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Lady Frederick a Comedy in Three Acts - W Somerset Maugham · Red Skelton

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  Speaker 1: Dramatist personae and Act one of Lady Frederick, A Comedy
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  Speaker 1: in three acts by William Somerset malm. This is a
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  Speaker 2: Dramatis Personae Lady Frederick read by Ailish Cornan.
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  Speaker 3: Sir Gerald O'Mara, Lady Frederick's Brother, A Handsome Fellow of
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  Speaker 3: six and twenty read by Anthony Joseph.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Paradine Folds recorded by John Payton.
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  Speaker 5: Marchioness of Meerston read by Anna Maria.
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  Speaker 6: Marquis of Mearston read by Thomas Peter.
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  Speaker 7: Captain Montgomery read by Glenn Proud.
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  Speaker 8: Add Mael Carlyle read by Todd.
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  Speaker 9: Rose Carlyle read by Molehill, Mountain.
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  Speaker 10: Lay Frederick's Dressmaker Madame Claude read by Wendy cats Hella.
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  Speaker 11: Lady Frederick's Footman read by Jim Hedrick.
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  Speaker 12: Lady Frederick's Maid read by Repunzelina.
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  Speaker 13: Thompson, Folds's Man read by Scott Calkins.
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  Speaker 1: Servant at the Hotel Splendide.
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  Speaker 14: Read by David Perdi.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Lynette Calkins Lady Frederick. The first
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  Speaker 1: act scene drawing room of the Hotel Splendide at Monte Carlo,
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  Speaker 1: a large, handsomely furnished room with doors right and left
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  Speaker 1: and French windows at the back leading to a terrace.
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  Speaker 1: Through these is seen the starry southern night. On one
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  Speaker 1: side is a piano, on the other a table with
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  Speaker 1: papers neatly laid out on it. There is a lighted stove.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Merston, in evening dress, rather magnificently attired, is reading
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  Speaker 1: the papers. She is a handsome woman of forty. She
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  Speaker 1: puts down the paper impatiently and rings the bell. A
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  Speaker 1: servant answers, did.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Paradine Folds come in this evening?
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  Speaker 14: Yes me, lady?
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  Speaker 5: Is he in the hotel?
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  Speaker 7: Now?
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  Speaker 14: Yes me, lady.
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  Speaker 5: Will you send some one up to his room to
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  Speaker 5: say I'm waiting to see him?
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  Speaker 14: Pardon me, lady, But the gentlemen say he was on
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  Speaker 14: no account to be disturbed.
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  Speaker 5: Nonsense. Mister Folds is my brother. You must go to
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  Speaker 5: him immediately.
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  Speaker 14: Mister Folds, his valet is in the oil. Will your
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  Speaker 14: ladyship speak with him?
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  Speaker 5: Mister Folds is more difficult to see than a cab minister,
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  Speaker 5: send his servant to me.
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  Speaker 1: Very good me, lady, exit servant, and presently Thompson, mister
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  Speaker 1: folds Man comes in.
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  Speaker 4: Your ladyship wished to see me.
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  Speaker 5: Good evening, Thompson. I hope you had a comfortable journey.
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  Speaker 13: Yes, my lady, mister Folds always has a comfortable journey.
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  Speaker 5: Was the sea calm when you crossed?
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  Speaker 13: Yes, my lady, mister Folds would look upon it as
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  Speaker 13: a great liberty if the sea was not calm.
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  Speaker 5: Will you tell mister Folds that I should like to
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  Speaker 5: see him at once?
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  Speaker 13: Thompson, looking at his watch, Excuse me, my lady, But
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  Speaker 13: mister Folds said no one was to disturb him till
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  Speaker 13: ten o'clock. It's more than my place is worth to
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  Speaker 13: go to him at five minutes too.
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  Speaker 5: But what on earth's he doing?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know it all, my lady.
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  Speaker 5: How long have you been with mister Folds?
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  Speaker 4: Twenty five years, my lady.
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  Speaker 5: I should have thought you knew how he spent every
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  Speaker 5: minute of his day.
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  Speaker 1: Paradine comes in. He is a very well dressed man
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  Speaker 1: of forty odd self possessed worldly urbane. He is never
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  Speaker 1: at a loss or put out of countenance. He overhears
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  Speaker 1: Lady Merston's last words.
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  Speaker 4: When I engaged Thompson, I told him the first thing
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  Speaker 4: he must learn was the very difficult feat of keeping
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  Speaker 4: his eyes open and shut at one and the same time.
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  Speaker 5: My dear Paradine, I've been waiting to see you for
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  Speaker 5: the last two hours. How tiresome you are.
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  Speaker 4: You may give me a kiss, Maud, but don't be rough,
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  Speaker 4: Lady Merston kissing his cheek.
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  Speaker 5: You ridiculous creature. You really might have come to see
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  Speaker 5: me at.
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  Speaker 4: Once, My dear, you cannot grudge me a little repose
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  Speaker 4: after a long and tedious journey. I had to repair
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  Speaker 4: the ravages to my person caused by twenty seven hours
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  Speaker 4: in the te.
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  Speaker 5: Don't be absurd. I'm sure your person is never ravished.
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  Speaker 4: Ravaged, my dear, ravaged. I should look upon it as
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  Speaker 4: an affectation at my age. If I were not a
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  Speaker 4: little upset by the journey from London to Monte Carlo.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be bound. You ate a very hearty dinner, Thompson.
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  Speaker 4: Did I eat any dinner at all? Soup, sir, I
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  Speaker 4: remember looking at it, fish, Sir, I trifled with a
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  Speaker 4: fried soul bouchet Alrraine sir, they have left absolutely no
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  Speaker 4: impression upon me. Tornado ala splendide. They were distinctly tough. Thompson.
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  Speaker 4: You must lodge a complaint in the proper quarter. Roast pheasants, sir, Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 4: now you mention it. I do remember the pheasant chocolate ice. Sir.
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  Speaker 4: It was too cold, Thompson, It was distinctly too cold,
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  Speaker 4: My dear Paradine.
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  Speaker 5: I think you dined uncommonly well.
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  Speaker 4: I have reached an age when love, ambition, and wealth
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  Speaker 4: pale into insignificance. Beside a really well grilled steak. That'll
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  Speaker 4: do Thompson very.
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  Speaker 5: Well, sir, he goes out, it's too bad of you, Paradine,
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  Speaker 5: to devour a substantial meal when I'm eating out my
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  Speaker 5: very heart with anxiety.
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  Speaker 4: It seems to agree with you very well. I've not
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  Speaker 4: seen you look better for years.
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  Speaker 5: For Heaven's sake, be serious and listen to me.
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  Speaker 4: I started immediately I got your telegram.
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  Speaker 7: Pray, tell me what I can do for you, my
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  Speaker 7: dear Paradine.
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  Speaker 5: Charlie is head over ears in love.
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  Speaker 4: It's not altogether an unexpected condition for a young man
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  Speaker 4: of twenty two. If the lady's respectable marry him and
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  Speaker 4: resign yourself to being a dowager. If she's not, give
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  Speaker 4: her five hundred pounds and pack her off to Paris
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  Speaker 4: or London, or wherever else she habitually practices her arts
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  Speaker 4: and graces.
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  Speaker 5: I wish I could, But who do you think it is,
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  Speaker 5: my dear?
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  Speaker 4: There's nothing I detest more than riddles. I can imagine
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  Speaker 4: quite a number of fair ladies who would look without
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  Speaker 4: disdain upon a young marquess with fifty thousand a year
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  Speaker 4: Lady Frederick. Beryl's by Jupiter.
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  Speaker 5: She's fifteen years older than he is.
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  Speaker 4: And she's not old enough to be his mother, which
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  Speaker 4: is a distinct advantage.
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  Speaker 5: She dyes her hair.
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  Speaker 4: She dies it uncommonly well.
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  Speaker 5: She paints much.
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  Speaker 4: Better than a royal academician.
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  Speaker 5: And poor Charley simply infatuated. He rides with her all
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  Speaker 5: the morning, motors with her all the afternoon, and gambles
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  Speaker 5: with her half the night. I never see him, But why.
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  Speaker 4: Should you think Lady Frederick cares two straws for him?
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  Speaker 5: Don't be ridiculous, Paradine. Everyone knows she hasn't a penny,
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  Speaker 5: and she's crippled with debts.
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  Speaker 4: One has to keep up appearances in this world life nowadays,
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  Speaker 4: for the woman of fashion is a dilemma of which
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  Speaker 4: one horn is the bankruptcy court and the other. Dear,
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  Speaker 4: Sir Francis Juhnne.
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  Speaker 5: I wish I knew how she manages to dress so beautifully.
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  Speaker 5: It's one of the injustices of fate that clothes only
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  Speaker 5: hang on a woman really well when she's lost every
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  Speaker 5: shred of reputation.
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  Speaker 4: My dear, you must console yourself with the thought that
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  Speaker 4: she'll probably frizzle for it hereafter.
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  Speaker 5: I hope I'm not wicked paradine, but to wear draperies
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  Speaker 5: and wings in the next world offers me no compensation
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  Speaker 5: for looking dowdy in a packwin gown.
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  Speaker 4: In this I surmised she was on the verge of
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  Speaker 4: bankruptcy when I heard she'd bought a new motor. And
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  Speaker 4: you seriously think Charlie wants to marry her.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure of it.
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  Speaker 4: And what do you want me to do?
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  Speaker 5: Good heavens, I want you to prevent it. After all,
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  Speaker 5: he has a magnificent position. He's got every chance of
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  Speaker 5: making a career for himself. There's no reason why he
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  Speaker 5: shouldn't be Prime Minister. It's not fair to the boy
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  Speaker 5: to let him marry a woman like that.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, you know, Lady Frederick, my.
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  Speaker 5: Dear Paradine, we're the greatest friends. You don't suppose I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to give her the advantage of quarreling with me.
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  Speaker 5: I think I shall ask her to luncheon to meet you.
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  Speaker 4: Women have such an advantage over men and affairs of
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  Speaker 4: this sort. They're troubled by no scruples, and, like George Washington,
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  Speaker 4: never hesitate to lie.
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  Speaker 5: I look upon her as an abandoned creature, and I
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  Speaker 5: tell you, frankly, I shall stop at nothing to save
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  Speaker 5: my son from her clutches.
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  Speaker 4: Only a thoroughly good woman could so calmly announce her
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  Speaker 4: intention of using the crookedest ways to gain her ends.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Merston, looking at him.
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  Speaker 5: There must be some incident in her career which she
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't like raked up. If only we could get a hold.
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  Speaker 4: Of that, How do you imagine I can help you?
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  Speaker 5: A reformed burglar is always the best detective.
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  Speaker 4: My dear, I wish you could be frank without being sententious.
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  Speaker 5: You've run through two fortunes, and if we all got
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  Speaker 5: our desserts, you would be starving now instead of being richer.
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  Speaker 4: Than ever, my second cousins have a knack of dying
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  Speaker 4: at the psychological moment.
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  Speaker 5: You've been a horrid, dissipated wretch all your life, and
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  Speaker 5: Heaven knows the disreputable people who've been your bosom friends.
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  Speaker 4: With my knowledge of the world and your entire lack
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  Speaker 4: of scruple, we should certainly be a match for one
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  Speaker 4: defenseless woman.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Merston looking at him sharply.
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  Speaker 5: Common Report says that at one time you were very
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  Speaker 5: much in love with her.
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  Speaker 4: Common Report is an ass whose long ears only catch
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  Speaker 4: its own braying.
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  Speaker 5: I was wondering how far things went. If you could
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  Speaker 5: tell Charlie of the relations between.
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  Speaker 4: You, my good Maud. There were no relations.
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  Speaker 5: Unfortunately, poor George was very uneasy about you at the time.
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  Speaker 4: Your deceased husband, being a strictly religious man, made a
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  Speaker 4: point of believing the worst about his neighbors.
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  Speaker 5: Don't paradine. I know you didn't like one another, but
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  Speaker 5: remember that I loved him with all my heart. I
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  Speaker 5: shall never get over his death.
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  Speaker 4: My dear girl, you know I didn't mean to wound you.
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  Speaker 5: After all, it was largely your fault. He was deeply religious,
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  Speaker 5: and as the president of the broad Church Union. He
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  Speaker 5: couldn't countenance your mode of life.
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  Speaker 4: Thank God. In my day I've been a miserable sinner.
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  Speaker 5: Ha ha ha. You're quite incurable paradine, but you will help
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  Speaker 5: me now. Since his father's death, the boy and I
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  Speaker 5: have lived a very retired life, and now we're quite helpless.
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  Speaker 5: It would break my heart if Charley married that woman.
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  Speaker 4: I'll do my best. I think I can promise you
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  Speaker 4: that nothing will come of it.
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  Speaker 1: The door is flung open and Lady Frederick enters, followed
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  Speaker 1: by Mearston, a young Boyish man of twenty two, by
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  Speaker 1: her brother, Sir Gerald O'Mara, a handsome fellow of six
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  Speaker 1: and twenty, by Captain Montgomery, Admiral Carlyle and Rose his daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick is a handsome Irish woman of thirty to
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  Speaker 1: thirty five. Beautifully dressed, she is very vivacious and light hearted.
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  Speaker 1: She has all the Irish recklessness and unconcern for the morrow.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever she wants to get round anybody, she falls into
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  Speaker 1: an Irish brogue, and then, as she knows very well,
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  Speaker 1: she is quite irresistible. Captain Montgomery is a polished, well
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  Speaker 1: groomed man of thirty five with suave manners. The Admiral
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  Speaker 1: is bluff and downright. Rose is a pretty angeneu of nineteen.
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  Speaker 5: Here they are.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick enthusiastically going to him with open arms.
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  Speaker 2: Paradine, Paradine, Paradine, Oh.
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  Speaker 6: My prophetic soul mine.
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  Speaker 1: Uncle Folds shaking hands with Lady Frederick.
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  Speaker 4: I heard you were at the casino.
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  Speaker 2: Charlie lost all his money, so I brought him away.
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  Speaker 5: I wish you wouldn't gamble, Charlie.
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  Speaker 6: Dear, my dear mother, I've only lost ten thousand francs.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick to Paradine Folds.
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  Speaker 2: I see you're in your usual robust health.
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  Speaker 4: You needn't throw it in my face. I shall probably
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  Speaker 4: be very unwell tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know, Admiral Carlyle. This is my brother Gerald.
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  Speaker 1: Folds, shaking hands. How do you do, Lady Frederick introducing
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  Speaker 1: Captain Montgomery.
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  Speaker 7: I think we've met before.
