1 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:36,840 This film contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting 2 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:08,440 LIVELY CHATTER 3 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:25,720 ORCHESTRA TUNES UP 4 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:27,760 AUDIENCE APPLAUDS 5 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,320 The Audience pricks an intellectual ear... 6 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:33,760 Stravinsky... 7 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,000 Quite the Concert of the Year! 8 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,640 Forgetting now the hullabaloo they made, 9 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,760 The Audience pricks an intellectual ear. 10 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:45,080 Bassoons begin... 11 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:46,720 Sonority envelops 12 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,200 Our auditory innocence; and brings 13 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,720 To me, I must admit, some drift of things 14 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,160 Omnific, seminal, and adolescent. 15 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,880 Men in boaters, far from Henley. 16 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,200 Girls in pink and blue taffeta. 17 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:05,720 In that long summer, 18 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:09,320 I hunted, played cricket, but only watched tennis. 19 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:13,560 God was in his heaven and there were sausages for breakfast. 20 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,080 And in small Recruiting Offices, 21 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,680 dull young men wait to inscribe, 22 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,520 in paper quires, the names of 23 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,880 the living and the dead. 24 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:29,920 Mr Sassoon? 25 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:33,880 Yes. Yes. 26 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:36,800 I'm Siegfried. 27 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,480 I'm Hamo, younger brother. And we've both come for our fitting. 28 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,200 Just so, sir. I think we should start with the shirts. 29 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,680 You can't have your shirts too dark, sir. 30 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,600 Ah, war! A la mode! 31 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:52,920 HE CHUCKLES 32 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:55,360 I never said goodbye to him. 33 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:57,000 MEN SHOUT 34 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,640 CONDUCTOR BLOWS WHISTLE 35 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,200 STEAM HISSES 36 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:23,880 On the idle hill of summer, 37 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,720 Sleepy with the flow of streams, 38 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,400 Far I hear the steady drummer 39 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,400 Drumming like a noise in dreams. 40 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,120 Far and near and low and louder 41 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,800 On the roads of earth go by, 42 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,120 Dear to friends and food for powder, 43 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,000 Soldiers marching, all to die. 44 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,120 East and west in fields forgotten 45 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,240 Bleach the bones of comrades slain, 46 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,520 Lovely lads and dead and rotten; 47 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,840 None that go return again. 48 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,320 Far the calling bugles hollow, 49 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,480 High the screaming fife replies, 50 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,200 Gay the files of scarlet follow: 51 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,160 Woman bore me, I will rise. 52 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,320 HE SIGHS 53 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,520 I was anxious to know what you were suffering from. 54 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,840 It's only trench fever. Nothing fatal. 55 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:44,400 Just debilitating. 56 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,360 I dread everything now. 57 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:57,800 The telephone. 58 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:00,840 The telegram. 59 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,040 There's only one thing worse than remaining in the past, Mother, 60 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,720 and that's begrudging the future. 61 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:14,240 The future without either of my sons is to be dreaded, not enjoyed. 62 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,440 "I am writing you this private letter 63 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,640 "with the greatest possible regret. 64 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,480 "I must inform you that it is my intention 65 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,240 "to refuse to perform any further military duties. 66 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,720 "I am doing this as a protest against the policy of the Government 67 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:39,080 "in prolonging the War, by failing to state their conditions for peace. 68 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:43,920 "I have written a statement of my reasons, of which I enclose a copy. 69 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,040 "I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance 70 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,200 "of military authority, because I believe that the War is being 71 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:55,480 "deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. 72 00:05:55,480 --> 00:06:01,880 "I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. 73 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,200 "I believe that the war upon which I entered as a war of defence 74 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,960 "and liberation has now become 75 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,320 "a war of aggression and conquest. 76 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:14,040 "I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow-soldiers 77 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,400 "entered upon this war should have been made so clearly stated 78 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,320 "as to have made it impossible to change them, 79 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,400 "and that had this been done, the objects that actuated us 80 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,760 "would now be attainable by negotiation. 81 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:32,160 "I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, 82 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,200 "and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings 83 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:38,880 "for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. 84 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:43,600 "I am not protesting against the conduct of the War, 85 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,400 "but against the political errors and insincerities 86 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,600 "for which the fighting men are being sacrificed. 87 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,440 "On behalf of those who are suffering now, I make this protest 88 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,960 "against the deception which is being practised upon them. 89 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:03,280 "Also, I believe it may help to destroy the callous complacency 90 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:06,240 "with which the majority of those at home regard 91 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,640 "the continuance of agonies which they do not share, 92 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,160 "and which they have not enough imagination to realise." 93 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:19,800 EXPLOSIONS 94 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,080 I suppose this was your doing? 95 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,360 Yes, and Eddie Marsh. 96 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,440 I take this very ill, Robbie. 97 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:51,360 Why did you involve Marsh? Because he is principal Private Secretary 98 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,440 to Winston Churchill and he wanted to help. 99 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,280 He was instrumental in getting you a Medical Board examination, 100 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:58,560 instead of a Court Martial. 101 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,920 If you were found guilty at a Court Martial, you could be shot. 102 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,720 That was a risk I was prepared to take! There are those who care 103 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:09,000 for you and who were not. 104 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,640 A Court Martial would have been a platform to state my opposition 105 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:18,880 to the conduct of the War, and YOU have prevented me doing so. 106 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:22,240 And not only for this Times article, but for my statement to be read out 107 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,000 on the floor of the House. 108 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,640 You've rendered me impotent, Robbie. 109 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,840 You've robbed me of my dignity. 110 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,120 Better that than a firing squad. That is a matter of opinion! 111 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:36,360 Don't be angry with me, Siegfried. 112 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,160 My intentions were honourable. 113 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:17,160 # An old cowpoke went riding out one dark and windy day 114 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:23,360 # Upon a ridge, he rested, as he went along his way 115 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:27,480 # When all at once, a mighty herd of red-eyed cows, he saw 116 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,920 # Plowin' through the ragged skies 117 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:35,040 # And up a cloudy draw 118 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,680 # Yippie-yi-yay! 119 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:43,080 # Yippie-yi-o! 120 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:50,440 # A ghost herd in the sky 121 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,120 # Their brands were still on fire 122 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,000 # And their hooves were made of steel 123 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,880 # Their horns were black and shiny 124 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,800 # And their hot breath, he could feel 125 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:05,520 # A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky 126 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:09,320 # For he saw the riders coming hard 127 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:13,760 # And he heard their mournful cry 128 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,400 # Yippie-yi-yay! 129 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:21,680 # Yippie-yi-o! 130 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:28,560 # Ghost riders in the sky 131 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:30,720 # As the riders loped on by him 132 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,280 # He heard one call his name 133 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:35,880 # If you wanna save your soul 134 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,840 # From hell a-riding on our range 135 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,120 # Then, cowboy, change your ways today 136 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:43,800 # Or with us, you will ride 137 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:47,440 # Trying to catch the devil's herd 138 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:51,680 # Across these endless skies 139 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:53,480 # Yippie-yi-yay! 140 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:54,880 # Yippie-yi-yay! 141 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:56,840 # Yippie-yi-o! 142 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,840 # Yippie-yi-o! 143 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:06,120 # Ghost riders in the sky 144 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:10,560 # Yippie-yi-yay! 145 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:15,800 # Yippie-yi-o... # 146 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:23,800 You know, I'm intrinsically against any kind of conversion. 147 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,640 It's too much like wishful thinking. 148 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:28,760 Besides, in a poet... 149 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,240 ..it seems to imply he has nothing interesting left to say. 150 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,240 I said I was only thinking about it. 151 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,200 Surely you're not looking for God?! 152 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:40,200 That's one way of putting it. 153 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:47,320 Well, speaking as one of the spiritually undernourished, 154 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:49,640 if you find him, make sure he's still an Englishman. 155 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:51,720 Doesn't live on the wrong side of the park. 156 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,280 I assume that was supposed to be amusing? 157 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:05,640 Why Catholicism, Father? 158 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:10,360 Something permanent. 159 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:13,360 I'm changing. 160 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:17,200 Well, you can get that from dressage, but without the guilt! 161 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,080 There is no need to be snide. 162 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:25,840 If all you can do is ridicule, 163 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:27,720 it would be better if you remained silent! 164 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:31,760 Better still, go outside and wait in the car. 165 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,240 Well, it's a long drive back to London, 166 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,400 so the sooner we can get started, the better. 167 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:56,560 Siegfried, what do you ask of the Church of God? 168 00:12:56,560 --> 00:12:58,040 Faith. 169 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,080 What does faith offer you? 170 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,560 Life Everlasting. 171 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:05,840 If you then desire to enter into life, 172 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:07,560 keep the Commandments. 173 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:11,040 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, 174 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:12,880 and with thy whole soul, 175 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:14,520 and with thy whole mind. 176 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,280 Siegfried, do you renounce Satan? 177 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:23,440 I do renounce him. 178 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,880 And all his works? 179 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:27,960 I do renounce him. 180 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:29,600 And all his pomps? 181 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,480 I do renounce him. 182 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,400 Receive this burning light 183 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:43,240 and keep thy baptism, so as to be without blame. 184 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,720 Keep the Commandments of God that when the Lord shall come to 185 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,320 the nuptials, thou mayest meet Him, together with all the saints 186 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,080 in the Heavenly Court, 187 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,600 and mayest thou have eternal life forever and ever. 188 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,440 Siegfried, go in peace, 189 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:02,160 and the Lord be with you. 190 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:14,240 The fool hath said in his heart, "There is no God". 