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Skin Game - John Galsworthy · The Letter, A Play in Three Acts

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  Speaker 1: Act one of The Skin Game by John Gaulsworthy. This
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  Speaker 2: The part of Hillcrest played by Anthony.
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  Speaker 3: Missus Amy Hillcrest read by Amanda Friday.
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  Speaker 4: Jill read by Avil Gonzalez.
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  Speaker 5: Hornblower read by del Mar H.
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  Speaker 6: Dolbear, Charles read by Chuck Williamson.
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  Speaker 7: Chloe read by Capricia Page.
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  Speaker 8: Ralph read by Chris Marcellis, Dorker read by Charlotte Durkett,
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  Speaker 8: Fellows read by Adam Brack.
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  Speaker 9: Auctioneer read by m J.
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  Speaker 10: Frank, Jackman read by Tricia G.
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  Speaker 11: Missus.
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  Speaker 12: Jackman read by Jeanie Terrado.
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  Speaker 9: Anna read by m J. Frank.
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  Speaker 13: First Stranger read by Christine G.
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  Speaker 14: Second Stranger read by Elizabeth Klett.
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  Speaker 1: Narrator read by Sallie mc connell. The Skin Game, Act one,
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  Speaker 1: Hill Christ's Study a pleasant room with books in calf
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  Speaker 1: bindings and signs that the hill Crists have traveled, such
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  Speaker 1: as a large photograph of the taj Mahal of Table
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  Speaker 1: Mountain and the Pyramids of Egypt. A large bureau stayed right,
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  Speaker 1: devoted to the business of a country estate. Two foxes, masks,
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  Speaker 1: flowers in bowls, deep arm chairs, a large French window
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  Speaker 1: open at back, with a lovely view of a slight
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  Speaker 1: rise of fields and trees in august sunlight. A fine
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  Speaker 1: stone fireplace stage left, a door left, a door opposite right.
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  Speaker 1: General color effect stone and cigar leaf brown with spots
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  Speaker 1: of bright color. Hill christ sits in a swivel chair
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  Speaker 1: at the bureau, busy with papers. He has gout and
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  Speaker 1: his left foot is encased accord. He is a thin,
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  Speaker 1: dried up man of about fifty five, with a rather refined,
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  Speaker 1: rather kindly and rather cranky countenance. Close to him stands
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  Speaker 1: his very upstanding nineteen year old daughter, Jill, with clubbed
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  Speaker 1: hair round a pretty manly face.
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  Speaker 4: Kino Ridodo is all pready to get rolls in his days.
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  Speaker 2: Cads are cads, Jill, even in these days?
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  Speaker 4: What is a cad?
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  Speaker 2: A soft a sort of fellow without a sense of
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  Speaker 2: other people?
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  Speaker 4: Well, old home blobber, I'll give you I wouldn't take
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  Speaker 4: him him Nat Charlie Chili, the impulses of not being
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  Speaker 4: Charlie good.
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  Speaker 2: Heavens, do you know the Christian names.
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  Speaker 4: Metty father, they've been here seven years.
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  Speaker 2: In old days we only knew their Christian names from
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  Speaker 2: their tombstones.
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  Speaker 4: Charlie Holme Blower, is it really half about sports?
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  Speaker 2: About a quarter of a bad sport? I've always thought
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  Speaker 2: out hunting.
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  Speaker 1: Jill pulling his hair?
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  Speaker 2: Now his wife Chloe, God, your mother would have a
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  Speaker 2: fit if she knew you called her Chloe.
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  Speaker 4: That's her ripping name.
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  Speaker 2: Chloe him had a spaniel once.
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  Speaker 4: Don't Jo, you're narrow but kept all darling. You warned
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  Speaker 4: you Chloe has seen life. I'm pretty sure that's attractive anyway.
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  Speaker 4: No mother's nod room. Then turn you and easy eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Really, my dear, you are getting.
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  Speaker 4: It's the limit now, Rolf.
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  Speaker 2: What's rolph? Another dog?
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  Speaker 4: Rolph Onon Blower is a chopper? He really is a
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  Speaker 4: nice boy hill.
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  Speaker 1: Christ with a sharp look.
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  Speaker 2: Oh he's a nice boy.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Charlie. You know what a nice.
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  Speaker 2: Boy is not in these days?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you. In the first place, he's not amorous.
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  Speaker 4: What just a jolly good companion.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's some comfort to whom.
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  Speaker 4: Well to anyone me where anywhere? He don't suppose I
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  Speaker 4: can find myself at a home podags to you, I'm
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  Speaker 4: naturally rangey. Father.
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  Speaker 2: You don't say so.
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  Speaker 4: In the second place, he doesn't like discipline.
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  Speaker 2: Jupiter, he does seem attractive.
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  Speaker 4: In the third place, he was his father.
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  Speaker 2: Is that essential to nice girls too, Jill, with a
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  Speaker 2: twirl of his.
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  Speaker 1: Hair, fesh.
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  Speaker 5: Not.
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  Speaker 4: Fourthly, he's God's ideas.
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  Speaker 2: I knew it.
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  Speaker 4: For instance, he thinks, as.
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  Speaker 2: I do, ah good ideas.
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  Speaker 4: Careful he's things. Old people runs to show too much,
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  Speaker 4: he says to Aunty, because they're so dumb touchy. Are
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  Speaker 4: you dumb touchy darling?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm I don't know about touchy.
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  Speaker 4: He says. There'll be no well fit jilve in tail
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  Speaker 4: get rid of the old. Oh, he says that he
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  Speaker 4: must make them climb a tawdry and shake them off it. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 4: whethough it distown on each other's rights, they'll spoil the
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  Speaker 4: garden for the young.
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  Speaker 2: Does his father agree?
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Poulp doesn't talk to him. His man's too large? Have
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  Speaker 4: you ever seen it?
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  Speaker 7: Dodo?
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  Speaker 4: Of course, as considerable, isn't it now? Yours? Is ret
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  Speaker 4: is it? Darling?
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  Speaker 2: It won't be in a minute. Do you realize I've
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  Speaker 2: got gout?
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  Speaker 1: Jill, looking at his foot.
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  Speaker 4: Poor Docky. How long have you been here, Dodo?
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  Speaker 2: Since Elizabeth?
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, it has his drawbacks. You think home Blower had
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  Speaker 4: a father. I believe he was spontaneous about Todo. Why
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  Speaker 4: all this this attitude to the home Blowers.
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  Speaker 1: She purses her lips and makes a gesture as of
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  Speaker 1: pushing persons away.
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  Speaker 2: Because they're pushing.
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  Speaker 4: That's only because we are, as a mother of it says,
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  Speaker 4: And they're not yet. But why not let them be?
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  Speaker 2: You can't why it takes generations to learn to live
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  Speaker 2: and let live?
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  Speaker 9: Jill.
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  Speaker 2: People like that take an l when you give.
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  Speaker 4: Them an inch, but if you gave them the l,
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  Speaker 4: they run. It warns the inch. Why should it all
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  Speaker 4: be such a skin game?
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  Speaker 2: Skin game? Where do you get your lingo?
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  Speaker 4: Keep to the point I do well, Jill?
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  Speaker 2: All lives the struggle between people at different stages of development,
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  Speaker 2: in different positions, with different amounts of social influence and property,
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  Speaker 2: And the only thing is to have rules of the
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  Speaker 2: game and keep them new. People like the Hornblowers haven't
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  Speaker 2: learnt those rules. They're only rules to get all they can.
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  Speaker 4: Darling ries, They're not half as bad as you think.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when I saw hornblow a long meadow in the cottages.
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  Speaker 2: I certainly found him all right. All the same, he's
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  Speaker 2: got the cloven hoof warming. His influence in deep water
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  Speaker 2: is thoroughly bad. Those potteries of his are demoralizing. The
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  Speaker 2: whole atmosphere of the place is changing. It was a
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  Speaker 2: thousand pities he ever came here and discovered that clay.
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  Speaker 2: He's brought in the modern cutthroat.
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  Speaker 4: Spirit Kato froat spirits. You mean, what's your definition of
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  Speaker 4: a gentleman, Dodo?
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  Speaker 2: You can't describe, only feel it?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, try well.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose you might say, a man who keeps his
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  Speaker 2: form and doesn't let life scupper him out of his standards.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose his chances are low.
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  Speaker 2: I assume, of course, that he's honest and tolerant, gentle
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  Speaker 2: to the weak, and not self seeking.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, self seeking. But aren't we you all?
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  Speaker 7: Dodo?
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  Speaker 4: I am you?
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  Speaker 10: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, too young?
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  Speaker 2: You know, nobody knows till they're under pretty heavy.
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  Speaker 4: Fire, Jill, except, of course, mother.
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  Speaker 2: How do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: Mother?
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  Speaker 4: Mother reminds me of England, according to yourself, always right
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  Speaker 4: whatever she does.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, your mother is perhaps the perfect woman.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I was saying. No, no one could call
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  Speaker 4: it perfect, Dodo. Besides, you've got scouts.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and I want fellows.
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  Speaker 1: Ring that bell, Jill crossing to the bill.
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  Speaker 4: She likes all. My definition of a gentleman a man
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  Speaker 4: who gives you a home blower his stew. She rings
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  Speaker 4: the bell, and I think mother ought to call them, RL,
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  Speaker 4: says old homeblower sents it fair for that she's never
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  Speaker 4: made a sign to Chloe, but for yeah, she's been, Hair.
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  Speaker 2: I don't interfere with your mother in such matters. She
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  Speaker 2: may go and call on the devil himself if she likes.
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  Speaker 4: I know it ever so much better than she is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's respectful.
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  Speaker 4: You do keep your prejudices out of your fis that
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  Speaker 4: mother literally looks down her knows and she never forgives
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  Speaker 4: an h they'd get a hew from her if they
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  Speaker 4: took the hint.
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  Speaker 2: Jill, your language then slam.
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  Speaker 4: Out of it, Dodo, I say mother ought to call
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  Speaker 4: the home blowers.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my dear, I always let people have the last word.
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  Speaker 2: It makes them feel ugh.
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  Speaker 1: My foot enter fellows, lift fellows.
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  Speaker 2: Send it to the village and get another bottle of
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  Speaker 2: this staff.
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  Speaker 4: How go, darling.
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  Speaker 1: She blows him a kiss and goes out at the
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  Speaker 1: window and.
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  Speaker 2: Tell cook I've got to go on slops.
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  Speaker 15: This puts worse, indeed, Sir.
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  Speaker 2: My third girl this year.
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  Speaker 15: Fellows very annoying, sir, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I never had it.
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  Speaker 15: I fancy I have had a twinge, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Have you where in my cork wrist?
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  Speaker 5: Sir?
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  Speaker 15: You're what the wrist I draw corks with.
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  Speaker 2: You'd have more than a twinge if you live with
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  Speaker 2: my father.
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  Speaker 15: Hmm, excuse me, sir. V she water corks, in my experience,
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  Speaker 15: are worse than any wine.
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  Speaker 2: Ah. The country's not what it was, he said.
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  Speaker 15: Fellows getting very new, sir, You're right, has darker come
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  Speaker 15: not yet, sir. The Jackmans would like to see you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: What about I don't know, sir, Well.
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  Speaker 1: Show the men Fellows going, Yes, sir. Hilchrist turns his
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  Speaker 1: swivel chair round. The Jackmans come in. He a big
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  Speaker 1: fellow about fifty, in a laborer's dress, with eyes which
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  Speaker 1: have more in them than his tongue can express. She
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  Speaker 1: a little woman with a worn face, a bright, quick glance,
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  Speaker 1: and a tongue to match.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning missus, Jackman, Morning Jackman. I haven't seen you
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. What can I do?
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  Speaker 1: He draws in foot and breath with a sharp hiss.
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  Speaker 10: We've had notice to quit, sir. What got to be
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  Speaker 10: out this week?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, indeed.
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  Speaker 2: Well but when I sowed long Meadow in the cottages,
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  Speaker 2: who was on the express understanding that there is to
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  Speaker 2: be no disturbance of tendencies?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, sir, but we've all got to go, missus r
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  Speaker 12: Ve and the druzen Orse, and there isn't another cottage
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  Speaker 12: to be had anywhere in deep water.
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  Speaker 2: I know I want one for my cowmen. This won't
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  Speaker 2: do it all. Where do you get it from?
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  Speaker 10: Mister Ornblower himself, heir? Just an hour ago he come
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  Speaker 10: round and said, I'm sorry, I want the cottages, and
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  Speaker 10: you've got to clear.
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  Speaker 12: He's no gentleman, sir.
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  Speaker 9: He put it so brisk.
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  Speaker 12: We've been there thirty years and now we don't know
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  Speaker 12: what to do. So I hope you'll excuse us coming round.
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  Speaker 2: Sir, I should think so. Indeed. Hmmm.
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  Speaker 1: He rises and limps across to the fireplace on his
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  Speaker 1: stick to himself.
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  Speaker 2: The cloven hoof by George, this is a breach of faith,
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  Speaker 2: all right? To him, Jackman confounded. I certainly never sold
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  Speaker 2: if I known he was going.
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  Speaker 12: To do this, No, sir, I'm sure, sir. They do say.
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  Speaker 12: It's to do with the potteries. He wants the cottages
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  Speaker 12: for his workmen.
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  Speaker 2: That's all very well, but he shouldn't have led me
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  Speaker 2: to suppose they would make no change.
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  Speaker 10: They talk about his heaven bought the century to gut
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  Speaker 10: up more chimneys there, and that's why he wants the cottages.
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  Speaker 12: Yes, sir, it's such a pretty spot.
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  Speaker 1: Looks beautiful from here, she looks up through the window.
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  Speaker 12: Lovely spot in all deep water, I always say. And
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  Speaker 12: your father owned it, and his father before him. It's
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  Speaker 12: a pity they ever sold it, sir. Begging your pardon the.
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  Speaker 1: Sentry, he rings the bell.
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  Speaker 12: I'm glad you're going to stop it, sir. It does
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  Speaker 12: put us about. We don't know where to go. I
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  Speaker 12: said to mister Hornblower. I said, I'm sure mister Hill
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  Speaker 12: Chris would never have turned us out. And he said,
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  Speaker 12: mister hill Chris, to be begging your pardon, sir, make
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  Speaker 12: no mistake. He said, you must go, miss us. He
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  Speaker 12: don't even know our name, and to come it like
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  Speaker 12: this over us. He's a dreadful new man. I think
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  Speaker 12: with his overriding notions, and such a heavy footed man
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  Speaker 12: to look at.
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  Speaker 3: But he's from the.
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  Speaker 1: North, I say, Fellows has entered left.
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  Speaker 2: Ask Missus hill Christiff, she'll come very good, sir. There's
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  Speaker 2: Docer here, not yet, sir, I want to see him
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  Speaker 2: at once.
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  Speaker 10: Mister Hornblower said he was coming on to see you, sir,
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  Speaker 10: so we thought we'd step along first.
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  Speaker 12: Quite right, Jackman, I said to Jackman, mister hill Crystal,
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  Speaker 12: stand up for us. I know he's a gentleman, I said,
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  Speaker 12: this man, I said, don't care for the neighborhood or
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  Speaker 12: the people. He don't care for anything. So long as
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  Speaker 12: he makes his money and has his importance.
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  Speaker 9: You can't expect it.
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  Speaker 12: I suppose, I said, having got rich so sudden. The
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  Speaker 12: gentry don't do things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Quite, Missus Jackman quite to himself the sentry.
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  Speaker 1: No, Missus hill christ enters, a well dressed woman with
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  Speaker 1: a firm, clear cut face.
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  Speaker 2: Oh amy, Missus Jackman turned out of their cottage, and
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  Speaker 2: Missus Harvey and the Drews. When I sold to Hornblower,
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  Speaker 2: I stipulated that they shouldn't.
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  Speaker 12: Be our week's up on Saturday, mom. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 12: I don't know where we shall turn, because, of course
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  Speaker 12: Jackman must be near his work, and I shall lose
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  Speaker 12: me washin if we have to go far.
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  Speaker 2: You leave it to me, missus Jackman, Good morning, morning, Jackman. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: I can't move with the scout.
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  Speaker 12: I'm sure we're very sorry, sir, Good morning, sir, Good
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  Speaker 12: morning ma'am. And thank you kindly.
