My Brilliant Career

- He left early. 333 00:32:08,608 --> 00:32:12,978 I gather your behavior last night, young lady, left a lot to be desired. 334 00:32:13,071 --> 00:32:16,735 - I'd have said Harry enjoyed himself. - That's not what I heard. 335 00:32:16,825 --> 00:32:18,657 Excuse me. 336 00:32:21,746 --> 00:32:23,863 Anyway, Syb solved one problem last night. 337 00:32:23,957 --> 00:32:25,994 - Indeed. - Her future. 338 00:32:26,084 --> 00:32:28,451 She should be an actress. 339 00:32:28,545 --> 00:32:31,913 Are you suggesting my granddaughter should be an actress? 340 00:32:32,006 --> 00:32:34,919 Mmm, she has a talent for it. I could introduce her... 341 00:32:35,009 --> 00:32:36,545 Go on the stage? 342 00:32:36,636 --> 00:32:40,846 I'd rather see her with her hair shorn off and shut up in a convent. 343 00:32:42,016 --> 00:32:44,008 Don't ever mention the subject again. 344 00:33:16,050 --> 00:33:18,838 I enjoyed meself last night. 345 00:33:18,928 --> 00:33:21,636 I thought we got on jolly well together. Didn't you? 346 00:33:23,057 --> 00:33:24,389 Miss Melvyn... 347 00:33:24,476 --> 00:33:26,684 Ah. Sybylla. 348 00:33:27,645 --> 00:33:29,136 I've been thinking. 349 00:33:29,230 --> 00:33:31,142 While looks aren't everything, and, um... 350 00:33:31,232 --> 00:33:33,815 Would you come to the point, Frank? 351 00:33:33,902 --> 00:33:37,191 Well, now that this... this fellow Harry has gone, 352 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:38,883 you should pay some heed to my attentions. 353 00:33:38,907 --> 00:33:41,945 Do you mean your attentions or your intentions? 354 00:33:42,035 --> 00:33:45,119 At the conclusion of the coming year I will be returning to England, 355 00:33:45,205 --> 00:33:47,663 and I expect you to return with me as my wife. 356 00:33:49,542 --> 00:33:51,784 - Well, what do you say? - Oh, let me go. 357 00:33:51,878 --> 00:33:54,291 Not until I have your answer. 358 00:34:10,396 --> 00:34:14,606 Well, there is this in your favor... You don't say you are sorry when you're not. 359 00:34:14,692 --> 00:34:17,776 Why should I pretend about a person like Frank Hawden? 360 00:34:17,862 --> 00:34:21,276 - But you are not prepared to apologize? - What for? 361 00:34:21,366 --> 00:34:24,484 - Your aunt and I thought that you liked him. - Liked him? 362 00:34:24,577 --> 00:34:27,240 He appears to be extremely fond of you. 363 00:34:27,330 --> 00:34:29,322 Now listen to me, Sybylla. 364 00:34:29,415 --> 00:34:32,908 In a few years he'll come into quite a large fortune in England. 365 00:34:33,002 --> 00:34:36,916 He comes of a very good family and will make someone an excellent husband. 366 00:34:37,006 --> 00:34:38,372 Well, it won't be me. 367 00:34:38,466 --> 00:34:41,584 - Oh, do be realistic, child. - Well, I am. 368 00:34:41,678 --> 00:34:43,635 To begin with, I don't love him. 369 00:34:43,721 --> 00:34:46,464 - That is not the point. - Well, it is to me. 370 00:34:47,267 --> 00:34:50,431 Sybylla, do you want to be a burden on your family forever 371 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,354 with no status in decent society or a home of your own? 372 00:34:53,439 --> 00:34:56,022 I will not be married off to someone I detest, 373 00:34:56,109 --> 00:34:58,021 by you or anybody! 374 00:34:59,529 --> 00:35:01,942 At times I fear for you, my girl. 375 00:35:02,031 --> 00:35:06,776 You are rude to your elders and betters and often lack all gentility. 376 00:35:10,290 --> 00:35:11,747 Very well. 377 00:35:14,127 --> 00:35:16,961 Though you may not be prepared to apologize to Frank, 378 00:35:17,046 --> 00:35:19,208 I expect you to apologize to me... 379 00:35:20,133 --> 00:35:23,501 when you have regained your humor 380 00:35:23,595 --> 00:35:25,177 and your manners. 381 00:35:35,356 --> 00:35:38,975 You must learn not to shout at your grandmother, Sybylla. 382 00:35:39,068 --> 00:35:41,151 I didn't mean to. 383 00:35:41,237 --> 00:35:44,230 It just surges up in me when she starts on about marriage. 384 00:35:45,158 --> 00:35:46,820 She just doesn't seem to understand. 385 00:35:46,909 --> 00:35:49,026 Sit down here next to me. 386 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,486 Come on. 387 00:35:54,167 --> 00:35:57,160 Now, believe me, Sybylla, the best kind of marriage... 388 00:35:58,504 --> 00:36:01,838 is not love marriage but friendship marriage. 389 00:36:01,924 --> 00:36:03,756 - Friendship? - Yes. 390 00:36:05,970 --> 00:36:07,177 You see... 391 00:36:08,723 --> 00:36:10,806 your mother married for love. 392 00:36:13,478 --> 00:36:14,810 And... 393 00:36:16,481 --> 00:36:18,063 I too... 394 00:36:19,275 --> 00:36:20,937 married for love. 395 00:36:25,281 --> 00:36:27,273 My husband isn't dead. 396 00:36:28,951 --> 00:36:32,319 He... He left me for someone else. 397 00:36:34,165 --> 00:36:37,579 Left me to live the rest of my