191 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,360 You will be drawn up in your feelings above understanding 192 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:26,680 to the radiance of divine darkness that transcends all being. 193 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,440 Christ, receive my soul. 194 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,560 And release me from the imprisonment of doubt. 195 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:37,840 And grant me peace. 196 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,280 ROBBIE ROSS: I'm quite appalled by what you've done. 197 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,760 I can only hope your CEO in Liverpool will ignore your letter. 198 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,400 I am terrified that you will be put under arrest. 199 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:56,280 We read your statement, Lieutenant, with some alarm. 200 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,200 You may sit, if you wish, Lieutenant. 201 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:00,520 Thank you, sir. 202 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:05,360 Why did you make it? 203 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,280 I wanted to state my position regarding the conduct of the War. 204 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:13,920 It is not your place to question how the War is being prosecuted. 205 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,120 Your duty lies in obeying orders. 206 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:18,560 Duty? 207 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,440 Well, that word covers a multitude of sins. 208 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:25,000 In the face of such slaughter, 209 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,440 one cannot simply order one's conscience. 210 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:29,760 One can do better than that. 211 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,640 One can ignore it. 212 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,640 That reply was so disgraceful, you ought to be in politics. 213 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:36,880 That was impertinent, Lieutenant. 214 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,640 Are you pro-German? 215 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,240 No, I'm pro-human. 216 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:45,120 We're not here to discuss humanity. 217 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:47,880 That is religion's sphere of operations. 218 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,800 And what of morality? Morality is a luxury 219 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:52,960 that we can only afford during peacetime. 220 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,680 I would be very grateful if you would take that offensive tone 221 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,120 out of your voice. 222 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:01,200 Voices raised in anger only perpetuates war. 223 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,960 And passive resistance only invites defeat. 224 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,480 I simply cannot remain silent, in the face of such casualties. 225 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,160 Someone must, should, be brought to book. 226 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:18,880 The casualties, young man, 227 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,840 are a matter for the Imperial General Staff. 228 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,640 And your...statement - indeed, your entire attitude - 229 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:29,040 is both offensive and detrimental to military discipline. 230 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,680 My colleague is quite right. It is not your place to question 231 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:35,720 your superiors, much less to imply that they are not honourable. 232 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:37,000 Perhaps, sir, if you, 233 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,800 if any of you were to visit the Front, 234 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,040 then you might at least spare a thought for the many 235 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,480 bereaved families and the pain they suffer. 236 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,680 YOU are out of order, sir! 237 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:51,040 I thought that was the very reason for my being brought before you! 238 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:52,640 This has gone far enough. 239 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,520 THEY WHISPER 240 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,520 Yes, of course. 241 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:58,840 Yes. 242 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,720 Myself and my fellow officers feel that your mind is still in chaos 243 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,960 and that you are unfit to be trusted with men's lives. 244 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,680 It is therefore the Board's decision that you should be sent to 245 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,320 a hospital for nervous diseases in Scotland. 246 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:17,320 We therefore order you to report immediately 247 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,320 to Craiglockhart, in Edinburgh. 248 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:20,680 HORN TOOTS 249 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,640 DOORBELL RINGS 250 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,320 Good morning, Lieutenant. 251 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,080 You may leave your coat and luggage here. 252 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:53,400 A porter will take them up to your room. 253 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:05,920 Name. 254 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:07,240 Sassoon, Siegfried. 255 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:09,480 Rank. Second Lieutenant. 256 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,720 Age. 30. 257 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:13,760 Years of complete service. 258 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:15,400 Two years, 11 months. 259 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,680 Completed months with Field Force. 260 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:19,840 13 months. 261 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:21,240 Disease. 262 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,240 I've had some sort of breakdown. 263 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,160 Nervous debility? 264 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,720 Yes, I believe that's what they call it. 265 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,200 Enter it as neurasthenia, Matron. 266 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:36,680 As we came in, sir, 267 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,080 I noticed several men with blue dots on their faces. Morphine. 268 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,720 Morphine? The dots denote that they've had their doses, 269 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,680 so that they're given no more until the appropriate time. 270 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,240 Who will be treating this man? 271 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,920 The Doctor Rivers. Rivers' office is next door. 272 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,280 I think it would be polite if you introduced yourself. 273 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:59,440 Yes, sir. And in your room, you will find an armband. 274 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,440 It is to be worn at all times, 275 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,800 especially outside the hospital grounds. 276 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,240 It is to show that you are a serving soldier in hospital 277 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:09,840 and not a conscientious objector. 278 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:15,520 We wouldn't want you to be attacked in Princes Street, now, would we? 279 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,760 Which arm shall I wear it on, sir? 280 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:23,640 The pleasure of that choice, Lieutenant, is entirely yours. 281 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,000 Your room is on the upper floor, at the end of the corridor. 282 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:31,640 Dismissed. 283 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,600 KNOCK ON DOOR 284 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,600 Hmm? 285 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,400 Sassoon, Siegfried, Lieutenant. 286 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,480 Your burgeoning fame precedes you. 287 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,160 I enjoyed The Old Huntsman very much. 288 00:19:55,640 --> 00:20:00,280 You may not know, but we have a house magazine, The Hydra. 289 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,760 I'm sure it would welcome a contribution from you. 290 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:05,520 Well, I'll, erm... 291 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,320 ..try to write something light and amusing. 292 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:11,760 There's no need to go that far. 293 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,400 You have an appointment to see me at 10:30 in the morning. 294 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:48,160 "Dear Mother, I've arrived in Dottyville. 295 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:53,400 "Wish you were here." 296 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,840 KNOCKING 297 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,840 Good morning, Doctor. 298 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,040 Good morning, Sassoon. 299 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,840 Please, sit down. We're quite relaxed here. 300 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,080 HE CLEARS THROAT 301 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:17,680 Although we do seem to go through rather too many 302 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,040 Chief Medical Officers. 303 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,560 Some are more flexible than others, then they're replaced by someone 304 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,160 who wants everything to be as taut as Aldershot. 305 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,040 Then they, too, are replaced. 306 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,200 And what's your persuasion? 307 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,120 Oh, I prefer a certain measure of laxity. 308 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,720 One can't be a detention forever. It plays havoc with the nerves. 309 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,200 HE LAUGHS 310 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,200 Ahem... 311 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,440 From the, er, little I know of your method of treatment here, 312 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,280 I understand that from whatever I say, you can deduce 313 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,040 whether or not my grandmother was a dipsomaniac. 314 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:57,560 Was she? 315 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:02,080 Alas, no, no. Just a sweet sherry at Christmas and on birthdays. 316 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,720 Well done, your grandmother. 317 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,960 She didn't know what she wasn't missing. 318 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:08,400 HE CHUCKLES 319 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,400 Well, just tell me whatever it is you want me to do 320 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,240 and I'll comply with your wishes. 321 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,160 It isn't a question of what I want. 322 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,040 It's a question of what you think you need. 323 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,040 Am I to start, or-or you? 324 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,200 Is there anything you feel you wish to say? 325 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:37,920 What I feel cannot be talked away or soothed into silence. Why? 326 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,040 Too many have died. 327 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,080 Too much has been destroyed. 328 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,240 There can be an easement of pain. 329 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,320 A move towards acceptance. 330 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,880 Pain is not the only terror. 331 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,120 There are many more. 332 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:01,000 Can you name them? 333 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,480 If I could name them, they would cease to be terrors. 334 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,360 That's a very elegant way of avoiding an answer. 335 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:09,560 All evasions are elegant. Think of politics. 336 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,200 I've always thought that politicians were too stupid to be subtle. 337 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,160 Perhaps they're just too subtle to be inelegant. 338 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,720 HE INHALES SHARPLY 339 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,400 Are you a good soldier? 340 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:38,840 Passable. 341 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,720 I was a poor marksman. I never knew which eye to shut. 342 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,560 I understand you were awarded the MC. Yes. 343 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,160 It's supposed to signify gallantry. 344 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,600 Bravery is only cowardice in extremis. 345 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,680 At the root of bravery lies terror 346 00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,400 and the fear of fear. 347 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,440 But you were conspicuous by your courage. 348 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,760 Why did you discard the Military Cross? 349 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,480 Disgust at my own dwindling standards... 350 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,080 ..and the men I felt I'd betrayed. It was nothing short of duplicity. 351 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,680 And, yet, the men under your command 352 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,640 held you in the highest esteem, I'm told. 353 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,120 And I, them. 354 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,360 They seemed to me to be all that was good and true in this world. 355 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,600 Are you searching for truth? 356 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:31,920 Isn't everyone? 357 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:34,640 And if you find it... 358 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:37,800 ..what then? 359 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,720 Peace of mind. 360 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,080 Contentment. 361 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,640 No longer yearning for what's been lost. 362 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:14,000 MUSIC: Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Loveliest of Trees 363 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,320 KNOCK ON DOOR 364 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:02,880 Come in. 365 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,200 Lieutenant Sassoon? 366 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,760 Yes. I'm W... 367 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,280 Wilfred Owen. 368 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:22,480 WOMAN CRIES OUT 369 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:28,480 SHE SCREAMS 370 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,000 That's it... 371 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:32,760 SCREAMING CONTINUES 372 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:39,320 More water, please. That's it... SCREAMING CONTINUES 373 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:45,840 There was howling last night. 374 00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:52,200 Like a wolf. 375 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,640 Strictly speaking, wolves ululate... 376 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,680 ..but howling will do. No, don't, don't make light of it like that, 377 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,120 Doctor, please. 378 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:03,680 That isn't what I'm doing. 379 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,200 I'm merely keeping it in perspective. 