: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!
:10:02
Well, you see, Mama...
:10:05
the fact that he's older than l am...
:10:08
doesn't matter. Perhaps it's a good thing.
:10:11
He's not really old.
:10:13
He's fit and well...
:10:16
and soldierly and dashing.
:10:20
l could almost say l'm all for him...
:10:23
if only...
:10:24
well...
:10:26
-if only he were just a little different.
-Different in what way?
:10:31
Yes, in what way?
:10:34
You mustn't laugh at me, Mama.
:10:36
lt's something l heard only recently
at the pastor's house.
:10:42
We were talking about lnnstetten...
:10:45
when suddenly old Niemeyer frowned...
:10:50
in an admiring sort of way and said:
:10:56
''The baron is a man of principles.''