"This film contains some strong language  some scenes of a sexual nature." "LAUGHS" "Ursula!" "Ursula!" "come back 'ere!" "Ursula!" "Ursula!" "Come back 'ere!" "It's dangerous!" "LAUGHS" "Ursula!" "Wait for me!" "Miss Puddleduck?" "Were you off for a swim?" "No." "me lady?" "Daddy." "it's not for catching" "Want it!" "lass." "If you're a good girl I'll make you one for tea." "They were naughty to fight." "Losing their feathers." "They'll be sorry when it's cold." "I just saved this one from the river" "Off you get." "Perhaps we'll have that gate fixed." "You left the door open!" "What if I did?" "!" "The baker came and the baby woke up." "Why do you niggle me?" "!" "I don't just sit around designing lace hankies." "Soup again?" "You spoil me." "and drown your mother out." "You put such pressure in my head." "get off!" "# When the pie was opened The birds began to sing" "# Wasn't that a dainty dish... #" "Daddy." "Can't I have it?" "You're a persistent little madam." "I'd not forgotten." "There you are." "On you jump." "then?" "Want a taste?" "Uh-uh." "A little taste." "Just a little one." "No?" "Uh." "I see." "You want the real one." "my lass." "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle...  ..than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."" "The collection is for Mrs Hartley... ..widowed by the Grange Pit tragedy." "I know you will give generously." "there will be a resumption of christenings." "Thanks to the restoration of the font by our organist" " Will Brangwen." "PLAYS ORGAN" "He's like my dolly." "but it's a fine hand you've carved." "It's an ogre's hand." "Billy." "Assisting at the birth of Eve." "He's not a midwife!" "It was my hand you used as a model." "it's after Donatello's "Frances"." "Perhaps that's how it started." "never!" "Donatello may have used his wife as a model." "Don't be ridiculous." "The hand of God is a man's hand." "when man is born of woman?" "The impudence of men!" "don't fuss so!" "do not speak to me like that." "How could a great big camel pass through an eye of a needle?" "I'd think." "RUNNING FOOTSTEPS" "Ursula." "she's dead." "Go away." "I'm not dead." "What do you want?" "Mother says you have to come down to dinner." "There's a soldier downstairs with Uncle Henry." "DOOR HANDLE RATTLES are you?" "!" "Cos I'll pull your hair out." "Even if it is Sunday." "Ialwaysusedtoaskstrangerstostay ." "It was rather trying for my parents." "It's our Lazarus." "And Billy said you were dead." "Might as well be sometimes." "LAUGHTER" "I wanted some peace." "I didn't realise you were coming." "Or she'd have had a sherry." "does she?" "Give your Uncle Henry a kiss." "Drink the health of my friend" " Lt Anton Skrebensky." "He's staying at the hall." "His father was the parish priest." "Are you staying long?" "This is my last day." "I have to report back tomorrow." "To what do you report?" "I'm in the Engineers." "And you?" "I suppose you're at school." "My last term." "I'm taking my matriculation exams soon." "You'll be going out to work?" "Don't put ideas in her head." "My daughters don't need to work." "I'm considering my field of action." "There's stockings need mending." "They could be your field of action." "What would you like to be?" "perhaps." "I could never study." "The brains of the Army are in the Engineers." "I joined to get the credit of other people's brains." "Brains don't matter." "then?" "Whether people have courage or not." "Courage for what?" "For everything." "you mean?" "That's another field of action you wouldn't like." "She should join the Royal Engineers." "No need for courage to build a privvy." "being an orphan?" "I have got a guardian." "And Henry." "And my aunts." "I'm really fond of them all." "But my real home is the Army." "Do you like being on your own?" "I think so." "I went to school early." "The outside world was more of a home to me than the vicarage." "This house used to be a vicarage." "Really?" "Do you not feel like... flown out of its own latitude?" "CHUCKLES" "I find things much as I like them." "You look very lazy." "I am lazy." "You look really floppy." "I am floppy." "Can't you stop?" "I don't want to stop." "It looks like there isn't a bone in your body." "That's how I like to feel." "I don't admire your taste." "That's my misfortune." "Damn it!" "Why can't I rock?" "!" "Men don't rock themselves." "Girls don't pull men's hair." "You've seen that they do." "My father used to rock me on the swingboats." "Would you like to go on one again?" "I didn't mean..." "When?" "Now!" "You arrange it with mother while I change." "Our families go a long way back." "My grandmother told me stories of her life in Poland." "She knew your father in Warsaw." "just before the uprising." "They fought together." "Dr