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  Speaker 1: They go out.
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  Speaker 3: Do you suppose this hornblower will care two straws about
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  Speaker 3: that jack.
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  Speaker 2: He must when it's put to him, if he's got
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  Speaker 2: any decent feeling he hasn't. The jackman's talk of his
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  Speaker 2: having bought the sentry to put up more chimneys never impossible.
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  Speaker 3: It would ruin the place utterly, besides cutting us off
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  Speaker 3: from the Duke's. Oh no, Miss Mullins would never sell
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  Speaker 3: behind our backs anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I must stop his turning these people out, Missus h.
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  Speaker 1: With a little smile, almost contemptuous.
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  Speaker 3: You might have known he'd do something of the sort.
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  Speaker 3: You will imagine people are like yourself, Jack you always
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  Speaker 3: ought to make darker, have things in black and white.
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  Speaker 2: I said, quite distinctly. Of course, you won't want to
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  Speaker 2: disturb the tendencies. There's a great shortage of cottages Hornblower
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  Speaker 2: told me as distinctly that he wouldn't. What more do
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  Speaker 2: you want?
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  Speaker 3: A man like that thinks of nothing but the short
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  Speaker 3: cut to his own way.
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  Speaker 1: Looking out of the window towards the rise.
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  Speaker 3: If he buys the sentry and puts up chimneys, we
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  Speaker 3: simply couldn't stop here.
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  Speaker 2: My father would turn in his grave.
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  Speaker 3: It would have been more useful if he'd not dipped
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  Speaker 3: the estate and sold the sentry. This Hornblower hates us.
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  Speaker 3: He thinks we turn up our noses at.
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  Speaker 2: Him as we do Amy.
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  Speaker 3: Who wouldn't a man without traditions, who believes in nothing
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  Speaker 3: but money and push?
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  Speaker 2: Suppose he won't budge? Can we do anything for the Jackmans?
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  Speaker 3: There are the two rooms Beaver used to have over
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  Speaker 3: the stables.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Dorker, Sir Dorkers is a short, square, rather red
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  Speaker 1: faced terrier of a man in riding clothes and gaiters.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, darker, I've got gout again.
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  Speaker 16: Very sorry, sir. How do you do man?
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  Speaker 2: Did you meet the jackmans?
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  Speaker 16: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: He hardly ever quite finishes a word, seeming to snap
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  Speaker 1: off their tails. And then you heard Dorker nodding.
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  Speaker 16: Smart man. Homeblower never lets grass.
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  Speaker 1: Grow smart, Dorker Grinning, don't.
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  Speaker 16: Do to underrate your neighbors a cad I call him.
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  Speaker 16: That's it, ma'am got all the advantage.
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  Speaker 2: Heard anything about the century Darker on Blower wants to buy.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Mullins would never sell, would she? She wants to
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  Speaker 2: the deuce she does.
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  Speaker 16: You want stick at the price either?
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  Speaker 3: What's it worth?
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  Speaker 16: Darker depends on what you want it for.
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  Speaker 3: He wants it for spite. We want it for sent
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  Speaker 3: Dorker Grinning.
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  Speaker 16: Worth what you like to give then, But he's a
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  Speaker 16: rich man.
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  Speaker 3: Intolerable dorker to Hilchrist, give.
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  Speaker 16: Me a figure, sir, I'll try the old lady before
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  Speaker 16: he gets to her.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to buy unless there's nothing else for it.
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  Speaker 2: I should have to raise money on this state. It
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: won't stand much more. I can't believe the fellow would
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: be such a babbarrion chimneys within three hundred yards right
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: in front of this house. It's a nightmare.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: You'd much better let Darker make sure jack.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Jackman says Hornblower is coming around to see me. I
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: shall put it to.
• 17:35
  Speaker 16: Him, make him keener than ever. Better get him first.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: APIs methods Ugh confound the scout.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: He gets back to his chair with difficulty.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Look here, docer, I want to see you about.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Gates Fellows entering horn Blower. Hornblower enters. A man of
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: medium height, thoroughly broadened, blown out, as it were by
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: a sixcess. He has thick, coarse, dark hair, just grizzled rye,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: bushy eyebrow, a wide mouth. He wears quite ordinary clothes,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: as if that department were in charge of some one
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: who knew about such things. He has a small rose
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: in his button hole, and carries a Homburg hat, which
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: one suspects will look too small on his head.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Good morning, how are you docker fine morning,
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: lovely weather.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: His voice has a curious blend in its turne of
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: brass and oil, and an accent not quite Scotch, nor
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: quite North Country.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Haven't seen you for a long time, Hilcrest.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Hilcrist, who has risen?
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Not since I sawed you long meadow in those cottages,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I believe.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, dear me, no, that's what I came about, Hilchrist,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: subsiding again into his chair.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Forgive me, won't you sit down?
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Horn Blower? Not sitting?
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Have your god gout? That's unfortunate. I've never got of
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: no disposition that way. Have no ancestors, you see, just
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: beyond drink. And to answer for.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: You're lucky, Hornblower with a laugh.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: I wonder if missus Hilo Chris thinks that am I
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: lucky to have no past? Ma'am? Just the future?
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: You're sure you have the future, mister Hornblower.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: Ah, that's your aristocratic rabia. Trust you. Aristocrats are very
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: hard people underneath your manners. You love to lay your
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: body out. But I've got the future, all right.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I've had the jackman's here, mister Hornblower.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, they men with the little spitfire wife.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: They're very excellent, good people, and they've been in that
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: cottage quietly thirty years.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Hornblower, throwing out his forefinger a favorite gesture.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Ah, you've wanted me to stir up a bit. Deep
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: water needs a better go put into it. There's generally
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: some go where I am. I daresay you wish there'd
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: been no com ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: We certainly like people to keep their word, mister Hornblower.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Amy, never mind, Hill Christ takes more than that to
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: upset me.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: You promise me, you know not to change the tenancies.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: Well, oh, come to tell yo that I have. I
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: wasn't expecting to have the need when I bought thought
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: the Duke would sell me a bit down there, But
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: devil a bit he will. Now I must have those
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: cottages for my workmen. I've got important works. You know.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: The Jackmans have their importance too, sir, the hearts in
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: that cottage.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: I've a sense of proportioned man. My works supply thousands
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: of people, and my hearts in them. What's more, they
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: made me fortune. I've got ambitions. I'm a serious man.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Suppose I were to consider this and bat and every
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: little party objection, where should I get to nowhere?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: All the same, this sort of thing isn't done, you.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Know, not by you, because you've got no need to
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: do it here. You are quite content on what your
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: father's made for you. You have no ambitions, and you
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: want other people to have none. Only you think your
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: father's got your land.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Hugh christ angry.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Not by breaking their word.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Hornblower, with a great smile.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Don't you believe it? They got it by breaking their
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: word and turning out Jackmans. If that's their name all
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: over the place.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: That's an insult, mister hornblower.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: No, it's a red party. If you think so much
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: of these jackmans, build them a corriage yourself. You've got
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: a space.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: That's beside the point you promised me, and I sold
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: on that understanding, and I.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Bought on the understanding that I get to more land
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: from the Duke.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: That's nothing to do with me.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: You'll find it has because I'm going to have those cottages.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Well, I call it simply horn blew with a great smile.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Look here here, christ you have not had occasion to
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: understand men like me. I've got guts and I've got
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: the money, and I don't sit still on it. I'm
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: going ahead because I believe in myself of no use
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: for sentiment, and that sort of thing. Forty of your
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: gentlemans ain't worth me, little finger.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Of all the blatant things I ever heard said.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Well, as we're speaking plainly, I've been thinking. You are
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: the village, run your old fashioned way, and I want
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: it run mine a fancy. There's not room for the
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: torm us here.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: When are you going?
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Never fear, I'm not going.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Look here, mister hornblower. The civil gout makes me ear,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: puts me at a disadvantage, But I should be glad
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: if you'd kindly explain yourself.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Cock at me, Ah from the north.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: I'm told you wish to buy the sentry and put
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: more of your chimneys up there, regardless of the.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Fact, he points through the window, that it.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Would ugly ruin the house we've had for generations and
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: all our pleasure here.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Oh the man talks. Why you think he owned the
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: sky because his father's built in my house with a
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: pretty view where it's nothing to do but live it shere,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: want or something to do? That gives you your fine sentiment?
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Til Christ have the goodness not to charge me with idleness?
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Darker where is he?
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: He shows the biureau.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: When you do the drudgery of your works as thoroughly
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: as I do that of my estate? Is it true
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: about the century gospel?
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: True? If you want to know, my sonchi Arlie is
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: buying it this very minute.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: What did you say by.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Is what the old lady she wants to sell and
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: she'll get her price whatever it is.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: If that isn't a skin game, mister Hornblower, I don't
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: know it is.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Ah, You've got a very nice expression there. Skin game. Well,
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: bad words break no bones, and they're wonderful for hardening
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: the heart. If it wasn't for a lady's presence, I
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: could give you a specimen or two.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, mister hornblower, that need not stop you.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: I'm sure well, and I don't know that it need.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: You're an obstruction, But like you, you are in my path,
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: and anyone in my path doesn't stay there long, or
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: if he does, he stays there on my terms. My
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: terms are chimneys in the sentry where I need em.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: It'll do you a power of good too to know
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: that you're not almighty.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: And that's being neighborly.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: And how have you tried being neighborly to me? If
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: I haven't a wife, I've got a daughter in law.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: Have you called on her? Ma'am?
• 24:59
  Speaker 12: No?
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: And you're an old family. You don't like me. You
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: think I'm a pushing man. I'll go to chapel and
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: you don't like that, or make things and a seldom
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: and you don't like that. A by land and you
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: don't like that it threatens the view from your windies. Well,
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: I don't lie you, and I'm not going to put
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: up with your attitude. You've had things your own way
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: too long, and now you're not going to have them
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: any longer.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: We hold your word over those cottages.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: I'm going to help the cottages. I need them and more. Besides,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: now I'm to put up me new works.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: That's a declaration of war.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: You never said a truer word. It's one or the
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: other of us, and I rather think it's going to
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: be me. I am the risin, and you're the setting
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: sun as the foe, it says hill Christ, touching the bill.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: We shall see if you can ride rough shot like this.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: We used to have decent ways of going about things here.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: You ought to change all that. Well, we shall do
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: our damnst to stop you.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: To fellows at the door, are the.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Jackmen still in the house? Asked them to be good
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: enough to come in.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Hornbler with the first sign of uneasiness.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: I've seen these people. I have nothing more to say
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: to them. I told them I'd give them five pounds
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: to cover their moving.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: It doesn't occur to you that people, however humble, like
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: to have some say in their own fate.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: I never had any say in mind till I had
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: the brass, and nobody ever will. It's our hypocrisy. You
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: will count to folk are fair awful hypocrites. You talk
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: about good form and all that sort of thing. It's
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: just the comfortable doctrine of the man in the saddle,
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: sentimental barnish. You're every bit as hard as I am underneath.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Missus h who had been standing very still all this time.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: You flatter us not at all.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: God helps those who help themselves at the bottom of
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: all religion. I'm going to help myself, and God's going
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: to help me.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: I admire your knowledge.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: We are on the right and God helps.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Don't you believe it? You haven't got the energy.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Nor perhaps the conceit.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Horn blur, throwing out his forefinger.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: No, no, doesn't consider believe in yourself when you've got
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: reason to.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: The Jackmans have entered.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I'm very sorry, missus Jackman, but I just wanted you
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: to realize they've done my best with this.
• 27:32
  Speaker 12: Gentlemen, Yes, sir, I thought if you spoke for us,
• 27:37
  Speaker 12: he'd feel different, Like.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: One cottage is the same as another. Missus. I made
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: you a fair offer of five pounds for the moving.
• 27:46
  Speaker 10: We wouldn't take fifty to go out of that house.
• 27:49
  Speaker 10: We brought up three children there and buried two from it.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Missus j to missus Hilchrist.
• 27:55
  Speaker 12: We're attached to it like mom.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Hilchrist to Hornblower, how would you like to be turned
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: out of a place you were fond of?
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: Not a bit, but little considerations have to give way
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: to big ones. Now, missus, I'll make it ten pounds,
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: and I'll send a wagon to shift your things. If
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: that isn't fair, you better accept. I shall keep it open.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: The Jackmans look at each other. Their faces show deep anger,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: and the question they ask each other is which we'll speak.
• 28:28
  Speaker 12: We won't take it, I George, not a fardin.
• 28:33
  Speaker 10: We come there when we was married.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Horn Blower, throwing out his finger.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, very improvident folk.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Don't lecture them, mister Hornblower. They come out of this
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: miles above you.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Well, I was going to give you another week, but
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: you'll go out next Saturday and take care you're not late,
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: or your things will be put out in the ring.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Missus h to missus Jackman.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: We'll send down for your things and you can come
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: to us for the time being.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Missus Jackman drops a curtsy, her eyes stab horn Blowers
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Jackman heavily clinching his fists.
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: You're no gentlemen, don't put temptation in my way, that's.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: All Jackman, horn blower triumphantly.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: I hear that. Let's sha protegy. Keep out of them
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: away me, man or I'll put the police on you
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: for our uttering threads.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: You'd better go now, jackman.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: The Jackman's moved to the door.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Missus j turning, maybe europepent someday, sir.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: They go out, Missus Hilchrist following, well.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry there's such unreasonable folk. I never met people
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: with less motion on which side the bread was buttered.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: And I never met anyone so pachydermatous.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: What's that? In Heaven's name? You needn't wrap it up
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: in long words. Now your good lady's gone.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not going in for a slanging match. I resent
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: your conduct much too deeply.
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: Look here, real Christ, I don't object to you personally.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: You seem to me a poor creature that's bound to
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: get left with your gout and your dignity. But of
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: course you can make yourself very disagreeable before you done.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Now I want to be the move in spirit here.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: I'm full of plans. I'm going to stand for parliament.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: I'm going to make this a prosperous place. I'm a
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: good natured man if you'll treat me as such. Now
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: you take me on as a neighbor and all that,
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: and I'll manage without chimneys on the sentry. Is it
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: a bargain?
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: He holds out his hand, Hill Christ, ignoring it.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I thought you said you didn't keep your word when
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: it suited you to break it.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: Now, don't get on the high horse. You and me
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: could be very good friends, but I can be a
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: very nasty enemy. The chimneys will not look nice from
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: that windy.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: You know, mister Hornblower. If you think I'll take your
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: hand after this jackman business, you are greatly mistaken. You
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: are proposing that I shall stand in with you while
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: you terrannize over the neighborhood. Please realize that unless you
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: leave those tendencies undisturbed, as you said you would, we
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: don't know each other.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: Well. That won't trouble me much. Now you'd better think
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: it over. You've got gout and it makes you hasty.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: I tell you again, I'm not the man to make
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: an enemy of unless you're friendly. Sure as I stand here,
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: i'll ruin the look at your place.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: The toot of a car is heard.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: There's my car. I sent Charlie and his wife in
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: to buy the Sentry, and make no mistake, he's got
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: it in his pocket. It's your last chance, you'll chrisp.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: I'm not averse to you as a man. I think
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: you're the best of the fossils round here. At least
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: I think you can do me the most harm socially.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Come now, he holds out his hand again.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Not if you've bought the centry ten times over, your
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: ways are not mine and I'll have nothing to.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: Do with you. Really, is that so very well? Now?
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: Lookd I learned something, and it's time you did. Jerry,
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: realize that I'm very nearly round you.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: He draws a circle slowly in the air.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: I'm at uphill. The works are here, here's wrong meadow,
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: here's the Sentry. That off your spot. There's only the
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: Common left to give your touch with the world. Now,
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: between you and the Common, there's a high road. I
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: come out on the high road here to your north,
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: and I shall come out on it there to your west,
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: when I've got my new works up on the Sentry,
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: I shall be making a trolley trap between the works
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: up to the road at both ends, so any goods
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: will be running right round you. How do you like
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: that for a country?
