:16:28,542 --> 01:16:30,543
Then, he would go to her.

1073
01:17:20,427 --> 01:17:23,888
I'm sorry you didn't find her,
but I've heard she's so changed.

1074
01:17:23,972 --> 01:17:25,014
Changed?

1075
01:17:25,098 --> 01:17:27,016
So indifferent to
her old friends,

1076
01:17:27,100 --> 01:17:30,853
summering in Portsmouth,
moving to Washington.

1077
01:17:30,937 --> 01:17:33,481
Sometimes, I think
we've always bored her.

1078
01:17:33,565 --> 01:17:36,692
I wonder if she wouldn't be
happier with her husband after all.

1079
01:17:36,777 --> 01:17:39,320
I don't think I've ever
heard you be cruel before.

1080
01:17:39,404 --> 01:17:40,696
Cruel?

1081
01:17:40,781 --> 01:17:44,742
Even demons don't think
people are happier in Hell.

1082
01:17:44,826 --> 01:17:47,620
Then she shouldn't
have married abroad.

1083
01:17:47,704 --> 01:17:50,039
Here, let me.
Go on. Walk on.

1084
01:17:50,499 --> 01:17:53,834
The Blenkers?
A party for the Blenkers?

1085
01:17:54,753 --> 01:17:56,253
Who are they?

1086
01:17:56,880 --> 01:17:58,339
The Portsmouth people,
I think.

1087
01:17:58,423 --> 01:18:00,508
The ones Countess
Olenska is staying with.

1088
01:18:00,592 --> 01:18:02,301
"Professor and
Mrs Emerson Sillerton

1089
01:18:02,386 --> 01:18:04,595
"request the pleasure
Wednesday afternoon,

1090
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:08,891
"At 3:00 o'clock, punctually to
meet Mrs and the Misses Blenker.

1091
01:18:09,142 --> 01:18:11,352
"Red gables,
Catherine Street. "

1092
01:18:11,436 --> 01:18:13,646
I don't think
we can decline.

1093
01:18:14,481 --> 01:18:18,025
I don't see why, really.
He's an archaeologist.

1094
01:18:18,110 --> 01:18:21,028
And he's
Sillerton Jackson's cousin.

1095
01:18:22,072 --> 01:18:23,364
Of course.

1096
01:18:23,448 --> 01:18:25,032
Some of us will have to go.

1097
01:18:25,117 --> 01:18:28,202
I'll go over. And, Janey,
why don't you come with me?

1098
01:18:28,286 --> 01:18:29,787
I'm sure Cousin Ellen
will be there.

1099
01:18:29,871 --> 01:18:31,956
It will give you
a chance to see her.

1100
01:18:32,624 --> 01:18:37,002
Newland, you can find a way to
spend your afternoon, can't you?

1101
01:18:37,087 --> 01:18:40,965
Oh, I think for a change, I'll
just save it instead of spending it.

1102
01:18:42,718 --> 01:18:46,804
Maybe I'll drive to the farm to see
about a new horse for the brougham.

1103
01:18:46,888 --> 01:18:49,473
Well, at least
the Jacksons didn't choose

1104
01:18:49,641 --> 01:18:52,184
the day of the Cup Race
for their party.

1105
01:18:52,269 --> 01:18:54,395
Of course, I shouldn't
be surprised if they had.

1106
01:19:59,169 --> 01:20:00,586
(RUSTLING)

1107
01:20:07,385 --> 01:20:08,552
GIRL: Hello?

1108
01:20:12,265 --> 01:20:15,851
I'm sorry. Did you ring? I've
been asleep in the hammock.

1109
01:20:19,022 --> 01:20:21,315
Well, I didn't
mean to disturb you.

1110
01:20:21,399 --> 01:20:24,068
Are you Miss Blenker?
I'm Newland Archer.

1111
01:20:24,444 --> 01:20:26,612
Oh, yes. I've heard
so much about you.

1112
01:20:26,696 --> 01:20:29,198
I came to the island
to look for a new horse.

1113
01:20:29,282 --> 01:20:31,575
I thought I'd call, but
the house seems to be empty.

1114
01:20:31,660 --> 01:20:33,661
It is empty.
They're all at the party.

1115
01:20:33,745 --> 01:20:38,332
Everyone's there, but me with
my fever, and Countess Olenska.

1116
01:20:38,416 --> 01:20:41,126
Oh, you found my parasol.

1117
01:20:43,505 --> 01:20:46,340
It's my best one.
It's from the Cameroons.

1118
01:20:46,424 --> 01:20:49,009
Well, it's very pretty.

1119
01:20:49,094 --> 01:20:50,803
The Countess
was called away?

1120
01:20:50,887 --> 01:20:53,347
Yes. A telegram
came from Boston.

1121
01:20:53,431 --> 01:20:55,933
She said she might
be gone for two days.

1122
01:20:56,268 --> 01:20:59,186
I do love the way she
does her hair, don't you?

1123
01:20:59,271 --> 01:21:01,730
It reminds me of
Sir Walter Scott.

1124
01:21:03,942 --> 01:21:07,361
You don't know... I'm sorry, but
I have to be in Boston tomorrow.

1125
01:21:07,445 --> 01:21:10,364
You wouldn't happen to know
where she was staying?

1126
01:21:35,724 --> 01:21:37,224
(READING)

1127
01:21:42,147 --> 01:21:43,147
Oh.

1128
01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:44,648
Ellen.

1129
01:21:44,733 --> 01:21:47,985
I'm here on business.
I just got here, actually.

1130
01:21:59,164 --> 01:22:00,497
You're doing your
hair differently.

1131
01:22:00,582 --> 01:22:02,458
Only because my maid's
not with me.

1132
01:22:02,542 --> 01:22:04,126
She stayed back
in Portsmouth.

1133
01:22:04,210 --> 01:22:07,087
I'm here only for two days.
It didn't seem worthwhile.

1134
01:22:07,672 --> 01:22:09,381
You are
travelling alone?

1135
01:22:10,258 --> 01:22:11,508
Yes.

1136
01:22:11,593 --> 01:22:14,929
Why? Do you think
it's a little dangerous?

1137
01:22:15,180 --> 01:22:17,097
Well, it's unconventional.

1138
01:22:17,182 --> 01:22:18,390
Yes, I suppose it is.

1139
01:22:18,475 --> 01:22:21,936
I've just done something
so much more unconventional.

1140
01:22:22,020 --> 01:22:25,064
I refused to take back
money that belonged to me.

1141
01:22:27,359 --> 01:22:29,234
Someone came
with an offer?

1142
01:22:32,989 --> 01:22:34,406
What were
the conditions?

1143
01:22:35,700 --> 01:22:37,242
I refused.

1144
01:22:37,369 --> 01:22:39,870
Tell me the conditions.
Nothing unbearable, really.

1145
01:22:39,955 --> 01:22:43,290
Just to sit at the head
of his table now and then.

1146
01:22:45,794 --> 01:22:48,253
And he wants you
back at any price?

1147
01:22:49,172 --> 01:22:51,715
Well, it's a
considerable price.

1148
01:22:53,051 --> 01:22:55,552
At least,
it's considerable for me.

1149
01:22:57,222 --> 01:22:58,722
So, you came
to see him?

1150
01:22:58,807 --> 01:23:02,559
My husband? Here?
No, of course not.

1151
01:23:02,644 --> 01:23:04,395
No. He sent someone.

1152
01:23:06,231 --> 01:23:07,564
His secretary?

1153
01:23:09,859 --> 01:23:11,193
Yes.

1154
01:23:13,029 --> 01:23:14,822
He's still here, in fact.

1155
01:23:14,906 --> 01:23:19,034
He insisted on waiting,
in case I changed my mind.

1156
01:23:25,041 --> 01:23:27,251
You haven't
changed, Newland.

1157
01:23:31,214 --> 01:23:33,757
I had changed
until I saw you again.

1158
01:23:34,968 --> 01:23:36,051
Please don't.

1159
01:23:36,136 --> 01:23:38,345
Just give me the day. I'll say
anything you like, or nothing.

1160
01:23:38,430 --> 01:23:41,598
I won't speak
unless you tell me to.

1161
01:23:41,808 --> 01:23:44,226
All I want is
some time with you.

1162
01:23:45,437 --> 01:23:47,813
I want to get you away from
that man. Is he coming to hotel?

1163
01:23:47,897 --> 01:23:50,232
At 11:00...
Well, let's go now.

