The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

688 00:38:59,207 --> 00:39:01,418 - I'll tell her you're here. - There is no need. 689 00:39:01,584 --> 00:39:04,504 [intense music] 690 00:39:34,409 --> 00:39:37,328 When my Penelope passed me just now 691 00:39:37,495 --> 00:39:40,749 her eyes and her lips looked the softer for kissing. 692 00:39:40,915 --> 00:39:43,292 Was I inopportune? 693 00:39:43,459 --> 00:39:45,878 She's just a thoughtless child. 694 00:39:46,044 --> 00:39:49,923 These little children have their ways with each other. 695 00:39:50,090 --> 00:39:53,259 Do we begin already with hints and accusations? 696 00:39:53,426 --> 00:39:54,695 Why, you know perfectly well I... 697 00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:56,637 I only know what! See. 698 00:39:56,804 --> 00:39:58,639 Do you find Penelope charming? 699 00:39:58,806 --> 00:40:00,126 Well, there are other men for me, 700 00:40:00,224 --> 00:40:02,560 besides yourself, to love and be loved. 701 00:40:02,727 --> 00:40:03,935 There's always Egerton 702 00:40:04,102 --> 00:40:06,938 or Sir Walter the handsome, the, uh... 703 00:40:07,105 --> 00:40:08,397 The silver-plated? 704 00:40:08,564 --> 00:40:10,941 Well, he'll wear no more silver at your door. 705 00:40:11,108 --> 00:40:13,736 I knew this silver would draw your fire. 706 00:40:13,903 --> 00:40:15,362 Hm. What did you do? 707 00:40:15,529 --> 00:40:17,156 [laughing] 708 00:40:17,323 --> 00:40:19,283 Come on, tell me. What happened? 709 00:40:19,450 --> 00:40:22,369 Nothing. I think the fashion suddenly became too popular. 710 00:40:22,536 --> 00:40:23,912 He's gone to change his clothes. 711 00:40:24,078 --> 00:40:26,623 [laughing] 712 00:40:26,790 --> 00:40:28,458 He'll wear no more silver at your door. 713 00:40:28,625 --> 00:40:30,960 [laughing] 714 00:40:59,030 --> 00:41:01,032 Isn't it strange how one man's kisses 715 00:41:01,199 --> 00:41:04,494 can grow to be like any other's? 716 00:41:04,661 --> 00:41:07,664 Yes, yes. Or one woman's to be like any other woman's. 717 00:41:07,831 --> 00:41:08,998 Not mine for you. 718 00:41:09,165 --> 00:41:10,917 Nor mine for you, you lying villain. 719 00:41:11,084 --> 00:41:13,169 You devil tongue deceiver, curse you. 720 00:41:13,336 --> 00:41:14,587 Curse you and double curse you. 721 00:41:14,754 --> 00:41:16,881 - You devil of brass. - Silver, darling. 722 00:41:17,048 --> 00:41:18,632 Let me be a devil in silver. 723 00:41:18,799 --> 00:41:19,800 It reminds me of Raleigh. 724 00:41:19,967 --> 00:41:22,176 [laughing] Raleigh? 725 00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:25,159 Must you forever be thinking of him? 726 00:41:25,262 --> 00:41:28,473 [laughs] What else do you expect 727 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,350 when you prefer the ants and the squirrels 728 00:41:30,517 --> 00:41:32,101 of Wanstead to me? 729 00:41:33,853 --> 00:41:34,979 What's today? 730 00:41:36,355 --> 00:41:37,815 Thursday. 731 00:41:37,982 --> 00:41:40,067 Come again when I'm in a better mood. 732 00:41:40,234 --> 00:41:41,734 Next Wednesday, say. 733 00:41:41,901 --> 00:41:44,445 Or any Wednesday later in the summer. 734 00:41:44,612 --> 00:41:45,947 Any summer. 735 00:41:48,950 --> 00:41:50,326 What, you still here? 736 00:41:50,493 --> 00:41:51,494 If I could only walk out 737 00:41:51,661 --> 00:41:52,871 of that door and stay out. 738 00:41:53,037 --> 00:41:54,163 It's not locked. 739 00:41:54,330 --> 00:41:55,599 Ah, if I went, I'd only come back again 740 00:41:55,623 --> 00:41:57,417 like a fool and you know it. 741 00:41:57,584 --> 00:41:59,127 Would you? 742 00:41:59,294 --> 00:42:00,688 Why didn't you write to me when I went before? 743 00:42:00,712 --> 00:42:02,130 Why didn't you return? 744 00:42:02,297 --> 00:42:04,382 Return? You let it be known you'd not admit me. 745 00:42:04,549 --> 00:42:06,885 I may have meant it at the time. 746 00:42:07,051 --> 00:42:09,512 If ever a man was possessed of a wicked devil, you're mine. 747 00:42:09,679 --> 00:42:11,055 Why I don't knock your head off... 748 00:42:11,222 --> 00:42:13,022 And if ever a mocking devil tortured a woman, 749 00:42:13,182 --> 00:42:14,766 you're my devil and torture me! 750 00:42:18,519 --> 00:42:21,104 For pity's sake, let us part now and quickly, 751 00:42:21,271 --> 00:42:22,272 or it will grow worse. 752 00:42:22,439 --> 00:42:24,274 - Go, please! - I'll not go! 753 00:42:26,359 --> 00:42:29,279 [instrumental music] 754 00:42:30,822 --> 00:42:32,406 Darling. 755 00:42:32,573 --> 00:42:33,949 Come here. 756 00:42:38,495 --> 00:42:40,623 Robert. 757 00:42:40,789 --> 00:42:43,626 Robert, let us be kind for a moment. 758 00:42:43,792 --> 00:42:46,629 No, I'll be kind. You needn't be. 759 00:42:46,795 --> 00:42:49,715 You're young and strangely sweet. 760 00:42:49,882 --> 00:42:53,635 And my heart cries out to you wherever you are. 761 00:42:53