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Please for answer? Hilchrist, who is angry beyond the power
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: of speech, walks forgetting to use his stick up to
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the French window. While he stands there with his back
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: to hornblower, the door l is flung open and Jim enters,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: preceding Charles, his wife, Chloe, and Ralph. Charles is a
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: goodish looking, mustached young man of about twenty eight, with
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: a white rim to the collar of his waistcoat and spats.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: He has his hand behind Chloe's back, as if to
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: prevent her turning tail. She is rather a handsome young
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: woman with dark eyes, full red lips, and a suspicion
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: of powder, a little under dressed for the country. Ralph,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: who brings up the rear, is about twenty with an
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: open face and stiffish butter colored hair. Jewel runs over
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: to her father at the window. She has a bottle.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Allahdada, I've brought a lot, isn't it a treaty? Papa?
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: And her sister Hello.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: The extra declamation is induced by the apprehension that there
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: has been a raw Hilchrist gives a stiff little bow,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: remaining where he is in the window. Jill stays close
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: to him, staring from one to the other, then blocks
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: him off and engages him in conversation. Charles has gone
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: up to his father, who has remained maliciously still where
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: he delivered his last speech. Clary and Rolph stand awkwardly
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: waiting between the fireplace and the door.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: Well, Charlie not got it.
• 34:34
  Speaker 12: Not.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: I'd practically got her to say she'd sell at three thousand,
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: five hundred. When that fellow darker turned up that bulterario.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: A chop when he was here a while ago. Oh,
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: so that's it.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: I heard him gallop up. He came straight for the
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: old lady and got her away. What he said I
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: don't know, but she came back looking wiser than an owl.
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: Said she'd think it over thought, she had other views.
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: Did you tell her she might have her price?
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: Practically I did. Well, she thought it would be fair
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: to put it up to auction. There were other inquiries. Ah,
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: she's a leary old bird. Reminds me of one of
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: those pictures of fate, don't you know?
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Auction? Well, if it's not gone, we'll get it. Yet
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: that damn little doctor, I've had a row with hill Christ,
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: I thought. So.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: They are turning cautiously to look at hill Christ when
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Jewel steps forward. Jeel flushed and determined.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: That's not a sporting if you miss a holmeblower.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: At her words. Rolf comes forward too.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: You should hear both sides before you say that, Missy,
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: that isn't a.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: De sade of churning out the jackman's actually promised.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, dear me, yes, they don't matter. I row a
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: gingerbread to the schemes I've got for better in this neighborhood.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: I had been standing up for you.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: Now I won't, dear dear, what will become me.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: I won't say anything about the other thing, because I
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: think it's beneath dignity to notice it, but to turn
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: poor people out there caught you as it's a.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Shine hot to me.
• 36:27
  Speaker 8: You haven't been doing that. Father, Shut up, Ralph horn.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: Blower, turning to Rolf, there's a legal youth, my young whipper. Snap,
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: I kick your mouth shut and leave it to your
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: eldest and know what's right under the weight of this rejoinder.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Ralph stands, biting his lips. Then he throws his head up.
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: I hate it.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: Oh you hate it. You can get out of my house.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: Then freeze page, mister hornblower to be violent.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: You are right, young lady. You can stay in my house,
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Ralph and learn manners.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Count Charlie, it's your home, blower Hill Christ from the window, Jill.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Well as you care of it, must sure for ras
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: and you tuly bravo.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: Now look here, I will not have a vault in
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: my family. You'll just have to learn that a man
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: who's worked as I have, who's risen as I have,
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: and who knows the world is the proper judge of
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: what's right and wrong. I'll answer to God for me actions,
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: and not to you young people.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Ooh God, you're blasphemous.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: Young thing, and you're just as bad a young freethinker.
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: I won't have it, Jill.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: I wish you would kindly not talk.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: I can't help it.
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: Come along, father, deeds not words, Aye, deeds.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Missus Hillcrist and Dorkers have entered by the French window.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Quite right, He throws out his finger at Dorka's Ah.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: Sorry, you put your dog onto it. Very smart, dead,
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: I give you credit.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Missus h pointing to Chloe, who has stood by herself,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: forgotten and uncomfortable throughout the scene.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: May I ask who this lady is?
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Chloe turns round, startled, and her vanity bag slips down
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: her dress to the floor.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: No, ma'am, I may not, for you know perfectly well
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: I brought mother.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Will you take her out again? Then, Amy, have the
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: goodness to remember that this is my house so far
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: as ladies are concerned.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: Mother.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: She looks astonished at Chloe, who about to speak, does not,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: passing her eyes with a queer, half scarred expression. From
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Missus Hilchrist to Dorka, they go out left. Ralph hurries
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: after them.
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: You've been so to my wife. Why what do you
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: mean by it?
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Missus Hilchrist simply smiles.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: I apologize. I regret extremely. There is no reason why
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: the ladies of your family or mine should be involved
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: in our quarrel. For heaven's sake, let's fight like gentlemen.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: Catch words sneers. No, we'll play what you call a
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: skiing game, hill Christ without gloves on. We won't spare
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: each other. You look out for yourselves, but God, after
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: this morning, I mean business. And as for your doctor, yes,
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: slide dog, you think yourself very clever, But i'll have
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: the sentry yet, come Charley.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: They go out, passing Jill, who is coming in again
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: in the doorway.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: Well, Doca safe for the moment.
• 39:51
  Speaker 16: The old lady you'll pre auction, couldn't get in a
• 39:53
  Speaker 16: budge on that. She says. She don't want to be
• 39:56
  Speaker 16: a nailid either. But if you ask me, it's the
• 39:59
  Speaker 16: money she smells.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: No, mother, Well, why did you insult her?
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: I think I only asked you to take her out?
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: Why even if she result condition's daughter in law?
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: My dear Jill, allow me to judge the sort of
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: acquaintances I wish to make.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: She's all right? Was it empowered? And such? Out the lips? Nowadays?
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: I think she's rather a good salt.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: She was awful upset too, upset?
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't busy, mysterious mother. If you know something, just
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: spit it out.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: Do you wish me to uh spit it out?
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Jack Doka, if you don't mind.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Dorka with a nod passes away out of the French window.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: It's no good, Dodo. It made me ashamed. It's just
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: as as cattish to insult people who haven't said a
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: word in your own house, as is to be old Hornblower.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: You don't know what you're talking about.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Was the matter with young missus?
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: Hornblower?
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Excuse me, I shall keep my thoughts to myself at present.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: She looks coldly at Jill and goes up through the
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: French window.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: You thoroughly upset your mother, Jill.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: It's something Joker strolled her. I saw them, and she'll
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: like Joker father, he said common, my.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Dear, we can't all be uncommon. He's got lots of girl.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: You must apologize to your mother.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Jill, shaking her clubbed hair.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: It don't make you do things you don't approve of, Jodo.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: If you don't look at mother's favel a bitter and
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: she gets her knife in. If all homblo is disgusting,
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: it's no reason should be hill Christ smiling.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: So you think I'm capable. That's nice, Jill.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: No, no, darling, I only want to own your solemnly
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: that mother will tell you you're fighting fat no matter
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: what she and Joker do.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Jill, I don't think I ever saw you so serious.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: No, because she swallows a lamp in her throat.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: Well, I was just beginning to enjoy myself, and now
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: everything's going to be bitten Beastley with the mother in
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: that mood, the horrible old man. Oh, Dodo, don't let
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: them make you horrid?
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: Is she?
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: Darling? How's he got turkey?
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: Better?
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Lot better?
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: There?
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: You see that shows that's going to be half interesting
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: for you, but not for us.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Look here, Jill, is there anything between you and young
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: what's his name?
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Ralph?
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Jill biting her lip.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: No, but now it's all spoiled.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: You can't expect me to regret that.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: I don't mean it's talk about love's young dream, but
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: it's like being friends. I want to enjoy things, Jodo,
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: And you can't do that when everybody's on the hate.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: You're going to wallow in it. And so shall I. Oh,
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: I know I shall. I shall all wallow, and I'll
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: think of nothing but warm firs not.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Aren't you fond of your home?
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: Because I love it?
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: You won't be able to live in unless we stop
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: that ruffian chimneys and smoke the trees, cut down piles
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: of pots, every kind of abomination there.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: He points imagine He points through the French window, as
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: if he could see those chimneys rising and marring the
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: beauty of the fields.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: I was born here, and my father and his and
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: his and his, they love those fields and those old trees.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: And this barbarian with his improvement schemes forsooth. I learned
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: to ride in the centry meadows, pretty spring meadows in
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: the world. I've climbed every tree there. Why my father
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: ever sold? But who could have imagined this and come
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: at a bad moment when money's scarce.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Jill, cuddling his arm doorjo Yes.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: But you don't love the places I do, Jill, You
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: youngsters don't love anything.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: I sometimes think I do, dodo I do.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: You've got it all before you. But you may live
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: your life and never find anything so good and so
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: beautiful as this old home. I'm not going to have
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: it spoiled without a fight.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Conscious of batting betrayed sentiment, he walks out at the
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: French window, passing away to the right. Jul following to
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: the window, looks, then throwing back her head. She clasps
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: her hands behind it. Oh oh oh, a voice behind her,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: says Jill. She turns and starts back, leaning against the
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: right lintel of the window. Rolf appears outside the window from.
• 44:41
  Speaker 8: Left, who goes their enemy.
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: After Chloe's bag pass enemy and all's ill.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Ralph passes through the window and retrieves the vanity bag
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: from the floor where Chloe dropped it, then again takes
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: his stand against the left lintel of the French window.
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: It's not going to make any differences it, you know.
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: It is since of the fathers n.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: Just thirty four generations, we sem is my father committed.
• 45:10
  Speaker 8: None in a way only. I've often told you, I
• 45:12
  Speaker 8: don't see why you should treat us as outsiders. We
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: don't like it.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: Well, he shouldn't be, then, I mean, he shouldn't be.
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: Father's just as human as your father. He's wrapped up
• 45:23
  Speaker 8: in us, and all his getting on is for us.
• 45:25
  Speaker 8: Would you like to be treated as your mother treated Chloe?
• 45:28
  Speaker 8: Your mother set the stroke for the other big wigs
• 45:30
  Speaker 8: about here. Nobody calls on Chloe, and why not? Why not?
• 45:35
  Speaker 8: I think it's contemptible to bar people just because they're new,
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: as you call it, and have to make their position
• 45:41
  Speaker 8: instead of having it left them.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: It's not because then you. It's because if your father
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: behave like a gentleman, he'd be treated like one would he.
• 45:50
  Speaker 8: I don't believe it My father's a very able man.
• 45:53
  Speaker 8: He thinks he's entitled to have influence here. Well, everybody
• 45:56
  Speaker 8: tries to keep him down. Oh yes they do. That
• 46:00
  Speaker 8: makes him mad and more determined than ever to get
• 46:02
  Speaker 8: his way. You ought to be just, Jill.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: No you're not.
• 46:07
  Speaker 8: Besides, what's it got to do with Charlie and Chloe.
• 46:10
  Speaker 8: Chloe's particularly harmless. It's pretty sickening for her. Father didn't
• 46:14
  Speaker 8: expect people to call until Charlie married. But since pretty
• 46:19
  Speaker 8: it is a dog in the manger business. I did
• 46:22
  Speaker 8: think you were above it.
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: How would you lie to have your homes poor?
• 46:26
  Speaker 8: I'm not going to argue. Only things don't stand still.
• 46:30
  Speaker 8: Homes aren't any more proof against change than anything else.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: All right, you come and try and take hours.
• 46:36
  Speaker 8: We don't want to take your home like the Jackmans.
• 46:40
  Speaker 8: All right, I see you're hopelessly prejudice.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: He turns to go Jill, just as he is vanishing enemy.
• 46:48
  Speaker 8: Yes, enemy, before the battle.
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: Let's shake hands.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: They moved from the lintels and grasp each other's hands
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: in the center of the French window curtain. End of
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Act one, Act two of The Skin Game by John Gaulesworthy.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
• 47:21
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• 47:25
  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. The Skin Game, Act two, Scene
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: one a billiard room in a provincial hotel where things
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: are bought and sold. The scene is set well forward
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: and is not very broad. It represents the auctioneer's end
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: of the room, having rather to stage left a narrow
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: table with two chairs facing the audience where the auctioneer
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: will sit and stand. The table, which is set forward
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: to the footlights, is littered with green covered particulars of sale.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: The audience are in effect public and bidders. There is
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: a door on the left level with the table. Along
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: the back wall. Behind the table are two raised benches
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: with two steps up to them. Such as billiard rooms
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: often have divided by a door in the middle of
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: a wall which is paneled in oak. Late September sunlight
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: is coming from a skylight not visible on to these seats.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: The stage is empty when the curtain goes up, but
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Dorkers and Missus Hilchrist are just entering through the door
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: at the back.
• 48:35
  Speaker 16: Be out their way. Ma'am se yourt hornblower with Jarlie.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: He points down to the audience.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: It begins at three, doesn't it?
• 48:43
  Speaker 16: Don't be over punctual. There's only the Santry selling. There's
• 48:46
  Speaker 16: young Missus Hornblower near the boy, pointing over at the entrance.
• 48:51
  Speaker 16: I've got that chap I told you of downtown.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: Ah, make sure quite of her, Darker. Any mistake would
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: be fatal.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Dorker nodding.
• 49:00
  Speaker 16: That's right, ma'am. A lot of people always spare time
• 49:03
  Speaker 16: to watch an auction. Ever, remark that the Duke's agency
• 49:07
  Speaker 16: here shouldn't be surprising if egypt in where did you
• 49:10
  Speaker 16: leave my husband with miss Jill in the courtyard. He's
• 49:14
  Speaker 16: coming to you in case I miss him. Tell him
• 49:18
  Speaker 16: that when I reach his limit, to blow his nose
• 49:19
  Speaker 16: if he wants me to go on. When he blows
• 49:22
  Speaker 16: it a second time, I'll stop for good. Hope we
• 49:25
  Speaker 16: shan't get to that old Homeblower doesn't throw his money away.
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: What limit did you settle?
• 49:30
  Speaker 16: Six thousand?
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: That's a fearful price. Well, good luck to you, Darker.
• 49:35
  Speaker 16: Good luck, ma'am. I'll go and see to the little
• 49:37
  Speaker 16: master of missus Chloe. Never fear we'll do the miss somehow.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: He winks lays his finger on the side of his
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: nose and goes out at the door. Missus Hill. Chris
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: MUDs the two steps, sits down right of the door
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: and puts up a pair of long handled glasses. Through
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: the door behind her came Chloe, and she makes a
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: sign for him to go and shuts the door. Chloe
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: at the foot of the steps in the gangway with
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: a slightly common.
• 50:11
  Speaker 7: Accent, missus Hilcrist missus h.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: Not quite starting.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: I beg your pardon, Chloe again.
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: Missus Hilcrist, Well, I never did you any harm?
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: Did I ever say you did no?
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: But you act as if I had.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: I'm not aware that I've acted at all. As yet,
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: you are nothing to me except as one of your family.
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: Tisn't I that wants to spoil your home?
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: Stop them?
• 50:38
  Speaker 9: Then?
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: I see your husband down there with his father.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: I I have tried, Missus h looking at her.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, I suppose such men don't pay attention to what
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: women ask them.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Chloe, with a flesh of spirit.
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: I'm fond of my husband, I.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Missus h looking at her steadily.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: I don't quite know why you spoke to me, Chloe with.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: A sort of pathetic sullenness.
• 51:04
  Speaker 7: I only thought perhaps you'd like to treat me as
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: a human being.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: Really, if you don't mind, I should like to be
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: left alone.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Just now, Chloe unhappily acquiescent.
• 51:15
  Speaker 7: Certainly, I'll go to the other end.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: She moves to the left, mounts the steps and sits
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: down rolf, looking in through the door and seeing where
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: she is, joins her. Missus Hilcrist resettles herself a little
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: further in on the right rolf, bending over to Chloe.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: After a glance at Missus Hilcrist.
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: Are you all right?
• 51:39
  Speaker 7: It's awfully hot?
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: She fans herself with the particulars of sale.
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: There's darker. I hate that chap where down there?
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: See?
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: He points down to the stage right of the room.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Chloe drawing back in her seat with a little gasp,
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: oh rolf, not noticing.
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: Who's that next to him up here?
• 52:01
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: She has raised her auction program suddenly and sits fanning
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: herself carefully screening her face. Ralph looking at her.