1164
01:23:55,613 --> 01:23:57,865
I'll have to leave
a note at the hotel.

1165
01:23:57,949 --> 01:23:59,450
Write on this.
I have the paper.

1166
01:23:59,534 --> 01:24:02,661
You see how everything
is predestined?

1167
01:24:02,746 --> 01:24:06,415
And these? Have you seen
these? The new stylographic pen.

1168
01:24:06,499 --> 01:24:07,624
It's just like...

1169
01:24:07,709 --> 01:24:12,087
It's like jerking down the
mercury in a thermometer. Now.

1170
01:24:12,797 --> 01:24:14,089
Try that.

1171
01:24:15,592 --> 01:24:17,217
It's not working.

1172
01:24:18,344 --> 01:24:20,304
That should do it.

1173
01:24:21,848 --> 01:24:24,767
Shall I take it in?
I'll be only a moment.

1174
01:25:06,768 --> 01:25:08,310
Why didn't you
come down to the beach

1175
01:25:08,394 --> 01:25:10,479
to get me the day
I was at Granny's?

1176
01:25:11,064 --> 01:25:13,690
Because you didn't
turn around. I swore...

1177
01:25:15,693 --> 01:25:18,946
I swore I wouldn't call you
unless you turned around.

1178
01:25:19,697 --> 01:25:22,157
But I didn't look
around on purpose.

1179
01:25:23,743 --> 01:25:25,244
You knew?

1180
01:25:25,328 --> 01:25:27,996
I recognised the carriage
when you drove in.

1181
01:25:29,165 --> 01:25:31,333
So, I went to the beach.

1182
01:25:32,544 --> 01:25:34,294
To get as far away
from me as you could.

1183
01:25:34,379 --> 01:25:35,796
As I could, yes.

1184
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:38,423
Well, you see, it's no use. It's
better if we face each other.

1185
01:25:38,508 --> 01:25:40,342
I only want to be
honest with you.

1186
01:25:40,426 --> 01:25:43,303
Honest? Isn't that why you
always admired Julius Beaufort?

1187
01:25:43,388 --> 01:25:45,514
He was more honest than
the rest of us, wasn't he?

1188
01:25:45,598 --> 01:25:49,393
We've no character.
No colour, no variety.

1189
01:25:51,062 --> 01:25:54,231
I don't know why you don't
just go back to Europe.

1190
01:25:55,191 --> 01:25:57,025
I believe that's
because of you.

1191
01:25:57,235 --> 01:25:59,486
Me? I'm the man who married one woman

1192
01:25:59,571 --> 01:26:01,238
because another one
told him to.

1193
01:26:04,742 --> 01:26:07,536
You promised not to
say such things today.

1194
01:26:07,871 --> 01:26:10,122
I can't keep
that promise.

1195
01:26:10,206 --> 01:26:13,375
What about May?
What about how May feels?

1196
01:26:13,459 --> 01:26:16,545
If you're using my marriage
as some victory of ours,

1197
01:26:16,629 --> 01:26:20,340
then there's really no reason on
earth why you shouldn't go back.

1198
01:26:20,425 --> 01:26:24,511
You gave me my first
glimpse of a real life.

1199
01:26:24,596 --> 01:26:27,764
And then you told me
to carry on with a false one.

1200
01:26:30,435 --> 01:26:32,311
No one can endure that.

1201
01:26:35,773 --> 01:26:37,399
I'm enduring it.

1202
01:26:47,243 --> 01:26:49,119
What's the use?
I know you'll go back.

1203
01:26:49,204 --> 01:26:51,747
I won't. Not yet.

1204
01:26:53,208 --> 01:26:54,875
Not as long as we
both can stand it.

1205
01:26:54,959 --> 01:26:56,460
This is not
a life for you.

1206
01:26:57,295 --> 01:27:00,130
It is, as long as
it's part of yours.

1207
01:27:15,146 --> 01:27:16,813
You won't go back?

1208
01:27:18,441 --> 01:27:20,025
I won't go back.

1209
01:27:26,908 --> 01:27:29,076
NARRATOR:
He would see her again.

1210
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:31,912
At the theatre,
or a reception.

1211
01:27:31,996 --> 01:27:34,915
Perhaps he might be
seated next to her.

1212
01:27:34,999 --> 01:27:38,919
Perhaps they might have
another time alone, somewhere.

1213
01:27:39,003 --> 01:27:42,297
But he could not
live without seeing her.

1214
01:27:43,383 --> 01:27:48,220
* But I also dreamt

1215
01:27:48,304 --> 01:27:52,015
* Which charmed me most

1216
01:27:52,475 --> 01:27:57,854
* That you loved me
still the same

1217
01:27:58,147 --> 01:28:00,399
* That you loved me

1218
01:28:00,483 --> 01:28:05,779
* You loved me still the same

1219
01:28:05,905 --> 01:28:08,657
* That you loved me

1220
01:28:08,741 --> 01:28:14,705
* You loved me still the same

1221
01:28:16,457 --> 01:28:22,212
* The same *

1222
01:28:26,009 --> 01:28:27,592
Mr Archer, I think.

1223
01:28:28,219 --> 01:28:29,303
Yes.

1224
01:28:29,387 --> 01:28:31,888
My name is Rivière.

1225
01:28:31,973 --> 01:28:33,890
I dined with you
in Paris last year.

1226
01:28:33,975 --> 01:28:36,643
Oh, yes. I'm sorry.
I didn't quite recall.

1227
01:28:36,728 --> 01:28:41,523
Quite all right. I had the advantage.
I saw you in Boston yesterday.

1228
01:28:45,403 --> 01:28:47,612
I came here on
Count Olenski's behalf.

1229
01:28:47,697 --> 01:28:52,284
Because I believed in all good
faith that she should return to him.

1230
01:28:52,368 --> 01:28:54,494
Forgive me.

1231
01:28:54,579 --> 01:28:57,331
Forgive me, monsieur,

1232
01:28:57,415 --> 01:29:00,876
but I really don't
understand your purpose

1233
01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:02,753
in coming to see me.

1234
01:29:04,422 --> 01:29:06,381
She's changed, monsieur.

1235
01:29:07,759 --> 01:29:09,259
You knew her before?

1236
01:29:10,053 --> 01:29:12,596
I used to see her
at her husband's house, yes.

1237
01:29:12,680 --> 01:29:15,223
Well, the count would not have
entrusted my mission to a stranger.

1238
01:29:15,308 --> 01:29:19,144
This change
that you mentioned.

1239
01:29:19,228 --> 01:29:23,357
It may only have been my
seeing her for the first time,

1240
01:29:23,441 --> 01:29:26,610
as she is,
as an American.

1241
01:29:26,778 --> 01:29:29,279
She made her
marriage in good faith.

1242
01:29:30,531 --> 01:29:33,408
It was a faith
the Count could not share,

1243
01:29:33,493 --> 01:29:35,285
could not understand.

1244
01:29:36,079 --> 01:29:40,540
So, her faith was...
Detruit?

1245
01:29:40,625 --> 01:29:44,127
Broken. Destroyed.
Destroyed.

1246
01:29:46,047 --> 01:29:50,717
Returning to Europe would
mean a life of some comfort,

1247
01:29:50,802 --> 01:29:54,388
and considerable sacrifice.

1248
01:29:54,472 --> 01:29:56,640
And, I would think,
no hope.

1249
01:29:58,434 --> 01:30:02,270
I will, of course, fulfil
my obligation to the Count,

1250
01:30:02,355 --> 01:30:03,480
and meet with the family.

1251
01:30:03,564 --> 01:30:08,151
I will tell them everything that he
suggests, and wishes for the Countess.

1252
01:30:08,236 --> 01:30:12,030
But I would ask you to use
your influence with them.

1253
01:30:14,367 --> 01:30:17,327
I beg you, monsieur.
Do not let her go back.

1254
01:30:20,331 --> 01:30:22,958
MRS ARCHER: When old
Mrs Baxter Pennilow died,

1255
01:30:23,042 --> 01:30:24,626
they found her standing order,

1256
01:30:24,710 --> 01:30:28,839
48 Worth dresses,
still wrapped in tissue paper.

1257
01:30:28,923 --> 01:30:31,675
When her daughters
left off their mourning,

1258
01:30:31,759 --> 01:30:34,428
they wore the first lot
to the symphony

1259
01:30:34,512 --> 01:30:37,722
without looking in
advance of the fashion.

1260
01:30:38,516 --> 01:30:42,018
NARRATOR: He had written
to her once in Washington,

1261
01:30:42,103 --> 01:30:45,564
just a few lines asking
when they would meet again.