380 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,360 I'm sorry if I sounded uncaring. 381 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,040 The screams were terrible. 382 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,400 Worse than an animal. 383 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,240 Such anguish in them. 384 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,440 HE SIGHS 385 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,120 Why do all the worst terrors come at night? 386 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,480 The night is, I think... 387 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,520 ..like the unconscious. 388 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,960 Waiting all day, so that it can steal over you in the dark. 389 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,000 You make it sound almost benign. 390 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,200 Perhaps it is. 391 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,120 DISTANT RUMBLING 392 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,360 I believe Wilfred Owen introduced himself to you the other day. 393 00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:31,880 Yes. 394 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,040 He seemed so gentle. 395 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,240 I feel rather protective of him. 396 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,560 Does that protectiveness hide something deeper? 397 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,320 Yes. 398 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,480 All my friendships do. 399 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:53,680 But I've never allowed my emotions 400 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,000 to mar or spoil them. I remain passive. 401 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,040 That's how I cope. 402 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:01,920 You never act on impulse? 403 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,680 No. 404 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,120 Never. 405 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,200 I'm unable to take risks. 406 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,160 It's the hero in me. 407 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,960 Why not? 408 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,560 Too afraid. 409 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,560 Too inhibited. 410 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,480 Shamed by an inner corruption. 411 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,600 Or perhaps it's simply because of - what's the phrase? - 412 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,880 "the love that dare not speak its name". 413 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,520 You are not alone in that respect. 414 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,280 Frankly, Doctor, I'm surprised. 415 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,320 Why? 416 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:56,680 HE SNIFFS 417 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,360 The world is full of anomalies. 418 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,680 Well, speaking as one anomaly to another, 419 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,360 how do YOU cope with the law? 420 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,720 I adopt a less-than-honest respect for it. 421 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:22,960 So evasion is not confined solely to Second Lieutenants? 422 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:24,400 No. 423 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,200 It affects all ranks. 424 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,720 I trust, after this disclosure, you will be discreet? 425 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,880 Discretion is my middle name. 426 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,160 Well, it's better than Ethel, anyway. 427 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,760 HE LAUGHS 428 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:45,680 HE CHUCKLES 429 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:50,880 PIANO PLAYS 430 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,120 CLEARS THROAT 431 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:14,320 One assumes these theatricals have some deeper purpose. 432 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,120 Well, sir, I think they help to give some sort of 433 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,320 ease away from the front line. I doubt that. 434 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,720 Should the enemy perceive that the British Army 435 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:27,400 is always preparing for a tango, the war is lost. 436 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:33,640 Besides, the spectacle of men dancing with men is never palatable. 437 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,120 I had always thought such creatures went into the library 438 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,160 with their service revolvers and did the decent thing. 439 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:48,120 And how is your treatment progressing, Lieutenant? 440 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,320 Oh, it has its unique moments, sir. 441 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,800 Well, let us hope these "unique moments" coalesce enough 442 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:58,280 to get you back to active service fighting fit, as it were. 443 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,000 Doesn't that rather depend, sir, on what's fit to fight for? 444 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,280 But perhaps I'm just being syndromatic. 445 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,560 Was that a lapsus linguae? 446 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,920 I beg your pardon? Lapsus linguae, sir. 447 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,920 Slip of the tongue. I know what it means, Lieutenant. 448 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,840 The rest of us may be unable to read Beowulf in the original, 449 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,760 but we're not all complete philistines. 450 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,280 Of course not, sir. 451 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:30,160 Carry on. 452 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,200 Ready? Yes. 453 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,440 MUSIC RESUMES 454 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,120 # Halitosis! 455 00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:57,880 # Halitosis! # 456 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,000 Your first poem in Hydra. 457 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,800 Long live the editor! 458 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,120 I am the editor! 459 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,320 Hooray for nepotism! 460 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:06,880 HE CHUCKLES 461 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,120 And what do you think of my verse, Siegfried? 462 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,560 It seemed a little too dependent on 19th-century models. 463 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,320 You make it sound like The Courtship of Miles Standish. 464 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,280 Oh, God, no! Nothing's ever as bad as that. 465 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,080 But you do find my work derivative? 466 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:32,880 While I was at Clare, I wasted far too much time reading Swinburne. 467 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,360 It was very bad for my adjectives. 468 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,760 You have to speak directly, 469 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,520 not with another's voice. 470 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,240 Look, at first, everyone's work's derivative. 471 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,880 We all have to start somewhere. 472 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,840 At Cambridge, apart from Swinburne, I did nothing except read 473 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:57,440 William Morris in a punt and staggered through Maud. 474 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,880 Perhaps, er, my latest effort will please you. 475 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:09,720 It's called Disabled. 476 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,160 It's magnificent. 477 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,640 It pierces the heart. 478 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,240 What a gift you have! 479 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:27,320 I have been...passed by the Medical Board as fit for active service. 480 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,600 When do you rejoin your regiment? 481 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:41,960 December. 482 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,640 Just before Christmas. 483 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:52,240 Oh. 484 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,080 # There was I, waiting at the church 485 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,840 # Waiting at the church 486 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,800 # Waiting at the church 487 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,680 # And when I found he'd left me in the lurch 488 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,480 # Lor, how it did upset me! 489 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,200 # All at once, he sent me round a note 490 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,080 # Here's the very note 491 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,280 # This is what he wrote 492 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,800 # "Can't get away to marry you today 493 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:25,880 # "My wife, won't let me!" 494 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,560 ALL: # There was I, waiting at the church 495 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,480 # Waiting at the church 496 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,440 # Waiting at the church 497 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,280 # When I found 498 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,200 # He'd left me in the lurch 499 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,200 # Lor, how it did upset me! 500 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,760 # All at once, he sent around a note 501 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,800 # Here's the very note 502 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,760 # This is what he wrote 503 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,400 # "Can't get away to marry you today 504 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,480 # "My wife, won't let me!" # 505 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,640 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 506 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:05,200 W-w-what is it, Siegfried? 507 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:07,880 Nothing. 508 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,000 Wilfred's about to return to duty. HE CLEARS THROAT 509 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,640 I know. 510 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,800 What will you do? 511 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,160 Nothing. 512 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,560 I'll not do anything to make the parting even more painful. 513 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,120 HE SIGHS 514 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:47,600 I'd give everything I possess to have him stay just one more hour. 515 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,360 One more minute. 516 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,400 Quick to tears, slow to love. 517 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,880 You know, when I first met him, 518 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,560 he had a slight stammer... 519 00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:14,240 ..and spoke, I thought, with a grammar school accent. 520 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,160 How could I be such a snob? 521 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,160 He really is a lovely man... 522 00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:29,320 ..and I think the greater poet. 523 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:33,480 HE SIGHS 524 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,120 What about YOUR poetry? 525 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,440 It's egotism, really. 526 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,360 That seems a little harsh. 527 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,160 Truth often is. 528 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,080 I have no idea why I come here. 529 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:03,920 HE SNIFFS 530 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,520 It's really done no good at all, this. 531 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,360 Think of it as a cleansing of the soul. 532 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,600 Why do you have to put it so beautifully? 533 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,400 RAIN HAMMERS DOWN 534 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,640 Will you stay? Just... 535 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,400 Just for a few more moments? Yes. 536 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:15,480 Whenever you're ready, sir. 537 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:50,360 Wilfred was killed just a week before the war ended. 538 00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:01,080 What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? 539 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,520 Only the monstrous anger of the guns. 540 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,800 Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle 541 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,320 Can patter out their hasty orisons. 542 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,960 No mockeries for them; from prayers or bells; 543 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,760 Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs. 544 00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:24,680 The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; 545 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:29,000 And bugles calling for them from sad shires. 546 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:33,640 What candles may be held to speed them all? 547 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,280 Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes 548 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,680 Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. 549 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,760 The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; 550 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,800 Their flowers the tenderness of silent minds, 551 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:52,640 And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. 552 00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,240 The woman posing, 553 00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:01,600 who appears to be wearing a spinnaker, 554 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,200 is Lady Ottoline Morrell. 555 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:08,200 More hair than self-restraint, but definitely nobody's fool. 556 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,080 She looks as though she hasn't heard a joke since the Boer War. 557 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,360 For Ottoline, the Boer War WAS the joke. 558 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:15,760 Ottoline! 559 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,640 May we pause for a moment, Dorothy, before rigor mortis sets in? 560 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,800 Of course, Ottoline. Huh... 561 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,880 Who is this extremely beautiful young man, Robbie? Sassoon. 562 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,600 Siegfried. Sounds Wagnerian. 563 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,840 It's just Home Counties, I'm afraid. 564 00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:37,560 So, you're not a Keeper of the Flame at Bayreuth? 565 00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:42,440 No! No. I'm afraid not, no. What are your musical tastes, then? 566 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,320 Er, Ravel. 567 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:45,680 Albeniz. 568 00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:47,480 Chausson. 569 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,360 Scriabin, if I must. 570 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,120 Cesar Franck, when I'm in the mood. 571 00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,040 And Bartok? 572 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,360 Oh, no, never Bartok. No. 573 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,320 His music always sounds to me like a lunatic playing the xylophone. 574 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,200 Or vice versa! 