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: Don't you feel well? Shall I get you some water?
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: He gets up at her nod. As he reaches the door,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: hil Christ and Jill come in. Hil Christ passes him
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: abstractedly with a nod and sits down beside his wife.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Jil to Ralph, come to see us, turns out Ralph emphatically.
• 52:32
  Speaker 8: No, I'm looking after Chloe. She's not well.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Ralph goes out. Joel glances at Chloe, then at her parents,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: talking in low voices, and sits down next to her father,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: who makes room for her.
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: Can dark er see you there, Jack?
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Hil Christ nods.
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: Don't she feels bazy? Al zanderbags feel likes Jordan, Yes,
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: do you mother? No, I'm not going to fall home
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: blow his pulse has will be there in the yard
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: is an omen.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Don't be foolish, Jill.
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: Look at the old brute. Do to hold my hand.
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: Make sure you've got a handkerchief.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Jack, I can't go beyond the six thousand. I shall
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: have to raise every penny on mortgage. As it is,
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: the estate simply won't stand more.
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: Amy.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: He feels in his breast pocket and pulls at the
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: edge of his handkerchief.
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: Oh look, there's miss Mullins at the back. Just come in.
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: Isn't she a spidery or chip?
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: Come to gloat? Really, I think her not accepting your
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: offer is disgusting. Her impartiality is all humbug.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Can't blame her forgetting what she can. It's human nature.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: I used to feel like this before. Viva Voce, who
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: sat next to darker who.
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: Warts a fish?
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Missus h to herself.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: Ah yes.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Her eyes slide round at Chloe, sitting motionless and rather
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: sunk in her seat, slowly fanning herself with the particulars
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: of the sale Hill Christ taking the salts.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Thank God for a human touch.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Missus h taken aback oh Jill with a quick look
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: at her mother snatching the salts, he well. She goes
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: over to Chloe with the sots. Chloe looking up, startled.
• 54:21
  Speaker 7: Oh no thanks, I'm all right married you you must.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Chloe takes them, she might, letting me see that a minute.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: She takes the particulars of the sail and studies it.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: But Chloe has buried the lower part of her face
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: in her hand, and the smelling salts bottle Chloe, her
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: dark eyes wandering and uneasy.
• 54:44
  Speaker 7: Rolph's getting me some water.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: Why'd you stay? Didn't want to? Can, did you?
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Chloe shakes her head. She hands back the particulars and
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: slides over to her seat, passing Ralph in the gangway
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: with her chin well up. Missus Hilchrist, who has watched
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Chloe and Jill and Dorker and his friend, makes an
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: inquiring movement with her hand, but gets a disappointing.
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: Answer, what's a sandado?
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Hilchrist, looking at his watch three minutes past Jill sighing,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: Oh hell, Jill. Sh The auctioneer comes in left and
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: goes to the table. He is a square, short, brown faced,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: common looking man with clipped gray hair fitting him like
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: a cap, and a clipped gray mustache. His lids come
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: down over his quick eyes till he can see you,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: very sharply, and you can hardly see that he can
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: see you. He can break into a smile at any moment,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: which has no connection with him, as it were, by
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: a certain hurt look. However, when bidding is slow, he
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: discloses that he is not merely an auctioneer, but has
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: in him elements of the human being. He can wink
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: with any one, and is dressed in a snug brown
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: suit with a perfectly unbuttoned waistcoat, a low turned down collar,
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: and small black and white sailor not tie. While he
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: is settling his papers, the hill crists settle themselves tensely.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Chloe has drunk her water and leaned back again, with
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: the smelling salts to her nose. Rolph leans forward in
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: the seat beside her, looking sideways at Jill. A solicitor
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: with a gray beard has joined the auctioneer at his table,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: auctioneer tapping the table.
• 56:44
  Speaker 9: Sorry to disappoint you, gentlemen, but I've only one property
• 56:47
  Speaker 9: to offer you to day number one, the Sentry deep Water.
• 56:54
  Speaker 9: The second on the particulars has been withdrawn. The third
• 56:57
  Speaker 9: that's bid caught desirable free old mansioned in farm lands
• 57:01
  Speaker 9: in the parish of Kenway, we shall have to deal
• 57:05
  Speaker 9: with next week. I shall be happy to sell it
• 57:09
  Speaker 9: to you then, without reservation.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: He looks again through the particulars in his hand, giving
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: the audience time to readjust themselves to his statements.
• 57:19
  Speaker 9: No, gentlemen, as I say, I've only the one property
• 57:23
  Speaker 9: to sell freehold number one, all that very desirable corn
• 57:29
  Speaker 9: and stock rearing and park like residential land known as
• 57:35
  Speaker 9: the Sentry deep Water, unique property and a one chance
• 57:42
  Speaker 9: to an a one audience with his smile, ought to
• 57:47
  Speaker 9: make the price of the three we thought we had.
• 57:50
  Speaker 9: Now you won't mind listening to the conditions of the sale.
• 57:53
  Speaker 9: Mister Blinkerd'll read em. They won't weary you. They're very short.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: He sits down and gives two little taps on the table.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: The solicitor rises and reads the conditions of sale in
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: a voice which no one practically can hear. Just as
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: he begins to read these conditions of saale, Charles Hornblower
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: enters at back. He stands a moment, glancing round at
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: the hillcrist and twirling his mustache, then moves along to
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: his wife and touches her.
• 58:25
  Speaker 6: Chloe, aren't you well?
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: In the start which she gives her face is fully
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: revealed to the audience.
• 58:33
  Speaker 6: Come along, out of the way of these people.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: He jerks his head towards the Hillcrist's Chloe gives a
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: swift look down to the stage right of the audience.
• 58:44
  Speaker 7: No, I'm all right, it's hotter there, Charles to.
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: Ralph, Well look after her.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: I must go back.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: Ralph nods. Charles slides back to the door with a
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: glance at the Hillcrist's, of whom Missus Hilchrist has been
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: watching like a lynx. He goes out just as the
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: solicitor finishing sits down auctioneer, rising and tapping.
• 59:11
  Speaker 9: Now, gentle it's not often a piece of land like
• 59:14
  Speaker 9: this comes into the market.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: What's that to a friend in front of him?
• 59:20
  Speaker 9: No better land and deep water, that's right, mister Spicer.
• 59:24
  Speaker 9: I know the village well and a charming place. It
• 59:27
  Speaker 9: is perfect locality, to be sure. Now, I don't want
• 59:32
  Speaker 9: to wear you by singing the praises of this property. There.
• 59:35
  Speaker 9: It is well watered, nicely timbered, no reservation of the timber, gentlemen,
• 59:42
  Speaker 9: no tenancy to hold you up, Free to do what
• 59:44
  Speaker 9: you'd like with it tomorrow. You've got a jewel of
• 59:48
  Speaker 9: a sight there too, perfect position for a house. It
• 59:52
  Speaker 9: lies between the Dukes and squire hillcrists an Emerald Isle
• 59:57
  Speaker 9: with his smile allusion to Ireland gentlemen. Perfect peace in
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 9: the Sentry, nothing like it in the county. A gentleman's sight,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 9: and you don't get that offered you every day.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: He looks down towards Hornblower stage left.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 9: Carries them in our rights and as you know, perhaps
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 9: there's the very valuable deep water clay there. What am
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 9: I just started at? Can I say three thousand?
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 9: Anything you like to give me, I'm sot particular. Come now,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 9: you've got more time than me. I expect two hundred
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 9: acres of first rate Grayson in Cornland, with the site
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 9: for our residence unequaled in the county, and all the possibilities.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 11: Well, what shall I say? Bid from Spicer two thousand,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 11: with his smile, that old virtue, mister Spicer, why it's
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 11: worth that to overlook the duke for two thousand bid
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 11: from Hornblower stage leg.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 9: And five thank you sir, two thousand, five hundred.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Bid to a friend just below him.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 9: Come, mister Sandy, don't scratch your head over it.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: Bid from Dorka stage right.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 9: And five three thousand bid for this desirable property. Why
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 9: you'd think it wasn't desirable? Come along, gentlemen, a little spirit.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: A slat pause.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: Why can't I see the beds?
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 7: Jodo?
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 9: The last was Darker's for three thousand.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: A bid from the center three.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 9: Thousand, five hundred, May I say four? No, I'm not particular.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 9: I'll take hundreds three thousand, six hundred bid and seven
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 9: three thousand, seven hundred.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: And he pauses, quartering the audience.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: Who was that Jodo Hornblower? It's the duke in the center?
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 9: Come gentlemen, don't keep me all day. Four thousand, may
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 9: I say, thank you, we're beginning.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: And one a bid from the center.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 9: Four thousand, one hundred, four thousand, two hundred, May I
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 9: have yours, sir Tu Dorka and three four thousand, three
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 9: hundred bid knows such sight in the county. Gentlemen, I'm
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 9: going to settle this land for what it's worth. You
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 9: can't bid too much for me, he smiles. Four thousand,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 9: five hundred bid.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: Bid from the center.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 9: And six and seven and eight nine may I.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: Say, but the center has dried up.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 9: And nine five thousand, five thousand bid. That's better. There's
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 9: some spirit in it. For five thousand.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: He pauses while he speaks to the solicitor.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 9: It's a duel now now, gentlemen, I'm not going to
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 9: give this property away. Five thousand bid, and one and
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 9: two and three five thousand, three hundred bid. And five
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 9: did you say, sir? Five thousand, five hundred bid.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: He looks at his particulars enemy Jodo.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 9: This chance may never come again. How you'll regret it
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 9: if you don't get it. As the poet says, may
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 9: I say five thousand, six hundred, sir, five thousand, six
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 9: hundred bid and seven and eight for five thousand, eight
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 9: hundred pounds. We're getting on, but we haven't got the
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 9: value yet.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: A slight pause while he wipes his bra at the
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: success of his own efforts, us yodo.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 9: Five thousand, eight hundred bid for five thousand, eight hundred.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 9: Come along, gentlemen, Come along, We're not beaten. Thank you, sir,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 9: five thousand, nine hundred and six thousand, six thousand bid.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 9: Six thousand bid for six thousand, the sentry, most desirable
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 9: spot in the county, going for the low price of
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 9: six thousand.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Hill Christ muttering low heavens.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 9: Any advance on six thousand. Come gentlemen, we haven't dried
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 9: up a little spirit. Six thousand for six thousand, for
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 9: six thousand pounds, very well, I'm selling for six thousand.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 9: Once he taps for six thousand. Twice he taps Jill
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 9: lo uh, I've got it and one, sir, six thousand,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 9: one hundred bid.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: The solicitor touches his arm and says something, to which
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: the auctioneer responds.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 11: With a nod.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: Blow your nose, Jack.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Hill Christ blows his nose for.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 9: Six thousand, one hundred and to thank you, and for
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 9: six thousand, three hundred and four, For six thousand, four
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 9: hundred pounds, this coveted property, for six thousand, four hundred pounds.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 9: Why it's giving it away, gentlemen? A pause, giving six thousand,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 9: four hundred, bid and five and six and seven.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: And eight, A pause during which through the door left
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: someone beckons to the solicitor, who rises and confers hill Christ, muttering,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: I've done it.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 9: If that doesn't get it for six thousand, eight hundred,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 9: for six thousand, eight hundred, once he taps twice, he
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 9: taps for the last time, this dominating sight, and nine
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 9: thank you. For six thousand, nine hundred.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Hill Christ has taken out his handkerchief. Oh dojo, missus
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: H quivering.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 9: Don't give in seven thousand, may I say seven thousand.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: Missus H whispers keep it down, don't show him.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 9: For seven thousand, going for seven thousand, once taps, twice,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 9: taps and one thank you.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Sir, Hilchrist blows his nose jewel with a choke, leans
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: back in her seat and folds her arms tightly on
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: her chest. Missus Hilchrist passes her handkerchief over her lips.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: Sitting perfectly still, Hilchrist too, is motionless. The auctioneer has
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: paused and is talking to the solicitor, who has returned
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: to his seat.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: Oh Jack, stick it, dodo stick it.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 9: Now, gentlemen, I have a bit of seven thousand, one
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 9: hundred for this entry, and I'm instructed to sell if
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 9: I can't get more. It's a fair price, but not
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 9: a big price.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: To his friend, mister spyt sir.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 9: A thumpin price with his smile. Well, you're a judge
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 9: of thump and I admit now, who'll give me seven thousand,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 9: two hundred? What?
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 5: No one?
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 9: Well, I can't make you, gentlemen. The seven thousand, one
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 9: hundred once.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: Taps, twice taps. Jill utters a little groan. Hilchrist suddenly
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: in a queer voice. Two auctioneer, turning with surprise and
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: looking up to receive Hilchrist's nod.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 9: Thank you, sir, And two seven thousand, two hundred.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: He screws himself round so as to command both Hilchrist
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: and hornblower.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 9: I have yours, sir, and three and four seven thousand,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 9: four hundred for seven thousand, four hundred, five six for
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 9: seven thousand, six hundred, appalls well, gentlemen, this is better,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 9: but a record property should fetch a record price. The
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 9: possibilities are enormous. Eight thousand, did you say, sir? Eight thousand?
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 9: Going for eight thousand pounds and one and two and
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 9: three and four and five for eight thousand, five hundred,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 9: a wonderful property. For eight thousand, five hundred.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: He whacks his brawl, Jill whispering, Oh Jo.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: Do that's enough, Jack? We must stop sometime.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 9: For eight thousand, five hundred, once twice caps six hundred seven.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 9: May I have yours, sir?
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 8: Eight nine thousand.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: Missus Hilchrist looks at him, biting her lips, but he
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: is quite absorbed.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 9: Nine thousand for this astounding property. Why the Duke would
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 9: pay that? He realized he'd be overlooked?
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: Now sir to hornblower, No response, Just a.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 9: Little rais on that. No response for nine thousand the
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 9: sentry deep water for nine thousand, once taps twice.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: Taps Jill under her breath, ours a voice from far
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: back in the center and five hundreds auctioneer surprised and
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: throwing out his arms towards the.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 9: Voice, and five hundred for nine thousand, five hundred, Now
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 9: I have yours, sir.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: He looks at Hornblower, no response. The solicitor speaks to him.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: Missus H, whispering it must be the Duke again.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: Hilchrist passing his hand over his brow.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: That stopped him anyway.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: Auctioneer looking at.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 9: Hilchrist for nine thousand, five hundred.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: Hilchrist shakes his head once more.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 9: The centry deep water for nine thousand, five hundred once
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 9: taps twice.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: Taps, He pauses and looks again at Hornblower and Hilchrist.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 9: For the last time. At nine thousand, five hundred.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Taps with a look towards the bidder. Mister smolly, well,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: with great satisfaction.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 9: That's that no more today, gentlemen.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: The auctioneer and solicitor busy themselves. The room begins to empty.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: Smilly, Smilly, is that the Duke's agent.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: Jack Hilchrist, coming out of a sort of coma after
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: the excitement he has been going through.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: What what oh dodo, how splendidly struck it?
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: What a squeak? I was clean out of my depth
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: a mercy, the Duke chipped in again, Missus H.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Looking at Roff and Chloe, who are standing up as
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: if about.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: To go take care. They can hear you find dark
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: Jack below.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: The auctioneer and solicitor take up their papers and move out.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 5: Left.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: Hill Christ stretches himself, standing up as if to throw
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: off the strain. The door behind is opened, and Hornblower
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: appears here.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 5: Hand me up a pertect price your bid very pluckily,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 5: Hill Christ. But you didn't quite get my measure.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: Oh it was my nine thousand, the dew capped. Thank god,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: the sentry's gone to a gentleman.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: What joke, he laughs.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 5: N The center's not gone to a gentleman, not to
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 5: a fool. It's gone to me. What Oh, I'm sorry
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 5: for you. You're not fit to manage these things well
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 5: at our monstrous person. I've had to pay it because
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 5: of your obstinacy. I shan't forget that when I've come
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 5: to build.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: Do you mean to say that bid was for you?
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 5: Of course I do. I told you I was a
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 5: bad man to be up against me. Perhaps you'll believe
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 5: me now.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: A dastardly trick horn Blower with venom?
