The French Lieutenant's Woman

385 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,994 A very strange case, as I understand it. 386 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,871 - Her name is Woodruff. - Ah, yes. Poor "Tragedy". 387 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:31,113 We know more about your fossils on the beach than we do about that girl's mind. 388 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:37,392 A German doctor called Hartmann has divided melancholia into various types. 389 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:42,118 One he calls "natural", by which he means that one is born with a... 390 00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:44,196 ...a sad temperament. 391 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,515 Another he calls "occasional"... 392 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,950 ...by which he means springing from an occasion. 393 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,559 And the third class he calls "obscure melancholia"... 394 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:59,390 ...by which he really means, poor man, he doesn't know what the devil caused it. 395 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,316 - But she had an occasion, did she not? - Oh, come now. 396 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,591 Is she the first young woman to be jilted? No, no. 397 00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:12,235 She belongs to the third class: Obscure melancholia. 398 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,117 Listen to me. 399 00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:18,198 I'll tell you, in the strictest confidence. 400 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,957 I was called in to see her, oh, ten months ago. 401 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,751 She was working as a seamstress, living by herself... 402 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:31,829 Well, hardly living. Weeping without reason, unable to sleep, unable to talk. 403 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,113 Melancholia as plain as the pox. 404 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:38,473 I could see there was only one cure. 405 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,430 To get her away from this place. But no, she wouldn't have it. 406 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,799 She goes to a house that she knows is a living misery... 407 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,310 ...to a mistress that sees no difference between a servant and a slave. 408 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,592 - And she will not be moved. - But it's... incomprehensible. 409 00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:58,474 Not at all. Hartmann has something very interesting to say... 410 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:00,955 ...about one of his patients. 411 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:07,873 "It was as if her torture had become her delight. " 412 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,751 And she has confided the true state of her mind to no one? 413 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,952 - She has not. - But if she did? 414 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,116 I mean, if she could bring herself... to speak? 415 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,715 She would be cured. 416 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,515 But she does not want to be cured. 417 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,272 I was working... as a governess. 418 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,430 At the Talbots'. 419 00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:56,151 His name was Varguennes. 420 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,629 He was brought to the house after the wreck of his ship. 421 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:09,637 He had a dreadful wound. His flesh was torn from his hip to his knee. 422 00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:13,915 He was in great pain... 423 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,716 ...yet he never cried out. 424 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,035 Not the smallest groan. 425 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,036 I admired his courage. 426 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,550 I looked after him. 427 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:37,515 I did not know then that men can be both very brave and very false. 428 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,910 He was handsome. 429 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,234 No man had ever paid me the kind of attentions he did as he was... 430 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,990 ...recovering. 431 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,269 He told me I was beautiful... 432 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,074 ...and that he could not understand why I was not married. 433 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,990 Such things. 434 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,150 He would mock me... 435 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,236 ...lightly. 436 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,670 I took pleasure in it. 437 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,354 When I would not let him kiss my hand... 438 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,315 ...he called me cruel. 439 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,558 A day came when I thought myself cruel as well. 440 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:46,039 And you were no longer... cruel? 441 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,350 Varguennes recovered. 442 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,311 He left for Weymouth. 443 00:40:55,440 --> 00:41:00,434 He said that he would wait there one week and then... sail for France. 444 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,833 I told him that I would never follow him... 445 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,110 ...that I could not. 446 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,350 But, after he had gone... 447 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,114 ...my loneliness was so deep..