575 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,440 THEY LAUGH 576 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,480 I once heard Paderewski play Bartok at Tunbridge Wells, 577 00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:08,480 but I found it rather disappointing. Well, what did you expect, Robbie? 578 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,200 It was Tunbridge Wells! 579 00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,040 THEY LAUGH 580 00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:16,640 Come into the main house and...have tea. 581 00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,920 May I join you, Ottoline? Of course, Dorothy. 582 00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:23,160 You are not a servant, but an Honourable. 583 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,960 Now, come along, Mr Bassoon, 584 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:32,520 and tell me what you really have against Mr Bartok. 585 00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:34,600 THEY CHAT 586 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,640 Oh, a word into your shell-like. 587 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,240 She'll ask you to stay the night. 588 00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:43,080 She always asks attractive young men to stay the night. 589 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,400 So, lock your bedroom door, 590 00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,360 or wear something very, very severe. 591 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:03,200 I thought that I might be more interesting than cocoa. 592 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,640 I'm afraid I prefer cocoa. 593 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,240 SHE LAUGHS 594 00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:11,960 Sleep badly! 595 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,160 DOOR CLOSES 596 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:26,800 Dickie! 597 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,840 Curse the wood. It's time to go! 598 00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:31,920 Oh, Christ! 599 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:33,600 What's the good? 600 00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,440 We'll never take it! 601 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,080 And it's always raining! 602 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,600 It's not like...Oh, Vicki, don't go out! 603 00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:46,080 THEY SCREAM AND SHOUT 604 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,080 THEY SCREAM LOUDER 605 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:17,000 I fell asleep. Next morning he was dead. 606 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,600 And some slight wound lay smiling on the bed. 607 00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:33,000 RAGTIME PIANO MUSIC PLAYS 608 00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,120 Ivor Novello. 609 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,160 Of keep the home fires burning fame. 610 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,080 Mm, yes, that loathsome little tune. 611 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,360 He always writes at the top of his voice. 612 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,280 But we must try to be charitable. 613 00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,960 Ah, Sybil, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Ragtime, indeed. 614 00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,600 Yes, I know. But Mr Novello plays it so well, 615 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,480 it's almost music. 616 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,680 Besides, at the moment, he's appearing in the West End 617 00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:07,040 in a very successful play, called The Rat. 618 00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:08,440 I know. 619 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,200 Someone asked me if it was autobiographical, but I said 620 00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:12,760 I wasn't sure. 621 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:16,360 One day, Robbie, you will go too far. 622 00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,440 Oh, one day, Sybil, we will all go to far. 623 00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:22,960 Thank you for coming, Mr Sassoon. 624 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:26,480 We're all very eager to hear your recitation. 625 00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,880 Thank you, Lady Colefax. 626 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:40,480 Ladies and gentlemen, pray silence for one of our greatest poets, 627 00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,920 Mr Siegfried Sassoon. 628 00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,320 When I'm among a blaze of lights 629 00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:02,760 With tawdry music and cigars 630 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:06,240 And women dawdling through the lights 631 00:48:06,240 --> 00:48:09,960 And officers in cocktail bars 632 00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:14,120 Sometimes I think of garden nights 633 00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,080 And elm trees nodding at the stars. 634 00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:21,720 I dream of a small fire lit room 635 00:48:21,720 --> 00:48:25,000 Yellow candles burning straight 636 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,960 And glowing pictures in the gloom 637 00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,880 And kindly books that hold me late. 638 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:37,120 Of things like these I choose to think when I can never be alone 639 00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,600 And then someone says, "Another drink?" 640 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,760 And turns my living heart to stone. 641 00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:53,320 AUDIENCE APPLAUDS 642 00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,800 Thank you, Mr Sassoon. 643 00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,240 That was very...touching. 644 00:49:02,240 --> 00:49:05,280 We both thank you, Sybil. And now, go and rejoin Lady Cunard 645 00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,360 before she starts launching something. 646 00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,760 And to think he once played the triangle so beautifully. 647 00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:23,600 What a waste! 648 00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:28,360 # I seem to be the victim of a cruel jest 649 00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:34,520 # It dogs my footsteps with the girl I love the best 650 00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:39,680 # She's just the sweetest thing that I have ever known 651 00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:45,520 # And yet we never get the chance to be alone 652 00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,760 # My car will meet her 653 00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,440 # And her mother comes too 654 00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,560 # It's a two-seater 655 00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,480 # Still, her mother comes too 656 00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,240 # At Ciro's when I am free 657 00:50:01,240 --> 00:50:03,720 # At dinner, supper or tea 658 00:50:03,720 --> 00:50:06,960 # She loves to shimmy with me 659 00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:08,760 # And her mother does too...# 660 00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:10,360 AUDIENCE LAUGHS 661 00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,920 # We buy her trousseau 662 00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,520 # And her mother comes too 663 00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,040 # Ask not to do so 664 00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:21,120 # Still her mother comes too 665 00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,480 # She simply can't take a snub 666 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,400 # I go and sulk at the club 667 00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,160 # Then have a bath and a rub 668 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:33,400 # And her brother comes too 669 00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,800 # To golf, we started 670 00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,280 # And her mother came too 671 00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:41,240 # Three bags, I carted 672 00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:44,480 # When her mother came too 673 00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,560 # She fainted just off the tee 674 00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:50,800 # My darling whispered to me 675 00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:55,200 # Jack, dear, at last we are free 676 00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:58,720 # But her mother came too.# 677 00:50:58,720 --> 00:51:01,360 AUDIENCE APPLAUDS 678 00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,400 He's considered very beautiful. 679 00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,440 Look at those shoulders. 680 00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,160 Yeah. 681 00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,320 And look at his. 682 00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,840 Are we leaving, Ivor? No, precious. 683 00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:24,640 I'm anxious to meet our distinguished guest, Mr Sassoon. 684 00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,400 I mean, good to have your advice on my next musical. 685 00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,400 I'm thinking of writing a terze rima. 686 00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,320 That's near Naples, isn't it? 687 00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,480 Yeah. Dear Robbie, 688 00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:38,160 his silence is always so much more eloquent than speech. 689 00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:53,080 Robbie will give you a port, guide you home, Glen. 690 00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,120 C'est la vie. 691 00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,040 C'est la guerre. 692 00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:19,440 THEY PANT HEAVILY 693 00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,120 Oops! 694 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,280 Just leave the keys... 695 00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,440 ..on the dresser, Glen. 696 00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:43,560 You know how absent minded I am with them. 697 00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:17,680 I think he's still in love with you. 698 00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,840 The main drawback with love is that it descends 699 00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:23,640 all too quickly into possessiveness. 700 00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,280 That really is a bore. 701 00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:36,840 What should I do with these? 702 00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,560 Oh, they're for you. 703 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,680 Hamo died so far away... 704 00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,480 ..while I have his sword, I still have him. 705 00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,240 We never grieved properly for him, Mother. 706 00:54:21,240 --> 00:54:23,760 Before grief there's anger. 707 00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,960 I watch you on your constant way. 708 00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,600 In selfless duty, long grown grey. 709 00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,920 And to myself I say that I have lived my life to learn 710 00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,880 how lives like your unmasking earn. 711 00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:49,600 Aureoles that guide and burn. 712 00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,200 In heart's remembrance, when the proud 713 00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,360 who snared the suffrage of the crowd 714 00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,160 are dumb and dusty browed. 715 00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,560 For you live onward in my thought 716 00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,080 because you have not sought 717 00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,640 rewards that can be bought. 718 00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,640 And so when I remember you, 719 00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:11,400 I think of all things rich and true 720 00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,640 that I have reaped and wrought. 721 00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,120 Thank God you survived. 722 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:32,320 Goodnight, darling. Night, Mother. 723 00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,560 Give me your hand, my brother. 724 00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,560 Search my face. 725 00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:53,320 Look in these eyes, lest I should think of shame, 726 00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:57,320 for we have made an end of all things base. 727 00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:00,640 We are returning by the road we came. 728 00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:04,960 Your lot is with the ghosts of soldiers dead. 729 00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,680 And I am in the field where men must fight. 730 00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,800 But in the gloom I see your laureled head, 731 00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:15,480 and through your victory I shall win the light. 732 00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:20,440 # Stille nacht 733 00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:24,120 # Heilige nacht 734 00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:28,760 # Alles schlaft 735 00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:33,280 # Einsam wacht 736 00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:36,840 # Nur das traute...# 737 00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:40,840 # Sleep in heavenly peace 738 00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:45,840 # Sleep in heavenly peace.# 739 00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:49,440 GUN FIRES 740 00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:57,360 3,500 copies of Counter-Attack sold. 741 00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:00,960 Your fame is spreading, Siegfried. 742 00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,320 Like a virus. Oh, don't be contrary. 743 00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:07,920 So I wake up famous. Like Byron. 744 00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,400 And I believe you've been overwhelmed 745 00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:12,640 by visits from all the great and the good. 746 00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:16,120 Lydia Lopokova, Keynes... 747 00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:19,520 ..Winston Churchill, and mother. 748 00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,280 Even boy actor Noel Coward. 749 00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,480 Have I left anyone out? The Pope? 750 00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,760 That's right, Siegfried. Think small. 751 00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,880 How did you find Mr Churchill? 752 00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:36,920 Imperial. And Mr Coward? 753 00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:38,600 Gushing. 754 00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:41,560 What would you have done if royalty had paid a call? 755 00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:45,920 Oh, well, then I'd have tried to curtsy from a sitting position. 756 00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:50,080 Speaking of royalty, I've come with a command from Her Majesty, 757 00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:54,240 Edith Sitwell. You are to attend a performance at Carlyle Square 758 00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:57,080 of her entertainment facade. 759 00:57:57,080 --> 00:58:00,680 Poetry by Edith, music, Willie Walton. 760 00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,520 I've got a great deal of trouble to get this, so don't let me down. 761 00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:06,880 If you don't attend, La Sitwell is certain to come to your flat 762 00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:12,320 at Half Moon Street and hum the whole of Tannhauser to you. 763 00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:14,720 You have been warned. 764 00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:18,240 Oh, I, eh, Ottoline Morrell popped in. 765 00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:21,680 Wish to be remembered to you. How was she? 766 00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:24,560 Let's just say I've always found lime green 767 00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:26,440 a very unforgiving colour. 768 00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:31,760 Poor, Ottoline. She'll go to her grave overdressed. 769 00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:37,880 I'm looking forward to meeting your mother. 