Lensky and Baron Skrebensky." "Don't you find Polish names extremely musical?" "They're a musical nation." "And very patriotic." "They make poor exiles." "humming Chopin's "Funeral March"." "You Lenskys seem to be an exception." "They say Granddad died with a stethoscope on." "He had connections with the medical profession and had a practice in Beldover." "That's where Mum was born." "I've always thought it romantic to have Polish blood." "More than British?" "Is your father not romantic?" "or he wouldn't have swept Mum off her feet." "They were married in that church." "Shall we go in?" "dear." "I thought I'd escaped church parade today." "Come along." "didn't hear you." "This is dreadful." "Dreadful and wonderful." "Then let's stay a minute." "didn't you?" "Better than being earthbound." "You'd think so if you lived in our house." "This reminds me of Ingram from my platoon." "Why's that?" "He had a girl in Rochester." "They'd make love in the cathedral." "How nice." "made a row about it" "What a shame." "He shouldn't have objected." "He said it was a profanity." "I think it's right." "To make love in the house of God." "you've school tomorrow." "I'll buy you a lolly." "Push and glide!" "Push and glide!" "bend the legs back." "Don't let your feet break water." "Push and glide!" "Heads steady." "All right." "WHISTLE" "WHISTLE" "I'll race you." "I've won." "But you've good form." "What's your name?" "Miss Inger." "Ursula Brangwen." "Ursula Brangwen." "Class dismissed." "No lingering in the cubicles" " Class Three are due." "Do you think it's wicked to let a man kiss you - a man you've just met?" "I should think." "It depends." "I mean." "Not just flirting." "He's a soldier." "Where did he kiss you?" "In church." "I see." "And what time was it?" "Erm." "About a quarter to seven." "I think it'd be very wrong." "What do you think of the new athletics mistress?" "Not a lot." "She was rough with me." "Ursula." "Ursula." "did you?" "I did." "have you a bicycle?" "yes." "we share it." "you could stay for tea." "I'd like that." "girls." "Come along." "Into the water." "You'll be swimming like dolphins in no time." "YOU CAN'T!" "I NEED IT!" "LISTEN TO ME!" "WILL YA?" "!" "I SAID NO!" "I hate you." "Mmm!" "Such peace." "Be more comfortable with your boots off." "Here." "How do you spend your weekends?" "Helping Mother." "Going to church." "Church is peaceful." "GIGGLES" "Whydoyoulaugh?" "The last time it was anything but!" "I was with a friend looking for seclusion." "Choir practice?" "Restoration." "Do you think it's blasphemous to make love in church?" "No." "Merely uncomfortable." "Such narrow pews." "Or did you do it standing up in a confessional?" "We were only kissing." "I thought you meant fucking." "Who was he?" "A soldier." "What's the matter?" "My father was a soldier." "Coarse brute." "Treated my mother little better than a whore." "How do you mean?" "As a person in her own right my mother did not exist." "She was an instrument for his perverted sexuality." "Was there no love?" "The best you'll ever get from a man is passion." "Even that can't last." "I think we're in for a storm - the milk's turned." "Perhaps I should be off." "not before our swim." "it looks like rain." "In the water what do raindrops matter?" "it's best in the rain." "the grounds are private." "We'll undress inside and run down." "It's all right." "DISTANT THUNDER" "BOTH LAUGH" "Come on." "You're tickling me!" "Relax!" "You're in the hands of a qualified osteopath." "That's lovely." "it's getting late." "Can I not stay with you?" "Your parents wouldn't approve." "When will we see each other again?" "silly." "Swimming class." "I meant like this." "I was thinking of taking a school party to the Lakes next weekend." "Want to come?" "I'm not that fond of hiking." "then." "I meant a party of one." "I love hiking!" "Your mother'll think you've been kidnapped." "Come along." "You heard me." "I need it to get the groceries." "I had to carry them home." "What have you got to say?" "Damn the groceries!" "I'm sick of being told what to do." "Mother" "Mother... #" "And I am standing here with your nightshirt." "Mother... # get up now." "Mother?" "not bading." "We all love you." "But will somebody love me ?" "because that's your nature." "not what he wants of you." "What did you want for yourself?" "What I've got." "where is your nightshirt?" "I don't know." "Then look for it!" "Marie pulled my hair." "get along." "We have a right to what we want." "Now then!" "What you up to?" "Nothing." "plenty of room." "Why aren't they in bed?" "!" "The children must live." "too." "lass." "My teacher's taking a party to the Lakes next weekend." "You're Uncle Henry's invited us to the hall on Saturday." "Anton'll be there." "I think not." "I