1262
01:30:46,899 --> 01:30:49,943
And she wrote back, "Not yet. "

1263
01:30:50,027 --> 01:30:53,697
And even that had
the front panel changed.

1264
01:30:53,781 --> 01:30:56,992
No, I think it was Julius Beaufort
who started the new fashion.

1265
01:30:57,076 --> 01:30:58,660
By making his wife
clap her new clothes

1266
01:30:58,744 --> 01:31:00,662
on her back as soon
as they arrived.

1267
01:31:01,080 --> 01:31:05,333
I must say, it takes all Regina's
distinction not to look like...

1268
01:31:05,418 --> 01:31:07,085
Her rivals?

1269
01:31:07,170 --> 01:31:08,587
Like that Annie Ring.

1270
01:31:08,754 --> 01:31:10,338
Careful, dear.

1271
01:31:11,048 --> 01:31:12,132
Everybody knows.

1272
01:31:12,216 --> 01:31:13,508
Indeed.

1273
01:31:13,593 --> 01:31:15,802
Beaufort always put
his business around.

1274
01:31:15,887 --> 01:31:17,512
And now that his
business is gone,

1275
01:31:17,638 --> 01:31:19,222
there are bound
to be disclosures.

1276
01:31:19,640 --> 01:31:21,308
Gone?
Is it really that bad?

1277
01:31:21,392 --> 01:31:23,977
As bad as anything
I ever heard of.

1278
01:31:24,061 --> 01:31:27,522
Most everybody we know will
be hit one way or another.

1279
01:31:29,650 --> 01:31:30,650
(SIGHS)

1280
01:31:32,028 --> 01:31:35,864
Very difficult for Regina,
of course. And it's a pity.

1281
01:31:35,948 --> 01:31:39,784
It's certainly a pity that Countess
Olenska refused her husband's offer.

1282
01:31:40,786 --> 01:31:42,412
Why, for God's sake?

1283
01:31:42,497 --> 01:31:44,039
Well, to put it on
the lowest ground,

1284
01:31:44,165 --> 01:31:46,249
what's she going to
live on now? Live on?

1285
01:31:46,375 --> 01:31:48,084
I mean, now that
Beaufort... (SLAMS GLASS)

1286
01:31:48,169 --> 01:31:50,587
What the hell
does that mean, sir?

1287
01:31:55,009 --> 01:31:58,136
Most of her money's
invested with Beaufort.

1288
01:31:58,221 --> 01:31:59,721
And the allowance
she's been getting

1289
01:31:59,805 --> 01:32:01,431
from the family
is so cut back.

1290
01:32:01,641 --> 01:32:02,766
I'm sure
she has something.

1291
01:32:02,850 --> 01:32:04,267
Oh, I would
think a little.

1292
01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:07,479
Whatever remains after
sustaining more debt.

1293
01:32:08,564 --> 01:32:11,525
I know the family paid close
attention to Monsieur Rivière,

1294
01:32:11,609 --> 01:32:14,027
and considered the Count's
offer very carefully.

1295
01:32:14,111 --> 01:32:16,112
If everyone had rather
she be Beaufort's mistress

1296
01:32:16,197 --> 01:32:17,572
than some
decent fellow's wife,

1297
01:32:17,698 --> 01:32:19,032
you've all gone
about it perfectly.

1298
01:32:21,494 --> 01:32:23,119
She won't go back.

1299
01:32:25,540 --> 01:32:27,541
That's your opinion, eh?

1300
01:32:28,793 --> 01:32:30,919
Well, no doubt you know.

1301
01:32:33,464 --> 01:32:36,007
I suppose she might still
soften Catherine Mingott,

1302
01:32:36,092 --> 01:32:38,218
who could give her
any allowance she chooses,

1303
01:32:38,302 --> 01:32:41,763
but the rest of the family have no
particular interest in keeping her here.

1304
01:32:41,847 --> 01:32:44,307
They'll simply let her...

1305
01:32:44,392 --> 01:32:46,142
Find her own level.

1306
01:32:53,776 --> 01:32:55,235
Evening, sir.

1307
01:32:59,031 --> 01:33:00,699
Thank you, Martin.

1308
01:33:06,998 --> 01:33:10,083
That lamp is smoking again.
The servant should see to it.

1309
01:33:10,167 --> 01:33:11,501
I'm sorry.

1310
01:33:19,552 --> 01:33:22,429
I may have to go to
Washington for a few days.

1311
01:33:22,513 --> 01:33:24,431
When?

1312
01:33:24,515 --> 01:33:27,601
Tomorrow. I'm sorry.
I should have said it before.

1313
01:33:28,519 --> 01:33:29,811
On business?

1314
01:33:29,895 --> 01:33:31,938
On business, of course.
There's a patent case

1315
01:33:32,023 --> 01:33:33,773
coming up before
the Supreme Court.

1316
01:33:33,858 --> 01:33:35,984
I just got the papers
from Letterblair.

1317
01:33:36,068 --> 01:33:37,193
It seems that he intended...

1318
01:33:37,278 --> 01:33:40,071
Never mind.
It sounds too complicated.

1319
01:33:40,156 --> 01:33:42,115
I have enough trouble
managing this lamp.

1320
01:33:42,199 --> 01:33:44,326
Let me try that.

1321
01:33:44,410 --> 01:33:47,203
But the change
will do you good.

1322
01:33:47,288 --> 01:33:50,123
And you must be sure
to go and see Ellen.

1323
01:33:57,048 --> 01:33:59,174
Excuse me, ma'am, but this
came for you while you were out.

1324
01:34:01,218 --> 01:34:03,011
Do something about this,
will you, Alice?

1325
01:34:03,095 --> 01:34:04,638
Certainly, sir.

1326
01:34:07,642 --> 01:34:09,517
Granny's had a stroke.

1327
01:34:11,979 --> 01:34:13,980
A stroke?

1328
01:34:14,065 --> 01:34:15,982
Ridiculous.

1329
01:34:16,067 --> 01:34:19,861
I told them all, it was just
an excessive Thanksgiving.

1330
01:34:21,906 --> 01:34:24,574
Dr Bencomb
acted most concerned

1331
01:34:24,700 --> 01:34:27,327
and insisted on
notifying everyone.

1332
01:34:27,411 --> 01:34:30,622
As if it were the last reading
of my will and testament.

1333
01:34:30,706 --> 01:34:32,040
You're very dear to come.

1334
01:34:33,125 --> 01:34:36,336
But perhaps you only wanted
to see what I'd left you.

1335
01:34:36,420 --> 01:34:38,004
Granny, that's shocking!

1336
01:34:38,089 --> 01:34:40,674
It was shock
that did this to me.

1337
01:34:40,758 --> 01:34:44,094
No. It's all due
to Regina Beaufort.

1338
01:34:45,513 --> 01:34:49,307
She came here last night,
and she asked me...

1339
01:34:50,226 --> 01:34:54,646
She asked me...
She had the effrontery

1340
01:34:54,730 --> 01:34:58,191
to ask me to back Julius.

1341
01:34:58,275 --> 01:35:01,236
Not to desert him, she said.

1342
01:35:01,320 --> 01:35:05,740
To stand behind our common
lineage in the Townsend family.

1343
01:35:06,534 --> 01:35:10,328
If you back Julius, you
can see the family through.

1344
01:35:11,622 --> 01:35:13,581
If you don't,

1345
01:35:13,666 --> 01:35:15,834
we will all,

1346
01:35:15,918 --> 01:35:18,628
every one of us,
fall into dishonour.

1347
01:35:19,797 --> 01:35:20,880
I said to her...

1348
01:35:20,965 --> 01:35:23,800
Honour's always
been honour.

1349
01:35:23,884 --> 01:35:27,303
And honesty's always been
honesty in Manson Mingott's house.

1350
01:35:27,388 --> 01:35:31,433
And will be, till I'm
carried out feet-first.

1351
01:35:32,518 --> 01:35:37,313
And then she said, if you can
believe this, "But my name, Auntie. "

1352
01:35:37,648 --> 01:35:39,858
But my name, Auntie.

1353
01:35:39,942 --> 01:35:42,152
My name's Regina Townsend.

1354
01:35:42,236 --> 01:35:43,278
And I said to her...

1355
01:35:43,362 --> 01:35:46,990
Your name was Beaufort when
he covered you with jewels,

1356
01:35:47,074 --> 01:35:51,244
and it's got to stay Beaufort, now
that he's covered you with shame.

