:14:00
- Thank you for the drink.
- Oh, my. Now, now, I thought
you were brought up in England.
:14:04
Surely you know it's not done to be rude.
:14:06
You were being rude about
a woman I'm in love with.
:14:09
- On the contrary. I was
reminiscing about my wife.
- It comes to the same thing.
:14:13
Things mostly do, you know. I'll
wager that in a year's time...
:14:16
it'll be you who'll be being rude about
Marguerite and I who'll be being rhapsodic,
:14:19
having quite forgotten how
intolerably tiresome, vain,
spendthrift, self-indulgent...
:14:25
and generally bloody crafty she really is !
:14:30
Can you afford to take her off my hands ?
:14:39
- "Afford to" ?
- Support her in the style to
which she was not accustomed...
:14:43
before she met me, but now is.
:14:46
Well, I'm not a millionaire,
but I'm not starving either.
:14:50
The shop in London's doing all right. The
one in Brighton is almost breaking even.
:14:54
- By this time next year--
- This year, next year, sometime, never.
:14:56
What you're really saying is
that at present, you're skint.
:15:00
- We'll survive.
- Survival is scarcely the point.
:15:03
Presumably, when you're married
to Marguerite, you'll want
a place on the Riviera,
:15:06
fast car, couple of mistresses.
- "Presumably" ?
:15:09
- Just because you need those things ?
- No, just this fading mansion,
:15:12
the slowest Bentley in Wiltshire,
and only one mistress, I'm afraid.
:15:15
Tea, the Finnish bird who runs
the sauna in Salisbury.
:15:18
Oh, you know about Tea, do you ?
:15:20
Marguerite and I have no
secrets from each other.
:15:22
Not even mine, it seems.
:15:25
Tea is a Karelian Goddess.
:15:27
Her golden hair smells of pine,
:15:30
and her cobalt eyes are the secret
forest pools of Finlandia.
:15:34
I hear she's a well-scrubbed blonde with
all the sex appeal of a secondhand jeep.
:15:38
Not so, dear boy. You can take it from me.
:15:41
Tea is an engaging little trollop
and suits me mightily.
:15:43
Mind you, she takes a
bit of keeping up with.
:15:45
It's a good thing I am pretty much
of an olympic sexual athlete.
:15:50
Yes, I suppose these days you are
concentrating more on the sprints...
:15:54
than on the long-distance stuff.
:15:56
Not so, dear boy.
I'm in the pink of condition.
:15:59
I could copulate for England
at any distance.