770 00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:39,920 What? I said, I... 771 00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:42,680 ..I was looking forward to meeting your mother. 772 00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:45,320 All mothers, good or bad, 773 00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:47,280 are always fascinating. 774 00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:53,360 I tried to set fire to mine once, but she was all asbestos. 775 00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:59,000 Oh, do come on, we shall never get down to Kent at this rate. 776 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,640 Oh, and I found this for you, on the floor. 777 00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,720 Oh, it'll be from Robbie Ross. Urgh! 778 00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,360 Why are you so antipathetic towards him? 779 00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:10,880 Because I resent the way that he speaks to me. 780 00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:14,400 Like he's always putting me in my place. 781 00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:16,920 You know, the only problem with knowing one's place 782 00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,200 is that other people never seem to know theirs. 783 00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:23,880 He's acerbic, I grant you, but he's never malign. 784 00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:25,800 And as a friend, very steadfast. 785 00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:28,680 Robbie Ross took some considerable risk when he publicly supported 786 00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,840 Oscar Wilde. He's hounded ever since by Lord Alfred Douglas. 787 00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:34,320 Oh, please. Bosie was always vindictive. 788 00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,360 Robbie should have known that from the beginning. 789 00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:39,160 He's really only got himself to blame. That's really unfair. 790 00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:41,000 His loyalty to Wilde was exemplary. 791 00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:44,160 All right, all right. Robbie's a saint. 792 00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:46,800 Now, how about we drop the subject? 793 00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:53,680 Oh, it's a very fine sword. 794 00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:55,920 It was my brother's. 795 00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,760 Hmm. He was killed at Gallipoli. 796 01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:04,880 CLOCK CHIMES 797 01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:08,560 Oh, God. What is it? 798 01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:11,120 It's the first performance of Facade, and I was supposed 799 01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:14,200 to go to it. Where's it being performed? 800 01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:17,840 Some private performance in Carlyle Square. 801 01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:19,720 Chelsea. 802 01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,080 Even if we drove like the wind, we should never make it. 803 01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:26,160 Robbie will be furious. So will Edith Sitwell. 804 01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:29,040 It's being given to a very select audience. 805 01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:31,960 I'm sure she'll understand once you explain why you weren't able 806 01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:34,480 to be there. Oh, no, I don't think so, Mother. 807 01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:36,600 Edith can be a very captious woman. 808 01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:39,760 She isn't a woman. She's an animated meringue. 809 01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:41,680 And those teeth... 810 01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:43,840 Don't be horrible, Ivor. 811 01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:47,000 She suffers, I believe, from a complaint known as receding gums. 812 01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:50,280 She's so autocratic, I'm surprised she gave them permission to. 813 01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:53,640 Oh, well, come along, then. 814 01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:56,080 Might as well see if we can catch some of it. 815 01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:58,480 I'm sorry to have to rush off like this, Mother. 816 01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:00,120 It doesn't matter. 817 01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:06,840 Is he just another one of your pretty boys? 818 01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:09,560 No. It's deeper than that. 819 01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:11,760 Much deeper. 820 01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:15,480 You don't like him, do you, Mother? 821 01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:18,840 He's amusing, but unpleasant. 822 01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,880 It's his eyes, I think. They're cruel. 823 01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:31,680 Night, Mother. Goodnight, Siegfried. 824 01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:41,280 You never came. 825 01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:43,760 Please forgive me, Edith. 826 01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:45,600 I shall try. 827 01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:47,640 I'm entirely to blame. 828 01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:51,840 We visited my mother in Kent, and I simply lost all sense of time. 829 01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:54,920 We? Mm. 830 01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:58,040 Myself and Ivor Novello. 831 01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:01,320 A man at the cheaper end of poetry. 832 01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:06,160 I do hope you can forgive me, Edith, for I am mortified 833 01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:08,680 by my thoughtlessness. 834 01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:11,160 How was the work received? 835 01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,000 Well, they tittered. 836 01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,280 Tittered? Tittered. 837 01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:20,520 I overheard someone say in the most odious manner, 838 01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:25,080 "It's this sort of thing that makes one glad to be semi-conscious." 839 01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:28,480 I was deeply wounded. Mm. 840 01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:32,960 My poetry has wonderful assonances and dissonances. 841 01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:36,040 I use words for their colour, not merely for what they are 842 01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:38,000 supposed to mean. 843 01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:41,280 Great art may sometimes be so ahead of its time, Edith, 844 01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:44,160 that its initial reception can be considered a succes d'estime. 845 01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:48,520 Think of Stravinsky. 846 01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:51,920 But I do not wish to think of Stravinsky. 847 01:02:56,320 --> 01:02:59,680 We are performing Facade at the Aeolian Hall next week. 848 01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:02,600 I shall expect you there. Of course, Edith, 849 01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:05,280 I shall come with the speed of a thousand gazelles. 850 01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:08,480 No need for hyperbole, Siegfried. 851 01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:10,360 A taxi will do. 852 01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:17,520 In the early springtime, after their tea, 853 01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:21,600 through the young fields of the springing Bohea, 854 01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:24,720 Jemima, Jocasta, Dina and Deb 855 01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:28,800 walked with her father, Sir Joshua Jebb. 856 01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,760 An Admiral red, whose only notion, 857 01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:34,760 a butterfly poised on a pig-tailed ocean, 858 01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:38,320 is of the peruked sea whose swell 859 01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:41,440 breaks on the on the flowerless rocks of hell. 860 01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:45,240 For hell is just as properly proper 861 01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:49,440 as Greenwich, or as Bath, or Joppa. 862 01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:53,360 Christ. I have to go backstage. Rather you than me. 863 01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:56,360 SOMEONE KNOCKS ON THE DOOR 864 01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:59,200 Ah! The prodigal. 865 01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:02,600 Well, Edith, you've done it again! 866 01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:06,360 BIRDS TWITTER 867 01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:51,720 All the fine young cannibals. 868 01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:54,080 You make it sound like a raiding party. 869 01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:56,200 Isn't it? 870 01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:00,640 AUDIENCE APPLAUDS 871 01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:02,280 Stephen Tennant. 872 01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:14,400 I am... Yes, we already know who you are, Stephen. 873 01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:18,720 But who is this absolute dream in oyster grey silk? 874 01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:20,440 Hester Gatty. 875 01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:23,520 Lady Gatty's daughter? Yes. 876 01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:27,240 She once invited you to Carlton House Terrace. 877 01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:29,440 But you hardly noticed me. 878 01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:32,520 Then I apologise for my lack of taste. 879 01:05:32,520 --> 01:05:37,040 But great admirers of your poetry, Siegfried. 880 01:05:37,040 --> 01:05:40,040 Before you take offence, Ivor, we like your work too. 881 01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:43,120 Careful, Stephen. That was almost enthusiasm. 882 01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:49,080 Perhaps they would play one of your charming songs, Mr Novello, 883 01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:51,160 and then we could dance to it. 884 01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:53,120 I can't tempt Stephen, though. 885 01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:54,760 Oh, why not? 886 01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:58,480 Because I only do the veleta, and only when pressed. 887 01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:04,080 I do love dancing. So do I. 888 01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:06,440 Come on, then! 889 01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:10,080 DANCE MUSIC PLAYS 890 01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:50,680 I didn't know great poets did the Charleston. 891 01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:53,280 I didn't know the Charleston did that to gay young things. 892 01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:55,400 I think everyone should be gay, don't you? 893 01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:57,520 Only in the wider sense. 894 01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:04,480 And this young man is? Alexander Fenton. 895 01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:09,520 Doesn't it sound as though I should have a title in front of it? 896 01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:14,640 Sir Alexander Fenton, for his services to the theatre. 897 01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:18,560 Well, that hasn't happened yet. It will, Ivor. 898 01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:20,160 It will. 899 01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:32,800 I hardly see you these days, Ivor. 900 01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:36,400 How are you? Horizontally speaking. 901 01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:38,480 Oh, busy, old thing. 902 01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:40,680 Very, very busy. 903 01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:44,840 Still gathering lilacs? You could say that. 904 01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:47,360 Well, when you've exhausted botany, you might consider moving 905 01:07:47,360 --> 01:07:49,720 into the field of blood sports. 906 01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:54,320 I'm told that the men who indulge in them are very, very rugged. 907 01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:57,200 Isn't that so, Mr Sassoon? 908 01:07:57,200 --> 01:08:00,680 You know, I think that's what I'm going to miss most about you, Glen. 909 01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:02,960 Your quaint sense of humour. 910 01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:10,240 HE SIGHS 911 01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:12,520 And how have you been passing your time? 912 01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:15,320 Seeing lots of musical theatre. Such as? 913 01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:17,880 Rose-Marie. Very enjoyable. 914 01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:21,680 Yes, but so Rudolf Friml. But it is by Rudolf Friml. 915 01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:24,800 It was a joke, Siegfried. 916 01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:30,400 And how about tonight? Lady, Be Good. 917 01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:34,280 Gershwin, an unsurpassed genius. 918 01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:37,520 Well, we really mustn't keep you then, Glen. 919 01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:50,720 You have to admit it, Gershwin is an exceptional talent. 920 01:08:50,720 --> 01:08:52,840 I don't have to admit anything. 921 01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:55,720 What's wrong? We're leaving. 922 01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:58,680 But I thought you wanted supper. I'm no longer hungry. 923 01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:10,040 Name, sir? 924 01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:11,560 Mr Sassoon. 925 01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:15,160 Sassoon, you say? Yes. Ah. 926 01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:21,880 Mm. Would you mind spelling that for me, please, sir? 927 01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:27,240 S-A-S-S-O-O-N. 928 01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:28,960 Hmm. 929 01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:32,080 I'm afraid you're not on the list, sir. 930 01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:35,680 Well, I'm going up anyway. 931 01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:45,040 Telephone me in a couple of days, won't you? 932 01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:14,160 I practically had to force my way in past the stage doorman. 933 01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:18,200 You were lucky. He's been told to shoot anyone not on my list. 934 01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:20,840 Why wasn't I on the list? Oh, for Christ's sake! 935 01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:23,320 Look, it's been a long run, Siegfried. 936 01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:25,440 I am tired. I am exhausted. 937 01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:36,440 Do you still want supper? Yes! 938 01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:47,200 I was surprised to see Fenton here. Why? 939 01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:51,240 I know lots of people. Fenton is just another admirer... 940 01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:54,240 ..fan. 941 01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:56,200 You both seemed to me to be very friendly 942 01:10:56,200 --> 01:10:59,640 after so short an acquaintance. You know, I get the distinct impression 943 01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,640 that I'm being grilled, and that the storm in an egg cup 944 01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:05,040 is brewing. 945 01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:09,080 I'm sorry. I don't mean to be petty, but I... 946 01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:11,280 ..I am very jealous of you. 947 01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:15,160 Yes, well, affairs are always messy. 948 01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:19,520 Who can know the secrets of a human heart? 