"Subtitles by Seglora" "Miss Lamont,the principal's compliments would you kindly rejoin the trustees in the senior common room" "Thank you" "Would you please sit down" "We are pleased to inform you,Miss Lamont that we are able to offer you the position of Vice Principal to this college" "But surely" "Yes" "I'm afraid that there must be a some misunderstanding the position that I applied for was that of Principal" "There is no misunderstanding" "Certainly I intend to retire shortly as principal and there is no doubt,that you are academically qualified to succeed me" "but I am most concerned that my successor here should follow me in spirit as well as in the title" "and these qualifications are more difficult to assess" "My fellow trustees therefore have suggested that you might consent to accompany me on a visit I am making next week to Paris" "In that way we would become better acquainted and I should then be in a position to advise you on all the acceptability of the full job" "I see" "Yes,I see" "Very well" "I am going to sight the hunting lodge of Louis X111 it was decided to build a magnificent couch" "Versailles has been called the greatest palace of France" "It's too hot to listen to all that" "Oh,dear,dear" "Oh,dear,oh dear" "We can read it back at the hotel" "The garden is delightful but if it is too hot in the palace,perhaps the shade of trees might be more agreeable" "Shade" "There is a lovely breeze" "It should be cooler there" "Yes,yes" "If you wish me to go that way to the Trianon" "To the what?" "There are two Trianons,the smaller one was Marie Antoinette's private chattel" "I really must sit down" "Let us hire a coach" "What?" "There" "The drive should be most pleasant" "Yes" "Merci,Monsieur" "Miss Lamont,did you say there were two Trianons?" "Yes indeed and the little one is said to be quite charming" "Thank you" "Where is it?" "Perhaps over there by the trees" "Through that gate?" "Yes,I think so" "I see no reasons why the number of students we admit should not increase to 80" "Within two years 80?" "Does the college has sufficient accommodation?" "Certainly" "Certainly we do" "A present complement of,what, 60, no 61,hardly strains our resources" "And you will recall that the plans for the new hall of residence are well advanced,within two years the college will be positively palatial.." "Madame Madame" "Je suis garde à vue" "je viendrai" "Je viendrais" "Mesdames,ils ne faut pas passer par la" "Par ici cherchez la maison,la la" "Shall we try this way?" "It must lead to petite Trianon" "Excusez moi,Monsieur bien la route a petite Trianon?" "Tout droit,tout droit" "What did he say?" "This way" "Madame s'il vous plait,c'est defendu passer par ici,passez pour el cour de nord" "Miss Morison,Miss Morison" "Who do you suppose they were?" "Those people" "At petite Trianon?" "Yes" "I thought perhaps it should be a fancy dress parade or tableaux vivants" "But the impression,strange" "Changes of atmosphere,the sense of evil" "Heat" "No,there was a chevy clothing" "Perhaps they were rehearsing a play" "I'll post your letters for you, Miss Morison,when you finish it" "Shall I order you some tea?" "And you saw the cottage" "The woman holding the jug" "And the young girl with her arm extended" "Yes" "Now,why did they not move" "Evil looking member by the temple" "And the woman sketching" "What woman?" "By the steps of the petite Trianon" "I saw no one there" "She was in full dress" "She was wearing full 18th century dress,sketching" "She held out a work to look" "Like that" "And then she turned and locked it up" "Miss Lamont,we passed right by her" "We could have touched her,she was as close to us as you are to me now" "Oh,yes , of course" "Thank you" "What I remember most was the music" "Yes,the brass band" "No,this was quite different,it was wood wind band,most curious" "I think we should write separate accounts of our experience this afternoon,just as we remember it" "Surely it is enough to discuss" "That is the one thing we must not.." "No," "Might be of some scientific interest" "Very well,Miss Morison" "No,no,cold milk" "Tell him I want cold milk in my tea" "Madame voulez du lait frais en sens tea,s'il vous plait" "Et du lait frois" "Du lait,toutes de suite,Madame" "I asked for cold milk in my tea every morning in this wretched hotel" "He said he would bring it immediately" "I understood that" "You don't mention my sketching woman" "I did not see her" "Last night you agreed" "I was wrong to agree" "But surely it is of importance that we saw different things" "I,for instance,saw the plough, which you did not" "Look,I find this" "Particular interest" "Our route,aren't which are sketched maps,do agree does not appear in Baedeker" "What?" "Our paths do not appear in the printed version at all,look,quite different" "Perhaps" "Baedeker is out of date,if we were mistaken" "What other reason could that be?" "I've no idea" "Thank you" "As far as I.." "I do not think that we should not pursue this any further to the end" "Why not?" "I feel that it is a case of confused evidence probably due to the heat" "Any other explanation could be thought unchristian" "May I remind you that you are addressing the daughter of the Bishop of Romsey" "What on earth can you mean?" "But I think what I'm trying to say is that psychic or paranormal" "Miss Lamont we are in the sacred trust to uphold the highest intellectual standards of our university" "I do not expect the romances of nature teetering before me" "Nevertheless I think we will make further investigations,yes, you will return to Versailles and make quite certain that there is no recurrence taken" "But surely" "I must return to Oxford, and the Senior Common Room" "You will telegraph if you find anything further interesting" "Lady Rose Taylor was fined 1 and six pence for failing to wear a hat whilst