: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...
:09:03
and needless to say, l love you and Papa.
:09:06
l love everyone
who's nice to me and spoils me.
:09:10
Geert will spoil me, too.
:09:12
He wants to buy me jewellery in Venice.
:09:15
He doesn't know l don't care for jewellery.
:09:17
l prefer to clamber around
and play on the swing...
:09:21
fearing that something will break
and l'll fall...
:09:24
but knowing it won't cost me my neck.
:09:27
Do you love your cousin Briest?
:09:29
Very much. He's always so amusing.
:09:32
Would you have liked to marry him?
:09:34
Good heavens, no!
He's hardly more than a boy.
:09:38
Whereas Geert's a man...
:09:40
a handsome man...
:09:42
with whom l can cut a dash...
:09:44
who will make a mark on the world.
:09:48
-What entered your mind?
-You're right, Effi. l'm glad to hear it.
:09:53
-But you have something else on your mind.
-Perhaps.
:09:58
Tell me, then!