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  Speaker 4: I'm very pleased to hear it. How do you do
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  Speaker 4: to Merston? Are you having a good time in Monte Carlo?
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  Speaker 4: Charles A one?
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  Speaker 6: Thanks?
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  Speaker 4: And what do you do with yourself?
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  Speaker 6: Oh? Hang about generally now, and there's always the tables.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, my boy, I'm glad to see that you
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  Speaker 4: prepare yourself properly for your duties as a hereditary legislator.
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  Speaker 6: Ha ha ha oh shut it, Uncle Perodine.
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  Speaker 4: I rejoice also to find that you have already a
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  Speaker 4: certain command of the vernacular.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you can browbeat to London, Cabby, and hold
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  Speaker 6: your own repartee with a barmaid, it oughtn't to be
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  Speaker 6: difficult to get on or ride in the House of Lords.
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  Speaker 4: But let me give you a solemn warning. You have
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  Speaker 4: a magnificent chance, dear boy, with all the advantages of
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  Speaker 4: wealth and station. I beseech you not to throw it
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  Speaker 4: away by any exhibition of talent. The field is clear,
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  Speaker 4: and the British people are waiting for a leader. But
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  Speaker 4: remember that the British people like their leaders dull capacity,
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  Speaker 4: they mistrust, versatility they cannot bear, and wit they utterly abhor.
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  Speaker 4: Look at the fate of poor Lord Parnaby. His urbanity
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  Speaker 4: gained him the premiership, but his brilliancy overthrew him.
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  Speaker 3: How could the.
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  Speaker 4: Fortunes of the nation be safe with a man whose
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  Speaker 4: speeches were pointed and sparkling, whose mind was so quick,
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  Speaker 4: so agile, that it reminded you of offence's play. Everyone
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  Speaker 4: is agreed that Lord Parnaby is flippant and unsubstantial. We
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  Speaker 4: doubt his principles, and we have grave fears about his morality.
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  Speaker 4: Take warning, my dear boar, Take warning. Let the sprightly
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  Speaker 4: epigram never lighten the long periods of your speech, nor
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  Speaker 4: the attic salt flavor the roast beef of your conversation.
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  Speaker 4: Be careful that your metaphors show no imagination, and conceal
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  Speaker 4: your brains as you would a discreditable secret. Above all,
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  Speaker 4: if you have a sense of humor, crush it.
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  Speaker 6: Crush it, my dear uncle, you move me very much.
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  Speaker 6: I will be as stupid as an owl.
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  Speaker 4: There's a good, brave boy.
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  Speaker 6: I will be heavy and tedious.
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  Speaker 4: I see already the ribband of the garter adorning your
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  Speaker 4: shirt front. Remember there's no damned merit about that.
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  Speaker 6: None shall listen to my speeches without falling into a
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  Speaker 6: profound sleep folds seizing his hand.
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  Speaker 4: The premiership itself is within your grasp.
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  Speaker 5: Dear paradine. Let us take a stroll on the terrace
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  Speaker 5: before we go to.
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  Speaker 4: Bed, and you shall softly whisper all the latest scandal
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  Speaker 4: in my ear.
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  Speaker 1: He puts on her cloak and they go out.
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  Speaker 2: May I speak to admiral?
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  Speaker 8: Certainly? Certainly, what can I do for you?
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  Speaker 1: While Lady Frederick and the Admiral talk, the others go
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  Speaker 1: slowly out.
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  Speaker 2: Are you in a good temper?
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: Fairly, fairly.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad of that, because I want to make you
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  Speaker 2: a proposal of marriage.
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  Speaker 8: My dear Lady Frederick. You take me entirely by surprise.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick laughing, not on my own.
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  Speaker 8: Behalf, you know, Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 2: The fact is my brother Gerald has asked your daughter
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  Speaker 2: to marry him, and she has accepted.
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  Speaker 8: A Rose is a minx, Lady Frederick, and she's much
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  Speaker 8: too young to marry.
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  Speaker 2: Now, don't fly into a passion. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: it over quite calmly.
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  Speaker 8: I tell you I won't hear of it. The boy's penniless.
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  Speaker 2: That's why it's so lucky.
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  Speaker 8: You're rich, eh, You've.
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  Speaker 2: Been talking of buying a place in Ireland. You couldn't
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  Speaker 2: want anything nicer than Gerald's gravel soil, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: you simply don't on Elizabethan architecture.
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  Speaker 8: I can't bear it.
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  Speaker 2: How fortunate then that the house was burnt down in
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  Speaker 2: the eighteenth century and rebuilt in the best Georgian style.
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  Speaker 2: Er and you'd love to have little grandsons to dandle
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  Speaker 2: on your knee.
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  Speaker 8: How do I know they won't be girls?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's most unusual in our family.
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  Speaker 8: I tell you, I won't hear of it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's not bad to have the oldest baronetcy
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  Speaker 2: in the country.
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  Speaker 8: But one I suppose I shall have to pack Rose off.
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  Speaker 2: To England and break her heart.
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  Speaker 8: Woman's hearts are like old china, none the worse for
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  Speaker 8: a break or two.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ever know my husband Admiral?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I was married to him at seventeen because my mother
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  Speaker 2: thought it a good match, and I was desperately in
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  Speaker 2: love with another man. Before we'd been married. A fat
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  Speaker 2: night he came home blind drunk, and I'd never seen
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  Speaker 2: a drunken man before. Then I found out he was
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  Speaker 2: a confirmed tipler. I was so ashamed. If you only
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  Speaker 2: knew what my life was for the ten years I
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  Speaker 2: lived with him. I've done a lot of foolish things
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  Speaker 2: in my time, but my God, I have suffered.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I know, I know, and.
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  Speaker 2: Believe me, when two young things love one another, it's
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  Speaker 2: better to let them marry love is so very rare
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  Speaker 2: in this world. One really ought to make the most
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  Speaker 2: of it when it's there.
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: I'm very sorry, but I've made up my mind.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Ah, But won't you alter it? Like Nelson? Don't be
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: hard on Rose. She's really in love with Gerald. Do
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: give them a chance, won't you a do? There's a dear.
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: I don't want to hurt your feelings, but sir Gerald
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: is about the most ineligible young man that I've ever
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: come across.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: There, I knew we should agree. That's precisely what I
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: told him this mornin.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: I understand his place is heavily mortgaged.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: No one will lend a penny more on it. If
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: they would, Gerald would borrow it at once.
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: He's got nothing but his to live upon.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: And his tastes are very extravagant. He's a gambler, yes,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: but then he's so good looking.
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: Ah.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that we agree so entirely about him. There's
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: nothing left but to call the young things in, join
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: their hands and give them our united blessing.
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: Before I consent to this marriage, Madam, I'll see your
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: brother damned. Yes, madam damned.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Now listen to me quietly, will you?
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: I should warn you, Lady Frederick, that when I want
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: to make up my mind about a thing, I never
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: change it.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Now, that is what I really admire. I like a
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: man of character.
• 20:45
  Speaker 15: You know.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I've always been impressed by your strength and determination.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: I don't know about that. But when I say a thing,
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: I do it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, I know. And in five minutes you're going to
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: say that Gerald may marry your pretty rule.
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: No, no, no.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Now look here, don't be obstinate. I don't like you
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: when you're obstinate.
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: I'm not obstinate. I'm firm.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: After all, Gerald has a lot of good qualities. He's
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: simply devoted to your daughter. He's been a little while.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: But you know you wouldn't give much for a young Manhattant.
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: I don't want a milk sop for a son in law.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: As soon as he's married, he'll settle into a model
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: country squire.
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: Well, he's a gambler and I can't get over that.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Shall he promise you never to play cards again? Now,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: don't be horrid. You don't want to make me utterly wretched.
• 21:41
  Speaker 15: Do you.
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. They shall marry
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: if he doesn't gamble for a year.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, you dock.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: She impulsively throws her arms round his neck and kisses him.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: A good deal taken, aback.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I beg your pardon. I couldn't help it.
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: I don't altogether object, you know.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Upon my word? In some ways you're rather fascinating.
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: Do you think so? Really?
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: I do?
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: Indeed, I rather wish that proposal of marriage had been
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: on your own.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Behalf ah with me, dear Admiral experienced triumphs over hope.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I must tell the children calling, Gerald, come here, Rose.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Gerald, and Rose come in.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I always knew your father was a perfect darling.
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: Rose, Oh, Papa, you are a brick.
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: I thoroughly disapprove of the marriage, my dear, but it's
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: not easy to say no to lady Frederick.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: It's awfully good of you, Admiral, and I'll do my
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: best to make Rose a ripping husband.
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: Not so fast, young man, not so fast. There's a condition, oh.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Father, Gerald is to behave himself for a year, and
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: then you may marry.
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: But won't Gerald grow very dull if he behaves himself?
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I have no doubt of it. But dullness is the
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: first requisite of a good husband.
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: Now you must pack off to bed, My dear, I'm
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: going to smoke my pipe before turning in.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Rose kissing Lady Frederick.
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: MM, good night, dearest. I'll never forget your kindness.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: You'd better not thank me till you've been married a
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: few years.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Rose holding out her hand to Gerald, good night, Gerald
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: taking it and looking.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: At her good night.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: You might as well do it in front of my
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: face as behind my back.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Rose lifting up her lips.
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: Good night.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: He kisses her, and the Admiral and Rose go out.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Oh lord, I wish I were eighteen.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: She sinks into a chair and an expression of utter
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: weariness comes over her face. I say, what's up, Lady
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Frederick starting.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: I thought you'd gone nothing?
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Come out with it?
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Oh my poor boy, if you only knew. I'm so
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: worried that I don't.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Know what on earth to do money.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Last year I made a solemn determination to be economical,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: and it's ruined me.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Oh my dear, how could it?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: I can't make it out. It seems very unfair. The
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: more I tried not to be extravagant, the more I spent.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Can't you borrow, Lady Frederick laughing, I have borrowed, that's
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: just it.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Well borrow again.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I've tried to, but no one's such a fool as
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: to lend me a penny.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Did you say i'd sign anything they liked?
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I was so desperate I said we'd both sign anything.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: It was Dick Cohen.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Oh lord, what did he say, Lady Frederick imitating a
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Jewish accent?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: What's the good of wasting a nice clean sheet of paper,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: my dear lady?
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: By George, don't I know it?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: For Heaven's sake, don't let's talk of my affairs. They're
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: in such a state that if I think of them
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: at all, I shall have a violent fit of hysterics.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: But look here, what do you really mean?
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Well, if you want it, I owe my dressmaker seven
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: hundred pounds, and last year I signed two horrid bills,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: one for fifteen hundred and the other for two thousand.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: They fall due the day after tomorrow, and if I
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: can't raise the money, I shall have to go through
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: the bankruptcy court.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: By George, that's serious.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: It's so serious that I can't help thinking something will happen.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Whenever I've gotten a really tight fit, something has turned
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: up and put me on my legs again. Last time,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Aunt Elizabeth had an apoplectic fit. But of course it
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: wasn't really very profitable because morning is so desperately expensive.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Why don't you marry?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, my dear Gerald, You know I'm always unlucky at
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: games of chance.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Charlie, Merriston's awfully gone on you.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: That must be obvious to the meanest intelligence.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Well, why don't you have him?
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: Good?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Heavens, I'm old enough to be his mother.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Nonsense, you're only ten years older than he is, and nowadays,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: no nice young man marries a woman younger than himself.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: He's such a good fellow. I couldn't do him a
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: nasty turn like that.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: How about Montgomery? He simply stinks of money, and he's
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: not a bad sort.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: My dear boy, I hardly know him.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Well. I'm afraid it means marriage or bankruptcy.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Here's Charlie, take him away. There's a dear I want
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: to talk to. Paradine.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Enter Paradine falls with Mearston.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: What still here, lady Frederick?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: As large as life, we've.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Been taking a turn on the terrace.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick to Mearston.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: And has your astute uncle been pumping you? Charlie?
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Hey, what?
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: I don't think he got much at me all I wanted.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Dear boy, there's no one so transparent as the person
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: who thinks he's devilish deep. By the way, what's the time.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: About eleven, isn't it?
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Ah?
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: How old are you, Charlie twenty two? That it's high
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: time you went to bed.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Charlie's not going to bed till I tell him?
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: Are you?
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: Of course not?
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Has it escaped you? Acute intelligence? My friend? That I
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: want to talk to Lady Frederick.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: Not at all. But I have no reason to believe
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: that Lady Frederick wants to talk to you.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Let's go and have a game of pills. Charlie.
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: Do you want to be left alone with the elder villain?
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: You show no respect for my dyed hairs, young man.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I've not seen him for years, you know?
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: Oh all right? I say you're coming for a rightma,
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: aren't you?
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Certainly? But it must be in the afternoon.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but Charles has arranged to motor me over
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: to Nice in the afternoon.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Merston to Lady Frederick.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: Hell, there suit me a one. I had an engagement
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: but it was quite unimportant.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Then that's settled.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: Good night, good night.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: He goes out with Gerald Lady Frederick turns and good
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: humoredly scrutinizes Paradine folds.
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: Well, well, you.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Wear excellently, Paradine.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: How do you manage it?
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: By getting a late and never going to bed early?
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: By eating whatever I like and drinking whenever I'm thirsty,
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: by smoking strong cigars, taking no exercise, and refusing under
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: any circumstances to be bored.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry you had to leave town in such a hurry.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Were you amusing yourself? I come to the Riviera every year,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I dare say, but not so early.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: I've never surrendered so far to middle age as to
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: make habits my dear Paradine.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: The day before yesterday, Lady Merriston, quite distracted, went to
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: the post office and sent you the following wire. Come
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: at once, your help urgently needed, Charlie in Toyle's Designing Female,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: maud am I right.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: I never admit even to myself that a well dressed
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: woman is mistaken.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: So you started post haste, bent upon protecting your nephew,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: and were infinitely surprised to learn that the designing female
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: was no other than your humble servant.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: You'd be irresistible, Lady Frederick, if you didn't know you
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: were so clever.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: And now what are you going to my dear.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Lady, I'm not a police officer, but a very harmless
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: and offensive old bachelor.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: With more wiles than the mother of many daughters and
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: the subtlety of a company promoter.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Maude seems to think that, as I've racketed about a
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: little in my time, I'm just a sort of man
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: to deal with. You set a thief to catch a thief,
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: don't you know she's rather fond of proverbs.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: She should have thought rather of when Greek meets Greek.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Then comes the tug of war. I hear Lady Merriston
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: has been saying the most agreeable things about me.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Ah, that's women's fault. They always show the hand. You're
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: the only woman I ever knew who didn't You should.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Have avoided the Blarney stone when you were in Ireland.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Look here, do you want to marry Charley?