bicycling on Beaumont Street" "Miss Walker following,five shillings for using inappropriate language to a fellow student at the breakfast table" "This catalogue of infamies took place in the final week of last term?" "Yes,Miss" "Oxford must regard us as the bevy of harpies" "May I remind those responsible for discipline once again that whilst our petitions joining the university prop been considered we shall be subject to the most rigorous scrutiny" "There are those seeking any excuse to reject it" "Do you really think so?" "I'm afraid that is the case" "In general the atmosphere of congregation is markedly unsympathetic" "I myself" "Of course if that should happen" "I would consider" "Stay in office until we are accepted by the university" "I must report that Miss Lamont seems to be an excellent female" "And worthy to follow me as Principal of St Gilbert" "I'm sure we are most grateful to Mr Dodgson for bringing her availability to our attention" "We shouldn't otherwise have known of her existence" "Thank you,Mr Dodgson" "Principal,we haven't discussed the period of overlap" "What?" "About handing over the office" "Too soon to discuss all that,you know" "Well,the term too early?" "Should not Miss Lamont been given some indication as to when?" "It is not necessary" "But surely" "She will make an excellent Vice Principal,now further business" "It seems to me quite clear that on the day we saw those strange people we were either mistaken as to the route we took or we followed paths which is no longer possible to follow" "Though how or why this can be I do not know" "I recall we took the right hand turning after passing the two officials" "Your sketch map confirms this" "Instead there are gravel paths on each walls" "Also the pavilion you saw no longer exists" "Another example the door to the chapel from which that young man appeared is nailed up" "And it is not been possible to use it for over a century" "Exactly where you described your lady sitting and sketching there are large rhododendrons of many years growth" "So tell me what you think so" "PS I think I shall remain here one more day for further research" "For one thing only for the day when the university would finally embrace us as a college equal to the men's colleges,when Lord Kavanaugh himself would confer our charter and we would become the last part of the most venerable of all seat of learning in the empire" "And that's why Miss Lamont will need the prayers of all of us" "For the past decade she has been Head Mistress of a most excellent school for young ladies near Watford" "Every male eye in Oxford will be upon us scrutinising,examining,scouring for any excuse to deny us this recognition and why?" "Because we are women" "Women" "Women seeking degrees" "Attending lectures,seeking higher education as serious scholars,and philosophers,mere women count now" "What can a woman of earth to scholarship" "But we do matter we do matter,ladies" "We do" "Then I went to the offices of the superintendent who works at Versailles" "He was positive that there had been no play or tableux vivants or indeed anything of that nature on the date we were there" "Cinematographic filming?" "Nothing" "And there is the strictest control of such things" "I also inquired about the green uniforms of those two officials that we saw" "You mean the gardeners?" "Surely they were officials" "Gardeners,stop" "Whatever they were" "He emphatically denied their existence and when I insisted that two men in long green coats had directed us in the gardens,he said it was impossible" "green had been one of the colours of the royal liveries long since discarded" "You made your report" "Not yet" "Kindly do so this afternoon" "I was intending to move into my rooms this afternoon the carrier has delivered my.." "This evening" "I maybe going out this evening" "Out?" "For a walk" "A walk?" "What do you mean a walk?" "With whom?" "Just a walk, Miss Morison" "I shall write my report c'est soir" "I am so grateful to you proposing me for this position" "It is a ghastly mistake,of course" "I don't care" "When I moved out of your father's parish, it was intended to be a complete break" "Dear Oliver" "No,no such,please stop it" "You know how foolish I become" "I do become alive when I see you" "What a lovely thing to say" "It's true" "Can't help it" "Wish I could" "Tell me more about Miss Morison" "She is basically uneducated" "What she learnt was largely picked up from her brothers tutors, listening to her father" "You know who he was,I assume" "Could anyone not know" "She got the job here centuries ago when St Gilbert's was simply a hall of residents all they needed was a woman of impeccable christian upright to run it" "But over the years it's changed into an academic institution in its own right" "I think she feels inadequate as a result countenance by his continually domineering and bullying" "I suspect she is quite different underneath" "How clever of you to have it all worked out" "I may need your help with her,Oliver" "Would you help me?" "You know the answer to that" "I would like you to read something of great interest" "My notes of something very odd which happened when were at the Versailles" "When we get back will you come to my rooms?" "To see the notes" "I would like you to see my new rooms in any case" "Just you and I?" "But would it be proper?" "Oliver" "Has you replied to the secretary's letter,confirming your appointment?" "With my acceptance,yes" "So it is now a legal contract" "I assume so" "And you have no further reasons to agree with me,if in fact you do not" "Miss Morison.." "I must ask you it is important" "I'm not the foolish lady,imperceptible old woman I'm sometimes taken to be" "I assume that you are referring to our experience at Versailles" "Of course,naturally" "Then I have no reason or desire