Maurice

1:05:02

Or you, Clive.
It's miles worse for you.

1:05:06

I'm in love with Alec Scudder.

1:05:13

What a grotesque announcement.

1:05:20

Most grotesque.

1:05:23

- But I felt I ought to tell you.
- Maurice -

1:05:25

Maurice, we did everything we could
when you and I thrashed out the subject.

1:05:28

- When you brought yourself to kiss my hand.
- Don't allude to that.

1:05:35

Come in here.

1:05:40

I'm more sorry for you
than I can possibly say.

1:05:43

And I do, do beg you to resist
the return of this obsession.

1:05:48

I don't need advice.

1:05:50

I'm flesh and blood, Clive,
if you'll condescend to such low things.

1:05:56

I've shared with Alec.

1:05:59

Shared - Shared what?

1:06:02

Everything.

1:06:05

Alec slept with me in the Russet Room
when you and Anne were away.

1:06:09

Oh, good God.

1:06:13

Also in town.

1:06:16

The sole excuse for any relationship between
two men is that it remain purely platonic.

1:06:21

- Surely we agreed that.
- I don't know.

1:06:25

I've come to tell you what I did.

1:06:28

Well, Alec - Scudder- is in point of fact
no longer in my service.

1:06:34

In fact, he's no longer in England.
He sailed for Buenos Aires this very day.

1:06:38

He didn't.
He sacrificed his career for my sake...

1:06:42

without a guarantee.

1:06:45

I don't know whether
that's platonic of him or not...

1:06:48

but it's what he did.

1:06:51

Scudder missed his boat?

1:06:55

Maurice, you're going mad.

1:06:57

- May I ask if you intend to pursue -
- No. No, you may not ask.