1:36:00
We're both ghost-ridden.
1:36:02
That sounds a bit romantic,
but I think it expresses it.
1:36:05
We are prisoners of our past.
1:36:09
Yes.
1:36:12
What if we were to pool our loneliness...
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and give each other what little we have:
Support, friendship?
1:36:21
I'm proposing marriage, Miss Hanson.
1:36:24
Or should I call it a merger?
1:36:28
You know, I'm good at mergers.
1:36:32
A Member of Parliament
should have a wife, Margaret.
1:36:35
So I'm told on all sides.
"He needs a clever hostess."
1:36:38
You have exceptional gifts.
1:36:40
Would it interest you
to have a wider field for them?
1:36:44
You need have no fear that I would make
any emotional demands upon you.
1:36:49
I have only sincere friendship to offer.
1:36:53
I won't ask any more from you.
1:36:57
Please. Don't answer at once.
Think it over.
1:37:01
It's completely a selfish proposal...
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but I can't have you giving me notice,
you know.
1:37:06
I'd be lost without you.
1:37:09
Miss Hanson... Margaret...
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- have I hurt you?
- I don't know.
1:37:17
This comes of boasting that I never cry.
1:37:20
You will think about it?
I'll call you tomorrow.
1:37:22
No, I can't wait so long.
Tonight, about 9:00?
1:37:25
I hope the answer will be yes.
1:37:27
Here's the tea.
1:37:33
It wasn't a very flattering proposal, really.
1:37:37
Rather, a suggestion for a merger.
1:37:40
He used that very expression.
1:37:44
- Pretty cold-blooded, isn't it?
- Well, it's honest.
1:37:48
I'm sorry. Sorry for myself.
1:37:53
- I want you to be happy, Paula.
- It may work out.
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He might even fall in love with me.