to pretend about such matters quite the reverse" "Good,good" "Because I find this evidence about old courtier at Marie Antoinette's quarter,particular interest" "The Comte de Vandreuil" "A man whose face was deeply marked with smallpox a close personal friend of The Queen,frequently at Versailles" "Obviously" "Obviously the evil looking man on the steps of the little pavilion" "Obviously?" "I think Miss Lamont,we had better be quite frank with one another" "Now I would like to know your opinion of the psychic the paranormal is, I believe, the fashionable phrase" "I have never had a psychic experience all forms of occultism appear unwholesome and repulsive to me" "We are both daughters of English clergymen" "I'm sure your feelings are as mine on the subject" "Of course" "Nevertheless,there is two greater body of scientific evidence to support the possibility of such things to be able to dismiss them all together" "Evident?" "Sir Patrick Corcoran has photographed the apparitions in his laboratory" "Mr Balfour is a publical declared believer so is Lord Tennyson,Dr John Quayle" "My own position is one of acute scepticism" "As a churchwoman?" "Naturally as a churchwoman" "And as a scholar?" "As a scholar,Miss Morison?" "Now what sounds like it" "What it is always like" "Is a perfectly documented example of a psychic manifestation set down in precise details by scholarly observers?" "Indeed" "Such a paper would be of immense value to learning an academic event of the first importance" "It might even help refute Darwin" "To be qualified to investigate such things" "And who better qualified?" "There is,I believe, a scientific body which is.." "Devotees for the Society for the Psychical Research yes I will pin their address ,now we will interview their officers and then decide whether we allow them to publish our evidence and meanwhile" "Miss Morison" "What exactly do you think would we saw?" "What do you think is the explanation for what happened?" "I think it is conceivable" "I think that we in some way" "Peeped through a curtain of time" "We understand as little about time as in the fifteenth century as we did about gravity then, someone has to stamp on the key a new Galileo,a Newton, the apple falling on its head" "That is the explanation for what happened why do you suppose that you saw things I did not?" "My father was a bishop,Miss Lamont" "Frances,I think you must drop this" "What?" "Miss Morison has no idea what constitute scientific evidence" "Your case would be ridiculed" "Yes but" "There would be a scandal" "It would inevitably reach the ears of congregation which would then reject your application to join University" "On the grounds that both the Principal and Vice Principal were unbalanced" "I thought you were my friend" "And so I am,that is why I say what I do" "What exactly did Miss Morison say in the senior common room about when she intended to retire?" "You know that's confidential" "Surely you can tell me" "You are putting me in a very difficult position" "You know I have never been to Blenheim house" "I would so like to go would you take me one day?" "We could take a picnic" "You could have the cakes and I arrange the food in one,it would be a lovely day together" "Frances" "You are such a friend" "Shall we say Wednesday?" "And I promise not a word about any of this" "Good Night,Frances" "Is it true that your retirement could be delayed?" "Almost unlikely" "But possible?" "Under certain circumstances it would be unfair of me to hand over total responsibilit to you until we have the status of the college resolved" "Where will you live when you retire?" "I have taken rooms in Charbry Rowbury" "That's quite near" "Only two minutes walk" "I should like to think you would feel you could call in and consult me" "On any problems" "Thank you" "I should like to return to Watford for a day next week if you don't mind,the school is making me a farewell present" "How gratifying,which day?" "Wednesday" "Wednesday" "Oh dear" "Is that inconvenient?" "I had a letter this morning from the Society for Psychical Research and Wednesday is the day they suggested we might meet" "In that case I could easily postpone the presentation,really it would be no trouble" "My dear,I wouldn't hear of it" "I shall miss you" "Boss can be a frightful bully" "I think she is a very lonely woman, need christian affection" "She certainly needs it" "She tolerates me as a visiting chaplain solely because only a man can give communion" "Otherwise they are not allowed near the place" "If she had her way all men would walk around ring your bell,and crying,unclean" "Oliver,it's good to see you" "You could imagine how good it is for me" "Miss Morison" "How very good of you to come" "My name is Cecilia Hadley I am the society's research officer" "I was expecting the Secretary Mr A.." "Mr Arthur sends his apologies unfortunately when you had to alter your appointment from Thursday to Wednesday" "Mr Arthur was already engaged" "A principal of an Oxford college cannot always predict when she will be at liberty,Miss Hadley" "No,indeed,I am doctor Hadley btw" "I beg you pardon" "Not at all" "Now I read your report and examined your sketches most diverting,but why come to us?" "Surely you examine such cases" "We are a scientific body not a spook nor are we spiritualists table rappers,ectoplasmasists, crystal gazers and that nonsense" "I do understand" "I have often said we should perhaps practice clairvoyance it would save us so much on the postage" "I am not at all sure that this case is one for us,however" "Indeed,why not?" "Because you were by yourself that weakens the scientific value of your evidence" "I was not entirely by myself" "Not by yourself?" "No,my vice principal, Miss Lamont,was with me" "You didn't mention that in your paper" "Did she also had these experiences?" "Some