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 5: What did you call it? A skin game? Remember we're
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 5: playing a skin game, Hill Christ.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: Hill Christ clinching his fists.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 5: If we were younger men, hey, t wouldn't look pretty
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 5: for us to be at Fistikoff's. We'll leave the fighter
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 5: to the young ones.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: He glances at Rolf and Jill, suddenly throwing out his
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: finger at Rolf.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 5: No making up to that young woman. I've watched you.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 5: And as for you, Missy, you lay my boy alone.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: Jill with suppressed passion.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: Joseph may spit in his eye or something.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: Sit down.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: Jill sits down. He stands between her and Hornblower.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 5: Make your mind easy, it can't. I've got you in
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 5: a noose and I'm going to hanger.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: Missus h suddenly, mister Hornblower, as you fight foul, so shall.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: We amy, missus h paying no attention, and it.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: Will not be foul play towards you and yours. You
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: are outside the pail.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 5: That's just where I am outside. You're pale all round. Ye,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 5: you're not long for dick water, ma'am. Make your dispositions
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 5: to go. You'll be out in six months, I profise
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 5: I I'm good riddance to the neighborhood.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: They are all down on the level now, Chlorie suddenly
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: coming closer to missus Hilchrist.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 7: Here are your thoughts, Thank you father, can't.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: You Hornblower surprised.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 5: Can't I what.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 7: Can't you come to an arrangement just so, mister Hornblower?
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: Can't you?
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: Hornblower looking from one to the other as we're speaking out, Mam,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: it's your behavior to my daughter in law, who's as
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: good as you are, and better to my thinking.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 5: That's more than half the reason why I've bought this property.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 5: You've fair got my dander up. No, it's no use
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 5: to bandy words. It's very forgiven of your Chloe.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: But come along quite seriously, mister Hornblower, you had better
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 3: come to an arrangement.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 5: Missus Hilquist. Ladies should kick to their own business.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: I will amy do leave it to us.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 14: Men.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: You young man, he speaks to Rolf, do you support
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: your father's trick this afternoon?
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: Jill looks round at Rolph, who tries to speak when
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: Hornblower breaks.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 5: In my trick, and when you call it to try
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 5: and put my own son against me, Joe to Rolf, Well.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 8: I don't, but trick ya, young cub.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: Be quiet. Mister Hilchrist had an agent bidden for him.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 5: I had an agent bid for me. Only his agent
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 5: bid it up beginnin and mine at the end. Why's
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 5: a trick in that.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: He laughs hopeless. We're in different worlds.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 5: I wish to god we were. Calm your Chloe, and
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 5: you're rough. You'll follow in six months. I'll have those
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 5: chimneys up and my lorries run around.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: You, mister hornblower.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: If you build hornblower looking at Missus Hilchrist.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 5: You know it's laughable. Y'all make me pay nine thousand,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 5: five hundred for a better land, not worth four And
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 5: you think I'm not to get back on you. I'm
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 5: going on with that's little consideration, as if you were
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 5: a family of black beetles.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: Good afternoon, father, Oh jojo, he's obscene, mister hornblower, My compliments.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: Hornblower, with a stir at Hilchrist's half smiling face, takes
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: Chloe's arm and half drags her towards the door on
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: the lift. But there in the opened doorway are standing
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: dorker and a stranger. They move just out of the
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: way of the exit, looking at Chloe, who sways and
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: very nearly falls.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 5: Well, Chloe, what's the matter, I don't know.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not well to She pulls herself together with a
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: great effort. Missus h who has exchanged a nod with
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: Dorka and the stranger.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 3: Mister Hornblower, you build at your peril, I warn.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: You, Hornblower, turning round to speak.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 5: You think yourself very cool and very smart, but I
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 5: doubt this is the first time you've been up against realities. Now,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 5: I've been up against them all my life. Don't talk
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 5: to me, mum about peril and that sort of nonsense.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 5: It makes no impression. Your husband called me packt der mergis.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 5: I don't know Greek and Latin and all that, but
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 5: I've looked it out in the dictionary. I find it
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 5: means thick skinned, and I'm none the worse for that
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 5: when I have to deal with folk like you. Good afternoon.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: He draws Chloe forward and they passed through the door,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: followed quickly by Ralph.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: Thank you darker.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: She moves up to Dorka and the stranger left, and
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: they talk deerdo it's awful.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: Well, there's nothing for it now but to smile and
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: pay up. Poor old home. It shall be his wash
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: pot over the sentry. Will he cast his shoe? By God?
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: Jill like a cry, Jill pointing look Claire's sitting down.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 4: She nearly fands you just now. It's says that you
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 4: do be Dorker Jodo and that man of them? Look
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 4: at mother, ask them Doca.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: Dorka comes to him, followed by missus Hilchrist.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 16: No mystery, Well what is it?
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: You'd better not ask? I wish to know, Jill, go
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 3: out and wait for us.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 4: Nonsense, mother, it's not for a girl to hear bosh.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 16: It's nothing worse than you get there anyway.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: Do you wish your daughter bosh?
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: I read it papers every day.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: I was not so proud of my knowledge.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 5: What is it? What is it?
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: Come over here, Darca.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: Dorka goes to him right and speaks in a low voice.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: Exactly, poor thing?
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 4: What if it is?
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 3: Poor thing?
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 4: What went before? Mother?
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 3: It's what's coming after that matters, luckily.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: How do you know this?
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 16: My friends? Dear?
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: He points to the stranger, was one of the agents.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: It's shocking. I'm sorry I heard it. I told you
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: not to ask your friend to come here.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: Dorca beckons, and the stranger joins the group.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 13: I remember her quite well.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: Her name was.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: I don't want to know.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 15: Thank you.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: I'm truly sorry. I wouldn't wish the knowledge of that
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: about his woman folk to my worst enemy. This mustn't
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: be spoken of.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: Jill hugs his arm.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: It will not be if mister Hornblower is wise. If
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 3: he is not wise, it must be spoken of.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: I say no, Amy, I won't have it. It's a
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: dirty weapon. Who touches pitch shall be defiled.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: Well, what weapons does he use against us? Don't be chaotic?
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: For all we can tell, they know it quite well already,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: And if they don't, they ought to anyway to know.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: This is our salvation and we must use it.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: Jill Sotto pitched.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 7: I don't pitch.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 16: The threat's enough. JP Chapel, future member of the constituency.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: Hill Christ a little more, doubtfully.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: Do you use this piece of knowledge about a woman?
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: It's repugnant. I won't do it.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: If you had a son tricked into marrying such a woman,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: would you wish to remain ignorant of it?
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: Hill Christ struck, I don't know.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 3: At least you'd like to be in a position to
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: help him if you thought it necessary, Well that perhaps
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: then you agree that mister Hornblower at least should be told.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 3: What he does with the knowledge is not our affair.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: Hill Christ, half to the stranger and half to Dorka.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: Do you realize that an imputation of that kind may
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: be ground for a criminal libel action?
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: Quite?
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 13: But there's no shadow of doubt, not.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: The faintest you saw her just now I did revolting again.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: No, I don't like it.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: Yorker has drawn the stranger a step or two away,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: and they talk together, missus H in a low voice,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: And the.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 3: Ruin of our home. You're betraying your father's jack.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: I can't bear bringing woman into it.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: We don't. If any one brings her in, it will
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 3: be Hornblower himself.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: We use her secret as a lover.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: I tell you quite plainly. I will only consent to
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: holding my tongue about her if you agree to Hornblower
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 3: being told it's a scandal to have a woman like
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: that in the neighborhood.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 4: No one means that, father.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: Ji'll keep quiet. This is a very bitter position. I
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: can't tell what to do.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: You must use this knowledge. You owe it to me,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: to us all. You'll see that when you've thought it over.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: Jill softly poach DEADYH. Pitch missus H furiously, Jill, be quiet.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: I was brought up never to hurt a woman. I
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: can't do it, Amy, I can't do it. I should
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: never feel like a gentleman.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: Again, missus h coldly, Oh.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: Very well, what do you mean by that?
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 3: I shall use the knowledge in my own way.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: Hill Christ, staring at her, you would against my wishes.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 3: I consider it my duty if I.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 4: Agreed to hornblower being told that's all I want, he means, humbug, Mother,
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 4: I don't know what you mean by humbug.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: It must stop at hornblower. Do you quite understand quite?
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 4: Will that stop?
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 5: Jill?
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: If you can't keep your impertinence to yourself.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: Jill, come with me.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: He turns towards door back.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, mother. Oh it's a skin game, isn't it.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: You pride yourself on plain speech, Jill. I pride myself
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 3: on plain thought. You will thank me afterwards that I
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 3: can see realities. I know we are better people than
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: these hornblowers.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 9: Here.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: We are going to stay, and they are not.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: Jill looking at her with a sort of unwilling at.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 4: Mother, You're wonderful, Jill, Junning Jodo.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: She turns and runs to the door. They go out.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: Missus Hilchrist, with a long sigh, draws herself up, fine
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: and proud, darker. He comes to her, dorker, nodding.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 16: We're going to wire for his partner. I'll bring him
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 16: to can't make too sure.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: She goes firmly up the steps and up dorka to
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: the stranger with the wink.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 16: The squy is squeamish, too much of a gentleman, but
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 16: he doesn't count the gray Mare's all right, you wire
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 16: to Henry. I'm off to our solicitors. We'll make that
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 16: old rhinoceros sell us back the sentry at a decent price.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: These hornblowers, laying his finger on his nose, we got them.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: Curtain Scene two, Chloe's boudoir at half past seven the
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: same evening. A pretty room, no pictures on the walls,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: but two mirrors, a screen, and a luxurious couch on
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: the fireplace. Side stage left, a door rather right of center,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: back opening inwards, a French window right forward, a writing
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: table right back, electric light burning. Chloe, in a tea gown,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: is standing by the forward end of the sofa, very
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: still and very pale. Her lips are parted and her
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: large eyes stare straight before them, as if seeing ghosts.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: The door is opened noiselessly, and a woman's face is seen.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: It peers at Chloe, vanishes and the door is closed.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: Chloe raises her hands, covers her eyes with them, drops
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: them with a quick gesture, and looks round her a
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: knock With a swift movement, she slides on to the
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: sofa and lies prostrate with eyes, eyes closed. Chloe feebly
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: come in. Her maid enters, a trim contained figure of
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: uncertain years in a black dress, with the face which
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: was peering in.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 9: Yes, Anna, aren't you going to dinner, ma'am?
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: Chloe with closed eyes.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 12: No.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 9: Will you take anything here, ma'am?
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 7: I like a biscuit and a glass of champagne.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: The maid, who is standing between sofa and door, smiles. Chloe,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: with a swift look, catches the smile.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 7: Why do you smile?
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 12: Was I?
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 8: Ma'am?
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 14: You know you were?
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: Yesly?
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 7: Are you paid to smile at me?
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: Anna? Immovable?
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 9: No, ma'am? Would you like some old brone on your forehead?
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 10: No?
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: What's the good clasping her forehead?
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 7: My headache won't go to keep lying downs?
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 9: The best thing for it?
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 7: I have been ours?
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: Anna with a smile, yes, ma'am. Chloe, gathering herself up
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: on the sofa.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 7: Anna, why do you do it?
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 9: Do what, ma'am?
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: Spy on me? I?
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 7: I never I to spy. You're a fool too. What
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 7: is there to spy on?
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 9: Nothing?
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 5: Ma'am?
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 9: Of course, if you're not satisfied with me, I must
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 9: give notice. Only if I were spying, I should expect
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 9: to have notice given me. I've been accustomed to ladies
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 9: who wouldn't stand such a thing for a minute.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 7: Well, you'll take a month's wages and go tomorrow, and
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 7: that's all now.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: Anna inclines her head and goes out. Chloe, with a
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: sort of moan, turns over and buries her face in
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: the cushion. Chloe sitting up.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 7: If only I could see that man, if only or darker.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: She springs up and goes to the door, but hesitates
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: and comes back to the head of the sofa as
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: Rolf comes in. During this scene, the door is again
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: opened stealthily an inch or two.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 8: How's the head, beastly?
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 7: Thanks, I'm not going in to dinner.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 8: Is there anything I can do for you?
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: No, dear boy, suddenly looking at him.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 7: You don't want this quarrel with the hillcrest to go on?
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 8: Do you, Ralph, No, I hate it.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 7: Well, I think I might be able to stop it.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 7: Will you slip around to darkers it's not five minutes
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 7: and ask him to come and see me.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 8: Father and Charlie, wouldn't I know?
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 7: But if he comes to the window here while you're
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 7: at dinner, I'll let him in and out and nobody know.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: Rolf astonished, Yes, but what I mean?
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 9: How?
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 7: Don't ask me? It's worth a shot, that's all.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: Looking at her wristwatch.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 7: To this window at eight o'clock exactly, first long window
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 7: on the terrace.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 8: Tell him it's nothing. Charlie would mind if they there's
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 8: a real chance.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: Chloe going to the window and opening it.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 7: This way, Ralph, if you don't come back, I shall
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 7: know his coming. Put your watch to mine.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: Looking at his watch, it's.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 7: A minute fast.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 8: See look here, Chloe, don't wait.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 5: Go on.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: She almost pushes him up through the window, closes it
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: after him, draws the curtains again, stands a minute, thinking hard,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: goes to the bell and rings it. Then crossing to
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: the writing table right back, she takes out a chemist's prescription.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: Anna comes in.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 7: I don't want that, Champagne. Take this to the chemist
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 7: and get him to make up some of these cachets
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 7: quick and bring them back yourself. Yes, ma'am, but you
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 7: have some they're too old. I've taken to the strengths
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 7: out of them.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 6: Quick.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 7: Please, I can't stand this.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: Head Anna taking the prescription with her smile.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 9: Yes, ma'am, it takes some time.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 7: You don't want me, no, I want the cachets.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: Anna goes out. Chloe looks at her wristwatch, goes to
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: the writing table, which is old fashioned with the secret drawer,
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: looks round her, dives at the secret drawer, takes out
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: a roll of notes and a tissue paper parcel. She
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: counts the notes, slips them into her breast, and unwraps
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: the little parcel. It contains pearls. She slips them too,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: into her dress. Looks round, startled, replaces the drawer and
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: regains her place on the sofa, lying prostrate. As the
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: door opens and horn Blower comes in. She does not
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: open her eyes, and he stands looking at her a
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: moment before speaking. Horn Blower almost softly.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 5: Oh are you feelin' chloy ah forheadd A moment I've
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 5: had a look from that woman.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: Chloe sits a horn Blower reading I have.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 5: Something of the utmost importance to tell you in regard
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 5: to your daughter in law. I shall be waiting to
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 5: see you at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning. The matter is
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 5: so utterly vital to the happiness of all your family
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 5: that I cannot imagine you will fail to come. Now,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 5: what's the meaning of it? Is it your impudenca or
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 5: lunacy or what?
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know, horn blower, not unkindly, Chloe.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 5: If there's anything you'd better tell me for a warrant.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 17: For armed there's nothing unless it's with a quick look
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 17: at him.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 7: Unless it's that my father was a bankrupt.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 5: My liar man been that you never told us much
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 5: about your family.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 7: I wasn't very proud of him.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 5: Well, you're not responsible for your father. If that's all,
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 5: at your relief the bitter snobs, I'll remember it in
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 5: the act with them.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 7: Father. Don't say anything to Charlie. It'll only worry him
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 7: for nothing.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 5: Oh no, no, I'll not for when bankrupt? Did it
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 5: upset Charlie?
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: I've no doubt, he laughs, looking at her shrewdly.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 16: Ha ha ha ha.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 5: There's nothing else.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: Before I answer her, Chloe shakes her head you're sure, Chloe.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 7: With an effort, she may invent things.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: Of course, Hornblower lost in his feud feeling.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 5: Ah, but there's such a thing as the laws are slander.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 5: If they play pranks, I'll have them.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: Up for it, Chloe timidly.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 7: Couldn't you stop this quarrel?
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 5: Father?
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  Speaker 7: You said it's on my account? But I don't want
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 7: to know them, and they do love their old home.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 7: I like the girl. You don't really need to build
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 7: just there, do you? Couldn't you stop it?
