1:25:00
I'm all right, Uncle.
1:25:04
Your pardon, Majesty.
1:25:05
Say no more, my dear. I quite understand.
1:25:09
You may take Maria to her rooms.
Stay with her as long as she needs you.
1:25:13
My thanks, Your Grace.
1:25:15
You may go, all of you.
1:25:23
Don Alvarez, it appears your news
concerns your niece more than it does me.
1:25:27
Your Grace,
I would have spared her had I known.
1:25:30
Your arrow hit the wrong mark.
1:25:33
As for myself...
1:25:35
I regret Capt. Thorpe's fate
because he is a brave man.
1:25:38
But he is a privateer,
and privateers must take their own risks.
1:25:45
Then, Your Grace, I must speak bluntly.
1:25:48
My sovereign is not convinced
that Capt. Thorpe risked so much...
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merely for his own gain.
1:25:52
No? Then perhaps you can suggest
a more likely motive.
1:25:56
Your Grace will recall
she released Thorpe...
1:25:58
after his attack upon my ship...
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and that on the heels of this offense
she allowed the Albatross to sail...
1:26:03
presumably to trade in Egypt.
1:26:06
Am I to be held accountable
for Captain Thorpe's change of mind?
1:26:09
Thorpe never intended any project
but the one he undertook...
1:26:13
although by now he might wish he had.
1:26:15
You weary me with your implications.
Come to the point.
1:26:18
I regret that the point
is not an agreeable one.
1:26:21
From the circumstances I've mentioned,
my sovereign is forced to infer...
1:26:24
that Capt. Thorpe
had the approval of Your Majesty...
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in an overt act of war
upon the empire of Spain.
1:26:30
Don Alvarez!
1:26:33
Do you question my word?
1:26:35
Unfortunately my government
cannot reconcile your words...
1:26:39
with the acts of your subjects.
1:26:41
Then let Phillip infer what he pleases.
1:26:44
I will not be held accountable
to Phillip for my actions...
1:26:46
or for those of my people.
1:26:53
In that case...
1:26:54
I'm instructed to serve official notice
upon Your Majesty...
1:26:58
that the honor of Spain requires...