of them,yeah" "Did she write them up?" "Yes,but" "Well,then" "But she did not see all that I saw, mine is the only complete account" "Nevertheless the evidence is far stronger with two by the ordinary logic of investigation" "If we investigate this case,we guarantee absolute anonymity,you realize that?" "Yes I see" "A small paragraph to announce the matter in our monthly journal would give no clues to who you were" "I'm sure you would wish to have" "Of course I'm relieved,yes" "I will suggest the research committee that they should interview you to ascertain if there is a case worth investigation" "Worth investigation?" "No reflection on you my dear,Miss Morison but on your method of observation and record" "My integrity is never been in question" "Of course not" "And my father the bishop" "Bishop of Romsey" "You are aware of that" "Indeed,yes,my brother mention it only this morning" "Your brother?" "The Archbishop of York" "The air of Arcadia is more rarefied more delicate,and we instinctively feel we are nearing its end" "That's very good" "Very good,Alice,excellent" "Tell me" "Have you read Diaries of Fleece?" "No,Miss Lamont" "Take my copy,take great care of it" "Those flowers were given to me by a very dear friend of mine" "Alice L'Amour" "Miss Lamont,we are not called by our christian names here" "Then I think it is high time we started.Don't you?" "But there are no conditions in the catering contract about variety" "There is something about it" "Only so dour and cold blancmange covered with hundred of thousands for every pudding" "It is a bit,Miss Lamont.." "Write to them,Alexandra,insist on a different menu each day of the week" "Yes,Miss Lamont" "Telephone if you wish" "Telephone?" "The apparatus is to be installed on Friday" "Good Afternoon,Miss Morison" "Good Afternoon" "I would like to speak to you alone,if you please" "Yes,of course" "Thank you,everyone" "We will continue another time" "That girl has an excellent voice, she should be encouraged" "And what on earth what was all that about?" "I beg you pardon" "All the students in your room" "I was holding a little soiree" "A soiree?" "I get to know them so much better, when we can talk as friends" "Is this another of your innovation?" "I understand you've been announcing yourself of something of a new broom about my college" "Miss Morison" "Perhaps you are dissatisfied with the way this establishment has been run for the last twenty years" "I am to be principal here" "You are vice principal" "Vice principal" "My appointment is to succeed you as principal" "An appointment which can easily be rescinded" "But it is not for you to say,is it?" "I beg you pardon" "I was appointed by the academic ward and only they can remove me" "Which I would think highly likely after the way you have begun" "Were where you,may one ask,11 30 this morning?" "I was engaged in whatever I 1130 you were engaged to hold a tutorial with Miss Fisher" "But Miss Fisher informs me that you cancelled it without explanation" "And at 1130 you were observed in the botanic garden in the company with Mr Hodgson" "Arm in arm with Mr Hodgson" "And talking to Mr Hodgson in a manner which can only be described as intimate" "May one inquire if you are in the habit of meeting him?" "I would have thought that this was entirely my business" "Then it would be wrong" "You are vice principal and he is a visiting chaplain your intimacy took place in public" "Mr Hodgson was one of my father's best loved curates" "Best loved" "So what were more natural that we should meet and talk" "Sneaking off on your secret assignations" "I was not sneaking" "At 1130 you were engaged to hold a tutorial with Miss Fish.." "Miss Fisher reported us?" "I beg you pardon" "Was it Miss Fisher who observed Oliver and me in the botanic garden?" "Oliver?" "Yes,Oliver" "He is an old friend and I call him Oliver" "It is even worse than I thought" "Did Miss Fisher report us?" "I am not prepared to discuss Miss Fisher" "Oh,my dear,I am so sorry" "Is there anything else?" "I am so sorry" "Is there anything else you wish to discuss?" "I became so stupid in such a rouse with my self" "Will you please forgive me?" "Yes,of course" "Is there any.." "Please" "Please forgive a stupid old woman" "I am so sorry" "Everyone is so fond of.." "So fond of" "What I actually came to say was" "I have had another letter from the Society of Psychical Research from" "Dr Hadley" "She write" "If it is convenient the research committee will materialize at St Gilbert's College at 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon" "Now is that convenient to you,my dear?" "Perfectably reasonable" "We will put them in the Senior Common Room I think" "I should like to tell you what Oliver said to me" "It has nothing whatever to do with me" "Please it is important" "Please I don't want to hear,it has nothing whatever to do with me" "He has been to Versailles" "He is deeply concerned at our position,as he calls it and he went to Versailles to look for himself" "You told him about our dispute?" "Yes" "We agreed not to.." "It seemed essential to obtain his opinion" "He said if" "If Mr Hodgson's opinion on this matter, well,I prefer to hear them for myself" "I think there is a perfectly rational solution" "On your first visit you took one path and on Miss Lamont's second visit,she took another" "You saw nothing but buildings and scenery that in fact exist" "Only persons you saw was such gardeners,tourists as may be seen about petite Trianon at any time" "The heat confused you" "Your kiosk or pavilion is in fact a building known as.." "La Belvedere" "And the little bridge you crossed is the Pont du Roucher,here" "And you think that we did not consider that?" "You considered it?" "We considered it and we rejected it, it has far too much unexplained" "Yes I agree it does not