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Why should I?
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Because he's got fifty thousand a year and your head
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: over ears in debt. You've got to raise something like
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: four thousand pounds at once or you go under. You've
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: got yourself a good deal talked about during the last
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: ten years, but people have stood you because you had
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: plenty of money. If you go broke, they'll drop you
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: like a hot potato. And I dare say it wouldn't
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: be inconvenient to change Lady Frederick Baroll's into Lady Mirston.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: My sister has always led me to believe that it
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: is rather attractive to be a.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Marchioness, unlike a duchess. It's cheap without being gaudy.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: You asked me why you might want to marry a
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: boy from ten to fifteen years younger than yourself, And
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: I've told.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: You, and now perhaps you'll tell me why you're going
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: to interfere in my private concerns.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Well, you see, his mother happens to be my sister,
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: and I'm rather fond of her. It's true. Her husband
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: was the most sanctimonious prig I've ever met in my life.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I remember him well. He was president of the broad
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Church Union and war or side whiskers.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: But she stuck to me through thick and thin. I've
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: been in some pretty tight places in my day, and
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: she's always given me a leg up when I wanted it.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: I've got an idea it would just about break her heart.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Charlie married you.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: You know, I don't want to be offensive, but I
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: think it would be a pity myself. And besides, unless
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: I'm much mistaken, I've got a little score of my
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: own that I want to pay off. Have you, You've
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: got a good enough memory not to have forgotten that
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: you made a blithering fool of me once. I swore
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: i'd get even with you, and by George, I mean
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: to do it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Lady Frederick laughing, Hm, then how do you propose to
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: stop me if I make up my mind that I'm
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: going to accept Charlie.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: Well, he's not proposed yet, has he not yet?
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: But I've had to use every trick and device I
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: can think of to prevent him.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Look Ya, I'm going to play this game with my
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: cards on the table.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Then I shall be on my guard. You're never so
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: dangerous as when you pretend to be Frank.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry you should think so badly of me.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I don't only it was a stroke of genius when
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: nature put the soul of a Jesuit priest into the
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: body of a Yorkshire squire.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: I wonder what you're paying me compliments for. You must
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: be rather afraid of me.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: They look at one another for a moment.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Well, let's look at these cards.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: First of all, there's this money you've got to raise. Well,
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: this is my sister's suggestion.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: That means you don't much like it.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: If you'll refuse the boy and clear out, we'll give
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: you forty thousand pounds.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I suppose you'd be rather surprised if I boxed your ears.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: Now look here between you and me, high Falutin's rather absurd,
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: don't you think so. Well, you're in desperate want of money,
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: and I don't suppose it would amuse you much to
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: have a young hobbledehoy hanging about your skirts for the
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: rest of your life.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Very well, we'll have no high for looting. You may
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: tell Lady Merriston that if I really wanted the money,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't be such an idiot as to take forty
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: thousand down when I can have fifty thousand a year
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: for the asking.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: I told her that.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: You showed great perspicacity. Now for the second card, My.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Dear, it's no good getting into a patty over it.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I've never been calmer in my life.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: You've always had the very deuce of a temper. I
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: suppose you've not given Charlie a sample of it, yet,
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: have you.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick laughing, not yet?
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Oh well, the second card's your reputation, but.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: I haven't got any. I thought that's such an advantage.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: You see, Charlie is a young fool. He thinks you
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: a paragon of all the virtues, and it's never occurred
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: to him that you've rather gone the pace in your time.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: It's one of my greatest consolations to think that even
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: one hundred horsepower racing motor couldn't be more rapid than
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: I've been.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Still, it would be rather a shocked Charlie when he
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: hears that this modest flower whom he trembles to adore, has.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Very nearly eloped with his own uncle. But you won't
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: tell him that story, because you hate looking a perfect.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Ass, Madam when duty calls, Paradine Folds consents even to
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: look ridiculous. But I was thinking of the Bellingham affair.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Ah, of course there's the Bellingham affair. I've forgotten it.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: Nasty little business, that, eh horrid? Don't you think it
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: would choke him off?
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: I think it very probable.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Well, hadn't you better cave in, Lady Frederick?
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Ringing the bell ah, but you've not seen my cards yet.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: A servant enters.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Tell my servant to bring down the despatch box, which
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: is on my writing table.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Yes me, Dadi, exit. What's up now?
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Four or five years ago I was staying at this
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: hotel and Mimi le Breton had rooms here.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: I never heard of the lady, but her name suggests
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: that she had an affectionate nature.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: She was a little singer at the folly Bergeire and
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: she had the loveliest emeralds I ever saw.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: But you don't know, Maudes, the late.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Lord Merriston had a passion for emeralds. He always thought
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: they were such pure stones.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: I beg your pardon.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Well, Mimi fell desperately ill, and there was no one
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: to look after. Of course, of course, the pious English
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: ladies in the hotel wouldn't go within a mile of her,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: So I went and did the usual thing, don't you know.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick's man comes in with a small despatch box,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: which he places on a table. He goes out Lady
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Frederick as she talks, unlocks it.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: Thank god, I'm a bachelor, and no ministering angel ever
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: smooths my pillow when I particularly want to be left alone.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: I nursed her more or less through the whole illness,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: and afterwards she fancied. She owed me her worthless little life.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: She wanted to give me the precious emeralds, and when
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: I refused, was so heartbroken that I said I'd take
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: one thing if I might.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: And what was that?
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: A bundle of letters. I'd seen the address on the
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: back of the envelope, and then I recognized the writing.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: I thought they'd be much safer in my hands than
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: in hers.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: She takes them out of the box and hands them
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: to paradine.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Here they are.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: He looks and starts violently.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: Eighty nine Grosvenor's Square. It's Merston's writing. You don't mean
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: what the old sinner. And Merston wouldn't have me in
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: the house, if you please, because I was a dissolute
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: libertine and he was the president of the broad Church Union.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Good Lord, how often have I heard him say, gentlemen,
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: I take my stand on the morality, the cleanliness, and
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: the purity of English family life.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: I've often noticed that the religious temperament is very susceptible
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: to the charms of my sex. May I look, well,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know I suppose so.
• 38:54
  Speaker 15: Fuld's reading heart's delight, and he signs himself your darling chickabitty,
• 39:03
  Speaker 15: the old Ruffian.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: She was a very pretty little thing, I dare say,
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: but thank Heaven, I have some sense of decency left.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: And it outrages all my susceptibilities that a man inside
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: whiskers should call himself anybody's chicobbity.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Protestations of undying affection are never ridiculous when they are
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: accompanied by such splendid emeralds.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Folds starting and growing suddenly serious.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: And what about Maude, Well, poor girl, he did simply
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: break her heart. He preached at her steadily for twenty years,
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: and she worshiped the very ground he trod on. She'd
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: have died of grief at his death, except she felt
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: it her duty to go on with his work.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: I know, by.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Jove it's a good card. You were quite right to
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: refuse the emeralds. These letters are twice as valuable.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Would you like to burn them?
• 40:10
  Speaker 13: Let's see, there's the stove.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Put them in.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: He takes them up in both hands and hurries to
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: the stove. But he stops and brings them back. He
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: throws them on the sofa.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: No I won't. Why not, it's too deuce and generous.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: I'll fight you tooth and nail, but it's not fair
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: to take an advantage over me like that. You'll bind
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: my hands with fetters.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Very well, you've had your chance, But.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: By jove, you must have a good hand to throw
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: away a card like that. What have you got a
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: straight flush?
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: I may be only bluffing, you, know, Lord.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: It does me good to hear your nice old Irish
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: brogue again.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Seeth and does it?
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: I believe you only put it on to get over people.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick smiling Bigora.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: It's not easy to get over you.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: Lord. I was in love with you once, wasn't I.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Not more than lots of other people have been.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: And you did treat me abominably.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Ah, that's what they all said. But you got over
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: it very well.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: I didn't. My digestion was permanently impaired by your brutal treatment.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Is that why you went to Carlsbad afterwards? Instead of
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: the Rocky Mountains?
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: You may laugh, but the fact remains that I've only
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: been in love once, and that was with you.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick smiling as she holds out her hand, good night, for.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: All that I'm going to fight you now for all
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: I'm worth.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: I'm not frightened of you, Paradine.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: Good night.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: As he goes out, Captain Montgomery enters Lady Frederick, yawning
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: and stretching her arms.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Oh so sleepy.
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry for that. I wanted to have a talk with.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: You, Lady Frederick, smiling.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: I dare say I can keep awake for five minutes,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: you know, especially if you offer me a cigarette.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Here you are, He hands her his case and lights
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: her cigarette. Lady Frederick with a sigh.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Oh what a comfort.
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: I wanted to tell you. I had a letter this
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: morning from my solicitor to say that he's just bought
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: Crowley Castle on my behalf.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Really, but it's a lovely place. You must ask me
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: to come and stay.
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: I should like you to stay there indefinitely, Lady Frederick
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: with a quick look.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: That's charming of you. But I never desert my London long.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Captain Montgomery smiling.
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: I have a very nice house in Portman Square, really,
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: and I'm thinking of going into Parliament at the next election.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: It appears to be a very delightful pastime to govern
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: the British nation. Dignified without being laborious.
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: Lady Frederick, although I've been in this service, I have
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: rather a good head for business, and I hate beating
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: around the bush. I wanted to ask you to marry me.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: It's nice of you not to make a fuss about it.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: I'm very much obliged, but I'm afraid I can't. Why not, Well,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: you see, I don't know yet.
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: We could spend the beginning of our married life so
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: usefully in making one another's acquaintance.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: It would be rather late in the day, then, to
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: come to the conclusion that we couldn't bear the sight
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: of one another.
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: Shall I send my banker's books so that you may
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: see that my antecedents are respectable, and my circumstances such
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: as tope buyer affection.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: I have no doubt it would be very interesting, But
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: not to me.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: She makes as if to go, Ah, don't go yet.
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: Won't you give me some reason.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: If you insist I'm not the least in love with you?
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: Do you think that matters much?
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: You're a friend of Gerald's, and he says you're a
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: very good sort. But I really can't marry everyone that
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Gerald rather likes.
• 44:29
  Speaker 7: He said he would put in a good word for me.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: If I ever marry again, it shall be to please myself,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: not to please my brother.
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: I hope I shall induce you to alter your mind.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I can give you no hope of that.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: You know, when I determine to do a thing, I
• 44:48
  Speaker 7: generally do it.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: That sounds very like a threat.
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: You may take it as such, if you please.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: And you've made up your mind that you're going to
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: marry me. Quiet well, I've made up my mind that
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: you shan't, So we're quits.
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: Why don't you talk to your brother about it?
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Because it's no business of.
• 45:09
  Speaker 7: His, isn't it? Ask him what do you mean by that?
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: Ask him? Good night?
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Good night?
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: He goes out. Lady Frederick goes to the French window
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: that leads to the terrace and calls Gerald Hello. He
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: appears and comes into the room.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Did you know that Captain Montgomery was going to propose
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: to me?
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Is there any reason why I should marry him?
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Only that I owe him nine hundred pounds?
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 45:46
  Speaker 12: Why didn't you tell me?
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: You were so worried? I couldn't. Oh, I've been such
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: a fool. I tried to make a coup for Rose's sake?
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Is it a gambling debt? Yes, they call a debt
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: of honor.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: I must pay it the day after tomorrow, without fail.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: That's the day my do billsfall. Do And if you don't, I.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: Shall have to send in my papers, and I shall
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: lose Rosie, and then I shall blow out my silly brains.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: But who is the man?
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: He's the son of Aaron Levitzki, the money lender.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Oh lord.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: End of the first act, Act two of Lady Frederick,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: a comedy in three acts by William Somerset mom. This
• 46:42
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• 46:51
  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. The second act, the scene is the
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: same as in Act one. Admiral Carlyle is sleeping in
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: an arm chair with a handkerchief over his face. Rose
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: is sitting on a grandfather's chair and Gerald is leaning
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: over the back.
• 47:12
  Speaker 9: Isn't Papa a perfectly adorable chaperone?
• 47:16
  Speaker 7: The Admiral snores perfectly.
• 47:22
  Speaker 9: I've started fifteen topics of conversation in the last quarter
• 47:25
  Speaker 9: of an hour.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Gerald, Gerald smiling, Have you you.
• 47:31
  Speaker 9: Always agree with me? And there's an end of it,
• 47:34
  Speaker 9: so I have to rack my brains again.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: All you say is so very wise and sensible of cars,
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: I agree.
• 47:43
  Speaker 9: I wonder if you'll think me sensible and wise in
• 47:46
  Speaker 9: ten years.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: I'm quite sure I shall.
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: Why then, I'm afraid we shan't cultivate any great brilliancy
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: of a partee be.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: Good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever?
• 48:00
  Speaker 9: Oh, don't say that. When a man's in love he
• 48:03
  Speaker 9: at once makes a pedestal to the ten commandments and
• 48:05
  Speaker 9: stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo.
• 48:09
  Speaker 9: When a woman's in love, she doesn't care two straws
• 48:12
  Speaker 9: for thou shalt and thou shalt not.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: When a woman's in love, she can put her heart
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: on the slide of a microscope and examine how it beats.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: When a man's in love, what do you think he
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: cares for science and philosophy and all the rest of it.
• 48:27
  Speaker 9: When a man's in love, he can only write sonnets
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: to the moon. When a woman's in love, she can
• 48:32
  Speaker 9: still cook his dinner and don her own stockings.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: I wish you wouldn't cap all my observations.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: She lifts up her face, and he kisses her lips.
• 48:43
  Speaker 9: I'm beginning to think you're rather nice.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: You know that's reassuring at all events.
• 48:49
  Speaker 9: But no one could accuse you of being a scintillating talker.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: Have you ever watched the lovers in the park sitting
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: on the benches hour after hour without saying a word.
• 48:59
  Speaker 12: Why?
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: Because I've always thought they must be bored to the
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: verge of tears. Now I know they're only happy.
• 49:08
  Speaker 9: You're certainly my soldier, So I suppose i'm your nursery maid.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: You know, when I was at Trinity College, Dublin.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Were you there?
• 49:17
  Speaker 9: I thought you went to Oxford?
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: No?
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 49:22
  Speaker 9: Only all my people go to Magdalen.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, and I've.
• 49:26
  Speaker 9: Decided that if I ever have a son, he shall
• 49:28
  Speaker 9: go there too.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: The Admiral starts and pulls the handkerchief off his face.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: The others do not notice him. He is aghast and
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: astounded at a conversation. Lady Frederick comes in later and
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: stands smiling as she listens.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: My darling, you know, I hate to thwart you in
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: any way, but I've quite made up my mind that
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: my son shall go to Dublin as I did.