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 5: Do stop it now? But I know the snobs defied me,
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 5: and I'm going to show them. I hate the lot
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 5: of them, and I hate that little doctor worst of all.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 7: He's only their agent.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 5: He's a part of the whole dog in my manger
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 5: system that stands in my way. Here are women, and
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 5: you don't understand these things. You wouldn't believe the struggle
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 5: I've had to make my money and get my position.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 5: These count de folks talk soft sowder, but I get
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 5: any from them. I getting butter out of a dog's mouth.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 5: If they could drive me out of here by fair
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 5: means of foul, would they hesitate a moment? Not? They
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 5: say what they've made me pay. I'll look at this
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 5: letter selfish mean lot of hypocrites.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 7: But they didn't begin the quarrel, not.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 5: Openly underneath they did. That's their way. They beganet by
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 5: thwartin me here and there and everywhere, just because I've
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 5: comment on my own a bit later than they did.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 5: I gave him that chance, and they wouldn't take it. Well,
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 5: I'll show them what a man like me can do
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 5: when he sets his mind to it. I'll not leave
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 5: much skin on them.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: In the intensity of his feeling, he has lost sight
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: of her face alive, with a sort of agony of
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: doubt whether to plead with him further or what to do. Then,
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: with a swift glance at her wristwatch, she falls back
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: on the sofa and closes her eyes.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 5: It'll give me a power of enjoyment seeing me chimneys
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 5: go up in front of their windish, what a bonny thought,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 5: a last bid of mine. He got that roused up,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 5: I believe, Hey, he never.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: Would have stopped looking at her.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 5: I forgot your head. Well, well, you'll be best trying quiet.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: The gong sounds.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 5: Shall we send you something in from dinner.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 7: I'll try to sleep. Please tell them I don't want
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 7: to be disturbed, all right.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 5: I'll just answer this note.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: He sits down at her writing table. Chloe starts up
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: from the sofa, feverishly, looking at her watch, at the
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: window at her watch, then softly crosses to the window
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: and opens it, horn blower finishing, listen, Hello, where are
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: Chloe at the window?
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 7: It's so hot.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 5: Here's what I've said, madam. You can tell me nothing
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 5: of my daughter in law which can affect the happiness
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 5: of my family. I regard your note as an impertinence,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 5: and I shall not be with you. At eleven o'clock tomorrow,
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 5: moarden yours trolley.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: Chloe with a suffering movement of her head. Oh well,
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: the gong is touched a second time, horn Blower crossing
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: to the door.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 5: Lie you down and get asleep. I'll tell them not
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 5: to disturb him, and I hope you'll be all right tomorrow.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 5: Good night, Chloe, Good night.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: He goes out. After a feverish turn or two. Chloe
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: returns to the open window and waits there, half screened
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: by the curtains. The door is opened inch by an inch,
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: and Anna's head appears round. Seeing where Chloe is, she
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: slips in and passes behind the screen left. Suddenly, Chloe
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: backs in from the window. Chloe, in a low voice,
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: come in. She darts to the door and locks it.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: Dorka has come in through the window and stands regarding
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: her with a half smile.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 16: Well, young woman, what do you want of me?
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: In the presence of this man of her own class?
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: There comes a distinct change in Chloe's voice and manner,
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: a sort of frank commonness adapted to the man she
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: is dealing with, but she keeps her voice low.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 17: You're making a mistake, you know, Dorka with a broad grin.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 16: Now I've got a man faces, I say, you are.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: Dorka turning to go If that's.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 16: All you needn't have troubled me to come.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: No, don't go with a faint smile.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 7: You're playing a game with me, aren't you ashamed? What
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 7: harm have I done? You do you call this cricket?
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 5: No?
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 16: My girl business?
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: Chloe bitterly, What have I to do with this quarrel?
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 7: I couldn't help their falling out.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: That's misfortune, Chloe, clasping her hands.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 7: You're a cruel fellow. If you can spoil a woman's life,
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 7: who never did you announce of harm, so.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 16: They don't know about you. That's right now, Luckier. I
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 16: serve my employer. But I'm flesh and blood too, and
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 16: I always give as good as I get. I hate
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 16: this family of yours. There's no name too bad for
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 16: him to call me last month, and no looks too
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 16: black to give me. I tell you, frankly, I hate.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 17: There's good in them, same as in you, Dorka.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: With a grin.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 16: There's no good hornblower, but there's a dead horn blower.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 7: But but I'm not one.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 16: You'll be the mother of some I shouldn't.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: Wonder, Chloe, stretching out her hand pathetically.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 7: Leave me alone. Do I'm happy here? Be a sport.
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: Be a sport, Dorka disconcerted for a second.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 16: You can't get me, so don't try it on.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 7: I had such a bad time in old days.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: Dorca shakes his head. His grin has disappeared, and his
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: face is like wood.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 17: Chloe panting, ah, do you might you've been fond of
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 17: some woman, I suppose think.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: Of her, Dorka decisively.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 16: I won't do missus. Chloe. You're a pawn in the game,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 16: and I'm going to use you.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: Chloe despairingly, what is it to you? With a sudden
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: touch of the tigress.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 7: Look here, don't make an enemy of me. I haven't
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 7: dragged through hell for nothing. Women like me can bite.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 16: I tell you that's better. I'd rather of a woman
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 16: threaten than wine any day. Threaten away. You'll let em
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 16: know you met me on the promenade the other day.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 16: Of course you'll let em know, won't you.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 7: All that's be quiet, Oh be quiet?
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: Taking from her bosom, the notes and the pearls.
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 7: Look, there's my life's savings. There's all I've got. The
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 7: pearls are fetched, nearly a thousand, holding it up to him,
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 7: Take it and drop me out, won't you, won't you?
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: Dorka passing his tongue over his lips with a hard
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: little laugh, You.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 16: Mistake your man, missus. I'm a plain dog if you like,
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 16: But I'm faithful and I hold fast. Don't try those
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 16: games on.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: With me, Chloe losing control.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 7: You're a beast, a beast, a cruel, cowardly beast. And
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 7: how dare you bribe that woman here to spy on me? Oh? Yes,
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 7: you do, you know you do? If you drove me mad,
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 7: you wouldn't care.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 16: You beast, now, don't carry on that won't help you.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 7: What do you call it to dog a woman down
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 7: like this just because you happen to have a quarrel
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 7: with a man.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 16: Who made the quarrel, not me, missus. You ought to
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 16: know that in a row it's the we can helpless.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 16: We won't say innocent that get it in the neck,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 16: that can't be.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: Helped, Chloe, regarding him intensely.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 7: I hope your mother or your sister, if you've got any,
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 7: may go through what I'm going through ever since you
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 7: got on my track. I hope they'll know what fear means.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 7: I hope they'll love and find out that it's hanging
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 7: by a thread. And and oh, you coward, you persecute
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 7: in coward, call yourself a man dorka with his grin.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 16: Ah, you look quite pretty like that, by George, you're
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 16: a handsome woman when you're roused.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: Chloe's passion fades out as quickly as it blazed up.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: She sinks down on the sofa, shudders, looks here and there,
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: and then for a moment up at him.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 7: Is there anything you'll take not to spoil my life?
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: Clasping her hands on her brist under her breath, me Dorca,
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: wiping his brow.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 16: By god, that's an offer.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: He recoils towards the window.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 16: You you touched me there, Look here, I've got to
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 16: use you, and I'm going to use you. But I'll
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 16: do my best to let you down as easily as
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 16: I can. No, I won't want anything you can give me.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: That is, he wipes his brow again.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 16: I'd like it, but I won't take it.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: Chloe buries her face in her hands.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 16: There, keep your Pekiah, don't cry. Good night.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: He goes through the window. Chloe springing up h rat
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: in a trap rat. She stands listening, flies to the door,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: unlocks it, and going back to the sofa, lies down
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: and closes her eyes. Charles comes in very quietly and
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: stands over her, looking to see if she is asleep.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: She opens her eyes.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 6: Well, klo a sleep, old girl.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: Yes, Charles, sitting on the arm of the sofa and
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: caressing her.
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 6: Feel better, dear, Yes, better, Charlie. That's right.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: Would you like some soup?
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: Chloe with her shudder, No, I say, what gives.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 6: You these heads? You've been very on and off all
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 6: this last month.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 7: I don't know, except that except that I'm going to
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 7: have a child, Charlie.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: After all, By jove, sure, Chloe nodding, Are you glad?
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 6: I suppose i am. The governor will be mighty pleased anyway.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 6: Don't tell him yet, all.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: Right, bending over and drawing her to him, My.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 6: Poor girl, I'm so sorry your ced Give us a kiss.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: Chloe puts up her face and kisses him passionately.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 6: I say, you're like fun her. You're not feverish, Chloe,
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 6: with a laugh.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 7: It's a wonder if I'm not, Charlie, are you happy
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 7: with me?
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: What do you think, Chloe? Leaning against him?
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 7: You wouldn't easily believe things against me, would you?
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 5: What?
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 6: Thinking of those hill christs? What the hell that woman
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 6: means by her attitude towards you? When I saw her
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 6: there today, I had all my work cut out not
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 6: to go up and give her a bit of my mind.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: Chloe watching him stillthily.
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 7: It's not good for me now, I'm like this. He's
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 7: upsetting me.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 9: Charlie.
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 6: Yes, and we won't forget. We'll make em pay for it.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 7: It's wretched in a little place like this, I say,
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 7: must you go on spoiling their home?
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 2: The woman cuts you and insults you.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: Ah, that's enough for me, Chloe timidly let her.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 7: I don't care. I can't bear feeling enemies about me. Charlie,
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 7: I get nervous.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 6: I my dear girl, What is it?
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: He looks at her intently. I suppose it's being like
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: this suddenly.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 7: But Charlie, do stop it for my sake?
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: Do do Charles petting her arm?
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 4: Come?
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 6: Come, I say, Chloe, you're making mountains see things in proportion.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 6: Father's paid nine thousand, five hundred to get the better
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 6: of those people, and you want him to chuck it
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 6: away to save a woman who's insulted you. That's not
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 6: sense and it's not business.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: Have some pride, Chloe, breathless.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 7: I can't no pride, Charlie. I want to be quiet.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 7: That's all.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 6: If the row gets on your nerves, I can take
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 6: you to the sea. But you ought to enjoy a
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 6: fight with people like that.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: Chloe, with calculated bitterness.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 7: No, it's nothing, of course, what I want.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 6: Hello, Hello, you are on the jump.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 7: If you want me to be a good wife to you,
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 7: make father stop it.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: Charles standing up.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 6: Now, Look here, Chloe, what's behind this?
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: Chloe faintly behind.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 6: You're carrying on as if, as if you were really scared.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 6: We've got these people. We'll have them out of deep
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 6: water in six months. It's absolute ruination to their beastly
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 6: old house. We'll put the chimneys on the very edge,
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 6: not three hundred yards off, and our smoke will be
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 6: drifting over them half the time. You won't have this confounded,
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 6: stuck up woman here much longer, and then we can
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 6: really go ahead and take our proper place. So long
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 6: as she's here, we shall never do that. We've only
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 6: to drive her on now as fast as we can.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: Chloe, with a gesture, I see Charles again looking at her.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 6: If you go on like this, you know I shall
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 6: begin to think there's something new.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: Chloe softly, Charlie. He comes to her. Love me, Charles,
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: embracing her.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 6: There, old girl, I know women are funny at these times.
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 6: You want a good night, that's all.
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 7: You haven't finished dinner. Have you go back? And I'll
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 7: go to bed quite soon, Charlie, don't stop loving me.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 6: Stop not much.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: While he is again embracing her, Anna steals from behind
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: the screen to the door, opens it noiselessly and passes through,
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: but it as she shuts it, Chloe starting violently. Oh,
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: he comes to her.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 6: What is it?
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 8: What is it?
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: You are nervy, my dear Chloe looking round with a
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: little laugh. I don't know.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 7: Go on, Charlie, I'll be all right when this head's gone.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: Charles, stroking her forehead and looking at her doubtfully.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 5: You go to bed.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 6: I won't be late coming up.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: He turns and goes, blowing a kiss from the doorway.
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: When he is gone, Chloe gets up and stands in
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: precisely the attitude in which she stood at the beginning
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: of the act, thinking and thinking. And the door is opened,
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: and the face of the maid peers round at her curtain.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: End of Act two, Act three of The Skin Game
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  Speaker 1: by John Goldsworthy. This is a recording. All Library Box
• 1:46:02
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• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: Act three, Scene one, Hill Christ's study. Next morning, Jill,
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: coming from left, looks in at the open French window.
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: Jill speaking to rof invisible.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 4: Come in here, there's nare She goes in.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: Ralph joins her, coming from the garden.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 8: Jill, I just wanted to say, need we Jill nods.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 8: Seeing you yesterday, it did seem rotten. No, but you
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 8: don't understand if you made yourself as father has I heard.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 4: I should be.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: Sorry, Rolf reproachfully.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 5: That isn't like you.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 8: Really, he can't help thinking. He's a public benefactor and.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 4: We can't help thanks. Here's a pig.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 7: Sorry.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 8: If the survival of the fittest is right, he may
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 8: be fitter.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: It is not going to survive, Rolf distracted.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 8: It looks like it, though.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 4: Is that all I came to say?
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 8: Suppose we joined? Couldn't we stop it?
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 4: I don't feel like joining.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 8: We did shake hands.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 4: One can't find so not grow bitter. I don't feel bitter, right,
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 4: you'll feel it soon enough.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 8: Why attentively about Chloe. I don't think your mother's manner
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 8: to her is well snobbish.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: Jill laughs.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 8: She may not be your class, and that's just why
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 8: it's snobbish.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 4: I think you'd better shut up.
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 8: What my father said was true. Your mother's rudeness to
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 8: her that day she came here has made both him
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 8: and Charlie ever so much more bitter.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: Jill whistles the habanera from common, staring at her rather angrily.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 8: Is it a whistling matter? No, I suppose you want
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 8: me to go? Yes, all Rightn't we ever going to
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 8: be friends again?
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: Jill, looking steadily at him.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 4: I don't expect.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 8: So that's very horrible, A lot of horrible. It's our
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 8: business to make them fewer, Jill.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: Jill fiercely.
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 4: It would be moral.
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 8: That's the last thing I want to be. I only
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 8: want to be friendly, butter be real first. From the
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 8: big point of view.
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 4: There isn't any We all are for our own and
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 4: why not.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 8: By jove, you have got.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 4: Senecal if father's motto. It reminds himself that's doing her
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 4: hands down. Goodbye, Jill, Jill.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: Jill, putting her hands behind her back, hums don't with
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: a pained gesture. He goes out towards Lift through the
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: French window. Jill, who has broken off the song, stands
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: with her hands clenched and her lips quivering. Fellows enters Lift.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 15: Dorger, miss and two gentlemen.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 4: Let the three gentlemen in and me out.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: She passes him and goes out Lift, and immediately Dorker
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: and the two strangers come in.
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 15: I'll inform missus Hill Christ sir, the squire is on
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 15: his rounds.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: He goes out lift. The three men gather in a
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: discreet knot at the big bureau, having glanced at the
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: two doors and the open French window.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 16: Now this may come into court. You know, if there's
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 16: a screws anywhere, better mention.
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: It to second stranger.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 16: You knew her personally.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 14: What do you think I don't take girls on trust
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 14: for that sort of job. She came to us highly
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 14: recommended too, and did her work very well. It was
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 14: a double stunt to make sure, wasn't it.
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 13: George, Yes, we paid her for the two visits.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 14: I should know her in a minute. Striking looking girl
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 14: had something in a face. Dare say she'd seen hard times.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 13: We don't want publicity.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 16: Not likely they'll threaten to do it, but the stakes
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 16: are heavy and the man's a slugger, and we'll be
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 16: able to push it home if you can both swear
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 16: to her, I'll do the trick.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 14: And about I mean, we're losing time, you know, coming down.
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: Here, dorka with a nod at first stranger.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 16: Georgia knows me. That'll be all right. I'll guarantee it's
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 16: well worth your while.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 14: I don't want to do the girl harm if she's married.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 16: No, no, nobody wants to hurt her. We'll just clinch
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 16: on this fellow until he squeals.
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: They separate a little as missus Hilchrist enters from right.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 16: Good evening, ma'am. My friend's partner, Hornball coming at eleven.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 3: I had to send up a second note, darker, Squire
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 3: not in. I haven't told him.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: Dorka nodding.
