:07:12
What else have you set your heart on?
:07:15
-Nothing, Mama.
-Nothing at all?
:07:17
Nothing, quite seriously.
:07:21
But if there were something....
:07:26
Well?
:07:29
lt would be a black Japanese screen...
:07:32
with golden birds on it...
:07:34
with long bills like cranes.
:07:38
And a lamp for our bedroom
that would radiate a red light.
:07:46
Now you're silent and look at me...
:07:49
as if l'd said something improper.
:07:52
No, Effi, not improper...
:07:54
and certainly not to your mother.
:07:57
l know you too well.
:07:59
You have a great imagination...
:08:02
and you conjure up pictures of the future.
:08:05
The more colourful they are...
:08:07
the lovelier and more desirable
they seem to you.
:08:11
l became aware of that when we were
shopping for your honeymoon.
:08:15
Now you think it would be wonderful...
:08:18
to have a bedroom screen...
:08:21
with all kinds of fabulous beasts on it...
:08:24
and all lit by a dim red lamp.
:08:27
lt seems like a fairy tale to you...
:08:29
and you would like to be the princess.
:08:34
Yes, Mama, that's how l am.
:08:42
Yes, that's how you are.
:08:44
l'm aware of that.
:08:47
But, my dear Effi,
we have to tread warily in life...
:08:51
especially we women.
:08:55
Don't you love Geert?
:08:57
Why shouldn't l love him?
:08:59
l love Bertha,
l love Hulda, l love old Niemeyer...