explain everything but" "I do think you should drop this matter,I beg you" "I understand that you are meeting the Society for Psychical Research on Sunday" "Thank you,Mr Hodgson" "Miss Morison you are getting yourself into a position from which there is no retreat" "I do beg you to heed my suggestion" "You may leave them" "But you did discuss it before writing your separate accounts?" "Briefly" "You discussed detail?" "We discovered that I had seen things that Miss Lamont had not" "But we wrote our accounts and draw our maps quite independently" "And your sketches and water colours?" "Done immediately" "Within the hour?" "No,but at the same day" "In the evening" "What,three hours later?" "Four?" "About four hours" "But four hours delay made no difference, my memory was entirely clear" "I do not doubt it" "The lady you saw sketching" "You know,I saw her,Miss Lamont did not" "How many times did you see her?" "Twice" "Once when you passed her and once when you looked back from the terrace of the petite Trianon?" "Yes" "Which of those two occasions does this represent?" "The second" "A white fichu over green bodice little line of gold near the edge are you quite sure it was a single feature?" "Quite sure" "May I show the committee these?" "They are leaves from Journal of Maremelou's The Queens Milliner which we had copied photographically from the original manuscript" "And she writes that in 1789 the Queen had very few dresses made but in July and September of that year" "two green silk bodices and many large white single fichus were made for Her Majesty" "You will see that her sketches agree with Miss Morison's water colour" "You've never seen these?" "No,never" "What is your knowledge of French history?" "I am afraid poor,Doctor Quayle" "The fichus is different to this one" "This is the queen in a similar dress in rare print of Rubillac" "I have the fichu as I saw it" "It is not exactly a close likeness of Marie Antoinette" "Not a familiar likeness,no" "What do you mean?" "Vas Boullard's portrait of the queen was unpopular at court because it did not idealize Marie Antoinette like so many other paintings in fact,it had the merit of the most perfect likeness to her" "Miss Lamont,do you think the date you had these experiences is significant?" "The date you went to Versailles" "September the 5th" "On that very same day in 1792,the september massacres were at their height" "The time of the revolution" "Fourteen hundred state prisoners horribly butchered in their cells" "The queen herself feared the same end" "You didn't know?" "No" "But what we saw was nothing like such things" "The violent convulsions of that type have been known to produce curious echos of a psychic nature to those sensitive to them" "Not necessarily the events themselves" "And" "And what we saw,did have an incoherence about it" "A disjointed effect" "The idea of echo" "As if we had somehow entered into someone's imperfect memories of those events" "Perhaps Marie Antoinette's own memory as she remembered it" "Also it's known that a messenger was sent to the Trianon to warn the Queen of the approach of the mob from Paris" "She wished to walk back to the palace by the most direct route but the messenger begged her not to" "No Madame" "Non c'est faut passez par la" "Paris ici cherchez la maison" "Exactly what your running man, as you called him,said to you" "Yes" "We have saved our most important evidence until last" "As part of our researches we naturally examined every inch of map that we could find relating to the garden of Versailles" "And only last week we received a copy of the most interesting of these maps" "Showing the gardens as they were, when they were laid out in 1785" "It was found in a house of Mont Morenci six months ago" "The chimney was being swept went down it fell,charred by smoke and flames as you can see" "It was sent to the director of the Biblioteque Nationale who knowing of our researches, wrote to me about it" "It shows the path with absolute clarity" "Paths which were destroyed,when the gardens were redesigned in 1802" "Now,if you will compare this map with our sketches you will see that on Sept 5th this year" "we were following paths which had been destroyed nearly one hundred years ago" "I am very sorry" "Not publish" "The committee felt not pursue the inquiry" "The committee felt that it can only take up cases where the evidence is absolutely water tight" "But the Marie Antoinette print?" "The map?" "Discovered last June before you went to Versailles" "We did not see it" "Neither of us knew of its existence" "Nevertheless" "Perhaps you are accusing us of lying?" "Miss Morison!" "I'm all right,I'm perfectly all right" "Yes indeed" "Very well,Miss Hadley, Doctor Hadley" "I will publish myself" "I will have it privately printed" "I will publish it,under our own names from this college" "No." "What do you mean?" "How dare you?" "You may not publish it from this college,it would cause a scandal" "Then let it" "Let it" "At a time we are seeking a charter of incorporation into the university that would be suicidal" "I will write a preface" "I will refer to scholars down the ages having to battle against ignorance,superstition" "And the refusal to face new evidence" "Miss Morison" "Our petition would be refused" "I did see them" "I did" "And ordinary brave men had to fight the world when the world tried to suppress a great discovery" "Galileo was brought before the inquisition and condemned to heresy" "Because he ascertained that the world was round" "Such ignorance,such barbarity partly excusable, of course, because they were roman catholics" "Martin Luther was very nearly burned at the stake for ascertain truth that every English woman knows to be plain common sense" "and Our Blessed Saviour himself suffered but the truth might be proclaimed through out