really must go with my school." "Your mother's right." "Men have fixed ideas of what a woman should be." "they say they love her." "They're only in love with themselves." "Like a serpent who swallows his tail when he's hungry." "too." "Can you see it?" "Can you make out what it is?" "No." "Can't you?" "on the summit." "The lion lays down with the lamb." "Can you see it now?" "isn't it?" "Can we get up there?" "Let's have a drink before we tackle it." "Wave to the ladies." "Hello!" "How I love lions." "God is like a lion to me." "Not like those silly toy lambs in church." "Lambs or lions." "Buddha or Apollo." "Christ or Zeus." "They're only symbols of man's instinctual desires - illusions." "Who do you worship?" "I worship this." "GROWLS:" "I would like to be proud and strong like a lion." "who only exists to be loved and sacrificed." "To love and be loved are equally important." "you'll know peace." "EXPLOSION" "We're workin' the mine!" "Be off with you!" "woman!" "You are a monster." "How dare you come here with your filthy mine?" "EXPLOSION" "Ursula!" "Man is terrible." "The works of man are more terrible still." "The mines are the most terrible of his works." "My Uncle Henry owns several of the Grange pits." "Really?" "Remember the painting at the cottage?" "It's Mack." "I sometimes model for the old rascal." "Mack!" "Wesawit so clearlyfrombelow." "Where isit?" "Whered 'yathink?" "Useyoureyes ." "If you're looking for a public convenience it's behind a rock." "I'm looking for the lion and the lamb silly." "It's an illusion - the lion laying down with the lamb." "You're the third person today to say that." "Must be true." "one of our favourite sorts." "Is she now?" "Do you always meet casually on mountains?" "Fred?" "Ursula?" "I'm a bit of a fidget." "When?" "There'll be some pocket money in it for you." "How's next Saturday?" "if you like." "it's all right." "I'm not a child." "Experience Rewarding Innocence"." "but this is an exception." "I'd almost given up hope of finding purity in a girl your age." "Would you like me to smile?" "It's not your face I'm painting at the moment." "are you not?" "My parents don't always think so." "Parents seldom do." "Do they smack your bottom?" "Not any more." "Domestic bliss is a pleasure I've been denied." "I'm childless and wifeless." "I have to rely on others for my creature comforts." "untamed by convention." "like Fred." "Ursula." "Youhavethepowertomakemethehappiest ofmen." "At first the idea of my chastising you may seem abhorrent." "That is merely through association." "When you see the delight it affords me... but an act of love." "I'll awaken in you a world of sensuality." "You'll not find my gratitude ungenerous." "passes in a moment." "And the marks soon fade." "But should I draw blood you'll feel the salt of my tears in your wounds." "I believe you mentioned a fee." "Get out!" "you money-grabbing bitch?" "!" "You disgusting little trollop!" "Get out!" "Ha!" "Halt!" "but you lack the desire to win." "miss." "Thank you." "is the source of all truth and good." "Class dismissed." "so good luck." "miss." "you got picked on today." "I'm sorry about Mack." "I should have thought it through." "It was... perhaps." "In a way." "even artists." "It's best to be prepared." "Who prepared me for that?" "Experience is the best teacher." "I was half expecting you last weekend." "I was studying." "What are you doing in the holidays?" "Uncle Henry's invited me to Grange Hall." "I said I'd bring you." "won't you?" "HORN" "Out the way!" "Nearly late for his own funeral." "Has there been a death in the family?" "it were only a miner." "A miner?" "He leaves a wife and two bairns." "Was it an accident?" "Consumption." "It gets them sooner or later." "He died gradually - fretful." "My father went the same." "It's a relief when it's over." "Gruesome." "And the widow?" "She'll be getting married again directly." "Hertwosistershavejust changedhusbands." "Is Uncle Henry going to the funeral?" "but he'll send biggest wreath." "Ah!" "There you are!" "I'm afraid." "He was disappointed." "Never mind." "I'm pleased your friend could manage it." "Hello." "I'm Henry Brangwen." "Hello." "Welcome to Grange Hall." "Thank you." "I'm so glad that..." "I'm sorry." "You're upset?" "No." "She saw your wreath and burst into tears at the thought of that miner." "I've a smut in my eye." "From one of your filthy pit chimneys." "he's bone idle." "Just look up." "There!" "Souvenir." "Why are the men so sad?" "Are they?" "They seem unutterably sad." "I wouldn't go as far as that." "They just take it all for granted." "They accept their lot." "Why don't they alter it?" "They alter themselves to fit the pits... ..rather than alter the pits to fit themselves." "It's easier." "agree... ..that