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 16: Our friends might go in here, pointing right, and we
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 16: can use them as they want em.
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: Missus A to the strangers, will.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 3: You make yourselves comfortable?
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: She holds the door open and they pass her into
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: the room. Right, Dorka showing document.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 16: I've had this drawn and engrossed, pretty sharp work. Conveys
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 16: this sentry and long meadow to the squire at four thousand,
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 16: five hundred. Now, ma'am, suppose Pornblower puts his hands to that,
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 16: he'll have been done in his eyes and six thousand
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 16: all told out of pocket. You'll have a nasty neighbor here, But.
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 3: We shall still have the power to disclose that secret
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 3: at any time.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 16: Yeah, but things might happen that you could never bring
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 16: home to him. You can't trust a man like that.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 16: He isn't going to forgive me.
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: You know, Missus h regarding him keenly.
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 3: But if he signs, we couldn't honorably.
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 16: No, ma'am, you couldn't. And I'm sure I don't want
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 16: that girl hurt. I just mention it, because of course
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 16: you can't guarantee it doesn't.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 3: Get out, not absolutely.
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: I suppose a look between them, which neither of them
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: has quite sanctioned. There's his car. It always seems to
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: make more noise than any other.
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 16: You'll cake and founder, but you leave him to ask
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 16: what you want, ma'am. Don't mention this.
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: He puts the deed back into his pocket.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 16: The sentry's no more so good to him. If he's
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 16: not going to put at works, I'd say he'd be
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 16: glad to save where he can.
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: Missus Hilchrist inclines her head. Fellows enters lift Fellows apologetically.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 15: Mister Hornblower, ma'am, by appointment, he says.
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 3: Quite right, Fellows.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: Hornblower comes in and Fellows goes out. Hornblower without salutation of.
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 5: Come to ask your point blank, what do you mean
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 5: by writing me these letters?
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: He takes out two letters.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 5: And we'll discuss it in the present and nobody, if
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 5: you please.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 3: Mister Darker knows all that I know and more.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 5: Torsi, Well, your second note says that my daughter in
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 5: law has lied to me. Well, I brought her, and
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 5: what you've got to say if it's not just a
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 5: trick to see me again, you'll say to her face.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: He takes a step towards the window.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 3: Mister Hornblower, you had better decide that after hearing what
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 3: it is, we shall be quite ready to repeat it
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 3: in her presence, but we want to do as little
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 3: harm as possible.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: Hornblower stopping, Oh you do, well, what lives have you
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: been hearing?
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 5: Or what have you made up? You and mister Doker.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 5: Of course we know there's a law libel and slander.
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 5: I'm not the man to stop at.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: That, missus.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 3: H calmly, are you familiar with the law of divorce,
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 3: mister Hornblower?
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: Hornblower taken aback, No, I'm not.
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 3: Well. You know that misconduct is required, and I suppose
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 3: you've heard that cases are arranged.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 5: I know it's all very what about it?
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 3: When cases are arranged, mister Hornblower, the man who is
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 3: to be divorced often visits an hotel with a strange woman.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 3: I'm extremely sorry to say that your daughter in law,
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 3: before her marriage, was in the habit of being employed
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 3: as such a woman.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 5: You are a.
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: Dreadful creature, dorka quickly all proved up to the health.
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 5: I don't believe a word of it. You're lying to
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 5: save your skins. How dare you tell me such monstrosities, doctor,
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 5: I'll have you a criminal court.
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 16: Rats you, sir gentlemen yesterday, Well he.
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 5: Employed her, a put up job, a conspiracy.
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: Go and get your daughter in law, Hornblower, with the
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: first sensation of being in the net.
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 5: It's a foul shame a lion's strander.
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 3: If so, it's easily disproved.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: Go and fetch her, horn Blower, seeing them unmoved.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 5: Oh will I don't believe a word of it.
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 3: I hope you are right.
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: Hornblower goes out by the French window. Dorca slips to
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: the door, right opens it and speaks to those within.
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: Missus Hilcrist stands, moistening her lips and passing her handkerchief
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: over them. Hornblower returns, preceding Chloe, strung up to hardness
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: and defiance.
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 5: Now then let's have this imputent story taunt a rags.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 5: What story that you, my dear, were a woman. It's
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 5: too shocked and I don't know how to tell you.
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 5: Go on, were a woman that went with men to
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 5: get them their divorce?
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 7: Who says that?
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: That lady sneering there?
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 5: And a bull terrier here?
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: Chloe facing missus Hilcrist.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 7: That's a charitable thing to say, isn't it?
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 3: Is it true?
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: No hornblower furiously there, I'll have your both on your
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: knees to her dorker opening the door, right call. Then
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: the first stranger comes in. Chloe, with a visible effort,
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: turns to face him.
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 13: How do you do, missus Wayne?
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 7: I don't know you.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 13: Your memory's bad, ma'am. You knew me yesterday, well enough.
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 13: One day is not a long time, nor are three years.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 13: Who are you come, ma'am? Come the caster case.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 17: I don't know you, I say to missus Hillcrist, How
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 17: can you be so vile?
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 13: Let me refresh your memory, ma'am. Just on three years ago,
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 13: October third, to fee and expenses, Missus Wayne with Missus
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 13: c Hotel Boilieu, twenty pounds October tenth, do twenty pounds
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 13: to Hornblower, would you like to glance at his book, sir,
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 13: you'll see their genuine entries.
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: Hornblower makes a motion to do so, but checks himself
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: and looks at Chloe. Chloe hysterically, it's all lies.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 13: Lies, come, ma'am. We wish you no harm.
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 7: Take me away. I won't be treated like this.
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: Missus h in a low voice, confess lies.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 5: Were ye ever called vain?
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 7: No never.
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: She makes a movement towards the window, but Dorka is
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: in the way, and she halts first stranger, opening the
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: door right. The second stranger comes in quickly. At sight
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: of him, Chloe throws up her hands, gasps, breaks down
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: stage left and stands, covering her face with her hands.
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: It is so complete a confession that Hornblower stands staggered and,
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: taking out a colored handkerchief, wipes his brow.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 16: Are you convinced?
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 5: Take those men away?
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 16: If you're not satisfied, we can get other evidence plenty.
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: Horn Blower, looking at Chloe, ut enough, Take them all,
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: leave me alone with her. Dorca takes them out right.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: Missus Hilchrist passes Hornblower and goes out at the window.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: Horn Blower moves down a step or two towards Chloe.
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 7: My god, don't tell Charlie. Don't tell, Charlie cheer highly.
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 5: So that was your manner of life.
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: Chloe utters a moaning sound.
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 5: So that's what you got out by Marian and to
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 5: my family, shame on you, your godless thing.
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 7: Don't tell Charlie, and that's.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 5: All you can save the wreck of rot my family,
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 5: my work's my future.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 7: How dared you if you'd bend me.
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 5: And these hill quests the skin game of it?
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: Chloe breathless, father, don't call me that woman. Chloe desperate.
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 7: I'm going to have a child here, your grandchild, for
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 7: the sake of it. Do what these people want, and
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 7: don't tell any one.
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: Don't tell Charlie, horn Blower again, wiping his forehead.
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 5: A secret between us. I don't know that I can
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 5: keep it a tolerable poor Charlie.
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: Chloe suddenly, Yes.
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 7: You must keep it, you shall. I won't have him told.
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 7: Don't make me desperate.
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 9: I can be.
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 7: I didn't live that life for nothing.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: Horn Blower, staring at her, resealed in a new light.
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 5: Aye, you look a strange wild woman as I see you,
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 5: And we thought the world of you.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 7: I love Charlie. I'm faithful to him. I can't live
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 7: without him. You'll never forgive me, I know.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: But Charlie, stretching out her hands, horn Blower makes a
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: bewildered gesture with his large hands.
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 5: My see here, go out in the car and wait
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 5: for me.
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: Chloe passes him and goes out left, muttering to himself.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 5: So I'm down. My enemies put their heels upon my head.
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 5: But we'll see.
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: He goes up to the window and beckons towards the right.
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: Missus hill Christ comes in.
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 5: What do you want for this secret?
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 3: Nothing?
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 5: Indeed wonderful the trouble you've taken for not.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 3: If you harm us, we shall harm you any use
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 3: whatever of the century for.
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 5: Which you made me pay nine five hundred pounds.
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 3: We will buy it from you at what price? The
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 3: Sentry at the price Miss Mullins would have taken at first,
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 3: and Long Meadow at the price you gave us four
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 3: thousand and five hundred altogether a.
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 5: Fine price, and me six thousand out of the pocket.
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 5: Oh no, I'll keep it and hold it over you.
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 5: You daren't tell this secret so long as I've got it.
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 3: No, mister Hornblower on second thoughts, you must sell. You
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 3: broke your word over the jackman's. We can't trust you.
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 3: We would rather have our place here ruined at once
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 3: than leave you the power to ruin it as and
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 3: when you like. You will sell us the sentry and
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 3: long Meadow now, or you will know what will happen.
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: Horn Blower writhing, I'm not he hit blackmail.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 3: Very well, then go your own way and will go ours.
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 3: There is no witness to this conversation.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: Horn Blower, venomously py heaven, you're a clever woman.
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 5: Will you swear by Almighty God that you and your
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 5: family and that agent are yours? Won't pay the word
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 5: at this shocking thing to a mortal soul.
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, if you sell?
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 5: Where's docer?
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: Missus h going to the door, right, mister docer? Dorker
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: comes in.
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 5: I suppose you have got your iniquity ready.
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: Dorka grins and produces the document.
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 5: That's my near conspiracy. This. Have you got a testament?
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 3: My word will be enough, mister Hornblower.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 5: Your pardon me. I can't make it solemn enough.
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 3: For you very well. Here is the bible.
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: She takes a small bible from the bookshelf, Dorka spreading
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: document on bureau.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 16: This is a short conveyance of the centry in long Meadow.
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 16: Recite sales to you of Missus Mullings of first and
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 16: John Hilcrist at second, and whereas you have agreed for
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 16: the sale to set John Hilcrist for the sum of
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 16: four thousand, five hundred pounds in consideration of the said
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 16: sam whereof you hereby acknowledged you do convey all that
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 16: et cetera.
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: Sign here a witness Hornblower to Missus Hilchrist.
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 5: Take a book in your hand and swear first, I
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 5: swear by all Mighty God never to breathe a word
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 5: or what I know concern and lloe Hornblower to any
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 5: living soul.
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 3: No, mister Hornblower, you will please sign first. We are
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 3: not in the habit of breaking our word.
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: Hornblower, after a furious look at them, seizes a pin,
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: runs his eye again over the deed and signs Dorker
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: witnessing Hornblower with a snarl.
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 5: Take it in your hands, both of you and Togther
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 5: swear Missus h taking the book.
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 3: I swear that I will breathe no word of what
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 3: I know concerning Chloe Hornblower to any living soul, so
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 3: long as the Hornblower family do us no harm.
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 16: I swear that'so.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 3: I engage for my husband.
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 5: Where those two fellows gone?
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 16: It's no business of theirs.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 5: That's no business of Elia. What has happened to a
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 5: woman in the past?
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 9: You know that?
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 5: Good day?
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: He gives them a deadly look and goes out left,
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: followed by Dorker missus h with her hand on the
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: deed safe Hilchrist enters at the French window, followed by
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: holding up the deed. Hill Christ studies the deed. Jill
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: owed it so.
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 4: Cloi in the car? How does she take it?
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 3: Mother denied, then broke down when she saw our witnesses.
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 3: I'm glad you were not here.
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: Jack, Jill Suddenly, I shall go and see her. Jill.
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: You will not.
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 3: You don't know what she's done.
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: I shall.
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 4: She must be in an awful stay, my dear, you
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 4: can do it no good. I think I can.
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 3: Jodo, you don't understand human nature. We're enemies for life
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 3: with those people. You are a little donkey. If you
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 3: think anything else.
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 4: I'm going all the same.
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 3: Jack forbid her.
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: Hill Christ lifting an eyebrow Jill, be reasonable.
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 4: Suppose they're shaking a knock like that, Jodo, I'd be
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 4: glad a friendliness from someone.
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 3: You never could take a knock like that.
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 4: You don't know what Conjo's you're trying.
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 2: Mother, let her go, Amy, I'm sorry for that young woman.
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 3: You'd be sorry for a man who picked your pocket.
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 5: I believe I.
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 2: Certainly should dooced little he get out of it when
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 2: I've paid for the sentry.
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: Missus h bitterly.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 3: Much gratitude i'd get for saving you both are home,
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 3: Jill disarmed.
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 4: Oh mother, you are grateful, Jotto share your gratitude.
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 2: Well, my dear, it's an intense relief. I'm not good
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 2: at showing my feelings as you know. What do you
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 2: want me to do? Stand on one leg and crow?
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 4: Yes, don't know, yes, Mother told him while I Suddenly
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 4: she stops and all the fun goes out of her. No,
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 4: I can't. I can't help thinking of her.
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: Curtain falls for a minute. Scene two. When it rises again,
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: the room is empty and dark save for moonlight coming
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: in through the French window, which is open. The figure
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: of Chloe in a black cloak appears outside in the moonlight.
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: She peers in moves past, comes back hesitatingly, enters the cloak.
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: Fallen back reveals a white evening dress, and that magpie
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: figure stands poised watchfully in the dim light. Then flaps
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: unhappily left and right, as if she could not keep still.
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: Suddenly she stands listening Rolph's voice outside.
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 8: Chloe, Chloe, He.
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: Appears, Chloe going to the window.
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 7: What are you doing here?
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 5: What are you?
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 8: I only followed you?
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 7: Go away?
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 8: What's the matter?
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 7: Tell me go away and don't say anything. Ah the roses.
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: She has put her nose into some roses in a
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: bowl on a big stand close to the window.
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 7: Don't they smell lovely?
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 8: What did you want this afternoon?
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 7: I'll tell you nothing. Go away.
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 8: I don't like leaving you here in this state?
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 7: What state? I'm all right? Wait for me down on
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 7: the drive if you want to.
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: Ralph starts to go, stops, looks at her and does go. Chloe,
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: with a little moaning sound, flutters again magpie like up
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: and down, then stands by the window, listening. Voices are
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: heard left. She darts out of the window and away
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: to the right. As Hilchrist and Jill come in. They
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: have turned up the electric light and come down in
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: front of the fireplace, where Hilchrist sits in an arm
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: chair and Jill on the arm of it. They are
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: in undress evening attire.
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 4: Now tell me if there isn't much, dodo, I was
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 4: in an awful funks affair. I should meet any of
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 4: the others, And of course it made Rolph, but I
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 4: told him some lie and he took me to her room,
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 4: boudoir to call it? Is it bodoir? Jug out way?
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: Hilchrist meditatively, the sulking room.
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 2: Well, she was sitting like this.
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: She buries her chin in her hands, with her elbows
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: on her knees.
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 4: And she said, in a sore first way, what do
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 4: you want? And I said, I'm awful sorry, but I
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 4: thought we might like it. Well, she likeded me hard
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 4: and said I suppose you all know about it? And
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 4: I said only vaguely, because it calls her jo And
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 4: she said, oh, is she's in the future, Come, Dodo.
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 4: She looks like a lost soul. What has she done?
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 2: She committed a real crime when she married young Hornblower
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 2: without telling him. She came out of a certain world.
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 5: To do it.
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, staring in front of her is it very awful
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: that well, Dodo hill Christ uneasy?
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Jill. Some can stand it. I suppose
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 2: some cat. I don't know which sort she is.
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 4: One thing I'm sure of. She's awfully fond of Charley.
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 2: That's bad. That's very bad.
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 4: And she's frightened horribly. I think she's desperate.
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 2: Women like that are pretty tough, Jill. Don't judge her
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 2: too much by your own feelings.
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 4: No, only Oh it was Beasley, and of course they
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 4: dried up.
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: Hill Christ feelingly.
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 2: Hmmm, one always does. But perhaps it was as well.
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 2: You'd have been blundering in a dark passage.
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 4: I just said, father, and I feel awfully sorry. If
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 4: there's anything we can't do.
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: That was risky, Jill, Jill, disconsolately.
