Kind Hearts and Coronets

- I know. 548 00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:13,260 That makes it worse too. 549 00:36:27,220 --> 00:36:29,900 You look more lovely today than I've ever seen you. 550 00:36:33,540 --> 00:36:36,380 You're a lucky man, Lionel. Take my word for it. 551 00:36:41,180 --> 00:36:44,140 <i>I could not help feeling that even Sibella's capacity for lying...</i> 552 00:36:44,260 --> 00:36:46,700 <i>was going to be taxed to the utmost.</i> 553 00:36:46,820 --> 00:36:49,940 <i>Time had brought me revenge on Lionel.</i> 554 00:36:50,060 --> 00:36:51,980 <i>And as the Italian proverb says:</i> 555 00:36:52,100 --> 00:36:56,260 <i>"Revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold."</i> 556 00:36:59,060 --> 00:37:01,780 <i>The following Saturday I left London in the middle of the night...</i> 557 00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:04,260 <i>and reached Henry's house just before dawn.</i> 558 00:37:07,900 --> 00:37:10,380 <i>It took a mere three minutes to substitute petrol...</i> 559 00:37:10,460 --> 00:37:13,380 <i>for the paraffin in the darkroom lamp.</i> 560 00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:16,100 <i>And I then repaired to a meadow and took a few hours'sleep...</i> 561 00:37:16,180 --> 00:37:19,260 <i>while awaiting the hour at which I could reasonably arrive at the house.</i> 562 00:37:21,260 --> 00:37:23,820 <i>The day dragged by in an agony of suspense for me.</i> 563 00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:27,060 <i>Henry took photograph after photograph...</i> 564 00:37:27,180 --> 00:37:30,860 <i>but seemed to have no urge whatever to follow it up with a visit to the darkroom.</i> 565 00:37:33,980 --> 00:37:35,700 Bravo, Edith! 566 00:37:35,820 --> 00:37:38,820 <i>I began to fear that he had suddenly taken the pledge.</i> 567 00:37:40,740 --> 00:37:44,180 I think I'll just go and develop these before tea. Care to come? 568 00:37:44,300 --> 00:37:46,980 I would, indeed, but I have a slight headache - the sun, I think. 569 00:37:47,060 --> 00:37:49,420 And I'm afraid the chemicals wouldn't improve it. 570 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:51,980 Mr. Mazzini and I will have tea under the tulip tree. 571 00:37:52,100 --> 00:37:54,420 I've always found that most beneficial for a headache. 572 00:37:54,540 --> 00:37:56,940 I'm afraid Henry will think me a poor enthusiast. 573 00:37:57,060 --> 00:38:00,220 I sometimes think that he is too great a one. 574 00:38:00,340 --> 00:38:02,220 In a way, I am to blame for it. 575 00:38:02,300 --> 00:38:04,860 Before we were married, he had few interests. 576 00:38:04,980 --> 00:38:06,940 He used to spend the greater part of each day at his club. 577 00:38:08,700 --> 00:38:12,620 <i>I felt that such a life was unhealthy and persuaded him to live here in the country.</i> 578 00:38:13,780 --> 00:38:15,724 I hoped that perhaps he would interest himself 579 00:38:15,725 --> 00:38:17,420 in the welfare of our tenantry, as I do. 580 00:38:17,540 --> 00:38:20,420 <i>But he became interested in photography on our honeymoon...</i> 581 00:38:20,540 --> 00:38:23,900 and since then it has become the major preoccupation of his life. 582 00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:28,140 - Mr. Mazzini. - Yes. 583 00:38:28,260 --> 00:38:30,740 I hope you will forgive my speaking to you on a personal matter... 584 00:38:30,860 --> 00:38:33,780 but it worries me that Henry should spend so much time on his hobby... 585 00:38:33,900 --> 00:38:35,980 that he has little left for any more useful activity. 586 00:38:36,060 --> 00:38:38,780 Am I right to let him go on like this? 587 00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:41,420 <i>I could hardly point out that Henry now had no time left...</i> 588 00:38:41,540 --> 00:38:43,340 <i>for any kind of activity...</i> 589 00:38:43,460 --> 00:38:45,860 <i>so I continued to discuss his future.</i> 590 00:38:45,940 --> 00:38:48,020 He has never shown any wish for a career in politics? 591 00:38:48,140 --> 00:38:51,020 - None. - Nor any other ambitions? 592 00:38:51,140 --> 00:38:54,580 One only - to win a prize at the Salon Photography in Brussels. 593 00:38:55,980 --> 00:38:57,420 What is it? 594 00:38:57,540 --> 00:39:01,100 They're just burning some leaves at the bottom of the garden. 595 00:39:01,220 --> 00:39:03,580 But they can't be at this time of year. 596 00:39:05,940 --> 00:39:08,340 - Henry! - No. You stay here. 597 00:39:08,460 --> 00:39:10,540 <i>Needless to say, I was too late.</i> 598 00:39:12,340 --> 00:39:15,180 <i>The funeral service was held in the village church at Chalfont...</i> 599 00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:17,300 <i>prior to interment in the family vault.</i> 600 00:39:19,340 --> 00:39:21,940 <i>Mrs. D'Ascoyne, who had discerned in me...</i> 601 00:39:22,060 --> 00:39:24,900 <i>a man of delicate sensibility and high purpose...</i> 602 00:39:24,980 --> 00:39:27,860 <i>asked me to accompany her on the cross-country journey.</i>