human beings should adapt themselves to all kinds of horrors?" "!" "We could easily do without the pits." "Until the wood ran out." "Perhaps their lives aren't so bad." "and in some places wet." "But they're paid good wages." "They're sold to the pit." "And the women?" "What do they get?" "They get what's left." "BIRDSONG" "How delightful to hear birds singing at night." "COUGHS" "You will excuse me." "Good night!" "Oh dear!" "What have I done now?" "It's the canaries I breed for the pits." "The men take them down when they go to work." "How lovely." "there's gas." "One whiff and they're dead." "The men have a minute." "Oh." "Ursula doesn't approve." "They've saved many lives." "I get the impression that Ursula doesn't approve of you at all." "She loathes the fact that my pits support her family." "Perhaps I should go to her." "As you wish." "I was about to retire myself." "Must be tiring working the pit." "The pits work themselves." "It's my ankle - a strained tendon." "My doctor prescribes mustard baths." "Very anti-social." "but not strains." "Really?" "I'm a qualified osteopath." "now?" "Would you like me to look at it?" "Where?" "Anywhere." "if you like." "they..." "Are your servants." "They are rather limiting types." "they may..." "May think I had a fetish." "they might." "It feels so strange - as if a kitten had swallowed a snake." "Give him to Jacobs before he has one of your fingers." "What's the object of this caper?" "Jacobs." "sir." "To save our prize lettuce from the rabbits." "They make such lovely pets - lettuce." "do grow up." "there's another prize lettuce - saved." "Right." "You shall have it for lunch." "I can see how this game amuses you." "this warren." "Your men haven't got a hope." "They certainly breed like them." "or they perish in the dark." "Either way they're doomed." "Ursula lacks the courage of her convictions." "LAUGHS" "Do you want to help me?" "Daddy." "Help plant some taties if you like." "See these?" "Hmm." "These are the sprouts." "They have to stand straight." "do you see?" "I'll go down there and we'll meet in the middle." "What are you doing?" "!" "You're tramping on them!" "That's like you - following your stupid nose." "what have I done?" "Nothing." "Is it because of your Uncle Henry and me?" "No..." "I'm glad." "He's invited me to stay on after you've gone." "But if you'd rather you and I went off somewhere..." "I have to go home." "I'm expecting my examination results." "You've nothing to worry about there." "aren't you?" "I've been fond of him ever since I was a child." "He's a man by himself." "He has something apart from the rest." "I thought you'd get on." "I know you did." "Love seeketh not itself to please." "But..." "Henry!" "Why not Henry?" "I'd like to destroy his colliery." "And put everyone out of work?" "I'd rather they starve and grub the earth for roots." "And what about us poor women?" "Huh?" "I'll stay." "It'll be best." "tell me you love me." "SIGHS:" "Yes." "DAD!" "DAD!" "guess what!" "Has Billy had too much birthday cake and disgraced himself?" "please!" "Does he like his tent?" "I passed my exams!" "lass." "It came second post with a letter from my headmistress about a job." "A job?" "Can't I go out to work?" "Whatever for?" "You've enough to do helping your mother." "But I want some other kind of life!" "What on earth do you mean by that?" " We'll discuss it after us tea." " IMITATES FANFARE" "# Happy birthday to you" "Happy birthday... #" "COMMOTION" "CHILD CRIES" "come here!" "what have you done to Rupert?" "do something with him." "let me show you..." "Ursula." "What would you like?" "please." "To be free to earn my own keep." "That's what I'd like best." "How will you do that?" "I can become a teacher." "I'm qualified by my matric." "Aye." "How much are you qualified to earn by your matric?" "but it's enough to live on." "What kind of teacher will you make?" "You've no patience with your own brothers and sisters." "Some people don't think so." "Oh?" "for one." "I deeply sympathise with your desire to do something." ""Ishallbe proudtoseeyouwineconomicindependence." "It provides freedom of choice." "You did it behind our backs!" "What do you mean?" "School-leavers always have an interview with the headmistress." "I see no reason why you shouldn't make a good teacher." "you could take a degree." "That would give you the self-respect nothing else can." "She even sent an application form." "What's this about Kingston?" "It's her old school." "They've a vacancy." "I can apply for an interview and have you sign it." "There's no way you're dancing off to London." "It's a good place to go." "How do you know?" "!" "it's lovely." "we have a right to what we want." "It's up to your father." "Why not get a post near