1357
01:35:53,831 --> 01:35:55,582
And then I gave out,

1358
01:35:57,084 --> 01:35:59,419
simply gave out.

1359
01:35:59,503 --> 01:36:02,464
And now family is
arriving from all over,

1360
01:36:02,548 --> 01:36:06,092
expecting a funeral, and
they'll have to be entertained.

1361
01:36:06,177 --> 01:36:08,928
I don't know how many
notes Bencomb sent out.

1362
01:36:09,013 --> 01:36:11,181
If there's anything we
can do to help out...

1363
01:36:11,348 --> 01:36:13,558
Well, my Ellen is coming.

1364
01:36:13,642 --> 01:36:15,935
I expressly asked for her.

1365
01:36:16,020 --> 01:36:19,105
She arrives this afternoon on the
train. If you could fetch her...

1366
01:36:19,190 --> 01:36:22,942
Of course. If May will send the
brougham, I'll take the ferry.

1367
01:36:23,027 --> 01:36:25,570
Fine. Fine. Thank you.

1368
01:36:27,031 --> 01:36:30,033
There? You see, Granny?
Everyone will be settled.

1369
01:36:30,284 --> 01:36:33,244
Thank you, dear.
Bless you.

1370
01:36:34,538 --> 01:36:35,872
I didn't want
to worry Granny,

1371
01:36:35,956 --> 01:36:38,166
but how can you meet Ellen
and bring her back here

1372
01:36:38,250 --> 01:36:41,044
if you have to go to Washington
yourself this afternoon?

1373
01:36:41,128 --> 01:36:43,963
I'm not going.
The case is off, postponed.

1374
01:36:44,048 --> 01:36:45,965
I heard from
Letterblair this morning.

1375
01:36:46,050 --> 01:36:48,301
Postponed? How odd.

1376
01:36:49,053 --> 01:36:51,429
Mama had a note from
him this morning as well.

1377
01:36:51,514 --> 01:36:55,016
He was concerned about Granny,
but had to be away.

1378
01:36:55,100 --> 01:36:58,228
He was arguing a big patent
case before the Supreme Court.

1379
01:36:58,312 --> 01:37:00,146
You did say it was
a patent case, didn't you?

1380
01:37:00,231 --> 01:37:01,940
Well, that's it.
The whole office can't go.

1381
01:37:02,024 --> 01:37:04,192
Letterblair
decided to go himself.

1382
01:37:04,276 --> 01:37:07,111
So then,
it's not postponed?

1383
01:37:07,196 --> 01:37:09,155
No, but my going is.

1384
01:37:18,415 --> 01:37:20,542
NARRATOR: He knew it
was two hours by ferry

1385
01:37:20,626 --> 01:37:22,877
and carriage from
the Pennsylvania terminus

1386
01:37:22,962 --> 01:37:25,380
in Jersey City
back to Mrs Mingott's.

1387
01:37:28,259 --> 01:37:30,301
All of two hours.

1388
01:37:30,386 --> 01:37:32,345
And maybe a little more.

1389
01:37:35,975 --> 01:37:38,017
You didn't expect me today. No.

1390
01:37:38,102 --> 01:37:39,644
I nearly came to
Washington to see you.

1391
01:37:39,728 --> 01:37:41,396
We would have
missed each other.

1392
01:37:41,605 --> 01:37:44,983
It was Granny Mingott who
sent me. She's much better.

1393
01:37:56,579 --> 01:37:59,080
You know,
I hardly remembered you.

1394
01:37:59,164 --> 01:38:00,290
Hardly remembered?

1395
01:38:00,374 --> 01:38:03,751
I mean... I mean,
each time is the same.

1396
01:38:05,546 --> 01:38:07,881
You happen to me
all over again.

1397
01:38:09,133 --> 01:38:10,925
Yes, I know.

1398
01:38:11,010 --> 01:38:12,594
For me, too.

1399
01:39:05,481 --> 01:39:08,316
Ellen, we can't stay
like this. It can't last.

1400
01:39:09,777 --> 01:39:11,861
I think we should look
at reality, not dreams.

1401
01:39:11,946 --> 01:39:13,613
I just want us
to be together.

1402
01:39:13,697 --> 01:39:15,073
I can't be
your wife, Newland.

1403
01:39:15,157 --> 01:39:17,450
Is it your idea I should live
with you as your mistress?

1404
01:39:17,534 --> 01:39:18,952
I want...

1405
01:39:19,620 --> 01:39:22,246
Somehow I want to
get away with you,

1406
01:39:22,331 --> 01:39:24,958
and find a world where
words like that don't exist.

1407
01:39:25,042 --> 01:39:26,709
Oh, my dear.

1408
01:39:29,088 --> 01:39:32,215
Where is that country?
Have you ever been there?

1409
01:39:34,134 --> 01:39:35,593
Is there anywhere
we can be happy

1410
01:39:35,678 --> 01:39:37,845
behind the backs of
people who trust us?

1411
01:39:37,930 --> 01:39:39,305
I'm beyond
caring about that.

1412
01:39:39,390 --> 01:39:41,641
No, you're not.

1413
01:39:41,725 --> 01:39:43,977
You've never been
beyond that.

1414
01:39:44,895 --> 01:39:46,145
I have.

1415
01:39:48,065 --> 01:39:51,234
I know what it looks like.
It's no place for us.

1416
01:40:01,370 --> 01:40:02,578
(BELL RINGS)

1417
01:40:03,247 --> 01:40:06,916
Why are... Why are we
stopping? This isn't Granny's.

1418
01:40:07,042 --> 01:40:08,918
No. I'll get out here.

1419
01:40:14,008 --> 01:40:16,926
You were right. I
shouldn't have come today.

1420
01:40:18,554 --> 01:40:19,595
(URGES HORSE)

1421
01:40:58,302 --> 01:40:59,886
What are you reading?

1422
01:41:02,681 --> 01:41:04,640
It's a book about Japan.

1423
01:41:06,226 --> 01:41:07,477
Why?

1424
01:41:09,271 --> 01:41:11,564
I don't know.

1425
01:41:11,648 --> 01:41:14,025
Because it's
a different country.

1426
01:41:15,235 --> 01:41:17,403
You used to read poetry.

1427
01:41:17,488 --> 01:41:20,156
It was so nice when
you read it to me.

1428
01:41:32,961 --> 01:41:34,212
Newland.

1429
01:41:34,338 --> 01:41:36,130
You'll catch your death.

1430
01:41:42,721 --> 01:41:44,055
Of course.

1431
01:41:45,599 --> 01:41:48,476
NARRATOR: But then he
realised, "I am dead.

1432
01:41:48,977 --> 01:41:52,313
"I've been dead for
months and months. "

1433
01:41:52,397 --> 01:41:55,274
Then it occurred
to him that she might die.

1434
01:41:56,110 --> 01:41:59,529
People did. Young people,
healthy people did.

1435
01:42:00,239 --> 01:42:03,324
She might die
and set him free.

1436
01:42:08,997 --> 01:42:10,206
Newland?

1437
01:42:25,389 --> 01:42:27,348
Ellen, I have to see you.

1438
01:42:29,518 --> 01:42:31,477
I didn't know when
you were leaving again.

1439
01:42:31,562 --> 01:42:32,854
I'm... I'm not leaving.

1440
01:42:32,938 --> 01:42:35,314
Granny's asked me to stay
and take care of her.

1441
01:42:35,399 --> 01:42:37,233
Then we have to talk now.

1442
01:42:37,317 --> 01:42:40,319
I'm due at Regina Beaufort's.
Granny lent me her carriage.

1443
01:42:40,404 --> 01:42:42,947
I know Granny says Julius
Beaufort is a scoundrel,

1444
01:42:43,031 --> 01:42:46,576
but so is my husband, and the family
still want me to go back to him.

1445
01:42:46,660 --> 01:42:51,080
Only Granny understands. She's
even seen to my allowance.

1446
01:42:51,540 --> 01:42:53,583
I have to see you,
somewhere we can be alone.

1447
01:42:53,709 --> 01:42:56,169
In New York? Alone.
Somewhere we can be alone.

1448
01:42:56,253 --> 01:42:59,255
The art museum in the
park, 2:30 tomorrow.

1449
01:42:59,339 --> 01:43:01,090
I'll be at the door.

1450
01:43:09,766 --> 01:43:13,394
NEWLAND: You came to New York
because you were afraid.