the world" "and its tradition continues" "Indeed it is in our very mindset" "In this chapel you will find a copy of a new book published anonymously in which the learned authoresses describe in detail certain extraordinary experiences they had and draw scientific conclusions of incalculable importance and I have no doubt that they too will be rejected" "and despised of men but we must all fight and strive for the truth" "Copies may be obtained at the back" "Three and six, three for 10 shillings" "Next to the collecting box" "The Hebdomadal Council of the university has written to say that they'll take no decision about our petition for some months" "They understand certain changes in command are contemplated at StGilberts and they wish to consider those changes" "they would also like to know more about the new research the college is said to be undertaking as reported in the popular press" "Thank you" "Write and inform the Hebdomadal Council that this establishment is a temple of learning" "We do not arouse the popular press" "Principal,it is widely believed that you yourself was engaged" "What?" "In certain researches" "In my own time,in my own time, bursar,and my own expense" "So I fail to see what that has to do with the Hebdomadal Council" "Now as to the postponement of their decision" "That means that I shall have to delay my retirement" "Delay?" "A great vexation" "A great vexation but there we are" "Are you quite certain it is what they mean?" "Their letter says.." "They are fearful of the changes of the head,Mr Hodgson" "And after 20 years with one captain,that is understandable" "My dear Miss Morison,they know the old captain" "Could it not be that they wish to assess the new one?" "They don't mean that at all" "In that case I am afraid I must resign" "My appointment as principal has already been delayed" "I'm afraid I could not possibly agree to further postponement" "If you must go,you must" "I have never hidden my intentions to stay on in certain circumstances" "I am sure no one here wishes to detain you" "Will you excuse me,please" "Frances" "Frances,I should like to speak with you" "No" "No" "No,no" "We would like to put a certain proposal to you" "We feel that your researches could be of immense importance to science and we would be honoured if you would allow the college to finance further work along these lines" "Indeed" "Provided you allowed yourself sufficient time for the preparations of anything so important" "Provided" "In fact that I step down from the Principalship" "My dear,it would be a step up if this work is as important, as we all believe it to be you could become the college's first Fellow and a Scholar of European repute how much more an achievement that would be than mere administration" "And what a crown to your career" "I could stay in constant touch" "We would provide your new rooms in Chowbury Road with a telephone and a full time research secretary and a substantial endowment" "I will consider it,Louisa,I'll consider it" "What do we do?" "The authors identity is an open secret" "Not all together" "Well,surely in academic circles.." "Within the university,yes" "But it is what I fear" "The Society must in public state its position on the book" "There is virtually a direct challenge to us too,Sir" "In the preface" "Can't we simply ignore it?" "If we do,we could be accused of prevarication of one of the best publicized examples of exactly what we set out to investigate" "But they are not reliable witnesses and the conclusions they draw are ridiculous" "Winning over academic opinion to our value as a scientific body is of the utmost importance" "We shall have to reply" "A review?" "Yes" "Perhaps Doctor Hadley would care to draft a review which the council should all approve, and then publish it quickly" "My Godfathers" "The authoresses refer to documents and research material which they might have seen prior to their visit to Versailles" "They cannot therefore prove that there so called psychical experiences ever took place" "This is an attack on our integrity and reliability as witnesses that wretched Hadley woman" "She also accuses us of failing to carry out a central research" "That is ridiculous" "No,she has a point" "The masses she list there is quite true,didn't cover anything" "How dear she question our integrity,who dare she" "We'll become the laughing stock of Oxford" "Those unfortunate that Oxford knows so much about it" "We will write a letter to them, demanding an apology" "No,ten years as Principal under a slur like this?" "Oh,my dear,you must return to Versailles" "And carry out the research we are accused of omitting?" "My dear,my French,no,no, it's inadequate, now together,we should go together" "As to the libel,we will write a letter to the Times" "Publicly declaring ourselves to be the authors" "And demanding a retraction and an apology" "You see" "It's brave of them" "I would say foolhardy" "Oxford must be appalled" "The level Senior Common Rooms arms gone up about three steps all the old dreadnoughts who oppose women's college are wallowing in it" "What do we do?" "Nothing" "What?" "We should have the review read by a solicitor,that I admit was a mistake" "It never occurred to me" "But it was our honest opinion, we have nothing to retract" "They won't leave it at that" "A maison" "Madame,il'y avez vous seen a femme avec une pretty girl" "Fille,fille" "Dans un cottage" "Un cottage" "They don't speak English,can you help me?" "Je n'est comprend pas" "The cottage,the woman with a child" "The topping needs dismissed, it's an interesting point of law" "Our review names no one" "And if the two ladies had subsequently invited trouble by coming into the open,there would have been no writ" "Do they think we have a case?" "They do,yes,they say we should fight on two grounds" "First that they are