The Importance of Being Earnest

555 00:33:02,313 --> 00:33:04,373 Diminutives are always neuter. 556 00:33:04,482 --> 00:33:06,678 That is, they belong to neither sex, 557 00:33:06,784 --> 00:33:09,811 even when appearances are to the contrary. 558 00:33:09,921 --> 00:33:13,881 As for example, <i>das Fräulein</i>, the young lady, 559 00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:16,223 <i>das Mädchen,</i> the young girl. 560 00:33:17,261 --> 00:33:19,423 Put away your diary, Cecily. 561 00:33:19,530 --> 00:33:22,261 I really don't see why you should keep a diary at all. 562 00:33:23,301 --> 00:33:25,202 I keep a diary... 563 00:33:25,303 --> 00:33:28,831 in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. 564 00:33:29,874 --> 00:33:33,402 If I didn't write them down, I should probably forget all about them. 565 00:33:33,511 --> 00:33:37,915 Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us. 566 00:33:38,016 --> 00:33:41,043 Yes, but it usually chronicles the things that have never happened... 567 00:33:41,152 --> 00:33:43,178 and couldn't possibly have happened. 568 00:33:43,287 --> 00:33:45,654 I believe that memory is responsible... 569 00:33:45,757 --> 00:33:48,522 for nearly all the three-volume novels that the library sends us. 570 00:33:48,626 --> 00:33:51,721 Oh, do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel. 571 00:33:51,829 --> 00:33:55,357 I wrote one myself in earlier days. 572 00:33:55,466 --> 00:33:57,958 Did you really, Miss Prism? 573 00:33:58,069 --> 00:34:00,937 Oh, how wonderfully clever you are! 574 00:34:01,973 --> 00:34:06,069 I hope it did not end happily. I don't like novels that end happily. 575 00:34:07,545 --> 00:34:10,913 The good ended happily and the bad, unhappily. 576 00:34:11,015 --> 00:34:12,984 That is what fiction means. 577 00:34:13,084 --> 00:34:15,747 I suppose so. And was it ever published? 578 00:34:15,853 --> 00:34:20,086 Alas, no. The manuscript unfortunately was abandoned. 579 00:34:20,191 --> 00:34:22,092 - Oh! - Oh, I use the word... 580 00:34:22,193 --> 00:34:25,095 in the sense of lost or mislaid. 581 00:34:25,196 --> 00:34:27,165 Now to your work, child. 582 00:34:27,265 --> 00:34:29,598 These speculations are profitless. 583 00:34:30,635 --> 00:34:33,833 But I see dear Dr. Chasuble coming up through the garden. 584 00:34:33,938 --> 00:34:35,930 Oh, really? 585 00:34:36,107 --> 00:34:40,704 Ah! And--And how are we this morning? 586 00:34:40,812 --> 00:34:43,111 Miss Prism, you are, I trust, well? 587 00:34:43,214 --> 00:34:45,547 Dr. Chasuble, this is indeed a pleasure. 588 00:34:45,650 --> 00:34:48,245 Miss Prism has just been complaining of a slight headache. 589 00:34:48,352 --> 00:34:51,322 - Oh! - I think it would do her so much good... 590 00:34:51,422 --> 00:34:54,290 to go for a short stroll with you in the park, Dr. Chasuble. 591 00:34:54,392 --> 00:34:57,157 Cecily, I have not mentioned anything about a headache. 592 00:34:57,261 --> 00:34:59,162 No, I know that, dear Miss Prism, 593 00:34:59,263 --> 00:35:01,926 but I felt instinctively that you had a headache. 594 00:35:02,033 --> 00:35:03,934 Indeed, I was thinking about that, 595 00:35:04,035 --> 00:35:06,834 and not about my German lesson, when the rector arrived. 596 00:35:06,938 --> 00:35:09,305 I hope, Cecily, you are not inattentive. 597 00:35:09,407 --> 00:35:12,844 - Oh, I'm afraid I am. - That is strange. 598 00:35:12,944 --> 00:35:15,812 Were I fortunate enough to be Miss Prism's pupil, 599 00:35:15,913 --> 00:35:17,814 I would hang upon her lips. 600 00:35:17,915 --> 00:35:20,680 - Oh! - I spoke metaphorically. 601 00:35:20,785 --> 00:35:23,220 My metaphor was drawn from bees. 602 00:35:23,321 --> 00:35:26,780 Mr. Worthing, I suppose, has not returned from town yet. 603 00:35:26,891 --> 00:35:29,156 We do not expect him till Monday afternoon. 604 00:35:29,260 --> 00:35:32,094 Ah, yes, he usually likes to spend his Sunday in London. 605 00:35:32,196 --> 00:35:36,031 He is not one of those whose sole aim is enjoyment, 606 00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:39,502 as, by all accounts, that unfortunate young man, his brother, seems to be. 607 00:35:39,604 --> 00:35:44,099 I must not disturb Egeria and her pupil any longer. 608 00:35:44,208 --> 00:35:47,508 Egeria? My name is Laetitia, Doctor. 609 00:35:47,612 --> 00:35:52,676 Ah! Laetitia, the Latin for "joy." 610 00:35:52,783 --> 00:35:54,684 Yes-- 611 00:35:54,785 --> 00:35:58,779 I shall, uh, I shall see you both, no doubt, at evensong. 612 00:35:58,890 --> 00:36:01,359 I think, dear Doctor, I will have a stroll with you. 613 00:36:01,459 --> 00:36:05,419 I find I have a headache after all, and a stroll might do it good. 614 00:36:05,530 --> 00:36:09,467 Oh, Cecily, you will read your political economy in my absence. 615 00:36:09,567 --> 00:36:12,264 The chapter on the fall of the rupee you may omit. 616 00:36:12,370 --> 00:36:14,339 It is somewhat too sensational. 617 00:36:14,438 --> 00:36:17,966 Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side. 618 00:36:22,947 --> 00