1451
01:43:13,520 --> 01:43:15,563
ELLEN: Afraid? NEWLAND:
Ofmy coming to Washington.

1452
01:43:15,647 --> 01:43:17,857
ELLEN: I thought
I would be safer.

1453
01:43:17,941 --> 01:43:19,442
Safer from me?

1454
01:43:23,447 --> 01:43:24,864
Ellen?

1455
01:43:28,785 --> 01:43:29,785
S...

1456
01:43:31,747 --> 01:43:33,623
Safer from loving me?

1457
01:43:41,298 --> 01:43:44,175
Shall I come to you
once and then go home?

1458
01:43:55,270 --> 01:43:57,063
Come to me once then.

1459
01:44:02,861 --> 01:44:03,986
When?

1460
01:44:07,658 --> 01:44:08,991
Tomorrow.

1461
01:44:16,041 --> 01:44:17,541
The day after.

1462
01:44:48,865 --> 01:44:52,743
I'm sorry I'm late. You
weren't worried, were you?

1463
01:44:53,704 --> 01:44:55,079
Is it late?

1464
01:44:55,163 --> 01:44:56,664
It's past 7:00.

1465
01:44:56,748 --> 01:44:59,750
I stayed at Granny's
because Cousin Ellen came in.

1466
01:44:59,835 --> 01:45:04,630
We had a wonderful talk. She was
so dear, just like the old Ellen.

1467
01:45:04,715 --> 01:45:07,466
Granny was
so charmed by her.

1468
01:45:07,551 --> 01:45:09,010
But you can see,
though, how the family's

1469
01:45:09,094 --> 01:45:10,970
been annoyed
with her at times.

1470
01:45:11,054 --> 01:45:13,973
Going to see Regina Beaufort
in Granny's carriage and...

1471
01:45:14,057 --> 01:45:16,058
Are we dining out tonight?

1472
01:45:20,230 --> 01:45:22,398
You haven't
kissed me today.

1473
01:45:35,120 --> 01:45:36,454
(WOMAN SINGING OPERA)

1474
01:45:38,415 --> 01:45:41,125
NARRATOR: It was the
custom in old New York

1475
01:45:41,209 --> 01:45:43,669
for brides to appear
in their wedding dress

1476
01:45:43,754 --> 01:45:46,839
during the first
year or two of marriage.

1477
01:45:46,923 --> 01:45:49,216
But May, since
returning from Europe,

1478
01:45:49,301 --> 01:45:52,595
had not worn her bridal satin
untiI this evening.

1479
01:46:35,806 --> 01:46:38,724
May, I'm sorry.
My head's bursting.

1480
01:46:38,809 --> 01:46:41,894
Please don't tell anyone.
Come home with me now.

1481
01:46:54,991 --> 01:46:56,700
Shouldn't you rest?

1482
01:46:58,161 --> 01:47:00,996
My head's not
as bad as that.

1483
01:47:01,081 --> 01:47:02,706
And there's
something important

1484
01:47:02,791 --> 01:47:04,708
I have to say
to you right away.

1485
01:47:26,690 --> 01:47:29,900
May, there is something
that I've got to tell you.

1486
01:47:31,611 --> 01:47:33,237
About myself.

1487
01:47:38,243 --> 01:47:39,452
Madame Olenska...

1488
01:47:39,744 --> 01:47:42,079
Why should we talk
about Ellen tonight?

1489
01:47:42,247 --> 01:47:43,539
(CLEARS THROAT)

1490
01:47:44,624 --> 01:47:47,126
Because I should have
spoken before and...

1491
01:47:47,210 --> 01:47:48,836
Is it really
worthwhile, dear?

1492
01:47:49,212 --> 01:47:52,006
I know I've been
unfair to her at times.

1493
01:47:52,090 --> 01:47:54,216
Perhaps we all have.

1494
01:47:54,301 --> 01:47:56,635
You've understood her better
than any of us, I suppose,

1495
01:47:56,720 --> 01:47:59,388
but does it really matter
now that it's all over?

1496
01:48:01,683 --> 01:48:03,309
How do you mean, "over"?

1497
01:48:04,227 --> 01:48:07,480
Why, since she's going
back to Europe so soon.

1498
01:48:08,231 --> 01:48:10,357
Granny's approved,
and understands.

1499
01:48:10,442 --> 01:48:11,734
She's disappointed,
of course,

1500
01:48:11,818 --> 01:48:13,819
but she's arranged
to make Ellen

1501
01:48:13,904 --> 01:48:15,946
financially
independent of the Count.

1502
01:48:16,239 --> 01:48:19,533
I... I thought you would have
heard today at your offices.

1503
01:48:33,089 --> 01:48:34,256
It's impossible.

1504
01:48:34,424 --> 01:48:35,549
Impossible?

1505
01:48:35,634 --> 01:48:38,302
Certainly she could have stayed
here with Granny's extra money,

1506
01:48:38,386 --> 01:48:41,180
but I guess she's
given us up, after all.

1507
01:48:42,307 --> 01:48:44,099
How do you know that?

1508
01:48:45,602 --> 01:48:49,522
From Ellen. I told you, I
saw her at Granny's yesterday.

1509
01:48:49,606 --> 01:48:51,857
And she told you that,
yesterday?

1510
01:48:53,777 --> 01:48:57,321
No. She sent me
a note this afternoon.

1511
01:49:02,118 --> 01:49:03,994
Do you want to see it?

1512
01:49:13,588 --> 01:49:14,797
I thought you knew.

1513
01:49:29,938 --> 01:49:33,607
NEWLAND: "May, dear, I have
at last made Granny understand

1514
01:49:33,692 --> 01:49:37,319
"that my visit to her could
be no more than a visit,

1515
01:49:37,404 --> 01:49:39,697
"and she has been as kind
and generous as ever. "

1516
01:49:39,781 --> 01:49:43,200
ELLEN: "And she has been as
kind and generous as ever.

1517
01:49:43,285 --> 01:49:47,580
"She sees now that if I return
to Europe, I must live by myself.

1518
01:49:47,664 --> 01:49:49,540
"I am hurrying back to
Washington to pack up,

1519
01:49:49,624 --> 01:49:51,875
"and I sail next week.

1520
01:49:52,294 --> 01:49:55,254
"You be must very good
to Granny when I'm gone,

1521
01:49:55,338 --> 01:49:57,965
"as good as you've
always been to me.

1522
01:49:59,175 --> 01:50:01,760
"If any of my friends wish
to urge me to change my mind,

1523
01:50:01,845 --> 01:50:03,637
"please tell them it
would be utterly useless. "

1524
01:50:03,847 --> 01:50:06,765
NEWLAND: "... tell them it
would be utterly useless. "

1525
01:50:17,652 --> 01:50:19,528
Why did she write this?

1526
01:50:21,531 --> 01:50:24,700
I suppose because we talked
things over yesterday.

1527
01:50:25,744 --> 01:50:27,161
What things?

1528
01:50:27,329 --> 01:50:31,707
I told her that I was afraid I
hadn't always been fair to her,

1529
01:50:31,916 --> 01:50:33,125
that I hadn't
always understood

1530
01:50:33,209 --> 01:50:35,544
how hard it must
have been for her here.

1531
01:50:36,713 --> 01:50:38,130
I knew you'd be
the one friend she could

1532
01:50:38,214 --> 01:50:39,965
always count on,
and I wanted her to know

1533
01:50:40,050 --> 01:50:43,385
that you and I were the
same in all of our feelings.

1534
01:50:45,388 --> 01:50:48,641
She understood why I
wanted to tell her this.

1535
01:50:48,725 --> 01:50:51,226
I think she
understands everything.

1536
01:51:02,530 --> 01:51:04,198
My head aches too.

1537
01:51:07,285 --> 01:51:09,536
Good night, dear.
Good night.

1538
01:51:27,931 --> 01:51:30,724
NARRATOR: It was, as Mrs
Archer said to Mrs Welland,

1539
01:51:30,809 --> 01:51:33,977
a great event for a young couple
to give their first dinner,

1540
01:51:34,062 --> 01:51:37,106
and it was not to be
undertaken lightly.

1541
01:51:37,190 --> 01:51:38,565
There was a hired chef,

1542
01:51:38,650 --> 01:51:41,777
two borrowed footmen,
roses from Henderson's,

1543
01:51:41,861 --> 01:51:45,823
Roman punch and menus
on gilt-edged cards.