949 01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:22,320 Usually the people who don't have one. 950 01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:25,560 Well, my, my. Hasn't it gone chilly in here? 951 01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:31,000 But I love you. 952 01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:36,960 Yes. 953 01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:39,080 You've said. 954 01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:54,400 HE CLEARS HIS THROAT 955 01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:56,560 PHONE RINGS 956 01:11:56,560 --> 01:11:58,240 Ivor? 957 01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:00,760 PHONE LINE GOES DEAD 958 01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:03,200 Ivor? 959 01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:21,480 Let me pass. I'm sorry, sir. I can't let you go up. 960 01:12:21,480 --> 01:12:22,960 Why? 961 01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:26,600 Mr Novello never sees anyone after a matinee. 962 01:12:31,320 --> 01:12:34,520 Well, would you please inform Mr Novello that I've booked a table 963 01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:38,040 for 8pm, and I'll be expecting him for dinner?! 964 01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:41,760 Yes, sir. Thank you! 965 01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:48,720 Is there someone else? 966 01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:52,080 There's always someone else. 967 01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:56,320 How do you justify your behaviour? 968 01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:59,360 By asking myself questions to which I already know the answers. 969 01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:03,360 And when all is said and done, my career comes before anyone, 970 01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:05,120 or anything. 971 01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:10,880 My work is as popular as I am. 972 01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:13,400 There is a school of thought that regards musical theatre 973 01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:16,080 as a second rate means of expression. 974 01:13:16,080 --> 01:13:18,920 Before you judge other people's work, Siegfried, I would make sure 975 01:13:18,920 --> 01:13:21,640 your own is above criticism. What does that mean? 976 01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:23,000 Just this. 977 01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:27,240 That since 1918, your poetry has gone from the sublime 978 01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:29,040 to the meticulous. 979 01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:31,600 And tell me, Mr Novello, what did you do during the war? 980 01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:34,640 I gave my talent to my country. 981 01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:38,200 I boosted morale by playing every theatre in the land. 982 01:13:38,200 --> 01:13:40,840 Oh, weren't you the lucky one? We had the Somme 983 01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:43,240 and you had Rhyl! 984 01:13:46,280 --> 01:13:47,880 HE SNORTS 985 01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:53,760 Well, I see no point in prolonging this unpleasant conversation. 986 01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:56,280 No. 987 01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:59,040 Oh, no, after what's been said, I don't expect you to foot the bill 988 01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:01,920 as well. Oh, always the gentleman, eh, Siegfried? 989 01:14:01,920 --> 01:14:04,680 It's better than being a cad. 990 01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:06,880 I suspect this is goodbye, then. 991 01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:09,000 Au revoir might have been kinder. 992 01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,120 Please don't undermine yourself, Siegfried. 993 01:14:11,120 --> 01:14:12,680 That's what friends are for. 994 01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:15,600 If you wish to see me again, I'll be at my flat. 995 01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:19,080 Well, at least that's more original than going home to Mother. 996 01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:34,840 Snap. 997 01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:41,520 May I sit down? Yes, of course. 998 01:14:44,440 --> 01:14:47,640 Do you still dine here? Of course. 999 01:14:47,640 --> 01:14:49,960 Why? 1000 01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:54,400 Let's just say I like the trips down memory lane. 1001 01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:56,200 THEY LAUGH 1002 01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:02,480 What next? 1003 01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:10,320 Well, I suppose in a bad melodrama, I'd kill myself. 1004 01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:13,360 And in a really bad melodrama, you'd kill Ivor. 1005 01:15:13,360 --> 01:15:15,480 HE CHUCKLES 1006 01:15:15,480 --> 01:15:17,120 HE SIGHS DEEPLY 1007 01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:18,800 Seriously, are you all right? 1008 01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:23,280 The moment passes, but the hurt remains. 1009 01:15:28,360 --> 01:15:30,360 And I was supposed to go and visit my mother 1010 01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:32,760 and now I've missed the train. Drive down, why don't you? 1011 01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:34,560 I have no car. I can't drive. 1012 01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:40,160 I was going to motor down to the coast. 1013 01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:41,520 Why don't I give you a lift? 1014 01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:46,080 That would be very kind of you. Where does she live? 1015 01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:49,040 Kent. 1016 01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:50,720 Then let's get going. 1017 01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:08,040 I have absolutely no idea where we are. 1018 01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:09,680 THEY LAUGH 1019 01:16:20,480 --> 01:16:22,000 Although I, er... 1020 01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:25,320 ..don't possess the wit to woo... 1021 01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:28,800 ..may I see you again? 1022 01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:33,240 I live in Margate. 1023 01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:34,640 Oh. 1024 01:16:36,480 --> 01:16:38,280 Pity Margate's so far away. 1025 01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:42,360 It's not at the moment. 1026 01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:47,400 HE CHUCKLES 1027 01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:52,800 What about Ivor? 1028 01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:54,040 Oh. 1029 01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:57,560 Ivor's already been to Margate. 1030 01:16:57,560 --> 01:16:59,720 THEY BOTH LAUGH 1031 01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:06,440 At dawn, the ridge emerges massed and dun 1032 01:17:06,440 --> 01:17:09,360 In wild purple of the glow'ring sun, 1033 01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:13,320 Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud 1034 01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:17,000 The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one, 1035 01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:20,920 Tanks creep and topple forward to the wire. 1036 01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:25,640 The barrage roars and lifts. Then, clumsily bowed 1037 01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:28,360 With bombs and guns and battle-gear, 1038 01:17:28,360 --> 01:17:32,520 Men jostle and climb to meet the bristling fire. 1039 01:17:32,520 --> 01:17:37,240 Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear, 1040 01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:40,640 They leave their trenches, going over the top, 1041 01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:44,720 While time ticks blank and busy on their wrists, 1042 01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:48,560 And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists, 1043 01:17:48,560 --> 01:17:50,320 Flounders in the mud. 1044 01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:54,600 O Jesus, make it stop! 1045 01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:07,360 We have a guest. 1046 01:18:11,080 --> 01:18:13,120 Oh, he's not a guest. 1047 01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:14,880 He's an afterthought. 1048 01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:21,200 This is my life partner, Bobby Andrews. 1049 01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:23,360 Bobby, Siegfried. Siegfried, Bobby. 1050 01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:26,680 Well, don't look so shocked. 1051 01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:29,200 Love has nothing to do with monogamy. 1052 01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:30,880 Or are you the faithful type? 1053 01:18:32,480 --> 01:18:34,600 I suppose I must be. 1054 01:18:34,600 --> 01:18:38,240 If you want fidelity, Siegfried, buy a pet. 1055 01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:41,520 You kept very quiet about this. 1056 01:18:41,520 --> 01:18:43,600 Well, that's because I didn't want anyone else 1057 01:18:43,600 --> 01:18:45,880 to shake him down from the tree. BOBBY CHUCKLES 1058 01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:47,720 You really are a bastard, aren't you? 1059 01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:49,160 I do my best. 1060 01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:52,960 Now you must excuse us. 1061 01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:56,040 We have a casserole waiting. 1062 01:18:59,480 --> 01:19:00,600 Oh. 1063 01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:06,880 Where shall I put your key? 1064 01:19:06,880 --> 01:19:08,480 Back on the floor. 1065 01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:15,200 KEY THUDS 1066 01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:30,000 I can't face tea before 11am. 1067 01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:32,360 Drink it, you misery. 1068 01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:37,800 I don't do this for everyone, you know. 1069 01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:40,840 I'm the invalid, remember? 1070 01:19:42,080 --> 01:19:43,760 Like Chekhov. 1071 01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:45,680 HE FAKE COUGHS 1072 01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:50,040 Oh, what should I do about my hair? 1073 01:19:50,040 --> 01:19:51,800 Have you considered topiary? 1074 01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:53,400 HE SNORTS 1075 01:19:55,080 --> 01:19:56,560 I think I might dye it. 1076 01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:00,680 Or I could leave it in its natural colour. 1077 01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:07,360 When I'm sunburnt, it looks like spun gold. 1078 01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:09,880 THEY LAUGH 1079 01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:11,600 CAR HORN TOOTS 1080 01:20:17,560 --> 01:20:19,160 CAR HORN TOOTS 1081 01:20:19,160 --> 01:20:20,800 I'll be with you in a moment! 1082 01:20:27,920 --> 01:20:29,640 It's Glen Byam Shaw. 1083 01:20:29,640 --> 01:20:31,760 Isn't that good news? 1084 01:20:36,840 --> 01:20:38,920 Siggy will be down in a trice. 1085 01:20:40,440 --> 01:20:42,000 He's suitably undressed. 1086 01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:47,040 We've just been talking about you. 1087 01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:49,000 So I hope your ears were burning, 1088 01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:50,600 all three of them. 1089 01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:56,480 Is Stephen naturally unpleasant or does he take private tuition? 1090 01:20:56,480 --> 01:20:57,800 I heard that! 1091 01:20:57,800 --> 01:20:59,160 You were supposed to. 1092 01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:09,840 HE CHUCKLES 1093 01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:11,760 Siggy. 1094 01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:13,040 Siggy! 1095 01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:20,360 I'm sorry. 1096 01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:24,440 What can I say? 1097 01:21:24,440 --> 01:21:25,920 There's nothing to say. 1098 01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:31,040 It's one of the inconveniences of the shadow life we lead. 1099 01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:34,160 Friends may come, friends may go. 1100 01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:37,600 Enemies are always faithful. 1101 01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:42,760 How is Ivor? 1102 01:21:44,320 --> 01:21:46,720 I have no idea. I don't see him any more. 1103 01:21:49,880 --> 01:21:51,520 Did you know about Bobby? 1104 01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:55,080 Yes. 1105 01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:57,120 You might have warned me. 1106 01:21:57,120 --> 01:21:59,000 I didn't want to seem vindictive. 1107 01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:00,680 Sour grapes and all that. 1108 01:22:06,480 --> 01:22:10,600 I wanted to tell you personally that I'm planning to marry. 1109 01:22:13,200 --> 01:22:16,600 She's an actress and a good sort, I think, and we're... 1110 01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:18,680 ..very fond of each other. 1111 01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:23,280 When did you decide? 1112 01:22:23,280 --> 01:22:25,040 Some months ago. 1113 01:22:26,160 --> 01:22:28,040 You should give a thought to it, too. 1114 01:22:29,400 --> 01:22:32,920 No, if the intention wasn't pure, I don't think I could... 1115 01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:34,360 ..go through with it. 1116 01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:37,400 Purity is like virginity. 1117 01:22:37,400 --> 01:22:40,040 As soon as you touch it, it becomes corrupt. 1118 01:22:44,240 --> 01:22:45,880 I hope you'll both be very happy. 1119 01:22:47,440 --> 01:22:49,000 Thank you, Siegfried. 1120 01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:52,240 I shall do my best. 1121 01:23:06,520 --> 01:23:08,160 HE COUGHS 1122 01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:19,840 What's the matter? TB. 1123 01:23:21,120 --> 01:23:22,840 You should have told me. 1124 01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:25,240 Why? There's nothing you can do about it. 1125 01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:28,240 I could have taken you somewhere, to a warmer, drier climate. 1126 01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:31,360 HE COUGHS VIOLENTLY 1127 01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:34,480 That rules out Frinton, then. 1128 01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:38,280 Is there somewhere we can go to help you? 1129 01:23:39,680 --> 01:23:41,040 Yes. 1130 01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:42,840 I've been there before. 1131 01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:44,560 In Germany. 1132 01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:46,720 Haus Hirt in Bavaria. 1133 01:23:46,720 --> 01:23:51,720 It's all cow bells, lederhosen and very, very thick thighs. 1134 01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:54,880 So idyllic, you'll want to scream. 1135 01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:56,920 But the German men... 1136 01:23:56,920 --> 01:23:58,240 Gorgeous! 1137 01:23:59,840 --> 01:24:02,600 I wonder what the collective noun for them is. 1138 01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:06,760 HE COUGHS 1139 01:24:10,400 --> 01:24:11,760 Oh, don't look so glum, Siggy. 1140 01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:13,960 I'm not about to join the Hitler Youth. 1141 01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:18,400 PHONE RINGS 1142 01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:24,440 Yes. Who is it? 1143 01:24:24,440 --> 01:24:27,360 Hello, Siegfried, it's Alexander. Is Stephen there? 1144 01:24:28,640 --> 01:24:30,480 Hello? Don't call here again. 1145 01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:34,840 It was Fenton. 1146 01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:38,120 I don't like this at all. 1147 01:24:38,120 --> 01:24:41,040 We bumped into each other on Piccadilly the other day. 1148 01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:43,600 We had a harmless drink and I gave him your number. 1149 01:24:43,600 --> 01:24:44,880 Don't do it again! 1150 01:24:44,880 --> 01:24:46,800 If that were a request, I might consider it. 1151 01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:49,280 If it's an order, I'll make a point of disobeying it. 1152 01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:55,800 What did Glen want? 1153 01:24:57,960 --> 01:24:59,760 HE INHALES DEEPLY 1154 01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:03,480 He's getting married. 1155 01:25:03,480 --> 01:25:05,280 STEPHEN LAUGHS 1156 01:25:05,280 --> 01:25:07,440 The ultimate capitulation. 1157 01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:12,240 I'm sure they'll be very happy. 1158 01:25:12,240 --> 01:25:15,040 She's probably as mediocre as he is. 1159 01:25:16,480 --> 01:25:17,960 You'll be doing it next. 1160 01:25:20,720 --> 01:25:22,840 HE WHISTLES 1161 01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:50,560 Thought I'd try my hand at some watercolours. 1162 01:25:50,560 --> 01:25:52,960 Hmm. Landscapes and things. 1163 01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:55,080 It's the Magritte in me. 1164 01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:56,720 This is not a pipe. 1165 01:25:56,720 --> 01:25:59,040 Rene will be pleased. 1166 01:25:56,720 --> 01:25:59,040 SHE LAUGHS 1167 01:25:59,040 --> 01:26:01,480 How would you describe your style? 1168 01:26:01,480 --> 01:26:03,200 Erratic. 