• 49:57
  Speaker 9: I'm awfully sorry, Gerald, but the boy must be at
• 50:00
  Speaker 9: dated like a gentleman.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: There. I quite agree, Rose. But first of all, he's
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: an irishman, and it's right that he should be educated
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: in Ireland.
• 50:10
  Speaker 9: Darling Gerald, A mother's love is naturally the safest guide
• 50:13
  Speaker 9: in these.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: Things, Dearest Rose. A father's wisdom is always the most reliable.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: Pardon my interfering, but aren't you just a little previous?
• 50:24
  Speaker 8: Did you ever hear such a conversation in your life
• 50:28
  Speaker 8: between a young, unmarried couple.
• 50:31
  Speaker 9: My dear Papa, you must be prepared for everything.
• 50:34
  Speaker 8: In my youth, young ladies did not refer to things
• 50:38
  Speaker 8: of that sort.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't suppose they're any the worse for having
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: an elementary knowledge of natural history. Personally, I doubt whether
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: ignorance is quite the same thing as virtue. And I'm
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: not quite sure that a girl makes a better wife
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: because she's been brought up like a perfect fool.
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: I am old fashioned, lady, Frederick, And my idea of
• 50:59
  Speaker 8: a modern girl is that when certain topics are mentioned,
• 51:04
  Speaker 8: she should swoon. Swoon, Madam, swoon. They always did it
• 51:09
  Speaker 8: when I was a lad.
• 51:12
  Speaker 9: Well Father, I've often tried to faint when I wanted
• 51:14
  Speaker 9: something that you wouldn't give me, and I've never been
• 51:16
  Speaker 9: able to manage it, so I'm sure I couldn't swoon.
• 51:20
  Speaker 8: And with regard to this ridiculous discussion as to which
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: university your son is to be sent, you seem to
• 51:28
  Speaker 8: forget that I have the right to be consulted.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: My dear Admiral, I don't see how it can possibly
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: matter to you.
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: And before we go any further, I should like you
• 51:41
  Speaker 8: to know that the very day Rose was born, I
• 51:45
  Speaker 8: determined that her son should go to Cambridge.
• 51:49
  Speaker 9: My dear Papa, I think Gerald and I are far
• 51:52
  Speaker 9: and away the best judges of our son's welfare.
• 51:55
  Speaker 8: The boy must work, Rose. I will have no good
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: for nothing.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: My grandson exactly, and that is why I'm resolved he
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: shall go to Dublin.
• 52:06
  Speaker 9: The important thing is that he should have really nice manners,
• 52:09
  Speaker 9: and that they teach at Oxford. If they teach nothing else.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Well, don't you think you'd better wait another twenty years
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: or so before you discuss this.
• 52:18
  Speaker 8: There are some matters which must be settled at once,
• 52:21
  Speaker 8: Lady Frederick.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: You know young things are fairly independent nowadays. I don't
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: know what they'll be in twenty years time.
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: The first thing the boy shall learn is obedience.
• 52:33
  Speaker 9: Certainly, there's nothing so hateful as a disobedient child.
• 52:37
  Speaker 8: I can't see my grandson venturing to disobey me.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: Then you're all agreed, so that's settled. I came to
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: tell you your carriage was ready.
• 52:46
  Speaker 8: Go and put on your bonnet. Rose to Lady Frederick,
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: are you coming with us?
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I can't au revoir.
• 52:56
  Speaker 8: Ateuteulau he and Rose go out.
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: Have you ever seen in your life anyone so entirely
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: delightful as Rose?
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick laughing only when I've looked in the glass.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: My dear Elizabeth, how vain you are?
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: You are very happy, my Gerald.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: It's such a relief to have got over all the difficulties.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: I thought it would never come right. You are a brick, Elizabeth.
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: I really think I am.
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: Rather the moment you promised to arrange things, I felt
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: as safe as a house.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: I said I'd do my best at night, and I
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: told you not to worry.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Gerald turning round suddenly.
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: Isn't it all right?
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: No, it's about as wrong as it can possibly be.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: I knew Cohen was staying here, and I thought I
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: could get him to hold the bills over for.
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: A few days, and won't he he hasn't.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Got them anymore. What they've been negotiated, and he swears
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: he doesn't know who has them.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: But oh, could have been such a fool.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know. That's just the awful part of it.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: It was bad enough before I knew the worst Cohen
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: could do, but now it couldn't be paradeen.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: And then there's Montgomery.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: I shall see him today.
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: What are you going to say to him?
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: I haven't an idea.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: I'm rather frightened of him, you know, dear, if the
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: worst comes to the worst.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Whatever happens, you shall marry Rose.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: I promise you that paradeine Folds appears.
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: May I come in?
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: It's a public room. I don't see how we can
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: possibly prevent you.
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to take a stroll.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Do he goes out?
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: How are things going quite well? Thank you?
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: I've left Charlie with his mother. I hope you can
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: spare him for a couple of hours.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: I told him he must spend the afternoon with her.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: I don't approve of his neglecting his filial duty.
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: Ah, I saw Dick Cohen this morning, did you it
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: seems to interest you not at all?
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Why should it folds?
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Smiling?
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: Nice little man, isn't he?
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: I wish I had something to throw at you.
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: Well, I haven't got the confounded bills. I was too late,
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: did you try? Oh? Yes, I thought it would interest
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: Charley to know how extremely needful it was for you
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: to marry him.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Then who on earth has got them?
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: I haven't an idea, but they must make you very uncomfortable?
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: Three thousand, five hundred.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Eh, don't say it all at once. It sounds so much.
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: You wouldn't like to exchange those letters of Meerson's for
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: seven thousand pounds? Would you? No? Ah? And by the way,
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: do you mind if I tell Charley the full story
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: of your relations with me?
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: Why should I? It's not I who look ridiculous.
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: Thanks, I may avail myself of your permission.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: I dare say you've noticed that Charley has a very
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: keen sense of humor.
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: If you're going to be disagreeable to me, I shall go.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: He stops.
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: I say, are you quite sure there's nothing else that
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: can be brought up against you?
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: Quite sure? Thanks?
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: My sister's very jubilant to day. What about the Bellingham affair?
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: Merely scandal, my friend, Well.
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: Look out, she is a woman, and she'll stick at nothing.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: I wonder why you warn me.
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: For the sake of old times, my dear you.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Growing sentimental paradine. It's the punishment which the gods inflict
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: on a cynic when he grows old.
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: It may be, but for the life of me, I
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: can't forget that once, my.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Dear friend, don't rake up my lamentable past.
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: I don't think I've met any one so entirely devoid
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: of sentiment as you are.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: Let us agree that I have every vice under the
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: sun and have done with it.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: A servant comes in.
• 57:24
  Speaker 14: Madame Cloude wishes to see your ladyship.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, my dressmaker. Another bill that's the worst of Monty
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: One meets as many creditors as in Bond Street.
• 57:37
  Speaker 14: Say I'm engaged, Madame Cloude says she will wait till me,
• 57:41
  Speaker 14: lady is free.
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: You make a mistake. One should always be polite to
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: people whose bills one can't pay.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Show her in yes me, lady, exit servant.
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: Is it a big one?
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: Oh no, only seven hundred pounds.
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: Bye jove, my dear friend.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: One must dress. I can't go about in fig leafs.
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: One can dress simply.
• 58:09
  Speaker 6: I do.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: That's why it costs so much.
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: You know you're devilish, extravagant.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm content with the barest necessities of existence.
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: You've got a maid, of course, I've got a maid.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: I was never taught to dress myself.
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: And you've got a footman.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: I've always had a footman, and my mother always had
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: a footman. I couldn't live a day without him.
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: What does he do for you?
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: He inspires confidence in tradesmen.
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: And you have the most expensive suite of rooms in
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: the hotel.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: I'm such a dreadful mess. If I hadn't got nice rooms,
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: I should brood over it.
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: Then, as if that weren't enough, You fling your money
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: away at the tables.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: When you're as poor as I am, A few louise
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: more or less can make absolutely no difference.
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: You're quite incorrigible.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: It's really not my fault. I do try to be economical,
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: but money slips through my fingers like water. I can't
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: help it.
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: You want a sensible sort of a man to look
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: after you.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: I want a very rich sort of man to look
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: after me.
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: If you were my wife, I should advertise in the
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: papers that I wasn't responsible for your debts.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: If you were my husband, i'd advertise immediately underneath it,
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: I wasn't responsible for your manners.
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: I wonder why you're so reckless.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: When my husband was alive, I was so utterly wretched,
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: And afterwards, when I looked forward to a little happiness,
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: my boy died. Then I didn't care any more. I
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: did everything I could to stupefy myself. I squandered money
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: as other women take morphia. That's all.
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: It's the same, dear, scatterbrained, good hearted Betsy that I
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: ca used to know.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: You're the only person who calls me Betsy. Now to
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: all the others, I'm only Elizabeth.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: Look here, what are you going to do with this dressmaker?
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I always trust to the inspiration of
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: the moment.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: She'll make a devil of a fuss, won't she.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: Oh? No, I shall be quite nice to her, I.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: Dare say, But won't she be very disagreeable to you?
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: You don't know what a way I have with my creditors.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: I know it's not a paying way, isn't it.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: I bet you a hundred louis that I offer her
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: the money and she refuses it.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: I'll take that.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 7: Here.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: She is, Madame Claude enters ushered in by the servant.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: She is a stout, genteel person, very splendidly gowned. Her
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: face is set to sternness, decision to make a scene
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: and general sourness.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 14: Madame Claude exit servant.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick goes up to her enthusiastically and takes both
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: her hands.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: Best of women. This is a joyful surprise.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Madame Claude, drawing herself up.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 10: I had caught by chance that your lightship was at Monte.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: So you came to see me at once. That was
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: nice of you. You're the very person I wanted to see.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 10: Oh I'm glad of that, mulady, I must confess.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: You, dear creature. That's one advantage of Monte Carlo. One
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: meets all one's friends. Do you know, mister fools, this
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: is Madame Claude, an artist, my dear paradine, a real artist.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 10: I'm pleased that your ladyship will think.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: So how do you do now?
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 6: This gown?
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: Look? Look, look in this skirt. There's genius mon che
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: in the way it hangs. My whole character is expressed
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: observe the fullness of it that indicates those admirable virtues
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: which make me an ornament to society, while the frill
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: at the bottom just suggest those foibles you can hardly
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: call them falts, which add a certain grace and interest
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: to my personality. And the flounce, Paradine, I beseech you
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: to look at it carefully. I would sooner have designed
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: this flounce than one the Battle of Waterloo.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 10: Your Layship is very kind, not at.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: All, not at all. You remember that rose Chiffon. I
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: wore it the other day and the dear Archduchess came
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: up to me and said, my dear, my dear. I
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: thought she was going to have a fit, But when
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: she recovered, she kissed me on both cheeks and said,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: Lady Frederick, you have a dressmaker worth her weight in gold.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: You heard her, Paradine, didn't you?
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: You forget that I only arrived last night.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: Of course, how stupid of me. She'll be perfectly delighted
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: to hear that you're in Monte Carlo. But I shall
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: have to break it to her.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 10: Gen Oh, I'm sorry to intrude upon your ladyship.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: Now what are you talking about? If you hadn't come
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: to see me. I should never have forgiven you.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 13: Oh.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 10: I want to have a little talk with your ladyship.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, but I hope we shall have many little talks.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: Have you brought your motor down? Yes, that's charming. You
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: shall take me for a drive in it every day.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: I hope you're going to stay some time.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 10: That depends on circumstances. Lay Frederick, I've ale business to
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 10: do here.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: Then let me give you one warning.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 10: Don't gamble ah now, my lady, oh gamble quite enough
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 10: in my business as it is, I'll never know when
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 10: my customers will pay their bills if ever.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick slightly taken aback ha ha ha, Oh.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: Isn't she clever? I must tell that to the Archduchess.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: She'll be so amused. The dear arch Duchess. You know
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: she loves a little joke. You must really meet her.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: Will you come and lunch? I know you hit it
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: off together.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 10: That's very kind of your ladyship.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: My dear, you know perfectly well that I've always looked
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: upon you as one of my best friends. Now, who
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: shall we have? There's you and me and the Archduchess.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Then I'll ask Lord Mearston.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 10: The Marquis of Miston life Frederick.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, and mister Foolds his uncle.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 10: Excuse me, are you the mister Paradine Fowls?
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: Folds bowing at your service, madam, I'm.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 10: So glad to make your acquaintance, mister Foulds, I've always had.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 10: You're such a bad.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: Man, Madam. You overwhelmed me with confusion.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 10: Believe me, mister Folds, it's not the lies married to
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 10: saints who take the trouble to dress well.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: Now we want a third man, shall we all my brother,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: you know, sir Gerald, O'Mara, don't you? Or shall we
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: ask Prince Doniani?
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 9: Yes?
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: I think we'll ask the Prince. I'm sure you'd like him.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: Such a handsome man. That'll make six.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 10: It's very kinder, you lay, Frederick. But well, I'm only
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 10: a tradeswoman.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: You know, a tradeswoman. How can you talk such nonsense?
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: You are an artist, a real artist, my dear, and
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: an artist is fit to meet a king.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 10: Well, I won't, Denova, I'll be ashamed to dress my
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 10: customers in the gowns i'll see painted at the Royal Academy.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: Then it's quite settled, isn't it Madame Cloude. Oh may
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: I call you Ada?
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 10: Oh if Frederick Or should be much flattered. But how
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 10: did you know that was my name?
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: Why you wrote me a letter only the other day?
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 10: Did I?
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: And such a cross letter too?
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 10: Oh, but like Frederick, that was only in the way
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 10: of business. Ah, don't exactly remember what expressions are? Maya
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 10: ma a use of.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick interrupting as if the truth had suddenly flashed
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: across her.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: Ada, I do believe you came here today about my account?
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 10: Oh, now, my lighty, I promise you you did.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 6: I know you did?
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: I see it in your face. Now. That really wasn't
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: nice of you. I thought you came as a.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 10: Friend, Oh did Lay Frederick?