blowing the whole thing out of all proportions" "De minimis non curat lex" "And secondly that the words complained of were not actually defamatory when our review appeared" "Because nobody knew officially they were responsible" "Although it was common knowledge in Oxford" "Yes,it's a curious point" "So,what are our alternatives?" "Either to withdraw,apologize and pay their costs" "Costs?" "Or defend the action" "Dragging us through the Law Courts" "The scam would be immense" "But if we back away?" "Well,we lose all probity in the eyes of the academic world" "Then we have no choice" "You have issued the writ?" "Yes" "And has a date actually been set down?" "In three month time in the High Court" "Do you think we should go that far?" "We discussed this before you went to Versailles we discussed it,and now we have some more information" "The music has been identified by Conservoitoir Nationale" "Twelve bars from an unpublished ballet by Gretry who died in 1830" "I had a letter from them early this morning" "But surely our points are made the book is out, our arguments are put" "Has something happened?" "What?" "Did something happen at Versailles?" "I covered all the points that we discussed,when can you come to see me?" "I shall come immediately" "Oh,good,good" "Good,I am a little troubled about some of it,good bye,my dear" "The senior staff wonder if you realize that we have newspaper reporters at the very gates of the college" "They are even accosting the girls as they go out" "Call the police" "The police?" "They have no right" "We have been working for admission to university for twenty years and in one term you have destroyed everything" "Anything that I have done has been entirely as a private citizen" "The only chance that now remain for our petition is for you to withdraw your High Court action" "The only chance" "No" "Principal,we have applied to the Chancellor,Lord Kavanaugh about this" "He has no jurisdiction" "I'm afraid he has" "He can investigate anything he chooses in the affairs of a college, which has applied for incorporation" "Then let him" "I wonder if I might speak alone with you for a moment?" "Frances,listen.." "I'm afraid it will not be possible to renew your engagement as our chaplain" "What?" "Your position is reviewed every three years I believe" "Frances" "I'm sure you will have no trouble in finding a new position" "One of the important thing is to keep our nerve" "That is the one important thing" "Lord Kavanaugh will interview us both together and separate" "But I am no longer principal" "You are so deeply involved in the affairs of the college" "I think he will try everything he can to get us to retract" "Let him on" "The one essential is to stick like limpets to what we know to be true" "If we waver,we will lose and we will be wholly discredited" "Frances" "Listen" "There is a man, a man who lives at Versailles" "The Comte de Montesquiou,my French" "His house is on the boundaries of the palace gardens,he has access to them" "There is a gate from his garden in" "Now he is," "An exquisite?" "A degenerate" "It is his custom to hold tableau vivants with his male friends and some of them,oh heavens" "They dress up as women" "No,I don't understand these things but they dress up in all sorts of peculiar clothes" "Now there was to have been a public performance for charity the week after our visit" "The week after,yes" "Might there not have been rehearsals?" "I spoke to the Superintendent of Works himself" "About performance?" "And rehearsals" "He said that there were definitely no rehearsals" "Yes,but as there is a gate direct from his garden into the palace" "I know it does not fit all the facts but who would believe us now?" "I've never enjoyed a book more" "My wife is bored of my constantly quoting from it it is astute deeply impressive and reaches conclusions of the highest importance" "I congratulate you most sincerely" "Thank you" "Could you sign my copy?" "Sign it,Lord Kavanaugh?" "Autograph it for me,I would so value that" "Tell me,have you had any experiences of this nature before?" "No" "No psychic manifestations of dusty voices" "I don't believe in them" "Really?" "This was an isolated experience,which we recorded as carefully as we could" "It is a model of clarity" "Thank you" "And there is no possibility that you've might have been mistaken?" "None" "Not the teeniest crack?" "None" "Excellent" "Tell me what do you think about Miss Morison?" "Think of her?" "Her integrity,her reliability as a witness" "She is a woman of strong character" "She saw things that you did not" "Yes" "What was your attitude to that?" "I agreed at first but later made my position clear" "Why was that?" "Why did you agree at first?" "This is in confidence" "Totally and absolutely" "I was being sounded out for the post of principal and I did not wish to seem" "Uncooperative" "Inflexible" "You were humouring an old fool" "No" "I do beg your pardon" "She has become a very dear friend" "You love her?" "Yes,I do" "A very ambitious woman are you not?" "As you are a very ambitious man" "Yes,but I don't see ghosts" "But if you had" "I shall have kept quiet about them" "Do you think Mr Gladstone would have appointed me Attorney General if I told him I saw spooks?" "You see I believe you" "I do think you saw these things and your book will turn out to be a milestone of natural science, that is not the point" "I also passionately believe in women's education and it's essential that this college is accepted into the university" "You wish me to withdraw my action for political expediency" "Exactly,precisely" "I know that I can persuade the Hebdomanal Council it'll advance your petition if you do that" "Remember I am on your side" "Together we must defeat these old dreadnoughts who wish to obstruct us" "For the sake of all intelligent