:03:01
Surely less than anyone you will
ever have the good fortune to meet.
:03:06
He certainly acts high and mighty
for just a count.
:03:09
My dear Lulu, there are counts and
counts, just as there are kings and kings.
:03:15
Among the counts,
Torlato-Favrini is a king.
:03:19
Just as among the kings, I am a clown.
:03:23
I am puzzled only by his presence
in a place like this, among people like us.
:03:32
My champagne is not properly cooled.
:03:36
Alberto, do you happen to know
the Marquise de Baudenière?
:03:39
A really distinguished family...
:03:42
And that was the last
I ever saw of Maria Vargas,
:03:46
whom the world knew as Maria D'Amata,
:03:50
but who died as
the Contessa Torlato-Favrini.
:04:06
Che sarà, sarà.
What will be, will be.
:04:10
An ancient and unimaginative
Italian proverb.
:04:14
It has been the motto of my house
for more than 450 years.
:04:20
And it is only fitting perhaps that, as the
House of Torlato-Favrini comes to its end,
:04:25
our motto will never be more to the point.
:04:28
What will be, will be.
:04:34
An easy generality. A universal cure.
:04:38
I am what I am, do what I do,
and cannot help myself.
:04:41
Therefore, I am free of my guilt.
:04:44
Nonsense, of course.
:04:48
Yet, I can suggest no other answer,
if there must be an answer,
:04:53
to how and why it began
between Maria and me.