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: No, you wanted to done me. I'm disappointed in you.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: I did think after all the things I've had from you,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: you wouldn't treat me like that.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 10: But I assure your layship.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: Not another word. You came to ask for a check.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: You shall have it.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 10: Now, Lay Frederick Or wouldn't take it.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: What is the exact figure, Madam Claude, Oh, don't remember
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty pounds seventeen and nine. You see,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: I remember you came for your check, and you shall
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: have it.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: She sits down and takes a pen.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 10: Nah life, Frederick, I should look upon that as most uncanned.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 10: It's straightened me like a very second right establishment.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but you should have thought of that before.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: Now I haven't got a check. How tiresome.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 10: Oh it doesn't matter, late Frederick, I promise you. It
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 10: never hinted me.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 15: Ed.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: What shall I do?
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: You can write it on a sheet of paper, you know.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick, with a look aside to him monster.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: Of course I can. I hadn't thought of that.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: She takes a sheet of paper.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: But how on earth am I to get a stamp?
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 4: I happen to have one on me?
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: I wonder why on earth you should have English stamps
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: in Monte Carlo Folds.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: Handing her one.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 4: A penny stamp may sometimes say one of one hundred.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: Louis, thanks so much. I write the name of my
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: bank on the top, don't I pay? Madam Claude.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 10: Now it's no good, Lady Frederick. I won't take it,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 10: after all, I have my self respect to think of.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: It's too late now, Madame Claude sniffing a little.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 10: Now, lay Frederick, don't be too odd on me as
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 10: one lady too another I ask you to forgive me. Oh,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 10: did come about my account? But well I don't want
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 10: the money.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick, looking up good humoredly.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: Well, well, she.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: Looks at the check.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: It shall be as you wish.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: There she tears it up.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 10: Oh, thank you, lay Frederick. I'll look upon that as
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 10: a real favor. And now I really must be getting off.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: Must you go?
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 6: Well? Good bye?
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: Paradine take Madame Clode to her motor Ada.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: She kisses her on the cheek. Madame Clode going.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 10: Ah, am plased to have seen you.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: Paradine offers his arm and goes out with Madame Cloude.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick goes to the window, stands on a chair
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: and waves her handkerchief. While she is doing this, Captain
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: Montgomery enters, how do you do, Lady Frederick? Getting down?
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: How nice of you to come. I wanted to see you.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 7: May I sit down?
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: Of course? There are one or two things I'd like
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: to talk to you about. Yes, First, I must thank
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: you for your great kindness to Gerald. I didn't know
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: last night that he owed you a good deal of money.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 7: It's a mere trifle.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: You must be very rich to call nine hundred pounds
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: that I.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: Am, Lady Frederick, with a laugh.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: All the same, it's extremely good of you to give
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: him plenty of time.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 7: I told Gerald he could have till tomorrow.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: Obviously he wants to settle with you as soon as
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: ever he can.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 7: I often wonder why gambling debts are known as debts
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 7: of honor.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick looking at him steadily.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: Of course, I realize that if you choose to press
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: for the money and Gerald can't pay, he'll have to
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: send in his papers.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 7: You may be quite sure I have no wish to
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 7: bring about such a calamity. By the way, have you
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 7: thought over our little talk of last night? No, you
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 7: would have been wise to do so.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: My dear Captain Montgomery, you really can't expect me to
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: marry you because my brother has been so foolish as
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: to lose more money at poker than he can afford.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 7: Did you ever hear that my father was a money lender.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: A lucrative profession.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 7: I believe he found it so. He was a Polish
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 7: Jew called Aaron Levitzky. He came to this country with
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 7: three shillings in his pocket. He lent half a crown
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 7: of it to a friend on the condition that he
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 7: should be paid back seven and six in three days.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not good at figures, but the interest sounds rather high.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 7: It is that was one of my father's specialities. From
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 7: these humble beginnings, his business grew to such proportions that
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 7: at his death he was able to leave me in
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 7: the name and arms of the great family of Montgomery,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 7: and something over a million of money.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: The result of thrift, industry and good fortune.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 7: My father was able to gratify all his ambitions, but
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 7: one he was eaten up with the desire to move
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 7: in good society. In this he was never able to achieve.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 7: His dying wish was that I should live in those
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 7: circles which he knew only across the counter precisely. But
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 7: my poor father was a little ignorant in these matters.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 7: To him, one lord was as good as another. He
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 7: thought a marquis a finer man than an earl, and
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 7: a viscount than a baron. He would have never understood
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 7: that a penniless Irish baronet might go into better society
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 7: than many a belted earl.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: And what is the application of this?
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 7: I wanted to explain to you. One of the reasons
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 7: which embolded me last night to make you a proposal
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 7: of marriage.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: But surely you know some very nice people. I saw
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: you lunching the other day with the widow of a
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: city night.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 7: Many very excellent persons are glad to have me to
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 7: dine with them. But I know quite well that they're
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 7: not the real article. I'm as far off as ever
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 7: from getting into those houses which you have been used
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 7: to all your life. I'm not content with third rate
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 7: earls and other seedy dowagers.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: Forgive my frankness, but aren't you rather a snob?
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 7: My father, Aaron Levitsky, married in englishwoman, and I have
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 7: all the English virtues.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: But I'm not quite sure that people would swallow you
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: even as my husband.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 7: They'd make a face, but they'd swallow me right enough.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 7: And when I asked them down to the best shoot
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 7: in England, they'd come to the conclusion that I agreed
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 7: with them very well.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: Your offer is eminently business like, but you see, I'm
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: not a business woman. It doesn't appeal to me.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 7: I only ask you to perform such of the duties
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 7: of a wife as are required by society. There are
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 7: few enough in all conscience I should wish you to
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 7: entertain largely and receive my guests, be polite to me,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 7: at least in public, and go with me to the
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 7: various places people go to. Otherwise I leave you you
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 7: entire freedom. You will find me generous and heedful to
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 7: all your wishes.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: Captain Montgomery, I don't know how much of all that
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: you have said is meant seriously, but surely you're not
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: choosing the right time to make such a proposal. When
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: my brother owes you so much money that if you
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: care to be hard, you can ruin him, Why not
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: do you mean to say?
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 7: I'll be quite frank with you. I should never have
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 7: allowed Gerald to lose so much money, which there was
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 7: no likelihood of his being able to pay, if I
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 7: had not thought that it earned me some claim upon
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 7: your gratitude.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: Gerald will pay every penny he owes you tomorrow.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 7: Where do you suppose he'll get it?
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: I have no doubt I shall be able to manage something.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 7: Have you not tried this morning entirely without success? What
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 7: you do not forget that you have sundry monies of
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 7: your own which are payable tomorrow? How do you know
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 7: that I told you that when I took a thing
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 7: in hand, I carried it through. You went to Dick Cohen,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 7: and he told you he parted with the bills. Didn't
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 7: you guess that only one man could have the least
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 7: interest in taking them over you? Yes? Oh God, come, come,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 7: don't be worried over it. There's nothing to be alarmed about.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 7: I'm a very decent chap. If you'd accepted me right away,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 7: you would have never known that those bills were in
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 7: my possession. Think it over once more. I'm sure we
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 7: should get on well together. I can give you what
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 7: you most need, money and the liberty to fling it
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 7: away as recklessly as you choose. You can give me
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 7: the assured and fixed position on which my father's heart
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 7: was set.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: And if I don't accept, you'll make me a bankrupt
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: and you'll ruin Gerald.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 7: I refuse to consider that very unpleasant alternative.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: Oh I can't.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: I can't, Captain Montgomery laughing.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 7: But you must, you must. When shall I come for
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 7: your answer? Tomorrow? I'll come with the bills in Gerald's
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 7: I owe you in my pocket, and you shall burn
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 7: them yourself.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 6: Goodbye.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: He kisses her hand and goes out. Lady Frederick remains
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: staring in front of her. Mearston enters, followed by Lady
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: Merston and Paradine Mearston, going to her eagerly.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 7: Hello.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 6: I wondered what on earth had become of you.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: Lady Frederick, with a laugh, it's only two hours since
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: I chased you away from me.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 6: I'm afraid I bow you to death.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: Don't be so silly, you know you don't.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 6: Where are you going now?
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: I have rather a headache. I'm going to lie down.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 6: I'm so sorry.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick goes out Mearston's, stares after her anxiously, and
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: makes a step towards the door.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 5: Where are you going, Charlie?
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 6: I never asked, Lady Frederick, if I could do anything good.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 5: Heavens, there are surely plenty of servants in the hotel
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 5: to get her anything she wants.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 6: Don't you think a drive in the motor would do
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 6: her good?
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: Lady Mearston unable to control herself.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, I have no patience with you. I never saw
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 5: such a ridiculous infatuation in my life.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 4: Steady, old girl, steady, what on earth.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 6: Do you mean?
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 4: Mother?
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 5: Presumably you're not going to deny that you're in love
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 5: with that woman?
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: Mearston growing pale.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 6: Would you mind speaking of her as Lady Frederick.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 5: You try me very much, Charlie, please answer my question.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 6: I don't want to seem unkind to you, mother, but
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 6: I think you have no right to ask about my
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 6: private affairs.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 4: If you're going to talk this matter over, you're more
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 4: likely to come to an understanding if if you both
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 4: keep your tempers.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 6: There's nothing I wish to discuss.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 5: Don't be absurd, Charlie. You're with Lady Frederick morning, noon
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 5: and night. She can never stir a yard from the hotel,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 5: but you go flying after you pester her with your
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 5: ridiculous attentions.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 4: One's relations have always such an engaging frankness, like a
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 4: bad looking glass. They always represent you with a crooked
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 4: nose and a cast in your eye.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: Lady Mearston too. Mearston, I have.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 5: Certainly a right to know what you mean by all
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 5: this and what is going to come of it.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 6: I don't know what will come of it.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 4: The question that excites our curiosity is this, are you
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 4: going to ask Lady Frederick to marry you?
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 6: I refuse to answer that. It seems to me excessively impertinent.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 4: Come come my boy, you're too young to play the
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 4: heavy father. We're both your friends. Hadn't you better make
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 4: a clean breast of it, After all, your mother and
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: I are interested in nothing so much as your welfare.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 5: Charlie.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 6: Of course, i'd ask her to marry me if I
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 6: thought for a moment that she'd accept. But I'm so
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 6: terrified that you refuse, and then perhaps I shall never
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 6: see her again.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 5: The boy's stark, staring, mad I.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 6: Don't know what I should do if she sent me
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 6: about my business. I'd rather continue in this awful uncertainty
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 6: than lose all her forever.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 4: By George, you're pretty far gone, my son. The lover
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 4: who's diffident is in a much worse way than the
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 4: lover who protests.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 5: Ha ha ha. I must say it amuses me that Lady
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 5: Frederick should have had both my brother and my son
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 5: dangling at her skirts. Your respective passions are separated by
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 5: quite a number of years.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 6: Lady Frederick has already told me of that incident.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 4: With the usual indiscretion of her sex.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 6: It appears that she was very unhappy, and you, with
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 6: questionable taste, made love to her.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 4: Do your best not to preach at me, dear boy,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 4: it reminds me of your lamented father.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 6: And at last she promised to go away with you.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 6: You were to meet at Waterloo Station.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 4: Such a drafty place, for an assignation.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 6: Your train was to start at nine, and you are
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 6: going to take the boat over to the Channel aisles.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 4: Lady Frederick has a very remarkable memory. I remember hoping
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 4: the sea wouldn't be rough, and just.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 6: As the train was starting, her eye fell on the clock.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 6: That moment a child was coming down to breakfast and
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 6: would ask for her. Before you could stop her, she
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 6: jumped out of the carriage. The train was moving and
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 6: you couldn't get out, so you were taken on to
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 6: Weapoeuth alone.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 5: You must have felt a quite egregious ass Paradine.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 4: I did, but you need not rub it in.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 5: Doesn't it occur to you, Charlie, that a woman who
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 5: loves so easily can to be very worthy of your affection.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 6: But my dear mother, do you think she cared for
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 6: my uncle?
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 4: What the dickens do you mean?
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 6: Do you suppose if she loved you she would have
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 6: hesitated to come? Do you know her so little as
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 6: that she thought of a child only because she was
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 6: quite indifferent to you.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 4: You know nothing about it, and you are an impertinent
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 4: young jackanapes.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 5: My dear Paradine, what can it matter if Lady Frederick
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 5: was in love with you or not?
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 4: Of course, it doesn't matter a bit.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 5: I have no doubt you mistook wounded vanity for a
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 5: broken heart.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 4: My dear, you sometimes say things which explain to me
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 4: why my brother in law so frequently abandoned his own
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 4: fireside for the platform of Exeter Hall.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 6: Maos interest you to learn that I am perfectly aware
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 6: of Lady Frederick's financial difficulties. I know she has two
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 6: bills falling due tomorrow.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 4: She is a very clever woman.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 6: I've implored her to let me lend her the money,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 6: and she absolutely refuses. You see, she's kept nothing from
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 6: me at.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 5: All, My dear Charlie, it's a very old dodge to
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 5: confess what doesn't matter in order to conceal what does.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 6: What do you mean, Mama?
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 5: Lady Frederick has told you nothing of the Bellingham affair.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 6: Why should she?
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 5: It is surely expedient. You should know that the woman
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 5: you have some idea of marrying escaped the divorce court
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 5: only by the skin of her teeth.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 4: I don't believe that, mother, Remember that you're talking to
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 4: your respected parent.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 6: My boy, I'm sorry that my mother should utter base
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 6: and contemptible libels on my greatest friend.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 5: You may be quite sure that I say nothing which
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: I can't prove.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 6: I won't listen to anything against Lady Frederick, but you
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 6: must are you quite indifferent to the great pain you
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 6: cost me?
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 5: I can't allow you to marry a woman who's hopelessly immoral?
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 6: Mother?
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 4: How dare you say that this isn't the sort of
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 4: thing I much like? But hadn't you better hear the
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 4: worst at once?
