A Countess from Hong Kong
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1:24:01
I hate to disturb you,
but there's a little trouble...

1:24:04
about Mrs Hudson's papers
having been blown overboard.

1:24:06
They say the marriage isn't legal unless
she produces her identification papers.

1:24:10
What do they expect the lady to do,
jump in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
to recover her papers?

1:24:15
Unfortunately, there's a report
that a lady stowaway is aboard,
and they're taking every precaution.

1:24:21
What's a stowaway got to do with it?
All that's involved is a marriage.

1:24:24
You were witness to that.
You married them.

1:24:27
Nevertheless, they want
to see the lady's passport.

1:24:29
She doesn't need a passport
to go ashore in Honolulu.

1:24:32
She's married to an American citizen.
1:24:35
Quite so. But if her papers
of identification are missing...

1:24:38
then a marriage at sea
is not recognized.

1:24:41
She's an alien and will have to go
before an Immigration board of enquiry.

1:24:44
The purser's asked to see you, sir.
1:24:48
Yes, of course. I'll see him right away.
Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen.

1:24:57
It's time for me to disappear.
1:25:00
Why? The Captain married you,
and that's a legal fact.

1:25:03
- But the marriage has not
yet been consummated, sir.
- Yet? Hmph.

1:25:08
Hudson, your mind
is running in another channel.

1:25:11
The important thing is the papers.
1:25:14
What are you gonna tell them
about the papers?

1:25:17
Mr Ogden didn't tell me
anything about papers.

1:25:19
Her identification papers,
her birth certificate, her passport!

1:25:24
We've been all through that with you.
What are you gonna tell them?

1:25:27
- Oh, that. I shall tell them the truth,
as you told me.
- As I told you?

1:25:31
As you told me to tell it.
1:25:33
I didn't tell you anything.
You remember that. Go ahead.

1:25:38
I can only tell them
how I met my first wife.

1:25:41
How you first met
your wife. Oh!

1:25:44
It was a breezy afternoon.
I was walking on the top deck...

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and there she was, holding
down some papers in her lap.

1:25:51
- It was love at first sight.
- Ugh!

1:25:55
- Hurry up and get to the point, Hudson.
- Yes, sir.

1:25:58
Suddenly, there was a gust of wind,
and the papers blew overboard.


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