1169 01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:05,560 But then I'm giving this to a friend whom I really detest. 1170 01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:07,120 HE LAUGHS 1171 01:26:12,480 --> 01:26:14,440 You don't remember me at all, do you? 1172 01:26:16,440 --> 01:26:17,600 The spa? 1173 01:26:18,880 --> 01:26:20,880 Ivor Novello? 1174 01:26:20,880 --> 01:26:22,800 Stephen Tennant? 1175 01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:24,840 Oh, yes, of course. 1176 01:26:24,840 --> 01:26:26,400 Yes. 1177 01:26:26,400 --> 01:26:28,520 The oyster grey silk. 1178 01:26:28,520 --> 01:26:30,520 THEY LAUGH 1179 01:26:30,520 --> 01:26:33,280 You're supposed to remember me, not the dress. 1180 01:26:33,280 --> 01:26:34,520 HE LAUGHS 1181 01:26:43,680 --> 01:26:46,440 Before I met you for the first time, I always thought 1182 01:26:46,440 --> 01:26:49,320 you'd be either mercurial or dark. 1183 01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:53,200 And what am I, dark or mercurial? 1184 01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:54,800 Oh, neither. 1185 01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:57,040 You're more opaque, I think. 1186 01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:01,360 So what brings you down here? 1187 01:27:02,560 --> 01:27:06,360 I... I should like to say the picturesque, 1188 01:27:06,360 --> 01:27:08,000 but it wouldn't be true. 1189 01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:13,400 I came down in the hope of seeing you again. 1190 01:27:14,440 --> 01:27:16,080 I used the painting as a ploy. 1191 01:27:17,720 --> 01:27:19,680 Oh! 1192 01:27:19,680 --> 01:27:21,520 Well, I'm touched. 1193 01:27:23,240 --> 01:27:26,280 No-one's ever used subterfuge before in order to see me. 1194 01:27:26,280 --> 01:27:29,800 It's the modern thing. Liberated woman and all that. 1195 01:27:38,440 --> 01:27:41,000 It would be very pleasant if you invited me to lunch. 1196 01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:46,200 It would be very pleasant if you accepted. 1197 01:27:48,640 --> 01:27:51,680 ROMANTIC JAZZ PLAYS ON GRAMOPHONE 1198 01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:04,040 HESTER HUMS ALONG 1199 01:28:14,400 --> 01:28:16,080 You really are very lovely. 1200 01:28:18,720 --> 01:28:19,960 May I kiss you? 1201 01:28:22,320 --> 01:28:24,000 You don't have to ask. 1202 01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:25,560 SIEGFRIED CHUCKLES 1203 01:28:42,880 --> 01:28:44,960 MUSIC STOPS 1204 01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:47,320 GRAMOPHONE CRACKLES 1205 01:28:56,560 --> 01:28:58,640 I've never had an affair with a woman. 1206 01:29:01,360 --> 01:29:02,720 Only men. 1207 01:29:06,680 --> 01:29:09,040 Stephen told me all I needed to know. 1208 01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:11,800 CRACKLING CONTINUES 1209 01:29:24,320 --> 01:29:25,880 All my life, I feel as though 1210 01:29:25,880 --> 01:29:28,720 I've been waiting for a catastrophe to happen. 1211 01:29:28,720 --> 01:29:32,160 SHE CHUCKLES Well, that's optimism for you. 1212 01:29:34,720 --> 01:29:36,400 My whole future could depend on you. 1213 01:29:38,400 --> 01:29:40,560 You must redeem my life for me, Hester. 1214 01:29:42,640 --> 01:29:44,800 That sounds like some sort of proposal. 1215 01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:48,840 If I were selfish enough, I'd ask you to marry me. 1216 01:29:57,520 --> 01:29:58,840 If I were foolish enough... 1217 01:30:00,640 --> 01:30:02,080 ..I'd accept. 1218 01:30:09,120 --> 01:30:12,120 Oh, I look 500 years old. 1219 01:30:17,320 --> 01:30:19,160 Some say I am beautiful. 1220 01:30:20,680 --> 01:30:25,240 And, as an aesthete, I feel that beauty is eternal. 1221 01:30:28,400 --> 01:30:32,920 We see it in the eyes of those who love us. 1222 01:30:36,160 --> 01:30:38,840 Although my mother thinks 1223 01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:41,840 that my eyes are like cold seawater. 1224 01:30:46,560 --> 01:30:51,240 My buttocks and my shoulders are very well-shaped. 1225 01:30:52,520 --> 01:30:57,840 But my best feature is the beauty of my hands. 1226 01:30:57,840 --> 01:31:02,640 Almond milk and lemon creams are perfect for them, 1227 01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:06,880 and one must never laugh too much. 1228 01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:09,280 It coarsens one's face, 1229 01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:11,440 especially if the laughter is gleeful. 1230 01:31:11,440 --> 01:31:14,600 Stephen, how can you be so narcissistic? 1231 01:31:14,600 --> 01:31:17,640 It is my defence against nihilism and the vulgar. 1232 01:31:17,640 --> 01:31:19,920 You cannot conduct a life in that way. 1233 01:31:19,920 --> 01:31:23,200 Course one can. My life is my art. 1234 01:31:23,200 --> 01:31:25,360 Yours isn't a life, it's barely a hobby. 1235 01:31:25,360 --> 01:31:27,000 That was an ugly thing to say. 1236 01:31:27,000 --> 01:31:29,640 I know sometimes it's better to be kind than honest, 1237 01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:31,560 but you are frittering your life away 1238 01:31:31,560 --> 01:31:33,320 in pomades and powder. 1239 01:31:34,920 --> 01:31:36,080 And if you don't believe me, 1240 01:31:36,080 --> 01:31:37,880 ask someone with more sense and less love. 1241 01:31:37,880 --> 01:31:40,320 You've made your antipathy to me very obvious. 1242 01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:42,320 I don't need a second opinion. 1243 01:31:43,480 --> 01:31:45,560 I'm going to Salisbury for the weekend. 1244 01:31:47,240 --> 01:31:50,360 Edith Oliver has found me a cottage to rent in Teffont Magna. 1245 01:31:52,000 --> 01:31:54,160 I thought we could spend weekends there. 1246 01:31:56,120 --> 01:31:57,600 Will you come? 1247 01:31:57,600 --> 01:31:59,880 I too have had an invitation. 1248 01:32:00,880 --> 01:32:02,200 From whom? 1249 01:32:02,200 --> 01:32:05,640 A German prince whom I think you more than know. 1250 01:32:07,840 --> 01:32:09,720 Philip of Hesse, yes. 1251 01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:12,280 And one of Edith Sitwell's proteges. 1252 01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:15,280 A concert pianist called Tchelitchew. 1253 01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:20,600 Very Cyrillic, very Russian, and very divine. 1254 01:32:21,720 --> 01:32:23,760 And where are you going to? 1255 01:32:23,760 --> 01:32:25,800 Paris first. 1256 01:32:25,800 --> 01:32:29,760 Then we'll motor down to Bavaria so I can recuperate...from life. 1257 01:32:32,200 --> 01:32:35,000 After Bavaria, they're going to go on to Venice. 1258 01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:37,600 Philip told me that he once tried to make love in a gondola, 1259 01:32:37,600 --> 01:32:40,040 but that there wasn't enough privacy. Stability. 1260 01:32:42,200 --> 01:32:43,960 Oh. 1261 01:32:43,960 --> 01:32:47,120 So it was with you, was it? You sly old thing. 1262 01:32:47,120 --> 01:32:49,840 This all seems very sudden. 1263 01:32:49,840 --> 01:32:52,160 Yes, it does, doesn't it? 1264 01:32:52,160 --> 01:32:55,480 But then, that's my life. 1265 01:32:57,880 --> 01:32:59,280 All go. 1266 01:33:03,680 --> 01:33:07,280 Older than God, but without any of the influence. 1267 01:33:26,560 --> 01:33:28,480 DOORBELL RINGS 1268 01:33:35,640 --> 01:33:37,320 Am I welcome, Hester? 1269 01:33:40,280 --> 01:33:41,920 Come in and see. 1270 01:33:54,800 --> 01:33:56,800 Siegfried. 1271 01:33:56,800 --> 01:33:58,200 Stephen. 1272 01:34:02,040 --> 01:34:03,760 How dreadful we all look. 1273 01:34:06,160 --> 01:34:09,120 But I still have beautiful hands, I think. 1274 01:34:13,960 --> 01:34:15,160 I'll make some tea. 1275 01:34:25,160 --> 01:34:27,840 I suppose you've heard of Ivor's death. 1276 01:34:29,080 --> 01:34:30,120 Yes. 1277 01:34:33,160 --> 01:34:36,840 They say the funeral attracted a thousand people. 1278 01:34:38,560 --> 01:34:41,200 Probably made up mostly by all the people he slept with. 1279 01:34:47,920 --> 01:34:50,720 I still have a soft spot for Ivor's work, though. 1280 01:34:50,720 --> 01:34:54,240 All those tortured princesses and lovers 1281 01:34:54,240 --> 01:34:56,640 who have no money, but plenty of sex appeal. 1282 01:34:56,640 --> 01:34:59,400 His work was always sentimental nonsense. 1283 01:35:01,040 --> 01:35:02,880 He cheapened everything he touched. 1284 01:35:02,880 --> 01:35:05,320 I've always thought his particular kind of mawkishness 1285 01:35:05,320 --> 01:35:08,480 was a kind of catharsis for the... 1286 01:35:08,480 --> 01:35:10,880 ..dimmer members among us. 1287 01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:13,480 That's because you have never known the difference between the two. 1288 01:35:13,480 --> 01:35:15,640 We can't all possess your purity of thought. 1289 01:35:15,640 --> 01:35:17,800 It isn't a question of purity, 1290 01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:19,960 but of discernment. 1291 01:35:19,960 --> 01:35:24,200 And you were never very good at discernment. 1292 01:35:26,480 --> 01:35:28,800 That was rather too acerbic. 1293 01:35:28,800 --> 01:35:32,080 Mordant would be the more accurate word. 1294 01:35:38,320 --> 01:35:40,720 Are you still very angry? 1295 01:35:40,720 --> 01:35:42,880 What do you expect? 1296 01:35:42,880 --> 01:35:46,080 You ended our relationship with a letter from your doctor. 1297 01:35:47,480 --> 01:35:49,400 How was I supposed to feel? 1298 01:35:49,400 --> 01:35:51,840 Still clearly very hurt, I see. 1299 01:35:51,840 --> 01:35:55,440 I had hoped that you might have been a little more forgiving. 1300 01:35:55,440 --> 01:35:59,200 If I had treated you the way in which you treated me, 1301 01:35:59,200 --> 01:36:01,080 how forgiving would you be? 1302 01:36:02,640 --> 01:36:05,560 Besides, when the parade's gone by, you have to have enough sense 1303 01:36:05,560 --> 01:36:07,640 to realise that you are no longer a part of it. 1304 01:36:07,640 --> 01:36:09,560 I'm trying to apologise. 1305 01:36:09,560 --> 01:36:11,600 You're 30 years too late! 1306 01:36:17,200 --> 01:36:19,240 Can't we still be friends? 1307 01:36:19,240 --> 01:36:20,680 No. 1308 01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:24,080 You once meant so much. 1309 01:36:24,080 --> 01:36:26,080 Now you mean so little. 1310 01:36:26,080 --> 01:36:29,520 Sieg... Don't trivialise it by saying something glib. 1311 01:36:29,520 --> 01:36:32,120 Can I see you again? In London, perhaps? 1312 01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:33,760 No. 1313 01:36:33,760 --> 01:36:35,640 I rarely go to London now. 1314 01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:49,960 And how is George? 1315 01:36:51,240 --> 01:36:52,920 Young. 1316 01:36:52,920 --> 01:36:54,640 Thriving. 1317 01:36:54,640 --> 01:36:56,200 He's like all children. 1318 01:36:56,200 --> 01:36:58,400 He has the worst aspects of both his parents. 1319 01:36:59,600 --> 01:37:01,480 How about his parents' virtues? 1320 01:37:01,480 --> 01:37:03,200 He's cursed with those as well. 1321 01:37:07,360 --> 01:37:09,840 I am... 1322 01:37:11,400 --> 01:37:13,600 ..very lonely, Siggy. 1323 01:37:13,600 --> 01:37:15,440 Is it agony? 1324 01:37:16,600 --> 01:37:18,360 One does hope so. 1325 01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:23,920 George has an independent mind, which sometimes shocks Siegfried. 1326 01:37:23,920 --> 01:37:26,280 It isn't independence, it's wilfulness. 1327 01:37:32,280 --> 01:37:33,840 Who's died? 1328 01:37:33,840 --> 01:37:35,320 All of us. 1329 01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:37,880 George, the pipe was not a good idea. 1330 01:37:37,880 --> 01:37:39,680 Looks as if it's smoking you. 1331 01:37:39,680 --> 01:37:41,240 Old Silvertongue. 1332 01:37:41,240 --> 01:37:43,440 We could do without the smoke. 1333 01:37:43,440 --> 01:37:45,240 Tea, darling? 1334 01:37:45,240 --> 01:37:47,160 No, thank you, Mother. 1335 01:37:50,720 --> 01:37:52,400 Thank you for the tea. 1336 01:37:53,440 --> 01:37:55,160 George will see you out. 1337 01:37:57,800 --> 01:37:59,240 Goodbye. 1338 01:37:59,240 --> 01:38:00,680 Goodbye. 1339 01:38:06,360 --> 01:38:08,560 DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES 1340 01:38:06,360 --> 01:38:08,560 Charming as ever. 1341 01:38:08,560 --> 01:38:11,320 But there was still malice at the edge of his voice, 1342 01:38:11,320 --> 01:38:12,920 as there always was. 1343 01:38:12,920 --> 01:38:15,360 Sometimes, Siegfried, it's more humane 1344 01:38:15,360 --> 01:38:17,160 to be kind than to be honest. 1345 01:38:18,520 --> 01:38:20,880 He constantly goaded my jealousy. 1346 01:38:20,880 --> 01:38:23,080 It was like being killed by degrees. 1347 01:38:25,280 --> 01:38:27,680 He once told me he thought you were matchless. 1348 01:38:28,840 --> 01:38:33,400 We are unique only to the people who really loathe us. 1349 01:38:35,120 --> 01:38:37,520 YOUNG HESTER: Will you come to dinner tonight at Mother's? 1350 01:38:37,520 --> 01:38:40,160 She'd have invited God if she thought He'd come. 1351 01:38:42,600 --> 01:38:44,720 I'm uncomfortable with all that distinction. 1352 01:38:45,960 --> 01:38:48,920 I'm not at all an intellectual, I have a very cumbersome mind. 1353 01:38:50,120 --> 01:38:52,960 Oh, please come. 1354 01:38:54,080 --> 01:38:56,880 Max Beerbohm said he might drop in for a drink. 1355 01:38:56,880 --> 01:38:58,480 Hmm. 1356 01:38:58,480 --> 01:39:00,960 Well, then I shall come. 1357 01:38:58,480 --> 01:39:00,960 SHE LAUGHS 1358 01:39:00,960 --> 01:39:03,320 Just to hear Max's delectable gossip. 1359 01:39:04,840 --> 01:39:06,880 You know, he, er... 1360 01:39:04,840 --> 01:39:06,880 LAUGHS 1361 01:39:06,880 --> 01:39:09,960 He once described TS Elliot as, "Poor old Tom who sits there 1362 01:39:09,960 --> 01:39:12,600 "ironically analysing an empty sardine tin." 1363 01:39:12,600 --> 01:39:14,200 SHE LAUGHS 1364 01:39:15,640 --> 01:39:17,880 Well, you better get your skates on, 1365 01:39:17,880 --> 01:39:20,920 and I better get my glad rags out of mothballs. 1366 01:39:33,560 --> 01:39:36,040 CAR APPROACHES 1367 01:39:36,040 --> 01:39:38,320 MEN CHATTER 1368 01:39:39,960 --> 01:39:43,040 Now don't miss me too much, all right? Bye! 1369 01:39:44,040 --> 01:39:45,560 Goodbye, darlings! 1370 01:40:05,840 --> 01:40:07,960 HE BREATHES DEEPLY 1371 01:40:14,240 --> 01:40:15,520 No welcome? 1372 01:40:17,480 --> 01:40:18,800 No bunting? 1373 01:40:20,880 --> 01:40:24,120 Not even, "You're looking frightfully well, Stephen"? 1374 01:40:29,440 --> 01:40:32,160 Am I going to get the silent treatment? 1375 01:40:32,160 --> 01:40:34,960 Or are we going to conduct the rest of this conversation 1376 01:40:34,960 --> 01:40:37,360 entirely in Braille? 1377 01:40:37,360 --> 01:40:40,480 Beware the wrath of a patient man. Who said that? 1378 01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:43,760 Confucius, I think. 1379 01:40:46,360 --> 01:40:48,560 On one of his better days. 1380 01:40:48,560 --> 01:40:52,040 Well, if you're going to get all profound on me, 1381 01:40:52,040 --> 01:40:55,280 perhaps you could throw in Ol' Man River as a bonus. 1382 01:40:55,280 --> 01:40:57,680 How was Bavaria? 1383 01:40:57,680 --> 01:40:59,720 Bavarian. 1384 01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:01,880 Did your companion stay long? 1385 01:41:01,880 --> 01:41:03,880 Long enough. 1386 01:41:03,880 --> 01:41:06,200 And what did you do, Stephen? 1387 01:41:06,200 --> 01:41:08,880 Apart from cough? 1388 01:41:08,880 --> 01:41:10,440 I? 1389 01:41:10,440 --> 01:41:13,160 Ooh, what's the phrase? 1390 01:41:13,160 --> 01:41:16,120 I lived life to the full. 1391 01:41:16,120 --> 01:41:18,480 All three of you? Yes. 1392 01:41:18,480 --> 01:41:20,840 It's called troilism, I believe. 1393 01:41:20,840 --> 01:41:22,840 Or an orgy. Yes. 1394 01:41:22,840 --> 01:41:25,000 That's probably more accurate. 1395 01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:27,560 But I won't go into detail. 1396 01:41:27,560 --> 01:41:30,520 You know how discreet I am in these matters. 1397 01:41:33,200 --> 01:41:36,880 My spies tell me you've been seeing a lot of Hester Gatty. 1398 01:41:38,280 --> 01:41:41,160 Hester Gatty's been seeing a lot of me. 1399 01:41:41,160 --> 01:41:42,880 I'm beginning to see the light. 1400 01:41:44,320 --> 01:41:47,640 A new, secretive you. 1401 01:41:47,640 --> 01:41:50,760 Surely you're not jealous? Of course not. 1402 01:41:52,040 --> 01:41:54,040 Now we can all be girls together. 1403 01:41:55,240 --> 01:41:56,600 Like Roedean. 1404 01:42:00,440 --> 01:42:02,280 Have you slept with her? 1405 01:42:02,280 --> 01:42:03,800 No. 1406 01:42:03,800 --> 01:42:07,000 Our relationship is as deep as it is decorous. 1407 01:42:08,880 --> 01:42:11,920 I've even bought myself some passion-killing pyjamas. 1408 01:42:11,920 --> 01:42:14,840 Are you going to marry her? Yes, I think I probably shall. 1409 01:42:14,840 --> 01:42:16,960 You'll make a vile partner, Siggy. 1410 01:42:16,960 --> 01:42:20,080 Perhaps, but then I have been taught by a master. 1411 01:42:20,080 --> 01:42:22,480 You'll be taking a great risk. 1412 01:42:22,480 --> 01:42:24,720 I'll be taking the same risk I took with you. 1413 01:42:24,720 --> 01:42:26,960 Couldn't be much worse. May even be better. 1414 01:42:26,960 --> 01:42:30,720 I can see years ahead for both of you 1415 01:42:30,720 --> 01:42:33,520 filled with passionless silences 1416 01:42:33,520 --> 01:42:36,720 and compulsory cocoa at bedtime. 1417 01:42:37,800 --> 01:42:40,360 Oh, by the way, 1418 01:42:40,360 --> 01:42:42,320 as we intend to be living in the country, 1419 01:42:42,320 --> 01:42:44,400 I'll be giving up the lease on this flat. 1420 01:42:45,600 --> 01:42:48,080 I didn't want to leave you in the dark unnecessarily. 1421 01:42:48,080 --> 01:42:52,400 But once we've found a house, you'll have to move out. 1422 01:42:52,400 --> 01:42:54,200 That sounds almost like a threat. 1423 01:42:54,200 --> 01:42:55,720 It almost is. 1424 01:42:55,720 --> 01:42:57,840 So you're going to throw baby's little body 1425 01:42:57,840 --> 01:43:00,360 out into the cold, cold snow? 1426 01:43:00,360 --> 01:43:02,240 No, not immediately, no. 1427 01:43:03,880 --> 01:43:05,440 We'll wait for warmer weather. 1428 01:43:07,880 --> 01:43:09,720 RADIO IN BACKGROUND 1429 01:43:09,720 --> 01:43:15,200 ..and a housemaster from the time that I could remember, so I... 1430 01:43:15,200 --> 01:43:17,480 HESTER: Can I get you anything before I leave? 