here?" "Something in town." "That slum!" "I'd rather go right away." "I'm fed up with housework." "Indeed?" "!" "You have too much opinion of yourself." "There's a place for me and I want to go." "You're not going." "Why not?" "!" "That's why not!" "London's full of troops off to South Africa - no place for a girl." "We'll see the local authorities about a place here." "but one day I'll get a place and I won't stop at home." "NOBODY WANTS YOU TO STOP AT HOME!" "# Il etait une bergere Et ron et ron petit patapon #" "# Il etait une bergere Qui gardait ses moutons Qui gardait ses moutons... #" "KNOCKING" "Come in." "Isn't it a nasty morning?" "not much of weather." "Am I early?" "Twenty-five past - you're second to come." "I'm first this morning." "Must you do so many?" "COUGHS" "Fifty-six." "But they're not all for your class." "Why aren't they?" "It's too many." " CHUCKLES:" " You've got about the same." "FOOTSTEPS" "Headmaster's assistant." "Oh!" "You are early." "I'll warrant you don't keep that up." "That...is Mr Harvey's peg." "This...is yours." "Aren't you taking your hat off?" "Standard Five teacher always has that one." "Isn't it a beastly morning?" "POKES FIRE VIOLENTLY" "Beastly!" "If there's one thing I hate it's a wet Monday morning... ..kids trailing in anyhow." "This...belongs over there." "haven't you?" "You've no idea what a sight you'll look before half past four." "peering in?" "Come here!" "I want you to go and askmyma for a pinny for Miss Brangwen." "miss." "What are you going for?" "And what shall you say to my ma?" "miss." "Miss Harby says to send down another pinafore for Miss Brangwen... ..because she's come without one." "miss." "Whatareyougoingtosay?" "!" "Miss Harby wants a pinny for Miss Brangwin." "Miss BrangWEN." "Be quick about it." "that boy - but not bad." "Follow me!" "Five and Six." "This is your place" " Standard Five." " TUTS:" " Mr Harvey will be teaching through there." "He'll be keeping an eye on you." "If you can find your way back to the teachers' room he'll be there." "You had a wet walk." "I don't mind." "I'm used to it." "You will sign your name here." "And the time when you come and go." "CHILDREN PLAY OUTSIDE there are some exercise books on the top shelf." "would you ?" "I'm so sorry." "CLEARS THROAT" "I'd let them in now." "you will go to the lobby with Mr Brunt." "Door!" "Sharp!" "Sharp!" "Wake up!" "Wake up!" "QUIET DOWN!" "QUIET!" "In line!" "WHAT DID I SAY?" "!" "QUIET!" "Five and Six... ..FALL IN!" "PIANO PLAYS MARCHING TUNE" "quick march." "HALT!" "Who told Standard Five to come in first like this?" "Mr Harby." "replacement teacher for Standard Five." "For her benefit we'll start again." "CRACKS KNUCKLES" "PIANO" "Describe the modern factory and the assembly of a given product." "I will expect you..." "We will start with a composition." "Write me a short essay on... ..the rabbit." "ALL GROAN" "I got the pinny." "isn't it?" "it's Jim." "I'm sorry." "Thank you." "ROARS OF LAUGHTER" "WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?" "!" "Richards?" "and Miss Harby sent me for one of hers." "I put it in my satchel so it wouldn't get rained on... sir." "Spell the word "pinafore"." "P-I-N-A-F-O-U-R" "CHILDREN LAUGH" "You will write "pinafore" 100 times on the blackboard after school." "Miss Brangwen will supervise you." "This time she will supply the chalk." "LAUGHTER" "Silence." "Resume your studies." "I will examine your efforts in the morning." "Isn't it done?" "Not yet." "I didn't know we had a stove." "Must be jolly bringing lunch." "if one lived here it would be jollier to go home." "if I were you I'd get a tighter hand on my class." "Would you?" "Aren't I strict enough?" "They'll get you down if you don't tackle them." "They'll pull you down till Harby has you shifted." "You won't last a month if you don't tackle them." "But I..." "He's got his eye on you." "Getinhisbad booksandyou'llbeout." "except I might have to cope with your class." "Will it be so terrible?" "I don't know about terrible." "I do feel frightened." "The children seem so..." "So...what?" "Mr Brunt says I must tackle my class." "You have to keep order to teach." "If you want to survive." "what good are you?" "You'll have to do it by yourself." "Indeed." "Some people can't be helped." "Do you think there will be a war?" "More like a bloody massacre in your case." "how do you spell "their"?" "miss" " T-H-E-I-R!" "Richards." "Stand up." "Who told you to call out?" "sir." "Go to my desk." "Pens down." "Fold arms." "What is the subject of your composition?" "I wouldn't advise you to call out." "Alice?" "sir." "Not very difficult for Standard Five." "Or very original." "Don't nibble your lip." "You've written about rabbits so often you're turning into one." "BEATS