1544
01:51:45,907 --> 01:51:49,535
It was considered a particular
triumph that the van der Luydens,

1545
01:51:49,619 --> 01:51:53,205
at May's request, stayed
in the city to be present

1546
01:51:53,289 --> 01:51:57,418
at her farewell dinner
for the Countess Olenska.

1547
01:51:57,502 --> 01:52:00,629
WOMAN: You have to leave New
York after the disgrace...

1548
01:52:00,714 --> 01:52:03,716
Archer saw all
the harmless-looking people

1549
01:52:03,800 --> 01:52:07,136
at the table as a band
of quiet conspirators,

1550
01:52:08,054 --> 01:52:11,473
with himself and Ellen the
centre of their conspiracy.

1551
01:52:13,643 --> 01:52:16,228
He guessed himself to have
been for months the centre

1552
01:52:16,312 --> 01:52:19,481
of countless
silently observing eyes

1553
01:52:19,566 --> 01:52:22,067
and patiently listening ears.

1554
01:52:24,320 --> 01:52:27,698
He understood that
somehow the separation

1555
01:52:27,782 --> 01:52:31,660
between himself and the partner
of his guilt had been achieved.

1556
01:52:33,121 --> 01:52:37,583
And he knew that now the whole
tribe had rallied around his wife.

1557
01:52:39,586 --> 01:52:43,505
He was a prisoner in the
centre of an armed camp.

1558
01:52:44,299 --> 01:52:46,091
I wonder if
they'll ever get it back.

1559
01:52:46,176 --> 01:52:47,593
Regina's not well at all,

1560
01:52:47,677 --> 01:52:50,429
but that doesn't stop Beaufort
from devoting as much time

1561
01:52:50,513 --> 01:52:52,139
to Annie Ring
as he can manage.

1562
01:52:52,223 --> 01:52:53,724
The best thing
Beaufort could do

1563
01:52:53,808 --> 01:52:57,644
would be to go and stay at Regina's
little place in North Carolina.

1564
01:52:57,729 --> 01:52:59,772
He could breed trotters...

1565
01:52:59,856 --> 01:53:01,523
And the key to his release

1566
01:53:01,608 --> 01:53:04,443
had been returned
the day before.

1567
01:53:04,527 --> 01:53:06,987
By maiI. Unopened.

1568
01:53:08,740 --> 01:53:12,576
MAN: He may stay here as a deliberate
challenge to the outrage he's created.

1569
01:53:12,660 --> 01:53:14,745
Perhaps he'll run
for public office.

1570
01:53:14,829 --> 01:53:17,998
WOMAN: Then will Annie Ring
be his first lady?

1571
01:53:18,082 --> 01:53:19,249
(LAUGHING)

1572
01:53:20,710 --> 01:53:22,878
Was your trip from
Washington very tiring?

1573
01:53:25,173 --> 01:53:27,966
The heat on the train
was dreadful.

1574
01:53:29,469 --> 01:53:31,762
But all travel
has its hardships.

1575
01:53:31,846 --> 01:53:32,971
Well, whatever
they may be,

1576
01:53:33,056 --> 01:53:34,932
they're worth it
just to get away.

1577
01:53:36,851 --> 01:53:39,269
I mean to do a lot of
travelling myself soon.

1578
01:53:39,521 --> 01:53:40,521
Mmm-hmm?

1579
01:53:45,318 --> 01:53:47,861
What about you, Philip? What
about a little adventure?

1580
01:53:47,946 --> 01:53:51,615
Athens and Smyrna,
maybe even Constantinople.

1581
01:53:51,699 --> 01:53:52,866
Possibly. Possibly.

1582
01:53:52,951 --> 01:53:54,910
But not Naples.

1583
01:53:54,994 --> 01:53:57,412
Dr Bencomb says
there's a fever.

1584
01:53:58,248 --> 01:54:00,958
Oh, really?
A fever in Naples.

1585
01:54:02,669 --> 01:54:04,419
Well, there's
always India, of course.

1586
01:54:04,504 --> 01:54:06,255
You must have three weeks
to do India properly.

1587
01:54:06,339 --> 01:54:07,714
Absolutely.

1588
01:54:10,468 --> 01:54:12,928
Beaufort may not receive
invitations any more,

1589
01:54:13,012 --> 01:54:15,764
but it's clear he still
maintains a certain position.

1590
01:54:15,849 --> 01:54:17,307
Horizontal from
all I've heard.

1591
01:54:17,392 --> 01:54:19,852
If things go on like this,
we'll be seeing our children

1592
01:54:19,936 --> 01:54:22,104
fighting for invitations
to swindlers' houses

1593
01:54:22,272 --> 01:54:24,439
and marrying
Beaufort's bastards.

1594
01:54:24,524 --> 01:54:26,024
Has he got any?

1595
01:54:26,109 --> 01:54:29,528
Be careful there, gentlemen.
Draw it mild. Draw it mild.

1596
01:54:29,612 --> 01:54:33,949
Society has a history of
tolerating vulgar women after all.

1597
01:54:34,033 --> 01:54:35,701
Up to a point.

1598
01:54:35,785 --> 01:54:37,286
But once it tolerates
a man of that kind,

1599
01:54:37,370 --> 01:54:38,829
the only prospect is
total disinheritance...

1600
01:54:38,955 --> 01:54:40,372
Have you ever noticed

1601
01:54:40,456 --> 01:54:43,667
it's the people with the worst
cooks who are always yelling

1602
01:54:43,751 --> 01:54:47,462
about being poisoned
when they dine out?

1603
01:54:47,547 --> 01:54:51,550
Lefferts used to be a
little more adept, I thought.

1604
01:54:51,634 --> 01:54:55,053
But then grace is
not always required

1605
01:54:55,138 --> 01:54:57,472
as long as one
knows the steps.

1606
01:54:57,682 --> 01:54:59,474
(CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)

1607
01:55:05,773 --> 01:55:09,192
MAN 1: I've never heard Lefferts
so abound in the sentiments

1608
01:55:09,277 --> 01:55:11,361
that adorn
Christian manhood.

1609
01:55:11,446 --> 01:55:13,530
MAN 2: Indignation lends
a scathing eloquence.

1610
01:55:13,615 --> 01:55:15,949
It's almost as
effective as fear.

1611
01:55:16,075 --> 01:55:18,410
The pressure at home
must be unrelenting.

1612
01:55:18,494 --> 01:55:21,079
I never expected to hear such
a paean to the sanctity...

1613
01:55:21,164 --> 01:55:22,581
WOMAN: My mother had
a bronze reduction

1614
01:55:22,665 --> 01:55:24,875
of the Venus De Milo
she wanted to give us...

1615
01:55:25,752 --> 01:55:27,711
NARRATOR:
The silent organisation

1616
01:55:27,795 --> 01:55:30,422
which held this whole
small world together

1617
01:55:30,548 --> 01:55:33,216
was determined to
put itself on record.

1618
01:55:34,761 --> 01:55:36,762
It had never for
a moment questioned

1619
01:55:36,846 --> 01:55:39,181
the propriety of
Madame Olenska's conduct.

1620
01:55:40,350 --> 01:55:43,352
It had never
questioned Archer's fidelity.

1621
01:55:45,313 --> 01:55:49,816
And it had never heard of,
suspected or even conceived possible

1622
01:55:49,901 --> 01:55:51,860
anything at all
to the contrary.

1623
01:55:51,945 --> 01:55:53,111
Ellen.

1624
01:55:54,864 --> 01:55:57,783
From the seamless
performance of this rituaI,

1625
01:55:57,867 --> 01:56:02,287
Archer knew that New York believed
him to be Madame Olenska's lover.

1626
01:56:02,372 --> 01:56:04,623
We were discussing
the Martha Washington ball.

1627
01:56:04,707 --> 01:56:07,876
Yes, we have it during Easter
week to benefit the blind society.

1628
01:56:07,961 --> 01:56:09,086
They do excellent work.

1629
01:56:09,170 --> 01:56:11,505
Lawrence. Lawrence...

1630
01:56:11,589 --> 01:56:14,466
And he understood
for the first time

1631
01:56:14,550 --> 01:56:16,885
that his wife
shared the belief.

1632
01:56:26,854 --> 01:56:29,147
You must come
visit me when you do.

1633
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.

1634
01:56:33,069 --> 01:56:34,903
Yes, that would
be lovely.

1635
01:56:34,988 --> 01:56:36,780
Shall I see you
to your carriage?

1636
01:56:38,074 --> 01:56:40,200
We are driving
dear Ellen home.

1637
01:56:41,911 --> 01:56:43,161
Goodbye.