women" "This is not a matter of truthfulness but of strategy" "Come now,withdraw it" "No" "You know why I'm here" "Yes" "And why it is so important" "Of course you do" "With anyone else I would use guile,flattery,diplomacy" "But you are too intelligent for House of Commons tricks" "Though I do them rather well" "I have heard you" "You attended a debate?" "I particularly remember your cosying address on the India Bill" "Yes,share fireworks" "Yes,I did enjoy myself rather over that one" "And my father took me" "You remember my father?" "Remember him?" "My goodness I still quite hear his name, he was fearsome classic master,you know" "And a magnificent bishop" "And a great man" "A great man,I agree with you,and an excellent father,I have no doubt" "Of course" "He could be rather.. strict" "Strict performances" "And he was not the easiest of the men to talk to" "You astonish me?" "I assure you,doesn't try to discuss things with him" "I think he thought,girl,you know,was a fool" "Miss Morison" "Yes I'd never come to anything, I'd never do anything" "Look what you have done" "Good gracious,look at your college,your college" "Which you brought from nothing to the very brink of success" "Which is why you are here" "Which is why I am here" "I shall ask you a favour" "Tea?" "I would like the honour of writing a preface to the second edition of your book" "Lord Kavanaugh!" "If your father were alive,that would make him think again,wouldn't he?" "Yes,it would" "But then the whole climate of women's capabilities is changing" "Within our life time we shall have women doctors, women barristers,women in parliament" "You think so?" "I have no doubt" "Provided those responsible played their cards correctly at this stage" "No" "I am talking about strategy,Miss Morison" "Simple politics" "I ask only one thing" "Drop my High Court action?" "Yes" "No" "Do you realize that you are obstructing not just your own lives and careers but those of all the students in your charge?" "Do you comprehend with what obloquy and detestation your names will be held if you persist" "You are asking us to lie" "Don't be childish" "To pretend it did not happen" "I am asking you to do something magnificent for which your names will be blessed forever more" "You do realize what will happen if you do not" "I shall recommend in my report that you are removed from the principal ship,Miss Lamont" "And that your endowment is cut off,Miss Morison" "The college would then be accepted into the university and your twenty years work will have got you nowhere" "You wouldn't do such a thing" "These hands have signed so many death warrants I cannot number them" "Do you think they would hesitate to remove two foolish women who are obstructing so much?" "I ask you for the last time, withdraw your case" "Pig's piddle" "Cow pat" "The Chancellor of the University" "Having been invited by a majority of senior staff at St Gilberts to adjudicate on certain matters pertaining to the future of the college greatly regrets that it must make the following findings and recommendations" "The research grant and other facilities extended to Miss E.P.Morison should be terminated forthwith" "And Miss FL Lamont removed from the principal ship immediately" "The Chancellor is further of the opinion that no obstacles will then stand in the way of acceptance of St Gilbert's College by the Hebdomanal Council to full membership of the university" "In every life" "there comes a time for courage" "a time when you will stand up and declare what you believe in with the top of your voice" "However painful,however inconvenient" "No matter what the consequences" "Or life is not simply worth living" "I came to this college after twenty years hard work" "to pull myself out of the genteel ecclesiastical poverty into which I was born" "And I became principal" "Principal of this college" "Before my fortieth birthday" "And that means more to me" "than most of you can begin to understand" "I have held this post for less than one year" "because I stood up for what I believe and you got rid of me or how much would you have preferred a comforting,comfortable principal" "who caused you no scandal" "This is my farewell sermon and sermons should impart a thought" "and leave a message which will give strength and vision to those who follow" "Do I have such a message as I leave this place?" "Yes I do a very clear one" "I'm worth more than a lot of you put together" "Frances,it's quiet there" "Do you remember?" "Yes" "I've made some alterations, I do hope you will be comfortable" "The porters could bring round your things from the things from the college tomorrow" "Why did you have to tell me?" "What,my dear?" "Montesquieu" "Because it was happened" "I know it is not the explanation of what we saw but politics" "There is politics" "I only have a little lie down,Elizabeth" "I am so tired" "Dear old Oxford,home of lost causes,soaked beliefs" "And complementary names" "And some loyalties" "I'll bring you up a cup of tea later" "Once I had laughed at the power of love and poison" "The gripple,the graven thrice I have patted my God on the head,that men might call me brave" "The society of psychical research has dropped their case" "Yes" "They say it was costing them too much" "Miss Lamont is dead" "What?" "Found in her bed last night" "Miss Lamont,dead?" "Miss Morison I,we were deeply shocked" "Society sends its profoundest condolences" "Thank you" "Thank you" "And for the reason" "You know we are withdrawing from the High Court action,we will pay all costs" "And we are entering the details of the case in our Monthly Journal" "Indeed" "Oh,yes" "We consider now there is now enough evidence" "Yes" "Excuse me" "Sir Patrick" "Yes" "We did see them" "Of course" "We did see them" "No doubt at all" "We saw" "We did see them" "Very well" "Subtitles by Seglora"