BOY SIX TIMES" "you can go." "But the master said 100 times." "but you may go home now." "I said go home." "OW!" "I cut my finger on a nail." "Where was that?" "Erm...on my desk." "I'll take care of it." "I will tomorrow." "you've made a rod for your own back." "You're very young and inexperienced." "Hardly out of school yourself." "Miss Brangwen." "I could make it easier for you." "So much easier." "If only you'd..." "I could swallow you whole." "only my cane rules this school." "SOBS" "lass!" "How did it go?" "Dad." "It was a bit strange at first." "you just missed your Uncle Henry." "Oh?" "Dropped in with a lady." "Oh?" "Youroldteacher." "Miss Inger?" "Aye." "Seems they're getting married." "And guess what." "They want you to be chief bridesmaid." "LAUGHS" "TAPPINGONGLASS lift up your glasses and drink to the hearth and the home." "and may they enjoy them." "the home!" "Night and day and may they enjoy it." " ALL:" " Night and day!" "and may they enjoy them." "Hammer and tongs!" "and may they enjoy them." " LAUGHS:" " Bed and blessings!" "Marriage..." "Marriage..." "CHATTER CONTINUES" "Marriage is..." "HUSH DESCENDS" "It's what we're made for." "A man enjoys being a man." "Forwhatpurposewas hemade aman ifnot to enjoyit?" "And likewise a woman enjoys being a woman." "Least in my eyes she does." "for a man to be a man it takes a woman... ..and for a woman to be a woman it takes a man." "And therefore we have marriage." "Don't run us off our legs." "but on earth there is." "where do the angels come from?" "LAUGHTER" "Angels..." "If there's got to be angels... hasn't there?" "and there are no men or women amongst them... ..it seems to me as a married couple makes one angel." "It's the drink!" "Go on." "An angel has got to be more than a human being." "So I say an angel is the soul of a man and a woman in one." "and...!" "as one angel." "Aye!" "I had an angel up my nose once." "LAUGHTER" "Why are you poking about up there?" "I've got an angel up my nose." She gave me such a swipe." "We called dandelion seeds "angels" and I'd stuffed one up my nose." "not my single soul." "So I say...an angel is the soul of a man and a woman... ..in one." "How lovely." "Praise the Lord." "ALL:" "Praise the Lord!" "Praise the Lord!" "BRASS BAND" "Isn't it nice to have a wedding?" "You have confetti in your hair." "I hear you're teaching." "Yes." "I thought you might have gone off to war." "I embark at Southampton on Friday." "Do you want to go?" "yes." "please." "# JOLLY MUSIC #" "Why do you want to go to war?" "as it is." "What'll you be doing?" "working like a slave." "But they'll be pulled down when the Army's done with them." "It's like a game." "Not to those taking part." "fighting." "for instance?" "killing." "When you're dead you don't matter." "But it matters whether we settle the Boers." "Not to you or me." "Do you want to live in Africa?" "but we have to do this or it's the end of the nation." "But we aren't the nation." "Heaps of others are." "Everybody could say that." "but I should be myself." "You'd be at the mercy of every robber that came along." "They wouldn't get much." "I'd rather be swept off my feet by a robber than a soldier." "Only because you can't imagine me out of uniform." "Will this do?" "Now may I steal your heart?" "It's not my heart you want but my soul." "Kiss me." "Anton!" "Kiss me!" "Kiss me!" "MUSIC  CHATTER" "anyway." "Bang!" "Arghhhh!" "Anton?" "What?" "Come back to me." "Yes." "You will come back to me?" "I will come back." "I'm going to dance with Anton." "May I take the soldier?" "Ursula's looking a bit upset." "Oh?" "Askherto dance." "Go and ask her." "Go and ask her now." "may I have the pleasure?" "Such a condition in a class." "I don't believe it." "Simply disgraceful." "I can't think how you've been allowed to get like it." "Every Monday I shall examine these books... ..so don't think you can unlearn everything you've learned... ..and go back to Standard Three." "Why are you writing in pencil?" "There aren't enough pens to go round." "Miss Brangwen?" "No." "We are five short." "Oh." "And how is that?" "How many are here today?" "Twenty-four." "How many pens are there?" "Staples?" "19." "That's very curious." "A few days ago there were 24 pens." "Richards?" "sir?" "Richards." "sir." "so there are five pens to account for." "Staples?" "sir." "bad work and bad behaviour?" "you are thieves as well." "or mizzle away into nothing." "They must be somewhere and they must be found by Standard Five." "They were lost by Standard Five and they must be found!" "WHISTLE" "No recreation until all pens are found." "Miss Brangwen will organise the search." "you will turn out your desks completely." "everything." "Wesley." "What is it?" "Richards hit me." "Richards." "I said