1638
01:56:44,247 --> 01:56:47,416
Good-bye. And I'll see
you very soon in Paris.

1639
01:56:47,875 --> 01:56:50,460
Oh, if you and May
could come.

1640
01:56:52,005 --> 01:56:55,090
Shall we make our way
to the carriage, my dear?

1641
01:57:06,686 --> 01:57:08,186
Delightful evening,
Newland.

1642
01:57:08,271 --> 01:57:09,855
Good night, Newland.

1643
01:57:09,939 --> 01:57:12,774
Good night, Sillerton.
Good night, Larry.

1644
01:57:21,784 --> 01:57:23,410
(DRIVER URGES HORSE)

1645
01:57:37,175 --> 01:57:39,551
It did go off
beautifully, didn't it?

1646
01:57:39,635 --> 01:57:40,886
Oh, yes.

1647
01:57:43,222 --> 01:57:44,848
May I come in
and talk it over?

1648
01:57:45,224 --> 01:57:48,560
Of course.
But you must be very sleepy.

1649
01:57:48,644 --> 01:57:50,854
No, I'm not. I'd like
to be with you a little.

1650
01:57:50,938 --> 01:57:51,938
Fine.

1651
01:58:11,084 --> 01:58:13,168
If you feel
up to it, May,

1652
01:58:14,754 --> 01:58:18,215
there is something that I've
been wanting to talk to you about.

1653
01:58:18,299 --> 01:58:21,384
And I tried to talk
to you the other evening.

1654
01:58:22,345 --> 01:58:23,970
Oh, yes, dear.
Something about yourself.

1655
01:58:24,055 --> 01:58:25,722
About myself, yes.

1656
01:58:27,225 --> 01:58:30,852
It's so difficult to
find the right words.

1657
01:58:30,937 --> 01:58:35,357
But it's just that I feel so
terribly tired at the moment.

1658
01:58:37,527 --> 01:58:39,027
And I think...

1659
01:58:40,071 --> 01:58:42,114
Each day a little more so.

1660
01:58:43,658 --> 01:58:47,911
And I think it would be better for
everyone if I were to make a break.

1661
01:58:49,789 --> 01:58:51,832
You mean give up the law?

1662
01:58:55,211 --> 01:58:59,840
Well, certainly that would be
a part of it. And also just to...

1663
01:58:59,924 --> 01:59:01,174
Just to get away.

1664
01:59:01,259 --> 01:59:03,718
I... I'd like to
do some travelling.

1665
01:59:08,432 --> 01:59:09,975
To Europe or...

1666
01:59:11,727 --> 01:59:13,520
Perhaps even farther.

1667
01:59:15,898 --> 01:59:17,149
How far?

1668
01:59:18,151 --> 01:59:20,193
I don't know. I thought...

1669
01:59:21,237 --> 01:59:23,989
India or Japan. Um...

1670
01:59:26,868 --> 01:59:28,410
As far as that?

1671
01:59:34,333 --> 01:59:35,542
Well...

1672
01:59:39,714 --> 01:59:41,798
I'm afraid
you can't, dear.

1673
01:59:43,926 --> 01:59:46,261
Not unless you
take me with you.

1674
01:59:50,057 --> 01:59:54,102
That is, if the doctors will let
me go, and I'm afraid they won't.

1675
01:59:57,940 --> 02:00:02,485
Newland, I've been sure of
something since this morning,

1676
02:00:02,570 --> 02:00:04,988
and I've been
longing to tell you.

1677
02:00:20,296 --> 02:00:21,671
Oh, my dear.

1678
02:00:21,797 --> 02:00:23,423
You didn't guess?

1679
02:00:24,967 --> 02:00:28,637
No. I mean, of course,
I... I hoped, but...

1680
02:00:39,482 --> 02:00:41,524
Have you told anyone else?

1681
02:00:43,569 --> 02:00:46,571
Only Mamma
and your mother...

1682
02:00:46,656 --> 02:00:47,989
And Ellen.

1683
02:00:51,494 --> 02:00:53,745
I told you we had
a long talk one afternoon

1684
02:00:53,871 --> 02:00:56,122
and how wonderful
she was to me.

1685
02:01:04,799 --> 02:01:07,384
Did you mind my
telling her, Newland?

1686
02:01:08,844 --> 02:01:10,929
Mind? Why should I?

1687
02:01:11,013 --> 02:01:13,682
But that was two
weeks ago, wasn't it?

1688
02:01:16,018 --> 02:01:19,312
I thought you just said
you weren't sure till today?

1689
02:01:21,190 --> 02:01:24,109
No, I...
I wasn't sure then,

1690
02:01:24,193 --> 02:01:26,653
but I told her I was.

1691
02:01:30,449 --> 02:01:34,119
And you see, I was right.

1692
02:01:52,555 --> 02:01:54,889
NARRATOR:
It was the room

1693
02:01:54,974 --> 02:01:59,644
in which most of the reaI
things of his life had happened.

1694
02:02:09,363 --> 02:02:11,489
Their eldest boy, Theodore,

1695
02:02:11,574 --> 02:02:15,035
too delicate to be taken
to church in midwinter,

1696
02:02:15,119 --> 02:02:17,037
had been christened there.

1697
02:02:17,121 --> 02:02:21,499
I baptise thee in
the name of the Father,

1698
02:02:21,584 --> 02:02:23,543
and of the son,

1699
02:02:23,627 --> 02:02:25,420
and of the holy spirit.

1700
02:02:35,723 --> 02:02:38,558
It was here that Ted
took his first steps.

1701
02:02:40,061 --> 02:02:43,480
And it was here that Archer
and his wife always discussed

1702
02:02:43,564 --> 02:02:45,982
the future of
all their children.

1703
02:02:46,567 --> 02:02:49,194
Bill's interest
in archaeology,

1704
02:02:49,278 --> 02:02:53,198
Mary's passion for
sports and philanthropy,

1705
02:02:53,282 --> 02:02:58,370
Ted's inclination toward art that
led to a job with an architect,

1706
02:02:58,454 --> 02:03:01,331
as well as some
considerable redecoration.

1707
02:03:03,667 --> 02:03:07,295
It was in this room that Mary
had announced her engagement...

1708
02:03:07,380 --> 02:03:09,130
I'm so happy for you.

1709
02:03:09,215 --> 02:03:13,843
To the dullest and most reliable
of Larry Lefferts' many sons.

1710
02:03:21,560 --> 02:03:24,729
And it was in this room, too,
that her father had kissed her

1711
02:03:24,814 --> 02:03:28,942
through her wedding veiI before
they motored to Grace Church.

1712
02:03:37,952 --> 02:03:41,663
He was a dutiful and loving
father, and a faithful husband.

1713
02:03:43,374 --> 02:03:45,750
When May died of
infectious pneumonia

1714
02:03:45,876 --> 02:03:48,253
after nursing
Bill safely through,

1715
02:03:48,337 --> 02:03:50,755
he had honestly mourned her.

1716
02:03:50,840 --> 02:03:53,425
The world of her youth
had fallen into pieces

1717
02:03:53,509 --> 02:03:57,387
and rebuilt itself
without her ever noticing.

1718
02:03:58,013 --> 02:04:01,182
This hard, bright blindness,

1719
02:04:01,267 --> 02:04:04,352
her incapacity to
recognise change,

1720
02:04:04,437 --> 02:04:06,688
made her children
conceal their views

1721
02:04:06,814 --> 02:04:09,023
from her,
just as Archer concealed his.

1722
02:04:10,526 --> 02:04:13,987
She died thinking
the world a good place,

1723
02:04:14,071 --> 02:04:17,657
full of loving and harmonious
households like her own.

1724
02:04:19,201 --> 02:04:22,579
Newland Archer,
in his 57th year,

1725
02:04:22,663 --> 02:04:25,498
mourned his past and
honoured it. (PHONE RINGING)

1726
02:04:29,503 --> 02:04:31,629
Yes, hello? Hello?

1727
02:04:31,714 --> 02:04:33,381
Chicago wants you.

1728
02:04:33,466 --> 02:04:34,674
Hello?

1729
02:04:34,758 --> 02:04:36,593
Dad?
Is that you, Ted?

1730
02:04:36,677 --> 02:04:38,386
Dad, I'm just about
finished out here,

1731
02:04:38,471 --> 02:04:41,389
but my client wants me to look at
some gardens before I start designing.

1732
02:04:41,474 --> 02:04:42,849
That sounds fine. Where?