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 6: Very well? But if my mother insists on saying things,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 6: she must say them in Lady Frederick's.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 5: Presence that I'm quite willing to do good.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: He rings the bell. A servant enters.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 4: You'd better take care, Mardye, Lady Frederick's a dangerous woman
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 4: to play the fool with.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: Mearston to the servant.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 6: Go to Lady Frederick Burrough's and say, lord Meareston is
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 6: extremely sorry to trouble her ladyship, but would be very
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 6: much obliged if she'd come to the drawing room for
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 6: two minutes.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 14: Very well, my lord exit, what are you going to do, Maud.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 5: I know there was a letter in existence in Lady
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 5: Frederick's handwriting which proved all I've said about her. I've
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 5: moved heaven and earth to get a hold of it,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 5: and it came this morning.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 4: Don't be such a fool. You're not going to use
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 4: that I am. Indeed, your blood be upon your own head.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 4: Unless I'm vastly mistaken, you'll suffer the greatest humiliation that
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 4: you can imagine.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 5: That's absurd. I have nothing to fear.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick comes in.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 6: I'm so sorry to disturb you. I hope you don't mind,
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 6: not at all.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: I knew you wouldn't have sent for me in that
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: fashion without good cause.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 6: I'm afraid you think me dreadfully impetitent.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 5: Really, you need not apologize so much, Charlie.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 6: My mother has something to say against you, and I
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 6: think it's right that she should say it in your presence.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: That's very nice of you, Charlie, though I confess I
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: prefer people to say horrid things to me only behind
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: my back, especially if they're true.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 4: Look here, I think this is all rather nonsense. We've
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 4: most of us got something in our past history that
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 4: we don't want raked up, and we'd all better that
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 4: bygones be bygones.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: I'm waiting, Lady Mearston.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 5: It's merely that I thought my son should know that
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 5: Lady Frederick had been the mistress of Roger Bellingham.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick turns quickly and looks at her, then bursts
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: into a peal of laughter. Lady Mearston springs up angrily
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: and hands her a letter. Is this in your handwriting,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick not at all disconcerted.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: Dear me, how did you get a hold of this?
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 5: You see that I have ample proof, Lady Frederick.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick handing the letter to Mearston.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: Would you like to read it? You know my writing
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: well enough to be able to answer Lady Mearston's question.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: He reads it through and looks at her in dismay.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 6: Good God, what does it mean?
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 4: Pray?
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: Read it aloud?
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 6: I can't.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: Then give it to me.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: She takes it from him.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: It's addressed to my brother in law, Peter Barols. The
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: Kate to whom it refers was his wife. Reads Dear Peter,
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry you should have had a row with Kate
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: about Roger Bellingham. You are quite wrong in all you
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: thought there is absolutely nothing between them. I don't know
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: where Kate was on Tuesday night, but she certainly was
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: not within a hundred miles of Roger.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 6: This I know because for God's sake, don't go on.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick looks at him and shrugs her shoulders.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: It signed Elizabeth Barols, and there's a PostScript. You may
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: make what use of this letter you like?
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 6: What does it mean? What does it mean?
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 5: Surely it's very clear you can't want a more explicit
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 5: confession of guilt.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: I tried to make it as explicit as possible.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 5: Won't you say something? I'm sure there must be some explanation.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you got hold of this letter,
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: Lady Merston. I agree with you. It is compromising. But
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: Kate and Peter are dead now, and there's nothing to
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: prevent me from telling the truth.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: Paradine Folds takes a step forward and watches her.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: My sister in law was a meek and mild little person,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: as demure as you can imagine, and no one would
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: have suspected her for a moment of kicking over the traces. Well,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: one morning she came to me in floods of tears,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: and confessed that she and Roger Bellingham with us Hrug
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: had been foolish. Her husband suspected that something was wrong
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: and had kicked up a row.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 4: There are men who will make a scene on the
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 4: smallest provocation.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: To shield herself, she told the first lie that came
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: into her head. She said to Peter that Roger Bellingham
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: was my lover, and she threw herself on my mercy.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 2: She was a poor, weak little creature, and if there'd
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: been a scandal, she'd have gone to the dogs altogether.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: It had only been a momentary infatuation for Roger, and
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: the scare had cured her At the bottom of her heart.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: She loved her husband still. I was desperately unhappy, and
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: I didn't care much what became of me. She promised
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: to turn over a new leaf and all that sort
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: of thing. I thought I'd better give her another chance
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: of going straight. I did what she wanted. I wrote
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: that letter, taking all the blame on myself, and Kate
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: lived happily with her husband till she died.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 6: It was just like you.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 5: But Lord and Lady Peter are dead, yes, and Roger
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 5: Bellingham he is dead too. Then how can you prove
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 5: your account of this affair account? And does this convince you? Charlie,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 5: of course good heavens the boys out of his senses, Paradine,
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 5: for Heaven's sake, say something.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 4: Well, much as it may displease you, my dear, I'm
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 4: afraid I agree with Charlie.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 5: You don't mean to say you believe this cockin bull story.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 4: I do. Why, Well, you see, Lady Frederick's a very
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 4: clever woman. She would never have invented such an utterly
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 4: improbable tale which can't possibly be proved. If she'd been guilty,
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 4: she'd have had ready at least a dozen proofs of
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 4: her innocence.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 5: But that's absurd.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 4: Besides, I've known Lady Frederick a long time, and she
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 4: has at least a thousand faults.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick with flashing eyes.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 4: Thanks, but there's something I will say for her. She's
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 4: not a liar. If she tells me a thing, I
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 4: don't hesitate for a moment to believe it.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: It's not a matter of the smallest importance if any
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: of you believe me or not be so good as
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: to ring. Charley.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: Certainly he rings, and a servant immediately comes in.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: Tell my servant that he's to come here at once
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: and bring the despatch box, which is in my dressing room.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 14: Yes, me, lady exit.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 4: I say, what are you going to do?
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: That is absolutely no business of yours.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 4: Be a brick, Betsy, and don't give her those letters.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: I think I've had enough of this business. I'm proposing
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: to finish with it.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 4: Temper temper, Lady Frederick, stamping her foot.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: Don't say temper to me, Paradine.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: She walks up and down a grilly Paradine, sits at
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: the piano and with one finger strums rule Britannia.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 6: Shut up.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: He takes a book, flings it at his head and
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: misses good shot, Sir.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: I often wonder how you got your reputation for wit, Paradine.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 4: By making a point of laughing heartily at other people's jokes.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: The footman enters with the despatch box, which Lady Frederick opens.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: She takes a bundle of letters from it.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 4: Betsy, Betsy, for heaven's sake, don't have mercy?
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: Was mercy shown to me, Albert? Yes, my lady, you'll
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: go to the proprietor of the hotel and tell him
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: that I propose to leave Monte Carlo tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: Are you going very well, my lady.
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  Speaker 2: Have your good memory for faces?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, my lady, you're.
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  Speaker 2: Not likely to forget Lord Mearston.
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  Speaker 6: No, my lady, then please take.
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  Speaker 2: Note that if his lordship calls upon me in London,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not at home.
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  Speaker 6: Lady Frederick.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick to footman, go exit, footman.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean? What have I done?
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  Speaker 1: Without answering? Lady Frederick takes the letters. Paradine is watching
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  Speaker 1: her anxiously. She goes up to the stove and throws
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  Speaker 1: them in one by one.
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  Speaker 5: What on earth is she doing?
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  Speaker 2: I have some letters here which would ruin the happiness
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  Speaker 2: of a very worthless woman. I know I'm burning them
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  Speaker 2: so that I may never have the temptation to use them.
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  Speaker 4: I never saw anything so melodramatic.
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  Speaker 1: Hold your tongue, Paradine, turning to Merston.
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  Speaker 2: My dear Charlie, I came to Monte Carlo to be amused.
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  Speaker 2: Your mother has persiuted me incessantly. Your uncle is too
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  Speaker 2: well bred to talk to his servants as he has
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  Speaker 2: talked to me. I've been pestered in one way and another,
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  Speaker 2: and insulted till my blood boiled. Because apparently they're afraid
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  Speaker 2: you may want to marry me. I'm sick and tired
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  Speaker 2: of it. I'm not used to treatment of this sort.
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  Speaker 2: My patience is quite exhausted, and since you are the
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  Speaker 2: cause of the whole thing, I have an obvious remedy.
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  Speaker 2: I would much rather not have anything more to do
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  Speaker 2: with you. If we meet one another in the street,
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  Speaker 2: you need not trouble to look my way, because I
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  Speaker 2: shall cut you dead.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Mearston in an undertone.
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  Speaker 5: Thank God for that mother.
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  Speaker 6: Mother to Lady Frederick, I'm awfully sorry. I fear that
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  Speaker 6: you have her right to be angry for all that
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  Speaker 6: you've suffered. I beg your pardon most humbly. My mother
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  Speaker 6: has said and done things which I regret to say
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  Speaker 6: are quite unjustifiable. Charley on her behalf and on mine.
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  Speaker 6: I apologize with all my heart.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick, smiling.
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  Speaker 2: Don't take it too seriously. It really doesn't matter. But
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  Speaker 2: I think it's far wiser that we shouldn't see one
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  Speaker 2: another again.
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  Speaker 6: But I can't live without you, Lady.
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  Speaker 1: Mearston, with a gasp, Ah.
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  Speaker 6: Don't you know that my whole happiness is wrapped up
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  Speaker 6: in you? I love you with all my heart and soul.
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  Speaker 6: I can never love any one, but you.
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  Speaker 1: Folds too, Lady Mearston.
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  Speaker 4: Now you've done it, You've done it very neatly.
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  Speaker 6: Don't think me a presumptuous fool. I've been wanting to
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  Speaker 6: see this ever since I knew you, but I haven't dared.
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  Speaker 6: You're brilliant and charming and fascinating. But I have nothing
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  Speaker 6: whatever to offer you.
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  Speaker 2: My dear Charley.
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  Speaker 6: But if you can ever look my fools, I dare
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  Speaker 6: say you couldn't make sen something of me. Won't you
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  Speaker 6: marry me? I should look upon it as a great honor,
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  Speaker 6: and I would love you always to the end of
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  Speaker 6: my life. I try to be worthy of my great happiness,
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  Speaker 6: and you.
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  Speaker 2: You are very much too modest, Charlie. I'm enormously flattered
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  Speaker 2: and grateful. You must give me time to think it over.
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  Speaker 1: Time, but I can't wait.
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  Speaker 6: Don't you see how I love you. You'll never meet anyone
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  Speaker 6: who'll care for you as I do.
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  Speaker 2: I think you can wait a little. Come and see
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  Speaker 2: me tomorrow morning at ten, and I'll give you an answer.
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  Speaker 6: Very well if.
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  Speaker 1: I must, Lady Frederick smiling, I'm afraid so folds to
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  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder what the deuce, your little game is now.
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  Speaker 1: She smiles triumphantly and gives him a deep ironical courtesy.
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  Speaker 2: Sir, your much obliged and very obedient, humble servant.
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  Speaker 1: End of the second act, Act three of Lady Frederick,
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  Speaker 1: a comedy in three acts by William Somerset mom This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Third act scene, Lady Frederick's dressing room.
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  Speaker 1: At the back is a large opening curtained which leads
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  Speaker 1: to the bedroom. On the right, a door leading to
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  Speaker 1: the passage on the left a window. In front of
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  Speaker 1: the window of which the blind is drawn, is a
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  Speaker 1: dressing table. Lady Frederick's maid is in the room, a
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  Speaker 1: very neat, pretty frenchwoman. She rings the bell and the
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: footman enters.
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  Speaker 12: As soon as Lord Marriston arrives.
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  Speaker 1: He is to be shown ean footman surprised here where else.
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  Speaker 1: The footman winks significantly. The maid draws herself up with dignity,
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  Speaker 1: and with a dramatic gesture, points to the door depart.
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  Speaker 1: The footman goes out. Lady Frederick from the bedroom have.
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  Speaker 2: You drawn the blind, anjelique.
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  Speaker 12: I will do so, me, lady.
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  Speaker 1: She draws the blind and the light falls brightly on
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  Speaker 1: the dressing table.
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  Speaker 12: But me, lady, will never be able to stand it.
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  Speaker 1: She looks at herself in the glass.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, the light of the sun in the morning. I
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  Speaker 12: cannot look at myself.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick from the bedroom.
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  Speaker 2: There's no reason that you should, especially in my glass.
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  Speaker 12: But if his lordship's coming, lady must let me draw
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  Speaker 12: the blind. Oh it is impossible.
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  Speaker 2: Do as you're told, and don't interfere.
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  Speaker 1: The footman enters to announce Mearston. The maid goes.
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  Speaker 11: Out, Lord Merston.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick from the bedroom.
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  Speaker 2: Is that you, charlie? You're very punctual.
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  Speaker 6: I've been walking about outside of the clock struck.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not nearly dressed, you know, I've only just had
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  Speaker 2: my bath.
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  Speaker 6: Must I go?
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  Speaker 2: No, of course not. You can talk to me while
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  Speaker 2: i'm finishing.
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  Speaker 6: All right, How are you this morning?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't looked at myself in the
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  Speaker 2: glass yet. How are you a one?
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  Speaker 6: Thanks?
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  Speaker 2: Are you looking nice?
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  Speaker 1: Mearston going to the glass.
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  Speaker 6: I hope so. By jove, what a strong light. You
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  Speaker 6: must be pretty sure of your complexion to be able
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  Speaker 6: to stand that.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick appearing, I am Merston, going forward eagerly. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: she comes through the curtains. She wears a kimono. Her
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  Speaker 1: hair is all disheveled, hanging about her head in a
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  Speaker 1: tangled mop. She is not made up and looks haggard
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  Speaker 1: and yellow and lined. When Merston sees her, he gives
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: a slight start of surprise. Good morning, Mearston, staring at
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  Speaker 1: her in dismay.
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  Speaker 6: Good, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Well what have you to say to me?
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  Speaker 1: Meersten embarrassed?
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  Speaker 6: I er hope you slept all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Lady Frederick, laughing?
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  Speaker 2: Did you?
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  Speaker 6: I forget?
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  Speaker 2: I believe you slept like a top Charlie. You really
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  Speaker 2: might have lain awake and thought of me. What is
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  Speaker 2: the matter? You look as if you'd seen a ghost.
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: You're not disappointed already.
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  Speaker 6: No, of course, not only you look so different with
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 6: your hair not done.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'd forgotten all about it. Angelique, come and do.
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  Speaker 1: My hair, maid appearing, Yes, milady Lady Frederick sits down
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  Speaker 1: at the dressing table.
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  Speaker 2: Now take pains, Angelique. I want to look my very best.
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  Speaker 2: Angelique is a jewel of incalculable value.
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  Speaker 12: Milady is very kind.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm light hearted, she does it one way. If
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  Speaker 2: I'm depressed, she does it another.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, milady.
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  Speaker 16: The paroquet who taught me said always that a good
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  Speaker 16: head dresser could express every mood and every passion of
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  Speaker 16: the human heart.
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  Speaker 2: Good heavens, You don't mean to say you can do all.
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  Speaker 12: That, milady, he said, I was his best pupil.
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  Speaker 2: Very well. Express express a great crisis in my affairs.
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  Speaker 12: That is the easiest thing in the world.
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  Speaker 16: Me, Lady, I bring the hair rather low on the forehead,
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  Speaker 16: and that expresses a crisis in her ladyship's affairs.
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  Speaker 2: But I always wear my hair low on the forehead.
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  Speaker 16: Then it is plain her ladyship's affairs are always in
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 16: a critical condition.