come in front!" "I SHAN'T!" "Ah!" "Get off!" "STAND STILL!" "Fold your arms!" "LAUGHTER you bitch!" "OW!" "OW!" "Get off!" "WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?" "!" "I've thrashed him." "Get up!" "Go and stand by my desk!" "you'll be all right." "Put your things away tidily!" "Sharp!" "Sharp!" "I said... put your things away tidily!" "There will be no more time wasted looking for lost pens." "New pens will be issued first thing Monday morning." "Carry on!" "What's he say?" "You know perfectly well." "it must be in code." "There's a tatie pot in the oven for you." "Mother." "Dad in church?" "As usual." "Aren't you hungry?" "Pay day!" "You've been there a month already?" "This is my board." "Fifty shillings." "Aye." "bedtime." "That was the happiest day of her life." "A souvenir from the class bouquet?" "A memento of her time at that prison." "I thought she enjoyed the challenge." "Nobody likes school." "You don't like your art school?" "That's different." "Here's us at Scarborough in the holidays." "A few sunny days on parole." "Dad and I ran the handicrafts school." "Ursula spent her time at the harbour with the sailors." "No souvenirs of them?" "though." "I've often wondered about this one." "Who are those wretched folk?" "The Boers." "The enemy." "But they're civilians." "And that woman - were you fighting women?" "She had six notches in her rifle." "Why?" "Six notches - six lives." "Carlisle College with the suffragettes - and the teachers." "Another prison?" "This is beautiful." "A cross section of human hair." "Such delicate abstraction." "I prefer the coarse reality." "Gudrun!" "Anton was just admiring...your hair." "She was only being polite." "We were waiting for you." "Yes." "Exams started late." "How did you do?" "Not very well." "You shouldn't have encouraged her." "No." "But I was all agog." "haven't you?" "I gather." "Yes." "I'm very happy to see you." "Thank you." "Is there anything you'd like to do?" "Is there anything we can do?" "There's nothing to do here." "Then let's walk." "By the river?" "I was quite flattered by the space allocated to me in your scrapbook." "Soldiering is more important than teaching." "I'd hoped you'd forgotten that." "The number of times I've regretted that last evening." "It could have ended there and then." "you were right." "I enjoyed that awful school because I had such high hopes for college." "a temple dedicated to truth and learning." "it's just a factory where you learn to make money." "we earn glory." "I read the casualty lists every week." "It was horrible." "I knew I'd come back." "I went back to our church once." "Everything was clean and orderly." "Seemed like a dream." "It's getting dark." "Shall I hold your hand?" "I'm not afraid of the dark in England - it's soft and natural." "It's my medium." "Especially when you are here." "were you afraid of it in Africa?" "like the smell of blood." "The blacks know it." "They worship it." "The darkness." "One almost likes it." "The fear -... ..something sensual." "Did you think of me in the darkness?" "You were at the back of everything." "I had to come back to you." "This is lovely." "too." "Another lover?" "Yes!" "Aren't I the first?" "it was Winifred." "Really?" "She was my first great passion." "I'm sure she said above the front door." "Here we are." "Welcome." "I'm glad you're not always naked or all the women'd fall in love with you regularly." "I'm considered quite a catch." "flapping about on the ground." "for instance." "SNIFFS" "Scent?" "Soap." "Soap!" "GIGGLES" "Would you rather live in India or England when we're married?" "by far." "Nice of you to ask." "wasn't it?" "When I first kissed you." "polo." "I'll teach you to ride." "keep you cool." "I'll teach little Hindus to write essays on the rabbit!" "you wouldn't have to do anything." "and I don't want to be with other people." "I want to be like this." "Isn't this enough?" "It's enough for now." "Then let's have no more talk of marriage." "Which means that I'm to get supper tomorrow?" "I'll keep you to that!" "BLOWS HORN" "Strawberries!" "Strawberries!" "Fresh ripe strawberries!" "you'll wake them." "All this hollering and pounding." "I expected them up at this hour." "you have a fickle memory." "Strawberries!" "Fresh ripe strawberries!" "What a bore!" "She's supposed to be chaperoning us." "We're supposed to be her guests." "Were you expecting her?" "Didn't I say?" "your staff sergeant here." "Ursula!" "Anton!" "Iwonderwheretheyare." "Maybethey'vegoneout ." "woman." "BABY CRIES" "grocer." "Kindly leave them on the doorstep and go away!" "Why have you got your bloomers round your neck?" "Anton'swearingmy nightie!" "But do you love him?" "It isn't a question of love." "I love him well enough." "More than