1431 01:43:17,480 --> 01:43:18,920 No. 1432 01:43:18,920 --> 01:43:23,720 And then during the war, his school was evacuated to Derbyshire, 1433 01:43:23,720 --> 01:43:25,960 to another school, which was... 1434 01:43:25,960 --> 01:43:27,920 I'll write once I get to Scotland. 1435 01:43:27,920 --> 01:43:32,280 ..a school that's not much more like home. But I... 1436 01:43:32,280 --> 01:43:34,240 I said I'll write once... I heard you. 1437 01:43:34,240 --> 01:43:36,040 I'm trying to listen to the radio. 1438 01:43:36,040 --> 01:43:40,320 ..I either walked where there were some terrifying dogs, 1439 01:43:40,320 --> 01:43:42,320 or my mother... Shall I phone? 1440 01:43:42,320 --> 01:43:44,080 No! 1441 01:43:44,080 --> 01:43:46,080 RADIO CONTINUES 1442 01:43:49,160 --> 01:43:51,200 FOOTSTEPS ON STAIRS 1443 01:43:55,280 --> 01:43:56,880 What time's your train, Mother? 1444 01:43:56,880 --> 01:43:58,600 Not for an hour. 1445 01:43:58,600 --> 01:44:00,960 We've got plenty of time to get to the station. 1446 01:44:07,160 --> 01:44:09,000 I'll come back for you later. 1447 01:44:13,160 --> 01:44:15,040 RADIO CONTINUES 1448 01:44:15,040 --> 01:44:17,760 DOOR CLOSES ROBERT: Remember, marry in haste, 1449 01:44:17,760 --> 01:44:19,560 repent at leisure. 1450 01:44:19,560 --> 01:44:22,040 I was shocked when you got married, 1451 01:44:22,040 --> 01:44:24,280 and for exactly the same reason. 1452 01:44:24,280 --> 01:44:26,480 Well, now it's my turn to be shocked. 1453 01:44:30,040 --> 01:44:31,400 HE EXHALES 1454 01:44:34,040 --> 01:44:36,520 Given you all a bit of a surprise, haven't I? 1455 01:44:37,600 --> 01:44:39,240 HE SMACKS HIS LIPS 1456 01:44:39,240 --> 01:44:42,360 Who's officiating? Er, Canon Gay. 1457 01:44:42,360 --> 01:44:44,960 Ah. 1458 01:44:42,360 --> 01:44:44,960 QUIET LAUGHTER 1459 01:44:47,920 --> 01:44:51,000 Oh, I'm sorry, Lawrence, have you met Glen Byam Shaw? 1460 01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:52,880 Glen, this is TE Lawrence. 1461 01:44:54,400 --> 01:44:57,080 Of Arabia? CHUCKLES: Not recently. 1462 01:44:59,240 --> 01:45:01,360 Are you sure you know what you're doing? 1463 01:45:03,400 --> 01:45:05,480 I think so. 1464 01:45:05,480 --> 01:45:08,160 In the end, we few, 1465 01:45:08,160 --> 01:45:11,280 we happy few are always exogamous. 1466 01:45:11,280 --> 01:45:13,440 Christ, what does that mean? 1467 01:45:13,440 --> 01:45:15,960 To marry outside of one's tribe or group. 1468 01:45:15,960 --> 01:45:19,520 Do you specialise in using words no-one understands? Yes. 1469 01:45:19,520 --> 01:45:22,880 It's my revenge on people who don't know what exogamous means. 1470 01:45:28,480 --> 01:45:30,600 Have you chosen any music? 1471 01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:32,400 No. 1472 01:45:32,400 --> 01:45:34,520 Oh, I'm disappointed. 1473 01:45:34,520 --> 01:45:37,120 I thought we'd get something English and dismal. 1474 01:45:49,920 --> 01:45:52,000 What are you doing here? 1475 01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:53,760 Hester invited me. 1476 01:46:02,200 --> 01:46:03,720 I'm her maid of honour. 1477 01:46:05,320 --> 01:46:08,040 The vows that you are about to take 1478 01:46:08,040 --> 01:46:10,560 are to be made in the presence of God, 1479 01:46:10,560 --> 01:46:12,560 who is the judge of all 1480 01:46:12,560 --> 01:46:16,320 and knows all the secrets of our hearts. 1481 01:46:16,320 --> 01:46:19,960 Therefore, if either of you know any reason 1482 01:46:19,960 --> 01:46:22,520 why you may not lawfully marry, 1483 01:46:22,520 --> 01:46:25,200 you must declare it now. 1484 01:46:26,760 --> 01:46:28,960 WEDDING BELLS PEAL 1485 01:46:28,960 --> 01:46:30,640 CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS 1486 01:46:34,160 --> 01:46:37,360 BABY GURGLES 1487 01:46:53,960 --> 01:46:55,400 How are you? 1488 01:46:57,640 --> 01:46:59,200 Just very tired. 1489 01:47:02,800 --> 01:47:04,400 Is there anything I can get you? 1490 01:47:20,320 --> 01:47:22,280 Have you thought of a name? 1491 01:47:23,360 --> 01:47:24,520 No. 1492 01:47:28,600 --> 01:47:30,960 I thought we might call him George. 1493 01:47:33,080 --> 01:47:34,200 Yes. 1494 01:47:40,720 --> 01:47:42,600 My whole future depends on him. 1495 01:47:45,760 --> 01:47:47,360 You once said that about me. 1496 01:47:55,760 --> 01:47:57,320 Do you want to hold him? 1497 01:47:59,040 --> 01:48:01,920 MUSIC ON RADIO: # With homes that are rented 1498 01:48:01,920 --> 01:48:05,920 # So I have invented my own 1499 01:48:05,920 --> 01:48:10,040 # Darling, this place is a lover's oasis 1500 01:48:10,040 --> 01:48:13,960 # Where life's weary chase is unknown... # 1501 01:48:13,960 --> 01:48:15,600 I'm very happy. 1502 01:48:16,960 --> 01:48:18,880 And this is the reason. 1503 01:48:18,880 --> 01:48:20,840 APPLAUSE 1504 01:48:22,680 --> 01:48:24,640 # Cosy to hide in 1505 01:48:24,640 --> 01:48:26,560 # To live side by side in 1506 01:48:26,560 --> 01:48:30,520 # Don't let it abide in my dream 1507 01:48:32,360 --> 01:48:36,520 # Picture me upon your knee 1508 01:48:36,520 --> 01:48:40,600 # Just tea for two and two for tea 1509 01:48:40,600 --> 01:48:44,480 # Just me for you and you for me 1510 01:48:44,480 --> 01:48:48,280 # Alone 1511 01:48:48,280 --> 01:48:52,720 # Nobody near us to see us or hear us 1512 01:48:52,720 --> 01:48:56,600 # No friends or relations on weekend vacations 1513 01:48:56,600 --> 01:48:58,440 # We won't have it known, dear 1514 01:48:58,440 --> 01:49:03,960 # That we own a telephone, dear 1515 01:49:03,960 --> 01:49:08,120 # Day will break and I'll awake 1516 01:49:08,120 --> 01:49:12,080 # And start to bake a sugar cake 1517 01:49:12,080 --> 01:49:19,960 # For you to take for all the boys to see 1518 01:49:19,960 --> 01:49:23,960 # We will raise a family 1519 01:49:23,960 --> 01:49:28,000 # A boy for you, a girl for me 1520 01:49:28,000 --> 01:49:30,280 # Oh, can't you see 1521 01:49:30,280 --> 01:49:37,600 # How happy we would be? # 1522 01:49:40,600 --> 01:49:43,520 YOUNGER SIEGFRIED: How beautifully blue the sky. 1523 01:49:43,520 --> 01:49:46,040 The glass is rising very high. 1524 01:49:47,040 --> 01:49:50,320 Continue fine I hope it may, 1525 01:49:50,320 --> 01:49:53,160 and yet it rained but yesterday. 1526 01:49:53,160 --> 01:49:56,080 Tomorrow, it may pour again. 1527 01:49:53,160 --> 01:49:56,080 RAINFALL 1528 01:49:56,080 --> 01:49:58,520 I hear the country needs some rain. 1529 01:50:00,320 --> 01:50:02,320 OLDER SIEGFRIED: I stood with the dead. 1530 01:50:03,840 --> 01:50:05,760 YOUNGER SIEGFRIED: Come down from Heaven 1531 01:50:05,760 --> 01:50:07,400 to meet me when my breath 1532 01:50:07,400 --> 01:50:10,880 Chokes, and through drumming shafts of stifling death 1533 01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:15,240 I stumble towards escape, to find the door 1534 01:50:15,240 --> 01:50:18,560 Opening on morn where I may breathe once more 1535 01:50:18,560 --> 01:50:22,120 Clear cock-crow airs across some valley dim 1536 01:50:22,120 --> 01:50:26,320 With whispering trees. While dawn along the rim 1537 01:50:26,320 --> 01:50:29,560 Of night's horizon flows in lakes of fire, 1538 01:50:29,560 --> 01:50:33,480 Come down from Heaven's bright hill, my song's desire. 1539 01:50:34,920 --> 01:50:38,040 Belov'd and faithful, teach my soul to wake 1540 01:50:38,040 --> 01:50:41,960 In glades deep-ranked with flowers that gleam and shake 1541 01:50:41,960 --> 01:50:46,440 And flock your paths with wonder. In your gaze 1542 01:50:46,440 --> 01:50:50,040 Show me the vanquished vigil of my days. 1543 01:50:50,040 --> 01:50:54,280 Mute in that golden silence hung with green, 1544 01:50:54,280 --> 01:50:57,680 Come down from Heaven and bring me in your eyes 1545 01:50:57,680 --> 01:51:00,400 Remembrance of all beauty that has been, 1546 01:51:00,400 --> 01:51:03,480 And stillness from the pools of Paradise. 1547 01:51:03,480 --> 01:51:06,080 RAINFALL 1548 01:51:08,080 --> 01:51:11,320 OLDER SIEGFRIED: Rising, rising, 1549 01:51:11,320 --> 01:51:13,560 the voices of the muffled dead. 1550 01:51:21,160 --> 01:51:22,720 SPOON CLANKS 1551 01:51:22,720 --> 01:51:24,480 Are you going to keep this silence up 1552 01:51:24,480 --> 01:51:25,760 for the rest of the day? 1553 01:51:32,680 --> 01:51:35,600 Look, I brought you down to London because I was worried about you! 1554 01:51:35,600 --> 01:51:37,960 I'm fine. No, you're not! 1555 01:51:37,960 --> 01:51:40,560 There was no food in the house! No heating! 1556 01:51:40,560 --> 01:51:42,360 And you were sitting there in the dark 1557 01:51:42,360 --> 01:51:44,760 like a Protestant bishop! I can manage! 1558 01:51:44,760 --> 01:51:46,280 No, you can't! 1559 01:51:53,000 --> 01:51:56,440 Look, if you're going to sulk, I'm going upstairs. 1560 01:52:02,880 --> 01:52:05,280 POP MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO 1561 01:52:06,320 --> 01:52:08,160 Turn that rubbish off! 1562 01:52:08,160 --> 01:52:11,040 I'll do as I like! It's my house! 1563 01:52:11,040 --> 01:52:13,360 It's my music! That isn't music! 1564 01:52:13,360 --> 01:52:15,360 It's commercially grotesque noise 1565 01:52:15,360 --> 01:52:19,040 made by stupid people for stupid people! 1566 01:52:19,040 --> 01:52:21,040 Oh, don't be so bigoted! 1567 01:52:21,040 --> 01:52:23,640 MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING 1568 01:52:32,960 --> 01:52:35,480 INDISTINCT CONVERSATION 1569 01:52:44,000 --> 01:52:48,360 REPORTER: The official numbers of those killed in the First World War. 1570 01:52:48,360 --> 01:52:51,080 The United Kingdom and its colonies: 1571 01:52:51,080 --> 01:52:57,040 1,225,914. 1572 01:52:57,040 --> 01:53:04,040 France: 1,697,798. 1573 01:53:04,040 --> 01:53:11,400 Germany: 2,476,897. 1574 01:53:11,400 --> 01:53:18,400 Austria-Hungary: 1,567,202. 1575 01:53:18,400 --> 01:53:24,560 Russia: 3,311,251. 1576 01:53:24,560 --> 01:53:26,480 REPORT FADES OUT 1577 01:53:29,800 --> 01:53:33,000 OLDER SIEGFRIED: These are the statistics of catastrophe. 1578 01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:38,720 Yet from prime to compline, life goes slowly on. 1579 01:53:57,600 --> 01:53:59,720 Are you thinking great thoughts? 1580 01:53:59,720 --> 01:54:01,080 No. 1581 01:54:02,800 --> 01:54:04,440 Just sitting here being petty. 1582 01:54:06,880 --> 01:54:09,400 Trying to understand the... 1583 01:54:09,400 --> 01:54:11,320 ..the enigma of other people. 1584 01:54:18,200 --> 01:54:19,720 So many have died. 1585 01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:25,920 Too many. 1586 01:54:31,520 --> 01:54:33,640 Most people live for the moment. 1587 01:54:33,640 --> 01:54:35,240 You live for eternity. 1588 01:54:35,240 --> 01:54:38,240 Don't say that. Why not? Because I'm afraid I might believe it. 1589 01:54:42,280 --> 01:54:44,560 HE SNIFFS 1590 01:54:49,160 --> 01:54:51,600 I would have liked to have been recognised, though. 1591 01:54:53,040 --> 01:54:56,080 In some significant way, for my work. 1592 01:54:59,320 --> 01:55:04,400 Eliot got the Order of Merit, and the Nobel Prize. 1593 01:55:06,600 --> 01:55:09,400 I've had to make do with the Queen's Award for Poetry. 1594 01:55:14,600 --> 01:55:19,040 But Sir Siegfried Sassoon - it would have been nice. 1595 01:55:20,320 --> 01:55:23,280 Despite all the sibilants. Oh, Father. 1596 01:55:25,840 --> 01:55:29,760 How can you be seduced by all that Ruritanian nonsense? 1597 01:55:31,520 --> 01:55:34,560 The greatest argument against damehoods and knighthoods is... 1598 01:55:35,840 --> 01:55:38,240 ..just look at the people who've got them. 1599 01:55:43,840 --> 01:55:45,720 Why do you hate the modern world, Father? 1600 01:55:45,720 --> 01:55:47,640 Because it's younger than I am. 1601 01:55:48,840 --> 01:55:51,440 Well, you've got to bathe and change. 1602 01:55:52,640 --> 01:55:54,760 We're going to the theatre, remember? 1603 01:55:54,760 --> 01:55:56,280 Do I have to? 1604 01:55:56,280 --> 01:55:58,240 Yes. You promised. 1605 01:55:59,440 --> 01:56:02,520 Besides, it's a witty and elegant score. 1606 01:56:02,520 --> 01:56:04,520 Even you might enjoy it. 1607 01:56:10,200 --> 01:56:11,680 I'm sorry I shouted. 1608 01:56:13,000 --> 01:56:14,560 It's... So am I. 1609 01:56:20,320 --> 01:56:21,840 Peace? 1610 01:56:24,440 --> 01:56:25,720 Peace. 1611 01:56:30,160 --> 01:56:32,720 UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS 1612 01:56:32,720 --> 01:56:35,560 # My mother said I never should 1613 01:56:35,560 --> 01:56:38,240 # Play with the young men in the wood 1614 01:56:38,240 --> 01:56:40,840 # If I did, she would say 1615 01:56:40,840 --> 01:56:44,280 # "Naughty little girl to disobey" 1616 01:56:47,640 --> 01:56:52,760 # I'm a typically English rosebud born of typically English stock 1617 01:56:52,760 --> 01:56:57,680 # With a typically Anglo-Saxon family tree 1618 01:56:57,680 --> 01:57:02,760 # I received my education from a typically English way 1619 01:57:02,760 --> 01:57:07,240 # In a typically English girl's academy 1620 01:57:10,160 --> 01:57:12,640 # I play typically English tennis 1621 01:57:12,640 --> 01:57:15,240 # At a typically English club 1622 01:57:15,240 --> 01:57:20,160 # With my typically English feelings for fair play 1623 01:57:20,160 --> 01:57:22,640 # I eat typically English crumpets... # 1624 01:57:22,640 --> 01:57:24,280 MUSIC STOPS AUDIENCE CHUCKLES 1625 01:57:24,280 --> 01:57:26,480 # ..with my typically English tea 1626 01:57:26,480 --> 01:57:31,200 # At the end of every typically English day 1627 01:57:32,200 --> 01:57:36,960 # Father is a typically English colonel 1628 01:57:36,960 --> 01:57:41,040 # Home is a typically English county town 1629 01:57:42,080 --> 01:57:46,080 # Mummy and I play typically English Patience 1630 01:57:46,080 --> 01:57:50,520 # As the typically English rain is pouring down 1631 01:57:51,600 --> 01:57:54,000 # With a typically English spaniel 1632 01:57:54,000 --> 01:57:56,560 # Who likes typically English walks 1633 01:57:56,560 --> 01:58:00,560 # Past those typically English trees upon the heath 1634 01:58:01,920 --> 01:58:06,640 # And if anyone asked me how I like this typically English life 1635 01:58:06,640 --> 01:58:11,320 # I am fed up to my typically English tea! # 1636 01:58:11,320 --> 01:58:13,440 LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE 1637 01:58:13,440 --> 01:58:15,320 INDISTINCT CHATTER 1638 01:58:30,160 --> 01:58:31,800 Shall we take a cab? 1639 01:58:37,000 --> 01:58:38,480 No, I'll walk home. 1640 01:58:42,120 --> 01:58:43,800 Are you sure? 1641 01:58:43,800 --> 01:58:46,600 It's...getting very chilly. 1642 01:58:52,800 --> 01:58:54,400 I'd rather walk. 1643 02:00:07,680 --> 02:00:10,400 WILFRED: Perhaps my latest effort will please you. 1644 02:00:10,400 --> 02:00:12,600 It's called Disabled. 1645 02:00:18,880 --> 02:00:20,960 I'll come and get you. Thank you. 1646 02:00:23,480 --> 02:00:26,120 YOUNGER SIEGFRIED: He sat in a wheeled chair, 1647 02:00:26,120 --> 02:00:27,560 waiting for dark, 1648 02:00:27,560 --> 02:00:30,120 And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, 1649 02:00:30,120 --> 02:00:33,560 Legless, sewn short at elbow. 1650 02:00:35,200 --> 02:00:39,400 Through the park, voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn, 1651 02:00:39,400 --> 02:00:42,280 Voices of play and pleasure after day, 1652 02:00:42,280 --> 02:00:46,080 Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him. 1653 02:00:46,080 --> 02:00:50,000 About this time Town used to swing so gay 1654 02:00:50,000 --> 02:00:52,440 When glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees, 1655 02:00:52,440 --> 02:00:56,760 And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim, 1656 02:00:56,760 --> 02:01:02,000 In the old times, before he threw away his knees. 1657 02:01:03,560 --> 02:01:06,160 Now he will never feel again how slim 1658 02:01:06,160 --> 02:01:10,440 Girls' waists are, or how warm their subtle hands. 1659 02:01:10,440 --> 02:01:14,520 All of them touch him like some queer disease. 1660 02:01:16,040 --> 02:01:19,080 There was an artist silly for his face, 1661 02:01:19,080 --> 02:01:22,000 For it was younger than his youth, last year. 1662 02:01:23,640 --> 02:01:28,040 Now, he is old; his back will never brace; 1663 02:01:28,040 --> 02:01:31,280 He's lost his colour very far from here, 1664 02:01:31,280 --> 02:01:34,720 Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry, 1665 02:01:34,720 --> 02:01:37,720 And half his lifetime lapsed in the hot race, 1666 02:01:37,720 --> 02:01:39,880 And leap of purple spurted from his thigh. 1667 02:01:41,400 --> 02:01:44,240 One time he liked a bloodsmear down his leg, 1668 02:01:44,240 --> 02:01:48,040 After the matches carried shoulder-high. 1669 02:01:48,040 --> 02:01:50,560 It was after football, when he'd drunk a peg, 1670 02:01:50,560 --> 02:01:53,840 He thought he'd better join. He wonders why... 1671 02:01:55,120 --> 02:01:58,160 Someone had said he'd looked a god in kilts. 1672 02:01:58,160 --> 02:02:02,040 That's why; and maybe, too, to please his Meg, 1673 02:02:02,040 --> 02:02:05,720 Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts, 1674 02:02:05,720 --> 02:02:08,720 He'd asked to join. He didn't have to beg; 1675 02:02:08,720 --> 02:02:13,760 Smiling they wrote his lie; aged nineteen years. 1676 02:02:15,040 --> 02:02:18,280 Germans he scarcely thought of, all their guilt, 1677 02:02:18,280 --> 02:02:20,360 and Austria's, did not move him. 1678 02:02:21,600 --> 02:02:23,960 And no fears of fear came yet. 1679 02:02:26,080 --> 02:02:27,600 He thought of jewelled hilts 1680 02:02:27,600 --> 02:02:31,240 For daggers in plaid socks; of smart salutes; 1681 02:02:31,240 --> 02:02:36,200 and care of arms; and leave; and pay arrears; 1682 02:02:36,200 --> 02:02:39,680 esprit de corps; and hints for young recruits. 1683 02:02:41,560 --> 02:02:44,760 And soon, he was drafted out with drums and cheers. 1684 02:02:46,320 --> 02:02:51,040 Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer Goal. 1685 02:02:52,200 --> 02:02:54,720 Only a solemn man who brought him fruits 1686 02:02:54,720 --> 02:02:58,120 Thanked him; and then inquired about his soul. 1687 02:03:00,840 --> 02:03:04,560 Now he will spend a few sick years in Institutes, 1688 02:03:04,560 --> 02:03:07,840 And do what things the rules consider wise, 1689 02:03:07,840 --> 02:03:10,120 And take whatever pity they may dole. 1690 02:03:11,440 --> 02:03:13,360 Tonight he noticed how women's eyes 1691 02:03:13,360 --> 02:03:16,040 Passed from him to the strong men who were whole. 1692 02:03:18,920 --> 02:03:20,480 How cold and late it is! 1693 02:03:22,040 --> 02:03:24,480 Why don't they come and put him into bed? 1694 02:03:26,600 --> 02:03:28,120 Why don't they come? 1695 02:03:28,120 --> 02:03:30,480 SOMBRE MUSIC PLAYS