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  Speaker 2: So they are. I never thought of that.
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  Speaker 6: You've got awfully stunning hair, Lady Frederick.
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  Speaker 2: Do you like it?
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  Speaker 15: Really?
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  Speaker 6: The color is perfectly beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: It ought to be. It's frightfully expensive.
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  Speaker 6: You don't mean to say it's died.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, only touched up. That's quite a different thing,
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  Speaker 2: is it. It's like superstition, you know, which is what
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  Speaker 2: other people believe. My friends die their hair, but I
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  Speaker 2: only touch my not. Unfortunately, it costs just as.
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  Speaker 6: Much, and you have such a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Heaps opens a drawer and takes out a long switch.
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  Speaker 2: Give him a bit to look at, Yes, me, lady, She.
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  Speaker 1: Gives it to him. Er, yes, not knowing what on
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  Speaker 1: earth to say.
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  Speaker 6: How silky it is?
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  Speaker 2: Ah poor thing, but mine own at least I paid
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  Speaker 2: for it. By the way, have I paid for it yet, Angelique?
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  Speaker 12: Not yet, me, lady, But the man can wait.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick taking it from Merston.
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  Speaker 2: Ah poor thing? Then, but my hairdressers, shall I put
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  Speaker 2: it on?
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  Speaker 6: I would't if I were you.
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  Speaker 16: If her Ladyship anticipates a tragic situation, I would venture
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  Speaker 16: to recommend it. A really pathetic scene is impossible without
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  Speaker 16: a quantity of hair worn quite high on the head.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever I want to soften the hard heart of a
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  Speaker 2: credit or I clap on every bit I've got, But
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I will today. I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 2: a temple curl would just fit the case.
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  Speaker 16: Then her Ladyship inclines to comedy very well, I say
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  Speaker 16: no more.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick takes two temple curls from the drawer.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't they DearS?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: You've admired them very often, Charlie, haven't you. I suppose
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  Speaker 2: you never knew they cost a guinea each.
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  Speaker 6: It never occurred to me they were false.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: The masculine intelligence is so gross. Didn't your mother tell you?
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  Speaker 6: My mother telled me a great deal.
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  Speaker 2: I expect she overdid it.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's done. Do you think it looks nice?
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  Speaker 6: Charming?
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  Speaker 2: Auntjelique? His lordship is satisfied, you may disappear.
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  Speaker 12: Yes me, lady, she goes.
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  Speaker 2: Now tell me you think I'm the most ravishing creature
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  Speaker 2: you ever saw in your life.
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  Speaker 6: I've told you that so often.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick, stretching out her hands.
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  Speaker 2: You are a nice by. It was charming of you
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  Speaker 2: to say what you did yesterday. I could have hugged
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  Speaker 2: you there and then, could you? Oh, my dear, don't
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  Speaker 2: be so cold.
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  Speaker 6: I'm very sorry. I didn't mean to be.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't you got anything nice to say to me at all?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what I can say that I've not
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  Speaker 6: said a thousand times already.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me what you thought of all night when you're
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  Speaker 2: tossed on that sleepless pillow of yours.
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  Speaker 6: I was awfully anxious to see you again, didn't you
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  Speaker 6: have a dreadful fear that I shouldn't be as nice
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  Speaker 6: as you imagined.
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  Speaker 2: Now, come honestly, well.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I suppose it crossed my mind, and.
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  Speaker 2: Am I of course you're sure you're not disappointed?
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  Speaker 6: Quite sure?
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  Speaker 2: What a relief, you know. I've been tormenting myself dreadfully.
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  Speaker 2: I said to myself. He'll go on thinking of me
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  Speaker 2: till he imagines I'm the most beautiful woman in the world,
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  Speaker 2: and then when he comes here and sees the plain reality,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be an awful blow.
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  Speaker 6: Who what nonsense? How could you think anything of the kind?
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  Speaker 2: Are you aware you haven't shown the least desire to
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  Speaker 2: kiss me yet?
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  Speaker 6: I thought I thought you might not like it.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be too late in a minute. Why because I'm
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  Speaker 2: just going to make up, you silly boy.
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  Speaker 6: How I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: You said, I must be very sure of my complexion.
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  Speaker 2: Of course I am. Here it is.
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  Speaker 1: She runs her fingers over a row of little pots
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: and vases.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I see, I beg your pardon.
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  Speaker 2: You don't mean to say you thought it nat true.
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  Speaker 6: It never occurred to me it might be anything else.
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  Speaker 2: It's really too disheartening. I spend an hour of every
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  Speaker 2: day of my life, making the best complexion in Monte Carlo.
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  Speaker 2: And you think it's natural? Why I might as well
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  Speaker 2: be a dairy maid of eighteen.
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  Speaker 6: I'm very sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I forgive you. You may kiss my hand.
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  Speaker 1: He does so, You, dear boy, looking at herself in
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  Speaker 1: the glass.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Betsy, you're not looking your best.
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  Speaker 1: To day, shaking her finger at the glass.
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  Speaker 2: This won't do. Betsy, my dear, you're very nearly looking your.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: Age turning round quickly?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think I look forty?
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  Speaker 6: I never asked myself how old you were.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not, you know, and I shan't be as
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  Speaker 2: long as there's a pot of rouge and a powder
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  Speaker 2: puff in the world.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: She rubs grease paint all over her face.
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  Speaker 6: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I wish I were an actress. They have such an advantage.
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  Speaker 2: They only have to make up to look well behind
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  Speaker 2: the footlights. But I have to expose myself to that
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  Speaker 2: beastly sun.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, of course, is your mother.
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  Speaker 2: Dreadfully annoyed with you? And Paradine must be furious. I
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  Speaker 2: shall call him Uncle Paradine next time I see him.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 2: It'll make him feel so middle aged. Charlie, you don't
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  Speaker 2: know how grateful I am for what you did yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: You acted like a real brick.
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  Speaker 6: It's awfully good of you to say, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick turning, Do I look afright?
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  Speaker 6: Oh? No, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: I love this powder. It plays no tricks with you.
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  Speaker 2: Once I put on a new powder that I bought
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  Speaker 2: in Paris, and as soon as I went into artificial
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  Speaker 2: light it turned a bright mauve. I was very much annoyed.
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  Speaker 2: You wouldn't like to go about with a maul face,
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  Speaker 2: would you?
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  Speaker 6: No, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: Fortunately I had a green frock on, and mauve and
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 2: green were very fashionable that year. Still, i'd sooner it
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  Speaker 2: hadn't been on me. Face there. I think that'll do
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  Speaker 2: as a foundation. I'm beginning to feel younger already now,
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  Speaker 2: for the delicate, soft bloom of youth. The great difficulty,
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  Speaker 2: you know, is to make both your cheeks the same color.
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  Speaker 1: Turning to him.
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  Speaker 2: Charlie, you're not barred, are you?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, I always think my observations have a peculiar piquancy
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  Speaker 2: when I have only one cheek rouged. I remember once
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  Speaker 2: I went out to dinner, and as soon as I
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  Speaker 2: sat down, I grew conscious of the fact that one
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  Speaker 2: of my cheeks was much redder than the other.
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  Speaker 6: My George, that was awkward.
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  Speaker 2: Charlie, you are a good looking boy. I had no
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  Speaker 2: idea you were so handsome, and you look so young
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  Speaker 2: and fresh. It's quite a pleasure to look at you.
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  Speaker 6: Did you think?
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 6: What did you do when you discovered your predicament?
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  Speaker 2: Well, by a merciful interposition of providence, I had a
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  Speaker 2: foreign diplomatist on my right side, which bloomed like a rose,
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  Speaker 2: and a bishop on my left, which was white like
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  Speaker 2: a lily. The diplomatist told me risky stories all through dinner,
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  Speaker 2: so it was quite natural that this cheek should blush
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  Speaker 2: fiery red. And as the bishop whispered in my left
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  Speaker 2: ear harrowing details of distress in the east end, it
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  Speaker 2: was only decent that the other should exhibit a becoming pallor.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, she has been rouging her cheeks.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: Now look carefully, Charlie, and you'll see how I make
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: the cupid's bow, which is my mouth. I like a
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 2: nice healthy color on the lips, don't you.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 6: Isn't it's awfully uncomfortable to have all that stuff on.
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 2: Ah, My dear boy, it's a woman's lot to suffer
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 2: in this world. But it's a great comfort to think
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 2: that one is submitting to the decrees of providence and
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: at the same time adding to one's personal attractiveness. But
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 2: I confess I sometimes wish I needn't blow my nose
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 2: so carefully. Smile, Charlie. I don't think you're a very
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 2: ardent lover, you know.
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 6: Ah, I'm sorry. What would you like me to do?
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 2: I should like you to make me impassioned speeches.
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 6: I'm afraid they'd be so hackneyed.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 2: Never mind that I've long discovered that under the influence
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 2: of profound emotion, a man always expresses himself in the
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 2: terms of the family herald.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 6: You must remember that I am awfully inexperienced.
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll let you off this time because I like
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 2: your curly hair.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: Hm. She sighs amorously.
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 2: Now for the delicate arch of my eyebrows. I don't
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: know what I should do without this, I've got no
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 2: eyebrows at all. Really, have you ever noticed that dark
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 2: line under the eyes which gives such intensity to my expression?
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, often, Lady Frederick, holding out the pencil.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: Well, here it is, ah, my dear boy, in this
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 2: pencil you have at will roguishness and languor, tenderness and indifference, sprightliness, passion, malice.
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: What you will now be very quiet for one moment.
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 2: If I overdo it, my whole day will be spoilt.
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 2: You mustn't breathe. Even whenever I do this, I think
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 2: how true those lines are, the little more, and how
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 2: much it is the little less? And what world's away
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 2: there now just one puff of powder, and the whole
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 2: world's kind.
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: Looking at herself in the glass and sighing with satisfaction.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 2: Ah, I feel eighteen. I think it's a success. I
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: shall have a happy day. Oh, Betsy, Betsy, I think
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 2: you'll do. You know you're not unattractive, my dear, not
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 2: strictly beautiful, perhaps, but then I don't like the chocolate
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 2: box sort of woman. I'll just go and take off
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 2: this dressing gown.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: Mearesten gets up, No, don't move.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 2: I'll go into my bedroom. I shall only be one moment.
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick goes through the curtains.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 2: Angelique.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: The maid enters, Yes, milady.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 2: Just clear away those things on the dressing table.
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: Maid doing so very well, me, lady.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 2: You may have a cigarette, Charlie, thanks, my names are
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 2: a bit dicky this morning. Oh blow the thing, an Jolie,
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 2: come and help.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 12: Me, Yes me, lady, She goes out.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: At last, she comes in, having changed the kimono for
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: a very beautiful dressing gown of silk and lace.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 2: Now are you pleased?
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 6: Of course I'm pleased.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 2: Then you may make love to me.
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 6: You say such disconcerting things.
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick laughing.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 2: Well, Charlie, you've found no difficulty in doing it for
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 2: the last fartnight. You're not going to pretend that you're
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 2: already at a loss for pretty speeches.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 6: When I came here I had a thousand things to
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 6: say to you, but you've driven them all out of
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 6: my head. Won't you give me an answer?
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 9: Now?
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 6: What to You've not forgotten that I asked you to
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 6: marry me?
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 2: No, but you asked me under very peculiar circumstances. I
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 2: wonder if you can repeat the offer now in cold blood?
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 6: Of course, what a cad you must think me.
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 2: Are you sure you want to marry me still after
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 2: having slept over it?
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 2: You are a good bye, and I'm a beast to
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 2: treat you so abominably. It's awfully nice you Well, what
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 2: is the answer, my dear, I've been given it to
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 2: you for the last half hour.
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 6: Ha, How you.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 2: Don't for a moment suppose I should have let you
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 2: into those horrible mysteries of my toilette if I'd have
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 2: any intention of marrying you. Give me credit for a
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 2: certain amount of intelligence and good feeling. I should have
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 2: kept up the illusion at all events till after the honeymoon.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 6: Are you going to refuse me?
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: Aren't you rather?
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 6: Glad? No?
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: No, no, lady Frederick putting her arm through his Now, let.
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 2: Us talk it over. Sensibly, you're a very nice boy,
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 2: and I'm awfully fond of you. But you're twenty two,
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 2: and Heaven only knows my age. You see, the church
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 2: in which I was baptized was burnt down the year
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 2: I was born, so I don't know how old I am.
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: Mearston smiling.
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 6: Where was it bent?
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 2: In Ireland?
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 6: I thought so?
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 2: Just at present I can make a decent enough show
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 2: by taking infinite pains, and my hand is not so
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 2: heavy that the innocent eyes of your sex can discover
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 2: how much of me is due to art. But in
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 2: ten years you'll only be thirty two. And then if
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 2: I married you, my whole life would be a mortal
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 2: struggle to preserve some semblance of youth. Haven't you seen
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 2: those old hags who've never surrendered to Anno Domini, with
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 2: their poor, thin, wrinkled cheeks covered with pain, and the
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 2: dreadful wigs to hide a hairless pate rather cock eye,
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 2: don't you know, and invariably flaxen. You've laughed at their
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 2: ridiculous graces, and you've been disgusted too. Oh, I'm so
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 2: sorry for them, poor things. And I should become just
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 2: like that, For I should never have the courage to
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 2: let my hair be white, so long as yours was brown.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 2: But if I don't marry you, I can look forward
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 2: to the white hairs fairly happily. The first I shall
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 2: pluck out, and the second I shall pluck out. But
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 2: when the third comes, I'll give in, and I'll throw
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 2: my rouge and my poudre de rie and my pencils
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 2: into the fire.
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 6: But do you think I should have a change, my.
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 2: Dear boy, I'm sure of it. Can't you imagine what
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 2: it would be to be tied to a woman who
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 2: was always bound to sit with her back to the light,
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 2: And sometimes you might want to kiss me.
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 6: I think it very probable.
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 2: Well, couldn't in case you disarranged my complexion.
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: Mersten sighs deeply.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 2: Don't sigh, Charlie. I dare say I was horrid to
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 2: let you fall in love with me. But I'm only human,
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 2: and I was desperately flattered?
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 6: Was that all?
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 2: And rather touched? That is why I want to give
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 2: a cure with my refusal.
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 6: But you break my heart.
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 2: My dear men have said that to me ever since
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 2: I was fifteen, but I never noticed that in consequence
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 2: they ate their dinner less heartily.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 6: I suppose you think it was only calf love.