anyone else." "And I shall never love anyone else the same again." "love?" "So much personal gratification." "It doesn't lead anywhere." "It isn't supposed to lead anywhere." "It's an end in itself." "Then what does it matter to me?" "As an end in itself I could love a hundred men one after the other." "social wife?" "school mistress?" "Then you don't love him." "than any of the others." "But there are things that aren't in Anton that I'd love in other men." "Like what?" "a directness." "A man who could let go - reckless and passionate." "What is this fantastic fulfilment you're hankering after?" "Is it just other men?" "Hmm?" "you'd better marry Anton." "The other thing can only end badly." "So I'm to marry out of fear of myself?" "We'rereadyforyou !" "Timeformixeddoubles." "I can see you on an elephant - amongst adoring natives." "it's so unspiritual." "Leave the home of democracy?" "Democracy... is only for the degenerate races." "Why is democracy unspiritual?" "Because only the ugly and the greedy succeed." "The people elect the government." "and they choose those who have money." "They rule in the name of money." "To me democracy means equality." "The equality of the wage packet is a democracy of dirt." "Then you should give away your worldly goods." "Or join us filthy aristocrats!" "Up onto the pedestal!" "Revolutionaries and aristocrats don't mix." "But she is an aristocrat - of the spirit." "YES!" "Stay just as long as you like." "As long as you don't want to play croquet at the hall!" "Bye!" "Marriage agrees with them." "Meaning they agree with each other." "though." "Odd?" "Something unnatural about Winifred." "she has two left feet." "I meant her tendencies." "She should be in a freak show(!" ")" "Your relationship isn't healthy." "Just as well we're going to India." "You say the Indians aren't healthy." "We'll improve health standards." "I meant you might find them freakish." "you must come with me for your own good." "You'll govern the Indians for their own good with your dead judgements." "I do not." "You're so self-righteous!" "in your own mind?" "Yes!" "But at least I am something." "There's nobody there where you are." "with your old dead things?" "I didn't mean to hurt you." "you did." "The words came out without my knowing." "They didn't mean anything really." "up on some hill... always disappointed." "Anton?" "Why not stay below?" "for a moment of exhilaration at the top... ..only to plunge into a dark valley?" "When shall we be married?" "I don't know!" "Don't you want to be married?" "I don't think I do!" "or not yet?" "I mean never." "He may take you back." "You'll have to wait for his reply to your letter." "selfish behaviour." "The child will make a difference." "That's what decided me." "because it's his child and because... ..he once loved me." "Is that the only reason?" "Croquet!" "too." "why shouldn't it be for me?" "Why do I punish those who love me?" "I should be grateful for their love." "your parents?" "I couldn't tell them so soon after failing my degree." "What if Anton says no?" "I'll live at home with the child and go back to teaching." "You haven't even seen a midwife." "you go to India and you find you're not with child?" "that's what you'll do." "A child binds you to a man as securely as if you were handcuffed." "Aren't you and Henry...?" "Very good companions." "you will always be welcome here." "GONG" "Tea." "I won't stop." "Henry'll be back soon." "It's getting late." "I'll get my things." "WHINNIES" "WHINNYING" "HOOVES THUNDER" "LAUGHTER" "  .." "SEVERAL VOICES:" "  # .." "Gently down the stream life is but a dream row your boat Gently down the stream... #" "SINGINGCONTINUES" "SCREAM" "but I had to see you were all right." "Dad." "Wewonderedwhereyou 'dgot to." "No bike or anything." "Me and your mother were worried." "And er...then we saw the telegram had gone." "I saw you'd opened it." "The boy asked if there was a reply." "Naturally your mother thought... no wonder you were worried." "The bike's in a ditch." "Is that where you expected to find me?" "I can see there's nothing much wrong with you." "You were quite feverish earlier." "I caught a chill." "I heard the party." "Didn't want to be a wet blanket." "Don't be so silly." "Your mother took the children out." "Anything I can get you?" "Dad." "I think I'll lie in for a while." "Thanks for the tea." "Aye." "lass." "Dad." "Don't work too hard." "I'm er..." "I'm in town today." "Thought I'd drop in your old school." "Whatever for?" "now that you're..." "Now that you're..." "Now that I'm an old maid?" "Let me finish." "Now you're not off to the other side of the world..." "Or even the other side of London." "your home." "there's a rainbow." "Intelfax" "E-mail us at subtitling@bbc.co.uk"