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 4: I had to say something I'm glad of. In anyway,
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 4: I feel more human.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 2: We had to fight for our home. I should have
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 2: felt like a trader if I hadn't.
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 4: I'm not enjoying home tonight, jo Do.
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 2: I never could hate proper. It's a confounded nuisance.
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 4: Mother's fairly bugged, and talk is simply using fry him.
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 4: I don't trust him to do it. History and not pugilistic.
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 4: The other one knew that pugnacious he is. Rather, I'm
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 4: sure he won't catch appends at Cloak committed suicide.
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: Hill Christ rising uneasily.
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 4: Nonsense, nonsense, I want, says mother would.
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: Hilchrist, turning his face towards the window.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 2: What's that I thought I heard?
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: Louder?
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 2: Is there anybody out there?
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 6: No answer.
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: Jill springs up and runs to the window. Se She
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: dives through to the right and returns, holding Chloe's hand
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: and drawing her forward. Hilchrist flustered but making a show
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: of courtesy.
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 2: Good evening. Won't you sit down?
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 4: Sit down? You're shaky.
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: She makes Chloe sit down in the arm chair, out
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: of which they have risen, then locks the door, and
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: closing the windows, draws the curtains hastily over them. Hilchrist
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: awkward and expectant.
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 2: Can I do anything for you?
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 7: I couldn't bear it. He's coming to ask you who
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 7: my husband?
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: She draws in her breath with a long shudder, then
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: seems to seize her courage in her hands.
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 7: I've got to be quick, he keeps on asking. He
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 7: knows there's something, And make.
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 2: Your mind easy.
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: We shan't tell him, Chloe appealing.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 7: Oh that's not enough. Can't you tell him something to
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 7: put him back to thinking. It's all right? I've done
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 7: him such a wrong. I didn't realize it till after.
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 7: I've thought meeting him was just a piece of wonderful
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 7: good luck after what I'd been through. I'm not a
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 7: bad lot, not really.
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: She stops from the over quivering of her lips. Jill,
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: standing beside the chair, strokes her shoulder. Hilchrist stands very still,
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: painfully biting at a finger.
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 7: You see, my father went bankrupt and I was in
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 7: a shop.
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: Hilchrist soothingly, to prevent disclosures.
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 7: I never gave a man away or did anything I
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 7: was ashamed of, at least I mean. I had to
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 7: make my living in all sorts of ways.
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: And then I met Charlie again. She stopped from the
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: quivering of her lips.
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 4: It's all right.
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 7: He thought I was respectable, and that was such a relief.
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 4: You can't think so, so I let him dodo it's awful.
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 7: And after I married him, you see, I fell in love.
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 7: If I had before, perhaps I wouldn't have dared. Only
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 7: I don't know you never know, do you? When there's
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 7: a straw going you catch at it?
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 4: Of course you do.
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 7: And now you see I'm going to have a child.
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: Jill Aghast, Oh are you good?
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 6: God?
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: Chloe Dully.
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 7: I've been on hot bricks all this month, ever since
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 7: that day here. I knew it was in the wind.
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 7: What gets in the wind never gets out.
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: She rises and throws out her never he just blows
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: here and there desolutely and then blows home. Her voice
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 1: changes to resentment.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 7: But I've paid for being a fool. Tisn't fun that
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 7: sort of life? I could tell you I'm not ashamed
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 7: and repentant and all that. If it wasn't for him,
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 7: I'm afraid he'll never forgive me. It's such a disgrace
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 7: for him. And then to have his child being fond
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 7: of him. I feel it much worse than anything I
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 7: ever felt. And that's saying a good bit.
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 1: It is Jill energetically.
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 4: Tilly isn't them as it finds.
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 7: Out, that's it. But it started, and he's bound to
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 7: keep on because he knows there's something. A man isn't
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 7: going to be satisfied when there's something he suspects about
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 7: his wife. Charlie wouldn't. Never, he's clever, and he's jealous,
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 7: and he's coming here.
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: She stops and looks round wildly, listening.
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 4: Dodo, what can me say? Do you pet and clean
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 4: off the sense?
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 2: Anything in reason?
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 1: Chloe catching at the straw.
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 7: You will, you see? I don't know what i'll do.
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 7: I've got soft being looked after. He does love me,
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 7: and if he throws me off, I'll go under. That's all.
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: Have you any suggestion, Chloe eagerly.
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 7: The only thing is to tell him something positive, something
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 7: he'll believe that's not too bad, like my having been
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 7: a lady clerk with those people who came here, and
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 7: having been dismissed on suspicion of taking money. I could
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 7: get him to believe that wasn't true.
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 4: Yes, and it isn't. That's splendid. He'd be able to
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 4: put such confection into it, don't you think.
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 9: Sir Toto?
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 2: Anything I can. I'm deeply sorry, thank you.
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 7: I don't say i've been here, will you. He's very suspicious,
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 7: you see. He knows his father has resold that land
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 7: to you, and that's what he can't make out. That
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 7: and my coming here this morning. He knows something's being
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 7: kept from him. And he noticed that man with dork
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 7: Er yesterday, and my maid's been spying on me. It's
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 7: in the air. He puts two and two together. But
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 7: I've told him there's nothing he need worry about. Nothing
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 7: that's true.
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 2: What a coil.
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 7: I'm very honest and careful about money, so he won't
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 7: believe that about me. And the old man wants to
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 7: keep it from Charley.
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: I know that does seem the best way out, Chloe,
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: with a touch of defiance.
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 7: I'm a true wife to him.
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 2: It's all unspeakably sad. Deception's horribly against the grain.
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 1: But Chloe eagerly.
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 7: When I deceived him, I'd have deceived God himself. I
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 7: was so desperate. You've never been right down in the mud.
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 7: You can't understand what I've been through.
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I dare say I'd have done the same.
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 2: I should be the last to judge.
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 1: Chloe covers her eyes with her hands. He puts his
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: hand on her arm. Chloe starting, there's somebody at the door.
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 7: I must go, I must go.
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: She runs to the window and slips through the curtains.
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: The handle of the door is again turned. Jiel dismayed,
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: Oh it's locked, I forgot. She springs to the door,
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 1: unlocks and opens it, while Hilcrist goes to the bureau
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 1: and sits down. Fellows coming in a step or two
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 1: and closing the door behind him.
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 15: Certainly, miss mister Charles Ornblower is in the hall, wants
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 15: to see you, sir or missus, Hilcrist.
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 4: What's a ball? Can you see him?
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 9: Dodo?
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 2: Ah? Yes, I suppose so show him many here, Fellows.
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: As Fellows goes out, Jewel runs to the window, but
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: has no time to do more than adjust the curtains
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: and spring over to stand by her father before Charles
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: comes in. Though in evening Kurtz he is white and disheveled.
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: For Sir Spruce, a young man.
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 6: Is my wife here?
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 2: No, Sir, has she been this morning? I believe Jill.
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, she came this morning, Charles staring at her.
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 5: I know that.
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 1: Now, I mean no, hil Chris shakes his head.
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 6: Tell me what was said this morning?
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 2: I was not here this morning.
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 6: Don't try to put me off.
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: I know too much to Jill you.
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 2: The day, No, I will, won't you sit down?
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 5: No?
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: Go on, hil Christ, moistening his lips.
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 2: It appears mister Hornblower that my agent, mister Doker.
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 1: Charles, who is breathing hard, utters a sound of anger.
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 2: Oh that my agent happens to Noah Firm, who in
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 2: old days implored your wife. I should greatly prefer not
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 2: to say any more, especially as we don't believe the story.
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 1: Go on, Hill Christ getting up come.
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 2: If I were you, I should refuse to listen to
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 2: anything against my wife.
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 6: Go On, I tell you you insist.
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 2: Well, they say there was some question about the accounts,
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 2: and your wife left them under a cloud. As I
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 2: told you, we don't believe it.
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 1: Charles passionately liars. He makes a rush for the door,
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 1: Hill Christ starting, what did you say, Jill, catching his
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 1: arm dead? Eh, subto roche Pierre, you know, eh, Charles,
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: turning back to them, Why.
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 6: Do you tell me that lie? When I've just had
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 6: the truth out of that little scoundrel. My wife's been here.
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 2: She put you up to it.
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: The face of Chloe is seen transfixed between the curtains,
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: parted by her hands.
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 2: She she put you up to it.
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 6: Liar that she is a living lie for three years,
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 6: a living lie.
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 1: Hilchrist, whose face alone is turned towards the curtains sees
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: that listening face. His hand goes up from uncontrollable emotion.
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: With a little sighing sound. Chloe drops the curtain and vanishes.
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 2: For God's sake, man, think of what you're saying. She's
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 2: in great distress.
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 6: And what am I share?
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 4: I see?
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 6: Heah, pretty love. That scoundrel Docer told me, told me horrible, horrible.
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 2: I deeply regret that our quarrel should have brought this about.
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 1: Charles with intense bitterness.
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 6: Yes, you've smashed my life.
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: Unseen by them, missus Hilchrist has entered and stands by
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 1: the door left.
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 3: Would you have wished to live on? In ignorance?
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 1: They all turn to look at her. Charles with a
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 1: writhing movement.
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 6: I don't know, but you you did it.
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 3: You shouldn't have attacked us.
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 15: And what did we do to you?
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 7: Compared with this?
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 8: All?
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 2: You could enough enough? What can we do to help you?
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 6: Tell me where my wife is?
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: Jill draws the curtains apart. The window is open. Jill
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 1: looks out. They wait in silence.
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know then she.
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 6: Was here, Yes, sir, and she heard you all the
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 6: better if she did. She knows how I feel.
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 2: Race up, be gentle with her, gentle a woman who,
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 2: oh who a most unhappy creature.
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 6: Come damn your sympathy.
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: He goes out into the moonlight, passing away.
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 4: We ought to look for her.
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 2: I saw her listening with child who knows where things end?
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 2: And when they begin to the gravel pit, Jill, I'll
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 2: go to the pond. No, we'll go together.
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 1: They go out. Missus Hilchrist comes down to the fireplace,
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: rings the bell and stands there thinking.
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 3: Fellows enters, I want someone to go down to mister Darker's.
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 15: Mister Dorker is here, ma'am, waiting to see you.
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 3: Ask him to come in. Oh, and Fellows, you can
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 3: tell the Jackmans that they can go back to their cottage.
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 15: Very good, ma'am.
• 2:21:32
  Speaker 1: He goes up. Missus Hilchrist searches at the bureau, finds
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: and takes out the leed Dorcas comes in. He has
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: the appearance of a man whose temper has been badly ruffled.
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 3: Charles Hornblower, how did it happen?
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 8: He came to me?
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 16: I said I knew nothing. He wouldn't take it. He
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 16: went for me, abuse me Uphill and down Dale said
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 16: he knew everything. Then he began to frighten me. Well,
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  Speaker 16: I lost my temper.
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  Speaker 3: And told him that's very serious. Dark after our promise,
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  Speaker 3: my husband is most upset.
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  Speaker 1: Dorka Suddenly it's not my fault, ma'am.
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  Speaker 16: He shouldn't have threatened and golded me on. Besides, it's
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  Speaker 16: got out that there's a scandal come and talk of
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  Speaker 16: the village. Not the facts, but quite enough to cook
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  Speaker 16: their goose here they'll have to go. Besides, better have
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  Speaker 16: done away with it anyway than ever your enemies that
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  Speaker 16: you do.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps, but oh, doccor take charge of this.
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  Speaker 1: She hands him the deed.
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  Speaker 3: These people are desperate, and I'm not sure of my
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 3: husband when his feelings are worked.
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: On the sound of a car stopping, Dorka at the window,
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: looking to the lift.
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  Speaker 16: Home blowers, I think, yes, he's getting.
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  Speaker 1: Out, missus h bracing herself.
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  Speaker 3: You'd better wait.
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  Speaker 16: Then, he mustn't give me any of his source. I
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 16: ad enough.
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  Speaker 1: The door is opened and Hornblower enters, pressing so on
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  Speaker 1: the heels of fellows that the announcement of his name
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  Speaker 1: is lost.
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  Speaker 5: Give me the deed. You got it out of me
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  Speaker 5: by false pretenders and treachery. You swore that not you're
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 5: they heard of this? Why the old servants more.
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  Speaker 3: That has nothing to do with us. Your son came
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  Speaker 3: and wrenched the knowledge out of mister Darker by abuse
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  Speaker 3: and threats.
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  Speaker 14: That is all.
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  Speaker 3: You will kindly behave yourself here, or I shall ask
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  Speaker 3: that you be shown out.
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  Speaker 5: Give me that did I say?
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  Speaker 1: He suddenly turns on Dorka, You little ruffian, I see
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: it in your pocket. The end indeed is projecting from
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: Dorka's breast pocket. Dorka seeing red.
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  Speaker 16: Now look here, on Blower. I stood a deal for
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 16: your son, and I'll stand no more.
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  Speaker 1: Home Blower. To missus Hilcrist, oh in.
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  Speaker 5: Your place yet to Dorka, yep, give me that dea.
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 1: He closes on Dorka and makes a snatch at the deed.
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  Speaker 1: Dorca springs at him, and the two stands swaying, trying
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: for a grip at each other's throats. Missus hilcrist tries
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: to cross and reach the bell, but is shut off
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 1: by their swaying struggle. Suddenly appears in the window, looks
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 1: wildly at the struggle and seizes Dorcas's hands, which have
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 1: breached Hornblower's throat. Jill, who is following, rushes up to
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 1: him and clutches his arm.
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  Speaker 14: Rh of you stop.
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 1: Look. Dorcas's hand relaxes and he is swung round. Hornblower
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  Speaker 1: staggers and recovers himself, gasping for breath. All turned to
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  Speaker 1: the window outside, which in the moonlight, Hill Christ and
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 1: Charles Hornblower have Chloe's motionless body in their arms.
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 4: In a gravel pits. She's just breathing, that's all.
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  Speaker 3: Bring her in the brandy, Gil, No, take her to
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  Speaker 3: the car.
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  Speaker 5: Stand back, young woman, I want no help in many
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 5: of you. Well, Chieri take her up.
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: They lift and bear her away. Left.
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  Speaker 5: Jill follows here, Crisp, You've got me beaten and disgraced
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 5: her boat. You've destroyed my son's married life, and you've
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 5: killed grandchild. I'm not staying in this cursed spot, but
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 5: if ever I can do you or yours are hurt,
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 5: I will dorker muttering.
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 16: That's right, Squeveland friend, he began it darker.
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 2: Have the goodness, Hornblower, in the presence of what may
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 2: be death, with all my heart. I'm sorry, yah, hypocrite.
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: He passes them with a certain dignity and goes out
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: at the window. Following to his car. Hilchrist, who has
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: stood for a moment stock still, goes slowly forward and
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: sits in his swivel chair.
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 3: Darker, please tell Fellows to telephone doctor Robinson to go
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 3: round to the hornblowers.
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: At once, Dorker fingering the deed and with a noise
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 1: that sounds like goes out. Lift at the fireplace, Jack
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: Do you blame me? Hilchrist motionless?
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 3: No or Darker? He's done his best?
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  Speaker 1: No, missus h approaching?
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  Speaker 8: What is it?
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 2: Hypocrite?
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 1: Jewel comes running in at the window.
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 4: Dodo, she's ergin. You may not be so bad.
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 2: Thank god for that.
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: Fellows enters lift the jackmans?
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 2: Mom, who what's this?
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 1: The Jackmans have entered, standing close to the door.
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 14: We're so glad we can go back, sah, ma'am.
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 12: We just wanted to thank you.
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 1: There is a silence. They see that they are not welcome.
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 14: Thank you kind na, good night, ma'am.
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: They shuffle out.
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 2: I've forgotten their existence. What is it that gets loose
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 2: when you begin a fight and makes you what you
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 2: think you're not? What blinding evil? Begin as you may
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 2: it ends in this skin game, skin.
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: Game, Sure rushing to him it's not you, Dodo.
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 4: It's not you Jodo.
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  Speaker 2: It is me. For I am, or should be master
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 2: in this house.
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 3: I don't understand.
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 2: When we began this fight, we had clean hands. They clean.
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 15: Now.
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 2: What's gentility worth if it can't stand fire?
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 1: Curtain? End of Act three, End of the Skin Game
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: by John Gaulsworthy