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 2: I'm not such a fool as to imagine a bike
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 2: can love any less than a man. If I thought
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 2: your affection ridiculous, I shouldn't have been so flattered.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 6: It doesn't hurt any the less because the wounds you
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 6: make are clean cut.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 2: But they'll soon heal, and you'll fall in love with
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 2: a nice girl of your own age, whose cheeks flush
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 2: with youth and not with rouge, and whose eyes sparkle
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 2: because they love you and not because they're carefully made up.
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 6: But I wanted to help you. You're in such an
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 6: awful scrape and if you'll only marry me, it can
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 6: all be set right.
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, my dear, don't go in for self sacrifice. You
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 2: must leave that to women. There's so much more use
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 2: to it.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 6: Isn't there anything I can do for you?
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: No, dear, I.
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 2: Shall get out of the mess somehow, I always do.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 2: You really need not worry about me.
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 6: You know you are a brick.
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 2: Then it's all settled, isn't it. And you're not going
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 2: to be unhappy.
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 6: I'll try not to be.
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 2: I'd like to imprint a chaste kiss on your forehead,
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 2: only I'm afraid it would leave a mark.
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: The footman comes in.
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 11: Mister Paradine folds exit.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 4: Do I disturb not at all.
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 2: I've just finished our conversation.
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 6: Well, if anyone wants to know who the best woman
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 6: in the world is, send him to me and I'll
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 6: tell him.
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick taking his hand.
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 6: You dear, goodbye, goodbye, and thanks for being so kind
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 6: to me.
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: He goes out.
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 4: Do I see in front of me, my prospective niece.
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 2: Why do you ask Uncle Paradine singularly enough?
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 4: Because I want to know?
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 2: Well, it so happens, you don't you've refused him?
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 4: I have then will you tell me why you've been
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 4: leading us all such a devil of a dance.
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: Because you interfered with me and I allow no one
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 2: to do that.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 17: Highty Titi, you weren't really so foolish as to imagine
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 17: I should marry a boy who set me up on
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 17: a pedestal and vowed he was unworthy to kiss the hem.
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 2: Of my garment. Why not, my dear Paradine, I don't
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 2: want to commit suicide by sheer boardom. There's only one
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 2: thing in the world more insufferable than being in love.
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 4: And what is that? Pray?
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 2: Why having someone in love with you?
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 4: I've suffered from it all my life.
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 2: Think of living up to the ideal Charlie has of me.
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 2: My hair would turn a hydrogen yellow in a week.
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 2: And then to be so desperately adored as all that, Oh,
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 2: it's so dull. I should have to wear a mask
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 2: all day long. I could never venture to be natural
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 2: in case I shocked him, and notwithstanding all my efforts,
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 2: I should see the illusions tumbling about his ears one
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 2: by one till he realized I was no ethereal goddess,
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 2: but a very ordinary human woman, neither better nor worse
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 2: than anybody else.
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 4: Your maxim appears to be marry any one you like,
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 4: except the man that's in love with you.
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 2: Ah, But don't you think I might find a man
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 2: who loved me though he knew me through and through.
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 2: I'd far rather that he saw my faults and forgave
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 2: them than that he thought me perfect.
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 4: But how do you know you've choked the boy off
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 4: for good?
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 2: I took good care. I wanted to cure him. If
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 2: it had been possible, I would have shown him my
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 2: naked soul. But I couldn't do that, so I let
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 2: him see what No, not quite. I had a dressing
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 2: gown on and other paraphernalia, but I made him come
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 2: here when I wasn't made up, and he sat by
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 2: while I rouged my cheeks.
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 4: And the young fool thought there was nothing more in
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 4: you than a carefully prepared complexion.
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 2: He was very nice about it, but I think he
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 2: was rather relieved when I refused him.
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: There is a knock at the door, Gerald outside.
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 3: May we come in?
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: Do enter Gerald and Rose and the Admiral.
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 3: I say it's all right. The admirals come down like
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 3: a real brick. I've told him everything.
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 2: What do you mean.
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 8: Good morning, dear Admiral, Good morning.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 3: I've made a clean breast of it.
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 9: I talked it over with Rosy, and we went to
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 9: Papa together and.
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 3: Told him that I owed Montgomery nine hundred pounds.
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 9: And we thought Papa would make an awful.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 3: Scene raise Kane, don't you know?
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 9: But he never said a word.
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 3: He was simply ripping over it.
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick putting her hands to her ears.
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, oh, for Heaven's sake, be calm and coherent.
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 3: My dear, you don't know what a relief it is.
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 9: I saw Gerald was dreadfully worried, and I wormed it
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 9: out of him.
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 3: I'm so glad to be out of the clutches of
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 3: that brute.
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 9: Now we're going to live happily ever afterwards.
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: All the while, the Admiral has been trying to get
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: a word in, but each time he is about to start,
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: one of the others has broken in silence. He puffs
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: and blows.
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 8: I never saw such a pair in my life.
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 2: Now, do explain it all, Admiral. I can't make head
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 2: or tail out of these foolish creatures.
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 8: Well, they came and told me that Montgomery had an
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 8: iou of Gerald's for nine hundred pounds and was using
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 8: it to blackmail you.
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 4: Is that a fact?
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 8: I have never liked the man's face. And when they
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 8: said his terms whether you were to marry him or
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 8: Gerald would have to send in his papers, I said,
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 8: damn his impudence. How did you know?
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 4: Because I'd have said.
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 3: It myself, And the Admiral stumped up like a man.
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 3: He gave me a check for the money, and I've
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 3: just this moment sent it on to Montgomery.
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick, taking both his hands.
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 2: It's awfully good of you, and I'm sure you'll never
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 2: regret that you gave Gerald a chance.
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 8: May I have a few words private conversation with you?
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: Of course, to the others, make yourself scarce.
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 4: We'll go on the balcony, shall we.
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry to trouble you, but it'll only take three minutes.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: Gerald and Rose and Bolts go on to the balcony.
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick, when they've gone.
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 8: There, Well, what I wanted to say to you was this,
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 8: I like Gerald, but I think he wants guiding. Do
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 8: you follow me?
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he will take your advice off.
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 8: It's a woman's hand that he wants. Now if you
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 8: and I were to join forces. We could keep him
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 8: out of mischief, couldn't we.
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll come and stay with you whenever he ask me.
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 2: I love giving good advice when I'm quite sure it
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 2: won't be taken.
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 8: I was thinking of a more permanent arrangement. Look here,
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 8: why don't you marry me, my dear Admiral. I don't
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 8: think an attractive woman like you ought to live alone.
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 8: She's bound to get in a scrape.
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 2: It's awfully good of you, Boss.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 8: You don't think I'm too old, do you?
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 2: Of course not. You're in the very prime of life.
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 8: There's life in the old dog. Yet, I can tell you.
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 2: I feel sure of that. I've never doubted it for
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 2: a moment.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 8: Then what have you got against me?
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't like to commit polygamy, would you?
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 8: Eh?
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 2: You see, it's not a question of marrying me only,
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 2: but all my tradespeople.
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 8: I hadn't thought of that.
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 2: Besides, you're Rose's father, and I'm Gerald's sister. If we married,
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 2: I should be my brother's mother in law and my
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 2: stepdaughter would be my sister. Your daughter would be your
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 2: sister in law, and your brother would just snap his
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 2: fingers at your fatherly advice. Ah, I don't know if
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 2: the prayer book allows things like that, but if it does,
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 2: I think it's hopelessly immoral.
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 8: Well shall I tell them I've changed my mind and
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 8: they can't marry.
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 2: Then there'd be no reason for us to commit the crime,
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 2: would there?
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 8: I hadn't thought of that, I suppose not.
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 2: You're not cross with me, are you. I'm very much flattered,
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 2: and I thank you from the bar of my heart.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 8: Not at all, not at all. I only thought it
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 8: might save trouble.
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick calling Gerald, come along. They come in.
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 2: We've had our little talk.
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 7: Everything satisfactory, Lady Frederick, with a look at the admiral.
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 8: Quite quite.
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick's footman enters.
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 11: Captain Montgomery wishes to know if he may see your ladyship.
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 2: I've forgotten all about him.
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 3: Let me go to him, shall I.
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not afraid of him any longer. He can't
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  Speaker 2: do anything to you, and as far as I'm concerned,
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: Then I'll tell him to go to the devil.
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 2: No, I'm going to tell him that myself. To the footman,
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 2: ask Captain Montgomery to come here.
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, my lady exit Lady Frederick, walking up and down furiously.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell him that myself.
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 4: Now keep calm, Betsy.
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 2: I shall not keep calm.
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  Speaker 4: Remember that you're a perfect lady.
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  Speaker 2: Don't interfere with me. I ate humble pie yesterday, and
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 2: it didn't agree with me at all.
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: Footman enters to announce Captain Montgomery, who follows him and
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: immediately with draws.
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  Speaker 11: Captain Montgomery, how.
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  Speaker 4: Do you do?
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: He is obviously surprised to see the others.
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 2: Quite a party, aren't.
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 7: We, yes, I hope you don't mind my coming so early.
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 6: Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: You made an appointment for half past ten.
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  Speaker 7: I trust you have good news for.
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 2: Me, Captain Montgomery. Everyone here knows the circumstances that have
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 2: brought you.
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 7: I should have thought it wiser for both our sakes
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 7: not to make them too public.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see why you should be ashamed because you
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 2: made me a proposal of marriage.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry you should think it a laughing matter, Lady Frederick.
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 2: I don't. I never laugh at an impertinence.
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: Captain Montgomery, taken aback, I beg your pardon.
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 2: Surely the receipt of my brother's letter was sufficient answer
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 2: for you. After that you must have guessed there was
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 2: no likelihood that I should change my mind.
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 7: What letter? I don't understand.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 3: I sent you a note this morning in closing a
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 3: check for the money I lost to you.
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 7: I've not received it.
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 3: It must be waiting for you at the hotel.
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: Captain Montgomery pauses and looks meditatively at the assembled company.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 2: I think there's nothing for which I need detain you.
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: Longer, Captain Montgomery smiling, I don't think i've quite finished yet.
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 7: Has it slipped your memory that you have two bills
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 7: fall due today? Allow me to present them.
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: He takes them out of his pocketbook.
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 2: I'm very sorry I can't pay them at present.
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 7: I regret that I can't wait. You must pay them.
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 2: I tell you it's impossible.
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 7: Then I shall get in order against.
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 2: You that you may do to your heart's content.
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 7: You realize the consequences. It's not very nice to be
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 7: an undischarged bankrupt.
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 2: Much nicer than to marry a rascally money lender.
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 4: May I look at these interesting documents?
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 7: Certainly I haven't the least wished to be offensive faults
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 7: taking them?
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  Speaker 4: You failed lamentably in achieving your wish. Three thousand, five
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 4: hundred pounds. In all, it seems hardly worthwhile to make
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 4: a fuss about so small a sum.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 7: I'm in urgent need of money, so rich a man
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 7: as you, even a rich man may be temporarily embarrassed.
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 4: Then be so good as to wait for one moment.
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: He sits down at a table and writes a check.
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 4: No sight is more affecting than that of a millionaire
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 4: in financial straits.
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: Paradeine folds, handing the check.
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 4: Now, sir, I think that settles it. Will you exchange
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 4: my check for those bills?
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 7: Damn you, I forgot you.
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 4: You may not be aware that it's unusual to swear
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 4: in the presence of ladies.
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: Captain Montgomery, looking at.
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 7: The check, I suppose it's all right.
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: Paradeine goes to the door and opens it.
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 4: There's the window, and here's the door. Which will you choose?
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 1: Captain Montgomery looks at him without answering, shrugs his shoulders,
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: and goes out, Oh, Paradine, you are a brick.
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 3: I say, it's awfully good of you.
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 4: Nonsense. I've got a strong sense of effect, and I
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 4: always cultivate the dramatic situation.
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 2: I shall never be able to pay you back. Paradine,
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 2: My dear.
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 4: I'm not entirely devoid of intelligence.
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 8: Well, well, I must be off to take my constitutional and.
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 2: Rose and Gerald must take care of you. We shall
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 2: all meet at luncheon.
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, the Admiral, Rose and Gerald go out. Lady
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: Frederick goes up to Paradine and takes his hands.
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 2: Thanks awfully, you are a good friend.
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 4: By George, how your eyes glitter?
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 2: It's only Belladonna.
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 4: You know I'm not such a fool as my nephew.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 2: My dear, why did you do it?
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 4: Do you know what gratitude is?
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 2: Thanks for past favors and a lively sense of benefits
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 2: to come?
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 4: Well, yesterday you had my sister in the hollow of
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 4: your hand. She gave you great provocation, and you burnt
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 4: those confounded letters.
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 2: My dear Paradine, I can't get over my own magnanimity.
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 2: And what are the benefits to come?
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 4: Well? It might be five percent on the capitol.
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know why you should squeeze my hands all
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 2: the time, but.
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 4: It isn't look here. Don't you get awfully tired of
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 4: racketing about?
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, my dear friend, I'm sick to death of it.
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 2: I've got half a mind to retire from the world
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 2: and bury myself in a hermitage.
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 4: So have I, and I've bought the lease of a
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 4: little house in Norfolk Street, Park.
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 2: Lane, just the place for a hermitage, fashionable without being vulgar.
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 4: And I propose to live there quite quietly. And I
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 4: shall just subsist on a few dried herbs, don't you know?
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 2: But do have them cooked by a really good French chef.
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 2: It makes such a difference.
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 4: And what do you say to joining me? I you?
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, I am a success to day. That's another proposal
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 2: of marriage.
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 4: It sounds very much like it.
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 2: I already had three this morning.
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 4: Then I should think you've said no quite often enough.
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 2: Come at ten o'clock to morrow and you shall see
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 2: me make up.
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 4: Do you think that would choke me off? Do you
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 4: suppose I don't know that behind that very artificial complexion
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 4: there's a dear little woman called Betsy who's genuine to
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 4: the bottom of her soul.
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't be so sentimental, or I shall.
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 4: Cry, well, what is it to be?
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 2: Do you like me still paradine after all these years?
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: She looks at him, her lips quivering. He stretches out
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: his arms, and she, breaking down, hides her face on
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: his shoulder.
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 4: Now, don't be an ass, Betsy. I know you'll say
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 4: in a minute, I'm the only man you ever loved.
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick, looking up with a laugh.
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 2: I shan't. But what will your sister say?
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 4: I'll tell her there was only one way in which
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 4: I could save Charley from your clutches, what by marrying
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 4: you myself.
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: Lady Frederick putting up her face monster, he kisses her lips.
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: The end end of Act three. End of Lady Frederick,
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 1: a comedy in three acts by William Somerset, Mam