1:29:00
It would have been so easy.
Remember the precipice ?
1:29:05
I frightened you, didn't I ?
You thought I was mad.
1:29:09
Perhaps I was.
Perhaps I am mad.
1:29:14
It wouldn't make for sanity, would it,
living with the devil ?
1:29:20
''I'll make a bargain with you,''
she said.
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''You'd look rather foolish
trying to divorce me now
after four days of marriage,
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''so I'll play the part
of a devoted wife, mistress
of your precious Manderley.
1:29:30
''I'll make it the most famous
showplace in England, if you like,
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''and people will visit us
and envy us...
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''and say we're the luckiest,
happiest couple in the country.
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What a grand joke it will be !
What a triumph !''
1:29:47
I should never have accepted
her dirty bargain, but I did.
1:29:52
I was younger then and tremendously
conscious of the family honor.
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[ Scoffs ]
Family honor.
1:30:00
She knew that
I'd sacrifiice everything...
1:30:02
rather than stand up
in a divorce court...
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and give her away, admit that
our marriage was a rotten fraud.
1:30:09
You despise me, don't you ?
As I despise myself.
1:30:13
You can't understand what
my feelings were, can you ?
1:30:19
Of course I can, darling.
Of course I can.
1:30:24
Well, I kept the bargain.
And so did she, apparently.
1:30:28
Oh, she played the game brilliantly.
1:30:30
But after a while,
she began to grow careless.
1:30:33
She took a flat in London,
and she'd stay away for days at a time.
1:30:36
Then she started to bring
her friends down here.
1:30:39
I warned her,
but she shrugged her shoulders.
1:30:41
''What's it got to do with you ?''
she said.
1:30:43
She even started on Frank.
Poor, faithful Frank.
1:30:48
Then there was a cousin of hers,
a man named Favell.
1:30:52
Yes, I know him.
He came the day you went to London.
1:30:55
Why didn't you tell me ?
1:30:58
I didn't like to. I thought
it would remind you of Rebecca.