1733
02:04:42,933 --> 02:04:44,601
Europe.
Gracious.

1734
02:04:44,685 --> 02:04:47,479
I'll have to saiI next
Wednesday on the Mauretania.

1735
02:04:47,563 --> 02:04:49,814
(CHUCKLES) What,
and miss the wedding?

1736
02:04:49,899 --> 02:04:51,232
I think Annie
will wait for me.

1737
02:04:51,317 --> 02:04:53,651
I'll be back on the 1 st, and
our wedding's not till the 5th.

1738
02:04:53,736 --> 02:04:55,320
I'm surprised you
remember the date.

1739
02:04:55,404 --> 02:04:57,697
Well... Dad,
I was hoping you'd join me.

1740
02:04:57,781 --> 02:04:59,157
What?

1741
02:04:59,241 --> 02:05:01,701
I'll need you to remind me
of what's important.

1742
02:05:01,785 --> 02:05:04,162
What do you say? It will be
our last father-and-son trip.

1743
02:05:04,246 --> 02:05:06,706
Well, Ted, I do appreciate
the invitation... Wonderful!

1744
02:05:06,790 --> 02:05:08,791
Can you call the Cunard office
first thing tomorrow?

1745
02:05:08,876 --> 02:05:11,503
But it would take me till next
Wednesday just to cancel my...

1746
02:05:11,587 --> 02:05:15,131
I won't hear it, Dad.
The Atlantic is calling us.

1747
02:05:15,216 --> 02:05:17,550
I'll be in New York on Monday,
and I'll contact you then.

1748
02:05:17,635 --> 02:05:19,302
You'll be in New...
On Monday.

1749
02:05:19,386 --> 02:05:20,595
I'll see what I can do.

1750
02:05:20,679 --> 02:05:21,846
Settle the tickets, Dad.

1751
02:05:21,931 --> 02:05:25,183
I can't promise anything, Ted.
I'll see what I can do. All right.

1752
02:05:25,267 --> 02:05:26,559
Bye-bye.
Bye.

1753
02:05:45,412 --> 02:05:48,331
I'm going out to Versailles
with Tourneur. Will you join us?

1754
02:05:48,415 --> 02:05:51,125
I thought I'd
go to the Louvre.

1755
02:05:51,210 --> 02:05:52,877
I'll meet you
there later then.

1756
02:05:52,962 --> 02:05:55,797
Countess Olenska's
expecting us at 5:30.

1757
02:05:56,423 --> 02:05:58,216
What?

1758
02:05:58,300 --> 02:05:59,425
Oh, didn't I tell you?

1759
02:06:00,177 --> 02:06:03,263
Annie made me swear to
do three things in Paris.

1760
02:06:03,347 --> 02:06:05,723
Get her the score of
the last Debussy songs,

1761
02:06:05,808 --> 02:06:09,310
go to the Grand Guignol,
and see Madame Olenska.

1762
02:06:09,395 --> 02:06:10,562
You know, she was
awfully good to Annie

1763
02:06:10,646 --> 02:06:13,439
when Mr Beaufort sent her
over to the Sorbonne.

1764
02:06:13,524 --> 02:06:16,442
Wasn't the Countess friendly with Mr
Beaufort's first wife or something?

1765
02:06:16,527 --> 02:06:19,237
I think Mrs Beaufort
said that she was.

1766
02:06:19,321 --> 02:06:22,407
In any case, I called the
Countess first thing this morning,

1767
02:06:22,491 --> 02:06:24,701
introduced
myself as her cousin.

1768
02:06:24,785 --> 02:06:27,328
Did you tell her
I was here, Ted?

1769
02:06:27,413 --> 02:06:30,206
Of course. Why not?

1770
02:06:30,291 --> 02:06:32,667
She sounds lovely.
Was she?

1771
02:06:37,131 --> 02:06:38,339
Lovely?

1772
02:06:41,385 --> 02:06:44,137
I don't know.
She was different.

1773
02:06:57,568 --> 02:07:00,903
NARRATOR: Whenever
he thought of Ellen Olenska,

1774
02:07:00,988 --> 02:07:03,948
it had been abstractly,
serenely,

1775
02:07:04,033 --> 02:07:07,410
like an imaginary loved one
in a book or picture.

1776
02:07:12,249 --> 02:07:16,044
She had become the complete
vision of all that he had missed.

1777
02:07:21,050 --> 02:07:22,884
NEWLAND: I'm only 57.

1778
02:07:28,390 --> 02:07:30,433
TED: Did Mr Beaufort really
have such a bad time of it

1779
02:07:30,517 --> 02:07:32,101
when he wanted
to remarry?

1780
02:07:32,186 --> 02:07:34,312
No one wanted to
give him an inch?

1781
02:07:34,396 --> 02:07:37,315
Perhaps because he'd
already taken so much.

1782
02:07:38,567 --> 02:07:41,444
As if anyone remembers
any more, or cares.

1783
02:07:42,613 --> 02:07:47,075
Well, Annie Ring and he did have a
lovely daughter. You're very lucky.

1784
02:07:47,951 --> 02:07:50,119
We're very lucky,
you mean.

1785
02:07:50,704 --> 02:07:52,872
Yes, of course
that's what I mean.

1786
02:07:52,956 --> 02:07:54,415
TED: So considering
how that all turned out,

1787
02:07:54,500 --> 02:07:56,584
and all the time
that's gone by,

1788
02:07:56,669 --> 02:07:58,878
I don't see how
you can resist.

1789
02:07:58,962 --> 02:08:02,215
I did have some resistance at first
to your marriage, as I told you...

1790
02:08:02,299 --> 02:08:04,801
No. I mean resist
seeing the woman

1791
02:08:04,885 --> 02:08:06,761
you almost threw
everything over for.

1792
02:08:07,888 --> 02:08:09,555
Only you didn't.

1793
02:08:10,391 --> 02:08:11,641
I didn't?

1794
02:08:12,851 --> 02:08:14,018
No.

1795
02:08:15,187 --> 02:08:16,437
But Mother said
that she knew

1796
02:08:16,480 --> 02:08:19,148
we would be safe with you. Your mother?

1797
02:08:19,233 --> 02:08:23,236
Yes. The day before she died she
asked to see me alone. Remember?

1798
02:08:24,613 --> 02:08:26,864
She said she knew
we were safe with you,

1799
02:08:26,949 --> 02:08:29,033
and always would be,

1800
02:08:29,118 --> 02:08:32,161
because once,
when she asked you to,

1801
02:08:33,455 --> 02:08:36,290
you gave up the thing
that you wanted most.

1802
02:08:49,012 --> 02:08:50,638
She never asked.

1803
02:08:53,809 --> 02:08:55,727
She never asked me.

1804
02:09:03,235 --> 02:09:07,196
NARRATOR: After a little while he
did not regret Ted's indiscretion.

1805
02:09:08,282 --> 02:09:12,076
It seemed to take an iron band
from his heart to know that,

1806
02:09:12,161 --> 02:09:16,080
after all, someone
had guessed and pitied,

1807
02:09:16,957 --> 02:09:21,878
and that it should have been
his wife moved him inexpressibly.

1808
02:09:40,522 --> 02:09:43,107
The porter says
it's the third floor.

1809
02:09:45,444 --> 02:09:47,862
Must be the one
with the awnings.

1810
02:09:50,824 --> 02:09:52,450
It's nearly 6:00.

1811
02:09:54,953 --> 02:09:57,371
I think I'll just
sit for a while.

1812
02:10:00,709 --> 02:10:02,835
Do you mean
you won't come?

1813
02:10:05,589 --> 02:10:08,549
You really won't come
at all? I don't know.

1814
02:10:10,552 --> 02:10:12,345
She won't understand.

1815
02:10:13,722 --> 02:10:16,140
Go on, Ted.
Maybe I'll follow you.

1816
02:10:19,978 --> 02:10:21,229
What will I tell her?

1817
02:10:22,606 --> 02:10:25,316
Don't you always
have something to say?

1818
02:10:28,487 --> 02:10:29,987
I'll tell her
you're old-fashioned,

1819
02:10:30,072 --> 02:10:32,031
and you insist on
walking up three flights

1820
02:10:32,115 --> 02:10:34,325
instead of
taking the elevator.

1821
02:10:42,584 --> 02:10:44,752
Just say
I'm old-fashioned.

1822
02:10:45,963 --> 02:10:48,464
That should be enough.
Go on.

1823
02:10:50,676 --> 02:10:51,843
Go on.