:55:01
It is settled.
:55:02
Yet I should like permission of my uncle.
:55:05
It would hurt him not to make this gesture.
:55:17
Sit here, Suyin. There, Mr Elliott.
:55:35
Third Uncle...
:55:36
I respectfully ask your permission
to become the wife of Mark Elliott.
:55:42
- Where would you live?
- In Hong Kong, with Mark.
:55:47
And will you now give up your vow
to medicine for devotion to Mr Elliott?
:55:52
I won't ask Suyin to give up
being a doctor to be my wife, sir.
:55:56
Suyin... you are a Chinese citizen.
When your passport expires,
:56:03
you may not be granted
the right to practise in Hong Kong.
:56:06
Where would you go?
:56:08
If Suyin wanted to practise medicine
in China, I would live here.
:56:11
The new tapestry will be
tightly woven, Mr Elliott.
:56:14
You would not fit into its hard pattern.
:56:17
We can always go to America.
:56:20
Ah, yes.
:56:21
It can begin in flight,
pull up roots, and wither and die.
:56:27
Third Aunt, do you believe
that this is wrong?
:56:31
You have asked, and I must answer.
:56:34
He is a foreigner.
:56:37
Well, that I can't change.
:56:38
We are not strange to this problem, Mr Elliott.
:56:41
Suyin's father left the land of
his ancestors for a European.
:56:45
He left part of his heart.
:56:48
I would rather face the future without
hope than the present without Mark.
:56:54
Then you must do what you have to do.
:56:56
We cannot stem the tide of change.